The entire FAS 2008-2009 catalog.
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General Education Courses
Humanities courses taught by English Department faculty can be used for concentration credit
Humanities 10. An Introductory Humanities Colloquium
Freshman Seminars
Freshman Seminars taught by English Department faculty can be used for concentration credit
Core Courses taught by English Faculty
L & A A-11. Arthurian Literature: Epic versus Romance
L & A A-72. The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self
L & A A-88. Interracial Literature
Concentration Requirements
English 10b. Major British Writers II
English 90wb. Jameses and Jameseans (fulfills the English 17 requirement)
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Sophomore Seminars Page
Creative Writing Workshops Page
Undergraduate Seminars
Enrollment in these courses is limited to 15, but any English concentrator may be admitted with permission from the course head
English 90ab. American "Realists": O'Neill, Williams, Miller
English 90fa. Fantasy Before Modernity
English 90ha. Satire:Augustan and Modern
English 90lv. Consciousness from Austen to Woolf
English 90pb. Dramatic Structure and Analysis
English 90qd. Philip Larkin unless John Ashbery
English 90qp. 20th-Century American Poetry (New Course)
English 90wb. Jameses and Jameseans
Conference Courses
Conference courses are open to advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students. A conference course places more emphasis on discussion than research. It usually has an enrollment of about 25 students (35 maximum); meets once a week for 2-3 hours; and incorporates student papers and research.
English 129. Shakespeare in Slow Motion: Conference Course
Note: This is a course for undergraduate and graduate students; however, a graduate student may not take this as a 200- or seminar- level graduate course. This conference course is designed to be primarily for undergraduates with graduate student participation.
Lectures with Sections
These often larger lecture courses generally meet three times per week, twice at the listed time and once in sections to be arranged; discussion in these courses generally occurs in a section
English 103g. Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture: Beowulf and Elegy
English 127. A Silk Road Course: Travel and Transformation on the High Seas: An Imaginary Journey in the Early 17th Century
English 129. Shakespeare in Slow Motion: Conference Course
English 141. The 18th-Century Novel
English 151. The 19th-Century Novel
English 156. Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture
English 160c. Modern British Fiction: Conrad to Beckett
English 173. Southern Literature and Culture in the United States
English 178x. The American Novel: Dreiser to the Present
English 185. Wit and Humor
English 187. Native American Literary Traditions
English 189. The Novella
English 192p. Postmodern Literature
Lectures / Discussions
These new-format courses meet two times per week for 90 minutes; designed to facilitate closer student-faculty exchange in the smaller enrollment lecture. Depending on enrollment, courses may also have a discussion section each week in addition to the two 90-minute meetings; a writing tutor will be assigned to assist the course head with evaluation of student work.
Other Undergraduate Courses Taught by English Department Faculty
Some courses may not count for English concentration credit.
Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 12. Poetry in America
African and African American Studies 122. Caribbean Women Writers
Graduate Seminars
English 229s. Spenser: Graduate Seminar
English 251. Comparative Romantic Theory: Graduate Seminar
English 256n. The Victorian Novel: Graduate Seminar
English 257. Joyce: Graduate Seminar
English 270. American Civil War
English 276x. African-American Literary Tradition
English 280. Critical History: Graduate Seminar
English 286a. W.H.Auden: Graduate Seminar
English 292. Methods of Approaching American Literature
English 294z. On Beauty: Graduate Seminar
English 295. Marxism and Postcolonial Studies: Graduate Seminar
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