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ENGLISH 124. College Writing: Writing and Literature.: (4). (Introductory Composition).; This course studies the intersection between critical thinking and persuasive writing, and, using literary texts as the point of reference, takes as its goals the development of the student's skills at writing cogent expository and argumentative prose.
ENGLISH 125. College Writing.: (4). (Introductory Composition).; A study of rhetoric, both as a body of principles and as a practical art, emphasizing the writing of expository and argumentative essays.
ENGLISH 140. First-Year Literary Seminar.: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; A study of selected topics in literature through classroom discussion and the writing of essays.
ENGLISH 217. Literature Seminar.: Completion of the Introductory Composition requirement. (3). (HU).; A seminar course which focuses on a sharply defined topic or body of literature. Emphasis on discussion and writing.
ENGLISH 223. Creative Writing.: Completion of the Introductory Composition requirement. (3; 2 in the half-term). (CE). May not be repeated for credit.; Introductory creative writing course in which students compose pieces in fiction, poetry or drama.
ENGLISH 225. Argumentative Writing.: Completion of the Introductory Composition requirement. (4; 3 in the half-term). (HU).; Instruction in composition with weekly papers and overall review of style and arrangement.
ENGLISH 226. Directed Writing.: Permission of instructor. (1-3). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for a total of three credits.; A program of supervised writing agreed upon by a student and a member of the faculty. The student should have taken a prior course in writing.
ENGLISH 227 / THTREMUS 227. Introductory Playwriting.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (CE).; A creative writing course in the rudiments of playwriting, with special attention to the one-act play.
ENGLISH 229 / LHSP 229. Technical Writing.: Completion of the introductory composition requirement. (4). (HU).; A straightforward approach to the practicalities of writing clear descriptive and explanatory prose whose subject matter is centered on process and sequence.
ENGLISH 230. Introduction to Short Story and Novel.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; An intensive study of prose fiction, American, English, and Continental, usually including representative short stories and novels of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
ENGLISH 239. What is Literature?: Prerequisite for concentrators in the Regular Program and in Honors. (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; This course, prerequisite to the concentration, is to introduce students to the chief terms and practices of English Studies.
ENGLISH 240. Introduction to Poetry.: Prerequisite for concentrators in the Regular Program and in Honors. (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; A disciplined introduction to the reading of poetry, English and American.
ENGLISH 245 / RCHUMS 280 / THTREMUS 211. Introduction to Drama and Theatre.: No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in RC Hums. 281. (4; 3 in the half-term). (HU).; This course aims to introduce students to as many basic aspects of the theatre, practical and theoretical, as time allows. It also presents them with a number of key plays from various periods, and examines them from the point of view of their dramatic qualities, their theatrical strengths, their social and political contexts, their performance history, and their relevance today. The course functions by lecture and sections, the second of which allow more detailed discussion and some elementary scene-work.
ENGLISH 267. Introduction to Shakespeare.: Completion of Introductory Composition. (4; 3 in the half-term). (HU).; A basic course in Shakespeare.
ENGLISH 270. Introduction to American Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; An intensive study of the works of four or five major American writers, which may include Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman, Twain, James, and Hemingway.
ENGLISH 274 / CAAS 274. Introduction to Afro-American Literature.: AAS 111. (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; By surveying poetry, narratives – fictive and autobiographical – prose essays, and drama produced by Black writers over the course of their presence in America, we attempt to investigate the nature of these authors' imaginative responses to Afro-American peoples' situation in a society simultaneously both hostile to and keenly dependent upon their presence.
ENGLISH 280. Thematic Approaches to Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits with department permission.; A course designed to introduce students to literature through a theme. It gives training in close reading of texts, largely contemporary, representing a variety of literary forms and styles. The themes may concern social, philosophical, or psychological issues. Actual content varies from term to term. Consult the Time Schedule for information about specific topics.
ENGLISH 285. Introduction to Twentieth-Century Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; Readings are to be drawn from the fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction of the twentieth century, including contemporary and experimental works as well as modern classics.
ENGLISH 299. Directed Study.: Permission of instructor. (1-3). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for a total of three credits.; A program of supervised study agreed upon by a student and a member of the faculty. Normally, the student should have prior credit for a course in literature.
ENGLISH 301. The Power of Words.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; A general introduction to word study (etymology, meaning, word formation), the history of English words, usage, and the social and personal dimensions of vocabulary. This course has a strong writing component.
ENGLISH 305. Introduction to Modern English.: Recommended for students preparing to teach English. (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; A study of the regional and social dimensions of diversity in American English and of various modern attempts to describe the language system.
ENGLISH 308. History of the English Language.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; A historical survey of the sounds and structure of the English language from 900 A.D. to the present time, with particular emphasis upon the language of Chaucer and Shakespeare.
ENGLISH 309. American English.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; Social and regional variations in American English considered in terms of contemporary views of cultural history and processes of language change.
ENGLISH 310. Discourse and Society.: English 124 or 125. (3). (Excl).; This course deals in any given term with some particular set of problems and possibilities associated with the teaching of uses of literacy outside the University.
ENGLISH 313. Topics in Literary Studies.: (4). (HU). May be repeated for a total of eight credits.; This course is designed to give students the opportunity to combine lecture with discussion sections as they focus on a broad range of topics.
ENGLISH 315 / WOMENSTD 315. Women and Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; This course number is designed to accommodate a wide variety of courses on women and literature. Consult the Time Schedule for information about each term's offering.
ENGLISH 317. Literature and Culture.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU). Laboratory fee ($35) required. May be repeated for credit with department permission.; Literary readings aimed at recreating the sense of a specific culture (e.g., English Renaissance, Beat Literature, Revolutionary Ireland, Post-Colonial Africa (English-speaking)). Actual content and emphasis varies from term to term. Consult the Time Schedule for information about each term's offerings.
ENGLISH 318. Literary Types.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU). May be repeated for credit with department permission.; Readings are bound together by their similarity on the structural, generic, or modal levels (e.g., Science Fiction, Fantasy, Epic and Romance, Psychological Novel, Lyric Poetry, Tragedy). Actual content and emphasis varies from term to term. Consult the Time Schedule for information about each term's offerings.
ENGLISH 319. Literature and Social Change.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU). May be repeated for credit with department permission.; This course studies the effect of scientific, economic, political, or cultural change upon literature, with particular reference to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some of the topics which may be offered include science and poetry, or politics and the modern novel; or the focus may be on a particular theme (e.g., urbanization and the theme of alienation in modern literature).
ENGLISH 320 / CAAS 338. Literature in Afro-American Culture.: AAS 201 recommended. (3). (HU).; This course is designed to examine the various ways in which literature and culture have interacted in the Afro-American experience of the New World. Shifting emphases shed light on a variety of issues: slave autobiography, frontier and colonial cultures, women's issues, and contemporary or popular narratives.
ENGLISH 321. Internship.: Concentration in English. (1). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit. (EXPERIENTIAL). May be elected for a total of four credits.; The English department believes that English is one of the most versatile concentrations you can choose as an undergraduate at Michigan. We understand, too, that a number of our concentrators receive opportunities to work in various internship placements, especially over the summer months, putting their skills as writers and speakers to work in placements outside the classroom.
ENGLISH 323. Creative Writing.: English 223 and junior standing. (3; 2 in the half-term). (CE). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; Practice in writing poetry or fiction.
ENGLISH 324. Creative Writing.: Junior standing and written permission of instructor. (3; 2 in the summer half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for credit.; Practice in writing poetry, the short story, the novel, and the personal essay.
ENGLISH 325. Essay Writing: The Art of Exposition.: (3; 2 in the half-term in the half-term). (Excl).; A review of the fundamentals of composition with further practice in writing expository prose. Materials are drawn in part from the student's fields of interest.
ENGLISH 327 / THTREMUS 327. Intermediate Playwriting.: Engl. 227. (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; Students work toward writing a full-length play, concentrating on the first act. Writing skills are developed by in-class readings and other writing assignments.
ENGLISH 330(412) / FILMVID 330. Major Directors.: F/V 230 or 236. (3). (HU). Laboratory fee ($35) required. May be elected for a total of nine credits.; Concentrated analysis of particular directors or of particular schools of filmmaking. Films are shown and discussed in terms of their place in the context of film history. General theoretical concepts about film are developed.
ENGLISH 331(413) / FILMVID 331. Film Genres and Types.: F/V 230 or 236. (3). (HU). Laboratory fee ($35) required. May be elected for a total of nine credits.; Careful analytical studies of representative films from various film genres.
ENGLISH 340. Reading and Writing Poetry.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; This course focuses on twentieth century American poetry. Part of the course is devoted to reading and studying poems; the rest to writing poems in various styles and forms.
ENGLISH 349(449) / THTREMUS 323. American Theatre and Drama.: (3). (HU).; The study of principal American dramatists, and principal events and issues in the American theatre, mainly in the 20th century.
ENGLISH 350 / MEMS 350. Literature in English to 1660.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; Part one of a two-term sequence designed to give students a principled sense of the range of literary works written in English to 1660.
ENGLISH 351. Literature in English after 1660.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; Part two of a two-term sequence designed to give students a principled sense of the range of literary works written in English (mid-17th C. to Present).
ENGLISH 367 / MEMS 367. Shakespeare's Principal Plays.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (HU).; An intensive study of from twelve to fifteen plays designed to increase the student's critical appreciation and understanding of Shakespeare's art and thought.
ENGLISH 368 / MEMS 368. Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; An intensive study of from 12 to 15 plays designed to increase the student's critical appreciation and to develop his or her understanding of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
ENGLISH 370. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of eight credits with department permission.; A course which ranges widely (by genre or theme) over literature in English to 1660.
ENGLISH 371. Studies in Literature, 1600-1830.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with department permission.; A course which ranges widely (by genre or theme) over literature in English 1660-1830.
ENGLISH 372. Studies in Literature, 1830-Present.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with department permission.; A course which ranges widely (by genre or theme) over literature in English 1830-Present.
ENGLISH 381 / AMCULT 324. Asian American Literature.: (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits with department permission.; This course considers a range of topics in the study of Asian American literature. It raises questions concerning the canon of texts to be studied, the cultural construction of Asian American literature, race and ethnicity in America, and the ways in which these texts challenge and expand our understanding of American literature.
ENGLISH 382 / AMCULT 328. Native American Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits with department permission.; This course considers a range of topics in the study of Native American literature. It raises questions concerning the canon of texts studied, the cultural construction of ethnicity in America, and the ways in which these texts challenge and expand our understanding of American literature.
ENGLISH 383. Topics in Jewish Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits with department permission.; The course considers a range of topics in the study of Jewish literature. It raises questions concerning the canon of texts studied, the cultural construction of Jewish literature, race and ethnicity.
ENGLISH 384 / CAAS 384 / AMCULT 406. Topics in Caribbean Literature.: AAS 202 recommended. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits with department permission.; The course considers a range of topics in the study of Caribbean literature. It raises questions concerning the canon of texts to be studied, the cultural construction of Caribbean literature, race, and ethnicity.
ENGLISH 385 / CAAS 385. Topics in African Literature.: AAS 200 recommended. (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits with department permission.; This course considers a range of topics in the study of African literature. It raises questions concerning the canon of texts studied, the cultural construction of African literature, race and ethnicity.
ENGLISH 386. Irish Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits with department permission.; This course considers a range of topics in the study of Irish literature. It raises questions concerning the canon of texts to be studied, Irish literary traditions, and the cultural construction of Irish literature, in social, political, and aesthetic interaction with British culture.
ENGLISH 387 / AMCULT 327. Latino/Latina Literature of the U.S.: (3). (HU).; This course considers the relationship between Latino/a literary productions and the social conditions and possibilities of its production. A variety of topics is addressed in the study of such Latino/a literatures of the US as Chicano/a, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American.
ENGLISH 401 / RELIGION 481. The English Bible: Its Literary Aspects and Influences, I.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; This course studies meaning and the literary genres and histories of the Old and New Testaments.
ENGLISH 406 / LING 406. Modern English Grammar.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; A descriptive analysis of the structure of present-day American English.
ENGLISH 407. Topics in Language and Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits with department permission.; Various issues in the interrelation of language and literature are considered. See Time Schedule each term for further information.
ENGLISH 408 / LING 408. Varieties of English.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Under this rubric, the department has courses in such topics as American English, English as a world language, Black English, and dialects of English.
ENGLISH 411. Art of the Film.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($35) required. May be repeated for credit with department permission.; A study of the art of film, drawing upon a wide range of works and upon various critical approaches. Nature and content of the course depend upon the instructor. Consult the Time Schedule for more information.
ENGLISH 414. Multimedia Explorations in the Humanities.: Permission of Instructor. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; This course is designed to help students integrate literary research with extensive development of web-based research sites that present the process and the results of that research to a larger audience. Topics vary.
ENGLISH 415. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; Ideas contributed by behavioral science, philosophy, linguistics, etc., are considered in relation to the problems of the creative writer and the literary critic. Actual content and emphasis varies from term to term. Consult the Time Schedule for information about specific topics.
ENGLISH 416 / HISTORY 487 / WOMENSTD 416. Women in Victorian England.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Literary and historical sources are used to examine cultural proscriptions regarding the role of women and the actuality of women's lives in Victorian England. Topics to be discussed include women as daughters, wives, and mothers; women as workers, writers, governesses, factory operatives, teachers, and prostitutes; women in reform movements; women's education; and aspects of the nineteenth century women's rights movement.
ENGLISH 417. Senior Seminar.: Senior concentrator in English. May not be repeated for credit. (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; Senior seminars exemplify the various critical approaches to literature, either by direct study or by application to a particular writer, period, or genre.
ENGLISH 423. The Writing of Fiction.: Open to seniors and graduate students; written permission of the instructor is required. (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for credit.; Sessions are in the writing of the short story and the novel.
ENGLISH 425. Advanced Essay Writing.: Open only to seniors and graduate students. (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Practice and guidance in the writing of expository prose, primarily for students at work on long papers, with special attention in conference to individual writing problems.
ENGLISH 426. Directed Writing.: Junior standing and permission of instructor. (1-4). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; A program of supervised writing agreed upon by a student and a member of the faculty. Students should have prior credit for a course in writing.
ENGLISH 427 / THTREMUS 427. Advanced Playwriting.: English 327. Permission of instructor. (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; Students write a full-length play. Skills are developed through technique assignments, rewrites, class readings and discussions, viewing of local plays.
ENGLISH 428. Senior Writing Tutorial.: English 223, 323, and 423/429. (3). (Excl).; A combination writing workshop/thesis tutorial for undergraduate students who are in their last year at Michigan, have taken the 200-, 300-, and 400-level writing workshops, and have been accepted into the Creative Writing Program. In this course, students complete a major manuscript of fiction or poetry. Supervised reading and writing assignments also form a part of the curriculum. Regular tutorial meetings between students and faculty take place; workshops in fiction and/or poetry might be arranged. The course is designed to afford students and faculty the greatest flexibility and latitude in devising the most beneficial working arrangements, given the particular needs of students taking the course that term.
ENGLISH 429. The Writing of Poetry.: Written permission of instructor is required. (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for credit.; Practice in the analysis of poetic forms and the writing of poetry.
ENGLISH 430. The Rise of the Novel.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; The development of the novel into a major literary form is related to cultural and intellectual backgrounds. Authors often studied include Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Austen, Scott.
ENGLISH 431. The Victorian Novel.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; The development of the novel is traced with attention to traditional and innovative forms, and cultural and intellectual backgrounds. Authors often studied include the Brontës, Trollope, Gaskell, Thackeray, Eliot, Hardy.
ENGLISH 432. The American Novel.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; This course concerns the American Novel as a traditional and unique literary form, as well as its relationship to its own native culture and to that of Europe. Critical analyses of works by authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Dreiser, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Mailer.
ENGLISH 433. The Modern Novel.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; This course focuses on the major developments in the modern novel with special attention to the form's relationship to intellectual and cultural trends in the modern world. Special emphasis is on works by authors such as Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Ford, Forster, Stein, West, Richardson, H.D.
ENGLISH 434. The Contemporary Novel.: (4; 3 in the half-term). (Excl).; This course investigates the novel since World War II. Readings are in such writers as Camus, Sartre, Waugh, Nabokov, Lessing, Bellow, Mailer, Robbe-Grillet, Grass, and Solzhenitsyn.
ENGLISH 440. Modern Poetry.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; A study of representative twentieth-century American and British poets, such as Frost, Eliot, Pound, Williams, Stevens, Yeats, Thomas, and Auden.
ENGLISH 441. Contemporary Poetry.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Readings in American poets whose work has become known to readers since 1940: John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Howard Nemerov, Theodore Roethke, Richard Wilbur, and others. At the instructor's option the course may also include such British poets as Thomas Gunn, A. D. Hope, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Charles Tomlinson.
ENGLISH 443 / THTREMUS 321. History of Theatre I.: (3). (Excl).; The history of theatre, internationally regarded, from its beginnings to about 1660.
ENGLISH 444 / THTREMUS 322. History of Theatre II.: (3). (Excl).; The history of theatre, internationally regarded, from about 1660 to the present.
ENGLISH 445. Shakespeare's Rivals.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Readings are in some of the major medieval mystery cycles, with emphasis upon the development of Elizabethan comedy and tragedy in Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, all in relation to the audiences and theatres of the period.
ENGLISH 446. World Drama: Congreve to Ibsen.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; This course observes play, audience, and theatre, including special studies from Restoration and Georgian comedy (Wycherley to Sheridan), the Victorian popular theatre, the satirical comedy of Shaw, and the Irish Dramatic Movement (Yeats to O'Casey).
ENGLISH 447. Modern Drama.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Considered are the great dramatic movements of the last hundred years, selected from the naturalistic theatre of Ibsen and Chekhov, symbolism after Strindberg, expression in Pirandello and O'Neill, the epic theatre of Brecht, and the theatre of the absurd after Beckett.
ENGLISH 448. Contemporary Drama.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; This course is a study of drama from the forties to the present in England, America, and Europe. Playwrights often considered include Miller, Beckett, Pinter, Albee, Sartre, and Ionesco.
ENGLISH 450. Medieval Drama.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; A study of the English mystery plays and morality plays, with some coverage of related continental drama (such as commedia del arte).
ENGLISH 455 / MEMS 455. Medieval English Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Studies in the literature of the medieval period in England. Readings are drawn from such works as Beowulf, Gawain and the Green Knight, Middle English romances and lyrics, Piers the Ploughman, the miracle plays, and Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
ENGLISH 457 / MEMS 457. Renaissance English Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Studies in the literature of the Renaissance period in England. Readings are drawn from the works of such authors as Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Milton, and Marvell.
ENGLISH 461. English Romantic Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Studies in the literature of the Romantic period in England. Readings are drawn from the works of such authors as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Bronte, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
ENGLISH 462. Victorian Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Studies in the literature of the Victorian period in England. Readings are drawn from the works of such authors as Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Arnold, George Eliot, Pater, Hopkins, and Hardy.
ENGLISH 465 / MEMS 465. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; An intensive study of Chaucer's major work with reading in Middle English and background lectures covering as many tales as possible at the discretion of the instructor.
ENGLISH 467. Topics in Shakespeare.: Prior course work in Shakespeare is recommended. (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with department permission.; This course is designed to consider specific issues and approaches to Shakespeare's work for students who have already gained some basic familiarity with his texts.
ENGLISH 469. Milton.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Intensive study of Milton's poetry, with emphasis upon Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and important early poems such as Comus and Lycidas. Selected prose by Milton is read to illuminate his role in the Puritan revolution and the development of his thought.
ENGLISH 470. Early American Literature: Key Texts.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; A study of native American, colonial, and revolutionary literature and literary history from the origins to the nineteenth century.
ENGLISH 471. Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Key Texts.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; A study of representative literary texts and significant cultural movements of the nineteenth century.
ENGLISH 472. Twentieth-Century American Literature: Key Texts.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; A study of the evolution of American literary modernism.
ENGLISH 473. Topics in American Literature.: (3; 2 in IIIb). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with department permission.; Intensive study of particular periods and essential issues in American literature.
ENGLISH 474. The “New Negro” Renaissance.: (4). (Excl).; The "Harlem Renaissance," also known as the "New Negro" Renaissance, brought unprecedented global attention to the literature, art, music, dance, and folklore of people of African descent living in the "New World." We'll explore works by such leading figures as W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes. Two short papers and a final exam.
ENGLISH 478 / CAAS 476. Contemporary Afro-American Literature.: AAS 201 recommended. (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; A study of literature written by Afro-Americans from World War II to the present. Wright, Yerby, Baldwin, Ellison, Brooks, Hayden, Jones, Lee, and Cleaver are among the writers discussed.
ENGLISH 479 / CAAS 489. Topics in Afro-American Literature.: English 274 and AAS 201 and/or 320 strongly recommended. (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; Following a sequence of introductory and mid-level classes, students may elect this advanced-level seminar in Afro-American Literature. From year to year topics may include the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement or the Slave Narrative as well as thematic, or generic approaches.
ENGLISH 482. Studies in Individual Authors.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with department permission.; Courses in the works of a major author. Consult the Time Schedule for information about specific offerings each term.
ENGLISH 483. Great Works of Literature.: (1). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with department permission.; Concentrated study of a single major literary work.
ENGLISH 484. Issues in Criticism.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; Courses in specific literary topics. Content and emphasis varies from term to term. Consult the Time Schedule for information about specific terms.
ENGLISH 486. History of Criticism.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl).; A study of representative critics from classical times to the present.
ENGLISH 489 / EDUC 440. Teaching of English.: See School of Education Bulletin. (3). (Excl).; An examination of the practical problems of the classroom designed for perspective teachers of English.
ENGLISH 492. Honors Colloquium: Drafting the Thesis.: Admission to the English Honors Program and permission of instructor. (3). (Excl).; Students develop the prospectus and first draft of their honors thesis during this course taken during the Fall Term of the Senior year wit the final thesis submitted in march.
ENGLISH 496. Honors Colloquium: Completing the Thesis.: English 492, admission to the English Honors Program, and permission of instructor. II. (1). (Excl).; Students develop the final draft of their honors thesis during this course taken during the winter term of their senior year.
ENGLISH 497. Honors Seminar.: Junior or senior standing, and permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of 9 credits.; Extensive study of a particular historical period or theme. Generally requires the writing of an extended research paper.
ENGLISH 498. Directed Teaching.: Permission of the instructor. (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for a total of nine credits.; Participation in the teaching of a regularly offered course. Involves readings in educational theory, written work relating to teaching activities, and regular contact with the instructor. (This is an English Department independent study number and is not to be confused with School of Education teaching courses).
ENGLISH 499. Directed Study.: Junior standing; and permission of instructor. Not open to graduate students. (1-4). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; A program of supervised study agreed upon by a student and a member of the faculty. Normally, students should have had a prior course in literature.

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