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COURSE DESCRIPTIONSEN 310 Journalistic Essay (4 SH)Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101A composition course with emphasis on news and feature writingand on the essay as a journalistic form. Identification of suitablesubject matter, techniques of research and appropriate literarystyle are central to the course.EN 315 Creative Writing: Fiction (4 SH)Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101An introduction to the elements of fiction with particularattention to problems of literary point-of-view, characterdevelopment and narrative form. Weekly assignments will focuson the specific application of critical elements as they relate tothe writing of short fiction.EN 316 Creative Writing: Dramatic Forms (4 SH)Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101Study of the major elements of dramatic literature including plot,characterization and dialogue. Students will apply thoseelements in a series of weekly assignments directed chieflytowards the reader’s theater.EN 317 Creative Writing: Poetry (4 SH)A consideration of narrative and lyric forms with emphasis onexperimentation with language and imagery. A series of shortassignments will stress imagination, revision and the conventionsof the genre. Assigned readings in British and/or American poetrywill encourage mastery of critical skills and literary analysis.EN 327 The Neoclassical Age (4 SH)Semester Offered: Fall Odd YearsPre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140The Neoclassical Age (1660-1798) includes the Restoration (1660-1700), in which Milton, Bunyan and Dryden were the dominantinfluences; the Augustan Age (1700-1750), in which Pope was thecentral poetic figure, while Defoe, Richardson, Fielding andSmollett were presiding over the sophistication of the novel; andthe Age of Johnson (1750-1798).EN 328 The Romantic Age (4 SH)Semester Offered: Spring Even YearsPre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140A study of the Romantic period of British literature (1798-1830)in poetry, essays, novels and critical works by a number ofinfluential writers. Political, economic, social, intellectual andreligious issues and events that shaped and were shaped byRomantic literature will be considered.EN 329 The Victorian Age (4 SH)Semester Offered: Fall Even YearsPre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140A study of the Victorian period of British literature (1837-1901) inprose, poetry and fiction, specifically on the novel, as it rapidlydeveloped into a significant literary genre. The course alsoconsiders the political, economic, social, intellectual and religiousissues and events that shaped and were shaped by this literature,including the roles or race, ethnicity, gender and class, as well asthe issues of colonial expansion of the British Empire prior to andthroughout Victoria's reign.EN 336 Nineteenth-Century American Literature (4 SH)Semester Offered: Fall Even YearsPre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140A study of American literary history with emphasis on wellknownAmerican literary figures. The class will explore howcertain American writers addressed a variety of social andcultural issues to forge a specifically American cultural identity.This course also studies dominant narratives related to the CivilWar and its aftermath, with attention to their persistence in thepresent.EN 337 Twentieth-Century American Literature (4 SH)Semester Offered: Spring Odd YearsPre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140A study of poetry and fiction considered in the context of specificliterary movements of the 20th century, as well as the context ofeconomic, political and social change. Additionally, the courseexamines the unique set of cultural values that define theseworks of literature as "American."EN 338 African-American Literature (4 SH)Semester Offered: Fall Odd YearsPre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140This course examines the formation of the African Americanliterary tradition and the political, economic, social and culturalcircumstances that shaped it and are shaped by it.EN 339 Multi-Ethnic American Literature (4 SH)Semester Offered: Spring Even YearsPre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140A study of the formation of "American" identity in contemporaryliterature, considering how race, ethnicity, gender, adn classshape and are shaped by literary texts.EN 342 Studies in Shakespeare (4 SH)Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140Analyses of selected works by Shakespeare as a means both ofidentifying his particular artistic achievement and of exploringthe social and intellectual issues of Renaissance England.Page | 93Lake Erie College | 2012 - 2013 Undergraduate Catalog | Student Handbook | Student Athlete Handbook