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Course Schedule for ENGLISH - Spring 2009
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
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5162 ENGL-101-01 Writing 1.00 LEC Cancelled Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills.
5307 ENGL-101-02 Writing 1.00 LEC Butos,Cynthia L. TR: 2:55PM- 4:10PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills.
5405 ENGL-103-04 SpecWrit Top:Lit & Film 1.00 LEC Wall,Mary Beverly C. M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  Emphasizing instruction and practice in writing, this course will explore the nature of narrative in literature and film. Where do stories come from? How do they get told? What kind of culture produces a particular work? To answer these questions, students will examine a series of paired literary texts and creative films, including The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now, and Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours.
5406 ENGL-103-05 SpTpc:Thoughts of Peace &War 1.00 LEC Papoulis,Irene TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: There are 8 seats reserved for first-year students.
  This class is a writing workshop, focusing on writing and revising academic essays. The readings will involve issues of peace and war, and will lead us into the following sorts of questions: Why do countries go to war? What are the effects of war on people? How have people worked for peace, and how can they/we continue to do so? What role does gender play in war? Readings include personal stories like Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone as well as writings by philosophers, psychologists, and others about the causes and effects of war and peace.
5723 ENGL-103-06 Spec Top:Rhetoric Humor/Satire 1.00 SEM Katz,Elin Swanson TR: 2:55PM- 4:10PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  What makes us laugh? How does humor work? This writing workshop will examine the rhetorical underpinnings of humor and satire and consider humor and satire as political and cultural commentary. Readings will include classic satirical essays by writers such as Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain as well as work by modern humorists. The class will also analyze contemporary media sources in popular culture, including the Internet, stand-up comedy, Saturday Night Live, and films or television programs chosen by students.
5407 ENGL-202-01 Expository Writing Wksp 1.00 LEC Butos,Cynthia L. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: Seats are reserved for 4 Juniors, 4 Sophomores and 4 First-Year students.
  This intermediate workshop is designed for students who have achieved mastery in introductory-level college writing and who want to refine their writing abilities. Students will focus on developing stylistic strategies and techniques when writing for numerous purposes and audiences. Students will choose from these writing forms: interview, travel article, op-ed piece, memoir, sports article, criticism, humor, and science and technology article.
4224 ENGL-204-01 Intro Amer Literature-I 1.00 LEC Lauter,Paul TR: 2:55PM- 4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 50
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  A survey of literature, written and oral, produced in what is now the United States from the earliest times to around the Civil War. We will examine relationships among cultural and intellectual developments and the politics, economics, and societies of North America. Authors to be read include some that are well known—such as Emerson, Melville, Dickinson—and some who are less familiar—such as Cabeca de Vaca, John Rollin Ridge, and Harriet Jacobs. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
5147 ENGL-208-01 Argument & Research Writing 1.00 LEC Peltier,Robert F. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  A writing workshop emphasizing the development of argumentation and research skills. Students learn how to read and evaluate logical arguments, formulate research questions, explore print and electronic resources, and frame persuasive arguments in papers of substantial length. Frequent practice in writing and revising.
5408 ENGL-208-02 Argument & Research Writing 1.00 LEC Butos,Cynthia L. TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  A writing workshop emphasizing the development of argumentation and research skills. Students learn how to read and evaluate logical arguments, formulate research questions, explore print and electronic resources, and frame persuasive arguments in papers of substantial length. Frequent practice in writing and revising.
4199 ENGL-211-01 English Lit 1700-Present 1.00 LEC Rosen,David M: 6:30PM- 9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 50
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  Through readings in novels, drama, poetry, and prose from the Restoration to the 20th century, this course will examine shifts in the forms, functions, and meanings of English literature in the context of cultural and historical changes. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
5797 ENGL-225-01 Wrtg "Broad St" Stories 1.00 LEC Peltier,Robert F. TR: 2:55PM- 4:10PM 115V - 103 Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  This course combines community learning and writing as a means of discovering how we define others and ourselves through journals, diaries, essays, and stories. Students explore “Broad Street” as a social and cultural metaphor, with a wide variety of readings depicting “the other” and reflecting the voices of members of underprivileged and privileged classes throughout history. Students perform community service as a part of course activities.
5412 ENGL-226-01 The Spirit of Place 1.00 LEC Papoulis,Irene WF: 1:15PM- 2:30PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  In this course we will write about "place," and explore how writers render ideas of location, nature, and the environment, ranging from wilderness to city streets. We will move from simple descriptions to an exploration of the larger issues that arise in the interactions between people and places. Readings will include Gretel Erlich and Barry Lopez, among others, who have artfully evoked the spirit of place.
5113 ENGL-235-01 Global Short Fiction 1.00 LEC Ndibe,Okey TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  This course will introduce students to a cast of writers from a variety of backgrounds who have used the form of the short story to project dramatic experiences and convey sometimes unique cultural ethos. In addition to examining thematic concerns and stylistic choices, we will explore how different writers have adapted the conventions of the short story and incorporated elements of other traditions to suit their narrative purpose. We will read some North American and European writers, but the emphasis will fall on writers from traditionally underrepresented parts of the world. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
4200 ENGL-260-01 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 LEC Benedict,Barbara M. MW: 2:40PM- 3:55PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors. This course may be used to fulfill the Literature and Psychology minor requirements.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 20. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list for his/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting to consult with the instructor.
  This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques of close reading. The course will show students how to apply this critical vocabulary to a wide range of literary genres from different historical periods, and to develop the writing and research skills necessary for composing clear and compelling arguments in the interpretation of a text. Note: This course is required of all English majors. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.
4201 ENGL-260-02 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 LEC Bilston,Sarah R. TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors. This course may be used to fulfill the Literature and Psychology minor requirements.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 20. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list fo rhis/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting ot consult with the instructor.
  This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques of close reading. The course will show students how to apply this critical vocabulary to a wide range of literary genres from different historical periods, and to develop the writing and research skills necessary for composing clear and compelling arguments in the interpretation of a text. Note: This course is required of all English majors. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.
4881 ENGL-260-03 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 LEC Hager,Christopher TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors. This course may be used to fulfill the Literature and Psychology minor requirements.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 20. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list fo rhis/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting ot consult with the instructor.
  This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques of close reading. The course will show students how to apply this critical vocabulary to a wide range of literary genres from different historical periods, and to develop the writing and research skills necessary for composing clear and compelling arguments in the interpretation of a text. Note: This course is required of all English majors. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.
5309 ENGL-260-04 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 LEC Wheatley,Chloe MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors. This course may be used to fulfill the Literature and Psychology minor requirements.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 20. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list fo rhis/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting ot consult with the instructor.
  This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques of close reading. The course will show students how to apply this critical vocabulary to a wide range of literary genres from different historical periods, and to develop the writing and research skills necessary for composing clear and compelling arguments in the interpretation of a text. Note: This course is required of all English majors. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.
5629 ENGL-260-05 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 LEC Salerno,Abigail L. TR: 8:00AM- 9:15AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques of close reading. The course will show students how to apply this critical vocabulary to a wide range of literary genres from different historical periods, and to develop the writing and research skills necessary for composing clear and compelling arguments in the interpretation of a text. Note: This course is required of all English majors. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.
4843 ENGL-270-01 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 LEC Solomon,Asali M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: Beginning with the Class of 2009, this is a required course for Creative Writing majors before enrolling in any upper-level creative writing course.
  NOTE: One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 15. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list for his/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting to consult with the instructor.
  An introduction to imaginative writing, concentrating on the mastery of language and creative expression in more than one genre. Discussion of work by students and established writers. Beginning with the Class of 2009, this is a required course for creative writing majors before enrolling in any upper-level creative writing course. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
5666 ENGL-270-02 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 LEC Pope,Dan T: 6:30PM- 9:00PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  An introduction to imaginative writing, concentrating on the mastery of language and creative expression in more than one genre. Discussion of work by students and established writers. Beginning with the Class of 2009, this is a required course for creative writing majors before enrolling in any upper-level creative writing course. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
5145 ENGL-270-03 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 LEC Ndibe,Okey TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: Beginning with the Class of 2009, this is a required course for Creative Writing majors before enrolling in any upper-level creative writing course.
  NOTE: One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 15. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list fo rhis/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting ot consult with the instructor.
  NOTE: There will be 5 seats reserved for first-year students in this class.
  An introduction to imaginative writing, concentrating on the mastery of language and creative expression in more than one genre. Discussion of work by students and established writers. Beginning with the Class of 2009, this is a required course for creative writing majors before enrolling in any upper-level creative writing course. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
5413 ENGL-276-01 How Stories Get Told - and Why 1.00 LEC Kuyk Jr.,Dirk A. MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course.
  On the most basic level this course explores just about the full range of narrative forms-–novels and short stories, oral tales and jokes, epics and ballads, narrative within plays and within lyric poems, and non-fictional narratives from news articles to works of history. On a more analytical level the course examines techniques of narrative such as plot, fabula, narrative voice, point of view, beginnings, endings, and pace. On the deepest level the course explores the extent to which story-telling is the most fundamental and important way in which we organize whatever we experience and whatever we think we know. This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course.
5645 ENGL-304-02 Cinematic Realisms:1945-Presnt 1.00 LEC Salerno,Abigail L. TR: 2:55PM- 4:10PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: This course will count towards the Film Studies minor.
  What does it mean when we describe films as realistic? As realism? As neo-realism? Is it the way a film looks, how it represents characters and events, or what a film is trying to say? This course explores various films and filmmaking movements that have been labeled “realist” and/or “neo-realist” since the middle of the 20th century. Our reading and viewing will emphasize the historical transition from Hollywood studio-era filmmaking to a more diverse media environment that includes the experimental, independent and international film. Films to be studied will include the work of: William Wyler, Vittorio de Sica, Charles Burnett, Stan Brakhage, Nathaniel Dorsky, Arthur Penn, Martin Scorsese, Dogme 95, and others.
5414 ENGL-319-01 Constructing Thought 0.50 LEC Ferriss,Lucy T: 6:30PM- 7:45PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  This half-credit course is for language fanatics. Whether you are a "good" writer or a "bad" writer, "good" or "bad" at English grammar, if you love the shape and flow of sentences, this course is for you. For 75 minutes each week, we will gather and explore the structure of the basic unit of thought in written English. We will diagram rock lyrics; we will diagram Shakespeare; we will diagram Biblical quotations, we will diagram Joyce, we will diagram love letters. We will search out and diagram quirky sentences from the news and the internet. We will attempt to diagram undiagrammable sentences and discover why they fail to work as units of thought. We will find multiple ways to speak a diagrammed sentence, and multiple ways to diagram the same sentence and discover its varied meanings.
5630 ENGL-320-01 Ralph Ellison&Amer Modernism 1.00 LEC Maier,Brennan W: 6:30PM- 9:00PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: : For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
  This reading and writing intensive seminar offers an in-depth examination of the writings of Ralph Ellison. Attending closely to Ellison’s fiction and non-fiction, as well as to a good sampling of the relevant critical literature, students will attain the sort of familiarity with Ellison that can come only from detailed study of his work. We will also use Ellison as a point of entry to further explore the subject of American culture. We will pay particular attention to Ellison’s responses to migration, the function of culture, the role of the artist, the search for identity, and the meaning of America. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
5409 ENGL-327-01 Rdg & Wrthg Women's Fiction 1.00 LEC Bilston,Sarah R. TR: 2:55PM- 4:10PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course counts as an elective.
  This is both a course on literary interpretation and an opportunity for creative fiction writing. We will read a series of women’s texts, from Jane Austen onwards, as literary critics and as practitioners, thinking about themes, trends, preoccupations, and the practical application of technical excellences. For English majors, this course counts as an elective.
5415 ENGL-329-01 Listening on Lower Frequencies 1.00 LEC Kuyk Jr.,Dirk A. MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a cours emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  The last words of Ralph Ellison’s "invisible man" are these: "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you." An African American, he finds himself invisible in American culture; nevertheless, he suspects that his plight is, on the lower frequencies, ours. In this course on Southern literature and culture, we will try to amplify those frequencies so that we can hear how they transmit the voices and values of women and of African Americans. We will examine some studies of Southern culture, read some novels (Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chopin’s The Awakening, and Welty’s Delta Wedding, among others), listen to some blues and country music, and read at least one play by Tennessee Williams. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
4202 ENGL-334-01 Adv Cr Writing:Fiction 1.00 LEC Goldman,Francisco M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  Prerequisite: English 270 or English 110
  NOTE: One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors.
  Students will write and rewrite fiction. The class is run as a workshop, and discussions are devoted to analysis of student work and that of professional writers. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers. This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors.
5416 ENGL-334-02 Adv Cr Writing:Fiction 1.00 LEC Ndibe,Okey W: 6:30PM- 9:00PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 12
  Prerequisite: English 270 or English 110
  NOTE: One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors.
  Students will write and rewrite fiction. The class is run as a workshop, and discussions are devoted to analysis of student work and that of professional writers. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers. This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors.
5170 ENGL-335-01 Literary Non-Fiction Narrative 1.00 LEC Goldman,Francisco M: 6:30PM- 9:00PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  Prerequisite: English 270 or English 110
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  This workshop explores the form of writing that combines the craft of fiction writing with the skills and practices of the journalist. We will read some of the foremost 20th century and contemporary practitioners of this form of writing (V.S. Naipual, Joseph Mitchell, Joan Didion, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Rory Stewart, Alma Guillermoprieto, Susan Orleans, Jon Lee Anderson, etc., and selections from some of their important precursors: Stephen Crane, Jose Marti) and discuss, often, the form's complex relation to literary fiction, the tensions and difference between journalism and imaginative works, and so on. The workshop will begin with practical writing assignments: first paragraphs, setting, character, how to develop meaning, short pieces, etc., with the final goal being to produce a New Yorker magazine-like (in length and craft) piece using some aspect of the City of Hartford. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
4845 ENGL-336-01 Adv Cr Writing:Poetry 1.00 LEC Rossini,Clare M. W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  Prerequisite: English 270 or English 111
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  Students will do in-class exercises, and write and revise their own poems. The class is run as a workshop, and discussions are devoted to analysis of student work and that of professional writers. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers. This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors.
5418 ENGL-353-01 Challenging Auth: Lit of 17thC 1.00 LEC Wheatley,Chloe F: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
  The early 17th century was one of the most important and contentious periods in English history, and literature was a formative part of its rich culture of debate and innovation. The Stuart monarchy was trying to establish an absolutist culture, and the resistance to it led to the first political revolution in modern Europe. The 17th century also witnessed the movement of women into public life and print as highly vocal poets, preachers, prophetesses, and political theorists. Advances in scientific inquiry reshaped how writers thought about the cosmos and their place in it. Readings will include works by Donne, Jonson, Marvell, the women poets Lanyer and Bradstreet, the quasi-scientific writings of Bacon and Burton, and samplings from the period's rich popular literature and pamphlet wars. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
4767 ENGL-360-01 Shakespeare on Film 1.00 LEC Riggio,Milla C. W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  Not open to first-year students.
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
  In this course, we will study selected films based on Shakespeare plays. Though we will read the Shakespeare plays as prelude to film analysis, the films will be studied as independent texts. The film script (adapted from or based on a Shakespeare play) will be treated as one aspect of the text. Students will concentrate on analyzing camera angles, mise-en-scene, lighting, sound, editing, and script as aspects of a composite text. We will also discuss film genres and look at the signature work of specific directors, such as Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh. Plays may be selected from Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and King Lear. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
5417 ENGL-364-01 Transform of Lit 18th C 1.00 LEC Benedict,Barbara M. MW: 1:15PM- 2:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context.
  How do writers transform traditional literary forms to express new perceptions of identity, sexuality, society, and nature? In this course, we will examine the way the poets, playwrights, journalists, and fiction writers of Restoration and 18th-century England imitated, reworked, and finally rejected old genres to forge new kinds of literary expression. Readings include works by Aphra Behn, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Goldsmith. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context.
5589 ENGL-372-01 The Harlem Renaissance 1.00 LEC Paulin,Diana R. W: 6:30PM- 9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  This course treats a selection of novels, essays, short fiction, and poetry by African American writers of the period, including Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Jesse Fauset, and Jean Toomer. Emphasis is on identifying the characteristics that unify this body of literature and on investigating the significance of the Harlem Renaissance within the African American literary tradition. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context.
5114 ENGL-374-01 Escape and Exile Caribbean Fic 1.00 LEC Solomon,Asali MW: 8:30AM- 9:45AM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
  In this course we will focus on themes of exile, immigration, the colonial notion of the "Mother country," and the elusive concept of home in Caribbean novels and short stories. Our discussions will also be informed by literary portrayals of national, racial, religious, and gender identity. We will read classic novels by Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Samuel Selvon, and VS Naipaul, contemporary narratives of displacement by Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, Andrea Levy, and Opal Palmer Adisa. Finally we will read essays by George Lamming and Caryl Phillips, as well as Audre Lorde's "biomythography." For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
5419 ENGL-379-01 Melville 1.00 LEC Hager,Christopher TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  Though a superstar during his early career, Herman Melville watched his reputation decline as his literary ambitions escalated. One review of his seventh novel bore the headline, "Herman Melville Crazy." Not until the 20th century did even his best-known work, Moby-Dick, attract considerable attention, but it now stands at the center of the American literary pantheon. Melville's work merits intensive, semester-long study not only because he is a canonical author of diverse narratives—from maritime adventures to tortured romances to philosophical allegories—but also because his career and legacy themselves constitute a narrative of central concern to literary studies and American culture. Through reading and discussion of several of his major works, we will explore Melville's imagination, discover his work's historical context, and think critically about literary form. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
5550 ENGL-392-01 Tolkien&Modern British Culture 1.00 LEC Rosen,David R: 6:30PM- 9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  Prerequisite: For English majors, English 260 with a grade of C- or higher.
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. Students other than English majors who wish to enroll in this course must have the instructor sign a Course Exception/Override Form.
  In the wake of three blockbuster movies, J.R.R. Tolkien’s position in popular culture is more robust than ever. His status within academia, however, remains a matter of sharp controversy. All but absent from college curricula, his works are still left mainly to readers of science fiction and fantasy novels. This course will reconsider his claims as a "serious" author. We will read, in its entirety, the fiction he published during his lifetime. In addition, we will consider him in a series of contexts: his influences, his times, our times. We will read him alongside his contemporaries: can the literature of his period be reconfigured to make a place for his work? For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
5346 ENGL-399-01 Independent Study 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  A limited number of individual tutorials in topics not currently offered by the department. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment.
5078 ENGL-424-02 Reading Victorian Narratives 1.00 SEM Bilston,Sarah R. T: 5:30PM- 8:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 7
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  This course offers an advanced investigation into major writers and issues from the British Victorian period (1837-1901). We will concentrate on texts – fiction, non-fictional prose, poetry – in which notions of propriety and morality are in productive dialogue with crimes, threatening secrets, and subversive passions. In seminar sessions and in written work we will interrogate textual constructions of sexuality and gender, considering the potential for slippage between high-conservative ideals and actual lived experiences. Our readings will be informed by a range of modern critical, theoretical, and socio-historical examinations of Victorian literature and culture. (Note: English 424-02 and English 824-02 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
5784 ENGL-437-01 Writers of the American South 1.00 SEM Riggio,Milla C. R: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 10
  This course will focus on 20th century U.S. Southern writers, within the context of the complex history of various regions of the South. Beginning with V.S. Naipaul's A Turn in the South, authors to be studied may include Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Cormac McCarthy. We will view selected films of a few of the novels read. NOTE: Satisfies the requirements of a cultural context course or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
5638 ENGL-439-10 SpecTop:Makg Movies,Makg War 1.00 SEM Salerno,Abigail L. M: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 10
  NOTE: English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a cultural context course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or of an elective. (Note: English 439-10 and English 839-05 are the same course.)
  How have U.S. film industries represented America, and Americans, at war? This course is a historical survey of documentary and non-fiction film production, in the context of U.S. military involvement in World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq. This course examines how "true stories" of war, wartime, and soldiers' lives have been important to the development of the "social problem" film, the cinematic realism of the 1960s and 1970s, and contemporary independent documentary production. Films to be studied may include: Why We Fight, The Battle of San Pietro, Hearts and Minds, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Fog of War, and My Country, My Country. (Note: English 439-10 and English 839-05 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a cultural context course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or of an elective. For the English graduate program, this course serves as a course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track, and as an elective for the literary studies track.
5551 ENGL-443-01 Theaters of the Urban Streets 1.00 SEM Riggio,Milla C. W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirements of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800, literary theory, or cultural context.
  This comparative drama course will focus on the relationships between varied forms of drama that originated in festival or other communally based open-air, urban theater settings, ranging from Ancient Greece to the modern Americas. We will consider basic concepts of social and cultural organization, but the main focus of this course will be "reading" both literary texts and cultural events as if they were texts. We will pay particular attention to epistemologies associated with imagination (as the guiding principle of theater) and logic or reason (as the alternative epistemology). The literature read in the course will include plays by Sophocles and Euripedes, medieval Corpus Christi plays, and German fastnachtspiele or carnival plays, Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, contemporary American performance art, and festivals, and play cycles such as carnival or Ramleela that have their origins in the distant past. (Note: English 443 and English 843 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirements of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800, literary theory, or cultural context. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course emphasizing cultural context in the literary studies track, or an elective in the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
5347 ENGL-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Students may assist professors as teaching assistants, performing a variety of duties usually involving assisting students in conceiving or revising papers; reading and helping to evaluate papers, quizzes, and exams; and other duties as determined by the student and instructor. See instructor of specific course for more information. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment.
5411 ENGL-496-02 Wordsworth.Rewrting Wordsworth 1.00 SEM Rosen,David M: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a senior project.
  How does literature change over time? How do earlier writers exercise an influence, for good or ill, over their successors, and how do those later writers grapple with their most powerful forerunners? In this seminar, you will be invited to think in the abstract, theoretically, about these large questions, which have formed a subtext to your work in the major thus far. To focus our discussion, we will concentrate on Romantic and Modern poetry. In the first half, we will read though the major works of William Wordsworth, the most influential English language poet since (at the very least) Milton. Then, in the second half, we will look at how the greatest Modern poets, both British and American, struggled with Wordsworth's legacy – sometimes going so far as to rewrite specific Wordsworth poems, sometimes denying Wordsworth's importance altogether. Modernists will include Yeats, Frost, Eliot, Pound, Moore, Bishop, Stevens and Auden. In the final project, you will have the opportunity to apply our broader conclusions to your work in the major over the last four years. This course satisfies the requirement of a senior project.
5616 ENGL-497-01 One-Semester Senior Thesis 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Individual Tutorial in writing of a one-semester senior thesis on a special topic in literature or criticism. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and the chairperson are required.
5111 ENGL-499-01 Senior Thesis Part 2 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Individual tutorial in the writing of a year-long thesis on a special topic in literature or criticism. Seniors writing year-long, two-credit theses are required to register for the second half of their thesis for the spring of their senior year. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (2 course credits are considered pending in the first semester; 2 course credits will be awarded for completion in the second semester.)
5077 ENGL-824-02 Reading Victorian Narratives 1.00 SEM Bilston,Sarah R. T: 5:30PM- 8:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 8
  NOTE: For the English Graduate Program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
  This course offers an advanced investigation into major writers and issues from the British Victorian period (1837-1901). We will concentrate on texts – fiction, non-fictional prose, poetry – in which notions of propriety and morality are in productive dialogue with crimes, threatening secrets, and subversive passions. In seminar sessions and in written work we will interrogate textual constructions of sexuality and gender, considering the potential for slippage between high-conservative ideals and actual lived experiences. Our readings will be informed by a range of modern critical, theoretical, and socio-historical examinations of Victorian literature and culture. (Note: English 424-02 and English 824-02 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
5783 ENGL-837-01 Writers of the American South 1.00 SEM Riggio,Milla C. R: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  This course will focus on 20th century U.S. Southern writers, within the context of the complex history of various regions of the South. Beginning with V.S. Naipaul's A Turn in the South, authors to be studied may include Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Cormac McCarthy. We will view selected films of a few of the novels read. NOTE: Satisfies the requirements of a core course in the English Graduate Studies literary track or an elective in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts track; satisfies the requirements of a cultural context course or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 for undergraduates.
5639 ENGL-839-05 SpecTop:Makg Movies,Makg War 1.00 SEM Salerno,Abigail L. M: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 10
  NOTE: For the English graduate program, this course serves as a course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track and as an elective for the literary studies track. (Note: English 439-10 and English 839-05 are the same course.)
  How have U.S. film industries represented America, and Americans, at war? This course is a historical survey of documentary and non-fiction film production, in the context of U.S. military involvement in World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq. This course examines how "true stories" of war, wartime, and soldiers' lives have been important to the development of the "social problem" film, the cinematic realism of the 1960s and 1970s, and contemporary independent documentary production. Films to be studied may include: Why We Fight, The Battle of San Pietro, Hearts and Minds, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Fog of War, and My Country, My Country. (Note: English 439-10 and English 839-05 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a cultural context course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or of an elective. For the English graduate program, this course serves as a course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track, and as an elective for the literary studies track.
5552 ENGL-843-01 Theaters of the Urban Streets 1.00 SEM Riggio,Milla C. W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: For the English Graduate Program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course emphasizing cultural context in the literary studies track, or an elective in the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
  This comparative drama course will focus on the relationships between varied forms of drama that originated in festival or other communally based open-air, urban theater settings, ranging from Ancient Greece to the modern Americas. We will consider basic concepts of social and cultural organization, but the main focus of this course will be "reading" both literary texts and cultural events as if they were texts. We will pay particular attention to epistemologies associated with imagination (as the guiding principle of theater) and logic or reason (as the alternative epistemology). The literature read in the course will include plays by Sophocles and Euripedes, medieval Corpus Christi plays, and German fastnachtspiele or carnival plays, Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, contemporary American performance art, and festivals, and play cycles such as carnival or Ramleela that have their origins in the distant past. (Note: English 443 and English 843 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirements of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800, literary theory, or cultural context. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course emphasizing cultural context in the literary studies track, or an elective in the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
5139 ENGL-953-01 Research Project 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  The graduate director, the supervisor of the project, and the department chairperson must approve special research project topics. Conference hours are available by appointment. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. One course credit.
5110 ENGL-954-01 Thesis Part I 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
5134 ENGL-955-01 Thesis Part II 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Continuation of English 954 (described in prior section).
4912 LING-101-01 Introduction to Linguistics 1.00 LEC Samokhina,Natalya Y. MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course.
  A general introduction to the study of language. First we will study the fundamental components of language (sounds, words, sentences). We will then examine the crucial question of how words and sentences manage to mean anything. The latter part of the course will be devoted to theoretical approaches to the nature of language, to how and why languages change over time, and to the ways language determines and reflects the structures of society. (Also offered under the Anthropology and the English departments. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course.)
5497 THDN-239-01 Theater of the Americas 1.00 LEC Polin,Mitchell A. TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM AAC - 231 ART  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  NOTE: This course is not open to first-year students.
  A detailed study of the major philosophies, techniques, and performances of theater in North and South America including Nelson Rodrigues (Brazil), Teatro Experimental (Chile), Arthur Miller, Guillermo Gomez-Pina, and the Wooster Group (USA). Also listed under American Studies, Latin American Studies, and English.