2023-2024 BSC Catalog Updated_UG ONLY_FINAL[82]
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1<strong>82</strong> ACADEMIC PROGRAMS<br />
EH 302 Poetry Workshop (1)<br />
The writing of original short poetry taught by the workshop method. The course may be<br />
repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: EH 205.<br />
EH 303 Advanced Prose Workshop (1)<br />
Study of and practice in the development of style in writing, with general and<br />
professional applications. With the consent of the English faculty, students may enroll<br />
more than once for credit, providing that the focus of the course is different. Prerequisite:<br />
any 200-level writing course.<br />
EH 305 Journalism Workshop (1)<br />
Reading and practice in forms of journalism, including literary journalism, arts reviews,<br />
feature writing, editorials, and interviewing. Prerequisite: EH 204 or EH 208.<br />
EH 325 Natural, Wild, and Free: American Environmental Literature (1)<br />
An investigation of American environmental literature and nature writing. The course<br />
gives particular attention to literature and film that examine the consequences of human<br />
activity on natural systems and engage in conversations about human connections to the<br />
environment, nature, wilderness, conservation, and preservation. Prerequisite: EH 102 or<br />
EH 208.<br />
EH 329 Slavery and the Literary Imagination (1)<br />
An exploration of American slavery through literary representations of the “peculiar<br />
institution.” The course focuses first on pre-1900 works, including slave narratives,<br />
abolitionist fiction, and post-bellum recasting of the institution by southern apologists.<br />
Then students read a variety of modern writers trying to come to terms with the legacy of<br />
slavery and employing literary forms unimaginable to their nineteenth-century<br />
counterparts. Prerequisite: any 200-level literature course. (Category 1)<br />
EH 330 Major Authors (1)<br />
A focused study of the works of one to three authors. Recent offerings have included<br />
Dante, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Morrison, Woolf, and Yeats. With the consent of the<br />
English faculty, students may enroll more than once for credit, providing that the focus of<br />
the course is different. Prerequisite: any 200-level literature course. (Category 2)<br />
EH 350 IA Chaucer (1)<br />
A reading of the Canterbury Tales and other selected major poems of Chaucer in Middle<br />
English. Fulfills the pre-1900 requirement for the major. An Interpretation or Analysis<br />
designated course. (Also listed as HON 350.) Prerequisite: any 200-level literature<br />
course. (Category 3)<br />
EH 351 Medieval British Literature (1)<br />
Studies in British prose, poetry, and drama of the Middle Ages. Fulfills the pre-1900<br />
requirement for the major. Prerequisite: any 200-level literature course. (Category 3)<br />
Birmingham-Southern College <strong>Catalog</strong> <strong>2023</strong>-<strong>2024</strong>