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Click here for details about all the courses offered for Spring 2008 Semester.


Spring 2008 Semester Course List

First-Year Seminars

Courses for Non-Majors

Introductory Courses

Advanced Courses

Senior Tutorial, Seminars, & Honors

London Semester


Composition Courses -- Spring 2008 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.


Courses for Non-Majors-- Spring 2008 Semester

Number
CRN

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

Instructor

Meeting Days and Time

X-listing (#) /X-referencing

141-01

13954

Rivers in American Literature

T.S. McMillin

MWF 11:00-11:50 + Th 7:00-10:00 pm

ENVR

 

Introductory Elective Courses-- Spring 2008 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

232-01

13424

Traditions of Metamorphosis

J. Hobbs

MWF 3:30-4:20

Diversity
Post-1900

CMPL 232 (13425)


Introductory Gateway Courses -- Spring 2008 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

203-01

13955

Medieval & Renaissance Literature
This course is cancelled.

J. Bryan

MWF 10:00-10:50

Nature of Text

British
Pre-1700

 

204-01

14172

Shakespeare and Contemporary Criticism

P. Gorfain

MWF 2:30-3:20

Nature of Interpretation

British
Pre-1700

 

212-01

13956

Wits, Rakes, Madmen & Jane: A Survey of 18th-Century Literature

L. Baudot

TuTh 9:35-10:50

Nature of Text 

British
1700-1900

220-01

13957

Romantic Literature

J. Olmsted

TuTh 1:30-2:45

Nature of Text 

British
1700-1900

 

228-02

13959

Modern British and Irish Fiction

D. Walker

MWF 11:00-11:50

Nature of Text

British
Post-1900

 

260-01

13960

Black Humor and Irony: Modern Literary Experiments

G. Johns

TuTh 1:30-2:45

Nature of Interpretation

American
Diversity
Post-1900


CAS
CMPL

273-01

14152

The Psychoanalytic Imagination in American Culture

I. Geerken

TuTh 9:35-10:50

Nature of Interpretation

American
Post-1900

 

275-01
12890

Register under CMPL 200

Introduction to Comparative Literature

J. Deppman

MWF 3:30-4:20

 

Diversity

CMPL 200
12983

282-01

12891

Shifting Scenes: Drama Survey

C. Tufts

TuTh 11:00-12:15

Nature of Text 

Diversity
1700-1900 OR
Post-1900

 

 

Advanced Courses -- Spring 2008 Semester

Number
CRN

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

Instructor

Meeting Days and Time

Distribution for New Major

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301-01

13961

Chaucer This course is cancelled.

J. Bryan

MWF 3:30-4:20

British
Pre-1700

 

306-01

14197

16th- and 17th-Century Poetry: Discourses of Love

R. Pierce

MWF 10:00-10:50

British
Pre-1700

 

307-01

13962

Six Great Elizabethan & Jacobean Plays in Context

P. Gorfain

MWF 2:30-3:20

British
Pre-1700

 

308-01

13963

Sexualities in Shakespearean Poetry & Drama

P. Gorfain

MWF 10:00-10:50

British
Diversity
Pre-1700

 

324-01

13964

Six Poets: 1945-Present

D. Harrison

TuTh 1:30-2:45

American
OR British
Post-1900

348-01

13965

Modern Drama: Ibsen to Pirandello

C. Tufts

W 7:00-9:30 pm

Diversity
1700-1900 OR Post-1900
 

353-01

12367

American Literature: 1825-65: "To Write Like an American"

S. Zagarell

MWF 11:00-11:50

American
Diversity
1700-1900
CAS

357-01

13966

Transatlantic Cross-Currents: Nineteenth-Century British & American Literature

S. Zagarell

MWF 2:30-3:20

American
OR British
Diversity
1700-1900

CAS

362-01

13967

Partition, War, Dislocation: Mid-Twentieth-Century South Asia & Historic Palestine

A. Needham/ F. Hasso

TuTh 9:35-10:50

Diversity
Post-1900

GAWS 362
(13968)
SOCI 362
(13969)

363-01

13970

Gaines, Morrison, Wideman: Textualizing Orality and Literacy

G. Johns

TuTh 9:35-10:50

American
Diversity
Post-1900
 

365-01

13971

American Drama

C. Tufts

TuTh 1:30-2:45

American
Post-1900
 

370-01

14155

Itineraries of Postmodernism

J. Deppman

MWF 1:30-2:20

Diversity
Post-1900
CMPL 370
(14154)

373-01

13972

American Literature, Movies, & Culture in the 1930s: Art & Social Value

P. Day

MWF11:00-11:50 + Tu 7-10 pm + Sun 1-4 pm

American
Post-1900
CAS
CINE

383-01

13973

Selected Authors: Vladimir Nabokov

D. Walker

MWF 2:30-3:20

American
Post-1900
 

388-01

13974

Selected Authors: Salman Rushdie

A. Needham

TuTh 3:00-4:15

British
Diversity
Post-1900
 

390-01

13975

Selected Authors: William Faulkner

J. Olmsted

TuTh 3:00-4:15

American
Post-1900
 

393-01

13976

Selected Authors: James Joyce

J. Hobbs

MWF 11:00-11:50

Diversity
Post-1900
 

394-01

13438

Selected Authors: Jane Austen

L. Baudot

TuTh 1:30-2:45

British
Diversity
1700-1900
 

395-01

7308

Poetry Workshop

P. Alexander

W 7:00-10:00 pm

 

CRWR 310
7146

397-01

7309

Fiction Workshop

S. Watanabe

W 7:00-10:00 pm

CRWR 320
7147

399-01

7311

Teaching and Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines

L. McMillin

TuTh 1:30-2:45

.

RHET 401
14113

 

Senior Tutorials, Seminars, Honors Projects-- Spring 2008 Semester
By application only.

Number
CRN

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

Instructor

Meeting Days and Time

X-listing (#) /
X-referencing

400-01 11768 Senior Tutorial J. Pence TuTh 10:00-10:50
CINE 498-03
12956
400-02 11769 Senior Tutorial S. Zagarell M 7:00-10:00 pm  
437-01 13439 Seminar: Ars Poetica: Poetry, Art, Thought D. Harrison TuTh 9:35-10:50  
451-01 12905 Honors Project T.S. McMillin TBA  

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