EH 501 Introduction to Critical Theory 3 cr
Required of all M.A. students in the Literature Concentration in their first year of work. Surveys current literary theory from structuralism to the present. The purpose is to introduce the conceptual lexicons and reading strategies of advanced literary analysis. Topics treated include structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, Marxism, feminism, and reception theory.

EH 502 Graduate Writing in English 3 cr
A course preparing students for research and academic writing at the graduate level in English studies. Required of all M.A. Students in their first year of work.

EH 505 Teaching College Writing 3 cr
A study of contemporary theories of writing and rhetoric, with an emphasis on their application in a college-level curriculum.

EH 506 Composition Theory and Research Methodology 3 cr

Part I of this course traces the development of theoretical movements in composition over the past century; part II outlines qualitative and quantitative methodologies used in composition research.

 

EH 507 Rhetoric and the Postmodern Condition 3 cr

This is a course in rhetorical theory especially as this study intersects with postmodern theories of identity: feminist, postcolonial, sociolinguistics, queer theory, gender studies, deconstruction, and comparative studies. It aims to offer students entrée into contemporary rhetorical study within departments of English.

 

EH 508 Professional Writing Theories and Applications 3 cr

Study of the theories, practices, and histories of professional writing.

EH 513 Studies in Chaucer 3 cr
A study of selections of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and dream visions.

EH 514 Renaissance Poetry 3 cr
Examination of non-dramatic Renaissance poetic development, including the sonnet.

EH 516 Studies in Shakespeare I 3 cr
A study in Shakespeare’s comedies and romances.

EH 517 Studies in Shakespeare II 3 cr
A study of Shakespeare’s histories and tragedies.

EH 521 Seventeenth-Century Poetry 3 cr
A historical and formal study of the poetry of the early seventeenth century, including the works of Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Vaughan, Herrick, Marvel, Wroth, Lanyer, and Phillips. The course will emphasize the close reading of poems.

EH 525 Restoration and Early 18th-Century Literature 3 cr
A study of literature in the period, including such authors as Dryden, Rochester, Behn, Congreve, Defoe, Pope, Swift, Gay.

EH 526 The 18th-Century Novel 3 cr
A study of prose fiction narratives from the Restoration and eighteenth century by such authors as Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Stern, and Burney, with emphasis on the establishment of the novel as a respected genre.

EH 527 The Age of Sensibility 3 cr
A study of several late eighteenth-century literary figures, such as Stern, Johnson, Boswell, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Blake.

EH 532 Early Romantics 3 cr
A study of early Romantic poetry and prose, with emphasis on the poetry of William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge.

EH 534 Late Romantics 3 cr
A study of late Romantic poetry and prose, with emphasis on the poetry of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats.

EH 536 Victoria and Edwardian Poetry 3 cr
A study of several major Victorian and Edwardian poets, (such as Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Pre-Raphaelites, Swinburne, Hopkins, and Hardy.)

EH 538 Victoria and Edwardian Prose 3 cr
A study of selected masters of Victorian and Edwardian prose fiction (such as Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Morris, Hardy, Kipling) and expository prose (such as Newman, Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, and Stevenson.)

EH 543 American Romanticism 3 cr
A study of writers of the American Romantic Movement, such as Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Whitman, and Dickinson, focusing primarily on nonfiction prose and poetry.

EH 544 Antebellum American Fiction 3 cr
Examines the emergence and development of American fiction before the Civil War, focusing on the tale and the novel, and including such figures as Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, and Stowe.

EH 545 American Realism 3 cr
A study of writers of the American Realistic Movement, such as Twain, James, Crane, Dreiser, Chopin, Cheitnutt and Jewett.

EH 547 The Southern Renaissance 3 cr
A study of several representative figures from twentieth-century Southern literature, such as Faulkner, Warren, Tate, Ransom, O’Connor, McCullers, Dickey, Hurston, Wright and Percy.

EH 562 The 20th-Century Poetic Revolution 3 cr
A study of the key figures in the shaping of modern poetry: Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Frost.

EH 570 Studies in Medieval Literature 3 cr
Theme-based study of Medieval texts; possible topics include late-medieval chivalry, medieval sexualities, Arthurian tradition.

EH 571 Modern British Fiction 3 cr
Examination of selected works of such authors as Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Woolf, Forster, Joyce, Greene, and Lessing.

EH 572 Modern American Fiction 3 cr
Examination of selected works of such authors as Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Dickey.

EH 573 Contemporary Fiction 3 cr
Provides an overview of significant works since 1950 by such authors as Flannery O’Connor, Comac McCarthy, Walker Percy, John Updike, Marge Piercy, Alice Walker, and Amy Tan.

EH 583 Graduate Fiction Writing Workshop I 3 cr
Special individual instruction in fiction writing. This course requires special permission.

EH 584 Graduate Fiction Writing Workshop II 3 cr
Special individual instruction in fiction writing. This course requires special permission.

EH 585 Graduate Poetry Writing Workshop I 3 cr
Special individual instruction in poetry writing. This course requires special permission.

EH 586 Graduate Poetry Writing Workshop II 3 cr
Special individual instruction in poetry writing. This course requires special permission.

EH 590 Special Topics 3 cr
A graduate seminar designed to allow close study of selected literary topic or figures. Can be repeated twice for credit when the subject offerings are from different literary areas.

EH 592 Seminar 3 cr
A specific subject in American or British Literature to be assigned prior to each semester. Can be repeated once for credit when the subject offerings are from different literary areas.

EH 594 Directed Studies 3 cr
Directed individual study on a topic not covered by a listed course. Prerequisite: prior permission of the directing professor and the department chair.

EH 599 Thesis 1-6 cr
One to six credits per semester with a maximum of six hours of credit.