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ENG 625A - Themes of Literature
Credits 3
Study of themes, ideas, or literary attitudes significant in literary history.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 425A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits.
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ENG 626A - Religion and Literature
Credits 3
Insights and relationships of religious themes, beliefs, and assumptions as they may bear upon the analysis of literary texts.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 426A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing
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ENG 626B - Mythology
Credits 3
Study of mythologies, such as Greek, Roman, and Native American, in cultural context.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 426B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 627B - Gender and Literature
Credits 3
Study of gender and literature through the ages. Focus may be aesthetic, historical, or thematic. Topics may vary.
Same as
WMST 427B
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 427B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 629A - Early American Humor
Credits 3
Investigation of the writings of American humorists from the eighteenth century through Mark Twain. Examines works by anonymous writers as well as humorists of New England, the Old Southwest, and the Far West.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 429A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 629B - Modern American Humor
Credits 3
Investigation of the writings of American humorists from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the works of Mark Twain, James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Woody Allen, and Tom Robbins.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 429B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 629C - Literature of the American West
Credits 3
Study of literature of the American West.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 429C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 630A - Major Figures in British Literature
Credits 3
Seminar on one or more major figures in English literature.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 340A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 632A - Chaucer
Credits 3
Study of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with emphasis on the Canterbury Tales.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 432A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 634A - Shakespeare: Tragedies
Credits 3
Intensive study of Shakespeare’s major tragedies.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 434A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 634B - Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories
Credits 3
Intensive study of Shakespeare’s major comedies and histories.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 434B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 635A - Milton
Credits 3
Intensive study of Milton’s poetry and selected prose.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 435A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 636A - Major Figures in American Literature
Credits 3
Seminar on one or more major figures in American literature.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 436A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 640A - Medieval English Literature
Credits 3
Study of the literature written in England from the sixth through the fifteenth century. Topics may include dream visions, romance, heroic poetry, saints’ lives, etc.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 440A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 640B - Gender and Early Literature
Credits 3
Study of gender, sexuality, and literature from the beginning to the Early Modern period. Topics may vary.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 440B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 641A - The Renaissance
Credits 3
Study of English literature of the sixteenth century, primarily Elizabethan.
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ENG 641B - Gender and Renaissance Literature
Credits 3
Study of gender and literature in the Renaissance.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 441B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 642A - The Seventeenth Century
Credits 3
Study of English literature from 1603 to 1660.
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ENG 643A - Restoration and Augustan Literature
Credits 3
Study of British literature from 1660 to 1740. Topics may include the genres of neoclassical drama and mock-epic, satire from Dryden through the Scriblerians, the periodical essay, and the birth of aesthetics.
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ENG 643C - Later Eighteenth Century
Credits 3
Study of eighteenth-century British literature after 1740. Topics may include the growth in female authorship, the Johnson circle, and cultural contexts such as feminism and nationalism.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 443C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 644B - The Romantic Poets
Credits 3
Major poets in the Romantic Movement.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 444B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 645B - Victorian Poetry
Credits 3
Poetry of the middle and later nineteenth century.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 445B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 645C - Nineteenth-Century Prose Writers
Credits 3
Major prose writers of the Romantic and Victorian periods and their intellectual and literary milieu.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 445C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 646A - Modern British Literature
Credits 3
Study of British writing since 1900, including fiction, drama, and poetry.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 446A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 646B - Gender and Modern British Literature
Credits 3
Study of gender and literature in the British tradition. Topics may vary.
Same as
WMST 446B
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 446B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 652A - American Literature, 1620-1800
Credits 3
Study of American writing through 1800.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 452A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 652B - American Literature, 1800-1865
Credits 3
Study of American literature from 1800 to 1865.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 452B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 653A - American Literature, 1865-1918
Credits 3
Study of American literature from the Civil War through World War I.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 453A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 653B - American Literature, 1918-Present
Credits 3
Study of American literature from 1918 to the present.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 453B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 654B - Gender and Modern American Literature
Credits 3
Study of gender and literature in the American tradition. Topics may vary.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 454B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 660 - The American Short Story
Credits 3
Survey of the short story in America from the beginnings to modern times.
Formerly
ENG 674A
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 460. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 660A - Heroic Epic
Credits 3
Comparative approach to the forms, themes, and manners of performance of the epic and closely related genres.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 460A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 661A - The Study of Poetry and Poetics
Credits 3
Provides the student with the basic tools for the intelligent reading of poetry by extensive reading of poetry by English and American authors.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 461A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 662A - Modern British Poetry
Credits 3
Study of British poetry since 1900.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 462A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 662C - Modern American Poetry
Credits 3
Study of American poetry since 1900.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 462C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 663A - Classical Drama in Translation
Credits 3
Study of major Greek and Latin playwrights.
Same as
CLA 450
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 463A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 664A - English Drama to 1642
Credits 3
Survey of medieval and Renaissance drama to the closing of the theaters.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 464A. Credit at the 600-level requries additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 665B - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
Credits 3
Survey of English drama from 1660 to 1800.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 465B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 666A - Nineteenth-Century Drama
Credits 3
Study of world drama in the nineteenth century.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 466A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 667A - Modern British Drama
Credits 3
Study of British drama from Shaw to the present.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 467A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 667B - Modern American Drama
Credits 3
Study of American drama since 1900.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 467B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 670A - The British Novel I
Credits 3
Study of the British novel from its origins to about 1800. Topics may include the rise of the novel from the materials of romance and realism, the formative decade of the 1740s, and the sub genres of Gothic and historical fiction.
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ENG 670B - The British Novel II
Credits 3
Study of the British novel from about 1800 to 1914. Topics may include the role of serialization and circulating library and sub genres such as the bildungsroman, the social-problem novel, and imperial Gothic.
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ENG 671A - Modern English Novel
Credits 3
British fiction from Conrad to 1945.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 471A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credits.
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ENG 671B - Contemporary English Novel
Credits 3
British fiction since 1945.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 471B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 673A - The Early American Novel
Credits 3
Study of the development of the novel in America to the time of Twain.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 473A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 673B - The Modern American Novel
Credits 3
The American novel from Twain through 1945.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 473B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 673C - The Contemporary American Novel
The American novel since 1945.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 473C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 677A - Film and Literature
Credits 3
Comparative study of the relations of prose, poetry, and drama to the structure and themes of the cinema, from Dickens to the present.
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ENG 677C - Genres in Film
Credits 3
Individual examinations of genre structures and themes, with emphasis on the development and the history of genres.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 477C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 678C - Special Topics in Folklore
Credits 3
This undergraduate course, when taught by a member of the graduate faculty, may be used toward graduate degrees with the permission of advisor (maximum: six credits). A full description of this course may be found in the Undergraduate Catalog under the corresponding 400 number.
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ENG 684A - The Bible as Literature
Credits 3
Study of selected books of the Old and New Testaments as literature in their broader cultural contexts.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 484A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 685A - Asian Literature
Credits 3
Study of modern and contemporary Asian literature, including comparison and contrast with Western literature and culture. Content varies by semester.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 485A. Credit at the 600 level requires additional work.
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ENG 686A - Postcolonial Theory
Credits 3
Examines the significance of the Other in ex-colony. Reflects of colonialism, independence, subordination, hybridity, resistance, and ideology. Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spicak, Malcolm X, Stephen Greenblatt, among others, will be considered.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 468A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
Prerequisites
Any of the following: ENG 101 and ENG 102.
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ENG 686B - Postcolonial Literature
Credits 3
Probes literature from the ex-colony: Africa, the Caribbean, Ireland, India, America, Canada, Australia. V.S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Saman Rushdie, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Claude McKay, Maya Angelou, David Dabydeen, Chinua Achebe, among others, will be considered.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 486B. Credit at the 600-level require additional work.
Prerequisites
ENG 101 and ENG 102
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ENG 691B - Environmental Literature
Credits 3
Study of environmental literature, both fiction and non-fiction.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 491B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 694A - Native American Literature
Literature of Native-American peoples, oral traditions through contemporary works.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 494A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 695A - Early African American Literature
Study of early African American literature, with emphasis upon the historical development of the African American tradition in creative and critical writing.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 495A. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 695B - Modern African American Literature
Credits 3
Study of recent and contemporary works of African American literature.
Same as
AAS 492
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 495B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 696B - Early Latino/a Literature
Credits 3
Examines prose and poetry by Latino and Latina writers from the colonial era through the end of the nineteenth century in the United States.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 496B. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 696C - Contemporary Latino/a Literature
Credits 3
Examines prose and poetry by Latino and Latina writers since 1900 in the United States.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with ENG 496C. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
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ENG 700 - Bibliography and Methods
Credits 3
Bibliography, reference tools, introduction to scholarly methods, modern research techniques in language and literature, preparation and presentation of documented investigation.
Notes
To be taken in the student’s first year of graduate study.
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ENG 701 - Contemporary Composition Theory
Credits 3
Theories that underline contemporary composition as a discipline and a profession, including the practical implications of literacy as it relates to college writing instruction, administration, and practice.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing.
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ENG 702 - History of Rhetoric and Composition
Credits 3
Survey of ancient, medieval, Renaissance, enlightenment, and twentieth-century texts that establish terminologies and raise issues still vital to the theory and practice of composition and language study today.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing.
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ENG 703 - Survey of Literary Criticism and Theory
Credits 3
Surveys criticism and theory from Plato to contemporary trends. Provides historical perspective on the toolbox of theoretical approaches to literature vital in literary studies today. Emphasis may vary from year to year.
Notes
Required for Ph.D. Students.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing.
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ENG 704 - Theory and Practice of Textual Editing
Credits 3
Examination of theories of scholarly editing. Topics include: variant and critical editions, textual recension, rationale for copy text, emendation, annotation, and copy editing. Students work on editions in progress, as well as journals sponsored by the department.
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ENG 705 - Creative Writing Workshop
Credits 3
Creative Writing Workshop in the chosen genre of concentration: fiction, literary nonfiction or poetry.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of twelve credits.
Prerequisites
Admission to the M.F.A. program or consent of instructor.
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ENG 706 - Gender and Interpretation
Credits 3
Study of gender as a category of analysis within the discipline of English studies.
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ENG 711 - Studies in Language
Credits 3
Introduction to advanced study of language based on sequence of problems involving such procedures as the history of language, etymology, structural linguistics, and linguistic geography.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor.
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ENG 712 - Studies in Modern Grammar
Credits 3
Examination of important current approaches to grammatical descriptions, especially of English.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 714 - Studies in Rhetoric and Composition
Credits 3
Intensive study of selected topics in composition and rhetorical theory. Topics and reading lists will vary from semester to semester.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 715 - Theory of Translation
Credits 3
Readings in the theory of translation, as well as textual analysis of existing translations to and from several different languages.
Notes
Taught in English.
Prerequisites
Advanced knowledge of one foreign language, consent of instructor.
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ENG 716 - Workshop in Translation
Credits 3
Explores problems inherent in the translation of foreign texts; completion of individual and group projects, with assistance of instructor.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Prerequisites
Advanced knowledge of one foreign language, consent of instructor.
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ENG 719 - Area Linguistics
Credits 3
Historical overview of area linguistics, with emphasis on principles of dialectology in the English speaking world and the principles of linguistic atlases in the United States and Canada.
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ENG 720 - Studies in Medieval Literature
Credits 3
Intense study of selected topics in medieval literature.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 722 - Studies in Chaucer
Credits 3
Study of major works of Geoffrey Chaucer in relation to their medieval literary and cultural context.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
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ENG 723 - Studies in the Renaissance
Credits 3
Intensive study of selected topics in sixteenth-century literature.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 724 - Studies in Early Seventeenth-Century Literature
Credits 3
Intensive study of selected literary topics in early seventeenth-century literature.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 725 - Studies in Shakespeare
Credits 3
Intensive study of selected works of Shakespeare, with emphasis on genre, theme, or chronological grouping.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits.
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ENG 728 - Studies in Milton
Credits 3
Study of the major works of John Milton in relation to their Renaissance literary and cultural context.
Prerequisites
Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
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ENG 729 - Forms of Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, or Poetry
Credits 3
The study of genre from the writer’s perspective.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits.
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ENG 731 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Credits 3
Intensive study of selected literary topics in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 734 - Studies in English Romanticism
Credits 3
Intensive study of selected literary topics in the English romantic period.
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ENG 735 - Studies in Victorian Literature
Credits 3
Intensive examination of selected topics in Victorian literature.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 738 - Studies in Modern British Literature
Credits 3
Modern literature studies with emphasis upon movements which center in Great Britain.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 739 - M.F.A. Translation
Credits 3
Students translate a short story, group of poems, or other work by a foreign writer.
Notes
Open only to students in the M.F.A. Program who have passed the qualifying oral examination. FOL 717 may substitute for ENG 739.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the oral qualifying exam.
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ENG 742 - Studies in Early American Literature
Credits 3
Intensive study of selected subjects in colonial or romantic American literature, such as the work of a few important literary figures, a group of related writers, or a literary movement.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 743 - Studies in Later American Literature
Credits 3
Intensive study of selected topics in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 744 - Studies in Modern American Literature
Credits 3
Intensive study of selected topics in contemporary literature.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 749 - M.F.A. Critical Essay
Credits 3
M.F.A. students’ individual investigation of an American or foreign novelist or poet using various critical methodologies.
Prerequisites
Acceptance to the M.F.A. Program.
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ENG 760 - Studies in Literary Genres
Credits 3
Intensive study of a literary genre, with particular attention to its history and development.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits.
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ENG 775 - Studies in Literary Criticism
Credits 3
Intensive study of selected major critical theories or a selected problem in the philosophy of criticism.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 787 - Studies in Modern Comparative Literature
Credits 3
Modern literature studies with the emphasis upon international movements.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
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ENG 790 - M.F.A. Thesis
Credits 3 – 12
Open only to students in the M.F.A. program who have passed the qualifying oral examination. Students write a book-length manuscript of fiction or poetry.
Notes
May be repeated but only a maximum of 12 credits may be applied to the student’s degree program.
Grading
S/F grading only.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the oral qualifying exam.
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ENG 791 - College Teaching in Language and Literature
Credits 3
Theory and practice in the teaching of English in college, particularly the first-year course.
Notes
Required of all graduate assistants.
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ENG 792 - Directed Studies in Language
Credits 3
Individual investigation of a language problem in Old, Middle, or Modern English including contributions of other languages using the various methodologies of descriptive linguistics.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits.
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor.
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ENG 794 - Independent Study - International Focus
Credits 3 – 6
Studies foreign cultures and languages in a non-English speaking setting. M.F.A. requirement which may be taken in lieu of registration in a foreign university.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Prerequisites
Acceptance to the M.F.A. Program.
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ENG 795 - Seminar
Credits 3
Topics vary from semester to semester.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits.
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ENG 796 - Independent Study
Credits 1 – 3
Open to students only upon approval of a written prospectus of the work to be done.
Notes
Normally limited to three credits on the M.A. program of study.
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ENG 797 - Thesis
Credits 3 – 6
Research, analysis, and writing towards completion of thesis and subsequent defense.
Notes
May be repeated but only six credits will be applied toward the student’s program.
Grading
S/F grading only.
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