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Number		 Name Description
ENG-100 Writing & Reading Skills A course designed to give extra practice in reading and writing skills ... Read More »
ENG-101 Freshman English I The fundamental course, designed to increase the student146s capacity ... Read More »
ENG-102 Freshman English II A continuation of English 101 or 103. Training in critical reading an ... Read More »
ENG-103 Advanced Freshman English Reserved for students who enter Suffolk with high verbal SAT scores or ... Read More »
ENG-113 World Drama I Survey of drama and theatre as part of world culture from classical Gr ... Read More »
ENG-114 World Drama II Survey of drama and theatre as part of world culture from the 19th cen ... Read More »
ENG-123 Great Books of World Lit. I Literary masterpieces from ancient times to the Renaissance, including ... Read More »
ENG-124 Great Books of World Lit II Literary masterpieces from the 18th century to the 20th, including The ... Read More »
ENG-201 Intermediate Writing For students who desire further study of written composition and the r ... Read More »
ENG-213 English Literature I Study of major writers of England from the beginning to the mid- 18th ... Read More »
ENG-214 English Literature II Study of major English writers from the mid-18th century to the presen ... Read More »
ENG-215 American Literature Study of major American writing and thought from the Puritan age to th ... Read More »
ENG-216 World Literature in English A study of literature written in English from cultures around the worl ... Read More »
ENG-217 American Literature I Study of major American writing from its origins through 1865. Regular ... Read More »
ENG-218 American Literature II Study of major American writing from 1865 through the present. Regular ... Read More »
ENG-250 Image to Word: Writing on Art Focus will be on expository writing about the artistic process and cri ... Read More »
ENG-275 Varieties of Workplace Writing This course studies a variety of workplace writing including summaries ... Read More »
ENG-301 Gateway Seminar for Majors This course seeks to answer the following questions. What is literatu ... Read More »
ENG-308 Directed Writing Independant work on a writing project under the guidance of the instru ... Read More »
ENG-310 Topics in Pre-Modern Gender St Through the study of literature, this course investigates how pre-mod ... Read More »
ENG-311 Medieval Literature Survey An introduction to medieval literature, this course will focus on shor ... Read More »
ENG-312 English Grammar and Usage This course provides a thorough review and analysis of the rules of st ... Read More »
ENG-315 Classical Drama Greek and Roman drama from its origins; characteristics of the theate ... Read More »
ENG-316 Greek & Roman Classics Introduction to Greek and Roman classical literature. Readings in the ... Read More »
ENG-317 Classical Mythology Ancient Greek and Roman myths, their motifs, themes and interpretation ... Read More »
ENG-318 The Epic Study of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeniad, em ... Read More »
ENG-319 Elizabethan Literature Literature of the golden age of the Renaissance with a focus on love, ... Read More »
ENG-323 Chaucer Close reading and discussion of the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and C ... Read More »
ENG-324 Shakespeare’s Comedies Shakespeare’s background and development as a dramatist through ... Read More »
ENG-325 Shakespeare’s Histories Shakespeare’s English and Roman history plays. Emphasis on Shake ... Read More »
ENG-326 Shakespeare Tragedies Shakespeare’s major tragedies reflecting the range, resourcefuln ... Read More »
ENG-333 English Renaissance Drama The comedies and tragedies of major dramatists (excluding Shakespeare) ... Read More »
ENG-334 17th Century Literature Representative selectiosn of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, inc ... Read More »
ENG-335 Milton Poetry and prose of England146s greatest Renaissance poet. The centerp ... Read More »
ENG-336 The Age of Enlightenment The great age of satire, essay, criticism, biography, and nature. Dryd ... Read More »
ENG-337 18TH-CENTURY English Novel The beginnings of the realistic novel including the works of Defoe, Ri ... Read More »
ENG-343 19th Century English Novel Development of the Romantic and Victorian novel. Readings in major wor ... Read More »
ENG-344 English Romantic Literature The mind and spirit, poetics and poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byro ... Read More »
ENG-345 Victorian Literature The study of selected poets and prose writers. Some Victorian fiction. ... Read More »
ENG-346 Dickens and George Eliot Close examination of several novels by two of England’s major Vi ... Read More »
ENG-353 American Realism In-depth exploration of American Realism from the post-Civil War era t ... Read More »
ENG-354 Hawthorne, Melville and Stowe Close examination of fiction by three major writers of the American Re ... Read More »
ENG-355 American Prose 1870 - 1920 The revolution in American literary consciousness between the Civil Wa ... Read More »
ENG-356 Whitman and Dickinson A study of the work of America’s two greatest nineteenth-century ... Read More »
ENG-357 African-American Lit I African-American writing from the beginning through the present. ENG 2 ... Read More »
ENG-359 Selected African-Amer Writers This course focuses upon the literary contributions of a selected numb ... Read More »
ENG-361 Contemporary American Fiction Important works relfecting America’s cultural diversity, by writ ... Read More »
ENG-362 Asian American Literature An introduction to selected Asian-American writers with an emphasis on ... Read More »
ENG-363 Modern British Poetry Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney and Te ... Read More »
ENG-364 Modern American Poetry An in-depth examination of American poetry witten between 1900 and the ... Read More »
ENG-365 Contemporary Amer Poetry An in-depth examination of American poetry since 1950, to include writ ... Read More »
ENG-366 Modern British Fiction This course will explore the emergence of post-colonial literature fol ... Read More »
ENG-367 20th Century American Fiction Novels, short novels, and short stories by Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott ... Read More »
ENG-368 Modern British Drama Masterworks of the greatest British playwrights from Synge and Shaw to ... Read More »
ENG-369 Modern American Drama Masterworks from the American playwrights from Eugene O’Neill to ... Read More »
ENG-370 Fiction Writing Workshop I An intensive workshop in which the student will be required to write o ... Read More »
ENG-371 Creative Non-Fiction Workshop For students interested in writing autobiography and/or other forms of ... Read More »
ENG-372 The Literary Journal An exploration of selected literary journals and their role in America ... Read More »
ENG-373 English Writers of the 1930S The social, political and cultural revolution in pre-World War II Engl ... Read More »
ENG-374 Drama Seminar Discussion and student reports on a pre-announced subject: a major pla ... Read More »
ENG-375 Poetry Writing Workshop I An intensive workshop course in which the student will be required to ... Read More »
ENG-377 The World of Lit on Film Examination of film as an art form in the expression of literature. Se ... Read More »
ENG-378 Fantasy and Folklore Folktales and other literary and oral forms related to the folk tradit ... Read More »
ENG-379 Children Literature The history and artistry of those works intended for the child reader: ... Read More »
ENG-384 Literary Satire Examination of the techniques and modes of satire in the ancient world ... Read More »
ENG-385 Prison Literature An examination of prison writings, films, and the actual experience of ... Read More »
ENG-386 Classics of Mystery Classic stories of suspense and detection, including short stories and ... Read More »
ENG-387 Women and Literature The images of women in literature and the woman writer’s contrib ... Read More »
ENG-391 Research and Writing This course will examine the ways the research and writing processes w ... Read More »
ENG-392 Readings in Post-Colonial Lit. An Exploration of Post-colonial literature and how the empire writes b ... Read More »
ENG-394 Critical Prose This course studies both the literary and rhetorical modes of exposito ... Read More »
ENG-396 Varieties of Workplace Writing This course studies a variety of workplace writing including summaries ... Read More »
ENG-398 Boston: a City in Fiction Boston in novels from its beginning to the present: plan of the city, ... Read More »
ENG-399 Irish Literature Writers of the Irish Literary Revival, from the 1890s to the 1930s. R ... Read More »
ENG-401 Studies in Selected Authors Readings in the work on an author or authors selected for this course ... Read More »
ENG-402 The Early James Joyce An examination of the topics of women, love, and marriage in the short ... Read More »
ENG-404 Central European Literature The culture of Central Europe as reflected in literature, theatre and ... Read More »
ENG-405 Russian Literature An introduction to the major works of Russian literature with an exami ... Read More »
ENG-407 Literary Theory A seminar on current approaches to the interpretation of literature, i ... Read More »
ENG-408 Modern Greek Literature in Eng A survey of writings in Modern Greek from 1821 to the present explorin ... Read More »
ENG-422 Spec Topics in Group 2
ENG-424 Spec Topics in Group 4 Prerequisite: 213, 214, 215, 217, or 218 ... Read More »
ENG-425 Spec Topics in Group 5
ENG-470 Fiction Workshop II An intensive practical examination of plot, narrative, characterizatio ... Read More »
ENG-475 Poetry Workshop II Aan intensive workshop course in which the student will be required to ... Read More »
ENG-481 Boston in History, Lit & Film An interdisciplinary examination of the history of Boston. Special foc ... Read More »
ENG-486 Viet Nam War Hist, Lit, & Film An interdisciplinary examination of the American war in Viet Nam. Spec ... Read More »
ENG-514 Internship in English Individualized guidance in a career-related activity. Upper-class Eng ... Read More »
ENG-515 Directed Study in English By special arrangement, a junior or senior may pursue an independent r ... Read More »
ENG-516 Directed Study in English Under special circumstances, a junior or senior may be allowed to purs ... Read More »