ENG 299 Introduction to English Studies - 2 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 200 or permission of instructor
Introduction to the discipline of English studies for literature and writing majors, including exploration of issues and conflicts within the discipline, strategies for reading and researching literary texts, overview of requirements and opportunities within the major and introduction to career and graduate study options.

ENG 320 American Studies I - 3 Hours
Designed to examine the diverse origins and the decisive elements in the development of American culture and to provide a wide cultural appreciation and a greater understanding of the mainstream of American thought.

ENG 321 American Studies II - 3 Hours
Designed to examine further the diverse origins and the decisive elements in the development of American culture and to provide a wide cultural appreciation and a greater understanding of the mainstream of American thought.

ENG 333 Medieval Literature - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and 200
A survey of representative literary works of the Middle Ages selected from various cultures, with an emphasis on the continuities of medieval literary traditions and cultural values. Non-English works will be read in translation.

ENG 336 The Shakespeare Plays - 3 Hours
Prerequisite: ENG 100
Designed to introduce students to Shakespeare's drama and to enable them to experience a play with understanding and appreciation. Does not count toward major or minor.

ENG 340 Speculative Fiction - 3 Hours
A survey of the development of the genre, including science fiction, and its relationship to main literary currents.

ENG 354 History of Drama to 1640 - 3 Hours
A comprehensive course which traces the major developments in drama from the ancient Greeks to 1640. Emphasis on representative dramatists and plays.

ENG 355 History of Drama since 1640 - 3 Hours
A continuation of ENG 354.

ENG 360 Gay and Lesbian Literature - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and 200
Introduction to gay and lesbian literature from antiquity to present, with emphasis on concepts of sex and gender, critical theory, and cultural constructionism in global and historical contexts.

ENG 370 Multicultural Literature in America - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 200 or its B1 equivalent
Study of literature written in the U.S. by writers from such racial and ethic groups as African Americans, Asian Americans, Jews, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans.

ENG 380 Masterpieces of English Literature - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100
Provides for familiarity with the better-known works of leading authors. May be counted toward minor in writing but not toward English major or minor.

ENG 381 Survey of English Literature I - 3 Hours
Prerequisite: ENG 200
A study of selected works by representative major authors reflecting the chronological development of English literature to 1798.

ENG 382 Survey of English Literature II - 3 Hours
Prerequisite: ENG 200
A study of selected works by representative major authors reflecting the chronological development of English literature from 1798 to the present.

ENG 385 World literature - 3 Hours
Prerequisite: ENG 100
Study of selected works in translation by major figures in world literature from ancient Greece to modern Europe, exclusive of British and American writers.

ENG 386 Women Writers - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and 200
A selection of works by women writers, emphasizing a literary tradition in women's writing.

ENG 387 Studies in Autobiography - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100, 200, and 300
An examination of the literary components and cultural context of autobiographical works, with particular emphasis on under-represented groups, gender, race, and class.

ENG 390 Masterpieces of American Literature - 3 Hours
Prerequisite: ENG 100
Provides for familarity with the better-known works of leading American authors. May be counted toward minor in writing but not toward English major or minor.

ENG 391 Survey of American Literature I - 3 Hours
Prerequiste: ENG 200
A study of selected works by representative major authors reflecting the chronological development of American Literature to 1865.

ENG 392 Survey of American Literature II - 3 Hours
Prerequiste: ENG 200.
A study of selected works by representative major authors reflecting the chronological development of American Literature from 1865 to the present.

ENG 393 African American Literature- 3 Hours

ENG 395 Contemporary Literature - 3 Hours
Prerequisite: ENG 200
A study of representative literature since World War II, stressing significant writers, thematic concerns, experiments in technique, and selected criticism. The course content, variable by genre, focuses primarily on fiction, poetry, or drama in alternate semesters.

ENG 396 Mythology - 3 Hours
Prerequiste: ENG 100
Greek, Roman and Norse myths and their influence on art and literature.

ENG 398 Hemingway and Faulkner - 3 hours Gen ED B-1
Prerequisite: ENG 200 and honors participation or 3.2 GPA required.
A critical study of the major literary works of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.
For honors students only.

ENG 399 Topics in English - 3 Hours
A semester-long, detailed study of a specific topic in language, literature, or composition.

ENG 455 American Drama - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen. Ed. Cat B1
This course deals with the development of American drama from colonial productions to present-day plays.


ENG 457 Modern British Literature - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or another course in Gen. Ed. Cat B1.
A study of twentieth-centruy British literature with emphasis on modernism, including fiction, poetry, and drama; focus on innovations in literary form and cultural context.

ENG 459 Modern Drama - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen. Ed. Cat B1
A selected study of dramatic literature since Ibsen with emphasis on evolving developments and trends in world theatre.

ENG 460/G Literary Criticism - 3 Hours
_______Historical Perspectives 1
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and Eng 200 or any other course in Gen. Ed. Cat B1
Historical introduction to literary theory, with readings in Western criticism from Plato through the modern period. Focus on historical foundations of contemporary theory, including interpretation, evaluation, and the function of literature.

ENG 462/G Topics in Contemporary Literary Theory - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 300, and 3 hours upper-level literature or permission of instructor.
Focusing on developments in literary theory since the middle of the twentieth century, this course devotes special attention to a particular area in post-structuralism (e.g., theory and practice of deconstruction, post-Freudian, feminist, new historical, or cultural criticism.)

ENG 481/G Chaucer - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen Ed. Cat B1
Representative works of Chaucer, with emphasis on the Canterbury Tales; some attention to the medieval background.

ENG 482/G Shakespeare I - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen Ed. Cat B1
Major plays from each stage of Shakespeare's career studied in the light of current Shakespearean criticism and writings from the time.

ENG 483 The English Renaissance - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen. Ed. Cat B1
Poetry and prose of the Renaissance, with emphasis on Spenser.

ENG 484/G The Romantic Movement - 3 Hours
Prerequistes: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen Ed. Cat B1
Background and phases of romanticism, with a study of representative exponents of the romantic movement.

ENG 485/G The Seventeenth Century - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen Ed. Cat B1
The concentrated study of seventeenth century literature, forms, and developments.

ENG 486/G The Eighteenth Century - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen Ed. Cat B1
The concentrated study of eighteenth century literature, forms, and developments.

ENG 487/G Dante - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen Ed. Cat B1
An intensive study of The Divine Comedy, in English translation, with attention to the medieval background.

ENG 488/G Literature of the Victorian Age - 3 Hours
Prerequistes: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen Ed. Cat B1
A study of selected works by major poets, essayists, and novelists of Victorian England as a reflection of the culture of the age.

ENG 489/G The English Novel - 3 Hours
Prerequistes: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen Ed. Cat B1
The technique and history of the novel. Several representative novels studied.

Eng 490 The American Novel - 3 Hours
Prerequistes: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course in Gen Ed. Cat B1
History and technique of the American novel from Cooper to the present. Several representative novels are studied.

ENG 493 Major American Poets - 3 Hours
Prerequisites: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course from Gen Ed. Cat B1
This course is a careful study of the major poems, the styles, and the poetic intent of the most important American poets from Poe to the present.

Eng 494 Kentucky Literature - 3 Hours
Prerequistes: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course from Gen Ed. Cat B1
A survey of literary people and places in Kentucky, detailed study of several works of Kentucky writers.

ENG 495 Southern Literature - 3 Hours
Prerequistes: ENG 100 and ENG 200 or any other course from Gen Ed. Cat B1
This course traces the development of uniquels Southern characteristics as exhibted in the works of major writers of the South.

ENG 496 Women's Poetry - 3 Hours
Prerequistes: ENG 200 and 300
Themes, aesthetic importance, and historical context of poems predominantly by American women from 1650 to today.

ENG 497 Women's Fiction - 3 Hours
Prerequistes: Eng 200 and 300
An examination of the themes, aesthetic importance, and historical context of canonical and noncanonical fiction by women, with emphasis on twentieth century American and British women writers.

ENG 498 Robert Penn Warren Seminar - 3 Hours
Prerequistes: ENG 200 and 300
An intensive study of the fiction, poetry, and nonfiction of Robert Penn Warren, a major writer of particular interest and importance to our English program at Western.

ENG 499 Directed Study in English - 3 Hours
Prerequsites: 3.0 grade point average; senior standing
A study of a specific literary or linguistic topic directed by a faculty member.

ENG 553 Studies in Restoration & 18th Century Literature

ENG 560 Studies in Literary Criticism

ENG 571 British Masterpieces in the Classroom

ENG 572 American Masterpieces in the Classroom

ENG 579 Studies in Victorian Literature

ENG 583 Shakespeare II

ENG 585 Milton

ENG 586 Seminar in British Writers

ENG 591 American Romanticism

ENG 592 Realism and Naturalism in American Literature

ENG 594 Contemporary Fiction

ENG 596 Seminar in American Writers

ENG 597 Special Topics in English









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