ENGL115 RHETORIC (3.00) Intensive theoretical and practical study of discourse. For students who have acquired basic writing skills. Required of English majors.

ENGL120 ENGLISH LIT UNDESIGNATED (3.00)

ENGL121 STUDIES IN POETRY (3.00) Introduction to the genre of poetry, including study of poetic form, figures of speech, styles, and major periods and authors in the British and American traditions.

ENGL122 STUDIES IN DRAMA (3.00) Introduction to drama as literary text and performance. Includes study of major plays from the Classical period through the present.

ENGL124 STUDIES IN FICTION (3.00) Introduction to the genre of prose narrative, including both the short story and and the novel. Study of the styles and formal elements of fiction in texts from a wide variety of cultures, periods and authors.

ENGL128 STUDIES IN BLACK LITERATURE (3.00) Introduction to the literature of Black cultures in Africa and the African diaspora, including the United States and Caribbean.

ENGL130 EPIC AND ADVENTURES OF HEROES (3.00) An inquiry into the epic genre, the epic hero, and epic values through a careful reading of several ancient and medieval poems. Cross-listed Courses: CLAS130

ENGL132 STUDIES IN WOMEN'S LITERATURE (3.00) Introduction to the writing of women of various time periods and nationalities, with an emphasis on gender-related issues.

ENGL142 CLASSICAL TRAGEDY (3.00) A study of the tragic form, its poetry, and its use of myth through a careful reading of several plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. Cross-listed Courses: CLAS142

ENGL146 CLASSICAL COMEDY & SATIRE (3.00) A study of ancient classical writings, comedies which were presented on the stage, and satirical poems. Cross-listed Courses: CLAS146

ENGL200 INTRO TO GENDER & DIVERSITY ST (3.00)

ENGL205 LITERATURE & MORAL IMAGINATION (3.00) Personal and social ethical issues in literature. Honors section required of English majors. Fulfills E/RS Focus Literature and the Moral Imagination requirement. Prerequisite: PHIL 100 THEO 111

ENGL221 POETRY (3.00) An intensive critical and historical study of British and American poetry. Required of English majors.

ENGL301 EXPOS/RESEARCH WRITING (3.00) This course is designed to aid majors and non-majors in the composition of non-fiction essays, reports and research papers.

ENGL302 MODERN LITERARY THEORY (3.00) Study of contemporary literary theory and it application to selected texts. ENGL302 or ENGL303 is required of English majors.

ENGL303 HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM (3.00) From Aristotle through the modern period. Recommended for students planning to go to graduate school in English. ENGL302 or ENGL303 is required of English majors.

ENGL304 TEACHING & RESEARCH IN WRITING (3.00) Current theories on the teaching of writing in secondary school. Instruction and practice in expository writing. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL504

ENGL307 WRITING INTERNSHIP (3.00) This course is designed to facilitate independent study between students and faculty. It may also be used to accredit work performed outside the classroom -- usually in a business setting -- by students.

ENGL308 CREATIVE WRITING (3.00) Introduction to creative writing, including practice in poetry, drama, and fiction.

ENGL309 CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY (3.00) Instruction and intensive practice in writing poetry.

ENGL310 CREATIVE WRITNG: FICTION (3.00) Instruction and intensive practice in writing fiction.

ENGL311 POPULAR WRITING (3.00) The course engages students in critical study of popular cultural forms and offers instruction in writing them. Our analysis of narrative-based genres such an memoir, travel writing and nature writing will include examination of the various labels that have been applied to such work in recent years ("creative nonfiction," "literary nonfiction," and "literary journalism"). We will also examine popular journalistic forms such as social commentary, reviews, reflection and feature writing. ENGL 311 is a writing-intensive course; students wishing to enroll should be comfortable with sharing their work with others. Given the focus of the course, students will be encouraged to revise their work for publication. To that end, we will spend a class or two examining the market for popular writing and the process for submitting work to publishers. Prerequisite: ENGL 124 or ENGL 205

ENGL312 TECHNICAL WRITING (3.00) An introduction to the various modes of technical writing, including manuals, reports and critical analyses.

ENGL314 WRITING JOURNALS & AUTOBIOGRAPHY (3.00) Critical study of these forms and instruction in writing them. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL514

ENGL315 COMPOSITION TUTORING (3.00) Training in the theory and practice of composition tutoring. Required of all prospective Writing Center tutors. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL515

ENGL318 CREATIVE NONFICTION (3.00) Instruction and intensive practive in writing essays, articles and other nonfiction genres. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 115

ENGL320 TOPICS IN LINGUISTICS (3.00) The socio-synchronic study of language theory and practice. Language systems (words, sentence patterns, sounds and their meaning) and language diversity (class, race, gender, ethnicity, region, and institution). Cross-listed Courses: ENGL520

ENGL321 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (3.00) The socio-historical story of English. Origins, variation, change, legitimization, maintenance and spread of a world language.

ENGL322 ETHNOLINGUISTICS (3.00) A socio-anthropological study of language, culture, and communication. Conversational and discourse analysis. No linguistics background necessary.

ENGL332 ANGLO-SAXON LANGUAGE & LIT (1.00) This one-hour course will give students an opportunity to work closely with the Anglo-Saxon language (Old English, or English as it was spoken and written in England from about 600 to 1100). The first half of the semester will consist of weekly meetings covering fundamental grammatical features, including morphology (conjugations and declensions), syntax, and vocabulary, and the second half will require translation work on a small number of Anglo-Saxon poems, inlcuding "The Dream of the Rood," "The Wanderer," and portion of Beowulf. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL532

ENGL340 WORLD DRAMA (3.00) This course will direct students through a broad survey of international plays. We will focus our studies on plays on non-American (including non-Western) origin. course requirements will include an oral presentation and a research paper. Readings will be drawn from some of the following playwrights: Sophocles and Euripides (Greek), Shakespeare and Churchill (English), Ibsen (Norwegian), Brecht (German), Beckett and Friel (Irish), Soyinka (Nigerian), Fugard (South African), Makoto (Japanese), Gambaro (Argentinian), Wertenbaker (Australian), Cesaire (West Indian). Cross-listed Courses: ENGL540

ENGL342 LITERATURE & POVERTY (3.00) This course explores literature written about, and by, those who find themselves at the margins of a culture. This course is wide in breadth and depth, covering writers from Gwendolyn Brooks and Euripides to John Steinbeck and writers living in the Over-the-Rhine section of Cincinnati, Ohio.

ENGL344 MAJOR BLACK WRITERS OF THE WORLD (3.00) Study of black authors from around the world with emphasis on African, Caribbean, and British Commonwealth writers. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL544

ENGL350 MODERN JEWISH FICTION (3.00) The narrative tradition of European and American Jewish writers from the late nineteenth century to the present.

ENGL351 JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE (3.00) The subject of this course is the growing body of Jewish American literature, now over one hundred years old, including short stories, novels, poetry, drama, film and essays. Themes include immigration, assimilation, anti-Semitism, the effect of the Holocaust, gender relations, Jewish spirituality, textual traditions, and American/Israeli relations. Among the authors we will be reading this term are Charles Reznikoff, Jerome Rothenberg, Arthur A. Cohen, Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth.

ENGL352 AFRICAN LITERATURE (3.00) This course explores modern African fiction from a number of writers from different countries, including Soyinka and Achebe.

ENGL355 MODERN CATHOLIC NOVELISTS (3.00) In the modern world a commitment to Catholocism is rare among fiction writers. The question pursued in this course is how Catholocism affects a writer's imagination, his/her conception of character, moral conflict, and spiritual presence. Writers studied in this course are Willa Cather, Mauriac, Graham Greene, Caroline Gordon, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Robert Stone and W.C. Sebald. Students will write one long comparative paper and several shorter response papers. Prerequisite: ENGL 205

ENGL358 BLACK AMERICA SINCE 1865 (3.00) Examination of historical and literary texts by black Americans from 1865 through the mid-1960s. Cross-listed Courses: HIST325

ENGL359 GENDER & DIVERSITY:IMAGE IN FILM (3.00) Primarily taught as a workshop, this course examines the way women and ethnic minorities are portrayed in popular cinema.

ENGL360 MAJOR WOMEN AUTHORS (2.00-3.00) Study of women authors of selected genres and periods.

ENGL361 16TH/17TH CENT WOMEN'S LITERACY (3.00) A study of the literacy and literature of ordinary and celebrated women in England and America.

ENGL362 TECHNOLOGIES OF GENDER (3.00) Examination of the ways in which women's bodies are both constructed and deconstructed in postmodern culture and the ethical, social, and political implications of these processes for the well-being of women. We will focus on technologies of gender, i.e., those sets of cultural practices that make the body gendered. Fulfills E/RS Focus elective. Cross-listed Courses: SOCI362 Prerequisite: PHIL 100 THEO 111 Corequisite: PHIL 100 THEO 111

ENGL363 WOMEN WRITERS OF THE 90'S (3.00) Study of literature by British and American women of the 1790s, 1890s, and 1990s in its social, historical, and cultural contexts.

ENGL366 FEMINISM AND LITERATURE (3.00) This course will focus on making connections between feminist theory and literature, in particular utopian/dystopian writing by women from the 17th through 20th centuries.

ENGL370 WRITINGS BY SEXUAL MINORITIES (3.00) This course focuses on the literature produced by gay and lesbian writers.

ENGL371 WAR & PEACE IN WORLD LITERATURE (3.00) The representation and interpretation of war and peace primarily in European and American literature. Fulfills the E/RS Focus elective. Prerequisite: PHIL 100 THEO 111 Corequisite: THEO 111 PHIL 100

ENGL372 WAR & PEACE IN LIT & FILM (3.00) This course examines the debates and arguments concerning war and pacificism in a variety of literary texts and popular films.

ENGL374 MARXISM AND LITERATURE (3.00) This course offers a critical reading of literary texts through the lens of various modes of Marxist critical methodology.

ENGL375 MODERN IRISH LITERATURE (3.00) This course focuses on 20th century Irish writers like James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and William Butler Yeats.

ENGL376 MODERN ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE (3.00) Poetry, drama, and fiction by a variety of authors including Yeats, O'Casey, and Joyce.

ENGL384 POP CULTURE IN AMERICA (3.00) This course examines the impact popular culture - especially as film and music - has had on American life and values in general.

ENGL385 SCIENCE FICTION (3.00) This course examines the work of a literary genre often underestimated in terms of its impact on ideas about the future, ethics and politics.

ENGL390 SEM: MODERN JEWISH FICTION (3.00) A seminar for majors, minors and honor students, focusing on contemporary Jewish fiction - Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick, for example.

ENGL391 SEM: MAJOR WOMEN AUTHORS (3.00) A seminar for majors, minors and honor students, focusing on women writers across the centuries, from Charlotte Bronte to Alice Walker.

ENGL397 SEM: ELECTRONIC LITERACY (3.00) This course is an introduction to computer use and facility. Primarily for the novice unfamiliar with the Internet and its potential.

ENGL408 DANTE AND THE MODERN READER (3.00) Close reading of Dante's "Vita Nuova" and the canticles of the "Commedia."

ENGL410 CHAUCER: THE CANTERBURY TALES (3.00) A close reading of the major Tales in Middle English. This course emphasizes the cultural, historical, and philosophical elements in the texts with a special consideration of Chaucer's response to the anti-feminist tradition of the Middle Ages.

ENGL413 POSTMODERN THEORY & FICTION (3.00) Along with pairing theoretical approaches to relevent fictional texts throughout the semester, this course will be conducted as a true seminar in which each student is expected to share the responsibility for leading our class meetings. At roughly even intervals over the semester, each student will write two 6-8 page papers which will involve close analysis of a specific text assigned for a given seminar meeting. Students will be expected to play an especially active role in initiating discussions at our seminar meetings devoted to the texts on which they have written; thus, each student will offer a formal (i.e., prepared) presentation for two different seminar meetings during the semester. In lieu of an examination, there will be a final 15-20 page seminar essay due at the end of the semester. Given a seminar format together with a heavy and dense reading load, this course is recommended for only Juniors and Seniors who are English majors, University Scholars and/or Honors students.

ENGL415 EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE (3.00) Critical and cultural study of classic texts from Beowulf through Spenser.

ENGL425 SHAKESPEARE (3.00) Major plays in the genres of tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and history.

ENGL429 RENAISSANCE DRAMA (3.00) Non-Shakespearean drama of the Elizabethan and Jacobian periods: Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and others. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL629

ENGL430 17TH CENTURY LITERATURE (3.00) The poetry and prose of the 17th century from Donne to Milton.

ENGL435 MILTON (3.00) This course focuses on the major works of poet/critic John Milton.

ENGL441 18TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE (3.00) British poetry, drama, and fiction including works by Dryden, Behn, Pope, Swift, Defoe, Sterne, and Wollstonecraft.

ENGL450 BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE (3.00) Poetry and selected nonfiction prose from 1780 to 1830. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL550

ENGL462 VICTORIAN WRITING (3.00) This course focuses on the aesthetics of the Victorian authors.

ENGL463 VICTORIAN POETRY AND POETICS (3.00) This course is a study of Victorian poetry and Victorian theories of Arnold, Dante and Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris, and Gerald Manley Hopkins. Attention is also given to recent scholarship and criticism of Victorian poetry.

ENGL464 ENGLISH NOVEL: DICKENS TO CONRAD (3.00) A close reading of the major novels of the mid and late nineteenth century. Attention will be given to three long (700-900) page novels as well as two shorter novels. Emphasis will be on the treatment of significant themes such as gender relations, class relations, imperialism, sexuality, social and historical change, and moral conflict and ambiguity. The nineteenth century is the great age of the novel in England and this course will attempt to introduce students to the range, depth, and complexity of this form.

ENGL470 MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE (3.00) Twentieth-century British poetry, fiction, and drama. Student should have some background in the analysis of poetry.

ENGL472 MODERN DRAMA (3.00) British, American, and European drama from Ibsen to the present.

ENGL480 AMER RENAISSANCE: 1830-1865 (3.00) Textual and cultural study of Transcendentalism, the American romance, and other writing of this period.

ENGL481 AMERICAN REALISM: 1865-1915 (3.00) Textual and cultural study of various genres from the Civil War to the eve of Modernism.

ENGL482 MODERN AMERICAN FICTION (3.00) Textual and cultural study of American short stories and novels from 1915 to 1945.

ENGL483 MODERN AMERICAN POETRY (3.00) Textual and cultural study of poets such as Pound, Eliot, Williams, and Stevens.

ENGL484 AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3.00) Textual and cultural study of Afro-American writing from the 18th century to the present.

ENGL485 AMERICAN GOTHIC LITERATURE (3.00) Texts of terror and horror in American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

ENGL486 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION (3.00) This course examines 20th and 21st century literature by American writers. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL686

ENGL487 CONTEMP AMERICAN POETRY (3.00) This course explores American poetry written after the 1940s and concerns a variety of poetic movements after Moderrnism.

ENGL488 HUMOR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3.00) This course is organized historically to trace a variety of important forms of humor in American literature from the eighteenth century (such authors as Ben Franklin and Royall Tyler) through the ninteenth century (including humor of the Old Southwest, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt), the earlier twentieth century (e.g., William Faulkner and James Thurber), and the past fifty years with its rich range of humor from Flannery O'Connor and Joseph Heller to Woody Allen and Garrison Keillor. Making connections across these periods, the course will ask what, if anything, might be distinctive about American humor and attempt to place our readings and discussion in theoretical as well as historical contexts. Although the focus of the course will be on literature, students will be invited to make connections between the readings and humor they experience on television and in films.

ENGL490 SEM: CONTEMP AMERICAN POETRY (3.00) Intensive study of selected contemporary poets.

ENGL499 SENIOR SEMINAR (3.00) Topics vary. Required of senior English majors.

ENGL504 TEACHING & RESEARCH IN WRITING (3.00) Current theories on the teaching of writing in secondary school. Instruction and practice in expository writing. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL304

ENGL509 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING (3.00) For the serious student who has completed the introductory creative writing courses.

ENGL512 LITERARY THEORY (3.00) Current theory about the nature of literature and interpretation.

ENGL513 DIRECTED STUDY (3.00) Credit and content of course by advance agreement between the professor and the student.

ENGL514 WRITING JOURNALS & AUTOBIOGRAPHY (3.00) A course designed to assist the student in connecting to the inner self. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL314

ENGL515 COMPOSITION TUTORING (3.00) Training in the theory and practice of composition tutoring. Required of all prospective Writing Center tutors. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL315

ENGL520 LINGUISTICS (3.00) The socio-synchronic study of language theory and practice. Language systems (words, sentence patterns, sounds and their meaning) and language diversity (class, race, gender, ethnicity, region, and institution). Cross-listed Courses: ENGL320

ENGL521 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (3.00) The socio-historical story of English. Origins, variation, change, legitimization, maintenance, and spread of a world language.

ENGL525 SHAKESPEARE (3.00) Study of selected plays and themes.

ENGL532 ANGLO-SAXON LANGUAGE & LIT (3.00) Cross-listed Courses: ENGL332

ENGL544 MAJOR BLACK WRITERS OF THE WORLD (3.00) Study of black authors from around the world with emphasis on African, Caribbean, and British Commonwealth writers. Unlike the undergraduate version of this course, graduate students are required to read more (7-9 novels) and write more (15-20 page research papers). Cross-listed Courses: ENGL344

ENGL560 STUDIES IN WOMEN'S LITERATURE (2.00-3.00) Study of women's writing and theoretical approaches to women's literature.

ENGL566 FEMINISM AND LITERATURE (3.00) This course will focus on making connections between feminist theory and literature, in particular utopian/dystopian writing by women from the 17th through 20th centuries.

ENGL570 WRITINGS BY SEXUAL MINORITIES (3.00) Course focuses on writings by gay and lesbian writers.

ENGL601 LANGUAGE OF HUMANITIES (3.00) Critical study of topic-, audience-, and author-directed discourse. Intensive practice in writing.

ENGL610 CHAUCER-MAJOR WORKS (3.00) Study of such texts as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

ENGL615 EARLY ENGLISH LIT (3.00) Examines the literature of medieval England.

ENGL630 STUDIES IN 17TH CENT LITERATURE (3.00) A survey course which examines the literature of 17th century Europe, including the Metaphysical Poets.

ENGL640 STUDIES IN 18TH CENT LITERATURE (3.00) A survey course which examines the literature of 18th century Europe, including the poetry of Alexander Pope.

ENGL650 ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS (3.00) This course examines the work of Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Byron and Clare.

ENGL655 STUDIES IN VICTORIAN AUTHORS (3.00) A survey of major English writers of the late 19th century.

ENGL660 STUDIES IM MODERN BRITISH LIT (3.00) A survey of 20th century British writers up to the 1960s.

ENGL672 MODERN DRAMA (3.00) A survey of major dramatists and plays from around the world, focusing on the 20th and 21st centuries.

ENGL681 AMERICAN REALISM: 1865-1915 (3.00) Focus on the realist writers - Dos Passos, Howell, Crane, etc. - of the late 19th and early 20th century.

ENGL682 MODERN AMERICAN FICTION (3.00) Focuses on early 20th century American fiction from Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and others.

ENGL683 MODERN AMERICAN POETRY (3.00) Focuses on poetry from the early 20th century, including Stevens, Eliot, Pound and others.

ENGL686 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION (3.00) Explores the wide range of styles exhibited by current American writers, from Toni Morrison and Philip Roth to Leslie Scalapino and Don DiLillo. Cross-listed Courses: ENGL486

ENGL687 CONTEMP AMERICAN POETRY (3.00) Explores the wide range of styles exhibited by current American writers, from Lucille Clifton, Philip Levine and Charles Bernstein to Nathaniel Mackey, Edward Hirsch and Susan Howe.

ENGL690 SEMINAR: VICTORIAN AUTHORS (3.00) Study of selected topics and authors from this period.

ENGL691 SEMINAR: VICTORIAN POETRY & ART (3.00) Study of the interaction between poetry and the visual arts during this period.

ENGL693 SEMINAR: MODERN JEWISH FICTION (3.00) Study of selected European and American Jewish writers of fiction from the late 19th century to the present.

ENGL694 SEMINAR: CONTEMP AMER FICTION (3.00) Study of selected American poets and poetic movements from the past few decades.

ENGL695 SEM:CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY (3.00) Study of selected American poets and poetic movements of the past few decades.

ENGL700 MASTER'S THESIS (6.00) Individual study leading to the completion of the M.A. thesis. See department chair for further information.

ENGL701 MASTER'S THESIS (3.00) Individual study leading to the completion of the M.A. thesis. See department chair for further information. Prerequisite: Department chair approval