454. STUDIES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE  3 cr.  Specialized study of Victorian literature; specific topic announced in advance.

458. DICKENS  3 cr.  The major novels, with a study of their backgrounds, art, and language.

459. THE ENGLISH NOVEL: DICKENS THROUGH MEREDITH  3 cr.  Examination of nineteenth‑century British fiction.

460. STUDIES IN MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE  3 cr.  Specialized study of twentieth‑century literature; specific topic announced in advance.

461. STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE  3 cr.  Specialized study of contemporary British literature; specific topic announced in advance.

470. STUDIES IN NINETEENTH‑CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE  3 cr.  Specialized study of nineteenth‑century American literature; specific topic announced in advance.

471. STUDIES IN TWENTIETH‑CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE  3 cr.  Specialized study of twentieth-century American literature; specific topic announced in advance.

472. STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE  3 cr.  Specific topic announced in advance.

473. FAULKNER  3 cr.  Major works of William Faulkner.

474. AMERICAN POETRY  3 cr.  Major American poets from Whitman to the present.

480. STUDIES IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES  3 cr.  Study of literary texts from formerly colonized nations in Africa, Asia, or elsewhere; specific topic announced in advance.

481. STUDIES IN IRISH LITERATURE  3 cr. Specific topic announced in advance.

482. STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY  3 cr.  Specific topic announced in advance.

483. STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY THEATRE  3 cr.  Specific topic announced in advance.

484. STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION  3 cr.  Specific topic announced in advance.

485. CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH GRAMMAR  3 cr. Transformational‑generative grammar theory and its application to an analysis and description of English sentences.

488. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE  3 cr.  Study of the sounds, forms, and syntax of Early, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern English.

490. HISTORY OF LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM  3 cr.  Elements of literary theory, and a survey of the major theorists from Plato to the present.

495. CRITICAL PRACTICE  3 cr.  Survey of options available to literary critics of the twentieth century, and practice in the application of criticism to literary texts.

496. FRAMED NARRATIVES: NOVEL AND CINEMA  3 cr.  Structural and thematic functions of pictorial and narrative frameworks in film and novel.

497. HOPKINS SEMINAR  3 cr.  Prerequisite: permission of the chair.  Advanced, special seminar in literature taught by the Visiting Hopkins 589. STUDIES IN RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION  3 cr.  Study of rhetoric, composition theory, and composition pedagogy, including a practicum.