Spring Quarter 2019 — Undergraduate Course Descriptions

200 A READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Gerhardt M-TH 9:30-10:20 13849

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 B READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Helterbrand M-TH 10:30-11:20 13850

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 C READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Jaccard M-TH 11:30-12:20 13851

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

202 A INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Ibrahim MWF 10:30-11:20 13853

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AA INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) McCourt W 12:30-1:20 13854

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AB INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Dinh TH 10:30-11:20 13855

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AC INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Dinh TH 11:30-12:20 13856

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AD INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) McCourt W 11:30-12:20 13857

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

204 A POPULAR FICTION & MEDIA (Popular Fiction and Media) Bentson TTh 2:30-4:20 21126

Catalog Description: Introduces students to the study of popular culture, possibly including print or visual media, understood as sites of critical reflection. Particular attention to dynamics of production and reception, aesthetics and technique, and cultural politics. Topics may foreground genres (science fiction; romance) or forms (comics; graffiti

213 A MODERN/POST MOD LITERATURE (Modern & Postmodern Literature) Kaplan TTh 10:30-12:20 13859

Catalog Description: Introduction to twentieth-century literature from a broadly cultural point of view, focusing on representative works that illustrate literary and intellectual developments since 1900.

225 A SHAKESPEARE (SHAKESPEARE) Streitberger TTh 12:30-2:20 13860

Catalog Description: Survey of Shakespeare's career as dramatist. Study of representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and history plays.

242 A READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Mukherjee MW 2:30-4:20 13861

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods

242 B READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Popov TTh 3:30-5:20 13862

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods

242 C READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Chrisman TTh 10:30-12:20 13863

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods

244 A READING DRAMA (Reading Drama) Webster TTh 12:30-2:20 21014

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in plays, representing a variety of types and periods.

259 A LIT & SOC DIFFERENCE (Literature and Social Difference) Howard MW 12:30-2:20 13865

Catalog Description: Literary texts are important evidence for social difference (gender, race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship status, sexuality, ability) in contemporary and historical contexts. Examines texts that encourage and provoke us to ask larger questions about identity, power, privilege, society, and the role of culture in present-day or historical settings.

265 A INTRO ENVIR HUMANITIES (TITLE: WORDS & WORLDS: LANGUAGE, LANDSCAPE & THE POWER OF STORY IN CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE) Holmes MW 10:30-12:20 13866

Catalog Description: ntroduces the study of the environment through literature, culture, and history. Topics include changing ideas about nature, wilderness, ecology, pollution, climate, and human/animal relations, with particular emphasis on environmental justice and the unequal distribution of environmental crises, both globally and along class, race and gender lines.

270 A USES OF ENGL LANG (TITLE "LITERACY AND RACIAL JUSTICE") Thu TTh 12:30-2:20 13867

Catalog Description: Survey of the assumptions, methodologies, and major issues of English in its cultural settings. Designed to connect English Language study with the study of literature, orality and literacy, education, ethnicity, gender, and public policy.

281 A INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Faucette MW 12:30-2:20 13868

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

281 B INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Boyle TTh 10:30-12:20 13869

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

281 C INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Malone MW 10:30-12:20 13870

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

282 A INT MULTIMODAL COMP (PLAGIARISM, APPROPRIATION, AND THEF) Kumler TTh 12:30-2:20 13872

Catalog Description: Strategies for composing effective multimodal texts for print, digital physical delivery, with focus on affordances of various modes--words, images, sound, design, and gesture--and genres to address specific rhetorical situations both within and beyond the academy. Although the course has no prerequisites, instructors assume knowledge of academic writing.

282 B INT MULTIMODAL COMP (CONSUMING AND PRODUCING MEDIA(ATED) IDENTITIES ) Walker MW 12:30-2:20 13873

Catalog Description: Strategies for composing effective multimodal texts for print, digital physical delivery, with focus on affordances of various modes--words, images, sound, design, and gesture--and genres to address specific rhetorical situations both within and beyond the academy. Although the course has no prerequisites, instructors assume knowledge of academic writing.

283 A BEGIN VERSE WRITING (Beginning Verse Writing) Feld MW 12:30-1:50 13874

Catalog Description: Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.

283 B BEGIN VERSE WRITING (Beginning Verse Writing) Murray TTh 10:30-11:50 13875

Catalog Description: Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.

284 A BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Cecil MW 2:30-3:50 13877

Catalog Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of writing the short story.

284 B BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Daugharty TTh 9:30-10:50 13878

Catalog Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of writing the short story.

297 A ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Wacker MW 1:00-2:20 21194

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified humanities course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 A ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Simmons-O'Neill MW 10:30-12:20 13879

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 B ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Shapiro MW 1:00-2:20 13880

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 C ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Helterbrand MWF 1:30-2:20 13881

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 D ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Janssen TTh 2:30-3:50 13882

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 E ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Daniel TTh 1:00-2:20 13883

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 FGH ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Sorma TTh 3:30-5:50 13884

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 B ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Rininger MWF 12:30-1:20 13888

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 C ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Eskew MW 11:30-12:50 13889

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

300 A READING MAJOR TEXTS (Reading Major Texts) Diment TTh 3:30-5:20 13890

Catalog Description: Intensive examination of one or a few major works of literature. Classroom work to develop skills of careful and critical reading. Book selection varies, but reading consists of major works by important authors and of selected supplementary materials.

302 A CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Patterson TTh 12:30-2:20 13891

Catalog Description: Intensive study of, and exercise in, applying important or influential interpretive practices for studying language, literature, and culture, along with consideration of their powers/limits. Focuses on developing critical writing abilities. Topics vary and may include critical and interpretive practice from scripture and myth to more contemporary approaches, including newer interdisciplinary practices.

302 B CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Kaup MW 3:30-5:20 13892

Catalog Description: Intensive study of, and exercise in, applying important or influential interpretive practices for studying language, literature, and culture, along with consideration of their powers/limits. Focuses on developing critical writing abilities. Topics vary and may include critical and interpretive practice from scripture and myth to more contemporary approaches, including newer interdisciplinary practices.

304 A HIST CRITICISM II (History of Literary Criticism and Theory II) Staten TTh 1:30-3:20 13893

Catalog Description: Provides an introduction to contemporary literary, cultural, and critical theory and modern antecedents. Explores frameworks used in study of literature and culture by scholars today.

308 A MARXISM LIT THEORY (Marxism & Literary Theory) Weinbaum TTh 10:30-12:20 13894

Catalog Description: Introduces Marxist theory and methodology. Explores how and why Marx's writings, Marxist theory, and materialist methods have become central to the study of literature and culture over the course of the twentieth century.

310 B BIBLE AS LITERATURE (The Bible as Literature) Collins MW 12:30-2:20 13896

Catalog Description: Introduction to the development of the religious ideas and institutions of ancient Israel, with selected readings from the Old Testament and New Testament. Emphasis on reading The Bible with literary and historical understanding.

317 A LIT OF THE AMERICAS (Literature of the Americas) Kaup MW 12:30-2:20 13897

Catalog Description: Examines writings by and about people of the Americas, with a focus on intersections of gender, colonialism, race, sexuality, and ethnicity.

322 A THE RENAISSANCE (English Literature: The Renaissance) Mukherjee TTh 10:30-12:20 21219

Catalog Description: Covers literature and culture of the English Renaissance through the age of Shakespeare. May include poetry by the first English laureates, the drama of the first public theaters and prose by the first English essayists.

329 A RISE OF ENG NOVEL (Rise of the English Novel) Popov TTh 11:30-1:20 13898

Catalog Description: Traces the development of a major and popular modern literary genre - the novel. Readings survey forms of fiction including the picaresque, the gothic, the epistolary novel, and the romance. Authors range from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen and beyond.

330 A ROMANTIC AGE (English Literature: The Romantic Age) Shields TTh 1:30-3:20 13899

Catalog Description: Literary, intellectual, and historical ferment of the period from the French Revolution to the 1830s. Readings from major authors in different literary forms; discussions of critical and philosophical issues in a time of change.

344 A STUDIES IN DRAMA (STUDIES IN DRAMA) Streitberger TTh 9:30-11:20 21406

Catalog Description: Explores the workings and historical development of theartrical practices, including performance and spectatorship more broadly. Possible topics include genres of drama (tragedy, mystery play, melodrama, agitprop); histories of drama (Elizabethan theater, Theater of the Absurd, the Mbari Mbayo Club, In-Your-Face Theater); and theorists of performance and dramaturgy.

345 A STUDIES IN FILM (Studies in Film) Gillis-Bridges TTh 2:30-4:20 13901

Catalog Description: Types, techniques, and issues explored by filmmakers. Emphasis on narrative, image, and point of view.

346 A STDYS SHORT FICTION (Studies in Short Fiction) George MW 11:30-1:20 13902

Catalog Description: Explores the workings and evolution of short fiction. Introduces the distinct styles and pruposes of short fiction, such as the realistic, the fantastic, the explicitly instructive, and the non-didactic descriptive, as well as the historical development of the short story from the simple tale and fable to the psychologically complex narrative.

349 B SCI FICT & FANTASY (Science Fiction and Fantasy) Norako MW 12:30-2:20 13904

Catalog Description: The study of the development of and specific debates in the related genres of fantasy and science fiction literatures.

353 B AMER LIT LATER 19C (American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century) Griffith M-TH 9:30-10:20 13907

Catalog Description: Explores American fiction, poetry, and prose during the latter half of the nineteenth century. May include such representative authors of the period as Twain, Dickinson, DuBois, Crane, Wharton and Chopin, along with supplementary study of the broader cultural and political milieu.

365 A LIT OF ENVIRONMENT (Literature and Discourses on the Environment) Handwerk TTh 10:30-12:20 13909

Catalog Description: Wide-range introduction to the study of written and spoken English. The nature of language; ways of describing language; the use of language study as an approach to English literature and the teaching of English.

372 A WORLD ENGLISHES (World Englishes) Bou Ayash TTh 1:30-3:20 13910

Catalog Description: Examines historical, linguistic, economic, and sociopolitical forces involved in the diversification of Global/New Englishes. Attention to changing power relations, language hierarchies, and inequalities associated with the teaching, learning, and use of English. Explores current debates on linguistic imperialism and resistance, concepts of 'mother tongue', nativeness, comprehensibility/intelligibility judgments, and language ownership.

381 A ADV EXPOSITORY WRIT (Advanced Expository Writing) Stygall MW 12:30-2:20 13912

Catalog Description: Concentration on the development of prose style for experienced writers.

382 A SPECIAL MULTIMODAL (COMPOSING MEDIA: ENGAGING MULTIMODA PUBLICS) Pratt TTh 10:30-12:20 13914

Catalog Description: Focuses on emerging questions, debates, genres, and methods of multimodal analysis and production. Topics vary but might include transmedia storytelling, digital humanities, audiovisual essays, new media journalism, and performance. Although course has no prerequisites, instructors, assume knowledge of academic argumentation strategies.

383 A CRAFT OF VERSE (The Craft of Verse) Triplett W 4:30-7:20p 13915

Catalog Description: Intensive study of various aspects of the craft verse. Readings in contemporary verse and writing using emulation and imitation.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284

384 A CRAFT OF PROSE (The Craft of Prose) Paris TH 3:30-6:20p 13916

Catalog Description: Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. Readings in contemporary prose and writing using emulation and imitation.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284

386 A ASIAN-AMERICAN LIT (Asian-American Literature) Liu MW 10:30-12:20 13917

Catalog Description: Examines different forms of Asian American expression as a response to racial formations in local and global contexts. Teaches critical thinking about identity, power, inequalities, and marginality.

387 A SCREENWRITING (Screenwriting) Wong MW 2:30-4:20 21300

Catalog Description: Students read screenwriting manuals and screenplays, analyze exemplary films, and write synopses, treatments, and first acts of their own screenplays.

395 A STUDY ABROAD (Study Abroad) ARR 13918

Catalog Description: Relates major works of literature, literary theory and criticism, or creative writing to the landscape and activities of their settings for students in UW English Department study abroad programs. Equivalency for upper-division English coursework taken on a UW study abroad program or direct exchange

407 A TOPICS CULTURE ST (Special Topics in Cultural Studies) George MW 1:30-3:20 13919

Catalog Description: Advanced work in cultural studies.

431 A TOPICS BRIT LIT (Topics in British Literature) Butwin MW 3:50-5:20 13920

Catalog Description: Themes and topics of special meaning to British literature.

451 A AMERICAN WRITERS (American Writers: Studies in Major Authors) Weinbaum TTh 1:30-3:20 13921

Catalog Description: Concentration on one writer or a special group of American writers.

478 A LANG & SOCL POLICY (Language and Social Policy) MW 2:30-4:20 13923

Catalog Description: Examines the relationship between language policy and social organization; the impact of language policy on immigration, education, and access to resources and political institutions; language policy and revolutionary change; language rights.

483 A ADV VERSE WORKSHOP (Advanced Verse Workshop) Bierds TTh 10:30-11:50 13924

Catalog Description: Intensive verse workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student poetry.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384

484 A ADV PROSE WORKSHOP (Advanced Prose Workshop) Bosworth T 4:30-7:20p 13925

Catalog Description: Intensive prose workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student fiction and/or creative nonfiction.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384

485 A NOVEL WRITING (NOVEL WRITING) Bosworth W 4:30-7:20p 13926

Catalog Description: Experience in planning, writing, and revising a work of long fiction, whether from the outset, in progress, or in already completed draft.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383 or 484

490 A PROFESN PUBLIC LIFE (PROFESN PUBLIC LIFE) Gillis-Bridges ARR 13928
491 A INTERNSHIP (Internship) ARR 13929

Catalog Description: Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open only to upper-division English majors. Credit/no credit only.

491 B INTERNSHIP (Internship) Simmons-O'Neill ARR 13930

Catalog Description: Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open only to upper-division English majors. Credit/no credit only.

492 A EXPOSIT WRIT CONF (Advanced Expository Writing Conference) ARR 13931

Catalog Description: Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.

493 A CREATIVE WRIT CONF (Advanced Creative Writing Conference) ARR 13932

Catalog Description: Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.

496 A H-MAJOR CONF-HONORS (Major Conference for Honors) Abrams MW 3:30-5:20 13933

Catalog Description: Individual study (reading, papers) by arrangement with the instructor. Required of, and limited to, honors seniors in English.

496 B H-MAJOR CONF-HONORS (Major Conference for Honors) Kaplan TTh 1:30-3:20 13934

Catalog Description: Individual study (reading, papers) by arrangement with the instructor. Required of, and limited to, honors seniors in English.

498 A SENIOR SEMINAR (SENIOR SEMINAR) Simmons-O'Neill MW 10:30-12:20 13935

Catalog Description: Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to seniors majoring in English.

498 B SENIOR SEMINAR (SENIOR SEMINAR) MW 1:30-3:30 13936

Catalog Description: Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to seniors majoring in English.

499 A INDEPENDENT STUDY (INDEPENDENT STUDY) ARR 13937

Catalog Description: Individual study by arrangement with instructor.

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