Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: VISITING RESEARCH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 0

Description: Research conducted by a visiting student scholars. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed to introduce students from a variety of academic backgrounds to the major literary genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and creative non-fiction. Students will learn and practice the skills of close reading, interpretation, and literary analysis through discussion and critical writing about literature and language. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: WHAT IS A FACT? DATA, READING, MEANING FROM HUMANITIES TO STEM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Whether in science, social sciences or humanities, all students benefit from this essential training in how to discover and interpret the world and its facts. Training in discovery and interpretation is the role of the humanities and literary studies. This class teaches critical thinking and imagination, the fuels of reason.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed to introduce students from a variety of academic backgrounds to the major literary genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and creative non-fiction. Students will learn and practice the skills of close reading, interpretation, and literary analysis through discussion and critical writing about literature and language. Formerly offered as ENGL 100. Students who have taken ENGL 100 will not receive credit for ENGL 110.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY EDITING & PUBLISHING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taught in the fall, Introduction to Literary Editing & Publishing is the first course in a recommended two-part sequence that explores literary publishing and the diversity of professionals in that space: editors, agents, publishers, and writers. Students enrolled in ENGL 113 will consider the fundamental questions of the industry: “What is literature and who decides?”, What is craft?”, “What is poetry and what is the utility of a poem?”, “What stories are fiction writers allowed to tell?”, and “What is creative nonfiction’s relationship to truth?” Alongside these discussions, students will study the basic elements of literature’s three main genres (poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction), enlarge their understanding of editorial critique, and develop skills for providing feedback in the workshop setting. Several classes throughout the semester will feature discussions with visiting publishers, editors, agents, poets, essayists, and/or novelists. Students will also be asked to become practitioners of “literary citizenship.” This will come about through weekly attendance at staff meetings of The Rice Review, participation in literary events throughout Houston, and through the hands-on experience of planning and hosting The Rice Review’s annual Fall Open Mic Night. All students will be considered as official staffers for the magazine and will be acknowledged in that year’s annual issue. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW). There is no prerequisite for this course, but a joy for reading and debating the qualities of great poetry and prose is strongly encouraged. ENGL 113 is a prerequisite for ENGL 114. For more information about the spring continuation of the course and the production of The Rice Review, please refer to the course description for ENGL 114.

Long Title: LITERARY EDITING & PUBLISHING / THE RICE REVIEW

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 113

Description: Taught in the Spring, Literary Editing & Publishing/The Rice Review is the second course recommended to students desiring practical skills in the fields of literary editing and publishing. Experiential in nature, this class engages students in the real considerations and hands-on experience of publishing Rice’s nationally award-winning undergraduate literary journal, The Rice Review. Enrolled students will participate in weekly editorial meetings to read and discuss the merits of undergraduate submissions across literature’s three main genres: poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Students will discuss a diverse group of submissions in the workshop setting, refine their editorial skills through written critiques, and enlarge their understanding of the editing process. Later in the term, students will become proficient with Adobe's InDesign layout software and create final magazine spreads that demonstrate an attention to the interplay of text and image. Students will also be asked to become practitioners of “literary citizenship.” This will come about through participation at outside literary events and through the hands-on experience of planning and hosting The Rice Review’s Spring Launch Event. All students will be considered official staffers for the magazine and will be acknowledged in that year’s annual issue. Course counts towards the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the Minor in Creative Writing. In order to control course demand, registration is by permission of the instructor. Please reach out to ianschimmel@rice.edu to register or with inquiries. There is no prerequisite for this course, but a joy for reading and debating the qualities of great poetry and prose is strongly encouraged. ENGL 113 is a prerequisite for ENGL 114, or permission from the instructor is required. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: AP/OTH CREDIT IN ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Transfer

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/OTH CREDIT IN ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Transfer

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: HOUSTON - OUT ON THE TOWN

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explore Houston’s multi-ethnic literary and art scenes and its diverse audiences, reading practices, and creativity. Along with analyses of art and the social infrastructures that support it, we study Houston-based literature and neighborhoods. Field trips to literary readings, Latinx murals, a Tex-Mex restaurant, and Hermann Park monuments, enhance place-based literacies.

Long Title: GLOBAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: GATEWAYS TO LITERARY STUDY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).

Long Title: TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introductory, variable topics workshop in creative writing that asks students to work in multiple genres (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, reviewing, etc.). Topics will vary from semester to semester and may include "Food Writing," "Writing Green," "Persona," and more. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW). Repeatable for credit. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FORMS OF POETRY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the fundamental architecture of poetry. How do poets create a sense of shape? What are the nuts and bolts of a poem? Students will read widely in the history of poetry from traditional meters and historical forms to contemporary free verse and experimental or open forms. Part workshop and part seminar, this course will feature critical and creative assignments and is designed for majors and non-majors, writers and non-writers alike. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).

Long Title: WRITERS ON WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course aims to demystify the writing process by studying contemporary literature from a writer’s perspective. Through lectures, readings, and class visits with living, working writers, students will learn about and practice the kind of intellectual and creative work that goes into some of the best writing being produced today. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).

Long Title: BEGINNINGS: BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1800

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: "Beginnings" is a course about the emergence and development of English literature. It is a backgrounds class for majors and non-majors who are interested in reading, and/or in creative writing, and who want to understand the literary past and how it remains with us. You will leave the class with 1) a clear and informed grasp of the major authors, texts, and literary movements from the Middle Ages through the British Enlightenment, 2) some answers to why we should still care about these "early" authors and their writing now, and 3) sharpened skills in reading and appreciating poetry and literary forms generally. Our class will approach our literary past with openness and curiosity for what it might hold for us, remembering that we can’t find our voices without knowing something about the traditions, legacies, and heritages that precede and shape us. (This class fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the English major as well as Humanities distribution.)

Long Title: BRITISH LITERATURE: ROMANTICISM TO THE 20TH CENTURY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: LITERARY EDITING & PUBLISHING PRACTICUM / THE RICE REVIEW

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 1 TO 1.5

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 113 AND ENGL 114

Description: English 214: Literary Editing & Publishing Practicum In this editing and publishing practicum, enrolled students will serve as senior editors for r2: The Rice Review and organize the various initiatives that are central to the magazine's operation: book distribution, web content creation, campus-wide readings, submissions campaigns, and editorial slush reading. During the semester, students will also have the opportunity to lead book group-style discussions around an author’s work and interview their assigned writer about writing and craft. These interviews will be edited for print and digital publication. As a means to enliven our magazine’s mission and presence, students will also be required to design and distribute their own handmade zine and to attend several outside literary events (~4 per semester). We will use these experiences - as well as assigned readings and discussions - to reflect on the various ways in which literature is defined and promoted, the changing landscape of the publishing industry more broadly, and how the work of The Rice Review participates in that rapidly evolving space. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE WORLD AND SOUTH ASIA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to important 20th and 21st-century writers in English from South Asia - the region that includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Readings include award-winning and bestselling works (fiction and non-fiction) by writers who address a wide range of issues including national and cultural identity, colonialism, sexuality, religion, globalization and political violence. Cross-list: ASIA 222.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO LATINX LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This multi-genre course works to define the contours of Latinx literature by surveying texts drawn primarily from Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban migrations to the US. In addition to addressing the historical and socio-political conditions that frame the Latinx experience, the course broadly outlines the development of Latinx studies and the formation of its literary canon. Cross-list: LALX 230.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study, Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Lecture/Laboratory, Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Interdisciplinary study of cultural forms as diverse as poetry, advertisement, and film as well as topical interdisciplinary courses on literature and the arts, psychology, cultural studies, film media, anthropology, social theory, philosophy, law, and ethics. Topics vary each semester. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE NOVEL AND ITS CULTURAL POWER: WAYS OF STORYTELLING AND WORLDMAKING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course designed to introduce students to the intellectual, historical and aesthetic importance of the novelistic tradition. Selection of works from the 19th century to the present may include Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, James, Woolf, Ellison, Nabokov, Rushdie, and Franzen, and others.

Long Title: READING POETRY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course designed to introduce students to significant works of the poetic tradition, from ancient to contemporary, and from American and English masterworks to world poetry in translation.

Long Title: HOW TO READ TEXTS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will study a wide range of texts with a view to understanding how to read them attentively: newspaper articles, Facebook posts, tweets, poems, narratives, dramas.

Long Title: THE HISTORY OF LOVE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What is love? This team-taught course in Classical Studies and English explores answers to this question in the history of love poetry, with a focus on ancient Greece and Rome and early modern English literature. It examines how love shapes the concerns and forms of poetry, and how poetry shapes the experience of love. The course looks at how different authors in different periods treat a wide range of subjects related to love, including eroticism, seduction, sex and sexuality, gender, marriage, infidelity, and age and aging. It identifies modes of thought and expression particular to specific periods and poetic genres, while also investigating shared ideas, forms, and figurative language across literary history. Authors include Sappho, Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, and Behn, among others. The course will also look at treatments of love in contemporary poetry that draw on and vary material from the relevant traditions: of central interest here will be works by women, LGBTQ+ authors, and Black poets. All readings are in English. This course will count for Distribution in Humanities, and for the majors in Classical Studies and English.

Long Title: WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

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: WHODUNIT & OTHER MYSTERIES: DETECTIVE FICTION AND FILM NOIR

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of detective works from Sherlock Holmes to film noir and contemporary crime procedurals. Investigations of crime and puzzles center our discussions of interpretive authority, problems of social scapegoating and racial suspicion, and the figure of the detective genius. Becoming detectives ourselves, we apply interpretive agency to social issues.

Long Title: LATINX RESEARCH AND WRITING LAB

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Latinx Research and Writing Lab surveys current research topics and methods in fields expressly focused on U.S. Latinx communities. The Latinx Lab support students who are interested in the actual conversion of research into a research paper, poster, or some multi-media format. Cross-list: LALX 263.

Long Title: GRAPHIC NOVELS IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY TRADITION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course considers the impact and development of graphic novels in the African American literary tradition. It traces the origin story of the genre, examines its evolving relationship to African American biography, history, and fiction, and considers its popularity in contemporary media. Cross-list: AAAS 266.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the history and traditions of African American literature. Course will examine the poetry, essays, and fiction by people of African descent from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Cross-list: AAAS 267.

Long Title: SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the ways that science fiction has expressed and challenged ideas about nature, culture, society, and politics. Cross-list: ENST 265.

Long Title: ASPECTS OF MODERN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: LITERATURE AND MEDICINE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

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. Cross-list: MDHM 272.

Long Title: MEDICINE AND MEDIA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

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 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: HEAVEN AND HELL

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course examines the place of religious thought in literature and culture from the pre-modern to the modern world. The course examines how religious problems and questions -- from an investment in a theological world view to the critique of God and providence -- have shaped literary form and function.

Long Title: BLACK SCI-FI & SPECULATIVE FICTIONS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines how black science and speculative fiction worries the division between reality and fantasy; challenges the fictions embedded in our national histories; and underscores the social, economic, and political inequities short-circuiting the lives of brown and black peoples around the world. Focusing on works from Octavia Butler to Victor Levalle, from George Schuyler to Mat Johnson, from John Williams to Colson Whitehead among others, the course engages the ways in which these authors represent the monstrous and grotesque; pandemics, environmental and technological degradation and catastrophe; urbanization, gentrification, and immigration; and (biological/technological) warfare, in order to recalibrate our understanding of the central role race plays in determining both access to, and allocation of, necessary resources. We will track the histories and afterlives of slavery and colonialism that continue to transfigure our society, while also studying varied blueprints for, and critiques of, alternative, more egalitarian societies imagined by these artists. Cross-list: AAAS 279.

Long Title: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FILM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A film course focusing on contexts such as movies and advertisements, familiar plots and conventions define their significance. Cross-list: HART 286.

Long Title: TOPICS IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introductory courses that cover a range of texts in social, political and aesthetic contexts, and can also include introductory courses on literary theory, cultural theory, and narrative. Past topics have included, "Culture and Social Justice, " "Love and Liberty, " and more. Please consult English department website for specific details. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE PUBLIC HUMANITIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, students learn to apply critical humanistic methods to issues of public importance, especially in the Houston area. Participants study necessary applications of humanistic inquiry to civic life and contribute to this work themselves. Topics vary each semester. Past topics have included: Surreal Houston; Curating Heritage; (Dis)locating Art; History and Meaning. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PRACTICES OF LITERARY STUDY: READING METHODS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that identifies and explores key concepts of recent critical theory. 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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

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. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).

Long Title: SCREENWRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will introduce students to the art and craft of screenwriting through a focused study of terminology, formatting and cinematic technique. Assignments will include writing exercises, weekly viewing of films and readings of screenplays. Students will write their own treatments, outlines and full-length screenplays. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PLAYWRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Playwriting will explore and engage in various rudiments, skills, practices, stagings and performances of stage plays. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

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. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course in reading and writing creative nonfiction prose for the beginning writer. Sections may focus on a range of nonfiction genres or one specific form, e.g. personal essay/memoir, travel narratives, literary journalism, science and nature writing. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).

Long Title: TOPICS IN FICTION WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics workshop in the writing of fiction. Topics will vary from semester to semester and may include "Persona," "Short Story," and more. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TOPICS IN POETRY WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics workshop in the writing of poetry. Topics will vary from semester to semester and may include "The Hybrid Poetry Book" "Social Justice," "Poems and Paintings," and more. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PODCASTING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This project-based course will lead us through an introduction to the ever-expanding medium of podcasting, specifically radio storytelling. We will unpack and discuss the techniques of practiced podcasters and use those elements in our own attempts at radio reportage: arts & culture shorts, vox pops, sonic ID’s, and short and long-form interviews. We will become proficient in capturing sound, interviewing strangers, writing scripts, pitching ideas for stories, and using GarageBand software to edit and shape that content. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor. D1 effective Fall 2024.

Long Title: TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics workshop in the writing of creative nonfiction. Topics will vary from semester to semester and may include "Documenting Disaster," "Food Writing," "Spiritual Writing" and more. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: NONFICTION NATURE WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this creative writing seminar, students will explore some of the ways that creative nonfiction can become a vehicle for questions about how to imagine our place in the world, as well as the relationships between memory and landscape, politics and place, and inclusion and exile. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and Creative Writing Minor (CREW) and Environmental Studies Minor (ENST). Cross-list: ENST 310.

Long Title: TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND/OR CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A special course in Medieval literature and/or culture. Topics will vary.

Long Title: ADVANCED LITERARY EDITING & PUBLISHING PRACTICUM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 113 AND ENGL 114 AND ENGL 214

Description: In this advanced and intensive editing and publishing practicum, students will serve as senior editors for Rice’s nationally award-winning undergraduate literary magazine, r2: The Rice Review. Section editors will be responsible for: reviewing and critiquing hundreds of unique contributor submissions; facilitating effective and comprehensive editorial discussions; finalizing a set of publishable pieces in literature’s three main genres; becoming proficient in all phases of copy-editing, including both global edits and line edits; communicating with and assisting contributing writers throughout the editorial process; assisting with art pairings and magazine layout using Adobe’s InDesign; and organizing for The Rice Review’s spring launch event. To deepen our understanding of publishing and publishing history, students will also participate in several interactive field trips. Past trips have included visits to the Houston Printing Museum, the University of Houston's Gulf Coast Magazine, the Star Wheel Press at Fondren’s Woodson Research Center, ZineFest Houston, and the Texas Book Festival in Austin. We will use these experiences - as well as assigned readings and discussions - to reflect on the various ways in which literature is defined and promoted, the changing landscape of the publishing industry more broadly, and how the work of The Rice Review participates in that rapidly evolving space. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL ROMANCE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that examines the development of romance as a genre during the medieval period. Cross-list: MDEM 319.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY TRANSLATION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this creative writing seminar, students will explore literary translation as an art form that engages close reading, creativity, inclusivity, and empathy in order to amplify voices from other languages and cultures. Work for the course will include a translation manifesto, a portfolio of creative work with original translations, and both critical and reflective essays. Students will be asked to submit a statement of language proficiency on the first day of class. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW).

Long Title: CHAUCER

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Middle English, and the political and cultural climate of the fourteenth century. Cross-list: MDEM 316, SWGS 305.

Long Title: ARTHURIAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: MDEM 317, SWGS 301.

Long Title: FAIRY TALES AND FEAR TALES WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this class students will read, discuss and analyze a variety of classical and contemporary genres in order to compose and revise adaptations and original versions of classical fairy tales and horror stories. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).

Long Title: FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this class students will read, discuss and analyze a variety of classical and contemporary genres in order to compose and revise adaptations and original versions of fantasy and science fiction stories. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE ON FILM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: SHAKESPEARE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introductory examination of representative Shakespearean plays, including tragedies, comedies, histories and romances.

Long Title: TOPICS IN SHAKESPEARE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A topics course in Shakespeare's works. Topics will vary semester to semester. See the English Department website for more information. This course will be repeatable for credit. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RENAISSANCE DRAMA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDY ABROAD: RICE ENGL MAJORS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 AND ENGL 300

Description: Special course for the transfer credit of pre-approved coursework taken at the University of Exeter, as part of the English department's study abroad program for English majors at the University of Exeter. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GRAPHIC NOVEL

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course students will use the study of the Graphic Novel as an opportunity to explore imagination both analytically and creatively (and to recognize that the two modes are not at odds). Students shall read widely and deeply and with great pleasure and intensity. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).

Long Title: JOHN MILTON: RADICAL THOUGHT THEN AND NOW

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course on the major poems of John Milton, with an emphasis on “Paradise Lost” and the theological and philosophical issues that it engages (then and now).

Long Title: PERSON, ANIMAL, THING: LITERATURE AND THE EXPERIMENTAL IMAGINATION 1640-1800

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course introduces students to 17th and 18th century English literature that shift the boundaries between the imaginative arts (or humanistic knowledges) and the empirical and universalist agendas of the Scientific Revolution. How did writers capitalize on philosophical and scientific developments with new storytelling forms like—science fiction, utopian tales, and IT-narratives?

Long Title: LITERATURE OF THE BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 532. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ENGL 333 if student has credit for ENGL 532.

Long Title: GOTHIC AMERICAN LITERATURE: TERROR, HORROR, THE GROTESQUE, AND THE SUBLIME IN AMERICAN CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Gothic America concerns the many instances of terror, horror, the grotesque, and the sublime in American literature, from the Republic’s troubled birth in the late 1700s to the onset of industrial modernity in the early 1900s. In surveying the theoretical underpinnings of the Gothic, this course will discuss race, sexuality, religion, science, and philosophy. In short, this course explores why America remains a haunted nation.

Long Title: BRITISH ROMANTICISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A multi-genre course on the Romantic 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: ROMANTICISM: RUINS, RACE, AND REVOLUTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Romanticism is a historical period and an idea that has shaped our contemporary world. This course examines three core concepts of Romanticism: ruins, race, and revolution. By looking at texts (novels, poems, philosophy, history) and visual art (paintings, film) from the eighteenth century until today students will examine how ruins, race, and revolutions were central to the formation of what we consider key concepts in our lives, such as love, longing, beauty, justice, and equality.

Long Title: CALDERWOOD SEMINAR IN PUBLIC WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Take a step back from academic writing and learn how to transfer your skills to a wider reading public. The Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing challenge students in an intimate workshop setting to grow as critics and writers. Topics will vary. Throughout the semester, students build a writing portfolio of short-form essays that might include op-eds, book reviews, feature articles, coverage of public talks, and interviews. Classes will include collaborative editing workshops, guest lectures from experts in the writing field, and activities to build a strong writing foundation. You have learned how to write for college, now learn how to write for life. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: SURVEY OF VICTORIAN FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: JANE AUSTEN'S WORLDS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of Jane Austen as Regency writer and contemporary icon. The course will focus both on Austen's writing her novels, her juvenilia and her letters and on visual and textual adaptations of her work. Cross-list: SWGS 343.

Long Title: ACCOUNTING FOR DICKENS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How do we account for the extraordinary popularity and influence of Charles Dickens from his own time till now? How did he and how have his audiences assigned and extracted value from his writing and his life more generally? The course will focus on Dickens's journalism, novels, shorter fiction, and letters, as well as on visual and verbal adaptations of his work. Readings will include selections of texts from throughout Dickens’s career such as Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities.

Long Title: THE MODERN NOVEL IN BRITAIN

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of the modernist novel in 20th-century Britain.

Long Title: DEATH BETWEEN THE WARS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF DETECTIVE FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will look at British detective fiction written between the two world wars. We will be exploring the reasons for the ubiquity of the genre and its sub-genres from the country house mystery to the novel of global exploration, looking both at specific literary techniques and at the historical contexts of empire, gender relations, antisemitism, and shifting global power. Recommended Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200

Long Title: MODERN DRAMA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of plays from traditions of 20th century and contemporary theatre and performance, including work by O'Neill, Williams, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Albee, Shepard, Mamet, Parks, and Kane. Course will include writing critical papers and some performance.

Long Title: QUEER LITERARY CULTURES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What does it mean to look at the world queerly? What opens up when we approach queer as a verb rather than a noun? In answering these questions, we will examine taken-for-granted ideas about sexuality through focusing on the body, place and space, and contemporary LGBTQ politics. Queer theorists offer alternative ways of conceptualizing embodiment, argue that social logics are spatialized, and critique mainstream LGBTQ movements. In this class, we will explore how thinking differently about bodies, place, and politics creates new ways to understand sexuality—and vice versa. In so doing, we will consider how one’s sexuality has come to be a large part of one’s identity, desires for community, identity, and cultural recognition, and relations among social justice, equality, and rights. Our goal is to think “queerly” about sexuality and the various identities and experiences sexuality shapes and is shaped through, including race, gender, class, disability, geography and so on. Course texts include traditional academic articles, blogs, documentary films, and fiction. Cross-list: SWGS 364.

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

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of great modern short fiction with emphasis on reading as an ethical enterprise. Selected critical essays complement works from Melville to Maupassant, Flaubert to Kafka to O'Connor as we talk about alienation and solitude, death and violence and the vicissitudes of family. Taught in English. Cross-list: FREN 355.

Long Title: MODERNISMS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of modernist work from the late 19th century to World War II. Course includes fiction, poetry, film, painting, theatre, music and theories of art.

Long Title: ORIGINS OF THE POSTMODERN

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: CONSUMPTION AND CONSUMERISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of the history, philosophy and culture of eating, drinking, shopping and other forms of consuming. Featuring detailed analysis of literatures in English, visual art, music, film and food.

Long Title: WRITING NEW ORLEANS—THE CITY AS MUSE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: New Orleans holds an extraordinary attraction for virtually all writers who embrace it as a setting. We will explore that fascination in a wide-ranging sample of writing by such authors as Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, John Kennedy Toole, Michael Ondaatje, Sarah Broom, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Eric Nguyen, and others. We will try to understand some of the many ways in which these writers have used this mysterious, complex, and magnetic place, striving to explain its survival despite and in some cases because of the social, legal, cultural, and environmental storms that have battered it. Our reading will be balanced between texts long ago admitted to the canon of classic American literature (Streetcar Named Desire, A Confederacy of Dunces) and texts that are part of a recent remarkable outburst of creative energy associated with the post-Katrina city (Ruffin’s short stories; Sarah Broom’s The Yellow House). The food, drink, and music of New Orleans will receive special attention as key parts of the city’s cultural fabric. A final paper will ask you to write your own New Orleans: to build a verbal monument from the foundations of these other attempts to capture the city’s essence in words.

Long Title: AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of American literatures spanning the Age of Discovery, Atlantic Revolutions, and onset of the U.S. Civil War.

Long Title: US LITERATURE FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO WWI

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: From Mark Twain to T.S. Eliot, a survey of authors commenting on the American North, South, and West from Reconstruction to WWI.

Long Title: MODERN AMERICAN FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: THE US NOVEL POST-WORLD WAR II

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: MODERN AMERICAN POETRY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of 20th - 21st century 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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course focusing on themes, movements or genres across several periods of American literature. Previous topics include Sea Stories, American Gothic, Bob Dylan and the '60s and Utopia. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that asks the question: 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: THE AMERICAN WEST AND ITS OTHERS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of a body of literature, film, and critical theory about the American West and the concept of regionalism. Explores region in relation to the nation and its borders, global media, coloniality, indigeneity and race, gender, and an ethics of place. Cross-list: SWGS 329.

Long Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that examines the various themes of the Asian American experience through literary and cultural forms. Special attention is given to the representational histories of Asian/American immigration, racial formation, and social movements.

Long Title: SURVEY OF AMERICAN FILM AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that explores the history of cinema in the U.S. from its origins to the present day. This course will examine the development of narrative, sound, the classical Hollywood form and style; film genres; the emergence of television; the influence of postwar “art cinemas”; the origins of the blockbuster; and the status of Hollywood as “global cinema.” Cross-list: FILM 373, HART 380.

Long Title: CINEMA STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course in the study of cinematic formal elements; genre; narrative structures; criticism and history. Students will gain and develop skills to recognize, analyze and appreciate films as an art form. Topics can vary semester to semester. Repeatable for credit. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FILM AND LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: SOUTHEAST ASIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introductory course that surveys the literary history of English-language writing in Southeast Asia. This course examines twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels, short stories, and poetry from across the region, with a primary focus on literature from former colonies of the British and American empires—namely, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Attention will also be given to Vietnamese literature grappling with the legacies of American military intervention in the region. Situating this dynamic writing within the historical, cultural, and sociopolitical contexts of Southeast Asia, this course will introduce students to shared thematic engagements with anticolonial nationalism, the aftermath of war, modernization, urbanization, and globalization.

Long Title: WRITING ON ART AND LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that explores how the languages of text and image can interrogate as well as clarify each other. Topics will vary by semester and may include writing about a specific artist's work, genres of art writing, the relationship between film and literature, and more. Coursework will stress details and description as ways of thinking and writing. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and English Creative Writing Minor (CREW). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION: SEX, ABORTION, AND MOTHERHOOD

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Cultural ideas about reproduction shape how we experience and understand gender and sexuality and ideas about gender and sexuality influence how we view reproduction. As such, we cannot challenge dominant ideas about gender and sexuality without critical conversations about reproductive issues. Because requirements for being considered a “good” woman are so closely connected to what it means to be a “good” mother, any analysis of gender requires critical engagement with ideas about reproduction—even for those of us who plan to avoid parenthood or do not have heterosexual sex. This class focuses on the politics of reproduction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the social and political relations that shape reproductive issues today. We will assess the ways that different women experience reproduction differently, considering throughout how the construction of gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and geography inform understandings and experiences of reproduction. Throughout the course, we will take on the paradoxes, horrors, complexities, and joys of reproduction. Cross-list: MDHM 378.

Long Title: THIRD WORLD LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

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: TOPICS IN WOMEN WRITERS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course that focuses on women writers from various traditions. Cross-list: SWGS 327. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: FEMINIST THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

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: FILM STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: MEDICAL MEDIA ARTS LAB

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Students will collaborate with health professionals to create solutions to real-world medical communication, visualization and design problems. Working individually and in teams, students will apply critical thinking and theory to hands-on design. Projects may include production of short videos, infographics, app development, 3-D virtual models, creative writing, and other media arts. Cross-list: FILM 381.

Long Title: TOPICS IN CULTURAL STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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 mass culture and film; Marx; Science in Fiction and Film; contemporary ethnic studies; and more. Not limited in period, scope, or geography. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MEDIA STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Cross-list: FILM 386. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: YOUTH STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course exploring the cultural productions of youth, their social geographies, and youth as a critical field important to the theorization of activism, technology, law and incarceration, reproductive politics, sexuality, consumerism, citizenship, environment. Previous topics: Generation X, Third Wave Feminism, Obama and the Youth Vote, Harry Potter & Gen Y, Power, Politics, and Reading Issues of Access. Cross-list: SWGS 389.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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 and theatrical venues from the Greeks through the modern era. The course will also explore the craft of the theatre from a practitioner's point of view as it is realized today. Requires attending several theatre productions in local Houston venues. Cross-list: THEA 303.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY POETRY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth analysis of contemporary poetry and poetics. Readings will focus on the rich variety of work written in English between the last decades of the twentieth century and to present. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: BLACK MANHATTAN: 1915-1940

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: TONI MORRISON & WILLIAM FAULKNER SEMINAR

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Analyzing Diversity: Yes

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar places in conversation the writings of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison on race, gender, history, and American legal culture. We examine the implications of race and gender on poverty, homelessness, employment, colonialism, segregation, aesthetics, reproductive justice, healthcare, education, citizenship and due process.

Long Title: TRANSLATIONAL HUMANITIES METHODS: MEDICINE, ENVIRONMENT, RACE, TECHNOLOGY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This interdisciplinary course explores translational humanities methods that engage and seek to intervene in complex challenges in the fields of medicine, environment, race, and technology. Through case studies and hands-on collaborative projects, we will examine how humanities disciplines transform these fields and their own methods. Participants will produce multi-media work. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 595. Mutually exclusive. Credit cannot be earned for ENGL 395 and ENGL 595. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: TOPICS IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course in a wide variety of fields and genres. Past topics have included "War Stories," "Electronic Literature," "The Avante Gard," "City in Literature," and "The American Seen Through British Eyes." Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SLAVERY IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY FILM AND FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course studies how twentieth and twenty-first 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. Cross-list: AAAS 398.

Long Title: ADVANCED FICTION WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 301

Description: A course conducted mostly as a workshop for advanced fiction writers. It will include assigned writing exercises and weekly readings of published stories to deepen students' understanding of narrative technique. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: WRITING LONGER FICTION: NARRATIVE DESIGN

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 301 OR ENGL 306

Description: A course in writing of longer narrative forms for advanced fiction writers. At the start of the semester, students will write a proposal for an original novel in the genre of their choosing and complete no fewer than 100 pages by the end. The class will be a mixture of discussion of assigned reading, workshop, and one-on-one tutorial. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW). Instructor permission required. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CRAFT OF THE NOVELLA

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 301

Description: A course conducted mostly as a novella workshop for advanced fiction writers. It will include assigned writing exercises and weekly readings of novellas to deepen students' understanding of the form. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED POETRY WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 304

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. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 305 OR ENGL 309

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. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SENIOR SEMINAR

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 AND ENGL 300

Description: The Senior Seminar is an immersive research and writing methods course required of students pursuing one of the areas of specialization in the English Major and is an optional course for students pursuing the Creative Writing Concentration. Similar to other senior design and research courses throughout the university, the Senior Seminar engages students in the deeper and more rewarding processes of sustained critical writing and research, and offers all students the opportunity to prepare and build an independent research project with sustained faculty support.

Long Title: RESEARCH WORKSHOP

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Taught in the spring, the Research Workshop is the required of all senior English majors. For students pursuing one of the areas of specialization, it follows from the fall Senior Seminar. For Creative Writing Concentrators, it builds on required advanced coursework in Creative Writing. In this course, students will complete and present their in-depth critical or creative project. Recommended Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300

Long Title: EMPIRE AND BRITISH LITERATURE 1700-1950

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 AND ENGL 300

Description: This course provides detailed knowledge of a diverse range of eighteenth and nineteenth-century texts that engaged the realities, possibilities, fantasies and pitfalls of the British Empire. Course also includes historical and archival material as well as recent critical and historical approaches to the study of empire and its relationship to cultural identity. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VICTORIAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 AND ENGL 300

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". Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 541. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND ECOLOGY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A special topics course that addresses literature and culture from 1750 to the present, with a view to understanding the new geological era that humans have created, and its ecological implications. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: STUDIES IN AMERICAN/U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 AND ENGL 300

Description: A special topics course in American/U.S. literature and culture that transcends historical periods. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: EARLY MEXICAN AMERICAN WRITING & PRINT CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the first one hundred years of Mexican American literary and print production, from 1848 to 1948. It is a period of production when neither its writers nor its texts, and especially not its print culture, were considered productive for the nation-state of either the United States or Mexico. Through the lens of liberation philosophy, coupled with nineteenth-century Latinx literary criticism, settler-colonial criticism, and critical regionalism, this course explores the cultural, political, and intellectual dimensions that underwrote how and why writers and publishers of Mexican descent established a print culture against all odds. Cross-list: SPAN 470.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Lecture/Laboratory, Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN LITERARY GENRES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 AND ENGL 300

Description: A variable topics course designed to build on student knowledge gained earlier in the curriculum.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MODERN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: INDEPENDENT STUDY/DIRECTED READING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Instructor and Department approval must be granted prior to registration. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SENIOR THESIS PREPARATION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 AND ENGL 300

Description: Special work, research and preliminary preparation of a substantive research project for advanced English majors under the supervision of a member of the English department. Prerequisites: ENGL 200 and ENGL 300. Consult English department website for procedures and application. Instructor and department approval must be granted prior to registration. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SENIOR THESIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 AND ENGL 300 AND (ENGL 493 OR ENGL 494)

Description: Writing and completion of a substantive research project under the supervision of a member of the English department. Prior approval of instructor and department approval must be granted prior to registration. Consult English department website for procedures and application. Instructor and department approval must be granted prior to registration. Prerequisites: ENGL 200; ENGL 300; ENGL 493 or 494. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CAREERS IN ENGLISH THROUGH INTERNSHIP

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Provides enrollment credit for approved external internships. Students will conduct research, complete projects, gain professional experience, and practice applying academic skills in a work-place setting. Students must seek approval prior to beginning the internship. Regular progress reports and a final reflection paper are required. Instructor Permission Required. Instructor Permission Required. Recommended Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300 Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 200 AND ENGL 300

Description: A variable topics course in a variety of fields and genres, such as City in Literature; Writing On/Writing Off New Orleans; and Literatures of Environmental Justice. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MASTER'S THESIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: PEDAGOGY SEMINAR

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: THEORY AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course in Literary and/or Critical Theory’s engagement with Medieval Literature. Topics may include, “Gender Theory and Chaucer,” “The Neighbor in Medieval Romance,” “Medieval Ecologies,” “Postcolonial Medieval,” “Imagining Medieval Geographies/Cartographies.” Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SHAKESPEARE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variables topics course. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 333. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ENGL 532 if student has credit for ENGL 333. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ENLIGHTENMENT IN CONTEXT

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A variable topics course. Topics may include: British and European Enlightenment literature and culture broadly conceived (such as philosophy, science, religion, visual art, aesthetics, questions of gender etc.). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 19TH CENTURY STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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," Victorian Nonhumans," and "Genealogy of Geopolitics." Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VICTORIAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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". Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 441. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: VICTORIAN FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: SEMINAR ON THE LABOR - MATERIAL, INTELLECTUAL, EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL ETC. - OF READING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is about the labor – material, intellectual, emotional, physiological, conceptual, psychological– of reading. The seminar puts the study of histories and theories of labor/reading in relation with contemporary concerns. Topics and authors covered can include multi-mediality, the internet, William Blake, Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and others. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN/US LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: BLACK ARCHIVES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course historicizes Black archive studies and its theoretical development across literary studies. Inspired by Schomburg’s call “to dig up our past,” it explores how black writers, collectors, and librarians across the twentieth-century resisted long-standing efforts to bury, silence, and overwrite black experience and their contributions. Cross-list: AAAS 572.

Long Title: BLACK HISTORIES LAB: DIGITAL HUMANITIES & BLACK STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Combining the elements of a research practicum and traditional graduate seminar, the Black Histories Lab focuses on the study, preservation, histories, and cultures of African Americans. This research intensive graduate seminar combines African American literary and expressive culture, black feminist and critical race theory, and histories of American race relations with opportunities to participate in engaged research projects in digital humanities.

Long Title: POSTCOLONIALISM AND BEYOND

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND OTHER DISCIPLINES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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; Problems of Close Reading in Literature and Film; and Ecology & Philosophy Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MODERNISM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Cross-list: HART 594. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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 Pragmatism and Postmodernity; Post-Structuralism and Postmodernity; Dimensions of Biopolitical Thought; and Affect Theory Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TOPICS IN LITERARY STUDIES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The first in a two-semester sequence of courses designed to introduce first-year graduate students to different methods and theoretical approaches, to the history and culture of the university as an institution, and to professional genres. Restricted to first-semester graduate students in the English Department.

Long Title: FALL TEACHING PRACTICUM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: SPRING TEACHING PRACTICUM

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: FALL TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Open only to graduate students teaching independent courses in the English department in the fall semester. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPRING TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Open only to those graduate students teaching independent courses in the English department in the spring semester. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THIRD-YEAR WRITING WORKSHOP

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: TOPICS IN LITERARY STUDIES PART 2

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 600

Description: The second in a two-semester sequence of courses designed to introduce first-year graduate students to different methods and theoretical approaches, to the history and culture of the university as an institution, and to professional genres.

Long Title: FALL DIRECTED READING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

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. Instructor and Department approval must be granted prior to registration. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPRING DIRECTED READING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

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. Instructor and Department approval must be granted prior to registration. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study, Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Lecture/Laboratory, Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY YEAR 3

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Year 3 research leading to PhD candidacy. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY YEAR 4

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

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

Long Title: SUMMER RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 9

Description: Summer research leading to PhD candidacy. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PHD RESEARCH AND THESIS

Department: English

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: Dissertation research for PhD candidates. Repeatable for Credit.