Catalog Course Descriptions
| Course Number | Catalog Description | Areas Fulfilled |
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| ENGL 10 |
Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces techniques and vocabulary of analytic discussion and critical writing. Some emphasis on poetry with attention also to drama, essay, and the novel. |
Second half of GE Area Requirement A |
| ENGL 10 AC |
Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces techniques and vocabulary of analytic discussion and critical writing. Emphasis is on American identities and global crisis. The class introduces students to the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center located within the English Department. |
Second half of GE Area Requirement A |
| ENGL 10 EM |
Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces techniques and vocabulary of analytic discussion and critical writing. Emphasis is on early modern studies. The class also introduces students to the Early Modern Center located within the English Department. |
Second half of GE Area Requirement A |
| ENGL 10 LC |
Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces techniques and vocabulary of analytic discussion and critical writing. Emphasis is on literature and the culture of information. Introduces students to the Literature.Culture.Media Center located within the English Department. |
Second half of GE Area Requirement A |
| ENGL 100AA-ZZ |
A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in one of the following courses: English 113AA-ZZ, 114AA-ZZ, 122AA-ZZ, 128AA-ZZ, 131-134AA-ZZ, 165AA-ZZ, 182AA-ZZ, and 187AA-ZZ. Designed to enrich the lecture experience for the movtivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings or more extensive study of the reading lists as well as supplementary writing. |
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| ENGL 101 |
Introduction to English literature from the medieval period to 1650. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter. |
Writing Requirement, GE Area G Requirement |
| ENGL 101S |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 101 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 101 reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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| ENGL 102 |
Not open for credit to students who have completed English 30. Introduction to English and American literature from 1650 to 1789. The organizing thread of this course, and the selection of texts to be studied,vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 102S |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 102 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings, or more intensive study of English 102 reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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| ENGL 103A |
Introduction to American literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing thread of this course, and the selection of texts to be studied, vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 103AS |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 103A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 103A reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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| ENGL 103B |
Introduction to British literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 103BS |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 103B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 103B reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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| ENGL 104A |
Introduction to American literature from 1900 to present. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied, vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 104AS |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 104A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings, or more intensive study of English 104A reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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| ENGL 104B |
Introduction to British literature from 1900 to present. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied, vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 104BS |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 104B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 104B reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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| ENGL 105 AS |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 105A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 105A reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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| ENGL 105 BS |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 105B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 105B reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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| ENGL 105 C |
Advanced study of Shakespeare topics. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 105A |
Major poems and plays of Shakespeare, 1593-1602, including such works as the Sonnets, Hamlet, A Midsummmer Night's Dream, Henry the Fourth, Twelfth Night. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 105B |
Major works of Shakespeare from 1603-1613, including such plays as King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, The Tempest. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 106 |
Writing in such forms as the short story, poetry, and fiction. |
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| ENGL 107 |
Workshop and practice in fiction writing. |
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| ENGL 107 S |
Advanced seminar in fiction writing. |
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| ENGL 108AP |
Builds on the history, theory, and analysis of rhetoric plus the practice (through multiple speeches) of effecting change through oratory: e.g., public or political advocacy, community work, motivational speaking inside and outside the university. Extensive feedback from peers and professor. |
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| ENGL 108PM |
Students learn how to teach public speaking, assisting the professor as peer mentors in English 18. Initiation to pedagogy of public speaking includes review of such activities as: facilitating discussion, office hours, grading, preparation of review and/or feedback session(s), etc. |
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| ENGL 109 |
Workshop and practice in verse writing. |
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| ENGL 109 S |
Advanced seminar in verse writing. |
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| ENGL 10S |
A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 10 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of the English 10 reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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| ENGL 11 |
Introduces students to literary study’s unique perspectives on social knowledge, public issues, ethics, and global developments. Special emphasis on how literary practice serves as a gateway to the professions, including writing, teaching, law, journalism, counseling, business, medicine, and technological fields. |
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| ENGL 11 | ||
| ENGL 110 |
Advanced consideration of methods, techniques, and discipline of literary study. Further acquaints students with strategies of reading, contextualization, and a range of contemporary critical approaches. Topics and course content vary by term. |
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| ENGL 110A |
Introduction to language, prose, and shorter poems of seventh to tenth century Anglo-Saxons. Computerized exercises for grammar and syntax. Readings include "The Dream of the Rood" and "The Wanderer," as well as riddles and selections from the Chronicles. |
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| ENGL 110B |
Reading and translation of Beowulf. Analysis of meter and style study of the manuscript; and discussion of critical issues. |
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| ENGL 110C |
Readings in Old English Literature, in the original language. |
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| ENGL 111 |
English in its old, middle, and modern forms. Such introductory topics as language families and change; etymology, semantics; grammars; syntax; oral,written; groundwork for such methods of literary analysis as stylistics. |
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| ENGL 112 |
A combined writing and criticism course for students of literature. |
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| ENGL 113AA-ZZ |
Explorations in traditions and innovations of critical theory, literary interpretation, and philosophy. Topics vary from quarter to quarter, but will focus on the major critical figures or movements (from Aristotle to the present) that have shaped our notion of "literature." |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 114AA-ZZ |
The courses offered will include at different times such subjects as feminist theory, women writers, and women in literature. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 115 |
English and Continental literature through the fifteent century, exclusive of the Canterbury Tales but including such works as Beowulf, Morte d'Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and selected romances and lyrics. |
Writing Requirement, GE Area G Requirement |
| ENGL 116 A |
A literary approach to the Hebrew scriptures and the Apocyrpha. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 116 AS |
A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 116A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings or more intensive study of the English 116A reading list, as well as supplementary writing. |
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| ENGL 116 C |
An introduction to the Bible. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 116B |
A literary approach to the New Testament. Recommended preparation: English 116A. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 116BS |
A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 116B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings or more intensive study of the English 116B reading list, as well as supplementary writing. |
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| ENGL 119 |
Topics will vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is being taught in any particular quarter, students should consult the department's course outline booklet. |
Writing Requirement, GE Area G Requirement |
| ENGL 119X |
A study of one or more major medieval works in translation such as The Song of Roland, the romances of Chretien de Troyes, the Lais of Marie de France, or The Romance of the Rose. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 120 |
European and American drama from Ibsen to the present. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
| ENGL 121 |
An exploration of traditions and functions of story-telling; may include a range of forms from the anecdote to the novel. |
Writing Requirement, GE Area G Requirement |