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ENGL 317 English as a Second Language

This course will examine the expectations of different Englishes –English as a first, second and foreign language. It will explore learning processes and the expected product in second language situations. It will also examine processes of hybridization...

ENGL 316 Shakespeare and His Age

This course aims at introducing students to the achievement of Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist. A representative sample of this achievement will be read. The main focus will be on understanding each individual work. Attention will however also be paid to...

ENGL 315 Phonetics and Phonology

The importance of phonetics and phonology as reference points in pronunciation is emphasized in this course. A theoretical approach followed by practice will be adopted in discussing single sound segments and the phonological processes involved during...

ENGL 314 Introduction to African Literature

This is essentially a survey course meant to offer a formal introduction to African Literature in its broadest historical and cultural contexts. Our aim is for each student to gain a close, personal familiarity with selected representative texts of major...

ENGL 313 Practice in Criticism

This is a practical course in literary criticism. The aim of the course is to develop students’ responsiveness to literature and give them the technical language and analytical procedure for describing how literary texts achieve their effects.

ENGL 312 Semantics

This course provides a core detailed discussion of meaning in language and the way meaning is expressed through words and sentences. It deals specifically with word meaning and sentence interpretation. It offers a comprehensive discussion of issues such as...

ENGL 311 Grammar

This course involves a more detailed analysis of the grammatical structure of the English language using a chosen theory of linguistic description. The aim is to show how the language can be taken apart and reassembled to produce different kinds of sentences...

ENGL 224 Survey of English Literature II

This course, the second part of the basic introduction to English Literature, follows through a selection of representative texts the development of English Literature from the Augustans in the early eighteenth century to the Age of Sensibility later in that...

ENGL 223 Survey of English Literature I

This course, the first part of a basic introduction to English Literature, traces through a selection of representative texts the development of English letters from the Anglo-Saxon beginnings through Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the Elizabethan age...

ENGL 222 Introduction to the English Language II

This course introduces students to linguistic analysis with special reference to lexis and semantics. Word formation processes and their implications for meaning in English are examined, as well as the properties of meaning in the English language and the...

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