The Courses
(All courses carry 3 or 4 credits unless otherwise noted.)
115 The American Experience (ALDU)
116 Native American Literature (ALDU)
117 Ethnic American Literature (ALDU)
120 English Composition
131 Society and Literature (ALDG)
132 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALDG)
140 Reading Fiction (AL)
141 Reading Poetry (AL)
142 Reading Drama (AL)
144 World Literature in English (ALDG)
146 Living Writers (ALDU)
196 Independent Study 1-6 cr
200 Intensive Literary Studies Seminar for Intended Majors
201 Early British Literature and Culture
202 Later British Literature and Culture
203 The Bible: Myth, Society and Literature
204 Introduction to Asian American Literature (IDU)
205 Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
221 Shakespeare (AL)
222 Shakespeare (AL)
254 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL)
258 Intro to Performance Studies (AT)
268 American Literature & Culture Before 1865
269 American Literature & Culture After 1865
271 Early American Literature
272 American Romanticism
273 American Realism
279 Introduction to American Studies (ALDU)
291 Seminars
296 Independent Study 1-6 cr
297 Special Topics
298 Practicum 1-15 cr
298H Practicum: Teach at the Writing Center
300 Advanced Junior-Year Seminar
301 History of the Book
302 Studies/Textuality & New Media
307 Modernism and Its Others
311 Legends of Arthur
313 Introduction to Old English Poetry
314 Middle English Literature
315 Speculative Fiction
317 (Dis)ability and Literature
318 Advanced Old English Poetry
319 Representing the Holocaust (ALDG)
326 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
329H Tutoring Writing: Theory and Practice
332 Feminist Literature
338 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
339 Film and Literature
341 Autobiography Studies
343 English Epic Tradition
348 Rise of the Novel
349 Nineteenth Century British Fiction
350 Expository Writing
353 Expository Writing
354 Creative Writing: Introduction
355 Creative Writing: Fiction
356 Creative Writing: Poetry
358 Romantic Poets
359 Victorian Imagination
361 Modern Novel: 1900-1945
362 Modern Novel: 1945-Present
363 Modern British Drama
364 Modern European Drama
365 The Literature of Ireland (AL)
366 Modern Poetry
367 Contemporary Poetry
368 Modern American Drama (AL)
369 Studies in Modern Fiction (AL)
371 African American Literature
372 Caribbean Literature
373 American Indian Literature
374 20th Century American Literature
375 American Poetry
376 American Fiction
378 American Women Writers
379 Introduction to Professional Writing
380 Professional Writing and Technical Communication I
381 Professional Writing and Technical Communication II
382 Professional Writing and Technical Communication III
385 Creative Writing Nonfiction
386 Studies in Writing & Culture
388 Rhetoric, Writing & Society
391AC Multilingual Writing & Global Language Change
391AD The Personal Essay
391AF Creative Writing: The TV Pilot Script
391AG Writing the Graphic Novel
391AJ Writing for a Living
391BR Byron: Poetry, Freedom, Fame
391C Advanced Software for Professional Writing
391CT Chaucer, Tales & the Birth of England
391D Writing & Emerging Technologies
391E Creative Writing: Screenplay
391S Doing Digital
391SG Shakespeare's Global Afterlives
393D Hawthorne & Melville
396 Independent Study 1-6 cr
412 History of the English Language
416 Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
421 Advanced Shakespeare
437 Milton
450 Advanced Expository Writing
468 James Joyce
469 Victorian Monstrosity
470 Individual British Authors
480 Aspects of American Literature
481 Individual American Authors
491-495 Seminars
491A Neruda in Translation
491AC The Major and Beyond: Career Exploration (2-3 credits)
491AS Arabian Nights in World Literature
491JM US Literature in a Global Context
492D Children's Literature
Topics in English Literary History
496 Independent Study 1-6 cr
499 Capstone Course
502 Introduction to Old English
505 Beowulf
591 Seminar: Advanced Imaginative Writing