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Writing Courses

  • ENGL 4 / Writing in the Discipline of English (2) - view
    This six-week module will use the texts discussed in ENGL 20 a/b or ENGL 21 a/b as the basis for papers and extended research. Students will study the discourse conventions of English and practice the skills necessary for writing in the discipline of English. The course will include instruction in MLA style, advanced library research, and bibliographic skills. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Meets: twice a week for six weeks. Corequisite or Prerequisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following: ENGL 20A, ENGL 20B, ENGL 21A, OR ENGL 21B. Offered first and second half of each semester.
  • ENGL 59 / Introduction to Journalism (4) - view
    An introduction to the fundamentals and procedures of operating a newspaper. Emphasizes gathering news and writing clear, vigorous copy. Studies layout, editing, feature and editorial writing, and copy-editing as well as the ethics and responsibilities of journalism. Enrollment limit: 15. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the College writing requirement. Offered fall semester.
  • ENGL 65 / Writing For and About Business (4) - view
    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.
  • ENGL 103 / Nonfiction Writing (4) - view
    Workshops with weekly round-table editing sessions, offering writing and reading assignments in established and innovative nonfiction forms. Emphasizes expressive writing-the personal and informal essay, autobiography and biography, the character sketch, vignette, narrative, and prose lyric. At the discretion of the department, may be taken twice for credit. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the College writing requirement. Offered annually.
  • ENGL 104 / Nonfiction Writing: Articles (4) - view
    Workshops with weekly round-table editing sessions, offering writing and reading assignments in established and innovative nonfiction forms. Emphasizes the factual article as a literary form-practice in assembling facts (research and interviewing procedures) and in shaping the informative, lively article, editorial, and critical review. At the discretion of the department, may be taken twice for credit. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the College writing requirement. Offered annually.
  • ENGL 107 / Creative Writing Workshop: Short Fiction (4) - view
    Exercises in characterization, setting, dialogue, and narration. Incorporates these elements of fiction into complete stories. Class discussion of manuscripts. Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory. At the discretion of the department, may be taken twice for credit. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the College writing requirement and submission of appropriate writing sample. Offered annually.
  • ENGL 108 / Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry (4) - view
    Practice in elements of the poet's craft, focusing particularly on the language of emotion and the uses of metaphor. Explores traditional verse patterns and encourages the development of one's own imaginative perception and style. Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory. At the discretion of the department, may be taken twice for credit. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the College writing requirement and submission of appropriate writing sample. Offered annually.
  • ENGL 109 / Creative Writing Workshop: Advanced Fiction (4) - view
    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 your own experience. Course may be repeated twice for credit. Enrollment priority: writing minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 103,104,107 or 108, submission of writing sample and application. Offered fall semester.
  • ENGL 110 / Creative Writing Workshop: Advanced Poetry (4) - view
    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. Course may be repeated twice for credit. Enrollment priority: writing minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 103, 104, 107 or 108, submission of writing sample and application. Offered fall semester.

Language Courses

  • ENGL 38 / History and Structure of the English Language (4) - view
    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 105. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters. Fulfills: BH
  • ENGL 105 / History and Structure of the English Language (4) - view
    A study of the development of English from Anglo-Saxon to the present status as a "universal" language. Examines the historical development of theories attempting to explain English, its styles, dialects, and literatures. Offered in alternate years. Same as: LING 105.

Literature Courses

  • ENGL 9 / Literary Analysis (4) - view
    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.

Introductory Studies in English and American Literature

These courses survey literary periods in English and American literature from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Individual offerings of the courses may focus on themes linking the works, or they may be organized in chronological sequence by authors or historical issues. Consult the annual English department listing of courses to be offered over a two-year period.

  • ENGL 20A / Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition 1900-Presen (2) - view
    Taught in four two-credit modules, this course maps Anglo-American literary history from the medieval period to the twentieth century. This essential experience grounds English majors and minors in key texts as well as in major periods, transitions, shifts, and trends along with influences between and among them. Conducted primarily in lecture and discussion form to facilitate students' reading of difficult texts, the course involves extensive reading of primary works from each period and select twentieth-century texts set in dialogue with them. Assessment is primarily through written exams. Prerequisite: ENGL 9. Corequisite: ENGL 4 (Simultaneous enrollment with one of the four modules). Offered annually, 20 A/B in the spring, 21 A/B in the fall).
  • ENGL 20B / Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: 1800-1900 (2) - view
    Taught in four two-credit modules, this course maps Anglo-American literary history from the medieval period to the twentieth century. This essential experience grounds English majors and minors in key texts as well as in major periods, transitions, shifts, and trends along with influences between and among them. Conducted primarily in lecture and discussion form to facilitate students' reading of difficult texts, the course involves extensive reading of primary works from each period and select twentieth-century texts set in dialogue with them. Assessment is primarily through written exams. Prerequisite: ENGL 9. Corequisite: ENGL 4 (Simultaneous enrollment with one of the four modules). Offered annually, 20 A/B in the spring, 21 A/B in the fall).
  • ENGL 21A / Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: 1600-1800 (2) - view
    Taught in four two-credit modules, this course maps Anglo-American literary history from the medieval period to the twentieth century. This essential experience grounds English majors and minors in key texts as well as in major periods, transitions, shifts, and trends along with influences between and among them. Conducted primarily in lecture and discussion form to facilitate students' reading of difficult texts, the course involves extensive reading of primary works from each period and select twentieth-century texts set in dialogue with them. Assessment is primarily through written exams. Prerequisite: ENGL 9. Corequisite: ENGL 4 (Simultaneous enrollment with one of the four modules). Offered annually, 20 A/B in the spring, 21 A/B in the fall).
  • ENGL 21B / Mapping the Anglo-Amer.Lit. Trad: Medieval to Renaissance (2) - view
    Taught in four two-credit modules, this course maps Anglo-American literary history from the medieval period to the twentieth century. This essential experience grounds English majors and minors in key texts as well as in major periods, transitions, shifts, and trends along with influences between and among them. Conducted primarily in lecture and discussion form to facilitate students' reading of difficult texts, the course involves extensive reading of primary works from each period and select twentieth-century texts set in dialogue with them. Assessment is primarily through written exams. Prerequisite: ENGL 9. Corequisite: ENGL 4 (Simultaneous enrollment with one of the four modules). Offered annually, 20 A/B in the spring, 21 A/B in the fall).
  • ENGL 30 / Western Literature I (4) - view
    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. Fulfills: BH
  • ENGL 31 / Western Literature II (4) - view
    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.
  • ENGL 32 / Gender and Literature (2-4) - view
    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. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors, Women's Studies majors and minors. Offered fall semester. Fulfills: BH
  • ENGL 33 / Sexuality and Literature (2-4) - view
    This course examines how sexuality is articulated and mediated through literature and such modes of cultural production as film and two-dimensional art. Attention will be paid to specific iterations of sexuality and the labels that attend them (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual). We will address theories of sexuality and study such authors as Jeanette Winterson, Mark Doty, Edmund White, Hart Crane, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and Michael Cunningham. The course may additionally encompass how sexuality intersects with ethnicity, science and politics. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  • ENGL 34 / Topics in American Ethnic, Immigrant, or Regional Lit. (4) - view
    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. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate fall semesters.. Fulfills: BH DUS BI
  • ENGL 35 / African American Literature (4) - view
    A study of the writers in the African American literary tradition from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Through a variety of genres, we will examine 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 to the American literary canon. We will pay close attention to particular movements in this tradition, such as the Harlem Renaissance, protest literature, the Black Arts movement, and contemporary directions in the literature since 1970. Writers may include: Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, Paule Marshall, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, and Alice Walker. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters..
  • ENGL 36 / Asian American Literature (2-4) - view
    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. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  • ENGL 37 / Latino/a Literature (2-4) - view
    This course will reconsider such issues as critical race theory and identity construction, gender and sexuality, hybridity, American canon formation, and nation-building in light of the contemporary Latino Boom (in music, film, art, television, and literature). The course considers thematic and figurative background to the literature such as la Malinche, Aztlan, Quetzalcoatl, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, la Llorona, la Virgen de Guadalupe, Nepantla, and Braceros. Authors studied may include Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, Rudolfo Anaya, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Valdez, Cristina Garcia, Junot Diaz, and Julia Alvarez. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  • ENGL 39 / History of Rhetoric (4) - view
    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 40 / Intermediate Open Topics I (2-4) - view
    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. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors.
  • ENGL 41 / Intermediate Open Topics II (2-4) - view
    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. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors.
  • ENGL 43 / Literary Translation (4) - view
    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 60.
  • ENGL 51 / Spoken Word (2) - view
    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.

Advanced Studies in English and American Literature

These courses continue the study of the literature of historical periods in England and America as well as literary issues, literary theory, individual authors, and literary genres. Individual offerings of these upper-level courses may be organized by specific themes or by other organizational concepts. For specific offerings available under the following rubrics, consult the annual English department listing.

  • ENGL 112 / Advanced Studies in Medieval or Renaissance Literature (2-4) - view
    Topics may include Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, the impact of literacy on the fictions and poetry of medieval Britain, the medieval romance, medieval literature and spirituality, medieval and early Renaissance drama, Renaissance poetry. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  • ENGL 113 / Adv.Studies in British Lit.of The 17th or 18th Century (2-4) - view
    Topics may include Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, the impact of literacy on the fictions and poetry of medieval Britain, the medieval romance, medieval literature and spirituality, medieval and early Renaissance drama, Renaissance poetry. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  • ENGL 114 / Advanced Studies of British Literature of the 19th Century (2-4) - view
    Offerings of this course take a variety of subjects and forms in studying British literature of the nineteenth century: specific authors or groups of authors in the Romantic or Victorian periods; subjects within and across the two periods such as literary responses to revolution, industrialism, empire, class and religious issues; topics such as the Gothic, realism, Victorian, "medievalism," the psychological self in nineteenth-century writing, the role of art in the social order. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  • ENGL 115 / Advanced Studies in British Literature of the 20th Century (2-4) - view
    An advanced examination of British and/or Anglophone literatures in the 20th century, focusing on topics such as, modernism and fascism, post-colonialism, the representation and effects of the World Wars, gender and modernism, expatriation and alienation, and modernist women writers. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters..
  • ENGL 116 / Advanced Studies in American Literature to the Civil War (2-4) - view
    An advanced examination of American literature before the Civil War. Topics include transcendentalism, visions and revisions, the American novel, literary responses to the Civil War and the aftermath of slavery. Writers may include Irving, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Jacobs, Douglass, Stowe. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  • ENGL 117 / Advanced Studies in American Literature from the Civil War to World War I (2-4) - view
    Topics include women writers in post-Civil War America and regional and national voices from the Civil War to WWI. Perspectives on realism, naturalism, women's voices, regional and national voices in the fiction, nonfiction and poetry from the end of the Civil War to World War I. Writers may include Twain, James, Dickinson, Adams, Crane, Davis, Chopin, London, Gilman, Wharton, and Jewett. Amount of credit established at registration. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  • ENGL 118 / Advanced Studies in American Literature of the 20th Cent. (2-4) - view
    Topics include artistic movements such as Naturalism, the Beats, New Journalism, Modernism, or Postmodernism; covering fields such as women's literature, ethnic literatures, or immigrant literature; intertextuality; literature in relation to social movements of the second half of the century, historical eras such as the Great Depression, Cold War, World Wars; or major authors. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  • ENGL 119 / Advanced Studies in Literature of the 20th Century (2-4) - view
    Recognizing the fluidity of boundaries and national identities, this course is an advanced study of British, American, and Anglophone literature of the 20th Century. The course will focus on particular literary themes, topics, or genres that cross or problematize national or geographic boundaries. For example, American expatriate authors, diasporic literatures, literary concerns of immigrants from one specific nation to several (e.g., from India or African nations to America and Britain). Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, and 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  • ENGL 121 / Comparative Critical Theory and Practice (2-4) - view
    May focus on one or compare two contemporary or historical approaches to literature, such as close reading, psychoanalytic, philosophical, new historicist, feminist, Marxist, structuralist, deconstructive, or reader-response criticism. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  • ENGL 123 / Intensive reading of a single text (2-4) - view
    This course allows sustained concentration on a single text. In some semesters, the text itself will be a long and difficult one (e.g., Paradise Lost or Finnegan's Wake). 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). Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, and 21B. Offered alternate fall semesters.
  • ENGL 124 / Approaches to Literature: Genre (2-4) - view
    All writers conceive of themselves as writing inside of a genre. If writing inside of a genre involved only the imposition of constraint, writers surely would not choose to do it. What is genre? How does it open possibilities for writing? How do genres change over time and across cultures? What is the relationship between literary genre and the way humans frame their emotional, intellectual, and social experience? The focus will be on a single genre (e.g., novel, lyric poem, tragedy, comedy, epic, ballad, gothic novel, graphic novel, etc.) Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Priority given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: 20A, 20B, 21A, and 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  • ENGL 125 / Approaches to Literature: Biographical (2-4) - view
    How much can we read into a work based on our knowledge of a writer's life? In this course we will look at literary texts in relation to letters and diaries. We will then look at how biographers and literary critics used those same letters and diaries to say something about the author's life or writings. After reading some essays by biographers about the challenges that they have faced in their work, students will attempt to compose an argument of their own by drawing on letters, diaries, or other primary sources. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A and 20B and ENGL 21A and 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  • ENGL 126 / Approaches to Literature: Intertextual (2-4) - view
    This course explores the various ways that texts "answer" each other or imbricate each other. Writers often compose a text in response to another work (sometimes contemporaneous, sometimes distant). Writers also develop rivalries, write for each other as audience, feel especially influenced by or even possessed by another writer. In some eras, all literature is considered to be "part" of a larger project or in response to a "big" text (e.g., the Bible). Some literary works are written in the shadow of another language. Different theories of intertextuality will be covered. Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  • ENGL 127 / Approaches to Literature: Cultural (2-4) - view
    The course covers interactions between literary artists and visual artists. We will look at individual writers' responses to particular works of art as well as broader relationships such as visual iconography in medieval works or breakthrough moments in modernism and postmodernism when writers' exposure to the visual arts led them to invent new modes of composition and of perception. Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  • ENGL 128 / Approaches to Painterly Literature: (2-4) - view
    The course covers interactions between literary artists and visual artists. We will look at individual writers' responses to particular works of art as well as broader relationships such as visual iconography in medieval works or breakthrough moments in modernism and postmodernism when writers' exposure to the visual arts led them to invent new modes of composition and of perception. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  • ENGL 131 / Advanced Studies in Anglophone Literature (2-4) - view
    An examination of literature in English by authors residing in or originating from English speaking nations other than Britain and America. The course may focus on literature from any one region, such as the Caribbean or South Asia; one nation, such as South Africa, Australia, or India; or a continent, such as Africa. It may explore the literature of those who emigrate from those regions, connections between the literature of those who remain at home and those who leave, the effects of colonialism on the nation, or the development of national literatures after colonialism. The course may also focus on specific historical moments, such as apartheid South Africa or Indian partition; or problems, such as the definition of "postcolonial," hybridity and identity, or the development of global Englishes. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  • ENGL 132 / Women's Literary Tradition (4) - view
    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. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered spring semester.
  • ENGL 133 / Advanced Studies in Sexuality & Literature (4) - view
    In continuing the study of and moving beyond English 33, this class examines how sexuality is articulated and mediated through literature and such modes of cultural production as film and two-dimensional art. Attention will be paid to specific iterations of sexuality and the labels that attend them (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual). Emphasis on queer theory and critical thinking on sexuality. We will read such authors as Sappho, Wilde, Gilbert and Gubar, Whitman, Ginsberg, Winterson, Doty, White, Bishop and Hart Crane. The course may focus on a specific theme or sub-genre such as speculative Utopic narratives or Race, Ethnicity & Sexuality. Course may be repeated for credit. Offered spring semester in alternate years.
  • ENGL 134 / Advanced Studies in Ethnic American Literature (4) - view
    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. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered in alternate spring semester.
  • ENGL 140 / Topics in Literature (4) - view
    An advanced study of particular literary subjects (e.g. the literature of the Holocaust, immigrant literature), topics (Old English language and literature, myth and literature), problems (e.g., literacy and orality, modern constructions of older/ancient texts), and methodologies (e.g., psychoanalytic approaches, comparative literature. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Priority is given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Recommended: ENGL 34 as a prior course. Offered fall semester.
  • ENGL 142 / Advanced Studies in History of the Language (2-4) - view
    Topics may include Anglo-Saxon ("Old English") language, Middle English, African American Vernacular English, dialect studies, global Englishes. Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  • ENGL 143 / Shakespeare (4) - view
    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. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered annually fall semester in London.
  • ENGL 165 / Topics in Literature (4) - view
    An advanced study in particular literary subjects (e.g., gay and lesbian literature, the literature of the Holocaust), topics (e.g., myth and literature), problems (e.g., literacy and orality, modern constructions of older/ancient texts), and methodologies (e.g., psychoanalytic approaches, comparative literature). Course may be repeated. Offered every semester.

Seminars

  • ENGL 172 / Studies in Fiction: Seminar (4) - view
    A study of selected major works of fiction. Focus depends on instructor. Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B and at least one Approaches course. Offered fall semester. Same as: ENGLG 172.
  • ENGL 173 / Studies in Poetry or Drama: Seminar (4) - view
    A study of selected major works of poetry or drama or a school of poetry or drama. For example, Caribbean poetry, New York School poets, medieval drama, or modern American drama. Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B and at least one Approaches course. Offered fall semester. Same as: ENGLG 173.
  • ENGL 174 / Advanced Literary Studies: Seminar (4) - view
    An intensive study of a theme, problem, or literary genre. The topic varies from year to year, but the seminar is designed to offer students an extended analysis of that topic and the opportunity to explore it from a number of perspectives and critical positions. Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B and at least one Approaches course. Offered fall semester. Same as: ENGLG 174.
  • ENGL 175 / Major Author: Seminar (4) - view
    A close reading and a critical examination of the work of an individual British, American, or Anglophone author. The author varies from year to year, but the focus of the course is an immersion into the work of that author and an engagement with the criticism of that work. In some seminars students may work with archival material. Others will focus primarily on the texts, explore significant debates about the work or its interpretation, or view the texts through a specific theoretical framework. Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A,20B,21A,21B, and at least one Approaches course. Offered spring semester. Same as: ENGLG 175.
  • ENGL 176 / Shakespeare on Film: Seminar (4) - view
    An intensive study of about four major plays by means of examination of different film versions. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: ENGL 20A/B AND 21A/B, at least one Approaches course, and ENGL 143 or permission of the instructor. Offered alternate spring semesters. Same as: ENGLG 176.
  • ENGL 180 / Independent Study in Literature (2-4) - view
    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. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered every semester.

Off-Campus Programs: Drew London Semester

  • ENGL 169 / British Political Drama (4) - view
    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. Offered Fall Semester. Same as: THEA 169.
  • ENGL 182 / Research Tutorial (4) - view
    Each student conducts research and writes a paper on a topic approved by the London program instructor. The project stresses normal library research as well as personal interviews and other out-of-class experiences as part of the research process. Students are urged to consult with their home campus adviser about their topic before going to London. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered in the London program. Same as: PSCI 182.
  • ENGL 189 / Studies in British Literature: London Biography Literature (4) - view
    For this course we shall become London flaneurs, walking the streets and interpreting the signs of the city as if it were a text. We shall read a range of nineteenth and twentieth century writings, including classics such as Our Mutual Friend, and lesser known works. Through Amy Levy (Reuben Sachs), Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway) and Jean Rhys (Good Morning, Midnight) we can explore the changing role of women in the metropolis. In Alexander Baron's The Lowlife we can glimpse the East End's historic importance as a home to refugees and see how it turned into Bangla Town in Monica Ali's Brick Lane. In Conrad we find London as the centre of Empire and in the work of Sam Selvon and Monica Ali we have examples of how the Empire has written back. By paying close attention to both text and context, we shall achieve a lively appreciation of the works in and of themselves and as part of the cultural life of London. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered fall semester in London.