English (ENG)

Emphasizes elements of fiction, poetry, and drama in a wide selection of authors.

Studies cinema's treatment of Shakespeare, 1899 to the present. May be taken for letter grade only. Not challengeable.

General characteristics of human communication; fundamentals of phonetics, phonemics, morphology, syntax, and semantics; language change and language variation.

Provides guided practice in composition appropriate to study in literature as a discipline. Includes study of exposition and modes of discourse.

Examines the impact of technology on human values and civilization through a study of imaginative, future-oriented fiction.

This course aims to prepare English and Humanities majors at La Verne to be recruitment-ready for jobs and graduate school through a holistic exploration of careers choices and each student's mission, values, and life goals. Not challengeable.

Studies literature that focuses on the multicultural history and contemporary culture of Los Angeles in essays, fiction, poetry, and autobiography. Course is not challengeable.

Includes reading and discussion of plays at theaters, supplementary dramatic readings and criticism, and attendance at appropriate productions. May be repeated with different topics. Also THAR 300.

English literature from the beginning to 1790, in its literary, social, political, and cultural contexts. Focus on major authors, genres, and literary movements.

Continuation of ENG 351.

American multicultural fiction, poetry, narratives, autobiography, and essay by such writers as Columbus, Bradford, Rolandson, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, Emerson, Fuller, Douglas, Brown, and Twain.

Continuation of 353. The 20th century: e.g., James, Cather, Moore, H. D. Eliot, Frost, Cullen, Williams, O'Neill, Eliot, Hughes, Fitzgerald, and Wright.

A study of graphic novels and related media. Not challengeable.

Study trip to Italy during January Interterm that includes readings in literature, history, art, and architecture that focuses on Italian immigration to America and Italian history and contemporary culture. (Course is not challengeable.)

Considers contemporary magical realist literature in English or English translation from South America, including the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende, as well as around the world. May consider magical realist films or adaptations. Not challengeable.

Forms of horror and fantasy from simple tales to sophisticated novels. Emphasizes literary merit and mythic qualities.

Myth as a way of seeing and understanding the world, and as an expression of lasting human concerns through literature from the folk tale and epic to science fiction.

Focuses on a broad survey, from 1492-Present, of specific areas that reflect the multicultural American experience: Colonization, Slavery, gender, African American, Italian American, Irish American, Mexican American, Asian American, or Native American literature.

Student-designed courses approved by a faculty member. Prior approval of goals, objectives, procedures, and assessment plan as directed in the Independent Study Manual is required. May be taken multiple times with a different topic for credit. Not challengeable.

Special projects in grammar and/or literature. May be taken multiple times with a different topic for credit. Not challengeable.

Texts by women writers are examined within a historical context and critically examined from different thematic or theoretical perspectives. Letter grade only. Not challengeable.

An examination of short stories and their film adaptations as well as critical approaches to writing about film and literature. Letter grade only. Not challengeable.

An exploration of gay, lesbian, bi, and trans+ literature with an emphasis on intersectionality, cultural, and historical issues, social justice, and queer critiques. Letter grade only. Not challengeable.

Multicultural poetry including Yeats, Auden, Hughes, Eliot, Williams, Frost, Moore, Ginsberg, Reed, Levine, Mazziotti, Soto, and others.

This course focuses on early American writers from 1830-1865. It aims to identify the peculiar character of American writing as it evolved from its Colonial roots into early adulthood. Writers include Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Whittier, Peabody, Fuller, Parker, and Douglass among others. These writers express the evolving attitude of Americans about religion, philosophy, feminism, slavery, Capitalism, and worker exploitation.

American multicultural fiction including Ellison, Vonnegut, Morrison, Bellow, Owen, Saroyan, Tan, Cisneros, Sanford, Mirabelli, and others.

Short stories and novels by Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Waugh, Greene, Burgess, and others.

American multicultural narrative including Cooper, Hawthorne, Brown, Melville, Jacobs, Twain, and others.

In this course, students read and analyze the major works of Marie de France in bilingual editions, considering vital themes such as psychological realism, social justice, intertextuality, magic and morality, medieval culture, and ecocriticism. Also FREN 435. Letter grade only. Not challengeable.

Intensive study of individual major authors concentrating on historical milieu and literary chronology. (Formerly ENG 382.)

Studies plays that reflect America regionally, ethnically, spiritually, and aesthetically. Also THAR 440.

Readings in drama to discover how playwrights from the Greeks to the present have dealt with continuing concerns of life and theatrical presentation. Also THAR 441.

Playwrights since Ibsen, with special attention to Shaw, Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht, Miller, Becket, Anouilh, Ionesco, and Albee. Also THAR 443.

Studies one or more major playwrights such as Sophocles, Chekhov, Ibsen, or Brecht. May include staged production of a major work. May be repeated three times for credit. Also THAR 445.

Representative plays selected from the histories, tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies. Also THAR 449.

Forms of young adult fantasy literature. Authors include C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula K. LeGuin. Emphasizes teaching young adult audiences.

Encourages professionalization through internship experience as well as critical self-reflection on the connections between knowledge and skills gained in the English major and future work.

A comprehensive, four-part examination in the genres, themes, and critical analysis of the diverse forms of English and American literature.