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ENG-101 Introduction to College Writing
Course develops students' ability to express themselves in clear, accurate, and thoughtful English prose. Not limited to first-year students. Repeated spring semester. Staff
ENG-111 Writing through Literature
Writing-intensive introduction to literature using poetry, drama, short stories, and novella. Emphasis is placed on the process method of writing, basic techniques of literary analysis, and library research. May be used to fulfill the College's first-year writing requirement.
ENG-112 Writing the Classics
An introduction to academic writing based on the close reading of classical texts from the Greek, Roman, and/or Judeo-Christian traditions. Students write regularly in response to reading assignments and take a series of essays through an extensive revision process. Critical thinking and links with a variety of academic disciplines are stressed along with research, documentation, editing, and writing fundamentals. This course fulfills the College Writing Requirement.
ENG-113 Writing In and About the Native American Tradition
Study of ancient and contemporary Native American poetry and fiction with emphasis on academic writing. Students write regularly in response to reading assignments and engage in extensive revision of their work. Close attention is given to the development of academic voice, editing, documentation, critical thinking, research skills, and writing a reflective preface that is representative work from a first year writing course. This course fulfills the College Writing Requirement.
ENG-114 Writing About African Amererican Literature
A writing-intensive introduction to African American writing across genres. Its goal is to provide students with the conceptual frameworks and critical language within which to engage the unique practices and preoccupations of African American literature. Emphasis is given to developing the skills of argumentation, critical research, documentation, and literary analysis. Students conclude the semester by producing careful and cogent analyses of black writing. This course fulfills the College Writing and Cultural Diversity Requirements.
ENG-115 Writing the Rebellion: The Mother Country and Colonial America
ENG-115 Writing through History
Designed to teach research based college writing to students through the discipline of history. Students explore techniques of critical reading and writing through class discussion, short papers, and a semester long research project resulting in a final paper.
ENG-120 Shakespeare's Sisters: Women's Literature in English
A selection of British and American women writers -- some major, some minor -- covering the past 500 years. Beginning with Queen Elizabeth and her contemporaries and ending with twentieth-century figures such as Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Maxine Hong Kingston, the course explores Woolf's famous question: what if Shakespeare had a sister? The course considers the impact of gender on the creative process, and how economics, class, and racial issues intersect with gender to produce a unique female voice.
ENG-121 Writing the Rebellion: The Mother Country and Colonial America
An exploration of the ways England and the American Colonies reflected the social, political and philosophical standards of each other during the Colonial Period and the development of the break between them from 1754-1783. Course materials include literary works and private and public documents that illustrate the growing differences and the ways geography and opportunity worked to effect the separation. A field trip to Williamsburg, Virginia and St. Mary's Maryland is part of the course.
ENG-201 Writing the Public Essay
An examination of public essays: reviews, political commentary, letters to the editor, op-ed articles, art criticism, problem analysis, proposals for change. Students practice the craft of writing with grace, clarity, and fluency. Students read, study, and debate essays about significant topical issues by writers whose prose styles have much to teach about the art of writing. The course is for all students, majors, minors, and those interested in developing their expository and persuasive writing skills.
ENG-202 Writing Science for Citizen Activists
Workshop in advanced expository writing linking science to writing and in turn connecting both of these to problem solving in the community at large. Students write and revise in workshop several research-based essays moving from investigation and analysis of a social or environmental issue to proposals for change. Sample theme: The Myth of Away, Where Things Go and Why. Course involves required field trips and outside speakers. Final exam: public workshop or publication to the community.
ENG-203 Journalistic Writing
Journalistic Writing Course offers basic skills in writing news and feature stories, sports and specialty stories, and editorials. Students develop an understanding of what makes news; how to conduct an interview; and how to write follow-up stories. Students are required to submit articles to The Gettysburgian. Trips to newspaper offices in the area are offered.
ENG-205 Introduction to Creative Writing
Workshop in the writing of short stories, verse, and plays, with an analysis of models.
ENG-209 History of the English Language
Course provides a historical understanding of the vocabulary, forms, and sounds of the language from the Anglo-Saxon or Old English period to the twentieth century.
ENG-216 Images of Women in Literature
Examination of various ways women have been imagined in literature. Course looks at how and why images of women and men and of their relationships to one another change, and how these images affect us. Emphasis is on developing the critical power to imagine ourselves differently. Cross-listed with Eng 216
ENG-226 Introduction to Shakespeare
Course endeavors to communicate an awareness of Shakespeare's evolution as a dramatist and his importance in the development of Western literature and thought. Designed for students not majoring in English.
ENG-230 Survey of English Literature: Medieval & Renaissance
Historical survey of English literature from Beowulf through the twentieth century, with some attention to the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds of the periods under investigation. Selected works are discussed in class to familiarize students with various methods of literary analysis; students write several short critical papers each semester.
ENG-231 Survey of English Literature:17th &18th Century
Historical survey of English literature from Beowulf through the twentieth century, with some attention to the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds of the periods under investigation. Selected works are discussed in class to familiarize students with various methods of literary analysis; students write several short critical papers each semester.
ENG-232 Romanticism to Modernism
Historical survey of English literature from Beowulf through the twentieth century, with some attention to the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds of the periods under investigation. Selected works are discussed in class to familiarize students with various methods of literary analysis; students write several short critical papers each semester.
ENG-233 Survey of American Literature to 1865
A chronological study of American writing from colonial days through the present, with some attention to the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds. Primary emphasis during the first half of the sequence falls on the Puritans and American Romantics; the second half surveys writers from the Romantics forward, including such figures as Twain, Chopin, James, Williams, Stevens, Faulkner, Hughes, as well as selected contemporary writers.
ENG-234 Survey of American Literature Since 1865
A chronological study of American writing from colonial days through the present, with some attention to the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds. Primary emphasis during the first half of the sequence falls on the Puritans and American Romantics; the second half surveys writers from the Romantics forward, including such figures as Twain, Chopin, James, Williams, Stevens, Faulkner, Hughes, as well as selected contemporary writers.
ENG-235 Survey of African American Literature
Intensive study of a single writer, group, movement, theme, or period. May be counted toward the major. Open to first-year students.
ENG-236 Major African American Authors of the 20th Century
An introduction to 20th-Century African American authors who have acquired prominent and permanent status in American letters and a study of literary theories that have addressed specifically questions of black writing and representation. Investigating the link between African American literary production and changes in the social and political landscape of United States, it analyzes the ways in which the historical and political moment of production accounts for the different ways that the black experience is represented by African Americans. This course examines a wide range of texts in light of shifting paradigms-with regard to race, gender, and sexuality-in American culture and thought. It pays close attention to the ways literature by African Americans assert black humanity, revise history, and redress historical injury.
ENG-248 19th Century English Novel
The Nineteenth-Century Novel Course explores the dialectical relationship between romanticism and realism in British literature from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth century.
ENG-249 Set in Ink: Forms of Life Writing
Introduction to the various forms of life writing: autobiography, biography, letters, and diaries of the famous and infamous. Emphasis is placed upon the differences among these forms, critical questions regarding "truth" in such writing, and the different purposes served by biography throughout the ages. We tell our lives in many ways, but recording them in ink requires as much art as setting them in stone.
ENG-250 Harlem & Chicago Renaissance
This course defines, examines, and differentiates between two important African American literary movements - the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance - through the major fiction, poetry, and prose writers of the period.
ENG-252 African American Literature Since 1955
Survey course encompasses a wide range of African American literature, beginning with the work of James Baldwin. In contemporary texts by major African American writers, students examine various African American social, political, and cultural practices and concerns; interrogate the impact of race, class, and gender on African American society; view American history from the lens of the African American; and examine intertextually specific and recurrent themes.
ENG-254 African American Literature Before 1955
Survey course examines African American literature before integration. In fiction, poetry, and prose by major Black writers, students explore the impact of race, class, and gender on African American society; view American history through the lens of the African American; examine intertextually specific and recurrent themes; and identify a Black aesthetic.
ENG-255 Contemporary Literature of India
Study of twentieth-century South Asian prose and poetry written originally in English, as stimulated by the British educational legacy, traditional Indian literature, Marxism, feminist movements, post colonial thought, and magical realism. Criticism by Indian scholars will supplement Western critical approaches.
ENG-260 Studies in Literature
Intensive study of a single writer, group, movement, theme or period. May be counted toward the major. Open to first-year students.
ENG-298 Critical Methods: History of Literary Criticism
This course will trace changing ideas and assumptions about literature from antiquity to the nineteenth century. In order to appreciate more fully the various ideas about literary value (broadly conceived), we will consider the arguments in tandem with examples of the specific genres literature being celebrated as exemplary or, in some cases, derided as dangerous. Throughout the semester, our goal will be to acquire a sense of the historical basis for the practice of literary criticism, as well as an appreciation of the kinds of questions and problems raised by the study of literature. Students may expect to read selections from some of the following: Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Sidney, Boileau-Despréaux, Pope, Vico, Hume, Burke, Kant, Schiller, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.
ENG-299 Critical Methods
Introduction to advanced literary study. Attention is placed on close reading, using the library and electronic resources and incorporating scholarly perspectives. Course also considers a variety of theoretical approaches to literature and their place within contemporary literary scholarship. Course is required of all English majors and must be taken prior to or concurrently with a student's first 300-level course.
ENG-300 Forms of Fiction Writing
Discussion course in the writing and reading of alternative forms of fiction. Aim is to enhance understanding and implementation of various alternatives to short fiction, including short-short fiction, the novella, and the novel. Each student completes two short-short stories and a fragment of a novella or the opening of a novel. All styles and subjects are welcome, and students are encouraged to discover and exercise their unique writing voices.
ENG-301 Writing Short Fiction
Workshop in the reading and writing of short stories. Aim is to understand and implement various techniques and strategies of short fiction, including characterization, character development, variance of voice, transport, and resonance. Each student is to complete a number of exercises and two short stories (with both revised), as well as written critiques. Prerequisites: English 101 (or equivalent) and English 205, or permission of instructor.
ENG-302 The Writing of Poetry
Study of theory, process, craft, and practice of the writing of poetry. Course has a substantial writing component and combines workshop methods with lecture, analysis of models, and discussion. Close attention is paid to rhythm, rhyme, image, diction, syntax, open forms, and closed forms. Students from all disciplines are welcome.
ENG-303 Writing for Stage and Screen
Study of theory, process, craft, and practice of scriptwriting for film and for the theatre. Course has a substantial writing component and combines workshop methods with lecture, analysis of models, discussion, and viewing of plays and films. Students from all disciplines are welcome. Prerequisites: English 101 (or equivalent) and English 205, or permission of instructor.
ENG-304 Writing the Personal Essay
Workshop in the personal essay. The personal essay presents an idea from a personal point of view, requiring both persuasiveness and a distinctive voice. Students develop a series of essays over the semester, and read a wide variety of published essays for analysis and inspiration. Students are expected to serve as peer critics, and to complete various exercises and revisions in order to write ambitious, compelling essays. Prerequisites: English 101 (or equivalent) and English 205, or permission of instructor.
ENG-305 Writing and Reading Metrical Poetry
Workshop in the writing and reading of metrical verse open to students interested in literature and the craft of writing. Course balances a study of the elements of prosody?meter, rhyme, line length, and traditional forms?with the writing and reading of metrical poems. Students analyze poems from five centuries of literature in English but also write poems of their own in traditional forms such as the ballad and the sonnet and revise and develop them in a workshop setting.
ENG-306 Writing the Memoir
Workshop in the reading and writing of memoir. Students develop narratives based on personal experience and address the question of how to transform memory into compelling writing through the analysis of appropriate models and discussion of student work. Each student is expected to complete various exercises and critical responses, as well as a substantial memoir project. Prerequisites: English 101 (or equivalent) and English 205, or permission of instructor.
ENG-309 Topics in Writing
Writing workshops that are organized according to theme, motif, or subgenre, or that address the problem of writing with a specific audience in mind.
ENG-310 Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose through Shakespeare's works. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year.
ENG-311 Metaphysical & Baroque Literature
Examination of literature often mistermed "metaphysical." Course considers the philosophic, religious, and cultural upheavals of that time as background for the great aesthetic changes that evolved through at least two distinctive styles, the metaphysical (or manneristic) and the high baroque.
ENG-311 Theatre and Society in the English Renaissance
On-site interdisciplinary study of the culture of Renaissance England, encompassing theatre, art, music, architecture, and history. While focusing on the relationship between dramatic literature and the reality of live performance, the course offers a total-immersion exploration of the life and times of the English Renaissance. Course is taught in Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford, and London; students experience Shakespeare's plays in the context for which they were first created, that is, on stage before a live audience.
ENG-312 Medieval Drama
Exploration of conflicting theories concerning the origin and development of medieval drama. Course examines social roles, discusses issues of text and performance, and compares the relative merits of 'good literature' and 'good drama.' Students read examples drawn from a variety of genres of drama, and view performances of several plays on videotape. Class stages its own production of the Noah story.
ENG-314 Golden Age of English Drama
Drama After some attention to the beginnings of drama in the Middle Ages, course studies such writers as Marlowe, Jonson, and Chapman in order to assess the literary importance of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
ENG-315 Sixteenth Century Poetry
Sixteenth Century Poetry Poetical feast, beginning with Tudor appetizers, Skelton to Surrey; featuring an Elizabethan entree a la Spenser, served with generous portions of Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Greville; Daniel, Drayton, and Donne for dessert; and between courses, diverting looks at Christian humanism and Elizabethan critical theory.
ENG-316 Growth of Romance
The Growth of Romance Course examines the literary, social and historical factors that led to the development of Medieval romance and its subsequent flowering in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Works read include lais and romances by Marie de France, Chr tien de Troyes, Chaucer, and Malory, and others.
ENG-317 Literature & Language in the Age of Chaucer
Introduction to the language, literature, and culture of England from a time shortly after the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the Renaissance. Genres and issues studied include the romance and dream vision, as well as Classical and Celtic influences.
ENG-319 Mythology in Medieval English Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose through Shakespeare's works. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year. Courses in this category offered in 1997-98.
ENG-320 The Early Seventeenth Century in England
ENG-320 Topics in 17th & 18th Century Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from Donne and Herbert through Johnson and Boswell. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year.
ENG-321 Restoration & Early 18th Century Literature
Course focuses on literature written between 1660 and 1743, and examines dominant literary forms and modes, as well as such issues as the education of women and marriage, changing social behavior, and growing consumerism. Through plays, prose writings, diaries, and poetry, students sample the literary richness of the period.
ENG-322 Dr. Johnson and His Circle
Course focuses on literature written between 1660 and 1743, and examines dominant literary forms and modes, as well as such issues as the education of women and marriage, changing social behavior, and growing consumerism. Through plays, prose writings, diaries, and poetry, students sample the literary richness of the period.
ENG-325 Studies in 18th Century Novel
Studies in the Eighteenth-Century Novel In the eighteenth century, novels were 'a new species of writing.' Course examines several eighteenth-century novels of various types and analyzes the particular social conditions and philosophical ideas that give impetus to the so-called 'rise of the novel.'
ENG-330 Topics 19th & 20th Century Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge through Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, and selected contemporary writers. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year.
ENG-330 The Tragedy of Romanticism
Aside from the biographical realities that lend themselves to characterizing the British Romantic writers as having had a rather tragic time of it--three of the canonical poets dead before middle age, another addicted to opium and a fifth burnt out in his thirties--they also worked strenuously to reinvent tragedy as a viable literary form. In this course, we'll be reading melodramas written for the contemporary stage by long forgotten, and recently recovered writers, many operating under the influence of Gothicism: verse dramas that draw upon the conventions of the classical and Jacobean theaters; translations from leading European dramatists; and narratives that muse on the bad things that can happen to good, and not so good, people. We'll treat ourselves to a night at the opera (Fidelio),and read about such diverse topics as Lover's Vows, early fratricide, and, because this is romanticism, incestuous love (and hate).
ENG-331 The Dream of Artificial Wo/Man: Golems and Cyborgs from Adam to Bladerunner
A consideration of the significance of the figure of the artificial wo/man X from early golem stories to the cyborgs of presentday imagination X and of the cultural and scientific languages of automatism and freedom. The course explore human fears and answers questions like: Are we free agents or robots? How much control do we have over our destinies? What makes us who we are? What makes us do what we do? Why are we so fascinated by the blurred border between the animate and the inanimate? Students work towards developing an aesthetics of the golem/cyborg story as a genre.
ENG-332 British Writers 1918-1939
A study of the literature of the two decades between the two great European wars of the first half of the 20th century, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Writers to be studies include Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Woolf, Waugh and Greene.
ENG-333 Victorian Aesthetics
Exploration of the intersection between literature and the visual arts, with special attention paid to the Pre- Raphaelite, Aesthetic, and Decadent movements, which affected all branches of art.
ENG-334 19th Century English Women Writers
Exploration of the various ways in which women contributed to the intellectual and political excitement of mid-Victorian England. Course looks at novels, paintings, and other writings by women to determine if women presented different perspectives, if these perspectives were skewed, and what might have been the causes and consequences of their different ways of looking. Special attention is given to women's collective action in reforming lunacy laws, attitudes toward prostitutes and prostitution, and married women's property rights.
ENG-335 Early 20th Century British & American Fiction
Study of a representative selection of British and American fiction, mostly novels but some short stories as well, written between 1900 and 1939. Focus is on the distinctive qualities of individual writers and their works, with attention also given to their literary and historical context. Writers studied include Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Waugh, Greene, Cather, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway.
ENG-336 Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy Course focuses on selected novels, short stories, and poems by Hardy and their social, intellectual, and literary contexts.
ENG-337 British Romanticism: First Wave
Examination of the early history of British Romanticism at the turn of the nineteenth century. After a brief review of some continental poets and thinkers who influenced their British contemporaries, students read poems, plays and polemics by some of the better regarded English figures of the period. Second half of the course focuses on Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth--three writers who have helped literary historians define what is mean by romanticism.
ENG-339 Birth of Modernism: 1880-1920
In this course, we will take an interdisciplinary look at the literature and culture of the "transitional" period from Victorianism into Modernism, i.e., 1880-1920. The course traces the movement in art away from representationalism towards the abstract and the surrealistic, which parallels the movement in literature away from realism towards stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques and symbolist poetry and also explore the period's interest in psychology, primitivism, and decadence.
ENG-340 Hughes, Wright, Baldwin
This course will examine the literary works of three major African American writers who critique and explore the complexities of being both Black and American before integration. In their poetry, prose, and fiction, Hughes, Wright, and Baldwin refute denigrating Anglo-American stereotypes concerning African Americans, revise and elevate the African American's self-perception and social perception, and conserve African American cultural forms and social imperatives. Taken altogether, their rhetorical postures represent a broad specturm of African American responses to America's twentieth-century system of social, economic, and political apartheid.
ENG-340 Topics in American Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from colonial writers through selected contemporary authors. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year.
ENG-341 19th Century American Novel
Examination of novels written from the 1790s to the 1880s by little known authors (though popular in their time), as well as well-known 'canonical' writers. Students study these novels as both cultural and aesthetic documents, seeing how they connect with the beliefs and attitudes of their contemporary readers.
ENG-342 American Poetry
A study of the development of American poetry from the beginning to about 1945. Though other writers will be studied, emphasis will be placed upon Taylor, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot and Stevens.
ENG-343 Race and Family in the Civil War Era
Examination of the intersection of racial and familial identity in writing before and after the Civil War. What is a family? What is a race? Is a race a kind of family? How did writers approach these questions as related to arguments about slavery, mental capacity, and moral character? How did the Biblical claim that we are all ?of one blood? mesh with developing racial theories like ?the one-drop? rule?
ENG-344 Contemporary American Poetry
Study of American poetry written since World War II by such poets as Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright, Charles Wright, Charles Simic, Rita Dove and Sharon Olds. The class may be visited by one or more poets.
ENG-345 Classics in Int'l Realism
Realism, a significant development in American literature between the Civil War and the First World War, is our first literary movement to find its source from somewhere other than England, the mother country. Particularly, the Realists took inspiration from France and Russia. After reading some classics of international realism including Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, students will go on to read significant American realists and naturalists including Howells, James, Crane, and Dreiser.
ENG-347 Contemporary American Fiction
Course studies form, content, and diversity in American fiction since the 1940s, drawing on a selection of novels and short stories by such writers as Updike, Nabokov, Carver, Bellow, Pynchon, and others.
ENG-348 Fitzgerald Hemingway & Circle
Intensive study of the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway, especially during their salad days in the 1920s, with a look at some other contemporary writers who influenced them or were associated with them. Course examines the nature of Fitzgerald and Hemingway's imaginations, the development and characteristics of their distinctive fictional voices, and the causes of their declining powers in the 1930s.
ENG-349 Major Contemporary African-American Women Writers
Course examines cultural, social, and domestic concerns of African American women in the literature of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Terry McMillan, and Toni Cade Bambara.
ENG-350 Theorizing Literature
Course examines representative theorists from the classical to the postmodern. Particular focus on how the same text can be read different ways as different theories are applied to it. Students learn how to identify and challenge theoretical assumptions, as well as how to determine the way different theories make meaning by producing, organizing, and validating knowledge. An important objective is to become aware of the theories that guide (perhaps unconsciously) our literary experiences.
ENG-350 Special Topics in Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements. These courses may focus on literature that cuts across a variety of historical periods, or that is from both the United States and Great Britain, or from non Anglo-American, English-speaking countries. In addition, some of these courses may focus on schools of literary criticism and theory
ENG-351 The Congo, Diaspora, and Memory
Exploration of the significance of the Congo in Africa and African Diaspora cultures. This class studies literary and other cultural works from African and African American (US and Caribbean) artists, concentrating on novels, plays, poetry, painting, and film about the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) with some attention to the neighboring Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). Topics include the anticolonial struggle, the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the 1974 Ali-Foreman championship fight, and President Mobutu's "authenticity" campaign.
ENG-354 19th Century British Novel
Examination of a handful of the nearly 10,000 novels written and published in England during the nineteenth century. In this course two major types of novels which dominated this century will be studied: novels of domestic realism and gothic novels. Some of the questions we will explore are: Why were so many of these novels written by and/or about women? What is the relationship between the realism of the nineteenth-century novel and the Romantic movement which dominates the poetry of the period? What are the economics of the novel? Why is the novel often referred to as the "middle class" genre? This course will be extremely reading-intensive.
ENG-355 Contemporary Literature of India
Study of twentieth-century South Asian prose and poetry written originally in English, as stimulated by the British educational legacy, traditional Indian literature, Marxism, feminist movements, post colonial thought, and magical realism. Criticism by Indian scholars will supplement Western critical approaches.
ENG-356 Modern Irish Drama
Exploration of the evolution of modern Irish theatre within the matrix of the esthetic and political revolutions that occurred, and continue to occur, in twentieth-century Ireland. Irish dramatists in this milieu have produced a body of literature remarkable for both its unparalleled artistic achievement and its acute political and social responsiveness. Major emphasis is accorded to W. B. Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, John M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, and Brian Friel. Fulfills the literature requirement.
ENG-358 The Later Romantics
Intensive examination of the poetry of Keat, Shelley, and Byron, with emphasis on their interest in myth, history, and the political, cultural, and social convulsions of their time. Course also looks at the fiction of Mary Shelley and Jane Austen to see how it parallels and supplements the perspectives offered by the poetry.
ENG-359 American Literature of the Civil War Era
A study of works by both canonical and lesser-known American writers illuminating states of mind, both southern and northern, before the Civil War and the issues leading to it, reflecting on the war itself, and exploring some of the issues of the Reconstruction period.
ENG-360 Early 20th Century Poetry
Intensive examination of the poetry and poetic trajectory of four or five British and American poets, including W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and Wilfrid Owen.
ENG-361 The Quest:Romantic to Modern
Examination of five literary narratives, which serve as the archetype of the journey in literature. Study of this quest motif is used to compare romantic literature with the form of modernism that both descended from and rebelled against it.
ENG-362 Chaucer
Examination of a selection of Chaucer's minor poems and some major works, including Canterbury Tales. Particular attention is given to the literary, historical, philosophical, and other relevant backgrounds. Gender issues, political commentary, and Chaucer's use of satire, humor, and irony are studied in detail.
ENG-363 Non Fiction Late 20th Century America
The books read in this course might be described as both based in reality and, at times, taking off from reality. Authors read will include: Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson, James Baldwin, Annie Dillard, Peter Matthiessen, Mary Karr, Kathryn Rhett, Melanie McGrath, and Paul Theroux. The goal is to explore the literary and philosophical properties of a genre that parallels the actual all the while turning experience into art. Students should be prepared to write a lot, including some creative non fiction of their own.
ENG-365 Shakespeare:Earlier Plays
Course seeks to communicate an understanding both of Shakespeare's relation to the received traditions of his time and of his achievement as one of the most important figures in Western literature. Language, characterization, and structure in each of the numerous plays will be carefully analyzed. English 365 focuses on the early plays through Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida; English 366, on the later plays.
ENG-366 Shakespeare:Later Plays
Course seeks to communicate an understanding both of Shakespeare's relation to the received traditions of his time and of his achievement as one of the most important figures in Western literature. Language, characterization, and structure in each of the numerous plays will be carefully analyzed. English 365 focuses on the early plays through Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida; English 366, on the later plays.
ENG-400 Seminar: Special Topics in Literature
Seminars that compare authors, themes, and genres across historical periods. Some of these seminars focus on schools of literary criticism and theory.
ENG-401 Seminar: Med & Renaissance Lit
Intensive studies of announced topics in Medieval and Renaissance literature.
ENG-402 Seminar: Seventh and Eighteenth Century Literature
Intensive studies of announced topics in seventeenth and eighteenth century literature
ENG-403 Seminar: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature
Intensive studies of announced topics in nineteenth and twentieth century literature.
ENG-404 Seminar: American Literature
Intensive studies of announced topics in American literature.
ENG-405 Seminar in Writing
An advanced writing workshop, focused on any of several genres, including, but not restricted to, fiction drama, screen-writing, poetry, and personal memoir.
ENG-450 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-451 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
ENG-452 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-453 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
ENG-460 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-461 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
ENG-462 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-463 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor graded S/U
ENG-464 Honors Thesis
Individualized study project involving the research of a topic and the preparation of a major paper under the direction of a member of the department. Research and writing are done during the fall semester of the senior year. Prerequisites: By invitation of department only.
ENG-466 Honors Thesis
ENG-470 Individualized Study-Intern
Internship counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-471 Individualized Study-Intern
Internship counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
ENG-472 Individualized Study-Intern
Internship not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-473 Individualized Study-Intern
Internship not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
ENG-474 Summer Internship
Summer Internship graded A-F, counting in the mimimum requirements for a major or minor only with written permission filed in the Registrar's Office.
ENG-475 Summer Internship
Summer Internship graded S/U, counting in the mimimum requirements for a major or minor only with written permission filed in the Registrar's Office
ENG-101 Introduction to College Writing
Course develops students' ability to express themselves in clear, accurate, and thoughtful English prose. Not limited to first-year students. Repeated spring semester. Staff
ENG-111 Writing through Literature
Writing-intensive introduction to literature using poetry, drama, short stories, and novella. Emphasis is placed on the process method of writing, basic techniques of literary analysis, and library research. May be used to fulfill the College's first-year writing requirement.
ENG-112 Writing the Classics
An introduction to academic writing based on the close reading of classical texts from the Greek, Roman, and/or Judeo-Christian traditions. Students write regularly in response to reading assignments and take a series of essays through an extensive revision process. Critical thinking and links with a variety of academic disciplines are stressed along with research, documentation, editing, and writing fundamentals. This course fulfills the College Writing Requirement.
ENG-113 Writing In and About the Native American Tradition
Study of ancient and contemporary Native American poetry and fiction with emphasis on academic writing. Students write regularly in response to reading assignments and engage in extensive revision of their work. Close attention is given to the development of academic voice, editing, documentation, critical thinking, research skills, and writing a reflective preface that is representative work from a first year writing course. This course fulfills the College Writing Requirement.
ENG-114 Writing About African Amererican Literature
A writing-intensive introduction to African American writing across genres. Its goal is to provide students with the conceptual frameworks and critical language within which to engage the unique practices and preoccupations of African American literature. Emphasis is given to developing the skills of argumentation, critical research, documentation, and literary analysis. Students conclude the semester by producing careful and cogent analyses of black writing. This course fulfills the College Writing and Cultural Diversity Requirements.
ENG-115 Writing the Rebellion: The Mother Country and Colonial America
ENG-115 Writing through History
Designed to teach research based college writing to students through the discipline of history. Students explore techniques of critical reading and writing through class discussion, short papers, and a semester long research project resulting in a final paper.
ENG-120 Shakespeare's Sisters: Women's Literature in English
A selection of British and American women writers -- some major, some minor -- covering the past 500 years. Beginning with Queen Elizabeth and her contemporaries and ending with twentieth-century figures such as Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Maxine Hong Kingston, the course explores Woolf's famous question: what if Shakespeare had a sister? The course considers the impact of gender on the creative process, and how economics, class, and racial issues intersect with gender to produce a unique female voice.
ENG-121 Writing the Rebellion: The Mother Country and Colonial America
An exploration of the ways England and the American Colonies reflected the social, political and philosophical standards of each other during the Colonial Period and the development of the break between them from 1754-1783. Course materials include literary works and private and public documents that illustrate the growing differences and the ways geography and opportunity worked to effect the separation. A field trip to Williamsburg, Virginia and St. Mary's Maryland is part of the course.
ENG-201 Writing the Public Essay
An examination of public essays: reviews, political commentary, letters to the editor, op-ed articles, art criticism, problem analysis, proposals for change. Students practice the craft of writing with grace, clarity, and fluency. Students read, study, and debate essays about significant topical issues by writers whose prose styles have much to teach about the art of writing. The course is for all students, majors, minors, and those interested in developing their expository and persuasive writing skills.
ENG-202 Writing Science for Citizen Activists
Workshop in advanced expository writing linking science to writing and in turn connecting both of these to problem solving in the community at large. Students write and revise in workshop several research-based essays moving from investigation and analysis of a social or environmental issue to proposals for change. Sample theme: The Myth of Away, Where Things Go and Why. Course involves required field trips and outside speakers. Final exam: public workshop or publication to the community.
ENG-203 Journalistic Writing
Journalistic Writing Course offers basic skills in writing news and feature stories, sports and specialty stories, and editorials. Students develop an understanding of what makes news; how to conduct an interview; and how to write follow-up stories. Students are required to submit articles to The Gettysburgian. Trips to newspaper offices in the area are offered.
ENG-205 Introduction to Creative Writing
Workshop in the writing of short stories, verse, and plays, with an analysis of models.
ENG-209 History of the English Language
Course provides a historical understanding of the vocabulary, forms, and sounds of the language from the Anglo-Saxon or Old English period to the twentieth century.
ENG-216 Images of Women in Literature
Examination of various ways women have been imagined in literature. Course looks at how and why images of women and men and of their relationships to one another change, and how these images affect us. Emphasis is on developing the critical power to imagine ourselves differently. Cross-listed with Eng 216
ENG-226 Introduction to Shakespeare
Course endeavors to communicate an awareness of Shakespeare's evolution as a dramatist and his importance in the development of Western literature and thought. Designed for students not majoring in English.
ENG-230 Survey of English Literature: Medieval & Renaissance
Historical survey of English literature from Beowulf through the twentieth century, with some attention to the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds of the periods under investigation. Selected works are discussed in class to familiarize students with various methods of literary analysis; students write several short critical papers each semester.
ENG-231 Survey of English Literature:17th &18th Century
Historical survey of English literature from Beowulf through the twentieth century, with some attention to the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds of the periods under investigation. Selected works are discussed in class to familiarize students with various methods of literary analysis; students write several short critical papers each semester.
ENG-232 Romanticism to Modernism
Historical survey of English literature from Beowulf through the twentieth century, with some attention to the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds of the periods under investigation. Selected works are discussed in class to familiarize students with various methods of literary analysis; students write several short critical papers each semester.
ENG-233 Survey of American Literature to 1865
A chronological study of American writing from colonial days through the present, with some attention to the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds. Primary emphasis during the first half of the sequence falls on the Puritans and American Romantics; the second half surveys writers from the Romantics forward, including such figures as Twain, Chopin, James, Williams, Stevens, Faulkner, Hughes, as well as selected contemporary writers.
ENG-234 Survey of American Literature Since 1865
A chronological study of American writing from colonial days through the present, with some attention to the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds. Primary emphasis during the first half of the sequence falls on the Puritans and American Romantics; the second half surveys writers from the Romantics forward, including such figures as Twain, Chopin, James, Williams, Stevens, Faulkner, Hughes, as well as selected contemporary writers.
ENG-235 Survey of African American Literature
Intensive study of a single writer, group, movement, theme, or period. May be counted toward the major. Open to first-year students.
ENG-236 Major African American Authors of the 20th Century
An introduction to 20th-Century African American authors who have acquired prominent and permanent status in American letters and a study of literary theories that have addressed specifically questions of black writing and representation. Investigating the link between African American literary production and changes in the social and political landscape of United States, it analyzes the ways in which the historical and political moment of production accounts for the different ways that the black experience is represented by African Americans. This course examines a wide range of texts in light of shifting paradigms-with regard to race, gender, and sexuality-in American culture and thought. It pays close attention to the ways literature by African Americans assert black humanity, revise history, and redress historical injury.
ENG-248 19th Century English Novel
The Nineteenth-Century Novel Course explores the dialectical relationship between romanticism and realism in British literature from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth century.
ENG-249 Set in Ink: Forms of Life Writing
Introduction to the various forms of life writing: autobiography, biography, letters, and diaries of the famous and infamous. Emphasis is placed upon the differences among these forms, critical questions regarding "truth" in such writing, and the different purposes served by biography throughout the ages. We tell our lives in many ways, but recording them in ink requires as much art as setting them in stone.
ENG-250 Harlem & Chicago Renaissance
This course defines, examines, and differentiates between two important African American literary movements - the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance - through the major fiction, poetry, and prose writers of the period.
ENG-252 African American Literature Since 1955
Survey course encompasses a wide range of African American literature, beginning with the work of James Baldwin. In contemporary texts by major African American writers, students examine various African American social, political, and cultural practices and concerns; interrogate the impact of race, class, and gender on African American society; view American history from the lens of the African American; and examine intertextually specific and recurrent themes.
ENG-254 African American Literature Before 1955
Survey course examines African American literature before integration. In fiction, poetry, and prose by major Black writers, students explore the impact of race, class, and gender on African American society; view American history through the lens of the African American; examine intertextually specific and recurrent themes; and identify a Black aesthetic.
ENG-255 Contemporary Literature of India
Study of twentieth-century South Asian prose and poetry written originally in English, as stimulated by the British educational legacy, traditional Indian literature, Marxism, feminist movements, post colonial thought, and magical realism. Criticism by Indian scholars will supplement Western critical approaches.
ENG-260 Studies in Literature
Intensive study of a single writer, group, movement, theme or period. May be counted toward the major. Open to first-year students.
ENG-298 Critical Methods: History of Literary Criticism
This course will trace changing ideas and assumptions about literature from antiquity to the nineteenth century. In order to appreciate more fully the various ideas about literary value (broadly conceived), we will consider the arguments in tandem with examples of the specific genres literature being celebrated as exemplary or, in some cases, derided as dangerous. Throughout the semester, our goal will be to acquire a sense of the historical basis for the practice of literary criticism, as well as an appreciation of the kinds of questions and problems raised by the study of literature. Students may expect to read selections from some of the following: Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Sidney, Boileau-Despréaux, Pope, Vico, Hume, Burke, Kant, Schiller, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.
ENG-299 Critical Methods
Introduction to advanced literary study. Attention is placed on close reading, using the library and electronic resources and incorporating scholarly perspectives. Course also considers a variety of theoretical approaches to literature and their place within contemporary literary scholarship. Course is required of all English majors and must be taken prior to or concurrently with a student's first 300-level course.
ENG-300 Forms of Fiction Writing
Discussion course in the writing and reading of alternative forms of fiction. Aim is to enhance understanding and implementation of various alternatives to short fiction, including short-short fiction, the novella, and the novel. Each student completes two short-short stories and a fragment of a novella or the opening of a novel. All styles and subjects are welcome, and students are encouraged to discover and exercise their unique writing voices.
ENG-301 Writing Short Fiction
Workshop in the reading and writing of short stories. Aim is to understand and implement various techniques and strategies of short fiction, including characterization, character development, variance of voice, transport, and resonance. Each student is to complete a number of exercises and two short stories (with both revised), as well as written critiques. Prerequisites: English 101 (or equivalent) and English 205, or permission of instructor.
ENG-302 The Writing of Poetry
Study of theory, process, craft, and practice of the writing of poetry. Course has a substantial writing component and combines workshop methods with lecture, analysis of models, and discussion. Close attention is paid to rhythm, rhyme, image, diction, syntax, open forms, and closed forms. Students from all disciplines are welcome.
ENG-303 Writing for Stage and Screen
Study of theory, process, craft, and practice of scriptwriting for film and for the theatre. Course has a substantial writing component and combines workshop methods with lecture, analysis of models, discussion, and viewing of plays and films. Students from all disciplines are welcome. Prerequisites: English 101 (or equivalent) and English 205, or permission of instructor.
ENG-304 Writing the Personal Essay
Workshop in the personal essay. The personal essay presents an idea from a personal point of view, requiring both persuasiveness and a distinctive voice. Students develop a series of essays over the semester, and read a wide variety of published essays for analysis and inspiration. Students are expected to serve as peer critics, and to complete various exercises and revisions in order to write ambitious, compelling essays. Prerequisites: English 101 (or equivalent) and English 205, or permission of instructor.
ENG-305 Writing and Reading Metrical Poetry
Workshop in the writing and reading of metrical verse open to students interested in literature and the craft of writing. Course balances a study of the elements of prosody?meter, rhyme, line length, and traditional forms?with the writing and reading of metrical poems. Students analyze poems from five centuries of literature in English but also write poems of their own in traditional forms such as the ballad and the sonnet and revise and develop them in a workshop setting.
ENG-306 Writing the Memoir
Workshop in the reading and writing of memoir. Students develop narratives based on personal experience and address the question of how to transform memory into compelling writing through the analysis of appropriate models and discussion of student work. Each student is expected to complete various exercises and critical responses, as well as a substantial memoir project. Prerequisites: English 101 (or equivalent) and English 205, or permission of instructor.
ENG-309 Topics in Writing
Writing workshops that are organized according to theme, motif, or subgenre, or that address the problem of writing with a specific audience in mind.
ENG-310 Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose through Shakespeare's works. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year.
ENG-311 Metaphysical & Baroque Literature
Examination of literature often mistermed "metaphysical." Course considers the philosophic, religious, and cultural upheavals of that time as background for the great aesthetic changes that evolved through at least two distinctive styles, the metaphysical (or manneristic) and the high baroque.
ENG-311 Theatre and Society in the English Renaissance
On-site interdisciplinary study of the culture of Renaissance England, encompassing theatre, art, music, architecture, and history. While focusing on the relationship between dramatic literature and the reality of live performance, the course offers a total-immersion exploration of the life and times of the English Renaissance. Course is taught in Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford, and London; students experience Shakespeare's plays in the context for which they were first created, that is, on stage before a live audience.
ENG-312 Medieval Drama
Exploration of conflicting theories concerning the origin and development of medieval drama. Course examines social roles, discusses issues of text and performance, and compares the relative merits of 'good literature' and 'good drama.' Students read examples drawn from a variety of genres of drama, and view performances of several plays on videotape. Class stages its own production of the Noah story.
ENG-314 Golden Age of English Drama
Drama After some attention to the beginnings of drama in the Middle Ages, course studies such writers as Marlowe, Jonson, and Chapman in order to assess the literary importance of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
ENG-315 Sixteenth Century Poetry
Sixteenth Century Poetry Poetical feast, beginning with Tudor appetizers, Skelton to Surrey; featuring an Elizabethan entree a la Spenser, served with generous portions of Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Greville; Daniel, Drayton, and Donne for dessert; and between courses, diverting looks at Christian humanism and Elizabethan critical theory.
ENG-316 Growth of Romance
The Growth of Romance Course examines the literary, social and historical factors that led to the development of Medieval romance and its subsequent flowering in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Works read include lais and romances by Marie de France, Chr tien de Troyes, Chaucer, and Malory, and others.
ENG-317 Literature & Language in the Age of Chaucer
Introduction to the language, literature, and culture of England from a time shortly after the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the Renaissance. Genres and issues studied include the romance and dream vision, as well as Classical and Celtic influences.
ENG-319 Mythology in Medieval English Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose through Shakespeare's works. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year. Courses in this category offered in 1997-98.
ENG-320 The Early Seventeenth Century in England
ENG-320 Topics in 17th & 18th Century Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from Donne and Herbert through Johnson and Boswell. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year.
ENG-321 Restoration & Early 18th Century Literature
Course focuses on literature written between 1660 and 1743, and examines dominant literary forms and modes, as well as such issues as the education of women and marriage, changing social behavior, and growing consumerism. Through plays, prose writings, diaries, and poetry, students sample the literary richness of the period.
ENG-322 Dr. Johnson and His Circle
Course focuses on literature written between 1660 and 1743, and examines dominant literary forms and modes, as well as such issues as the education of women and marriage, changing social behavior, and growing consumerism. Through plays, prose writings, diaries, and poetry, students sample the literary richness of the period.
ENG-325 Studies in 18th Century Novel
Studies in the Eighteenth-Century Novel In the eighteenth century, novels were 'a new species of writing.' Course examines several eighteenth-century novels of various types and analyzes the particular social conditions and philosophical ideas that give impetus to the so-called 'rise of the novel.'
ENG-330 Topics 19th & 20th Century Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge through Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, and selected contemporary writers. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year.
ENG-330 The Tragedy of Romanticism
Aside from the biographical realities that lend themselves to characterizing the British Romantic writers as having had a rather tragic time of it--three of the canonical poets dead before middle age, another addicted to opium and a fifth burnt out in his thirties--they also worked strenuously to reinvent tragedy as a viable literary form. In this course, we'll be reading melodramas written for the contemporary stage by long forgotten, and recently recovered writers, many operating under the influence of Gothicism: verse dramas that draw upon the conventions of the classical and Jacobean theaters; translations from leading European dramatists; and narratives that muse on the bad things that can happen to good, and not so good, people. We'll treat ourselves to a night at the opera (Fidelio),and read about such diverse topics as Lover's Vows, early fratricide, and, because this is romanticism, incestuous love (and hate).
ENG-331 The Dream of Artificial Wo/Man: Golems and Cyborgs from Adam to Bladerunner
A consideration of the significance of the figure of the artificial wo/man X from early golem stories to the cyborgs of presentday imagination X and of the cultural and scientific languages of automatism and freedom. The course explore human fears and answers questions like: Are we free agents or robots? How much control do we have over our destinies? What makes us who we are? What makes us do what we do? Why are we so fascinated by the blurred border between the animate and the inanimate? Students work towards developing an aesthetics of the golem/cyborg story as a genre.
ENG-332 British Writers 1918-1939
A study of the literature of the two decades between the two great European wars of the first half of the 20th century, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Writers to be studies include Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Woolf, Waugh and Greene.
ENG-333 Victorian Aesthetics
Exploration of the intersection between literature and the visual arts, with special attention paid to the Pre- Raphaelite, Aesthetic, and Decadent movements, which affected all branches of art.
ENG-334 19th Century English Women Writers
Exploration of the various ways in which women contributed to the intellectual and political excitement of mid-Victorian England. Course looks at novels, paintings, and other writings by women to determine if women presented different perspectives, if these perspectives were skewed, and what might have been the causes and consequences of their different ways of looking. Special attention is given to women's collective action in reforming lunacy laws, attitudes toward prostitutes and prostitution, and married women's property rights.
ENG-335 Early 20th Century British & American Fiction
Study of a representative selection of British and American fiction, mostly novels but some short stories as well, written between 1900 and 1939. Focus is on the distinctive qualities of individual writers and their works, with attention also given to their literary and historical context. Writers studied include Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Waugh, Greene, Cather, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway.
ENG-336 Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy Course focuses on selected novels, short stories, and poems by Hardy and their social, intellectual, and literary contexts.
ENG-337 British Romanticism: First Wave
Examination of the early history of British Romanticism at the turn of the nineteenth century. After a brief review of some continental poets and thinkers who influenced their British contemporaries, students read poems, plays and polemics by some of the better regarded English figures of the period. Second half of the course focuses on Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth--three writers who have helped literary historians define what is mean by romanticism.
ENG-339 Birth of Modernism: 1880-1920
In this course, we will take an interdisciplinary look at the literature and culture of the "transitional" period from Victorianism into Modernism, i.e., 1880-1920. The course traces the movement in art away from representationalism towards the abstract and the surrealistic, which parallels the movement in literature away from realism towards stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques and symbolist poetry and also explore the period's interest in psychology, primitivism, and decadence.
ENG-340 Hughes, Wright, Baldwin
This course will examine the literary works of three major African American writers who critique and explore the complexities of being both Black and American before integration. In their poetry, prose, and fiction, Hughes, Wright, and Baldwin refute denigrating Anglo-American stereotypes concerning African Americans, revise and elevate the African American's self-perception and social perception, and conserve African American cultural forms and social imperatives. Taken altogether, their rhetorical postures represent a broad specturm of African American responses to America's twentieth-century system of social, economic, and political apartheid.
ENG-340 Topics in American Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements, ranging from colonial writers through selected contemporary authors. Several sections, each with a different subject, are offered every year.
ENG-341 19th Century American Novel
Examination of novels written from the 1790s to the 1880s by little known authors (though popular in their time), as well as well-known 'canonical' writers. Students study these novels as both cultural and aesthetic documents, seeing how they connect with the beliefs and attitudes of their contemporary readers.
ENG-342 American Poetry
A study of the development of American poetry from the beginning to about 1945. Though other writers will be studied, emphasis will be placed upon Taylor, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot and Stevens.
ENG-343 Race and Family in the Civil War Era
Examination of the intersection of racial and familial identity in writing before and after the Civil War. What is a family? What is a race? Is a race a kind of family? How did writers approach these questions as related to arguments about slavery, mental capacity, and moral character? How did the Biblical claim that we are all ?of one blood? mesh with developing racial theories like ?the one-drop? rule?
ENG-344 Contemporary American Poetry
Study of American poetry written since World War II by such poets as Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright, Charles Wright, Charles Simic, Rita Dove and Sharon Olds. The class may be visited by one or more poets.
ENG-345 Classics in Int'l Realism
Realism, a significant development in American literature between the Civil War and the First World War, is our first literary movement to find its source from somewhere other than England, the mother country. Particularly, the Realists took inspiration from France and Russia. After reading some classics of international realism including Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, students will go on to read significant American realists and naturalists including Howells, James, Crane, and Dreiser.
ENG-347 Contemporary American Fiction
Course studies form, content, and diversity in American fiction since the 1940s, drawing on a selection of novels and short stories by such writers as Updike, Nabokov, Carver, Bellow, Pynchon, and others.
ENG-348 Fitzgerald Hemingway & Circle
Intensive study of the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway, especially during their salad days in the 1920s, with a look at some other contemporary writers who influenced them or were associated with them. Course examines the nature of Fitzgerald and Hemingway's imaginations, the development and characteristics of their distinctive fictional voices, and the causes of their declining powers in the 1930s.
ENG-349 Major Contemporary African-American Women Writers
Course examines cultural, social, and domestic concerns of African American women in the literature of Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Terry McMillan, and Toni Cade Bambara.
ENG-350 Theorizing Literature
Course examines representative theorists from the classical to the postmodern. Particular focus on how the same text can be read different ways as different theories are applied to it. Students learn how to identify and challenge theoretical assumptions, as well as how to determine the way different theories make meaning by producing, organizing, and validating knowledge. An important objective is to become aware of the theories that guide (perhaps unconsciously) our literary experiences.
ENG-350 Special Topics in Literature
Study of a variety of authors, themes, genres, and movements. These courses may focus on literature that cuts across a variety of historical periods, or that is from both the United States and Great Britain, or from non Anglo-American, English-speaking countries. In addition, some of these courses may focus on schools of literary criticism and theory
ENG-351 The Congo, Diaspora, and Memory
Exploration of the significance of the Congo in Africa and African Diaspora cultures. This class studies literary and other cultural works from African and African American (US and Caribbean) artists, concentrating on novels, plays, poetry, painting, and film about the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) with some attention to the neighboring Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). Topics include the anticolonial struggle, the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the 1974 Ali-Foreman championship fight, and President Mobutu's "authenticity" campaign.
ENG-354 19th Century British Novel
Examination of a handful of the nearly 10,000 novels written and published in England during the nineteenth century. In this course two major types of novels which dominated this century will be studied: novels of domestic realism and gothic novels. Some of the questions we will explore are: Why were so many of these novels written by and/or about women? What is the relationship between the realism of the nineteenth-century novel and the Romantic movement which dominates the poetry of the period? What are the economics of the novel? Why is the novel often referred to as the "middle class" genre? This course will be extremely reading-intensive.
ENG-355 Contemporary Literature of India
Study of twentieth-century South Asian prose and poetry written originally in English, as stimulated by the British educational legacy, traditional Indian literature, Marxism, feminist movements, post colonial thought, and magical realism. Criticism by Indian scholars will supplement Western critical approaches.
ENG-356 Modern Irish Drama
Exploration of the evolution of modern Irish theatre within the matrix of the esthetic and political revolutions that occurred, and continue to occur, in twentieth-century Ireland. Irish dramatists in this milieu have produced a body of literature remarkable for both its unparalleled artistic achievement and its acute political and social responsiveness. Major emphasis is accorded to W. B. Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, John M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, and Brian Friel. Fulfills the literature requirement.
ENG-358 The Later Romantics
Intensive examination of the poetry of Keat, Shelley, and Byron, with emphasis on their interest in myth, history, and the political, cultural, and social convulsions of their time. Course also looks at the fiction of Mary Shelley and Jane Austen to see how it parallels and supplements the perspectives offered by the poetry.
ENG-359 American Literature of the Civil War Era
A study of works by both canonical and lesser-known American writers illuminating states of mind, both southern and northern, before the Civil War and the issues leading to it, reflecting on the war itself, and exploring some of the issues of the Reconstruction period.
ENG-360 Early 20th Century Poetry
Intensive examination of the poetry and poetic trajectory of four or five British and American poets, including W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and Wilfrid Owen.
ENG-361 The Quest:Romantic to Modern
Examination of five literary narratives, which serve as the archetype of the journey in literature. Study of this quest motif is used to compare romantic literature with the form of modernism that both descended from and rebelled against it.
ENG-362 Chaucer
Examination of a selection of Chaucer's minor poems and some major works, including Canterbury Tales. Particular attention is given to the literary, historical, philosophical, and other relevant backgrounds. Gender issues, political commentary, and Chaucer's use of satire, humor, and irony are studied in detail.
ENG-363 Non Fiction Late 20th Century America
The books read in this course might be described as both based in reality and, at times, taking off from reality. Authors read will include: Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson, James Baldwin, Annie Dillard, Peter Matthiessen, Mary Karr, Kathryn Rhett, Melanie McGrath, and Paul Theroux. The goal is to explore the literary and philosophical properties of a genre that parallels the actual all the while turning experience into art. Students should be prepared to write a lot, including some creative non fiction of their own.
ENG-365 Shakespeare:Earlier Plays
Course seeks to communicate an understanding both of Shakespeare's relation to the received traditions of his time and of his achievement as one of the most important figures in Western literature. Language, characterization, and structure in each of the numerous plays will be carefully analyzed. English 365 focuses on the early plays through Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida; English 366, on the later plays.
ENG-366 Shakespeare:Later Plays
Course seeks to communicate an understanding both of Shakespeare's relation to the received traditions of his time and of his achievement as one of the most important figures in Western literature. Language, characterization, and structure in each of the numerous plays will be carefully analyzed. English 365 focuses on the early plays through Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida; English 366, on the later plays.
ENG-400 Seminar: Special Topics in Literature
Seminars that compare authors, themes, and genres across historical periods. Some of these seminars focus on schools of literary criticism and theory.
ENG-401 Seminar: Med & Renaissance Lit
Intensive studies of announced topics in Medieval and Renaissance literature.
ENG-402 Seminar: Seventh and Eighteenth Century Literature
Intensive studies of announced topics in seventeenth and eighteenth century literature
ENG-403 Seminar: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature
Intensive studies of announced topics in nineteenth and twentieth century literature.
ENG-404 Seminar: American Literature
Intensive studies of announced topics in American literature.
ENG-405 Seminar in Writing
An advanced writing workshop, focused on any of several genres, including, but not restricted to, fiction drama, screen-writing, poetry, and personal memoir.
ENG-450 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-451 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
ENG-452 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-453 Individualized Study-Tutorial
Individualized tutorial not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
ENG-460 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-461 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
ENG-462 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-463 Individualized Study-Research
Individualized research not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor graded S/U
ENG-464 Honors Thesis
Individualized study project involving the research of a topic and the preparation of a major paper under the direction of a member of the department. Research and writing are done during the fall semester of the senior year. Prerequisites: By invitation of department only.
ENG-466 Honors Thesis
ENG-470 Individualized Study-Intern
Internship counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-471 Individualized Study-Intern
Internship counting toward the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
ENG-472 Individualized Study-Intern
Internship not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded A-F
ENG-473 Individualized Study-Intern
Internship not counting in the minimum requirements in a major or minor, graded S/U
ENG-474 Summer Internship
Summer Internship graded A-F, counting in the mimimum requirements for a major or minor only with written permission filed in the Registrar's Office.
ENG-475 Summer Internship
Summer Internship graded S/U, counting in the mimimum requirements for a major or minor only with written permission filed in the Registrar's Office
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