Mercer University Department of English Courses

The first semester of First Year Seminar or the equivalent is prerequisite to all other English courses. Either ENG 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 240, 263, 264, 265 or an equivalent is prerequisite to all upper-division English courses.

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ENG 108. Composition I (4 hours)

Prerequisite: Consent of the English Department Chair This course focuses on the expository essay, the basic form of college writing. It includes an introduction to research. The student is expected to be familiar with standards of correctness, including punctuation and grammar. (Every fall semester)

ENG 109. Composition II (4 hours)

Prerequisite: Completion of ENG 108 with a grade of “C” or higher (or exemption from ENG 108) and consent of the English Department Chair. This second composition course focuses on critical and interpretive essays on poetry, fiction, and drama. (Every spring semester)

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ENG 233. The Study of Drama (3 hours)

A study of drama from various periods with emphasis on forms, ideas, techniques, and meaning. The student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically. (Every year)

ENG 234. The Study of Fiction (3 hours)

A study of novels and short stories from various periods with emphasis on forms, ideas, techniques, and meaning. The student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically. (Every semester)

ENG 235. The Study of Poetry (3 hours)

A study of poetry from various periods with emphasis on forms, ideas, techniques, and meaning. The student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically. (Every year)

ENG 236. The Study of a Literary Theme: (variable topic) (3 hours)

This course examines a particular theme in various literary forms. In addition to learning how to read a literary text closely and carefully, the student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically. (Every semester)

ENG 237. Literature and Film (3 hours)

The critical study of film as a literary text. Selected novels and their film adaptations will be studied in order to explore the differences and similarities between written and cinematic forms. (Every other year)

ENG 240. Multicultural Women Writers (3 hours) (Same as WGS 240)

Prerequisite: FYS 101 An analysis of the writings of contemporary American women of diverse cultural backgrounds. Reading and discussing novels, short stories, and poetry, this course will explore the ways that these writers navigate being American and being culturally “other” within a homogenizing “melting pot” society. (Every two years)

ENG 263. Survey of English Literature: Beginnings through the Eighteenth Century (3 hours)

A chronological survey of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the eighteenth century. Required for the English major. (Every semester)

ENG 264. Survey of English Literature: Romanticism to the Present (3 hours)

A chronological survey of English literature from the Romantic Age to the contemporary period . (Every semester)

ENG 265. Survey of American Literary Masters (3 hours)

A study of major American writers from the colonial period to the present. (Every semester)

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ENG 301. Introduction to Literary Studies (3 hours)

This course introduces students to literary criticism and the methodologies of literary scholarship. It is intended to prepare English majors for advanced work in upper-division courses. Required for the English major. (Every semester)

ENG 307. Essay Writing (3 hours)

Writing in a variety of essay forms with special emphasis on the relationships among writer, subject, and reader. (Every three years)

ENG 308. Introduction to Poetry Writing (3 hours)

Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. The student will take a close look at the conventions and techniques of traditional and contemporary poetry as models for writing original poetry. Each student will be encouraged to use his or her own experience to discover and develop an individual and authentic voice as a poet. (Every year)

ENG 309. Introduction to Fiction Writing (3 hours)

The student will take a close look at the conventions and techniques of traditional and contemporary fiction as models for writing original fiction. Each student will be encouraged to use his or her own experience to discover and develop an individual and authentic voice as a writer. (Every year)

ENG 311. Poetry Workshop (3 hours)

Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Students who have developed a facility in poetry writing will work together in a workshop setting. Exercises, assignments, readings, group critiques, and individual conferences will be used to support the student's efforts to complete an agreed upon poetry manuscript. (Every year)

ENG 312. Fiction Workshop (3 hours)

Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Students who have developed a facility in fiction writing will work together in a workshop setting. Exercises, assignments, readings, group critiques, and individual conferences will be used to support the student's efforts to complete an agreed upon fiction manuscript. (Every year)

ENG 320. Early Shakespeare (3 hours)

A study of Shakespeare’s dramatic works before 1601, including comedies, such as Twelfth Night, English history plays, such as Henry V, and early tragedies, such as Hamlet. The course examines questions of language, convention, and performance, while working to develop students’ skills as thoughtful close readers of Shakespeare’s works. Issues of genre, gender, race and ethnicity, class, and identity are also considered, focusing on how such categories both reflect and help to create early modern culture, and how the plays’ explorations of these aspects of human experience continue to be relevant in the twenty-first century.

ENG 321. Late Shakespeare (3 hours)

A study of Shakespeare’s dramatic works between 1601 and 1613. Plays to be considered include major tragedies, such as Othello, so-called problem plays, such as Measure for Measure, and the romances, such as The Tempest. The course examines questions of language, convention, and performance, while working to develop students’ skills as thoughtful close readers of Shakespeare’s works. Issues of genre, gender, race and ethnicity, class, and identity are also considered, focusing on how such categories reflect and help to create early modern culture, and how the plays’ explorations of these aspects of human experience continue to be relevant in the twenty-first century. (Every year)

ENG 323. History of the English Language (3 hours)

The history of modern British and American English is traced from the Indo-European beginnings through the Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, and Modern Periods to the present trends in linguistic study. (Occasional)

ENG 325. Contemporary Theories in Linguistics (3 hours)

This course includes the study of phonetics, morphology, structural linguistics, and transformational grammar. It is intended to acquaint students with the recent scientific approach to the study of English grammar. (Every year)

ENG 329. Twentieth-Century Literary Theory and Criticism (3 hours)

A study of literary theory and criticism in the twentieth century, focused on major groups and movements. Regularly included are such schools as Formalism, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Post-Structuralism. (Every year)

ENG 330. Chaucer (3 hours)

This course focuses primarily upon The Canterbury Tales with some work on Troilus and Criseyde and minor poems. Attention is given to Middle English pronunciation and poetics. Lectures, reports, and collateral readings will concern the Medieval background. (Every two years)

ENG 335. Milton (3 hours)

A study of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, as well as selections from the minor poems and prose works. (Every two years)

ENG 340. Sixteenth-Century Literature (3 hours)

A survey of the literature of the English Renaissance. Special attention will be given to the work of Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sir Francis Bacon, as well as to the non-dramatic poetry of Shakespeare. (Every two years)

ENG 342. Seventeenth-Century Literature (3 hours)

A survey of the religious and secular literature of seventeenth-century England, up to 1660, including such authors as Donne, Herbert, Jonson, Herrick, and Marvell. (Every two years)

ENG 346. Eighteenth-Century Literature (3 hours)

A study of the major figures from Dryden to Goldsmith with special emphasis on the comic ironic-satiric tradition in prose and on the rhetorical and empirical traditions in poetry. Lectures and collateral reading provide background for understanding the social, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic implications of literature. (Occasional)

ENG 347. Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement (3 hours)

A study of the poetry and prose of the English Romantic period with chief emphasis upon six major figures—Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats. (Every two years)

ENG 348. Victorian Poetry and Prose (3 hours)

A study of the major poets and prose writers of the Victorian age in England, with particular attention to Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Hopkins. Selected works from the pre-Raphaelites and from the aesthetic and decadent movements of the 1880s and 90s will also be read. (Every two years)

ENG 349. The English Novel (3 hours)

A survey of the development of the novel from the 1720s to the 1880s with special emphasis on Richardson, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and other selected writers. (Every two years)

ENG 352. Romanticism In American Literature (3 hours)

The origin, growth, and impact of the Romantic movement in American literature as revealed by an examination of the major writers of the period such as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. (Every two years)

ENG 353. Realism In American Literature (3 hours)

A study of the movement in American literature from Romanticism to Realism with its accompanying emphasis on pragmatic, realistic, or naturalistic interpretations. Major consideration will be given to such writers as Dickinson, Twain, James, Howells, and Crane. (Every two years)

ENG 354. The American Novel (3 hours)

A survey of the development of the American novel from its beginnings to the early twentieth century to show how the American novel has become both uniquely American and a major form of American letters. Hawthorne, Melville, Howells, James, Dreiser, and others will be studied. (Every two years)

ENG 357. Literature of the South to 1945 (3 hours)

A study of southern literature from the antebellum period to the end of World War II. The course includes such writers as the Frontier Humorists, Twain, Ransom, Tate, Faulkner, Warren, Wolfe, and Toomer. Topics such as tradition, change, and race relations are considered. (Every two years)

ENG 358. Literature of the South after 1945 (3 hours)

A study of southern literature in the contemporary period. The course includes such writers as O'Connor, Welty, Percy, Ellison, Walker, and Dickey and selected contemporary southern poets and dramatists. Topics such as tradition, change, and race relations are considered. (Every two years)

ENG 359. African American Literature: Beginnings to 1965 (3 hours) (Same as AFR 359)

A survey of classic writings in African American literature presented in their historical contexts. The course includes essays analyzing the political and social status of African Americans at various points during the period and representative works by major poets and fiction writers. Reading lists vary from year to year. but generally include such authors as Brown, Chestnut, Harper, the Grimkes, Larsen, Bontemps, DuBois, Washington, Harlem Renaissance writers, Ellison, and writers of the early Civil Rights era. (Every year)

ENG 360. African American Literature: 1965 to Present (3 hours) (Same as AFR 360)

A chronological study of the development of African American literature since 1965. The course attempts to place African American literature in the context of world and American literature by examining prevalent themes and traditions as presented in fiction, poetry, and drama. Reading lists vary from year to year, but generally include such authors as Wright, Baldwin, Morrison, Angelou, Sanchez, Baraka, McMillan, Walker, and Wideman. (Every year)

ENG 362. Modern Poetry: 1900 to 1965 (3 hours)

A study of major English and American Poets and aesthetic movements from 1900-65. Topics include aestheticism, Celtic Renaissance, imagism, vorticism, and objectivism. Poets usually include Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Frost, and Stevens as well as others. (Every two years)

ENG 364. Modern Drama: 1880 to 1965 (3 hours)

A study of drama in English from the emergence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century to the advent of absurdism in the mid-1960s. (Every two years)

ENG 366. Modern Fiction: 1900 to 1965 (3 hours)

A study of major modernist innovations in form and techniques by the foremost writers of the twentieth century up to 1965. Writers usually include Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, James, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner. (Every two years)

ENG 367. Contemporary Drama: 1965 to Present (3 hours)

A study of drama in English since 1965, exploring aspects of postmodern aesthetics and staging. (Every two years)

ENG 368. Contemporary Poetry: 1965 to Present (3 hours)

A study of major English and American poets with respect to representative themes of postmodernism and new directions in poetic form. Major topics include: confessional and Black Mountain poetics, neo-surrealism, concrete poetry, and political, regional, and feminist verse. (Every two years)

ENG 369. Contemporary Fiction: 1965 to Present (3 hours)

A study of major English and American works that extends modern modes in fictional representation and style. (Every two years)

ENG 371. Beginning Playwriting (3 hours) (Same as THR 371)

The goal of this course is to introduce the student to the conventions and techniques of playwriting. Students will complete exercises leading to the creation of an original one-act play. (Occasional)

ENG 372. Screenwriting (3 hours)

The art, craft, and business of screenwriting from theoretical and practical perspectives. Topics include: the nature of screenplay formats and structures; creation and development of premise, plot, character, and action; scene writing; adaptation issues; place of the screenwriter in the collaborative process of film making; and marketing strategies. (Occasional)

ENG 378. Images of Women in Literature (3 hours) (Same as WGS 378)

A study of the literary representation of women, with emphasis on the lives and careers of women writers. Authors covered may include Austen, Bronte, Wharton, Woolf, Morrison, and others. (Every two years)

ENG 380. Special Topics in English Literature (3 hours)

A study of some significant topic in literature written in English not included in the regular departmental offerings. May be taken twice for credit in the English major. (Every year)

ENG 382. The Critical Study of Film (3 hours)

An examination of film as a form of literature. A study of the relationship of film to literary forms and structures. Special emphasis will be on important film genres, as well as on the work of major directors. (Every two years)

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ENG 480S. Seminar in Literature (3 hours)

Prerequisites: senior standing. A study of some significant topic in English or American literature not included in the regular departmental offerings. May not be repeated for credit. Required for the literature track of the English major. (Every semester)

ENG 483. Advanced Playwriting Workshop (3 hours)

Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing; ENG/THR 371 and ENG 372. A portfolio (two complete plays) approved by the instructor may substitute for ENG/THR 371 and/or ENG 372. Students will write and revise one play with assistance from readers' theater criticism conducted by classmates and will assemble a portfolio of three complete plays. Offered as needed for playwriting students unable to enroll in ENG 485 (Sams Seminar in Drama). (Occasional)

ENG 484. Directed Independent Reading (1-3 hours)

Prerequisite: Junior or Senior status and consent of the instructor. This course provides the student with the opportunity to do guided intensive reading in a literary field of his or her interest under the direction of the instructor selected. The student will be expected to meet regularly with the instructor and to present written evidence of his or her critical ability and aesthetic appreciation. Variable credit 1-3 hours, not to exceed 3 hours total. (Occasional)

ENG 485. The Ferrol Sams, Jr., Distinguished Chair of English Seminar in Fiction, Poetry, or Drama (3 hours)

Prerequisite: successful completion of appropriate creative writing courses or by permission of the instructor. This course will provide an opportunity for students to study advanced creative writing under an accomplished artist. (Every year)

ENG 487. Advanced Creative Writing Workshop (3 hours)

Prerequisites: junior or senior standing, ENG 310, 311, or 312. The course follows a workshop format wherein students critique one another’s work, hone their editing skills, and study the editorial standards of strong presses and practicing writers. The course also explores matters of form and researching markets for written work. (Every two years)

ENG 488. Independent Study for Honors in English (3 hours)

Open to qualified senior English majors and offered fall semester of each year. Working under the direction of a member of the English Department and with the approval of the chair, the student will complete by March 15 of his or her senior year an essay project of scholarly merit. Three hours credit will be awarded on satisfactory completion of the project, and an Honors designation will be entered in the student record. (Occasional)

Course Offerings for Fall 2011

Course & Description	Instructor	Days & Times
ENG 236.003 The Boy Who Lived In 1997, the world was introduced to an orphaned, eleven year old boy wizard named Harry Potter. More than a decade later, Harry has become a fixture of popular culture. Using a wide range of sources (the novels themselves, film adaptations, websites, book reviews, newspaper and magazine articles, etc.), we will explore Harry’s world and its relationship to our own. We will address such questions as: How does Rowling construct the world of the novels, what earlier literary and folk traditions does she import, and how does she make her world appealing? How and why do the novels attract both children and adult readers? How “good” are these novels; are they really “literature”? What criteria(s) should use to evaluate them? Is Harry a hero and, if so, what constitutes his heroism? What can we make of the “Harry Potter” business juggernaut as a cultural phenomenon?	Gary Richardson	TR 3:05- 4:20
ENG 263.001 Survey of English Literature: Beginnings through the Eighteenth Century A chronological survey of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the eighteenth century. Required for the English major.	Mary Raschko	MWF 12:00-12:50
ENG 264.001 Survey of English Literature: Romanticism to the Present This course will provide a chronological survey of English literature from the Romantic Age to the present. We will read, discuss, and respond in writing to a variety of texts, representing the Romantic, Victorian and Modern periods and a variety of genres and forms, including poetry, drama, and both prose fiction (including brief novels) and nonfiction. While the purpose of the course is to provide an overview of many authors and their works, we will also attempt to analyze in detail particular texts and to understand how important cultural events and controversies affected the literature.	Richard Fallis	MWF 11:00-11:50
ENG 265.001 Survey of American Literary Masters: The American Dream American literature is an enormous and dynamic topic, so this course is a kaleidoscopic approach. We will read some representative texts, we will discuss the relationship between cultural products and their social context, and we will study the development of literary aesthetics. Texts: Alexis de Tocqueville, excerpts from Democracy in America; Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance”; Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”; Emily Dickinson, selected poems; Herman Melville, Billy Budd; Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence; e. e. cummings, The Enormous Room; a selection of 20th century poems; Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man; and Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.	David Davis	MWF 9:00- 9:50
ENG 301.001 Introduction to Literary Studies This course introduces students to literary criticism and the methodologies of literary scholarship. It is intended to prepare English majors for advanced work in upper-division courses. Required for the English major.	Gary Richardson	TR 10:50-12:05
ENG 309.001 Introduction to Fiction The student will take a look at the conventions and techniques of traditional and contemporary fiction as models of writing original stories. Each student will be encouraged to use his or her own experience to discover and develop an individual and authentic voice as a writer.	Judson Mitcham	M 4:30- 7:30
ENG 311.001 Poetry Workshop Students who have developed a facility in poetry writing will work together in a workshop setting. Exercises, assignments, readings, group critiques, and individual conferences will be used to support the students' efforts to complete an agreed upon poetry manuscript.	Judson Mitcham	W 4:30- 7:30
ENG 320.001 Early Shakespeare A study of Shakespeare’s dramatic works before 1601, including comedies, such as Twelfth Night, English history plays, such as Henry V, and early tragedies, such as Hamlet. The course examines questions of language, convention, and performance, while working to develop students’ skills as thoughtful close readers of Shakespeare’s works. Issues of genre, gender, race and ethnicity, class, and identity are also considered, focusing on how such categories both reflect and help to create early modern culture, and how the plays’ explorations of these aspects of human experience continue to be relevant in the twenty-first century.	Deneen Senasi	TR 1:40- 2:55
ENG 330.001 Chaucer This course primarily focuses upon The Canterbury Tales with some possible work on Troilus and Criseyde and Chaucer's minor poems. In addition to learning Middle English pronunciation and grammar, students will explore the social context of Chaucer's poetry through presentations and supplementary readings on the Middle Ages.	Mary Raschko	MWF 11:00- 11:50
ENG 346.001 Eighteenth-Century Literature The long eighteenth-century (1660-1785 ) is a time of enormous upheaval in politics, economics, art, music, religion, philosophy, gender and social relationships, as well as literature. This course will scrutinize these changes, using literature (poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction prose) as our primary lens. Among the topics that we will consider is: human nature(s) and its (their) implications for organizing and maintaining a society; religious faith and the limits of both state power and individual conscience and action; the past’s relationship to the present; information/knowledge, its nature and dissemination (oral and print culture); the transformative power of literature; and literature as cultural artifact. At the end of the semester, we will examine the ways in which contemporary culture, primarily through films and television, has appropriated the eighteenth-century to its own uses.	Gary Richardson	TR 12:15-1:30
ENG 349.001 The English Novel This course will provide an overview of the development of the English novel through a study of representative works by major writers from the 1740s to the 1890s. We will read and discuss Richardson's Pamela, Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Dickens's Hard Times, Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, and Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. These novels give a sampling of the vibrant, diverse literary traditions of the novel in England. Through our discussions we will explore the "The Four M's" of the English novel—Marriage, Money, Morals and Manners—and also pursue the various gendered concepts of and attitudes toward Ruin as depicted by each novelist.	Jonathan Glance	MWF 2:00- 2:50
ENG 352.001 Romanticism in American Literature The origin, growth, and impact of the Romantic movement in American literature as revealed by an examination of the major writers of the period such as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman.	Mary Alice Morgan	MW 3:00- 4:15
ENG 358.001 Poor White Southerners Poor whites challenge the southern race and class social hierarchy. Often represented as dirty, ignorant, and dangerous, poor whites are the South’s abject other. This course will examine how southern writers portray poor whites and will explore issues of poverty, sharecropping, racial antagonism, depravity, humanity, and material culture. Texts: Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road; Zora Neale Hurston, Seraph on the Suwannee; William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying; James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Cormac McCarthy, Suttree; Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina; Larry Brown, Joe; and Tom Franklin, Hell at the Breech	David Davis	MWF 1:00- 1:50
ENG 369.001 Contemporary Fiction A study of major English and American works that extends modern modes in fictional representation and style.	Gordon Johnston	MW 3:00- 4:15
ENG 480S.001 Irish Renaissance This seminar will focus on Irish writing between 1880 and 1940. This was a time when Irish writers—Joyce, Shaw, Wilde, and Yeats—dominated literature in Britain, developed a national theatre at home, reinvented the short story, and gave Ireland a distinctive voice in global English literature. Along the way, several Irish writers just happened to foment a revolution that gained independence for most of the island. In addition to texts by “the biggies,” we will read plays, poems, fantasies, and short stories by a wide range of other Irish women and men. We will also discuss the Irish perspective on such issues as post-colonialism, religion and literature, cultural politics, women’s roles, and literature and revolution.	Richard Fallis	TR 3:05- 4:20

Course Offerings for Spring 2012

Course & Description	Instructor	Days & Times
ENG 233.001 The Study of Drama The Study of drama from various periods with emphasis on forms, ideas, techniques, and meaning. The student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically.	Gary Richardson	TR 8:00 - 9:15
ENG 234.002 The Study of Fiction A study of novels and short stories from various periods with emphasis on forms, ideas, techniques, and meaning. The student will be required to develop an ability to read, think, and write critically.	Deneen Senasi	TR 9:25 - 10:40
ENG 236.004 Black Film History This course will focus on the development of African America films from the early introduction of Blacks in the American film industry in the 19th century, to independent African American film companies in the early 20th century, to the blackploitation movies of the 1970's and early 1980 's, and to the contemporary period of Black filmmaking.	Chester Fontenot	T 3:05- 5:30
ENG 236.005 Civil War Memory. One hundred and fifty years ago, the United States fought a civil war that threatened to dissolve the union. A century and a half later, the war’s memory continues to inflame passions and inspire historical revision. This course will use history, literature, and film to examine how the war’s memory has evolved and changed and to understand why the war still matters. Texts include The Civil War by Louis Masur, Race and Reunion by David Blight, The Unvanquished by William Faulkner, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, Andersonville by William Marvel, Troubled Commemorations by Robert Cook, and Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz.	David Davis	MWF 9:00- 9:50
ENG 236.006 Austen & The Brontes. Jane Austen and the Bronte Sisters penned what are arguably the most influential novels about love and women’s lives ever written; four adaptations of Austen novels were released in 2007 alone, and the characters in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series have a lively discussion of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Nevertheless, Austen and the Bronte sisters are each very distinctive writers. In this course, we will read three of Jane Austen’s novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion. We will also read Charlotte Bronte’s Villette, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, and Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. We will conclude with a contemporary rewriting of Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones’s Diary. Students will write two papers and have a final exam.	Anya Silver	TR 1:40- 2:55
ENG 236.009 Voices for Social Justice. We usually think of Presidents and politicians as the figures making dramatic changes in society. But literary authors have often been at the vanguard of movements for social justice, inspiring citizens to action by calling the nation to conscience on issues such as slavery, public education, labor laws, civil rights, women’s rights, and gay rights. In this course we will read texts from American literature that have inspired public debate and changed the character of our nation. Texts include works such as Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children, Sinclair’s The Jungle, Howard Zinn’s We the People, and Loeb’s Soul of a Citizen. The course will include service within the Macon community.	Mary Alice Morgan	MW 3:00- 4:15
ENG 263.002 Survey of English Literature: Beginnings through the 18th Century A chronological survey of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the eighteenth century. Required for the English major.	Gary Richardson	MWF 11:00-11:50
ENG 301.002 Introduction to Literary Studies This course introduces students to literary criticism and the methodologies of literary scholarship. It is intended to prepare English majors for advanced work in upper-division courses. Required for the English major.	Gary Richardson	TR 9:25- 10:40
ENG 308.001 Intro to Poetry Writing Introduction to Poetry. The student will take a close look at the conventions and techniques of traditional and contemporary poetry as models for writing original poetry. Each student will be encouraged to use his or her own experience to discover and develop an individual and authentic voice as a poet.	Gordon Johnston	MW 3:00- 4:15
ENG 312.001 Fiction Workshop Students who have developed a facility in fiction writing will work together in a workshop setting. Exercises, assignments, readings, group critiques, and individual conferences will be used to support the students efforts to complete an agreed upon fiction manuscript.	Judson Mitcham	T 4:30- 7:30
ENG 321.001 Late Shakespeare A study of Shakespeare’s dramatic works between 1601 and 1613. Plays to be considered include major tragedies, such as Othello, so-called problem plays, such as Measure for Measure, and the romances, such as The Tempest. The course examines questions of language, convention, and performance, while working to develop students’ skills as thoughtful close readers of Shakespeare’s works. Issues of genre, gender, race and ethnicity, class, and identity are also considered, focusing on how such categories reflect and help to create early modern culture, and how the plays’ explorations of these aspects of human experience continue to be relevant in the twenty-first century.	Richard Fallis	TR 12:15- 1:30
ENG 325.001 Contemporary Theories in Linguistics. This course includes the study of phonetics, morphology, structural linguistics, and transformational grammar. It is intended to acquaint students with the recent scientific approach to the study of English grammar.	Susan Malone	R 5:30- 8:00
ENG 329.001 20th Century Literary Theory & Criticism. A study of literary theory and criticism in the twentieth century, focused on major groups and movements. Regularly included are such schools as Formalism, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Post-Structuralism.	Deneen Senasi	TR 1:40- 2:55
ENG 354.001 The American Novel The past hundred years have been called “the American Century,” because the United States has evolved from a provincial, isolationist nation into a global superpower. This course will use literature to discuss America’s rise and potential decline as a hegemon and major social upheavals that have changed life in America. Texts include 1919 by John Dos Passos, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Sophie’s Choice by William Styron, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman, Rabbit Redux by John Updike, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.	David Davis	MWF 1:00- 1:50
ENG 359.001 African American Literature II. A survey of classic writings in African American literature presented in their historical contexts. The course includes essays analyzing the political and social status of African Americans at various points during the period and representative works by major poets and fiction writers. Reading lists vary from year to year. but generally include such authors as Brown, Chesnutt, Harper, the Grimkes, Larsen, Bontemps, DuBois, Washington, Harlem Renaissance writers, Ellison, and writers of the early Civil Rights era.	Chester Fontenot	TR 1:40- 2:55
ENG 367.001 Contemporary Drama. A study of drama in English since 1965, exploring aspects of postmodern aesthetics and staging.	Andrew Silver	MWF 2:00- 2:50
ENG 380.001 Work/Poverty in the Middle Ages In light of the recent recession and related contemporary discussions of issues like unemployment and the distribution of wealth, this section of English 380 focuses on vocation, labor, and poverty in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. Reading satiric poetry (including the great Piers Plowman), autobiography, historical documents, and secondary literature, we will explore questions related to the necessity of physical labor, the growth of the mercantile economy, the nature of spiritual work, the theory and practice of “voluntary” poverty, and the means of assisting the involuntary poor. We will read some course texts in Middle English and others in translation.	Mary Raschko	MWF 12:00-12:50
ENG 382.001 The Gothic in Literature & Film This course will read and explore a popular and enduring literary and film genre: the Gothic. We will explore the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth century through its transformations in the Romantic and Victorian periods and on into contemporary examples. We will read a range of literary texts that illustrate different aspects of the Gothic, and also explore the representation of Gothic stories, themes and imagery in ﬁlm During this course we will continually attempt to define and understand the enduring fascination with the Gothic. When possible we will consider multiple film versions of the same text, and discuss such issues as the relationship of a text and a film adapted from it, how faithful or loose an adaptation may be, the nature of an adaptation as an interpretation, and essential differences between written and visual media.	Jonathan Glance	MWF 11:00-11:50
ENG 480S.002 Children's Literature This seminar will examine children’s and young adult literature from the nineteenth-century “golden age” to the present day. In addition to reading a wide variety of British and American texts, we will discuss various theoretical approaches to children’s literature, including structuralism, poststructuralism, feminism, cultural studies, and Christian theology. We will also discuss children’s literature and young adult literature as genres. What defines “children’s literature”? Do we approach children’s literature differently than adult literature? Is there a canon of children’s literature? The works that we’ll discuss include folk and fairy tales; Barrie, Peter Pan; Stevenson, Treasure Island; Burnett, The Secret Garden; MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin; White, Charlotte’s Web; Anderson, Feed; Anderson, Speak; and Meyer, Twilight.	Anya Silver	TR 10:50-12:05
ENG 485.001 English Senior Seminar	Bret Lott	MW 5:00-7:00