Course Descriptions

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English Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
ENG 104 First-Year Composition I (4) Fall 2009
ENG 105 First-Year Composition II (4) Fall 2009
ENG 106 First-Year Composition III (4) Fall 2009
ENG 111 Reading Comprehension Laboratory (1-3) Effective Spring 1985
ENG 111 Variable topics:
  ENG 111 Reading Comprehension Laboratory (1) Spring 2008
  ENG 111 Reading Comprehension Laboratory (2) Spring 2008
  ENG 111 Reading Comprehension Laboratory (3) Spring 2008
ENG 112 Reading and Writing Techniques (1-2) Effective Spring 1980
ENG 112 Variable topics:
  ENG 112 Reading and Writing Techniques (1) Fall 2009
  ENG 112 Reading and Writing Techniques (2) Fall 1993
ENG 114 First Year Written Composition (3) Fall 2009
ENG 154 Masterworks of Literature in English (3) Fall 2009
ENG 155 Contemporary Literature (3) Effective Summer 2009
ENG 158 American Literature (3) Fall 2009
ENG 159 Beginning Shakespeare (3) Fall 2009
ENG 160 Narrative Analysis (3) Effective Summer 2009
ENG 160 Variable topics:
  ENG 160 The Vampire Tradition (3) Effective Summer 2009
ENG 200 Writing Logically (3) Fall 2007
ENG 201 Accelerated Academic English 1- Multilingual (4) Fall 2009
ENG 202 Accelerated Academic English II--Multilingual (4) Spring 2009
ENG 204 Effective Literacy Skills for College--Multilingual (3) Fall 2009
ENG 208 Grammar for Writing--Multilingual (3) Fall 2009
ENG 209 First Year Composition--Multilingual (3) Fall 2009
ENG 210 Oral Communication - Multilingual (3) Fall 2009
ENG 212 Advanced Grammar for Writing--Multilingual (3) Fall 2009
ENG 214 Second Year Written Composition - English (3) Fall 2009
ENG 230 Literature and Film (3) Spring 2009
ENG 260 Introduction to Science Fiction (3) Spring 2009
ENG 310 Second Year Composition--Multilingual (3) Fall 2009
ENG 312 Grammar/Editing Workshop I (1) Spring 2008
ENG 380 British and American Travellers to Greece (3) Effective Fall 2006
ENG 394 Fieldwork Portfolio (1) Fall 2009
ENG 395 Tutoring Portfolio (1) Fall 2009
ENG 397 The Journal (1) Fall 2009
ENG 398 Greek American Literature (3) Spring 2008
ENG 410 Elements of Writing-Multilingual (3) Fall 2009
ENG 411 Literature and Composition - Multilingual (3) Fall 2009
ENG 412 Grammar/editing Workshop - Multilingual (1) Spring 2009
ENG 414 Elements of Writing (3) Fall 2009
ENG 417 Academic Literacy and the Urban Adolescent (3) Fall 2009
ENG 419 Advanced Composition for Teachers (3) Spring 2009
ENG 420 Introduction to the Study of Language (3) Fall 2009
ENG 421 The Structure of English (3) Fall 2009
ENG 421 The Structure of English (3) Effective Spring 2010
ENG 422 History of the English Language (3) Spring 2009
ENG 424 Phonology and Morphology (3) Fall 2009
ENG 424 Phonology and Morphology (3) Effective Spring 2010
ENG 425 Language in Context (3) Fall 2009
ENG 425 Language in Context (3) Effective Spring 2010
ENG 426 Second Language Acquisition (3) Fall 2009
ENG 429 Stylistics (3) Spring 2008
ENG 429 Stylistics (3) Effective Spring 2010
ENG 430 Studies in Linguistics and the History of Language (3) Effective Spring 1981
ENG 432 Seminar in Immigrant Literacies and Community-Based Projects (3) Effective Fall 2008
ENG 451 Jewish Literature of the Americas (3) Spring 2009
ENG 460 Literature in English I: Beginnings to 17th Century (3) Fall 2009
ENG 461 Literature in English II: 18th and 19th Centuries (3) Fall 2009
ENG 462 Literature in English III: The Twentieth Century (3) Fall 2009
ENG 475 Fundamentals of Literary Analysis (3) Effective Summer 2009
ENG 480 GW Junior Seminar - GWAR (3) Fall 2009
ENG 480 GW Junior Seminar - GWAR (3) Effective Spring 2009
ENG 501 Age of Chaucer (3) Fall 2009
ENG 503 Studies in Medieval Literature (3) Effective Spring 1981
ENG 508 Studies in Seventeenth Century English Literature (3) Effective Spring 1980
ENG 508 Variable topics:
  ENG 508 17th Century Poets and Poetry (3) Fall 2007
ENG 509 Age of Humanism (3) Spring 2008
ENG 510 The Age of Wit (3) Summer 2009
ENG 512 Studies in Eighteenth Century English Literature (3-4) Effective Spring 1980
ENG 512 Variable topics:
  ENG 512 18th Century British Women Writers (3) Fall 2005
ENG 514 Age of the Romantics (3) Fall 2008
ENG 521 Studies in 20th Century English Literature (3) Effective Spring 1981
ENG 521 Variable topics:
  ENG 521 Contemporary British Fiction (3) Spring 2009
  ENG 521 Espionage Fiction (3) Spring 2009
ENG 524 Contemporary American Short Story (3) Fall 2009
ENG 525 Studies in American Literature (3) Effective Fall 1987
ENG 525 Variable topics:
  ENG 525 Bob Dylan (3) Fall 2009
  ENG 525 Modern American Mystics (3) Spring 2008
ENG 526 Age of the American Renaissance: 1830-1860 (3) Spring 2009
ENG 527 American Literature: 1860-1914 (3) Fall 2009
ENG 528 American Literature: 1914-1960 (3-4) Effective Fall 1996
ENG 528 American Literature: 1914-1960 (3) Fall 2009
ENG 533 Holocaust and Literature (3) Fall 2009
ENG 535 Literature and Ecology (3) Spring 2009
ENG 546 Twentieth Century American Jewish Women Writers (3) Fall 2009
ENG 550 The Rise of the Novel (3) Spring 2007
ENG 552 Modern British Novel (3) Fall 2008
ENG 553 Classic American Novel (3) Spring 2009
ENG 554 Modern American Novel (3) Fall 2008
ENG 555 The Short Story (3) Fall 2009
ENG 557 Modern British Poetry (3) Spring 2008
ENG 558 Early Twentieth Century Poetry in the United States (3) Fall 2009
ENG 559 Middle and Late Twentieth Century Poetry in the United States (3) Spring 2009
ENG 565 The Short Story: Global Literature in English (3) Fall 2009
ENG 571 Shakespeare's Rivals (3) Effective Fall 2009
ENG 573 American Drama (3) Spring 2009
ENG 580 Individual Authors (3-5) Effective Spring 1980
ENG 580 Variable topics:
  ENG 580 Aphra Behn (3) Spring 2005
  ENG 580 Beckett and Company (3) Effective Spring 2009
  ENG 580 Blake and Wordsworth (3) Effective Winter 2010
  ENG 580 Donne: Secular or Saintly? (4) Effective Spring 1993
  ENG 580 E. M. Forster and Evelyn Waugh (3) Fall 1990
  ENG 580 Edith Wharton (3) Effective Spring 1992
  ENG 580 Emily Dickinson (3) Summer 2009
  ENG 580 Emily Dickinson (5) Fall 1993
  ENG 580 Eudora Welty (3) Effective Fall 1984
  ENG 580 Ezra Pound and W. B. Yeats (5) Fall 1992
  ENG 580 Faulkner and Wright (3) Fall 2008
  ENG 580 George Bernard Shaw (3) Spring 1991
  ENG 580 Hardy and Dickens (3) Fall 1990
  ENG 580 Hemingway (5) Spring 1992
  ENG 580 Hurston and Hughes (3) Spring 2009
  ENG 580 James Baldwin and Langston Hughes: Kings of the Blues (3) Fall 2007
  ENG 580 James Joyce (3) Fall 2008
  ENG 580 Jane Austen (3) Spring 2009
  ENG 580 Jane Austen (4) Fall 1992
  ENG 580 John Donne (3) Spring 1991
  ENG 580 John Steinbeck (3) Spring 2007
  ENG 580 Joseph Conrad (3) Spring 2005
  ENG 580 Joyce and Hemingway: Short Stories (3) Fall 2005
  ENG 580 Lowell, Plath, and Roethke (3) Fall 1986
  ENG 580 Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop (3) Spring 2005
  ENG 580 Mark Twain (5) Fall 1992
  ENG 580 Marlowe and Webster (3) Fall 2005
  ENG 580 Melville (3) Fall 2001
  ENG 580 Nabokov and His Followers (3) Fall 2006
  ENG 580 Nathaniel Hawthorne/Herman Melville (3) Spring 1993
  ENG 580 Samuel Johnson and James Boswell (3) Fall 1993
  ENG 580 Sidney, Spenser, Jonson, Donne (3) Effective Spring 1987
  ENG 580 Stephen Crane and Realism (3) Spring 1991
  ENG 580 T. S. Eliot (3) Spring 2006
  ENG 580 Tennessee Williams: Plays (3) Fall 1991
  ENG 580 The Gawain Poet (3) Fall 1990
  ENG 580 Virginia Woolf (3) Spring 2008
  ENG 580 W. B. Yeats (3) Fall 2006
  ENG 580 Willa Cather (3) Spring 1991
  ENG 580 William Blake (3) Spring 2007
  ENG 580 William Faulkner (3) Fall 2004
  ENG 580 Williams and Pound (3) Spring 1987
  ENG 580 Wordsworth and Keats (3) Spring 2001
ENG 583 Shakespeare: Representative Plays (3-5) Effective Fall 1989
ENG 583 Shakespeare: Representative Plays (3) Fall 2009
ENG 584 Shakespeare-Selected Plays (3) Spring 2009
ENG 589 Milton (3) Effective Summer 2009
ENG 600 Theory of Literature (3) Spring 2009
ENG 601 Literature and Psychology (3) Spring 2009
ENG 602 Literature and Society (3) Spring 2009
ENG 603 Literature and the History of Ideas (3) Spring 2007
ENG 607 The Comic View in Literature (3) Effective Spring 1981
ENG 607 Variable topics:
  ENG 607 Satire: Swift to Woody Allen (3) Fall 1990
ENG 608 The Tragic View in Literature (3) Effective Spring 1981
ENG 608 Variable topics:
  ENG 608 Tragic Themes--20th Century Literature (3) Spring 1987
ENG 610 History of Criticism (3) Fall 1987
ENG 611 Modern Criticism (3) Summer 2009
ENG 612 Studies in the Theory and Criticism of Literature (3) Effective Spring 1981
ENG 612 Variable topics:
  ENG 612 Literary Translation (3) Effective Fall 1990
  ENG 612 Serial Narrative (3) Fall 2009
ENG 613 Feminist Literary Criticism (3) Fall 2008
ENG 614 Women in Literature: Authors and Characters (3) Effective Spring 1981
ENG 614 Variable topics:
  ENG 614 First Sexual Revolution: 1880-1940 (3) Fall 1991
  ENG 614 Women in Literature (3) Fall 2009
ENG 615 Imagery, Metaphor, and Symbol (3) Spring 2009
ENG 630 Selected Studies (3-5) Effective Spring 1980
ENG 630 Variable topics:
  ENG 630 18th and 19th Century British Women Novelists (3) Fall 1986
  ENG 630 American Poetic Tradition: Whitman to Frost (3) Fall 2007
  ENG 630 Bible as Literature (3) Effective Summer 2009
  ENG 630 Detective Fiction (3) Spring 2008
  ENG 630 John Barth & John Hawkes: Contemporary Novel (3) Spring 1987
  ENG 630 Literature and Body (3) Spring 2008
  ENG 630 Literature of Cross-Cultural Love in Africa and the Caribbean (3) Effective Summer 2007
  ENG 630 Literature of Labor (3) Fall 2008
  ENG 630 Literature of the Workplace (3) Fall 1986
  ENG 630 London in Literature (3) Spring 2008
  ENG 630 Medieval Love Literature (3) Effective Spring 2000
  ENG 630 New World Encounters in English Renaissance Literature (3) Spring 2008
  ENG 630 Religious Themes in Contemporary Literature (3) Fall 1989
  ENG 630 Shakespeare History Plays and the War of the Roses (3) Effective Fall 1991
  ENG 630 The Bible and the English/American Literary Tradition (3) Spring 2009
  ENG 630 The Impact of Print (3) Effective Fall 1982
  ENG 630 Visionary Child in Literature (4) Spring 1993
  ENG 630 Women's Diaries and Letters (3) Effective Fall 1988
ENG 631 Post-Colonial Literature in English (3) Summer 2009
ENG 632 The Literature of Exile and Migration (3) Spring 2009
ENG 633 Gay Love in Literature (3-4) Effective Fall 1993
ENG 633 Gay Love in Literature (3) Spring 2009
ENG 636 Greek and Roman Myth and Modern Literature (3) Effective Summer 2009
ENG 637 Experimental Novel: 1950-1980