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01-02 LS&A Bulletin

Courses in English (Division 361)


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ENGLISH 401 / RELIGION 481. The English Bible: Its Literary Aspects and Influences, I.
(4; 3 in the half-term).
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).
A descriptive analysis of the structure of present-day American English.
ENGLISH 407. Topics in Language and Literature.
(3; 2 in the half-term). 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).
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). 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 415. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature.
(3; 2 in the half-term). 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).
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 427 / THTREMUS 427. Advanced Playwriting.
English 327. Permission of instructor. (3; 2 in the half-term). 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 429. The Writing of Poetry.
Written permission of instructor is required. (3; 2 in the half-term). 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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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 445. Shakespeare's Rivals.
(3; 2 in the half-term).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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 469. Milton.
(3; 2 in the half-term).
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).
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).
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).
A study of the evolution of American literary modernism.
ENGLISH 473. Topics in American Literature.
(3; 2 in IIIb). May be repeated for credit with department permission.
Intensive study of particular periods and essential issues in American literature.
ENGLISH 478 / CAAS 476. Contemporary Afro-American Literature.
AAS 201 recommended. (3; 2 in the half-term).
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 482. Studies in Individual Authors.
(3; 2 in the half-term). 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). 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).
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).
A study of representative critics from classical times to the present.
ENGLISH 489 / EDUC 440. Teaching of English.
See School of Education Bulletin. (3).
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).
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).
Students develop the final draft of their honors thesis during this course taken during the winter term of their senior year.
ENGLISH 501 / GERMAN 501. Old English.
Graduate student standing. (3; 2 in the half-term).
This course is an introduction to Old English, the language spoken by our forebears until the unpleasantness at Hastings - the Norman Conquest. Since Old English is so different from Modern English as to seem like another language, the greatest effort of this class will be to master the rudiments of the structure and vocabulary of the earliest attested form of English.
ENGLISH 502 / GERMAN 502. Old English Literature.
English 501 or equivalent. Graduate standing. (3; 2 in the half-term).
ENGLISH 503. Middle English.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 505. History of English.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 506. Structure of English.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 507 / LING 509. English Styles.
Any course in the structure of English. Graduate standing. (3; 2 in the half-term).
ENGLISH 508. Discourse and Rhetoric.
English 506 or equivalent. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 509. Language and Literature.
Any course in the structure of English. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 510. Research Methods and Materials.
Graduate standing. (1-3).
ENGLISH 513 / GERMAN 513. Old Norse.
Open to any graduate student, and to undergraduates by permission of the instructor. (3; 2 in the half-term).
This course will provide an introduction to Old Norse (Old Icelandic) language and literature. The first half of the course will be devoted to learning the grammar of Old Norse, after which we will read selections of some of the most important literary monuments of medieval Iceland, i.e. some of the most fascinating literature of medieval Europe generally.
ENGLISH 516. Literary Research and the Computer.
Graduate standing. (3).
This graduate-level course fosters both sharpened general analytic and presentational skills and technical mastery of a broad range of modern computer-based technologies for collaboration and for gathering, manipulating, analyzing, and presenting electronic data in the humanities, both locally and via networks, with special attention to creating and publishing "compound documents" (e.g., Web sites and CD-ROMs).
ENGLISH 520. Introduction to Graduate Studies.
Open to English Language and Literature and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3). A required course for first-year Language & Literature and English & Women's Studies graduate students only.
In their first term, doctoral students take a course entitled Introduction to Graduate Studies. Its primary aim is to review research methodologies and to survey dominant theoretical paradigms.
ENGLISH 521. History of Literary Theory.
Graduate standing. (3; 2 in the half-term).
This course is the first in a two-part series on the history of literary theory and will offer an introductory overview of issues emerging from Plato to the Romantic period. Each historical text is discussed in the context of contemporary critical theory in order to accentuate the continuing significance of certain issues to the interrogation of the production of knowledge. Of primary concern will be the relationship between philosophy and literature, the connection between self-knowledge and literary knowledge, and the function of language, including the status of literary language.
ENGLISH 522. History of Literary Criticism.
Graduate standing. (3; 2 in the half-term).
This course, the second in a two-part sequence on the history of literary theory. Course materials will be organized according to literary theoretical traditions. Questions to be addressed include how language produces meaning, the influence of language-based theories on notions of literary knowledge, the production of genealogies of the subject and changing ideologies about the nature of culture. The course also considers the role of literary theory in the academy and the relationship of theoretical discourses to historicized knowledges.
ENGLISH 526. Literature and Culture.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 527. Contemporary Critical Theory.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 529. Topics in Drama.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 532. Modern Drama.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 533. The Short Poem in English.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 535. Contemporary Poetry.
Graduate standing. (3).
This course focuses on poetry written in English from 1945 to the present. Some experience of modern poetry written in the first decades of this century would be very useful, but is not essential.
ENGLISH 536. Beginnings of the Novel.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 538. Modern Novel.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 540. Topics in Language and Literature.
Graduate standing. (1-3).
ENGLISH 541. Literature of the Medieval Period.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 542. Literature of the Tudor and Elizabethan Periods.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 543. Literature of the Jacobean and Caroline Period.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 544. Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 545. Literature of the Later Eighteenth Century.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 546. Literature of the Romantic Period.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 547. Literature of the Victorian Period.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 548. Literature of the Modern Period.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 549. Contemporary Literature.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 551. Colonial and Republican American Literature.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 552. Nineteenth Century American Literature.
Graduate standing. (3).
A survey of American literature from 1800 to 1860, the course is intended for newcomers to the field as well as for those wishing to lay the foundation for further study. The course examines a number of dilemmas and opportunities facing writers of this period, most notably developments such as the vexed relationship between cultural and racial identity in the formation of a "national character," the rise of sentimentalism in popular culture, and the impact of slavery on the literary imagination. Poetry by Whitman and Dickinson; prose by Tocqueville, Jacobs, and Emerson; fiction by Melville, Warner, Stowe, Hawthorne and others. Secondary readings in the current scholarship will also are assigned.
ENGLISH 553. Twentieth Century American Literature.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 560. Chaucer: The Major Texts.
Graduate standing. (3).
This is an introductory Chaucer course at the graduate level. We treat Chaucer's major works, focusing especially on the incomparable classical romance Troilus and Criseyde and the joys of variety in the Canterbury Tales. A few of the shorter poems also help us get a sense of Chaucer's poetic career as French, classical, and Italian materials were melded together into something new: serious, ambitious literature written in English. Historical, social, and literary backgrounds.
ENGLISH 561. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 562. Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde and the Minor Poems.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 563. Shakespeare: The Earlier Plays.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 564. Shakespeare: The Later Plays.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 565. Milton.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 569. Writing Workshop in Creative Non-Fiction.
This course is open to MFA students and students in other Graduate programs on campus. Permission of instructor. (3).
Students in this workshop will produce a substantial portfolio of their own nonfiction writing. Workshop strategies will include substantial critique of work in progress, and will include reading and discussion of published work in a variety of modes. This course is open to graduate students both within the MFA Program and without. Those not admitted to the MFA Program in Creative Writing must submit a brief writing sample (10-12 pages).
ENGLISH 570. Research in Composition.
Graduate standing. (3). (INDEPENDENT).
This course offers an introduction to Composition Studies, a capacious and interdisciplinary field that has its roots in pedagogy. Accordingly, we focus on the teaching of writing, beginning with our own experiences as writers, the writing of our students, and the relationship between what we do as readers and writers.
ENGLISH 571. Workshop in Writing Fiction.
MFA students only; permission of instructor. This course is only open to current MFA students. (6).
The graduate program in creative writing is a two-year program leading to the Master of Fine Arts degree. Students concentrate in either fiction or poetry. At the heart of the MFA program are the writing workshops, where students assemble as a community of writers to read and comment on one another's work in progress. In addition to their instructional role in the workshops, faculty are available for individual conferences throughout the two-year program, and for thesis instruction and consultation during the second year.
ENGLISH 572. Workshop in Writing Fiction.
MFA students only. English 571. (6).
ENGLISH 574. Workshop in Writing Poetry.
MFA students only; permission of instructor. (6).
The graduate program in creative writing is a two-year program leading to the Master of Fine Arts degree. Students concentrate in either fiction or poetry. At the heart of the MFA program are the writing workshops, where students assemble as a community of writers to read and comment on one another's work in progress. In addition to their instructional role in the workshops, faculty are available for individual conferences throughout the two-year program, and for thesis instruction and consultation during the second year.
ENGLISH 575. Workshop in Writing Poetry.
MFA students only; English 574. (6).
The aim of this course is to help everyone develop and improve as poets. The methods for engendering new, ambitious poetry will vary, but they might include any of the following: completing catalyst assignments suggested to me by aspects of your own work; reading assigned poetry; writing in response to selected works; composing an ars poetica; experimenting with form and content; reading in fields other than literature; and engaging with aesthetic questions pertinent to the national conversation.
ENGLISH 576. Playwriting.
Graduate standing and permission of instructor. (3).
ENGLISH 577. Independent Study-Creative Writing.
MFA students only; permission of instructor. (1-3). (INDEPENDENT).
In lieu of the workshop, fourth-semester MFA students receive six hours of independent study credit to enable them to concentrate on completion of the thesis project. Theses consist of a substantial body of poems, short stories, or portions of a novel.
ENGLISH 578. Creative Writing-Fiction.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 579. Creative Writing-Poetry.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 581. History of Film.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 583. Theory of Film.
Graduate standing. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.
ENGLISH 590. Independent Study for M.A. Students.
Graduate standing in English, English and Education, or Women's Studies, and permission of instructor. (1-3). (INDEPENDENT).
Directed readings or research in consultation with a member of the department faculty.
ENGLISH 614. Editing and the Creation of Texts.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 626. Marxism and Literature.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 627. Critical Theories and Cross-Cultural Literature.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 632. Topics in Drama.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 635. Topics in Poetry.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 637. Studies in the Novel.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 638. Topics in Fiction.
a 500 level course in fiction or the equivalent. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 640. Studies in Genre.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 641. Topics in the Medieval Period.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 642. Topics in the Renaissance.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 643. Topics in the Seventeenth Century.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 644. Topics in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 646. Topics in the Romantic Period.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 647. Topics in the Victorian Period.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 648. Topics in the Modern Period.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 649. Topics in Contemporary Literature.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 651. Topics in Colonial and Republican American Literature.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 652. Topics in Nineteenth Century American Literature.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 653. Topics in Twentieth Century American Literature.
Graduate standing. (3).
We will survey the critical history of a genre in American Literature of the 20th century, and explore interdisciplinary frameworks for understanding its significance; there will be a substantial amount of secondary reading. The class will proceed primarily by discussion, and students will have considerable range in designing their written projects.
ENGLISH 663. Studies in 16th Century Authors.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 667. Studies in 20th Century Authors.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 668. Studies in American Authors.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 671. Writing of Fiction-Second Year, Advanced.
MFA students only; English 572. (6).
ENGLISH 674. Writing of Poetry-Second Year, Advanced.
MFA students only; English 575. (6).
ENGLISH 675. Creative Writing Project.
MFA students only; English 671 or 674. (6).
ENGLISH 677. Language and the Uses of Literacy.
Graduate standing and permission of instructor. (3).
ENGLISH 678. Language and the Uses of Literacy.
Graduate standing and permission of instructor. (3).
ENGLISH 681. Studies in Film History.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 683. Studies in Film Theory.
Graduate standing. (3). Laboratory fee ($35) required.
ENGLISH 691 / LING 691 / COMM 691 / ANTHRCUL 674 / PSYCH 691 / ROMLANG 691 / EDUC 691. Literacy: Interdisciplinary Conversations.
Graduate standing. (3).
Opportunity for students to work with faculty from several disciplines in considering the nature and uses of literacy. While disciplinary specialization has sharpened the focus of our discussions about literacy, this specialization has left too little opportunity for intensive exchange across disciplines and across cultures, and literacy is an area that draws upon and contributes to many disciplines. This course focuses on developing a common language, agenda, and definition of issues in literacy that have been and need to be examined.
ENGLISH 693. Biblio & Methods Res.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 695. Pedagogy: Theory and Practice.
"English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. Students." Graduate standing. (3). This course is required of all 2nd year Language & Literature and English & Women's Studies gradaute students.
This two-semester course is designed to give students guidance, advice and support as they begin their teaching career. During the first term, the course addresses issues relevant to the job of teaching assistant. The second term is devoted to ongoing support, and to helping students prepare to teach their own course in the fall. One of the primary aims of the course is to provide students with a space to discuss anxieties and achievements, but the course also follows a structured program designed to focus on specific aspects of work in the classroom.
ENGLISH 696. Teaching English.
Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 720. Proseminar in Critical Theory or the History of Criticism.
Permission of instructor. English Lang. And Lit. and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 721. Proseminar in Critical Theory or the History of Criticism.
Permission of instructor. English Lang. And Lit. and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 730. Proseminar in a Literary Genre.
Permission of instructor. English Lang. And Lit. and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 731. Proseminar in a Literary Genre.
Permission of instructor. English Lang. And Lit. and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 740. Proseminar in the Literature of an Historical Period.
Permission of instructor. English Lang. And Lit. and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 741. Proseminar in the Literature of an Historical Period.
Permission of instructor. English Lang. And Lit. and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 750. Proseminar in American Literature.
Permission of instructor. English Lang. And Lit. and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 751. Proseminar in American Literature.
Permission of instructor. English Lang. And Lit. and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 780. Proseminar in a Comparative or Interdisciplinary Study.
Permission of instructor. English Lang. And Lit. and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 781. Proseminar in a Comparative or Interdisciplinary Study.
Permission of instructor. English Lang. And Lit. and Women's Studies students only. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 790. Psem Common Hour.
Graduate standing. (1).
ENGLISH 791. Psem Common Hour.
Engl. 790. (1).
ENGLISH 799. Departmental Colloquium.
"English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students." Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 802. Seminar: English Language.
"Graduate standing. English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students." (3).
ENGLISH 811. Seminar: Literary Research.
"English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students." Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 821. Seminar: Critical Theory.
English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 822. Seminar: Critical Theory.
English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students. Graduate standing. (3). May be repeated for credit.
ENGLISH 831. Seminar: The Study of Genre.
English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 832. Seminar: The Study of Genre.
English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 841. Seminar: An Historical Period.
English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students. Graduate standing. (3).
Seminar on a historical period.
ENGLISH 842. Seminar: An Historical Period.
English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 851. Seminar: American Literature.
English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 852. Seminar: American Literature.
"English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students." Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 861. Seminar: Authors.
"English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students." Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 862. Seminar: Authors.
"English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students." Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 871. Seminar: Rhetoric.
"English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students." Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 872. Seminar: Rhetoric.
"English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students." Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 881. Seminar: Comparative or Interdisciplinary Study.
"English Lang. And Lit., Women's Studies, and English and Ed. students." Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 882. Seminar: Comparative Literature.
Doctoral standing in English. Graduate standing. (3).
ENGLISH 990. Dissertation/Precandidate.
Election for dissertation work by doctoral student not yet admitted as a Candidate. Graduate standing. (1-8; 1-4 in the half-term). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit.
Election for dissertation work by doctoral student not yet admitted as a Candidate.
ENGLISH 992. Directed Study for Doctoral Students/Precandidate.
Graduate standing and permission of instructor. (1-3). (INDEPENDENT).
Designed for individual students who have an interest in a specific topic (usually that has stemmed from a previous course). An individual instructor must agree to direct such a reading, and the requirements are specified when approval is granted.
ENGLISH 993. Graduate Student Instructor Training Program.
Must have a Teaching Assistant award. Graduate standing. (1).
A seminar for all beginning graduate student instructors, consisting of a two day orientation before the term starts and periodic workshops/meetings during the Fall Term. Beginning graduate student instructors are required to register for this class.
ENGLISH 995. Dissertation/Candidate.
Graduate School authorization for admission as a doctoral Candidate. Graduate standing. (8; 4 in the half-term). (INDEPENDENT). May be repeated for credit.
Graduate School authorization for admission as a doctoral Candidate. N.B. The defense of the dissertation (the final oral examination) must be held under a full term Candidacy enrollment period.



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