English

PROFESSORS

Jennifer Brady. 1984. B.A., University of Toronto; M.A. and Ph.D., Princeton University. (Jonson, Dryden, Seventeenth-century literature.)
Michael Leslie. 1993. Dean, British Studies at Oxford. The Connie Abston Chair of Literature. B.A., University of Leicester; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh. (Renaissance literature, literature and the visual arts.)
Brian W. Shaffer. 1990. Dean of Academic Affairs for Faculty Development. B.A., Washington University; Ph.D., University of Iowa. (Twentieth-century British literature, modern novel.)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Tina Barr. 1997. The Charles R. Glover Chair of English Studies. B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.F.A., Columbia University; M.A. and Ph.D., Temple University. (Creative writing, twentieth-century literature.)
Gordon Bigelow. Chair. 1998. B.A., Brown University; M.A., University of New Hampshire; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz. (Nineteenth-century British and Irish literature, cultural studies.)
Marshall Boswell. 1996. The T. K. Young Professorship of English Literature. B.A., Washington and Lee University; M.A., Washington University; Ph.D., Emory University. (Comparative fiction, creative writing.)

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Rebecca Finlayson. 2001. Director of the Writing Center, Director of the Rhodes Summer Writing Institute. B.A., Smith College; M.A. and Ph.D., Emory University. (Rhetoric and composition.)
Judith Haas. B.A., Wesleyan University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz. (Medieval Studies, Women’s Studies.)
Rebecca Edwards Newman. 2005. B.A., University of Cambridge; M.A., University of York; Ph.D., University of Cambridge. (Romanticism.)
Scott Newstok. 2007. B.A., Grinnell College; Ph.D., Harvard University. (Shakespeare, Early Modern British Literature.)
Leslie Petty. 2003. B.A., Emory University; M.A., Louisiana State University; Ph.D., University of Georgia. (American literature.)
Rasha Wadia Richards. 2008. B.A., Narsee Monjee College, Mumbai, India; M.A., University of Mumbai, India; M.A., West Virginia University; Ph.D., University of Florida. (Film Studies.)
Rychetta Watkins. 2008. B.A., Washington University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (African American and Asian American Literature.)

STAFF

Lorie W. Yearwood. Departmental Assistant. A.A.S., Southwest Tennessee Community College.

British Studies at Oxford. This summer study program offers more courses in English literature than in any other discipline. Credit earned in the program is directly credited as Rhodes College work. Professor Michael Leslie, a member of the English department, serves as Dean of the program, which is more fully described in the section concerning Foreign Study.

The Writing Center. The department oversees a writing service available to all Rhodes students. Student tutors, all English majors, are available daily to assist students with written work. The Writing Center will report the results of the tutoring to the professor for whom the written work is done.

REQUIREMENTS FOR A MAJOR IN ENGLISH

A total of fifty (50) credits as follows:
Track I: Concentration in Literature

Three (3) courses in English literature written before 1800, at least two of which must be at the 300 level (i.e., 230, 260, 315-341)
English 385, to be taken by the end of the junior year (may also satisfy #1 or #5)
English 485
English 483-484 (2 credits)
Eight (8) additional courses in English, 200 or above, at least 6 of which must be in literature.

Of the above required courses, a minimum of eight 4-credit courses must be numbered 300 or above. (English 460 does not fulfill this requirement.)

Track II: Concentration in Literature and Creative Writing:

Two course in English literature written before 1800 at the 300 level (i.e., 315-341)
English 385, to be taken by the end of the junior year
Four additional courses in literature (one film course or internship may be counted in this category)
Four courses chosen from English 200, 201, 203, 204, 300, 301, 310, 311 or a writing course in any other department, subject to approval by the English Department. The five courses (20 credits) must include both 300-level workshops in the student’s major genre (fiction, poetry), at least one of which must be taken in the junior year.
English 483-484 (2 credits) or English 481-482 (2 credits, by permission only)
English 485

Of the above required courses, a minimum of eight 4-credit hour courses must be numbered 300 or above. (English 460 does not fulfill this requirement.)

Note: Those considering the concentration in writing should contact one of the creative writing professors for early advising, preferably by the end of the first year.

REQUIREMENTS FOR A MINOR IN ENGLISH

A total of twenty (20) credits as follows:

Two courses at the 200 level
Three additional courses in English numbered 300 or higher

HONORS IN ENGLISH

Courses required: fulfillment of the requirements for a major in English; English 495-496.
A substantial, in-depth thesis
Approval by the English Honors Committee.

COURSE OFFERINGS

Unless otherwise noted, these courses are taught every year and in the semesters indicated.

FIRST-YEAR WRITING COURSES

151. First-Year Writing Seminar.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirement: F2.
A course that develops the ability to read and think critically, to employ discussion and writing as a means of exploring and refining ideas, and to express those ideas in effective prose. Individual sections of the course will explore different topics in reading, discussion, and writing. Topics are selected by individual professors and are designed to help students develop transferable skills of analysis and argumentation, applicable to the various disciplines of the liberal arts and sciences. Several papers will be required, at least one of which will involve use of the library and proper documentation. The seminar will emphasize successive stages of the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, and revision, and will provide feedback from classmates and the instructor. Students may not take both English 151 and English 155.

155. First-Year Writing Seminar: Daily Themes.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirement: F2.
An alternative to English 151 offered to outstanding first-year writers, by invitation only. The course is limited to 12 students who meet as a group once a week and individually with the instructor once a week. Students will turn in 5 one-page themes each week. Some research and writing will be required, and students will use their daily themes as the basis for two longer papers: one at mid-term and the other at the end of the semester. Students may not take both English 151 and English 155.

INTRODUCTORY AND ADVANCED WRITING COURSES

200. Introduction to Poetry Writing: Form, Theory, Workshop.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
A study of poetic form and theory, leading to a workshop in which students present their own poems for discussion.
Prerequisites: English 151 or the permission of the instructor.

201. Introduction to Fiction Writing: Form, Theory, Workshop.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
A study of narrative form and theory, leading to a workshop in which students present their own fiction for discussion.
Prerequisites: English 151 or the permission of the instructor.

203. Introduction to Dramatic Writing.
Fall. Credits: 4.
A study of the problems, vocabulary, and tools of writing for the stage. Workshop and presentation of scenes and short plays. Cross-listed with Theater 250.
Prerequisites: English 151 or the permission of the instructor.

204. Introduction to Screenwriting.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
An introduction to the basic three-act film structure. Students will read and view various screenplays and films, and develop their own film treatment into a full-length script.
Prerequisites: Must have taken a creative writing or film studies class.

300. Advanced Poetry Workshop I: Form.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Study of prosodic tradition, with an emphasis on the evolution of form as an organic process. Students will develop their own writing practices, both within received forms and by conceiving forms appropriate to their own styles. Study of poets in translation and those writing in English, across cultures and periods.
Prerequisites: English 200 and permission of the instructor.

301. Advanced Fiction Workshop I: Narrative Form.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Practice in the craft of fiction with an emphasis on elements of narrative form, including point of view, character development, plot, temporality, and tone. Includes study of narrative form and close readings of contemporary short fiction.
Prerequisites: English 201 and permission of the instructor.

310. Advanced Poetry Workshop II: Theory.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Students will work to develop their own poetry, and consider and discuss their own ideas on aesthetics, as they read and discuss theories of poetry. Study of selected essays, excerpts and letters by writers such as Aristotle, Berryman, Brooks, Coleridge, Eliot, Hass, Keats, Lawrence, Lowell, Olson, Pound, Rilke, Shelley, Stevens, Williams, and Wordsworth. Readings of selected poems in translation and in English, across cultures and periods.
Prerequisites: English 200 and permission of instructor.

311. Advanced Fiction Workshop II: Theory.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Practice in the craft of fiction with an emphasis on narrative theory and the historical development of the short story. Students will develop their own fiction while examining short fiction from all periods of the preceding century, thereby placing their own art within its historical context. Includes study of literary movements and narrative theory.
Prerequisites: English 201 and permission of instructor.

481-482. Senior Writing Project.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 0-2.
Enrollment by special application only. This is a two-semester course in which students create and assemble a substantial manuscript of writing in their major genre. Interested students will submit an application for entry into this course at the start of the senior year. See the Director of the Concentration in Literature and Creative Writing for information on the application process.

INTRODUCTORY LITERATURE COURSES

210. Interpreting Literature.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F2, F4.
An introduction to the process of reading critically and writing perceptively about literary works, with examples from the genres of poetry, drama, and narrative. Open to first-year and sophomore students only.

215. Focus on Literature.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
A component of the First-Year Learning Community program. Open only to program participants.

220. Topics in Women and Literature.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
A study of works written by or about women, this course is an opportunity to explore the distinct issues that women, their representations, and their writing raise. Possible topics: Women’s Autobiography, Contemporary Black Women Authors, and others. May be repeated once with different topic.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

221. The Novel of Manners.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
A study of the evolution of the genre of the novel of manners, from the nineteenth century to its modern practitioners. Authors include: Austen, James, Wharton. This course may be counted toward a Women’s Studies minor.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

224. Introduction to African-American Poetry in the United States.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
This course will introduce students to African-American Poetry in the United States based on a chronological study and background reading that will provide a context for African-American aesthetic practices. Students will engage in close readings of individual poems by Wheatley, Hammon, Harper, Johnson, Dunbar, Spencer, McKay, Toomer, Cullen, Brown, Hughes, Hayden, Brooks, Knight, Clifton, Komunyakaa, Dove, and others.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

225. Southern Literature.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
A study of literature written about the South, primarily but not exclusively Southern literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Authors likely to be studied include George Washington Harris, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

230. Shakespeare’s Major Plays.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
Selected plays from Shakespeare’s major works.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

235. World Drama.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
An introduction to the critical reading of dramatic texts, and to the various implications of the genre itself. The stage will be explored not only as the site for the enactment of literary themes but also as a cultural arena where the representation of cultural values and discourses becomes contested, subverted, reaffirmed, or celebrated. The issues will also be addressed in examining the translation of theater to film.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

260. Survey of British Literature I.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
Representative works of medieval, Renaissance, and 18th century literature. Specific content will vary with the instructor.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

261. Survey of British Literature II.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
Representative works of the 19th and 20th centuries. Specific content will vary with the instructor.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

262. Survey of American Literature.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
Representative works primarily from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Specific content will vary with the instructor.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

265. Special Topics.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
Recent topics have included the Modern Novella as well as other courses. Content may vary from year to year with the instructor. Course may be repeated as long as topics are different.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

275. Studies in Anglophone Literature.
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4.
An introductory course to English-language literatures from around the world. Theme will vary by year. Sample subjects: Nationalism and its Discontents, Trauma and Testimony, Literatures of Migrancy, “Others” and Outsiders in World Literature, Magic Realism, Booker Prizes/Booker Politics, and Cosmopolitanism. Students will examine Western and non-Western texts from a multiplicity of critical and transnational perspectives.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

ADVANCED LITERATURE COURSES

320. Medieval Literature.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
A study of representative works of medieval literature which may include works from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 15th century. Possible topics include: The Anglo-Saxons: Language, Literature, and Culture; The Arthurian World; Medieval Visionary Literature; Dante in Translation; the Pearl Poet; Langland and Chaucer; Women and Medieval Literature; and others. May be repeated once with different topic.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

322. Renaissance Poetry and Prose.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
A study of 16th and 17th century poetry and prose. Possible authors: Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Raleigh, Donne, Marvell, Herbert, Herrick, More, Bacon, Browne.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)

323. Renaissance Drama.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
A study of non-Shakespearean drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. Possible dramatists: Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Ford, Tourneur, Marston, Beaumont, Fletcher, Massinger. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.)
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

325. Chaucer.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
Chaucer’s major works.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)

332. Advanced Shakespeare Studies.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
Focused exploration of a critical problem in Shakespeare studies. The focus of the class will vary from semester to semester, but it will regularly include the study of six to eight works by Shakespeare as well as critical and historical texts. Sample subjects: Gender and its Representation; Shakespearean Historicism; Bad Shakespeare. Repeatable for credit with different subject.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. Majors only.

335. Milton.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
Milton’s major poetry and prose. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.)
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

336. Literature and Landscape, 1500-1800.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
This course investigates two closely related subjects: English literature’s response to changing ideas of nature and the landscape; and the response of designers of English landscapes and gardens to literature. Material studied will range from Shakespeare to Wordsworth, including both the acknowledged literary greats and lesser-known writers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

340. Restoration Literature.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
Literature, principally drama, of the Restoration and late seventeenth century. Authors include Dryden, Rochester, Wycherley, Etherege, Congreve, Otway, Farquhar, Behn, Vanbrugh.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

343. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
A course in British poetry, non-fiction prose and drama. In a given year, the course might offer either a complete survey of the period or a thematic focus. Areas of focus would include shifts in poetic sensibility, the growth of a national consciousness, the role of religion in literature, and the propagation of print culture. Authors include Montague, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Burney, Addison, Steele, and Cowper.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

345. Eighteenth-Century British Fiction.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
The eighteenth century saw the emergence of the novel in its modern form. As a result eighteenth-century novels are all, in different ways, experimental, testing and developing the strategies of narration that characterize realist fiction. The course will study a range of novels, as well as debates among critics who have tried to account for the rise of the novel during this period in history. Readings may include work by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollet, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

350. Romantic Poetry and Prose.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
A course in British poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose between 1780s and 1830s. Particular prominence will be given to historical and cultural changes in the period--movements of revolution and reaction--and the emergence or redefinition of aesthetic concepts. Writers include Barbauld, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and De Quincey.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

351. Victorian Poetry and Prose.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
The period 1837-1901 (the reign of Victoria) witnessed the industrial transformation of Britain as well as the often bitterly contested expansion of Britain’s global empire. Poets and essayists addressed this changing social landscape, and an expanding reading public often turned to their work for guidance in a changing world. This course will study major poems and essays of the period. Possible authors include Tennyson, Carlyle, Mill, Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Ruskin, Eliot, Pater, Wilde.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

355. Nineteenth-Century British Fiction.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
A study of major works, with particular attention to changes in reading habits and publishing practices that altered the shape of the novel during this period. Readings may include work by Austen, Scott, Dickens, Brontë, Thackeray, Collins, Eliot, Hardy, and Gissing.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

360. American Romanticism.
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
An advanced study of US poetry, fiction and non-fiction produced between 1820 and 1875. The course will trace the influence on the American imagination of British Romanticism and American Transcendentalism and also chart the rise of a distinctly American literary tradition. Course discussion will also address the political, historical, and cultural forces that shaped the writing of the period, as well as consider the lingering effects of Puritanism and Enlightenment philosophy. Authors may include Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson, and Stowe.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

361. American Realism and Naturalism.
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
An advanced study of literature - primarily novels and short stories - produced in post-Civil War America. Prompted by post-war disillusionment and the rapid and dramatic changes in American culture, this period saw the concurrent and overlapping emergence of realism and naturalism as well as an increased interest in a regionalist aesthetic. Authors may include Twain, Howells, Chesnutt, James, Jewett, Chopin, Crane, Norris, and Dreiser.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course.

362. American Modernism.
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
An advanced study of important US poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction produced between 1900 and 1945. The course will examine these works within the cultural dominant of modernism, which sought to articulate the urgent sense of dislocation and contemporaneity that characterized early twentieth-century experience. The course will ground its exploration of modernist stylistic and aesthetic innovations within the context of the prevailing philosophical, political, historical, and cultural realities of the period. Authors could include Frost, Dos Passos, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stevens, Cather, Hughes, Faulkner, and Welty.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course.

363. Topics in Twentieth-Century British Literature.
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
An in-depth examination of a specific topic pertaining to British literature and/or culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics may focus on specific periods, movements, genres or authors. Sample topics: Modernist Poetry, Multicultural British Literature, Postmodern British Literature, British Cultural Studies, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course or permission of the instructor. Course repeatable for credit with different topic.

364. African American Literature.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
A study of the works, mainly twentieth-century fiction, of black writers in America. Analysis of the artistic expression and vision of such writers as Chesnutt, Ellison, Hughes, Gaines, Brooks, Marshall, Walker, and Morrison will include an exploration of black aesthetics, as well as an investigation of the ways in which these authors treat personal, racial, historical, political, and gender-based issues.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

365. Twentieth-Century British Fiction.
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
A study of major works, with particular attention to literary modernism—its rise, reception, and wake—within the context of its cultural and socio-historical frameworks. Readings may include work by Conrad, Ford, Forster, Greene, Joyce, Lawrence, Rhys, Waugh, Woolf, and other authors from more recent decades.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

370. American Postmodernism and Beyond.
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
This course will examine fiction, poetry, and drama published between the years following World War II to the present day. The works will be read against the backdrop of the decline of modernism and European colonialism and the subsequent rise of postmodernism and its many attendant sub-movements. Authors could include Lowell, Ellison, Mailer, Bellow, Sexton, Pynchon, Barth, O’Connor, Updike, Oates, Roth, Morrison, and Wallace.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course. Majors only.

373. Developments in Contemporary Literature.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
A study of the emergence of new writers after 1945, with close analysis of poems, works of fiction and plays. May be repeated with different topic.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

375. Topics In Postcolonial Literature.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
This course investigates crucial contemporary issues in postcolonial literature and theory. Topics will vary by year, though each will explore various voices, relations, and movements that comprise the literature of the postcolonial Other. Sections might center on specific geopolitical regions (i.e. literatures of the Caribbean, Africa or South Asia), groups of writers (ie, postcolonial women and literature), genre (i.e. postcolonial poetry) or thematic concerns. Other sections might provide an overall introduction to postcolonial texts and theory.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. Repeatable for credit with different topic.

380. Topics in Literary Study.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
Exploration of special topics at a level designed for English majors. Content will vary from year to year. Course may be repeated for credit with a different topic.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.

385. Topics in Advanced Literary Study.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
The focused exploration of special topics or critical problems in literary study. Topics will vary from semester to semester, and may include the intensive study of major authors, literary genres or movements, historical contexts of imaginative expression, significant themes, or critical methodologies. Courses include the study of critical texts and issues that are central to defining and interpreting their literary topic. Seminar format. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. Majors only.

483-484. Senior Paper.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 0-2.
For majors in the literature concentration. An independent project in which students will produce a sustained work of literary criticism on a topic of their choosing.

485. Senior Seminar: Critical Theory and Methodology.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
An examination of selected developments in contemporary critical theory and their impact on the teaching and study of literature. Senior English majors only.
Prerequisites: English 385 or permission of instructor.

INTRODUCTORY AND ADVANCED FILM COURSES

202. Introduction to Cinema.
Fall. Credits: 4
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
This course introduces students to the critical tools involved in the analysis of moving-image media such as film, video, and television. Students will compose essays that demonstrate a historically informed grasp of cinema’s formal techniques and how these produce meaning for spectators.
Prerequisites: Eng. 151 or equivalent. All students must attend a weekly screening.

241. History and Criticism of American Cinema.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
This course introduces students to the history of American cinema as art and industry. Although Hollywood film provides the focus, the course may also examine independent cinema. Students will compose essays that demonstrate their grasp of film history and analysis.
Prerequisites: English 151 or equivalent.

242. World Film.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
A chronological survey of world film, focusing on the theoretical implications of developing technologies and changing social mores, and introducing the major critical approaches to a filmic text.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

245. Special Topics in Film.
Fall. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
An introductory film course open to all students. Special topics may include alternative cinema (non-fiction and experimental cinema); issues of race, gender, and class; genre studies (comedy, film noir, melodrama); and histories of various technologies and media (the advent of sound film, television, video). Course may be repeated for credit with a different topic.
Prerequisites: English 151 or permission of instructor.

381. Advanced Topics in Film.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
The focused exploration of a topic or genre that ties a body of films together in order to pursue issues of film criticism and theory in depth. Such topics as the following may be considered: gender and film, race and film, film adaptation, American genre films, the film auteur, screenplay writing. Includes the study of critical texts. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level film class or permission of instructor.

382. Film Theory.
Spring. Credits: 4.
Degree Requirements: Humanities.
The study of appropriate films in connection with a selection of theoretical texts that elaborate the problem of meaning in film. Films and readings will be roughly chronological. Requirements include mandatory attendance at film screenings, to occur outside of scheduled class hours.
Prerequisites: Any 200-level film class or permission of instructor.

SPECIAL COURSES

315. The English Language.
Spring. Credits: 4.
A survey of the historical development of English from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present, including a consideration of the concept of language, the Indo-European system, lexicography, and issues of American English. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2008-2009.)

399. Tutorial for Honors Candidates.
Spring. Credits: 1.
Junior English majors wishing to read for honors are required to enroll in a preparatory tutorial in the spring semester. Although required for honors, enrollment in this course does not guarantee acceptance into the Honors Program.

460. Internship.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4.
A directed internship in which students will apply analytical and writing skills learned in the classroom to situations in business, journalism, not for profit organizations, and the professions. (Pass/Fail credit only. English 460 does not satisfy an upper-level English course requirement for the major.)

465. Tutorial in One-to-One Writing Instruction.
Fall. Credits: 1.
Theoretical and applied study of one-to-one writing instruction.

495-496. Honors Tutorial.
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4-8, 4-8.
Satisfies the Senior Paper requirement. For seniors only.
Prerequisites: English 399.