Undergraduate English Emphasis Courses
ENG 301 American Literature to 1865
3 Credits
This course will examine American literature from early colonization through 1865, including texts from the colonial, revolutionary, and antebellum periods. The focus will be upon literary analysis and literary movements contextualized by American history and culture.
ENG 345 British Literature I
3 Credits
This course surveys British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the mid-18th century. Students examine the historical, political, philosophical, and religious influences on the development of British literature and consider how authors use the conventions of different genres to express the themes and concerns central to their age.
ENG 346 British Literature II
3 Credits
This course surveys British literature from the Romantic, Victorian, modern, and postmodern periods. Students analyze works of different genres within their historical, socio-political, economic, philosophical, and religious contexts and examine how writers respond to the themes and issues central to British society and identity over historical time.