English: Requirements and Sample Courses
- 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 Literature
- 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 1920s
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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