COURSES OF STUDY
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EH 325 Natural, Wild, and Free: American Environmental Literature (1)
An investigation of American environmental literature and nature
writing. The course gives particular attention to literature and film that
examine the consequences of human activity on natural systems and
engage in conversations about human connections to the environment,
nature, wilderness, conservation, and preservation. Prerequisite: EH 102
or 208.
EH 330 Major Authors (1)
A focused study of the works of one to three authors. Recent offerings
have included Dante, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Morrison, Woolf, and
Yeats. With the permission of the English faculty, students may enroll
more than once for credit, providing that the focus of the course is
different. Prerequisite: any 200-level literature course. (Category 2)
EH 349 Literature and the Arts (1)
A survey of the relationships among the art forms of a particular
culture or historical period. Emphasis is placed on how literary works
influenced or were influenced by larger cultural movements manifested
in music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Fulfills the pre-1900
requirement for the major. Prerequisite: any 200-level literature course.
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Category 1)
EH 350 Chaucer (1)
A reading of the
Canterbury Tales
and other selected major poems of
Chaucer in Middle English. Also listed as HON 350, this course may
be counted by Honors Program students toward fulfillment of their
course requirements. Fulfills the pre-1900 requirement for the major.
Prerequisite: any 200-level literature course. (Category 3)
EH 351 Medieval British Literature (1
)
Studies in British prose, poetry, and drama of the Middle Ages. Fulfills
the pre-1900 requirement for the major. Prerequisite: any 200-level
literature course. (Category 3)
EH 355 Romance: Medieval to Gothic to Modern (1)
A survey and analysis of the development of the genre of romance from
its English origins in the Middle Ages to contemporary popular fiction.
Special attention is given to modern methods of analysis. Prerequisite:
any 200-level literature course. (Category 1)
EH 360 Shakespeare (1)
Studies in the major Shakespearean genres: tragedy, comedy, history.
Fulfills the pre-1900 requirement for the major. Prerequisite: any
200-
level literature course. (Category 2)
EH 361 Renaissance Poetry (1)
Non-dramatic poetry of the Tudor and Stuart periods, 1485-1660.
Fulfills the pre-1900 requirement for the major. Prerequisite: any
200-
level literature course. (Category 3)
