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CAS EN 175: Literature and the Art of Film
Provides an overview of fundamental concepts for the analysis and understanding of film. Films are screened weekly and in conjunction with works of literature. Students must register for screening, discussion, and lecture. Also offered as CAS CI 201. 4 cr. either sem. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression. -
CAS EN 176: Introduction to Film & Media Aesthetics
Introduction to fundamental concepts for the analysis/understanding of film and media. Key concepts of formal composition (e.g. editing, mise-en-sc?ne, cinematography, sound and more) over a diverse set of media texts. Foundational skills in analysis appropriate to film, television and moving-image media. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking. -
CAS EN 177: Introduction to Asian-American Literature
Undergraduate Prerequisites: None
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. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-intensive Course. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration. -
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. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning. -
CAS EN 195: Literature and Ideas
How does literature relate to philosophy? How do poems and stories explore philosophical beliefs? Readings may include novels, epics, dialogues, sermons, theoretical treatises, and poetry, all engaging with broad questions about meaning, selfhood, divinity, politics, community, value. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking. -
CAS EN 201: Introduction to Literary Studies
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS EN 120; or another First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120).
Introduction to literary analysis and interpretation. Variable topics. Through frequent writing assignments and discussion, students develop skills in the analysis of literary texts and learn to express their interpretive ideas in correct and persuasive prose. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course. -
CAS EN 213: The "Odyssey" and "Ulysses"
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120)
This course consists of a close reading of James Joyce's Ulysses with particular attention to his use of the Odyssey. We also examine the relation of oral and book cultures and other works Joyce takes in, such as the Aeneid, Divine Comedy and Hamlet. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation. -
CAS EN 220: Seminar in Literature
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120).
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. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research and Inquiry, Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing: Research & Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy. -
CAS EN 221: Major Authors
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120).
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. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course. -
CAS EN 306: Introduction to Playwriting
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120)
This course teaches playwriting craft through lectures, readings, discussion of dramatic writing, writing workshops, attending theatrical events, individual conferences, and the writing of short plays culminating in a one-act. A portfolio of revised work is due at semester's end. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation. -
CAS EN 322: British Literature I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120), EN220, and EN 221.
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. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
CAS EN 323: British Literature II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120), EN220, EN 221, and EN322.
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. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
CAS EN 325: Topics in Early Modern British Literature
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course, or junior or senior standing.
May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester. Topic for Spring 2021: Gender and Revolution: 17th-Century English Women Writers. Focusing on women writers, explores gender and the revolutions of seventeenth-century England, and this period's legacy for our current understandings of gender. We read both current gender, sexuality, and race theory, and 21st-century plays and novels about these writers. -
CAS EN 326: Arts of Gender
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
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 Fall 2022, Section A1: Gendered Utopias, Gendered Dystopias. Is it possible to create spaces where women, non-binary and queer people, and other outsiders thrive, or do all paths lead inexorably to a dystopian future? Texts include non-fiction by Delany and Nelson and speculative fiction by Atwood and Butler. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community. -
CAS EN 327: Topics in American Literature
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
Topics vary. Topic for Fall 2022, Section A1: Modernism, Race, and Resistance. Explores how twentieth-century Black American authors--Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and others--critically engaged the stylistic innovations of modernists such as Hemingway, Stein, Faulkner, and Eliot to represent and resist race and gender inequality in the US. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. -
CAS EN 328: Women's Literary Cultures
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
Writings by women in diverse literary forms, including drama, poetry and prose. How does women's literary culture reflect historical constructions of gender and sexuality? How do writers engage with new literary forms, like the lyric, political treatise, or the novel? Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration. -
CAS EN 331: Topics in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course, or junior or senior standing.
May be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Spring 2020: Gender and World Travel in the Long 19th Century: How did British authors explore the expansive global networks of the 19th century? What roles did gender play in authorship and travels, both real and imagined? Novels, poetry, travel narratives, and essays by female and male writers are read. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. -
CAS EN 333: American Literature: Beginnings to Civil War
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course, or junior or senior standing.
An introduction to the multiple literary traditions of North America (especially that area that would come to be the United States) from the close of the fifteenth century through 1855. Authors include John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, William Apess, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
CAS EN 334: American Literature: Civil War to World War I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
American literature from the Civil War to the end of World War I in 1918. Changing literary forms in the age of Reconstruction, robber barons, the New Woman, westward expansion. Authors may include Whitman, Alger, Twain, James, Crane, Wharton, Chesnutt. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
CAS EN 341: History of the Novel in English
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
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. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
