76 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 10500Introduction to American Literature (LA)4
Study of literary modes, such as fiction, poetry, essays, and drama, in which American writers have expressed ideals of individual conduct and social relationships or have appraised and challenged the practices of society. Students will engage in discussions and activities that foster literary analysis and writing skills, with opportunities for varied forms of participation. (F-S,Y) Attributes: DV, HM
Critical discussion of fiction, covering a broad range of forms and techniques. Emphasis is placed on class participation. Recommended for beginning English majors. Also offered through the London Center. (F-S,Y) Attributes: HM
Modern 8 credits of Modern Language in 8 Language French, German, or Italian. 1 Total Credits 100 Students entering the Center for Music in a non-performance degree 1 program will take 2 credits of private lessons each semester until they are accepted into the performance-collaborative emphasis program. Students entering the performance-collaborative emphasis program prior to the sophomore year will substitute music electives for any missing private lesson credits from the previous semester. Ensemble policy can be found on the Music Programs and Policies tab of the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance catalog page. (p. )
ENGL 18200The Power of Injustice and the Injustice of Power (LA)4
Introductory study of representations of injustice in 19th, 20th, and 21st century poetry, drama, and fiction. Emphasis placed on class participation and development of skills in literary analysis and writing. (Y) Attributes: DV, ESE, HM, HSIS, WGS, WGSC
Introductory study of representations of gender and gendered identity in modern and contemporary novels and poetry, with an emphasis placed on class participation and development of skills in literary analysis and writing. (Y) Attributes: DV, HM, WGS
ENGL 18500Earth Works: Literature and the Environment (LA)4
Study of essays, stories, novels, and poems from the last 100 years engaging with the representations of nature and the environment. Course focuses on the cultural, historical, and political constructions of nature, and how these impact environmental thinking and behavior. Emphasis placed on class participation and development of skills in literary analysis and writing. (IRR) Attributes: HM, HSIS
Introductory study of the development of the literature of fantasy in the 20th century, with special attention paid to the fairy tale as a contributing or originary form. Additional emphasis on the development of skills in literary analysis and analytical writing. (Y) Attributes: HM, WGS, WGSC
ENGL 19409Mysterious Muddles and Commonplace Crime: Gothic4
Novels and Detective Fiction (LA) Focuses on the parallel between reading fiction and detecting the “truth” by seeing how Gothic and detective novels gradually reveal plot and character through clues, hints, and symbols. Exploration of how the interpretation of those clues can be affected by the reader’s own perspective, emotions, and biases. Emphasis placed on class participation and development of skills in literary analysis and writing. (IRR) Attributes: HM
Introductory survey of the cultural figure of the vampire in novels, short stories, and visual media. Examines material that dates from the middle ages to the present day in order to investigate the cultural persistence of vampires and their role as catalysts for developments in thinking about religion, sexuality, and individual identity. Emphasis placed on class participation and development of skills in literary analysis and writing. (IRR) Attributes: HM, WGS, WGSC 2026-2027 Catalog 423
ENGL 19414Introduction to Asian American Literature (LA)4
Introductory survey of Asian American literature. Examines a broad range of Asian American literary works with particular attention to issues of immigration, generational conflict, and identity formation. Includes works by such authors as Victoria Chang, Celeste Ng, and Nina Revoyr. Additional emphasis on the development of skills in literary analysis and analytical writing. (IRR) Attributes: AASE, DV, HM, RPRE
LITERATURES BEFORE 1900 Select any three courses with the EP19 attribute 12 LITERATURES OF THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES Select any course with the E20A attribute 4
Survey of horror literature and related media from the genre's 17th- century origins through to the present day. Prerequisites: One LA course. (F,O,S) Attributes: E20A
Study of novels, stories, and films from the last 120 years engaging with the subjects of science and technology and their impacts on human culture in general. Course highlights the political and ideological aspects of the literature, and their connection to recurring themes in modern society. Prerequisites: One LA course. (IRR) Attributes: E20A
ENGL 21800Modern and Contemporary American Drama (LA)3
Study of the leading American dramatists of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as O'Neill, Behrman, Odets, Sherwood Anderson, Wilder, Hellman, Miller, Williams, Inge, Albee, and Eliot. Prerequisites: WRTG 10600, ICSM 10800, or ICSM 11800. (F,S,Y) Attributes: DLIT, E20A, WI
Study of a variety of Shakespeare's plays as examples both of the way dramatic literature works and of the achievement of the greatest of English writers. Since plays vary each semester, course may be repeated once for credit. Also offered through the London Center. Prerequisites: One LA course. (F,S,Y) Attributes: CSA, DLIT, EP19, HM
Survey of the works of black women writers from the eighteenth century to the present. Prerequisites: One LA course. (F,S,Y) Attributes: ADCH, ADSE, DV, E20A, ERGC, ESE, RPRE, WGS
Works that have dominated the Western imagination and set standards for art and life for nearly 3,000 years: the epics of Homer and Virgil, the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, and selections from the Bible. Prerequisites: One course in the humanities or social sciences, or sophomore standing. (F or S,Y) Attributes: CSA, EP19
Survey of literature written between c. 800 and c. 1500 CE, primarily in the British Isles. Prerequisites: WRTG 10600, ICSM 10800, or ICSM 11800. (F,S,Y) Attributes: CSA, EP19, WI
An introduction to the fundamental areas and concepts of modern linguistics. Study of sounds and sound patterns, word and sentence structure, and language change. Other topics may include semantics, language acquisition, dialects, and pidgin and creole languages. Open to all students. Prerequisites: One course in the liberal arts. (F,S,Y) Attributes: ESE, HM
Examines the role of translation within the broader context of comparative literature. Drawing from representative texts spanning across centuries, students will discuss concepts of interpretation, faithfulness, loss and gain, negotiation, colonization, cannibalization and ethics. Explores the figure of the translator, both in theoretical and literary works, and approaches the field of translation from the perspective of practicing translators and translated authors. Basic reading proficiency in a language other than English is necessary. Cross- listed with LNGS 25000. Prerequisites: WRTG 10600 or ICSM 108xx or ICSM 118xx and Sophomore standing. (IRR) Attributes: HM, WI
ENGL 26601Spanish/Latin American Literature in Translation (LA)4
A study of one or more principal works of major Spanish and/or Latin American writers. Taught in English. This course does not count towards language proficiency requirements in majors. (IRR) Attributes: CTE
Major trends in English literature from the early 16th century through Milton and their continental backgrounds in Renaissance Italy, France, and Spain. Emphasis on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Prerequisites: WRTG 106000 or ICSM 10800. (F,S,Y) Attributes: CSA, EP19, WI
A survey of primarily British and Anglophone literary works from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Prerequisites: One LA course. (F,S,Y) Attributes: EP19
ENGL 27800Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries (LA)4
Study of Austen's novels, letters, and other writings, alongside those of other contemporary poets and novelists. Particular focus on literary representations of women's lives, and women's attitudes toward the transatlantic slave trade. Prerequisites: One LA course. (Y) Attributes: ERGC, WGS, WGSC
ENGL 27900Introduction to Latino/a/x Literature (LA)4
Examines canonical literary texts produced by and about Latino groups in the United States. Class discussion and preparation will explore the historically changing ways in which, from the 19th century onward, various Latino communities have imagined their identities both within and across the national borders of the United States and Latin America. Taught in English. This course does not count towards language proficiency requirements in majors. Prerequisites: One course in the liberal arts. (IRR) Attributes: LAEL, LXME
British writing from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, chiefly Romantic poetry and the Victorian novel. Prerequisites: WRTG 10600, ICSM 10800, or ICSM 11800. (F,S,Y) Attributes: EP19, GERM, WI
Survey of key works of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer literature, as well as of key debates in queer literary studies. Attributes: DV, E20A, ERGC, ESE, WGS, WGSI
Reading and writing focused on an individual project arranged by a student with a particular faculty member. Offered on demand only. A maximum of three credits may be counted toward requirements for the English major or minor. Prerequisites: One literature course and sophomore standing. 1-3 credits. (IRR)
Studies in dramatic literature prior to 1900. Prerequisites: Three LA courses in ENGL or THEA; WRTG 10600 or ICSM 10800 or ICSM 11800. (F,Y) Attributes: CSA, DLIT, EP19, WI
Studies in modern drama. Prerequisites: Three LA courses in ENGL or THEA; WRTG 10600 or ICSM 10800 or ICSM 11800. (S,Y) Attributes: DLIT, E20A, WGS, WGSI, WI
Taught in English, this course offers a thematic study of French works from the 19th century to the present. Emphasis on representations of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and discussions of the social history of Western societies. This course does not count towards language proficiency requirements in majors. FREN 31200 and ENGL 31201 are cross listed courses. Cannot receive credit for both. Prerequisites: Two courses in the liberal arts. (IRR) Attributes: CTE
Survey of 19th- and 20th-century short stories, British and American, by Poe, Hawthorne, Crane, Joyce, Hemingway, Lawrence, Bowen, Nabokov, Updike, Malamud, and others. History and development of the short story.
ENGL 35100Studies in Young Adult and Children’s Literature (LA)3
Courses offered under this number will focus on varying topics within the genre of young adult and/or children’s literature. These courses may cohere around a particular theme; they may bring together literature from different genres and various periods; and they may be interdisciplinary in nature. This course may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of 6 credits. Prerequisites: Three three-credit Liberal Arts courses (Y) Attributes: ESE, WGS, WGS3, WGSC 2026-2027 Catalog 425
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This course explores the ways in which religious ideas and practices appear in contemporary novels associated with various cultures and religious traditions. We consider how authors utilize religious themes to negotiate challenges and questions posed by modernity, as well as how they engage questions of religious identity through the medium of modern literary forms. We read these works against the background of contemporary changes in the relationship between the religious and the secular. Cross-listed with RLST 35600; students may not receive credit for both. Prerequisites: One course in RLST or ENGL; WRTG 10600, ICSM 10800, ICSM 11800, or equivalent. (IRR) Attributes: WI
Studies in the novel, with topics varying from semester to semester. Concentration may be on a theme, a period, a type, etc. This course may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of eight credits. Attributes: RPRE
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Studies in lyric, narrative, and/or epic poetry, with topics varying from semester to semester. Concentration may be on a theme, a period, a type, etc. This course may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of six credits. Prerequisites: nine credits of English. (F-S,Y)
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may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of six credits.
Studies in textual and performance aspects of drama, with topics varying from semester to semester. Concentration may be on a theme, a period, a type, etc. This course may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of six credits. Prerequisites: nine credits of English. (F-S,Y) Attributes: WGS, WGS3
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ENGL 36800Dangerous Women in Dramatic Literature (LA)3
Advanced study of women characters in dramatic texts who challenge or threaten dominant cultural assumptions about the nature of femininity, from ancient Greece to the present day. May include studies of such authors as Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Ford, Behn, Ibsen, Williams, Churchill, Smith. Prerequisites: WRTG 10600 or ICSM 10800 or ICSM 11800; one additional course in ENGL or WRTG. (IRR) Attributes: DLIT, ERGC, WGS, WGS3, WGSC, WI
ENGL 3710037103 Studies in African American Literature (LA)
Studies in selected topics involving African American literature, literary movements, and traditions. This course may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of eight credits. Prerequisites: Eight credits in .
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may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of eight credits.
Study of English drama after Shakespeare and the London background of the Jacobean and early Caroline periods. Readings from Carey, Fletcher, Ford, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster. Also offered through the London Center. Prerequisites: ENGL 21900 or ENGL 27100. (F,O,S) Attributes: CSA, DLIT
Offers an introduction to#the#twentieth-century#British#novel. Charts the massive social and#intellectual dislocations of the twentieth century#and#examines the ways in which the social, political, and#cultural#events of British history have shaped the production and reception of modern and contemporary British novels. Prerequisites: Three ENGL courses. (F,S,Y) Attributes: E20A
Studies in world literature, with a focus on cultures outside of the Anglo- American traditions. This course may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of eight credits. Prerequisites: Three ENGL courses. (F,S,Y) Attributes: E20A, ERGC
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may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of eight credits.
ENGL 3820038203 Studies in Modern Literature (LA)4
Studies in 20th-century Anglophone and related literatures. Concentration may be on a theme, a genre, a particular author or group of authors, etc. Attributes: E20A
Studies in Indian literature, with topics varying from semester to semester. Concentration may be on a particular author, a group of authors, a theme, a style, etc. This course may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of six credits. Prerequisites: Nine credits of
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may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of six credits.
ENGL 38700Teaching Literature in Middle School and High School (LA)3
Designed for potential middle school and high school teachers of English. Study of various works of literature frequently taught in middle school and high school, with an emphasis on presentation to younger students. Attributes: ESE
Courses offered under this number will focus on varying topics within the discipline of literary studies. These courses may cohere around a particular theme; they may bring together literature from various periods; and they may be interdisciplinary in nature. This course may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of six credits. Prerequisites: Nine credits in English. (IRR)
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may be repeated once for credit when topics vary for a total of six credits.
Reflection on the experience of a liberal arts education; exploration of the relationship between the ICC and the English major; discussion of professional opportunities for English majors. (F,S,Y) Attributes: CP
ENGL 41000Seminar in Medieval English Literature (LA)4
Seminar examining advanced topics in literatures written between 500 and 1500 CE, chiefly in Britain. Open to upper-level English majors and to other upper-level students with permission of instructor. May be repeated for a total of 8 credits. Prerequisites: 4 courses in ENGL. (F,S,Y) Attributes: EP19
Open to upper-class English majors and to other upper-class students with permission of instructor. Prerequisites: ENGL 21900; permission of instructor. (F or S,Y) Attributes: DLIT, EP19
ENGL 44000Seminar in the English Enlightenment (1660-1770) (LA)3
Open to upper-class English majors and to other upper-class students with permission of instructor. Prerequisites: ENGL 27200; permission of instructor. (F or S,Y)
ENGL 46000Seminar in 20th-Century English Literature (LA)4
Open to upper-class English majors and to other upper-class students with permission of instructor. This course may be repeated twice for credit when topics vary for a total of twelve credits. Prerequisites: Three 3-4 credit English courses, at least two of which are at 200-level or above. (F,S,Y) Attributes: E20A
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may be repeated twice for credit when topics vary for a total of twelve credits.
Allows students to combine literary study with on-site work experience under the guidance of a faculty supervisor. Internships require the approval of both the sponsoring agency and the faculty supervisor. Also available through the London Center. A maximum of three credits may be used to fulfill requirements for the English major or minor. Prerequisites: Four English courses; junior standing or above; permission of instructor.
First course in a two-semester sequence of independent work on an individual project arranged by a student with a particular faculty member. Research, writing, and discussion culminating in a 1-2-page abstract for an honors thesis, an extensive annotated bibliography, and a draft of an analytical chapter, all defended before a department honors committee. Permission of instructor is required. (F,Y)
Second course in a two-semester sequence of independent work on an individual project arranged by a student with a particular faculty member. Research, writing, and discussion culminating in an honors thesis of approximately 50-80 pages, defended before a department honors committee. May not be used as elective credit in the English major. Prerequisite: ENGL 49801. (S,Y) 2026-2027 Catalog 427
Special research on an individual project arranged by a student with a particular faculty member. Final paper will be based on research in both electronic and print sources. Offered on demand only. A maximum of four credits may be used to fulfill requirements for the English major or minor. English Major — B.A. This B.A. degree requires 90 liberal arts credits out of the 120 credits required for graduation
ENGL 52000History and Structure of the English Language (LA)3
This course will help prepare pre-service teachers to teach language and writing in secondary school English courses. It will investigate elements of the English language necessary for understanding and communicating in written and spoken English, and it will study issues in composition as they relate to the teaching of writing. Emphasis on speaking and writing skills; required research project. Prerequisites: For graduate students in the M.A.T. English program; undergraduates may take the course with the approval of the coordinator of teacher education. (F,SU)
Courses under this heading explore the literatures of a variety of cultures and periods outside of American literature. These may include Western and non-Western literature, ancient and modern texts, Anglophone literature, and literature in translation. Emphasis on speaking and writing skills; required research project. Prerequisite: Graduate student in good standing or permission of instructor. (F, SU, Y)
Courses under this heading explore a variety of American texts; these may include novels and short stories commonly taught in the middle school and high school classroom; adolescence and young adult literature; African American and Native American literature; and film or dramatic versions of American literary texts. Emphasis on speaking and writing skills; required research project. Prerequisite: Graduate student in good standing or permission of instructor. (F, SU, Y)
