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The Uni ver sity of Oklahoma 2006-2008 Gen eral Cat a log
English (ENGL)
the social, moral, and political issues at stake in science fiction’s critique
and occasional celebration of scientific culture. (Irreg.) [IV-WC]
3833 Introduction to American Drama. Prerequisite: 1213. A survey of
major American plays and playwrights, dramatic theory and the theatrical
institutions that supported and disseminated them from the Federal period
to the present. Special emphasis on the changing social context of the
theater. (Irreg.) [IV-WC]
3960 Honors Reading. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors
Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Will consist of
topics designated by the instructor in keeping with the student’s major
program. The topics will cover materials not usually presented in the
regular classes. (Irreg.)
3970 Honors Seminar. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors
Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. The projects covered
will vary. The content will deal with concepts not usually presented in
regular coursework. (Irreg.)
3980 Honors Research. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors
Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Will provide an
opportunity for the gifted honors candidate to work at a special project in
the student’s field. (Irreg.)
4003 Movements in World Literature (Crosslisted with Modern
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics 4003). Prerequisite: junior
standing. May be repeated with change of subject matter; maximum credit
nine hours. Focuses on texts within a literary movement (literature other
than canonical American or British). Also attention to critical and
theoretical questions about concepts such as genre, nation, national
building, national identity, etc. (Irreg.) [IV-WC]
G4013 Major Figure (with subtitle). May be repeated with change of
subject matter; maximum credit six hours. The major figure designated in
the subtitle is studied in depth: a major portion of his/her works are
covered; significant critical approaches will be presented. (Irreg.)
G4023 Literary Movements. May be repeated with change of subject
matter; maximum credit six hours. A course on literary movements or
groups of authors who are related through their particular interests in
certain distinct or philosophical ideas: the Metaphysical Poets, the Fugitive
Writers, etc. (Irreg.)
4033 Indigenous Political Writing. Prerequisite: 2733 or 2743 or permission
of the instructor. Examines key issues of American Indian politics and
literature, exploring how they continue to shape the American Indian
world in the present. Also considers how North American Indian politics
relate to broader discussions of indigenous peoples and literatures around
the world. (Irreg.)
G4133 History of the English Language. Traces the development of the
English language from its Indo-European origins through its present state.
Special attention will be paid to changes in grammar and vocabulary. (Irreg.)
G4203 Special Topics in Literary Forms. May be repeated with change of
subject matter; maximum credit six hours. Generic approach to literary
forms; exact subject material (eighteenth-century satire, Western novel,
gothic fiction) will vary from course to course. (Irreg.)
G4233 Major Figures in Theory. Intensive exploration of the work and
influence of one or a small number of literary or cultural theorists. Texts
typically will encompass primary reading in a theorist or group of theorists
and ancillary readings in the work of writers or other theorists who show
the theorist(s). (Irreg.)
G4243 Issues in Cultural Studies. Isolate significant issues in the
theoretical working out and practice of cultural studies, using the methods
of discursive analysis. focus on recent attempts in the humanities to define
culture, formulate post-colonial critiques of culture, and other such issues
in feminism and cultural theory that are part of the working out of
discourses about culture and society. (Irreg.)
G4253 Introduction to Film Theory. Introduction to basic issues of film
theory as seen by classical and contemporary film theorists. (Irreg.)
G4273 Women Writers. Prerequisite: 1213. May be repeated twice with
change of content; maximum credit nine hours. A study of women’s
writings from one or several periods. Approach may be thematic, generic,
regional, historical, etc., and will incorporate critical approaches including
feminist theory and criticism. (Irreg.)
G4303 Special Topics in Criticism. May be repeated with change of
subject matter; maximum credit six hours. Selected studies in literary
criticism, including the criticism of film. The exact subject matter will vary
from instructor to instructor. (Irreg.)
4323 The Harlem Renaissance. Prerequisite: 1213. Examines the
literature, culture, and politics of the Harlem renaissance. In addition to
texts of the 1920s, the course considers the contexts out of which the
movement emerged, as well as its effects in the U.S. and abroad. (Irreg.)
G4343 The Indian in American Popular Culture. Prerequisite: 1213 or
equivalent. Explores the various appearances and roles, stereotyped or
otherwise, American Indians have traditionally been pigeon-holed into
throughout America’s five centuries of recorded history. Covers Captain
John Smith, Colonial era, Romantic period of Cooper and Longfellow, and
modern writers Waters and Berger. (Irreg.) [IV-NW]
4373 Black Literary Form and Cultural Expression. Prerequisite: 1213.
Compare and contrast the relationship between literary form and cultural
expression by analyzing Black literature produced in two different contexts:
the United States and the Caribbean. Examine writing from the literary
movements knows as the “Harlem Renaissance,” “Negritude,” and the
“Black Arts.” (Irreg.)
4383 Civilization and Diaspora. Prerequisite: 1213. Examines literary and
cultural forms from the African Diaspora (the Black population outside of
continental Africa) offering alternative definitions of civilization, literary and
progress. Define and explore what is called Diaspora literacy: linguistic,
philosophical and cultural ways of knowing that come out of African
Diaspora experience. (Irreg.) [IV-NW]
G4403 Special Topics in Comparative Literature. May be repeated with
change of subject matter; maximum credit six hours. Topics will vary.
Literature studied may include combinations of foreign (in translation) and
English and/or American literature. Instructor’s approach may be thematic,
regional, historical, generic, etc., but the course will include intensive
cross-cultural explorations of literature. (Irreg.)
G4423 Modern European Novel. Consideration of the works of five major
European novelists of the last one hundred years. Course will be comparative
and founded upon such themes as loss of self, alienation and the artist’s
search for new techniques and structure. (Irreg.) [IV-WC]
G4433 Modern British and European Drama. A survey of British and
European drama from Ibsen and Shaw to the present day. (Irreg.)
G4443 Contemporary Literature. Intensive study of major literary works
since World War II in English, American and outside the Anglo-American
tradition. Readings will include works in various genres by such writers as
Barthelme, Fowles, Marquez, Larkin, Merrill, Solzhenitsyn, Grass, Sartre,
etc. (Irreg.)
G4453 Literature and Landscape. Exploration of writers, gardeners, farmers
and painters who translated nature into art. Texts range from ancient to
modern world and may include classical, Renaissance, Romantic, and
American works in which engagement in landscape is an important topic.
(Irreg.)
G4463 Linguistics and Semiotics. Trace the study of synchronic linguistics
in phonology, syntactics and semiotics in the twentieth century and
examine the field of semiotics based on this development. (Irreg.)
G4503 Backgrounds of the Renaissance. Prerequisite: 1213. A study of
classical and continental authors esteemed in the English Renaissance. Focus
on Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch, Erasmus, and Machiavelli in the contexts
of their cultures as well as their contributions to culture. (Irreg.) [IV-WC]
G4513 Chaucer. Examines the poetry of The Canterbury Tales and one or
two of Chaucer’s earlier narrative poems. Special emphasis will be given to
the social, literary and cultural backgrounds to Chaucer’s work. (Irreg.)
G4523 Shakespeare Comedies. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.
Close reading and analysis of Shakespeare’s comedies and histories. Selected
criticism, 1600 to the present. Historical background and Shakespeare’s
theatre. Dramatic traditions, movie interpretations, performance theory
and acting. Emphases and reading lists vary from year to year. (Irreg.) [IV-WC]
G4533 Shakespeare Tragedies. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.
Close reading and analysis of Shakespeare’s tragedies and lyric poetry. Selected
criticism, 1600 to the present. Historical background and Shakespeare’s
theatre. Dramatic traditions, movie interpretations, performance theory
and acting. Emphases and reading lists vary from year to year. (Irreg.) [IV-WC]
G4543 Tudor and Stuart Drama. Intensive study of the drama of
Shakespeare’s contemporaries, with emphasis on the plays of Christopher
Marlowe and Ben Jonson. Attention to dramatic forms, social issues,
cultural context, language and performance. Readings will include plays by
Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Heywood, Fletcher, Ford. (Irreg.)
G4553 Milton. Close reading and analysis of selected poetry and prose,
with emphasis on Paradise Lost. Study of literary forms, cultural myths,
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