Course Offerings

Curriculum for Spring 2006
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 Riding the Wave: The Women's Movement, 1968-79
MW 2:40-4:00
Julio Alves
Colloq: Eng 118 Languge, Culture, Community or "Lost in Translation"
TTh 9:00-10:20
Catherine Reid

Colloq: Eng 120 Fiction

MW 9-10:20

Eric Reeves

Colloq: Eng 120 Reading & Writing Short Stories

MW 1:10-2:30
Sara London

Colloq: Eng 120 Reading & Writing Short Poems

TTh 9-10:20

Ann Boutelle

Colloq: Eng 120 Representing the Caribbean

MW  1:10-2:30

Ambreen Hai

Colloq: Eng 120 Ghost Stories

TTh 10:30-11:50

Dean Flower

Colloq: Eng 120 Uses of Storytelling

MWF  10-10:50

Nancy Bradbury

Eng 170 The English Language

MWF 1:10-2:30

Douglas Patey

Eng 199 Methods of Literary Study
MW 1:10-2:30
Nancy Bradbury
TTh 9-10:20
Michael Thurston
MW 2:40-4:00
Elizabeth Harries 

TTh 1-2:50

Patricia Skarda

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

TTh 1-2:20

Nora Crow

Eng (GLT) 203 Chrétien de Troyes to Tolstoy

MW 1:10-2:30

Robert Hosmer

Eng 205 Telling and Retelling

TTh 10:30-11:50

Patricia Skarda


Eng 208 Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction?

MWF 10-10:50

William Oram

Eng 227 - Modern British Fiction

TTh 1-2:20

Michael Gorra

Eng 228 Children's Literature

TTh 9-10:20

Gillian Kendall

Eng  (JUD) 230 The Jewish Writer in America

MW 1:10-2:30

Justin Cammy

Eng 233 Am. Lit. from 1865 to 1914

MW 1-2:30

Dean Flower

Eng  (AAS) 236 Twentieth Century Afro-Am. Lit.

MW 9-10:20

Daniel McClure

Eng 240 Modern British & American Drama

TTh 3-4:50

Luc Gilleman

Eng  (FLS) 241 Screen Comedy

WF 11-12:10

Jefferson Hunter

 
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 257 Shakespeare

MWF 11-12:10                          TTh 10:30-11:50

William Oram                           Gillian Kendall

Eng 259 Pope, Swift, and Their Circle
TTh 10:30-11:50
Nora Crow

Eng 260 Milton

MW 1:10-2:30

Eric Reeves


Eng 269 Modern British Poetry

TTh 1:00-2:50

Michael Thurston

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 23, 2006. Students will be notified prior to the first class meeting. Acceptences will be posted in the English Department office by January 30, 2006.

Eng 290 Crafting Creative Nonfiction

Th 3:00-4:50

Sara London

Eng 292 Reading and Writing Autobiography

T 1:00-2:50

Ann Boutelle

Eng 295 Poetry Writing
M 7:30-9:30 
Daisy Fried

Eng 296 Writing Short Stories

T 1:00-2:50

Lê Thi Diem Thúy

Level IV: Courses Numbered 300-349 and 384
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 (AMS) 384 Writing About American Society

Th 1:00-2:50

George Colt



 
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 333 Muriel Spark

T 1:00-2:50

Robert Hosmer

Eng 333 Jane Austen

Th 1:00-2:50

Douglas Patey

Eng 333 T.S. Eliot

T 3:00-4:50

Jefferson Hunter

Eng 391 Modern South Asian Writers

Th 3:00-4:50

Ambreen Hai

Level VI:  Graduate/Seniors  
   

 

 


Past course descriptions for Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Spring 2005 , Fall 2005 are available. 

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