Courses
English Department courses encourage students to explore a range of literatures-both canonic and alternative-from a variety of critical perspectives.
2009-10 Courses Fulfilling English Requirements
English Course Offerings
2009-10
| Block | Title | Units | Div | Div Req | Instructor | CP | Lim | Res | In | WL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EN225 | Introduction to Shakespeare | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hilberry | 25 | 24 | |||
| 1 | EN251 | The Study of Folklore I(also listed as AN2511111) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Seward | D | 25 | 21 | ||
| 1 | EN286 | Topics in Creative Writing: Poet as Witness to War(also listed as SW2801111, ES2001111, FG2801121) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Martinez | D | 12 | 14 | ||
| 1 | EN307 | Practice in Fiction Writing[EN 283 and COI] | 0.00 | H | Nadzam | 25 | 4 | ||||
| 1 | EN329 | Milton[EN 221 or 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Love | 25 | 25 | |||
| 1 | EN394 | American Literature: American Dream, American Nightmare[221 or 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Tynan | 25 | 23 | |||
| 1 | EN401 | Independent Reading: Photo Journalism[221 or 250 & Jr/Sr English Major & COD] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Nadzam | 1 | 1 | |||
| 1-2 | EN115 | Concepts of Freedom From Ancient to Modern Times[FYE Course. 1st years only.](also listed as PS1151212, FE1761212) | 2.00 | H | 2.00H | Fuller Simons | W | 25 | 23 | ||
| 1-2 | EN203 | Tradition & Change in Literature: The Voyage Out and the Voyage In[FYE Course. 1st Years Only.](also listed as FE2031212) | 2.00 | H | 2.00H | Butte Nadzam | W | 16 | 15 | ||
| 1-8 | EN401 | Independent Reading: Last Judgement in Dante & Art[221 or 250 & Jr/Sr English Major & COD] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Evitt | 1 | 1 | |||
| 1-8 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Evitt | 1 | 1 | |||
| 1-8 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Evitt | 16 | ||||
| 2 | EN221 | Introduction to Poetry | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Richman | 25 | 24 | |||
| 2 | EN225 | Introduction to Shakespeare | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Love | 25 | 24 | |||
| 2 | EN250 | Introduction to Literary Theory | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Padilla | 25 | 22 | |||
| 2 | EN283 | Beginning Fiction Writing[COI ] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hayward | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | EN308 | Advanced Poetry Workshop[COI & EN 282] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hilberry | 12 | 11 | |||
| 2 | EN309 | Advanced Fiction Workshop[COD & EN 283] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Nelson | 12 | 13 | |||
| 2 | EN380 | Advanced Topics in Literary & Cultural Studies: Literary Poetics[COI or CO 100](also listed as CO3002112) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Mason | 25 | 12 | |||
| 2 | EN480 | Senior Seminar[EN 221 & 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Evitt | 16 | 13 | |||
| 2 | EN485 | Senior Project: Poem Preparation (Creative Writing)[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hilberry | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2-3 | EN283 | Beginning Fiction Writing | 2.00 | H | 2.00H | Hayward | 16 | 15 | |||
| 3 | EN360 | Issues in British Romanticism: Romantic-Radicalism[EN 221 or 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Richman | 25 | 12 | |||
| 3 | EN372 | 19th Century British Novel[221 or 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Garcia | 25 | 19 | |||
| 3 | EN380 | Advanced Topics in Literary & Cultural Studies: Black Women Writers and Slavery(also listed as ES2003113, FG2803113) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Seward | D | 25 | 12 | ||
| 3 | EN397 | American Literature: The 20th Century, 1914-1950[221 or 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Tynan | 25 | 24 | |||
| 3 | EN401 | Independent Reading: Senior Culminating Experience[221 or 250 & Jr/Sr English Major & COD] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Evitt | 1 | 1 | |||
| 3 | EN401 | Independent Reading: Advanced Topics in Filmmaking HD, Green Screen and Adobe After Effects[221 or 250 & Jr/Sr English Major & COD] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Haskell | 1 | 1 | |||
| 3 | EN401 | Independent Reading: Studies in 20th Century Poetry, Pound, Eliot, Anden[221 or 250 & Jr/Sr English Major & COD] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Mason | 1 | 1 | |||
| 3 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Padilla | 16 | 1 | |||
| 3 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Sarchett | 16 | ||||
| 3 | EN485 | Senior Projcet: Hawthorne and the Body[& 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Sarchett | 1 | 1 | |||
| 4 | EN221 | Introduction to Poetry | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Love | 25 | 24 | 4 | ||
| 4 | EN223 | The Bible as Literature(also listed as CO2004134) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hughes | 25 | 23 | |||
| 4 | EN250 | Introduction to Literary Theory | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Sarchett | 25 | 25 | 6 | ||
| 4 | EN280 | Topics in Literature: The Harlem Renaissance | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Garcia | 25 | 1 | |||
| 4 | EN290 | The Birth of the American Novel | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Tynan | 25 | 24 | |||
| 4 | EN360 | Issues in British Romanticism: Romantic Lyric[EN 221 or 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Mason | 25 | 20 | |||
| 4 | EN380 | Advanced Topics in Literary & Cultural Studies: Borderlands Theory, Song, and Literature[200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or COI](also listed as ES3804114, CO3514114, SW3084114) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Padilla | D | 25 | 12 | ||
| 4 | EN382 | Studies in 20th Century Fiction: Hemingway in Africa[no prerequisite when taken as CO; when taken as EN 382 prerequisite is EN 221 or 250 or COI](also listed as CO2004114) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Davis | 25 | 25 | |||
| 4 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hilberry | 16 | 1 | |||
| 4 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Seward | 16 | ||||
| 4 | EN485 | Senior Project: Genre-Bending Bodies in Medieval Literature[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Evitt | 1 | 1 | |||
| 5 | EN250 | Introduction to Literary Theory | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Garcia | 25 | 24 | |||
| 5 | EN253 | Literature of the Southwest Mexican American Literature(also listed as ES2535115, SW2535115) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Padilla | D | 12 | 12 | ||
| 5 | EN311 | Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"[200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or COI](also listed as CO3515115) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Evitt | 25 | 25 | |||
| 5 | EN326 | Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Tragedies and Film(also listed as FS2055115) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Love Simons | 32 | 29 | |||
| 5 | EN395 | American Literature: American Realism, 1870-1914[221 or 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Tynan | 25 | 19 | |||
| 5 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hayward | 16 | 1 | |||
| 5 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Richman | 16 | ||||
| 5-6 | EN201 | Introduction to Literature[FYE Course. First Years Only.](also listed as FE1335216) | 2.00 | H | 2.00H | Torke | W | 16 | 9 | ||
| 5-6 | EN282 | Beginning Poetry Writing[COI & EN 221] | 2.00 | H | 2.00H | Mason | 16 | 9 | |||
| 5-6 | EN480 | Senior Seminar[EN 221 & 250 or COI] | 2.00 | H | 2.00H | Sarchett | 16 | 11 | |||
| 5-6 | EN480 | Senior Seminar[EN 221 & 250 or COI] | 2.00 | H | 2.00H | Sarchett | 1 | ||||
| 6 | EN221 | Introduction to Poetry | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Richman | 25 | 25 | 9 | ||
| 6 | EN259 | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Literature | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Love | D | 25 | 25 | 2 | |
| 6 | EN286 | Topics in Creative Writing: Writing Experimental Fiction | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Nadzam | 16 | 16 | 17 | ||
| 6 | EN480 | Senior Seminar[EN 221 & 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hayward | 16 | 9 | |||
| 6 | EN480 | Senior Seminar[EN 221 & 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hilberry | 16 | 8 | |||
| 6 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Evitt | 16 | 1 | |||
| 6 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Simons | 16 | 1 | |||
| 6 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Tynan | 16 | 0 | |||
| 6 | EN485 | Senior Project: Disney[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Evitt | -- | 1 | |||
| 7 | EN221 | Introduction to Poetry | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Mason | 25 | 25 | 11 | ||
| 7 | EN280 | Topics in Literature: Introduction to Native American Literature(also listed as ES2537117, SW2537117) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Padilla | D | 25 | 25 | ||
| 7 | EN280 | Topics in Literature: African Literature(also listed as CO2007127) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Seward | D | 25 | 25 | 2 | |
| 7 | EN286 | Topics in Creative Writing: Speaking for Nature: Writing Natural History(also listed as SW2007117) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Zwinger | 12 | 12 | 5 | ||
| 7 | EN350 | Issues in Restoration and/or 18th Century Literature: "Fighting Words" Satire in the Long 18th Century[221 or 250 or COI] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Richman | 25 | 25 | 2 | ||
| 7 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hayward | 16 | 6 | |||
| 7 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Garcia | 16 | 0 | |||
| 7 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hilberry | 16 | 8 | |||
| 7 | EN485 | Senior Project[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Love | 16 | ||||
| 7 | EN485 | Senior Project: Fiction Short Stories[COI & 221 & 250 & Senior English Majors Only] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hayward | 1 | 1 | |||
| 7-8 | EN203 | Tradition & Change in Literature: The Trojan War in Myth, Literature & Films | 2.00 | H | 2.00H | Evitt Hughes | W | 25 | 21 | ||
| 8 | EN221 | Introduction to Poetry (taught at Newberry Library)[~$910 program fee* (taught at Newberry Library)] | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hilberry | 25 | 9 | |||
| 8 | EN250 | Introduction to Literary Theory(also listed as CO2108118) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Davis | 25 | 25 | |||
| 8 | EN251 | The Study of Folklore I(also listed as AN2518118) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Seward | D | 25 | 25 | 22 | |
| 8 | EN280 | Topics in Literature: Literature and the Environmental Imagination(also listed as CO2208128) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Tynan | 25 | 24 | 13 | ||
| 8 | EN326 | Studies in Shakespeare: Mamma Mia! Shakespeare and New Comedy[If taught under English: EN 221 or 250 or COI If taught under Comparative Literature: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or COI](also listed as CO3518128) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Hughes | 25 | 25 | |||
| 8 | EN385 | 20th-Century African-American Literature (taught in France)(also listed as ES3858118, CO3518118) | 1.00 | H | 1.00H | Garcia | 25 | 9 | |||
| h | EN281 | Topics in Literature: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" | 0.50 | H | Sarchett | 25 | 8 |
- Div – indicates the division of the college that this course is offered by. "*" indicates a course outside of the 3 divisions: (H)umanities, (N)atural Sciences, and (S)ocial Sciences
- Div Req – indicates how much credit toward a division requirement a student can earn from this course
- CP – If the course fulfills a Critical Perspectives Requirement:
- W – the West in Time
- D – Diverse Cultures and Critiques
- I – Scientific Investigation of the Natural World
- L – fullfills the lab or field requirement
- Combined values, like DW can fulfill either, but not both
- Lim – the maximum class size allowed for this course
- Res – the number of spaces reserved for new students
- In – the number of students who are currently enrolled in the course
- WL – the number of students on the waiting list for the course