Fall 2008 English Courses

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

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

Area Requirements:

LITERARY THEORY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

• 008:001:001 Modern Fiction
  
• 008:011:001 Films and Screenplays (same as 048:011)
  
• 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
  
• 008:034:001 Introduction to the Novel
  
• 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry: Words of Magic and Light
  
• 008:036:001 Introduction to the Short Story
  
• 008:081:001 Film and Literature (same as 048:081)
  
• 008:095:001 Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies: Disability in Contemporary Literature and Theory
• 008:160:001 African American Literary and Rhetorical Criticism I
  
• 008:172:001 Narrative and the Cinema: Prose, Fiction and Film (same as 048:172)
  
• 008:173:001 Topics in Digital Media: New Media Poetics
  
• 008:179:001 Literature and Society: Capturing Animals (same as 048:179)

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

• 008:008:001 Classical and Biblical Literature
  
• 008:060:001 Selected Works of the Middle Ages: Arthurian Romance
  
• 008:076:SCA Selected Early Authors: Thomas Traherne’s Centuries
  
• 008:100:001 Literature and Culture of 17th Century England
  
• 008:101:001 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages (same as 162:101)
  
• 008:140:001 Elementary Old English
  
• 008:146:001 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
  
• 008:147:(All Sections) Shakespeare
  
• 008:150:001 Topics in Medieval Literature

MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE

• 008:062:001 18th Century British Literature
  
• 008:065:001 20th Century British Literature
  
• 008:079:001 Selected British Authors II: James Joyce and Everyday Life
  
• 008:091:001 Topics in Modern British Literature II: Literary Remixes
  
• 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: Victorian Lives
  
• 008:104:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century Britain: Home and Away
  
• 008:121:SCA British Poetry: Victorian Poetry
  
• 008:131:001 European Literature of the 19th Century (same as 048:109)

AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

• 008:055:001 American Poetry
  
• 008:057:001 American Novel I
  
• 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: Zora Neale Hurston (same as 129:109)
  
• 008:082:001 Latina/o Studies
  
• 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: Love Stories
  
• 008:087:001 Selected American Authors I: Herman Melville and Fanny Fern
  
• 008:088:001 Selected American Authors II: Vizenor and Harjo
  
• 008:088:002 Selected American Authors II: Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff
  
• 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: The Sixties
  
• 008:105:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century America
  
• 008:116:001 African American Literature I
  
• 008:117:001 African American Literature II
  
• 008:118:001 Jewish American Literature: Narratives of Immigration and Assimilation
  
• 008:123:001 American Literature and History (same as 045:123)
  
• 008:135:001 Topics in American Literature I: Market Culture
  
• 008:135:002 Topics in American Literature I: Gothic America
  
• 008:137:001 African American Autobiography
  
• 008:153:001 Native American Literature (same as 149:113)
  
• 008:154:001 American Regional Literatures
  
• 008:162:001 Midwest African American Literature and Culture
  
• 008:196:001 American Novel since 1945: Post-Vietnam African American Novels
  
• 008:197:001 American Drama since 1900 (same as 049:117)

TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

• 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Identity, Resistance and Survival in African and Diasporic Literatures
  
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Conrad and His Descendants
  
• 008:084:001 Topics in Culture and Identity: Gender and Sexuality in the Asian Diaspora
  
• 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Human Rights Narratives
  
• 008:133:001 Inter-American Studies: Literatures and Cultures of the Americas
  
• 008:138:001 Topics in Postcolonial Studies: Re-Imagining Vietnam
  
• 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Literature and the “War on Terror”
  
• 008:164:SCA Topics in Transnational Literature: Creating a Nation: Singapore
  
• 008:167:001 Literature and Empire: Literature, Ethnography, and Civility
  
• 008:191:001 International Literature Today (same as 181:191)

NONFICTION AND CREATIVE WRITING

• 08N:050:SCA Word Power: Building English Vocabulary (same as 20E:050)
  
• 08N:080:(All Sections) Nonfiction Writing
  
• 08N:090:001 Intermediate Nonfiction Reading
  
• 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
  
• 8N:145:001 Multimedia Writing
  
• 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:163:001 Undergraduate Writers Workshop Fiction
  
• 08C:166:001 Undergraduate Writers Workshop Poetry
  
• 08C:195:(All Sections) Undergraduate Project in Creative Writing

Period Requirements:

EARLY LITERATURE THROUGH 17TH CENTURY

• 008:008:001 Classical and Biblical Literature
  
• 008:060:001 Selected Works of the Middle Ages: Arthurian Romance
  
• 008:076:SCA Selected Early Authors: Thomas Traherne’s Centuries
  
• 008:100:SCA Literature and Culture of 17th Century England
  
• 008:101:001 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages (same as 162:101)
  
• 008:140:001 Elementary Old English
  
• 008:146:001 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
  
• 008:147:(All Sections) Shakespeare
  
• 008:150:001 Topics in Medieval Literature

18TH AND 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE

• 008:057:001 American Novel I
  
• 008:062:001 18th Century British Literature
  
• 008:087:001 Selected American Authors I: Herman Melville and Fanny Fern
  
• 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: Victorian Lives
  
• 008:104:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century Britain: Home and Away
  
• 008:105:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century America
  
• 008:116:001 African American Literature I
  
• 008:121:SCA British Poetry: Victorian Poetry
  
• 008:131:001 European Literature of the 19th Century (same as 048:109)
  
• 008:135:001 Topics in American Literature I: Market Culture
  
• 008:135:002 Topics in American Literature I: Gothic America
• 008:154:001 American Regional Literatures

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 (cross-listed as 048:011)
  
• 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Identity, Resistance and Survival in African and Diasporic Literatures
  
• 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
  
• 008:034:001 Introduction to the Novel
  
• 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry: Words of Magic and Light
  
• 008:036:001 Introduction to the Short Story
  
• 008:055:001 American Poetry
  
• 008:065:001 20th Century British Literature: 1939-1967
  
• 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: Zora Neale Hurston (same as 129:109)
  
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Conrad and His Descendants
  
• 008:079:001 Selected British Authors II: James Joyce and Everyday Life
  
• 008:081:001 Film and Literature (same as 048:081)
  
• 008:082:001 Latina/o Studies
  
• 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: Love Stories
  
• 008:084:001 Topics in Culture and Identity: Gender and Sexuality in the Asian Diaspora
  
• 008:088:001 Selected American Authors II: Vizenor and Harjo
  
• 008:088:002 Selected American Authors II: Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff
  
• 008:091:001 Topics in Modern British Literature II: Literary Remixes
  
• 008:095:001 Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies: Disability in Contemporary Literature and Theory
  
• 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: The Sixties
  
• 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Human Rights Narratives
  
• 008:117:001 African American Literature II
  
• 008:118:001 Jewish American Literature: Narratives of Immigration and Assimilation
  
• 008:123:001 American Literature and History (same as 045:123)
  
• 008:133:001 Inter-American Studies: Literatures and Cultures of the Americas
  
• 008:137:001 African American Autobiography
  
• 008:138:001 Topics in Postcolonial Studies: Re-Imagining Vietnam
  
• 008:153:001 Native American Literature (same as 149:113)
  
• 008:162:001 Midwest African American Literature and Culture
  
• 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Literature and the “War on Terror”
  
• 008:164:SCA Topics in Transnational Literature: Creating a Nation: Singapore
  
• 008:167:001 Literature and Empire: Literature, Ethnography, and Civility
  
• 008:172:001 Narrative and the Cinema: Prose, Fiction and Film (same as 048:172)
  
• 008:173:001 Topics in Digital Media: New Media Poetics
  
• 008:179:001 Literature and Society: Capturing Animals (same as 048:179)
  
• 008:191:001 International Literature Today (same as 181:191)
  
• 008:196:001 American Novel since 1945: Post-Vietnam African American Novels
  
• 008:197:001 American Drama since 1900 (same as 049:117)
  
• 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:195:(All Sections) Undergraduate Project in Creative Writing
  
• 08N:050:SCA Word Power: Building English Vocabulary (same as 20E:050)
  
• 08N:080:(All Sections) Nonfiction Writing
  
• 08N:090:001 Intermediate Nonfiction Reading
  
• 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:145:001 Multimedia Writing
  
• 08N:150:001 Undergraduate Essay Workshop

Special Topics Courses:

(These courses do not fulfill area or period requirements for the English major. They may be used to earn elective credit in the major.)

• 008:040:(All sections): Major Texts in World Literature I (same as 048:040)
  
• 08:125:(All sections): Classical Mythology (same as 20E:112)
  
• 008:151:001 Literature and Anthropology: Images of the Other (same as 048:151, 113:109)