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Literature Group A (Early British): One (1) course from the following:

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Choose 1 of the following (literature courses with emphasis on diverse authors):

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One course from Literature Group C One course from Literature Group D One course from Literature Group E One course from Literature Group F

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Course No.: ENGL 262; Credits: 4

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~ Page 307 ~ ate Catalog 2025-2026 al e

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Fashion Design and Retailing:

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Choose Two (2) from the following:

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Choose two (2) additional English electives, one (1) of which must be at the 200- level or above, from the department: Students may use a 100-level ENGL Literature course for this requirement only if the course was taken prior to the student’s junior year. Required course for Secondary Education Licensure:

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CONCENTRATION IN JOURNALISM (UENJ) Students must complete the twelve (12) required courses for the Major plus four (4) courses from the list below. Two (2) of these courses may count towards both the Major and the Concentration. The English Major with a concentration requires fourteen (14) courses. Concentration Courses: Concentration core courses:

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One (1) of the following Social Science Courses:

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Literature Group B (Modern British): One (1) course from the following:

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Choose One (1) of the following courses:

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Literature Group E: One (1) course from Contemporary Global and Postcoloni Literature:

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An advanced exploration of a single literary genre, such as the novel, non-fiction prose, poetry, or drama. A broad range of literary texts along with contextual documents and works of literary theory are examined.

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ENGL 204 Literary Study or permission of instructor.

Literature Group D: One (1) course from Classical and European:

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Literature Group F: One (1) course focused on literature or film from an historically underrepresented group*:

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CONCENTRATION IN CREATIVE WRITING (UENC) Students must complete the twelve (12) required courses for the Major plus four (4) courses from the list below. Two (2) of these courses may count towards both the Major and the Concentration. The English Major with a concentration requires fourteen (14) courses. Concentration Courses: Choose One (1) from the following:

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A study of the ancestry of English, of the processes and results of change in sound, form, and meaning. The classification of languages, social and regional dialects, theories of language acquisition, and other topics are examined to give the student a general understanding of modern developments in linguistics. Note: This course is recommended for students planning graduate study in English. ~ Page 144 ~

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Required English Electives: Choose two (2) additional English electives, one (1) of which must be at the 200- level or above. See “English Courses” in the Catalog for a full list of courses. Students may use a 100-level ENGL, RAMS 101EN, or RAMS 103EN Literature course for this requirement if the course was taken prior to the student’s junior year. Capstone:

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NOTE: All English majors must take four (4) literature courses at the 300- or 400-level in addition to ENGL 422 Seminar in Literature. One of the four (4) courses may be a 300-level film course, as may ENGL 320 Young Adult Literature. Other children’s literature courses do not satisfy this requirement. Students should focus on 300- and 400-level courses in the junior/senior years. World Language Requirement: Minimum of elementary knowledge of one world language required (0-2 courses). The Elementary Level may be met in one of several ways: • Completion of a college-level Elementary II or above language course; • Emersion Language Placement test score of 3 or higher; • Waiver from the Chair of the World Languages Department if high school academic language is other than English (usually applies to international students).

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An independent study supervised by a member of the English Department and offered to juniors and seniors. The independent study may, but need not, be done as an honors project under the jurisdiction of the Honors Committee. It counts as one course in the student’s program and may not substitute for the Seminar in Literature.

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Capstone (not taken above):

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An advanced exploration of a single literary genre, such as the novel, non-fiction prose, poetry, or drama. A broad range of literary texts along with contextual documents and works of literary theory are examined. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 390 Studies in Genre has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

The study of sixteenth and seventeenth-century authors who created a new national literature out of classical, continental, and native traditions. Through varying topics and study of such authors as Greene, Spenser, Sidney, Lanyer, Jonson, Wroth, Bacon, Donne, and Milton, students explore literary and cultural contexts for a rich array of genres, including lyric, romance, pastoral, essay, and allegory. specialization in English Secondary Education, or M.A. program with a concentration in English, PBTL program, or B.A./M.A. 4+1 program in English, or permission of the instructor. ~ 56 ~

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A study of the nineteenth-century European novel which includes works from a variety of authors throughout the century such as Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Goethe, Hugo, Sand, Stendhal, Tolstoy, and Zola. specialization in English Secondary Education, or M.A. program with a concentration in English, PBTL program, or B.A./M.A. 4+1 program in English, or permission of the instructor.

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An advanced course focused on writing about science for experts and lay audiences. Students study the purposes, audiences, and conventions of published scientific research and articles about science in popular publications and apply that understanding in their own writing. Projects may include reports, nonfiction essays, and scientific journalism. Particular attention is paid to collaboration and ethics, as well as the work of science writing professionals. Completion of or concurrent enrollment in a lab science is recommended.

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A study of English drama from its festive, religious and classical roots to the popular entertainments of the pre-modern era. Readings include medieval mysteries and moralities, Renaissance pastoral plays, and Elizabethan-Jacobean tragedies and comedies, with attention to such dramatists as Marlowe, Jonson, Cary, Middleton, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 313 Medieval and Renaissance Drama has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

A critical and historical study of Romanticism in English literature. Concentration is on the major poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 318 British Romanticism has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

A study of the beginnings, development, and tradition of the novel in England through an examination of contributing prose forms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the major authors of eighteenth-century fiction such as Fielding, Smollett, and Austen. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 321 Rise and Establishment of the English Novel has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

A study of the nineteenth century British novel, including works from a variety of authors through the century, such as the Brontes, Dickens, George Eliot, Gissing, and Hardy. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 322 The Nineteenth Century British Novel has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

An exploration of a special topic in British literature through 1680. Topics change each time the course is offered and may include such subjects as The Idea of the Garden in Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton; Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy; Life Writing in Early Modern England; The Literature of Travel and Exploration; and Reading Milton’s Paradise Lost. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 375 Studies in British Literature through 1680 has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

A study of twentieth and twenty-first century novels from outside the United States and Europe. The course explores responses to the European and the American novel as well as innovations that emerge from local traditions. Readings may draw from Africa, the Indian subcontinent, South America, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and the Caribbean and novelists may include Chinua Achebe, Arundhati Roy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mo Yan, Naguib Mahfouz, Keri Hulme, and Patrick Chamoiseau. Some novels may be read in translation. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 326 The Novel and the World has already been completed as an undergraduate student. ~ 57 ~

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One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

A study of British poetry and prose (exclusive of the novel) from the 1830's to the end of the nineteenth century with emphasis on forces and influences that have helped to shape the present. Historical and social backgrounds of the literature; major philosophical ideas and conflicts; aesthetic developments; and relationships with American and continental Europe are covered. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 330 The Victorian Period has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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2025-2026-graduate

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One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

An in-depth study of the lifetime poetic achievements of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost, three central figures in American poetry. The course emphasizes close reading, explication, and recitation of poems, as well as research and writing about the poets, their themes and styles, and relevant cultural history. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 353 Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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2025-2026-graduate

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One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

An exploration of a special topic in Shakespearean drama, focusing on a theme, a genre, or a particular literary, social or political context in selected plays. Shakespeare is studied as a poet, playwright, and thinker. Topics, which change every year, include Shakespeare on Film, Shakespearean Families, Gender and Genre in Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Dramatic Imagery, and Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 317 Studies in Shakespeare has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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2025-2026-graduate

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One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

A study of poets writing in Britain and Ireland since 1890. The course examines approaches to literary tradition and poetic form in the context of the upheavals of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Authors may include Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Alice Oswald, and Eavan Boland. specialization in English Secondary Education, or M.A. program with a concentration in English, PBTL program, or B.A./M.A. 4+1 program in English, or permission of the instructor.

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ENGL

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2025-2026-graduate

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www.framingham.edu

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Admission to the M.Ed. program concentration in Secondary Education with a

An advanced study of major Irish and Northern Irish writers in the context of historical and cultural developments from the post-war era to today. Close reading and discussion of representative works in various genres by such writers as Patrick Kavanagh, John Hewitt, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, and Claire Keegan. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 381 Contemporary Irish Literature has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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ENGL

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2025-2026-graduate

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www.framingham.edu

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One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

An exploration of a special topic in British literature after 1680. Topics change each time the course is offered and may include subjects such as the British novel, British poetry from the Romantics to the present, British modernism, and diasporic London. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 386 Studies in British Literature after 1680 has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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2025-2026-graduate

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One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

A study of novels, short stories, plays, and poetry by Russian writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Mayakovsky, Olesha, Babel, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and Yevtushenko. The works are studied for the purpose of tracing the continuing concerns of the Russian writers before and after the Revolution. All readings are in English translation. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 362 Russian Literature in Translation has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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2025-2026-graduate

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www.framingham.edu

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One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

An examination of methods and types of modern continental, British and American drama. Critical reading and discussion of plays by such writers as Ibsen, Chekhov, Pirandello, Anouilh, Ionesco, Shaw, Miller, Williams, and Albee. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 342 Modern Drama has already been completed as an undergraduate student. ~ 58 ~

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ENGL

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2025-2026-graduate

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www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

An exploration of a special topic in American Literature. Topics change each time the course is offered; sample topics include such subjects as American Sea Literature, the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel, the American Dream and its Discontents, and Labor and American Literature. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 370 Studies in American Literature has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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ENGL

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2025-2026-graduate

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www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

A study of modern American poets, such as T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. Attention is given to theories about the form of modern poetry and its function within historical and cultural contexts. specialization in English Secondary Education, or M.A. program with a concentration in English, PBTL program, or B.A./M.A. 4+1 program in English, or permission of the instructor.

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ENGL

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2025-2026-graduate

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www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

Admission to the M.Ed. program concentration in Secondary Education with a

A study of major writers, ideas, and forms of the twentieth-century novel in Europe and America, with emphasis on the first half of the century. Close reading and discussion of representative works by such writers as Joyce, Hesse, Faulkner, Camus, and Bellow. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 376 The Twentieth Century Novel has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

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ENGL

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2025-2026-graduate

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www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

A study of contemporary African American poetry. Students consider such poetic subgenres as the historical poem, persona poem, and spoken word poem from such key groups as the Black Arts Movement and Cave Canem. Poets may include Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young, Claudia Rankine, and Tyehimba Jess. specialization in English Secondary Education, or M.A. program with a concentration in English, PBTL program, or B.A./M.A. 4+1 program in English, or permission of the instructor.

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ENGL

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2025-2026-graduate

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www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

Admission to the M.Ed. program concentration in Secondary Education with a

A study of British fiction since the end of World War II. Major topics may include postwar recovery; the end of the Empire; shifting definitions of literary tradition; regional British fiction; changing understandings of what it means to be English; London as the site of transnational encounters; postmodern experimentation and literary form; and approaches to realism in contemporary British fiction. specialization in English Secondary Education, or M.A. program with a concentration in English, PBTL program, or B.A./M.A. 4+1 program in English, or permission of the instructor.

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ENGL

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2025-2026-graduate

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www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

Admission to the M.Ed. program concentration in Secondary Education with a

An advanced writing course designed to foster theoretically informed textual analysis. The course includes extensive study of literary theory, research, and writing about a variety of works. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 333 Critical Writing Novel has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

A critical study of essays, novels, short stories, and poetry by some of the major American writers of the first half of the nineteenth century. Through a consideration of writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Poe, students explore the aesthetic developments and philosophical ideas expressed through the genre of Romanticism and its related movement, Transcendentalism. The cultural and historical background of the genre is also discussed. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 365 American Romanticism has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

A study of postcolonial literature by authors with cultural roots in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and other former colonies that achieved independence in the second half of the twentieth century. Readings may include Commonwealth literature from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada; translated texts; and postcolonial criticism. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

~ 55 ~

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One (1) graduate literature course, or permission of the instructor.

A theoretically informed study of current books for children and young adults, with particular emphasis on literary developments, publishing and marketing trends, and recent academic debates. Students consider the social, technological, and professional contexts in which children’s books are created, evaluated and marketed. Students enrolled in this course are expected to produce an extensive essay of literary analysis as well as additional assignments as determined by the instructor. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 399 Current Trends in Children's Literature has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

A study of The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and other shorter poems in relation to Chaucer's world and time, his development as an artist, and the lasting value of the works. After an introduction to Chaucer's language, students read his works in Middle English. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 407 Chaucer has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

A critical study of works from the major American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including such writers as Crane, Dreiser, James, Jewett, Twain, and Wharton. Emphasis is on the development of realism and naturalism, and on the historical, political, and cultural contexts of these literary movements. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 368 American Realism and Naturalism has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of instructor.

A survey of children's literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics may include early chapbooks, picture books, and the development of the novel for children. Students examine changing representations of the child and the role literature has played in defining childhood. Students produce an extensive essay of literary analysis as well as additional assignments as determined by the instructor. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 217 History of Children's Literature has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

An advanced study of major modern American writers such as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cather, West, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright in the context of the historical and cultural developments of the first half of the twentieth century. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 373 Modern American Fiction has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

An examination of a special topic in world literature through 1900. Particular works covered may be drawn from those written in the classical period through the end of the nineteenth century, in English or in translation. Topics change each time the course is offered and may include the classical literature of Greece and Rome, the Bible, and gender roles in the nineteenth-century European novel. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 378 Studies in World Literature through 1900 has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

A study of American fiction since 1945, including writers such as Bellow, DeLillo, Doctorow, Ellison, Morrison, Nabokov, Pynchon, Roth, Tyler, Updike, and Walker. Emphasis is on postmodern narrative experiments and on representations of the self and American experience in the contemporary period. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 383 Contemporary American Fiction has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

A study of contemporary American poetry from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. Students consider the work of poets from such key groups as the Confessionals, New York School, Beats, Black Arts, and slam poets. Students employ close reading in form and genre, explore biographical and historical contexts, and apply critical theory. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 384 Contemporary American Poetry has already been completed as an undergraduate student. ~ 60 ~

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

A study of the ancestry of English, of the processes and results of change in sound, form, and meaning. The classification of languages, social and regional dialects, theories of language acquisition, and other topics are examined to give the student a general understanding of modern developments in linguistics. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 401 The English Language has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

An advanced seminar for graduate students. Seminar instructors choose topics and primary texts connected by period, genre, theme, or author. Drawing on skills gained throughout the major, students develop historical and cultural contexts for the texts; apply a variety of critical theories, approaches, and methodologies; give oral reports; and write a substantial, theoretically informed research essay on a subject related to the seminar’s topic. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 422 Seminar in Literature has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

An exploration of a special topic in African American literature. Topics change each time the course is offered and may include classic and contemporary slave narratives, literature of the American Civil Rights Movement, African American drama since 1945, and the novels of Toni Morrison. specialization in English Secondary Education, or M.A. program with a concentration in English, PBTL program, or B.A./M.A. 4+1 program in English, or permission of the instructor.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

Admission to the M.Ed. program concentration in Secondary Education with a

An examination of a special topic in world literature after 1900. Particular works covered may include those from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in English or in translation. Topics change each time the course is offered and may include the twentieth-century European novel, Literature and Islam, literature from the Indian subcontinent, and contemporary African literature. Note: Students cannot receive credit for this course if ENGL 398 Studies in World Literature after 1900 has already been completed as an undergraduate student.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

One graduate literature course or permission of the instructor.

Capstone:

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

~ 115 ~

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

A study of contemporary literature that crosses the borders of the nation-state, covering topics such as home, identity, diaspora, mobility, and globalization. Authors may include NoViolet Bulawayo, Ruth Ozeki, Rawi Hage, Edwidge Danticat, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kamila Shamsie, and other contemporary authors. Works are read in English.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Concentration Courses (7) At least two (2) must be at the 900--level English courses

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.framingham.edu

An independent study supervised by a graduate faculty member of the English Department. The independent study cannot substitute for Seminar in Literature. Independent Studies in different topics may be taken with the approval of the student’s advisor.

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

www.framingham.edu

Prerequisite

Permission of the course instructor, English Graduate Program Advisor.