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ENG 101 Writing 1
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp Su
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
First semester of the General Education Writing Skills Requirement for students required to take both ENG 101 and ENG 201. Practice in developing essays with variable emphases on purpose, subject, audience, persuasion, in constructing mature sentences and paragraphs, and in revising. Introduces documenting and writing from sources. Twenty-five pages of graded, revised writing, excluding first drafts, exercises, and quizzes. Students may not receive credit for both ENG 101 and ESL 407.
ENG 102 Writing 2
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp Su
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Fulfills the General Education Writing Skills Requirement for students exempted from ENG 101. Reviews essay, paragraph, and sentence development during the first half of the semester. Conceptualizing and conducting original research, culminating in a major research essay using both library and online materials during the second half of the semester. Twenty-five pages of graded, revised writing, excluding first drafts, exercises, and quizzes.
ENG 201 Advanced Writing 1
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp Su
Prerequisites: ENG 101
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Second semester of the General Education Writing Skills Requirement for students required to take both ENG 101 and ENG 201. ENG 201 also fulfills the Humanities requirement of General Education. Practice in developing complex interpretations of human experience and values as represented in various media. Conceptualizing and conducting original research, culminating in a major research essay using both library and online materials. Twenty-five pages of graded, revised writing, excluding first drafts, exercises, and quizzes. Students may not receive credit for both ENG 201 and ESL 408.
ENG 202 Advanced Writing: Technical
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Specialized styles of writing including technical, academic, journalistic, and scientific writing. Description of individual sections available each semester prior to registration.
ENG 205 Writing Prose Fiction 1
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Basic techniques of fiction writing, emphasizing the short story.
ENG 206 Writing Prose Fiction 2
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Basic techniques of fiction writing, emphasizing the short story.
ENG 209 Writing Poetry I
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
An introduction to the craft of writing poetry. Intensive reading of selected poetry with primary focus on familiarizing students with the basic technical vocabulary and diverse techniques of style and structure. Form, metrics, imagery, and other aspects of poetic study will be discussed in a workshop atmosphere. Students will examine canonical and innovative poetry, offer critical responses to their classmates, and produce and revise original work.
ENG 211 Books of the Environmental Movement
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Careful reading and discussion of key writings, past and present, of the American environmental movement. Authors studied include Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, and others.
ENG 214 Books: The Top Ten
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The top ten books recommended in an annual survey of the University at Buffalo faculty as reading without which no undergraduate should have finished his or her education. This course serves as a short, basic introduction to general education.
ENG 221 World Literature I
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Selected key texts of world literature in translation.
ENG 222 World Literature II
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Selected key texts of world literature in translation.
ENG 223 Medieval European Women's Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Explores the medieval literature of women from the third to the sixteenth century. Includes love poetry, letters, dramas, theological tractates, biographies, mystical visions, travelogues, romantic fables, and scientific treatises. Redirects critical attention away from the almost exclusively male canon of medieval texts and toward texts written by women so that some insight may be gained into problems of literary reception and production on the part of women, of the role of women in society, and their informing activities in religious movements.
ENG 224 Medieval European Epic
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Medieval European conceptions of heroism, heroic texts from the European Middle Ages, heroes and their cultural functions in various societies of origin, heroes and the dreams and aspirations of their economic, social, political, and national groups of origin.
ENG 225 Medieval Islamic Epic
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Epic literature of medieval Islamic cultures. Issues of ethics and mortality, the use of force, social values, and cultural difference are considered in the context of heroicism within a given culture.
ENG 226 Love in the Western World
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Examination of the medieval literary origins of modern conceptions of romantic love. Primarily lyric and epic texts from a dozen cultures, especially Arabic and Persian, Provencal, Italian, and German. Documentation of the development of this phenomenon through the centuries.
ENG 231 British Writers I
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Literature of Britain and Ireland, from the beginnings to the late eighteenth century.
ENG 232 British Writers II
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Literature of Britain and Ireland, from the late eighteenth century to the present.
ENG 241 American Writers I
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Literature of the United States, from its beginnings to the Civil War.
ENG 242 American Writers II
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Literature of the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
ENG 251 Literary Types: Short Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces the special qualities of the short story from Boccaccio to such modern masters as Joyce, Kafka, Carver, and O'Connor.
ENG 252 Literary Types: Poetry
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces the study of poetry.
ENG 253 Literary Types: Novel
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces the study of the novel.
ENG 254 Literary Types: Science Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Surveys some of the major moments in the evolution of science fiction: Clarke, Delany, Le Guin, and Verne, plus such movies as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner.
ENG 256 Literary Types: Film
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces the study of film.
ENG 258 Literary Types: Mysteries
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces the study of mysteries.
ENG 259 Literary Types: Drama
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces the study of drama.
ENG 261 Special Topics
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A study in a current topic of interest.
ENG 262 Literary Types: Authors
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Concentrated and detailed study of the works, biography, and milieu of a single author, chosen by the instructor.
ENG 263 Literary Types: Authors
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Concentrated and detailed study of the works, biography, and milieu of a single author, chosen by the instructor.
ENG 264 Children's Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Acquaints students with the vast variety of texts that comprise children's literature, ranging from seventeenth-century fairy tales to contemporary children's fiction. Trains students to analyze and write about the relationship between literary texts and the culture within which these texts are produced.
ENG 268 Literary Authors: Irish Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Concentrated study of the work and milieu of a group of Irish writers.
ENG 270 Asian American Authors
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Concentrated study of the work and milieu of a group of Asian American authors.
ENG 271 Literary Approaches: Literature and Psychology
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces some basic texts of modern psychology, with applications to works of literature.
ENG 272 Literary Approaches: Women Writers
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces the study of writings by women, chosen by the individual instructor.
ENG 273 Best Sellers
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Studies the phenomenon of the 'best seller' in both past cultures and the contemporary scene.
ENG 274 Feminist Approaches to Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces feminist theory and its applications to literary texts.
ENG 275 African American Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Surveys African American Literature, including Douglass, DuBois, Hughes, Morrison, Hurston, etc.
ENG 276 Literature and the Law
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Studies the interactions between the law and great works of fiction by Kafka, Dickens, Shakespeare, and others.
ENG 277 Introduction to U.S. Latino Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Explores the variety of cultural works produced by U.S. Latino/a writers and artists, from poetry and plays to novels and films.
ENG 278 Modern African-American Writers
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Surveys the rich spectrum of literature written by African-American writers in the last fifty years.
ENG 280 American Women Writers
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Explores central themes in the emergence of American women's poetry and fiction.
ENG 281 Special Topics
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A study in a current topic of interest.
ENG 291 Legal and Literary Interpretation
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Explores the close parallelism between the analytical and interpretative skills demanded by the law and legal matters and the structure and operation of literary works and documents.
ENG 299 Humanities One
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC/REC
A broad introduction to the humanities: literature, film, art, drama, folklore, and more. Specialists from various departments and special visitors discuss their fields of inquiry.
ENG 301 Criticism
Credits: 3Semester(s): F Sp
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces the craft of literary criticism, including techniques of close reading, two or more sorts of literary theory, and strategies for writing and revising critical papers.
ENG 302 Old English
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Anglo-Saxon language and literary texts, including Beowulf, with suggested outside reading from other early medieval Germanic literatures (Icelandic saga, the Niebelungenlied).
ENG 303 Chaucer
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Focuses on the Canterbury Tales.
ENG 304 Middle English Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Focuses on Chaucer's works other than the Canterbury Tales, and/or on other Middle English texts.
ENG 305 Medieval Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Various topics from Old English, Middle English, and Continental medieval literatures in translation.
ENG 306 Medieval and Early English Drama
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Mystery play cycles, morality plays, secular drama before Shakespeare.
ENG 307 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Selected plays from 1560 to 1630, excluding Shakespeare.
ENG 308 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Selected plays from 1560 to 1630, excluding Shakespeare.
ENG 309 Shakespeare: Earlier Plays
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC/REC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Primarily histories and comedies.
ENG 310 Shakespeare: Later Plays
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Primarily tragedies and romances.
ENG 311 Renaissance Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Mostly nondramatic literature from More to Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Donne, and Jonson.
ENG 312 Renaissance Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Mostly nondramatic literature from More to Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Donne, and Jonson.
ENG 313 The Seventeenth Century
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Mostly nondramatic literature from Donne, Wroth, Jonson, and Bacon, to Marvell, Milton, Bunyan, Dryden, and the radical prophets and prophetesses of the English Revolution.
ENG 314 The Seventeenth Century
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Mostly nondramatic literature from Donne, Wroth, Jonson, and Bacon, to Marvell, Milton, Bunyan, Dryden, and the radical prophets and prophetesses of the English Revolution.
ENG 315 Milton
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Paradise Lost and other works in social and literary context.
ENG 316 Eighteenth-Century Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Poetry and prose in Britain from 1688 to the age of the French Revolution.
ENG 319 Eighteenth Century English Novel
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
The novel's emergence as a literary form, focusing on works by Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Sterne, and others.
ENG 320 Romantic Movement
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Prose and poetry from 1780 to 1832, emphasizing Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron.
ENG 322 Victorian Age
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
British literature and culture from 1832 to 1901; authors include Carlyle, Ruskin, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Barrett Browning, Browning, Rossetti, Tennyson, and others.
ENG 323 Victorian Age
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
British literature and culture from 1832 to 1901; authors include Carlyle, Ruskin, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Barrett Browning, Browning, Rossetti, Tennyson, and others.
ENG 324 19th Century English Novel
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement.
Fiction by selected writers of the period, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy.
ENG 325 Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Fiction by selected writers of the period, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy.
ENG 326 Modern English Novel
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Fiction of Britain and Ireland since 1870.
ENG 327 Modern British Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement.
Literature of the twentieth century and its aesthetic and ideological antecedants.
ENG 328 Rethinking Bodies
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Though the human body has often been thought of as the unproblematic (if perhaps inferior) partner of the mind, recent studies in psychoanalysis, gender, and cultural history have made it evident that at different times and places, societies have inscribed different ideas, attitudes and cultural assumptions on the body. This course investigates these problematic aspects of body and mind through both fiction and non-fiction and from within our own culture and via cross-culture comparisons.
ENG 329 Studies in British Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected topics in the literature of Britain and Ireland, chosen by the instructor: pre-Raphaelitism and decadence, the Oxford movement, English travelers and explorers, the Irish literary revival, the criminal in eighteenth-century literature.
ENG 330 Studies in British Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected topics in the literature of Britain and Ireland, chosen by the instructor: pre-Raphaelitism and decadence, the Oxford movement, English travelers and explorers, the Irish literary revival, the criminal in eighteenth-century literature.
ENG 332 Early American Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Writing from 1630 to 1750, with special attention to the Puritan tradition.
ENG 333 American Literature, 1828-1865
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Sedgwick, Douglass, Jacobs, Stowe, Dickinson, and Whitman.
ENG 334 American Literature, 1865-1914
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Realism and naturalism; Twain, James, DuBois, Wharton, Chopin, Stein, London, and Dreiser.
ENG 335 Nineteenth-Century American Novel
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Selected novels by Cooper, Melville, Hawthorne, Alcott, Douglass, Stowe, Jacobs, Twain, and James.
ENG 336 Modern American Novel
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Selected novels by James, Wharton, and Stein; through Dreiser, Gilman, Cather, Faulkner, Larsen, Wright, Hurston, Dos Passos, Ellison, Ford, Morrison, and Kingston.
ENG 337 Modern American Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
First semester: 1914-1945.
ENG 338 Modern American Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Second semester: 1945-present.
ENG 339 American Poetry
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected American poets, primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; emphasizing American cultural contexts, national identity, vernacular language, and formal innovations.
ENG 340 American Drama
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Special attention to the twentieth century.
ENG 341 Multicultural Autobiography
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Examines autobiographies as complex examples of culture, of lived experience within culture, and as textual representations of cultural reciprocity and transvaluation.
ENG 342 Studies in American Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected texts and topics in the literature of the United States and Canada chosen by the instructor: the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Mountain School, Latino/a literature, domestic literature, etc.
ENG 343 Native American Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Studies the oral and written literature of Native Americans.
ENG 344 Visions of America
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Texts in which American writers attempt to create, define, or revise our sense of a national culture are read in detail and within their larger cultural contexts.
ENG 345 Studies in English and American Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected topics emphasizing the transatlantic connections of literature written in English; transatlantic Puritanism, literature of the 'new woman,' Freud and modern fiction, literature of World War I, family history.
ENG 346 Studies in English and American Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Selected topics emphasizing the transatlantic connections of literature written in English; transatlantic Puritanism, literature of the 'new woman,' Freud and modern fiction, literature of World War I, family history.
ENG 348 Family History
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
A representative sampling of modern American fiction that focuses on issues and problems of family history.
ENG 349 Modern Poetry
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A careful reading and analysis of the major modern British and American poets, in relation to movements of modern thought and action.
ENG 350 Modern Poetry
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A careful reading and analysis of the major modern British and American poets, in relation to movements of modern thought and action.
ENG 351 Modern Drama
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Selections from English and Continental dramatists since World War I.
ENG 352 Modern Novel
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Significant novelists, English, American, and Continental, since the rise of naturalism.
ENG 353 European Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Continental fiction writers since the eighteenth century, emphasizing Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Zola, Kafka, Mann, Camus, Beckett.
ENG 354 European Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Continental fiction writers since the eighteenth century, emphasizing Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Zola, Kafka, Mann, Camus, Beckett.
ENG 355 European Drama
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Plays illustrating major developments in Continental dramatic literature.
ENG 357 Contemporary Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Texts in English and other languages illustrating significant currents in the literature of our day.
ENG 358 Experimental Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Novels and short stories of the modernist and postmodernist movements, with special attention to experimental techniques and the rationales that underlie them.
ENG 359 The Bible as Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Extensive reading in the Bible, with some consideration of modern biblical scholarship; explores the more important uses of religious and biblical ideas in various periods of English and American literature.
ENG 360 The Bible as Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Extensive reading in the Bible, with some consideration of modern biblical scholarship; explores the more important uses of religious and biblical ideas in various periods of English and American literature.
ENG 361 Folklore
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Content, structure, and function of traditional folklore genres (tale, myth, ballad, riddle, proverb), theoretical and practical survey of oral forms and oral history using major folklore collections, both printed and recorded.
ENG 362 Folklore
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Content, structure, and function of traditional folklore genres (tale, myth, ballad, riddle, proverb), theoretical and practical survey of oral forms and oral history using major folklore collections, both printed and recorded.
ENG 363 Children's Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Literary works primarily written for or read by children.
ENG 365 African American Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Historical review of African-American writers from the eighteenth century to the present.
ENG 366 African American Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Historical review of African-American writers from the eighteenth century to the present.
ENG 367 Literature and Psychology
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Methods and basic texts of modern psychology (psychoanalysis, theory of archetypes, Lacanian theory), and their application to works of literature.
ENG 368 Literature and Psychology
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Methods and basic texts of modern psychology (psychoanalysis, theory of archetypes, Lacanian theory), and their application to works of literature.
ENG 369 Literature and the History of Ideas
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Major literary and philosophical texts of Western culture in their historical contexts, read as imaginative strategies or modes of consciousness responding to perennial human problems.
ENG 370 Multimedia Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Addresses the meeting of literature and technology by examining multimedia fiction, poetry, and criticism available on CD-ROM and the World Wide Web.
ENG 372 Special Topics
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A study in a current topic of interest.
ENG 373 Biography and Autobiography
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Reading and analyzing major biographies and autobiographies from antiquity to the present.
ENG 374 Best Sellers
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Selected titles in fiction and nonfiction from current best-seller lists: their artistic, cultural, ideological, and social significance; relationships among commercial, pop, and high art standards.
ENG 375 Heaven, Hell, and Judgment: Myth and Image
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Examines the iconography and literature of the sacred tradition in art.
ENG 376 Approaches to Literature: Popular Culture
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Studies the effects of mass culture on the popular arts, with relevant theory.
ENG 377 Modern Poetry, Painting, and Music
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Addresses the interdisciplinary topic of the relationship of modern poetry to developments in music and the visual arts.
ENG 378 Approaches to Literature: Science Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
Advanced study of science fiction works by such authors as Clarke, Lem, Delany, and LeGuin, with related films.
ENG 379 Film Genres
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC/LAB
Studies various film genres (melodrama, horror, film noir, comedy, science fiction, westerns) and sub-genres (maternal melodrama, splatter films, police procedurals, cyberpunk) as artistic texts and as Hollywood marketing strategies.
ENG 380 Postcolonial Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Focuses on literary works produced by people living in countries formerly colonized by other nations or by people living in diasporic communities whose connections can be traced back to locations such as Africa, Australia, South Asia, the Caribbean, China, India, Ireland, New Zealand, or Pakistan.
ENG 381 Mythology
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Considers mythology both as a kind of knowing and as 'sacred stories' in religion, literature, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and science.
ENG 382 Books of the Ancient Mayas
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Close study of Mayan texts, alphabetic and hieroglyphic, in English translation.
ENG 383 Literature and Society
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Problems in the relations of literature to history, society, and culture, as chosen by the instructor.
ENG 384 Short Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Satisfies later literature requirement
An advanced course in short fiction from the middle ages to the present, selected by the individual instructor.
ENG 385 Literature and Gender
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Studies the way literature contributes to and challenges the gender divisions in culture and society.
ENG 389 Creative Writing: Poetry
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Workshop in techniques of writing poetry, demanding regular verse productions by the student.
ENG 390 Creative Writing: Poetry
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Workshop in techniques of writing poetry, demanding regular verse productions by the student.
ENG 391 Creative Writing: Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Workshop in forms of the novel and short story: techniques of narration, exposition, structural experimentation, thematic invention.
ENG 392 Creative Writing: Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Workshop in forms of the novel and short story: techniques of narration, exposition, structural experimentation, thematic invention.
ENG 393 Ethics in Journalism
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Examines the ethical considerations that confront journalists in print and electronic media.
ENG 394 Journalism: Words and Pictures
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Introduces documentary and journalistic issues in the media age.
ENG 395 Writing Workshop
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: TUT
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Intensive practice in writing; specific approach chosen by instructor.
ENG 396 Writing Workshop
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: TUT
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Intensive practice in writing; specific approach chosen by instructor.
ENG 397 Literary Journalism
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Workshop in forms of writing about books and intellectual issues, not specifically limited to the academic or scholarly community: book reviews, magazine editorials, nontechnical nonfiction. LEC
ENG 398 Journalism
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Specific problems of journalistic writing chosen by instructor. LEC
ENG 399 Journalism
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Specific problems of journalistic writing chosen by instructor. LEC
ENG 400 Honors Seminar
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
See description of departmental honors program.
ENG 401 Honors Seminar
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
May satisfy earlier or later requirement.
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
See description of departmental honors program.
ENG 407 Authors: James Joyce
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Concentrated and detailed study of the works, biography, and milieu of James Joyce.
ENG 409 Mark Twain
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Concentrated and detailed study of the works, biography, and milieu of Mark Twain.
ENG 410 Authors
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Concentrated and detailed study of the works, biography, and milieu of a single author, chosen by the instructor.
ENG 411 William Faulkner
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Concentrated and detailed study of the works, biography, and milieu of William Faulkner.
ENG 412 Authors
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Concentrated and detailed study of the works, biography, and milieu of a single author, chosen by the instructor.
ENG 413 Film Directors
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Examines the films of individual directors, both Hollywood and European.
ENG 414 Authors
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Concentrated and detailed study of the works, biography, and milieu of a single author, chosen by instructor.
ENG 417 Epic Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Two or more of the major epics of English or world literature (Homer, Virgil, Beowulf, Tasso, Milton) viewed in the context of epic theory, from Aristotle to the present; works of prose fiction that have arguably epic dimensions (Tolstoy's War and Peace, Mann's Buddenbrooks), chosen by instructor.
ENG 418 Epic Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Satisfies earlier literature requirement
Two or more of the major epics of English or world literature (Homer, Virgil, Beowulf, Tasso, Milton) viewed in the context of epic theory, from Aristotle to the present; works of prose fiction that have arguably epic dimensions (Tolstoy's War and Peace, Mann's Buddenbrooks), chosen by instructor.
ENG 420 Film Theory
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
What is cinema? Is it about movement or time? What is the role of off-screen space? Why is it taboo for a character to look at the camera? Do close-ups bring us closer to objects on screen, increase their scale, or open up a new dimension of space? We pursue these and other questions in studies of the ontological nature of film.
ENG 421 Comedy
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Reading and analyzing major figures of comedy from Aristophanes to the present; theories of comedy tested against specific literary works.
ENG 423 Satire
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Reading and analyzing major satirists, from classical literature to the present; theories of satire tested against specific literary works.
ENG 424 Satire
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Reading and analyzing major satirists, from classical literature to the present; theories of satire tested against specific literary works.
ENG 425 Lyric Poetry
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Focuses on the lyric poetry tradition from the medieval period to the postmodern, with attention to formal traditions and innovations.
ENG 426 Studies in Genre
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM/REC
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
ENG 427 Studies in the Novel
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Similar to ENG 253 but utilizing texts, methodologies, and theories of greater sophistication and scope; requires mastery of advanced analytical skills.
ENG 428 Studies in Genre: Drama
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Similar to ENG 259 but utilizing texts, methodologies, and theories of greater sophistication and scope; requires mastery of advanced analytical skills.
ENG 429 Studies in Genre
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
ENG 430 Topics in African American History
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Selected readings in African American literature chosen by the instructor.
ENG 431 Critical Theory
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Reading and analyzing selected theories of criticism and of literary texts that illustrate them.
ENG 432 Critical Theory
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Reading and analyzing selected theories of criticism and of literary texts that illustrate them.
ENG 433 Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
For advanced students.
ENG 434 Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
For advanced students.
ENG 435 Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
For advanced students.
ENG 436 Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
For advanced students.
ENG 437 Advanced Writing Workshop
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
For advanced students working in forms other than poetry or fiction.
ENG 439 Social Documentary
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Work of important documentary artists in various genres (literary, cinematic, photographic), field research and production of a work of social documentation (film, videotape, series of photographs, transcribed interviews, articles).
ENG 440 Social Documentary
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
Work of important documentary artists in various genres (literary, cinematic, photographic), field research and production of a work of social documentation (film, videotape, series of photographs, transcribed interviews, articles).
ENG 441 Cinema
Credits: 3 / 1Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC/LAB
Viewing and analyzing selected films.
ENG 442 Cinema
Credits: 3 / 1Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC/LAB
Viewing and analyzing selected films.
ENG 445 Literature in Translation
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Major texts in English translation, viewed in light of cultural and aesthetic cross-currents, chosen by the instructor.
ENG 446 Literature in Translation
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Major texts in English translation, viewed in light of cultural and aesthetic cross-currents, chosen by the instructor.
ENG 447 Mythology of the Americas
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: LEC
Close reading of selected myths from the Americas as expressed by storytellers, speechmakers, and singers, and in Native American writing systems.
ENG 454 Problems in Literature: Critical Theory
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Reading and analysis of selected theories of criticism and of literary texts that illustrate them.
ENG 455 Problems in Literature
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Reading and analysis of selected themes chosen by the instructor.
ENG 461 Playwriting Workshop
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
A workshop class that gives attention to dialogue, characterization, thematic development, and the dramatic structure of plays, with classes centering on students' work in progress, and assigned plays by contemporary authors.
ENG 462 Playwriting Workshop
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
A workshop class that gives attention to dialogue, characterization, thematic development, and the dramatic structure of plays, with classes centering on students' work in progress, and assigned plays by contemporary authors.
ENG 470 Special Topics
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A study in a current topic of interest.
ENG 475 Special Topics
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A study in a current topic of interest.
ENG 484 Special Topics
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A study in a current topic of interest.
ENG 487 Special Topics
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A study in a current topic of interest.
ENG 493 Special Topics
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: SEM
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
A study in a current topic of interest.
ENG 496 Writing Internship
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: TUT
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Supervised writing in a work setting, by arrangement between the English department, the student, and the employer.
ENG 497 Honors Thesis
Credits: 3Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Type: TUT
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
See description of departmental honors program.
ENG 499 Independent Study
Credits: 1 - 6Semester(s): N/A
Prerequisites: permission of instructor
Corequisites: None
Type: TUT
The content of this course is variable and therefore it is repeatable for credit. The University Grade Repeat Policy does not apply.
Guided reading and directed research under individual faculty advisors. See special instructions.
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