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108 courses with the subject ENG, 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.

ENG 100Introduction to Literary Studies3

CHOOSE THREE 200-LEVEL LITERATURE COURSES

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 102Expository Writing3

A practical course for students who need to improve their grammar and usage skills, digesting and arranging ideas, marshalling suitable evidence, illustrating a point, composing distinct paragraphs, and commanding various appropriate means of reaching an intended audience. May be repeated up to three times with the permission of the English program. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 283

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated up to three times with the permission of the English program.
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 105First-Year Writing3

This introduction to college composition covers analytical and argumentative writing, oral presentation, critical reading, information literacy, and academic integrity. The course employs active-learning pedagogy of discussion and dialogue and examines intersections of race, gender, class, ethnicities, and systems of belief through the lens of relevant topics. Students who need additional support with writing skills beyond what is normally covered in the classroom (based on a diagnostic writing exam required before matriculation) will require supplemental instruction through OAAR. Students with transfer credits may meet the requirement for ENG105 with the transfer of a college-level composition course or AP/IB credit.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 200Frankenstein: Creation of Culture3

This course introduces students to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. In addition to studying this primary text, we will examine the reasons for the extensive presence that Frankenstein and his creature occupy in our cultural imagination. To this end, many critical approaches will inform our analysis of the text and mythology of Frankenstein in both literature and film.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 201Environmental Literature and Film3

This course considers how literature and film can engage the reader/viewer in issues of ecological sustainability. The course promotes the value of green spaces, an understanding of ecological systems, and a decentering of commonly held anthropocentric assumptions. Texts include contemporary films, fiction, and nonfiction.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 203Latine Literature3

This class studies U.S. literature of people of Latin American heritage. The course examines literary texts written by immigrant, exiled, and U.S.-born Latines. It pays particular attention to the ways in which specific literary genres are connected to the histories of various Latine communities.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 204World Literature3

CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 130

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 205East-West Travel Tales3

*Students who test out of language requirement will need to take additional upper- level electives to meet the credit requirements.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 207British Writers I3

A critical and historical approach to major writers in English during the Anglo- Saxon, medieval, and Renaissance periods, including such representative authors as the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG100 or ENG105

ENG 208British Writers II3

A critical and historical approach to major writers in English during the Augustan, Romantic, and Victorian periods, including such representative authors as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats, Arnold, Tennyson, and Browning.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 209Linguistics3

An introduction to theoretical and applied linguistics as the “science of language” and its history, nature, and functions. Includes consideration of cross-disciplinary CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 284

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 213Special Topics (topics vary)3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 216WAmerican Writers I3

A study of cultural and literary developments in America, beginning with the Puritans and culminating with the writers of the American Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Hawthorne, and Melville.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG100 or ENG105

ENG 217WAmerican Writers II3

A continuation of English 216, with emphasis on such figures as Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Henry James, Faulkner, and Sylvia Plath.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG100 or ENG105

ENG 220Gender and Sexuality in Speculative Fiction3

This course focuses on speculative fiction genres (which include but are not limited to science fiction, fantasy, and futurism). Course materials examine issues of gender and sexuality and how writers working in these genres envision alternative gendered realities through their constructions of language, the body, sensuality, identity, etc.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 234Literary Publishing3

This course is an introduction to literary publishing through practice, reading, and discussion. All phases of the publishing process are addressed, especially copyediting, design, and marketing. The course is designed to allow students to gain experience and knowledge in the creative, technical, and professional aspects of publishing a literary journal.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 241Writing for Professionals3

Writing for Professionals helps students write clearly and effectively about a variety of subjects in genres related to the workplace. Through writing and reading assignments, students learn about targeting an audience, organizing writing, and developing a professional style. They create documents useful when seeking employment and in the workplace.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 242Introduction to Creative Writing3

This course introduces students to the distinguishing features and traditional elements of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Students read classic and contemporary works in each of these genres, while attending to how a text engages with literary traditions. Readings in genre theory will accompany each unit of the course.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 243Creative Writing I3

This course focuses on the vocabulary of craft and literary devices through reading and writing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Students develop creative writing skills through responses to challenging prompts and sharing their work in progress through workshop and performance.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 244Creative Writing II3

This course leads students to define their individual writing styles and goals through critical reading and self-reflexive study of craft. Students develop writing skills CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 285

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 245Advanced Writing Workshop3

This course focuses on creative writing for experienced writers, geared toward preparing a finished manuscript for potential publication. Fiction writers work intensively on a single story, revising and integrating its various parts. Poets write either long poems or poetic sequences and experiment with contemporary variations on traditional forms.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG243 and ENG244

ENG 262Introduction to Women Writers3

Examining writers from Mary Wollstonecraft to the present, this course delineates the features of a literary tradition specific to women writing in English. Students study novels, essays, and poetry.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 28220th-Century African-American Literature3

This course is a critical study of major African-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s to the present. Although the course concentrates on primary texts, specific attention is paid to contextualizing these works within historical and cultural frameworks.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 283The Harlem Renaissance3

The course explores the literature, politics, and arts of the Harlem Renaissance. This artistic, philosophical, and intellectual movement in New York City’s Harlem took place roughly from the early 1920s to the onset of the Depression. Topics to be considered include Modernism, The Jazz Age, and Urban Migration. Specific focus will be placed on the relationship between identity and geography as we consider the effects of migration and urbanization.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 287African-American Writers3

CHOOSE TWO 330-400 LEVEL LITERATURE COURSES

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 302Environmental Children’s Fiction and Film3

This course considers how children’s and young adult literature and film can awaken environmental sensibilities in the reader/viewer. Students explore textual representations of flora, fauna, and the elements; the human desire to affiliate with the natural living world; and how fiction and film can promote ecological literacy and awareness.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG105

ENG 303Food and American Identity3

Examines literature in multiple genres (e.g. fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, graphic novel, film/television, and long-form journalism) through the theoretical lens of food studies to understand how writers use food as a cultural object to point to issues of identity including race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and systems of belief. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 286

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG100 or ENG105

ENG 310Summer Community of Writers3

The ten-day intensive residency in Pittsburgh is for upper-level BFA Creative Writing students. The residency is composed of genre-specific craft sessions, workshops, lectures, readings and one-on-one conferences with mentors.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG242, ENG243, ENG244, and ENG245

ENG 313Special Topics3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 321Shakespeare3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 321WShakespeare Survey3

A representative study of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies as literary, dramatic, and Elizabethan art.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG207, ENG216, or ENG216W

ENG 350WSeminar in Literary Theory and Scholarly Writing3

CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 103

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 355Advanced Writing and Stylistics3

This is an advanced writing class which concentrates on style, meaning, and effect. It is designed for upper-level students, and emphasizes the skills of writing more effective sentences, paragraphs and essays. The course focuses on writing academic papers, applications, proposals, and personal statements across the disciplines in appropriate formats.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 365Writing Prose3

This is a practical application course for experienced writers specializing in fiction and nonfiction prose. Reading and writing will center on the craft of narrative and tools for creating character and persona, scene, sense of place, summary, dialogue, framing, flashbacks, and transitions, as well as oral presentation and publication.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG100

ENG 366Writing Nonfiction3

This is an upper-level course for BFA students specializing in creative nonfiction. Reading and writing will center on the craft of nonfiction and will include exploration of tools for scene, sense of place, point of view, character and narrator development, tone, lyricism, structure, as well as oral presentation and publication.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG100 and ENG242

ENG 367Multi-Genre Writing3

This is an upper-level course for BFA students focusing on creative writing for experienced writers, geared toward preparing a finished manuscript or portfolio of work for potential publication in the student’s primary genre. Students read and write in the craft of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Offered every spring.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG100 and ENG242

ENG 368Writing Poetry3

This is a practical application course for experienced writers specializing in poetry. Reading and writing will center on the craft of poetry and poetic tools including figures of speech, meter, music and rhythmic devices in traditional and experimental forms, and oral performance and publication of poetry. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 287

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 385Toni Morrison Seminar3

CHOOSE ONE COURSE IN ART, MUSIC, AND/OR FILM

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 406Appalachian Literature3

This course explores contemporary literature from Appalachia, with particular emphasis on the diversity of Appalachian writers. The course pays attention to creative writing craft but also considers regional challenges such as environmental devastation and labor exploitation. The course examines writing as a tool of resistance and agency under difficult circumstances.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 413Special Topics3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 419Frontier Women3

An impressive number of narratives, novels, diaries, and poems recording the responses of women to the American frontier have become available in recent years. By reading about these frontier experiences, and examining differences in perception and conception based apparently on gender, students will better understand how the frontier functioned within American culture and what “cultural work” these texts accomplished.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 425Bleak Houses: Shifting Landscapes of the English Novel3

This course will cover the modern European novel through the thematic rubric of “love and lies.” The latter theme affords the opportunity to consider fiction not only as a medium of the literary genre of the novel but also as a discourse of self- expression, self-creation, and in the cases of some our lying protagonists, self- destruction. Students will focus on characters’ constructions of “truth” and “lies” as these concepts are informed by characters’ emotional positions. At its most ambitious, this focus on the dynamic of intersubjectivity not only provides important insights into the literature we will read but also enhances students’ understanding of the interpersonal connections that drive individuals’ worldviews and narratives.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 427Ethnicity and Place3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 429The Literary Cookbook3

This course examines the contemporary cookbook as a genre of literary nonfiction, influenced by autobiography, memoir, and personal essay. Students will read and write recipe texts through the theoretical lenses of food studies and literary theory to understand how cookbooks function as literature in the popular market and the academy.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 434Literature of Fact: Informing the World3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 446Wilderness and Literature3

Through close reading of poetry and prose, students will explore the relationship between wilderness and literature—both representations of the natural world and what Stanley Kunitz calls “your wilderness . . . the untamed self that you pretend doesn’t exist, all that chaos locked behind the closet door, those memories yammering in the dark.” Writers examined include: Anne Carson, Mark Doty, Kathleen Hill, and Virginia Woolf. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 288

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 449Exiles3

CHOOSE TWO PRACTICAL APPLICATION COURSES*

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 490Integrative Capstone Seminar3

CHOOSE FOUR LITERATURE COURSES, AT LEAST ONE MUST BE A W

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 491Independent Study1

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor

ENG 493Independent Study3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor

ENG 506Appalachian Literature3

This course explores contemporary literature from Appalachia, with particular emphasis on the diversity of Appalachian writers. The course pays attention to craft but also considers regional challenges such as environmental devastation and labor exploitation. The course examines writing as a tool of resistance and agency under difficult circumstances.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 512Teaching Creative Writing in Alternative Spaces3

This course prepares students to teach creative writing in alternative spaces, including jails, prisons, halfway houses, and medical facilities. Students will study existing programs, learn strategies to work with special populations, design a course, observe community based classes, and facilitate a community workshop.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 513Writing About Food3

Students will develop technique and skills for writing about food and culture by studying ethics; journalism, advertising, multimodal and new technology venues, recipe writing, food criticism, writing about food in a variety of genres from history to fiction, magazines, and websites. Course emphasizes both print and online media.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 515Teaching Writing3

Students will explore the genres of creative and academic writing from the perspective of a teacher, producing lesson plans and developing a final curricular design for a creative or academic writing course. Aspects of lesson design, classroom environment/management, the writing process, writing workshops, assessment, publication, and performance will be emphasized. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 289

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 523The Craft of Creative Writing: Multiple Genres3

This course may substitute for any other craft course for students specializing in any genre. Students will be introduced to the craft of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and will also be introduced to the workshop method and given instruction on sending out work for publication.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 527Ethnicity and Place3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 528Academic Writing3

Students develop the writing skills necessary for success in graduate school, including proper citations, time management, and the content and format for two types of research proposals. Students become proficient in the APA style and have the opportunity to resolve grammar and structure problems with the professor.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 529The Art of Compression3

A multi-genre writing workshop focusing exclusively on the short form in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. This course is designed to teach the techniques and practice of short-form writing through participation in a process of peer review and commentary, reading and discussions of selections of other writers and stories, and regular submissions of original creative compositions.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 531Readings in Contemporary Lyricism3

This course is a graduate seminar focusing on the close reading of text from various genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s writing) that use lyricism as a primary craft device. Designed to complement the craft workshop, this course or Readings in Contemporary Narrative is required for all MFA students.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 532Readings in Prose and Poetry3

TWO ADVANCED WRITING WORKSHOPS IN YOUR PRIMARY GENRE

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 533Readings in Contemporary Narrative3

This course is a graduate seminar focusing on the close reading of narrative texts from several genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s writing), drawn from modern and contemporary periods. Designed to complement craft workshops, this course or Readings in the Contemporary Lyric is required of all MFA students.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 535Writing Poetry: Form3

A poetry writing workshop to focus on form.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG523

ENG 537Writing Poetry: Literary Movements3

A poetry workshop focusing on readings from a particular poetic movement, and writing poetry that models or responds to movement.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG523

ENG 539Writing Creative Nonfiction: Memoir3

A creative Non-Fiction workshop focusing mainly on the memoir.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG523

ENG 544Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Lyric & Formally Adventurous

Essay (3)

Subject: ENG
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 545Writing Creative Nonfiction: Literary Journalism3

A creative non-fiction workshop focusing on literary journalism. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 290

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG523

ENG 546Wildness and Literature3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 548Writing Creative Nonfiction3

This course is designed to teach the techniques and practice of creative nonfiction through participation in a process of peer review and commentary, reading and discussions of selections of other writers and stories, and regular submissions of original creative compositions. The course is taught in a workshop format.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG523

ENG 549Exiles3

This course examines the 20th-century condition of exile in relation to its different configurations, from European émigrés to postcolonial subjects to experiences of exile in the United States, to the relation of exile to Diaspora (African, Indian, and Jewish).

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 550Writing Fiction: The Novel3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 551Writing Fiction: The Short Story3

This course furthers one’s technique and practice of fiction writing via focusing on the short story. Classic models are read and analyzed for variety of P.O.V., character development, story structure, etc. Students are expected to participate in ongoing discussions and weekly peer review. This course is taught in a workshop format.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG523

ENG 553Writing Poetry3

This course is designed to teach the techniques and practice of poetry writing through participation in a process of peer review and commentary, reading and discussions of selections of other poets and poems, and regular submissions of original creative compositions. The course is taught in a workshop format.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG523

ENG 554Writing Fiction3

This course is designed to teach the techniques and practice of fiction writing through participation in a process of peer review and commentary, reading and discussions of selections of other writers and stories, and regular submissions of original creative compositions. The course is taught in a workshop format.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG523, ENG581, or ENG582

ENG 557Writing Fiction: Story Collections/Novel-in-Stories3

This course furthers one’s technique and practice of fiction writing via studying book length story collections and/or story cycles. Contemporary models are considered for their creative melding of varied themes. P.O.V.’s structures, etc. Students are expected to participate in ongoing discussions and weekly peer review. This course is taught in in a workshop format.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG523 or ENG581

ENG 567Long Projects3

The Long Projects class is a multi-genre workshop focusing on generating long projects including memoirs, essay collections, novels, story collections, poetry collections or long poems. Students may choose to work toward their theses in this class but work is not limited to the thesis.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: ENG523, ENG581, ENG582, or ENG583

ENG 569The Fourth River Practicum3

This course is a practicum in which grad students publish the print edition of Chatham’s national literary journal, The Fourth River. All phases of the publishing CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 291

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 572The Literature of Social Engagement3

A course in which students examine literature that engages with social problems. Readings will include poetry, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, scriptwriting, and fiction. In examining these texts, we will analyze the finished product as well as research methods authors used to research a topic and render it on the page.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 580August Wilson and Pittsburgh3

This course explores the dramatic work of August Wilson, paying particular attention to Wilson’s ten-play cycle. We will perform close readings of the plays, examining themes such as urban migration, the blues and Black Nationalism, while simultaneously using Wilson’s drama as a lens for reading the history of Pittsburgh.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 581The Craft of Fiction3

This is a required course for MFA students specializing in fiction. Students will experiment with creating scene, sense of place, summary, dialogue, framing, flashbacks, and transitions. Students will be introduced to the workshop method and given instruction on sending work out for publication.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 582The Art and Craft of Narrative3

Readings and writing in this multi-genre course will focus on constructing narratives in fiction, nonfiction, poetry or writing for children. Students will be introduced to the workshop method and given instruction on sending work out for publication.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 583The Art and Craft of the Lyric3

ONE READINGS COURSE IN PRIMARY GENRE OR MULTI-GENRE

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 584The Environmental Imagination3

This is a multi-genre course that focuses on the art and craft of nature and environmental writing. Students will read and study contemporary nature and environmental writing, and will be expected to generate creative work that illustrates a deep understanding of the literary tools available to writers in this genre.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 585Travel Writing*3

*With graduate instructor and program permission

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 589Creative Writing: Multi-Genre3

ONE NATURE OR TRAVEL WRITING COURSE

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 595Independent Literary Publishing3

This course gives students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience as publishers. Students will research independent literary presses or magazines of their own choosing, and then they will publish a literary chapbook by an author other than themselves. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 292

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 600Foundations of Creative Writing3

This is a first-year tutorial course comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to provide a foundation in creative writing craft for the student writer.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 601Foundations in Literary Analysis3

This is a first-year tutorial course for students choosing the low-res MFA format, comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to provide a foundation in analytical reading and writing for the student writer.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 605Prose Thesis Seminar3

A workshop focusing on generating a thesis proposal, bibliography and significant creative work towards completion of the student’s thesis. Readings will focus on creating and articulating a creative process and vision as well as models for longer creative projects. Normally taken the first semester of the student’s second year, this

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 606Thesis Seminar3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 607Thesis Seminar: Poetry (3) 2024-2025

Subject: ENG
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 621Advanced Literary Analysis I3

This is a first-year mentorship, comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to deepen the development of the student writer. In it, students work one- on-one with a faculty mentor who guides their study of literature and analysis. ENG 621 should build off the work of ENG 601.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 622Advanced Creative Writing I3

This is a first-year mentorship, comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to deepen the development of the student writer. In it, students work one- on-one with a faculty mentor who guides their study of creative writing craft. ENG 622 should build off the work of ENG 600.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 623Advanced Literary Analysis II3

This is a second-year mentorship comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to refine the development of the student writer. In it, students work with a faculty mentor who guides their study of literature and analysis. ENG 623 should build off the work of ENG 621.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 624Advanced Creative Writing II3

This is a second-year mentorship comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to refine the development of the student writer. In it, students work with a faculty mentor who guides their study of advanced creative writing. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 293

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 660Thesis Writing Mentorship3

This is a second-year mentorship course comprised of one teacher and one student; it is designed to expedite the development of the student’s creative thesis project. During the 3-credit mentorship, a student works one-on-one with a faculty mentor who guides the student’s generation of creative thesis materials.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 670The Fallingwater Residency3

The Fallingwater Residency offers an unprecedented opportunity to interact with one of the world’s most iconic architectural sites. Students will spend five days engaging thoughtfully with Fallingwater, High Meadow and Bear Run. Coursework includes pre-reading, individual and guided writing on site and the completion of a polished portfolio of work.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 671The Shadyside Residency3

This in-person residency on Shadyside Campus takes place during the first week of the fall semester. Low-residency MFA students will be oriented to the expectationsof the program and participate in dynamic daily programming. A reflective journal and portfolio of creative work will be due upon return.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 676Artists in the Community3

The field seminar is a traveling creative writing workshop designed to push students outside the realm of comfort and make them question their assumptions about themselves and their culture. Travel locations and specific topics will vary, but will be within Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. May be repeated for credit.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit.
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 678Field Placement3

During this course, taken in one of the final semesters of the M.F.A., students teach/ study in a supervised field placement and practice the pedagogy of creative writing in a working classroom.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 683Special Topics3

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 691Independent Study1

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor

ENG 692Independent Study2

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 2
Credits (max): 2
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor

ENG 693Independent Study3

ONE ELECTIVE COURSE IN CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 154

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 694Internship3

Internship with a publishing company, literary press or other writing organization.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 698Final Manuscript3

Creative Writing, Low-Residency (MFACW) Chatham University’s Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing (MFACW) includes one-on-one mertorships, asynchronous online courses and intenstive onsite residencies. It is a premier graduate program for nurturing creative writers intersted in wrting about the confluence of nature, place, environment, and human identity. Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 709The Eden Hall Residency3

This week-long residency at Eden Hall includes daily attendance in genre-specific writing workshops, craft sessions, lectures, readings and advising conferences. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 294

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 710ISummer Community of Writers – Part One6

Summer community of writers. ENG710II Summer Community of Writers – Part Two (6) Summer community of writers.

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 6
Credits (max): 6
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

ENG 800Graduate Continuing1

ENV: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Subject: ENG
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Credit
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: www.chatham.edu

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