This course is intended to supply a foundation for further courses in English. It emphasizes close reading and intensive study of major works rather than broad historical coverage.
Content varies from section to section, but all sections have a common core.
All other 100-level ENGL courses. The study of 19th-century women writers in English. . Stouck A critical study of literature written for children or appropriated by adults for the nursery. The emphasis will be on distinguishing the characteristics and cultural significance of a variety of works from the mediaeval to the modern period. M. Straznicky A study of Shakespeare's plays in relation to the social, intellectual, and political climate of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods and with reference to theatrical production.