2017-2018 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

LIT-2130 Dramatic Literature –Sp 3 hours Survey of major dramatic works from Greek to modern day playwrights, emphasizing the relationships among themes and dramatic construction amid various cultural and historical contexts. Can be applied to meet English or Communication requirements, but not both. Prerequisite: major status or permission of instructor. LIT-2300 Introduction to Literature –Fa, Sp 3 hours Emphasis on developing the ability to read critically and analytically representative examples of literary genres through use of appropriate criteria. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-2330 World Mythology –Fa 3 hours Study of mythologies, the theories of myth and myth making, and the incorporation of myth in selected literary works. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-2340 Western Literature –Fa, Sp, Su 3 hours Survey of major works of Western literary tradition from Homer to T.S. Eliot. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-2390 3 hours Survey of American Literature to 1900 –Fa, Sp Study of prominent American authors from colonial times to 1900. Although this course may be taken for general education credit, it is primarily designed for majors. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition LIT-2430 Survey of British Literature to 1800 –Fa, Sp 3 hours Study of various English authors from the Anglo-Saxons to 1800. Although this course may be taken for general education credit, it is primarily designed for majors. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-2440 3 hours Survey of British Literature from 1800 to Present –Sp Study of noteworthy English authors from 1800 to the present. Although this course may be taken for general education credit, it is primarily designed for majors. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-3090 Literary Research and Recovery –Sp 3 hours This course will introduce students to current trends in literary scholarship that emphasize the (re)discovery, evaluation, and recovery of formerly marginalized writers and genres. The course could include, but is not limited to, an introduction to primary research related to 19th and early 20th-century periodicals, literary biographies, literary bibliographies, and original manuscripts or previously published texts maintained in the Cedarville University archives. Prerequisites: ENG-1400 Composition; LIT-2090 Literary Analysis; and LIT-2390 Survey of American Literature for Enlighs and Integrated Language Arts majors; for any major other than English and integrated language arts, permission of the instructor. LIT-3100 3 hours Contemporary Young Adult Literature –Sp A study of contemporary young adult literature, addressing issues of interpretation, analysis, and personal response with an emphasis on literature that reflects a diversity of gender, race, and ethnicity. Corequisite: major status or permission of instructor. LIT-3170 American Literature: 1820–1865 –Sp 3 hours Intensive study of American authors who are representative of the literary traditions of Romanticism and Transcendentalism and their influence on a period of history often called the American Renaissance. Authors may include Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, Douglass, Jacobs, Stowe, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and others. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Prerequisite: LIT-2390 Survey of American Literature to 1900. (even years) LIT-3180 American Literature: 1865–1914 –Sp 3 hours Intensive study of American authors who are representative of the literary traditions of Realism and Naturalism, with attention to their influence on developments in American history between the Civil War and World War I. Authors may include Twain, Howells, James, Wharton, Piatt, Jewett, Freeman, Chesnutt, Crane, London, Dreiser, Norris, Alcott, and others. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Prerequisite: LIT-2390 Survey of American Literature to 1900. (odd years) LIT-3230 Directed Readings –Fa, Sp 1–3 hours Selected readings designed to strengthen the major by providing primary and secondary material in preparation for an independent study of a major writer, literary genre, or literary period. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. LIT-3240 Directed Writings –Fa, Sp 1–3 hours Students will work in close consultation with a faculty member on the creation and production of a significant project in one of the following genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Prerequisite: any 3000-level creative writing workshop. LIT-3310 The English Novel –Fa 3 hours Reading and critical analysis of representative novels written in English. Authors include Fielding, Barnes, Rushdie, Gordimer, and Greene. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Prerequisite: LIT-2090 Literary Analysis and LIT-2430 Survey of British Literature to 1800 or LIT-2440 Survey of British Literature from 1800 to Present; or permission of instructor. ( even years) LIT-3320 Renaissance Literature –Sp 3 hours A study of Metaphysicals, Milton, and other selected Renaissance writers. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Prerequisite: LIT-2090 Literary Analysis; LIT-2430 Survey of British Literature to 1800; or permission of instructor. LIT-3330 18th Century British Literature –Fa 3 hours Study of British writers from the Restoration through the Age of Johnson. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Prerequisite: LIT-2090 Literary Analysis; LIT-2440 Survey of British Literature from 1800 to Present; or permission of instructor. LIT-3340 British Romantic and Victorian Literature –Sp 3 hours Study of British romantic and victorian literature and culture. Authors may include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Christina Rossetti, Bram Stoker, and others. Prerequisite: LIT-2090 Literary Analysis, LIT-2440 Survey of British Literature from 1800 to Present, or permission of instructor. (odd years) LIT-3350 Shakespeare –Fa 3 hours Representative comedies, history plays, tragedies, and sonnets. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Prerequisite: LIT-2090 Literary Analysis; LIT-2430 Survey of British Literature to 1800; or permission of instructor. LIT-3380 Contemporary British Literature –Fa 3 hours Study of representative and significant 20th century British writers, especially those reflective of modern ideologies. Upper- level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Prerequisite: LIT-2090 Literary Analysis; LIT-2440 Survey of British Literature from 1800 to Present; or permission of instructor. 2017–18 Undergraduate Academic Catalog Page 255 Course Descriptions LIT-2130 – LIT-3380 ENGLISH, LITERATURE, AND MODERN LANGUAGES