Spring Quarter 2021 — Undergraduate Course Descriptions

200 A READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Barwise M-Th 10:30-11:20 14025

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) Daniel MW 1:30-3:20 14026

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) Kumler TTh 10:30-12:20 14027

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) Hushagen MW 11:30-1:20 21669

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 14028

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) Sobers M 11:30-12:20 14029

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) Sobers M 1:30-2:20 14030

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) Boyle W 9:30-10:20 14031

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) Boyle W 12:30-1:20 14032

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) Cherniavsky TTh 11:30-1:20 14033

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

210 A LIT 400 to 1600 (Medieval and Early Modern Literature, 400 to 1600) Remley TTh 3:30-5:20 14034

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.

213 A MODERN/POST MOD LITERATURE (Modern & Postmodern Literature) Chrisman TTh 10:30-12:20 14035

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) George MW 12:30-2:20 14036

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) George TTh 2:30-4:20 14037

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) Kumler MW 11:30-1:20 14039

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

250 A American Literature (American Literature) Patterson TTh 12:30-2:20 14040

Catalog Description: Introduces American culture through a careful reading of a variety of representative texts in their historical contexts.

258 A INTRO TO AFR AM LIT (Introduction African American Literature) Burns MW 2:30-4:20 21274

Catalog Description: Introduction to various genres of African American literature from its beginnings to the present. Emphasizes the cultural and historical context of African American literary expression and its aesthetics criteria. Explores key issues and debates, such as race and racism, inequality, literary form, and canonical acceptance. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 214.

259 A LIT & SOC DIFFERENCE (Literature and Social Difference) Taranath TTh 8:30-10:20 14041

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) McCauley MW 9:30-11:20 21073

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.

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

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) Haden TTh 10:30-12:20

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 D INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Daniel TTh 12:30-2:20

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 E INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) George MW 10:30-12:20

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 F INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Cuffman MW 10:30-12:20

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) Ghasedi TTh 12:30-2:20

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) Walker MW 10:30-12:20

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) Ciummo TTh 10:30-11:50 14047

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

284 A BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Walker TTh 1:30-2:50 14048

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

284 B BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Fountain MW 1:30-2:50 14049

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

288 A Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Medina TTh 2:30-4:20 14051

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

288 B Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Wirth TTh 1:30-3:20 21670

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

295 A English Study Abroad (Study Abroad) ARR 14052

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

296 A Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences (Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences) Callow 14053

Catalog Description: Develops critical literacy in the diffuse but interlocking disciplines of the natural sciences. Through analysis and composition of various texts, students become authoritative participants in scientific discourse while also becoming familiar with ways that Western values are embedded and centered (often invisibly) in the sciences and its related institutions. Offered: AWSp.

296 B Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences (Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences) Walwema 14054

Catalog Description: Develops critical literacy in the diffuse but interlocking disciplines of the natural sciences. Through analysis and composition of various texts, students become authoritative participants in scientific discourse while also becoming familiar with ways that Western values are embedded and centered (often invisibly) in the sciences and its related institutions. Offered: AWSp.

297 A ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Wacker 14055

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) Elezovic 14056

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 C ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Daniel 14057

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 B ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Miller 14059

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) Holmes 14060

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 A ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Devos 14061

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) Matthews 14063

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) Roberts 14064

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 12:30-2:20 14065

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) Liu MW 9:30-11:20 14066

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) Clare TTh 2:30-4:20 14067

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.

309 A THEORIES OF READING (Theories of Reading) George TTh 11:30-1:20 14068

Catalog Description: Investigates what it means to be a reader. Centers on authorial and reading challenges, shifting cultural and theoretical norms, and changes in the public's reading standards.

314 A TRANSATLAN LIT CLTR (Transatlantic Literature and Culture) Cole WF 11:30-1:20 14069

Catalog Description: Explores literatures and cultures produced in the Atlantic world. Emphasizes historical lines of communication and exchange among Atlantic cultures and their literatures.

319 A AFRICAN LITS (African Literatures) Chrisman TTh 1:30-3:20 14070

Catalog Description: Introduces and explores African literatures from a range of regions. Pays particular attention to writings connected with the historical experiences of colonialism, anti-colonial resistance, and decolonization. Considers the operations of race, gender, nationhood, neocolonialism, and globalization within and across these writings.

325 A ENGL LIT: 17TH CENT (English Literature: The Late Renaissance) Knight MW 10:30-12:20 21084

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.

334 A ENGL NOV LATER 19 C (English Novel: Later 19th Century) Staten MW 2:30-4:20 14071

Catalog Description: Examines the high water mark of the realist novel, as well as its fragmentation into popular genres like science and detective fiction and the emergence of literary modernism. Possible authors include: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marie Corelli, Olive Schreiner, H.G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad.

335 A AGE OF VICTORIA (English Literature: The Age of Victoria) LaPorte TTh 10:30-12:20 14072

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.

336 A EARLY 20TH C ENGL LIT (English Literature: Early Twentieth Century) Kaplan TTh 3:30-5:20 20955

Catalog Description: Explores fiction, poetry, and drama in English from the period of 1900-1945. Considers the literature in socio-historical context. Modernism, realism, imperialism, and questions f nationality may be foregrounded.

345 A STUDIES IN FILM (Studies in Film) Gillis-Bridges TTh 10:30-12:20 14073

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

348 A Studies Pop Culture (Studies in Popular Culture) Foster MW 2:30-4:20 14074

Catalog Description: Explores one or more popular genres (fantasy, romance, myster) or media (comics, television, videogames), with attention to historical development, distinctive formal features, and reading protocols. May include study of audience, reception histories, or fan cultures

349 B SCI FICT & FANTASY (Science Fiction and Fantasy) Norako MW 9:30-11:20 14075

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 8:30-9:20 14076

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.

355 A CONTEMP AM LIT (American Literature: Contemporary America) Ishii MW 3:30-5:20 14077

Catalog Description: Examines recent American literature and its historical and cultural contexts.

368 A WOMEN WRITERS (Women Writers) Kaplan TTh 12:30-2:20 14078

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) Webster MW 2:30-4:20 14079

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.

372 A WORLD ENGLISHES (World Englishes) Bou Ayash MW 1:30-3:20 14080

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 B ADV EXPOSITORY WRIT (Advanced Expository Writing) Rai TTh 1:30-3:20

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

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

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) Kelly MW 1:30-2:50 14085

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 TTh 10:30-11:50 14086

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

388 A Profnl & Tech Writing (Professional and Technical Writing) Walwema 14088

Catalog Description: Prepares students to become conscious and conscientious communicators in various modes, platforms, and professions. Recommended: ENGL 288

395 A STUDY ABROAD (Study Abroad) ARR 14089

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

440 A SPEC STUDIES IN LIT (Special Studies in Literature) Burstein MW 1:30-3:20 14090

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

452 A TOPICS AM LIT (Topics in American Literature) Weinbaum TTh 1:30-3:20 14091

Catalog Description: Exploration of a theme or special topic in American literary expression.

466 A QUEER & LGBT STUDIES (Queer and LGBT Studies) Harkins MW 2:30-4:20 14092

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.

478 A LANG & SOCL POLICY (Language and Social Policy) Bojan TTh 12:30-2:20 14095

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 14096

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) Shields TTh 12:30-1:50 21016

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 14098

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) Bawarshi ARR 20950

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 14099

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 14100

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) Shields MW 1:30-3:20 14101

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) Gillis-Bridges TTh 1:30-3:20 14102

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) ARR 14103

Catalog Description: Individual study by arrangement with instructor.

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