A survey of selected writers of late Renaissance and 17th century Britain, from the Stuart period through the English Civil War and the Restoration. This tumultuous and action-packed age was filled with unparalleled achievements in the theatre, milestones in publishing, political and religious unrest, the beginnings of global trade, and colonization of the New World. The course will include authors such as Jonson, Donne, Marvell, Wroth, and Milton. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement. Prerequisites: W tag.

A project-oriented seminar for long investigative projects. Prerequisites: ENG 201.

A senior seminar focused on the current themes in English studies that incorporates scholarship and methodologies from all of the sub-disciplines: literature, journalism, creative writing, and teaching. The first half of this course will explore different approaches to the course theme and the second half will be a workshop focused on student projects. Prerequisites: COR 2 and ENG 280  or ENG 281 .

Directed study in the writing of various literary forms, such as the informal essay, nature writing, scriptwriting, genre fiction, the long poem, the novella, or other forms. Prerequisites: ENG 205.

Encompassing a wide range of literary movements and authors from the 1600s through the end of the American Civil War in 1865, this course may be organized as a survey course looking at writers from each period or may focus on one or more periods in depth. From the early settlers seeking religious or economic freedoms to the tumultuous revolutionary period to the establishment of a distinctive American literature and culture in the nineteenth century, the territories that became the United States forged new political and social frontiers that are reflected in a wide range of imaginative literary works. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement. Prerequisites: W tag.

This course begins with the post-Civil War period of tumult and moves through the rise of realism in the late nineteenth century and Modernism in the early twentieth century. Writers in this period struggled to find innovative ways to get at the basic truths of life experience by experimenting with new forms of writing and new subjects to examine. This period of radical thinking and cultural revolutions produced creative experiments from Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot among many others. This course may look at a survey from all periods or choose to focus in more depth on one or more periods. Prerequisites: W tag.

The course offers a study of selected fictional, cinematic, and other texts by Asian American and Asian immigrant writers and filmmakers in the United States. We will examine the ways in which Asian Americans and immigrants of diverse ethnicities negotiate dominant White constructions of the Asian/American cultural and psychological divides, (re)imagine Asian American self-identities, and claim citizenship and belonging. At the same time, we will appreciate Asian American literary texts for the beauty and power of their language and storytelling and their universal appeal to our hearts and imagination.

Focuses on developing skills needed for college-level writing. Students required to take ENG 99 must complete it before enrolling in ENG 110. Credit does not count toward graduation requirements. Corequisites: (Enrollment by placement)

Continuation of skills taught in ENG 099B for students who are recommended to take it by their instructor. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.   Corequisites: (Enrollment by placement)

This course offers a study of selected novels, short stories, and essays by African American women writers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Emphasizing the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and informed by critical studies of race and ethnicity and Black feminist criticism, we will explore the following main questions: What are the major themes and issues in Black women's literature? What textual strategies do African American women writers employ to represent Blackness, womanhood, and Black womanhood? In what ways do these writers challenge or accommodate dominant discourses of race, gender, class, and sexuality? What does it mean to be a Black feminist reader, and what does it mean for non-Black and/or non-female readers to interpret Black women's writings? Prerequisites: ENG 110 

This first-year course integrates critical reading and writing skills. Course topics will vary, but every section will emphasize academic writing. Students will develop competence in finding and using source materials, and in writing research papers. Individual conferences, peer reading, and revision are some of the essential elements in this process-oriented approach to college writing. Prerequisites: ENG 099; OKE 110.

This course covers literature that puts the environment at the center of discourse and considers humans as part of(rather than apart from) nature and ecosystems. Specific iterations of the course might focus on nature writing, urban environments, deep ecology, eco-feminism, eco-criticism, and/or activist literature. Prerequisites: W tag.

This is a writer's workshop for students interested in writing short fiction. The student's own original stories will be analyzed and discussed in both peer-review groups and an all-class workshop setting. In addition to writing stories of their own, students will be expected to write short critical responses to all work by their peers. Students will also read and analyze stories by professional writers.

A course in film analysis that focuses on both form and content. Different methodological and theoretical approaches to film studies will be employed to explore specific topics that might include the New Documentary, American Romantic Film Comedy, or Blockbuster Studies.

This course will examine a range of scenes of slavery as depicted in literary fiction, period accounts, historical documentation, photography and other imagery, and critical theory. This range of texts and images will reveal the lived experiences of slaves across time periods and different geographic locations. We will examine how slaves were transported to the Americas (particularly North America), how their enslavement was achieved materially and psychologically, how their bodies were treated and abused, how they were viewed by sympathizers and opponents of slavery, how the idea of slavery figured in debates about the establishment of the new United States, how they revolted and rebelled and how these rebellions were quashed, how they were controlled through legal and cultural circumscription, how they sought control of their own circumstances and destinies, how they sought escape and sometimes succeeded, and how they wrote accounts of their experiences in an effort to be heard. Prerequisites: ENG 110 

This course is an exploration of the methods, concepts, and experiences of feminism as it is practiced all over the world in different ways. The historical development and cultural mappings of feminism since the second wave will be our main concern, but we will maintain specificity by focusing on particular locations, and on locational concerns. Feminist theorists from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, literature, political science, history and sociology will provide groundwork for our explorations, which will be filled out through case studies, historical texts and literary narratives.

A study of a particular approach or issue in contemporary criticism and theory, such as feminist theory, gender studies, trauma studies, or migration and diaspora.

A study of masterpieces from the Western and/or non-Western traditions, selected for their cultural or literary significance. This course may be organized around a central theme or question, such as the nature of literary tragedy or the role of the individual in the community. Prerequisites: W tag.

A close examination of a particular ethnic American literary period, genre, or theme, such as the Harlem Renaissance, immigrant narratives, or Asian Americans in popular culture. Prerequisites: W tag.

A program of independent reading/research in a genre, or an author, or a period if a comparable course is not offered in the same year. This program may be one or two semesters in length. Prerequisites: a literature course at the 300/400 level or consent of instructor.

A program of independent reading/research in a genre, or an author, or a period if a comparable course is not offered in the same year. This program may be one or two semesters in length. Prerequisites: a literature course at the 300/400 level or consent of instructor.

A planned and faculty-supervised program of work that utilizes skills learned in earlier English course work.

This is an introductory course for those interested in creative writing. Students will write short stories and/or poetry of their own, and will participate in a peer-review process. Students will also write short critiques of all student work presented to this writing workshop. In addition, we will be reading work by established writers. English 205 is the gateway course to more advanced writing courses in Fiction Writing, Poetry Writing, and other creative-writing courses. Prerequisites: W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.

Supplies students with the critical tools to analyze, evaluate and appreciate fiction, poetry and drama. Prerequisites: W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.

Students will learn the basics of newswriting and new-gathering tools, discover the markets for fake news and fact checkers, and explore news platforms from Facebook to the New York Times. Prerequisites: W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.

Required for all newly-declared English majors. This course provides students with the critical tools needed to perform upper-division literary analysis in English courses. The course defines literary studies and its subfields as scholarly disciplines, reviews fundamentals of literary interpretation, and establishes a timeline of literary periods and movements. Further, the course examines various critical perspectives and theories. Students will develop an understanding of the critical frameworks that provide the assumptions, strategies, and techniques that inform how we read literature for critical interpretation.

Some of the earliest novels, even before the genre had a name, were fictionalized travel narratives. These novels were read alongside, sometimes interchangeably with, chronicles of real-life experience. Tales of travel and adventure have enjoyed popularity for centuries: they show us the hopes and fears of every era as their denizens venture into the unknown. They reflect a culture's values and prejudices as characters confront both foreignness and their own limitations. What remains to be explored and understood in the literature of our increasingly globalized world? This course will take on a broad historical swath of fiction and non-fiction in an effort to find out. Prerequisites: W tag.

Each iteration of this course will focus on a particular theme, genre, or issue in literary studies. Possible topics include Arthurian Legends, Science Fiction, or Political Poetry. Ultimately this course examines the capacity of literature to give voice to cultural concerns and to reflect on and critique cultural questions and problems. Prerequisites: W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.

The overall aim of the practicum is to provide journalism students with the closest approximation possible of working for a professional newspaper, magazine, or other journalistic publication. Students are expected to publish two to four major stories in the college newspaper (depending on the number of credits) assigned or pitched and accepted by editors. Prerequisites: ENG 201.

This advanced course examines transatlantic literature (between Europe, Africa, and the Americas) during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (specifically, the period of the Enlightenment). Literature of this period reflected radical new social and political realities: 1) Globalization on the heels of the age of exploration 2) the exploitative side of this age and the slave trade 3) focus on writings by and about evolving gender roles. This is a broad topics course that would allow various iterations. The emergence of new literary and cultural forms makes this an especially dynamic period. The study of literature of the period is likewise an especially rich frame for looking at this period because new genres emerged alongside new cultural and political forms. Prerequisites: W tag.

This course builds on the theoretical principles taught in ENG 280or ENG 281to further provide students with the critical tools used in upper-division literature course work. It is devoted to examining critical perspectives and theories in detail, including New Criticism, New Historicism, queer and gender studies, psychoanalytic criticism, feminism, and deconstruction, exploring them through primary readings and case studies. Students will develop a greater understanding of the critical frameworks that provide the assumptions, strategies, and governing questions for the practice of interpreting texts. Prerequisites: ENG 280 or ENG 281.

Concentrated study of a single major author, including literary works, cultural and historical contexts and influences. Possible course offerings include Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Austen, Melville, Shaw, Joyce, Woolf, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison. Prerequisites: W tag.

Reading and writing about Shakespeare's plays. Selections will include a cross-section of comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances, as well as sonnets and longer poetry. Prerequisites: W tag.

A study of literature through the lens of genre, such as the novel, film as literature, contemporary drama or poetry, popular genres, including fantasy or horror. Prerequisites: W tag.

Works from European literature before 1485. The course may include Old English poetry, Chaucer, the Pearl-poet, Malory, and a variety of writers from non-English traditions. It will also emphasize cultural and linguistic contexts, historical development, and political and economic background. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement. Prerequisites: W tag.

A study of literary modernism during the beginning of the twentieth century that may include emphases on any of the following: the Harlem Renaissance, the relationship between realism and modernism, the gender of modernism, and/or transnational influences on modernist writing. Prerequisites: W tag.

The term passing refers to the disguises of elements of an individual's presumed "natural" or "essential" identities, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and/or class. In this course, we will study selected works of various genres (fiction, memoir, and film) which narrate and negotiate acts of passing or reverse passing. We will examine the ways in which American writers and filmmakers from diverse ancestries imagine the possibilities of passing while grappling with its complexities and limitations. The course explores the following key critical questions: What motivates passing, and what are the possibilities, consequences, and limitations of passing? What are the similarities and differences between passing and cultural appropriation? In what ways do passing narratives destabilize the binaries of White/non-White, man/woman, and authenticity/counterfeit while questioning the “absoluteness” of identity categories? In what ways does passing remain relevant in today's U.S. cultural and sociopolitical contexts? Prerequisites: ENG 110 and sophomore standing. Cross-listed: ETHS 443A

A workshop course for students interested in writing poetry. Prerequisites: ENG 205.

This course will discuss postmodern and contemporary themes such as the search for meaning, revisionism, consumerism, community, and the relationship between literature and cultural change. We will look closely at issues of form and genre and will discuss critical terms including magical realism, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism. Prerequisites: None

A selection of works from British literature, ranging from the last years of the fifteenth century, through the Elizabethan age. The course may draw from a wide variety of poetry, drama and prose, including More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe and others. It will emphasize literary form and style, as well as cultural and social contexts. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement. Prerequisites: W tag.

A survey of British literature of the "long 18th century," from the Restoration through the 1700s. Enormous cultural transformations, from the explosion of print culture, to the philosophical and scientific revolutions of the Enlightenment, to experiments in modern democratic thought, to the speed of travel and international trade, mark the era as one of the most turbulent and exciting in Western history. The course will include authors such as Behn, Defoe, Swift, Pope and Johnson. This course contributes to the pre-1865 literature requirement. Prerequisites: W tag.

This course examines a selection of literature from the British long nineteenth century, from the late eighteenth century Romantics to the end of the Victorian era in 1901, and may cover a full survey of this period or only one part (e.g. only the Romantic or the Victorian period). Readings may include: John Keats, William Blake, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, or any of the many other writers of the period. Prerequisites: W tag.

A special study of a literary period, figure, genre, or group, of some other special literary focus. Prerequisites: W tag.

A study of selected works from one of the following ethnic literary traditions in the United States: African American literature, Asian American literature, Latino/Hispanic American literature, or Native American literature. Prerequisites: W tag.

A course focusing on the intersection between literature and ethnicity or Ethnic Studies. Specific versions of the course might focus on topics like the Multiethnic Graphic Novel, American Slave Narratives, or the Literature of Immigration. Prerequisites: ENG 110  or concurrent enrollment

Topics in journalism, varying by semester. Offerings might include environmental journalism, minority journalism, countercultural journalism, and advocacy journalism, including studies of how subcultures and marginalized interest discourse through media with the constantly changing mainstream in American culture. Prerequisites: W tag.

Concepts of ecology are central to this literature course that might focus on nature writing, utopian and dystopian fictions, indigenous writing, and/or other literary topics that relate to environmental concerns. Students will learn about and employ eco-criticism. Prerequisites: W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.

This course focuses on the intersection between literary study and gender and sexuality studies. Different iterations of the course might focus on Women Writing on Love and Power, the LGBTQ Novel, Feminism in Literature, Gender Roles in Genre Fiction, or Transgender Memoirs. Prerequisites: ENG 110  or concurrent enrollment

This course focuses on global literatures. Global Anglophone literature and literature in translation might be included. Specific topics could include Diasporic Fiction, Colonial and Postcolonial Writing, Global Drama, or Studies in the Epic. Prerequisites: W tag or concurrent enrollment in W-tag course.

An examination of a particular national literature other than that of the United States or Britain, or a survey of literature by writers from a variety of regions around the globe. Specific courses might include Irish Literature or Postcolonial Literatures. Prerequisites: W tag.

A study of literary works from a variety of periods and genres in relation to issues of gender. Specific iterations of the course could include emphases on gender, sexuality and representation; queer theory; feminist theory, especially feminist narrative theory; textuality and sexuality; women's writing and society; or tough guys in literature. All possible versions of the course will require attention to how literature represents, reinforces, and/or attempts to subvert social roles attached to gender and sexuality. Prerequisites: W tag.

This course will provide students with an opportunity to explore fiction from the former British colonies and from Great Britain itself. In order to experience the literature of this course as fully as possible, our readings of the primary texts will be informed by historical grounding, geographical/political contexts, as well as cultural and literary theory to do with postcolonial subjectivity. How do we, in North America, read the work of those in other parts of the world and learn from what they have to tell us? Prerequisites: W tag.