ENGL 387 - Supervised Study in Ireland

Credits: 6
Planned Offering: Spring 2012 and alternate years

Prerequisites: Six credits in English at the 200 level or higher, and permission of the instructor. An intensive engagement with the literature, landscape, and culture of Ireland, carried out over six weeks in Ireland. Readings are coordinated with site visits, which range from prehistoric and Celtic sites to early and medieval Christian sites to modern Irish life. Authors include early Gaelic poets, medieval Irish poetry, the Blasket Island storytellers, major modernists such as Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Gregory, Heaney, and others. Note: This is a six-week spring term course.Conner.