English (ENGL)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

ENGL 1105

Topics and reading lists vary from section to section, but all will in some way address the subject of sexual politics. Some sections may deal with fiction, poetry, film, or drama, and many include a mix ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Stories of Female Friendships

  • 17863 ENGL 1105   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Sex, Girls & Misogynoir-Feminist Essays

  • 17864 ENGL 1105   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Introduction to Female Madness

  • 17865 ENGL 1105   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Queer Women Writers

  • 17866 ENGL 1105   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Erotics of Knowledge

  • 17867 ENGL 1105   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Empathy and Technology

  • 17868 ENGL 1105   SEM 106

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Science Fiction and Feminism

  • 17869 ENGL 1105   SEM 107

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 1111

Topics and reading lists vary from section to section, but all will engage in some way with an aspect of culture or subculture. Some sections may deal with fiction, poetry, film, or drama, and many include ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Imaginary Lands

  • 17879 ENGL 1111   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Theories of Blackness From Around the Globe

  • 17880 ENGL 1111   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Speaking Science Fictions

  • 17881 ENGL 1111   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Inside the Haunted House

  • 17882 ENGL 1111   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: History from the Margins

  • 17883 ENGL 1111   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Age of Revolution

  • 17884 ENGL 1111   SEM 106

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Culture of the Raj

  • 17885 ENGL 1111   SEM 107

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Revenge!

  • 17886 ENGL 1111   SEM 108

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Native American and Latino Hauntings

  • 17887 ENGL 1111   SEM 109

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Beyond the Selfie

  • 17889 ENGL 1111   SEM 111

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Get in Formation—History in Real Time

  • 17890 ENGL 1111   SEM 112

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 1134

When students write personal essays for college applications, they often discover how challenging it can be to write about themselves. In this course, we'll examine how well-known authors such as Maxine ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17842 ENGL 1134   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17843 ENGL 1134   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17844 ENGL 1134   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17845 ENGL 1134   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 1147

What makes a story, and what makes it a mystery story? In this course, we'll study and write about the nature of narratives, taking the classic mystery tale written by such writers as Arthur Conan Doyle, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17846 ENGL 1147   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17847 ENGL 1147   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17848 ENGL 1147   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17849 ENGL 1147   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18074 ENGL 1147   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 1158

Topics and reading lists vary from section to section, but all will engage in some way with an aspect of American culture. Some sections may deal with fiction, poetry, film, or drama, and many include ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Cool Stuff—American Literature and Pop Culture

  • 17851 ENGL 1158   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: American Ghosts

  • 17852 ENGL 1158   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Documenting America, 1900-1945

  • 17853 ENGL 1158   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Listen to Indigenous Voices/Solve Global Prob

  • 17854 ENGL 1158   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Writing as Self-Exploration

  • 17855 ENGL 1158   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Contemporary African American Literature

  • 17856 ENGL 1158   SEM 106

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Slave Narrative, Then and Now

  • 17857 ENGL 1158   SEM 107

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 1167

Would you be able to identify the Shakespeare or Austen of your time? What are the best books being written today and how do we know they are great? What role do critics, prizes, book clubs and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17859 ENGL 1167   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17860 ENGL 1167   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17861 ENGL 1167   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17862 ENGL 1167   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 1168

From TV news to rock lyrics, from ads to political speeches to productions of Shakespeare, the forms of culture surround us at every moment. In addition to entertaining us or enticing us, they carry implied ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Literature and Climate Change

  • 17870 ENGL 1168   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Poem/Song/Sound

  • 17871 ENGL 1168   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Monsters in Fiction

  • 17873 ENGL 1168   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Reading the Face

  • 17874 ENGL 1168   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Finding the "Kid" in Kids' Popular Culture

  • 17875 ENGL 1168   SEM 106

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Word Spirits

  • 17876 ENGL 1168   SEM 107

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Nature, Land, Property

  • 17877 ENGL 1168   SEM 108

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Digital Literature and New Media

  • 17878 ENGL 1168   SEM 109

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 1170

What is the difference between an anecdote and a short story or a memoir and a short story? How does the short story separate itself from the prose poem, the myth, or the parable? What can a short story ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17891 ENGL 1170   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17892 ENGL 1170   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17893 ENGL 1170   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17894 ENGL 1170   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17895 ENGL 1170   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17896 ENGL 1170   SEM 106

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17897 ENGL 1170   SEM 107

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17898 ENGL 1170   SEM 108

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 1183

Writers and artists from Homer to Raymond Pettibon have been fascinated by the relationship between words and images, a relationship that is sometimes imagined as a competition, sometimes as a collaboration. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17902 ENGL 1183   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17903 ENGL 1183   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17904 ENGL 1183   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17905 ENGL 1183   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17906 ENGL 1183   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 1191

Topics and reading lists vary from section to section, but all will engage in some way with the subject of British literature. Some sections may deal with fiction, poetry, or drama, and many include a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Literary Insomniacs

  • 17929 ENGL 1191   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: To Be Or Not To Be

  • 17930 ENGL 1191   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Socialism in the U.K.

  • 17931 ENGL 1191   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Medical Monsters

  • 17932 ENGL 1191   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Coming of Age in the Nineteenth Century

  • 17933 ENGL 1191   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 1270

Reading lists vary from section to section, but close, attentive, and imaginative reading and writing are central to all. Some sections may deal with fiction, poetry, or drama, or include a mix of literary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: All Our Favorite Books

  • 17934 ENGL 1270   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Poetry and the Art of Paying Attention

  • 17936 ENGL 1270   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Reading of Fiction

  • 17937 ENGL 1270   SEM 104

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Doubling, Disguise, & Desire in Drama

  • 17938 ENGL 1270   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Forms of Poetry

  • 17939 ENGL 1270   SEM 106

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Who's Afraid of Theater

  • 17940 ENGL 1270   SEM 107

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ENGL 2000

An introductory survey of modern methodologies in criticism and theory. Readings include key texts from such schools as New Criticism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxism, feminism, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16053 ENGL 2000   LEC 001

ENGL 2010

How did England, once a backwater, create some of the culture that now dominates our world? Who wrote the first poem in English, and why did Londoners believe that they were descended from exiled Trojan ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6097 ENGL 2010   LEC 001

  •  8440 ENGL 2010   DIS 201

  •  8460 ENGL 2010   DIS 202

ENGL 2030

This class surveys early literature produced in the United States, roughly from 1620 to 1865, and asks about religion and nationalism in the emerging republic. We will read some classic authors—such writers ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2030

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8675 ENGL 2030   SEM 101

ENGL 2050

This course examines contemporary world literature from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. Our readings will range across genres (including fiction, poetry, and drama) and include ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9126 ENGL 2050   LEC 001

ENGL 2070

"I too dislike it," writes Marianne Moore in her poem "Poetry." Do you like poetry? Do you greet it with Moore's ironic "perfect contempt," or just some hesitation? Welcome one and all to a survey ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16098 ENGL 2070   SEM 101

ENGL 2160

In this introductory course, participants will study the economic and technological history of the television industry, with a particular emphasis on its manifestations in the United States and the United ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16901 ENGL 2160   LEC 001

ENGL 2270

This class aims to give students a good historical and critical grounding in Shakespeare's drama and its central place in Renaissance culture. We read ten plays covering the length of Shakespeare's career: ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 2670

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16111 ENGL 2270   LEC 001

ENGL 2330

Remarkable works written BY women and images OF women shape literature, art, music, and personal experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This seminar will develop skills in discussion and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2305FGSS 2330

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16133 ENGL 2330   SEM 101

ENGL 2600

The production of North American Indigenous literatures began long before European colonization, and persists in a variety of printed, sung, carved, painted, written, spoken, and digital media. From oral ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2600AMST 2600

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16144 ENGL 2600   SEM 101

ENGL 2620

This course will introduce both a variety of writings by Asian North American authors and some critical issues concerning the production and reception of Asian American texts. Working primarily with novels, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 2620AMST 2620

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16333 ENGL 2620   LEC 001

ENGL 2740

Although Scotland, which was long a separate nation, is now politically united with England, it preserves its distinctiveness. This course provides an introduction to Scottish literature, with special ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MEDVL 2740

  • 3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8138 ENGL 2740   LEC 001

ENGL 2761

From the beginning of the twentieth century to the present moment, movies -- and in particular Hollywood -- have profoundly influenced the ways in which people see, think and talk about the world. Focusing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2760PMA 2560VISST 2300

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16771 ENGL 2761   LEC 001

  • Film viewing is required for this class. Films will be available for viewing on Blackboard and will also be screened after Monday class meetings from approx. 8:45-10:30.

  • 16894 ENGL 2761   DIS 201

  • 16895 ENGL 2761   DIS 202

  • 16896 ENGL 2761   DIS 203

  • 16897 ENGL 2761   DIS 204

  • 18202 ENGL 2761   DIS 205

  • 18206 ENGL 2761   DIS 206

ENGL 2771

In Eddie Murphy's Coming to America, Africa is a place of nobility, where even lions are at peace with lambs. In contrast, Leonardo DeCaprio's Blood Diamond is a violent look at the role the demand for ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2771PMA 2403

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16147 ENGL 2771   LEC 001

ENGL 2780

We experience our bodies as so much a part of who we are that we take them for granted. Yet the way we think about the body has a history of its own. This class looks at how the idea of "the body" gets ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 2781FGSS 2780LGBT 2780

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16136 ENGL 2780   LEC 001

ENGL 2800

An introductory course in the theory, practice, and reading of fiction, poetry, and allied forms. Both narrative and verse readings are assigned. Students will learn to savor and practice the craft of ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6107 ENGL 2800   SEM 101

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8198 ENGL 2800   SEM 102

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6108 ENGL 2800   SEM 103

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6109 ENGL 2800   SEM 104

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6110 ENGL 2800   SEM 105

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7875 ENGL 2800   SEM 106

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8882 ENGL 2800   SEM 107

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6111 ENGL 2800   SEM 108

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7203 ENGL 2800   SEM 109

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7204 ENGL 2800   SEM 110

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7980 ENGL 2800   SEM 111

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8025 ENGL 2800   SEM 112

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8038 ENGL 2800   SEM 113

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8171 ENGL 2800   SEM 114

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8172 ENGL 2800   SEM 115

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10036 ENGL 2800   SEM 116

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10050 ENGL 2800   SEM 117

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17065 ENGL 2800   SEM 118

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17691 ENGL 2800   SEM 119

ENGL 2880

ENGL 2880 offers guidance and an audience for students who wish to gain skill in expository writing—a common term for critical, reflective, investigative, and creative nonfiction. Each section provides ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: The Epic Western

  •  6112 ENGL 2880   SEM 101

  • Sweeping vistas. Dark canyons. A cowboy hero, and -- the Vietnam War? Epic Westerns shape the legendary landscape of the American West and dramatize individual and collective efforts to establish national values. At the same time, they track the way those values change over time, reflecting contemporary cultural or political events, e.g. the antiwar movement, feminism, the nation's bicentennial. Looking at recent political struggles, we'll discover what history Western narratives engage, and what they obscure. In films such as The Searchers, The Wild Bunch, and the recent The Hateful Eight, as well as novels including Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, we will examine the intersections of history, gender, class, race, and power in the mythic American West.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Legal Science Fictions

  •  6113 ENGL 2880   SEM 102

  • Science fiction writers imagine whole new social, economic or political systems in order to diagnose or cure the world's ills, and questions of law inevitably emerge. Should this robot be considered a legal person? Does this cool new policing tactic infringe our civil rights? In this course, we'll consider how such legal topics as personhood, equality, and criminality arise in utopian fiction and science fiction, and in actual case law, and how issues of gender, race, labor, and policing and punishment are complicated by technology and law. Assignments will include writing your own Utopia, and a collaborative research project on a currently contested legal-technological issue. Authors will include Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Plato, Joanna Russ, Ursula Le Guin, and China Miéville.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Creative Nonfiction: Do Our Stories Matter?

  •  6114 ENGL 2880   SEM 103

  • Can a story take down a system? Under what conditions? This course will examine the role of the personal narrative as a political weapon. We will analyze the impact of art on the sociopolitical landscape through the works of James Baldwin, Adrienne Rich, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. We will then interrogate our own biases, assumptions, desires, relationships, and fears in order to write the self into a global context. The essays we craft will confront the intersections of political and personal trauma, history and family, identity and theory. Ultimately, we will ponder: Do our stories matter? Why or why not?

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Recognizing Genocide

  •  7967 ENGL 2880   SEM 104

  • Genocides remain etched in our memories. But what, exactly, is a genocide? In this course, you'll write in several roles to shape public opinion. As a legal expert, you'll review the Genocide Convention’s applicability to the Rwandan genocide. As an academic, you'll test the concept of genocide against the Cambodian experience. Reporting as a journalist, you'll profile the killings in former Yugoslavia. As a politician, you will debate whether to recognize the deaths in Darfur as a genocide or not. To support these several forms of writing, you'll read Henri Locard’s Pol Pot’s Little Red Book, watch Hotel Rwanda and Enemies of the People, explore the genocide archive at Cornell, and hear cases from the Arusha Accords and The Hague.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Global Romance: Love and the Political

  •  8855 ENGL 2880   SEM 105

  • Does love create worlds or put them in question? Does it secure a community, or mark its dissolution? Does it socialize or unsettle the individual? What is love when it meets the law? This course examines the dialogue between romantic and political narratives, tracing the ways they interrupt, galvanize, or complement each other. We will bring together fictions of love’s sway over the self (such as The Tempest, Frankenstein, and Beloved) with theories of love’s place in the political (such as Elizabeth’s Povinelli’s The Empire of Love and Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s Declaration). Through reviews and critical essays, we'll examine what happens when romance is placed at the heart of tales of empire, migration, reunion, and revolt.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Creative Nonfiction: The Invented I

  •  9633 ENGL 2880   SEM 106

  • In this course, we’ll explore the personal essay, focusing on how the form can be a tool for self-discovery, self-reflection, and self-invention. As thinkers, we’ll focus on the practice of critical reflection, learn how to interrogate our experiences, make peace with the imperfections of our memory, and become more conscious of the particular ways in which we see the world. As writers, we’ll study narrative craft, including scene, dialogue, metaphor and character development. Our reading will feature Jamaica Kincaid, Zadie Smith, Eula Biss, James Baldwin and David Foster Wallace, among many others. A few documentaries and audio stories will round things out. Through our workshops, we’ll learn how to be generous, empathetic, and constructive readers of our peers’ work.

ENGL 2906

Punk Culture--comprised of music, fashion, literature, and visual arts--represents a complex critical stance of resistance and refusal that coalesced at a particular historical moment in the mid-1970s, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2006COML 2006MUSIC 2006

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16093 ENGL 2906   LEC 001

  • 16094 ENGL 2906   DIS 201

  • 16095 ENGL 2906   DIS 202

ENGL 2931

This course takes a critical approach to our contemporary understanding of the figure of the zombie and its inextricable link to discourses on race and blackness in the Americas. An introductory grounding ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2310ASRC 2310

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 10108 ENGL 2931   SEM 101

ENGL 2960

Poems are among the most highly structured linguistic objects that human beings produce. While some of the devices used in poetry are arbitrary and purely conventional, most are natural extensions of structural ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6785LING 2285LING 6285

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16130 ENGL 2960   LEC 001

ENGL 3080

An introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and the Icelandic family saga-the "native" heroic literary genre of Icelandic tradition. Texts will vary but will normally include the Prose Edda, the Poetic ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MEDVL 3080

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16139 ENGL 3080   SEM 101

ENGL 3110

In this course, we will read and discuss some of the earliest surviving English poetry and prose. Attention will be paid to (1) learning to read the language in which this literature is written, (2) evaluating ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6110MEDVL 3110MEDVL 6110

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6558 ENGL 3110   SEM 101

ENGL 3115

The course will provide an overview of video art, alternative documentary video, and digital installation and networked art over the past 50 years.  We will analyze four phases of video and new media: ... view course details

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  • 16077 ENGL 3115   SEM 101

ENGL 3190

We will approach the range and scope of Chaucer's poetry (The Book of the Duchess, selections from the Canterbury Tales, his short lyrics, and selections from Troilus and Criseyde) through the rise of ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MEDVL 3190

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16337 ENGL 3190   SEM 101

ENGL 3290

Whose story is the story of the fall? Milton's poem about "man's first disobedience" begins, in fact, with a story about an earlier act of falling, that of Satan, and inserts the human perspective in a ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16339 ENGL 3290   SEM 101

ENGL 3390

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that students who have read Jane Austen must be in want of an opportunity to continue that delicious experience, and that those who have not read her novels should. ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8137 ENGL 3390   LEC 001

ENGL 3545

What does it mean to write after the aesthetic breakthroughs of modernism, after the devastation of WWII, and during the twilight of the British empire? This class will introduce students to British literature ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16340 ENGL 3545   SEM 101

ENGL 3560

Native and Western philosophies serve similar functions: they organize societies and construct those taken-for-granted truths we all operate from, but rarely examine. Even as such "truths" create ideas ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 3560AMST 3562

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16341 ENGL 3560   SEM 101

ENGL 3585

To what extent are there specific forms or themes that characterize women's literature? How have women writers both extended and revised each other's work? What issues have been most pressing for feminist ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 3585

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16448 ENGL 3585   SEM 101

ENGL 3690

Poverty is an ongoing issue in the United States, and has intensified since the recession of 2008. As such, poverty has disproportionately affected women and underrepresented racial and ethnic communities. ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3690FGSS 3691

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16368 ENGL 3690   SEM 101

ENGL 3702

"You didn't see anything," a woman in a movie says to her dubious lover. "No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don't understand." What is desire in the cinema? How do we know it when we see ... view course details

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  • 16350 ENGL 3702   LEC 001

ENGL 3765

What innovations in form, style, genre, and subject matter have characterized the novel in the 21st century? What is the status of the novel in the wake of postmodernism, postcolonialism, poststructuralism, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9368 ENGL 3765   SEM 101

ENGL 3785

In these latter days, apocalyptic narratives abound—stories that help us imagine the end of times, address or avoid real-world crises, and make sense (or fun) of history. We'll read and view works in such ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16355 ENGL 3785   SEM 101

ENGL 3790

This course offers an exciting trip to the intricate world of Nabokov's fiction. After establishing himself in Europe as a distinguished Russian writer, Nabokov, at the outbreak of World War II, came to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3815RUSSL 3385

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7856 ENGL 3790   SEM 101

  • In translation.

ENGL 3805

This is the one and only translation workshop intended for creative writers and other students in love with literature. The workshop is designed to enrich your writer's and reader's imagination through ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16356 ENGL 3805   SEM 101

    • MWF Uris Hall 494
    • Mort Hutchinson, V

ENGL 3820

This course focuses upon the writing of fiction or related narrative forms. May include significant reading and discussion of readings, explorations of form and technique, completion of writing assignments ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6115 ENGL 3820   SEM 101

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6116 ENGL 3820   SEM 102

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7885 ENGL 3820   SEM 103

ENGL 3840

This course focuses upon the writing of poetry. May include significant reading and discussion of readings, explorations of form and technique, completion of writing assignments and prompts, and peer review ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6117 ENGL 3840   SEM 101

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8385 ENGL 3840   SEM 102

ENGL 3910

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the America? ... view course details

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  • 16075 ENGL 3910   SEM 101

ENGL 3954

In this course, we will critically examine the production and performance of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender through literature and contemporary performance genres such as spoken word, slam poetry, ... view course details

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  •  9875 ENGL 3954   LEC 001

ENGL 3980

This course analyzes several areas of Latino/a popular culture. Considering the historical trajectory of Latinidad in art, music, film and popular media, the course also engages emergent cultural practices. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3981LSP 3980

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16357 ENGL 3980   SEM 101

ENGL 4070

An introductory survey of some of the central issues in contemporary theory, drawing on both the humanities and the social sciences, with a special focus on three themes: ideology, objectivity, and social ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 7020

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16398 ENGL 4070   SEM 101

ENGL 4160

This seminar will read and research all three "versions" of one of the most original poems from the "age of Chaucer" or any period: Piers Plowman, along with some of the short "alliterative revival" poetry ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 7160MEDVL 4160MEDVL 7160

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18371 ENGL 4160   SEM 101

ENGL 4195

This offers an in depth survey the traditions of lyric poetry during the English Middle Ages. Beginning with the legacy of medieval Latin, it traces the rise of the short, vernacular poem in a variety ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6195MEDVL 4195MEDVL 6195

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16459 ENGL 4195   SEM 101

ENGL 4291

What is distinctive about American Shakespeare? Is it merely a less confident cousin of its more prestigious UK relative; or does it have a character of its own? What is currently happening with 'American ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8573 ENGL 4291   LEC 080

  • Taught in Washington, DC.

ENGL 4370

If you want to learn geology, engineering, psychology, nutrition, religion, economics, and how to write an epic poem, you go scurrying to widespread corners of the university. Yet in the English Enlightenment, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 4871STS 4871

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16462 ENGL 4370   SEM 101

ENGL 4507

An exploration of writing by representative black women writers. We will examine specific texts as well as necessary critical and theoretical ideas which have been generated through, or with which this ... view course details

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  • 16599 ENGL 4507   SEM 101

ENGL 4550

Race, comparison, and time—what do these terms have to do with each other? What does it mean to be in time, or out of time? What are some other ways of inhabiting time, or of being inhabited by time? What ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 4555AAS 6995ENGL 6995

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16858 ENGL 4550   SEM 101

ENGL 4655

An intensive study of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, accompanied by readings in Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," his deathbed collection The Maine Woods, and his late natural history essays. With the major ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4645

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16494 ENGL 4655   SEM 101

ENGL 4715

"In many ways," says Anton Ego in Ratatouille, "the work of a critic is easy." Is that true? This course examines critical writing intended for general readers – book and film reviews in particular – with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16367 ENGL 4715   SEM 101

ENGL 4800

This course is intended for creative writers who have completed  ENGL 3840 or ENGL 3850 and wish to refine their poetry writing. It may include significant reading and discussion of readings, advanced ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6118 ENGL 4800   SEM 101

ENGL 4801

This course is intended for narrative writing students who have completed ENGL 3820 or ENGL 3830 and wish to refine their writing. It may include significant reading and discussion of readings, advanced ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8781 ENGL 4801   SEM 101

ENGL 4902

Exploring questions of narrative perspective in relation to embodied desire, this seminar will weave together four different areas of study: theories of perspective, focalization, narrative voice, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4602LGBT 4602SHUM 4602

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18122 ENGL 4902   SEM 101

ENGL 4906

This course will consider how Latina/o artists explore new approaches to texts, spaces, performers, and audiences.  In addition, students will be asked to focus on the connections that were and are being ... view course details

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  • 17746 ENGL 4906   SEM 101

ENGL 4910

The purpose of the Honors Seminar is to acquaint students with methods of study and research to help them write their senior Honors Essay. However, all interested students are welcome to enroll. The seminar ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Shakespeare and Marlowe

  •  6771 ENGL 4910   SEM 101

  • This honors seminar brings together two of the most striking and influential writers of the early modern period. Pairing and comparing their work introduces questions not only about their sensational lives and texts but also about power (including the power of classical authority), gender/sexuality, literary influence and the work of cultural adaptation. The only prerequisite for the course is an adventurous mind; no previous exposure to the authors is assumed. For students who are familiar with Shakespeare, the goal of this course is to establish a larger cultural and literary context for close and critical study of both writers. We will include some film, as another kind of adaptation, and there will be some reading in (translated) primary sources: Ovid, Virgil, Plutarch.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Reading Joyce's Ulysses

  •  7808 ENGL 4910   SEM 102

  • Joyce’s masterwork Ulysses, the most influential book of the twentieth century, will be the focus of a fascinating, challenging, and pleasurable odyssey of reading to discover its art and meaning. We shall place Ulysses in the context of Irish culture and literary modernism. We shall discuss critical and theoretical approaches with the goal of preparing you to write your senior Honors thesis. We shall explore the relationship between Ulysses and other experiments in literary modernism—but also in painting and sculpture—and show how Ulysses redefines the concepts of epic, hero, and reader. We shall examine Ulysses as a political novel—specifically, Joyce’s response to Yeats and the Celtic Renaissance; Joyce’s role in the debate about the direction of Irish politics after Parnell; and Joyce’s response to British colonial occupation of Ireland. We shall also consider Ulysses as an urban novel in which Bloom, the marginalized Jew and outsider, is symptomatic of the kind of alienation created by urban culture. No previous experience with Joyce is required.

ENGL 4930

Students should secure a thesis advisor by the end of the junior year and should enroll in that faculty member's section of ENGL 4930. Students enrolling in the fall will automatically be enrolled in a ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one discussion and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8575 ENGL 4930   DIS 201

    • TBA
    • Lorenz, P

  •  6119 ENGL 4930   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Anker, E

  •  8059 ENGL 4930   IND 601A

    • TBA
    • Cohn, E

  •  8061 ENGL 4930   IND 601B

    • TBA
    • Caruth, C

  •  8079 ENGL 4930   IND 601C

    • TBA
    • Kennedy, W

  •  8495 ENGL 4930   IND 601D

    • TBA
    • Warrior, C

  •  8581 ENGL 4930   IND 601E

    • TBA
    • Haenni, S

  •  8607 ENGL 4930   IND 601F

    • TBA
    • Peraino, J

  •  7406 ENGL 4930   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Attell, K

  •  7407 ENGL 4930   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Boyce Davies, C

  •  7408 ENGL 4930   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Braddock, J

  •  7409 ENGL 4930   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Brady, M

  •  7410 ENGL 4930   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Brown, L

  •  7411 ENGL 4930   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Chase, C

  •  8475 ENGL 4930   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Goldstein, A

  •  7412 ENGL 4930   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Cheyfitz, E

  •  7413 ENGL 4930   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Correll, B

  •  7414 ENGL 4930   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Crawford, M

  •  7444 ENGL 4930   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Culler, J

  •  7445 ENGL 4930   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Davis, S

  •  7446 ENGL 4930   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Diaz, E

  •  7447 ENGL 4930   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Faulkner, D

  •  7448 ENGL 4930   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Fried, D

  •  7449 ENGL 4930   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Fulton, A

  •  7450 ENGL 4930   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Galloway, A

  •  7451 ENGL 4930   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Gilbert, R

  •  7452 ENGL 4930   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Hanson, E

  •  7453 ENGL 4930   IND 621

    • TBA
    • Hill, T

  •  7454 ENGL 4930   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Londe, G

  •  7455 ENGL 4930   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Juffer, J

  •  7456 ENGL 4930   IND 624

    • TBA
    • Kalas, R

  •  7457 ENGL 4930   IND 625

    • TBA
    • Long, K

  •  7458 ENGL 4930   IND 626

    • TBA
    • Lorenz, P

  •  7459 ENGL 4930   IND 627

    • TBA
    • Mann, J

  •  7460 ENGL 4930   IND 628

    • TBA
    • Hutchinson, I

  •  7461 ENGL 4930   IND 629

    • TBA
    • Koch, M

  •  7462 ENGL 4930   IND 630

    • TBA
    • McCullough, K

  •  7463 ENGL 4930   IND 631

    • TBA
    • Mohanty, S

  •  7464 ENGL 4930   IND 632

    • TBA
    • Murray, T

  •  7465 ENGL 4930   IND 633

    • TBA
    • Quinonez, E

  •  7466 ENGL 4930   IND 634

    • TBA
    • Raskolnikov, M

  •  7467 ENGL 4930   IND 635

    • TBA
    • Saccamano, N

  •  7468 ENGL 4930   IND 636

    • TBA
    • Samuels, S

  •  7469 ENGL 4930   IND 637

    • TBA
    • Sawyer, P

  •  7470 ENGL 4930   IND 638

    • TBA
    • Schwarz, D

  •  7471 ENGL 4930   IND 639

    • TBA
    • Shaw, H

  •  7472 ENGL 4930   IND 640

    • TBA
    • Van Clief-Stefanon, L

  •  7473 ENGL 4930   IND 641

    • TBA
    • Vaughn, S

  •  7763 ENGL 4930   IND 642

    • TBA
    • Wong, S

  •  7764 ENGL 4930   IND 643

    • TBA
    • Woubshet, D

  •  7768 ENGL 4930   IND 644

    • TBA
    • Zacher, S

  •  7772 ENGL 4930   IND 645

    • TBA
    • Mackowski, J

  •  8021 ENGL 4930   IND 646

    • TBA
    • Jaime, K

  •  8024 ENGL 4930   IND 647

    • TBA
    • Ngugi, M

  •  8034 ENGL 4930   IND 648

    • TBA
    • Hutchinson, G

  •  8060 ENGL 4930   IND 649

    • TBA
    • Monroe, J

ENGL 4940

ENGL 4940 Honors Essay Tutorial II is the second of a two-part series of courses required for students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in English. The first course in the series is ENGL 4930 Honors ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6120 ENGL 4940   IND 601

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    • Anker, E

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7415 ENGL 4940   IND 602

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    • Attell, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7416 ENGL 4940   IND 603

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    • Bogel, F

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7417 ENGL 4940   IND 604

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    • Braddock, J

Syllabi: none