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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Explores American literature of the romantic period, the Civil War, and the post-war movements of realism and naturalism (c. 1830-1900). Examines multiple genres, authors, and texts in relation to intellectual and historical developments.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Studies modern American literature (c. 1900-1960s) in relation to intellectual, historical, and ethical developments. Emphasizes important works by major fiction writers, poets, and playwrights responding to radical changes in America brought on by industrial-capitalist transformation, shifting demographics, women's rights, minority rights, artistic experimentation, and world wars.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Studies significant authors, themes, and topics in American literature (c. 1968 to present) in relation to historical and intellectual developments and contemporary literary theory. Explores multiple genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and film.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and University Advanced Standing. Surveys a wide range of Native American literature. Examines the cultures and identities of Native Americans through the study of literary texts including mythology and works by contemporary writers such as N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Sherman Alexie, among others.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Explores major authors and works from Old and Middle English Literature and related literary traditions (such as Celtic, Anglo-Norman, and Latin) from approximately 700 to 1485 CE. Analyzes relevant cultural, philosophical, and historical influences on texts from the period. Authors may include the "Beowulf" poet, Marie de France, Dante, Julian of Norwich, the "Pearl" poet, Langland, Chaucer, Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, Malory, and the York and Wakefield Play Cycles.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Explores major authors, works, and themes from the Tudor period (1485-1603). Includes works by authors such as Surrey, Wyatt, Skelton, Moore, Marlowe, Sydney, Spenser, Queen Elizabeth I, Ralegh, Mary Herbert, Shakespeare, Drayton, Campion, Nashe, and others. Analyzes relevant cultural, philosophical, and historical aspects of the period.
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    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Examines literary history from the Glorious Revolution through the Romantic period (1688-1819), including key political, philosophical and cultural developments such as the Enlightenment, transatlantic slavery and colonialism, literature by women, the gothic, the rise of the novel, and the industrial revolution. Authors may include Behn, Blake, Coleridge, Defoe, Haywood, Johnson, Keats, Shelley, Swift, Pope, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth and others.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Explores British literature and culture of the Victorian period (approx. 1830-1900) in relation to intellectual and historical developments. Emphasizes critical engagements with key political and cultural issues, such as Victorian gender roles and women's rights, industrialization and class conflict, imperial expansion and racial pseudoscience, technological and scientific advancement, and religion. Authors may include Dickens, Tennyson, Eliot, the Brownings and Rossettis, the Brontës, Hardy, and Wilde.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and (ENGL 2850 or ENGL 2870), both with a grade of C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Explores modern and contemporary British literature in relation to intellectual and historical developments. Emphasizes the literature of empire and of the world wars, literary modernism, postmodernism, and postcolonial writing. Authors may include T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Hilary Mantel, among others.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and University Advanced Standing. Provides a substantive framework of important critical issues regarding literature by or about women. Applies feminist critical theory to fiction, poetry, personal essays, or drama written by women.