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Course Schedule for ENGLISH - Spring 2010
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
6967 AMST-409-01 Ralph Ellison&American Modern 1.00 SEM Maier,Brennan W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  This seminar examines the writings of Ralph Ellison, one of the most exciting novelists and thinkers of the 20th century. Attending closely to Ellison's fiction and non-fiction, students will attain the sort of familiarity with Ellison that can only come from detailed study of his work. Using Ellison as a point of entry, we will focus on American modernism as expressed in the New York City skyline, the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, the poetry of T.S. Eliot, and the collages of Romare Bearden. In so doing, we will examine the function of culture, the relationship between culture and identity, and just what it means to be modern in America.
7184 CTYP-208-01 Writing the Global City 1.00 LEC Chander,Manu S. TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  This course will examine imaginative representations of urban life in the modern world. We will consider a range of cultural settings—from Dublin to Beirut, Bombay to Manila, and beyond—and such thematic issues as migration and multiculturalism, globalization and empire. How have urban spaces been imagined and re-imagined by authors and artists across the globe? How does the city function as a site of cultural exchange? In what ways does the city reflect broader, global issues, and how does world politics shape everyday life in the city? In addition to literary works by Jessica Hagedorn, V.S. Naipaul, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and others, we will look at the work of such visual artists as Chris Ofili and Shahzia Sikander, and cinematic texts such as Persepolis (2007) and The Harder They Come (1972).
5959 ENGL-101-01 Writing 1.00 LEC Peltier,Robert F. MW: 2:40PM- 3:55PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills.
7039 ENGL-103-02 Spec Topic: Analytical Writing 1.00 LEC Butos,Cynthia L. TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: Seats are reserved for 7 Sophomores and 8 First-Year Students.
  This writing workshop is designed for students who would like to improve their ability to read texts in many disciplines actively and critically and to write strong, thoughtful analytical papers. Students will focus on developing strategies for discovering meaning, identifying analytical elements, and evaluating claims and evidence. Writing assignments will allow students to practice these strategies by writing critical analyses and responses to texts, current events, lectures, and films.
6281 ENGL-202-01 Expository Writing Wksp 1.00 LEC Butos,Cynthia L. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: Seats are reserved for 4 Juniors, 4 Sophomores and 4 First-Year students.
  This intermediate workshop is designed for students who have achieved mastery in introductory-level college writing and who want to refine their writing abilities. Students will focus on developing stylistic strategies and techniques when writing for numerous purposes and audiences. Students will choose from these writing forms: interview, travel article, op-ed piece, memoir, sports article, criticism, humor, and science and technology article.
4443 ENGL-204-01 Intro Amer Literature-I 1.00 LEC Lauter,Paul TR: 2:55PM- 4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 50
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  A survey of literature, written and oral, produced in what is now the United States from the earliest times to around the Civil War. We will examine relationships among cultural and intellectual developments and the politics, economics, and societies of North America. Authors to be read include some that are well known—such as Emerson, Melville, Dickinson—and some who are less familiar—such as Cabeca de Vaca, John Rollin Ridge, and Harriet Jacobs. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
4395 ENGL-211-01 English Lit 1700-Present 1.00 LEC Kuyk Jr.,Dirk A. MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 50
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  Through readings in novels, drama, poetry, and prose from the Restoration to the 20th century, this course will examine shifts in the forms, functions, and meanings of English literature in the context of cultural and historical changes. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
7040 ENGL-217-01 Intro African Amer Lit 1.00 LEC Hager,Christopher
Paulin,Diana R.		 MW: 1:15PM- 2:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 50
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  This course surveys African American literature in a variety of genres from the 18th century to the present. Through the study of texts by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and others, we will explore the ways these writers have represented and influenced the history of people of African descent in the United States, from slavery and abolition to Jim-Crow segregation and struggles for civil rights; how their work has intervened in the construction of race and imagined the black diaspora; and how their innovations in literary form have engaged with continuing political questions of nation, gender, sexuality, and class. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contexts.
5879 ENGL-235-01 Global Short Fiction 1.00 LEC Ndibe,Okey TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
  This course will introduce students to a cast of writers from a variety of backgrounds who have used the form of the short story to project dramatic experiences and convey sometimes unique cultural ethos. In addition to examining thematic concerns and stylistic choices, we will explore how different writers have adapted the conventions of the short story and incorporated elements of other traditions to suit their narrative purpose. We will read some North American and European writers, but the emphasis will fall on writers from traditionally underrepresented parts of the world. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contexts.
4397 ENGL-260-01 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 LEC Peterson,Erin E. MW: 2:40PM- 3:55PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors. This course may be used to fulfill the Literature and Psychology minor requirements.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 20. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list for his/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting to consult with the instructor.
  This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques of close reading. The course will show students how to apply this critical vocabulary to a wide range of literary genres from different historical periods, and to develop the writing and research skills necessary for composing clear and compelling arguments in the interpretation of a text. Note: This course is required of all English majors. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.
4399 ENGL-260-02 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 LEC Brylowe,Thora P. TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors. This course may be used to fulfill the Literature and Psychology minor requirements.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 20. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list for his/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting ot consult with the instructor.
  This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques of close reading. The course will show students how to apply this critical vocabulary to a wide range of literary genres from different historical periods, and to develop the writing and research skills necessary for composing clear and compelling arguments in the interpretation of a text. Note: This course is required of all English majors. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.
5637 ENGL-260-03 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 LEC Chander,Manu S. TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors. This course may be used to fulfill the Literature and Psychology minor requirements.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 20. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list for his/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting ot consult with the instructor.
  This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques of close reading. The course will show students how to apply this critical vocabulary to a wide range of literary genres from different historical periods, and to develop the writing and research skills necessary for composing clear and compelling arguments in the interpretation of a text. Note: This course is required of all English majors. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.
6125 ENGL-260-04 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 LEC Peltier,Robert F. MW: 1:15PM- 2:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors. This course may be used to fulfill the Literature and Psychology minor requirements.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 20. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list fo rhis/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting ot consult with the instructor.
  This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques of close reading. The course will show students how to apply this critical vocabulary to a wide range of literary genres from different historical periods, and to develop the writing and research skills necessary for composing clear and compelling arguments in the interpretation of a text. Note: This course is required of all English majors. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.
7108 ENGL-268-01 Filmmking Pract for Film Read 1.00 SEM Brink,Robert F: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: This course fulfills requirements toward the film studies minor. For English majors, this course fulfills the requirement of a literary theory course.
  This course focuses on close, specific analysis of only four films during a semester, in terms of filmmaking practice. Learn practical cinematography issues such as lens choice, camera position, motivated movement, and lighting; learn the theory and practice of film sound; learn the practical elements of the continuity system and other systems of organizing time and space on screen. The limited filmography for this course will consist of one classical Hollywood sound film, two international features which push the boundaries of the continuity system, and one contemporary movie. Class will consist of lectures with film clips, demonstrations, and discussion. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course.
5589 ENGL-270-01 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 LEC Ndibe,Okey TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 15. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list for his/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting to consult with the instructor.
  NOTE: Beginning with the Class of 2009, this is a required course for Creative Writing majors.
  An introduction to imaginative writing, concentrating on the mastery of language and creative expression in more than one genre. Discussion of work by students and established writers. Beginning with the class of 2009, this is a required course for creative writing majors. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
6669 ENGL-270-02 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 LEC Berry,Ciaran M. MW: 8:30AM- 9:45AM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 15. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list for his/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting to consult with the instructor.
  NOTE: Beginning with the Class of 2009, this is a required course for Creative Writing majors.
  An introduction to imaginative writing, concentrating on the mastery of language and creative expression in more than one genre. Discussion of work by students and established writers. Beginning with the class of 2009, this is a required course for creative writing majors. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
5933 ENGL-270-03 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 LEC Cullity,Jocelyn TR: 2:55PM- 4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  NOTE: This course has an enrollment limit of 15. The instructor of this course does not keep a waiting list for his/her individual section because registration for this course is handled entirely online. If the course is filled, please either check back online throughout the Add/Drop period to see if space should become available or come to the first class meeting to consult with the instructor.
  NOTE: Beginning with the Class of 2009, this is a required course for Creative Writing majors.
  An introduction to imaginative writing, concentrating on the mastery of language and creative expression in more than one genre. Discussion of work by students and established writers. Beginning with the class of 2009, this is a required course for creative writing majors. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
7107 ENGL-297-01 Writing the Public Sphere 1.00 SEM Papoulis,Irene MW: 2:40PM- 3:55PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  This course will examine the way written language works in the public sphere. Students will read and write about the following sorts of questions: In what ways can writing best promote public dialogue and deliberation? How is the digital landscape changing our conception of writing? Is the opinion essay as a form dying? As books evolve, what happens to the habits of contemplation and reflection fostered by the sustained, quiet reading of traditional texts? How do the changing ways that people acquire news affect the process by which public opinion is formed? In addition to a focus on theories of the public sphere, the class will also be a workshop for student writing. Students will write, revise, and engage with classmates’ writing in various genres aimed at asserting their views on public issues, from traditional essays and op-eds to blogs and multimedia forms.
7163 ENGL-326-01 Representation of Miscegenatn 1.00 LEC Paulin,Diana R. M: 5:30PM- 8:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 20
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural content, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  The course examines the notion of miscegenation (interracial relations), including how the term was coined and defined. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will consider the different and conflicting ways that interracial relations have been represented, historically and contemporaneously, as well as the implications of those varied representations. Examining both primary and secondary texts, including fiction, film, legal cases, historical criticism, and drama, we will explore how instances of interracial contact both threaten and expand formulations of race and “Americanness” in the U.S. and beyond. How is miscegenation emblematic of other issues invoked, such as gender, nation, and sexuality? How do enactments of interracial contact complicate the subjects that they “stage”?
6285 ENGL-327-01 Rdg & Wrtng Women's Fiction 1.00 LEC Bilston,Sarah R. TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course counts as an elective.
  This is both a course on literary interpretation and an opportunity for creative fiction writing. We will read a series of women’s texts, from Jane Austen onwards, as literary critics and as practitioners, thinking about themes, trends, preoccupations, and the practical application of technical excellences. For English majors, this course counts as an elective.
7042 ENGL-332-01 Short Story Masterpieces 1.00 LEC Cullity,Jocelyn TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  In this course we examine the resilient form of the short story through a wide selection of both classic and contemporary writers. To list just some examples, we'll read work by Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, Faulkner, Hemingway, Borges, Welty, Cheever, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, and Ha Jin. Our main text is The Art of the Short Story (Dana Gioia and R.S. Gwynn). We'll perform close textual readings, use various critical approaches and literary terms, and set the stories in the context of their historical periods and literary traditions. What is also important in this course is that we view the works from the authors' perspectives, and learn to read like a writer through the analysis of some of the basic elements of short fiction. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
7112 ENGL-333-02 Creative Nonfiction 1.00 SEM Papoulis,Irene MW: 1:15PM- 2:30PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  Prerequisite: C- or better in ENGL 270 or Permission of Instructor
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective, for writing and rhetoric minors, it counts as a core course.
  Creative nonfiction, sometimes called “the fourth genre,” has had a resurgence in recent decades. It is “nonfiction” in that the writer strives to be clear about what really happened, and to be honest about expression of opinion, imagination, or autobiographical narrative. It is “creative” in that its writers consciously create art: they are attentive to craft, to language, and to the movement of narrative structures. This class is a writing workshop in which students will produce a series of creative nonfiction essays. We will read various published authors with an eye to how their work is constructed, but our primary focus will be on students’ writing. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective, for writing and rhetoric minors, it counts as a core course.
4401 ENGL-334-01 Adv Cr Writing:Fiction 1.00 LEC Ferriss,Lucy W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors.
  Students will write and rewrite fiction. The class is run as a workshop, and discussions are devoted to analysis of student work and that of professional writers. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers. This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors.
5591 ENGL-336-01 Adv Cr Writing:Poetry 1.00 LEC Berry,Ciaran M. W: 1:15PM- 3:55PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  Students will do in-class exercises, and write and revise their own poems. The class is run as a workshop, and discussions are devoted to analysis of student work and that of professional writers. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers. This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors.
7044 ENGL-343-01 Women and Empire 1.00 LEC Bilston,Sarah R. TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  This course examines women's involvement in British imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. What part did ideologies of femininity play in pro-imperialist discourse? In what ways did women writers attempt to “feminize” the imperialist project? What was the relationship between the emerging feminist movement and imperialism at the turn of the 20th century? How have women writers in both centuries resisted imperialist axiomatics? How do women authors from once colonized countries write about the past? How are post-colonial women represented by contemporary writers? Authors to be studied include Charlotte Brontë, Flora Annie Steel, Rudyard Kipling, Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Alexander McCall Smith. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
7045 ENGL-346-01 Dream Vision and Romance 1.00 LEC Fisher,Sheila M. TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
  A study of two major medieval genres as they are developed in the works of Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-poet, and Malory. The course will explore the structural and stylistic as well as the political, social, and psychological issues raised by these genres and the individual authors' treatments of them. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
7046 ENGL-352-01 Shakespeare: Tragedy and Hist. 1.00 LEC Brylowe,Thora P. TR: 2:55PM- 4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literatue written before 1800.
  Shakespeare's tragedies and British histories are plays fraught with bloody political violence, desperate soul searching, and the unyielding weight of human suffering. The course builds a narrative about the shaping of modern subjectivity as influenced by Protestantism, literacy, and early modern English politics. We will supplement careful textual analysis with critical secondary readings, and we will pay special attention to the ways in which Shakespeare used and manipulated the conventions of genre.
7047 ENGL-356-01 Milton 1.00 LEC Peterson,Erin E. MW: 1:15PM- 2:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  Prerequisite: C- or better in English 260.
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
  In this course, we will consider the works of John Milton, with attention to how his prose and poetry synthesizes long-standing intellectual and literary traditions and grapples with issues that still engage us today: the relation of men and women, the realities of loss and mortality, the concept of significant individual choice, and the power and limitations of language as the tool with which we forge an understanding of the world. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
7048 ENGL-366-01 Dickens/Chaplin 1.00 LEC Younger,James Prakash MW: 2:40PM- 3:55PM
M: 6:30PM- 9:30PM		 TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: This course fulfills requirements toward the film studies minor.
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  This course treats the work of Charles Dickens and Charles Chaplin from a critical perspective that recognizes their remarkable similarities. Charles Dickens was undoubtedly the most popular artist of the 19th century. He worked in the dominant popular form of the period (the novel) and his work was immediately and widely disseminated in both English and via translations. The fictional worlds and characters he created formed a mythology that addressed and made sense of the experiences of early modern life for millions around the world; the adjective "Dickensian" testifies to how familiar his characteristic blend of comedy and melodrama has become. Though working during a different period (the 20th century) and in a different form (film), Charles Chaplin is remarkably analogous to Dickens. Like Dickens, Chaplin was his century's most popular global artis, his work addressed some of the fundamental issues of contemporary social life, and he employed a blend of comedy and melodrama that merited its own adjective ("Chaplinesque"). Looking at the evolution of these two major figures over the course of their careers, this course also provides an introduction to the techniques and themes of popular melodrama and comedy. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
7090 ENGL-369-01 Latino Lit: Rewriting Americas 1.00 LEC Gebelein,Anne C. TR: 1:30PM- 2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 30
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  Latino fiction of the past 15 years has come a long way from civil rights conversations and autobiographical narratives of growing up as “the other.” Latinos in the United States are employing innovative textual and linguistic strategies to imagine and define a new place for themselves in U.S. society and in the Americas. Textual narratives from authors Hector Tobar, Alfredo Vea, Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, Achy Obejas, Coco Fusco, José Rivera, Erika Lopez, Dagoberto Gilb, Demetria Martínez, Salvador Plascencia, et al, will assist us in understanding this new positioning, in tandem with visual narratives from youtube, film, and performance art. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
6189 ENGL-399-01 Independent Study 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  A limited number of individual tutorials in topics not currently offered by the department. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment.
7049 ENGL-408-01 American Realism&Urban Life 1.00 SEM Hager,Christopher W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 7
  NOTE: English 408 and English 808 are the same course. Open to undergraduates with Permission of Instructor. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature or a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
  In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, American cities enjoyed the benefits of explosive economic growth but suffered the consequences of widespread poverty and class polarization. As both literal places and imagined spaces, cities embodied the excitement and opportunity of the "American dream" even as they provoked profound social and cultural anxieties. With immigrants arriving by the million and poor industrial workers living in striking proximity to the capitalists whom industry enriched, American cities were powder kegs of ethnic, racial, and class animosity—and frequently they exploded. During the same period, the school of literature we now call realism flourished, and realist authors wrote novels preoccupied with urban life. In this course, we will consider why rapid urbanization may have provoked literary realism and how literary realism in turn shaped our understanding of the urban center. Reading texts by authors such as Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, John Dos Passos, and Richard Wright, we will examine the ways realist novels represent the covert tensions and outright unrest of the turn-of-the-century American metropolis. We will grapple with questions including: What is the fate of individualism in a crowd? How do developments such as factories, mass transit, department-store shopping, and the expansion of mass media change the ways people think about themselves and their membership in a social class or ethnic group? How does city life shape people's cognition of the world around them and the ways art and culture represent that world? (Note: English 408 and English 808 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature or a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track and an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
7050 ENGL-419-01 Literature and Controversy 1.00 SEM Chander,Manu S. T: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 7
  NOTE: English 419 and English 819 are the same course. Open to undergraduates with Permission of Instructor. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
  The Romantic period witnessed numerous and persistent controversies in the fields of art and politics, from the heated responses to the revolution in France to the often bitter reviews that filled the pages of newspapers and magazines. This seminar examines the culture of "controversialism" in Romantic-era England by attending to particular debates, such as the "Pope controversy" and what Coleridge called "the whole long-continued controversy" over the Lyrical Ballads. In addition to literary texts, we will consider political speeches and critical reactions that reflect the historical context of a Great Britain increasingly divided along lines of cultural identity, ideology, and, importantly, "taste." Why, we will ask, is art such a charged category for Romantics? How do authors reflect and re-imagine reader relations? In what ways have we inherited and challenged Romantic visions of art and society? (Note: Engish 419 and English 819 are the same course.) Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
6191 ENGL-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Students may assist professors as teaching assistants, performing a variety of duties usually involving assisting students in conceiving or revising papers; reading and helping to evaluate papers, quizzes, and exams; and other duties as determined by the student and instructor. See instructor of specific course for more information. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment.
7051 ENGL-470-01 Film Theory: An Introduction 1.00 SEM Younger,James Prakash R: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 7
  NOTE: English 470 and English 870 are the same course. Open to undergraduates with Permission of Instructor. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course can count as an elective for the literary studies track, or a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
  NOTE: This course fulfills requirements toward the film studies minor.
  This course introduces the most important theoretical models which have been used to explain how films function as art, ideology, language, history, politics and philosophy. Some theorists are mainly concerned with the aesthetic potentials of the cinema: How do categories such as realism, authorship and genre explain and enhance our experience of films? Other theorists are focused on the relations between films and the societies that produce them, or on general processes of spectatorship: How do Hollywood films address their audiences? How do narrative structures shape our responses to fictional characters? As the variety of these questions suggests, film theory opens onto a wide set of practices and possibilities; though it always begins with what we experience at the movies, it is ultimately concerned with the wider world that we experience through the movies. Theorists to be examined include Munsterberg, Eisenstein, Burch, Kracauer, Balazs, Bazin, Altman, Gunning, Mulvey, Metz, Wollen, Havel, Benjamin, Pasolini, Deleuze and Jameson. (Note: English 470 and English 870 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course can count as an elective for the literary studies track, or a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
7052 ENGL-496-01 Sr Sem: Poems of W.B. Yeats 1.00 LEC Kuyk Jr.,Dirk A. MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
  NOTE: This course satisfies the requirement of a senior project.
  We will read Yeats's poems, a play or two, and some of his prose, along with biographical, cultural, and critical background. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For senior English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a senior project.
6593 ENGL-497-01 One-Semester Senior Thesis 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Individual tTutorial in writing of a one-semester senior thesis on a special topic in literature or criticism. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and the chairperson are required.
5875 ENGL-499-01 Senior Thesis Part 2 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Individual tutorial in the writing of a year-long thesis on a special topic in literature or criticism. Seniors writing year-long, two-credit theses are required to register for the second half of their thesis for the spring of their senior year. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (2 course credits are considered pending in the first semester; 2 course credits will be awarded for completion in the second semester.)
7053 ENGL-808-01 American Realism&Urban Life 1.00 SEM Hager,Christopher W: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 8
  NOTE: English 808 and English 408 are the same course. Open to undergraduates with Permission of Instructor. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature or a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
  In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, American cities enjoyed the benefits of explosive economic growth but suffered the consequences of widespread poverty and class polarization. As both literal places and imagined spaces, cities embodied the excitement and opportunity of the "American dream" even as they provoked profound social and cultural anxieties. With immigrants arriving by the million and poor industrial workers living in striking proximity to the capitalists whom industry enriched, American cities were powder kegs of ethnic, racial, and class animosity—and frequently they exploded. During the same period, the school of literature we now call realism flourished, and realist authors wrote novels preoccupied with urban life. In this course, we will consider why rapid urbanization may have provoked literary realism and how literary realism in turn shaped our understanding of the urban center. Reading texts by authors such as Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, John Dos Passos, and Richard Wright, we will examine the ways realist novels represent the covert tensions and outright unrest of the turn-of-the-century American metropolis. We will grapple with questions including: What is the fate of individualism in a crowd? How do developments such as factories, mass transit, department-store shopping, and the expansion of mass media change the ways people think about themselves and their membership in a social class or ethnic group? How does city life shape people's cognition of the world around them and the ways art and culture represent that world? (Note: English 408 and English 808 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature or a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track and an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
7054 ENGL-819-01 Literature and Controversy 1.00 SEM Chander,Manu S. T: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 8
  NOTE: English 819 and English 419 are the same course. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
  The Romantic period witnessed numerous and persistent controversies in the fields of art and politics, from the heated responses to the revolution in France to the often bitter reviews that filled the pages of newspapers and magazines. This seminar examines the culture of "controversialism" in Romantic-era England by attending to particular debates, such as the "Pope controversy" and what Coleridge called "the whole long-continued controversy" over the Lyrical Ballads. In addition to literary texts, we will consider political speeches and critical reactions that reflect the historical context of a Great Britain increasingly divided along lines of cultural identity, ideology, and, importantly, "taste." Why, we will ask, is art such a charged category for Romantics? How do authors reflect and re-imagine reader relations? In what ways have we inherited and challenged Romantic visions of art and society? (Note: English 819 and English 419 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
7055 ENGL-870-01 Film Theory: An Introduction 1.00 SEM Younger,James Prakash R: 6:30PM- 9:30PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 8
  NOTE: English 870 and English 470 are the same course. Open to undergraduates with Permission of Instructor. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course can count as an elective for the literary studies track, or a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
  This course introduces the most important theoretical models which have been used to explain how films function as art, ideology, language, history, politics and philosophy. Some theorists are mainly concerned with the aesthetic potentials of the cinema: How do categories such as realism, authorship and genre explain and enhance our experience of films? Other theorists are focused on the relations between films and the societies that produce them, or on general processes of spectatorship: How do Hollywood films address their audiences? How do narrative structures shape our responses to fictional characters? As the variety of these questions suggests, film theory opens onto a wide set of practices and possibilities; though it always begins with what we experience at the movies, it is ultimately concerned with the wider world that we experience through the movies. Theorists to be examined include Munsterberg, Eisenstein, Burch, Kracauer, Balazs, Bazin, Altman, Gunning, Mulvey, Metz, Wollen, Havel, Benjamin, Pasolini, Deleuze, and Jameson. (Note: English 470 and English 870 are the same course.)For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature after 1800. For the English graduate program this course can count as an elective for the literary studies track, or a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.
5923 ENGL-953-01 Research Project 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  The graduate director, the supervisor of the project, and the department chairperson must approve special research project topics. Conference hours are available by appointment. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. One course credit.
5873 ENGL-954-01 Thesis Part I 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
5913 ENGL-955-01 Thesis Part II 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Continuation of English 954 (described in prior section).