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ENGL 303 SPECIAL TOPICS IN BRITISH LITERATURE (Periodically) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of British literature focusing upon special topics beyond the traditional categories<br />

of period and genre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: medieval romance; the picaresque novel; gothic<br />

literature; literature, obscenity, and the law; fairy tales and fantasy literature; utopian literature; post‐colonial literature; and literature and the<br />

other arts.<br />

ENGL 316 AMERICAN LITERATURE I (Fall) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of American writers and writings from colonial times to the mid‐nineteenth<br />

century. Selected works will be examined in historical context and in their relationship to the political, social, and intellectual milieu in which<br />

they were produced.<br />

ENGL 317 AMERICAN LITERATURE II (Spring) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of American writers and writings, from the rise of Realism to the present. This<br />

course includes considerations of the development of the American writer as reflected in American literature and the study of literary trends<br />

within the specified period.<br />

ENGL 318 AMERICAN FICTION SINCE 1945 (Periodically) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an examination of the leading novelists and the major trends in American fiction since<br />

World War II.<br />

ENGL 319 SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (Periodically) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of American literature focusing upon special topics beyond the traditional<br />

categories of period and genre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: Native American literature; Asian American<br />

literature; Chicano/a American Literature; travel literature; Cold War literature; American autobiography; literature of specific geographic<br />

locations such as Washington, D.C., New York, or the Pacific Rim; and literature and the other arts.<br />

ENGL 324 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE I TO 1926 (Fall) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course traces the development of the African American literary tradition from the end of the<br />

eighteenth century to the midst of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926. It will cover a variety of genres, including slave narratives, poetry, personal<br />

correspondence, essays, short stories, autobiographies, and novels. It will examine many literary conventions and innovations, including tropes<br />

such as the “talking book” and the “tragic mulatto,” and techniques such as written vernacular and jazz poetry.<br />

ENGL 325 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE II, 1926 TO THE PRESENT (Spring) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course traces the development of the African American literary tradition from the Harlem<br />

Renaissance to the present. It will examine the ways that modern and contemporary African American writers have explored political, social,<br />

and aesthetic issues in a variety of genres: essays, poetry, fictionalized autobiography, novels, plays, etc. Among the many topics we will<br />

consider are: the “New Negro,” migration from the rural south to the urban north and west, the emergence of the Black Arts Movement, and<br />

the current “renaissance” in African American arts and letters.<br />

ENGL 326 LITERATURE OF THE CARIBBEAN (Alternate Fall Semesters) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an introductory survey of Caribbean literature from 1929 to the present, including short<br />

stories, poetry, drama, essays, and the novel. Consideration is given to the developing Caribbean national consciousness and political<br />

independence as reflected in the literature of the Caribbean.<br />

ENGL 327 AFRICAN LITERARY EXPRESSION (Alternate Fall Semesters) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a survey of selected poetry, short fiction, and novels of contemporary writers of West<br />

Africa and East Africa. Consideration also will be given to the oral and narrative traditions in Africa and their contributions to modern African<br />

literature.<br />

ENGL 328 LITERATURE OF THE EAST (Alternate Fall Semesters) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course provides an exploration of selected masterpieces of the literature of China, Japan, and<br />

India.<br />

ENGL 329 THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SHORT STORY (Alternate Spring Semesters) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course provides an in‐depth exploration of selected major African American short Story writers,<br />

such as Chesnutt, Hughes, Baldwin, Wright, Kelley, Petry, Bontemps, etc.<br />

ENGL 330 AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY AND POETICS (Periodically) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course provides an in‐depth exploration of selected African American poets and their impact on<br />

American culture. Poets studied might include Phyllis Wheatley, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka. The<br />

course also seeks to enlarge and complicate our sense of African American and African diasporic poetics by looking at poets who rarely show up<br />

in the literature curriculum including Melvin B. Tolson, Bob Kaufman, Stephen Jonas, Kamau Brathwaite, Harryette Mullen, and Tracie Morris.<br />

ENGL 331 THE AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR TRADITION (Periodically) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236.This course is a study of the African American Vernacular Tradition from the period of enslavement to<br />

the present. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: spirituals, ballads, tales, speeches, sermons, work songs, blues,<br />

jazz, spoken word and rap songs. This course will also examine the ways in which the vernacular tradition informs the African American literary<br />

canon, including writing by Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Etheridge Knight, Amiri Baraka, and Paule Marshall.<br />

ENGL 337 LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS (Spring) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102, ENGL 236, EDUC 101, and passing scores on PRAXIS I. This course emphasizes readings in major genres, current and<br />

classic; determines reading levels for appropriate selection of classroom literature; explores interests and needs of adolescents; identifies<br />

sources of literary material for adolescents; and emphasizes techniques for and improving skills in the reading of various types of prose and<br />

poetry.<br />

ENGL 340 MODERN DRAMA (Alternate Spring Semesters) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course considers trends in the theatre through analysis of representative plays by playwrights from<br />

Ibsen to the present. Analyses of developments in society and in the theatre as shaping forces in drama are conducted.<br />

ENGL 345 INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL LINGUISTICS I (Fall) 3 CREDITS<br />

Prerequisite: ENGL 102. This course is an introduction to trends in contemporary linguistic theory, language acquisition, and dialects, with<br />

special emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.<br />

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