232 Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities in public schools. Students will gain experience with both standardized tests and authentic assessment. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. ENGL 4520 - American Literature: Early and Romantic Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This historical survey follows waves of European immigration and chronicles the effects of those on the American natives. The class then moves through the Revolutionary War and finishes with the relatively short but intense age of American Romanticism, which occurred in the decades just before the Civil War. The diverse writers in this period include such figures as Columbus, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 . ENGL 4530 - American Literature: Realism and Naturalism Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This historical survey typically runs from the Civil War to WWI - emphasizing reconstruction, laissez-faire economics, growing imperialism, and universal suffrage. The diverse writers in this survey include such figures as Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Austin, and Henry Adams. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 . ENGL 4540 - American Literature: Modern Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This historical survey focuses on the first half of the 20th century, when the United States went through a series of profound political and social changes, such as its entry into World War I and II, Prohibition, The Red Scare, Suffrage, the advent of the mass media, and Progressivism. Drawing on a variety of genres and media (including painting and film), the course will study developments in the New Negro Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, the Provincetown Players, "high" modernism, and the Lost Generation. Representative writers of the period include: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mina Loy, Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and e.e. cummings. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 . ENGL 4550 - American Literature: Contemporary Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This course focuses on American literature from the 1950s to the present within the context of the dramatic political and cultural changes that have shaped contemporary American culture, such as the Cold War, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, feminism and multiculturalism. Like its modernist predecessor, it ranges across genres and media to survey various emergent traditions and tendencies in contemporary and postmodern US letters. Representative writers of this period include: Arthur Miller, Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Bishop, Tillie Lerner Olsen, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Cynthia Ozick, Amiri Baraka, Maxine Hong Kingston, Rita Dove, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, E. L. Doctorow. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 . ENGL 4610 - British Literature: Medieval Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This historical survey runs from the eighth century to the end of the fifteenth century - roughly from the reign of Alfred the Great to Henry VII. Some of the more recognizable works include Beowulf, The Wanderer, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, early histories of King Arthur, Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, Julian of Norwich's Showings, Everyman, and Gawain and the Green Knight. Works written in Anglo-Saxon English and northern medieval dialects will be read in modern translations. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 . ENGL 4620 - British Literature: Renaissance Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This historical survey runs from just before the middle of the sixteenth century to just after the middle of the seventeenth - roughly from the reign of Henry VIII, through the reign of Elizabeth Tudor, to the restoration of Charles II. Some of the more recognizable figures of this study are Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Anne Askew, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, and Robert Herrick. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 . (Note: this survey does not typically try to do justice to its largest figure, Shakespeare - for whom the department has established ENGL 4730 : Shakespeare's Tragedies, Comedies & Histories.) ENGL 4630 - British Literature: Neoclassical and Romantic Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This historical survey links two periods: the first has frequently been referred to as the Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century and includes such figures as Alexander Pope, Anne Finch, Mary Montagu, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson. The second period covers the relatively short but intense age of English Romanticism - popular because of such writers as William Blake, William Weber State University 2014-2015 Catalog