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ENGL 1509W - Literary Studies (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

An introduction to the tools and methods of literary analysis, including the vocabulary of criticism, the techniques of close reading, and the conventions of literary argumentation. Primarily for English majors and minors. A prerequisite to advanced courses in English.

ENGL 1205 - Survey of British Literature to the 18th Century (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Readings in English poetry, prose, and/or drama from the beginnings to the 18th century. Specific authors vary.

ENGL 1206 - Survey of British Literature from the 18th Century Forward (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Readings in English poetry, prose, and/or drama from the 18th century to the present. Specific authors vary.

ENGL 1211 - Survey of American Literature to the Civil War (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study of important texts, canonical and non-canonical, and important periods and movements that define the colonial and U.S. experience up to 1865.

ENGL 1212 - Survey of American Literature from the Civil War Forward (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study of selected historical and literary texts in U.S. literature, canonical and non-canonical, from 1865 to the present.

ENGL 1028 - Introduction to Popular Literature: Science Fiction (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Introduction to popular literature in a variety of styles and forms with emphasis on analysis and context. [Note: no credit for students who have received cr for Engl 2014]

ENGL 2015 - Introduction to Film Studies (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Develops students' abilities to view films critically and to deepen their understanding of the film experience. Begins with critical analysis skills and terminology, then takes up the study of genres and styles, including documentaries and foreign films. [Note: weekly lab required for viewing films] prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv or declared English major

ENGL 1403 - Sports Literature and Writing (ART/P)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Introduction to sports literature and sports writing, including exploration of rhetorical modes and techniques.

ENGL 2031 - Gender in Literature and Culture (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Introduction to literary and cultural representations of gender. Emphasis on the intersections between power and the social relations of gender, race, class, and sexuality. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv or declared English major

ENGL 2033 - The Bible and Literature (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Introduction to the role of the English Bible in the western literary tradition. Readings include key Biblical narratives, as well as English and American literary texts that are either deeply influenced by these stories or attempt to re-write them. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv or declared English major

ENGL 2041 - Introduction to African American Literature (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Introduction to issues and themes in African American literature and culture, with emphasis on historical and cultural context. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv or declared English major

ENGL 2059W - Introduction to Shakespeare (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

A careful reading of a representative selection of Shakespeare's poetry and plays (including histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances). Consideration of generic and dramatic conventions, cultural contexts, literary elements, and performance choices on stage and in film. Serves non-majors as well as majors. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv or declared English major

ENGL 1029 - Introduction to Popular Literature: Detection and Espionage in Fiction and Film (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Examination of the detective and espionage genres in relation to 20th-century social and geopolitical pressures. [Note: no cr for students who have received cr for Engl 2061]

ENGL 2106 - Topics in Writing: The Environmental Imagination: Reading and Writing about the Natural World (ENVT)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Writing about the environment. Students learn to use the rich possibilities of language to express their responses to nature and convey to others the importance of close contact with the natural world. Readings in poetry and prose, discussion of technique, and experimentation with a variety of styles and literary forms. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv

ENGL 2108 - Writing With Style

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Students identify key elements of the writing styles they want to practice; learn about the rhetorical effects of words, sentence structures, and emphasis patterns; revise their own sentences to be more clear, concise, and coherent--or witty, satirical, elaborate, elegant. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv

ENGL 1404W - Topics in Writing: Introduction to Creative Writing (ART/P)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to the basic elements of creative writing, including exploration of poetry, story, and journal writing. Practice with techniques such as dialogue, description, voice, and style.

ENGL 2173 - The Nature Essay: Writing and Reading Creative Non-fiction about the Natural World (ENVT)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Students write creative non-fiction centered on the natural world and read the work of noted essayists in the field such as Henry David Thoreau, Gretel Ehrlich, Scott Russell Sanders, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Terry Tempest Williams. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv

ENGL 1205 - Survey of British Literature to the 18th Century (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Readings in English poetry, prose, and/or drama from the beginnings to the 18th century. Specific authors vary.

ENGL 1206 - Survey of British Literature from the 18th Century Forward (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Readings in English poetry, prose, and/or drama from the 18th century to the present. Specific authors vary.

ENGL 1211 - Survey of American Literature to the Civil War (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study of important texts, canonical and non-canonical, and important periods and movements that define the colonial and U.S. experience up to 1865.

ENGL 1212 - Survey of American Literature from the Civil War Forward (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study of selected historical and literary texts in U.S. literature, canonical and non-canonical, from 1865 to the present.

ENGL 2411 - Representations of American Indians in Popular and Academic Culture (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Study of representations of American Indians in American popular and academic culture including literature, films, and sports. Particular attention given to how Indian identity, history, and cultures are represented in pop culture by non-Indians and, more recently, Indians themselves. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv or declared English major

ENGL 3005 - Understanding Writing: Theories and Practices (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to composition theory: generating, composing, revising, and responding to writing; conventions across disciplines; strategies for teaching and tutoring writing. Weekly short assignments; three formal papers, written and revised in stages; oral presentation of research. Required for first-semester Writing Room staff. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv, soph standing, coreq IS 3720 for students working in the Writing Room

ENGL 3012 - Advanced Fiction Writing (ART/P)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

For experienced writers. Focus on developing skills and mastering creative and technical elements of writing fiction. prereq: 1404 or instr consent

ENGL 3015 - Advanced Poetry (ART/P)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

A creative writing class. Practice with the different elements of poetry (sound, rhythm, imagery, voice, line) and exploration of the ways contemporary poets use and transform traditional forms and techniques. prereq: 1404 or instr consent

ENGL 3021 - Grammar and Language (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Study of the English language. Historical development and current structure. Includes language variation and change, social history of language, phonology, syntax, semantics, development of English grammar, prescriptive versus descriptive grammar, and contemporary theories of grammar.

ENGL 3032 - Creative Nonfiction Writing (ART/P)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

For experienced writers. Focus on understanding and practicing the rhetorical and stylistic choices available to writers of creative nonfiction, especially decisions about structure, pacing, language, style, tone, detail, description, and narrative voice. prereq: 2121 or instr consent

ENGL 3043 - Medieval Makings of Tolkien's Worlds

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Texts in Old and Middle English, as well as some Welsh, Old Irish, and Old Norse ones, are the basis for this course, framed by references and uses in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, one of the most influential fantasy writers of the 20th century and a scholar of medieval literature. (Readings will be mostly medieval literature.) prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3153 - Gothic Literature

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

The cultural origins of gothic literature in tension with the neoclassical values of 18th-century Britain and its persistent influence over the next two centuries (including its relationship to modern horror fiction and film). Emphasis on the ways gothic tales encode cultural anxieties about gender, class, and power. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3154 - 19th-Century British Fiction

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The rise of the novel to respectability and prominence in Britain from the Romantics to the Victorians. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3155 - 20th-Century British Fiction

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Major novelists from the Modernist period and after, focusing on the historical context of the new challenges to literary tradition. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3156 - Modern Irish Literature

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

The poetry, fiction, and drama of Irish writers from 1890-1927, with attention to the ways that literature shaped a national identity. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3157 - English Renaissance Drama

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

A thorough study of the early modern English theater, including readings of 16th- and 17th-century plays and consideration of the literary and cultural contexts that informed them. Special attention is given to the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries, such as Marlowe, Jonson, Cary, Middleton, and Webster. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3159 - Shakespeare: Studies in the Bard

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

A topics-based study of Shakespeare's works and other pertinent texts. Sample topics include "Shakespeare's Women," "Dangerous Rhetoric in Shakespeare," and "Shakespeare and His Sources." Attention is given to historical and literary contexts, and students are asked to consider Shakespeare's work as it is read as well as performed. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3163 - Life in a Medieval City: Literature and Culture in York, 700-1500 (HUM)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Travel to York, England, to study the literature and history of the city from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the Middle Ages. Focus on the role that York played as the second city of medieval England, emphasizing the diverse cultural influences on the city. Day trips to historically significant sites in the vicinity of York. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212 or instr consent

ENGL 3165 - Seventeenth-Century Revolutions

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

An in-depth study of how 17th-century British literature represents and responds to the numerous revolutionary changes of the time, including political, religious, sexual, cultural, and genre-based upheavals. Writers to be considered may include Philip Sidney, John Donne, Mary Wroth, George Herbert, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and John Milton. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3166 - Postcolonial Literature

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study of literature as site of cultural conflict during and after imperial encounters, from the perspectives of both colonizers and colonized peoples. Particular focus on Britain and its former colonies. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3168 - Victorian Literature and Culture

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Studies an array of 19th-century literary forms, including fiction, poetry, drama, and prose, in their social and political contexts. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212 or instr consent

ENGL 3171 - The Literature of Creative Nonfiction

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Explore the genre of creative nonfiction as a literary tradition and help to articulate what creative nonfiction is (as well as what it isn't). Students collaborate in creating working definitions for the genre and prepare projects in which they curate and present a list of readings in the genre. prereq: 1509 (or 2501)

ENGL 3172 - American Utopian Literature

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Americans have always been drawn to visions of transformation even as they shrink from imagined dangers. Investigate American literary responses to utopian possibilities and how that literature has shaped and continues to influence the American sense of the possible. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3173 - Contemporary British Literature

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Exploration of contemporary British literature, with emphasis upon a diversity of new voices. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212 or instr consent

ENGL 2034 - Contemporary Literature from India and the Caribbean (IP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Exploration of contemporary literature in English from India and the Caribbean. [Note: no credit for students who have received credit for Engl 3174]

ENGL 3261 - Modern British and American Poetry

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

A study of the continuities and break with traditions in 20th-century poetry. Focus on innovations and experiments in form and theme. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3262 - 20th- and 21st-Century American Poetry: From Modern to Contemporary (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Study of the radical shifts in poetry and poetics in 20th- and 21st-century America. Students will study movements such as Imagism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Modernist long poem, Objectivism, the New American Poetry, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry, multicultural poetry, conceptual poetry, LGBTQ poetry, ecopoetics, contemporary Native American poetry, and more. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3301 - U.S. Multicultural Literature (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Examination of literatures by African American, American Indian, Asian American, Chicana/o, U.S. Latino/a, and other under-represented peoples. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212 or instr consent

ENGL 3311 - American Indian Literature (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study of American Indian literature written in English. Particular attention given to language, identity, land, and sovereignty. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212 or instr consent

ENGL 3312 - World Indigenous Literature and Film (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Comparative study of indigenous literature and film from North America, New Zealand, and Australia with particular emphasis given to issues of political and cultural sovereignty, cultural appropriation, self-representation, and colonial nostalgia. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212, or instr consent, or NAIS major

ENGL 3331 - African American Literature (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study of African American literature. Particular attention given to issues of gender, class, power, "passing," and the racialized body. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3332 - African American Women Writers (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

If African Americans struggled to achieve equality and recognition in the racist United States, the situation was even more difficult for African American women, who had to contend with the sexism in both the white and black communities. This course examines the writings of prominent African American women. prereq: 1601 or 2109 or equiv or instr consent

ENGL 3411 - Critical Approaches to Literature

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

An introduction to the major schools of literary theory and cultural analysis; particular attention to the ways in which the dialogue and debate between these approaches define the discipline of literary criticism. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 3414 - Feminist Theory (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Engl 3414/GWSS 3414
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Same as GWSS 3414. Engages students in a critical examination of several influential works participating in the elaboration of feminist theories. Readings and discussions focus on a series of themes and issues--gender, sexuality, race, class, language, bodies, etc.--and how these issues bear upon society. prereq: [1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212] or [GWSS 1101]

ENGL 3522 - Harlem Renaissance (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

During the 1920s, there was a major aesthetic outpouring in the African American community. Listen to jazz, examine African American artwork, and read poetry, short stories, novels and essays from Harlem Renaissance writers. prereq: 1509 (or 2501), two from 1205, 1206, 1211, 1212

ENGL 4004 - Research Seminar: Old English Literature and Language

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	two from 31xx-35xx, #
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Prose and poetry of early medieval England (650-1100) in translation and in Old English (which is studied), with attention to material (manuscripts) and cultural contexts and to reception history. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent

ENGL 4012 - Research Seminar: Environmental Literature and Theory

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study of environmental literature and theory and an examination of the ways that the languages of different disciplines shape and transform understanding of ecology. Students read literature, philosophy, culture criticism, environmental history, an science writing. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent

ENGL 4017 - Research Seminar: Tricksters-Conjurers in American Indian and African American Literature (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study of tricksters and conjurers in American Indian and African American literature, in particular their ability to maintain traditional practices and subvert the dominant culture and imposed cultural norms. Special attention given to cultural and historical contexts and questions of power, identity, cultural difference, and assimilation. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent

ENGL 4023 - Research Seminar: Nationalism and Irish Literature

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	two from 31xx-35xx, #
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Examination of 20th-century Irish literature through the lens of cultural nationalism. How questions of language, race, culture, and colonial history make the idea of Ireland problematic. Exploration of a diverse host of writers interested in Irish myths, ideals, and identities with research from Irish and postcolonial studies. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent

ENGL 4028 - Research Seminar: Inventing a Nation: Early American National Literature

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	two from 31xx-35xx, #
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

At the end of the Revolution, Americans set out to create a literature that would define the new nation. Writers adapted old forms and invented new ones in an effort to make American writing distinct and somehow reflective of the nation's values. This course explores those efforts, including drama, novels, magazine writing, and their contexts. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent

ENGL 4031 - Research Seminar: Renaissance Romance

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	two from 31xx-35xx, #
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

An intensive study of the ever-controversial and paradoxical romance genre of 16th- and 17th-century England. Texts include Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia," Lady Mary Wroth's "Urania," Robert Greene's "Menaphon," and William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," among others. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent

ENGL 4032 - Research Seminar: Transnational Theory and Literatures

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	two from 31xx-35xx, #
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

An intensive study of transnational literature and theory from the turn of the 20th century to the present, emphasizing the movement of marginalized subjects to the center of cultural expression, the intertwining of cultures in contact zones, and the forms of identity emerging from these modern, hybrid cultures. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent

ENGL 4034 - Research Seminar: The Adventure Novel in American and British Literature

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	two from 31xx-35xx, #
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Survey of adventure fiction in the Anglo-American tradition from Walter Scott through the mid 20th century, paying particular attention to themes that shaped this tradition, including imperialism and revisions of masculine identity. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent

ENGL 4035 - Research Seminar: Booker Watch: Contemporary British Literature and the Emergence of Canonicity (IP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparison of leading contenders for the annual Booker Prize. Student research encompasses the history and controversies that have surrounded the Booker, the generic and national traditions favored in the prize, and the emergence of canonicity through the awarding of the prize. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent

ENGL 4037 - Research Seminar: The Biographical Novel

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Before the 1970s, there were only a handful of acclaimed biographical novels, but since the 1980s, this genre of fiction has become incredibly popular. Examine what led to the rise of the biographical novel across the globe and examine a variety of such novels. prereq: two from 31xx-35xx, instr consent

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