01:350:219,220 Principles of Literary Study (3,3) Fundamental concepts and techniques of literary interpretation: methods of analyzing language, genre, structure, and cultural contexts in poetry (01:350:219) and prose (01:350:220). Readings selected from a wide range of major English and American authors, including women and members of minorities. Required of all prospective English majors; should be taken in the sophomore year.

01:350:221 Shakespeare (3) One-semester introduction to Shakespeare, with readings in selected comedies, tragedies, and histories.

01:350:225 British Literature from the Middle Ages to 1800 (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Middle Ages through the 18th century.

01:350:226 British Literature from 1800 to the Present (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the romantic period to the present.

01:350:227 American Literature from the Colonial Period to 1860 (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the colonial period to the Civil War.

01:350:228 American Literature from 1860 to the Present (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Civil War to the present.

01:350:250 Black Literature from the Colonial Period to 1930 (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the 18th century through the Harlem Renaissance.

01:350:251 Black Literature from 1930 to the Present (3) Survey of poetry, prose, and drama from 1930 to the present.

01:350:301 Literature of Medieval Courts (3) Concepts of nobility, rule, courtship, and faith in works such as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Malory's Morte d'Arthur.

01:350:302 Medieval Literature of Dissent (3) Traditions of dissent in later medieval England. Texts include Piers Plowman, Lollard writings, macro-plays, the Wakefield cycle, and The Book of Margery Kempe.

01:350:303 Renaissance Literature: The 16th Century (3) Poetry, plays, and prose from the Henrician to the Elizabethan periods.

01:350:304 Renaissance Literature: The 17th Century (3) Poetry, plays, and prose from the Jacobean to Restoration periods.

01:350:305 Restoration and Early 18th-Century Literature (3) Poetry, prose, and drama by Dryden, Rochester, Behn, Pope, Swift, and their contemporaries.

01:350:306 Later 18th-Century Literature (3) Poetry, prose, and drama by Johnson, Goldsmith, Smollett, Lennox, Burney, and their contemporaries.

01:350:307 Early Romantic Literature (3) Works of poetry and prose by Austen, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and their contemporaries.

01:350:308 Later Romantic Literature (3) Works of poetry and prose by Keats, P.B. Shelley, M. Shelley, Byron, Hemans, De Quincey, and their contemporaries.

01:350:309 Victorian Literature (3) Poetry and prose from the 1830s to 1900, by Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, the Bront�s, Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy.

01:350:310 Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature (3) Poetry and prose of the transition to modernism by such authors as Pater, Wilde, the Decadents, early Yeats, Hardy, Lawrence, and Woolf.

01:350:311 Twentieth-Century Literature I (3) Writing from 1900 to 1945, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English.

01:350:312 Twentieth-Century Literature II (3) Writing from 1945 to the end of the century, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English.

01:350:313 Contemporary Literature (3) Writing from the last 20 years, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English.

01:350:315 Colonial American Literature (3) English writing of the New World, from exploration through colonization, on both sides of the Atlantic. Puritanism, the Enlightenment, empire, and the development of nationalism.

01:350:316 Antebellum American Literature (3) American writing from Romanticism to the Civil War. Works by Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Thoreau, Whitman, Jacobs, and others.

01:350:317 Literature of American Realism and Naturalism (3) American writing from the Civil War to modernism. Works by Dickinson, Alcott, Twain, James, Howells, Jewett, Chopin, Gilman, Crane, Wharton, Adams, Norris, Dreiser, London, Du Bois.

01:350:318 Twentieth-Century American Literature I (3) Writing by American authors from 1900 to 1945.

01:350:319 Twentieth-Century American Literature II (3) Writing by American authors from 1945 to the end of the century.

01:350:321 Chaucer (3) Selected works of Chaucer, with an emphasis on The Canterbury Tales.

01:350:322 Shakespeare: The Elizabethan Plays (3) Selected comedies, tragedies, and English history plays written between the beginning of Shakespeare's career and the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.

01:350:323 Shakespeare: The Jacobean Plays (3) Selected comedies, tragedies, and tragicomedies written after the succession of James I in 1603.

01:350:324 Milton (3) Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes,�the shorter poems, and selected prose.

01:350:325 Milton and Other Early Modern Writers (3) Selected writings of Milton studied in relation to other 16th- or 17th-century writers, such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Cavendish, or Dryden.

01:350:328 Atlantic Cultures, 1500-1800 (3) Encounters between peoples of Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the 16th century through the 18th. Team-taught, interdisciplinary course with an emphasis on the interpretation of texts and visual images from the era. Credit not given for both this course and 01:506:328.

01:350:330 Literature and Literacy in 19th-Century English Culture (3) Texts that define to the English the idea of a popular national literature in the 19th century, including writings by social critics, philosophers, and novelists.

01:350:332 Sixteenth-Century Poetry (3) Forms, styles, and development of poetry from Skelton to Spenser.

01:350:333 Seventeenth-Century Poetry (3) Forms, styles, and development of poetry from Jonson and Donne to Milton and Marvell.

01:350:334 Restoration and 18th-Century Poetry (3) Forms, styles, and development of poetry from Dryden, Swift, Pope, Collins, Gray, and others.

01:350:335 Victorian Poetry (3) Major poetry of Tennyson, Robert Browning, Arnold, the Pre-Raphaelites, Hopkins, early Yeats, and others.

01:350:337 Twentieth-Century Poetry I (3) Poetry from 1900 to 1945, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English.

01:350:338 Twentieth-Century Poetry II (3) Poetry from 1945 to the end of the century, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English.

01:350:339 Contemporary Poetry (3) Poetry from the last 20 years, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English.

01:350:340 Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (3) Primary focus on Whitman and Dickinson, with additional readings in Freneau, Bryant, Longfellow, Emerson, Poe, Whittier, Holmes, Robinson, Crane, Dunbar.

01:350:343 Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (3) Early modern drama, with emphasis on Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, Webster, and others.

01:350:344 Restoration and 18th-Century Drama (3) Comedies, tragedies, and heroic plays by such authors as Dryden, Behn, Wycherly, Etheridge, Congreve, Gay, Goldsmith, and Sheridan.

01:350:346 Twentieth-Century Drama I (3) Drama from the 1880s to the 1920s in relation to modernism and contemporary social movements. Plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Wilde, Jarry, Glaspell, and others.

01:350:347 Twentieth-Century Drama II (3) Expressionism through the Absurd (1920s through 1960s), in artistic and social contexts. Plays by Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht, Genet, Beckett, Pinter, Williams, Hansberry, and others.

01:350:348 Contemporary Drama (3) Contemporary drama and experimental performance (1960 through 1990s) in social contexts: postmodernism, and race and gender struggle. Texts by Kennedy, Baraka, Churchill, Fornes, Finley, and others.

01:350:349 American Drama (3) American theatrical traditions from the 18th century to the present, with emphasis on such 20th-century playwrights as O'Neill, Hellman, Williams, Miller, Albee, and Baraka.

01:350:352 Eighteenth-Century Novel (3) Beginnings of the novel, from Bunyan to Austen, including Manley, Defoe, Heywood, Fielding, Richardson, Lennox, Smollett, and Sterne.

01:350:354 Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (3) Development of the novel into the major popular literary genre in England. Writers include Scott, Dickens, the Bront�s, Thackeray, Gaskell, Eliot, Hardy, and others.

01:350:355 Twentieth-Century Fiction I (3) Fiction from 1900 to 1945, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English.

01:350:356 Twentieth-Century Fiction II (3) Fiction from 1945 to the end of the century, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English.

01:350:357 Contemporary Fiction (3) Fiction from the last 20 years, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English.

01:350:359 Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (3) Novels, stories, and sketches by Irving, Cooper, Poe, Fern, Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Twain, James, Wharton, Chesnutt, and others.

01:350:361 Black Narrative (3) Historical and stylistic range of prose forms; slave narratives, folklore, biography and autobiography, short fiction; social, literary, and cultural criticism; Douglass, Du Bois, Toomer, Hurston, and Walker.

01:350:362 Black Poetry (3) History of black American poetry, including the influence of oral traditions; poems by such writers as Wheatley, Dunbar, Hughes, and Brooks.

01:350:363 Black Drama (3) Work of modern black American playwrights, including Hansberry, Baraka, Baldwin, Bullins, Gordone, Fuller, and Shange.

01:350:364 Black Novel (3) Thematic and structural development of the black novel as a voice for social and political change, including works by Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Marshall, Walker, and Morrison.

01:350:365 Black Autobiography (3) Examination of self-representation by major black autobiographers, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Booker T. Washington, Maya Angelou, and Malcolm X.

01:350:367 Nineteenth-Century Black Literature (3) Prominent African-American writers of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and essays of the 19th century, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt,� and W.E.B. Du Bois.

01:350:368 Harlem Renaissance (3) Black literature during the 1920s and 1930s in the context of African-American social and cultural history; essays, poems, and novels by such authors as Cullen, Hughes, Hurston, McKay, and Toomer.

01:350:369 Black Writers and the 1960s (3) Innovations in black literature of the 1960s in light of the tumultuous social, cultural, and political movements of the decade.

01:350:370 Black Music and Literature (3) Thematic and structural influences of black music on American poetry, fiction, and drama; writers may include Sterling Brown, Hughes, Baraka, Cortez, Bambara, Kerouac, Shepard, and August Wilson.

01:350:371 Black Women Writers (3) Fiction and poetry by African-American women such as Brooks, Hurston, Marshall, Morrison, and Alice Walker; discussion of issues of literary influence and comparable traditions.

01:350:372 Literature of the Black World (3) Comparative study of writing in English by African-American, Caribbean, and African authors, including Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Paule Marshall, and Chinua Achebe.

01:350:376 Issues and Problems in Black Literature (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in black literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:378 Twentieth-Century Literature in a Global Context (3) Twentieth-century writing in English other than British and American. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:324.

01:350:381 Medieval and Early Modern Women Writers (3) Selections from significant women writers of the medieval and early modern period, including Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemelia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, and others.

01:350:382 Restoration and 18th-Century Women Writers (3) Writings by women from Philips, Behn, and Finch to Burney and Austen.

01:350:383 Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (3) Appearance of women writers as major public voices in British literature. Writers include Wollstonecraft, Austen, Mary Shelley, the Bront�s, Gaskell, George Eliot, and Christina Rossetti.

01:350:384 Twentieth-Century Women Writers (3) Twentieth-century writing by women, including one or more of the following: American, British, and other literatures in English.

01:350:385 American Women Writers to 1900 (3) Writing by American women before the turn of the 20th century, including Bradstreet, Stowe, Alcott, Dickinson, Freeman, Gilman, and Chopin.

01:350:386 Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (3) Writing by American women of the 20th century, including Wharton, Cather, Stein, H.D., Hurston, O'Connor, Bishop, and Morrison.

01:350:388 Cultures of the Middle Ages (3) Detailed introduction to a particular aspect of the rich cultural diversity of the European Middle Ages. Topics vary. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:388 or 01:667:388.

01:350:389 Issues and Problems in Medieval Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in medieval literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:390 Issues and Problems in Renaissance Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in Renaissance literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:391 Issues and Problems in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in Restoration and 18th-century literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:392 Issues and Problems in 19th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in 19th-century literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:393 Issues and Problems in 20th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Studies in particular themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in 20th-century literature and culture. Sections designed by individual instructors; students should consult departmental announcement.

01:350:411 Old English Language and Literature (3) Extensive study of the English language and an introduction to its literature.

01:350:412 Old English Language and Literature (3) Beowulf and other masterpieces studied in their original language. Prerequisite: 01:350:411.

01:350:415 Medieval Romance (3) Medieval romances and their origins in the British Isles and on the continent, with emphasis on English versions of Arthurian material, especially Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Morte d'Arthur.

01:350:420 Seminar: Chaucer (3) Intensive study of The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde,�and other selected works.

01:350:422 Seminar: Topics in Medieval Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of medieval literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:424 Seminar: Spenser (3) The Faerie Queene, The Shepherd's Calendar, Amoretti, Epithalamion,�and selected minor works.

01:350:426,427 Seminar: Shakespeare (3,3) Special studies in selected plays and poems. Consult departmental announcement.

01:350:428 Seminar: Milton (3) Special studies in Milton's poetry and prose.

01:350:434 Seminar: Topics in Renaissance Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of Renaissance literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:435 Seminar: Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of 18th-century literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:436 Seminar: Topics in 19th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of 19th-century literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:437 Seminar: Topics in 20th-Century Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of 20th-century literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:441 Seminar: Topics in American Literature and Culture to 1800 (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of American literature and culture to 1800. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:442 Seminar: Topics in 19th-Century American Literature and Culture (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of 19th-century American literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

01:350:445,446 Seminar: Topics in Black Literature and Culture (3,3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of black literature and culture. Topics vary according to individual instructors; consult departmental information.

Courses (351)

01:351:201 Introduction to Literature (3) Development of skills in close reading and interpretive writing; texts in various genres. Designed primarily for nonmajors.

01:351:211,212 Creative Writing (3,3) Practice in creative writing in various forms (fiction, poetry, drama, and essay); critical analysis of students' manuscripts in class and/or individual conferences.

01:351:216 Introduction to World Literatures in English (3) Survey of English language literatures, including Asian, African, and Caribbean, in a global context. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:216.

01:351:240 Introduction to Dramatic Literature (3) Major plays from several periods, chiefly British and American, with some attention to form, theory, and the development of the genre.

01:351:241 Introduction to Poetry (3) Major poems from several periods, chiefly British and American, with some attention to form, theory, and the development of the genre.

01:351:242 Introduction to the Novel (3) Major novels from several periods, chiefly British and American, with some attention to form, theory, and the development of the genre.

01:351:244 Introduction to Myth (3) Myths of various cultures; their structures and functions in social and especially literary contexts.

01:351:245 Introduction to Folklore (3) Major genres of folklore, including folktale, folk song, and legend, with attention to the methods of collecting and analyzing these materials. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:245.

01:351:265 Introduction to the Study of Women Writers (3) Range of literature in English by women writers, analyzed in relation to the impact of authorial gender.

01:351:266 Issues and Methods in Feminist Literary Studies (3) Contemporary debates about gender, class, race, and sexuality through close reading of literary and cultural texts, including poems, novels, film, journalism, and visual images.

01:351:305 Creative Nonfiction (3) Investigation, through weekly reading and writing assignments, of creative nonfiction, emphasizing modes of first-person writing such as memoirs, travel narratives, and personal essays. Prerequisite: 01:351:211 or 212.

01:351:306 Creative Writing: Form and Technique in Poetry (3) Prerequisite: One 200-level course in creative writing or permission of instructor. Pre- or corequisite: A literature course in poetry.

01:351:307 Creative Writing: Form and Technique in Fiction (3) Prerequisite: One 200-level course in creative writing or permission of instructor. Pre- or corequisite: A literature course in fiction.

01:351:308 Creative Writing: Form and Technique in Drama (3) Prerequisite: One 200-level course in creative writing or permission of instructor. Pre- or corequisite: A literature course in drama.

01:351:310,311 History of the English Language (3,3) Growth and structure of the English language from its origins to the present, with some attention to methods of linguistic description. First semester: historical linguistics, Old and Middle English. Second semester:�English from Caxton to the present, with emphasis on American contributions to the study of the language; social, political, regional, and urban language issues.

01:351:312 Literature and Technology (3) Explores the relationship between literary practices and the technologies of recording, transmitting, and archiving. Topics may include the history of the book, media shift, the history of reading, literature in relation to other media, hypertext, and digital literacies.�

01:351:313 Literature and Visual Culture (3) Interactions of word and image on the page, on the stage, and on-screen. Examples may include graphic narratives, tableaux, public spectacles, photography, film, and digital culture, read alongside literary and theoretical texts.

01:351:315 Backgrounds of Homoerotic Literature (3) Survey of gay and lesbian literature from the Greeks to the 1920s, stressing formal and generic analysis and connections between cultures. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:326.

01:351:317 Classical Backgrounds of Literature in English (3) Influence on literature in English of classical Greek and Roman epic, tragedy, comedy, and other literary forms. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:346.

01:351:319 Biblical Backgrounds of Literature in English (3) Influence of the King James and other versions of the Bible on literature in English. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:349.

01:351:320 The Bible as Literature (3) The Bible, its literary variety, and the evolution of its text. Religious themes in literature, with attention to matters of rhetoric, style, and structure. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:318.

01:351:321 Studies in Literature and Spirituality (3) Religious themes in literature, with attention to matters of rhetoric, style, and structure.

01:351:322 Literary Approaches to Sacred Texts (3) Literary analysis of the formation and structure of the major texts of several world religions. Attention to style, genre, and cross-cultural interpretation.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:318.

01:351:325 The Comic (3) Theory and practice of comedy organized around the topics of satire, farce, nonsense, parody, jokes, and the humor of daily life.

01:351:326 Tragedy (3) Literature and theory of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the 20th century; chiefly plays, supplemented by some poetry and fiction. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:391.

01:351:330 The Gothic (3) Genre of the Gothic from its beginnings in the 18th century to the present.

01:351:331 Travel Literature (3) Readings of works, mainly in English, concerning geographical exploration and speculation; relation to literary and nonliterary genres; and attention to imperial dimensions.

01:351:332 Modern Literary Fantasy (3) Literary conventions and distinctions between the surreal and the unreal, nonsense and the sublime in different forms of modern literary fantasy written in English.

01:351:334 The Short Story (3) Wide range of short stories, with a particular focus on formal aspects of the genre.

01:351:335 Science Fiction (3) Development of science fiction; works by such authors as Wells, Stapledon, Capek, Clarke, Bradbury, Asimov, Le Guin, and Lessing.

01:351:336 Detective Fiction (3) Classic writers of the detective story and novel: Poe, Conan Doyle, Christie, Hammett, and others.

01:351:337 Popular Culture (3) Exploration of how popular forms like TV, movies, music video, rap, rock, comics, magazines, and advertising shape meaning and value in contemporary America.

01:351:338 Folk Literature (3) Folktale, ballad, and other forms of oral-traditional literature; theories of origin and classification; and adaptations of folk materials in literary texts.

01:351:339 Satire (3) Satire's variety of postures and games, across an array of such forms as novel, epigram, film, and cartoon, ranging from the Renaissance to the present.�

01:351:341 Autobiography (3) Historical and formal development of autobiography in English, with special attention to theories of identity and narrative. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:360.

01:351:342 American Autobiography (3) Changing representations of self in narrative form. Readings range from conversion, captivity, and slave narratives, to modern autobiographies in the tradition of Franklin.

01:351:345 Irish Writing in English (3) Works of Irish writers in English from 1800 to the present.

01:351:347 Literature and Psychology (3) Exploration of interrelationships of literature and psychoanalysis (from Freud to feminists and contemporary theorists); topics include subjectivity, trauma, gender, intersubjectivity, and identity.

01:351:348 Literature and Sexuality (3) Themes and assumptions of sexual literature and its basis in sexual fantasy, including gender issues. Reading in major works of sexual literature.

01:351:349 Literary and Scientific Writings (3) Readings in English that explore the impact of science upon literary writing and the literary and discursive dimensions of selected scientific texts.

01:351:350 Literature and Myth (3) Narrative transformations of myth, considering such mythic structures as cosmogony, rebirth, shamanism, and metamorphosis from various theoretical and cultural perspectives.

01:351:355 Drama by Women (3) Selected plays in English by women writers, with emphasis on the study of forms, conventions, and cultural contexts. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement.

01:351:356 Fiction by Women (3) Selected works of fiction in English by women writers, with emphasis on the study of forms, conventions, and cultural contexts. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement.

01:351:357 Poetry by Women (3) Selected poetry in English by women writers, with emphasis on the study of forms, conventions, and cultural contexts. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement.

01:351:358 Autobiography by Women (3) Selected autobiographical writings by women in English. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement.

01:351:359 Gender and Genre (3) Explores ways by which female and male writers have made use of gendered assumptions about voice, tropes of address, inspiration, and form.

01:351:361 Issues and Problems in Feminist Literary Studies (3) Themes, questions, forms, and historical issues in feminist literary studies. Sections designed by individual instructors; consult departmental announcement.

01:351:365 Readings in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (3) Study of literature and criticism that explore facets of Western imperial expansion.

01:351:366 Literatures of Migration, Immigration, and Diaspora (3) Writings that feature representations of place, community, and identity in relation to national and international movement and displacement. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:336.

01:351:369 Minority Literatures in English (3) Cross-national and comparative studies of literature, in English, of one or more ethnic, racial, or cultural groups. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:335.

01:351:371 Literatures in English Other Than British and North American (3) Study of selected literary works written in English in countries other than the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, and Canada. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement.

01:351:375 Ethnic Literature in the United States (3) Selected literary works by Asian-American, black, Chicano/Chicana, and Native American writers. Topics vary; consult departmental information.

01:351:376 Native American Literatures in English (3) Fiction, poetry, and autobiography by such writers as Apes, Momaday, Welch, Silko, and Erdrich. Attention to issues of Native American representation. Credit not given for both this course and 01:050:376.

01:351:377 Asian-American Literatures in English (3) Theme or genre-based study of selected Asian-American writing in English. Topics chosen by individual instructors; consult departmental announcement.

01:351:378 Chicano/Chicana Literature (3) Theme or genre-based study of selected Chicano/Chicana literature; attention to comparative contexts (Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican).

01:351:385 Issues and Problems in Genre (3) Formal and cultural issues within the development of a particular genre, or in the relation between genres, in literature in English.

01:351:393,394 Independent Study (3,3) Individual work on a topic designed by the student in conference with an instructor who directs the project. Prerequisite: Permission of department.

01:351:397 Junior Honors Seminar (3) Focus on particular text, theme, or approach in order to develop reading and writing skills using critical and theoretical materials. Open only to junior English majors in the departmental honors program.

01:351:405,406 Advanced Creative Writing Workshop (3,3) Advanced work in creative writing; criticism of manuscripts in individual conferences and/or class. Prerequisites: One 300-level course in creative writing and permission of instructor.

01:351:435,436 Seminar: Feminist Literary Studies (3,3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of feminist literary studies. Topics vary; consult departmental announcement.

01:351:440 Seminar: Topics in Genre (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a particular genre (e.g., pastoral, epic, comedy, and lyric) or relationship among genres. Topics vary; consult departmental information. Credit not given for both this course and 01:195:440.

01:351:452,453 Seminar: Special Topics in American Literature (3,3) Special studies in particular ideas, themes, forms, and historical units in American literature. Sections designed by individual instructors; consult departmental announcement.

01:351:460 Seminar: Topics in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (3) Intensive study, in a discussion-oriented format, of a specifically defined area of colonial and postcolonial literature. Topics vary; consult departmental information.

01:351:491,492 Seminar: Special Topics in Literature (3,3) Special studies in particular ideas, themes, forms, and historical units in literature. Sections designed by individual instructors; consult departmental announcement.

01:351:493,494 Independent Study (3,3) Individual work on a topic designed by the student in conference with an instructor who directs the project. Prerequisite: Permission of department.

01:351:495 Independent Study (BA) Individual work on a topic designed by the student with an instructor who directs the project.

01:351:496 Advanced Research Methods (3) Workshop in advanced library skills and the use of secondary scholarship. Open only to junior English majors in the departmental honors program.

01:351:497 Senior Honors Seminar (3) Workshop focusing on methodological and theoretical aspects of literary study, with particular emphasis on the senior thesis. Open only to senior English majors in the departmental honors program.

01:351:498,499 Senior Honors Tutorial (3,3) Independent research on a topic, selected by the student and approved by the departmental honors committee, executed under the guidance of the student's tutor. Meets by arrangement through individual conferences.