Courses
Most students in the English department come into the major with a genuine love of literature and the desire to grow as a writer. Classes are designed to nurture these interests, from the general requirements all the way through the seminars, with professors challenging their students at every level of the major. Students are motivated to widen their outlook by critically thinking about the texts and participating in classroom discussion, which is the cornerstone of the English pedagogy. Faculty advisors are dedicated to engaging students in dialogue both inside the classroom and on an individual basis.
The Department of English has made a commitment to small class sizes, especially for advanced classes and seminars, to encourage class discussion. Along with their own views, English faculty members present a variety of critical perspectives when leading discussion. The questions and opinions of the students are an essential addition to this range of viewpoints. Creative writing classes are structured to allow students to critique each other’s work—a process that helps them develop as readers as well as writers.
Along with permanent faculty members, the English department has enjoyed hosting several distinguished visiting writers; classes taught by these visitors offer students a chance to ask questions and have their work evaluated by established writers.
The Department of English issues a projected list of course offerings for the upcoming semeser to help students plan their schedules; however, course offerings are subject to change based on enrollment. BannerWeb is always the most accurate and up-to-date place for current students to find course offerings for the upcoming semester.
Students who want to transfer credits for an English course taken at another college or university should consult the transfer approval guidelines.
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ENGL 103 Introduction to Expository Writing
Units: 1
DescriptionIntroduction to critical reading, thinking, and writing across disciplines.
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ENGL 199 Introduction to Literary Analysis
Units: 0.5-1
DescriptionSelected topics vary from semester to semester.
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ENGL 201 The Art of Writing: Aims, Modes, Process
Units: 1
DescriptionExplores varied strategies for negotiating each stage in the writing process, reviews methods for engaging in critical thinking and productive research, and addresses issues influencing effective uses of language, including attention to grammaticality.PrerequisitesFYS 100
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ENGL 203 Children's Literature
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT), AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC)
DescriptionAnalysis of children's literature, from folk and fairy tales to today's stories, poems and novels for children.
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ENGL 204 Literature and Culture
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT), AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT)
DescriptionRepresentation of cultural identity and experience in works drawn from diverse cultural traditions.
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ENGL 206 Selected Readings in American Literature
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC), American studies electives (AMER), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionSelected works reflecting one or more major patterns in American literature. Specific emphasis may change from term to term.
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ENGL 208 Twentieth-Century American Fiction
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT), American studies electives (AMER)
DescriptionTextual analysis of novels and shorter fiction representing diverse authors, themes, movements, and techniques.
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ENGL 214 Literature of India
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT), GS: Asia (GSAS)
DescriptionExplores modern Indian poetry, short stories, and novels written in English and in translation.
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ENGL 215 Reading Science Fiction and Fantasy
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionAnalysis of selected works of science fiction and fantasy. Possible authors included in the course range from Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne to Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison and Ursula K. LeGuin to writers not typically identified with the genre. Students will consider a variety of interpretive frameworks (formal, psychological, feminist and others)through which literary sci-fi and fantasy are frequently read. Texts will include short stories, novels and film.
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ENGL 216 Literature, Technology and Society
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC), American studies electives (AMER), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionLiterary and nonliterary texts that react, in a given society and period of history, to technological change and social effects of technology.
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ENGL 218 African Literature
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT), GS: Africa (GSAF)
DescriptionRepresentative works from written traditions in modern African literature.
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ENGL 219 Introduction to Drama and Theater
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionIntroduction to basic concepts of drama and theater, including the relationship between drama as text and as spectacle and the relation of drama to other genres and art forms. Examination of significant theatrical traditions that have influenced modern drama.
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ENGL 220 Introduction to Film Studies
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionIntroduces the methodology of film studies through close textual analysis of narrative film. Special attention paid to the international history of the medium, the language of production, and major critical approaches. (Same as Film Studies 201)
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ENGL 221 Introduction to Poetry
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionAnalysis of works by selected poets.
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ENGL 222 Short Fiction
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionAnalysis of short fiction as a means of defining its many formal and philosophical expressions.
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ENGL 223 The Modern Novel
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionAnalysis of selected 20th- and 21st-century novels.
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ENGL 224 Great Novels
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionSelected major novels of 18th, 19th, and/or 20th centuries.
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ENGL 229 The Black Vernacular
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT), American studies electives (AMER)
DescriptionIntroduction to black vernacular oral and written art. Investigation of the black vernacular tradition in the wider context of American culture.
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ENGL 230 Women in Modern Literature
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC), Literary Studies (FSLT), WGSS elective (WGSS)
DescriptionModern woman's search for identity and struggle for self-realization through study of selected figures from 19th-, 20th-, and/or 21st century literature.
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ENGL 231 African American Literature
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): American studies electives (AMER), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionSurvey of major works of African-American literature with attention to oral traditional contexts.
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ENGL 233 Contemporary Native American Literatures
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT), American studies electives (AMER)
DescriptionAn introduction to the most recent fiction by Native American writers in the United States through a study of a variety of genres in the context of the United States' colonial history, indigenous nations' struggles for sovereignty, and the long legacy of Indian representation in American popular culture.
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ENGL 234 Shakespeare
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC), Classics elective (CLEL), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionAnalysis of selected plays and poems from variety of critical perspectives.
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ENGL 236 On The Road: Literature of Quest and Pilgrimage
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT), WGSS Transnational Perspective (WGTP)
DescriptionExplores women’s writing from around the world, from regions as diverse as South Asia, Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Through reading novels, short stories, poetry, and essays by and about women, examines how the concerns of women writers travel across national and political lines. What particular challenges do women writers face and how do such challenges influence their writing? How is the role of women represented in and across different literary and non-fiction texts? How does sexuality figure into women’s writing and what does it say about the “naturalized” ways that women are imagined across cultures? What current global issues concern women writers, and how are they linked to gender and sexuality? Writers may include Tsitsi Dangarembga, Margaret Atwood, Edwidge Danticat, Ama Ata Aidoo, Nawal el Saadawi, Bapsi Sidhwa, Zora Neale Hurston, Arundhati Roy, Vandana Shiva, Wangari Maathai, and Audre Lorde.
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ENGL 237 Queer Literatures
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Power/Equity/Identity/Cult (IFPE), Literary Studies (FSLT), WGSS Knowledge Production (WGKP)
DescriptionExamines contemporary queer literature and film concerned with both the formation and formulation of queer identities. Asks a series of questions: What distinguishes and differentiates queer aesthetics? What does it mean to be queer? Who can or should represent queer identities? Examines works that traverse sexual, racial, national, and political lines. Careful and critical attention to a plurality of queer expressions and representations. Authors may include: Shyam Selvadurai, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Tony Kushner, James Baldwin, Dionne Brand, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ismat Chughtai, Leslie Feinberg, Shani Mootoo, Manuel Puig, and William Burroughs. Films may include: Boys Don’t Cry, Happy Together, Fire, Philadelphia, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Before Night Falls, and Paris is Burning.
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ENGL 238 Selected Readings in Caribbean Literature
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT), GS: Latin America (GSLA)
DescriptionAnalysis of literary works from the Caribbean representing various periods, areas, and groups. Focus mainly on English-speaking Caribbean, but occasional focus on Spanish, Dutch, or French works in translation.
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ENGL 239 Vampires in Literature and Film
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT), WGSS Gender and Violence (WGGV)
DescriptionExamination of "the vampire" as a metaphor for social fears as it appears in different historical moments (sixteenth century to the present) and across several genres and media, including poetry, prose fiction, folklore, film, television, and popular songs. Readings, brief lectures, and discussions analyze vampires in these texts in relation to ideas from philosophy, economics, gender studies, and literary theory.
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ENGL 240 Literature and Comedy
Units: 1
DescriptionExplores the long history of Western comedy and examines a range of humor writing and performance, including plays, short fiction, novels, essays, cinema, television, and stand-ups.
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ENGL 295 Topics in Literary Analysis
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): English elective (ENEL)
DescriptionEssentials of close textual analysis with special attention to theory, critical vocabulary, and methodology of literary interpretation. The focus will vary from one section or semester to the next. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
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ENGL 296 Topics in Literary Analysis
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): English elective (ENEL)
DescriptionEssentials of close textual analysis with special attention to theory, critical vocabulary, and methodology of literary interpretation. The focus will vary from one section or semester to the next. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
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ENGL 297 Literature in Context: Genre and Mode
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionFocuses on the ways in which particular literary genres and modes arise and are adapted to new purposes over time. Taught in two modules with two different professors, this course with a grade of C (2.0) or better is a prerequisite to all 300-level literature courses, and thus is designed for those who think they might want to major or minor in English or take upper-level literature courses.
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ENGL 298 Literature in Context: Texts in History
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionFocuses on the ways in which literary traditions are perceived and/or constructed, and for what purposes. Taught in two modules with two different professors, this course with a grade of C (2.0) or better is a prerequisite to all 300-level literature courses, and thus is designed for those who think they might want to major or minor in English or take upper-level literature courses.
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ENGL 299 Topics in Literary Analysis
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC), Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionEssentials of close textual analysis with special attention to theory, critical vocabulary, and methodology of literary interpretation. The focus will vary from one section or semester to the next. Recent topics have included The Sixties: Then and Now; American Misfits, Contemporary American Literatures, Border Crossings in Global Literatures. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
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ENGL 302 Literature of the English Renaissance
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Classics elective (CLEL)
DescriptionStudies in literature and cultural traditions of 16th- and early 17th-century Great Britain.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, FMST 201, or GS 290 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 304 Shakespeare
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Classics elective (CLEL)
DescriptionSelected plays by Shakespeare grouped according to genre. The course will investigate the histories and tragedies and the comedies and romances.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 308 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Classics elective (CLEL)
DescriptionAn interdisciplinary approach to the study of Middle Ages and Renaissance. Medieval and Renaissance perspectives on topics such as love, politics, individualism, and the divine will be explored through study of selected works from literature, art, architecture, political theory, theology, and philosophy of both periods. Modern historiographical studies also will be examined in order to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of period constructions. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 309 Desire and Identity in the Renaissance: The Lyric Tradition
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Literary Studies (FSLT)
DescriptionA comparative investigation of Italian, French, and English Renaissance lyric poetry. (Same as Modern Literatures and Cultures 358.)
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 311 English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC)
DescriptionFocus on representative British authors of the late 17th and 18th centuries.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 312 English Literature of the Romantic Movement
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), IF-Written Communication (IFWC)
DescriptionFocus on major British authors of the early 19th century with some attention to European currents and backgrounds.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 325 Age of American Renaissance
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): American studies electives (AMER)
DescriptionReadings in the traditional American Renaissance canon -- Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Poe, Dickinson, and Whitman -- as well as other writers working in the period, such as Frederick Douglass and Fanny Fern.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, AMST 201, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 328 English Literature of the Victorian Period
Units: 1
DescriptionFocus on representative British authors, 1832-1901, with attention to contemporary social, political, religious, and scientific issues.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department or a FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 330 Topics in Literature Before 1900
Units: 1
DescriptionTopics will vary from semester to semester. Recently offered topics include Renaissance Lyric Poetry and The Middle Ages and the Renaissance.May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT taught in the English department or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 331 Literatures of Africa
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): GS: Africa (GSAF)
DescriptionSurvey of major writers from the African continent, with attention to historical and cultural contexts and to African oral traditions.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, GS 290, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 332 Literatures of the Caribbean
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): GS: Latin America (GSLA)
DescriptionSurvey of Anglo-Caribbean literatures with emphasis on contemporary works. Occasional studies of Spanish, Dutch, or French works in translation.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department grade of C
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ENGL 334 American Indian Literatures
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): American studies electives (AMER), IF-Power/Equity/Identity/Cult (IFPE), IF-Written Communication (IFWC)
DescriptionWorks of major indigenous writers in the United States since the 1960s until the present, studied in the context of the historical and contemporary political and cultural relations between American Indians and the United States.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, AMST 201, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 336 Literatures of Globalization
Units: 1
DescriptionSelected contemporary fiction and criticism that considers problems of global economy, culture, and language.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, FMST 201, or GS 290 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 337 Postcolonial Literature
Units: 1
DescriptionSurvey of major debates and movements in postcolonial literature, with attention to cultural contexts.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, FMST 201, or GS 290 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 343 Modernisms
Units: 1
DescriptionA study of the dramatic changes in poetry and literature in European and American modernism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, FMST 201, or GS 290 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 346 Twentieth-Century British Literature
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): GS: Western Europe (GSWE)
DescriptionReflections of modern sensibility in fiction and poetry of native British and Irish authors and American expatriates.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, FMST 201, or GS 290 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 347 Politics, Social Change, and Modern Drama
Units: 1
DescriptionA literary exploration of modern and contemporary drama as a vehicle for social change.
PrerequisitesOne 200-level ENGL with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 357 Twentieth-Century American Fiction
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): American studies electives (AMER)
DescriptionAttention to new concerns and new forms of fiction in the 20th century.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department or AMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 361 Literature and Film
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT), American studies electives (AMER), Film Studies Group B (FLMB)
DescriptionExamines the filmic adaptation of literary works, with particular consideration given to questions of genre, interpretation, and historical relevance.
PrerequisitesENGL 220, one FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 362 Post-Soul Literature and Culture
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): American studies electives (AMER)
DescriptionSurvey of works by African-American verbal artists who came of age after the civil-rights movement.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department or AMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 367 Creative Writing
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): American studies electives (AMER), Film Studies Group A (FLMA)
DescriptionAn introduction to indigenous cinema in the United States and Canada. Forms and topics studied include ethnographic film, western and anti-western, contemporary first contact films; American Indian documentary, experimental video, and feature film; multiculturalism and the aesthetics and politics of indigenous representation.
PrerequisitesENGL 220, one FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 368 History and Aesthetics of Film
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): American studies electives (AMER), Film Studies Group B (FLMB)
DescriptionTopics include major international directors, the conventions and innovations of popular genres, and key aesthetic movements.
PrerequisitesENGL 220, one FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 369 American Culture/American Film
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): American studies electives (AMER), Film Studies Group B (FLMB)
DescriptionExplores the intersection of American film and culture, with special attention to the dialogue between Hollywood and other institutions, ideologies, and events. Specific topics vary from semester to semester.
PrerequisitesENGL 220, one FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, AMST 201 or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 370 Topics in Literature After 1900
Units: 1
DescriptionTopics will vary from semester to semester. Recently offered topics include Victorian Fantasy, Modernisms, and Blackface! May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 374 Film Theory
Units: 1
DescriptionSurveys the various ways in which thinkers have conceived of cinema since before its inception--what André Bazin referred to as "the film idea"--to contemporary debates about the "end" of film and the advent of New Media.
PrerequisitesENGL 220, one FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, and FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 376 Modern Literary Theory
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): WGSS Feminist and Queer Theory (WGFQ)
DescriptionDevelopments in literary theory from Formalism to the present. Schools and approaches include New Criticism, Feminism, Marxism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytic Criticism, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies.
PrerequisitesOne 300-level ENGL with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 379 Film Directors
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Film Studies Group B (FLMB)
DescriptionExamines the work of individual or a small group of film directors. The directors considered will vary and include figures such as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Coen Brothers. Special attention will be paid to theories of film authorship, the concept of film style and film aesthetics, and various critical approaches.
PrerequisitesENGL 220, one FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, and FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 380 Special Topics: Film Genres
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Film Studies Group B (FLMB)
DescriptionThe close consideration of single or small numbers of film genres: their inception, evolution, aesthetic and stylistic properties, and interaction with other cultural forms and institutions. The genres under consideration will vary and include Film Noir, Melodrama, and the Western, among others. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
PrerequisitesENGL 220, one FSLT/AILT course taught in the English department, and FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 381 Modern Grammar
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Linguistics elective (LING)
DescriptionIntroduction to linguistics, including theories and practices of structuralists and transformationalists. (Meets state licensure requirements for teaching.)
PrerequisitesFYS 100
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ENGL 383 Introduction to Composition Theory and Pedagogy
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): Law/Liberal Arts area 8 (LW8)
DescriptionServes as practicum for writing consultants - and students seeking teacher licensure.
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ENGL 388 Individual Internship
Units: 0.25-1
DescriptionApplication of academic skills and theories in placement approved by department. Includes academic work. Supervised by member of the English faculty. No more than one unit of credit may be earned in English 388.
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ENGL 398 Independent Study
Units: 0.25-1
DescriptionIndividually designed course of study conducted under supervision of faculty member.
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ENGL 399 Selected Topics
Units: 1
DescriptionTopics will vary from semester to semester.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT taught in the English department and two 300-level English courses with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 400 Junior/Senior Seminar
Units: 1
DescriptionIn-depth treatment of topics in genre, historical periods, critical theory, single authors such as Milton, Faulkner, or Woolf, and other areas of literary study. Topics vary from semester to semester. Recently offered topics include the African American Novel, Children¿s Literature and Theology, Civil War Literature, New York School Poets, Self as Performance in the Renaissance, Women and Creativity, and Medicine, Mortality and Meaning. English majors usually take one seminar in the junior year and one in the senior year although if necessary both may be taken in the senior year. May be repeated for credit, provided topics are different.
PrerequisitesOne FSLT/AILT taught in the English department and two 300-level English courses with a minimum grade of C
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ENGL 406 Summer Undergraduate Research
Units: 0
DescriptionDocumentation of the work of students who receive summer fellowships to conduct research [or produce a creative arts project] in the summer. The work must take place over a minimum of 6 weeks, the student must engage in the project full-time (at least 40 hours per week) during this period, and the student must be the recipient of a fellowship through the university. Graded S/U.
PrerequisitesApproval by a faculty member
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ENGL 498 Honors Thesis Research
Units: 0.5
DescriptionResearch for the honors thesis in English under the direction of a faculty advisor.
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ENGL 499 Honors Thesis Writing
Units: 1
DescriptionWriting of the honors thesis in English under the direction of a faculty advisor.
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ENGL 103 Introduction to Expository Writing
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CRWR 300 Introduction to Creative Writing
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): IF-Written Communication (IFWC), English elective (ENEL)
DescriptionAn introduction to general principles. Students' fiction and poetry receive critical evaluation through workshops and conferences. The course is designed to improve students' creative and critical faculties through exposure to a variety of styles and genres in contemporary literature¿e.g., poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, hybrid forms. The course emphasizes the finished product as well as the writing process, which includes not only putting words on paper, but also reading, analysis, and revision. Students examine forms and structures, word choice, line lengths and line breaks, sentences, paragraphs, beginnings and endings, rhetorical strategies, cadences and music, tone and voice, and syntax and diction. Class sessions include variations of the following: writing exercises, craft talks, discussion about the assigned readings, and discussion of student work.
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CRWR 311 Fiction Writing
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): IF-Written Communication (IFWC), English elective (ENEL)
DescriptionAnalysis of literary models. Discussion and evaluation of students' own fiction. May be taken up to three times for credit.
PrerequisitesCRWR 300 with a minimum grade of C, or permission of instructor
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CRWR 312 Poetry Writing
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): IF-Written Communication (IFWC), English elective (ENEL)
DescriptionAnalysis of literary models. Discussion and evaluation of students' own poetry. May be taken up to three times for credit.
PrerequisitesCRWR 300 with a minimum grade of C, or permission of instructor
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CRWR 313 Creative Nonfiction Writing
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): IF-Written Communication (IFWC), English elective (ENEL)
DescriptionAnalysis of literary models. Discussion and evaluation of students' own creative nonfiction. May be taken up to three times for credit.
PrerequisitesCRWR 300 with a minimum grade of C, or permission of instructor
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CRWR 314 Literary Translation
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): English elective (ENEL), Linguistics elective (LING), GS: Skills and Applied Courses (GSSA)
DescriptionIntroduces students to the history, theory, and practice of literary translation, with a particular emphasis on translation as a mode of creative writing.
PrerequisitesCRWR 300 with a minimum grade of C
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CRWR 319 Literary Editing and Publishing
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): IF-Embodied Communication (IFEB), English elective (ENEL)
DescriptionProvides students the opportunity to learn about literary editing and publishing from both editors' and writers' perspectives.
PrerequisitesCRWR 300 with a minimum grade of C, or permission of instructor
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CRWR 320 Selected Topics in Writing
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): English elective (ENEL)
DescriptionTopics in creative writing. These will vary from semester to semester at the discretion of the instructor. Recently offered topics include Mixed-Media Writing and Micro Narratives. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
PrerequisitesCRWR 300 with a minimum grade of C or permission of instructor
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CRWR 388 Individual Internship
Units: 0.25-1
DescriptionApplication of academic skills and theories in placement approved by department. Includes academic work. Supervised by member of the Creative Writing faculty. No more than one unit of credit may be earned in CRWR 388.
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CRWR 398 Independent Study
Units: 0.25-1
DescriptionIndependent study content will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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CRWR 401 Creative Writing Portfolio
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement(s): English elective (ENEL)
DescriptionAn advanced creative writing course in which students pursue a semester-long project or portfolio in any genre (poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, multimedia, etc.) and workshop their works in progress. Appropriate for students working in traditional forms (e.g. short-story, poetry, memoir, etc.) or students working in forms not typically covered by other writing courses (e.g. graphic novel, screenplay, multimedia, etc.). May be repeated once for credit, but only one may count towards the minor in Creative Writing.
PrerequisitesOne of the following: CRWR 311, CRWR 312, CRWR 313, or CRWR 320, CRWR 385, CRWR 386, CRWR 387, CRWR 392, CRWR 397, ENGL 385, ENGL 386, ENGL 387, ENGL 392, or ENGL 397 with a minimum grade of C
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CRWR 498 Honors Thesis Research
Units: 0.5
DescriptionResearch for the honors thesis in Creative Writing under the direction of a faculty advisor..
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CRWR 499 Honors Thesis Writing
Units: 1
DescriptionWriting of the honors thesis in Creative Writing under the direction of a faculty advisor.
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CRWR 300 Introduction to Creative Writing