English Department Courses by Level


Fall 2023 Courses

100-Level: Close Reading and Frequent Writing in Small Sections

120. Reading, Writing, and Teaching (Frank) [also EDST 120]

125. Representing Illness  (Bosman)

128. Introduction to Academic Writing: The Right to Read and Write (Reardon) [also EDST 128] [Writing Intensive]

180. Film and Writing  (Hastie)  [also FAMS 110]

192. Female Friendship (Myint)

200-Level: Foundation Courses in Literary, Film, and Cultural Studies, and in Creative Writing

219. Hybrid Forms (Sweeney)

221. Writing Poetry I  (Kapur)

224. Creative Nonfiction (Mysore)

226-01. Fiction Writing I  (Frank)

226-02. Fiction Writing I  (Myint)

238. Shakespeare (Bosman) (before 1800)

240. Reading Poetry (Sofield)

256. The Idea of Africa (Thiam)

260. Listening to Podcasts (Grobe)  [also FAMS 334]

270. Letter Writers and Epistolarity (B. Sánchez-Eppler)

280. Coming to Terms: Cinema (Guilford) [also FAMS 210]

284. Coming to Terms: Media (Rangan) [also FAMS 216]

291. Asian American and Pacific Islander Critiques (Saito)

293. How to Be Antiracist: Black Perspectives on Changing the World (Roberts)

300-Level: Topics in Film and Cultural Studies, Individual Authors, Literary History, Criticism, Theory, and Advanced Creative Writing

300-level courses have no prerequisites, and welcome both majors and non-majors from across the college.

304. Narratives of Suffering (Sanborn)

306. Advanced Poetry Workshop (Kapur)

308. Contemporary Latinx Literature  (Mireles Christoff)

339. Early Women Writers (Nelson & Worsley) (before 1800)

360. James Baldwin (Roberts) [also BLST 360]

380. Television Detection (Hastie) [also FAMS 382]

397. Abiayala: Activism and Literature (Brooks & Picq) [also AMST 387 and POSC 397]

400-Level: Seminars for Junior and Senior Majors. Independent Inquiry, Critical and Theoretical Issues, and Extensive Writing

These courses teach students the vital intellectual skills of how to frame a research question and conduct independent research. Majors might want to consider taking more than one of these challenging courses.

411. Eighteenth Century Literature and its Retellings (Worsley) (before 1800)

470. Decolonial Love (Mireles Christoff)

491. The Creole Imagination (Cobham Sander) [also BLST 461[CLA] and LLAS 461]

492. Creative Thesis Workshop  (Myint)

Related and Crosslisted Courses in Fall 2023:

FYSE. Language Crossing and Living in Translation (B. Sánchez-Eppler)

AMST 361. Remixing and Remaking: Adaptation in Contemporary Black Literature (Henderson) [also ENGL 276 and BLST 361]

AMST 368. Discipline and Defiance in Black Creative Expression (Henderson) [also ENGL 368 and BLST 368]

BLST 215. Music and Poetry of the African Diaspora (Bailey) [also ENGL 241]

BLST 339. Toni Morrison - Multi-Genre Exploration (Bailey) [also ENGL 361 and SWAG 338]

EUST 121. Readings in the European Tradition (Nelson) [also ENGL 121]

RELI 285. The Qu'ran and Its Controversies (Jaffer) [also ENGL 297]

RUSS 225. Vladimir Nabokov's Double Exile (Parker) [also ENGL 315]

SWAG 365. Reading the Romance (Shandilya) [also ENGL 372]


Spring 2024 Courses

100-Level: Close Reading and Frequent Writing in Small Sections

105. Engaging Literature (Sanborn)

108. Unlearning Media: True Crime (Rangan) [also FAMS 108]

114. Narratives of Migration (Kapur)

116. Literary Storms (Abramson)

117. Arthurian Literature (Nelson) (before 1800) [also EUST 117]

120. Reading, Writing, and Teaching (Reardon) [also EDST 120]

121. Writing the College Experience (Reardon) [also EDST 121]

200-Level: Foundation Courses in Literary, Film, and Cultural Studies, as well as in Creative Writing

213. Introduction to U.S. Black Literature and Culture (Roberts)

224. Creative Nonfiction (Yang)

229. The Fictions of Race (Yang)

232. Reading Drama (Bosman)

253. Modernists (Abramson)

281. Introduction to Film Histories (Hastie) [also FAMS 211]

296. Literature and the Nonhuman World (Sanborn)

300-Level: Topics in Film and Cultural Studies, Individual Authors, Literary History, Criticism, Theory, and Advanced Creative Writing

300-level courses have no prerequisites, and welcome both majors and non-majors from across the college.

324. Writing Poetry II (Kapur)

326-01. Fiction Writing II (Myint)

326-02. Fiction Writing II (Sweeney)

352. Reading Land, Writing Waters (Brooks) [also AMST 355]

385. Writing Together: Film and Feminist Collectivity (Hastie) [also FAMS 308 and SWAG 309]

388. Screenwriting (E. Sanders)  [also FAMS 240]

396. Theater and Dramatic Theory (Roberts)

400-Level: Seminars for Junior and Senior Majors. Independent Inquiry, Critical and Theoretical Issues, and Extensive Writing

These courses teach students the vital intellectual skills of how to frame a research question and conduct independent research. Majors might want to consider taking more than one of these challenging courses.

435. The Play of Ideas (Grobe) [also THDA 335]

441. Medieval and Renaissance Luric (Nelson) (before 1800) [also EUST 374]

471. Time, Memory and Ghosts in Post-dictatorial Narratives (Myint)

487. Postwar American Cinema (Guilford) [also FAMS 425]

496. Literary and Critical Theory  (Bosman)

Related and Crosslisted Courses in Spring 2024:

BLST 203. Women Writers of Africa and the African Diaspora (Bailey) [also ENGL 216 and SWAG 203]

COLQ 328. Keystone Kin (Brooks)

SWAG 279. Global Women's Literature (Shandilya) [also BLST 202 and ENGL 379]