Courses

• CAS EI 492: Directed Study
  
• CAS EI 501: The Theory and Practice of Literary Editing
  An introduction to the theory, practice, and principles of editorial decisions, such as questions of modernization, revision, and annotation. Featuring a dozen visiting speakers and attending to notable editorial achievements.
• CAS EI 503: Textual Scholarship
  Fundamentals of textual scholarship: bibliography, paleography, typography, textual criticism, and annotation.
• CAS EI 507: Publishing Procedures
  The history, principles, theory and practices of book publication, focusing on scholarly and serious trade monographs and text books. Students acquire skills in proposals and contracts, copyediting, design, copyright and permissions, production, marketing, dissemination and reviews. Workshop setting.
• CAS EI 508: Editing Across the Disciplines
  An introduction to editorial work in several disciplines, highlighting the practices, problems, and solutions encountered in each and identifying common principles where found. Editorial case histories in English literature, the Bible, classical texts, philosophical works, and music are considered.
• CAS EI 509: History of the Book
  The history of the book from Gutenberg to Google. Consideration is given to: parallels between the print and electronic revolutions; libraries and archives, authorship and copyright, publishing processes and reading practices, and the future of the book.
• CAS EN 120: Freshman seminar in Literature
  Limited enrollment. Variable topics. Through discussions and frequent writing assignments, students develop skills in the close reading of literary texts and learn to express their interpretive ideas in correct and persuasive prose. Satisfies CAS WR 100 requirement.
• CAS EN 121: Readings in World Literature
  Representative fiction, poetry, and drama by selected major figures in world literature. Primarily for students not concentrating in English. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS 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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS 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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• 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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS EN 130: Literature and Science
  Through readings in British and/or American literature, an exploration of some of the following topics: science and technology as literary themes; historical construction of science and art; similarities and differences between literary and scientific methods; the development of science fiction. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• 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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS EN 142: Literary Types: Poetry
  Critical reading of representative English and American poems. Primarily for students not concentrating in English. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• 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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• 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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• 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. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• 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.

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