A course in persuasive, analytical and researched writing that includes critical response to readings. Not to be counted toward an English major or minor, or included in the 56-credit limitation in one subject area. (WA)

The analysis and interpretation of works selected from English and world literature. (H) (WA)

An introductory workshop focused primarily on prose fiction. (WA)

Beowulf to 1785. An historically organized course spanning a millennium of literary greatness, with particular emphases on social and cultural change and methods of literary analysis. May be taken independently of English 10-164. Contributes to Early Modern Studies, and International Studies. (H) (WA)

1785 to present. An historically organized course. May be taken independently of English 10-154. Contributes to International Studies. (H) (WA)

From before Columbus to the present. An historically organized course. May be taken independently of English 10-154 and English 10-164. (H) (WA)

An introduction to issues and methods of literary analysis. Topics and readings will vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: One course in English. (Spring) (H) (WA)

Provides students with a broad overview of cinema history and an introduction to the terminology of film analysis and critique. Students will learn film theory, aesthetics, and genre; and begin to explore the semiotics of film structure that embed ideas about gender, race, class, and sexuality within gothic, romantic, tragic, and comic modes of representation. Students will also develop an understanding of the importance of cinematography, editing, sound, and casting in the production and interpretation of film meaning. Contributes to Design Thinking. (Fall) (H)

A writing workshop in poetry. May be repeated for credit. Approval of instructor required. (WA)

A writing workshop in prose fiction. May be repeated for credit. Approval of instructor required. (WA)

An intensive course in writing with emphasis on the critical essay. May be repeated with change in topic. (WA)

An intensive introduction to major critical and theoretical approaches to literature. Prerequisite: English 10-244 or permission of instructor. (H)

This course offers a focused engagement with a theoretical question, problem or method. Possible offerings include Foucault and the Legacies of New Historicism, Problems in Textuality, Who Put the Post in Postcolonial? Technical Advances in Ecocriticism, Psychoanalytic Theory and Its Discontents. May be repeated with change of topic. Prerequisite: English 10-244 or permission of instructor. (H)

This course will focus on the way films define gender, and on the direction that film criticism takes when feminism goes to the movies. It includes an intensive consideration of feminist film criticism and theory from 1975 to the present, and is intended for students who are interested in film studies and who have some experience with critical reading, writing, and theoretical analysis. Contributes to Feminist Studies. Prerequisite: English 10-244, English 10-254, Feminist Studies 04-104 or permission of instructor. (H) (SJ)

Diverse themes and approaches (such as narrative, historicist, genre, feminist) to Hollywood and/or independent film traditions. Possible offerings include Film Noir, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Romantic Comedies, 60s Hollywood, Reel Jews, and LGBT Film. May be repeated with change of topic. (H)

A history of narrative film from its origins to the present with an emphasis upon European, Asian, Indian and Third World cinema. Cultural contexts and technological evolution are emphasized. Lang, Eisenstein, Renoir, Truffaut, Fellini, Bergman, Fassbinder, Kurosawa, Ray, Almodovar, and Campion are among the directors studied. German cinema of the Weimar Period, Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, the Japanese Postwar Renaissance and emergent Third World Cinema are among the organizing principles of this survey. Contributes to International Studies. (H)

A history of narrative film from its origins to the present with an emphasis upon Hollywood cinema. Historical contexts and technological evolution are emphasized. Griffith, Chaplin, Welles, Hitchcock, Ford, Kubrick, Altman, Coppola, and Anderson are among the directors studied. The Studio System, silent comedies, sound film, genre study (musical, comedy, western and gangster films), New Hollywood and digital technology are among the organizing principles of this survey. (H)

An advanced introduction to some of the best literature of the medieval period. Topics will vary but may include such authors as the Beowulf-poet, Chaucer, Malory and Langland. Some possible topics include quest-narratives, piety, drama, images of women, autobiography, and allegory. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to International Studies. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

This course covers literature of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, with varying focus. Potential themes include Medieval and Renaissance Drama, Early English Lyric Poetry, the Renaissance, Narrative Form and Earlier English Religious Poetry. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to International Studies. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

An intensive introduction to the works of William Shakespeare. The selection of works will vary from semester to semester but will address the breadth of Shakespeare's achievement. Contributes to Early Modern Studies, International Studies, and Theatre. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

A study of British writing of the long 18th century (1660-1800), with particular attention to cultural continuity and change. Focus and authors will vary; offerings include Sexual Politics of the Restoration Age, Reason and Madness in 18th-Century Fiction, Enlightenment Self-Fashioning, Center and Periphery: the Problem of the British 18th Century. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to International Studies. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

This course will emphasize the poetry and prose of traditional Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Tighe and Barbauld, and will explore the Romantic-era work of novelists like Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Sir Walter Scott and Ann Radcliffe. Topics for this course will vary and may include Romanticism and Gender, The Byronic Hero, and Romanticism and Aesthetics. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to Feminist Studies and International Studies. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

This course will explore the Victorian period in British culture through the dominant literary genre of that period: the novel. Authors studied may include Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Braddon, Wilde, Collins and the Brontë sisters. Specific topics for this course will vary and may include Austen and Brontë, Victorian Mystery, Realism and Sensationalism, and Victorian Arts. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to Feminist Studies and International Studies. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

This course will focus on the development of British modernisms and postmodernisms, with particular attention to the diverse aesthetic strategies that challenged, reinforced, and reconstructed ideas about subjectivity, gender, sexuality, nation and novels. Contributes to Feminist Studies and International Studies May be repeated with change in topic. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

A thematic study of American writers from an interdisciplinary perspective. American Poetry, Southwestern Literature and Making and Unmaking of Democratic Selves are among the variants offered. May be repeated with change in topic. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

A study of American writers of the 19th century, with particular attention to social and cultural change. Focus will vary from an advanced survey of such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Whitman, Dickinson and Twain to dual-author courses such as Hawthorne and Melville. May be repeated with change in topic. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

A study of American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, with particular attention to social and cultural change. Focus will vary from an advanced survey of such writers as James, Adams, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Ellison, Salinger, Morrison and DeLillo to thematically organized courses such as America Since the 1960s, Postwar(s) America, Popular versus Literary Culture, and America and the Movies. May be repeated with change in topic. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

A study of literature produced at the intersection of cultures. Consideration of ways cultural differences and legacies of colonization are negotiated. Major figures vary from year to year but will usually include Achebe, Gordimer, Head, Ngugi, Rushdie and Soyinka. Contributes to Race and Ethnicity Studies. (H) (IP) (SJ)

Informed by feminist and queer theory, this course will explore the ways in which diverse female literary traditions construct and challenge conceptions of gender, genre, canon, period and nation. Likely offerings will include Early American Women Writers, Women and Captivity Narratives, Other Victorian Women and/or Women Writing Multiculturalism. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to Feminist Studies. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

A study of literature written in English from the 1960s to the present. Topics and authors will vary from semester to semester to reflect the breadth and depth of contemporary literary practices. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to Feminist Studies. Prerequisite: One course in English or permission of instructor. (H)

A study of the literatures of American ethnic communities, analyzing the relationships between ethnicity, history, and literature. Possible subjects include, but are not limited to, African American, Asian American, Latina/o, and Native American literature. Discussion is attentive to the intersections of ethnic identity with gender, sexuality, citizenship, and class. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to Race and Ethnicity Studies and Feminist Studies. (H) (SJ) (WA)

Fulfills the requirement for a capstone experience. Prerequisite: 10-244. (Fall, Spring) (WA)