1968-1969 Academic Catalog

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 87 201 ADVANCED WRITING Prerequisite: English 103 Practice in various forms of advanced composition and discussion of writ– ing techniques, aimed to help the student perfect his own style. Three credit hours 306 THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE History and phonology of the English language. Emphasis on the growth and development of the language. Three credit hours C. WORLD, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE 231 WORLD LITERATURE Prerequisite: English 103 Survey of great works of the Western world which reflect the developing continental literary and intellectual thought. Five credit hours 232 MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS Prerequisite: English 103 Careful analysis of selected works of major writers from the Colonial period to the present, with emphasis on the development of the American tradition. Five credit hours 233 MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS Prerequisite: 103 Emphasis on careful analysis Chaucer through 1900. of selected works of major writers from Five credit hours 331 THE ENGLISH NOVEL ( 1969-70) Prerequisite: Any 200 level literattJre course A reading and critical analysis of representative novels of the period from Richardson to Hardy. Three credit hours 332 POETRY OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( 1968-69) Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature course A study of the characteristics of Romanticism and the writings of the ma- jor poets of this period. Three credit hours 333 MILTON AND THE METAPHYSICAL POETS (1969-70) The major prose and poetry of John Milton, particularly Paradise Lost, and selected works of the major Metaphysical poets of the 17th century. Four credit hottrs 334 THE RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ( 1968-69) Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature course A study of the principal writers from Dryden to Blake with emphasis on Pope and Swift. Three credit hours 33 5 SHAKESPEARE Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature co11rse Representative comedies, history plays, tragedies and sonnets. Five credit hours