COURSE MODIFICATION
Originator	Melissa Gregory, x4915, mailto:melissa.gregory@utoledo.edu
College	Arts and Sciences
Department	ENGLISH
	PRESENT	PROPOSED
Alpha Code	ENGL 4500/5500
Title	British Literature: Early Romantic Age	British Literature: The Romantic Period
Hours	3
Pre-/Co-requisites	None
Catalog Description	Poetry, essays and criticism of the early Romantic movement with emphasis on the writings of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Lamb. Recommended: ENGL 2730, 2800, or 3790.	Study of major authors and genres of the Romantic period: approximately 1789 to 1837.
Reason for Change	(1) Splitting this literary period into Early & Late Romanticism offers a level of specialization unnecessary for students who wish to be introduced to Romantic literature. (2) It also increases the chances that our students will be forced to choose between early and late Romanticism instead of taking both, thus depriving them of exposure to major authors in what is, relatively speaking, a very short literary period. (3) We do not have enough tenured or tenure-track faculty to accommodate regularly teaching both ENGL 4500 and 4510. (4) Recent scholarship in the nineteenth century increasingly treats "the long nineteenth century" as one period; hence, retaining a division of the Romantic era into two separate courses works against current trends in Romanticism scholarship.
Content Changed?	Yes: see attached
Courses Dropped?	ENGL 4510/5510 effective now