English Undergraduate Course Descriptions

Below is the list of English courses, their titles, and their official university course descriptions which have been approved for inclusion in the General Education Curriculum being implemented in the Fall 2006 semester.

Note that we have many new courses, and all of our existing courses have now been renumbered to conform with the numbering system established by the Office of Undergraduate Curricula.

New #	Old #	Title	Catalog Description
050	006E	Multimedia North Carolina	Each student will complete a service-learning internship and compose a multimedia documentary about the experience using original text, photos, audio, and video.
052	006M	Computers and English Studies	How do computers change the study literature? How do images tell stories? How is writing evolving through photo essays, collages, and digital video? We investigate these and related questions.
053	006N	Slavery and Freedom in African American Literature and Film	The seminar's purpose is to explore the African American slave narrative tradition from its nineteenth-century origins in autobiography to its present manifestations in prize-winning fiction and film.
054		The War to End All Wars?: The First World War and the Modern World	Examination of literary and cinematic works that expose the cultural impact World War I had on contemporary and future generations.
056		Projections of Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction and Film	The course covers a range of fictions about colonialism and its aftermath, exploring both narrative and filmic depictions of empire and its legacies.
057		Future Perfect: Science Fictions and Social Form	"Future Perfect" is a first year seminar that will investigate the forms and cultural functions of science fiction.
058		The Doubled Image: Photography in U.S. Latina/o Short Fiction	Course will examine the aesthetic and cultural functions and implications of textual images of photography and photographs in U.S. Latina/o short stories from the 1960s to the present.
063		Banned Books	This course will focus on issues of intellectual freedom and censorship, with particular attention to the ways in which these issues are radicalized.
064		Ethics and Children's Literature	An investigation of how the tradition of children's books addresses and negotiates central questions of existence and conduct, focusing on the ways ethical problems are formed in such literature.
065		The Sonnet	In this seminar students read over a hundred sonnets, learn the sonnet's different forms, and relate them to the cultural environments in which they were written over the past four centuries. Studies memorize sonnets and write their own sonnets. Poets who have written sonnets visit the class regularly. Students write an extended term paper on a sonnet-sequence of their own selection.
066		William Butler Yeats and Irish Independence	A consideration of Yeats's poetry, plays, and political activities in relation to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 and its aftermath.
067		Travel Literature	Students will read examples of several kinds of travel literature, e.g. voyage, pilgrimage, exploration, tour, and mission. Special attention to North Carolina as a tourist venue.
068		Radical American Writers, 1930-1960	The evolution of leftist American literature from the Depression through the early Cold War. Authors include Mary McCarthy, Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, and others.
070		Courtly Love--Then and Now	Study of the medieval concept of Courtly Love, tracing its classical antecedents, its expression in Renaissance literature (especially Shakespeare), and its influence in modern culture.
071		Doctors and Patients	This course explores the human struggle to make sense of suffering and debility. Texts are drawn from literature, anthropology, film, art history, philosophy, and biology.
074		Epic/Anti-Epic in Western Literature	In this course, we will study epic and anti-epic strains in Western literature, reading key texts in the epic tradition from Homer and Virgil through the twentieth century in light of various challenges to that tradition and tensions within it.
075		Interpreting the South from Manuscripts	This course gives beginning university students the requisite research skills to allow them to appreciate and to contribute to an understanding of the past by directly experiencing and interpreting records from the past. Students will work with historical documents, some more than 200 years old.
076		Decadence, Nihilism and Aestheticism: 1870-1910	This course will explore four writers of this period in order to examine a range of responses to what each writer saw as a crisis in the West's ability to provide both a prosperous and a meaningful life for all people.
077		Seeing the Past	This course will introduce students to practices of critical analysis that inform academic work in all the core humanistic disciplines: how do we ask analytical questions about texts, artwork, and other cultural artifacts that come down to us from the past or circulate in our own culture?
079		Globalization/Global Asians	This course will explore the concept of globalization by focusing on the Asian diaspora, particularly the artistic and cultural productions that document, represent, and express Global Asians.
080		Southern Women's Rhetoric	Narratives of women spies, social reformers, missionaries, teachers, blockade runners, and escapees from slavery help uncover persuasive strategies used to challenge the limited roles to which women were assigned.
084		Into the West	We'll explore fiction as a particular form of cultural narrative and think about its deployment in the construction of a core American identity--the cowboy.
085		Economic Saints & Villains: The Entrepreneurial Spirit in Early English Literature	Our objective throughout will be to analyze how literary art, itself a form of economic activity, simultaneously demonizes and celebrates the "miracle of the marketplace" and those financial pioneers that perform its magic.
086		The Cities of Modernism	This course is a cross-cultural and intermedial exploration of the imagery of the Great City in high modernist works of literature, art, and film.
087		Jane Austen: Then and Now	This course focuses on the fiction of Jane Austen and its representations in film.
088		The Legacy of the Japanese American Internment: from World War II to 9/11	This course will explore stories about the Japanese American internment from first person memoirs to contemporary fiction. We will also examine the ramifications, historic and legal, of the internment post-9/11.
089		First-Year Seminar: Special Topics	Topics vary by semester.
100	010	Basic Writing	Required for incoming students with Verbal SAT of 470 or lower. Provides frequent practice in writing, from short paragraphs to longer papers, focusing on analysis and argument. Workshop format.
101	011	English Composition and Rhetoric	Required of all students except those exempted by placement tests. Students practice the writing conventions that define social, cultural, and professional communities. Up to nine papers, including research projects.
102	012	English Composition and Rhetoric	Required of all students except those exempted by placement tests. Students practice the writing conventions that define various academic disciplines. Up to nine papers, including research projects.
102I		English Composition and Rhetoric (Interdisciplinary)	Required of all students except those exempted by placement tests. Students practice the writing conventions that define selected academic disciplines. Up to nine papers, including research projects.
120	020	British Literature, Medieval to 18th Century	Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose.
121	021	British Literature, 19th and Early 20th Century	This course, or English 150, is required of English majors. Sophomore seminar focusing on later British Literature. Students learn methods of literary study and writing about literature.
122		Introduction to American Literature	Representative authors from the time of European colonization of the New World through the twentieth century.
123	023	Introduction to Fiction	Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others.
124	024	Contemporary Literature	Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation.
125	025	Introduction to Poetry	Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. A course designed to develop basic skills in reading poems from all periods of English and American literature.
126	026	Introduction to Drama	Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Drama of the Greek, Renaissance, and Modern periods.
127		Writing About Literature	This course emphasizes literature, critical thinking, and the writing process. Students learn how thinking, reading, and writing relate to one another by studying poetry, fiction, drama, art, music, and film.
128	028	Major American Authors	A study of approximately six major American authors drawn from Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Whitman, Clemens, Dickinson, Chesnutt, James, Eliot, Stein, Hemingway, O'Neill, Faulkner, Hurston, or others.
129	022	Literature and Cultural Diversity	Studies in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Native American, Anglo-Indian, Caribbean, Gay-Lesbian, and other literatures written in English.
130	023W	Introduction to Fiction Writing	A course in reading and writing fiction. Close study of a wide range of short stories; emphasis on technical problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises and stories.
131	025W	Introduction to Poetry Writing	A course in reading and writing poems. Close study of a wide range of published poetry and of poetic terms and techniques. Composition, discussion and revision of original student poems.
132H	029W	First Year Honors: Introduction to Fiction Writing	Close study of the craft of the short story and novella through a wide range of reading, with emphasis on technical strategies. Class discussion of student exercises and stories.
133H		First Year Honors: Introduction to Poetry Writing	Close study of a wide range of published poems and of the basic terms and techniques of poetry. Composition and discussion and revision of a number of original poems.
134H	029B	First Year Honors: Women's Lives	Focuses on women's life writing, including autobiography, biography, autoethnography, personal essay. Includes theories of life writing. Students will read contemporary works in each genre and write their own versions.
135H	029	First Year Honors: Types of Literature	Freshman honors students only. Study of literary forms (epic, drama, lyric, novel), beginning in the fall term and concluding in the spring, with three hours credit for each term. Students should consult the assistant dean for honors or the English Department for offerings.
139		Currents in Sexuality Studies	This course provides a systematic introduction to the field of sexuality studies, using a broad range of disciplinary perspectives to study human sexuality in its various functions and forms.
140	022Q	Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Culture and Literature	Introduces students to concepts in queer theory and recent sexuality studies. Topics include queer lit, AIDS, race and sexuality, representations of gays and lesbians in the media, political activism/literature.
141		World Literatures in English	This course will be a basic introduction to literatures in English from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Anglophone literary traditions.
142	042	Film Analysis	This course offers an introduction to the technical, formal, and narrative elements of the cinema.
143		Film and Culture	Examines the ways culture shapes and is shaped by film. This course uses comparative methods to contrast films as historic or contemporary, mainstream or cutting-edge, English or a foreign language, etc.
144		Popular Genres	Introductory course on popular literary genres. Students will read and discuss works in the area of mystery, romance, westerns, science fiction, children's literature, and horror fiction.
145		Literary Genres	Studies in genres including drama, poetry, prose fiction, or nonfiction prose, examining form, comparing that genre to others (including popular genres), placing works within a tradition or a critical context.
146		Science Fiction/Fantasy/Utopia	Readings in and theories of science fiction, utopian and dystopian literatures, and fantasy fiction.
147		Mystery Fiction	Studies in classic and contemporary mystery and detective fiction.
148		Horror	From its origins in Gothic and pre-Gothic literatures and arts, this course examines the complexities and pleasures of Horror. Topics include psychology, aesthetics, politics, allegory, ideology, and ethics.
150	`	Introductory Seminar in Literary Studies	This course, or English 121, is required for English majors. English 150 introduces students to methods of literary study. Students learn to read and interpret a range of literary works, develop written and oral arguments about literature, and conduct literary research.
190	027	Introduction to Literary Studies	Introduces students to the field of literary studies while emphasizing a single writer, group, movement, theme, or period. Students conduct research, develop readings, and compose literary interpretations.
206	034	Intermediate Fiction Writing	Prerequisite, English 130 or 132H and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. Substantial practice in those techniques employed in introductory course. A workshop devoted to the extensive writing of fiction (at least two short stories), with an emphasis on style, structure, dramatic scene, and revision.
207	034P	Intermediate Poetry Writing	Prerequisite, English 131 or 133H and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. An intensification of the introductory class. A workshop devoted to close examination of selected exemplary poems and the students' own poetry, with an emphasis on regular writing and revising.
208	035N	Reading and Writing Creative Non-Fiction	Prerequisite, English 130, 131, 132H, or 133H and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. A course in reading and writing creative non-fiction, focusing on three of its most important forms: the personal essay, nature writing, and travel writing.
209	039	Writing Children's Literature	Prerequisite, English 130, 131, 132H, or 133H and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. A course in reading and writing children’s fiction, focusing on five important forms: folk tale, fairy tale, picture book, young adult, and biography.
210		Writing Young Adult Literature	Prerequisite, English 130, 131, 132H, or 133H and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. A course in reading and writing young adult fiction, with a focus on the crafting of a novel.
225	058	Shakespeare	A survey of representative comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances by William Shakespeare.
226	045	Renaissance Drama	A survey of Renaissance drama focusing on contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
227	054	Literature of the Earlier Renaissance	Poetry and prose of the earlier Renaissance, including More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Bacon, and Marlowe.
228	060	Literature of the Later Renaissance	Poetry and prose from the late Elizabethan years through the "century of revolution" into the Restoration period after 1660: Donne, Jonson, Bacon, Herbert, Burton, Browne, Marvell, Herrick, and others.
229	049B	Renaissance Women Writers	This course introduces students to a variety of renaissance English texts authored by women. Topics include historical perspectives on women and gender and methodological approaches to renaissance feminist study.
230	064	Milton	A study of Milton's prose and poetry in the extraordinary context of seventeenth-century philosophy, politics, religion, science, and poetics, and against the backdrop of the English Civil War.
246		Introduction to American Indian Literatures	Students will develop a working knowledge of American Indian cultural concepts and historical perspectives utilizing poetry, history, personal account, short stories, films, and novels.
260		Creative Reading	Practice of “close reading” over a diverse selection of novels, short stories, and lyric poems. Intended for students who have declared, or who will soon declare the English major.
261	090	An Introduction to Literary Criticism	An introduction to literary criticism in English studies, with an emphasis on historical developments from Plato to the present.
262		Literature and Cultural Difference	Studies in the diversity within and between African American, Asian American, Latina/o, Native American, Anglo-Indian, Caribbean , GLBTQ, feminist, proletarian, and other literatures in English. Intended for English majors.
263	050	Literature and Gender	Intensive study, focused on gender issues, of criticism and writing.
264		Literature and Sexuality	A literary and cultural critical examination of the role sex plays within the creation, consumption, and regulation of literature.
265	090C	Literature and Race, Literature and Ethnicity	Considers texts in a comparative ethnic/race studies framework and examines how these texts explore historical and contemporary connections between groups of people in the United States and the Americas.
266		Science and Literature	Introductory exploration of the relation between science and literature, as well as the place and value of both in the contemporary world.
268		Medicine, Literature, and Culture	An introduction to key topics that focus on questions of representation at the intersections of medicine, literature, and culture.
278		Irish Writing, 1800-2000	This course introduces major texts and current themes, from Joyce to the postcolonial, in Irish writing from 1800 to 2000.
279		The Irish Literary Revival	We will examine the roots and development of the Irish Literary Revival, in the work of Yeats, Joyce, Lady Gregory and Shaw, from 1890 to 1930.
280		The Western	This course offers a broad overview of the western as a literary and especially cinematic genre.
281		Literature and Media	This course investigates the rich and complex relationship between literature and other mass media.
282		Travel Literature	Students will analyze various types of travel literature, such as voyage, pilgrimage, and tour, in terms of literary conventions, historical conditions, and considerations of gender, ethnicity, economics, empire, and religion.
283		Life Writing	Exploration of different forms of life writing such as autobiography, biography, and autoethnography. Readings will include theories of autobiography and selected literature.
284	039B	Reading Children's Literature	An overview of the tradition of children's literature, considering the ways those books point to our basic assumptions about meaning, culture, self, society, gender, economics.
285		Classical Backgrounds in English Literature	A survey of Greek and Roman epic and lyric poetry, literary criticism, and philosophy designed for the undergraduate English major.
286		Nature Writing	Introduction to the field of "nature writing" surveys historical periods, authors, and a variety of genre; cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary; study "classics" in the field.
287	091C	Another Country: Homoeroticism in British Literature	This course will examine themes of homoeroticism, gender identity, class relations and the changes in cultural norms precipitated by World War I in literary works by British men.
288		Literary Modernism	In this class we'll read early 20th century poetry, fiction, films, and criticism, and consider the ways these works constituted, defined, and challenged the phenomenon known as literary Modernism.
289	049J	Jewish-American Literature & Culture of the Twentieth Century	Through readings in a wide range of genres, this course will examine major factors and influences shaping Jewish American literature and culture in the twentieth century.
290		Children's Picture Books: Text and Illustration	An investigation of children's picture books within the context of illustrated texts in Britain and America.
300	030	Advanced Expository Writing	Advanced practice with critical, argumentative, and analytic writing, including forms of the essay. Special attention to style, voice, and genre.
300I	030I	Advanced Expository Writing (Interdisciplinary)	Advanced practice with critical, argumentative, and analytic writing, including the essay. Special attention to writing in the disciplines of life and applied sciences, social sciences (including business), and humanities.
301		Advanced Expository Writing for the Humanities	Advanced practice with the oral and written discourse of the humanities. Special attention to disciplinary rhetoric, style, genre, format, and citation.
302		Advanced Expository Writing for the Social Sciences	Advanced practice with the oral and written discourse of the social sciences. Special attention to disciplinary rhetoric, style, genre, format, and citation.
303	033	Advanced Expository Writing for the Natural Sciences	Advanced practice with the oral and written discourse of the natural sciences. Special attention to disciplinary rhetoric, style, genre, format, and citation.
304	032	Advanced Expository Writing for Business	Advanced practice with business and professional oral and written discourse. Special attention to disciplinary rhetoric, style, genre, format, and citation.
305		Advanced Expository Writing for Law	Advanced practice with legal oral and written discourse. Special attention to disciplinary rhetoric, style, genre, format, and citation.
306		Playwriting	Prerequisite, ENGL 130, 131, 132H, or 133H and permission of the Program Director. A workshop for people interested in writing plays, focusing on elements that make them work on stage, such as: characterization, climax, dialogue, exposition, momentum, setting, and visual effects.
307	047W	Studies in Fiction: Style and Stylistics	Permission of the Program Director required. Creative writing minors only. Close study of language and grammar as tools of style. Numerous short exercises. Collaborative development and production of a language-arts show based on original exercises.
313	036	Grammar of Current English	An introductory course in descriptive English linguistics that studies the sounds, word-building processes, and sentence structures of current English as well as general notions of correctness and variation.
314	038	History of the English Language	A study of the development of English from its Proto-Indo-European origins to Modern English, with emphasis on how events and contacts with other languages influenced the vocabulary of English.
315	094A	English in the USA	A historical and critical examination of regional, social, and stylistic variation in English in the United States, including correctness, legal and educational issues, and the influence of mass media.
316		Rhetorical Traditions	This course examines histories of rhetorical theory and practice. Students will develop original research projects that expand our understanding of rhetorical traditions. Historical periods, critical perspectives, genres, and topics will vary.
319	051	Introduction to Medieval English Literature, excluding Chaucer	An introduction to English literature from the eighth century to the fifteenth, focusing on the primary works of Old English and Middle English literature.
320	052	Chaucer	An introduction to Chaucer's major poetry: Troilus and Criseyde, the "dream" poems (e.g., Parliament of Fowls), and The Canterbury Tales.
321		Medieval and Modern Arthurian Romance	Representative examples of Arthurian literature from the Middle Ages and nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with some attention to film, art, and music.
322		Medieval England and its Literary Neighbors	A study of the external literary influences which shaped Old and Middle English, notably the vernacular literatures of England's Celtic neighbors (Wales, Brittany, Scotland, and Ireland) and/or France.
325		Shakespeare and his Contemporaries	This course explores the wide range of drama produced in England between the 1570's and 1640's including work by Shakespeare and his many rivals.
326		Renaissance Genres	This course traces the historical evolution/devolution of renaissance literary genres. Each offering will focus on a single generic kind or set of kinds.
327		Renaissance Literature and its Intellectual Contexts	A focused study of one or two intellectual movements of the Renaissance through the literary and non-literary texts of the period.
328		Renaissance Authors	This course involves the detailed study of a substantial author of the English Renaissance, such as Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, Bacon, Jonson, Donne, Browne, or Herbert.
330		Perspectives on the Renaissance	Students will study Renaissance literature while assessing the usefulness and status of a theoretical approach, such as feminist theory, queer theory, cultural materialism, new historicism, or psychoanalytic theory.
331	066	Eighteenth-Century Literature	A survey of British literature from Dryden to Paine.
332	065	Eighteenth-Century Drama	A survey of Restoration and eighteenth-century drama from Etheredge to Sheridan
333	043	Eighteenth-Century Fiction	A survey of eighteenth-century fiction from Behn to Austen
338		Nineteenth-Century British Novel	Important novelists in the tradition, from Austen to Wilde.
339		English Romantic-Period Drama	Covers history of the British theatre, 1780-1840, with representative plays and closet dramas, by playwrights such as Holcroft, Cowley, Inchbald, Baillie, Coleridge, P. B. Shelley, and Byron.
340		Studies in Jane Austen	Studies in Jane Austen focuses on both the novels of Jane Austen and their fate since their publication in the early nineteenth century. They have inspired countless imitations, over 150 sequels and continuations, and more than 30 full-length films and videos. We will trace the transmission and transformation of the original texts across time and cultures.
343	080	American Literature before 1860	Selected topics or authors in American literature from the period of European colonization of the New World through the onset of the Civil War.
344	081	American Literature, 1860-1900	Instructors choose authors or topics from the period 1860-1900. The course may be organized chronologically or thematically, but is not intended as a survey.
345	082	American Literature, 1900-2000	Instructors choose authors or topics from the period 1900-2000. The course may be organized chronologically or thematically, but is not intended as a survey.
347	083	The American Novel	The development of the American novel, from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth century. May proceed chronologically or thematically.
348		American Poetry	Content of course varies with instructor but students are given a sense of the chronological, stylistic, and thematic development of American poetry over two centuries.
350	093	Twentieth-Century British and American Poetry	Poetry in English from the middle of the 19th century to the present, approached historically, thematically, technically, politically, and aesthetically; concentration on analysis, comparison, and synthesis.
351	095	British and American Drama of the Twentieth Century	The course focuses on modern drama in English. Most of the plays will come from the British and American theaters, though a few may exemplify the European background of modern drama or the colonial reach of the English language.
353		Modern Women's Literature	This course will examine literature written in English by women, focusing on issues of style and genre and their relation to gender.
355	091	The British Novel from 1870 to World War II	We will read novels in English, including Joyce, Woolf and Proust, to explore how writers from across cultures created new strategies to represent the late nineteenth and twentieth century worlds of imperialism, science and experiment.
356	092	British and American Fiction Since World War II	Course studies contemporary British and American fiction through representative works. Intellectual and aesthetic, historical and cultural emphases. May include works from the Anglophone diaspora.
360	070	Introduction to Contemporary Asian American Literature and Theory	This course will provide an introduction to contemporary Asian American literature and theory and examine how Asian American literature fits into yet extends beyond the canon of American literature.
361		Asian American Women's Writing	This course covers writings by Asian American women and examines issues of gender, race, and sexuality.
362		Theories of Language	A sustained examination of what is meant by "language," this course reads major philosophical and critical-theoretical texts from Plato to contemporary evolutionary biological accounts of language/representation.
363	090B	Feminist Literary Theory	Theories of feminist criticism, in relation to general theory and women's writing.
364	079	Introduction to Latina/o Studies	Introduction to the major questions within Latina/o Studies in terms of transnationalism, transculturation, ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexuality, systems of value, and aesthetics.
365		Migration and Globalization	Covers literary works associated with one or more of the major historical migrations, forced and voluntary, and present-day works engaged with globalization.
366		Literature and the Other Arts	Course examines relationship of literature to the other arts, especially music and the visual arts, in terms of similar period characteristics and of distinct material and formal constraints.
367	084	African American Literature to 1930	Survey of writers and literary and cultural traditions from the beginning of African American literature to 1930.
368		African American Literature, 1930-1970	Survey of writers and literary and cultural traditions from 1930 to 1970.
369	085	African American Literature, 1970 to the present	Survey of writers and literary and cultural traditions from 1970 to the present.
373	088	Southern American Literature	An introduction to Southern literature, with emphasis on the twentieth-century: fiction, poetry, drama, essays. Representative authors include Faulkner, Wolfe, Williams, Warren, Hurston, Wright, Ransom, Tate, Welty, Chappell, McCullers, O'Connor.
374	087	Southern Women Writers	The study of fiction, poetry, plays, and essays by Southern American women writers of the past two hundred years, continuing to the present.
375	088B	Contemporary North Carolina Literature	A study of the novels, short stories, and poems produced by North Carolina writers during the literary renaissance of recent decades.
377		Introduction to the Celtic Cultures	A broad survey of the cultures of the Celtic-speaking areas, notably, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Brittany, with special emphasis on language and literature.
378		Contemporary Irish Poetry: Heaney and After	We will read modern Irish poetry from Seamus Heaney to the present, addressing issues of language, culture and society.
379		Irish Prose from Joyce to Doyle	Twentieth century Irish prose is committed to experiment in form, language and representation, gauging cultural pressure from James Joyce to Roddy Doyle.
380		Film History	The course offers am introduction to the history of cinema and, in particular, to a period of film history.
381	142	Literature and Cinema	The course introduces students to the complex narrative and rhetorical relationship between literature and cinema.
382		Regionalism	This course introduces students to the organization & conceptualization of US literatures by geography & local culture. The course looks at literature from a diverse array of groups & locales to challenge the notion that there is any one America.
383		Literary Non-Fiction	An introduction to the many forms of creative non-fiction by contemporary writers. Will include nonfiction literature as well as theoretical and critical responses to such literature.
384		The Lesbian Novel	In this course, we will discuss the formation and evolution of lesbian identities as manifested in novels in English in the twentieth century.
385		Literature and Law	Explores various connections of literature and law, including: literary depictions of crime, lawyers, and trials; literary conventions of legal documents; and/or shared problems in interpretation of law and literature.
387	089	Canadian Literature	A study of Canadian literature in English from the late eighteenth century to the present, with emphasis on twentieth-century writing and on the novel.
388		Modernism: Movements and Moments	What was Modernism? When was Modernism? Where was Modernism? Reading literature and visual art from 1890 to 1940 in Europe, America and Africa will be key to finding answers.
390	049	Advanced Literary Studies	An intensive study of a single writer, group, movement, theme, or period.
396	096	Directed Readings in English or Creative Writing	Intensive reading on a particular topic under the supervision of a member of the staff. Section 001 (English) requires special permission of Committee on Honors. Section 002 (Creative Writing) requires special permission of the Director of the Creative Writing Program.
400	031	Advanced Composition for Teachers	English 400 combines frequent writing practice with discussions of rhetorical theories and strategies for teaching writing. The course examines ways to design effective writing courses, assignments, and instructional materials.
401	031E	Advanced Composition for Elementary Teachers	English 401 introduces students to the teaching of writing and reading in the elementary grades. Students explore composition theory and learn about effective practices for improving writing.
405		Writing Literary Genres	Focuses on producing writing in a particular genre or form such as personal essay, autobiography, or creative non-fiction.
406	035	Advanced Fiction Writing	Prerequisite, ENGL 206 and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. A continuation of the Intermediate workshop with emphasis on the short story, novella, and novel. Extensive discussion of student work in class and in conferences with instructor.
407	035P	Advanced Poetry Writing	Prerequisite, ENGL 207 and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. A continuation of the Intermediate workshop, with increased writing and revising of poems. Extensive discussion of student poetry in class and in conferences with instructor.
412		Creative Writing-Contemporary Issues	Permission of the Director of Creative Writing required. Restricted to Creative Writing minors. An occasional course, which may focus on such topics as: editing and revising; short-short fiction; contemporary poetry; short stories of the modern South; the one-act play; the lyric in song.
418		The English Language-Contemporary Issues	Focused study of a specific subfield or issue of current or historical English linguistics not covered in depth in other courses, e.g., dictionaries, North Carolina dialects, language of advertising.
423		Old English Literature-Contemporary Issues	This course investigates themes or issues in Old English literature, thought, and culture.
424		Middle English Literture-Contemporary Issues	This course investigates themes or issues in Middle English literature, thought, and culture.
430		Renaissance Literature-Contemporary Issues	This course investigates cultural themes or problems across a wide spectrum of Renaissance authors.
436	049C	Contemporary Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture	Focuses on particular forms, authors or issues in the period
437	072	Chief British Romantic Writers	Survey of works by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, Keats, and others.
438		Nineteenth-Century Women Writers	An investigation of important texts by nineteenth-century British women writers that considers issues of gender in relation to other important considerations: tradition, form, culture.
439	073	English Literature, 1832-1890	Poetry and prose of the Victorian period, including such writers as Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, the Brontes, Dickens, G. Eliot.
440	078	English Literature, 1850-1910	The Pre-Raphaelites, Wilde, Conrad, Shaw, and Yeats.
441		Romantic Literature-Contemporary Issues	Devoted to British Romantic-period literature's engagement with a literary mode (such as the Gothic) or a historical theme (such as war or abolition) or to an individual author.
442		Victorian LIterature-Contemporary Issues	The study of an individual Victorian writer, a group (such as the Pre-Raphaelites), a theme (such as imperialism), or genre (such as Victorian epic, or the serialized novel).
443		American Literature before 1860-Contemporary Issues	A junior or senior level course devoted to in-depth exploration of an author, group of authors, or topic in American literature to 1860.
444		American Literature, 1860-1900-Contemporary Issues	Intensive study of one or more authors, or a topic in American literature from the Civil War through 1900.
445		American Literature, 1900-2000-Contemporary Issues	A junior or senior level course devoted to in-depth exploration of an author, group of authors, or a topic in American literature from 1900 to 2000.
446	086	American Women Authors	American women authors from the beginnings to the present.
447		Memory and Literature	This course brings together theories of collective and individual memory with questions of aesthetics and narrative while exploring global connections between memory and literature.
461	041	Aesthetics	Examines the question of what defines art and what describes art's social and human significance through a reading of classic texts on these issues.
462	040	Contemporary Poetry & Theory	This course introduces the student to historical and contemporary thinking about poetry and poetic language. Examines the place of poetry in theoretical thinking, and theoretical thinking about poetry.
463	092C	Postcolonial Literature	This course is a multi-genre introduction to postcolonial literatures. Topics will include postcolonial Englishes, nationalism, anti-imperialism, postcolonial education, and the intersections between national and gender identities in literature.
464		Queer Texts, Queer Cultures	The literary and cultural critical arts of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transvestite, and other communities of sexual dissidents of the contemporary US, UK, and other Anglophone cultures.
465		Difference, Aesthetics, and Affect	Examines interrelations between cultural difference, aesthetic form, and the representation, production, and conveyance of subjectivity (in particular affect or states of feeling) in texts, other media, and material culture.
466		Literary Theory-Contemporary Issues	Examines current issues in literary theory such as the question of authorship, the relation of literary texts to cultural beliefs and values, and to the formation of identities.
472		African American Literature-Contemporary Issues	A study of a particular aspect of African American literature, such as the work of a major writer or group of writers, an important theme, a key tradition, or a literary period.
475		Southern Literature-Contemporary Issues	Study of a particular topic or genre in the literature of the U.S. South, more focused than students will find in English 373 (Southern Literature).
478		Projecting Ireland	This course will examine the relationship between literary and cinematic versions of Ireland, exploring how written and visual texts negotiate the difficulties of representation in a decolonizing society.
479		Ireland and Modernism	This course explores Ireland's contribution in literature and art to movements in twentieth century modernism
481		Media Theory	This course investigates the ramifications of the development of mass media and popular culture, paying special attention to the transformation of literature.
485	146	Introduction to Folklore	Introduction to the study of folklore, surveying the range of verbal, material, musical, medical, and festive genres and exploring the significance of traditional and self-constructed culture in contemporary life.
486		Literature and Environment	Multi-disciplinary, thematic investigations into topics in literature and environment that cut across boundaries of history, genre, and culture. Junior/senior level. Taught in alternating years.
487	186	Folk Narrative	The study of three genres of folk narrative-fairytale, personal narrative, and legend-and their distinctive roles in contemporary life.
489		Cultural Studies-Contemporary Issues	The student will have an opportunity to concentrate on topics and texts central to the study of culture and theory.
525		Senior Seminar in Renaissance Literature	Senior-level survey of one or two key themes or issues in the Literature of the English Renaissance
564		Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature	Examines the ways knowledge from other disciplines can be brought to bear in the analysis of literary works. Questions of disciplinary limits and histories will also be addressed.
566		Literature and Psychoanalysis	This course offers an introduction to the theoretical intersection of psychoanalysis and literature and to the spectrum of what is called "psychoanalytic theory."
578		Irish Americas, American Irelands	We will explore the cultural connections between Ireland and America in literature and film to examine how each has imagined the other.
580		Film-Contemporary Issues	This course is designed to introduce students to a particular historical or cultural aspect of the cinema.
581	047	Contemporary Approaches to Fiction	Examines the formal features of narrative and its role in shaping social values, groups, and identities through readings in literary theory, short stories, and novels.
582	048	Poetry- Contemporary Issues	The course is an introduction to the genre of poetry and its subgenres, the practice of reading it in both form and content, and to the work of selected poets or individual poets.
583	046A	Drama on Location	Offered as part of summer study abroad programs in Oxford, London, and Stratford-on-Avon. Students experience plays in performance and as texts, and discuss their literary, dramatic, cultural, and historical aspects.
585	147	British and American Folksong	Explores the forms, functions, and relationships of British and American folksongs, charting the emergence of Anglo- and African-American vernacular musics and the dynamic processes of tradition, creolization, innovation, and revival.
587	187	Folklore in the South	An issue-oriented study of Southern folklore, exploring the ways that vernacular artistic expression (from barns and barbecue to gospel and well-told tales) come to define both community and region.
589	189	African American Folklore	Focus on the richness and variety of oral traditions that define African American culture, with some emphasis on African origins.
613	136	Grammar of Current English Survey of Old & Middle English Lit	An introductory course in English linguistics that analyzes the morphology, syntax, and standard usage of current English mainly from the perspectives of structural linguistics and sociolinguistics.
619	151	Survey of Old & Middle English Lit	An introduction to English literature from the eighth century to the fifteenth, focusing on the primary works of Old English and Middle English literature.
621	153	Arthurian Romance	British and continental arthurian literature in translation from the Middle Ages, with some consideration of modern works.
631	166	Eighteenth-Century Literature	Studies in a variety of British Writers from Rochester to Cowper.
637	172	Chief British Romantic Writers	A survey of the major British Romantic writers, including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, Keats, with an introduction to the chief scholarly and critical problems of this period.
639	174	Victorian Literature	Survey of major Victorian writers, such as Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Dickens, the Brontes, G. Eliot, Mill, Ruskin.
651	195	British and American Drama of the Twentieth Century	A survey of British and American drama, poetry, fiction, and criticism.
657	190	English and American Literature of the Twentieth Century	A survey of twentieth-century English and American drama, poetry, fiction, and criticism.
659	196	War in Twentieth-Century Literature	A study of literary works written in English concerning World War I, or the Spanish Civil War and World War II, or the Vietnam War.
660	196D	War in Shakespeare's Plays	The focus is on Shakespeare's various treatments of war in his plays: all his Roman histories, most of his English histories, all his tragedies, even some of his comedies.
661	140	Introduction to Literary Theory	Examines contemporary theoretical issues and critical approaches relevant to the study of literature.
662	240	History of Literary Criticism	A history of literary criticism from the Greeks to mid-twentieth century, focusing on recurrent concerns and classic texts which are indispensable for understanding the practice of literary criticism today.
663		Postcolonial Theory	This course covers major works of and topics in postcolonial theory.
664	190Q	The Challenge of Queer Theory to Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, and the Humanities	An advanced-level investigation of queer theory's challenges to literary criticism, cultural studies, and questions of critical methodology in the humanities. Cutting-edge research and just published articles will be used.
665	155	Queer Latina/o Literature, Performance, and Visual Art	This course explores literature, performance, art, film, and photography by Latinas and Latinos whose works may be described as "queer" and that question terms and norms of cultural dominance.
666	180	Queer Latina/o Photography and Literature	This course explores Latina/o literature about photography in relation to photography by queer Latina/o artists and, through this double focus, poses certain questions about identity, subjectivity, and culture.
673	188	Literature of the U.S. South	A study of the literature of the U.S. South, in most cases focusing on twentieth century southern literature and on prose fiction.
680		Film Theory	This course offers a rigorous introduction to the various theories (aesthetic, narratological, historiographic, ideological, feminist, poststructuralist) inspired by the cinema.
684	185	Women in Folklore and Literature	An exploration of representations of women in oral traditions as well as in literature based on oral traditions.
685	179	Literature of the Americas	Two years of college-level Spanish or the equivalent strongly recommended. Multidisciplinary examination of texts and other media of the Americas, in English and Spanish, from a variety of genres.
686		Readings in Literature and Environment	Readings course selects an author (Thoreau, Barry Lopez, Rachel Carson) genre (nature lyric, science fiction) or method (bioregionalism, eco feminism, phenomenology) as a means of deepening awareness of the politics, poetics, and paradoxes in the field of literature and environment.
687	191	Canadian Literature in English	A study of Canadian literature in English, with emphasis on writing since 1940, particularly the novels, by, for example, Margaret Laurence, Robertson Davies, Mordecai Richler, and Margaret Atwood.
691H	097	English Senior Honors Thesis, Part 1	Restricted to senior honors candidates. First semester of senior honors thesis. Independent research under the direction of an English department faculty member.
692H	098	English Senior Honors Thesis, Part 2	Restricted to senior honors candidates. Second semester of senior honors thesis. Essay preparation under the direction of an English department faculty member.
693H	099A	Creative Writing Senior Honors Thesis, Part 1	The first half of a two-semester seminar. Each student begins a book of fiction (25,000 words) or poetry (1000 lines). Extensive discussion of student work in class and in conferences.
694H	099B	Creative Writing Senior Honors Thesis, Part 2	Prerequisites, ENGL 406 and 693H. Restricted to senior honors candidates. The second half of a two-semester seminar. Each student completes a book of fiction or poetry. Extensive discussion of student work in class and in conferences with instructor.

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