English (ENG)
ENG 101, *INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: THE YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 3 Credits
Explores the craft, culture and racial significance, and emotional impact of contemporary young adult fiction. Examines Young Adult fiction as a category of reading audience that contains multiple genres. Considers such urgent topics as race, immigration, and gender identity while also attending to formal elements such as significant detail, tone, symbolism, and metaphor as portrayed in the young adult experience.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts
Available via Ecampus
ENG 104, *INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: FICTION, 3 Credits
Study of fiction for greater understanding and enjoyment. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 104H
Available via Ecampus
ENG 104H, *INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: FICTION, 3 Credits
Study of fiction for greater understanding and enjoyment. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 104
ENG 106, *INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: POETRY, 3 Credits
Study of poetry for greater understanding and enjoyment.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 106H
Available via Ecampus
ENG 106H, *INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: POETRY, 3 Credits
Study of poetry for greater understanding and enjoyment.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 106
ENG 107, *INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: CREATIVE NONFICTION, 3 Credits
An introduction to the study of creative nonfiction as a diverse genre, from journalism to memoir and essay.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts
Recommended: WR 121Z
ENG 108, *INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, 3 Credits
Focuses on modern and contemporary examples of science fiction and fantasy with some attention paid to the roots of the genres (myths, folklore, and fairy tales). Hypothesizes that both genres reflect the anxieties and aspirations of the eras that produce and consume them. Introduces students to a range of modern classics, including contemporary science fiction and fantasy written by women and people of color.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts
Available via Ecampus
ENG 109, *INTRODUCTION TO TRUE CRIME, 3 Credits
Focuses on the American true crime genre, from its origins in the earliest colonial literature to the contemporary popularity of crime stories in various media. Pays particular attention to true crime examples from the last five decades, tracing the genre’s evolution and rise in popularity. Develops a collective understanding of how the true crime genre has evolved, why it has become so popular, and how its constituent texts reflect the cultural assumptions and anxieties of their American eras, especially in terms of their relationship to the genre’s core ideas of violence and truth. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts
ENG 199, SPECIAL STUDIES, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 201, *SHAKESPEARE, 4 Credits
The earlier plays. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 201H
Available via Ecampus
ENG 201H, *SHAKESPEARE, 4 Credits
The earlier plays. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 201
ENG 202, *SHAKESPEARE, 4 Credits
The later plays. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 202H
ENG 202H, *SHAKESPEARE, 4 Credits
The later plays. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 202
ENG 204, *SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS TO 1660, 4 Credits
English literature presented in chronological sequence. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPWC – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Western Culture; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 204H
ENG 204H, *SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS TO 1660, 4 Credits
English literature presented in chronological sequence. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPWC – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Western Culture; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 204
ENG 205, *SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE: RESTORATION TO ROMANTIC ERA, 4 Credits
English literature presented in chronological sequence.
Attributes: CPWC – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Western Culture; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 205H
ENG 205H, *SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE: RESTORATION TO ROMANTIC ERA, 4 Credits
English literature presented in chronological sequence.
Attributes: CPWC – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Western Culture; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 205
ENG 206, *SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE: VICTORIAN ERA TO 20TH CENTURY, 4 Credits
English literature presented in chronological sequence.
Attributes: CPWC – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Western Culture; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
ENG 207, LITERATURE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: CLASSICAL-RENAISSANCE, 4 Credits
The great plays, poems and fiction of Western civilization. Covers the Classical World: (Greek, Hebrew, Roman) and Western European major authors through the Renaissance.
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
ENG 210, *LITERATURES OF THE WORLD: ASIA, 4 Credits
Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama from nonwestern cultural traditions. Covers literature of Asia.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Available via Ecampus
ENG 211, *LITERATURES OF THE WORLD: AFRICA, 4 Credits
Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama from nonwestern cultural traditions. Covers literature of Africa.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Equivalent to: ENG 211H
Available via Ecampus
ENG 211H, *LITERATURES OF THE WORLD: AFRICA, 4 Credits
Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama from nonwestern cultural traditions. Covers literature of Africa.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Equivalent to: ENG 211
ENG 212, *LITERATURES OF THE WORLD: MESO/SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, 4 Credits
Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama from nonwestern cultural traditions. Covers literature of Meso- and South America and the Caribbean. (H) (NC) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
ENG 213, *LITERATURES OF THE WORLD: MIDDLE EAST, 4 Credits
Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama from nonwestern cultural traditions. Covers literature of the Middle East.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Equivalent to: ENG 213H
Available via Ecampus
ENG 213H, *LITERATURES OF THE WORLD: MIDDLE EAST, 4 Credits
Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama from nonwestern cultural traditions. Covers literature of the Middle East.
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Equivalent to: ENG 213
ENG 214, *LITERATURE OF THE WORLD: EUROPE, 4 Credits
Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama written by European authors.
Attributes: CPWC – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Western Culture
ENG 215, *CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY, 4 Credits
Greek and Roman mythology, its allusions, continuing influences.
Attributes: CPWC – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Western Culture; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
ENG 216, *ILLUMINATING HAPPINESS, 3 Credits
Explores subjects essential to human happiness, such as gratitude, kindness, joy, grief, grace, disgrace, emotional and spiritual growth, community, social identity, and global stewardship through the reading of poetry. Explores approaches arising from the reading of poetry, such as Reader Response techniques, imagination studies, and self-awareness inquiries. Develops rewirement models in conjunction with literary analysis and critical writing. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts
ENG 217, READING FOR WRITERS, 4 Credits
Introduces students to the varieties of reading necessary to the writer’s life. Surveys the main literary devices common to fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and engages students in the understanding of these devices through analysis and creative practice.
Equivalent to: ENG 217X
ENG 220, *TOPICS IN DIFFERENCE, POWER, AND DISCRIMINATION, 4 Credits
A comparative treatment of literary topics in the context of institutional and systematic discrimination. Not offered every year. CROSSLISTED as ENG 220/FILM 220. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
ENG 220H, *TOPICS IN DIFFERENCE, POWER, AND DISCRIMINATION, 4 Credits
A comparative treatment of literary topics in the context of institutional and systematic discrimination. Not offered every year. CROSSLISTED as ENG 220/FILM 220. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
ENG 221, *AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Reading and critical analysis of African-American literature in historical, political, and/or thematic perspective.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 221H
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Available via Ecampus
ENG 221H, *AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Reading and critical analysis of African-American literature in historical, political, and/or thematic perspective.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 221
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 222, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Surveys a variety of genres, including fairy tales, folktales, and fables, nonsense poetry, picture books, historical and fantasy novels, examining how these texts represent childhood and connect with historical, cultural, and psychological contexts.
Equivalent to: ENG 222H
Available via Ecampus
ENG 222H, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Surveys a variety of genres, including fairy tales, folktales, and fables, nonsense poetry, picture books, historical and fantasy novels, examining how these texts represent childhood and connect with historical, cultural, and psychological contexts.
Attributes: HNRS – Honors Course Designator
Equivalent to: ENG 222
ENG 240, *INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE, 4 Credits
An exploration of the key figures, themes, theories, and works of American environmental literature.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts
ENG 253, *SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: COLONIAL TO 1900, 4 Credits
Readings from American literature presented in chronological sequence, important eras and movements with emphasis on major writers.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Available via Ecampus
ENG 254, *SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1900 TO PRESENT, 4 Credits
Readings from American literature presented in chronological sequence, important eras and movements with emphasis on major writers.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 254H
Available via Ecampus
ENG 254H, *SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1900 TO PRESENT, 4 Credits
Readings from American literature presented in chronological sequence, important eras and movements with emphasis on major writers.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 254
ENG 260, *LITERATURE OF AMERICAN MINORITIES, 4 Credits
Study of the literature of American minorities: North American Indian, black, Chicano/Chicana, Asian, Middle Eastern, gay and lesbian.
Attributes: CPDP – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Difference/Power/Discrimination; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 260H
ENG 265, *FILMS FOR THE FUTURE, 4 Credits
An interdisciplinary study of film, literary, and philosophical visions of the future. Three hours of lecture and separate screenings each week. Film fee required.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
ENG 275, *THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Biblical structure, literary types, ideas, influences.
Attributes: CPWC – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Western Culture; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 275H
Available via Ecampus
ENG 275H, *THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Biblical structure, literary types, ideas, influences.
Attributes: CPWC – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Western Culture; HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 275
ENG 299, SPECIAL TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 301, WAYS OF READING, 4 Credits
What’s the difference between reading a book for pleasure and reading it for a class? What kinds of skills are necessary for upper-level work as an English major? What exactly is literary criticism? Pursue these questions by studying a selection of texts paired with works providing historical and critical context. Learn how to think and write like a literary critic by reading carefully, discussing these works in class, and writing analytical essays.
ENG 302, ^WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Explore the conventions of academic writing, with the goal of developing original textual interpretations and situating those interpretations in relation to secondary sources. Develop an understanding of a broader scholarly conversation by writing about issues of difference, including but not limited to categories of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and ability. Practice evaluating scholarly resources, including secondary sources and archival research.
Attributes: CWIC – Bacc Core, Skills, Writing Intensive Course
Prerequisite: ENG 301 with D- or better
ENG 304, CAREER PREPARATION FOR ENGLISH MAJORS, 2 Credits
Introduces students majoring in English to tasks and processes needed to successfully prepare for a future career. Includes exercises in self-reflection, guidance in exploring professional options and networking, and feedback on job-seeking materials.
Prerequisite: ENG 301 with D- or better
ENG 311, ^STUDIES IN BRITISH PROSE, 4 Credits
An introduction to the prose genre in British literature with intensive practice in reading and writing practices for literary study. (Writing Intensive Course)
Attributes: CWIC – Bacc Core, Skills, Writing Intensive Course
ENG 317, *THE AMERICAN NOVEL: BEGINNINGS TO CHOPIN, 4 Credits
Chronological survey of the novel in America. Covers from the beginnings to Chopin.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
ENG 318, *THE AMERICAN NOVEL: MODERNIST PERIOD, 4 Credits
Chronological survey of the novel in America. Covers Modernist Period from Dreiser to Faulkner.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Available via Ecampus
ENG 319, *THE AMERICAN NOVEL: POST-WORLD WAR II, 4 Credits
Chronological survey of the novel in America. Covers Post-World War II: Mailer to the present.
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Available via Ecampus
ENG 320, *STUDIES IN PAGE, STAGE, AND SCREEN, 4 Credits
Study of a particular theme, genre, movement, or author through the relations of text and performance. Topics change from term to term and may include content from film, drama, digital sources, and other visual media. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 321, *STUDIES IN WORD, OBJECT, AND IMAGE, 4 Credits
Study of a particular theme, genre, movement, or author through the relations of texts to material artifacts and/or static visual objects (e.g., paintings, engravings, printed matter, or photographs). Topics change from term to term. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 322, *STUDIES IN GLOBALISM, TEXT, AND EVENT, 4 Credits
Study of a particular theme, genre, movement, or author as informed by patterns of globalization, issues in international relations, and/or landmark moments of cultural exchange. Topics change from term to term.
Attributes: CSGI – Bacc Core, Synthesis, Contemporary Global Issues
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 330, *THE HOLOCAUST IN LITERATURE AND FILM, 4 Credits
Study of fiction, memoir, and film representing Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry. Reviews history of racial Anti-Semitism and rise of Nazism as context for textual analysis of Holocaust literature. Examines literary and filmic form as productive to social awareness of the roots, events, and aftermath of the Holocaust. (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts
ENG 340, LITERATURES OF THE COAST, 4 Credits
Introduces the diverse means by which literature and the arts represent coastal and marine life. The working thesis is that modern cultural artifacts and literary theories are reflected in and have the power to transform the societal challenges facing coastal community and ocean health. Explores the significance of such interdisciplinary translations through a variety of generic perspectives including poetry, short story, philosophy, creative nonfiction, and graphic narrative.
ENG 345, INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY, 4 Credits
Focuses on study and analysis of critical frameworks and methodologies for the interpretation of literature and culture.
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Prerequisite: ENG 301 (may be taken concurrently) with D- or better
ENG 360, *NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE, 4 Credits
An introduction to the prose and poetry written by Native Americans of the North American continent. Not offered every year. (H) (NC) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPCD – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Cultural Diversity; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core; LACN – Liberal Arts Non-Western Core
Available via Ecampus
ENG 362, *AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, 4 Credits
Study of important literary works of any genre by American women from historical, thematic, or formalist perspectives. (H) (Bacc Core Course)
Attributes: CPLA – Bacc Core, Perspectives, Literature & The Arts; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 362H
ENG 375, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Surveys a variety of genres, including fairy tales, folktales, and fables, nonsense poetry, picture books, historical and fantasy novels, examining how these texts represent childhood and connect with historical, cultural, and psychological contexts.
Equivalent to: ENG 375H
ENG 375H, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Surveys a variety of genres, including fairy tales, folktales and fables, nonsense poetry, picture books, historical and fantasy novels, examining how these texts represent childhood and connect with historical, cultural, and psychological contexts.
Attributes: HNRS – Honors Course Designator
Equivalent to: ENG 375
ENG 386, A CULTURAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN ART AND LITERATURE: PART I, 4 Credits
The first course in an interdisciplinary sequence that examines the development and interrelationships of American art and literature from contact to the present. Covers Conquest to Civil War. CROSSLISTED as ART 386/ENG 386.
Equivalent to: ART 386
ENG 387, A CULTURAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN ART AND LITERATURE: PART II, 4 Credits
The second course in an interdisciplinary sequence that examines the development and interrelationships of American art and literature from contact to the present. Covers Civil War to Harlem Renaissance. CROSSLISTED as ART 387/ENG 387.
Equivalent to: ART 387
ENG 388, A CULTURAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN ART AND LITERATURE: PART III, 4 Credits
The third course in an interdisciplinary sequence that examines the development and interrelationships of American art and literature from contact to the present. Covers Great Depression to Postmodernity. CROSSLISTED as ART 388/ENG 388.
Equivalent to: ART 388
ENG 399, SELECTED TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
(H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 399H
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 399H, SELECTED TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
(H)
Attributes: HNRS – Honors Course Designator; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: ENG 399
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 401, RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 402, INDEPENDENT STUDY, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 403, THESIS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 405, READING AND CONFERENCE, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 406H, PROJECTS, 1-16 Credits
Attributes: HNRS – Honors Course Designator
Equivalent to: ENG 406
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 407, ^SEMINAR, 1-16 Credits
CROSSLISTED as AMS 407/ENG 407. (Writing Intensive Course)
Attributes: CWIC – Bacc Core, Skills, Writing Intensive Course
Equivalent to: ENG 407H
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 408, WORKSHOP, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 410, INTERNSHIP IN ENGLISH, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
Recommended: 16 credits of literature; 6 credits of writing beyond WR 121Z
ENG 416, POWER AND REPRESENTATION, 4 Credits
Critical analysis of works by colonized peoples, women, and ethnic minorities, with a focus on the issue of representation.
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above
ENG 418, THE ENGLISH NOVEL: VICTORIAN PERIOD, 4 Credits
Selected English novels focusing on those from the Victorian period. (H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 425, STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Particular genres, themes, and writers in medieval literature. Topics change from term to term. (H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 427, GLOBAL MEDIEVAL, 4 Credits
Investigates how the “medieval period”, spanning the fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century CE) and the Fall of Constantinople (1453) and generally cast as European, was a complex millennium of global travel, commerce, and cultural exchange, far more heterogeneous than contemporary television, movies, and medievalising fantasy literature usually depicts. Identifies how the literature, travelogues, and life narratives written in Europe, Africa, and Asia reflect political, religious, philosophical, and artistic interpenetration. Examines how these texts help us redefine the medieval and illuminate modern discourses of the nation-state, debates about race and ethnicity, and the concerns of post- and decoloniality.
Prerequisite: ENG 301 with C- or better
Recommended: 8 credits of 200-level ENG courses
ENG 434, STUDIES IN LITERATURE 1700-1900, 4 Credits
Explores literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1700-1900). Topics vary and address current conversations in eighteenth-century, Romantic, and/ or Victorian studies. Content may include a variety of genres as well as modern responses to older texts and traditions. Emphasizes texts in their historical context and examines the development of social categories, concepts, and/or crises.
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: ENG 301; critical thinking, evaluation, and writing skills
ENG 435, STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE, 4 Credits
Shakespeare's works from a variety of critical and scholarly perspectives. Not offered every term. (H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 438, STUDIES IN LITERATURE AFTER 1900, 4 Credits
Explores literature and culture of the twentieth century and beyond. Topics vary and address current conversations in Modernist (early 20th c.), Postmodernist (late 20th c.) and/ or Contemporary (21st c.) period studies. Content may include a variety of genres as well as modern responses to older texts and traditions. Emphasizes texts in their historical context and examines the development of social categories, concepts, and/or crises.
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: ENG 301; critical thinking, evaluation, and writing skills
ENG 440, STUDIES IN MODERN IRISH LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Studies in the literature and contexts of the period of Irish writing often referred to as the Irish Renaissance. Authors may include Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, O'Casey, Gregory, Synge, Bowen, Moore, Behan, O'Brien, Kavanaugh, Cronin. Sometimes offered as a study of Joyce's works alone. Topics change from term to term. (H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 445, ^STUDIES IN NONFICTION, 4 Credits
Particular essayists and journalists, movements, problems, conventions, and types of nonfiction writing in English. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every year. (H) (Writing Intensive Course)
Attributes: CWIC – Bacc Core, Skills, Writing Intensive Course; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
Available via Ecampus
ENG 454, MAJOR AUTHORS, 4 Credits
Advanced study of major and influential authors from various cultures and backgrounds. Subjects change from term to term. Not offered every year. (H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 460, STUDIES IN DRAMA, 4 Credits
Particular dramatists, movements, conventions, and types of world drama. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term. (H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 465, STUDIES IN THE NOVEL, 4 Credits
Particular novelists, movements, conventions, and types of the novel throughout its history. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term. (H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 470, ^STUDIES IN POETRY, 4 Credits
Particular poets, movements, problems, conventions, and types of poetry in English or English translation. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term. (H) (Writing Intensive Course)
Attributes: CWIC – Bacc Core, Skills, Writing Intensive Course; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 480, STUDIES IN LITERATURE, CULTURE AND SOCIETY, 4 Credits
Study of literature in its relationship to society and culture; study of literary culture. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term. (H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Equivalent to: FILM 480
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 482, STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 4 Credits
Creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and film from the mid-19th century to the present, examining relationships between rural and urban, and investigating the development of important patterns in how the physical environment is perceived, represented, interpreted, and used in the United States.
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 485, ^STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Special topics in American literary history. Organized around movements, regions, themes, or major authors. Topics change from term to term.
Attributes: CWIC – Bacc Core, Skills, Writing Intensive Course; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 488, LITERATURE AND PEDAGOGY, 4 Credits
Practices, approaches, histories, and theories of teaching literature appropriate for secondary through college settings. Considers text selection, assignments, and evaluation. (H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
ENG 489, WRITING, LITERATURE AND MEDICINE, 4 Credits
Considers medical themes in literature, social meanings of illness, and writing strategies appropriate to the healing arts.
ENG 490, HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 4 Credits
A study of the origins, changes, and reasons for changes in the grammar, sounds, and vocabulary of English from its earliest stages through its modern forms.
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above
ENG 497, *INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S VOICES, 4 Credits
A study of women and literature in an international context, focusing on the cultural differences among women and the effects of gender on language and literature.
Attributes: CSGI – Bacc Core, Synthesis, Contemporary Global Issues; LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above
ENG 499, SELECTED TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
(H)
Attributes: LACH – Liberal Arts Humanities Core
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
Recommended: Sophomore standing; 8 credits of ENG 200-level or above.
ENG 501, RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 502, INDEPENDENT STUDY, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 503, THESIS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 999 credits.
ENG 505, READING AND CONFERENCE, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 506, PROJECTS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 507, SEMINAR, 1-16 Credits
CROSSLISTED as AMS 507/ENG 507.
Equivalent to: AMS 507
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 510, GRADUATE INTERNSHIP IN ENGLISH, 1-2 Credits
Provides graduate students with supervised, on-the-job work experience and professional development. Graded P/N.
This course is repeatable for 12 credits.
ENG 512, STUDIES IN BRITISH THEATER AND SOCIETY, 4 Credits
Study of major dramatists and the audiences they addressed, of socio-economic conditions and their interrelations with theatrical institutions. Readings may include dramatic and non-dramatic literature. Historical period and content may vary.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 514, INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE STUDIES, 4 Credits
Introduction to the MA program; theories and methods of English studies. Offered fall term only. Required for first-year MA students.
ENG 516, POWER AND REPRESENTATION, 4 Credits
Critical analysis of works by colonized peoples, women, and ethnic minorities, with a focus on the issue of representation. Not offered every year.
ENG 521X, STUDIES IN WORD, OBJECT, AND IMAGE, 4 Credits
Study of a particular theme, genre, movement, or author through the relations of texts to material artifacts and/or static visual objects (e.g., paintings, engravings, printed matter, or photographs).
ENG 525, STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Particular genres, themes, and writers in medieval literature. Topics change from term to term.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 527, GLOBAL MEDIEVAL, 4 Credits
Investigates how the “medieval period”, spanning the fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century CE) and the Fall of Constantinople (1453) and generally cast as European, was a complex millennium of global travel, commerce, and cultural exchange, far more heterogeneous than contemporary television, movies, and medievalising fantasy literature usually depicts. Identifies how the literature, travelogues, and life narratives written in Europe, Africa, and Asia reflect political, religious, philosophical, and artistic interpenetration. Examines how these texts help us redefine the medieval and illuminate modern discourses of the nation-state, debates about race and ethnicity, and the concerns of post- and decoloniality.
ENG 534, STUDIES IN LITERATURE 1700-1900, 4 Credits
Explores literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1700-1900). Topics vary and address current conversations in eighteenth-century, Romantic, and/ or Victorian studies. Content may include a variety of genres as well as modern responses to older texts and traditions. Emphasizes texts in their historical context and examines the development of social categories, concepts, and/or crises.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 535, STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE, 4 Credits
Shakespeare's works from a variety of critical and scholarly perspectives. Not offered every term.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
Recommended: At least one quarter of Shakespeare
ENG 538, STUDIES IN LITERATURE AFTER 1900, 4 Credits
Explores literature and culture of the twentieth century and beyond. Topics vary and address current conversations in Modernist (early 20th c.), Postmodernist (late 20th c.) and/ or Contemporary (21st c.) period studies. Content may include a variety of genres as well as modern responses to older texts and traditions. Emphasizes texts in their historical context and examines the development of social categories, concepts, and/or crises.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 540, STUDIES IN MODERN IRISH LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Studies in the literature and context of the period of Irish writing often referred to as the Irish Renaissance. Authors may include Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, O'Casey, Gregory, Synge, Bowen, Moore, Behan, O'Brien, Kavanaugh, Cronin. Sometimes offered as a study of Joyce's works alone. Topics change from term to term.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 545, STUDIES IN NONFICTION, 4 Credits
Particular essayists and journalists, movements, problems, conventions, and types of nonfiction writing in English. Topics change from term to term.
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 554, MAJOR AUTHORS, 4 Credits
Advanced study of major and influential authors from various cultures and backgrounds. Subjects change from term to term. Not offered every year.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 560, STUDIES IN DRAMA, 4 Credits
Particular dramatists, movements, conventions, and types of world drama. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 565, STUDIES IN THE NOVEL, 4 Credits
Particular novelists, movements, conventions, and types of the novel throughout its history. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 570, STUDIES IN POETRY, 4 Credits
Particular poets, movements, problems, conventions, and types of poetry in English or English translation. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 575, STUDIES IN CRITICISM, 4 Credits
Particular critics, critical movements, issues, and histories of criticism. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every year.
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 580, STUDIES IN LITERATURE, CULTURE AND SOCIETY, 4 Credits
Study of literature in its relationship to society and culture; study of literary culture. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term.
Equivalent to: FILM 580
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
ENG 582, STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 4 Credits
Creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and film from the mid-19th century to the present, examining relationships between rural and urban, and investigating the development of important patterns in how the physical environment is perceived, represented, interpreted, and used in the United States.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 585, STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 4 Credits
Special topics in American literary history. Organized around movements, regions, themes, or major authors. Topics change from term to term.
This course is repeatable for 8 credits.
ENG 588, LITERATURE AND PEDAGOGY, 4 Credits
Practices, approaches, histories, and theories of teaching literature appropriate for secondary through college settings. Considers text selection, assignments, and evaluation.
ENG 589, WRITING, LITERATURE AND MEDICINE, 4 Credits
Considers medical themes in literature, social meanings of illness, and writing strategies appropriate to the healing arts.
ENG 590, HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 4 Credits
A study of the origins, changes, and reasons for changes in the grammar, sounds, and vocabulary of English from its earliest stages through its modern forms.