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Introduction to Academic Writing (New; ESL)
Only during 2016/17
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Requisites: Placement determined by SAT and/or ACT
score
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
First semester of the General Education Writing Skills Requirement for students required to take both ENG 101 and ENG 201. Practice in developing essays with variable emphases on purpose, subject, audience, and persuasion; in constructing mature sentences and paragraphs; and in revising. Introduces documenting and writing from sources. Twenty-five pages of graded, revised writing, excluding first drafts, exercises, and quizzes. Students may not receive credit for both ENG 101 and ESL 407. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade other than W may not register for this course during the fall or spring semester.
CL-1 Writing and Rhetoric (New 4.00 credit hours)
Great Books (New)
This course Provides an introduction to the study of literature and culture in English through close readings of texts commonly held to be masterpieces. This course will consider the development of great literary works in relation to the social, cultural, political and artistic movements from which they evolved, and their subsequent contribution to the culture of the English speaking world ( in contradistinction to other cultural contexts). As not all notable texts are considered masterpieces at the moment they first appear, the course ponders the question how does literature become " great", and what cultural forces work upon texts to enable them to acquire this status? What are the criteria for literary greatness? Is greatness a relative concept? Who gets to choose what great means? What is the impact of literary greatness on the cultural history of a society? The course also provides students with the rudimentary tolls of literary criticism through the introduction of basic concepts such as form, voice, genre, and style, and to techniques and strategies of reading such as historiographic reading.
Literature and Technology (New)
In this course, we will study how technology has influenced literature over the course of history. Literature always finds itself both immersed in technology (in that technologies are used to produce the books and stories we read) and commenting on it (in the content of those books and stories). We will consider forms of literature as models of innovation, and we will think about how literature can turn our attention to the effects or future of technology, as in the genre of science fiction. In science fiction and elsewhere, literature often asks us to reflect critically on ideas of progress and newness that ordinarily accompany technological change.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to journalism that uses Buffalo as a backdrop to finding news and topics for feature stories. Course includes practice in the basic techniques of journalism, including finding and producing a print and broadcast news story on deadline, thinking in relation to the screen, and packaging stories for the web and broadcast media.
UB Freshman Seminar (New)
UB Tranfer Seminar (New)
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Pre-requisite: ENG 101
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Second semester of the General Education Writing Skills Requirement. Fulfills the Humanities requirement of General Education if taken in conjunction with ENG 101. Practice in developing complex interpretations of human experience and values as represented in various media. Conceptualizing and conducting original research, culminating in a major research essay using both library and online materials. Twenty-five pages of graded, revised writing, excluding first drafts, exercises, and quizzes. Students may not receive credit for both ENG 201 and ESL 408.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Specialized styles of writing including technical, academic, journalistic, and scientific writing.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Pre-requisite: Freshman And Sophomore Standing Only
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of the fundamental vocabulary and techniques of the craft of writing poetry and fiction. Under consideration: issues of form, metrics, imagery, lyricism, narrative, voice, style, character, plot, and metaphor. Includes study of diverse writers and styles. Prerequisite for all subsequent creative writing courses. Basic techniques of poetry and fiction writing. This course is a prerequisite for 300-level writing workshops.
CL-2 (New)
This course teaches modes of literary interpretation and strategies for researching and writing compelling and persuasive interpretive essays. Students will learn how to craft essays on poetry, fiction and non-fiction as well as how to locate historical and critical sources, create annotated bibliographies, enter into critical and theoretical conversations in their own essays, and present research orally and visually. Emphasis on argumentative structure, use of textual and extra-textual evidence, and literary critical concepts, terminology and style.
CL-2 (New)
Reading and analysis of essays on scientific topics written for a general audience, and practice writing such as essays. Writing for non-scientists about specialized scientific work.
This course focuses on contemporary and historical issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class and religious sectarianism in American Life. It approaches the intersections among these categories and how they have evolved in relation to each other in complex and dynamic ways. The purpose of this course is to examine the multicultural, multiethnic nature of American society from the viewpoints of both men and women of diverse ethnicities, social classes and religious creeds.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The top ten books recommended in an annual survey of the University at Buffalo faculty as reading without which no undergraduate should have finished her or his education. This course serves as a basic introduction to general education.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Selected key texts of world literature in English or in translation.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to literary texts from a variety of medieval European traditions and genres.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Literary and cultural studies of texts in Middle English and in translation.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Literature of Britain and Ireland, from the beginnings to the late eighteenth century.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Literature of Britain and Ireland, from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Literature of the United States, from colonial contact to the Civil War.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Literature of the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to the study of what short fiction does, how it does it, and what it can do that no other literary genre can.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to the forms, language, and history of poetry and to methods of poetic interpretation.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to the study of the novel.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
A survey of some of the major moments in the evolution of science fiction, including writers like Clarke, Delany, Le Guin, and Verne and such movies as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduces the study of film.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of a selection of the most important examples of mystery writing and of recent attempts to modernize the genre, with attention to how these novels and short stories provide miniature social histories of the periods in which they were written.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to the study of drama.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Environmentalist writing, from nineteenth-century texts like Thoreau's Walden through contemporary essays, fiction, and poetry.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of selected texts from the vast variety that comprises children's literature, ranging from seventeenth-century fairy tales to contemporary children's fiction. Trains students to analyze and write about the relationship between literary texts and the culture within which these texts are produced.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to Irish writing and culture.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to selected Asian American literary texts and the cultural, historical, and political issues that inform them.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to the study of African American Literature, with focus on major writers such as Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to the variety of cultural works produced by U.S. Latino/a writers and artists, from poetry and plays to novels and films.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to literature written by women, with focus on historical and cultural context of women's lives.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to the study of feminist theory and its applications to literary texts.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Examination of works of literature that revolve around representations of the relationships between law, community, religion, and the state, with attention to the relationship between legal interpretation and textual analysis.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
CL-2 (New)
This course introduces students to the rhetorical practices of technical and professional communication in the health sciences, including technical reporting, communicating with the public, and visual and oral presentations.
(New)
(New)
(New)
This course will introduce students to the vast field of literary representations of war from the Bible and Homer to the literature of 9/11. As old and as varied as the history of literature itself, the literature of war crosses time periods, national traditions, and genres. Moreover, the theme of war gives us a way to study the relationship between literature and philosophy, literature and other arts (such as painting, photography, cinema, and music), and literature and technology. However, the definition of 'war' has changed dramatically over time and continues to change. Accordingly, this course will approach the study of literature and war by examining these changes, seeing how shifts in the structure of war can alter our experience of time and space, self and other, friend and enemy, nation and people, public and private, love and death, and war and peace, just to name a few. Finally, we will consider how literary representations of war might themselves constitute an attempt to find alternatives to war.
(New)
Our course will investigate intersections of literature and environment, generating insights into the significance of nature through the study of literary works and contexts. As nature is a grand concept with deep historical roots and wide geographical spread, our course will focus on literary materials drawn from a range of temporal, geographical, and cultural perspectives. The course will feature discussion in lecture of ecocriticism, which refers to a range of critical approaches to interrelating literary phenomena and environmental contexts. Students will cultivate literary critical skills both by looking closely at individual works, and by comparing such works with other examples of literary approaches to nature.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to the craft of literary criticism, including techniques of close reading, two or more sorts of literary theory, and strategies for writing and revising critical papers.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to the language, literature, and culture of Anglo-Saxon England.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of works by Chaucer, including The Canterbury Tales, the "dream visions," and/or Troilus and Criseyde.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. Study of Medieval literature in relation to historical and cultural phenomena, including multiple genres.
A. Medieval Romance: British and/or Pan-European courtly literary narratives
B. Medieval Prose: Literary prose in medieval England, Iceland, and/or Continental Europe.
C. Arthurian Literature: The literature of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of the social and cultural function of epic and the hero in medieval Europe.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of the medieval literary origins of modern conceptions of romantic love.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
British drama from roughly 1450 to 1660, from late-medieval mystery and morality plays to the establishment of a professional theatre under Elizabeth I and its development through the Jacobean and Caroline periods.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LR
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Primarily histories and comedies.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LR
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Primarily tragedies and romances.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. Selected topics in early modern British literature, such the literature of exploration, early modern gay and lesbian literature, literature at court, literature of religious controversy, the English Revolution, or single authors like Christopher Marlowe.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of Milton's Paradise Lost and other works in social and literary context
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. Selected topics in British drama from the Restoration period through the present.
A. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama: Drama from the period 1660 to 1800, including works by authors such as Behn, Congreve, Wycherley, Sheridan, Otway and Etheridge
B. Romantic Drama: Drama from the period 1770 to 1830, including works by writers such as Baillie, Lewis, Inchbald, Shelley, Byron, Cowley, Coleman, Dibdin, and Kemble
C. Nineteenth-Century British Drama: Drama from the period 1800 to 1914, including works by authors such as Wilde, Pinero, Shaw, Granville-Barker, Ibsen, Thomas and others
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Fiction prior to and including the first British novels; authors may include Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, or Frances Burney.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. Poetry and prose in Britain from 1688 to the age of the French Revolution.
A. Poetry: Focuses on poetry from 1700 to the 1790s; authors include Pope, Swift, Wordsworth
B. Early Gothic: Focuses on the first examples of the gothic genre in poetry, novels and prose; authors may include Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley
C. Enlightenment Cultures: Consideration of the diverse cultures of the eighteenth century and the formation of the idea of "culture" in the period
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
British poetry and prose written mainly between 1780 and 1832 by such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, and Wollstonecraft.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Key texts and topics in Gothic literature from the late eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Issues may include history, national identity, sexuality, reproduction, spaces and bodies, and belief.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
British literature and culture from 1832 to 1901, focusing on authors such as Carlyle, Ruskin, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Barrett Browning, Browning, Rossetti, Tennyson, and others.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Examination of the central role played by gender and sexuality in the history, culture, and literature of the nineteenth century.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Fiction by selected writers of the period, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of British poetry from the Romantics through the pre-Raphaelites. Points of focus may include relationships between poetry and the visual arts, poetry and narrative, poetry and criticism, and poetry and social constructions, including race and gender.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of novels written in the British Isles before 1945, with focus on the interrelation between literary technique and the social realities inhabited by British writers over the first half of the twentieth century.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of the literature of post-World War II Britain, beginning with the immigration of significant numbers of West Indian immigrants to England in 1948, an event triggering a process of still unfinished transformation in British identity. Materials may include novels, poetry, music, film, and art.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of literature of the British Isles from 1945 to the present, focusing on authors such as Evelyn Waugh, William Golding, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, Linton Kwesi Johnson, and Zadie Smith.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected topics in the literature of Britain such as pre-Raphaelitism and decadence, the Oxford movement, English travelers and explorers, and the criminal in British literature.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Focused study of Irish writing and culture, with topics like Irish revival, Irish modernism, and writing of the Irish diaspora.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of writing in a variety of genres from contact with the Americas to 1750.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of such topics as Native American literature and encounters, sentimentalism, slave narratives, federalism and democracy, and of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Sedgwick, Douglass, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Realism, naturalism, and early modernism, including work by such authors as Twain, both Henry and William James, Chesnutt, DuBois, Wharton, Chopin, Mart?, Stein, London, and Dreiser.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Examination of developments in the short story and novel in the U.S., including work by such authors as Brown, Cooper, Poe, Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Jacobs, Alcott, Davis, Twain, and James.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Examination of topics, events, and issues in the nineteenth century, combining literary, historical, political, and theoretical reading. Topics may include abolition and the women’s movement, the Civil War, literature of industrialization, labor, and class; literature of the frontier. A. Nineteenth-Century American Travel Writing.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Survey and scrutiny of twentieth-century literature, examining eras, movements, and literary experimentalism; readings may include focus on various community, ethnic, and gendered forms of consciousness.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of the novel as written in the U.S.; may also include attention to novels written elsewhere in North America and in South America.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of selected American poets, emphasizing cultural contexts, national identity, use of vernacular language, and formal innovations. May include poets writing in South America and throughout North America as well as in the U.S.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of writings by African American authors organized either by topic (for example, slavery) or time period (for example, Reconstruction or Harlem Renaissance).
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
The content of this course is variable as specified in particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. Study of the cultural production of Latinos in the U.S., potentially including exploration of performance art, graphic novels and film. Themes of focus may include historical perspectives from the Mexican American War (1848) to the present day; immigration, the border and the criminalization of Latinos; hemispheric approaches to the Americas. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. Study of the oral and written literature of Native Americans.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. Study of selected issues informing Asian American literary studies, including the “model minority” myth, gender and sexuality, labor and class issues, immigration and diaspora, war, colonialism, refugee dynamics, and the politics of genre.
(New)
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of various cultural, racial and literary traditions through comparison of two or more ethnic literatures. Students will think through the theoretical problems of comparison, which insist on maintaining historical specificity even while developing nuanced formulations of hybridity and cross-cultural dialogue.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Close study of texts in which American writers attempt to create, define, or revise our sense of a national culture, considered within their larger cultural contexts.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected texts and topics in the literature of the United States, for example, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Mountain School, literature and film of the Depression era, or war in U.S. literature.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected topics emphasizing the transatlantic connections of literature written in English, for example, transatlantic Puritanism, literature of the "new woman," Freud and modern fiction, literature of World War I, or family history.
CL-2 (New)
An investigation of genres of professional and workplace communication that are common across the business world including memos, progress reports, and presentations. Contemporary professional communication occurs across media platforms and through a variety of devices, as such this course addresses a range of digital and visual communication strategies.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in
particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for
credit. The University
Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of significant fiction written since the mid to late nineteenth century, including developments in fictional form.
A. The Modern Novel: Study of the modern novel including movements such as realism, naturalism, formalism, minimalism, maximalism, and magic realism. Topics of focus may include war, familial and sexual relations, urban life, national identity, and portraits of artists
B. Short Fiction: A study of what short fiction does and how it does it. Readings drawn from a wide variety of authors from a large number of countries who write on a range of subjects
C. Contemporary Fiction: Study of contemporary fiction, including various developments in the form, with a focus on fiction by living writers
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Exploration of innovations in fictional forms by examining the strategies and techniques writers deploy to undermine conventions in the novel and short story. Experimentation in fiction is an ongoing generative force accompanying the historic development of the novel, from eighteenth-century writers such as Lawrence Sterne and Daniel Defoe to the postmodern techniques that arise in fiction by authors such as John Barth, Robert Coover, and Kathy Acker.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Critical exploration of “life writing” or the various textual representations structured around a "life," featuring autobiography and/or biography, and possibly including forms such as testimony and self-representation in contemporary media.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
The content of this course is variable as specified in particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply. Examination of issues relating to the study of popular culture through consideration of a wide range of media, including music, television, film, fiction, and the internet. A. Celebrity Culture: Study of the role fame plays in American culture providing a history of the concept, clarifying the terminological complexities that surround fame, and examining the ways in which popular culture has propagated, reflected, and offered insight into our obsession with fame.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and its aesthetic and ideological antecedants.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in
particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for
credit. The University
Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of poetry written from the end of the nineteenth century up to the present day, potentially including poetry in translation from several cultures and places.
A. Modern and Contemporary British Poetry: Study of twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry and poetry movements in the British Isles
B. Modern and Contemporary North American Poetry: Study of twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry and poetry movements of North America.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in
particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for
credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not
apply.
Study of poetry movements, sometimes focusing on a single movement and sometimes on comparative study of two or more; movements considered may include Romanticism, the Pre-Raphaelites, Modernism, the Beats, the Black Arts Movement, and LANGUAGE Poetry. A. Poetry and Poetics of Innovation: Study of the poetry and poetics of innovation; focus may include the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century in Europe, modernism, and contemporary innovative poetics as practiced in North America, the British Isles, and Europe.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Examination of modernist poetry, with attention to individual poets and to modernist thought. Poets may include Yeats, Stein, Loy, Pound, Williams, H.D., Moore, Stevens, Toomer, Crane, and Hughes, among others.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Exploration of major issues and debates in the study of modernism, including potential focus on modernist manifestos, movements, philosophies, theories of language, and questions of definition.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of writers and the literary field in the United Kingdom during the modernist period, with attention devoted to topics like the rise of mass politics and mass culture, imperialism and colonial administration, and particularly British responses to transnational literary formations.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Introduction to texts, concepts, and debates in the tradition of Freudian psychoanalysis. Special emphasis upon the application of psychoanalysis within non-clinical fields (literature, linguistics, law, history, politics, religion, sociology, anthropology, economics, mathematics).
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of works of literature structured around the representation of religious experiences, traditions, or institutions and examination of the influence of various religions upon practices of reading and interpretation.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Close attention to theories that attempt to account for the specificity of the literary object. Discussion may focus on questions of reading and interpretation, linguistics and poetics, narrative, rhetoric, genre, literature and the arts, or politics and education.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of the writings of a scholarly and politically committed movement created mainly by progressive intellectuals of color, focusing on the law’s centrality in constructing and maintaining social domination and subordination.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Interdisciplinary study of how human sexuality can be conceived outside the terms of fixed identity; readings may include work by theorists and authors such as Foucault, Butler, Sedgwick, Delany, Winterson, and Halberstam.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A survey of several feminist frameworks for thinking about gender, sex, sexuality, race, class, and oppression including a consideration of the ways in which gender has left its mark on literary history and culture.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Extensive reading in the Bible, with some consideration of modern biblical scholarship and exploration of the more important uses of religious and biblical ideas in various periods of English and American literature.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Examination of the iconography and literature of the sacred tradition in art.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in
particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for
credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not
apply.
Exploration of mythology both as a kind of knowing and as "sacred stories" in religion, literature, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and science. A.: Mythology of the Americas: Study of the myths, tales, and legends told by the native peoples of the New World, which open roads that lead the imagination into alternative worlds. The class will read and listen to the words of native storytellers, orators, singers, and dramatists.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of various film genres (melodrama, horror, film noir, comedy, science fiction, westerns) and sub-genres (maternal melodrama, splatter films, police procedurals, cyberpunk) as artistic texts and as Hollywood marketing strategies.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of post-cinematic media and the questions these media raise regarding memory and media storage; the relations of language and literature to technology; documentation and referentiality.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is
repeatable for credit. The University
Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Exploration of the cinematic production of various nations (such as the US, Iran, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Russia), with focus on the aesthetic and ideological aspirations specific to them.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in
particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for
credit. The University
Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Courses in literature primarily from outside the United States and Britain. All texts in English or in English translation.
A. Transnational Literature: The study of literature from geographically and culturally diverse places that undermines the usual classification of literary texts in terms of national and regional literatures
B. Literature in Translation: Major texts in English translation, viewed in light of cultural and aesthetic cross-currents
C. Arab Literature: Studies in literature by Arab writers in English translation, including focus on topics like Arab women writers, the Arab novel, and Palestinian literature.
D. World Jewish Literature: Study of Jewish writing, which has been written in all the languages Jews have spoken, including Yiddish, Ladino, Russian, German, Serbian, Hungarian, Polish, Hebrew, French, English, Portuguese, and Spanish. All literature taught in English translation.
E. African Literature: Studies in literature from Africa in English and English translation, including focus on topics like African women writers, the African novel, and African drama.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of the literary production of peoples of the African diaspora, examining transatlantic perspectives that enable comparison of black writers from places such as the Caribbean, England, and the United States.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of the literatures of colonized or previously colonized peoples and their diasporas.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of writing by women across a variety of periods and genres, with focus on the historical and cultural context of women's lives.
A. Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Study of the writing of twentieth-century women, attending to its differences from and connections to earlier periods and mainstream traditions. May include a variety of genres
B. U.S. Women Writers: Exploration of U.S. women’s writing as it participates in mainstream literary and rhetorical traditions and creates its own counter-traditions. May include women’s autobiographies, speeches, essays, letters, captivity and slave narratives, poetry, fiction and drama from a variety of periods
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Pre-requisite: ENG 207
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Writing workshop in which students submit original writing for peer review and weekly critical responses and read advanced representations of the genre. Designed to help students develop their style, hone their technique, and produce original poetry.
Prerequisite: ENG 207
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Pre-requisite: ENG 207
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Writing workshop in which students submit original writing for peer review and weekly critical responses and read advanced representations of the genre. Designed to help students develop their style, hone their technique, and produce original fiction.
Prerequisite: ENG 207
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Pre-requisite: ENG 390 or ENG 391
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of diverse writing that informs the contemporary literary scene and marketplace of poetry and fiction, designed for practicing writers. Course readings are selected to broaden students? understanding of the craft and history of poetry and fiction in order to improve the practice of their own work.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Consideration and practice of style, rhetoric, form, and revision in a variety of genres. Focuses primarily on student writing but may consider a topic and require readings in non-fiction prose, for example, the essay.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: TUT
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Workshop in forms of writing about books and intellectual issues, with particular focus on non-academic writing such as book reviews, magazine editorials, and non-technical non-fiction prose.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
CL-2
This upper-level journalism course trains students to research, report and write like a professional journalist. Students will produce up to four pieces of original journalism during this class and will learn about current trends in media and media production. They will blog, make a class presentation and read and critique current works of mainstream journalism. Students will conduct interviews for every piece they write. The class will hone students' skills as writes and readers and teach them to write a coherent long-form piece of journalism.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
See description of departmental honors program.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Honors seminar on literature written before 1800. See description of departmental honors program.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Various topics from Old English and Middle English literature.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Various literary and cultural topics that cross national, linguistic, and cultural borders.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Texts written by women of various nationalities and periods in a variety of genres up to 1800.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of the social and cultural function of epic narrative; may include texts and/or film from a single time period or across the centuries.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is
repeatable for credit. The University
Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected topics in Shakespeare?s dramatic and non-dramatic work such as the social context of Shakespeare, gay and lesbian studies in Shakespeare, Shakespeare and national politics, Shakespeare and colonialism, Shakespearean adaptations, Shakespeare on film.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is
repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not
apply.
Selected topics in early modern British literature such as the literature of exploration, science and literature, studies of specific genres or authors, classical antiquity and Humanism, reformation and religious controversy, gay and lesbian studies.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is
repeatable for credit. The University
Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected topics in American literature, including attention to critical questions at the forefront of current criticism in American literature and American studies.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is
repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not
apply.
Selected readings in African American literature, theory, and history.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of the relationship between literature and culture among Latinos in the U.S. as well as in Latin America. Central themes may include Latino cultural theory, hemispheric approaches, Latin American literature in translation, immigration and the borderlands, Latino re-workings of Latin American novels. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is
repeatable for credit. The University
Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Close study of one aspect of nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Concentrated study of James Joyce: the composition and reception of his works, their cultural and literary contexts, and the rise of Joyce studies.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is
repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not
apply.
Concentrated and detailed study of the works, biography, and milieu of a single author, chosen by the instructor.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Pre-requisite: ENG
390
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Intensive poetry workshop in which students submit original work for review and revision and offer critical response to their peers. Geared to help students produce mature work with an aim toward future publication.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Pre-requisite: ENG 391
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Intensive fiction workshop in which students submit original work for review and revision and offer critical response to their peers. Geared to help students produce mature work with an aim toward future publication.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: TUT
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Intensive practice in writing; specific approach chosen by instructor.
Prerequisite: ENG 390, ENG 391, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Analysis of aspects of feature filmmaking based on study and discussion of classic films by great directors.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Various systematic approaches to the study of film and the work of important authors of classical and contemporary film theory such as Andre Bazin, Bela Balazs, Stanley Cavell, Michel Chion, Gilles Deleuze, Mary Ann Doane, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Epstein, Sigfried Kracauer, Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Slavoj Žižek.
Credits: 1
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LAB
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of contemporary cinema, potentially including popular film, film from various cultures and sub-cultures, and topics in film theory.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: LEC
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Focused study of the interrelations of modernist literature and innovative and popular film during the early twentieth century.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is
repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not
apply.
Advanced study of literature written primarily outside the U.S. and British Isles. Literature taught in translation.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
Study of literatures from various diasporas that highlight the effects of straddling different cultural worlds.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Application of that reading skills acquired through the study of literature to philosophical texts with the goal of understanding the production of philosophical knowledge and questions of rhetoric, language, staging, genre, reading, and writing.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Examination of such topics as popular culture, practices of everyday life, theories of sacrifice, group psychology, institutions and counter-institutions, ritual, commodity aesthetics, criminology, urbanism, television, fashion, and cuisine.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in
particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for
credit. The University
Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Study of the formal structures, history, and impact of the novel form.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Pre-requisite: ENG 461 Or TH 485
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable as specified in
particular course sections and therefore it is repeatable for
credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not
apply.
Exploration of topics relevant to study of various genres of poetry; may include questions of historical development, innovations in form, or focus on particular genres and features, including the ballad, narrative verse, lyric, poetry and song, conceptions of voice, prose-poetry, or the collage poem.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: SEM
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A study in a current topic of interest
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: TUT
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
See description of departmental honors program.
Credits: 3
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: TUT
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Work with faculty mentor on research or creative project.
Credits: 1 – 6
Semester(s): (No information on typically offered
semesters)
Type: TUT
Grading: Graded (A-F)
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Guided reading and directed research under individual faculty advisors. See special instructions.
