| ENGL 199 | Introduction to Literary Analysis | Selected topics vary from semester to semester. |
| ENGL 201 | The Art of Writing: Aims, Modes, Process | Explores varied strategies for negotiating each stage in the writing process, reviews methods for engaging in critical thinking and productive research, and addresses issues influencing effective uses of language, including attention to grammaticalit... |
| ENGL 203 | Children's Literature | Analysis of children's literature, from folk and fairy tales to today's stories, poems and novels for children. |
| ENGL 204 | Literature and Culture | Representation of cultural identity and experience in works drawn from diverse cultural traditions. |
| ENGL 206 | Selected Readings in American Literature | Selected works reflecting one or more major patterns in American literature. Specific emphasis may change from term to term. |
| ENGL 208 | Twentieth-Century American Fiction | Textual analysis of novels and shorter fiction representing diverse authors, themes, movements, and techniques. |
| ENGL 214 | Literature of India | Explores modern Indian poetry, short stories, and novels written in English and in translation. |
| ENGL 215 | Reading Science Fiction and Fantasy | Analysis of selected works of science fiction and fantasy. Possible authors included in the course range from Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne to Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison and Ursula K. LeGuin to writers not typically identified with the genre. S... |
| ENGL 216 | Literature, Technology and Society | Literary and nonliterary texts that react, in a given society and period of history, to technological change and social effects of technology. |
| ENGL 218 | African Literature. | Representative works from written traditions in modern African literature. |
| ENGL 219 | Introduction to Drama and Theater | Introduction to basic concepts of drama and theater, including the relationship between drama as text and as spectacle and the relation of drama to other genres and art forms. Examination of significant theatrical traditions that have influenced mode... |
| ENGL 220 | Introduction to Film Studies | Introduces the methodology of film studies through close textual analysis of narrative film. Special attention paid to the international history of the medium, the language of production, and major critical approaches. (Same as Film Studies 201) |
| ENGL 221 | Introduction to Poetry | Analysis of works by selected poets. |
| ENGL 222 | Short Fiction | Analysis of short fiction as a means of defining its many formal and philosophical expressions. |
| ENGL 223 | The Modern Novel | Analysis of selected 20th- and 21st-century novels. |
| ENGL 224 | Great Novels | Selected major novels of 18th, 19th, and/or 20th centuries. |
| ENGL 229 | The Black Vernacular | Introduction to black vernacular oral and written art. Investigation of the black vernacular tradition in the wider context of American culture. |
| ENGL 230 | Women in Modern Literature | Modern woman's search for identity and struggle for self-realization through study of selected figures from 19th-, 20th-, and/or 21st century literature. |
| ENGL 231 | African-American Literature | Survey of major works of African-American literature with attention to oral traditional contexts. |
| ENGL 233 | Contemporary Native American Literatures | An introduction to the most recent fiction by Native American writers in the United States through a study of a variety of genres in the context of the United States' colonial history, indigenous nations' struggles for sovereignty, and the long legac... |
| ENGL 234 | Shakespeare | Analysis of selected plays and poems from variety of critical perspectives. |
| ENGL 236 | Global Women Writers | Explores womens writing from around the world, from regions as diverse as South Asia, Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Through reading novels, short stories, poetry, and essays by and about women, examines how the concerns o... |
| ENGL 237 | Queer Literatures | Examines contemporary queer literature and film concerned with both the formation and formulation of queer identities. Asks a series of questions: What distinguishes and differentiates queer aesthetics? What does it mean to be queer? Who can or shoul... |
| ENGL 238 | Selected Readings in Caribbean Literature | Analysis of literary works from the Caribbean representing various periods, areas, and groups. Focus mainly on English-speaking Caribbean, but occasional focus on Spanish, Dutch, or French works in translation. |
| ENGL 239 | Vampires in Literature and Film | Examination of the vampire as a metaphor for social fears as it appears in different historical moments (sixteenth century to the present) and across several genres and media, including poetry, prose fiction, folklore, film, television, and popular s... |
| ENGL 297 | Literature in Context: Genre and Mode | Focuses on the ways in which particular literary genres and modes arise and are adapted to new purposes over time. Taught in two modules with two different professors, this course with a grade of C (2.0) or better is a prerequisite to all 300-level l... |
| ENGL 298 | Literature in Context: Texts in History | Focuses on the ways in which literary traditions are perceived and/or constructed, and for what purposes. Taught in two modules with two different professors, this course with a grade of C (2.0) or better is a prerequisite to all 300-level literature... |
| ENGL 299 | Topics in Literary Analysis | Essentials of close textual analysis with special attention to theory, critical vocabulary, and methodology of literary interpretation. The focus will vary from one section or semester to the next. Recent topics have included The Sixties: Then and No... |
| ENGL 302 | Literature of the English Renaissance | Studies in literature and cultural traditions of 16th- and early 17th-century Great Britain. |
| ENGL 304 | Shakespeare | Selected plays by Shakespeare grouped according to genre. The course will investigate the histories and tragedies and the comedies and romances. |
| ENGL 308 | Interdisciplinary Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance | An interdisciplinary approach to the study of Middle Ages and Renaissance. Medieval and Renaissance perspectives on topics such as love, politics, individualism, and the divine will be explored through study of selected works from literature, art, ar... |
| ENGL 309 | Desire and Identity in the Renaissance: The Lyric Tradition | A comparative investigation of Italian, French, and English Renaissance lyric poetry. (Same as Modern Literatures and Cultures 358.) |
| ENGL 311 | English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century | Focus on representative British authors of the late 17th and 18th centuries. |
| ENGL 312 | English Literature of the Romantic Movement | Focus on major British authors of the early 19th century with some attention to European currents and backgrounds. |
| ENGL 325 | Age of American Renaissance | Readings in the traditional American Renaissance canon -- Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Poe, Dickinson, and Whitman -- as well as other writers working in the period, such as Frederick Douglass and Fanny Fern. |
| ENGL 330 | Topics in Literature Before the Early to Mid-19th Century | Topics will vary from semester to semester. Recently offered topics include Renaissance Lyric Poetry and The Middle Ages and the Renaissance.May be repeated for credit as topic varies. |
| ENGL 331 | Literatures of Africa | Survey of major writers from the African continent, with attention to historical and cultural contexts and to African oral traditions. |
| ENGL 332 | Literatures of the Caribbean | Survey of Anglo-Caribbean literatures with emphasis on contemporary works. Occasional studies of Spanish, Dutch, or French works in translation. |
| ENGL 334 | American Indian Literatures | Works of major indigenous writers in the United States since the 1960s until the present, studied in the context of the historical and contemporary political and cultural relations between American Indians and the United States. |
| ENGL 336 | Literatures of Globalization | Selected contemporary fiction and criticism that considers problems of global economy, culture, and language. |
| ENGL 337 | Postcolonial Literature | Survey of major debates and movements in postcolonial literature, with attention to cultural contexts. |
| ENGL 338 | English Literature of the Victorian Period | Focus on representative British authors, 1832-1901, with attention to contemporary social, political, religious, and scientific issues. |
| ENGL 343 | Modernisms | A study of the dramatic changes in poetry and literature in European and American modernism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. |
| ENGL 346 | Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature | Reflections of modern sensibility in fiction and poetry of native British and Irish authors and American expatriates. |
| ENGL 347 | Politics, Social Change, and Modern Drama | A literary exploration of modern and contemporary drama as a vehicle for social change. |
| ENGL 357 | Twentieth-Century American Fiction | Attention to new concerns and new forms of fiction in the 20th century. |
| ENGL 361 | Literature and Film | Examines the filmic adaptation of literary works, with particular consideration given to questions of genre, interpretation, and historical relevance. |
| ENGL 362 | Post-Soul Literature and Culture | Survey of works by African-American verbal artists who came of age after the civil-rights movement. |
| ENGL 367 | Indigenous Film in North America | An introduction to indigenous cinema in the United States and Canada. Forms and topics studied include ethnographic film, western and anti-western, contemporary first contact films; American Indian documentary, experimental video, and feature film; m... |
| ENGL 368 | History and Aesthetics of Film | Topics include major international directors, the conventions and innovations of popular genres, and key aesthetic movements. |
| ENGL 369 | American Culture/American Film | Explores the intersection of American film and culture, with special attention to the dialogue between Hollywood and other institutions, ideologies, and events. Specific topics vary from semester to semester. |
| ENGL 370 | Selected Topics in Literature after the Early to Mid-19th Century | Topics will vary from semester to semester. Recently offered topics include Victorian Fantasy, Modernisms, and Blackface! May be repeated for credit as topic varies. |
| ENGL 374 | Film Theory | Surveys the various ways in which thinkers have conceived of cinema since before its inception--what Andr Bazin referred to as "the film idea"--to contemporary debates about the "end" of film and the advent of New Media. |
| ENGL 376 | Modern Literary Theory | Developments in literary theory from Formalism to the present. Schools and approaches include New Criticism, Feminism, Marxism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytic Criticism, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies. |
| ENGL 379 | Film Directors | Examines the work of individual or a small group of film directors. The directors considered will vary and include figures such as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Coen Brothers. Special attention will be paid to theories of film authorship... |
| ENGL 380 | Special Topics: Film Genres | The close consideration of single or small numbers of film genres: their inception, evolution, aesthetic and stylistic properties, and interaction with other cultural forms and institutions. The genres under consideration will vary and include Film N... |
| ENGL 381 | Modern Grammar | Introduction to linguistics, including theories and practices of structuralists and transformationalists. (Meets state licensure requirements for teaching.) |
| ENGL 383 | Introduction to Composition Theory and Pedagogy | Serves as practicum for writing consultants - and students seeking teacher licensure. |
| ENGL 388 | Individual Internship | Application of academic skills and theories in placement approved by department. Includes academic work. Supervised by member of the English faculty. No more than one unit of credit may be earned in English 388. |
| ENGL 398 | Independent Study | Individually designed course of study conducted under supervision of faculty member. |
| ENGL 399 | Selected Topics | Topics will vary from semester to semester. |
| ENGL 400 | Junior/Senior Seminar | In-depth treatment of topics in genre, historical periods, critical theory, single authors such as Milton, Faulkner, or Woolf, and other areas of literary study. Topics vary from semester to semester. Recently offered topics include the African Ameri... |
| ENGL 406 | Summer Undergraduate Research | Documentation of the work of students who receive summer fellowships to conduct research [or produce a creative arts project] in the summer. The work must take place over a minimum of 6 weeks, the student must engage in the project full-time (at leas... |
| ENGL 498 | Honors Thesis Research | Research for the honors thesis in English under the direction of a faculty advisor. |
| ENGL 499 | Honors Thesis Writing | Writing of the honors thesis in English under the direction of a faculty advisor. |