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Click here for details about all the courses offered for Fall 2007 Semester.


Fall 2007 Semester Course List

First-Year Seminars

Courses for Non-Majors

Introductory Courses

Advanced Courses

Senior Tutorial, Seminars, & Honors

London Semester


Composition Courses -- Fall 2007 Semester

Students interested in taking introductory-level courses in writing should also see the Rhetoric and Composition section of the catalog. Descriptions of writing-oriented courses and procedures to be followed in order to meet the college-wide writing requirements may be found there. These courses do not count towards an English major.

First-Year Seminars -- Fall 2007 Semester

The English Department offers a number of seminars designed especially for first-year students. First-year seminars do not count toward the English major, which begins with classes at the 200 level. Students in their second year or beyond should begin work in the English Department at the 200 level.

Number

CRN**
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Title

For detailed descriptions of individual courses, click on the course title

Instructor

Meeting Days and Time

117-01

6567

Forms of Dialogue

J. Hobbs

TuTh 9:35-10:50
117-02 6948 Forms of Dialogue J. Hobbs

TuTh 1:30-2:45

127-01

7433

William Butler Yeats in Context

J. Olmsted

TuTh 9:35-10:50

127-02

7434

William Butler Yeats in Context

J. Olmsted

TuTh 1:30-2:45

134-01

6591

Crossing Borders: the Mysteries of Identity

D. Walker

MWF 11:00-11:50
171-01 7493 Media & Meaning G. Pingree

TuTh 9:35-10:50 +
Tu 7:00-10:00 pm

183-01 6971 From Page to Stage P. Gorfain

TuTh 11:00-12:15

183-02 6972 From Page to Stage P. Gorfain

TuTh 1:30-2:45

185-01 6986 The Blues Detective: Riffing on a Literary Formula G. Johns

MWF 11:00-11:50

187-01 7543 Death and the Art of Dying J. Deppman

MWF 1:30-2:20


Courses for Non-Majors-- Fall 2007 Semester

Number
CRN

Title
For detailed descriptions of individual courses, click on the course title

Instructor

Meeting Days and Time

112-01

7446

One Hundred Poems

D. Harrison

MWF 9:00-9:50

113-01

7527

English Bible and Its Literary Authority

R. Longsworth

MWF 10:00-10:50


Introductory Gateway Courses -- Fall 2007 Semester

Number
CRN

Title
For detailed descriptions of individual courses, click on the course title

Instructor

Meeting Days and Time
Gateway
Type

Distribution
for New Major

X-listing (#) /X-referencing

202-01

7528

Medieval European Literature

R. Longsworth

MWF 1:30-2:20

Nature of Text 

Pre-1700

 

211-01

7526

Milton

R. Pierce

MWF 10:00-10:50

Nature of Text 

British
Pre-1700

218-01

7296

Shakespeare and the Limits of Genre

D. Walker

MWF 2:30-3:20

Nature of Text 

British
Pre-1700

 

222-01

7520

Satire from Swift to South Park

L. Baudot

TuTh 9:35-10:50

Nature of Interpretation

British OR American
1700-1900

 

222-02

7521

Satire from Swift to South Park

L. Baudot

TuTh 11:00-12:15

Nature of Interpretation

British OR American
1700-1900

 

223-01

7529

Grief, Rage and Wonder: The 19th-Century British Novel I

I. Geerken

TuTh 9:35-10:50

Nature of Text 

British
1700-1900

 

238-01

7298

Contemporary American Fiction

J. Pence

TuTh 9:35-10:50

Nature of Interpretation

American
Post-1900

 

240-01

6402

Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett

J. Hobbs

MWF 10:00-10:50

Nature of Text 

Diversity
Post-1900

 

257-01

7299

Late 19th-Century American Literature: The Re-Making of "America"

S. Zagarell

MW 7:30-8:45 pm

Nature of Interpretation

American
Diversity

1700-1900

 

265-01

7300

Anglophone Literatures of the Third World

A. Needham

TuTh 11:00-12:15

Nature of Interpretation

Diversity
Post-1900

CMPL 265
7305

275-01
6793

Register under CMPL 200 (4382)

Introduction to Comparative Literature

J. Deppman

MWF 3:30-4:20

 

Diversity

CMPL 200
4382

294-01

6795

The Lyric in English from 1600-1900

D. Harrison

MWF 11:00-11:50

Nature of Text 

British
Pre-1700 OR
1700-1900

 

 

Advanced Courses -- Fall 2007 Semester

Number
CRN

Title
For detailed descriptions of individual courses, click on the course title

Instructor

Meeting Days and Time

Distribution for New Major

X-listing (#) / X-referencing

315-01

5308

Eighteenth-Century Fiction

L. Baudot

TuTh 3:00-4:15

British
1700-1900

 

316-01

7301

Early Victorian Literature in Context

J. Olmsted

TuTh 3:00-4:15

British
1700-1900

 

323-01

7447

Six Poets: 1855-1955

D. Harrison

MWF 1:30-2:20

American
Or British
1700-1900 Or
Post-1900

 

330-01

7302

Modernist Chicago: Urban Literature and Sociology

G. Johns

MWF 1:30-2:20

American
Diversity
Post-1900

372-01

3681

Contemporary Literary Theory: Post-Modernity and Imagination

W.P. Day

MWF 10:00-10:50

American
Post-1900

 

386-01

7304

Narrating the Nation: Historical and Literary Approaches to Nationalism in Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Asia

A. Needham
S. Volk

TuTh 9:35-10:50

Diversity
Post-1900
HIST 367
7330

395-01

1455

Poetry Workshop

K. Ali

W 7:00-10:00 pm

 

CRWR 310
1036

396-01

7278

Nonfiction Workshop

S. Watanabe

W 7:00-10:00 pm

CRWR 340
7264

397-01

1456

Fiction Workshop

D. Chaon

Tu 7:00-10:00 pm

CRWR 320
1037

398-01

7262

Playwriting Workshop

D. Walker

TuTh 3:00-4:15

CRWR 330
7261

399-01

1458

Teaching and Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines

L. Podis

TuTh 3:00-4:15

.

RHET 401
7393

 

Senior Tutorials, Seminars, Honors Projects-- Fall 2007 Semester
By application only.

Number
CRN

Title
For detailed descriptions of individual courses, click on the course title

Instructor

Meeting Days and Time
400-01 6803 Senior Tutorial G. Johns W 7:00-9:30 pm
400-02 5455 Senior Tutorial A. Needham Tu 7:00-10:00 pm
450-01 5808 Honors Project W.P Day TBA

 

London Program-- Fall 2007 Semester

Number
CRN

Title

For detailed descriptions of individual courses, click on the course title

Instructor

Meeting Days and Time

940-01

7425

Organizing Nature in British Culture

T.S. McMillin

To be arranged

941-01

7426

Travel, Writing, and English Traits

T.S. McMillin

To be arranged

950-01

7427

Poetry, Place, Ecocriticism

T.S. McMillin

To be arranged

 

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