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  • CAS EN 558: Feminist Killjoys & Cynical Queers: Intersectional Theories of Affect
    Prerequisite: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or 120). - This class examines the affective turn, which has been marked by a shift towards bodily sensation, structures of feeling, and modes of relationality. We pay particular attention to cultural constructions of emotion such as happiness, shame, anger, and fear. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single requirement in each of the following BU HUB areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy, Writing Intensive.
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
    • Research and Information Literacy
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • CAS EN 560: Disability Voices
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - Disability Studies theory and literature. Writing about dis/ability comes in many forms: autobiography, essay, fiction, graphic novel, visual arts, poetry, performance. An exploration of how texts, medieval to modern, replace, extend, critique or supplement normative narratives about the human person. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
    • Research and Information Literacy
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • CAS EN 562: Studies in Asexualities
    Pre- Requisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Writing intensive seminar that explores asexuality studies as well as various kinds of sexual and romantic absences in contemporary literature, literary analysis, and critical theory with particular attention to race and disability. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • The Individual in Community
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • CAS EN 569: Film and Media Theory
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-year writing seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or 120) and CASCI 101, CASCI 102, CASCI 200, or COMFT 250. - Introduction to film and media theory as a mode of inquiry. What happens when we render the world as an image' How do cinematic images differ from other forms of image-making' What does it mean to be a spectator' Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
    • Research and Information Literacy
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • CAS EN 570: Studies in British Literary Movements
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (CASWR 100 or 120 or equivalent.) - Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Radical Reimaginings: Cavendish, Milton, and the Power of Literature. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
    • Historical Consciousness
    • Research and Information Literacy
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • CAS EN 575: Studies in Literature and Gender
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Queer Literature and Film, Gender Trouble/Genre Trouble, Inking Feminism. Please see English Department's Website for current topic.
  • CAS EN 582: Studies in Modern Literature
    Prerequisites: junior or senior or graduate standing; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120). - Specialized topics in literary texts from the turn of the 20th century to the present. Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Prophecy and Fiction, Irony and Belief. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Research and Information Literacy
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • CAS EN 584: Studies in Literature and Ethnicity
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Literature of the Migrant, Ethnic American Women Writers. Please see English Department's Website for current topic.
  • CAS EN 586: Studies in Anglophone Literature
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing; and Firs t-Year Writing (WR 120 or equivalent). - Caribbean Poetry. Study of twentieth-century Caribbean poetry written in English(es), surveying anthologies and concentrating on major figures (Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Eric Roach). Emphases: the function of poets in small societies, and their choices concerning linguistic and aesthetic traditions. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
    • Research and Information Literacy
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • CAS EN 588: Studies in African American Literature
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Topic for Fall 2022: Tracking Changes in the Twentieth-Century African American Novel: Negotiations of Genre and Gender. Readings of Slave Narratives and Neo Slave Narratives, and the Urban Novel. Authors include Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Walter Mosley.
  • CAS EN 596: Studies in Literary Topics
    Undergraduate prerequisites: junior or senior standing. - Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Religious Lyric, Cinema of David Lynch. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic.
  • 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.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • The Individual in Community
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
  • 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.
  • CAS EN 666: Critical Studies in Literature and Society
    Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Environmental Imaginaries, Literature of the Early Black Atlantic, etc. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic.
  • CAS EN 676: Critical Studies in Literature and Gender
    Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - Introduces major movements and texts in gender and sexuality studies central to literary studies. Sub-topics include race, nationhood, family, erotics, the self, public/private spheres, and literary forms. Readings include theoretical works (feminist, queer, transgender, etc.), novels, graphic novels and films.
  • CAS EN 677: Critical Studies: Black Diaspora Theory and Practice
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: Graduate standing. - Explore "diaspora" as a keyword for black studies, intervene in the term's emergence, usage, and many theorizations. Beginning with Paul Gilroy's take on diasporic culture and consciousness, course goes on to complicate/extend/challenge through lens of black gender and sexuality studies. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Critical Thinking
    • The Individual in Community
  • CAS EN 682: Critical Studies in Modern Literature
    Graduate Prerequisites: Graduate standing. - Introduction to philosophical and historical approaches to the study of global literature outside Europe and North America. Themes addressed include individual and social development, historical reflection, cosmopolitanism, nationalism, cultural identity, the impact of socio- economic forces Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings and Aesthetic Exploration.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
  • CAS EN 686: Studies in Anglophone Literature
    Graduate Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Topics vary. Past topics include Comparative Readings in Postcolonial Literature, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry. Please see English Department’s website for current topic.

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