| Courses include, but are not limited to: | |
|---|---|
| Classical Epic | Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid |
| Dante | The Divine Comedy and selected works |
| Tragedy and Comedy | Greek and Shakespearean drama |
| Milton | Paradise Lost and other major works |
| Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess |
| Shakespeare | Comedies, Tragedies, Roman Plays, History Plays |
| Augustan Literature | Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson |
| Romantic Poetry | Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats |
| Victorian Literature | Essays, poetry and fiction by major Victorian writers |
| Faulkner | Major novels and short stories |
| Southern Literature | Poetry, fiction, and criticism by Southern writers of the twentieth century |
| Twentieth-Century Literature | Major modern writers of fiction and poetry in England and America |
| Studies in the Novel | Major 18th and 19th century British and Continental novelists |
| Russian Novel | Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevski |
| Menippean Satire | Lucian, Petronius, Apuleius, Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, Sterne, Lewis Carroll, Joyce, John Barth |
| Literary Criticism | Theories of both the interpretation and the nature of poetic knowledge |
Chair and Associate Professor of English Debra Romanick Baldwin, Ph.D., and Professor of Physics and recent Interim Dean of Constantin College Sally Hicks, Ph.D., have secured a $299,078 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support writing instruction at UD for the fall 2020 semester.
+ Read MoreHis first step was to enroll in physician’s assistant school at Baylor’s College of Medicine, a career trajectory to which he had aspired since his early childhood. Nowadays, Jonathan Cunningham, BA ’17, is dedicated to the vocational pursuit of comfort and healing at MD Anderson in Houston, among the largest cancer treatment centers in the U.S., where he was once a chemotherapy patient himself.
+ Read MoreDuring his Rome semester in 1991, Joseph Meaney, BA '93, with his friends (now Father) Kevin Cook, BA '94, and (now Texas State Representative and UD Trustee) Tan Parker, BA '93, attended a private Mass with Pope St. John Paul II. Several weeks earlier, they had hand-delivered a letter to the Swiss Guards outside St. Peter's requesting the Mass and including their contact information; at last, they'd received the phone call instructing them to be at the Bronze Gates at 5 a.m.
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