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Creative Writing
101. Expository Writing
(Every semester.)
Intensive writing course
that trains students in expository writing through a number of
variable topics. Satisfies first-year English writing requirement.
181. Writing about Literature (Every semester.)
Intensive writing course that
trains students in techniques of writing and literary analysis through
writing about literature. Readings and format vary in different
sections. Satisfies first-year English writing requirement.
190. Freshman Seminar (Every
semester. Freshmen only.)
Through readings on variable
topics, frequent writing assignments, and in-class discussions, the
seminar emphasizes reasoned discourse and intellectual
community. Does not satisfy first-year writing
requirement.
205. Poetry Studies in Poetry and Poetic
Forms.
Readings may vary in individual sections, but all
sections emphasize critical reading and writing about poetic
art. Required for English majors.
210. Major Authors for Non-Majors.
An
introduction to one or more major authors in English literature, with
an emphasis on literary merit and its determination, canon formation,
literary movements, and reading strategies. Does not
count toward the major.
211. Literature and the Arts.
An
exploration of the connections between literature and various other
mimetic and expressive arts, including painting, film, theater, music,
sculpture, architecture, and dance. Does not count
toward the major.
212. Readings in Popular Literature and
Culture
An exploration of literary works (fiction, poetry,
drama, essays) that have had or have a popular readership, and an
examination of the factors governing popular taste and literary
production. Does not count toward the
major.
213. Fictions of Human Desire
An inquiry into
the various expressions of human desire through readings of selected
works of literature. Topics may include romance, psychoanalysis, gay
and lesbian studies, or the four loves, classically conceived. Does
not count toward the major.
214. Global Literatures in English
An
exploration of Anglophone literatures from around the world. Regional
focus and selection of texts will vary but may include works by
Achebe, Cliff, Friel, Head, Lamming, Rushdie, Silko, Soyinka, Tan,
and/or Walcott. Does not count toward the
major.
215. History of Drama and Theater I (Same as Theater Studies 215.)
General history of the theater from its origins through the Renaissance, focusing
on representative dramatic works and on the influence of actor, staging, and
audience.
216. History of Drama and Theater II (Same as Theater Studies 216.)
General history of the theater from French neoclassicism through the twentieth
century, focusing on representative dramatic works and on the influence of
actor, staging, and audience.
220. Advanced Writing Workshop
Prerequisites:
English 101 or 181 and written permission of instructor. Readings and
practice in several modes of nonfiction discourse. Emphasis on
developing clarity, fluency, and elegance of prose style.
221R. Modes of Practical Writing
Prerequisites: English 101 or 181 and written permission
of instructor. Practical introductions to various kinds of
media and professional writing. May be repeated for
credit when topic varies.
250. American Literature: Beginnings to 1865
Readings in American literature, with attention to cultural and
historical backgrounds.
251. American Literature: 1865 to Present
Readings in American literature from 1865 to the present, with
attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
255. British Literature before 1660
Readings in
English literature written up to 1660, with attention to cultural and
historical backgrounds.
256. British Literature since 1660
Readings in
English literature written from 1660 to the early twentieth century,
with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
258. Introduction to Irish Studies
An introduction to the themes, texts, and methodologies of Irish studies.
Required for the Irish studies minor.
289R. Special Topics for Non-Majors
Readings in major English and American literary works. Primarily designed for sophomores, juniors, and seniors
who are not English majors. May be repeated for credit when topic
varies.
The following courses are primarily intended for
sophomores, juniors, and seniors who have literary experience at the
100-200 level.
300. Old English Language and Literature
Introduction to the Old English language and readings of
representative prose and poetry.
301. Beowulf (same as Linguistics
362WR)
Prerequisite: English 300. The
earliest English epic, read in the original language.
303. Middle English Language and Literature
Representative works of Middle English literature from 1100 to 1500,
exclusive of Chaucer.
304. Chaucer
Readings in The Canterbury Tales,
Troilus and Criseyde, and selected other works.
308. Arthurian Literature
Readings in the
medieval and subsequent Arthurian tradition.
310. Medieval and Renaissance Drama
Representative medieval, Elizabethan, and Jacobean plays with some
attention to the development of early English drama.
311. Shakespeare
Selected major plays from the
histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances.
314. Renaissance Literature: 1485—1603
Selected works of sixteenth-century literature, including authors such
as More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.
315. Renaissance Literature: 1603—1660
Selected
works of early to mid-seventeenth-century literature, with an emphasis on the
poetry of Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Vaughn, and Marvell.
317. Milton
Selected major works (poetry and prose) with particular emphasis on the early
lyric verse, Comus, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes.
320. Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century
Literature: 1660—1740
Selected works of Restoration and Augustan
literature, including authors such as Dryden, Behn, Congreve, Swift, Pope,
Addison, and Steele.
321. Later Eighteenth-Century Literature:
1740—1798
Selected works of later eighteenth-century authors such as
Johnson, Boswell, Burke, Burns, Blake, and Wollstonecraft.
325. The Early English Novel
The development of
the English novel in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with representative
works by novelists such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and
Sterne.
330. Romanticism
Selected works of Romantic literature with an emphasis on poetry, including poets
such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, as
well as selections from prose writers such as Hazlitt and DeQuincey.
332. Victorian Literature
Representative works from the Victorian period, including poets such as Tennyson,
Browning, Arnold, and the Pre-Raphaelites, and prose writers such as Carlyle,
Mill, and Ruskin.
335. The English Romantic Novel
The development
of the English novel in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, including
authors such as Austen and Scott and significant genres such as the gothic
novel and the novel of education.
336. The English Victorian Novel
The
development of the British novel during the Victorian period, with representative
works by novelists such as the Brontës, Dickens, Eliot, Meredith, Hardy,
and Conrad.
340. Modern English Literature
Selected works
from various genres by twentieth-century authors writing in English
such as Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, Eliot, Lawrence, Auden, and Dylan
Thomas.
341. The Twentieth-Century English Novel
The
development of the modern English novel with representative works by
authors such as Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Lawrence, Waugh, and
Naipaul.
342R. Modern Irish Literature
The trajectory of Irish writing from the 1890s to the present.
345. Postcolonial Literature
New literatures of English by writers from former British colonies.
348. Contemporary Literature
Selected works
from various genres by writers from the 1950s to the present.
350. Early American Literature: Beginnings to
1830
Selected American writings of the colonial, revolutionary, and
early national periods including authors such as Taylor, Bradstreet,
Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, and Irving.
351. American Literature: 1830—1900
Selected
poetry and prose works of nineteenth-century American authors such as
Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, Howells,
James, and Mark Twain.
352. American Literature since 1900
Selected
works from various genres by twentieth-century American writers such
as Frost, Eliot, Stevens, W. C. Williams, Faulkner, Hemingway,
O'Neill, Miller, and T. Williams.
354. The Nineteenth-Century American Novel
The
early development of the American novel with representative works by
novelists such as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Howells, Mark Twain,
and Crane.
355. The Twentieth-Century American Novel
The
development of the modern American novel with representative works by
novelists such as Dreiser, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck,
and Bellow.
356. Native American Literature
The traditions of Native American verbal expression in the United States.
357. Southern Literature
The development of
Southern literature with representative works by writers such as Mark
Twain, Cable, Glasgow, Chesnutt, Faulkner, Welty, O'Connor, and
Percy.
358. African American Literature to 1900
(Same as African American Studies 358)
Major literary traditions of African American writers to 1900.
359. African American Literature since 1900 (Same as African American Studies 272)
Major literary traditions of African American writers from 1900 to the
present.
360. The English Language (Same
as Linguistics 360)
Structure and history
of the English language.
361. American English (Same as Linguistics
361)
American English from the
colonial period to the present; the sources of its vocabulary, the
characteristics of its dialects, and the linguistic distinctiveness of
its literature.
362. The Structure of Modern English
Modern
English grammar, with attention to phonology, morphology, and
contemporary models of syntactic description.
365. Modern Drama
Development of modern drama
from the late nineteenth century to 1950, including dramatists such as
Strindberg, Jarry, Chekhov, Yeats, O'Neill, Witkiewicz, Stein, and
Brecht.
366. Contemporary Drama
Selected works of the
theater since 1950, including dramatists such as Beckett, Bernhard,
Churchill, Duras, Fornes, Handke, Krötz, and Soyinka.
368. Literature and Cultural Studies
An introduction to the relationship between literary studies and the
study of cultural theory and popular culture.
369. Satire
A study of major satiric literary
works, primarily English and American, with some attention to visual
and journalistic satire and to theories of satire.
381R. Topics in Women's Literature
Topics
and perspectives vary over successive offerings, such as the political
novel and feminist poetics. May be repeated for
credit when topic varies.
382R. Studies in Women's Poetry
Selected
works of British and American women, including authors such as
Browning, Rossetti, Dickinson, Plath, Levertov, Sexton, Rich, and
Lorde. May be repeated for credit when topic
varies.
383R. Studies in Women's Fiction
Selected
prose works by British and American women, including authors such as
Behn, Austen, Woolf, Lessing, Morrison, and Walker. May be
repeated for credit when topic varies.
384R. Criticism
Prerequisites: two courses in literature or the
instructor's consent. The relationship of critical theory to
various literary forms. Specific material for analysis will vary in
successive offerings of this course. May be
repeated for credit when topic varies.
386. Literature and Science
Exploration of the ways in which literary writers have developed scientific
ideas and scientists have expressed themselves through creative writing.
387R. Literature and Religion (Same as Religion 387)
Prerequisites: one course in
religion and one in literature, or the instructor's consent.
Reading and interpretation of literary works (poems, novels, plays)
with special attention to the religious issues they address and/or the
way they engage the Bible. May be repeated for
credit when topic varies.
389R. Special Topics in Literature
Literary
topics vary. May be repeated for credit when topic
varies.
399R. Independent Study
Prerequisite: approval of project by adviser before
preregistration. Every semester. Credit variable; may be repeated for
a maximum of eight hours of credit. For students wishing to
pursue projects of their own design.
Limited to advanced majors (twenty-four hours,
including English 205). All 400-level courses except for 495R and 496R
fulfill the post-freshman seminar requirement.
412R. Studies in Shakespeare
Prerequisite: English 311. Studies focus on groups
of plays, dramatic genres, Shakespearean criticism, non-dramatic
verse, or similar subjects. May be repeated for
credit when topic varies.
480R. Seminar in Poetry
Studies in
poetry. Readings may focus on one or more authors or poetic
traditions. May be repeated for credit when topic
varies.
481R. Seminar in Drama
Studies in drama and
theater history. Readings may focus on one or more authors or on
questions of dramaturgy and theater history. May be
repeated for credit when topic varies.
482R. Seminar in Fiction
Studies in
narrative fiction and narrative forms. Readings vary and may focus on
one or more authors or on questions of literary art. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
483R. Seminar in Criticism and Theory
Studies in literary criticism, the history of criticism, and literary
theory. May be repeated for credit when topic
varies.
489R. Special Topics for Advanced Study
Intensive study of specific literary topics, e.g., questions of form
or history, or concentrations on one or more authors or literary
movements. May be repeated for credit when topic
varies.
490. Seminar in Literary Interpretation
Fall semester. Required of honors students (other
seniors may enroll with permission of director of undergraduate
studies). Readings in the theory and practice of literary
criticism. Designed to assist honors students in researching their
theses.
495R. Honors Thesis
Prerequisite: approval of adviser and the director of
undergraduate studies. Every semester. Credit, variable; may be
repeated for a maximum of eight hours of credit. Open to
students writing honors theses.
496R. Internship in English
Every semester. Credit, variable; may be repeated for a
maximum of twelve hours of credit (does not count toward the
major). Open to junior and senior English majors with approval of the
coordinator. Applied learning in a supervised work experience,
using skills related to the English major.
Written permission of the instructor is
required for all creative writing courses.
191. Freshman Seminar: Creative Writing
Every semester. Seminar genre varies:
fiction, poetry, playwriting, or as an introductory course covering
both fiction and poetry. Focus is on student work; classwork includes
reading critically, generating material, workshopping drafts, craft
exercises, and revision skills.
270WR. Introduction to Creative Writing
Every semester. Introductory
workshop in creative writing covering at least two genres from the following:
Fiction, Poetry, Screenwriting, Playwriting, Creative Nonfiction. Counts as
a prerequisite for 300-level intermediate workshops but not for Advanced Fiction,
Advanced Poetry, or Advanced Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.
271WR. Introduction to Poetry
Introductory workshop in poetry writing. Counts as a prerequisite for 300-level
intermediate workshops but not for Advanced Fiction, Advanced Poetry, or Advanced
Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.
272WR. Introduction to Fiction
Introductory workshop in fiction writing. Counts as a prerequisite
for 300-level intermediate workshops but not for Advanced Fiction, Advanced Poetry,
or Advanced Playwriting. May not be repeated for credit.
370RWR. Creative Writing:
Intermediate Fiction
Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in writing fiction. ENG 270,
271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight
hours credit.
371RWR. Creative Writing: Intermediate Poetry
Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in writing poetry. ENG 270, 271,
or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours
credit.
372RWR. Creative Writing: Intermediate Playwriting
Every
semester. Intermediate level workshop in writing plays. ENG 270, 271, or 272
required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.
373RWR. Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction
Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in writing plays. ENG 270, 271,
or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours
credit.
374RWR. Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry
Spring semester. Admittance by assessment of readiness for advanced work
by intermediate level instructor in genre. Intensive workshop in the writing
of poetry for advanced students. May be repeated for a maximum of eight hours
credit.
375RWR. Creative Writing: Advanced Playwriting
Spring semester. Admittance by assessment of readiness for advanced work
by intermediate level instructor in genre. Intensive workshop in the writing
of plays for advanced students. May be repeated for a maximum of eight
hours credit.
376RWR. Creative Writing: Intermediate Nonfiction
Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in nonfiction genres that often
use fictional techniques. ENG 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May
be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit.
377RWR. Creative Writing: Intermediate Translation
Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in the theory and practice
of translation. ENG 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated
for a maximum of eight hours.
378RWR. Creative Writing: Intermediate Screenwriting
Every semester. Intermediate level workshop in form and structure of screenwriting.
ENG 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite. May be repeated for a maximum
of eight hours credit.
379RWR. Creative Writing: Special Topics
Credit, variable; maybe be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit when
topic varies. Specific topics to be announced. Typical subjects include the
novel, first-person narrative, formalist poetry, and nonrealistic forms. ENG
270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite.
397RWR. Creative Writing: Independent Study
Credit, variable; maybe be repeated for a maximum of eight hours credit. Project
description and written permission of instructor required before registration.
ENG 270, 271, or 272 required as prerequisite.
491R. Directed Study: Honors in Creative Writing
Offered every semester. Credit variable. May be repeated for a maximum of
8 hours credit. Approval of adviser and the Director of the Program must be
obtained. A tutorial designed primarily to assist honors candidates in preparing
their projects.
