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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ENGL 109 Introductory Composition (5-)
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ENGL 110 Introductory Composition (-5) C
Development of writing skills: sentence strategies and paragraph structures. Expository, critical, and persuasive essay techniques based on analysis of selected readings. For Educational Opportunity Program students only, upon recommendation by the Office of Minority Affairs.
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ENGL 111 Composition: Literature (5) C
Study and practice of good writing; topics derived from reading and discussing stories, poems, essays, and plays. Cannot be taken if student has already received a grade of 2.0 or higher in either ENGL 111, ENGL 121, or ENGL 131.
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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.
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ENGL 121 Composition: Social Issues (5) C
Focuses on the study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects. Includes a service-learning component allowing students to engage with and write about social issues in applied ways.. Cannot be taken if student has already received a grade of 2.0 or higher in either ENGL 111, ENGL 121, or ENGL 131.
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ENGL 131 Composition: Exposition (5) C
Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects. Cannot be taken if student has already received a grade of 2.0 or higher in either ENGL 111, ENGL 121, or ENGL 131.
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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.
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ENGL 182 Composition: Multimodal (5) C
Study and practice of strategies/skills for effective writing/argument in various situations, disciplines, genres; explicit focus on how multimodal elements of writing--words, images, sound, design, etc.-- work together to produce meaning. Cannot be taken if student already received a 2.0 or higher in ENGL 111, 121, or 131.
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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.
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ENGL 197 Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities (5, max. 15) C
Expository writing based on material presented in a specified humanities lecture course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.
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ENGL 198 Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Science (5, max. 15) C
Expository writing based on material presented in a specified social science lecture course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytic prose. Concurrent registration in specified course required.
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ENGL 199 Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Science (5, max. 15) C
Expository writing based on material presented in a specific natural science lecture course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.
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ENGL 200 Reading Literary Forms (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 201 Introduction to English Within the Humanities (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 202 Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature (5) VLPA
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. Cannot be taken for credit if student has taken ENGL 301.
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ENGL 204 Popular Fiction and Media (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 205 Method, Imagination, and Inquiry (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 206 Rhetoric in Everyday Life (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 207 Introduction to Cultural Studies (5) I&S/VLPA K. Gillis-Bridges
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. Offered: S.
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ENGL 210 Medieval and Early Modern Literature, 400 to 1600 (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 211 Literature, 1500-1800 (5) VLPA Coldewey, Remley, Shields, Streitberger
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.
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ENGL 212 Literature, 1700-1900 (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 213 Modern and Postmodern Literature (5) VLPA
Introduces twentieth-century literature and contemporary literature, focusing on representative works that illustrate literary and intellectual developments since 1900.
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ENGL 225 Shakespeare (5) VLPA
Introduces Shakespeare's career as dramatist, with study of representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and history plays.
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ENGL 242 Reading Prose Fiction (5) VLPA
Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods.
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ENGL 243 Reading Poetry (5) VLPA
Critical interpretation and meaning in poems, representing a variety of types and periods.
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ENGL 244 Reading Drama (5) VLPA
Critical interpretation and meaning in plays, representing a variety of types and periods.
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ENGL 250 American Literature (5) VLPA
Introduces American culture through a careful reading of a variety of representative texts in their historical contexts.
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ENGL 251 Literature and American Political Culture (5) VLPA/I&S
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.
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ENGL 256 Introduction to Queer Cultural Studies (5) I&S, 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.
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ENGL 257 Asian-American Literature (5) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 258 Introduction African American Literature (5) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 259 Literature and Social Difference (5) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 265 Introduction to Environmental Humanities (5) I&S/VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 266 Literature and Technology (5) VLPA J. Knight
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.
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ENGL 270 The Uses of the English Language (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 277 Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 281 Intermediate Expository Writing (5) C
Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.
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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.
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ENGL 283 Beginning Verse Writing (5) VLPA
Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.
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ENGL 284 Beginning Short Story Writing (5) VLPA
Introduction to the theory and practice of writing the short story.
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ENGL 285 Writers on Writing (5) VLPA Bosworth, Kenney, Shields, Sonenberg
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.
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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: AWSp.
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ENGL 295 Study Abroad (1-5, max. 30) VLPA
Equivalency for 200-level English courses taken on UW study abroad programs or direct exchanges. May not apply to major requirements.
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ENGL 296 Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences (5) C Megan Callow
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: AWSp.
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ENGL 297 Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Humanities (5, max. 15) C
Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified humanities course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required. Offered: AWSpS.
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ENGL 298 Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Social Sciences (5, max. 15) C
Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required. Offered: AWSpS.
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ENGL 299 Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Natural Sciences (5, max. 15) C
Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required. Offered: AWSpS.
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ENGL 300 Reading Major Texts (5) VLPA
Intensive examination of one or a few major works of literature. Classroom work to develop skills of careful and critical reading. Book selection varies, but reading consists of major works by important authors and of selected supplementary materials.
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ENGL 302 Critical Practice (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 303 History of Literary Criticism and Theory I (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 304 History of Literary Criticism and Theory II (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 305 Theories of Imagination (5) VLPA/I&S
Survey of theories of imagination since the seventeenth century. Focuses on the uses of the concept in literature, criticism, science, and society.
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ENGL 306 Introduction to Rhetoric (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 307 Cultural Studies (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 308 Marxism and Literary Theory (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 309 Theories of Reading (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 310 The Bible as Literature (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 311 Modern Jewish Literature in Translation (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 312 Jewish Literature: Biblical to Modern (5) VLPA/I&S, 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. Offered: jointly with JEW ST 312.
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ENGL 313 Modern European Literature in Translation (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 314 Transatlantic Literature and Culture (5) VLPA
Explores literatures and cultures produced in the Atlantic world. Emphasizes historical lines of communication and exchange among Atlantic cultures and their literature.
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ENGL 315 Literary Modernism (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 316 Postcolonial Literature and Culture (5, max. 10) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 317 Literature of the Americas (5) VLPA, DIV
Examines writings by and about people of the Americas, with a focus on intersections of gender, colonialism, race, sexuality, and ethnicity.
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ENGL 318 Black Literary Genres (5) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 319 African Literatures (5) VLPA, DIV Chrisman
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.
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ENGL 320 English Literature: The Middle Ages (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 321 Chaucer (5) VLPA
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other poetry, with attention to Chaucer's social, historical, and intellectual milieu.
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ENGL 322 English Literature: The Elizabethan Age (5) VLPA
Covers literature and culture of the English Renaissance through the age of Shakespeare. May include poetry by the first English laureates, the drama of the first public theaters and prose by the first English essayists.
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ENGL 323 Shakespeare to 1603 (5) VLPA
Explores Shakespeare's early drama and poetry. May include the sonnets, narrative poems, and selected comedies, histories, or tragedies.
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ENGL 324 Shakespeare after 1603 (5) VLPA
Explores Shakespeare's later works. Focuses on the mature tragedies and late-career romances, by may include selected comedies and histories.
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ENGL 325 English Literature: The Late Renaissance (5) VLPA
Covers literature and culture of the late Renaissance in England, from the age of Shakespeare to the English Revolution. May include verse by the metaphysical poets, drama by Jacobean playwrights and rivals to Shakespeare, and selected prose.
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ENGL 326 Milton (5) VLPA
Milton's early poems and the prose; Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, with attention to the religious, intellectual, and literary contexts.
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ENGL 327 English Literature: Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century (5) VLPA
Examines the impact of historical changes including urban growth and imperial expansion on print culture through selections of poetry, prose, and drama from authors such as Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, and Jonathan Swift.
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ENGL 328 English Literature: Later Eighteenth Century (5) VLPA
Explores an era of tension between reason and felling; antiquity and modernity; and conservatism and revolution. Readings may include gothic novels by Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis, poetry by Oliver Goldsmith and Robert Burns; and nonfiction prose by Samuel Johnson and Thomas Paine.
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ENGL 329 Rise of the English Novel (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 330 English Literature: The Romantic Age (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 331 Romantic Poetry I (5) VLPA
Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and their contemporaries.
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ENGL 332 Romantic Poetry II (5) VLPA
Byron, Shelley, Keats, and their contemporaries.
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ENGL 333 English Novel: Early and Middle Nineteenth Century (5) VLPA
Explores the romantic and early-Victorian phases of the English novel. May include gothic, historical, or realist works. Possible authors include: Scott, Austen, the Brontes, and Dickens.
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ENGL 334 English Novel: Later Nineteenth Century (5) VLPA
Examines the high water mark of the realist novel, as well as its fragmentation into popular genres like science and detective fiction and the emergence of literary modernism. Possible authors include: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marie Corelli, Olive Schreiner, H.G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad.
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ENGL 335 English Literature: The Age of Victoria (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 336 English Literature: Early Twentieth Century (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 337 The Modern Novel (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 338 Modern Poetry (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 339 English Literature: Contemporary England (5) VLPA
Engages literary-historical approaches to the post-1945 period in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Emphasizes the history and aesthetics of form, alongside issues of contemporary society. Social realism, literary experimentation, dialect, the fate of the bildungsroman, and questions of nationality may be foregrounded. Possible authors range from Orwell to Zadie Smith.
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ENGL 340 Anglo-Irish Literature (5) VLPA
Principal writers in English of the modern Irish literary movement - Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Gregory, and O' Casey among them - with attention to traditions of Irish culture and history.
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ENGL 341 Studies in the Novel (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 342 Contemporary Novel (5) VLPA
Study of recent fiction by diverse writers with attention to contemporary ideas in all kinds of forms.
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ENGL 343 Studies in Poetry (5) VLPA
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).
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ENGL 344 Studies in Drama (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 345 Studies in Film (5) VLPA
Types, techniques, and issues explored by filmmakers. Emphasis on narrative, image, and point of view.
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ENGL 346 Studies in Short Fiction (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 347 Studies in Non-Fiction Prose (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 348 Studies in Popular Culture (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 349 Science Fiction and Fantasy (5) VLPA
The study of the development of and specific debates in the related genres of fantasy and science fiction literatures
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ENGL 350 American Fiction (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 351 American Literature: The Colonial Period (5) VLPA
Examines writings from the earliest explorations of America, encounters with, and responses from, indigenous peoples, and colorization, through the early period of the United States. Readings may include a variety of genres from histories, captivity narratives, autobiographies, to the first novels and poetry of the republic.
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ENGL 352 American Literature: The Early Nation (5) VLPA
Explores American fiction, poetry, and prose from the early nineteenth century through the Civil War. May include such representative authors of the period as Emerson, Melville, Hawthorne, Douglass and fuller, along with supplementary study of the broader cultural and political milieu.
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ENGL 353 American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 354 American Literature: Early Twentieth Century (5) VLPA
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).
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ENGL 355 American Literature: Contemporary America (5) VLPA
Examines recent American literature and its historical and cultural contexts.
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ENGL 356 American Poetry (5) VLPA
Examines American poetry in its historical and cultural contexts. Possible authors include Dickinson, Whitman, Eliot, Frost, Hughes, Brooks, Ginsberg, and Plath.
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ENGL 357 Jewish American Literature and Culture (5) VLPA, DIV Butwin
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: jointly with JEW ST 357; AWSp.
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ENGL 358 African American Literature (5) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 359 Contemporary American Indian Literature (5) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 360 American Literature and Culture (5) VLPA/I&S
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.
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ENGL 361 American Political Culture: After 1865 (5) VLPA/I&S, 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.
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ENGL 362 Latino Literary Genres (5) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 363 Literature and the Other Arts and Disciplines (5, max. 10) VLPA
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).
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ENGL 364 Literature and Medicine (5) VLPA/I&S
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.
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ENGL 365 Literature and Discourse on the Environment (5) VLPA Blake, Handwerk
Pays attention to verbal expression; forms and genres; and historical, cultural, and conceptual contexts of the natural environment. Focuses on sites, nations, and historical periods. Forms and genres include: nature writing, environmentalist discourses, the pastoral, the sublime, discourses of the city , fiction, poetry, nonfiction prose, dramatic forms, and religious texts. Offered: AWSpS.
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ENGL 366 Literature and Law (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 367 Gender Studies in Literature (5, max. 15) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 368 Women Writers (5, max. 15) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 369 Research Methods in Language and Rhetoric (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 370 English Language Study (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 371 English Syntax (5) VLPA
Description of sentence, phrase, and word structures in present-day English.
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ENGL 372 World Englishes (5) VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 373 History of the English Language (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 374 The Language of Literature (5) VLPA
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.
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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.
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ENGL 376 Introduction to Middle English Language (5) VLPA Moore
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.
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ENGL 378 Special Topics in Theories/Methods (5, max. 15)
Introduces and explores a specific area of theory or method as it has influence the production, practice, or study of literature, language, and culture in English.
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ENGL 379 Special Topics in Forms/Genres/Media (5, max. 15)
Introduces and explores a specific area of form, genre, or media as it has influenced the production, practice, or study of literature, language, and culture in English.
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ENGL 380 Special Topics in Histories (5, max. 15)
Introduces and explores a specific area of history as it has influenced the production, practice, or study of literature, language, and culture in English.
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ENGL 381 Advanced Expository Writing (5) C
Concentration on the development of prose style for experienced writers.
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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.
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ENGL 383 The Craft of Verse (5) VLPA
Intensive study of various aspects of the craft verse. Readings in contemporary verse and writing using emulation and imitation. Prerequisite: ENGL 283; ENGL 284.
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ENGL 384 The Craft of Prose (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 385 Modernism/Modernity (5)
Introduces and explores the genealogy, character, and consequences of the modern for textual production and reception. Addresses competing conceptions of modernism and periodizations of modernity, including: preoccupations with novelty/the new; narratives of historical development; temporality; constructions of high and low culture; intersections between aesthetics and politics; and transnationalism.
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ENGL 386 Asian-American Literature (5) I&S/VLPA, 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.
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ENGL 387 Screenwriting (5) VLPA Shawn H. Wong
Students read screenwriting manuals and screenplays, analyze exemplary films, and write synopses, treatments, and first acts of their own screenplays.
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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.
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ENGL 395 Study Abroad (1-5, max. 30) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 407 Special Topics in Cultural Studies (5) VLPA
Advanced work in cultural studies.
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ENGL 411 Introduction to the Folktale Among Literate Peoples (3) VLPA
Techniques of classification, geographic-historical distribution, theories of origin and interpretations, and related areas of investigation of the oral prose folk narrative of literate peoples.
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ENGL 422 Arthurian Legends (5) VLPA
Medieval romance in its cultural and historical setting, with concentration on the evolution of Arthurian romance.
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ENGL 430 British Writers: Studies in Major Authors (5, max. 15) VLPA
Concentration on one writer or a special group of British writers.
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ENGL 431 Topics in British Literature (5, max. 15) VLPA
Themes and topics of special meaning to British literature.
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ENGL 440 Special Studies in Literature (3/5, max. 10) VLPA
Themes and topics offering special approaches to literature.
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ENGL 442 The Novel: Special Studies (5, max. 10) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 443 Poetry: Special Studies (5, max. 10) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 444 Dramatic Literature: Special Studies (5, max. 10) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 451 American Writers: Studies in Major Authors (5, max. 15) VLPA
Concentration on one writer or a special group of American writers.
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ENGL 452 Topics in American Literature (5, max. 15) VLPA
Exploration of a theme or special topic in American literary expression.
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ENGL 453 Introduction to American Folklore (5) VLPA
Study of different kinds of folklore inherited from America's past and to be found in America today.
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ENGL 457 Pacific Northwest Literature (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 466 Queer and LGBT Studies (5) VLPA/I&S, 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.
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ENGL 470 Theory and Practice of Teaching Literature (5, max. 10) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 471 Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 472 Language Learning (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 473 Current Developments in English Studies: Conference (5) VLPA
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ENGL 474 Special Topics in English for Teachers (1-10, max. 10) VLPA
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ENGL 475 Colloquium in English for Teachers (1-5, max. 10) VLPA
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ENGL 476 Puget Sound Writing Program Institute (10) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 477 Children's Literature (5) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 478 Language and Social Policy (5) VLPA/I&S, 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.
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ENGL 479 Language Variation and Language Policy in North America (5) VLPA/I&S, 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.
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ENGL 481 Special Studies in Expository Writing (5) VLPA
Individual projects in various types of nonfictional prose, such as biographical sketches, informational reports, literary reviews, and essays.
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ENGL 483 Advanced Verse Workshop (5, max. 10) VLPA
Intensive verse workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 383; ENGL 384.
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ENGL 484 Advanced Prose Workshop (5, max. 10) VLPA
Intensive prose workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student fiction and/or creative nonfiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 383; ENGL 384.
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ENGL 485 Novel Writing (5, max. 15) VLPA
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.
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ENGL 486 Playwriting (5, max. 10) VLPA
Experience in planning, writing, and revising a play, whether from the outset, in progress, or in already completed draft.
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ENGL 490 Looking Forward: Professionalization and Public Life (5) Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges
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. Offered: AWSp.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ENGL 494 Honors Seminar (5, max. 10) VLPA
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.
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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.
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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.
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ENGL 497 Honors Senior Seminar (5) VLPA
Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to Honors students majoring in English.
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ENGL 498 Senior Seminar (5) VLPA
Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to seniors majoring in English.
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ENGL 499 Independent Study (1-5, max. 10)
Individual study by arrangement with instructor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ENGL 506 Modern and Contemporary Critical Theory (5)
Engages ongoing critical conversations that inform English studies, including: language, textual production, disciplinarity, the university, capital, nation formation, postcolonialism, the environment, race, gender, class, and sexuality. The historical focus is contemporary, with attention to foundational modern theorists.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ENGL 512 Introductory Reading in Old English (5)
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ENGL 513 Old English Language and Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 514 Middle English (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 515 Chaucer (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 516 Topics in Medieval English Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 517 Sixteenth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 518 Shakespeare (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 520 Seventeenth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 522 Topics in the English Renaissance, 1485-1660 (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 524 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 527 Romanticism (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 528 Victorian Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 529 Topics in Nineteenth-Century Studies (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 531 Early American Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 532 Nineteenth-Century American Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 533 Modern American Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 535 American Culture and Criticism (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 537 Topics in American Studies (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 540 Modern Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 541 Contemporary Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 543 Anglo-Irish Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 544 World Literature in English (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 546 Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 550 Studies in Narrative (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 551 Studies in Poetry (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 552 Studies in Drama (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 554 Theories of Structure, Genre, Form, and Function (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 555 Feminist Theories (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 556 Cultural Studies (5, max. 15)
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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.
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ENGL 559 Literature and Other Disciplines (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 560 The Nature of Language: History and Theory (5)
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ENGL 561 Stylistics (5)
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ENGL 562 Discourse Analysis (5)
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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.
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ENGL 564 Current Rhetorical Theory (5, max. 15)
Prerequisite: teaching experience.
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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.
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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.
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ENGL 569 Topics in Language and Rhetoric (5, max. 15)
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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.
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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.
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ENGL 572 Methods and Materials for Teaching English as a Second Language (5)
Prerequisite: LING 445 or permission of instructor.
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ENGL 574 Research Methods in Second-Language Acquisition (5)
Prerequisite: ENGL 572, LING 449, or permission of instructor.
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ENGL 575 Pedagogy and Grammar in Teaching English as a Second Language (5)
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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.
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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.
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ENGL 581 The Creative Writer as Critical Reader (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 584 Advanced Fiction Workshop (5, max. 20)
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
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ENGL 585 Advanced Poetry Workshop (5, max. 20)
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
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ENGL 586 Graduate Writing Conference (5)
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ENGL 587 Topics in the Teaching of Creative Writing (3/5)
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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.
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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.
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ENGL 592 Graduate English Studies (1-5, max. 10)
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ENGL 595 Topics in Teaching Literature (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 597 Directed Readings (*, max. 18)
Intensive reading in literature or criticism, directed by members of doctoral supervisory committee. Credit/no-credit only.
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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.
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ENGL 599 Special Studies in English (5, max. 15)
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ENGL 600 Independent Study or Research (*-)
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ENGL 601 Internship (3-10, max. 10)
Credit/no-credit only.
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ENGL 700 Master's Thesis (*-)
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ENGL 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*-)
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