Course Information

All English Courses and Descriptions

Summer 2008

General Prerequisites for Courses Numbered 200 and 300:
Unless otherwise indicated, the prerequisite for 200- and 300-level courses is English 110 or 111 or equivalent.

General Prerequisites for Courses Numbered 400 or above:
Unless otherwise indicated, the prerequisites for 400-, 500- and 600-level courses are 10 credit hours of English courses at the 200 or 300 level or permission of instructor. A 367 offered by any department is acceptable towards the 10 hours.

500-level courses may provide graduate credit only in departments other than English.

Ordinarily all 500- and 600-level courses are offered at least once a year, but quarters of offering vary. Check the English listing in the quarterly Master Schedule of Classes Bulletin.

600-level courses may provide graduate credit in all depts.

110.01 First-Year English Composition

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Practice in the fundamentals of expository writing, as illustrated in the student's own writing and in the essays of professional writers. (GEC)

110.02 First-Year English Composition

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Practice in the fundamentals of expository writing, as illustrated in the student's own writing and in the essays of professional writers. Taught with emphasis on literature. (GEC)

201N Selected Works of British Literatures: Medieval through 1800

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This is an introductory survey of early English literature up to the eighteenth century. more in course description.....

202 Selected Works of British Literature: 1800 to the Present

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This is an introductory survey of early English literature up to the eighteenth century. more in course description.....

202 Selected Works of British Literature: 1800 to the Present

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This is an introductory survey of English Literature from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. more in course description.....

202N Selected Works of British Literature: 1800 to the Present

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This is an introductory survey of English Literature from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. more in course description.....

220 Introduction to Shakespeare

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This course is designed to introduce students to Shakespeare through several of his major plays, including those in the genres of Comedy, Tragedy, Romance, and History. more in course description.....

260 Introduction to Poetry

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This introductory survey of the products and processes of English poetry will include reading and responding to a variety of poetry written during different points in history and by a wide array of poets. more in course description.....

261 Introduction to Fiction

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This course will examine the elements of fiction—plot, character, setting, point of view, theme, symbol, etc.—in an effort to determine the part each element plays in creating the overall effect of the short story or novel. more in course description.....

261 Introduction to Fiction

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This course will examine the elements of fiction—plot, character, setting, point of view, theme, symbol, etc.—in an effort to determine the part each element plays in creating the overall effect of the short story or novel. more in course description.....

263 Introduction to Film

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This course will provide an introduction to the various elements of film-studies, such cinematography, narrative strategies specific to movie-making, and methods of cultural and ideological critique, which will open up and intensify the ways in which we watch and hear what’s on screen. Through discussions of films viewed in class we will develop a critical vocabulary that will help us to examine a wide-range of genres, from realism to surrealism, and discover how each one represents ideas and social tensions on screen. Course Requirements: weekly in-class viewings, short response papers, short readings, a midterm and a final, as well as participation in class discussions. Required Texts: Richard Barsam, Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film, 2nd ed. (GEC)

263 Introduction to Film

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Films will be read and viewed, with discussion on each aspect of filmmaking and the finished product itself. (GEC)

263N Introduction to Film

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Like to watch movies? Like to argue about movies? English 263 will introduce you to the grammar of cinema (focusing specifically on its formal, technical, and narrative strategies) in order to use this vocabulary to think and write critically about what you see on the screen. Each week we will screen a film in class and then devote the following session to discussion. You will also screen films on your own outside of class and write short responses to them. Course requirements: weekly in-class viewings, short response papers, short readings, a mid-term and a final exam. Required text: Richard Barsam, Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film. more in course description.....

264 Introduction to Reading Popular Culture

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This course will introduce students to the analysis of popular culture texts, with special emphasis on the relationship between popular culture studies and literary studies. (GEC)

264N Introduction to Reading Popular Culture

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In this course we will determine where and how popular culture emerges, historically speaking. more in course description.....

265 Writing of Fiction I

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Practice in the writing of fiction; analysis and discussion of student work, with some attention to general methods of fiction and the publishing situation.

266 Writing of Poetry I

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Practice in the writing of poetry; emphasis on the student’s own work with reference to established poetic patterns and established poets.

268 Writing of Creative Nonfiction I

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Practice in the writing of creative nonfiction; analysis and discussion of student work with reference to the general methods and scope of the genre.

269 Digital Media Composing

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Digital Rhetoric: Theory, criticism, and production of digital media texts. Does not require prior experience with digital media. Learn to compose and design digitally with the use of words, sounds, visuals, space, and time. Related software: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, iMovie. (GEC)

280 The English Bible

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This course offers a literary and historical approach to the Bible in English. more in course description.....

281 Introduction to African American Literature

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This is a survey course focusing on representative works in the African American literary tradition from 1760 to the present. more in course description.....

290 Colonial and U.S. Literature to 1865

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An introduction to colonial and U.S. more in course description.....

291 U.S. Literature: 1865 to Present

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Students will read a variety of texts that reflect trends in American literature written from the end of the Civil War to the present. more in course description.....

304 Business and Professional Writing

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The study of principles and the practice of techniques associated with business and professional writing; emphasis on the style, organization, and conventions appropriate to business communications and reports.

304 Business and Professional Writing

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The study of principles and the practice of techniques associated with business and professional writing; emphasis on the style, organization, and conventions appropriate to business communications and reports.

304 Business and Professional Writing

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The study of principles and the practice of techniques associated with business and professional writing; emphasis on the style, organization, and conventions appropriate to business communications and reports.

304 Business and Professional Writing

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The study of principles and the practice of techniques associated with business and professional writing; emphasis on the style, organization, and conventions appropriate to business communications and reports.

304 Business and Professional Writing

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The study of principles and the practice of techniques associated with business and professional writing; emphasis on the style, organization, and conventions appropriate to business communications and reports.

304 Business and Professional Writing

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The study of principles and the practice of techniques associated with business and professional writing; emphasis on the style, organization, and conventions appropriate to business communications and reports.

305 Technical Writing

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English 305 is intended for students in the sciences and engineering who are preparing for technology focused careers and for humanities majors interested in careers as professional or technical writers. more in course description.....

367.01 Intermediate Essay Writing: The American Experience

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An intermediate course that extends and refines expository writing and analytic reading skills, with an emphasis on style and an introduction to documentation, with major topics pertaining to the United States. (GEC)

367.02 Intermediate Essay Writing: The U.S. Experience as Reflected in Literature

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An intermediate course that extends and refines expository writing and analytic reading skills, with an emphasis on style and an introduction to documentation; discussion, analysis and writing about issues presented through the diverse voices of U.S. more in course description.....

398 Critical Writing

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English 398 provides students insights into the analysis of poetry, fiction, and drama, as well as issues in literary studies. It involves intensive practice in writing critical essays in preparation for upper-division course work in English.

531 Restoration and Early 18th Century Literature

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This course will survey the literature of the last four decades of the 17th century and the first four decades of the 18th century. more in course description.....

540 Poetry and Poetics of the British Romantic Period

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We will study the works of the six great canonical Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats in relation to the concerns of their age, particularly the French Revolution, its aftermath of English political repression, and the pamphlet wars that created not only new forms of public opinion, but an entirely new kind of reading audience. Requirements: regular class attendance, active class participation, brief oral presentation consisting of the recitation of at least fourteen lines of poetry from memory and a discussion of what you have learned from memorizing and reciting the poem, one brief essay (3-5 pages), a midterm and a final.

543 20th Century British Fiction

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English 543 will be a survey of Twentieth-Century British Fiction. We will read classic modernist texts, such as Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” Joyce’s “The Dead,” and Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse.” Works of contemporary fiction that we will consider include Ishiguro’s “Remains of the Day” and “Things Fall Apart” by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Certainly, other authors will be addressed, among then perhaps Nick Hornby, Zadie Smith, and Ian McEwan. There will be two (4-5 page) papers and two exams (a midterm and a final).

561 Special Topics in Fictional and Nonfictional Narrative: The 60’s

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This class will be dedicated to looking at that strangely brilliant and brilliantly obtuse decade, the 1960’s. Our main textbook will be “Takin’ It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader.” We will read both primary and secondary literature of the time and also consider music and film. Topics will include the Civil Rights movement, the Student Movement, the Women’s Movement, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture. We will consider the 2008 election process in light of the one forty years ago. more in course description.....

572 Traditional Grammar and Usage

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The principal aim of this course is to look closely at the key sentence structures of standard American English. more in course description.....

578 Special Topics in Film: Los Angeles in the 1980’s

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TheValley, Beverly Hills, South Central, Downtown, Venice Beach, the Sunset Strip ….. more in course description.....

592 Special Topics in Women in Literature

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“Mothers are all slightly insane,” says Holden Caulfield. more in course description.....

737 Introduction to Graduate Study in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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In recent decades, the eighteenth-century novel has been overwhelmingly discussed in terms of its ideological effects: the ways in which it supposedly produces (or attempts to produce) deep subjectivity or compliant behavior or imperial aggression. more in course description.....