91 courses with the subject ENGL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ENGL 10002 Literary Revision: Authority, Art, and Rebellion6
The poet Adrienne Rich describes revision as "the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction." This course examines how literature confronts and reinvents the traditions it inherits. Through a diverse selection of fiction, poetry, and drama, we will examine how writers rework literary conventions, "rewrite" previous literary works, and critique societal myths. From Charles Chesnutt to Charles Johnson, from Henrik Ibsen to Rebecca Gilman, from Charlotte Bronte to Jean Rhys, from Maupassant and Chekhov to contemporary reinventions, we will explore literary revision from different perspectives and periods. Offered: Fall 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1 only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information. Tags: CL: 100 level ENGL Foundation Faculty: Nancy Cho
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ENGL 109The Craft of Academic Writing6
This course is designed to demystify the practice of academic writing and to introduce students to the skills they’ll need to write effectively in a variety of academic disciplines and contexts. Students will learn how to respond to other authors’ claims, frame clear arguments of their own, structure essays to develop a clear logical flow, integrate outside sources into their writing, and improve their writing through revision. All sections will include a variety of readings, multiple writing assignments, and substantial feedback from the course instructor. Offered: Winter 2026, Spring 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: No Exploration WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 100 level Faculty: Nancy Cho · Bret Vukoder
This course explores the history and form of the British novel, tracing its development from a strange, sensational experiment in the eighteenth century to a dominant literary genre today. Among the questions that we will consider: What is a novel? What makes it such a popular form of entertainment? How does the novel participate in ongoing conversations about family, sex, class, race, and nation? How did a genre once considered a source of moral corruption become a legitimate literary form? Authors include: Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Bram Stoker, Virginia Woolf, and Jackie Kay. Offered: Winter 2026, Spring 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 100 level ENGL Foundation ENGL Tradition 1 Faculty: Jessica Leiman
Jorge Luis Borges is quoted as saying that “unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.” This course focuses attention primarily on the short story as an enduring form. We will read short stories drawn from different literary traditions and from various parts of the world. Stories to be read include those by Aksenov, Atwood, Beckett, Borges, Camus, Cheever, Cisneros, Farah, Fuentes, Gordimer, Ishiguro, Kundera, Mahfouz, Marquez, Moravia, Nabokov, Narayan, Pritchett, Rushdie, Trevor, Welty, and Xue. Offered: Spring 2026 Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 100 level ENGL Foundation Faculty: Kofi Owusu
Spanish Course Number 204 or Above – Required 18 credits Note: Students who place out of Spanish 204 via language placement exam, AP scores, or other pre- matriculation work must still complete 66 credits Senior Integrative Exercise – Required
This course uses "speculative fiction" as umbrella term for categories and (sub)genres that include science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror. Deviation from the norm is our norm. You will have to teach your eyes to hear, and your ears to see. Above all, your multisensory engagement should allow for a reality check: does speculative fiction replicate or repudiate known stereotypes of women and blacks, in particular? What do you find (un)appealing about speculative fiction? We will read a variety of short fiction from the DARK MATTER anthology as well as longer narratives by Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson. Offered: Winter 2026 Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 100 level ENGL Foundation Faculty: Kofi Owusu
The last few years have placed Latinx communities under siege and in the spotlight. The demands of the census and new policies around immigration mean that who counts as Latinx and why it matters has public visibility and meaning. Simultaneously, the last few years have seen an incredible growth of new literary voices and genres in the world of Latinx letters. From fictional and creative nonfiction accounts of detention camps, border crossings, and asylum court proceedings to lyrical wanderings in bilingualism to demands for greater attention to Afrolatinidad and the particular experiences of Black Latinxs–Latinx voices are rising. We will engage with current literary discussions in print, on social media, and in literary journals as we chart the shifting, developing terrain of Latinx literatures. Offered at both the 100 and 200 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Offered: Fall 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: AMST Democracy Activism CL: 100 level ENGL Tradition 2 LTAM Electives AMST Production Consumption of Culture AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity
A chronological survey of the whole of Shakespeare's career, covering all genres and periods, this course explores the nature of Shakespeare's genius and the scope of his art. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between literature and stagecraft ("page to stage"). By tackling the complexities of prosody, of textual transmission, and of Shakespeare's highly figurative and metaphorical language, the course will help you further develop your ability to think critically about literature. Declared or prospective English majors should register for ENGL 244. Offered: Winter 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis Tags: CL: 100 level ENGL Foundation ENGL Tradition 1 EUST Country Specific MARS Core Course MARS Supporting THEA Minor Playwriting THEA
You will work in several genres and forms, among them: traditional and experimental poetry, prose fiction, and creative nonfiction. In your writing you will explore the relationship between the self, the imagination, the word, and the world. In this practitioner’s guide to the creative writing process, we will examine writings from past and current authors, and your writings will be critiqued in a workshop setting and revised throughout the term. Sophomore Priority section is available Offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 100 level ENCW Creative Wtg Workshop ENGL Creative Writing Faculty: Gregory Hewett · Gwen Kirby · Christopher Tradowsky
From the ancient Greeks to the Bible to the modern serial killer novel, murder has always been a preeminent topic of intellectual and artistic investigation. Covering a range of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, drama, and film, this transhistorical survey will explore why homicide has been the subject of such fierce attention from so many great minds. Works may include: the Bible, Shakespeare, De Quincey, Poe, Thompson, Capote, Tey, McGinniss, Auster, French, Malcolm, Wilder, and Morris, as well as critical, legal, and other materials. Warning: not for the faint-hearted. Not offered in 2025-26 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 100 level ENGL Foundation
ENGL 205“Passing Strange”: Shakespeare’s Othello and its Modern Afterlives3
One of the most intimate and devastating plays in all dramatic literature has also continuously been at the center of societal debates around race, representation, and civil rights. Moving from Shakespeare’s Renaissance to important historical and civil rights figures like Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson to reimaginings by contemporary artists, we will explore how Othello has served as a vehicle for social change. The class will be taught in conjunction with the campus visit of writer, actor, and anti-apartheid activist Bonisile John Kani, OIS, OBE, the first Black actor to play Othello in South Africa. Not offered in 2025-26 Liberal Arts Requirements: IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 1 ENGL Tradition 1 EUST Country Specific MARS Supporting AFST Literary Artistic Analysis
Madness, murder, conspiracy, poison, incest, rape, ghosts, and lots of blood: the fashion for revenge tragedy in Elizabethan and Jacobean England led to the creation of some of the most brilliant, violent, funny, and deeply strange plays in the history of the language. Authors may include Cary, Chapman, Ford, Marston, Middleton, Kyd, Tourneur, and Webster. Offered: First Five Weeks, Spring 2026 Credits: 3 Liberal Arts Requirements: IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 1 ENGL Tradition 1 EUST Country Specific MARS Supporting THEA Minor Playwriting THEA Literature Criticism History Faculty: Pierre Hecker
John Milton wrote what is perhaps the most influential, and arguably greatest, poem in the English language. In this work (Paradise Lost), and indeed throughout his corpus, Milton engaged his literary predecessors extensively, yet he also anticipated modern concerns in striking ways. We will read his major works (“Lycidas,” the sonnets, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained), as well as prose selections, attending to his use of sources, and to the ways Milton presages debates over free speech and book banning, Darwinism, the multiverse, and AI. Offered: Fall 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 1 ENGL Tradition 1 EUST Country Specific
The eighteenth and early nineteenth century saw the rise of the Gothic, a genre populated by brooding hero-villains, vulnerable virgins, mad monks, ghosts, and monsters. In this course, we will examine the conventions and concerns of the Gothic, addressing its preoccupation with terror, transgression, sex, otherness, and the supernatural. As we situate this genre within its literary and historical context, we will consider its relationship to realism and Romanticism, and we will explore how it reflects the political and cultural anxieties of its age. Authors include Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Emily Bronte. Offered: Spring 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 2 ENGL Tradition 1 EUST Country Specific
Shakespeare’s plays have been reimagined and repurposed all over the world, performed on seven continents, and translated into over 100 languages. The course explores how issues of globalization, nationalism, translation (both cultural and linguistic), and (de)colonization inform our understanding of these wonderfully varied adaptations and appropriations. We will examine the social, political, and aesthetic implications of a range of international stage, film, and literary versions as we consider how other cultures respond to the hegemonic original. No prior experience with Shakespeare is necessary. Offered: Second Five Weeks, Spring 2026
Instruction and practice in being a speaker and an audience in formal and informal settings. Not offered in 2025-26 Grading: S/CR/NC Liberal Arts Requirements: No Exploration Tags: CL: 200 level
All of Jane Austen's fiction will be read; the works she did not complete or choose to publish during her lifetime will be studied in an attempt to understand the art of her mature comic masterpieces, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. Offered: Spring 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 2 ENGL Tradition 1 EUST Country Specific Faculty: Constance Walker
Attempts to discern the nineteenth-century Zeitgeist come down, Emerson says, to a “practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live?” This interdisciplinary course will investigate the works of the American Transcendentalist movement in its restless discontent with the conventional, its eclectic search for better ways of thinking and living. We will engage major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman alongside documents of the scientific, religious, and political changes that shaped their era and provoked their responses. Offered: Spring 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 2 ENGL Tradition 2 Faculty: Peter Balaam
A circle of poets and writers, friends and lovers, spend the summer in Geneva sightseeing, arguing, telling ghost stories, reading and writing passionately together—and changing the course of literary history. We’ll explore the personal and artistic relations between Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, reading the works they wrote in conversation with each other including Frankenstein, “Prometheus,” and Prometheus Unbound, as well as studying diaries, manuscripts, biographical accounts, and films. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Offered: Fall 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 2 ENGL Tradition 1 Faculty: Constance Walker
ENGL 230Studies in African American Literature: From the 1950s to the Present6
We will explore developments in African American literature since the 1950s with a focus on literary expression in the Civil Rights Era; on the Black Arts Movement; on the new wave of feminist/womanist writing; and on the experimental and futuristic fictions of the twenty-first century. Authors to be read include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Malcolm X, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, August Wilson, Charles Johnson, Ntozake Shange, Gloria Naylor, Suzan- Lori Parks, Kevin Young, and Tracy Smith. Offered: Winter 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis Tags: AMST Democracy Activism CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 3 ENGL Tradition 2 AFST Literary Artistic Analysis AMST Production Consumption of Culture AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity Faculty: Kofi Owusu
This course is an introduction to major works and authors of fiction, drama, and poetry from about 1900 to the present. We will trace the development of Asian American literary traditions while exploring the rich diversity of recent voices in the field. Authors to be read include Carlos Bulosan, Sui Sin Far, Philip Kan Gotanda, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jhumpa Lahiri, Milton Murayama, Chang-rae Lee, Li-young Lee, and John Okada. Offered: Winter 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: AMST America in the World AMST Survey 1 CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 3 ENGL Tradition 2 AMST Production Consumption of Culture AMST
The last few years have placed Latinx communities under siege and in the spotlight. The demands of the census and new policies around immigration mean that who counts as Latinx and why it matters has public visibility and meaning. Simultaneously, the last few years have seen an incredible growth of new literary voices and genres in the world of Latinx letters. From fictional and creative nonfiction accounts of detention camps, border crossings, and asylum court proceedings to lyrical wanderings in bilingualism to demands for greater attention to Afrolatinidad and the particular experiences of Black Latinxs–Latinx voices are rising. We will engage with current literary discussions in print, on social media, and in literary journals as we chart the shifting, developing terrain of Latinx literatures. Offered at both the 100 and 200 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Offered: Fall 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: AMST Democracy Activism CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 3 ENGL Tradition 2 LTAM Electives AMST Production Consumption of Culture AMST
A chronological survey of the whole of Shakespeare's career, covering all genres and periods, this course explores the nature of Shakespeare's genius and the scope of his art. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between literature and stagecraft ("page to stage"). By tackling the complexities of prosody, of textual transmission, and of Shakespeare's highly figurative and metaphorical language, the course will help you further develop your ability to think critically about literature. Non English majors should register for English 144. Offered: Winter 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 1 ENGL Tradition 1 EUST Country Specific MARS Core Course MARS Supporting THEA Literature Criticism History Faculty: Pierre Hecker
This course will serve as an introduction to Bollywood or popular Hindi cinema from India. We will trace the history of this cinema and analyze its formal components. We will watch and discuss some of the most celebrated and popular films of the last 60 years with particular emphasis on urban thrillers and social dramas. Offered: Winter 2026 Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement Tags: ASST South Asia CAMS Extra Departmental CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 3 ENGL Tradition 3 ASST Literary Artistic Analysis SAST Support Literary
Wallace Stegner once described the West as "the geography of hope" in the American imagination. Despite various dystopian urban pressures, the region still conjures up images of wide vistas and sunburned optimism. We will explore this paradox by examining both popular mythic conceptions of the West (primarily in film) and more searching literary treatments of the same area. We will explore how writers such as Twain, Cather, Stegner and Cormac McCarthy have dealt with the geographical diversity and multi-ethnic history of the West. Weekly film showings will include The Searchers, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Unforgiven, and Lone Star. Extra Time Required, evening screenings. Offered: Fall 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: AMST Space and Place CAMS Extra Departmental CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 3 ENGL Tradition 2 ENTS Society, Culture and Policy AMST Production Consumption of Culture Faculty: Michael Kowalewski
An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which California has been imagined in literature, art, film and popular culture from pre-contact to the present. We will explore the state both as a place (or rather, a mosaic of places) and as a continuing metaphor–whether of promise or disintegration–for the rest of the country. Authors read will include Muir, Steinbeck, Chandler, West, and Didion. Weekly film showings will include Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown and Blade Runner. Offered: Spring 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: AMST Space and Place CAMS Extra Departmental CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 3 ENGL Tradition 2 ENTS Society, Culture and Policy AMST Production Consumption of Culture AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity Faculty: Michael Kowalewski
Contemporary Indian writers, based either in India or abroad, have become significant figures in the global literary landscape. This can be traced to the publication of Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children in 1981. We will begin with that novel and read some of the other notable works of fiction of the following decades. The class will provide both a thorough grounding in the contemporary Indian literary scene as well as an introduction to some concepts in post-colonial studies. Offered: Fall 2025 Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement Tags: ASST South Asia CCST Encounters CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 3 ENGL Tradition 3 SAST Capstone ASST Literary Artistic Analysis SAST Literary Artistic Analysis SAST Support Literary Artistic Analysis Faculty: Arnab Chakladar
What makes the imaginary world created by a novel feel “real”? What aspects of narrative contribute to our sense of being immersed in a coherent and convincing universe? From the Victorians who addressed letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street, to fans of a Middle Earth that now encompasses multiple books and films, readers have always been drawn to narratives that create a place that seems capacious and vivid enough to enter. In this course, we will look at world-building from the eighteenth century through the present, comparing novels to other contemporary media in order to develop an understanding of the way in which the impulse towards “realism” has shaped narrative in a variety of different forms. Works to be studied include books and stories by Daniel Defoe, A. Conan Doyle, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Octavia Butler, as well as Villeneuve’s film of Dune. Not offered in 2025-26 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Pertinent
ENGL 256Excavating Histories: Archival Research Methods6
This course will introduce the fundamentals of working with special collections and archives, including ethical best practices and methods of research and interpretation. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, we will explore questions such as: What constitutes an archive? What motivates people to create and seek out archives? Whose lives and histories have been privileged in the cultivation of archives, and what is being done to address these disparities? What are the limits of archiving as a means of redress? Course work will include in-person visits to collections at Carleton and beyond, as well as research in digitized collections nationwide. Offered: Fall 2025
In this introduction to fan studies, students will engage with foundational and emerging scholarship, as well as popular media that represent key sites in the development of modern fandom. A famously “undisciplined” discipline, fan studies draws on a variety of intellectual traditions, and we will read broadly to consider what fandom includes, where its politics emerge, and how to engage as ethical researchers. This course foregrounds modern queer fan cultures to explore the shifting relationship between creators and audiences and the tensions within fan communities. Television and films from the 1960s to the present will serve as weekly case studies. Offered: Fall 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 3 GWSS Elective DGAH Critical Ethical
ENGL 260Ireland Program: Creative Writing in Ireland6
In this creative writing course, you will have the opportunity to put your study abroad adventures in Ireland into journal writing, short stories, poems and creative nonfiction (i.e. non-academic essays). The primary mode of instruction will be the workshop, where your writing is the centerpiece for discussion and critique. To supplement our work, and to inspire us, we will be reading select examples of literature by contemporary Irish writers and poets, some of whom will visit our class to talk about their careers, work, and the state of Irish literature today. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Offered: Summer 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 200 level ENCW Creative Wtg Workshop ENGL Creative Writing EUST
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS English Religion in Ireland Program.
ENGL 263Hybrid Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
This course explores innovative approaches to forms such as the personal essay, memoir, and travel writing. Students will experiment with various craft techniques, such as story structure, voice, and literary devices, and craft their own original personal narratives. We’ll read authors such as Ocean Vuong, Sarah Minor, Alexander Chee, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil, while generating new material through weekly writing exercises and reflections. These techniques will help students navigate difficult topics, break free from writing ruts, and develop fresh perspectives on their story. We'll foster a collaborative writing space, practice the art of feedback, and build a portfolio of work. Offered: Fall 2025
Is “Writing with AI” a contradiction in terms? Is all AI writing just a remix of other, better writing by humans? Can we create interesting, engaging, creative writing in collaboration with AI? This course will grapple with these questions as we take multiple AI tools for a spin. We’ll use AI to create a variety of texts, including stories, games, images, and essays. Along the way, we’ll think about how writing with AI affects the ways we work and think as writers, and what we gain and lose by using it. Offered: Winter 2026 Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 200 level DGAH Critical Ethical Reflection Faculty: George Cusack
All stories are bounded by time: the time a narrative takes to unfold, from a single day to a century; the time between writing a story and the story’s events; the time it takes a reader to consume a narrative. In this course, we will ask, how does a writer choose the scope of their story? How do writers approach events that happened a week ago versus one hundred years ago? How does length impact a reader’s emotional experience? Students will write short imitations of published work as well as original stories, and read short stories, novels, and critical essays.
An introduction to the writing of the short story. Each student will become familiar with contemporary short stories, complete a number of short writing exercises, and have discussed in class two full-length stories (from 3,000 to 7,000 words in length) and give constructive suggestions, including written critiques, for revising the stories written by other members of the class. Attention will be paid to all the elements of fiction: characterization, point of view, conflict, setting, dialogue, etc. Offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2 excluding Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better. Tags: CL: 200 level ENCW Creative Wtg Workshop ENGL Creative Writing Faculty: Gwen Kirby
ENGL 279Living London Program: Urban Field Studies
A combination of background readings, guided walks and site visits, and individual exploration will give students tools for understanding the history of multicultural London. Starting with the city’s early history and moving to the present, students will gain an understanding of how the city has been defined and transformed over time, and of the complex cultural narratives that shape its standing as a global metropolis. There will be short written exercises (creative and analytical), informal mini-presentations, and a final group presentation focused on a specific urban site. Offered: Winter 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: IS, International Studies No Exploration Tags: CL: 200 level EUST Country Specific Faculty: Constance Walker
Students work on a research project related to a faculty member's research interests, and directed by that faculty member. Student activities vary according to the field and stage of the project. The long-run goal of these projects normally includes dissemination to a scholarly community beyond Carleton. The faculty member will meet regularly with the student and actively direct the work of the student, who will submit an end-of-term product, typically a paper or presentation. Offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026 – 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: No Exploration Tags: CL: Faculty Research
Required of students majoring in English, this course explores practical and theoretical issues in literary analysis and contemporary criticism. Offered: Fall 2025, Spring 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 including (100) course with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 on the English Literature and Composition AP exam or received a grade of 6 or better on the English Language A: Literature IB exam AND 6 credits from English courses (100-399) not including Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better. Tags: CL: 200 level ENGL Pertinent Faculty: Peter Balaam · Nancy Cho
Student has completed any of the following course(s): One English Foundations
ENGL 319The Rise of the Novel
This course traces the development of a sensational, morally dubious genre that emerged in the eighteenth-century: the novel. We will read some of the most entertaining, best-selling novels written during the first hundred years of the form, paying particular attention to the novel’s concern with courtship and marriage, writing and reading, the real and the fantastic. Among the questions we will ask: What is a novel? What distinguished the early novel from autobiography, history, travel narrative, and pornography? How did this genre come to be associated with women? How did early novelists respond to
A circle of poets and writers, friends and lovers, spend the summer in Geneva sightseeing, arguing, telling ghost stories, reading and writing passionately together—and changing the course of literary history. We’ll explore the personal and artistic relations between Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, reading the works they wrote in conversation with each other including Frankenstein, “Prometheus,” and Prometheus Unbound, as well as studying diaries, manuscripts, biographical accounts, and films. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Offered: Fall 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2
An intensive study of lyric invention and innovation in the work of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop. Starting with formalist readings and historicizing the poetic subjects they pursued in common (self and society, loss and knowledge, nature, gender, the senses, the body), we will explore their practice, reception, and influence in relation to changing Modernist poetics, 1860 to 1970, and to specifics of place: Amherst, Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Key West, and Brazil. Not offered in 2025-26 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis including (100) course with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 on the English Literature and Composition AP exam or received a grade of 6 or better on the English Language A: Literature IB exam AND 6 credits from English courses (100-399) not including Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better. Tags: CL: 300 level ENGL Historical Era 2 ENGL Tradition 2
Our focus is on contemporary writers. Specifically, we will privilege genre-bending fiction published within the last two decades in which we encounter a continuum, not a line of demarcation, between us and them, insider and outsider, here and there, then and now, femaleness and maleness, North and South, the local and the global. Authors to be read include Zinzi Clemmons, Teju Cole, Esi Edugyan, Mohsin Hamid, Tommy Orange, Zadie Smith, and Colson Whitehead. Offered: Spring 2026 Credits: 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement including (100) course with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 on the English Literature and Composition AP exam or received a grade of 6 or better on the English Language A: Literature IB exam AND 6 credits from English courses (100-399) not including Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better. Tags: CL: 300 level ENGL Historical Era 3 ENGL Tradition 3 Faculty: Kofi Owusu
Student has completed any of the following course(s): One English Foundations
ENGL 360Ireland Program: Creative Writing in Ireland6
In this creative writing course, you will have the opportunity to put your study abroad adventures in Ireland into journal writing, short stories, poems and creative nonfiction (i.e. non-academic essays). The primary mode of instruction will be the workshop, where your writing is the centerpiece for discussion and critique. To supplement our work, and to inspire us, we will be reading select examples of literature by contemporary Irish writers and poets, some of whom will visit our class to talk about their careers, work, and the state of Irish literature today. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Offered: Summer 2025 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2 Tags: CL: 300 level ENCW Creative Wtg Workshop ENGL Creative Writing EUST
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS English Religion in Ireland Program.
ENGL 370Advanced Fiction Workshop6
An advanced course in the writing of fiction. Students will write two to three short stories which will be read and critiqued by the class. In addition to writing, students will read and discuss short story collections by contemporary masters of the genre, asking questions about what it means for a writer to have an artistic project and encouraging students to think about their own aims as fiction writers. Recommended preparation: ENGL 270 Repeatable: This course is repeatable with instructor permission. Offered: Spring 2026 Grading: S/CR/NC Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2 ENGL 263 or ENGL 265 or ENGL 270 or ENGL 271 or ENGL 273 or CAMS 271 or CAMS 278 or CAMS 279 or CCST 270 or THEA 246 with a grade of C- or better. Students who have previously taken ENGL 370 must request a prerequisite override from the instructor. Tags: CL: 300 level ENCW Creative Wtg Workshop ENGL Creative Writing Faculty: Gwen Kirby
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ENGL 160 or ENGL 161 or
ENGL 371Advanced Poetry Workshop6
In this workshop, students choose to write poems from a broad range of forms, from sonnets to spoken word, from ghazals to slam, from free-verse to blues. Over the ten weeks, each poet will write and revise their own collection of poems. Student work is the centerpiece of the course, but readings from a diverse selection of contemporary poets will be used to expand each student’s individual poetic range, and to explore the power of poetic language. For students with some experience in writing poetry, this workshop further develops your craft and poetic voice and vision. Offered: Winter 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2 ENGL 263 or ENGL 265 or ENGL 270 or ENGL 271 or ENGL 273 or CAMS 271 or CAMS 278 or CAMS 279 or CCST 270 or THEA 246 with a grade of C- or better. Tags: CL: 300 level ENCW Creative Wtg Workshop ENGL Creative Writing Faculty: Gregory Hewett
Students work on a research project related to a faculty member's research interests, and directed by that faculty member. Student activities vary according to the field and stage of the project. The long-run goal of these projects normally includes dissemination to a scholarly community beyond Carleton. The faculty member will meet regularly with the student and actively direct the work of the student, who will submit an end-of-term product, typically a paper or presentation. Offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026 – 6 Liberal Arts Requirements: No Exploration Tags: CL: Faculty Research
In literary study, Romanticism is frequently presented as an historical period, an era beginning in the aftermath of the French Revolution and coming to an end in the development of 19th-C realism and 20th- C. modernism. Following recent Marxist reconfigurations, in this Advanced Seminar we will construe Romanticism as a mode of thought and expression released from period and never having come to an end at all. An interdisciplinary, international, and anti-capitalist approach to the topic with contributions from philosophy, painting, music, and politics, and with primary sources of literary art drawn from Shakespeare to the present. Repeatable: Course is repeatable provided the topics are different. Offered: Spring 2026 Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2 300 level ENGL course with grade of C- or better. Tags: CL: 300 level ENGL Advanced Seminar Faculty: Peter Balaam
Subject
ENGL
Credits (min)
6
Credits (max)
6
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatable: Course is repeatable provided the topics are different.
Student must have completed any of the following course(s): ENGL 295 and one
ENGL 400Integrative Exercise6
Senior English majors may fulfill the integrative exercise by completing one of the four options: the Colloquium Option (a group option in which participants discuss, analyze and write about a thematically coherent list of literary works); the Research Essay Option (an extended essay on a topic of the student’s own devising); the Creative Option (creation of a work of literary art); or the Project Option (creation of an individual or group multidisciplinary project). The Research Essay Option is open to students who have completed a senior seminar in the major by the end of fall term senior year. The Creative Option is open only to students who have completed at least two creative writing courses (one of which must be at the 300 level) by the end of fall term senior year. Offered: Winter 2026 Grading: S/NC Faculty: Peter Balaam
