2009-11 Marian University Course Catalog, fall 2010 edition

ENG 303
Composition Theory: Issues and Practice 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. Surveys of theories, research, and
knowledge that have led to a resurgence in composition
studies since 1963. Analyzes the practice of contemporary
process theories of writing, and examines teachers’
theoretical assumptions about language, writing, and the
development of writing abilities. (ADD)
ENG 304
The English Language 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. Study of the history and grammar of the
English language, with some attention to semantics, dialects,
and contemporary issues in language change. (FAL)
ENG 307
Principles of Linguistics 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. A study of contemporary theories on the
nature of human language, its components, acquisition,
processing, and social aspects. (SPR)
ENG 314
Early American Literature 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. A critical study of early American literature
through the eighteenth-century, including material from
Native American cultures, the accounts of European explorers
and colonists in North America, and the literature of the
American Revolution and the early republic. Focuses on the
construction of American identity and the birth of a national
literary tradition. (Fall 2011)
ENG 315
Literature of the American Renaissance 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. A critical study of the literature written in
the United States from about 1830 to about 1860, selected
from the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily
Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, and others. Explores the
influence of transcendentalism and factors leading to the Civil
War; examines the treatment in literature of such social
issues as slavery and women’s suffrage. (Fall 2012)
ENG 316
American Realism 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. A critical study of the literature written in
the United States between 1865 and the turn of the century,
including the work of Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Henry
James, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, and
others. Explores the increasing complexities of American
culture in the post-Civil War period as reflected in the
literature. (Fall 2009)
ENG 317
American Modernism 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. A critical study of the literature written in
the United States during the first half of the twentieth-
century, including the work of T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner,
Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Richard
Wright, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and others.
Explores the development of the Modernist aesthetic and
examines the interplay between literature and twentiethcentury
cultural and political developments. (Fall 2010)
ENG 319
Classical Mythology 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. Study of principal myths and legends of the
ancient world, with consideration
of the nature of myth, relation of myth to religion and ritual,
and the presence of mythic structures in contemporary
culture. (2SO)
ENG 320
Representations of Catholicism 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. A critical study of literature written by
Catholic writers, engaging issues of Catholic theology, and/or
depicting Catholic characters and culture. The course
provides an informed inquiry into the intellectual, social, and
aesthetic complexities of the Catholic faith as represented in
literature. The specific topic of the course changes with each
offering, e.g., Catholicism in the United States, spiritual
autobiography, etc. (2SO)
ENG 325
Chaucer and His Age 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. Study of the works of Chaucer and of other
selected medieval authors. (2SE)
ENG 330
Shakespeare 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. Study of representative Shakespearean
comedies, tragedies, and histories; consideration of historical
and literary background. (2SO)
ENG 332
Modern Poetry 3 credits
Prerequisite: ENG 115. This course surveys the poetic voices
that have shaped the genre in the last seventy-five years.
After reviewing major trends in the poetry of the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries, the course will focus more
narrowly on seven or eight poets individual poets who have
made unique contributions to the genre (S2013, S2016,
S2019)
ENG 333
Modern Drama 3 credits
Prerequisite: 115. This course concentrates on modern drama
starting with Ibsen and Chekov with the greatest emphasis on
American and British playwrights. Cross-listed as Theatre 333.
Strong writing component, with projects to reflect a student’s
concentration in English Literature or Writing, or Theater.
(S2011, S2014, S2017)
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