| 103. English for
Foreign Students
Either semester. Three credits. Course may be repeated for credit. Graduate
students may elect this course. English and Linguistics Staffs
Instruction in English for non-native speakers of the language. |
| 104. Basic Writing
Either semester. Three credits. English and Linguistics Staffs
Development of essential skills in writing sentences. Based on test
scores, students may be required to pass ENGL 104 before taking ENGL 105.
This course may not be used to fulfill the Group III Distribution requirement
and may not be taken for credit if the student has passed ENGL 105. |
| 105. English Composition
Either semester. Three credits.
Instruction in composition through critical reading and frequent short
essays. |
| 109. Literature and
Composition
Either semester. Three credits. Required preparation: ENGL 105. Not
open for credit to students who have passed ENGL 250.
Continued training in writing expository prose through the study of
selections from prose, poetry, and drama. |
| 112.
Classical and Medieval Western Literature
First semester. Three credits. Required preparation: ENGL 105. Not open
for credit to students who have passed ENGL 114 at the regional campuses.
This and ENGL 113 offer a study of European literature from ancient
times to the present. ENGL 112 considers ancient and medieval literature
through Dante. |
| 112W.
Classical and Medieval Western Literature
English 112W, 113W, 127W, AND 230W are offered
at regional campuses only.
(Formerly offered as English 114 at the regional campuses.) Required
preparation: ENGL 105 and 109; the latter may be taken concurrently. |
| 113.
Renaissance and Modern Western Literature
Second semester. Three credits. Required preparation: ENGL 105. Not
open for credit to students who have passed ENGL 115 at the regional campuses.
Literature in the European tradition from the Renaissance through the
modern periods. |
| 113W.
Renaissance and Modern Western Literature
English 112W, 113W, 127W, AND 230W are offered
at regional campuses only.
(Formerly offered as English 115 at the regional campuses.) Required
preparation: ENGL 105 and 109; the latter may be taken concurrently. |
| 120.
Major Works of Eastern Literature
Either semester. Three credits. Required preparation: ENGL 105.
Important works of poetry, drama, and literary prose from the Middle
East, South Asia, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. All works are read
in translation. |
| 127. Major
Works of English and American Literature
Either semester. Three credits. Required preparation: ENGL 105. Not
open for credit to students who have passed ENGL 128 at the regional campuses.
Includes important works from the major genres and historical periods
since Beowulf. |
| 127W. Major
Works of English and American Literature
English 112W, 113W, 127W, AND 230W are offered
at regional campuses only.
(Formerly offered as English 128 at the regional campuses.) Required
preparation: ENGL 105 and 109; the latter may be taken concurrently. |
| 146. Creative Writing I
Either semester. Three credits. Required preparation: ENGL 105.
First course in creative expression in fiction, poetry, and other forms. |
| 193. Foreign Study
Either or both semesters. Credits and hours by arrangement. May be repeated
for credit. Consent of Department Head or advisor may be required prior
to the student's departure.
Special topics taken in a foreign study program. |
| 200. Children's Literature
Either semester. Three credits.
The best literature available to children, including works by major
writers and forms such as fable, folk tale, fairy tale, nursery rhyme,
and short story. |
| 201. Literature
for High School Students
Either semester. Three credits. Designed primarily for English education
majors. May not be used to meet the English major requirement.
An introduction to the guidance of high school reading in literature. |
| 204. Milton
Either semester. Three credits.
The lyric, epic and dramatic poetry of Milton, with some consideration
of his prose writing. |
| 205. British Literature
I
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. Required preparation:
English 105 and 109.
British literature, medieval through 18th century. Intended to provide
preparaton for more advanced courses in British literature. This course
is strongly recommended for English majors. |
| 206. British Literature
II
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. Required preparation:
English 105 and 109.
British literature, 19th to 20th centuries. Intended to provide preparation
for more advanced courses in British literature. This course is strongly
recommended for English majors. |
| 209W. Advanced
Composition for Prospective Teachers
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. Designed primarily
for English education majors. May not be used to meet the English major
requirement.
Advanced training in composition, with consideration of the problem
of teaching writing. |
| 210. Poetry
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
A study of the techniques and conventions of the chief forms and traditions
of poetry in English. |
| 211. Modern Poetry in
English
Either semester. Three credits.
Poetry of the 20th century, from the major modernist innovators to significant
contemporaries. |
| 212. The Modern Novel
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
Major twentieth-century novels. |
| 216. The Short Story
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
The short story as a literary form with study of significant Continental,
British, and American writers. |
| 217. Studies
in Literature and Culture
Either semester. Three credits. May be repeated for credit with a change
in topic. Open to sophomores.
An examination of social and culture aspects of printed literature and
of its relationship to other media. Contents will vary by section. |
| 218.
Literature and Culture of the Third World
Either semester. Three credits. May be repeated for credit with a change
in topic. Open to sophomores.
The literature of regions outside North America and Europe. Contents
of the course will vary according to regional focus. |
| 219. Drama
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
An introduction to the chief forms and traditions of dramatic literature
through the study of a broad range of major works. |
| 220. Medieval English
Literature
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
Readings in the literature of the English Middle Ages - lyrics, narratives,
dramas, and didactic forms. |
| 220W. Medieval English
Literature |
| 221. Renaissance
English Literature
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
Writers studied include More, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and
Milton. |
| 221W. Renaissance
English Literature |
| 222. Restoration
and 18th-Century English Literature
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
Includes such writers as Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Burney, and Austen. |
| 222W. Restoration
and 18th-Century English Literature |
| 223.
Romantic and Victorian English Literature
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
Includes such writers as Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson,
Browning, the Brontes, G. Eliot, and Arnold. |
| 223W.
Romantic and Victorian English Literature |
| 226. Modern English
Literature
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
Modern literature from the British Isles, including such writers as
Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Lessing, and Shaw. |
| 226W. Modern English
Literature |
| 227. World Literature
in English
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. Not open for credit
to students who have passed ENGL 279.
English language literature from Africa, India, Canada, Australia, the
Caribbean, and other areas outside of the United States and the British
Isles. Writers may include Soyinka, Gordimer, Walcott,
Achebe, Markandaya, Atwood, White, Emecheta, Rushdie, Naipaul, Kincaid,
and others. |
| 227W. World Literature
in English |
| 230. Shakespeare I
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. Not open for credit
to students who have passed ENGL 229 at the regional campuses.
Romantic comedies and principal tragedies. |
| 230W. Shakespeare I
English 112W, 113W, 127W, AND 230W are offered
at regional campuses only.
(Formerly offered as English 229 at the regional campuses.) Open to
sophomores. |
| 231. Shakespeare II
Second semester. Three credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 230.
The early plays, problem plays, and late plays. |
| 232. Chaucer
Either semester. Three credits.
The Canterbury Tales and other selected works, and such attention
to the Middle English language as is necessary to an understanding of the
text. |
| 233. Early
and Modern Irish Literature
Either semester. Three credits.
Irish literature in English to 1939: fiction, drama, and verse, including
such early Irish myth as the Tain bo Cualnge and such writers as
Mangan, Somerville & Ross, Yeats, Gregory, Synge, Joyce, and O'Connor. |
| 234. Contemporary
Irish Literature
Either semester. Three credits.
Irish literature in English since 1939: fiction, drama, and verse by
such writers as Beckett, Bowen, O'Brien, Friel, Murdoch, O'Faolain, McGahern,
McGinley, Heaney, Muldoon, and Doyle. |
| 236. Modern Drama
Either semester. Three credits.
Modern British, American, and Continental drama, with the reading and
discussion of some 25 representative plays. |
| 242. The English Language
First semester. Three credits.
A descriptive study of modern American English: constituent sound (phonology),
structure of words (morphology), and syntax, with some attention to lexicography
and usage. |
| 244. The
History of the English Language
Either semester. Three credits.
Readings in Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern with a survey
of the main developments in the language since Anglo-Saxon times. |
| 246. Creative Writing II
Either semester. Three credits. Open only with consent of instructor.
May be repeated for credit with a change in topic.
For student writers of proved ability who wish training in techniques
of fiction or verse. Emphasis on poetry. |
| 247. Writing Workshop
Either semester. Three credits. Open only with consent of instructor
or Department Head. May be repeated for credit with a change in topic.
For student writers of proved ability who wish training in techniques
of fiction or verse. Emphasis on prose fiction. |
| 248W. Writing Tutorial
Either semester. Three credits. Hours by arrangement. This course may
be taken only in conjunction with specially designated sections of English
courses numbered 200 or above and may be repeated once for credit in conjunction
with a different course.
Intensive supervised practice in writing about literature. |
| 249S. Advanced Expository
Writing
Either semester. Three credits. Three class periods.
Writing on topics related, usually, to students' individual interests
and needs. |
| 249W. Advanced Expository
Writing |
| Honors Course Sequence
The Honors course sequence, English 250 through English 258, is recommended
for students in the Honors Program but is also open to other qualified
students. Most courses are weekly seminars on major writers and topics
relating to intellectual and cultural backgrounds of English and American
literature. |
| 250. Honors
I: Approaches to Literature
First semester. Three credits. Hours by arrangement. Open only with
consent of instructor. May be used to satisfy the ENGL 105 and 109 requirements.
Not open for credit to students who have passed ENGL 109. May not be used
to meet the English major requirements.
Study of a variety of approaches to literature and of their critical
assumptions. |
| 251W. Honors
II: American Literature
Second semester. Three credits. Hours by arrangement. Open only with
consent of instructor.
Early writers and Romantics through Twain and James. |
| 252W. Honors
III: American Literature
First semester. Three credits. Hours by arrangement. Open only with
consent of instructor.
Realism, naturalism, modern American authors. |
| 253W. Honors IV:
English Literature
First semester, alternate years. Three credits. Open only with consent
of instructor. Hours by arrangement.
Medieval through Jacobean literature. |
| 254W. Honors V:
English Literature
First semester, alternate years. Three credits. Hours by arrangement.
Open only with consent of instructor.
Seventeenth and eighteenth century to Romantics. |
| 255W. Honors VI:
English Literature
Second semester, alternate years. Three credits. Hours by arrangement.
Open only with consent of instructor.
Nineteenth century literature. |
| 256W. Honors
VII: English Literature
Second semester, alternate years. Three credits. Hours by arrangement.
Open only with consent of instructor.
Twentieth century literature. |
| 258. Honors VIII:
Honors Thesis
Either semester. Credits and hours by arrangement. Open only with consent
of instructor. All Honors students writing an Honors Thesis must register
for this course in their last semester after consultation with the director
of their thesis and the English department advisor to Honors Students,
who is the instructor of record. |
| 264. Studies in
Individual Writers
Either semester. Three credits.
Concentrated study in one or two authors writing in English. May be
repeated for credit with a change in topic. |
| 266. Studies in Criticism
Either semester. Three credits.
Studies in the history and theories of literary criticism. |
| 267. Studies in Literature
Either semester. Three credits. May be repeated for credit with a change
in topic.
Advanced exploration of various limited topics, such as a particular
literary theme, form, or movement, to be announced from semester to semester. |
| 268W. Seminars in Literature
Either semester. Three credits. May be repeated for credit with a change
in topic.
Intensive study of various limited topics, such as a particular literary
theme, form, or movement, to be announced from semester to semester. Small
classes with an emphasis on writing. |
| 270. American Literature
to 1880
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
American literature from the beginnings: Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne,
Melville, Whitman, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson, Twain, and others. |
| 270W. American Literature
to 1880 |
| 271. American
Literature Since 1880
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores.
Modern and contemporary American literature: James, Wharton, Dreiser,
Cather, Frost, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Morrison, and others. |
| 271W. American
Literature Since 1880 |
| 272. Native American
Literature
Either semester. Three credits. Open to sophomores. Tilton, Makowski
Examination of the literatures of pre-contact, post-contact, and contemporary
indigenous American cultures. |
| 274. Asian American
Literature
(Also offered as AASI 274.) Either semester. Three credits. Open to
sophomores. Chow
Literature, theatre, film about Asian American communities and culture
in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. |
| 276W. Black American
Writers I
First semester. Three credits.
Critical and historical examination of the literature of black American
writers from Phyllis Wheatley to the present. |
| 277W. Black American
Writers II
Second semester. Three credits.
Extensive readings in the works of four or five contemporary black American
writers. |
| 278W.
Ethnic Literatures of the United States
Either semester. Three credits.
The literatures of ethnic American authors. Writers may include Natachee
Scott Momaday, Maxine Hong Kingston, Zora Neale Hurston, Rolando Hinojosa,
Bernard Malumud, Nicholasa Mohr, John Fante, among others. |
| 285. Women in
Literature Before 1900
First semester. Three credits.
Analysis of the representation of women in a variety of works from different
countries. |
| 286. Women
in Twentieth-Century Literature
First semester. Three credits.
Analysis of the representation of women in a variety of works from different
countries. |
| 291. Literature
and Other Disciplines
Either semester. Three credits. May be repeated for credit with a change
in topic.
The relationship of literature to other fields of study. Course content
will vary by section. |
| 292. Studies in Britain
Second semester. Three credits. Hours by arrangement. Open only with
consent of instructor.
Studies in the British Isles during the intersession, supplemented by
weekly seminars in Storrs. Direct experience with aspects of English literature
in its social and artistic milieu. |
| 293. Foreign Study
Either or both semesters. Credits and hours by arrangement. May be repeated
for credit. Consent of department head required, normally to be granted
prior to the student's departure. May count toward the major with consent
of the advisor.
Special topics taken in a foreign study program. |
| 294C. Publishing
Either semester. Three credits. Required preparation: ENGL 105.
An introduction to publishing and to writing for publication in this,
the Information Age. Topics include desktop publishing, web-page design,
and the presentation of materials on the Internet. No previous experience
with computers is required. |
| 295. Variable Topics
Either semester. Three credits. With a change in topics, may be repeated
for credit. Prerequisites, required preparation, and recommended preparation
vary. |
| 296. Writing Practicum
Either semester. Credits and hours by arrangement. May be repeated for
credit with a change in topic.
A concentrated introduction to (or review of) a particular aspect of
composition. Courses will focus on such topics as writing and publishing
on the Internet, legal writing, grammar review, grammar by computer, business
writing, and web-page design. |
| 297. Writing Internship
Students taking this course will be assigned a
grade of S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory).
Either semester. Credit and hours by arrangement, not to exceed six
credits per semester. With a change of placement, may be repeated once
for credit. Open only with consent of instructor. No more than three credits
may be counted towards completion of requirements for the English major.
Training in writing in a supervised field placement. |
| 298. Special Topics
Either semester. Credits and hours by arrangement. With a change in
content, may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites, required preparation,
and recommended preparation vary. |
| 299. Independent Study
Either semester. Credits and hours by arrangement. Open only with consent
of instructor and approval of either the department head, or the department
undergraduate coordinator. May be repeated for credit with a change of
topic.
Supervised reading and writing on a subject of special interest to the
student. (Recommended for distinction candidates in English). |