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 493: Critical Studies in Literature and The Arts
  Topic for Fall 2013: 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. Also offered as CAS XL 470 A1 and CFA MU 594.
• CAS EN 495: Critical Studies in Literary Topics
  Topic for Fall 2011: Aestheticism. Is aestheticism a profound philosophy of creativity, a commodification of the artwork, the liberation of alternative sexualities, or the emergence of a new elitism? "Art for art's sake" in Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, Poe, James, and Wharton.
• CAS EN 502: Crafting a Nonfiction Voice Workshop
  A writing workshop that explores the notion of voice on the written page. Through reading, analysis, writing exercises, and independent projects, students become familiar with techniques for recreating the voices of others and for shaping a distinctive nonfiction voice (or voices) of their own.
• 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: Playwriting 1: Analysis to Inspiration
  A seminar in the fundamentals of dramatic form, structure, characterization, and theme. Students read and discuss playwrights such as Brecht, Chekhov, and Shepard and, through written exercises, develop their individual plays.
• CAS EN 510: Playwriting 2: Writing Short Plays
  A seminar in the writing of short, original plays, addressing structure, language, and theme. Students read and discuss the masters of modern drama, and writing exercises are assigned to stir the imagination and develop craft.
• CAS EN 512: Readings for Writers: Contemporary Literary Nonfiction
  Intensive reading seminar for students interested in literary nonfiction, a wide-ranging, sometimes controversial genre in which writers use techniques associated with fiction and poetry to make meaning of facts. Explores the wealth and breadth of contemporary literary nonfiction -- memoir, personal essay, literary journalism, travel, science, and medical writing -- with an eye toward helping students think about their own nonfiction writing practices.
• 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 1
  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 2
  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 519: Drama in Theory and Practice
  May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Topic for Fall 2012: Social and Political Theatre. A seminar in the social/political role of theatre addressing writers who have dramatized the pressing issues of their times (Aeschylus through Nottage). Theatrical forms are explored to help students deal forcefully with issues that illuminate the present. Topic for Spring 2013: Solo Performance: Theory and Practice. A survey of contemporary one-person plays and analysis of the form, including confessional, historical, documentary. Also monologuists and performance artists. Time is dedicated to creating original one- person plays, with a performance workshop at semester's end.
• CAS EN 520: Drama in Theory and Practice
  May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Topic for Fall 2012: Structure and the Contemporary Script. A comparison and analysis of the design of plays from the last decade, encouraging students to imitate the form, character, and plot from these plays while experimenting with their own narrative structures.

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