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Courses

  • Fall 2018
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Fall 2018

  • ENGL 005. Journalism Workshop
  • ENGL 009D. First-Year Seminar: Nation and Migration
  • ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the Artist
  • ENGL 009J. First-Year Seminar: Revolution and Revolt
  • ENGL 009O. First-Year Seminar: American Archipelagos
  • ENGL 012. Writing and Sustenance

    • GATEWAY English Literature.

  • ENGL 020. Shakespeare

    • Med/Ren

  • ENGL 023. Renaissance Sexualities

    • Med/Ren

  • ENGL 024. The Revolutionary Seventeenth Century!

    • Med/Ren.

  • ENGL 025. Christopher Marlowe: Works, Life, and Afterlives
  • ENGL 035. The Rise of the Novel

    • For majors and minors, this course can count either as an 18th/19th or 20th/21st century course.
      GATEWAY English Literature.

  • ENGL 063. Contemporary Black Autobiography

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 064. The New Negro Versus Jim Crow

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 070C. Advanced Poetry Workshop

    • Graded CR/NC.

  • ENGL 070D. Grendel's Workshop (New Texts From Old)

    • Graded CR/NC. Limited to 15.

  • ENGL 070F. Fantastic Genres Workshop

    • Graded CR/NC. Limited to 15.

  • ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects

    • Graded CR/NC.

  • ENGL 071D. The Short Story in the U.S.

    • This is a Gateway English Literature course, suitable for anyone's first or second English literature course.  Majors and minors are also welcome. For majors and minors, this course can count either as an 18th/19th or as a 20th/21st century course, depending on the topic of the final research paper.
      GATEWAY English Literature.

  • ENGL 078P. Make it New: Modernism and International Experimentation

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 089E. Ecofeminism(s)
  • ENGL 090. Queer Media

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 096. Methods
  • ENGL 097. Independent Study and Directed Reading
  • ENGL 102. Chaucer and Medieval Literature

    • Med/Ren

  • ENGL 117. Theories and Literatures of Globalization

    • 20th/21st c.

Spring 2019

  • ENGL 009E. First-Year Seminar: Narcissus and the History of Reflection
  • ENGL 011. Comedy

    • A version of this course has been offered in the past as a First-Year Seminar, English 009G, but this new version is open to any student, without any prerequisite.  If you have taken English 009G, you are not able to enroll in English 011.
      GATEWAY English Literature

  • ENGL 026. Allegory and Allegoresis in the English Renaissance

    • Med/Ren

  • ENGL 036. Jane Austen

    • 18th/19th c.
      GATEWAY English Literature.

  • ENGL 046. Tolkien and Pullman and Their Literary Roots

    • Med/Ren or 20th/21st

  • ENGL 051. Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: Early American Literature

    • 18th/19th c.
      GATEWAY English Literature.

  • ENGL 052C. Contemporary US Fiction, 1990 to the Present
  • ENGL 060. Early African American Print Cultures

    • 18th/19th c.

  • ENGL 065. Asian American Literature

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 068. Black Culture in a "Post-Soul" Era

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 070A. Poetry Workshop

    • Graded CR/NC.

  • ENGL 070B. Fiction Workshop

    • Graded CR/NC.

  • ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects

    • Graded CR/NC.

  • ENGL 070L. Creative Writing Outreach

    • Limited to 15.

  • ENGL 079. What is Cultural Studies?

    • 20th/21st c.
      GATEWAY English Literature.

  • ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
  • ENGL 092. Marxist Literary and Cultural Studies

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 094. Aydelotte Seminar on Liberal Arts Education
  • ENGL 099. Senior Course Majors Colloquium

    • See professor to establish credit category.

  • ENGL 101. Shakespeare

    • Med/Ren

  • ENGL 111. Victorian Literature and Culture

    • 18th/19th c.

  • ENGL 116. Redefining US Southern Literature

    • 20th/21st c.  Special note: this course may also be taken for BLST credit with permission of the professor.

Fall 2019

  • ENGL 005. Journalism Workshop
  • ENGL 009A. First-Year Seminar: Literature and Law
  • ENGL 009D. First-Year Seminar: Nation and Migration
  • ENGL 009F. First Year Seminar: Introduction to Latinx Literature and Culture

    • Taught in English.

  • ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the Artist
  • ENGL 009J. First-Year Seminar: Revolution and Revolt
  • ENGL 009N. First-Year Seminar: Philadelphia Poets
  • ENGL 010. "Beowulf" to Milton

    • Med/Ren
      GATEWAY English Literature.

  • ENGL 020. Shakespeare

    • Med/Ren

  • ENGL 022. Literature of the English Renaissance

    • Med/Ren.

  • ENGL 035. The Rise of the Novel

    • For majors and minors, this course can count either as an 18th/19th or 20th/21st century course.
      GATEWAY English Literature.

  • ENGL 066. In/Visible: Asian American Cultural Critique
  • ENGL 067. Soul Power
  • ENGL 070D. Grendel's Workshop (New Texts From Old)

    • Graded CR/NC. Limited to 15.

  • ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects

    • Graded CR/NC.

  • ENGL 070R. River Stories

    • Limited to 15.

  • ENGL 071B. The Lyric Poem in English
  • ENGL 089E. Ecofeminism(s)
  • ENGL 090A. Minor Characters and Ordinary People: New Methods in History and Literature

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 096. Methods
  • ENGL 114. Early American Media Cultures

    • 18th/19th c.

  • ENGL 118. Modern Poetry

    • 20th/21st c.

Spring 2020

  • ENGL 009D. First-Year Seminar: Nation and Migration
  • ENGL 009S. First-Year Seminar: Black Liberty/Black Literature
  • ENGL 009Z. First-Year Seminar: Close Reading and Its Discontents
  • ENGL 011. Comedy

    • A version of this course has been offered in the past as a First-Year Seminar, English 009G, but this new version is open to any student, without any prerequisite.  If you have taken English 009G, you are not able to enroll in English 011.
      GATEWAY English Literature

  • ENGL 014. Old English/History of the Language

    • Med/Ren.
      GATEWAY English Literature.

  • ENGL 045. Modern British Poetry

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 046. Tolkien and Pullman and Their Literary Roots

    • Med/Ren or 20th/21st

  • ENGL 050R. 19th Century Radicalisms
  • ENGL 051. Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: Early American Literature

    • 18th/19th c.
      GATEWAY English Literature.

  • ENGL 068. Black Culture in a "Post-Soul" Era

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 070A. Poetry Workshop

    • Graded CR/NC.

  • ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects

    • Graded CR/NC.

  • ENGL 071K. Lesbian Novels Since World War II

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 076. The World, the Text, and the Critic

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 077. South Asians in America

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 087. American Narrative Cinema

    • 20th/21st c.

  • ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
  • ENGL 110. Natures of Romanticism

    • 18th/19th c.

  • ENGL 111. Victorian Literature and Culture

    • 18th/19th c.

  • ENGL 116. Redefining US Southern Literature

    • 20th/21st c.  Special note: this course may also be taken for BLST credit with permission of the professor.

  • ENGL 121. Modernism and Forgetting

    • 20th/21st c.

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