EH 301 Poetry: Critical Reading and Analysis 3 cr
Introduction to close reading and interpretation of poetry, including written explications and analysis. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 302 Drama: Critical Reading and Analysis 3 cr
Introduction to close reading and interpretation of drama, including written analysis. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 303 Fiction: Critical Reading and Analysis 3 cr
Introduction to close reading and interpretation of fiction, including written analysis. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 311 Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales 3 cr
Introduction to the poetry of Chaucer with instruction in the background and the language of Chaucer’s England and with readings of selected Tales such as those of the Knight, the Miller, the Wife of Bath. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 321 Renaissance Literature 3 cr
Non-dramatic literature of the English Renaissance through 1600. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 322 Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances 3 cr
Study of Shakespeare’s comedies and romances. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 323 Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Histories 3 cr
Study of Shakespeare’s tragedies and histories. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 324 Seventeenth-Century Literature 3 cr
Non-dramatic literature 1600-1660. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 331 American Novel to 1900 3 cr
American novel from beginning to 1900. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 332 American Nonfiction Prose 3 cr
Major American nonfiction prose. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 334 American Poetry to 1900 (W) 3 cr
Major American poets from beginning to 1900. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 340 Restoration and Early 18th-Century Literature 3 cr
Literature of the period, including such authors as Behn, Dryden, Finch, Defoe, Pope, Montagu, Swift, and Fielding. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 342 Later 18th-Century Literature (W) 3 cr
Literature of the period, including such authors as Gray, Boswell, Johnson, Sheridan, Radcliffe, Wollstonecraft, Blake, and Austen. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 343 18th-Century British Novel 3 cr
Eighteenth-century British novel. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 348 19th-Century Continental Philosophy and Literary Theory 3 cr
An examination of selected themes and issues in 19th-century Continental philosophy and literary theory. Topics may include Idealism, Romanticism, Existentialism, Marxism, Freudianism. Identical with PHL 348 & LG 348. Credit cannot be received for both EH 348 and either PHL 348 or LG 348. (For LG credit, students will be required to complete some course work in their language of concentration.) Prerequisites: EH 101 and EH 102.

EH 349 20th-Century Continental Philosophy and Literary Theory 3 cr
An examination of selected themes and issues in 20th-century Continental philosophy and literary theory. Topics may include Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Structuralism, and Post-Structuralism. Identical with PHL 348 & LG 348. Credit cannot be received for both EH 348 and either PHL 348 or LG 348. (For LG credit, students will be required to complete some course work in their language of concentration.) Prerequisites: EH 101 and EH 102.

EH 351 British Romanticism 3 cr
The poetry and prose of Romantic-era writers, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 352 Victorian Poetry 3 cr
The poetry and critical ideas of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and the Pre-Raphaelites, with some attention to lesser writers. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 353 Victorian Prose 3 cr
Prose, exclusive of the novel, with emphasis on Carlyle, Newman, Mill, Ruskin, and Arnold. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 354 19th-Century British Novel 3 cr
Novels of the Romantic and Victorian periods. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 360 Anglo-American Poetry Since 1900 3 cr
A study of Anglo-American poets such as D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves, W. H. Auden, Dyan Thomas, Derek Walcott, Paul Muldoon, Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney, Galway Kunnell, Adrienne Rich, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Margaret Walker, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gary Snyder, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 361 American Novel Since 1900 3 cr
Twentieth-century American novel. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 367 British Novel Since 1900 3 cr
Twentieth-century British novel. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 369 The Modern Short Story 3 cr
Representative modern short story writers of American, Britain, and continental Europe. Oral and written analyses and critiques required. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 370 History of the English Language 3 cr
A study of the development from Old English through Middle English to Modern English. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 371 Approaches to English Grammar (W) 3 cr
A course designed primarily to help education majors translate between the languages of conventional grammar and the syntactical grammar relevant to the teaching of English at pre-college levels. Consideration will also be given to the rationales basic to the formation of different grammars and to methods of presenting grammatical material in a classroom situation. Non-education majors interested in a sophisticated approach to the study of grammar might also benefit from this course. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 372 Technical Writing (W) 3 cr
The purpose of this course is to train students in the kinds of written reports required of practicing professionals, aiming to improve mastery of the whole process of report writing from conceptual stage through editing stage. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 373 Writing in the Professions (W) 3 cr
Practice in the kinds of writing done in such professions as speech pathology and audiology, nursing, teaching, criminal justice, and business. Assignments, which emphasize persuasive writing, may include position papers, correspondence, and reports. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 374 The English Bible - Old Testament 3 cr
King James Version of the Bible studied with respect to literary forms, philosophical concepts, and problems of translation. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 375 The English Bible - Apocrypha and New Testament 3 cr
King James Version of the Bible studied with respect to literary forms, philosophical concepts, and problems of translation. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 380 Science Fiction 3 cr
A study of the history and themes of science fiction literature and film from the end of the 19th century to the present. Prequisites: EH 101 and EH 102.

EH 390* Special Topics 3 cr
A variable-content course addressing selected topics in literature and writing. May be repeated for credit when course content varies.

EH 391, 392 Fiction Writing I, II 3 cr
Intensive practice in the writing of the short story. Constructive, critical discussions are conducted on each composition. Emphasis is upon creation of high-quality fiction with possible view to publication. These courses require special permission. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.

EH 395, 396 Poetry Writing I, II 3 cr
The English language as it may be used in embodying poetic knowledge. Readings in contemporary poetry, study of fixed and open verse forms and their metrics, and practice in producing poems and explications. Prerequisites: EH 101 and 102.