Course Description
Works of non-dramatic literature written in English or circulated in England from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course puts the English Renaissance in both a European and colonial context. Genres include, but are not limited to: poetry, political and fictional prose, masques, travel writing, proto-ethnographies, and popular writing (conduct books, ballads, emblems, polemical texts). Authors may include Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Isabella Whitney, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Louise Labe, Gaspara Stampa, Sor Juana Della Cruz, Castiglione, Mary Sidney, Ben Jonson, Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, John Donne, George Herbert, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn.
GEP
Global Knowledge GEP Course
Humanities GEP Course
Fall 2025
Instructors
Meeting Patterns
Classes Start:
August 18, 2025
Classes End:
December 2, 2025
Location:
0G115 Tompkins Hall
Class Days:
T H
Class Start Time:
10:15am
Class End Time:
11:30am
Class Type:
Lecture
Credits:
3.00
Restrictions:
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and above
