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Course Descriptions: English Language & Literature


LLE 001 Developmental English
6.0 hr.

LLE 003 Developmental English
6.0 hr.

LLE 100 Introduction to English Composition (annual)
Intensive practice in the composition of three-paragraph essays, with special emphasis on writing in response to selected readings. (Placement by departmental examination). 3 credits.

LLE 101-102 English Composition I, II (annual)
Extensive practice in the composition of clear, concise, and grammatically correct sentences and paragraphs with special emphasis on the five-paragraph essay and the research paper. (Admission by assignment following placement test.) 3 credits each.

LLE 201 Advanced Expository Writing (upon request)
Intensive practice in expository writing, with special emphasis on the preparation and composition of research papers. 3 credits.

LLE 202 Creative Writing
(bi-annual O)
The writing of short fiction: study of writing techniques in contemporary literature; class discussion and analysis of student manuscripts. 3 credits.

LLE 203 Report Writing (annual)
Extensive study of writing clear, accurate and persuasive business reports. Emphasis on researching, organizing and presenting information. 3 credits.

HML 101-102 Greek and Roman Literature; Medieval Literature (annual) See "Humanities". (Offered in conjunction with the Department of History HMH 101-102).
3 credits each.

HML 201-202 Renaissance-Modern European Literature (annual)
See "Humanities". (Offered in conjunction with the Department of History HMH 201-202).
3 credits each.

LLE 211 Modern Drama (bi-annual E)
Plays by Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, et al.
3 credits.

LLE 220-221 Survey of Modern Literature (annual)
A two semester survey of Modern literature from the classical through the modern eras. First semester readings include: Sophocles, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Moliere. Second semester readings include: the Romantic Poets, Ibsen, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Kafka, Melville, Faulkner, Beckett, and Camus. Not to be taken after HML 101, HML 102, HML 201, or HML 202.
Prerequisite: LLE 102 or exemption.
3 credits each.

LLE 222 Shakespeare (bi-annual E)
A critical introduction to representative dramatic works by Shakespeare.
Prerequisite: HML 102. 3 credits.

LLE 301 Anglo-Saxon And Medieval Literature (bi-annual O)
Readings from the major authors, works, and genres of English literature from its beginnings to the fifteenth century.
Prerequisite: HML 101 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 302 Chaucer (bi-annual E)
The poetic works of Chaucer, with particular attention to the Canterbury Tales.
Prerequisite: HML 101 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 315 Tudor and Stuart Drama (upon request)
The poetry and prose of the English Renaissance: More, Shelton, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, et al.
Prerequisite: HML 102 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 332 Milton (bi-annual O)
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and selections from the important prose tracts.
Prerequisite: HML 102 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 333 Seventeenth Century Literature (upon request)
The major poets, including Donne, Herbert, Marvell and Johnson, and the development of seventeenth century prose.
Prerequisite: HML 102 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 345 Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama (upon request)
The development of English drama from the reopening of the theaters in 1660 to the masterpieces of Sheridan and Goldsmith.
Prerequisite: HML 102 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 346 Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature (bi-annual E)
Tradition and innovation in the Augustan age, with emphasis on Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson.
Prerequisite: HML 102 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 351 Romantic Poetry (bi-annual E)
The major English poets of the Romantic movement: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
Prerequisite: HML 201 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 352 Victorian Literature (bi-annual E)
English literature between 1830 and 1900, with special attention to Dickens, Arnold, Browning, and Tennyson.
Prerequisite: HML 201 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 361 The Modern British Novel (bi-annual E)
The major works of Conrad, Forster, Joyce, and Woolf.
Prerequisite: HML 201 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 371 American Literature Before 1900 (bi-annual O)
Representative works from the colonial period to the end of the 19th century, with concentration on such later writers as Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain.
Prerequisite: HML 201 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 372 The Modern American Novel (bi-annual E)
Major twentieth-century novelists, with emphasis on James, Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner.
Prerequisite: HML 201 or permission of instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 373 Modern American Poetry (bi-annual E)
The poems of Whitman, Frost, Cummings, Stevens, Williams.
Prerequisite: HML 201 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

LLE 481-482 Independent Study (upon request)
Prerequisite: Department and Dean's permission. Credits by arrangement.

LLE 493 Advanced Topics in English (bi-annual E)
Prerequisite: Senior status or Department permission. 3 credits.

LLE 494 Senior Honors Project in English (upon request)
Prerequisites: LLE 493 and departmental permission. 3 credits.