(3 credit hrs) This is a seminal course that introduces students to the emerging concept of criticism and critical theory. The course starts off with the Classical period that encompasses major philosophers and thinkers, and it moves through the Renaissance period, the Neo-Classics, and the Romantics.  

(3 credit hrs) This course offers a fairly comprehensive introduction to the exquisitely complex literature of the British Romantic Period (1789-1830). The students will be introduced to a broad selection of texts by the most prominent poets, novelists, and thinkers of English Romanticism, as well as their relevant historical, cultural, political and aesthetic milieu.