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ENGL 260 CREATIVE WRITING II: NON-FICTION PROSE (Alternate FALL Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 256 or Permission of Instructor. This course emphasizes the development of skills in writing in the genre of
non-fiction prose, more recently referred to as creative non-fiction. It is conducted as a workshop to critique students’ original creative work,
with an emphasis on technique and form and close examination of published texts as models. Voice and style will be introduced.

ENGL 283 Studies in Popular Music (SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course examines how and why certain songs and artists have become popular in the United States
from the nineteenth century to today. Students will learn how genres such as blues, rock and roll, Latin, country, R&B, dance, and
rap/hip-hop influenced one another to create popular music and culture. These interactions will be examined from a cultural
studies perspective that analyzes lyrics, visual performances, and marketing strategies to understand how the race, class, gender,
and sexuality of musicians and music listeners have responded to cultural trends, historical events, technological advancements,
and sociopolitical movements to create music that is both timely and timeless.
ENGL 298 COOP ENGLISH
Students must meet applicable program eligibility requirements and must submit program application materials to the Program Coordinator
prior to receiving permission from the instructor to register for this course. Program requirements can be found on the Career Development
Center website.

ENGL 301 ENGLISH LITERATURE I (FALL) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: ENGL 102. Talking trees, a wise dwarf, vomiting dragons, a sorcerer, warring sprites, and a recipe for eating babies make up some of
the arresting content you could encounter in this course. This class offers students a survey of literature written in the British Isles as it evolved
from a Medieval society to an early modern one. Major works and writers in this class can include Beowulf, Geoffrey Chaucer,
William Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, John Donne, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Aemilia Lanyer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Olaudah
Equiano, and Samuel Johnson.

ENGL 302 ENGLISH LITERATURE II (SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: ENGL 102. This course is a survey of British and Commonwealth literature and literary history from the Romantic period to the
present. Major writers to be studied include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Yeats,
Woolf, Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Achebe.
ENGL 303 SPECIAL TOPICS IN BRITISH LITERATURE (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of British literature focusing upon special topics beyond the traditional categories of
period and genre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: medieval romance; the picaresque novel; gothic
literature; literature, obscenity, and the law; fairy tales and fantasy literature; utopian literature; post-colonial literature; and literature and the
other arts.
ENGL 316 AMERICAN LITERATURE I (FALL) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102. This course is a study of American writers and writings from colonial times to the mid-nineteenth century. Selected
works will be examined in historical context and in their relationship to the political, social, and intellectual milieu in which they were produced.

ENGL 317 AMERICAN LITERATURE II (SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102. This course is a study of American writers and writings, from the rise of Realism to the present. This course includes
considerations of the development of the American writer as reflected in American literature and the study of literary trends
within the specified period.
ENGL 318 AMERICAN FICTION SINCE 1945 (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an examination of the leading novelists and the major trends in American fiction since
World War II.
ENGL 319 SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of American literature focusing upon special topics beyond the traditional categories
of period and genre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: Native American literature; Asian American
literature; Chicano/a American Literature; travel literature; Cold War literature; American autobiography; literature of specific geographic
locations such as Washington, D.C., New York, or the Pacific Rim; and literature and the other arts.
ENGL 324 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE I TO 1926 (FALL) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102. This course traces the development of the African American literary tradition from the end of the eighteenth century to
the midst of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926. It will cover a variety of genres, including slave narratives, poetry, personal
correspondence, essays, short stories, autobiographies, and novels. It will examine many literary conventions and innovations, including tropes
such as the talking book and the tragic mulatto, and techniques such as written vernacular and jazz poetry.
ENGL 325 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE II, 1926 TO THE PRESENT (SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102. This course traces the development of the African American literary tradition from the Harlem Renaissance to
the present. It will examine the ways that modern and contemporary African American writers have explored political, social,
and aesthetic issues in a variety of genres: essays, poetry, fictionalized autobiography, novels, plays, etc. Among the many topics we will
consider are: the “New Negro,” migration from the rural south to the urban north and west, the emergence of the Black Arts Movement, and
the current “renaissance” in African American arts and letters.
ENGL 326 LITERATURE OF THE CARIBBEAN (Alternate FALL Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an introductory survey of Caribbean literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to
the present. It focuses on novels, short stories, poetry drama, and essays. Consideration is given to the developing Caribbean national
consciousness and an emerging post-colonial posture as reflected in the literature of the Caribbean

ENGL 327 AFRICAN LITERARY EXPRESSION (Alternate FALL Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a survey of selected poetry, short fiction, and novels of contemporary writers of West
Africa and East Africa. Consideration also will be given to the oral and narrative traditions in Africa and their contributions to modern African

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