Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2004-2005
ENGL 100 - FRESHMAN ENGLISH SEMINAR
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FRESHMAN ENGLISH SEMINAR
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Section 001:Freshman English Seminar is typically a theme- based course that includes analysis and discussion of literary texts in poetry, drama, prose, and fiction. Includes frequent submission of essays. Content varies from year to year and from semester to semester. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for current course information.
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Enrollment limited to 20.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 103 - INTRO TO ARGUMENT AND WRITING
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: INTRODUCTION TO ARGUMENTATION AND ACADEMIC WRITING
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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.
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Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
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Instructor(s): Driskill, Tobin
ENGL 121 - AP CREDIT IN ENGLISH
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ADVANCED PLACEMENT CREDIT IN ENGLISH
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Course indication credit given for Advanced Placement in English.
ENGL 122 - AP CREDIT IN ENGLISH
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ADVANCED PLACEMENT CREDIT IN ENGLISH
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Course indicating credit given for Advanced Placement in English.
ENGL 200 - SEM IN LIT AND LITERARY ANALYS
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SEMINAR IN LITERATURE AND LITERARY ANALYSIS
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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.
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Enrollment limited to 15.
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Instructor(s): Doody, Ellenzweig, Fultz, Morris, Michie
ENGL 201 - INTRO CREATIVE WRITING:FICTION
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING: WHAT WRITERS READ
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There are writers called "writers' writers". These are writers whose works are consistently respected, recommended, and, in fact, considered canonical. We will read work by a variety of contemporary authors. The course is designed to give students who want to become writers the opportunity to learn the volcabulary, lore, and tribal secrets of the writing community. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Class size is limited, to be determined by instructor after the first class meeting.
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Instructor(s): Reckhagel
ENGL 209 - GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA
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Reading, intranslation, and dramatic analysis of representative plays, including works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plautus, Terence, and Seneca.
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Also offered as CLAS 209.
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Instructor(s): Mitchell
ENGL 210 - BRITISH WRITRS:CHAUCER TO 1800
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: CHAUCER TO 1800
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Readings in major British authors of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 18th century. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Browning, Huston.
ENGL 211 - BRITISH WRITRS:1800 - PRESENT
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: 1800 TO PRESENT
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Readings of major British authors of the 19th & 20th centuries. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Browning, Logan.
ENGL 215 - WORDS IN ENGL:STRUC, HIST, USE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: WORDS IN ENGLISH: STRUCTURE, HISTORY, USE
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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.
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Also offered as LING 215.
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Instructor(s): Kemmer.
ENGL 250 - INTRODUCTION TO THE VICTORIANS
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE VICTORIANS
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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.
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Instructor(s): Logan
ENGL 260 - INTRO TO AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
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This lecture course will examine the work of American novelists as self-conscious renderings of the nation that could not find reasonable experession in geners 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.
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Instructor(s): Aranda, Derrick, Comer.
ENGL 266 - ETHNIC LIT. OF 20TH CENT AMERI
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ETHNIC LITERATURES OF 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
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This course will serve as an introduction to U.S. Latino/a Literature. We will study the evolution of this literary tradition from its origins in the colonial period, its transformation during the wars of independence from Spain, its second transformation during 19th century American imperialism, and finally its coming of age under the conflicting processes of ethnicity, race, nationalism, language, gender, and citizenship during the 20th century.
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Enrollment limited to 20.
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Instructor(s): Comer, Staff
ENGL 270 - ASPECTS OF MODERN LITERATURE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ASPECTS OF MODERN LITERATURE
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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 fpr additional course information.
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Enrollment limited to 20.
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Instructor(s): Staff.
ENGL 271 - US/LATINO LITERATURE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: US/LATINO LITERATURES
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Survey of the major Hispanic writers of the 20th century.
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Instructor(s): Aranda
ENGL 275 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4
Description: INTRODUCTION TO FILM: FILM CRITICISM
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This writing-intensive course will teach students to view films analytically and write fims 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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Also offered as HART 285.
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Instructor(s): Ostherr
ENGL 286 - CLASSICAL & CONTEMPORARY FILM
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: CLASSICAL & CONTEMPORARY FILM THEORY
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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. Also offered as HART 286.
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Instructor(s): Dove, Charles
ENGL 300 - PRACTICES OF LITERARY STUDY
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: PRACTICES OF LITERARY STUDY: READING METHODS
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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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Enrollment limited to 20.
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Instructor(s): Derrick, Dietz, Doody, Logan, Lurie, Staff
ENGL 301 - CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FICTION WRITING
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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. Consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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This course typically over-enrolls. Admission is therefore selective and based on a writing sample. Interested students are advised to attend the first class meeting for guidelines for the writing sample submission. For more information go to www.ruf.rice.edu/~jccronin/301/index.html. Instructor(s): Cronin, Recknagel, Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 302 - FILM AND TELEVISION
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FILM AND TELEVISION SCREENWRITER
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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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for details. ***Class size is limited, to be determined by instructor after the first class meeting.
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Instructor(s): O'Malley
ENGL 303 - DRAMATIC WRITING
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: DRAMATIC WRITING
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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.
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Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
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May be repeated for credit.
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Instructor(s): Mitchell Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 304 - CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: CREATIVE WRITING: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING
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Students will be introduced to the craft of writing poetry, will read and study contemporary poets, and will write their own poems and critique them in a workshop setting. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Wood, Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 305 - CREATIVE WRITE: PERSONAL ESSAY
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: CREATIVE WRITING: PERSONAL ESSAY
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Writing and reading personal essay and autobiography. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor required.
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Class size is limited, to be determined after the first class meeting.
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Instructor(s): Recknagel
ENGL 306 - EXPOSITORY PROSE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: EXPOSITORY PROSE
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Sudents 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.
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Instructor(s): Tobin
ENGL 307 - MED/TECH COMMUNICATION
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MEDICAL/TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
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A course in physician-patient communication. Also builds skills in writing and presentations to help students prepare for medical school. Not open to freshmen.
ENGL 309 - MYTHOLOGIES
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MYTHOLOGIES
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This course introduces students to world mythologies and mythmakers, from the beginnings to the modern period. Included mythologies: Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Welsh, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, modern (Borges, Phillip Glass). Consult www.english.rice.edu for additonal course information.
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Course also offered as MDST 368, WGST 368.
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Instructor(s): Chance.
ENGL 310 - DANTE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: DANTE
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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. Consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Also offered as MDST 311
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Instructor(s): Chance
ENGL 311 - MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
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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.
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Also offered as MDST 311/WGST 300
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Instructor(s): Chance
ENGL 312 - OLD ENGLISH
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SURVEY OF OLD ENGLISH
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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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Also offered as WGST 312, MDST 312.
ENGL 315 - INTRO TO MEDIEVAL CULTURES
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CULTURES
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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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Chance.
ENGL 316 - CHAUCER
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: CHAUCER
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Focus will be primarily on The Canterbury Tales, this philosophical and material culture, and their dramatic and literary potential. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Allso offered as WGST 305, MDST 316.
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Instructor(s): Chance.
ENGL 317 - ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
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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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu fpr additional information.
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Also offered as WGST 301, MDST 317.
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Instructor(s): Staff.
ENGL 318 - J.R.R. TOLKIEN
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: J.R.R. TOLKIEN
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This course will trace the tension between the exile (wraecca) and the community; otherness and heroism; identity and marginalization; revenge and forgiveness. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Also offered as MDST 318.
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Limited enrollment.
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Instructor(s): Chance
ENGL 319 - SURV OF BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SURVEY OF BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS 1400-1900
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A survey of major British early writers. Poems, memoirs, plays, and novels by significant women, and their film adaptions. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Also offered as WGST 349.
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Instructor(s): Chance.
ENGL 320 - SHAKESPEARE ON FILM
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SHAKESPEARE AND FILM
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This course will examine both the text of selected Shakespearean plays and films made from them, focusing on the difference between film and drama. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Permission of instructor required.
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Limited enrollment.
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Instructor(s): Huston.
ENGL 321 - SHAKESPEARE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SHAKESPEARE
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Representative plays, including tragedies, comedies, histories and romances. Specific content varies from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Dietz, Skura, Grob, Huston. Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 323 - EARLY MODERN DRAMA
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: EARLY MODERN DRAMA: MADNESS, VIOLENCE, SEX, AND SATAN
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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.
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Course offered Spring.
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Instructor(s): Skura
ENGL 324 - OLD ENGLISH
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: OLD ENGLISH
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This course will be a combination of Old English Grammar and readings in Old English. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Also offered as MDST 311 and LING 312.
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Instructor(s): Mitchell
ENGL 326 - EARLY MODERN LITERATURE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: EARLY MODERN LITERATURE: READING THE RENAISSANCE
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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. Consult www.english.rice.edu for additinal course information.
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Instructor(s): Dietz
ENGL 328 - MILTON
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MILTON
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Major poems and prose of John Milton. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Snow
ENGL 331 - TOPICS IN 18TH-CENTURY LIT
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: TOPICS IN 18TH-CENTURY LITERATURE
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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. Please visit http://www.english.rice.edu for additional information.
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Instructor(s): Ellenzweig
ENGL 332 - LIT OF ENGL ENGLIGHTENMENT
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH ENLIGHTMENT
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This course will examine a representative range of British prose and poetry form 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 treaties.
ENGL 333 - 18TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION
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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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Doody, Staff.
ENGL 336 - TOPICS IN GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: TOPICS IN GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 339 - BRITISH ROMANTICS: POETRY
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SURVEY OF BRITISH ROMANTICS: POETRY
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The major writings of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Grob.
ENGL 341 - VICTORIAN PANORAMA
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: VICTORIAN LITERATURE, EXCLUDING FICITION
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This course ventures into the array of creative works in the nonfiction geners, exploring the riches of Victorian writing and culture through the reading of poems and prose. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Logan
ENGL 342 - SURVEY OF VICTORIAN FICTION
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SURVEY OF VICTORIAN FICTION
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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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Also offered as WGST 372.
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Instructor(s): Michie, Patten.
ENGL 346 - 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT.
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SURVEY OF 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
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This course surveys major writers in 20th-century British fiction, including colonial and postcolonial Irish, Indian, and African novelists. Together with the novels, we will read essays in narrative theory, so the course also serves as a practical introduction to methods and issues in interpretation of modern and postmodern fiction. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff.
ENGL 350 - SURV OF EURO FICTION: 20TH CEN
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SURVEY OF EUROPEAN FICTION: 20TH CENTURY
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Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 355 - MODERN SHORT FICTION
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MODERN SHORT FICTION FROM BALZAC TO BORGES
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A study of the great works of American and European short fiction from the late 18th through 20th century. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Also offered as FREN 355.
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Instructor(s): Staff.
ENGL 357 - ORIGINS OF THE POSTMODERN
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ORIGINS OF THE POSTMODERN
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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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Morris.
ENGL 360 - AMERICAN LIT. BEFORE 1860
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: AMERICAN LITERATURE, BEFORE 1860
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This course will focus careful attention on a complete reading on a number of the most significant traditionally valued texts of the "American Renaissance." Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Derrick, Staff
ENGL 361 - AMERICAN LITERATURE 1860-1910
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: AMERICAN LITERATURE 1860-1910
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Surveys the literature of the major authors of the period, including Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Henry James, and others. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Wolfe, Staff.
ENGL 362 - AMER FICTION 1910 - 1940
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SURVEY OF AMERICAN FICTION 1910-1940
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Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Morris, Wolfe, Staff.
ENGL 363 - AMERICAN FICTION 1950-PRESENT
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: AMERICAN FICTION 1950-PRESENT
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Surveys the literature of the major authors of the period, and will include examination of the narrative experiments and trends of the period. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Doody
ENGL 364 - AMERICAN POETRY 1900 - 1960
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: AMERICAN POETRY 1900 - 1960
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Major American poets of the period. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Wolfe
ENGL 365 - AMERICAN POETRY 1960-PRESENT
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: AMERICAN POETRY 1960-PRESENT
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Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 366 - TOPICS IN AMERICAN LIT
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1865
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Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff
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INSTRUCTOR: Levander, Caroline Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 367 - AMERICAN ECOFEMINISM
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: AMERICAN ECOFEMINISM
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Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Also offered as WGST 367.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 368 - LITERATURE & THE ENVIRONMENT
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course informaition.
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Instructor(s): Staff.
ENGL 369 - LIT&CULT AMERICAN WEST
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST
*****
Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Comer
ENGL 370 - SURVEY AFRICAN AMER LITERATURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
*****
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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional information.
*****
Also offered as WGST 370.
*****
Instructor(s): Fultz.
ENGL 371 - SURVEY OF CHICANO/A LITERATURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SURVEY OF CHICANO/A LITERATURE
*****
This mixed-genre course will focus on the Chicano movement, the Chicano renaissance, and their alternateive literary and mythic traditions. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Also offered as WGST 354.
*****
Instructor(s): Aranda
ENGL 372 - SURVEY OF ASIAN AMERICAN LIT
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SURVERY OF ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
*****
Offered from time to time. Material covered will vary with instructor. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Also offered as ASIA 372.
*****
Instructor(s): Comer, Staff
ENGL 373 - SURVEY OF AMER FILM & CULTURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4
Description: SURVEY OF AMERICAN FILM AND CULTURE
*****
This course will cover the history of cinema in the US from its orgins to the present day. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Also offered as HART 380.
*****
Instructor(s): Ostherr
ENGL 377 - ART AND LITERATURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ART AND LITERATURE
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult ww.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Snow
ENGL 378 - CARIBBEAN FICTION
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description:
ENGL 379 - THIRD WORLD LIT IN ENGLISH
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: INTRODUCTION TO THIRD WORLD LITERATURE
*****
This course primarily surveys fiction, poetry, drama, film, (in English) from areas of the world now known as Third World. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Joseph.
ENGL 380 - 20TH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 20TH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Also offered as WGST 327.
*****
Instructor(s): Lamos, Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 382 - FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Also offered as WGST 480.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 387 - CULTURAL STUDIES: GLOBAL MEDIA
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4
Description: CULTURAL STUDIES: GLOBAL MEDIA CULTURES
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional information.
*****
Instructor(s): Levander, Ostherr, Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 388 - MEDIA STUDIES
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MEDIA STUDIES
*****
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 www.english.rice.edu for specific course information.
*****
ENGL 389 - GENERATION X IN LIT. & CULTURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: GENERATION X IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
*****
An interdisciplinary survey of Generation X in literature. music, film, and politics. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional information.
*****
Also offered as WGST 388.
*****
Instructor(s): Comer Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 390 - INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE
*****
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.
*****
Also offered as THEA 303.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 394 - STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
*****
Introduction of modern English grammer, phonology, and semantics.
*****
Also offered as LING 394.
*****
Instructor(s): Shibitani.
ENGL 397 - TOPICS IN LITERATURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: TOPICS IN LITERATURE
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 401 - ADV CREATIVE WRITING:FICTION
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION
*****
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. May be recreated for credit. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 301 For more information go to www.ruf.rice.edu/~jccronin/301/indx.html.
*****
Instructor(s): Cronin Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 404 - ADV CREATIVE WRITING:POETRY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY
*****
Advanced Poetry Writing: A more indepth exploration in the techniques of writing poetry with additional concentrated study of contemporary poetry. Students will continue to write and critique in a workshop setting.
*****
Instructor(s): Wood Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 420 - 16TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 16TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERARY STUDIES
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Dietz, Skuru, Snow, Staff
ENGL 421 - 17TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT STUDY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 17TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE STUDIES
*****
No description.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 422 - 18TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT STUDY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE STUDIES
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Ellenzweig, Joseph
ENGL 423 - 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT STUDY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE STUDIES
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Logan, Michie, Patten, Staff
ENGL 424 - 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT STUDY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE STUDIES
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Doody, Lamos, Staff
ENGL 432 - ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVELS
*****
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.
*****
Instructor(s): Ellenzweig.
ENGL 441 - VICTORIAN STUDIES
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: VICTORIAN STUDIES
*****
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.
ENGL 443 - AUSTEN ONLY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: AUSTEN ONLY
*****
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.
*****
Also offered as WGST 405
*****
Instructor(s): Michie
ENGL 461 - 19TH CENTURY AMER STUDIES
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN STUDIES
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Derrick, Levander, Wolfe
ENGL 462 - 20TH-21ST CENT AMER LIT STUDY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 20TH-21ST CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
*****
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.
*****
Also offered as WGST 462.
*****
Course offered Spring 2005.
*****
Instructor(s): Lurie. Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 466 - STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
*****
Topics will vary from year to year.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 468 - LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 470 - TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Fultz Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 471 - TOPICS IN CHICANO/A LITERATURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: TOPICS IN CHICANO/A LITERATURE
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Aranda Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 472 - NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
*****
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.
*****
ENGL 475 - MOD DRAMA ON FILM &IN PERFORM
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MODERN DRAMA ON FILM AND IN PERMFORMANCE
*****
This course focuses on drama not only as a text but also as performance. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Huston Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 481 - FEMINST LIT THRY&CRITICSM
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: INTRODUCTION TO FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
*****
No description
ENGL 484 - STUDIES IN LITERARY GENRES
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN LITERARY GENRES
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Dietz, Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 485 - STUDIES IN MODERN LITERATURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN MODERN LITERATURE
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional information.
*****
Instructor(s): Lamos, Morris, Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 487 - AREA STUDIES: GLOBAL FICTIONS
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: AREA STUDIES: GLOBAL FICTIONS
*****
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. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Joseph
ENGL 489 - STUDIES IN FILM
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN FILM:
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Ostherr Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 490 - STUDIES IN MAJOR BRIT AUTHORS
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN MAJOR BRITISH AUTHORS
*****
Cuorses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 491 - STUDIES IN MAJOR AMER. AUTHORS
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 493 - DIRECTED READING
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hours: 1 TO 6
Description: DIRECTED READING
*****
Students may occaisonally arrange a semester-long independent study in a specific area of interest with the professor's approval. Requirements must be discussed with the professor.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 494 - SENIOR SEMINAR
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 1 TO 3
Description: SENIOR SEMINAR
*****
No description.
ENGL 495 - SENIOR THESIS
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SENIOR THESIS
*****
No description. Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 498 - QUEER THEORY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: QUEER THEORY
*****
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, psotcolonial theory, film studies and recent work on the relationship between science and literature.
*****
Also offered as WGST 430. Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 499 - STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY
*****
Courses vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Lamos, Lurie, Wolfe, Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 509 - MASTER'S THESIS
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MASTER'S THESIS
*****
No description
ENGL 510 - PEDAGOGY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: PEDAGOGY
*****
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 probles, formulate their teaching philosophies and provide classroom assistance in their independent teaching.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 511 - PEDAGOGY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: PEDAGOGY
*****
Continuation of ENGL 510.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 514 - MIDDLE ENGLISH LIT
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 516 - CHAUCER
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: CHAUCER
*****
Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 517 - MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
*****
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.
*****
Also offered as WGST 517.
*****
Course offered Spring 2005.
*****
Instructor(s): Chance.
ENGL 519 - 16TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 16TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE VOICE
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 520 - SHAKESPEARE AND DIFFERENCE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SHAKESPEARE AND DIFFERENCE
*****
Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 521 - SHAKESPEARE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SHAKESPEARE
*****
Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 522 - SHAKESPEARE AND THEORY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SHAKESPERE AND THEORY
*****
Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 523 - EARLY MODERN DRAMA
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: EARLY MODERN DRAMA: MOORS, TURKS, AND OTHER "OTHERS"
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Skura
ENGL 526 - 17TH CENTURY POETRY & PROSE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 17TH CENTURY POETRY AND PROSE
*****
Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 528 - MILTON
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MILTON
*****
An enriched version of English 328 for graduate students.
ENGL 532 - 18CENTURY BRITISH LIT
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information. Different topics may be repeatable for credit.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 534 - 18TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 537 - 19TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 19TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION
*****
A survey of 19th century British ficiton genres. Topics covered include various theories of fiction-e.g. semiotic, structuralist, materialist, reader-response, feminist, spatialist- and various examples of fictional genres-e.g., Gothic, domestic, historical, romance, industrial, sensation, mystery. Topics and novels vary from year to year. Please consult http://www.english.rice.edu for additional information.
*****
Instructor(s): Patten; Michie; Logan
ENGL 539 - BRITISH ROMANTICS
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: BRITISH ROMANTICS
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 541 - VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: VICTORIAN LITERATURE
*****
Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 542 - VICTORIAN FICTION
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: VICTORIAN FICTION
*****
Topics vary from year to year. DIfferent topics may be repeated for credit. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 543 - VICTORIAN POETRY AND PROSE
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: VICTORIAN POETRY AND PROSE
*****
Topics vary from year to year as needed. Different topics may be repeated for credit. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course informaiton.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 546 - 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT.
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Different topics may be repeatable for credit. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 560 - 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LIT.
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE
*****
Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 562 - MODERN AMERICAN FICTION
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MODERN AMERICAN FICTION
*****
Topics vary fromyear to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 563 - 20TH C. AMER LIT & CUL
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
*****
Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 564 - FAULKNER & CONTEMP THEORY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FAULKNER AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY
*****
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 www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Morris
ENGL 570 - AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
*****
Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 572 - CHICANO/A STUDIES
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: CHICANO/A STUDIES
*****
Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
*****
Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 575 - FILM AND THEORY
Long Title:
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FILM AND THEORY
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Topics vary from year to year. Different topics may be repeated for credit. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 578 - LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 581 - CULTURAL STUDIES
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: CULTURAL STUDIES
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Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 582 - FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY
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Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 583 - FEMINIST ISSUES
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FEMINIST ISSUES
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Topics vary from year to year as needed. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Also offered as WGST 483.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 585 - POSTCOLONIALISM AND AFTER
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: POSTCOLONIALISM AND AFTER
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Course serves both as as introduction to postcolonial theory and as a reevaluation of its political and ethical ends vis-a-vis recent debates around globalization and cosmopolitanism. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 588 - MEDIA STUDIES
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: MEDIA STUDIES
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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 www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Ostherr
ENGL 589 - FILM STUDIES
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FILM STUDIES
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Topics vary from year to year but will likely address advanced issues in film theory, history, and methodologies. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Ostherr
ENGL 591 - STUDIES IN LIT & OTHER DISCIPL
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN LITERAURE AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
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Topics vary from year to year as needed. Different topics may be repeated for credit. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 592 - STUDIES IN MODERNISM
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN MODERNISM
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What was Modernism? This course explores theories of Modernism and Modernity, from Baudelaire to Benjamin. Inter-disciplinary in scope, it will include discusssion of musical works, visual arts, and literary texts, focusing upon British and American literature.
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Course offered Spring 2005
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Instructor(s): Doody, Lamos, Staff
ENGL 593 - STUDIES IN MODERN LITERATURE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN LITERATURE
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Course content varies . Please consult http://www.english.rice.edu for specific course information.
ENGL 594 - CONT LITERATURE & CULTURE
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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This course investigates contemporary trends in cultural theory, especially those that enable a comparative analysis of global transformations in language, literature, culture, and media.
ENGL 596 - STUDIES IN MAJ AMER AUTHORS
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS
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Topics vary from year to year as needed. Different topics = may be repeated for credit. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 597 - ANGLOPHONE FICTION
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: ANGLOPHONE FICTION
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Topics vary from year to year. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course informtion.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 599 - STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY
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Topics vary from year to year. Differnent topics may be repeated for credit. Please consult www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 600 - PROFESSIONAL METHODOLOGY
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: PROFESSIONAL METHODOLOGY
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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 www.english.rice.edu for additional course information.
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Instructor(s): Staff
ENGL 601 - FALL TEACHING PRACTICUM
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FALL TEACHING PRACTICUM
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Open only to those graduste students serving as teaching assistants for courses in English or the humanities.
ENGL 602 - SPRING TEACHING PRACTICUM
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: TEACHING PRACTICUM
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Open only to those graduate students serving as teaching assistants for courses in English or the humanities. Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 603 - TEACHING OF LIT & COMP
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: FALL TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION
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Open only to graduate students teaching courses.
ENGL 604 - TEACHING OF LIT & COMP
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: SPRING TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION
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Open only to those graduate students teaching courses.
ENGL 605 - THIRD-YEAR WRITING WORKSHOP
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: THIRD-YEAR WRITING WORKSHOP
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Open to third-year students. Designed to help transform seminar papers into works of publishable quality.
ENGL 621 - FALL DIRECTED READING
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: DIRECTED READING
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No description. Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 622 - SPRING DIRECTED READING
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: DIRECTED READING
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Continuation of ENGL 621. Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 703 - RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Research
Credit Hours: 1 TO 9
Description: FALL RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY
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No description. Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 704 - RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Research
Credit Hours: 1 TO 15
Description: SPRING RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY
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Continuation of ENGL 703. Repeatable for Credit.
ENGL 800 - PHD RESEARCH AND THESIS
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Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Research
Credit Hours: 1 TO 9
Description: PH.D. RESEARCH AND THESIS
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To be taken after a student has been admitted to candidacy. Repeatable for Credit.