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Courses

Winter 2020
Courses

  • Course #
    Title
    Description
    Instructor
  • ENGL 10
    Introduction to Literary Study

    Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 11
    Literature and its Uses:
    How to Solve Problems with Books

    Should literature be applied to current social issues? If so, ...

    Droge, Abigail
  • ENGL 18
    Public Speaking

    Practical and historical introduction to the art of public speaking ...

    Enders, Jody
  • ENGL 23
    The Climate Crisis:
    What It Is And What Each of Us Can Do About It

    In one sense, the climate crisis is being caused by ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature

    This course is designed to introduce students to critical approaches ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 101
    English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650

    Introduction to English literature from the medieval period to 1650. ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 101S
    Seminar English Literature

    Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 102
    English and American Literature from 1650-1789

    “The World Turned Upside Down” This lecture-course on British and ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 102S
    Seminar English & American Literature

    Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 103A
    American Literature from 1789 to 1900

    Introduction to American literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 104B
    British Literature from 1900 to Present

    English 104B 20th Century British and Anglophone Literature What is ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 104BS
    Seminar British Literature

    Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 105B
    Shakespeare, Later Plays

    Later Shakespeare. Close study of five Shakespeare plays: Othello, KIng ...

    Rose, Mark
  • ENGL 105BS
    Seminar:
    Shakespeare

    Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in ...

    Rose, Mark
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

    This class introduces students to techniques of creative writing, editing, ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 109
    "Writing for Performance":
    Memory and Story

    This offering of “Writing for Performance” focused around African American ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 122CC
    The Rhetoric of Climate Change

    In this course, we will be critically reading a variety ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 122EE
    British Comedy and the End of Empire

    What are the connections between the end of the British ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 122FC
    Cli-Fi:
    Fictions of Climate Crisis

    When we think of literature in the broadest sense, including ...

    Wicke, Jennifer
  • ENGL 122FE
    Fantasy and Ecology

    This course explores how fantasy literature and film imagines the ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 128GN
    Graphic Novel and Trauma

    Our concern in this class will be less with superheroes ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 128ML
    The Global Renaissance on the English Stage

    The traditional understanding of “the Renaissance” focuses on the recovery ...

    Andrea, Bernadette
  • ENGL 128MM
    Native American and Indigenous Women, Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Memoir

    This course will explore the genre of memoir and creative ...

    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 132EP
    The Shorter Fiction of Henry James

    This course is dedicated to the shorter fiction of the ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 134NA
    The Body As Archive:
    Indigeneity, felt theory, and decolonial ways of knowing

    This course finds its origins the work of queer Chumash/Esselen ...

    Waid, Candace Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 146SI
    Simulation and Simulacra

    The consensus at the end of the 20th century seemed ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 152B
    Troilus and Criseyde and the Minor Poems

    This course is a close study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s long ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 165EM
    Pre-Modern Post-Human

    The concept of the “post-human” arose in the fields of ...

    Andrea, Bernadette Paiella, Giorgina Samira
  • ENGL 165LP
    Literature Of the Pacific

    Voluminous blue expanses of ocean, tropical beaches and palm trees, ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 170DA
    Disability Aesthetics

    This course will provide you with an introduction to the ...

    Miller, Jesse
  • ENGL 170MT
    The Meaning of Life

    What does it mean to be a human being and ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 171
    Literature and the Human Mind

    This course brings neuroscience together with literary representations of the ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 185
    European Modernism

    What, when and where was Modernism? This course introduces students, ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 191
    Literature and Culture of the Harlem Renaissance Era:
    Modernism, Transnationalism, and Performance

    For this offering of English 191, we will survey African ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 197
    Attachment and the Novel

    We’ll discuss theories of attachment, separation, loss from the perspective ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 197
    Bad Sex: Censorship, Deviance, and Failure

    What makes sex bad? Censorship, deviance, and failure. Perversion, inversion, ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 197
    English Majoring After College

    Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked ...

    Newfield, Christopher
  • ENGL 197
    JM Coetzee:
    Ethics and the Other

    Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize, J.M. Coetzee writes fiction ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 197
    The Poetics and Politics of Waste

    This seminar studies waste, junk, garbage from both an environmental ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 235
    Whitman and Dickinson

    This course offers students an in-depth encounter with the two ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 236
    Literature and Attachment Theory

    Attachment. Separation. Loss. These are the primary social experiences that ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 236
    Race and the New Formalism

    How do we read race? In what ways do aesthetic ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 238
    Media Theory and/for the Crises of the Present

    The premise of this class is that the frustration and ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 265TC
    CRITICAL INQUIRIES:
    Marxist, Post-Marxist, Postcolonial & Decolonial Dialogues in Comparative Contexts

    In an era in which mainstream pundits and purportedly counterhegemonic ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

    Course provides support for graduate students when developing their dissertation ...

    Duffy, Enda
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