printer friendly pageENGLISH 160: Poetry and Poetics
Introduction to the reading of poetry, with emphasis on how the sense of poems is shaped through diction, imagery, and technical elements of verse.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Boland, E. (PI)
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Grey, K. (PI)
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Jenkins, N. (PI)
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Law, A. (PI)
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Boland, E. (PI)
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Grey, K. (PI)
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Jenkins, N. (PI)
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Law, A. (PI)
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Molyneux, F. (PI)
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Rovee, C. (PI)
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Sensenbaugh, J. (PI)
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Yamboliev, I. (PI)
ENGLISH 161: Narrative and Narrative Theory
An introduction to stories and storytelling--that is, to narrative. What is narrative? When is narrative fictional and when non-fictional? How is it done, word by word, sentence by sentence? Must it be in prose? Can it be in pictures? How has storytelling changed over time? Focus on various forms, genres, structures, and characteristics of narrative.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Ammah-Tagoe, A. (PI)
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Barnhart, L. (PI)
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Hooper, H. (PI)
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Johnson, A. (PI)
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Instructors:
Ammah-Tagoe, A. (PI)
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Barnhart, L. (PI)
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Hooper, H. (PI)
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Johnson, A. (PI)
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Landry, N. (PI)
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Moya, P. (PI)
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Tevel, A. (PI)
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Woloch, A. (PI)
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Barnhart, L. (TA)
ENGLISH 162: Critical Methods
Introduction to the different intellectual models which help us explain and interpret literary texts, genres, and movements.
Terms: Win, Spr
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
ENGLISH 163A: Shakespeare's Tragedies
Shakespeare's tragedies occupy a unique place in Western culture. Readings include
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, and
Anthony and Cleopatra, considering the theatrical and non-theatrical sources, staging tradition, historical context, and critical issues such as gender, sexuality, race and class. Plus a look at more recent stagings and adaptations of these plays to see how modern directors are interpreting these works.
Terms: Sum
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Kimbrell, G. (PI)
ENGLISH 163B: The Other Shakespeare
Reading and discussion of six less familiar Shakespeare plays:
Henry IV Part 1, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter¿s Tale, and
The Tempest. Material covered will include dramatic and poetic analysis, cultural and social history, stage history, and performance.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Kimbrell, G. (PI)
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Orgel, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 164: Senior Seminar
Small-class format focused on the close reading of literary texts and analysis of literary criticism. This class answers the questions: How do literary critics do what they do? What styles and gambits make criticism vibrant and powerful? Goal is to examine how one goes about writing a lucid, intelligent, and convincing piece of literary criticism based on original research.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Bender, J. (PI)
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Castle, T. (PI)
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Elam, M. (PI)
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Jarvis, C. (PI)
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Elam, M. (PI)
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Jarvis, C. (PI)
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Instructors:
Bender, J. (PI)
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Castle, T. (PI)
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Elam, M. (PI)
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Jarvis, C. (PI)
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Johnson, A. (PI)
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Ngai, S. (PI)
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Putnam, P. (PI)
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Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
Elam, M. (PI)
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Jarvis, C. (PI)
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Johnson, A. (PI)
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Ngai, S. (PI)
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Putnam, P. (PI)
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Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
ENGLISH 167B: Stories of Revenge
Stories of revenge continue to exert their magnetic pull on us, even as vengeance itself is no longer that familiar. What is it about revenge that makes for good story-telling? What questions do stories of revenge raise about justice, society and the individual. How do literary conceptions of revenge evolve over time. Traveling from the realms of religious and legal retribution to those of fantasy, we will think about how such stories are told (what makes for an effective narrative; how protagonists are depicted; what motivates revenge; what makes revenge `successful¿) but we will also think about what these stories are meant to do to us. Do they teach and if so, how? Can stories themselves exact vengeance. Are they part of the process of doing justice?
Terms: Sum
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Janiszewska, H. (PI)
ENGLISH 167D: Crimes and Clues: Detective Fiction
Detective fiction, classic or mass-market paperback, keeps us on the edge of our seats¿we want to know who committed the crime, what the motivation was, and how the detective is going to solve it. In this course, we will think critically about how suspense works by investigating the structures of detective stories, the expectations we have as readers, and the ways in which authors have played with those expectations. How do different works portray crime, and what¿s at stake in seeing it solved and restoring order? Starting with the earliest nineteenth-century forms¿Edgar Allen Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle¿we will trace the development of detective fiction up to the present day television franchise
Law & Order, and consider how television, journalism, and film have adapted and changed the genre.
Terms: Sum
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Richardson, B. (PI)
ENGLISH 172: Modern Indian Literature
Engagement with the various vernacular and Anglophone literary traditions of modern India. What is gained, and what is lost for the large and complex phenomenon of modern Indian literature, when its most visible representative, Anglophone fiction, threatens to overshadow the rest and sits easy with the new image of rise and growth that engulfs the nation and its diaspora today? Texts by Dutt, Chatterjee, Tagore, Devi, Premchand, Verma, Sobti, Manto, Murthy, Ambai, Narayan, Rao, Ezekiel, Lal, Ghosh, Rushdie, and others.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Majumdar, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 172D: Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (ANTHRO 33, CSRE 196C, PSYCH 155, SOC 146, TAPS 165)
How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Brody, J. (PI)
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Fullwiley, D. (PI)
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