106 MASTER LEVEL COURSES (MENG) No more than 9 credit hours of 5000-level courses will be counted toward the MA English degree. MENG 5510. World Literature (3) This is a selection of masterworks from a variety of authors, regions, and eras - expressly to introduce literatures other than British and American. The required readings may vary considerably from semester to semester. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5520. American Literature: Early and Romantic (3) This historical survey follows waves of European immigration, the Revolutionary War and the intense age of American Romanticism, which occurred in the decades just before the Civil War. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5530. American Literature: Realism and Naturalism (3) This historical survey typically runs from the Civil War to WWI- emphasizing reconstruction, laissez-faire economics, growing imperialism, and universal suffrage. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5540. American Literature: Modern (3) This historical survey focuses on the first half of the 20th century, with its profound political and social changes: entry into World War I and II, and Prohibition. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5550. American Literature: Contemporary (3) This historical survey focuses an 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. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5610. British Literature: Medieval (3) 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. Works written in Anglo-Saxon English and northern medieval dialects will be read in modern translations. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5620. British Literature: Renaissance (3) 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. (Note: this survey typically omits its largest figure, Shakespeare - for whom the department has established separate courses) This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5630. British Literature: Neoclassical and Romantic (3) This historical survey finks two periods: the first frequently referred to as the Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century - 1660-1780. The second period covers the relatively short but intense age of English Romanticism -1780-1830. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5640. British Literature: Victorian (3) This historical survey follows the long span of Queen Victoria's life: from about 1837 when she came to the throne to 1901 when her funeral widely symbolized the passing of the age. Not merely a placid time of Victorian propriety, this era was marked by many philosophical upheavals. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5650. British Literature: Modern (3) This historical survey focuses on the first half of the twentieth century, a time of great social change for Great Britain and Ireland that led to a rich outpouring of traditional and experimental writing. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5660. British Literature: Modern (3) This historical survey examines British and Anglo-Irish literature since 1950 as Britain metamorphoses from world power to an integral member of the European Community. The course asks what it means to be a "British" writer in the second half of a century increasingly multicultural in outlook. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5730. Literatures of Cultures and Places (3) A course examining literature cultures and nations beyond England and America. Students will be introduced to the ways in which texts are closely tied to the geographical and cultural space as will as the historical movement from which they emerge. The course may focus on a single national culture or, alternately, offer representative works from various cultures. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. MENG 5750. Classical Literature (3) A survey of 3,000 years of intellectual and cultural advancement paralleled with the ascent of civilization from Crete to the Roman empire. The course explores the significance of myths in the process of literary development. This course may not be applied to graduate degree requirements if an undergraduate survey covering the same period was applied toward an undergraduate degree. This course is a foundation course preparing students for more advanced courses in the study of the enduring classical literature in the Master's Degree Program. MENG 6010. Literature in Context (3.5) This course examines two substantial literary texts (usually by different authors) in the context of time, place, and critical history. It teaches research and bibliographic skills together with the application of appropriate critical theory. Co-requisite with MENG 6020. The (.5) credit attached to this course is for intensive writing to be collected in a portfolio for evaluation of student performance in the program. MENG 6020. Foundations (2) This course applies research and bibliographic skills and strategies expected of all students in the graduate program to the study of specific literary texts studied in MENG 6010. Students also select and Weber State University 2007 - 2008 Catalog