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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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* 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)

 

 

 

 

 

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