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LATN 202 - Introduction to Latin Poetry
Spring (3) Irby Prerequisite(s): LATN 201 or departmental placement. (GER 5)
A major poet will be read at length and other selections from Classical Latin poetry will be covered.
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LATN 321 - Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
Fall or Spring (3) Panoussi Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Readings in the original Latin chosen from the works of Catullus, Horace, Propertius, Ovid, and others.
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LATN 322 - Cicero
Fall or Spring (3) Donahue Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Readings in the original Latin chosen from the orations, letters and/or essays of Cicero.
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LATN 323 - Roman Drama
Fall or Spring (3) Panoussi Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Readings in the original Latin chosen from the works of Plautus, Terence, and Seneca.
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LATN 324 - Roman Satire
Fall or Spring (3) Donahue Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Readings in the original Latin chosen from the works of Horace, Juvenal, Persius, and others.
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LATN 325 - Roman Historians
Fall or Spring (3) Swetnam-Burland, Donahue Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Readings in the original Latin chosen from the works of Livy, Tacitus, and others.
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LATN 326 - Vergil
Fall or Spring (3) Panoussi Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Readings in the original Latin chosen from the Aeneid and other Vergilian works.
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LATN 327 - The Roman Novel
Fall or Spring (3) Spaeth Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Readings in the original Latin chosen from the works of Petronius, Apuleius, and others.
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LATN 328 - Roman Philosophy
Fall or Spring (3) Spaeth Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Readings in the original Latin chosen from the works of Cicero, Lucretius, Seneca, and others.
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LATN 329 - Medieval Latin
Fall or Spring (3) Irby Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Readings in the original Latin chosen from the works of medieval authors in prose and poetry.
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LATN 421 - Writing Latin – Latin Prose Composition
Fall or Spring (3) Panoussi Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Reading of such Latin prose authors as Caesar, Cicero and Nepos followed by the writing of connected Latin passages in imitation of their style. This course can be offered on a tutorial basis whenever it is requested by one or several students, if staff is available.
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LATN 490 - Topics in Latin
Fall and Spring (1-3) Staff Prerequisite(s): LATN 202 or departmental placement.
Treatment of a selected topic in Latin language or literature (in the original Latin) that is not covered in regular course offerings. Course may be repeated if topics vary.
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LATN 491 - Independent Study
Fall or Spring (1-3) Staff Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
A program of reading, writing, and discussion on a particular author or topic in Latin literature In the original language. Students accepted for this course will arrange their program of study with an appropriate faculty advisor. This course may be repeated for credit with a different topic.
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† LATN 495 - Honors
Fall, Spring (3) Staff
The Department of Classical Studies offers Honors study in Greek or Latin as staff is available. Students admitted to this study will be enrolled in the course during both semesters of their senior year. The course comprises: (a) reading and discussion of selected authors in the language of the student’s emphasis, Greek or Latin; (b) supervised reading of a special bibliography in the field of the student’s major interest; (c) satisfactory completion by April 15 of a scholarly essay; and (d) satisfactory completion of an oral examination of the subject and subject field of the essay. Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
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† LATN 496 - Honors
Fall, Spring (3) Staff
The Department of Classical Studies offers Honors study in Greek or Latin as staff is available. Students admitted to this study will be enrolled in the course during both semesters of their senior year. The course comprises: (a) reading and discussion of selected authors in the language of the student’s emphasis, Greek or Latin; (b) supervised reading of a special bibliography in the field of the student’s major interest; (c) satisfactory completion by April 15 of a scholarly essay; and (d) satisfactory completion of an oral examination of the subject and subject field of the essay. Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
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LAS 131 - Survey of Latin American History to 1824
Fall (3) Konefal, Staff
The development of Latin America from Pre-Columbian times to 1824 with emphasis on the interaction of European, Indian and African elements in colonial society. (Cross-listed with HIST 131 )
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LAS 132 - Survey of Latin American History, 1824-present
Spring (3) Konefal, Staff
The development of Latin America from 1824 to the present, emphasizing the struggle for social justice, political stability and economic development. (Cross-listed with HIST 132 )
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LAS 200 - Transfer Elective Credit
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LAS 290 - Topics in Latin American Studies
Fall or Spring (1-4) Staff
Selected topics in LAS are offered occasionally. The topic to be considered will be announced prior to the beginning of the semester. These courses may be repeated for credit if the topic varies.
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LAS 300 - Transfer Elective Credit
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LAS 350 - Latin American Cultures, Politics and Societies
Fall (3)
Interdisciplinary study of the cultural practices, political economies, and societal structures of Latin America with an emphasis on contemporary issues that have their roots in Latin American colonial foundations and nation-building.
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LAS 380 - Cultural Transformation in Cuba and Puerto Ric
Fall or Spring (3) Stock Prerequisite(s): One HISP course numbered between 290 and 360, or consent of instructor
The course examines the relationship between expressive culture (literature, film, popular music) and the formation of cultural identity in two contexts: Cuba and Puerto Rico. (Cross-listed with HISP 380 )
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LAS 390 - Topics in Latin American Studies
Fall or Spring (1-4) Staff
Selected topics in LAS are offered occasionally. The topic to be considered will be announced prior to the beginning of the semester. These courses may be repeated for credit if the topic varies.
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LAS 400 - Immersion Experience in LAS
Fall or Spring (0) Staff
Immersion Experience: An experience beyond the William and Mary classroom clearly linked to Latin America or Latino populations. LAS 400 or approval of LAS director required of LAS majors.
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LAS 440 - Seminar Topics in Latin American Studies
Fall or Spring (1-4) Staff
Selected seminar topics in LAS are offered occasionally. These seminars may be repeated for credit if the topic varies.
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LAS 450 - Senior Seminar in Latin American Studies
Fall or Spring (1-4) Staff
Senior-level, in depth study of a topic relevant to Latin American Studies.
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LAS 480 - Independent Study in Latin American Studies
Fall or Spring (1-3) Staff
For majors and minors who have completed most of their requirements and who have secured approval from a supervising instructor. LAS 480 may be repeated for credit, if the topic varies.
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LAS 495 - Senior Honors in Latin American Studies
Fall, Spring (3) Staff
Please see the detailed description of the honors process in the opening of the Global Studies catalogue section.
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LAS 496 - Senior Honors in Latin American Studies
Fall, Spring (3) Staff
Please see the detailed description of the honors process in the opening of the Global Studies catalogue section.
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Linguistics |
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LING 150W - Freshman Seminar
Fall or Spring (4) Staff
An exploration of a specific topic in linguistics. Writing is emphasized. Normally only open to first-year students.
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LING 220 - Study of Language
Fall and Spring (4) Staff (GER 3)
An introduction to linguistics, the scientific study of human language. Considers languages as structured systems of form and meaning, with attention also to the biological, psychological, cultural and social aspects of language and language use. (Cross listed with ANTH 204 )
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LING 250 - African-American English
Fall or Spring (4) Charity-Hudley
This course explores the sociolinguistics of English spoken by African-Americans in the United States. We examine the relationship of African-American English to linguistic theory, education praxis, and American culture. This course prepares students for community-based research. (Cross listed with AFST 250 )
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LING 303 - History of the English Language
Fall or Spring (3) Taylor
A study of the history of the English language from Old English to the present. Some attention is given to contemporary developments in “World English.”
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LING 304 - Syntax
Fall or Spring (3) Reed Prerequisite(s): LING 220 / ANTH 204 . (GER 3)
This introduction to syntax investigates the structures and operations underlying sentence formation. The course focuses on one linguistic model, with attention given to linguistic theory, alternative models and issues in syntax and semantics.
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LING 307 - Phonetics and Phonology
Fall or Spring (3) Lunden Prerequisite(s): LING 220 / ANTH 204 . (GER 3)
A study of sound patterns and word-formation rules in English and other languages. Focus on analysis with some attention to theoretical issues.
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LING 308 - Language and Culture
Fall (3) Bragdon, Taylor Prerequisite(s): LING 220 / ANTH 204 or ANTH 202
This course addresses the interrelations between language and culture, surveying the research topics and methods which constitute linguistic anthropology today. (Cross-listed with ANTH 308 )
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LING 358 - First Language Acquisition
Fall or Spring (3) Staff Prerequisite(s): LING 220 or ANTH 204 or PSYC 202
Introduction to the study of how children acquire their first language. Topics include: the perception and production of speech; word learning; combining words into sentences; communicative competence; theories and methods of investigation. (Cross listed with PSYC 358 )
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LING 370 - Psycholinguistics
Fall or Spring (3) Staff Prerequisite(s): LING 220 or ANTH 204 or PSYC 201
Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of how humans acquire, produce and comprehend language. Topics include sentence processing and representation; speech perception,
word retrieval, theories and methods of investigation.
(Cross listed with PSYC 370 )
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LING 400 - Meaning and Understanding in Western Cultural Thought
Fall (3) Taylor (GER 4A)
A critical approach to the history of Western thinking about meaning, understanding, language and mind: tracing the integration of these topics into Western cultural and intellectual traditions, from Classical Greece and Rome up to modern developments in 20th-century European and American thought.
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LING 404 - Historical Linguistics
Fall (3) Lunden Prerequisite(s): LING 220 / ANTH 204 and ENGL 307. (GER 3)
A study of the kinds of change which languages may undergo. Covers the nature and motivation of linguistic evolution, and the methods by which unattested early stages of known languages may be reconstructed. (Cross listed with ANTH 411 )
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LING 405 - Linguistic Field Methods
Fall and Spring (4) Staff Prerequisite(s): LING 304 , LING 307 and LING/ANTH 418 , or consent of instructor. (GER 3)
In this advanced linguistics course, students work closely with a speaker of another language to discover the structure of that language and to describe different aspects of its grammar: phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. (Cross listed with ANTH 412 )
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LING 407 - Advanced Phonetics and Phonology
Fall or Spring (3) Lunden Prerequisite(s): LING 307
A close examination of the connection between phonetics and phonology. Students will learn how to set up simple phonetic experiments and become familiar with new phonological domains.
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LING 408 - Independent Research in Phonetics and Phonology
Spring (1) Lunden Prerequisite(s): LING 307 Corequisite(s): LING 407
Development of a research project in phonetics and phonology in conjunction with LING 407.
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LING 415 - Linguistic Anthropology
Spring (3) Staff Prerequisite(s): LING 220 / ANTH 204 . (In 2013-14, LING/ANTH 308 will also serve as a prerequisite.) (GER 3)
This course will introduce students to the history and theories of linguistic anthropology with emphasis on North American languages. Students will approach these subjects through readings, class discussions and problem sets. (Cross listed with ANTH 415 )
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LING 418 - Language Patterns: Types and Universals
Fall (3) Martin Prerequisite(s): LING 220 / ANTH 204 .
A survey of common patterns and constructions in language ranging from word order to case, agreement, voice, aspect, relative clauses, interrogation and negation. Major themes include the unity and diversity of language and the techniques used to measure it. (Cross listed with ANTH 418 )
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LING 420 - Caribbean Linguisitics
Fall or Spring (3) Osiapem Prerequisite(s): LING 220 and one of LING 406 or LING 308 or LING 415
This course introduces students to the history, structure, and sociocultural aspects of Anglophone languages of the expanded Caribbean. Topics include: current views on the formation of pidgin and creole languages, definitive characteristics of these languages, and the relationships among them.
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LING 464 - Topics in Linguistics
Fall and Spring (1-3) Staff Prerequisite(s): LING 220 / ANTH 204 or consent of instructor.
Investigation of a major sub-field of linguistics. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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LING 474 - Research Seminar in Linguistics
Spring (4) Staff Prerequisite(s): LING 220 / ANTH 204 and consent of the instructor.
Study in depth and independent research/writing about a topic in linguistics. Students who are not linguistics majors may enroll with instructor’s permission. May be repeated for credit with different topic.
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LING 481 - Independent Study in Linguistics
Fall and Spring (1-3) Staff
A tutorial course on a topic agreed upon by the student and instructor and approved in advance by the departmental Undergraduate Program Committee
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ENGL 150W - Freshman Seminar: Special Topics
Fall and Spring (4) Staff
An exploration of a specific topic in literary or linguistic studies. Writing is emphasized. Normally available only to first year students. 200-level: Introductory courses in literature (open only to academic freshmen, academic sophomores, and declared English majors)
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ENGL 203 - British Literature I
Fall and Spring (3) Blank, Conlee, Friedman, Hagedorn, Minear, A. Potkay, M. Potkay, Savage (GER 5)
A survey of British literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, required for the English major. The course covers narrative, dramatic, and lyric poetry, including works by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton.
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ENGL 204 - British Literature II
Fall and Spring (3) Melfi, Meyers, Morse, A. Potkay, Raitt, Wheatley, Wilson (GER 5)
A survey of British literature from 1675-1900, required for the English major. The course includes Augustan satire, Romantic and Victorian poetry, and the Victorian novel.
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ENGL 205 - An Introduction to Shakespeare
Fall and Spring (3) Staff (GER 5)
A general introduction to Shakespeare’s major poetry and plays. Students will read eight to ten plays, chosen to reflect the major periods in Shakespeare’s dramatic development, and some poetry, especially the sonnets. (It is suggested that students have previously taken English 203 or another 200-level course, or have AP credit for 210.)
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ENGL 207 - American Literature: Themes and Issues
Fall and Spring (3) Braxton, Dawson, Donaldson, Kennedy, Knight, Lowry, Pinson, Putzi, Scholnick, Thompson, Zuber (GER 5)
An introduction to American literature through an analysis of major continuing themes, such as the meaning of freedom; literature and the environment; urban-rural dichotomies.
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ENGL 209 - Critical Approaches to Literature
Fall and Spring (3) Wenska (GER 5)
An introduction to important critical approaches to literature such as traditional (historical/biographical, moral/ philosophical), formalist, psychological, archetypal and feminist. (Appropriate for students intending to major in English or having AP credit for English 210.)
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ENGL 210 - Topics in Literature
Fall and Spring (3-4) Staff (Most topics will fulfill GER 5)
An introduction to a topic in literature, or in literature and another discipline, designed for non-majors. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 301 - Interpreting Literature
Fall and Spring (3) Staff
In this course students develop the skills necessary for college-level literary analysis. Students will practice close reading and critical writing informed by various interpretive models. Course readings will include four to six primary literary texts selected from different historical periods, genres, traditions, and perspectives.
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ENGL 310 - Literature and the Bible
Spring (3) A. Potkay, M. Potkay (GER 5)
This course introduces students to the principal biblical narratives, their historical contexts, and the ways they have been interpreted by Western authors. Readings from the King James version of the Bible will include the major books of the Old and New Testaments. Lectures will examine the literary qualities of the biblical texts and the artistic traditions associated with them.
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ENGL 311 - Epic and Romance
Fall (3) Hagedorn
A study of the development of these major genres, with illustrative works drawn from ancient, medieval and Renaissance periods; includes English and Continental authors.
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ENGL 314 - Old English
Fall (3) M. Potkay
An introduction to Old English, including elementary grammar and phonology and the reading of prose and short poems; collateral readings in the history and culture of the period.
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ENGL 315 - Beowulf
Spring (3) M. Potkay Prerequisite(s): ENGL 314 .
An intensive study of the text in Old English, with the aim of understanding Beowulf as a great work of literature. Emphasis is placed on the structure and the themes of the poem. Collateral readings in recent criticism.
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ENGL 316 - Arthurian Literature
Spring (3) Conlee, Hagedorn, M. Potkay
A study of selected works from the Arthurian literary tradition. Major emphasis is upon authors from the medieval period (e.g., Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chrétien de Troyes and Malory), but some attention is also given to Arthurian literature in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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ENGL 322 - Medieval Literature
Fall and Spring (3) Conlee, Hagedorn, M. Potkay
A survey of selected major works and other representative examples of Old and Middle English literature, exclusive of Chaucer. The course explores the development of typical medieval attitudes and themes in a variety of literary forms and genres.
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ENGL 323 - The English Renaissance
Fall (3) Friedman
A survey of the poetry, prose and drama of Tudor England, including selected works of More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.
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ENGL 324 - The Early Seventeenth Century
Fall and Spring (3) Friedman
A survey of poetry, prose and drama from John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1660, including early poems of Milton and Marvell.
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ENGL 325 - English Renaissance Drama
Fall (3) Savage
A study of the dramatic literature written by Shakespeare’s contemporaries, including Dekker, Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Tourneur, and Webster.
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ENGL 331 - English Literature, 1660-1744
Fall (3) A. Potkay, Wilson
A survey including poetry, fiction and drama. Some attention to arts related to literature. Emphasis on comedy and satire. Major figures studied include the Earl of Rochester, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gay, and Fielding.
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ENGL 332 - English Literature, 1744-1798
Spring (3) A. Potkay, Wilson
A survey of the poetry and prose of the period, with special attention to the intellectual/historical contexts. Major figures studied include Johnson, Gray, Hume, Gibbon, Smart, and Blake.
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ENGL 333 - The Novel to 1832
Fall (3) A. Potkay, Wilson
This course studies selected British and Continental novels from the early modern through Romantic periods, drawing upon authors such as Cervantes, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Rousseau, Goethe, Austen, and Scott.
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ENGL 341 - The English Romantic Period
Fall (3) A. Potkay, Wheatley
A survey of poetry, prose and fiction of the period between 1798 and 1832, with special attention to the works of the major Romantic poets.
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ENGL 342 - The Victorian Age
Spring (3) Joyce, Meyers
A survey of major writers during the reign of Victoria. Emphasis is on social and intellectual issues as expressed primarily by leading poets and essayists from Carlyle to Hardy.
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ENGL 343 - English Novel, 1832-1900
Spring (3) Joyce, Morse
Novels by Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Dickens, Trollope, Gaskell, Eliot and Hardy are studied as primary examples of the nature and development of the English novel during the Victorian period.
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ENGL 344 - The World Novel After 1832
Spring (3) Staff
A study of selected novels written mostly by authors who are not Anglo-American. Focus of readings will vary from year to year (e.g., history of the genre; 19th-century Europe; postcolonialism).
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ENGL 352 - Modern British Literature
Fall and Spring (3) Gray, Heacox, Joyce, Melfi, Meyers
A survey from the end of the Victorian era through at least the post- World War II period. Selected works by such writers as Conrad, Yeats, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, and Thomas are emphasized.
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ENGL 355 - Modern Fiction
Fall and Spring (3) Gray, Kennedy, Melfi
Reading, analysis and discussion of the principal American and British fiction writers from 1890 to the present, chosen to illustrate contemporary tendencies in matter and technique.
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ENGL 356 - Modern Poetry to 1930
Fall (3) MacGowan
Development of modern British and American poetry from transitional poets Hopkins, Housman and Hardy through the first generation modernist poets. Reading, interpretation and discussion, with emphasis on Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Lawrence, Williams, and Stevens.
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ENGL 357 - Modern Poetry since 1930
Spring (3) MacGowan
Development of modern British and American poetry from second-generation modernist poets through confessional and contemporary poets. Reading, interpretation and discussion, with emphasis on Auden, Thomas, Roethke, Lowell, Plath, and Berryman.
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ENGL 358 - Modern Drama to 1940
Fall (3) Begley
Survey of modern drama which traces the historical development of character against the theories of Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. Students read plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Rostand, Shaw, Pirandello, O’Neill and Brecht, in conjunction with acting treatises.
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ENGL 359 - Modern Drama since 1940
Spring (3) Begley
Survey of modern and contemporary drama that examines textual and performative representations of Being. Students read plays by Sartre, Genet, Ionesco, Beckett, Weiss, Baraka, Soyinka, Shange, Churchill, and Kushner, in conjunction with critical readings on artistic and philosophical movements.
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ENGL 360 - Contemporary Literature
Fall and Spring (3) Burns, Gray, Kennedy, Schoenberger
A survey of contemporary literature, including such movements as confessional and beat poetry, theater of the absurd, postmodernism and magic realism.
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ENGL 361 - American Literature to 1836
Fall (3) Putzi, Wenska
A survey from Columbus to Poe, emphasizing the Puritan/ Enlightenment backgrounds of such writers as Bradford, Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Brown, and Freneau.
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ENGL 362 - The American Renaissance
Fall and Spring (3) Barnes, Putzi, Scholnick
A survey of the mid-19th century, emphasizing the writers of the Concord Group, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.
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ENGL 363 - American Literature, 1865-1920
Fall and Spring (3) Dawson, Donaldson, Lowry, Putzi, Thompson
A survey from the Gilded Age to the end of the First World War, emphasizing such writers as Mark Twain, Howells, James, Stephen Crane, Norris, Dreiser, and the Regionalists.
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ENGL 364 - American Literature, 1912-1960’s
Fall and Spring (3) Dawson, Donaldson, MacGowan, Pinson, Weiss, Wenska
A survey from the rise of the modernist poets and the Lost Generation to the 1960s, emphasizing such writers as Pound, Eliot, W. C. Williams, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, O’Connor, Lowell, and Plath.
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ENGL 365 - Early Black American Literature
Fall (3) Braxton, McLendon, Pinson, Weiss
Survey of Black American literature and thought from the colonial period through the era of Booker T. Washington, focusing on the ways in which developing African American literature met the challenges posed successively by slavery, abolition, and emancipation. (Cross listed with AFST 365 .)
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ENGL 366 - Modern Black American Literature
Spring (3) Braxton, McLendon, Pinson
Survey of African American literature from the 1920s through the contemporary period. Issues addressed include the problem of patronage, the “black aesthetic,” and the rise of black literary theory and “womanist” criticism. (Cross listed with AFST 366 .)
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ENGL 371 - Topics in American Literature
Fall and Spring (3) Staff
Advanced study of a specific topic in American literature. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 380 - Topics in a Literary Period
Fall and Spring (3) Staff
In-depth study of a specific topic from within or across the traditional historical periods of British or American literature. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit. 400-level: Thematic and theoretical courses in literature; single-author courses, senior research seminars, independent studies, and honors classes
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ENGL 411 - Topics in Literary Theory
Fall and Spring (3) Staff
Topics in theory, exploring questions of aesthetics, the history of the study of literature, literature’s function as representation, its relationship to the world and to other disciplines. Topics vary but may include contemporary literary theory, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 411A - Theory of Literature
Fall (3) Staff
A study of the major attempts to identify and define the nature of literature, our responses to it and its relation to life and to the other arts. The emphasis is on modern and contemporary literary theory, but with some concern for the historical tradition.
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ENGL 412 - Topics in Literature and Other Arts
Fall and Spring (3) Staff
Exploration of the intersections among written, visual, and/ or performing arts. Topics vary from semester to semester but may include Shakespeare and Film, art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and race, representation, and arts in the U.S. South. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 414 - Topics in Women Writers
Fall and Spring (3) Staff
Study of fiction, non-fiction, and/or poetry by selected women writers. Topics vary from semester to semester but may include British women writers, medieval women writers, contemporary women writers. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 414A - Major African American Women Writers
Spring (3) McLendon, Braxton, Pinson
This course studies the fiction and non-fiction of major African American women writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gloria Naylor. Some attention to black feminist/ womanist and vernacular theoretical issues through selected critical readings. (Cross listed with AFST 414 .)
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ENGL 416 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality
Fall and Spring (3) Staff
Courses that address literary and/or theoretical treatments of gender and sexuality. Topics vary from semester to semester and may include issues such as sexual identity, queer theory, feminist criticism, masculinity studies and literature and the formation of sexual identity. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 416A - Literature and the Formation of Homosexuality
Spring (3) Heacox
A study of the homosexual tradition and the formation of sexual identity in 19th-20th-century British and American literature. Authors read include Oscar Wilde, E. M. Forster, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, Christopher Isherwood, Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault.
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ENGL 417 - Topics in Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality
Fall and Spring (3) Staff
Study of literature focusing on changing cultural definitions of race, ethnic identity, and the shaping of (and rationale for) national literatures. Topics will vary but may include comparative and cross-cultural studies. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 417A - Literature of the Americas
Spring (3) Thompson
A study of works that extend the definition of “American” literature beyond the national boundaries of the United States. Focus of readings will vary from year to year (e.g., Caribbean literature, U.S./Latin American literary relations, multiculturalism).
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ENGL 417B - Harlem in Vogue
Fall (3) McLendon, Braxton, Pinson, Weiss
Exploration of the 1920s movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on the ways race, gender/sexuality, and class informed the artists’ construction of identity. Writings by Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, Toomer, among others; some attention to visual art and music. (Cross listed with AFST 417 .)
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