Writing

Minor

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Requirements for the Writing Minor (20 credits)

I. Satisfaction of the college writing requirement

II. Four courses (16 credits) chosen from the courses listed below, three courses (12 credits) in the area of emphasis (creative or nonfiction) and one course (4 credits) in the other; one workshop may be repeated in order to fulfill these requirements.

• ENGL 103/Nonfiction Writing (4)
• ENGL 104/Nonfiction Writing: Articles (4)
• ENGL 107/Creative Writing Workshop: Short Fiction (4)
• ENGL 108/Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry (4)
• ENGL 109/Advanced Creative Writing Workshop: Short Fiction (4)
• ENGL 110/Advanced Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry (4)

III. One course (4 credits) from the following:

• ENGL 38/LING 105/History and Structure of the English Language (2-4)
• ENGL 39/History of Rhetoric (2-4)
• ENGL 51/Spoken Word (2-4)
• ENGL 59/ Introduction to Journalism (4)
• INST 150/Independent Study (1-4)
• INTR 50/Academic Internship (project must be approved for writing minor) (2-4)
• THEA 55/Playwriting (4)
• THEA 155/Advanced Playwriting (4)

Summer session and other courses as appropriate (departmental approval required)

Courses

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Writing Courses

ENGL 210 - Formerly 4 - Writing in the Discipline of English (2)

This six-week module will use the texts discussed in a/b or 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: A, B, A, OR B. Offered first and second half of each semester.
Fulfills: WM

ENGL 213 - Formerly 53 - Special Topics Creative Writing Workshop (2-4)

A Creative writing workshop in creative non-fiction, poetry, or fiction, that focus on a particular theme, sub-genre, or problem. Topics could include writing that engages with the public sphere; occasional poetry (poetry that is composed for a particular occasion or is meant to be delivered to a particular person); interart poetry that engages with the visual arts, music, or vocal performance; writing that engages with a particular place such as New York City or the Drew campus; writing that combines genres or works intertextually; writing that engages with new media.
Course may be repeated.

ENGL 214 - Formerly 54 - Theory and Practice of Writing Center Tutoring (4)

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.

Fulfills: WI

ENGL 216 - Formerly 59 - Introduction to Journalism (4)

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 215 - Formerly 65 - Writing For and About Business (4)

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 311 - Formerly 103 - Nonfiction Writing (4)

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.
Fulfills: BA

ENGL 312 - Formerly 104 - Nonfiction Writing: Articles (4)

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 313 - Formerly 107 - Creative Writing Workshop: Short Fiction (4)

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. Offered annually.
Fulfills: BA

ENGL 314 - Formerly 108 - Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry (4)

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. Offered annually.
Fulfills: BA

ENGL 315 - Formerly 109 - Creative Writing Workshop: Advanced Fiction (4)

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.
Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory. 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 316 - Formerly 110 - Creative Writing Workshop: Advanced Poetry (4)

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.
Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory. Course may be repeated twice for credit. Enrollment priority: writing minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 311 - Formerly 103 - , 104, 107 or 108, submission of writing sample and application. Offered fall semester.
Fulfills: BA

Language Courses

ENGL 220 - Formerly 38 - History and Structure of the English Language (4)

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 - Formerly 105 - . Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.

Literature Courses

ENGL 150 - Formerly 9 - Literary Analysis (4)

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.
Fulfills: BH

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 253 - Formerly 20A - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition 1900-Presen (2)

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 150 - Formerly 9 - Corequisite: ENGL 210 - Formerly 4 - (Simultaneous enrollment with one of the four modules). Offered annually, 20 A/B in the spring, 21 A/B in the fall).

ENGL 252 - Formerly 20B - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: 1800-1900 (2)

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 150 - Formerly 9 - Corequisite: ENGL 210 - Formerly 4 - (Simultaneous enrollment with one of the four modules). Offered annually, 20 A/B in the spring, 21 A/B in the fall).

ENGL 251 - Formerly 21A - Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition: 1600-1800 (2)

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 150 - Formerly 9 - Corequisite: ENGL 210 - Formerly 4 - (Simultaneous enrollment with one of the four modules). Offered annually, 20 A/B in the spring, 21 A/B in the fall).

ENGL 250 - Formerly 21B - Mapping the Anglo-Amer.Lit. Trad: Medieval to Renaissance (2)

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 150 - Formerly 9 - Corequisite: ENGL 210 - Formerly 4 - (Simultaneous enrollment with one of the four modules). Offered annually, 20 A/B in the spring, 21 A/B in the fall).

ENGL 101 - Formerly 30 - Western Literature I (4)

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, WI

ENGL 102 - Formerly 31 - Western Literature II (4)

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.
Fulfills: WI, BH

ENGL 103 - Formerly 32 - Gender and Literature (2-4)

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. Offered fall semester.
Fulfills: BH

ENGL 104 - Formerly 33 - Sexuality and Literature (2-4)

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.
Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 105 - Formerly 34 - Topics in American Ethnic, Immigrant, or Regional Lit. (4)

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. Offered in alternate fall semesters..
Fulfills: BH, DUS

ENGL 106 - Formerly 35 - African American Literature (4)

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..
Fulfills: DUS, BH

ENGL 107 - Formerly 36 - Asian American Literature (2-4)

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.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

ENGL 108 - Formerly 37 - Latino/a Literature (2-4)

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.
Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

ENGL 221 - Formerly 39 - History of Rhetoric (4)

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 201 - Formerly 40 - Selected Topics in Literature I (2-4)

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.
Fulfills: BH

ENGL 202 - Formerly 41 - Selected Topics in Literature & Language II (2-4)

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.
Fulfills: BH

ENGL 204 - Formerly 42 - Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Language (2-4)

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.
Fulfills: BI

ENGL 278 - Formerly 43 - Literary Translation (4)

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 - Formerly 60 -
Fulfills: BA

ENGL 205 - Formerly 44 - Studies in American Ethnic or Immigrant Literature I (2-4)

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.
Fulfills: DUS

ENGL 206 - Formerly 46 - Studies in American Ethnic or Immigrant Literature II (2-4)

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.
Fulfills: BH, DUS

ENGL 207 - Formerly 47 - Interdisciplinary Studies in American Ethnic or Immigrant L it (2-4)

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.
Fulfills: BI, DUS

ENGL 209 - Formerly 48 - Interdisciplinary Studies in Anglophone or World Literature (2-4)

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 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.
Fulfills: BI, DIT

ENGL 299 - Formerly 49 - Intermediate Open Topics-- Community-Based Learning (2-4)

This course is a community-based learning course, focused on making connections between a literary topic and some form of applied work in the community. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated as topic changes. Students should expect to devote some hours to work with community organizations beyond the established class time.
Course may be repeated.

ENGL 212 - Formerly 51 - Spoken Word: The Oral Interpretation of Literature (2)

This course explores literature as a performance art. 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. Students may perform their own writing in the course the work of spoken word and/or canonical writers. 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.
Check department listing for offering. Enrollment priority: English majors and writing minors.
Fulfills: BA

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 350 - Formerly 112 - Advanced Studies in Medieval or Renaissance Literature (2-4)

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.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: B Offered in alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 351 - Formerly 113 - Adv.Studies in British Lit.of The 17th or 18th Century (2-4)

This course investigates developments in the Early Modern period that set foundations for our contemporary literature. Topics may include social settings in which manuscripts were written and exchanged, the rise of print culture, breaking the icon of the King, religious lyric poetry, love lyrics, Restoration drama, experiments with fiction and the beginnings of the novel, early women writers, political and social satire, and cultural responses to the French Revolution and to the expansion of empire.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 352 - Formerly 114 - Advanced Studies of British Literature of the 19th Century (2-4)

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.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: B Offered in alternate fall semesters.
Fulfills: WI

ENGL 353 - Formerly 115 - Advanced Studies in British Literature of the 20th Century (2-4)

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.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A Offered in alternate spring semesters.
Fulfills: WI

ENGL 354 - Formerly 116 - Advanced Studies in American Literature to the Civil War (2-4)

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.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: B Offered in alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 355 - Formerly 117 - Advanced Studies in American Literature from the Civil War to World War I (2-4)

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. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A or 20B Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 356 - Formerly 118 - Advanced Studies in American Literature of the 20th Cent. (2-4)

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.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A Offered in alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 357 - Formerly 119 - Advanced Studies in Literature of the 20th Century (2-4)

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).
Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A Offered in alternate spring semesters.
Fulfills: WI

ENGL 321 - Formerly 121 - Comparative Critical Theory and Practice (2-4)

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.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: Either ENGL 20A/B OR ENGL 21A/B Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 302 - Formerly 122A - Cultural Studies (4)

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: A, B, A, ENGL21B.

ENGL 322 - Formerly 123 - Intensive reading of a single text (2-4)

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).
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: One of the following as appropriate: A, B, ENGL21A, ENGL+ 21B. Offered alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 323 - Formerly 124 - Approaches to Literature: Genre (2-4)

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.)
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Priority given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: One of the following as appropriate: A, B, ENGL21A, ENGL+ 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 324 - Formerly 125 - Approaches to Literature: Biographical (2-4)

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.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: One of the following as appropriate: A, B, ENGL21A, ENGL+ 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 325 - Formerly 126 - Approaches to Literature: Intertextual (2-4)

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. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 326 - Formerly 127 - Approaches to Literature: Cultural (2-4)

How do critics work on the relationship between literary texts and other cultural materials (such as popular culture, legal and religious discourse, social history, political history)? This course will look at literary texts in the context of extra-literary materials.
Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate fall semesters.

ENGL 327 - Formerly 128 - Approaches to Painterly Literature: (2-4)

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.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: One of the following as appropriate: A, B, ENGL21A, ENGL+ 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 308 - Formerly 131 - Advanced Studies in Anglophone Literature (2-4)

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.
Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A or B as appropriate. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
Fulfills: DIT

ENGL 303 - Formerly 132 - Women's Literary Tradition (4)

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 - Formerly 9 - or permission of the instructor. Offered spring semester.
Fulfills: BH

ENGL 304 - Formerly 133 - Advanced Studies in Sexuality & Literature (4)

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. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 - Formerly 9 - or permission of the instructor. Offered spring semester in alternate years.

ENGL 305 - Formerly 134 - Advanced Studies in Ethnic American Literature (4)

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. Prerequisite: ENGL 150 - Formerly 9 - or permission of the instructor. Offered in alternate spring semester.
Fulfills: DUS

ENGL 301 - Formerly 140 - Topics in Literature (4)

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 150 - Formerly 9 - or permission of the instructor. Offered fall semester.

ENGL 320 - Formerly 142 - Advanced Studies in History of the Language (2-4)

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. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.

ENGL 276 - Formerly 143 - Shakespeare (4)

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: B Offered annually fall semester in London.

ENGL 306 - Formerly 146 - Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Language (2-4)

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.

ENGL 300 - Formerly 180 - Independent Study in Literature (2-4)

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.

Capstone

ENGL 400 - Formerly 199 - Senior Capstone in English (4)

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.
[CAP] Capstone Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: Pre-requisite: Permission of instructor. Approved major concentration. Open to seniors only. Offered Fall and Spring semesters.

Seminars

ENGL 371 - Formerly 171 - Studies in Poetry: Seminar (4)

A study of selected major works of poetry or a school of poetry. For example, Caribbean poetry, New York School poets, or modern American poetry.
Course may be repeated. Open to a maximum of 15 juniors and seniors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: a/b and 21 a/b and at least one Approaches course. Offered Annually.

ENGL 372 - Formerly 172 - Studies in Fiction: Seminar (4)

A study of selected major works of fiction. Focus depends on instructor. Course may be repeated as topic varies.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: A, 20B, 21A, 21B and at least one Approaches course. Offered fall semester.

ENGL 373 - Formerly 173 - Studies in Poetry or Drama: Seminar (4)

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 as topic varies.
Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15 Open only to students with junior or senior standing Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: A, 20B, 21A, 21B and at least one Approaches course. Offered fall semester.

ENGL 374 - Formerly 174 - Advanced Literary Studies: Seminar (4)

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: A, 20B, 21A, 21B and at least one Approaches course. Offered fall semester.

ENGL 375 - Formerly 175 - Major Author: Seminar (4)

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 as topic varies.
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.

ENGL 376 - Formerly 176 - Shakespeare on Film: Seminar (4)

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: A, 20B, 21A, 21B, at least one Approaches course, and ENGL 276 - Formerly 143 - or permission of the instructor. Offered alternate spring semesters.

Off-Campus Programs: Drew London Semester

ENGL 383 - Formerly 169 - British Political Drama (4)

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 383 - Formerly 169 -
Fulfills: BH, BA

ENGL 380 - Formerly 182 - Research Tutorial (4)

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 380 - Formerly 182 -

ENGL 384 - Formerly 189 - Studies in British Literature: London Literature (4)

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.
Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered fall semester in London.