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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
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environment, nature, wilderness, conservation, and preservation. Prerequisite: EH 102 or
EH 208.
EH 329 Slavery and the Literary Imagination (1)
An exploration of American slavery through literary representations of the “peculiar
institution.” The first half of the course focuses on pre-1900 works, including slave
narratives, abolitionist fiction, and post-bellum recasting of the institution by southern
apologists. In the second half, students will read a variety of modern writers trying to
come to terms with the legacy of slavery and employing literary forms unimaginable to
their nineteenth-century counterparts. Prerequisite: any 200-level literature course.
(Category 1)
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.
(Category 1)
EH 350 Chaucer (1)
A reading of the
Canterbury Tales
and other selected major poems of Chaucer in Middle
English. Fulfills the pre-1900 requirement for the major. (Also listed as HON 350.)
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 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 365 The Elegiac Mode: Love and Loss in the Literary Imagination (1)
A survey of elegiac literature from classical times to the present. Informed by recent
developments in elegy studies, this course examines the elegiac mode as a genre evolving
historically and thematically which wrestles deeply with issues of love and loss, praise
and lamentation, mourning and consolation, life and death. Literature studied will
primarily include poetry, prose, and drama, but will also be attentive to elegiac hybridity