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| Level I: Introductory Courses |
| Courses numbered 100-199: Introductory Courses, open to all students. In English 118 and 120, first year students have priority in the fall semester, and other students are welcome as space permits. For students in the class of '05 and after, English 199 is the required basis for the English major. |
Eng 112 Reading Contemporary Poetry
T 7:30-9:00
Ellen Watson |
Colloq: Eng 118 The Politics of Language
MW 8:30-9:50
Holly Davis |
Colloq: Eng 118 Consumer Culture
MW 1:10-2:30
Sara Eddy
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Colloq: Eng 118 Mixing Memory and Desire: Language and the Construction of Experience
TTh 9:00-10:20
TTh 10:30-11:50
Melissa Bagg
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Colloq: Eng 118 The Last Laugh: Writing About Humor
TTh 10:30-11:50
Mary Koncel |
Colloq: Eng 118 Clearing Customs: Locations and Dislocations in Travel Literature
TTh 1:00-2:20
Debra Carney |
Colloq: Eng 118 Aspects of Blackness
MW 2:40-4:00
Julio Alves |
Eng 120 Writing American Lives
TTh 10:30-11:50 a.m.
Sara Eddy |
Eng 120 Fiction
MW 1:10-2:30
Robert Hosmer |
Eng 120 Fiction
TTh 10:30-11:50
Sharon Seelig |
Eng 120 Shakespeare and Film
MW 9:00-10:20
Gillian Kendall |
Eng 120 Ghost Stories
MW 1:10-2:30
Cornelia Pearsall |
Eng 120 Celtic Worlds
TTh 10:30-11:50
Craig R. Davis |
Eng 120 Reading and Writing Short Poems
TTh 9:00-10:30
Ann Boutelle |
Eng 120 Reading and Writing Short Stories
TTh 1:00-2:30
Sara London |
Eng 120 The Gothic in Literature
TTh 10:30-11:50
Nora F. Crow |
Eng120 Modern Drama
TTh 1:00-2:30
Luc Gilleman
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Eng 199 Methods of Literary Study
MW 9:00-10:20
Ambreen Hai |
MW F 10:00-10:50
Floyd Cheung
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MW 1:10-2:30
Richard Millington
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| Level II: Courses Numbered 200-249 |
| Courses numbered 200-249: Open to all sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and to qualified first-year students. These courses in particular are designed to interest non-majors as well as majors. |
Eng 200 The English Literary Tradition I
MWF 11-12:10
Douglas Patey |
Eng (GLT) 202 Homer to Dante
MW 9:00-10:30 - Robert Hosmer
MW 1:10-2:30 - Thalia Pandiri
MW 2:40-4:00 - Elizabeth Harries
TTh 10:30-11:50 - Maria Banerjee
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Eng210 Beowulf
MWF 10:00-10:50
Craig R. Davis |
Eng 227 Modern British Fiction
MWF 10:00-10:50
Jefferson Hunter |
Eng 229 African American Poetry
TTh 10:30-11:50
Danielle Elliott |
Eng 231 American Literature before 1865
TTh 10:30-11:50
Michael Thurston |
Eng 238 What Jane Austen Read: The 18th-Century Novel
MW 2:40-4:00
Douglas Patey |
Eng 241 Postcolonial Literature
MW 1:10-2:30
Ambreen Hai |
| Level III: Courses Numbered 250-299 |
| Courses numbered 250-299. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors; first-year students admitted only with the permission of the instructor. Recommended background: at least one English course above the 100 level, or as specified in the course description. |
Eng 255 For the Love of God and Woman: Seventeenth-Century Poetry
MWF 10:00-10:50
Sharon Seelig |
Eng 256 Shakespeare
TTh 10:30-11:50
Gillian Kendall |
Eng 260 Milton
MW 9:00-10:20
William Oram |
Eng 263 Romantic Poetry and Prose
TTh 1:00-2:40
Patricia Skarda |
Eng 267 Intro to Asian American Literature
MW 1:10-2:30
Floyd Cheung |
Eng279 American Women Poets
MWF 1:10-2:30
Susan Van Dyne |
| Advanced-Level Courses in Writing |
| Only one course in writing may be taken in any one semester except by permission of the chair. Courses in writing above the 100 level may be repeated for credit only with the permission of instructor and the chair. For all writing courses above the 100 level, no student will be admitted to a section until she has applied at the English office in Pierce Hall 105, submitted appropriate examples of her work, and received permission of the instructor. August 31, 2007 deadline for Fall 2007 writing courses. |
Eng 290 Crafting Creative Nonfiction
T 1:00-2:50
Ann Boutelle |
Eng 290 Crafting Creative Nonfictio: The Journalist as Artist
Th 3:00-4:50
Hilton Als |
Eng 295 Advanced Poetry Writing
T 1:00-2:50
Nikky Finney |
Eng 296 Writing Short Stories
Th 1:00-2:50
Amy Bloom
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| Level IV: Courses 300-Level, but not Seminars |
| These courses are intended primarily for juniors and seniors who have taken at least two literature courses above the 100-level. Other interested students need the permission of the instructor. |
Eng 399 Teaching Literature
M 7-9:00
Samuel Scheer
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| Level V: Seminars |
| Seminars. Seminars are open only to juniors and seniors, and admission is by permission of the instructor. All students who wish to take a seminar must apply at the English department office by the last day of the pre-registration period. The instructor will select the students admitted from these applicants. |
English 352 Middle Passage
T 3:00-4:50
Danielle Elliott |
Eng 362 Satire: Execution by Words
Th 1:00-2:50
Nora F. Crow |
Eng 365 The Brontës
T 1:00-2:50
Cornelia Pearsall
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Eng395 Freud and Sherlock Holmes
W 7:30-9:30
Screening Th 4:00-4:50
Luc Gilleman
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In 2007-08 the following courses can be used to satisfy Major Requirement #2:
English 200, 202, 203, 211, 231, 238, 250, 252, 255, 256, 257, 259, 260, 263, 270, 353, and 362.
118 - Mixing Memory and Desire - Melissa Bagg - TR 9:00-10:20
118 - Riding the Wave - Julio Alves - MW 2:40-4:00
120 - Fiction - Eric Reeves - MW 9:00-10:20
120 - Fiction - Sara London - TR 1:00-2:30
120 - Reading and Writing Short Poems - Ann Boutelle - TR 9:00-10:20
120 - Scandinavian Mythology -Craig R. Davis - TR 10:30-11:50
120 - Modern Short Stories - Dean Flower - TR 9:00-10:20
199 - Methods of Literary Study - Sharon Seelig - TR 10:30-11:50
199 - Methods of Literary Study - Jefferson Hunter - MW 1:10-2:30
199 - Methods of Literary Study - Michael Thurston - TR 9:00-10:20
201 - The English Literary Tradition II - Cornelia Pearsall - TR 10:30 - 11:30
201 - The English Literary Tradition II - Luc Gilleman - TR 1:00-2:30
203 - Western Classics: Chrétien de Troyes to Tolstoy - Elizabeth Harries - MW 2:40-4:00
203 - Western Classics: Chrétien de Troyes to Tolstoy - Maria N Banerjee - TR 10:30-11:50
205 - Telling and Retelling - Patricia Skarda - TR 10:30-11:50
208 - Science Fiction? Speculative Fiction? - William Oram - MWF 9:00-9:50
214 - Medieval Welsh - Craig Davis - MWF 10:00-10:50
216 - Intermediate Poetry Writing - Ellen Watson - M 7:30-9:30
228 - Children's Literature - Gillian Kendall - TR 9:00-10:30
233 - American Literature 1865-1914 - Richard Millington - MWF 11:00-12:10
235 - Modern American Writing - Dean Flower - MW 1:10-2:30
240 - Modern British and American Drama - Luc Gilleman - TR 3:00-4:50
250 - Chaucer - Nancy Bradbury - TR 10:30-11:50
257 - Shakespeare - Eric Reeves - MW 1:10-2:30
257 - Shakespeare - Sharon Seelig - MWF 10:00-10:50
259 - Pope, Swift, and their Circle - Nora Crow - TR 10:30-11:50
266 - Literature of the Victorian Period - Cornelia Pearsall - TR 1:00-2:20
268 - The Sonnet Sequence - William Oram, Michael Thurston - TR 1:00-2:30
270 - The King James Bible and Its Literary Heritage - Patricia Skarka - TR 1:00-2:30
282 - The Harlem Renaissance - Daphne Lamothe - MW 9:00-10:20
285 - Intro to Contemporary Literary Theory - Ambreen Hai - MW 1:10-2:30
290 - Crafting Creative Nonfiction - Nora Crow - R 3:00-4:50
292 - Crafting the Memoir - Ann Boutelle - T 1:00-2:50
295 - Advanced Poetry Writing - Nikkey Finney - TBA
296 - Writing Short Stories - Amy Bloom - TBA
333 - Seminar: Hawthorne - Richard Millington - W 7:30-9:30
345 - Tales within Tales within Tales - Elizabeth Harries - T 3:00-4:00, R 3:00-5:00
348 - Black Women Writers - Daphne Lamothe - MW 1:10-2:30
353 - Advanced Studies in Shakespeare - Gillian Kendall - T 3:00-4:50
384 - Writing About American Society - Hilton Als - TBA
387 - Asian American Autobiography - Floyd Cheung - R 1:00-2:50
400 - Special Studies
Archived course descriptions for Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, and Fall 2001 are available. |
