| 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 100 Banned in the USA
W 7:30-9:30
Michael
Thurston, Richard Millington, Dean Flower |
Eng 112 Reading
Contemporary Poetry
T 7:30-9:30
Ellen Watson |
Colloq: Eng 118 The Politics of Literature
MW 8:30-9:50
Holly
Davis |
Colloq: Eng 118 American Identities
TTh 9:00-10:20
Julio
Alves |
Colloq: Eng 120 Fiction
TTH 1:00-2:20
Beth
Kissileff |
Colloq: Eng 120 Reading
and Writing Short Poems
TTh 9:00-10:20
Ann Boutelle |
Colloq: Eng 120 Reading the Landscape
TTh 10:30-11:50
Dean
Flower |
Colloq: Eng 120 Reading
and Writing Short Stories
MW 1:10-2:30
Sara London |
|
Eng 199 Methods of Literary
Study
| MW 1:10-2:30
Jefferson Hunter |
TTh 9:00-10:20
Michael Gorra |
TTh 3:00-4:20
Richard
Millington |
|
| 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 201 The
English Literary Tradition II
TTh 9:00-10:20
Luc
Gilleman |
TTh 1:00-2:20
Nora
F. Crow |
|
Eng 207 The Technology
of Reading and Writing
TTh 9:00-10:20
Eric Reeves |
Eng
208b SF: Sience Fiction? Speculative
Fiction?
MWF
9:00-9:50
William
Orm |
Eng
212 Telling and Retelling
TTh
10:30-11:50
Patricia
L. Skarda |
Eng
213 Introduction to Shakespeare
MWF 9:00-9:50
William Oram
|
Eng 233 American
Literature, 1865-1914
T Th
1:00-2:20
Michael Thurston |
Eng 239 American
Journeys
T Th 10:30-11:50
Richard Millington |
|
| 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 252 16th Century
Literature
MWF 11:00-12:10
William Oram |
Eng 259 Pope, Swift,
and their Circle
T Th 10:30-11:50
Nora Crow |
Eng 271 Joyce
MWF 11:00-12:10
Jefferson
Hunter |
Eng 272 Recent
British Literature
MWF 11:00-12:10
Robert Hosmer |
Eng 285 Intro to
Contemporary Literary Theory
MW
1:10-2:30
Ambreen Hai |
CLT 255: Studies
in the Nineteenth Century Short Story
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 292 Reading
and Writing Autobiography
T
1:00-2:50
Ann Boutelle |
Eng 295 Writing
Poetry
T 1:00-2:50
Henri Cole |
Eng 297 Writing Short Stories
T 3:00-4:50
Douglas
Bauer |
Eng 341 Advanced
Poetry Writing
M 7:30-9:30
Henri Cole |
| 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
MWF 10:00-10:50
Craig
Davis |
Eng 307 Shakespeare
MWF 9:00-9:50
Harold
Skulsky |
MWF 10:00-10:50
Sharon Seelig |
|
Eng 308 Milton
MWF 11:00-12:10
Harold
Skulsky |
Eng 310 Early Modern
Women Writers
MW 1:10-2:30
Sharon Seelig |
Eng 330 Studies
in 20th-Century Literature: Aesthetics and Politics in Postwar
Britain
TTh 1:00-2:20; mandatory
screenings, Th 7:30-930
Luc Gilleman |
Eng 336 Mystery,
Cinema, Narrativity
MW 1:10-2:30
Dean Flower |
(UMass) GER 365: Scandinavian
Mythology
TTh 11:15-12:30
Craig Davis |
|
| 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 353 Advanced
Studies in Shakespeare
T 1:00-2:50
Eric Reeves |
Eng 374 Virginia
Woolf
T 1:00-2:50
Robert Hosmer |
Eng 391 Modern
South Asian Writers in English
Th
3:00-4:50
Ambreen Hai |
ENG 400 Virginia
Woolf in the Real World
Th 1:00-2:50
Robert Hosmer |
Eng 490 The Teaching of Literature
M 7:00-9:00pm
Sam
Scheer |
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