300

ENG 301 British Literature I (Medieval through 18th Century)

Survey of representative authors and texts from the medieval period through the 18th Century, with special attention to British political and cultural history.
3

ENG 302 British Literature II (19th Century to Present)

Survey of representative authors and texts from the 19th Century through the present, with special attention to British political and cultural history.
3

ENG 303 American Literature I (Beginnings to 1900)

Survey of representative authors and texts from the colonial days through the 19th Century, with special attention to key historical, political, and cultural developments and their impact on literary production.
3

ENG 304 American Literature II (1900 to Present)

Survey of representative authors and texts from the 20th Century through the present day, with special attention to key historical, political, and cultural developments and their impact on literary production.

3

ENG 306 Writing Workshop: Poetry

Elements of poetry for poets who wish to receive guidance for their own work and who wish to read the work of both contemporary poets and fellow students; an opportunity for writing, reading, and discussing poetry and poetics.

3

ENG 309 Writing Workshop: Fiction

Principles and techniques necessary to the short story writer. Analysis of professional fiction as well as guidance for original work of beginning and intermediate writers. Limited to juniors and seniors.

3

ENG 311 Advanced Writing

The writing and editing of various kinds of essays in a workshop setting, plus an examination of the writing process itself and the reading of fine essays.

3

ENG 317 Composition Theory and Practice

Study of relevant research and theory from composition, rhetoric, linguistics, and psychology applicable to practice. Intended for nominated Writing Assistants in training; others may join with instructor consent.

3

Prerequisites

3.0 in writing courses, including ENG 107.

ENG 326 Shakespeare: Representative Plays

Introduction to Shakespeare's works including analysis and discussion of several of the comedies, histories, and tragedies with attention given to the cultural background and the interesting particulars of the Elizabethan theater.

3

ENG 329 Shakespeare in Ashland

Team taught with a professor from Philosophy or Theater to explore the literary, metaphysical, and/or performance aspects of Shakespeare’s plays. Involves the reading of four plays (three by the Bard and one non-Shakespearean), and attendance for four nights at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland seeing live performances. Taught 2nd summer term. Fee: $350

3

Cross Listed Courses

PHL 339, THTR 405

ENG 336 Studies in Drama

Survey of representative plays within the Anglo-American literary tradition, with possible inclusions ranging from medieval drama to works by contemporary playwrights, with special attention to the genre's major features and preoccupations
3

ENG 337 Modern/Contemporary Arabic Literature

A selection of novels, short story collections, and memoirs by Arab writers from the 20th-21st century, examined within their historical and cultural contexts. Topics include: religion, gender, war, Post-Colonialism, Pan-Arabism, forced migration, and Bedouin culture. Features authors from the Levant, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula.
3

ENG 338 European Literature in Translation

Study of classic authors and texts from France, Germany, Russia and Scandinavia including Lafayette, Laclos, Flaubert, Mann, Chekhov, Tolstoy and Ibsen among others, situating the texts within their specific cultural and historical contexts and highlighting gender and class as thematic concerns.

3

ENG 339 Studies in Fiction

Intensive analysis of the key techniques, practitioners, and representative themes of English-language novels and short stories. Readings may focus solely on short fiction or the novel, or a combination of both genres.

ENG 342 Studies in Poetry

Intensive practice in reading lyric poetry in English (plus a few snippets from English narrative epics) in the framework of the history of the genre, with attention paid to representative forms, subjects, themes, and kinds of poetry from the beginnings of modern English to the present.

3

ENG 343 Studies in Nonfiction

Intensive analysis of the methods, modes, and manipulations of nonfiction prose. Readings may draw from such nonfiction works as essays, memoirs, political documents, documentaries, and reportage to explore topics of truth and falsehood, representation and reality, medium and message.

3

ENG 345 Victorian Literature 1830-1900

Works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Dickens, Hardy, and Wilde examined in the context of the political, social, and literary history of the late nineteenth century.

3

ENG 351 Satire

Explorations in the themes, forms, and theories of satire, past and present, examining how great writers have turned malice and moral indignation into witty, funny, or biting fiction, poetry, and drama. Readings drawn from authors such as Orwell, Houellebecq, Heller, West, Voltaire, Swift, Atwood, Pope, Jonson, Horace, and Juvenal.

3

ENG 352 Film and Literature

Investigating a century of imaginative synergy between the medium of film and the medium of literature, this course explores connections, divisions, and adaptations between these two vehicles for narrative and ideas. Readings and viewings will exemplify how history, genre, and artistic form influence the translations of pictures and words.

3

ENG 353 Letters and Literature

Study of the letter (epistle, postcard, telegram, text message, etc.) as a literary form, with special attention paid to literary networks, experiments in self-expression, and the spread of ideas, from 18th Century Enlightenment Europe to the present day.
3

ENG 360 Literature and Social Change

Examination of literary works that turns upon historical and political events. Emphasis given to the characteristics of fiction as opposed to the requirements of history and to fiction as a means of interpreting political events.
3

ENG 361 Northwest Literature

Selections from the prose and poetry of past and present Northwest writers. Includes works of Berry, Doig, Kesey, LeGuin, Lopez, Roethke, and Stafford.
3

ENG 363 Environmental Literature

Study of British and American authors from the eighteenth century to today who have creatively considered and analyzed humans' relationship to and representation of the environment. Selected authors may include William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and Michael Pollan.

3

ENG 370 Studies in Women Writers

A survey of representative women writers and major texts from the American or British traditions with the introduction of key concepts of feminist theory and criticism.

3

ENG 371 City Life in American Literature

Most of the human population now lives in cities. Americans, in particular, saw their lives restructured around cities throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through the varying formats of prose, poetry, and drama, this course explores questions of politics, power, identity, growth, individualism, and cooperation, which evolving configurations of urban space force us to ask.
3

ENG 372 Multi-Ethnic American Literature

A comparative study of representative works by American writers of African, Asian, Latin American, American Indian, and Jewish descent, within a historically situated understanding of issues, such as cultural continuity, immigration, assimilation, civil rights, and citizenship, affecting the lives of ethnic Americans.

3

ENG 373 African-American Literature

Study of important works by African American writers, from the slave narratives of the nineteenth century to the prose, poetry, and drama of the twentieth century.
3

ENG 375 Studies in Irish Writers

This survey of Irish fiction, drama, and poetry from 1900 to today explores issues of identity, nationalism, gender, history, and faith through works by heavyweights Joyce and Yeats, but also by Lady Gregory, Sean O'Casey, Edna O'Brien, Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibin, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Marina Carr, among others.

3