Spring 2026 Undergraduate English Courses

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01   MTH   CAC   12255   ZITIN   MTH3   MU-208 This course introduces students to some influential works of fiction published in the 1700s, considering them as formative for the tradition of novel-writing in English. How did writers (and readers) from this era help shape what we mean when we talk about “the novel” today? How might we define its core features: plot, character, narration, setting? In what ways do these features of prose fiction register the historical context of the texts in which they...

01   MTH2   CAC  12267   SILVER  HC-S126 Rutgers's First Textbook For its first fifty years, the Rutgers University curriculum was designed around a single eighteenth-century book: Robert Dodsley's Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education (1748, reprinted 1763).  The Preceptor contains 12 parts, each one written by a leading poet, scientist, philosopher, or intellectual luminary of its age.  Each part focuses on one topic, which could almost be the names of departments at our university,...