Undergraduate Courses (Spring 2006)
(Last updated: 11/16/05)

Please note that when a course is marked (Brit Lit 1700-1900), it means the course fulfills the British Literarue 1700-1900 English major requirement. Such courses offered this semester include ENGL 202 Major British Writers and ENGL 469 Victorian Monstrosity. In addition, some courses offered at the Five Colleges also fill this requirement.

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 391M Contemporary American Autobiography, ENGL 480 Anderson, Hemingway, Purdy, and ENGL 491H Honors Imagining Democracy. 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 330 Practical Criticism, ENGL 469 Victorian Monstrosity, ENGL 491AA Utopias/Dystopias: Past and Present, ENGL 491GG History of Comedy, and ENGL 491X History of the Book.

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115-L1 American Experience (ALU) 55677
Instructor: S. Yoon MWF 12:20 pm
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 20th- 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.

115-L2 American Experience (ALU) 55678
Instructor: E. Honey MWF 11:15 am

115-L3 American Experience (ALU) 55679
Instructor: A. Strohman MWF 9:05 am

115-L4 American Experience (ALU) 55729
Instructor: A. Dallmann T/Th 2:30 pm
Southwest Freshman Residents only.

115H-L1 Honors American Experience (ALU) 57102
Instructor: K. Cardozo-Kane T/Th 11:15 am
Commonwealth College Honors. This is a 4-credit Honors course. Commonwealth College only.

116-L1 Native American Literature (ALU) 57103
Instructor: R. Welburn T/Th 9:30 am
This course will introduce students to the literary culture of Indigenous North Americans by exploring examples of oral traditions, personal narratives, works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and works which defy neat categorization. Among the texts we will read N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain and a novel, Power, by Linda Hogan, and we will view the film adaptation of the Thomas King novel, Medicine River. Expect to write a series of short essays, one of which will involve a research project, and a final exam. Texts will be available at Amherst Books.

117-L1 Ethnic American Literature (ALU) 55680
Instructor: C. Vials MWF 10:10 am
American literature written by and about ethnic minorities, from the earliest immigrants through the cultural representations in modern American writing.

117-L2 Ethnic American Literature (ALU) 55748
Instructor: C. Vials MWF 11:15 am

120-L1 English Composition 55681
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 55682
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 11:15 am
Stockbridge students only.

120-L3 English Composition 55683
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 1:25 pm
Stockbridge students only.

120-L4 English Composition 55684
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 12:20 pm
Stockbridge students only.

131-L1 Society and Literature (ALG) 55762
Instructor: C. Wilson MWF 9:05 am
This course will consider the ways in which 19th- and 20th-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) 55685
Instructor: M. Wilson T/Th 9:30 am

131-L3 Society and Literature (ALG) 55686
Instructor: R. Reginio MWF 10:10 am

131-L4 Society and Literature (ALG) 55746
Instructor: C. Monahan MWF 11:15 am

132-L1 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 55687
Instructor: K. Elliot Squires MWF 9:05 am
This course investigates images of men and women in poetry, drama, and fiction. It aims at appreciat- ing the literature itself, with increasing awareness of the ways in which men and women grow up, seek identity, mature, love, marry, and, during different historical times, relate in families, classes, races, ethnic groups, societies, cultures. What are the conventional perspectives and relationships of “Man” and “Woman”? How does literature accept or question these conventions? What alternative perspectives and relationships are imagined in literature?

132-L2 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 55688
Instructor: K. Henry MWF 10:10 am

132-L3 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 55689
Instructor: A. Higgins T/Th 9:30 am

132-L4 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 55730
Instructor: S. Payne MWF 11:15 am

132-L5 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 55747
Instructor: L. Dush T/Th 2:30 pm
Southwest Freshman Residents only.

141-L1 Reading Poetry (AL) 55750
Instructor: D. Chelotti/A. Morgan 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.

142-L1 Reading Drama (AL) 55764
Instructor: M. Faith T/Th 11:15 am
An introduction to themes and techniques of drama through a reading of selected plays. Emphasis on such matters as structure, style, staging, and tragic and comic modes.

144-L1 World Literature in English (ALG) 55751
Instructor: M. Bennett MWF 10:10 am
This course will examine world parables in drama. Drawing from playwrights around the world as diverse as Brecht, Soyinka, Ionesco, Genet, and Albee (to name a few), this course will investigate the intersection between two genres: parables and drama. We will first learn what a parable is and then how it is uniquely positioned in drama. This course analyzes the ways in which parables in drama pose a certain worldview and then work to dismantle that worldview, leaving the reader with the task of reordering reality and making sense of the world. Parables in drama explore the tenuous reality of the paradox of being and how the self is to function in a contradictory world.

144-L2 World Literature in English (ALG) 55752
Instructor: A. Carr T/Th 9:30 am

196 Independent Study 55690
Instructor: TBA TBA Contact department to add course.

200-L1 Seminar in Literary Studies 55691
Instructor: E. Gallo T/Th 9:30 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. 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 55692
Instructor: E. Gallo T/Th 11:15 am
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 55693
Instructor: M. O'Brien MW 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. 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 55694
Instructor: J. Rosenberg T/Th 11:15 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. In this course we will become strong analysts of literary texts. We will do this by developing skills in close reading and by learning how to articulate arguments about aesthetic objects. We will work together to develop a set of key literary terms that will, over the course of the semester, become indispensable to us. They will include such concepts and constellations of concepts as: form vs. content, structure, discourse, history and historical context, irony and satire, symptom, critique. The course will span genres such as poetry, drama, novel, and short story, and will include contemporary noncanonical experimental authors – such as the science fiction writer Samuel Delany, the social ironist Laurie Weeks, and the prose poet Anne Carson – alongside canonical ones – such as Tennessee Williams, Alexander Pope, and George Orwell. Weekly writing assignments plus 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-L5 Seminar in Literary Studies 55695
Instructor: K. Cardozo-Kane T/Th 2:30 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. In this introduction to the English major, we will read works emanating from various cultural and historical contexts in order to explore a range of questions: Who determines textual meaning—readers, writers, or both? For that matter, what counts as a “text?” In the throes of globalization, what is the relationship between literature and the nation, or between oral, visual, and written forms? In short, how do forms of expression and interpretation matter in the world? We will begin with a few comparative genre case studies, looking at how similar themes have been explored in different forms, and then concentrate primarily on poetry and the novel. Throughout, we will investigate the complicated relation between content and form, or politics and poetics, turning as needed to literary criticism and theory. Students will contribute to the ongoing discussion, write regularly in multiple forms, and participate in a small group project theorizing the aims and value of literary study. 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-L6 Seminar in Literary Studies 55798
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 9:30 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This course introduces new English majors to literary study by considering the basic questions that underlie what and how we read: what is literature, and what are its sources of pleasure and meaning? We will approach these questions through close study of genre and form, conventions, motives and methods of literary production, and strategies of interpretation. Because literature is much more than the sum of its parts, our major goal is to see how genre and literary conventions create reader expectations that are both a source of delight and also a source of complex meaning. We will examine several works in cultural and historical context to see how they are as much a product of culture as they are of an author. We will also look at some practical problems in making literature, from the differences between manuscript and print to the process of making (and selling) books, and from the editing of “standard” texts to how our literary canon was formed and how it is changing. Finally, we will consider what is at stake when we read, react, respond, and then write critically about literature. Readings: a selection of short lyric poems from the Renaissance to Frost, one play by Shakespeare in its cultural contexts, some American and European short stories, and three short novels (English and American). Requirements: regular informal reading responses, research exercises, critical summaries, and three essays (5-7 pages). 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 57106
Instructor: L. Doyle MW 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This is a 4-Credit Honors Course. 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 55731
Instructor: S. Harris T/Th 11:15 am
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. Introduction to the literature and the literary imagination of the Middle Ages and Early Modern England. We will begin with a discussion of the nature of literary artifice before moving to a review of English historical and cultural contexts. We will discuss literary genre and form, style, and convention, and the semantic and cultural force of fiction. Readings include Old English lyrics, Beowulf, Chaucer, Milton, Donne, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Marvell. Frequent quizzes, two brief papers. (Recommended for Sophomores, Juniors).

201-L2 Major British Writers I 55732
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 2:30 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. The period in English history spanning the 8th through the 17th centuries saw the development of the English language and with it a vast and varied literature that ranged from the Anglo-Saxon epic through Arthurian legends to English adaptations of Italian Renaissance verse. The tangled origins of English and England, along with political and religious upheavals, nourished a creative energy that culminated in the English Renaissance of the 16th and 17th centuries and its distinctive experiments in verse, legend, and epic. This course surveys major authors and some authors now entering the canon of important works that have come to form the foundation of the English-language literary tradition. There will be three short essays and one longer final essay, mid-term and final exams, and frequent opportunities for small group discussion.

201-L3 Major British Writers I 57986
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 2:30 pm
English TAP Freshman only.

201-L4 Major British Writers I 57987
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 1:00 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only.

201H-L1 Honors Major British Writers I 57108
Instructor: S. Harris T/Th 1:00 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. This is a 4-credit Honors course. Introduction to the literature and the literary imagination of the Middle Ages and Early Modern England. We will begin with a discussion of the nature of literary artifice before moving to a review of English historical and cultural contexts. We will discuss literary genre and form, style and convention, and the semantic and cultural force of fiction. Readings include Old English lyrics, Beowulf, Chaucer, Milton, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Marvell. Frequent quizzes, a number of brief papers, and a final paper. Recommended for Sophomores, Juniors.

202-L1 Major British Writers 55696
Instructor: J. Rege T/Th 11:15 am
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. A survey of British poetry and prose, literary, social, and cultural movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Writers may include: Defoe, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the Brontes, the Brownings, Tennyson, Mill, Dickens, Arnold, Hardy, Hopkins, Wilde. Requirements: regular short reading responses, a longer essay, and a final exam.

202-L2 Major British Writers 57110
Instructor: J. Rege T/Th 1:00 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only.

221-L1 Shakespeare (AL) 55697
Instructor: A. Zucker MW 1:25 pm
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-D1 Shakespeare (AL) 55698
Instructor: J. Mason F 10:10 am

221-D2 Shakespeare (AL) 55699
Instructor: J. Mason F 11:15 am

221-D3 Shakespeare (AL) 55700
Instructor: Y. Chung F 10:10 am

221-D4 Shakespeare (AL) 55701
Instructor: Y. Chung F 11:15 am

254-L1 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 55702
Instructor: L. Yalen T/Th 11:15 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only. 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) 55703
Instructor: C. Hosea MWF 11:15 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only.

254-L3 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 55753
Instructor: J. Link MWF 10:10 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only.

270-L1 American Identities (AL) 55704
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, Whitman, Melville, Davis, DuBois, Chopin, Chesnutt, James, Bulosan, Sin Far, Brooks, Anzaldua, Cisneros, and Anna Deveare-Smith, among others, 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. Students will also be required to purchase a PRS device in order to enhance interactive feedback in lectures. Our primary texts will be The Norton Anthology of American Literature, shorter sixth edition, and Anna Deveare-Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, available at Food For Thought Books in Amherst. Requirements: One 4-6 pp.essay, a midterm and a final examination. Discussion section is required.

270-D1 American Identities (AL) 57112
Instructor: C. Harris F 10:10 am

270-D2 American Identities (AL) 57113
Instructor: C. Harris F 11:15 am

270-D3 American Identities (AL) 57114
Instructor: J. Murr F 10:10 am

270-D4 American Identities (AL) 57115
Instructor: J. Murr F 11:15 am

270-D5 American Identities (AL) 57116
Instructor: S. Jiang F 10:10 am

270-D6 American Identities (AL) 57117
Instructor: S. Jiang F 11:15 am

272-L1 American Romanticism (2nd Am Lit) 57999
Instructor: M. Jensen MWF 10:10 am
The cultural life of 19th-century America in selected poetry and prose by Hawthorne, Thoreau, Douglass, Cooper, Whitman, Poe, Melville, and Lincoln. Emphasis on the symbolic and ethical idealism of selected ante-bellum poetry and prose, and on the themes of Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Manifest Destiny, Jacksonian democracy, and slavery.

296 Independent Study 55705
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

297I Experimental Writing Workshop 55759
Instructor: P. Woods T 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Collaborative Writing: Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth? People often assume writing is done by a single author. But is it? Public documents, music, movies, etc. typically involve more than one author: Lennon and McCartney, Woodward and Bernstein, the Coen Brothers. As we work through a range of genres (novels, multi-media, speeches, songs) we will critically interrogate and evaluate the process of writing collaboratively. Do too many authors spoil – or enhance – the text?

297K Experimental Writing Workshop 55812
Instructor: C. Burton/L. Dush Th 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Digital Storytelling. Inspired by the options for visual composition that software like I-Movie and Audacity provide we will explore storytelling through words, images, sounds, and video. We will compose our own fictional and documentary stories through digital photos, sound, and movies. Although the medium will be digital, emphasis will be on creating stories rather than mastering the software.

297N Experimental Writing Workshop 58009
Instructor: T. Burke M 5:00 – 7:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. You are NOT a Hero: Writing the Memoir through Humor. Even the most tragic life experiences can be retold with humor, as demonstrated by writers such as David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs. Looking at different approaches to humorous nonfiction through the study of essays and memoirs, you will transform your own life experiences into humorous prose.

297P Experimental Writing Workshop 58008
Instructor: R. Habermeyer/A. Hellem W 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Unearthing Duende: Crafting the Art of Surreal Fiction. How do we capture the essence of surrealistic tendencies, and as writers, put them down on the page in such a manner as to transport the reader into new realities of the imagination? Learn the core components of what makes fiction and poetry “surreal.” Through analyzing writers and poets, classroom discussions, and active participation, you will develop creative outlets for crafting your own surreal fiction and poetry.

297Q Experimental Writing Workshop 58007
Instructor: J. Jamail/C. Cistulli T 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Sports Writing. Sports permeate our everyday life. The sports we choose to perform or comment on reveal something of our character and culture if for nothing else than because we choose them. Write about sports by taking on the roles of journalist, fiction writer, and cultural analyst. Imitate definitive texts and establish your own unique style while reflecting on the role sports play in society.

297R Experimental Writing Workshop 58006
Instructor: L. Bradshaw/R. Radhakrishnan T 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Putting in Your 2¢: The Genre of Film Review. Develop the eye of a film critic. Through readings and extensive film screenings, you will become a critical viewer and reviewer of current and classic movies, learning to form and develop your own voice as both writer and critic.

297T Experimental Writing Workshop 58005
Instructor: E. Rafus T 3:30 – 6:00 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Writing for the Small Screen. An introduction to dramatic and visual writing, and the behind the scenes world of television. Learn the television writing process and the difference between writing for the small screen and writing that stays fixed on the page. Participants will collaboratively create a new television show that includes character backstory, an eight episode story arc, and a pilot episode.

297V Experimental Writing Workshop 58004
Instructor: A. Roberts T 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Quick Fiction and The Prose Poem. Imagine squeezing a novel onto a postcard or a life’s story onto a single page. This imaginative writing course focuses on exploring the world of quick fiction under 500 words and its oxymoronic cousin, the prose poem. Using readings and generating your own writing using both forms of these genres , learn to develop your own power-packed, pint-sized prose and prose poetry.

298H Honors Practicum: Teaching in the Writing Center 57155
Instructor: M. Deal W 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Prerequisite: ENGL 297H. Second-semester follow-up to the first-semester tutoring seminar (ENGL 297H). Practicum consists of four-hours per week tutoring in the Writing Center and one-hour weekly meetings to discuss tutorials and supplementary readings, to write, and to work on committee projects. To add this course students must contact the Writing Program, 305 Bartlett Hall, 545-0610.

311-L1 Legends of Arthur 55771
Instructor: J. Adams T/Th 1:00 pm
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.

330-L1 Practical Criticism (Jr-Yr Writing) 55707
Instructor: R. Welburn T/Th 11:15 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. We will conduct close readings of selected literary works and write critical essays about them for this Junior-Year Writing Requirement. Proposed texts will include James Joyce's The Dead; three short fictions on a particular theme; a second novel; poetry, and a play. We will be discussing and practicing some critical theoretical strategies. Expect to submit essays about the texts in preliminary and final draft formats. Classroom participation is encouraged. Texts will be available at Food For Thought Books. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

330-L2 Practical Criticism (Jr-Yr Writing) 57118
Instructor: A. Diamond T/Th 11:15 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. This course will be organized around a series of texts by American modernists Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer and Djuna Barnes. Alongside each text we will read a variety of critical essays. Students will become familiar with the overall historical arc of critical approaches as we move chronologically through the history of each text's reception and treatment by literary critics. While we will briefly survey early "evaluative" approaches, much of our secondary reading will be in criticism which works within and between the following critical discourses: Marxism, structuralism, deconstruction, theories of race and gender and poststructuralism. Our critical and textual encounters will be in constant conversation; students will be expected to practice and apply these critical knowledges through concrete textual analysis. This course satisfies the Junior Year Writing requirement. As such, students should expect to engage in weekly writing assignments as well as multiple draft longer papers. A high premium will also be placed on in-class presentations and participation in discussions. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

330-L3 Practical Criticism (Jr-Yr Writing) 57119
Instructor: J. Skerrett MW 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. This course presupposes some familiarity with a range of readings, but the core text is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, which we will examine through various critical perspectives: psychological, sociological, and historical. We will examine some theories of literature and their critical methods, with frequent imitative exercises and a final paper in which you will be able to demonstrate sophisticated use of one of more of these critical approaches in the discussion of another novel. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

350-L1 Expository Writing 57120
Instructor: J. Hennessy T/Th 2:30 pm
In this section of English 350, Literary Non-Fiction, reading, writing, and workshop assignments will focus on the personal essay as well as the profile and other documentary forms. This course is designed for students who have a special interest in personal narratives, travel writing, nature writing, essay-reviews, and/or innovative approaches to feature writing.

354-L1 Creative Writing: Introduction 55708
Instructor: A. Roberts 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 55709
Instructor: B. Baldi MWF 11:15 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.

354-L3 Creative Writing: Introduction 55775
Instructor: A. White T/Th 9:30 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.

355-L1 Creative Writing Fiction 58000
Instructor: D. Durham 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. This is primarily a workshop in short story writing. Students will be expected to produce original fiction, as well as critique other students' work, with an eye toward characterization, description, effective use of dialogue, plot and resolution. The most important written material in the course will be your own work, but we'll also read selectively from the work of contemporary writers.

356-L1 Creative Writing: Poetry 55710
Instructor: M. Espada MW 11:15 – 12:30 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.

356-L2 Creative Writing: Poetry 55736
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.

365-L1 20th Century Literature of Ireland (AL) 55777
Instructor: M. O'Brien MW 4:00 – 5:15 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?

367-L1 Contemporary Poetry 57129
Instructor: R. Jennison T/Th 9:30 am
In this course, we’ll explore the poetry of the mid-twentieth century through the present day. While we’ll devote significant time to single authors such as Charles Olson, Amiri Baraka, and Lyn Hejinian, we will be reading them as representative of larger poetic movements; respectively the Black Mountain School, the Black Arts Movement, and Language Poetry. Students will become familiar with the diverse and interconnected poetic traditions of postmodern poetry, many of which carry forward the legacies of the modernist avant-garde. Poetic traditions and trajectories on the syllabus include: the Beat Generation, the New York School, Ethnopoetics, Confessionalism, Post-Language Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Post- colonial Poetics. Students should be prepared for a very historically-minded course. As we trace the development and intersection of various contemporary poetic traditions, we’ll study how these traditions embody diverse artistic responses to the conditions of postmodernity. For example, our discussion will include the following areas of inquiry: Is the avant-garde still possible in the current social landscape? How did the Cold War help to shape the poetics of the 1950s and 1960s? What is the relationship between the new social movements of the 1960s – both reformist and revolutionary – to poetic form? How does the rise of neoliberalism help to define the horizon of possibility for the poetics of the 1990s? And, what is the relationship between empire and the postcolonial poetry of, for example, Amitava Kumar? This is a class that places a high premium on participation. Most class sessions will involve engaged collective close readings following a brief framing lecture. Unannounced quizzes will ensure a democratic discussion of informed participants.

369-L1 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 55711
Instructor: S. Clingman MW 10:10 am
This course will survey major trends in twentieth century fiction by taking as its theme the idea of "writing at the frontiers." This will be understood in various ways, ranging from the frontiers of form in the work of some of the century’s foremost writers, to the literal frontiers that many of them have faced: of geography, culture, race, gender, politics. Writers will range from one end of the century to the other, including a selection from the following: Conrad, Forster, Joyce, Faulkner, Rhys, Morrison, Coetzee, Rushdie, and possibly others such as Ishiguro and Michaels. The course is offered this semester in lecture form, with discussion sections and other kinds of participation (very likely online). Requirements: participation; two essays; presentations; final exam. Discussion section is required.

369-D1 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 57132
Instructor: P. Williams F 1:00 pm

369-D2 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 57133
Instructor: P. Williams F 11:15 am

369-D3 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 57134
Instructor: D. Fraser F 1:00 pm

369-D4 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 57135
Instructor: D. Fraser F 11:15 am

381-L1 Professional Writing and Technical Communication II 55734
Instructor: J. Nelson MW 11:15 – 12:30 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Prerequisite: ENGL 380. Team-taught with professional writers from Hewlett-Packard, RSA Securities, Lucent Technologies, and other New England communications, manufacturing, and high-tech corporations. Continues and extends the work of English 380. The objects of this course are to increase writing, organizational, and graphical sophistication and to produce portfolio-quality documentation which introduces an audience to a major desktop software (typically, Quark Express or FrameMaker 7.0.) PWTC Lab, Bartlett 210B; (ph.) 5-5462.

382-L1 Professional Writing and Technical Communication III 55712
Instructor: J. Nelson MW 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Prerequisite: ENGL 380. PWTC Lab, Bartlett 210B; (ph.) 5-5462.

391C-L1 Advanced Software Professional Writers 55713
Instructor: D. Toomey T/Th 1:00 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Prerequisite: ENGL 380. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be proficient in the intermediate and advanced use of HTML, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Adobe Photoshop 7.0, RoboHELP, Microsoft PowerPoint and Macromedia Flash. The major and ongoing project for the course is an online portfolio that demonstrates your skills as a web designer and professional writer. The portfolio will be built with the software cited above; it will include an introductory page, an HTML version of your resume, and appropriate work from other writing courses. It will also include a website of an imaginary corporation or nonprofit organization. The class will be conducted in a Macintosh Lab. First class session only meets in Bartlett 316. Further information may be found at: http://www- unix.oit.umass.edu/~pwtc/software/

391C-L2 Advanced Software Professional Writers 55714
Instructor: D. Toomey T/Th 9:30 am
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Prerequisite: ENGL 380. First class only meets in Bartlett 316.

391L-L1 17th-Century Literature 57136
Instructor: J. Black T/Th 9:30 am
The seventeenth century is a period of social, intellectual, scientific, religious, and political revolution during which the Western world became recognizably modern. We will be reading poetry, prose, and drama by writers such as John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Thomas Browne, the Cavalier poets, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Dorothy Osborne, and John Bunyan. In addition, we will look at radical political and religious writings from the British civil wars; letters, memoirs, and diaries; and narratives of travel and exploration.

391M-L1 Contemporary American Autobiography (2nd Am Lit) 58016
Instructor: J. Greve T/Th 11:15 am
This course examines contemporary stories of self that tackle such subjects as childbirth, illness, incest, family loss, masculinity, and cultural preservation/ integration/ alienation. We will consider the various hallmark concerns of written self-representation: notions of self, 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-witnessing. Assignments will include weekly writings, some of them autobiographical in nature, and two 5-7 page essays. Readings are likely to include texts by Nancy Mairs, Joan Didion, bell hooks, Louise Erdrich, Kathryn Harrison, Michael Ondaatje, Richard Rodriguez, William Kittredge, and N.Scott Momaday.

392H-L1 Essentials of Professional Editing 58328
Instructor: M. Curtis M 1:25 – 3:55 pm
This course is a project-based course intended to take students through the publishing process, from submission selection to final text design and publication. The course will include a brief review of grammar and punctuation basics as well as copyediting techniques.

396 Independent Study 55715
Instructor: TBA TBA

397C-L1 The Sentimental Novel 58015
Instructor: J. Rosenberg T/Th 2:30 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. In this course we will study the popular and incendiary genre of the sentimental novel in eighteenth-century Britain, paying particular attention to the refinement of irony, the historical development of literary languages of emotion and passion, and the near-obsessive representation of class relations. One task that will preoccupy us will be that of becoming good analysts of contradiction in the dramatization of class consciousness and cross-class encounter, conflict, and alliance. Another task will be to consider how the representation of gender difference plays into the dramatics of class and into figures of finance. Of particular interest will be to co-ordinate our readings of discourses of class and monetary exchange with complex, historicized analyses of the aesthetics of sentimentality, attachment, and value. Readings will include novels by Richardson, Sterne, Fielding, Mackenzie, Burney, and Edgeworth. Weekly writing assignments, two papers and a midterm exam.

397I-L1 Econ and Lit Imagination CANCELLED
Instructor: J. Stifler T/Th 9:30 am

469-L1 Victorian Monstrosity (Brit Lit 1700-1900) (Jr-Yr Writing) 57138
Instructor: K. Farrell T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. We'll be reading novels of the 1890s that project visions of monstrosity and crystallized many of the themes of modernism haunting 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 Picture of Dorian Gray. The seminar includes a required lab section that meets once a week to screen related films (Oscar Wilde plays, etc). Reading: parts of seven novels, plus Richard D. Altick's Victorian People and Ideas (Norton paperback) and Ernest Becker's Escape from Evil (pap). Recommended: Max Nordau, Degeneration; and Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth (pap). In fulfilling the second part of the Junior-Year Writing Requirement, the seminar will focus on criticism. Plan to write a page or two about each book and a longer semester essay. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement. Lab section is required.

469-Lab1 Victorian Monstrosity 57139
Instructor: K. Farrell Th 4:00 – 6:30 pm

480-L1 Anderson, Hemingway, Purdy (2nd Am Lit) 57140
Instructor: J. Skerrett MW 4:00 – 5:15 pm
We will read work by and about three twentieth-century writers from the American Midwest who wrote about the Midwest but also about the wider world. Each of them was an innovative voice in the American short story who also excelled at the novel; common themes abound. Their stories and novels explore dysfunctional families, alienation and the oppressions of village life, anxieties of sexual identity and orientation and the vexed issues of race, gender and class. Readings will include: Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio and Poor White; Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories and To Have and Have Not; James Purdy, Color of Darkness and The Nephew; additional texts and critical materials in a course packet and/or library reserve. Requirements: three (3) five page papers and a final exam.

491A-L1 Neruda in Translation 55756
Instructor: M. Espada M 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Same as Latin-Am 491A. This is an introduction, in English translation, to the man considered by many to be the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. The poetry of Neruda is marked by a series of aesthetic and political metamorphoses, and the course is organized around the enormous diversity of the work: the early love poems, surrealism, the political poems, brought on by Neruda’s experience with the Spanish Civil War, the sweeping historical works best represented by his masterpiece, The Heights of Macchu Picchu, the humorous odes, the nature poems, and so on. The life of Neruda was also characterized by dramatic change, likewise charted throughout the course: from his career as a diplomat to his bitter years as a hunted political exile, from his acknowledgment as Nobel Laureate to his isolated death in the wake of the 1973 coup in Chile. Neruda was a witness to history, and special attention will be devoted to that history, particularly in terms of the Spanish Civil War and the Chilean coup. The course will also focus on the process of translation, and students will be encouraged to compare translations with one another, as well as against the original text. Students in this Honors course are required to write several papers, with an optional class presentation.

491AA-L1 Utopias/Dystopias: Past and Present (Jr-Yr Writing) 57141
Instructor: J. Adams T/Th 9:30 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. In this class we will examine the concept of utopia and its counterpart, dystopia, in works that range from Plato's Republic to Orwell's 1984. We will also look at films such as the Terminator series, Blade Runner, and The Truman Show. Questions we will consider include: How does utopian literature work primarily as a guidebook for social order (i.e., a "philosophical city") in the tradition of Plato's Republic? Is a utopian society necessarily separated geographically from the known world? Why might utopian visions be dangerous? Are dystopian visions merely the opposite of utopian ones, or do these two concepts function in different ways? Course requirements: two drafts and one final version of a twenty-page paper. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

491GG-L1 History of Comedy (Jr-Yr Writing) 57142
Instructor: A. Zucker MW 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. In this class, we will explore the development of comic form from its earliest dramatic manifestations in Ancient Greece to its current place in American mass culture. The better part of the syllabus will be devoted to plays, and our readings will take us from classical authors (Aristophanes and Terrence) to Italian and English Renaissance plays (Machiavelli, Lyly, Shakespeare, Jonson) to Restoration and eighteenth century sex comedies (William Wycherly, Susanna Centlivre) to comedies of the past century (Wilde, Synge). The last section of the class will be devoted to contemporary engagements with comic form in film. In addition to our discussion of the repetitions and developments in comedy over time, two main themes will structure our work. First, we will closely consider the elaborate role played by gender difference in comedy. We will explore in particular formal experiments grounded in unexpected reversals that sometimes mock and always interrogate gendered identities. Essays by Judith Butler, Karen Newman, Louis Montrose, Eve Sedgwick and others will help us develop a theory of comedy linked to historical social relationships. Second, we will attempt to answer the eternal comic question: why do we ever laugh at the stuff? Aristotle, Donatus the Grammarian, Freud, and students' own exploratory writing will help move us as a class towards an understanding of comedy's place in our world, hopefully without ruining the joke. Requirements: Seminar members will be expected to draft and revise three essays over the course of the semester: two shorter papers on dramatic comedy, and one longer final essay in which students will be asked to analyze the ways in which a contemporary example of comic narrative in film, television, or theater engages with the formal and theoretical elements we will have charted out. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

491H-L1 Honors Imagining Democracy (2nd Am Lit) 58003
Instructor: N. Bromell T/Th 9:30 am
This is a 4-credit Honors course. Democracy depends on engagement, a firsthand accounting of what one sees, what one feels, and what one thinks, followed by the artful practice of expressing the truth of our times through our own talents, gifts, and vocations. - Terry Tempest Williams In this interdisciplinary course, we will read literature, history, and political theory in order to study the problems and prospects of our democracy – in particular the relation between democracy as a political system and democracy as a culture. We are likely to spend a good deal of time discussing such issues as the 2004 election, media monopolization, voter apathy, and globalization in order to discover how various cultural texts (novels, poems, plays, movies, songs) might speak to the problems these issues have raised. Texts will include such works as the Declaration of Independence, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Emerson’s Essays, Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, The Gettysburg Address, writings by Jane Addams, John Dewey, and William James, among others. In addition, there is likely to be an optional one-credit, service-learning project for students who are interested.

491JJ-L1 Race, Empire and the Renaissance Stage 57143
Instructor: J. Degenhardt T/Th 2:30 pm
Although questions of “race” and “empire” may seem to be modern concerns, they were also present in Shakespeare’s time. While Shakespeare and his contemporaries were writing plays for the English stage, England was attempting to advance its position on the world stage through overseas exploration and commerce. This course will explore the Renaissance stage as a site where the English expressed their fears and fantasies about cross-cultural contact and imperial growth. We will consider such questions as: What did it mean to be black or Jewish in Shakespeare’s England? How did the stage represent the East and the religion of Islam? In what ways did the popular theater both challenge and perpetuate cultural stereotypes? Readings may include Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice; John Fletcher’s The Island Princess; Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta; and Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West.

491X-L1 History of the Book (Jr-Yr Writing)57144
Instructor: J. Black T/Th 1:00 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. 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.

492D-L1 Children's Literature 57145
Instructor: J. Atkins T/Th 9:30 am
In this course we will consider the poetry and prose of some folk tales and picture books, which are not only most peoples’ introduction to literature, but often illustrate the vigor of pared down language. The Once and Future King will give us some grounding in conventions of fantasy and Arthurian legends. We’ll read Winnie-the-Pooh, The Wind in the Willows, Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Charlotte’s Web and discuss what these classics have to say about humans, animals, nature, society, and joy. The Secret Garden, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Bridge to Terabithia will offer a chance to explore the imaginative worlds some children find or create. We will read The Hundred Dresses and The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 and think about how these realistic novels deal with social issues. Maybe we can answer Grahame Greene’s question: "What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?" Course expectations include class discussion, a reading journal, two papers, and two exams.

492E-L1 The Brontë Sisters TBA (Course number 492E subject to change)
Instructor: R. Keefe MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
This course provides the opportunity to study the novels of three fine novelists - two of them can reasonably be called great - who grew up in the same household. Together with their brother, they began writing collaboratively (and secretly) as children, and only slowly developed their individual styles. Their novels, seven in all, bear profound similarities to, and quite striking differences between one another. The three women loved and misunderstood each other. Their works form a complex conversation in which sister "corrects" sister. And it must be added, the books are fun to read. We will read all seven, plus a few poems, letters, diary jottings, and other artifacts. There will be quizzes and two papers.

496 Independent Study 55717
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

499D-L1 Capstone course: Lifelong Writing: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction 55757
Instructor: A. Phillips T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior Honors students only. This Capstone course is the second part of a two semester sequence, ENGL 499C was offered in the Fall 2005 semester. It fulfills the Culminating Experience requirement of Commonwealth College. Contact instructor to add course.

499D-L2 Capstone course: Imaging a Sustainable World 55758
Instructor: J. Davidov T 1:30 - 4:00 pm
Senior Honors students only. Honors Thesis Workshop. This course is a continuation of 499C (“Imagining a Sustainable World”) and is open only to students who have completed that course and have submitted at the end of the fall semester, 2005, a preliminary thesis proposal and annotated bibliography. In 499D, students will complete a 50-page senior honors thesis, the topic for which bears some relationship to the themes and readings in the fall semester. The first class meeting will be a sharing of thesis proposals revised over the winter break (come with a copy for each seminar member). Subsequent class meetings in the spring will be devoted to the sharing of research strategies and problems and work in progress, leading up to the in-class presentation in early May of a draft of the complete thesis. A few possible thesis topics (meant to be suggestive, not limiting in any way): you might explore the belief of many environmental writers that a strong sense of place, of belonging, is the first step toward creating a sustainable world; you might study the belief systems of other cultures, whose “earth-based” religions offer alternative modes of interaction with the natural world; you might want to delve deeply into the works of a single writer or artist; or you might try your hand at drafting plans for a sustainable community, thinking about all of the physical and social structures that would need to be in place for such a community to succeed. This course will meet at the Hitchcock Center.

English Courses From The Five Colleges (Spring 2006)

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 (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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AMST 290 Topics in American Studies (2nd AM LIT)
MW 1:15-2:30 S. Davis
Emphasis on the themes of protest and pleasure. Material will range from the overtly political to the intensely personal, will often merge the two, and will date from the late-nineteenth century to today. Despite our long-standing reputation for being "emotional," both outrage and ecstasy have oft been considered taboo for women. Yet women have been motivated by each to pick up the pen and have proved influential as writers on these themes. Authors will range from Emma Goldman, Ida B. Wells and Kate Chopin to Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and Dorothy Allison.

ASIAN 248 Contemporary Chinese Fiction: 1949 to the Present (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 2:40-3:55 Y. Wang
A study of representative Chinese fictional writings from 1949 to the present focusing on the ways in which issues of individual and national indentity, modernity, and gender have been probed and represented by different generations of Chinese writers. A particular emphasis will be placed on the novels and short stories published since the 1980s, in which both traditional ideology and literary styles are seriously questioned and challenged. Readings include works by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian and other famous writers, such as Wang Meng, Zhang Xianliang, Zhang Jie, Wang Anyi, Yu Hua, Su Tong, etc.

ASIAN 320 Women's Issues in Arab Women Novels (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 M. Jivad
Arab women novelists' works that address issues such as arranged marriage, divorce, child rearing and custody, rights and opportunities to work, national and religious identity, political and social freedom will be surveyed and discussed. The aim is to offer an alternative view presented in a balanced and fair approach.

CLASS 211 Gods and Mortals: Myth in Ancient Art and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 1:15-2:30 P. Debnar, B. Bergmann
Many ancient images tell completely different versions of myth from those portrayed in Greek and Roman literary sources. By juxtaposing distinctive modes of communication in the ancient world, students will analyze the rhetorical uses of myth, both then and now. Students will also examine the range of possibilities for translating and interpreting text and image, which will alert them to the vitality of myth as a language of its own, transcending historical parameters.

ENGL 200 An Introduction to the Study of Literature (ENGL 200)
This course examines various strategies of literary representation through a variety of genres, including such traditional literary forms as the novel, lyric poetry, drama, and autobiography, as well as other cultural forms, such as film. Particular attention is given to student writing; students are expected to write a variety of short essays on selected topics. Though the themes of specific sections may vary, all sections seek to introduce students to the terminology of literary and cultural discourse. Please note that this course is a requirement for all English majors.

01 4 P. Berek TTH 2:40-3:55
02 4 E. Hill MWF 10:00-10:50
03 4 H. Holder MW 11:00-12:15
04 4 R. Shaw TTH 1:15-2:30
05 4 S. Sutherland TTH 8:35-9:50
06 4 V. Ellis MW 1:15-2:30

ENGL 210 The Development of Literature in English: Medieval through Commonwealth (BRIT LIT Pre-1700)
MW 8:35-9:50 F. Brownlow
This introduction to English literary history focuses on works, authors, forms, conventions, and ideas in chronological order and historical setting. Readings include Beowulf, selections from The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a Shakespeare play, and selections from such authors as Malory, Spenser, Sidney, Marvell, Donne, and Milton.

ENGL 211 Shakespeare (ENGL 221/222)
TTh 11:00-12:15 P. Berek
A study of some of Shakespeare's plays, emphasizing both the poetic and the dramatic aspects of his art, with attention to the historical context and varieties of critical interpretations, including those of the twentieth century. Nine or ten plays.

ENGL 214 Topics in Medieval Studies: Illustrious and Abandoned Women (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 8:35-9:50 C. Chierichini, C. Collette
A comparative reading of Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies, Boccaccio's Illustrious Women, and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women. How did these late medieval authors imagine women's voice, agency, and virtue in the public and private spheres? Why does the figure of the strong secular woman emerge in medieval culture at this period? How do these medieval heroines compare to their Classical predecessors? What ideologies of female virtue do these three writers reflect? All readings in translation.

ENGL 241 American Literature II (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 2:40-3:55 M. Snediker
A continuation of English 240, exploring U.S. literature from the Civil War to World War I. Will address the development of realism and naturalism and the beginnings of modernism, and explore literary redefinitions of race, gender, sexuality and class during this period.

ENGL 253 African Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 2:40-3:55 J. Lemly
An introduction to African literature in English since 1960. Fiction, drama, autobiography, essays by such writers as Ama Ata Aidoo, Ayi Kwei Armah, Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nadine Gordimer, and Bessie Head. Particular attention to themes of exile and imprisonment, political struggle before and after independence, the convergence of oral cultures and European languages, and the emergence of postcolonial and feminist discourses in contemporary Africa.

ENGL 254 Postcolonial Theory (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 A. Martin

ENGL 271 Women Writers: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 1:15-2:30 S. Davis
In this course we will examine the work of American women writers with an emphasis on the themes of protest and pleasure. Material will range from the overtly political to the intensely personal, will often merge the two, and will date from the late-nineteenth century to today. Despite our long-standing reputation for being "emotional," both outrage and ecstasy have oft been considered taboo for women. Yet women have been motivated by each to pick up the pen and have proved influential as writers on these themes. Authors will range from Emma Goldman, Ida B. Wells and Kate Chopin to Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and Dorothy Allison.

ENGL 283 Light Verse, Comic Verse (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 8:35-9:50 B. Leithauser
This is "light verse" in a broad sense; parodies, nonsense verse, children's verse, song lyrics. Students will be introduced to a broad range of poetic forms and the vocabulary of versification. Older readings to include Shakespeare, Pope's "Rape of the Lock," Byron's Don Juan, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear. Twentieth-century readings to include: Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," Auden's "Letter to Lord Byron," Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, Elizabeth Bishop. Song lyrics will extend from Campion and Dowland to W.S. Gilbert and some lyricists from Broadway and Tin Pan Alley: Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim.

ENGL 284 Modern British Urban Novel (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 8:35-9:50 N. Alderman
As London and the British novel enter the new millennium, both are sites of competing histories, traditions, and agendas. This course will chart the city's progress from the center of an empire to a node in the global world's economy, and the novel's movement from realism to postmodernism. Beginning by contrasting the realist London of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes with Virginia Woolf's modernist version in Mrs. Dalloway, we will go on to trace the development of the post-1945 British novel. We will finish in the multicultural and multiethnic London of Salman Rushdie.

ENGL 300 Writing about the Arts (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 1:00-3:50 B. Leithauser
This course will explore what it means to respond to works of art in various genres: literature, film, visual art (and possibly drama). Students will write reviews and reflective essays, learning to tailor their responses to various requirements. They will read an array of reviews and essays as well as several current literary works.

ENGL 302 Nonfiction Writing: Writing Journalistic Narratives for Magazines and Books (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 1:00-3:50 M. Murphy
This course will focus on the techniques and skills needed to research and write compelling narratives about the recent and more distant past. In addition to regular writing and interviewing assignments, students will read and analyze the work of literary journalists who emphasize context and creative storytelling about events and trends. This course focuses on the reporting and writing of longer, in-depth articles, suitable for publication in magazines, journals, or books.

ENGL 303 Short Story Writing II (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 1:00-3:50 C. Demas
This workshop is for students seriously engaged in writing short stories. Students will refine their technical skills and work on the subtleties of style. Extensive readings are required.

ENGL 304 Verse Writing II (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 1:00-3:50 R. Shaw
This workshop allows students to explore traditional verse forms as well as to invent some of their own. Each meeting provides time for discussion not only of student work but of poetry of other periods and sensibilities.

ENGL 305 Writing Literature for Children (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
F 10:00-12:30 C. Demas
A workshop focusing on writing for children at different age levels. Students will work on a variety of projects in fiction and nonfiction, and experiment with different styles, forms, and approaches. Weekly writing and editing assignments and selected readings of children's literature are required. The course includes guest lectures (which are open to the campus) and field trips.

ENGL 308 Methods of Discovery: Nonfiction and Fiction (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 1:00-3:50 S. Grant
This course will look at the nonfiction and fiction of several celebrated writers. Specific attention will be paid to how writers deal with the same material in these different forms. Authors under consideration include: James Baldwin, J.M. Coetzee, Maxine Hong Kingston. Through these readings and through frequent exercises, we will explore nonfiction and fiction as different methods of discovery. Students will produce both nonfiction and fiction. Extensive reading and writing required.

ENGL 312 Shakespeare Adapted and Interpreted, 1660-2006 (ENGL221/222) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 1:00-3:50 F. Brownlow
"The history of Shakespeare's work is the history of the European imagination." By focusing on a small group of plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and Macbeth), the seminar will study the post-Shakespearean adventures of Shakespeare's work in the arts of music and painting as well as in the theater and in literature. Topics will include The Tempest as semi-opera, Midsummer Night's Dream and Victorian fairy painting, Hamlet as an orchestral prince, and Macbeth as opera; but students will be expected to pursue and report upon independent projects to be chosen from a wide and fascinating field of material.

ENGL 313 Milton(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MWF 11:00-11:50 E. Hill
A study of Milton's major works, both in poetry and prose, with particular attention to Paradise Lost.

ENGL 316 Topics in Medieval Literature: Forging the Ring (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 1:00-3:50 C. Collette
This course will study J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative creation of Middle Earth within the context of his extensive knowledge of philology and mythology, as well within the context of his participation in the Inklings, the literary group that also included C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams. It will discuss their theories of myth, literature, and fable, as well as their influence on twentieth-century understanding of medieval culture. Readings will include works of fiction and literary theory by all three authors, as well as secondary material.

ENGL 332 Modern Drama (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 J. Lemly
A study of the history of drama in Europe, America, and Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. Readings include plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, O'Casey, Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht, Williams, Miller, Beckett, Pinter, Hansberry, Soyinka, Aidoo, Shepard, Fugard, Norman, Wilson, and Parks.

ENGL 335 The Sounds of Spanglish (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 I. Stavans
An exploration of the interface where Anglo-Saxon and Hispanic civilizations collide.

ENGL 344 Projects in Critical Thought (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 1:00-3:50 N. Alderman
This course will explore the work of a range of the most important cultural theorists of the last 50 years and consider what they can contribute to the analysis of all forms of cultural works, both past and present. We will be particularly interested in writers who attempt to construct models that seek to explain everything, who in their intellectual projects try to think the totality. Thinkers will include Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Ann Douglas, Michel Foucault, Paul Gilroy, Donna Haraway, Fredric Jameson, and Gayatri Spivak.

ENGL 362 Inside-Out at the Hampden County Correctional Center: Prison Memoirs(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
F 8:30-11:00 S. Davis
The majority of this course will be conducted in the Women's Unit at the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow, eight miles from the Mount Holyoke campus. (Transportation will be provided.) Half the students will be from Mount Holyoke; half will be women currently incarcerated at HCCC. This collaborative course will combine literary analysis of prison literature and creative writing in the memoir form. The class will be co-facilitated by Kim Keough and Lysette Navarro of Voices from Inside, who regularly lead creative writing workshops at HCCC. Enrollment requires instructor's approval based on a Fall 2005 interview.

ENGL 367 British Drama: From the Gothic to the Suffragists (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 H. Holder
English drama was never more popular than in the nineteenth century. The forms that emerged during this time--the gothic or "sensation" drama, melodrama, the "social problem" play--continue to shape contemporary performance and film. In this course we will look at the ways in which the nineteenth-century British theater responded to major social and political changes of the day and their attendant problems, including the poor of "outcast London," the wars of empire, the slowly building struggle for women's rights, and new definitions of nationalism. Readings will include works by Elizabeth Inchbald, C.R. Maturin, Tom Taylor, Cicely Hamilton, and G.B. Shaw.

ENGL 371 "Primitivism" and "Exoticism" in American Literature and Culture, 1845-1945 (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 C. Benfey
A seminar devoted to the varieties of spiritual and creative revitalization that modern American writers have drawn from cultures distant in time and space. Some attention to parallel developments in the visual arts, anthropology, and architecture. Possible writers include: Herman Melville, Lafcadio Hearn, Henry Adams, Okakura Kakuzo, Ezra Pound, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston.

ENGL 373 Nature and Gender: "A Landscape of One's Own" (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 1:00-3:50 L. Glasser
This seminar will focus on how women writers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century told their life stories in the context of the islands, prairies, forests, and deserts of the United States. Readings will include works by such writers as Thaxter, Freeman, Jewett, Stewart, Zitkala-Sa, Austin, Cather, and Hurston; genre will include autobiographical essays, narratives, biography, fiction, and poetry. Some visual works (paintings, photographs, film) may also be added to the list of texts.

FREN 215 Intermediate Level Courses in Culture and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 1:15-2:30 M. Switteo
This course introduces students to literature and culture from a variety of perspectives. It will increase confidence and skill in writing and speaking, integrate historical, political, and social contexts into the study of literary texts from France and the French-speaking world, and bring understanding of the special relevance of earlier periods to contemporary French and Francophone cultural and aesthetic issues. Students explore diversified works - literature, historical documents, film, art, and music - and do formal oral and written presentations.

FREN 219 Intermediate Level Courses in Culture and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 11:00-12:15 S. Gadjigo
This course introduces the literatures of French-speaking countries outside Europe. Readings include tales, novels, plays, and poetry from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, and other areas. Discussions and short papers examine the texts as literary works as well as keys to the understanding of varied cultures. Students will be asked to do formal oral and written presentations.

FREN 225 Intermediate Level Courses in Culture and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 11:00-12:15 C. Rivers
This course will introduce students to contemporary popular culture in France and the French-speaking world, largely through the study of recent (post-1995) best-selling novels, popular music, and feature films. Students will be asked to give formal oral presentations based on up-to-date materials gathered from the Internet and/or French television and to participate actively in class discussion.

FREN 230 Intermediate Courses in Culture and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 N. Vaget
While exploring the decisive periods of France's past, students will also examine the development of art and architecture, from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth century, and familiarize themselves with the mentality of each period (emphasis on medieval cathedrals and Renaissance castles, Baroque and Rococo works of art, and nineteenth-century paintings). Course content can be found at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/nvaget/230/syllabus230.html.

FREN 311 Period Courses (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TH 1:00-3:50 F Guévremont
This course will examine the concept of time in twentieth-century French and Francophone novels and films. We will explore the ways in which writers and filmmakers have played with time and the traditional narrative structures, and have reflected on the idea of time itself, including the distinction between historical and individual time. Authors to be studied may include Proust, Duras, Perec, Hébert, as well as films by Cocteau, Varda, Arcand, and others.

FREN 321 Seminar in Romance Languages and Literatures (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 C. Gundermann
In this seminar, we will study the cross-cultural influences between Italian neo-realism, the French nouvelle vague, and the New Latin American Cinemas. Both the Italian and the French movements represent models and counterpoints for those Latin American filmmakers of the 1950s and 60s who sought to redress the dominance of the realist American model in Latin America and the domination of the markets by the products of Hollywood. The New Latin American Cinemas, in turn, paved the way toward the emergence of Third Cinema. We will study films, as well as cinematic theory, from Italy, France, the Soviet Union, Japan, Cuba, Brasil, Argentina, and Mexico.

FREN 370 Advanced Level Seminar (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 C. LeGouis
Hugo's epic masterpiece, written in exile, has everything: ceaseless adventures, crimes and punishments, love, hate, obsession, heroes, villains, the battle of Waterloo, and civil war. The sympathetic everyman, Jean Valjean, condemned to hard labor for stealing bread and relentlessly pursued by the pitiless policeman Javert, encounters unforgettable characters. We will examine how Hugo situates Valjean's escapes within a framework of social injustice and good triumphing over evil, balancing his political and romantic ideas. Reading, discussion, film screenings.

I 112 The Rhetoric of Grammar (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 8:10-9:50 S. Oury
A functional analysis of grammatical rules and concepts with an emphasis on their application to issues in student writing. Through writing extensively and reading the work of various theorists on grammar, rhetoric, and style, students will learn how to assess their own writing and make choices that improve the clarity and effectiveness of their ideas.

I 146 Western Civilization: An Introduction through the Great Books (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 2:40-3:55 F 3:15-4:00 J. Hartley
Beginning with works emerging from Athens and Jerusalem and proceeding to the modern world, this yearlong course will explore the ideas that constitute Western civilization. The course material will be centered on the Great Books from across disciplinary boundaries and will include authors such as Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Einstein, Augustine, Darwin, Homer, Locke, Goethe, Eliot, and the writers of the Old and New Testaments.

I 212 Peer Mentoring: Theory and Practice (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
F 1:00-3:50 G. Anderson
This course examines theoretical and practical applications of leadership and peer mentoring in educational contexts. Focus will be on the development of knowledge, skills, and attributes required of effective Speaking, Arguing, and Writing Program (SAW) mentors and assistants.

ITAL 214 Illustrious and Abandoned Women(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 8:35-9:50 C. Chierichini, C. Collette
A comparative reading of Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies, Boccaccio's Illustrious Women, and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women. How did these late medieval authors imagine women's voice, agency, and virtue in the public and private spheres? Why does the figure of the strong secular woman emerge in medieval culture at this period? How do these medieval heroines compare to their Classical predecessors? What ideologies of female virtue do these three writers reflect? All readings in translation.

ITAL 301 Liars and Pranksters on the Italian Stage (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 1:00-3:50 O. Frau
This course explores the role of lies and practical jokes in Italian literature and the way the concept of humor has changed over time. We will investigate the intimate connection between power, religion, and laughter by reading some of the most funniest and politically charged works of Italian theater and prose. This course will be not only an accurate overview of Italian theater, but also a comprehensive journey through our rich literary history. Our authors will take us through the streets of Renaissance Florence, eighteenth-century Venetian canals, as well as the improvised "factory theaters" of the 70s.

ITAL 361 Seminar in Italian Literature and Culture (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 C. Gundermann
In this seminar, we will study the cross-cultural influences between Italian neo-realism, the French nouvelle vague, and the New Latin American Cinemas. Both the Italian and the French movements represent models and counterpoints for those Latin American filmmakers of the 1950s and 60s who sought to redress the dominance of the realist American model in Latin America and the domination of the markets by the products of Hollywood. The New Latin American Cinemas, in turn, paved the way toward the emergence of Third Cinema. We will study films, as well as cinematic theory, from Italy, France, the Soviet Union, Japan, Cuba, Brasil, Argentina, and Mexico.

LATAM 277 Caribbean Women Writers (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 2:40-3:55 R. Marquez
Comparative examination of contemporary women's writing in the Caribbean. Emphasis will be on their engagement with issues of history, cultural articulation, race, class, gender, and nationality, including exploration of their formal procedures, individual moods, regional particularity, and general impact as writers. Rosario Ferré, Ana Lydia Vega, Julia Alvarez, Edna Brodber, Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Jean Rhys, Beryl Gilroy, and Rosa Guy are among those whose works we will review.

MEDST 300 Seminar in Medieval Studies (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 1:00-3:50 C. Collette
This course will study J. R. R. Tolkein's imaginative creation of Middle Earth within the context of his extensive knowledge of philology and mythology, as well as within the context of his participation in the Inklings, the literary group that also included C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams. It will discuss their theories of myth, literature, and fable, as well as their influence on twentieth-century understanding of medieval culture. Reading will include works of fiction and literary theory by all three authors, as well as secondary material.

RES 215 Doestoevsky and the Problem of Evil: The Brothers Karamazov (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 P. Scotto
Perhaps no other novelist has delved as deeply into the psychological and metaphysical dimensions of evil as the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. This course will be devoted to a close reading of Dostoevsky's landmark novel of murderous passion and parricide, The Brothers Karamazov. Why should crime and transgression be a privileged avenue of access into the human interior? How is psychology tied to the metaphysical aspect of human existence? What are the sources of evil - and redemption?

ROMLG 375 Seminar in Romance Languages and Literatures (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 C. Gundermann
In this seminar, we will study the cross-cultural influences between Italian neo-realism, the French nouvelle vague, and the New Latin American Cinemas. Both the Italian and the French movements represent models and counterpoints for those Latin American filmmakers of the 1950s and 60s who sought to redress the dominance of the realist American model in Latin America and the domination of the markets by the products of Hollywood. The New Latin American Cinemas, in turn, paved the way toward the emergence of Third Cinema. We will study films, as well as cinematic theory, from Italy, France, the Soviet Union, Japan, Cuba, Brasil, Argentina, and Mexico.

SPAN 237 Introduction to Latin American Literature II (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 11:00-12:15 L. Martinez
An introduction to Latin American texts from modernismo to the present. Different cultural movements and their sociopolitical contexts are examined through representative works. Class discussions and assigned papers are based on literary analysis and research.

SPAN 332 Spanish Literature: Medieval, Renaissance, and Golden Age (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 N. Romero-Diaz
This course will study the way Spain defines itself as a nation by exploring the political, religious, and cultural relations between different ethnic groups which have been coexisting in Spain since the Early Modern period to our present. We will concentrate on three fundamental historical moments: the 13th century (the apogee of tolerance between Arabs, Christians, and Jews); the 16th century (the institutionalization of the Inquisition and its effects on converted Jews and Arabs); and the 20th century (tolerance toward new immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America is questioned). Our approach will be interdisciplinary (e.g., literature, history, music, and films).

SPAN 343 The Sounds of Spanglish (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 O. Stavans
A linguistic/cultural study of the Latino population in the United States through its language. The course spans almost 500 years. It starts with the Spanish explorers in 1521 and ends with today's rappers and poets. Novels, plays, and film will be used as primary texts. The various modalities of Spanglish, spoken by, among other groups, Nuyoricans, Chicanos, and Cuban-Americans, will be compared. The development of Spanglish as a street jargon will be compared to Yiddish, Ebonics, and other minority tongues. The course will also discuss the rapid changes of Spanish, under strong pressure from English. Works by Dr. Samuel Johnson, Antonio de Nebrija, and Fernando Ortiz will be used.

SPAN 345 The Contemporary Latina Voice in U.S. Theater (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
F 2:30-5:00 P. Page, D. Mosby
Students will examine dramatic texts by Latina dramatists who represent critical moments in the development of Latina Theater. We will explore contextual, theoretical, and formal dimensions of US Latina theater and its development, as well as, the relationship of theater with the contested territories of identity politics, gender roles, and cultural representations of "American identity." We will discuss the artistic and social contexts of representative works, examine style and forms of representation, as well as discuss the playwrights and their careers. Every effort will be made to incorporate visits by artists, scholars, and dramatists into the curricular program of the course.

SPAN 361 Seminar on Latin American Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 C. Gundermann
In this seminar, we will study the cross-cultural influences between Italian neo-realism, the French nouvelle vague, and the New Latin American Cinemas. Both the Italian and the French movements represent models and counterpoints for those Latin American filmmakers of the 1950s and 60s who sought to redress the dominance of the realist American model in Latin America and the domination of the markets by the products of Hollywood. The New Latin American Cinemas, in turn, paved the way toward the emergence of Third Cinema. We will study films, as well as cinematic theory, from Italy, France, the Soviet Union, Japan, Cuba, Brasil, Argentina, and Mexico.

THEAT 257 Theory and Criticism (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 10:00-11:50 P. Alekson
This course examines the major theoretical and critical statements on drama and theatrical performance from the classical period to the beginning of the postmodern era--from Plato to Brecht and beyond. Central to the study will be the evolving concepts of representation, structure, genre, and performance. The writings of theorists, critics, and practitioners--contextualized and supplemented by representative play texts--will be further explored, illuminated, and challenged through writing and performance projects that will require students to put theory into practice.

THEAT 281 Shakespeare (Eng 211) (ENGL 221/222) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 P. Berek
A study of some of Shakespeare's plays, emphasizing both the poetic and the dramatic aspects of his art, with attention to the historical context and varieties of critical interpretations, including those of the twentieth century. Nine or ten plays.

THEAT 332 Modern Drama (Eng 332) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 J. Lemly
A history of drama in Europe, America, and Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. Readings include plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, O'Casey, Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht, Williams, Miller, Beckett, Pinter, Hansberry, Soyinka, Aidoo, Shepard, Fugard, Norman, Wilson, and Parks.

THEAT 350 Seminar: British Drama: From the Gothic to the Suffragists (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 H. Holder

THEAT 383 Playwriting II n (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 P. Alekso
(Writing-intensive course) A continuation of Playwriting I. In a collaborative workshop setting, students will employ the tools and techniques discussed and practiced in Playwriting I to develop ideas for and construct and refine their own full-length plays. Over the course of the semester, students will present readings of their works-in-progress for peer analysis and feedback. In addition, readings of contemporary plays, theory, playwrights' manifestos and reviews will be employed for further insight into the dramatic process. The semester will culminate in a New Play Series of staged readings of the playwrights' work with the possibility of partnership with the directing class.

WOMST 203 Feminist Approaches to Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 1:15-2:30 S. Davis
In this course we will examine the work of American women writers with an emphasis on the themes of protest and pleasure. Material will range from the overtly political to the intensely personal, will often merge the two, and will date from the late-nineteenth century to today. Despite our long-standing reputation for being "emotional," both outrage and ecstasy have oft been considered taboo for women. Yet women have been motivated by each to pick up the pen and have proved influential as writers on these themes. Authors will range from Emma Goldman, Ida B. Wells and Kate Chopin to Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and Dorothy Allison.

SMITH COLLEGE

AAS 237 Twentieth Century Afro-American Literature (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 09:00-10:20 D. McClure
Same as ENG 236. A survey of the evolution of African-American literature during the twentieth century. This class will build on the foundations established in AAS 113, Survey of Afro-American Literature 1746 to 1900. Writers include Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall.

AAS 366 Seminar: Contemporary Topics in Afro-American Studies: Literatures of the African Diaspora: Migrat (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 07:30-09:30 D. Lamo
This course identifies migration as a central narrative of African Diasporic literature. We will explore fictional representations of migration experiences that prove central to the construction of African American subjectivities, looking in particular at the slave trade and Middle Passage, reverse migrations, immigration and experiences of exile. We will explore 20th century narratives that foreground issues such as modernity, displacement, colonialism and post-colonialism, constructions of home, and diasporic consciousness. In particular we will focus on how the "performance of memory" allows the displaced subject to imagine and construct national and/or diasporic identities. We will also explore some theoretical readings that focus on notions of Diaspora, the Black Atlantic, colonialism and post-colonialism. Narratives of African Diasporic migration share an awareness of the redemptive force memory and the trauma, challenges and possibilities posed by experiences of dislocation. This seminar serves as the capstone course for majors.

AMS 120 Scribbling Women (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 S. Marker
With the help of the Sophia Smith Collection and the Smith College Archives, this writing intensive course looks at a number of 19th and 20th century American women writers. All wrestled with specific issues that confronted them as women; each wrote about important issues in American society. Enrollment limited to 15. Priority given to first year students.

AMS 351 Seminar: Writing About American Society (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 01:00-02:50 G. Colt
Same as ENG 384. An examination of contemporary American issues through the works of such literary journalists as Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, and Jessica Mitford; and intensive practice in expository writing to develop the student's own skills in analyzing complex social issues and expressing herself artfully in this form. May be repeated with a different instructor and with the permission of the Director of the Program. Enrollment limited. Admission by permission of the instructor.

CLS 236 Cleopatra: Histories, Fictions, Fantasies (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 09:00-10:20 N. Shumate
A study of the transformation of Cleopatra, a competent Hellenistic ruler, into a historical myth, a staple of literature, and a cultural lens through which the political, aesthetic, and moral sensibilities of different eras have been focused. Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Orientalist, Postcolonial, Hollywood Cleopatras; reading from, among others, Plutarch, Virgil, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Dryden, Gautier, Shaw, historical novelists; some attention to Cleopatra in the visual arts.

CLT 234 The Adventure Novel: No Place for a Woman? (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 M. Bruzelius
This course explores the link between landscape, plot and gender: how is the adventure landscape organized? Who lives where within it? What boundaries mark safe and unsafe places? Beginning with essays on cartography by Denis Wood, we'll read three classic 19th-century boys' books (Scott, Stevenson, Verne), then adventure fictions with female protagonists by E.M. Forster, Ursula Le Guin, Peter Dickinson, Astrid Lundren and others, to explore the ways in which this genre has embraced and resisted female heroes.

CLT 235 Fairy Tales and Gender (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 01:00-02:50 E. Harries
A study of the literary fairy tale in Europe from the 1690s to the 1990s, with emphasis on the ways women have written, rewritten, and transformed them. Some attention to oral story-telling and to related stories in other cultures. Writers will include Aulnoy, Perrault, le Prince de Beaumont, the Grimms, Andersen, Christina Rossetti, Angela Carter, Sexton, Broumas. Prerequisite: at least one college-level course in literature. Not open to first-year students.

CLT 267 African Women's Drama (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 10:30-11:50 K. Mule
This course will examine how African women playwrights use drama to confront the realities of women's lives in contemporary Africa. What is the specificity of the vision unveiled in African women's drama? How do the playwrights use drama to mock rigid power structures and confront crisis, instability and cultural expression in postcolonial Africa? How and for what purposes do they interweave the various aspects of performance in African oral traditions with elements of European drama? Readings, some translated from French, Swahili and other African languages, will include Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa, Osonye Tess Onwueme's Tell It to Women, An Epic Drama for Women, and Penina Mlama's Nguzo Mama (Mother Pillar).

CLT 272 Women Writing: 20th and 21st Century Fiction (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 M. Schuster
A study of the pleasures and politics of fiction by women from English-speaking and French-speaking cultures. How do women writers engage, subvert, and/or resist dominant meanings of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity and create new narrative spaces? Who speaks for whom? How does the reader participate in making meaning(s)? How do different theoretical perspectives (feminist, lesbian, queer, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, postmodern) change the way we read? Writers such as Woolf, Colette, Condé, Larsen, Morrison, Duras, Rule, Kingston, Shields and Atwood. Not open to first-year students.

CLT 274 The Garden: Paradise and Battlefield (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MWF 11:00-12:10 A. Leone
Ever since Genesis, the garden has been depicted not only as a paradise, a refuge and a women's place, but also as a jungle that challenges definitions of the self and of that self's place in the world. How have shared notions about the relation of gardens to their inhabitants changed from one culture and historical period to another? Some attention to the theory and history of landscape gardening. Texts by Mme. de Lafayette, Goethe, Austen, Balzac, Zola, Chekhov, Colette, D.H. Lawrence, and Alice Walker.

CLT 278 Gender and Madness in African and Caribbean Prose (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 03:00-04:20 D. Fulton
Women from Africa and the Caribbean. Beginning with an introduction to theories of madness, we will look specifically at how the category of madness functions in these novels, connoting on the one hand exoticism and marginality, and on the other a language of resistance. Emphasis on close formal analysis, with particular attention to how such narratives articulate or obscure boundaries between madness and reason, and how gender figures in these boundaries. Essays by Edouard Glissant and Franz Fanon; works by such authors as Ken Bugul, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Bessie Head, Jean Rhys, Maryse Condé, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra.

CLT 293 Writings and Rewritings: Contexts, Migrations Theory: Antigone (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 A. Jones
A study of how literary texts written in a particular historical and cultural moment are revised and transformed in new geographies, ideological frameworks, and art forms. Oedipus' daughter Antigone, executed for burying her brother against the decree of the tyrant Creon, has been read as a sister defending family bonds against state power, as a woman supporting private good over civic law, and as a feminist resisting male domination. Why has she been interpreted in such different ways in different times and places? We'll analyze her transformations from ancient Greece to the 21st century in drama and film from Sophocles to Anoulh, Brecht, the Congolese dramatist Sylvain Bemba, and the modern American playwright Martha Boesing, and in theorists from Hegel to Levi-Strauss, Lacan, Derrida, Gayle Rubin, Seyla Benhabib and Judith Butler.

CLT 305 Studies in the Novel: The Modern African Novel: Texts and Issues(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 03:00-04:50 K. Mule
A study of the controversies about the origins of the African novel and its thematic, ideological, and aesthetic visions. Is there a demonstrable relationship between the modern African novel, a late twentieth-century phenomenon, and the oral epic traditions of the continent? Should we read the African novel as an experiment in form, driven by diverse African experience as writers attempt to grapple with local social, political, and gender formations? We will attempt to respond to these questions through an in-depth study of texts such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross, Achebe's A Man of the People, Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy, Nawal el Saadawi's God Dies by the River Nile and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure.

CLT 364 Tradition and Dissent: Don Juan, World's Traveler (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 R. Lazaro
Don Juan has been called a scoundrel, a Romantic hero, a quintessential 'macho,' a homosexual, a rebel against stifling social and sexual mores, an emblem of Spain. Different attitudes towards Don Juan reveal how countries and ages interpret conquest, patriarchal power, religion, sex, gender, freedom and rebellion. This course traces the world travels and transformations of the character from sinner and philosopher in the 17th century (Tirso and Molière, respectively), to a symptom of the arrival of modern sensibility (Mozart-Da Ponte) and a nationalistic symbol in19th and 20th century Spain (Zorrilla, Valle-Inclán, Azorin). Films by Losey and Sellars (Don Giovanni). Frears (Dangerous Liaisons), Levin (Don Juan De Marco), Mediero (Don Juan, My Love). Taught in English, the Spanish texts are offered in the original in the one-credit course SPN 356.

EAL 237 Chinese Poetry and the Other Arts (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 S. Wu
A study of traditional Chinese poetry from around 600 B.C. to 1300 A.D., including folk songs, old-style poems, rhapsodies, yuefu ballads, regulated verses, ci lyrics, and vernacular songs. Through comparative study of the theoretical and practical interaction of Chinese poetry with music, painting, calligraphy and other visual and plastic arts, we will consider forms of art in a coherent intellectual framework. In addition to linguistic characteristics, formal and thematic aspects, we will explore issues of gender and the historical, social and cultural contexts. Students, if interested, will also learn to sing some traditional Chinese poems. All readings are in English translation.

EAL 242 Modern Japanese Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 K. Kono
Selected readings in translation of Japanese literature from the Meiji period to the present. In the past 150 years Japan has undergone tremendous change: rapid industrialization, imperial and colonial expansion, occupation following its defeat in the Pacific War, and emergence as a global economic power. The literature of modern Japan reflects the complex aesthetic, cultural and political effects of such changes. Through our discussions of these texts, we will also address theoretical questions about such concepts as identity, gender, race, sexuality, nation, class, colonialism, modernism and translation. All readings are in English translation.

EAL 360 Seminar: Topics in East Asian Languages and Literatures: Writing Empire: Images of Colonial and Po (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 03:00-04:50 K. Kono
We will read and discuss literary texts produced in and about the Japanese empire during the first half of the 20th century. We will address the diverse reactions to Japan's colonial project and explore the ways in which empire was manifest in a literary form. Looking at the different representations of empire, the course will examine concepts such as assimilation, mimicry, hybridity, travel, and transculturation in the context of Japanese colonialism. By bringing together different voices from inside and outside of Japan's empire, students will gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of colonial hegemony and identity. In particular, reading works by Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and Chinese subjects will enable students to transcend simplistic binary notions of colonizer and colonized while also acknowledging the complex reality of colonial complicity. While the course will focus predominantly on literature related to Japanese colonialism, students will also be assigned several examples of colonial fiction from other literary traditions as well as some postcolonial theory.

EAL 360 02 Seminar: Topics in East Asian Languages and Literatures: The Dream of the Red Chamber (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 03:00-04:50 S. Wu
The Dream of the Red Chamber is the most studied of all the novels in Chinese literature, and scholarship on the novel now forms its own "Red School." In modern times, the novel has also been frequently transformed into TV drama series, movies, plays, operas, and dance performances. In this seminar, we will finish reading the novel's 120 chapters (translated into English in five volumes) and study the novel's representations of both popular and high culture, from traditional society, arts, and poetry to clothing, food, and other everyday customs. Visual aides and web sites will be provided whenever needed.

EDC 325 The Teaching of Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 07:30-09:30 S. Intrator
Young people have a deep desire to represent their experience through writing. They write because they want to understand their lives. They write to persuade others, express what they know, and create beauty through their words. This course is designed to help pre-service teachers develop an understanding of the writing process in order to become informed decision-makers in their classrooms. Special emphasis will be placed on learning current theory and practice related to writing processes, with emphasis on personal writing experiences, including topic selection, drafting, conferencing, revising, editing and publishing. Other topics include evaluation, writing in various genres and about various subjects, motivating students to write and management of writing workshops. Open only to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 12.

ENG 199 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200)
MW 01:10-02:30 N. Bradbury
This course teaches the skills that enable us to read literature with understanding and pleasure. By studying examples from a variety of periods and places, students will learn how poetry, prose fiction, and drama, work, how to interpret them, and how to make use of interpretations by others. English 199 seeks to produce perceptive readers well equipped to take on complex texts. Readings in different sections will vary, but all will involve active discussion and frequent writing.

ENG 199 02 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200) TTh 09:00-10:20 M. Thurston

ENG 199 03 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200)MW 02:40-04:00 E. Harries

ENG 199 04 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200)TTh 01:00-02:50 P. Skarda

ENG 203 Western Classics in Translation, from Chretien de Troyes to Tolstoy (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 R. Hosmer
Same as GLT 292. Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain; Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; Cervantes' Don Quixote; Lafayette's The Princesse of Clèves; Goethe's Faust; Tolstoy's War and Peace. Prerequisite: GLT 291.

ENG 227 Modern British Fiction (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 01:00-02:50 M. Gorra
Lectures, with occasional discussion, on the English novel from Conrad to the present day. The historical contexts and the formal devices (management of narrative and plot, stylistic and structural innovations, characterization, literary allusiveness) of works by such writers as Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, F.M. Ford, Arnold Bennett, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Doris Lessing, Shirley Hazzard, V.S. Naipaul.

ENG 228 Children's Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 09:00-10:20 G. Kendall
This course progresses from the nature of the fairy tale as genre, to the unique form of the picture book, to a book written for adults that has metamorphosed into children's literature (Gulliver) and a book written for children that has become a book for adults (Alice). The syllabus covers coming-of-age stories, dark stories filled with imagery of mortality and stories that ridicule what has been considered the standard literature for children. The course also explores the nature and function of fantasy written for children, and ends with a good crop of ghost stories.

ENG 230 The Jewish Writer in America (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 J. Cammy
The Jewish literary engagement with America, from the late nineteenth century through the cultural upheavals of the 1960s to post-modern negotiations of nation and self. From writing on the margins of Yiddish to the central role of Jews in shaping the post-war literary scene. Topics include the myth of America and its discontents; narratives of immigration and acculturation; negotiating anti-Semitism in the Anglo-American literary tradition; mid-century modernism; the rise of the New York Intellectuals; ethnic comedy and satire; crises of the Left involving Communism, Black-Jewish relations, and 60s radicalism. Must Jewish writing in America remain on the margins, too Jewish for the mainstream yet not ethnic enough for the new multicultural curriculum? Novels, short stories, poetry, and essays by recipients of the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, the National Book Award, and many others.

ENG 233 American Literature from 1865 to 1914 (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:00-02:30 D. Flower
A survey of American writing after the Civil War, emphasizing the rise of vernacular style, the emergence of "realism" and "naturalism," and the transformation of Romantic mythology and convention. Emphasis on writers who criticize and stand apart from their societies. Fiction by Mark Twain, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, and Gertrude Stein; poetry by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and E.A. Robinson.

ENG 236 Twentieth Century Afro-American Literature (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 09:00-10:10 D. McClure
Same as AAS 237. A survey of the evolution of African-American literature during the twentieth century. This class will build on the foundations established in AAS 113, Survey of Afro-Ame