Survey Course Equivalencies

Here are descriptions of four new British and American literature survey courses (ENGL 301, 302, 305, 306) that, as of fall 2004, will replace the old Literature in English survey courses (ENGL 270, 271, and 272), and guidelines for which of the new courses can be used to replace the old courses in meeting requirements for English majors and minors:

301. British Literature I – A historical and cultural study of British literature from the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. Focuses on major works and authors (e.g., Beowulf, Chaucer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Marie de France, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Behn, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Austen) and major genres, forms, and literary movements (e.g. epic, romance, the sonnet, devotional poetry, drama, prose fiction, satire). Four credits Both Semesters

302. British Literature II – A historical and cultural study of British and Commonwealth Literature from the Romantic Period to the present. Focuses on major works and authors (e.g., Blake, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Keats, Browning, E. Bronte, Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Beckett, Lessing, Achebe, Heaney, Coetzee, Rushdie) and major genres, forms, and literary movements (e.g., poetry, drama, fiction, Romanticism, Victorian Age, Modernism, Post-Colonial Literature). Four credits Both Semesters

305. American Literature I – A historical and cultural study of American literature from colonization through the Civil War. Focuses on major works and authors (e.g., Cabeza de Vaca, Bradstreet, Wheatley, Franklin, Irving, Douglass, Poe, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, Stowe) and major genres, forms, and literary periods (e.g., autobiography, poetry, short stories, the Enlightenment, Transcendentalism, Sentimentalism).
Four credits Both Semesters

306. American Literature II – A historical and cultural study of American literature from the Civil War to the present. Focuses on major works and authors (e.g., Twain, Chopin, S. Crane, Cather, W. C. Williams, Stevens, O’Neill, Faulkner, T. Williams, Morrison, Kingston, Brooks, Ginsberg, Rich, Erdrich, Cisneros) and major genres, forms, and literary movements (e.g., essays, poetry, short stories, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism).
Four credits Both Semesters

• A student who needs 270 can take either 301 or 305 instead
• A student who needs 271 and 272 can take 302 and 306 instead
• A student who has taken 271 but needs 272 can take 306 instead
• A student who has taken 272 but needs 271 can take 302 instead