Fall 2025

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.

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.

Close study of Shakespeare's plays and poems to introduce his language, stagecraft, literary "genius," social and literary contexts, precursors and rivals, and legacy.

Introduction to theory and practice of literary study.

Intensive reading of major writers to 1800.

Intensive reading of major writers, 18001950.

Intensive reading of representative writers.

Introduction to major forms, styles and theories of narrative, with attention to characterization, plot, genres, ethics, empathy, perspective, audience and social conditions.

An introduction to the close reading of fiction and the understanding of the genre as an aesthetic and historical phenomenon.

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 narrative in fiction and literary non-fiction

Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing prose fiction.

Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing poetry.

Techniques and practice of creative nonfiction writing, including genres such as lyric essay, memoir, personal narrative and/or scientific, medical, nature, culinary and travel writing.

Practical course in relations between editing and the creative process in fiction, poetry, and exposition

A study of literature and literary theory through the themes and theories of wonder, magic and the uncanny in English literature before 1800.

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

Questions of gay and lesbian identity, expression and experience in a variety of literary and cultural forms; emphasis on sexual politics, equality and difference.

Study of prose written in English since 1945, principally fiction of the past two decades.

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

Selected British, Irish, and American drama from the post World War II period (1945 to the present).

Literary studies in the relationship between fiction and drama and their adaptation as films.

An examination of how literature and related arts intersect in a particular cultural milieu. Selected topics.

A practical course in composition of prose fiction.

A practical course in poetry writing.

Prerequisite: English 405 and/or consent of instructor.

Selected studies of prose and poetry in the age of Bacon, Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Browne, Marvell, and Milton.

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.

Survey of African American literary and cultural production after the Civil Rights Movement, with special emphasis on the New Black and Post-Soul Aesthetics.

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

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Selected problems in literary history and criticism.

Individual research, reading, writing and project development as a senior capstone experience in the study of narrative.

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

The assumptions and practices of major post-modern theorists and theoretical schools.

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.

Studies in the Romantics and Victorians, gender and genre, the new woman and the novel, authorship and the marketplace, science, imperialism, the crisis of narrative, and other topics.

Plays for the stage shall be written using public-domain poetry and prose as inspiration and source material, complemented with exploring poetry, prose, and varied dramas as context for the student writer. Students should be well-versed in literature, and have written in one or more genres.

Comprehensive introduction to the MA degree and its range of study, focusing on elements of the craft of editing and the literary marketplace.

An intensive workshop in applied English, coordinating literary analysis with editing and publication, including relationships with authors; academic and trade presses; journals; editing and design.

Topics on literary and popular forms: profile portrait; science writing; food writing; place and travel; memoir; and personal essay; with venues for publication.

Introduction to skill sets needed to enter the profession; development of student interests as they fit in the literary landscape.

Practical experience in the publishing world for acquiring skills and knowledge beyond the classroom.

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

Theories of race and ethnicity, cultural imperialism, discourse of power and class, literatures of the Americas, and other topics.

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.

Study of conventional and experimental works of creative nonfiction, from memoir to poetry, criticism and scholarship, focusing on issues of form, ethics, style and audience.

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

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

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

Academic writing workshop focused on producing dissertation chapters and revising seminar papers for publication.

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.