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ENGLISH: LITERATURE (ENGL)
College of Liberal Arts
English Language & Literature
 
ENGL 1001V - Introduction to Literature: Poetry, Drama, Narrative (LITR, WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 1001W]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Techniques for analyzing/understanding literature. Readings of novels, short stories, poems, plays.



ENGL 1001W - Introduction to Literature: Poetry, Drama, Narrative (LITR, WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 1001V]; fall, spring, every year)
Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding literature. Readings of novels, short stories, poems, plays.



ENGL 1021V - Introduction to the Essay (WI)
(4.0 cr; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Choices academic writers make based on audience, purpose, and context. Emphasizes effective use of University Libraries, including locating, evaluating, and using scholarly sources. Reading/writing assignments to extend/clarify arguments and improve control over writing. Selecting/limiting topics. Revision.



ENGL 1172 - The Story of King Arthur (LITR)
(3.0 cr; =[01670]; A-F or Aud, spring, every year)
Arthurian literature, from earliest times to present. How same story can accommodate many different systems of belief. Form, changing historical backgrounds.



ENGL 1181V - Honors: Introduction to Shakespeare (WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 1181W]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Survey of Shakespeare's work, treating approximately 10 plays. Lecture.



ENGL 1181W - Introduction to Shakespeare (LITR, WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 1181V]; fall, spring, every year)
Survey of Shakespeare's work, treating approximately 10 plays. Lecture.



ENGL 1201V - Honors: Contemporary American Literature (WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 1201W]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F or Aud, spring, every year)
Chronologically/thematically based readings from American literature. Approaches to literary analysis/criticism. Social/historical contexts of authorship/reading, literary artistry/conventions. Discussion, writing.



ENGL 1201W - Contemporary American Literature (LITR, WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 1201V]; spring, summer, every year)
Literature of 1960s to today. Ways American authors from various ethnic, gender, religious, sexual, economic orientations and genres explore politics, aesthetics, sociocultural taboos, and extra-literary concerns.



ENGL 1301V - Honors: Introduction to Multicultural Literatures of the United States (WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 1301W]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Representative works by African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Chicano/Chicana writers, chiefly from 20th century. Social/cultural factors in America's literary past/present.



ENGL 1301W - Introduction to Multicultural Literatures of the United States (LITR, DSJ, WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 1301V]; fall, summer, every year)
Representative works by African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Chicano/Chicana writers, chiefly from 20th century. Social/cultural factors informing America's literary past/present.



ENGL 1401V - Honors: Introduction to "Third World" Literatures in English (LITR, GP, WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 1401W]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Diverse work produced in English outside the United States and Britain. Works represent different cultures, but treat concerns derived from a common post-colonial legacy.



ENGL 1401W - Introduction to "Third World" Literatures in English (LITR, GP, WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 1401V]; fall, spring, every year)
Diverse works produced in English outside the United States and Britain. Works represent different cultures, but treat concerns derived from common post-colonial legacy.



ENGL 1501W - Literature of Public Life (LITR, CIV, WI)
(4.0 cr; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Meaning/practice of citizenship. Historical themes, contemporary issues in American public life: access of citizenship, tensions between social duties and individual freedoms, role of moral values in public life. Diverse literary materials.



ENGL 1601W - English Language and Society (WI)
(4.0 cr; fall, even years)
Nontechnical understanding of systematic, dynamic, creative nature of human language. Emphasizes English language.



ENGL 1701 - Modern Fiction (LITR)
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 1701H]; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.



ENGL 1701H - Honors: Modern Fiction (LITR)
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 1701]; Prereq-Honors or #; fall, spring, every year)
Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Point of view, fictional conventions, forms of experimentation.



ENGL 1902 - Topics: Freshman Seminar (DSJ)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Fr; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 1905 - Topics: Freshman Seminar
(3.0 cr; Prereq-freshman; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 1907W - Topics: Freshman Seminar (WI)
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, offered periodically)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 1910W - Topics: Freshman Seminar (WI)
(3.0 cr; Prereq-freshman; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 3001V - Honors: Textual Analysis, Methods (WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 3001W]; Prereq-Honors, [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Training/practice in analyzing various literary forms. Emphasizes poetry. Argument, evidence, and documentation in literary papers. Introduction to major developments in contemporary criticism.



ENGL 3001W - Textual Analysis: Methods (WI)
(4.0 cr; =[ENGL 3001V]; Prereq-English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.



ENGL 3002 - Modern Literary Criticism and Theory
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3002H]; fall, spring, every year)
Problems of interpretation/criticism. Questions of meaning, form, authority, literary history, social significance.



ENGL 3002H - Honors: Modern Literary Criticism and Theory
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3002]; Prereq-Honors or #; fall, spring, every year)
Problems of interpretation/criticism. Questions of meaning, form, authority, literary history, social significance.



ENGL 3003W - Historical Survey of British Literatures I (HIS, WI)
(4.0 cr; fall, spring, summer, every year)
An introductory historical survey of British literature and culture from the Anglo-Saxon invasions through the end of the 18th century.



ENGL 3004W - Historical Survey of British Literatures II (HIS, WI)
(4.0 cr; fall, spring, summer, every year)
An introductory historical survey of British literature and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist authors, such as Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, the Brontes, Austen, Dickens, Wilde, Yeats, Woolf, and Thomas.



ENGL 3005V - Honors: Survey of American Literature I (WI)
(4.0 cr; =[01325]; Prereq-Honors or #; fall, spring, every year)
Readings in American literature, from first European contact, through colonial times, to mid-19th century. Texts in several genres by diverse authors. Classics, less familiar works. Historical, social, and aesthetic contexts.



ENGL 3005W - Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I (LITR, DSJ, WI)
(4.0 cr; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Readings in American literature from first European contact, through colonial times, to mid-19th century. Texts in several genres by diverse authors. Classics, less familiar works. Historical, social, and aesthetic contexts.



ENGL 3006W - Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II (LITR, DSJ, WI)
(4.0 cr; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Readings from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century; including the realists' and regionalists' response to the growth of industrial capitalism, Modernism in the 1920s, and the issues which united and divided the country throughout the 20th century.



ENGL 3007 - Shakespeare (LITR)
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3007H]; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Plays from all of Shakespeare's periods, including at least A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, the history plays, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, and The Winter's Tale.



ENGL 3007H - Honors: Shakespeare (LITR)
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3007]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Plays from all of Shakespeare's periods, including at least A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, the history plays, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, and The Winter's Tale.



ENGL 3008 - Research in English: In and Out of the Archives
(3.0 cr; A-F only, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Social/textual relationships. How to craft revealing questions and assess information. Modes of inquiry. Collections/communities. Written assignments, discussion. Archival materials in print, oral, digital, and visual forms.



ENGL 3008H - Research in English: In and Out of the Archives
(3.0 cr; Prereq-[CLA honors, [English major or English minor or BIS/IDIM English]] or #; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Social/textual relationships. How to craft revealing questions and assess information. Modes of inquiry. Collections/communities. Written assignments, discussion. Archival materials in print, oral, digital, and visual forms.



ENGL 3010 - Studies In Poetry
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3010H]; fall, offered periodically)
Special topics related to reading poetry in various interpretive contexts.



ENGL 3010H - Honors: Studies in Poetry
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3010]; Prereq-Honors or #; fall, offered periodically)
Special topics related to reading poetry in various interpretive contexts.



ENGL 3011 - Diaspora Poetics
(3.0 cr; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Verbal art, historic or recent, produced by displaced persons as basis for engagement with idea of creative, survivalist displacement of language itself.



ENGL 3012 - Poetry as Cultural Critique
(3.0 cr; =[CSCL 3174]; spring, offered periodically)
Examines the status of "poetry" in several cultures of the Americas bringing together techniques of close reading and broad cultural inquiry.



ENGL 3013 - Poems about Cities
(3.0 cr; spring, offered periodically)
Read/respond to selection of poems about various cities. Emphasis on poetry written in English from 18th through 21st century. Some poetry in translation/from other periods.
Effective: Spring 2014


ENGL 3020 - Studies in Narrative
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 5020]; fall, summer, odd years)
Examine issues related to reading and understanding narrative in a variety of interpretive contexts. Topics may include "The 19th-century English (American, Anglophone) Novel," "Introduction to Narrative," or "Techniques of the Novel." Topics specified in the Class Schedule.



ENGL 3020H - Honors: Studies in Narrative
(3.0 cr; Prereq-honors student; A-F or Aud, fall, odd years)
Issues related to reading/understanding narrative in various interpretive contexts. Topics may include nineteenth-century English (American, Anglophone) novel, narrative, or techniques of the novel. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 3021 - Captivity in Literature and Film: From the Barbary Coast to Guantanamo Bay
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 5021]; spring, odd years)
Whether there is a captivity genre in English/Global literature, from early modern period to 21st century. Texts/films from numerous civilizations/histories.



ENGL 3022 - Science Fiction and Fantasy
(3.0 cr; fall, spring, every year)
Variety of science fiction/fantasy authors, such as Mary Shelley, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Neil Gaiman.



ENGL 3023 - Children's Literature
(3.0 cr; =[01949]; fall, spring, every year)
Range of children's literature, from classic fairy tales such as "Little Red Riding Hood" to contemporary texts such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.



ENGL 3023H - Honors: Children's Literature
(3.0 cr; =[01952]; Prereq-Honors; A-F only, spring, offered periodically)
Range of children's literature, from classic fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood to contemporary texts such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.



ENGL 3024 - The Graphic Novel
(3.0 cr; fall, spring, every year)
Graphic novel as well as manga.



ENGL 3027W - The Essay (WI)
(4.0 cr; =[01352]; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Incorporating narrative, descriptive, analytical, and persuasive techniques into writing on general topics. Effective argumentation through critical reading. Use of library resources. Awareness of context/audience.



ENGL 3030 - Studies in Drama
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 5030, ENGL 3030H]; spring, summer, even years)
Topics may include English Renaissance tragedy, English Restoration and 18th century, or American drama by writers of color. Single-author courses focus on writers such as Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill, or issues/themes such as gender/performance.



ENGL 3030H - Honors: Studies in Drama
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 5030, ENGL 3030]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F only, spring, even years)
Topics may include English Renaissance tragedy, English Restoration, and 18th century American drama by writers of color. Single-author courses focus on writers such as Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill, issues/themes such as gender, and performance.



ENGL 3032 - Shakespeare in London
(3.0 cr; summer, even years)
How are different interpretations of Shakespeare?s works embodied in the theater? How are they transformed by location/context? Students attend/discuss theatrical productions.



ENGL 3040 - Studies in Film
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3040H]; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Topics regarding film in variety of interpretive contexts, from range/historic development of American, English, Anglophone film.



ENGL 3040H - Honors: Studies in Film
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3040]; Prereq-Honors or #; fall, spring, every year)
Topics regarding film in various interpretive contexts. Range and historic development of American, English, and Anglophone film. Examples: "American Film Genres," "Film Noir," "Chaplin and Hitchcock." For topics, see Class Schedule.



ENGL 3046 - Black and White
(4.0 cr; spring, even years)
Photography, cinema, print. Documentary, fantasy, film noir: how they have infected our aesthetic imagination. Social themes. Racial divisions marking American/global systems.



ENGL 3060 - Studies in Literature and the Other Arts
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; spring, even years)
Examines literature's role in conjunction with other arts including music, the visual arts, dance, etc. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 3070 - Studies in Literary and Cultural Modes
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; fall, odd years)
Modes of literary expression/representation that transcend conventional demarcations of genre and historical periods. Topics may include horror, romance, mystery, comedy, and satire.



ENGL 3071 - The American Food Revolution in Literature and Television (CIV)
(3.0 cr; fall, every year)
Native food landscape in 1930s. Classic literature from rise of movement. Recent work that focuses on personal/environmental ethics of food.



ENGL 3090 - General Topics
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[01611]; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 3090H - Honors: General Topics
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-honors student; A-F only, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 3101 - Survey of Medieval English Literature
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Major/representative Medieval English works, including Sir Gawain the Green Knight, Chaucer.s Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, Book of Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich.s Revelations, and Malory.s Morte D.Arthur.



ENGL 3102 - Chaucer
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Major/representative works written by Chaucer, including The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the dream visions. Historical, intellectual, and cultural background of the poems. Language, poetic theory, form.



ENGL 3110 - Medieval Literatures and Cultures: Intro to Medieval Studies
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 5110]; spring, every year)
Major and representative works of the Middle Ages. Topics specified in the Class Schedule.



ENGL 3115 - Medieval and Renaissance Drama
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, offered periodically)
Medieval/Renaissance drama in terms of performance. Performance history, enactments of scenes from cycle/morality plays, informal production of a morality play.



ENGL 3122 - Shakespeare II: The Major Themes
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3007 or #; spring, offered periodically)
Shakespeare's intellectual community, its language/values. In-class readings from at least six plays. Quizzes on dramatic speeches. Written assignments.



ENGL 3132 - The King James Bible as Literature
(3.0 cr; fall, odd years)
Literature of Jewish Bible ("Old Testament"). Narratives (Torah through Kings), prophets (including Isaiah), writings (including Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes). God's words/deeds as reported by editors/translators.



ENGL 3133 - Stuart England: 17th-Century Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3133H]; spring, odd years)
Major/representative works of the Restoration and 18th century (1660-1798). Typical authors: Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Boswell, Fielding.



ENGL 3133H - Honors: Stuart England: 17th-Century Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3133]; Prereq-honors student; spring, odd years)
Major/representative works of Restoration and 18th Century (1660-1798). Typical authors: Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Boswell, Fielding.



ENGL 3134 - Milton and Rebellion
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3134H]; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Milton's prose/minor poems from the Revolution (1641-1660). Post-revolutionary works (Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes). Emphasizes Milton's lifelong effort to bring about reform ("change").



ENGL 3134H - Honors: Milton and the Century of Revolution
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3134]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F or Aud, fall, offered periodically)
Milton's prose/minor poems from the Revolution (1641-60). Post-revolutionary works (Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes). Emphasizes Milton's lifelong effort to bring about reform ("change").



ENGL 3141 - The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 5140]; A-F or Aud, spring, every year)
Major/representative works of the Restoration and 18th century (1660-1789). Typical authors: Dryden, Behn, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Burney.



ENGL 3151 - Romantic Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
British literature written between 1780 and 1830. Concept of Romanticism. Effects of French Revolution on literary production. Role of romantic artist.



ENGL 3161 - Victorian Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3161H]; spring, every year)
The literature of the British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural and historical contexts. Typical authors include Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, and the Brontes.



ENGL 3161H - Honors: Victorian Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3161]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F only, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Literature of British Victorian period (1832-1901) in relation to its cultural/historical contexts. Typical authors: Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, the Brontes.



ENGL 3171 - Modern British Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr; fall, offered periodically)
Survey of principal writers, intellectual currents, conventions, genres and themes in Britain from 1950 to the present. Typically included are Beckett, Golding, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Murdoch, Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, Lessing, Shaffer, Stoppard, Fowles, and Drabble.



ENGL 3175 - 20th-Century British Literatures and Cultures I
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 5175]; fall, offered periodically)
Survey of principal writers, intellectual currents, conventions, and genres/themes in Britain/Ireland, from 1900 to 1945. Fiction/nonfiction by Conrad, Richardson, Forster, Joyce, Mansfield, Rhys, West, Woolf, Lawrence, and Huxley. Poetry by Hardy, Hopkins, Loy, H.D., Yeats, Pound and Eliot. Drama by Synge and Shaw.



ENGL 3176 - 20th-Century British Literatures and Cultures II
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 5176]; fall, offered periodically)
Survey of principal writers, intellectual currents, conventions, genres, and themes in Britain/Ireland, 1945-1999. Fiction/nonfiction by Greene, Bowen, Amis, Fowles, Lessing, Drabble, Murdoch, Naipaul, Carter, Rushdie, and Winterson. Poetry by Smith, Auden, Thomas, Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, Smith, Boland, and Walcott. Drama by Beckett, Pinter, Shaffer, Stoppard, Devlin, Friel, and Carr.



ENGL 3180 - Contemporary Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3180H, ENGL 5180]; fall, summer, every year)
Examine issues related to the reading and understanding of British, American, and Anglophone fiction and poetry in a variety of interpretive contexts.



ENGL 3180H - Honors: Contemporary Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3180, ENGL 5180]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Issues related to reading/understanding British, American, and Anglophone fiction/poetry in various interpretive contexts.



ENGL 3211 - American Poetry to 1900
(3.0 cr; fall, offered periodically)
Poets from the Puritans to the end of the 19th century. The course attends to the intellectual and cultural background of the poets, poetic theory, and form.



ENGL 3212 - American Poetry from 1900
(3.0 cr; spring, odd years)
Famous and lesser-known poems from the Modernist era, the time of Frost, HD, Pound, Eliot and the Harlem Renaissance. The course attends to the intellectual and cultural background of the poets, poetic theory and form.



ENGL 3221 - American Novel to 1900
(3.0 cr; fall, even years)
Novels, from early Republic, through Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe, to writers at end of 19th century (e.g., Howells, Twain, James, Chopin, Crane). Development of a national literature. Tension between realism and romance. Changing role of women as writers and as fictional characters.



ENGL 3222 - American Novel from 1900
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3222H]; fall, spring, every year)
Novels from early 1900's realism through Modernists (e.g., Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald) to more recent writers (e.g., Ellison, Bellow, Erdrich, Pynchon). Stylistic experiments, emergence of voices from formerly under-represented groups, novelists' responses to society.



ENGL 3222H - Honors: American Novel from 1900
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3222]; Prereq-Honors or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Novels from early 1900s realism through Modernists (e.g., Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald) to recent writers (e.g., Ellison, Bellow, Erdrich, Pynchon). Stylistic experiments, emergence of voices from under-represented groups. Novelists' responses to a technologically changing society.



ENGL 3231 - American Drama
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3231H]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Representative dramas from 18th through 20th centuries. Topics include staging of national identities, aesthetics of modern/contemporary drama. Production concerns of mainstream, regional, community theaters.



ENGL 3231H - Honors: American Drama
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3231]; Prereq-honors student; spring, offered periodically)
Representative dramas, from 18th through 20th centuries. Staging of national identities, aesthetics of modern/contemporary drama. Production concerns of mainstream, regional, and community theaters.



ENGL 3300 - Multicultural American Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3300H, ENGL 5300]; fall, every year)
Writings of specific ethnic groups. Emphasizes historical or cultural context. Topics may include American minority drama, Harlem Renaissance, Asian-American literature/film, African-American women writers. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 3300H - Honors: Multicultural American Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 5300, ENGL 3300]; fall, every year)
Writings of specific ethnic groups. Emphasizes historical or cultural context. Topics may include American minority drama, Harlem Renaissance, Asian-American literature/film, African-American women writers. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 3301 - Asian America Through Arts and Culture (AH, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; =[AAS 3301]; spring, odd years)
Interdisciplinary questions of Asian American experience, identity, and community. Literature, dance, music, photography, film, theater, other cultural forms. Students work with local Asian American arts groups/organizations. Attend local arts events.



ENGL 3330 - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Literature
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; spring, even years)
Literature/culture produced by/about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people. Emphasizes importance of materials falsified/ignored in earlier literary/cultural studies. How traditional accounts need to be revised in light of significant contributions of GLBT people.



ENGL 3350 - Women Writers
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3350H]; spring, even years)
Groups of writers in the 19th and/or 20th centuries. Will focus either on writers from a single country or be comparative in nature. The course will be organized thematically or according to topics of contemporary and theoretical interest.



ENGL 3350H - Honors: Women Writers
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3350]; Prereq-Honors or #; spring, even years)
Groups of writers in 19th or 20th century. Either focuses on writers from a single country or is comparative. Organized thematically or according to topics of contemporary/theoretical interest.



ENGL 3351W - Voices from the Gaps: Writing and Art by Women of Color (AH, GP, WI)
(4.0 cr; fall, spring, every year)
Collaborative/individual student research, writing, and Web site production for VG (Voices from the Gaps). Focuses on visual arts, film, music, and literature by North American women writers of colour. Texts/discussions in English.



ENGL 3352 - Weird Books by Women
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3352H]; spring, odd years)
Weirdness as non-normativity that creates discomfort. Weirdness as incestuous creepiness, dissociation, hysteria, paranoia. Weirdness as identifying, but not wanting to, with a twisted "reality." Weirdness created through experimental text, form, and narrative.



ENGL 3352H - Honors: Weird Books by Women
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3352]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F only, fall, offered periodically)
Weirdness as non-normativity that creates discomfort. Weirdness as incestuous creepiness, dissociation, hysteria, paranoia. Weirdness as identifying, but not wanting to, with a twisted reality. Weirdness created through experimental text, form, and narrative.



ENGL 3400 - Post-Colonial Literatures
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3400H, ENGL 5400]; fall, odd years)
Varied topics in post-Colonial literatures. Typical novelists include Chinua Achebe, Tsitsi Dangaremba, Fadia Faqir, Salman Rushdie; filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik; and "dub" poets Mutabaruka and Jean Binta Breeze.



ENGL 3400H - Honors: Post-Colonial Literatures
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3400, ENGL 5400]; Prereq-Honors or #; A-F only, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Varied topics in post-Colonial literatures. Typical figures include novelists Chinua Achebe, Tsitsi Dangaremba, Fadia Faqir, and Salman Rushdie; filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik; and "dub" poets Mutabaruka and Jean Binta Breeze.



ENGL 3501 - Public Discourse: Coming to Terms With the Environment (LITR, ENV)
(3.0 cr; spring, even years)
Public discourse in various geographic regions and historical periods. See Course Guide for specific course description.



ENGL 3505 - Community Learning Internships I
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Connections between literature/literacy, theory/practice, community work and academic study. Students work as interns in local community-based education projects. Interns meet with faculty and community representatives to reflect on daily work and practical relevance. Students receive initial training from Career and Community Learning Center and Minnesota Literacy Council, and orientations at community sites. Four hours weekly work at community site, readings, journal writing, monthly short papers.



ENGL 3506 - Learning Internships II
(4.0 cr; Prereq-3505 in preceding semester or #; A-F or Aud, spring, every year)
Students work at a community site. In weekly meetings with faculty and community representatives, students explore relationship between their academic skills and community experiences. Social functions of literacy and liberal education in the United States. Eight hours weekly work at community site, readings in history/theory of literacy, written reflection exercises, design/execution of scholarly or educational project at community site.



ENGL 3507W - Introduction to Chicana/o Literature (LITR, DSJ, WI)
(3.0 cr; =[CHIC 3507W]; fall, spring, every year)
Cultural, intellectual, and sociopolitical traditions of Mexican Americans as they are represented in creative literature. Genres/forms of creative cultural expression and their significance as representations of social, cultural, and political life in the United States. Novels, short stories, creative nonfiction, drama, essay, poetry, and hybrid forms of literature.



ENGL 3591W - Introduction to African American Literature (WI)
(4.0 cr; =[AFRO 3591W]; fall, spring, every year)
African American autobiography, fiction, essay, poetry, drama, folklore from late-18th century to present.



ENGL 3592W - Introduction to Black Women Writers in the United States (WI)
(3.0 cr; =[AFRO 3592W]; fall, spring, every year)
Literature of African American women writers explored in novels, short stories, essays, poetry, autobiographies, drama from 18th to late-20th century.



ENGL 3597W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture I (WI)
(4.0 cr; =[AFRO 3597W]; fall, every year)
African American oral tradition, slave narrative, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, and drama, from colonial era through Harlem Renaissance.



ENGL 3598W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture II (LITR, WI)
(4.0 cr; =[AFRO 3598W]; spring, every year)
African American oral tradition, autobiography, poetry, essay, fiction, oratory, drama. From after Harlem Renaissance to end of 20th century.



ENGL 3601 - Analysis of the English Language
(4.0 cr; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Introduction to structure of English. Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics. pragmatics. Language variation/usage.



ENGL 3711 - Literary Magazine Production Lab I
(4.0 cr; A-F only, fall, every year)
First of two courses. Students produce undergraduate art/literary magazine Ivory Tower. Students decide upon identity, tone, and direction of the issue. They take on magazine staff responsibilities, call for submissions, make selections, edit/design, set budget, and begin fund-raising.



ENGL 3712 - Literary Magazine Production Lab II
(4.0 cr; A-F only, spring, every year)
Second of two courses. Students produce undergraduate art/literary magazine Ivory Tower. Students contact writers/artists, edit final selections, design/layout pages, select printer, distribute, and market journal. Reading/writing assignments on history of literary magazines.



ENGL 3713 - Editing for Publication
(4.0 cr; Prereq-Soph or jr or 1st sem sr; spring, every year)
Practice professional editing of various kinds of texts (e.g., scientific/technical writing). Introduction to editing levels, from substantive revision to copyediting. Computer-mediated editorial practices.



ENGL 3741 - Literacy and American Cultural Diversity (LITR, CIV)
(4.0 cr; fall, spring, every year)
Nature, acquisition, institutionalization, and state of literacy in the United States. Focuses on issues of culturally diverse, disadvantaged members of society. Service-learning component requires tutoring of children/adults in community service agencies.



ENGL 3870 - Figures in English and North American Literature
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Topics specified in the Class Schedule.



ENGL 3881 - London Seminar
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Completion of 3xxx composition requirement, %; summer, offered periodically)
Broad topic of literary investigation crossing/integrating several areas of study. Sometimes team-taught. "Literature in London" program course.



ENGL 3883V - Honors Thesis (WI)
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 4.0 cr]; Prereq-Honors candidacy in English, consent of English honors advisor; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
See guidelines available from English honors adviser.



ENGL 3960W - Senior Seminar (WI)
(4.0 cr; Prereq-English major, [jr or sr], major adviser approval, %; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Rigorous/intensive seminar. Students write extended scholarly essay. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 3980 - Directed Instruction
(1.0 - 6.0 cr [max 6.0 cr]; Prereq-#, %, @; fall, spring, every year)
Directed study arranged between student and advising faculty member.



ENGL 3993 - Directed Study
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 8.0 cr]; Prereq-One 3xxx, [English major or minor or [BIS or IDIM or ICP] with English concentration], [jr or sr], #, %, @; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Guided individual reading or study.



ENGL 4003 - History of Literary Theory
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, odd years)
How thinkers from classical to modern times posed/answered questions about language (how words mean), audience (to whom they mean), and the literary (how literary writing differs from other forms of writing). Works by Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Christine de Pizan, Dante, Sidney, Behn, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Woolf.



ENGL 4041 - Old Age in Film and Literature
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, spring, odd years)
How/why subject of old age is focus of a selection of primarily modern verbal/visual texts (fiction, non-fiction). Philosophical, sociological, and psychological perspectives. Ways in which varied experiences of old age have as much to do with culture as with biology.



ENGL 4090 - General Topics
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 4152 - Nineteenth Century British Novel
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
British novel during the century in which it became widely recognized as a major vehicle for cultural expression. Possible topics include the relation of novel to contemporary historical concerns: rise of British empire, developments in science, and changing roles for women; formal challenges of the novel; definition of realism.



ENGL 4153 - Nineteenth-Century British Poetry
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, spring, odd years)
Poetry written in Britain during 19th century. Possible authors include Wordsworth, Byron, Hemans, Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, D. G. and Christina Rossetti, Swinburne, and Hopkins.



ENGL 4232 - American Drama by Writers of Color
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Selected works by Asian American, African American, American Indian, Latino, and Chicano playwrights. How racial/ethnic differences are integral to shaping different visions of American drama. History of minority/ethnic theaters, politics of casting, mainstreaming of the minority playwright.



ENGL 4233 - Modern and Contemporary Drama
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, offered periodically)
Works written for theater in 19th/20th century. Emphasizes how major aesthetic forms of modern drama (the well-made play, realism, expressionism, symbolism, epic theater, absurdism) presented not just distinctive theatrical styles, but also new ways of .seeing. for the theatrical spectator. How social differences, as informed by gender, class, and race, inform content/presentation.



ENGL 4311 - Asian American Literature and Drama (LITR, DSJ)
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Literary/dramatic works by Asian American writers. Historical past of Asian America through perspective of writers such as Sui Sin Far and Carlos Bulosan. Contemporary artists such as Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Henry Hwang, and Han Ong. Political/historical background of Asian American artists, their aesthetic choices.



ENGL 4593 - The African-American Novel
(3.0 cr; =[AFRO 5593, AFRO 3593]; fall, spring, every year)
Contextual readings of 19th-/20th-century black novelists, including Chesnutt, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, Petry, Morrison, and Reed.



ENGL 4602W - Gender and the English Language (WI)
(4.0 cr; spring, even years)
Connections between gender and other social factors that influence history/future of English language. Race, ethnicity, class, regional/national variation, religion, technology. Gender theories as they relate to social issues, texts, and discourse practices.



ENGL 4603W - World Englishes (WI)
(4.0 cr; fall, odd years)
Historical background, psychosocial significance, and linguistic characteristics of diverging varieties of English spoken around world, especially in postcolonial contexts (Caribbean, Africa, Asia). Development of local standards/vernaculars. Sociolinguistic methods of analysis.



ENGL 4605 - Social Variation in American English
(4.0 cr; spring, even years)
Description/analysis of English language variation from sociohistorical perspective in the United States and the Caribbean. Social history of migrations (voluntary, enforced) leading to development of regional/rural dialects, pidgins, creoles, and urban varieties.



ENGL 4612 - Old English I
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 5612, ENGL 3612]; fall, offered periodically)
Introduction to the language through 1150 A.D. Culture of Anglo-Saxons. Selected readings in prose/poetry.



ENGL 4613 - Old English II
(3.0 cr; Prereq-4612; spring, even years)
Critical reading of texts. Introduction to versification. Readings of portions of Beowulf.



ENGL 4721 - Electronic Text
(3.0 cr; fall, offered periodically)
Status/function of text, related questions as framed by electronic text.



ENGL 4722 - Alphabet to Internet: History of Writing Technologies
(4.0 cr; fall, spring, every year)
Equivocal relation of memory and writing. Literacy, power, control. Secrecy and publicity. Alphabetization and other ways of ordering world. Material bases of writing. Typographical design/expression. Theories of technological determinism.



ENGL 5001 - Ph.D. Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Studies in the Modern University
(3.0 cr; fall, every year)
Where and what is literary study vis-à-vis the history of the discipline, of the humanities, and of the university--all in the context of a graduate education. Literary theory focusing on key theoretical works that address the discipline, the humanities, and the university.



ENGL 5020 - Readings in Narrative
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3020]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, odd years)
Issues related to reading/understanding narrative in various interpretive contexts. Topics may include "The 19th-century English (American, Anglophone) Novel," "Introduction to Narrative," or "Techniques of the Novel."



ENGL 5021 - Captivity in Literature and Film: From the Barbary Coast to Guantanamo Bay
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3021]; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, odd years)
Whether there is a captivity genre in English/Global literature, from early modern period to 21st century. Texts/films from numerous civilizations/histories.



ENGL 5030 - Readings in Drama
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3030, ENGL 3030H]; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, even years)
Wide reading in literature of a given period or subject. Prepares students for work in other courses/seminars. Relevant scholarship/criticism. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 5040 - Theories of Film
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
Advanced topics regarding film in a variety of interpretive contexts, from the range and historic development of American, English, and Anglophone film (e.g., "Fascism and Film," "Queer Cinemas"). Topics and viewing times announced in Class Schedule.



ENGL 5090 - Readings in Special Subjects
(1.0 - 4.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 5100]; Prereq-grad student or #; fall, spring, every year)
General background preparation for advanced study. Diverse selection of literatures written in English, usually bridging national cultures and time periods. Readings specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 5110 - Readings in Middle English Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3110]; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, every year)
Wide reading in literature of period. Relevant scholarship/criticism. Topics vary. See Class Schedule.



ENGL 5121 - Readings in Early Modern Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Topical readings in early modern poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. Attention to relevant scholarship or criticism. Preparation for work in other courses or seminars.



ENGL 5140 - Readings in 18th Century Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3141]; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, every year)
Literature written in English, 1660-1798. Topics may include British literature of Reformation and 18th century, 18-century American literature, a genre (e.g., 18th-century novel).



ENGL 5150 - Readings in 19th-Century Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, summer, offered periodically)
Topics may include British Romantic or Victorian literatures, American literature, important writers from a particular literary school, a genre (e.g., the novel). Readings.



ENGL 5170 - Readings in 20th-Century Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
British, Irish, or American literatures, or topics involving literatures of two nations. Focuses either on a few important writers from a particular literary school or on a genre (e.g., drama). Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 5175 - 20th-Century British Literatures and Cultures I
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3175]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, offered periodically)
Principal writers, intellectual currents, conventions, genres, and themes in Britain/Ireland, 1900-45. Fiction/nonfiction by Conrad, Richardson, Forster, Joyce, Mansfield, Rhys, West, Woolf, Lawrence and Huxley. Poetry by Hardy, Hopkins, Loy, H.D., Yeats, Pound and Eliot. Drama by Synge and Shaw.



ENGL 5176 - 20th-Century British Literatures and Cultures II
(3.0 cr; =[ENGL 3176]; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, offered periodically)
Principal writers, intellectual currents, conventions, genres, and themes in Britain/Ireland, 1945-99. Fiction/nonfiction by Greene, Bowen, Amis, Fowles, Lessing, Drabble, Murdoch, Naipaul, Carter, Rushdie, and Winterson. Poetry by Smith, Auden, Thomas, Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, Smith, Boland, and Walcott. Drama by Beckett, Pinter, Shaffer, Stoppard, Devlin, Friel, and Carr.



ENGL 5180 - Readings in Contemporary Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3180H, ENGL 3180]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, every year)
Multi-genre reading in contemporary American, British, Anglophone literature. Relevant scholarship/criticism. Topics vary. See Class Schedule.



ENGL 5200 - Readings in American Literature
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, every year)
General background/preparation for advanced graduate study. Readings cover either a wide historical range (e.g., 19th century), a genre (e.g., the novel), or a major literary movement (e.g., modernism).



ENGL 5300 - Readings in American Minority Literature
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3300H, ENGL 3300]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, every year)
Contextual readings of 19th-/20th-century American minority writers. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 5400 - Readings in Post-Colonial Literature
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; =[ENGL 3400, ENGL 3400H]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, odd years)
Selected readings in post-colonial literature. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 5510 - Readings in Criticism and Theory
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; spring, even years)
Major works of classical criticism in the English critical tradition from Renaissance to 1920. Leading theories of criticism from 1920 to present. Theories of fiction, narratology. Feminist criticisms. Marxist criticisms. Psychoanalytic criticisms. Theories of postmodernism.



ENGL 5597 - Harlem Renaissance
(3.0 cr; =[AFRO 5627, AFRO 3627, ARTH 3627]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, every year)
Multidisciplinary review of Jazz Age's Harlem Renaissance: literature, popular culture, visual arts, political journalism, major black/white figures.



ENGL 5630 - Theories of Writing and Writing Instruction
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Introduction to major theories that inform teaching of writing in college and upper-level high school curriculums. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 5711 - Introduction to Editing
(4.0 cr; fall, spring, summer, every year)
Editor-writer relationship, manuscript reading, author querying, rewriting, style. Some discussion of copy editing. Students develop editing skills by working on varied writing samples.



ENGL 5712 - Advanced Editing
(4.0 cr; Prereq-[5401, 5711] or grad student in Engl; spring, odd years)
Editing long text. Fiction, children's literature, translations, indexes. Workshop/seminar.



ENGL 5743 - History of Rhetoric and Writing
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Assumptions of classical/contemporary rhetorical theory, especially as they influence interdisciplinary field of composition studies.



ENGL 5790 - Topics in Rhetoric, Composition, and Language
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 5800 - Practicum in the Teaching of English
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, every year)
Discussion of and practice in recitation, lecture, small-groups, tutoring, individual conferences, and evaluation of writing/reading. Emphasizes theory informing effective course design/teaching for different disciplinary goals. Topics vary. See Class Schedule.



ENGL 5805 - Writing for Publication
(3.0 cr; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, even years)
Conference presentations, book reviews, revision of seminar papers for journal publication, and preparation of a scholarly monograph. Style, goals, and politics of journal and university press editors/readers. Electronic publication. Professional concerns.



ENGL 5992 - Directed Readings, Study, or Research
(1.0 - 3.0 cr [max 45.0 cr]; Prereq-Grad student or #; fall, spring, summer, every year)
TBD



ENGL 8090 - Seminar in Special Subjects
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, every year)
Sample topics: literature of World War II, writings of the Holocaust, literature of English Civil War, advanced versification.



ENGL 8110 - Seminar: Medieval Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Sample topics: Chaucer; "Piers Plowman"; Middle English literature, 1300-1475; medieval literary theory; literature/class in 14th-century; texts/heresies in late Middle Ages.



ENGL 8120 - Seminar in Early Modern Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
British writers/topics, from Reformation to French Revolution. In first half of period (which divides at 1640), a typical topic is Spenser and epic tradition; in second half, women historians before Wollstonecraft.



ENGL 8150 - Seminar in Shakespeare
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; fall, spring, every year)
Perspectives/works vary with offering and instructor. Text, performance, interpretation, criticism, feminism, intellectual history. Recent topics: Shakespeare at comedy, "Elegy by W.S." (Is it Shakespeare's?), Roman political tragedies. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8170 - Seminar in 19th-Century British Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, every year)
Advanced study in 19th-century British literature/culture. Sample topics: Romantic poetry, Victorian poetry, Englishness in Victorian novel, Victorian cultural criticism, text/image in 19th-century British culture. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8180 - Seminar in 20th-Century British Literature and Culture
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; A-F or Aud, fall, offered periodically)
Sample topics: modernism, Bloomsbury Group, working-class/immigrant literature. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8190 - Seminar in 20th-Century Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Topics in Anglophone literatures of Canada, Africa, the Caribbean, India and Pakistan, and the Pacific. Sample topics: Stuart Hall and Black Britain; Salman Rushdie and cosmopolitan literatures; national literatures and partitioned states. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8200 - Seminar in American Literature
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, every year)
American literary history. Sample topics: first American novels, film, contemporary short stories and poetry, American Renaissance, Cold War fiction, history of the book. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8290 - Topics, Figures, and Themes in American Literature
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, every year)
Sample topics: Dickinson, 19th-century imperialism, Faulkner, San Francisco poets, humor, Chaplin, Hitchcock, and popular culture. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8300 - Seminar in American Minority Literature
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, offered periodically)
Sample topics: Harlem Renaissance, ethnic autobiographies, Black Arts movement. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8333 - FTE: Master's
(1.0 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
(No description)



ENGL 8400 - Seminar in Post-Colonial Literature, Culture, and Theory
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, every year)
Sample topics: Marxism and nationalism; modern India; feminism and decolonization; "the Empire Writes Back"; Islam and the West. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8444 - FTE: Doctoral
(1.0 cr; Prereq-Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
(No description)



ENGL 8510 - Studies in Criticism and Theory
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Developments within critical theory that have affected literary criticism, by altering conceptions of its object ("literature") or by challenging conceptions of critical practice. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8520 - Seminar: Cultural Theory and Practice
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, every year)
Sample topics: semiotics applied to perspective paintings, numbers, and money; analysis of a particular set of cultural practices by applying various theories to them. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8530 - Seminar in Feminist Criticism
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Brief history of feminist criticism, in-depth treatment of contemporary perspectives/issues. Topics specified in Class Schedule.



ENGL 8600 - Seminar in Language, Rhetoric, Literacy, and Composition
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Students read/conduct research on theories/literature relevant to cross-disciplinary fields committed to writing and to teaching writing.



ENGL 8610 - Seminar in Language and Discourse Studies
(3.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; fall, spring, offered periodically)
Current theoretical/methodological issues in discourse analysis. Social/psychological determinants of language choice (class, ethnicity, gender) in various English-speaking societies. Application to case studies, review of scholarship.



ENGL 8625 - Dissertation Seminar: Preparing the Book List and Prospectus
(2.0 cr; Prereq-Engl PhD student in [3rd or 4th yr], at least 12 cr completed; spring, every year)
Assembling book list, defining field of study, and articulating a rationale for list. How to conceptualize/develop dissertation prospectus. Students work with faculty instructor, advising committee, and peer writing group.



ENGL 8626 - Dissertation Seminar: Writing the Dissertation
(2.0 cr; Prereq-English PhD student, passed prelim exam; spring, every year)
Conceptualizing dissertation (using model of Graduate School doctoral Dissertation Fellowship application). Producing dissertation draft chapter/proposal. Students work with instructor, advising committees, and peer writing groups.



ENGL 8666 - Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1.0 - 6.0 cr [max 12.0 cr]; Prereq-Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; % for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits



ENGL 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral
(1.0 - 24.0 cr [max 100.0 cr]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; No Grade, fall, spring, summer, every year)
(No description)



ENGL 8992 - Directed Reading in Language, Literature, Culture, Rhetoric, Composition, or Creative Writing
(1.0 - 9.0 cr [max 15.0 cr]; Prereq-#, %; fall, spring, every year)
Directed Reading in Language, Literature, Culture, Rhetoric, Composition, or Creative Writing



 
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