Undergraduate Bulletin - Loyola Marymount University

ENGL 553
American Realism and Naturalism
3 Semester Hours
The study of such representative American fiction writers as
Twain, James, and Crane.
Fulfills post-1800 requirement.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
ENGL 554
Modern American Fiction
3 Semester Hours
The study of such representative novelists as Hemingway,
Faulkner, Anderson, and Fitzgerald.
Fulfills post-1800 requirement.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
ENGL 555
American Fiction Since 1950
3 Semester Hours
A study of American novels and short fiction from 1950 to
the present.
Fulfills post-1800 requirement.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
ENGL 556
Modern American Poetry
3 Semester Hours
The study of representative American poets from Whitman
to the mid-twentieth century.
Fulfills post-1800 requirement.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
ENGL 557
Modern Drama
3 Semester Hours
British, American, and continental drama, from Ibsen to
O’Neill.
Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural literatures
requirement.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
ENGL 558
Caribbean Literature
3 Semester Hours
ENGLISH / 145
The study of representative writers from the Englishspeaking
Caribbean, such as George Lamming, Jean Rhys,
Sam Salvon, and Jamaica Kincaid.
Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural literatures
requirement.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
ENGL 559
Survey of Literary Criticism
3 Semester Hours
The principles and practice of literary criticism from the
ancient Greeks to World War II.
Fulfills theory requirement.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
ENGL 561
Contemporary Literary Criticism
3 Semester Hours
The principles and practice of literary criticism from World
War II to the present.
Fulfills theory requirement.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
ENGL 562
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
3 Semester Hours
Textual analysis and production based on contemporary
rhetorical theory.
Fulfills theory or writing requirement.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
ENGL 563
Creative Writing Seminar
3 Semester Hours
An intensive writing class in fiction, poetry, drama, creative
non-fiction, or some combination of these genres.
Prerequisites: Undergraduates must complete ENGL 311
and 411 or ENGL 312 and 412 or ENGL 313 and 413
before enrolling in ENGL 563. Junior or senior standing.