Popular Literature 5 CR Investigates the themes, conventions, and cultural assumptions of genre-based popular literature. Specific topics vary and are announced in the class schedule. 223 Children's Literature 5 CR Examines literature written for children. Students discuss its moral, psychological, and political implications and its place in the larger literary heritage. 5 CR Surveys the development of Shakespeare's dramatic and literary art.
Students read and analyze representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and histories.
CR Continues ENGL 231, examining additional comedies, tragedies, and histories. The Bible as Literature 5 CR Explores the oral and written literary traditions of the Old and New Testaments. Students focus on the cultural, historical, and literary aspects of scripture. Authors and works vary, but typically include Donne, Milton, Pope, Goldsmith, Jonson, Swift, and Johnson. Students also discuss early periodicals and novels.