Course Offerings
Curriculum for Fall 2003
Click on the titles for detailed information on each course.
For information about creative writing courses at Smith and in the Valley, click here.

 

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 7:30-9:30 
Ellen Watson
Colloq: Eng 118 The Politics of Language
MW 8:30-9:50 
Holly Davis 
Colloq: Eng 118 Writing, Identity, and Culture
MW 1:10-2:30
Brian Turner
Colloq: Eng 118 Diversity. Com. and the Com-
plexities of Difference
TTh 9:00-10:20 
TTh 10:30-11:50
Julio Alves
Colloq: Eng 118 Conflicts and Connections
TTh 10:30-11:50 
Mary Koncel
Colloq: Eng 118 Conflicts and Connections
TTh 1:00-2:20
Debra Carney
Eng 120  Fiction
TTh 9:00-10:20
Beth Kissileff
Eng 120 Fiction
MW 1:10-2:30
Sara London
Eng 120 The Gothic in Literature
TTh 10:30-11:50
Nora F. Crow
Eng 120 The Gothic in Literature
TTh 1:00-2:20
Beth Kissileff
Eng 120 Love and the Literary Imagination
MWF 11-12:10
Robert Hosmer
Eng 120 Reading and Writing Short Poems
TTh 9:00-10:20
Ann Boutelle
Eng 120 Shakespeare and Film
MW 1:10-2:30
Jefferson Hunter
Eng 120 Shakespeare and Film
TTh 10:30-11:50
Gillian Kendall
Eng 120 Modern Short Stories
MW 1:10-2:30
Dean Flower
Eng 120 Modern Short Stories
TTh 9:00-10:20
Michael Gorra
Eng 120 Modern Drama
TTh 10:30-11:50
Luc Gilleman
Eng 120 Reading and Writing Short Stories
TTh 1:00-2:20
Sara London
Eng 199 Methods of Literary Study
MWF 1:10-2:30
William Oram
TTh 9:00-10:20
Michael Thurston

TTh 10:30-11:50
Sharon Seelig
 

TTh 1:00-2:50
Elizabeth Harries 
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
Lecture W 2:40-4:00
MWF 9-9:50
Douglas Patey
MWF 11-12:10
Sharon Seelig
Eng 207 The Technology of Reading and Writing
MW 9:00-10:20
Eric Reeves
Eng 210 Old English
MWF 10-10:50
Craig Davis
Eng 227 Modern British Fiction
MWF 11:00-11:50
Jefferson Hunter
Eng 231 American Literature before 1865
MWF 10:00-10:50
Richard Millington
 Eng 235 Modern American Writing
TTh 10:30-11:50
Dean Flower
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 258 Restoration Drama
TTh 9:00-10:20
Gillian Kendall
Eng 263 Romantic Poetry and Prose
MWF 10-10:50; optional hour Th 4-4:50
Patricia Skarda
Eng 269 Modern British Poetry
TTh 1:00-2:20
Michael Thurston
Eng 278 Writing Women: Asian American
Women Writers
TTh 10:30-11:50 
Floyd Cheung
CLT 237 - Traveller's Tales
TTh 10:30-11:50 
Michael Gorra
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.  Deadlines will be posted.
Eng 290 Crafting Creative Non-Fiction
Th 1:00-2:50
Nora F. Crow
Eng 292 Reading and Writing Autobiography 
T 1:00-2:50 
Ann Boutelle
Eng 295  Poetry Writing
M 7:30-9:30
Henri Cole
Eng 296 Writing Short Stories
M 7:30-9:30 
Douglas Bauer
Level IV: Courses Numbered 300-349
Courses numbered 300-350.  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 302 Chaucer 
MW 2:40-4:00
Nancy Coiner
Eng 304 Studies in Medieval Literature
TTh 10:30-11:50
Craig Davis
                    Eng 306 Shakespeare
MW 1:10-2:30                      MWF 9:00-9:50
Eric Reeves                          Harold Skulsky
Eng 308 Milton
MWF 11:00-12:10 
Harold Skulsky
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.
Eng 365 The Brontes
Th 1:00-2:50
Cornelia Pearsall
Eng 395 Freud and Sherlock Holmes
Th 3:00-4:50; screening Th 7:30-9:30
Luc Gilleman
Eng 396 Melodrama, Horror, and Cultural Theory
Th 1:00-2:50; screening M 7:30-9:30
Elizabeth Young (Mt. Holyoke)

Spring 2004 Course Offerings

112 - Reading Contemporary Poetry - Ellen Watson
118 - The Politics of Language - Holly Davis
118 - American Identities - Julio Alves
120 - Fiction - Eric Reeves
120   Fiction - Beth Kissileff
120 - Reading and Writing Short Poems - Sara London
120 - Icelandic Saga - Craig Davis
120 - Literature of the Fantastic  - Gillian Kendall
170 - The English Language - Douglas Patey
199 - Methods of Literary Study - J. Hunter, M. Gorra, R. Millington
201 - English Literary Tradition II - L. Gilleman, P. Skarda
205 - Telling and Retelling - Patricia Skarda
208 - Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction - William Oram
209 - Explorations in Science and Literature - C. Christ, M. Senechal
211 - Beowulf - Craig Davis
213 - Introduction to Shakespeare - Gillian Kendall
233 - American Literature 1865-1914 - Richard Millington
240 - Modern British and American Drama - Luc Gilleman
244 - The Novel Now - Michael Gorra
255 - Seventeenth-Century Poetry - Sharon Seelig
259 - Pope Swift and Their Circle - Nora F. Crow
261 - What Jane Austen Read: The 18th-Century Novel - Douglas Patey
266 - Victorian Literature - Cornelia Pearsall
272 - Recent British Literature - Robert Hosmer
281 - Modern American Poetry - Michael Thurston
285 - Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory - Ambreen Hai 
295 - Poetry Writing - Henri Cole
296 - Writing Short Stories - Douglas Bauer
302 - Chaucer - Nancy Mason Bradbury
307 - Shakespeare - S. Seelig, W. Oram
308 - Milton - Eric Reeves
341 - Advanced Poetry Writing - Henri Cole
350 - Literature, Folklore, and Fakelore - Nancy Mason Bradbury
351 - About Love - Nora F. Crow
376 - Contemporary British Women Writers - Robert Hosmer
387 - Multiracial American Life-Writing - Floyd Cheung
391 - Modern South Asian Writers - Ambreen Hai
490 - Teaching Literature

Past course descriptions for Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, and Fall 2001 are available. 
 

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