ENG300 Seminar in Major Literary Figures

Students will spend time getting to know a single author (e.g., Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Faulkner, or Morrison) or a group of authors (e.g., Thoreau and Emerson, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Eliot and Dickens, the Bloomsbury Group, or Churchill and Parks). Attention will be given to the literary biographies of the writers, the works they have produced, and the context out of which their work has grown. Reading of critical texts and writing of critical papers will be required. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: English 115 and 247.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

ENG115, ENG247