Mar 29, 2024  
2019-2020 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) 
    
2019-2020 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • ENGH 318 - Old English

    4 credits
    In this course students will achieve a basic proficiency in the English language of the 7th to 11th centuries—the language of Beowulf—as well as an overview of the varieties of texts written in Old English, and will be initiated into the study of Anglo-Saxon culture. The syllabus includes an introduction to the grammar, reading of basic prose, and ultimately poetry. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 322 - Thinking about Genre through Film

    4 credits
    What is a genre?  How do assumptions shaped by genre inform our  interpretation of literary and film texts and structure our experiences of those narratives?  This course will explore these questions through reading film and genre theory and through viewing classic and contemporary films in such genres as film noir, melodrama, romance, and the western.   Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 323 - Cinema and Social Justice

    4 credits
    What is the role of cinema in social justice struggles? How does political climate affect cinematic culture and vice versa? What is the significance of independent media, and how do we understand the relationship between media and democracy? This class will address some of these questions by closely analyzing and contextualizing films by Errol Morris, Michael Moore, Vittorio de Sica, Ken Loach, and others. Drawing on film and media theory, students will examine films’ political claims and assess their social implications. One of the eventual goals will be to imagine what a revolutionary cinema might look like in the era of the Internet. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  or ENGH 120   or FILM 101   Equivalent: ENGL 238   CLA-Diversity International
  
  • ENGH 324 - Filming American Feminisms

    4 credits
    Through examination of documentary and fiction films, this course will explore the development of thinking about women, gender, and feminism after 1900. The course will think simultaneously about the evolution of feminist thought in the twentieth century and about how film has engaged with, represented, supported, disseminated, and critiqued those developing ideas.  Readings in feminist theory of the period will be put in dialogue with a wide range of films from silents to Hollywood blockbusters to independents and documentaries made with explicitly feminist purposes. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  or WGST 101   Equivalent Course: WGST 301   CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 325 - Gender and Film

    4 credits
    In what ways has film inspired theories about the social construction of femininity and masculinity? In turn, how has aesthetic and social theory analyzed gendered bodies, subjectivities and relations within film? How, moreover, do structures of social inequality affect film production and distribution? This class will introduce you to film as well as film theory revolving around gender and its intersections with race, class, and sexuality. Primary texts will include a variety of international films by twentieth-century and contemporary directors like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jane Campion, Todd Haynes, Celine Sciamma, Laura Poitras, and others. In conjunction with these primary texts, you will read a range of film theory— from feminist and psychoanalytical to political-economic and formalist approaches. By the end of class, you should ideally be able to closely analyze film and thereby engage in debates about the relationship between aesthetics and social justice. This class counts towards the Film and Media Studies minor. Equivalent Courses: ENGL 303   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 330 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop

    4 credits
    A workshop with weekly round-table editing sessions, offering writing and reading assignments in established and innovative nonfiction forms, this course emphasizes expressive writing-the personal and informal essay, autobiography and biography, the character sketch, vignette, narrative, and prose lyric.  CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 331 - Nonfiction Writing Workshop: Articles

    4 credits
    A workshop with weekly round-table editing sessions, offering writing and reading assignments in established and innovative nonfiction forms, this course emphasizes the factual article as a literary form. Students will gain practice in assembling facts (research and interviewing procedures) and in shaping informative, lively articles, editorials, and critical reviews.  Equivalent: ENGL 312   CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 332 - Short Fiction Workshop

    4 credits
    A workshop with weekly round-table editing sessions and discussion of student manuscripts, this course emphasizes exercises in characterization, setting, dialogue, and narration. Students will incorporate these elements of fiction into complete stories by the end of the course.  CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Breadth/Arts
  
  • ENGH 333 - Poetry Workshop

    4 credits
    A workshop with weekly round-table editing sessions, this course emphasizes practice in elements of the poet’s craft, focusing particularly on the language of emotion and the uses of metaphor. Students explores traditional verse patterns and work on developing their own imaginative perception and style.  CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 334 - Advanced Fiction Workshop

    4 credits
    This course is a workshop for students wishing to develop a sophisticated fiction writing vocabulary and a vigorous exploration of literature via the study and creation of it. The course will be made up of creation classes on specific issues of craft, such as point of view, character development, and dialogue. Students will read full novels and story collections and be expected to use skills gleaned from these texts in their own work. The course will push students past the “write what you know” paradigm; key to this course will be developing research and observational skills in order to create and appreciate literature beyond their own experience.  Equivalent: ENGL 315   CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 335 - Advanced Poetry Workshop

    4 credits
    An advanced course in the art of poetry for students who have completed an introductory creative writing workshop. Focused on advanced strategies for developing poets, including metrics, prosody, traditional formal schemes, imitations, radical revisions, experimental poetry, sequences, and the longer lyric. Equivalent: ENGL 316   CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 340 - Topics in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication

    4 credits
    This course focuses on theoretical exploration of specific topics in rhetoric, writing, or communication. Examples include feminist rhetorics, political rhetoric and communication, argumentation and advocacy, the role of language in advertising. Topic varies by semester. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 341 - Theories of Authorship

    4 credits
    Questions of authorship have challenged scholars throughout history. From discussion of the various authors of Genesis and who wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare, to concerns about plagiarism and fabrication of data, the topic raises questions at the heart of academia: what constitutes creativity? What do we mean by “originality”? Can there even be such a thing as an “author” in these postmodern times? What are the ethical responsibilities of authors? What are the implications of plagiarism detection software and honor codes? The forms of collaboration made possible by the Internet and required in business and the multi-authored articles in fields of science and medicine provide another level of complexity. In this course, students will explore the broad topic of authorship and use theory to interrogate specific cases where authorship or originality was in question. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  , ENGH 140
  
  • ENGH 342 - Theory and Practice of Media Communication

    4 credits
    Introduces students to the forms, limitations and potentials of writing and content for various media. Topics include: news, feature, and opinion writing for print and online media outlets; an introduction to social media and blogging; public relations writing and web content; ad copy and copywriting; and a basic introduction to radio and television scripting. Also introduces students to Associated Press style and basic media/news ethics. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 343 - Advanced Journalism

    4 credits
    This course focuses on intermediate and advanced interviewing skills, profile writing, news writing, and feature and opinion writing. Students will learn about covering breaking news and long-term projects; writing for web news outlets and packaging the news for contemporary media; and storytelling through photography and video. Students will also practice analyzing news sources and writing styles and learn the rights and responsibilities of journalists through the NJ Sunshine Law, Open Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 318   CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 344 - Rhetorics of the Workplace/Professional Communication

    4 credits
    This course takes a critical approach to the discourses people use at work.  Students will identify, analyze, and critique particular forms of talk and writing, paying particular attention to their role in enforcing distinctions of class, power, and mobility, and other economic forces.  We will examine the changing rhetoric of work in the modern era, for example, taking into consideration the texts that emerged from the union movement of the nineteenth century to the present, the campaign for workplace safety, or the relationships between rhetorics of work and feminism.  Other topics may include work in the context of neoliberal and globalizing forces.  We will examine the operations of languages that characterize writing in a range of professions including legal, medical, corporate, pharmaceutical, and financial.  Rhetorical and literacy theorists such as Burke, Brandt, Rose, or Olbrechts-Tyteca will frame our analysis. Students will conduct original research into a particular workplace or set of discourses. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 345 - 19th-Century Rhetorics from the Margins

    4 credits
    The nineteenth-century United States gave birth to many of the social and political movements that are familiar to us today, including those advocating for the rights of workers, women, African Americans, and native peoples.  The purpose of this course is to open up textual study of the period by examining the ways that people who would not have “counted” in fact creatively and persuasively asserted their own agency and advocated for change.  We will study genres such as speeches and public address, newspapers and periodicals, and poetry and fiction that spoke to their political and social contexts.  Students will learn to historicize texts and to analyze them using some key concepts from rhetorical theory.  We will also spend time in on-campus and regional archives, locating original primary sources and considering the role of the archive in constructing the past.  The course will culminate in students’ own original research project. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 346 - Blogs, Tweets, and Social Media: The Practice of Digital Communication

    4 credits
    From a grounding in rhetoric and discourse community theory, this course will explore the relationship between audience, purpose and text in a cross section of electronic formats, including tweets, blogs, websites, and various social media and curation sites. Students will develop criteria for evaluating each form of writing, find examples, and assess what makes them effective (including questions of ethics and responsibility). They will also consider the ways individuals and organizations use social media to create and maintain their brand and reach specific audiences. Using these skills, students will shape and curate their own online identities by designing and creating or revising a personal website (using Wordpress), LinkedIn Profile, and blog, and using Twitter and Instagram to build a following. Students will also work in teams to design social media campaigns for selected campus clubs and organizations, learning how to identify and create appropriate voice, tone, and content and how to use available software (including Hootsuite) to schedule posts that maximize outreach, and track performance. Equivalent: ENGL 241 MCOM 346   Offrered Fall semesters. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 347 - Interpreting and Making the News

    4 credits
    An exploration of the creation and impact of news media and the tensions produced by recent shifts in news creation and distribution.  Drawing on the latest research from the fields of journalism studies and media studies, we will examine topics including the evolution of journalism revenue models and the economic crisis in the media, the debate over how best to control the spread of misinformation in the media ecosystem, the role played by algorithm-driven media platforms in determining news delivery, and the struggle for control over local news media.  This class will focus mainly on the US, with some comparative discussion of other news systems. Equivalent: MCOM 347  
  
  • ENGH 349 - Writing across the Curriculum and Peer-to-Peer Mentoring: Theory and Practice

    1-4 credits
    This course introduces students to writing and tutoring theory and pedagogy, with a focus on writing in various disciplines and genres. Topics include the writing process, audience, and purpose; language acquisition and writing-based learning disabilities; writing in a non-native language; multimodal writing; collaborative writing; revision and editing; and discipline-specific discourse and practices, such as citation. Discussion focuses on the role of the course-embedded writing Fellow, including issues of authority, expertise, facilitated peer review, and working one-on-one. The course combines readings and discussion with a practicum that allows student to directly engage and interrogate the ideas and pedagogies they encounter. A significant portion of the course involves working directly with writers from a variety of disciplines. May repeat for credit.
  
  • ENGH 350 - Medieval or Renaissance Literature: Advanced Studies

    4 credits
    This course offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from the Middle Ages and/or Renaissance.   Such topics/authors as: the 14th century, allegory, medieval/Renaissance drama, Renaissance poetry or prose are possible. Includes an introduction to the use of specialized critical and secondary materials pertinent to the topic.  As a writing intensive course, this course asks students to develop their literary critical writing through assignments that will ask students to put their own analysis of the materials in dialog with the critical traditions associated with the topic. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 351 - British Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Advanced Studies

    4 credits
    This course offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from the nineteenth century in Britain.Topics might include Romantic or Victorian poetry, the development of the novel, reading public and the rise of popular literature, as well as a particular author or group of authors, Austen, Dickens, the Baronets, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning.  The course might also explore literary responses to and representations of the French Revolution, industrialization, secularization, empire, or women’s emancipation. As a writing intensive course, this course asks students to develop their literary critical writing through assignments that place primary texts in dialogue with the work of literary and cultural critics. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 352   CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 352 - British Literature Post-1900: Advanced studies

    4 credits
    This course offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from the twentieth century. It might explore particular questions raised by the relationship of poetics and politics or the under explored histories of British avant-gardes (perhaps with a focus on poetry) or the novel of ideas; it might focus on Scottish and Irish writing, or examine how British literature treats issues of class, race, and gender. The course is writing intensive and will therefore include assignments that both develop students’ analytical and research skills and foster dialogue with literary critical debates and traditions.  Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 353   CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 353 - American Literature Pre-1900: Advanced Studies

    4 credits
    This course offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from pre-1900 American literature. Topics include the early American novel, American autobiography, slavery and its aftermath, transcendentalism, realism, and US imperialism. Authors may include Emerson, Douglass, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Chesnutt, and James. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 354   CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 354 - American Literature Post-1900: Advanced Studies

    4 credits
    This course offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from post-1900 American literatures.  Topics include the study of major authors; naturalism, modernism, the Beat Generation, multiculturalism, graphic novels, postmodernism; covering fields such as women’s literature, ethnic literatures, immigrant literature, queer literature; or contextualizing historical eras such as the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, civil rights, the twenty-first century.  As a writing intensive course, this course asks students to develop their literary and analytical writing through close reading, engaging literary theories and scholarship, and developing critical approaches to the study of literature and culture.   Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 355   CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGH 355 - Transatlantic Literature: Advanced Studies

    4 credits
    This course examines the literary and cultural exchanges between Great Britain, Europe, Africa, and the Americas that shaped the development of both British and American literature. Reading work by authors who lived in multiple countries, or drew influences and formative experiences from a life of travel, exploration, slavery, or forced migration, it grapples with such questions as: How have national histories shaped our understanding of literature? How does the history of transatlantic exchange inform the way we read and understand “national” literatures? And how have contemporary voices reflected upon this complex and still resonant legacy? Authors may include Aphra Behn, Olaudah Equiano, Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, Sam Selvon, and Jamaica Kincaid. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 356 - Anglophone Literature Post-1900: Advanced Studies

    4 credits
    This course offers in-depth study of global English-language literatures of the twentieth-and twenty-first centuries. Topics include: Globalization and World-Systems analysis; Old and New Imperialisms; transnational conceptions of race, gender, sexuality; the relationship between literature and global audio-visual media. Authors may include: Jamaica Kincaid, Kazuo Ishiguro, Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, and others.  As a writing intensive course, this course asks students to develop their writing through assignments that strengthen their research skills and their abilities to engage in literary-critical debates.
  
  • ENGH 357 - Prose Fiction Pre-1900: Advanced Studies

    4 credits
    This course offers in depth study of prose fiction before 1900.  It focus on the history of the novel in either the United States or Britain or on a genre or form: captivity narrative, romance, realism, Bildungsroman, sensation fiction, epistolary novel. It might also examine the ways in which the novel has engaged in social, cultural, or political questions, such as slavery, suffrage, democracy, the rise of the middle class, the development of working class culture and identity, sexuality, literacy and reading. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 358 - The Novel in the 20th Century/Modernism and Postmodernism

    4 credits
    This course explores representative narratives of the modernist movement and its postmodernist extensions. Texts will be drawn from US, British, and Anglophone traditions, but may also include works in translation from Europe and elsewhere. Authors considered could include Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Beckett, Platonov, Lu Xun, Dos Passos, Stein, Pynchon, Ballard, Coetzee, Acker, Morrison, and Butler. Students should also expect to encounter and think through theories of modernism and postmodernism.  Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 360 - Comparative Critical Theory and Practice

    4 credits
    An exploration of a range of thinkers, movements, issues, debates, and practices in twentieth- and twenty-first century literary and cultural theory. The course examines how various theoretical discourses conceive of literature and culture, the subject and society, language and power, gender and sexuality, race and class. It might explore such schools and fields as Russian Formalism, Marxism, structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, gender studies, post-colonial, queer, and media theory, but will also to think across these artificial boundaries to examine shared problematics and intellectual heritages. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 321  
  
  • ENGH 361 - Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

    4 credits
    This course explores three of the most influential, revolutionary, and controversial thinkers of the past two hundred years: Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Much of the course is devoted to a close reading of each thinker’s works. We examine what each has to say about human self-understanding, value, history, and time, and try to develop some familiarity with the terminology each developed to explain his new account of human beings and the worlds they create for themselves and each other. Contemporary relevance is also highlighted: Marx for the ongoing crisis of capitalism; Nietzsche for a world dramatically divided over values and beliefs; Freud for his reflections on the psychic costs of living in modern civilized society.  Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 362 - Philosophy and Literature

    4 credits
    Why would a philosopher turn to a work of literature to explain him or herself? And why does literature so often deploy philosophical questions, concerns, and motifs? Is there something philosophical about literature? Or something literary about philosophy? This class will address these questions through a series of writings that illuminate key points of intersection between literature and philosophy. Authors may include Sophocles, Plato, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Locke, Rousseau, Emerson, Dickinson, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, James, Du Bois, Fanon, Kafka, Pynchon, Sontag, Coetzee, and Whitehead.  Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 363 - Law and Literature

    4 credits
    This course considers the intersection of law and literature from an historical as well as a philosophical perspective. How are legal practices and the rhetorical logic that we associate with law represented in particular works of literature? How do these practices and systems of logic teach us to separate fact from fiction? And how does the narrative and representational logic of literature inform the law? We will address these questions through a series of historically specific focal points that demonstrate the shared terrain of literary and legal discourse.
  
  • ENGH 364 - Intensive Reading of a Single Text Pre-1900

    2-4 credits
    This course allows sustained concentration on a single text from a period before 1900. In some semesters, the text itself will be a long and difficult one (e.g., Milton’s Paradise Lost, Eliot’s Middlemarch, James’ Portrait of a Lady). In other semesters the course will cover a more accessible literary text but that text will be viewed through the lenses of various kinds of interpretation (e.g., cultural criticism, performance theory, formalism, gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalytical theory). Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 332  
  
  • ENGH 365 - Intensive Reading of a Single Text Post 1900

    2-4 credits
    This course allows sustained concentration on a single text from after 1900. In some semesters, the text itself will be a long and difficult one (e.g., Joyce’s Ulysses, Dubois’ Souls of Black Folk). In other semesters the course will cover a more accessible literary text but that text will be viewed through the lenses of various kinds of interpretation (e.g., cultural criticism, performance theory, formalism, gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalytical theory). Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 322  
  
  • ENGH 366 - Advanced Topics in Criticism and Theory

    4 credits
    This course offers advanced study of a specific school, area, critic(s) or question in contemporary criticism or theory.  Possible topics include: postmodernism, queer theory, post-colonial theory, cultural studies, video game studies, or theories of reading. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  
  • ENGH 370 - Advanced Pre-1900 Literary Studies: Seminar

    4 credits
    This seminar offers close and focused study, engaged discussion, independent but shared research, and peer-supported writing among a small group of students under the mentorship of a professor.  The seminar provides an opportunity for advanced exploration of a topic, text, author, or problem in literature written before 1900.  Topics may include Allegory, The Fourteenth Century, Literature of Disease, Poets and Pragmatists, the American Renaissance, the Black Atlantic, American Religious Narrative, Victorian Readers and Reading, or The New Woman. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  and ENGH 210  
  
  • ENGH 371 - Major Pre-1900 Author: Seminar

    4 credits
    This seminar offers close and focused study, engaged discussion, independent but shared research, and peer-supported writing among a small group of students under the mentorship of a professor.  The seminar provides an opportunity for advanced exploration of an author from a period before 1900.  Topics may include Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain Poet, Shakespeare, Austen, the Brontes. Melville, James. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   + ENGH 210   Equivalent: ENGL 365  
  
  • ENGH 372 - Advanced Literary Studies, Post-1900: Seminar

    4 credits
    This seminar offers close and focused study, engaged discussion, independent but shared research, and peer-supported writing among a small group of students under the mentorship of a professor.  The seminar provides an opportunity for advanced exploration of a topic, text, author, or problem in literature written after 1900.  Topics may include Ethnic American Writers, Queering American Literature, Modernism and Theory, Contemporary Women Writers, Digital Humanities. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  + ENGH 210   Equivalent: ENGL 374  
  
  • ENGH 374 - Major Author, Post-1900: Seminar

    4 credits
    This seminar offers close and focused study, engaged discussion, independent but shared research, and peer-supported writing among a small group of students under the mentorship of a professor.  The seminar provides an opportunity for advanced exploration of an individual twentieth- or twenty-first-century British, American, or Anglophone author.  Authors may include:  James Joyce, W.E.B. Du Bois, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison Prerequisite: ENGH 150  and ENGH 210  
  
  • ENGH 380 - London Semester, Interdisciplinary Colloquium

    4 credits
    The Colloquium, taught by the program director, offers both a collective interdisciplinary exploration of  a London topic and an opportunity for each student to complete an individual research project.  The project asks students to make use of the resources of London to explore a topic they have chosen in consultation with the program director and perhaps also a campus adviser.  Students develop their topics through interviews, site visits, participant/observation, and the use of London libraries. Equivalent Courses: ARTH 380 , HIST 380 PSCI 380 THEA 380 MCOM 380   CLA-Off Campus Experience, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity International
  
  • ENGH 383 - British Political Drama

    4 credits
    Under the premise that all theatre has a political dimension and works its influence on audiences both overtly and subversively, this course is designed to take advantage of the huge variety of productions available in London venues (not necessarily conventional theatre spaces), with a focus on the political questions they raise for twenty-first century audiences. Because the 1960s saw big changes on the theatrical scene in Britain it is taken as a starting point, and we see what we can of the playwrights who helped form our present day theatre through the twentieth century. Because it does not operate in a vacuum, appropriate plays may be chosen from other periods and cultures that address crucial global, social and political issues. Signature of instructor required for registration. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGH 384 - Studies in British Literature: London Literature

    4 credits
    For this course, students become London flaneurs, walking the streets and interpreting the signs of the city as if it were a text. Readings include a range of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century writings, among them Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Waugh’s Vile Bodies, and Ali’s Brick Lane. By paying close attention to both text and context, students achieve a lively appreciation of the works in and of themselves and as part of the cultural life of London.  CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGH 385 - Media in the United Kingdom

    4 credits
    An overview of the evolution of British media and its relationship with society in the U.K. The course explores how political, cultural, commercial, regulatory, and editorial issues shape the media manufactured and consumed in Britain. Will include study of the BBC, other broadcasting and entertainment entities, British newspapers and magazines, advertising, and British cinema. Guest speakers from these industries and several field trips will be part of the course. Equivalent: MCOM 385   Offered every Fall semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGH 386 - Introduction to Media Industries

    4 credits
    Offers students an introduction to the critical perspectives that are central to the analysis of communication industries, including print, broadcast, new media, film, and sound-based media. Provides students with the skills to explain how and why media institutions emerge, sustain themselves, grow into monopolies, shift content priorities, and interact with both consumers and their own labor force. We will also look at the financial, ethical and regulatory structures that guide these industries. Given the focus of the semester, particular attention will be paid to media companies based in New York City. Junior or Senior Standing Equivalent: ENGL 386  , MCOM 386   CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Off Campus Experience
  
  • ENGH 387 - New York Semester on Communications and Media Colloquium

    4 credits
    The course studies the institutions and operations of advertising, communications, public relations, publishing, and media and their roles in contemporary society. We will also explore the history and ethical dimensions of the principles and practices integral to media, publishing and communications. A key component of this course is the opportunity to delve into the practical day-to-day operations of Madison Avenue, Silicon Alley, and the related institutions located in New York City. Central to the course are talks by guest speakers drawn from all fields of advertising, communications, public relations, publishing, and media. The class will also visit advertising agencies, public relations firms, digital and traditional media organizations, and publishers. Additional related activities may include attending related events, screenings, readings, museum visits, and seminars in the International Radio and Television Society and the Center for Communication. Speakers, field trips and events, and student projects explore the contemporary communication issues, such as the concentration of media ownership and conglomeration, media literacy, the increasing democratization of the information environment, and changes in the media landscape. Equivalent: ENGL 387 MCOM 387   CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Off Campus Experience
  
  • ENGH 399 - ShortTrec Program at the Upper Level

    1-8 credits
    The course will focus on selected topics offered as shortTRECs through the Center for Global Education.  Topics and location of the course will vary in accordance with student interest and faculty expertise.  May be repeated as topic changes.  Offering to be determined. CLA-Off Campus Experience
  
  • ENGH 400 - Senior Capstone

    4 credits
    The Capstone is the culmination of a student’s work in the major. It offers seniors the opportunity to integrate the skills and approaches they have learned in previous classes and use them to analyze and discuss works of literature selected by the faculty and to guide further research in an area of their concentration. In addition to discussing selected common texts, each student develops an extended research project drawing on the courses they have taken as part of their concentration. Students present their research to each other and faculty members throughout the term and produce an expanded research paper. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  and ENGH 210   CLA-Capstone
  
  • ENGH 410 - Specialized Honors I

    0-4 credits
    CLA-Capstone
  
  • ENGH 411 - Specialized Honors II

    0-4 credits
    CLA-Capstone
  
  • ENGL 101 - Western Literature I

    4 credits
    Reading and analysis of selected works in the Western literary tradition from ancient to early medieval periods. Approaches may vary from a survey of works from Homer to Augustine, to a topical approach such as a study of justice and individual choice represented in the works, to a genre approach such as a study of epic. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered fall semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 102 - Western Literature II

    4 credits
    Reading and analysis of selected works in the Western literary tradition from the High Middle-Ages to the modern period. Approaches may vary from a survey of works from Dante to Woolf, to a topical approach such as a study of power represented in the works, to a genre approach such as a study of prose narrative. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered spring semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 103 - Gender and Literature

    4 credits
    An introduction to questions of how gender, as it intersects with race, class, and sexuality, shapes literary texts, authorship, readership, and representation. Most often organized thematically, the course may focus on such issues as creativity, subjectivity, politics, work, sexuality, masculinity, or community in works chosen from a variety of periods, genres, and areas. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors, Women’s Studies majors and minors. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 104 - Sexuality and Literature

    4 credits
    This course examines how the poems we write, the stories we tell, the dramas we play out reflect, change, and are themselves shaped by love, sex, erotic desire, and gender. It also asks just what sexuality is, why it has troubled so many people for so long, and why it has been considered so central to modern human identity. Depending on the instructor this course may focus exclusively on literature, or also explore sexuality in other arts (such as painting, film, television). It will likely also draw upon theoretical texts by such figures as Freud, Foucault, Eve Sedgwick, and Judith Butler.
  
  • ENGL 105 - Topics in American Ethnic, Immigrant, or Regional Lit.

    4 credits
    An exploration of literature of the American ethnic, immigrant, or regional experience. The course may focus on one ethnicity, such as Jewish American or Arab American; explore the immigrant experience as it is articulated in works from several ethnicities including Italian American, Irish American, Eastern European, Asian American, South Asian American, or Latino/a; or it may focus on literature produced within specific geographical regions, regional schools, or regional traditions of the United States, including Southern literature, literature of the Great Plains, the Northwest, the Southwest, California, New York City, or New Jersey. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  
  • ENGL 106 - African American Literature

    4 credits
    This course is a survey of African American literature from the 1700’s to the present. Through a variety of genres, it examines the work of selected writers in light of their historical time and place, major themes, conclusions about the nature of black experience in the United States, and their contributions to this literary tradition and others. It pays close attention to particular movements within African American literature, such as the Harlem Renaissance, protest literature, the Black Arts movement, and contemporary directions in the literature since 1970s. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 108 - Latino/a Literature

    4 credits
    This course examines Latino/a writers in the American literary canon and in the margins, considering issues of crossing borders, hybridity, racial identity, gender and sexuality, and language. From the identity politics of Gloria Anzaldua through the assimilative literature of Junot Diaz, we will focus on the questions raised in the Latino/a culture within and about the United States. Where do these authors fit in the canon? How has Latino/a literature helped mold the cultural and political landscape of the United States, particularly in the late 20th and early 21st century? Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  
  • ENGL 109 - Introduction to Film Analysis

    4 credits
    This course will teach students to closely analyze and write about film. We will watch a range of international films from the early twentieth century to the present. The overall goal is to become an active, engaged, and responsible viewer of film. Students will learn the basic vocabulary and tools needed to break down scenes from a film and to thereby build an interpretation of the film as a whole. Each week we will watch and discuss a new feature-length film. Then, in the second class of that week, we will analyze this film in detail. In the second half of this class, students will also be exposed to a few of the major critical approaches and theoretical perspectives used in the field of film studies. The overall goal will be to approach cinema with passion and curiosity— and to appreciate its role in shaping how we see the world. Class requirements include quizzes on the readings, a mid-term exam, final paper, and a class presentation. Offered Every Fall Semester. The lab is for screening of films. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  
  • ENGL 111 - Introduction to Writing and Communication Studies

    4 credits


    This course introduces students to the related fields of Writing Studies and Communication Studies. At the heart of each is the study of language and the complex ways we shape and are shaped by the written and spoken word. From the personal to the professional, written and spoken texts are driven by the message the author/speaker wishes to send, the needs and expectations of the audience being addressed, and the genre and medium selected for that message. From roots in classical rhetoric and the creative arts to current uses in civic and professional realms, written and spoken communication moves, inspires, persuades, entertains, connects, and sometimes alienates us. This course will study the history, theory, and practical applications of writng and communication from social media to civic engagement, and from the arts to professions as diverse as advertising, journalism, public relations, and the law. We will also consider the politics of literacy, the impact of global Englishes, stylistic debates, and the ways technologies have changed writing and communication.

      Offered every fall semester. CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary

  
  • ENGL 112 - Language, Communication, and Culture

    4 credits
    An introduction to the role of language and its various forms of transmission in the construction of individual and cultural identity.  Topics include language and gender, language and ethnicity, language and social structures. Reccommended: ANTH 104   as a concurrent or prior course. CLA-Breadth/Social Science, CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 115 - Topics in Literary Studies

    4 credits
    This course allows students to explore a special topic or area not regularly taught in the curriculum and likely to be of particular interest to non-majors. Topics might include: supernatural fiction and fantasy, the Gothic, science fiction, detective fiction, topics in popular culture. May be repeated as topic varies. Check department listing for offering. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 150 - Literary Analysis

    4 credits
    Emphasis in the first part of the course is on expanding and honing strategies for close reading. The course covers accuracy and richness of interpretation, narrative theory, moving beyond the boundaries of the text to other cultural documents, reading drama performatively. By the end of the course, students should understand and be able to use a variety of criteria for judging the legitimacy of their own and others’ interpretations. Students will be introduced to a range of ways that scholars work in the field of literary study. Emphases vary depending on instructor. Offered every semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 199 - ShortTREC Program at the Introductory Level

    1-8 credits



    The course will focus on selected topics offered as shortTRECs through the Center for Global Education.  Topics and location of the course will vary in accordance with student interest and faculty expertise.  May be repeated as topic changes.  Offering to be determined. CLA-Off Campus Experience

  
  • ENGL 201 - Selected Topics in Literature I

    4 credits
    This course will focus on selected topics such as gothic literature, Anglophone literature, Bible as literature, postcolonial literature, writers writing on visual art, humor in literature, the literature of the Holocaust, or other topics. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. CLA-Breadth/Humanities. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 202 - Selected Topics in Literature & Language II

    4 credits
    This course will focus on selected topics such as film and film adaptations of literature, non-fiction prose, graphic novels, myth, modern constructions of older/ancient texts, or other topics. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 203 - Selected Topics in Literature & Language IIII

    4 credits
    An introduction to writing short plays, poems, and other performance pieces. Students will develop material in all three genres through exercises that focus on observation, point of view, metaphor, monologue, improvisation, found material, and basic dramatic structure.
    4.000 Credit hours CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 204 - Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Language

    4 credits
    This course will focus on selected topics such as Anglophone literature, Bible as literature, postcolonial literature, writers writing on visual art, humor in literature, the literature of the Holocaust, film and film adaptations of literature, non-fiction prose, graphic novels, myth, modern constructions of older/ancient texts or other topics. Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Enrollment priority given to English majors and minors. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  
  • ENGL 205 - Studies in American Ethnic or Immigrant Literature I

    4 credits
    This course will focus on selected topics such Anglophone, postcolonial, border or immigrant literature, literature from US territories, regional literature, the literature of the Holocaust, Bible as literature, or other topics. This course includes an emphasis on diverse literatures and cultures of the United States. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Enrollment priority given to English majors and minors. CLA-Diversity US
  
  • ENGL 206 - Studies in American Ethnic or Immigrant Literature II

    4 credits
    This course will focus on selected topics such Anglophone, postcolonial, border or immigrant literature, literature from US territories, regional literature, the literature of the Holocaust, Bible as literature, or other topics. This course includes an emphasis on diverse literatures and cultures of the United States from the perspective of the humanities. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Enrollment priority given to English majors and minors. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  
  • ENGL 207 - Interdisciplinary Studies in American Ethnic or Immigrant Lit

    4 credits
    This course will focus on selected topics such Anglophone, postcolonial, border or immigrant literature, literature from US territories, regional literature, the literature of the Holocaust, Bible as literature, or other topics. This course includes an emphasis on diverse literatures and cultures of the United States from the perspective of more than one discipline, area, or field. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Enrollment priority given to English majors and minors. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity US
  
  • ENGL 208 - Studies in Anglophone or World Literature

    4 credits
    This course will focus on selected topics such Anglophone, postcolonial, border or immigrant literature, literature from US territories, literature in translation, the literature of the Holocaust, Bible as literature, or other topics. This course includes an emphasis on international and/or transnational literatures. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Enrollment priority given to English majors and minors. CLA-Diversity International
  
  • ENGL 210 - Writing in the Discipline of English

    4 credits
    In this course, students will study the discourse conventions of English and practice the skills necessary for writing and reading in the discipline. The course will include instruction in MLA style, advanced library research, and bibliographic skills, as well as an introduction to reading literary criticism. Enrollment priority: English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 . CLA-Writing in the Major
  
  • ENGL 211 - Oral Interpretation of Literature

    2 credits
    In this course, students use many different methods to hone their ability to observe, describe, physically feel, and enact in performance the dynamic interaction of rhythm, syntactical structures, and semantics in literary texts. The course is useful for creative writers and for all students of literature, giving them insight into the mechanisms that produce emotional force, clarity, and the dynamics of the interplay between thought and feeling in all kinds of writing.
  
  • ENGL 212 - Spoken Word

    2 credits
    This course explores literature as a performance art. Students will learn to write poetry and/or prose with a focus on the sounds and rhythm of language. Students will memorize and recite their own poetry and prose, as well as works by spoken word and canonical writers, such as Saul William and Sylvia Plath. Check department listing for offering. Enrollment priority: English majors and writing minors. CLA-Breadth/Arts
  
  • ENGL 214 - Theory and Practice of Writing Center Tutoring

    4 credits
    This course introduces students to composition and tutoring theory and pedagogy. A writing intensive course, “Theory and Practice” combines readings in composition studies with a practicum that allows student to directly engage and interrogate the ideas and pedagogies they encounter. A significant portion of the course involves working directly with writers from a variety of disciplines. After successfully completing the class, students will be invited to apply for “writing fellow” and “writing tutor” positions in the Writing Center. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 215 - Writing For and About Business

    4 credits
    Concentrates on the development of a clear, precise writing style and practice in dealing with specific types of business writing problems. Students complete writing projects, individually and in teams, in the context of hypothetical business situations, such as preparing and presenting a report, preparing and presenting a project proposal, applying for a job, and reviewing a report or project proposal. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the College writing requirement. Offered every semester. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 219 - Advanced Composition: Variable Theme

    4 credits
    “Advanced Composition: Variable Theme” is a course that provides writing and rhetorical instruction at a level appropriately challenging for students with advanced literacy. It is open to all students, regardless of major, after they have completed their first-year requirement. This course is Writing Intensive and includes theoretical readings that discuss argumentation, advanced elements of style, and cultural studies critique of compositions in popular culture. The course also contains significant workshop activity, and students will be expected to produce several major compositions throughout the semester, alongside smaller critical works. These larger assignments may include multimedia compositions, or may incorporate community engagement involving literacy, according to the variable theme of that semester. Restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Pre-Requisite: Completion of the College Writing Requirement. Offered every spring semester. Topics varied and are to be announced. CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 220 - History and Structure of the English Language

    4 credits
    A study of the development of English from Anglo-Saxon to its present status as a “global” language. The development of English is placed within the framing social, political and economic contexts of its speakers. May also examine the historical development of theories attempting to explain English, its styles, dialects, and literatures. Same as: LING 220 . Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 221 - History of Rhetoric

    4 credits
    Rhetoric, most typically defined as “the art of persuasion,” has had a variety of descriptions based on the describer and his or her historical context. This class will study the changing definitions of rhetoric from 5th-century B.C. Greece to contemporary American culture and why those changes took place. Students will also be asked to analyze rhetoric’s relation to politics, religion, law and cultural identity from antiquity to the present day. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 238 - Cinema and Social Justice

    4 credits


    What is the role of cinema in social justice struggles?  How does political climate affect cinematic culture and vice versa?  What is the significance of independent media, and how do we understand the relationship between media and democracy?  We will try to address these questions by analyzing films that intervene in a range of debates about social justice: while some explore the ethics and politics of war, others take on questions of racial, economic, and environmental justice.  Most of the films we will watch are non-fiction and documentary films, including works by prominent directors like Errol Morris and Michael Moore.

    When looking at individual films we will ask ourselves some of the following questions: what distinct political claims do these films make?  What is the political context in which they make these claims?  How effective are they in making these claims?  What are the broader implications of their cinematic arguments?  One of our underlying aims will be to explore what a revolutionary cinema might look like in the era of the Internet. This course is not repeatable. CLA-Diversity International

  
  • ENGL 239 - Contemporary Transnational Cinema

    4 credits
    How are nations’ film industries affected by the expansion of a transnational film circuit? Moreover, to what extent are films’ narratives and styles imitating, or countering, or independent of the form of cinematic storytelling popularized globally by Hollywood cinema? Growing global interconnectedness has resulted in the expansion of a transnational market and audience for films. The films chosen for this class are contemporary examples of “transnational” cinema, i.e., cinema that finds reception and distribution beyond its country of origin. While we will watch some American films, for the most part we will concentrate on cinema from other areas of the world. The readings for this class will provide historical and cultural context for the films. Given this context, we will spend much of our time in class analyzing how a film’s style conveys meaning. Our emphasis will be on trying to understand not just what, but rather how, films mean—and what are the social and political implications of their construction of meaning. This class will teach students to a) closely analyze film and b) to think through film about contemporary globalization and its impact on diverse contexts.
    CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity International
  
  • ENGL 241 - Blogs, Tweets and Social Media

    4 credits
    This course explores the relationship between audience, purpose and text in a cross-section of electronic formats, including tweets, blogs, Facebook posts, discussion groups, text messages, and various social media and curation sites. Students develop criteria for evaluating each form of writing, find examples, assess what makes them effective (including questions of ethics and responsibility), consider the decoding skills they demand from readers, and practice the form. The course also explores broader social, ethical, and philosophical issues raised by these media and considers the positive and negative aspects of various forms of online communication and the ways they can be used to brand individuals and products. Students are not expected to be familiar with all forms of social media before entering the course, although some of the class writing will be in these formats and students will be asked to develop a coherent online presence. Prerequisites: DSEM 100  with a grade of D- or higher.  WRTG 103  with a grade of C- or higher. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 250 - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: The Medieval Period

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative texts from the medieval period in Britain, this course teaches students to think historically about literature through tracing a set of key concepts such as author, reader, theme, form, culture and intertextuality. Prerequisite:ENGL 150 . Offered fall semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 251 - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: The Renaissance

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative texts from the Renaissance in Britain, this courses teaches students to think historically about literature through tracing a set of key concepts such as author, reader, theme, form, culture, and intertextuality. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 . Offered fall semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 252 - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: Nineteenth-Century British Literature

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative texts from nineteenth-century British literature, this course teaches students to think historically about literature through tracing a set of key concepts such as author, reader, theme, form, culture, and intertextuality. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 . Offered spring semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 253 - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: Twentieth-Century British Literature

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative texts from twentieth-century British Literature, this course teaches students to think historically about literature through tracing a key set of concepts such as author, reader, theme, form, culture, and intertextuality. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 . Offered spring semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 254 - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    4 credits
    Through examination of representative texts from nineteenth-century American literatures. This course teaches students to think historically through tracing a set of key concepts such as author, readerm theme, form, culture and intertextuality. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 255 - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: Twentieth-Century American Literature

    4 credits
    Through an examination of represetnative texts from twentieth-century and twenty-first-century American literatures. This course teaches students to think historically about literature through tracing a set of key concepts such as author, reader, theme, form, culture and intertexuality. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 261 - Cultural Studies


    This course will provide students with a working knowledge of critical methods in “cultural materialism” and “cultural studies,” specifically focusing on Marxist approaches to the criticism of literature and culture. In what sense has Marx’s understanding of “ideology” and intellectual production provided modern cultural criticism with new models for understanding the value and function of art, literature, and discourse in relation to the formation of civil society? How have these analytical and theoretical models been complicated and revised in light of key developments in the 20th century, from the rise of mass culture, the emergence of new technologies for the production and dissemination of culture, to more recent shifts in cultural production augmented by transformations in the global political economy? Prerequisite: One of the following as appropriate: ENGL 250, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253.
  
  • ENGL 276 - Shakespeare

    4 credits
    An advanced study of the development of Shakespeare as a dramatist through the study of about seven plays-comedies, histories, and tragedies. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority given to English majors and minors. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: ENGL 250 .ENGL 251   Offered annually fall semester in London. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 278 - Literary Translation

    4 credits
    This seminar introduces students to a variety of theoretical approaches to literary translation, as well as experience in translating literary texts. The course will begin with a history of approaches to translation, by reading both theoretical essays and a set of common texts in multiple translations, including works of classical and Biblical literature as well as contemporary prose and poetry. Each student will then undertake a translation of a short work of fiction or poetry with the goal of producing a publishable text in English. Students may work from any language into English or from a dialect or historical variety of English into a contemporary idiom. The seminar will feature guest lectures by Drew faculty from various programs whose work includes literary translation speaking about their own projects and experience as translators. Signature of instructor required for registration. Same as: WLIT 260 . CLA-Breadth/Arts
  
  • ENGL 299 - ShortTREC Program at the Intermediate Level

    1-8 credits



    The course will focus on selected topics offered as shortTRECs through the Center for Global Education.  Topics and location of the course will vary in accordance with student interest and faculty expertise.  May be repeated as topic changes.  Offering to be determined. Course may be repeated. CLA-Off Campus Experience

  
  • ENGL 300 - Independent Study in Literature

    2-4 credits
    A tutorial course with meetings by arrangement and oral and written reports. Students who wish to pursue independent study must offer for approval of the instructor a proposal on a literary topic not covered in the curriculum. Joint proposals by two or more students may be submitted. Course may be repeated. Open only to students with junior or senior standing. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered every semester.
  
  • ENGL 301 - Selected Topics in English

    4 credits
    An advanced study of particular literary subjects (ie.g. the literature of the Holocaust, immigrant literature), topics (Old English language and literature, myth and ltierature), problems (e.g. literacy and orality, modern constructions of older/ancient texts), and methodologies (e.g. psychoanalytic approaches, comparative luterautre). Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: ENGL 150  or permission of the instructor. Offered fall semester.
  
  • ENGL 302 - Cultural Studies

    4 credits
    This course will provide students with a working knowledge of critical methods in “cultural materialism” and “cultural studies,” specifically focusing on Marxist approaches to the criticism of literature and culture. In what sense has Marx’s understanding of “ideology” and intellectual production provided modern cultural criticism with new models for understanding the value and function of art, literature, and discourse in relation to the formation of civil society? How have these analytical and theoretical models been complicated and revised in light of key developments in the 20th century, from the rise of mass culture, the emergence of new technologies for the production and dissemination of culture, to more recent shifts in cultural production augmented by transformations in the global political economy? Prerequisites: One of the following as appropriate: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  or ENGL 253 .
  
  • ENGL 303 - Gender and Film

    4 credits
    Examines works by women writers in the Anglo-American and Anglophone tradition through the historical and theoretical approaches that have emerged from recent feminist criticism and theory. May focus on a particular genre, period, author or authors, the literature of a particular region, or on literature in particular social or cultural contexts. Such topics as: Women Writers and World War I; Female Bildungsroman; African American Women Writers; Victorian Women Poets. Cross listed with Women’s Studies. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 150  or permission of the instructor. Equivalent Courses: ENGH 325   Offered spring semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Diversity US
  
  • ENGL 304 - Sexuality and Gender in 19th Century Literature and Culture

    4 credits
    Through reading of nineteenth-century novels, poetry, prose, theoretical texts, and visual images, this course will explore the complex and shifting understandings of gender and sexuality in the period. Among the topics considered will be the construction of heterosexuality and heterosexual marriage; marriage resistance and the ‘new women’; constructions of dominant and deviant masculinities and femininities; homosocial and homosexual love and homosexual panics; prostitution and the disciplining of female sexuality, suffrage and the campaigns for women’s autonomy; as well as the codes, narratives, and images through which these are represented. The course will also ask how gender and sexuality have been deployed by 20th/ 21st century critics as lenses for reading the literature and culture of this period and how those approaches have shifted over time in dialogue with other critical approaches. Equivalent to WGST 304   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 305 - Advanced Studies in Ethnic American Literature

    4 credits
    Intensive study in American ethnic literatures: African American, Asian American, Latino/a, American Indian, Jewish, and Caribbean literatures, among others. Instructors may select particular emphases for these areas of study, which can include a focus on chronological or thematic approaches or on the development of a particular genre, such as poetry, novel, short fiction, autobiography, or drama. Central to the study of these literatures is a consideration of the unique aspects of ethnic cultures in the United States that inform various American ethic literary traditions. Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: ENGL 150  or permission of the instructor. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered in alternate spring semester. CLA-Diversity US
  
  • ENGL 306 - Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Language

    4 credits
    This course will focus on selected topics such as Anglophone, postcolonial, border or immigrant literature or film, literature from US territories, regional literature, literature and film, literature and environment, or other topics. This course includes an emphasis on diverse literatures and cultures of the United States from the perspective of more than on discipline, area, or field. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 307 - Environmental Justice Literature

    4 credits
    This course investigates the ways U.S. literary/media works have responded to environmental injustice, the unequal distribution of environmental hazards, resources, and power among race, gender, class and national groups.  Since environmental injustice has a disproportionate impact on women, low-income populations, and people of color, this course examines the ways a wide range of multi-ethnic texts–from comic books to plays, music videos too novels–represent the environment in order to understand how the exploitation of nature is linked to the exploitation of people.  We explore literary responses to urgent environmental justice issues like globalization, working conditions, food, factory, farming , water rights, health equity, toxic bodies, urban degradation, and the mining of natural resources.  Throughout the course, we will consider the ways in which environmental injustices reflect and construct ideologies of racism, sexism, classism, and nationalism.  Cross-list: ESS 307   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
 

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