Undergraduate Courses
(Last updated: 06/30/2009)

Please note that when a course is marked (Brit Lit Pre-1700), it means the course fulfills the British literature pre-1700 with some coverage of Medieval requirement for English majors. Such courses offered this semester include: ENGL 201 British Writers I

Please note that when a course is marked (Brit lit 1700-1900), it means the course fulfills the British literature 1700-1900 requirement for English majors. Such courses offered this semester include: ENGL 358 The Romantic Poets, ENGL 359 Victorian Imagination, ENGL 469 Victorian Monstrosity, ENGL 491KK 18th-Century Institution & Revolution.

Please note that when a course is marked (2nd Am Lit), it means the course fulfills the second American Literature English major requirement. Such courses offered this semester include: ENGL 272 American Romanticism, ENGL 279 Introduction to American Studies, ENGL 300-L2 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: Race, Literacy & the American Dream, ENGL 300-L3 Junior-YEar Seminar in English Studies: Hawthorne & Melville, ENGL 376 American Fiction, ENGL 491OO The National Imaginary: Literature & Politics in the Early Republic.

Please note that when a course is marked (Jr-Yr Writing), it means the course fulfills the Writing & Criticism/Junior-Year Writing requirement for English majors. Such courses offered this semester are: ENGL 300-L1 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: To Read a City: London in the 20th Century, ENGL 300-L2 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: Race, Literacy, & the American Dream, ENGL 300-L3 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: Hawthorne & Melville, ENGL 300H-L1 Honors Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: Introduction to Transnational Literature, ENGL 419H Honors Games Thinkers Play.

THE FALL 2009 CLASSES OFFERED THAT MEET ENGLISH REQUIREMENTS

Please click on link in read above for a quick-to-hand quide of the fall 2009 classes and the English requirements they fulfill.

Fall 2009 List of English Courses:

English 115 American Experience (ALU) 33262
Lecture 1 MWF 11:15 AM-12:05 PM Instructor: D. Biegelson

This is an introductory American Studies course for non-majors, introducing students to the inter-disciplinary study of American culture. Historical in scope, ranging from the 17th - to the 20 th - centuries, this course draws on a core body of American Studies materials supplemented by recent works, including fiction, prose, poetry, painting, photography, film, the natural and built environment. Approaches to diverse cultural experiences in the United States include the experience of work, travel, landscape and the environment, individualism and community.

English 115H Honors American Experience (ALU) 39059
Lecture 1 MW 4:40-5:55 pm Instructor: M. Lowance
Commonwealth College students only. This is a 4-credit Honors course. The course will examine the literature of the antebellum slavery debates in nineteenth-century America in A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America , 1776-1865 ( Princeton , 2003) and through the voices of the slave narrators Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs. Biblical proslavery and antislavery arguments, economic discourse, the conflict of writers and essayists like Emerson and Thoreau, Whitman and Lowell, James Kirke Paulding, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mary Eastman combine with scientific arguments and Acts of Congress relating to slavery to provide the historical background for examinations of the issues surrounding slavery. The seminar will also examine the abolitionist writings of William Lloyd Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, and the New York Abolitionists Arthur and Lewis Tappan and Gerrit Smith. Four literary works will be studied in detail: Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin , Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson , and Morrison's Beloved , all of which represent approaches to the legacy of slavery. We will consider minstrel stereotyping, the sentimental novel as a vehicle for abolitionist arguments, and the rhetorical strategies of each of theses texts. 

English 116 Native American Literature (ALU) 39966
Lecture 1 MWF 11:15-12:05 pm Instructor L. Furlan
This course will introduce students to a variety of work by American Indian authors, including traditional oral literature, autobiography, poetry, and fiction. We will discuss what makes a text "Indian," how and why a major boom in Native American writing occurred in the late 1960s, how oral tradition is incorporated into contemporary writing, and how geographic place and tribal affiliation influence the work. We will also survey current theoretical trends in the study of American Indian literature, including debates about aesthetics and literary nationalism. Authors will include N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, and Susan Power, among others.

English 117 Ethnic American Literature (ALU) 33267
Lecture 1 MWF 2:30-3:20 pm Instructor: E. Fortier
American literature written by and about ethnic minorities, from the earliest immigrants through the cultural representations in modern American writing.

English 117 Ethnic American Literature (ALU) 40182
Lecture 2 TTH 8:00-9:15 AM Instructor: J. Hans

English 120 English Composition 33133
Lecture 1 MWF 10:10-11:00 am Instructor: L. Bradley
Stockbridge students only. English 120 is the writing requirement for undergraduates in the Stockbridge School . It gives practice in the persuasive techniques of expository writing and shows their usefulness in both academic and business contexts.

English 120 English Composition 33134
Lecture 2 MWF 11:15 am-12:05 pm Instructor: L. Bradley
Stockbridge students only.

English 120 English Composition 33135
Lecture 3 MWF 1:25-2:15 pm Instructor: L. Bradley
Stockbridge students only.

English 131 Society and Literature (ALG) 33136
Lecture 1 MWF 1:25-2:15 pm Instructor: T. Zajac
Butterfield RAP Freshman students only.

English 131 Society and Literature (ALG) 33137
Lecture 2 MWF 2:30-3:20 pm Instructor: J. Landis
Van Meter RAP Freshman students only.

English 131 Society and Literature (ALG)
Lecture 3 TTH 8:00-9:15 AM Instructor V. Gramling

English 132 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 33204
Lecture 1 M/W 4:40-5:30 pm + discussion section Instructor: R. Mordecai
This course will examine how gender and sexuality have been imagined and re-imagined in contemporary writing from Africa and the Americas . What does it mean, according to writers from specific places at specific times, to be a man? A woman? To fall in love? To seek a mate? To make a home? To raise a child? Our aim is both to appreciate the literature on its own terms, and to investigate how the literature interacts with the world: how do texts reinforce what we already "know" about gender and sexuality, and how do they trouble our existing assumptions? Authors may include Assia Djebar, Junot Diaz, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, Jamaica Kincaid, Naguib Mahfouz, and Nalo Hopkinson.

This course will be taught as a large lecture using SPARK. An important component of the class will be students' regular attendance at, and engaged participation in, discussion sections. Assignments will include reader-response papers, two 5-page essays, a midterm, and a final examination. Discussion section required.
132 Disc 1 TH 9:30-10:20 am Instructor: C. Bondus 33205
132 Disc 2 TH 2:30-3:20 pm Instructor: C. Bondus 33206
132 Disc 3 TH 9:30-10:20 am Instructor: A. Lanham 33207
132 Disc 4 TH 11:15-12:05 pm Instructor: A. Lanham 33212
132 Disc 5 TH 1:00-1:50 pm Instructor: R. Shakuntala 33208
132 Disc 6 TH 2:30-3:20 pm Instructor: R. Shakuntala 33209
132 Disc 7 TH 9:30-10:20 am Instructor: Y. Chung 33210
132 Disc 8 TH 11:15-12:05 pm Instructor: Y. Chung 33211
132 Disc 9 TH 1:00-1:50 pm Instructor: P. Williams 33213
132 Disc 10 TH 11:15-12:05 pm Instructor: P. Williams 33214
132 Disc 11 TH 1:00-1:50 pm Instructor: A. Carr 33215

English 141 Reading Poetry (AL) 39967
Lecture 1 MWF 3:35-4:25 pm Instructor: L. Ladwig
An introduction to themes and forms of poetry through a reading of selected poems in English. Emphasis on such poetic techniques as word choice, imagery, and structure, and on such modes as the ballad, lyric, sonnet, ode, and dramatic monologue.

English 144 World Literature in English (ALG) 33261
Lecture 1 MWF 10:10-11:00 am Instructor: T. Watt
An introduction to themes and forms of poetry through a reading of selected poems in English. Emphasis on such poetic techniques as word choice, imagery, and structure, and on such modes as the ballad, lyric, sonnet, ode, and dramatic monologue.

English 200 Seminar in Literary Studies 33139
Lecture 1 MW 4:40-5:55 pm Instructor: E. Gallo
English majors only. Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. College Writing with a grade of  "B" or better better (students who received a waiver for College Writing, please contact department to add course). Students must receive a grade of  "B-" or higher in ENGL 200 to proceed in the English major.

English 200 Intensive Seminar in Literary Studies 33140
Lecture 2 MW 4:40-5:55 pm Instructor: T. Russworm
English majors only. Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. College Writing. This is the required, introductory, course to majoring in English at the University of Massachusetts , Amherst . It is designed to introduce students to the basic critical thinking and writing skills that are needed for succeeding in the major. During this semester students will become familiar with key terms for literary studies, literary conventions, and the critical appreciation of various genres and forms. This is also a writing-intensive course that provides ample opportunity to hone close analytical skills while also teaching majors how to present persuasive academic arguments in writing. We will read fiction, short fiction, poetry, and drama from Flannery O'Connor, Al Young, Carson McCullers, James Baldwin, August Wilson, Sherman Alexie, and Don DeLillo. Multiple short writing assignments, close reading reflection logs, two papers, and active class participation and discussion will be required.

English 200 Intensive Seminar in Literary Studies 33141
Lecture 3 MW 4:40-5:55 pm Instructor: J. Freeman
English TAP majors only. Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. College Writing with a grade of  "B" or better better (students who received a waiver for College Writing, please contact department to add course). We will begin by studying poetry and then move on to short fiction. Much discussion, close reading of works, and papers. Possible reading list: a booklet of love poetry; lives of medieval saints; Boccaccio, Decameron ; Poe tales; Sherlock Holmes adventures; Hemingway short stories. Students must receive a grade of "B-" or higher in ENGL 200 to proceed in the English major.

English 200 Intensive Seminar in Literary Studies 33142
Lecture 4 TU/TH 11:15 am-12:30 pm Instructor: TBA
Course description not available at this time.  

English 200 Intensive Seminar in Literary Studies 33254
Lecture 5 TU/TH 11:15 am-12:30 pm Instructor: S. Clingman
English majors only. Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW.  This course will be an introduction to the ways in which we read literature, think about it, and write about it. Much of the world as we know it is mediated through words, images and sounds. Our focus will be on the relatively formal but also remarkably disparate institution known as literature-how we approach the world through it, but also how it constitutes the world for us, and (perhaps surprisingly) us in relation to the world. We'll be reading poetry, drama, and fiction from a range of periods, cultures and settings. My aim, in setting up the course, is for students to experience the dynamic pleasures and challenges of literature, and respond actively as readers and writers. The idea is to hone analytical skills, as well as develop a broad range in aesthetic, formal, social and cultural terms.

English 200 Intensive Seminar in Literary Studies 39600
Lecture 6 T/Th 1:00-2:15 pm Instructor: N. Bromell
English majors only. This course aims to be a lively introduction to the kind of thinking we do when we work with literary texts (instead of reading them for the sheer pleasure of it). We will spend most of our time practicing this kind of thinking, and learning the skills it requires and produces. Some of our work will be quite conventional (for example, learning how to write clear, analytical prose that advances an argument); but we will also learn experimentally and experientially, through in-class performance and creative writing.  This is a rigorous, demanding course. Come prepared to work hard.

The course should also serve as an opportunity for you to assess this particular kind of thinking before you commit to becoming an English major. We will repeatedly ask ourselves why it might be worthwhile to work with literary texts rather than just reading them for fun: what might this work do for you personally, and what might it do in the world? What is "art," and what kinds of art can words make?

We will read a variety of texts in a range of genres, but we will read deeply in relatively few texts rather than aiming for coverage of the field as a whole. Texts will include stories by Chekhov, a selection of poems, and The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.

English 200H Honors Intensive Seminar in Literary Studies 39090
Lecture 1 T/Th 9:30-10:45 am Instructor: TBA
Course description not available at this time. 

English 201 Major British Writers I 33187
Lecture 1 T/Th 11:15-12:30 pm Instructor: A. Zucker
English majors only. Prerequisite: English 200 with a grade of "B-" or better. An introduction to English literature written between the Anglo-Saxon period and the middle of the 17th century. We will chart out our own literary history by examining the shared elements and innovations of a wide range of texts and authors. Beowulf, the Canterbury Tales , Elizabethan love sonnets, Milton's great Paradise Lost , and the drama of Shakespeare and his predecessors will be a few of our touchstones. Special emphasis on the social and historical resonance of different forms: epic, lyric, drama, and others. Two papers, occasional informal written responses, and a midterm exam.

English 221 Shakespeare ( AL ) 33143
Lecture 1 T/Th 2:30-3:20 pm Instructor: A. Zucker
A survey that covers Shakespeare's entire career, from early, sensationally bloody works like Titus Andronicus to the meditative late plays like Cymbeline and The Tempest. Along the way, we'll investigate the language, the structure, and the elaborate plotting of some of the most famous (and infamous) works ever written in English. Special focus given to Shakespeare's revealing explorations of the interplay between family, political hierarchies, and sexuality; his interest in distant settings and peoples; and, perhaps most importantly, his attempts to dramatize the struggle of individuals to make sense of the worlds in which they live. Through careful reading and discussion, we will work towards an understanding of why plays that seem so removed from our day-to-day concerns have remained powerfully relevant for four hundred years. Two essays, a mid-term and a final exam. Attendance at lecture and consistent participation in discussion sections required.  Discussion section required.
221 Disc 1 F 10:10-11:30 am Instructor: M. Conine 33144
221 Disc 2 F 11:15-12:05 pm Instructor: M. Conine 33145
221 Disc 3 F 1:25-2:15 pm Instructor: P. Palmer 33146
221 Disc 4 F 2:30-3:20 pm Instructor: P. Palmer 33147

English 254 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature ( AL ) 33148
Lecture 1 MWF 11:15-12:05 pm Instructor: R. Pinches
Analysis of issues of form, elements of genre, style, and development of themes of stories and poems, written by class members and in class texts.

English 254 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature ( AL ) 33149
Lecture 2 MWF 10:10-11:00 am Instructor: L. Goebel

English 254 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature ( AL ) 40166
Lecture 3 TTH 8:00-9:15 AM Instructor: B. Foley

English 254H Honors Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature ( AL ) 33199
Lecture 1 T/Th 2:30-3:45 pm Instructor: M. Young
Open to students in the Creativity Honors RAP program only.

English 270 American Identities ( AL ) 33151
Lecture 1 T/Th 9:30-10:45 am Instructor: H. Phan
This course explores the various ways in which literature has contributed to the broader cultural definitions of American identity. As a generalist course, its emphases will be on historical breadth, and on the role of literature in cultural and historical understanding. Readings will focus on the historically shifting definitions of American identity, as they were transformed by debates over nationhood and nationalism, slavery and freedom, immigration and citizenship, and by forms of social identification such as class, race, and gender.
270 Disc 1 Th 11:15 -12:05 am Instructor: D. Fraser 33216
270 Disc 2 Th 2:30 - 3:20 pm Instructor: D. Fraser 33217
270 Disc 3 Th 1:00 -1:50 pm Instructor: R. Lahti 33218
270 Disc 4 Th 11:15 - 12:05 am Instructor: R. Lahti 33219
270 Disc 5 Th 2:30 - 3:20 pm Instructor: J. Burrell 33220
270 Disc 6 Th 1:00 – 1:50 pm Instructor: J. Burrell 33221

English 273 American Realism 33230
Lecture 1 T/TH 1:00-2:15 pm Instructor: R. Knoper
The topic of this course-American fiction of the late nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries-reflected, and arguably shaped, an incredibly turbulent era. There were multiple economic downturns and depressions, the emergence of huge divides between the rich and the poor, rapid development of consumer capitalism and mass entertainment, stunning urban growth and chaos, immigration in a volume matched only recently, controversial imperialist adventures, revolutions in science and technology, post-Reconstruction struggles to redefine a racial order, unsettling changes in the roles of women-and more. The literature of the time, some of it called "realist" and "naturalist," attempted to comprehend these changes at the same time that it registered and tried to understand accompanying changes in consciousness and self-formation. How was the self redefined in relation to commodities and in the act of shopping? How was it reconceived in relation to newly sharp social divisions? How could a writer depict the shock and spectacle of walking the city streets? How was being human-and the relation between humans and animals-transformed in light of Darwin 's work? How might new psychologies-of multiple selves, physiological and dynamic explanations for consciousness, supposed differences between the minds of men and women, new conceptions of trauma and mental disease-be literarily depicted? We will be looking at the ways new literary styles and the novel form gave shape to new psychic forms-what we might call emergent forms of (post)modern selfhood. Some of the authors we probably will be reading are: W. D. Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, Zitkala-Sa, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, Charles Chesnutt, Frank Norris, Owen Wister, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather .

English 298A Practicum: Shakespeare on Film 33197
Lecture 1 M 6:30- 9:00 pm Instructor: A. Zucker
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. This series screens classic Shakespeare performances, one film each week. 1 credit. Requirements: attendance.

English 298B Practicum: Literary Classics on Film 33198
Lecture 1 W 6:30-9:00 pm Instructor: K. Farrell
Great Novels on Film. This is a 1 credit film series presenting adaptations of great Victorian novels, and especially useful for English majors. Mandatory Pass/Fail course.  One film each week.  1 credit.  Requirements: attendance.

English 300 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies - Junior Year Writing 33227 Lecture 1 T/TH 1:00-2:15 pm Instructor: J Black
History of the Book . Senior and Junior English majors. This course offers an overview of the history of books and reading from the ancient world through to the present. We will survey how books were made in different eras, and will explore the changing cultural roles of books. We will also explore such questions as: what is an author? what is a text? what is "the history of the book" as a field of study? The course will involve hands-on work with books and manuscripts from different eras, and trips to special collections and print shops. Students will have a choice of a wide variety of different kinds of assignments, including creative ones. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

English 300 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies - Junior Year Writing 33232 Lecture 2 T/TH 2:30-3:45 pm Instructor: R Knoper
Darwinism and American Literature The course will be an investigation, first, of American literature in the wake of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man , with a focus on later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction. Darwin 's impact on every dimension of U. S. culture was of course tremendous. His work profoundly challenged a religious culture and its ideas of humanity, progress, and the meaning of life. And his ideas were quickly enlisted to support a host of (often contradictory) social and political ideologies. How did American authors grapple with Darwinism? How did they represent or imaginatively transform ideas of evolution and heredity? How did they treat ideas about the continuities between human beings and animals--in their consciousness, mental faculties, emotions, and "social instincts"? How was their writing affected by evolutionary ideas about the progress of civilization, or about the "nature" (and, often, the presumably retarded development) of women, nonwhite races, "savages," and criminals? Those are some of the questions this course will engage. Second, as an Advanced Seminar for Junior Year Writing, the course will consider the reasons for and ways of asking such questions. What is the relation of literature to intellectual history? What are the current practices of interdisciplinary study and "cultural studies" that may shape the way we investigate relations between literature and its contexts? What might be the reasons for looking at such issues in literature ? That is, can literature give us some special purchase on these questions, something that the discourse of science does not? And what might be the benefits of this kind of historical study? Amidst the current resurgence of Darwinist thinking--sociobiology, arguments about race and intelligence, explanations of our mating practices in terms of "reproductive success"--is reading century-old literature enlightening? We will be reading Darwin , of course, and some of his Victorian interpreters, and fiction by Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Jack London, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

English 300 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies - Junior Year Writing 33233 Lecture 3 T/Th 2:30-3:45 pm Instructor: S. Clingman
Junior and Senior English majors only. Prerequisite: English 200 with a grade of "B-" or better. South African Literature & Politics . This course will be a study of some of the major moments and texts in South African literature, ranging from the colonial period, to the apartheid era, to the post-apartheid decade since Nelson Mandela's first democratically elected government in 1994. In this setting South African literature has kept the pulse of its society, registering the lived experience and telling the "inner history" of these years. In this context we'll read a variety of works by writers both black and white, male and female, in the genres of fiction, drama and poetry, to gain a sense of how writing works in such circumstances and what its struggles and significance might be. Some of it may be surprising: not only the need to be political, but also to deepen what the "political" means through the specificities of writing; not only the question of race but how this is complicated by gender and other issues. We'll also gain a sense of the extraordinary cultural and social range of South African literature-of its voices, views and perspectives, the possibilities, complexities and challenges of a new society in the making. Authors will include Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee (both Nobel Prize winners), Athol Fugard, Mongane Serote and other poets of the 1970s, as well as Njabulo Ndebele and a more recent generation of writers, such as Sindiwe Magona, Zoe Wicomb, Zakes Mda, and some very exciting poets of the current era. Classes will involve some lecturing, much discussion, and of course reading and writing.

English 300 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies - Junior Year Writing 33234 Lecture 4 T/TH 11:15-12:30 pm Instructor: H. Phan
American Literature in the Age of Emancipation. Through close study of key literary texts from the period 1829-1865, this course will explore the transformations of modern America set in motion by the mid-nineteenth century Union crisis.  While we will read a range of texts, the course will focus on the writings of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville.  The guiding lines of inquiry for this course will be: How did their writings engage with the radical changes and retrenchments occurring in that period called "the American 1848"?  How did their writings imagine alternatives to dominant understandings of social, civic, and national identities?  In addition to studying their representations of their world, and their imaginations of alternatives, we will approach their writings as themselves representative of changes in the modern American cultural imagination: changes in interpretive practices, rhetorical strategies, and models of subjectivity and personhood.  Through supplementary readings in modern criticism and theory, the course will introduce students to various critical models and reading practices. Readings will include Douglass, Narrative of the Life, The Heroic Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, and selected speeches; Melville, Moby Dick; The Confidence Man, Billy Budd, and selected short fiction and poetry.

English 300 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies - Junior Year Writing 39918
Lecture 5 MWF 1:25-2:15 pm Instructor: L. Furlan
Growing Up Ethnic. This course will focus on ethnic American coming-of-age stories, examining how they narrate the experience of assimilation, the construction of identity, the liminal state between childhood and adulthood, and the crossing of boundaries. Themes pertinent to our discussion include the influences of nation, family, class, sexuality, violence, memory, and history in the maturation process of ethnic protagonists. We will discuss issues of representation, authenticity, and cultural tourism in multicultural writing. We will also theorize about the reworking of the bildungsroman, or novel of development, in twentieth-century multicultural literature. Authors will include James Baldwin, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros, and Lan Cao, among others.

English 319 Representing the Holocaust 33180
Lecture 1 TU 2:30-3:45 pm Instructor: J. Young
No description on file.
319 Disc 1 Th 1:00-2:15 pm Instructor: J. Young 33181
319 Disc 2 Th 2:30-3:45 pm Instructor: R. Nurick 33182
319 Disc 3 Th 1:00-2:15 pm Instructor: R. Nurick 33183
319 Disc 4 Th 11:15-12:30 pm Instructor: J. Dyer-Spiegel 33184
319 Disc 5 Th 9:30-10:45 am Instructor: J. Dyer-Spiegel 33185

English 329H Honors Tutoring Writing: Theory & Practice 39094
Lecture 1 MW 10:10-11:00 am Instructor: H. Hoang
Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. College Writing 112 or 113 with a grade of "B" or better. Admission by permission of professor. This course prepares students for a tutoring internship in the University Writing Center .  Students will be introduced to research on writing processes, disciplinary writing norms, and diverse cultural literacies.  By looking at writing as a situated and social act, we will investigate how writing is impacted by local contexts of the writing act and writer, the wider cultural context, and the assumptions about literate behavior embedded in such contexts.  After the sixth week of the semester, students will tutor two hours per week in the University Writing Center .  The goal of the course is for students to develop a tutoring philosophy that is based in writing research and also addresses diverse writers and texts.  Note: English 329H is the first half of a one-year commitment to the University Writing Center ; those receiving a grade of "B" or higher are invited to register for the spring semester English 298H (a practicum for writing tutors).

English 350 Expository Writing 39099
Lecture 1 T/TH 2:30-3:45 pm Instructor: L. Dich
Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. . Attempts to persuade appear everywhere as individuals, groups, and organizations use language to shape their own ideas, change people's minds, and move people to action: Websites, speeches, academic arguments, graffiti, blogs, editorials, advertising, poetry, letters. Citizens, Sierra Club, NAACP, Republication Party, Stonewall Center, Microsoft, United Farm Workers Union, student groups, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh. In this course, you'll collect and analyze a range of kinds of persuasion as they appear in a range of settings, considering the forms persuasion takes, who uses it, and what ends it serves. You will also create your own arguments, composed in a range of forms.

By the end of the course, you should be better able to analyze rhetorically how verbal persuasion works and better able to compose your own arguments to accomplish your aims with others. I hope we will all have a better sense of how persuasion works in civic forums and how we might participate in those forums. Assignments will include rhetorical analysis of an argument, as well as writing three persuasive pieces and shorter writings analyzing and experimenting with persuasive strategies.

English 354 Creative Writing: Introduction to Poetry 33155
Lecture 1 T/TH 9:30-10:45 am Instructor: B. Kopel
Prerequisite: English 200 with a grade of "B" or better.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things
that lie buried deep in my heart. – Anne Frank

 We will be reading both the assigned texts and each other's writing with an eye
for interpretation rather than criticism. The writing assignments are designed
to work with each writer as an individual and to help nurture each student's
individual aesthetic. Assigned reading will be used as a springboard for class
discussion and stylistic ideas to steal and make your own. Topics discussed will
include [but are not limited to]: The New York School, magical realism,
dystopian futures, sestinas, clichés, post-punk, early 20th century French
poets, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, cut-up, Neutral Milk Hotel, memory,
bildungsroman [trust me, you already know what it is], trout, ekphrasis, haiku,
etc.

Grading will be determined by class participation and preparation, attendance,
and attitude. The prerequisites for this course are honesty, bravery, and a
sense of humor. Students will be expected to turn in a portfolio of revised work
and take part in a reading at the end of the semester.

English 354 Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction 33156
Lecture 2 MWF 10:10-11:00 am Instructor: J. Mar
There is a long history of artists who dissent. In 1917 Marcel Duchamp submitted a porcelain urinal to a New York artist exhibition. He turned the urinal ninety degrees and signed his name. Robert Rauschenberg slipped a tire over a stuffed goat, Jackson Pollack dribbled paints. As for writers, Lorrie Moore wrote a story in the form of a How-To Manual while Theresa Hak Kyung Cha shaped her poems after ghosts. Donald Barthelme refused to climax…There is a long history of artists who dissent, but what should we make of these acts? Are they purely criminal? Are they art for art's sake? Or is there a logic, a craft, behind such acts of disobedience?

In this course traditional forms of creating writing will serve as a platform for our departure. We'll tread slowly and carefully the territories of conventional fiction. We'll spend the first unit of this course learning the basic elements: character, plot, point of view, voice, theme, time. But after we acquaint ourselves with these elements we will begin our dissent by studying the art of criminals. In the second and third unit, we will look at various forms of disobedience, from the simple comma splice and fragment to the opening of form and the flooding of negative space. We will consider the relevance of haiku, painting, architecture and music notation in writing fiction; we will look to new essays, short stories, films, “pop” and perhaps even taste (yes, food!) to re-imagine the craft. Then we'll peek at the secret relationship between verse and prose, and spend some time exploiting elements of poem: image, line, language, music, form. All the while we will experiment with different forms and genres in the creation of our own works.

The pieces that we read in class are not meant to be models of what fiction should be, but sources of inspiration for what art can be. We will learn that writing is about revision; that art is not an object but a series of choices an author makes. We will learn that it is not important to shape our works after a culture's prescription or expectation; what matters is that we get our readers to the last word.

English 354 Creative Writing 40171
Lecture 3 TTH 8:00-9:15 AM Instructor: B. Estes

English 355 Creative Writing: Fiction Writing Workshop 40538
Lecture 1 TTH 1:00-2:15 Instructor: J. Hennessy
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. Pre-requisite: ENGL 354 or 354H with a grade of a 'B' or better. Pre-requisites waived with instructor's permission.

In this course students will write and workshop short stories.  They will also read widely in contemporary fiction and complete a series of writing assignments intended to address specific aspects of fiction.  Admission by permission of Professor.  Students should submit one complete story and a brief personal statement via email to Professor Hennessy at murhen@earthlink.net. Include name, email, SPIRE student ID number. Students should submit their writing and contact information ASAP.  They should specify which workshop meeting ti me they prefer, if they have a preference.

English 355 Creative Writing: Fiction Writing Workshop 40539
Lecture 2 TTH 2:30-3:45 Instructor: J. Hennessy

English 356 Creative Writing: Poetry 33200
Lecture 1 MW 4:40-5:55 pm Instructor: M. Espada
English majors , BDIC, or UWW students only. Prerequisite: ENGL 354 or 354H with a grade of 'B' or better. Admission by permission of professor.   Students should submit a portfolio of three poems with name, student ID number and contact information to Professor Espada's mailbox outside the main English Office, Bartlett 170 by April 15th , and he will notify students about their status (invited, not invited, or wait-listed) by May 15 th . R egistration after this date will be possible, but priority will be given to students who meet the April 15th deadline.

This is an advanced undergraduate poetry workshop. Students produce poems independently for review in class, review work submitted by others, and engage in writing exercises. There are two major objectives: 1) finding a voice, i.e. a distinct identity in terms of language and subject; and 2) reinforcing the fundamentals of writing poetry, with a particular emphasis on the image. The various strengths of student poems receive as much attention as those areas requiring improvement. The course text is Poetry Like Bread, an anthology providing models for class discussion and writing.

English 356 Creative Writing: Poetry 39526
Lecture 2 W 4:40-7:10 pm Instructor: L. Olstein
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.  Prerequisite: ENGL 354 or 354H with a grade of 'B-' or better.  Admission by permission of Professor. Students should submit a portfolio of 3-5 poems or 5 pages of poetry with name, email, and student ID number to Lisa Olstein's mailbox outside the main English Office, Bartlett 170 by April 15th and instructor will notify students about their status by May 15th . Registration after this date will be possible, but priority will be given to students who meet the May 15th deadline.

In this workshop you'll read, write, and think about poetry every week, exploring the possibilities of the poem and developing the practices of a working poet. Employing a various and flexible workshop method, we'll focus on your poems-the processes and consequences of writing them, the ways in which they inspire us to imagine and require us to think, the opportunities they provide for the exploration of issues essential to poetry, how they inform our sense of the world around us, and how they inform the next poem
you'll write. Published poems, essays, images, and other materials will guide our investigations of craft, process, and imagination. Exercises will encourage our experiments. You'll work as an individual poet creating and honing new poetry and you'll be an essential member of a community of poets working together to deepen and expand our relationship to poetry.

English 359 Victorian Imagination 39102
Lecture 1 M/W 4:40-5:55 pm Instructor: S. Daly
The Victorian Imagination: Imagining Crime and Punishment. What kind of crimes did the Victorians like to imagine, to read about, to punish vicariously through their fiction? What relations might exist between crime and narrative form? What did criminality itself mean in nineteenth-century Britain ? We will read a range of works that take up these questions from various perspectives. Novels may include Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret ; Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone ; Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist ; George Eliot, The Lifted Veil; Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton; and Richard Marsh, The Beetle.

English 359H Victorian Imagination (Honors) 39527
Lecture 1 M/W 6-7:15 pm Instructor: S. Daly
The Victorian Imagination: Imagining Crime and Punishment. What kind of crimes did the Victorians like to imagine, to read about, to punish vicariously through their fiction? What relations might exist between crime and narrative form? What did criminality itself mean in nineteenth-century Britain ? We will read a range of works that take up these questions from various perspectives. Novels may include Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret ; Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone ; Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist ; George Eliot, The Lifted Veil; Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton; and Richard Marsh, The Beetle . Supplementary handouts for this section.

English 365 20 th Century Literature of Ireland ( AL ) 33237
Lecture 1 T/Th 1:00-2:15 pm Instructor: M. O'Brien
The purpose of this course is, first of all, to read closely and carefully books by established Irish writers of this century including Joyce, Yeats, Synge and Heaney. Having no pretensions of being exhaustive, we will look at representative texts that provide an initial understanding of each writer. Beyond appreciating each work in its own right as literature, we will attempt to use these texts as springboards to explore key questions about Irish society, history and culture, especially literary activity. We will, for example, ask whether there really are separate native Irish and Anglo-Irish literary traditions. How do urban and rural motifs and attitudes figure? What are the differences between the experience of men and women in Ireland ? What is the attitude toward history and geography in these writers? Towards the Catholic Church? What social mores are revealed, particularly with regard to family, tribe and nation? Class? The Irish language? How are Irish mythology and legend used? How has an oral tradition influenced a written one? How are idiom and dialect deployed, a unique Hiberno-English? Is there an identifiable Irish voice?

English 368 20 th Modern American Drama 33189
Lecture 1 M/W 11:15-12:05 pm Instructor: J. Spencer
Two lectures and one discussion section each week, with weekly assignments on SPARK. Students will read, analyze, discuss, and write about influential and interesting American plays written between 1918 and the present. Playwrights covered will include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange, Imiri Baraka, Sam Shepard, Adrienne Kennedy, Tony Kushner and others. Two papers, midterm, and final. Participation in discussion section is required.
368 Disc 1 F 10:10-11:00 am Instructor: A. Brady 39104
368 Disc 2 F 11:15-12:05 pm Instructor: A. Brady 39105
368 Disc 3 F 2:30-3:20 pm Instructor: A. Garner 39106
368 Disc 4 Th 1-1:50 pm Instructor: A. Garner 39107

English 374 20 th Century American Literature 39108
Lecture 1 T/TH 1:00-2:15 pm Instructor: D. Carlin
This course will address some of the most intriguing, influential, and important novels written during the twentieth century in the United States . Each of these texts examines what it means to be a person and a citizen in America at a distinct moment in history, in a particular set of circumstances (such as immigrant status, race, class, and gender), and in a specific region of the country.  Each also grapples with the fundamental questions of what it means to be human in a world that is brutal and beautiful, discriminatory and egalitarian, inescapably flawed and yet hopeful for the future.  Authors to be studied will include: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison. Requirements:  Reading quizzes on each novel; one 5-7 pp. essay, and a take-home final examination.

English 375 American Poetry: Poems in Conversation 39602
Lecture 1 T/TH 11:15-12:30 pm Instructor: N. Bromell
This course approaches the huge field of "American poetry" not by offering a general survey but by doing "inter-textual" reading - that is, understanding poems by placing them in relation to other poems. The meaning of an Emily Dickinson poem, for example, would be arrived at not by studying her life, nor by learning about U.S. history in the 1850s and '60s, nor by tracing the influence of other poets upon her work (although we will spend some time discussing all of these). Instead, the poem's meaning would be established by exploring the ways its interests are similar to and different from those of other poems.

In short, we'll be putting poems in conversation with each other. Sometimes a cluster of will be talking about the same question - for example, does the inevitability of death render life meaningless or more meaningful? Other times, a set of poems might all be experimenting with form - for example, exploring how their meaning is shaped by the relation between line-length and syntax. In other cases a group of poems might illuminate each other because they imagine the same thing (say, individual personhood) so differently. In all cases, the meaning of the poem is not something lying there, waiting to be found, or to be delivered by the professor's lecture. It is something we learn how to make ourselves.

This process of making meaning is unusually rigorous and demanding (and so, therefore, is this course). It is rigorous because we have to master the set of rules that guide the making of meaning and render that meaning sensible and persuasive to others. It is demanding because we are not led to the meaning of a poem by someone else but instead have to do most of the work ourselves. Learning by doing is much harder than, but also more interesting than, learning by listening. Therefore, students enrolling in this class should bring with them some prior experience of reading poems and more importantly a passionate interest in learning new ways to read poems. They should also be passionately interested in thinking about and struggling with the difficult art of poetry. There is no place in this course for anyone who doesn't like to "over-analyze" or who can't "relate to" poems. Analyzing is what we do, and "relating to" is not our starting point but what we strive to achieve. The text will be a course packet.

You will be required to write several papers in which you engage in inter-textual reading of poems-some chosen by me, others chosen by you.

English 379 Introduction to Professional Writing 33157
Lecture 1 T/TH 2:30-3:45 pm Instructor: D. Toomey
Junior and Senior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. This course offers an overview of the field of professional writing in both theoretical and practical contexts. It also provides practice in the composition of traditional writing forms, especially letters and memorandums, interim reports, feasibility studies and formal proposals. It serves as the gateway course to the specialization in Professional Writing and Technical Communication ( http://www.umass.edu/pwtc/ ) and the specialization in Nonfiction Writing ( http://www.umass.edu/english/undergraduate_specializations_nonfiction.htm ).

English 379 Introduction to Professional Writing 33158
Lecture 2 MWF 2:30-3:20 pm Instructor: C. Pulver
Junior and Senior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better.

English 380 Professional Writing & Technical Communication I 33159
Lecture 1 MW 4:40-5:55 pm Instructor: J. Solberg
Junior and Senior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Introduces principles of technical writing and software documentation. Simulates the writing/editing process used in the computer industry; students write a 30-35 page manual documenting a software product, usually Microsoft Word.

English 391D Writing and Emerging Technologies 39110
Lecture 1 MW 7:00-8:15 pm Instructor: J. Solberg
In an age of texting, mashups, blogs, YouTube, and Facebook, what does it mean to "write"?  To be "digitally literate"?  In the past decade or so, writing studies scholars have begun to pay increasing attention to the ways that digital technologies enable combinations of modes (text, sound, image) that had previously been separate from one another or inaccessible to the average person.  Today, with computers serving as a primary composing tool, writers face a seemingly wider array of choices than ever before.

In this course, we will explore emerging digital literacies and composing practices through course readings, discussion, and by creating our own digital texts (e.g., a blog, visual argument, audio essay, audio slideshow), each accompanied by a short essay or written reflection.  Students will learn to use programs like Photoshop, WordPress, Audacity, and GarageBand, to compose texts that incorporate sound and image.   Readings will come from scholars and thinkers like Gunther Kress, Susan Sontag, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Henry Jenkins, Steven Levy, danah boyd, and Siva Vaidhyanathan.

No previous technological experience is necessary, but comfort with basic computing tasks (e.g., saving a file, naming a file, using a web browser) is recommended.

English 391M Contemporary American Autobiography 33225
Lecture 1 T/Th 11:15-12:30 pm Instructor: J. Greve
What shapes our stories? To what degree do the stories we tell of ourselves limit, enable, or otherwise make us? Examining a range of autobiographical texts, this course will investigate the subjects and trends of recent American autobiographies, while pursuing important questions about our current notions of self. Our pursuit will include an examination of fairly recent developments in printed autobiography, such as the travelogue, memoirs of crisis, and comic book autobiographies, while also exploring the visual narratives of documentary film. Looking at texts from the 1980's to the present, we will keep in focus autobiography's reigning points of interest: the relation between self and language, the blurring of "truth" and fiction, the role of memory, and the gains as well as risks of public self-construction. Taking cues from the strategies and topics employed by the writers we study, students interested in trying their own hand at the art of autobiography will be encouraged to do so in two short writings. Presentations as well as two longer, critical essays will also be assigned. Authors will include, among others, Haven Kimmel, bell hooks, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kathryn Harrison, Lynda Barry, Harvey Pekar, Joan Didion, Michael Ondaatje, N.Scott Momaday. Films to include Grizzly Man, Tarnation, 51 Birch Street , Sherman 's March.

English 393D Hathorne and Melville 39528
Lecture 1 M/W 6:30-7:45 pm Instructor: M. Lowance
The Hawthorne-Melville seminar will examine major works by these two, nineteenth-century American writers from a variety of critical perspectives, including biographical, cultural and historical, literary and stylistic. Participants will read some of the major works, and some shorter novels and stories. These writers were contemporaries and friends, but their works are dissimilar. We will consider Hawthorne's "Maypole of Merrymount," "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux," "Young Goodman Brown," "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," The Scarlet Letter , The House of Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and The Marble Faun (1860). Herman Melville's works will include White-Jacket (1850), Moby-Dick (1851), Benito Cereno (1856), "Bartleby" (1856), The Confidence Man (1857), and Billy Budd (1891). Norton Critical Editions of these texts are recommended but not required. Participants will make in-class presentations on the common reading and will prepare a term paper of twelve to fifteen pages. Participation expected.

English 393E Studies in 20 th Century Caribbean Literature 39530
Lecture 1 M/W 6-7:15 pm Instructor: R. Mordecai
In this heavily discussion-based class, we will read major works of Caribbean literature (and watch a few films) from the anglophone, hispanophone and francophone Caribbean , with an emphasis on the anglophone. The reading list may include authors (such as Jean Rhys, Derek Walcott, and Jamaica Kincaid) who are familiar, but will also incorporate work by lesser-known authors (Zee Edgell, Patricia Powell, Oonya Kempadoo are some examples). Come and read, think, talk and write about the Caribbean as represented by its authors and film-makers. Indeed, questions of representation (what gets written about, in what genres, languages and modes) will be central to our discussions, as we explore old and new issues
in Caribbean writing. Course requirements will include brief research assignments, reader-response papers, one short and one long critical paper.

English 416 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 33233
Lecture 1 MWF 11:15-12:05 pm Instructor: J. Adams
This course provides an introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Although this poem will form the centerpiece of our discussions, we will also read more broadly in order to place the Tales in the context of Chaucer's other works and in the context of late 14th-century literary culture. Questions we will consider range from formal and literary matters (i.e., Does Chaucer share the opinions of his characters? Why do some characters speak in a high style while others tell bawdy tales?) to historical ones (i.e., What might Chaucer's poetry tell us about medieval ideals of political organization?). Assignments include two papers, a midterm, and a final exam.

English 419H Honors Games Thinkers Play - Junior Year Writing 39113
Lecture 1 M 6:30-9:00 pm Instructor: E. Gallo
Junior and Senior English majors only. Prerequisite: English 200 with a grade of ‘B-' or better. Subject matter: the act of interpretation. Most texts are ambivalent and support a wide range of interpretation—even contradictory interpretations. From this fairly obvious fact certain less obvious consequences arise. We interpret certain texts in order to see how their language behaves and just where ambivalence resides. We then examine other critics' interpretations of texts in order to decide how persuasive these interpretations are.

Language is ambivalent and reason is often uncertain: does it follow that its meaning is forever unrecoverable? We examine postmodern claims that even the language of the hard sciences is ambivalent, that all of our knowledge is no more than an inflated myth-making. We consider the possible ways in which an interpretation can be grounded on fact--the facts of the author's intention, historical background, and--in a few cases--well supported scientific theory. There are no predetermined answers to the questions we will consider.

Nine short papers and four exercises (done in class).

Texts include Burke (on Keats' " Ode on a Grecian Urn "); selections from the Presocratic poet-philosophers; Kenneth Burke (dramatism); Lévi-Strauss (structuralism); Joseph Campbell (Jungian analysis); Derrida and J. Hillis Miller (deconstruction); E. O. Wilson (evolutionary basis of culture); and others.

English 421 Advanced Shakespeare 39115
Lecture 1 M 6:30-9:00 pm Instructor: A. Kinney
We will study ten plays chosen by the class from The Norton Shakespeare looking at their political, social, religious and economic contexts as well as performative possibilities. Additional texts: Elizabeth I and Her Age , ed. Donald Stump and Susan M. Felch; Arthur F. Kinney, Shakespeare by Stages . Two short papers, journal entries, and much class discussion.

English 469 Victorian Monstrosity 39117
Lecture 1 T/TH 2:30-3:45 pm Instructor: K. Farrell
We'll be reading novels of the 1890s that project visions of monstrosity and crystallized many of the themes of modernism shaping the world around us today. Radical historical change raised liberating and terrifying questions about identity: What sort of creatures are we?  This is not a conventional literature course: we'll be using history, anthropology, psychology, and other disciplines to explore the impact of modernism. We'll work with overt monsters in Frankenstein and Dracula, but also with a range of sublimated grotesques, from Sherlock Holmes to Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray. The seminar includes a required lab section that meets once a week to screen related films (Oscar Wilde plays, etc). Reading : all or part of seven novels, plus Richard D. Altick's Victorian People and Ideas, Ernest Becker's Escape from Evil, and Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth. T he seminar will focus on criticism. Plan to write a page or two about each book and a longer semester essay. Lab section is required : 469 Lab 1 TU 7:00-9:30 pm Instructor: K. Farrell 39118

English 491H Honors Irish Female Imagination 33265
Lecture 1 T/Th 9:30-10:45 am Instructor: M. O'Brien
Commonwealth College Junior and Senior students only. The purpose of this course will be to read the work of a number of contemporary, women poets from Ireland . The syllabus will include not just the established voices of Eavan Boland, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Medbh McGuckian and Nuala NiDhomhnaill but also of the less well known Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Mary O'Malley, Kerry Hardie and Moya Cannon. We will also consider the work of newcomers Catriona O'Reilly and Sinead Morrissey, and the posthumously published poems of Dorothy Molloy. Our first and abiding aim will be to read the work of each poet closely. We will pay detailed attention to language, noting the choices these writers make with regard to diction and form in order to accommodate unique, often subversive visions. While each one of these voices is distinctive, they all share certain cultural concerns and inherit a history. The second part of our job, therefore, will be to establish that context. Regular, selected reading will be required from the recently published and ground-breaking Field Day Anthology of Irish Women's Writing and Traditions , a work in two volumes which will be on reserve in the library. Two essays will be required.

English 491Z Poetry of the Political Imagination 33224
Lecture 1 M 6:30 -9:00 pm Instructor: M. Espada
Juniors and Seniors, International Exchange or National Exchange plans, or Graduate students with TECS subplans only. Poetry of the political imagination is a matter of both vision and language. Any progressive social change must be imagined first, and that vision must find its most eloquent possible expression to move from vision to reality. Poets have a role in this dynamic process. The poets of the political imagination studied in this course go beyond protest to define an artistry of dissent. The course addresses how best to combine poetry and politics, craft and commitment. Every week, students read and discuss one book by a poet of the political imagination, such as Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, Sterling Brown, Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, Marge Piercy or Carolyn Forché. Readings are also augmented on occasion by recordings of the poets. Students respond to these poets with papers, presentations, or some combination.

English 521 Introduction to Old Irish 33264
Lecture 1 T 6:00-9:00 PM Instructor: M. Tymoczko
Old Irish is the language of the earliest poetry and tales of Ireland , including the Deirdre story and the narratives about CuChulainn. The course will enable students to read medieval Irish literary texts in the original. Half of each class meeting will be spent on grammar and the remainder on text translation. Old Irish is a very important medieval literature in its own right. It is also important for the study of Irish writing in English, opening significant perspectives on authors from Yeats and Joyce to Heaney. There will be a follow-up course in the spring focusing on early Irish.

 

English Courses From The Five Colleges (Fall 2009)

Please note that when a course is marked (Engl 200), it means the course fulfills the pre-major requirement English 200: Seminar in Literary Studies for Pre-English majors.

Please note that when a course is marked (Brit Lit Pre-1700), it means the course fulfills the British literature pre-1700 with some coverage of Medieval requirement for English majors.

Please note that when a course is marked (Brit lit 1700-1900), it means the course fulfills the British literature 1700-1900 requirement for English majors.

Please note that when a course is marked (Engl 221/222), it means the course fulfills the British literature Shakespeare English 221/222 requirement for English majors.

Please note that when a course is marked (2nd Am Lit), it means the course fulfills the second American Literature requirement for English majors.

Please note that when a course is marked (Upper-level elective), it means the course fulfills an Upper-Level 300 or 400 level requirement for English majors.

 

AMHERST COLLEGE

(Hampshire College English Courses Fall 2009)

MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

(Mount Holyoke College English Courses Fall 2009)

SMITH COLLEGE

(Smith College English Courses Fall 2009)

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