This course reinforces the integration of literature and composition. It is designed to develop students’ abilities to think, organize and express their ideas clearly and effectively in writing while engaging with literary texts.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 2102
Course Name:
Writing about Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 2103
Course Name:
Morphology and Syntax
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Morphology, the study of words, is interrelated with syntax, phonology, and semantics. This course is an introduction to the study of the internal structure of words and sentences.
Course Code: ENG 2107
Course Name:
16th and 17th Century English Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Jacobean prose and the poetry of the Metaphysical and the Cavalier groups of poets along with that of Milton will form the core texts of the course. These will be studied in relation to the socio-cultural flux of the period.
Course Code: ENG 2108
Course Name:
Shakespeare
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will look closely at four of Shakespeare’s plays, finding their genre characteristics and the thematic and stylistic issues. Students will explore a range of critical approaches to these plays, ideas that Shakespeare presented as well as the characters, both major and minor , which are as relevant today as they were four hundred years ago.
Course Code: ENG 2201
Course Name:
Sociolinguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is an introduction to theoretical frameworks and analytic methods in sociolinguistics. The course will discuss the possible relationships between language and society. Students will learn about linguistic variation and change, examining how this variation can reflect social structures (how social factors like age, sex, and social class influence language) and construct different social identities.
Course Code: ENG 2202
Course Name:
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims at presenting the cross-currents of English Literature during the Restoration and the 18th Century and will introduce students to poets’ /dramatists’ startling innovations with words, and ideas of personal, the period's volatile intellectual and political currents.
Course Code: ENG 2203
Course Name:
Literary Criticism (Sydney to Leavis)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will introduce students to the basics of literary theory and trace the way it has evolved in the last century or so. It will—to borrow the title of one of the books recommended for this course— be a course in “beginning theory” for students.
Course Code: ENG 2204
Course Name:
Romantic Poetry
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will offer a detailed study of Romanticism to understand its significance in English poetic tradition. By exploring the works of the six major Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats, and investigating some characteristics that they share, we will try to outline what Hazlitt called the “spirit of the age.”
Course Code: ENG 2205
Course Name:
Semantics & Pragmatics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course offers an introduction to the basic concepts and methods in the analysis of language meaning. It also offers the study of how meaning is encoded in words, phrases, sentences, and utterances; discussion of modern theories of meaning; and an exploration of relationships among language, thought and action.
Course Code: ENG 2206
Course Name:
American Literature I
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course gives an overview of the American literature in the nineteenth century. This is a time of major social upheavals. It is also an era notable for its literary achievements. Students enrolled in this course will look at a wide range of nineteenth-century American authors and examine their work in the light of historical context.