2013-2014 Course Catalog - PDF Format - Flagler College

Courses of Instruction 235
ENG 311 – Advanced Academic Writing (3)
This course
prepares students for writing in the upper division English courses. Students will
critical reading and thinking skills, and acquire the ability to use technology to
facilitate their research in databases related to English studies and in various
ENGLISH
ENG 315 – Shakespeare I (3)
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. This course examines the career of
William Shakespeare beginning with the early comedies, and continuing through
the history plays and tragedies to the late romances. The following themes, motifs,
and conventions may be explored: the meaning of dramatized locations; the value
of role playing; the process of sexual maturation and identity; political legitimacy;
the disruptive force of ego assertion; genre as a symbolic and social form.
ENG 321 – Southern Writers (3)
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. The literary heritage of the American
ENG 322 – Great Short Stories (3)
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Intensive study of classic and
ENG 323 – Studies in Drama (3)
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. This course examines dramatic literature
in a variety of cultural and historical contexts. The particular subject of this genre
based course changes each semester. The focus may be on the tragedies and
comedies of ancient Greece and Rome; Renaissance non-Shakespearean drama;
or the works of modern and contemporary playwrights.
ENG 325 African American Literature (3)
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. This course is a survey of African
American literature from its beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance and the
Contemporary period. African American literature is central to understanding
the broader American experience. It confronts directly the troubling and tragic
legacy of slavery, segregation, and racism in the United States. In examining
the development of this tradition and its experiments, students will encounter a
ENG 331 – Great Works of World Literature (3)
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Study of classic and contemporary works
of world literature. Selections taken from a variety of global literary traditions,
such as Mediterranean, Asian, African, and South American.