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Course Code: ENG 212 Course Name: Modern British Drama Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: This course is an intensive study of the British Drama of the last hundred years. The plays included show the evolution of the stylistic conventions of the British play, from the genteel drawing-room comedies of the late 19th century to the radical political theater of the last decade. Playwrights reacted to the social circles, governmental constructs, and economic conditions around them, using the essential elements of theater—characterization, set, dialogue—to exaggerate, parody, manipulate, or deconstruct them.

Course Code: ENG 213 Course Name: Syntax Prerequisite: ENG 111 Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: This course will enable students who enjoy analyzing sentence structures to explore this area in greater depth. The course will study the structural properties of language and the patterns of generative transformational syntax.

Course Code: ENG 222 Course Name: English in Media Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: The course objective is for students to develop an informal and critical understanding of media English. The course will teach not only the basics of English, but also those aspects of writing, such as reporting speeches, house styles and jargons which are specific to the language of journalism. They will study a wide assortment of newspapers, magazines, books, photography, radio, film, television, and the internet. Viewing of documentaries and features will be a part of the course.

Course Code: ENG 279 Course Name: Introduction to English Literary Theory Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: The course introduces English critical thinking from the Elizabethan time to the early 20th Century. Emphasize various concepts about drama and poetry as evolved from Aristotle and then the Englishness they achieve.

Course Code: ENG 301 Course Name: Old and Middle English Literature (in modern English) Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: This course on Chaucer and his contemporaries will examine the economic, the social, and the political conditions of the last half of the fourteenth century in England, Chaucer's place in this world, and the relation of this to Chaucer's poetry.

Course Code: ENG 302 Course Name: A History of the English Stage Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: This course teaches the history of the English stage from its earliest phase to the recent time. Major aspects: evolution of the stage, Miracle and Mystery cycles, the Elizabethan stage, acting conventions, authorial concerns and emendations, costumes and props, and the stage as a metaphor.

Course Code: ENG 303 Course Name: The Short Story Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: The course offers reading of a selection of short stories from the list below. The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the elements of short stories in all their varieties.

Course Code: ENG 304 Course Name: Essayists of the Romantic period Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: In parallel with their poet-friends, many essayists of the Romantic period uphold the same romantic spirit of the time, of which their essays, usually called familiar esssys, give a good account. The selections below will help the students realize so.

Course Code: ENG 305 Course Name: Contemporary Novels in Translation Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: In the twentieth century the novel in translation has arguably emerged as the global literary form through which cultures most avidly express themselves and also identify others. Attention will be given to the emergence of the global “bestseller," their formal variety and innovations. The course will explore the politics that underlies the success of this form over others, and the particular success of certain types of texts over other ones.

Course Code: ENG 306 Course Name: The Tragedies of Shakespeare Prerequisite: None Credit Hours: 3.00 Detailed Syllabus: Through this course students will be familiarized with the basic properties of Shakespearean Tragedy. They will know, for example, why Shakespeare had given such an extensive treatment to the theme of royalty in his tragedies, to what dramatic innovations he put the soliloquies, and how he embedded the structures of his tragedies with the conventions of supernaturalism and the play-within-the-play.

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