2006–2007 Academic Catalog - Concordia University Ann Arbor

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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
ENG315 Contemporary Mosaic credits: 3
Students read selections that highlight contemporary American ethnic and minority perspectives.
The readings in fiction, drama, and poetry broaden students' understanding and
appreciation of the rich variety within the American experience. PREREQUISITES: ENG101
ENG321 The English Language credits: 3
This course offers a study of the principles and phenomenon of language through an introduction
to the fundamentals of linguistics, the phonetics, morphology, syntax, and semantics,
followed by an examination of English Language from 900 to present. PREREQUISITES:
ENG101
ENG331 Medieval & Renaissance Literature credits: 3
Students examine medieval lyrics, narratives, and romances, with emphasis on the work of
Chaucer. Readings in significant works of selected Renaissance writers include Sidney,
Spenser, Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell and Milton. Shakespeare excluded.
PREREQUISITES: ENG101
ENG332 Shakespeare (w) credits: 3
Study 10-12 representative plays, including histories, comedies, and tragedies. Develop an
appreciation of Shakespeare's art and thought. Close, careful reading will increase the student's
analytical and interpretative skills. PREREQUISITES: ENG101
ENG333 Restoration & 18th Century Literature credits: 3
This course provides a study of representative prose, poetry, and drama of the late 17th and
18th century England. Readings in selected works of writers such as Dryden, Behn, Pope,
Swift, Congreve, Montague, Defoe, Johnson, Gray, Fielding and Burke. PREREQUISITES:
ENG101
ENG334 The Romantic Movement credits: 3
A study of the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats and of minor
poets. Some of the prose of this period will be considered. PREREQUISITES: ENG101
ENG335 Victorian Literature credits: 3
Several major Victorian poets, novelists, and essayists are read in the light of social and cultural
attitudes and realities of the Victorian period. Among writers considered may be
Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossettis, Arnold, Newman, Pater,
Gaskell, the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy. PREREQUISITES: ENG101
ENG336 20th Century British Literature credits: 3
Students read representative works of twentieth century British poets, novelists, and essayists
against the background of social and cultural changes throughout the century. The
course includes writers such as Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Lawrence, Yeats, Lessing and
others. PREREQUISITES: ENG101
ENG341 American Literature to 1865 (w) credits: 3
This course offers a survey of American writers in the colonial, revolutionary, early national,
and romantic periods. Emphasis is on major authors (Taylor, Franklin, Cooper, Poe
Hawthorne, Emerson Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman) presented in the context of selected
alternate voices (e.g. Rowlandson, Equiano, Freneau, Thorpe, Longfellow, Douglass).
PREREQUISITES: ENG101
ENG342 American Literature, 1865-Present (w) credits: 3
A survey course of American writers since the Civil War. Emphasis is on major writers
(Twain, James, Frost, Eliot, O'Neill, Hemingway, Faulkner, Stevens, and Williams) in the
context of selected alternate voices (e.g. Chestnut, Chopin, Black Elk, Cather, Hurston,
Wright, Plath). PREREQUISITES: ENG101