Courses

• CAS EN 491: Independent Study
  Application forms available in CAS Room 105.
• CAS EN 492: Independent Study
  Application forms available in CAS Room 105.
• CAS EN 494: Critical Studies in Literature and the Arts
  Two topics are offered 2009/2010. Students may take one or both for credit. Topic for Fall 2009: Poetry and Visual Arts. Shared movements, theories and techniques; international modernism and the New York avant-garde; collaborations and exchanges; poems and poets on painting; word/image rivalries and distinctions; Williams, Moore, Stevens, Steins, O’Hara, Ashbery, Graham, others; lots of slides. Topic for Spring 2010: Music and Poetry. An historical survey of the relations between the two arts from the Greeks to the present. Discussions of poetry in many languages; emphasis on English. Chant, song, madrigal, opera, and other forms. Ability to read music is required.
• CAS EN 495: Critical Studies in Literary Topics
  Topic for Fall 2008: American Literature and Pragmatism. Major American authors (including Emerson, Dickinson, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Du Bois, and Frost) read in relation to classical pragmatists such as William James, Peirce, Dewey, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• CAS EN 496: Critical Studies in Literary Topics
  Two topics are offered Spring 2010. Students may take one or both for credit. Section A1: The Question of the Real in Fiction and Film. Explores questions of the "real"-- or probable, natural, and familiar -- and the "strange"-- or unreal, fantastic, and uncanny-- in fiction by Chekhov, Poe, Tolstoy, and Kafka and films by German Expressionist and Italian Neorealist directors. Section B1: Animals and Literature since 1800. How can we cast ourselves into the inner lives of alien creatures, from amoebas to elephants? Considers animals in literature and film, and tracks theoretical shifts in the category of animal. Authors include Byron, Hardy, Darwin, Woolf, and Kafka.
• CAS EN 503: Fiction Workshop
  A workshop in the writing of fiction. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 504: Fiction Workshop
  A workshop in the writing of fiction. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 505: Poetry Workshop
  A workshop in the writing of poetry. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 506: Poetry Workshop
  A workshop in the writing of poetry. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 507: Seminar: Creative Writing, Fiction
  A workshop in the writing of fiction. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 508: Seminar: Creative Writing, Poetry
  Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 509: Exercises in Dramaturgy
  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.
• CAS EN 510: Exercises in Dramaturgy
  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.
• CAS EN 513: Modern English Grammar
  A systematic analysis of English, applied to the reading of literature and the writing of essays.
• CAS EN 515: History of the English Language I
  How do the social and cultural experiences of young adults contribute to development of the English language? From early American English to current times, we examine how they learned and changed their native tongue at home, in schools, and in neighborhoods.
• CAS EN 516: History of the English Language II
  Dryden said that few in England could read Chaucer. How did English change radically in three hundred years, from 1400 to 1700? Social, cultural, and linguistic dynamics of this change.
• CAS EN 518: 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.
• CAS EN 522: Mid Ages Lit II
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CAS EN 525: Literature of the Seventeenth Century I
  Topic for Fall 2010: Poetry and Song in Shakespeare's Time. The interactions of some of the greatest poets and song-writers in English during the decades around 1600 (including Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Jonson, Dowland, Campion). Grounded on texts, scores, and recordings.
• CAS EN 527: Literature of the Eighteenth Century I
  Dryden, Behn, Swift, Pope, Astell, Defoe, Haywood, and others, read in their historical contexts. Literary structures understood in conjunction with social, political, institutional, and intellectual structures of the age.

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