ENG

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course is an introduction to film studies, with an emphasis on the visual as text and on spectacle in sound and video. It also considers the evolution of film from novelty or entertainment to film as an art form. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course is an introduction to queer literature, with an emphasis on queer theory and how it can be applied to literature, film, and popular culture. The course considers current terminology in this growing field and includes “queering” various texts. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis, Oral and Written

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

In this course, students practice reading and writing literary criticism and experiment with the application of various literary approaches such as feminism, Marxism, queer theory, structuralism, psychoanalysis, reader response, and new criticism. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis, Oral and Written

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

In this introductory-level course, students familiarize themselves with the craft of reading literature and with the process of thinking about literature in various historical and cultural contexts. Students also consider different theoretical approaches to the study of literature and culture so that they become well prepared to meet requirements in subsequent courses.

Subject

ENG

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course introduces students to how media and society influence one another to create culture. To explore this dynamic, the course focuses on the history of media, its role in identity, how audiences function, cultural studies and structuralism, and other key concepts and theories. The course centers on race, class, and gender in order to better understand these topics.

Subject

ENG

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Modern symbolism in literature is a tool for considering and communicating the antitheses and tensions of human living. In this course, students compare various uses of the literary symbol in selected works of fiction.

Subject

ENG

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course is an introduction to the close reading and interpretation of poetry; it is not an introduction to the writing of poetry. The course includes the basics of prosody--that is, the study of those qualities that make poetry different from prose, such as meter and rhyme. A variety of poems from a broad range of English-language poets spanning several centuries are studied.

Subject

ENG

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

2

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

10 additional credits from department chair approved courses II. Eight credits from the following genre courses (8 credits):

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

2

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

may be repeated for credit under a different theme.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

may be repeated for credit under a different theme.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

In this introductory-level course, students familiarize themselves with the craft of reading literature and with the process of thinking about literature in various historical and cultural contexts. Students also consider different theoretical approaches to the study of literature and culture so that they become well prepared to meet requirements in subsequent courses. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

In this course, students explore the development and legacy of British imperialism by reading the work of a variety of major Anglophone (i.e., English-language) novelists, playwrights, and poets. Students also read essays about the colonial and postcolonial conditions by some of the leading thinkers on this subject. Texts include works by authors from India, South Africa, Nigeria, and other post-imperial nations from around the world. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis, Oral and Written Communication

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course concerns the defining and redefining of gender and sexuality in literature. In order to explore cultural concerns about these concepts that perplex and sometimes polarize society, students read a variety of literary works and cultural documents as they assess the complex matrix of cultural attitudes out of which evolve dominant conceptions of gender and sexuality. This course is offered every other year.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

In this course, students are introduced to queers on screen in a wide range of historical and cultural contexts. The course will examine LGBTQIA representation in various media: early black-and-white films, rom-coms, horror films, documentaries, etc. The goal of the course is to explore how gender, queer, and

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course is about queer history. Students will consider how to “do” queer history when contemporary terminology is so different from that of decades and centuries before. To explore this question, the course will explore the queer theory and histories. Students will review early texts with queer content in order to test constructionist and essentialist approaches to history and develop their own approach. Then, students will explore primary and secondary documents from a span of time. The span and location of queer history may change as this course is offered.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Horror film has a long pedigree reaching back to the earliest narrative films (Thomas Edison's Frankenstein in 1910, for example), and the explosion of "monster" movies in the 1930s began a tradition that has continued unabated to the present crop of creators, including Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, James Wan, and a host of others. A recent article in Forbes reports research suggesting that “willing exposure to that which scares us can provide a counterbalance to life's stresses. It may also be an effective way to undermine anxiety, and even bolster our resilience.” But the genre also has deep political implications, and makes important comments on gender, race, sexuality, capitalism, and everything else that shapes or is shaped by society. This class will focus on key works throughout the history of horror film, exploring various subgenres in terms of both cultural context/commentary and craft. Students will both analyze existing films, and more importantly, make their own. Course Fee. Cross-listed with ART 2295 Horror Film. GE: Artistic Expression, Oral and Written Communication

Subject

ENG

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Alias

ART 2295

In this course, students read some of the major works of the modernist era, a period of great artistic experimentation and innovation. Of particular focus is the relationship between politics and literary production. For example, students explore how the rise of radical feminism and organized labor in the years before the outbreak of World War One, and the development of Communism and Fascism after it, affected fiction, poetry, and plays. GE: Oral and Written Communication

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course will teach the basics of writing for media professions. This introductory course provides the groundwork for writing website content, press releases, scripts, profile pieces, and strategy decks. The class explores the fundamentals of public relations, advertising, marketing, and journalism with the associated types of writing and research necessary for the fields.

Subject

ENG

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

In this rotating topics course, students approach a social, cultural, and/or environmental issue through a community engagement partnership and an in-depth study of relevant literary texts. Students who enroll in this course make a substantial commitment of at least 15 hours of direct group work with the partner organization and are expected to participate regularly in written and group critical reflection and literary analysis. The course meets the community engagement requirement for English majors, but all students are welcome. May be repeated under a different topic up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated under a different topic up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Prerequisite

ENG 1200 Reading Lenses, or a comparable college-level course in literary analysis.

Each semester, topics vary according to areas of student interest. May be repeated up to four times for a maximum of 10 credits.

Subject

ENG

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated up to four times for a maximum of 10 credits.

Repeatable up to

4

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Each semester, topics vary according to areas of student interest. May be repeated up to four times for a maximum of 20 credits.

Subject

ENG

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated up to four times for a maximum of 20 credits.

Repeatable up to

4

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Each time it is offered, this course focuses on a different topic within the study of the novel. Students explore historical development, cultural contexts, and major authors. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course is focused on 20th-century southern novels. It begins by defining “southern” in various ways and applying those definitions to the novels in the course. The course pairs novels, often by differing authorial race or gender or content focus, so that students can make useful comparisons and contrasts in order to keep one particular question in mind throughout the course: when defining the south, whose south is being defined? The course explores how various writers respond to, rebel against, and rewrite definitions of southern. This course will be offered every other year. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis, Oral and Written Communication

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Each time it is offered, this course focuses on a different topic within the study of the short story. Students explore historical development, cultural contexts, and major authors. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis, Oral and Written Communication

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This interdisciplinary course explores mutually illuminating works of literature and philosophy. Readings

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course examines literary representations of war. Although the readings are broad-ranging and begin with selections from pre-classical and classical Greece, the main focus is on texts associated with World War One. Authors include Siegfried Sassoon, Erich Maria Remarque, George Orwell, and Kurt Vonnegut. War-related subjects, such as the literature of peace advocacy, are taken up as well. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis, Oral and Written Communication

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

2

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

may be repeated for credit under a different theme.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

may be repeated for credit under a different theme.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This is a Study Away course that will focus on a special topic within the discipline, and will include two to three weeks of travel to a domestic or international destination at the culmination of the semester. The topic will be approached through an intercultural lens, and will achieve the following learning outcomes: 1. Students will demonstrate the ability to understand and respect diverse cultural and historical traditions. 2. Students will engage with voices, writings, scholarship, and perspectives from other cultures. For details on the course topic and destination, see the course schedule. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

In this course, students explore major representative works of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

In this course, students trace developments in American literature from earliest indigenous writings to the middle of the nineteenth century, considering the literature in the context of American culture. Students also encounter key literary movements and genres.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course presents an introductory survey of selected works of Anglophone Irish fiction and drama from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland within the context of Irish political, social, and cultural history.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Rather than simply endorsing values held as heroic in their cultures, ancient writers offered critical examination of such values, challenging accepted attitudes toward war, conquest, and empire as they worked toward reformulations of traditional understandings of the heroic. In this course, students explore the dynamics of such critical reflection in great classical epics; they also consider how later writers, in composing their own works, emulated earlier epics.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This interdisciplinary course, co-taught by faculty from the Philosophy and English departments, examines the history, concept, and use of propaganda for political purposes. Focusing on historical topics ranging from British WWI propaganda to Nazi propaganda to contemporary forms of propaganda, this advanced seminar-style course aims at a deeper understanding of what propaganda is, how it is used, and how it relates to similar forms of political influence and disinformation. Cross-listed with PHI 3320 Propaganda.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Prerequisite

Sophomore standing.

Alias

PHI 3320

Students undertake investigations in the history of medieval ideas, cultures, and mentalities in this course. The main focus is the study, in modern English translation, of seminal works of medieval literature, philosophy, theology, mystical speculation, ethics, and political theory, drawn from both English and continental traditions. First-year students who have not yet completed a college-level literature course should consult with the instructor before enrolling in this course.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Students in this course explore the literature, ideas, and setting of that revolutionary era (late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) subsequently called the Romantic period. They consider how Romanticism develops from, yet stands over against Neoclassicism and how Romantic writers anticipate modern concerns. Students read some continental and American works, but their primary focus is on British Romanticism.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course will introduce the writers, works, and major cultural issues of Great Britain during the Victorian era, demonstrating the diversity of British literary and cultural heritage and the effects of artistic and philosophical influences on these writers and their works. Although a wide range of topics and themes are considered, the course repeatedly draws attention to ideas of class, gender, sexuality, and colonialism.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

In this course, students read some of the major works of the modernist era, a period of great artistic experimentation and innovation. Of particular focus is the relationship between politics and literary production. For example, students explore how the rise of radical feminism and organized labor in the years before the outbreak of World War One, and the development of Communism and Fascism after it, affected fiction, poetry, and plays.

Subject

ENG

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course offers a close study of the texts of selected plays--histories, comedies, tragedies, and late romances. Students encounter a variety of critical and scholarly approaches to Shakespeare, including stage history and performance studies.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

V. At least one semester on the Theatre Crew

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

B. 1800-1900 courses include:

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Each year, different American writers from the nineteenth century are considered in this course. Students examine the distinctive ways in which individual authors address significant issues of nineteenth-century culture. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Each year, different writers are considered in this course. Students examine the distinctive ways in which individual authors address significant issues of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. This course is offered every other year. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis, Oral and Written Communication

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

In this course, students read widely from the works of a notable author or authors focusing on biographical, historical, and aesthetic contexts. Authors to be studied are chosen by the instructor and vary semester to semester. This course is a pre-capstone course and requires an in-depth research project of at least ten pages. This course will be offered annually, and students are advised to take it as juniors. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Film has deep political implications and makes important comments on gender, race, sexuality, capitalism, and everything else that shapes or is shaped by society. This course will focus on key works throughout the history of a specific film genre, exploring various subgenres in terms of both cultural context/commentary and craft. Students will analyze existing films within the chosen genre. This course requires a corequisite of ART 3600 Film Genre. All students must enroll in both courses simultaneously. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits. Introduction to Animation, or ART 2270 Animation 2, or ART 2280 Take Back the Screen: Queer Youth-Led Social Change & Film, or ART 2315 16mm Filmmaking, or other Media Arts course.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Prerequisite

ENG 1070 Introduction to Film Studies, or ART 1790 Alternative Processes, or ART 1911

Corequisite

ART 3600 Film Genre.

Each semester, topics vary according to areas of student interest. May be repeated up to a maximum of

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

2

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated up to a maximum of

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Each semester, topics vary according to areas of student interest. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

2

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

may be repeated for credit under a different theme.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

may be repeated for credit under a different theme.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This course offers a capstone experience for students majoring in English. Senior English majors reflect on their methodologies and experiences as students of literature and explore post-college professional options. Students each refine and orally present a sustained critical essay, the idea for which originates in another upper-level literature courses. This course is offered every year and is required for ENG majors. This course is offered on a Pass/Fail basis.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

This tutorial allows seniors to engage in intensive research and sustained critical writing. Under the supervision of one or more English faculty, students prepare senior honors theses on subjects of their choice. A departmental committee evaluates these theses. Students refine and orally present sustained critical and scholarly essays that are developed from works they have previously composed for upper-level literature courses.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

2

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

may be repeated for credit under a different theme.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu

Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.

Subject

ENG

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

cr

Type

course

Repeatable

may be repeated for credit under a different theme.

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.warren-wilson.edu