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Course Code
ENGL 311  Credits
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
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
Title Shakespeare 
Prerequisite ENGL 300 
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 videotaped 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. 



Course Code
ENGL 356  Credits
Title African American Literature 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description The focus of the course is the African-American literary tradition. This survey course covers African-American writing from slave narratives to the present. Because of the historical sweep of the course, students will read broadly, rather than intensively--with any one writer. Students will also be instructed in the historical background for the writings.