ENGL-510 NON-FICTIONAL PROSE
A study of major forms of prose: several types of essays, personal reports,journals,and oral histories. Students will study the historical background of the origins of different ideas (how they were forged, interpreted, implemented, opposed, violated, and defended) in a variety of genres of non-fictional prose. Non-fiction is the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions on facts and reality; these works include biographies, histories, philosophical treatises, and essays. Writers covered include Vidal, Tan, Lu Xun, Orwell, Sartre, Woolf, Soyinka, and Calvino.

ENGL-511 THE SHORT STORY
A study of the short story as a literary form with emphases on recent and innovative works. Readings include European literature, Asian literature, African literature, Latin American literature, African-American literature and Jewish literature
This course increases student awareness of the technical options available to the story teller, exploring the spectrum of contemporary techniques and showing students how textual variations contribute to meaning in the fiction of earlier times and the works of authors from different parts of the world. This course also provides students with a theoretical, conceptual, and analytical framework for understanding the development of short fiction as well as improving their competence in critical writing. Writers discussed include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jorge Louis Borges, Leo Tolstoy, William Faulkner, John Updike, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Ann Porter, and Ernest Hemingway.

ENGL-524 MODERN POETRY
English and American poetry of modern period-from 1890 to World War II-including a study of the philosophical ideas and social movements that influenced this poetry. Hardy, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, D.H. Frost, Williams, Stevens, Cummings, and others are studied.

ENGL-527 CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
An introduction to plays and movements in world theater since Ibsen. The course provides historical and critical examination of the major developments, personalities, and achievements in woeld drama in the twentieth century. The course examines the interplay of philosophical and aesthetic changes and their influences upon the theatrical product in Europe, Asia Africa. Principal playwriters include Pirandello, Beckett,Wilson, Chekhov.

ENGL-532 AMERICAN AUTHORS
An examination of selected works of 18th, 19th ,and 20th century American authors. The course is designed to develop critical understanding of significant prose, poetry, fiction, and drama.

ENGL-533 LITERATURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
A survey in depth of recent literary trends and movements in Western Cultures. Major figures in prose, poetry, and drama are studied.

ENGL-541 THE NOVEL II: THE NOVEL IN THE 20th CENTURY
The novel has been on the scene for two and a half centuries, and although its demise has often been mourned or celebrated, we continue to recognize it without difficulty, as well as assuming that of all the literary forms it is the one with which we remain on the easiest terms. The novel had a marvelously free run in the nineteenth century, but at the beginning of the twentieth century, perhaps in step with extraordinary new developments in technology, there appeared new ways of telling stories, structuring plots, and examining characters. These developments, commonly termed "Modernism," tended to divide the audience by establishing new kinds of highbrow interest and putting certain kinds of novels outside the grasp of the ordinary reader. Writers discussed include Joseph Conrad, Nikos Kazantzakis, Anita Desai, Boris Paternak, William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Isabel Allende, Herman Hesse, and Thomas Mann.

ENGL-550 LITERARY CRITICISM
The objective of this course is for students to acquire the factual, conceptual, and analytical frameworks necessary to understand major theories and methods of literary criticism. Students study the history of criticism, from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorizing of the present day. They explore the texts that have been milestones in the history of critical thought, including Aristotle's Poetics and Ars Poetica. This encourages students to think analytically and critically and to make comparisons between different literary movements. It also aids in their understanding of the purposes of individual authors as well as increasing the depth of their insights into world literature.
Literary theory always bears the imprint of larger political and cultural debates but also aspires, from Aristotle to Hans-Georg Gadamer to Jacques Derrida, to a systematic statement of the principles and methods governing interpretation and evaluation. Additional theorists discussed include Fry, Bodkin, Barthes, Nietzsche, Marx, Goethe, and Pope.

ENGL-560 SHAKESPEARE
A study of Shakespeare's principal plays-comedies, histories, and tragedies.

ENGL-580 SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE
An opportunity of the English Department to offer courses on topics of special interest. Students may enroll in this course any number of times so long as Topics is not a repetition of one for which credit has been granted.

ENGL-580-1 INTERNATIONAL FICTION OF THE 19th-20th CENTURY
All forms of literary expression will be analyzed in terms of their historical content and consequent cultural significance. Masterpieces of fiction from non-American and non English origin will be read in translation. This is ultimately a course about the world. It inquires about the world's meaning. Why read fiction to think about the world? Fiction can deal with all the world's objects and ideas together, with the breath of human experience in time and space, it can deal with things the limited disciplines of thought either ignore completely or destroy by methodological caution, our most pressing concerns: personality, family, death, love, time, spirit, goodness, evil, destiny, beauty, will.

ENGL-580-2 19th & 20th CENTURY THOUGHT
A study of the development of major philosophical, social, political, and cultural ideas of the 19th century and their influence on modern societies, along with an examination of the distinctive aspects of the 20thcentury thought and Literature The course provides advanced study in Modern Thought and Literature with attention to critical thinking and research skills as they apply to methods, materials and processes.

ENGL-580-05 THE RESEARCH PAPER
In English 580 students undertake supervised research on a literary topic of their own choice, submitting a fully documented research paper of between 13,000 and 15,000 words at the end of the semester. Classes comprise research seminars and workshops as well as group and individual supervision sessions. Prior to the completion of the final paper, students submit a research proposal and literature review. The research proposal specifies the nature of their project's anticipated contribution to its discipline as well as the methodology it will employ, while the literature review outlines the sources and background to their study. Both pieces are considered essential to the development of students' research skills.

ENGL-580-13 WOMEN, LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
A study of relations between women, literature and society through an examination of social institutions, socialization processes, differences within and between cultures, social movements, and the influence of these factors on literary production in countries throughout the world.

ENGL-580-14 POSTMODERNISM: THEORY AND FICTION
In English 580-14 students study a variety of international postmodernist narratives, examining their relationships to significant theoretical positions within the continuing debate about postmodernism and postmodernity. Course texts include novels by Coetzee, Rushdie, Doctorow, Calvino, Marquez, and Carter, as well as theoretical works by Lyotard, Habermas, Jameson, Eagleton, McHale, and Hutcheon. The course also explores the implications of postmodern theory and fiction for a number of related areas, such as history, post-colonialism, and feminism.
 

LANGUAGE:

ENGL-580-6 APPLIED LINGUISTICS I : PRAGMATICS AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS FOR ELT
The course investigates the linguistic and non-linguistic factors and elements involved in successful language communication, both on the part of speakers/writers and listeners/readers.

ENGL-580-7 APPLIED LINGUISTICS II: LEXIS IN ENGLISH
The course investigates the nature, types and structure of meaning in English, focusing on the analysis of the English vocabulary. It also deals with the organization of lexis in the mind, and tackles issues of retrieval and use.

ENGL-580-8 APPLIED LINGUISTICS III :PSYCHOLINGUISTICS & SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
The first part of the course investigates the processes involved in comprehension and production of language. The second part outlines and discusses major theories of second language acquisition/learning.

ENGL-580-9 APPLIED LINGUISTIS IV: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY
The course outlines different approaches to ELT(English Language Teaching) and investigates their theoretical background. It also discusses issues of syllabus design and teaching procedures and materials.

ENGL-580-11/12 ADVANCED TRANSLATION I AND II
These courses aim to create a workshop environment in which students develop their individual translation projects in cooperation with the instructor and other students. The emphasis is on practical considerations: the compilation of a number of resources in a particular field; examination of the stylistic and other features of the field in the source and target languages; use of electronic resources, such as word-processors and the Internet; the creation of a Translation Portfolio containing sample work; an evaluative essay, and such elements as a model C.V. for future development and professional use.

ENGL-526 DRAMA I: A HISTORICAL SURVEY
In this survey course, which covers the period from antiquity (Greece) to the 19th century, students study the principle developments and transformations in Western Drama, as well as the ways in which those developments both reflected and affected broader social issues. In drama, mankind has found ways to create unique events which delight, dismay, and cause reflection, making the experience outlast the actor as well as that particular audience. Course objectives include the improvement of students' ability to analyze and respond to a work of drama in a well-written, critical essay. Works covered include Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone"; Euripides' "Medea"; "Everyman" ; Moliere's "The Misanthrope"; Richard Sheridan's "The School for Scandal"; Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus"; and Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan."