This course is one of the core requirements of the English major and seeks to cover a range of literary forms (poetry, drama, and fiction), familiarize students with critical approaches to texts, and practice literary analysis (in class discussion and in writing), and research skills: all to be better prepared for advanced level courses.  The theme “Reconsidering Love” allows us to look at literature across a wide historical range to find transformations and recurrent themes.  Writers to be studied include: John Donne, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Jane Austen, Zora Neale Hurston, Mohsin Hamid, Sally Rooney (and others).

This section is for ENGLISH MAJORS ONLY.  Please contact advisor Mary Moore.