Bulletin 2007-2008 - Austin College

ENGLISH351 Studies in BritishRomantic LiteratureA variety of courses focusing on selectionsfrom British literature from about 1789 toabout 1837, sometimes including continentalor colonial works. Courses may be structuredaround authors, genres, themes, cultural contexts,historical development, or some combinationof the above. Possible courses includeThe Romantic Lyric; Romanticism and Revolution;The Younger Romantics; and Lunatics,Lovers, and Poets. May be repeated once whentopic varies. (Each fall)352 Studies in BritishVictorian LiteratureA variety of courses structured around authors,genres, themes, cultural and historical developments,or some combination of the above.Possible courses include Victorian Literature:Patterns and Paradoxes and Victorian Vocations.Prerequisite: English 121 and 122 plusone course from the English 250-255 range orpermission of instructor. May be repeated oncewhen topic varies. (Each spring)353 Studies in AmericanLiterature to 1900A variety of courses structured around authors,genres, themes, cultural and historicaldevelopments, or some combination of theabove. Possible courses include Romanticism;Realism; and Houses of Fiction. Prerequisite:English 121 and 122 plus one course fromthe English 250-255 range or permission ofinstructor. May be repeated once when topicvaries. (Each fall)354 Studies in Colonial LiteraturesA variety of courses focused on colonial andneo-colonial writing, especially as it intersectswith imperialism, oppression, politics,nationalism, Westernization, and globalization.Possible courses include Oppression andAfrica; Historical Conversations from Insideand Outside; Race and Colonialism in WorldLiteratures Before 1900; and The Rise of Empireand its Respondents. Prerequisite: English 121and 122 plus one course from the English 250-255 range or permission of instructor. May berepeated once when topic varies. (Offered onan occasional basis)361 Studies in British Literatureof the 20th CenturyA variety of courses structured around authors,genres, themes, cultural and historicaldevelopments, or some combination of theabove. Possible courses include Modern BritishPoetry and Modernism and the BritishEmpire. Prerequisite: English 121 and 122plus one course from the English 250-255range or permission of instructor. May berepeated once when topic varies. (Offered onan occasional basis)363 Studies in American Literaturefrom 1900 to the PresentA variety of courses structured around authors,genres, themes, cultural and historicaldevelopments, or some combination of theabove. Possible courses include Minority Fiction;Contemporary Poetry; and Sex, Race, andPower. Prerequisite: English 121 and 122 plusone course from the English 250-255 range orpermission of instructor. May be repeated oncewhen topic varies. (Each spring)364 Studies in Postcolonial LiteraturesA variety of courses focused on colonial, neocolonial,and post-colonial writing, especiallyas it intersects with imperialism, oppression,politics, nationalism, Westernization, and globalization.Possible courses include Infanticide,Child Abuse, Postcolonialism; Post colonialismand the Environment; and Food and Postcolonialism.Prerequisite: English 121 and 122 plusone course from the English 250-255 range orpermission of instructor. May be repeated oncewhen topic varies. (Each fall)430 Literary TheoryA variety of courses designed to introduceissues of contemporary movements in criticaltheory. These courses have the goal of helpingstudents to become conversant with a range oftheoretical ideas and of providing them withsome conceptual tools for their thinking, research,and writing about literary and culturaltexts. Possible courses include Introductionto Literary Theory; Gender and Theory; Postcolonialismand Theory; and Cultural Studies.Prerequisite: Two 300-level English coursesor permission of instructor. May be repeatedonce when topic varies. (Offered on an occasionalbasis)431 Major AuthorsAn intensive study of works by one or morewriters. Probable courses include WilliamShakespeare, Charles Dickens and ThomasHardy, Derek Walcott, Emily Dickinson, andHenry James. Prerequisite: Two 300-level Englishcourses or permission of instructor. Maybe repeated once when topic varies. (Each falland spring)108 |COURSES OF INSTRUCTION