English

Course Code	ENGL 307  Credits 3
Title	20th-Century British Literature
Prerequisite	ENGL 200
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Study of selected major British authors from the 1890s to the present.

Course Code	ENGL 311  Credits 3
Title	Major British Writers I
Prerequisite	ENGL 300
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Selected major writers through Milton. Some attention to literary criticism and research techniques.

Course Code	ENGL 312  Credits 3
Title	Major British Writers II
Prerequisite	ENGL 300
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Selected major writers, Enlightenment through Romantics, Victorians and Moderns. Some attention to literary criticism and research techniques.

Course Code	ENGL 314  Credits 3
Title	Topics in Shakespeare
Prerequisite	ENGL 200
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	The course emphasizes the skills of close reading as well as understanding Shakespeare's texts within the context of early modern history and culture. In addition to reading a variety of Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and romances, students will study video taped performances of select passages and scenes in order to analyze and discuss the many different and differing ways the plays can an have been recreated. Students may repeat the course as the covered play texts change.

Course Code	ENGL 314T  Credits 1
Title	Shakespeare: Theory
Prerequisite	ENGL 300
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	An examination of Shakespeare's plays from a number of critical perspectives, including New Criticism, New Historicism, Post-colonialism, Queer Theory, Feminism, and others. Students should be simultaneously enrolled in English 314.

Course Code	ENGL 316  Credits 3
Title	Hebrew Bible as Literature
Lasc Area	Goal 6
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	As an introductory survey of the Hebrew Bible in English, the course will introduce students to the academic study of the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings as literature. As a writing intensive course, students will research, write, and revise a number of critical/interpretive papers, which foregrounds both writing as a process and writing to learn. MnTC Goal 6.

Course Code	ENGL 317  Credits 3
Title	Personal Lives, National Affairs
Lasc Area	Goal 6 Goal 8
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	This course will examine a variety of texts that show the intersection of personal lives and national affairs within a range of different cultural and global settings. MnTC Goal 6 and 8.

Course Code	ENGL 318  Credits 3
Title	Christian Bible as Literature
Lasc Area	Goal 6
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	An introduction to the academic study of the Christian bible as literature, including the gospels, the letters of Paul, and Revelations. Focus on relevant historical, theological, and cultural contexts in the literary study of the texts. MnTC Goal 6.

Course Code	ENGL 321  Credits 3
Title	Early American Literature
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Early-American Literature. Study of authors, genres, or literary movements from the beginnings-1830. Subjects and focus will vary as materials address literature from the moment of Anglo-European-Indigenous contact to the constituting of the New Republic.

Course Code	ENGL 322  Credits 3
Title	19th-Century American Literature
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Studies of authors, genres, or literary movements in nineteenth-century America. Subjects and focus will vary as materials address the literature of nineteenth-century America.

Course Code	ENGL 323  Credits 3
Title	20th-21st Century American Literature
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Study of authors, genres, or literary movements from 1900-present.

Course Code	ENGL 325  Credits 3
Title	Literature for Young Readers
Lasc Area	Goal 6
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Literature for Young Readers is a concentrated reading course designed to impart the knowledge necessary for an appreciation and understanding of children's literature, its historical development, major genres in the field, contemporary issues and debates about children and literature written for them, and the literary terms relevant to the study of literature written for children. In addition to reading classics and the critically acclaimed works of both fiction and nonfiction by modern writers, students will study poetry, folklore, mythology, and examine the relationship between illustration and text (picture books and graphic novels). MnTC Goal 6.

Course Code	ENGL 330  Credits 2-3
Title	Individual Authors
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Intensive study of one or two significant authors.

Course Code	ENGL 332  Credits 3
Title	Film and the Novel
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Comparative analysis of major novels and their screen adaptations. Focus on aesthetic and interpretative similarities and differences.

Course Code	ENGL 335  Credits 3
Title	World Mythology
Lasc Area	Goal 8
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Students will explore mythological systems from around the world focusing upon the historical "interdependence of nations and peoples" and developing the "ability to apply a comparative perspective to the cross-cultural social, economic and political experiences" embodied and explored by these mythologies. MnTC Goal 8.

Course Code	ENGL 340  Credits 3
Title	Genre Studies
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Extensive reading in a particular literary genre--short story, novel, poetry, drama, or epic.

Course Code	ENGL 343  Credits 3
Title	Drama II
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	Representative readings in dramatic literature from Greek theatre to the present day. Greek and Roman tragic and comic playwrights, Aristotelian criticism, and classical theatre history. Early native farce, religious drama, and the drama and theatrical innovations of the Renaissance through the 18th century. Same as THTR 322.

Course Code	ENGL 346  Credits 3
Title	Virtue and Vice in Gothic Storytelling
Lasc Area	Goal 9
Course Outline	Course Outline
Writing Intensive	Yes
Description	A consideration of the ethical implications of the literary constructions of Gothic storytelling and the larger social context that surround it and its place in popular culture. Students will analyze Gothic tales in order to extract their ethical underpinnings. Students will also use their readings to better understand larger ethical belief systems and their place within those. MnTC Goal 9.

Course Code	ENGL 352  Credits 3
Title	Native American Literature
Lasc Area	Goal 7
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	This course is an introduction to and an exploration of literature written by Native Americans. Texts read in this course are produced by writers of Native American descent. Course presents core texts (fiction, essays, poetry, drama) in the development of literary history of western Indian writers with an emphasis on contemporary literature. MnTC Goal 7.

Course Code	ENGL 354  Credits 3
Title	Non Fiction Writing
Course Outline	Course Outline
Description	Writing of non-fiction prose; partly a dialogue on the form and theory of non-fiction, but mainly a workshop centered on the practice of non-fiction writing.