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ENGL
2131 American Literature I
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2131 is a study of American Literature from colonial days through the American
Revolution and into the mid-nineteenth century. Authors from these periods include
Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau and
Frederick Douglass.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of "C" or better.
Offered: All semesters.
ENGL
2132 American Literature II
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2132 is a study of modern American literature from the mid-nineteenth
century to the present day. Prose authors of this period include Mark Twain,
William Dean Howells, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest
Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison. Poets of this
period include Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot and Gwendolyn Brooks.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of "C" or better.
Offered: All semesters.
ENGL
2141 African-American Literature I
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2141 is a study of African-American literature from the beginnings of the
colonization of North American in the seventeenth century to the Harlem
Renaissance (1920). Major authors of this period include: Olaudah Equiano, Phillis
Wheatley, Sojurner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, Frederick
Douglass, Charlotte Forten Grimke, Charles W. Chestnut, Booker T. Washington,
W.E.B. Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Stanley
Braithwaite and others.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or better.
Corequisite: None.
Offered: On demand.
ENGL 2141 African-American Literature II
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2142 is a study of African-American literature from the end of the Harlem
Renaissance (1940) to the present day. Major authors of this period include:
Richard Wright, Robert Hayden, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde,
Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Lucille Clifton, Larry Neal, Maya Angelou, August
Wilson, Toni Morrison, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, and others.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or better.
Corequisite: None.
Offered: On demand.
ENGL
2210 Creative Writing
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2210 (fiction and poetry) is a sophomore-level course taught in a workshop
format. Students write short stories, poetry, or both. Students study each other's
work, as well as that of professional writers, to learn the fundamentals and
techniques of literary writing.
Exit requirements: Minimum of a “C” average on course work.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of "C" or better.
Offered: Spring.