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Graduate Course Descriptions 69 ENGL 507/ Language, Mind, and Learning 3 cr. This course examines the brain's basis of language skills and the role of language in the process of learning. It also reviews models of language development. ENGL 508/ Old English 3 cr. The course explores the language and literature of the Anglo-Saxons (AD500 to AD1100). The first half of the term will be spent acquiring basic reading competence in Old English, the language in which Beowulf is written. The second half of the term will be devoted to reading and translating Old English literature while discussing the current state of literary criticism of Old English literature. ENGL 510/ The Structure of English 3 cr. This course explores current ideas regarding the nature of the English language and reviews the core grammatical features of English. ENGL 544/ Language and Culture 3 cr. This course provides analysis of all forms of language variation across speech communities within a culture as well as of the language-culture relationships across populations. This course is approved for bilingual certification. ENGL 550/ Seminar in Poetry 3 cr. Intensive study in the close reading of poetry. The course emphasizes the tools necessary for the explication of poems. Topics include prosody and form, metaphor and figurative language, and the history of major movements, styles, and genres. ENGL 552/ Seminar in Drama 3 cr. The study and analysis of representative plays and dramatists to develop understanding, appreciation, and mature assessment of dramatic theory and practice. ENGL 554/ Seminar in Prose Fiction 3 cr. The study and analysis of representative works and authors of prose narratives in the novel, novella, and short-story forms. ENGL 590/ Methods of Teaching Secondary English 3 cr. An introduction to the theory and practice of teaching English. ENGL 597/ Special Topics in English 1–6 cr. In-depth study of a specialized topic selected by faculty. Recent classes have focused on literary style and contemporary rhetorical theory. ENGL 610/ Chaucer 3 cr. This course examines the works of Geoffrey Chaucer within the context of the literary and social climate of late 14th-century Europe. Students will also become familiar with controversies and trends in the field of Chaucer studies. ENGL 611/ Medieval Literature 3 cr. An examination of important works of medieval European literature with a particular focus on one aspect of medieval literary culture (e.g., the changing role of the court writer from the 11th to the 14th centuries, northern European medieval literature, or the flowering of secular vernacular literature in the 14th century). ENGL 612/ Shakespeare 3 cr. Intensive study of several plays and a consideration of the historical and critical contexts. ENGL 614/ Milton and the 17th Century 3 cr. An examination of Milton's poetry in the context of the literature and culture of early modern Britain. Topics may include Milton's involvement in radical politics and controversies, mythology and the pastoral, gender and sexuality, and Milton's friendship with metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. ENGL 622/ Seminar in Early Modern Literature 3 cr. An examination of literature of the early modern period in its historical and cultural contexts. Topics may include gender politics, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, poetics, and exploration and colonization (e.g., Ireland, the Bermudas). ENGL 626/ Seminar in 18th-Century British Literature 3 cr. This course explores English literature from 1700 to 1815, including works by Swift, Defoe, Pope, Johnson, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Austen, and Blake. Topics of study include the rise and fall of Augustan poetics, Augustanism and the development of the novel, and 18th-century lyricism and the rise of Romanticism. ENGL 640/ Seminar in Romantic Literature 3 cr. An examination of writings by British and American authors whose works exemplify the chief tendencies of Romanticism, with attention given to the various sources of Romanticism and to the problems of definition and description. ENGL 642/ Seminar in Victorian Literature 3 cr. A close examination of some of the major works of the poets and prose writers of the Victorian period. ENGL 646/ 20th-Century British Literature 3 cr. A study of two or more major 20th-century British writers and the cultural forces that influenced them. ENGL 650/ Early American Literature 3 cr. Examination of American literature written between 1630 and 1830, with particular focus on historical and cultural contexts. Themes covered may include captivity narratives, autobiography, and sexuality and the body. ENGL 652/ American Realism and Naturalism 3 cr. Study of late-19th and early-20th-century novels by Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Charles Chesnutt, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Henry James, and others. The course focuses on the interaction between the era's literature and issues of class, gender, and race and ethnicity. ENGL 654/ 20th-Century American Literature 3 cr. Study of texts from Wharton to Oates and from Fitzgerald to Louise Erdrich, with focus on such issues as canon formation (its utility or in utility) and whether the nature of endings in fiction has changed since the beginning of the 20th century. ENGL 670/ Studies in Literature 3 cr. Focuses on a different topic each semester. Some representative topics include early modern canon formation, New Historicism and the English Renaissance, historicizing the English Restoration, Latina/o literature, and racial passing in modern literature. ENGL 687/ Faculty-Student Research 3 cr. Small-group research with a faculty member on a collaborative project, or a series of related projects, chosen to complement a faculty member's research or scholarly program. ENGL 697/ Independent Study in English 1–3 cr. In-depth exploration of a topic within a specific area of the discipline involving supervised reading, research, and regular conferences with the faculty adviser. ENGL 699/ Thesis/ Creative Project in English 6 cr. An original research or creative study completed over two semesters under the guidance of a thesis committee. Open only to students matriculated in the English program. Thesis may be substituted for parts one and two of the three-part MA comprehensive examination. ENGL 700/ Comprehensive Examination: English Every candidate for a graduate degree must take a comprehensive examination that requires the candidate to synthesize and apply knowledge acquired throughout the program. See page 17 for comprehensive examination requirements. WGST 500/Gender, Culture, and Society 3 cr. This course serves as an introduction to Gender Studies at the graduate level. It provides an overview of the major questions raised by the inter- disciplinary study of gender and sexuality and the challenges it presents to traditional divisions of knowledge. We will privilege dialogue and process while assessing trends in the often tense but overlapping areas 218503_001-086_r5ri.indd 69 9/14/15 10:17 AM

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