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3263 IU SOUTH BEND COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
ENG-L 314 Late Plays of Shakespeare (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
An intensive reading of the great tragedies
and at least two of the late romances.
The course deals with Shakespeare’s
treatment of tragedy and of romance as
genre, as well as with the merits of the
individual plays.
ENG-L 327 Later Eighteenth Century Literature
(3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
Major poetry and prose, 1730–1800, with
emphasis on Johnson and Boswell.
ENG-L 329 Romantic Literature (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
Major Romantic writers, with emphasis
on two or more of the following: Blake,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley,
Keats.
ENG-L 335 Victorian Literature (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
Major poetry and prose, 1830–1900,
studied against social and intellectual
background of period.
ENG-L 347 British Fiction to 1800 (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or
higher. Forms, techniques, and theories
of fiction, as exemplified by such writers
as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett,
Sterne, and Burney.
ENG-L 348 Nineteenth Century British Fiction
(3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
Forms, techniques, and theories of fiction
as exemplified by such writers as the
Brontës, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy.
ENG-L 350 EARLY AMERICAN WRITING AND CULTURE
TO 1800 (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
Examination of a range of literary and
cultural communications from the period
of exploration and colonization of the
Americas through the Revolutionary era.
Special attention paid to the interactions
between rhetoric and history, and to
religious, scientific, political, racial, and
literary discourses.
ENG-L 351 American Literature 1800–1865 (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
A study of major American writers to
1865, including such figures as Emerson,
Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman,
and Dickinson.
ENG-L 352 American Literature 1865-1914 (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
A study of American writers from the end
of the Civil War to the outbreak of World
War I, including such figures as Twain,
Dickinson, James, and two or three
additional major writers.
ENG-L 354 American Literature 1914-1960 (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
American writers since 1914, representing
both the traditional canon and minority
literature.
ENG-L 355 American Fiction to 1900 (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
Representative nineteenth century
American novels.
ENG-L 358 Twentieth Century American Fiction
(3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
American fiction since 1900, including
such writers as Wharton, Chopin,
Wright, Morrison, DeLillo, Fitzgerald,
Hemingway, and Faulkner.
ENG-L 365 Modern Drama Continental (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
Special attention to Ibsen, Strindberg,
Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, and
the theater of the absurd.
ENG-L 369 Studies in British and American
Authors (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or
higher. Studies in single authors (such
as Wordsworth and Melville), groups of
authors (such as the Pre-Raphaelites),
and periods (such as American writers of
the 1920s). Topics vary from semester to
semester. May be repeated once for credit
with a different topic.
ENG-L 370 recent black american writing (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or higher.
A study of the major African American
writers, with special emphasis on recent
writing.
ENG-L 376 literature for adolescents (3 cr.)
P: ENG-W 131 with a grade of C or
higher. A survey of the challenging
and sometimes controversial literature
written about, for, and occasionally by,
the young adult reader. Besides a wide
range of readings, topics to be considered
include problem fiction, fantasy and
escapism, and the question of censorship.
This course is designed both for future
teachers and for those interested in the
complex phenomenon of coming of age.
P = Prerequisite, R = Recommended, C = Concomitant, VT = Variable Title
I = fall semester, II = spring semester, S = summer session(s)