• ENGL 4655: Brit Lit WWII-2001

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course examines British and Anglo-Irish literature from World War II to 2001 as Britain metamorphoses from world power to an integral member of the European Community. The course asks what it means to be a "British" writer in an era increasingly multicultural in outlook and studies a variety of British and Anglo-Irish writers in connection with such key developments as post-war disillusion. Absurdism and Postmodernism, neo-Romanticism, magical realism, innovative historical fiction, and legacies of Empire in a postcolonial world. Prerequisite:    ENGL 2700
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• ENGL 4660: British Lit:Contemporary

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course focuses on British literature from 2001 to the present. Like its predecessor, English 4655, it ranges across genres and media to survey traditions and tendencies in contemporary British and Anglo-Irish letters that continue to emerge and evolve as the UK attempts to define itself and Britishness in the wake of 9/11, a changing UK foreign and domestic policy, and Brexit. Prerequisite:    ENGL 2700
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• ENGL 4710: Eminent Authors

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This variable topics course features a single author or several authors. Students may study authors such as Sir Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, or Toni Morrison, in order to gain a greater understanding of the social, cultural, and aesthetic significance of their work. It may be taken more than once with different designations. Prerequisite:    ENGL 2700
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• ENGL 4712: Eminent World Authors

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This variable topics course features a single author or several authors. Students may study global anglophone writers and/or works in translation, by authors such as Derek Walcott, Arundhati Roy, Chinua Achebe, Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Atwood, Mo Yan, Fyodor Doestoevsky, Naguib Mahfouz, and Umberto Eco in order to gain a greater understanding of the social, cultural, and aesthetic significance of their work. Prerequisite:    ENGL 2700
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• ENGL 4713: Eminent Authors/Cultural Media

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This variable topics course features a single author or several authors. Students may study foundational and emerging authors in this dynamic and influential field in order to gain a greater understanding of the social, cultural, and aesthetic significance of their work. It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations. Prerequisite:    ENGL 2700
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• ENGL 4730: Studies in Shakespeare

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This class is intended for English and Theatre Studies majors and minors seeking a deeper understanding of Shakespeare's work. Students can expect to do close readings of at least five plays and to study such secondary materials as performance histories and artifacts, literary criticism, and historical background. Prerequisite:    ENGL 2700
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• ENGL 4760: Irish Literature

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course examines the distinctive temperament and outlook of both the Gaelic and Anglo-Irish traditions in such writers as Aog?n ? Rathaille, Eibhl?n Dubh N? Chonaill, Jonathan Swift, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, John Millington Synge, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Nuala N? Dhomhnaill. The first portion of the course studies the body of literature from the sixth century through 1900; the remainder of the course focuses on modern and contemporary texts. Key themes to be examined, always in the larger context of Irish history as a whole, include the Irish use of words as weapons, the place of gender in Irish writing, and the intriguing nature of Irish--particularly as opposed to English--identity. Prerequisite:    ENGL 2700
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• ENGL 4801: A&H Leadership Lecture Series

  1.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This one-credit elective course will give arts and humanities' majors the opportunity to interact with successful guest lecturers whose undergraduate backgrounds are in the arts and humanities. Lecturers will clarify how the talents and skills associated with their degrees have contributed to their pursuit of successful careers and lives.
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• ENGL 4830: Directed Readings

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  Individual readings supervised by a faculty member. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. May be repeated twice with a maximum of 6 credit hours. Prerequisite:    ENGL 2010 and ENGL 2015
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• ENGL 4890: Co-op Work Experience

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  A continuation of English Department 2890 Cooperative Work Experience. Open to all students. Prerequisite:    ENGL 2010 and ENGL 2015
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