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Course Listings

SUNY Oneonta offers students more than 1,400 courses—from Accounting to Zoology—from over 25 separate departments. Requirements for majors and minors and course descriptions are listed under the departments that offer them, and these departments are arranged in alphabetical order.

Please note that requirements, courses, and course descriptions are subject to change after publication of this catalog. Contact the appropriate departments for updated information. Also note that some course listings have been edited for clarity and consistency. Complete listings are available from the instructors or the departments concerned.

Key to Course Listings

Abbreviation   Meaning
(PACT)   Activity course in Health & Fitness
(LA)   Liberal Arts (course is a Liberal Arts offering)
OCS   Oral Communication Skills
SUSF   Sustainability Focused Courses
s.h.   Semester Hour(s)
SoS   Sophomore standing
JrS   Junior standing
SrS   Senior standing

Course Numbering System

001 - 099   No credit; usually developmental in nature.
100 - 199   Lower-division undergraduate-level courses.
200 - 299   Upper-division intermediate undergraduate-level courses.
300 - 399   Upper-division advanced courses.
500 - 699   Graduate-level courses.
 

English Literature
  

  • ELIT 200 - English Literature – Beginnings to Early Renaissance 3 s.h.

    Survey of literature of England from the medieval and Renaissance periods. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 .
  

  • ELIT 201 - English Literature – Renaissance to 18th Century 3 s.h.

    Survey of literature of England from the Renaissance through the 18th century. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 .
  

  • ELIT 202 - English Literature – 18th Century to Present 3 s.h.

    Survey of literature of England from the 18th century to the present. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 .
  

  • ELIT 217 - 19th Century English Novel 3 s.h.

    A survey of the Romantic and Victorian novel, from authors such as Dickens, the Brontes, Eliot, and Hardy. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 240 - Medieval English Literature 3 s.h.

    Readings in modern English translation of outstanding medieval prose and poetry. Includes Beowulf, Authurian legend, lyrics, drama, romances, selections from Chaucer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and sagas. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 241 - The English Renaissance 3 s.h.

    Readings in English literature from the 15th to the 17th centuries. Selections from the works of such representative writers as Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Jonson. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100  and LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 242 - Staging the Renaissance 3 s.h.

    This course explores the wide-range of English Renaissance drama, excluding Shakespeare. We will read plays written by Christopher Marlowe, Elizabeth Cary, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and Mary Wroth. In addition to reading and discussing plays in depth, we will consider how the stage both reflected and participated in major cultural changes occurring in Early Modern England. A-E Only. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): LITR 100  or LITR 150 , ELIT 270 , or permission of instructor.
  

  • ELIT 243 - 18th-Century English Literature 3 s.h.

    A survey of selected poetry, prose, and drama, with emphasis on satirists. Readings from authors such as Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, and Blake, as well as early newspaper writers, biographers, and novelists. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 , and LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 245 - British Writers of the Romantic Age 3 s.h.

    Study of the poetry and prose of the major Romanticists of the early nineteenth century. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 , and LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 246 - Victorian Literature 3 s.h.

    Great works of British prose and poetry from 1832 to 1901. Includes selections from major poets such as the Brownings, Tennyson, Arnold, or the Rossettis, as well as novels by authors such as Dickens, George Eliot, Bram Stoker and the Brontes. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 , and LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 247 - 20th-Century English Writers 3 s.h.

    English novels, short stories, plays, and poetry written in the 20th century. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. humanities.
  

  • ELIT 270 - Shakespeare 3 s.h.

    Selected plays representing various dramatic types and stages in the author’s development. Pass/Fail Option. Offered Fall and Spring.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 .
  

  • ELIT 272 - 17th-Century English Literature 3 s.h.

    A study of the main poets and prose writers of the period. Special attention to Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Jonson, Herrick, Bacon, and the styles they represent. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 273 - Milton 3 s.h.

    John Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the most beautiful works in English Literature, and necessary for understanding later literary movements such as romanticism. Milton’s version of Satan was an influential model for both Blake’s poetry and Shelley’s monster in Frankenstein. Milton’s version of Eve sill provokes controversy in discussions of gender and religion. However, Milton was also a radical political figure who supported the execution of monarchs in his work Eikonoklastes (“Icon Breaker”) and wrote on educational theory, divorce, and free speech. We will spend the bulk of the semester reading Paradise Lost, examining its complex poetry and its religious and political rhetoric. We will also read other works such as Samson Agonistes, Lycidas, and selections from Milton’s prose writing. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 274 - Modern British Poets 3 s.h.

    This course examines the poetry of the modern period (ca. 1890-1945) in Britain, situating it in relation to social, historical and literary contexts, such as the two world wars and the tension between modernity and tradition. Later poets may also be included. A-E Only. Offered every 2-3 years.
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 , and LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 275 - Jane Austen 3 s.h.

    An intensive reading of novels such as Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Additional, related readings will cover topics such as Austen’s biography, criticism, the history of the novel, and contemporary literary developments. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 , and LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 287 - From Romance to Gothic 3 s.h.

    The novel has always been closely tied to ideas about women, and this class will trace the history of a genre with a focus on gender. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the novel as either a teaching method or a dangerous distraction for women and young people, and we will examine the ways women writers navigated scandal and respectability in the romances of authors will Aphra Behn, in the sentimental and comic novel, and works of gothic terror by novelists like Ann Radcliffe. At the same time, we will look at the social, economic, and cultural conditions surrounding publishing, women’s rights, and marriage through essays and journalism by writers such as Mary Astell, Eliza Haywood, and Mary Wollstonecraft. A-E Only. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    Cross-listed as WMST 287 .
    Prerequisite(s): LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 294 - Special Topics in English Literature 3 s.h.

    Offered according to interest of instructor, requests by students, and availability of instructor. Pass/Fail Option.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150; 6 s.h. ALIT, ELIT, LITR or WLIT.
  

  • ELIT 299 - Independent Study in English Literature 1 s.h. - 6 s.h.

    Special studies under department supervision for students who have shown unusual ability in English and other areas. May be continued in successive semesters. Admission by consent of department chair and instructor involved. A-E Only. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; COMP 200  or COMP 290 ; LITR 150 ; or permission of instructor.
  

  • ELIT 361 - The Brontes 3 s.h.

    Covers novels by each of the Bronte sisters, such as Agnes Gray, Villette, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights. Students will refine their close reading and analytical abilities while learning literary and critical terminology and historical and cultural context. Three essays, a presentation, and reading quizzes. A-E Only. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 , and LITR 100  or LITR 150 .
  

  • ELIT 364 - Dickens 3 s.h.

    Consideration of Dickens as a novelist and as a critic of society, with close reading of selected novels such as Bleak House, Great Expectations, and The Old Curiosity Shop. A-E Only. Offered every 2-3 years.
    Prerequisite(s): JrS.
  

  • ELIT 370 - Chaucer 3 s.h.

    Study of Chaucer’s development in scope, thought, and technique. Emphasis on The Canterbury Tales. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): LITR 100  or LITR 150 ; COMP 200  or COMP 290 .
  

  • ELIT 371 - Shakespeare and Culture 3 s.h.

    This seminar course is designed for students who wish to immerse themselves more fully in reading and analyzing a particular aspect of Shakespeare’s plays.  We will focus closely on three plays and consider how the plays intersect with a number of contentious issues in both early modern and postmodern cultures.  Topics may range from legal and gender issues, to religion and the stage, to sexual and racial identity issues.  In addition, we will view film versions, where available, considering how these films contribute to the ongoing reinvention of Shakespeare in our present day culture. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Prerequisite(s): LITR 150 , ELIT 270  with a “C” or better, and COMP 200  or COMP 290 .
  

  • ELIT 394 - Special Topics in English Literature 3 s.h.

    Pass/Fail Option. Offered according to interest of instructor, requests by students, and availability of instructor.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): LITR 150 ; LITR 250 ; COMP 200  or COMP 290 ; 6 s.h. ALIT, ELIT, LITR or WLIT.
  

  • ELIT 399 - Independent Study in English Literature 1 s.h. - 6 s.h.

    Special studies under department supervision for students who have shown unusual ability in English and other areas. May be continued in successive semesters. Admission by consent of department chair and instructor involved. Pass/Fail Option.
    LA
    Prerequisite(s): LITR 150 ; LITR 250 ; COMP 200  or COMP 290 ; 6 s.h. ALIT, ELIT, LITR or WLIT.