One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. English 3001 strongly recommended.

Study of the poetry of John Donne and the Metaphysical poets, Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets, John Milton, and selected prose of the period.

Prerequisites: One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. Excellent command of English is required. English 3001-3002 strongly recommended.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. Excellent command of English is required. English 3001-3002 strongly recommended.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency. Second year of English strongly recommended.

Theory, techniques, and intensive practice in the oral interpretation and performance of literary texts. Selection, analysis, and delivery of texts in individual and group readings. Theoretical materials on oral culture and performance are also discussed.

Theory and procedures of argumentation and debate. Practice in argumentative and persuasive discourse. Emphasis on the development of critical thinking.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. English 3001 strongly recommended.

Sixteenth-century poetry, prose, drama (excluding Shakespeare), selected to illustrate the cultural and intellectual impact of the Renaissance in England.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency . A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

The development of the British novel from its beginnings to Jane Austen. Readings from the major writers including Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne and Austen.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency . A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

The development of the British novel in the nineteenth century, with readings from the major writers including the Brontës, Dickens, Elliot, and Hardy.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency . A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

Study of the major trends and aspects of the Romantic movement in Britain and of individual writers. Emphasis on the major poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency . A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

The study of satire, its history, conventions, strategies and the genres in which it appears from the middle ages to the present.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency . A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

A study of the development of British drama from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, excluding Shakespeare.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency. A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency . A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

An examination of filmic representations of queer sexual practices and identities.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency.

A study of films based on Shakespeare’s plays, and the ways in which film has been used to popularize, reinterpret and transform the Shakespearean text. The course will consider the history of Shakespeare on film from the earliest silent movies, to the attempts in the early talkies to bring the bard to film audiences, to the renewal of Shakespeare through the efforts of such directors as Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh in more recent times and the transformation of Shakespearean texts through extensive reworking by directors like Kurosawa . The symbiotic relationship of Shakespeare and film.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English High level of fluency in English required.

A study of the origins of the legend of King Arthur in medieval Wales, England, Ireland and France, tracing the legend's development, transmission, and transformation up to the 20 th century in literary texts, films, animation and comics. Discussions explore the power of myth and legend, as well as analyze the processes of historical change, cultural exchange, adaptation, and appropriation. To best analyze the uses of the legend in different historical and cultural contexts, the approach is interdisciplinary, intercultural, and multi-media.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency . A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

A study of the close relationship between film and literature. Examination of literary texts followed by viewing of screen versions and discussion of technique, differences between mediums, changes in the filmic interpretation and effectiveness. Writers who are influenced by film or write screenplays will be included.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency.

A specialized topic course reflecting current trends and issues in the study of American literature and culture. Topics vary per semester.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency.

This course is an introduction of lectures and discussion related to the study of communication and sexualities. The course is designed to develop students’ abilities to think critically and analyze issues of sexualities and/in communication processes. More specifically, it examines how sexual identities are created, shaped, produced, reproduced, maintained, changed, contested, and challenged through social interaction and discursive practices.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency . A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

Study of Victorian Literature excluding the novel with emphasis on important aspects of the period.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency . A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

One of the following: English 3103-3104, or English 3011-3012, or level 5 on English Department Placement Test, or advanced placement in English. High level of fluency . A second year of English literature courses strongly recommended.

Study of the literature (excluding the novel) of the long eighteenth-century (1660-1800) with emphasis on major trends and the major writers including Dryden, Swift, Pope and Johnson.