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Undergraduate Bulletin of Information 2001-2002COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESLecture on the beginning of modern poetry, theimagist movement, and the chief lines ofdevelopment throughout the Thirties and Fortiesto the contemporary period. Special attentionwill be given to the major work of WilliamButler Yeats, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens,William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T.S.Elliot, and Dylan Thomas.ENGL 3326. LITERATURE OF MINORITIESIN THE UNITED STATES. Three credit hours.Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite:ENGL 3202 or ENGL 3104 or ENGL 3212.English-language literature of minorities in theUnited States, with particular attention to AfricanAmerican, Asian American, Native American,and Latino works.ENGL 3345. TOPICS IN CINEMA. Threecredit hours. Three hours of lecture per week.Prerequisite: ENGL 3102 or ENGL 3104 orENGL 3202.Introduction to English language cinema in thecontext of linguistic and literary analysis:history, theory, selective genres, cinematicanalysis and criticism, aesthetic response, andsemiotics.ENGL 3351. AMERICAN LITERATURE TO1860. Three credit hours. Three hours of lectureper week. Prerequisite: ENGL 3202 or ENGL3104 or ENGL 3212.Major works of the literature of the United Statesfrom the colonial period to the onset of the CivilWar.ENGL 3352. AMERICAN LITERATUREFROM 1860 TO THE EARLY MODERNPERIOD. Three credit hours. Three hours oflecture per week. Prerequisite: ENGL 3202 orENGL 3104 or ENGL 3212.Major works of the literature of the United Statesfrom the Civil War up to the nearly modernperiod.ENGL 4000. ENGLISH LITERATURE OFTHE 17TH CENTURY. Three credit hours.Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite:One literature course at the level of ENGL 33--or higher, or consent of the Director of theDepartment.Major poetic and intellectual traditions in theseventeenth century as represented in the worksof Donne, Johnson, Herbert, Marvell, and others,with special emphasis given to the work of JohnMilton.ENGL 4009. LITERATURE OF THEENGLISH RENAISSANCE. Three credit hours.Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite:One literature course at the level of ENGL 33--or higher, or consent of the Director of theDepartment.Exploration of the major literary traditions andfigures of the English Renaissance includingMore, Wyatt, Surrey, Spencer, Sidney, Marlowe,and Shakespeare.ENGL 4017. THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT.Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture perweek. Prerequisite: One literature course at thelevel of ENGL 33-- or higher, or consent of theDirector of the Department.A study of the works of the principal poets of theRomantic movement, with reading andinterpretation of the chief poems of Wordsworth,Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, and Keats.ENGL 4025. SHAKESPEARE. Three credithours. Three hours of lecture per week.Prerequisite: One literature course at the level ofENGL 33-- or higher, or consent of the Directorof the Department.Shakespeare's dramatic craftmanship, poetry,humor characterization, psychology, and modernpertinence, as illustrated in representativetragedies, comedies, and history plays.ENGL 4026. SOCIOLINGUISTICS. Three credithours. Three hours of lecture per week.Prerequisite: ENGL 3225 or consent of the Directorof the Department.Language as a means of social interaction;linguistic variations and their relation tosociological, economic geographic, and culturalfactors with reference to bilingual areas such asPuerto Rico.ENGL 4027. OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISHLITERATURE. Three credit hours. Three hoursof lecture per week. Prerequisite: One literaturecourse at the level of ENGL 33-- or higher, orconsent of the Director of the Department.136