47 courses with the subject ENGL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ENGL 201ENGLISH LITERATURE SURVEY AND LITERARY STUDIES I. The
first semester of the two-semester survey of English literature focuses on the major authors and representative works of each period from the early Middle Ages (Beowulf) to the 18th century. It also introduces students to major interpretive/critical schools of thought, as well as such foundational literary practices as close reading, analysis, and scansion. As such, it is the foundational course for the English major and should be taken in the first semester of the program. This course is designated Writing Intensive (WI). Three hours.
ENGL 202ENGLISH LITERATURE SURVEY AND LITERARY STUDIES II
Elaborating upon the content, practices, and interpretive modes introduced in English 201, the second semester of the two-semester survey of English literature focuses on the major authors and representative works of each period from the late 18 th century to the modern era. This course is designated Information Literacy (IL). Prerequisite: English 201. Three hours.
ENGL 203AMERICAN LITERATURE SURVEY I. The first semester of the two
semester survey of American literature focuses on representative works from the time of the discovery of America to the Civil War. Attention is concentrated on major writers and their works in each period with some consideration given to all genres except drama. English majors are strongly encouraged to take 203 before 204. Three hours.
ENGL 204AMERICAN LITERATURE SURVEY II. The second semester of the two
semester survey of American literature focuses on representative works from post-Civil War to the late 20th century. Attention is concentrated on major writers and their works in each period with some consideration given to all genres except drama. Non-English majors may enroll in 204 without having taken 203, but English majors are strongly encouraged to take 203 before 204. Three hours.
ENGL 205WORLD LITERATURE SURVEY: ASIA. A survey of representative
authors and works of Asia, with a special focus on the literature of China, India, and Japan. The 205-206 survey is designed to include works of cultures and regions not covered by the English and American literature surveys or the classical and European literature in the required Humanities 202: Civilization & Literature. Students may take either or both courses, in either sequence. Three hours.
ENGL 206WORLD LITERATURE SURVEY: AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA
A survey of representative authors and literary works of Africa and Latin America, including the Caribbean. The 205-206 survey is designed to include works of cultures and regions not covered by the English and American literature surveys or the classical and European literature in the required Humanities 202: Civilization & Literature. Students may take either or both courses, in either sequence. Three hours.
ENGL 210THE GOOD BOOKS TRADITION. This course explores the educative value
of those texts classicist John Senior called the “Good Books,” i.e., poetry, fables, myths, mysteries, and adventure stories which imaginatively prepare students to receive the great ideas of the classics. This class studies the Good Books not only for their rich content, but also for their propaedeutic value as stepping-stones to the Tradition. Along the way, we will be discussing vital and relevant themes like the concept of leisure, the distinction between ratio and intellectus, and the doctrine of the Good. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 221SCIENCE FICTION. This course introduces students to the many ways
science fiction engages a range of cultural and social issues, such as the nature of science and scientific exploration, science and ethics, scientific dystopia, technological apocalypse, relationships between faith and science, cybernetics and human identity, transhumanism, medical ethics, and nanotechnology. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 222FANTASY LITERATURE. This course is designed to introduce students to the
major features that characterize fantasy as a literary genre. Students will read 16-18 fantasy novels, including authors such as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Madeleine L’Engle, Ursula LeGuin, and J. K. Rowling. Class time will be spent analyzing these novels and critiquing them as works of literature. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 224ARTHURIAN LITERATURE. This survey course follows King Arthur
across the centuries and literary genres from his seminal appearances in medieval histories and literature to latter interpretations – Victorian, Modernist, Inkling, and post-modernist in English and American prose fiction, film, and poetry. Authors include, but are not limited
ENGL 226GOTHIC LITERATURE. This course is a historical survey of Gothic
literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, focusing mainly on literary Gothicism of Europe and America. The course also explores how films and other literary genres have appropriated Gothic elements in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 24219th CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL. A study of major works by authors from
the great age of the English novel, including Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Conrad, and Wilde. Prerequisite English 202 or by permission. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 24320th CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL. A study of the themes and technical
developments which emerge in the novels of such authors as Woolf, Forster, Joyce, Waugh, Greene, and selected contemporary authors. Prerequisite English 202 or by permission. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 24519th CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL. This course explores the romances
of Hawthorne and Melville; the realism of Mark Twain, Henry James, and Chopin; and the naturalism of Dreiser, along with works by other key writers. Prerequisites: English 203 and 204 or by permission. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 24620th CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL. This course gives students
experience with the long fiction of such writers as Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Ellison, Morrison, Percy, and others. Prerequisite: English 204 or by permission. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 250WORLD DRAMA. An introduction to the great playwrights and
representative plays of world drama from the Greeks to the present. Students study elements of plot, characterization, and idea in each of the plays studied. The course also focuses on the theatrical and historical context of each play and playwright. Three hours.
ENGL 252MODERN DRAMA. A study of major plays and playwrights of the late
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, O’Neill, Beckett, Stoppard, and recent American and British playwrights. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 254PAGE TO STAGE. Students will travel to a major theatre venue such as New
York City (Broadway and Off-Broadway shows); Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada (Shaw Festival); Staunton, VA (American Shakespeare Center); Stratford, Canada (Stratford Festival); or various other global cities that have large theatre centers. Students will read and be quizzed on selected plays prior to travel. While there, students will attend three to five plays, attend daily post-play discussion sessions and workshops, and keep a guided response journal. Upon their return, students will submit a four to five-page paper as their final exam. Cost of the trip will vary depending on location. Travel course, offered periodically, one to three hours.
ENGL 262MODERN POETRY. This course provides a more intensive examination of
the poets and poetry of the 20th century. Students will examine the most significant movements in poetry of this period, including Modernism in the first half of the century and post-modern experiments of recent decades. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 302CLASSICAL LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION. A study of the major
works of ancient and medieval Greek, Roman, Latin, and Italian literature from Homer to Dante with particular emphasis on epic and tragedy. The influence of classical literature on later Western literature will also be considered. Three hours.
ENGL 304CHAUCER AND THE MIDDLE AGES. An introduction to the literature
and art of the Middle Ages, from Beowulf, through Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Canterbury Tales, to the religious drama of the later Middle Ages. Prerequisite: English 201. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 306ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: SPENSER TO MILTON. A survey of major
English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from Spenser, Donne, and Jonson to John Milton. Prerequisite: English 201 or by permission. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 308RESTORATION AND 18th CENTURY LITERATURE. An introduction to
the works of principle authors from 1660 to 1750 such as Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson. The simultaneous codification of rules and outbreak of the Romantic temper will be traced.
ENGL 312ROMANTIC LITERATURE. An intensive examination of the poetry of the
six major English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Students also read major critical prose by and about these poets. Prerequisite: English 202 or by permission. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 314VICTORIAN LITERATURE. A study of the major British writers of the
period from 1837 to 1900, focusing particularly on Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Oscar Wilde. Prerequisite: English 202. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 318AMERICAN RENAISSANCE. An opportunity for students to explore an
unusually productive phase in the history of ideas in America through literature of outstanding quality including works of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. The dynamics of interaction among members of that group will be studied.
English 203 or by permission. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 320SOUTHERN LITERATURE. With significant emphasis on the works of
William Faulkner, this course explores the great flowering of literature in the American South in the twentieth century. Such writers as Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright,
ENGL 322MODERN IRISH LITERATURE. The purpose of this course is to introduce
students twentieth century Irish literature via an in-depth study of two of that literature’s principal figures, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce. Other writers that may be studied include J.M. Synge, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, and Eavan Boland. Merging breadth with depth, the course focuses on all major literary genres, including lyric poetry, drama, and prose fiction. Alternate years, three hours.
ENGL 327CHRISTIAN WRITERS. This course explores major writers in the Christian
tradition, while training students in the discipline of faith-informed reading and writing. Featured authors will vary depending on professor interest, either taking the form of a general survey of several Christian writers or an in-depth study of a single author—e.g., John Milton, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gerard Manley Hopkins, or C.S. Lewis. This course may be repeated, if the course title has changed, as topics covered vary by semester. Alternate years, three hours.
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ENGL 351SHAKESPEARE I. One of two courses which together examine 20 of the
plays of William Shakespeare. Each semester begins with a study of the sonnets and then focuses on ten of the major plays, selected from the comedies, histories, tragedies and romances. Class discussion is supplemented with a required lab session for the viewing and discussion of performances of the plays under study. Plays for the fall semester usually include Richard III, Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Othello, and The Winter’s Tale. Students may take either or both courses, in either sequence. This course is designated Speaking Intensive (SI). Prerequisite: English 202 or by permission. Three hours.
ENGL 352SHAKESPEARE II. One of two courses which together examine 20 of the
plays of William Shakespeare. Each semester begins with a study of the sonnets and then focuses on ten of the major plays, selected from the comedies, histories, tragedies and romances. Class discussion is supplemented with a required lab session for the viewing and discussion of performances of the plays under study. Plays for the spring semester usually include: As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Richard II, 1 Henry IV, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Cymbeline, and The Tempest. Students may take either or both courses, in either sequence. This course is designated Speaking Intensive (SI). Prerequisite: English 202 or by permission. Three hours.
ENGL 356LITERARY THEORY. A detailed examination of the major literary critics
and theorists of Western civilization. Part one is devoted to key figures of the Classical tradition; Part two uses basic tenets of that tradition to engage and critique the “new wave” of 20th and 21st century critical theory. The class employs a seminar format; students lead
ENGL 360INDEPENDENT STUDY. An opportunity for students with extensive
background in literature to do intensive independent study or research on specialized topics. Junior standing in the English Department, permission of the department chair, and a faculty sponsor are required. Application deadline: end of the semester preceding the proposed study. One, two or three hours.
ENGL 402GRAMMAR AND HISTORY OF ENGLISH. Required of English majors
seeking secondary certification in English, this course offers an introduction to the history of the English language, a review of traditional grammar, and presentation of a working knowledge of modern grammar. Three hours.
ENGL 460INDEPENDENT STUDY. An opportunity for students with extensive
background in literature to do intensive independent study or research on specialized topics. Senior standing in the English Department, permission of the department chair, and a faculty sponsor are required. Application deadline: end of the semester preceding the proposed study. One, two or three hours.
ENGL 480INTERNSHIP IN ENGLISH. Students majoring in English may, with prior
consent of the department, earn academic credit for work done (normally off campus) under the direct supervision of a professional in an English-related field. This includes but is not limited to such fields as publishing, library science, journalism, technical writing, and script writing. Students must keep a daily log of activities and submit an academic paper summarizing the experience. A maximum of six credits of internship may apply toward graduation. One to six hours.
ENGL 485SENIOR CAPSTONE. As a culminating experience for senior English
majors, this seminar-style course provides students an opportunity to reflect on their college literary studies; to deepen their understanding of literature, its role in the pursuit of truth, and its place in their lives, especially as Christians; and to apply what they have learned as majors in completing a substantial project. This project will focus on a significant work, author, or literary topic and should reflect thorough research, thoughtful analysis, and clear communication. The course subject matter varies each semester to reflect the interests and expertise of the professor. Prerequisite: Senior status in the English program. Three hours.
