The course will survey American literature from the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century. After the Civil War, American society went through radical changes. Industrial culture took over the previous agrarian one.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 3201
Course Name:
American Literature II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 3202
Course Name:
Modernism in Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will enable students to understand the various cognates of high-modernism, asking: What is modernity? What makes modern literature distinguishable? What modes of cultural transactions made high-modernism possible? Our central focus will be on modern fictions, both long and short, and on modernist poetry. Focusing on form and content, this course will try to impart basic understanding of the thematic and structural peculiarities of the modernist tradition. We will read the works of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence, and a selection of poems by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and H. D.
Course Code: ENG 3203
Course Name:
Theories of Second Language Acquisition
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will explore the traditional theories associated with language learning and how they have affected the evolution of language teaching. Particular attention will be paid to learner characteristics (attitude, aptitude, and motivation), cognitive and metacognitive strategies, interlanguage theory, the monitor model, acculturation, and accommodation. All theories will be learned in the context of application to teaching pedagogy.
Course Code: ENG 3204
Course Name:
Critical Theory
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is designed to examine the ways in which we read, and are read. As students of literature and culture, we have to engage with texts from multiple points of view. Our reading demands a scrutiny of the texts and their contexts. The aim of this course is to introduce you to some important strategies developed mostly in the twentieth century that changed our understanding of reading.
Course Code: ENG 3205
Course Name:
Postcolonial Theory and Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Postcolonial theory deals with the reading and writing of literature written in previously or currently colonized countries, or literature written in colonizing countries which deals with colonization or colonized peoples.
Course Code: ENG 3206
Course Name:
African Writings in English
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will give students an opportunity to read diverse literature from Africa. Using different genres, students will explore different issues including but not limited to the colonial past of the Africans, their negotiation of their identities, their treatment of women, post-independence crisis, and race relations.
Course Code: ENG 3207
Course Name:
Culture and Representations
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
In this course, students will be introduced to contemporary cultural theories to engage in discussions on representations in various cultural forms, including literature, cinema, art, photography and advertising. Through a critical reading of relevant texts and examples from popular culture, this course will enable students to interrogate and examine the logic, implications and politics of representing cultures.
Course Code: ENG 3208
Course Name:
Epics of World Literature
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course explores some remarkable classical Greek and Roman Epics (long Narrative) in English translation. Students will receive a comprehensive understanding of the themes and motifs of these epics and catch glimpses of the sensational and adventurous heroic exploits of superhuman heroes, and the process of humanizing the supernatural and the divine.
Course Code: ENG 3209
Course Name:
Studies in Popular Culture
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will enable students to engage critically with popular culture as a powerful force, mediating our identities and aspirations, as an index to cultural values and a producer of cultural meaning. Students will be introduced to key concepts, themes, debates in and various theoretical approaches to studies of popular culture.
Course Code: ENG 3210
Course Name:
Modern Literature in European Languages
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course examines major landmark modern literature written in the European languages. Students will understand what it means for a work of literature to be contemporary, and why these writers matter. Keeping in mind the significance of translation, the course intends to acquaint students with poets and writers whose thoughts have influenced traditions and cultures around the world and this will help them with their future readings and understanding of literature.