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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 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.
  • 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. 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.
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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. 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.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and University Advanced Standing. Studies literature written in English by authors from outside the United States and Britain or by authors in the United States and Britain defined by regional or cultural traditions (e.g. Southern US, Welsh, urban working-class). May be repeated twice with different designations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and University Advanced Standing. Focuses on reading and interpreting primary texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and others emphasizing resonances of these texts in later works of literature. Discusses texts from a literary standpoint within the genre of "religious writings."
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 and University Advanced Standing. Studies literature from outside of Britain and the United States. Focuses on texts selected by region, culture, time period, or author (or closely related group of authors).
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Studies Latina/o literature written in and about the United States and North America through close readings of novels, poetry, and other media from a variety of national, ethnic, and cultural traditions and perspectives including Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Brazuca/o experience. Examines issues such as identity, language, culture, race, ethnicity, and national borders, alongside questions of style, form, symbolism, and narrative. Integrates active class discussions, film screenings, student presentations, examinations, and papers. All texts are either written in English or taught in translation.