Basically the course focuses on non-Shakespearean drama and highlights major developments in Renaissance England: the emergence of a capitalist economy, the long reign of a “virgin queen”, colonialist expansion, changing perceptions about love and marriage, the rise of female authorship, the persecution of witches, and the rapid growth of London as a major urban centre and the stage conventions.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 207
Course Name:
Elizabethan Drama (Excluding Shakespeare)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 208
Course Name:
Sociolinguistics
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Key terms and approaches—relationship between language and society. Sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Language, dialect and varieties: regional dialects—style and register—standard language and developing a standard variety; Choosing a Code: Diglossia and bilingualism—definition and relationship—code switching and code mixing—borrowing.
Course Code: ENG 209
Course Name:
Romantic Poetry – I
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is devoted to the poetry and poetics of the first generation of the Romantic poets. The course begins by considering just what poetry is, in its semantic and technical elements, and then follows that by a quick review of major critical trends comparing Romantic statements of poetic theory with the poetry actually accomplished during the period under discussion.
Course Code: ENG 2101
Course Name:
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Excluding Shakespeare)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course focuses on non-Shakespearean drama and highlights major developments in Renaissance England: the emergence of a capitalist economy, the long reign of a “virgin queen,” colonialist expansion, changing perceptions about love and marriage, the rise of female authorship, the dominant growth of London as a major urban centre and the stage conventions.
Course Code: ENG 2102
Course Name:
Writing about Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
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 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 211
Course Name:
19th Century Literature: The Intellectual Milieu
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course studies the intellectual perspectives of the Victorian Age such as evolution, materialism and colonialism.
Course Code: ENG 212
Course Name:
Modern British Drama
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is an intensive study of the British Drama of the last hundred years. The plays included show the evolution of the stylistic conventions of the British play, from the genteel drawing-room comedies of the late 19th century to the radical political theater of the last decade. Playwrights reacted to the social circles, governmental constructs, and economic conditions around them, using the essential elements of theater—characterization, set, dialogue—to exaggerate, parody, manipulate, or deconstruct them.