This is a course designed to introduce students to critical reading and literary analysis, focusing on the terminology and tools needed to study literature in an informed, imaginative way. The course provides students with knowledge of the conventions and varieties of fiction, poetry, and drama, and seeks to instill in them an awareness of the range and diversity in literary voices and how literature and culture interact.

This gateway course for English majors and prospective English majors introduces students to the essential techniques, approaches, and fundamental questions of literary discourse and the practice of literary criticism, as well as to the central issues raised by literary theory. Although a review of genres and literary elements along with an introduction to the most frequently anthologized authors is a component of the course, its main aim is to teach students how to read with a greater awareness of the process of interpreting literary texts. This course is required of all majors, and must be taken within a year of declaration. English 116 also may be used for distribution credit in the Humanities.

This course is designed to give students an understanding of key characteristics, historical phases, and issues in American literature. In order to experience the range and diversity of American literature, students read both canonical authors such as Bradstreet, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Twain, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Ellison, and non-canonical writers from a variety of regional and ethnic backgrounds, such as Harriet Wilson and Emma Lazarus. The works will be arranged in chronological order and will be discussed as representative of the time period from which they come. The works taught will be chosen so that students will encounter a variety of genres such as poetry, novels, short stories, drama, and essays.

This course is a prerequisite for subsequent courses that focus on American literature (e.g. Literature in its Time II and Special Studies in a Major Author after 1700).

The content of the course consists of English literature written prior to 1700. Such works and writers as Beowulf, Chaucer, medieval lyrics, medieval drama, the major sonnet writers, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and the metaphysical poets will be included. In addition to these canonical writers and works, attention will be given to non-canonical works as well, for example The Book of Margery Kempe and The Paston Letters. The works will be arranged in chronological order and discussed as representative of the time period from which they come.

This course is a prerequisite for subsequent courses that focus on literature from this period (e.g. Literature in its Time I, Special Studies in a Major Author Prior to 1700, Shakespeare).

The content of the course consists of English literature written after 1700. Such writers as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Addison, Steele, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Blake, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Austen, Dickens, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Yeats, and Woolf will be included. In addition to these canonical writers, attention will be given to non-canonical writers whose works can provide diversity in ethnicity, class and gender. The works will be arranged in chronological order and will be discussed as representative of the time period from which they come.

This course is a prerequisite for subsequent courses that focus on literature from this period (e.g. Literature in its Time II, Special Studies in a Major Author after 1700).

The content of the course consists of the great texts of the Western European tradition and also from non-Western traditions. The works included will represent the Heroic and Classical periods in Greece (Homer, Sappho, the Greek dramatists), The Golden Age of Latin Writings (Virgil, Ovid), and the medieval continuation of the tradition. Such non-Western works as Gilgamesh or Chinese poetry may be included. Emphasis will be on how these works both reflect their cultural world and treat problems which will confront us.

A rotating selection of courses engaging important themes, voices, and works of the medieval and Renaissance periods. Because literary works are not written in a vacuum but partake of the beliefs and concerns of a particular milieu, these courses provide the student with an interdisciplinary approach to literature by showing how philosophy, music, art, science, and society are reflected in and help shape the literature of each period.

A rotating selection of courses engaging important themes, voices, and works of the 18th century, the romantic period, the Victorian period, the modern period, and 18th and 19th century American literature. These courses follow the same interdisciplinary approach as Literature in Its Time I.

A workshop in writing poetry and fiction. Through reading and responding to published literary pieces as well as their own projects, students will acquire increased appreciation for the craft and aesthetic of literature and their own writing skills.

A rotating selection of courses focusing on the production of literary, expository, and professional writing the art of the short story and the poem as well as the essay and business, technical, and journalistic writing. Through intensive workshops each course will immerse students in the writing process, stressing the craft and technique of writing. In addition to reviewing students' own work, the course will include some study of exemplary works in the appropriate form of discourse

This course will focus on the development of a clear and persuasive expository style suited for academic or professional writing. Students will gain a heightened sense of "audience" by reading and responding to each other's writing.

An introduction to film history and theory, with emphasis on filmmakers such as Griffith, Chaplin, Hitchcock, Welles, and Bergman. The films will be probed not only to determine their aesthetic achievement and to identify the cultural values they reflect but also to distinguish the unique ways in which film and literature construct their representative meanings. Thus this course broadens the understanding of genre.

Each offering in this rotating selection of courses explores a single diverse ethnic literature, such as African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native American. While content will vary according to the discretion of the instructor, this group of courses is united by a common desire to read a diverse literature according to its own heritage—double-voiced as it is—further complicated by issues of gender and class. To this end, a course in Native American literature, for example, might begin with a study of the creation myths in the oral tradition, then move to historical, anthropological, autobiographical, and fictional accounts of the Native American experience as the two (often conflicting) voices of Native American and American describe it.

Students may choose this course as one of the required upper-division courses prior to 1700. In this course, representative tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances will be studied. Attention will be given to how Shakespeare's plays reflect the fundamental concerns of the Renaissance. The course also will include attention to genre, history of ideas, and literary criticism.

This umbrella covers a series of courses on a single literary genre the short story, poetry, drama, the epic, the novel that will vary in emphasis at the discretion of the instructor. The novel, for example, might be a course focusing on the novel as genre and as literature. The genre section of the course will acquaint the student with the relevant criticism. The literary section will approach the novel as literature according to formulist analysis of language and form, canonical issues, socio-historical contexts, the influence of gender, race, and class, and the role of the reader.

This seminar-style class studies the writing of a major English author prior to 1700. The variable content may draw from one or several genres and gives attention to literary criticism about the writer and the writer's own literary theories. Social, historical, and biographical contexts also constitute elements of the study. Featured authors may include Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, and Milton; occasionally the instructor may chose to study two authors rather than one, if the two complement each other.

This seminar-style class studies the writing of a major English author after 1700. The variable content may draw from one or several genres and will give attention to literary criticism about the writer and the writer's own literary theories. Social, historical, and biographical contexts will also constitute elements of the study. Featured authors may include Austen, George Eliot, Twain, Yeats, Hardy, Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Faulkner; occasionally the instructor may choose to study two authors rather than one, if the two complement each other.

A course that seeks to enlarge students' understanding and appreciation of the English language by examining the history of its development and the systematic ways that it expresses meaning.

This course, for senior English majors and seniors from other fields who may petition to be admitted, is a seminar for students to work independently on a substantial paper of literary criticism, while reporting progress and making a final seminar presentation before a group working in the same field of study. Instruction and discussion, especially in the early weeks of the course, will focus on the development of the English language, the history of literary criticism, and bibliographical tools necessary for further research in English. This course is required of all English majors and serves as an opportunity for them to demonstrate their ability to think critically and to express their ideas effectively in writing. They will, furthermore, be required to deal with questions and issues that derive from literary theory.

A study of English teaching methods and instructional materials. Special attention is given to the selection and organization of subject matter and learning activities. Field work required.

An in-depth study in literature or related subject matter such as literary criticism, folklore, film, or great literary works representing a common theme, genre, perspective or period. Recent offerings have examined twentieth century feminist literature, Faulkner, and Southern women writers. Topics that are under consideration include Midwestern literature, Anglo-Irish literature, and Arthurian literature.