94 courses with the subject ENLS, 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.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Introduction to the critical study of literature.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will help students develop skills in effective writing for a public audience across a range of types of digital and print media--including journalism, blogs, short video scripts, email lists, and even social media such as Twitter. The course will draw on basics of Classical Rhetoric, the instructor's experience.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course introduces students to multiethnic literatures of the United States, by writers from different historical time periods and ethnic backgrounds.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Introduction to public speaking with a focus on historical speeches. Study and practice of speech writing and organization, verbal and nonverbal communication.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Introduces students to a range of poetic forms from various historical periods.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Introduces students to a wide array of novel forms and genres from the rise of the novel to the contemporary novel.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Introduction to and focus on drama as an integral genre that is vital to the study of literature and performance. This course offers a sustained examination of plays and playwrights from various geographies, time periods, politics, and positions. Priority given to first year students.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An introduction to children’s literature. The course may be organized as a survey of the genre or may focus on special topics. Topics may include forms of the genre, including fiction and poetry, as well as literature for young readers of different ages, or may be thematic.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Interdisciplinary study of major texts which demonstrate an abiding interest in nature and in cultural and social values concerning the environment.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the relationship between law and literature, from literature’s fascination with legal process to the law’s use of narrative, rhetoric and imagination. Students will study texts from various periods and cultural settings that explore the meaning of justice, the nature of legal institutions and the power of law in society.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course introduces literatures and media by and about LGBTQ+ individuals. In addition to the varied genres and media, this course will also introduce theories of gender, sexuality, and queerness.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3An introduction to themes and topics in Literary Studies with an emphasis on skills in literary analysis.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableThe art of rhetoric, including poetics, has roots in the ancient liberal arts, yet remains directly applicable to contemporary literary journalism in a digital environment. This course will apply this art, through study of past literary journalism, and projects in writing the same for public audiences online, to current issues.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableExamines the social construction of race as it is expressed, queried and subverted in literature. Students learn to understand and apply key concepts from critical race studies and ethnic studies. The course takes an intersectional and comparative approach to introduce how race functions in different times, places and ethnic contexts.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A study of literature that may include pre-Columbian indigenous narratives, texts of encounter and colonization, settlement and national identity, and regional schism leading up to the US Civil War. A variety of literature including poetry, fiction, plays, and popular prose forms will be considered and be inclusive of diverse racial, ethnic, and gendered perspectives.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course surveys U.S. literature from the Civil War to World War I, a period of emancipation, reconstruction, industrialization, immigration and empire. Readings include realist and regionalist writers (Twain, Chesnutt, Harper, Howells, Jewett), naturalists (Crane, Norris, Dreiser) and early modernists (James, Wharton, Du Bois), alongside cultural documents tracing transformations in race, labor, gender and national identity.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Study of selected texts by American writers from 1865 to 1900.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Study of selected texts by American writers from 1900-1950.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSelected special topics in American literature.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Introduction to literature written in English by Latinos/as in the United States. The course readings will include creative writing by various Latino/a groups, for example, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, and Dominican-Americans. Additionally, the class will expose students to a variety of interpretive frameworks via secondary sources in US Latino/a Studies.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSelected movements and topics in drama such as Restoration drama, African American dramatic literature, the Theatre of the Absurd.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableAuthors selected from among Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, Cather, Melville, Wharton, James, H.D., Frost, Hemingway, Faulkner, O'Neill, Stein, Welty, O'Connor, and Morrison.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudy of literature that appeals to adolescent and young adult readers, with particular emphasis on British and American fiction and non-fiction prose from the 19th century to the present.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Provides a selection from across the vast array of examples collected under the inadequate rubric “African American Literature.” We'll read poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama in order to understand how a group of people who have been written out of American history and culture write themselves back into these stories. Crosslisted as CBST 221.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3History, theory, and practice of comedy in the United States, focused on works by comedians of many ethnicities. The course explores how comedy contributes to the national conversation on race, sometimes soothing social tensions with laughter and at other times sparking ethnic conflict.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines literature of the Susquehanna Valley. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENST 224.
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:3Introduction to selected literatures, cultures, and histories of the Caribbean, with close analysis of text and context. When taught in the summer, the course is the core of the Bucknell in the Caribbean summer study abroad program. Crosslisted as CBST 222 and LAMS 227.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Literature and popular culture exploring such topics as construction of gender identities, sexualities, GLBT cultures and gender-based violence.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3We track the evolution of Jewish American comedy as a performance art from the early 20th century through the present, examining drama, film, and stand-up. Comedy is an important component of the Jewish American experience, and our course focuses particularly on questions of cultural assimilation and ethnic authenticity.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Exploiting the exclusionary nature of "High Modernism," this course highlights literature on the margins of modernism, revealing literature's political investment in race, class, and sexuality. Crosslisted as WMST 225.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSurvey of the poetry and prose of medieval England.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the natural and environmental worlds revealed by British, American, or Anglophone literature.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The major works and language of Chaucer.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Major works of Chaucer and Spenser examined in the context of early Insular poetic traditions of intersubjectivity.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Examines how writers--in fiction, satire, and literary journalism--have resisted official justification of mass violence and cultural genocide in the name of social revolution. Explores works such as Orwell's 1984, Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Zamyatin's We, Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, and Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores the Bible as literature in the context of its emergence as a key text in early English literature, including issues of translation and connections with earlier biblical texts. It also examines examples of literature influenced by the Bible intertextually, across cultures and eras into modern times.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3We track concepts and performance of masculinity in American theatre from the mid-1900s through the present and examine how contemporary expressions of masculinity bear the imprint of this legacy. Are contemporary codes of masculinity opening up or becoming more constrained? How is a man supposed to act?.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSurvey of the poetry and prose of representative authors, including Spenser and Milton.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSelected major prose and poetry.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course focuses on a variety of playwrights who examine the predicament of blackness across a little more than a century. We pay particular attention to plays not just as artistic creations and entertainments, but also as political gestures that address that predicament.Crosslisted as CBST 255.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Examine some of the interpretive and analytical question that the vast body of films based on the plays of Shakespeare invites.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Selected plays.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableExplores various British and Anglophone literary and textual forms from 1660-1820.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSelected authors and various genres, including the relationship between literature and politics, history, and the sciences.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An introduction to feminist thought with a special emphasis on the way in which women theorize their gender through writing and the way gender intersects with other identity categories such as race, class and sexuality in literature. Crosslisted as WMST 266.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Examines the literary and cultural production of American Jews through the study of diverse series such as novels, short stories, plays and film.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableExamination of selected authors in poetry and prose, read in relationship to contemporary political and cultural influences.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSelected major prose and poetry.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableThis course explores themes, currents, or topics in literature and the environment with a particular focus on theory, genre, and application.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines how writers from outside of Europe and the United States seek environmental justice through a range of literary forms. Crosslisted as ENST 278.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Examines literature in relation to human rights discourses from various time periods.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableA selective introduction to the varied forms, significant authors, and literary movements from the turn of the century to the recent past.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The rise of the novel as a genre, and analysis of representative novels.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Major developments in the novel as a genre and representative novels.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSelected major poets of England, the United States, and other English-speaking cultures.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudies in modern dramatic literature, theatre history, and performance theory.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableAn intensive study of selected British and American authors of the past 40 years.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:2,Other:3This course is offered off campus in London through the Bucknell in London program. Introduces students to all aspects of the London theatre. Crosslisted as THEA 264.
Topics course,Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableFlexible in subject matter and in method. Topics such as Literature and Psychology, Literature and Myth, Science Fiction.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3How London's urban realities shape the literary imaginations of writers and readers, and how their imaginative visions shape our perceptions and experience of London. Only offered in London on occasion.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Discussion and practice related to the teaching of English in secondary schools. Required for 7-12 certification in English.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Introduction to graduate study, including literary and critical theory, research, and other elements of literary scholarship. Open to advanced undergraduates. Crosslisted as ENLS 600.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableAdvanced topics, such as Cross-Cultural Encounters, The American Novel, Gender and American Poetics, and Beat Generations. Crosslisted as ENLS 601.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudy of the works of one or more major American writers. Crosslisted as ENLS 602.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSeminar in a special topic or genre of Early American and/or 18th-century American culture. Crosslisted as ENLS 605.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Seminar on American literature between 1770-1861 with an emphasis on psychoanalytic approaches to literary and cultural study. Authors may include Brown, Sansay, Poe, and Melville. Crosslisted as HUMN 306 and ENLS 606.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSeminar in a special topic, author, or genre of modern American literature and culture. Crosslisted as ENLS 610.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSeminar in a special topics, author, or genre of contemporary American literature and culture. Crosslisted as ENLS 611.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableAn advanced seminar that examines varied topics in literature written for young people, ranging from preliterate children to teenagers. Seminars may be focused around genres or literary periods, as well as other special topics. Content will include literature written for children as well as secondary materials about children's literature. Crosslisted as ENLS 618.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:Varies; RepeatableIndividual special projects supervised by instructor. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENLS 619.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This seminar explores and interweaves a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to apprehend eighteenth-century literature and culture (1660-1800). Focuses may include race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, postcolonialism, transnationalism, and environment. Crosslisted as ENLS 620 and HUMN 321.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudy of selected thematic, aesthetic and ideological issues in Black American writing. Crosslisted as ENLS 621.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This seminar explores the theory, history and aesthetics of Black avant-garde cultural production spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Texts may include poetry, fiction, music and film. Crosslisted as CBST 324 and ENLS 624.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudy of selected thematic, aesthetic and ideological issues in Caribbean writing.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Major works of one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. Nabokov's Russian and American periods examined in the context of both literary traditions. In English. Crosslisted as ENLS 630, RUSS 330 and RUSS 630.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableLiteratures of the pre-modern world. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENLS 640.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableExplores how great works of European and American literature related nature and culture in Christian traditions from the Middle Ages to today. Analyzes their legacy for environmental ethics and sustainable cultures. Includes non-Christian and secular critiques in considering poetic, rhetorical, symbolic, philosophical, and spiritual approaches to ecology. Prerequisite: instructor permission. Crosslisted as ENLS 641.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSpecial topics. Student reports, oral and written. Crosslisted as ENLS 650.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSpecial topics on Shakespeare. Crosslisted as ENLS 658.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSeminar in a special topic, author or genre that explores British, American and/or Anglophone literature from 1660-1830. Crosslisted as ENLS 660.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Advanced seminar in the history, theory, and practice of translation, including investigation of the role of translation in intercultural communication and comparative studies. Facility in a language in addition to English is strongly recommended. Crosslisted as ENLS 662 and HUMN 340.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableExamination of a wide range of poetry and prose by selected authors with emphasis given to the literature's historical and cultural groundings. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENLS 670.
Offered Fall Semester Only,Topics course; Lecture hours:3A colloquium on problems arising from the writing of a scholarly thesis. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENLS 678.
Topics course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableThe writing of a scholarly or creative departmental senior thesis. Students must confer with and submit a proposal to an adviser prior to registering for the thesis.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableThe writing of a scholarly or creative honors thesis. Students must confer with and submit a proposal to a departmental adviser and to the University Honors Council for approval. Prerequisite: senior status.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableA selective study of the most recent developments in English and American prose or poetry. Crosslisted as ENLS 682.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableA study of poetry as a genre and an analysis of the work of selected poets. Crosslisted as ENLS 691.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSpecial topics. Student reports, oral and written. Crosslisted as ENLS 692.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSpecial topics. Student reports, oral and written. Crosslisted as ENLS 693.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An exploration of the history of sexuality through literature, interrogating issues of identity as related to fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Crosslisted as ENLS 694.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3This advanced seminar emphasizes specialized currents in environmental humanities scholarship and theory (especially attuned to the field of literary study) with topics that may include environmental justice, environment and race, human-animal/plant relations, pollution/deforestation/environmental degradation, sea level rise, and climate change. Priority given to students in English. Crosslisted as ENLS 695.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableTopics such as comparative literature, literature and the arts, queer theory, or satire. Crosslisted as ENLS 697.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableThe study of Continental and American critical positions or schools from Modernism through Post-Structuralism. Crosslisted as ENLS 698.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableIntroduction to significant issues and debates characterizing the field known as Cultural Studies. Crosslisted as ENLS 699.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
