The course is designed to develop analytical and interpretive skills and deepen understanding of textual strategies, literary terminology, and genre distinctions. See Theatre310, 311. I 3 hours Historical survey of American literature from the pre-colonial period to 1865. I 3 hours Survey of English literature from its origins through the eighteenth century. Business and Technical Writing 3 hours Theory and practice of writing common business and professional forms such as reports, sales materials, abstracts, memos and formal correspondence.
Course includes study of job application and resume.
A survey of literary criticism from its classical origins into the twentieth century. Includes the work of such theorists as Aristotle, Sir Philip Sidney, Alexander Pope, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Henry James. The English Language 3 hours Study of various aspects of the English language with emphasis on grammar, and some attention to semantics, dialects, and the history of the English language. Focuses on the construction of American identity and the birth of a national literary tradition. A critical study of the literature written in the United States from about 1830 to about 1860, selected from the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, and others.