Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular term. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• CAS EE 765: Applied Research Methods Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health
  Graduate Prerequisites: Priority is given to students enrolled in the BU Graduate Program in U rban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health. Completion of GRS BI/EE 7 64 highly recommended. - Students learn skills in urban Biogeoscience, Environmental Health, and Statistics to tackle urban environmental challenges. Learning outcomes are achieved through learning about research methods related to urban air, soil, water quality, environmental stressors, nutrient cycles, and climate. Students read and deconstruct primary literature, have in-class discussions, and complete hands-on training.
• CAS EE 795: Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health: From Research to Policy
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: Priority is given to students enrolled in the BU Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health. Students are required to meet with the instructor prior to the start of the course t - Students have to meet with the instructor prior to the start of the course to set up an internship with a partner organization. For international students seeking credit for academic advancement the internship must be authorized by the International Students & Scholars Office. Students who are not part of the BU Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health should contact the instructor prior to enrolling to determine if their background and interests are consistent with the course. Students learn how cities utilize scientific findings to address urban environmental challenges and develop communication skills to effectively translate scientific results to decision-makers and the public. Students complete a semester-long internship to gain experience applying scientific knowledge to decision making.
• CAS EE 805: Spatial Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  Covers advanced research topics in GIS dealing with the measurement, storage, retrieval and analysis of spatial information. Topics include fuzzy sets, fractals, and spatial statistics. Completion of a project is required.
• CAS EE 840: Topics in Remote Sensing
  Varying subjects in the field.
• 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.
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  • Aesthetic Exploration
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  • Writing-Intensive Course
• CAS EN 505: Poetry Workshop
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor, to whom a selection of poems must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. - 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
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor, to whom a selection of poems must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. - Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor, to whom a selection of poems must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. - A workshop in the writing of poetry. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 508: Seminar: Creative Writing, Poetry
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor, to whom a selection of poems must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. - Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 509: Playwriting 2: Writing the Social/Political Play
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor, to whom a short play or scene from a play must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. - Explores the dramatist's response to political and social events over 2,000 years from the Greeks through the modern period. Examines how playwrights dramatized the pressing issues of their times with a focus on content, historical context, and theatrical forms.
• CAS EN 510: Playwriting 1: Writing of Short Plays
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor, to whom a short play or scene from a play must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. - A seminar in the writing of short, original plays, addressing structure, language, and theme. Students read and discuss the masters of modern drama. Writing exercises are assigned to stir the imagination and develop craft. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation. Effective Fall 2026 this course no longer carries HUB units.
• CAS EN 513: Modern English Grammar and Style
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - This course shows how to systematically analyze grammar and style of sentences and longer units of discourse. Explores academic and popular debates on grammar and grammar instruction and helps the student become a better speaker and writer.
• CAS EN 517: Drama in Theory and Practice 1: Structure and the Script
  Prerequisites: By consent of instructor, to whom a short play or scene from a play must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. - Structure and the Contemporary Script. A comparison and analysis of the design of plays from the last two decades, encouraging students to imitate the form, character, and plot from these plays while experimenting with their own narrative structures. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation. Effective Fall 2026 this course no longer carries HUB units.
• CAS EN 519: Drama in Theory and Practice 2: Experiments with Character and Form
  Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor, to whom a short play or scene from a play must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. - Course includes the reading and analysis of dramatic works. Classes allow experimentation with the full-length monologue and small cast plays while giving attention to dramatic structure and style. Students present their own work in a workshop format, and material is critiqued in class. Students also attend performances and write critiques of professional productions. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation. Effective Fall 2026 this course no longer carries HUB units.
• CAS EN 520: Drama in Theory and Practice 3: Adaptation and the Theatre
  Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, to whom a short play or scene from a play must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. - This playwriting seminar focuses on translation versus adaptation, comparing the two, and culling material from other writing genres. Focusing on tone, imagery, stage design, and language, students write their own stage adaptations as well as read various texts translated from World Theatre. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation. Effective Fall 2026 this course no longer carries HUB units.
• CAS EN 604: History of Literary Criticism 1
  Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - A historical survey of western literary-critical standards from the earliest surviving formulations in classical Athens to the dawn of the twentieth century. Writers include Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Augustine, Dante, Sidney, Hume, Wordsworth, Marx, Nietzsche. 4 cr. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Aesthetic Exploration.
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  • Aesthetic Exploration
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• CAS EN 606: History of Literary Criticism II
  Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - Survey of literary critical perspectives and trends in humanistic theory relevant to literary interpretation from the middle of the twentieth century onward, including formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, gender studies, new historicism, and post-colonial studies. Frequent writing assignments of various lengths. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
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  • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
• CAS EN 637: THINK W ANIMALS
  THINK W ANIMALS
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  • Aesthetic Exploration
  • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
• CAS EN 652: Asian American Studies: Theory and Methods
  Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - A brief overview of the theories and methods of Asian American studies, reading theory, literature, history, culture, sociology, and legal study to define a mode of inquiry and action inspired by a legacy of activism and survival from the Asian diaspora. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
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  • The Individual in Community
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• CAS EN 653: Native American and Indigenous Studies: Theories and Methods
  Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. An overview of the theories and methods of Native American and Indigenous studies. Focusing in particular on Indigenous Critical Theory, this course reads and discusses ideas from disciplines including history, law, literature, film and media studies, museum studies, and environmental studies to discuss how Native peoples advocate for issues important to Indian Country and to global Indigenous communities.
• CAS EN 665: Critical Studies in Literature and Society
  Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Fables and Tales, Appropriation and Performance, etc. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic.