Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
English and Theatre Department Courses
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Literature
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ENLT 103 - Children’s Literature 3 cr.
A broad study of literature for children since 1800, with the emphasis on American works since 1950, including aesthetic consideration of the art and design of picture books. Works for children up to the age of 12 are considered. -
ENLT 110 - History of Cinema 3 cr.
A study of the historical development of motion pictures. Practitioners in America and throughout the world are treated in this concise history of cinema. Film screening fee. -
ENLT 111 - The Art of Cinema 3 cr.
The study of the artists, technicians and businessmen who make films. Taped interviews of internationally famous filmmakers, as well as an analytic scrutiny of modern films, develop students’ intelligent, active participation in the major art form in modern culture. Film screening fee. -
ENLT 112 - Film Genres 3 cr.
A study of popular film genres (i.e., the western, the thriller, the musical, the historical epic, the woman’s picture) as they developed and changed in the U.S. and abroad. Film screening fee. -
ENLT 113 - Film Criticism 3 cr.
A study of the grammar, poetics, rhetoric, and aesthetic of film criticism constitutes the heart of this course. Film screening fee. -
ENLT 120 - (CL) Introduction to Fiction 3 cr.
An exploration of the nature of prose fiction, its elements and techniques. The emphasis is critical rather than historical. The range of works and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor. -
ENLT 121 - (CL) Introduction to Poetry 3 cr.
An exploration of the nature of poetry, its value, aims, and techniques. The emphasis will be critical rather than historical. The range of poems and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor. -
ENLT 122 - (CL) Introduction to Drama 3 cr.
An exploration of the nature of drama, its types, techniques, and conventions. The emphasis will be critical rather than historical. The range of plays and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track. -
ENLT 123 - (CL) Masterworks of Western Civilization 3 cr.
Study of masterpieces of literature from the Hebrew Old Testament and classic Greek to the modern European, illuminating the development of Western civilization. -
ENLT 124 - (CL, W) The Art of Fiction 3 cr.
(Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the Written Communication requirement WRTG 107 or equivalent)
This class aims to provide students with an understanding of the structure of the short story, novella, and novel, and to foster an appreciation of fiction as art. Significant class time will be devoted to the process of writing analytical papers about fiction. -
ENLT 125 - (CL) Classic American Stories 3 cr.
This course will examine representative examples of the American short story from the 19th century to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the significance of individual works, but some consideration will be given to the evolving American milieu. Readings will include Hawthorne, Poe, Crane, Malamud, and Oates. -
ENLT 126 - (CL,D) Introduction to Irish Culture 3 cr.
An exploration of Irish culture by means of the island’s major works of mythology, history, religion, folk story, fairy tale, song, verse, drama and fiction. All readings in English. -
ENLT 127 - (CL) Myth of the Hero 3 cr.
Mythic materials are examined to discover the underlying heroic archetypal patterns. Then modern literature is examined in the light of the same mythic patterns. -
ENLT 129 - (CL, D) Literature and Social Justice 3 cr.
An introductory study of drama and fiction analyzing issues of social justice and the social, political, and/or structural dimensions of these issues which have been used to impede the establishment of social justice. Topics studied may include race, gender, class, sexual orientation, ability issues, age-ism, and war/violence. -
ENLT 140 - (CL) English Inquiry 3 cr.
An exploration of fiction, poetry, and drama. The approach is inductive; the aims are a greater understanding of literature, and an introduction to techniques of literary scholarship, theory, and research. -
ENLT 210 - (CL) Modern Poetry 3 cr.
Some previous study of poetry expected. Modern poets ranging from Frost and Stevens to Bishop and Larkin are examined. Major emphasis is placed on close readings of representative works and historical and cultural contextualization. -
ENLT 211 - (CL) Dramatic Comedy 3 cr.
Principles, modes, tactics used in dramatic comedy. The plays of writers ranging from Shakespeare to Neil Simon, as well as several films, will be analyzed as models. Opportunity for student writing of comedy. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track. -
ENLT 212 - (CL,W) Masters of Darkness 3 cr.
This course will survey a significant sampling of the short works of three of America’s most famous “dark Romantic” writers: Melville, Hawthorne, and Poe. Consideration will be given to the historical milieu and the authors’ responses to the problems and promises of the American experience. -
ENLT 213 - (CL,W) Satire 3 cr.
An exploration of the historical, critical, and conceptual nature of satire, including established satirical conventions and techniques. Representative examples in fiction, drama, poetry, and other media, with emphasis on British literature of the Restoration and 18th century, the Age of Satire. -
ENLT 214 - Macabre Masterpieces 3 cr.
A survey of English and American horror fiction which focuses on this mode of writing as a serious artistic exploration of the human mind, particularly abnormal psychology. Readings will include works by Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and Bram Stoker. -
ENLT 215 - (CL) Literature of the Absurd 3 cr.
Focusing on literature from 1850 to the present, this course will examine fiction, drama, and poetry that reflect a general sense of disintegrating values and lost religious beliefs. Readings will include works by Poe, Byron, Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Williams, Hemingway, and Beckett. -
ENLT 220 - (CL) Shakespeare 3 cr.
An introduction to the works of William Shakespeare, including forays into each of the major dramatic genres (comedy, tragedy, history, and romance). Consideration will be given to the biographical and cultural contexts of individual works. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track. -
ENLT 221 - (W) Woody Allen 3 cr.
This course examines the films, the published screenplays, the volumes of short prose, and assorted interviews and articles. We will examine some of Woody Allen’s sources, such as Plato, Shakespeare, Joyce, and Bergman. Our approach will be historical and analytical. -
ENLT 222 - (CL,D,W) Graham Greene’s Travelers 3 cr.
Detailed study of several privileged characters who exchange the familiar comforts of home for the disorienting complexities of the post-colonial world. Encountering social unrest in Africa, Latin America, Haiti, and French Indo-China, Greene’s protagonists abandon their aloof positions and confront the personal and ethical dilemmas raised by their situations. -
ENLT 224 - (CL,D,W) Perspectives in Literature About Illness 3 cr.
This course will explore the narrative conventions of both the (literary) life story and the (scientific) case history as a means of analyzing both the characters involved in literary depictions of illness and the ways in which they perceive and understand others involved in the same healthcare event. -
ENLT 225 - (CL,D,W) Writing Women 3 cr.
(Theory Intensive)
Organized around issues raised in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Carolyn Heilbrun’s Writing a Woman’s Life, and informed by the ideas of British Marxist, French Psychoanalytic, and American traditional feminism, this course examines poetry and fiction from Sappho and Mary Shelley to Jean Rhys and Adrienne Rich. -
ENLT 226 - (CL,D) Novels by Women 3 cr.
A study of novels by and about women, including such authors as Austen, Bronte, Eliot, Chopin, Woolf, Lessing, Byatt, and Morrison. The aim is to expand students’ knowledge of the novel’s history and development and their understanding of women’s experiences as expressed by women writers. -
ENLT 227 - (CL,D) Frankenstein’s Forebears 3 cr.
(Theory Intensive)
An interdisciplinary exploration of the influential lives and works of Mary Wollstonecraft (feminist, memoirist, and novelist); William Godwin (anarchist philosopher and novelist); their daughter, Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein); and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Romantic poet and erstwhile political activist). -
ENLT 228 - (CL,D,W) Race in Anglo-American Culture 1600-1860 3 cr.
(Area G) (Theory Intensive)
Beginning with the first English colonies in North American and running through the American antebellum period, this course focuses on literary and historical treatments of encounters involving Europeans, European-Americans, Africans, African-Americans, and Native Americans. The reading list includes poems, plays, novels, captivity narratives, frontier biographies, and slave autobiographies. -
ENLT 229 - (CL,W) The Cross-Cultural Novella 3 cr.
(Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Written Communication requirements WRTG 107 or equivalent. One ENLT course with a number between 120 & 179 or equivalent)
This course is designed, first, to foster an understanding and appreciation of the novella as a distinct literary form; second, to introduce the student to the literature of a variety of countries and cultures; and third, to enable the student to write literary analyses of this form of comparative literature. -
ENLT 230 - (CL) American Romanticism 3 cr.
(Area A-1)
This course will deal with representative short works of America’s six major Romantic authors: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe. -
ENLT 231 - Shakespeare’s Comedies 3 cr.
(Prerequisite: One 100 – level ENLT Course)
A consideration of Shakespeare’s dramatic work in the comic sub-genres of romantic comedy, farce, and pastoral. Students will read seven plays, usually Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and As You Like It.
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ENLT 232 - Shakespeare’s Tragedies 3 cr.
(Prerequisite: One 100 – Level ENLT Course)
A consideration of Shakespeare’s dramatic work in the tragic sub-genres of revenge tragedy, romantic tragedy, de casibus tragedy, and political tragedy. Students will read seven plays, usually Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus.
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ENLT 234 - (CL,W) Camelot Legend 3 cr.
(Area B-1)
This course will examine the development of Arthurian legend-tales of knights and ladies associated with the court of King Arthur from its early origins in Celtic and Latin medieval literature, through medieval romances and histories, culminating in Malory’s Morte D’Arthur. -
ENLT 235 - (CL,W) Literature in the Age of Chaucer 3 cr.
(Area B-1)
This course will explore 14th-century non-dramatic vernacular literature. In addition to Chaucer, authors studied may include Langland, Kempe, and the Pearl Poet. -
ENLT 236 - (CL,W) The Romantic Protest 3 cr.
(Area B-2)
A survey of the first half of the British Romantic period. Readings will include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and at least three “minor” writers of this era. Discussions will focus on the Romantic imagination, the role of nature in Romantic mysticism, and Romantic notions concerning heightened sensations and altered realities. -
ENLT 237 - (CL,W) The Darker Romantics 3 cr.
(Area B-2)
A survey of the second half of the British Romantic period. Readings will include Byron, Percy Shelley, Keats, and at least three “minor” writers of this era. Discussions will focus on the waning of the “Romantic religion” of Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth in an increasingly prosperous, skeptical, and secularized era. -
ENLT 239 - (CL,D,W) The Irish Short Story 3 cr.
(Area B-3)
For two centuries, Irish short story writers have represented the comedy and tragedy of Irish experience and simultaneously have fashioned the medium into one of our most flexible and innovative art forms. In historical and critical contexts, we examine the work of forth authors, emphasizing Joyce, O’Connor, O’Faolain, and O’Flaherty. -
ENLT 240 - British Literature: Medieval and Renaissance 3 cr.
(Area B-1)
A detailed study of representative works and authors from the Anglo-Saxons to the 17th century. Though the emphasis will be on an intensive study of major works in their literary and cultural context, consideration will be given to minor writers as well. -
ENLT 241 - British Literature: Restoration and 18th Century 3 cr.
(Area B-2)
Study of a select group of English and Anglo-Irish authors whose works were first published between 1660 and 1776. Discussions and assignments will emphasize literary history, critical analysis, and sociopolitical contexts. -
ENLT 242 - British Literature: Romantic and Victorian 3 cr.
(Area B-2)
A study of the major literary works in 19th-century England: poetry, novels and non-fictional prose. The emphasis is threefold: critical analysis; literary history; social, intellectual and political background. -
ENLT 243 - American Literature to 1865 3 cr.
(Area A-1)
An in-depth study of a select group of major American authors from the Colonial Period to the Civil War. Included are Bradford, Franklin, Irving, and Poe. Consideration given to the historical and cultural milieu and development of major American themes and attitudes.
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ENLT 244 - Modern British Literature 3 cr.
(Area B-3) (Theory Intensive)
Selected modern and postmodern English poets, playwrights, and fiction writers: Hopkins, Eliot, Hughes, Auden, Larkin, Spender, Osborne, Stoppard, Pinter, Greene, Waugh, Read, Lodge, Amis, Spark, McEwan and Chatwin.
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ENLT 245 - American Literature, 1865 to the Present 3 cr.
(Area A-2)
Study of a select group of major American authors from the Civil War to the present. Included are Twain, Crane, Fitzgerald and Vonnegut. The historical and cultural milieu and the development of major American themes and attitudes are reviewed.
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ENLT 250 - (EPW,CL,D) Multi-Ethnic American Literature 3 cr.
(Area G)
Readings will be drawn primarily from Native American, Asian American, African American and Latina/o writings. The class will trace common themes and questions such as what it means to be “American,” gender identity, the conflict of cultural identities, alienation and assimilation. -
ENLT 251 - (CL,D,W) Borderlands Writing 3 cr.
(Area G) (Theory Intensive)
An introduction to Latino/a literature of the U.S. southwest and southeast. Each location represents a type of border culture, U.S./Mexican in the southwest and U.S./Cuban in the southeast. Discussions and assignments will explore the cultural role of women, nation-states and nationalism, violence, healing practices, spirituality and sexual identity. -
ENLT 255 - (EPW,CL,D) African-American Literature 3 cr.
(Prerequisite: ENLT 140 )
(Area G, A-2, or A-3 dependent on course syllabus and approval of chair). This course is an in-depth study of African-American literature. A variety of genres and authors can be explored. This examination will entail discussion of critical topics such as slavery and its legacy, racial identity, and the meaning of freedom. -
ENLT 258 - (CL,W) Contemporary American Fiction 3 cr.
(Area A-3)
(Prerequisites: ENLT 140 or the equivalent; any ENLT course between 120 & 179, inclusive)
A survey of American fiction from 1950 to the present. Requirements include participation in class discussion, oral presentations, and sustained consultation with the instructor on the writing and revision of several critical essays. -
ENLT 259 - (CL) Contemporary American Poetry 3 cr.
(Prerequisites: ENLT 121 or ENLT 140 or permission of instructor. Familiarity with poetic conventions, terminology, forms, etc.)
This course invites students to a sampling of significant poems by a half dozen or more contemporary American poets who have published within the past half century. All poets selected have enjoyed major recognition. Poets may include Sylvia Plath, Philip Levine, Rita Dove, Frank O’Hara, Gary Soto, Li-Young Lee, and others.
(Offered alternate years)
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ENLT 260 - (CL,D) Women of Color: Literature & Theory 3 cr.
(Area G) (Theory Intensive)
This course introduces the intermediate student to the critical and creative writings by women of color. These texts convey women of color’s unique subjectivities. Discussion topics include themes of the body and storytelling, the ideas of self and communal preservation, and the political and cultural negotiation of multiple communal memberships. -
ENLT 270 - (EPW, CL) Science Fiction and Utopian/Dystopian Literature 3 cr.
(Prerequisites: Grade of “C” in their appropriate EP, Level I courses, and an ENLT 100-level course which may overlap with a FYS.)
A study of science fiction and utopian/dystopian literature that focuses on the literary devices and concepts highlighted in these texts. Both written and oral skills are to be focused on and enhanced in this course through the analyses of selected primary texts and secondary critical work. -
ENLT 295 - (CL) Shakespeare in Stratford 3 cr.
This course combines a traditional study of six Shakespearean plays on the University campus with a week-long residency at the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Students will read and discuss the plays produced during the current Royal Shakespeare Company season and attend performances of those plays. -
ENLT 340 - Late Medieval Drama 3 cr.
(Area B-1)
A survey of 14th- and 15th-century drama, including the Corpus Christi cycle, morality plays such as Everyman, Mankind and Castle of Perseverance, and the saint’s play. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track. -
ENLT 341 - (CL,W) Shakespeare: Special Topics 3 cr.
(Theory Intensive)
A detailed study of Shakespeare’s treatment of either a particular genre (comedy, tragedy, history, romance) or a particular subject that occurs across genres. Special attention will be paid to the meaning of plays in performance. This course may be counted toward the Theatre track or minor. -
ENLT 342 - Renaissance Poetry and Prose 3 cr.
(Area B-1)
A survey of lyric and narrative poetry, fictional and non-fictional prose, and drama written in England between the time of Sir Thomas More and John Milton. Readings will include More, Surrey, Lyly, Spenser, Sir Philip and Mary Sidney, Donne, Webster, Jonson, Marvell, and Milton. -
ENLT 344 - Milton’s Paradise Lost 3 cr.
Intensive study of Milton’s masterpiece. In addition to our reading and discussion of the text itself, we will examine its biographical and historical context and explore a variety of critical approaches to the poem. -
ENLT 345 - (CL,W) Restoration and 18th-Century Drama 3 cr.
(Area B-2) (Theory Intensive)
A survey of the major formal and thematic developments on the London stage between 1660 and 1776. Discussions will focus on the social, political and institutional changes that re-shaped theatrical productions during this period. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track. -
ENLT 347 - Victorian Voices 3 cr.
(Area B-2)
This course will focus on three major Victorian authors: one non-fiction prose writer, one novelist, and one poet. Possible authors include Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, Dickens, Eliot, Bronte, Tennyson and Browning. -
ENLT 348 - (CL,D,W) Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction 3 cr.
(Area G) (Theory Intensive)
Through detailed study of such authors as Achebe, Conrad, Forster, Kincaid, Kipling, Naipaul, Orwell, and Rushdie, this course explores the myths and meanings of 19th- and 20th- century European colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. -
ENLT 349 - (CL) Restoration and 18th-Century Poetry 3 cr.
(Area B-2)
A study of the major developments in English poetry between 1660 and 1780 in relation to the cultural and literary history of the period. The reading list will focus on the major ‘“Augustan” poets (Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson). It will also include works by Rochester, Behn, Gay, and Goldsmith. -
ENLT 350 - Major Works: American Romantics 3 cr.
(Area A-1)
Cooper’s The Prairie, Emerson’s Nature, Thoreau’s Walden, Melville’s Moby Dick, and others. Evaluation of the works in their historical context and the development of the American Romantic movement, 1820-1865. -
ENLT 351 - Transcendentalists 3 cr.
(Area A-1)
This course transcends the typical limits of this literary period to Emerson and Thoreau’s major works. Thus, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker are covered. -
ENLT 352 - (CL,W) The Development of the American Novel 3 cr.
This course will focus on the ways in which the American novel has reflected our changing literary and cultural values from the late 18th to the 20th century. The reading list will include works by Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -
ENLT 353 - Major Works: American Realists 3 cr.
(Area A-2)
Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Howell’s The Rise of Silas Lapham, James’s The American, Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and others. Works are evaluated in their historical milieu and the development of American Realism, 1865-1900. -
ENLT 355 - American Drama 1919-1939 3 cr.
(Area A-2)
A review of the first “golden age” of American drama, which includes biting masterpieces such as The Hairy Ape, Awake and Sing, and comic works such as You Can’t Take It with You and The Time of Your Life. This course may be counted toward the Theatre track or minor. -
ENLT 360 - (D,CL,W) Jewish Literature 3 cr.
The course provides a broad literary overview of Jewish life from medieval times to the present, examining the poetry, fiction, memoirs, and drama of Jewish writers from a variety of cultures. -
ENLT 362 - Literature and Philosophy 3 cr.
(Theory Intensive)
This course explores the Platonic insight that on the highest level literature and philosophy converge. We begin with a few of Plato’s dialogues which develop this idea. Then we examine several “literary” works in English which embody it. Our approach is analytical, inductive and historical. -
ENLT 363 - Magazine Editing 3 cr.
The process of editing is surveyed. Macro-editing (publishing for a defined audience and delighting, surprising, informing, and challenging it) is emphasized over micro-editing (grammar, punctuation, and so forth). Both are fitted into the larger picture of promotion, fulfillment, circulation, advertising, production, and distribution. -
ENLT 366 - Dante’s Divine Comedy 3 cr.
A canto-by-canto study, in translation, of Dante’s dream vision of hell, purgatory, and heaven. Consideration will be given to the cultural milieu and to medieval art and thought as these affect the allegorical meaning and structure of the poem. -
ENLT 367 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. 3 cr.
Study of the life and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., the only priest-poet ever to be honored with a place in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner. -
ENLT 369 - (CL) Playing God: Theatrical Presentations of Divinity 3 cr.
Theatrical Presentations of Divinity Playwrights from Aeschylus to Tony Kushner have attempted to stage the divine in various ways. This course will explore the cultural contexts for these plays and the always complicated relationship between organized religion and the stage. The reading list will include representative works from antiquity to the present day. -
ENLT 382 - Guided Independent Study Variable credit
A tutorial program open to third-year students. Content determined by mentor. -
ENLT 383 - Guided Independent Study Variable credit
A tutorial program open to third-year students. Content determined by mentor. -
ENLT 395 - (CL,D,W) Travel Seminar: Sacred Ireland 3 cr.
This Dublin-based course surveys Ireland’s pagan and Christian past. Our materials include: archeology, architecture, art, myth, literature, history, and film. Students will view films and read before traveling to Ireland. Students will be evaluated on discussion and on three original four-page critical essays and five two-page reflection essays. (Summer)
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ENLT 443 - Chaucer 3 cr.
(Theory Intensive)
A study of Chaucer’s poetry in the context of medieval culture. Readings and assignments will concentrate on The Canterbury Tales, but will also cover the other major poems, such as the Book of the Duchess and the Parliament of Birds. -
ENLT 455 - American Realists 3 cr.
(Area A-2)
Study of representative figures in the post–Civil War period, the period of the rise of American realism. Authors treated will be Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, and selected modern authors. -
ENLT 458 - Joyce 3 cr.
This course explores the prose works of James Joyce, a major figure in 20th-century literature. We will read Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and, with the help of various guides, Ulysses. We will work to apprehend in Joyce both the universal and the peculiarly Irish. -
ENLT 461 - Modern Drama 3 cr.
Some previous study of drama required. A survey of the major trends and authors in 20th-century British and American drama, with some Irish and Continental works included. Readings will include works by Shaw, O’Neill, Miller and Williams. This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor, or track. -
ENLT 462 - Literary Criticism and Theory 3 cr.
(Theory Intensive)
This course explores both the derivation and the defining characteristics of a range of contemporary interpretive practices, including those of psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, formalist, reader response, structuralist, poststructuralist, and cultural materialist critics. -
ENLT 470 - Teaching Modern Grammars 3 cr.
This course explores the English language in the context of transformational/generative grammar and in relation to what is expected of middle school and high school English teachers. Techniques for teaching these new grammars and laboratory teaching experience in the first-year writing clinic will be presented. -
ENLT 480 - Internship Variable Credit
English majors can receive internship credit for a variety of on-the-job experiences. Approval must be obtained beforehand from chair and dean. -
ENLT 482 - Guided Independent Study Variable Credit
A tutorial program open to fourth-year students. Content determined by mentor. -
ENLT 483 - Guided Independent Study Variable Credit
A tutorial program open to fourth-year students. Content determined by mentor. -
ENLT 490 - (W) Senior Seminar 1.5 cr.
The topics of these writing-intensive seminars vary from semester to semester. Based largely on student writing, presentations, and discussion, this capstone course is required in the major and culminates in the student’s development of a seminar paper. May be repeated for credit. Enrollment limited to 15 students per section. -
ENLT 491 - (W) Senior Seminar 1.5 cr.
The topics of these writing-intensive seminars vary from semester to semester. Based largely on student writing, presentations, and discussion, this capstone course is required in the major and culminates in the student’s development of a seminar paper. May be repeated for credit. Enrollment limited to 15 students per section. -
THTR/ENLT 275 - (CL) Continental European Drama 1880 - 1960 3 cr.
(Theory Intensive) (Prerequisites: ENLT 140 or equivalent or THTR 110 )
This course surveys the emergence of naturalism and the developments of drama in the European continent at the end of the 19th century into the mid-twentieth century. The works studied illustrate various attempts to recreate realities on stage and explore how philosophy influenced theatrical expression. (All readings in English.) -
THTR/ENLT 276 - (CL) American Drama, 1916-1968 3 cr.
(Theory Intensive) (Prerequisites: ENLT 140 or equivalent or THTR 110 )
The rise of the United States as a world power is reflected in the American theatre of this period. The reading list includes both plays & musicals; the works themselves explore issues of cultural identity, gender roles, & racial conflicts as they pertain to our understanding of the American dream. -
THTR/ENLT 277 - (CL,D) American Drama, 1968 - 2011 3 cr.
(Theory Intensive) (Prerequisite: ENLT 140 or equivalent or THTR 110 )
This course focuses on exploring and encountering literature that has shaped American theatre between the Vietnam era & 9/11 attacks. Some recurring issues include the Cold War; AIDS; patriotism & the counter-culture; ethnic, sexual, & gender identities; & the demise of the American dream.
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THTR 110 - (CL) Introduction to Theatre 3 cr.
An introduction to the theories and practices of the theatre arts. Dramatic structure, dramatic literature, critical writing, acting, directing, design, practical stagecraft, and some theatre history will all be touched on in an effort to introduce students to the fullness and variety of the art of theatre. -
THTR 121 - Introduction to Technical Theatre 3 cr.
(Formerly THTR 112)
This course introduces the student to the materials, equipment, and techniques used in the construction and finishing of stage sets, including lighting, sound, and special effects. Forty hours of lab work and participation on a crew for a major University Players production will be required. -
THTR 151 - (CA) Introduction to Acting 3 cr.
(Formerly THTR 111)
A Stanislavski-based system (“Acting is Doing”) develops the student’s ability to act with believability and honesty. Through exercises, improvisations, and a scene, the student discovers the technique of “making choices” based both on the self and on fictional characters. -
THTR 211 - (CL) Theatre History I 3 cr.
A chronological study of western theatre from ancient Greek drama to 17th-century British drama. A selection of plays from representative playwrights will be read and discussed with an emphasis on the social, cultural, and theatrical contexts within which these playwrights lived and worked. -
THTR 212 - (CL) Theatre History II 3 cr.
(Theory Intensive)
A chronological study of Western theatre from the middle 17th century to the present. A selection of plays from representative playwrights will be read and discussed, with an emphasis on the social, cultural, and theatrical contexts within which these playwrights lived and worked. -
THTR 213 - (CA) Design for the Theatre 3 cr.
(Prerequisite: THTR 121 with a grade of B- or higher)
An introduction to the various design and production elements in theatre. Scenery, lighting, costumes, projections, props and sound will be explored. Students participate in the design elements of the University productions. -
THTR 214 - Drama Practicum 3 cr.
(Prerequisite: any other course that may be counted in the Theatre minor)
Work on one of the major aspects of producing or creating a play including acting, costuming, set construction, designing, lighting, publicity, playwriting, and box-office management. “A one-time repeatable course.” -
THTR 215 - Playwriting I 3 cr.
This course is designed to teach students the basic elements and techniques involved in writing for theatrical performance. Students will write either a one-act play or one act of a two- or three-act play. This course may be counted toward the Theatre Major, Minor, or Track. Photocopying fee.
(Credit cannot be earned for WRTG 215 and THTR 215.) -
THTR 221 - Scene Painting 3 cr.
(Prerequisite: THTR 121 with a grade of B- or higher)
This course is designed as a focused study of the tools and techniques used by scenic artists to create visual elements for theatre production. The lecture portion of the course involves a study of materials, color theory, and historical and contemporary painting perspectives. Offered every other year. -
THTR 225 - Solo Performance 3 cr.
All you need for solo performance is an audience and a performer; however, solo performance represents some of the most challenging, sophisticated, and courageous performance happening today. Students will actively create their own solo performances through analyzing the work of establishing solo artists and exploring their own creative acts. (Students cannot earn credit for THTR 225 and WRTG 225 ). -
THTR 231 - Lighting Design 3 cr.
(Prerequisite: THTR 121 )
This course explores lighting equipment and technology, color theory, script analysis, and collaborative production skills. Students will work in both theoretical and practical contexts, creating projects that explore the controllable qualities and functions of stage lighting. Offered every other year. -
THTR 251 - Intermediate Acting 3 cr.
(Formerly THTR 210) (Prerequisite: THTR 121 & THTR 151 )
The student actor develops a stronger grasp of Stanislavski’s system of Objectives and Beats. Scene work requires the actor to explore theatrical realism as practiced by Miller, Williams, Inge, Chekhov, and Ibsen. Offered every other semester.
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