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Course Listing for ENGLISH - Fall 2024 (ALL: 09/03/2024 - 12/18/2024)

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Permission Required	Dist
3313	ENGL-850-01	Earthly Delights	1.00	SEM	Staples, James	W: 6:30PM-9:00PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 3		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: ENGL-350-01
		The Middle Ages is often regarded as a period that was skeptical of worldly pleasure, repressing it at all costs. This course challenges this preconception by considering how pleasure was written about and theorized by medieval people, not just projecting pleasure onto an eternal life to come but sought in everyday experiences on earth, here and now. We will read works by Chaucer and other great literary works alongside travel narratives, accounts of the Golden Age and the Earthly Paradise. Each of these narratives insist on the reality of pleasure, whether discovered far in the east or in one's most secret fantasies. We will collectively consider a historical genealogy of pleasures, and how modern theories of pleasure-including queer theory-fit into these medieval discourses.
3281	ENGL-878-01	Plants in Literature and Film	1.00	SEM	Bergren, Katherine	MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 3		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: ENGL-378-01
		This course engages with the plant world through novels, poetry, philosophy, comics, and film. This approach might strike us as esoteric, but it would not have seemed so in the nineteenth century. We will track major trends in the human understanding of plants, beginning in the Romantic era - when poets were eager to consider the line between the plant and animal kingdoms - and ending in the twentieth century - when popular culture was more likely to categorize plants as monstrous and 'other.' In rethinking the being and meaning of plants we will necessarily revisit the idea of 'the human' and 'the animal,' employing these categories while attending to borderline cases where their utility falters.
3287	ENGL-882-01	Shakespeare's Other Race Plays	1.00	SEM	Brown, David	T: 6:30PM-9:00PM	TBA		HUM
		Enrollment limited to 3		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: THDN-382-01, ENGL-382-01
		What are Shakespeare's other "race plays"? Why have there only been five go-to Shakespeare plays for discussions about race for so long? Using early modern critical race studies and Black feminism as guides, this course looks beyond the five "race plays"-Titus Andronicus, Othello, Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest. Shakespeare plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet, texts lacking central Black, African, or Jewish figures, also permit generative discussions about race-in particular, whiteness. In this course, we will examine some of Shakespeare's other race plays in search of new racial knowledge while we discuss such topics as gender, sexuality, social class, family and more.
1432	ENGL-940-01	Independent Study	1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		A limited number of tutorials are available for students wishing to pursue special topics not offered in the regular graduate program. Applications should be submitted to the department chairperson prior to registration. Written approval of the graduate adviser and department chairperson is required. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form.
1434	ENGL-953-01	Research Project	1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		The graduate director, the supervisor of the project, and the department chairperson must approve special research project topics. Conference hours are available by appointment. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. One course credit.
1545	ENGL-954-01	Thesis Part I	1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
1662	ENGL-955-01	Thesis Part II	1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Continuation of English 954 (described in prior section).
1433	ENGL-956-01	Thesis	2.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person