Fall 2013

Introductory workshop in writing poetry, short fiction and nonfiction for love of the written and spoken word. Not for English major credit. Not for English major or English (Creative Writing) major credit.

Intensive reading of major writers to 1800.

Intensive reading of major writers, 1800-1950.

Intensive reading of representative writers.

Historical survey of the traditions of lyric poetry from Shakespeare to the contemporary, examining the genre's multiple forms of literary, visual, and aural expression.

Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing prose fiction.

Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing poetry.

Introduction to the techniques and practice of lyric essay, memoir, personal narrative, and scientific, medical, nature, culinary and travel writing.

Investigation of the scope and possibilities of British and American science fiction as a genre, with some attention to its historical development.

Course in the theory and practices of "popular culture," highlighting modern and comtemporary culture, film, video and popular music, as well as narrative forms.

Theories of rhetoric as they apply to written composition, with emphasis upon pedagogical applications. The course is designed for but not limited to prospective teachers of English.

Apprenticeship with experienced writer-teachers, providing students with a pedagogical framework and practical experience for teaching creative writing in schools and community settings.

A practical course in composition of prose fiction.

A practical course in poetry writing.

Prerequisite: English 405 and/or consent of instructor.

Selected studies in the major figures, genres, and themes of Middle English literature to Malory, with special emphasis on Chaucer.

Selected studies in the non-dramatic literature of Renaissance England, with emphasis on Sidney, Spencer, and Shakespeare.

Selected studies in the poetry, prose, and fiction of such writers as Defoe, Dryden, Fielding, Richardson, Pope, Swift, and Johnson.

Selected studies in the prose and poetry of such figures as Tennyson, Dickens, the Brontes, the Brownings, Hopkins, Arnold, Ruskin, and Newman.

Major history plays, comedies, and tragedies.

American poetry and prose to the Civil War with special attention to Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman.

American poetry, fiction, and drama since World War I with special attention to Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, O'Neill, Stevens, Faulkner, and Nabokov.

Introduction to African-American, Chicano, Asian American, and Native-American literatures--and to the literary diversity of American cultures.

Development of the novel in African-American literature beginning with the anti-slavery fiction of William W. Brown and his pre-Emancipation contemporaries and concluding with the emerging novelists of the late Sixties.

Introduction to philosophical and critical writings on the nature of art and aesthetic experience. Special attention to technology's impact on art.

Study of poetry written in English since 1945, with special emphasis on the last two decades.

Studies of the narrative experiments and innovations in fiction following the realist novel; emphasis of gender, empire and class and the pluralities of "modernisms."

Women as writers and as subjects, with special emphasis on feminist and liberationist traditions and on changing female images after 1800.

Theoretical and applied studies of literature in English as social activity and cultural production; its expression of, and influence upon, social values, concepts, and behavior.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Selected problems in literary history and criticism.

Studies in the works of one or more authors, or in the development of a theme or genre.

The assumptions and practices of major theorists and theoretical schools from Plato to literary modernism.

Investigations of chivalry and romance, allegory, drama, popular literature in the Middle Ages, the reception of medieval literature, and other topics.

Studies in poetry and patronage, the popular tradition in literature and drama, the social and sexual dynamics of comedy, historical and cultural uses of genres, among other topics.

Studies in canonic and non-canonic literature in the American Renaissance, cultural nationalism, the consequences of race, immigration, expansion, urbanization, science, and marketplace, and other topics.

Research leading to the Master's Degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching within college disciplines. Intended for teaching assistants in Dornsife College.

Issues and theory of studying literature in relation to history, science, politics, psychology, religion, sociology, media, the visual arts, and other disciplines.

Studies of major and minor, canonic and non-canonic writers.

History, transformation, and theory of genre; studies in epic, lyric, drama, comedy, tragedy, the novel, biography, essay, and other forms.

Explores the way film has been theorized in relationship to traditional media that preceded it and electronic media that followed.

Intensive practicum in advanced level poetry writing, intended to develop high level creative compositional ability. Open only to Creative Writing Ph.D. degree candidates.

Intensive practicum in advanced level fiction writing, intended to develop high level creative compositional ability. Open only to Creative Writing Ph.D. degree candidates.

Seminar. Studies in poetry form and function or critical theory.

This two-credit course helps ABD students craft their professional identities and placement materials as they make the transition from graduate school to their academic position. Graded CR/NC. Not available for degree credit.

Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. GRADED CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit upon acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.