Undergraduate Courses in English

3302 Creative Writing (3-0)
Emphasis on study and practice in techniques of creative writing. Conducted in a workshop format.

3303 Structure and History of the English Language (3-0)
The structural essentials of English, with some treatment of the historical development of the language from Anglo-Saxon to modern English.

3304 Shakespeare (3-0)
Shakespeare's principal histories, comedies, and tragedies.

3309 English Literature from Beowulf to 1800 (3-0)
English literature of the Anglo-Saxon, the Medieval, the Renaissance, the Restoration, and the Hanoverian Periods. SWTJC English 2322.

3310 English Literature from 1800 to Present (3-0)
English literature of the Romantic, Victorian and Modern periods. SWTJC English 2323.

3311 Children's and Adolescent Literature (3-0)
A survey of the history of children's and adolescent literature. Includes the literary evaluation of children's and adolescent literature and a survey of resources available.

3312 Advanced Composition (3-0)
This course provides an intensive study of sentence structure. Areas of concentration include grammar, spelling, and punctuation practices. May include some composition theory.

3313 Folklore (3-0)
The elements of folklore: oral, customary and material. An emphasis on the folklore of the American Southwest and Mexico. Individual collecting by students.

3314 Nineteenth Century American Novel (3-0)
Representative novels of the Nineteenth Century. Writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Howells, Norris, Crane, Chopin.

3315 Classical Literature in Translation (3-0)
A study of the masterpieces of Greek, Roman, and medieval literature. Includes the study of mythology, the epic, and the drama.

3316 Backgrounds of Literature (3-0)
An intensive study of literacy terms, periods of literary history, the history of ideas, and the general cultural background necessary to the study of literature.

3317 World Literature (3-0)
Representative works of major world authors, 1750 to present, including: Voltaire, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and selected contemporary authors.

4302 Southwestern Literature (3-0)
A study of the literature of the Southwest. Major emphasis is placed upon the Southwest novel. the course includes study of the historical and cultural background of the region.

4303 Literary Studies (3-0)
Topics include subjects like those named below and are announced in the schedule of courses for the semester in which they are offered: Chaucer; Medieval Germanic literature; 19th Century American short story; literary theory. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

4304 Modern Fiction (3-0)
Chief American and British novelists since 1900.

4306 American Literature to 1865 (3-0)
A study if American literature from Colonial times through the Civil War. SWTJC English 2327.

4308 American Literature 1865-1940 (3-0)
A study of American literature from the Reconstruction to the present. SWTJC English 2328.

4327 Readings and Research
individually guided study and research in English or American Literature or the English Language. May be repeated for credit when the topic varies. Offered only by agreement of the Liberal Arts Chair. Not available for graduate credit.