UG Course Descriptions
A study of Chaucer’s major works, with special emphasis on The Canterbury Tales.
A study of early English works with emphasis on Old English poetry, the evolution of Arthurian literature, medieval romances, and the development of drama.
An introduction to representative works of English literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, exclusive of Shakespearean drama.
A concentrated study of selected major comedies, histories, and tragedies with an introduction to Shakespearean criticism.
An introduction to the major literary movements in England from representative works in English literature 1660-1775, with emphasis on Dryden, Pope, Swift, and the development of the periodical essay and the novel.
A study of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, with additional focus on contemporary essayists and writers of Gothic fiction.
A study of the major poets and prose writers of nineteenth century Britain, including selected works of Carlyle, Arnold, Tennyson, Browning, Dante and Christina Rossetti, and Hopkins.
An introduction to selected works in of classical and contemporary writers; course fulfills a requirement for the minor in Irish Studies.
A study of major American writers with concentration on Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville.
A study of major American writers with concentration on Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Frost.
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