Graduate Courses for English (ENGL)
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ENGL 402 Chaucer (3 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of
department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Also offered as
WMST408. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL408
or WMST408.
Selected writings by women in the medieval and early modern era.
ENGL 410 Edmund Spenser (3 credits)
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 credits)
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
Wroth, Bacon, Browne, and Marvell.
ENGL 414 Milton (3 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of
department.
British poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction, 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 credits)
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 credits)
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 English Romantic Literature (3 credits)
Prerequisite: two lower level English courses, at least one in
literature; or permission of department.
British poetry, drama, fiction, and criticism c.1790 to c.1830, a period
of dramatic social change and revolution in literature, philosophy, the
arts, industry, and politics. Authors include Austen, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Keats, Byron, Percy, and Mary Shelley.
ENGL 422 English Victorian Literature (3 credits)
Prerequisite: two lower level English courses, at least one in
literature; or permission of department.
A survey of English literature of the Victorian period. Writers may
include Arnold, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens, George Eliot, Carlyle,
Ruskin, Newman, Wilde.
ENGL 425 Modern British Literature (3 credits)
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 428 Seminar in Language and Literature (3 credits)
Junior standing. For ENGL majors only. Repeatable to 9 credits if
content differs.
Topics will vary each semester. The course will provide a seminar
experience in material or methodologies not otherwise available to the
major.
ENGL 429 Independent Research in English (1-6 credits)
Prerequisite: ENGL301 and two English course (excluding fundamental
studies requirement) and permission of department. Sophomore standing.
Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.
An advanced independent research project for qualified students,
supervised by an English faculty member, on a topic not ordinarily
covered in available courses.
ENGL 430 American Literature, Beginning to 1810, the Colonial and Federal Periods (3 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of
department.
Modernism, Postmodernism. Writers such as Stevens, Stein, Ellison.
ENGL 434 American Drama (3 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: ENGL250 or WMST200 or WMST250. Also offered as WMST444.
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL444 or
WMST444.
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 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of
department.
British and American poets from the 1930s to the present. Such poets
as Auden, Williams, Plath, Brooks, Lowell, Wolcott, Ted Hughes, Bishop,
Larkin, Jarrell, and Berryman.
ENGL 447 Satire (3 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of
department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Also offered as
WMST448. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL448
or WMST448.
Literature by women of color in the United States, Britain, and in
colonial and post-colonial countries.
ENGL 449 Playwriting (3 credits)
Practice in writing one-act plays. Script development, production
choices.
ENGL 450 Renaissance Drama I (3 credits)
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 Renaissance Drama II (3 credits)
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 Fletcher. Tragedy,
city comedy, tragicomedy, satire, masque. Pre-Civil War theatrical,
political, and religious contexts.
ENGL 452 English Drama From 1660 to 1800 (3 credits)
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 Theory (3 credits)
Prerequisite: two literature courses.
An in-depth study of literary and critical theory.
ENGL 454 Modern Drama (3 credits)
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, Chekhov, Ibsen, Brecht, O'Neill, Sartre, Anouilh, Williams, and
Shaw.
ENGL 455 The Eighteenth-Century English Novel (3 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of
department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Also offered as
WMST458. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL458
or WMST458.
Selected writings by women after l800.
ENGL 459 Selected Topics in Sexuality and Literature (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Two lower-level English courses, at least one in
literature; or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if
content differs.
Detailed study of sexuality as an aspect of literary and cultural
expression.
ENGL 461 Folk Narrative (3 credits)
Personal history narrative; studies in legend, tale and myth.
ENGL 462 Folksong and Ballad (3 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 465 Theories of Sexuality and Literature (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Two lower-level English courses, at least one in
literature; or permission of department.
An in-depth study of the ways in which sexuality and sexual difference
create or confound the conditions of meaning in the production of
literary texts. Attention to psychoanalysis, history of sexuality,
feminist theory, and other accounts of sexual identity.
ENGL 466 Arthurian Legend (3 credits)
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 467 Computer and Text (3 credits)
Prerequisite: One English course in literature or permission of
department.
Examines electronic literature and other aspects of digital textuality.
Topics may include interactive fiction, hypertext, image and sound
works, literary games and simulations. Emphasis on critical and
theoretical approaches rather than design or programming.
ENGL 468 American Film Directors (3-9 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of Director of English Honors. Repeatable to 9
credits if content differs.
Yearlong 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 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
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 475 Postmodern Literature (3 credits)
Prerequisite: two lower level English classes, one in literature.
Sophomore standing.
The origins and ongoing development of postmodern literature. Aspects of
the "postmodern condition," such as the collapse of identity, the
erasure of cultural and aesthetic boundaries, and the dissolution of
life into textuality. The novel and other genres and media.
ENGL 477 Studies in Mythmaking (3 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: two English courses in literature or permission of
department. Repeatable if content differs.
ENGL 482 History of the English Language (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENGL280 or LING200 or permission of department.
Origin and development of the English language.
ENGL 483 American English (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENGL280 or LING200 or permission of department.
Origins and development of the various dialects of English spoken in
the United States.
ENGL 484 Advanced English Grammar (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL484 or
LING402.
Advanced study of grammatical description.
ENGL 486 Introduction to Old English (3 credits)
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 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL487 or
COMM401.
Principles and approaches to the theory, criticism, and historical
understanding of rhetorical discourse.
ENGL 488 Topics in Advanced Writing (3 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of professional writing
requirement.
Writing processes and documents most necessary for professional writers.
ENGL 494 Editing and Document Design (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENGL391, ENGL393 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 (1-3 credits)
Prerequisites: Candidacy for honors in English and ENGL370 and ENGL373.
For ENGL majors only.
Completion and presentation of the senior honors project.
ENGL 498 Advanced Fiction Workshop (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENGL396 or permission of department. Repeatable to 9
credits if content differs. Formerly ENGL496.
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 credits)
Prerequisite: ENGL397 or permission of department. Repeatable to 9
credits if content differs. Formerly ENGL497.
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 credits)
ENGL 602 Critical Theory and Literary Criticism (3 credits)
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 credits)
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 credits)
A survey of theoretical and applied linguistics.
ENGL 607 Readings in the History of Rhetorical Theory to 1900 (3 credits)
Earlier theories of effective written discourse surveyed historically
and as influenced by ethical, technical, and social change.
ENGL 611 Approaches to College Composition (3 credits)
Required for graduate assistants (optional to other graduate students).
Prerequisite: permission of department.
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 credits)
A pedagogical approach to professional and technical writing, its
history and methodolgy.
ENGL 618 Writing for Professionals (3 credits)
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 credits)
ENGL 621 Readings in Renaissance English Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 622 Readings in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 623 Readings in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 624 Readings in English Romantic Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 625 Readings in English Victorian Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 626 Readings in American Literature before 1865 (3 credits)
ENGL 627 Readings in American Literature, 1865-1914 (3 credits)
ENGL 628 Readings in African American Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 629 Readings in Folklore and Folklife (3-6 credits)
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 credits)
ENGL 631 Readings in 20th Century American Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 638 Readings in Film as Text and Cultural Form (3 credits)
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 639 Myth: Theme and Theory (3 credits)
Repeatable to 06 credits if content differs.
Readings in myth and myth criticism. History of the discipline, major
approaches, and primary texts from European, Native American, African
and Mesopotamian cultures
ENGL 668 Readings in Modern Literary Theory (3-6 credits)
Formerly ENGL666.
ENGL 679 Professional and Career Mentoring for Master's Students (1-3 credits)
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 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department.
Poetry workshop.
ENGL 689 Fiction Workshop (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department.
Fiction workshop.
ENGL 699 Independent Study (1-3 credits)
Prerequisites: departmental approval of research project; and permission
of instructor.
ENGL 701 Paradigms of Theory (3 credits)
Three hours of discussion/recitation per week.
Exploration of the works of four or five major critical thinkers who
underwrite the study of theory in the academy today, with special
attention to the diversity within critical theory.
ENGL 702 Cultures of Theory (3 credits)
Three hours of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisite: An
introductory course in critical theory.
An exploration of the socio-historic, material, and cultural contexts of
various theoretical practices and traditions.
ENGL 708 Seminar in Rhetoric (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.
Topics in rhetoric: history of rhetorical theory, modern rhetorical
theory, rhetorical interpretation, composition theory, rhetoric of
social groups.
ENGL 709 Seminar in Myth (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Formerly ENGL777.
Seminar in myth.
ENGL 718 Seminar in Medieval Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 719 Seminar in Renaissance Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 728 Seminar in Seventeenth-Century Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 729 Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 738 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 739 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 748 Seminar in American Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 749 Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 758 Literary Criticism and Theory (3 credits)
ENGL 759 Seminar in Literature and the Other Arts (3 credits)
ENGL 768 Studies in Drama (3 credits)
ENGL 769 Studies in Fiction (3 credits)
ENGL 775 Seminar in Composition Theory (3 credits)
Readings and research in recent theories of effective writing.
ENGL 778 Seminar in Folklore (3 credits)
ENGL 779 Seminar in Language Study (3 credits)
Seminar in linguistic aspects of literature and composition.
ENGL 788 Studies in Poetic Form (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits.
ENGL 789 Form and Theory in Fiction (3 credits)
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 798 Critical Theory Colloquium (1 credits)
One hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisite: A course in
critical theory. Repeatable to 10 credits if content differs. Also
offered as CMLT 798.
An intensive advanced exploration of current problems and issues in
critical theory.
ENGL 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6 credits)
ENGL 809 Publications Workshop (1-2 credits)
Advanced graduate students are offered structured guidance and
supervised opportunity to develop an essay for the purposes of
publication in a peer-reviewed journal or similar venue. The objectives
are 1.) to familiarize students with the process of publishing in
academic journals; and 2.) to facilitate the submission of an article
for publication at the end of the term.
ENGL 819 Seminar in Themes and Types in English Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 828 Seminar in Themes and Types in American Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 878 Pedagogical Mentoring for Doctoral Students (1-3 credits)
Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs.
Pedagogical mentoring by roster faculty members for graduate students
teaching 200-level literature courses.
ENGL 879 Professional Mentoring for Doctoral Students (1-3 credits)
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 Pre-Candidacy Research (1-8 credits)
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 credits)
