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 | | The Department of English Language and Literature provides distinctive opportunities for the development of writing skills, increased sensitivity to language, awareness of the esthetic and intellectual enjoyments of literature, and an understanding of the cultural values reflected in literature. |
 | | Study of several major writers of English literature since 1700, chosen from such writers as Pope, Swift, Fielding, Wollstonecraft and Blake in the 18th century; Mary Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats in the Romantic Period; Emily Bronte, Dickens, Browning and Hardy in the Victorian Era. |
 | | Study of selected works of English, American and European literature written from the 1950s to the present, with emphasis on important themes and the developing genres of fiction, drama and poetry. |
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