Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Approaches to the Study of Literature is a seminar that includes analysis and discussion of literary texts in some combination of mixed media, poetry, drama, prose, and fiction.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ARGUMENTATION AND ACADEMIC WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Prepares students for writing in academic disciplines. Topics: identifying argument patterns, using on-line databases, practicing heuristic techniques, revising and editing papers with the conventions of formal written English, and using MLA and APA documentation systems.

Long Title: AP/IB CREDIT IN ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course indication credit given for Advanced Placement in English.

Long Title: AP/IB CREDIT IN ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course indicating credit given for Advanced Placement in English.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LITERATURE AND LITERARY ANALYSIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed for and required of all prospective English majors. It emphasizes close reading, literary interpretation, and critical writing. Attention is paid to the major genres (poetry, drama, and fiction) across a range of historical periods. Intrinsic rather than extrinsic (contextual) approaches to literature are prioritized.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING: PERSONAL ESSAY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: According to one book reviewer, nonfictions in the personal essay, the memoir and autobiography--is the reigning genre of our time. This turn of events has been applauded as well as lamented, according to the taste of the writer/ critic/reviewer/person. Nonfiction readers and writers are proliferating. In this course we will join in this lively conversation by reading the works of published and prize-winning essayists and memoirists.

Long Title: GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Reading, in translation, and dramatic analysis of representative plays, including works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plautus, Terence, and Seneca. Cross-list: CLAS 209.

Long Title: MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: CHAUCER TO 1800

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Readings in major British authors of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 18th century.

Long Title: MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: 1800 TO PRESENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Readings of major British authors of the 19th & 20th centuries. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.

Long Title: WORDS IN ENGLISH: STRUCTURE, HISTORY, USE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the study of English words, focusing on their internal structure and the nature and history of English vocabulary. Aims are to enhance knowledge of the rich lexical resources of the language, and to facilitate the acquisition of scientific, technical, legal, and humanistic vocabulary. No previous linguistics background required. Cross-list: LING 215.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE VICTORIANS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This discussion-based course, designed for sophomores but open to all, explores the world of Victorian Britain 1837-1901. Readings may include fiction, drama, poetry, and non-fiction (essays, diaries, nature and travel writing, etc.) Texts will be considered in the context of social history and visual and material cultures.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This lecture course will examine the work of American novelists as self-conscious renderings of the nation that could not find reasonable expression in genres like poetry and autobiography. The expansive nature of the novel lent itself early on to capture, represent, and reify the progressive discourses of history that turned New England Puritan theocracy into a secularized form of government, known as democracy.

Long Title: ETHNIC LITERATURES OF 20TH CENTURY AMERICA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will serve as a comparative study of U.S. minority literatures. Discussion and analysis will range from themes such as immigration, citizenship, and nationalism to critical categories such as race, class, and gender.

Long Title: ASPECTS OF MODERN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is an introduction to modern/postmodern culture and includes reading of novels, plays, short stories, poems, psychoanalytic theory, and art criticism/philosophy. The emphasis is on reading and interpreting different kinds of texts in broad cultural contexts. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.

Long Title: US LATINO/A LITERATURES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course serves as an introduction to Latino/a Literature. We will study the evolution of this literary tradition from its origins in the colonial period. Special attention will be given to the conflicting processes of ethnicity, race, nationalism, language, gender, and citizenship during the 20th century.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO FILM: FILM CRITICISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This writing-intensive course will teach students to view films analytically and write film criticism. Each week, students will view a film, read some criticism of that film, and write their own review of the film. Screenings will be taken from important movements in world cinema history. Cross-list: HART 285.

Long Title: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FILM THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the student to approaches to understanding and interpreting film as film. It traces the attempts to grasp the new medium in theoretical terms from its origins to the present day. Topics include: montage, mise-en-scene, the gaze, history, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Cross-list: HART 286.

Long Title: PRACTICES OF LITERARY STUDY: READING METHODS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course covers the key concepts routinely surfacing in critical writing today. Students read short texts in the development of contemporary theory and discuss, at length, the ways literature practices the ideas which theory articulates. Required for English majors.

Long Title: CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course teaches the fundamentals of fiction writing, and includes a mixture of reading and writing assignments. The goal is for each student to produce two short stories possessing imaginative ingenuity, structural integrity, and literary merit by the end of the semester.

Long Title: FILM AND TELEVISION SCREENWRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course teaches the fundamentals of screenwriting through a mix of classroom, workshop, research, reading, viewing, and writing assignments. The goal is for each student to build and complete a riveting script for television.

Long Title: DRAMATIC WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The emphasis, depending on individual students, will be on the writing for drama in one or several of the chief modes of the performing arts: plays, films, musicals, opera- even dance. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Students will be introduced to poetry writing by studying the work of contemporary poets and by writing their own poems. The class will pay extensive attention to such elements of poetry as imagery, figurative language, tone, syntax, and form in order to create a vocabulary for writing and discussing their own poems. Students' poems will be critiqued by the class in a workshop setting.

Long Title: CREATIVE WRITING: PERSONAL ESSAY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Writing and reading personal essay and autobiography.

Long Title: EXPOSITORY PROSE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Students write a sequence of short essays on subjects of their own choosing. In the process, they experience how elements like structure, voice, figurative language, and style contribute to rhetorical effectiveness.

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDICAL/TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION ***** A course in physician-patient communication. Also builds skills in writing and presentations to help students prepare for medical school. Not open to freshmen.

Long Title: MYTHOLOGIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces students to world mythologies and mythmakers, from the beginning to the modern period. Included mythologies: Babylonia, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Welsh, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon Finnish, Mayan, Hpoi, modern (Borges, Phillip Glass). Cross-list: MDST 368, WGST 368.

Long Title: DANTE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, with attention to the meaning of words, images, symbols, figures, structures, and the meaning of the book with reference to the political/ religious controversies of the time. Cross-list: MDST 310.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines significant medieval European women authors from the 10th-17th centuries, from Italy and Germany to France, England, Austria, and Spain. Using various techniques/media to access works, we will combine close reading with a focus on intertexuality. Cross-list: MDST 300, WGST 300.

Long Title: OLD ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Reading of poems and prose about Old English women, in translation, including The Wife's Lament, Wulf and Eadwacer, Beowulf, Juliana, Elena, Judith, Genesis B, the Advent Lyrics on the Virgin, and materials from chronicle, myth, and legend.

Long Title: BEOWULF

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A reading from the beginning, the death and funeral of Beowulf in Old English. Recommended prerequisite(s): Old English Grammar or instructor permission.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CULTURES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An interdisciplinary course exploring the literature, art, philosophy, history, music, and science of the Middle Ages, with films by Pasolini, Bergman, Einstein, Annaud, Vigne, and others, and highlighted by a medieval banquet. Cross-list: MDST 315.

Long Title: CHAUCER

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Chaucer and his literary and philosophical background. Readings include minor poems, a dream vision, The Canterbury Tales and Troilus. Cross-list: MDST 316, WGST 305.

Long Title: ARTHURIAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of the origins and development of the Arthurian legend from the earliest chronicles in the sixth century and later medieval French, Welsh, Irish, and English Arthurian poems to modern adaptations of Arthurian material, including films. Cross-list: MDST 317, WGST 301.

Long Title: J.R.R. TOLKIEN

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will trace the tension between the exile (wraecca) and the community; otherness and heroism; identity and marginalization; revenge and forgiveness. Cross-list: MDST 318.

Long Title: SURVEY OF BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS 1400-1900

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of major British early writers. Poems, memoirs, plays, and novels by significant women, and their film adaptations. Cross-list: WGST 349.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE ON FILM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine both the text of selected Shakespearean plays and films made from them, focusing on the difference between film and drama. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Representative plays, including tragedies, comedies, histories and romances. Specific content varies from year to year.

Long Title: EARLY MODERN DRAMA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Elizabethan and Jacobean England, the greatest age of English drama, nurtured a theatre more integrated into its society than any known since. How did this happen? What effect did it have? Selected plays read both for literacy significance and the way they were part of the period's social, economic, and political forces.

Long Title: EARLY MODERN LITERATURE: READING THE RENAISSANCE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines forms of love poetry, medical treatises, letters, and courtly masques. Since each of these works is a product of England's changing cultural landscape, we'll be able to consider the ways in which they also reflect England's changing social history.

Long Title: MILTON

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Major poems and prose of John Milton. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 528.

Long Title: ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The most important literary innovation of the 18th century was the birth of the novel. We will examine the modern social and cultural forces crucial to and inextricable from this watershed development: the emergence of liberalism, conservatism, feminism, class, secular culture, the sex/gender system, individualism, and the separation of public and private spheres.

Long Title: TOPICS IN 18TH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Covers major themes, forms, authors, and genres in 18th- century British literature. Possibilities include studies in the early novel tradition, and literature's connection to Enlightenment innovations in philosophy, politics, social structure, religion, and gender relations.

Long Title: LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH ENLIGHTENMENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine a representative range of British prose and poetry from 1660-1790, the period known as the Enlightenment. This was a volatile age of plots, revolution, philosophical and scientific innovation, and literary transformation. Our readings will cover poems of several genres, short prose narratives, essays and philosophical treatises

Long Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the emergence and consolidation of the English novel and its dynamic relationship to many other 18th-century legacies; the modern individual, capitalism, civil society, the middle class, democracy, and colonialism.

Long Title: REASON AND FAITH: PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will study the core texts from the European Enlightenment traditions (British, French, and German). Our goal will be to investigate the Enlightenment doctrines concerning the nature of reason and rationality, and the varying engagements-from conciliatory to antagonistic-of the defenders of reason with faith and organized religions. Cross-list: PHIL 322.

Long Title: SURVEY OF BRITISH ROMANTICISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What does British Romatic Poetry leave out? What other genres, texts, and literary figures are in play in this period? This course will explore the excesses, extremes, and diviersities of British Romanticism across a variety of media: plays, tales, confessions, novels, and satires (including illustrations, paintings, and visual spectacles).

Long Title: SURVEY OF BRITISH ROMANTIC POETRY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will study the poets commonly associated with British Romanticism - Blake, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats - while also contextualizing these poets in relation to the sentimental, gothic, and equally impassioned writings of the writers collected in the anthology British Women Poets of the Romatic Era.

Long Title: VICTORIAN PANORAMA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course ventures into the array of creative works in the nonfiction genres, exploring the riches of Victorian writing and culture through the reading of poems and prose.

Long Title: SURVEY OF VICTORIAN FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of the many genres of the nineteenth-century novel, this course will try to come to terms with some of the insistent questions posed by and through the fiction of the period. Cross-list: WGST 372.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will cover the British novel from Kipling to Rushdie: the highlights of high modernism, the shift in the center of gravity from England itself to the colonies, and the narrative necessities that arise from different culture and politics will be among the topics we examine.

Long Title: EUROFICTION: CERVANTES TO 1900

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the various roots of the European novel in Cervantes, Potocki, and Lafayette, its growth through Romantic writers like Pushkin and Stendahl, and its great finales in Manzoni, Tolstoy, and Flaubert.

Long Title: SURVEY OF EUROPEAN FICTION: 20TH CENTURY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will begin with Prout's Swann's Way and follow political and formal developments in French, German, Russian, and Eastern European novels by writers such as Hacek, Pasternak, Hrabal, and Boll.

Long Title: MODERN SHORT STORY: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of great works of American and European short fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, with special attention to the ethical dimensions that this and all fiction articulates. Selected critical essays will complement readings from Melville, Haubert, Mann, Maupassant, Gogol, Wilde, Chekhov, Gilman, Kafka, O'Connor, Carver and Garcia-Marquez. Cross-list: FREN 355.

Long Title: ORIGINS OF THE POSTMODERN

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course examines diverse cultural manifestations of the "postmodern" through the last half of the twentieth century. Popular music, novels, plays, film, art, and fairy-tales may be discussed.

Long Title: AMERICAN LITERATURE, BEFORE 1860

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus careful attention on a complete reading on a number of the most significant traditionally valued texts of the "American Renaissance."

Long Title: AMERICAN LITERATURE 1860-1910

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Surveys the literature of the major authors of the period, including Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Henry James, and others.

Long Title: SURVEY OF AMERICAN FICTION 1910-1940

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The first half of the 20th century was one of great social turmoil and intense artistic experimentation. Major writers of the period include Chopin, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Toomer, Faulkner, Hurston, Barnes, and others.

Long Title: AMERICAN FICTION 1950-PRESENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Surveys the literature of the major authors of the period, and will include examination of the narrative experiments and trends of the period.

Long Title: AMERICAN POETRY 1900-1960

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Major American poets of the period. A representative selection from the major poets of the period, including, but not limited to Gertrude Stein, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot and so forth.

Long Title: AMERICAN POETRY 1960-PRESENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Poets studied might include Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Randall Jarell, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Denise Levertov, James Merrill, John Ashbury, Philip Levine, Anne Sexton, and others.

Long Title: TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: While topics vary, courses will likely focus on themes, movements, and/or critical re-evaluations that are independent of periods, such as immigration, modernism, postnationalism, etc.

Long Title: AMERICAN ECOFEMINISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A critical examination of the contemporary intersections of feminism and environmental studies, and/or political activism. History, literature, theory, and film are studied in some combination. Cross-list: WGST 367.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How does literature express or shape environmental values? In this class we will read American fiction and nonfiction exploring the relationship between human and nonhuman nature.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Here, the American literary West is examined through the historic context of the U.S. in the 20th century, especially in light of postmodernity, the civil rights movement, Hollywood, and global politics. Cross-list: WGST 329.

Long Title: SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course traces, through various genres and themes, African American literary history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Attention is given to theories and critiques of African American literature and culture. Cross-list: WGST 370.

Long Title: SURVEY OF CHICANO/A LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This mixed-genre course will focus on the Chicano movement, the Chicano renaissance, and their alternative literary and mythic traditions. Cross-list: WGST 354.

Long Title: SURVEY OF ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course surveys in some combination poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by Asian American writers since the 19th century. Themes include: immigration, "Gold Mountain", citizenship, World War II, model minority mythology, the Vietnam War, etc. Cross-list: ASIA 372.

Long Title: SURVEY OF AMERICAN FILM AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course will cover the history of cinema in the US from its origins to the present day. Cross-list: HART 380.

Long Title: POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Any aspect of study that interrogates the history, politics, and/or cultural productions from regions once colonized by European nations. Courses may vary in their focus from studying theory and culture to literature and history.

Long Title: ART AND LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores how artworks in various media become meaningful at the level of detail. This exploration will entail learning how to look, think, and feel at the same time. Key authors studied: Vermeer(painting), Hitchcock(film), Hammett(detective fiction).

Long Title: LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is a mixed-genre course that examines literatures from North and South America, including the Caribbean. The focus of the course may vary from a survey of a specific geographical region or a group of writers, to a theme that incorporates more than one geographical region or national literature.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THIRD WORLD LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course primarily surveys fiction, poetry, drama, film, (in English) from postcolonial contexts, especially those of Africa, the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent. Authors discussed include Rushdie, Narayan, Roy, Wolcott, Ngugi, Coetzee, and Achebe.

Long Title: ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Literatures in English that emerge in the wake of European colonialism, except the United States. Writers might include those from Africa, Australia, Canada, India, or the Caribbean. Cross-list: WGST 327.

Long Title: TWENTIETH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Writers might come from Great Britain, the U.S., or elsewhere in translation. Past topics include "sex, gender and modernism".

Long Title: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the core concepts and writings of the field. Cross-list: WGST 480.

Long Title: CRITICAL RACE STUDIES IN AMERICAN FILM, 1915 - 1955

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3 TO 4

Description: Topics vary from year to year but will likely cover such areas as film genres, national cinemas, world cinema, directors and other thematically organized topics. Cross-list: HART 383.

Long Title: CULTURAL STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3 OR 4

Description: Recent topics have included film, mass culture, "Marx", contemporary ethnic studies and, "The Culture of Love". Not limited in period, scope, or geography, cultural studies is a broad category. Cross-list: HART 387, WGST 387. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MEDIA STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year but will likely address inter-disciplinary approaches to studying the relationships between film, photography, television, and digital technologies such as the internet and computer-generated imaging.

Long Title: GENERATION X IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An interdisciplinary survey of Generation X in literature, music, film, and politics. Cross-list: WGST 389.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of the art and theory of the theatre through an examination of dramatic literature from the Greeks through the modern era. The course will also explore the craft of the theatre as it is practiced today. Cross-list: THEA 303.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction of modern English grammar, phonology, and semantics. Cross-list: LING 394.

Long Title: LITERARY GENRES: DETECTIVE FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: TOPICS IN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Recent topics have included Detective Fiction, Electronic Literature, and Freaks in U.S. Culture. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 301 or permission of instructor

Description: This course will be conducted mostly as a workshop, although the course will also include some assigned writing exercises and weekly reading of published short stories to deepen students' understanding of narrative technique. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 304 or permission of instructor

Description: Students will make a more in-depth study of contemporary poetry by careful analysis of books by six to eight contemporary poets, by reading selected essays on poetic technique, and by continuing to write their own poems with a view toward finding their personal voice. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 16TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERARY STUDY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For more concentrated study of some aspect of the literature and culture of the 16th century. Topics vary.

Long Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For more concentrated study of some aspect of the literature and/or culture of the 18th century. Topics vary.

Long Title: 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE STUDIES: HISTORISIZING EVIL: DISEASE, DECADENCE AND DEMONISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For more concentrated study of some aspect of the literature and/or culture of the 19th century. Topics vary.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Courses vary from year to year. Might include authors such as James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, etc.

Long Title: VICTORIAN STUDIES: ALL IN THE FAMILY: BEING AT HOME WITH THE VICTORIANS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course designed to build on student knowledge of the Victorian period gained earlier in the curriculum, "Victorian Studies", which varies by topic from semester to semester, looks in depth at some aspect of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Recent topics have included the novel, visual arts, marriage and sexuality. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: AUSTEN ONLY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will try to come to terms with Jane Austen as author and icon. Material will include all her fiction as well as portions of her letters and biography. Recent film and television adaptations of her novels will also be critically examined. Cross-list: WGST 405.

Long Title: 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Courses vary from year to year. Authors studied might include: Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglas, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Henry James, etc.

Long Title: 20TH-21ST CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine 20th century and contemporary U.S. Literature and culture in context of theories and movements of social justice and individual freedom. These might include: liberal individualism, theories of subjective agency, feminism, antiracism, and so on. The course will examine the role that literature plays in constructing, questioning, and reformulating ideas of freedom and agency. Cross-list: WGST 462.

Long Title: STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: ROMANTICISM, MODERNITY, AND SYSTEMS THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Because topics might vary wildly, please see the English website and check the undergraduate course listings for that semester. For Fall 2005, this course will be Romanticism, Modernity, and Systems Theory: R.W. Emerson to A.R. Ammons.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A more advanced exploration of material introduced in ENGL 368, here the study of literature is conjoined with studies in the environment. Topics might include nature writing, the wilderness ideal, social justice, Native America, etc.

Long Title: TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary. For Fall 2005, the topic will be Black Women Writers. Cross-list: WGST 453. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TOPICS IN CHICANO/A LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Periods and topics vary. In the past, this course has been taught from 1848-1960 and 1960-present. Topics include: war, citizenship, immigration, the Civil Rights Movement, Mexico, generational differences, and the Vietnam War. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the literature of the Native American Renaissance, from N. Scott Momaday's groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, House Made of Dawn (1968), to the recent works of some emerging writers. Although our focus will be on the contemporary novel, we will also explore American Indian autobiography and other works of nonfiction. Our literary analysis will be supplemented by an awareness of the cultural and political movements important to American Indian peoples in the late 20th century. To what extent are Native texts both innovative forms of artistic expression within a literary tradition and instruments of social change? How might Native American works be read as "resistance" literature? In exploring such questions, the class will address the issues of sovereignty, land claims, activism, and identity.

Long Title: MODERN DRAMA ON FILM AND IN PERFORMANCE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on drama not only as a text but also as performance.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM: THIRDWAVE FEMINISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Courses vary. For Spring 2006 the topic will be Third Wave Feminism. Cross-list: WGST 407.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MODERN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Intended as a more in-depth investigation of some aspect of literature. Topics vary.

Long Title: AREA STUDIES: GLOBAL FICTIONS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines narrative fictions that represent various attempts to grasp the global-- as an idea, a cognitive map, a pattern of movement, a series of events, a montage of images, etc.

Long Title: STUDIES IN FILM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Courses vary from year to year. Cross-list: HART 486.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MAJOR BRITISH AUTHORS: SHAKESPEARE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Studies in Major British Authors is a topics course which offers the opportunity for in-depth investigation of one or more major authors, not possible in the broader survey formats. The topic for Fall 2005 is "Shakespeare". This seminar is conceived as a kind of "anti-survey course" in Shakespeare. We will limit ourselves to just three of his plays: Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra, and immerse ourselves in the nuances and the larger questions that have to be rushed through when coverage is a necessity. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Intended to provide the opportunity for more in-depth study of one or more major American authors.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Students may occasionally arrange a semester-long independent study in a specific area of interest with the professor's approval. Requirements must be discussed with the professor. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SENIOR SEMINAR

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: See advisor to the English major for information.

Long Title: SENIOR THESIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See advisor to the English major for information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: QUEER THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What is queer theory and why is it important? This course aims to answer these questions by examining key issues in queer theory and situating them in the context of major literary and cultural theories of the past quarter century. As such the course will also serve as an introduction to psychoanalytic theory, postculturalism, deconstruction, postcolonial theory, film studies and recent work on the relationship between science and literature. Cross-list: WGST 430. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Courses vary from year to year. For Spring 2005, "Literary Theory: An Introduction".

Long Title: MASTER'S THESIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: PEDAGOGY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For third-year students preparing to teach their own sections of Freshman English. This two-semester course will help students put together syllabi and other teaching materials, address various pedagogical problems, formulate their teaching philosophies and provide classroom assistance in their independent teaching.

Long Title: PEDAGOGY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Continuation of ENGL 510.

Long Title: MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CHAUCER

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of major continental European women writers, among them mystics, philosophers, scientists, and court-poets, in translation and in Middle English, from the 5th to the 15th centuries with attention to feminist, gender, and reader-response theory. Cross-list: WGST 517.

Long Title: 16TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Personal Voice: Renaissance lyric and autobiography for Spring 2006. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE AND DIFFERENCE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Cross-list: WGST 520.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional information.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE AND THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional information.

Long Title: EARLY MODERN DRAMA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the English department website for additional information.

Long Title: 17TH CENTURY POETRY AND PROSE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional information.

Long Title: MILTON

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Enlightenment Institutions for Spring 2006. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the English department website for additional information.

Long Title: EARLY 19TH CENTURY STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: BRITISH ROMANTICS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the English department website for additional information.

Long Title: VICTORIAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional information. "Victorian Culture" for Fall 2005. For Spring 2006 "On or About 1860".

Long Title: VICTORIAN FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VICTORIAN POETRY AND PROSE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Cross-list: WGST 546. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional course information.

Long Title: MODERN AMERICAN FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional course information.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. For Fall 2005, U.S. Race and Ethnicity Studies: Contemporary Debates. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FAULKNER AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: We will read closely and discuss fully four or five of Faulkner's major novels in the context of a broad range of twentieth-century interpretive strategies. The class will consider issues of narrative form, social context, gender, race, and modern and postmodern aesthetics. Consult the English department website for additional information.

Long Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CHICANO/A STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the English department website for additional course information.

Long Title: FILM AND THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional course information.

Long Title: CULTURAL STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Cross-list: WGST 581. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the English department website for additional course information.

Long Title: FEMINIST ISSUES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: WGST 483. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: POSTCOLONIALISM AND AFTER

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course serves both as an introduction to postcolonial theory and as a reevaluation of its political and ethical ends vis-a-vis recent debates around globalization and cosmopolitanism. For additional course information please consult the English dept website. Cross-list: WGST 585.

Long Title: MEDIA STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year but will likely address inter- disciplinary approaches to studying the relationships between film, photography, television, and digital technologies such as the internet and computer-generated imaging. Please consult the English dept website for additional course information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FILM STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year but will likely address advanced issues in film theory, history, and methodologies. Please consult the English dept website for additional course information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND OTHER DISCIPLINES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MODERNISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MODERN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course content varies . Please consult the English dept website for additional course information. "Faulkner" for Fall 2005. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course investigates contemporary trends in cultural theory, especially those that enable a comparative analysis of global transformations in language, literature, culture, and media.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ANGLOPHONE FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Please consult the English dept website for additional course information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY: READING MATERIAL

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. For Fall 2005 "Where We've Been" and for Spring 2006 "Pragmatism". Please consult the English dept website for additional course information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PROFESSIONAL METHODOLOGY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Basic seminar for first year graduate students. An introduction to core concepts in English literary and cultural studies, significant critical and theoretical paradigms, disciplinary trends and various genres of academic writing. Please consult the English dept website for additional course information.

Long Title: FALL TEACHING PRACTICUM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Open only to those graduate students serving as teaching assistants for courses in English or the humanities.

Long Title: SPRING TEACHING PRACTICUM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Open only to those graduate students serving as teaching assistants for courses in English or the humanities. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FALL TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Open only to graduate students teaching courses in the fall semester.

Long Title: SPRING TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Open only to those graduate students teaching courses in the spring semester.

Long Title: THIRD-YEAR WRITING WORKSHOP

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Open to third-year students. Designed to help transform seminar papers into works of publishable quality.

Long Title: FALL DIRECTED READING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPRING DIRECTED READING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Continuation of ENGL 621. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FALL RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPRING RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: Year 4 research leading to PhD candidacy. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PHD RESEARCH AND THESIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: To be taken after a student has been admitted to candidacy. Repeatable for Credit.