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ENGL 6010 Introduction to Literary Research
Prepares students to use the resources of the library, pursue different types of
research in language and literature, and write effective papers embodying their
findings. 3 credits.
ENGL 6111 Old English Literature
Old English literature with readings from selected texts. Emphasis on Beowulf. 3
credits.
ENGL 6112 Chaucer
Selected readings in Chaucer. 3 credits.
ENGL 6113 Medieval Drama
The English drama from its beginnings to the fusion of popular and classical
elements in the Tudor period. 3 credits.
ENGL 6114 Shakespeare to 1600
Study of the early poetry, sonnets, chief comedies, tragedies, and histories. 3
credits.
ENGL 6115 Shakespeare from 1600
Major tragedies, histories, problem comedies, and romances. 3 credits.
ENGL 6116 Renaissance Literature
Major poetry and prose. Emphasis on Skelton, More, Sidney, and Spenser. 3
credits.
ENGL 6117 Renaissance Drama
Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, excluding Shakespeare. 3 credits.
ENGL 6118 Early 17th-Century Literature
Jonsonian, Metaphysical and Cavalier schools, with some attention to the prose
of the period. 3 credits.
ENGL 6119 Milton
Readings from the major poetry and prose of Milton. 3 credits.
ENGL 6121 Dryden, Pope, and Swift
Rise of the literature of wit as exemplified by the major poets and satirists of
the Augustan Age. 3 credits.
ENGL 6122 English Drama 1660-1800
Restoration drama, with readings from Dryden, Congreve, Goldsmith, Sheridan, and
others. 3 credits.
ENGL 6123 The Age of Johnson
The poetry and prose of Samuel Johnson, the diaries of Boswell, Boswell’s life
of Dr. Johnson, and others of their circle. 3 credits.
ENGL 6124 The Age of Romanticism
The Romantic movement in England: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and
Keats. 3 credits.
ENGL 6125 Victorian Poetry and Prose
Major Victorian poets and prose writers: Tennyson, Browning and Arnold; Caryle,
Pater, Newman, and Barrett Browning. 3 credits.
ENGL 6126 Major British Writers: 1900-1945
Significant works by major novelists, including Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf. 3
credits.
ENGL 6127 Major British Writers from 1945
Significant works by major novelists after World War II, including Waugh,
Greene, Burgess, and Fowles. 3 credits.
ENGL 6128 British Poetry of the 20th Century
Major British poets and poetic movements of the 20th Century from W.B. Yeats to
Ted Hughes. 3 credits.
ENGL 6211 American Literature: Beginnings Through Poe
Literature of the Puritans and the Revolutionary period, culminating in the
early masters of American Romanticism: Irving, Cooper, Poe. 3 credits.
ENGL 6212 The American Renaissance
Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. 3 credits.
ENGL 6213 American Literature of the Later 19th Century
Twain, James, Wharton, and the Realist and Naturalist movements. 3 credits.
ENGL 6214 Major American Writers: 1900-1945
Major American novelists and poets: Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner;
Frost, Pound, and Eliot. 3 credits.
ENGL 6215 Major American Writers from 1945
Major writers from Ellison through Bellow, Malamud, Updike, and Morrison. 3
credits.
ENGL 6216 Continuity of American Poetry
Emerson, Dickinson, Whitman, Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot, and Williams. 3
credits.
ENGL 6217 African-American Literary Experience
Major poetry and fiction written by African-Americans from Douglass to Morrison.
3 credits.
ENGL 6311 The English Novel: Beginnings through the 19th Century
Novels by writers whose innovations reflect the development of the genre as a
mirror of social and aesthetic concerns. 3 credits.
ENGL 6313 Modern British Drama
Survey of major trends in 20th-century British drama from Shaw to Pinter. 3
credits.
ENGL 6314 Modern Irish Drama
Survey of the major Irish dramatic writers of the 20th century from Wilde to
Beckett. 3 credits.
ENGL 6316 Introduction to Literary Theory
An introduction to various schools of contemporary literary theory, including
Marxism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, New Historicism, and Cultural Criticism.
3 credits.
ENGL 6317 Feminist Critical Theory
Feminist literary criticism from DeBeauvoir through contemporary women of color,
including major American, British, and French views. 3 credits.
Graduate Courses in Writing and Pedagogy
ENGL 6411 The Art and Craft of Writing
Understanding the structure of various genres: the essay, the poem, the short
story. Opportunity for students to undertake longer projects to develop these
forms. 3 credits.
ENGL 6412 Modern Rhetoric and Writing
Exploration of writing as a theoretical and philosophical activity, helping
students understand their own activity as writers and instructing prospective
instructors of composition in the current pedagogy. 3 credits.
ENGL 6414 Scientific and Technical Writing
Development of skills in the clear, concise presentation of graduate level
writing in various forms, such as dissertations, grant proposals, lab reports,
and articles for publication. This course is offered to students in all graduate
programs at the university as needed. 3 credits
ENGL 6415 Composition Theory and Practice
Strategies of teaching writing as a developmental process. 3 credits
ENGL 6420 Linguistic History of English
History of the language emphasizing cultural backgrounds as well as modern
linguistic approaches. Concludes with a survey of modern approaches to English
grammar and syntax. 3 credits.
ENGL 6511 Approaches to Teaching British Literature
Readings of selected works in British literature appropriate for secondary
education, with emphasis upon pedagogy, historical and contemporary critical
interpretations. 3 credits.
ENGL 6512 Approaches to Teaching American Literature
Readings of selected works in American literature appropriate for secondary
education, with emphasis upon pedagogy, historical and contemporary critical
interpretation. 3 credits.
Graduate Seminars
ENGL 7010 Thesis
Preparation of the master’s thesis under individual guidance. 3 credits.
ENGL 7011 Studies in Criticism
Readings and discussion of literary criticism as an art and a craft. Critical
theories and their applications to selected texts. 3 credits.
ENGL 7012 Studies in Medieval Literature
Advanced study in the integration of the historic, philosophic, religious, and
social features of Medieval England. 3 credits.
ENGL 7013 Studies in Renaissance Literature
Advanced study in the growth of the English Renaissance, the major personalities
and their contributions. 3 credits.
ENGL 7014 Studies in Neoclassicism
Advanced study in 18th century cultural history and in the writing of the
principal figures of the age. 3 credits.
ENGL 7015 Studies in Romanticism
Advanced study in the revolutionary character of the poetry, literary and
philosophic theories of the Romantics, with an emphasis on continental
connections. 3 credits.
ENGL 7016 Studies in Victorian Literature
Advanced study in literature as a reflection of the social, political,
religious, and moral upheavals of the Victorian period. A particular issue or
writer may be studied in depth. 3 credits.
ENGL 7017 Studies in 20th -Century British Literature
Advanced study in the innovations in language, form, and content by major 20th
century British writers. 3 credits.
ENGL 7018 Studies in American Literature
Advanced study of selected writers seen in the context of the social and
cultural currents of the American experience. 3 credits.
ENGL 7019-7021 Seminar: Special Topics
Topics to be announced by the instructor. 3 credits.
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