ENGL 479 - Selected Topics - Major American Writers

(4 units)

Prerequisites: At least senior standing, 12 units of upper-division ENGL (including ENGL 380)

Intensive study of one to three major American authors.

A. Emily Dickinson
B. Louise Erdrich
C. John Fante
D. William Faulkner
E. Nathaniel Hawthorne
F. Henry James
G. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
H. Bobbie Ann Mason
I. Herman Melville
J. Toni Morrison
K. Edgar Allan Poe
L . Henry David Thoreau
M. Edith Wharton
N. Walt Whitman
O. William Carlos Williams
P. Richard Wright
Q. Charles Brockden Brown and Thomas Jefferson
R. Robinson Jeffers
S. Frederick Douglass

Both grading options. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 units with different authors, but no more than 4 units may be used to satisfy requirements for English majors. Topics to be announced in the Schedule of Classes.