Undergraduate Courses (Fall 2007)
(Last updated: 8/22/07)

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 300-L2 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: "We of the Streets", ENGL 300-L4 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: Hawthorne & Melville, ENGL 368 Modern American Drama, ENGL 491PP Margaret Atwood. In addition, some courses offered at the Five Colleges also fill this requirement.

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: South African Literature & Politics, ENGL 300-L2 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: "We of the Streets", ENGL 300-L3 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: No Place Like Home, ENGL 300-L4 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: Hawthorne & Melville, ENGL 300-L5 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: Pirates and Mutineers: Treasure, Slavery, Rebellion, and MP3s, ENGL 419H Honors Games Thinkers Play.

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120-L1 English Composition 35946
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 10:10 am
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.

120-L2 English Composition 35948
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 11:15 am
Stockbridge students only.

120-L3 English Composition 35950
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 1:25 pm
Stockbridge students only.

131-L1 Society and Literature (ALG) 35952
Instructor: P. Williams MWF 1:25 pm
Butterfield RAP students only. This course will consider the ways in which 19 th - and 20 th -century authors have perceived the relationship between individuals and their societies, including the meanings and effects of being part of--or excluded from--groups, families, cultures, or nations. It will also pay attention to the ways writers address social and political issues, such as the relations between people of different races, ethnicity, genders, classes, and sexual orientations. And it will investigate the connections between art and politics, literature and society: how society and its history shape language and literary culture, how literature responds to society, how art may reimagine society in utopian or dystopian ways, and how art may affect society and influence politics. Texts may include novels, autobiographies, poems, short stories, and plays.

131-L2 Society and Literature (ALG) 35954
Instructor: C. Bondhus MWF 2:30 pm
Van Meter RAP students only.

132-L1 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 47419
Instructor: S. Daly MW 4:40
This class will examine constructions of gender and sexuality through the lens of 19 th -century fiction and poetry. Turning to the past allows us to consider how and why certain cultural norms and belief systems become naturalized, championed, or questioned in literature at different historical moments. We will consider the ways in which gender-based ideologies and practices are produced and reproduced in literature through readings of works by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sheridan LeFanu, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde; we will augment our study of literature by reading 19 th - and 20 th -century theories of gender and sexuality.

This course will be taught as a large lecture using WebCT. An important component of this course will be students' regular attendance at, and engaged participation in, discussion sections. Assignments will include response papers, quizzes, a midterm and a final examination. We will use PRS devices, which may be purchased from the UMass Amherst Textbook Annex. Discussion section required .

132-D1 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG)Instructor: S. Magin F 10:10 am 47420
132-D2 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: S. Luders-Manuel F 2:30 pm 47421
132-D3 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: S. Luders-Manuel F 10:10am 47422
132-D4 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: C. Beuermann F 11:15 am 47427
132-D5 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: C. Beuermann F 1:25 pm 47423
132-D6 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: L. Storey F 2:30 pm 47424
132-D7 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: L. Storey F 10:10 am 47425
132-D8 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: C. Kelleher F 11:15 am 47426
132-D9 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: C. Kelleher F 1:25 pm 47428
132-D10 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: S. Magin F 11:15 am 47429
132-D11 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: C. Maksimowicz F 1:25 pm 47430

140-L1 Reading Fiction (AL) 36064
Instructor: J. Anderson MWF 11:15 am
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.

196 Independent Study 35958
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

200-L1 Seminar in Literary Studies 35960
Instructor: S. Clingman T/Th 9:30 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). 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, often in combination. 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 selections from a range of periods, cultures and settings, a play (in the past I have used Athol Fugard's play, The Island, from South Africa), as well as fiction. My aim, in setting up the course, is for all of us to experience the dynamic pleasures and challenges that literature poses for us, as well as gain a sense of how we can be active partners in our responses to it, whether in aesthetic and formal or social and cultural terms. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher in ENGL 200 to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L2 Seminar in Literary Studies 35962
Instructor: E. Gallo T/Th 2:30 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L3 Seminar in Literary Studies 35964
Instructor: A. Nadkarni T/Th 11:15 am
Pre-English TAP majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This course addresses the relationship between writing and identity, focusing explicitly on discourses of race, ethnicity and postcoloniality. Through an examination of postcolonial and diasporic novels, short stories, poetry and dramatic works, we will ask how each genre generates different expressions of identity and voice. Questions we will consider include: what kind of voice is enabled by the formal aspects of each genre? How does the play of identity work similarly or differently across genres? What is the relationship between postcolonial and diasporic writings and their American and British antecedents—is it merely imitative or does it entail a radical remaking of Western forms? The course may include poetry by Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Sarojini Naidu, and Derek Walcott; novels by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Michelle Cliff; short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry; and plays by Ama Ata Aidoo and Henry David Hwang. There will be weekly writing assignments and three papers. Students must receive a grade of "B-" or higher in ENGL 200 to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L4 Seminar in Literary Studies 35966
Instructor: R. Welburn MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This course will introduce new English majors to the fundamentals, discipline, and expectations of being a literature major and to the practice of literary scrutiny and descriptive critical analysis. The course's objectives will include the following: distinguishing literary genres and styles within those genres; mythic, scriptural, and cultural archetypes; developing critical writing skills; establishing a thesis and developing it; the vocabulary of critical thinking; objective and subjective analyses; plot and episode summaries and paraphrases and when to use them; citation responsibilities; an introduction to critical theory; using the library and the web. Expect a workshop atmosphere with small group interaction and reading aloud. Prose assignments will include drafts and completed paragraph arguments and essays of various lengths, and a final project. Non-graded assignments that must be submitted for credit will be the writing of an original poem, a short fictional narrative (2-3 pages), and a scene for a play.

Texts will include Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference (5th edition), Strunk & White's The Elements of Style ; a dictionary of literary terms; an introductory anthology of literature; and a novel. Students must receive a grade of 'B-' or higher in ENGL 200 to be officially admitted to the English major.  Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L5 Seminar in Literary Studies 36166
Instructor: J. Bartolomeo T/Th 9:30 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. In this class we'll work on developing analytical and interpretative skills for thinking, speaking, and writing about literary texts.  We'll also begin to look at various critical perspectives, which can lead to new and different kinds of questions about poetry, fiction, and drama.  The reading will include a wide selection of poetry, fiction by Faulkner, Melville, Hemingway, Chekhov, Oates, and Joyce, and Ibsen's play A Doll House .  There will be a number of short writing assignments, and three longer essays, which will be edited and revised. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher in ENGL 200 to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200H-L1 Honors Seminar in Literary Studies 47452
Instructor: L. Doyle MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. An intensive seminar for Honors students planning to major in English. While honing skills in close reading and critical writing, we will explore broad questions about the nature of language, the activity of reading, and the dialectical nature of the artist/audience relationship. We will especially analyze theme and meaning as shaped by literary and cultural forms. To that end, we will study two or three different literary genre—poetry, fiction, and possibly memoir. We'll read a range of poets as well as novels.

To handle this course, students' basic skills in writing and argumentation should be solid. Beyond that, a love of reading and an eagerness to analyze the power of literature in discussion and in writing will be most valuable. The course is writing-intensive with drafts and revisions.

Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

201-L1 Major British Writers I 36062
Instructor: J. Black MWF 2:30 pm
English majors, International/ National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. A survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Anglo-Saxon period through to the Renaissance. Our focus will be on careful readings of some of the foundational--and often challenging--texts of the English literary canon (including Beowulf and works by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, and Milton); we will also look at a wide range of materials that illuminate the cultural and social worlds in which these texts were created and originally read. Three medium-length papers and two tests.

201H-L1 Honors Major British Writers I 47453
Instructor: J. Black MWF 11:15 am
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. A survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Anglo-Saxon period through to the Renaissance. Our focus will be on careful readings of some of the foundational--and often challenging--texts of the English literary canon (including Beowulf and works by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, and Milton); we will also look at a wide range of materials that illuminate the cultural and social worlds in which these texts were created and originally read. Three medium-length papers and two tests.

202-L1 Major British Writers 47920
Instructor: J. Freeman T/Th 1:00 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only . Many of our current ideas about individuals, society and art began in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  The works we read explore these new questions about people:  what forms them, what is sanity, how unconventional can they be, what roles should they perform, how can they live in harmony with their unique imaginations?  Readings include Swift's Gulliver's Travels , Pope's Rape of the Lock , Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," the best poems of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson and Browning.  Much discussion, some lecturing, short exercises, weekly e-mail responses required.

203-L1 Bible/Myth/Literature/Society 36068
Instructor: M. Lowance MW 4:40 - 5:55 pm
This course is an introduction to the literature of the Old and New Testaments. Our text is the Oxford English Annotated Bible , a Revised Standard Version. We will examine the genres of biblical writing, the historical books, poetry, and prophecy of the Old Testament, the theories of Biblical composition, and the influence of ancient Near Eastern cultures and myths on the development of Hebrew literature. The gospel accounts and letters of Paul from the New Testament, and the apocalyptic writings of Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation will also be studied.

The critical commentary text for Bible as Literature is Harris, Understanding the Bible , a superb analysis of both the Old and New Testaments as literary compositions. Students will be assigned reading for each meeting in the Oxford text and in the Harris text, and participation is expected and will be graded. Please come prepared to analyze and discuss these stimulating and often controversial materials.

221-L1 Shakespeare (AL)35968
Instructor: A. Kinney T/Th 2:30 – 3:20 pm
The power of poetry of Shakespeare's plays derives in large part from the cultural concerns of his day that are similar to our own. This class will explore the ways in which Shakespeare's plays represented and interacted with the cultural environment in which they were created. We'll ask how Shakespeare's plays approach issues of social class, gender, politics, religion, and war, and how we may apply what we learn to modern notions of identity. The goal of the course will be to familiarize students with Shakespeare's language, techniques, and context to understand better the range of his imagination and influence. The course requirements include two short papers, a midterm and a final. Discussion section required.

221-D1 Shakespeare (AL) Instructor: T. Watt F 10:10 am 35970
221-D2 Shakespeare (AL) Instructor: T. Watt F 11:15 am 35972
221-D3 Shakespeare (AL) Instructor: J. Landis F 1:25 pm 35974
221-D4 Shakespeare (AL) Instructor: J. Landis F 2:30 pm 35976

254-L1 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 35978
Instructor: K. Al-Hussaini MWF 11:15 am
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.

254-L2 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 35980
Instructor: F. Chabrier MWF 10:10 am

254-L3 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 35982
Instructor: M. Carolan T/Th 9:30 am

254H-L1 Honors Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 36148
Instructor: S. Landman T/Th 2:30 pm
Commonwealth College students only.

270-L1 American Identities (AL) 35984
Instructor: D. Carlin T/Th 9:30 am
"The old America, the America of our hopes and our dreams, has come to an end, and a new America is entering on the false course which has been tried so often and which has often led to calamity," wrote Harvard Professor Charles Eliot Norton in 1898, at that precise historical moment when the United States recast itself as an imperial global power with the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. A little over one century later, we are again faced with the questions of what kind of America we have become and what version of America we wish to embrace. Such questions have long animated much of American literature, and this course will spend its time examining how writers such as Jefferson, Wheatley, Crèvecouer, Franklin, Apess, Zitkala-Sa, Thoreau, Douglas s , Whitman, Melville, Davis, DuBois, Chopin, Dunbar, Chesnutt, James, Bulosan, Lazarus, Sin Far, Hughes, McKay, Baldwin, Brooks, Obejas, Cisneros, Ortiz Cofer, Rose, Simon J. Ortiz and Anna Deavere-Smith have given shape to multiple and diverse configurations of American selves through fiction, autobiography, poetry, political rhetoric and performance art. Students will meet three times a week, twice in large lectures and once in discussion sections. Lectures will be augmented with computer technology, both visual and interactive; attendance in both lectures and sections is mandatory and will be monitored. Our primary texts will be The Pearson Custom Anthology of American Literature and Anna Deveare-Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, available at Food For Thought Books in Amherst . Requirements: Weekly writing assignments posted on a course WebCT message board, two in class exams (one at midterm and one at end of semester), and one 5-7 pp. essay. Discussion section required .

270-D1 American Identities (AL) Instructor: C. Hayman Th 11:15 am 47454
270-D2 American Identities (AL) Instructor: C. Hayman Th 2:30 pm 47455
270-D3 American Identities (AL) Instructor: N. Cannon Th 1:00 pm 47456
270-D4 American Identities (AL) Instructor: N. Cannon Th 11:15 am 47457
270-D5 American Identities (AL) Instructor: M. Boucher Th 2:30 pm 47458
270-D6 American Identities (AL) Instructor: M. Boucher Th 1:00 pm 47459

296 Independent Study 35986
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

298A-L1 Practicum: Shakespeare on Film 36144
Instructor: A. Zucker M 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. This series screens classic Shakespeare performances, one film each week. 1 credit. Requirements: attendance.

298B-L1 Practicum: Literary Classics on Film 36146
Instructor: J. Rosenberg W 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. One film each week. 1 credit.

300-L1 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies – (Junior Year Writing) 47460
Instructor: S. Clingman T/Th 1:00 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Non-English majors are welcome to contact Professor Clingman at clingman@english.umass.edu to add this course.
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. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L2 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies – (2nd Am Lit) (Junior Year Writing) 47461
Instructor: R. Jennison T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
“We of the Streets” This course interrogates the intersections of class, race and gender in Modern American Poetry.  We will explore the emergence of various poetic constellations that cohere around collective and individual struggles against capitalism, racism and sexism in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. We will work intensively with primary texts, and we will also read critical work in New Modernist Studies which adopts culturalist and materialist approaches to the relationship between modern poetic traditions and social movements/formations.  Students will also gain an introduction to "modernist" thinkers central to theorizing structural and psychical formations of class, race and gender such as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Franz Fanon. Frequent quizzes will ensure a democracy of informed participants. Prospective students should be aware that this course demands vocal engagement; seminar-like collective discussions will structure many of our meetings. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L3 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies – (Junior Year Writing) 47465
Instructor: A. Nadkarni T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
No Place Like Home: Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora In this course   we will interrogate recent theories of diaspora by reading novels and short stories by women of South Asian origin living and writing in North America and Britain .  Defined as the dispersal of people from a homeland, diasporas engender identities that can be rooted neither in the country of origin nor of residence.  Diasporic identities, it is thus argued, transcend the particularities of national and ethnic belonging.  Questions we will engage include: How do these writers negotiate sexism and racism within their ethnic and national communities?  How do they position themselves within existing national canons?  Finally, how can we understand such works within first world consumption of all things South Asian?  Readings may include novels and short stories by Bharati Mukherjee, Meera Syal, Shani Mootoo, Sunetra Gupta, Monica Ali, Sara Suleri, and Jhumpa Lahiri. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L4 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies – (2nd Am Lit) (Junior Year Writing) 47466
Instructor: M. Lowance MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
Hawthorne & Melville 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. This is a four credit honors course. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L5 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies– (Junior Year Writing) 48076
Instructor: J. Almeida-Beveridge MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
Pirates and Mutineers: Treasure, Slavery, Rebellion, and MP3s As the swashbuckling Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean (2003; 2006), Johnny Depp revives a long tradition of tantalizing pirate lore. Yet the incredible success of Pirates comes at a time when transnational entertainment giants like Universal, BMG, EMI, and Sony spend millions of dollars to prosecute college students and individuals who “pirate” MP3s. In this course, we will analyze how representations of piracy and rebellion have evolved alongside the laws that regulate global markets. This interdisciplinary approach will help us analyze why and how battles against piracy are waged with as much intensity now as in the late 1700s and the 1800s, when the British Navy scoured the Caribbean and the South Pacific Seas in search of infamous pirates like Blackbeard and Anne Bonny. Mutineers, often considered “pirates” by the captains against whom they revolted, also risked death by hanging if they were caught. We'll examine the mutinies of Fletcher Christian against Captain William Bligh in the Bounty , and Cinque, who led the Amistad mutiny to liberate himself and other Africans destined for slavery in Cuba . Readings include selections from Daniel Defoe's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates ; Lord Byron's “The Island” and “The Corsair”; the court martial testimonies of William Bligh and Edward Christian ; a critical text, C.R. Pennell's Bandits at Sea: A Pirate's Reader , and a reading packet. We'll also watch the films Mutiny in the Bounty (1935), The Bounty (1984), and Amistad (1997). Our course will end with a brief exploration of the contemporary debate on piracy and intellectual property. Requirements: two shorter (4-5 page) essays, and a 12-15 page research essay. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

311-L1 Legends of Arthur 36112
Instructor: J. Adams MWF 12:20 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Why does the legend of Arthur hold such a powerful grip on us? How did the legend start? And how has it changed over the years? These are the questions that will motivate us during our course. Our primary readings will focus on medieval texts that capture Arthur's story. These include writings by Nennius, Gildas, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Layamon, Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, and Thomas Malory. The last few weeks of the class will be devoted to modern versions of the legend as narrated by Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, T. S. Eliot, and Donald Barthelme. Course requirements: two or three papers.

313-L1 Intro to Old English Poetry 47470
Instructor: S. Harris MWF 11:15 am
Old English is the language spoken by Germanic peoples in Britain from the early 400s to just after the Norman Conquest in 1066. In this course, you will learn it. We will read the oldest English poetry in the original language, including "The Seafarer" and the epic of Judith, the warrior who leads her army to heroic conquest ("Sloh tha wundenlocc thone feondsceathan fagum mece ..."). A working knowledge of English grammar is recommended.

319-L1 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) 36048
Instructor: J. Young T 2:30 pm
In this course, we explore the ways history and memory of the Holocaust have been shaped for the next generation by victims in their diaries, by survivors in their memoirs, by novelists in their fiction, as well as by poets, film-makers, musicians, and artists. Among readings and viewings for this course are works by Chaim A. Kaplan, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, Tadeusz Borowski, Charlotte Delbo, Paul Celan, and Art Spiegelman, among others. Discussion section required.

319-D1 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) Instructor: J. Young Th 1:00 pm 36050
319-D2 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) Instructor: P. Williams Th 2:30 pm 36052
319-D3 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) Instructor: P. Williams Th 1:00 pm 36054
319-D4 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) Instructor: B. Johnson Th 11:15 am 36056
319-D5 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) Instructor: B. Johnson Th 9:30 am 36058

329H-L1 Honors Tutoring Writing: Theory & Practice 47474
Instructor: D. LeCourt W 10:10 – 11:50 am
Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW 112 or 113 with a grade of ‘B' or better. Admission by permission of professor. This course investigates the multiple purposes and functions of writing in society, academic disciplines, and local communities. Specifically, we'll examine research into writing processes, disciplinary writing norms, and diverse cultural literacies. By looking at writing as a situated and social act, participants in the course will investigate how writing is impacted by local rhetorical contexts, the cultural context of the writing act and writer, and the assumptions about literate behavior embedded in such contexts. The goal of the course is for each student to develop a reflective tutoring philosophy in preparation for an internship tutoring in the University Writing Center, thus our focus will be on how research into writing for diverse contexts affects the multiple ways individual writers might approach a given task in order to develop tutoring strategies that address a wide range of texts and writers.

English 329 is a prerequisite to working in the University Writing Center and requires the permission of the instructor to enroll. (Upon completion of 329H and an internship in the spring, students may then tutor for $11.50/hr in the Writing Center the following semester.) If you are interested in the course and tutoring in the Writing Center , please e-mail Donna LeCourt at donnal@english.umass.edu by 4/10/07 indicating your interest and explaining why you think you would make a good tutor. All interested applicants will be asked to participate in a short interview before being enrolled in the class.

350-L1 Expository Writing 48077
Instructor: C. Fulford T/Th 1:00 pm
Argument and Persuasion. Political blogs, poetry, pamphlets, graffiti, love letters, academic articles, application forms, editorials, and billboards – these are everyday forms of textual persuasion. And that's merely a sampling of the rhetorical abundance that we read and write on a daily basis. We use language to shape our own ideas, change other people's minds, and to move others to action.

In this course, we will collect and analyze a range of texts to consider the multiple forms persuasion may take, how it's crafted, who uses it, and what ends it serves. You will also create your own arguments in a variety of forms, defining your topics and audiences individually. Assignments will include several substantial persuasive pieces and shorter writings that analyze and experiment with persuasive strategies. Although you may choose to focus on developing your strengths of argument and persuasion in academic genres, at least one major project should be in an alternative genre aimed to persuade a non-academic audience.

By the end of the course, you should be better able to analyze how verbal persuasion works and better able to construct your own arguments to accomplish your aims.

354-L1 Creative Writing: Introduction 35990
Instructor: S. Jaffe MWF 9:05 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Writing in the various modes of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay. Analysis of student writing in class and in tutorial; development of critical skills.

354-L2 Creative Writing: Introduction 35992
Instructor: H. Christle MWF 10:10 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Introduction to Poetry. In this course we will read poetry for pleasure and instruction. We will write poetry for pleasure and instruction. In all cases we will hope to be amazed. We will set out to discover the options available to us when we sit down to write some poetry--and then we will put them to use. Students should be prepared to form hypotheses, conduct experiments and share results. If we are lucky we will redesign the circuitry to our brains.

354-L3 Creative Writing: Introduction 35994
Instructor: J. Berger T/Th 9:30 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Introduction to Fiction .

355-L1 Creative Writing: Fiction 47477
Instructor: C. Bachelder T/Th 9:30 am
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. To add course, students should submit 6 – 10 pages of fiction with name and student id number to Professor Bachelder's mailbox outside the main English Office, Bartlett 170. This course in fiction writing is largely a course in fiction reading (or learning to read like a writer).  The class aims to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental elements of narrative craft.  To that end, students will read a variety of approaches to storytelling and we will spend a substantial portion of class time investigating writers' choices and the effects of those choices.  Students will write a number of short exercises and stories, some of which may be discussed in workshop.  Attendance, active participation, and revision are required.

356-L1 Creative Writing: Poetry 36152
Instructor: M. Espada MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
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 must submit a portfolio of three poems with name and student id number to Professor Espada's mailbox outside the main English Office, Bartlett 170. 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.

356-L2 Creative Writing: Poetry 36170
Instructor: L. Olstein T/Th 11:15 am
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. To add course, students should submit 4 – 6 pages of poetry with name and student id number to Professor Olstein's mailbox outside the main English Office, Bartlett 170. In this workshop you'll read and write 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 (including form, music, voice, intention, etc), how they inform our sense of the world around us, and how they inform the next poem you'll write. We'll focus also on published poetry and prose along with other source materials that inform our investigations of imagination and craft, search out some of the unexpected locations where stimulating language may be found, experiment with writing exercises, and investigate corners of the contemporary poetry scene via journals and readings.

358-L1 The Romantic Poets 36164
Instructor: J. Almeida-Beveridge MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
English majors , BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. In her preface to Percy Shelley's drama, Prometheus Unbound , his wife Mary Shelley writes that he “believed that mankind had only to will that there should be no evil, and there would be none.” The transformative ethos in which Shelley placed such faith animates the literary period that we have come to know as Romanticism. In this course, we will examine major Romantic poets and their contemporaries. Alongside the canonical poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron and Shelley, we will also consider the works of women Romantic writers like Mary Shelley and Felicia Hemans, and relative newcomers to the Romantic canon like Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince. We will explore questions such as: How do Romantic poets transform poetic form and language? How do they define poetry and the role of the poet? What is the Romantic writer's relationship to nature and place? How do Romantic poets define the role of the imagination in the creative process? What is their take on the defining events of their time (and our own modernity) like the French Revolution or the anti-slavery debate? How do women writers envision authorship? Our discussions will engage a variety of critical approaches, including formalism, feminism, post-colonialism, and new historicism.

365H-L1 Honors 20th Century Literature of Ireland (AL) 47921
Instructor: M. O'Brien T/Th 1:00 pm
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?

368-L1 Modern American Drama (AL)36070 (2nd Am Lit)
Instructor: H. Holder MW 11:15 am
This course provides a survey of American drama and examines how notions of an American national identity are negotiated through theatre and performance. Discussion section is required .

368-D1 Modern American Drama (AL) Instructor: M. Ward F 10:10 am 47485
368-D2 Modern American Drama (AL) Instructor: M. Ward F 11:15 am 47486
368-D3 Modern American Drama (AL) Instructor: S. D'Stair F 2:30 pm 47487
368-D4 Modern American Drama (AL) Instructor: S. D'Stair F 1:00 pm 47488

379-L1 Introduction to Professional Writing 35998
Instructor: D. Toomey MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior 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 ).

379-L1 Introduction to Professional Writing 36000
Instructor: J. Solberg MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better.

380-L1 Professional Writing & Technical Communication I 36002
Instructor: J. Solberg MW 11:15 – 12:30 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better.

391M Contemporary American Autobiography 48454
Instructor: J. Greve T/Th 11:15 am
What are the current-day preoccupations and purposes of writers given to self-reflection? To what degree do the stories we tell of ourselves limit, enable, or otherwise make us? What shapes our stories? 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, twenty-first century notions of the self. Our pursuit will include an examination of fairly recent developments in printed autobiography, such as the travelogue, memoirs of crisis, and comicbook autobiographies, while also exploring the visual narratives of documentary film. Looking at texts from the 1970'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. Supplementary readings in several fields will enhance our understanding of the dramas of identity in the texts we study. 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 or three short writings. Presentations as well as two longer, critical essays will also be assigned. Authors will include, among others, Haven Kimmel, bell hooks, Geoffrey Wolff, Kathryn Harrison, Lynda Barry, Harvey Pekar, Michael Ondaatje, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich. Films to include David Holzman's Diary, Tarnation, 51 Birch Street , Sherman 's March.

396 Independent Study 36006
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

412-L1 History of the English Language 36142
Instructor: S. Harris MWF 2:30 pm
Why do people in MA sound different than people in NY? Have people always spoken like this? HEL is a thrilling ride through the major changes in English phonology, morphology, syntax, spelling, and vocabulary from the 5th century to the 21 st century. Among the topics we will consider are historical change and dialectic difference, literacy and orality, the emergence of vernaculars and the decline of Latin, and the current state of English. No previous knowledge of linguistics, Anglo Saxon, or Middle English is required.

416-L1 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 47548
Instructor: J. Adams MWF 11:15 am
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.

419H-L1 Honors Games Thinkers Play – (Junior Year Writing) 47549
Instructor: E. Gallo T 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. 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); Niels Bohr (on complementarity); and others. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

491KK-L1 18th-Century: Institution & Revolution 36138
Instructor: J. Rosenberg T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.

491LL-L1 African American Drama & Performance - CANCELLED

491M-L1 Irish Female Imagination 47550
Instructor: M. O'Brien T/Th 9:30 am
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.

491PP-L1 Margaret Atwood (2nd Am Lit) 47628
Instructor: D. Carlin M 2:30 - 5:00 pm
This seminar will focus on the fiction of Margaret Atwood, arguably one of the most important and influential contemporary North American writers working today.  Examining some of Atwood's major fictions through the critical lenses of feminism, psychology, and narrative theory, we will begin with Atwood's 2002 meditation on what it means to be a female writer, Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing .  We will then turn our attention to some of her most provocative and challenging novels, including The Handmaid's Tale , Alias Grace , Cat's Eye , Oryx and Crake , The Blind Assassin , The Robber Bride , The Edible Woman , and her most recent story cycle collection, Moral Disorder .  The books for this course will be ordered from and available at Food For Thought Books in Amherst .  Requirements:   A weekly reading journal (2 typed pages per week) that will be collected at two unannounced times during the semester, and a final paper (10-12 pp). 

491Z-L1 Poetry of the Political Imagination 47552
Instructor: M. Espada M 4:00 - 6:30 pm
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 dis cuss 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.

496 Independent Study 36008
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

499C-L1 Capstone course: Lifelong Writing: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction 36066
Instructor: A. Phillips T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior Honors students only. This Capstone course is the first part of a two semester sequence, ENGL 499D will be offered in the Spring 2008 semester. It fulfills the Culminating Experience requirement of Commonwealth College . Contact instructor to add course.

English Courses From The Five Colleges (Fall 2007)

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.

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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.

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Please note that when a course is marked (JR-YR WRITING), it means the course fulfills the Junior-Year Writing 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.

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HACU 0150-1 Asian Relig Text & Traditions (Upper level elective)
Alan Hodder;Ryan Joo 12:30PM-01:50PM T,TH;06:30PM-08:30PM TH
The aim of this course is to introduce students to several of the oldest religious traditions of South and East Asia through a study of selected canonical texts. Part of our concern will naturally be to determine what these ancient records reveal to us about how people of these cultures understand, or once understood, such perennial human issues as the meaning of death, the nature of suffering, the value of human life, belief in God or the gods, and the possibility of liberation or life after death. But we will also consider such crucial historical and literary questions as: When were these texts produced and under what religious or cultural circumstances? Were these "texts" written and read, or chanted, performed, and heard? How were they produced or revealed, and by whom? Who had access to these traditions and in what form? What roles have these texts played in religious ritual, liturgy, story-telling, or popular culture? Although the civilizations of South and East Asia encompass most of the major religious traditions of the world, notably Islam, this course will limit itself to classical expressions of the evolving traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Among the literature considered will be: the Vedas and Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Tulsidas's Ramayana, Buddhacarita, Dhammapada, the Perfection of Wisdom, the Lotus Sutra, the Analects of Confucius, Tao-te ching, Chuang-tzu, and Dogen's Shobo-genzo.

HACU 0156-1 Realism in 19 th -Century Art (Upper level elective)
Sura Levine 02:00PM-03:20PM T,TH
This course will explore the various aspects of realism in 19th-century art, from the idealized and/or photographic renderings of the human form and landscape, early documentary imagery (phrenology, hysteria, ethnic "types") to the shift of realism into a politically charged type of art (Courbet, Millet, Meunier) and late 19th-century forms of naturalism as a realism transformed into spectacle. Works of literature (including Balzac, Zola, Dickens) will be read alongside artistic objects in order to document and examine the mutually enriching and problematizing developments in realism in both media.

HACU 0158-1 Southern Writers (2 nd Am lit) (Upper level elective)
L. Brown Kennedy 01:00PM-02:20PM M,W
This seminar on the fiction of the Southern U.S. will include texts (stories and short novels) by writers from the 30s through the 60s (Hurston, Welty, O'Connor, McCullers, Faulkner, Ellison, Wright) together with work by more recent authors such as Lee Smith, Randall Kenan, Barry Hannah, Bobbie Ann Mason. As for the questions I had in mind in choosing these particular writers--How do gender or race shape the segment of human experience they choose to depict? Of what importance is it that they are all Southern? In what ways can one talk about the sense of place--of land, of history, of community and family they evoke in their writing: What can one make of the insistence one finds in many of their works on isolation, loneliness or violence and on the physically and psychologically grotesque? Does regionalism remain a useful category in the US of the suburbs and the mall? The focus of this course will be on learning to read literary texts critically and to write about them analytically. Expectations: active class participation, short, carefully revised, bi-weekly papers, and a longer project involving research on texts written after 1996.

HACU 0163-1 Aesthetic Theory (Upper level elective)
Monique Roelofs 12:30PM-01:50PM T,TH
This course introduces you to major figures, ideas, and concepts in philosophical aesthetics. Our course themes will include: artistic goodness, beauty, interpretation, the taste community, art and difference, aesthetic experience, and the politics of form. In connection with artworks and other cultural productions in different traditions and forms, we will read writings by among others, Hume, Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Heidegger, Dewey, Benjamin, Adorno, Foucault, Kristeva, Hall, Wynter, West, Bourdieu and Schor. Students will write a final research project on a theoretical question in connection with a novel, film, video, painting, sculpture, musical work, dance, installation, performance, building, digital artwork, photograph, environment, or other cultural artifact of their own choosing.

HACU 0174-1 U.S. Lit. Between the Wars (2 nd Am lit) (Upper level elective)
Christopher Vials 02:30PM-03:50PM M,W
Situated between the world wars were two decades which have been remembered as embodying antithetical values -- the "roaring 20s" of consumer excess, xenophobia, and conservatism, and the "radical 1930s" of depression, hard-boiled austerity, and a shift to the political Left. As such, these decades have held very different lessons in the popular and scholarly imagination. This class will use literature to explore whether these decades belonged to separate, distinct eras or, if in the responses to modernity found in each, they should be more appropriately seen as one piece. Historically, we will consider the links between the rise of consumer culture, immigration restriction, the impact of WWI, racial formation, agricultural crisis, Fordism, organized labor, the world Depression, and the New Deal. More significantly for our purposes, we will examine the aesthetic responses to these historical dynamics found in the intersecting cultural movements of modernism, proletarian realism, ‘hard-boiled' fiction, and the New Negro Renaissance. Authors will likely include Ernest Hemingway, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Sterling Brown, T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Hammett, Tillie Olsen, Margaret Walker, Clifford Odets, Margaret Mitchell, H.T. Tsiang, and more.

HACU 0185-1 Lit of Crime and Detection (Upper level elective)
Jeffrey Wallen 02:00PM-03:20PM T,TH
In this class we will explore the appeal of the detective story. Why has the detection of crime become so fascinating for readers during the last 150 years? What do these stories reveal to us about the nature of narrative and plot, and about cultural anxieties and the possibilities of justice? We will focus on the detective as a reader (both of texts and of the world), as a social phenomenon, and as a literary construct. We will look at both "analytic" detective stories (Poe, Agatha Christie, Borges), and at ones featuring a "hard-boiled" detective (Hammett, Chandler , Chester Himes, Paco Ignacio Taibo II). We will read critical essays exploring formal and socio-cultural aspects of detective fiction, study detective stories from many parts of the world, and also see some films. We may also read works that use the detective story as the point of departure, such as Paul Auster's City of Glass .

HACU 0204-1 Artists' Books (Upper level elective)
Meredith Broberg 01:00PM-03:50PM M
In "artists' books" the materials and the making of the book are as important as its ideas and images in engaging the audience. In this course, we'll learn to make a variety of books, including both traditional and contemporary structures, from the side-stab to the pop-up. We'll review the history of the book from papyrus scrolls to graphic novels, with particular attention to the innovations and ideas of the last century of artists' books. The course is designed to introduce the rich range of processes involved in making books: bookbinding techniques and structures; page design; the choice of materials, images and texts; the narrative pacing and the visual flow. Hands-on projects will be supplemented by slide talks, field trips, readings and individual research. Since successful artists' books engage both the mind and the senses, this course emphasizes the importance of developing the strength and clarity of your ideas, together with your technical skills and visual acuity. This course satisfies the Division I distribution requirement.

HACU 0247-1 Intro to American Studies (2 nd Am lit) (Upper level elective)
Christopher Vials 09:00AM-10:20AM M,W
In this course, you will learn what it means to look at U.S. culture through the lens of American Studies. American studies is an boundary-crossing method that studies U.S. cultural history by bringing together material previously situated across a wide range of traditional disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The aim of this class is to provide you with methodological tools that you can take with you as you continue your studies. To this end, we will read major texts in the field of American Studies and also apply methods to interpret primary sources in class. We will begin with Frontier-oriented Myth and Symbol school then shift our attention to the intersections between American Studies, Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies. We will devote special attention to the transnational turn in the field, wherein US culture has been increasingly studied in a global context in order to call into question the sanctity of borders and the ideology of empire. The course will include readings by Janice Radway, George Lipsitz, Stuart Hall, Michael Denning, Gloria Anzuldua, Richard Slotkin, and Tricia Rose. Primary sources will likely include country-western and hip-hop, institutional films of the 1950s, the photography of the Farm Security Administration and more.

HACU 0256-1 Ancient Epic 1 (Upper level elective)
Robert Meagher 01:00PM-02:20PM M,W
The aim of this course will be the comparative study of four ancient epics from Mesopotamia , India , Greece , and Israel . The core readings will comprise: the Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Mahabharata, and the David Story (1-2 Samuel). Each text will be considered both in its own historical and cultural context and in the larger shared context of ancient epic, myth, and literature. This course satisfies Division I distribution requirements.

HACU 0257-1 The Power of the Novel (Upper level elective)
Jeffrey Wallen 10:30AM-11:50AM T,TH
In the nineteenth century, the novel becomes the dominant literary form. In this class, we will look at forms of power within the novel, and also examine the power of the novel in society. In particular, we will explore various quests for identity and purpose in a changing society, and examine the ambitions and contrasting social possibilities for the male and female protagonists. We will also consider such questions as the roles of gambling and speculation in modern society, and the transgressive violence of erotic desire against the conventions of the bourgeoisie. Readings will be primarily 19th-C. British and French novels, by writers such as Stendhal, Brontk, Dickens, Balzac, Eliot, and Zola.

HACU 0276-1 The Past Recaptured (2 nd Am lit) (Upper level elective)
Michael Lesy 09:00AM-10:20AM M,W
(Same as IA 0276-1 and SS 0276-1). This course is for intellectuals who are artists and artists who are intellectuals. The course has two goals: (First) To investigate life in the U.S. ,1890-1910, using an array of primary visual and written documents. Images will come from archival collections, available, on line, through the Library of Congress. These collections include: 25,000, turn-of-the-century, newspaper photos; 25,000 postcard "views" of urban, rural, and industrial landscapes; 12,000 stereographs of small towns; 9,000, turn-of-the-century advertising images. Contemporary newspapers and novels will serve as primary written sources. Novels will include: Dreiser's Sister Carrie , Sinclair's The Jungle , Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth , and Wescott's The Grandmothers . (Second) To teach students how to choose and use primary visual and written documents to build narratives that-like documentary films-tell true stories about the American past. All research will be informed/anchored by such American history texts as Brand's Restless Decade , Edward's New Spirits , and Smith's Rise of Industrial America . Prerequisite: Secondary school Advanced Placement(AP) American history and/or American literature.Or: Introductory/Survey college courses in American/European history or American/European literature.

HACU 0287-1 Advanced Screenwriting (Upper level elective)
Michael Elyanow 12:30PM-03:20PM F
(Same as IA 0287-1). This course is open to advanced students Division II or higher, who are currently working on projects they intend to either shoot spring semester or perfect as part of their Div III project. The focus of the class will be on the conception, execution and rewriting of a short or feature-length screenplay intended for production. Specific attention will be paid to story structure, with a concentration on traditional, alternative and experimental narratives. Other tools of storytelling (Genre, Character, Dialogue, Scope, Context, Point of View, Style and Theme) as well as the Craft of Screenwriting (Directive Paragraph, Presentation, Format, Stylization, Rewriting and more) will also be addressed. Students will receive feedback on each step in the development of their screenplay, from pitches to in-class readings. Students will also create both an artistic & business plan for the livelihood of their script/film (i.e., economic considerations if the goal is to film the script, deadline considerations if the goal is to submit the script/film in upcoming contests, location considerations if the goal is to use a particular space, etc.) Examples of both screenplays and movie scene selections with audio commentary will be used in class. Registration is by instructor permission and will be posted after the first class.

HACU 0289-1 Books Have Their Destinies (Upper level elective)
James Wald 02:30PM-05:20PM W
(Same as SS 0289-1). As students and teachers, we spend our lives immersed in the world of books, yet we focus mainly on the final product: the "content." Ironically, the rise of the computer and digital media has reawakened interest in the history and physicality of written and printed texts. The Chronicle of Higher Education calls "book history" a particularly hot topic in the humanities around the globe. This course, which provides an overview of developments from the medieval through the contemporary eras, brings together the intellectual, the aesthetic, the technological, and the material. As we will see, the book as object and the agents in the circuit of communication--author, publisher, and reader--each have their histories. Participants will survey some of the most influential scholarship in the field, take field trips to local repositories of book history, and conduct research and share their writing on the subject. A course for advanced students in history, literature, and related fields.

HACU 0295-1 Shakespearean Appropriations (Engl 221/222) (Upper level elective)
Polina Barskova;L. Brown Kennedy 12:30PM-01:50PM T,TH;06:00PM-09:00PM W
Everybody who has read and written may know a desire to respond creatively to a work of art. But what kind of response may be urged by the work of the "greatest" writer who ever lived: William Shakespeare? Does one wish to mimic or to challenge? What does it mean to re-make Shakespeare?? How can a modern work of art absorb something that different and that huge? This course will explore works of Shakespeare as the source of inspiration for arts verbal and visual, perfomative and rhetorical. We will read closely Hamlet , Lear , and The Tempest and analyze artistic reactions to these texts in: modern world theater (Cesaire and Becket); film (Peter Brook/Orson Welles, Kozintsev, Kurosawa, Zeffirelli); and fiction (Nabokov, Woolf); together with poetry (by Auden, Sylvia Plath and the British Romantics) and other selected visual representations of Shakespearean characters and scenes. Topics of discussion will include: reading, re-reading, adaptation and translation; the historical and cultural conditions of reception and canon-making; modern theoretical responses (psychoanalytic, postcolonial); as well as individual battles with and seductions by the Bard. There will be regular written responses expected--critical and perhaps creative--together with at least one formal analytic essay and one longer, developed paper.

HACU 0328-1 Resexualizing Bertha (Upper level elective)
Norman Holland;Monique Roelofs 01:00PM-03:50P