1999-2000 - The University of Scranton

ENGL 431 Dr. Beal
Dante’s Divine Comedy 3 credits
A canto-by-canto study, in translation, of
Dante’s dream vision of hell, purgatory
and heaven. Consideration given to the
cultural milieu and to medieval art and
thought as these affect the allegorical
meaning and structure of the poem.
ENGL 432 Dr. Beal
Chaucer 3 credits
A study of Chaucer’s poetry in the context
of medieval culture. Readings and assignments
will concentrate on The Canterbury
Tales, but will also cover the other major
poems, such as the Book of The Duchess
and the Parliament of Birds.
ENGL 434 Dr. Fraustino
Keats: Death and Love 3 credits
Course will focus almost exclusively on
one writer, John Keats, and explore the
dynamic relationship in his poetry
between death and love.
ENGL 436 Dr. Jordan
Poetry of G.M. Hopkins, S.J. 3 credits
(Prerequisite: ENGL 140 or ENGL 103)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, the only priestpoet
in history to be honored with a place
in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner,
will be studied in his poetry and Jesuit
background as a nature, victorian, religious,
original, theological, meditative,
and the first modern, poet.
ENGL 437 Prof. Hill
Conrad’s Fiction 3 credits
A reading of major works by Conrad and
survey of critical response to this quintessential
modern Western writer.
ENGL 438 Dr. Whittaker
(W)Joyce 3 credits
This course explores the prose works of
James Joyce, one of the lights of Anglo-
Irish writing, and a major figure in twentieth-century
literature. We will read and
discuss Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man, and, with the help of various
guides, the masterpiece, Ulysses. We
will work to apprehend in Joyce both the
universal and the peculiarly Irish.
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ENGL 444 Drs. Whittaker
(C)American Literature, and Gougeon
1865-Present (F) 3 credits
Study of a select group of major American
authors from the Civil War to the present.
Included are Twain, Crane, Fitzgerald and
Vonnegut. The historical and cultural
milieu and the development of major
American themes and attitudes are
reviewed.
ENGL 460 Dr. Rakauskas
Teaching Modern Grammars 3 credits
This course is designed to provide an
understanding of the English language and
its grammar, based upon recent linguistic
analysis of the language, and to assist the
future teacher in his or her understanding
of transformational/generative grammar
and its place in the curriculum.
Techniques for teaching these new grammars,
and laboratory teaching experience
in the Freshman writing clinic will be presented.
Students seeking certification as
secondary-school English teachers should
also be advised that the usual teacher of
ENGL 460, as well as 310, Dr. Wm.
Rakauskas, supervises student teachers for
the department.
ENGL 464 Drs. Whittaker and DeRitter
Literary Criticism and Theory 3 credits
This course analyzes the derivation and
methodology of the theories underlying
contemporary practice. For historical perspective,
we turn to Plato and Aristotle,
and then to a survey of other major classical,
renaissance, enlightenment, and nineteenth-century
sources. Thence we examine
twentieth-century critical theories,
namely: psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism,
formalism (new criticism), readerresponse,
structuralism, deconstruction,
and cultural materialism (new historicism).
ENGL 480 Staff
Internship Variable credit
English majors can receive internship
credits for a variety of on-the-job work
experiences. Approval must be obtained
beforehand from chairperson and dean.