English Courses
This course offers traditional and recent approaches to studying various genres, themes, historical periods, and critical issues in the texts from more than one national literature. Topics and texts vary from semester to semester. As topics change, this course may be repeated for credit.
Please contact your instructor for specific topic.
(Also LAC 356) Major figures in the literature of Latin America in translation. Majors figures will include, Allende, Borges, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Neruda, and Vargas Llosa.
(Also AFS 363) Distinguished writers of African, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin and African-American heritage. Emphasis is upon the theory and practice of diaspora, and how it has shaped the literary voices of writers of African descent
This course offers traditional and recent approaches to studying Shakespeare’s drama and poetry. Topics and texts vary from semester to semester. As topics change, the course may be repeated for credit. Topics may include genre studies, Shakespeare in performance, Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Please contact your instructor for specific topic.
A capstone course for English Literature majors. Students will read major texts of literary theory and they will conduct original and advanced literary research resulting in a long writing project.
A capstone course for English majors in the Literature Concentration. Students will read the work of one major writer, or the work of 2-3 related major writers whose works form a coherent field of study. Possible writers include Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters, Willa Cather, Gabriel Gasrcia Marquez, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison. As topics change, this course may be repeated for credit.
Field experience in the Humanities allowing majors to gain hands-on experience in such professional settings as the publishing industry, museums, and the ministry. Open to juniors and seniors majoring in English.