400. ADVANCED NON‑FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP  3 cr.  Advanced work in non‑fiction prose.

401. ADVANCED POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP  3 cr.  Intense, advanced work in crafting poems.

402. ADVANCED FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP  3 cr.  Intense, advanced work in crafting short stories.

403. SPECIAL TOPICS WRITING WORKSHOP  3 cr.  Topic of special writing projects announced in advance.

410. OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE  3 cr.  Study of Old English language.

411. STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE  3 cr.  Selected issues, authors, and genres of literature of the Middle Ages; specific topic announced in advance.

412. MEDIEVAL DRAMA  3 cr.  Drama of the Middle Ages.

413. STUDIES IN OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE  3 cr.  Selected issues, authors, and genres of Anglo‑Saxon literature; specific topic announced in advance.

416. CHAUCER  3 cr.  Major writings, with a study of their backgrounds, art, and language.  Emphasis on The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

421. STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE  3 cr.  Selected issues, authors, and genres of the Renaissance period; specific topic announced in advance.

422. STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE  3 cr.  Selected studies of Shakespearean drama and/or poetry; specific topic announced in advance.

423. ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA  3 cr.  Theatrical conditions and chief playwrights of the English Renaissance, exclusive of Shakespeare.

425. MILTON  3 cr.  Detailed examination of the major and minor works as representative of literary and cultural developments of the Baroque period.

426. SPENSER  3 cr.  Major writings of Edmund Spenser; special emphasis on The Faerie Queene.

430. STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH‑CENTURY LITERATURE  3 cr.  Specialized study of issues, authors, and genres of literature of eighteenth‑century England; specific topic announced in advance.

431. DRAMA OF THE RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY  3 cr.  English drama from Davenant to Sheridan, with emphasis on the stage as a reflector of the period.

432. THE ENGLISH NOVEL: DEFOE THROUGH AUSTEN  3 cr.  History, changing patterns, and techniques of English novel writing in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

441. STUDIES IN ROMANTIC LITERATURE  3 cr.  Specialized study of Romantic literature; specific topic announced in advance.

445. BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS  3 cr.  Nineteenth‑century British women writers; course may occasionally include selected eighteenth- and twentieth‑century women writers.

453. KEATS  3 cr.  Examination of the poetry of John Keats.