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Spring Courses

2024 Spring English Courses

 

ENG 107 001-004 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
Crystal Wilkinson
MW 10:00, F varies

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

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Description automatically generated with medium confidenceENG 107 005-008 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
Erik Reece
MW 11:00, F varies

 

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

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Description automatically generated with medium confidenceENG 107 009 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
Michael Carter
TR 9:30

 Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

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Description automatically generated with medium confidenceENG 107 011-014 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
John Duncan
MW 1:00, F varies

 Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

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Description automatically generated with medium confidenceENG 107 017 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
Julian Long
Section 201
9:30 AM online synchronous

Section 202 11:00 AM online synchronous

 

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

ENG 130 LITERARY ENCOUNTERS:  Possible Futures

Andrew Thibaudeau
Section 001 TR 9:30
Section 002 TR 11:00

 Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

ENG 130 LITERARY ENCOUNTERS:  The Big Questions
Carter Johnson
Section 003 TR 12:30
Section 004 TR 2:00

 

Your dog never asks you, “Who am I?” But this is an unavoidable question for every human being. Along with this fundamental question of identity, we also wrestle with a sundry of other philosophical questions: Are we free? Is there meaning to life? What is death? Although questions such as these are unavoidable, there is no equation or calculation that can answer them. We must turn elsewhere. Across cultures and centuries, these “Big Questions” have prompted some of the greatest works of literature and art. In this course, we’ll study novels, poems, short stories, and films that engage such questions. Furthermore, we’ll not only explore these issues, but we’ll also investigate how literature presents and participates in philosophical thinking. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

ENG 130 005 LITERARY ENCOUNTERS: Get Rich Quick! From Rags to Riches in Late Capitalism  
Jap-Nanak Makkar

PART OF TERM COURSE STARTING MARCH 4th, 2023

MW 12:00-1:40, F asynchronous

 Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

ENG 130 007 LITERARY ENCOUNTERS: Subtitle TBD  
Andy Doolen

MWF 10:00

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

ENG 142 001 GLOBAL SHAKESPEARE
Joyce MacDonald
TR 12:30

 

Course description forthcoming. UK Core:  Global Dynamics OR Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 171 001 GLOBAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Jap-Nanak Makkar

PART OF TERM COURSE STARTING MARCH 4th, 2023

MW 2:30, F asynchronous

 

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Global Dynamics

ENG 180 001 GREAT MOVIES: Subtitle TBD
Deidra White
TR 9:30

 

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

ENG 180 003 GREAT MOVIES:  Anime through the Ages
Akhira Umar
MWF 11:00

 Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

ENG 180 006 GREAT MOVIES:  Subtitle TBD

Nicholas Ruma

MWF 12:00

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

ENG 180 006 GREAT MOVIES: Transformational Technology in Film

Pearl James

TR 12:30

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Arts & Creativity

ENG 191 001 LITERATURE AND THE ARTS OF CITIZENSHIP
Jeff Clymer

MWF 11:00

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: U.S. Citizenship or Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities. Part of the Law & Justice major.

ENG 207 001 BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN CREATIVE WRITING: Poetry
Deidra White

TR 11:00

Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 207 002 BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN CREATIVE WRITING: Creative Nonfiction
Akhira Umar

MWF 12:00

Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 207 003 BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN CREATIVE WRITING: Fiction
Nicholas Ruma

MWF 1:00

Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 230 001 INTRO TO LIT:  Jewish Literature
Sheila Jelen

TR 11:00

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 230 002 INTRO TO LIT: Subtitle TBD
Jonathan Allison

MWF 11:00

 

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 230 004 INTRO TO LIT:  Love Stories

Emily Shortslef
MWF 1:00 

 Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 230 006 INTRO TO LIT: Subtitle TBD
Martin Aagaard Jensen

TR 12:30

 Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 241 001 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE I
Joyce MacDonald

TR 9:30

English 241 is a survey of the development of British (not just “English”) literature from its beginnings through the early seventeenth century. Obviously, we will not be able to cover all literary developments in a period of more than a thousand years in equal depth. Instead, the course will have four major goals: 1)To give students an overview of the major modes of writing, significant texts, and important authors in the English language over this long period; 2) To trace a history of the development of the English language over time; 3) To help students build a critical vocabulary for discussing and analyzing pre-modern literature; 4)To introduce students to important research tools for studying and writing about literature. ENG 241 counts toward the survey requirement for the English major and may fulfill other requirements for other majors in and out of Arts and Sciences. 

ENG 260 001 INTRO TO BLACK WRITERS
Peter Kalliney

MWF 10:00

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 260 201 INTRO TO BLACK WRITERS

Nazera Wright

TR 11:00, online synchronous

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 260 202 INTRO TO BLACK WRITERS

Nazera Wright

TR 2:00, online synchronous

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 266 001 SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE II

Geronimo Sarmiento Cruz

TR 2:00

 

Course description forthcoming.

ENG 280 001 INTRO TO FILM

Jordan Brower

TR 11:00

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 280 002-005 INTRO TO FILM
Frederick Bengtsson

MW 2:00, F varies
 

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 280 006 INTRO TO FILM
Alan Nadel

PART OF TERM COURSE STARTING MARCH 5th, 2023

TR 5:00
 

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 280 007 INTRO TO FILM
Jordan Brower

TR 9:30

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 280 008 INTRO TO FILM
Frederick Bengtsson

MWF 11:00

Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 290 001 INTRO TO WOMEN'S LIT

Caitlin Coulter
Section 001 MWF 1:00
Section 002 MWF 2:00

 Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Inquiry in the Humanities

ENG 307 001 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITING: Subtitle TBD
John Duncan

MWF 11:00

Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 330 001 TEXT AND CONTEXT:  Hamlet
Emily Shortslef

MW 3:30

Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 330 003 TEXT AND CONTEXT: Subtitle TBD

Martin Aagaard Jensen

TR 11:00

Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 337 001 LIT & GENRE:  Native American Literature
Michael Carter

TR 11:00

Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 339 001 AUTHOR STUDIES: Subtitle TBD
Michael Genovese

MWF 12:00
 

Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 345 001 BRITISH POETRY

Jill Rappoport

TR 2:00

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Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 349 001 MODERNISM

Jonathan Allison

MWF 1:00

 

Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 384 001 LITERATURE AND FILM
Jordan Brower

TR 2:00

 Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 407 002 INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP IN CREATIVE WRITING:  Experiments in Fiction
Andrew Milward
TR 5:00


Course description forthcoming. 

ENG 425 001 ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING
Michael Carter

TR 2:00

Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and many other artistic genres have taken us to task in our treatment of the environment we humans share with all life. Whether James Fenimore Cooper in The Pioneers showing the destruction in the town of Templeton of a flock of passenger pigeons to the disgust of Natty Bumppo, or John Muir telling about the grandeur of CA’s mountains (seeing it as nature untouched, not realizing the millennia of Indigenous Peoples who had “tended” their natural world), or Annie Dillard watching frogs leaping toward water, humans have admired “nature” often as an object -- not as part of the living organism that is our planet. This course will both examine nature as amazing life but more explicitly examine our effects on that life: animal and plant. We have always had voices countering these behaviors. We will read from a variety of environmental writers from 19th century’s Thoreau to 20th century’s Bill McKibben and Wendell Berry to Linda Hogan and other Native American voices that to this day confront the abasement of the environment whether of a wall being built through sensitive landscapes and habitats or of a pipeline moving oil sludge through sacred waterways and hills. As well as reading and researching, we will write, following our minds and eyes to a better understanding of humans’ effect on the natural world through their construction, extraction, and other actions to build “civilization.”

ENG 470G 001 COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES IN LIT: Global Fiction in English

Peter Kalliney

MWF 11:00

 

Course description forthcoming.

ENG 492G 001 CULTURAL STUDIES: SR

Michael Trask

MW 4:30

 

Course description forthcoming.

ENG 495 001 MAJOR HONORS SEMINAR:  American Lit & the Stock Market
Jeff Clymer
MWF 1:00


Course description forthcoming.

ENG 507 002 ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN CREATIVE WRITING:  Autofiction & Personal Essay
Hannah Pittard

TR 2:00

Course description forthcoming.