Department of English — Cross-listed Courses

Courses preceded by an “L” are cross-listed with another department or program, as indicated by the parentheses in the course title: for example “ENGL L350 (ASAMST L350),” which is cross-listed with the Program in Asian American Studies.

Courses

ENGL G180
Women Between Cultures

ENGL G181
Literature and Visual Arts

ENGL G182
“Race” and “Ethnicity” in 20th Century Literature

ENGL G183
Literature and Society

ENGL G184
Technology and the Soul

ENGL G187
Examining Consciousness

ENGL G262
The Art of Literature

ENGL G263
The Art of Shakespeare

ENGL G272
The Art of Poetry

ENGL G273
The Art of Fiction

ENGL G274
The Art of Drama

ENGL G276
The Art of Life Writing

ENGL G278
Pre-Famine Ireland

For a complete description of these courses, see the “First-year and Intermediate Seminars” section of this publication.

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ENGL 099
English Fundamentals

English 099 is a basic reading and writing course for students whose writing placement tests indicate that they need extensive work in college composition. The course introduces students to the methods and materials of academic writing. Journal writing, collaborative writing, marking and glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, and revising are some of the methods that instructors use.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits (semester credits but not graduation credits)

ENGL 101 and 101E
Freshman English I

If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 101E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 101 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 101E.
English 101 is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. English 101 teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section.
Note: English 101 and 101E both satisfy the first half of the College’s freshman writing requirements. For more detail, see www.freshman.umb.edu.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits

ENGL 102 and 102E
Freshman English II

If English is not your first language, you may be placed into 102E, a course devoted to ESL students. This course, designed for non-native speakers of English, parallels 102 and meets the same graduation requirement. The following description therefore applies as well to 102E.
Freshman English 102 is a more advanced course in critical reading and writing than 101; it is intended to help students prepare for their upper-level courses and the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Through sequenced assignments, students learn to sustain inquiries on particular themes or issues and to treat subjects from different perspectives, including their own. Through frequent reading and writing assignments, students learn to analyze the structures of essays and arguments so they are able to develop informed responses to them. As in 101, drafting and redrafting are emphasized. One of the course papers will be a researched essay that builds on course themes and issues.
Note: English 102 and 102E both satisfy the second half of the College’s freshman writing requirement. For more detail, see: www.freshman.umb.edu.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits

ENGL 200
Literary Studies I

This course offers guided practice in the close reading of three major literary genres—poetry, fiction, and drama—with works to be drawn from various historical periods. (A fourth genre may be added at the instructor’s discretion.) The course explores the distinctive features of each genre, along with the concepts and terminology necessary to understand it accurately and communicate about it effectively. Close reading is integrated with aesthetic and evaluative responses to the literary works. A bridge to Literary Studies II (ENGL 300) is provided through focused study of at least one work from a biographical, historical, cultural, or other perspective. This course requires intensive writing.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Ms Annas, Mr Brown, Mr Bruss, Ms Kutz, Ms Klimasmith, Mr O’Grady, Ms Shaner, Ms Srikanth
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits

ENGL 201
Five British Writers

Representative works by five of the most important writers from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, studied as introductions to philosophical and humanistic studies, explored as reflecting and shaping the leading ideas, assumptions, and values of their ages. Works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and other authors such as Milton, Swift, and Austen, with films and background lectures on the philosophical and historical contexts of the works and their authors. Instruction in analytical reading and writing is provided.
Distribution I Area: Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Crossley, Ms Fay, Mr Maisano, Ms Nixon, Mr O’Connell, Ms Penner, Ms Shaner, Mr Tobin

ENGL 206
Six American Authors

The achievements of American literature in articulating the American mind is illustrated by works from some well-known American writers—Thoreau, Dickinson, Faulkner, for example—as well as from those who deserve to be better known, such as William Wells Brown, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: The United States.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Dittmar, Ms Klimasmith, Mr O’Connell, Ms Nurhussein, Ms Peseroff, Ms Srikanth, Mr Stoehr, Ms Tomlinson

ENGL 210
Introduction to Creative Writing

An introduction to the arts through the medium of writing as well as reading poetry and fiction. Student writing is submitted weekly and discussed in class.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
Distribution II Area: The Arts
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Bowen, Mr Fulton, Mr Melnyczuk, Mr O’Grady, Ms Peseroff, Mr Schwartz

ENGL 211
Writing and Reading Poetry

An introduction to the writing of poetry for students who may or may not have had prior experience. Students read poetry as a basis for learning to write it, and class discussion focuses both on assigned readings and on student work. Individual conferences with the instructor are also required.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr O’Grady, Ms Peseroff, Mr Schwartz

ENGL 212
Writing and Reading Fiction

An introduction to the writing of fiction for students who may or may not have had prior experience. Students read fiction as a basis for learning to write it, and class discussion focuses both on assigned readings and on student work. Individual conferences with the instructor are also required.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Fulton, Mr Melnyczuk

ENGL 216
Writing as Women

A sophomore-level writing course designed to work with writing in the context of women’s particular relationship to language, Writing as Women is both theoretical and practical. Students read and discuss feminist analysis of language, read and study a number of women writers who are models of strong individual female voices, work at their own style and particular voice, and practice the skills of research, organization, and editing at a level usual to an intermediate writing course.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Annas

ENGL L221 (ASAMST L221)
Introduction to Asian American Writing

A study of prose works by American writers of East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian descent. In discussing texts and current issues in the field of Asian American literary studies, students consider the ways in which discourse determines identity and the responsibilities of writers—to themselves as artists and to their communities, whether defined by race or gender.
Distribution I Area: Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
Diversity Area: United States.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Srikanth

ENGL 235
Black Literature in America

A survey of works by African-Americans with attention to the interaction of musical, oral and literary forms in Black expression, slave songs, blues lyrics, sermons, and works by Hughes, Wright, Baraka, and others.
Distribution I Area: The Arts.
Diversity Area: United States.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nurhussein, Mr Stoehr, Ms Tomlinson

ENGL 240
Introduction to the English Language

An introduction to the English language and to the changing attitudes of the language users, which underlie grammars, dictionaries, linguistic theories, speech, and writing. Major units of the course cover attitudes towards our language, traditional and contemporary approaches to the structure of English, language acquisition, and language variation.
Distribution I Area: Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Bruss, Ms Kutz, Ms Mansfield, Mr Smith

ENGL Z284
Language, Literacy and Community

This course is designed to be taken in conjunction with ENGL 285. It provides theoretical and practical foundations for teaching second language adult literacy. Course work considers participants’ own language/literacy acquisition processes and practice as tutors. The course focuses on learner-centered approaches to teaching adult ESL/literacy.
Prerequisites: ENGL 101, 102, and permission of instructor.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Auerbach, Ms Zamel, and Staff

ENGL 285

Tutor Training: ESL

This course emphasizes the theoretical and practical issues in the teaching of ESL, thus providing tutors with a framework with which to view their own teaching and observation experiences. Readings and discussions address materials development, instructional techniques, and textbook evaluation. Open only to UMass Boston ESL tutors.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Auerbach, Ms Zamel

Advanced Courses

Each semester the English Department offers more than twenty advanced courses in language, criticism, writing, and literature. All courses listed are offered at least once every five semesters, and many courses are offered annually. Detailed descriptions of each course offered in a given semester are published in the department’s course guide booklet and on the English Department website.

ENGL 300
Literary Studies II (A)

Literary Studies II is designed to strengthen students’ understanding of literature, literary theory, and the complex relations between literature and history. Works are drawn from a variety of historical periods in English and American literature and include poetry, drama, fiction, secondary source material, and criticism. This course requires intensive writing.
Prerequisite: ENGL 200.
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Dittmar, Ms Fay, Ms Klimasmith, Ms Nixon, Ms Srikanth

Writing Courses

ENGL 301
Advanced Poetry Workshop (A)

An advanced poetry workshop in which students practice and improve the poetic skills they have already begun to develop. Class discussion focuses on student work, and individual conferences with the instructor are required.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Peseroff, Mr Schwartz

ENGL 302
Advanced Fiction Workshop (A)

An advanced fiction workshop in which students practice and improve the writing skills they have already begun to develop. Class discussion focuses on student work, and individual conferences with the instructor are required.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Fulton, Mr Melnyczuk

ENGL 303
Creative Writing Workshop (A)

A creative writing workshop for students who have some experience in the writing of poetry, fiction, or drama. Class discussion focuses on student work, and individual conferences with the instructor are required.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Fulton, Mr Melnyczuk, Mr Schwartz

ENGL 306
Advanced Composition: Theory and Practice (A)

For serious writers in various nonfictional modes, such as description, narration, expository or informative writing, and written argument. While there is some emphasis on the philosophy of composition, everything read and discussed has a practical as well as a theoretical function. Sections of this course taught by different instructors vary in emphasis from the composing process to techniques of the new journalism, to technical writing, writing for prelaw students, techniques of research for the long paper and report. But all are conducted in small classes or workshops, all are concerned with informative or argumentative writing for advanced students, and all require the permission of the instructor for enrollment.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Barron, Mr Bruss, Ms Goleman

ENGL 307 (A)
Writing for the Print Media

An advanced course where strong writers can gain proficiency in major types of writing for the public, including journalism (news and feature articles), promotional writing (press releases, flyers), and business and informational prose (brochures, reports, manuals and instructions). Assignments connect to real campus, job, and community events and situations, with the expectation that some writing will be publishable. In conjunction with ENGL 308, this course provides a strong preparation for editors and writers in all settings.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Barron, Mr Bruss, Mr Stoehr

ENGL 308
Professional Editing (A)

An intensive workshop in developing effective prose style for various kinds of writing, including reports, essays, and theses. Instruction covers advanced grammar, usage, editing, and proofreading, with special attention to problems of expression and style arising from complex ideas and argumentative logic. In conjunction with ENGL 307, this course provides a strong preparation for editors and writers in all settings.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Barron, Mr Bruss
Genres, Forms, and Modes

ENGL 318
Medieval Ballad and Lyric (D*)

A study of popular poetry and song in the Middle Ages, beginning with translations of Latin lyrics and student songs, moving through a consideration of Middle English lyrics, and culminating with a study of the traditional ballad.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Shaner

ENGL 319
English Epic Poetry (C*)

The history and theory of English epic and mock-epic poetry, with attention to the status of epic in modern times. Consideration of efforts to emulate Homer and Virgil, as well as issues of artistry and interpretation in English translations of ancient epics. Close reading of epics by three or four poets, such as the Beowulf-poet, Spenser, Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Distribution II Area: Humanities.
Mr Crossley, Mr Maisano

ENGL 320
Autobiography (C*)

A study of various kinds of American autobiography—such as spiritual autobiography and freedom narratives—from colonial to modern times, with attention to European forerunners from Augustine to Rousseau. Texts vary by semester, selected from such authors as Edwards, Franklin, Thoreau, Douglass, Jacobs, Moody, Washington, and Henry Adams, and more recent works by Hellman, Wright, Malcolm X, and Kingston.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Stoehr, Ms Tomlinson

ENGL 321
Biography (C)

A study of how biographies tell a life story, with attention to the problems of fidelity to the truth and appeal to the imagination. Selected texts share common themes which are approached differently, sometimes in several works about a single historical figure. Consideration is given to uses of differing source materials and to differing forms, including prose, drama, documentary, and fictionalized film.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Stoehr, Mr Tobin

ENGL 322
Rise of the Novel (C*)

The emergence of the most popular and influential literary form of the past two centuries. The nature of the novel, its formal characteristics and social concerns, is traced in seven or eight major works by early artists in the novel, such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Austen, and Scott.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Crossley, Ms Nixon

ENGL 324
Short Story (C)

A study of the short story, chiefly as a genre of this century. The course traces its development from nineteenth century origins, concentrating its reading on such American and Irish writers as Welty, O’Connor, Cheever, Lavin, Joyce, Hemingway, Montague, and considering as well the statements made by short story writers on the poetics of short fiction.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Distribution II Area: The Arts.
Mr Fulton

ENGL 325
Narrative in the Novel and Film (C)

Emphasizing formal and stylistic renditions of 20th-century narrative art, this course focuses on experimental aspects of fiction and film. It does so through close attention to written texts, media, and critical readings. Materials include fiction by James, Woolf, Faulkner, Coetzee, and Puig, and films by Eisenstein, Pabst, DeSica, Resnais, and Giral.
Diversity Area: International.
5 Lect Hrs, 5 Credits
Ms Dittmar

ENGL 326
Forms of English Drama I (C*)

A study of English drama before and during Shakespeare’s career emphasizing the development of comedy and tragedy as form and idea, this course provides a setting for the study of Shakespeare. Readings include selected episodes from the mystery cycles, a morality play, and works by such playwrights as Marlowe, Kyd, Tourneur, Webster, Greene, Dekker, Jonson, Beaumont, as well as a comedy and a tragedy of Shakespeare.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Maisano, Ms Shaner, Mr Tobin

ENGL 327
Forms of English Drama II (C*)

A study of drama in English since the reopening of the theaters at the Restoration of 1660. The development of comedy of manners from Wycherly and Congreve through Sheridan to Wilde and Shaw, and of tragedy from the early eighteenth century through the romantic era, through Ibsen and his followers, to the early twentieth century.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nixon

ENGL 328
Modern and Contemporary Drama (C)

A study of 20th-century American and British drama, including works in translation by influential playwrights abroad. Attention to themes, forms, styles, staging, and performance. Works by such authors as Ibsen, O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Brecht, Beckett, Genet, Hansberry, August Wilson, Kushner, and Hwang.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits

Ms Dittmar, Ms Lewis

ENGL 331
Satire (C*)

Readings from the classical period of satire. Aristophanes, Horace, and others raise issues about the nature, functions, and techniques of satire, its relations to intellectual attitudes, social criticism, and literary forms. Variations on the classical patterns and the role of satire in contemporary culture are seen in a range of later satiric works.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nixon

ENGL 332
Comedy (C*)

Comic literature from different cultures and periods, ancient through modern, illustrates the recurrence of different comic modes: satire, irony, romantic comedy, comedy of manners, and comedy of the absurd. Essays about theories of comedy aid students in evaluating the literature and forming their own ideas about the nature of comedy.
Distribution II Area: The Arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nixon

ENGL 333
Tragedy (C*)

The course explores both the changing and the enduring aspects of tragedy by examining tragedic works of different ages, from ancient Greece to modern times. Readings may include such works as Oedipus, Thyestes, Dr. Faustus, Macbeth, The White Devil, King Lear, Samson Agonistes, Desire Under the Elms, and Death of a Salesman, examined in the light of essays about the vision of tragedy, the nature of tragic action, the tragic hero, the tragic times, for example. Students are encouraged to evaluate theories against one another and against their own experience of the literature, in order to formulate their own ideas about the nature of tragedy.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Tobin

ENGL 334
Science Fiction (C)

A historical survey of a distinctive modern mode of fiction, including major works by such 19th- and 20th-century figures as Mary Shelley, HG Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Olaf Stapledon, Alfred Bester, Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Joan Slonczewski, and Kim Stanley Robinson. The focus is primarily literary, though there may be a brief unit comparing literary and cinematic science fiction. Among the topics for consideration: science and scientists in fiction; history and the future; aliens and alienation; diversity in gender, race, culture, species; the physical environment of Earth and of other worlds.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Annas, Mr Crossley, Mr Maisano

ENGL 335
Children’s Literature (C)

The study of literature for children, including criticism and the history of the development of literary materials written specifically for children. The works studied—by such authors as Lewis, Grahame, Wilder, and Milne—are explored in the context of the historical and cultural settings in which they were produced, and the texts are analyzed both as works of art and as instruments of cultural and didactic impact.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Shaner

ENGL 336
American Detective Fiction (C)

A survey of detective fiction and the crime novel in America. Authors include Poe, Hammett, Chandler, Cain, Spillane, Ross MacDonald and others. Films are shown.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Staff

ENGL 337
Short Novel (C)

Readings in 20th-century short novels by authors such as Tolstoy, Joyce, Conrad, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Roth, Wright, Hurston, Achebe, C Johnson, and Oates. Exploration of how the language of analysis and interpretation affects the ways we relate to texts. Attention to differences among genres: short story, the novella or short novel, and novel.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Fulton, Mr Nelson

Literature and Culture in Context

ENGL 340
Literature and the Media (D)

A comparison of two kinds of imaginative experience, with particular emphasis on the effects of formula and format, the standardization which results from technological methods of production and distribution to mass audiences. How are our lives different because of the pervasiveness of these new cultural habits?
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Stoehr

ENGL L341 (WOST L341)
Women’s Image in Film (D)

An in-depth study of women’s portrayal in narrative cinema, the course explores ways film as an art form reflects and affects the social, political and cultural construction of Woman. It examines both traditional images of women and the portrayal of women struggling to reassess and redefine their roles and their sense of self. Drawing on current scholarship in film theory, and especially in feminist film theory, the course emphasizes the relation between cinematic technique and narrative content. Please note: Although not required, completion of one course in film before enrolling in this course is recommended.
Prerequisites: One women’s studies course at the 100 or 200 level, and ENGL 102 or equivalent.
4-5 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Dittmar

ENGL L342 (WOST L342)
Women Film Directors (C)

This course spans eight decades of women’s work as film directors. While it largely unfolds chronologically, starting with the silent era and concluding with contemporary films, within this framework it is organized so as to focus on narrative, documentary, and avant-garde films as separate categories. It pays special attention to the ways cinematic form and thematic content come together, at specific historic moments, in women’s cinematic rendition of their experience.
There are no prerequisites, but ART 265 or WOST 320 is recommended.
Diversity Area: International.
4-5 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Dittmar

ENGL 345
Regional Literature: The American South (D)

A study of the literary renaissance of the American South from 1920 to the present in works by such authors as Faulkner, Hurston, Wright, Warren, Ransom, Tate, Welty, Porter, Styron, O’Connor, Kenan, A. Walker, M. Walker, and S. Brown.
Ms Srikanth
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits

ENGL L350 (ASAMST L350)
Asian American Literary Voices (D)

An advanced study of poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography by Asian American writers to explore the complex interplay between constructions of ethnic identity and literary expression. Students engage with the highly diverse face of contemporary Asian America, probing its literature for emerging themes like diaspora, transnationalism, and sexuality and analyzing their impact on the U.S. literary landscape.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Srikanth

ENGL L352 (AMST/AFRSTY L352)
Harlem Renaissance

This course focuses on major texts of the Harlem Renaissance within contexts of modernism, history, and the development of an African American literary tradition. The course will examine how literature creates and represents real and “imagined” communities and will explore the diverse and often contradictory roles that literature plays in shaping, resisting, and reinforcing cultural discourses.
Prerequisites: ENGL 101/102, and ENGL 200 or 201 or 206 or 235 or AFRSTY 100; or permission of the instructor.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits

ENG 353
Multiethnic American Literature

A study of poetry, fiction, and drama by Native American, African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Jewish American writers from a comparative perspective, exploring similarities and differences among the writers in their aesthetics—how they use language to express themselves—and politics—how themes like immigration, resistance, empowerment, activism, heritage, gender relations, sexuality, and family manifest themselves in the works.
Prerequisites: ENGL 101, 102, and 200, or permission of instructor.
Diversity Area: United States.
Ms Srikanth

ENGL 354
The Black Presence in American Literature (D)

A study of 19th- and 20th-century literary texts by black and white writers who write with a significant consciousness of black people in American society, and of how blacks and “blackness” are used to illuminate whites and to conceptualize “whiteness” and its ideology. Authors may include Melville, Twain, Chopin, Mitchell, Faulkner, Ellison, Wright, Baldwin, Brooks, and Morrison.
Diversity Area: United States.
Distribution II Area: The Arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nurhussein, Mr Stoehr, Ms Tomlinson

ENGL 355
Black Poetry (C)

A critical and historical survey of black poetry from its oral beginnings to the present, with emphasis on the Harlem Renaissance, or New Negro Movement, and the Black Arts Movement. Works by such major poets as Dunbar, Hughes, Brooks, Walker, Hayden, Baraka, Sanchez, Giovanni, Dove, S Brown, Harper, and Komunyakaa.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nurhussein

ENGL 356
The African-American Novel (C)

A study of how the African-American novel developed within black American literature as a treatment of emerging black American consciousness, beginning with Douglass’s short novel, The Heroic Slave (1845). Works chosen from such authors as Wilson, Brown, Chesnutt, JW Johnson, Hurston, Larsen, Wright, Petry, Ellison, Brooks, Marshall, Morrison, Walker, Naylor, Reed, Wideman, Kenan, C Johnson, Butler, and Randall.
Diversity Area: United States.
Distribution II Area: The Arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nurhussein, Ms Tomlinson

ENGL 357
African-American Women Writers (D)

The course considers content, form and modes of expression in prose, poetry and criticism by black women writers from the eighteenth century to the present. Readings include slave narratives, colonial and abolitionist writings, works from the Harlem Renaissance and by contemporary writers such as Bambara, Sanchez, Walker, and Brooks.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nurhessein, Ms Tomlinson

ENGL 358
Caribbean Literature (D)

A study of Caribbean fiction, poetry, drama, and essays as a reflection of historical events, political forces, artistic trends, and cultural realities from the eighteenth century to the present. Consideration of travel writing, film, and music, including reggae. Authors may include McKay, Garvey, CLR James, Brathwaite, Walcott, Rhys, Naipaul, Cliff, Kincaid, Conde, Cesaire, Zobel, and Marley.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Lewis

ENGL 359
African Women Writers (D)

This course examines the works of fiction produced during and after the colonial period by African women and the contributions they have made toward developing the canon of African writers. By reading selected novels and essays, students examine such issues as oral literary traditions, the struggle for economic independence, balanced relationships, writing as a form of ideological resistance, and more.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Staff

ENGL 360
Arthurian Literature (D*)

A study of the evolution of the Arthurian materials (from the twelfth century to the present); their origins in history, legend and myth, their emergence in the major twelfth century romance cycles, and their adaptations by later ages; the examination of recurring characters and motifs to discover how the Arthurian legend has been adapted to reflect the different aesthetic and social values of different historical periods.
Distribution II Area: The Arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Staff

ENGL 361
Modern and Contemporary Women Poets (B)

A study of the concerns, perspectives, and poetics of 20th-century women poets such as Brooks, Bishop, Levertov, Plath, Rich, Harjo, Oliver, and Grahn.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Annas, Ms Nurhussein

ENGL 362
Modern British Poetry (C)

British poetry from 1914 to present; poets of the First World War—Sassoon, Jones, Owen, Rosenberg, Flint, Read; poets of the thirties—Auden, Spender, MacNeice; poets writing from 1945 to the present MacDiarmid, Larkin, Ted Hughes, Jon Silkin, Geoffrey Hill, Michael Hamburger, and others.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Brown

ENGL 363
Modern American Poetry (C)

American poetry from the beginning of the century to the end of World War II, focusing on the major works of Frost, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Stevens. Primary attention to the poems as formal works of art; secondary attention to historical, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts (e.g.: World War I, Einstein’s relativity and existentialism, Kandinsky and abstract art). Close analysis of particular poems as successful works in their own right and as exemplars of a particular writer’s thematic and stylistic concerns.
Distribution II Area: The Arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nurhussein, Ms Peseroff

ENGL 364
Contemporary American Poetry (C)

A comprehensive overview of living American poets, plus intensive readings in selected writers such as Ashbery, Levertov, Ginsberg, Lowell, Wilbur, Ammons, Baraka, Plath, Merwin, Duncan, and Rich. Discussions of individual poets on their own merits and as exemplars of current poetic schools.
Distribution II Area: The Arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nurhussein, Ms Peseroff

ENGL 365
The British Novel and the Nineteenth Century (C)

A study of social, technological, and cultural changes in nineteenth-century Britain as reflected in the large-scale novel of social life that reached its peak of popularity as a literary form in several modes including historical fiction, romance, and realism. Novels by such authors as Scott, Austen, the Brontës, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, Hardy, Meredith, and Conrad.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nixon, Ms Penner

ENGL 366
Women and Men in Nineteenth Century Literature (D)

A study of men and women and their relationships in nineteenth century literature, mainly British, with special emphasis on the issues of masculine and feminine sexual identity and sexual stereotypes, and the social position of men and women as these are treated in popular culture and in serious literary works.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Fay, Ms Goleman, Ms Penner

ENGL 367
Modern British Fiction (C)

A survey of the novel in Britain from the end of the Victorian years (with Hardy and Conrad) through the first half of the twentieth century, emphasizing Lawrence, Woolf, and Forster, and including as far as time permits later novelists such as Cary, Waugh, Greene, Murdoch, and Lessing.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Brown

ENGL 368
Modern American Fiction (C)

A study of significant works of American fiction written in the first half of the 20th century. Major American modernists—such authors as James, Wharton, S Crane, Cather, Hughes, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hurston, and Faulkner—helped to define the “American century” and to demonstrate the sustained achievement of modern American fiction.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Klimasmith, Mr O’Connell, Ms Srikanth

ENGL 369
Contemporary American Fiction (C)

A study of significant works of American fiction written since 1950. These works, in form and substance, reflect America’s debate between those who see “good in the old ways” and those who try to “make it new.” Emphasis upon the variety of fictional voices and identities in works by authors such as Banks, Carver, Ellison, Morrison, and Updike.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Fulton, Mr Melnyczuk

ENGL 370
Gay and Lesbian Literature (D)

The study of selected works of Western gay and lesbian literature, and discussion of themes and issues these works suggest. Varying by semester, text will range from a selective historical overview to a 20th-century emphasis. Representative authors include Sappho, Plato, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Wilde, as well as the 20th century’s Forster, Woolf, Barnes, Genet, Baldwin, Lorde, and contemporary writers.
Diversity Area: International.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Dittmar

ENGL 371
The Adolescent in Literature (D)

An examination of works featuring adolescents as protagonists, with attention to why American literature in particular has celebrated the adolescent (and pre-adolescent) experience. Consideration of assumptions held about adolescence, about authorial intention, about literary analysis, and about education. Authors may include Twain, Salinger, Updike, Eugenides, Angelou, Baldwin, Bambara, Morrison, and Allison.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Fulton, Mr Nelson

ENGL L372 (AMST L372)
American Women Writers and American Culture (D)

This course examines the significant contribution that women writers have made to the creation and development of an American national literature and culture. Points of emphasis include studying representative writers from different historical periods; examining the structures, forms, themes, concerns, and cultural contexts of individual works; and examining the relation of women’s writing to American culture.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Diversity Area: United States.
Ms Klimasmith

ENGL 373
Literature of the Working Class (D)

This course studies literature which takes the working class as its subject. It examines questions such as the following: how is the literary work affected by the relationship of the author to the working class? What have been the traditional literary forms for treating working class subjects and what is their effectiveness? What are the consequences of politics or ideology in literary works?
Diversity Area: United States.
Distribution II Area: The Arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Annas

ENGL 374
Literature and Society, 1760-1850 (D*)

A study of how popular culture reflected broad social and cultural changes in Britain. Emphasis given to expanding empire, technological advances, and increasing urbanization, which created a rapidly modernizing culture with changing class structures and literary audiences. Attention to how authors from Burns to the Brontës engaged and theorized the resulting pressures.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Fay

ENGL 376
Literature and the Political Imagination (D)

The course studies ways authors use imaginative literature to respond to political situations and to voice moral and political beliefs. It probes such themes as war and conquest, wealth, race, sex, but its main emphasis is on language and organization and this emphasis requires close analysis of style and structure. Authors may include Dickens, Forster, and Conrad, Dos Passos, Hansberry, Baraka, and Malraux, Brecht, and Silone.
Diversity Area: International.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Dittmar, Mr Stoehr

ENGL L377 (AMST L377)
Irish-American Literature and Culture (D)

Studies in Irish-American culture during that century between the great famine and the Kennedy Presidency. Emphasis upon the connections between ethnic and literary cultures. Special concern for Irish-American fiction: Farrell, O’Hara, O’Connor. Further readings in ethnic history: Handlin and Shannon; biography and autobiography: Riordan, Dunne, McCarthy; drama: O’Neill.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr O’Connell

ENGL 379
Selected Topics in English and American Literature I

Various courses in literature and related fields are offered experimentally, once or twice, under this heading. Topics are announced each semester during pre-registration. Recent topics have included Gothic Literature, The Harlem Renaissance, and memory and World War II.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits

ENGL 380
Selected Topics in English and American Literature II

See ENGL 379.
Authors

ENGL 381
Chaucer (E*)

A study of the Canterbury Tales and, time permitting, some of Chaucer’s other works in the original Middle English. No prior knowledge of Chaucer, the period (the later fourteenth century), or Middle English is required. Taped readings aid in learning the language. Discussion emphasizes how the works reflect the medieval period and how Chaucer draws readers of all periods into intellectual and moral pilgrimages of their own.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Shaner

ENGL 382
Shakespeare (Early) (E*)

Shakespeare’s comedies, history plays, and early tragedies largely from the first half of Shakespeare’s career. The course emphasizes critical interpretations of individual plays but it attempts as well to review Shakespeare’s dramatic art in general, theater history and conventions, theory of comedy and theory of tragedy, the language of verse drama, and the development of the history play.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Maisano, Mr Tobin

ENGL 383
Shakespeare (Later) (E*)

Shakespeare’s problem plays, major tragedies and late romances. The course emphasizes critical interpretations of individual plays, and it assumes that students will have had some experience of Shakespearean plays, such as those in ENGL 382. But this course may be elected without such experience.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Maisano, Mr Tobin

ENGL 385
Milton (E*)

Reading and discussion of John Milton’s English poetry and some of his prose: early lyrics; the tragedy Samson Agonistes; the epics Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Attention to modern debates about structure and style and to the relation between Milton’s politics and his poetry.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Tobin

ENGL 387
Dickens (E)

A study of Charles Dickens’ novels and the wonderful fictive world he created; his life and times; the tradition he shared in and changed. Emphasis on five novels, such as The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, and Our Mutual Friend.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Penner

ENGL 388
Twain (E)

A study of the major works of Mark Twain—fictional and nonfictional—within the contexts of his life, the literary and folk traditions of his art, the political, social and cultural ferment of his times.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Rudnick

ENGL 389
Walt Whitman and the Creation of American Poetry (E)

This course studies Whitman’s major poetry and prose in depth. It seeks to establish the literary, cultural, and historical background of Whitman’s work; to show how his work contributed significantly to the revolution in American poetry that led to the accomplishments of twentieth century American poetry; and to demonstrate his influence on twentieth century world literature.
Diversity Area: United States.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Staff

ENGL 390
Henry James (E)

A study of James’ major writings, with special attention given to his aesthetic and cultural development.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Goleman, Mr O’Connell

ENGL 391
Joyce (E)

A study of the cyclical nature of the works of James Joyce: Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and parts of Finnegan’s Wake. Emphasis, however, is on the close critical reading of Ulysses.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr O’Grady

ENGL 392
Yeats (E)

Yeats’ development as a poet, from his early pre-Raphaelite poetry through his late-modern poems, within the framework of Irish history and literature.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Brown, Mr O’Grady

ENGL 393
Faulkner (E)

An intensive reading of seven of the novels set in Faulkner’s mythical Yoknapatawpha County, considering each work as a novel in its own right but also as a part of what Malcolm Cowley has called “the whole interconnected pattern” of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha fiction.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Srikanth

ENGL 394
Comparative Readings in Two Novelists (E)

Comparative study of the fiction of major English and American novelists whose works have social and thematic affinities or present interesting problems of contrast. Novelists—such as Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Austen and Eliot, HG Wells and JRR Tolkien, Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie—vary from year to year.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Crossley, Ms Klimasmith, Ms Penner, Ms Srikanth, Mr Stoehr
Literary Periods

ENGL 401
The Medieval Period (D*)

Lyrics, romances, mystery plays, allegories of English literature in the period before the sixteenth century. Old and Middle English writers, including Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet; stories of King Arthur and his knights.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Shaner

ENGL 402
The Renaissance in England (D*)

Major work of the English Renaissance (early sixteenth through early seventeenth centuries), in poetry and prose. Authors such as Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Donne, and Milton. Reading in Renaissance criticism.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Maisano, Mr Tobin

ENGL 403
The Neo-Classical Period (D*)

The art and ideas, in poetry and prose, of such writers as John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, the early novelists Defoe and Fielding, Samuel Johnson, and Edmund Burke. A study of the chief social and philosophical currents of the period 1660 (the Restoration) to the later eighteenth century.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Nixon

ENGL 405
British Romanticism (D*)

A study of literature as a reflection of social and cultural change occurring in the revolutionary age (1780s to 1830s). Attention to how notions of “nature,” “genius,” and the “imagination” created political changes and altered conceptions of how history was understood. Works by authors such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Godwin, Hays, Wollstonecraft, Scott, Byron, Austen, PB Shelley, M Shelley, and Keats.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Fay

ENGL 406
The Victorian Age (D)

A study of social, technological, spiritual, and cultural changes in Victorian England (1830s to 1880s) as reflected in tensions—between community and individualism,tradition and progress, belief and doubt, utility and feeling—in works by such writers as Carlyle, Mill, Browning, Barrett Browning, Macaulay, Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold, Ruskin, and Pater. Consideration is given to music and visual arts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Penner

ENGL 407
Colonial American Literature (D*)

Study of the important literary texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries crucial for an understanding of later American culture and literature. Works in poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction by authors such as Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, Equaiano Oloudah, Crevecoeur, Jefferson, Freneau, and Charles Brockden Brown.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Tomlinson

ENGL 408
American Romanticism (D)

A study of literature as a reflection of social and cultural changes occurring from the 1830s through the 1860s. Attention to both the most famous traditional “romantics” (Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman) and to the important “minority” writers whose works, published in the same period, helped to change the tradition (Fuller, Douglass, Truth, Stowe, Jacobs, and others).
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Stoehr

ENGL 409
Rise of American Realism (D)

A study of the tradition of realism in American writing, from the age of Whitman to 1925. Primary focus on the post-Civil War period, the Gilded Age, when realistic and naturalistic works replaced the romance as the dominant American mode of literary expression. Whitman, Twain, James, Howells, Crane, Chesnutt, Dreiser, Jewett, Wharton, and others sought to reflect a transformed America, as fact and symbol, in their works. These and other writers helped to confirm and create a new American reality.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Klimasmith, Mr O’Connell

ENGL 410
The Modern Period (D)

A study of the phenomenon of “modernism” in, roughly, the first half of the twentieth century in Britain and America. Reading and discussion of such writers as Yeats, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Eliot, Hemingway, Pound, and Faulkner.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Annas, Mr Brown, Ms Klimasmith
Regional, Irish, and World Literature

ENGL 415
Irish Literature (D)

A close study of Yeats, Synge, O’Casey, Joyce and other writers of the modern Irish renaissance. The backgrounds of Irish history and literature relative to the above writers are also studied.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Brown, Mr O’Grady

ENGL 416
Early Irish Literature (D*)

The matter of this course is the mythological and heroic narrative literature of medieval Ireland and Wales; particular attention is given to the cultural context out of which it comes and within which it must be interpreted. Although this literature was written, or written down, by men whose religion and much of whose culture derived from Rome, most of it was not essentially either Latin or Christian in spirit. It was shaped and driven by the continuing force of the Celtic tradition—pagan, archaic, and stubbornly vital. Works include the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge and the Mabinogian (Welsh).
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr O’Grady

ENGL 419
Recent Irish Writing (D)

A study of Irish literature after the age of Yeats and Joyce, the course examines invention, adaptation, and development, in the major genres, of Irish writing during decades of economic depression, cultural isolation, war, and renewed sectional and international tensions. Emphasis is given to the re-emergence of Irish writings, particularly in the achievements of the Ulster poets, in our own day. “If you would know Ireland,” advised Yeats, “body and soul—you must read its poems and stories.”
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr O’Connell

ENGL 425
The Irish Short Story (C)

After an introductory consideration of the oral tradition of Irish storytelling, this course traces the thematic concerns and technical developments of the Irish short story from 1830 to the present. It focuses especially on the most noted twentieth century practitioners of the short story in Ireland—O’Connor, O’Faolain, and O’Flaherty—but also gives close consideration to their precursors, their contemporaries, and their followers.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr O’Grady

ENGL 427
The Modern Irish Novel (C)

This course explores the interests and concerns of the modern Irish novel. Focusing on a variety of representative authors and texts, the course traces the thematic and technical developments of the Irish novel over the decades of the twentieth century. Novels are read with reference to their political, social, and cultural contexts.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr O’Grady
Language and Critical Theory

ENGL 440
History of the English Language (B*)

Where did English come from? How have historical events influenced change in the language? Should change today be resisted or accepted? Who or what determines what is “correct”? Participants learn how to analyze and transcribe speech sounds, use traditional grammar to understand grammatical change, and work with specialized dictionaries that help in analyzing short texts from various periods of English.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Bruss

ENGL 442
Contemporary English (B)

A look at the structure and the social dynamics at work in the English language today, chiefly in America. Topics: competing grammars, speech in Massachusetts, effects of social stratification on language, regional and social dialect, language and gender, language and ethnicity, and changes in meaning.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Bruss, Mr Smith

ENGL 443
Language and Literature (B)

An exploration of literary meaning and the character of language as a symbolic form. Special emphasis on the structure of metaphor and consideration of psychological and philosophical aspects of language: basic conceptions of meaning; theories of the origin of speech; problems of intention, expression, and interpretation; background of modern theories of grammar, semantics, and semiotics.
Prerequisite: ENGL 240.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Bruss, Ms Kutz

ENGL 446
Poetry and Poetics (B*)

Reading of several groups of poems, old and recent, in order to learn as much as possible about what poetry is and does. The readings illustrate, successively: 1) the nature of poetry; 2) prosody; 3) verse forms; 4) the language of verse. The course assumes no prior knowledge of poetics.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Schwartz

ENGL 447
Principles and Methods of Literary Criticism (B)

The leading principles and methods of Western literary criticism, considered in their historical contexts. The course explores and defines major issues in literary study by close examination of major critical writings from Aristotle to modern times. No prior knowledge of criticism is necessary.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Fay, Ms Penner

ENGL 448
Perspectives on Literacy (B)

A study of the theories of literacy, in its relation to human thinking and to social uses and contexts; and of the practice ofliteracy, in the teaching, learning, and use of literate behaviors in contemporary American society. The course links the active investigation of literacy issues with related readings, and draws implications for the teaching of reading and writing and for the study of literature.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Auerbach, Ms Kutz
Independent Studies, Undergraduate Colloquium

ENGL 455
Independent Study I

A course of study designed by the student in conjunction with a supervising instructor in a specialized subject, one ordinarily not available in the standard course offerings. Open to a limited number of students in any one semester. Preference may be given to senior English majors with a cumulative average of 3.0 or above. A written prospectus must be submitted. Register with director of the major.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and Department Chairperson.
Hrs by arrangement, 3 Credits

ENGL 456
Independent Study II

See ENGL 455.

ENGL 457
Undergraduate English Colloquium

Presents students with a series of guest lectures, film and dramatic presentations, field trips, workshops, and organized discussions. To receive a grade, students must attend at least eight events and write critical reviews for each event attended. Each semester two to three faculty members will organize and run the series, and evaluate student reviews.
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 206.
1 1/2 Lect Hrs, 1 credit
Mr O’Grady and Staff

ENGL 459
Seminar for Tutors (B)

Readings, writings and discussion on the theoretical and practical issues one encounters in working as a composition tutor. A nucleus of presentations, lectures, workshops and readings covering the transactional and substantive aspects of teaching writing, particularly remediation, from a peer position. All elements of the course combine to provide an intellectual framework for reflection, articulation, and synthesis of what is learned in the work experience of the tutor.
Prerequisite: Completion of English requirement and permission of instructors (based on writing samples, faculty recommendations and interviews).
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Auerbach, Ms Zamel
Capstone Courses

ENGL 461
Advanced Studies in Drama

A capstone course offering intensive study of topics varying from semester to semester, such as particular forms of drama (e.g., tragedy), historic periods or movements (e.g., African American or British Restoration drama), or comparative studies of two or three dramatists. A major research project and its presentation in class are required.
Prerequisites: Completion of 90 credits; sophomore English major requirements (ENGL 200, 201, and 206); and two 300- or 400-level English courses; or permission of the instructor.
3 credits
Ms Lewis, Mr Maisano

ENGL 462
Advanced Studies in Poetry (C)

Studies in various trends and periods of poetry for advanced students; intensive studies in one or two major poets. Topics vary from year to year.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr O’Grady, Mr Schwartz

ENGL 463
Advanced Studies in Prose

A capstone course offering advanced study of topics that vary from semester to semester, such as particular kinds of fiction or nonfiction (e.g., the historical novel or literary journalism), theory or history of rhetoric, theory of fiction or literary nonfiction, or comparative studies of two or three prose writers. A major research project and its presentation to the class are required.
Prerequisites: Completion of 90 credits; sophomore English major requirements (ENGL 200, 201, and 206); and two 300- or 400-level English courses; or permission of the instructor
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Brown, Ms Srikanth

ENGL 464
Advanced Studies in Language and Literary Theory (B)

This course offers students interested in language or literary theory an opportunity to do advanced work in subjects which vary from semester to semester. Possible subjects include: theories of discourse, varieties of present day English, the linguistic structures of poetry, and advanced stylistics.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Bruss, Ms Penner

ENGL 466
Advanced Special Topics

A capstone course offering intensive study of a topic at the intersection of different approaches to or disciplinary perspectives on literature. Topics may include relationships between literature and (1) other arts; (2) cultural, social, or economic history; or (3) the development of fields such as law, medicine, or science. A major research project and its presentation are required.
Prerequisites: Completion of 90 credits; sophomore English major requirements (ENGL 200, 201, and 206); and two 300- or 400-level English courses; or permission of the instructor
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Fay, Ms Nixon, Mr O’Grady, Ms Penner

ENGL L470 (AMST L470)
New England Literature and Culture (D*)

A study of the New England literary tradition from about 1850 to the near present. How have writers and critics contested their differing versions of native grounds and reinvented the New England idea in their works? Consideration of such topics as Native American culture, Puritanism and Transcendentalism, slavery and Abolitionism, immigration and ethnicity, nationalism and regionalism, industrialization, and popular culture.
Prerequisites: ENGL 200, 201, or 206.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr O’Connell, Ms Rudnick

ENGL L471 (AMST L471)
The City in American Literature and Culture (D)

A study of physical, social, and cultural aspects of the American city, as reflected and constructed in architecture, the arts (literature, film, music, visual arts), and theory. The course focuses on four historical periods: the mid-19th century, the turn of thecentury, the mid-20th century, and the present; and includes a capstone research project.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Ms Klimasmith, Mr O’Connell

ENGL 475
English Internship

A tutorial course for students with approved internships involving substantial writing in professional settings. Students meet every other week with a faculty internship director to discuss writing they have produced at the internship. The writing is accompanied by a breakdown of the steps involved in researching and composing it, the time spent, the extent of the intern’s contribution, and an analysis of what was learned in the process. Course requirements typically include a journal, readings, and end-of-term portfolio, and a summary essay, and may include an oral presentation to a class or student group. For application forms and full information about requirements, see the director of internships. Because potential faculty internship directors make commitments early, students are encouraged to apply during advanced registration. The course awards three hours of credit for a minimum of 25 pages of formal on-the-job writing and ten hours of work per week on site. Six credit hours may be given for proportionally greater writing and on-site hours. The course satisfies the English major capstone requirement. 
Mr Barron, Mr Bruss

ENGL 476
Technical Writing Internship (A)

A seminar for students assigned to internships for the completion of their work in the Program in Technical Writing (Computer Science). It deals with issues interns face as they adapt writing and computer training to actual technical writing assignments. Speakers from the faculty and from the technical writing profession will attend. There are assigned readings and regular reports on progress in the internship. The seminar meets for two hours every other week, and the internship placement requires at least ten hours per week in a technical writing concern. Three hours of credit (pass-fail) is awarded for the combination seminar and placement.
Hrs by arrangement, 3 Credits
Mr Bruss

ENGL 496
Creative Writing Honors I (A)

A creative writing workshop for student writers of poetry, fiction, or drama who have been accepted into the Honors Program in English and Creative Writing. A one-semester course (in the fall), to be followed by one semester of independent work with an advisor.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Program.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Fulton, Mr Melnyczuk, Ms Peseroff, Mr Schwartz

ENGL 497
Creative Writing Honors II (A)

Independent study in creative writing for student writers of poetry, fiction, or drama who have been accepted into the Honors Program in English and Creative Writing and who have completed English 496 with a grade of B or better.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr Fulton, Mr Melnyczuk, Ms Peseroff, Mr Schwartz

ENGL 498
Honors Seminar (B)

A course open to and required of all students doing honors work in English. The course consists of an introduction to research methods, a survey of critical methods (with the end of helping the honors student choose an approach for the writing of the thesis), and the reading of all primary and some secondary materials preparatory to writing the thesis.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Program.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Mr O’Grady

ENGL 499
Honors Work

A continuation of ENGL 498, in which the honors student works individually with a faculty advisor on the writing of the honors thesis. The student receives a grade for each semester of work but honors in English will be awarded only to those students who have written a thesis of high distinction (as judged by the Honors Committee).
Prerequisite: ENGL 498.
3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits
Staff