Literature
Required: One course (3 credit hours) in literature (ISO 2, 3 [humanities])
Criteria for courses in this area:
- Courses must indicate clearly that students will study in depth both lyric and either narrative or drama (i.e., one literary genre organized by plot and another not organized by plot)
- Courses must indicate clearly that students will analyze in depth how different literary elements (e.g., plot, character, setting, point of view, symbolism, form, metaphor, imagery, rhythm, sound) function in literary texts
- Courses must indicate clearly that students will continue to master effective writing (through, for example, in-class essays, take-home essays, critical papers, research papers) and to master effective speaking (through, for example, class presentations, class discussions, group discussions)
Courses that fulfill this requirement:
- ENG 2003 Introduction to Literature
- ENG 2013 Themes in Literature
- ENG 2103 Classical Literature
- ENG 2113 World Literature I*
- ENG 2123 World Literature II*
- ENG 3033 British Literature I*
- ENG 3043 British Literature II*
- ENG 3053 American Literature I*
- ENG 3063 American Literature II*
- ENG 3213 American Romanticism
- ENG 4053 Shakespeare [so long as significant attention is paid to the sonnets]
- ENG 4173 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
