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2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ENGL 400 - Meaning & Understanding
Credits: (3)
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.
Cross-listed with: LING 400
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LING 100 - Critical Questions in Linguistics
Credits: (4)
College Curriculum: COLL 100
An exploration of significant questions and concepts, beliefs and creative visions, theories and discoveries in linguistics for first-year students. Although topics vary, the courses also seek to improve students’ communication skills beyond the written word.
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LING 220 - Study of Language
Credits: (4)
Corequisite(s): LING 220W
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): ALV, NQR
An introduction to linguistics, the scientific study of human language. Considers languages as structured systems of form and meaning, with attention also to the biological, psychological, cultural and social aspects of language and language use. Course is open to freshmen and sophomores.
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LING 230 - Topics in Linguistics
Credits: (1-3)
An exploration of an introductory topic in linguistics.
If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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LING 250 - African-American English
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): ALV
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.
Cross-listed with: AFST 250
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LING 260 - Speech Sound Analysis
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Additional Domain (if applicable): NQR
This course connects the acoustic signal of speech sounds to sound patterns within different human languages. Students will learn to use freely-available phonetics software to examine, measure, and analyze human speech sounds. The acoustic differences between different speech sounds, such as what distinguishes consonants from vowels, will be introduced and explored. We’ll look at how both the length and the articulation of a sound can often be different in ways we’re not conscious of but that we can find, measure, and then quantify using statistical software that’s free through W&M. We’ll examine what influences people’s perceptions of sounds: that in some cases humans can perceive two very different sounds as the same and in other cases can perceive two very similar sounds as quite different. There are no prerequisites for this course.
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LING 303 - History of the English Language
Credits: (3)
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
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LING 304 - Syntax
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220
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.
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LING 307 - Phonetics and Phonology
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220
A study of common segment-level sound patterns across languages. Class focuses on analysis of novel data from particular languages using evolving phonological formalism.
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LING 308 - Sociocultural Linguistics
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220
College Curriculum: COLL 350
Domain (Anchored): CSI
In this course, we study the interrelations between language and language users with interdisciplinary approaches from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and discourse analysis. We explore diverse identities, critically examine ideologies, and analyze language in communities. We conduct linguistic fieldwork and practice ethical research with human participants.
Cross-listed with: ANTH 308
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LING 310 - Language Patterns: Types and Universals
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220 and LING 304
Domain (Anchored): 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.
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LING 330 - Topics in Linguistics
Credits: (1-3)
An exploration of a topic in Linguistics.
If there is no duplication of topic, the course may be repeated for credit.
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LING 346 - Foreign Language Acquisition Processes: Theory and Practice
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): 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
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LING 358 - First Language Acquisition
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220 or PSYC 202
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
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LING 360 - Language Attitudes
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220
This course 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.
Formerly: LING 410
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LING 365 - Language Contact and Change
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220
Languages in the world are everywhere in contact and this impacts the form that they take. This course introduces students to the study of language contact and how social factors surrounding contact contribute to change in language systems. It provides the historical context in which the study of language contact developed and answers questions like “What (and where) exactly is language contact?” and “Can language change be predicted on the basis of the social configuration in which individuals find themselves?” As an inherently interdisciplinary field, language contact studies draw on psycholinguistic, social and linguistic perspectives to answer these questions. Core sociolinguistic phenomena examined include speech accommodation, linguistic areas, pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, code-switching and borrowing.
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LING 370 - Psycholinguistics
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 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
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LING 380 - Computational Methods in Language Science
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): 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.
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LING 400 - Meaning and Understanding in Western Cultural Thought
Credits: (3)
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.
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LING 402 - Language and Gender
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 308 or LING 308
In this discussion-based course, we will explore language and gender in everyday discourse and in society, using scholarly research from sociocultural linguistics and related fields.
Cross-listed with: GSWS 402
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LING 404 - Historical Linguistics
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220
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
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LING 406 - Language and Society
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 308 or ANTH 308 , or consent of instructor.
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.
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LING 407 - Advanced Phonetics and Phonology
Credits: (3)
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.
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LING 408 - Independent Research in Phonetics and Phonology
Credits: (1)
Prerequisite(s): LING 307 Corequisite(s): LING 407
Development of a research project in phonetics and phonology in conjunction with LING 407.
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LING 415 - Linguistic Anthropology
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 308 or ANTH 308.
Domain (Anchored): CSI
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
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LING 420 - Caribbean Linguistics
Credits: (3)
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.
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LING 424 - Discourse Analysis
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 308 or LING 308
In this course, we will use the linguistic methods of discourse analysis to understand language in its linguistic and social contexts. We will pay particular attention to applying the methods to real-world settings such as marketing, political, and legal discourse.
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LING 430 - Language and Social Cognition
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220 or PSYC 201 or PSYC 202
This course examines the connection between one’s ability to attribute thoughts and intentions to others (so-called “theory of mind”) and language. Both linguistic and mindreading abilities seem to share similar profiles of acquisition: important linguistic and mindreading milestones occur around the same time in the course of development; delays in one correlate with delays in the other; both abilities seem to be uniquely human. Why should theory of mind and language develop together? Could language be instrumental in developing a theory of mind? In turn, is theory of mind instrumental in acquiring language? This course examines the relation between language and theory of mind utilizing data from a variety of different methods and populations, including adults, preschoolers, infants, Deaf populations, Neurodiverse individuals, individuals with language impairments, emerging languages, and non-human species. We will synthesize evidence from the last 40 years of research in the domains of language and theory of mind, working toward building a model of the relation between the two. Course is open to juniors and seniors.
Cross-listed with: PSYC 444
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LING 440 - Linguistic Field Methods
Credits: (4)
Prerequisite(s): LING 304 , LING 307 and LING 310 or consent of instructor.
College Curriculum: COLL 400
Domain (Anchored): CSI
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.
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LING 441 - Sociolinguistic Field Methods
Credits: (4)
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 308 or LING 308 or Instructor Permission
College Curriculum: COLL 400
This course provides hands-on experience with studying language in its social context, drawing on sociolinguistic methods such as participant observation and sociolinguistic interviews. Students will gain substantial experience working on a sociolinguistic fieldwork project. The course addresses major topics related to field work, including recording, transcribing, and coding data, ethical involvement with the community, and the purposes, strengths, and weaknesses of various approaches.
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LING 442 - Experimental Field Methods
Credits: (4)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220 and (LING 358 /PSYC 358 or LING 370 /PSYC 370 )
College Curriculum: COLL 400
In this course, students learn how to design, conduct, analyze, and present experiments on the acquisition and processing of human language. We will first identify a research topic of common interest, which will become the focus of the course. We will then conduct a replication of a published experiment on our research topic to gain hands-on experience in experiment design, data collection, and data analysis. Students will then design and conduct an original experiment that extends the replication study in a novel direction.
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LING 464 - Topics in Linguistics
Credits: (1-3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220 or consent of instructor.
Investigation of a major sub-field of linguistics.
If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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LING 474 - Research Seminar in Linguistics
Credits: (4)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220 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.
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LING 481 - Independent Study in Linguistics
Credits: (1-3)
A tutorial course on a topic agreed upon by the student and instructor and approved in advance by the Linguistics Program Committee
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LING 482 - Independent Community-based Study in Linguistics
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 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.
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LING 483 - Directed Independent Language Study
Credits: (1)
A Directed Independent Language Study allows you to study a language not taught at W&M. Prior to enrolling in the course, you will meet with your advisor to find a speaker to work with, to find suitable learning materials, and to make a plan for the semester. You will document your progress in a journal and report weekly to the advisor. The Linguistics Program approves suitable proposals. The course cannot be used to fulfill the Foreign Language Proficiency Requirement.
Graded: Pass/Fail only
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LING 491 - Research in Linguistics
Credits: (1-3)
Prerequisite(s): LING 220
Individually supervised empirical investigations in the various areas of linguistics. A student must have permission of a faculty supervisor before registering and a plan must be submitted to, and approved by, the Linguistics director.
Course may be repeated, contents and credit each time may vary according to an agreement reached between supervisor and student at the time of registration.
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LING 495 - Honors
Credits: (3)
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.
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LING 496 - Honors
Credits: (3)
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.
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LING 498 - Internship
Credits: (1)
Students may receive credit for an internship that allows them to apply knowledge learned in the major to a real-world setting. Internships must be pre-approved by the relevant linguistics committee, must be overseen by a faculty member, and require a significant report.
Graded: Pass/Fail only
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ENGL 100 - Critical Questions in English
Credits: (4)
College Curriculum: COLL 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.
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ENGL 150 - First-Year Seminar
Credits: (4)
College Curriculum: COLL 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.
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ENGL 200 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Culture
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 201 - Literature and the Bible
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
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.
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ENGL 203 - British Literature I
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
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.
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ENGL 204 - British Literature II
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
A survey of British literature from 1675-1900. The course includes Augustan satire, Romantic and Victorian poetry, and the Victorian novel.
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ENGL 205 - An Introduction to Shakespeare
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
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.)
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ENGL 207 - American Literature: Themes and Issues
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
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.
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ENGL 210 - Topics in Literature
Credits: (3-4)
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.
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ENGL 211 - Literature Transformed
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): 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.
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ENGL 213 - Iconic Authors
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): 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.)
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ENGL 214 - One Good Book
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): 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.
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ENGL 215 - Popular Genres
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): 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.
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ENGL 230 - Topics in Modern English
Credits: (1-4)
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.
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ENGL 231 - Introduction to African Literature
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
This course is an introductory survey of literature from the continent of Africa. We will read selected texts (fiction, drama, and poetry) produced by African authors in the modern age, particularly from the 20th century till date. Texts to be studied are written in English or translated into English from other languages. The course will examine how the texts have attempted to capture a wide range of themes across the continent from pre-colonial era to the present. Of particular concern will be the attitude of the selected texts to various issues (colonialism, ethnicity, race, religion, culture conflict, politics, gender, class, modernity, and neo-colonialism etc.) and how the issues tend to overlap or differ at various historical moments in the texts under investigation. Theoretical and critical writings will be read alongside literary texts.
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ENGL 250 - Interpreting Literature
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 311 - Epic and Romance
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 314 - Old English
Credits: (3)
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 early medieval English history and culture.
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ENGL 315 - Beowulf
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 314
College Curriculum: ALV
An intensive study of the text in Old English; reading of the poem’s classical, Christian, and Norse analogues, and of selected literary criticism across the history of the poem’s study.
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ENGL 316 - Arthurian Literature
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: ALV
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.
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ENGL 317 - Topics in Old English Literature
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 314
In-depth study of a topic in Old English literature in the original language; supplementary readings in historical and cultural contexts and literary intertexts as well as literary criticism. Prerequisite: completion of ENGL-314 or instructor approval.
If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 322 - Medieval Literature
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 322A - Middle English Practicum
Credits: (1)
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.
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ENGL 323 - Early Modern British Literature
Credits: (3)
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).
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ENGL 324 - Renaissance and Restoration
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 325 - English Renaissance Drama
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 332 - Enlightenment and Sensibility
Credits: (3)
A survey of British literature between 1688, the Glorious Revolution, and 1789, the outbreak of the French Revolution. Includes satire, poetry, drama, narrative fiction, essays, and philosophical writing. Major figures studied may include Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Gray, David Hume, Adam Smith, Frances Burney, and Olaudah Equiano.
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ENGL 333 - The Rise of the Novel
Credits: (3)
This course studies the emergence of the novel as a literary form and a cultural force in the early modern, Enlightenment, and Romantic periods. The course draws upon authors from the British Isles, the Americas, and the European continent, and considers modes of prose fiction ranging from amatory to picaresque and sentimental to satirical. Major figures studied may include Miguel de Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and James Fenimore Cooper.
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ENGL 341 - Romanticism and Revolution
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): ALV
A survey of British literature between 1776, the outbreak of the American Revolution, and 1832, the year of the first British Reform Bill. Includes poetry, narrative fiction, and nonfiction prose. Major figures studied may include William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Robert Burns, Jane Austen, and Felicia Hemans.
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ENGL 343 - English Novel, 1832-1900
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 344 - The World Novel After 1832
Credits: (3)
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).
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ENGL 352 - Modern British and Irish Literature
Credits: (3)
This course considers how the literature of the British Isles reacted to the dramatic events of the first half of the twentieth century, including two world wars, the loss of empire (and partial independence for Ireland), struggles over extending the franchise (especially for women), the rise of mass communications. We will consider how a consciously new modernist literature responded to these developments and how older literary forms were modified for a changing world.
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ENGL 353 - International Modernism
Credits: (3)
Comparative study of modernism as a set of cosmopolitan ideas and practices across transforming cities, nations, and social formations, infused by the internationalism of momentous events such as the Russian Revolution and the two world wars. Attention to modernism’s complex relations with emerging forms of popular and mass culture, and its dispersal across a variety of discourses and aesthetic media. Emphasis on the making of inventive historical connections in a still-contested field.
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ENGL 355 - Modern Fiction
Credits: (3)
Reading, analysis, and discussion of British, Irish, and American fiction writers from the end of the Victorian era through the 1950s. The class will explore the development of modernist fiction writing in the first half of the twentieth century as well as the ways that modernist form and thematic preoccupations affected other styles of writing in the twentieth century.
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ENGL 356 - Modern Poetry to 1930
Credits: (3)
Development of modern British, Irish, and American poetry from transitional poets Hopkins and Hardy through the first generation modernist poets and the Harlem Renaissance.
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ENGL 357A - Modern Poetry, 1930-1960
Credits: (3)
Development of British, Irish, and American poetry published before and after World War II. Special focus on the way aesthetic and ideological movements at the beginning of the 20th century influenced such poets as W.H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Philip Larkin, and Allen Ginsberg.
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ENGL 357B - Modern Poetry after 1960
Credits: (3)
Development of British, Irish, and American poetry published during and after the 1960s. Special focus on the way socio-political events during the 1960s influenced the work of such poets as Sylvia Plath, James Wright, Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver, Sharon Olds, Louise Glück, Lucille Clifton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, Cathy Song, and Sherman Alexie.
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ENGL 358 - Modern Drama
Credits: (3)
International survey of European and American drama from Ibsen to Beckett, Baraka, and Pinter (among others), from the advent of theatrical naturalism in the 1870s to the post-WWII experiments classed under the Absurd and new forms of political drama in the 1960s.
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ENGL 361 - Early American Literatures
Credits: (3)
This course studies the cultural productions of settler, indigenous, and enslaved Americans in response to European contact and colonization, imperial expansion, and early national independence. The course considers historical accounts and reportage, philosophical and theological polemics, legends, essays, poetry, drama, and fiction. Major figures studied may include John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Washington Irving, and Black Hawk.
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ENGL 362 - Literatures of American Nationalism and the Crisis of Slavery
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 350
Literatures of American Nationalism and the Crisis of Slavery examines the ways in which U.S. authors from different backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, and points of view created and debated an “American” identity in the decades leading up to the Civil War. We will be putting these authors in conversation with each other as they seek, in ways conventional and radical, to narratively construct a nation they could be proud to-or in some cases, allowed to-live in. This course satisfies the Constructions of Race requirement for the English major.
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ENGL 363 - Literatures of Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Incorporation
Credits: (3)
A survey of American literature from the end of the Civil War to the First World War, tracking the many transformations and debates in American literary culture. Writers may include Charles Chesnutt, Theodore Dreiser, Pauline Hopkins, Henry James, Zitkala-Sa, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton.
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ENGL 364 - American Modernism to the 1960s
Credits: (3)
A study of modern American writing from the early teens, through and beyond the two world wars. Literary and social movements covered may include Imagism, the “Lost Generation” writers, the Harlem Renaissance, 1930s Proletarian literature, and the counter-cultures of the 1950s and 60s.
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ENGL 365 - Early Black American Literature
Credits: (3)
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
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ENGL 366 - Modern African-American Literature
Credits: (3)
Readings in African American literature from the 1940s to 2000. Issues addressed may include the Civil Rights Movement, black feminism, pan-Africanism, and postcolonialism. Writers may include Richard Wright, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison.
Cross-listed with: AFST 366
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ENGL 370 - Global Postmodernism
Credits: (3)
This course will focus on literary experiments of the latter half of the twentieth century, particularly as they respond to the moral, cultural, and philosophical impasses of “late capitalism,” the Cold War, the nuclear age, and identity politics. We will consider why writers may have turned to self-reflexive, hyper-ironic, and fragmented narrative modes in response to the so-called “end of history.” Representative authors might include William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Ishmael Reed, Julio Cortázar, Italo Calvino, Angela Carter, Don Delillo, and Haruki Murakami.
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ENGL 371 - Topics in American Literature
Credits: (3)
Advanced study of a specific topic in American literature.
If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 371A - Transnational Asian American Literature
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
Through the study of fiction and non-fiction texts, this course will examine how the Asian American is constructed transnationally. Variously the model minority, the perpetual foreigner, or the terrorist, how is the Asian American figured in different spatiotemporal contexts? While grappling with this question, the course will also analyze the intersectional constructs of race, gender, class, and sexuality in investigating how Asian Americanness is constituted within and against the concept of the nation.
Cross-listed with: APIA 405
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ENGL 372 - Studies in Contemporary Literature
Credits: (3)
The main focus of this course is on living authors and current literary practices. Topics may include particular genres of writing (contemporary fiction, poetry, drama) or cut across genres to address particular thematic concerns (such as posthumanist literature, Afrofuturism, or writing addressing new modes of global interconnection).
If there is no duplication of topic, this course may be repeated once for credit.
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ENGL 381 - Topics in British Literature Before 1700
Credits: (3)
In-depth study of a specific topic within or across the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods of English and world literature.
If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 382 - Topics in British Literature Between 1700 and 1900
Credits: (3)
In-depth study of a specific topic within or across the 18th-century, Romantic, and Victorian periods of British and world literature.
If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 383 - Topics in American Literature Before 1920
Credits: (3)
In-depth study of a specific topic within or across the early to 19th century periods of American and world literature.
If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 384 - Topics in Literature Since 1900
Credits: (3)
In-depth study of a specific topic within or across the modern and contemporary periods of American, British and world literature.
If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
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ENGL 411 - Topics in Literary Theory
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 411A - Theory of Literature
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 412 - Topics in Literature and Other Arts
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 414 - Topics in Women Writers
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 414A - African American Women Writers
Credits: (3)
This course examines the fiction and non-fiction of writers such Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Walker, Lorraine Hansbury, June Jordon, Maya Angelou, and Octavia Butler. Attention to black feminist/womanist and vernacular theoretical issues through selected critical readings.
Cross-listed with: AFST 414 and GSWS 414
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ENGL 416 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 416A - Literature and the Formation of Homosexuality
Credits: (3)
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.
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ENGL 416B - Lesbian Literatures
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200, COLL 350
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
Women have had emotional, romantic, erotic, sexual feelings for other women for centuries - probably for millennia. This course will focus mostly on literary expressions and explorations of lesbian feelings, habits, and lives; but we will also be reading some medical, legal and other kinds of cultural texts. Throughout this course, our assumption will be that sexual identities cannot be understood separately from racial and ethnic identities, and we will explore the ways in which sexuality and race intersect in literary constructions of lesbian experience.
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