The University of Iowa Department of English

Spring 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
  • 008:030:001 Introduction to the Cultural Studies
  • 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
  • 008:035:(All sections) Introduction to Poetry
  • 008:036:001 Introduction to the Short Story
  • 008:037:SCA Introduction to Drama
  • 008:052:SCA Literature, Culture, and Women
  • 008:129:001 Topics in Criticism and Theory: James Agee in Theory and Practice
  • 008:130:001 Literature and the Book: Culture of the Book in the Modern United States
  • 008:136:001 Topics in Popular Culture: Food Studies and Popular Culture
  • 008:168:001 Topics in Poetry and Poetics: Elegies and the Elegiac
  • 008:170:001 Literary Genres and Modes: Modern / Postmodern Fiction
  • 008:179:001 Literature and Society: World War II in Japan and America
  • 008:190:001 Topics in Book History

Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture

  • 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: Shakespeare’s Multiple Texts
  • 008:100:SCA Literature and Culture of 17th Century England
  • 008:101:001 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages
  • 008:143:001 Medieval Norse Literature: Viking Sagas and Norse Mythology
  • 008:145:001 English Renaissance Drama
  • 008:146:001 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
  • 008:147:(All sections) Shakespeare
  • 008:148:SCA Milton

Modern British Literature and Culture

  • 008:063:001 British Romanticism
  • 008:064:001 Victorian Literature
  • 008:066:001 21st Century British Literature: British Literature and Popular Music, 1968-Present
  • 008:079:SCA Selected British Authors II: Manners and Methods—The Writings of Virginia Woolf
  • 008:090:001 Topics in Modern British Literature I
  • 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: British Literary Fascisms Between the World Wars
  • 008:104:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century Britain: Stages of Life and Forms of Fiction
  • 008:107:SCA Literature and Culture of 19th Century Scotland

American Literature and Culture

  • 008:056:001 American Literary Classics
  • 008:057:001 American Novel I
  • 008:058:001 American Novel II
  • 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed
  • 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: Adolescence in African American Novels
  • 008:086:001 Topics in Asian American Literature
  • 008:087:001 Selected American Authors I: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
  • 008:088:(All sections) Selected American Authors II
  • 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: Documentary Poetics
  • 008:106:001 Literature and Culture of 20th Century America: Survey of 20th Century American Literature
  • 008:108:001 Literature and Culture of America before 1800
  • 008:117:(All sections) African American Literature II
  • 008:135:001 Topics in American Literature I: Immigration and American Literature
  • 008:139:001 Topics in American Literature II: Over There and Coming Home—Veterans’ Stories from World War II to the Wars in Iraq
  • 008:154:(All sections) American Regional Literature
  • 008:180:001 American Drama before 1945
  • 008:196:001 American Novel since 1945
  • 008:197:SCA American Drama since 1945

Transnational Literature and Postcolonial Studies

  • 008:075:(All sections) Selected Transnational Authors
  • 008:084:001 Topics in Culture and Identity: Market Culture and Professional Identity
  • 008:132:SCA Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
  • 008:157:SCA Topics in African Cinema: Identity, Resistance and Survival in African and Diasporic Literature
  • 008:195:001 Modernist Women Writers

Nonfiction and Creative Writing

  • 08N:080:(All sections) Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:090:(All sections) Intermediate Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:102:001 Prose Style
  • 08N:113:(All sections) Writing for Business and Industry
  • 08N:120:001 Advanced Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:130:(All sections) Forms of Nonfiction
  • 08N:133:SCA Advanced Writing for Business
  • 08N:150:001 Undergraduate Essay Workshop

Period Requirements:

Early Literature Through 17th Century

  • 008:098:002 Honors Proseminar: Shakespeare’s Multiple Texts
  • 008:100:SCA Literature and Culture of 17th Century England
  • 008:101:001 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages
  • 008:143:001 Medieval Norse Literature: Viking Sagas and Norse Mythology
  • 008:145:001 English Renaissance Drama
  • 008:146:001 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
  • 008:147:(All sections) Shakespeare
  • 008:148:SCA Milton

18th and 19th Century Literature

  • 008:057:001 American Novel I
  • 008:063:001 British Romanticism
  • 008:064:001 Victorian Literature
  • 008:087:001 Selected American Authors I: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
  • 008:090:001 Topics in Modern British Literature I
  • 008:104:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century Britain: Stages of Life and Forms of Fiction
  • 008:107:SCA Literature and Culture of 19th Century Scotland
  • 008:108:001 Literature and Culture of America before 1800
  • 008:135:001 Topics in American Literature I: Immigration and American Literature
  • 008:180:001 American Drama Before 1945
  • 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
  • 008:030:001 Introduction to the Cultural Studies
  • 008:031:SCA Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Visualizing Human Rights
  • 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
  • 008:035:(All sections) Introduction to Poetry
  • 008:036:001 Introduction to the Short Story
  • 008:037:SCA Introduction to Drama
  • 008:052:SCA Literature, Culture, and Women
  • 008:056:001 American Literary Classics
  • 008:058:001 American Novel II
  • 008:066:001 21st Century British Literature: British Literature and Popular Music, 1968-Present
  • 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed
  • 008:075:(All sections) Selected Transnational Authors
  • 008:079:SCA Selected British Authors II: Manners and Methods—The Writings of Virginia Woolf
  • 008:083:001 Topics in African American Literature: Adolescence in African American Novels
  • 008:084:001 Topics in Culture and Identity: Market Culture and Professional Identity
  • 008:086:001 Topics in Asian American Literature
  • 008:088:(All sections) Selected American Authors II
  • 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: Documentary Poetics
  • 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: British Literary Fascisms Between the World Wars
  • 008:106:001 Literature and Culture of 20th Century America: Survey of 20th Century American Literature
  • 008:117:(All sections) African American Literature II
  • 008:129:001 Topics in Criticism and Theory: James Agee in Theory and Practice
  • 008:130:001 Literature and the Book: Culture of the Book in the Modern United States
  • 008:132:SCA Literature of the Indian Subcontinent
  • 008:136:001 Topics in Popular Culture: Food Studies and Popular Culture
  • 008:139:001 Topics in American Literature II: Over There and Coming Home—Veterans’ Stories from World War II to the Wars in Iraq
  • 008:154:(All sections) American Regional Literature
  • 008:157:SCA Topics in African Cinema: Identity, Resistance and Survival in African and Diasporic Literature
  • 008:165:001 Diaspora and Transnational Migrations: Caribbean Crosscurrents of the 20th Century
  • 008:168:001 Topics in Poetry and Poetics: Elegies and the Elegiac
  • 008:170:001 Literary Genres and Modes: Modern / Postmodern Fiction
  • 008:179:001 Literature and Society: World War II in Japan and America
  • 008:195:001 Modernist Women Writers
  • 008:196:001 American Novel since 1945
  • 008:197:SCA American Drama since 1945
  • 08N:080:(All sections) Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:090:(All sections) Intermediate Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:102:001 Prose Style
  • 08N:113:(All sections) Writing for Business and Industry
  • 08N:120:001 Advanced Nonfiction Writing
  • 08N:130:(All sections) Forms of Nonfiction
  • 08N:133:SCA Advanced Writing for Business
  • 08N:150:001 Undergraduate Essay Workshop

 

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