English Department

English Department Course Offerings

The English Department offers a variety of courses to meet major, degree, and USP requirements. Select a list on this page to learn which classes we are offering next semester to meet each set of requirements. This page also provides specific topic information not found in TitanWeb, like descriptions of Optional Content topics for English major courses and themes for WRT 188 courses.  

You may visit the Bulletin for full course descriptions and visit TitanWeb for the most up-to-date information about class days, times, instructors, and locations. For more information about the English Department’s programs, requirements, and other advising information, you may view the 2023-2024-English Major Handbook.

Fall 2023

Liberal Arts Major

Core Courses

ENG 281 LOOKER-KOENIGS – Introduction to English Studies

ENG 381 K. KLEIN – Foundations of Literary Criticism

ENG 481 DINGLEDINE – Moby Dick; or, The Whale

Area A1 English Literary Tradition Before 1700

ENG 347 ROTH – Shakespeare I

Area A2 English Literary Tradition After 1700

No offering this semester

Area A3 American Literary Tradition

ENG 374 FELDMAN – American Romanticism

Area A4 Literature by American Ethnic Writers and/or Post-Colonial Writers

ENG 358/558 COLE Postcolonial Literature (OC): NATIONALISM, REBELLION, AND DECOLONIZATION IN MODERN IRISH LITERATURE

Despite Ireland’s almost 400-year occupation by the British (not to mention the waves of invaders that preceded them – the Vikings in the 9th century and the Normans in the 12th, for instance), Irish literature is not always thought of as “postcolonial.” Focusing on the literature of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Ireland, this course will examine works written in the lead-up to the 1922 establishment of the Irish Free State, in its immediate aftermath, and in the more than hundred years since, with a view to investigating how the specter of being invaded, occupied, and/or colonized has haunted and continues to haunt the Irish imagination. The works we will study – in poetry, drama, prose fiction, and film – range from coming-of-age stories to political fantasies to tales of love and revenge (and sometimes all three at once), and while we certainly will attend to their specific differences in genre and technique, we will always do so with a view to interrogating the crucial role that the presence and memory of colonization by and conflict with Britain plays in shaping their aesthetic approaches.

Area B Rhetoric/Linguistics

ENG 207 OCHONICKY – Introduction to Professional Writing

ENG 301/501 HOSTETLER – Modern Grammars

Area C Creative Writing

ENG 204 SANDERS – Introduction to Creative Writing

ENG 305/505 ANIMASHAUN – Creative Writing: Poetry I

Area D Specialized Literary or Cultural Studies

ENG/WGS 391 LANDRY – Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Literature (OC)

ENG/WGS 403 U. KLEIN – Feminist Thought and Practice

 

 

Secondary Education Major

Core Courses

ENG 281 LOOKER-KOENIGS – Introduction to English Studies

ENG 381 K. KLEIN – Foundations of Literary Criticism

ENG 481 DINGLEDINE – Moby Dick; or, The Whale

Area A1 English Literary Tradition

No offering this semester

Area A2 American Literary Tradition

ENG 374  FELDMAN – American Romanticism

Area A3 Shakespeare

ENG 347/547 ROTH – Shakespeare I

Area A4 Literature by American Ethnic Writers and/or Post-Colonial Writers

ENG 358/558 COLE – Postcolonial Literature (OC): NATIONALISM, REBELLION, AND DECOLONIZATION IN MODERN IRISH LITERATURE

Despite Ireland’s almost 400-year occupation by the British (not to mention the waves of invaders that preceded them – the Vikings in the 9th century and the Normans in the 12th, for instance), Irish literature is not always thought of as “postcolonial.” Focusing on the literature of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Ireland, this course will examine works written in the lead-up to the 1922 establishment of the Irish Free State, in its immediate aftermath, and in the more than hundred years since, with a view to investigating how the specter of being invaded, occupied, and/or colonized has haunted and continues to haunt the Irish imagination. The works we will study – in poetry, drama, prose fiction, and film – range from coming-of-age stories to political fantasies to tales of love and revenge (and sometimes all three at once), and while we certainly will attend to their specific differences in genre and technique, we will always do so with a view to interrogating the crucial role that the presence and memory of colonization by and conflict with Britain plays in shaping their aesthetic approaches.

Area B Rhetoric/Linguistics

ENG 301/501 HOSTETLER – Modern Grammars

Area C Creative Writing

ENG 204 SANDERS – Introduction to Creative Writing

ENG 305 ANIMASHAUN – Creative Writing: Poetry I

Area D Specialized Literary or Cultural Studies

ENG/WGS  391 LANDRY – Queer, Trans and Non-Binary Literature (OC)

ENG/WGS 403 U. KLEIN – Feminist Thought and Practice

AREA E Young Adult Literature

ENG 223 ROTH – Young Adult Literature

Writing and Explore Courses

WRT 188 and Topic (Descriptions Coming Soon)

Section 001 VIELBIG – IK 

Section 002 MCCABE -IK

Section 003 MCCABE – IK

Section 004 VIELBIG – IK

Section 005 BOEHLER -IK

Section 006 MCCABE – IK

Section 007 WIRKUS – S

Section 008 ANIMASHAUN – IK

Section 009 DONATH – CL 

Section 010 SAGER – CL 

Section 011 HENSON – CL: Remembering the Holocaust: Representing Genocide in Memoir, Fiction, and Film

Section 012 WIRKUS – S UNPAIRED

Section 013 HENSON – CL: Remembering the Holocaust: Representing Genocide in Memoir, Fiction, and Film

Section 014 DONATH – CL 

Section 015 WIRKUS – CL

Section 016 SAGER – CL

Section 017 VIELBIG – IK

Section 018 SAGER – CL

Section 019 SANDERS – S: Sustainable Technology

Section 020 JAHNS – S 

Section 021 JAHNS – S UNPAIRED

Section 022 DUHATSCHEK – S

Section 023 HOSTETLER – IK UNPAIRED

Section 024 SNYDER – S

Section 025 BAKER – IK UNPAIRED

Section 026 DUHATSCHEK – S 

Section 027 DUHATSCHEK – S

Section 028 SANDERS – S: Sustainable Technology

 

Quest Courses

ENG 151Q1 BOEHLER – British Literature to the 18th Century

ENG 154Q1 MCCABE – American Literature After the Civil War

ENG 170Q1 DUHATSCHEK – Young Adult Lit and Our World

ENG 247Q2 ROTH – Introduction to Shakespeare – S

 

Explore: Culture XC

ENG 151Q1 BOEHLER – British Literature to the 18th Century

ENG 154Q1 MCCABE – American Literature After the Civil War

ENG 170Q1 DUHATSCHEK – Young Adult Lit and Our World

ENG 207 OCHONICKY – Introduction to Professional Writing

ENG 214 DUNCKEL – American Literature II

ENG 218 ANIMASHAUN – Introduction to Multi Ethnic Literature

ENG 219 TBD – African American Literature

ENG 224 KLEIN – Women In Literature

ENG 224 WILLIAMSON-EMMERT – Women in Literature

ENG 225 PESTA – Modern British Literature

ENG 226 FELDMAN – Modern American Literature

ENG 226 BAYBROOK – Modern American Literature

ENG 227 PESTA – Modern World Literature (OC)

ENG 228 FELDMAN – Honors: Modern American Literature

ENG 229 DINGLEDINE – Honors: African American Literature

ENG 243 RINDO – Introduction to nature Writing

ENG 247Q2 ROTH – Introduction to Shakespeare

 

 

Explore: Ethnic Studies

ENG 218 ANIMASHAUN – Introduction to Multi Ethnic Literature

ENG 219 TBD – African American Literature

ENG 229 DINGLEDINE – Honors: African American Literature

ENG 319 TBD – African American Literature II (OC)

 

Explore: Global Citizenship

ENG 227 PESTA – Modern World Literature (OC)

ENG 243 RINDO – Introduction to nature Writing

Graduate Courses
** Italics Indicate Optional Content Courses. Descriptions Coming Soon.

ENG 501 HOSTETLER Modern Grammars

ENG 505 ANIMASHAUN – Creative Writing: Poetry I

ENG 547 ROTH Shakespeare I

ENG 558 COLE Postcolonial Literature (OC)

ENG 709 BAKER Seminar in Creative Writing (Autobiography)

 

 

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