| 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. |
| Course: | HE101 |
| Title: | Practical Writing |
| 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: | Prereq: Placement by the department chair. |
| Course: | HE111 |
| Title: | Rhetoric And Intro To Literature I |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | The first of a two course sequence stressing the writing of rhetorically effective and grammatically correct expository prose. During the first semester students read essays, short stories and plays, and they write brief essays. During the second semester students read novels and poetry and write longer essays. [fall, spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: None. |
| Course: | HE112 |
| Title: | Rhetoric And Intro To Lit II |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Continuation of HE111. See HE111 for a listing of topics. [fall, spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE111. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Course: | HE371 |
| Title: | African American Studies |
| 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: | Prereq: HE112 |
| Course: | HE372 |
| Title: | Asian American Studies |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | This course will investigate Asian American cultural expressions, including responses to stereotypes, such as the model minority and the yellow peril, by studying works by major authors such as Sui Sin Far, Jhumpa Lahiri, Yone Noguchi, Hisaye Yamamoto, Carlos Bulosan, and Maxine Hong Kingston. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE112 |
| Course: | HE373 |
| Title: | Latinx Studies |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | The course concentrates on fiction and non-fiction works about the Latinx experience in the United States. Throughout the semester students will analyze how literature can work as a gateway to explore processes of identity formation through many of its facets, including: class, race, gender, sexuality, and language (among others). Possible authors to be discussed include: Piri Thomas, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Cristina Garcia, Junot Diaz and Cristina Henriquez, among many others. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE112 |
| Course: | HE374 |
| Title: | Gender And Sexuality Studies |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Advanced methods of analyzing literature and culture are taught through a set of focused readings of theories, histories, perspectives, and/or major figures in LGBTQ, women¿s and/or gender studies. Readings may include Audre Lorde, Sarah Ahmed, Gloria Anzaldua, and Kimberle Crenshaw. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE112 |
| Course: | HE375 |
| Title: | Native American Studies |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | This course explores the aesthetics, traditions, and concerns of Native American and First Nations peoples through multiple genres of literature from major authors such as Sherman Alexie, Paula Gunn Allen, Marie Clements, Vine Deloria Jr., Pauline Johnson, and Gerald Vizenor. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: HE112 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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; Coreq: HE521. |
| 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; Coreq: HE522. |