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ENGL 3060: Modern and Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors

Close study of significant 20th-century poetry, drama, and prose works. Readings range from 1920s to the present. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Literature and the Arts Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities Departmental Category: General Literature and...

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ENGL 3060: Modern & Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors

Maymester Surveys the major literary trends from 1900 to the present in the Anglo-American tradition of modern, postmodern, and contemporary literature. It will provide a basic grounding in two important moments in literary history: modernism and post-modernism. Quite a bit of the focus of the course will be on poetry—we...

ENGL 3060: Modern and Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors (Fall 2019)

Close study of significant 20th-century poetry, drama, and prose works. Readings range from 1920s to the present. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Literature and the Arts Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities Departmental Category: General Literature and...

ENGL 3060-200: Modern & Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors (B-term, Summer 2019)

Close study of significant 20th-century poetry, drama, and prose works. Readings range from 1920s to the present.

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ENGL 3060-102: Modern & Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors (A-term online, Summer 2019)

Whether it’s the war on terrorism, global markets, tourism, or population diversity, we can’t escape the effects of globalization; they are indeed everywhere. This course will trace the rise of globalization as written about by early and late 20th and 21st century writers. For writers in the so-called third world,...

3060 image_World Map

ENGL 3060-101: Modern & Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors (A-term online, Summer 2019)

Whether it’s the war on terrorism, global markets, tourism, or population diversity, we can’t escape the effects of globalization; they are indeed everywhere. This course will trace the rise of globalization as written about by early and late 20th and 21st century writers. For writers in the so-called third world,...

H.D, Pound, Hardy Bishop, and Heaney

ENGL 3060-100: Modern & Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors (A-term, Summer 2019)

Surveys the major literary trends from 1900 to the present in the Anglo-American tradition of modern, postmodern, and contemporary literature. It will provide a basic grounding in two important moments in literary history: modernism and post-modernism. Quite a bit of the focus of the course will be on poetry—we will...

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ENGL 3060-007, 008: Modern and Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors, Contemporary Fantasy (Spring 2019)

Since the publication of The Lord of the Rings in the United States in the mid-1960s, fantasy has become immensely popular. However, the fantasy that has become and remains popular tends to be that written in a mode very similar to Tolkien’s, involving quests, Dark Lords, battles between clearly distinguished...

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ENGL 3060: Modern and Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors (Spring 2019)

Close study of significant 20th-century poetry, drama, and prose works. Readings range from 1920s to the present. Note: there are several sections of this course.

Drawing of a dragon perched on top of a mountain

ENGL 3060-014, 015: Modern and Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Fantasy

Since the publication of The Lord of the Rings in the United States in the mid-1960s, fantasy has become immensely popular. However, the fantasy that has become and remains popular tends to be that written in a mode very similar to Tolkien’s, involving quests, Dark Lords, battles between clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys.

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