English & American Literature
Undergraduate Courses

Composition

Note 1: All students enrolling in MET EN 101 are required to take a placement examination. The Department of English reserves the right to assign students to sections based on the results of this examination.
Note 2: MET EN 101 and EN 102 fulfill the same composition requirements as EN 103 and 104.
Note 3: For full-time and additional part-time courses in English for international students, contact the Boston University Center for English Language & Orientation Programs (CELOP), 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215; 617-353-4870.

Courses offered in the upcoming semester are specified in the list below.

• MET EN 104 English Composition

  Required for all undergraduate degrees. Reinforces basic skills in communication necessary for college work. Instruction and practice in fundamentals of critical writing, reading, and thinking. Lectures combined with seminars on vital current social, political, psychological, and philosophical issues. Students choose their seminars. Frequent papers; individual conferences.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times
  A1	IND	Adair	CAS 116	M	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  A2	IND	Giraldi	CAS B18B	M	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

• MET EN 201 Intermediate Composition

  Does not give concentration credit. Practice in writing narration, exposition, argument and persuasion, the critical essay, and the research paper. Related readings. Class discussion of papers. Individual conferences. Students enroll in specific seminars. Limited enrollment.   [ 4 cr.]

  Prereq: MET EN 104; or equivalent, or exemption.

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times
  C1	IND	Adair	CAS 116	W	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  C2	IND	Jackson	CAS 428	W	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  C3	IND	Bennett	CAS 318	W	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

• MET EN 202 Introduction to Creative Writing

  Designed mainly for those with little or no experience in creative writing. An introduction to writing in various genres: poetry, fiction, and plays. Students' works discussed in class. Limited enrollment.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times
  B1	IND	Foster	STH 319	T	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  C1	IND	Maio	CAS 320	W	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

• MET EN 305 Advanced Writing of Fiction

  Competitive admission, limited enrollment. Note: Obtain syllabus at Creative Writing Program Office (236 Bay State Rd.) before end of fall semester. Intensive study of American writers and of writing by participants. Students write and present at least one story or chapter and read writings of others.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET MG 310 Business Communication

  Organization and techniques for effective verbal and written communication in the business environment. Emphasis on developing communication skills through practical written and oral assignments.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

Literature

Note: Prerequisite for all 500-level courses is at least 8 credits from the following:
MET EN 121-199 or EN 220-223.

• MET EN 125 Readings in Modern Literature

  Representative fiction, poetry, and drama from modern Continental, British, and American writers. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times
  A1	IND	Villano	CAS 312	M	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

• MET EN 127 Readings in American Literature

  Selected American writers from the Colonial period to the present. Prose and poetry representative of the American tradition. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 141 Literary Types: Fiction

  Representative English and American novels from the eighteenth century to the present. Required papers. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 142 Literary Types: Poetry

  Critical reading of representative English and American poems. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 143 Literary Types: Drama

  Critical reading of representative plays from the ancient Greeks to the present. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 175 Literature and the Art of Film

  Survey and analysis of cinema as an expressive medium from the silent period to the present. Films are screened weekly and discussed in conjunction with works of literature.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times
  C1	IND	Monk	CAS 424	W	6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  C1		Monk	CAS ARR	W	8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

• MET EN 220 Proseminar: Literacy Study

  Fundamentals of literary analysis and interpretation. Intensive study of selected literary texts. Frequent papers. Limited class size. 4 cr   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 240 Sound of Poetry

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 253 Lit Types-Drama

    [ 3 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 279 Hist of ENG Lit

    [ 3 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 304 Poetry Writing

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 312 Hi of ENG Lang

    [ 3 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 322 Survey of British Literature I

  Prereq: MET HU 221. British literature from its beginnings to the Restoration.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 323 Survey of British Literature II

  British literature from the Restoration to the end of the nineteenth century.   [ 4 cr.]

  Prereq: MET EN 322

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 327 Women War Peace

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 355 Modern Drama

  A century's transformations of drama and stage. Reading and discussion of plays from early realism and expressionism to the theatre of the absurd and present trends: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Synge, Pirandello, Brecht, Sartre, Ionesco, Beckett, Genet, Pinter, and others.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 356 Modern Drama II

  Modern to contemporary drama since about 1950. Beckett, Genet, Osborne, Wesker, Pinter, Arden, Stoppard, Durrenmatt, Grass, Weiss, Handke, Albee, Miller, Williams, Shepard, and others. Related readings in predecessors, such as Kleist and Artaud, and in less well known contemporaries.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times
  C1	IND	Moore	CAS 312	W	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

• MET EN 363 Shakespeare I

  Six plays chosen from the following: Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV (Part 1), Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Winter's Tale.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 364 Shakespeare II

  Six plays chosen from the following: Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times
  A1	IND	Zhu	CAS 212	M	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

• MET EN 373 Detective Fiction

  Origins and development of the detective and crime genres in England and America, including works of Collins, Poe, Dickens, Doyle, Christie, Sayers, and Chandler, among others.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 383 Irish Voices

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 389 Monsters Madnes

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 405 Adv Fiction Wrt

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times
  C1	IND	Monsky	CAS 114A	W	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

• MET EN 410 Shakespeare

    [ 3 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 491 Directed Study

    [Var cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 492 Directed Study

    [Var cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 501 Special Topics

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 503 Wrtrg Worshop

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 506 Poetry Workshop

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 521 Mid Ages Lit 1

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 529 The Romantic Age: English Literature in the Age of Revolution

  Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. Emphasis on readings, but the course deals with romanticism both as an historical movement and as a cultural category significantly connected to modernism.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 533 Am Lit to 1850

    [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 535 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry

  Close reading of balladic, lyric, and longer poems by Hardy, Yeats, Lawrence, Auden, Rosenberg, Mew, Loy, MacDiarmid, Gurney, Douglas, Larkin, Hill, Harrison, Prynne, others. Poets' essays and opposed schools and approaches. Reference to other arts, and times of political tragedy.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 536 Twentieth-Century American Poetry

  Study of five or six poets from the following: Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Moore, Frost, Lowell, Bishop, Berryman, Ammons, Ashbery, Plath, Ginsberg, Merrill.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 543 The Nineteenth-Century English Novel

  The novel from Scott to Hardy. Among the works to be discussed: Scott's Waverley, Austen's Emma, Dickens's Bleak House, Eliot's Middlemarch, Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Hardy's Jude the Obscure.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 544 The Modern British Novel

  Conrad, Woolf, Lawrence, Ford, Forster, Beckett, and other novelists of the period 1895-1956.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 546 The Modern American Novel

  From 1900 to the present, including Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and selected contemporary novelists.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 547 Contemporary American Fiction

  Study of American postmodern fiction and culture since 1950; includes works by Atwood, Barthelme, Burroughs, Coover, DeLillo, Nabokov, Pynchon, and others.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 552 English Drama from 1590 to 1642

  The heritage of Marlow and Shakespeare: the collapse of a historic world; Jacobean pessimism and decadence in the plays of Jonson, Webster, Middleton, Ford, and others.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times

• MET EN 583 Contemporary Poetry

  Major voices since 1980 who inherit and expand American poetic traditions, selected from Ashbery, Collins, Graham, Hecht, Komunyakaa, Kunitz, Pinsky, Wilbur, and others. Related readings in immediate predecessors such as Justice, Merrill. Opportunity for student choice of emerging poets.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times
  D1	IND	Moore	CAS 312	R	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

• MET HU 221 Major Authors I

  Introduction to major works of ancient and medieval European literatures that influenced later Continental, English, and American literature: the Bible, Homeric epic, Greek Tragedy, Virgil's Aeneid, and Dante's The Divine Comedy.   [ 4 cr.]

  Offered: Spring 2010

  Section	Type	Instructor	Location	Days	Times
  A1	IND	Cohen	CAS 204B	M	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM