ENG - English
ENG 150
Literary Analysis
An introduction to the techniques of literary analysis through the detailed study of individual texts. Units: 6.
ENG 170
Shakespeare in London
Students will study several plays by William Shakespeare selected from among the current offerings by the Royal Shakespeare and other companies. Discussions will address the plays themselves, production techniques, and the audiences to whom they appeal. Students are required to attend performances of the plays under study. Offered at the London Centre. Units: 6.
Also listed as Theatre Arts 170
Prerequisite: Must be attending Lawrence London Centre
ENG 191
Directed Study in English
Directed study follows a syllabus set primarily by the instructor to meet the needs or interests of an individual student or small group of students. The main goal of directed study is knowledge or skill acquisition, not research or creative work. Units: Variable.
ENG 210
Romanticism Then and Now
An interdisciplinary investigation of the powerful and enduring influence of Romanticism in the arts. The course will connect formative examples of poetry (Wordsworth, Keats), music (Beethoven, Schubert), and visual arts (Blake, Turner) to each other and to their late romantic and neo-romantic progeny, in conjunction with select live performances and field trips to historic sites and museums. This course is general in scope and no prior musical knowledge is expected. Units: 6.
Also listed as Music History 211
Prerequisite: Must be attending the Lawrence London Centre
ENG 230
Major British Writers I
Intensive study of five or six major British authors from Chaucer to Swift. Emphasis on close reading and critical writing. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: ENG 150 or its equivalent or sophomore standing
ENG 240
Major British Writers II
Intensive study of five or six major British authors from Wordsworth to Yeats. Emphasis on close reading and critical writing. Offered at the London Centre. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: ENG 150 or its equivalent or sophomore standing
ENG 250
Major American Writers
Intensive study of major American authors from Cooper to Wallace Stevens. Emphasis on close reading and critical writing. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: ENG 150 or its equivalent or sophomore standing
ENG 260
Survey of African American Literature
A survey of African American literature from slave narratives through contemporary literature. Readings include works by Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. Units: 6.
Also listed as Ethnic Studies 360
Prerequisite: ENG 150 or its equivalent or sophomore standing
ENG 270
Women's Literary History
An examination of how and why linear narratives of literary history have traditionally omitted or obscured women’s contributions. Topics will include the stereotypical links drawn between print and sexual promiscuity, as well as other factors that have impacted the roles that women have played in literary history. Units: 6.
Also listed as Gender Studies 250
Prerequisite: ENG 150 or GEST 100
ENG 280
Survey of Postcolonial Literature
An introduction to major postcolonial works in their literary, historical, and cultural contexts. Readings include novels by African, Asian, and Caribbean authors such as Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, and Jean Rhys. Units: 6.
Also listed as Ethnic Studies 280
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing, ENG 150, or consent of instructor
ENG 350
Creative Writing: Non-Fiction
Practice in the writing of non-fictional prose. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor
ENG 360
Creative Writing: Fiction
Practice in the writing of short fiction. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor
ENG 370
Creative Writing: Poetry
Practice in the writing of poetry. Units: 6.
ENG 390
Tutorial Studies in English
Tutorial study in the literature of various periods, English and American, and in literary forms and composition. Intended primarily for juniors and seniors. Arrangements should be discussed with the department chair.
Units: Variable.
Prerequisite: Counter Registration Required.
ENG 391
Directed Study in English
Directed study follows a syllabus set primarily by the instructor to meet the needs or interests of an individual student or small group of students. The main goal of directed study is knowledge or skill acquisition, not research or creative work. Units: Variable.
ENG 399
Independent Study in English
Advanced study, arranged in consultation with the department chair. Students considering an honors project should register for this course. Units: Variable.
Prerequisite: Counter Registration Required.
ENG 400
Satire
A study of the theory and practice of satiric writing. Readings in Ben Jonson, Pope, Swift, Gay, Byron, Waugh, West, Orwell, Heller, and others. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor
ENG 420
Studies in Medieval Literature
A study of Middle English literature and culture, focusing especially on the oral and performative dimensions of literature produced between 1300 and 1550. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 230, or consent of instructor
ENG 425
Shakespeare
An introduction to Shakespeare’s plays and their literary, historical, and theatrical context. Units: 6.
Also listed as Theatre Arts 432
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 230, or consent of instructor
ENG 430
Renaissance Literature
A selected study of poetry and prose in Sixteenth Century England. Readings will include Spenser's Faerie, Queene, and lyric poetry from Wyatt to Sidney. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 230, or consent of instructor
ENG 435
Renaissance Drama
A study of eight to ten plays from the early modern period, excluding Shakespeare. Readings include Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton and Webster. Units: 6.
Also listed as Theatre Arts 436
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 230, or consent of instructor
ENG 440
Milton and the 17th Century
A study of Donne and the metaphysical poets, the poetry and prose of Milton, and the poetry of Dryden. Emphasis on Milton. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 230, or consent of instructor
ENG 445
Restoration and 18th-Century Comedy
A study of English comedies as reflections of changing taste and thought in the period 1660-1800. Authors include Wycherley, Etherege, Congreve, Farquhar, Steele, Fielding, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. Units: 6.
Also listed as Theatre Arts 434
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 230, or consent of instructor
ENG 450
18th-Century Literature
A study of major works in satire, poetry, and fiction as reflections of 18th-century thought and taste. Readings in Swift, Defoe, Pope, Fielding, Samuel Johnson, and others. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 230, or consent of instructor
ENG 455
Romanticism
A study of the period from 1790 to 1830, focusing on the development and elaboration of what we now call Romanticism. Readings in the major authors of the period: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 240, or consent of instructor
ENG 460
The Victorian Age
A study of the period from 1830 to 1900, focusing on poetry, fiction, and critical prose. Readings range widely, including selections from Carlyle, Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossettis, and Oscar Wilde. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 240, or consent of instructor
ENG 465
The English Novel
A study of English fiction from 1740 to 1900. Readings include novels by Richardson, Burney, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 240, or consent of instructor
ENG 470
American Literature to the Civil War
A study of the ways early writers of America attempted to adapt “Old World” forms and styles to the “New World” — as they sought initially to compose and sustain themselves and gradually to constitute the United States of America in literary terms. Selected readings from the 17th and 18th centuries, followed by readings in Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 230, or consent of instructor
ENG 472
American Literature and the Civil War
A study of American literature of the Civil War era, including readings from the abolition movement as well as the texts, photography, and painting produced in response to the war. Selected readings from Douglass, Jacobs, Grant, Stowe, and Chesnutt, as well as poets such as Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, and Harper. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, an intermediate course in English, or consent of instructor
ENG 480
Modern British Fiction
A study of selected works of British fiction in relation to early 20th-century thought. Authors include Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Mansfield, Forster, Woolf, and others. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 240, or consent of instructor
ENG 482
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
A study focused on the literature and art produced by the Bloomsbury Group, an early 20th-century London-based network of novelists, painters, economists, and philosophers that includes Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell, J. M. Keynes, and the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, an intermediate course in English, or consent of instructor
ENG 483
American Autobiography
A study of prominent American autobiographies from the 19th and 20th centuries. The course will examine how autobiography responds to social, cultural, and aesthetic conditions and the relationship of the genre to the larger American literary tradition. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 250, or consent of instructor
ENG 485
Modern Poetry
Consideration of principal tendencies in 20th-century poetry as illustrated in the work of representative authors, including Yeats, Eliot, H. D., Stevens, Williams, Moore, and others. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 240, or consent of instructor
ENG 490
Modern Drama
Studies in some of the major playwrights in Europe, England, and America from the time of Ibsen to the present. Units: 6.
Also listed as Theatre Arts 440
Prerequisite: Junior standing, an intermediate course in English, or consent of instructor
ENG 495
Modern American Fiction
A study of American fiction from the first half of the 20th century. Authors include Wharton, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Ellison, and others. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 250, or consent of instructor
ENG 500
Contemporary American Fiction
A study of the two most prominent American literary movements since World War II, Postmodernism and Multiculturalism. Readings include the work of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Tim O’Brien, Philip Roth, Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, and Julia Alvarez, as well as selected films and short theoretical texts. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 250, or consent of instructor
ENG 503
Contemporary American Poetry
Examination of selected works of American poetry with particular emphasis on the post-World War II era. The course will consider individual poets’ responses both to poetic traditions and to formal and thematic innovations of the 20th century. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 250, or consent of instructor
ENG 507
Contemporary British and Post-Colonial Fiction
A survey of contemporary fiction in Britain, with an emphasis on the impact of post-colonial and multicultural writers and perspectives. Authors may include Chinua Achebe, Angela Carter, Keri Hulme, Hanif Kureishi, Patrick McCabe, V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Amos Tutuola, and Irvine Welsh. Units: 6.
Also listed as Ethnic Studies 560
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 240, or consent of instructor
ENG 510
Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
A study of poetry, fiction, and essays by African American writers from the era of World War I through the 1930s. Authors include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others. Units: 6.
Also listed as Ethnic Studies 561
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 250 or 260, or consent of instructor
ENG 515
Gender and Modernist British/American Literature
A study of the construction of gender in early 20th-century fiction and poetry. Authors include Cather, Woolf, Lawrence, Hemingway, Sassoon, and others. Units: 6.
Also listed as Gender Studies 445
Prerequisite: Junior standing, an intermediate course in English or gender studies, or consent of instructor
ENG 516
Literature and Human Rights
An interdisciplinary investigation of the aesthetics and ethics of representing human rights and their violations in literature and film. Texts include novels, plays, essays, and films on topics such as genocide, torture, and development. Units: 6.
Also listed as Ethnic Studies 516, Film Studies 416
Prerequisite: Junior standing, ENG 280, or consent of instructor
ENG 525
Contemporary Critical Theory
A survey of important movements. Among the readings are selections by Derrida, Foucault, and Bakhtin as well as selections from more recent figures, such as Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, and bell hooks. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor
ENG 526
Feminist Literary Theory
This course will examine the historical origins, practical work, and contemporary methodologies of feminist literary theory. We will address why we need feminist literary theory; how it has met (or not) the complexities raised by recent issues in gender, sexuality, and women's studies; and whether or not feminist literary theory can accommodate the nonlinearity, inclusiveness, and flexibility that it demands. Units: 6.
Also listed as Gender Studies 526
Prerequisite: Junior standing, two or more courses in gender studies, or consent of instructor.
ENG 527
History of the Book
To provide an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Book History, which should help students think more critically about the impact of material culture on intellectual activity. The course will be taught as a speaking intensive seminar, which means that students will frequently be responsible for presenting reading material and leading discussion in the first half of class. Units: 6.
Also listed as History 385
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor.
ENG 530
The English Language
A study of the historical background of English and the sounds and structure of modern English. Units: 6.
Also listed as Linguistics 530
Prerequisite: LING 150 or consent of instructor
ENG 550
Advanced Creative Writing: Nonfiction
A writing workshop for students with previous creative writing experience. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: ENG 350 or ENG 360
ENG 560
Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
A workshop for students with previous fiction writing experience. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: ENG 360 or consent of instructor
ENG 562
Advanced Creative Writing: Novel Writing
Course for students composing creative, book-length works of prose. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: ENG 350 or ENG 360, and ENG 550 or ENG 560
ENG 565
Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
A workshop for students with previous poetry writing experience. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: ENG 370 or consent of instructor
ENG 590
Tutorial Studies in English
Tutorial study in the literature of various periods, English and American, and in literary forms and composition. Intended primarily for juniors and seniors. Arrangements should be discussed with the department chair.
Units: Variable.
Prerequisite: Counter Registration Required.
ENG 591
Directed Study in English
Directed study follows a syllabus set primarily by the instructor to meet the needs or interests of an individual student or small group of students. The main goal of directed study is knowledge or skill acquisition, not research or creative work. Units: Variable.
ENG 599
Independent Study in English
Advanced study, arranged in consultation with the department chair. Students considering an honors project should register for this course. Units: Variable.
Prerequisite: Counter Registration Required.
ENG 600
Senior Seminar in English
A seminar involving analysis of theoretical, historical, critical, and literary readings at an advanced level in conjunction with students' research and writing of an original, substantial paper. Each section of the seminar will focus on a theme that can accommodate variety in students' individual research projects. Units: 6.
Prerequisite: Majors only; junior standing for spring term, otherwise, senior standing; at least two English courses numbered 400 or above
ENG 690
Tutorial Studies in English
Tutorial study in the literature of various periods, English and American, and in literary forms and composition. Intended primarily for juniors and seniors. Arrangements should be discussed with the department chair.
Units: Variable.
Prerequisite: Counter Registration Required.
ENG 691
Directed Study in English
Directed study follows a syllabus set primarily by the instructor to meet the needs or interests of an individual student or small group of students. The main goal of directed study is knowledge or skill acquisition, not research or creative work. Units: Variable.
ENG 699
Independent Study in English
Advanced study, arranged in consultation with the department chair. Students considering an honors project should register for this course. Units: Variable.
Prerequisite: Counter Registration Required.