Course Offerings
Curriculum for Fall 2004
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
Complexities of Difference
TTh 9:00-10:20 
Julio Alves

Colloq: English 118 Language, Culture, Community

TTh 10:30-11:50

Catherine Reid

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
MW 1l-12:20
Robert Hosmer
Eng 120  Fiction
MW 11-12:20
Cornelia Pearsall
Eng 120 Reading and Writing Short Poems
MW 2:40-4:00
Sara London
Eng 120 Shakespeare and Film
TTh 9-10:20
Gillian Kendall
Eng 120 Fictions of the Journey
TTh 9-10:20
Beth Kissileff
Eng 120 Scandinavian Mythology
TTh 10:30-11:50
Craig Davis
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 Modern Irish Writing
TTh 1:10-2:30
Dean Flower
Eng 199 Methods of Literary Study

MWF 10-10:50

Sharon Seelig


MW 1:10-2:30
Nancy Bradbury
 

TTh 10:30-11:50
Luc Gilleman
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 212 Old Norse
MWF 10-10:50
Craig Davis
Eng 231 American Literature before 1865
MWF 11-12:10
Richard Millington



Eng 242 A History of Mystery
MW 2:40-4:00
Dean Flower
 

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 250 Chaucer
TTh 10:30-11:50
Nancy Bradbury
Eng 253 Age of More and Shakespeare
TTh 1-2:50
William Oram & Howard Nenner
Eng 256 Shakespeare
MWF 9-9:50                             TTh 10:30-11:50
William Oram                     Gillian Kendall
Eng 265 The Victorian Novel
  TTh 9-10:20 
Michael Gorra

Eng 279 American Women Poets

MWF 1:10-2:30

Susan Van Dyne

Eng 284  Victorian Sexualities
MW 1:10-2:30 
Cornelia Pearsall
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 Nonfiction
Th 1:00-2:50
Sara London
Eng 295 Poetry Writing
W 7-10:00
Eleanor Wilner

Eng 296 Writing Short Stories

M 7:30-9:30

Douglas Bauer


 
Level IV: Courses Numbered 300-325
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 310 Early Modern Women Writers
MW 2:40-4:00
Sharon Seelig


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 333 - George Eliot

Th 3-4:50

Douglas Patey

Eng 362  Satire: Execution by Words
Th 1:00-2:50
Nora F. Crow
Eng 365 Blake and Shelley
T 3-4:50
Patricia Skarda
Eng 374 Virginia Woolf
T 1-2:50
Robert Hosmer

Spring 2005 Course Offerings

 

112 - Reading Contemporary Poetry - Ellen Watson
118 - The Politics of Language - Holly Davis
118 - Language, Culture, Community - Catherine Reid
120 - Reading and Writing Short Poems - Ann Boutelle
120 - Reading and Writing Short Stories - Sara London
120 - Fiction - Sara London
120 - Celtic Worlds - Craig Davis

120 - Literary Approach to the Bible - Beth Kissileff

199 - Methods of Literary Study - W. Oram, P. Skarda, R. Millington
201 - English Literary Tradition II - Cornelia Pearsall, Luc Gilleman
205 - Telling and Retelling - Patricia Skarda
209 - Explorations in Science and Literature - C. Christ, M. Senechal
213 - Introduction to Shakespeare - William Oram

218 - Norse Poetry and Prose - Craig Davis

221 - Reading the Landscape - Dean Flower
237 - Recent American Writing - Dean Flower

239 - American Journeys - Richard Millington

241 - Postcolonial Literature - Ambreen Hai
254 - English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare - Gillian Kendall

255 - 17th C. Poetry - Gillian Kendall

257 - Shakespeare - Sharon Seelig

260 - Milton - Sharon Seelig
267 - Intro to Asian American Literature - Floyd Cheung
283 - Victorian Medievalism - Nancy Bradbury, Cornelia Pearsall
292 - Reading & Writing Autobiography - Ann Boutelle
295 - Poetry Writing - Eleanor Wilner
296 - Writing Short Stories - Douglas Bauer

330 - Seminar: Postwar British Culture - Luc Gilleman
333 - Seminar: Henry James - Michael Gorra
350 - Seminar - Literature, Folklore, and Fakelore - Nancy Bradbudy

382 -Advanced Short Story Writing - Douglas Bauer
490 - Teaching Literature - Samuel Scheer

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

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