Electives - Fall 2012

HE217 Early Western Literature (3-0-3)
A balanced survey of the Western literary tradition and its backgrounds, from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages. Readings may include classical Greek and Roman epic, drama, and philosophy; selections from the Bible; and medieval poetry, drama, and philosophy

HE218 The Anglo-American Tradition in Literature (3-0-3)
A balanced survey of British and American literary history from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century. The course emphasizes the movements that have shaped our tradition: Renaissance humanism, empiricism and skepticism, Romanticism and transcendentalism, realism and naturalism, and modernism.

HE224 Literature and Science (3-0-3)
The interrelationships among science, technology, and literature. The course considers both the impact of science on literature and the implications of science as reflected in literary responses.

HE301 Patterns in Drama (3-0-3)
A study of drama, emphasizing reading, viewing, and analyzing dramatic literature and performance.

HE302 Forms of Poetry (3-0-3)
A study in the analysis of poetic form and expression.

HE306 Types of Fiction (3-0-3)
A study of the novel and short story with particular emphasis on the conventions, techniques, and innovations in the form.

HE313 Chaucer and His Age (3-0-3)
The literary and philosophical traditions of Chaucer, the Gawain poet, and other contemporaries, including early and late medieval writers from England and the continent.

HE315 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature(3-0-3) (Course Flyer)
The literature of the period 1660-1780. Readings may include the plays, novels, satires, and poetry of such writers as Behn, Dryden, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Pope, Steele, Sheridan, and Johnson.

HE319 Victorian Literature (3-0-3)
British literature from the 1830s to the end of the nineteenth century. Readings may include works from such authors as Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Carlyle, and Darwin.

HE320 Contemporary British Literature (3-0-3)
British Literature from 1945 to the present day. Reading may include the novels of Orwell, Greene, Murdoch, Naipaul, Barnes, Ishigura, and Zadie Smith; the plays of Beckett, Pinter, Orton, Stoppard, Churchill, and Friel; and the poetry of Larkin, Heaney, Hughes, Gunn, and Motion.

HE326 Early American Literature, 1607-1860 (3-0-3)
A survey of American literature including the Native American tradition from European settlement to the Civil War, emphasizing the relationship between the emerging culture and literature. Readings may include works from such authors as Bradford, Bradstreet, Franklin, Wheatley, Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Douglass.

HE329 Modern American Literature, 1914-1945 (3-0-3)
A survey of American literature between the wars. Readings may include works by such authors as Stein, Eliot, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, O'Neill, Steinbeck, West, and Wright.

HE333 Shakespeare (3-0-3)
A study of a representative sample of Shakespeare's tragedies, histories, and comedies. Readings may also include works by Shakespeare's contemporaries.

HE340 African-American Literature (3-0-3)
A survey of representative African-American literature from such major figures as Wheatley, Toomer, Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Baraka, Brooks, Hayden, Wilson, and Morrison.

HE343 Creative Writing (3-0-3)
An introduction to the writing of prose, poetry, and drama.

HE344 Professional Communication (3-0-3)
A study of advanced methods of presenting information in a wide variety of forms. Assignments may include preparing articles, reports, and military documents. Students may be asked to design and present a persuasive or analytical speech.

Special Topics Courses for Fall 2012 may be found here.