Upper Division Courses
IND-307.01 London: Art, Architecture, Literature 2.0 cr.
Fall. This course is a prerequisite for the winter session off-campus study course IND307.02 of the same name. This course, together with it's companion course IND 307.02, will count toward fulfillig the following general graduation requirements: FINE ARTS and/or HUMANITIES and/or CULTURAL DIVERSITY.
IND-307.02 London: Art, Architecture, Literature 4.0 cr.
Winter. An on-site, interdisciplinary study of the history, art, architecture, literature, and culture of 19th and 20th-century London as reflected in the literature, memoirs, art, periodicals, and other public documents of the day. The course will consider the central place of London as an imperial metropole and its continuing existence as a city operating at the center of an emerging modern world leisure economy. The central three weeks of the course will be conducted in London. This course, together with it's companion course IND 307.01, will count toward the following general graduation requirements: FINE ARTS and/or HUMANITIES and/or CULTURAL DIVERSITY.
Note: Three and four hundred level English courses are designed for junior and senior English majors and minors. All other students who are interested in taking an upper-level English course should speak with the professor teaching the course before enrolling.
ENG-301 Advanced Writing 3.0 cr.
Prereq: ENG-101 or WRI-150 and junior standing. The study of modern forms of writing; course requires weekly writing assignments, totaling 50 to 60 pages of original work by the end of the term and develops lifetime writing skills. The course emphasizes writing as process and focuses extensively on revision.
ENG-307 Seminar: Origins & Traditions of English Literature 3.0 cr.
Prereq: ENG-101, WRI-150 or permission. A survey of landmark poetry and prose from the Anglo-Saxon Era to the Enlightenment, with special emphasis on how the assumptions, concerns, and techniques of these texts came to be seen as the kernel of a coherent national literary tradition. This course does not fulfill the Liberal Arts Core requirement in literature.
ENG-308 Seminar: Origins & Traditions of the Literature of the United States 3.0 cr.
Fall or spring. Prereq: ENG-101, or WRI-150 or permission. This course features a range of "literature," including transcribed Native American oral stories, colonial promotional tracts, sermons, speeches, captivity narratives, political pamphlets, personal letters, and slave narratives. The class will explore personal and cultural issues that concerned early Americans, and discuss how texts both define and complicate some of the terms associated with this period, including "Puritan," "Enlightenment," "Transcendental," "liberty," and even "American." This course does not fulfill the Liberal Arts Core requirement in literature.
ENG-309 Seminar: Constructing World Literatures 3.0 cr.
Fall or spring. Prereq: ENG-101 or WRI-150 or permission. In order to see the picture, one must step out of the frame. In this course, students will step out of their own cultural frames by studying how and why genres, politics, trade/war, religion (and also how we ourselves) construct global culture and identity. The texts will provide not only vicarious experiences of lands and cultures but will also reflect the dialogic nature of specific cultural and cross-cultural literary traditions. Possible traditions covered may include those of the Ancient Near East, the Ottoman Empire, the Subcontinent, Mogul and Persian poetry, Greco-Roman culture, North Africa, Native America, and the Caribbean-African-Asian heritage. (CULTURAL DIVERSITY)
ENG-318 Poetry Writing Workshop II 3.0 cr.
Spring. Prereq: ENG-218 or permission. An opportunity for students to continue reading and writing poetry. Students are expected to demonstrate continued development as writers and to submit work for publication.
ENG-319 Fiction Writing Workshop II 3.0 cr.
Spring. Prereq: Permission. A continuation of ENG-219, intended primarily for students who have already taken that course. Students are expected to show evidence of continuing development as writers and to submit their work for publication.
ENG-320 Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop II 3.0 cr.
Spring. Prereq: Permission. A continuation of ENG-220 intended primarily for students who have already taken that course. Students are expected to show evidence of continuing development as natural history writers and to submit their work for publication.
ENG-325 Introduction to Literary Theory & Criticism 3.0 cr.
Fall or spring. Prereq: WRI-150 or permission. This course introduces the principal theoretical traditions that inform advanced literary study. Students will evaluate the major figures, schools, and concepts of literary theory and criticism through intensive reading and application. This course does not fulfill the Liberal Arts Core requirement in literature.
ENG-326.3 Author Seminar: Naipaul & Rushdie 3.0 cr.
Fall. V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie describe themselves as marooned men caught between imaginary homelands, and as such, Naipaul and Rushdie reside in between cultures, languages, and religions. In this course, we will vicariously travel with Naipaul and Rushdie as they navigate between the "real" worlds of Trinidad, East Africa, London, India, Pakistan, and New York, and the "imaginary" worlds of brutal colonization, partitions of countries, and the ghostly lyrics of "native" poetry. We will examine how these authors ultimately turn to writing as a way to record and to grapple with the cruelties of history. Possible books assigned: A Way in the World, Letters between Father and Son, The Enigma of Arrival, Shame, Midnight's Children, and The Moor's Last Sigh.
ENG-368 The Prison Experience 6.0 cr.
(Same as SOC-368) Winter. Prereq: Permission. An opportunity to learn firsthand about prisons and prison life as students read prison-related texts in sociology and literature and as they write in response to what they read and what they see at local correctional institutions. Authors will include Jimmy Santiago Baca, Jerome Washington, Malcom X, and Agnes Smedley. (HUMANITIES and 3 CREDITS SOCIAL SCIENCES)
ENG-380.1 Seminar: World Dramatic Literature 3.0 cr.
Prereq.: WRI-150 or permission. A study of selected plays of significant periods and movements of world drama from Greek tragedy to Japanese Noh and Indian, African theatre to Theatre of the Absurd.
ENG-380.2 Seminar: 19th Century English Literature 3.0 cr.
Prereq.: WRI-150 or permission. A study of English poetry and prose from the emergence of Romanticism in the 1790's to the beginning of the 20th century. Authors may include Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Eliot, Dickens, and Hardy.
ENG-380.4 Seminar: The American Renaissance 3.0 cr.
Prereq.: WRI-150 or permission. This course explores the literary movement that scholars have designated as crucial to the development of a truly "American" literature, focusing roughly on the years 1836 to 1865. In addition to studying canonical authors, students will explore those writers who worked, in the words of one recent critic, "beneath" the American renaissance, focusing on issues of concern to women, Native Americans, and African Americans. Authors will include Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Whitman, and Lydia Maria Child.
ENG-380.5 Seminar: Narratives Against Opression 3.0 cr.
Prereq.: WRI-150 or permission. Students will examine how authors from around the world have used literature as a way to comment upon, to protest, or to record various forms of oppression ranging from dictatorial regimes to cultural divisiveness to colonization and occupation. Such literatures are written in order to inspire people to know the world in which they live, and to that end, the course will also deal with contemporary politics and world affairs. Authors studied may include Edwidge Danticut (The Farming of Bones, Haiti), Manil Suri (Death of Vishnu, India), Edward Said (Out of Place, occupied Palestine), Matthew Kneale (The English Passengers, Tasmania/Australia), V.S. Naipaul (A Way in the World, Trinidad and South America). Videos will include Rabbit-Proof Fence (movie), Palestine is Still the Issue (documentary), and The Soul of India (documentary). (CULTURAL DIVERSITY)
ENG-380.6 Seminar: The Arthurian Tradition 3.0 cr.
Fall. Prereq.: WRI-150 or permission. This course will trace the evolution of Arthurian literature from its first flowering in 12th-century European court culture, to its influential gathering and retelling in Thomas Malory’s LeMorte D’Arthur, to its persistent presence in modern literature and culture. Along the way we’ll ask what Arthurian literature tells us about medieval conceptions of heroism, aspiration, hierarchy, and failure, and about why a cultural product so quintessentially "medieval" continues to fascinate modern writers. Authors may include Chretien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Thomas Malory, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, and Walker Percy.
ENG-380.7 Seminar: 20th Century Literature of the British Isles 3.0 cr.
Fall or Spring. Alt. years. Prereq.: ENG-101 or WRI-150 or permission. A survey of prominent texts of the twenty-first century. Authors studied may include, but are not limited to, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Beckett, Heaney, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan, and Ali Smith.
ENG-380.8 Seminar: Postcolonial Authors 3.0 cr.
Prereq.: permission. Intensive study of Salman Rushdie's and V.S. Naipaul's works, and their shaping of postcolonial and third-world cultural studies. For additional context, other postcolonial authors may be examined. (CULTURAL DIVERSITY)
ENG-380.9 Seminar: Drama of Early Modern Europe 3.0 cr.
Prereq.: WRI-150 or permission. This course explores the flowering of professional and literary theater in Europe between 1500-1700, focusing on the four prominent centers of early modern theatrical activity: northern Italy in the 16th century, Elizabethan and Jacobean London, Golden Age Spain, and 17th century France. The course will combine literary analysis with attention to the material, social, and political conditions of playing in these four centers, hoping to understand what they shared as participants in a larger European theatrical culture, and how their specific situations help account for their unique theatrical and literary achievements.
ENG/MFL/EDU-446 Linguistics for Language Teachers 3.0 cr.
Spring. Alt. years. Prereq: Junior or senior standing. A study of the central concepts of linguistic theory. Includes the theoretical areas of pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology; and the applied areas of language variation, first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and written language. Students will acquire the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as an essential tool for disciplined examination of linguistic phenomena. Issues of socio-linguistics will be addressed as students wrestle with the relationship between language, thought, and culture, and the nature of the cognitive and brain systems that relate to language learning, language teaching and language use.
ENG-494 Independent Study 1.0 to 3.0 cr.
Fall, winter, spring. Prereq: Permission. Research project on selected topics. See independent study guidelines. (INDEPENDENT WORK)
ENG-496 Creative Writing Capstone Seminar 3.0 cr.
Spring. Prereq: Senior standing and completion of lower-division poetry, fiction, and/or nature writing course. A cross-genre course for Creative Writing majors, in which students will propose and work on independent projects. Creative writers will begin to approach writing and their works as professionals--i.e., thinking long-term beyond the classroom, and considering marketing their works (scouring journals and framing rejection letters!). In addition to writing intensively, students will help design the reading list, contextualize their works/writing styles within a literary tradition/genre, and create a community of writers. (INDEPENDENT WORK)
ENG-497 Internship 1.0 to 3.0 cr.
Fall, winter spring. Prereq: Permission. Individually arranged internship designed to provide practical editorial and writing experience. An extended analysis of the experience is required and periodic reports may be assigned. See internship guidelines. (INDEPENDENT WORK)
ENG-498 Senior Thesis Seminar in Literature 3.0 cr.
Spring. A capstone course for senior literature majors designed to help students move toward post-college study. Students will propose, research, write, and revise a senior thesis for formal presentation. In addition, students will research and compose an individualized reading list based on their interests and post-graduate plans. Lists may focus on American, British, or world literature, graduate record exam preparation, or literature ancillary to secondary education teaching. (INDEPENDENT WORK)