* Indicates that course may be repeated for credit when course content changes.

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Course Number
Name
Gen. Eds
Description
Credits
308
Advanced Poetry Workshop
IIIW, V6b
An advanced course in which students will be given writing assignments with particular emphasis on craft and will submit original poems to be discussed in class. This course may be repeated once for credit.
3
312
Advanced Fiction Workshop
IIIW, V6b
An advanced course in which students will submit original fiction to be discussed in class and in individual conferences with the instructor. This course may be repeated once for credit.
3
314
Advanced Creative Nonfiction Workshop
IIIW, V6b
An advanced course in which students will submit original nonfiction to be discussed in class and in individual conferences with the instructor. Students will also read and discuss published texts of creative nonfiction. This course may be repeated once for credit.
3
317
History of the English Language
V1
A study of the continuing development of English words, grammar and syntax, including sources of vocabulary and changes of form, sound and meaning.
3
325

Shakespeare:  Ten Plays

V2
This course explores a selection of plays by one of the world's greatest dramatists. Topic for Spring 2008: "Shakespeare on Love." Love between husband and wife; wooer and wooed; parent and child; master and servant; citizen and country; worshipper and God: we will survey Shakespeare's plays through the lens of his most passionate subject, while also considering those emotions that frustrated or betrayed love often spawns: hate, jealousy, rivalry, and revenge.
3
329
American Romanticism
IIIO, V2
Study of works of 19th-century American Romantic writers or those strongly influenced by them. Emphasis on writers such as Alcott, Douglass, Emerson, Fern, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, Hawthorne, Melville, Phelps, Thoreau, and Chopin. May be counted as an adjunct course toward the minor in women and gender studies.
3
330
African American Literature
V2, V5
A study of 20th- and 21st-century African-American writers, with emphasis on the Harlem Renaissance and more contemporary works. Topics may include models of identity and sexuality, the effects of primitivism, folk materials, and dominant cultural values on literary forms. Writers such as Dubois, Toomer, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Larsen, Morrison, and Walker will be included. May be counted as an adjunct course toward the minor in women and gender studies.
3
368
Topics in 19th Century British Literature/Culture
V2
Topics will vary by semester.
3
380
Classics in Modern Drama
V2, V6a
A study of the major western playwrights, dramatic theories, and theatrical styles of the 20th century. The dramatists studied will include Ibsen, Chekov, Synge, Pirandello, O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Beckett, Ionesco, Hansberry, Pinter and Wilson.
3
393
Modern Poetry
IIIO, V2
This course focuses on the poetry of Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot, Stein, Millay and Hughes. We will study their distinctive poetic achievements in relation to relevant traditions and contexts. In particular, we will examine how their poetry reflects or contests modern ideas about the self, the nature of language, the significance of poetic forms and the purpose of poetry. This course may be counted as an adjunct course for the minor in Women and Gender Studies.
3
394
Modern Poetry II
IIIO, V2
A study of a wide range of poetry in English from the mid-20th century to the present. Poets may include Auden, Larkin, Bishop, Lowell, Sexton, Plath, Brooks, Rich, Heaney, and Walcott. We will focus on questions of form, technique and interpretation while relating these works to relevant movements and traditions as well as to the writers' lives and times. This course may be counted as an adjunct course for the minor in Women and Gender Studies.
3
398
Contemporary Fiction
V2
A seminar exploring developments in world fiction in English from the mid-20th through the 21st century. Topics include the novel and the future, globalization, terrorism, feminisms, masculinities, colonialisms past and present, and transnational identities. Readings will include works in English from countries such as the U.S., Britain, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, India, and Pakistan.
3
398
Contemporary Fiction
V2
A seminar exploring developments in world fiction in English from the mid-20th through the 21st century. Topics include the novel and the future, globalization, terrorism, feminisms, masculinities, colonialisms past and present, and transnational identities. Readings will include works in English from countries such as the U.S., Britain, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, India, and Pakistan.
3