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
Introduction to American Literature (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 Brontës, 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.
|
01:350:345
Nineteenth-Century Theater and Drama (3)
Drama from 1800 to the 1880's in England and America. Melodrama,
the development of social realism, and the rise of modern drama. Plays by Holcroft,
Jerrold, Boucicault, Taylor, Lewis, and others.
|
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 Brontës, 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 Brontës, 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.
|
|
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.
|
01:351:222
Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Literature (3)
Introduction to major works of 20th- and 21st-century literatures in English.
|
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 Playwriting (3)
Prerequisite: One 200-level course in creative writing or permission of instructor. Pre- or corequisite: A literature course in drama.
|
01:351:309
Creative Writing: Digital Composition (3)
Filmmaking as creative writing, including study of film
language, grammar, and narrative structure, with focus on visual composition,
placement of dialogue, and editing to assemble a story for the screen.
Prerequisite: 01:355:101 or equivalent.
|
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.
|
01:351:351
Literature and Medicine (3)
Literature about medicine, exploring the meeting place of
disease, medical treatment, and literary culture, along with shifting
understandings of patient and healer, health and illness, and the reach and
responsibility of medicine.
|
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.
Credit not given for both this course and 01:050:377.
|
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
Advanced Creative Writing Workshop (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.
|
01:351:406
Advanced Creative Writing Workshop--Poetry (3)
Advanced workshop in poetry.
Prerequisite: 01:351:306.
|
01:351:407
Advanced Creative Writing Workshop--Fiction (3)
Advanced workshop in fiction.
Prerequisite: 01:351:307.
|
01:351:408
Advanced Creative Writing Workshop--Playwriting (3)
Advanced workshop in playwriting.
Prerequisite: 01:351:308.
|
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.
|