Subject	Course Number	Long Course Title	Description
ENG	150	Literary Analysis	An introduction to the techniques of literary analysis through the detailed study of individual texts.
ENG	170	Shakespeare in London	Students will study several plays by William Shakespeare selected from among the current offerings by the Royal Shakespeare and other companies. Discussions will address the plays themselves, production techniques, and the audiences to whom they appeal. Students are required to attend performances of the plays under study. Offered at the London Center.
ENG	190	Tutorial Studies in English	Tutorial study in the literature of various periods, English and American, and in literary forms and composition. Intended primarily for juniors and seniors. Arrangements should be discussed with the department chair.
ENG	199	Independent Study in English	Advanced study, arranged in consultation with the department chair. Students considering an honors project should register for this course.
ENG	230	Major British Writers I	Intensive study of five or six major British authors from Chaucer to Swift. Emphasis on close reading and critical writing.
ENG	240	Major British Writers II	Intensive study of five or six major British authors from Wordsworth to Yeats. Emphasis on close reading and critical writing.
ENG	250	Major American Writers	Intensive study of major American authors from Cooper to Wallace Stevens. Emphasis on close reading and critical writing.
ENG	260	Survey of African American Literature	A survey of African American literature from slave narratives through contemporary literature. Readings include works by Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison.
ENG	270	Women's Literary History	An examination of how and why linear narratives of literary history have traditionally omitted or obscured women’s contributions. Topics will include the stereotypical links drawn between print and sexual promiscuity, as well as other factors that have impacted the roles that women have played in literary history.
ENG	350	Creative Writing: Non-Fiction	Practice in the writing of non-fictional prose.
ENG	360	Creative Writing: Fiction	Practice in the writing of short fiction.
ENG	370	Creative Writing: Poetry	Practice in the writing of poetry.
ENG	390	Tutorial Studies in English	Tutorial study in the literature of various periods, English and American, and in literary forms and composition. Intended primarily for juniors and seniors. Arrangements should be discussed with the department chair.
ENG	399	Independent Study in English	Advanced study, arranged in consultation with the department chair. Students considering an honors project should register for this course.
ENG	400	Satire	A study of the theory and practice of satiric writing. Readings in Ben Jonson, Pope, Swift, Gay, Byron, Waugh, West, Orwell, Heller, and others.
ENG	420	Studies in Medieval Literature	A study of Middle English literature and culture, focusing especially on the oral and performative dimensions of literature produced between 1300 and 1550.
ENG	425	Shakespeare	An introduction to Shakespeare’s plays and their literary, historical, and theatrical context.
ENG	430	Renaissance Literature	A selected study of poetry and prose in Sixteenth Century England. Readings will include Spenser's Faerie, Queene, and lyric poetry from Wyatt to Sidney.
ENG	435	Renaissance Drama	A study of eight to ten plays from the early modern period, excluding Shakespeare. Readings include Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton and Webster.
ENG	440	Milton and the 17th Century	A study of Donne and the metaphysical poets, the poetry and prose of Milton, and the poetry of Dryden. Emphasis on Milton.
ENG	445	Restoration and 18th-Century Comedy	A study of English comedies as reflections of changing taste and thought in the period 1660-1800. Authors include Wycherley, Etherege, Congreve, Farquhar, Steele, Fielding, Goldsmith, and Sheridan.
ENG	450	18th-Century Literature	A study of major works in satire, poetry, and fiction as reflections of 18th-century thought and taste. Readings in Swift, Defoe, Pope, Fielding, Samuel Johnson, and others.
ENG	455	Romanticism	A study of the period from 1790 to 1830, focusing on the development and elaboration of what we now call Romanticism. Readings in the major authors of the period: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley.
ENG	460	The Victorian Age	A study of the period from 1830 to 1900, focusing on poetry, fiction, and critical prose. Readings range widely, including selections from Carlyle, Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossettis, and Oscar Wilde.
ENG	465	The English Novel	A study of English fiction from 1740 to 1900. Readings include novels by Richardson, Burney, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy.
ENG	470	American Literature to the Civil War	A study of the ways early writers of America attempted to adapt “Old World” forms and styles to the “New World” — as they sought initially to compose and sustain themselves and gradually to constitute the United States of America in literary terms. Selected readings from the 17th and 18th centuries, followed by readings in Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville.
ENG	472	American Literature and the Civil War	A study of American literature of the Civil War era, including readings from the abolition movement as well as the texts, photography, and painting produced in response to the war. Selected readings from Douglass, Jacobs, Grant, Stowe, and Chesnutt, as well as poets such as Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, and Harper.
ENG	480	Modern British Fiction	A study of selected works of British fiction in relation to early 20th-century thought. Authors include Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Mansfield, Forster, Woolf, and others.
ENG	482	Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group	A study focused on the literature and art produced by the Bloomsbury Group, an early 20th-century London-based network of novelists, painters, economists, and philosophers that includes Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell, J. M. Keynes, and the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
ENG	483	American Autobiography	A study of prominent American autobiographies from the 19th and 20th centuries. The course will examine how autobiography responds to social, cultural, and aesthetic conditions and the relationship of the genre to the larger American literary tradition.
ENG	485	Modern Poetry	Consideration of principal tendencies in 20th-century poetry as illustrated in the work of representative authors, including Yeats, Eliot, H. D., Stevens, Williams, Moore, and others.
ENG	490	Modern Drama	Studies in some of the major playwrights in Europe, England, and America from the time of Ibsen to the present.
ENG	495	Modern American Fiction	A study of American fiction from the first half of the 20th century. Authors include Wharton, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Ellison, and others.
ENG	500	Contemporary American Fiction	A study of the two most prominent American literary movements since World War II, Postmodernism and Multiculturalism. Readings include the work of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Tim O’Brien, Philip Roth, Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, and Julia Alvarez, as well as selected films and short theoretical texts.
ENG	503	Contemporary American Poetry	Examination of selected works of American poetry with particular emphasis on the post-World War II era. The course will consider individual poets’ responses both to poetic traditions and to formal and thematic innovations of the 20th century.
ENG	507	Contemporary British and Post-Colonial Fiction	A survey of contemporary fiction in Britain, with an emphasis on the impact of post-colonial and multicultural writers and perspectives. Authors may include Chinua Achebe, Angela Carter, Keri Hulme, Hanif Kureishi, Patrick McCabe, V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Amos Tutuola, and Irvine Welsh.
ENG	510	Literature of the Harlem Renaissance	A study of poetry, fiction, and essays by African American writers from the era of World War I through the 1930s. Authors include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others.
ENG	515	Gender and Modernist British/American Literature	A study of the construction of gender in early 20th-century fiction and poetry. Authors include Cather, Woolf, Lawrence, Hemingway, Sassoon, and others.
ENG	525	Contemporary Critical Theory	A survey of important movements. Among the readings are selections by Derrida, Foucault, and Bakhtin as well as selections from more recent figures, such as Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, and bell hooks.
ENG	526	Feminist Literary Theory	This course will examine the historical origins, practical work, and contemporary methodologies of feminist literary theory. We will address why we need feminist literary theory; how it has met (or not) the complexities raised by recent issues in gender, sexuality, and women's studies; and whether or not feminist literary theory can accommodate the nonlinearity, inclusiveness, and flexibility that it demands.
ENG	527	History of the Book	To provide an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Book History, which should help students think more critically about the impact of material culture on intellectual activity. The course will be taught as a speaking intensive seminar, which means that students will frequently be responsible for presenting reading material and leading discussion in the first half of class.
ENG	530	The English Language	A study of the historical background of English and the sounds and structure of modern English.
ENG	550	Advanced Creative Writing: Nonfiction	A writing workshop for students with previous creative writing experience.
ENG	560	Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction	A workshop for students with previous fiction writing experience.
ENG	562	Advanced Creative Writing: Novel Writing	Course for students composing creative, book-length works of prose.
ENG	565	Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry	A workshop for students with previous poetry writing experience.
ENG	590	Tutorial Studies in English	Tutorial study in the literature of various periods, English and American, and in literary forms and composition. Intended primarily for juniors and seniors. Arrangements should be discussed with the department chair.
ENG	599	Independent Study in English	Advanced study, arranged in consultation with the department chair. Students considering an honors project should register for this course.
ENG	600	Senior Seminar in English	A seminar involving analysis of theoretical, historical, critical, and literary readings at an advanced level in conjunction with students' research and writing of an original, substantial paper. Each section of the seminar will focus on a theme that can accommodate variety in students' individual research projects.
ENG	690	Tutorial Studies in English	Tutorial study in the literature of various periods, English and American, and in literary forms and composition. Intended primarily for juniors and seniors. Arrangements should be discussed with the department chair.
ENG	699	Independent Study in English	Advanced study, arranged in consultation with the department chair. Students considering an honors project should register for this course.