Courses

• CAS EN 128: Representing Boston
  The literary and cultural geography of the city of Boston, from Puritan sermons to modern crime fiction. Readings by Winthrop, Wheatley, Hawthorne, Alcott, King, Malcolm X, Lowell, and Lehane; required fieldwork in graveyards, war memorials, the MFA, and Fenway Park.
• CAS EN 141: Literary Types: Fiction
  Critical reading of representative novels and short stories, primarily English and American, from the eighteenth century to the present. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
• CAS EN 142: Literary Types: Poetry
  Critical reading of representative English and American poems. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
• CAS EN 143: Literary Types: Drama
  Critical reading of representative plays from the ancient Greeks to the present. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
• CAS EN 163: Readings in Shakespeare
  Representative tragedies, comedies, and histories. Primarily for students not concentrating in English. CAS EN 163 not prerequisite for EN 164.
• CAS EN 164: Readings in Shakespeare
  Representative tragedies, comedies, and histories. Primarily for students not concentrating in English. CAS EN 163 not prerequisite for EN 164.
• CAS 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. Students must register for screening, discussion, and lecture.
• CAS EN 202: Introduction to Creative Writing
  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. Enrollment limited.
• CAS EN 220: Seminar in Literature
  Fundamentals of literary analysis, interpretation, and research. Intensive study of selected literary texts centered on a particular topic. Attention to different critical approaches. Frequent papers. Limited class size. Required of concentrators in English. Satisfies WR 150 requirement.
• CAS EN 304: Writing of Poetry
  The writing of poems discussed in a workshop setting. For the more advanced student. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment.
• CAS EN 305: Writing of Fiction
  The writing of short stories and perhaps longer fiction discussed in a workshop setting. For the more advanced student. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment.
• CAS EN 306: Writing of Plays
  The writing of plays discussed in a workshop setting. For the more advanced student. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment.
• CAS EN 310: British and Irish Writing: Poetry and the Novel Since 1900
  Detailed study of texts selected from a variety of representative and influential modern British and Irish authors since 1900.
• CAS EN 322: Survey of British Literature 1
  Literature from the beginnings to the Restoration.
• CAS EN 323: Survey of British Literature 2
  Literature from the Restoration to the end of the nineteenth century.
• CAS EN 326: Voices of Women
  Topic for Fall 2010: Performing Gender: Drama, Dance, Film, and Feminisms. Representations of gender on diverse stages, in high and low genres, from antiquity to the present. Considers theatrical and feminist movements and the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Readings include dramatic texts and gender and performance theory. Also offered as CAS WS 305 B1.
• CAS EN 327: Topics in American Literature
  Maybe repeated for credit as topics change each semester. Topic for Fall 2010: Money and Marriage in American Fiction. Marriage as literary plot, legal contract, market commodity, sexual arrangement, gendered constraint, in American fiction from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, with background readings in law, economics, history, criticism.
• CAS EN 355: Modern Drama I
  Theatre history from 1870 to 1920. Plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov, Wilde, Shaw. The birth of modern techniques of acting, design, and directing. Students stage short scenes; no experience required.
• CAS EN 356: Modern Drama II
  Modern drama and theatre history from roughly 1920 to the present. Playwrights may include Pirandello, Beckett, Ionesco, Brecht, O'Neill, Miller, Williams, Albee, Pinter, and Churchill. The development of modern techniques of acting, stage design, and directing.
• CAS EN 357: Modern British Drama
  Offers a broad study of major developments in British drama over the past fifty years as they relate to British society. The work of specific writers is analyzed in detail. Prerequisites: advanced (junior or senior) standing; previous coursework in British drama, British literature, or theatre arts. Enrollment is limited to 15 students. A course fee will be charged in London to cover the costs of theatre excursions.

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