ENGL 300 - Foundations of Contemporary Literature

Upper Division

This introductory course familiarizes all first-year MFA students with selected core texts in all three of the program’s genres. By way of lecture and discussion, the course covers several literary movements and periods and offers approaches to numerous foundational texts, including novels, stories, poems, and essays by Jane Austen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Isak Dinesen, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, and Raymond Carver, among others.

Course credits: 3