English: E

Lower-Division Courses

E X03C. Plan II World Literature Part I.

Reading of masterpieces of world literature and intensive training in writing and in critical analysis of literature.

E X03D. Plan II World Literature Part II.

Reading of masterpieces of world literature and intensive training in writing and in critical analysis of literature.

E X10C. Literature and Community Engagement.

E X10D. Introduction to Digital Studies.

Explore the critical application of exploratory techniques in digital scholarship in the humanities, including principles of exploratory data analysis programming language to perform both analysis and visualization. Critique how text, images, and audio are analyzed and represented from a humanistic perspective that considers intersectional power dynamics surrounding ability, class, gender, and race in culture.

E X10F. Literature, Film, and Other Arts.

Survey of preeminent films of the twentieth century alongside a consideration of the literary works that most influenced them. Explores different modes of close reading and skills to critically analyze texts in a variety of literary and media formats. Focus on connections between different modes of modern expression and critical analysis.

E X10G. Introduction to Comics Studies.

E X10S. The Films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Survey the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Examine the question of film as a visual medium and Hitchcock as a visual artist, with close attention to his techniques of storytelling through moving pictures and the performances of the actors.

E X10T. The Taylor Swift Songbook.

E X14J. Topics in Literature Across the Curriculum.

Readings selected to highlight the connections between literary study and other fields of inquiry.

E X14J.1. Literature and Film.

E X14J.3. Literature and Theatre.

E X14J.4. Harry Potter's Secret Language.

E X14L. Topics in Introduction to Literary Studies.

Emphasis on skills and methods used in upper-division English courses; intensive practice in writing; and an introduction to field-specific research.

E X14L.10. GoodReads.

An introduction to literary analysis, focusing on building a literary community.

E X14L.3. Banned Books and Novel Ideas.

E X14L.4. Texts and Contexts.

E X14L.5. Reading Poetry.

E X14L.8. The Pulitzer Prize.

An introduction to literary analysis focusing on works that have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, drama, and/or poetry.

E X14L.9. Cult Classics.

An introduction to literary analysis focusing on works that have become cult classics.

E X14T. Advanced Placement Credit in English.

Used to record coursework credit based upon an appropriate Advanced Placement Literature and Composition examination score.

E X14V. Topics in Introduction to Literature and Culture.

Readings focus on minority and ethnic American literatures in their cultural contexts with an emphasis on skills and methods. Intensive practice in writing and an introduction to field-specific research.

E X14V.1. African American Literature and Culture.

Explores texts, drawn from a variety of genres and periods, that indicate the range of African American experiences and how those experiences are influenced by issues such as class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and race.

E X14V.2. Asian American Literature and Culture.

Explores how authors and artists over the course of the past century have imagined what it means to be Asian American. Covers a diverse range of Asian immigrant histories and the formation of Asian American identities according to ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and citizenship.

E X14V.3. Mexican American Literature and Culture.

Representative Chicano writers and genres, such as poetry, prose fiction, and theatre.

E X14V.4. Gay and Lesbian Literature and Culture.

American writing by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer authors and/or with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer themes.

E X14V.5. Native American Literature and Culture.

Studies Native American literature from different regions and cultures and considers this literary tradition in tribal national and United States national contexts.

E X14V.6. Women, Gender, Literature, and Culture.

An introduction to literary analysis focusing on women's and gender studies.

E X14V.7. Jewish American Literature and Culture.

Examine Jewish American literature in its cultural contexts with an emphasis on skills and methods. Explore texts, drawn from a variety of genres and periods, that indicate the range of Jewish American experiences and how those experiences are influenced by issues such as citizenship, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

E X16L. British Literature.

Introduction to masterpieces of the British literary tradition, emphasizing historical, generic, and thematic connections.

E X16M. American Literature.

Introduction to masterpieces of the American literary tradition, emphasizing historical, generic, and thematic connections.

E X16N. World Literature.

Introduction to masterpieces of world literature, emphasizing historical, generic, and thematic connections.

E X16P. Masterworks of Literature.

Introduction to masterpieces of literature, emphasizing historical, generic, and thematic connections.

E X18M. Introduction to the English Language.

Basic linguistic concepts; phonology, syntax, and vocabulary of English; historical, regional, and social variation; applications of linguistics in educational and social action.

E X18Q. Supervised Research.

Student-initiated research conducted with instructor supervision.

E X19D. Blackness and Comics.

Examine the relationship between race and the sequential aesthetics of comic books and comic strips. Explore comics strips, underground comics, and superhero comics from the colonial period to the present day.

E X19L. Latinx Digital Worlds.

Explore how Latinx communities (traditionally figured as on the wrong side of the "digital divide") have embraced, mobilized, and sometimes usurped emerging digital tools and spaces to forge community and create new forms of culture, memory, and activism.

E X19S. Topics in English.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of English. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

E X29S. Topics in English.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of English. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

E X91L. Conference Course on Special Topics.

Upper-Division Courses

E X19S. Topics in English.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of English. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

E X20L. Major Writers of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.

A study of the principal writers: Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Boswell, Burns, and others.

E X21. Shakespeare.

A selection from the works of William Shakespeare.

E X21K. Introduction to Criticism.

Introduction to major terms, issues, and approaches in literary criticism, and their application to the reasoned discussion of poetry, fiction, and drama.

E X21L. American English.

An overview of the historical development of English in the Americas. Attention to regional, social, and ethnic differences, and their implications for public education.

E X21P. Shakespeare through Performance.

An intensive study of the plays of William Shakespeare, with emphasis on performance as a means of interpretation and an aid to comprehension.

E X23D. Topics in Diverse Perspectives.

Study literature and other forms within cultural and historical contexts, focusing on any one or more of the following: gender, race, ethnicity, culture, language, and/or globalization.

E X23E. Writing Slavery.

Explores the controversial rewriting of slavery in a presentist context by contemporary authors. Addresses challenges that archival limitations and revisionist writings about slavery pose for academic disciplines, literary instruction, and/or pedagogy.

E X23F. African American Writers in France.

E X23G. American Literary Masculinities.

Explores constructions of masculinity in American literature from a generally, but not exclusively, feminist perspective. Subjects include what masculinity has meant at different times in United States history, and how it has varied in meaning and significance according to broad categories of identity such as social class, race, region, and queerness.

E X23J. Jewish Stereotypes in American Literature and Culture.

Examine stereotypes that have come to define Jewishness in American culture by focusing both on the antisemitic tropes perpetuated by non-Jewish representations of 'the Jew' in literary classics and on the archetypes employed as coping mechanisms in cultural representations created by Jews themselves. Analyze how stereotypes become enmeshed in cultural consciousness and investigate ways in which representations of ethnic, religious, and racial minorities are governed by these kinds of one-dimensional archetypes.

E X23L. English as a World Language.

An account of the spread of English around the world; national, social, and regional varieties.

E X23N. Critical Race Theory and the Novel.

E X23P. Physicians and Their Fictions.

E X23Q. Queer of Color Critique.

E X23R. Migration Literature.

E X23S. The Global Short Story.

E X23T. Envisioning Muslims: The Middle Ages and Today.

Examine representations of Muslims in the dominant cultural media of the European Middle Ages, and in cultural media of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Explore how Europeans envisioned Muslims, and how Muslims envisioned themselves.

E X23U. Race, Gender, and Political Economy in United States Literature.

Explore the intersection of race, class, and gender relations, gender expression, and gender norms as constitutive of real and imagined political economies in literature and films by black, indigenous, and Latine authors and producers in the United States.

E X23V. Multiethnic Popular Culture.

Examine a selection of popular genres through the lens of contemporary multiethnic and world literature and culture.

E X23W. Women's Autobiographical Writing.

Examines the autobiographical impulse in women's writing by exploring the concept of the individualistic self versus the sense of self as a part of community and duty, and the way in which that communal self can both partake of humankind and participate in self-actualization.

E X24C. The Graphic Novel.

An analysis of the graphic novel. Representative authors include Lynd Ward, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Chris Ware, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel.

E X24F. The Faustus Legend in Theatre, Fiction, and Film.

E X24L. Literature, Health, and Medicine.

Examine literature about illness, healing, health, and health care. Explore the overlapping fields of literature and medicine and the health or medical humanities, with some attention also paid to disability studies. Consider the role that literature and the humanities can play in the education of health professionals.

E X24M. Troubled Literary Marriages.

Examine how the personal lives of authors may be expressed in their works. Use biographies, memoirs, letters, and the words of the authors, both in their creative and private lives, to explicate some of the major texts of the twentieth century.

E X24O. Fiction and Medievalism.

Through selected works of fiction, literary criticism, poetry, visual arts, and film, explore how the category of 'the medieval' has been constructed, and its imagery activated, in post-medieval settings from the eighteenth century onwards.

E X24R. Film Adaptations and Complexity.

E X24S. Folklore and Literature.

Introduction to folklore methods as they relate to the study of literature.

E X25S. Perversity and Self-interest.

E X25T. Media Theory and Literary Criticism.

E X26K. The Literature of the Middle Ages in Translation.

Romances, chronicles, legends, tales, and plays by English, Celtic, and Continental writers.

E X26L. Survey of Middle English Language and Literature.

Language and literature from 1100 to 1500.

E X27. The British Novel in the Eighteenth Century.

Representative novels and novelists from 1700 to 1832, including typical works of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, and Scott.

E X28. The British Novel in the Nineteenth Century.

Representative works by such writers as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy.

E X29R. The Romantic Period.

The prose and poetry of writers such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, and others.

E X29S. Topics in English.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of English. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

E X33P. Contemporary African Writing in English.

E X35P. Business of Writing.

Study the book publishing landscape including traditional and non-traditional career paths available to writers and those interested in the publishing industry. Analyze the publishing process, from concept to finished book: the acquisition, editorial, publicity, marketing, and sales stages of a book's life.

E X36E. British Literature: Beginnings through the Renaissance.

A survey of major writers, poetry, and prose.

E X37. American Literature: From the Beginnings to 1865.

A survey of major writers, poetry, and prose.

E X37E. British Literature: The Restoration through the Romantic Era.

A survey of major writers, poetry, and prose.

E X38. American Literature: From 1865 to the Present.

A survey of major writers, poetry, and prose.

E X38E. British Literature: The Victorian Era through World War II.

A survey of major writers, poetry, and prose.

E X40. The American Novel before 1920.

Representative novels by such writers as Brown, Melville, Fern, Hawthorne, Twain, Crane, James, Wharton, and Dreiser.

E X40G. Contemporary Gothic.

E X40S. Literature and Culture of the 1960s.

E X41I. Irish Literature and Politics in the 20th Century.

E X41T. Digital Theatres.

E X42C. Black Cops in African American Popular Culture.

Explore the history of black policing in America and representations of black police officers in popular literature and film of late Twentieth Century America.

E X42D. 21st Century Latinx Literature.

Explore Latinx literature from the past two decades including both literary form and political engagement, with an emphasis on Latina, queer, and nonbinary writers.

E X42F. Life and Literature of the Southwest.

Examine literature reflecting the social inheritance of the Southwest through verse, fiction, travels, and memoirs.

E X42J. Latinx Young Adult Literatures.

E X42L. Latinx Legend Tripping.

Explore narrative folklore from diverse traditions across the United States based Latinx diaspora. Focus on supernatural legends and the creation of the female "monster".

E X42M. Life and Literature of the US-Mexico Borderlands.

Examine the literature of the US-Mexico borderlands experience, with an emphasis on the historical and social conditions that characterize this unique region. Explore this in the context of prose fiction, as well as drama, film, and poetry.

E X42P. Black Horror and Psychoanalysis.

Explore the intersection of race, horror aesthetics, and psychoanalytic theory.

E X42S. Southern Literature.

Introduction to and survey of the literature of the United States South. Explores methods of literary and cultural interpretation with focus on critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.

E X42T. Life and Literature of Texas.

Examines how Texas authors describe and explore the diversity and complexity of a state often seen in terms of myth and caricature. Works include literature from across the state by writers such as Katherine Anne Porter, Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, among others.

E X43C. Caribbean Literature.

E X43D. Disability, Race, and Sexuality in Literature and Culture.

E X43E. Latinx Short Story.

E X43F. Black Film at the Oscars.

E X43G. Global Environmental Literature and Film.

E X43I. Immigration Literature.

E X43J. Literature and Social Justice.

E X43L. Modernism and Literature.

Strands of thought and literature that form the network of modernist writing.

E X43M. Black Queer Literature and Film.

Analyzes written works, films, and videos by and about lesbians, bisexual, transgender, and gay black people, with an emphasis on understanding the historical and theoretical construction of sexual and gender identities and sexual/cultural practices in black communities.

E X43N. The Nobel Prize.

E X43O. Contemporary United States Latina/o Literature and Culture.

E X43P. Postmodern Literature.

Survey of postmodern writing. As a period, the postmodern extends roughly from the era after World War II, and follows the modern, a term often applied to literature produced since the start of World War I.

E X43Q. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Literature and Culture.

E X43R. Contemporary Native American Literature.

E X43S. Sustainability and Representation.

E X43T. Contemporary Asian American Novels.

E X43U. Literature, Health, and Disease.

E X43V. Literature of AIDS in Africa.

Examine the emerging cultural representations of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa through journalistic, social science, and historical accounts. Explore the difficulty of representing the various aspects of a public-health crisis.

E X43W. Contemporary African American Women's Fiction.

E X44C. Young Adult: Fiction and Film.

See the works as embedded in specific historical, artistic, and cultural contexts that must be engaged in order to understand their expressed values and concerns about youth culture, specifically and comparatively. Discussions and analyses focus on aesthetics, form, and genre, framed by critical approaches and reading strategies rooted in film, genre, feminist, cultural, ethnic, and gender studies.

E X44D. Australian Literature and Film.

E X44E. New York School Poets and Artists.

E X44F. Film Theory.

E X44G. Gossip and Poetry.

E X44I. Twenty-First Century Poetry.

E X44J. Binge-Watching: A Cultural History.

E X44M. Major Film Movements.

E X44N. Film Noir.

E X44O. Popular Music and Youth Subcultures.

E X44P. Hollywood Babylon.

Explore Hollywood's symbolic role in American culture, and the genre of the Hollywood story, as seen in an array of representations of Hollywood (primarily in films and novels, but also in essays, poems, paintings, photographs, songs, fan magazines, and notorious counter-historical accounts such as Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon).

E X44Q. Crime and Capitalism in African American Popular Culture.

Examine the intersection of crime and capitalism in black literature, motion pictures and music of late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries.

E X44R. Childhood and Adolescence in Literature and Film.

Examine historical to contemporary representations of childhood and adolescence in literature, film, culture, and society.

E X44S. Film Auteurs.

E X44T. The Animated Film as Text.

E X44V. Music Videos: History and Theory.

E X44W. Citizen Kane and Company: The Essential Films.

Examine a select body of films, ranging from the early sound era to the present, that changed the vernacular of filmmaking, opened up new generic or stylistic directions, or epitomized the work of a widely influential director. Explore film history and theory, an introduction to the study of film genres and movements, the major tactics and techniques of film analysis, and the rigorous study of filmic texts.

E X45D. Drugs in African American Popular Culture.

Examine the legal, political, and philosophical intersection of blackness, whiteness, and drugs in the late twentieth century through film, music, and literature.

E X45F. Food Writing, Culture, and Environment.

Trace the origins of food writing and explore the ways the genre engages with contemporary issues of cultural definition, political action, and global sustainability while activating various definitions of taste and judgment ascribed to aesthetic and philosophical pursuits.

E X45S. Gender and Speculative Fiction.

Examine how writers have used speculative fiction--including science fiction, utopia, and dystopia--as a tool to explore gender, race, sexuality, humanity, ethics, disability, and the environment.

E X45T. The Theater in Austin.

E X45W. English Syntax for Writing.

E X46C. Contemporary Poetry (1945 to the present).

Survey poetry written in English from 1945 to the present. Examine how it has responded to and helped to shape the cultural and aesthetic questions of its times. Consider poetic movements and developments such as the so-called "middle generation," the Black Mountain School, the Beats, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, Confessional poetry, Deep Image poetry, the Black Arts Movement, the Movement, Language writing, post-confessional lyric, hybrid poetics, and conceptual poetry, among others.

E X46V. Hitchcock's Vertigo in Context.

E X48. The Short Story.

Extensive readings and analyses of stories by major modern writers such as Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Chekhov, and Kafka, as well as contemporary writers.

E X48C. Julia Alvarez and Sandra Cisneros.

E X48J. J. M. Coetzee.

E X48M. Cormac McCarthy.

Explore the work of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) and its representation of the United States South, Southwest, and Mexico.

E X48P. Plath and Sexton.

Explore the works of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

E X48S. Zadie Smith.

E X48T. J.R.R. Tolkien.

E X48U. Bruce Springsteen.

E X48W. Wes Anderson.

E X49D. Danticat and Diaz.

E X49S. Topics on Major Authors.

Intensive study of the works of a single major author or two major authors.

E X49S.1. Jane Austen.

E X49S.10. Graham Greene.

E X49S.11. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

E X49S.12. Alice Munro.

E X49S.13. Charles Dickens.

E X49S.14. David Foster Wallace.

E X49S.15. Edgar Allan Poe.

E X49S.16. Ernest Hemingway.

E X49S.17. George Eliot.

E X49S.18. Chaucer and Shakespeare.

E X49S.19. Shakespeare and Marlowe.

E X49S.2. The Brontes.

E X49S.20. Greta Gerwig.

Examine the works of a single major author or two major authors.

E X49S.3. James and Wharton.

E X49S.4. James Joyce.

E X49S.5. Toni Morrison.

An examination of select novels by the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist focuses on the positional uniqueness that womanism shares with a predominant feminism, which surfaces in historicized familial relationships.

E X49S.6. Walt Whitman.

E X49S.7. Oscar Wilde.

E X49S.8. Virginia Woolf.

Examines critical and fictional works of Virginia Woolf and the author's continuing legacy and influence. Explores the value and limitations of high modernism; English literary heritage and tradition; feminism; creative and critical definitions of gender and sexuality; intellectual activism, including Woolf's critiques of patriarchy, war, and fascism; and Woolf and imperialism and colonialism.

E X49S.9. William Faulkner.

E X49W. Bob Dylan.

E X50E. Topics in Language and Literature: Beginnings to 1630.

E X50E.3. Literature and the Visual Arts.

Examines the relationship between words and images across a broad historical sweep.

E X50M. Topics in Language and Literature: 1630 to 1830.

E X50R. Topics in Language and Literature: 1830 to 1940.

E X50R.1. Law, Society, and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Britain.

E X50R.3. Literature, Cultural Memory, and the American Civil War.

Examines the American Civil War not in terms of its military or political history but in relation to the ways literary and cultural texts have remembered and rewritten it.

E X50R.4. The Paperback.

Introduction to basic bibliography terminology and book history by tracking the evolution of the modern paperback, from 1850 to now, by means of author case studies.

E X50V. Topics in Language and Literature: 1940-Present.

E X50W. American Women Writers.

E X51D. Angels and Devils in Victorian Fiction.

E X51E. Victorian Oxford.

Consider and discuss Oxford University and the city of Oxford through the lens of nineteenth-century texts set in and around the region.

E X51F. Literature and Business in Nineteenth-Century Britain.

E X51L. London: One Hundred Years Ago.

E X51O. Literature of Oxford.

E X51P. Paradise Lost: Reception History.

E X51V. Nineteenth Century Novels and Their Adaptations.

Analyze how late twentieth- and twenty-first century adaptations change nineteenth-century novels to appeal to modern audiences.

E X52C. Classical Backgrounds of Literature.

E X52D. American Dante.

Examine the influence of the Italian poet Dante on American culture from the nineteenth century to the present.

E X52I. Interwar United States Literature.

E X52K. Arthurian Literature and Film.

A survey of the major Arthurian narratives from their origins in the Middle Ages to the present in various textual (prose, poetry, drama) and visual (illustration, film, graphic) forms.

E X52V. Viking Literature.

A survey of early Norse and Anglo-Scandinavian prose and verse--saga; chronicle, heroic epic, and mythological (eddic and skaldic) verse--with attention to the image of the viking in contemporary popular culture.

E X53R. Literature of the Harlem Renaissance.

E X53W. Women in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.

E X54C. Crime Fiction.

E X54D. Post-Darwin Novel.

E X54M. From Middlemarch to Modernism.

E X54P. Modern Poetry (1900-1945).

Survey poetry written in English from 1900 to 1945, including consideration of significant nineteenth-century precursors. Examine modern poetry's characteristic formal techniques, its preoccupations, and its key poets. Consider poetic movements and developments such as the "new" poetry, Georgian poetry, Regionalism, the poetry of World War I, Imagism, High Modernisms, so-called "Sentimental" Modernism, the New Criticism, the Harlem Renaissance, Documentary Poetry, and Objectivism, among others.

E X55V. Vampires and Dandies.

E X56. The European Novel.

Selected masterpieces of continental fiction in English translation; representative novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

E X58D. Dickinson and Whitman.

Explore the works of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.

E X58E. Eliot and Hardy.

Explore the works of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.

E X58F. Faulkner and O'Connor.

Explore the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

E X58J. The Bible as Literature.

In-depth literary study of the Bible, with emphasis on the formal features of narrative, hymn, prophecy, apocalypse, gospel, and epistle.

E X58K. The Bible in British and American Literature.

The reading of biblical masterpieces as literature; consideration of different versions of the Bible and their influence on British and American literature.

E X58P. Robert Frost.

E X58Q. Supervised Research.

Student-initiated research conducted with instructor supervision.

E X58R. Research Apprenticeship.

Supervised research on a faculty-initiated project.

E X59. British Drama from 1660 to 1900.

Representative drama texts from the Restoration to the beginnings of modern theatre, including Behn, Sheridan, Wilde, and Shaw.

E X60C. Postcolonial Literature.

Examine the struggles of the migrant and exile with questions of identity, belonging, home, citizenship, and culture.

E X60K. English Grammar.

The study of traditional and transformational grammar. Attention to social differences in language relevant to the teaching of English.

E X60R. Literary Studies for High School Teachers of English.

Intended for students seeking a secondary school teaching certificate. The principles and practices of teaching literature in secondary schools.

E X61K. British Drama to 1642.

A survey of early British drama, usually including works by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton.

E X61S. The Scriblerians.

Explore selected works of members of The Scriblerus Club, formed as a counter-culture response to the elite British literary scene from which they were excluded in the early- to mid-1700s, which include works by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Gay.

E X62L. The Contemporary British Novel.

Representative novels, including those of Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf.

E X63. Milton.

All the poetry of Milton, with particular attention to Comus, Samson Agonistes, and Paradise Lost.

E X63K. Classic to Romantic.

The theory and practice of Classicism in literature and other arts; the rise of the Romanticists in the eighteenth century.

E X63S. Early Black Atlantic.

E X64E. African American Language.

Introduction to the history and contemporary form of African American Language (AAL). Through readings, examine the linguistic description of essential features, the use of AAL in the creation of culturally and historically influential texts, and AAL as a subject of public discussion.

E X64M. History of the English Language.

Development of sounds, forms, and vocabulary of the English language from its origins to the present.

E X64P. Old English.

An introduction to Old English with sufficient grammar for a reading knowledge of Old English texts. A course in language, not in linguistics.

E X64T. The English Language and Its Social Context.

English language history, theory, and research for students of literature and rhetoric. May include such topics as language diversity and variation, linguistic attitudes, language variety and education, and language and public policy.

E X64V. Sailors, Explorers, and the British Novel.

E X66D. Dante.

E X66K. Shakespeare: Selected Tragedies.

Explore and analyze six selected Shakespeare tragedies to differentiate these plays from those in other genres (comedy, history, romance); examine the elements of Shakespeare's language and stagecraft that contribute to the lasting cultural prominence of his work.

E X67C. Conference Course in Literature and Language.

For students who wish to work under supervision on specific projects in literature or language.

E X67E. English Internship.

Research and staff experience working in an appropriate agency or private business.

E X68D. Bradstreet and Wheatley.

Explore the works of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley.

E X68H. Honors Tutorial Course I.

Research into and development of a thesis topic and proposal.

E X68S. Scott and Wordsworth.

Explore the works of Walter Scott and William Wordsworth.

E X69. Twentieth-Century Drama.

Ibsen and other major dramatists; tradition and innovation in the substance and form of selected modern plays.

E X69H. Honors Tutorial Course II.

Writing and defense of an Honors thesis. Individual instruction.

E X70. Victorian Prose: Essays and Ideas.

The prose writer as artist and sage in the cultural, political, religious, and scientific controversies that influence the modern tradition. Representative writers: Carlyle, Mill, Newman, Arnold, Darwin.

E X70H. Honors Tutorial Course for Teachers.

Research into and development of a thesis topic and proposal followed by the writing and defense of a thesis.

E X71C. Early Celebrity Culture.

E X71S. Shakespearean Afterlives.

E X71T. Love and Betrayal in Troy.

E X72L. The American Renaissance.

Selected writers of the pre-Civil War Romantic movement, including Emerson, Douglass, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Whitman, and others.

E X72M. American Realism.

Selected writers of the post-Civil War realistic movement: Howells, Twain, James, Jewett, Freeman, Crane, and others.

E X73M. Early Globalisms, 500-1500 CE.

Examine, through global literature, the interconnected worlds, humans, activities, and cultures in the approximate time frame of a thousand years to discover what they reveal of early globalisms.

E X73R. Race in the Middle Ages.

E X74C. Medieval Romance.

E X74G. Beowulf.

An extended reading of the work in its cultural and literary context.

E X74K. Elizabethan Poetry and Prose.

Renaissance thought and culture as revealed in the lyric and narrative poetry and in the prose masterpieces.

E X74L. The Earlier Seventeenth Century: Donne, Jonson, and Their Contemporaries.

Poetry and prose, 1600 to 1660: the metaphysical and other leading traditions in poetry; the early poems of Milton; the essay, the character, and other prose forms.

E X75D. Narratives of Discovery and Conquest.

E X75J. Drama of Jamestown.

E X75L. Victorian Literature.

Poetry and prose, 1832 to 1901; parallel reading in the novel and drama, and attention to the social and intellectual background of the period.

E X75R. The Image of the Cannibal in the Renaissance.

E X76. Chaucer.

Introduction to Chaucer's narrative and poetic art, as shown in a selection from the dream poems, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Canterbury Tales.

E X76F. Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in American Literature and Film.

E X76R. African American Literature through the Harlem Renaissance.

A survey of African American writing, including autobiography, poetry, fiction, and drama. Authors may include Douglass, Jacobs, Frances E. W. Harper, Chestnutt, Du Bois, Hurston, and Hughes.

E X76S. African American Literature since the Harlem Renaissance.

The development of African American poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction since the Harlem Renaissance. Authors may include Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Malcolm X, Baraka, Morrison, Shange, and Charles Johnson.

E X77K. The American Novel after 1920.

Representative works by such writers as Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Larsen, Hurston, Morrison, Bellow, Erdrich, and Tan.

E X77M. The American Novel after 1960.

Examines American novels and short stories from the 1960s to the present. Considers the aesthetic and narrative innovations of the period in light of social, historical, technological, and political developments. Representative authors include Pynchon, Roth, Morrison, DeLillo, Silko, Robinson, Egan, and Diaz.

E X78E. Edmund Spenser.

E X78S. Shakespeare at Winedale.

Study and readings of selected works and criticism, culminating in public performance of the plays. For English 678SB, students are required to be in residence at Winedale near Round Top, Texas.

E X79. American Literature and Thought: 1600-1840.

Early American literature as an embodiment of American thought and experience. Such topics as European ideas in the New World; the political ideas of Hamilton, Jefferson, and Jackson; nationalism; industrialism.

E X79D. Digital Research Lab.

Participate in original faculty research in the Digital Humanities in a project-based, hands-on setting.

E X79K. American Literature and Thought: 1840-1920.

Such topics as transcendentalism, manifest destiny, Utopian thought, and the impact of the theory of organic evolution.

E X79L. Contemporary Drama.

Major playwrights since 1950, such as Williams, Shepard, Beckett, Stoppard, Churchill, Fugard, and Pinter.

E X79P. Drama in Performance.

Intensive study of drama through active performance as a means of interpretation and an aid to comprehension.

E X91L. Conference Course on Special Topics.

Graduate Courses

E X19S. Topics in English.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of English. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

E X29S. Topics in English.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of English. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

E X81E. Practicum in Editing.

Practice editing a literary journal.

E X81F. Literature for Writers.

Analyze readings in fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism, biography, and autobiography from the point of view of a creative writer rather than that of a scholar.

E X82J. Studies in Linguistic Analysis.

Lectures, textual analysis, outside readings.

E X82L. Topics in Linguistics and Literature.

Intensive study of specialized subjects.

E X83L. Topics in The Teaching of English Composition and Literature.

A study of the major components of the English program in secondary school or college.

E X83L.1. World Literature and Globalism: Theory and Practice.

E X84K. Topics in Methods of Literary Research.

Issues addressed include methods of literary and cultural interpretation, archival research, academic publishing, and professional development.

E X84K.2. Disciplinary Inquiries.

E X84L. Scholarly Publication.

E X84M. Professional Outcomes.

E X85F. Workshop in Fiction.

E X85W. Creative Writing: Workshop in Fiction and Poetry.

Intended for graduate students who are not in a master of fine arts program.

E X86P. Workshop in Poetry.

E X87M. Topics in Rhetoric.

Advanced study of topics in rhetorical theory and in ancillary disciplines.

E X87N. Topics in Methods of Research in Rhetoric and Composition.

A study of the theory, practice, and history of research in rhetoric and composition.

E X87P. Topics in Productions in Rhetoric.

Applications of rhetoric to professional writing.

E X87R. Topics in Rhetorical History.

Topics include classical rhetoric, medieval and Renaissance rhetoric, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rhetoric, and twentieth-century rhetoric.

E X88D. Topics in Digital Humanities.

Explore language and digital technology.

E X89M. Topics in British and American Literature.

Selected British and American writers and issues.

E X89P. Topics in Women, Gender, and Literature.

E X90M. Topics in European Literature.

A study of the impact of European writers on British or American literature.

E X91F. Field and Prospectus Examination.

Prepare for required Field and Prospectus examinations under the supervision of a faculty member.

E X91L. Conference Course on Special Topics.

E X92M. Topics in English Literature.

E X93C. Topics in Criticism and Theory.

Explore topics in literary and cultural criticism and theory.

E X95M. Topics in American Literature.

E X95N. Topics in the History of Language.

E X95N.1. Old English.

E X96E. Topics in Language and Media.

Discuss and interpret visual, audio, or digital media.

E X96E.1. Introduction to Film Analysis.

E X96E.2. Film Analysis for Literary Scholars.

E X96L. Topics in the English Language.

E X97M. Topics in the Literatures and Cultures of the English Speaking World.

E X97N. Topics in Ethnic and Third World Literatures.

E X98. Thesis.

Research and writing of a thesis under the supervision of the chair of the supervising committee and subject to the approval of the committee and the graduate dean.

E X98D. Digital Studies Practicum.

Practical work on a faculty-led digital studies research project, planned and carried out in consultation with the supervising instructor.

E X98R. Master's Report.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.

E X98T. Supervised Teaching in English.

E X99W. Dissertation.

Professional Courses

E X19S. Topics in English.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of English. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

E X29S. Topics in English.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of English. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

E X91L. Conference Course on Special Topics.