Spring 2010 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

• 008:002:001 Postmodern Fiction
• 008:029:001First-Year Seminar: Writing Together: Diane Middlebrook and the Lives of Poetry
• 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
• 008:034:001 Introduction to the Novel
• 008:038:001 Introduction to the Essay: The Essay Goes into Combat
• 008:052:001 Literature, Culture, and Women
• 008:130:001 Literature and the Book: Text as Technology—The Renaissance           
• 008:136:001 Topics in Popular Culture: Elvis as Anthology           
• 008:168:001 Topics in Poetry and Poetics: Documentary Poetics
• 008:173:001 Topics in Digital Media: New Media Poetics
• 008:175:001 Topics in Film and Literature: Mediation and Surveillance
• 008:176:001 Literature and Philosophic Thought: Theory of Popular Culture: The Frankfurt School and Beyond
• 008:179:001 Literature and Society
• 008:190:SCA Topics in Book History: The American Comic Book           
• 008:194:001 Introduction to Feminist Criticism

Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture

• 008:008:001 Classical and Biblical Literature
• 008:060:001 Selected Works of the Middle Ages
• 008:100:SCA Literature and Culture of 17th Century England
• 008:122:SCA 16th and 17th Century Poetry: Politics of English Poetry: Spenser, Jonson, Marvell, Dryden
• 008:145:001 English Renaissance Drama
• 008:147:(all sections) Shakespeare
• 008:148:SCA Milton

Modern British Literature and Culture

• 008:063:001 British Romanticism
• 008:064:SCA Victorian Literature: Generations and Genres
• 008:078:001 Selected British Authors Before 1900: Wilkie Collins & Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• 008:090:SCA Topics in Modern British Literature Before 1900: The Seamless 18th Century and Its Underground Caverns
• 008:091:001 Topics in Modern British Literature after 1900: Mysticism, Modernism, and Empire
• 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Disease, Drink, and Despair:  Stories of Poverty and an English Ghetto
• 008:104:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century Britain: Domestic Geographies
• 008:107:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century Scotland
• 008:112:001 Literature and Culture of the Romantic Period
• 008:131:001 European Literature of the 19th Century

American Literature and Culture

• 008:056:001 American Literary Classics: Personal Narratives and the Civil War
• 008:057:001 American Novel Before 1900
• 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed
• 008:082:001 Latina/o Studies: Latina/o Fiction           
• 008:083:SCA Topics in African American Literature: Love Stories
• 008:086:001 Topics in Asian American Literature: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: The Japanese American Internment Story
• 008:087:001 Selected American Authors Before 1900: Hawthorne and His Contemporaries
• 008:087:002 Selected American Authors Before 1900: Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman
• 008:088:001 Selected American Authors After 1900: Mary Oliver & Adrienne Rich
• 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: The Sixties
• 008:105:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century America
• 008:106:SCA Literature and Culture of 20th Century America: American Road Literature from Kerouac to Foer
• 008:115:001 Literatures of the American Peoples: Native Daughters Speak
• 008:135:001 Topics in American Literature Before 1900: Gothic America
• 008:137:001 African American Autobiography: Performance, Politics, and Play
• 008:139:001 Topics in American Literature After 1900: A Pulitzer in the Pocket
• 008:153:001 Native American Literature
• 008:154:001 American Regional Literatures: Literature of the U.S. South
• 008:196:001 American Novel After 1945
• 008:197:001 American Drama After 1900

Transnational Literature and Postcolonial Studies

• 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Literature of India, Africa and the Caribbean
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Authors:  Beckett and Coetzee
• 008:084:SCA Topics in Culture and Identity: The Ethnic Dimension of American Society
• 008:113:001 Literature and Culture of the Americas
• 008:114:001 Caribbean Literature and Culture
• 008:119:001 African Literature
• 008:138:001 Topics in Post Colonial Studies: Re-Imagining Vietnam
• 008:157:SCA Topics in African Cinema: Visualizing Human Rights   
• 008:161:001 Transnational and Postcolonial Writing by Women: Of “Victims,” Virgins, and Widows
• 008:163:SCA Identity and Social Issues: The Spatial Dimension of American Society
• 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Journeys Across Cultures in African and Caribbean Literature and Film
• 008:191:001 International Literature Today

Nonfiction and Creative Writing

• 08C:023:(all sections) Creative Writing
• 08C:097:(all sections) Fiction Writing
• 08C:098:(all sections) Poetry Writing
• 08C:163:(all sections) Undergraduate Writers Workshop Fiction
• 08C:166:001 Undergraduate Writers Workshop Poetry
• 08C:167:(all sections) Undergraduate Writers Seminar
• 08N:080:(all sections) Nonfiction Writing
• 08N:090:(all sections) Intermediate Nonfiction Writing
• 08N:102:001 Prose Style
• 08N:104:001 Personal Writing
• 08N:113:(all sections) Writing for Business and Industry
• 08N:133:SCA Advanced Writing for Business: Team Writing and Document Design
• 08N:145:001 Multimedia Writing: Environmental Writing and Filmmaking 
• 08N:150:001 Undergraduate Essay Workshop: Memoir: It’s All in the Art

Period Requirements:

Early Literature Through 17th Century

• 008:008:001 Classical and Biblical Literature
• 008:060:001 Selected Works of the Middle Ages
• 008:100:SCA Literature and Culture of 17th Century England
• 008:122:SCA 16th and 17th Century Poetry: Politics of English Poetry: Spenser, Jonson, Marvell, Dryden
• 008:130:001 Literature and the Book: Text as Technology—The Renaissance           
• 008:142:001 Medieval Celtic Literature
• 008:145:001 English Renaissance Drama
• 008:147:(all sections) Shakespeare
• 008:148:SCA Milton
• 008:150:SCA Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Underworld: Cut-throats, Conycatchers, and Rogues in Renaissance England

18th and/or 19th Century Literature

• 008:056:001 American Literary Classics: Personal Narratives and the Civil War
• 008:057:001 American Novel Before 1900
• 008:063:001 British Romanticism
• 008:064:SCA Victorian Literature: Generations and Genres
• 008:078:001 Selected British Authors Before 1900: Wilkie Collins & Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• 008:087:001 Selected American Authors Before 1900: Hawthorne and His Contemporaries
• 008:087:002 Selected American Authors Before 1900: Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman
• 008:090:SCA Topics in Modern British Literature Before 1900: The Seamless 18th Century and Its Underground Caverns
• 008:104:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century Britain: Domestic Geographies
• 008:105:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century America
• 008:107:001 Literature and Culture of 19th Century Scotland
• 008:112:001 Literature and Culture of the Romantic Period
• 008:131:001 European Literature of the 19th Century
• 008:135:001 Topics in American Literature Before 1900: Gothic America

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

• 008:002:001 Postmodern Fiction

• 008:029:001First-Year Seminar: Writing Together: Diane Middlebrook and the Lives of Poetry
• 008:031:001 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies: Literature of India, Africa and the Caribbean
• 008:033:001 Introduction to Criticism and Theory
• 008:034:001 Introduction to the Novel
• 008:038:001 Introduction to the Essay: The Essay Goes into Combat
• 008:052:001 Literature, Culture, and Women
• 008:069:001 Selected African American Authors: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed
• 008:075:001 Selected Transnational Authors: Authors:  Beckett and Coetzee
• 008:079:001 Selected British Authors After 1900: Virginia Woolf
• 008:082:001 Latina/o Studies: Latina/o Fiction           
• 008:083:SCA Topics in African American Literature: Love Stories
• 008:084:SCATopics in Culture and Identity: The Ethnic Dimension of American Society
• 008:086:001 Topics in Asian American Literature: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: The Japanese American Internment Story
• 008:088:001 Selected American Authors After 1900: Mary Oliver & Adrienne Rich
• 008:088:002 Selected American Authors After 1900: JD Salinger and David Sedaris
• 008:094:001 Topics in Modern British Literature after 1900: Mysticism, Modernism, and Empire
• 008:098:001 Honors Proseminar: The Sixties
• 008:098:003 Honors Proseminar: Disease, Drink, and Despair:  Stories of Poverty and an English Ghetto
• 008:106:SCA Literature and Culture of 20th Century America: American Road Literature from Kerouac to Foer
• 008:113:001 Literature and Culture of the Americas
• 008:114:001 Caribbean Literature and Culture
• 008:115:001 Literatures of the American Peoples: Native Daughters Speak
• 008:119:001 African Literature
• 008:136:001 Topics in Popular Culture: Elvis as Anthology           
• 008:137:001 African American Autobiography: Performance, Politics, and Play
• 008:138:001 Topics in Post Colonial Studies: Re-Imagining Vietnam
• 008:139:001 Topics in American Literature After 1900: A Pulitzer in the Pocket
• 008:153:001 Native American Literature
• 008:154:001 American Regional Literatures: Literature of the U.S. South
• 008:157:SCA Topics in African Cinema: Visualizing Human Rights   
• 008:161:001 Transnational and Postcolonial Writing by Women: Of “Victims,” Virgins and Widows
• 008:163:SCAIdentity and Social Issues: The Spatial Dimension of American Society
• 008:164:001 Topics in Transnational Literature: Journeys Across Cultures in African and Caribbean Literature and Film
• 008:168:001 Topics in Poetry and Poetics: Documentary Poetics
• 008:173:001 Topics in Digital Media: New Media Poetics
• 008:175:001 Topics in Film and Literature: Mediation and Surveillance
• 008:176:001 Literature and Philosophic Thought: Theory of Popular Culture: The Frankfurt School and Beyond
• 008:178 Modern British Drama
• 008:179:001 Literature and Society
• 008:190:SCA Topics in Book History: The American Comic Book           
• 008:191:001 International Literature Today
• 008:194:001 Introduction to Feminist Criticism
• 008:196:001 American Novel After 1945           
• 008:197:001 American Drama After 1900
• 08C:023:(all sections) Creative Writing
• 08C:097:(all sections) Fiction Writing
• 08C:098:(all sections) Poetry Writing
• 08C:163:(all sections) Undergraduate Writers Workshop Fiction
• 08C:166:001 Undergraduate Writers Workshop Poetry
• 08C:167:(all sections) Undergraduate Writers Seminar
• 08N:080:(all sections) Nonfiction Writing
• 08N:090:(all sections) Intermediate Nonfiction Writing
• 08N:102:001 Prose Style
• 08N:104:001 Personal Writing
• 08N:113:(all sections) Writing for Business and Industry
• 08N:133:SCA Advanced Writing for Business: Team Writing and Document Design
• 08N:145:001 Multimedia Writing: Environmental Writing and Filmmaking 
• 08N:150:001 Undergraduate Essay Workshop: Memoir: It’s All in the Art