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English (ENG)
Rebecca Entel,
Glenn Freeman,
Leslie K. Hankins,
Michelle Mouton (chair),
Shannon Reed,
Kirilka Stavreva
Major: A minimum of nine course credits in English beyond ENG 111 (or any course satisfying the Writing Requirement), which include ENG 210, 211, 212, 411, and one course selected from each of the following groups: ENG 321-327, 328-336, 343-351, and 361-372.
Teaching Major: The same as above, to include
311 and one course selected from 323, 324, or 327; EDU
322 (Secondary Arts, Languages, and Adolescent Literature);
and COM 121 (Speech Communication). In addition to the
foregoing requirements, prospective teachers must also apply for
admission to the Teacher Education Program
(preferably at the start of their sophomore year) and complete a second
major in Secondary Education described under
Education. Prospective teachers should request a current list of the specific teaching major course requirements from the Education Office.
Minor: A minimum of six course credits in English beyond ENG 111 (or any course satisfying the Writing Requirement), which include two courses selected from among ENG 210, 211, and 212; and four courses selected from at least two of the following groups: ENG 321-327, 328-336, 343-351, and 361-372.
111. Topics in Literature, Film, or Cultural Studies
Seminar for first year students, an intensive engagement with a topic in literature, film, or cultural studies. See Topics Courses for current topics and descriptions. (Humanities, Writing Requirement)
210. American Survey
Development of American literature from its beginnings to the twentieth century. Emphasis is both textual and historical. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) ENTEL or G. FREEMAN
211. English Survey I
Development of English literature from its Anglo-Saxon roots through the ``long'' eighteenth century. Prerequisite:
writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) REED or STAVREVA
212. English Survey II
Development of English literature from the Romantics to the present.
Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities)
HANKINS or MOUTON
215. Introduction to Creative Writing
Beginning course in creative writing. Students learn writing techniques, share work, and offer critiques. The course also includes the study of published authors. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Fine Arts) ENTEL or G. FREEMAN
240. Theatre, Architecture, and the Arts in England
The study of English art and culture, particularly theatre and architecture, through visiting sites and regions significant in English history, attending theatrical events, and visiting galleries and museums. Team-taught in England. Registration entails additional costs. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. The 2007-08 course will be taught by Mouton and Hankins. (Humanities)
290/390. Individual Project: see Courses 290/390.
311. Grammar and the Politics of English
An examination of the structures and forms which currently govern
standard usage of the English language. Encompasses a broad view of
grammar as a subject by a wide-ranging investigation of the history and
development of the language. Examines the social and political implications of the development of English as a global language. Course may include readings in Anglophone literature. Prerequisites: sophomore standing and writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) REED
317. Advanced Poetry Writing
Advanced course in writing poetry. Students will study techniques, share work, and offer critiques. The course will also include the study of published poetry. Additional topics will include publication options, manuscript submission procedures, and resources for writers. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: ENG 215. Alternate years. (Fine Arts) G. FREEMAN
318. Advanced Fiction Writing
Advanced course in writing fiction. Students will study techniques, share work, and offer critiques. The course will also include the study of published fiction. Additional topics will include publication options, manuscript submission procedures, and resources for writers. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: ENG 215. Alternate years. (Fine Arts) ENTEL
321. Studies in Medieval English Literature
Topical concentrations in Medieval literature, including cultural context. Topics may include: Anglo-Saxon epic, Arthurian romance, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the mystical tradition, and chivalry. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Offered in alternate years or every third year. (Humanities) STAVREVA
322. Medieval and Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare's Rivals
A research seminar studying the drama of Shakespeare's predecessors, contemporaries, and rivals--such as Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Ford, Webster, etc.--within the context of the highly theatrical culture of early modern England. Taught at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Registration entails additional costs. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Offered in alternate years or every third year. (Humanities) STAVREVA
323. Shakespeare I: Comedies and Romances
Analytical, cultural-historical, and performative approaches to Shakespeare. Discussion of selected comedies and romances in their cultural contexts. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) STAVREVA
324. Shakespeare II: Histories and Tragedies
Critical analysis of the development of Shakespeare's histories and tragedies, with attention paid to their cultural contexts and performative aspects. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) STAVREVA
325. Studies in Renaissance Non-Dramatic Literature
English and world literature of the period 1500-1660. Topics may include: women writers, writing the self, love poetry, or studies of authors, such as Elizabeth I, Donne, Veronica Franco, Sidney, Spenser, Petrarch, or Wroth. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Offered in alternate years or every third year. (Humanities) STAVREVA
326. Milton
This course will provide a deep and thorough engagement with John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost. Attention will be given to the reading practices of early modern and post-modern audiences. Additional materials may include critical articles and other works by John Milton, like Comus, Samson Agonistes, or selections from his sonnets or prose works. The course will conclude with a consideration of contemporary uses for Milton's epic. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) REED
327. Shakespeare after Shakespeare: Performance and Cultural Criticism
A study of historically and culturally diverse forms of Shakespearean performances on stage and screen, including Asian, East European, and other renditions of three to four plays. Focus on the relationship of performance to the processes of cultural formation and reflection. Students in the class produce and perform one of the Shakespeare plays studied, a production enabled by the Stephen Lacey Memorial Shakespeare Fund. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) STAVREVA
328. Eighteenth Century English Literature
Drama, poetry and essays of the period 1660-1798. Discussion of the interplay between culture and literature. Topics may include colonialism; civility, honor and barbarism; politics and poetics of Restoration drama. Authors may include Behn, Wycherly and Rochester, Addison and Steele, Swift, Pope, and Eliza Haywood. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W).
Alternate years. (Humanities) REED
329. Eighteenth Century Fiction
Examination of fiction written between 1660-1789. Discussion of the novel and the anti-novel using works such as Pamela, Joseph Andrews, The Female Quixote, Tristram Shandy, and Northanger Abbey. Some discussion of contemporary creative and critical responses to eighteenth-century fiction. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) REED
331. English Literature: The Romantics
An examination of intellectual, political, and aesthetic movements of
the English Romantic period 1789-1832. Topics may include Romantic
poetics, the Gothic impulse, the city and the country, or constructions
of childhood. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years.
(Humanities) MOUTON
333. Victorian English Literature
Poetry, novels, essays, and plays written between 1837 and 1901. May
focus on a topic, such as English colonialism, political reform
movements, or turn-of-the-century decadence. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities)
MOUTON
334. Nineteenth Century English Novel
A study of forms: the domestic novel, the Gothic novel, the serial
novel, the novel of social critique. Authors may include Austen,
Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Wilde. Emphasis on social,
cultural, and political context. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W).
Alternate years. (Humanities) MOUTON
335. Virginia Woolf
Novels and essays by Virginia Woolf, such as A Room of One's Own, Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, Orlando, Between the Acts, and Moments of Being. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) HANKINS
336. Early Twentieth Century Fiction
Fiction in English of the first half of the twentieth century, chosen from authors such as James Joyce, Rebecca West, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Richardson, H. D., Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and others. May focus on a topic, such as the fiction of WWI, or Modernist experiments in fiction. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) HANKINS
343. The American Renaissance
Literary and cultural trends in the early nineteenth century, a
formative period of American literature. Authors may include Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Fuller. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) ENTEL
345. Late Nineteenth Century American Literature
Literary and cultural trends which followed the Civil War and gave birth to the modern age. Authors may include Twain, Jewett, James, Wharton, Dickinson, Whitman, Crane, and Chopin. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) ENTEL
347. Modern American Literature
American literary and cultural trends of the first half of the twentieth century, including topics such as the Expatriate writers and modernism, American writers and the movies, or American writers and the short story. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) HANKINS
350. American Nature Writers
Study of writers of many different backgrounds who share a concern with our relation to nature and our
environment. Authors may include Muir, Leopold, Dillard, Carson, Abbey, and Krakauer. The 2007-08 course will be taught at the Wilderness Field Station in Minnesota. Registration entails additional costs. See Index. Topics Courses for current course description. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) G. FREEMAN
351. Studies in African-American Literature
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. Includes writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countée Cullen, Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, Mae Cowdery, Claude McKay, and Jessie Redmon Fauset. Close attention to the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and FIRE!!, a facsimile reprint of a ``little magazine'' published by members of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Offered every third year. (Humanities) HANKINS
361. Modern Poetry
Poetic trends in the first half of the twentieth century. Poets may include Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Stein, Loy, Millay, Hughes, and H.D. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) G. FREEMAN
363. Contemporary Fiction
Intensive look at recent and experimental developments in fiction as
represented by writers such as Sherman Alexie, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Don DeLillo, and Tim O'Brien. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) G. FREEMAN
364. Contemporary Poetry
Poets whose work has come to prominence since 1950 and an overview of poetic trends in America. Poets may include Lowell, Ginsberg, Ashbery, Rich, Plath, Olds, and Graham. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) G. FREEMAN
365. Comparative Literature and Cinema
Study of the multi-faceted fascinating connections between literature and film. May focus on a topic such as avant-garde film of the 1920s and the little magazines, or film and fiction, or film adaptations of literary texts. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate years. (Humanities) HANKINS
367. Multicultural Literature
Major authors across cultures. Critical analysis of texts by national
and international writers of ``minority'' status. May include groups
marginalized by ethnicity (non-Anglo-American), sexual orientation, and
socioeconomic class. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Alternate
years. (Humanities) ENTEL
370. AIDS Literature, Film, and Social Theory
This course will consider the history and consequences of AIDS through memoirs, novels, plays, documentary and feature films, and essays. In evaluating the way literature shapes our understanding of AIDS, we will explore pertinent issues of race, gender, nationality, and sexual identity. May include service learning component. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Offered in alternate years or every third year. (Humanities) MOUTON
371. Critical Theory
Survey of
critical theories or an in-depth focus on one theory. Possibilities
include Narratology, Feminist theories, Reader-Response Theory, New
Historicism, or Cultural Studies. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). Offered every third year.
(Humanities) HANKINS or MOUTON
372. Film and Film Criticism
Critical analysis of films as artistic and cultural texts. Focus may be
on an individual director, such as Hitchcock, or a topic, such as Women
Directors, or a period in film history. The 2007-08 course will focus on film history, on International and Avant-Garde films of the 1920s. (This is not a film production course.) See Topics Courses for current course description. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). (Humanities) HANKINS
374. Advanced Topics in Literature
A topic that integrates literature and material from other disciplines. The topic in 2007-08 is ``Early Women, Power, and the Royal Court''. See Topics Courses. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W); individual courses may have additional prerequisites. (Humanities)
380. Internship
Diverse internship options may include writing and editing in the
commercial world, such as working for a newspaper, a magazine, a
publishing house, or another communications medium. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). See Index. Courses 280/380. (CR)
399. Summer Internship
Diverse
internship options may include writing and editing in the commercial
world, such as working for a newspaper, a magazine, a publishing house,
or another communications medium. Prerequisite: writing-designated course (W). See
Courses 299/399. (CR)
411. Senior Seminar
Advanced, theoretically informed engagement with literary studies, broadly defined, including reflection on what the English major brings to intellectual and creative life beyond the undergraduate years. See Index. Topics Courses for current topics and course descriptions. Prerequisites: English major and senior standing. (Humanities)
714. Literature in Action: The Shakespeare Play (1/4)
Participation in any of the many activities involved in the production of the English Department Shakespeare Play (or a similar play): acting in a major role, scenery and props design and construction, costume/make-up design and construction, lighting and sound design and operation, stage management, theatre administration and publicity. Participation must be supervised by a member of the Department and the work carried out within a single semester. May be repeated for credit. Alternate years. (Fine Arts) STAVREVA (CR)
715. Literature in Action: Editing (1/4)
Serving in one of the supervisory positions for the English Department literary magazine Open Field (or similar magazine): Editor, Assistant Editor, Web Editor, Art/Design Editor. Participation must be supervised by a member of the Department and the work carried out within a single semester. May be repeated for credit. (Fine Arts) G. FREEMAN (CR)
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