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Course Descriptions


 

Linguistics

  
  • LING 250 - African-American English


    Fall or Spring (4) Charity Hudley (College 200, CSI, ACTV)

    This course explores the sociolinguistics of English spoken by African-Americans in the United States. We examine the relationship of African-American English to linguistic theory, education praxis, and American culture. This course prepares students for community-based research. (This course is anchored in the CSI domain, and also considers aspects of the ALV domain.) (Cross listed with AFST 250 )
  
  • LING 303 - History of the English Language


    Fall or Spring (3) Taylor, Osiapem

    A study of the history of the English language from Old English to the present. Some attention is given to contemporary developments in “World English.” (Cross-listed with ENGL 303.)
  
  • LING 304 - Syntax


    Fall or Spring (3) Parker Prerequisite(s): LING 220   / ANTH 204 . (GER 3)

    This introduction to syntax investigates the structures and operations underlying sentence formation. The course focuses on one linguistic model, with attention given to linguistic theory, alternative models and issues in syntax and semantics.
  
  • LING 307 - Phonetics and Phonology


    Fall or Spring (3) Lunden Prerequisite(s): LING 220   / ANTH 204 . (GER 3)

    A study of common segment-level sound patterns across languages. Class focuses on analysis of novel data from particular languages using evolving phonological formalism.
  
  • LING 308 - Language and Culture


    Fall and Spring (3) Cochrane Prerequisite(s): LING 220  / ANTH 204  or  ANTH 202   (CSI)

    This course addresses the interrelations between language and culture, surveying the research topics and methods which constitute linguistic anthropology and sociocultural linguistics today. (Cross-listed with ANTH 308 )
  
  • LING 346 - Foreign Language Acquisition Processes: Theory and Practice


    Fall or Spring (3) (CSI)

    How are foreign languages acquired? Factors influencing individual variation in skill and fluency include language transfer, optimal input, age, learning styles and language dysfunction. Focus on foreign language acquisition with respect to learning theory, and physical, cognitive and social development. (Cross-listed with MDLL 346 
  
  • LING 358 - First Language Acquisition


    Fall (3) Harrigan Prerequisite(s): LING 220  or ANTH 204  or PSYC 202  or ENGL 220  

    Introduction to the study of how children acquire their first language. Topics include: the perception and production of speech; word learning; combining words into sentences; communicative competence; theories and methods of investigation. (Cross listed with PSYC 358 )
  
  • LING 370 - Psycholinguistics


    Spring (3) Harrigan Prerequisite(s): LING 220  or ANTH 204  or PSYC 201  orENGL 220  

    Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of how humans acquire, produce and comprehend language. Topics include sentence processing and representation; speech perception, word retrieval, theories and methods of investigation.

      (Cross listed with PSYC 370 )
  
  • LING 380 - Computational Methods in Language Science


    Spring (3) Parker Prerequisite(s): ANTH 204  or LING 220  

    Interdisciplinary introduction to the use of computers in studying natural language. Topics include: representing and processing language on a computer, searching text, classifying documents, dialog systems, machine translation, and speech recognition systems.
  
  • LING 400 - Meaning and Understanding in Western Cultural Thought


    Fall or Spring (3) Taylor (GER 4A)

    A critical approach to the history of Western thinking about meaning, understanding, language and mind: tracing the integration of these topics into Western cultural and intellectual traditions, from Classical Greece and Rome up to modern developments in 20th-century European and American thought.
  
  • LING 404 - Historical Linguistics


    Fall or Spring (3) Lunden, Martin Prerequisite(s): LING 220   / ANTH 204  and ENGL 307. (GER 3)

    A study of the kinds of change which languages may undergo. Covers the nature and motivation of linguistic evolution, and the methods by which unattested early stages of known languages may be reconstructed. (Cross listed with ANTH 411 )
  
  • LING 406 - Language and Society


    Fall or Spring (3) Osiapem Prerequisite(s): LING 308  or ANTH 308  , or consent of instructor. (GER 3)

    A study of the place of language in society and of how our understanding of social structure, conflict and change affect our understanding of the nature of language.

      (Cross listed with ANTH 413 )

  
  • LING 407 - Advanced Phonetics and Phonology


    Fall or Spring (3) Lunden Prerequisite(s): LING 307 

    A close examination of the connection between phonetics and phonology. Students will learn how to set up simple phonetic experiments and become familiar with new phonological domains.
  
  • LING 408 - Independent Research in Phonetics and Phonology


    Spring (1) Lunden Prerequisite(s): LING 307  Corequisite(s): LING 407 

    Development of a research project in phonetics and phonology in conjunction with LING 407.
     
  
  • LING 410 - Language Attitudes


    Spring (4) Charity Hudley Prerequisite(s): (LING 303/ENGL 303 or LING 406/ENGL 406/ANTH 413) and (ANTH 204/ENGL 220/LING 220).

    This seminar will examine the social, economic, and educational ramifications of language attitudes including: the linguistic intersection of race, gender, and social class; comparisons of standardized and Standard English; and the role of linguistics in the formation of language policy.

     

  
  • LING 415 - Linguistic Anthropology


    Fall or Spring (3) Taylor, Bragdon Prerequisite(s): LING 308 or ANTH 308. (CSI, GER 3)

    This course will introduce students to the history and theories of linguistic anthropology with emphasis on North American languages. Students will approach these subjects through readings, class discussions and problem sets. (Cross listed with ANTH 415 )
  
  • LING 418 - Language Patterns: Types and Universals


    Fall (3) Martin Prerequisite(s): LING 220   / ANTH 204 . (CSI)

    A survey of common patterns and constructions in language ranging from word order to case, agreement, voice, aspect, relative clauses, interrogation and negation. Major themes include the unity and diversity of language and the techniques used to measure it. (Cross listed with ANTH 418 )
  
  • LING 420 - Caribbean Linguistics


    Fall or Spring (3) Osiapem Prerequisite(s): LING 308  or ANTH 308 .

    This course introduces students to the history, structure, and sociocultural aspects of Anglophone languages of the expanded Caribbean. Topics include: current views on the formation of pidgin and creole languages, definitive characteristics of these languages, and the relationships among them.
  
  • LING 440 - Linguistic Field Methods


    Fall and Spring (4) Staff Prerequisite(s): LING 304  , LING 307   and LING/ANTH 418 , or consent of instructor. (College 400, CSI, GER 3)

    In this advanced linguistics course, students work closely with a speaker of another language to discover the structure of that language and to describe different aspects of its grammar: phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. (Cross listed with ANTH 440 .)
  
  • LING 464 - Topics in Linguistics


    Fall and Spring (1-3) Staff Prerequisite(s): LING 220   / ANTH 204  or consent of instructor.

    Investigation of a major sub-field of linguistics. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • LING 474 - Research Seminar in Linguistics


    Spring (4) Staff Prerequisite(s): LING 220   / ANTH 204  or consent of the instructor.

    Study in depth and independent research/writing about a topic in linguistics. Students who are not linguistics majors may enroll with instructor’s permission. May be repeated for credit with different topic.
  
  • LING 481 - Independent Study in Linguistics


    Fall and Spring (1-3) Staff

    A tutorial course on a topic agreed upon by the student and instructor and approved in advance by the Linguistics Program Committee
  
  • LING 482 - Independent Community-based Study in Linguistics


    Fall, Spring, or Summer (3) (College 300)

    A tutorial designed for students wishing to pursue independent community-based research under the supervision of an instructor. Prior to registration, the student must submit a course proposal to the instructor and the Program Director. A successful proposal will describe a coherent program of study built around a research trip of at least a week. That research trip must result in a person-to-person, cross-cultural experience, and should therefore include a self-reflective assignment.
  
  • LING 495 - Honors


    Fall (3) Staff.

    Students seeking admission to Honors in Linguistics are required to prepare a thesis proposal in consultation with an adviser who is a member of the Linguistics faculty.   The proposal, along with the adviser’s recommendation, must be submitted to the Linguistics Program Honors Committee by May of the student’s junior year. For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
  
  • LING 496 - Honors


    Spring (3) Staff.

    Students seeking admission to Honors in Linguistics are required to prepare a thesis proposal in consultation with an adviser who is a member of the Linguistics faculty.   The proposal, along with the adviser’s recommendation, must be submitted to the Linguistics Program Honors Committee by May of the student’s junior year. For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.

Literature

  
  • ENGL 100 - Critical Questions in English


    Fall and Spring (4) Staff (College 100)

    An exploration of significant questions and concepts, beliefs and creative visions, theories and discoveries in English for first-year students. Although topics vary, the courses also seek to improve students’ communication skills beyond the written word.
  
  • ENGL 150 - First-Year Seminar


    Fall and Spring (4) Staff (College 150)

    An exploration of a specific topic in English. A grade of C- or better fulfills the COLL 150 requirement. Although topics vary, the courses emphasize academic writing skills, reading and analysis of texts, and discussion. Sample topics might include the Roaring Twenties in Literature and Film; Tolkien and His Circle; Material Girls; Haunted Houses; Shakespeare and Jealousy.
  
  • ENGL 200 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Culture


    Fall and Spring (3) Staff

    An interdisciplinary course focused on the study of literature and other texts that also views these texts
    within their cultural or social worlds and/or relates them to the study of the natural world. Topics will vary and may include Utopia in America; Animal Dreams; Constructions of Crime. Whatever the topic, the course considers the relationship between English and the other disciplines of the liberal arts, as well as their practices and methodologies. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 201 - Literature and the Bible


    Spring (3) A. Potkay, M. Potkay (ALV, GER 5)

    This course introduces students to the principal biblical narratives, their historical contexts, and the ways they have been interpreted by Western authors. Readings from the King James version of the Bible will include the major books of the Old and New Testaments. Lectures will examine the literary qualities of the biblical texts and the artistic traditions associated with them.
  
  • ENGL 203 - British Literature I


    Fall and Spring (3) Conlee, Hagedorn, Minear, A. Potkay, M. Potkay, Webster (ALV, GER 5)

    A survey of British literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The course covers narrative, dramatic, and lyric poetry, including works by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton.
  
  • ENGL 204 - British Literature II


    Fall and Spring (3) Melfi, Morse, A. Potkay, Raitt, Wheatley, Wilson (ALV, GER 5)

    A survey of British literature from 1675-1900. The course includes Augustan satire, Romantic and Victorian poetry, and the Victorian novel.
  
  • ENGL 205 - An Introduction to Shakespeare


    Fall and Spring (3) Minear (ALV, GER 5)

    A general introduction to Shakespeare’s major poetry and plays. Students will read eight to ten plays, chosen to reflect the major periods in Shakespeare’s dramatic development, and some poetry, especially the sonnets. (It is suggested that students have previously taken English 203 or another 200-level course, or have AP credit for 210.)
  
  • ENGL 207 - American Literature: Themes and Issues


    Fall and Spring (3) Braxton, Dawson, Donaldson, Kennedy, Knight, Lowry, Pinson, Putzi, Scholnick, Thompson, Zuber (ALV, GER 5)

    An introduction to American literature through an analysis of major continuing themes, such as the meaning of freedom; literature and the environment; urban-rural dichotomies.
  
  • ENGL 210 - Topics in Literature


    Fall and Spring (3-4) Staff (Most topics will fulfill GER 5)

    An introduction to a topic in literature, or in literature and another discipline, designed for non-majors. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 211 - Literature Transformed


    Fall (3) (ALV)

    An introduction to the study of relations between works of literature and other media. Topics may include adaptation and revision; books made into films and vice versa; literature and music or the visual arts; or storytelling in newer media including graphic novels, videogames, and electronic literature.
  
  • ENGL 213 - Iconic Authors


    Fall (3) (ALV)

    An introduction to the major works of one or more celebrated, influential writers.  Subjects may include Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, or Toni Morrison.  (Courses that satisfy the Single Author requirement for the English major appear at the 400 level.)
  
  • ENGL 214 - One Good Book


    Fall (3) (ALV)

    A study of a single major work whose depth and complexity reward a semester-long immersion.  Subjects may include Melville’s Moby-Dick, Dickens’s David Copperfield, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Joyce’s Ulysses, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Ellison’s Invisible Man, Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, or Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
  
  • ENGL 215 - Popular Genres


    Fall or Spring (3) Staff (ALV)

    An introduction to popular literature and “genre fiction.”  Topics may include detective stories, Arthurian romance, Gothic and supernatural fiction, children’s fantasy literature, Westerns, science fiction/speculative fiction, or pulp fiction.
  
  • ENGL 230 - Topics in Modern English


    Fall or Spring (1 - 4) Staff

    An exploration of aspects of the English language used currently.  Topics may include African American English and linguistic discrimination; “standard” and “nonstandard” English(es) in American, British, and global, colonial, and imperial contexts, and their implications for culture, society, and policy; slang, jargon, new words, and new usages; obscenity and hate speech.  Courses may include community-based research.  Courses do not presume any previous coursework in linguistics.
  
  • ENGL 250 - Interpreting Literature


    Fall and Spring (3) Staff

    In this course students develop the skills necessary for college-level literary analysis. Students will practice close reading and critical writing informed by various interpretive models. Course readings will include four to six primary literary texts selected from different historical periods, genres, traditions, and perspectives.
  
  • ENGL 311 - Epic and Romance


    Fall (3) Hagedorn

    This course surveys epics and romances from Ancient Greece, Classical Rome, and Medieval France, Germany, and Italy. Readings (in translation) may include Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey; Virgil’s Aeneid; selected Arthurian romances by Chrétien de Troyes; Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival; and Dante’s Inferno.   Readings may also include English works in the epic and romance traditions.
  
  • ENGL 314 - Old English


    Fall (3) M. Potkay

    An introductory study of the Old English language, including grammar, phonology, and vocabulary, through the translation and analysis of prose and poetry; collateral readings in Anglo-Saxon history and culture.
  
  • ENGL 315 - Beowulf


    Spring (3) M. Potkay

    An intensive study of the text in Old English; collateral reading of the poem’s classical, Christian, and Norse analogues, and of selected literary criticism.
  
  • ENGL 316 - Arthurian Literature


    Spring (3) Conlee, Hagedorn, M. Potkay

    A study of selected works from the Arthurian literary tradition. Major emphasis is upon authors from the medieval period (e.g., Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chrétien de Troyes and Malory), but some attention is also given to Arthurian literature in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  
  • ENGL 322 - Medieval Literature


    Fall and Spring (3) Conlee, Hagedorn, M. Potkay

    A survey of selected major works and other representative examples of Old and Middle English literature, exclusive of Chaucer. The course explores the development of typical medieval attitudes and themes in a variety of literary forms and genres.
  
  • ENGL 322A - Middle English Practicum


    Fall or Spring (1) M. Potkay Corequisite(s): ENGL 322 

    Study of selections from Middle English texts in the original language, surveying major works drawn from the chief dialects.  Emphasis on phonology, grammar, and vocabulary.
  
  • ENGL 323 - Early Modern British Literature


    Fall (3) Webster

    A survey of British literature between 1509, the accession of King Henry VIII, and 1625, the death of King James I.  Includes poetry, drama, and prose.  Major figures studied may include Thomas More, Queen Elizabeth I, Walter Raleigh, Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, and William Shakespeare (especially his poetry).
  
  • ENGL 324 - Renaissance and Restoration


    Fall and Spring (3) Minear, Webster

    A survey of British literature between 1603, the death of Queen Elizabeth I, and 1713, the end of the War of the Spanish Succession that marked Great Britain’s emergence as a world power.  Includes poetry, drama, satire, and philosophical writing.  Major figures studied may include John Donne, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, the Earl of Rochester, Aphra Behn, John Locke, and John Dryden.
  
  • ENGL 325 - English Renaissance Drama


    Fall (3) Minear

    This course studies the remarkable flourishing of drama in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, periods characterized by their dramatic inventiveness and innovation. We will study early modern interventions into the development of the Classical genres of tragedy and comedy as well as the development of new dramatic genres, including the history play, the revenge tragedy, the dramatic epic, the masque, and the comedy of humors. Works studied may include plays by Dekker, Kyd, Marlowe, Marston, Cary, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, and Ford.
  
  • ENGL 331 - English Literature, 1660-1744


    Fall (3) A. Potkay, Wilson

    A survey including poetry, fiction and drama. Some attention to arts related to literature. Emphasis on comedy and satire. Major figures studied include the Earl of Rochester, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gay, and Fielding.
  
  • ENGL 332 - English Literature, 1744-1798


    Spring (3) A. Potkay, Wilson

    A survey of the poetry and prose of the period, with special attention to the intellectual/historical contexts. Major figures studied include Johnson, Gray, Hume, Gibbon, Smart, and Blake.
  
  • ENGL 333 - The Novel to 1832


    Fall (3) A. Potkay, Wilson

    This course studies selected British and Continental novels from the early modern through Romantic periods, drawing upon authors such as Cervantes, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Rousseau, Goethe, Austen, and Scott.
  
  • ENGL 341 - The English Romantic Period


    Fall (3) A. Potkay, Wheatley

    A survey of poetry, prose and fiction of the period between 1798 and 1832, with special attention to the works of the major Romantic poets.
  
  • ENGL 343 - English Novel, 1832-1900


    Spring (3) Joyce, Melfi, Morse, Raitt

    Novels by Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Dickens, Trollope, Gaskell, Eliot and Hardy are studied as primary examples of the nature and development of the English novel during the Victorian period.
  
  • ENGL 344 - The World Novel After 1832


    Spring (3) Begley, A. Potkay

    A study of selected novels written mostly by authors who are not Anglo-American. Focus of readings will vary from year to year (e.g., history of the genre; 19th-century Europe; postcolonialism).
  
  • ENGL 352 - Modern British Literature


    Fall and Spring (3) K. Johnson, Joyce, Melfi

    A survey from the end of the Victorian era through at least the post- World War II period. Selected works by such writers as Conrad, Yeats, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, and Thomas are emphasized.
  
  • ENGL 355 - Modern Fiction


    Fall and Spring (3) Melfi

    Reading, analysis and discussion of the principal American and British fiction writers from 1890 to the present, chosen to illustrate contemporary tendencies in matter and technique.
  
  • ENGL 356 - Modern Poetry to 1930


    Fall (3) Hart, MacGowan

    Development of modern British and American poetry from transitional poets Hopkins, Housman and Hardy through the first generation modernist poets. Reading, interpretation and discussion, with emphasis on Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Lawrence, Williams, and Stevens.
  
  • ENGL 357 - Modern Poetry since 1930


    Spring (3) Hart, MacGowan

    Development of modern British and American poetry from second-generation modernist poets through confessional and contemporary poets. Reading, interpretation and discussion, with emphasis on Auden, Thomas, Roethke, Lowell, Plath, and Berryman.
  
  • ENGL 358 - Modern Drama to 1940


    Fall (3) Begley

    Survey of modern drama which traces the historical development of character against the theories of Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. Students read plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Rostand, Shaw, Pirandello, O’Neill and Brecht, in conjunction with acting treatises.
  
  • ENGL 359 - Modern Drama since 1940


    Spring (3) Begley

    Survey of modern and contemporary drama that examines textual and performative representations of Being. Students read plays by Sartre, Genet, Ionesco, Beckett, Weiss, Baraka, Soyinka, Shange, Churchill, and Kushner, in conjunction with critical readings on artistic and philosophical movements.
  
  • ENGL 360 - Contemporary Literature


    Fall and Spring (3) Burns, Castleberry, K. Johnson, Kennedy, Knight, Schoenberger, Losh, Thompson

    A survey of contemporary literature, including such movements as confessional and beat poetry, theater of the absurd, postmodernism and magic realism.
  
  • ENGL 361 - American Literature to 1836


    Fall (3) Putzi, Sawaya

    A survey from Columbus to Poe, emphasizing the Puritan/ Enlightenment backgrounds of such writers as Bradford, Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Brown, and Freneau.
  
  • ENGL 362 - The American Renaissance


    Fall and Spring (3) Barnes, Putzi, Scholnick, Wenska

    A survey of the mid-19th century, emphasizing the writers of the Concord Group, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.
  
  • ENGL 363 - American Literature, 1865-1920


    Fall and Spring (3) Dawson, Donaldson, Lowry, Putzi, Sawaya, Thompson

    A survey from the Gilded Age to the end of the First World War, emphasizing such writers as Mark Twain, Howells, James, Stephen Crane, Norris, Dreiser, and the Regionalists.
  
  • ENGL 364 - American Literature, 1912-1960’s


    Fall and Spring (3) Dawson, Donaldson, MacGowan, Pinson, Weiss, Wenska

    A survey from the rise of the modernist poets and the Lost Generation to the 1960s, emphasizing such writers as Pound, Eliot, W. C. Williams, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, O’Connor, Lowell, and Plath.
  
  • ENGL 365 - Early Black American Literature


    Fall (3) Pinson, Spencer, Weiss

    Survey of Black American literature and thought from the colonial period through the era of Booker T. Washington, focusing on the ways in which developing African American literature met the challenges posed successively by slavery, abolition, and emancipation. (Cross listed with AFST 365 .)
  
  • ENGL 366 - Modern Black American Literature


    Spring (3) Pinson, Spencer, Weiss

    Survey of African American literature from the 1920s through the contemporary period. Issues addressed include the problem of patronage, the “black aesthetic,” and the rise of black literary theory and “womanist” criticism. (Cross listed with AFST 366 .)
  
  • ENGL 371 - Topics in American Literature


    Fall and Spring (3) Staff

    Advanced study of a specific topic in American literature. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 380 - Topics in a Literary Period


    Fall and Spring (3) Staff

    In-depth study of a specific topic from within or across the traditional historical periods of British or American literature. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit. 400-level: Thematic and theoretical courses in literature; single-author courses, senior research seminars, independent studies, and honors classes
  
  • ENGL 411 - Topics in Literary Theory


    Fall and Spring (3) Staff

    Topics in theory, exploring questions of aesthetics, the history of the study of literature, literature’s function as representation, its relationship to the world and to other disciplines. Topics vary but may include contemporary literary theory, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 411A - Theory of Literature


    Fall (3) Staff

    A study of the major attempts to identify and define the nature of literature, our responses to it and its relation to life and to the other arts. The emphasis is on modern and contemporary literary theory, but with some concern for the historical tradition.
  
  • ENGL 412 - Topics in Literature and Other Arts


    Fall and Spring (3) Staff

    Exploration of the intersections among written, visual, and/ or performing arts. Topics vary from semester to semester but may include Shakespeare and Film, art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and race, representation, and arts in the U.S. South. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 414 - Topics in Women Writers


    Fall and Spring (3) Staff

    Study of fiction, non-fiction, and/or poetry by selected women writers. Topics vary from semester to semester but may include British women writers, medieval women writers, contemporary women writers. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 414A - Major African American Women Writers


    Spring (3) Pinson, Spencer

    This course studies the fiction and non-fiction of major African American women writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gloria Naylor. Some attention to black feminist/ womanist and vernacular theoretical issues through selected critical readings. (Cross listed with AFST 414 .)
  
  • ENGL 416 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality


    Fall and Spring (3) Staff

    Courses that address literary and/or theoretical treatments of gender and sexuality. Topics vary from semester to semester and may include issues such as sexual identity, queer theory, feminist criticism, masculinity studies and literature and the formation of sexual identity. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 416A - Literature and the Formation of Homosexuality


    Spring (3) Joyce

    A study of the homosexual tradition and the formation of sexual identity in 19th-20th-century British and American literature. Authors read include Oscar Wilde, E. M. Forster, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, Christopher Isherwood, Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault.
  
  • ENGL 417 - Topics in Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality


    Fall and Spring (3) Staff

    Study of literature focusing on changing cultural definitions of race, ethnic identity, and the shaping of (and rationale for) national literatures. Topics will vary but may include comparative and cross-cultural studies. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 417A - Literature of the Americas


    Spring (3) Thompson

    A study of works that extend the definition of “American” literature beyond the national boundaries of the United States. Focus of readings will vary from year to year (e.g., Caribbean literature, U.S./Latin American literary relations, multiculturalism).
  
  • ENGL 417B - Harlem in Vogue


    Fall (3) Pinson, Weiss

    Exploration of the 1920s movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on the ways race, gender/sexuality, and class informed the artists’ construction of identity. Writings by Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, Toomer, among others; some attention to visual art and music. (Cross listed with AFST 417 .)
  
  • ENGL 419 - Study of a Single Author or Auteur


    Fall and Spring (3) Staff

    In-depth study of a single author or auteur. Topics vary from semester to semester but may include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, Orson Welles. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 419A - Jane Austen


    Spring (3) Wheatley

    In this course we will study the career of Jane Austen (1775-1817), one of the world’s greatest novelists.  Proceeding chronologically, we’ll concentrate on Austen’s six major novels, but we’ll also read some of her letters, juvenilia and unfinished pieces of fiction.  The main goal of the course is to enhance students’ appreciation and understanding of Austen’s development through close reading of her works.  In class discussions and in both formal and informal writing assignments, students will analyze the relationships between on the one hand, the language, structure and form of the novels and on the other hand, themes such as family dynamics, courtship, education, politeness, and psychological growth.  We’ll also pay attention to various contexts that illuminate Austen’s stylistic and thematic choices and strategies, approaching Austen’s works in terms of biography, British history, and the development of the genre of the novel, as well as recent scholarly criticism.  In addition, we’ll extend the pleasures and intellectual rewards of studying Austen by discussing various screen adaptations of her novels. 
  
  • ENGL 420 - Studies in Chaucer


    Fall (3) Conlee, Hagedorn

    In this course, students study selections from Geoffrey Chaucer’s works (among them The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and shorter lyrics) in order to appreciate his literary artistry and gain a better understanding of the Middle Ages.
  
  • ENGL 421 - Studies in Shakespeare


    Fall and Spring (3) Minear, Webster

    An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s plays, with individual topic to be set by the instructor. Topics may be organized around genre (e.g. Shakespeare’s Tragedies, Comedies, Histories or Problem Plays) or theme (e.g. Shakespeare and Race, Shakespeare’s Women, Shakespeare’s Rome, Shakespeare’s Language). If there is no duplication of topic, course may be repeated once for credit.
  
  • ENGL 426 - Studies in Milton


    Spring (3) Minear, Webster

    John Milton’s career spanned a highly tumultuous period of English history that includes the Civil Wars, the period of the Commonwealth, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. A poet and a polemicist, Milton was actively engaged in the many social, political and theological debates that shaped this period of English history. In this course we will study Milton’s major poetic and prose works, with emphasis given to the epic Paradise Lost and its various political, theological and literary contexts.
  
  • ENGL 465 - Topics in English


    Fall and Spring (1-3) Staff

    Exploration of a topic in literature, language, or in the relations between English and other disciplines. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 475 - Research Seminar in English


    Fall and Spring (4) Staff

    Study in depth of a specialized literary topic. Students write and present research papers for critical discussion. Non-majors may enroll upon consent of the department chair. If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  
  • ENGL 480 - Independent Study in English


    Fall and Spring (1-3) Staff Prerequisite(s): Student must have at least a 3.0 in English.

    A tutorial on a topic agreed upon by the student and instructor and approved in advance by the departmental Undergraduate Program Committee. Normally open only to majors who have completed at least 18 credits towards the major. Normally may be taken only once.
  
  • ENGL 494 - Honors Proposal Workshop


    Spring (4) Dawson

    This workshop is restricted to majors planning to enroll in senior Honors, and is expected of any student planning on writing an Honors thesis (except under exceptional circumstances). The workshop aids students in preparing and writing a thesis proposal and applying for undergraduate research funds. Students are admitted by the departmental Honors Committee.
  
  • ENGL 495 - Honors


    Fall, Spring (3) Staff

    Honors study in English comprises (a) supervised reading in the field of the student’s major interest; (b) presentation two weeks before the last day of classes of the student’s graduating semester of an Honors essay or a creative writing project upon a topic approved by the departmental Honors Committee; and (c) oral examination in the field of the students major interest. Students who have not completed ENGL 494  may be admitted only under exceptional circumstances. Creative Writing Honors students may substitute for ENGL 494  either three 300- and/or 400-level Creative Writing courses, or two 300- and/or 400-level Creative Writing courses and a Creative Writing Independent Study (the project of the Independent Study must be different from the proposed Honors project). These three courses must be completed by the end of the junior year. Students not taking ENGL 494  need to take ENGL 475  by the end of the senior year. Creative Writing Honors involves the completion of a sustained project in creative writing. Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
  
  • ENGL 496 - Honors.


    Fall, Spring (3) Staff

    Honors study in English comprises (a) supervised reading in the field of the student’s major interest; (b) presentation two weeks before the last day of classes of the student’s graduating semester of an Honors essay or a creative writing project upon a topic approved by the departmental Honors Committee; and (c) oral examination in the field of the students major interest. Students who have not completed ENGL 494  may be admitted only under exceptional circumstances. Creative Writing Honors students may substitute for ENGL 494  either three 300- and/or 400-level Creative Writing courses, or two 300- and/or 400-level Creative Writing courses and a Creative Writing Independent Study (the project of the Independent Study must be different from the proposed Honors project). These three courses must be completed by the end of the junior year. Students not taking ENGL 494  need to take ENGL 475  by the end of the senior year. Creative Writing Honors involves the completion of a sustained project in creative writing. Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
  
  • ENGL 498 - Internship


    Fall, Spring 1-3 Staff Prerequisite(s): Student must have at least a 3.0 in English.

    Must be approved in advance on a case-by-case basis by the departmental Undergraduate Program Committee and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Normally open only to majors who have completed at least 18 credits towards the major. Note: Normally may be taken only once. Graded Graded pass/ fail.

Marine Science

  
  • MSCI 150 - Environmental Impacts of Chesapeake Bay Fisheries


    Fall (4) McGrath. (College 150)

    Chesapeake Bay fisheries have produced much food and wealth, but have had a negative impact environment and biota. Early modernization of fishing methods typically increased in the severity of these negative impacts. Fisheries scientists are tasked weighing the economic and social benefits of each fishery with the associated damage to the environment and biota. In this course, we will investigate the benefits and drawbacks of various modern fishing methods and will weigh the economic and social benefits of selected fisheries with the economic and environmental costs. We will also examine common fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay, developing an Environmental Impact Statement, and will evaluate which fishing practices, if any should continue.
  
  • MSCI 330 - Introduction to Marine Science


    Spring (3) Gong, Shields. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 220 , CHEM 103 , GEOL 101 , GEOL 110 PHYS 101 , or PHYS 107  (for MSCI 330); GEOL 101  or GEOL 110  (for GEOL 330 ), OR BIOL 220  (for BIOL 230 ) (NQR)

    This course provides an overview of physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes operating in the world ocean. The interdisciplinary nature of marine science is emphasized, providing an integrated view of factors that control ocean history, circulation, chemistry, and biological productivity. (Cross listed with GEOL 330  and BIOL 230 ).
  
  • MSCI 331 - Field Studies in Coastal Marine Environments


    Summer (3) Snyder, Brush, Luckenbach, and Smith, W. Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330  or GEOL 330  or BIOL 230  - Course will be offered at VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory.

    This course focuses on fundamental processes in marine science through the examination of the near shore, barrier island, coastal lagoon, and salt marsh environments along Virginia’s outer coast. Through a series of field trips, lectures, laboratory exercises and independent projects, students will examine the fauna and flora of the region and learn how natural and anthropogenic factors shape these coastal ecosystems. Housing is provided in dormitories at the VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory. Meals are included. Lab fee required.
  
  • MSCI 332 - Coastal Marine Habitats in North Wales


    Summer (3) Luckenbach Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor

    This is an intensive 16-day, field-based course conducted in north Wales, U.K. in association with the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University The course emphasizes field-based instruction and student-led data collection in coastal marine environments in northern Wales, the Isle of Anglesey, and the eastern Irish Sea. Topics include the ecology of rocky shores, biological and physical processes affecting species distribution and ecology in high energy macrotidal coastal environments, paleoceanography, and geological history of the region. Lab fee required.
  
  • MSCI 333 - Coastal Environments in South Central Alaska: An Introduction


    Spring (1) Kuehl Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330  or GEOL 330  or BIOL 230  

    Required introductory class to a summer field experience in south-central Alaska (MSCI 334 ) that will explore the regional geology, glaciology, river hydrology, and coastal oceanography, all of which conspire to create one of the richest coastal ecosystems on the planet.
  
  • MSCI 334 - Coastal Environments in South Central Alaska: Field Course


    Summer (2) Kuehl Prerequisite(s): MSCI 333 

    A field experience in south-central Alaska that will explore the regional geology, glaciology, river hydrology, and coastal oceanography, all of which conspire to create one of the richest coastal ecosystems on the planet.
  
  • MSCI 335 - Coastal Environments of China


    Summer, even years (3) Kuehl Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330  or GEOL 330  or BIOL 230   (College 300)

    This course highlights a 3-4 week field experience to explore the watershed and coastal environments surrounding the Yangtze River and southeast coast of China.  Using a holistic “source-to-sink” approach, students will travel from the drainage basin of the Yangtze River toward its mouth and along the southeastern coast influenced by the river.  Along the route, we will examine the regional geology, river hydrology, and coastal marine science.  The course will highlight human modifications to the system (i.e., Three Gorges Dam,  levees, coastal protection, dredging, and aquiculture) and their impacts on coastal erosion, pollution and sustainable fisheries.  The course will be hosted by Xiamen University and run in parallel with their undergraduate Marine Science field course.  Two weeks of the course will be spent either in Dongshan or Zhoushan Island (marine field stations), where W&M students will pair with Chinese peers for an interdisciplinary field and laboratory based study of the local coastal and estuarine environments.  This structure will afford broad exposure to the disciplines of marine science with the help of local experts, and will also provide a rich cultural experience through immersion and peer activities. Lab fee required.
  
  • MSCI 391 - Marine Science Mash-up


    Fall (1) Canuel

    Marine scientists conduct research in areas such as biological oceanography, earth science, fisheries science, and the physical sciences (e.g., physical and chemical oceanography). Scientists in this discipline are also engaged in collaborative research that crosses over these fields of study and connects to fields outside the natural sciences such as the social sciences, government and law, economics, and communication. This 1-credit course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of marine science through presentations by faculty conducting marine science research at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, and neighboring institutions. By meeting these people and completing course assignments students will learn about how marine scientists study these topics, the availability of opportunities for student research, and the potential benefits of pursuing Marine Sciences as a career.
 

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