Language Component
ENG 108 ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH
This course aims at training students to develop their listening, speaking and writing abilities, with emphasis on writing. Through the study of fiction and non-fiction, students will acquire the basic skills of academic writing: how to develop a thesis, how to support the thesis with evidence drawn from the text itself, and how to present their analyses and arguments persuasively to the reader.
ENG 113 ACADEMIC ESSAY WRITING
A continuation of ENG 108. Students will have additional practice in the art of persuasive academic writing, and will work toward producing a final research paper that will entail the use of libraries, the collection, organisation and authentication of information, and the ability to defend their thesis in class discussion.
ENG 214 THE ART OF WRITING
A writing class based on literary analysis. Students will focus on close reading and developing their interpretations into essays that they can defend in class discussions. The objective is to develop critical thinking and scholarly writing.
Literature Component
ENG 122 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF FICTION
The course introduces students to key principles and critical approaches in the study of fiction. There is discussion of types of fiction, and the history and formation of fictional genres. The class will read two novels and several short stories and will discuss the main narrative elements, as structuralist theory has defined them. It will also trace the changes these elements have undergone in specific historical periods and in the context of different literary traditions.
ENG 123 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF DRAMA
The course aims to develop in each student an imaginative, meaningful and enriching experience of drama both as a reading experience and as dramatic performance. The students will be introduced to the techniques of systematic study of drama texts and genres by emphasizing such elements as dramatic structure, character, dialogue and point of view.
ENG 124 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF POETRY
The course introduces students to different historical genres of poetry and to a systematic literary study of the elements of poetry by concentrating on structure, figurative language, metrical arrangements, rhythm and diction.
ENG 216 MODERN DRAMA
The course will concentrate on plays written in the late 19th century, the beginning of Realism and Naturalism, and then move into the 20th century to include plays written up to the 1990s. Each play will be studied in its cultural as well as its historical context. The course also includes an emphasis upon theatre history and theatre criticism.
ENG 217 STUDIES IN POETRY I
The aim of this survey course is to develop the student's knowledge and appreciation of the historical, theoretical and aesthetic modes in the development of English poetry from the early 15 th to 20th centuries. Major Schools of English poetry such as the Elizabethan Sonnet form, the Metaphysical School, the English Epic, the Neo-Classical School, the Romantics and the Moderns will be studied. Major figures will include Chaucer, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron and T.S. Eliot. The course will also contextualize the various historical and cultural dimensions in which the poets worked and produced their poetry.
ENG 218 STUDIES IN FICTION I
This course considers issues of narrative form, structure, technique and style in the short story and the novel from the period of their first emergence to the late Victorian era. Students will also be introduced to the question of the relationships between the social, historical and cultural context of the period 1714-1890 and the development of a repertoire of genre conventions and innovations.
ENG 219 STUDIES IN FICTION II
This course focuses on the major impact of modernism and postmodernism on twentieth-century fiction. Attention will be paid to some of the crucial cognitive, aesthetic and ontological issues posed during the period 1900-1999, as well as to the ways in which representative works of modern fiction have responded to the challenges and dilemmas of modernity and postmodernity.
ENG 324 STUDIES IN POETRY II
This course will take a critical and comparative approach to modern poetry in English and in English translation. The focus will include the study the rise of modernist poetry and its antecedents, and will emphasize the international and multicultural aspect of poetry in English in the second half of the twentieth century. Study of translated poetry and its reception in English will also be considered.
ENG 325 SHAKESPEARE
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the systematic study of four or five representative plays from the corpus of Shakespeare's poetic verse dramas in the distinctive genres of history, comedy and tragedy. The range of Shakespeare's dramatic art, its elements and structure, together with his poetics is emphasized. Students are also introduced to the historical, social and cultural background of the late 16th and early 17th centuries as well as a comparative study of Shakespeare's sources and critiques of the plays.
ENG 317 HISTORY OF LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
The course aims at raising student awareness of the history of literary theory, and of current debates around the study, interpretation and evaluation of literary texts. Some of the major exponents of literary theory from Aristotle to the poststructuralists are studied. Through the study of selected literary texts, students are encouraged to examine how texts themselves (re)stage the theoretical debates around them
Linguistic Component
ENG 133 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS I
The course deals with the levels of linguistic analysis: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Extensive use of practical exercises will help the students to understand theoretical concepts and learn how to approach language in a scientific way.
ENG 134 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS II
The course is an introduction to the scientific study of language. Its objective will be to present fundamental, general characteristics and various aspects (communicative, social, psychological, etc.) of language. Basic notions and distinctions of the main theoretical trends (structuralism, generativism) are also introduced.
ENG 135 PEDAGOGICAL GRAMMAR
The course presents an overview of the grammar of English and focuses on topics in English grammar that are relevant to the EFL teacher. It aims at both improving the students' own English usage and analyzing problems in the English usage of EFL learners.
ENG 234 ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
The course provides an introductory survey of the phonetics of English and introduces the students to the fundamental concepts and principles of phonology. Major topics covered include the articulation of English phones; phonetic transcription; rhythm and intonation as features of English and modern phonological theories.
ENG 235 MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX OF ENGLISH
The course examines the internal structure of words and the rules by which word formation takes place and provides an introductory study of English grammar from a formal perspective. It examines the relationship between syntax and morphology by considering the effects that some morphological processes have on syntax. It also considers the phrase structure properties of English, the different properties of main and embedded clauses, and discusses movement operations, such as yes/no and wh-questions, passives and raising constructions.
ENG 236 SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
The course aims to provide an understanding of the principles underlying the expression of meanings through language. It surveys basic topics in semantics such as sense and reference, lexical semantics and basic sense relations, semantics and grammar, simple logic. It also provides an introduction to pragmatics and the negotiation of interpersonal meanings in contexts of situation.
ENG 331 SOCIOLINGUISTICS
The aim of this course is to study language variation within a social context. It shows how sociocultural factors such as social status, occupation, level of education, age, and gender affect linguistic behaviour.
ENG 333 TRANSLATION STUDIES
The aims of the course are: to develop a set of criteria for practising, analyzing and evaluating translations, by focusing on different levels of linguistic analysis; to practice translation of a wide variety of texts from and to English and Greek; to develop different aspects of translation training, including effective revision and editing strategies; and, to introduce central issues of translation theory.
ENG 334 EFL METHODOLOGY
This course aims at preparing prospective teachers of English for their future work in the classroom. It introduces students to theories of learning and teaching, various traditional and innovative methodologies of teaching foreign languages, lesson planning, the selection and use of various teaching aids and the organisation and evaluation of teaching materials. Students are guided in their teaching practice.
ENG 430 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
This course acquaints students with (a) the factors that enhance and hamper learning, (b) the major theories of learning and their application to language, (c) first language acquisition, (d) second language learning, (e) bilingualism, (f) cognitive development, (g) biological foundations of language, and (h) zoosemiotics.
Compulsory courses from other departments
CS 001 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE
Fundamentals of Computer Science, the main historical events which have contributed to its development, and the possibilities it offers. Basic constituent elements of Computer Science and methods for making it valuable to other sciences and applications. Practical experience with application packages, basics of programming, and programming in a fourth generation language such as Logo.
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