Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: AP CREDIT IN ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation.

Long Title: AP CREDIT IN ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation.

Long Title: GLOBAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to global literary studies and critical writing in which students study a range of literatures in English. The subject is twentieth-century modernism and its successors; postmodernism; and postcolonialism.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN LITERATURE AND LITERARY ANALYSIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course designed for and required of all prospective English majors. Emphasis is on close reading, literary interpretation, and critical writing. Attention is paid to the major genres (poetry, drama, and fiction) across a range of historical periods.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course dedicated to the study and craft of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Through engaged reading and creative exercises, students will analyze the use of various elements of creative writing - including image, voice, tension, character, setting, and story. Students will develop a writing portfolio as well as a sense of the possibilities inherent in and unique to each genre.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL ARGUMENT AND DESIGNING TEXTS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course designed to prepare students to produce sophisticated analyses of images as well as arguments in a culture or social context. It emphasizes how visuals and words combined in genres such as advertisement, illustration, computer displays, and political flyers to represent individuals, events, and social settings.

Long Title: MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: CHAUCER - 1800

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of representative British authors of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 18th century for both majors and non-majors.

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: A survey of representative British authors of the 19th and 20th centuries for both majors and non-majors.

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: An 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 STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of representative U.S. authors from the 18th century to the present designed for both majors and non-majors.

Long Title: ETHNIC LITERATURES OF 20TH CENTURY AMERICA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A comparative study of U.S. minority literatures. Discussion will focus on themes such as immigration, citizenship, and nationalism and on 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: An introduction to modern/postmodern culture that may include readings 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.

Long Title: SURVEY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course exploring fiction, poetry, and drama written and illustrated for children, nineteenth century to present. Students explore how children's literature varies to time and place and how the genre reveals cultural attitudes about childhood. Incorporates material from fields as various as education, psychology, and gender and sexuality.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND MEDICINE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Designed for, but not limited to, students interested in the medical profession, this course introduces the study of medicine through reading imaginative literature--novels, plays, essays, poems--by and about doctors and patients, focusing on understanding ethical issues and on developing critical and interpretive skills.

Long Title: MEDICINE AND MEDIA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: An interdisciplinary exploration of the role of imaging technologies in the practice of medicine, and the role of mass media in shaping our understandings of the body, health, and disease. This course examines how visual media structure "ways of seeing" for physicians and for the public. Emphasis will be placed on developing media literacy skills. Cross-list: SWGS 273.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND RELIGION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of how literature has imagined religion and its place in human experience from Chaucer to Rushdie. Related topics will include the shift from a theological to a secular worldview, and the literary transformation of divine into poetic justice.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO FILM: FILM CRITICISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: A writing-intensive course that teaches students to view films analytically and to write film criticism. Each week, students will view a film, read 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: FILM 273, HART 285.

Long Title: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FILM THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course focusing on contexts such as movies and ads, familiar plots and conventions define their significance. Focus is on the period of 1950 to 2000, when results of a formerly secret technology dramatically ended World War II and became a central concern of American cultural and political life. 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: A course that identifies and explores key concepts of recent critical writing. Students read short texts of contemporary theory and discuss the relation between theory and literature. Required for English majors.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that 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: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to poetry writing through the study of contemporary poets and the writing of 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 students to discuss their own poems. Students' poems will be critiqued by the class in a workshop setting.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL ESSAY WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course in the writing and interpretation of the personal essay and other autobiographical forms.

Long Title: EXPOSITORY PROSE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: MEDICAL/TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course in physician-patient communication. It also builds skills in writing and oral presentation to help students prepare for medical school. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HOW I LOVE (AND HATE) THE BOMB: THE RHETORIC OF ATOMIC ENERGY IN US POPULAR AND CIVIC DISCOURSE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: As new technologies (think nano everything, stem cells, space stations) appear in interpretive contexts such as movies and ads, familiar plots and conventions define their significance. This new course will focus on the period of 1950 to 2000, when results of a formerly secret technology dramatically ended World War II and became a central concern of American cultural and political life.

Long Title: MYTHOLOGIES: TRAGIC WOMEN, ENEMIES OF THE STATE, WITCHES, ROGUES AND REVOLUTIONARIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to world mythologies, mythmakers and their cultures, from the beginnings to the modern period. Included mythologies: Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, modern (Glass, Borges, 'Whale Rider'). Cross-list: MDST 368, SWGS 368.

Long Title: DANTE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A close reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, with attention to the meaning of words, images, symbols, figures, structures, and the epic itself, with reference to the political/religious controversies of the time in Florence, Italy, and medieval Europe. Cross-list: MDST 310.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the most significant medieval European women authors from the 10th-17th centuries. We will combine close reading with a focus on intertextuality to recover a feminized literary tradition. Cross-list: MDST 300, SWGS 300.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL CULTURES THROUGH FILM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: An interdisciplinary course exploring the literature, art, philosophy, history, music, and science of the Middle Ages, with films by Pasolini, Bergman, Dreyer, 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: A course on Chaucer and his literary culture and philosophical backgrounds. Readings include minor poems, a dream vision, "The Canterbury Tales", "Troilus and Criseyde." Cross-list: MDST 316, SWGS 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.

Long Title: J.R.R. TOLKIEN AND THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that examines Tolkien's awareness of medieval works such as "Beowulf", "The Battle of Maldon", "The Wanderer", "Old English Riddles", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", and the Finnish "Kalevala" in his scholarship and fiction, including "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", and the "Silmarillion". Cross-list: MDST 318.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE ON FILM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that examines both the text of selected Shakespearean plays and films based on them, focusing on the difference between film and drama.

Long Title: EARLY SHAKESPEARE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of representative early Shakespearean plays, including tragedies, comedies, and histories. Plays vary from year to year.

Long Title: LATE SHAKESPEARE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A performance oriented examination of representative late Shakespearean plays, including tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances. Plays vary from year to year.

Long Title: EARLY MODERN DRAMA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course focusing on selected plays of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, read both for their literary significance and for the way they were part of the period's social, economic, and political forces.

Long Title: EARLY MODERN LITERATURE: 17TH C. POETRY & PROSE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course focusing on various genres of English literature from the early modern period. Topics vary and have recently included "Love, Sex and Death in the Renaissance" and "Heaven and Hell."

Long Title: MILTON

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course on the major poems and prose of John Milton. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 528. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ENGL 328 if student has credit for ENGL 528.

Long Title: SURVEY OF BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS from 1400-1900

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

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: SWGS 349.

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: A course focusing on the most important literary innovation of the 18th-century: 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: LIBERTY AND FREEDOM IN THE LONG 18TH CENTURY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course that covers the major themes, forms, authors, and genres in 18th- century British literature. Topics may include studies in the early novel tradition; literature's connection to Enlightenment innovations in philosophy, politics, social structure, religion, and gender relations. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LITERATURE OF THE BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that examines 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: A course that 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: BRITISH OR IRISH LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course focusing on themes, movements, genres across several periods of British literature. Topics might include gothic, nationalism, regional literatures, or Irish literature. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SURVEY OF EARLY 19TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that examines authors and texts that significantly represent the cultural, historical, and literary issues of early 19th-Century Britain. Writers studied might include Edgeworth, Scott, Austen, Bronte, M. Shelley, and others.

Long Title: SURVEY OF BRITISH ROMANTICISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A multi-genre course on the Romanitic period. This course will explore the excesses, extremes, and diversities 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: A course that focuses on 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 Romantic Era.

Long Title: VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A multi-genre course that explores the array of creative works that examines the Victorian period through poetry, non-fiction prose, fiction, art and material culture.

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: SWGS 372.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of the British novel from Kipling to Rushdie, focusing on 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 cultures and politics.

Long Title: SURVEY OF BRITISH POETRY: 1950-PRESENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of the British poets of 20th-century. The course will focus on modernism and the reactions to it, minority dialects, and postcolonial issues. Poets might include W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heany, and Derek Walcott.

Long Title: EUROPEAN FICTION: CERVANTES - 1900

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of 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: A survey of political and formal developments in French, German, Russian, and Eastern European novels by writers such as Proust, 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: A 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: An examination of 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: A course that focuses careful attention on 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: A survey of the literature of the major authors of the period, that might include Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Henry James, and others.

Long Title: SURVEY OF AMERICAN FICTION 1910-1950

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of the fiction of the first half of the 20th century, one of the great periods of social turmoil and intense artistic experimentation. Authors may include Chopin, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Toomer, Faulkner, Hurston, Barnes.

Long Title: AMERICAN FICTION 1950-PRESENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the narrative experiments and trends of the period, from 1950 to the present.

Long Title: AMERICAN POETRY 1900-1960

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of representative American poets of the period. These may include Gertrude Stein, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot.

Long Title: AMERICAN POETRY 1960-PRESENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of contemporary U.S. poetry: Poets studied may 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: A variable topics course focusing on themes, movements or genres across several periods of American literature. Topics may include immigration, modernism, and post-nationalism. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SOUTHWEST NARRATIVE: WRITING FROM BELOW

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that aims to produce a broad understanding of the important problems of contemporary feminist theory. We will focus on the interrelated issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethics, language, and power by exploring in depth primary texts in feminist theory. Cross-list: SWGS 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: A course that asks the questions: 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. Cross-list: ENST 368.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the American literary West through the historical context of the U.S. in the 20th century, especially in light of post modernity, the civil rights movement, Hollywood, and global politics. Cross-list: SWGS 329.

Long Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that 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: SWGS 370.

Long Title: CHICANO/A LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A mixed-genre course focusing on the Chicano movement, the Chicano renaissance, and alternative literary and mythic traditions associated with them. Cross-list: SPAN 396, SWGS 354.

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: A course that explores the history of cinema in the U.S. from its origins to the present day. Cross-list: FILM 373, HART 380.

Long Title: POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that interrogates the history, politics, and/or cultural productions from regions once colonized by European nations. Emphasis may vary from theory and culture to literature and history. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ART AND LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS: SOUTHWEST NARRATIVE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A mixed-genre variable topics course that examines literatures in English 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. Cross-list: SWGS 378. Repeatable for Credit.

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: A course that primarily surveys fiction, poetry, drama, film, (in English) from postcolonial contexts, especially those of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Indian subcontinent. Authors discussed may include Rushdie, Narayan, Roy, Wolcott, Ngugi, Coetzee, and Achebe. This course is also approved for credit by The Program in Poverty, Social Justice, and Human Capabilities.

Long Title: ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES: LITERATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that focuses on literatures in English that emerge in the wake of European colonialism, except those from the United States. Writers might include those from Africa, Australia, Canada, India, or the Caribbean. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TWENTIETH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course that focuses on women writers from various traditions. Writers might come from Great Britian, the U.S., or elsewhere in translation. Topics have included "sex, gender and modernism", "race and ethnicity" and "African writers of the diaspora". Cross-list: SWGS 327. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FEMINIST THEORY NORTH AND SOUTH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course focusing on concepts that drive and divide social movements centered on gender equality, women's issues, and sexual identity in the two-thirds and one-third world, among them feminism; the body; race; labor; rights, needs, and desires. Cross-list: SWGS 380.

Long Title: GLOBAL FICTIONS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course has two components: one, it looks at recent fiction in English by U.S., British, and international writers, that deal with global and transnational issues; and two, it studies the work of recent cultural critics who provide new understandings of an increasingly networked world as well as the imaginative and narrative tools --fictional, artistic, cinematic , electronic and visual--that we use to process the fast-paced realities of contemporary globalization.

Long Title: AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Explores the history of filmmaking outside of Hollywood in the United States throughout the 20th century, emphasizing the period from 1959 to the present. Special attention to the contributions of marginalized communities and the art world, innovative film styles, and the interdependence of alternative and mainstream media cultures. Cross-list: FILM 384.

Long Title: FILM STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3 TO 4

Description: A variable topics course that may focus on such areas as film genres, national cinemas, world cinema, directors or other thematically organized topics. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ENGL 385 if student has credit for ENGL 589. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CULTURAL STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3 OR 4

Description: A variable topics course that may focus on one or more theorist, on a genre or theme, or on debates within the field of cultural studies. Recent topics have included film, mass culture, Marx, and contemporary ethnic studies. Not limited in period, scope, or geography. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MEDIA STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3 TO 4

Description: A variable topics course that addresses interdisciplinary approaches to studying the relationships between film, photography, television, and digital technologies such as the internet and computer-generated imaging. Repeatable for Credit.

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: SWGS 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 course 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. Requires attending several theatre productions in local Houston venues. Cross-list: THEA 303.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY POETRY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth analysis of contemporary poetry and poetics, from a variety of national traditions that raises questions about tradition and innovation, the personal and the political, aesthetics, technique, and experience. Readings will focus on the rich variety of work written in English between the last decades of the twentieth century and the present.

Long Title: BLACK MANHATTAN: 1915-1940

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the key figures, political movements, and black radicalisms and nationalisms that are remembered as part of the Harlem Renaissance. We will focus on the effects of WWI, the Depression, and segregation on black cultural expression.

Long Title: STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to modern English grammar, phonology, and semantics. Cross-list: LING 394.

Long Title: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of major developments in English, starting from its Indo-European and Germanic origins, then observing stages of the language from Anglo-Saxon to Middle English to Early Modern English via literary landmarks. Includes phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical developments, as well as sociolinguistic aspects such as the emergence of "standard English" and the development of post-colonial Englishes. Cross-list: LING 395.

Long Title: LITERARY GENRES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course that offers an in-depth look at a particular literary genre or subgenre over a range of historical periods. Topics may include detective fiction, romance, the novel, magical realism, the lyric, or melodrama. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TOPICS IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course in a wide variety of fields and genres. Past topics have included "Electronic Literature", "Freaks in U.S. Culture", and "The American Seen Through British Eyes". Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SLAVERY IN 20TH CENTURY FILM AND FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course studies how twentieth century reconstructions of slavery in American literature and film engage contemporary anxieties regarding race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. These neo-slave narratives often critique modernity; challenge how we think about history, evidence, memory, and trauma; and trouble narrative conventions.

Long Title: MAJOR SEMINAR

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 300

Description: A variable topics course for junior and senior English Majors, serving as a capstone to the major. Courses are in depth encounters with an author or topic (James Joyce, the literary body, place, etc.) that focus on the development of advanced research, presentation, and writing skills. *After July 1, 2009, all students declaring English as a major or double-major, **must take **ENGL 400 to fulfill the requirements of the Major. No student may enroll in ENGL 400 without first having taken ENGL 300. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED FICTION WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 301 or permission of instructor

Description: A course conducted mostly as a workshop. It 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: WRITING LONGER FICTION: NARRATIVE DESIGN

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course for advanced fiction writers who wish to expand their knowledge of narrative design and work in longer forms. Students will write a proposal for a longer project at the start of the semester and complete no fewer than sixty pages (a novel excerpt, a complete novella, 2-3 linked stories) by the end.

Long Title: ADVANCED POETRY WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 304 or permission of instructor

Description: An in-depth study of contemporary poetry, this course emphasizes the careful analysis of books by six to eight contemporary poets, the reading of selected essays on poetic technique, and the writing of poems with a view toward finding a personal voice. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED PERSONAL ESSAY WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An advanced reading and writing workshop for writers who have some familiarity with the nonfiction genre. Published works will be read as blueprints for the construction of student work. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TOPICS IN SHAKESPEARE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course that provides an opportunity to explore some dimension of Shakespeare's work with specialized focus. Please consult English department for specific details. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 16TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of sixteenth-century literature and culture gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of eighteenth-century literature and/or culture gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 19TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of nineteenth-century literature and/or culture gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of twentieth-century literature and/or culture gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VICTORIAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of Victorian literature and/or culture gained earlier in the curriculum. Recent topics have included the family, "The Pre-Raphaelites", "Around 1900" the "Long Victorian Novel", and "Victorian Legacies". Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: AUSTEN ONLY: NOVELS & FILM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth exploration of 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: SWGS 405.

Long Title: 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of 19th-century literature and/or culture gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.

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

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. literature and/or culture gained earlier in the curriculum. Recent topics have included social justice and contemporary fiction. Cross-list: SWGS 462. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A special topics course in American literature and culture that transcends historical periods. Recent topics have included systems theory, and American modernism and animality. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of African American literature gained earlier in the curriculum. Recent topics include Black Women Writers. Cross-list: SWGS 453. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN CHICANO/A LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of chicano/a literature and culture gained earlier in the curriculum. Past topics have included the Chicano/a novel, and Transitions and Translations Chicano/a Autobiography. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of 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: PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE STUDY OF GLOBAL CULTURES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A mixed genre, interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which the cultural, political and aesthetic expressions of African descended populations from across the globe (the Black Diaspora) have been constituted as objects of study and analysis.

Long Title: MODERN DRAMA ON FILM AND IN PERFORMANCE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: FILM AND LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of twelve masterpieces of world cinema, with special attention to the texts (when applicable) on which they're based. Some of the filmmakers covered: Akira Kurosawa, Jean Renoir, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, Howard Hawks, and Kar Wai Wong.

Long Title: STUDIES IN FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of feminist theory gained earlier in the curriculum. Past topics have included sexualities, Marraige and Its Others, and Third Wave Feminism. Cross-list: SWGS 407. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MODERN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of modern literature gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GLOBAL FICTIONS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of 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: MEDIA STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of media studies gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN FILM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3 OR 4

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge of film studies gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MAJOR BRITISH AUTHORS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course which offers the opportunity for in-depth investigation of one or more major British authors, not possible in the broader survey formats. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course offering the opportunity for in-depth investigation of one or more major American authors not possible in the broader survey formats. Recent authors have included James, Wharton, Poe, and Hawthorne. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: A variable-credit course designed for students who want to pursue intensive semester-long study of a particular topic not included in the curriculum. Students must identify and receive the approval of an English department faculty member. Once a professor and student agree to work together, they must devise a syllabus for the course which must be approved by the department chair. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SENIOR THESIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An opportunity for advanced English majors to pursue a substantive research project in conjunction with a faculty advisor. Permission of faculty members required prior to enrollment. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: QUEER THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of key issues in queer theory that links those issues to other 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: SWGS 430. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LITERARY THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of topics in literary theory, this course is designed for undergraduates who have taken ENGL 300 or its equivalent and for graduate students who want to reinforce their theoretical knowledge.

Long Title: MASTER'S THESIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: PEDAGOGY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

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

Long Title: PEDAGOGY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Continuation of ENGL 510.

Long Title: MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE AND SUBJECTIVITY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of middle English lyrics, romances, dream visions, debate poems, mystery and morality plays, and other philosophical and biographical treatises from 1250-1500.

Long Title: CHAUCER AND THE SUBVERSIVE OTHER

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of exemplary treatments of alterity and difference in Chaucer. See course webpage for additional information.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the most significant medieval European women authors from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries, from the Byzantine Empire to France, Germany, Italy, England, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia, and Spain. See course web page for additional information. Cross-list: SWGS 517.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A special topics course in medieval European comparative literature. Past topics have included "The Medieval Dream Vision and Visionary Work". Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 16TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Past topics have included Personal Voice: Renaissance Lyric and Autobiography, Renaissance Genders and Renaissance Sexualities; and Spenser. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE AND DIFFERENCE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Please consult the English department website for additional information. Cross-list: SWGS 520.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE AND THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: EARLY MODERN DRAMA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 17TH CENTURY POETRY AND PROSE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Recent topics include Revolution, Apocalypse and the Self. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MILTON

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ENGL 528 and ENGL 328.

Long Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Recent topics include Enlightenment Institutions, Origins of British Novel, Eighteenth-century Emergences, and Libertinism. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Recent topics include History of "The Novel, Part 1" and "Origins and Displacements". Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: EARLY 19TH CENTURY STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Recent topics have included "The Serialization of the Novel". Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ROMANTIC POETRY AND CRITIQUE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Recent topics have included Gothic Romanticism. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VICTORIAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Recent topics have included "Material Constructions, or What Things Have to Do With Us", and "On or About 1860". Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VICTORIAN FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Recent topics have included "The Victorian Marriage Plot", "The History of the Novel, Part II"; and "Victorian and Modern Sexualities". Cross-list: SWGS 542. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VICTORIAN POETRY AND PROSE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Recent topics have included "The Long Victorian Poem". Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Recent topics have included Dickinson and Crane; Hawthorne and Stowe; Male Subjectivities; Howells and Wharton; 19th-century Women Writers; Slavery and the Sentiment Novel; Liberalism; and Agency, Class and Anxiety in 19th-century American Literature and Criticism. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MODERN AMERICAN FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Recent topics have included U.S. Race and Ethnicity; (Trans)Formations of Race and Nation; Edith Wharton the Uses of Literature; and Late 20th- century American Literature and Culture. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FAULKNER AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An intensive examination of 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: HEMISPHERIC AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course studies American literature within a hemispheric rather than nation-based context. In any given semester, the seminar reading list will include novels, non-fiction prose, and poetry by authors whose writing complicates national stories and illustrates the overlapping, mutually enforcing nature of national and regional cultures. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. 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: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Recent topics have included Narrative Theory and Chicano/a Ethnography. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FILM AND THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A founding premise of this graduate seminar is that no medium operates in isolation. We will define "media" broadly to include film, television, computer programs, architecture, music, print, medical imaging, iphones, and other forms of electronic, screen-based cultural expression. Methodologies will include comparison across media, historical periods, scholar disciplines, production/consumption.

Long Title: GENRE STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth look at a particular literary genre or subgenre over a range of historical periods. Examples might include romance, the novel, the lyric, or melodrama. Recent topics have included The Romance. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CULTURAL STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Recent topics have included Contemporary Issues in U.S. Culture and Studies in Sexuality: Thinking Sex Under Neo-Liberalism. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Recent topics have included Sexualities. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: READING MATERIAL

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course considers the contesting claims made on the term "material" and their implications for how we read critically, with particular attention to the question of class; the material status of nature and the body; gender, race, and sexual identities. Cross-list: SWGS 583.

Long Title: THINKING SEX UNDER NEO-LIBERALISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taking as its historical period the social crises defining the emergence of neo-liberal capitalism in the late twentieth century, this course focuses on new formations of gender and sexuality in US and transational culture and inquiries into critical concepts being forwarded to address it. Cross-listed with SWGS 584.

Long Title: POSTCOLONIALISM AND AFTER

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that 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 department website. Cross-list: SWGS 585.

Long Title: MEDIA STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Recent topics have included Representing Reality: Cinema, Television and Digital Technologies and The Body in Visual Culture. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FILM STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ENGL 589 if student has credit for ENGL 385. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND OTHER DISCIPLINES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional information. Recent topics have included Visual Cultures 1550-1800 and Problems of Close Reading in Literature and Film. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MODERNISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Recent topics have included What Was Modernism; and Joyce and Modernism. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Recent topics have included Global English; Globalization and its Discontents; and Critical Regionalisms. Crosslisted with HART 594. Cross-list: HART 594. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English department website for additional course information. Recent topics have included Emerson and Posthumanism. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ANGLOPHONE FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English dept website for additional course information. Recent topics have included Narrative and Cultural Differences. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY: READING MATERIAL

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Please consult the English dept website for additional course information. Recent topics have included Pragmatism and Postmodernity; Systems Theory; Post-Structuralism and Postmodernity; and Where We've Been: Reflecting on the Academy. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TOPICS IN LITERARY THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction, for first-semester graduate students, to theoretical issues, problems, and approaches current in the profession of literary study.

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: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

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: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

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: A workshop required of 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: A course designed for students who want to pursue intensive semester-long study of a particular topic not included in the curriculum. Students must identify and receive the approval on an English department faculty member. Once a professor and student agree to work together they must devise a syllabus for the course which must be approved by the department chair. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPRING DIRECTED READING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course designed for students who want to pursue intensive semester-long study of a particular topic not included in the curriculum. Students must identify and receive the approval of an English department faculty member. Once a professor and student agree to work together they must devise a syllabus for the course which must be approved by the department. Instructor Permission Required. 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: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

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