209 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 0701Introduction to Academic Discourse4
English 0701 focuses on writing within a single theme, working on ungraded multiple drafts for assignments, developing skills in summary and textual support presented in appropriate context. Students create a portfolio of their work, including at least four sequenced assignments that culminate in a final project that pulls together critical and literary texts. Multiple individual conferences with the instructor. NOTE: Students placed in English 0701 must earn a final grade of C- or higher in order to be eligible to enroll in English 0802 or English 0812. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed any of the following courses: English 0711, 1001, 1002, 1011, 1012, 0040, 0041, C050, C051, or R050.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
4
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4
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Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
The guidelines for English 0701 are followed in this course, but in the ESL writing classroom there are cross-cultural implications both of what it means to do academic work and also what it means to share historical and cultural knowledge. Oral participation is encouraged as a way of developing fluency and enhancing comfort with participation in American academic settings. Classes are smaller than in English 0701, and teachers spend extended time in tutorial conferences with students. NOTE: English 0711 is designed to accommodate the needs of the ESL learner. Students placed in English 0711 must earn a final grade of C- or higher in order to be eligible to enroll in English 0802 or English 0812. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed any of the following courses: English 0701, 1001, 1002, 1011, 1012, 0040, 0041, C050, C051, or R050.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
4
Credits (max)
4
Credit unit
Credit Hours
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Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Duplicate Courses: This course may not be taken for credit by students who have successfully completed English 0812, 0902, 1002, 1012, 1022, 1977, 1978, C050, C051, H090, or R050. English 0802 takes a broader perspective than 0701 (formerly 0040), requiring students to explore a single theme from the point of multiple disciplines. Early in the semester, English 0802 students work on research and the evaluation of sources, moving through a sequence of papers that develop argumentation and the synthesis of materials. Library research is required, and sessions with librarians are part of the course. Individual and small group conferences will be held during the semester. Evaluation is predicated on a passing final portfolio of at least four assignments that are developed through multiple revisions. NOTE: English 0802 is a prerequisite for IH 0851/0852 (formerly Intellectual Heritage 1196 and 1297), any writing intensive courses, and any course in the College of Liberal Arts numbered 2000-4999.
Duplicate Courses: English 0812 may not be taken for credit by students who have successfully completed English 0802, 0902, 1002, 1012, 1022, 1977, 1978, C050, C051, H090, or R050. English 0812 is designed to accommodate the needs of the ESL learner. The guidelines for English 0802 are followed in this course, but in the ESL writing classroom there are cross-cultural implications both of what it means to do academic work and also what it means to share historical and cultural knowledge. Oral participation is encouraged as a way of developing fluency and enhancing comfort with participation in American academic settings. NOTE: English 0812 is a prerequisite for IH 0851/0852 (formerly Intellectual Heritage 1196 and 1297), any writing intensive courses and any courses in the College of Liberal Arts numbered 2000-4999. Classes are smaller than in English 0802, and teachers spend extended time in tutorial conferences with students.
How did language come about? How many languages are there in the world? How do people co-exist in countries where there are two or more languages? How do babies develop language? Should all immigrants take a language test when applying for citizenship? Should English become an official language of the United States? In this course we will address these and many other questions, taking linguistic facts as a point of departure and considering their implications for our society. Through discussions and hands-on projects, students will learn how to collect, analyze, and interpret language data and how to make informed decisions about language and education policies as voters and community members. NOTE: This course fulfills the Human Behavior (GB) requirement for students under GenEd and Individual & Society (IN) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed any of the following: ANTH 0815/0915, Asian Studies 0815, Chinese 0815, CSCD 0815, EDUC 0815/0915, Italian 0815, PSY 0815, Russian 0815, or Spanish 0815.
This course examines film adaptations, one major way that a canonical author - William Shakespeare - remains relevant and appealing to artists and audiences today. Students study several major plays and various film adaptations, including their cultural, social, and historical contexts, and learn to use appropriate technical terms for discussing drama and film. NOTE: This course fulfills the Arts (GA) requirement for students under GenEd. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed English 0922.
The concept of utopia - a better or more just society - has existed for centuries, but utopia has never been achieved. In fact, both imaginary and historical utopias often devolve into dystopia - a worse or unjust society. This course examines utopia and dystopia in literature, philosophy and history, focusing on relationships between individual and community. NOTE: This course fulfills the Human Behavior (GB) GenEd requirement. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed English 0924.
This course focuses on the art of writing, finding one's voice, and writing for different genres. In a small classroom setting, you will work with the faculty member and other students to improve your writing through work-shopping. Other readings will allow you to develop your craft. By the end of the semester, you will produce a portfolio of your work. NOTE: This course fulfills the Arts (GA) requirement for students under GenEd and Arts (AR) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed English 0926.
From classical Greeks and Romans, who saw themselves under siege by the "barbarian hordes," to contemporary America and its war on "Islamic extremism," from "The Birth of a Nation" to "Alien Nation," Western societies have repeatedly represented some group of people as threats to civilization. This course will examine a wide range of representations of non-Western people and cultures in film, literature, scientific and legal writings, popular culture and artistic expression. What is behind this impulse to divide the world into "us" and "them"? How is it bound up with our understanding of race and racial difference? And what happens when the "barbarian hordes" talk back? NOTE: This course fulfills the Race & Diversity (GD) requirement for students under GenEd and Studies in Race (RS) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed African American Studies 0834, Africology & African American Studies 0834, Anthropology 0834/0934, Asian Studies 0834, English 0934, or History 0834.
You are what you eat, they say, but what, precisely, determines our eating habits and what, exactly, do they say about us? How do these habits influence our relations with others in our communities and beyond? Eating is an activity common to all human beings, but how do the particularities and meanings attributed to this activity vary across different times and places? Using literature, visual media, cookbooks, food-based art, and advertisements as our starting point, we will examine how food perception, production, preparation, consumption, exchange, and representation structure individual and communal identities, as well as relations among individuals and communities around the globe. Our focus on this most basic of needs will allow us to analyze how food conveys and limits self-expression and creates relationships as well as delimits boundaries between individuals and groups. Materials will be drawn from a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to, literary and gender studies, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, and economics. NOTE: This course fulfills the Human Behavior (GB) requirement for students under GenEd and Individual & Society (IN) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed Spanish 0837 or Spanish 0937.
Throughout American history individuals and groups of people, have marched to the beat of a different drummer, and raised their voices in strident protest. Study the story and development of dissent in America. How has dissent shaped American society? In addition to studying the historical antecedents of dissent students will have first-hand experience visiting and studying a present-day dissent organization in the Philadelphia area to investigate connections between the history of dissent and the process of making dissenting opinion heard today. NOTE: This course fulfills the U.S. Society (GU) requirement for students under GenEd and American Culture (AC) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for English 0849/0949 if they have successfully completed History 0849/0949 or SOC 0849.
ENG 0855Why care about College: Higher Education in American Life3
You have decided to go to college. But why? What role will college and in particular Temple University play in your life? Reflect on this important question by looking at the relationship between higher education and American society. What do colleges and universities contribute to our lives? They are, of course, places for teaching and learning. They are also research centers, sports and entertainment venues, sources of community pride and profit, major employers, settings for coming-of-age rituals (parties, wild times, courtship, etc.), and institutions that create lifetime identities and loyalties. Learn how higher education is shaped by the larger society and how, in turn, it has shaped that society. Become better prepared for the world in which you have chosen to live for the next few years. NOTE: This course fulfills the U.S. Society (GU) requirement for students under GenEd and American Culture (AC) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed AMST 0855 or EDAD 0855.
The detective novel remains the most popular of literary forms since its American origins in Edgar Allan Poe. The form has spread to virtually every part of the world, taking on different perspectives in the different societies where it has prospered. Our course analyzes the global travels of this prolific literary genre, paying particular attention to the manner in which its formula of crime-detection-resolution has evolved from its classic phase in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, to its hard-boiled phase in the 1940's US, to the transformation of the private detective working outside the formal apparatus of the law into the police detective working within the law in places as different as Sweden, Holland, Nigeria, and India. We will read bestselling detective novels by figures such as Emile Gaboriau, Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Jorge Borges (Argentina), Vikram Chandra (India), Henning Mankell (Sweden), Janwillem van de Wetering (Holland), Kole Omotosho (Nigeria), and Soji Shimada (Japan). We will pay special attention to the conventions of the form and analyze its evolution as it travels the world. In exploring its global travels, we will attend to a number of issues, including: the changing definition of crime; the evolving representation of the criminal; the changing methods for "solving" the crime; the ideology of justice; the conflicts between community and individuality; and the varying social and national anxieties that the form reveals. DUPLICATE CREDIT WARNING: Students who have received credit for Asian Studies 0857 or Critical Languages 0857 will not receive additional credits for this course.
Learn about a particular national culture - Russian, Indian, French, Japanese, Italian, for example, each focused upon in separate sections of this course - by taking a guided tour of its literature and film. You don't need to speak Russian, Hindi, French or Japanese to take one of these exciting courses, and you will gain the fresh, subtle understanding that comes from integrating across different forms of human expression. Some of the issues that will be illuminated by looking at culture through the lens of literature and film: Family structures and how they are changing, national self-perceptions, pivotal moments in history, economic issues, social change and diversity. NOTE: This course fulfills the World Society (GG) requirement for students under GenEd and International Studies (IS) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed any of the following: Arabic 0868/0968, Asian Studies 0868, Chinese 0868/0968, English 0968, French 0868/0968, German 0868/0968, Hebrew 0868, Italian 0868/0968, Japanese 0868/0968, Jewish Studies 0868, Korean 0868, LAS 0868/0968, Political Science 0868/0968, Russian 0868/0968, or Spanish 0868/0968.
This course centers on a specific theme or topic. Reading assignments may include various literary modes, forms, and genres, as well as historical, technological, and social context. Students will read extensively, conduct original research, write multiple drafts of major writing assignments, participate in class discussion, and give feedback to peers. This course focuses on the same critical competencies as English 0802: Analytical Reading and Writing. Duplicate Credit Warning: English 0902 was previously titled "Honors Literature/Reading/Writing" and "Honors Writing About Literature" and may not be taken for credit by students who have successfully completed English 0802 or equivalent.
This course examines film adaptations, one major way that a canonical author - William Shakespeare - remains relevant and appealing to artists and audiences today. Students study several major plays and various film adaptations, including their cultural, social, and historical contexts, and learn to use appropriate technical terms for discussing drama and film. NOTE: This course fulfills the Arts (GA) requirement for students under GenEd. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed English 0822.
The concept of utopia - a better or more just society - has existed for centuries, but utopia has never been achieved. In fact, both imaginary and historical utopias often devolve into dystopia - a worse or unjust society. This course examines utopia and dystopia in literature, philosophy and history, focusing on relationships between individual and community. NOTE: This course fulfills the Human Behavior (GB) GenEd requirement. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed English 0824.
This course focuses on the art of writing, finding one's voice, and writing for different genres. In a small classroom setting, you will work with the faculty member and other students to improve your writing through work-shopping. Other readings will allow you to develop your craft. By the end of the semester, you will produce a portfolio of your work. NOTE: This course fulfills the Arts (GA) requirement for students under GenEd and Arts (AR) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed English 0826.
From classical Greeks and Romans, who saw themselves under siege by the "barbarian hordes," to contemporary America and its war on "Islamic extremism," from "The Birth of a Nation" to "Alien Nation," Western societies have repeatedly represented some group of people as threats to civilization. This course will examine a wide range of representations of non-Western people and cultures in film, literature, scientific and legal writings, popular culture and artistic expression. What is behind this impulse to divide the world into "us" and "them"? How is it bound up with our understanding of race and racial difference? And what happens when the "barbarian hordes" talk back? NOTE: This course fulfills the Race & Diversity (GD) requirement for students under GenEd and Studies in Race (RS) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed African American Studies 0834, Africology & African American Studies 0834, Anthropology 0834/0934, Asian Studies 0834, English 0834, or History 0834.
Throughout American history individuals and groups of people, have marched to the beat of a different drummer, and raised their voices in strident protest. Study the story and development of dissent in America. How has dissent shaped American society? In addition to studying the historical antecedents of dissent students will have first-hand experience visiting and studying a present-day dissent organization in the Philadelphia area to investigate connections between the history of dissent and the process of making dissenting opinion heard today. (This is an Honors course.) NOTE: This course fulfills the U.S. Society (GU) requirement for students under GenEd and American Culture (AC) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for English 0849/0949 if they have successfully completed History 0849/0949 or SOC 0849.
ENG 0968Honors World Society in Literature & Film3
Learn about a particular national culture - Russian, Indian, French, Japanese, Italian, for example, each focused upon in separate sections of this course - by taking a guided tour of its literature and film. You don't need to speak Russian, Hindi, French or Japanese to take one of these exciting courses, and you will gain the fresh, subtle understanding that comes from integrating across different forms of human expression. Some of the issues that will be illuminated by looking at culture through the lens of literature and film: Family structures and how they are changing, national self-perceptions, pivotal moments in history, economic issues, social change and diversity. (This is an Honors course.) NOTE: This course fulfills the World Society (GG) requirement for students under GenEd and International Studies (IS) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed any of the following: Arabic 0868/0968, Asian Studies 0868, Chinese 0868/0968, English 0868, French 0868/0968, German 0868/0968, Hebrew 0868, Italian 0868/0968, Japanese 0868/0968, Jewish Studies 0868, Korean 0868, LAS 0868/0968, Political Science 0868/0968, Russian 0868/0968, or Spanish 0868/0968.
Designed for freshmen, sophomores, new transfer students, and those who have not declared a major, this course is an introduction to the English major at Temple. It offers an overview of the field of English Studies and the various options, resources, and opportunities available to majors, with an emphasis on academic and professional planning.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
1
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Credit Hour
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Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
ENG 1801Professional Development for English Majors1
This course will focus on how English majors can prepare for a broad array of fields and careers. Covers multiple topics, such as application-ready resumes, networking, professional interviews, internships, and additional related employment strategies. Because there is significant overlap in course content, students will receive credit for only one of these courses: CLA 1002, CJ 1002, ENG 1801, HIST 1012, NSCI 1002, POLS 1002, PSY 1002, SOC 1002. Note: This course was formerly titled "Career Seminar." Students who earned credits for this course under the prior title will not earn additional credits for the new course title.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
1
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Credit Hour
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Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This introductory course is designed for English majors, English minors, and any student interested in interpreting poetry, fiction, and drama. Students will learn to identify and name aspects of literary form, to describe relationships among literary texts, and to write original arguments about the meaning and value of specific literary works. In addition to their role in academic study, these analytic and writing skills are useful in many employment and creative contexts today.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
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Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Workshop in which students read and discuss one another's material and develop skills as both writers and readers. Students may read selected contemporary American poets, but the main texts will be those produced by members of the class.Note: This course may be taken a maximum of two times for credit, and all attempts will be factored into a student's cumulative GPA.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
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Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.
Workshop in which students read and discuss one another's material and develop skills as both writers and readers. Students may read selected contemporary American works of fiction, but the main texts will be those produced by members of the class. Beginning writers welcome, but thorough grounding in the conventions of grammar, spelling, and punctuation is essential.Note: This course may be taken a maximum of two times for credit, and all attempts will be factored into a student's cumulative GPA.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
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Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.
Workshop in which students read and discuss one another's material and develop skills as both writers and readers. Students may consider dramatic and stylistic problems in selected contemporary American plays, but the main texts will be those produced by members of the class.Note: This course may be taken a maximum of two times for credit, and all attempts will be factored into a student's cumulative GPA.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.
This course introduces students to the demands of writing articles and stories drawn from observation, reflection, and analysis for a public audience. Genres highlighted in the course may include personal essays, lyric essays, research-based reportage, and various hybrid forms that make up the current practice of creative non-fiction. This course was previously offered as ENG 2496 and ENG 2006 under the title "Introduction to Non-Fiction". Students who have taken prior iterations of this course will not earn additional credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
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Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Meets the writing needs of people in business and industry and students who plan professional careers. Extensive practice in various forms of writing appropriate to all levels of management, including reports, proposals, memoranda, and letters. Instruction in research techniques and the writing of a formal researched report on a business topic. Job applications, letters of inquiry, and resumés. Students who have earned credit for English 2596, Business Administration 2196 or Business Administration 2996 will not earn additional credit for this course.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
For students in engineering and related fields. Covers style, organization, and mechanics of technical papers, with emphasis on special problems that face the technical writer: analyses and descriptions of objects and processes, reports, proposals, business correspondence, and research papers. Students write a number of short reports and one long research paper. By the end of the course, professional standards of accuracy in mechanics and presentation are expected. Some impromptu writing exercises. Note: Students who have earned credit in ENG 2696 or SCTC 2396 will not earn additional credit for this course.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Designed to improve writing skills in general and teach students to use library and online resources, conduct research, and organize and present the acquired information effectively. Readings may be assigned, but class and conference time are devoted principally to analysis and discussion of research and writing problems. Students write a total of approximately 5000 words in essays and exercises related to a research project. Students who have earned credit for English 2796 will not earn additional credit for English 2009.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course will study some of the main approaches and theories used to interpret texts. Readings will include literature, exemplary criticism, and theory.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An introduction to the intellectual climate which has shaped literary studies. This course was previously taught as "Intellectual Contexts of Literary Study." Students who have earned credits under the prior title will not earn additional credits.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of literary ideas and patterns that have persisted from ancient times to the present in varying forms. Readings may begin with classical texts in translation and will include selected works of literature from various periods. NOTE: Students will only receive credit one time for either ENG 2014 or GRC 2011.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
ENG 2022Beyond the Field: Sports and Storytelling3
This is a course about storytelling, about trying to turn the raw materials of a game into something more interesting than just the final score. Although the particulars change, there are only a handful of plots in sport: troubled athlete seeks redemption, old champion past her prime, young challenger on the rise, athlete plays through the pain (or not), hopeless team seeks hope, bad luck occurs, good luck occurs. There is challenge and opportunity in the familiarity of sports narratives; the writer needs to work harder than ever to avoid cliche, but they also have many models for instruction. In this course, we will study what makes contemporary sports writing work, how to develop your voice, and how to hone your writing to tell the most compelling and unique possible stories about the games we play.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This introductory course for English majors serves as a gateway to the study of literature and other texts in related subfields undertaken by those in English. This course is also designated as writing intensive and special attention will be given to the writing and research process, including locating secondary sources and how to use them correctly and effectively. Spirited discussion and individual conferences will be a distinctive feature of this course.
ENG 2103Writing and Generative Artificial Intelligence3
This course will help students acquire professional writing skills and related communication strategies enabled by artificial intelligence (AI). Topics to be covered include the potential benefits and limitations of AI, how AI can be used to generate professional content, and the development of digital literacy skills. Class assignments will be designed to expose students to specific writing genres and to prepare them for professional industries they might join.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
The memoir is one of the most popular genres of writing in the United States, but it is a broader and more complex form than many realize. In this course, we will read and analyze numerous approaches to the contemporary memoir, and also work toward producing our own personal narratives. The reading in this course is designed to broaden your knowledge of the form and serve as models for your own work. In addition to the readings, we will complete several short creative assignments, which will culminate in students writing a chapter of their own memoir. Everyone wants to tell their story; this class is a step toward learning how to do so.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
ENG 2110Dark Academia: The Literature of College Life3
Dark academia is an emerging literary genre that resists prevailing notions of institutions of higher education as idyllic settings and, instead, depicts colleges and universities as eerie, gothic-like establishments. Readings take the form of coming-of-age novels, murder mysteries, and campus thrillers -- all involving students in academic settings intensely dedicated to romanticized pursuits of knowledge. Dark and twisty themes prevail: plots typically include secret societies, ancient rituals, and danger of all kinds. Attention will be paid both to classics and newer titles that define and diversify the genre and may include related film, television, and social media. Note: The content of this course will vary and may be repeated for additional credits.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
A study of selected works that have been written or adapted for children from the eighteenth century to the present, including subgenres such as fairy tales, nonsense literature, fantasy and historical fiction, and graphic novels. Focuses primarily on literary texts but may also include film and other media. Note: Formerly known as "Children's Literature and Folklore." Students who earned credits for this course under the prior title will not earn additional credits for the new course title.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
What is the role of literature in social change? How do literary texts perpetuate or reinforce certain forms of social justice? How do they shed light on or give voice to the experience of marginalized individuals for the purposes of social justice? This course will answer these questions by considering the increased role in storytelling and exploring how particular forms of social justice are represented in literary texts. Material to be examined will include various genres of literature and related texts: film, television, music recordings and social media. Particular social justices will vary depending on course material, but the course is designed for students to learn about and engage vigorously with the realities of social injustice and political struggle.
A study of young adult literature from the genre's commercial emergence in the 1950s to the present, including subgenres such as fantasy and speculative fiction, historical fiction, graphic novels and mystery. Focuses primarily on literary texts but may also include film and other media, as well as work on adolescent psychology and youth culture.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course brings a Disability Studies perspective to a wide range of literature and considers how disability and its representations intersect with other social identities such as race, gender, nation and class.
This course will present students with an introduction to the genre of the contemporary graphic novel. Each week will focus on a new sub-genre, or theme and include a variety of texts. Examples of these may include graphic journalism, memoirs, autobiographies, as well as more traditionally defined graphic novels. Students will examine the methods of this form of visual storytelling through an analysis of the image-text relationship.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
In this course students will read a survey of literature that will be organized around various apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic themes (nuclear, ecological, technological, extraterrestrial, contagious diseases, etc.). Readings may take the form of novels, short fiction, poetry, drama, and graphic novels. Topics to be covered include imminent crises, unthinkable catastrophes, and oppressions of all forms in numerous cultural and political contexts. Course members will read both classic and newer titles that define and diversify the genre, and attention may be paid towards related popular media.
This course will explore the intersections of literature and medicine and the human experience of illness and care. Primary course readings will examine the various ways in which medical experiences intersect with literary genres and how individual narratives of illness, health, and care illuminate larger social concerns, anxieties, and ethical questions that shape a given society. Students will engage with narrative strategies across a range of literary periods, paying attention to representations of health, disease, the medical profession, and the human body. The course may include a variety of storytelling media, including news sources, television, podcasts, film, and documentary specials.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Variable-content course that focuses on texts written by women and/or queer and nonbinary writers in order to explore how gender operates in literature and culture. Note: Formerly known as "Topics in Women's Literature" (ENG 2160) and as "Women in Literature" (WMST 2197 and ENG 2197). Students may earn up to 6 credits of coursework taken from the following courses: ENG 2160, ENG 2197, GSWS 2160, WMST 2160, WMST 2197.
This course investigates literary representations of the city, considering how poems, novels and other texts are shaped by urban spaces, and how urban spaces are shaped by texts.
This course focuses on the interdisciplinary field of Law and Literature by studying novels, short stories, poetry, graphic novels, and nonfiction alongside legal documents. Covered topics will vary from semester to semester but will include some of the following: civil rights, slavery, free speech, employment law, sex and gender, immigration, the environment, disability rights, Native American rights, and technology.
An exploration of the mythological and historical aspects of legend. Subjects may include King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, and the Grail; Celtic folklore; and modern fantasy.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of the major plays of Shakespeare, including comedies, tragedies, and histories. May focus primarily on the plays as literature, or may study them as performed texts. Note: Formerly known as Shakespeare (Writing Intensive) ENG 2297. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: ENG 2297 or ENG 2221.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course will focus on books that have faced obscenity charges or been successfully banned from schools and public libraries because of content deemed inappropriate, transgressive, forbidden, or too provocative. Topics to be covered include forms of censorship, first amendment rights, and reading as a political act. The course may be organized around a particular theme or genre, and students will read books that have been and remain controversial.
A study of American playwrights from O'Neill to the present. Principles of dramatic analysis, the distinctively American qualities of the plays and their debt to modern European drama. Writers may include Williams, Miller, Hellman, Hansberry, Baraka, Fuller, Wilson, Mamet, Rabe, Fornes, Shepard.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A survey of African-American literature from its beginnings to the early 20th century--poetry, prose, slave narratives, and fiction--including the works of authors such as Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, W. W. Brown, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Charles Chesnutt, B.T. Washington, J.W. Johnson, and W.E.B. DuBois. An examination of racial consciousness as a theme rooted in social and historical developments, with special emphasis on national, cultural, and racial identity, color, caste, oppression, resistance, and other concepts related to race and racism emerging in key texts of the period. NOTE: This course can be used to satisfy the university Core Studies in Race (RS) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.
A survey of African-American literature from 1915 to the present, including poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. Analysis of developments in racial consciousness, from "race pride" to the Black Aesthetic and the influences on literature brought about by interracial conflicts, social and historical concepts such as assimilation and integration, and changing notions of culture. Authors such as Toomer, Hughes, McKay, Hurston, Brown, Larsen, Wright, Baldwin, Hansberry, Ellison, Baraka, Morrison, and others. NOTE: This course can be used to satisfy the university Core Studies in Race (RS) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.
This course studies selected British texts over a period of 150 years or more, in their historical context. It considers how history can shape writing and how writing can influence history. Prior to spring 2024, this course was named "Introduction to British Writing"; students will receive credit for only one iteration of this course number.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course studies selected American texts over a period of 150 years or more, in their historical context. It considers how history can shape writing and how writing can influence history. Prior to spring 2024, this course was named "Introduction to American Writing"; students will receive credit for only one iteration of this course number.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course studies selected Global texts, whether from the Anglophone world or from foreign cultures and translated into English, over a period of 150 years or more, in their historical context. It considers how history can shape writing and how writing can influence history. Prior to spring 2024, this course was named "Introduction to Global Writing"; students will receive credit for only one iteration of this course number.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A survey of African American literature, including poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. Analysis of developments in racial consciousness, from "race pride" to the Black Aesthetic and the influences on literature brought about by interracial conflicts, social and historical concepts such as assimilation and integration, and changing notions of culture. Authors such as Toomer, Hughes, McKay, Hurston, Brown, Larsen, Wright, Baldwin, Hansberry, Ellison, Baraka, Morrison, and others. Note: Prior to 2024, this course was ENG 2402: African-American Literature II; students can receive credit only once for either ENG 2402 or ENG 2504.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A survey of science fiction as a specific literary form with emphasis on history, themes, relationships to the cultural contexts that shape the genre. Novels and short stories by a number of influential authors will be read and discussed.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A survey of Diasporic Literature as a specific literary form with emphasis on history, themes, and relationships to the cultural contexts that shape the genre. Novels and short stories by a number of influential authors will be read and discussed.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course will introduce students to the poetry of the early to mid-twentieth century. Emphasis will be on American Modernist poets, including those of major movements and literary schools, such as Imagism, Harlem Renaissance, and Objectivist Poets.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course will introduce students to late 19th-century and early 20th-century novels, with special attention to formal experimentation by such writers as Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Virginia Woolf.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of major works of representative late 19th century and early 20th century playwrights, such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, O'Neill, Shaw. Emphasis on social and intellectual background, dramatic art, and the role of theater in social controversy.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An examination of important trends through selected literary works of the late 20th century. Emphasis on American fiction, with a sampling of works from other countries and genres. Authors may include Bellow, Coover, Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison, Hughes, Calvino, Garcia Marquez.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An introduction to modern world literatures in English or English translation, within the context of colonialism, anti-colonial resistance, and postcolonial movements. Content and geographical focus vary each semester.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
For students in engineering and related fields. Covers style, organization, and mechanics of technical papers, with emphasis on special problems that face the technical writer: analyses and descriptions of objects and processes, reports, proposals, business correspondence, and research papers. Students write a number of short reports and one long research paper. By the end of the course, professional standards of accuracy in mechanics and presentation are expected. Some impromptu writing exercises.
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of film analysis. Students will learn about the construction of film narrative, as well as about formal elements of film, including principles of editing, mise-en-scene, and sound. The course also provides an introduction to issues in film studies including the meaning of film genre, the role of the film star, and authorship in the cinema. The course will focus on narrative feature films from the Classical Hollywood cinema, but will include attention to nonfiction practice as well as avant-garde European and Soviet alternatives to Hollywood. Films discussed include works by Hitchcock, Porter, Griffith, Vertov, Lang, Renoir, Hawks, Deren, and Welles. NOTE: In conjunction with English 2297 (W133), may be offered as Shakespeare in Film. Duplicate credit warning: Students who have completed this course under the old title, "Introduction to Cinema Studies," should not take this course as they will not receive duplicate credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An examination, through masterpieces of world cinema, of international film cultures and national cinemas, with emphasis on the cultural, sociopolitical, and theoretical contexts. Offers a global context for film and other arts. NOTE: Variable content; may be given as post-World War II European film, French film, Third World film; consult the Undergraduate English Office or English web page for details.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course will provide students with experience in the types of writing practiced in careers that support the arts. Students will research both individual artists (writers, visual artists, and performers such as actors, dancers, musicians, and comedians) and the companies, organizations and cultural institutions that present their work to the public. By the end of the semester, students will have compiled a portfolio of professional pieces in multiple genres of arts writing: a reader's report, a profile, a press release, a review, and posts across a variety of media platforms.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An introduction to the elements of human language such as phonology, morphology, and syntax, with attention to the development of learning language and language variation.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An exploration of the social context for reading and writing: how concepts of literacy can reinforce, elaborate, or threaten established social orders. Experiential study of how the written word is used; self-observation of our own writing practices and observation of others engaged in puzzling out the world through books, letters, pamphlets, flyers, newspapers, textbooks, billboards, signs, and labels. The purpose is to see literacy in action, see written documents shaping lives and see lives shaping written language. Reading about literacy, and a service or experiential component. Students who earned credit for English 2897 will not earn additional credits for this course.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
How is science written and how is scientific writing read? Classwork will include the writing and analysis of scientific texts for popular and learned audiences. We will study popular magazine, newsletters, and research journal writing, scientific web sites, museum exhibits and even science fiction, learning to address differing levels of scientific interest and literacy. This course was formerly known as ENG 2898 and entitled "Texts/Cultures of Science." Students who successfully completed the prior version of this course will not receive additional credit for "Science Writing."
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A survey of literary criticism from Plato to the mid-20th century. Key questions in literary theory: What is literature compared to other forms of discourse? Does literature mimic or create? Does literary value adhere to or challenge standards of philosophical or empirical truth? What is the source of literary creation? How does literary value shape social change? These and other questions are addressed through readings in literary and theoretical texts.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Comparative study of literary theories from the 1960s to the present. Survey of several contemporary critical schools, including deconstructionist, neo-psychological, neo-Marxist, new historical, feminist, sociological, and aesthetic criticism.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Workshop intended to help advanced writers produce, revise, and critique poetry. The premise is that in order to learn to make poems, one needs to learn to read like a poet; in addition to producing original work, therefore, students may read and discuss work by certain contemporary poets.Note: Prior to Fall 2023, this course was titled "Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry." This course may be taken a maximum of two times for credit, and all attempts will be factored into a student's cumulative GPA.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.Pre-requisites: Minimum grade of C- in ENG 2003.
Workshop intended to help advanced writers produce, revise and critique fiction. In addition to producing original work, students may read and discuss certain contemporary writers and theories of fiction.Note: Prior to Fall 2023, this course was titled "Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry." This course may be taken a maximum of two times for credit, and all attempts will be factored into a student's cumulative GPA.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.Pre-requisites: Minimum grade of C- in ENG 2004.
Workshop intended to help advanced writers produce, revise, and critique plays. In addition to writing original work, students may read and discuss work by certain contemporary playwrights.Note: This course may be taken a maximum of two times for credit, and all attempts will be factored into a student's cumulative GPA.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.Pre-requisites: Minimum grade of C- in ENG 2005.
This course is designed to support advanced professional writing students' work on a web portfolio. Major course projects other than the portfolio will include work in conceptualizing and designing writing portfolios, reflecting on the role of electronic portfolios in education, and drafting portfolio designs. This course will also use instructional time to help participants revise writings for their portfolio and learn the principles and practices of Web design.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course traces the development of the ancient Greek theater, from its invention when Thespis stepped out of the chorus to sing solos, through the important tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides that addressed the great questions of individual, the gods and society, through the early comedies of Aristophanes, to the final evolution of the ancient theater into something we would call melodrama and sit-com. We will study the development of the physical theaters in Athens and the wider Mediterranean, ancient staging techniques, the development of the early acting profession, the portrayal of women in Athenian theater, and the complex relationship between Athenian theater and democracy, as well as with religion. As the scholarly ground of the ancient Greek theater has shifted radically over the past forty years and continues to move, students will participate in the fundamental questions in this exciting field. This course is a "Pre-1800" elective for English majors. Duplicate Credit Warning: This course is cross-listed with GRC 3011. Students who have earned credits for GRC 3011 will not earn additional credits for this course.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Allows students in their junior and senior year to pursue serious independent research in a subject too specialized or too advanced to appear as a regular course offering.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hour
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
The mission of English 3085 is to assist and prepare students in securing hands-on work experience related to their career goals and interests and to provide students with an opportunity to acquire experience and skills needed to gain a competitive advantage upon entering the workforce. The course may be taken one time for 1-12 credits, depending on the number of hours worked. If taken for 3 or more credits, this course may count as one elective in the English major, minor, or Certificate in Professional Writing.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
12
Credit unit
Credit Hour
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Focusing on three or four major texts, this course will teach students how to analyze and respond to critical essays about the texts. It prepares students to do advanced research using library and online sources, and to use the results of their research to develop their own arguments about the text.
Readings in contemporary theorists who describe how the values of a culture are encoded in its language and who analyze the difficulty of escaping the prison house of language. How gender roles are created in and enforced by our symbol systems; how specific discourses change, how those changes can be facilitated, and how a new discourse is then read. Along with theoretical readings, some consideration of feminist applications of these strategies in politics, literature, music, and film. NOTE: Students will earn credit only one time for either ENG 3097 or GSWS 3097.
In-depth study of ideas, languages, and cultural stances in literature written by women. Students who have earned credit for English 3197 will not earn additional credit for this course. NOTE: Variable content; consult Undergraduate English Office or English web page for details.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course is meant to serve as a culmination of the Creative Writing minor for students who have taken one introductory level poetry workshop and one intermediate-level poetry workshop. This is an intensive, advanced reading and writing creative workshop. The coursework will generate a semester project that has both creative and critical components. Students outside of the minor, or who have followed the fiction sequence, may take this course with instructor permission.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.Pre-requisites: Minimum grade of C- in ENG 2003 and ENG 3003.
This course is meant to serve as a culmination of the Creative Writing minor for students who have taken one introductory level fiction workshop and one intermediate-level fiction workshop. This is an intensive, advanced reading and writing creative workshop. The coursework will generate a semester project that has both creative and critical components. Students outside of the minor, or who have followed the poetry sequence, may take this course with instructor permission.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.Pre-requisites: Minimum grade of C- in ENG 2004 and ENG 3004.
A reading and analysis of a wide range of continental European drama. Representative works from such great ages of drama as classical Greek and Roman, French neoclassic, and modern. Readings may include plays by Aeschylus, Euripides, Terence, Calderon, Racine, Moliere, Goethe, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Beckett.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
In this course, we will investigate what LGBTQIA-themed fiction tells us about queer sexuality gender identity, how individuals form this identity, how an understanding (both conscious and unconscious) of this identity impacts individuals, and how the expression of sexuality and/or gender identity dictates behavior, particularly in the LGBTQIA community. Beginning with a foundation in queer theory and various literary devices, students will build a theoretical vocabulary and lens through which to analyze a series of novels. The chosen novels reflect authors or works considered part of the literary LGBTQIA "cannon." Note: Students can receive credit only for one course from this list: GSWS 3205, LGBT 3205, or ENG 3205.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
In this course, we will investigate what various LGBTQ-themed novels tell us about LGBTQ life in the 21st Century. Starting with a historical approach of how LGBTQ novels were shaped by attitudes about LGBTQ life in the 20th century, we will determine how the representation of LGBTQ lives have evolved in novels. Our novels will explore the lives of people from across the LGBTQ spectrum. A number of the protagonists' identities also represent important intersectional identities as well, such as nationality, religion, and race. Beginning with a foundation in LGBTQ theory and various literary devices, students will build a theoretical vocabulary and lens through which to analyze a series of contemporary LGBTQ novels. NOTE: Students can receive credit only once for ENG 3206, GSWS 3206, or LGBT 3206.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An introduction to the language, literature, and culture of Anglo-Saxon England. Short poems, excerpts from sermons, Bede, the Bible, and Beowulf. All works read in the original Old English. NOTE: No previous knowledge of Old English necessary.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Literature of the Middle English period, as well as the relation of the literature to the traditions of medieval literature throughout Western Europe. Works may include The Owl and the Nightingale, Pearl, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and selections from the mystery and morality plays, all usually read in the original in well-annotated texts. NOTE: No previous knowledge of Middle English necessary.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This study of the first major poet of the English tradition will focus on the theoretical as well as practical problems he poses for the modern reader. Readings include early dream visions and the Canterbury Tales and selections from Chaucer's sources and contemporaries to help students understand literary and social contexts. NOTE: No previous experience with Middle English required.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
In-depth readings of selected major plays, usually including histories, comedies, and tragedies. Close textual analysis, social context, and philosophical background. NOTE: Assumes completion of at least one 2000-level literature course.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Studies in Tudor and Stuart literature. May focus on a single author or group of authors or be organized generically or thematically. Possible topics include Spenser, Elizabethan courtly literature, lyric, pastoral, and prose fiction. NOTE: Variable content; see the Undergraduate English Office or English web page for details.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of John Milton's poetry and prose in its cultural and historical context. The course will begin with shorter poems, such as "Lycidas," and spend the majority of the semester on "Paradise Lost." Selected prose will highlight Milton's views on religion, divorce, and censorship.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course will explore the genre of historical fiction and focus on readings that are set in the past. Fictional representations of history will vary but class topics will examine the differences between fiction and history and the way in which they work together to produce a unique and rich form of storytelling. Students will be encouraged to think about how accurate historical fiction needs to be, and they will consider the different creative ways that authors engage with historical facts as well as historical gaps or silences. Attention may also be paid to film and television adaptations and how history merges with literary and writing traditions.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Readings in the major texts, authors, genres, and cultural institutions of the period, 1660-1800. Classes may focus on more specialized time periods (like The Restoration) or topics (colonialism and literature) or genres (forms of comedy) or range more widely. Authors may include: Behn, Milton, Dryden, Rochester, Defoe, Swift, Finch, Pope, Addison, Steele, Montagu, Fielding, Richardson, Johnson, Boswell, Collins,Gray, and Burns.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of the complex emergence of the novel as a genre in English. Begins in the latter part of the 17th century and early 18th century with authors such as Bunyan and Behn and Defoe and then considers various foundational and revisionary texts, by authors including Richardson, Fielding, Lennox, Burney, and Sterne. Concludes with figures key to the Gothic, the novel of manners, and the historical novel, such as Radcliffe, Austen, and Scott. Key topics may include the relationship of the novel to changing understandings of fact and fiction, to shifting ideas of gender roles, to colonial expansion, and contests over national identity major novelists of the 18th century, beginning with authors Defoe, extending through Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Sterne, and ending with Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen. Emphasis on the social and cultural contexts, narrative form and style, and factors leading to the emergence of the novel as a genre in English.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of British literature and culture at the turn of the nineteenth century. Covers multiple genres, including poetry, Gothic fiction, political prose, and abolitionist writing. Note: This course was previously titled "English Romanticism." Students who earned credit under the prior title will not earn additional credits under the new title.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An introduction to the range of Victorian literature, including writers such as Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Hardy.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of works by Bronte, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy, among others. These writers wrote novels intended to entertain and instruct, and were not above appealing to laughter and tears or causing their readers to share their moral fervor or indignation. The goal is an understanding of the social and artistic significance of these works in light of the world in which they emerged.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course will focus on a single author who has made significant contributions to literary culture and allow students to explore multiple methods of examining an author's work, including historical context, literary biography, adaptation, close reading, and contemporary criticism. In this course, students will contemplate the historical impact of an author's literary contribution, as well as the distinct style and strategy that make the author's writing unique.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A reading of great novels from the first quarter of the 20th century, the high point of English modernism. May include Conrad's Lord Jim, Woolf's To The Lighthouse, and Joyce's Ulysses. A reevaluation of the achievement of modernism from the perspective of the postmodern age, with the focus on kinds of modernism, kinds of irony, the reinvention of narrative form, and the works' social and moral implications.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of selected modern Irish writers, emphasizing close reading, psychological concepts, and cultural history. Writers may include Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Kinsella, and Heaney.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of the development of a distinctively American character in American literature from 1830 to 1865. Traces the literary expression of America's growing consciousness of its own identity; the literary romanticism of Poe and Emerson, the darker pessimism of Hawthorne and Melville, the affirmative optimism of Thoreau and Whitman; technical innovations in poetry, including that of Emily Dickinson.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of the diverse styles, subject matters, and theories of prose fiction in the late 19th century in terms of their challenge to and/or incorporation of earlier prose styles. Included will be the early realists (Chesnutt, Davis, Cahan, Sedgwick), later realists (James, Jewett, Howells, Garland, Chopin, Cable), and the naturalists (Crane, Norris, Wharton, Frederic, Dreiser).
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Technique and subject -- the how and the what -- of a group of American novels from the first half of the 20th century, by such writers as Stein, Anderson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hurston, West, and H. Roth.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A reading and analysis of representative works of late 20th century fiction, some realistic, some experimental, some mid-way between, leading to a sense of the options available to a writer now. Texts may include Bellow, Updike, Barth, Vonnegut, and such recent writers as Morrison, Auster, Mukherjee, Cisneros, Alexie.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of social issues as explored in U.S. literature and the social context in which literature is produced. May be offered as The Arts in America, Literature of Slavery, etc. Note: Variable content; consult the English Department's web page for details.Note: This course may be taken a maximum of two times for credit, and all attempts will be factored into a student's cumulative GPA.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.
This course will focus on representations of trauma in literature and culture. Class discussions and assignments will explore questions such as: how do narratives about trauma help us think through or process traumatic events and experiences? Is it possible to bear witness to another person's or another culture's pain and suffering without exploiting those who have been traumatized? How do our course texts shape and respond to the politics of representation as they exist within the texts' historical and cultural contexts? A range of literary genres and narrative techniques may be covered, such as poetry, graphic narratives, fiction and non-fiction, and attention may also be paid to film, photography, and other cultural artifacts and institutions devoted to documenting trauma.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
ENG 3411Studies in African-American Literary Genre3
This variable content course will explore traditions, themes, or periods in African-American literature by foregrounding issues of genre. The focus may be on a single genre or set of generic conventions, such as drama, the protest novel, biography and letters, or the slave narrative, or on such topics as the influence of oral culture or the figure of testimony in diverse literary genres.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
The Harlem Renaissance represents the first period in Black productivity in all of the arts. The purpose of this course is to explore the themes, genres, and authors that define the literary arena of the Harlem Renaissance. This course will include the ideas and works of such figures as W.E.B. DuBois, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay and Zora Neale Hurston.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of African American literary criticism, including writer-theorists, the Black Arts Movements, Black feminism and womanism, post-structuralism, Afropessimism, and Afrofuturism. Readings may include literary, philosophical, and critical works, as well as historical and social context.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course explores literary and visual depictions of African Americans from the debut of blackface in minstrel shows to contemporary television. Note: Prior to Spring 2025, the course was titled "Blacks/Literature/Drama/Media." Students who have earned credits under the original title will not earn additional credits.
A study of selected literary, cultural, and political issues as they affect recent writing in diverse cultures and nations; offered variously as Postcolonial Literature, Resistance Literature, Literature of Exile, and the like. Note: Consult the Undergraduate English Office or English web page for details.Note: This course may be taken a maximum of two times for credit, and all attempts will be factored into a student's cumulative GPA.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.
Exploration of the major issues in world poetry of the late 20th century. Theories and practice of postmodernism; the relation of poetry to other arts; the cultural contexts in which poetry is produced.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Recent Anglophone novels and short stories from India, Africa, Canada, Australia, and multicultural England. Memory and self-invention, new forms of narrative, the politics of language, and the forging of national and international conscience in work by such writers as Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Nuruddin Farah, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Michael Ondaatje, Peter Carey, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ben Okri.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A study of European and American drama in the latter part of the 20th century, with equal attention to dramatic and theatrical values. May include Wilder, Miller, Williams, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, Brecht, Duerrenmatt, Shepard, and Mamet.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An examination of important developments in late 20th century literature. May be offered as Post-Modernist literature (such figures as Barth, Pynchon, Borges, Robbe-Grillett, Butor, Duras, Gombrowicz, Kundera, Garcia Marquez, Coover, Winterson) or as Magic Realism (Garcia Marquez, Calvino, Okri, Rushdie). Note: Variable content; consult the Undergraduate English Office or English web page for details.Note: This course may be taken a maximum of two times for credit, and all attempts will be factored into a student's cumulative GPA.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.
This course will examine crime as a particularly fascinating and popular literary genre. Primary course readings will explore the various ways in which crime blends with literary genres and how individual crimes are a way to read larger social concerns, anxieties, and fears that structure a given society. Secondary readings will address topics including but not necessarily limited to narrative staples of the genre, literary depictions of criminals and criminal activity, and evidence-based storytelling practices that will encourage course members to think about crime in relation to methods, analyses, and theories that result in shifting definitions of the genre. Students will become acquainted with classic and contemporary stories paying attention to crime and the course may include a variety of media, including news sources, television, podcasts, film, and documentary specials.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This junior-level seminar takes a focused approach to the literature and cultural production of one or two regions of the formerly colonized world: Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Australia, and the Pacific. Specific concentrations may center around the emergence and future of the postcolonial literature in question, or on the evolution of a genre (novel, Bildungsroman, poetry, or theater) in light of a selected topic (gender, hybridity, exile, nationalism, or globalization, among others). Please consult individual course listings for specific topics.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
In-depth study of particular issues and questions related to cinema history, culture, and theory. Focus may be on a specific period in film history (such as German Expressionist Cinema), an interdisciplinary topic (such as Women and Film), a film genre (such as American Documentary Film), or a textual problem (such as The Development of Film Narrative). Note: Consult the Undergraduate English Office or English web page for details.Note: This course may be taken a maximum of two times for credit, and all attempts will be factored into a student's cumulative GPA.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.
ENG 3810Topics in Professional Writing, Editing, and Publishing3
This course will be a hands-on, practical class in editing and producing a literary journal, with crash courses in typography, copyediting, and Web design. Initially students will edit, copyedit, proofread, typeset, design, print, and bind a chapbook of a fellow student's poetry or fiction. They will then design or redesign an author website. Finally, students will present a mockup of a dream online magazine.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.Pre-requisites: Minimum grade of C- in (ENG 2001, ENG 2003, ENG 2004, or ENG 2005)
An examination of theories related to language use, both written and oral. This course introduces students to the field of rhetoric and composition. Will include projects that apply theories to classroom and non-academic literacy settings.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An examination of problems and issues associated with particular kinds of writing - e.g., biography, memoir, political essays. May include reading in contemporary works, but the intention is for students to bridge the gap between theory and practice by producing texts of their own. NOTE: Variable content; consult the Undergraduate English Office or English web page for details.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course will be a hands-on, practical class in editing and producing a literary journal, with crash courses in typography, copyediting, and Web design. Initially students will edit, copyedit, proofread, typeset, design, print, and bind a chapbook of a fellow student's poetry or fiction. They will then design or redesign an author website. Finally, students will present a mockup of a dream online magazine.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.Pre-requisites: Minimum grade of C- in ENG 2001.
A review of traditional grammar parts of speech, subordination, pronoun case, parallelism, modifier placement, punctuation, etc., using the theories and techniques of modern theoretical linguistics. Students perfect their own grammatical knowledge by writing and by exploring linguistic analyses of common writing errors and how to correct them. The linguistic properties of effective prose also discussed.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
"You can't cook eggplant too long." Nobody who speaks English has any trouble understanding that sentence. However, it can mean both one thing (perhaps that eggplant is best eaten rare) and its opposite (eggplant can be cooked indefinitely long with no bad effects). This course on meaning in language will investigate meaning that arises from the structure of sentences and their use, as well as the meanings of words and phrases.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
How and why did the language of Beowulf become, successively, the language of Chaucer, of Shakespeare, of Swift, James, and Hemingway? In surveying the historical development of English language and style, this course will focus where possible on literary texts, and seek to demonstrate how useful a historical grasp of language can be to the appreciation of literature.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
A kidnapper leaves a ransom note. Can the writing style be used to identify a suspect? How do we know if someone has consented to a vehicle search? Can an implication count as a refusal? Every step of the legal process involves a close look at language, from creating laws, analyzing spoken or written evidence, interrogating suspects, or determining language crimes such as perjury or threats of violence. This course provides an introduction to forensic linguistics, or the application of linguistics within legal settings, using real life examples of language from forensic evidence, interactions between police and suspects, and courtrooms.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
All 4000-level courses are senior capstone courses designed for advanced English majors. These courses make a close study of a defined body of literary work, using current critical and research methods. Students will be engaged in independent research, reading and critical thought and may be required to write research papers. NOTE: Required for all English majors. Should be taken during the senior year. Variable content; consult the Undergraduate English Office for details.
ENG 5001Introduction to Graduate Study in English3
This course offers practice in a variety of written genres vital to professional life in higher education: the abstract, the proposal, the conference paper, the review, and the writing sample. It also requires students to learn (and intervene in) at least one critical debate. The course is designed to help professionalize graduate students who wish to pursue an academic job by teaching the tools and methods of literary scholarship, including library/database skills, archival research, historical research, critical theory, and textual editing. However, as a history and study of the profession, it should also be helpful to those wishing to learn how institutions of higher education operate and better understand the stakes and stakeholders who are committed to continuing humanities education. In addition to the writing assignments already mentioned, students will be asked to complete several shorter assignments, including an archive report, an institution report, interviews, and an annotated bibliography.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Topical readings that emphasize pre-Renaissance literature and criticism. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topical readings that emphasize American literature and criticism prior to 1800. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topical readings that emphasize Renaissance and/or Restoration literature and criticism. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
This course surveys major literary figures and representative literary forms of the 18th Century. We will consider literature's relation to political, social, and cultural developments.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topical readings that emphasize Romantic and/or Victorian literature and criticism. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topical readings that emphasize nineteenth-century American literature and criticism. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topical readings that emphasize British literature and criticism since about 1900. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
ENG 502420th and 21st Century American Literature3
Topical readings that emphasize American literature and criticism since about 1900. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topical readings that emphasize writing in English from African, Australia, the Caribbean, India, and other places besides Britain and America. Readings may include material from any time period. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
An introduction to the characteristics and problems of genre. Readings may emphasize poetry, non-fiction prose, the novel, drama, biography, autobiography, or other topics related to genre. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
ENG 5292Writing the M.A. Qualifying Paper and Writing for Publication3
This class is designed to help you revise a seminar paper into the Qualifying Paper required by our program to obtain the M.A. The Qualifying Paper normally develops out of work done in a graduate course and is written in the final semester under the guidance of a graduate faculty mentor, who must also approve the essay for submission. The Qualifying Paper demonstrates the student's ability to write coherently, clearly, and at length (6,000-8,000 words) on a literary subject, incorporating relevant secondary research and entering into a critical dialogue on the chosen subject. The course is also open to other students looking to improve their revision skills; you will pick a seminar paper you would like to revise into an article for an academic journal. Our goal, whether you are submitting a Qualifying Paper or not, is to revise with the model of the academic journal article in mind. If you are submitting your Qualifying Paper, by the time you begin this class you should have identified the paper in question and secured the approval of the faculty member sponsoring the paper. If you are looking to revise for another purpose, you should have identified the essay you wish to revise and have secured the support of a faculty member who will sponsor you.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.
This course introduces students to the technical and theoretical aspects of working with digital texts. Classes will consider the conceptual differences between digital and print forms of textuality, the relationship between methods of quantitative computational analysis and the discipline's historic focus on qualitative analysis, the logic of specific analytical tools, the history of computer-assisted textual analysis, and other theoretical problems inherent in thinking about digital texts. Typical topics may also include current text encoding methods, such as TEI; current textual data formatting for digital editions using XML; textual transformations, using XSLT or other programming languages; and specific computational methods of textual analysis, such as topic modeling, network analysis, and stylometry.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credit.
A required course for MFA creative writing students. Special Topics in Creative Writing has both critical and creative writing components. The topic varies from year to year.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Open only to students in the Creative Writing MFA program. Intensive discussion of student poetry and the work of established poets whose concerns are related to those of the students. Frequent individual conferences.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Open only to students in the Creative Writing MFA program. Intensive discussion of student fiction and he work of established fiction writers whose concerns are related to those of the students. Frequent individual conferences.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
An overview of current work in rhetoric and composition, and concentrated study in such areas as history of rhetoric, analyzing student texts, and evaluation.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
An introduction to the study and practice of creative nonfiction in its various forms, including memoir, narrative journalism, arts and cultural criticism, and hybrid works. Students will read widely across the genre and respond critically to published texts, while also producing their own creative works and offering feedback on the work of their classmates. Students will discuss issues of craft - voice, style, structure, argument, etc. - but also the larger ethical and political questions raised by works in the genre. What should the relationship be, for instance, between creative nonfiction and various notions of truth? And how does the still-emerging genre of creative nonfiction define itself both within and against other established artistic forms? A final portfolio will be a mix of creative and critical work, developed and significantly revised over the semester.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Students in this course will gain practical, hands-on editorial experience by collaborating to produce a literary publication. The specific publication project will vary from semester to semester, depending on the instructor and the availability of partner presses/publications, but may include: editing a special issue of an existing literary journal; editing a literary anthology for an established small press; managing the design and production process for a single-author book or chapbook; reading submissions and making editorial decisions for a literary contest. In addition to this central project, the class will be engaged in a study of the contemporary landscape for literary publishing. Students will read and write about literary journals and small presses, learning about the various communities these publications serve and how they work to connect writers and readers.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
ENG 8101Advanced Study - Early English Literature3
Advanced study of topics in pre-Renaissance literature and criticism. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
ENG 8102Advanced Study - Early American Literature3
Advanced study of topics in American literature and criticism prior to 1800. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
ENG 8104Advanced Study - 16th and 17th Century British Literature3
Advanced study of topics in Renaissance and/or Restoration literature and criticism. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
ENG 8106Advanced Study - 18th Century British Literature3
Advanced study of topics in Restoration and/or eighteenth-century British literature and criticism. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
ENG 8108Advanced Study - 19th Century British Literature3
Advanced study of topics in Romantic and/or Victorian literature and criticism. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
ENG 8109Advanced Study - 19th Century American Literature3
Advanced study of topics in nineteenth-century American literature and criticism. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
ENG 8202Advanced Study - 20th and 21st Century British Literature3
Advanced study of topics in British literature and criticism since about 1900. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
ENG 8204Advanced Study - 20th and 21st Century American Literature3
Advanced study of topics in American literature and criticism since about 1900. Readings may include material from other periods as well. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Advanced study of topics in writing in English from African, Australia, the Caribbean, India, and other places besides Britain and America. Readings may include material from any time period. Content varies. May be repeated for credit.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
In this workshop, doctoral students prepare for their preliminary exams by developing their reading lists and their rationales and by meeting with the instructor and fellow students to discuss the most productive ways to approach these tasks and to make their way through their lists.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
One student a year is permitted to register for one course in poetics at the University of Pennsylvania. Any student admitted to the graduate program in English can apply to participate in the exchange program.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
For Creative Writing majors. A tutorial in which the creative manuscript required for graduation is developed. Related readings. Weekly conferences. Two semesters are required.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
For advanced undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students in fields such as literature, film studies, philosophy, art, and social theory. Graduate credit available. Summer session I.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
6
Credits (max)
6
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
A seminar devoted to an exploration of a topic in media studies, such as a film or television genre, a national cinema, the work of a particular director or a critical and theoretical issue of current debate.
Subject
ENG
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
