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ENGL 362 TECHNICAL WRITING FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE (FALL, SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENGL 361 or Recommendation by the Computer Science Department. This course covers topics for writing
technical documents in the field of computer science. Topics include using documentation, proofreading, editing, designing, and writing proposals,
short reports, and other business communication. This course requires extensive work with computers.

ENGL 370 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. Possible topics for consideration in this course may include, but are not limited to, the following:
literary interpretations of calypso and reggae music; Caribbean 'yard' literature; Caribbean autobiographical literature; Caribbean folk
literature; Negritude writers of the Caribbean; the literature of Caribbean women writers; and the literature of colonization.

ENGL 383 INTERNSHIP 3 CREDITS
This course provides students with work like experience in the professional realm of English language, literature, technical writing, and/or cultural
studies. The intern will meet with a designated tenured or tenure track instructor on a semimonthly basis to ensure that the field placement is
harnessing the skills of the students in a respectful and effective manner. This course allows students to get a better understanding of how their
degree in English can be employed in the world of business, media, non-profit organizations, government, law, health care, activism, and
communication. Students can arrange their own internship and fill out the necessary paperwork to receive credit before beginning the internship.

ENGL 401 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of the history of the novel written in English from the realist and picaresque traditions
of eighteenth-century novelists such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett; through nineteenth-century prose stylistics such as Austen, the
Brontes, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad, and on through the stream-of-cibsciousness works of Woolf and Joyce and the post-colonial
novels of Achebe, Ngugi Wa-Thiong’o Jean Rhys, and Salman Rushdie.

ENGL 402 THE BRITISH ROMANTIC PERIOD (Alternate SPRING Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an intensive study in British Romanticism, focusing on the literary, historical, and cultural
situation from ca. 1785-1830. Writers to be examined include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats; Hazlitt, De
Quincey, Lamb, and Leigh Hunt; and Wollstonecraft, Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Baillie, and Hemans.
ENGL 403 THE VICTORIAN PERIOD (Alternate FALL Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an intensive study of the writers and culture of Victorian England. Writers to be studied
may include Tennyson, the Brownings, the Brontës, Arnold, Wilde, and Conrad; and themes and topics may include aestheticism,
industrialization and urbanization, gender and the “Woman Question,” evolution, and imperialism and colonization
ENGL 404 ENGLISH PROSE AND POETRY OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This is a course in the literature of Great Britain from the late fifteenth century through the early
seventeenth century covering writers such as Skelton, More, Wyatt, Tyndale, Elizabeth I, Spenser, Raleigh, Sidney, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.
Topics may include the development of the sonnet, the Bible in English translation, exploration and travel writings, the pastoral, women in power,
and revenge tragedy.

ENGL 405 ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (Alternate SPRING Semesters) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course examines literary production in Great Britain from the early seventeenth century until the
Restoration. Readings in Donne, Jonson, and Milton will be augmented with works by other poets such as Herbert, Marvell, Wroth, Vaughan,
Crashaw, Herrick, and Philips, and prose writers such as Sir Francis Bacon and Hobbes. The literary production of the age will be considered in
relation to other cultural determinants such as religion, gender and identity, education, the emergence of the media, and politics.

ENGL 406 ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: ENGL 102. This course covers the “long eighteenth century,” from the Restoration until ca. 1785. Dryden, Aphra Behn,
Congreve, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Addison and Steele, Lady Montagu, Samuel Johnson, Olaudah Equiano, Thomson, Gray, and Collins will be studied
as representative authors. Topics will address cultural issues of the enlightenment, including the rise of periodicals, depictions of the culturally
“other,” diaries, science, realism and the rise of the novel, women writers, slavery, political liberty, and the ballad and other popular forms of
writing.
ENGL 407 SHAKESPEARE 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course offer’s a study of Shakespeare’s dramatic and/or poetic works. Attention will be given
to understanding the socio-historical realities of the culture from within which Shakespeare wrote. This course incorporates readings of
Shakespeare’s work based on various schools of literary theory.

ENGL 408 SHAKESPEARE AND FILM.NEW MEDIA (SPRING) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course offers a literary study of Shakespeare’s dramatic works and interpretations of said works on
film, TV, the internet, and other forms of new media with the help of film studies, new media studies, and digital literacy tools.
ENGL 409 CHAUCER (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of Chaucer’s main texts in relation to fourteenth century literature and society.
ENGL 416 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE (Periodically) 3 CREDITS
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an in-depth exploration of the developments in American poetry, prose, and drama from
1900 to the present. Focus is on old trends, such as realism, naturalism, and existentialism, and on current trends.
ENGL 417 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE (SPRING) 3 CREDITS

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