Undergraduate Classes offered by the Drew English Dept.

English Courses @ Drew

The Major in English	Introductory Courses	Intermediate Courses
Upper-Level: Period Courses	Upper-Level: Approaches to Literature Courses	Upper-Level: Ethnic/Gender/ Sexuality and Literature Courses
Upper-Level: Specialized Literary Study courses	Senior Seminars	Courses in London

Introductory Courses

Introductory courses provide students with an overview of the field of English literature, and the opportunity to develop the analytical reading and writing skills critical for success in the major and minor. Students will leave the introductory sequence with a breadth of knowledge upon which they can build a concentration and a full understanding of literary traditions, developments, and texts. English 4 should be taken at the same time as one of the modules of English 20 or 21, and is required of all English majors and minors. English 9 should be taken before ENGL 20 and ENGL 21, although at the department’s discretion these courses may be taken simultaneously.

ENGL 4: Writing in the Discipline of English (2 credits)
This 6-week module will use the texts discussed in ENGL 20 a/b or ENGL 21 a/b as the basis for papers and extended research. Students will study the discourse conventions of English and practice the skills necessary for writing in the discipline of English. The course will include instruction in MLA style, advanced library research, and bibliographic skills.
Offered in the first and second half of each semester.
Prerequisite: Simultaneous enrollment in ENGL 20 a/b or 21 a/b

ENGL 9: Literary Analysis (4 credits)
Emphasis in the first part of the course is on expanding and honing strategies for close reading. The course covers accuracy and richness of interpretation, narrative theory, moving beyond the boundaries of the text to other cultural documents, reading drama performatively. By the end of the course, students should understand and be able to use a variety of criteria for judging the legitimacy of their own and others’ interpretations. Students will be introduced to a range of ways that scholars work in the field of literary study. Emphases vary depending on instructor.
Offered each semester. No prerequisite.

ENGL 20a: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition (1919 to the present) (2 credits)
ENGL 20b: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition (1833 to 1918) (2 credits)
ENGL 21a: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition (1660 to 1832) (2 credits)
ENGL 21b: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition (Medieval to Renaissance) (2 credits)
Taught in four 2-credit modules, this course maps Anglo-American literary history in reverse, beginning with the twentieth century and working back through the medieval period. This essential experience grounds English majors and minors in key texts as well as in major periods, transitions, shifts, and trends along with influences between and among them. Conducted primarily in lecture and discussion form to facilitate students’ reading of difficult texts, the course involves extensive reading of primary works from each period. Assessment is primarily through written exams.
Offered annually (20 a/b in the Fall, 21 a/b in the spring) Prerequisite: ENGL 9.

Intermediate Courses

Intermediate courses invite majors and non-majors to explore the field of literature in English in more depth, and in so doing develop or enhance specific areas of interest. In order to complete the major, students must take at least two courses covering material written before 1800 and at least one course focusing on non-canonical or world literature, or literature written by members of a specific ethnic group, gender, or sexuality. Students may build their CONCENTRATION from both intermediate and upper-level courses.

ENGL 30: Western Literature I (4 credits)
Reading and analysis of selected works in the Western literary tradition from ancient to early medieval periods. Approaches may vary from a survey of works from Homer to Augustine, to a topical approach such as a study of justice and individual choice represented in the works, to a genre approach such as a study of epic.
Offered fall semester annually. No prerequisite.

ENGL 31: Western Literature II (4 credits)
Reading and analysis of selected works in the Western literary tradition from the High Middle–Ages to the modern period. Approaches may vary from a survey of works from Dante to Woolf, to a topical approach such as a study of power represented in the works, to a genre approach such as a study of prose narrative.
Offered spring semester annually. No prerequisite.

ENGL 32: Gender and Literature (4 credits)
An introduction to questions of how gender, as it intersects with race, class, and sexuality, shapes literary texts, authorship, readership, and representation. Most often organized thematically, the course may focus on such issues as creativity, subjectivity, politics, work, sexuality, masculinity, or community in works chosen from a variety of periods, genres, and areas.
Cross-listed with Women’s Studies.
Offered Fall semester annually. No prerequisite.

ENGL 33: Sexuality and Literature (2 or 4 credits)
This course examines how sexuality is articulated and mediated through literature and such modes of cultural production as film and two-dimensional art. Attention will be paid to specific iterations of sexuality and the labels that attend them (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual). We will address theories of sexuality and study such authors as Jeanette Winterson, Mark Doty, Edmund White, Hart Crane, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Michael Cunningham. The course may additionally encompass how sexuality intersects with ethnicity, science and politics. Cross-listed with Women’s Studies.
Offered alternate Spring semesters. No prerequisite.

ENGL 34: Topics in American Ethnic, Immigrant, or Regional Literatures (2 or 4 credits)
An exploration of literature of the American ethnic, immigrant, or regional experience. The course may focus on one ethnicity, such as Jewish American or Arab American; explore the immigrant experience as it is articulated in works from several ethnicities including Italian American, Irish American, Eastern European, Asian American, South Asian American, or Latino/a; or it may focus on literature produced within specific geographical regions, regional schools, or regional traditions of the United States, including Southern literature, literature of the Great Plains, the Northwest, the Southwest, California, New York City, or New Jersey.
May be cross-listed with other programs according to focus.
Offered alternate Spring semesters. No prerequisite.

ENGL 35: African American Literature (2 or 4 credits)
A study of the writers in the African American literary tradition from the beginning of the 20^th century to the present. Through a variety of genres, we will examine the work of selected writers in light of their historical time and place, major themes, conclusions about the nature of black experience in the United States and their contributions to this literary tradition and to the American literary canon. We will pay close attention to particular movements in this tradition, such as the Harlem Renaissance, protest literature, the Black Arts movement, and contemporary directions in the literature since 1970. Writers may include: Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, Paule Marshall, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, and Alice Walker.
Cross-listed with African/African American Studies. May be cross-listed with Women’s Studies according to focus.
Offered alternate Spring semesters. No prerequisite.

ENGL 36: Asian American Literature (2 or 4 credits)
This course will explore questions of identity construction, nationality, hybridity, gender and sexuality as they appear in the works of Asian American writers and Asian writers in the

United Kingdom and elsewhere, and as they complicate such terms as “Asian,” “Oriental,” and “Asian American.” The course will include both close readings and consideration of theoretical, thematic, figurative, and geographic background by writers from one or more of the many Asian traditions including Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, the South Pacific islands, and writers whose sensibilities had been formed in Asia. Cross-listed with Asian Studies. May be cross-listed with Women’s Studies according to focus. Amount of credit established at time of registration.. Enrollment priority: Priority given to English majors and minors and Asian Studies minors.
Offered alternate Spring semesters. No prerequisite.

ENGL 37: Latino/a Literature (2 or 4 credits)
This course will reconsider such issues as critical race theory and identity construction, gender and sexuality, hybridity, American canon formation, and nation-building in light of the contemporary Latino Boom (in music, film, art, television, and literature). The course considers thematic and figurative background to the literature such as la Malinche, Aztlán, Quetzalcoatl, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, la Llorona, la Virgen de Guadalupe, Nepantla, and Braceros. Authors studied may include Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, Rudolfo Anaya, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Valdez, Cristina Garcia, Junot Diaz, and Julia Alvarez.
May be cross-listed with Latin American Studies and/or with Women’s Studies according to focus.
Offered alternate Fall semesters. No prerequisite.

ENGL 38: History and Structure of the English Language (4 credits)
A study of the development of English from Anglo-Saxon to its present status as a "global" language. The development of English is placed within the framing social, political and economic contexts of its speakers. May also examine the historical development of theories attempting to explain English, its styles, dialects, and literatures.
Offered alternate Spring semesters. Prerequisite: LING 10. Same as: LING 105.

ENGL 39: History of Rhetoric (4 credits)
Rhetoric, most typically defined as “the art of persuasion,” has had a variety of descriptions based on the describer and his or her historical context. This class will study the changing definitions of rhetoric from 5^th-century B.C. Greece to contemporary American culture and why those changes took place. Students will also be asked to analyze rhetoric’s relation to politics, religion, law and cultural identity from antiquity to the present day.
Offered alternate Fall semesters. No prerequisite.

ENGL 40: Intermediate Open Topics I (2 or 4 credits)
This course will focus on selected topics such as gothic literature, Anglophone literature, Bible as literature, postcolonial literature, writers writing on visual art, humor in literature, the literature of the Holocaust, or other topics.
Offered alternate Fall semesters. No prerequisite

ENGL 41: Intermediate Open Topics II (2 or 4 credits)
This course will focus on selected topics such as film and film adaptations of literature, non-fiction prose, graphic novels, myth, modern constructions of older/ancient texts, or other topics.
Offered alternate Spring semesters. No prerequisite.

Advanced Studies in Literary Periods

Building on the broad sweep of the Introductory Sequence, these courses invite students to explore specific time periods in greater depth. All upper-level period courses have ENGL 20 a/b and ENGL 21 a/b as prerequisites. Students must take at least four courses at the upper level, the combination to be determined by their CONCENTRATION and interest. (In order to complete the major, students must take at least two courses covering material written before 1800, these may be taken at any level.)

ENGL 112 / Advanced Studies in Medieval or Renaissance Literature (2 or 4 credits)
Topics may include Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, the impact of literacy on the fictions and poetry of medieval Britain, the medieval romance, medieval literature and spirituality, medieval and early Renaissance drama, Renaissance poetry.
Offered alternate Fall semesters. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 113 / Advanced Studies in British Literature of the 17^th or 18^th Century (2 or 4 credits)
This course investigates developments in the Early Modern period that set foundations for our contemporary literature. Topics may include social settings in which manuscripts were written and exchanged, the rise of print culture, breaking the icon of the King, religious lyric, love lyrics, Restoration drama, experiments with fiction and the beginnings of the novel, early women writers, political and social satire, and cultural responses to the French Revolution and to the expansion of empire.
Offered alternate Spring semesters. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 114 / Advanced Studies in British Literature of the 19^th Century (2 or 4 credits)
Offerings of this course take a variety of subjects and forms in studying British literature of the nineteenth century: specific authors or groups of authors in the Romantic or Victorian periods; subjects within and across the two periods such as literary responses to revolution, industrialism, empire, class and religious issues; topics such as the Gothic, realism, Victorian, “medievalism,” the psychological self in nineteenth-century writing, the role of art in the social order.
Offered alternate Fall semesters. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 115 / Advanced Studies in British Literature of the 20^th Century (2 or 4 credits)
An advanced examination of British and/or Anglophone literatures in the 20th century, focusing on topics such as, modernism and fascism, post-colonialism, the representation and effects of the World Wars, gender and modernism, expatriation and alienation, and modernist women writers.
Offered alternate Spring semesters. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 116 / Advanced Studies in American Literature to the Civil War (2 or 4 credits)
An advanced examination of American literature before the Civil War. Topics include transcendentalism, visions and revisions, the American novel, literary responses to the Civil War and the aftermath of slavery. Writers may include Irving, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Jacobs, Douglass, Stowe.
Offered alternate Fall semesters. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 117 / Advanced Studies in American Literature, Civil War to World War I (2 or 4)
Topics include women writers in post-Civil War America and regional and national voices from the Civil War to WWI. Perspectives on realism, naturalism, women's voices, regional and national voices in the fiction, nonfiction and poetry from the end of the Civil War to World War I. Writers may include Twain, James, Dickinson, Adams, Crane, Davis, Chopin, London, Gilman, Wharton, and Jewett.
Offered alternate Spring semesters. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 118 / Advanced Studies in American Literature of the 20^th Century (2 or 4 credits)
Topics include artistic movements such as Naturalism, the Beats, New Journalism, Modernism, or Postmodernism; covering fields such as women's literature, ethnic literatures, or immigrant literature; intertextuality; literature in relation to social movements of the second half of the century, historical eras such as the Great Depression, Cold War, World Wars; or major authors.
Offered alternate Fall semesters. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 119 / Advanced Studies in Literature of the 20^th Century (2 or 4 credits)
Recognizing the fluidity of boundaries and national identities, this course is an advanced study of British, American, and Anglophone literature of the 20^th Century. The course will focus on particular literary themes, topics, or genres that cross or problematize national or geographic boundaries. For example, American expatriate authors, diasporic literatures, literary concerns of immigrants from one specific nation to several (e.g., from India or African nations to America and Britain)
Offered alternate Spring semesters. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

Advanced Approaches to Literature

Building on the approaches to literature briefly introduced in ENGL 9, these courses invite students to explore how to apply specific approaches to literature and thereby gain a richer appreciate for the literature and a fuller comprehension of it. Students must take at least four courses at the upper level, the combination to be determined by their CONCENTRATION and interest.

ENGL 121/ Comparative Critical Theory and Practice (2 or 4 credits)
May focus on one or compare two contemporary or historical approaches to literature, such as close reading, psychoanalytic, philosophical, new historicist, feminist, Marxist, structuralist, deconstructive, or reader-response criticism.
Offered every Spring semester. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 122/ Advanced Studies in History of the Language (2 or 4 credits)
Topics may include Anglo-Saxon (“Old English”) language, Middle English, African American Vernacular English, dialect studies, global Englishes.
Offered every Fall semester. Recommended but not prerequisite: ENGL 38

ENGL 123/ Intensive reading of a single text (2 credits)
This course allows sustained concentration on a single text. In some semesters, the text itself will be a long and difficult one (e.g., Paradise Lost or Finnegans Wake). In other semesters the course will cover a more accessible literary text but that text will be viewed through the lenses of various kinds of interpretation (e.g., cultural criticism, performance theory, formalism, gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalytical theory).
Offered every Fall semester. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 124/ Approaches to Literature: Genre (2 or 4 credits)
All writers conceive of themselves as writing inside of a genre. If writing inside of a genre involved only the imposition of constraint, writers surely would not choose to do it. What is genre? How does it open possibilities for writing? How do genres change over time and across cultures? What is the relationship between literary genre and the way humans frame their emotional, intellectual, and social experience? The focus will be on a single genre (e.g., novel, lyric poem, tragedy, comedy, epic, ballad, gothic novel, graphic novel, etc.)
Offered every Spring semester. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 125: Approaches to Literature: Biographical (2 or 4 credits)
How much can we read into a work based on our knowledge of a writer's life? In this course we will look at literary texts in relation to letters and diaries. We will then look at how biographers and literary critics used those same letters and diaries to say something about the author's life or writings. After reading some essays by biographers about the challenges that they have faced in their work, students will attempt to compose an argument of their own by drawing on letters, diaries, or other primary sources.
Offered every Fall semester. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 126: Approaches to Literature: Intertextual (2 or 4 credits)
This course explores the various ways that texts "answer" each other or imbricate each other. Writers often compose a text in response to another work (sometimes contemporaneous, sometimes distant). Writers also develop rivalries, write for each other as audience, feel especially influenced by or even possessed by another writer. In some eras, all literature is considered to be "part" of a larger project or in response to a "big" text (e.g., the Bible). Some literary works are written in the shadow of another language. Different theories of intertextuality will be covered.
Offered every Spring semester. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 127: Approaches to Literature: Cultural (2 or 4 credits)
How do critics work on the relationship between literary texts and other cultural materials (such as, popular culture, legal and religious discourse, social history, political history)? This course will look at literary texts in the context of extra-literary materials.
Offered every Fall semester. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 128: Approaches to Literature: Interart Relations. (2 or 4 credits)
The course covers interactions between literary artists and visual artists. We will look at individual writers' responses to particular works of art as well as broader relationships such as visual iconography in medieval works or breakthrough moments in modernism and postmodernism when writers' exposure to the visual arts led them to invent new modes of composition and of perception. Offered every Spring semester. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

Advanced Global-, Ethnic-, and Gender-Focused Courses

These courses invite students to explore the relationship between race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or nationality and literature.. All upper-level period courses have ENGL 20 a/b and ENGL 21 a/b as prerequisites. Students must take at least four courses at the upper level, the combination to be determined by their CONCENTRATION and interest. (In order to complete the major, students must take at least one course focusing on non-canonical or world literature, or literature written by members of a specific ethnic group, gender, or sexuality. This course can be taken at any level.)

ENGL 131/ Advanced Studies in Anglophone Literatures (4 credits)
An examination of literature in English by authors residing in or originating from English speaking nations other than Britain and America. The course may focus on literature from any one region, such as the Caribbean or South Asia; one nation, such as South Africa, Australia, or India; or a continent, such as Africa. It may explore the literature of those who emigrate from those regions, connections between the literature of those who remain at home and those who leave, the effects of colonialism on the nation, or the development of national literatures after colonialism. The course may also focus on specific historical moments, such as apartheid South Africa or Indian partition; or problems, such as the definition of “postcolonial,” hybridity and identity, or the development of global Englishes. Offered alternate Fall semesters.
Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b. Recommended but not prerequisite ENGL 31

ENGL 132/Women's Literary Tradition (4 credits)
Examines works by women writers in the Anglo-American and Anglophone tradition through the historical and theoretical approaches that have emerged from recent feminist criticism and theory. May focus on a particular genre, period, author or authors, the literature of a particular region, or on literature in particular social or cultural contexts. Such topics as: Women Writers and World War I; Female Bildungsroman; African American Women Writers; Victorian Women Poets.
Offered every spring semester. Cross-listed with Women’s Studies.
Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b. Recommended but not prerequisite ENGL 32

ENGL 133 / Advanced Studies in Sexuality & Literature (4 credits)
In continuing the study of and moving beyond English 33, this class examines how sexuality is articulated and mediated through literature and such modes of cultural production as film and two-dimensional art. Attention will be paid to specific iterations of sexuality and the labels that attend them (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual). Emphasis on queer theory and critical thinking on sexuality. We will read such authors as Sappho, Wilde, Gilbert and Gubar, Whitman, Ginsberg, Winterson, Doty, White, Bishop and Hart Crane. The course may focus on a specific theme or sub-genre such as speculative Utopic narratives or Race, Ethnicity & Sexuality.
Offered alternate Fall semesters. May be cross-listed with Women’s Studies
Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b. Recommended but not prerequisite ENGL 33

ENGL 134 / Advanced Studies in American Ethnic Literatures (4 credits)
Instensive study in American ethnic literatures: African American, Asian American, Latino/a, American Indian, Jewish, and Caribbean literatures, among others. Instructors may select particular emphases for these areas of study, which can include a focus on chronological or thematic approaches or on the development of a particular genre, such as poetry, novel, short fiction, autobiography, or drama. Central to the study of these literatures is a consideration of the unique aspects of ethnic cultures in the United States that inform various American ethic literary traditions.
Offered Spring semesters
Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b Recommended but not prerequisite ENGL 34

Advanced Specialized Literary Study

ENGL 140 / Open Topics in Literature (4 credits)
An advanced study of particular literary subjects (e.g. the literature of the Holocaust, immigrant literature), topics (Old English language and literature, myth and literature), problems (e.g., literacy and orality, modern constructions of older/ancient texts), and methodologies (e.g., psychoanalytic approaches, comparative literature).
Offered Fall semester annually. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 143 / Shakespeare (4 credits)
An advanced study of the development of Shakespeare as a dramatist through the study of about seven plays--comedies, histories, and tragedies.
Offered Spring semester annually. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b

ENGL 180/Independent Study in Literature (4)
A tutorial course with meetings by arrangement and oral and written reports. Students who wish to pursue independent study must offer for approval of the instructor a proposal on a literary topic not covered in the curriculum. Joint proposals by two or more students may be submitted. Open to juniors and seniors. Signature of instructor required. Offered each semester.

Senior Seminars

The senior seminar should be the capstone experience of English majors, calling upon them to draw on the literature they have read; the analytical, writing, and research skills they have developed; and their broad and focused knowledge of the field of literature in English. The seminar may be part of a student’s concentration, or it may provide the opportunity to explore new areas, literatures, or approaches. Students must take two seminars, preferably in their senior year.

ENGL 171/Studies in Poetry: Seminar (4 credits)
A study of selected major works of poetry or a school of poetry. For example, Caribbean poetry, New York School poets, or modern American poetry. Open to a maximum of 15 juniors and seniors. Signature of instructor required.
Offered annually. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b and at least one Approaches course

ENGL 172/Studies in Fiction: Seminar (4 credits)
A study of selected major works of fiction. Focus depends on instructor. Open to a maximum of 15 juniors and seniors. Signature of instructor required.
Offered annually. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b and at least one Approaches course

ENGL 173/Studies in or Drama: Seminar (4 credits)
A study of selected major works of drama or a school of drama. For example, medieval drama, Restoration comedy, or modern American drama. Open to a maximum of 15 juniors and seniors. Signature of instructor required.
Offered annually. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b and at least one Approaches course

ENGL 174/Advanced Literary Studies: Seminar (4 credits)
An intensive study of a theme, problem, or literary genre. The topic varies from year to year, but the seminar is designed to offer students an extended analysis of that topic and the opportunity to explore it from a number of perspectives and critical positions. Open to a maximum of 15 juniors and seniors. Signature of instructor required.
Offered annually. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b and at least one Approaches course.

ENGL 175/Major Author: Seminar (4 credits)
A close reading and a critical examination of the work of an individual British, American, or Anglophone author. The author varies from year to year, but the focus of the course is an immersion into the work of that author and an engagement with the criticism of that work. In some seminars students may work with archival material. Others will focus primarily on the texts, explore significant debates about the work or its interpretation, or view the texts through a specific theoretical framework. Open to a maximum of 15 juniors and seniors. Signature of instructor required.
Offered annually. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b and at least one Approaches cours

ENGL 176/ Shakespeare on Film: Seminar (4 credits)
An intensive study of about four major plays by means of examination of different film versions. Designed for students majoring in English, but others may be added by permission of the instructor. Open to a maximum of 15 juniors and seniors. Signature of instructor required. Offered in alternate spring semesters. Prerequisites: ENGL 20 a/b and 21 a/b, at least one Approaches course, and ENGL 143 or permission of the instructor.

Courses in London

ENGL 181/British Political Drama (4 credits)
Much British theatre of the latter half of the 20th century has been characterized by strong social and political commitment. This course focuses on the major politically inclined dramatists of the past 40 years, including John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Edward Bond, David Hare, Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, and others. It may include some historical examples of the genre, such as Shakespeare's histories, Henry Fielding's satirical plays, and G.B. Shaw's philosophical comedies. Plays are viewed in production whenever possible; the specifics of the course depend, to some degree, on the range of current productions available in London (including those at the fringe and pub theatres, as well as those by major companies). Same as THEA 169
Offered in the London program.

ENGL 182/Research Tutorial (4 credits)
Each student conducts research and writes a paper on a topic approved by the London program instructor. The project stresses normal library research as well as personal interviews and other out-of-class experiences as part of the research process. Students are urged to consult with their home campus adviser about their topic before going to London. Same as PSCI 182.
Offered in the London program

ENGL 169/Studies in British Literature: London Biography Literature (4 credits)
For this course we shall become London flaneurs, walking the streets and interpreting the signs of the city as if it were a text. We shall read a range of nineteenth and twentieth century writings, including classics such as Our Mutual Friend, and lesser known works. Through Amy Levy (Reuben Sachs), Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway) and Jean Rhys (Good Morning, Midnight) we can explore the changing role of women in the metropolis. In Alexander Baron’s The Lowlife we can glimpse the East End’s historic importance as a home to refugees and see how it turned into Bangla Town in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. In Conrad we find London as the centre of Empire and in the work of Sam Selvon and Monica Ali we have examples of how the Empire has written back. By paying close attention to both text and context, we shall achieve a lively appreciation of the works in and of themselves and as part of the cultural life of London.
Offered in the London program

Writing Courses

ENGL 59/Introduction to Journalism (4)
An introduction to the fundamentals and procedures of operating a newspaper. Emphasizes gathering news and writing clear, vigorous copy. Studies layout, editing, feature and editorial writing, and copy editing as well as the ethics and responsibilities of journalism. Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the College Writing Requirement and permission of the instructor. Signature of instructor required. Enrollment limited to 15. Offered fall semester annually.

ENGL 65/Business Writing (4)
ENGL 103/Nonfiction Writing: Essays (4)
ENGL 104/Nonfiction Writing: Articles (4)
ENGL 107/Creative Writing Workshop: Short Fiction (4)
ENGL 108/Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry (4)