ENG 301 - Junior Seminar in English Literary History

This course offers a study of the methods and a sample of the materials of English and American literary history. Offered in two or three sections each year with different emphases, this course engages the in-depth study of one work and its precursors, influences, and effects, or may study a range of works attending to intertextual transformations and generic change. The course will also include substantial reading in literary theory, and students will develop their own critical history, together with an annotated bibliography of the work of a major author.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing and two 200-level ENG courses
Restriction(s): English majors only
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Notes: Topics vary. May not be repeated. This course is primarily for English majors, for whom the junior seminar is usually required no later than the end of the junior year.
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).