Three credit hours. One and a half hours of lecture and one and a half hours of seminar per week.

Identification and analysis of the themes, elements, and conventions of the representative writers born between 1743 and 1775 of the First Generation of the Romantic Movement. Historical analysis of the relationship of the primary texts to their period through the use of critical theory. A research project that includes the use of secondary sources to analyze texts from the period is required.