English
Curriculum
Department course offerings support the General Education Program of the University. Normally, a student will take at least one introductory literature course before taking other courses in the department.
English 10-144, 10-154, 10-164, 10-174 and 10-284 are introductory courses, open to all students. English 10-284 is strongly recommended to the prospective major or minor, as is one or more courses among 10-154, 164, and 174.
Below you will find a list of our current or recent offerings. See the course catalog for descriptions and updated information.
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10-001 SELECTED TOPICSMay be repeated with change in topic.
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10-002 SELECTED TOPICSMay be repeated with change in topic.
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10-003 SELECTED TOPICSMay be repeated with change in topic.
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10-004 SELECTED TOPICSMay be repeated with change in topic.
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10-114 COLLEGE WRITINGA course in persuasive, analytical and researched writing that includes critical response to readings. Not to be counted toward an English major or minor, or included in the 56 credit limitation in one subject area. (Annually) (WA)
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10-144 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATUREThe analysis and interpretation of works selected from English and world literature. (Biennially) (H) (WA)
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10-154 SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IBeowulf to 1785. A historically organized course spanning a millennium of literary greatness, with particular emphases on social and cultural change and methods of literary analysis. May be taken independently of English 10-164. (Annually) (H) (WA)
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10-164 SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II1785 to present. A historically organized course. May be taken independently of English 10-154. (Annually) (H) (WA)
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10-174 SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATUREFrom before Columbus to the present. A historically organized course. May be taken independently of English 10-154 and English 10-164. (Annually) (H) (WA)
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10-204 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGYSee Classics 07-204 and Religion 19-504. (H) (R) (IP) (WA)
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10-214 CHILDREN’S LITERATURESee Education 45-734.
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10-224 MODERN BRITISH FANTASY FOR CHILDRENSee Education 45-794. (ScS)
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10-284 LITERARY ANALYSIS AND METHODSAn introduction to issues and methods of literary analysis. Topics and readings will vary from semester to semester. (Annually) (H)
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10-301 SELECTED TOPICSMay be repeated with change in topic.
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10-302 SELECTED TOPICSMay be repeated with change in topic.
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10-303 SELECTED TOPICSMay be repeated with change in topic.
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10-304 SELECTED TOPICSMay be repeated with change in topic.
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10-314 PLAYWRITINGSee Theatre 74-314. (FAL)
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10-324 CREATIVE WRITINGA writing workshop in either prose fiction or poetry. Approval of instructor required. (Biennially) (H) (WA)
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10-334 ADVANCED WRITINGAn intensive course in writing with emphasis on the critical essay. May be repeated with change in topic. (Biennially) (H) (WA)
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10-384 SHAKESPEARE THROUGH PERFORMANCEThis course introduces students to Shakespeare through the collective rehearsal and performance of one play. Whether individual students perform or not, each student will reach a deep understanding of the art of Shakespeare’s language and theater as they build their actual staging in specific scen...
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10-404 LITERARY CRITICISM/LITERARY THEORYAn introduction to major critical and theoretical approaches to literature. Prerequisite: English 10-284. (Biennially) (H)
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10-444 THE TEACHING OF WRITINGA seminar emphasizing issues and strategies involved in working with student writing from various disciplines. Approval of the Writing Program Director required. (Annually) (H) (WA)
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10-474 FEMINIST FILM STUDIESThis course will focus on the way films define gender and on the direction that film criticism takes when feminism goes to the movies. It includes an intensive consideration of feminist film criticism and theory from 1975 to the present and is intended for students who are interested in film studies...
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10-514 WORLD CINEMAA history of narrative film from its origins to the present with an emphasis upon European, Asian, Indian and Third World cinema. Cultural contexts and technological evolution are emphasized. Lang, Eisenstein, Renoir, Truffaut, Fellini, Bergman, Fassbinder, Kurosawa, Ray, Almodovar, and Campion are ...
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10-524 AMERICAN MOVIESA history of narrative film from its origins to the present with an emphasis upon Hollywood cinema. Historical contexts and technological evolution are emphasized. Griffith, Chaplin, Welles, Hitchcock, Ford, Kubrick, Altman, Coppola and Anderson are among the directors studied. The Studio System, si...
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10-534 POSTCOLONIAL LITERATUREA study of literature produced at the intersection of cultures. Consideration of ways cultural differences and legacies of colonization are negotiated. Major figures vary from year to year but will usually include Achebe, Gordimer, Head, Ngugi, Rushdie and Soyinka. (Biennially) (H)
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10-544 AMERICAN POPA study of American popular culture, with particular attention to social and cultural change. Focus will vary from an advanced survey of various popular culture venues (literature, music, film, television, journalism) to occasional theme courses on “authors” such as Bob Dylan, the Beatles (“ho...
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10-574 TOPICS IN WOMEN’S LITERATUREInformed by feminist and queer theory, this course will explore the ways in which diverse female literary traditions construct and challenge conceptions of gender, genre, canon, period and nation. Likely offerings will include Early American Women Writers, Women and Captivity Narratives, Other Victo...
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10-594 TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATUREA study of literature written in English from the 1960s to the present. Topics and authors will vary from semester to semester to reflect the breadth and depth of contemporary literary traditions. May be repeated with change in topic. Also Feminist Studies 04-694. Prerequisite: One course in English...
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10-604 TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATUREAn advanced introduction to some of the best literature of the medieval period. Topics will vary but may include such authors as the Beowulf-poet, Chaucer, Malory and Langland. Some possible topics include quest-narratives, piety, drama, images of women, autobiography and allegory. May be repeated w...
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10-614 TOPICS IN EARLY ENGLISH LITERATUREThis course covers literature of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, with varying focus. Potential themes include Medieval and Renaissance Drama, Early English Lyric Poetry, the Renaissance, Narrative Form and Earlier English Religious Poetry. May be repeated with change in topic. Prerequisite: On...
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10-624 SHAKESPEAREAn intensive introduction to the works of William Shakespeare. The selection of works will vary from semester to semester but will address the breadth of Shakespeare’s achievement. Also Theatre 74-704. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (Annually) (H)
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10-634 TOPICS IN SHAKESPEAREAn intensive introduction to the works of William Shakespeare, with the same reading load and difficulty as English 10-624, but with a topical focus. Topics may include Shakespearean Comedy, Shakespeare’s Poetry, Shakespeare and Gender, or Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. May be repeated with c...
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10-654 TOPICS IN 18TH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATUREA study of British writing of the long 18th century (1660-1800), with particular attention to cultural continuity and change. Focus and authors will vary; offerings include Sexual Politics of the Restoration Age, Reason and Madness in 18th-Century Fiction, Enlightenment Self-Fashioning, Center and P...
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10-664 TOPICS IN ROMANTICISMThis course will emphasize the poetry and prose of traditional Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Tighe and Barbauld, and will explore the Romantic-era work of novelists like Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Sir Walter Scott and Ann Radcliffe. Topics for this ...
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10-674 TOPICS IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTUREThis course will explore the Victorian period in British culture through the dominant literary genre of that period: the novel. Authors studied may include Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Braddon, Wilde, Collins and the Bronte sisters. Specific topics for this course will vary and may include Auste...
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10-684 TOPICS IN 20TH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATUREThis course will focus on the development of British modernisms and postmodernisms, with particular attention to the diverse aesthetic strategies that challenged, reinforced, and reconstructed ideas about subjectivity, gender, sexuality, nation and novels. May be repeated with change in topic. Prere...
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10-714 TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATUREA thematic study of American writers from an interdisciplinary perspective. American Poetry, Southwestern Literature and Making and Unmaking of Democratic Selves are among the variants offered. May be repeated with change in topic. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (Bi...
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10-734 TOPICS IN 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATUREA study of American writers of the 19th century, with particular attention to social and cultural change. Focus will vary from an advanced survey of such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Whitman, Dickinson and Twain to dual-author courses such as Hawthorne and Melville. May b...
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10-754 TOPICS IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATUREA study of American writers of the 20th century, with particular attention to social and cultural change. Focus will vary from an advanced survey of such writers as James, Adams, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Ellison, Salinger, Morrison and DeLillo to thematically organized courses such as America Since the...
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10-901 TUTORIAL
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10-902 TUTORIAL
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10-903 TUTORIAL
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10-904 TUTORIAL
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10-934 SEMINARFulfills the requirement for a capstone experience. Prerequisite: 10-284. (WA)
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10-941 ACADEMIC INTERNSHIPMust be taken Pass/D/F.
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10-942 ACADEMIC INTERNSHIPMust be taken Pass/D/F.
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10-943 ACADEMIC INTERNSHIPMust be taken Pass/D/F.
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10-944 ACADEMIC INTERNSHIPMust be taken Pass/D/F.
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10-951 INDEPENDENT STUDY AND RESEARCHStudents who wish to undertake an independent study should develop a proposal in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to direct it. The proposal must then be endorsed by a second, tenured faculty member in the English Department and approved by the department chair. Open to English ma...
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10-952 INDEPENDENT STUDY AND RESEARCHStudents who wish to undertake an independent study should develop a proposal in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to direct it. The proposal must then be endorsed by a second, tenured faculty member in the English Department and approved by the department chair. Open to English ma...
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10-953 INDEPENDENT STUDY AND RESEARCHStudents who wish to undertake an independent study should develop a proposal in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to direct it. The proposal must then be endorsed by a second, tenured faculty member in the English Department and approved by the department chair. Open to English ma...
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10-954 INDEPENDENT STUDY AND RESEARCHStudents who wish to undertake an independent study should develop a proposal in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to direct it. The proposal must then be endorsed by a second, tenured faculty member in the English Department and approved by the department chair. Open to English ma...
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10-984 HONORSStudents who wish to undertake an Honors project should develop a proposal in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to direct it. The proposal must then be endorsed by the department as a whole. Students who plan to undertake an Honors project are strongly encouraged to take English 10...
