E X49S E 349S Topics on Major Authors 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Intensive study of the works of a single major author or two major authors. Only one of the following may be counted unless the topics vary: English 349S, 370W, 376M. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: One of the following: Comparative Literature 315, English 303D, 316L, 316M, 316N, 316P, or Tutorial Course 303D.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Jane Austen.
Topic 2: The Brontes. English 349S (Topic 2) and 370W (Topic: Brontes: Self and Society) may not both be counted.
Topic 3: James and Wharton.
Topic 4: James Joyce.
Topic 5: Toni Morrison. An examination of select novels by the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist focuses on the positional uniqueness that womanism shares with a predominant feminism, which surfaces in historicized familial relationships. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 330J, 372E (Topic 1), English 349S (Topic 5), Women's and Gender Studies 345 (Topic 46), 345I. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 330J, WGS 345I Additional prerequisite: One of the following: Comparative Literature 315, English 303D, 316L, 316M, 316N, 316P, or Tutorial Course 303D.
Topic 6: Walt Whitman.
Topic 7: Oscar Wilde.
Topic 8: Virginia Woolf. Examines critical and fictional works of Virginia Woolf and the author's continuing legacy and influence. Explores the value and limitations of high modernism; English literary heritage and tradition; feminism; creative and critical definitions of gender and sexuality; intellectual activism, including Woolf's critiques of patriarchy, war, and fascism; and Woolf and imperialism and colonialism. Only one of the following may be counted: English 349S (Topic 8), Women's and Gender Studies 345 (Topic 40), 345G. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: WGS 345G Additional prerequisite: One of the following: Comparative Literature 315, English 303D, 316L, 316M, 316N, 316P, or Tutorial Course 303D.
Topic 9: William Faulkner.
Topic 10: Graham Greene. English 349S (Topic: Graham Greene) and 349S (Topic 10) may not both be counted.
Topic 11: Nathaniel Hawthorne. English 349S (Topic: Nathaniel Hawthorne) and 349S (Topic 11) may not both be counted.
Topic 12: Alice Munro. English 349S (Topic: Alice Munro) and 349S (Topic 12) may not both be counted.
Topic 13: Charles Dickens. English 349S (Topic: Charles Dickens) and 349S (Topic 13) may not both be counted.
Topic 14: David Foster Wallace. English 349S (Topic 14) and Liberal Arts Honors 350 (Topic 29) may not both be counted.
Topic 15: Edgar Allan Poe. English 349S (Topic: Edgar Allan Poe) and 349S (Topic 15) may not both be counted.
Topic 16: Ernest Hemingway. English 349S (Topic: Ernest Hemingway) and 349S (Topic 16) may not both be counted.
Topic 17: George Eliot. English 349S (Topic: George Eliot) and 349S (Topic 17) may not both be counted.
Topic 18: Chaucer and Shakespeare. English 349S (Topic: Chaucer and Shakespeare) and 349S (Topic 18) may not both be counted.
Topic 19: Shakespeare and Marlowe.
Topic 20: Greta Gerwig. Examine the works of a single major author or two major authors. English 349S (Topic: Greta Gerwig) and 349S (Topic 20) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010