FALL 2025 Courses
ENG 100 |
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ENG 107 001 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
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ENG 107 002-005 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
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ENG 107 006-009 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
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ENG 107 010-011 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
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ENG 107 013 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
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ENG 107 014 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
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ENG 107 015 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
| ENG 130 003 LITERARY ENCOUNTS: Subtitle forthcoming MWF 9:00-9:50 David Gifford |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
| ENG 130 004 LITERARY ENCOUNTS: Subtitle forthcoming TR 12:30-1:45 Dane Ritter |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
| ENG 130 005 LITERARY ENCOUNTS: Subtitle forthcoming TR 2:00-3:15 Jill Rappoport |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
| ENG 130 006 LITERARY ENCOUNTS: Subtitle forthcoming MWF 1:00-1:50 Andrew Thibaudeau |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
| ENG 130 007 LITERARY ENCOUNTS: Subtitle forthcoming MWF 2:00-2:50 Carter Johnson |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
| ENG 130 006 LITERARY ENCOUNTS: Subtitle forthcoming MWF 10:00-10:50 Michael Genovese |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
| ENG 130 201 LITERARY ENCOUNTS: Subtitle forthcoming MWF 5:00-5:50 Online Synchronous Janet Eldred |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Arts & Creativity. |
ENG 142 001 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Global Dynamics OR Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
| ENG 180 001-004 GREAT MOVIES: Subtitle forthcoming MW 9:00-9:50 Matt Godbey |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry Arts & Creativity |
| ENG 180 005 GREAT MOVIES: Subtitle forthcoming 005 TR 12:30-1:45 008 TR 2:00-3:15 Kamahra Ewing |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry Arts & Creativity |
| ENG 180 006 GREAT MOVIES: Subtitle forthcoming MWF 1:00-1:50 Michael Carter |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry Arts & Creativity |
| ENG 180 007 GREAT MOVIES: Subtitle forthcoming MWF 10:00-10:50 Frederick Bengtsson |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry Arts & Creativity |
| ENG 180 201 GREAT MOVIES: Subtitle forthcoming Online Asynchronous John Duncan |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry Arts & Creativity |
ENG 191 001 |
| Course description forthcoming. Part of the Law & Justice Major. UK Core: Community, Culture and Citizenship in US OR Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
ENG 207 001 |
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ENG 207 002 |
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ENG 207 003 |
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| ENG 230 INTRO TO LITERATURE: Subtitle forthcoming TR 9:30-10:45 Jonathan Allison |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
| ENG 230 003 INTRO TO LITERATURE: Subtitle forthcoming TR 12:30-1:45 Regina Hamilton |
| Course description forthcoming.UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
| ENG 230 004 INTRO TO LITERATURE: Subtitle forthcoming TR 11:00-12:15 Joyce MacDonald |
| Course description forthcoming.UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
ENG 241 001 |
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ENG 251 001 |
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ENG 260 001 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
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ENG 260 201 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
ENG 265 001 |
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ENG 280 001-004 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
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ENG 280 201 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
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ENG 280 202 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
ENG 290 |
| Course description forthcoming. UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities |
ENG 330 001 |
| When Don DeLillo’s White Noise was published in 1985, it was a great success, the breakthrough novel of an author who had been writing clever if somewhat niche fiction for fifteen years. It would both earn the National Book Award and persist unto the present day as a cult classic, its period’s exemplary document of postmodernism. (Noah Baumbach recently adapted it for Netflix as a very expensive and barely watched feature film.) DeLillo’s book is a satire, a melodrama, a detective thriller—but above all, a fantasia of what critics and historians have come to see as a specific civilization—we might call it the US Empire—in its late phase. While the historical moment DeLillo chronicles can make some of the novel’s scenarios seem dated, what’s striking is how relevant if not timely many of the book’s other scenarios remain in 2025. We’ll look at both the context in which the book was written—the post-1960s decade that ushered in the “Reagan Revolution”—and the concerns that the book treats with a remarkable prescience: paranoia and conspiracy theories; consumer culture and its discontents; ecological crisis; the rule by and failure of experts; reality as virtual experience; hyperbolic nostalgia; the implosion of the nuclear family. These are some of the chief matters on which White Noise touches. DeLillo’s text will be the focus of our reading (it’s a fun read but not a short one). But because postmodernism is a multimedia aesthetic, we’ll also look at some other materials representative of postmodern style, from (for example) David Lynch’s Blue Velvet to the Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman. Coursework will tentatively consist of two brief exams (or, at your discretion, two 5pp papers), a midterm exam, and a take-home final exam. |
| ENG 330 002 TEXT AND CONTEXT: Subtitle forthcoming MWF 12:00-12:50 Michael Genovese |
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ENG 335 001 |
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ENG 336 001 |
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ENG 343 001 |
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ENG 359 001 |
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ENG 361 201 |
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| ENG 368 001 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOICES TR 9:30-10:45 Regina Hamilton |
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ENG 407 001 |
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ENG 425 001 |
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ENG 440G 001 |
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ENG 450G 001 |
| This course focuses on the rise of an eclectic genre of novel writing that overwhelmingly concerns environmental crisis, transformation, hope, and dystopia. While ecological literature has been around for millennia (think nature poetry, or Henry David Thoreau’s Walden), its frequency in the 21st century is both self-conscious and urgent, a response not just to the impact of anthropogenic actions on the natural world but also to the robust body of environmentalist theory and activism that flourished in the 1960s, a movement with which contemporary novelists are in close dialogue. We are going to look at novels that center on what some critics have taken to calling (somewhat controversially) the “Anthropocene,” on the view that human activity has been the dominant factor in shaping the ecosphere since the Industrial Revolution. Given the prevalence of apocalyptic thinking about the ecological future, a number of our texts will either be science fiction or closely adjacent to it. On the same note, we shall be reading some books, under the rubric of “speculative fiction,” that proceed from the seemingly fanciful claim that nonhuman or even non-animal life might be sentient if not fully conscious. Texts include Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower; Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood; Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl; Ned Bauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker; Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake; Omar el Akkad’s American War; Daniel Mason’s North Woods; Joy Williams’s Harrow. If we’re lucky enough to make our way through these books with time to spare, we’ll end the semester by viewing three recent films the plots of which pivot on ecological havoc, whether through resource wars and social collapse (Denis Villeneuve’s Dune; George Miller’s Fury Road) or through toxic and alien ecosystems (Alex Garland’s Annihilation). Major assignments will include a take-home midterm and take-home final (or, if you choose, a research paper of at least ten pages). Short response papers and in-class presentations will also be on the syllabus. |
| ENG 495 MAJOR HONORS SEMINAR: Subtitle forthcoming TR 9:30-10:45 Peter Kalliney |
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ENG 507 001 |
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ENG 507 |
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ENG 507 005 |
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ENG 518 001 |
| This course explores the development of English from its roots in Indo- European, through Old, Middle, and Early Modern English(es), culminating with a review of the English languages of today. It focuses on the phonological, grammatical, and lexical changes of the language, as well as on the social contexts of the rise and spread of English as a contemporary world language. Special emphasis is given to a linguistically informed understanding of how the language has changed in response to political and historical pressures. Fulfills the ENG Early Period requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective Credit and ENG Minor credit. |
| ENG 570 001 SELECTED TOPICS: Subtitle forthcoming T 2:00-4:30 Andy Doolen |
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