2014-2015 Academic Catalog

Sep 26, 2024

2014-2015 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses of Instruction

Courses are also offered through Interdisciplinary Studies in a variety of areas: ADC, EST, FST, FYS, FYW, LAS, HUM, IDS, MES, MXP, SCI, WGS

Course Identifiers

Courses at Furman are typically identified by codes separated into three distinct parts. The first segment designates the academic subject of the course, the second component relates to the level of instruction, and the final element (when displayed) assists with the identification of the meeting times and location for individual course sections.

Credit bearing undergraduate courses typically are numbered between 100 and 599, graduate instruction is typically numbered between 600 and 999, while zero credit experiences frequently have numbers between 001 and 099. Undergraduates can further expect courses numbers to reflect:

100-299	introductory courses, geared to freshmen and sophomores
300-499	advanced courses, geared to majors
500-599	individualized instruction, including internships, research, independent study, and music performance studies

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Education
	EDU-336 Teaching Reading in the Content Areas Prerequisite: EDU-221 Designed for prospective and practicing school teachers, with practical suggestions for the reading specialist and the content teacher. Twenty hours of off-campus fieldwork at a local public school required. 4 credits.
	EDU-338 Reading and Responding to Children’s Literature Exploration of a wide variety of genres of children’s literature to become more knowledgeable in the ability to select, read, and respond to children’s literature. Development of expertise in using children’s literature for aesthetic, personal, social, and critical purposes, and examination of the ways readers interact with texts and each other to make meaning while reading and discussing texts. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	EDU-350 Curriculum and Methods of Teaching in Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: EDU-221 Various ways of organizing the curriculum in the secondary school, a comparison of traditional and nontraditional teaching methods, principles of learning, classroom organization, planning units and formal and informal evaluation. Should be enrolled spring semester of the senior year concurrently with the appropriate subject specific methods course. 4 credits.
	EDU-430 Assessment for Instructional Planning Prerequisite: EDU-221 Introduction to the processes of assessment and the use of assessment information to develop appropriate educational programs for all students in grades PK-6. Emphasis on formal, informal and authentic assessment measures and their use to plan appropriate instruction that affects teaching and learning. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. 4 credits.
	EDU-431 Diverse School Cultures Prerequisite: EDU-221 Deepens understanding of diversity in elementary and middle school cultures. Classroom and school communities that embrace diversity studied through analysis of attributes and practices of successful educators. Instructional and management strategies that encourage learning, sensitivity and socialization developed through integrated clinical and field experiences. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. 4 credits.
	EDU-432 Integrating Curriculum and Technology in Grades PK-8 Prerequisite: EDU-221 Provides background for integrating instruction and technology across curriculum. In field-based teams, candidates explore models/theories of curriculum integration and use the thematic approach to unit development. Focus on developing connections across disciplines of science, social studies, mathematics, language arts, and related arts. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. 4 credits.
	EDU-451 Literature for Young Adults Prerequisite: EDU-221 Content of the literature program in the secondary school and methods of teaching poetry, short stories, traditional literature and young adult novels. 4 credits.
	EDU-452 Teaching English in Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: EDU-221 Should be enrolled senior year concurrently with EDU-350 (ED-50). Explores two of the major components in the secondary school English curriculum: language and composition. Emphasis placed on teaching the writing process. Examines strategies needed to learn from text materials included in the English classroom. 4 credits.
	EDU-453 Teaching Social Studies in Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: EDU-221 Should be enrolled senior year concurrently with EDU-350 . Provides in-depth investigation of the methods associated with teaching social studies on the secondary level. Special emphasis placed on how the social sciences differ from other disciplines, and how differences affect curricular and pedagogical strategies. 4 credits.
	EDU-454 Teaching Science in Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: EDU-221 Should be enrolled senior year concurrently with EDU-350 . Teacher candidates become reflective practitioners developing and delivering quality science curriculum. Covered are laboratory safety, instructional strategies, inquiry learning and the learning cycle, curriculum models emphasizing integration, performance assessment, resource evaluation focusing on technology, and field experiences in area schools. 4 credits.
	EDU-455 Teaching Mathematics in Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: EDU-221 and MTH-160 or MTH-360 Teacher candidates become reflective practitioners in the development and delivery of a well-designed standards-based mathematics curriculum. Topics include mathematics curriculum in the secondary school, instructional strategies, performance assessment and resource evaluation focusing on technology. Students are expected to participate in field work in local mathematics classrooms. Should be enrolled senior year concurrently with EDU-350 . 4 credits.
	EDU-460 Critical Issues in Secondary Education Prerequisite: EDU-221 Designed for senior level secondary and PK-12 language teacher candidates in conjunction with EDU-350 , EDU-472 , and an appropriate subject-specific methods course. Provides candidates with opportunities to examine significant issues in secondary schools including: classroom management techniques, reading and writing in the content area, and educational technology. 4 credits.
	EDU-464 Critique of Science Education Examines selected topics in the methodological and philosophical foundations of science education. Topics include nature of science inquiry, context of science, nature of learner, teaching and learning, curriculum, student assessment, and professional practice. 4 credits.
	EDU-465 Informal Science Education Practicum Prerequisite: EDU-464 Provides students opportunity to apply theory and evidence-based practices in informal learning settings such as museums, zoos, aquariums, or state parks under the supervision of faculty. 4 credits.
	EDU-470 Practicum in Teaching Prerequisite: EDU-221 Designed for senior level teacher candidates. Provides opportunities to apply theory and evidence-based practice in the classroom under the supervision of Furman faculty and mentorship of master teacher. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. 4 credits.
	EDU-472 Practicum: Secondary Teaching Prerequisite: EDU-221 Provides candidates with opportunities to apply theory and evidence-based practice in the classroom under the supervision of Furman faculty and mentorship of a master teacher. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. 4 credits.
	EDU-501 Independent Study A project whose objectives and activities are designed by the student, approved by a faculty member who directs the project and by the department chair, and evaluated by a committee of three department members. Variable credit.
	EDU-503 Non-Teaching Internship 4 credits.
	EDU-505 Teaching Internship Prerequisite: completion of major requirements in music Education Required of candidates intending to teach. Intern is placed with a mentor teacher in the subject area of prospective licensure. Full-time teaching responsibilities assumed over time. Intern attends weekly seminars. 16 credits.
English
	ENG-111 Texts and Meaning GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) An introduction to the study of the structures and methods by which texts create and convey meaning. Although texts and approaches will be determined by the individual instructors, all sections will emphasize reflective, critical reading, as well as text-centered discussions and written assignments. 4 credits.
	ENG-150 Interpretive Strategies GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) The course addresses issues specific to literary and cultural analysis and in the process explores various interpretive strategies through which ideas of the literary and of literary study are engaged. The perspectives examined will vary according to instructor. Students will read primary theoretical texts, and will write about how theories of literature might inform ways of reading prose, poetry, drama, and/or film. 4 credits.
	ENG-210 Advanced Composition Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Instruction and practice in writing, analyzing, and evaluating narrative, descriptive, expository, and argumentative essays. 4 credits.
	ENG-211 Professional Communication Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The course refines students’ grammar, mechanics, and style; develops analytical and collaborative skills; introduces the strategies, formats, and organizational patterns of a variety of professional letters, memos, proposals, and reports; teaches research strategies and techniques; and develops oral and nonverbal communication skills. 4 credits.
	ENG-212 Journalism: Principles and Practice Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The course addresses the role of newspapers in society, the strategies for reporting and writing news, and the ethical and legal ramifications of newspaper reporting. 4 credits.
	ENG-213 Investigative Reporting Completion of an investigative project for publication, including choosing an area of study, interviewing and assembling and retention of pertinent documents. Revelatory reporting will be written, packaged with photographs and graphics and published. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	ENG-214 Immersion Journalism GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of a fascinating branch of nonfiction writing. Texts may include works by Tom Wolfe, Barbara Ehrenreich, Edward Abbey, Karsten Heur and Susan Orlean. Students will read as writers, scour the texts for craft and style tactics and critique class members’ essays. 4 credits.
	ENG-215 Writing for Film and Television Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Conducted as a workshop on how to write feature films and various types of television drama scripts, this course develops skills used in dramatic writing for visual media, with special focus on film and television. 4 credits.
	ENG-220 Writing Poems Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The course will develop students’ proficiency in the craft of poetry. Students should be eager to write frequently, to read carefully, and to comment thoughtfully upon the work of other poets - including their classmates. 4 credits.
	ENG-221 Writing Fiction Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The course will develop students’ proficiency in the craft of prose fiction. Students should be eager to write frequently, to read carefully, and to comment thoughtfully upon the stories of other authors - including their classmates. 4 credits.
	ENG-223 Writing Nonfiction Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar This course will develop students’ proficiency in the craft of nonfiction. Students will do writing exercises, discuss published work, explore prose techniques, and critique their classmates’ work. 4 credits
	ENG-225 Writing with Writers Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Supervised by a prominent writer, students will work on their own creative projects. The genre (prose fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry) will change from year to year. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	ENG-227 Making Comics!: Form + Craft = Product In Making Comics!: Form + Craft = Product, you will do just that; you will make comics. In doing so, you will learn how the peculiar art form of comics (or sequential art, or graphic novel) uses both image and text but ultimately operates in ways that differ from either prose or single-image pieces of art. It is the conjunction of the image and the text that make comics do what they do, so in order to understand that, you will write and you will make the images for at least four book projects. No art or writing pre-requisites are required, though you may be best-served if you have some level of skill in each. The course is not intended to teach you to write or teach you to draw; rather, the intention is to teach you how to combine those two mediums for the purpose of dynamic storytelling. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	ENG-242 Environmental Writing GER: NE (Humans and the Natural Environment) and TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Focus on works commonly considered major examples of environmental writing and an examination of the theoretical/critical considerations involved in reading these works. Writers to be discussed include James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Mary Austin, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Barry Lopez. Theoretical problems such as the relation of writing to lived experience and the justice of emphasizing all life over human life will help focus discussions. 4 credits.
	ENG-243 Fantasy and Science Fiction GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Exploration of how race, colonialism, gender, science, the sacred, and the human inform our fantasies about other worlds and times. May trace dialogue between contemporary fantasy/science fiction and literature of other periods. 4 credits.
	ENG-253 Altered States in Victorian Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Taking a broad interpretation of the phrase “altered states,” this course examines Victorian literary works depicting states of mind that defy, transcend, or exceed notions of “normal” psychic functioning as defined by nineteenth-century culture and particularly science. 4 credits.
	ENG-301 Literature of the Later Fourteenth Century GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of literature by the poets and mystics of Ricardian England, with an emphasis on interpreting these texts in light of their medieval social and philosophical context. A substantial part of this course is devoted to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. 4 credits.
	ENG-302 Literature of Early Modern Britain GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: Any first year writing seminar A study of literature written during the reigns of the Tudors and the early Stuart monarchs when England began to develop a distinct cultural identity. Emphasis is on poetry and prose. 4 credits.
	ENG-303 Early Modern Drama GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Major works from the golden age of English drama. Shakespeare and/or Shakespeare along with work by his contemporaries, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Middleton, Ford, and others. 4 credits.
	ENG-304 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar A survey of English literature and culture from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to around 1800, covering a wide range of literary genres, such as Restoration drama, satiric poetry, the travel narrative, the periodical essay, and the novel. The course examines the historical, social, political, and intellectual backgrounds for these texts, such as the declining influence of court culture, the construction of a colonial market economy, discourses of slavery and abolition, and the reevaluation of traditional class and gender hierarchies. Authors studied include Rochester, Wycherley, Behn, Haywood, Aubin, Defoe, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Equiano, and others. 4 credits.
	ENG-305 British Romantic Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar A study of the major writers and some less well-known figures from the period 1790-1830: the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P. B. Shelley, and Keats; the novelists Austen and Scott; the essayists Hazlitt, Lamb, and De Quincey; and others, such as Mary Shelley, Godwin, and Clare. Students will also engage the critical writing of the period as well as relevant current critical and theoretical issues. 4 credits.
	ENG-306 Victorian Literature and Culture GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of Victorian fiction, poetry, and prose with an emphasis on major social, cultural, and political concerns and debates in nineteenth-century Britain: industrialization and modernization, ideologies of class and gender, evolutionary theory and religious ambivalence, new developments in aesthetic theory and literary form. Authors studied include Carlyle, Ruskin, Dickens, Eliot, Browning, Tennyson, Pater, Morris, and Wilde. 4 credits.
	ENG-307 Literature Before Print GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The course explores the differences between the way medieval people read - their experience of reading and their training as interpreters of texts - and the way we read today, as well as the complexity and variance of texts created in a pre-print world. 4 credits.
	ENG-308 Renaissance Epic GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The nature and purpose of the epic in the European Renaissance through a close study of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Renaissance theories of allegory and genre and the cultural work of these epics are explored. 4 credits.
	ENG-309 Nature in South Asian Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to the genre of the pastoral as evidenced in writings about South Asia, both by “Western” and “indigenous” authors either visiting or domiciled in the Indian subcontinent. An array of literary texts of different kinds written in different eras will be considered to help students understand the transformations in the genre (including its parody and subversion) in response to cultural and political developments. Secondary texts will also help construct an appropriate interpretive framework for the primary texts. 4 credits.
	ENG-310 Studies in Fictional Histories GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar How does literature shape the ways in which one imagines historical figures, national events, or remote geographies? How do partially fictionalized reconstructions of experience influence historical understanding? This course theorizes the often porous borders between history and fiction. Students will examine archival material, historical documents, and theoretical studies alongside fictional works that do not simply reimagine the past but profoundly recast national histories.
	ENG-311 Settling: Writing in America to 1830 GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of American literature from the colonial period through Cooper, focusing on major works by Franklin, Brown, and Cooper, and considering such forms as the sermon, diary, captivity narrative, and spiritual biography. 4 credits.
	ENG-312 Emerson to Dickinson GER: UQ (Ultimate Questions) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of American literature from Emerson through Dickinson, focusing on such writers as Douglass, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Stowe, Whitman. Topics include the possibility of living well, relationships to creation, to God, to evil, and to an expanding, divided federation compromised by a constitution that allows slavery and disenfranchises women. 4 credits.
	ENG-320 Eighteenth-Century Novel GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Novels are so familiar that it is hard to believe that there was ever at time when they did not exist. However, in Shakespeare’s day, there was not yet a novel in the modern sense, while a bit over a century later the novel was the most widely-read of non-religious literary forms. In this course we will explore the changes–in literacy, class structure, international relations, gender norms, print culture, language, and religion–that this new genre reflected. Authors covered may include Behn, Manley, Defoe, Haywood, Swift, Lennox, Fielding, Richardson, Collier, Burney, Goldsmith, Radcliffe, and Austen. 4 credits.
	ENG-321 Victorian Novel GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The Victorian novel viewed through the lens of both nineteenth-century and modern theories of the novel. Works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy and others will be examined from the perspective of Victorian literary culture. The work of critics such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Ian Watt, Fredric Jameson, and Franco Moretti will also be studied. 4 credits.
	ENG-322 Modern British Novel: 1900-1960 GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of the novel in the British Isles and Empire from 1900 to 1960. Focus on realism, modernism, colonialism, war, and social change. Major writers studied include Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, Durrell, Greene, and Lessing. Readings will include literary history, criticism, and theory of the modern novel. 4 credits.
	ENG-323 Global Novel since 1960 GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The contemporary novel from the British Isles, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, South Asia, and Africa. Focus on postmodernism, postcolonialism, and transnationalism from 1960 to the present. The writers studied include Naipaul, Rushdie, Ondaatje, Emecheta, Gordimer, McEwan, Atwood, Carey, and Kincaid. Readings will include theory and criticism. 4 credits.
	ENG-325 Global Issues in Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of postcolonial responses to and re-authoring of different Western literary canons, including examples from drama, fiction and poetry. Study of literary practices from diverse postcolonial locations (Africa and the Caribbean) to enable understanding of how through literary adaptations and oppositional writings third world writers respond to writings from Europe and America. 4 credits.
	ENG-331 American Novel from Its Beginnings to World War I GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Examination of the development of the American novel through its adaptations of such sub-genres as the Gothic novel, the historical romance, the social protest novel, the picaresque novel, the realistic novel of manners, and the naturalistic novel. Authors might include Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, James, Twain, Norris, Chopin, and Cather. 4 credits.
	ENG-332 American Novel from World War I to the Present GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: Any first year writing seminar Examination of modern and postmodern novels, emphasizing how these works reflect cultural assumptions about social class, race, ethnicity, gender roles, politics, technology, religion, art and entertainment. Authors might include Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston, Malamud, Kesey, Walker, and Tan. 4 credits.
	ENG-342 Modern British and American Drama GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of some of the powerful and varied work of recent dramatists, with attention to the conditions of the theatre of their time. Dramatists studied might include Shaw, Eliot, O’Neill, Miller, Wilder, Osborne, Arden, Pinter, Shaffer, Bolt, Orton, and Shepard. 4 credits.
	ENG-343 Drama at Stratford-upon-Avon GER: VP (Visual and Performing Arts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Offered only as part of the fall term in the British Isles program. Study of the drama being performed in London and Stratford-upon-Avon by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and others. 4 credits.
	ENG-345 Travel Study in the British Isles Texts and culture in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Specific topics will change from year to year. 4 credits.
	ENG-351 Modern Poetry GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Works by at least a half-dozen prominent poets will be read, analyzed, and evaluated. Although prosody, poetic theory, and the development of modernism will be covered, major emphasis will be on the aesthetic qualities of individual poems and the distinctive sensibilities of individual poets. 4 credits.
	ENG-352 Experimental Poetries Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to different kinds of British and American poetries and poetics of the twentieth century: some that reaffirm the well-known persona-centered lyric in various guises, and others that question the notions of expressivity and authenticity to redefine the lyric through a relatively more pronounced linguistic experimentation. 4 credits.
	ENG-355 Religious Poetry in English GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Selected religious poets writing in English in the Christian tradition, from the seventeenth century to the present. Special attention to the function of metaphor in rendering religious experience. 4 credits.
	ENG-361 History of the English Language GER: HB (Empirical Study of Human Behavior) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Survey of the internal history of English, reviewing Indo-European and Germanic background and studying the development of phonology, morphology, and syntax from Old English to Modern English. 4 credits.
	ENG-362 English Language: How it Works GER: HB (Empirical Study of Human Behavior) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to basic English linguistics. The difference between prescriptive grammar (the rules we learn in school) and descriptive grammar (the linguistic rules that native speakers of a language have learned). Discussion of the main divisions of linguistics, focusing on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Edited American English. Study of the ways other dialects, in particular, Southern American English and African American Vernacular English, differ from the standard and exploration of the implications of linguistics on social and educational policy. 4 credits.
	ENG-369 Gender in South Asian Literature and Film GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to the various debates over the representations of masculinity and femininity as these categories intersect with other forms of identity and belonging, such as caste/class, nation, race, and sexuality through the reading of literary and filmic texts. 4 credits.
	ENG-371 Mystery and Detective Fiction GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of mystery fiction and its offshoots (detective, suspense, spy) in English and translation. Possible writers: Shakespeare, Walpole, Poe, Hammett, Mankell. Critical perspectives may include narrative studies, gender criticism, Marxist criticism. 4 credits.
	ENG-372 Studies in Short Fiction GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar This course considers the short story as a genre, beginning with its roots in fables, parables and fairy tales and tracing its development to the dynamic form we see in contemporary work. Students will read both American and international authors and discuss works on the basis of both thematic and formal qualities. 4 credits.
	ENG-374 Stardom and Identity GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Exploration of the historical development of the Hollywood star system and the complex role stars play in American film and culture, focusing on representative classic and contemporary film “stars,” and analyzing how stars are produced by the studio system and its remnants in the contemporary Hollywood dream factory and remade in the cultural imaginary. 4 credits.
	ENG-375 Screening Film Noir GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Examination of distinctive stylistic and thematic features of film noir as it emerged in its classic period and as it returns in contemporary American cinema. The course will also consider the “noir anxiety” that emerges around identity as it relates to historical trauma, sexual roles, race and ethnicity and do so with an eye toward assessing the critical social commentary offered by both classic and contemporary noir cinema. 4 credits.
	ENG-376 Shakespeare on Film and in Production GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of Shakespeare’s plays on film or in production if live performances occur during semester the course is taught. Shakespeare’s written texts may be studied, but focus will be on the artistry of the cinema or theater in revealing Shakespeare for modern audiences. 4 credits.
	ENG-377 Studies in the Essay GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The essay as a genre, beginning with work from early practitioners such as Montaigne, Hazlitt, Lamb, and Shonagon, and tracing its development to the dynamic form we see in contemporary work. Students will read both American and international writers and discuss works on the basis of both thematic and formal qualities.
	ENG-401 Studies in Chaucer GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The poetry of Chaucer, in Middle English, including some early poems, Troilus and Criseyde, and substantial selections from The Canterbury Tales. Special attention to the development of Chaucer’s narrative art, his invention of the Chaucerian persona, and his relevance to postmodern thought, conceived as his self-consciousness about the use of language and his ambivalence about the value of literary art. 4 credits.
	ENG-403 Faulkner GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Chronological study of the development of Faulkner’s art from Flags in the Dust to Go Down, Moses. Attention paid to the concept of Yoknapatawpha County and to the various innovative narrative techniques Faulkner employed. 4 credits.
	ENG-404 Major Figures in Early Modern British Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of works written by major authors in the reigns of the Tudors and the Stuarts. Authors include Sidney, Spenser, Wroth, Marlowe, Jonson, Milton, or the major lyric poets. Focus on major works in their entirety written by single authors except in the case of the lyric poets. 4 credits.
	ENG-405 Studies in Gothic Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The course examines literature that evokes terror and horror, explores the possibility of supernatural forces, portrays mental disintegration, transgresses social, political, and moral norms, and exposes cultural anxieties and oppression. Topics and texts may vary. 4 credits.
	ENG-411 Satire GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Readings in satirical literature of all genres and many periods, with an emphasis on satire of the early eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries. Some attention to satire in forms other than literature. Focus on function, method, characteristics, and problems of the satirical mode. 4 credits.
	ENG-412 Autobiographical Lives and Life GER: UQ (Ultimate Questions) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Topics include spiritual and moral concerns contrast with other forms, such as biography and memoir, and specific sub-genres. Film adaptation or autobiographical film may also be considered. Alternating versions will include either an American emphasis or a global emphasis. 4 credits.
	ENG-415 Studies in Contemporary American Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Readings in American literature from 1950 to the present, with emphasis on what might make this recent writing different from what came before, or “postmodern” in terms of aesthetics and cultural context. May address fiction, drama and poetry or concentrate on a single genre. 4 credits.
	ENG-418 Shakespeare’s Europe/England’s Renaissance GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The influence of important classical and Renaissance European writers on the literature and drama of Shakespeare’s England. Topics vary, but may include the impact of authors such as Dante, Ovid, Montaigne, Petrarch, and others on Donne, Herbert, Marlowe, Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, and their peers. 4 credits.
	ENG-420 Animals in Medieval Literature and Culture GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Explores medieval literature about animals, humans’ historical relationships with other animals, philosophical discussions of the idea of “the animal,” and connections between medieval views of animals and modern ecological issues. 4 credits.
	ENG-421 Medieval Arthurian Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of the earliest tales of King Arthur and his knights. Course focuses on medieval European literature but may include one contemporary version. Authors include Chrétien de Troyes, the Gawain poet, Malory, and others. 4 credits.
	ENG-422 Literature of the South GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The dialogue about race, class, and gender that takes place between writers such as Faulkner, Warren, Gaines, Welty, O’Connor, Walker, and Allison. 4 credits.
	ENG-423 Literature of the Irish Renaissance GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The remarkable literary flowering contemporary with the late nineteenth-century movements in Ireland that led to the creation of the Irish Free State in 1921, and with the difficult historical circumstances faced by the new nation in the first years of its existence. The major figures studied include Yeats, Joyce, Synge, and O’Casey. 4 credits.
	ENG-434 What is Postcolonialism? GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to the field of Postcolonial Studies through the study of literary, filmic, and theoretical texts focusing on the historical and ongoing interactions of European and non-European cultures from the perspective of domination, resistance, and the search for alternatives. 4 credits.
	ENG-435 Writing Africa: Culture and Politics in African Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar A cross-genre survey of the literature of the African Continent. Attention will be paid to significant formal innovations and thematic preoccupations that define African literature. Exploring structures across literary and cultural boundaries like genre, race, gender, class and politics, in order to gain valuable insights into the relationship between literature and society, especially how texts participate in, and document the changing conditions of African societies. 4 credits.
	ENG-451 Film Analysis GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Exploration of the fundamentals of film form: narrative construction in the Hollywood system as well as non-narrative formal systems (documentary, abstract and avant-garde film). Includes examination of the fundamentals of film style (mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, sound) and attention to the relationships between the literary and filmic texts. 4 credits.
	ENG-452 Literary Feminisms GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Women’s literature in English as a distinct tradition, from the perspective of feminist literary theory and criticism. Structured as a historical and thematic survey of issues in the field; this course will vary in the writers and theorists studied. 4 credits.
	ENG-453 Slave Narrative to Slave Novel GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Traditional Black Atlantic eighteenth-and nineteenth-century slave narratives and examples from the twentieth-century “slave novel” or “neo-slave narrative,” considering the generic issues raised by the slave novel’s reinvention of the traditional slave narrative. Texts engage questions in critique of historiographies, ideologies, and models of interpretation; the relation between memory, writing, and historical representation; and the reproduction of hierarchical categories in the construction of racial, sexual, and gender differences. Authors might include Douglass, Equiano, Jacobs, Johnson, Morrison, Phillips, Keckley, and Butler. 4 credits.
	ENG-454 Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Reading across Caribbean literatures, cultures, languages, and theories which organize the region, exploring the ways in which cosmopolitanisms shape the literary and cultural productions of the Caribbean. Attention paid to the ways cultural hybridity emerges against the persistence of a mythological, cultural, and national homogeneity. Authors might include William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Michelle Cliff, Junot Diaz, Christina Diaz, Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace, and Jean Rhys. 4 credits.
	ENG-455 Interpretive Issues in Early Modern Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of key issues for understanding early modern British literature and its place in a history of ideas in the West. Topics include early modern literature in relation to the histories of science, individualism, gender and sexuality, privacy, literary criticism, authorship and/or the place of period texts in emerging theories of literature and history. 4 credits.
	ENG-456 Comparative Ethnicities GER: WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Emphasis on a comparative approach to Asian American, Jewish American, Native American, African American, Caribbean, US-Latino, and Chicano literatures. Focus will be on how writers of color address histories of ambivalent citizenship; how the immigrant experience and the return home changes both America and the world; the problematic concept of America itself, always seemingly at battle with itself. Some of the rhetorical battles waged over the meaning of an American national and hemispheric identity in the works of Gish Jen, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ralph Ellison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Cristina Garcia, Junot Diaz, Philip Roth, and Edwidge Danticat, among others. 4 credits.
	ENG-457 African American Drama GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The history and development of African American drama in the United States from its origins to the present moment. Exploration of the roots of African American drama, the black theater of the Harlem Renaissance, the Little Theater Movement, and the Harlem Unit of the Federal Theater Project. A study of recent major plays from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun to Suzan Lori-Park’s Topdog-Underdog. 4 credits.
	ENG-461 Critical and Cultural Theory GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to theoretical approaches to literature, such as psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism, and postcolonial studies. Consideration of the ethics and politics of interpretation, the assumptions and practices informing theoretical work, and the relation between literature and theory. Readings include works of fiction, film, and texts by theorists such as Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Zizek, Derrida, de Man, Butler, Cixous, Spivak, Bhabha. 4 credits.
	ENG-462 The Stage, Social Struggle, and Theory GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Exploration of the way the theatre and drama become sites for producing social discourses and institutions. Focusing on one or more key periods in world drama, students will study the interrelations of plays, theoretical formulations, and specific material conditions of performance. 4 credits.
	ENG-471 South Asian Cultural Studies: Literature and Film GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to the complex array of issues essential to understanding South Asian cultures in the contemporary context. Examining literary texts and films through interpretive approaches appropriate to the pluralistic cultural traditions of the region and informed by current debates in the humanities. 4 credits.
	ENG-475 Senior Seminar in English Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar A seminar exploring a specific topic in literature, language, theory, and/or film. Students engage scholarship and research methodologies appropriate to the topic to produce an extensive and significant critical study. Designed for senior English majors. 4 credits.
	ENG-501 Independent Study Variable credit.
	ENG-503 Individualized Internship Prerequisite: instructor permission Student will develop an internship to work at a business, agency or media site for up to 210 hours over the term and will meet the objectives of a learning agreement completed with the employer and approved by a faculty sponsor. Requirements include a work journal, portfolios, and assigned academic papers relating to their internship. Open primarily to seniors and juniors. May not contribute to the major. Cannot be completed through the pass-no pass grading option. Not repeatable. Variable credit.
	ENG-505 Structured Internship Prerequisite: instructor permission Students will develop internships at businesses, agencies, or media sites for up to 210 hours over the term and will meet the objectives of a learning agreement completed with the employer and approved by a faculty sponsor. The internship site must permit the student a significant degree of professional writing. A weekly seminar class focuses on the objectives and issues of students’ experiences as they develop their verbal and written communication skills. Course requirements include a work journal, portfolios, and academic papers relating to their internship. The course is open primarily to seniors and juniors. The course may contribute to the major. Cannot be completed through the pass-no pass grading option. Not repeatable. Variable credit.
Health Sciences
	HSC-101 Wellness Concepts GER: MB (Mind & Body) Wellness concepts which promote lifetime fitness and healthy lifestyle habits. Topics include: aerobic and muscular conditioning, nutrition, and medical aspects of fitness. Participation in activities to develop cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. 4 credits.
	HSC-151 Current Issues in Public Health Prerequisite: HSC-101 An examination of major public health issues of regional, national and international concern at the time of the course offering. Topics may vary from year to year. Emphasis will be given to behavioral and policy interventions. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	HSC-152 Three Great Public Health Pandemics The historical epidemiology, physiology and public health impact of three of the largest pandemics in human history: the Bubonic Plague of the 14th Century, the Cholera Pandemic of the 19th Century, and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic of the 20th Century. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.

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Courses of Instruction

Course Identifiers

EDU-336 Teaching Reading in the Content Areas

EDU-338 Reading and Responding to Children’s Literature

EDU-350 Curriculum and Methods of Teaching in Grades 9-12

EDU-430 Assessment for Instructional Planning

EDU-431 Diverse School Cultures

EDU-432 Integrating Curriculum and Technology in Grades PK-8

EDU-451 Literature for Young Adults

EDU-452 Teaching English in Grades 9-12

EDU-453 Teaching Social Studies in Grades 9-12

EDU-454 Teaching Science in Grades 9-12

EDU-455 Teaching Mathematics in Grades 9-12

EDU-460 Critical Issues in Secondary Education

EDU-464 Critique of Science Education

EDU-465 Informal Science Education Practicum

EDU-470 Practicum in Teaching

EDU-472 Practicum: Secondary Teaching

EDU-501 Independent Study

EDU-503 Non-Teaching Internship

EDU-505 Teaching Internship

ENG-111 Texts and Meaning

ENG-150 Interpretive Strategies

ENG-210 Advanced Composition

ENG-211 Professional Communication

ENG-212 Journalism: Principles and Practice

ENG-213 Investigative Reporting

ENG-214 Immersion Journalism

ENG-215 Writing for Film and Television

ENG-220 Writing Poems

ENG-221 Writing Fiction

ENG-223 Writing Nonfiction

ENG-225 Writing with Writers

ENG-227 Making Comics!: Form + Craft = Product

ENG-242 Environmental Writing

ENG-243 Fantasy and Science Fiction

ENG-253 Altered States in Victorian Literature

ENG-301 Literature of the Later Fourteenth Century

ENG-302 Literature of Early Modern Britain

ENG-303 Early Modern Drama

ENG-304 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature

ENG-305 British Romantic Literature

ENG-306 Victorian Literature and Culture

ENG-307 Literature Before Print

ENG-308 Renaissance Epic

ENG-309 Nature in South Asian Literature

ENG-310 Studies in Fictional Histories

ENG-311 Settling: Writing in America to 1830

ENG-312 Emerson to Dickinson

ENG-320 Eighteenth-Century Novel

ENG-321 Victorian Novel

ENG-322 Modern British Novel: 1900-1960

ENG-323 Global Novel since 1960

ENG-325 Global Issues in Literature

ENG-331 American Novel from Its Beginnings to World War I

ENG-332 American Novel from World War I to the Present

ENG-342 Modern British and American Drama

ENG-343 Drama at Stratford-upon-Avon

ENG-345 Travel Study in the British Isles

ENG-351 Modern Poetry

ENG-352 Experimental Poetries

ENG-355 Religious Poetry in English

ENG-361 History of the English Language

ENG-362 English Language: How it Works

ENG-369 Gender in South Asian Literature and Film

ENG-371 Mystery and Detective Fiction

ENG-372 Studies in Short Fiction

ENG-374 Stardom and Identity

ENG-375 Screening Film Noir

ENG-376 Shakespeare on Film and in Production

ENG-377 Studies in the Essay

ENG-401 Studies in Chaucer

ENG-403 Faulkner

ENG-404 Major Figures in Early Modern British Literature

ENG-405 Studies in Gothic Literature

ENG-411 Satire

ENG-412 Autobiographical Lives and Life

ENG-415 Studies in Contemporary American Literature

ENG-418 Shakespeare’s Europe/England’s Renaissance

ENG-420 Animals in Medieval Literature and Culture