1969-1970 Academic Catalog

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 91 306 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: English 103 Emphasis on careful analysis of selected works of major writers from Chaucer through 1900. Five credit hours 331 THE ENGLISH NOVEL (1969-70) Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature cour1e A reading and critical analysis of representative novels of the period from Richardson to Hardy. Three credit hour1 332 POETRY OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1970-71) 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 hour1 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. Three credit hours 334 THE RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1970-71) 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 335 SHAKESPEARE Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature course Representative comedies, history plays, tragedies and sonnets. Five credit hours 336 THE VICTORIAN PERIOD (1970-71) Prereqttisite: Any 200 level literature course A study of the major Victorian poets and novelists, with emphasis on Ten- nyson, Browning, and Arnold. Three credit hours