English

Units: 1

Introduction to critical reading, thinking, and writing across disciplines.

Units: .5-1

Selected topics vary from semester to semester.

Units: 1

An introduction to general principles. Students' fiction and poetry receive critical evaluation through workshops and conferences. The course is designed to improve students' creative and critical faculties through exposure to a variety of styles and genres in contemporary literature--e.g., poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, hybrid forms. The course emphasizes the finished product as well as the writing process, which includes not only putting words on paper, but also reading, analysis, and revision. Students examine forms and structures, word choice, line lengths and line breaks, sentences, paragraphs, beginnings and endings, rhetorical strategies, cadences and music, tone and voice, and syntax and diction. Class sessions include variations of the following: writing exercises, craft talks, discussion about the assigned readings, and discussion of student work. Same as CRWR 200.

Units: 1

Explores varied strategies for negotiating each stage in the writing process, reviews methods for engaging in critical thinking and productive research, and addresses issues influencing effective uses of language, including attention to grammaticality.

First Year Seminar 100.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Analysis of children's literature, from folk and fairy tales to today's stories, poems and novels for children.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Representation of cultural identity and experience in works drawn from diverse cultural traditions.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Selected works reflecting one or more major patterns in American literature. Specific emphasis may change from term to term.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Textual analysis of novels and shorter fiction representing diverse authors, themes, movements, and techniques.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Analysis of selected works of science fiction and fantasy. Possible authors included in the course range from Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne to Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison and Ursula K. LeGuin to writers not typically identified with the genre. Students will consider a variety of interpretive frameworks (formal, psychological, feminist and others)through which literary sci-fi and fantasy are frequently read. Texts will include short stories, novels and film.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Literary and nonliterary texts that react, in a given society and period of history, to technological change and social effects of technology.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Study of representative texts from Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and examination of their relationships to later works of drama, poetry, short stories, and the novel.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Representative works from written traditions in modern African literature.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Introduction to basic concepts of drama and theater, including the relationship between drama as text and as spectacle and the relation of drama to other genres and art forms. Examination of significant theatrical traditions that have influenced modern drama.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Introduces the methodology of film studies through close textual analysis of narrative film. Special attention paid to the international history of the medium, the language of production, and major critical approaches. (Same as Film Studies 201)

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Analysis of works by selected poets.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Analysis of short fiction as a means of defining its many formal and philosophical expressions.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Analysis of selected 20th- and 21st-century novels.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Selected major novels of 18th, 19th, and/or 20th centuries.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Study of resources, methods, and aims governing the re-creation of individual lives by writers of biography and autobiography.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Introduction to black vernacular oral and written art. Investigation of the black vernacular tradition in the wider context of American culture.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Modern woman's search for identity and struggle for self-realization through study of selected figures from 19th-, 20th-, and/or 21st century literature.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Survey of major works of African-American literature with attention to oral traditional contexts.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

An introduction to the most recent fiction by Native American writers in the United States through a study of a variety of genres in the context of the United States' colonial history, indigenous nations' struggles for sovereignty, and the long legacy of Indian representation in American popular culture.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Analysis of selected plays and poems from variety of critical perspectives.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Analysis of literature of personal growth and human development, from autobiography and biography to various forms of fiction: bildungsroman, novels of education, fictionalized biography, autobiography in verse, etc.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Explores women's writing from around the world, from regions as diverse as South Asia, Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Through reading novels, short stories, poetry, and essays by and about women, examines how the concerns of women writers travel across national and political lines. What particular challenges do women writers face and how do such challenges influence their writing? How is the role of women represented in and across different literary and non-fiction texts? How does sexuality figure into women's writing and what does it say about the "naturalized" ways that women are imagined across cultures? What current global issues concern women writers, and how are they linked to gender and sexuality? Writers may include Tsitsi Dangarembga, Margaret Atwood, Edwidge Danticat, Ama Ata Aidoo, Nawal el Saadawi, Bapsi Sidhwa, Zora Neale Hurston, Arundhati Roy, Vandana Shiva, Wangari Maathai, and Audre Lorde.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Examines contemporary queer literature and film concerned with both the formation and formulation of queer identities. Asks a series of questions: What distinguishes and differentiates queer aesthetics? What does it mean to be queer? Who can or should represent queer identities? Examines works that traverse sexual, racial, national, and political lines. Careful and critical attention to a plurality of queer expressions and representations. Authors may include: Shyam Selvadurai, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Tony Kushner, James Baldwin, Dionne Brand, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ismat Chughtai, Leslie Feinberg, Shani Mootoo, Manuel Puig, and William Burroughs. Films may include: Boys Don't Cry, Happy Together, Fire, Philadelphia, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Before Night Falls, and Paris is Burning.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Examination of "the vampire" as a metaphor for social fears as it appears in different historical moments (sixteenth century to the present) and across several genres and media, including poetry, prose fiction, folklore, film, television, and popular songs. Readings, brief lectures, and discussions analyze vampires in these texts in relation to ideas from philosophy, economics, gender studies, and literary theory.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Focuses on the ways in which particular literary genres and modes arise and are adapted to new purposes over time. Taught in two modules with two different professors. Each part concentrates on a single genre or mode in its longer historical contexts.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Focuses on the ways in which literary traditions are perceived and/or constructed, and for what purposes, how particular literary traditions arise in particular historical circumstances. Taught in two modules with two different professors. Each module concentrates on a different literary time period.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

Essentials of close textual analysis with special attention to theory, critical vocabulary, and methodology of literary interpretation. The focus will vary from one section or semester to the next. Recent topics have included The Sixties: Then and Now; American Misfits, Contemporary American Literatures, Border Crossings in Global Literatures. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.

Units: 1

Studies in literature and cultural traditions of 16th- and early 17th-century Great Britain.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or GS 290 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Selected plays by Shakespeare grouped according to genre. The course will investigate the histories and tragedies and the comedies and romances.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

An interdisciplinary approach to the study of Middle Ages and Renaissance. Medieval and Renaissance perspectives on topics such as love, politics, individualism, and the divine will be explored through study of selected works from literature, art, architecture, political theory, theology, and philosophy of both periods. Modern historiographical studies also will be examined in order to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of period constructions. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Fulfills General Education Requirement (FSLT)

A comparative investigation of Italian, French, and English Renaissance lyric poetry. (Same as LLC 358.)

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department

Units: 1

Focus on representative British authors of the late 17th and 18th centuries.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Focus on major British authors of the early 19th century with some attention to European currents and backgrounds.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Readings in the traditional American Renaissance canon -- Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Poe, Dickinson, and Whitman -- as well as other writers working in the period, such as Frederick Douglass and Fanny Fern.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or American Studies 201 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Topics will vary from semester to semester. Recently offered topics include Renaissance Lyric Poetry and The Middle Ages and the Renaissance.May be repeated for credit as topic varies.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Survey of major writers from the African continent, with attention to historical and cultural contexts and to African oral traditions.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or GS 290 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Survey of Anglo-Caribbean literatures with emphasis on contemporary works. Occasional studies of Spanish, Dutch, or French works in translation.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or GS 290 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Works of major indigenous writers in the United States since the 1960s until the present, studied in the context of the historical and contemporary political and cultural relations between American Indians and the United States.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or American Studies 201 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Selected contemporary fiction and criticism that considers problems of global economy, culture, and language.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or GS 290 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Survey of major debates and movements in postcolonial literature, with attention to cultural contexts.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or GS 290 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Focus on representative British authors, 1832-1901, with attention to contemporary social, political, religious, and scientific issues.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

A study of the dramatic changes in literature in Europe and America from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or GS 290 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Reflections of modern sensibility in fiction and poetry of native British and Irish authors and American expatriates.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or GS 290 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

A literary exploration of modern and contemporary drama as a vehicle for social change.

One 200-level ENGL with a grade of C or higher.

Units: 1

Attention to new concerns and new forms of fiction in the 20th century.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or American Studies 201 with a grade of C or better or permission of instructor.

Units: 1

Examines the filmic adaptation of literary works, with particular consideration given to questions of genre, interpretation, and historical relevance.

English 220, completion of one FSLT taught in the English department, or FMST 201 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Survey of works by African-American verbal artists who came of age after the civil-rights movement.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department or American Studies 201 with a C or better

Units: 1

An introduction to indigenous cinema in the United States and Canada. Forms and topics studied include ethnographic film, western and anti-western, contemporary first contact films; American Indian documentary, experimental video, and feature film; multiculturalism and the aesthetics and politics of indigenous representation.

English 220, completion of one FSLT taught in the English department, or Film Studies 201 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Takes one of a range of approaches to considering film historically. It could trace the development of particular genres, national cinemas, or cinematic movements (such as Italian neorealism or the so-called "art film"); the course may also examine the workings of the Hollywood industry in connection with cultural and social issues such as race relations, gender roles, or depictions of sexuality. In any version of the course students consider properties of filmic expression in its technical or aesthetic aspects and in connection with cinema history.

English 220, completion of one FSLT taught in the English department, or Film Studies 201 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Explores the intersection of American film and culture, with special attention to the dialogue between Hollywood and other institutions, ideologies, and events. Specific topics vary from semester to semester.

English 220, completion of one FSLT taught in the English department, American Studies 201, or Film Studies 201 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Topics will vary from semester to semester. Recently offered topics include Victorian Fantasy, Modernisms, and Blackface! May be repeated for credit as topic varies.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Surveys the various ways in which thinkers have conceived of cinema since before its inception--what André Bazin referred to as "the film idea"--to contemporary debates about the "end" of film and the advent of New Media.

English 220, completion of one FSLT taught in the English department, or Film Studies 201 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Developments in literary theory from Formalism to the present. Schools and approaches include New Criticism, Feminism, Marxism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytic Criticism, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies.

One unit of 300-level English with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Examines the work of individual or a small group of film directors. The directors considered will vary and include figures such as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Coen Brothers. Special attention will be paid to theories of film authorship, the concept of film style and film aesthetics, and various critical approaches.

English 220, completion of one FSLT taught in the English department, or Film Studies 201 with a C or better

Units: 1

The close consideration of single or small numbers of film genres: their inception, evolution, aesthetic and stylistic properties, and interaction with other cultural forms and institutions. The genres under consideration will vary and include Film Noir, Melodrama, and the Western, among others. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.

Film Studies 201, English 220, completion of one FSLT taught in the English department with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Introduction to linguistics, including theories and practices of structuralists and transformationalists. (Meets state licensure requirements for teaching.)

First Year Seminar 100.

Units: 1

Serves as practicum for writing consultants - and students seeking teacher licensure.

Permission of instructor.

Units: 1

Analysis of literary models. Discussion and evaluation of students' own fiction. May be taken up to three times for credit. Same as CRWR 385.

English 200 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Analysis of literary models. Discussion and evaluation of students' own poetry. May be taken up to three times for credit. Same as CRWR 386.

ENGL 200 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Introduces students to the history, theory, and practice of translation, with a particular emphasis on translation after 1900.

One 200-level English course or 300-level LLC or LAIS course with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Analysis of literary models. Discussion and evaluation of students' own creative nonfiction. May be taken up to three times for credit. Same as CRWR 392.

English 200 with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

Provides students the opportunity to learn about literary editing and publishing from both editors' and writers' perspectives.

One 200-level English course or JOUR 202 or JOUR 314.

Units: 1

Topics in creative writing. These will vary from semester to semester at the discretion of the instructor. Recently offered topics include Mixed-Media Writing and Micro Narratives. May be repeated for credit as topic varies. Same as CRWR 397.

English 200 with a grade of C or better.

Units: .25-1

Individually designed course of study conducted under supervision of faculty member.

Approval of directing faculty member.

Units: 1

Topics will vary from semester to semester.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department with a grade of C or better.

Units: 1

In-depth treatment of topics in genre, historical periods, critical theory, single authors such as Milton, Faulkner, or Woolf, and other areas of literary study. Topics vary from semester to semester. Recently offered topics include the African American Novel, Children's Literature and Theology, Civil War Literature, New York School Poets, Self as Performance in the Renaissance, Women and Creativity, and Medicine, Mortality and Meaning. English majors usually take one seminar in the junior year and one in the senior year although if necessary both may be taken in the senior year. May be repeated for credit, provided topics are different.

Completion of one FSLT taught in the English department, and two 300-level English courses with grades of C or better.

Units: 1

An advanced creative writing course in which students pursue a semester-long project or portfolio in any genre (poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, multimedia, etc.) and workshop their works in progress. Appropriate for students working in traditional forms (e.g. short-story, poetry, memoir, etc.) or students working in forms not typically covered by other writing courses (e.g. graphic novel, screenplay, multimedia, etc.). May be repeated once for credit, but only one may count towards the minor in Creative Writing. Same as CRWR 401.

One of the following: English 385, 386, 387, 392, or 397.

Units: .25-1

Application of academic skills and theories in placement approved by department. Includes academic work. Supervised by member of the English faculty. No more than one unit of credit may be earned in English 388.

One unit of 300-level English with a grade of C or better, written application in advance of internship, and recommendation of the English faculty member who will supervise the internship.

Units: 0

Documentation of the work of students who receive summer fellowships to conduct research [or produce a creative arts project] in the summer. The work must take place over a minimum of 8 weeks, the student must engage in the project full-time (at least 40 hours per week) during this period, and the student must be the recipient of a fellowship through the university. Graded S/U.

Approval for summer Arts and Sciences fellowship by faculty mentor

Units: .5

Research for the honors thesis in English under the direction of a faculty advisor.

Department approval.

Units: 1

Writing of the honors thesis in English under the direction of a faculty advisor.

Department approval.