ENGL 4920

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ENGL 4920
Honors Seminar II

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

The purpose of the Honors Seminar is to acquaint students with methods of study and research to help them write their senior Honors Essay. However, all interested students are welcome to enroll. The seminar will require a substantial essay that incorporates literary evidence and critical material effectively, and develops an argument. Topics and instructors vary each semester.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: students in the Honors Program in English or related fields, or by permission of instructor.

Satisfies Requirement Seminar 102 may be used as one of three pre-1800 courses required of English majors.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Oscar Wilde

  •  8064 ENGL 4920   SEM 101

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  • With his legendary wit, his exuberant style of perversity and paradox, and his tendency to scandal, Oscar Wilde has come to stand in symbolic relation to our own age as well, and for some of the same reasons he was a delight and a challenge to the Victorians. We will explore his poetry, essays, plays, letters, and fiction, in the context of the Aesthetic, Decadent, and Symbolist movements of the late-nineteenth century and also in the context of current debates in literary criticism and the history of sexuality.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Not-Male in the Middle Ages

  •  5566 ENGL 4920   SEM 102

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  • Not-male would be female, right? No, not exactly. In the Middle Ages those excluded from the category of male might be saints, eunuchs, martyrs, people from other countries, and even Jesus Christ as well as women. We will read some indelibly strange and surprising works of medieval literature, and current scholarship on the history of how familiar-seeming notions like gender, sex, woman holiness, and nation developed in the Middle Ages. The weak of stomach should be warned: this is not the Middle Ages of shy maidens in castles. Here be monsters. This course may be used as one of the three pre-1800 courses required of English majors.