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English 120 - Critical Reading and Writing: Poetry
Identifi es and examines prosodic and fi gurative elements of poetry as well as the historical context
of poems of various periods, authors, and kinds. Equal emphasis falls on the student’s production of
critical essays, which logically organize and persuasively present responses to the poems from a close
reading. Required of all English majors. One unit.
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English 120 - Critical Reading and Writing: Fiction
Course topics are the elements of fi ction: narrative structures, various aspects of style, and point of
view. This course is also devoted to the writing of student essays on the literature. One unit.
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English 293 - Readings in 19th-Century American Literature
Covers poetry, prose essays, short stories, and novels that refl ect the scope of this century’s engagement with issues of race, gender, Transcendentalism, science and technology, and the Civil War and its aftermath. One unit.
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English 350 - Early American Literature
A study of the development of cultural contact between Native Americans and Europeans, the Puritan
experiment, and the founding of the nation from 1600-1830. One unit.
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English 351 - American Renaissance
A study of the American Renaissance through selected prose and poetry of Poe, Emerson, Thoreau,
Whitman, Hawthorne, and Melville. One unit.
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English 352 - American Realism
A study of the rise of variant expressions of realism, its evolution into naturalism, the revival of local
color and the fl owering of regionalism, all in response to the changing American scene through
immigration, segregation, business, technology and other forces between the Civil War and World
War I. One unit.
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English 354 - Civil War & Reconstruction Literature
A survey of how the Civil War and Reconstruction periods have been described in American literature,
from both the northern and southern perspective. Possible works include selected Civil War
poetry and speeches, Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the
Wind, and Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain. One unit.
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English 401 (Seminar) - Other American Renaissance
Advanced seminars are classes with prerequisites that offer the student an opportunity to pursue an
ambitious independent project and to take more responsibility for class experience. Some recent
advanced courses have been: Book as Text/Object, Keats and Wordsworth, Medieval East Anglia,
Gender in the Renaissance, Austen: Fiction to Film, Shakespeare’s Romances, Literary Constructions
of Romantic Love, Forgotten Language: The Art of Nature Writing, and Slavery & the Literary
Imagination, Shakespeare’s Comedies. One unit.
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