May 10, 2024

Catalogue 2017-2018

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English: II. Intermediate Prerequisite: open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors with one unit of 100-level work or by permission of the associate chair. Students applying for permission to elect 200-level work must present samples of their writing to the associate chair. Freshmen with AP credit may elect 200-level work after consultation with the department and with the permission of the instructor. First-year students who have completed ENGL 101 may elect 200-level work with permission of the instructor. Intermediate writing courses are not open to Freshmen.
	ENGL 241 - Shakespeare 1 unit(s) (Same as DRAM 241 ) Study of a substantial number of the plays, roughly in chronological order, to permit a detailed consideration of the range and variety of Shakespeare’s dramatic art. Not open to students who have taken ENGL 240 . Yearlong course 241-ENGL 242 . Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 242 - Shakespeare 1 unit(s) (Same as DRAM 242 ) Study of a substantial number of the plays, roughly in chronological order, to permit a detailed consideration of the range and variety of Shakespeare’s dramatic art. Not open to students who have taken ENGL 240 . Yearlong course ENGL 241 -242. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 245 - Pride and Prejudice: British Literature from 1640-1745 1 unit(s) Study of various authors who were influential in defining the literary culture and the meaning of authorship in the period. Authors may include Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Anne Finch, John Gay, Eliza Haywood, Mary Leapor, Katherine Philips, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 246 - Sense and Sensibility: British Literature from 1745-1798 Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Study of the writers who represented the culmination of neoclassical literature in Great Britain and those who built on, critiqued, or even defined themselves against it. Authors may include Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edmund Burke, William Beckford, William Cowper, Olaudah Equiano, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Anne Yearsley, and Hannah More. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 247 - Eighteenth-Century British Novels 1 unit(s) One of the major literary events of eighteenth-century England was the “rise” of the novel, as critics have long described it. But where do they imagine it rose from and to? In this course we will build a literary-historical context for asking this question by reading English prose fiction of the long eighteenth century, from Aphra Behn’s fictional slave narrative Oroonoko (1688) to Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811). In considering why the novel gained commercial and cultural popularity in this period, our main questions will include—how did the novel absorb and adapt existing literary genres, such as the drama, the diary, and the letter? How did writers of the period use prose fiction to make fresh explorations of sexual politics, identity and power? How did the priorities and techniques of realism interact with those of more stylized narrative modes, such as the gothic and the sentimental novel? Authors include Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Cleland, Sterne, Radcliffe, Lewis and Burney. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 248 - The Age of Romanticism, 1789-1832 Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Study of British literature in a time of revolution. Authors may include such poets as Blake, Wordsworth, and Keats; essayists such as Burke, Wollstonecraft, Hazlitt, Lamb, and DeQuincey; and novelists such as Edgeworth, Austen, Mary Shelley, and Scott. Topic for 2017/18b: The Age of Romanticism: Revolution and Rebellion. This course surveys the literature of the Romantic period through the lens of revolution and rebellion, both of which characterize this period in British history in a number of ways. Across the English Channel, French civilians were overthrowing their monarchy; revolutions in science and technology were catapulting Europe into the industrial era; English poets were rebelling against what they perceived to be the antiquated poetic forms of the eighteenth century; and prose writers were producing some of the original human rights manifestos, calling for women’s empowerment and the abolition of the British slave trade. Paying close attention to these historical and political contexts, we will examine how writers of the period mobilized the concept of revolution in their literary works and used it as an impetus for experimentation, on both thematic and formal levels. Surveyed poets include William Blake, Helen Maria Williams, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Robinson, William Cowper, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and John Keats; fiction writers include Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and John Polidori; and prose writers include Edmund Burke, Thomas De Quincey, Mary Prince and Mary Wollstonecraft. Kathleen Gemmill.
	ENGL 249 - Victorian Literature: Culture and Anarchy Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Study of Victorian culture through the prose writers of the period. This course explores the strategies of nineteenth-century writers who struggled to find meaning and order in a changing world. It focuses on such issues as industrialization, the woman question, imperialism, aestheticism, and decadence, paying particular attention to the relationship between literary and social discourses. Authors may include nonfiction prose writers such as Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde as well as fiction writers such as Disraeli, Gaskell, Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Wendy Graham.
	ENGL 250 - Victorian Poets 1 unit(s) A study of major English poets in the period 1830 to 1900, with special emphasis on the virtuosity and innovations of Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning. Other poets include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Brontë, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Michael Field (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper), and Thomas Hardy. Consideration will be given to Pre-Raphaelite art and to contemporaneous works of literary criticism. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 251 - Topics in Black Literatures Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 251 ) This course considers Black literatures in all their richness and diversity. The focus changes from year to year, and may include study of a historical period, literary movement, or genre. The course may take a comparative, diasporic approach or may examine a single national or regional literature. Topic for 2017/18b: Monsters, Zombies and Time Travelers in African American Fiction. While many believe African American literature is bound by the generic and political expectations of American literary realism, black Americans have lived and imagined the “un-real” from the moment of their enslavement in the Americas. This course considers how black creatives have used and continue to use speculative fiction/afrofuturism/sci-fi to critique forms of racial difference and imagine alternatives to the here-and-now of the American experience. Over the semester, we explore narratives that feature time travel, texts that craft racial utopias only to plot their deterioration, and tales of monsters and zombies to explore key themes associated with black speculative fiction and black literary production. Questions of genre, its limits and expectations, are also central to this course. This course may include writings by Octavia Butler, Kiese Laymon, Victor LaValle, Colson Whitehead, and others. Eve Dunbar. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 252 - Writing the Diaspora: Verses/Versus 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 252 ) Black American Culture expression is anchored in rhetorical battles and verbal jousts that place one character against another. From the sorrow songs to blues, black music has always been a primary means of cultural expression for Afirican Americans, particularly during difficult social periods and transition. Black Americans have used music and particularly rythmic verse to resist, express, and signify. Nowhere is this more evident than in hip-hop culture generally and hip-hop music specifically. This semester’s Writing the Diaspora class concerns itself with close textual analysis of hip-hop texts. Is Imani Perry right in claiming that Hip-Hop is Black American music, or diasporic music? In addition to close textual reading of lyrics, students are asked to create their own hip-hop texts that speak to particular artists/texts and/or issues and styles raised. Prerequisite(s): one course in literature or Africana Studies. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 253 - Topics in American Literature 1 unit(s) The specific focus of the course varies each year, and may center on a literary movement (e.g., Transcendentalism, the Beats, the Black Mountain School), a single work and its milieu (e.g., Moby-Dick and the American novel, Call It Sleep and the rise of ethnic modernism); a historical period (e.g., the Great Awakening, the Civil War), a region (e.g., Southern literature, the literature of the West), or a genre (e.g., the sentimental-domestic novel, American satire, the literature of travel/migration, American autobiography, traditions of reportage, American environmentalist writing). Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 255 - Nineteenth-Century British Novels Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Readings vary but include works by such novelists as Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Trollope, George Eliot, and Hardy. Susan Zlotnick. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 256 - Modern British and Irish Novels Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Significant twentieth-century novels from Great Britain and Ireland. Topic for 2017/18b: The Storyteller. In his 1936 essay “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin observes that one encounters fewer and fewer people these days who really know how to tell a story. Cut off from a face-to-face community in which stories are passed down, and bereft of experience that can be hammered into wisdom, those who want to relate their ineffable inner life to an audience larger than themselves find solace in writing literature. “The novelist has secluded himself,” says Benjamin. “The birthplace of the novel is the individual in his isolation, the individual who can no longer speak of his concerns in exemplary fashion, who himself lacks counsel and can give none. To write a novel is to take to the extreme that which is incommensurable in the representation of human existence.” And yet. For all the cloistered textual experiment and overturning of good narrative manners that are signatures of the modern novel, the storyteller remains. Like a guest who overstays his welcome, this gregarious figure repeatedly talks over the scene of writing that conjured him as a parlor trick. This semester we read an array of early-mid twentieth century British and Irish novels that foreground the storyteller: Heart of Darkness, The Good Soldier, The Waves, Good Mornning, Midnight, Malone Dies, and Ulysses, of which its author James Joyce once said, “They are all there, the great talkers, them and the things they forgot.” Heesok Chang. Prerequisite(s): AP credit or one unit of Freshman English. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 257 - The Novel in English after 1945 1 unit(s) The novel in English as it has developed in Africa, America, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, India, Ireland, and elsewhere. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 260 - Modern British Literature, 1901-1945 1 unit(s) Study of representative modern works of literature in relation to literary modernism. Consideration of cultural crisis and political engagement, with attention to the Great War as a subject of memoir, fiction, and poetry, and to the new voices of the thirties and early forties. Authors may include Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, Woolf, Conrad, Graves, Vera Brittain, Rebecca West, Orwell, and Auden. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 261 - Literatures of Ireland 1 unit(s) Authors, genres, themes and historical coverage may vary from year to year. Readings may range from the Táin Bó Cuailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) and other sagas; to Anglo-Irish authors of various periods, including Swift, Goldsmith, Thomas Moore, Maria Edgeworth, George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde; to the writers of the Irish literary revival, including Roger Casement, Lady Gregory, Padraic O’Conaire, Pádraig Mac Piarais, Synge, and Yeats; to modernists Joyce, Beckett, Flann O’Brien, and Elizabeth Bowen; to contemporary Irish poets, novelists, dramatists, and musicians. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 262 - Postcolonial Literatures 1 unit(s) Study of contemporary literature written in English from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent and elsewhere. Readings in various genres by such writers as Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Janet Frame, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Derek Walcott, Patrick White. Some consideration of post-colonial literary theory. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 265 - Selected Author Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Topic for 2017/18b: Octavia Butler. In 2000 Octavia Butler told the New York Times why she began writing science fiction: “When I began writing science fiction, when I began reading, heck, I wasn’t in any of this stuff I read. The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn’t manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I’m me and I’m here and I’m writing.” Anomalous and iconoclastic as an African American woman writing science fiction, Octavia Butler would go on to produce dozens of novels and short stories exploring and exposing the most dubious and disturbing elements of American culture. In this course students work through a selection of Butler’s oeuvre, as well as select secondary and theoretical material to make sense of the possibilities that Butler imagined for her readers. Gender, race, sexuality, class, justice, environmental and societal destruction, history and hope are among the many themes explored. Eve Dunbar. Topic for 2017/18b: Jane Austen. Over the last two decades, Jane Austen has emerged as the most popular of the great nineteenth-century British novelists. Her novels have been adapted and rewritten by contemporary authors, and they’ve been translated into films and mini-series. Austen’s presence on the web has been formidable as well, from the Republic of Pemberley to the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. While this course investigates our current investment in Austen through an examination of a variety of modern adaptations, it also places Austen back into her original literary and historical contexts. It considers her contributions to the development of literary realism as well as her status as a transitional novelist who wrote on the cusp of modernity. Readings include Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. Susan Zlotnick. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 275 - Caribbean Discourse 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 275 and LALS 275 ) A topics course examining the multiple forms of cultural expression and resistance that arise in response to systemic racial oppression. This course focuses on transnational and/or historical variants of racial and colonial domination. Key concepts and methodologies may include border studies, comparative racializations, decolonization, diaspora, hip hop, indigeneity, nation, and sovereignty. Contents and approaches vary from year to year. Open to sophomores, junior, and seniors with one unit of 100-level work or by permission of the associate chair. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 277 - Crossings: Literature without Borders Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 277 ) This course explores themes, concepts, and genres that span literary periods and/or national boundaries. The focus varies from year to year. Topic for 2017/18a: Victorian Revenants in Contemporary Caribbean Literature: Cultures in Dialogue. The ongoing multidisciplinary dialogue between Caribbean literature and Victorian culture has been one of the most dynamic catalysts for the development of the novel in the region. The course examines a number of trans-Atlantic/Caribbean interchanges that include the exploration of the ghost story in M. R. James (Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904) and Edgar Mittelholzer (My Bones and My Flute, 1955); the critique of Kew Gardens and its biota exchanges in Jamaica Kincaid (My Garden Book, 1999); the re-writing of British canonical texts in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Caryl Phillips’ The Lost Child (2015); Florence Nightingale, the Crimean War and the Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857); the Morant Bay rebellion (1865) and the Eyre Affair (1866) seen through H.G. de Lisser’s Revenge (1918) and V. S. Reid’s New Day (1949); British iconography (postage stamps and the Union Jack) in Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1992) and Austin Clarke’s Growing Up Stupid under the Union Jack (1980); and Michelle Cliff’s reversing of Marlow’s journey in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) in Into the Interior (2010). Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 280 - Modernism, Sexuality and Science, 1890-1950 Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) The development of literary modernism in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century coincides with the emergence of sexual science. In this historical moment, literary authors and scientists shared an interest in developing new forms of expression to understand sexuality and articulate sexual possibilities. This course examines how a range of canonical and lesser-known authors negotiated scientific ideas about sexuality in novels, short stories and autobiographical works. It also investigates how literature shaped scientific understandings of sexuality. Students discover tensions as well as moments of exchange and collaboration between literary and scientific writers. The course covers diverse sexualities and focuses on the intersections of sexuality and gender, class, race, age, nationality, citizenship and religion. Literary texts may include Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha”, E.M. Forster’s Maurice, Mina Loy’s “The Black Virginity”, Bryher’s Development, Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood, H. D.’s Tribute to Freud, and Carson McCuller’s The Member of the Wedding. Jana Funke. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 281 - The Comics Course Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as MEDS 281 ) An exploration of topics in comics history, theory, aesthetics, and politics. Subjects and texts may include: women’s diary comics (Julie Doucet’s My New York Diary and Gabrielle Bell’s July 2011), conflict comics (Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Gorazde), graphic horror and representation (Charles Burns’s Black Hole), race and representation (Jennings’ and Duffy’s The Hole: Consumer Culture, Volume 1), genre and gender (Wonder Woman from origins to contemporary permutations), meta-comics (Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan), comics and the culture of children (Schulz’s Peanuts, Jansson’s Moomin, and Barry’s Marlys), comics and sexuality (Carol Swain’s Gast, Bisco Hatori’s Ouran High School Social Club, and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home), disability comics (the Oracle series, Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye, and Allie Brosch’s “Hyperbole and a Half”), and comics and silence (Shaun Tan’s The Arrival). Readings also include materials in comics studies, media studies, and literary studies. Peter Antelyes. Two 75-minute periods.
	ENGL 282 - The History of Mediascapes: Critical Maker Culture Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as STS 282 ) This class takes as its jumping off point the point made in Colonial Mediascapes and the work of Arjun Appadurai’s “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy” and his definition of “mediascape,”: “the second of the five “scapes”… an elementary framework for understanding the new phenomenon of information distribution in “a world in which both points of departure and points of arrival are in cultural flux…” (Germaine Warkentin, “Dead Metaphor or Working Model?, Colonial Mediascapes, 49). This class decolonizes book history and “maker culture.” In particular, we consider issue of race, gender, disability, neurodiversity, sexuality in working and making an alternative history of the book that includes the khipu, the girdle book, the wampum, pamphlets, zines, and wearable media technology. This is also a media maker class in which you are asked to scrape vellum, try your hand at papermaking, sew, knot, and sodder circuits, and tackle an Arduino kit. Dorothy Kim.
	ENGL 290 - Field Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 0.5 to 1 unit(s) Prerequisite(s): 2 units of 200-level work in English, and permission of the associate chair. 1 unit of credit given only in exceptional cases.
	ENGL 298 - Independent Study Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 0.5 to 1 unit(s) Prerequisite(s): 2 units of 200-level work in English, and permission of the associate chair. 1 unit of credit given only in exceptional cases.
English: III. Advanced Prerequisite: Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.
	ENGL 300 - Senior Tutorial Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1 unit(s) Preparation of a long essay (40 pages) or other independently designed critical project. Each essay is directed by an individual member of the department. Special permission.
	ENGL 302 - Adaptations 1 unit(s) (Same as CLCS 302 and MEDS 302 ) If works of art continue each other, as Virginia Woolf suggested, then cultural history accumulates when generations of artists think and talk together across time. What happens when one of those artists switches to another language, another genre, another mode or medium? In the twenty-first century we may reframe Woolf’s conversation in terms of intertextuality—art invokes and revises other art—but the questions remain more or less unchanged: What motivates and shapes adaptations? What role does technology play? Audience? What constitutes a faithful adaptation? “Faithful” to what or whom? In this course we consider the biological model, looking briefly at Darwin’s ideas about the ways organisms change in order to survive, and then explore analogies across a range of media. We’ll begin with Virgil’s Georgics; move on to Metamorphoses, Ovid’s free adaptations of classical myths; and follow Orpheus and Eurydice through two thousand years of theater (Euripides, Anouilh, Ruhl, Zimmerman); painting and sculpture (Dürer, Rubens, Poussin, Klee, Rodin); film and television (Pasolini, Cocteau, Camus, Luhrmann); dance (Graham, Balanchine, Bausch); music (Monteverdi, Gluck, Stravinsky, Birtwistle, Glass); narratives and graphic narratives (Pynchon, Delany, Gaiman, Hoban); verse (Rilke, H.D., Auden, Ashbery, Milosz, Heaney, Atwood, Mullen, Strand); and computer games (Battle of Olympus, Shin Megami Tensei). During the second half of the semester, we investigate other adaptations and their theoretical implications, looking back from time to time at what we’ve learned from the protean story of Eurydice and Orpheus and their countless progeny. Not offered in 2017/18. One 3-hour period.
	ENGL 305 - Creative Writing Seminar Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Study and practice of various forms of prose and poetry for experienced creative writers. Open to seniors majoring in English. Writing samples are due before preregistration. Check with the English Office for the exact date of the deadline. David Means. Deadline for submission of writing samples immediately before spring break. Yearlong course 305-ENGL 306 . One 2-hour period and individual conferences with the instructor.
	ENGL 306 - Creative Writing Seminar Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Study and practice of various forms of prose and poetry for experienced creative writers. Open to seniors majoring in English.  David Means. Deadline for submission of writing samples immediately before spring break. Check with the English office for exact date. Yearlong course ENGL 305 -306. One 2-hour period and individual conferences with the instructor.
	ENGL 307 - Senior Creative Writing Semester Offered: Fall and Spring 1 unit(s) Study and practice of various forms of prose and poetry for experienced creative writers. Amitava Kumar (a); Michael Joyce (b). Open to seniors from all departments. Writing samples are due before preregistration. Check with the English Office for the exact date of the deadline. One 3-hour period with individual conferences with the instructor.
	ENGL 315 - Studies in Performance Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Limited enrollment. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 317 - Studies in Literary Theory Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Advanced study of problems and schools of literary criticism and theory, principally in the twentieth century. May include discussion of new criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, reader-response theory, new historicism, and Marxist, psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and feminist analysis. This course is designed as preparation for the senior thesis, as preparation for graduate level work (in an Anti- or Post-Theory environment), and as a capstone to the English major, answering the puzzling question of why certain critical perspectives are favored or ignored by professional readers of poetry, prose, epic, specific periods of literature, or literary schools. Although Derrida is dead and pundits and journalists seem all too ready to bury his legacy, we are not entitled to dismiss him without a reading. In addition, we address questions pertaining to the relation of literature to history and to social life (Gadamer, Lukacs, Benjamin, Adorno, Said, Hayden White), literary language to ‘objective’ language (Saussure, Benveniste, Austin, Bakhtin), and metaphor to metonymy (Jakobson, J. Hillis Miller, De Man, Derrida, Lacan, Ricoeur) as well as Reader Response criticism (Iser, Fish) and theories of Discourse/Textuality (Foucault, Barthes). Wendy Graham. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 318 - Literary Studies in Gender and Sexuality Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as WMST 318 ) Advanced study of gender and sexuality in literary texts, theory and criticism. The focus will vary from year to year but will include a substantial theoretical or critical component that may draw from a range of approaches, such as feminist theory, queer theory, transgender studies, feminist psychoanalysis, disability studies and critical race theory. Donald Foster. Open to Juniors and Seniors with two units of 200-level work in English or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 319 - Race and its Metaphors Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 319 ) Re-examinations of canonical literature in order to discover how race is either explicitly addressed by or implicitly enabling to the texts. Does racial difference, whether or not overtly expressed, prove a useful literary tool? The focus of the course varies from year to year. Topic for 2017/18a: “Blacks and Blues: Blues as Metaphor in African American Literature” Ralph Ellison wrote of the blues that it is “an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one’s aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism.” This course takes the blues as a metaphor and follows it through canonical African American writing to consider multiple themes: black sonics, black vernacular traditions, sexuality and freedom, social critique, joy, pain, and futurities of blackness. Students interested in this course need not have a musical background, but interest in the links between sound and black literature is expected. Eve Dunbar. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 320 - Studies in Literary Traditions Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course examines various literary traditions. The materials may cross historical, national and linguistic boundaries, and may investigate how a specific myth, literary form, idea, or figure (e.g., Pygmalion, romance, the epic, the fall of man, Caliban) has been constructed, disputed, reinvented and transformed. Topics vary from year to year. Topic for 2017/18b: Transatlantic Romanticism: Ecology & the Sublime. This course looks at nineteenth-century British and American romanticism from the dual perspective of the sublime (in mind and nature) and the environment (as it intersects with issues of democracy and pluralism). These two seemingly contradictory impulses are part of a larger movement that could be thought of as radical, in the original sense of ‘forming the root,’ in establishing modern British and American culture. Readings include works by William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Clare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman, William James, W.E.B. Du Bois and others. One or two field trips to local sites are included. Paul Kane. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 325 - Studies in Genre 1 unit(s) An intensive study of specific forms or types of literature, such as satire, humor, gothic fiction, realism, slave narratives, science fiction, crime, romance, adventure, short story, epic, autobiography, hypertext, and screenplay. Each year, one or more of these genres is investigated in depth. The course may cross national borders and historical periods or adhere to boundaries of time and place. Not offered in 2017/18 One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 326 - Challenging Ethnicity 1 unit(s) An exploration of literary and artistic engagements with ethnicity. Contents and approaches vary from year to year. Not offered in 2017/18. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 328 - Literature of the American Renaissance 1 unit(s) Intensive study of major works by American writers of the mid-nineteenth century. Authors may include: Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Fuller, Stowe, Delany, Wilson, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. In addition to placing the works in historical and cultural context, focusing on the role of such institutions as slavery and such social movements as transcendentalism, the course also examines the notion of the American Renaissance itself. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 329 - American Literary Realism Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Exploration of the literary concepts of realism and naturalism focusing on the theory and practice of fiction between 1870 and 1910, the first period in American literary history to be called modern. The course may examine past critical debates as well as the current controversy over realism in fiction. Attention is given to such questions as what constitutes reality in fiction, as well as the relationship of realism to other literary traditions. Authors may include Henry James, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Charles Chestnutt, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and Willa Cather. Wendy Graham.
	ENGL 330 - American Modernism Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Intensive study of modern American literature and culture in the first half of the twentieth century, with special attention to the concept of “modernism” and its relation to other cultural movements during this period. Authors may include Dreiser, Wharton, Cather, Frost, Anderson, Millay, Pound, Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, O’Neill, H. D., Faulkner, Wright, Eliot, Williams, Moore, Stevens, Crane, Yezierska, Toomer, Hughes, Cullen, Brown, Hurston, McKay, and Dos Passos. Peter Antelyes.
	ENGL 331 - Postmodern American Literature Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Advanced study of American literature from the second half of the twentieth century to the present date. Authors may include Welty, Ellison, Warren, O’Connor, Olson, Momaday, Mailer, Lowell, Bellow, Percy, Nabokov, Bishop, Rich, Roth, Pynchon, Ashbery, Merrill, Reed, Silko, Walker, Morrison, Gass, and Kingston. Jean Kane.
	ENGL 340 - Studies in Medieval Literature Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Intensive study of selected medieval texts and the questions they raise about their context and interpretation. Issues addressed may include the social and political dynamics, literary traditions, symbolic discourses, and individual authorial voices shaping literary works in this era. Discussion of these issues may draw on both historical and aesthetic approaches, and both medieval and modern theories of rhetoric, reference, and text-formation. Topic for 2017/18b. Conversations with the Dead. Stephen Greenblatt opens a seminal work on Shakespeare by voicing his “desire to speak with the dead.” It’s a familiar desire for literary critics: to connect with authors long dead, to open up a current, a connection through still-living language. This course explores both this critical impulse and works of literature that enact the actual practice of speaking with the dead. We explore Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Dante’s interactions with the “shades” of dead friends, mentors, and enemies; a range of medieval writing, including works by Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan; adaptations of the Orpheus myth; and works within the medieval Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) tradition. We’ll also explore excerpts from a twentieth-century epic poem crafted from transcripts of Ouija board sessions (James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover), criticism from Harold Bloom and Oscar Wilde, poetry by Mary Jo Bang, and contemporary fiction by George Saunders and Toni Morrison. We trace a current of influence and resonance among these authors, and see how different ages imagine different means of crossing over, conversing, and connecting. Sebastian Langdell.
	ENGL 341 - Studies in the Renaissance Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as MRST 341 ) Intensive study of selected Renaissance texts and the questions they raise about their context and interpretation. Topic for 2017/18b: Sex and the City in 1600: Gender, Marriage, Family, and Sexuality in Early Modern London. This course explores everyday life in the rapidly expanding early modern metropolis of London. We pay special attention to religious, social, legal as well as informal control mechanisms that influenced issues of gender, marriage, and sexuality in various layers of London society. We anchor our investigations in a handful of plays (mainly city comedies) by Beaumont, Dekker, Jonson, Marston, Middleton, and Shakespeare, but also discuss ballads, homilies, conduct books, legal and travel narratives, pamphlets and treatises, literary works by female authors, and other literary and non-literary texts. Zoltán Márkus. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 342 - Studies in Shakespeare Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as DRAM 342 ) Advanced study of Shakespeare’s work and its cultural significance in various contexts from his time to today. Topic for 2017/18b: Shakespeare and Disability. Shakespeare’s characters exhibit a wide range of what would today be called disabilities, from physical and sensory impairments (spinal deformity, amputated limbs, blindness), to neurological disorders (epilepsy) to cognitive difference (“foolish wits,” madness). This seminar explores the performance of disability in Shakespeare’s plays, focusing on points of contact between pre-modern and contemporary understandings of human variability. In addition to studying selected plays through the lens of disability studies, we consider how the work of disabled actors and directors is challenging contemporary audiences to think “differently” about both disability and Shakespeare. Leslie Dunn. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 345 - Milton 1 unit(s) Study of John Milton’s career as a poet and polemicist, with particular attention to Paradise Lost. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 350 - Studies in Eighteenth-century British Literature 1 unit(s) Focuses on a broad literary topic, with special attention to works of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Not offered in 2017/18. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 351 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Study of a major author (e.g., Coleridge, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde) or a group of authors (the Brontes, the Pre-Raphaelite poets and painters) or a topical issue (representations of poverty; literary decadence; domestic angels and fallen women; transformations of myth in Romantic and Victorian literature) or a major genre (elegy, epic, autobiography). Topic for 2017/18b: The Gothic. This course explores the development and the evolution of the Gothic novel in Britain from the mid-eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. We begin with Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis, three of the most important practitioners of the eighteenth-century Gothic novel, before moving to nineteenth-century adaptations and transformations of the Gothic form. Students read a wide variety of texts, including The Castle of Otranto, A Sicilian Romance, The Monk, Northanger Abbey, Wuthering Heights, The Woman in White, and Dracula, as well as some of the key theorists of the Gothic. The course addresses different aspects of Gothic writing (e.g., female Gothic, economic Gothic, alien Gothic, urban Gothic) in order to consider how the Gothic’s mad, monstrous and ghostly representations serve as a critique and counterpoint to dominant ideologies of gender, race, nation and class. Susan Zlotnick. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 352 - Romantic Poets: Rebels with a Cause Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Intensive study of the major poetry and critical prose of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge (ENGL 352), and Byron, Shelley, and Keats (ENGL 353 ) in the context of Enlightenment thought, the French Revolution, and the post-Napoleonic era. Readings may include biographies, letters, and a few philosophical texts central to the period. Some preliminary study of Milton is strongly recommended. Why is it that the most influential and ambitious work in queer studies has rarely emerged from the field of Romanticism? As Michael O’Rourke and David Collings rightly note, “We have had [scholarly studies called] Queering the Middle Ages, Queering the Renaissance, Victorian Sexual Dissidence, and Queering the Moderns—but no Queering the Romantics.” Accounting for this critical gap, Richard Sha argues that the Romantic period has been mischaracterized as a “seemingly asexual zone between eighteenth-century edenic ‘liberated’ sexuality…and the repressive sexology of the Victorians.” In reality, this relatively brief cultural moment in England produced a diverse range of queer figures, both historical and literary: from Anne Lister, whose diary records hundreds of pages in code about her sexual relationships with women, to the Ladies of Llangollen, who openly cohabited with the support of English high society, to the myth of the modern vampire, a deeply sexualized and often queer figure. Given the richness of the terrain, then, why are queer studies lagging behind in Romantic circles? In this advanced seminar, we address this underdeveloped area of scholarly research through our reading of primary and secondary texts, our class discussion, and our critical research projects. Reading theory and criticism from Romanticism studies and adjacent scholarly fields, we ask ourselves—what is queer about this literary-historical moment that has not yet been accounted for? Our goal is to redefine the boundaries of queer Romanticism—beyond a simplistic search for queer characters in the primary texts—to include broader theoretical categories such as queer affect and queer temporality, among others. We focus primarily on the poetry of the period, but also attend to some prose genres, including the diary and the essay. Kathleen Gemmill.
	ENGL 353 - Romantic Poets: Rebels with a Cause 1 unit(s) This seminar explores the work of William Wordsworth and John Keats both individually and in comparison. Although we focus on their poetry, we also study Wordsworth’s Preface to LYRICAL BALLADS and Keats’s letters, and consider both the emergence of Romanticism in the first generation of English Romantics (Wordsworth) and its development in the second generation (Keats). Not offered in 2017/18. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 355 - Modern Poets 1 unit(s) Intensive study of selected modern poets, focusing on the period 1900-1945, with attention to longer poems and poetic sequences. Consideration of the development of the poetic career and of poetic movements. May include such poets as Auden, Bishop, Eliot, Frost, Hopkins, Moore, Pound, Stein, Stevens, Williams, and Yeats. Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 356 - Contemporary Poets 1 unit(s) (Same as AMST 356 ) Intensive study of selected contemporary poets, with attention to questions of influence, interrelations, and diverse poetic practices. May include such poets as Ashbery, Bernstein, Brooks, Graham, Harjo, Heaney, Hill, Merrill, Rich, and Walcott. Not offered in 2017/18. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 357 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 1 unit(s) Intensive study of literatures of the twentieth century, with primary focus on British and postcolonial (Irish, Indian, Pakistani, South African, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian, etc.) texts. Selections may focus on an author or group of authors, a genre (e.g., modern verse epic, drama, satiric novel, travelogue), or a topic (e.g., the economics of modernism, black Atlantic, Englishes and Englishness, themes of exile and migration). Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 362 - Text and Image 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 362 ) Not offered in 2017/18. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 365 - Selected Author Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Study of the work of a single author. The work may be read in relation to literary predecessors and descendants as well as in relation to the history of the writer’s critical and popular reception. This course alternates from year to year with ENGL 265 . Topic for 2017/18b: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), Life Writing, and the Life of Writing. This course examines the life and works of Samuel Johnson, poet, playwright, lexicographer, biographer, critic, journalist, translator, scholar, philosopher, and hack writer. In addition to studying Johnson’s works, this course explores this writer’s great influence on British literary culture, visible, for example, in the writings of Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett. Robert DeMaria. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 370 - Transnational Literature Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course focuses on literary works and cultural networks that cross the borders of the nation-state. Such border-crossings raise questions concerning vexed phenomena such as globalization, exile, diaspora, and migration-forced and voluntary. Collectively, these phenomena deeply influence the development of transnational cultural identities and practices. Specific topics studied in the course vary from year to year and may include global cities and cosmopolitanisms; the black Atlantic; border theory; the discourses of travel and tourism; global economy and trade; or international terrorism and war. Topic for 2017/18b: The World, In Short. This course in transnational literatures approaches the world through a reading of novellas. We don’t have clarity on what constitutes a novella: a tale longer than a short-story and shorter than a novel. So, on one end we have the Canadian writer Alice Munro’s The Bear Came Over the Mountain or James Joyce’s The Dead and, on the other, Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen or Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold. (Having said that, I should mention that I have also cheated a bit and have thrown into the mix a couple of novels. Maybe the longest of them can be read over the Spring break. On the list are a few novellas that are read the world over and, perhaps as a proof of this, are available free online. I should add that as this is a course which looks outward at the rest of the world, we won’t read The Old Man and the Sea or Miss Lonelyhearts, staples on most lists of novellas.) We read a couple hundred pages each week and write, apart from very brief book reports, two papers 5-7 pp. in length. Here is the complete list which will be winnowed down but not by much: Anton Chekhov, Ward No. 6; Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich; Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; James Joyce, The Dead; Thomas Mann, Death in Venice; Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower; Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea; Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John; Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis; Albert Camus, The Stranger; Marguerite Duras, The Lover; Nawaal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero; Nadine Gordimer, The Late Bourgeois World; J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians; Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold; U.R. Ananthamurthy, Samskara; Anita Desai, The Artist of Disappearance; Alice Munro, The Bear Came Over the Mountain; Tove Jansson, The True Deceiver; Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen; Ge Fei, The Invisibility Cloak; Jean-Christophe Valtat, 03; Han Kang, The Vegetarian. Amitava Kumar. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 378 - Black Paris 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 378 and FREN 378 ) This multidisciplinary course examines black cultural productions in Paris from the first Conference of Negro-African writers and artists in 1956 to the present. While considered a haven by African American artists, Paris, the metropolitan center of the French empire, was a more complex location for African and Afro-Caribbean intellectuals and artists. Yet, the city provided a key space for the development and negotiation of a black diasporic consciousness. This course examines the tensions born from expatriation and exile, and the ways they complicate understandings of racial, national and transnational identities. Using literature, film, music, and new media, we explore topics ranging from modernism, jazz, Négritude, Pan-Africanism, and the Présence Africaine group, to assess the meanings of blackness and race in contemporary Paris. Works by James Baldwin, Aime Césaire, Chester Himes, Claude McKay, the Nardal sisters, Richard Wright. Ousmane Sembène, Mongo Beti, among others, are studied. Not offered in 2017/18. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 380 - English Seminar Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Topic for 2017/18b: Then Whose Negro Are You?: On the Art and Politics of James Baldwin. When interviewers sought out some sense of James Baldwin’s ambition, the artist often responded, “I want to be an honest man and a good writer.” The forces constellated around Baldwin’s career made this hardly a simple declaration. The issue of becoming a writer was an arduous task in itself, so much so that Baldwin felt he had to leave the United States, particularly his adored Harlem, to do so. Getting in the way of his artistry was the nation’s troubled negotiation with its own soul: the US was trying to figure out what it wanted to be—an apartheid state? An nuclear dreadnought? A den of prudish homophobes? An imperial power? A beloved community? A city on the Hill? This course looks at all things Baldwin, or at least as many things as we can cover a four moth period. It certainly indulges his greatest hits-his essays, Notes of A Native Son; his novel, Giovanni’s Room; his play, Blues for Mr. Charlie’s–and several other writings both published and unpublished. It does so with an eye toward understanding Baldwin’s circulation as a celebrated author and a public intellectual both in the mid-twentieth century and the present day. Tyrone Simpson. One 3-hour period.
	ENGL 381 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 382 - English Seminar Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Topic for 2017/18a: Global and Refugee Canterbury Tales. In Britain in the last several years, the hashtag #WhyIsMyCurriculumSoWhite? has agitated for a change in the complexion and primacy of white colonial literature and history in UK universities. Likewise, you see this also in the US with #blacklivesmatter protests in the university and have seen it in our field of English literature with the protest at Yale regarding the core canonical authors class. In those demands, Yale English students demanded to know why their curriculum and core required class is a bastion of colonial male white privilege. They want their classes decolonized and they have, of course, named Chaucer as part of the problem. In South Africa, this has sparked a huge student push in activism with the hashtag #RhodesMustFall. The student protests and the accompanying hashtags have only highlighted a global issue in higher education and particularly in our English curriculum. What does the major (usually white, usually dead, usually male, usually European) author mean in an English curriculum? And is there a way to decolonize this category? Gauri Viswanathan wrote in 2014 in the preface of her 25-year anniversary republication of the now classic Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India that now “Perhaps the most significant effect of postcolonialism—with all its shortcomings, blind spots, and metropolitan evasions—is that the curricular study of English can no longer be studied innocently or inattentively to the deeper contexts of imperialism, transnationalism, and globalization in which the discipline first articulated its mission” (xi). She points out in this study but also in thinking of the work done since the first publication of her book that English literature as a field has a very short history (150 years) and in fact began as a colonial project and thus was formed internationally before become a “national” literary field (xii-xiii). We need to ask ourselves as Viswanathan suggests: “precisely where is English literature produced?” Medieval English studies should always already be seen as global, inclusive, multilingual, multicultural. But Viswanathan’s point should also alert us to that fact that Chaucer’s Middle English oeuvre and particularly his Canterbury Tales was first taught as part of an English literary curriculum not in Britain but abroad in its colonies. Chaucer’s place in the contemporary canon has everything to do with his creation for the global colonial classroom. Thus, Chaucer had a global curricular readership long before he had an English curricular one. This class focuses on situating Chaucer, and particularly The Canterbury Tales, as a global work and especially in lieu of recent projects that address the plight of international refugees (http://refugeetales.org). In particular, we read The Canterbury Tales in relation to the compelling work of black feminist writers, playwrights, and poets of the African diaspora (in the Caribbean, Africa, and black London) who have revised, adapted, extrapolated, and voiced The Canterbury Tales in Jamaican patois, Nigerian pidgin, and the south London dialects of Brixton. We consider the place of Global English in relation to creating this Chaucerian black diasporic and feminist cluster of works. These include Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales (2014) that sets The Canterbury Tales in multicultural London with a distinctly London musical beat. Likewise, Ufuoma Overo-Tarimo’s recent song and dance adaptation of the “Miller’s Tale,” Wahala Dey O!, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012 with the cadences of Nigerian pidgin English. Jean Breeze’s poem, “The Wife of Bath Speaks in Brixton Market” includes the weaving-in of Jamaican patois. It also includes the 2016 publication of Refugee Tales that includes Patience Agbabi’s work as well as the work of a cluster of British and diasporic British (Middle Eastern and African) writers as they take up the task of communicating refugee’s tales that they have encountered at one UK refugee detention centre. And finally, this class considers the reach of Global Chaucer and thinks about translation and adaptation. We examine the master list of the Global Chaucer project (https://globalchaucers.wordpress.com/resources/translations-and-adaptations-listed-by-country/). This class includes a workshop with Patience Agbabi (Telling Tales, Refugee Tales). Students are welcome to work on translation projects, creative projects, archive projects, digital storytelling, as well as traditional critical papers in relation to the Global Chaucer site and the Refugee Tales project. Dorothy Kim.
	ENGL 383 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 384 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 385 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 386 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Not offered in 2017/18.
	ENGL 399 - Senior Independent Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 0.5 to 1 unit(s) Open by permission of the Chair. One unit of credit given only in exceptional cases.
History: I. Introductory
	HIST 101 - Martin Luther King Jr. Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 101 ) This course examines the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. We immediately rethink the image of King who liberals and conservatives construct as a dreamer of better race relations. We engage the complexities of an individual, who articulated a moral compass of the nation, to explore racial justice in post-World War II America. This course gives special attention to King’s post-1965 radicalism when he called for a reordering of American society, an end to the war in Vietnam, and supported sanitation workers striking for better wages and working conditions. Topics include King’s notion of the “beloved community”, the Social Gospel, liberalism, “socially conscious democracy”, militancy, the politics of martyrdom, poverty and racial justice, and compensatory treatment. Primary sources form the core of our readings. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 108 - International Human Rights Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as INTL 108 ) Human rights have become the dominant moral language of our time. Rights are used to help build civil society, to establish international law, to give the oppressed hope, and even to justify foreign military intervention. When we speak of rights, then, we speak of a ubiquitous presence in our world. How did this come to be? This course examines the historical development of international human rights from their definition by the United Nations in 1948 to the present day. Our main questions will be how a powerful discourse of human rights has developed, who has spoken on its behalf, and how human rights claims have intersected with existing political, institutional, and legal structures. Robert Brigham. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 116 - The Dark Ages Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as MRST 116 ) Was early medieval Europe really Dark? In reality, this was a period of tremendous vitality and ferment, witnessing the transformation of late classical society, the growth of Germanic kingdoms, the high point of Byzantium, the rise of the papacy and monasticism, and the birth of Islam. This course examines a rich variety of sources that illuminate the first centuries of Christianity, the fall of the Roman Empire, and early medieval culture showing moments of both conflict and synthesis that redefined Europe and the Mediterranean. Nancy Bisaha. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 117 - High Middle Ages, 950-1300 1 unit(s) (Same as MRST 117 ) This course examines medieval Europe at both its cultural and political height. Topics of study include: the first universities; government from feudal lordships to national monarchies; courtly and popular culture; manorial life and town life; the rise of papal monarchy; new religious orders and spirituality among the laity. Relations with religious outsiders are explored in topics on European Jewry, heretics, and the Crusades. Nancy Bisaha. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 122 - Encounters in Modern East Asia Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 122 ) This course introduces the modern history of East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) through various “encounters,” not only with each other but also with the world beyond. Employing regional and global perspectives, we explore how East Asia entered a historical phase generally known as “modern” by examining topics such as inter-state relations, trade network, the Jesuit missionary, philosophical inquiries, science and technology, colonialism, imperialism and nationalism. The course begins in the seventeenth-century with challenges against the dynastic regime of each country, traces how modern East Asia emerges through war, commerce, cultural exchange, and imperial expansion and considers some global issues facing the region today. Wayne Soon. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 124 - Europe 1945 1 unit(s) On May 8, 1945 the Second World War ended in Europe. After six years of fighting, millions of soldiers and civilians had been killed. The Nazi genocide had led to the brutal murder of millions of Jews and other minorities. Some of Europe’s most magnificent cities lay in ruins, while some twenty million refugees, expellees, or displaced persons wandered the highways in search of shelter and security. Readings explore the roots of the war, and how European countries dealt with the destruction, the questions of guilt, collaboration and resistance, and the challenge to create a peaceful Europe in the emerging Cold War order. Maria Höhn. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 125 - Infamy on Trial: Famous Trials in Early Modern Europe Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course examines several of the most famous trials of Europe’s early modern period (1500-1700). Each trial allows us to explore how communities and individuals responded to the changing nature of European society during this period of upheaval. Through cases involving all sorts of people—men and women, peasants and kings, we have access to conflicting understandings of authority, family, religion, and gender. The trial of Galileo challenged contemporary understandings of what it meant to be a Christian while the execution of King Charles I raised questions about kingship. By studying criminal cases, we engage with a rich selection of primary sources, such as trial records, contemporary accounts, and private papers. Through these readings, the class investigates how early modern people interpreted crime and justice during moments of crisis. Sumita Choudhury. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 126 - Terrorism in Russia and Eurasia Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Terror is a tactic as old as warfare, and it creates many dangers in the present. Sectarians and revolutionaries, powerful states and small regimes, guerillas and jihadists all have carried out bloody attacks and assassinations in the name of religion, liberation, politics, identity, and empowerment. This course explores the use and legacies of terror starting in 1789. We investigate nihilism, Lenin and the Bolsheviks in Russia, the anti-Nazi resistance and guerilla movements, anti-Soviet Afghanistan, Shamil Basaev and Chechnya, Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, and contemporary global suicide terrorism, taking care to elicit historical connections and breaks between them. We encounter leaders and ordinary people engaged in acts of violence, as well as their victims; we discuss scholarship on the invention of modern terror and state terror, and using their own texts and acts as evidence, we investigate how violent practitioners represent themselves and make claims of transcendence and social transformation. How have they been perceived? What happens when such movements come to power? How do violent campaigns end? Michaela Pohl. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 128 - Europe 1945 - Rethinking History 0.5 unit(s) On May 8, 1945 the Second World War ended in Europe. After six years of fighting, millions of soldiers and civilians had been killed. The Nazi genocide had led to the brutal murder of millions of Jews, and other minorities. Some of Europe’s most magnificent cities lay in ruins, while some twenty million refugees, expellees, or displaced persons wandered the highways in search of shelter and security. Readings for this class explore how European countries dealt with the aftermath of the war, as well as the questions of guilt, collaboration, and resistance. In particular, readings and discussions focus on the tension between history and memory as Europeans tried to come to terms with the war. Maria Höhn. Second six-week course. Not offered in 2017/18. One 2-hour meeting.
	HIST 132 - Globalization in Historical Perspective, 1850 to the Present 1 unit(s) Commentators tell us that we live in “a global age,” but dramatic increases in worldwide contacts—economic and social, political and cultural—are not unique to our time. In the late nineteenth century, for example, steamships, telegraphs, railroads, and even movies fostered an increase of interaction across national boundaries and across oceans that was every bit as remarkable as today’s. Using such sources as novels, maps, and picture postcards from the Aran Islands to Senegal, this course explores the modern roots and historical development of globalization. Not offered in 2017/18.
	HIST 141 - Tradition, History and the African Experience 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 141 ) From ancient stone tools and monuments to oral narratives and colonial documents, the course examines how the African past has been recorded, preserved, and transmitted over the generations. It looks at the challenges faced by the historian in Africa and the multi-disciplinary techniques used to reconstruct and interpret African history. Various texts, artifacts, and oral narratives from ancient times to the present are analyzed to see how conceptions and interpretations of African past have changed over time. Ismail Rashid. Open only to freshmen; satisfies the college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar. Not offered in 2017/18.
	HIST 143 - Russia, Ukraine, and the Steppe 1 unit(s) This course introduces students to the history of the Russians and their neighbors on the Eurasian Steppe, a vast region that stretches from Ukraine to Kazakhstan. Topics include the relations between Russians and Ukrainians and nomadic and semi-nomadic people (Tatars, Kazakhs, Cossacks), the great steppe empires, the imposition of serfdom, the uprisings of the steppe (1660s and 1916), and the complex mix of violence and development that was unleashed in the Soviet period, including famines, forced cultural change, and industrialization. We will also consider the connections between the cultural and political history of this region and current events, such as the creation of a new Eurasian Union. Course materials include history texts, memoirs, fiction, newspapers, Soviet and post-Soviet films, and maps. Course participants practice writing regularly, with an emphasis on discussing and constructing arguments, finding and using evidence, and comparing perspectives and points of view (American, Russian, Ukrainian, Central Asian). Michaela Pohl. Open only to freshmen; satisfies the college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 151 - British History: James I (1603) to the Great War Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course explores the central developments in Britain from the age of Shakespeare to the age of total war. We study the political and scientific revolutions of the seventeenth century, the eighteenth-century rise of commercial society and the “British” nation, and the effects of industrialization on Britain’s landscape, society, and politics. The course concludes by exploring how the First World War transformed British society. Lydia Murdoch.
	HIST 154 - Victorian Women 1 unit(s) (Same as WMST 154 ) This course introduces students to college writing and historical methodologies through the study of women in Victorian Britain. We explore how women from various class and social backgrounds responded to debates about “woman’s nature” and the female body in their writings and reform campaigns. Topics include slavery and abolition, industrial labor, women’s suffrage, higher education, domestic violence, sexual assault, and medical treatment for such conditions as hysteria. Students practice writing skills through the close analysis of select texts on the craft of writing along with primary source materials, including memoirs, essays, government documents, and medical records, as well as material culture artifacts: photographs and paintings, crinolines and corsets. We also examine the politics of the historical archive, exploring possible methods for researching Victorian women—especially working-class women, women of color, young women, and “lesbian like” or queer women—who were less likely to record their experiences and have them preserved, or who self-identified in terms that no longer fit our own. In addition to short assignments, students complete an independent research paper on a topic of choice. Lydia Murdoch. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 159 - Blood and Faith: The St. Bartholomew’s Massacre in Context 0.5 unit(s) (Same as MRST 159 ) On August 24, 1572, Catholic troops slaughtered nearly 3,000 Protestant men and women who had arrived in Paris to attend the marriage between the future Henry IV and Marguerite de Valois, sister of Charles IX. It was the most dramatic episode of the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) during which 2-4 million Catholics and Protestants died. This course examines the origins of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre coming out of the Protestant Reformation. Like the larger war, the massacre was not simply initiated by kings and nobles but featured ordinary subjects who sought to defend and define their community. We look at how the war was fought not just with weapons but words, featuring a trip to Special Collections. Throughout the course, we examine the relationship between politics and religion, between faith and community, issues that remain relevant today. Sumita Choudhury. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 160 - American Moments: Rediscovering U.S. History Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1 unit(s) This is not your parents’—or your high school teacher’s—American history course. No textbook: Instead we read memoirs, novels, newspaper articles, letters, speeches, photographs, and films composed by a colorful, diverse cast of characters—famous and forgotten, slaves and masters, workers and bosses. No survey: Instead we pause to look at several illuminating “moments” from the colonial era through the Civil War to civil rights and the Cold War. Traveling from the Great Awakening to the “awakening” that was the 1960s, from an anticolonial rebellion that Americans won (1776) to another that they lost (Vietnam), the course challenges assumptions about America’s past—and perhaps also a few about America’s present and future. The department.
	HIST 161 - Violent Economies: Rewriting the American West 1 unit(s) This course considers episodes in the history of the United States and its Western frontiers from the California Gold Rush through the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Themes include economic risk-taking and cycles of boom and bust; racial and interpersonal violence; forced removal of native peoples and their responses; frontier myth-making; and the emergence of a wilderness ethos. As students investigate different strategies for telling about the past, readings include eyewitness accounts, historical narratives, and works of fiction. Rebecca Edwards. Open only to freshmen; satisfies college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar. Not offered in 2017/18. Three 50-minute periods.
	HIST 162 - Envisioning Latin America 1 unit(s) How have people come to see Latin America since it first entered the European consciousness at the end of the fifteenth century? How have the people of Latin America themselves deflected and recast the “imperial eye”? This course explores Latin America ca. 1500-ca. 2010s through the writings of outside observers–explorers, bureaucrats, Enlightenment scientists, traders and investors, ethnographers—to uncover the process of producing an exoticized vision of a region open to economic expansion and empire. We also explore Latin American self-representations, drawing on colonial-era indigenous and creole letters and reports, post-colonial poetry and novels, government-sponsored pavilions at international expositions, and official tourist campaigns. Along the way, we address several central themes in Latin American history—race and ethnicity, gender, nation building (as both a political and a cultural project)—considered within the conceptual frame of transculturation. Leslie Offutt. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 164 - Latin American History ‘through the lens’ Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 0.5 unit(s) (Same as LALS 164 ) Film can be a source of entertainment, a propaganda tool, a medium of artistic expression, and a shaper and reflector of national identity. This course explores the history of specific moments and themes in twentieth-century Latin America-US perceptions of Latin America; revolution; “Dirty Wars”; the transition from authoritarianism to democracy; and Liberation Theology-that have defined the region’s recent history and been the subject of domestic film production and foreign consumption. Course readings include historical studies of the specific themes and primary materials that illuminate critical aspects of each theme. Leslie Offutt. First and second six-week course. Two 75-minute periods plus outside screenings.
	HIST 174 - The Emergence of the Modern Middle East Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) An exploration of the Middle East over the past three centuries. Beginning with economic and social transformations in the eighteenth century, we follow the transformation of various Ottoman provinces such as Egypt, Syria/Lebanon, and Algeria into modern states, paying careful attention to how European colonialism shaped their development. We then look at independence movements and the post-colonial societies that have emerged since the middle of the twentieth century, concluding with study of colonialism’s lingering power—and the movements that confront it. Joshua Schreier. Open only to freshmen; satisfies the college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar.
	HIST 175 - Mandela: Race, Resistance and Renaissance in South Africa Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 175 ) This course critically explores the history and politics of South Africa in the twentieth century through the prism of the life, politics, and experiences of one of its most iconic figures, Nelson Mandela. After almost three decades of incarceration for resisting Apartheid, Mandela became the first democratically elected president of a free South Africa in 1994. It was an inspirational moment in the global movement and the internal struggle to dismantle Apartheid and to transform South Africa into a democratic, non-racial, and just society. Using Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, as our point of departure, the course discusses some of the complex ideas, people, and developments that shaped South Africa and Mandela’s life in the twentieth century, including: indigenous culture, religion, and institutions; colonialism, race, and ethnicity; nationalism, mass resistance, and freedom; and human rights, social justice, and post-conflict reconstruction. Ismail Rashid. Two 75-minute periods.
History: II. Intermediate The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 202 - Business and the State in East Asia Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 202 ) This course examines the relationship between business, culture, and society in twentieth-century East Asia, with a focus on the ways in which the state has shaped business practices and ideas. We investigate the varying role of governments in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Manchuria in enabling and restricting the growth of enterprises in the region, mediated by colonialism, imperialism, Western competition, and globalization. We examine how the development of new business practices changed the interaction between labor and employers in the region. Case studies are drawn from the medical, education, electronics, retail sectors, etc. This class uses historical sources such as memoirs, oral histories, case studies, and newspaper reports to understand the nature of contingencies in doing business in the region. In so doing, students gain the tools to critically examine the notions of the “Developmental State,” and “Confucian Capitalism” in explaining the rise and fall of businesses in East Asia. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 208 - Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1945 1 unit(s) (Same as INTL 208 ) This course examines U.S. National Security issues through the prism of human rights, weaving humanitarian concerns into the fabric of traditional security studies. We survey the most important literature and debates concerning the concepts of human rights and the U.S. national interest. We also use case studies to explore the intersection of human rights, economic aims, strategic concerns, and peace building. In addition, we test the consistency of U.S. guiding principles, the influence of non-state actors on policy formation, and the strength of the international human rights regime. Robert Brigham. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 214 - The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as JWST 214 ) An examination of the deep historical sources of the Palestine-Israel conflict. The course begins some two centuries ago when changes in the world economy and emerging nationalist ideologies altered the political and economic landscapes of the region. It then traces the development of both Jewish and Arab nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before exploring how the Arab and Jewish populations fought—and cooperated—on a variety of economic, political, and ideological fronts. It concludes by considering how this contest led to the development of two separate, hostile national identities. Joshua Schreier.
	HIST 216 - History of the Ancient Greeks 1 unit(s) (Same as GRST 216 ) This course examines the history and culture of the ancient Greeks from the emergence of the city-state in the eighth century BCE to the conquests of Alexander the Great in 335 BCE. In addition to an outline of the political and social history of the Greeks, the course examines several historical, cultural, and methodological topics in depth, including the emergence of writing, Greek colonialism and imperialism, ancient democracy, polytheism, the social structures of Athenian society, and the relationship between Greeks and other Mediterranean cultures. Students both read primary sources (for example, Sappho, Tyrtaios, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, and Plato) and examine sites and artifacts recovered through archaeology; the development of students’ critical abilities to evaluate and use these sources for the study of history is a primary goal of the class. Barbara Olsen. Not offered in 2017/18.
	HIST 217 - History of the Ancient Romans 1 unit(s) (Same as GRST 217 ) This course examines the history of the ancient Romans from the foundation of their city around the eighth century BCE to the collapse of their Mediterranean Empire in the fifth century CE. The course offers a broad historical outline of Roman history, but focuses on significant topics and moments in Roman history, including the Republican aristocracy, the civil and slave wars of the Late Republic, the foundation of the Empire by Caesar Augustus, urbanism, the place of public entertainments (gladiatorial combats, Roman hunts, chariot races, and theater) in society, the rise of Christianity, the processes of Romanization, and barbarization, and the political decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Students read primary sources such as Plautus, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, and Suetonius, and secondary accounts dealing with important issues such as slavery, religious persecution and multiculturalism. Students also examine important archaeological sites and artifacts. The development of students’ critical abilities to evaluate and use these sources for the study of history is a primary goal of the class. J. Bert Lott. Not offered in 2016/17. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 225 - Renaissance Italy 1 unit(s) (Same as URBS 225 ) This course examines the history of Italy between 1300 and 1565. Italian intellectual, political, and religious history is emphasized, but some attention is also given to cross-cultural, gender, and social history. Looking beyond Italy, we also consider developments in Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and their impact on Italy and Europe. Topics to be covered include the Black Death, the rise of humanism, the Renaissance papacy, and the Catholic Reformation. Finally, throughout the course, we question the meaning of the term “Renaissance”: is it a distinct period, a cultural movement, or an insufficient label altogether? Nancy Bisaha. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 226 - Northern Europe in the Renaissance, c. 1300-1550 1 unit(s) As a famous scholar has argued, the north witnessed a long “autumn of the Middle Ages,” holding tightly to medieval ideals of chivalry, pageantry, and piety – precisely at the same time Italy seemed to be forging ahead into modernity. Yet by the end of the period, Northern states overshadowed Italy politically, economically and, increasingly, culturally. This course examines Northern Europe during this remarkable period of transformation. The Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the Tudors, French and German state building and court life, and urban society in Flanders, are addressed along with the poetry of Chaucer, the humanism of More and Erasmus, and the doctrine of Luther. In turn, we examine the complex meanings of the terms “Renaissance” and “Reformation” and the relationship between them. Nancy Bisaha. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 230 - From Tyranny to Terror: The Old Regime and the French Revolution 1 unit(s) Eighteenth-century France was a society in transition, a society in which social and cultural ideals and realities were increasingly at odds. The tensions within society and the state finally erupted into the cataclysmic French Revolution, which paved the way for modern political life. Using primary and secondary sources, this course focuses on topics such as the social structure of the Old Regime, the Enlightenment, and the volatile political climate preceding the revolution. We examine different interpretations of what caused the French Revolution as well as the dynamics of the Revolution itself between 1789 and 1799. Sumita Choudhury. Not offered in 2017/18.
	HIST 232 - France/North Africa: from Corsairs to post-Colonialism Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) From the sixteenth-century Franco-Ottoman alliance to the present day, French and North African women and men have lived in intimate proximity (literal and figurative) to each other. They have been both united and divided by processes such as trade, privateering, slavery, colonialism, treaties, and migrations. Despite this long, shared history, many imagine that France and North Africa are fundamentally split by “culture” or “civilization.” The chasm is so wide, according to some, that even grandchildren of immigrants to France are imagined to possess traits impeding their integration. Focusing on the intertwined histories of France, Morocco, and (the lands that became) Tunisia and Algeria, we consider how difference has been framed and how such understandings have changed over time. Joshua Schreier. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 235 - Ending Deadly Conflict 1 unit(s) (Same as INTL 235 ) This course uses historical case studies to identify practical ways to end conflict and build sustainable peace. It is concerned with the vulnerability of the weak, failed and collapsed states, with post conflict periods that have reignited into violence, and problems of mediating conflicts that are unusually resistant to resolution. Of particular interest will be the role that third party intermediaries and global governance institutions have played in bringing about a negotiated end to violence. Major topics may include: the Paris Peace Accords, South Africa’s truth and reconciliation commissions, the Good Friday Agreement, Israel-Palestine negotiations, the Dayton Peace Accords ending the Balkans wars, and negotiations to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Robert Brigham. Not offered 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 236 - Germany, 1740-1918 1 unit(s) This course covers the history of the German lands from 1740 to the end of World War I. Aside from providing a chronological political narrative, assigned readings focus in greater detail on a number of themes to illuminate the specific character of German history. Topics include: the demise of the universalist idea of the Holy Roman Empire; the German Enlightenment and the legacy of enlightened absolutism on state/society relations; the impact of the Napoleonic revolution; the failures of 1848; the Prussian-led unification; the legacy of Bismarck’s domestic policies on German political culture and social life; German imperialism and World War I. Maria Höhn. Not offered in 2017/18. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 237 - Germany, 1918-1990 1 unit(s) This course covers German history from the end of World War I to the 1990 unification that ended the post–World War II split of German society into East and West. Aside from familiarizing you with a narrative of German political, social, and cultural history, the readings also explore some of the so-called “peculiarities” of German history. Did Bismarck’s unification from above and the pseudo-constitutional character of the Second Reich create a political culture that set the country on a Sonderweg (special path) of modernization ending in the catastrophe of Auschwitz? Why did Weimar, Germany’s first experiment with democracy, fail, and why is Bonn not Weimar? Finally, what road will the new Germany take within Europe and the world? Maria Höhn. Not offered in 2017/18.
	HIST 242 - The Russian Empire to 1812 Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course introduces major events and issues in the history of the Russians and their neighbors to the South and East. The main themes each week include the formation of Russia’s autocracy and nobility, Eurasian family/clan politics and cultural practices, and the connection between expansion and repression. Topics include the great steppe empires, Russia as part of the Golden Horde (1240-1480), the era of Ivan the Terrible and his conquest of the Tatars of the Volga, the Time of Troubles, the conquest of Siberia, the imposition of serfdom, westernization and globalization of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great, relations with the Ottoman Empire under Russia’s female tsarinas, the conquest of the Caucasus, and the history of the Cossacks. Michaela Pohl. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 243 - Russia and the Soviet Union, 1861-2000 Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course explores how Russians and their neighbors (Ukrainians, Poles, Kazakhs, and others) collectively encountered the age of revolutions and socialism. The beginning and the end of the Soviet Union in 1917 and in 1991 pitted national dreams against socialist ideology and Western-style shock therapy, and both were followed by decades of economic troubles and political chaos. Topics include the emancipation from serfdom, the Bolshevik revolution, Stalinism, the Communist Party and the purges, the victory over the Nazis in World War II, reforms under Khrushchev and Gorbachev, the fall of communism, oligarchic politics, and the rebirth of Russia and the war in Chechnya under Yeltsin and Putin. Michaela Pohl. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 245 - Medicine, Health and Diseases in East Asia 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 245 and STS 245 ) From the globalization of acupuncture to the proliferation of biobanks to the fight against the deadly SARS virus, the history of East Asian medicine and society has been marked by promises and perils. Through examining the ways in which East Asians conceptualized medicine and the body in their fight against diseases from a myriad of sources, this course critically examines the persistence, transformation, and globalization of both “traditional medicine” and biomedicine in East Asia. Topics covered include the knowledge of nature as embedded in the changing categorization of pharmaceuticals, the contestation over vaccination and the definition of diseases, the construction of gender and sexuality in medicine, the importance of religion in healing, the legacies of colonialism in biopolitics and biotechnology, the development of healthcare systems, and the imaginations of Asian medicine in the West. Wayne Soon. Not offered in 2017-18. Two 75-minute periods.

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ENGL 241 - Shakespeare

ENGL 242 - Shakespeare

ENGL 245 - Pride and Prejudice: British Literature from 1640-1745

ENGL 246 - Sense and Sensibility: British Literature from 1745-1798

ENGL 247 - Eighteenth-Century British Novels

ENGL 248 - The Age of Romanticism, 1789-1832

ENGL 249 - Victorian Literature: Culture and Anarchy

ENGL 250 - Victorian Poets

ENGL 251 - Topics in Black Literatures

ENGL 252 - Writing the Diaspora: Verses/Versus

ENGL 253 - Topics in American Literature

ENGL 255 - Nineteenth-Century British Novels

ENGL 256 - Modern British and Irish Novels

ENGL 257 - The Novel in English after 1945

ENGL 260 - Modern British Literature, 1901-1945

ENGL 261 - Literatures of Ireland

ENGL 262 - Postcolonial Literatures

ENGL 265 - Selected Author

ENGL 275 - Caribbean Discourse

ENGL 277 - Crossings: Literature without Borders

ENGL 280 - Modernism, Sexuality and Science, 1890-1950

ENGL 281 - The Comics Course

ENGL 282 - The History of Mediascapes: Critical Maker Culture

ENGL 290 - Field Work

ENGL 298 - Independent Study

ENGL 300 - Senior Tutorial

ENGL 302 - Adaptations

ENGL 305 - Creative Writing Seminar

ENGL 306 - Creative Writing Seminar

ENGL 307 - Senior Creative Writing

ENGL 315 - Studies in Performance

ENGL 317 - Studies in Literary Theory

ENGL 318 - Literary Studies in Gender and Sexuality

ENGL 319 - Race and its Metaphors

ENGL 320 - Studies in Literary Traditions

ENGL 325 - Studies in Genre

ENGL 326 - Challenging Ethnicity

ENGL 328 - Literature of the American Renaissance

ENGL 329 - American Literary Realism

ENGL 330 - American Modernism

ENGL 331 - Postmodern American Literature

ENGL 340 - Studies in Medieval Literature

ENGL 341 - Studies in the Renaissance

ENGL 342 - Studies in Shakespeare

ENGL 345 - Milton

ENGL 350 - Studies in Eighteenth-century British Literature

ENGL 351 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

ENGL 352 - Romantic Poets: Rebels with a Cause

ENGL 353 - Romantic Poets: Rebels with a Cause

ENGL 355 - Modern Poets

ENGL 356 - Contemporary Poets

ENGL 357 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

ENGL 362 - Text and Image

ENGL 365 - Selected Author

ENGL 370 - Transnational Literature

ENGL 378 - Black Paris

ENGL 380 - English Seminar

ENGL 381 - English Seminar

ENGL 382 - English Seminar

ENGL 383 - English Seminar

ENGL 384 - English Seminar

ENGL 385 - English Seminar

ENGL 386 - English Seminar

ENGL 399 - Senior Independent Work

HIST 101 - Martin Luther King Jr.

HIST 108 - International Human Rights

HIST 116 - The Dark Ages

HIST 117 - High Middle Ages, 950-1300

HIST 122 - Encounters in Modern East Asia

HIST 124 - Europe 1945

HIST 125 - Infamy on Trial: Famous Trials in Early Modern Europe

HIST 126 - Terrorism in Russia and Eurasia

HIST 128 - Europe 1945 - Rethinking History

HIST 132 - Globalization in Historical Perspective, 1850 to the Present

HIST 141 - Tradition, History and the African Experience

HIST 143 - Russia, Ukraine, and the Steppe

HIST 151 - British History: James I (1603) to the Great War

HIST 154 - Victorian Women

HIST 159 - Blood and Faith: The St. Bartholomew’s Massacre in Context