Fall 2007 English Courses

Core Course (required for students who declare the English major in Fall 2007 or later)

• 008:005:(All sections) Intro to the English Major: Theory and Practice

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
• 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry: Words of Magic and Light
• 008:050:(All sections) Sex and Popular Culture in the Postwar U.S.
• 008:052:001 Literature, Culture, and Women: Outward Bound—Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson
• 008:053:001 Lyric Structures
• 008:081:001 Film and Literature
• 008:095:001 Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies: Disability Studies and Contemporary Literature
• 008:130:001 Literature and the Book
• 008:136:001 Topics in Popular Culture: Sherlock Holmes
• 008:136:002 Topics in Popular Culture: Elvis as Anthology
• 008:168:SCA Topics in Poetry and Poetics: How To Read Poems
• 008:169:001 Changing Concepts of Women in Literature: 19th Century Vamps, Virgins, and Victors
• 008:172:001 Narrative and the Cinema
• 008:177:001 Literature and Art: History and Theory of the Avant-Garde
• 008:179:001 Literature and Society: Reading and Everyday Life
• 008:190:001 Topics in Book History

MEDIEVAL and EARLY MODERN (RENAISSANCE)
LITERATURE AND CULTURE

• 008:008:001 Classical and Biblical Literature
• 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: Origins of English Lyric
• 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
• 008:102:001 Literature & Culture of the Renaissance
• 008:146:001 Chaucer
• 008:147:(All sections) Shakespeare
• 008:150:001 Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE

• 008:062:001 18th Century British Literature
• 008:063:001 British Romanticism
• 008:064:001 Victorian Literature: Victorian Anxieties
• 008:065:001 20th Century British Literature: British Modernism, 1910-1940
• 008:078:001 Selected British Authors I: William Blake
• 008:090:001 Topics in Modern British Literature I:  A Question of Identity: Fiction of the Fin de Siècle
• 008:091:001 Topics in Modern British Literature II: The Contemporary Novel
• 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: Becoming Jane Austen
• 008:121:001 British Poetry: Victorian Women Poets

AMERICAN LITERATURE & CULTURE

• 008:055:001 American Poetry
• 008:056:001 American Literary Classics
• 008:058:SCA American Novel II
• 008:059:001 American Short Story
• 008:083:002 Topics in African American Literature: The Body in African American Culture
• 008:087:001 Selected American Authors I: Henry David Thoreau
• 008:087:002 Selected American Authors I: Mark Twain & William Faulkner
• 008:088:001 Selected American Authors II: F. Scott Fitzgerald & Earnest Hemingway
• 008:088:002 Selected American Authors II: Toni Morrison
• 008:105:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century America
• 008:106:001 Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
• 008:109:001 Literature & the Culture of the 20th Century: Postmodern Literature and Culture
• 008:115:001 Literatures of the American Peoples: Native Daughters Speak
• 008:116:001,002 African American Literature I
• 008:118:001 Jewish American Literature
• 008:137:001 African American Autobiography
• 008:139:001 Topics in American Literature II: A Pulitzer in the Pocket
• 008:152:001 Intro to Chicano Literature and Culture
• 008:153:001 Native American Literature
• 008:154:SCA American Regional Literature: Black Manhattan
• 008:162:SCA Midwest African American Literature and Culture

TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE & POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

• 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Literatures of India, Africa and the Caribbean
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Hanif Kureishi and Douglas Copeland
• 008:084:001 Topics in Culture and Identity: Gender and Sexuality in the Asian Diaspora
• 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Topics in Religion, Secularism, and Violence
• 008:133:001 Inter-American Studies: Inter-American Detective Fiction
• 008:138:001 Topics in Postcolonial Studies: Re-Imagining Vietnam
• 008:164:SCA Topics in Transnational Literature: Creating a Nation—Singapore
• 008:191:001 International Literature Today
• 008:193:SCA Transcultural Modernism

NONFICTION & CREATIVE WRITING

• 08N:050:(All sections) Word Power: Building English Vocabulary
• 08N:080:(All sections) Nonfiction Writing
• 08N:090:(All sections) Intermediate Nonfiction Reading
• 08N:104:SCA Personal Writing
• 08N:113:(All sections) Writing for Business and Industry
• 08N:130:001 Special Readings in Nonfiction
• 08N:133:SCA Advanced Writing for Business: Team Writing and Document Design
• 08N:140:001 Editing a Literary Magazine
• 08N:141:001 Approaches to Teaching Writing
• 08N:150:001 Undergraduate Essay Workshop
• 08N:199:(All sections) Undergraduate Project in Nonfiction Writing
• 08C:023:(All sections) Creative Writing
• 08C:097:(All sections) Fiction Writing
• 08C:098:(All sections) Poetry Writing
• 08C:163:001 Undergraduate Writers Workshop Fiction
• 08C:166:001 Undergraduate Writers Workshop Poetry
• 08C:167:001 Undergraduate Writers Seminar
• 08C:195:(All sections) Undergraduate Project in Creative Writing

Period Requirements

EARLY LITERATURE THROUGH 17TH CENTURY

• 008:008:001 Classical and Biblical Literature
• 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: Origins of English Lyric
• 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
• 008:102:001 Literature & Culture of the Renaissance
• 008:146:001 Chaucer
• 008:147:(All sections) Shakespeare
• 008:150:001 Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

18TH AND 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE

• 008:062:001 18th Century British Literature
• 008:063:001 British Romanticism
• 008:064:001 Victorian Literature: Victorian Anxieties
• 008:078:001 Selected British Authors I: William Blake
• 008:087:001 Selected American Authors I: Henry David Thoreau
• 008:087:002 Selected American Authors I: Mark Twain & William Faulkner
• 008:090:001 Topics in Modern British Literature I: A Question of Identity: Fiction of the Fin de Siècle
• 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: Becoming Jane Austen
• 008:105:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century America
• 008:116:001,002 African American Literature I
• 008:121:001 British Poetry: Victorian Women Poets
• 008:130:001 Literature and the Book: Poe, Melville, and Book Studies
• 008:169:001 Changing Concepts of Women in Literature: 19th Century Vamps, Virgins, and Victors
• 008:190:001 Topics in Book History

20TH AND 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE
(All other courses listed in the six areas above)

• 008:001:001 Modern Fiction
• 008:011:001 Films and Screenplays
• 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Literatures of India, Africa and the Caribbean
• 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
• 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry: Words of Magic and Light
• 008:050:(All sections) Sex and Popular Culture in the Postwar U.S.
• 008:052:001 Literature, Culture, and Women: Outward Bound—Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson
• 008:053:001 Lyric Structures
• 008:055:001 American Poetry
• 008:056:001 American Literary Classics
• 008:058:SCA American Novel II
• 008:059:001 American Short Story
• 008:065:001 20th Century British Literature: British Modernism, 1910-1940
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Hanif Kureishi and Douglas Copeland
• 008:081:001 Film and Literature
• 008:083:002 Topics in African American Literature: The Body in African American Culture
• 008:084:001 Topics in Culture and Identity: Gender and Sexuality in the Asian Diaspora
• 008:088:001 Selected American Authors II: F. Scott Fitzgerald & Earnest Hemingway
• 008:088:002 Selected American Authors II: Toni Morrison
• 008:091:001 Topics in Modern British Literature II: The Contemporary Novel
• 008:095:001 Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies: Disability Studies in Contemporary Literature
• 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Topics in Religion, Secularism, and Violence
• 008:106:001 Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
• 008:109:001 Literature & the Culture of the 20th Century: Postmodern Literature and Culture
• 008:115:001 Literatures of the American Peoples: Native Daughters Speak
• 008:118:001 Jewish American Literature
• 008:133:001 Inter-American Studies: Inter-American Detective Fiction
• 008:136:001 Topics in Popular Culture: Sherlock Holmes
• 008:136:002 Topics in Popular Culture: Elvis as Anthology
• 008:137:001 African American Autobiography
• 008:138:001 Topics in Postcolonial Studies: Re-Imagining Vietnam
• 008:139:001 Topics in American Literature II: A Pulitzer in the Pocket
• 008:152:001 Intro to Chicano Literature and Culture
• 008:153:001 Native American Literature
• 008:154:SCA American Regional Literature: Black Manhattan
• 008:162:SCA Midwest African American Literature and Culture
• 008:164:SCA Topics in Transnational Literature: Creating a Nation—Singapore
• 008:168:SCA Topics in Poetry and Poetics: How To Read Poems
• 008:172:001 Narrative and the Cinema
• 008:177:001 Literature and Art: History and Theory of the Avant-Garde
• 008:179:001 Literature and Society: Reading and Everyday Life
• 008:191:001 International Literature Today
• 008:193:SCA Transcultural Modernism
• 08N:150:(All sections) Word Power: Building English Vocabulary
• 08N:080:(All sections) Nonfiction Writing
• 08N:090:(All sections) Intermediate Nonfiction Reading
• 08N:104:SCA Personal Writing
• 08N:113:(All sections) Writing for Business and Industry
• 08N:130:001 Special Readings in Nonfiction
• 08N:133:SCA Advanced Writing for Business: Team Writing and Document Design
• 08N:140:001 Editing a Literary Magazine
• 08N:141:001 Approaches to Teaching Writing
• 08N:150:001 Undergraduate Essay Workshop
• 08N:199:(All sections) Undergraduate Project in Nonfiction Writing
• 08C:023:(All sections) Creative Writing
• 08C:097:(All sections) Fiction Writing
• 08C:098:(All sections) Poetry Writing
• 08C:163:001 Undergraduate Writers Workshop Fiction
• 08C:166:001 Undergraduate Writers Workshop Poetry
• 08C:167:001 Undergraduate Writers Seminar
• 08C:195:(All sections) Undergraduate Project in Creative Writing

Old Major Requirements:

READINGS

• 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
• 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry: Words of Magic and Light

AUTHORS

• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Hanif Kureishi and Douglas Copeland
• 008:078:001 Selected British Authors I: William Blake
• 008:087:001 Selected American Authors I: Henry David Thoreau
• 008:087:002 Selected American Authors I: Mark Twain & William Faulkner
• 008:088:001 Selected American Authors II: F. Scott Fitzgerald & Earnest Hemingway
• 008:088:002 Selected American Authors II: Toni Morrison
• 008:146:001 Chaucer
• 008:147:001, 002 Shakespeare

LITERATURE AND CULTURE

• 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
• 008:102:001 Literature & Culture of the Renaissance
• 008:105:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century America
• 008:106:001 Literature & Culture of 20th Century America
• 008:109:001 Literature & the Culture of the 20th Century: Postmodern Literature and Culture

CULTURE AND IDENTITY

• 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Literatures of India, Africa and the Caribbean
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Hanif Kureishi and Douglas Copeland
• 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: Portraying Blackness
• 008:084:001 Topics in Culture and Identity
• 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Topics in Religion, Secularism, and Violence
• 008:115:001 Literatures of the American Peoples: Native Daughters Speak
• 008:116:001,002 African American Literature I
• 008:118:001 Jewish American Literature
• 008:133:001 Inter-American Studies: Inter-American Detective Fiction
• 008:137:001 African American Autobiography
• 008:138:001 Topics in Postcolonial Studies: Re-Imagining Vietnam
• 008:153:001 Native American Literature
• 008:154:SCA American Regional Literature: Black Manhattan
• 008:162:SCA Midwest African American Literature and Culture
• 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Creating a Nation—Singapore
• 008:169:001 Changing Concepts of Women in Literature: 19th Century Vamps, Virgins, and Victors
• 008:193:SCA Transcultural Modernism

PRE-1800

• 008:008:001 Classical and Biblical Literature
• 008:062:001 18th Century British Literature
• 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: Origins of English Lyric
• 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
• 008:102:001 Literature & Culture of the Renaissance
• 008:146:001 Chaucer
• 008:147:001, 002 Shakespeare
• 008:150:001 Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Literature