English

1. Literature

• American Literature (Survey Courses)
  • American Literature I and II
  • American Literature Survey
  • American Literature: 1620 - Present
  • American Writers
  • Major American Authors
  • Colonial/Revolutionary Period
    • Early American Literature
    • Literature of the American Revolution
    • American Literature: Colonial to the Civil War
    • 18th Century American Novel
    • Advanced Studies in 18th Century American Literature
    • American Literature to 1860
  • American Romanticism and the American Renaissance (to include Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau)
    • Romanticism in America
    • Romantic Poetry
    • American Fiction to 1900
    • American Literature: 1825-1865
    • American Literature to 1860
    • Literature of the American Renaissance
    • Hawthorne and His Precursors
    • Emerson and Thoreau
    • Thoreau: His Art and Thought in Relation to His Times
    • Who's Melville? Close Readings of Melville's Major Works
    • The Poetry of Walt Whitman
    • 19th Century American Novel
    • American Literary Emergence
    • The Rise of the Essay in America
  • The Civil War and the post-war period
    • American Literature: 1860-1900
    • American Fiction to 1900
    • 19th Century American Novel
    • American Literature: Realism and Naturalism
    • Major American Novelists to 1914
    • American Realism
    • Huckleberry Finn and American Culture
    • Twain, Slavery, & the Literary Imagination
    • Whitman and Dickinson in Context
  • Fiction, poetry, and drama from the early 20th century to the present
    • Early Modern American Literature
    • 20th Century American Fiction: 1900 to World War II
    • The American Moderns 1915-1950
    • Late Modern and Contemporary American Literature
    • Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald
    • Contemporary American Fiction
    • Contemporary American Poetry
    • 20th Century American Drama
    • 20th Century Southern Literature
    • The Harlem Renaissance
    • Reading Robert Frost
    • Cross-Cultural American Fiction
    • James Baldwin and His Contemporaries
    • Contemporary African-American Narrative
    • Contemporary Native American Fiction
    • Modernism/Postmodernism in 20th Century American Literatur
    • Making History in the Contemporary American Novel
• World Literature
  • British Literature (Survey Courses)
    • Masterpieces of English Literature
    • British Literature I and II
    • British Literary History I and II
    • British Literature Survey
    • Survey of British Literature from 1800
    • Literature in English to 1660
    • Literature in English after 1660
    • Anglo-Saxon and Middle Ages
      • History and Structure of the English Language
      • Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian Epic and Saga
      • Anglosaxon Language and Culture: Religious Perspectives on Beowulf
      • Old English Language and Literature
      • Readings in Middle English
      • Chaucer: the Canterbury Tales
      • Chaucer and Love
      • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
      • Medieval Romances
      • Images of Sainthood in Medieval English Literature
      • Arthurian Literature
    • Renaissance
      • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
      • The English Renaissance
      • Shakespeare's Principal Plays
      • Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
      • Shakespeare's Sonnets
      • Marlowe and Shakespeare
      • Renaissance Plays and Poems
      • Spenser and Milton
      • English Drama to 1642
      • English Literature: The Age of Elizabeth I
    • Restoration and 18th Century
      • British Literature: Restoration Through the Nineteenth Century
      • Order and Disorder in British Neoclassicism
      • English Literary Culture: 1600-1800
      • Sensibility and Self in 18th Century British Literature
      • The British Enlightenment
      • The Augustan Age
      • The 18th Century: Literature and Authority
      • Restoration and 18th Century Drama
      • The Age of Satire: 1660-1740
      • The Age of Sense and Sensibility: 1740-1800
    • The Romantic Period
      • British Literature: Restoration Through the Nineteenth Century
      • Romantic Literature: Writing and English Society, 1780-1832
      • Romantic and Victorian English Literature
      • English Literature: Jane Austen
      • Survey of British Romantics: Poetry
      • The Romantic Movement
      • The Shelley Circle
      • William Blake
    • The Victorian Period
      • British Literature: Restoration Through the Nineteenth Century
      • British Literature and Culture, 1840-1914
      • Victorian Literature
      • Romantic and Victorian English Literature
      • Representations of Women in Victorian Literature
      • 19th Century English Novel
      • Victorian Poetry and Prose
      • Major British Writers: 1832-1870
      • Major British Poets: 1830-1900
      • Dickens and the Industrial Revolution
      • The Brontës
    • The 20th Century
      • 20th Century British Fiction
      • British Modernist Fiction
      • English Literature: Contemporary England
      • Modern British Poetry
      • Postmodern British Fiction
      • Orwell and Political Engagement
      • Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
      • Modern British Satire
      • Major Writers of 20th Century Literature in England
  • Other European Literature
    • Introduction to Western European Literature I and II
    • Major Renaissance Writers
    • Renaissance and Modern Western Literature
    • The Great War in European Literature
    • From Ibsen to Pirandello
    • Dante in Translation
    • Survey of Russian Literature
    • Modern European Novel
    • 20th Century Irish Literature
    • Yeats and Joyce
    • Joyce and Modernism
    • European Literary Tradition
    • Literature and Experience in European Thought of the 1920
  • Literature of Africa, Latin America, and Asia
    • Postcolonial Narratives
    • Introduction to Latino/a Literatures
    • Literature of the Americas
    • Non-Western Women's Literature
    • Literature and Culture of the Third World
    • Short Fiction from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean
    • Major Works of Eastern Literature
    • Global Fictions
    • South African Literature
    • The Oral Tradition and Literature in Africa
  • Ancient Greek and Roman
    • Greek and Roman Epic
    • Greek Drama in Translation
    • World Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages
    • Classical Antiquity and English Literature
    • Classical Tradition: The Age of Alexander the Great
  • Myths/folklore
    • Myth, Fable, and History
    • Classical Mythology
    • Native American Oral Tradition Literature
    • Folklore and Literature
    • The Oral Tradition
    • Celtic Mythology
  • Bible as literature
    • The King James Version of the Bible
    • The English Bible: Its Literary Aspects and Influences
    • The Bible as Literature
    • The Hebrew Bible: Poetry and Rhetoric
    • Biblical Narratives
    • The Bible in Literary and Cultural Perspective
• Genres
  • Poetry
    • British and American Poetry of the 19th Century
    • Elements of Poetry
    • Studies in the Lyric
    • Voice and Persona in Contemporary American Poetry
    • Five Modern Poets: Eliot, Stevens, Moore, Frost, Williams
    • Poetry and Poetics
    • Modern Poetry and the Visual Arts
    • Writing Poetry
    • Introduction to Poetic Technique
  • Drama/Theater
    • History of Theater
    • Introduction to Drama and Theater
    • Political Theater and the Structure of Drama
    • Drama: Greek through Shakespeare
    • Introduction to Acting
    • Modern Drama
    • American Ethnic Drama
    • Making it New: Modern Drama from Ibsen to Kushner
    • Readings in American Drama
    • Introduction to Playwriting
  • Short Story
    • The Contemporary American Short Story
    • Short Narrative Fiction
    • Short Story in England and America
    • Introduction to Short Story and Novel
    • Introduction to Writing Fiction
    • Narrative Forms
    • Writing and Reading Short Stories
  • Novel
    • Form and Theory of the Novel
    • The Rise of the Novel
    • Readings in the Novel
    • The Modern Novel
    • The Art of the Novel
    • Introduction to Short Story and Novel
    • The Novella
    • Narrative Forms
    • Studies In Fiction: The Novel of Upbringing
  • Literary Criticism
    • Introduction to Literary Theory
    • Aesthetics Now and Then
    • Critical Interpretation
    • Critical Approaches to Literature
    • Texts and Contexts
    • History of Literary Criticism
    • Topics in Literary Studies
    • Literary Analysis and Argumentation
    • Postmodernist Critique

2. Language

• History and structure of the English language
  • History of the English Language
  • Introduction to Modern English
  • Topics in the English Language
  • Structure of English Words
  • Studies in the Structure of the English Language
  • Introduction to Structure of Present-Day English
  • Introduction to Linguistics
  • Comparative Linguistics
• Knowledge of the rules and conventions of standard written and spoken English
  • English Literature and Composition
  • English Grammar
  • Stylistics and Grammar
  • Traditional Grammar and Usage
  • Composition Workshop
  • Composition: Theory and Practice
  • Freshman Seminar: Writing
  • Essay Writing: The Art of Exposition
  • English Semantics
  • Orality and Literacy
  • Composition and Oral Communication
  • Advanced Composition for Prospective Teachers

3. Rhetoric and Composition

• Principles of classical rhetoric
  • Writing and Rhetoric
  • Elements of Rhetoric
  • Craft of Writing
  • Argumentative Writing
  • Topics in Language and Rhetorical Studies
  • Introduction to Argument and Academic Writing
  • Writing in the Documentary Tradition
  • Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
  • English Composition: Language as Communication
  • Writing and Discourse
• Modern and contemporary theories of rhetoric
  • Language and Society
  • The Uses of Language
  • Introduction to Linguistics
  • English Composition: Language as Communication
• Similarities and differences between oral and written communication
  • Telling and Storytelling: An Introduction to Writing Creative Non-Fiction
  • The Development of Oral Language
  • Teaching and Tutoring Writing
  • Pragmatics

4. Reading Theory, Research, and Practice at the Middle and High School level

• Reading, Writing, and Teaching
• Preparation for Teaching Literature and Composition
• Learning and Literacy
• Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum
• Reading Comprehension
• Diagnosis and Remediation of Reading Disorders
• Principles and Practices of Secondary Reading
• Reading and Public Policy
• Adolescent Literature