ENG 101 - Freshman Rhetoric and Great Books
3 Credit(s)
The principles of rhetoric and their application: the literary content consists of a study of representative Great Books of the Western World. Selections may include the Bible and works by authors such as Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Vergil, Ovid, Augustine, and Dante. The writing content includes a variety of writing exercises that incorporate traditional compositional and rhetorical skills.

ENG 102 - Freshman Rhetoric and Great Books
3 Credit(s)
A continuation of 101 but with a somewhat stronger emphasis on the literary tradition. Selections may include Shakespeare, Cervantes, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Goethe, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kafka and Sartre. The writing emphasis also continues with at least five additional major assignments.

ENG 310 - Anglo-Saxon and Medieval British Literature: 600 to 1500
3 Credit(s)
A literary survey of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literature in the context of its age. Authors may include Bede, the anonymous poets of Beowulf and Sir Gawain, the medieval dramatists, Chaucer, Langland, and Malory.

ENG 320 - Renaissance British Literature: 1500 to 1660
3 Credit(s)
A literary survey of English Renaissance literature in the context of its age. Authors may include More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, the Metaphysical poets, and Milton.

ENG 330 - Restoration and Romantic British Literature: 1660 to 1830
3 Credit(s)
A literary survey of Restoration and Romantic literature in the context of its age. Authors may include Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Austen.

ENG 340 - Victorian and Modern British Literature: 1830 to Present
3 Credit(s)
A literary survey of Victorian and Modern literature in the context of its age. Authors may include Dickens, Tennyson, Browning, Newman, Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, the Inklings, and Heaney.

ENG 350 - Colonial and Early American Literature: 1620-1820
3 Credit(s)
A literary survey of Colonial and Early American Literature in the context of its age. Authors may include Smith, Bradford, Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson, and Irving.

ENG 360 - Romanticism, American Renaissance and Realism: 1820-1890
3 Credit(s)
A literary survey of American Romanticism, the American Renaissance, and Realism in the context of the age. Authors may include Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Howells, and James.

ENG 370 - Naturalism and Modernism: 1890-Present
3 Credit(s)
A literary survey of Late Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Literature in the context of the age. Authors may include Pound, Eliot, Frost, Williams, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and O’Connor.

ENG 401 - Special Studies in British Literature
3 Credit(s)
ENG 401 provides an upper-division study of the particular authors, themes, and periods initiated in the 300-level courses. Regular offerings include courses on major authors such as Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Shakespeare, or special studies on subjects such as Anglo-Saxon literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, 18th-century literature, Romantic poetry, Victorian literature, 19th-century novel, or 20th-century literature. Please consult the Departmental Bulletin for details.

ENG 402 - Special Studies in American Literature
3 Credit(s)
ENG 402 provides an upper-division study of the particular authors, themes, and periods initiated in the 300-level courses. It includes the traditional array of American Literature courses from Colonial and Early National American Literature, to 20th-century American Literature and the American Novel. ENG 402 also offers the opportunity to relate American Literature to British and Continental Literatures for parallels and contrasts. Please consult the Departmental Bulletin for details.

ENG 403 - Special Studies in Western Literature
3 Credit(s)
ENG 403 provides an upper-division study of the Western literary tradition. Regular offerings include courses on major Western authors from Italian, French, Spanish, German and Russian traditions. Please consult the Departmental Bulletin for details.

ENG 404 - Special Studies in Genre, Literary Criticism and Writing
3 Credit(s)
ENG 404 provides an upper-division study of one or more of the traditional genres: epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, the essay, and the novel. The course may also concentrate on literary criticism, advanced composition, or creative writing. Please consult the Departmental Bulletin for details.

ENG 453 - The Teaching of English
Topics in language, literature and composition designed to assist the prospective elementary and/or secondary school teacher to understand new approaches and to meet curricular problems in the teaching of English at the elementary and secondary levels. It is a prerequisite for Directed Teaching. All students seeking an English endorsement for Michigan Elementary or Secondary Provisional teaching certification must take ENG 453. The course is offered every fall semester. It does not count toward an English field of concentration.

ENG 575 - Senior Seminar and Thesis
3 Credit(s)
Students wishing to graduate with honors in English must write a substantial thesis under the direction of a department member. The thesis must address some narrowly defined topic proposed by the student in the spring semester of the junior year and be approved by the Department.

ENG 597 - Special Problems
1-3 Credit(s)
An independent study course designed for work on a topic not covered in other courses in the Department.