Units: 1
Description
Introduction to critical reading, thinking, and writing across disciplines.
Units: 0.5-1
Description
Selected topics vary from semester to semester.
Units: 1
Description
Explores 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.
Prerequisites
FYS 100
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (Literary Studies (FSLT))
Description
Analysis of children's literature, from folk and fairy tales to today's stories, poems and novels for children.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Representation of cultural identity and experience in works drawn from diverse cultural traditions.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (Literary Studies (FSLT))
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Selected works reflecting one or more major patterns in American literature. Specific emphasis may change from term to term.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (Literary Studies (FSLT))
Description
Textual analysis of novels and shorter fiction representing diverse authors, themes, movements, and techniques.
Units: 1
Description
Explores modern Indian poetry, short stories, and novels written in English and in translation.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Analysis 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.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Literary and nonliterary texts that react, in a given society and period of history, to technological change and social effects of technology.
Units: 1
Description
Representative works from written traditions in modern African literature.
Units: 1
Description
Introduction 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.
Units: 1
Description
Introduces 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)
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Analysis of works by selected poets.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Analysis of short fiction as a means of defining its many formal and philosophical expressions.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Analysis of selected 20th- and 21st-century novels.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Selected major novels of 18th, 19th, and/or 20th centuries.
Units: 1
Description
Introduction to black vernacular oral and written art. Investigation of the black vernacular tradition in the wider context of American culture.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Modern woman's search for identity and struggle for self-realization through study of selected figures from 19th-, 20th-, and/or 21st century literature.
Units: 1
Description
Survey of major works of African-American literature with attention to oral traditional contexts.
Units: 1
Description
An 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.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Analysis of selected plays and poems from variety of critical perspectives.
Units: 1
Description
Explores 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.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Examines 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.
Units: 1
Description
Analysis 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.
Units: 1
Description
Examination 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.
Units: 1
Description
Essentials 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.
Units: 1
Description
Essentials 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.
Units: 1
Description
Focuses 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.
Units: 1
Description
Focuses 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.
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Essentials 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.
Units: 1
Description
Studies in literature and cultural traditions of 16th- and early 17th-century Great Britain.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department or GS 290 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Selected plays by Shakespeare grouped according to genre. The course will investigate the histories and tragedies and the comedies and romances.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
An 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.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
A comparative investigation of Italian, French, and English Renaissance lyric poetry. (Same as Modern Literatures and Cultures 358.)
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Focus on representative British authors of the late 17th and 18th centuries.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (AI-Literary & Textual Analysis (AILT))
Description
Focus on major British authors of the early 19th century with some attention to European currents and backgrounds.
Units: 1
Description
Readings 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.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department or AMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Focus on representative British authors, 1832-1901, with attention to contemporary social, political, religious, and scientific issues.
Units: 1
Description
Topics 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.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Survey of major writers from the African continent, with attention to historical and cultural contexts and to African oral traditions.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department orGS-290with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Survey of Anglo-Caribbean literatures with emphasis on contemporary works. Occasional studies of Spanish, Dutch, or French works in translation.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department grade of C
Units: 1
Fulfills General Education Requirement (IF-Power/Equity/Identity/Cult (IFPE))
Description
Works 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.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department or AMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Selected contemporary fiction and criticism that considers problems of global economy, culture, and language.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department or GS 290 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Survey of major debates and movements in postcolonial literature, with attention to cultural contexts.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department or GS 290 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
A study of the dramatic changes in poetry and literature in European and American modernism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department or GS 290 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Reflections of modern sensibility in fiction and poetry of native British and Irish authors and American expatriates.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department or GS 290 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
A literary exploration of modern and contemporary drama as a vehicle for social change.
Prerequisites
One 200-level ENGL with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Attention to new concerns and new forms of fiction in the 20th century.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department or AMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Examines the filmic adaptation of literary works, with particular consideration given to questions of genre, interpretation, and historical relevance.
Prerequisites
ENGL 220, one FLST course taught in the English department, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Survey of works by African-American verbal artists who came of age after the civil-rights movement.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department or AMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
An 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.
Prerequisites
ENGL 220, one FLST course taught in the English department, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Topics include major international directors, the conventions and innovations of popular genres, and key aesthetic movements.
Prerequisites
ENGL 220, one FLST course taught in the English department, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Explores 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.
Prerequisites
ENGL 220, one FLST course taught in the English department, AMST 201 or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Topics will vary from semester to semester. Recently offered topics include Victorian Fantasy, Modernisms, and Blackface! May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Surveys 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.
Prerequisites
ENGL 220, one FLST course taught in the English department, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Developments 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.
Prerequisites
One 300-level ENGL with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Examines the work of individual or a small group of film directors. The directors considered will vary and include figures such as Alfred Hitchco*ck, 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.
Prerequisites
ENGL 220, one FLST course taught in the English department, or FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
The 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.
Prerequisites
ENGL 220, one FLST course taught in the English department, and FMST 201 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Introduction to linguistics, including theories and practices of structuralists and transformationalists. (Meets state licensure requirements for teaching.)
Prerequisites
FYS 100 with a minimum grade of D-
Units: 1
Description
Serves as practicum for writing consultants - and students seeking teacher licensure.
Units: 0.25-1
Description
Application 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.
Units: 0.25-1
Description
Individually designed course of study conducted under supervision of faculty member.
Units: 1
Description
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
In-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.
Prerequisites
One FSLT course taught in the English department and two 300-level English courses with a minimum grade of C
Units: 0
Description
Documentation 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.
Prerequisites
Approval by a faculty mentor.
Units: 0.5
Description
Research for the honors thesis in English under the direction of a faculty advisor.
Prerequisites
ENGL 299 with a minimum grade of C
Units: 1
Description
Writing of the honors thesis in English under the direction of a faculty advisor.
