Academic Catalog 2022-2023

May 10, 2024

Academic Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Listing

Courses listed below are grouped together alphabetically by subject prefix. To search for a specific course, please follow the instructions in the course filter box below and click on “Filter.”

Departments and interdisciplinary programs are described in detail on the Majors, Minors, and Other Programs page within this catalog. Please refer to the detailed sections on each area of study for more information. Requirements to fulfill a major or minor appear within each program or area of study.

All students must also complete the courses in the Common Curriculum (General Education), including Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) requirements and other requirements that pertain to the undergraduate degree. Courses are numbered as follows.

000-049 - Non-credit courses.

050-099 - Common Curriculum (General Education) courses and others that do NOT count toward the major.

100-199 - Introductory-level courses which count for the major.

200-299 - Sophomore/junior-level courses that can be taken by non-majors. (Some departments may use 200-249 and 250-259 to delineate between sophomore and junior level offerings.)

300-399 - Upper-level courses intended primarily for majors - these are courses representing the depth component of the major.

400-499 - All advanced courses for seniors, including those used to fulfill WS (Senior Writing Experience requirement), small seminars, research, thesis, and independent studies.

Wherever possible, the departments have indicated the instructor and the term during which a course is given. Some courses are offered only occasionally and are so indicated. The College retains the right not to offer a course, especially if enrollment is insufficient.

A few courses are not valued at full course credit, and some carry double credit.

A full course unit may be equated to five quarter-credit hours, or three and one-third semester credit hours.

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	EGL 211 - Milton Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) The two sides of Milton - the high humanist poet, author of the greatest epic in English and one of the greatest religious poems in any language, and the Puritan revolutionary, defender of regicide and champion of the English commonwealth. The goal of the course will be to see if the two sides can be held separate, or if they must be seen as complementary. We will read Paradise Lost at the rate of one book per week, always trying to relate the two sides of the poet. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 212 - The Restoration Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will closely examine the culture that produced both the first official poet laureate of England, John Dryden, and the most notoriously libertine poet in English, the Earl of Rochester. Also appearing will be the first English woman to make a living from literature, Aphra Behn; the wittiest playwrights in English dramatic history (Wycherley, Etherege, Congreve); John Milton; some very early English novels; and some pretty good philosophers, including Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and maybe even Sir Isaac Newton. All that and the Great Fire of London, outbreaks of the plague, several wars, and major revolutions in politics and science. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 213 - American Literature in Historical Context: Beginnings to 1800 Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course focuses on beginnings of American literature and culture, with an emphasis on writings prior to 1700. Selections will vary but may include early exploration literature; early Spanish, French and British texts; Native American traditions; Puritan and Pilgrim poetry and essays; writings on witchcraft; the Great Awakening; the rise of science, discovery and invention; the Declaration and the Constitution; and the early sentimental novel. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS
	EGL 216 - Eighteenth-Century British Literature Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) A survey of some crucial-and hotly contested-ideas that emerge in the work of six major 18th-century writers: Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, and Mary Wollstonecraft. These will include the definition of human nature, the western world’s view of itself, the “noble savage” and colonialism, the classical tradition vs. “modern” Europe, deism, attacks on Christianity, the empirical challenge to the old order, the legacy of the French Revolution, and feminism. Prerequisite(s): EGL 100 or EGL 101 or EGL 102 or a grade of 5 on the AP English Literature or Language test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 217 - Enlightenment and Romanticism Course Units: 1.0 (Winter: Kuhn) Consideration of the relationships between two major currents in modern European thought and culture: Enlightenment and Romanticism. Authors will range from Descartes to Nietzsche and may include Voltaire, Rousseau, Goethe, and Kant. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 219 - Rise of the Novel Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Development of the novel form in its social, cultural, and literary contexts, focusing primarily on the 18th century. We will consider adventure/picaresque, domestic/epistolary and questions of genre, gender, and history. Authors include Chariton, Cervantes, Defoe, Barker, Behn, Richardson, and Burney. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 220 - The Romantic Revolution Course Units: 1.0 (Fall, Spring: Burkett) The Romantic period was one of Britain’s most “revolutionary” eras in a number of important ways. For England, the age was marked by dramatic social, political, literary, and scientific upheaval and change. In this course we will investigate the various causes that were envisioned, promoted, and enacted during this era and trace their often wide-ranging and revolutionary effects. Readings will likely include selections from the following authors: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, JCHF, JLIT, WAC
	EGL 223 - Jane Austen Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Jane Austen has achieved what few other literary authors can boast: membership in “the canon” of “great authors” and an intensely devoted, energetic modern fan base complete with cosplay, fan fiction, pilgrimages, and a never-ending series of visual adaptations. Students will read Jane Austen’s work in chronological order, explore some late 18th and early 19th century contexts (biographical, philosophical, literary, cultural, historical), become familiar with some of the central, current, and ongoing scholarly debates about Austen, and discuss the value of, and consider the insights revealed by, some modern adaptations of Austen’s work. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 224 - 19th-Century Novel Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) The golden age of the novel examined in its historical, intellectual, and literary contexts. Topics will include satire and the novel, realism vs. gothicism, fiction and the visual arts (especially book illustration), the impact of Darwin, fiction and the role of women, the city vs. the country, the individual vs. society, the novel and commerce, fiction and imperialism. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 225 - The Brontë Sisters Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will examine five first-person narratives by Charlotte Brontë and her sisters Emily and Anne. Readings will include The Professor, Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and Elizabeth Gaskell’s 19th-century biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë. We will consider biographical, interpersonal, and inter-textual relations alongside questions of gender, class, religious vocation, communal authorship, pseudonymous publication and the cult of genius. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 226 - Victorian Detective Fiction Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course investigates detective fiction’s emergence and popularity in late nineteenth-century English literature and places the birth of the genre in its social and cultural contexts. We read prominent Victorian writers such as Dickens and Collins as well as canonical detective fiction writers such as Conan Doyle and Poe. How does the rise of the detective novel intersect with historical conditions of Empire, gender relations, and social policy? Does the spread of detective fiction signal late Victorian England’s need to patrol destabilizing forces, both domestic and foreign? Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 230 - Seduction in Early American Republic Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) In her seminal study, Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, Cathy N. Davidson argues that “literature is not simply words upon a page but a complex social, political, and material process of cultural production” (viii). The eighteenth-century sentimental novel serves to highlight a moment in history lodged among judgments, anxieties and controversies about the direction the newly-formed American Republic would take at the end of the Revolution. Embedded within these narratives are questions about both men’s and women’s power and authority in the public and private spheres, the negation of the female self, the seductive function of romance and courtship, and the perception of women’s bodies as moral, social, and biologic commodities. This course seeks to explore disjunctions between the sentimental structure of the early American novel and its contradictory attitudes toward liberty and self-expression. Through the lens of queer theory, affect theory, and new materialism, students will examine how seduction, homoerotica, and cross-dressing both reinforce and subvert American values and ideals that are distinct from European standards of morality. The readings will also consider how the cult of “true womanhood,” prominent during the first few decades of the nineteenth century, suppressed pleas for women’s equality. How do the texts under consideration help to define the new nation, its citizens, and boundaries? In what ways do these texts consolidate nationhood through the formation of a national literature and the narrative structure of a national history, culture, and consciousness? Do these novels construct, conserve, or undermine American cultural institutions? Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 231 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course focuses on the self-conscious development of literary tradition in 19th century America – its meaning, its implications, its failures – and its aesthetic and moral possibilities. Writers under consideration may include Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Twain, and topics will include individualism, transcendentalism, abolition, the coming of war, the aftermath of war, growth, expansion, and power. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 232 - The American Renaissance Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will examine major works written during the American Romantic period, as well as some written in the post- Romantic period up to the death of Walt Whitman in 1892. We will begin by discussing some of Emerson’s essays and continue with works by authors who reacted, both positively and negatively, to Emerson. Other works will be selected from the following list: at least two of Poe’s short stories, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, excerpts from Thoreau’s Walden, Douglass’s Narrative, excerpts from Melville’s Moby-Dick, poems by Walt Whitman, excerpts from Margaret Fuller, Louisa May Alcott’s satire “Transcendental Wild Oats,” and poetry by Emily Dickinson. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 233 - 18-19th Century Early Literature of African Diaspora Course Units: 1.0 (Spring: Lynes) This introductory survey course will trace African American movement towards literary and aesthetic mastery beginning with what Henry Louis Gates calls “oral writing.” Readings begin with the first known written poems and progress from slave narratives and autobiography to essays and fiction. Authors include Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Solomon Northup, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, among others. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AFR, AMS
	EGL 236 - Trans-Atlantic Realism and Naturalism Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Realism and naturalism were aesthetic movements that emerged in American fiction between approximately 1865 and 1925. This course examines these two literary movements to show how writers of this era explored the trauma created by war (the Civil War and WWI), the moral consequences of freedom and sexual awareness, rapid urbanization and the Great Northern migration, inconsistencies between wealth and poverty, and innovative discoveries in science and technology. The purpose of this course, then, is to investigate how the authors of this period practiced their art both collectively and individually and the ways in which American social life informed the ideologies of realism and naturalism. Possible writers we will study include William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. (Also counts for American Studies and GSW). Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM ISP: AMS, GSW
	EGL 237 - Reclamation & Renaissance: Black Literary Arts 1900 to 1968, “Dark Like Me - That is my Dream!” Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) In this course we will read literatures of African diaspora from the United States and from the English-speaking African Diaspora more broadly speaking, written in the early to mid- 20th century. This course is deliberately using the adjective Black instead of African American to highlight our awareness that the literature of the early 20th century is part of a Pan-African movement. Threads we will follow include: issues of identity (being American; being Black; racial and social passing); miscegenation; claims to culture through literature; political and social change through literature (is it possible?); self-representation and activism through literary arts; rise of pride in being part of African diaspora; gender roles in literary and social contexts. Questions we will raise and explore in the course of the term include: What is the relationship between aesthetic production and political action? What are the gendered aspects of the expressions of the writers and artists? How are “folk” forms incorporated into “literary” forms? How does self-representation operate in the reclamation of a sense of self? We will engage with the complexities of cultural diversities within the African diaspora while we contemplate the traditions we follow. We will begin, as the title of the course suggests, around the turn of the 20th century, when Du Bois writes that the “problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line” (Souls of Black Folk 45). We will move through what some called the Harlem Renaissance, during which time writers such as Langston Hughes celebrated being Black in a reclamation of the self: “Dark like me-That is my dream!” (Selected Poems 14). We will explore the literature of the pre- and post- WWII era, ending the term with what was known as the Black Arts Movement. The goal, in terms of content, is to provide you with a broad sampling of literature of the African Diaspora literature of the early 20th century, with a particular focus on literature (prose in the form of essays, short stories, novels; poetry; plays) generated from the United States while also reaching toward its more global pan-Africanist roots. I hope you will follow your interests and curiosities, after the course is over, to explore this literature further. (Also counts for Africana and American Studies). Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AFR
	EGL 244 - The Contemporary British Imagination Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will examine contemporary British literary works. We will be reading closely, carefully, and critically about gender, sexuality, class, race, love, trauma, narrative, style, history, and more. This course will familiarize students with a sampling of the (often experimental) literature that the global Anglophone world has produced fairly recently; our selections will range from experimental short stories to books-turned-films to so-called “weird fiction,” in order to address the following major questions: how does the contemporary British literary imagination develop? And, what, exactly, does it develop into? Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 245 - Experimental Texts Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Experiments in writing have a long history and are often some combination of fascinating, weird, complex, risky, and wild. This course will cross genre-boundaries in order to discover what it means to read, write, and experience “experimental” literature, which usually attempts to challenge the traditions, formal devices, and audience expectations of literary engagement. With a focus on the relationship between form and content as well as attention paid to the limitations associated with strict categorical delineations of literary and cultural objects, we will spend the term analyzing and producing experimental texts. We will spend time considering primarily contemporary textual responses to cultural, social, and political shifts and the ways in which such shifts inform and affect our reading practices. Readings will include poetry fiction, theory, and contemporary media. Writing assignments will include interpretive and creative works. Collaborative projects will also be a part of this course. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 246 - Modern Poetry Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Selected poetry from the high modern period (from the turn of the twentieth century to circa 1945) in relation to changing views of the poet’s role in culture and the poet’s contradictory posture as prophet, exile, romantic, outcast. Authors will include W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, W. H. Auden, others. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 247 - Studies in Modern Poets: Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) In this class, we’ll be checking out the work of two contemporary writers who have used words and music to enliven the possibilities and extend the audience for lyric poetry. At the same time they have explored some of the traditional questions about the connection between poetry and autobiography, the creation of a poetic self, the recycling of cultural materials, and the political and spiritual significance of verse. Because these writers have created such a large range of material, we will concentrate on a few periods in their long professional lives: Dylan’s shift from acoustic folk to electric rock and back in the mid-to-late-1960s and the remarkable quartet of albums that Cohen recorded in the last decade of his life (we’ll check out earlier Cohen and later Dylan too). And we will read some of their more conventionally literary works as well. The assignments will work on the assumption that the best way to understand a writer is to try to write something similar to their work; there will be several short assignments which will be shared with the class and a final project. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 248 - Introduction to Black Poetry Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) We will explore the development of African-American poetic voices in North America. We will look at poems and poets as they constitute a hybrid and composite tradition. We will read poetry in anthologies; we will also read several full books by individual authors, and will listen to performance poetry on CD and DVD. A partial list of poets we will read includes Wheatley, Harper, Dunbar, Hughes, McKay, Helene Johnson, Brooks, Baraka, Clifton, Sanchez, Cortez, Morris, Mullen, Brathwaite, Komunyakaa, Francis, Dungy, among others. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM
	EGL 249 - Contemporary Poetry Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) In this course, we will take a close look at the work of five poets, three whose lives have spanned the American experience from the 1960s to the present (Peg Boyers, Carl Phillips, Frank Bidart) and two younger poets (Chelsea Woodard and Diane Mehta, both Union graduates). We’ll take a look at the problem of the speaker in the poems (who may be the poet, more or less, or a mask, or a fiction, or some combination), which is also a way of asking questions about identity, history, and culture, as well as about freedom and restraint, the possibilities and limitations of language. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 250 - The Beats and Contemporary Culture Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) An examination of the writers of the Beat Generation (including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Edward Sanders) and of their lasting influence on American popular culture. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 251 - World Literatures in English Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Besides the USA, Canada, the UK and Ireland, there are dozens of countries where English is commonly spoken and written. From Australia to Zimbabwe, Belize to Nigeria, Jamaica to India, New Zealand to Kenya, literature in English is a world-wide phenomenon. In this course, students will read and analyze English-language poems, short stories, personal essays, and novels from a selection of far-flung countries, to learn about the peoples’ cultures, histories, struggles, and achievements. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 253 - Narratives of Haunting in US Ethnic Literature Course Units: 1.0 (Fall: Tuon) This course examines the theme of haunting in contemporary US ethnic literature. With this theme in mind, we will investigate the following questions throughout the trimester: Why is haunting such a prevalent theme in ethnic writing? What do we mean when we say that a text is haunted? What are the causes of haunting? What is possession? What are some ways to dispossess or exorcise ghosts? What are the functions of ghosts? Is there such a thing as a good haunting? What are their messages to us? How do we listen to ghosts? Authors include Lan Cao, Nora Okja Keller, Maxine Hong Kingston, Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, and Leslie Marmon Silko. (Also counts for GSW and American Studies). Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM, JCHF, JLIT ISP: AMS, GSW
	EGL 254 - Discourses on the Viet Nam War Course Units: 1.0 (Fall: Tuon) This class will examine various perspectives on “The Vietnam War,” or, as the people of Viet Nam call it, “The American War.” In our archeological exploration into the nature of knowledge about this period in Viet Nam/U.S. history, we will not privilege one perspective over another. Rather, we will examine the diverse political, ideological, and moral positions from which various groups, such as the U.S. government, U.S. soldiers, U.S. citizens, the North Vietnamese people, and the South Vietnamese people, perceive this historic conflict. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM, GCHF, GLIT ISP: AIS, AMS
	EGL 255 - Asian American Literature and Film Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) If you are interested in the diverse history of Asian immigration in the U.S., take this course. Together as a class, we will examine major historical moments in Asian America: the first wave of Asian immigration in the mid-nineteenth century, the anti-Asian laws of the late nineteenth century, the Japanese internment during the Second World War, the emergence of Asian American studies during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Southeast Asian refugees after the Viet Nam/American War, and the contemporary turns to the transnational and the pan ethnic. To cover these historical moments, we will read the following texts: Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, Eat a Bowl of Tea, Farwell to Manzanar, When Broken Glass Floats, American Born Chinese, and American Son. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM, WAC, JCHF, JLIT ISP: AIS, AMS, FLM
	EGL 256 - Southeast Asian-American Experience Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines the diverse literatures, histories, and cultures of the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong and Laotian through the lens of war, migration, and return. Specific attention will be paid to how the War in Vietnam spread to neighboring countries such as Cambodia and Laos, resulting in mass migration of people from Southeast Asia to the West, specifically the United States. We will examine the literatures, oral testimonies, films, and music created by Southeast Asians in America. Possible authors include: Andrew Lam, Bich Minh Nguyen, Le Thi Diem Thuy, Loung Ung, Chanrithy Him, Kao Kalia Yang, Mai Neng Moua, and Burlee Vang. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM
	EGL 257 - Irish American Literature: Race, Gender, Sexuality Course Units: 1.0 (Fall: Bracken) This course will provide an introduction to Irish American literature from the 19th century to the present day, looking at a number of issues. Specific attention will be paid to constructions of race, gender, and sexuality and the texts examine here will be explored with questions relation to these in mind. Throughout the course, we will consider race relations in 19th and 20th century US culture, new scholarship on the Black and Green Atlantic and trace the problematics of Irish America’s (self) construction of whiteness. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUM, HUL, WAC ISP: GSW
	EGL 258 - Changing Ireland Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will be looking at the changing nature of Irish society since the economic boom of Celtic Tiger Ireland in the 1990’s. EU membership, US investment and the effects of global internationalism have brought about radical culture transformations in the country which in turn are altering conventional meanings of Irishness and Irish identity. We will be looking at representations of this changing Ireland in literature and film, paying attention to issues such as new technologies, post-feminism, sexualities, race and ethnicity. Texts will include Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, Anne Enright’s novel The Wig My Father Wore, and the poetry of Leanne O’Sullivan. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM
	EGL 259 - Irish Literature and Film Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) The aim of this course is to introduce you to the field of Irish Studies, examining how issues relating to language, identity and nationhood are intimately connected in Irish literature and film. In this course we will be studying Irish literary texts from the beginning of the 19th century to the late 20th century, examined alongside a selection of contemporary films. This course will ask you to consider the ways in which cultural concerns of the Irish past continue to haunt the landscape of the present day, paying attention to issues of gender, class, race and sexuality. Texts will include Lady Morgan’s Wild Irish Girl, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Neil Jordan’s film Michael Collins. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, LCC, HUM, WAC
	EGL 260 - James Joyce Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will focus entirely on Irish writer James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece Ulysses, published in 1922. This is a complex, challenging and experimental novel (900 pages), which uses stream of consciousness as its primary literary mode. Set on just one day, June 16th 1904, it tells the story of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom as we learn of their pasts, presents and hopes for the future. Joyce’s novel is a meditation on the lives of these characters, and the modern colonial Dublin they inhabit, however it is also a self-reflective piece of literature which foregrounds issues relating to language, style, and storytelling. In the course, we will successively read all of the chapters of Ulysses, analyzing it through a variety of critical paradigms, including post-colonialism, modernism, and feminism. We will also watch a number of films relating to Joyce and his work, such as Nora, Bloom, and Ulysses, and at the end of the course we will consider the commodification of Joyce as the ‘Great Irish Writer’ through the yearly Bloomsday celebrations of June 16th in Dublin. Students are encouraged to read Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before the class begins. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 261 - Modernism and Modernity Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines British fiction from the early twentieth-century, a period often referred to as the “modernist” era. The moderns experimented with new, different, and exciting ways of writing that perplexed many readers, yet such changes have come to be seen as important innovations in literary style. In addition to engaging with questions of form and style, the moderns were also interested in subjects that were previously viewed as taboo, questionable, and, as such, often unspeakable. These topics included trauma, the lasting effects of war, sexual experimentation, adultery, insanity, and newly carved out gender and familial roles. Throughout our term together, we will critically consider, discuss, and write about the dynamic between the content of modernist writing and its innovative style and form. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 262 - Global Modernisms Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines global fiction from the early twentieth century, a period often referred to as the “modernist” era. Modernist writers were literary and cultural pioneers, experimenting with prose and poetry in ways that challenged and unsettled readers; yet such changes have come to be seen as important innovations in literary style. In addition to engaging with questions of form and style, writers from this period were also interested in subjects that were previously viewed as taboo, questionable, and, as such, often unspeakable. These topics included, but are not limited to, trauma, war, sexuality, insanity, and newly carved out gender and familial roles. Perhaps most importantly for our class, modernist writers created spaces for themselves and their work all over the world. From writers in exile to writers living under colonial/imperial rule, the relationship between modernism and culture is inherently dialogic. We will interrogate the relationship between modernist experimentation, nation, and identity, focusing on writers from America, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Asia, and Europe. Throughout our term together, we will critically consider, discuss, and write about the dynamic between the content of modernist writing, its innovative style and form, and its connection to place and space. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, LCC, WAC
	EGL 263 - Literature and Sexuality Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) By examining literary and cultural representations, this course both interrogates the politics and social dynamics of various sexual identities and subjectivities and examines complex representations of both gender and sexuality. This course also focuses on the literary study of important straight, gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, and transgender writers within their evolving social, historical, and cultural contexts over the last few centuries. We will discuss some of the major critical debates both in literary studies and in gender and sexuality studies, asking and attempting to answer the following questions: How is sexuality represented in literature? How has the relationship between literature and sexuality evolved over time? Who creates the discourses on sexualized bodies and identities? How can we understand the relationship between lived experience and literary/cultural representations? What might be queer about literature? What makes a narrative queer? Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: GSW
	EGL 264 - Women Writers, 18th to 20th Century Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Traces the tradition of women’s literary writing by “thinking back through our mothers.” Authors may include Behn, Burney, Austen, Radcliffe, Shelley, Bronte, Rossetti, Eliot, and Woolf. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM Note: GSW
	EGL 265 - Jewish Women Writers Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) A study of Jewish women’s writing particularly concerned with how the question of religion complicates women writers’ representations of gender, nationality, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. Texts range from the 17th-century first recorded autobiography by a Jewish woman to 21st-century novels in English and in translation. Pre-registered participants’ interests will influence the final selection of texts. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM ISP: GSW, REE, REL
	EGL 266 - Black Women Writers Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course provides an introduction to the major themes and concerns of twentieth- and twenty-first century African American women writers. We begin in the 18th century and move quickly to the 20th and 21st. We will examine the ways in which black womanhood is characterized through intersecting categories of race, gender, class, sexuality, and empire. We will explore how selected authors wrestle with stereotypical images of African American women, examine the connections between black womanhood, community, and empire, and discuss the benefits and limitations of the concept of “black women’s writing.” Possible writers include Frances Harper, Maria Stewart, Anne Spencer, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Gloria Naylor, Octavia Butler, and others. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: LCC, HUL, HUM ISP: AFR, GSW
	EGL 267 - The Virginia Wolf Course Units: 1 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Virginia Woolf is, quite frankly, one of the most significant writers transnationally and transhistorically. Aside from her acclaimed, now often canonical novels, Woolf wrote short stories and essays; indeed, her letters and diaries, in addition, have become a core part of modernist literary history. This class examines Woolf and much, though notably not all, of her work within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. By tracing the evolution of Woolf’s work, we will interrogate her stylistic innovations, shifting political ideologies, remarkable social circles, and complex life. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUM, HUL, WAC ISP: GSW
	EGL 268 - Staging Black Feminisms Course Units: 1.0 (Winter: Not Offered this Academic Year) This course considers the feminist and anti-racist practices of Black female dramatists, placing their plays within their cultural contexts. We will examine the ways in which these works construct Black feminist histories, genealogies, and cultures while challenging racial and sexual hierarchies in both American society and artistic canons. Each week, students will read a landmark dramatic text by a Black female playwright as well as seminal sociological texts and scholarly studies that contextualize the work within broader artistic and social movements. Through discussions, field trips including attendance at theatrical performances and other cultural events, reading responses, and a final presentation based on individual research, students will hone their thinking about the development of Black female voices in American dramatic literature and society. Cross-Listed: SOC 209 and ATH 248 Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English ourse or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: SOCS, HUL, HUM, JCAD, JCHF, JLIT, JSPE, WAC ISP: AFR, GSW
	EGL 271 - Dark Deeds: Crime in the Adirondacks Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Merriam Webster defines a crime as an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government; especially: a gross violation of law. A crime, however, is also defined in moral and ethical terms, as a grave offense, especially against morality; something reprehensible, foolish, or disgraceful. Students in this course will explore a variety of literary and historical illustrations of each of these types of crimes as they have occurred in the Adirondack Mountains throughout history. As we investigate various illegal acts in the Adirondacks, we will also examine underlying moral crimes, such as poverty and economic depression, which have the potential to lead individuals toward a life of crime. We will explore Chester Gillette’s 1906 murder of Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake and the highly sensationalized murder trial that ensued, alongside Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel that was based on the murder and criminal case. We will analyze the prison system in the Adirondacks, and we’ll investigate various mobsters who stayed in Saratoga Springs during the Prohibition Era. We will also explore the crime of contagion as we read works written about tuberculosis and various sanatoriums in Saranac Lake. Part of our class time will be held at the Kelly Adirondack Center (KAC), working in the Adirondack Research Library. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS, ENS
	EGL 272 - Gendered Ecologies in the Long Nineteenth Century Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will challenge gendered judgments and standardized principles represented in the masculinized canon of nineteenth-century nature writing and establishes a framework for women writers of the long nineteenth century, who were active contributors to the discourse of natural history. These women writers engaged in critical observations of eco-materiality, analyzed their findings, and encrypted their discoveries of nature in their literary creations. Our course readings will focus on the works of several prominent, trans-Atlantic observations of animate and inanimate objects in the environmental sphere are founded on personal discoveries made while interacting with their surroundings. The aim of this course is to reconsider the place of women as naturalist writers and to foreground the salient contributions of literary women writers to the study of eco-feminism, botany, political ecology, and bio-communal systems. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM ISP: AMS, ENS, GSW
	EGL 274 - Uncanny Texts: Literature and Psychoanalysis Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) By interrogating literary, cultural, and psychoanalytical texts, this course examines the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis; the two have been in close conversation since the early theoretical developments that began to define psychoanalysis. From Freud’s use of Hamlet and The Sandman as key cornerstones of his own theories to the way that J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone illustrates Jacques Lacan’s notion of the Mirror Stage, literature and psychoanalysis have been dialogically and dynamically intimate bedfellows. During our term, we will look at psychoanalytical writings by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and others in conjunction with transhistorical literary and cultural texts. We will examine specific psychoanalytical concepts like the unconscious, desire, sublimation, shame, the uncanny, the death drive, the primal horde, infantile sexuality, and mourning and melancholia. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 275 - Autobiography Course Units: 1.0 (Spring: Kuhn) “Who am I and how did I get this way?” This course is a study in the development of autobiography as literary genre from St. Augustine’s Confessions to Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes. We will focus on autobiography as a space for exploring, expressing, and constructing the self as well as an inquiry into the developing relationship between mind and world. We will also examine the various motives behind writing one’s life-story from the existential and religious to the political and historical. Related issues to be discussed include the role of imagination, memory, and language in narrating the self, and the particular impact of minority, marginalized, and forbidden voices. We will also talk about scandals involving fabricated autobiographies. Does an autobiography have to be true? Readings may include Montaigne’s Essays, Rousseau’s Confessions, Woolf’s A Sketch of the Past, Styron’s Darkness Visible, Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation, Spiegelman’s Maus, and Satrapi’s Persepolis. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS
	EGL 276 - Literature of the Manor House Course Units: 1.0 (Winter: Burkett) In this course we will investigate the rich and complex history of the genre of English manor house fiction. Focusing on texts ranging from Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and E. M. Forster’s Howards End to Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger, and Ian McEwan’s Atonement, we will explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, and especially class in both course readings and class discussions. Furthermore, we’ll examine a number of filmic representations of British country house life, including Robert Altman’s Gosford Park and Julian Fellowes’s Downton Abbey. In addition to crafting course papers, students will have the option to research, create, and showcase their own multi-media projects exploring virtual manor homes via a range of freely downloadable programs and platforms. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC, JCAD, JLIT ISP: GSW, STS
	EGL 277 - Philosophical Fiction Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course will deal with works of fiction in which philosophy or philosophical concepts play a significant role. A key issue is the relationship between ideas and (literary) form. Authors will come from a wide range of traditions and may include Descartes, Rousseau, Wordsworth, Nietzsche, Camus, Dostoevsky, Borges, Calvino, Lem, and Le Guin. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 278 - Science Fiction Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) A survey of science fiction, focusing primarily on novels written after World War II. Topics covered may include: visions of dystopia, alternate histories, models of gender, fears of technology, and new views of race and sexuality. Likely authors include Asimov, Clarke, Lem, Dick, Herbert, LeGuin, Delany, Butler, and Gibson. Film may also be a significant component of the course. Possible directors include Kubrick, Spielberg, Cronenberg, Gilliam, and Scott. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 279 - Literature and Science Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) An interdisciplinary examination of the interactions between literature and science. Topics will vary from year to year and may include science writing, the representation of science and scientists in literature, literature inspired by science, literature and science as competing ways of knowing the world, the figurative dimension of scientific writing, and speculative fiction. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS, STS
	EGL 280 - Nature and Environmental Writing Course Units: 1.0 (Winter: Lynes) This course will focus on the traditions of nature and environmental writing in the American context, with an emphasis on the social and cultural dynamics of the environment and environmental action. Among other questions, we will ask ourselves: How do class, gender, and race enter into the nexus of social interactions that shape our environment? What is the place of literature in community, literacy, and environmental activism? What are the connections between the ways we speak and write about the environment and our actions toward the environment? How does the wilderness concept affect the ways citizens have access to public spaces? We will consider the concept of “nature” as we move through the course, culminating (if you like) with some nature writing of your own. Readings may include Thoreau; Carson; Leopold; Kingsolver, and selections from Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing Before Walden; Colors of Nature; Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, and the American Landscape; and F. Marina Schauffler, Turning to Earth: Stories of Ecological Conversion. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS, ENS, STS
	EGL 281 - Environmental Psychology and the American Literary Landscape Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Environmental research psychologist Maria Vittoria Giuliani emphasizes that human-to-place attachments “not only permeate our daily life but very often appear also in the representations, idealizations and expressions of life and affect represented [in] literature.” Indeed, many literary works emphasize humanity’s basic attachment needs and the importance person-to-place bonds have in the development of the human psyche. American fiction writers frequently employ descriptions of American landscapes as inspiration for character and plot development, and American nature writers often emphasize the way in which wilderness environments may influence one’s mental and physical health and emotional well-being. In fact, recent studies in the field of cognitive neuroscience provide empirical evidence to substantiate the theory that exposure to a natural environment may actually generate structural changes in the brain by increasing oxygenation and blood flow that occur in response to neural activity. Hence, this course will employ contemporary studies in place attachment, environmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to examine the way in which various literary works illustrate the important role environment plays in aiding or obstructing one’s ability to think, reason, remember, problem-solve, process information, use language, or be creative. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM ISP: AMS, ENS
	EGL 282 - The Theory of Things: Objects, Emotions, Ideas Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Everybody wants things, needs things, likes things, loves things! Things drive economies, incite wars, save lives; things help us communicate, work, play, move, talk, not talk, and so much more. The theory of things derives from humanity’s interest in material culture studies and the connections that can be made between people and physical objects. But there is so much more to consider when discussing ‘things,’ such as those things that are not physical objects-love, hate, desire, thoughts, feelings, moods, pain, concepts, ideas, and words, just to name a few. In this course, students will discuss both material and immaterial ‘things’ and in particular how ‘things’ affect people, predominantly marginalized individuals and groups. Course developed with support from the Byron A. Nichols Fellowship for Faculty Development. Prerequisite(s):* One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: GSW
	EGL 283 - Pilgrims, Flâneurs, & Pranksters: The Walk in Literature Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) From the poems of William Wordsworth to contemporary novels such as Teju Cole’s Open City, literary narratives often feature journeys taken on foot. Among other things, a walk, in literature, can structure plot, serve as metaphor, or anchor a stream-of-consciousness narrative within a physical setting. A walker, like a reader, is a consumer of sights. But she is also a producer of thoughts, words, and creative pathways through the world. In this course we will investigate the relationships between walking, thinking, reading, and writing, considering the ways we move through spaces (natural, urban, public, solitary) and the forces and questions that shape our experiences in those spaces. Our texts will include standard novels and essays, as well as work by walking artists like Richard Long, audio-video artist Janet Cardiff, and street artists, for whom the world is the page and the walker is the reader. You will write traditional academic papers, but we will also walk, and some assignments will encourage you to create walking texts of your own. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 284 - Interactive Fiction Workshop Course Units: 1 (Winter: McAuliffe and Striegnitz) Interactive fiction is storytelling that uses technology to create an interactive “reading” experience, requiring the reader to make choices that influence the plot. In this course you are going to read, critique, and create interactive fiction. You’ll develop your storytelling skills, and along the way you’ll learn some programming concepts, and history of narrative. video games. We’ll also consider how race, gender, class, sexuality, and (dis)ability shape our experiences of these games as players and writers. No previous CS experience is necessary. Students will need access to a laptop for class. (Also count toward GSW, STS.) Cross-Listed: CSC 084 Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of instructors. CC: HUL, HUM, SET, WAC, JCAD, JETS, JLIT ISP: AMS, GSW
	EGL 285 - Nabokov Course Units: 1 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Vladimir Nabokov was a language genius, expatriate, chess master, butterfly biologist, and one of the best literary stylist in English. His famous (and infamous) novel Lolita has been scandalous ever since its publication in 1955. His texts have inspired movies, passionate discussions, and a polyglot global following. In this class, we will read several of Nabokov’s novels, short stories, and his autobiography. We will watch movies based on his books. If you love serious reading and discussion, if you enjoy History, if you want to expand both our mind and your vocabulary, this course is for you. Cross-Listed: MLT 266 Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUL, HUM, LCC ISP: REE
	EGL 286 - Transnational Literature, Film, and Theory Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) While modern colonialism dating back to the 18th century brought the entire globe into contact, the nation-state remained the relevant unit of culture. Unprecedented levels of migration and technological development in the past century, however, have made it impossible to ignore the fact that we are now living in a thoroughly transnational world-a new world order whose contours we yet barely grasp. How do social identity formations shift when nation-state boundaries are challenged? What sorts of new ethical dilemmas and self-other relations are engendered? Is anti-colonialism, staged as it was in the theater of national liberation, de-fanged or enabled by transnationalism? What new aesthetic forms and modes are generated by transnationalism; and how do cosmopolitans, exiles, diasporics, hybrids, and long-distance nationalists affect the field of culture? These are among the questions we will examine over the course of the term through the complementary lenses of film, literature, and theory. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of instructor. CC: HUL, HUM ISP: FLM
	EGL 287 - Gender and Sexuality in Film Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course examines the intersecting roles played by gender and sexuality in our media, with particular emphasis placed on film and video. Over the course of the semester, we will investigate the ways in which various media texts transmit and construct gender and sexuality and how viewers interpret and integrate these representations into their daily lives. As we analyze films by such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Douglas Sirk, Julie Dash, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Jonathan Caouette we will explore the ways in which conceptions of gender and sexuality are facilitated and constrained by legal, medical, and ethical discourses that emerge from specific historical and geographic contexts. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of instructor. CC: HUM ISP: FLM, GSW
	EGL 288 - Film as Fictive Art: American Independent Cinema Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) What exactly does the designation “indie” mean when both filmmakers who disseminate their work online and specialized divisions within Hollywood studios claim this term as their own? In this course we will trace the development of the independent cinema from the late 1960s when first-time directors challenged Hollywood norms to create the New American Cinema, through its heyday the 1990s, into the present era-where many argue it has become thoroughly institutionalized. In examining the enormously flexible characterization “independent” we will draw on of a variety of code systems (cultural, artistic, narrative, cinematic, and intertextual) to analyze the work of such directors as George Romero, Julie Dash, Todd Haynes, Mira Nair, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, and Kelly Reichardt. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: AMS, FLM
	EGL 288T - Film as Fictive Art: British Cinema Course Units: Possessing neither the aesthetic prestige of the European art cinema nor the global economic reach of Hollywood, British cinema is persistently neglected in Film Studies curricula. French New Wave director Francois Truffaut famously joked that British cinema was a “contradiction in terms” and more recently British director Stephen Frears remarked that “there is no British Cinema. It doesn’t exist.” Over the course of the term, we will challenge these claims and investigate the ways in which British cinema has consistently posed a challenge to Hollywood. We will focus in particular on the British new wave and the social realist “Brit-grit” movement, which developed in the 1980s, propelling the lagging British film industry into international prominence. We will investigate how these movements emerged from and transformed earlier British cinema traditions and in addition to formally analyzing films by esteemed directors (such as Steve McQueen, Sally Potter, Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh, Gurinder Chadha, and Lynne Ramsay), we will treat these films as a set of cultural documents that provide unique insight into British culture and society. CC: HUM, WAC
	EGL 289 - Studies in a Major Film Director Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course provides a close viewing of a variety of films from across a single director’s career, paying particular attention to continuities of theme, style, and structure. Each incarnation of the course will feature a different director. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test. CC: HUM, WAC ISP: AMS, FLM
	EGL 290 - Studies in Film Genre/Style: The Essay Film Course Units: 1.0 (Winter: Troxell and de Sève) Deriving its meaning from the French essayer: to try; to attempt, the essay film is an experiment in form and expression. Weaving together elements of fiction and documentary, the essay film foregrounds the subjectivity of the filmmaker and engages the viewer as participant and collaborator. Relaying heavily on montage, the essay film often employs found footage as well as cinema verité techniques-where the camera acts as quasi-therapist, eliciting new performances and confessions. In an approach combining theory and practice, we will explore the many aspects of the essay film genre. Foundational readings by Michel de Montaigne, Georg Lukács, and Phillip Lopate will be paired with visual essay by Issac Julian, Chantal Akerman, Mona Hatoum, and Marlon Riggs among others. Experimenting with form and method, students will produce weekly writings and visual exercises and an extended essay film. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM ISP: FLM
	EGL 291 - From the Drama Desk: Performance, Culture & Creativity Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This is an intensive and practical course on reading and writing dramatic criticism. A look at the concepts and practices of theater criticism in American Theater begins with a discussion of major theories of Western drama, from Aristotle to Artaud. Through the reading and discussion of contemporary examples of dramatic criticism and directed studies in techniques of journalistic writing students will gain an understanding of the nature and function of a theater review and an ability to critically view theater productions. Writing will include research essays, response papers and critical reviews of play scripts as well as performances on campus and at professional theaters. Cross-Listed: ATH 240 Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, JCAD, JCHF, JLIT, JSPE
	EGL 292 - Contemporary American Theater and Drama Course Units: 1.0 (Spring: Venning) This course examines trends and notable works visible today in the American theater. We will read plays that have had major successes on Broadway and American regional theaters, as well as study avant-garde works and theatrical and performance artists engaging with new forms and techniques in order to transform theatrical performance in our culture today. Through class discussions and assignments including student presentations, seeing professional theatrical performances, research projects, and critical essays, students will develop their ability to engage critically with theatrical art and artists of our present moment. Cross-Listed: ATH Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, WAC, JCAD, JCHF, JLIT ISP: AMS, GSW
	EGL 293 - Workshop in Poetry Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This is a course for students with a serious interest in writing poetry. Classes will be divided between discussions of literary technique, workshop critiques of student writing, and consideration of the work of several contemporary poets. Students will prepare a final portfolio of ten to fifteen pages. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 294 - Workshop in Fiction Course Units: 1.0 (Fall: McAuliffe) This is a course for students with a serious interest in writing fiction and imaginative prose. We’ll read and discuss plenty of contemporary fiction, with a particular focus on the short story, considering each piece from a writer’s perspective: How is it put together? What makes it unique and interesting? How and what can we learn or steal from it for our own writing? Students will put into practice what we discover in our reading, developing skills at building characters, exploring narrative form, and honing their use of image and voice. Students will complete and revise a variety of exercises and creative pieces, including three short stories. Much of class time will be devoted to workshop discussion of student stories. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, or permission of the instructor. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 295 - Workshop in Creative Non-Fiction Course Units: 1.0 (Winter: McAuliffe) A first course in the writing of nonfiction prose, emphasizing critiques of student work and workshop-like critiques of such nonfiction stylists as Didion, Dillard, Emerson, D’Agata, Sebald, Montaigne. We will focus on point of view, pacing, tone, and other such prose techniques. Students will write and revise several short pieces, only one of which may be autobiographical. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test, o permssion of instructor. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 295H - English Honors Independent Project 1 Course Units: 0.0 (TBD: Staff) Requires faculty approval - credit earned upon completion of EGL 296H
	EGL 296 - Screenwriting Workshop Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) This course is designed to introduce student to the art and craft of screenwriting. In addition, to screenplay format, we will investigate character development, structure, narrative style, dialogue, and techniques of visual storytelling. Screenings, screenplay analysis, outside reading, in-class discussion, as well as guest lectures will broaden students’ understanding of the screenwriting process. By the end of the term, students will have completed several short scenes and one short screenplay. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course, a score of 5 on the AP Englih Language or Literature and Compositon test, or permission of the instructor, esp. for Film studies students. EGL 150 is recommended. CC: HUM, WAC ISP: FLM
	EGL 296H - English Honors Independent Project 2 Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) Prerequisite(s): EGL 295H CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 297 - Literary Research Practicum 1 Course Units: 0.0 (TBD: Staff) The English research practicum is designed to allow students to engage in advanced literary research during their undergraduate careers. Students will work on the research project of a faculty member, under that faculty member’s direction. This course requires advance permission of the instructor, who sets the course requirements. To receive Pass/Fail credit equivalent to one course, the student must earn passing grades for three terms of the practicum experience. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test.
	EGL 298 - Literary Research Practicum 2 Course Units: 0.0 (TBD: Staff) The English research practicum is designed to allow students to engage in advanced literary research during their undergraduate careers. Students will work on the research project of a faculty member, under that faculty member’s direction. This course requires advance permission of the instructor, who sets the course requirements. To receive Pass/Fail credit equivalent to one course, the student must earn passing grades for three terms of the practicum experience. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test.
	EGL 299 - Literary Research Practicum 3 Course Units: 0.0 (TBD: Staff) The English research practicum is designed to allow students to engage in advanced literary research during their undergraduate careers. Students will work on the research project of a faculty member, under that faculty member’s direction. This course requires advance permission of the instructor, who sets the course requirements. To receive Pass/Fail credit equivalent to one course, the student must earn passing grades for three terms of the practicum experience. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level English course or a score of 5 on the AP English Language or Literature and Composition test.
	EGL 300 - Jr. Seminar: Poetry Workshop Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) A workshop course for students with some experience and a serious interest in the writing of poetry. Prerequisite(s): It is strongly recommended, although not required, that students have already taken EGL 293 . One 100-level and two 200-level English courses or instructor’s permission. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC
	EGL 301 - Jr. Seminar: Fiction Workshop: Writing Activist Fiction Course Units: 1.0 (Spring: McAuliffe) In this intermediate-level fiction workshop, students will build skills in fiction writing and critiquing fiction, compile a portfolio of short stories, and gain insight to the landscape of contemporary creative writing. Our primary focus will be on student writing. Reading assignments will contribute to understanding contemporary fiction writing, with special attention on the short story and the craft of writing, from idea generation through revision. Some sections of this course will focus on a particular skill or aspect of the fiction writer’s craft, such as writing dialogue, using research to write better fiction, or developing complex characters. Other sections will focus on a particular theme or subgenre such as the contemporary ghost story, activist fiction, autofiction, climate fiction, or historical fiction. Contact the instructor or the English Department for details on particular sections. Prerequisite(s): It is strongly recommended that students have already taken EGL 294 . One 100-level and two 200-level English courses or instructor’s permission. Previous workshop experience is recommended. CC: HUL, WAC, HUM
	EGL 302 - Jr. Seminar: Literary Theory Course Units: 1.0 (Winter: Bracken) Reading involves more than just the reader and the text; when we read, our cultural and personal experiences inform our reading. This course considers different critical approaches to literature-from the history of English as a discipline onward - in an attempt to help contextualize reading practices. We will read primary critical texts, primary literary texts, and examples of literary criticism. We will discuss various schools of literary criticism, including (but not limited to) Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Queer Theory, Disability Studies, Postcolonial Theory, and Critical Race Theory. By the end of the semester, students will be able to use appropriate terminology, produce critically informed readings, and speak authoritatively about different critical approaches to literature. This course prepares majors and ID majors to apply to write Honors theses. Prerequisite(s): It is strongly recommended that petitioning students have GPA’s of 3.3 or above. One 100-level and two 200-level English courses. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: GSW
	EGL 304 - Jr. Seminar (Fall): Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Prerequisite(s): One 100-level and two 200-level English courses or instructor’s permission. CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 305 - Jr. Seminar (Winter) Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) CC: HUL, HUM
	EGL 317 - Jr. Seminar (Fall): Queer Theory Course Units: 1 “Queer” is a complicated term with a long, often fraught history. For the most part, it has been more recently adopted to invoke genders and sexualities that lie outside traditional, “normative” constellations, though critics of the term often focus on its problematic all-encompassing use as a synonym for gay and lesbian, its popular co-optability, and its potential prioritization of one facet of identity at the expense of others. This seminar will interrogate queer theory and queer studies as fields of interdisciplinary. We will pay particular attention to questions of desire, identity, citizenship, bodies, pleasure, and the construction of gender and sex. We will also examine the relationships between queerness and race, class material conditions, age, able-bodiedness, and community formation. Throughout our term we will read groundbreaking theoretical and historical works and also examine relevant literature, film, television, and popular culture. (Also counts for GSW). Prerequisite(s): One 100-level and two 200-level English courses or instructor’s permission. CC: HUL, HUM, WAC ISP: GSW
	EGL 400 - Sr. Seminar: Poetry Workshop Course Units: 1.0 (Winter: Smith) An advanced workshop course in the writing of poetry. Prerequisite(s): It is strongly recommended that students have already taken EGL 293 , EGL 300 . Six English courses or instructor’s permission. CC: HUL, HUM, WS
	EGL 401 - Sr. Seminar: Fiction Workshop Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) An advanced workshop course in the writing of fiction. Prerequisite(s): It is strongly recommended that students have already taken EGL 293 , EGL 301 . Six English courses or instructor’s permission. CC: HUL, HUM, WS
	EGL 402 - English Honors Thesis Seminar 1 Course Units: 0.0 (Fall: Doyle) A two-term course required for all English majors who are writing an honors senior thesis. The course is conducted mainly as a writing workshop to guide students through the process of writing a thesis. Workshops focus on developing the research and writing skills needed to complete a successful thesis. There will be weekly individual meetings with the instructor as well as weekly group meetings. The course instructor will direct your thesis. Credit depends on completing both 402 and 403. CC: WS
	EGL 403 - English Honors Thesis Seminar 2 Course Units: 2.0 (Fall: Bracken) A two-term course required for all English majors who are writing an honors senior thesis. The course is conducted mainly as a writing workshop to guide students through the process of writing a thesis. Workshops focus on developing the research and writing skills needed to complete a successful thesis. There will be weekly individual meetings with the instructor as well as weekly group meetings. The course instructor will direct your thesis. Credit depends on completing both 402 and 403. CC: HUL, WS, HUM
	EGL 404 - Sr. Seminar (Fall) Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Prerequisite(s): Six English courses or instructor’s permission. CC: HUL, HUM, WS
	EGL 405 - Sr. Seminar (Winter): Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Prerequisite(s): Six English courses or instructor’s permission. CC: HUL, HUM, WS
	EGL 406 - Sr. Seminar (Spring): Toni Morrison Course Units: 1.0 (Spring: Tuon) In this seminar, we will read major works of Toni Morrison, the first African American woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, and examine the value system embedded in the world she created beginning with her first publication in 1970. Texts: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Love, and more. Also counts toward AFS, AMS, GSW. Prerequisite(s): Six English courses or instructor’s permission. CC: HUL, HUM, WS
	EGL 490 - English Independent Studies 1 Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) Directed reading and research on arranged topics. By permission of department chair, after a petition submitted in the fifth week of the previous term.
	EGL 491 - English Independent Studies 2 Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) Directed reading and research on arranged topics. By permission of department chair, after a petition submitted in the fifth week of the previous term.
	EGL 496 - English Senior Thesis 1 Course Units: 0.0 (TBD: Staff) Two-term senior thesis. For use by ID English majors who do not meet the requirements for an English Honors thesis but who are required to complete a two-term interdepartmental thesis by their other ID department.
	EGL 497 - English Senior Thesis 2 Course Units: 2.0 (TBD: Staff) Two-term senior thesis. For use by ID English majors who do not meet the requirements for an English Honors thesis but who are required to complete a two-term interdepartmental thesis by their other ID department. CC: HUL, HUM, WS
Environmental Science, Policy and Engineering
	ENS 100 - Introduction to Environmental Studies Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) An introduction to environmental studies from a scientific, policy, and engineering perspective. This course covers human-environment interactions, with a focus on the impacts of human activities on natural systems such as climate, air, water, and species diversity and the ensuing environmental injustice. The course discusses sustainable solutions for how we can build systems that will support billions of humans and the natural world. Fieldwork during lab periods involves the investigation of local environmental problems and solutions. This course is intended for first- and second-year Environmental Science and Environmental Policy majors, but it is open to all students. Corequisite(s): ENS 100L CC: SCLB, GNPS ISP: ENS, STS
	ENS 200 - Energy Course Units: 1.0 (Not Offered this Academic Year) Designed to acquaint the student with the many societal and technological problems facing the United States and the world due to the ever increasing demand for energy. Corequisite(s): ENS 200L Lecture/Lab Hours One lab per week.
	ENS 204 - Geographic Information Systems Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) An introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and its practical uses. Topics include history of GIS, geographic data types, primary data structures, system design, map coordinate systems, data sources, metadata, census data, geographic coding and address matching, digitizing, remote sensing imagery, measures of data quality, and needs assessment. An emphasis will be on hands-on instruction using GIS software (ArcView). Students will work with ArcView throughout the term to complete assignments and a class project. Focus areas include archeology, electric and gas utilities, surveying, health and human services, insurance, law enforcement and criminal justice, media and telecommunications, transportation, water and wastewater, and natural resources. The ultimate goal is to use the spatial component of data in conducting analysis and making decisions. Prerequisite(s): A good background in the use of modern computer software. Corequisite(s): ENS 204L CC: SET, GETS Lecture/Lab Hours Two class hours and two lab hours weekly. ISP: ENS, STS
	ENS 208 - Waste Management and Recycling Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) This course will introduce students to various sources of solid waste materials including hazardous and nonhazardous waste, and biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste. Focus areas are overview of landfill systems, geosynthetics, geotextiles, geomembranes, geonets, single clay liner, single geomembrane liner, composite liner systems, leak detection and leachate collection, removal and treatment of leachate, and capping and closure systems. The recycling segment will explore natural resources of raw materials including origin and use. It will also investigate the potential and limitation for recycling of materials. The focus area will be various applications of recycling recyclable and nonrecyclable materials especially non-biodegradable waste. Discussion of methods of manufacture and compositions of such materials will concentrate on advanced industrial applications for the reuse of non-recyclable waste materials. Application areas include production of new materials, materials with superior qualities for special purposes, and materials with high level of resistance against certain environmental conditions. The course will also touch on the political aspect of recycling including consumer attitude and government incentives to encourage recycling. Prerequisite(s): ENS 100 or GEO 110 CC: SET, GETS
	ENS 209 - Renewable Energy Systems Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) The study of renewable energy resources and the conversion technologies available to utilize them to meet society’s energy needs. Topics include forms of energy; First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics; energy conversion and efficiency; sustainability; energy storage. Historical perspective on world and U.S. energy usage, conversion technologies, and energy resources. Fundamentals of the conversion processes and systems involved in the use of solar thermal and photovoltaic, wind, bioenergy, geothermal, thermoelectric, hydro and ocean technologies. The use of hydrogen as a fuel and technologies to produce and use it. Economic and environmental issues relevant to renewable energy resources. Class will be supplemented with laboratory demonstrations and field trips to visit existing renewable energy systems. Prerequisite(s): MER 231 or PHY 122 Corequisite(s): ENS 209L CC: SET
	ENS 210 - Groundwater Hydrology Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) Groundwater accounts for 97% of the available freshwater on earth and is a vital source of water for household, industrial, and agricultural uses worldwide. The well-being and prosperity of human civilization requires the sound stewardship and sustainable use of our groundwater supplies. In addition to serving as an essential resource for humanity, groundwater plays a central role in many environmental and geologic processes, including the maintenance of river flows between rainfall events, the occurrence of earthquakes, and the genesis of certain types of ore deposits and landforms. Groundwater is also a key consideration in many engineering operations such as the construction of dams and tunnels and the assessment of landslide and land subsidence risk. Groundwater hydrology is a highly interdisciplinary field that brings together the geologic and environmental sciences with engineering. This course will begin by exploring the physical properties of groundwater and the geologic media through which it flows, the physical laws that govern groundwater flow and transport, and techniques for modeling groundwater flow patterns. The mid-part of the course will focus on the engineering aspects of groundwater, covering topics such as the hydraulics of pumping wells, the transport of contaminants within aquifers, the remediation of contaminated aquifers, and well-drilling technology. Later we will cover the role groundwater plays in geologic processes and the role of geology in determining groundwater chemistry and quality. We will also discuss the connections between groundwater and human health and the importance of groundwater in the global food supply. Students will leave this course with the fundamental knowledge needed to begin answering scientific and engineering questions in the fascinating world of groundwater hydrology. Cross-Listed: GEO 210 Prerequisite(s): ENS 100 or any GEO course numbered 110 or higher. CC: GDQR, GETS, GNPS Lecture/Lab Hours One lab per week.
	ENS 215 - Exploring Environmental Data Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) Understanding how the Earth and environment works requires the careful analysis and interpretation of scientific data. Increasingly, the limitations to our understanding lie not in the availability of data, but rather in our ability to analyze and find meaning in it. Deriving insight from environmental data, in particular large and complex datasets, requires new tools, methods, and ways of thinking. In this class we are going to learn how to code in the programming language R and use it to analyze environmental data in order to better understand the Earth’s systems. This course will feature a hands-on classroom with programming and data analysis occurring interactively during the class. Students will learn how to analyze and visualize large datasets and how to write code, while also covering interesting components of environmental and Earth sciences. Prerequisite(s): Any SET or SCLB. CC: SCLB, QMR, GDQR Lecture/Lab Hours Weekly lab required. ISP: ENS
	ENS 222 - The New Wall of China Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) An interdisciplinary overview of dams and development, with specific attention to the socio-cultural, historical, economic, and environmental attributes of a region in China whose geo-political landscape has been dramatically impacted by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. In providing a context to the dam’s construction, students will be introduced to the intricate connections between all the above factors and engineering, technology, and the environment. Cross-Listed: MLT 209 CC: LCC, SET, HUM, HUL, GCHF, GETS, GSPE ISP: AIS, STS
	ENS 234 - No Nonsense Sensors Course Units: 1 (TBD: Staff) Humans sense. They use their senses to monitor their surroundings. The basic five human senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, and the sensory organs humans use to do these functions are the eyes, ear, nose tongue, and skin. Humans have had a long history of fascination with building devices that do sensory tasks. These are sensors, and unlike human sense, they are sleepless by design. The use of sensors has recently exploded. Sensor applications have penetrated many fields such as consumer products, healthcare, communication, transportation, industrial processes, sports, security, space, military, and the environment, to name a few. The presence of sensors is all around us in almost everything we use and come across in our daily life. Starting with smart phones, passing through sensor-activated lights in hallways, and ending with remotely sensed images that we receive from satellites orbiting Planet Earth from outer space. Sensors have invaded every aspect of human life and are predicted to be so pervasive in many extraordinary applications that will significantly enhance humans” quality of life. This course is designed for students interested in learning more about sensors and their human applications i adding a level of convenience never thought possible before. CC: SET, GETS
	ENS 247 - Sustainable Infrastructure Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) Infrastructure is the backbone of nations. It is a society’s inventory of systems and facilities that allow it to function properly and smoothly. This includes, but is not limited to, roads, bridges, tunnels, dams, transit, waterways, ports, aviation, pipelines, transmission lines, rail, parks, and public buildings such as schools, courts, hospitals, and recreational and sport facilities. Infrastructure involves services such as energy, water supply, wastewater treatment, power and gas distribution grids, waste collection, and sewer disposal. Major advances in technology resulted in digital infrastructure that includes communication networks, signal transmission towers, data centers, information repositories, servers/computers, and the Internet. This course explores the progress humanity achieved in developing infrastructure facilities and the present move towards sustainability. Methods, materials, processes, technologies, practices, and operations required to maintain a healthy environment and efficient infrastructure will be examined. The intersection between policies necessary for sustainable infrastructure and political, economic, social, societal, and cultural factors will be emphasized. CC: SET, GETS Lecture/Lab Hours Four class hours weekly. ISP: ENS, STS
	ENS 252 - Geoenvironmental Applications Course Units: 1.0 (TBD: Staff) This course introduces field applications related to soil and water. It explores the natural characteristics and testing of soil as a construction material and as a bearing layer. It covers seepage analysis, aquifers, and well fields. It details the components of containment systems for waste disposal to alleviate environmental pollution and contamination. It also presents the basics of water movement in closed conduits and in open channels, and the development of supply networks. For labs, students gain experience in utilizing industry-standard testing methods of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Tests include soil classification, composition, flow and permeability, compaction, compressibility, strength, slope stability, and environmental geotechnology with focus on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) design specifications. Prerequisite(s): MTH 112 or higher, and PHY 120 or higher. Corequisite(s): ENS 252L CC: SCLB Lecture/Lab Hours Three class hours and a weekly lab.

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EGL 211 - Milton

EGL 212 - The Restoration

EGL 213 - American Literature in Historical Context: Beginnings to 1800

EGL 216 - Eighteenth-Century British Literature

EGL 217 - Enlightenment and Romanticism

EGL 219 - Rise of the Novel

EGL 220 - The Romantic Revolution

EGL 223 - Jane Austen

EGL 224 - 19th-Century Novel

EGL 225 - The Brontë Sisters

EGL 226 - Victorian Detective Fiction

EGL 230 - Seduction in Early American Republic

EGL 231 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature

EGL 232 - The American Renaissance

EGL 233 - 18-19th Century Early Literature of African Diaspora

EGL 236 - Trans-Atlantic Realism and Naturalism

EGL 237 - Reclamation & Renaissance: Black Literary Arts 1900 to 1968, “Dark Like Me - That is my Dream!”

EGL 244 - The Contemporary British Imagination

EGL 245 - Experimental Texts

EGL 246 - Modern Poetry

EGL 247 - Studies in Modern Poets: Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen

EGL 248 - Introduction to Black Poetry

EGL 249 - Contemporary Poetry

EGL 250 - The Beats and Contemporary Culture

EGL 251 - World Literatures in English

EGL 253 - Narratives of Haunting in US Ethnic Literature

EGL 254 - Discourses on the Viet Nam War

EGL 255 - Asian American Literature and Film

EGL 256 - Southeast Asian-American Experience

EGL 257 - Irish American Literature: Race, Gender, Sexuality

EGL 258 - Changing Ireland

EGL 259 - Irish Literature and Film

EGL 260 - James Joyce

EGL 261 - Modernism and Modernity

EGL 262 - Global Modernisms

EGL 263 - Literature and Sexuality

EGL 264 - Women Writers, 18th to 20th Century

EGL 265 - Jewish Women Writers

EGL 266 - Black Women Writers

EGL 267 - The Virginia Wolf

EGL 268 - Staging Black Feminisms

EGL 271 - Dark Deeds: Crime in the Adirondacks

EGL 272 - Gendered Ecologies in the Long Nineteenth Century

EGL 274 - Uncanny Texts: Literature and Psychoanalysis

EGL 275 - Autobiography

EGL 276 - Literature of the Manor House

EGL 277 - Philosophical Fiction

EGL 278 - Science Fiction

EGL 279 - Literature and Science

EGL 280 - Nature and Environmental Writing

EGL 281 - Environmental Psychology and the American Literary Landscape

EGL 282 - The Theory of Things: Objects, Emotions, Ideas

EGL 283 - Pilgrims, Flâneurs, & Pranksters: The Walk in Literature

EGL 284 - Interactive Fiction Workshop

EGL 285 - Nabokov

EGL 286 - Transnational Literature, Film, and Theory

EGL 287 - Gender and Sexuality in Film

EGL 288 - Film as Fictive Art: American Independent Cinema

EGL 288T - Film as Fictive Art: British Cinema

EGL 289 - Studies in a Major Film Director

EGL 290 - Studies in Film Genre/Style: The Essay Film

EGL 291 - From the Drama Desk: Performance, Culture & Creativity

EGL 292 - Contemporary American Theater and Drama

EGL 293 - Workshop in Poetry

EGL 294 - Workshop in Fiction

EGL 295 - Workshop in Creative Non-Fiction

EGL 295H - English Honors Independent Project 1

EGL 296 - Screenwriting Workshop

EGL 296H - English Honors Independent Project 2

EGL 297 - Literary Research Practicum 1

EGL 298 - Literary Research Practicum 2

EGL 299 - Literary Research Practicum 3

EGL 300 - Jr. Seminar: Poetry Workshop

EGL 301 - Jr. Seminar: Fiction Workshop: Writing Activist Fiction

EGL 302 - Jr. Seminar: Literary Theory

EGL 304 - Jr. Seminar (Fall):

EGL 305 - Jr. Seminar (Winter)

EGL 317 - Jr. Seminar (Fall): Queer Theory

EGL 400 - Sr. Seminar: Poetry Workshop