| Course: | HE044 |
| Title: | Practical Writing Laboratory |
| Credits: | 0—2—1 |
| Description: | This course provides intensive, focused instruction in writing grammatically correct and rhetorically effective prose. [fall, spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: Recommendation of ADAA; Coreq: HE344. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Pr |
| Course: | HE101 |
| Title: | Practical Writing for Naval Officers |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | The study and practice of grammatically correct and rhetorically effective expository prose, supplemented by the analysis of essays by professional writers. For students selected by English Department. [fall] |
| Requisites: |
| Course: | HE111 |
| Title: | Composition & Literature for Naval Officers |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | The first in a two-course sequence. Through the study of a diverse range of essays, short fiction, and drama, students will learn the fundamentals of literary and rhetorical analysis while developing an understanding of writing as a process-from brainstorming, to outlining, to drafting and revising. Assignments will focus on crafting analytical arguments and may include personal essays and public speaking/presentations. |
| Requisites: |
| Course: | HE112 |
| Title: | Rhetoric & Literature for Naval Officers |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | The second in a two-course sequence. With a focus on a diverse range of poetry and novels, students will learn how to use secondary sources and develop critical thinking and close reading skills. Engaging with multiple points of view, students will complete research projects using professional citation systems. Assignments will advance skills introduced in HE111 and may include longer essays and public speaking/presentations. |
| Requisites: | HE111 Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE122 |
| Title: | Accelerated Rhetoric & Lit for Naval Officers |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A one-semester course for well-prepared students, satisfying the plebe English requirement. Students in HE122 learn to create original arguments about a wide range of challenging literary works. They explore the dialogue between literature and scholarship, learning to assess and employ varied modes of analysis, while also engaging with complex discussions from a variety of perspectives. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111V |
| Course: | HE217 |
| Title: | Ancient And Medieval Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | 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. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE222 |
| Title: | The Bible And Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | The Bible and its influence on European and American literature. Emphasis will be placed on modern biblical literary-critical methodology and on the symbolic richness of derivative literature from Dante to Nikos Kazantzakis. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: None. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE224 |
| Title: | Literature And Science |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | 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. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: None. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE242 |
| Title: | Methods Of Literary Analysis |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | This course is designed to introduce new majors to tools of professional literary analysis through a set of focused readings. |
| Requisites: | PREREQ: (HE112, HE112W, OR HE122) AND HEG MAJOR OR DEPT CHAIR APPROVAL |
| Course: | HE250 |
| Title: | Literature Of The Sea |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Study of sea literature from the epic to the novel, with an emphasis on literary qualities, human relationships with the sea, and problems of command. [spring, summer] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: None. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE260 |
| Title: | Literature Of War |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A multi-genre survey of war and its consequences as represented in classic and contemporary literature with an emphasis on such issues as individual responsibility, leadership, societal values, and military culture. [fall, summer] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: None. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE301 |
| Title: | Patterns In Drama |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A study of drama, emphasizing reading, viewing, and analyzing dramatic literature and performance. [fall, spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE302 |
| Title: | Forms Of Poetry |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A study in the analysis of poetic form and expression. [fall, spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE306 |
| Title: | Types Of Fiction |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A study of the novel and short story with particular emphasis on the conventions, techniques, and innovations in the form. [fall, spring, summer] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE307 |
| Title: | Topics In Film And Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A study of American, European, and world film in conjunction with relevant literary works. [spring, summer] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE313 |
| Title: | Chaucer And The Medieval World |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | The literary and philosophical traditions of Chaucer, the Gawain poet, and other contemporaries, including early and late medieval writers from England and the continent. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE314 |
| Title: | The Renaissance Mind |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Literature and thought of the period bracketed by the two great English epics, Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost. The course includes a continental perspective, with readings from such authors as Machiavelli, Rabelais, Cervantes, Montaigne and Castiglione. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE315 |
| Title: | Restoration And Eighteenth-Century Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | 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. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE317 |
| Title: | The Romantic Period |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Literature and culture of the Romantic period in Britain from the 1780s to the 1830s. Readings may include works by such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, the Shelleys, Byron, and Keats. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE318 |
| Title: | Modern British Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | The literature of Great Britain and Ireland since 1900. Readings may include the novels of Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, and Lessing; the plays of Shaw, Synge, O'Casey, and Pinter; the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, and Dylan Thomas. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE319 |
| Title: | Victorian Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | British literature from the 1830s to the end of the nineteenth century. Readings may include works from such authors as Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Carlyle, and Darwin. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE320 |
| Title: | Contemporary British Lit. |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | 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. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE326 |
| Title: | American Lit, 1607-1860 |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | 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. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE328 |
| Title: | American Lit, 1860-1914 |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A survey of American literature from the Reconstruction through the Gilded Age, emphasizing the rise of realism and naturalism. Readings may include works from such authors as Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Howells, Crane, Dreiser, Chesnutt, Chopin, James, and Wharton. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE329 |
| Title: | American Lit, 1914-1945 |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | 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. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE330 |
| Title: | American Lit, 1945-Present |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A survey of American literature and culture since World War II. Readings may include works by such authors as Ellison, Ginsberg, Lowell, Bishop, Baraka, Heller, Pynchon, Bellow, Plath, Sexton, Rich, Roth, Updike, DeLillo, Mamet, McCarthy, and Morrison. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE331 |
| Title: | Studies In A Single Author |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A study of a representative sample of literary works by a major author. Readings may also include works by that author's contemporaries. [fall, spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE112 Prereq: HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE112 Coreq: |
| Course: | HE333 |
| Title: | Shakespeare |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A study of a representative sample of Shakespeare's tragedies, histories, and comedies. Readings may also include works by Shakespeare's contemporaries. [fall, spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE343 |
| Title: | Creative Writing |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | An introduction to the writing of prose, poetry, and drama. [fall, spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE344 |
| Title: | Professional Communication |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | 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. [fall, spring, summer] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE360 |
| Title: | Special Topics In Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | An open-topics literature course. Specialized offerings vary from semester to semester. [fall, spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111 and HE112. Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 Coreq: Prereq: HE111 AND HE112 |
| Course: | HE371 |
| Title: | African American Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | This course examines historical periods and aesthetic movements, such as orality and the protest tradition, and major figures in African American literature such as Frederick Douglass, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison. |
| Requisites: | HE112 Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE372A |
| Title: | Asian American Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | This course will introduce students to a survey of nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century literature written by Asian Americans. We will read short fiction, plays, novels, poetry, and graphic novels by Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Indian Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE112 Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE373A |
| Title: | Hispanic And Latin American Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | The course concentrates on fiction and nonfiction works about the Hispanic and Latin American experience. Students will analyze cultural expressions, aesthetic movements, and historical periods to understand Hispanic and Latin American culture, life, and history. Readings will include the important authors and thinkers of the field. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE112 Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE375A |
| Title: | Native American Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Native American Literature explores the stories of Native American people as told by authors and artists from across the genres of film, poetry, essays, novels, memoir, short stories, and plays. Each of the over 574 federally recognized Native Nations within the borders of the United States possesses a unique blend of history, culture, language, spiritual traditions, and stories. We explore these very different works of literary art through the critical lens of indigenous philosophies concerning orality, land, and interconnectedness. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE112 Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE376 |
| Title: | Postcolonial Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | This course examines postcolonial fiction and non-fiction. Students will read novels, poetry, and other texts from the Global South to consider central questions and debates in postcolonial literature and better understand the lasting legacies of empire. Readings will include the important authors and thinkers of the field. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE112 Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | HE442 |
| Title: | Literary Theory |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A survey of key problems, figures, and texts in the history of literary and cultural thought. Required of all honors English majors. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: one 300-level English course. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: C |
| Course: | HE461 |
| Title: | Studies In A Literary Period |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | In-depth study of a limited period in literary history. For example: the Augustan period, the beginnings of Romanticism, the fin de siecle, and the 1960s in American literature. [fall, spring] ] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: one 300-level English course and permission of the department chair. Pre |
| Course: | HE462 |
| Title: | Studies In A Literary Problem |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | In-depth study of a problem that cuts across traditional divisions of nationality, historical period, or genre. For example, myth and symbol in literature, literature and science, the concept of the hero. [fall, spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: one 300-level English course and permission of the department chair. Pre |
| Course: | HE463 |
| Title: | Studies In Literary Figures |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Extensive reading in the works, biography, and criticism of major figures in world literature. For example: Milton, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Dickens, Dostoevsky, O'Neill, Melville, Faulkner, Stevens, Morrison. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: one 300-level English course and permission of the department chair. Pre |
| Course: | HE467 |
| Title: | Studies In A Literary Genre |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Study in a special genre. For example, the epic, the autobiographical novel, science fiction, imagist poetry. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: one 300-level English course and permission of the department chair. Pre |
| Course: | HE503 |
| Title: | Seminar In Arts & Literature |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | An interdisciplinary honors seminar concerning a special topic in literature and the arts. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: 1/C Honors English majors or by permission of the department chair; Core |
| Course: | HE504 |
| Title: | Seminar In An Advanced Topic |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | A concentrated honors seminar exploring individual literary works or issues. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: 1/C Honors English majors or by permission of the department chair; Core |