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2011-2012 Archived Catalog Information
- English Courses
| Course descriptions may be updated periodically to reflect changes since the last published catalog. | ||
| Course Number |
Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ENG-014 | Preparing for College Writing | This course focuses on composing academic prose for the college classr ... Read More » |
| ENG-101 | Freshman English I | This course studies persuasive and expository writing in the essay for ... Read More » |
| ENG-102 | Freshman English II | Further study of persuasive and expository writing through the study o ... Read More » |
| ENG-103 | Advanced Freshman English | This course is by invitation only and reserved for incoming Suffolk st ... Read More » |
| ENG-110 | Boston's Literary Scenes | Discover literary Boston by exploring the physical settings of its mos ... Read More » |
| ENG-113 | World Drama I | Survey of drama and theatre as part of world culture from classical Gr ... Read More » |
| ENG-114 | World Drama II | Survey of drama and theatre as part of world culture from the 19th cen ... Read More » |
| ENG-121 | History and Literature of the Bible | Survey of the Old and New Testaments as collections of texts that have ... Read More » |
| ENG-123 | Great Books of World Lit. I | Literary masterpieces from ancient times to the Renaissance, including ... Read More » |
| ENG-124 | Great Books of World Lit II | Literary masterpieces from the 17th century to the 20th, including Don ... Read More » |
| ENG-213 | English Literature I | Study of major writers of England from the beginning to the mid-18th c ... Read More » |
| ENG-214 | English Literature II | Study of major English writers from the mid-18th century to the presen ... Read More » |
| ENG-216 | World Literature in English | A study of literature written in English from cultures around the worl ... Read More » |
| ENG-217 | American Literature I | Study of major American writing from its origins through 1865. Regular ... Read More » |
| ENG-218 | American Literature II | Study of major American writing from 1865 through the present. Regular ... Read More » |
| ENG-301 | Gateway Seminar for Majors | This course seeks to answer the following questions. What is literatu ... Read More » |
| ENG-311 | Medieval Literature Survey | An introduction to medieval literature, this course will focus on shor ... Read More » |
| ENG-312 | English Grammar and Usage | This course provides a thorough review and analysis of the rules of st ... Read More » |
| ENG-315 | Classical Drama | Greek and Roman drama from its origins; characteristics of the theate ... Read More » |
| ENG-317 | Classical Mythology | Ancient Greek and Roman myths, their motifs, themes and interpretation ... Read More » |
| ENG-318 | The Epic | Study of the epic tradition from its classical roots to its rewritings ... Read More » |
| ENG-319 | Elizabethan Literature | Literature of the golden age of the Renaissance with a focus on love a ... Read More » |
| ENG-323 | Chaucer | Close reading and discussion of the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and C ... Read More » |
| ENG-324 | Shakespeare's Comedies | Shakespeare's background and development as a dramatist through an exa ... Read More » |
| ENG-325 | Shakespeare's Histories | Shakespeare's English and Roman history plays. Emphasis on Shakespeare ... Read More » |
| ENG-326 | Shakespeare's Tragedies | Shakespeare's major tragedies reflecting the range, resourcefulness, a ... Read More » |
| ENG-333 | English Renaissance Drama | The comedies and tragedies of major dramatists (excluding Shakespeare) ... Read More » |
| ENG-334 | 17th Century Literature | Representative selections of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, inc ... Read More » |
| ENG-335 | Milton | Poetry and prose of England's greatest Renaissance poet. The centerpie ... Read More » |
| ENG-336 | The Age of Enlightenment | The great age of satire, essay, criticism, biography, and nature. Dryd ... Read More » |
| ENG-337 | 18th Century English Novel | The beginnings of the realistic novel including the works of Defoe, Ri ... Read More » |
| ENG-343 | 19th Century English Novel | Development of the Romantic and Victorian novel. Readings in major wor ... Read More » |
| ENG-344 | English Romantic Literature | The mind and spirit, poetics and poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byro ... Read More » |
| ENG-346 | Dickens and George Eliot | Close examination of several novels by two of England's major Victoria ... Read More » |
| ENG-352 | Global American Literature | Study of antebellum American and African American literature in the co ... Read More » |
| ENG-353 | American Realism | In-depth exploration of American Realism from the post-Civil War era t ... Read More » |
| ENG-355 | American Prose 1870 - 1920 | The revolution in American literary consciousness between the Civil Wa ... Read More » |
| ENG-356 | Whitman and Dickinson | An investigation of the lives and works of two of nineteenth-century A ... Read More » |
| ENG-357 | African-American Lit I | African-American writing from the beginning through the present. Norm ... Read More » |
| ENG-359 | Selected African-American Writers | This course focuses upon the literary contributions of a selected numb ... Read More » |
| ENG-360 | Mid-20th Century American Fiction 1950-1975 | The course will cover major works of American fiction from the period ... Read More » |
| ENG-361 | Contemporary American Fiction | The course will cover major works of American fiction from the period ... Read More » |
| ENG-362 | Asian American Literature | An introduction to selected Asian-American writers with an emphasis on ... Read More » |
| ENG-363 | Modern British Poetry | Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney and Te ... Read More » |
| ENG-364 | Modern American Poetry | An in-depth examination of American poetry witten between 1900 and the ... Read More » |
| ENG-365 | Contemporary American Poetry | An in-depth examination of American poetry since 1950, to include writ ... Read More » |
| ENG-366 | Modern British Fiction | This course will explore the rise of literary modernism in Great Brita ... Read More » |
| ENG-367 | 20th Century American Fiction | A sampling of major American fiction from the Jazz Age, the Great Depr ... Read More » |
| ENG-368 | Modern British Drama | Important playwrights and their productions: Wilde, Shaw, Galsworthy, ... Read More » |
| ENG-370 | Fiction Writing Workshop I | An intensive workshop in which the student will be required to write o ... Read More » |
| ENG-371 | Creative Non-Fiction Workshop | For students interested in writing autobiography and/or other forms of ... Read More » |
| ENG-374 | Drama Seminar | Discussion and presentations on a pre-announced subject: a major playw ... Read More » |
| ENG-375 | Poetry Writing Workshop I | An intensive workshop course in which the student will be required to ... Read More » |
| ENG-376 | Contemporary British Fiction | This course explores the development of post-World War II British fict ... Read More » |
| ENG-377 | The World of Literature on Film | Examination of film as an art form in the expression of literature. Se ... Read More » |
| ENG-379 | Children's Literature | The history and artistry of those works intended for the child reader: ... Read More » |
| ENG-380 | Wharton and James | A study of the work of two of America's greatest Realist writers, cons ... Read More » |
| ENG-382 | Speculative Literature | The literature that raises philosophical concerns, often questioning t ... Read More » |
| ENG-386 | Classics of Mystery | Classic stories of suspense and detection, including short stories and ... Read More » |
| ENG-387 | Writing Women | This course studies 19th and 20th century women writers and questions ... Read More » |
| ENG-390 | Writing Process and Revision | This course studies the expressive and cognitive approaches to the wri ... Read More » |
| ENG-391 | Research and Writing | This course explores research and writing in the context of qualitativ ... Read More » |
| ENG-392 | Readings in Post-Colonial Literature | An Exploration of Post-colonial literature and how the empire writes b ... Read More » |
| ENG-393 | History of English Language | This course provides a basic understanding of the historical developme ... Read More » |
| ENG-394 | Critical Prose | This course studies both the literary and rhetorical modes of exposito ... Read More » |
| ENG-395 | Rhetoric and Memoir | This course examines the rhetoric of memoirs written primarily by inte ... Read More » |
| ENG-396 | Varieties of Workplace Writing | This course studies a variety of workplace writing including summaries ... Read More » |
| ENG-398 | Boston: a City in Fiction | Boston in novels from its beginning to the present: plan of the city, ... Read More » |
| ENG-399 | Irish Literature | Writers of the Irish Literary Revival, from the 1890s to the 1930s. R ... Read More » |
| ENG-402 | The Early James Joyce | An examination of the topics of women, love, and marriage in the short ... Read More » |
| ENG-404 | Central European Literature | The culture of Central Europe as reflected in literature, theatre and ... Read More » |
| ENG-405 | Russian Literature | An introduction to the major works of Russian literature with an empha ... Read More » |
| ENG-407 | Literary Theory | A seminar on current approaches to the interpretation of literature, i ... Read More » |
| ENG-409 | Literary Bloomsbury | This class will engage with the major novels and selected literary wri ... Read More » |
| ENG-410 | From Pagan Reason to Christian Revelation | A survey of major works of literature and thought crucial to the trans ... Read More » |
| ENG-411 | Ancient Greece and Ancient Israel | A survey of archaic thought from Greek myths of origin and Hebraic acc ... Read More » |
| ENG-422 | Special Topics in Group 2: Genre and Backgrounds | A course that fits Group 2 of the English major requirements with vary ... Read More » |
| ENG-425 | Special Topics in Group 5: the Shield of Achilles: War and Peace From Troy to Sarajevo | A course that fits Group 5 of the English major requirements with vary ... Read More » |
| ENG-470 | Fiction Workshop II | An intensive practical examination of plot, narrative, characterizatio ... Read More » |
| ENG-475 | Poetry Workshop II | An intensive workshop course in which the student will be required to ... Read More » |
| ENG-481 | Boston in History, Lit & Film | An interdisciplinary examination of the history of Boston. Special foc ... Read More » |
| ENG-485 | Stay the Hand: Philosophical and Literary Readings on Law and Violence | An interdisciplinary course examining the idea of law and its function ... Read More » |
| ENG-490 | Imperial Rome | This course offers an introduction to the Golden Age of Roman culture ... Read More » |
| ENG-510 | Independent Study | By special arrangement, a junior or senior may pursue an independent r ... Read More » |
| ENG-514 | Internship in English | Individualized guidance in a career-related activity. Upper-class Eng ... Read More » |