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Courses:

First-Year Writing Seminars Recommended for Prospective Majors:

ENGL 1270 - FWS: Writing About Literature

Critical Writing and Creative Nonfiction:

Creative Writing:

Students usually begin their work in Creative Writing with ENGL 2800 or ENGL 2810 , and only after completion of the First-Year Writing Seminar requirement. Please note that either ENGL 2800 or ENGL 2810 is the recommended prerequisite for 3000-level creative writing courses. ENGL 2800 and ENGL 2810 may satisfy a distribution requirement in your college (please check with your college advisor). ENGL 3820 –ENGL 3830 , ENGL 3840 –ENGL 3850 , and ENGL 4800 –ENGL 4810 are approved for the English major.

2000-level courses:

Courses at the 2000-level include foundational surveys designed to introduce English majors and minors to important areas of the curriculum, courses on major themes and topics that span historical periods, and courses intended for non-majors as well as majors and minors. No previous college-level study in English is assumed.

ENGL 2000 - Introduction to Criticism and Theory
ENGL 2005 - [Punk: Literature, Art, Music] (crosslisted)
ENGL 2010 - The English Literary Tradition I
ENGL 2020 - The English Literary Tradition II
ENGL 2030 - [Introduction to American Literatures: Beginnings to the Civil War] (crosslisted)
ENGL 2035 - Science Fiction (crosslisted)
ENGL 2040 - Introduction to American Literature: Civil War to the Present (crosslisted)
ENGL 2045 - Major Poets
ENGL 2080 - Shakespeare and the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (crosslisted)
ENGL 2090 - Introduction to Cultural Studies
ENGL 2100 - Medieval Romance: Voyage to the Otherworld (crosslisted)
ENGL 2160 - [Television] (crosslisted)
ENGL 2170 - History of the English Language to 1300 (crosslisted)
ENGL 2180 - History of the English Language since 1300 (crosslisted)
ENGL 2200 - The Art of the Insult
ENGL 2270 - Shakespeare (crosslisted)
ENGL 2350 - Literature and Medicine: The Science and Fiction of Disease (crosslisted)
ENGL 2390 - [Hip Hop: Beats, Rhymes and Life] (crosslisted)
ENGL 2512 - Caribbean Worlds (crosslisted)
ENGL 2550 - Introduction to African Literature: Sex, Violence, and Power (crosslisted)
ENGL 2600 - Writing Native Nations: An Introduction to Native American Literatures (crosslisted)
ENGL 2620 - Introduction to Asian American Literature (crosslisted)
ENGL 2641 - Reading the New Jim Crow and Contemporary Modes of Racialization (crosslisted)
ENGL 2650 - Introduction to African American Literature (crosslisted)
ENGL 2655 - Ghosts in American Culture (crosslisted)
ENGL 2740 - Scottish Literature (crosslisted)
ENGL 2751 - Literature, Sport, and Ideology (crosslisted)
ENGL 2761 - American Cinema (crosslisted)
ENGL 2771 - Africa in Hollywood (crosslisted)
ENGL 2773 - [Violence & Order in the North] (crosslisted)
ENGL 2870 - Freedom Writes: Literature of Global Justice Struggles (crosslisted)
ENGL 2960 - [Linguistic Theory and Poetic Structure] (crosslisted)
ENGL 2999 - The First American University (crosslisted)

3000-level courses:

Courses at the 3000-level cover major literary periods, authors, traditions, and genres, as well as literary theory, cultural studies, and creative and expository writing. These courses are designed primarily for English majors and minors, though non-majors are welcome to take them. Some previous college-level study in English is assumed.

ENGL 3110 - Old English (crosslisted)
ENGL 3115 - [Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics] (crosslisted)
ENGL 3120 - Beowulf (crosslisted)
ENGL 3190 - Chaucer (crosslisted)
ENGL 3250 - Love and Money in the Renaissance
ENGL 3260 - Spenser and The Faerie Queene
ENGL 3270 - [Shakespeare: The Late Plays] (crosslisted)
ENGL 3271 - [Shakespeare Out Loud] (crosslisted)
ENGL 3280 - The Bible (crosslisted)
ENGL 3290 - Milton
ENGL 3300 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
ENGL 3340 - Race, Class, Gender and Violence (crosslisted)
ENGL 3350 - Theatre on the Edge: The History of Experimental Performance (crosslisted)
ENGL 3360 - [American Drama and Theatre] (crosslisted)
ENGL 3370 - Contemporary American Theatre on Stage and Screen (crosslisted)
ENGL 3380 - Problem Poems
ENGL 3390 - Jane Austen
ENGL 3475 - Global Shakespeare (crosslisted)
ENGL 3490 - Shakespeare and Europe (crosslisted)
ENGL 3500 - The High Modernist Tradition
ENGL 3525 - Twentieth Century American Poetry (crosslisted)
ENGL 3530 - The Modern Indian Novel
ENGL 3555 - [Science Fiction: Medieval and Modern] (crosslisted)
ENGL 3560 - Thinking from a Different Place: Indigenous Philosophies (crosslisted)
ENGL 3590 - [Consuming Passions: Media, Space, and the Body] (crosslisted)
ENGL 3610 - U.S. Literature: Early Poems, Novels, and Political Writing (crosslisted)
ENGL 3640 - Studies in U.S. Literature After 1950: American Literature, the 1980s (crosslisted)
ENGL 3653 - Motor City Blues: Detroit, America’s Past, America’s Future? (crosslisted)
ENGL 3670 - Modern American Fiction: Literary and Civic Fictions (crosslisted)
ENGL 3675 - The Environmental Imagination in American Literature (crosslisted)
ENGL 3680 - Telling to Live: Critical Examinations of Testimonio (crosslisted)
ENGL 3702 - Desire and Cinema (crosslisted)
ENGL 3720 - Medieval and Early Renaissance Drama (crosslisted)
ENGL 3721 - [Food, Gender, and Culture] (crosslisted)
ENGL 3775 - bell hooks Books: From Feminism to Autobiography (crosslisted)
ENGL 3780 - Queer Fiction: Desire and Narrative Form (crosslisted)
ENGL 3790 - Reading Nabokov (crosslisted)
ENGL 3801 - Poetry and Poetics of the Americas (crosslisted)
ENGL 3810 - Uncanny Reading, Canny Critical Writing
ENGL 3815 - Madness and the Novel
ENGL 3820 - Intermediate Narrative Writing
ENGL 3830 - Intermediate Narrative Writing
ENGL 3840 - Intermediate Verse Writing
ENGL 3850 - Intermediate Verse Writing
ENGL 3860 - Philosophic Fictions
ENGL 3980 - Latino/a Popular Culture (crosslisted)

4000-level courses:

Courses at the 4000 level are advanced seminars intended primarily for English majors and minors who have already taken courses at the 2000 and/or 3000 level. Other students may enroll in these courses, but are encouraged to consult with the instructor.

ENGL 4030 - Poetry in Process: A.R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich (crosslisted)
ENGL 4101 - Dream Visions and the Question of the Medieval Unconscious (crosslisted)
ENGL 4105 - [Soundscapes of the Americas] (crosslisted)
ENGL 4154 - Haunted Subjects (crosslisted)
ENGL 4200 - Renaissance Humanism (crosslisted)
ENGL 4210 - [Shakespeare in (Con)text] (crosslisted)
ENGL 4215 - Blood Politics
ENGL 4313 - The Beautiful Struggle: Radical Aesthetics and Politics (crosslisted)
ENGL 4330 - Women, Real and Imaginary: British Romanticism (crosslisted)
ENGL 4405 - Oscar Wilde (crosslisted)
ENGL 4460 - Reading the 19th Century American Novel (crosslisted)
ENGL 4508 - From the Harlem Renaissance to New Harlem Novels (crosslisted)
ENGL 4515 - [Ariosto, Rabelais, Spenser] (crosslisted)
ENGL 4521 - Gender, Memory, and History in Twentieth Century Fiction (crosslisted)
ENGL 4540 - Undoing the Sign: Theory, History and the Human (crosslisted)
ENGL 4550 - Race and Time (crosslisted)
ENGL 4565 - Traffic: Drugs, Bodies, Books (crosslisted)
ENGL 4580 - Imagining the Holocaust (crosslisted)
ENGL 4600 - Melville (crosslisted)
ENGL 4625 - Law and Literature in Contemporary Native American Fiction (crosslisted)
ENGL 4635 - Art! Poetry! Power! (crosslisted)
ENGL 4650 - American Paranoia (crosslisted)
ENGL 4651 - American Elegy (crosslisted)
ENGL 4727 - New York, Paris, Baghdad: Poetry of the City (crosslisted)
ENGL 4765 - [The Female Dramatic Tradition] (crosslisted)
ENGL 4800 - Advanced Creative Writing
ENGL 4810 - Advanced Verse Writing
ENGL 4811 - Advanced Narrative Writing
ENGL 4840 - Postcolonial Poetry and the Poetics of Relation (crosslisted)
ENGL 4873 - Human/Animal/Machine (crosslisted)
ENGL 4880 - Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (crosslisted)
ENGL 4910 - Honors Seminar I
ENGL 4920 - Honors Seminar II
ENGL 4930 - Honors Essay Tutorial I
ENGL 4940 - Honors Essay Tutorial II
ENGL 4950 - Independent Study
ENGL 4961 - Race and the University (crosslisted)
ENGL 4966 - Aesthetics and Politics of Nakedness (crosslisted)
ENGL 4987 - Capitalism’s “New Era”? Materialism, Enclosure, and the Body Politics of the Present (crosslisted)

Courses Primarily for Graduate Students:

Permission of the instructor is a prerequisite for admission to courses numbered in the 6000s. These are intended primarily for graduate students, although qualified undergraduates are sometimes admitted. Undergraduates seeking admission to a 6000-level course should consult the instructor.

ENGL 5800 - Graduate Creative Writing Special Seminar
ENGL 5850 - [Linguistic Theory and Poetic Structure] (crosslisted)
ENGL 6000 - Colloquium for Entering Students
ENGL 6101 - Dream Visions and the Question of the Medieval Unconscious (crosslisted)
ENGL 6110 - Old English (crosslisted)
ENGL 6120 - Beowulf (crosslisted)
ENGL 6154 - Haunted Subjects (crosslisted)
ENGL 6170 - [Structure of Old English] (crosslisted)
ENGL 6210 - Renaissance Prose and Periodization
ENGL 6222 - Rhetoric in Early Modern England
ENGL 6240 - Renaissance Humanism (crosslisted)
ENGL 6300 - Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century (crosslisted)
ENGL 6340 - Languages of Poetry in the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
ENGL 6341 - [Aesthetics of Excess: Psycho-Philosophical Approaches to Cinematic Technologies] (crosslisted)
ENGL 6370 - Baroque Files (crosslisted)
ENGL 6470 - Materialisms (crosslisted)
ENGL 6515 - [Ariosto, Rabelais, Spenser] (crosslisted)
ENGL 6571 - Feminist Modernisms, Modernist Feminisms (crosslisted)
ENGL 6572 - Sociologies of Modernist Literature
ENGL 6600 - Erotics of Visuality (crosslisted)
ENGL 6640 - American Literature and the Civil War (crosslisted)
ENGL 6651 - The Harlem Renaissance (crosslisted)
ENGL 6700 - Joyce’s Ulysses (crosslisted)
ENGL 6721 - Medieval and Early Renaissance Drama (crosslisted)
ENGL 6727 - New York, Paris, Baghdad: Poetry of the City (crosslisted)
ENGL 6765 - [The Female Dramatic Tradition] (crosslisted)
ENGL 6793 - Genres of Translation
ENGL 6811 - James Baldwin (crosslisted)
ENGL 6850 - Postcolonial Poetry and the Poetics of Relation (crosslisted)
ENGL 6870 - Writing for Readers
ENGL 6880 - Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (crosslisted)
ENGL 6951 - Theories of Identity
ENGL 6952 - Introduction to Systems Theory (crosslisted)
ENGL 6953 - Narration and Knowledge (crosslisted)
ENGL 6954 - Realisms: Critical, Mimetic, Speculative (crosslisted)
ENGL 6970 - [Cosmopolitanism] (crosslisted)
ENGL 7412 - Law and Humanities Colloquium (crosslisted)
ENGL 7800 - MFA Seminar: Poetry
ENGL 7801 - MFA Seminar: Fiction
ENGL 7810 - MFA Seminar: Poetry
ENGL 7811 - MFA Seminar: Fiction
ENGL 7850 - Reading for Writers
ENGL 7940 - Directed Study
ENGL 7950 - Group Study
ENGL 7960 - Placement Seminar