Course Offerings

Curriculum for Spring 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 Languge, Culture, Community or "Lost in Translation
TTh 9:00-10:20
Catherine Reid

Colloq: Eng 120 Fiction

TTh 1-2:30

Sara London

Colloq: Eng 120 Reading & Writing Short Stories

MW 1:10-2:30
Sara London

Colloq: Eng 120 Reading & Writing Short Poems

MW 9-10:20

Ann Boutelle

Colloq: Eng 120 Celtic Worlds

TTh 10:30-11:50

Craig Davis

Colloq: Eng 120 Literary Approaches to the Bible

TTh 1-2:20

Beth Kissileff

Eng 199 Methods of Literary Study
MW 11-12:10
William Oram
TTh 1-2:20
Patricia Skarda
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 10:30-11:50

Luc Gilleman

MW 11-12:20

Cornelia Pearsall

Eng 205 Telling and Retelling

TTh 10:30-11:50

Patricia Skarda

Eng 209 Explorations in Science and Literature

TTh 1-2:50

Carol Christ and Marjorie Senechal



Eng 213 Introduction to Shakespeare

MWF 9-9:50

William Oram

Eng 218 Norse Poetry and Prose

MWF 10-10:50

Craig Davis

Eng 221 Reading the Landscape

TTh 9-10:20

Dean Flower

Eng 237 Recent American Writing

MW 2:40-4

Dean Flower

Eng 239 American Journeys

TTh 1-2:20

Richard Millington

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 254 English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare

TTh 1-2:20

Gillian Kendall

Eng 255 17th Century Poetry

TTh 9-10:20

Gillian Kendall



Eng 257 Shakespeare

TTh 10:30-11:50

Sharon Seelig

Eng 260 Milton

MWF 10-10:50

Sharon Seelig

Eng 267 Introduction to Asian American Literature

TTh 1-2:20

Floyd Cheung


Eng 283 Victorian Medievalism

MW 1:10-2:30

Nancy Bradbury

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.  Deadline for submissions is January 18, 2005. Students will be notified prior to the first class meeting. Acceptences will be posted in the English Department office by January 24, 2005.

Eng 292 Reading and Writing Autobiography

T 1-2:50

Ann Boutelle

Eng 295 Poetry Writing
W 7-10 p.m.
Eleanor Wilner

Eng 296 Writing Short Stories
M 7:30-9:30 
Douglas Bauer


Eng 382 Advanced Short Story Writing

T 1-2:50

Douglas Bauer

Ams/Eng 384 Writing about American Society

Th 1-2:50

George Colt

 
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.
    

 
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 obtain a questionnaire available at the English department office (Pierce Hall 105) and submit it by the last day of the pre-registration period.  The instructor will select the students admitted from these applicants.

Eng 330 20th Century Literature Postwar British Culture

T 3-4:50

Film Th 7:30-9:30

Luc Gilleman

Eng 333 Major British or American Writer

Topic: Henry James

T 3-4:50

Michael Gorra

Eng 350 Literature, Folklore and Fakelore
Th 3:00-4:50
Nancy Mason Bradbury

 

Level VI:  Graduate/Seniors  

Eng 490 Teaching Literature

M 7-9 p.m.

Samuel Scheer

 

 

 


Past course descriptions for Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, and Fall 2004 are available. 

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