Curriculum for Fall 2005
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 7:30-9:00
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 Lost in Translation, or What Happens When We Move Between
Lanugages
TTh 9:00-10:20
TTh
10:30-11:50
Catherine Reid
|
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 |
Eng
120 Fiction
MWF
10:00-10:50
Francie
Lin |
Eng 120 Fiction
MW
1:10-2:30
Robert Hosmer |
Eng
120 Fiction
TTh
1-2:20
Sara
London |
Eng
120 Love & the Literary Imagination
MW 2:40-4:00
Nancy Coiner
|
Eng
120 Celtic Worlds
TTh
10:30-11:50
Craig
Davis |
Eng 120 Reading
and Writing Short Poems
TTh 9-10:20
Ann Boutelle
|
Eng
120
Reading and Writing Short Stories
MW
2:40-4:00
Sara London |
Eng 120 Modern Drama
TTh
3-4:50
Luc Gilleman |
Eng 120 Modern Short Stories
MW
1-2:30
Dean Flower
|
Eng 120 The Gothic in Literature
TTh 10:30-11:50
Nora F.
Crow |
Eng
120 Coming of Age Narratives
TTh
9-10:20
Michael
Snediker
|
|
Eng 199 Methods of Literary
Study
| |
MW 2:40-4:00
Jefferson Hunter
|
TTh 9-10:20
Michael Gorra |
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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 1:10-2:30 - Ann Jones
TTh
9-10:20 - Nancy Shumate
TTh 10:30-11:50 - Elizabeth Harries
|
Eng
(CLT) 204 Arthurian
Legend
MW
2:40-4:00
Nancy
Bradbury |
Eng
207 Technology of Reading
& Writing
MWF
9-9:50
Douglas
Patey |
Eng
213 Introduction to Shakespeare
TTh
10:30-11:50
Gillian
Kendall |
Eng
214 Medieval Welsh
MWF
10-10:50
Craig
Davis |
Eng 231
American Literature Before 1865
TTh 1-2:50
Michael Thurston |
Eng 235
Modern American
Writing
TTh
10:30-11:50
Dean
Flower
|
Eng 238
What Jane Austen
Read: The Eighteenth-Century Novel
TTh
1-2:50
Elizabeth
Harries
|
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| 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 (HST) 253 Age
of More and Shakespeare
TTh 1-2:50
William Oram & Howard Nenner |
Eng 256 Shakespeare
MW 9-10:20
Gillian Kendall |
Eng
263
Romantic Poetry & Prose
TTh
1-2:50
Patricia
Skarda
|
| |
Eng
279 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. September 1, 2005 deadline
for Fall 2005 writing courses. |
|
Eng 290 Crafting
Creative Nonfiction
Th 1:00-2:50
Robert Hosmer |
Eng
290 Crafting Creative
Nonfiction
Th
3-4:50
Ann
Boutelle |
| Eng
295 Poetry Writing
M 7:30-9:30
Daisy Fried
|
Eng
296 Writing Short Stories
T 1-2:50
Lê
Thi Diem Thúy
|
| 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
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. |
|
Eng
362 Satire:
Execution by Words
Th 1:00-2:50
Nora F. Crow
|
CLT
368 Play of Ideas
W 7:30-9:30
Screening
Th 7:30-9:30
Luc
Gilleman |
Eng
385 Going to
Hell in Modern Poetry
Th
3-4:50
Michael
Thurston
|
|
The
following courses can be used to satisfy Major Requirement #2:
In
the fall term, 200, 202, 204, 213, 214, 231, 238, 250, 253, 256, 263,
362;
in
the spring term, 201, 203, 235, 257, 259, 260.
Spring 2006 Course Offerings
112 - Reading Contemporary Poetry
- Ellen Watson
118 - TBA
120 - Reading and Writing Short Poems - Ann Boutelle
120 - Reading and Writing Short Stories - Sara London
120 - Fiction - Eric Reeves
120 - Representing the Caribbean - Ambreen Hai
120 - Ghost Stories - Dean
Flower
120 - The Uses of Storytelling
- Nancy Bradbury
170 - The English Language
- Doug Patey
199 - Methods of Literary
Study - N. Bradbury, M. Thurston, E. Harries, P. Skarda,
201 - English Literary Tradition II - Nora Crow, Luc Gilleman
203 - General Literature -
Robert Hosmer, Ann Jones
205 - Telling and Retelling - Patricia Skarda
208 - Science Fiction - William
Oram
227 - Modern British Fiction - Michael Gorra
2xx - Children's Literature
- Gillian Kendall
230 - (JUD 258) The Jewish
Writer in America - Justin Cammy
233 - American Literature 1865-1914 - Dean Flower
235 - (CLT) Fairy Tales and
Gender - Elizabeth Harries
240 - Modern British
and American Drama - Luc Gilleman
241 - (FLS) Screen Comedy
- Jefferson Hunter
257 - Shakespeare - William Oram, Gillian Kendall
259 - Pope, Swift, and their
Circle - Nora Crow
260 - Milton - Eric Reeves
269 - Modern British Poetry - Michael Thurston
290 - Crafting Creative Nonfiction - Sara London
292 - Reading & Writing Autobiography - Ann Boutelle
295 - Poetry Writing - TBA
296 - Writing Short Stories - Lê Thi Diem Thúy
300 - Seminar: Muriel Spark
- Robert Hosmer
333 - Seminar: Jane Austen - Douglas Patey
333 - Seminar: T.S. Eliot
- Jefferson Hunter
391 - Seminar: Modern South Asian Writers in English - Ambreen Hai
Past course descriptions for Spring
2005, Fall 2004, Fall
2003, Spring 2003, Fall
2002, Spring 2002, and Fall
2001 are available.
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