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Fall 2006 English Courses

Area Requirements:

LITERARY THEORY & INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

  • 008:001:001 Modern Fiction
  • 008:011:001 Films and Screenplays
  • 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
  • 008:034:SCA Introduction to the Novel
  • 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry: Words of Magic and Light
  • 008:036:SCA Introduction to Short Story: 20th Century Short Story Collections
  • 008:036:001 Introduction to the Short Story
  • 008:037:001 Introduction to Drama
  • 008:050: (all sections) Sex & Popular Culture in the Postwar US
  • 008:052:SCA Women in Literature: Working-Class Women’s Literature
  • 008:081:001 Film and Literature
  • 008:129:001 Topics in Criticism and Theory: The Critical Tradition
  • 008:130:001 Literature and the Book: American Book History
  • 008:136:SCA Topics in Popular Culture
  • 008:172:001 Narrative and the Cinema
  • 008:177:001 Literature and Art: The Image and the Word
  • 008:179:001 Literature and Society: Capturing Animals
  • 008:182:001 Science Fiction: The Many Agendas of Science Fiction
  • 08P:182:001 Language and Learning
  • 08P:198:001 Reading and Teaching Adolescent Literature

MEDIEVAL and EARLY MODERN (RENAISSANCE)
LITERATURE AND CULTURE

  • 008:060:SCA Selected Works of the Middle Ages: Arthurian Literatures
  • 008:061:001 Selected Works of 16th and 17th Century England: The Poetry of 16th and 17th Century England
  • 008:076:001 Selected Early Authors: Pearl Poet
  • 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
  • 008:140:001 Elementary Old English
  • 008:145:001 English Renaissance Drama
  • 008:146:001 Chaucer
  • 008:147:001,002,003 Shakespeare
  • 008:148:001 Milton

MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE

  • 008:064:SCA Victorian Literature
  • 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: Love, Money and the Literature of Commerce
  • 008:104:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century Britain
  • 008:107:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century Scotland
  • 008:121:001 British Poetry: 18th Century British Poetry
  • 008:131:001 European Literature of the 19th Century
  • 008:174:001 Topics in Modern British Literature: Victorian Art and Poetry: Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetes
  • 008:174:002 Topics in Modern British Literature: Classic Ghost Stories

AMERICAN LITERATURE & CULTURE

  • 008:055:001 American Poetry: Modern and Postmodern American Poetry
  • 008:056:SCA American Literary Classics
  • 008:058:SCA American Novel II
  • 008:059:001 American Short Story: Short Story Sequences
  • 008:059:002 American Short Story: Style as Substance
  • 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright
  • 008:074:001 Selected American Authors: Hawthorne and his Contemporaries
  • 008:074:002 Selected American Authors: Herman Melville and Rebecca Harding Davis
  • 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: Elvis as Anthology
  • 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: American Celebrity Authors
  • 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Ethical Intentions: Honoring the Other As Human, Earth, Alter-Species
  • 008:105:001: Literature & Culture of 19th Century America
  • 008:106:SCA Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
  • 008:106:002 Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
  • 008:106:003 Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
  • 008:116:001, 002 African American Literature I
  • 008:117:001 African American Literature II
  • 008:118:001 Jewish American Literature
  • 008:135:001 Topics in American Literature
  • 008:135:002 Topics in American Literature: The 1940’s
  • 008:135:003 Topics in American Literature: Poetries of the Left
  • 008:137:001 African American Autobiography
  • 008:153:001 Native American Literature
  • 008:154:001 American Regional Literature
  • 008:196:001 American Novel since 1945
  • 008:197:001 American Drama since 1945

TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE & POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

  • 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Literature of India, Africa and the Caribbean
  • 008:075:SCA Selected Transnational Authors: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
  • 008:113:001 Literature & Culture of the Americas: Literature of the Americas
  • 008:119:001 African Literature
  • 008:132:001 Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
  • 008:133:001 Inter-American Studies: Inter-American Detective Fiction
  • 008:157:SCA Topics in African Cinema: Visualizing Human Rights
  • 008:163:SCA Identity and Social Issues: Reading Racism and Anti-Semitism in Modernist Literature
  • 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Literature and Human Rights
  • 008:191:001 International Literature Today
  • 008:193:001 Transcultural Modernism: Early 20th Century Literature from England, India, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand and South Africa

NONFICTION & CREATIVE WRITING

  • 08N:080 (all sections) Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:090 (all sections) Intermediate Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:113 (all sections) Writing for Business and Industry
  • 08N:120:001 Advanced Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:133:SCA Advanced Writing for Business and Industry: Team Writing and Document Design
  • 08N:140:SCA Editing a Literary Magazine
  • 08N:141:001 Approaches to Teaching Writing
  • 08N:145:001 Multimedia Writing: Radio Essay
  • 08N:150:001 Undergraduate Essay Workshop
  • 08C:023 (all sections) Creative Writing
  • 08C:097 (all sections) Fiction Writing
  • 08C:098 (all sections) Poetry Writing
  • 08C:163 (all sections) Undergraduate Writer’s Workshop Fiction
  • 08C:166 (all sections) Undergraduate Writer’s Workshop Poetry
  • 08C:195 (all sections) Undergraduate Project in Creative Writing

Period Requirements

EARLY LITERATURE THROUGH 17TH CENTURY

  • 008:060:SCA Selected Works of the Middle Ages: Arthurian Literatures
  • 008:061:001 Selected Works of 16th and 17th Century England: The Poetry of 16th and 17th Century England
  • 008:076:001 Selected Early Authors: Pearl Poet
  • 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
  • 008:140:001 Elementary Old English
  • 008:145:001 English Renaissance Drama
  • 008:146:001 Chaucer
  • 008:147:001,002,003 Shakespeare
  • 008:148:001 Milton

18TH AND 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE

  • 008:056:SCA American Literary Classics
  • 008:064:SCA Victorian Literature
  • 008:074:001 Selected American Authors: Hawthorne and his Contemporaries
  • 008:074:002 Selected American Authors: Herman Melville and Rebecca Harding Davis
  • 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: Love, Money, and the Literature of Commerce
  • 008:104:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century Britain
  • 008:105:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century America
  • 008:107:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century Scotland
  • 008:116:001, 002 African American Literature I
  • 008:117:001 African American Literature II
  • 008:121:001 British Poetry: 18th Century British Poetry
  • 008:130:001 Literature and the Book: American Book History
  • 008:131:001 European Literature of the 19th Century
  • 008:135:001 Topics in American Literature
  • 008:174:001 Topics in Modern British Literature: Victorian Art and Poetry: Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetes
  • 008:174:002 Topics in Modern British Literature: Classic Ghost Stories

20TH AND 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

(All other courses listed in the six areas above)

  • 008:001:001 Modern Fiction
  • 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Literature of India, Africa, and the Caribbean
  • 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
  • 008:034:SCA Introduction to the Novel
  • 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry: Words of Magic and Light
  • 008:036:SCA Introduction to Short Story: 20th Century Short Story Collections
  • 008:037:001 Introduction to Drama
  • 008:050: (all sections) Sex & Popular Culture in the Postwar US
  • 008:052:SCA Women in Literature: Working-Class Women’s Literature
  • 008:055:001 American Poetry: Modern and Postmodern American Poetry
  • 008:058:SCA American Novel II
  • 008:059:001 American Short Story: Short Story Sequences
  • 008:059:002 American Short Story: Style as Substance
  • 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright
  • 008:075:SCA Selected Transnational Authors: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
  • 008:081:001 Film and Literature
  • 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: Elvis as Anthology
  • 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: American Celebrity Authors
  • 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Ethical Intentions: Honoring the Other As Human, Earth, Alter-Species
  • 008:106:SCA Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
  • 008:106:002 Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
  • 008:106:003 Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
  • 008:113:001 Literature & Culture of the Americas: Literature of the Americas
  • 008:117:001 African American Literature II
  • 008:118:001 Jewish American Literature
  • 008:119:001 African Literature
  • 008:129:001 Topics in Criticism and Theory: The Critical Tradition
  • 008:132:001 Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
  • 008:133:001 Inter-American Studies: Inter-American Detective Fiction
  • 008:135:002 Topics in American Literature: The 1940’s
  • 008:135:003 Topics in American Literature: Poetries of the Left
  • 008:136:SCA Topics in Popular Culture
  • 008:137:001 African American Autobiography
  • 008:153:001 Native American Literature
  • 008:154:001 American Regional Literature
  • 008:157:SCA Topics in African Cinema: Visualizing Human Rights
  • 008:163:SCA Identity and Social Issues: Reading Racism and Anti-Semitism in Modernist Literature
  • 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Literature and Human Rights
  • 008:172:001 Narrative and the Cinema
  • 008:177:001 Literature and Art: The Image and the Word
  • 008:179:001 Literature and Society: Capturing Animals
  • 008:182:001 Science Fiction: The Many Agendas of Science Fiction
  • 008:191:001 International Literature Today
  • 008:193:001 Transcultural Modernism: Early 20th Century Literature from England, India, Ireland, Jamaica, NewZealand and South Africa
  • 008:196:001 American Novel since 1945
  • 008:197:001 American Drama since 1945
  • 08N:080 (all sections) Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:090 (all sections) Intermediate Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:113 (all sections) Writing for Business and Industry
  • 08N:120:001 Advanced Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:133:SCA Advanced Writing for Business and Industry: Team Writing and Document Design
  • 08N:140:SCA Editing a Literary Magazine
  • 08N:141:001 Approaches to Teaching Writing
  • 08N:145:001 Multimedia Writing: Radio Essay
  • 08N:150:001 Undergraduate Essay Workshop
  • 08C:023 (all sections) Creative Writing
  • 08C:097 (all sections) Fiction Writing
  • 08C:098 (all sections) Poetry Writing
  • 08C:163 (all sections) Undergraduate Writer’s Workshop Fiction
  • 08C:166 (all sections) Undergraduate Writer’s Workshop Poetry
  • 08C:195 (all sections) Undergraduate Project in Creative Writing

Old Major Requirements:

READINGS

  • 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
  • 008:034:SCA Introduction to the Novel
  • 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry: Words of Magic and Light
  • 008:036:SCA Introduction to the Short Story: 20th Century Short Story Collections
  • 008:037:001 Introduction to Drama

AUTHORS

  • 008:075:SCA Selected Transnational Authors: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughs
  • 008:076:001 Selected Early Authors: Pearl Poet
  • 008:146:001 Chaucer
  • 008:147:001,002,003 Shakespeare
  • 008:148:001 Milton
  • 008:156:SCA Invitation to Nabokov

LITERATURE AND CULTURE

  • 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
  • 008:103:001 Literature & Culture of 18th Century Britain
  • 008:104:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century Britain
  • 008:105:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century America
  • 008:106:SCA Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
  • 008:106:002 Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
  • 008:106:003 Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
  • 008:107:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century Scotland
  • 008:113:001 Literature and Culture of the Americas: Literature of the Americas

CULTURE AND IDENTITY

 

  • 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Literature of India, Africa, and the Caribbean
  • 008:075:SCA Selected Transnational Authors: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
  • 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: Elvis as Anthology
  • 008:113:001 Literature and Culture of the Americas: Literature of the Americas
  • 008:116:001, 002 African American Literature I
  • 008:117:001 African American Literature II
  • 008:119:001 African Literature
  • 008:132:001 Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
  • 008:133:001 Inter-American Studies
  • 008:137:001 African American Autobiography
  • 008:157:SCA Topics in African Cinema: Visualizing Human Rights
  • 008:154:001 American Regional Literature
  • 008:163:SCA Identity and Social Issues: Reading Racism and Anti-Semitism in Modernist Literature
  • 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Literature and Human Rights
  • 008:181:SCA Issues in Rhetoric and Culture: Corporate Communication
  • 008:191:001 International Literature Today

 

PRE-1800

  • 008:060:SCA Selected Works of the Middle Ages: Arthurian Literatures
  • 008:061:001 Selected Works of 16th and 17th Century England: The Poetry of 16th and 17th Century England
  • 008:062:001 18th Century British Literature
  • 008:076:001 Selected Early Authors: Pearl Poet
  • 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
  • 008:121:001 British Poetry: 18th Century British Poetry
  • 008:125: (all sections) Classical Mythology
  • 008:140:001 Elementary Old English
  • 008:145:001 English Renaissance Drama
  • 008:146:001 Chaucer
  • 008:147:001,002,003 Shakespeare
  • 008:148:001 Milton
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