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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

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English
  

  • ENGL 185G Literature and Film

    4 Credit(s)

    An introductory examination of the relationship between moving pictures and the written word. Students will study how filmmakers and writers construct narrative, and how stories have been adapted across media. Other topics may include the following: the different ways that literature and film have dealt with the problem of realism, the use of iconic and symbolic modes, and the political implications of film.

    First Year Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Degree students only with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston.

    Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar).

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 188G Literature, Medicine, and Culture

    4 Credit(s)

    A consideration of the humanistic aspects (“the human factor”) in medicine. Readings will include works from the perspective of both patients and medical professionals in order to focus on those areas of medicine that challenge our ideas about what we think we want from medical research and practice in the twenty-first century.

    First Year Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Degree students only with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston.

    Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar).

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 189G War in Literature

    4 Credit(s)

    A study of the ways in which literary works have dealt with the problem of representing the terrors of war. Attention will be paid to the ethical and aesthetic issues particular to the depiction of war in variety of media, such as novels, short stories, poetry, a graphic novel, film, and journalism.

    First Year Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Degree students only with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston.

    Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar).

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 200 Introduction to Literary Studies

    3 Credit(s)

    This course introduces students to the practice of literary studies, with a particular emphasis on the skills involved in close reading and analytical writing. Through an exploration of fiction, drama, and poetry, students will develop the capacity to consider texts in their historical and cultural contexts as well as to apply a range of critical frameworks. Ultimately, this course will equip students with a set of tools for interpretation and techniques for writing effectively about literature that will serve them throughout the English major.

    Distribution Area: The Arts

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 201 Five British Authors

    3 Credit(s)

    Representative works by five of the most important writers from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, studied as introductions to philosophical and humanistic studies, explored as reflecting and shaping the leading ideas, assumptions, and values of their ages. Works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and other authors such as Milton, Swift, and Austen, with films and background lectures on the philosophical and historical contexts of the works and their authors. Instruction in analytical reading and writing is provided.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 202 Six American Authors

    3 Credit(s)

    The achievements of American literature in articulating the American mind is illustrated by works from some well-known American writers-Thoreau, Dickinson, Faulkner, for example-as well as from those who deserve to be better known, such as William Wells Brown, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: English 101
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 203 Writing Craft/Context/Design

    3 Credit(s)

    This course introduces students to rhetorical, literary, and critical approaches to studying and producing writing as they play out across a range of contexts–in print and digital media, in the workplace, in journalistic and artistic venues, and in academic settings. The course will also pay attention to the role of editing and publishing in text production. Framing writing in terms of genre, purpose, audience, and compositional practice, the course will introduce students to aspects of writing that span different situations: collaborative writing, visual and verbal design, and research practices. Other topics include learning about the range of career opportunities in English studies and primary and secondary research methods.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 210 Introduction to Creative Writing

    3 Credit(s)

    This course provides an introduction to the arts through the medium of creative writing. The course focuses on writing stories and poems, as well as reading fiction and poetry. Additional genres of writing may be introduced. Student writing is submitted weekly and discussed in class. Students are encouraged to explore issues of literary form, style, and voice, developing creativity and experiencing the importance of artistic expression. Not experience in creative writing is required.

    Distribution Area: The Arts

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 211 Creative Writing: Poetry

    3 Credit(s)

    This course provides an introduction to the writing of poetry for students who may or may not have had prior experience. Students read poetry as a basis for learning to write it, and class discussion focuses both on assigned readings and on student work. Student writing is submitted weekly and is strengthened through in-class workshops, revision exercises, and portfolio compilations. Individual conferences with the instructor are required. Students are encouraged to explore issues of poetic form and content, developing knowledge about poetry while developing creative, analytical, and artistic skills.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 212 Creative Writing: Fiction

    3 Credit(s)

    This course provides an introduction to the writing of fiction for students who may or may not have had prior experience. Students read fiction as a basis for learning to write it, and class discussion focuses both on assigned readings and on student work. Student writing is submitted weekly and is strengthened through in-class workshops, revision exercises, and portfolio compilations. Individual conferences with the instructor are required. Students are encouraged to explore prose fiction’s form and content, developing knowledge about fiction while developing creative, analytical, and artistic skills.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 216 Reading and Writing Journalism

    3 Credit(s)

    This introductory course provides students with a foundation in the art of journalism with an emphasis on critical reading and writing. Throughout the semester, students read classic and contemporary works by prize-winning journalists and produce and analytical responses that consider these works with respect to critical debates in the field–questions of objectivity, representation, reporting methods, and the public interest. Using these writers as models, the course covers principles of style, structure, audience, and genre, as well as the legal and ethical frameworks that govern the journalistic profession. Through guided writing assignments, students are invited to try their hand at a range of journalistic genres, such as news reporting, profiles, and editorials. This course welcomes students of all levels; no previous experience in journalism is expected or required.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 221L Introduction to Asian-American Writing

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of prose works by American writers of East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian descent. In discussing texts and current issues in the field of Asian American literary studies, students consider the ways in which discourse determines identity and the responsibilities of writers-to themselves as artists and to their communities, whether defined by race or gender. ASAMST 221L and ENGL 221L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 101
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 223 Latino/Latina/Latinx Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    This course will offer a survey of Latino/a/x literary voices drawn from the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and other Latin American migrations to the U.S. In addition to encountering a range of genres, students in this course will explore concepts, such as the bilingual self; the barrio vs. the borderland; immigrant autobiography; and the construction of ethnic American literature itself.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 225 Graphic Novels

    3 Credit(s)

    This course offers an introduction to the study of image and text through an analysis of selected graphic novels. The course investigates a fascinating range of relationships between images and words, as well as the roles these relationships play in our language and in our ways of thinking about story-telling, truth, memory, identity, and power.

    Distribution Area: The Arts

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 226 Storytelling: Myth to Media

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines an essential human activity: storytelling. What makes a story a story? How has the art of storytelling evolved across time and technologies? Why do we still rely on storytelling today - why haven’t we moved beyond it? Instead of leaving storytelling behind, we seem to enjoy telling increasingly complex stories (whether in books, film, on TV or via audio), using technology to make the experience of stories even more immersive, and moving storytelling into other realms such as marketing. Why is the power of storytelling stronger than ever? How do emerging media invite us to imaging what a story can be or do? By reading a wide variety of myths, folktales, short stories, novels, plays, graphic novels, and online stories, this course examines how stories connect us across time periods and diverse cultures. We will also explore the artistic shape and movement of narrative across oral, visual, and interactive forms. In addition to experiencing cutting-edge digital storytelling, this course investigates the roots of storytelling in oral cultures and how we are returning to that form through public storytelling.

    Distribution Area: The Arts

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 230 King Arthur

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the narrative of “England’s greatest king” through the comparative study of media (manuscript, print, film, and television) and genres (poems, novels, screenplays). Students will examine how the Arthur legend contributes to our understanding of the humanities and literary production. Topics to be explored include the human fascination for quest-narratives, the transnational contexts shaping popular mythology, and the interpretation of cultural and religious symbols in the humanities.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 235 African-American Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    A survey of works by African-Americans with attention to the interaction of musical, oral and literary forms in Black expression, slave songs, blues lyrics, sermons, and works by Hughes, Wright, Baraka, and others.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 101
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 242 Grammar for Every Writer

    3 Credit(s)

    Good writing is impossible without grammar. From art history to zoology, from politics to publishing, every discipline and profession relics on the invisible rules of grammar. This course is for writers and readers of every type, whether you feel like you missed learning about grammar and now want to know what it is all about, or whether you arc an advanced student of English language and writing. We will learn about grammatical rules and norms, but we will also learn about how grammar develops, changes and performs rhetorical functions in relation to region, gender, socioeconomic and political forces, and ethnicity.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 245 Global Voices

    3 Credit(s)

    This course provides a critical introduction to literature written in what has become arguable the globe’s primary language of commerce, government, law, and education. The course examines fiction writers, playwrights, and poets from locations outside England and North America who have claimed the English language as their own and used it with energy and creative verve. Readings will survey works in English from Africa, Asia, and Australia, among other places, with attention o their heterogeneity and complexity. Key topics include identity, nationalism, gender, feminisms, memory, conflict, exile, nostalgia, postcoloniality, and citizenship.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 248 Utopia/Dystopia Across Culture

    3 Credit(s)

    Visions of Utopia represent the desire for a better, more just society. They engage the free-play of the political imagination as a form of wish-fulfillment and social daydreaming in order to extrapolate better worlds from the less than perfect present worlds of specific societies. As the negative reflection of utopian desire, dystopias similarly interrogate their societies, magnifying and exacerbating troubling political and social injustices. In this course, we will first trace the development of utopian/dystopian thought and its historical origins in literature and philosophy. From here, we will examine contemporary manifestations of utopia/dystopia in diverse societies in a variety of different mediums (including film, music, graphic novels and literature, as well as religious writings, legal and political documents, and philosophical works). We’ll focus on interpreting these utopian and dystopian texts as particular instantiations of cultural work in different societies in response to specific historical and political conditions. In keeping with this cross-cultural approach, the course will engage with a range of modern utopian/dystopian texts from at least four broad perspectives: African, American, European, and Afrofuturist-diasporic. These perspectives will allow us to analyze how utopian and dystopian works are always positioned at the border between defining a particular culture at a particular moment in time (how the writers of the text perceive their culture, its faults, its possibilities) and cultural change (the utopia or dystopia that this culture may transform or harden into given these traits). That is, despite a pretense towards universalism, utopias and dystopias are always about particular wish fulfillments rooted in localized, existing socio-cultural-political conditions. They are always raced, classed, and gendered, revealing issues of cultural conflict within their given local cultural determinations. Given these conditions, students will learn to think through the ethnocentric problems of utopian/dystopian cultural production: that one person’s utopia is another’s dystopia, as well as how the utopian tradition has attempted to work through this problem in its own formal transformations.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 249 Animal Lit

    3 Credit(s)

    Animal Studies is a fairly recent development in literary studies that asks critical questions about how animals are represented and imagined in both literary and non-literary texts, thereby challenging our traditional ways of defining the boundary between humans and animals. Questions that the course may consider include: What are animals thinking? Do they dream, reason, theorize? They communicate to each other, but can they talk, and can we talk with them? Or is this a human dream and animals have their own dreams that we can’t access? Is there a larger question of beingness here we can think about? Are animals different for us according to whether we love them or fear them, ride them or eat them? We will be reading a series of texts that will help us raise questions about the animal as ‘the other,’ whether companion-other or feared-other, and about what it means as a writer to try to speak for animal being and the nonhuman generally.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 250 The Monstrous Imagination in Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    Literature not only creates monsters, but seems to enjoy the imaginative leap needed to make “real” the obviously unreal monster. Why does literature uses its imaginative power its ability to move beyond reality & to envision figures that are non-human, abnormal, or uncivilized and are disturbing, disruptive, or horrific in form? If we examine these figures closely, one of the things that makes them both very human and very monstrous is their imaginative excess: they often have an imagination that is out of control, overly-rebellious or engaged in too-powerful thinking. Thus, this class argues that literature uses the figure of the monster to question the benefits, powers, and downfalls of the imagination. By asking you to question why the imagination creates monsters, this class asks you to question the nature of the imagination itself; especially the imagination that creates and reads literature.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 252 Film I: Foundations of Cinema Studies

    3 Credit(s)

    This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of film analysis and to topics and approaches in cinema studies. We will devote several weeks to building a precise vocabulary for describing mise-en scene, cinematography, editing, and sound in film with the goal that you will learn to trace the function of film style within a scene and across a film. We will explore various modes of film-making a introductory critical methods related to genre, authorship, and cinema’s social function. We will engage familiar films in unfamiliar ways and learn to work through films that may at first seem perplexing. With these skills, you can enhance your everyday viewing of film (and television), become a more discerning consumer of visual discourse,and most importantly, begin to critically engage with film.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 258 Introduction to World Cinema

    4 Credit(s)

    This course offers an introduction to the study of world cinema as form of artistic and cultural expression. Together we will acquire and develop a greater understanding of and more informed appreciation for international film, learning to interpret, analyze, and reflect on this important global art from. This course will emphasize several ways of approaching world cinema; its creation within a cultural context; its representation of diverse peoples and their values, beliefs, and ideals; its depiction of events-past, present, and future; its use of clearly-defined cinematic techniques; its narrative or storytelling structure; its connection to specific film genres; its place in the trajectory of film history; its reflection on larger themes of the human condition. This course will also explore the place of film in contemporary world culture. How does international cinema provide a means of understanding other cultures? What function does film have: is it an art, entertainment, or profit-making product? Does film offer an escape from reality, a critique of reality, or a heightened experience of reality?

    Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 101
4 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 259 Sexuality in Literature & Film

    3 Credit(s)

    This course offers an introduction to sexuality studies through an interdisciplinary approach to literature and film produced in English. Attention will be paid to the way that different cultures have thought and talked about sexuality, as well as how they have experienced and performed it. Key concepts include gender socialization, social constructionism, performance theory, and the disciplining of bodies and sexual desire.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 262G The Art of Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    This course explores and imagines the world of literature-the imagination as it finds creative expression in language. Why do we call some writing “literature”? What makes us label something “art”? Through fiction, poetry, and drama, participants learn about literary devices and terminology and develop an appreciation for the writer’s craft. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits 

    Degree students only 

    Students may not take more than one 200G ( Intermediate Seminar) course

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 272G The Art of Poetry

    3 Credit(s)

    “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off I know that it’s poetry” (Emily Dickinson). Participants in this course read poetry, discuss poetry, write about poetry, and possibly write poetry in this introduction to the art and craft of poetry. Discussions cover such topics as slant rhyme, syllabics, synesthesia, free verse, the Elizabethan sonnet. This course may be counted towards the English major. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, oral presentation.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits 

    Degree students only 

    Students may not take more than one 200G ( Intermediate Seminar) course

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 273G The Art of Fiction

    3 Credit(s)

    Introduction to themes and forms of fiction. Close analytical reading of stories and novels with special attention to an artist’s historical and cultural milieu, and to an artist’s choices of form (including thematic repetition and variation, narrative point of view, setting, characterization, plot and action, imagery, figurative language, and representations of speech). Emphasis on writing critical and interpretive papers. Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for ENGL C204 (The Nature of Literature: Fiction), but not for both. Capabilities addressed: Reading, writing, critical thinking, information technology, oral presentation.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits 

    Degree students only 

    Students may not take more than one 200G ( Intermediate Seminar) course

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 274G The Art of Drama

    3 Credit(s)

    Introduction to themes in drama. Close analytical reading of plays with special attention to context. Focus on character development, figurative language, setting, imagery and action. Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for ENGL C203 (The Nature of Literature: Drama), but not for both. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits 

    Degree students only 

    Students may not take more than one 200G ( Intermediate Seminar) course

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 276G The Art of Life Writing

    3 Credit(s)

    Introduction to life writing. Close analytical reading of memoirs, personal essays, biographies and autobiographies with special attention to a writer’s historical and cultural milieu, and to a writer’s choices of form (including narrative points of view, setting, characterization, scene and summary, figurative language, and representations of speech). Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for CORE C120 (Controversy), but not for both. This course may count toward the major or minor in English. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, academic self-assessment, collaborative learning, information technology, oral presentation.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits 

    Degree students only 

    Students may not take more than one 200G ( Intermediate Seminar) course

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 284 Language, Literacy and Community

    3 Credit(s)

    This course is designed to be taken in conjunction with ENGL 285. It provides theoretical and practical foundations for teaching second language adult literacy. Course work considers participants’ own language/literacy acquisition processes and practice as tutors. The course focuses on learner-centered approaches to teaching adult ESL/literacy.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 101
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 285 Tutor Training: ESL

    3 Credit(s)

    This course emphasizes the theoretical and practical issues in the teaching of ESL, thus providing tutors with a framework with which to view their own teaching and observation experiences. Readings and discussions address materials development, instructional techniques, and textbook evaluation. Open only to UMass Boston ESL tutors.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 292 Cinema, Sex, and Censorship

    4 Credit(s)

    This course introduces students to the history of sex in American cinema by tracing the history of the representation of sex and sexuality from early cinema and the vaudeville tradition to contemporary engagements with queerness, non-normative desires, and artificial intelligence. Students will examine key moments in film history related to sex and censorship, including the scandals of pre-code Hollywood, the rise of the Hays Codes, the development of underground and the exploitation cinemas, and the emergence of the Motion Picture Rating System, as well a range of issues related to sexuality and desire, including same-sex desire, repression, sexual violence, the AIDS crisis, and sex and technology. Students will watch both mainstream, commercial films and smaller, independent art films, as well as B-movies and low budget films, to examine how sex and sexuality have been represented and censored across the broad spectrum of American cinema. This course will occur on the schedule on a rotating and irregular basis.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 293 Literature and Human Rights

    3 Credit(s)

    This course focuses on literary expressions and representations of the desire for and the crises of human rights. The various literary genres (poetry, fiction, drama, memoir, and essay) evoke the yearning of peoples to be awarded the right to live in safety and with dignity so that they pursue meaningful lives, and these literary genres record the abuses of the basic rights of people as they seek to lead lives of purpose. This course will examine the ways in which the techniques of literature (e.g., narrative, description, point of view, voice, image) compel readers’ attention and bring us nearer to turn to human rights abuses and peoples’ capacities to survive and surmount these conditions.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 300 Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop

    3 Credit(s)

    A creative writing workshop for students who have some experience in the writing of poetry, fiction, or drama. Class discussion focuses on student work, and individual conferences with the instructor are required.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 301 Advanced Poetry Workshop

    3 Credit(s)

    An advanced poetry workshop in which students practice and improve the poetic skills they have already begun to develop. Class discussion focuses on student work, and individual conferences with the instructor are required.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202

    Instructor consent

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 302 Advanced Fiction Workshop

    3 Credit(s)

    An advanced fiction workshop in which students practice and improve the writing skills they have already begun to develop. Class discussion focuses on student work, and individual conference with the instructor are required

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202

    Instructor consent

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 303 Advanced Special Topics in Creative Writing

    3 Credit(s)

    This course offers students the opportunity to pursue specialized work in creative writing at the advanced level; these topics vary from semester to semester. Possible offerings include courses on novel writing, hybrid courses requiring creative and critical writing, courses on experimental poetry writing, or courses on travel writing.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 210 or 211 or 212 or 300
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 306 Advanced Nonfiction Writing

    3 Credit(s)

    For serious writers in various nonfictional modes, such as description, narration, expository or informative writing, and written argument. While there is some emphasis on the philosophy of composition, everything read and discussed has a practical as well as a theoretical function. Sections of this course taught by different instructors vary in emphasis from the composing process to techniques of the new journalism, to technical writing, writing for prelaw students, techniques of research for the long paper and report. But all are conducted in small classes or workshops, all are concerned with informative or argumentative writing for advanced students, and all require the permission of the instructor for enrollment.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 307 Journalism and Media Writing

    3 Credit(s)

    This course prepares advanced students to explore careers in writing and reporting for print and online media. Students consider contemporary journalistic texts by professional reporters, columnists, and bloggers and develop their own writing for a range of publication platforms and audiences. The course covers the fundamentals of journalistic craft, from methods for story development–including interviewing, observation, and web-based research–to style, ethics, and genre conventions. Throughout the semester, students draft and revise a series of independent writing and reporting projects on real-world people and events, ranging from news articles and magazine features to blogs and reviews. Students learn strategies for pitching stories to editors and preparing their writing for local, campus, or online publication. Different sections of this course may focus on specialized branches or genres of journalism, such as community journalism or arts journalism. This course welcomes both emerging and experienced writers, regardless of previous journalism experience.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202 or 203
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 308 Professional Editing

    3 Credit(s)

    An intensive workshop in developing effective prose style for various kinds of writing, including reports, essays, and theses. Instruction covers advanced grammar, usage, editing, and proofreading, with special attention to problems of expression and style arising from complex ideas and argumentative logic. In conjunction with ENGL 307, this course provides a strong preparation for editors and writers in all settings.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 309 Multimedia Authoring

    3 Credit(s)

    In this hybrid digital workshop and studio course, students learn principles of media production, storytelling, and design across a range of audio-visual and web-based platforms. Through focused readings and discussions on documentary, design, and digital aesthetics, students examine creative works by professional artists and media producers and participate in regular critiques of students-made work. Classes include hands-on instruction in image-, audio-, and video-editing techniques and web design basics in a project-based, collaborative learning environment. Throughout the semester, students propose, edit, author, and design a series of original multimedia projects and produce a professional portfolio website of their creative work. This course welcomes students from all backgrounds; no previous experience with digital media production is expected or required.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202 or 203
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 310 Literature and Journalism

    3 Credit(s)

    This course explores how “fictional” literature and “factual” journalism influence each other’s form and content. covering major developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature in relation to innovations in newspaper culture, the course will examine how a work’s material form and appearance shape its meaning. The course will investigate how literature and journalism share writing styles, such as sensationalism, and publishing modes, such as serialization. The course will also connect literary and journalistic writing to issues of gender, politics, and ethics.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 311 How to Write Like a Film Critic

    3 Credit(s)

    This course explores both the history and the practice of film criticism, from popular genres like the movie review and blog post, to more academically oriented modes such as analytical essays and theoretical articles. To help develop their skills as film critics, students will watch a broad range of films and read and respond to the work of pioneering critics. The bulk of the course, however, will be dedicated to writing, workshopping and revising film criticism as students write a series of reviews and a longer analytical essay. As such this course focuses on film criticism as part of a larger conversation about art, media, and journalism and helps students practice their skills as film critics writing for a range of different audiences.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202 or 203 or CINE 101 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 312 Digital Culture and Composition

    3 Credit(s)

    This course centers on the changing relationships among digital texts and different domains of life - including personal, work, education, and public spheres. Course readings and discussions focus on two central questions: first, how do digital texts change the way we read, analyze, interpret, and compose? Second, what are the implications of these changes? To address these questions, students study the historical aspects of and theoretical approaches to the study of digital culture, focusing on the connections between reading, writing, writing, and technology. Additionally, coursework requires students to develop their ability to compose digital texts while thinking critically about those texts. Students will consider how textuality is related to changes in media, and what those changes mean for personal, professional, and community life.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 315 New Wave Cinemas: Global Filmmaking in the 1960s

    3 Credit(s)

    This course focuses on the new cinemas that emerged around the world in the postwar period, including the French, Italian, Czech, and Japanese new waves, New German, New American, and New Latin American cinema, and Britain’s Angry Young Men. The course explores how these various new waves opposed classical cinema, the tensions between realist and experimental film styles, and the possibilities of cinema as a tool to promote political change. At the same time, it traces the shared thematic concerns of new wave cinema during this period, including youth culture, sexuality, political dissent, nihilism, and emergent global culture.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202 or CINE 101 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 316 Cult Cinema

    3 Credit(s)

    This course explores the history of cult film in America and its relationship to the mainstream industry and other fringe cinemas. The course focuses particularly on the way that cult cinema challenges our ideas of quality, taste, and acceptability. At the same time, it explores questions related to cult audiences, exhibition spaces (drive-ins, art house theaters, midnight movies) fandom and cinephilia, and cult film nostalgia.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202 or CINE 101 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 317 American Independent Cinema

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the history of independent filmmaking in America, from its origins in the independent production companies of the studio era through to contemporary independent movements, including New American Cinema, Black Independent Cinema, New Queer Cinema, the Sundance Kids, and Mumblecore. this course also explores issues related to production and distribution, including the role of film festivals, the development of digital technology, and fan cultures.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202 or CINE 101 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 319 English Epic Poetry

    3 Credit(s)

    The history and theory of English epic and mock-epic poetry, with attention to the status of epic in modern times. Consideration of efforts to emulate Homer and Virgil, as well as issues of artistry and interpretation in English translations of ancient epics. Close reading of epics by three or four poets, such as the Beowulf-poet, Spenser, Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 320 Memoir and Autobiography

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of various kinds of American autobiography-such as spiritual autobiography and freedom narratives-from colonial to modern times, with attention to European forerunners from Augustine to Rousseau. Texts vary by semester, selected from such authors as Edwards, Franklin, Thoreau, Douglass, Jacobs, Moody, Washington, and Henry Adams, and more recent works by Hellman, Wright, Malcolm X, and Kingston.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 324 Short Story

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of the short story, chiefly as a genre of this century. The course traces its development from nineteenth century origins, concentrating its reading on such American and Irish writers as Welty, O’Connor, Cheever, Lavin, Joyce, Hemingway, Montague, and considering as well the statements made by short story writers on the poetics of short fiction.

    Distribution Area: The Arts

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 326 Stage and Page: Drama Before 1642

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of English drama before and during Shakespeare’s career emphasizing the development of comedy and tragedy as form and idea, this course provides a setting for the study of Shakespeare. Readings include selected episodes from the mystery cycles, a morality play, and works by such playwrights as Marlowe, Kyd, Tourneur, Webster, Greene, Dekker, Jonson, Beaumont, as well as a comedy and a tragedy of Shakespeare.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 327 Stage and Page: Drama, 1660-1900

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of drama in English since the reopening of the theaters at the Restoration of 1660. The development of comedy of manners from Wycherly and Congreve through Sheridan to Wilde and Shaw, and of tragedy from the early eighteenth century through the romantic era, through Ibsen and his followers, to the early twentieth century.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 328 Stage and Page: Drama, 1900-Today

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of 20th century American and British drama, including works in translation by influential playwrights abroad. Attention to themes, forms, styles, staging, and performance. Works by such authors as Ibsen, O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Brecht, Beckett, Genet, Hansberry, August Wilson, Kushner, and Hwang.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 329 Narrative in the Novel and Film

    3 Credit(s)

    Emphasizing formal and stylistic renditions of 20th- and 21st-century narrative art, this course focuses on experimental aspects of fiction and film. The storytelling structures of fiction and film are compared through close attention to written texts, visual and graphic media, and critical readings. Materials include fiction by authors such as Woolf, Faulkner, and Coetzee, and films by directors such as Eisenstein, DeSica, and Resnais.

    Diversity Area: International

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 331 Satire

    3 Credit(s)

    Readings from the classical period of satire. Aristophanes, Horace, and others raise issues about the nature, functions, and techniques of satire, its relations to intellectual attitudes, social criticism, and literary forms. Variations on the classical patterns and the role of satire in contemporary culture are seen in a range of later satiric works.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 332 Comedy

    3 Credit(s)

    Comic literature from different cultures and periods, ancient through modern, illustrates the recurrence of different comic modes: satire, irony, romantic comedy, comedy of manners, and comedy of the absurd. Essays about theories of comedy aid students in evaluating the literature and forming their own ideas about the nature of comedy.

    Distribution Area: The Arts

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 333 Tragedy

    3 Credit(s)

    The course explores both the changing and the enduring aspects of tragedy by examining tragedic works of different ages, from ancient Greece to modern times. Readings may include such works as Oedipus, Thyestes, Dr. Faustus, Macbeth, The White Devil, King Lear, Samson Agonistes, Desire Under the Elms, Death of a Salesman, and Glengarry Glen Ross examined alongside theories about the definition of tragedy, the nature of tragic action, the tragic hero, the tragic times, for example. Students are encouraged to evaluate concepts of tragedy based on class readings, formulating their own ideas about this important form of drama.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 334 Science Fiction

    3 Credit(s)

    A historical survey of a distinctive modern mode of fiction, including major works by such 19th- and 20th-century figures as Mary Shelley, HG Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Olaf Stapledon, Alfred Bester, Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Joan Slonczewski, and Kim Stanley Robinson. The focus is primarily literary, though there may be a brief unit comparing literary and cinematic science fiction. Among the topics for consideration: science and scientists in fiction; history and the future; aliens and alienation; diversity in gender, race, culture, species; the physical environment of Earth and of other worlds.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 335 Children’s Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    The study of literature for children, including criticism and the history of the development of literary materials written specifically for children. The works studied-by such authors as Lewis, Grahame, Wilder, and Milne-are explored in the context of the historical and cultural settings in which they were produced, and the texts are analyzed both as works of art and as instruments of cultural and didactic impact.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 337 Short Novel

    3 Credit(s)

    Readings in 20th-century short novels by authors such as Tolstoy, Joyce, Conrad, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Roth, Wright, Hurston, Achebe, C Johnson, and Oates. Exploration of how the language of analysis and interpretation affects the ways we relate to texts. Attention to differences among genres: short story, the novella or short novel, and novel.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 338 Classical Hollywood Cinema

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines mainstream American cinema from the 1920s and 1950s focusing on the major historical, cultural and industrial transformations of Hollywood: the studio system, the advent of sound, classical Hollywood narrative, continuity editing, the star system, and the Production Code. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to critically analyze how a filmmaker’s artistic and creative impulses intersect with and challenge Hollywood’s economic motivations.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202 or CINE 101 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 339 Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines mainstream American cinema from the 1950s to the present, focusing on the major historical, cultural, industrial, aesthetic and technological transformations of Hollywood since the breakup of the studio system: the impact of television and the emergence of New Hollywood, the return of the Blockbuster, the rise of independent film, and the expansion of global film culture. This course encourages students to think about Hollywood as both a domestic and a global industry that develops in relation to national concerns (the Red Scare, youth culture, civil rights) as well as international issues (global trade, transnational media conglomerates, and cultural imperialism).

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202 or CINE 101 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 340 Literature and Visual Media

    3 Credit(s)

    A comparison of two kinds of imaginative experience, with particular emphasis on the connection between the visual and verbal, the effects of formula and format, the standardization which results from technological methods of production and distribution to mass audiences. How are our lives different because of the pervasiveness of these new cultural habits?

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 341L Gender and Film: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    3 Credit(s)

    This course is designed to encourage multidisciplinary analysis of gender, cultural representations, and film in the 20th and early 21st century. Among the topics that students will explore are: ethnographic film and gendered practices in ethnographic filmmaking; how ideologies of gender, “race,” and class are constructed, disseminated, and normalized through film (documentary as well as “popular” film); Indigenous women and filmmaking in North America; femininities, masculinities, and power in the “horror film” genre; human rights film and filmmaking as activism. Students will view films made in diverse locations and reflecting multiple historical, political, and cultural perspectives and will explore the intellectual, political and social significance of film in their own lives. ENGL 341L and WGS 341L and CINE 341L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 343 Literature, Culture and Environment

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of how late nineteenth- and twentieth-century, predominantly American, literature has dealt with the physical environment, concentrating on examples of narrative and nonfictional prose, as well as poetry. Special attention will be devoted to such topics as the relation between environmental experience and literary representation of the environment; the impact of cultural and ideological forces on such representation; the interrelation of the history of the physical environment and the history of literature and the arts; and the changing definitions of “nature” and “wilderness” as well as the values attached to these ideas.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 345 Literature of the American South

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of the literary renaissance of the American South from 1920 to the present in works by such authors as Faulkner, Hurston, Wright, Warren, Ransom, Tate, Welty, Porter, Styron, O’Connor, Kenan, A. Walker, M. Walker, and S. Brown.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 348 Native American Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines some of the ways in which Native American writers express their cultural traditions through literature, with an emphasis on how histories of struggle and survival are reflected in both content and style. Readings include contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, as well as traditional stories and songs. Special attention is given to how these texts help us to better understand and explain the relationships between human beings and the natural world in Native American cultures, including concepts of power, systems of tribal thought and ethics, and culturally based ways of knowing. Background for guided discussion and discussion and study is provided through readings, slides and films.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 351 Early African-American Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of the roles of early (1773-1903) African-American literature played in shaping American literary and cultural history. Through an examination of such writers as Wheatley, Equiano, Douglass, Jacobs, and Chesnutt, this course introduces students to foundational themes of African-American literature, from the black Atlantic and the trope of the “talking book” through the “tragic mulatto” and double consciousness.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 352L Harlem Renaissance

    3 Credit(s)

    This course focuses on major texts of the Harlem Renaissance within contexts of modernism, history, and the development of an African American literary tradition. The course will examine how literature creates and represents real and “imagined” communities and will explore the diverse and often contradictory roles that literature plays in shaping, resisting, and reinforcing cultural discourses. AFRSTY 352L and AMST 352L and ENGL 352L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites:

    • ENGL 102 and
    • ENGL 200 or 201 or 206 or 235 or AFRSTY 100
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 353 Multiethnic American Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of poetry, fiction, and drama by Native American, African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Jewish American writers from a comparative perspective, exploring similarities and differences among the writers in their aesthetics-how they use language to express themselves-and politics-how themes like immigration, resistance, empowerment, activism, heritage, gender relations, sexuality, and family manifest themselves in the works.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 354 The Black Presence in American Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of 19th- and 20th-century literary texts by black and white writers who write with a significant consciousness of black people in American society, and of how blacks and “blackness” are used to illuminate whites and to conceptualize “whiteness” and its ideology. Authors may include Melville, Twain, Chopin, Mitchell, Faulkner, Ellison, Wright, Baldwin, Brooks, and Morrison.

    Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 355 African-American Poetry

    3 Credit(s)

    A critical and historical survey of black poetry from its oral beginnings to the present, with emphasis on the Harlem Renaissance, or New Negro Movement, and the Black Arts Movement. Works by such major poets as Dunbar, Hughes, Brooks, Walker, Hayden, Baraka, Sanchez, Giovanni, Dove, S Brown, Harper,and Komunyakaa.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 357 African-American Women Writers

    3 Credit(s)

    The course considers content, form and modes of expression in prose, poetry and criticism by black women writers from the eighteenth century to the present. Readings include slave narratives, colonial and abolitionist writings, works from the Harlem Renaissance and by contemporary writers such as Bambara, Sanchez, Walker, and Brooks.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 358 Caribbean Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of Caribbean fiction, poetry, drama, and essays as a reflection of historical events, political forces, artistic trends, and cultural realities from first European contact to the present. Consideration of writing about exploration and travel, fiction, poetry, film, and music, including reggae.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 360 Arthurian Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of the evolution of the Arthurian materials (from the twelfth century to the present); their origins in history, legend and myth, their emergence in the major twelfth century romance cycles, and their adaptations by later ages; the examination of recurring characters and motifs to discover how the Arthurian legend has been adapted to reflect the different aesthetic and social values of different historical periods.

    Distribution Area: The Arts

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 362 Modern British Poetry

    3 Credit(s)

    British poetry from 1914 to present; poets of the First World War- Sassoon, Jones, Owen, Rosenberg, Flint, Read; poets of the thirties - Auden, Spender, MacNeice; poets writing from 1945 to the present MacDiarmid, Larkin, Ted Hughes, Jon Silkin, Geoffrey Hill, Michael Hamburger, and others.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 363 Modern American Poetry

    3 Credit(s)

    American poetry from the beginning of the century to the end of World War II, focusing on the major works of Frost, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Stevens. Primary attention to the poems as formal works of art; secondary attention to historical, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts (e.g.: World War I, Einstein”s relativity and existentialism, Kandinsky and abstract art). Close analysis of particular poems as successful works in their own right and as exemplars of a particular writer”s thematic and stylistic concerns.

    Distribution Area: The Arts

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 364 Post-1945 American Poetry

    3 Credit(s)

    A comprehensive overview of living American poets, plus intensive readings in selected writers such as Ashbery, Levertov, Ginsberg, Lowell, Wilbur, Ammons, Baraka, Plath, Merwin, Duncan, and Rich. Discussions of individual poets on their own merits and as exemplars of current poetic schools.

    Distribution Area: The Arts

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 365 The British Novel and the Nineteenth Century

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of social, technological, and cultural changes in nineteenth-century Britain as reflected in the large-scale novel of social life that reached its peak of popularity as a literary form in several modes including historical fiction, romance, and realism. Novels by such authors as Scott, Austen, the Bronte, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, Hardy, Meredith, and Conrad.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 366 Women and Men in Nineteenth-Century Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of men and women and their relationships in nineteenth century literature, mainly British and American, with special emphasis on the issues of masculine and feminine sexual identity and sexual stereotypes, and the social position of men and women as these are treated in popular culture and in serious literary works.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 367 Modern British Fiction

    3 Credit(s)

    A survey of the novel in Britain from the end of the Victorian years (with Hardy and Conrad) through the first half of the twentieth century, emphasizing Lawrence, Woolf, and Forster, and including as far as time permits later novelists such as Cary, Waugh, Greene, Murdoch, and Lessing.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 368 Modern American Fiction

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of significant works of American fiction written in the first half of the 20th century. Major American modernists-such authors as James, Wharton, S Crane, Cather, Hughes, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hurston, and Faulkner-helped to define the “American century” and to demonstrate the sustained achievement of modern American fiction.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 369 Post-1945 American Fiction

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of significant works of American fiction written since 1950. These works, in form and substance, reflect America’s debate between those who see “good in the old ways” and those who try to “make it new.” Emphasis upon the variety of fictional voices and identities in works by authors such as Banks, Carver, Ellison, Morrison, and Updike.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 370 Reading Sexualities: Queer Theory

    3 Credit(s)

    This course brings the analysis of sexual difference to the center of cultural critique, revealing the web of sexual ideology that underlies texts and everyday life. Through the close reading of literary works and classic texts of queer theory, the course deconstructs the identity categories that usually shape this conversation, including not only ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian,’ but also ‘heterosexual,’ ‘man,’ and ‘woman.’ This course offers a survey of queer criticism from foundational works in the field to exciting new directions that help us to identify queer forms of time, emotion, and literary expression.

    Diversity Area: International

    Enrollment Requirements:
    ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 371 The Coming-of-Age Novel

    3 Credit(s)

    This course will introduce students to the coming-of-age novel, also called the “novel of formation” or the “bildungsroman.” The course will consider “coming of age” as a cultural construct that relies on ideologies of gender, race, and sexuality and engages with the projects of nationalism and capitalism. Students will learn to identify the narrative conventions upon which this form depends, and they will encounter a range of theoretical texts that offer perspectives on maturity, individualism, and genre.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 372L American Women Writers and American Culture

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the significant contribution that women writers have made to the creation and development of an American national literature and culture. Points of emphasis include studying representative writers from different historical periods; examining the structures, forms, themes, concerns, and cultural contexts of individual works; and examining the relation of women’s writing to American culture. AMST 372L and ENGL 372L are the same course.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 373 Working-Class Literature

    3 Credit(s)

    This course studies literature which takes the working class as its subject. It examines questions such as the following: how is the literary work affected by the relationship of the author to the working class? What have been the traditional literary forms for treating working class subjects and what is their effectiveness? What are the consequences of politics or ideology in literary works?

    Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 374 Literature and Society, 1760-1850

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of how popular culture reflected broad social and cultural changes in Britain. Emphasis given to expanding empire, technological advances, and increasing urbanization, which created a rapidly modernizing culture with changing class structures and literary audiences. Attention to how authors from Burns to the Bront?s engaged and theorized the resulting pressures.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 375 Literature of the American Civil War

    3 Credit(s)

    Despite Whitman’s declaration that “the real war will never get in the books,” American literature has produced a diverse and contested archive of depictions of the Civil War. Rather than evaluating whether “the real war” has ever been captured, the course will ask instead how Americans have imagined the war and why. It will focus on the gender and racial politics of depictions of the home front versus the battlefield, the cultural work of the intersectional “romance of reunion” and “plantation school” dialect writing, and the romanticized “Old South” in fiction from the 1860s through the twenty-first century.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 376 Literature and the Political Imagination

    3 Credit(s)

    The course studies ways authors use imaginative literature to respond to political situations and to voice moral and political beliefs. It probes such themes as war and conquest, wealth, race, sex, but its main emphasis is on language and organization and this emphasis requires close analysis of style and structure. Authors may include Dickens, Forster, and Conrad, Dos Passos, Hansberry, Baraka, and Malraux, Brecht, and Silone.

    Diversity Area: International

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 377 Literature of the Americas

    3 Credit(s)

    This course aims to provide students with an understanding the relationship between U.S. and Latin American literature. The course focus varies each semester, and may survey nineteenth-century nationalism in their parallel development; literary modernism between the two world wars; and/or the post-World War II period, with the creation of Latin American “boom” literatures in the 1950s and the 1960s. The point of the course is not simply to compare and contrast each of these literatures in order to mark the similarities between them, but rather to determine why these literary traditions should be examined together in the first place. Critical approaches developed in the course will highlight questions of interpretation, literary history, and translation.

    Diversity Area: International

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 379 Special Topics in English and American Literature I

    3 Credit(s)

    Various courses in literature and related fields are offered experimentally, once or twice, under this heading. Topics are announced each semester during pre-registration. Recent topics have included Gothic Literature, The Harlem Renaissance, and memory and World War II.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 380 Special Topics in English and American Literature II

    3 Credit(s)

    Various courses in literature and related fields are offered experimentally, once or twice, under this heading. Topics are announced each semester during pre-registration. Recent topics have included Gothic Literature, The Harlem Renaissance, and memory and World War II.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 381 Geoffrey Chaucer

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of the Canterbury Tales and, time permitting, some of Chaucer”s other works in the original Middle English. No prior knowledge of Chaucer, the period (the later fourteenth century), or Middle English is required. Taped readings aid in learning the language. Discussion emphasizes how the works reflect the medieval period and how Chaucer draws readers of all periods into intellectual and moral pilgrimages of their own.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 382 William Shakespeare’s Early Works

    3 Credit(s)

    Shakespeare”s comedies, history plays, and early tragedies largely from the first half of Shakespeare”s career. The course emphasizes critical interpretations of individual plays but it attempts as well to review Shakespeare”s dramatic art in general, theater history and conventions, theory of comedy and theory of tragedy, the language of verse drama, and the development of the history play.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 383 William Shakespeare’s Later Works

    3 Credit(s)

    Shakespeare”s problem plays, major tragedies and late romances. The course emphasizes critical interpretations of individual plays, and it assumes that students will have had some experience of Shakespearean plays, such as those in ENGL 382. But this course may be elected without such experience.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 385 John Milton

    3 Credit(s)

    Reading and discussion of John Milton”s English poetry and some of his prose: early lyrics; the tragedy Samson Agonistes; the epics Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Attention to modern debates about structure and style and to the relation between Milton”s politics and his poetry.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 386 Virginia Woolf

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of Virginia Woolf’s novels, essays, and memoirs with special attention given to such topics as the development of her thought on identity, character, and literary form; her role as an early feminist; and her life as a writer. In exploring Woolf’s writings, the course will introduce students to the social, political, and literary worlds of early twentieth-century London.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ENGL 391 James Joyce

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of the cyclical nature of the works of James Joyce: Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and parts of Finnegan”s Wake. Emphasis, however, is on the close critical reading of Ulysses.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202
3 Credit(s)
 

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