Courses

• 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. Also offered as CAS CI 201.
• CAS EN 177: Introduction to Asian American Literature
  Explores Asian American literature from the early twentieth century until today. Addresses questions of identity, immigration, national belonging, diaspora, war, and global capitalism. Authors include John Okada, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-Rae Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Monique Truong, and Ha Jin. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS EN 180: Post-Apocalyptic Narratives
  Why is contemporary culture drawn to stories of zombies, social collapse, and environmental disaster? What fascinates us about dystopia? Stories, novels, graphic novels, film, and television all examined to explore questions of narrative, interpretation, genre, politics, "high" vs. "popular" culture.
• 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 221: Major Authors I
  Introduction to the major works of ancient and medieval literatures that influenced later Continental, English, and American literature: the Bible, Homeric epic, Greek tragedy, Vergil's Aeneid, and Dante's The Divine Comedy. Required of concentrators in English. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course by the same title that was formerly numbered CAS HU 221.
• 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: Introduction to Playwriting
  Students write and discuss their plays in a workshop setting. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment.
• CAS EN 313: Variation in Dialects of English
  Exploration of how dialects of English differ from each other, focusing on grammatical variation in the US, with occasional forays into British dialects. Students come to appreciate how linguists investigate grammatical diversity scientifically, revealing the complex structure of non-standard dialects. Also offered as CAS LX 365.
• CAS EN 322: British Literature I
  Beginnings of English literature from Anglo-Saxon period to end of the seventeenth century. Topics include the development of various poetic forms, medieval romance, and British drama. Authors may include Chaucer, Kempe, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, and Milton.
• CAS EN 323: British Literature II
  Overview of English literature between 1700 and 1900. Topics include London as urban center, modern prose fiction, Romantic and Victorian poetry, tensions between religion and science. Authors may include Pope, Swift, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, Tennyson, Wilde.
• CAS EN 326: Arts of Gender
  Examines representations of gender and sexuality in diverse art forms, including drama, dance, film, and literature, and how art reflects historical constructions of gender. Topic for Spring 2016: Gender Trouble, Genre Trouble. Through readings of plays, poetry, novels and graphic novels, as well as film, television and other media, examines how various genres have been used to explore, challenge and reimagine gender over centuries. Theoretical perspectives include feminist, queer, transgender, and intersex. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Voices of Women" numbered CAS EN 326. Also offered as CAS WS 326.
• CAS EN 327: Topics in American Literature
  May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester. Topic for Fall 2016: Imagining US South in Modern Fiction, Drama, Film, and Other Media. D.W. Griffith, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams; selected contemporary fiction from Dorothy Allison and Edward P. Jones; South-themed movies, TV dramas.
• CAS EN 333: American Literature: Beginnings to Civil War
  American literature from the beginnings to the Civil War. Readings include works by major authors such as Bradstreet, Jefferson, Franklin, Irving, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Douglass, Whitman, and Jacobs. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS EN 533.
• CAS EN 335: British & Irish Poets: 1890 to 21st Century
  An exploration of major poets of the long twentieth century, from Thomas Hardy and W.B. Yeats through the War Poets, Eliot, Loy, Auden, and Lawrence to Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Paul Muldoon. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS EN 535.
• CAS EN 341: History of the Novel in English
  An introduction to the history of the Anglophone novel, from its origins in early modern England to its status as the dominant literary form of modernity. Readings include Defoe, Austen, Dickens, James, Woolf, Morrison, and Coetzee.
• CAS EN 347: Topics in Contemporary Fiction
  May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester.
• CAS EN 355: Modern Drama I
  Theatre history from 1870 to 1920. Plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, 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.

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