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COURSES

 

English (Engl)

A. Elementary Composition (2)
Recommended for students who do not meet current college standards in English competency. A remedial course in the fundamentals of writing. Offered only in extension or summer session.

1. Composition (3) (Equivalent to former Engl 3)
Not open to students with credit in Engl 3. Prerequisites: college-level competence in written English. Theory and practice of composition. Themes, chiefly expository or analytical; one paper based upon investigation of a selected topic.

3. Logic and Composition (3)
Not open to students with credit in Engl 1. Prerequisite: college-level compeence in written English. Theory and practice of composition; emphasis on logic and reasoning. Themes, chiefly analytical; one paper based upon the investigation of a selected topic.

4. Composition and Reading (3)
May be combined with Engl 1 or 3 to provide a year's sequence in composition. Prerequisite: Engl 1 or 3. Analytical and expository writing based on critical reading; evaluative and investigative reports.

6. Improvement in Reading Techniques (2)
Recommended for students who wish to improve their reading speed and comprehension. Analysis of reading habits; practice in efficient methods of reading and studying.

10. Writing of Poetry (3)
Prerequisite: Engl 1 or 3, 20, or permission of instructor. The writing of exercises and the study of professional poetry in simple poetic forms.

11. Writing of Fiction (3)
Prerequisite: Engl 1 or 3, 20, or permission of instructor. The writing of short stories and exercises in scene construction, dialogue, description, narration, and exposition; reading and analysis of short stories.

14. English as a Foreign Language (3)
Limited to students from non-English speaking countries. Reading, writing, and speaking the English language.

20. Introduction to Literature (3) (Former Engl 1B)
Prerequisite: Engl 1 or 3. Reading of literary masterpieces of various types, ages, and countries as the basis for class discussion of content, form, and theme as a stimulus to critical writing.

61. Shorter Shakespeare (3) (Former Engl 61A-B)
Not open to English majors. Prerequisite: Engl 20. A selection of Shakespeare's plays and poems.

62. Introduction to Theatre (2) (See Drama 62)

84. The Literature of Protest (3)
Prerequisite: Engl 20. Literature of social and moral reform.

93. Forms of Literature (3)
Prerequisite: Engl 20. Selections from lyric poetry, drama, the novel, in successive semesters. Reading and close analysis.

100. Beowulf to Marlowe (3)
Open to second-semester sophomores. Prerequisite: Engl 20 or equivalent. Epic and romance, Chaucer, drama, other poetry and prose.

101. More to Milton (3)
Prerequisite: Engl 20, or equivalent. Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Puritan drama poetry, and prose; Milton.

102. Dryden to Burns (3)
Open to second-semester sophomores. Prerequisite: Engl 20 or equivalent. Restoration and Eighteenth Century poetry and prose; the novel; the drama.

103. Wordsworth to Shaw (3)
Prerequisite: Engl 20 or equivalent. Romantic, Victorian, and fin de siecle poetry and prose; the novel; Shaw.

104. American Literature to 1914 (3)
Open to second-semester sophomores. Prerequisite: Engl 20 or equivalent. Survey of American literature; analysis of major works, relationship to literary and ideological movements.

105. Twentieth Century Literature (3)
Open to second-semester sophomores. Prerequisite: Engl 20 or equivalent. Major trends in British and American literature from World War I to the present.

110. Advanced Writing: Poetry (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Engl 10 or permission of instructor. Exercises in the more difficult poetic forms, individual projects, reading and analysis of related poetry.

111. Advanced Writing: Fiction (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Engl 11 or permission of instructor. Individual projects in th short story and the novel; reading and analysis of related material.

120. Rhetoric (3)
Prerequisite: Engl I or 3, 134 or 135, 137. Expository writing in relation to traditional and contemporary theories of rhetoric.

124. Magazine Feature Writing (3) (See Jour 124)

134. Structure of English (3)
(Same as Spch 134) Not open to students with credit in English or Linguistics 135; not applicable to the English major. Empirical study of English phonology, morphology, syntax, spelling, and punctuation.)

135. Introduction to Linguistics (3)
(See Ling 135)

137. American English (3)
(Former Ling 131) (Same as Spch 137) Prerequisite: Engl 135. Empirical study of current American English, with reference to regional, institutional, and occasional variations.

138. History of the English Language (3)
Empirical study of the development of the sound system, grammar, and vocabulary of English.

140. Studies in Medieval Literature (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Engl 100 or equivalent. Intensive study of an important literary topic in the period.

141. Studies in Renaissance Literature (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Engl 101 or equivalent. Intensive study of an important literary topic in the period.

142. Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Engl 102 or equivalent, Intensive study of an important literary topic in the period.

143. Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Engl 103 or equivalent. Intensive study of an important literary topic in the period.

144. Studies in American Literature (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Engl 104 or equivalent. Intensive study of an important literary topic in the period.

145. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Engl 105 or equivalent. Intensive study of an important literary topic in the period.

160. Chaucer (3)
Prerequisite: Engl 100 or permission of instructor. Chaucer and his age; The Canterbury Tales and other selected poems.

162A-B. Shakespeare (3-3) (Same as Drama 162A-B)
Engl 162A is not prerequisite to 162B. Prerequisite: Engl 20. Each course covers half the plays of Shakespeare, from his earliest to his latest; relation of his works to the Elizabethan theater and to contemporary thought and literature; (A) inludes the Sonnets, (B) includes "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece."

165. Milton (3)
Prerequisite: Engl 101 or equivalent. Milton and his age; early poems, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and selected prose.

176. Current Books (3)
Lectures upon the latest books-fiction, drama, poetry, biography, and modern problems.

180. World Literature: Ancient and Medieval (3)
Prerequisite: Engl 20. Greek, Roman, and medieval literature in English translations.

181. World Literature: Renaissance and Modern (3)
Prerequisite: Engl 20. Modern literatures of continental Europe; literary forms movements, and relationships; reading of masterpieces in English translation.

182. The Bible as Literature (3)
Selected prose and poetry in the King James translation.

183. Living Philosophies in World Literature (3) (Same as Phil 183)
Ways in which the world's great literature has attempted to deal with basic philosophical problems.

184. Readings in Dramatic Literature (2) (See Drama 184)

185. Studies in Literature (3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Engl 20. Special studies in literature varying from semester to semester.

190. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Regulations and Placement -- Independent Study.

191. Literary Criticism (3)

Prerequisite: Engl 20 or equivalent. Major documents in literary criticism fro Plato to the present.

192. Theory of Language (3) (See Phil 192)



GRADUATE COURSES

(See Course Numbering System.)


200A-B Graduate Survey (3-3)
Open only to second-semester seniors and graduates majoring in English. Extensive, individually directed readings in literature and related subjects.

220. Studies in Rhetoric (3; max total 9 if no topic repeated)
Prerequisite: advanced composinon or equivalent. Seminar in rhetorical theory in relation to social history; critical analysis of current rhetorical doctrine.

230. Studies in the English Language (3; max total 9 if no topic repeated) (Former Engi 206)
Prerequisite: Engl 135 or permission of instructor. Seniinar in English and American linguistics.

250. studies in Literary History (3; max total 9 if no topic repeated)
Prerequisite: major or minor in English; permission of instructor. Seminar in at aspect of literary history: type, period, movement, or an individual author.

280. Studies in Criticism (3; max total 9 if no topic repeated)
Prerequisite: major or minor in English; permission of instructor. Seminar literary criticism.

290. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)

See Regulations and Procedures -- Independent Study.

299. Thesis or Project (2-6; max total 6)

Prerequisite: See MAster's Degrees - Thesis Requirement. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acceptable thesis for the master's degree.


IN-SERVICE COURSE

(See Course Numbering System.)

English (Engl)

300. English Colloquium (2; max total 6)

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