2021-2022 Course List

This course introduces students to the role of culture and language in education. Topics of study focus on diverse student populations, particularly language learners, in American schools, providing an understanding that every individual is a member of many communities and is influenced by a host of different cultural markers, such as language, race, ethnicity, regionalism, social class, gender, and other differences.

Selected topics course on literature about gender and gendered experiences

Diverse Cultures:

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Studies in selected authors. Specific authors change. May be repeated with content changes.

This course examines Shakespeare's poetry and dramatic works within their social and historical context. The plays will be considered as both literary texts and dramatic performances.

Study of literature from the 21st century, with an emphasis on how these works reflect contemporary concerns.

Prerequisites:

ENG 275W

This course critically examines a wide array of literature, non-fiction essays and articles, film and art to explore the historical experiences of diverse Arab American communities. The course will begin by discussing major issues in the field, the history of immigration and citizenship, and developments in Arab American writing. Students will learn about waves of immigration from the 1880s onward, the literary communities that formed, and their contemporary legacy. The course will enable the students to better comprehend the historical and cultural contexts in which Arab American literature has evolved and the diverse perspectives of individual writers and artists.

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Topics have included genres such as fantasy or historical fiction and thematic topics such as survival or journeys. May be repeated for credit when the topic changes.

Selected periods of literary study.

Extensive reading in an area for which the student has had basic preparation.

Prerequisites:

Consent 

Content changes. May be repeated.

Topics on themes, issues, and developments in genres of the literatures of the world. Content changes. May be repeated.

Diverse Cultures:

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Topics on themes, issues, and developments in genres of the literatures of the world. Content changes. May be repeated.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

A study of selected novels from a variety of time periods and cultures, including Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

This writing-intensive course surveys the earliest Native American literary works, from oral tradition and songs to contemporary works and authors, with a particular emphasis on tribal and cultural contexts that identify these works as Native American.

Diverse Cultures:

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This course surveys the origins and development of Chicana/o and Latina/o literature, from oral narratives, early poetry, and narrative fiction and memoirs, through the Chicano Movement and the emergence of Chicana/o literature and drama. The course also examines contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o narrative fiction, including issues related to im/migration, the urban experience, Chicana/o and Latina/o subjectivity, and the reappropriation and reinterpretation of myths, legends, and cultural figures in transnational context.

Diverse Cultures:

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This writing-intensive course surveys the earliest African American literary works, including slave narratives, poetry, folklore, and oration, through 20th century movements such as the Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance, and Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, to contemporary works and authors.

Diverse Cultures:

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Theories of literature and its production and use. Prereq: 6 semester credits in literature.

Prerequisites:

6 semester credits in literature 

Advanced workshop in writing personal essays and literary journalism. May be repeated.

Prerequisites:

ENG 340 or ENG 342

An advanced course in writing short stories and novels. May be repeated.

Prerequisites:

ENG 340 or ENG 343

An advanced course in writing poems. May be repeated.

Prerequisites:

ENG 341 or ENG 344

An advanced course in writing critical essays. May be repeated. Prereq: Writing course or consent

Prerequisites:

Writing course or consent 

Introduction to writing for the screen. May be repeated with new content.

This course enables BA and BFA Creative Writing students to bring their previous critical and creative study to bear in a final program project. It is generally the last course they take in their program.

Diverse Cultures:

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This course approaches works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from the past 30 years with a special focus on the craft issues that are central components of each work's success. English 448 is a required course for BA and BFA majors in creative writing.

Diverse Cultures:

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Topics in Creative Writing Form and Technique is a variable-title course that explores special topics relating to the technical mastery of one or more creative genres, or the technical achievement of one or more practitioners. May be repeated with different topics, some of which could fulfill either a major author or a workshop requirement.