Graduate Course Offerings
You can view a complete listing of existing graduate courses and their descriptions here.
- Spring 2012 Courses
- ENU 405—Teaching of Writing
Professor Cullum
This class is open to both graduate students and advanced, talented undergraduates. Conducted as a workshop, we will explore what it means to be an effective teacher of composition and…(more) - ENG 470—Selected Topics: Critical Writing
Professor Lynch-Biniek
This course invites graduate students to examine writing as an essential tool for exploring, questioning, and creating intellectual knowledge in academic and public spaces….(more) - ENG 538—Major 20th Century American Dramatists
Professor Herr
Tired of reading the same anthologized plays over and over? This semester, we will avoid the tried and true classics….(more) - ENG 550—The American Renaissance
Professor Ronan
No other national literature features an eruption of artistic talent comparable the one that occurred in the United States between 1836 and 1861…(more) - ENG 585—Studies in Romanticism (Online)
Professor DeLong
Poems written in opium-induced dreams . . . a novel conceived in the grip of a waking nightmare…a revolution fought entirely in print…(more) - Fall 2011 Courses
- ENG 430—Rhetorical Traditions and Contemporary Renditions
Professor Mahoney
This course studies the histories of rhetoric as well as contemporary intersections and applications across disciplines…(more) - ENG 502—Introduction to English Studies
Professor Bleach
This course provides beginning graduate students an introduction to the history, traditions, issues, problems, and debates of English Studies….(more) - ENG 565—Seminar in British Literature
Professor Tumbleson
Accounts of the novel’s evolution that take nineteenth-century bourgeois realism as an axiomatic starting point, as if the genre had been born fully-grown from the head of Queen Victoria…(more) - ENG 567—Seminar in American Literature
Professor Schwartz
Major themes, genre, and resource works are examined, and against their background…(more)