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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ENGL 212 - Creative Writing: Fiction
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
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ENGL 216 - Reading and Writing Journalism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
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ENGL 223 - Latino/Latina/Latinx Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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ENGL 225 - Graphic Novels
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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ENGL 226 - Storytelling: Myth to Media
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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ENGL 230 - King Arthur
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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ENGL 235 - African-American Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
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ENGL 236 - Reading, Writing, and Archives: Literary Boston
Formerly Literary Boston
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Whose story gets told? How is that story told and remembered? Whose story doesn’t get told, or gets hidden? The answers to these questions for students of literature, rhetoric, and language are found in archives, living treasures of human experience. This course is an exploration of archives generally and Boston archives in particular, as it creates an opportunity for students to read and interpret letters, diaries, journals, books, short stories, publications, and other original literary material in order to discover the specific literary, cultural, geographic, and social moments in which they were created. The course will feature field trips, workshops, and instructional research sessions in order to engage with material like the Hemingway Papers at JFK Library and Archive, meet literary women preserved within the Schlesinger Library at Harvard’s digital repository, learn about community archives for LGBTQ Boston, and examine multiple local collections from the University Archives and Special Collections on UMass Boston’s campus. This course teaches basic methods for students to begin to construct and reconstruct stories, and to start out further work where the individual’s interests in literature, writing, theory, and/or language may take them. The course is aligned with the aims of the Humanities General Education requirement which asks students to develop an informed appreciation of human culture and an exploration of the human condition, and is a hands-on, Interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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ENGL 242 - Grammar for Every Writer
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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ENGL 245 - Global Voices
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
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Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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ENGL 248 - Utopia/Dystopia Across Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
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Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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ENGL 249 - Animal Lit
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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ENGL 250 - The Monstrous Imagination in Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
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Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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ENGL 258 - Introduction to World Cinema
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Discussion |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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?
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Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
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ENGL 259 - Sexuality in Literature & Film
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
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Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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ENGL 284 - Language, Literacy and Community
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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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
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ENGL 285 - Tutor Training: ESL
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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ENGL 292L - Cinema, Sex, and Censorship
Formerly ENGL 292
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Discussion | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
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Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 .
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ENGL 300 - Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 303 - Advanced Special Topics in Creative Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 211 or ENGL 212 or ENGL 300
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ENGL 306 - Advanced Nonfiction Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 307 - Journalism and Media Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or ENGL 203
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ENGL 308 - Professional Editing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 309 - Multimedia Authoring
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or ENGL 203
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ENGL 310 - Literature and Journalism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
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Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 311 - How to Write Like a Film Critic
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or ENGL 203 or CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
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ENGL 312 - Digital Culture and Composition
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
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ENGL 315 - New Wave Cinemas: Global Filmmaking in the 1960s
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
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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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
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ENGL 316 - Cult Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
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ENGL 317 - American Independent Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
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ENGL 320 - Memoir and Autobiography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 324 - Short Story
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 326 - Stage and Page: Drama Before 1642
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 327 - Stage and Page: Drama, 1660-1900
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 328 - Stage and Page: Drama, 1900-Today
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 329 - Narrative in the Novel and Film
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 331 - Satire
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 332 - Comedy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 333 - Tragedy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 334 - Science Fiction
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 335 - Children’s Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 337 - Short Novel
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 338 - Classical Hollywood Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
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ENGL 339 - Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
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ENGL 340 - Literature and Visual Media
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 341L - Gender and Film: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 343 - Literature, Culture and Environment
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 344 - Boston Dreams, Boston Nightmares: Genre, Race, Ethnicity
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
“Boston Dreams, Boston Nightmares: Genre, Race, Ethnicity” explores how Boston authors and authors writing on Boston imagine Boston within utopian and dystopian terms. Since Boston is a hub for knowledge production in the U.S., considering how these authors negotiate Boston’s role in producing scientific knowledge in particular forms the foundation for this course. In this way, “Boston Dreams, Boston Nightmares: Genre, Race, Ethnicity” examines the multiple and intersection histories and genres that make up Boston and situates these histories and genres within dominant discourses. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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ENGL 345 - Literature of the American South
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 348 - Native American Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 349 - Topics in Latina/o/x Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
While Latinxs are people of Latin American descent who live in the United States, the term encapsulates a broad range of racial, cultural, and political backgrounds. Latinxs have played a central role in the United States since its inception. Both colonized subjects and representatives from the other (Latin) America, Latinxs have deeply influenced the history, politics, and culture of the United States. This course examines a number of themes that emerge in Latinx Literature such as revolution, dictatorships, violence, immigration, and futurity. To gain purchase on these ideas, several critical essays are also paired with the texts to ensure both a theoretical and historical grounding in Latinx literature. A few questions this course asks are: what is the Latinx literature? What is its relationship to Latin America? How do Latinx authors deploy genre? How do these genres subsequently engage with history?
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or ENGL 223
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ENGL 351 - Early African-American Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 352L - Harlem Renaissance
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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ENGL 353 - Multiethnic American Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 354 - Race in American Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course reads exemplary U.S. novels and poems that spotlight and conceal the racial realities of our culture, drawing particular attention to the way our national ideas about race originate in the history of slavery and genocide. the course focuses on the ways in which attitudes about race in U.S. literature inform discourses of criminality, of femininity, of science, of primitivism, of passing, and of servitude, to name a few. Authors may include William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Rollin Ridge, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Mark Twain, James Weldon Johnson, George Schuyler, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Gloria Anzaldua, and others.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 357 - African-American Women Writers
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 358 - Critical Race Studies in Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An examination of how the concept of race has been formed in the United States, represented in literature, theory, and history. The course begins with the formation of the concept based on a black/white binary undergirded by immigration and citizenship policies. It then takes up double and triple consciousness- how a sense of one’s race creates a divided sense of self based not only on race, but also on ethnicity and nationality. The course may also consider how immigration policies pivoted on notions of exclusion, and we will discuss how issues of race intersect with gender and sexuality. The course will provide a solid foundation in how scholars have developed Critical Race Studies and applied it to a variety of racial groups in the United States and how authors negotiate and reflect on their racialization in US literature.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or ENGL 223
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ENGL 365 - The British Novel and the Nineteenth Century
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 366 - Women and Men in Nineteenth-Century Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 368 - Modern American Fiction
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 369 - Post-1945 American Fiction
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 370 - Reading Sexualities: Queer Theory
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 371 - The Coming-of-Age Novel
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 372L - American Women Writers and American Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 373 - Working-Class Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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?
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 375 - Literature of the American Civil War
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 376 - Literature and the Political Imagination
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 377 - Literature of the Americas
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 379 - Special Topics in English and American Literature I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 380 - Special Topics in English and American Literature II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 381 - Geoffrey Chaucer
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 382 - William Shakespeare’s Early Works
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 383 - William Shakespeare’s Later Works
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 385 - John Milton
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 391 - James Joyce
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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 ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 394 - Transnational Reading of Two Authors
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers a comparative study of two authors whose works reach across national boundaries to reveal social and thematic affinities or interesting problems of contrast. Unlike ENGL 395 , which compares writers from the same national tradition, this version of the course offers transnational credit. This transnational comparison places English literature in a global context, allowing issues of place and space, origin and tradition, and local, national, and global influence to be investigated. The authors studied vary from year to year. Examples of possible pairings are Richardson and Franklin, Melville and Dickens, Munro and Lahiri, or Soyinka and Morrison.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 395 - Comparative Reading of Two Authors
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers a comparative study of two British or two American writers who worked within a shared national tradition, and whose writings reveal social and thematic affinities or present interesting problems of contrast. Students in the course engage in the meaningful juxtaposition of the two authors, exploring how such comparisons can lead to a more complex understanding of each. Unlike ENGL 394 , which compares writers from different nations, this version of the course does not offer transnational credit. The authors studied vary from year to year. Examples of possible paired writers include Shakespeare and Jonson, Burney and Austen, Hawthorne and Melville, Dickens and Gaskell, or Wharton and Morrison.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 396 - Jane Austen
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines Jane Austen’s major works with regard to content and context. In trying to understand the enduring popularity of Austen’s major novels, we will discuss questions of adaptation and nostalgia, style and social class. In reading Austen’s major novels, students will be encourages to understand philosophical issues (most notably aesthetics and the theory of the mind), and historical aspects of Regency period culture (the marriage market, inheritance practices, Britain’s view of France, the slave trade, and novel reading). Attention will also be paid to other important female writers of her time in the attempt to understand Austen’s posthumous elevation to literary stardom.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 401 - The Medieval Period
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Lyrics, romances, mystery plays, allegories of English literature in the period before the sixteenth century. Old and Middle English writers, including Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet; stories of King Arthur and his knights.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 402 - The Renaissance in England
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Major work of the English Renaissance (early sixteenth through early seventeenth centuries), in poetry and prose. Authors such as Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Donne, and Milton. Reading in Renaissance criticism.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 403 - The 18th Century: Satire to Sensibility
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The art and ideas, in poetry and prose, of such writers as John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, the early novelists Defoe and Fielding, Samuel Johnson, and Edmund Burke. A study of the chief social and philosophical currents of the period 1660 (the Restoration) to the later eighteenth century.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 405 - British Romanticism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of literature as a reflection of social and cultural change occurring in the revolutionary age (1780s to 1830s ). Attention to how notions of “nature,” “genius,” and the “imagination” created political changes and altered conceptions of how history was understood. Works by authors such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Godwin, Hays, Wollstonecraft, Scott, Byron, Austen, PB Shelley, M Shelley, and Keats.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 406 - The Victorian Age
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of social, technological, spiritual, and cultural changes in Victorian England (1830s to 1880s) as reflected in tensions-between community and individualism, tradition and progress, belief and doubt, utility and feeling-in works by such writers as Carlyle, Mill, Browning, Barrett Browning, Macaulay, Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold, Ruskin, and Pater. Consideration is given to music and visual arts.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 408 - American Romanticism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of literature as a reflection of social and cultural changes occurring from the 1830s through the 1860s. Attention to both the most famous traditional “romantics” (Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman) and to the important “minority” writers whose works, published in the same period, helped to change the tradition (Fuller, Douglass, Truth, Stowe, Jacobs, and others).
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 409 - American Realism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of the tradition of realism in American writing, from the age of Whitman to 1925. Primary focus on the post-Civil War period, the Gilded Age, when realistic and naturalistic works replaced the romance as the dominant American mode of literary expression. Whitman, Twain, James, Howells, Crane, Chesnutt, Dreiser, Jewett, Wharton, and others sought to reflect a transformed America, as fact and symbol, in their works. These and other writers helped to confirm and create a new American reality.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 410 - The Modern Period
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of the phenomenon of “modernism” in, roughly, the first half of the twentieth century in Britain and America. Reading and discussion of such writers as Yeats, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Eliot, Hemingway, Pound, and Faulkner.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 411 - Postcolonial Literary Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces student to the diversity of literary, philosophic, and political topics addressed by postcolonialism. Drawing on a wide range of texts, we will pursue the following avenues of inquiry: What do we mean by the term “Empire”? How has the reach of Empire been historically constructed, critiqued in fiction, and/or sustained through narrative: What forms of identity are available to individuals who have been displaced, either through personal choice or random (and often tragic) circumstance? And, finally, how “post” is postcolonialism? To answer these and related questions, this course will further explore the different experiences of colonization, decolonization, and postcolonial culture and politics during the twentieth century in South Africa, Nigeria, Jamaica, India, Australia, and Northern Ireland. Taking a transdisciplinary approach, we will conduct inquiries into the nature of sociopolitical and cultural conditions that characterize current or former colonies, the diverse registers in which these conditions are discursively articulated, and the modes, spaces, and politics of their (re)production, circulation, and consumption. Some themes this course will address include the psychology of colonization and settlement; violence and decolonization; constructions of the “Other” by imperial center; hybrid cultural formations wrought by the impacts between colonizer and colonized. Taking the above statement by Ghosh as instructive, this course will also seek to interrogate the idea that culture is a coherent or self-contained whole; thus, the final portion of this class will address themes of travel, immigration, and concepts of the diaspora, homeland, and exile by attending to the “new” cosmopolitanism.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 412 - Contemporary British Fiction and Film
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will take a wide-ranging view of contemporary British fiction and film by reading novels and watching films about Great Britain (i.e., England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) produced between 1980 and the present moment. We will study the dynamic internationalism of English writing and filmmaking; we will investigate the highly politicized regionalism apparent in novels and films from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Finally, we will contextualize our in-class discussions of the novels and films with select essays about contemporary politics in Great Britain and, more broadly, contemporary theories about film and narrative theory.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 418 - The Modern Irish Novel
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the interests and concerns of the modern Irish novel. Focusing on a variety of representative authors and texts, the course traces the thematic and technical developments of the Irish novel over the decades of the twentieth century. Novels are read with reference to their political, social, and cultural contexts.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 419 - Recent Irish Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of Irish literature after the age of Yeats and Joyce, the course examines invention, adaptation, and development, in the major genres, of Irish writing during decades of economic depression, cultural isolation, war, and renewed sectional and international tensions. Emphasis is given to the re-emergence of Irish writings, particularly in the achievements of the Ulster poets, in our own day. “If you would know Ireland,” advised Yeats, “body and soul-you must read its poems and stories.”
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 436 - Law and Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This class will introduce students to the similarities between factual legal cases and fictional narratives. Consider the elements of a stirring trial: an emotional witness, a confrontational cross-examination, and a dramatic summation. Now, consider the elements of a gripping novel: a multi-faceted character, a tension-filled conflict, and a compelling climax. How does law and literature “tell a good story” about human experience? Can the law create fiction and the novel create truth? Does literature shape our understanding of legal issues? This course will address these issues by examining novels from the 18th through 20th centuries, historical court records from England and America, Supreme Court case materials, and popular representations of the law in film and on TV.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 437 - Reading the Gothic: Transatlantic Terrors
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores how Gothic stories were invented and developed by the transatlantic imagination in the mid 18th century, and surveys their subsequent development through the 20th century. We will address such questions as why readers would be attracted to obviously “unreal” stories and how these stories test the imagination’s ability to make extreme fictions feel “real.” We will trace the influence of Gothic on other areas of the literary arts, on other artistic fields such as architecture and painting, and even on social developments such as how women were viewed and how other foreign cultures were interpreted. Authors may include Walpole, Brockden Brown, Shelley, Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Dickens, Stoker, Oates, King.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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