ENGL -- English

ENGL 402 Chaucer (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Works read in Middle English. Readings may include Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, dream visions, lyrics.

ENGL 403 Shakespeare: The Early Works (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Close study of selected works from the first half of Shakespeare's career. Generic issues of early histories, comedies, tragedies. Language, theme, dramatic technique, sources, and early modern English social-historical context.

ENGL 404 Shakespeare: The Later Works (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Close study of selected plays from the second half of Shakespeare's career. Generic issues of later tragedies, later comedies, romances. Language, theme, dramatic technique, sources, and early modern English social-historical context.

ENGL 407 Non-dramatic Literature of the Sixteenth Century (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Poetic and prose genres--utopia, epic, narrative, lyric, sonnet, oration, epistle, sermon, apologia--in context of the literary and intellectual life of the sixteenth century. Writers such as More, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, and Spenser.

ENGL 408 Literature by Women Before 1800 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Also offered as WMST 408. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL 408 or WMST 408. Selected writings by women in the medieval and early modern era.

ENGL 410 Edmund Spenser (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Selected works of Edmund Spenser in their literary, social, and historical contexts. Special attention to The Faerie Queene; also sonnets and lyric poetry.

ENGL 412 Literature of the Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Works from early Stuart through Interregnum period. Major literary genres in historical contexts. Writers such as Donne, Jonson, Mary Worth, Bacon, Browne, and Marvell.

ENGL 414 Milton (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Poetry and major prose in their social, political, and literary-historical contexts. Special attention to Paradise Lost. Other works may include Samson Agonistes and shorter poems.

ENGL 415 Literature of the Seventeenth Century, 1660-1700 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. English poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction written from the Restoration of Charles II to 1700. Attention to increasing literacy and publication and greater involvement by women in literary production. Authors include Milton, Dryden, Congreve, and Behn.

ENGL 416 Literature of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1750 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. British literary traditions, including the poetry of Pope, the prose of Swift, the correspondence of Montagu, the drama of Gay, and early novels by Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding.

ENGL 417 Literature of the Eighteenth Century, 1750-1800 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. British poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction, emphasizing innovative forms and attitudes in genres such as the gothic novel and political writings, as well as more traditional works. Authors include Johnson, Burney, Sterne, Burke, and Wollstonecraft.

ENGL 418 Major British Writers before 1800 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Two writers studied intensively each semester.

ENGL 419 Major British Writers after 1800 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Two writers studied intensively each semester.

ENGL 420 Literature of the Romantic Period I (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature of permission of department. First generation of writers of the early nineteenth century, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake.

ENGL 421 Literature of the Romantic Period II (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Second generation of writers of the Romantic period, including Keats, Percy and Mary Shelley, Byron, Lamb, Hazlitt.

ENGL 422 Literature of the Victorian Period I (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Major writers between 1835 and 1865, such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Mill.

ENGL 423 Literature of the Victorian Period II (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Major writers between 1850 and 1890, such as Arnold, D.G. and Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins, Pater.

ENGL 424 Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Transition from Victorian to modern, 1885 to 1910. Literary movements and techniques; changes in thought and feeling. Writers such as Wilde, Kipling, Stevenson, Wells, Butler.

ENGL 425 Modern British Literature (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Major Modernist writers in English prose and poetry since 1900. Such writers as Eliot, Larkin, Forster, Burgess, Durrell, Henry Green, Golding, Auden, Malcolm Lowry, Joyce, and Yeats.

ENGL 429 Independent Research in English (1-6) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Designed to provide qualified majors in English an opportunity to pursue specific English readings under the supervision of a member of the department.

ENGL 430 American Literature, Beginning to 1810, the Colonial and Federal Periods (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Puritanism, the Enlightenment, early Romanticism. Writers such as Bradstreet, Franklin, Brown.

ENGL 431 American Literature: 1810 to 1865, the American Renaissance (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Nationalism, Sentimentalism, Transcendentalism. Writers such as Douglass, Stowe, Melville.

ENGL 432 American Literature: 1865 to 1914, Realism and Naturalism (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Reconstruction, Realism, Naturalism. Representative writers such as Dickinson, James, Dreiser.

ENGL 433 American Literature: 1914 to the Present, the Modern Period (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Modernism, Postmodernism. Writers such as Stevens, Stein, Ellison.

ENGL 434 American Drama (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. American drama from late eighteenth-century to the present; emphasis on theater of the twentieth century. Authors such as Tyler, O'Neill, Hellman, Hansberry, and Albee.

ENGL 435 American Poetry: Beginning to the Present (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Selections of American poetry, from Bradstreet to contemporary free verse. Authors such as Whitman, Dickinson, Bishop, Hughes, Rich, and Frost.

ENGL 437 Contemporary American Literature (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Prose, poetry, drama of living American writers. Current cultural and social issues.

ENGL 438 Major American Writers before 1865 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature of permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Two writers studied intensively each semester.

ENGL 439 Major American Writers after 1865 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Two writers studied intensively each semester.

ENGL 440 The Novel in America to 1914 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Survey of the American novel to World War I. Cultural and philosophical contexts; technical developments in the genre. Authors such as Melville, Wells Brown, James, Sedgwick, Chopin.

ENGL 441 The Novel in America Since 1914 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Survey of the American novel since World War I. Cultural and philosophical contexts, technical developments in the genre. Authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Faulkner, Anne Tyler, Morrison.

ENGL 442 Literature of the South (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Survey of fiction and poetry, especially the period 1900 to the present. Authors such as Faulkner, Welty, Glasgow, Wolfe, and Hurston.

ENGL 443 Afro-American Literature (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. An examination of the literary expression of the black American in the United States, from its beginning to the present.

ENGL 444 Feminist Critical Theory (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 250 or WMST 200 or WMST 250. Also offered as WMST 444. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL 444 or WMST 444. Issues in contemporary feminist thought that have particular relevance to textual studies, such as theories of language, literature, culture, interpretation, and identity.

ENGL 445 Modern British and American Poetry (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. The formation of Modernism in British and American poetry before 1930. Such poets as Yeats, Pound, H.D., Eliot, Langston Hughes, Moore, Stevens, and Williams.

ENGL 446 Post-Modern British and American Poetry (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. British and American poets from the 1930's to the present. Such poets as Auden, Williams, Plath, Brooks, Lowell, Wolcott, Ted Hughes, Bishop, Larkin, Jarrell, and Berryman.

ENGL 447 Satire (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. An introduction to English and American satire from Chaucer to the present.

ENGL 448 Literature by Women of Color (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Also offered as WMST 448. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL 448 or WMST 448. Literature by women of color in the United States, Britain, and in colonial and post-colonial countries.

ENGL 449 Playwriting (3) Practice in writing one-act plays. Script development, production choices.

ENGL 450 Early Tudor and Elizabethan Drama (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Drama of the sixteenth century, from Sir Thomas More's circle through Lyly, Greene, Marlowe, and their successors. Interludes, school drama, comedy and tragedy, professional theater. Influences of humanism, Protestantism, politics, and cultural change.

ENGL 451 Jacobean and Caroline Drama (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Drama in early decades of the seventeenth century. Playwrights include Jonson, Middleton, Marston, Webster, Beaumont and Flecther. Tragedy, city comedy, tragicomedy, satire, masque. Pre-Civil War theatrical, political, and religious contexts.

ENGL 452 English Drama From 1660 to 1800 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, with special attention to theater history, cultural influences, concepts of tragedy, comedy, farce, parody, and burlesque, as well as dramatic and verbal wit.

ENGL 453 Literary Criticism (3) Prerequisite: two literature courses.

ENGL 454 Modern Drama (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. The roots of European Modernism and its manifestation in the drama of the twentieth century. Such playwrights as Beckett, Churchill, Stoppard, Wilde, Chekov, Ibsen, Brecht, O'Neill, Sartre, Anouilh, Williams, and Shaw.

ENGL 455 The Eighteenth-Century English Novel (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. The origins and development of the British novel, from the late seventeenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth. Questions about what novels were, who wrote them, and who read them. Authors such as Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen.

ENGL 456 The Nineteenth-Century English Novel (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Surveys major novels of the period. Attention to narrative form and realism; representations of gender and class; social contexts for reading, writing and publishing. Authors such as Austen, Bronte, Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope.

ENGL 457 The Modern Novel (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Modernism in the novel of the twentieth century. Such writers as Joyce, Lawrence, Murdoch, James, Forster, Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Ellison, Welty, Nabokov and Malamud.

ENGL 458 Literature by Women after 1800 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Also offered as WMST 458. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL 458 or WMST 458. Selected writings by women after l800.

ENGL 461 Folk Narrative (3) Personal history narrative; studies in legend, tale and myth.

ENGL 462 Folksong and Ballad (3) A cross-section of American folk and popular songs in their cultural contexts; artists from Bill Monroe to Robert Johnson.

ENGL 463 American Folklore (3) An examination of American folklore in terms of history and regional folk cultures. Exploration of collections of folklore from various areas to reveal the difference in regional and ethnic groups as witnessed in their oral and literary traditions.

ENGL 464 African-American Folklore and Culture (3) The culture of African Americans in terms of United States history (antebellum to the present) and social changes (rural to urban). Exploration of aspects of African American culture and history via oral and literary traditions and life histories.

ENGL 466 Arthurian Legend (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Development of Arthurian legend in English and continental literature from Middle Ages to twentieth century. All readings in modern English.

ENGL 468 American Film Directors (3-9) Prerequisite: one college-level film course. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. A study of two or more American filmmakers in an analytic cultural context.

ENGL 469 Honors Seminar: Alternative Traditions (4-5) Prerequisite: permission of Director of English Honors. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Year-long seminar focusing on a selected literary, cultural, or social topic that features texts and/or critical perspectives outside the traditional canon.

ENGL 470 African-American Literature: The Beginning to 1910 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Beginnings of African-American literature including origins of literary expression in folk tales, songs, and spirituals; slave narratives; pamphlets, essays and oratory; and the emergence of poetry and fiction. Emphasis is on interaction between literary forms and the salient political issues of the day.

ENGL 471 African-American Literature: 1910-1945 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Emergence of modernism in African-American writing including debates over the definition of unique African-American aesthetics, with emphasis on conditions surrounding the production of African-American literatures.

ENGL 472 African-American Literature: 1945 to Present (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Transformation of African-American literatures into modern and postmodern forms. Influenced by World War II and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, this literature is characterized by conscious attempts to reconnect literary and folk forms, the emergence of women writers, and highly experimental fiction.

ENGL 476 Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Major works of fantasy and science fiction since the mid-eighteenth century, emphasizing their continuity and their relationships to philosophical speculation, scientific discovery, literary history and cultural change.

ENGL 477 Studies in Mythmaking (3) Prerequisite: two literature courses. Major themes, figures, and configurations of northern European mythology, examining the value of the mythic mode of thought in a scientific era.

ENGL 478 Selected Topics in English and American Literature before 1800 (1-3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Repeatable if content differs.

ENGL 479 Selected Topics in English and American Literature after 1800 (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Repeatable if content differs.

ENGL 482 History of the English Language (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 280 or LING 200 or permission of department. Origin and development of the English language.

ENGL 483 American English (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 280 or LING 200 or permission of department. Origins and development of the various dialects of English spoken in the United States.

ENGL 484 Advanced English Grammar (3) Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL 484 or LING 402. Advanced study of grammatical description.

ENGL 486 Introduction to Old English (3) Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of department. Grammar, syntax, and phonology of Old English. Works read in the original language. Poetry may include "Battle of Maldon," "Dream of the Rood," "Wanderer," "Seafarer," riddles; prose of Bede, Wulfstan, Aelfric, and other writers of Anglo-Saxon period in England.

ENGL 487 Foundations of Rhetoric (3) Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL 487 or SPCH 401. Principles and approaches to the theory, criticism, and historical understanding of rhetorical discourse.

ENGL 488 Topics in Advanced Writing (3) Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Different genres of technical and professional writing including proposal writing, computer documentation, technical report writing, instruction manuals, etc. Students will analyze models of a genre, produce their own versions, test, edit and revise them.

ENGL 489 Special Topics in English Language (3) Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Current topics in language, such as linguistics, history of rhetoric, and composition studies.

ENGL 493 Advanced Expository Writing (3) Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of professional writing requirement. Writing processes and documents most necessary for professional writers.

ENGL 494 Editing and Document Design (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 391, ENGL 393 or equivalent. Principles of general editing for clarity, precision and correctness. Applications of the conventions of grammar, spelling, punctuation and usage, and organization for logic and accuracy. Working knowledge of the professional vocabulary of editing applied throughout the course.

ENGL 495 Independent Study in Honors (2) Prerequisites: candidacy for honors in English and ENGL 370 and ENGL 373. For ENGL majors only. Completion and presentation of the senior honors project.

ENGL 498 Advanced Fiction Workshop (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 396 or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Formerly ENGL 496. Practice in the craft of writing fiction, with emphasis on the revision process. Students encouraged to experiment with a variety of subjects, voices, and forms. Selected readings, frequent writing exercises, workshop format.

ENGL 499 Advanced Poetry Workshop (3) Prerequisite: ENGL 397 or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Formerly ENGL 497. Practice in the craft of writing poetry, with emphasis on the revision process. Students encouraged to experiment with a variety of subjects, forms, and literary conventions. Selected readings, frequent writing exercises, workshop format.

ENGL 601 Literary Research and Critical Contexts (3)

ENGL 602 Critical Theory and Literary Criticism (3) An introduction to critical theory and literary criticism, with an overview of major movements (including formalism, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and feminism). Designed to help graduate students assess the various ways of approaching and writing about literature.

ENGL 604 Old English (3) Grammar, syntax, phonology and prosody of Old English. Designed to give graduate students a working knowledge of Old English and to introduce them to the major Old English texts in the original.

ENGL 605 Readings in Linguistics (3) A survey of theoretical and applied linguistics.

ENGL 607 Readings in the History of Rhetorical Theory to 1900 (3) Earlier theories of effective written discourse surveyed historically and as influenced by ethical, technical, and social change.

ENGL 611 Approaches to College Composition (3) Required for graduate assistants (optional to other graduate students). A seminar emphasizing rhetorical and linguistic foundations for the handling of a course in freshman composition.

ENGL 612 Approaches to Professional and Technical Writing (3) A pedagogical approach to professional and technical writing, its history and methodolgy.

ENGL 618 Writing for Professionals (3) Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Writing proposals, reports, manuals, policy statements, correspondence, etc. for typical government and business settings. Principles of rhetorical and linguistic analysis and techniques for managing the review process in large organizations.

ENGL 620 Readings in Medieval English Literature (3)

ENGL 621 Readings in Renaissance English Literature (3)

ENGL 622 Readings in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (3)

ENGL 623 Readings in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (3)

ENGL 624 Readings in English Romantic Literature (3)

ENGL 625 Readings in English Victorian Literature (3)

ENGL 626 Readings in American Literature before 1865 (3)

ENGL 627 Readings in American Literature, 1865-1914 (3)

ENGL 628 Readings in African American Literature (3)

ENGL 629 Readings in Folklore and Folklife (3-6) Readings pertaining to various genres of African American folklore including oral narrative, ballad, folksong, belief, custom and material culture, with special attention given to the history of the study of African American folklore including fieldwork, interpretation and the political application of these materials. Explores issues of race, ethnicity, region, gender and class, and the ongoing relations between folklore and print and other media.

ENGL 630 Readings in 20th Century English Literature (3)

ENGL 631 Readings in 20th Century American Literature (3)

ENGL 638 Readings in Film as Text and Cultural Form (3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. An inquiry into theoretical approaches to the cinematic text that include studies of form, culture, reception, ideological formations, historical contextualizations, and the problematics of representation.

ENGL 668 Readings in Modern Literary Theory (3-6) Formerly ENGL 666.

ENGL 679 Professional and Career Mentoring for Master's Students (1-3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Augments advising currently provided by the English Department Graduate Studies Office. Individual professional and career mentoring for MA and MFA students from a faculty member.

ENGL 688 Poetry Workshop (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Poetry workshop.

ENGL 689 Fiction Workshop (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Fiction workshop.

ENGL 699 Independent Study (1-3) Prerequisites: departmental approval of research project; and permission of instructor.

ENGL 708 Seminar in Rhetoric (3) Topics in rhetoric, such as the history of rhetorical theory, modern rhetorical theory, rhetorical interpretation, composition theory, and rhetoric of social groups.

ENGL 709 Seminar in Myth (3) Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Formerly ENGL 777. Seminar in myth.

ENGL 718 Seminar in Medieval Literature (3)

ENGL 719 Seminar in Renaissance Literature (3)

ENGL 728 Seminar in Seventeenth-Century Literature (3)

ENGL 729 Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature (3)

ENGL 738 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature (3)

ENGL 739 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature (3)

ENGL 748 Seminar in American Literature (3)

ENGL 749 Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature (3)

ENGL 758 Literary Criticism and Theory (3)

ENGL 759 Seminar in Literature and the Other Arts (3)

ENGL 768 Studies in Drama (3)

ENGL 769 Studies in Fiction (3)

ENGL 775 Seminar in Composition Theory (3) Readings and research in recent theories of effective writing.

ENGL 778 Seminar in Folklore (3)

ENGL 779 Seminar in Language Study (3) Seminar in linguistic aspects of literature and composition.

ENGL 788 Form and Theory of Poetry (3) Repeatable to 9 credits.

ENGL 789 Form and Theory in Fiction (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. A variety of prose modes (mediations, psychological studies, reportage myths, collage, magic realism, satire, etc.). Some of the writers to be read include Kafka, Cather, Barth, Kundera, and Barthelme.

ENGL 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6)

ENGL 819 Seminar in Themes and Types in English Literature (3)

ENGL 828 Seminar in Themes and Types in American Literature (3)

ENGL 879 Professional Mentoring for Doctoral Students (1-3) Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs. Augments advising currently provided by the English Department Graduate Studies Office. Individual professional and career mentoring for PhD students from a faculty member.

ENGL 898 Pedagogical Mentoring for Doctoral Students (1-3) Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs. Pedagogical mentoring by roster faculty members for graduate students teaching 200-level literature courses.

ENGL 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8)