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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 2010 and beyond, English 199, 200, 201, or 231 are required for the major. |
Eng 112 Reading Contemporary Poetry
T 7:30-9:00
Marsha Janson |
Colloq: Eng 118 The Politics of Language
MW 8:30-9:50
Holly Davis |
Colloq: Eng 118 Writing About Consumer Culture
MW 1:10-2:30
Sara Eddy |
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 History, Imagination, and Memory
TTh 1:00-2:20
Elan Barnehama |
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Colloq: Eng 118 To Hell and Back: Trauma and Transformation
TTh 10:30-11:50 a.m..
Peter Sapira |
Eng 120 The Gothic in Literature
TTh 10:30-11:50
Nora F. Crow |
Eng 120 Reading and Writing Short Poems
TTh 9:00-10:20
Ann Boutelle |
Eng 120 Modern Irish Writing
MW 1:10-2:30
Dean Flower |
Eng 120 Writing American Lives
TTh 1:00-2:20 p.m.
Sara Eddy |
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Eng 199 Methods of Literary Study
MW 9:00-10:20
Ambreen Hai
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MWF 11:00-12:10
William Oram
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MW 1:10-2:30
Robert Hosmer |
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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 MWF 10-10:50
Douglas Patey Sharon Seelig |
Eng (GLT) 202 Homer to Dante
MW 9:00-10:20 Robert Hosmer
MW 2:40-4:00
Luc Gilleman |
TTh 9-10:20
Nancy Shumate
TTh 10:30-11:50
Ann Jones |
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Eng212 Old Norse
MWF 10:00-10:50
Craig R. Davis |
Eng 231 American Literature before 1865
MWF 11-12:10
Richard Millington |
Clt 237 Travelers' Tales
TTh 10:30-11:50
Michael Gorra |
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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 3-4:50
Nancy Bradbury |
Eng 256 Shakespeare
MWF 1:10-2:30
William Oram |
TTh 9-10:20
Naomi Miller |
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Eng 259 Pope, Swift, and Their Circle
TTh 1-2:50
Nora F. Crow |
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Eng 265 The Victorian Novel
MW 2:40-4
Margaret Bruzelius |
Eng277 Postcolonial Women Writers
MW 1:10-2:30
Ambreen Hai |
Eng 279 American Women Poets
MWF 1:10-2:30
Susan Van Dyne |
Eng 282 The Harlem Renaissance
MW 1:10-2:30
Daphne Lamothe |
Eng 284 Victorian Sexualities
TTh 10:30-11:50
Cornelia Pearsall |
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| 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 15, 2008 deadline for Fall 2008 writing courses. |
Eng 290 Crafting Creative Nonfiction
Th 3-4:50
Hilton Als |
Eng 292 Crafting the Memoir
Th 1-2:50
Ann Boutelle |
Eng 295 Advanced Poetry Writing
T 1:00-2:50
Nikky Finney |
Eng 296 Writing Short Stories
T 3-4:50
Sue Miller
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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 7:30-9:30
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 333 Stoppard and Bennett
Th 7:30-9:30
Jefferson Hunter |
Eng 333 Evelyn Waugh
TTh 3-4:50
Douglas Patey |
Eng 353 Unnatural Shakespeare: The Eerie and the Strange
Th 1:00-2:50
Gillian Kendall
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Eng 382 Hemingway and His Heirs
T 3-4:50
Dean Flower
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In 2008-09 the following courses can be used to satisfy Major Requirement #2:
English 200, 202, 203, 211, 231, 238, 250, 255, 256, 257, 259, 260, 263, 270, 350, 353, and 362.
118 - Mixing Memory and Desire - Melissa Bagg
118 - Riding the Wave - Julio Alves
120 - Literature of the Fantastic - Gillian Kendall
120 - Fiction - Eric Reeves
120 - Mysteries and Investigations - Nancy Bradbury
120 - Contemporary Coming of Age Stories - Dean Flower
170 - The English Language - Doug Patey
199 - Methods of Literary Study - M. Gorra, F. Cheung, R. Millington
201 - English Literary Tradition II - Cornelia Pearsall, Luc Gilleman
203 - Chrétien de Troyes to Tolstoy- Maria Banerjee
205 - Telling and Retelling - Patricia Skarda
207 - The Technology of Reading and Writing - Doug Patey
216 - Intermediate Poetry Writing - Ellen Watson
218 - Norse Poetry and Prose - Craig Davis
230 - American Jewish Literature - Justin Cammy
233 - American Literature 1865-1914 - Dean Flower
235 - Modern American Writing - Michael Thurston
240 - Modern British and American Drama - Luc Gilleman
244 - The Novel Now - Michael Gorra
253 - Authority and Legitimacy in the Age of More and Shakespeare - William Oram
255 - Seventeenth-Century Poetry - Gillian Kendall
257 - Shakespeare - Eric Reeves, William Oram
260 - Milton - Sharon Seelig
270 - The King James Bible and Its Literary Heritage - Patricia Skarka
275 - Reading and Rereading the American Puritans - Michael Thurston
276 - Contemporary British Women Writers - Robert Hosmer
2xx - Victorians and the Environment - Cornelia Pearsall
285 - Intro to Contemporary Literary Theory - Ambreen Hai
295 - Advanced Poetry Writing - Nikky Finney
296 - Writing Short Stories - Sue Miller
PRS 306 -
Beowulf and Archaeology - Craig Davis
310 -
Early Modern Women - Sharon Seelig
333 - Seminar: Virginia Woolf - Robert Hosmer
350 - Literature, Folklore and Fakelore - Nancy Bradbury
384 - Writing About American Society - Hilton Als
Past course descriptions for Spring 2006, Fall 2005 Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, and Fall 2001 are available. |
