Department of English


106 Guilford House
www.case.edu/artsci/engl
Phone: 216-368-2364; Fax: 216-368-4367
William R. Siebenschuh, Chair
E-mail: william.siebenschuh@case.edu

 

The Department of English offers courses of study leading to the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Included among the department’s offerings are literary and cultural studies, linguistics, film, journalism, creative writing, rhetoric and professional writing.


Combining the intellectual resources of a major research university with a scale and a set of values more typical of a liberal arts college, the department puts great stress on class discussion, individual conferences or tutorials, and other opportunities for students and faculty to work closely together. Likewise, the curriculum is deliberately flexible enough to respond to student needs and interests and to encourage close cooperation with the faculty in planning a course of study.


An undergraduate major in English prepares one first and foremost to be a thoughtful, responsible person and a lifelong learner. A major in English also prepares one for various sorts of careers. Three paths are common:

Department Faculty


William R. Siebenschuh, Ph.D.
(University of California, Berkeley)
Professor and Chair
18th- and 19th-century British literature; biography and autobiography


Kimberly Emmons, Ph.D.
(University of Washington)
Assistant Professor
Rhetoric; composition; gender and language


Christopher Flint, Ph.D.
(University of Pennsylvania)
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
18th-century English literature; history of the book


T. Kenneth Fountain, Ph.D.
(University of Minnesota)
Assistant Professor
Scientific and technical communication; visual rhetoric


Mary Grimm, M.A.
(Cleveland State University)
Associate Professor
Creative writing (fiction); contemporary literature


Megan Swihart Jewell, Ph.D.
(Duquesne University)
Instructor; Director, Writing Resource Center
19th-century American literature; poetics


Kurt Koenigsberger, Ph.D.
(Vanderbilt University)
Associate Professor; Associate Director, Society for Critical Exchange
19th- and 20th-century British literature; postcolonial literature


James Kuzner, Ph.D.
(Johns Hopkins University)
Assistant Professor
Renaissance literature: Shakespeare


William H. Marling, Ph.D.
(University of California, Santa Barbara)
Professor
American literature; modernism


John M. Orlock, M.F.A.
(Pennsylvania State University)
Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities
Playwriting; screenwriting


Judith Oster, Ph.D.
(Case Western Reserve University)
Professor
The teaching of English; American literature; poetry


Robert Spadoni, Ph.D.
(University of Chicago)
Assistant Professor
Film studies


Gary Lee Stonum, Ph.D.
(Johns Hopkins University)
Oviatt Professor
American literature; literary theory


Thrity Umrigar, Ph.D.
(Kent State University)
Associate Professor
Creative writing (fiction and memoir); journalism; African-American literature


Athena Vrettos, Ph.D.
(University of Pennsylvania)
Associate Professor
19th-century English literature, women’s studies


Martha Woodmansee, Ph.D.
(Stanford University)
Professor
Literary theory; 18th- and 19th-century literature; comparative literature; intellectual property


Facilities


In Strosacker Auditorium, the Film Society maintains facilities capable of projecting 35mm and 16mm films. In addition to manuscript and rare-book holdings in the Special Collections Division, Kelvin Smith Library has strengths in Renaissance literature, 18th- and 19th-century English literature, and American literature. The library also houses an outstanding collection of several thousand films and other audiovisual materials, supported in part by English department endowment funds. In the library’s Freedman Center, students have access to video cameras, state-of-the-art digital editing software, and stations where it is possible to view audiovisual materials from the library collection.


Undergraduate Programs


Major


The major in English includes two tracks. The primary track consists of at least 30 semester hours in English above the 100 level (including 15 hours at the 300 level or above). The required courses are ENGL 300 (English Literature to 1800); either ENGL 302 (English Literature since 1800) or ENGL 308 (American Literature); ENGL 380 (Departmental Seminar); ENGL 395 (Senior Capstone); and one course from the following list of courses dealing with literature before 1800: ENGL 310 (History of the English Language), ENGL 312 (Chaucer), ENGL 320 (Renaissance Literature), ENGL 323 (Milton), ENGL 324 (Shakespeare I), ENGL 325 (Shakespeare II), ENGL 326 (17th-Century Literature), ENGL 327 (18th-Century Literature), ENGL 328 (18th-Century Studies), and ENGL 329 (English Literature 1780-1837).


Because of the flexibility of departmental requirements and the variety of career paths to which the major may lead, all students should confer frequently and closely with advisors. No courses outside the department are required for the major, but the department recommends courses in comparative literature, history, philosophy, history and criticism of the fine arts, theater, and literature in other languages. Students planning to go to graduate school are reminded of the importance of foreign language study.


Completion of the University composition requirement (ENGL 150 or SAGES First Seminar) is a prerequisite for most English courses at the 200 level and above.


Departmental Honors


To qualify for honors, English majors follow a track consisting of at least 36 hours above the 100 level, including the general requirements for the major (see above); ENGL 387 (Critical Theory), or approved substitute; at least 18 hours of approved electives in literary and cultural studies; and one of the following language courses: FRCH 202, GREK 202, GRMN 202, JAPN 202, LATN 202, SPAN 202, or equivalent in a language for which 300-level literature courses are available. The award of honors requires a minimum GPA of 3.5 in courses taken for the Honors Program.


Teacher Licensure in Integrated Language Arts


A special program is available that leads to the B.A. and candidacy for licensure by the State of Ohio to teach Integrated Language Arts in grades 7-12 (Adolescents to Young Adults). The teaching credential is valid in Ohio, and it is honored in many other states. The program consists of a more prescriptive form of the normal English major and a series of education courses that includes student teaching in a local school. (See the program description for Teacher Licensure elsewhere in this bulletin.) Because of the student teaching and because some of the education courses must be taken at John Carroll University, early and careful planning is vital. Consult Judith Oster, the English advisor, for details about this program.


The subject area requirements for teacher licensure (42 credit hours) are as follows:
ENGL 150, 200, 202, 204, 256, 390, 380, 393; ENGL 255 or 257K; ENGL 324 or 325; ENGL 301, 379, or COSI 313; two of ENGL 257B, 270, 363H, 365E, 365N, 365Q, 366G; ENGL 368A, 368B, or 368C. Recommended Electives: ENGL 203, 213, 214, 303, 304, 310, 317, 392, 480.


Integrated Graduate Studies


The Department of English participates in the Integrated Graduate Studies program, which makes it possible to complete both a B.A. and an M.A. in English in about five years of full-time study. The department particularly recommends the program to qualified students who are interested in seeking admission to highly competitive professional schools or Ph.D. programs. Interested students should note the general requirements and the admission procedures elsewhere in this bulletin.


Minors


Minor in English
The minor in English consists of at least 15 hours above the 100 level. Students who wish to minor in English arrange their sequence of courses in consultation with the department’s minor advisor. Minors are strongly advised to take ENGL 200 (Literature in English) early in the sequence. They should also keep in mind that the flexibility of the department’s requirements often makes it possible to take English as a second major.


Minor in Film Studies
Like the minor in English, the minor in Film Studies requires 15 hours:

  1. ENGL 367 (Introduction to Film)
    Though students are not required to take this course first, it is recommended that they take it as early in the sequence as possible.
  2. Up to 12 credits in
    • ENGL 368A—Introduction to Film Studies
    • ENGL 368B—Topics in Film History
    • ENGL 368C—Topics In Film. Courses taught under the rubric 368C have included The Horror Film, Literature in Film, Films of Alfred Hitchcock, Asian Cinema and Drama, Images of Women in Films, Introduction to Film Genres, Science Fiction Films, Cinema of Rebellion, Political Cinema, and Dance on Screen.
    • ENGL 316—Screenwriting
  3. Up to 6 credits of elective courses
    Many courses taught across the University can qualify as elective courses, and new ones are coming along all the time. Past courses that would qualify include Latin American Cinema, Religion and Film, The Hollywood Musical, Topics in German Cinema, Film Music, Jewish Image in Popular Film, French Cinema, and Folklore & Myth in Japanese Film.

Graduate Programs


The Department of English offers programs in American and English literature and language leading to the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. At either the M.A. or Ph.D. level, students may elect a concentration in Writing History and Theory. The department also collaborates with the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in offering a Master of Arts in comparative literature.


Candidates for graduate work in English should present an undergraduate major in English or a minimum of 18 semester hours of English (or its equivalent) beyond the freshman level. In some cases, students will be required to make up deficiencies without graduate credit. The department requires all candidates for admission to submit their scores on aptitude sections of the Graduate Record Examination. Candidates are also required to submit a writing sample, consisting of at least 15 pages of academic writing. Students whose native language is not English are normally admitted only as provisional students. After 12 semester hours of satisfactory work, they are granted regular status.


A maximum of six semester hours of transfer credit will be accepted from another institution, provided they were earned in graduate-level courses, with the approval of the department and the dean of graduate studies. Such courses must have been taken within five years of matriculation at Case Western Reserve University and passed with grades of B or better. The department welcomes part-time students.


Although not formally a requirement for graduate degrees, teaching is viewed as part of the education of every graduate student. The department provides opportunities for graduate assistants to gain teaching experience in a variety of English courses. Other teaching opportunities exist elsewhere in the university and in Greater Cleveland.
New and continuing graduate students may apply for graduate student assistantships, which are awarded by the dean on recommendation of the department. Applicants with previous teaching experience are preferred. Graduate assistants without previous teaching experience will be required to take ENGL 400 (Seminar in Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing) before the first semester in which they teach.


Course Descriptions


ENGL 148. Introduction to Composition (3)
Practice and training in various modes and genres of writing. Undergraduate CIM students placed into ENGL 148 must complete the course with a grade of C or higher in order to enroll in ENGL 150.


ENGL 150. Expository Writing (3)
Substantial training and practice in academic writing.


ENGL 180. Writing Tutorial (1-2)
Substantial scheduled tutorial work in writing.


ENGL 181. Reading Tutorial (1)
Scheduled tutorial in reading for those who need work beyond ENGL 148 or who come to the Writing Center seeking substantial help. May be repeated in special instances, but only one semester hour will count toward the degree.


ENGL 183. Academic Writing Studio (1)
Practice and training in various aspects of academic writing in a small group workshop environment. Offered concurrently with First Seminar; provides supplementary instruction to help students meet First Seminar writing objectives. Please note: only one semester hour of English 183 will count toward a degree, but the course may be repeated.


ENGL 200. Literature in English (3)
This course introduces students to the reading of literature in the English language. Through close attention to the practice of reading, students are invited to consider some of the characteristic forms and functions imaginative literature has taken, together with some of the changes that have taken place in what and how readers read. Recommended preparation: Concurrent enrollment in ENGL 150 or USFS 100.


ENGL 202. Expository Writing (3)
A workshop-style course for students who wish to refine the skills acquired in ENGL 150. Special attention to style and presentation.


ENGL 203. Introduction to Creative Writing (3)
A course exploring basic issues and techniques of writing narrative prose and verse through exercises, analysis, and experiment. For students who wish to try their abilities across a spectrum of genres. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.


ENGL 204. Introduction to Journalism (3)
Print news and feature stories, broadcast writing, advertising copy, and public relations. Considerable writing. Guest speakers from the profession. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.


ENGL 213. Introduction to Fiction Writing(3)
A beginning workshop in fiction writing, introducing such concepts as voice, point of view, plot, characterization, dialogue, description, and the like. May include discussion of literary examples, both classic and contemporary, along with student work. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.


ENGL 214. Introduction to Poetry Writing(3)
A beginning workshop, focusing on such elements of poetry as verse-form, syntax, figures, sound, tone. May include discussion of literary examples as well as student work. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.


ENGL 217B. Writing for the Health Professions (3)
This course offers practice and training in the professional and technical writing skills common to health professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, dentistry). Attention will be paid to the writing processes of drafting, revising, and editing. Typical assignments include: letters, resumes, personal essays, professional communication genres (e.g., e-mail, reports, patient charts, and histories), and scholarly genres (e.g., abstracts, articles, and reviews). Recommended preparation: FSCC 100 or equivalent.


ENGL 255. Major British Writers (3)
Introduction to literary studies and survey of selected English authors from the Medieval period to the present. Recommended preparation: Concurrent enrollment in ENGL 150 or USFS 100.


ENGL 256. Major American Writers (3)
Introduction to literary studies and survey of literature of United States from colonial times to the present. Recommended preparation: Concurrent enrollment in ENGL 150 or USFS 100.


ENGL 257A. The Novel (3)
Introductory readings in the novel. May be organized chronologically or thematically. Some attention to the novel as a historically situated genre.


ENGL 257B. Poetry (3)
Introductory readings in poetry. May be organized chronologically or thematically. Attention to the formal qualities of poetry in relation to meaning, expressivity, etc.


ENGL 270. Introduction to Gender Studies (3)
This course introduces women and men students to the methods and concepts of gender studies, women’s studies, and feminist theory. An interdisciplinary course, it covers approaches used in literary criticism, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and religion. It is the required introductory course for students taking the women’s studies major. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 270, HSTY 270, PHIL 270, RLGN 270, and WGST 201.
Global & Cultural Diversity


ENGL 285. Special Topics Seminar (1)
One-credit seminars on special topics in literature or language; see departmental listings for topics each term. Maximum of 3 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.


ENGL 290. Masterpieces of Continental Fiction (3)
Major works of fiction from the 19th century and earlier.
Offered as ENGL 290 and WLIT 290.


ENGL 291. Masterpieces of Modern Fiction (3)
Major works of fiction of the 20th century.
Offered as ENGL 291 and WLIT 291.


ENGL 300. English Literature to 1800 (3)
A survey of major British authors from Chaucer to Milton and Dryden. Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 301. Linguistic Analysis (3)
Analysis of modern English from various theoretical perspectives: structural, generative, discourse analytical, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and cognitive linguistic. Some attention to the major dialects of American English.
Offered as ENGL 301 and ENGL 401.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 302. English Literature from 1800 to the 20th Century (3)
3A survey of major British authors from Wordsworth to the present.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 303. Intermediate Writing Workshop: Fiction (3)
Continues developing the concepts and practice of the introductory courses, with reading, writing, and discussion of fiction in various forms, including the short story, the novella and the novel. Maximum 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 203 or ENGL 213.


ENGL 304. Intermediate Writing Workshop: Poetry (3)
Continues developing the concepts and practice of the introductory courses, with emphasis on experiment and revision as well as consideration of poetic genres through examples from established poets. Maximum 6 credits.
Prereq: ENGL 203 or ENGL 214.


ENGL 305. Playwriting (3)
Theory and practice of dramatic writing, in the context of examples, classic and contemporary. Recommended preparation: ENGL 203 or ENGL 213 or ENGL 214 or ENGL 303 or ENGL 304.Offered as ENGL 305 and THTR 312.


ENGL 306. Intermediate Writing Workshop: Creative Non-Fiction (3)
A writing workshop that focuses on non-fiction (journals, memoirs, etc.) Students will study and write narrative journalism, the memoir, and the personal essay.
Prereq: ENGL 203 or ENGL 213 or ENGL 214.


ENGL 307. Intermediate Writing Workshop: Journalism (3)
Continues developing the concepts and practices of the introductory course, with emphasis on feature writing for magazines, story structure, and repertorial techniques.Prereq: ENGL 204 and either ENGL 150 or 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, or FSCS.


ENGL 308. American Literature (3)
A survey of major American authors from the puritans to the present.Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 309. Topics in Journalism (3)
Study and practice of specialized forms of journalism. Maximum of six credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.


ENGL 310. History of the English Language (3)
An introductory course covering the major periods of English language development: Old, Middle, and Modern. Students will examine both the linguistic forms and the cultures in which the forms were used. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 310 and ENGL 410.


ENGL 312. Chaucer (3)
An introduction to the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, with emphasis on “The Canterbury Tales.”
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 314. Advanced Playwriting (3)
Theory and practice of dramatic writing with special focus on the craft of writing a full-length play. Offered as ENGL 314 and THTR 314.
Prereq: ENGL 305 or THTR 312.


ENGL 316. Screenwriting (3)
A critical exploration of the craft of writing for film, in which reading and practicum assignments will culminate in the student submitting an original full-length screenplay.
Offered as ENGL 316 and THTR 316.


ENGL 317. Business and Technical Writing (3)
Professional communication in theory and practice, including audience analysis, logic and strategy applied to the writing of technical reports, proposals, manuals, progress and feasibility studies, memoranda, and letters.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 320. Renaissance Literature (3)
Aspects of English Renaissance literature and its contexts from 1500-ca. 1620. Genres studied might include poetry, drama, prose fiction, expository and polemic writing, or some works from Continental Europe. Writers such as Skelton, More, Erasmus, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Lanier, Wroth, Shakespeare, Donne. Maximum 6 credits. Offered as ENGL 320 and ENGL 420. Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 323. Milton (3)
Poetry and selected prose, including the careful study of “Paradise Lost.”
Offered as ENGL 323 and ENGL 423.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 324. Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies (3)
Close reading of a selection of Shakespeare’s tragedies and history plays (e.g., “Richard the Third,” “Julius Caesar,” “Hamlet,” “King Lear”). Topics of discussion may include Renaissance drama as a social institution, the nature of tragedy, national history, gender roles, sexual politics, the state and its opponents, theatrical conventions. Assessment may include opportunities for performance.
Offered as ENGL 324, ENGL 424, and THTR 334. Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 325. Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances (3)
Close reading of selected plays of Shakespeare in the genres of comedy and romance (e.g., “The Merchant of Venice,” “Twelfth Night,” “Measure for Measure,” “The Tempest”). Topics of discussion may include issues of sexual desire, gender roles, marriage, the family, genre conventions. Assessment may include opportunities for performance.
Offered as ENGL 325, ENGL 425, and THTR 335.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 327. Eighteenth-Century Literature (3)
Survey of a variety of writings from or relevant to the eighteenth century. Writers discussed may include Dryden, Behn, Defoe, Pope, Swift, Gay, Fielding, Richardson, Burney, Wollstonecraft and others working in drama, lyric and epic poetry, biography and autobiography, political and philosophical writings and prose fiction. Thematic approaches may include: satire, journalism and literature, the rise of the novel. Maximum 6 credits.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 328. Studies in the Eighteenth Century (3)
This course examines selected topics in the English literary culture of the eighteenth century, a culture which extended to the Americas and to other English colonies. Literary writings will be examined in relation to other aspects of the century culture, which may include visual arts, marital institutions, the printing industry, property law, medicine, and other topics. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 328 and ENGL 428.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 329. English Literature, 1780-1837 (3)
Aspects of English literature and its contexts in the early 19th century. Genres might include poetry, prose fiction, political and philosophical writing, literary theory of the period. Writers such as the Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Austen, Byron, the Shelleys. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 329 and ENGL 429.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 330. Victorian Literature (3)
Aspects of English literature and its contexts during the reign of Queen Victoria. Genres studied might include poetry, prose fiction, political and philosophical writing. Writers such as the Brontes, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, Gosse, Swinburne, and Hopkins. Maximum 6 credits.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 331. Studies in the Nineteenth-Century (3)
Individual topics in English literary culture of the 19th century. Topics might be thematic or formal, such as literature and science, medicine, labor, sexuality, or Empire; literature and other arts; Gothic fiction, decadence. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 331 and ENGL 431.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 332. Twentieth-Century British Literature (3)
Aspects of British literature (broadly interpreted) and its contexts during the 20th century. Genres studied might include poetry, fiction, and drama. Such writers as Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, Mansfield, Shaw, Beckett, Stoppard, Yeats, Edward or Dylan Thomas, Stevie Smith, Bowen, Spark. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 332 and ENGL 432.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 333. Studies in the Twentieth Century (3)
Individual topics in twentieth-century literary culture. Particular issues and topics may cross national boundaries and genre lines as well as exploring political, psychological, and social themes, such as movements, comparative studies across the arts, literature and war, literature and occultism. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 333 and ENGL 433.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 353. Major Writers (3)
Close and detailed study of the work of one or two writers: development, social and aesthetic contexts, reception, interpretation, significance. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 353 and ENGL 453.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 356. American Literature Before 1865 (3)
Aspects of American literature and its contexts from the colonial period through the end of the Civil War. Writers such as Bradstreet, Taylor, Franklin, Poe, Stowe, Alcott, Melville, Hawthorne, Emerson, Douglass. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 356 and ENGL 456.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 357. American Literature 1865-1914 (3)
Aspects of American literature and its contexts from the Civil War to the First World War. Writers such as Whitman and Dickinson, Twain, Howells, James, Chopin, Wharton. Maximum 6 credits. Offered as ENGL 357 and ENGL 457.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 358. American Literature 1914-1960 (3)
Aspects of American literature and its contexts from the First World War to the Cold War. Genres studies might include fiction, poetry, drama, polemics. Writers such as T.S. Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Moore, W.C. Williams, Dos Passos, West, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cather, Faulkner, Barnes, Miller, T. Williams, O’Neill. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 358 and ENGL 458.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 359. Studies in Contemporary American Literature (3)
Individual topics in literary culture since the 1960s. Topics may include the Beats, literature of the Vietnam war, post-modern fiction, contemporary poetry, the documentary novel. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 359 and ENGL 459.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 360. Studies in American Literature (3)
Individual topics in American literary culture such as regionalism, realism, impressionism, literature and popular culture, transcendentalism, the lyric, proletarian literature, the legacy of the Civil War. Maximum 6 credits.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 363H. African-American Literature (3)
A historical approach to African-American literature. Such writers as Wheatley, Equiano, Douglas, Jacobs, DuBois, Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Baldwin, Ellison, Morrisonis. Topics covered may include slave narratives, African-American autobiography, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Aesthetic, literature or protest and to assimilation. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 363H, ETHS 363H, WLIT 363H, ENGL 463H, and WLIT 463H.
Global & Cultural Diversity


ENGL 365E. The Immigrant Experience (3)
Study of fictional and/or autobiographical narrative by authors whose families have experienced immigration to the U.S. Among the ethnic groups represented are Asian-American, Jewish-American, Hispanic-American. May include several ethnic groups or focus on a single one. Attention is paid to historical and social aspects of immigration and ethnicity. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 365E, WLIT 365E, ENGL 465E, and WLIT 465E.
Global & Cultural Diversity


ENGL 365N. Topics in African-American Literature (3)
Selected topics and writers from nineteenth and twentieth-century African-American literature. May focus on a genre, a single author or a group of authors, a theme or themes. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 365N, ETHS 365N, WLIT 365N, ENGL 465N, and WLIT 465N.
Global & Cultural Diversity


ENGL 365Q. Post-Colonial Literature (3)
Readings in national and regional literatures from former European colonies such as Australia and African countries. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 365Q, ETHS 365Q, WLIT 365Q, ENGL 465Q, and WLIT 465Q.
Global & Cultural Diversity


ENGL 366G. Minority Literatures (3)
A course dealing with literature produced by ethnic and racial minority groups within the U.S. Individual offerings may include works from several groups studied comparatively, or focus on a single group, such as Native Americans, Chicanos/Chicanas, Asian-Americans, Caribbean-Americans. African-American works may also be included. May cover the entire history of the U.S. or shorter periods. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 366G, WLIT 466G, ENGL 466G, and WLIT 466G.
Global & Cultural Diversity


ENGL 367. Introduction to Film (3)
An introduction to the aesthetics of film form. We will analyze the elements that make up a film, screening films that facilitate our discussion of how these elements interact with one another to constitute whole formal systems that generate meanings and other effects. We will bring various theoretical and historical considerations to bear as we explore and appreciate the art of cinema. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 367 and ENGL 467.


ENGL 368A. Film History, Theory, and Criticism (3)
This course is an introduction to the three major approaches to cinema that together constitute the field of film studies. The course will be broken into three units: film theory; film criticism; and film history. Screening one film per week, we will consider each film in light of the particular unit’s and week’s focus. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 368A, WLIT 368A, ENGL 468A, and WLIT 468A.


ENGL 368B. History of Film (3)
Analysis of selected topics in film history, such as film before 1940, American cinema 1940 to the present. European or Asian cinema since 1940. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 368B and ENGL 468B.


ENGL 368C. Topics in Film (3)
Individual topics in film, such as a particular national cinema, images of women in film, film comedy, New Wave film, literature and film. Maximum 12 credits.
Offered as ENGL 368C, WLIT 368C, ENGL 468C, and WLIT 468C.


ENGL 371. Topics in Women’s Studies (3)
Individual topics and issues in women’s studies relating to writing by and about women, such as feminist theory and criticism; the politics of gender and sexuality; women in popular culture; women in the writing business. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 371 and ENGL 471.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 372. Studies in the Novel (3)
Selected topics in the history and formal development of the novel, such as detective novels; science fiction; epistolary novels; the rise of the novel; the stream of consciousness novel; the Bildungsroman in English. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 372 and ENGL 472.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 373. Studies in Poetry (3)
Selected topics and issues in the study of poetry, such as reading poetry, the elegy, pastoral poetry, love poetry, the long poem, form and meter in poetry. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 373 and ENGL 473.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 374. Internship in Journalism (3-6)
Students work as interns at area newspapers, magazines, trade publications, radio or television and meet as a class to share their experiences as interns and to focus on editorial issues--reporting, writing, fact-checking, editing--that are a part of any journalistic enterprise. Students are responsible for pre-arranging their internship prior to the semester they intend to take the class but can expect guidance from the instructor in this regard. Recommended preparation: ENGL 204 or permission of the department.


ENGL 375. Internship in Technical Communication (3-6)
Students create technical and professional documents in a selected corporate or organizational setting, do assigned reading, and meet as a class to participate in seminar discussions and review of work. Students must pre-arrange internship assignment with instructor prior to semester. Recommended preparation: ENGL 317 or ENGL 398N and permission of department.


ENGL 376. Studies in Genre (3)
Topics in literary genres, such as comedy, biography and autobiography, satire, allegory, the short story, the apologue, narrative poetry. May cross over the prose/poetry boundary. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 376 and ENGL 476.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 379. Topics in Language Studies (3)
Aspects of contemporary language studies. Topics such as history of rhetoric, Saussurean linguistics, generative grammar, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive and construction grammars, metaphor, language acquisition, stylistics. Maximum 9 credits.
Offered as ENGL 379 and ENGL 479.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 380. Departmental Seminar (3)
The English departmental seminar, recommended for the junior year. A topical course, emphasizing disciplinary forms of writing. The class will incorporate an advising function, so that students are prepared for choosing a project for their Capstone Seminar.
Prereq or Coreq: ENGL 300.


SAGES Dept Seminar

ENGL 385. Special Topics in Literature (3)
Close study of a theme or aspect of literature not covered by traditional generic or period rubrics, such as “spatial imagination,” “semiotics of fashion in literature,” “epistolarity.” Maximum 9 credits.
Offered as ENGL 385 and ENGL 485.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 386. Studies in Literature and Culture (3)
Boundary-crossing study of the relations between literary and other aspects of a particular culture or society, including theoretical and critical issues raised by such study. For example, literature and medicine, gay and lesbian literature, Asian/Western literary relations, emotion in literature, philosophy and literature, literature and music. Maximum 9 credits.
Offered as ENGL 386 and ENGL 486.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 387. Literary and Critical Theory (3)
A survey of major schools and texts of literary and critical theory. May be historically or thematically organized. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 387, WLIT 387, ENGL 487, and WLIT 487.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 390. Independent Study and Creative Projects (1-6)
Up to six semester hours of independent study may be taken in a single semester. Must have prior approval of faculty member directing the project. Projects may be critical or creative in nature.


ENGL 392. Classroom Teaching (3)
For undergraduate students who assist in the teaching of ENGL 150, 180, or 181. Interested students should check with the director of composition (for ENGL 150, 180, 181) before the beginning of the semester in which they wish to participate. May be repeated only once; not more than three semester hours in ENGL 392 may be counted toward the major. May also include up to three semester hours of supervised peer tutoring at the University Writing Center.


ENGL 395. Capstone Seminar (3)
Capstone course, to be taken in the senior year. Open to non-English majors. Required for the English Honors Track. Features individual projects in a workshop environment; students have the option of a research-based or a creative writing project.
Prereq: ENGL 300 and ENGL 380.


SAGES Senior Cap
ENGL 398. Professional Communication for Engineers (2)
A writing course for Engineering students only, covering academic and professional genres of written and oral communication. Taken in conjunction with Engineering 398, English 398 constitutes an approved SAGES Departmental Seminar.
Prereq: ENGL 150 or 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, or FSCS. Coreq: ENGR 398.


SAGES Dept Seminar
ENGL 398N. Professional Communication for Engineers (3)
Principles and practices of effective communication in the workplace, with an emphasis on computer-mediated communication. Topics include analyzing audience needs in context, visual communication, computer-mediated documents, ethics, and team writing. Typical assignments include e-mail, memos, letters, reports, documentation, and oral presentations.
Prereq: 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSCC, FSNA, FSSO, FSSY, FSTS, FSCS or ENGL 150.


ENGL 399. Senior Thesis (3)
Elective research or creative project. Should be used for Honors Projects option. By department approval only. Maximum 6 credits.


ENGL 400. Rhetoric and Teaching of Writing (3)
Classical and modern theories of rhetoric; their application in the classroom. Required of graduate assistants and tutors who have had no prior experience in the teaching of composition.
Prereq: Graduate standing.


ENGL 401. Linguistic Analysis (3)
Analysis of modern English from various theoretical perspectives: structural, generative, discourse analytical, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and cognitive linguistic. Some attention to the major dialects of American English.
Offered as ENGL 301 and ENGL 401.


ENGL 406. Advanced Creative Writing (3)
Workshop for serious undergraduate and graduate writers. Offered alternate years; alternates between poetry and fiction. Admission requires review of writing sample by faculty. Maximum 6 credits.


ENGL 410. History of the English Language (3)
An introductory course covering the major periods of English language development: Old, Middle, and Modern. Students will examine both the linguistic forms and the cultures in which the forms were used. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 310 and ENGL 410.


ENGL 420. Renaissance Literature (3)
Aspects of English Renaissance literature and its contexts from 1500-ca. 1620. Genres studied might include poetry, drama, prose fiction, expository and polemic writing, or some works from Continental Europe. Writers such as Skelton, More, Erasmus, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Lanier, Wroth, Shakespeare, Donne. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 320 and ENGL 420.


ENGL 423. Milton (3)
Poetry and selected prose, including the careful study of “Paradise Lost.”
Offered as ENGL 323 and ENGL 423.


ENGL 424. Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies (3)
Close reading of a selection of Shakespeare’s tragedies and history plays (e.g., “Richard the Third,” “Julius Caesar,” “Hamlet,” “King Lear”). Topics of discussion may include Renaissance drama as a social institution, the nature of tragedy, national history, gender roles, sexual politics, the state and its opponents, theatrical conventions. Assessment may include opportunities for performance.
Offered as ENGL 324, ENGL 424, and THTR 334.


ENGL 425. Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances (3)
Close reading of selected plays of Shakespeare in the genres of comedy and romance (e.g., “The Merchant of Venice,” “Twelfth Night,” “Measure for Measure,” “The Tempest”). Topics of discussion may include issues of sexual desire, gender roles, marriage, the family, genre conventions. Assessment may include opportunities for performance.
Offered as ENGL 325, ENGL 425, and THTR 335.

 

ENGL 428. Studies in the Eighteenth Century (3)
This course examines selected topics in the English literary culture of the eighteenth century, a culture which extended to the Americas and to other English colonies. Literary writings will be examined in relation to other aspects of the century culture, which may include visual arts, marital institutions, the printing industry, property law, medicine, and other topics. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 328 and ENGL 428.


ENGL 429. English Literature, 1780-1837 (3)
Aspects of English literature and its contexts in the early 19th century. Genres might include poetry, prose fiction, political and philosophical writing, literary theory of the period. Writers such as the Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Austen, Byron, the Shelleys. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 329 and ENGL 429.


ENGL 431. Studies in the Nineteenth-Century (3)
Individual topics in English literary culture of the 19th century. Topics might be thematic or formal, such as literature and science, medicine, labor, sexuality, or Empire; literature and other arts; Gothic fiction, decadence. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 331 and ENGL 431.


ENGL 432. Twentieth-Century British Literature (3)
Aspects of British literature (broadly interpreted) and its contexts during the 20th century. Genres studied might include poetry, fiction, and drama. Such writers as Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, Mansfield, Shaw, Beckett, Stoppard, Yeats, Edward or Dylan Thomas, Stevie Smith, Bowen, Spark. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 332 and ENGL 432.


ENGL 433. Studies in the Twentieth Century (3)
Individual topics in twentieth-century literary culture. Particular issues and topics may cross national boundaries and genre lines as well as exploring political, psychological, and social themes, such as movements, comparative studies across the arts, literature and war, literature and occultism. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 333 and ENGL 433.


ENGL 453. Major Writers (3)
Close and detailed study of the work of one or two writers: development, social and aesthetic contexts, reception, interpretation, significance. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 353 and ENGL 453.


ENGL 456. American Literature Before 1865 (3)
Aspects of American literature and its contexts from the colonial period through the end of the Civil War. Writers such as Bradstreet, Taylor, Franklin, Poe, Stowe, Alcott, Melville, Hawthorne, Emerson, Douglass. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 356 and ENGL 456.


ENGL 457. American Literature 1865-1914 (3)
Aspects of American literature and its contexts from the Civil War to the First World War. Writers such as Whitman and Dickinson, Twain, Howells, James, Chopin, Wharton. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 357 and ENGL 457.


ENGL 458. American Literature 1914-1960 (3)
Aspects of American literature and its contexts from the First World War to the Cold War. Genres studies might include fiction, poetry, drama, polemics. Writers such as T.S. Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Moore, W.C. Williams, Dos Passos, West, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cather, Faulkner, Barnes, Miller, T. Williams, O’Neill. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 358 and ENGL 458.


ENGL 459. Studies in Contemporary American Literature (3)
Individual topics in literary culture since the 1960s. Topics may include the Beats, literature of the Vietnam war, post-modern fiction, contemporary poetry, the documentary novel. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 359 and ENGL 459.


ENGL 463H. African-American Literature (3)
A historical approach to African-American literature. Such writers as Wheatley, Equiano, Douglas, Jacobs, DuBois, Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Baldwin, Ellison, Morrisonis. Topics covered may include slave narratives, African-American autobiography, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Aesthetic, literature or protest and to assimilation. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 363H, ETHS 363H, WLIT 363H, ENGL 463H, and WLIT 463H.


ENGL 465E. The Immigrant Experience (3)
Study of fictional and/or autobiographical narrative by authors whose families have experienced immigration to the U.S. Among the ethnic groups represented are Asian-American, Jewish-American, Hispanic-American. May include several ethnic groups or focus on a single one. Attention is paid to historical and social aspects of immigration and ethnicity. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 365E, WLIT 365E, ENGL 465E, and WLIT 465E.


ENGL 465N. Topics in African-American Literature (3)
Selected topics and writers from nineteenth and twentieth-century African-American literature. May focus on a genre, a single author or a group of authors, a theme or themes. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 365N, ETHS 365N, WLIT 365N, ENGL 465N, and WLIT 465N.


ENGL 465Q. Post-Colonial Literature (3)
Readings in national and regional literatures from former European colonies such as Australia and African countries. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 365Q, ETHS 365Q, WLIT 365Q, ENGL 465Q, and WLIT 465Q.


ENGL 466G. Minority Literatures (3)
A course dealing with literature produced by ethnic and racial minority groups within the U.S. Individual offerings may include works from several groups studied comparatively, or focus on a single group, such as Native Americans, Chicanos/Chicanas, Asian-Americans, Caribbean-Americans. African-American works may also be included. May cover the entire history of the U.S. or shorter periods. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 366G, WLIT 466G, ENGL 466G, and WLIT 466G.


ENGL 467. Introduction to Film (3)
An introduction to the aesthetics of film form. We will analyze the elements that make up a film, screening films that facilitate our discussion of how these elements interact with one another to constitute whole formal systems that generate meanings and other effects. We will bring various theoretical and historical considerations to bear as we explore and appreciate the art of cinema. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 367 and ENGL 467.


ENGL 468A. Film History, Theory, and Criticism (3)
This course is an introduction to the three major approaches to cinema that together constitute the field of film studies. The course will be broken into three units: film theory; film criticism; and film history. Screening one film per week, we will consider each film in light of the particular unit’s and week’s focus. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 368A, WLIT 368A, ENGL 468A, and WLIT 468A.


ENGL 468B. History of Film (3)
Analysis of selected topics in film history, such as film before 1940, American cinema 1940 to the present. European or Asian cinema since 1940. Maximum 6 credits. Recommended preparation: ENGL 150 or USFS 100.
Offered as ENGL 368B and ENGL 468B.


ENGL 468C. Topics in Film (3)
Individual topics in film, such as a particular national cinema, images of women in film, film comedy, New Wave film, literature and film. Maximum 12 credits.
Offered as ENGL 368C, WLIT 368C, ENGL 468C, and WLIT 468C.


ENGL 471. Topics in Women’s Studies (3)
Individual topics and issues in women’s studies relating to writing by and about women, such as feminist theory and criticism; the politics of gender and sexuality; women in popular culture; women in the writing business. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 371 and ENGL 471.


ENGL 472. Studies in the Novel (3)
Selected topics in the history and formal development of the novel, such as detective novels; science fiction; epistolary novels; the rise of the novel; the stream of consciousness novel; the Bildungsroman in English. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 372 and ENGL 472.


ENGL 473. Studies in Poetry (3)
Selected topics and issues in the study of poetry, such as reading poetry, the elegy, pastoral poetry, love poetry, the long poem, form and meter in poetry. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 373 and ENGL 473.


ENGL 476. Studies in Genre (3)
Topics in literary genres, such as comedy, biography and autobiography, satire, allegory, the short story, the apologue, narrative poetry. May cross over the prose/poetry boundary. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 376 and ENGL 476.


ENGL 479. Topics in Language Studies (3)
Aspects of contemporary language studies. Topics such as history of rhetoric, Saussurean linguistics, generative grammar, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive and construction grammars, metaphor, language acquisition, stylistics. Maximum 9 credits.
Offered as ENGL 379 and ENGL 479.


ENGL 480. ESL Composition Theory (3)
Study of theories related to teaching ESL composition, including second language acquisition; specialized grammar related to common ESL problems; cultural and affective issues; different Englishes; composition theory and research as it relates to ESL.


ENGL 485. Special Topics in Literature (3)
Close study of a theme or aspect of literature not covered by traditional generic or period rubrics, such as “spatial imagination,” “semiotics of fashion in literature,” “epistolarity.” Maximum 9 credits.
Offered as ENGL 385 and ENGL 485.


ENGL 486. Studies in Literature and Culture (3)
Boundary-crossing study of the relations between literary and other aspects of a particular culture or society, including theoretical and critical issues raised by such study. For example, literature and medicine, gay and lesbian literature, Asian/Western literary relations, emotion in literature, philosophy and literature, literature and music. Maximum 9 credits.
Offered as ENGL 386 and ENGL 486.


ENGL 487. Literary and Critical Theory (3)
A survey of major schools and texts of literary and critical theory. May be historically or thematically organized. Maximum 6 credits.
Offered as ENGL 387, WLIT 387, ENGL 487, and WLIT 487.

 

ENGL 501. Theories of Rhetoric (3)


ENGL 502. Critical Theory (3)
Theories and methods of contemporary literary study. Required of all graduate degree-seeking students.


ENGL 506. Professional Writing: Theory and Practice (3)
Prepares graduate students to teach disciplinary forms of writing, including technical and professional writing, in academic and non-academic settings.
Prereq: ENGL 400.


ENGL 508. Seminar: English Literature 1550-1660 (3)


ENGL 510. Research Methods (3)
This course focuses on methods and resources for research in English, including substantial treatments of narrative, poetics, and close-reading skills. It introduces graduate students to questions of textuality, genre, medium, authorship, reception, historiography, and bibliography. It features an introduction to libraries, special collections, InterLibrary Loan, and print and computer databases (including internet resources and the Oxford English Dictionary). The Research Methods course invites students to develop professional attitudes toward the study of English language and literature and offers a common base and vocabulary to students whose professional interests will inevitably diverge in the course of their study.


ENGL 517. Seminar: American Literature (3)


ENGL 518. Seminar: English Literature 1660-1800 (3)


ENGL 519. Seminar: English Literature 1800-1900 (3)


ENGL 520. Seminar: 20th Century Literature (3)


ENGL 521. Seminar: The Novel (3)


ENGL 522. Seminar: Topics in Poetry (3)


ENGL 524. Seminar: Criticism and Other Special Topics (3)


ENGL 525. Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship (3)
“Authorship” and “invention” are among the West’s most powerful ideas--the categories by which creative production has been defined and valued for the last two centuries. We will investigate the emergence and consolidation of these ideas in the context of some of the institutions, technologies, and practices that have fostered and been fostered by them, such as printing and publishing, copyright and patent law, education curricula and disciplinary pedagogies. Then we will turn our attention to the varieties of authorship and invention in operation today--from the solitary ethos characteristic of the arts and humanities to the collaborative, even corporate, forms in ascendance in science and industry. How are ideas of authorship and invention employed in the various discursive spheres to assign credit and responsibility? May tensions be found with creative practice? What are the stakes? Who wins, who loses? And what will be the consequences of digitization and globalization? Our study will culminate in attendance at an interdisciplinary conference on “Con/texts of Invention” which will take place at Case Western Reserve on April 21-23. The goal of our study will be to identify worthy research topics within students’ own areas of interest.
Offered as ENGL 525 and HSTY 525.
Prereq: Graduate standing.


ENGL 550. External Seminar (3)
Course work offered in cooperation with participating English departments in the region; content and approach vary. Requires prior approval of the graduate director.


ENGL 590. Special Reading or Research (3)
Independent study as arranged with individual instructors.
Prereq: Graduate status or consent of department.


ENGL 601. Directed Reading (1-6)
Preparation for the Ph.D. general examination.
Prereq: Graduate status.


ENGL 651. Thesis M.A. (1-18)


ENGL 701. Dissertation Ph.D. (1-18)
Prereq: Predoctoral research consent or advanced to Ph.D. candidacy milestone.