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.