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Prerequisite: Consent of the English Department Chair This course focuses on the expository essay, the basic form of college writing. It includes an introduction to research. The student is expected to be familiar with standards of correctness, including punctuation and grammar. (Every fall semester)

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ENG 233. The Study of Drama (3 hours)

A study of drama from various periods with emphasis on forms, ideas, techniques, and meaning. The student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically. (Every year)

ENG 234. The Study of Fiction (3 hours)

A study of novels and short stories from various periods with emphasis on forms, ideas, techniques, and meaning. The student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically. (Every semester)

ENG 235. The Study of Poetry (3 hours)

A study of poetry from various periods with emphasis on forms, ideas, techniques, and meaning. The student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically. (Every year)

ENG 236. The Study of a Literary Theme: (variable topic) (3 hours)

This course examines a particular theme in various literary forms. In addition to learning how to read a literary text closely and carefully, the student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically. (Every semester)

ENG 237. Literature and Film (3 hours)

The critical study of film as a literary text. Selected novels and their film adaptations will be studied in order to explore the differences and similarities between written and cinematic forms. (Every other year)

ENG 240. Multicultural Women Writers (3 hours) (Same as WGS 240)

An analysis of the writings of contemporary American women of diverse cultural backgrounds. Reading and discussing novels, short stories, and poetry, this course will explore the ways that these writers navigate being American and being culturally “other” within a homogenizing “melting pot” society. (Every two years)

ENG 263. Survey of English Literature: Beginnings through the Eighteenth Century (3 hours)

A chronological survey of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the eighteenth century. Required for the English major. (Every semester)

ENG 264. Survey of English Literature: Romanticism to the Present (3 hours)

A chronological survey of English literature from the Romantic Age to the contemporary period . (Every semester)

ENG 265. Survey of American Literary Masters (3 hours)

A study of major American writers from the colonial period to the present. (Every semester)

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ENG 301. Introduction to Literary Studies (3 hours)

This course introduces students to literary criticism and the methodologies of literary scholarship. It is intended to prepare English majors for advanced work in upper-division courses. Required for the English major. (Every semester)

ENG 307. Essay Writing (3 hours)

Writing in a variety of essay forms with special emphasis on the relationships among writer, subject, and reader. (Every three years)

ENG 308. Introduction to Poetry Writing (3 hours)

The student will take a close look at the conventions and techniques of traditional and contemporary poetry as models for writing original poetry. Each student will be encouraged to use his or her own experience to discover and develop an individual and authentic voice as a poet. (Every year)

ENG 309. Introduction to Fiction Writing (3 hours)

The student will take a close look at the conventions and techniques of traditional and contemporary fiction as models for writing original fiction. Each student will be encouraged to use his or her own experience to discover and develop an individual and authentic voice as a writer. (Every year)

ENG 311. Poetry Workshop (3 hours)

Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Students who have developed a facility in poetry writing will work together in a workshop setting. Exercises, assignments, readings, group critiques, and individual conferences will be used to support the student's efforts to complete an agreed upon poetry manuscript. (Every year)

ENG 312. Fiction Workshop (3 hours)

Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Students who have developed a facility in fiction writing will work together in a workshop setting. Exercises, assignments, readings, group critiques, and individual conferences will be used to support the student's efforts to complete an agreed upon fiction manuscript. (Every year)

ENG 320. Early Shakespeare (3 hours)

A study of Shakespeare’s dramatic works before 1601, including comedies, such as Twelfth Night, English history plays, such as Henry V, and early tragedies, such as Hamlet. The course examines questions of language, convention, and performance, while working to develop students’ skills as thoughtful close readers of Shakespeare’s works. Issues of genre, gender, race and ethnicity, class, and identity are also considered, focusing on how such categories both reflect and help to create early modern culture, and how the plays’ explorations of these aspects of human experience continue to be relevant in the twenty-first century. Every year.

ENG 321. Late Shakespeare (3 hours)

A study of Shakespeare’s dramatic works between 1601 and 1613. Plays to be considered include major tragedies, such as Othello, so-called problem plays, such as Measure for Measure, and the romances, such as The Tempest. The course examines questions of language, convention, and performance, while working to develop students’ skills as thoughtful close readers of Shakespeare’s works. Issues of genre, gender, race and ethnicity, class, and identity are also considered, focusing on how such categories reflect and help to create early modern culture, and how the plays’ explorations of these aspects of human experience continue to be relevant in the twenty-first century. (Every year)

ENG 323. History of the English Language (3 hours)

The history of modern British and American English is traced from the Indo-European beginnings through the Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, and Modern Periods to the present trends in linguistic study. (Occasional)

ENG 325. Contemporary Theories in Linguistics (3 hours)

This course includes the study of phonetics, morphology, structural linguistics, and transformational grammar. It is intended to acquaint students with the recent scientific approach to the study of English grammar. (Every year)

ENG 329. Twentieth-Century Literary Theory and Criticism (3 hours)

A study of literary theory and criticism in the twentieth century, focused on major groups and movements. Regularly included are such schools as Formalism, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Post-Structuralism. (Every year)

ENG 330. Chaucer (3 hours)

This course focuses primarily upon The Canterbury Tales with some work on Troilus and Criseyde and minor poems. Attention is given to Middle English pronunciation and poetics. Lectures, reports, and collateral readings will concern the Medieval background. (Every two years)

ENG 335. Milton (3 hours)

A study of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, as well as selections from the minor poems and prose works. (Every two years)

ENG 340. Sixteenth-Century Literature (3 hours)

A survey of the literature of the English Renaissance. Special attention will be given to the work of Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sir Francis Bacon, as well as to the non-dramatic poetry of Shakespeare. (Every two years)

ENG 342. Seventeenth-Century Literature (3 hours)

A survey of the religious and secular literature of seventeenth-century England, up to 1660, including such authors as Donne, Herbert, Jonson, Herrick, and Marvell. (Every two years)

ENG 346. Eighteenth-Century Literature (3 hours)

A study of the major figures from Dryden to Goldsmith with special emphasis on the comic ironic-satiric tradition in prose and on the rhetorical and empirical traditions in poetry. Lectures and collateral reading provide background for understanding the social, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic implications of literature. (Occasional)

ENG 347. Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement (3 hours)

A study of the poetry and prose of the English Romantic period with chief emphasis upon six major figures—Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats. (Every two years)

ENG 348. Victorian Poetry and Prose (3 hours)

A study of the major poets and prose writers of the Victorian age in England, with particular attention to Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Hopkins. Selected works from the pre-Raphaelites and from the aesthetic and decadent movements of the 1880s and 90s will also be read. (Every two years)

ENG 349. The English Novel (3 hours)

A survey of the development of the novel from the 1720s to the 1880s with special emphasis on Richardson, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and other selected writers. (Every two years)

ENG 352. Romanticism In American Literature (3 hours)

The origin, growth, and impact of the Romantic movement in American literature as revealed by an examination of the major writers of the period such as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. (Every two years)

ENG 353. Realism In American Literature (3 hours)

A study of the movement in American literature from Romanticism to Realism with its accompanying emphasis on pragmatic, realistic, or naturalistic interpretations. Major consideration will be given to such writers as Dickinson, Twain, James, Howells, and Crane. (Every two years)

ENG 354. The American Novel (3 hours)

A survey of the development of the American novel from its beginnings to the early twentieth century to show how the American novel has become both uniquely American and a major form of American letters. Hawthorne, Melville, Howells, James, Dreiser, and others will be studied. (Every two years)

ENG 357. Literature of the South to 1945 (3 hours)

A study of southern literature from the antebellum period to the end of World War II. The course includes such writers as the Frontier Humorists, Twain, Ransom, Tate, Faulkner, Warren, Wolfe, and Toomer. Topics such as tradition, change, and race relations are considered. (Every two years)

ENG 358. Literature of the South after 1945 (3 hours)

A study of southern literature in the contemporary period. The course includes such writers as O'Connor, Welty, Percy, Ellison, Walker, and Dickey and selected contemporary southern poets and dramatists. Topics such as tradition, change, and race relations are considered. (Every two years)

ENG 359. African American Literature: Beginnings to 1965 (3 hours) (Same as AFR 359)

A survey of classic writings in African American literature presented in their historical contexts. The course includes essays analyzing the political and social status of African Americans at various points during the period and representative works by major poets and fiction writers. Reading lists vary from year to year. but generally include such authors as Brown, Chestnut, Harper, the Grimkes, Larsen, Bontemps, DuBois, Washington, Harlem Renaissance writers, Ellison, and writers of the early Civil Rights era. (Every year)

ENG 360. African American Literature: 1965 to Present (3 hours) (Same as AFR 360)

A chronological study of the development of African American literature since 1965. The course attempts to place African American literature in the context of world and American literature by examining prevalent themes and traditions as presented in fiction, poetry, and drama. Reading lists vary from year to year, but generally include such authors as Wright, Baldwin, Morrison, Angelou, Sanchez, Baraka, McMillan, Walker, and Wideman. (Every year)

ENG 362. Modern Poetry: 1900 to 1965 (3 hours)

A study of major English and American Poets and aesthetic movements from 1900-65. Topics include aestheticism, Celtic Renaissance, imagism, vorticism, and objectivism. Poets usually include Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Frost, and Stevens as well as others. (Every two years)

ENG 364. Modern Drama: 1880 to 1965 (3 hours)

A study of drama in English from the emergence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century to the advent of absurdism in the mid-1960s. (Every two years)

ENG 366. Modern Fiction: 1900 to 1965 (3 hours)

A study of major modernist innovations in form and techniques by the foremost writers of the twentieth century up to 1965. Writers usually include Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, James, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner. (Every two years)

ENG 367. Contemporary Drama: 1965 to Present (3 hours)

A study of drama in English since 1965, exploring aspects of postmodern aesthetics and staging. (Every two years)

ENG 368. Contemporary Poetry: 1965 to Present (3 hours)

A study of major English and American poets with respect to representative themes of postmodernism and new directions in poetic form. Major topics include: confessional and Black Mountain poetics, neo-surrealism, concrete poetry, and political, regional, and feminist verse. (Every two years)

ENG 369. Contemporary Fiction: 1965 to Present (3 hours)

A study of major English and American works that extends modern modes in fictional representation and style. (Every two years)

ENG 371. Beginning Playwriting (3 hours) (Same as THR 371)

The goal of this course is to introduce the student to the conventions and techniques of playwriting. Students will complete exercises leading to the creation of an original one-act play. (Occasional)

ENG 372. Screenwriting (3 hours)

The art, craft, and business of screenwriting from theoretical and practical perspectives. Topics include: the nature of screenplay formats and structures; creation and development of premise, plot, character, and action; scene writing; adaptation issues; place of the screenwriter in the collaborative process of film making; and marketing strategies. (Occasional)

ENG 378. Images of Women in Literature (3 hours) (Same as WGS 378)

A study of the literary representation of women, with emphasis on the lives and careers of women writers. Authors covered may include Austen, Bronte, Wharton, Woolf, Morrison, and others. (Every two years)

ENG 380. Special Topics in English Literature (3 hours)

A study of some significant topic in literature written in English not included in the regular departmental offerings. May be taken twice for credit in the English major. (Every year)

ENG 382. The Critical Study of Film (3 hours)

An examination of film as a form of literature. A study of the relationship of film to literary forms and structures. Special emphasis will be on important film genres, as well as on the work of major directors. (Every two years)

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ENG 480S. Seminar in Literature (3 hours)

Prerequisites: senior standing. A study of some significant topic in English or American literature not included in the regular departmental offerings. May not be repeated for credit. Required for the literature track of the English major. (Every semester)

ENG 483. Advanced Playwriting Workshop (3 hours)

Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing; ENG/THR 371 and ENG 372. A portfolio (two complete plays) approved by the instructor may substitute for ENG/THR 371 and/or ENG 372. Students will write and revise one play with assistance from readers' theater criticism conducted by classmates and will assemble a portfolio of three complete plays. Offered as needed for playwriting students unable to enroll in ENG 485 (Sams Seminar in Drama). (Occasional)

ENG 484. Directed Independent Reading (1-3 hours)

Prerequisite: Junior or Senior status and consent of the instructor. This course provides the student with the opportunity to do guided intensive reading in a literary field of his or her interest under the direction of the instructor selected. The student will be expected to meet regularly with the instructor and to present written evidence of his or her critical ability and aesthetic appreciation. Variable credit 1-3 hours, not to exceed 3 hours total. (Occasional)

ENG 485. The Ferrol Sams, Jr., Distinguished Chair of English Seminar in Fiction, Poetry, or Drama (3 hours)

Prerequisite: successful completion of appropriate creative writing courses or by permission of the instructor. This course will provide an opportunity for students to study advanced creative writing under an accomplished artist. (Every year)

ENG 487. Advanced Creative Writing Workshop (3 hours)

Prerequisites: junior or senior standing, ENG 310, 311, or 312. The course follows a workshop format wherein students critique one another’s work, hone their editing skills, and study the editorial standards of strong presses and practicing writers. The course also explores matters of form and researching markets for written work. (Every two years)

ENG 488. Independent Study for Honors in English (3 hours)

Open to qualified senior English majors and offered fall semester of each year. Working under the direction of a member of the English Department and with the approval of the chair, the student will complete by March 15 of his or her senior year an essay project of scholarly merit. Three hours credit will be awarded on satisfactory completion of the project, and an Honors designation will be entered in the student record. (Occasional)

Course Offerings for Fall 2013

Course & Description	Instructor	Days & Times
ENG 226.001 Prison Narratives Description: Coming soon!	Chester Fontenot	TR 9:25-10:40
ENG 234.001 The Study of Fiction A study of novels and short stories from various periods with emphasis on forms, ideas, techniques, and meaning. The student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically.	Corrie Merricks	TR 1:40- 2:55
ENG 236.001 Graphic Novels Yes, this is a course about comics! We’ll focus especially on the fertile cross-pollination of visual and language arts in the explosion of novel length comics in the last thirty years. We will study the historical roots of comics in strips like the Yellow Kid, to its superhero heyday in the form of Spider Man and the Fantastic Four, and then we’ll read major artists who have transformed the art-form, from Will Eisner’s experiments in novelistic storytelling in The Contract with God, to Alan Moore’s deconstruction of the superhero genre, The Watchmen, to Craig Thompson’s elegiac expressionist ode to young love, Blankets, to Bryan Lee O’Malley’s manga-infused post-modern pastiche-parody of young love, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World. Along the way, we’ll discuss the revolution in comics over the last thirty years, exploring the connections between comics and culture, visual art and language art, meaning and form in some of the landmark comics of this radically innovative period of comics history. Possible works include Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Ghost World, Fun Home, Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth, Maus, Persepolis, Y, Ex Machina, Bone, American Born Chinese, among others.	Andrew Silver	MWF 11:00- 11:50
ENG 263.001 Survey of English Literature: Beginnings through the Eighteenth Century A chronological survey of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the eighteenth century. Since this course fulfills the “western heritage” block for general education, we will focus on literary works that hold an important place in the canon of English literature and explore the significant political events or cultural developments in English history reflected in those texts. Required for the English major.	Mary Raschko	MWF 11:00-11:50
ENG 301.001 Introduction to Literary Studies This course introduces students to literary criticism and the methodologies of literary scholarship. It is intended to prepare English majors for advanced work in upper-division courses. Required for the English major.	Gary Richardson	TR 9:25-10:40
ENG 308.001 Introduction to Poetry Introduction to Poetry. The student will take a close look at the conventions and techniques of traditional and contemporary poetry as models for writing original poetry. Each student will be encouraged to use his or her own experience to discover and develop an individual and authentic voice as a poet.	Judson Mitcham	M 4:30-7:30
ENG 309.001 Introduction to Fiction The student will take a look at the conventions and techniques of traditional and contemporary fiction as models of writing original stories. Each student will be encouraged to use his or her own experience to discover and develop an individual and authentic voice as a writer.	Gordon Johnston	TR 4:30-5:45
ENG 320.001 Early Shakespeare A study of several histories and comedies. Plays to be considered may include Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, and others.	Gary Richardson	TR 10:50- 12:05
ENG 330.001 Chaucer This course primarily focuses upon The Canterbury Tales with some possible work on Troilus and Criseyde and Chaucer's minor poems. In addition to learning Middle English pronunciation and grammar, students will explore the social context of Chaucer's poetry through presentations and supplementary readings on the Middle Ages.	Mary Raschko	MWF 12:00- 12:50
ENG 348.001 Victorian Poetry & Prose Like our own age, the Victorian period was a time of tremendous growth and change, witnessing revolutions in technologies, science, theology, and cultural ideologies. English 348 is a study of some of the major writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose of the Victorian age in England. We will read these authors within the context of Victorian debates about industrialization, the roles of men and women, religious faith, childhood, and the role of art in society. In order to best understand canonical authors such as Tennyson, Dickens, Browning, Barrett Browning, and Rossetti, we will read them alongside cultural documents that illuminate the concerns of the age. We will also read less well-known authors who were wildly popular in their day. In addition to using an anthology of poetry and prose, novels may include: Dickens, Hard Times; Gaskell, Cranford; Wood, East Lynne; Bronte, Villette.	Anya silver	TR 1:40- 2:55
ENG 352.001 Romanticism in American Literature The origin, growth, and impact of the Romantic movement in American literature as revealed by an examination of the major writers of the period such as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman.	Andrew Silver	MWF 2:00- 2:50
ENG 369.001 Contemporary Fiction: 1965 to Present A study of major English and American works that extends modern modes in fictional representation and style.	Gordon Johnston	MW 3:00-4:15
ENG 480S.001 Neo Slave Narrative Slavery is a persistent past, a set of memories rooted in the collective imagination of a race and nation that recur chronically. This course will use twentieth-century texts about slavery to explore the tangled web of history, memory, and imagination. Texts: Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada; William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner; Octavia Butler, Kindred; Charles Johnson, Middle Passage; Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose; Edward Jones, The Known World; and Toni Morrison, A Mercy.	David Davis	MWF 1:00-1:50

Course Offerings for Spring 2014

Course & Description	Instructor	Days & Times
ENG 225.002 Christianity & Literature Description coming soon!	Mary Raschko	MWF 11:00-11:50
ENG 225.002 Christianity & Literature A course devoted to literature about Christians and Christianity of all stripes, from holiness revivals to Roman Catholic cathedrals, from skeptics to fundamentalists, and everything in between. The course will consist of modern and contemporary fiction such as C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, Walker Percy’s Moviegoer, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz, and, yes, Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons or Da Vinci Code. Films may include Dogma, The Mission, The Passion of the Christ, and Angels and Demons or The Da Vinci Code.	Andrew Silver	MWF 1:00- 1:50
ENG 226.001 Children's Literature. This survey of children's literature will examine children's and young adult literature from the 17th century to today, introducing students to a wide range of genres, including fantasy, fairy tales, adventure stories, instruction books, Christian literature, poetry, and domestic fiction. Texts may include The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature; Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring; Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting; L. Anderson, Speak; M.T. Anderson, Feed; Gaiman, Coraline; Woodson, Feathers.	Anya Silver	TR 1:40- 2:55
ENG 233.W05 The Study of Drama The Study of drama from various periods with emphasis on forms, ideas, techniques, and meaning. The student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically.	Gary Richardson	TR 12:15-1:30 (TR 1:30)
ENG 234.W03 The Study of Fiction The study of fiction is the study of human experience, as it is expressed in one of the world’s oldest, most multifaceted, and most engaging forms. Listening to stories is, for many of us, one of our earliest memories, an elemental impulse that lingers and continues to develop as we pass from childhood to maturity, one that permeates every aspect of our lives and helps shape what it means to be human. The story of fiction is also a story of making, of creating with language and the human imagination as primary instruments in order to reflect reality, re-envision it, or, in some instances, to dispense with it altogether. In this course, students will be asked to engage with works of fiction, not as inert material inscribed upon the page, but as an array of vitally present voices that speak to us, for us, and with one another across various periods of literary and cultural history and through a variety of forms and techniques in order to communicate ideas and articulate meaning. To achieve this kind of engagement, students will be required to develop the ability to read, think, analyze closely and write critically, in order to develop and articulate their own ideas on the works of fiction that will concern us throughout the term.	Deneen Senasi	TR 9:25-10:40 (M 11:00)
ENG 235.W04 Study of Poetry For thousands of years, human beings have expressed their deepest questions, longings, and searches for truth in the genre of poetry. That search for self-understanding and understanding of the world around us continues today in the vibrant, diverse world of poetry. This class aims to introduce students to the practice and joy of reading poetry. We will learn about poetic structure, techniques, and forms, while keeping foremost in our minds poetry's role as a means of communication and self-expression. We'll read poems about love, faith, family, death, struggle, and meaning in poems that range broadly over time and place. We will read mostly English-language writers, but also poems translated from Russian, Spanish, and Arabic to get a sense of the global appeal of poetry. By the end of the semester, you will have discovered poets whom you will want to read your life long, and you will have learned how to better interpret and write about this ancient and sacred craft.	Anya Silver	TR 10:50-12:05 (W 2:00)
ENG 236.005 Black Film History This course will focus on the development of African America films from the early introduction of Blacks in the American film industry in the 19th century, to independent African American film companies in the early 20th century, to the blackploitation movies of the 1970's and early 1980 's, and to the contemporary period of Black filmmaking.	Chester Fontenot	T 3:05- 5:30
ENG 236.002 Wilderness and the Ameridcan Mind Wilderness and the American Mind, explores the ways in which wild landscapes have shaped and influenced American culture from the pre-colonial period to the present. Following a broad, roughly chronological pattern, we will explore how changing perceptions of the wilds have shaped and continue to shape American art, literature, intellect, spirituality, and cosmology. Among our texts will be fiction and poetry by Barry Lopez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Atwood, Pattiann Rogers, Louise Erdrich, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Penn Warren, Margaret Gibson, and others; nonfiction by Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Bradford, William Bartram, Meriwether Lewis, Annie Dillard, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, and others; visual art by Andy Goldsworthy, Ansel Adams, and others; and film and drama by John Sayles, William Shakespeare, and others.	Gordon Johnston	MW 3:00-4:15
ENG 237.W06 Literature and Film The critical study of film as a literary text. We will study selected texts and their film adaptations in order to explore the differences and similarities between written and cinematic forms. We will also discuss such issues as the relationship of a text and a film adapted from it, how faithful or loose an adaptation may be, the nature of an adaptation as an interpretation, and essential differences between written and visual media.	Jonathan Glance	MW 3:00- 4:15 (MW 4:15)
ENG 263.W02 Survey of English Literature: Beginnings through the 18th Century A chronological survey of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the eighteenth century. Since this course fulfills the “western heritage” block for general education, we will focus on literary works that hold an important place in the canon of English literature and explore the significant political events or cultural developments in English history reflected in those texts. Required for the English major.	Mary Raschko	MWF 9:00- 9:50 (T 9:25)
ENG 301.002 Introduction to Literary Studies This course introduces students to literary criticism and the methodologies of literary scholarship. It is intended to prepare English majors for advanced work in upper-division courses. Required for the English major.	David Davis	MWF 9:00-9:50
ENG 308.002 Intro to Poetry Writing Introduction to Poetry. The student will take a close look at the conventions and techniques of traditional and contemporary poetry as models for writing original poetry. Each student will be encouraged to use his or her own experience to discover and develop an individual and authentic voice as a poet.	Gordon Johnston	TR 7:00-8:15
ENG 311.001 Poetry Workshop Students who have developed a facility in poetry writing will work together in a workshop setting. Exercises, assignments, readings, group critiques, and individual conferences will be used to support the students efforts to complete an agreed upon poetry portfolio.	Judson Mitcham	M 4:30- 7:30
ENG 321.001 Late Shakespeare A study of Shakespeare’s dramatic works between 1601 and 1613. Plays to be considered include major tragedies, such as Othello, so-called problem plays, such as Measure for Measure, and the romances, such as The Tempest. The course examines questions of language, convention, and performance, while working to develop students’ skills as thoughtful close readers of Shakespeare’s works. Issues of genre, gender, race and ethnicity, class, and identity are also considered, focusing on how such categories reflect and help to create early modern culture, and how the plays’ explorations of these aspects of human experience continue to be relevant in the twenty-first century.	Deneen Senasi	TR 1:40-2:55
ENG 329.001 20th Century Literary Theory & Criticism. This course begins with a pair of seemingly star-crossed practices: literary theory and criticism. At least as long ago as Sir Phillip Sidney’s Defense of Poesie and Aristotle’s Poetics, literary art has encompassed the theoretical, reflecting upon its own devices and meditating on the evocative power of language in human experience. Nevertheless, in the twentieth and twenty-first century within the profession of literary studies, theory has often had a deeply divisive, intensely emotional effect. Yet, the OED tells us that the word, “theory” derives from the Greek root for “a looking at,” a “viewing” or “contemplation,” and that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the term was used to refer to “a sight or spectacle” or an act characterized by “deep study, insight, or beholding.” We will therefore contemplate and study deeply those questions of where meaning lies, how it is constructed, and what effect such acts of meaningful construction (and their corollary, deconstruction) may have upon us as students, scholars, and human beings. The course will introduce students to the primary modes of criticism employed in the field today and presents the essential logic of a number of interpretive approaches including formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, historicism, psychoanalysis, cultural materialism, feminism, gender studies, critical race theory, and post-colonial studies. That introduction, in turn, serves as a semester-long practicum for the development of the Honors Thesis or Seminar Paper (for those not pursuing Honors in the department of English).	Deneen Senasi	TR 10:50- 12:05
ENG 349.001 The English Novel This course will provide an overview of the development of the English novel through a study of representative works by major writers from the 1740s to the 1890s. We will read and discuss Richardson's Pamela, Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Dickens's Hard Times, Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, and Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. These novels give a sampling of the vibrant, diverse literary traditions of the novel in England. Through our discussions we will explore the "The Four M's" of the English novel—Marriage, Money, Morals and Manners—and also pursue the various gendered concepts of and attitudes toward Ruin as depicted by each novelist.	Jonathan Glance	MWF 11:00-11:50
ENG 354.001 The American Novel The past hundred years have been called “the American Century,” because the United States has evolved from a provincial, isolationist nation into a global superpower. This course will use literature to discuss America’s rise and potential decline as a hegemon and major social upheavals that have changed life in America. Texts include 1919 by John Dos Passos, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Sophie’s Choice by William Styron, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman, Rabbit Redux by John Updike, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.	Andrew Silver	MWF 2:00-2:50
ENG 358.001 Literature of the South after 1945. Description coming soon!	David Davis	MWF 1:00-1:50
ENG 359.001 African American Literature I. A survey of classic writings in African American literature presented in their historical contexts. The course includes essays analyzing the political and social status of African Americans at various points during the period and representative works by major poets and fiction writers. Reading lists vary from year to year. but generally include such authors as Brown, Chesnutt, Harper, the Grimkes, Larsen, Bontemps, DuBois, Washington, Harlem Renaissance writers, Ellison, and writers of the early Civil Rights era.	Chester Fontenot	TR 1:40-2:55
ENG 362.001 Modern Poetry What literary scholars refer to as “Modernism” was actually a diverse group of movements in art, culture, and literature. We will examine this period of dynamic change through the works of British, English, Russian, German, and French poets from the turn of the century through the 1960’s. The writers that we’ll discuss include T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anna Akhmatova, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, the “World War I poets,” Langston Hughes, and e. e. cummings. Students will write two papers and have a final exam.	Anya Silver	TR 3:05-4:20
ENG 380.002 Medieval Drama Description coming soon!	Mary Raschko	MW 3:05-4:20
ENG 480S.002 Postcolonial Literature and Film. This course will examine some of the issues that people who live in postcolonial societies are dealing with through reading a number of texts and viewing some films produced by writers and filmmakers from developing countries. Students will be required to complete a number of quizzes, and a 20-25 page research paper.	Chester Fontenot	TR 10:50-12:05
ENG 485.001 Ferrol Sams/English Senior Seminar	TBA	TBA