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ENGL 101 Writing from Sources I (5)
Academic reading and graphics from different genres to provide opportunities for noticing lexis and grammar of genre and specific topic. Students discuss topic, receiving feedback on use of structures and lexis, and write short responses to the type of questions that might be asked on exams related to the readings. Sentence-level issues related to sentence structure and lexis. Limited to student admitted to UW with English language requirement. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 102 Essentials of College Reading & Writing (5)
Develop and practice the reading, writing and critical thinking strategies needed for analyzing and responding to academic texts. Strengthen grammar, organization and vocabulary to improve accuracy and fluency in writing. Prerequisite: either ENGL 101 or placement by test score.
ENGL 103 Writing from Sources (5)
Developmental and practice of reading, writing, and critical thinking strategies needed to create organized and correctly documented papers using academic sources. Practices critical reading of academic texts, developing research questions, making claims, determining credibility of sources, and appropriately citing sources in writing. Prerequisite: either ENGL 102 or placement by test score. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 104 Essentials of College Communication (5)
Discover how to take effective notes, give clear presentations and oral reports, and participate in important class discussions. Practice asking engaging questions, sharing opinions, and arguing your point persuasively in the classroom. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 105 English for International Teaching Assistants (5)
Develops language production skills, lesson planning and presentation skills, and TA-student interaction skills related to classroom teaching for international teaching assisants. Requires speak exam.
ENGL 106 Advanced Placement (AP) English Preparation for University Study in English (5, max. 10)
Course awarded based on Advanced Placement (AP) score. Consult the Admissions Exams for Credit website for more information.
ENGL 107 International Baccalaureate (IB) English Preparation for University Study in English (5)
Course awarded based on International Baccalaureate (IB) score. Consult the Admissions Exams for Credit website for more information.
ENGL 108 Writing Ready: Preparing for College Writing (5)
Builds writing confidence through frequent informal writing, and introductions to key learning strategies. Includes user-friendly orientation to library and research documents, revision skills, and peer review work central to 100- and 200-level college writing assignments. Offered: A.
ENGL 109 Critical Composition I: Inquiry (5-) DIV
Approaches writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture, and power. Centers students' diverse language resources and discourse traditions. Builds rhetorical capacities for composing ethically, critically, and impactfully across different contexts, audiences, genres, and goals within the university and beyond. Emphasizes inquiry. English composition awarded if credit received for both ENGL 109 and ENGL 110. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 110 Critical Composition II: Research (-5) C
Approaches writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture, and power. Centers students' diverse language resources and discourse traditions. Builds rhetorical capacities for composing ethically, critically, and impactfully across different contexts, audiences, genres, and goals within the university and beyond. Emphasizes research. English composition awarded if credit received for both ENGL 109 and ENGL 110. Prerequisite: ENGL 109. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 111 Composition: Literature (5) C
Uses narratives to study writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture, and power. Centers students' language resources and goals in developing rhetorical and research skills for composing ethically and critically across different contexts and genres. Prepares students for writing to audiences both within and beyond the university. Prerequisite: may not be taken if minimum grade of 2.0 received in either ENGL 111, ENGL 121, or ENGL 131. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 115 Writing Studio (2)
Supports multilingual students concurrently enrolled in a composition course. Builds academic reading skills in order to analyze complex texts, review, and analyze grammar structures to produce different writing effects. Also assists students to develop critical reflective skills to become better familiarized with the writing and revision process. Credit/no-credit only.
ENGL 121 Composition: Social Issues (5) C
Uses community-engagement learning opportunities to study writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture, and power. Centers students' language resources and goals in developing rhetorical and research skills for composing ethically and critically across different contexts and genres. Prepares students for writing to audiences both within and beyond the university. Includes service learning component. Prerequisite: may not be taken if a minimum grade of 2.0 received in either ENGL 111, ENGL 121, or ENGL 131. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 131 Composition: Exposition (5) C
Uses a variety of texts across genres to study writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture, and power. Centers students' language resources and goals in developing rhetorical and research skills for composing ethically and critically across different contexts and genres. Prepares students for writing to audiences both within and beyond the university. Prerequisite: may not be taken if a minimum grade of 2.0 received in either ENGL 111, ENGL 121, or ENGL 131.
Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 141 The Research Paper (5) C
Includes study of library resources, the analysis of reading materials, and writing preparatory papers as basic to writing a reference or research paper. Prerequisite: Either ENGL 111, ENGL 121, or ENGL 131.
ENGL 182 Composition: Multimodal (5) C
Studies writing as social action and language as tied to identity, culture, and power, focusing on how multimodal elements of writing work together to produce meaning. Centers students' language resources and goals in developing rhetorical and research skills for composing ethically and critically across different contexts and genres. Prepares students for writing to audiences both within and beyond the university. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 195 STUDY ABROAD (1-5, max. 15)
Equivalency for 100-level English courses taken on UW study abroad programs or direct exchanges. General elective credit only; may not apply to major requirements.
ENGL 197 Writing in the Humanities (5, max. 15) C
Offers writing opportunities based on material from an affiliated lecture course or discipline in the humanities. Students strengthen writing practices relevant to course or discipline through drafting, peer reviewing, conferencing, and revising. Concurrent registration in the affiliated lecture course is required, as appropriate.
ENGL 198 Writing in the Social Sciences (5, max. 15) C
Offers writing opportunities based on material from an affiliated lecture course or discipline in the social sciences. Students strengthen writing practices relevant to course or discipline through drafting, peer reviewing, conferencing, and revising. Concurrent registration in the affiliated lecture course is required, as appropriate.
ENGL 199 Writing in the Natural Sciences (5, max. 15) C
Offers writing opportunities based on material from an affiliated lecture course or discipline in the natural sciences. Students strengthen writing practices relevant to course or discipline through drafting, peer reviewing, conferencing, and revising. Concurrent registration in the affiliated lecture course is required, as appropriate.
ENGL 200 Reading Literary Forms (5) A&H
Covers techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, and film. Examines such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 201 Introduction to English Within the Humanities (5) A&H
Concepts in the study of language, literature, history, culture, and civilization. Offers substantive encounters with a range of humanities and methods of study. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 202 Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature (5) A&H
Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.
ENGL 204 Popular Fiction and Media (5) A&H
Introduces students to the study of popular culture, possibly including print or visual media, understood as sites of critical reflection. Particular attention to dynamics of production and reception, aesthetics and technique, and cultural politics. Topics may foreground genres (science fiction; romance) or forms (comics; graffiti). Offered: S.
ENGL 205 Method, Imagination, and Inquiry (5) A&H
Examines ideas of method and imagination in a variety of texts, in literature, philosophy, and science. Particularly concerned with intellectual backgrounds and methods of inquiry that have shaped modern Western literature. Offered: jointly with CHID 205.
ENGL 206 Rhetoric in Everyday Life (5) A&H
Introductory rhetoric course that examines the strategic use of and situated means through which images, texts, objects, and symbols inform, persuade, and shape social practices in various contexts. Topics focus on education, public policy, politics, law, journalism, media, digital cultural, globalization, popular culture, and the arts.
ENGL 207 Introduction to Cultural Studies (5) SSc/A&H
Introduces cultural studies as an interdisciplinary field and practice. Explores multiple histories of the field with an emphasis on current issues and developments. Focuses on culture as a site of political and social debate and struggle. Course equivalent to: BIS 216. Offered: S.
ENGL 208 Data and Narrative (5) DIV
Contexts and differential impacts of various data and the narratives created around them. How data are communicated through narrative: the stories data tell for good or ill; the stories we tell about data; the harm and histories of various data; the content data narratives obscure; and their asymmetrical effects on diverse groups. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 210 Medieval and Early Modern Literature, 400 to 1600 (5) A&H
Introduces literature from the Middle Ages and the Age of Shakespeare, focusing on major works that have shaped the development of literary and intellectual traditions of these periods. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 211 Literature, 1500-1800 (5) A&H
Introduces literature from the Age of Shakespeare to the American and French Revolutions, focusing on major works that have shaped the development of literary and intellectual traditions in these centuries. Topics include: The Renaissance, religious and political reforms, exploration and colonialism, vernacular cultures, and scientific thought. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 212 Literature, 1700-1900 (5) A&H
Introduces eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, focusing on representative works that illustrate literary and intellectual developments of the period. Topics include: exploration, empire, colonialism, slavery, revolution, and nation-building. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 213 Modern and Postmodern Literature (5) A&H
Introduces twentieth-century literature and contemporary literature, focusing on representative works that illustrate literary and intellectual developments since 1900.
ENGL 225 Shakespeare (5) A&H
Introduces Shakespeare's career as dramatist, with study of representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and history plays.
ENGL 242 Reading Prose Fiction (5) A&H
Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods.
ENGL 243 Reading Poetry (5) A&H
Critical interpretation and meaning in poems, representing a variety of types and periods.
ENGL 244 Reading Drama (5) A&H
Critical interpretation and meaning in plays, representing a variety of types and periods.
ENGL 250 American Literature (5) A&H
Introduces American culture through a careful reading of a variety of representative texts in their historical contexts.
ENGL 251 Literature and American Political Culture (5) A&H/SSc
Introduction to the methods and theories used in the analysis of American culture. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to American literature, including history, politics, anthropology, and mass media. Offered: jointly with POL S 281.
ENGL 256 Introduction to Queer Cultural Studies (5) SSc, DIV
Examines the cultural practices in literature, film, and art that articulate and give meaning to bodies, sexualities, and desires. Teaches critical thinking about identity, power, inequalities, and marginality. Offered: jointly with GWSS 264.
ENGL 257 Asian American Literature (5) A&H, DIV
Examines the emergence of Asian American literature as a response to anti-Asian legislation, cultural images, and American racial formation. Encourages thinking critically about identity, power, inequalities, and experiences of marginality.
ENGL 258 Introduction African American Literature (5) A&H, DIV
Introduction to various genres of African American literature from its beginnings to the present. Emphasizes the cultural and historical context of African American literary expression and its aesthetics criteria. Explores key issues and debates, such as race and racism, inequality, literary form, and canonical acceptance. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 214.
ENGL 259 Literature and Social Difference (5) A&H, DIV
Literary texts are important evidence for social difference (gender, race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship status, sexuality, ability) in contemporary and historical contexts. Examines texts that encourage and provoke us to ask larger questions about identity, power, privilege, society, and the role of culture in present-day or historical settings.
ENGL 265 Introduction to Environmental Humanities (5) SSc/A&H, DIV
Introduces the study of the environment through literature, culture, and history. Topics include changing ideas about nature, wilderness, ecology, pollution, climate, and human/animal relations, with particular emphasis on environmental justice and the unequal distribution of environmental crises, both globally and along class, race and gender lines.
ENGL 266 Literature and Technology (5) A&H
Provides an introduction to manuscript, print, and digital media cultures with a focus on the production and dissemination of literature in English. Topics include the history of the book, reading and reception, orality and literacy, editing and publishing, early computing, and the future of literary writing in a digital era.
ENGL 267 Introduction to Data Science in the Humanities (5) A&H
Concepts and methods in data science and their applications to humanistic research in language, literature, and culture. Also examines humanistic perspectives on the cultural use and applications of data in society. Course overlaps with: TXTDS 267. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 270 The Uses of the English Language (5) A&H
Surveys the assumptions, methodologies, and major issues of English in its cultural settings. Connects English language study with the study of literature, orality and literacy, education, ethnicity, gender, and public policy.
ENGL 277 Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature (5) A&H
Introduction to creative works written for children and young adults, with emphasis on historical, cultural, institutional, and industrial contexts of production and reception. Also examines changing assumptions about the social and educational function of children's and young adult literature.
ENGL 281 Intermediate Expository Writing (5) C
Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression. Course overlaps with: BIS 290.
ENGL 282 Intermediate Multimodal Composition (5) C
Strategies for composing effective multimodal texts for print, digital physical delivery, with focus on affordances of various modes--words, images, sound, design, and gesture--and genres to address specific rhetorical situations both within and beyond the academy. Although the course has no prerequisites, instructors assume knowledge of academic writing.
ENGL 283 Beginning Verse Writing (5) A&H
Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.
ENGL 284 Beginning Short Story Writing (5) A&H
Introduction to the theory and practice of writing the short story.
ENGL 285 Writers on Writing (5) A&H
Experiencing literature from the inside. Members of the creative writing faculty and other practicing writers discuss their poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction, literary inspiration, artistic practice, and the writer's life.
ENGL 288 Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing (5) C
Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 289 Business Writing (5) C
Theory and practice of written, visual, and digital writing within business contexts. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 295 Study Abroad (1-5, max. 30) A&H
Equivalency for 200-level English courses taken on UW study abroad programs or direct exchanges. May not apply to major requirements.
ENGL 296 Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences (5) C
Develops critical literacy in the diffuse but interlocking disciplines of the natural sciences. Through analysis and composition of various texts, students become authoritative participants in scientific discourse while also becoming familiar with ways that Western values are embedded and centered (often invisibly) in the sciences and its related institutions. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 297 Intermediate Writing in the Humanities (5, max. 15) C
Offers writing opportunities based on material from an affiliated lecture course or discipline in the humanities. Students strengthen writing practices relevant to course or discipline through drafting, peer reviewing, conferencing, and revising. Concurrent registration in the affiliated lecture course is required, as appropriate. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 298 Intermediate Writing in the Social Sciences (5, max. 15) C
Offers writing opportunities based on material from an affiliated lecture course or discipline in the social sciences. Students strengthen writing practices relevant to course or discipline through drafting, peer reviewing, conferencing, and revising. Concurrent registration in the affiliated lecture course is required, as appropriate. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 299 Intermediate Writing in the Natural Sciences (5, max. 15) C
Offers writing opportunities based on material from an affiliated lecture course or discipline in the natural sciences. Students strengthen writing practices relevant to course or discipline through drafting, peer reviewing, conferencing, and revising. Concurrent registration in the affiliated lecture course is required, as appropriate. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 300 Reading Major Texts (5) A&H
Intensive examination of one or a few major works of literature that have stood the test of time. Classroom work to develop skills of careful and critical reading. Readings consist of major works by significant pre-contemporary authors and of selected supplementary materials. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 302 Critical Practice (5) A&H
Intensive study of, and exercise in, applying important or influential interpretive practices for studying language, literature, and culture, along with consideration of their powers/limits. Focuses on developing critical writing abilities. Topics vary and may include critical and interpretive practice from scripture and myth to more contemporary approaches, including newer interdisciplinary practices. Prerequisite: minimum 2.0 in ENGL 202.
ENGL 303 History of Literary Criticism and Theory I (5) A&H
Literary criticism and theory from its beginnings in Plato through the early twentieth century. Philosophical and theoretical grounds for critical practice put forward by philosophers and critics.
ENGL 304 History of Literary Criticism and Theory II (5) A&H
Provides an introduction to contemporary literary, cultural, and critical theory and modern antecedents. Explores frameworks used in study of literature and culture by scholars today.
ENGL 305 Theories of Imagination (5) A&H/SSc
Survey of theories of imagination since the seventeenth century. Focuses on the uses of the concept in literature, criticism, science, and society.
ENGL 306 Introduction to Rhetoric (5) A&H
Introduces rhetorical theory from the classical period to the present, including an overview of core issues, vocabulary, and concepts in rhetorical theory; a discussion of methods for studying rhetoric, and a consideration of the social importance of studying rhetoric in the contemporary moment.
ENGL 307 Cultural Studies (5) A&H
Overview of cultural studies with a focus on reading texts or objects using cultural studies methods and writing analytic essays using cultural studies methods. Focuses on culture as a site of political and social debate and struggle.
ENGL 308 Marxism and Literary Theory (5) A&H
Introduces Marxist theory and methodology. Explores how and why Marx's writings, Marxist theory, and materialist methods became central to the study of literature and culture over the course of the twentieth century.
ENGL 309 Theories of Reading (5) A&H
Investigates what it means to be a reader. Centers on authorial and reading challenges, shifting cultural and theoretical norms, and changes in the public's reading standards.
ENGL 310 The Bible as Literature (5) A&H
Introduction to the development of the religious ideas and institutions of ancient Israel, with selected readings from the Old Testament and New Testament. Emphasis on reading The Bible with literary and historical understanding.
ENGL 311 Modern Jewish Literature in Translation (5) A&H
Survey of Jewish experience and its literary expression since 1880. Includes such Yiddish writers as Sholom Aleichem, Peretz, and I. B. Singer; such Israeli writers as Agnon, Hazaz, and Appelfeld; and such writers in non-Jewish languages as Primo Levi and Kafka.
ENGL 312 Jewish Literature: Biblical to Modern (5) SSc/A&H, DIV
A study of Jewish literature from Biblical narrative and rabbinic commentary to modern prose and poetry with intervening texts primarily organized around major themes: martyrdom and suffering, destruction and exile, messianism, Hasidism and Enlightenment, Yiddishism and Zionism. Various critical approaches; geographic and historic contexts. Course overlaps with: MELC 310. Offered: jointly with JEW ST 312.
ENGL 313 Modern European Literature in Translation (5) A&H
Covers selected fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction (diaries, manifestos, etc.) in translation by European writers from the mid-19th century to the present. Considers questions of aesthetics, history, and form. Writers may include Bachmann, Baudelaire, Brecht, Celan, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Ferrante, Flaubert, Ibsen, Jelinek, Kafka, Perec, Proust, Rilke, Tsvetaeva, and Undset.
ENGL 314 Transatlantic Literature and Culture (5) A&H
Explores literatures and cultures produced in the Atlantic world. Emphasizes historical lines of communication and exchange among Atlantic cultures and their literature.
ENGL 315 Literary Modernism (5) A&H
Introduces the genealogy, character, and consequences, of modernism/modernity. Topics may include: preoccupations with novelty/the new; narratives of historical development; temporality; constructions of high and low culture; intersections between aesthetics and politics; transnationalism; and philosophical influences upon literary modernism.
ENGL 316 Postcolonial Literature and Culture (5, max. 10) A&H, DIV
Readings of major texts and writers in postcolonial literature and culture. Surveys some of the most important questions and debates in postcolonial literature, including issues of identity, globalization, language, and nationalism. Cultural focus may vary; see professor for specific details.
ENGL 317 Literature of the Americas (5) A&H, DIV
Examines writings by and about people of the Americas, with a focus on intersections of gender, colonialism, race, sexuality, and ethnicity.
ENGL 318 Black Literary Genres (5) A&H, DIV
Considers how generic forms and conventions have been discussed and distributed in the larger context of African American, or other African diasporic literary studies. Links the relationship between generic forms to questions of power within social, cultural, and historical contexts. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 318; AWSp.
ENGL 319 African Literatures (5) A&H, DIV
Introduces and explores African literatures from a range of regions. Pays particular attention to writings connected with the historical experiences of colonialism, anti-colonial resistance, and decolonization. Considers the operations of race, gender, nationhood, neocolonialism, and globalization within and across these writings. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 320 English Literature: The Middle Ages (5) A&H
Literary culture of Middle Ages in England, as seen in selected works from earlier and later periods, ages of Beowulf and of Geoffrey Chaucer. Read in translation, except for a few later works, which are read in Middle English.
ENGL 321 Chaucer (5) A&H
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other poetry, with attention to Chaucer's social, historical, and intellectual milieu.
ENGL 322 Medieval and Early Modern Literatures of Encounter (5) A&H, DIV
Cultural encounters across medieval and early modern worlds, with particular attention to how these works depict cultural difference, race/racism, and geopolitical power.
ENGL 323 Shakespeare to 1603 (5) A&H
Explores Shakespeare's early drama and poetry. May include the sonnets, narrative poems, and selected comedies, histories, or tragedies.
ENGL 324 Shakespeare after 1603 (5) A&H
Explores Shakespeare's later works. Focuses on the mature tragedies and late-career romances, by may include selected comedies and histories.
ENGL 325 Early Modern Literature (5) A&H
Covers selected poetry, prose, and/or drama from the English Renaissance through the English Civil War and Commonwealth. Readings may include Petrarchism and the early English laureates, early defenses of poesy, the first essays, works by Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries, the metaphysical poets, Milton, and early transatlantic writers such as Anne Bradstreet.
ENGL 326 Milton (5) A&H
Milton's early poems and the prose; Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, with attention to the religious, intellectual, and literary contexts.
ENGL 327 Narratives of Bondage and Freedom (5) A&H, DIV
Atlantic slavery's impress on culture and politics from 1619 to the present through comparison of literature written before and after Emancipation. Treats historical slave narratives and other archives of slavery in relation to contemporary narratives of social death, captivity, and incarceration. Explores transformation of ideas of "bondage" and "freedom" over time.
ENGL 328 Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture (5) A&H
Explores an era that saw the development of the novel, newspapers, and magazines; the formation of a modern public sphere; and the entrance of women, working-class, and Black writers into the literary marketplace. Readings introduce a world marked by extremes of poverty and luxury, tradition and revolution, enlightened reason and subversive feeling.
ENGL 329 Rise of the English Novel (5) A&H
Traces the development of a major and popular modern literary genre - the novel. Readings survey forms of fiction including the picaresque, the gothic, the epistolary novel, and the romance. Authors range from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen and beyond.
ENGL 330 English Literature: The Romantic Age (5) A&H
Literary, intellectual, and historical ferment of the period from the French Revolution to the 1830s. Readings from major authors in different literary forms; discussions of critical and philosophical issues in a time of change.
ENGL 331 Globalization and Nationalism in the Age of Empire (5) A&H, DIV
How empire and colonialism have shaped the modern world, including the global flows of people, commodities, and ideas. Includes colonialism and imperialism, the slave trade and abolition, extractive industry, and resource frontiers; nationalism, independence and resistance movements. Connections between empire and cultural production.
ENGL 332 Nineteenth-Century Poetry (5) A&H
Examines the enduring influence of literary Romanticism, the growth of reading publics, and the globalization of anglophone print culture in the nineteenth century, an age when poetry enjoyed both great prestige and great popularity, producing many of the best-known and best-loved poems in English. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 333 Nineteenth-Century Novel (5) A&H
Romantic and Victorian phases of the English novel, including realism, gothic, historical fiction, and the emergence of science and detective fiction. Authors such as: Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, H.G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 335 English Literature: The Victorian Age (5) A&H
Examines literary works from Victorian Britain and its empire (1837-1901), paired with contemporary social, scientific, and historical developments such as industrialization; urbanization; child labor; imperial expansion; scientific ideas of evolution and geologic time; changing ideas of gender/sexuality; mass education and mass literacy; and the popularization of print media.
ENGL 336 English Literature: Early Twentieth Century (5) A&H
Explores fiction, poetry, and drama in English from the period of 1900-1945. Considers the literature in socio-historical context. Modernism, realism, imperialism, and questions f nationality may be foregrounded.
ENGL 337 The Modern Novel (5) A&H
Explores the novel in English from the first half of the twentieth century. May include such writers as Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, E.M. Forster, Claude McKay, Elizabeth Bowen, Raja Rao, William Faulkner, Jean Rhys, and Edith Wharton. Includes history and changing aesthetics of the novel as form, alongside the sociohistorical context.
ENGL 338 Modern Poetry (5) A&H
Covers poetry from the 1890s through the 1940s, focusing on modernism and the avant-garde. This period, with the birth of free verse, is one of formal and social tumult. Likely topics include Imagism and Dada; the Harlem Renaissance; World War I and the Great Depression; urbanization; and the New Woman. Authors may include Eliot, H.D., Hughes, Loy, Moore, Pound, Stein, Stevens, Williams, and Yeats.
ENGL 339 Globalization and Contemporary World Literature (5) A&H, DIV
Literary genres and styles of the era of globalization. Considers the deep contradictions between new global elite readerships and the experiences of migrants and historically marginalized groups.
ENGL 340 Irish Literature (5) A&H
Examines how Irish writers have responded to Ireland's history of being divided by both British colonialism and religious conflict. Covers how these authors brought literary experimentation and innovation to Celtic storytelling traditions. Varied readings, with some imagining a unified Irish identity, while others explore the continued legacies of colonialism on issues of gender, race, religion, and citizenship. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 341 Studies in the Novel (5) A&H
Explores the workings and evolution of the novel. Introduces the distinct styles and purposes of the novel, such as the romance, the roman-a-clef, realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism.
ENGL 342 Contemporary Novel (5) A&H
Study of recent fiction by diverse writers with attention to contemporary ideas in all kinds of forms.
ENGL 343 Studies in Poetry (5) A&H
Explores the workings and development of poetry and poetic theory. Possible topics may include theories and practices of individual genres (e.g. lyric, epic, romance, verse drama) or subgenres (e.g. the ode, the sonnet, the sestina) and verse forms (regular meter vs. free verse).
ENGL 344 Studies in Drama (5) A&H
Explores the workings and historical development of theatrical practices, including performance and spectatorship more broadly. Possible topics include genres of drama (tragedy, mystery play, melodrama, agitprop); histories of drama (Elizabethan theater, Theater of the Absurd, the Mbari Mbayo club, In-Your-Face Theater; and theorists of performance and dramaturgy.
ENGL 345 Studies in Film (5) A&H
Types, techniques, and issues explored by filmmakers. Emphasis on narrative, image, and point of view.
ENGL 346 Studies in Short Fiction (5) A&H
The American and English short story, with attention to the influence of writers of other cultures. Aspects of the short story that distinguish it, in style and purpose, from longer fiction.
ENGL 347 Studies in Non-Fiction Prose (5) A&H
Explores the workings and evolution of non-fiction prose, Introduces the distinct styles and purposes on non-fiction prose such as autobiography, biography, personal essay, reflective and meditative writing, social and scientific inquiry, and persuasive writing.
ENGL 348 Studies in Popular Culture (5) A&H
Explores one or more popular genres (fantasy, romance, mystery) or media (comics, television, videogames), with attention to historical development, distinctive formal features, and reading protocols. May include study of audience, reception histories, or fan cultures.
ENGL 349 Science Fiction and Fantasy (5) A&H
Study of historical developments and debates within the genres of fantasy and/or science fiction, with attention to the ideological implications of these genres' characteristic techniques for constructing alternatives to existing social norms and realisms. Course overlaps with: T LIT 391. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 350 American Fiction (5) A&H
Study of novels and shorter fiction by diverse writers, ranging from the earliest narratives to the present. Considers the history and aesthetics of genres of fiction as embedded in their social and cultural context.
ENGL 351 Writing in the Contact Zone: North America to 1800 (5) A&H
Examines the genres that render the encounter of indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans in the first three centuries of colonization. May include chronicles, memoirs, captivity and conversion narratives, sermons, indigenous oral traditions, court records, epic and lyric poetry, and slave narratives.
ENGL 352 Literatures of the United States to 1865 (5) A&H
Examines literatures of the early national period through the Civil War. How does the establishment of national political institutions and a national public culture affect literary production and reception? How are competing conceptions of the nation, the people, citizenship, democracy, industrialization, land, slavery, gender, race, and class represented and debated? Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 353 American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century (5) A&H
Explores American fiction, poetry, and prose during the latter half of the nineteenth century. May include such representative authors of the period as Twain, Dickinson, DuBois, Crane, Wharton and Chopin, along with supplementary study of the broader cultural and political milieu.
ENGL 354 American Literature: Early Twentieth Century (5) A&H
Investigates the period of American literary modernism (1900 to WW II). Topics include nationalism, migration, race, gender, and the impact of the visual arts on literary modernism, as well as the relation between modernity/modernization (social, economic, and technological transformation) and modernism (revolution in literary style).
ENGL 355 Contemporary American Literature (5) A&H
Examines the production of texts circulating through various genres, media, and forms in recent American culture. Constituting a cultural and social history of the present, features diverse voices and examines how texts are shaped by, or in turn shape, systems of power. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 356 American Poetry (5) A&H
Examines American poetry in its historical and cultural contexts. Possible authors include Dickinson, Whitman, Eliot, Frost, Hughes, Brooks, Ginsberg, and Plath.
ENGL 357 Jewish American Literature and Culture (5) A&H, DIV
Examines the literary and cultural production of American Jews from the colonial period to the present time. Considers ways in which American Jews assimilate and resist assimilation while Jewish writers, filmmakers, playwrights, and graphic novelists imitate and alter American life and literature. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 358 African American Literature (5) A&H, DIV
Selected writings, novels, short stories, plays, and poems by African American and African-descended writers in or from the United States. Study of the historical, cultural, and intellectual context for the development of literary work by such writers, including attention to identity, power, and inequality. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 358.
ENGL 359 Contemporary American Indian Literature (5) A&H, DIV
Creative writings (novels, short stories, poems) of contemporary Indian authors; the traditions out of which these works evolved. Differences between Indian writers and writers of the dominant European/American mainstream. Offered: jointly with AIS 377.
ENGL 360 American Literature and Culture (5) A&H/SSc
American literature and culture in its political and cultural context. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to American literature and culture, including history, politics, anthropology, and mass media.
ENGL 361 American Political Culture: After 1865 (5) A&H/SSc, DIV
American literature in its political and cultural context from the Civil War to the present. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to American literature, including history, politics, anthropology, and mass media. Includes attention to thinking critically about differences of power and inequality stemming from sociocultural, political, and economic difference.
ENGL 362 Latino Literary Genres (5) A&H, DIV
Considers how conventions of genre have been distributed in U.S Latino literature and beyond in networks of Latino transnationalism and trans-border exchanges. Links the relationship between generic forms to questions of power within social, cultural, and historical contexts.
ENGL 363 Literature and the Other Arts and Disciplines (5, max. 10) A&H
Examines the relationships between literature and other arts: for example, painting, photography, architecture, and music; or between literature and other disciplines, such as sciences (e.g. biology, physics, and math) and social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology, fashion, and environmental studies).
ENGL 364 Literature and Medicine (5) A&H/SSc
How changing concepts of doctor-patient relationship and of body depicted in literary texts affect decisions throughout the human life cycle. Medicine and disease as metaphors for personal experience and social analysis.
ENGL 365 Literature and Environment (5) A&H, DIV
Covers ecocriticism, the study of literature and environment. Explores both environmental writing and the way literature and other cultural artifacts reflect environmental issues, including their intersection with history, inequality, and systems of power, and the placing of humanistic methods in dialogue with the sciences. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 366 Literature and Law (5) A&H
Introduces and explores topics in law and literature, with a focus on the relationship between legal materials and literary or cultural imaginaries. Surveys debates in the field of law and literature or focuses on a specific problem, genre, or historical period.
ENGL 367 Gender Studies in Literature (5, max. 15) A&H, DIV
The study of contemporary approaches to analyzing the gender politics of literature and culture. Examines special topics in the history and development of the major theoretical trends, including the relationship of certain theories of gender to relevant works of literature.
ENGL 368 Women Writers (5, max. 15) A&H, DIV
Investigates how perceptions of "woman writer" shape understandings of women's literary works and the forms in which they compose. Examines texts by women writers with attention to sociocultural, economic, and political context. Considers gender as a form of social difference as well as power relationships structured around gender inequality.
ENGL 369 Research Methods in Language and Rhetoric (5) A&H
Introduces research theories and methodological approaches in language and rhetoric. Methods and content focus vary by instructor and may include ethnography, corpus analysis, case study, discourse analysis, rhetorical criticism, and various other qualitative and quantitative research methods.
ENGL 370 English Language Study (5) A&H
Wide-ranging introduction to the study of written and spoken English. Includes the nature of language; ways of describing language; the use of language study as an approach to English literature and the teaching of English.
ENGL 371 English Syntax (5) A&H
Description of sentence, phrase, and word structures in present-day English.
ENGL 372 World Englishes (5) A&H, DIV
Examines historical, linguistic, economic, and sociopolitical forces involved in the diversification of Global/New Englishes. Attention to changing power relations, language hierarchies, and inequalities associated with the teaching, learning, and use of English. Explores current debates on linguistic imperialism and resistance, concepts of 'mother tongue', nativeness, comprehensibility/intelligibility judgments, and language ownership.
ENGL 373 History of the English Language (5) A&H
Explores evolution of English sounds, forms, structures, and word meanings form Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Topics include the history of standardizing practices, colonial/post-colonial English, the evolution of English words, and textual history.
ENGL 374 The Language of Literature (5) A&H
Examines the ways that literary texts structure and use language. Topics may include sound, meter, style, sentence and discourse structure, conversation strategies, narrative orientation, and/or dialect/variation in literature.
ENGL 375 Rhetorical Genre Theory and Practice (5)
Explores the workings and evolution of rhetorical genres as they emerge from and shape recurring social situations. Focuses on the relationship between form and content, and how the typified rhetorical features and linguistic styles of genres are related to specific purposes, activities, relations, and identities.
ENGL 376 Introduction to Middle English Language (5) A&H
Explores the language and culture of the Middle English period in England (1100-1500). Examines Middle English texts, the cultural importance of written material, the shifting roles of literacy in early England, the relationship to French and Latin, the regional dialects of English in the period, and manuscript culture. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 378 Special Topics in Genre, Method, and Language (5, max. 15) A&H
Introduces and explores a specific question or topic pertaining to the study of genre, method, or language. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 379 Special Topics in Power and Difference (5) A&H
Introduces and explores a specific question or topic related to how systems of power and social difference operate in and through language, literature, and culture.
ENGL 380 Special Topics in Literature, Culture, and History (5, max. 15) A&H
Introduces and explores a specific area of history as it has influenced the production, practice, or study of literature, language, and culture in English. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 381 Advanced Expository Writing (5) C
Concentration on the development of prose style for experienced writers.
ENGL 382 Special Topics in Multimodal Composition (5, max. 10) C
Focuses on emerging questions, debates, genres, and methods of multimodal analysis and production. Topics vary but might include transmedia storytelling, digital humanities, audiovisual essays, new media journalism, and performance. Although course has no prerequisites, instructors, assume knowledge of academic argumentation strategies.
ENGL 383 The Craft of Verse (5) A&H
Intensive study of various aspects of the craft verse. Readings in contemporary verse and writing using emulation and imitation. Prerequisite: ENGL 283; ENGL 284.
ENGL 384 The Craft of Prose (5) A&H
Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. Readings in contemporary prose and writing using emulation and imitation. Prerequisite: ENGL 283; ENGL 284.
ENGL 385 Global Modernisms (5) A&H, DIV
Includes anglophone modernisms from the global south as well as Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian diasporic modernisms; narratives of historical development and modernity; intersections between art and politics; global circulation of ideas, artifacts, and forms.
ENGL 386 Asian American Literature (5) A&H/SSc, DIV
Examines different forms of Asian American expression as a response to racial formations in local and global contexts. Teaches critical thinking about identity, power, inequalities, and marginality.
ENGL 387 Screenwriting (5) A&H
Students read screenwriting manuals and screenplays, analyze exemplary films, and write synopses, treatments, and first acts of their own screenplays. Course overlaps with: T FILM 450.
ENGL 388 Professional and Technical Writing (5) C
Prepares students to become conscious and conscientious communicators in various modes, platforms, and professions. Recommended: ENGL 288. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 390 Careers in Technical and Professional Communication (5) C
Covers how to successfully negotiate the job market in fields related to English, such as technical communication, user experience (UX), and publishing; prepare for careers by familiarizing students with the discursive practices of their professions; develop successful job application materials such as a portfolio website, resumes, cover letters, and social media profiles; and prepare for job interviews. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 391 Grant Writing (5) C
Studies the grant-writing process through analysis, research, and practice. Focuses on procuring money to fund ideas through understanding the parts of grant writing; generating ideas for funding; locating funding sources; knowing the parts of a grant proposal; and submitting completed grants. Provides students with foundations in persuasive writing by focusing on the rhetorical genre of the grant. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 392 Technical and Professional Editing (5) C
Editing technical, business, government, and scientific reports through the manipulation of documents, project management, and contemporary production processes. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 394 Technical Communication: Big Data, Privacy, and Surveillance (5) C
Introduction to big data as an issue for technical communicators. Focuses on how big data, privacy, and surveillance have been studied in technical communication and rhetoric research, and how to make this academic knowledge publicly accessible through writing and design. Students learn frameworks for understanding big data issues, and how to develop and practice techniques for translating expert knowledge to broader public audiences. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 395 Study Abroad (1-5, max. 30) A&H
Relates major works of literature, literary theory and criticism, or creative writing to the landscape and activities of their settings for students in UW English Department study abroad programs. Equivalency for upper-division English coursework taken on a UW study abroad program or direct exchange.
ENGL 396 Software Documentation (5) C
Covers how to create, edit, and maintain technical documentation that supports software end-users and developers. Includes conceptual overviews, instructions and tutorials, code samples and comments, release notes, best practices, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and application programming interface (API) references. Builds digital literacy by working with tools and concepts used in the production of software documentation. Recommended: familiarity with software concepts and at least one programming language. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 407 Special Topics in Cultural Studies (5) A&H
Advanced work in cultural studies. Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 302.
ENGL 413 Programming for Text Analysis (5) A&H
Computational approaches to the study of literary and cultural texts. Demonstrates a range of text-analysis skills such as string manipulation, tokenization, XML parsing, web scraping, data visualization, network analysis, clustering algorithms, and topic modeling.
ENGL 422 Arthurian Legends (5) A&H
Medieval romance in its cultural and historical setting, with concentration on the evolution of Arthurian romance.
ENGL 430 British Writers: Studies in Major Authors (5, max. 15) A&H
Concentration on one writer or a special group of British writers. Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 302.
ENGL 431 Topics in British Literature (5, max. 15) A&H
Themes and topics of special meaning to British literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 302.
ENGL 440 Special Studies in Literature (3/5, max. 10) A&H
Themes and topics offering special approaches to literature.
ENGL 442 The Novel: Special Studies (5, max. 10) A&H
Readings may be English or American and drawn from different periods, or they may concentrate on different types - gothic, experimental, novel of consciousness, realistic novel. Special attention to the novel as a distinct literary form. Specific topic varies from quarter to quarter. Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 302.
ENGL 443 Poetry: Special Studies (5, max. 10) A&H
A poetic tradition or group of poems connected by subject matter or poetic technique. Specific topics vary, but might include poetry as a geography of mind, the development of the love lyric, the comic poem. Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 302.
ENGL 444 Dramatic Literature: Special Studies (5, max. 10) A&H
Study of a particular dramatic tradition (such as expressionism or the absurd theatre) or character (the clown) or technique (play-within-a-play, the neoclassical three unities). Topics vary. Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 302.
ENGL 451 American Writers: Studies in Major Authors (5, max. 15) A&H
Concentration on one writer or a special group of American writers. Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 302.
ENGL 452 Topics in American Literature (5, max. 15) A&H
Exploration of a theme or special topic in American literary expression. Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 302.
ENGL 453 Introduction to American Folklore (5) A&H
Study of different kinds of folklore inherited from America's past and to be found in America today.
ENGL 457 Pacific Northwest Literature (5) A&H
Concentrates in alternate years on either prose or poetry of the Pacific Northwest. Prose works examine early exploration, conflicts of native and settlement cultures, various social and economic conflicts. Pacific Northwest poetry includes consideration of its sources, formative influences, and emergence into national prominence.
ENGL 466 Queer and LGBT Studies (5) SSc/A&H, DIV
Special topics in queer theory and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) studies. Examination of ways lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer histories and cultures are represented in criticism, literature, film, performance, and popular culture.
ENGL 470 Theory and Practice of Teaching Literature (5, max. 10) A&H
Reviews the institutional history of English as an academic discipline and the core debates and politics that have shaped the content, teaching, and study of literature and literacy theory. Introduces some theoretical and methodological approaches that inform the teaching of literature.
ENGL 471 Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing (5) A&H
Reviews the research, core debates, and politics that have shaped the practice, teaching and study of writing. Introduces theoretical and methodological approaches that inform the teaching and learning of writing.
ENGL 472 Language Learning (5) A&H
Consideration of how an individual achieves psychological and esthetic grasp of reality through language; relates language development to reading skills, literary interpretation, grammar acquisition, oral fluency, discursive and imaginative writing.
ENGL 473 Current Developments in English Studies: Conference (5) A&H
Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 302.
ENGL 474 Special Topics in English for Teachers (1-10, max. 10) A&H
ENGL 475 Colloquium in English for Teachers (1-5, max. 10) A&H
ENGL 476 Puget Sound Writing Program Institute (10) A&H
Focus on the writing process and the teaching of writing, accomplished through research, writing, reflection, and demonstration of writing instruction. Affiliated with the National Writing Project.
ENGL 477 Children's Literature (5) A&H
An examination of books that form a part of the imaginative experience of children, as well as a part of a larger literary heritage, viewed in the light of their social, psychological, political, and moral implications.
ENGL 478 Language and Social Policy (5) A&H/SSc, DIV
Examines the relationship between language policy and social organization; the impact of language policy on immigration, education, and access to resources and political institutions; language policy and revolutionary change; language rights.
ENGL 479 Language Variation and Language Policy in North America (5) A&H/SSc, DIV
Surveys basic issues of language variation: phonological, syntactic, semantic, and narrative/discourse differences among speech communities of North American English; examines how language policy can affect access to education, the labor force, and political institutions.
ENGL 480 Workplace Research Methods (5) A&H
Explores a variety of text-based and empirical approaches and research methods for addressing questions and problems related to the workplace. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 481 Special Studies in Expository Writing (5) A&H
Individual projects in various types of nonfictional prose, such as biographical sketches, informational reports, literary reviews, and essays.
ENGL 482 Special Topics: Scientific and Medical Communication (5) A&H
Introduces the context and use of language in scientific and medical disciplines. Focuses on understanding the rhetorical nature of scientific discourse. Primary topics include examining different forms of scientific and medical writing in traditional and digital contexts; the nature of communication within professional communities; and composing texts for general readers. Offered: AWSpS.
ENGL 483 Advanced Verse Workshop (5, max. 10) A&H
Intensive verse workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 383; ENGL 384.
ENGL 484 Advanced Prose Workshop (5, max. 10) A&H
Intensive prose workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student fiction and/or creative nonfiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 383; ENGL 384.
ENGL 485 Novel Writing (5, max. 15) A&H
Experience in planning, writing, and revising a work of long fiction, whether from the outset, in progress, or in already completed draft. Prerequisite: ENGL 384.
ENGL 486 Playwriting (5, max. 10) A&H
Experience in planning, writing, and revising a play, whether from the outset, in progress, or in already completed draft.
ENGL 488 Writing in Health and Medicine (5) A&H
Explores the intersecting fields of science, health, and medical writing by interrogating theories, methodologies, and ideologies that undergird health, medical, and scientific communication with an eye towards both critique and imitation of writing styles in these areas of specialization.
ENGL 490 Looking Forward: Professionalization and Public Life (5)
Offers methods for students to identify transferrable skills gleaned while completing the English major. Connections between specific skills of literary/theoretical and critical reading and writing, and the demands of contemporary workplaces and civic life offer students the opportunity to consider their post-college goals. Students will develop an e-portfolio to help present their skills to potential employers. Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 302. Offered: AWSp.
ENGL 491 Internship (1-6, max. 12)
Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open only to upper-division English majors. Credit/no-credit only.
ENGL 492 Advanced Expository Writing Conference (1-5, max. 10)
Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.
ENGL 493 Advanced Creative Writing Conference (1-5, max. 10)
Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.
ENGL 494 Honors Seminar (5, max. 10) A&H
Survey of current issues confronting literary critics today, based on revolving themes and topics. Focuses on debates and developments affecting English language and literatures, including questions about: the relationship of culture and history; the effect of emergent technologies on literary study; the rise of interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities.
ENGL 495 Major Conference for Honors in Creative Writing (5)
Special projects available to Honors students in creative writing. Required of, and limited to, Honors students in creative writing.
ENGL 496 Major Conference for Honors (5)
Individual study (reading, papers) by arrangement with the instructor. Required of, and limited to, Honors seniors in English.
ENGL 497 Honors Senior Seminar (5) A&H
Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to Honors students majoring in English.
ENGL 498 Senior Seminar (5) A&H
Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to seniors majoring in English.
ENGL 499 Independent Study (1-5, max. 10)
Individual study by arrangement with instructor.
ENGL 501 Textual Theory (5)
Provides an introduction to the intellectual foundations of textual studies; historical background in disciplines of philology and textual criticism, theories of textuality from formalism and New Criticism to poststructuralism, and media-specific analysis; current and emerging concerns in the history of the book, media studies, globally comparative philologies, and digital humanities. Offered: jointly with C LIT 551.
ENGL 502 Manuscript Studies (5)
An examination of the theoretical and methodological issues attending the study of written texts including literacy, circulation, production, and reception in Premodern genetics, and archival research methods. Offered: jointly with C LIT 552.
ENGL 503 Studies in Print Culture and Publication (5)
An examination of the theoretical and methodological issues attending the study of printed texts; training in bibliography and the history of the book from Gutenberg's hand press to the machine and periodical presses of the nineteen and twentieth centuries; and contemporary book art. Offered: jointly with C LIT 553.
ENGL 504 Digital Literary and Textual Studies (5)
An examination of digital textuality from the rise and fall of "hypertext" to contemporary convergence and transmediation in hybrid visual-verbal genres; computer games, digital video, and e-poetry. Coverage of practical issues surrounding digital scholarship and the digital humanities. Offered: jointly with C LIT 554.
ENGL 505 Theories of American Literature (5)
Examination of selected texts in American Literature, concentrating on the specific problems of interpretation and scholarship characteristic of the study of works in this field.
ENGL 506 Introduction to Graduate Study in English (5)
Engages disciplinary genealogies. Offers a grounding in key theories of language, power, circulation, and representation at the root of contemporary scholarship in literary, cultural, writing, language, and rhetorical studies. Addresses some important ways objects of study, methodologies, practices, and terms of value have been constituted, challenged, and re-envisioned.
ENGL 507 History of Literary Criticism and Theory I (5, max. 15)
A general introduction to the major issues in the history of criticism followed by the study of the classical theorists, including Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, and the major medieval critics. Offered: jointly with C LIT 507.
ENGL 508 History of Literary Criticism and Theory II (5, max. 15)
Literary criticism and theory from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance through the eighteenth century to, but not including, Kant. Offered: jointly with C LIT 508.
ENGL 509 History of Literary Criticism and Theory III (5, max. 15)
Literary criticism and theory from Kant's Critique of Judgment to the mid-twentieth century and the work of Northrop Frye. Offered: jointly with C LIT 509.
ENGL 510 History of Literary Criticism and Theory IV (5, max. 15)
A study of the major issues in literary criticism and theory since about 1965. Offered: jointly with C LIT 510.
ENGL 512 Introductory Reading in Old English (5)
ENGL 513 Old English Language and Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 514 Middle English (5, max. 15)
ENGL 515 Chaucer (5, max. 15)
ENGL 516 Topics in Medieval English Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 517 Sixteenth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 518 Shakespeare (5, max. 15)
ENGL 520 Seventeenth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 522 Topics in the English Renaissance, 1485-1660 (5, max. 15)
ENGL 524 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 527 Romanticism (5, max. 15)
ENGL 528 Victorian Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 529 Topics in Nineteenth-Century Studies (5, max. 15)
ENGL 531 Early American Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 532 Nineteenth-Century American Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 533 Modern American Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 535 American Culture and Criticism (5, max. 15)
ENGL 537 Topics in American Studies (5, max. 15)
ENGL 540 Modern Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 541 Contemporary Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 543 Anglo-Irish Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 544 World Literature in English (5, max. 15)
ENGL 546 Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 550 Studies in Narrative (5, max. 15)
ENGL 551 Studies in Poetry (5, max. 15)
ENGL 552 Studies in Drama (5, max. 15)
ENGL 554 Theories of Structure, Genre, Form, and Function (5, max. 15)
ENGL 555 Feminist Theories (5, max. 15)
ENGL 556 Cultural Studies (5, max. 15)
ENGL 558 Capstone in Textual and Digital Studies (1)
Capstone in Textual and Digital Studies. Prerequisite: ENGL 501/C LIT 551; recommended: Must have completed a sequence of three courses, beginning with an Introduction to Textual Theory course (ENG 501/C LIT 551) and followed by one core elective and one open elective related to Textual and Digital Studies . Credit/no-credit only. Offered: jointly with C LIT 555.
ENGL 559 Literature and Other Disciplines (5, max. 15)
ENGL 560 The Nature of Language: History and Theory (5)
ENGL 561 Stylistics (5)
ENGL 562 Discourse Analysis (5)
ENGL 563 Research Methods in Language and Rhetoric (5, max. 15)
Introduces research theories and methodological approaches in language and rhetoric. Methods and content focus include ethnography, corpus analysis, case study, discourse analysis, rhetorical criticism, and various other qualitative and quantitative research methods.
ENGL 564 Current Rhetorical Theory (5, max. 15)
Prerequisite: teaching experience.
ENGL 567 Approaches to Teaching Composition (1-5, max. 10)
Readings in composition theory and discussion of practical classroom applications. Prerequisite: previous experience or concurrent assignment in teaching writing.
ENGL 568 Topics in Composition Studies (5, max. 15)
Covers various issues in composition studies including: the history of composition study, contemporary composition theory, basic writing, service-learning pedagogy, engaged scholarship, new media and digital studies, writing assessment, writing across the curriculum, and writing program administration.
ENGL 569 Topics in Language and Rhetoric (5, max. 15)
ENGL 570 Practicum in Teaching English as a Second Language (5, max. 10)
Discussion and practice of second-language teaching techniques. Three hours per week teaching required in addition to regular class meetings. Prerequisite: ENGL 571 or permission of instructor. Credit/no-credit only.
ENGL 571 Theory and Practice on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (5, max. 10)
Topics include second language reading, aural/oral skills, critical pedagogy, program administration, and language policy.
ENGL 572 Methods and Materials for Teaching English as a Second Language (5)
Prerequisite: LING 445 or permission of instructor.
ENGL 574 Research Methods in Second-Language Acquisition (5)
Prerequisite: ENGL 572, LING 449, or permission of instructor.
ENGL 575 Pedagogy and Grammar in Teaching English as a Second Language (5)
ENGL 576 Testing and Evaluation in English as a Second Language (5)
Evaluation and testing of English language proficiency, including testing theory, types of tests, and teacher-prepared classroom tests. Prerequisite: ENGL 571 and ENGL 572 or permission of instructor.
ENGL 578 Colloquium in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (5, max. 10)
Overview of major issues in second-language acquisition, teaching methodology, and classroom practice with special emphasis on links between theories of language learning and practical aspects of teaching English to speakers of other languages.
ENGL 581 The Creative Writer as Critical Reader (5, max. 15)
ENGL 584 Advanced Fiction Workshop (5, max. 20)
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
ENGL 585 Advanced Poetry Workshop (5, max. 20)
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
ENGL 586 Graduate Writing Conference (5)
ENGL 587 Topics in the Teaching of Creative Writing (3/5)
ENGL 590 Master of Arts Essay (5/10, max. 10)
Research and writing project under the close supervision of a faculty member expert and with the consultation of a second faculty reader. The field of study is chosen by the student. Work is independent and varies. The model is an article in a scholarly journal. Prerequisite: graduate standing in English.
ENGL 591 Master of Arts for Teachers Essay (5)
Research and writing project under the close supervision of a faculty member expert in the field of study chosen by the student within the MAT degree orientation toward the teaching of English, and with the consultation of a second faculty reader. The model is an article in a scholarly journal.
ENGL 592 Graduate English Studies (1-5, max. 10)
ENGL 595 Topics in Teaching Literature (5, max. 15)
ENGL 597 Directed Readings (*, max. 18)
Intensive reading in literature or criticism, directed by members of doctoral supervisory committee. Credit/no-credit only.
ENGL 598 Colloquium in English (1-5, max. 10)
Lectures and seminars presented by visiting scholars or a range of local scholars relevant to English graduate studies.
ENGL 599 Special Studies in English (5, max. 15)
ENGL 600 Independent Study or Research (*-)
ENGL 601 Internship (3-10, max. 10)
Credit/no-credit only.
ENGL 700 Master's Thesis (*-)
ENGL 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*-)