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COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
ENGLISH

Detailed course offerings (Time Schedule) are available for

• Autumn Quarter 2008
• Winter Quarter 2009

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ENGL 100 Language Structure I (5)
The first course in an academic writing sequence for non-native speakers of English, focusing on improving accuracy at the word, phrase and clause levels. Instruction provides repeated exposure to and engagement with practical formal vocabulary in academic contexts. ENGL 100, 101, and 102 must be taken consecutively. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description: Cherie R Lenz-Hackett Peter E. Messinger Sharon Marie Mccarty

ENGL 101 Language Structure II (5)
The second course in an academic writing sequence for non-native speakers of English, focusing on improving accuracy at the word, phrase, and sentence level, and across phrase and clause boundaries. Instruction provides repeated exposure to and engagement with practical formal vocabulary in academic contexts. ENGL 100, 101, and 102 must be taken consecutively. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description: Mary Kay Seales William S Jr Morrill

ENGL 102 Language Structure III (5)
The third course in an academic writing sequence for non-native speakers of English, focusing on improving accuracy and style in complex sentences and paragraphs. Students continue to expand their ability to effectively express, combine and link ideas using sentence structure and vocabulary appropriate to different academic writing tasks. Course must be taken consecutively. Offered: AWSpS.

ENGL 103 Writing About Sources (5)
Students learn to comprehend, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate authentic academic readings, and to use the basic rhetorical structures commonly found in academic writing: summary, definition, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, and problem solution. Emphasis placed on producing well-formed, accurate, and comprehensible written responses that meet the standards and conventions of academic style. Offered: AWSpS.

ENGL 104 Listening to Academic Lectures (5)
Students learn to actively listen to and comprehend academic lectures and to take, use and access notes on those lectures. This entails the ability to recognize spoken rhetorical cues and organizational patterns, and to analyze and synthesize content, viewpoint and inferences critically. Offered: AWSpS.

ENGL 105 English for International Teaching Assistants (5)
Develops language production skills, lesson planning and presentation skills, and TA-student interaction skills related to classroom teaching for international teaching assisants. Requires speak exam.

ENGL 106 Practical Forms of Writing (5) C
Instruction in writing essay examinations, reports, reviews, and research papers. For Educational Opportunity Program students only, upon recommendation by the Office of Minority Affairs.

ENGL 109 Introductory Composition (5-)

Instructor Course Description: Suzanne C. Schmidt

ENGL 110 Introductory Composition (-5) C
Development of writing skills: sentence strategies and paragraph structures. Expository, critical, and persuasive essay techniques based on analysis of selected readings. For Educational Opportunity Program students only, upon recommendation by the Office of Minority Affairs.

ENGL 111 Composition: Literature (5) C
Study and practice of good writing; topics derived from reading and discussing stories, poems, essays, and plays.
Instructor Course Description: Jennifer Mc Collum Edmond Y Chang Jane J Lee Lauren Summers Donald L Anderson Roderick B Overaa Tanvi P Patel Tasha M Buttler Traynor F Iii Hansen Terris L S Patterson

ENGL 121 Composition: Social Issues (5) C
Study and practice of good writing; topics derived from reading and discussing essays and fiction about current social and moral issues.
Instructor Course Description: Andrew M Rose

ENGL 131 Composition: Exposition (5) C
Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects.
Instructor Course Description: Yifan Zhang Callie E Connor Christopher John-F Martin Christopher M Featherman Jun Xu Benjamin T Menzies Christopher B. Patterson Jason A Jones Terris L S Patterson

ENGL 182 The Research Paper (5) C
Includes study of library resources, the analysis of reading materials, and writing preparatory papers as basic to writing a reference or research paper. Open to all undergraduates. Prerequisite: either ENGL 111, ENGL 121, or ENGL 131.

ENGL 197 Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities (5, max. 15) C
Expository writing based on material presented in a specified humanities lecture course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.
Instructor Course Description: Angela L Sucich Gabrielle Dean Joan Adelle Graham Jacob Cohen Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges Lysa Maria Rivera Susan Margaret Taylor Matthew J Vechinski Riki Ellen Thompson

ENGL 198 Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Science (5, max. 15) C
Expository writing based on material presented in a specified social science lecture course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytic prose. Concurrent registration in specified course required.
Instructor Course Description: Jonathan M. Acuff Amy P. Wilson Colby D. Nelson Emilie Jackinsky-Horrell Jennifer A. Price Joan Adelle Graham Jessica Beyer

ENGL 199 Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Science (5, max. 15) C
Expository writing based on material presented in a specific natural science lecture course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.
Instructor Course Description: Colby D. Nelson Joan Adelle Graham

ENGL 200 Reading Literature (5) VLPA
Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature. Examines some of the best works in English and American literature and considers such features of literary meaning as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense. Emphasis on literature as a source of pleasure and knowledge about human experience.
Instructor Course Description: Caitlin R Hansen Candace M. Barlow Edmond Y Chang Daniel J Griesbach Johanna Mari Van Rijswijk Jason H Morse Joann L Kelly John O'Neill Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges Kelly Walsh Lauren M Grant Megan A Miller Melanie A Hernandez Andrew J. Meyer Matthew J Vechinski Raymond A Oenbring Donald L Anderson Rania M Mahmoud Roderick B Overaa Su-Ching Wang Sarah N Terry Tanvi P Patel Timothy J Welsh

ENGL 202 Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature (5)
Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English. Concurrent registration with ENGL 197 required.
Instructor Course Description: Caroline Chung Simpson Eva Cherniavsky Henry J. Staten Nicholas Halmi

ENGL 205 Method, Imagination, and Inquiry (5) VLPA
Examines ideas of method and imagination in a variety of texts, in literature, philosophy, and science. Particularly concerned with intellectual backgrounds and methods of inquiry that have shaped modern Western literature. Offered: jointly with CHID 205.
Instructor Course Description: Leroy F Searle Raimonda Modiano

ENGL 207 Introduction to Cultural Studies (5) VLPA
Asks three questions: What is Cultural Studies? How does one read from a Cultural Studies perspective? What is the value of reading this way? Provides historical understanding of Cultural Studies, its terms and its specific way of interpreting a variety of texts, i.e. literature, visual images, music, video, and performance.
Instructor Course Description: Edmond Y Chang Curtis T. Hisayasu E. Laurie George Gabrielle Dean Heyang Julie Kae Jentery F Sayers Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges Rachel T Goldberg Su-Ching Wang Sydney F Lewis

ENGL 210 Literature and the Ancient World (5) VLPA
Introduction to literature from a broadly cultural point of view, focusing on major works that have shaped the development of literary and intellectual traditions to the Middle Ages.

ENGL 211 Medieval and Renaissance Literature (5) VLPA
Introduction to literature from a broadly cultural point of view, focusing on major works that have shaped the development of literary and intellectual traditions from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.
Instructor Course Description: Sharmila Mukherjee Todd A Rygh

ENGL 212 Literature of Enlightenment and Revolution (5) VLPA
Introduction to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature from a broadly cultural point of view, focusing on representative works that illustrate literary and intellectual developments of the period.
Instructor Course Description: Emily M. James Joseph M Butwin Lauren M Grant

ENGL 213 Modern and Postmodern Literature (5) VLPA
Introduction to twentieth-century literature from a broadly cultural point of view, focusing on representative works that illustrate literary and intellectual developments since 1900.
Instructor Course Description: Emily M. James E. Laurie George Heyang Julie Kae Matthew J Vechinski Norman J. Wacker Paul A Jaussen Donald L Anderson Su-Ching Wang Sarah N Terry Sydney J Kaplan

ENGL 225 Shakespeare (5) VLPA
Survey of Shakespeare's career as dramatist. Study of representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and history plays.
Instructor Course Description: Heather L. Stansbury Sharmila Mukherjee Todd A Borlik

ENGL 228 English Literary Culture: To 1600 (5) VLPA
British literature from Middle Ages to end of sixteenth century. Study of literature in its cultural context, with attention to changes in language, form, content, and style.
Instructor Course Description: Hillary J. Fogerty Todd A Rygh

ENGL 229 English Literary Culture: 1600-1800 (5) VLPA
British literature in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Study of literature in its cultural context, with attention to changes in form, content, and style.
Instructor Course Description: Brooke A. Stafford Lauren M Grant Thomas Frank Lockwood

ENGL 230 English Literary Culture: After 1800 (5) VLPA
British literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Study of literature in its cultural context, with attention to changes in form, content, and style.
Instructor Course Description: Emily M. James Joann L Kelly Paige Courtney Morgan Sharleen Mondal Sarah N Terry

ENGL 242 Reading Fiction (5) VLPA
Critical interpretation and meaning in fiction. Different examples of fiction representing a variety of types from the medieval to modern periods.
Instructor Course Description: Edmond Y Chang Curtis T. Hisayasu Deborah A Kimmey Douglass M Furrh Fang Li Stacy E. Grooters Heyang Julie Kae Johanna Mari Van Rijswijk Jamie E Oldham Jane J Lee Joann L Kelly Matthew J Vechinski Paige Courtney Morgan Louisa J. Peck Rania M Mahmoud Sharleen Mondal Sydney F Lewis Tanvi P Patel Timothy J Welsh

ENGL 243 Reading Poetry (5) VLPA
Critical interpretation and meaning in poems. Different examples of poetry representing a variety of types from the medieval to modern periods.
Instructor Course Description: Andrew J. Meyer

ENGL 244 Reading Drama (5) VLPA
Critical interpretation and meaning in plays. Different examples of drama representing a variety of types from the medieval to modern periods.
Instructor Course Description: Caitlin R Hansen

ENGL 250 Introduction to American Literature (5) VLPA
Survey of the major writers, modes, and themes in American literature, from the beginnings to the present. Specific readings vary, but often included are: Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Eliot, Stevens, O'Neill, Faulkner, Hemingway, Ellison, and Bellow.
Instructor Course Description: Anoop Mirpuri Edmond Y Chang Deborah A Kimmey Gillian H Harkins Lee M Einhorn Megan A Miller Sydney F Lewis Timothy J Welsh

ENGL 251 Introduction to American Political Culture (5) I&S/VLPA
Introduction to the methods and theories used in the analysis of American culture. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to American literature, including history, politics, anthropology, and mass media. Offered: jointly with POL S 281.
Instructor Course Description: Anoop Mirpuri

ENGL 257 Introduction to Asian-American Literature (5) VLPA
Introductory survey of Asian-American literature provides introduction to Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Hawaiian, South-Asian, and Southeast-Asian American literatures and a comparative study of the basic cultural histories of those Asian-American communities from the 1800s to the present.
Instructor Course Description: Shawn H Wong Michelle S. Liu

ENGL 258 African-American Literature: 1745 to Present (5) VLPA
A chronological survey of Afro-American literature in all genres from its beginnings to the present day. Emphasizes Afro-American writing as a literary art; the cultural and historical context of Afro-American literary expression and the aesthetic criteria of Afro-American literature. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 214.
Instructor Course Description: Mona Lisa Saloy

ENGL 264 Literature and Science (5) VLPA
Explores the relationships between literature and science as ways of comprehending humanity's interaction with the world we inhabit. As a course in criticism, explores how literature and science structure and are structured by social, religious, political, and economic factors in culture.

ENGL 270 Cultural Issues in English (5) VLPA
Survey of the assumptions, methodologies, and major issues of English in its cultural settings. Designed to connect English Language study with the study of literature, orality and literacy, education, ethnicity, gender, and public policy.

ENGL 281 Intermediate Expository Writing (5) C
Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.
Instructor Course Description: Andrew M Rose George L. Dillon Shawn H Wong Joseph M Butwin Jennifer Kort Halpin Megan J Kelly Raymond A Oenbring Sarah Gillian Read Jason A Jones Ronald Fuentes Shannon Mondor

ENGL 282 Composing for the Web (5)
Introduces the writing of nonfiction narrative and expository pieces for publication on the Web. Analysis and criticism of on-line work.
Instructor Course Description: George L. Dillon Raymond A Oenbring Timothy J Welsh

ENGL 283 Beginning Verse Writing (5) VLPA
Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.
Instructor Course Description: Aaron C Barrell Andrew E Feld Brian R Christian Chelsea Jennings

ENGL 284 Beginning Short Story Writing (5) VLPA
Introduction to the theory and practice of writing the short story.
Instructor Course Description: Emily W Porter Shawn H Wong John W Steere Lowell A Brower Nicole J Corbo

ENGL 285 Writers on Writing (5) VLPA Bosworth, Kenney, Shields, Sonenberg
Experiencing literature from the inside. Members of the creative writing faculty and other practicing writers discuss their poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction, literary inspiration, artistic practice, and the writer's life.

ENGL 300 Reading Major Texts (5) VLPA
Intensive examination of one or a few major works of literature. Classroom work to develop skills of careful and critical reading. Book selection varies, but reading consists of major works by important authors and of selected supplementary materials.
Instructor Course Description: Daniel J Griesbach Michelle S. Liu Rebecca S. Rauve

ENGL 302 Critical Practice (5) VLPA
Intensive study of, and exercise in, applying important or influential interpretive practices for studying language, literature, and culture, along with consideration of their powers/limits. Focuses on developing critical writing abilities. Topics vary and may include critical and interpretive practice from scripture and myth to more contemporary approaches, including newer interdisciplinary practices. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.0 in both ENGL 197 and ENGL 202; may not be repeated if received a grade of 2.0 or higher.
Instructor Course Description: John M Webster Gillian H Harkins Henry J. Staten Jill E. Gatlin Mark R Patterson

ENGL 303 History of Literary Criticism and Theory I (5) VLPA
Literary criticism and theory from its beginnings in Plato through the early twentieth century. Philosophical and theoretical grounds for critical practice put forward by philosophers and critics.

ENGL 304 History of Literary Criticism and Theory II (5) VLPA
Contemporary criticism and theory and its background in the New Criticism, structuralism, and phenomenology.
Instructor Course Description: Andrea Opitz Laura H Chrisman Katy Masuga

ENGL 305 Theories of Imagination (5) I&S/VLPA
Survey of theories of imagination since the seventeenth century. Focuses on the uses of the concept in literature, criticism, science, and society.

ENGL 307 Cultural Studies: Literature and the Age (5) VLPA
Problems of literary periodization. Works by major and minor authors in the context of cultural history; critical and theoretical approaches that have led to the idea of periodization. Emphasis varies. Recommended: one 300-level ENGL course in the literary period being studied.
Instructor Course Description: Candace M. Barlow

ENGL 310 The Bible as Literature (5) VLPA
Introduction to the development of the religious ideas and institutions of ancient Israel, with selected readings from the Old Testament and New Testament. Emphasis on reading The Bible with literary and historical understanding.
Instructor Course Description: John W Griffith

ENGL 311 Modern Jewish Literature in Translation (5) VLPA
Survey of Jewish experience and its literary expression since 1880. Includes such Yiddish writers as Sholom Aleichem, Peretz, and I. B. Singer; such Israeli writers as Agnon, Hazaz, and Appelfeld; and such writers in non-Jewish languages as Primo Levi and Kafka.
Instructor Course Description: Joseph M Butwin

ENGL 312 Jewish Literature: Biblical to Modern (5) I&S/VLPA
A study of Jewish literature from Biblical narrative and rabbinic commentary to modern prose and poetry with intervening texts primarily organized around major themes: martyrdom and suffering, destruction and exile, messianism, Hasidism and Enlightenment, Yiddishism and Zionism. Various critical approaches; geographic and historic contexts. Offered: jointly with SISJE 312.
Instructor Course Description: Joseph M Butwin

ENGL 313 Modern European Literature in Translation (5) VLPA
Fiction, poetry, and drama from the development of modernism to the present. Works by such writers as Mann, Proust, Kafka, Gide, Hesse, Rilke, Brecht, Sartre, and Camus.

ENGL 315 Literary Modernism (5) VLPA
Various modern authors, from Wordsworth to the present, in relation to such major thinkers as Kant, Hegel, Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Bergson, and Wittgenstein, who have helped create the context and the content of modern literature. Recommended: ENGL 230 or one 300-level course in 19th or 20th century literature.
Instructor Course Description: Henry J. Staten

ENGL 316 Postcolonial Literature and Culture (5, max. 10) VLPA
Readings of major tests and writers in postcolonial literature and culture. Surveys some of the most important questions and debates in postcolonial literature, including issues of identity, globalization, language, and nationalism. The cultural focus may vary, so students should check with the professor for specific details.
Instructor Course Description: Keith M Feldman Kellie D. Holzer Laura H Chrisman

ENGL 317 Literature of the Americas (5) VLPA
Examines writings by and about people of the Americas, with a focus on intersections of gender, colonialism, race, sexuality, and ethnicity.

ENGL 320 English Literature: The Middle Ages (5) VLPA
Literary culture of Middle Ages in England, as seen in selected works from earlier and later periods, ages of Beowulf and of Geoffrey Chaucer. Read in translation, except for a few later works, which are read in Middle English.

ENGL 321 Chaucer (5) VLPA
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other poetry, with attention to Chaucer's social, historical, and intellectual milieu.
Instructor Course Description: Christine Rose Paul G Remley

ENGL 322 English Literature: The Age of Queen Elizabeth (5) VLPA
The golden age of English poetry, with poems by Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, and others; drama by Marlowe and other early rivals to Shakespeare; prose by Sir Thomas More and the great Elizabethan translators.
Instructor Course Description: John M Webster

ENGL 323 Shakespeare to 1603 (5) VLPA
Shakespeare's career as dramatist before 1603 (including Hamlet). Study of history plays, comedies, and tragedies.
Instructor Course Description: John C Coldewey Norman J. Wacker William R Streitberger

ENGL 324 Shakespeare After 1603 (5) VLPA
Shakespeare's career as dramatist after 1603. Study of comedies, tragedies, and romances.
Instructor Course Description: Eric Henry Laguardia

ENGL 325 English Literature: The Late Renaissance (5) VLPA
A period of skepticism for some, faith for others, but intellectual upheaval generally. Poems by John Donne and the "metaphysical" school; poems and plays by Ben Jonson and other late rivals to Shakespeare; prose by Sir Francis Bacon and other writers.

ENGL 326 Milton (5) VLPA
Milton's early poems and the prose; Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, with attention to the religious, intellectual, and literary contexts.

ENGL 327 English Literature: Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century (5) VLPA
Selections from wits and satirists; poems by John Dryden and Alexander Pope; plays by Dryden, William Congreve, and other wits; the great satires of Jonathan Swift, and the first stirring of the novel.
Instructor Course Description: Juliet D Shields Thomas Frank Lockwood

ENGL 328 English Literature: Later Eighteenth Century (5) VLPA
Classic age of English prose. Essays, biography, and criticism by Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, and others; comedies by Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan; fiction by Henry Fielding and others; poetry by a variety of writers.

ENGL 329 Rise of the English Novel (5) VLPA
Study of the development of this major and popular modern literary form in the eighteenth century. Readings of the best of the novelists who founded the form, and some minor ones, from Defoe to Fielding, Richardson, and Sterne, early Austen, and the gothic and other writers.
Instructor Course Description: Nikolai B. Popov

ENGL 330 English Literature: The Romantic Age (5) VLPA
Literary, intellectual, and historical ferment of the period from the French Revolution to the 1830s. Readings from major authors in different literary forms; discussions of critical and philosophical issues in a time of change.

ENGL 331 Romantic Poetry I (5) VLPA
Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and their contemporaries.
Instructor Course Description: Dagni A. Bredesen Raimonda Modiano

ENGL 332 Romantic Poetry II (5) VLPA
Byron, Shelley, Keats, and their contemporaries.

ENGL 333 English Novel: Early and Middle Nineteenth Century (5) VLPA
Studies in the novel in one of its classic phases. Authors include Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray.

ENGL 334 English Novel: Later Nineteenth Century (5) VLPA
Studies in the novel as it passes from a classic format to formats more experimental. Authors include George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and others.
Instructor Course Description: Kellie D. Holzer Sharleen Mondal

ENGL 335 English Literature: The Age of Victoria (5) VLPA
Literature in an era of revolution that also sought continuity, when culture faced redefinition as mass culture and found in the process new demands and creative energies, new material and forms, and transformations of old ones. Readings range from works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Shaw, to Dickens, Eliot, Hardy.
Instructor Course Description: Joseph M Butwin

ENGL 336 English Literature: The Early Modern Period (5) VLPA
Experiments in fiction and poetry. Novels by Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, and others; poetry by Eliot and Yeats and others.
Instructor Course Description: Rebecca S. Rauve

ENGL 337 The Modern Novel (5) VLPA
The novel on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes such writers as Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Stein, Hemingway, Faulkner, and others.
Instructor Course Description: Jessica L. Burstein

ENGL 338 Modern Poetry (5) VLPA
Poetry in the modernist mode, including such poets as Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Auden, and Moore.
Instructor Course Description: Brian Reed Norman J. Wacker

ENGL 339 English Literature: Contemporary England (5) VLPA
Return to more traditional forms in such writers as Bowen, Orwell, Waugh, Cary, Lessing, Drabble.

ENGL 340 Modern Anglo-Irish Literature (5) VLPA
Principal writers in English of the modern Irish literary movement -- Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Gregory, and O'Casey among them -- with attention to traditions of Irish culture and history.

ENGL 342 Contemporary Novel (5) VLPA
Recent efforts to change the shape and direction of the novel by such writers as Murdoch, Barth, Hawkes, Fowles, and Atwood.
Instructor Course Description: Candace M. Barlow E. Laurie George

ENGL 343 Contemporary Poetry (5) VLPA
Recent developments by such poets as Hughes, Heaney, Rich, Kinnell, and Hugo.

ENGL 344 Twentieth-Century Dramatic Literature (5) VLPA
Modern and contemporary plays by such writers as Shaw, Synge, O'Casey, O'Neill, Yeats, Eliot, Beckett, Pinter, and Albee.

ENGL 345 Studies in Film (5) VLPA
Types, techniques, and issues explored by filmmakers. Emphasis on narrative, image, and point of view.
Instructor Course Description: Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges

ENGL 346 Studies in Short Fiction (5) VLPA
The American and English short story, with attention to the influence of writers of other cultures. Aspects of the short story that distinguish it, in style and purpose, from longer fiction.
Instructor Course Description: E. Laurie George

ENGL 347 The Art of Prose (5) VLPA
Techniques and varieties of prose -- autobiography, biography, personal essay, reflective and meditative writing, social and scientific inquiry, and persuasive writing. Special attention to use of poetic, fictional, and dramatic devices. Recommended: one introductory literature course.
Instructor Course Description: E. Laurie George

ENGL 348 Studies in Drama (5) VLPA
Investigation of one of the major types of drama: tragedy or comedy. Emphasis on drama prior to the twentieth century.

ENGL 349 Science Fiction and Fantasy (5) VLPA
The study of the development of and specific debates in the related genres of fantasy and science fiction literatures
Instructor Course Description: Lysa M Rivera

ENGL 350 Traditions in American Fiction (5) VLPA
A literary form in which America has found its distinctively American expression. Selected readings among important novelists from the beginnings until 1900, including Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Chopin, James, and Wharton.
Instructor Course Description: Michelle S. Liu

ENGL 351 American Literature: The Colonial Period (5) VLPA
Responses to the New World and literary strategies in the literature of the colonies and the early republic. Works by Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, and others.
Instructor Course Description: John W Griffith

ENGL 352 American Literature: The Early Nation (5) VLPA
Conflicting visions of the national destiny and the individual identity in the early years of America's nationhood. Works by Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and such other writers as Poe, Cooper, Irving, Whitman, Dickinson, and Douglass.
Instructor Course Description: John W Griffith

ENGL 353 American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century (5) VLPA
Literary responses to an America propelled forward by accelerating and complex forces. Works by Twain, James, and such other writers as Whitman, Dickinson, Adams, Wharton, Howells, Crane, Dreiser, DuBois, and Chopin.
Instructor Course Description: John W Griffith Mark R Patterson Robert Abrams

ENGL 354 American Literature: The Early Modern Period (5) VLPA
Literary responses to the disillusionment after World War I, experiments in form and in new ideas of a new period. Works by such writers as Anderson, Toomer, Cather, O'Neill, Frost, Pound, Eliot, Cummings, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Stein, Hart Crane, Stevens, and Porter.
Instructor Course Description: David W. Huntsperger John W Griffith

ENGL 355 American Literature: Contemporary America (5) VLPA
Works by such writers as Ellison, Williams, O'Connor, Lowell, Barth, Rich, and Hawkes.
Instructor Course Description: Candace M. Barlow Gary J Handwerk Jill E. Gatlin

ENGL 356 Classic American Poetry (5) VLPA
Poetry by Taylor, Whitman, Dickinson, and such others as Poe, Bradstreet, Crane, Robinson. The lineage and characteristics of lyric and epic in America.

ENGL 358 Literature of Black Americans (5) VLPA
Selected writings, novels, short stories, plays, poems by Afro-American writers. Study of the historical and cultural context within which they evolved. Differences between Afro-American writers and writers of the European-American tradition. Emphasis varies. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 358.

ENGL 359 Contemporary American Indian Literature (5) VLPA
Creative writings -- novels, short stories, poems -- of contemporary Indian authors; traditions out of which they evolved. Differences between Indian writers and writers of the dominant European/American mainstream. Offered: jointly with AIS 377.

ENGL 360 American Political Culture: To 1865 (5) I&S/VLPA
American literature in its political and cultural context from the Puritan origins to the Civil War. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to American literature, including history, politics, anthropology, and mass media.

ENGL 361 American Political Culture: After 1865 (5) I&S/VLPA
American literature in its political and cultural context from the Civil War to the present. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to American literature, including history, politics, anthropology, and mass media.
Instructor Course Description: Keith M Feldman Gabrielle Dean Jill E. Gatlin

ENGL 363 Literature and the Other Arts and Disciplines (5, max. 10) VLPA
Relationships between literature and other arts, such as painting, photography, architecture, and music, or between literature and other disciplines, such as science. Content varies.
Instructor Course Description: Candace M. Barlow Gillian H Harkins

ENGL 364 Literature and Medicine (5) I&S/VLPA
How changing concepts of doctor-patient relationship and of body depicted in literary texts affect decisions throughout the human life cycle. Medicine and disease as metaphors for personal experience and social analysis.

ENGL 367 Gender Studies in Literature (5, max. 15) VLPA
The study of contemporary approaches to analyzing the gender politics of literature and culture. Examines special topics in the history and development of the major theoretical trends, including the relationship of certain theories of gender to relevant works of literature.
Instructor Course Description: Andrea Opitz

ENGL 368 Women Writers (5, max. 15) VLPA
Study of the work of women writers in English and American literature.

ENGL 370 English Language Study (5) VLPA
Wide-range introduction to the study of written and spoken English. The nature of language; ways of describing language; the use of language study as an approach to English literature and the teaching of English.
Instructor Course Description: Colette V Moore George L. Dillon Gail Stygall

ENGL 371 English Syntax (5) VLPA
Description of sentence, phrase, and word structures in present-day English. Prerequisite: ENGL 370, LING 200 or LING 400.
Instructor Course Description: George L. Dillon

ENGL 372 Language Variation in Current English (5) VLPA
Examination of geographical, social, and occupational varieties of American English. Relationship between societal attitudes and language use.

ENGL 373 History of the English Language (5) VLPA
Evolution of English sounds, forms, structures, and word meanings from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Prerequisite: either ENGL 370 or LING 200.

ENGL 374 The Language of Literature (5) VLPA
Roles of explicitly describable language features in the understanding and appreciation of various verbal forms. Emphasis on literature, but attention also may be given to nonliterary prose and oral forms.
Instructor Course Description: Colette V Moore

ENGL 381 Advanced Expository Writing (5) VLPA
Concentration on the development of prose style for experienced writers.
Instructor Course Description: Michelle S. Liu Rebecca S. Rauve

ENGL 382 Writing for the Web (5) C
Writing substantial Web essays on topics of current concern, Extensive analysis and criticism of on-line essays. Prerequisite: ENGL 282.
Instructor Course Description: George L. Dillon

ENGL 383 The Craft of Verse (5) VLPA
Intensive study of various aspects of the craft verse. Readings in contemporary verse and writing using emulation and imitation. Prerequisite: ENGL 283; ENGL 284.
Instructor Course Description: Arnold K Seong Brian R Christian Pimone E Triplett

ENGL 384 The Craft of Prose (5) VLPA
Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. Readings in contemporary prose and writing using emulation and imitation. Prerequisite: ENGL 283; ENGL 284.
Instructor Course Description: David Shields Lowell A Brower

ENGL 407 Special Topics in Cultural Studies (5) VLPA
Advanced work in cultural studies.
Instructor Course Description: Michelle S. Liu

ENGL 411 Introduction to the Folktale Among Literate Peoples (3) VLPA
Techniques of classification, geographic-historical distribution, theories of origin and interpretations, and related areas of investigation of the oral prose folk narrative of literate peoples.

ENGL 422 Arthurian Legends (5) VLPA
Medieval romance in its cultural and historical setting, with concentration on the evolution of Arthurian romance.

ENGL 430 British Writers: Studies in Major Authors (5, max. 15) VLPA
Concentration on one writer or a special group of British writers.

ENGL 431 Topics in British Literature (5, max. 15) VLPA
Themes and topics of special meaning to British literature.

ENGL 440 Special Studies in Literature (3/5, max. 10) VLPA
Themes and topics offering special approaches to literature.
Instructor Course Description: E. Laurie George Rebecca S. Rauve

ENGL 442 The Novel: Special Studies (5, max. 10) VLPA
Readings may be English or American and drawn from different periods, or they may concentrate on different types -- gothic, experimental, novel of consciousness, realistic novel. Special attention to the novel as a distinct literary form. Specific topic varies from quarter to quarter.
Instructor Course Description: Juliet D Shields

ENGL 443 Poetry: Special Studies (5, max. 10) VLPA
A poetic tradition or group of poems connected by subject matter or poetic technique. Specific topics vary, but might include poetry as a geography of mind, the development of the love lyric, the comic poem.
Instructor Course Description: Andrew E Feld

ENGL 444 Dramatic Literature: Special Studies (5, max. 10) VLPA
Study of a particular dramatic tradition (such as expressionism or the absurd theatre) or character (the clown) or technique (play-within-a-play, the neoclassical three unities). Topics vary.

ENGL 451 American Writers: Studies in Major Authors (5, max. 15) VLPA
Concentration on one writer or a special group of American writers.
Instructor Course Description: Keith M Feldman

ENGL 452 Topics in American Literature (5, max. 15) VLPA
Exploration of a theme or special topic in American literary expression.
Instructor Course Description: Jill E. Gatlin

ENGL 453 Introduction to American Folklore (5) VLPA
Study of different kinds of folklore inherited from America's past and to be found in America today.
Instructor Course Description: Mona Lisa Saloy

ENGL 457 Pacific Northwest Literature (5) VLPA
Concentrates in alternate years on either prose or poetry of the Pacific Northwest. Prose works examine early exploration, conflicts of native and settlement cultures, various social and economic conflicts. Pacific Northwest poetry includes consideration of its sources, formative influences, and emergence into national prominence.
Instructor Course Description: Dian L. Million

ENGL 466 Gay and Lesbian Studies (5) I&S/VLPA
Examination of ways gays and lesbians are represented in literature, film, performance, and popular culture and how these representations are interpreted in mainstream, gay/lesbian, and academic writing.
Instructor Course Description: Katherine Cummings

ENGL 470 Literature, Literary Study, and Society (5) I&S/VLPA
Relationship of literature to society with particular emphasis on literary education. What social values determine the educational importance of literature, what segments of society are trained to read and to write literature, and how literature is institutionalized as part of pedagogical methodology. Emphasis varies.

ENGL 471 The Composition Process (5) VLPA
Consideration of psychological and formal elements basic to writing and related forms of nonverbal expression and the critical principles that apply to evaluation.
Instructor Course Description: George L. Dillon

ENGL 472 Language Learning (5) VLPA
Consideration of how an individual achieves psychological and esthetic grasp of reality through language; relates language development to reading skills, literary interpretation, grammar acquisition, oral fluency, discursive and imaginative writing.

ENGL 473 Current Developments in English Studies: Conference (5) VLPA

ENGL 474 Special Topics in English for Teachers (1-10, max. 10) VLPA

Instructor Course Description: Louisa J. Peck

ENGL 475 Colloquium in English for Teachers (1-5, max. 10) VLPA

ENGL 476 Puget Sound Writing Program Institute (10) VLPA
Focus on the writing process and the teaching of writing, accomplished through research, writing, reflection, and demonstration of writing instruction. Affiliated with the National Writing Project.

ENGL 477 Children's Literature (5) VLPA
An examination of books that form a part of the imaginative experience of children, as well as a part of a larger literary heritage, viewed in the light of their social, psychological, political, and moral implications.
Instructor Course Description: John W Griffith

ENGL 478 Language and Social Policy (5) I&S/VLPA
Examines the relationship between language policy and social organization; the impact of language policy on immigration, education, and access to resources and political institutions; language policy and revolutionary change; language rights.

ENGL 479 Language Variation and Language Policy in North America (5) I&S/VLPA
Surveys basic issues of language variation: phonological, syntactic, semantic, and narrative/discourse differences among speech communities of North American English; examines how language policy can affect access to education, the labor force, and political institutions.

ENGL 481 Special Studies in Expository Writing (5) VLPA
Individual projects in various types of nonfictional prose, such as biographical sketches, informational reports, literary reviews, and essays.

ENGL 483 Advanced Verse Workshop (5, max. 15) VLPA
Intensive verse workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 383; ENGL 384.
Instructor Course Description: Pimone E Triplett

ENGL 484 Advanced Prose Workshop (5, max. 10) VLPA
Intensive prose workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student fiction and/or creative nonfiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 383; ENGL 384.
Instructor Course Description: David L Bosworth

ENGL 485 Novel Writing (5, max. 15) VLPA
Experience in planning, writing, and revising a work of long fiction, whether from the outset, in progress, or in already completed draft. Prerequisite: ENGL 384.

ENGL 486 Playwriting (5, max. 10) VLPA
Experience in planning, writing, and revising a play, whether from the outset, in progress, or in already completed draft.

ENGL 487 Screenwriting (5) VLPA
Students read screenwriting manuals and screenplays, analyze exemplary films, and write synopses, treatments, and first acts of their own screenplays.

ENGL 490 Study Abroad Program (5, max. 15) VLPA
This course, for students in the Study Abroad program, relates major works of literature to the landscape and activities of their settings.

ENGL 491 Internship (1-6, max. 12)
Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open only to upper-division English majors. Credit/no credit only.

ENGL 492 Advanced Expository Writing Conference (1-5, max. 10)
Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.

ENGL 493 Advanced Creative Writing Conference (1-5, max. 10)
Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.

ENGL 494 Honors Seminar (5, max. 10) VLPA
Survey of current issues confronting literary critics today, based on revolving themes and topics. Focuses on debates and developments affecting English language and literatures, including questions about: the relationship of culture and history; the effect of emergent technologies on literary study; the rise of interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities.
Instructor Course Description: Herbert Blau Charles P Laporte Ronald Thomas Foster

ENGL 495 Major Conference for Honors in Creative Writing (5)
Special projects available to honors students in creative writing. Required of, and limited to, honors students in creative writing.

ENGL 496 Major Conference for Honors (5)
Individual study (reading, papers) by arrangement with the instructor. Required of, and limited to, honors seniors in English.

ENGL 497 Honors Senior Seminar (5) VLPA
Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to honors students majoring in English.

ENGL 498 Senior Seminar (5) VLPA
Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to seniors majoring in English.
Instructor Course Description: Carolyn Allen Candace M. Barlow David W. Huntsperger Herbert Blau Jill E. Gatlin Kim Johnson-Bogart Laura H Chrisman Miceal F Vaughan Rebecca S. Rauve Steven M. Tobias William R Streitberger

ENGL 499 Independent Study (1-5, max. 10)
Individual study by arrangement with instructor.

ENGL 500 Reading Medieval Literature (5)
Special problems involved in the study and interpretation of medieval texts, selected examples drawn from the beginnings of English literature to 1500.

ENGL 501 The Renaissance and Literary Tradition (5)
Examination of selected texts from 1500 to 1660, concentrating on specific problems of interpretation and scholarship characteristic of the study of works written during the Renaissance.

ENGL 502 English Literary Culture: 1660-1800 (5)
Examination of selected texts of the Restoration and eighteenth century, concentrating on specific problems of interpretation and scholarship characteristic of the study of works written during the period.

ENGL 503 English Literary Culture: 1800-1900 (5)
Examination of selected texts from the nineteenth century, concentrating on specific problems of interpretation and scholarship characteristic of the study of works written during the period.

ENGL 504 Backgrounds of Modern Literature (5)
Examination of selected texts from the twentieth century, concentrating on specific problems of interpretation and scholarship characteristic of the study of works written during the period.

ENGL 505 Theories of American Literature (5)
Examination of selected texts in American Literature, concentrating on the specific problems of interpretation and scholarship characteristic of the study of works in this field.

ENGL 506 Modern and Contemporary Critical Theory (5)
Engages ongoing critical conversations that inform English studies, including: language, textual production, disciplinarity, the university, capital, nation formation, postcolonialism, the environment, race, gender, class, and sexuality. The historical focus is contemporary, with attention to foundational modern theorists.

ENGL 507 History of Literary Criticism and Theory I (5, max. 15)
A general introduction to the major issues in the history of criticism followed by the study of the classical theorists, including Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, and the major medieval critics. Offered: jointly with C LIT 507.

ENGL 508 History of Literary Criticism and Theory II (5, max. 15)
Literary criticism and theory from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance through the eighteenth century to, but not including, Kant. Offered: jointly with C LIT 508.
Instructor Course Description: Louisa Mackenzie Nicholas Halmi

ENGL 509 History of Literary Criticism and Theory III (5, max. 15)
Literary criticism and theory from Kant's Critique of Judgment to the mid-twentieth century and the work of Northrop Frye. Offered: jointly with C LIT 509.

ENGL 510 History of Literary Criticism and Theory IV (5, max. 15)
A study of the major issues in literary criticism and theory since about 1965. Offered: jointly with C LIT 510.

ENGL 512 Introductory Reading in Old English (5)

ENGL 513 Old English Language and Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 514 Middle English (5, max. 15)

ENGL 515 Chaucer (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: John C Coldewey

ENGL 516 Topics in Medieval English Literature (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: John C Coldewey Miceal F Vaughan

ENGL 517 Sixteenth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 518 Shakespeare (5, max. 15)

ENGL 520 Seventeenth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 521 Milton (5, max. 15)

ENGL 522 Topics in the English Renaissance, 1485-1660 (5, max. 15)

ENGL 524 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 525 Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies (5, max. 15)

ENGL 527 Romanticism (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: J David Mc Cracken Gary J Handwerk Nicholas Halmi

ENGL 528 Victorian Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 529 Topics in Nineteenth-Century Studies (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: Marshall J Brown

ENGL 531 Early American Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 532 Nineteenth-Century American Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 533 Modern American Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 535 American Culture and Criticism (5, max. 15)

ENGL 537 Topics in American Studies (5, max. 15)

ENGL 540 Modern Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 541 Contemporary Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 543 Anglo-Irish Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 544 World Literature in English (5, max. 15)

ENGL 546 Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 550 Studies in Narrative (5, max. 15)

ENGL 551 Studies in Poetry (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: Herbert Blau

ENGL 552 Studies in Drama (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: Herbert Blau

ENGL 554 Theories of Structure, Genre, Form, and Function (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: Nicholas Halmi

ENGL 555 Feminist Theories (5, max. 15)

ENGL 556 Cultural Studies (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: Laura H Chrisman

ENGL 559 Literature and Other Disciplines (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: Herbert Blau Marek K. Wieczorek

ENGL 560 The Nature of Language: History and Theory (5)

Instructor Course Description: George L. Dillon Gail Stygall

ENGL 561 Stylistics (5)

ENGL 562 Discourse Analysis (5)

Instructor Course Description: Sandra V Silberstein

ENGL 563 Comparative Grammars (5)

ENGL 564 Current Rhetorical Theory (5)
Prerequisite: teaching experience.
Instructor Course Description: Candice S Rai George L. Dillon

ENGL 567 Approaches to Teaching Composition (1-5, max. 10)
Readings in composition theory and discussion of practical classroom applications. Prerequisite: previous experience or concurrent assignment in teaching writing.

ENGL 569 Topics in Language and Rhetoric (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: Colette V Moore

ENGL 570 Practicum in Teaching English as a Second Language (3, max. 6)
Discussion and practice of second-language teaching techniques. Three hours per week teaching required in addition to regular class meetings. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: ENGL 571 or permission of instructor.
Instructor Course Description: James W Tollefson

ENGL 571 Theory and Practice on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (5)
Topics include second language reading, aural/oral skills, critical pedagogy, program administration, and language policy.

ENGL 572 Methods and Materials for Teaching English as a Second Language (5)
Prerequisite: LING 445 or permission of instructor.

ENGL 574 Research Methods in Second-Language Acquisition (5)
Prerequisite: ENGL 572, LING 449, or permission of instructor.

ENGL 575 Pedagogy and Grammar in Teaching English as a Second Language (5)

ENGL 576 Testing and Evaluation in English as a Second Language (5)
Evaluation and testing of English language proficiency, including testing theory, types of tests, and teacher-prepared classroom tests. Prerequisite: ENGL 571 and ENGL 572 or permission of instructor.
Instructor Course Description: Manka M. Varghese Priscilla M Allen

ENGL 578 Colloquium in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (5, max. 10)
Overview of major issues in second-language acquisition, teaching methodology, and classroom practice with special emphasis on links between theories of language learning and practical aspects of teaching English to speakers of other languages.
Instructor Course Description: James W Tollefson

ENGL 581 The Creative Writer as Critical Reader (5)

Instructor Course Description: Andrew E Feld Pimone E Triplett Richard L Kenney

ENGL 584 Advanced Fiction Workshop (5, max. 20)
Prerequisite: graduate standing.

ENGL 585 Advanced Poetry Workshop (5, max. 20)
Prerequisite: graduate standing.

ENGL 586 Graduate Writing Conference (5)

ENGL 587 Topics in the Teaching of Creative Writing (3/5) VLPA

ENGL 590 Master of Arts Essay (5/10, max. 10)
Research and writing project under the close supervision of a faculty member expert and with the consultation of a second faculty reader. The field of study is chosen by the student. Work is independent and varies. The model is an article in a scholarly journal. Prerequisite: graduate standing in English.

ENGL 591 Master of Arts for Teachers Essay (5)
Research and writing project under the close supervision of a faculty member expert in the field of study chosen by the student within the MAT degree orientation toward the teaching of English, and with the consultation of a second faculty reader. The model is an article in a scholarly journal.

ENGL 592 Graduate English Studies (1-5, max. 10)

ENGL 593 Textual Criticism (5)
Introduction to paleography, codicology, analytical and descriptive bibliography; examination of the major contributions to textual theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; practice in applying textual theory in editing literary works.
Instructor Course Description: Brian Reed Thomas Frank Lockwood

ENGL 595 Topics in Teaching Literature (5, max. 15)

ENGL 597 Directed Readings (*, max. 18)
Intensive reading in literature or criticism, directed by members of doctoral supervisory committee. Credit/no credit only.

ENGL 598 Colloquium in English (1-5, max. 10)
Lectures and seminars presented by visiting scholars or a range of local scholars relevant to English graduate studies.

ENGL 599 Special Studies in English (5, max. 15)

Instructor Course Description: Herbert Blau

ENGL 600 Independent Study or Research (*)

ENGL 601 Internship (3-10, max. 10)
Credit/no credit only.

ENGL 700 Master's Thesis (*)

ENGL 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*)

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