Undergraduate Courses
Academic Year 2007-2008, Semester I

Prerequisites: Two lower-level (100-200) courses in literature or junior or senior standing.

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Creative Writing

CAS EN 202 Introduction to Creative Writing

Limited enrollment. An introduction to writing in various genres: poetry, fiction, plays. Students’ work discussed in class. Designed mainly for those with little or no experience in creative writing. Does not give concentration credit. 4 cr,

CAS EN 304 Writing of Poetry

Prereq: consent of instructor, to whom five to ten poems must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. The writing of poems discussed in a workshop setting. For the more advanced student. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment. Dietz. 4 cr.

CAS EN 306 Writing of Plays

Prereq: consent of instructor, to whom a short play or a scene from a play must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. The writing of plays discussed in a workshop setting. For the more advanced student. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment. Goldstein. 4 cr.

CAS EN 405 Advanced Writing of Fiction

Prereq: consent of instructor, to whom two or three short stories must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. The writing of short stories and perhaps longer fiction. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment. TBA. 4 cr.

CAS EN 510 Exercises in Dramaturgy

Prereq: consent of instructor, to whom a short play or scene from a play must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. A seminar in the writing of original plays, emphasizing a dramaturgical approach to structure, language, and theme. Exercises in imitation of the masters of modern drama to be assigned, beginning with Ibsen (fall semester) and ending with Mamet. Schotter. 4 cr.

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Language and Linguistics

CAS EN 513 A1 Modern English Grammar

A systematic analysis of English, applied to the reading of literature and the writing of essays.

Pearce Tue, Thu 3:30-5

CAS EN 515 History of the English Language I

How do the experiences of young adults contribute to development of the English language? Examination of how, from early American English to current times, they learned and changed their native tongue at home, in schools, and neighborhoods.

Green Tue, Thu 8-9:30 

CAS EN 518 A1, B1 Linguistic Problems in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language

Application of linguistic concepts to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Includes description of contemporary English grammatical structures that pose problems for learners and teachers. Prereq: consent of instructor.

Saitz A1 Tue 4-7 Meets with EN 518 B1

Saitz B1 Tue 4-7 SED Students Only/Meets w/ EN 518 A1

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Literature

CAS EN 326 A1 Voices of Women

Performing Women: Drama, Dance, Film, and Feminism. History of women as performers and representations of women on stages from antiquity to the present. Also offered as CAS WS 305 B1.

Preston Tue, Thu 11-12:30

CAS EN 355 A1 Modern Drama I

Modern drama and theatre history from roughly 1870 to 1920. Plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov, Wilde, Shaw, Synge, and others. The birth of modern techniques of acting, stage design, lighting, and directing.

Smith Tue, Thu 12:30-2

CAS EN 363 A1, B1 Shakespeare I

Six or seven plays chosen from the following: Richard II, Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Winter's Tale. Some attention to the sonnets.

WebReg Restricted A1 Murphy Tue, Thu 11-12:30

WebReg Restricted B1 Siemon Tue, Thu 2-3:30  

CAS EN 371 A1 African American and Asian American Women Writers

Cross-cultural comparison of African American and Asian American women writers. Explores and evaluates the cultural impact of their work, and looks at how these two groups bound together by "otherness" pursue the theme of conflicting cultures. Also offered as CAS AA 504.

Boelcskevy Tue 9:30-12:30

 CAS EN 373 A1 Detective Fiction

The origins and development of the detective and crime genres in England and America.

Rzepka Mon, Wed, Fri 1-2

 CAS EN 377 A1 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

A study of the major writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Explores how they proclaimed a renewal of racial consciousness and cultural pride, and how they challenged racial and cultural barriers in American society. Also offered as CAS AA 507.

Boelcskevy Thu 11-2

 CAS EN 404 A1 Literary Criticism I

Survey of works forming a tradition in literary criticism and theory, from the classical period to the late nineteenth century, emphasizing such themes as the defense of literature and criticism; representation; interpretation; taste; aesthetics; and uses of the vernacular.

Patterson Mon, Wed, Fri 10-11

 CAS EN 465 A1 Critical Studies in Literature and Society: Money and Marriage

Marriage as literary plot, legal contract, market commodity, gendered constraint in the American novel 1796-1913. Readings in law, economics, history, criticism. Authors include Veblen, Gilman, Foster, Southworth, Howells, Norris, Wharton, James.

Korobkin Mon, Wed, Fri 11-12

 CAS EN 466 A1 Critical Studies in Literature and Society: Census and Anti-Census

The love-hate relationship between literature and demography in fiction, poetry, history, and visual art. Works by Defoe, Swift, Hume, Bruegel, Gogol, Frost, Atwood, Olson, Ariès, Foucault, others. “Unofficial” witty counts studied alongside official population history.

Fogel Tue, Thu 12:30-2

 CAS EN 496 A1 Critical Studies in Literary Topics: Models of Mind in Theory and Literature

Examination of literary and scientific efforts to model human cognition and understanding. Philosophical readings on language, interpretation, and cognitive science are read alongside works by Woolf, Beckett, Ashbery, Powers, and others.

Chodat Tue, Thu 3:30-5:00

CAS EN 521 A1 Literature of the Middle Ages I

Heroic poetry in England , Iceland , France , and Germany ; the rise of romance; lyric poetry.

Levine Tue, Thu 2-3:30

CAS EN 528 A1 Literature of the Eighteenth Century II

The Age of Johnson. The great critic and lexicographer Samuel Johnson dominated late eighteenth-century London intellectual life. Explores Johnson’s multi-faceted achievements and those of his principal colleagues – Boswell, Goldsmith, Reynolds, and Burney.

Redford Tue, Thu 9:30-11

 CAS EN 529 A1 The Romantic Age I

Studies in British literature from 1789 to 1832. Romanticism considered in light of social, aesthetic, historical, and philosophical issues. Authors will include Blake, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Godwin.

Wagenknecht Tue, Thu 9:30-11

 CAS EN 531 A1 Victorian Literature I

1830-50: Carlyle, Mill, Tennyson, Browning, Ruskin, Newman, Charlotte Brontë and others

VanWinkle Tue, Thu 12:30-2

 CAS EN 533 A1 American Literature: Beginnings to 1855

American literature from the beginning to the brink of the Civil War. Puritan origins, print
culture, American poetic taste, entertainment, and the debate over slavery. Works by
Bradstreet, Jefferson, Franklin, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Stowe, Jacobs, and Melville.

WebReg Restricted Otten Mon, Wed, Fri 12-1

CAS EN 535 A1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry

Exploration of major poets of the long twentieth century from Thomas Hardy and W.B Yeats through the War Poets, Lawrence, Eliot, and Auden to Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland.

Riquelme Tue, Thu 2-3:30

 CAS EN 543 A1 The Nineteenth-Century British Novel

The development of the novel form in its social-historical context. Authors may include Austen, Thackeray, the Brontës, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, and others.

Fogel Tue, Thu 9:30-11

CAS EN 545 A1 The Nineteenth-Century American Novel

From beginnings through the nineteenth century. Works by Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Howells, and others.

WebReg Restricted Korobkin Mon, Wed, Fri 2-3

CAS EN 546 A1, B1 The Modern American Novel

From 1900 to 1950. Works by Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others.

Mizruchi A1 Mon, Wed, Fri 10-11

Matthews B1 Mon 3-5, Wed 3-4

 CAS EN 547 A1 Contemporary American Fiction

Examination of a range of American fiction (stories, novellas, novels) written since WW II. Authors include Bellow, Roth, Ozick, Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison. Topics include modern disenchantment, faith and science, “world-making,” and the fate of character. Chodat Tue, Thu 11-12:30

CAS EN 565 A1 Spenser

An extended study of The Faerie Queene, exploring Spenser's deep admiration for, and profound criticism of, Elizabeth's political and cultural regime.

Martin Tue, Thu 9:30-11

CAS EN 579 A1 Studies in American Writers: American Renaissance Poetry

Poetry by Whitman, Dickinson, Emerson, Poe, Melville, and others from 1820 to 1875.

WebReg Restricted Van Anglen Mon, Wed, Fri 3-4

 CAS EN 584 A1 Studies in Literature and Ethnicity: Literature of the Migrant

Primary focus on the experiences of immigration and exile, with reading also of fiction on other kinds of human migrations. Works by Willa Cather, O.E. Rölvaag, Nabokov, V.S. Naipaul, Shusaku Endo, and contemporary authors.

Ha Jin Wed 12-3

 CAS EN 587 A1 Literacy and African American Literature

Focuses on classical theme of literacy in African American literature, with an emphasis on stories of black physical and intellectual freedom, socio-cultural awareness, and political empowerment. Authors include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Audre Lorde.

Jarrett Tue, Thu, 2-3:30

 

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