24 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.
3 sem. hrs. This course introduces students to reading and analyzing the three main genres of literature: poetry, fiction, and drama. Students will develop a rich critical and theoretical vocabulary and hone their argumentative and analytical skills through both in-class discussions and essays. ENGL 200/HIST 200. Modern Southeast Asia through Anti-Imperial
3 sem. hrs. An exploration of important fiction and nonfiction from around the globe in English translation. Special attention will be paid to narrative traditions that transcend national boundaries as well as the interactions between canonical and underrepresented texts and authors.
3 sem. hrs. This course will survey British literature from the Middle Ages through 1800, including Arthurian romance, Elizabethan drama, Paradise Lost, and eighteenth-century satire. Along the way, we will pay particular attention to acts of transgression and their consequences. How can 152 CO URSES
3 sem. hrs. Beginning with indigenous creation narratives and ending with difficult questions about the place of literature in contemporary American culture, this course provides students with some of the social and aesthetic contexts underpinning both canonical and historically excluded American writers and storytellers. We’ll look to the oral traditions, short stories, poetry, novels, essays, plays, films, and emerging media that comprise the complexity of the chimeric American literary tradition.
3 sem. hrs. An exploration of important plays and dramatic traditions from around the globe in English translation. Special attention paid to dramatic lineages that transcend national boundaries, such as international existentialism, surrealism, and the avant garde, as well as to how dramatic traditions, such as the Japanese Noh, evolve as they spread internationally.
3 sem. hrs. Guided in part by student interest, this course explores important poems and poetic traditions from around the world in English translation. We will celebrate a diverse canon of poets, paying special attention to poetic lineages that transcend national boundaries. Possible focuses include international surrealism, the evolving haiku, Western epics, poetry of witness, and contemporary masters.
3 sem. hrs. Sampling from different early modern dramatic genres, students will read tragedies, histories, comedies, and romances by Shakespeare. We will explore the purposes of playing within Shakespeare’s drama - including plays-within-plays, role playing, the performance of gendered, sexual, racial, religious, and class identities - the literary form of the play itself. Students will develop close reading, research, and writing skills to analyze and enjoy Shakespeare on the page, stage, and develop close reading, research, and writing skills to analyze and enjoy Shakespeare on the page, stage, and screen. This course considers the literary and performance texts of Shakespeare both within their historical moments of production and as works that are reshaped and reinterpreted across centuries and the globe.
3 sem. hrs. May be repeated for credit. A study of genre fiction that incorporates analysis, theory, and creative writing within the genre(s) under discussion. Possible topics include Young Adult, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Romance, Horror, Westerns, and Graphic Novels. CO UR S E S 153
3 sem. hrs. May be repeated for credit. In this course, we will explore how meter, stanza structure, repetition, and rhyme interact to shape poems, and how they fit into traditional forms like sonnets, villanellas, and pantoums. In addition to both literary analysis and creative writing assignments, students will pursue independent editorial projects, providing the opportunity for intensive study of poetic forms of their choice from diverse communities.
3 sem. hrs. This course will survey British poems, short stories, plays, a film, and novels written after 1800. But what do you mean by “British?” Students will pay particular attention to the changing social and historical contexts of war and empire as we trace different literary movements and reworking of form by diverse authors.
3-4 sem. hrs. May be repeated for credit. In-depth study of a selected topic in English. Past topics have included: Erotic and Pornographic Literature, Medieval Romance: The Otherworld, Writers Reading Writers, and Poetry and Science.
2-4 sem. hrs. Graded: S/U. Individually arranged work experience in publishing, journalism, library work, and other fields or areas related to bibliography, literature, or skills in writing.
3 sem. hrs. What makes a good translation? Is anything really lost in translation, and what can be found? To try to address these questions, we will examine canonical translation theory texts and English translations of international poetry, developing a rich understanding of the theory and practice of literary translation. Students do not need access to any other language to take the course, but they will have the opportunity to shape major elements of the course around the literature, language, and culture of their choice.
3 sem. hrs. May be repeated for credit. Why are Octavia Butler’s books banned in prisons? Why does Bechdel’s Fun Home still rank among the top banned books among American libraries? In this course, we will trace the evolution of the modern and postmodern American novel alongside national and transnational moments of controversy, censorship, and revival. Several of the texts we read were banned 154 CO URSES
3 sem. hrs. This course provides an introduction to major developments in American theater, from its inception in the early 1800s to the present. Special emphasis is given to the perspectives of Asian-American, African-American, Hispanic-American, Native-American, and LGBTQ-authored play scripts.
3 sem. hrs. May be repeated for credit. Advanced study of the writing of significant American poets and/or movements. Past topics included Global American Poets, African American Poetry After the Harlem Renaissance, and Berryman in Context.
3 sem. hrs. May be repeated for credit. A study of British novels based on a topic, genre, or author, as tailored by student interest. Previously themed on “The Fiction of Jane Austen,” future subjects could include, for example, detective fiction, Virginia Woolf, Kazuo Ishiguro, contemporary London fiction, or a variety of other topics.
3 sem. hrs. May be repeated for credit. Advanced study of the writing of from four to six British poets who are significant figures themselves and also represent the literary periods in which they wrote. Past topics have included: British Victorian Poets.
3 sem. hrs. May be repeated for credit. This survey of English-language drama will begin with some fundamental conceptions of how theatre works and its purposes, then will jump forward in time to study how authors use the form of the play to both entertain and stage ideas in modern American and British drama. Past topics of study have ranged from performances of identity to drama’s methods of probing CO UR S E S 155
3 sem. hrs. A study of literary criticism as a form. Engaging in a series of paper exercises, annotated bibliographies, abstracts and oral presentation, students will explore historical and philosophical questions about the acts of reading and writing. Theoretical approaches to literature - “literary theory” - will be drawn from a variety of critical movements and methodologies. Especially recommended for students who plan to pursue graduate study in English - related professions.
2-4 sem. hrs. Offered every semester. Graded: S/U. Individually arranged work experience in publishing, journalism, library work, and other fields or areas related to bibliography, literature, or skills in writing.
1 sem. hr. Offered as needed. May be repeated for credit. In-depth study of an area of special interest. Topic determined jointly by a faculty member and student(s) in consultation.
1-3 sem. hrs. Offered every semester. May be repeated for credit. These courses are available for students who have demonstrated an ability to work without close supervision. Student(s) and faculty members develop the course together on a relevant topic.
4 sem. hrs. Completion of an extended literary essay by students in the literature concentration, or an extended creative project with a short critical essay by students in the creative writing concentration. Open only to senior English majors.
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