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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
- [Ahmed] Salman Rushdie
(Is Nothing Sacred?)

Undergraduate Courses

  • ENG 101 Composition 1: Rhetoric and College Writing
  • ENG 102 Composition 2: College Writing and Civic Engagement
  • ENG 150 ECCE: Topics in World Literature
  • ENG 235 Introduction to American Literature
  • ENG 236 Introduction to British Literature
  • ENG 237 Introduction to Literature
  • ENG 238 European Short Fiction
  • ENG 251 Introduction to Poetry
  • ENG 252 Introduction to Fiction
  • ENG 271 Introduction to Writing Poetry
  • ENG 301 Introduction to the Discipline
  • ENG 311 Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
  • ENG 315 The British Victorian Novel
  • ENG 335 Early American Literature
  • ENG 339 European Cinema
  • ENG 355 Literature and the Bible
  • ENG 359 Greek Mythology
  • ENG 360 Topics in Literature
  • ENG 375 Expository Writing
  • ENG 380 Introduction to Literary Genres
  • ENG 400 The Shakespeare Project
  • ENG 401 Chaucer
  • ENG 402 Milton
  • ENG 403 Arthurian Literature
  • ENG 409 17th-Century British Literature
  • ENG 410 Major Figures in British Literature: 1700 to 1900
  • ENG 411 The British Novel from Defoe to Austen
  • ENG 413 The British Romantics
  • ENG 414 Poetry and Prose of the Victorian Age
  • ENG 415 The British Novel from Dickens to Hardy
  • ENG 420 Major Figures in British Literature since 1900
  • ENG 421 Modern British Literature
  • ENG 422 Contemporary British Literature
  • ENG 430 Six Contemporary Poets
  • ENG 435 American Literature 1820-65/American Renaissance
  • ENG 436 The American Novel, 1865-1915
  • ENG 438 African-American Literature
  • ENG 439 The Symbolist Movement in Europe (1850-1915)
  • ENG 440 Major Figures in American Literature since 1900
  • ENG 441 Literature Between the Wars
  • ENG 442 Contemporary American Novel
  • ENG 445 Midwestern Literature
  • ENG 446 Literature and Culture of Early America
  • ENG 450 Literature of the Third World
  • ENG 451 Fedor Dostoevsky
  • ENG 452 Fedor Dostoevsky and the Church
  • ENG 460 Themes in Literature
  • ENG 461 Major Women Writers
  • ENG 462 Images of Women in Literature
  • ENG 463 Native American Women's Literature & Culture
  • ENG 464 Women's Spirituality
  • ENG 465 History of the English Language
  • ENG 466 Multicultural American Women's Literature
  • ENG 467 Women-Centered Literature
  • ENG 468 European Literature: Ancient Greek and Biblical Motives, 1880-Present
  • ENG 469 Shakespeare's England
  • ENG 470 Creative Writing
  • ENG 471 Creating Writing: Nonfiction
  • ENG 474 Professional and Technical Writing
  • ENG 475 Writing Essays and Reviews
  • ENG 477 Literary Heroines from Around the World
  • ENG 478 Teaching Writing  
  • ENG 480 Literary Genres
  • ENG 481 Fantasy
  • ENG 483 Women and the Mystery Novel
  • ENG 485 Classics in Children's Literature
  • ENG 486 Childhood's Past
  • ENG 489 Capstone to Literary Study
  • ENG 499 Undergraduate Tutorial

Graduate Courses

  • ENG 510 Seminar: Major Figures in British Literature, 1700-1900
  • ENG 520 Seminar: Major Figures in British Literature Since 1900
  • ENG 530 Seminar: Major Figures in British Literature
  • ENG 540 Seminar: Major Figures in American Literature
  • ENG 555 Literary Theory and Criticism
  • ENG 560 Seminar: Literary Period
  • ENG 570 Advanced Creative Writing
  • ENG 572 Graduate Colloquium: Research Methods
  • ENG 575 Writing the Long Essay and the Nonfiction Chapter
  • ENG 578 Rhetoric, Reality, and Epistemology
  • ENG 580 Seminar: Literary Genres
  • ENG 587 Comprehensive Examination
  • ENG 588 Comprehensive Examination Continuing Enrollment
  • ENG 589 Thesis/Creative Writing Project
  • ENG 590 Thesis/Project Continuing Enrollment
  • ENG 599 Graduate Tutorial

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