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Spring 2007
Undergraduate Courses in English

Area Requirements

Literary Theory and Interdisciplinary Studies

• 008:001:001 Modern Fiction
• 008:002:001 Postmodern Fiction
• 008:030:001 Introduction to Cultural Studies
• 008:032:001 Introduction to the English Language
• 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
• 008:034:SCA Introduction to the Novel
• 008:034:001 Introduction to the Novel
• 008:034:001 Introduction to the Novel
• 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry
• 008:036:001 Introduction to the Short Story
• 008:038:SCA Introduction to the Essay: Readings on Religion and Science
• 008:052:SCA Women in Literature: American Women Regionalists
• 008:053:SCA Lyric Structures
• 008:130:001 Literature and the Book
• 008:134:001 Introduction to Book Studies
• 008:136:001 Topics in Popular Culture: The Graphic Novel
• 008:173:001 Topics in Digital Media: Digital Poetics
• 008:177:001 Literature and Art: History and Theory of the Avant-Garde
• 008:187:SCA Handprinted Book: Design and Production

Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture

• 008:008:001 Classical and Biblical Literature
• 008:076:001 Selected Early Authors: Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton
• 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: All about Paradise Lost
• 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
• 008:102:001 Literature & Culture of the Renaissance
• 008:141:001 Old English Beowulf
• 008:145:001 English Renaissance Drama
• 008:146:001 Chaucer
• 008:147:001,002,003 Shakespeare

Modern British Literature and Culture

• 008:063:001 British Romanticism
• 008:064:SCA Victorian Literature: Women and Girls in Victorian Poetry and Fiction
• 008:065:001 20th Century British Literature: 1939-1967 in British Music, Drama, and Fiction
• 008:077:001 Selected British Authors: Virginia and Leonard Woolf
• 008:077:002 Selected British Authors: Oscar Wilde and His Circle
• 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: Ulysses
• 008:103:001 Literature & Culture of 18th Century Britain
• 008:104:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century Britain
• 008:174:001 Topics in Modern British Literature: The Victorian Novel
• 008:174:002 Topics in Modern British Literature: Telling Tales: Short Stories from Great Britain and Ireland
• 008:178:001 Modern British Drama

American Literature and Culture

• 008:055:001 American Poetry
  
• 008:056:001 American Literary Classics
  
• 008:057:001 American Novel I
  
• 008:059:001 American Short Story
  
• 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: Augusta Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks
  
• 008:074:001 Selected American Authors: Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver
  
• 008:074:002 Selected American Authors: Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway
  
• 008:074:003 Selected American Authors: Edith Wharton and Henry James
  
• 008:082:001 Latina/o Studies
  
• 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: 20th-Century Love Stories
  
• 008:086:001 Topics in Asian American Literature
  
• 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Faulkner Over There and Coming Home: U.S. Veterans’ Stories from World War II to the Wars in Iraq
  
• 008:106:001 Literature & the Culture of 20th Century America
  
• 008:108:001 Literature & Culture of America Before 1800
  
• 008:115:001 Literature of the American Peoples: Native Daughters Speak
  
• 008:116:001 African American Literature I
  
• 008:117:001 African American Literature II
  
• 008:135:001 Topics in American Literature: Blues, Jazz and Experimental Poetics
  
• 008:135:002 Topics in American Literature: American Portraits
  
• 008:154:001 American Regional Literatures: American West
  
• 008:162:SCA Midwest African American Literature & Culture

Transnational Literature and Postcolonial Studies

• 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
  
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Conrad and Descendants
  
• 008:075:002 Selected Transnational Authors: JM Coetzee and Michael Ondaatje
  
• 008:114:001 Caribbean Literature and Culture
  
• 008:127:001 Topics in Asian Cinema: Popular Hindi Cinema
  
• 008:138:001 Topics in Postcolonial Studies: Artists of the Floating World
  
• 008:161:001 Transnational and Postcolonial Writing by Women
  
• 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Experimental Literature of Europe and the Americas

Nonfiction and Creative Writing

• 08N:050:(All sections) Word Power: Building English Vocabulary
  
• 08N:080:(All sections) Nonfiction Writing
  
• 08N:102:001 Prose Style
  
• 08N:104:SCA Personal Writing
  
• 08N:113:SCA,SCB Writing for Business and Industry
  
• 08N:120:001 Advanced Nonfiction Writing
  
• 08N:130:001 Forms of Nonfiction
  
• 08N:133:SCA Advanced Writing for Business: Team Writing and Document Design
  
• 08N:135:002 Forms of the Essay: Writing about High School
  
• 08N:140:001 Editing a Literary Magazine
  
• 08N:141:SCA Approaches to Teaching Writing
  
• 08N:155:001 Undergraduate Nonfiction Workshop
  
• 08N:183:001 Invention
  
• 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

Period Requirements

Early Literature Through 17th Century

• 008:008:001 Classical and Biblical Literature
  
• 008:076:001 Selected Early Authors: Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton
  
• 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: All about Paradise Lost
  
• 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
  
• 008:102:001 Literature & Culture of the Renaissance
  
• 008:141:001 Old English Beowulf
  
• 008:145:001 English Renaissance Drama
  
• 008:146:001 Chaucer
  
• 008:147:001,002,003 Shakespeare

18th And 19th Century Literature

• 008:056:001 American Literary Classics
  
• 008:057:001 American Novel I
  
• 008:063:001 British Romanticism
  
• 008:064:SCA Victorian Literature: Women and Girls in Victorian Poetry and Fiction
  
• 008:077:002 Selected British Authors: Oscar Wilde and His Circle
  
• 008:103:001 Literature & Culture of 18th Century Britain
  
• 008:104:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century Britain
  
• 008:108:001 Literature & Culture of America Before 1800
  
• 008:116:001 African American Literature I
  
• 008:174:001 Topics in Modern British Literature: The Victorian Novel
  
• 008:174:002 Topics in Modern British Literature: Telling Tales: Short Stories from Great Britain and Ireland

20th And 21st Century Literature
(All other courses listed in the six areas above)

• 008:001:001 Modern Fiction
  
• 008:002:001 Postmodern Fiction
  
• 008:030:001 Introduction to Cultural Studies
  
• 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
  
• 008:032:001 Introduction to the English Language
  
• 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
  
• 008:034:SCA Introduction to the Novel
  
• 008:034:001 Introduction to the Novel
  
• 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry
  
• 008:036:001 Introduction to the Short Story
  
• 008:038:SCA Introduction to the Essay: Readings on Religion and Science
  
• 008:052:SCA Women in Literature: American Women Regionalists
  
• 008:053:SCA Lyric Structures
  
• 008:055:001 American Poetry
  
• 008:059:001 American Short Story
  
• 008:065:001 20th Century British Literature: 1939-1967 in British Music, Drama, and Fiction
  
• 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: Augusta Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks
  
• 008:074:001 Selected American Authors: Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver
  
• 008:074:002 Selected American Authors: Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway
  
• 008:074:003 Selected American Authors: Edith Wharton and Henry James
  
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Conrad and Descendants
  
• 008:075:002 Selected Transnational Authors: JM Coetzee and Michael Ondaatje
  
• 008:077:001 Selected British Authors: Virginia and Leonard Woolf
  
• 008:082:001 Latina/o Studies
  
• 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: 20th-Century Love Stories
  
• 008:086:001 Topics in Asian American Literature
• 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: Ulysses
  
• 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Faulkner Over There and Coming Home: U.S. Veterans’ Stories from World War II to the Wars in Iraq
  
• 008:106:001 Literature & the Culture of 20th Century America
  
• 008:114:001 Caribbean Literature and Culture
  
• 008:115:001 Literature of the American Peoples: Native Daughters Speak
  
• 008:117:001 African American Literature II
  
• 008:127:001 Topics in Asian Cinema: Popular Hindi Cinema
  
• 008:130:001 Literature and the Book
  
• 008:134:001 Introduction to Book Studies
  
• 008:135:001 Topics in American Literature: Blues, Jazz and Experimental Poetics
  
• 008:135:002 Topics in American Literature: American Portraits
  
• 008:136:001 Topics in Popular Culture: The Graphic Novel
  
• 008:138:001 Topics in Postcolonial Studies: Artists of the Floating World
  
• 008:154:001 American Regional Literatures: American West
  
• 008:161:001 Transnational and Postcolonial Writing by Women
  
• 008:162:SCA Midwest African American Literature & Culture
  
• 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Experimental Literature of Europe and the Americas
  
• 008:173:001 Topics in Digital Media: Digital Poetics
  
• 008:177:001 Literature and Art: History and Theory of the Avant-Garde
  
• 008:178:001 Modern British Drama
  
• 008:187:SCA Handprinted Book: Design and Production
  
• 08N:050:(All sections) Word Power: Building English Vocabulary
  
• 08N:080:(All sections) Nonfiction Writing
  
• 08N:102:001 Prose Style
  
• 08N:104:SCA Personal Writing
  
• 08N:113:SCA,SCB Writing for Business and Industry
  
• 08N:120:001 Advanced Nonfiction Writing
  
• 08N:130:001 Forms of Nonfiction
  
• 08N:133:SCA Advanced Writing for Business: Team Writing and Document Design
  
• 08N:135:002 Forms of the Essay: Writing about High School
  
• 08N:140:001 Editing a Literary Magazine
  
• 08N:141:SCA Approaches to Teaching Writing
  
• 08N:155:001 Undergraduate Nonfiction Workshop
  
• 08N:183:001 Invention
  
• 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

Old Major Requirements:

Readings

• 008:032:001 Introduction to the English Language
  
• 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
  
• 008:034:SCA Introduction to the Novel
  
• 008:034:001 Introduction to the Novel
  
• 008:035:001 Introduction to Poetry
  
• 008:036:001 Introduction to the Short Story
  
• 008:038:SCA Introduction to the Essay: Readings on Religion and Science

Authors

• 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: Augusta Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks
  
• 008:074:001 Selected American Authors: Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver
  
• 008:074:002 Selected American Authors: Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway
  
• 008:074:003 Selected American Authors: Edith Wharton and Henry James
  
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Conrad and Descendants
  
• 008:075:002 Selected Transnational Authors: JM Coetzee and Michael Ondaatje
  
• 008:076:001 Selected Early Authors: Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton
  
• 008:077:001 Selected British Authors: Virginia and Leonard Woolf
  
• 008:077:002 Selected British Authors: Oscar Wilde and His Circle
  
• 008:141:001 Old English Beowulf
  
• 008:146:001 Chaucer
  
• 008:147:001,002,003 Shakespeare

Literature and Culture

• 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
  
• 008:102:001 Literature & Culture of the Renaissance
  
• 008:103:001 Literature & Culture of 18th Century Britain
  
• 008:104:001 Literature & Culture of 19th Century Britain
  
• 008:106:001 Literature & the Culture of 20th Century America
  
• 008:108:001 Literature & Culture of America Before 1800

Culture and Identity

• 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: Augusta Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks
  
• 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
  
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Conrad and Descendants
  
• 008:075:002 Selected Transnational Authors: JM Coetzee and Michael Ondaatje
  
• 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: 20th-Century Love Stories
  
• 008:084:001 Topics in Culture and Identity
  
• 008:086:001 Topics in Asian American Literature
  
• 008:114:001 Caribbean Literature and Culture
  
• 008:115:001 Literature of the American Peoples: Native Daughters Speak
  
• 008:116:001 African American Literature I
  
• 008:117:001 African American Literature II
  
• 008:127:001 Topics in Asian Cinema: Popular Hindi Cinema
  
• 008:138:001 Topics in Postcolonial Studies: Artists of the Floating World
  
• 008:161:001 Transnational and Postcolonial Writing by Women
  
• 008:154:001 American Regional Literatures: American West
  
• 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Experimental Literature of Europe and the Americas

Pre-1800

• 008:008:001 Classical and Biblical Literature
  
• 008:076:001 Selected Early Authors: Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton
  
• 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: All about Paradise Lost
  
• 008:101:001 Literature & Culture of the Middle Ages
  
• 008:102:001 Literature & Culture of the Renaissance
  
• 008:103:001 Literature & Culture of 18th Century Britain
  
• 008:108:001 Literature & Culture of America Before 1800
  
• 008:125:(All sections) Classical Mythology
  
• 008:141:001 Old English Beowulf
  
• 008:145:001 English Renaissance Drama
  
• 008:146:001 Chaucer
  
• 008:147:001,002,003 Shakespeare