Senate 

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Senate Committee on 

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Undergraduate Studies 

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November 16, 979 

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For Information 

Under its delegated authority SCUS approved the 

proposed changes in courses in English, as follows: 

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344-4 ? 

Title 

ENGL. ? 

346-4 ? 

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ENGL. ? 

320-4 ? 

Title 

Daniel R. Birch 

Chairman 

DRB/pa 

MEMORANDUM 

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Lebowitz 

Oçtober29th......979 

The upper level course offerings of the Department of English are subdivided 

Into period, major figure or genre courses. Since the Introduction of this 

curriculum 

in

'1976, the following courses have been taught in a manner which 

is not fully reflected by the titles. Therefore., the title changes are 

Intended as a clarification of the present course content. 

from 

English 344-4 : Edwards, Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne 

(. 128, 1979-80 calendar) 

to

English 344-4 : American Prose and Poetry, 

Beginnings to the Civil War. 

from 

English 346-4 : Melville, Whitman, Dickinson 

(p. 128, 1979-80 calendar) 

to

English 346-4 : Hawthorne, Melville, Whi, Dickinson 

from 

English 320-4 : Prose, Verse, and Drama of the Enlightenment 

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( p. 

128, 1979-80 calendar) 

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English 320-4 : Samuel Johnson and his 

contemporaries 

"The following courses in the 300 range 

are intended to acquaint the student 

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in detail with specific components of 

the literary tradition. The main 

emphasis of each course will follow 

within the area designated by its title, 

but authors from other areas may be 

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included. Where the course is denominated 

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by a series of authors, It Is understood 

that at least two of the authors named 

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will be given substantial attention 

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during the course. Additional material 

may be drawn from the other named 

authors, from the contemporaries of 

the group, or from the literary traditions 

which any of these authors represents. 

The same principle applies to course 

defined by genre or period. The three 

Special Studies courses are designed 

to examine various aspects of literary 

study which normally are not examined 

directly in the other upper division 

courses. 

courses in the 300 range 

are scheduled for four classroom hours 

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presented either as two hours of lecture 

and two hours of seminar or, in courses 

arranged for limited enrolment in any 

given 

semeslt, 

as four hours of seminar 

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"The following courses in the 300 range 

are intended to acquaint the student 

with specific authors, genres, periods 

or critical theories. Where the 

course title is a series of authors, 

at least two of them will be given 

substantial attention. The course 

may study only two authors or may draw 

from the other named authors, their 

contemporaries or the literary 

traditions represented by these authors. 

Courses which specify genre, period 

or theoretical concerns may also include 

material drawn from areas other than 

'those indicated by the title or may 

concentrate ona limited number of 

authors. 

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Special Studies courses examine aspects 

of literary study not normally covered 

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All courses have four classroom hours, 

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which may be divided between lectures 

and tutorials or held entirely as 

seminars. 

RA'TIONALE: This has been rewritten to be more 

clear in the calendar. 

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