ENGLISH 5522      Medieval Literature
Western religious and secular verse and prose to the 15th century. Late Middle English works are read in the original; all other selections in translation. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5523      Renaissance Literature II
English literature from 1600 to the beginning of the Restoration, including the works of Donne, Jonson, Milton, and other contemporaries. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5526      The Victorian Period
An intensive study of selected writers (such as Arnold, Braddon, the Brontes, the Brownings, Dickens, Darwin, Eliot, Gaskell, Hardy, Ruskin, and the Rossettis) organized around literary themes and/or cultural issues important to the Victorian period. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 327 or permission of the instructor. This prerequisite applies only to undergraduate students.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5527      Contemporary Poetry
Study of works by contemporary poets (post- World War II), such as Auden, Bishop, Hayden, Berryman, Rukeyser, Larkin, Rich, Plath, Heaney, Boland, and Komunyakaa. Students will make in class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographic work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5528      20th Century American Literature
Major American writers or literary movements of the 20th century. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5529      Graduate Seminar: Screenwriting
A seminar on advanced theory in narrative screenwriting, script analysis and constructive story editing. Students draft, revise and workshop a short film script or a feature screen play, and deliver a pitch, treatment, draft and revision of the first act and detailed outline of the whole script. Students workshop feature screenplays in small groups. Cross-listed with Comm S 354: Graduate Seminar: Screenwriting. Prerequisite: ENGL 429B/Comm S 454: Advanced Screenwriting or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5531      Late 18th-Century British Literature
British literature from the mid to late 18th century. Selected writers may include Blake, Burney, Collins, Equiano, Fielding, Gray, Johnson, Sheridan, and Wollstonecraft.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5532      Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
A course for advanced students of fiction writing. The class will proceed through analysis of models, discussion of general principles, and critique of student work. Students will simultaneously be encouraged to experiment and to refine the form and subjects best suited to their talents. Emphasis will remain on the short story, though there may be units in other forms--novella, film script, the non-fiction essay. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: Graduate Standing Offered: Every year.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5533      Histories Of Writing, Reading, And Publishing
A study of selected topics concerning the material practices of writing, reading, and publishing within specific cultural and historical contexts. Issues examined may include authorship, education, information technologies, libraries, literacy, periodicals, popular literature, publishers, and communities of readers. Offered: On Demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5534      Postcolonial Literature
An exploration of postcolonialism through the study of literary and theoretical texts created by or representing peoples whose historical experience has been decisively shaped by the experience or legacies of colonialism. Texts will be drawn from a variety of genres and from several countries. The course will consider several definitions of postcolonialism and related terms such as cosmopolitanism, hybridity, diaspora, and nationalism. Prerequisite: None Offered: On Demand
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5535      Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
An advanced poetry workshop that includes intensive reading of contemporary poetry and aims at each student creating a portfolio of publishable poems. The focus of the course will vary to address a variety of topics such as metaphor and closure; imitation and the line; form and voice. May be repeated once for credit. Offered: Every year. Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5536      Poetic Forms
An advanced creative writing course that focuses on intensive study of and practice in metrics and traditional and nonce forms. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 315 or its equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5537      Prose Forms
This course covers techniques for planning and drafting major prose forms. Students will learn how to use content as a guide to inventing new forms (i.e. novella, novel, linked-story collection, episodic novel, essay novel, and creative nonfiction book. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 432 ENGLISH 435 Adv CW Prose/Poetry Offered: Winter.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5540      American Culture
Texts that offer perspectives on key historical themes of American culture. Texts may be grouped around any culturally significant principle (e.g. region, race, gender, class, ethnicity, religion) or theme (e.g. the mythology of the frontier, marriage and domesticity, the American Dream). Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work. Offered: On demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5541      Girls And Print Culture
This course deals with girls' relationships to the continually evolving print culture. Students will examine various literary representations of girlhood by adult writers, explore texts directed at girls (e.g., conduct books, periodicals, textbooks), and study the writing and reading practices of girls themselves. Offered: On demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5545      History And Principles Of Rhetoric
A study of selected writings of ancient and modern rhetoricians illustrating key issues in the development of Western discourse theory and practice. Issues examined include the relationships between rhetoric and knowledge, orality and literacy, and rhetoric and poetics. Attention will also be given to the implications of rhetorical theory for modern language instruction. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5547      Introduction To Literary Criticism
An introduction to major schools or methods of literary criticism. The first third of the course is an historical overview of criticism from Aristole to Northrop Frye. The remainder of the semester is devoted to a study of genetic, formalist, mimetic, affective, intertextual, and deconstructionist approaches. Students will make in-class presentations and submit papers requiring research and bibliographical work.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5550      Graduate Seminar
Authors, works and intellectual currents which form the basis of these seminars may vary from semester to semester, depending upon the instructor's design for the course. May be repeated for credit. Composition & Rhetoric Course 5550 covers the first halves of periods which naturally fall in two parts. Continued in ENGLISH 5555.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5550A      Graduate Seminar Medieval Literature I
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 5550B      Graduate Seminar Renaissance Literature I
Credits: 3 hours
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