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English (ENGL)
- http://dornsife.usc.edu/engl/
- D class assignments for undergraduates available in THH404; Phone: (213) 740-2808.
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.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32820D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Monday | 12 of 12 | Anthony Abboreno | THH107 | ||
32821D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Thursday | 10 of 12 | M G Lord | WPH603 | ||
32822D | 001 | Lecture | 4:30-6:50pm | Tuesday | 9 of 12 | Todd Fredson | THH211 | ||
32823D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Wednesday | 10 of 12 | Corinna Schroeder | THH105 | ||
32855D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Friday | 9 of 12 | M G Lord | WPH200 |
Introduction to the pleasures and power of poetry, exploring elements drawn from high-points of English poetry, and the lives and works of major poets. (Duplicates credit in ARLT 101g)
- General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
- Note: Register for lecture and one discussion
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32872D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 197 of 208 | Dana Gioia | THH201 | ||
32860D | 001 | Discussion | 10:00-10:50am | Thursday | 26 of 28 | Vanessa Carlisle | VKC252 | ||
32861D | 001 | Discussion | 12:00-12:50pm | Thursday | 25 of 27 | Vanessa Carlisle | THH110 | ||
32853D | 001 | Discussion | 10:00-10:50am | Monday | 24 of 25 | Sarah Vap | THH112 | ||
32854D | 001 | Discussion | 10:00-10:50am | Wednesday | 25 of 25 | Michelle Brittan | THH112 | ||
32856D | 001 | Discussion | 10:00-10:50am | Friday | 23 of 26 | Chinmayi Sirsi | THH112 | ||
32857D | 001 | Discussion | 12:00-12:50pm | Monday | 25 of 26 | Sarah Vap | VKC200 | ||
32858D | 001 | Discussion | 12:00-12:50pm | Wednesday | 25 of 27 | Michelle Brittan | VKC200 | ||
32859D | 001 | Discussion | 12:00-12:50pm | Friday | 24 of 26 | Chinmayi Sirsi | VKC200 |
An exploration of the culture, vibrance, heritage, mythology, variety, and pathology of a city that was born in hopes and captured the worlds imagination. Duplicates credit in ARLT 101g.
- General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
- Note: Register for lecture and one discussion
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32876D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-11:50am | Mon, Wed | 192 of 200 | Thomas Gustafson | THH201 | ||
32891D | 001 | Discussion | 10:00-10:50am | Tuesday | 24 of 26 | Leah Bailly | VKC252 | ||
32897D | 001 | Discussion | 12:00-12:50pm | Tuesday | 24 of 25 | Leah Bailly | THH110 | ||
32890D | 001 | Discussion | 3:00-3:50pm | Thursday | 25 of 25 | Julian Suhr | SOSB37 | ||
32892D | 001 | Discussion | 12:00-12:50pm | Monday | 24 of 25 | Anne Sullivan | THH215 | ||
32893D | 001 | Discussion | 1:00-1:50pm | Monday | 26 of 26 | Anne Sullivan | THH215 | ||
32894D | 001 | Discussion | 1:00-1:50pm | Thursday | 26 of 26 | Julian Suhr | WPH103 | ||
32895D | 001 | Discussion | 9:00-9:50am | Friday | 19 of 25 | Gray Fisher | VKC210 | ||
32896D | 001 | Discussion | 11:00-11:50am | Friday | 24 of 25 | Gray Fisher | THH112 |
History, political-economy and aesthetics of the African Diaspora with emphasis on Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa.
- General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
- Diversity: This course satisfies the university's diversity requirement.
- Crosslist: This course is offered by the AMST department but may qualify for major credit in ENGL. To register, enroll in AMST 250.
- Note: Register for lecture and one discussion
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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10372D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 134 of 150 | Chrisshonna Nieva | MRF340 | ||
10373R | 001 | Discussion | 10:00-10:50am | Thursday | 24 of 25 | Huan He | GFS105 | ||
10374R | 001 | Discussion | 10:00-10:50am | Friday | 19 of 25 | Chrisshonna Nieva, Kitty Lai | ZHS360 | ||
10375R | 001 | Discussion | 3:00-3:50pm | Wednesday | 22 of 26 | Chrisshonna Nieva, Kitty Lai | GFS222 | ||
10376R | 001 | Discussion | 12:00-12:50pm | Friday | 21 of 25 | Chrisshonna Nieva, Kitty Lai | VHE206 | ||
10377D | 001 | Discussion | 1:00-1:50pm | Wednesday | 24 of 26 | Chrisshonna Nieva | SOSB48 | ||
10378R | 001 | Discussion | 1:00-1:50pm | Thursday | 24 of 25 | Huan He | VKC205 |
Intensive reading of major writers, 1800-1950.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32618D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 17 of 19 | Devin Griffiths | THH203 | ||
32619D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-10:50am | MWF | 18 of 19 | Christopher Freeman | THH108 | Word (71680 KB) | |
32622D | 001 | Lecture | 1:00-1:50pm | MWF | 15 of 19 | Erika Wright | THH203 |
Examines history of popular cultural forms such as literature, music, dance, theater, and visual arts produced by and about African Americans.
- General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
- Diversity: This course satisfies the university's diversity requirement.
- Crosslist: This course is offered by the AMST department but may qualify for major credit in ENGL. To register, enroll in AMST 285.
- Note: Register for lecture and one discussion
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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10399D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 86 of 95 | Anndretta Wilson | MHP101 | ||
10400R | 001 | Discussion | 11:00-11:50am | Friday | 20 of 25 | Emmett Harsin Drager, Anndretta Wilson | VKC206 | ||
10401R | 001 | Discussion | 10:00-10:50am | Friday | 22 of 25 | Emmett Harsin Drager, Anndretta Wilson | VKC206 | ||
10402R | 001 | Discussion | 4:00-4:50pm | Wednesday | 21 of 26 | Rosanne Sia, Anndretta Wilson | THHB9 | ||
10404R | 001 | Discussion | 3:00-3:50pm | Wednesday | 23 of 25 | Rosanne Sia, Anndretta Wilson | THHB9 |
Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing prose fiction.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32645D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Wednesday | 10 of 12 | Jeffrey Solomon | THH107 | PDF (120521 KB) | |
32649D | 001 | Lecture | 4:30-6:50pm | Thursday | 12 of 12 | Susan Segal | THH105 | ||
32653D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Friday | 12 of 12 | Kerry Ingram | THH105 |
Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing poetry.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32655D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Monday | 12 of 12 | Molly Bendall | THH105 | ||
32659D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Tuesday | Canceled | Anna Journey | |||
32661D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Thursday | 8 of 12 | Vandana Khanna | THH105 |
Introduction to the techniques and practice of lyric essay, memoir, personal narrative, and scientific, medical, nature, culinary and travel writing.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32680D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Monday | Canceled | David Treuer | |||
32771D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Tuesday | 5 of 12 | Carol Muske-Dukes | THH105 | Word (199314 KB) |
Practical course in relations between editing and the creative process in fiction, poetry, and exposition
- Restriction: Registration closed to the following class level(s): Freshmen
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32832D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Wednesday | 10 of 19 | David Ulin | THH203 |
Selected studies in the poetry, prose, and fiction of such writers as Defoe, Dryden, Fielding, Richardson, Pope, Swift, and Johnson.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 261
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32712D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-11:50am | MWF | 15 of 19 | Emily Anderson | THH203 |
Selected studies in the prose and poetry of such figures as Tennyson, Dickens, the Brontes, the Brownings, Hopkins, Arnold, Ruskin, and Newman.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 262
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32714D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 10 of 19 | Devin Griffiths | THH207 |
American poetry, fiction, and drama since World War I with special attention to Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, O'Neill, Stevens, Faulkner, and Nabokov.
- Corequisite: ENGL 263
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32848D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 13 of 19 | David Roman | THH211 |
Survey of Asian American literature from the earliest time to the present; development of prose, poetry, and novel.
- Diversity: This course satisfies the university's diversity requirement.
- Crosslist: This course is offered by the AMST department but may qualify for major credit in ENGL. To register, enroll in AMST 449.
- Note: Register for lecture and one discussion
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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10438D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 21 of 30 | Gladys Pamela Nubla | WPH203 |
Study of prose written in English since 1945, principally fiction of the past two decades.
- Note: 32762 Visual Writing
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32733D | 001 | Lecture | 1:00-1:50pm | MWF | 19 of 19 | Christopher Freeman | THH115 | Word (44388 KB) |
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.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32747D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-10:50am | MWF | Canceled |
Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Junior, Senior
Section | Session | Units | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32757D | 001 | 2.0-8.0 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 3 of 19 | Lawrence Green | OFFICE |
Selected problems in literary history and criticism.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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Becoming Jane Austen | |||||||||
32711D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Thursday | 12 of 12 | Tania Modleski | WPH204 | ||
Time and the Novel Magic Realism: Morrison, Marquez, and Saramago | |||||||||
32759D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Tuesday | 8 of 12 | David Treuer | THH203 | ||
Sylvia Plath | |||||||||
32761D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Thursday | 11 of 12 | Anna Journey | THH203 |
Studies in the works of one or more authors, or in the development of a theme or genre.
Section | Session | Units | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Cult of Beauty | ||||||||||
32707D | 001 | 2.0 | Lecture | 10:00-11:50am | Thursday | 4 of 12 | Margaret Russett | VKC103 | ||
Henry James | ||||||||||
32708D | 001 | 2.0 | Lecture | 10:00-11:50am | Tuesday | 6 of 12 | John Rowe | VKC103 | Word (20992 KB) |
The assumptions and practices of major theorists and theoretical schools from Plato to literary modernism.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32770D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Friday | 10 of 10 | Anthony Kemp | THH203 | PDF (211036 KB) |
The principal methods and assumptions by which race, class and gender have been studied in reference to literary and cultural discourse.
- Note: .
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32789D | 001 | Lecture | 4:30-7:20pm | Monday | Canceled | Claudia Rankine |
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.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32788D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Thursday | 7 of 12 | Heather James | THH107 |
Studies in British literature and culture, from the 1790s to 1830s, including gender and genre, authorship and authenticity, "romance" and revolution, forms of belief and doubt, and other topics.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32877D | 001 | Lecture | 4:30-6:50pm | Tuesday | 3 of 12 | Margaret Russett | WPH104 |
Studies in British literature and society, 1837-1901, including gender and genre, industrialism, science and technology, empire and race, new forms of media and narrative, and other topics.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32882D | 001 | Lecture | 4:30-6:50pm | Tuesday | Canceled |
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.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32786D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-7:20pm | Wednesday | 10 of 12 | John Rowe | THH105 | Word (20388 KB) |
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.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32787D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 3 of 20 | David Rollo | OFFICE |
Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching within college disciplines. Intended for teaching assistants in Dornsife College.
- Crosslist: This course is offered by the MDA department but may qualify for major credit in ENGL. To register, enroll in MDA 593.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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42297D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:50pm | Tuesday | 4 of 20 | Sunyoung Park | VKC103 |
History, transformation, and theory of genre; studies in epic, lyric, drama, comedy, tragedy, the novel, biography, essay, and other forms.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32800D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Thursday | Canceled |
Intensive practicum in advanced level fiction writing, intended to develop high level creative compositional ability. Open only to Creative Writing PhD degree candidates.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following major(s): English
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
- Restriction: Registration open to the following school(s): Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32804D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-4:20pm | Monday | 2 of 12 | David Treuer | THH111 |
Seminar. Studies in poetry form and function or critical theory.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32805D | 001 | Lecture | 4:30-6:50pm | Thursday | 6 of 12 | Carol Muske-Dukes | THH107 | Word (199435 KB) |
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.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32807D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:50pm | Wednesday | 6 of 12 | Joseph Boone | VKC153 |
Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32808D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 1 of 20 | David Rollo | OFFICE |
Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Doctoral Student
Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
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32810D | 001 | Lecture | TBA | TBA | 4 of 30 | OFFICE |