Winter Quarter 2019 — Undergraduate Course Descriptions

200 B READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Jaccard M-TH 10:30-11:20 14158

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) Gerhardt M-TH 11:30-12:20 14159

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 D READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Hitchman M-TH 12:30-1:20 14160

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 E READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Van Houdt MW 2:30-4:20 14161

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) Staten MWF 10:30-11:20 14162

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) Milian TH 9:30-10:20 14163

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) Milian TH 10:30-11:20 14164

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) Kladouris W 12:30-1:20 14165

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) Kladouris W 2:30-3:20 14166

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) Peters TTh 1:30-3:20 14167

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

204 B POPULAR FICTION & MEDIA (Popular Fiction and Media) Kumler MW 2:30-4:20 14211

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) George MW 11:30-1:20 14168

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 MW 4:30-6:20p 14169

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.

242 A READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Patterson MW 12:30-2:20 14170

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 MW 8:30-10:20 21857

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) McCue MW 2:30-4:20 14171

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

242 D READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Gerhardt TTh 6:30-8:20p 14172

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

242 E READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Alaniz TTh 12:30-2:20 14173

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

243 A READING POETRY (Reading Poetry) LaPorte MW 1:30-3:20 14174

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

257 A Asian American Lit (Asian American Literature) Liu MW 11:30-1:20 14175

Catalog Description: Examines the emergence of Asian American literature as a response to anti-Asian legislation, cultural images, and American racial formation. Encourages thinking critically about identity, power, inequalities, and experiences of marginality.

259 A LIT & SOC DIFFERENCE (Literature and Social Difference) Clare TTh 10:30-12:20 14176

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.

259 B LIT & SOC DIFFERENCE (Literature and Social Difference) Oehme TTh 1:00-2:20 21771

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 (Introduction to Environmental Humanities) Handwerk TTh 10:30-12:20 14177

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 (The Uses of the English Language) Webster MW 2:30-4:20 14178

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.

277 A CHILD & YOUNG ADULT LIT (Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature) Groves MWF 12:30-1:20 14179

Catalog Description: Introduction to creative works written for children and young adults, with emphasis on historical, cultural, institutional, and industrial contexts of production and reception. Also examines changing assumptions about the social and educational function of children's and young adult literature.

281 A INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Wirth TTh 10:30-12:20 14180

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) Malone MW 12:30-2:20 14181

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 (Intermediate Multimodal Composition) Howard TTh 10:30-12:20 14184

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 (Intermediate Multimodal Composition) Savage MW 12:30-2:20 14185

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) Braun MW 9:30-10:50 14186

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

283 B BEGIN VERSE WRITING (Beginning Verse Writing) Kenney F 10:30-1:20 14187

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

284 A BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Burr MW 9:30-10:50 14189

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

284 B BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Paris TTh 3:30-4:50 14190

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

285 A WRITERS ON WRITING (WRITERS ON WRITING) Sonenberg TTh 12:30-2:20 14192

Catalog Description: Experience literature from the inside. In this class, members of the creative writing faculty and other practicing writers discuss their poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction, literary inspiration, artistic practice, and the writer's life. Lecture and discussion.

297 A ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Wacker MWF 11:30-12:20 14194

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.

297 B ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Williams MWF 8:30-9:20 14195

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 1:00-2:20 14196

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) Miller TTh 2:30-3:50 14197

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) O'Neill MWF 1:30-2:20 14199

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) MW 11:30-12:50 14200

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 G ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Devos MWF 3:30-4:20 14202

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 H ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) O'Neill TTh 11:30-12:50 14203

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 AB ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Wacker MWF 9:30-10:20 14204

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) Rininger MWF 12:30-1:20 14206

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 D ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Eskew MWF 1:30-2:20 14207

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 2:30-4:20 14208

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) Wong MW 2:30-4:20 14209

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) Shields TTh 2:30-4:20 14210

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.

307 A Cultural Studies (Cultural Studies) Taranath T 4:30-8:20p 14212

Catalog Description: Overview of Cultural Studies with a focus on reading texts or objects using cultural studies methods and writing analytic essays using cultural studies methods. Focuses on culture as a site of political and social debate and struggle.

316 A POSTCLNIAL LIT & CLTR (Postcolonial Literature and Culture) Taranath TTh 8:30-10:20 14214

Catalog Description: Readings of major tests and writers in postcolonial literature and culture. Surveys some of the most important questions and debates in postcolonial literature, including issues of identity, globalization, language, and nationalism.

318 A BLACK LIT GENRES (Black Literary Genres) Jaccard MW 2:30-4:20 14215

Catalog Description: Considers how generic forms and conventions have been discussed and distributed in the larger context of African American, or other African diasporic literary studies. Links the relationship between generic forms to questions of power within social, cultural, and historical contexts. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 318; AWSp.

321 A CHAUCER (Chaucer) Norako MW 12:30-2:20 14216

Catalog Description: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other poetry, with attention to Chaucer's social, historical, and intellectual milieu.

324 A SHAKESPEARE AFTER 1603 (Shakespeare After 1603) Streitberger MW 2:30-4:20 14217

Catalog Description: Explores Shakespeare's later works. Focuses on the mature tragedies and late-career romances, by may include selected comedies and histories.

335 A AGE OF VICTORIA (English Literature: The Age of Victoria) Butwin MW 3:30-5:20 14218

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.

337 A MODERN NOVEL (The Modern Novel) Chrisman TTh 11:30-1:20 14219

Catalog Description: Explores the novel in English from the first half of the twentieth century. May include such writers as Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, E.M. Forster, Claude McKay, Elizabeth Bowen, Raja Rao, William Faulkner, Jean Rhys, and Edith Wharton. Includes history and changing aesthetics of the novel as form, alongside the sociohistorical context.

340 A Anglo Irish Lit (Anglo-Irish Literature) Popov MW 11:30-1:20 21892

Catalog Description: Principal writers in English of the modern Irish literary movement -- Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Gregory, and O'Casey among them -- with attention to traditions of Irish culture and history.

342 A CONTEMPORARY NOVEL (The Contemporary Novel: Two Paths and the Female Character) Burstein MW 4:30-6:20p 14220

Catalog Description: Study of recent fiction by diverse writers with attention to contemporary ideas in all kinds of forms.

352 A US LIT TO 1865 (Literatures of the United States to 1865) Griffith M-TH 9:30-10:20 14222

Catalog Description: Explores American fiction, poetry, and prose from the early nineteenth century through the Civil War. May include such representative authors of the period as Emerson, Melville, Hawthorne, Douglass and fuller, along with supplementary study of the broader cultural and political milieu.

354 A EARLY 20th C Am Lit (American Literature: Early Twentieth Centure) Babbie TTh 3:30-5:20 14224

Catalog Description: Investigates the period of American literary modernism (1900 to WWII). Topics covered include nationalism, migration, race, gender, and the impact of the visual arts on literary modernism, as well as the relation between modernity/modernization (social, economic, and technological transformation) and modernism (revolution in literary style).

368 A WOMEN WRITERS (Women Writers) Gillis-Bridges MW 12:30-2:20 14226

Catalog Description: Investigates how perceptions of "woman writer" shape understandings of women's literary works and the forms in which they compose. Examines texts by women writers with attention to sociocultural, economic, and political context. Considers gender as a form of social difference as well as power relationships structured around gender inequality.

370 A ENGL LANG STUDY (English Language Study) Stygall MW 12:30-2:20 14227

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.

381 B ADV EXPOSITORY WRIT (Advanced Expository Writing) Ghasedi MW 10:30-12:20 14229

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

382 B SPECIAL MULTIMODAL (Special Topics in Multimodal Composition) Grimmer TTh 1:30-3:20 14230

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) Feld MW 10:30-11:50 14231

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) Shields MW 1:30-2:50 14233

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

395 A STUDY ABROAD (Study Abroad) ARR 14234

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) Helterbrand TTh 12:30-2:20 14235

Catalog Description: Advanced work in cultural studies.

440 A SPEC STUDIES IN LIT (Topic: Joyce & Beckett - Ulysses) Popov MW 2:30-4:20 14236

Catalog Description: Themes and topics offering special approaches to literature.

440 B SPEC STUDIES IN LIT (Special Studies in Literature) Gillis-Bridges MW 9:30-11:20 14237

Catalog Description: Themes and topics offering special approaches to literature.

466 A QUEER & LGBT STUDIES (Queer and LGBT Studies) Clare TTh 1:30-3:20 14238

Catalog Description: Special topics in queer theory and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) studies. Examination of ways lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer histories and cultures are represented in criticism, literature, film, performance, and popular culture.

471 A TEACHING WRITING (The Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing) Macklin TTh 1:30-3:20 14239

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

479 A LANG VAR LANG POOL (Language Variation and Policy in North America) Bou Ayash TTh 12:30-2:20 14241

Catalog Description: Surveys basic issues of language variation: phonological, syntactic, semantic, and narrative/discourse differences among speech communities of North American English; examines how language policy can affect access to education, the labor force, and political institutions.

483 A ADV VERSE WORKSHOP (Advanced Verse Workshop) Bierds TTh 2:30-3:50 14242

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) Crouse TTh 10:30-11:50 14243

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

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384

491 A INTERNSHIP (Internship) Sisko ARR 14245

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 14246

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

493 A CREATIVE WRIT CONF (Advanced Creative Writing Conference) ARR 14247

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.

494 A HONORS SEMINAR (Honors Seminar) Abrams MW 2:30-4:20 14248

Catalog Description: Survey of current issues confronting literary critics today, based on revolving themes and topics. Focuses on debates and developments affecting English language and literatures, including questions about: the relationship of culture and history; the effect of emergent technologies on literary study; the rise of interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities.

494 B HONORS SEMINAR (Honors Seminar) Kaplan TTh 12:30-2:20 14249

Catalog Description: Survey of current issues confronting literary critics today, based on revolving themes and topics. Focuses on debates and developments affecting English language and literatures, including questions about: the relationship of culture and history; the effect of emergent technologies on literary study; the rise of interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities.

499 A INDEPENDENT STUDY (INDEPENDENT STUDY) ARR 14250

Catalog Description: Individual study by arrangement with instructor.

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