Summer Quarter 2018 — Undergraduate Course Descriptions

111 A COMPOSITION: LIT (Composition: Literature) M-Th 10:50-11:50 11338

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing; topics derived from reading and discussing stories, poems, essays, and plays.

111 C COMPOSITION: LIT (Composition: Literature) M-Th 12:00-1:00 11340

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing; topics derived from reading and discussing stories, poems, essays, and plays.

131 A COMPOSITN: EXPOSITN (Composition: Exposition) M-Th 9:40-10:40 11341

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects.

131 C COMPOSITN: EXPOSITN (Composition: Exposition) M-Th 12:00-1:00 11343

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects.

131 E COMPOSITN: EXPOSITN (Composition: Exposition) M-Th 1:10-2:10 11345

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects.

200 A READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Callow M-TH 9:40-11:50 11346

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) O'Neill M-TH 12:00-2:10 11347

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) M-TH 10:50-1:00 11348

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.

204 A POPULAR FICTION & MEDIA (Popular Fiction and Media) Wacker DL 14315

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

207 A INTRO CULTURE ST (Introduction to Cultural Studies) Cummings M-TH 12:30-1:20 11349

Catalog Description: Asks three questions: What is Cultural Studies? How does one read from a Cultural Studies perspective? What is the value of reading this way? Provides historical understanding of Cultural Studies, its terms and its specific way of interpreting a variety of texts, i.e. literature, visual images, music, video, and performance.

207 B INTRO CULTURE ST (TITLE: WOMEN IN ACTION: FROM THE PERILS OF PAULINE TO ATOMIC BLONDE) Gillis-Bridges DL 14393

Catalog Description: Asks three questions: What is Cultural Studies? How does one read from a Cultural Studies perspective? What is the value of reading this way? Provides historical understanding of Cultural Studies, its terms and its specific way of interpreting a variety of texts, i.e. literature, visual images, music, video, and performance.

210 A LIT 400 to 1600 (Medieval and Early Modern Literature, 400 to 1600) Remley M-TH 9:40-11:50 11350

Catalog Description: Introduces literature from the Middle Ages and the Age of Shakespeare, focusing on major works that have shaped the development of literary and intellectual traditions of these periods.

225 A SHAKESPEARE (SHAKESPEARE) Staten TTh 9:40-11:50 11351

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) Wacker M-Th 9:40-11:50 11352

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) George M-Th 12:00-2:10 11353

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) Gillis-Bridges M-Th 9:40-11:50 11354

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

243 A READING POETRY (Reading Poetry) Matthews M-Th 10:50-1:00 11356

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in poems. Different examples of poetry representing a variety of types from the medieval to modern periods.

281 A INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Simmons-O'Neill M-Th 9:40-11:50 11357

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) Wacker M-Th 12:00-2:10 11358

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.

284 A BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) M-Th 12:00-1:30 11361

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

295 A English Study Abroad (Study Abroad) 11363

Catalog Description: Equivalency for 200-level English courses taken on UW study abroad programs or direct exchanges. May not apply to major requirements

302 A CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Cummings M-Th 9:40-11:50 11364

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.

310 A BIBLE AS LITERATURE (The Bible as Literature) Griffith M-Th 8:30-9:20 11365

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.

323 A SHAKESPEARE TO 1603 (Shakespeare to 1603) Streitberger M-Th 10:50-1:00 14304

Catalog Description: Explores Shakespeare's early drama and poetry. May include the sonnets, narrative poems, and selected comedies, histories, or tragedies.

325 A ENGL LIT: 17TH CENT (English Literature: The Late Renaissance) Streitberger M-Th 10:50-1:00

Catalog Description: Covers literature and culture of the late Renaissance in England, from the age of Shakespeare to the English Revolution. May include verse by the metaphysical poets, drama by Jacobean playwrights and rivals to Shakespeare, and selected prose.

335 A AGE OF VICTORIA (English Literature: The Age of Victoria) Butwin M-Th 12:00-2:20

Catalog Description: Examines literary works from Victorian Britain and its empire (1837-1901), paired with contemporary social, scientific, and historical developments such as industrialization; urbanization; child labor; imperial expansion; scientific ideas of evolution and geologic time; changing ideas of gender/sexuality; mass education and mass literacy; and the popularization of print media.

346 A STDYS SHORT FICTION (Studies in Short Fiction) George M-Th 9:40-11:50 11370

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.

353 A AMER LIT LATER 19C (American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century) Patterson M-Th 12:00-2:10 11372

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.

370 B ENGL LANG STUDY (English Language Study) Stygall M-Th 12:00-2:10 11374

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

422 A ARTHURIAN LEGENDS (Arthurian Legends) Remley M-Th 12:00-2:10 11375

Catalog Description: Medieval romance in its cultural and historical setting, with concentration on the evolution of Arthurian romance.

471 A TEACHING WRITING (The Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing) Stygall M-Th 3:30-5:20 11376

Catalog Description: Reviews the research, core debates, and politics tht have shaped the practice, teaching and study of writing. Introduces theoretical and methodological approaches that inform the teaching and learning of writing

491 A INTERNSHIP (Internship) Sisko IS 11379

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) IS 11380

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) IS 11381

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) 11382

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

499 A INDEPENDENT STUDY (INDEPENDENT STUDY) Sisko IS 11383

Catalog Description: Individual study by arrangement with instructor.

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