Phonetic and phonemic analysis of the sound systems of English and Spanish, including major dialectal varieties, vocalic, consonantal, and syllabic structures, stress and intonation patterns.

A detailed study of major works in these genres by Caribbean writers in English. Social and historical background will provide a frame for the discussion of the works.

A study of the major literary theories and schools of criticism.

Trends in early seventeenth century literature.

The language and poetic techniques. Focus on The Canterbury Tales , its cultural background and its continental influences. Study of the shorter poems.

An intensive study of earlier nineteenth-century American Literature with stress on Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Focus is on the major figures of the period: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman.

A study of similarities and differences between the principal syntactic and morphological structures of the two languages.

Study of sex, love, and marriage and related gender, legal, and cultural issues as portrayed in poetry, prose, drama and fiction from 1660 to 1820.

A specialized topics course reflecting trends and issues in the study of poetry. Topics vary per semester.

Phonological, grammatical, and lexical variations of Spoken English in North America and the Caribbean.

Detailed study of the language and rhetoric of literary texts spanning the major periods of the history of English.

A study of a series of works and themes in which source study and comparative analysis will be used in order to read the works in their largest possible contexts. Consideration of European backgrounds followed by close analysis of the main texts.