Undergraduate
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Highlighted Courses
If you are searching for some interesting courses to add to your schedule, there are a number of English courses with space available. Below you'll find several courses worth considering. Where available, click on the "Course Description" link to view a detailed description or download the course flier. For a full listing of current courses, please visit the LSA Course Guide
and/or the Schedule of Classes
. You're always welcome to contact the English Department Undergraduate Office for more information. 734-764-6330 or ugenglish@umich.edu.
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Areas of Specialization (AOS)
* Represents Spotlighted Undergraduate Faculty
First-Year Seminar Courses
140.001: First-Year Seminar on English Language and Literature
Fantasies of Childhood in British and American Culture
Instructor: Makman, Lisa (view profile)
140.002: First-Year Seminar on English Language and Literature
Race in the Age of Obama
Instructor: Nichols, Dana (view profile)
140.003: First-Year Seminar on English Language and Literature
Arthurian Literature
Instructor: Taylor, Karla (view profile)
140.004: First-Year Seminar on English Language and Literature
Environmental Writing
Instructor: TBD
142.001: First-Year Interdisciplinary English Literature Seminar
Jane Austen and Economics
Instructor: Pinch, Adela (view profile)
200-Level Introductory Courses
250.001: Introduction to English Language Studies
He Said, She Said: How Conversations Work
Instructor: Curzan, Anne (view profile)
260.001: Introduction to British Literature
Reading the Mind
Instructor: Hartley, Lucy (view profile)
270.001: Introduction to American Literature
Instructor: Crane, Gregg (view profile)
290.002: Themes in Language and Literature
Monsters, Ghosts, and Devils: Stories that Scare Us
Instructor: Brandolino, Gina (view profile) *
290.003: Themes in Language and Literature
10 Plays Everyone Should Know
Instructor: Brater, Enoch (view profile)
300-Level Courses
305.001: Exploring the English Language
Instructor: Gold, David (view profile)
313.001: Topics in Literary Studies
Gender, Autobiography, and the Medical Body
Also Satisfies:
(Con): American Literature, New Traditions
(AOS): U.S. 20th and 21st Centuries; Sexuality/Gender Studies
Instructor: Smith, Sidonie (view profile)
313.010: Topics in Literary Studies
Hitchcock and Modernity
Instructor: Freedman, Jonathan (view profile)
314.001: Gender/Sexuality Studies
The Culture of AIDS
Also Satisfies:
(Con): New Traditions
(AOS): Sexuality/Gender Studies
Instructor: Halperin, David (view profile)
317.002: Literature & Culture
BORDERWORK: Representing the Mexico-US Border
Also Satisfies:
(Con): American Literature, New Traditions
(AOS): U.S. 20th and 21st Centuries; Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Instructor: Carroll, Amy Sara (view profile)
320.001: Literature and the Environment
Ecocriticism
Instructor: TBD
350.001: Literature in English to 1660
Also Satisfies:
(Con): Pre-1600
(AOS): Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern
Instructor: Trevor , Douglas (view profile)
360.001: Rise of the Novel
Also Satisfies:
(Con): Pre-1830
(AOS): Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern
Instructor: Hawes, Clement (view profile)
361.001: The Victorian Novel
All that is Solid Melts into Air
Instructor: Hack, Daniel (view profile)
363.001: The Modern Novel
Repetition and Novelty in Modern Fiction
Instructor: Whittier-Ferguson, John (view profile)
367.001: Shakespeare's Plays
Also Satisfies:
(Con): Pre-1600
(AOS): Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern
Instructor: Mullaney, Steven (view profile)
384.001: Caribbean Literature
Also Satisfies:
(Con): New Traditions
(AOS): Literatures of the Americas; Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Instructor: Goodison, Lorna (view profile)
398.003: Junior Seminar in English Studies
Thinking about Poetry
Also Satisfies:
(Con): Poetry, Upper-Level Writing Requirement
(AOS): Literary Criticism, Theory, and Genre Studies
Instructor: Porter, David (view profile)
400-Level Courses
405.001: Theories of Writing
Process, Pedagogy, and Production
Instructor: Yergeau, Melanie (view profile)
407.001: Topics in English Language & Literature
Ambiguity
Instructor: Rabkin, Eric S. (view profile)
407.002: Topics in English Language & Literature
Intertextuality, or The Whale
Also Satisfies:
(Con): American Literature
(AOS): U.S. 20th and 21st Centuries
Instructor: Marshall, Brenda (view profile)
415.001: Studies in Women and Literature
Parlors and Platforms: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Identity in the Progressive Era
Also Satisfies:
(Con): New Traditions
(AOS): U.S. Literary Cultures to 1900; U.S. 20th and 21st Centuries; Sexuality/Gender Studies
Instructor: Gold, David (view profile)
440.001: Modern Poetry
New Ways of Thinking about the World
Also Satisfies:
(Con): American Literature, Poetry
(AOS): U.S. 20th and 21st Centuries; Literary Criticism, Theory, and Genre Studies
Instructor: Goldstein, Laurence (view profile)
451.002: Studies in Literature, 1600-1830
Eighteenth-century Literature and the Museum
Also Satisfies:
(Con): Pre-1830
(AOS): Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern
Instructor: Silver , Sean (view profile)


