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Graduate Record 2011-2012 
    
Graduate Record 2011-2012 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

Course Descriptions


 

English-Medieval Literature

  
  • ENMD 9050 - Studies in Early English Philology


    Studies the developing structure of Old and Middle English with special attention to syntax and dialectology. Includes English paleography of the period 900-1500. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: ENMD 501 or equivalent.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMD 9220 - Piers Plowman


    An intensive study of the poem and its cultural tradition. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMD 9240 - Studies in Chaucer


    A critical study of Chaucer’s narrative art, including questions of genre, relationship of narrator to audience, techniques of characterization, and the use of sources. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMD 9500 - Advanced Studies in Medieval Literature


    Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMD 9510 - Studies in Old English


    For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMD 9520 - Studies in Middle English I, II


    Topics in recent years have included the Gawain-poet, medieval subjectivity and voyeurism.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMD 9559 - New Course in Medieval Literature


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Medieval Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENMD 9995 - Research in Medieval Studies


    The Renaissance in England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3

English-Miscellaneous

  
  • ENGL 8559 - New Course in Miscellaneous English


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of miscellaneous English. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENGL 8993 - Independent Study


    A single semester of independent study under faculty supervision for MA or PhD students in English doing intensive research on a subject not covered in the usual courses. Requires approval by a faculty member who has agreed to supervise a guided course of reading and substantial written exercise, a detailed outline of the research project, and authorization by the Director of Graduate Studies in English. Only one may be offered for Ph.D credit. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENGL 8998 - M.A. Thesis


    M.A. students in English may choose to write a substantial thesis directed by a faculty member. Students opting for a thesis should draw up a proposal and secure a director to supervise the project. Students choose between a critical thesis of 10,000-15,000 words and a pedagogical thesis (described on our website). Students enroll in this three-credit course for a single semester, either fall or spring; it is not available during the summer. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENGL 8999 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research


    Students taking this course are expected to prepare for their M.A. oral examination and begin reading for doctoral examinations. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3 to 12
  
  • ENGL 9559 - New Course in Miscellaneous English


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of miscellaneous English. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENGL 9995 - Dissertation Seminar


    Required of students in the Department’s PhD program who are at or near the beginning of the dissertation writing process. Addresses the problems encountered by students as they begin to tackle the dissertation. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENGL 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research


    Students taking this course are expected to prepare for their preliminary qualifying oral examinations for the doctorate. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3 to 12
  
  • ENGL 9999 - Non-Topical Research


    For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3 to 12

English-Modern & Contemporary Literature

  
  • ENMC 5559 - New Course in Modern & Contemporary Lit


    This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Modern & Contemporary Lit.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENMC 8110 - American Literature 1912-1929


    Studies literary modernism in the United States.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8150 - Literature of the Americas


    A comparative study of major fiction writers of North, Central, and South America in the past 40 years. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8160 - Contemporary American Writers


    Studies recent U.S. writing in various genres.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8300 - American Poetry of the Twentieth Century


    A historical survey of major figures and movements from Frost and Pound to the present day. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8310 - British Poetry of the Twentieth Century


    Studies in the twentieth-century sensibility: distortions and other tensions in the imaginative worlds of Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, and Auden. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8330 - Contemporary American Poetry


    Studies selected poets from the 1940s to the present, including Lowell, Jarrell, Plath, Ginsberg, and others. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8400 - Drama of the Twentieth Century


    Surveys European and American drama as well as work from other regions. Focuses on reactions against realism, examining expressionism, surrealism, epic theater, absurdism, and the rise of ethnic and other minority playwrights in the second half of the century. Studies works by Strindberg, Synge, Pirandello, Brecht, Lorca, Beckett, Kennedy, Churchill, Wilson, Stoppard, Kushner, and others. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8500 - Topics in Modern and Contemporary Literature


    Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8559 - New Course in Modern and Contemporary Literature


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Modern and Contemporary Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENMC 8600 - Twentieth-Century Fiction


    Studies British, American, and Continental masterpieces, with attention to the new ideas and forms in twentieth-century fiction. Writers include Proust, Joyce, Mann, Lawrence, Faulkner, Kafka, Gide, Beckett. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8610 - Twentieth-Century American Fiction


    Emphasis varies, depending on the instructor, from earlier to later writers in the century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8620 - The British Novel in the Twentieth Century


    Studies of major novels from James to the present with emphasis on James, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Woolf, and Beckett.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8630 - Major Modern Novelists


    Studies several works by a few modern novelists, such as Lawrence, Woolf, Mann, and Beckett.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8660 - Problems in Post-Modern Fiction


    Studies the theory and practice (chiefly the latter) of postmodern fiction, comparative and international in scope, including such theorists as Todorov, Barthes, and Sontag; and such authors of fiction as Calvino, Coover, Butor, Pynchon, Kundera, Hawkes, Berger, Coetzee, Eco, with the likes of Kafka and Borges as background.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8670 - African-American Fiction


    Studies the African-American novel from William Wells Brown to Toni Morrison, including Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, among others.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8810 - African-American Literature


    Readings in African-American poetry, prose, and fiction of the twentieth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8840 - Modernism and Mass Culture


    Examines various literary, theoretical and historical attempts to understand the relationship between high art and mass culture in the modern period.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 8860 - The Harlem Renaissance: African-American Writing Between the Wars


    Examines the cultural and artistic history of the period. Why was it called a ‘renaissance’? Was Harlem a geographic or imaginative world? The framing of documents of the period are discussed (Alain Locke’s The New Negro, Hughes’ The Negro and the Racial Mountain, and Wright’s Blueprint for Negro Writing, most especially). Includes works of the major authors (Toomer, Hughes, Hurston, Brown, Wright, and McKay), focusing on the major themes (the new negro, the folk, the idealization of Africa, the sense of the Jazz Age) as viewed from within the music.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 9300 - Contemporary American Poetry


    Concentrates on American experimental writing since 1970, examining important influences (Stein, Zukofsky, Cage, New American Poetry and Ashbery) as well as various contemporary poets. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 9500 - Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature


    Topics have included Postmodern Fiction and Theory, Faulkner, Women and Cultures of Modernism, Yeats and Joyce, Modernism and the Invention of Homosexuality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 9520 - Seminar in Comparative Literature I, II


    Recent topics include the poetry of Rilke, Valery, and Stevens and the literature of the Spanish Civil War. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENMC 9559 - New Course in Modern and Contemporary Literature


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Modern and Contemporary Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4

English-Nineteenth-Century British Literature

  
  • ENNC 8110 - The Romantic Period


    The poetry and prose of the Romantic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 8140 - The Victorian Period


    A critical survey of selected works in poetry and fiction. Attention to developments in ideas, form, and literary theory of the Victorian period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 8310 - Victorian Intellectual Prose


    Surveys the writings of Carlyle, Mill, Macauley, Newman, Arnold, Ruskin, Pater, and Wilde. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 8500 - Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature


    Topic varies from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 8559 - New Course in Nineteenth-century British Literature


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of nineteenth-century British literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENNC 8600 - The English Novel II


    Novelists studied include Dickens, Eliot, the Brontës, and Hardy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 8620 - The Late Victorian Novel 1850-1914


    Critical discussion of selected novels of the period.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 8650 - The Literature of Empire


    Literature dealing with the British Empire from Beckford to Kipling. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 8900 - Disability Studies


    An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of disability studies, which examines how physical differences show up in literature, culture, and social policy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 9500 - Nineteenth-Century Studies


    Topics have included Victorian discursive prose and intensive study of Shelley and Tennyson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 9510 - Studies in Romanticism I, II


    Intensive study of one or two writers, e.g., Blake and Wordsworth, Keats and Byron. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 9520 - Studies in Victorian Literature I, II


    Topics vary from a focus on major writers (e.g., Browning and Arnold), to a consideration of the aesthetic movement and its influence. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENNC 9559 - New Course in Nineteenth-century British Literature


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of nineteenth-century British literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENNC 9560 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century Fiction


    Studies topics in the relation between novelistic techniques and the history of ideas. Works include both continental and English novels. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3

English-Pedagogy

  
  • ENPG 5400 - Counterpoint Seminar in Teaching Modern Literature


    This course offers future elementary, middle, high school teachers of English the opportunity to reflect on their own college learning of the subject; it teaches those future teachers how to convert that earlier learning into the stuff of K12 teaching. Specifically, course looks back at ENGL 383, the last part of the English Department’s 3-semester survey required for majors (or equivalent courses that future teachers may have taken elsewhere) Prerequisites: ENGL 3830 or its equivalent or permission of instructor



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENPG 8559 - New Course in Pedagogy


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of pedagogy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENPG 8800 - Pedagogy Seminar


    This course prepares first year doctoral students for the teaching they will do here at UVa in both literature classes and the writing program. Covers topics such as classroom management, leading discussion, grading papers. Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENPG 8820 - Workshop in Teaching Composition


    A seven-week seminar on the arts of teaching and writing, with emphasis on solving problems of assignments, grading papers, management of a class, teaching style, and forms of discourse. Limited to eight graduate instructors; preference is given to candidates for the pedagogy degree. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 2
  
  • ENPG 8830 - Workshop in Teaching Literatures


    Designed for graduate instructors teaching ENLT courses. Focuses on theories of criticism and psycholinguistics, discussing how students read and understand belletristic writing. Topics include course objectives, texts, classroom techniques, and assignments, specific issues, and problems that arise in undergraduate classes. Limited enrollment, with preference given to candidates for the pedagogy degree. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 2
  
  • ENPG 8850 - Literature Surveys


    Weekly workshops with faculty and teaching staff of the 300-level lecture courses, ENGL 3810, ENGL 3820 and ENGL 3830 and ENRN 3210 and ENRN 3220. Second-year Ph.D. students in English enroll in this course once during the semester in which they lead a discussion section of a lecture course. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENPG 9559 - New Course in Pedagogy


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of pedagogy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENPG 9810 - Philosophy of Composition


    Philosophy of Composition



    Credits: 3

English-Renaissance Literature

  
  • ENRN 8110 - Renaissance Poetry


    Studies the theory and practice of lyric and epic poetry in 16th-century England, with some brief glances at other forms: romance, epyllion, and verse essay. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 8120 - Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry


    An intensive study of style and tone in the poetry of Donne, Jonson, Herbert, and Marvell, with some consideration of poems by Crashaw, Vaughan, and the cavaliers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 8200 - Spenser


    Studies the Faerie Queene and the minor poems. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 8270 - Milton


    An intensive study of Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 8400 - Elizabethan Drama 1585-1642


    Surveys English drama (exclusive of Shakespeare) from Kyd and Marlowe to Tourneur and Ford. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 8500 - Studies in Renaissance Literature


    New course in Studies in Renaissance Literature



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 8510 - Studies in Shakespeare I, II


    Topics vary annually. Recent examples are ‘Gender and Genre in Shakespeare’ and ‘Shakespeare’s Histories and Roman Plays.’ For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 8559 - New Course in Renaissance Literature


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Renaissance Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENRN 8700 - Renaissance Prose


    Surveys rhetorical projects and postures from humanist advocacy to the anti-rhetorical pose of Montaigne; considers the development of English prose style from the early Tudor period to the era of Milton. Includes Erasmus, More, Castiglione, Montaigne, Sidney, Nashe, Jonson, Bacon, Browne, and Milton. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 8810 - The Idea of the Renaissance


    Neoplatonists, Protestants, skeptics, empiricists, princes, pedagogues, painters, poets: this course explores Renaissance culture in search of an idea of the period that is both descriptive and explanatory. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 9200 - Shakespeare


    Studies the later plays of Shakespeare, including problem comedies, late tragedies, and last plays. Some attempt is made to describe the characteristics of the plays as a group, but the emphasis is on criticism of the individual plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 9240 - Spenser


    The Faerie Queene and minor poems. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 9270 - Milton


    Selected topics in poetry and prose. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 9500 - Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature


    Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENRN 9559 - New Course in Renaissance Literature


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Renaissance Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENRN 9995 - Research in the Renaissance


    Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3

English-Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Lit

  
  • ENEC 5400 - English Drama 1660-1800


    Surveys representative plays and dramatic developments from 1660 to1800. Potential authors include Etherege, Dryden, Behn, Wycherley, Congreve, Centlivre, Gay, Fielding, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENEC 5559 - New Course in the subject of Restoration and Eighteenth-century Literature.


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of restoration and eighteenth-century literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENEC 8110 - English Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century


    Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1740. Among the authors typically read are Dryden, Butler, Rochester, Etherege, Bunyan, Behn, Defoe, Swift, Gay, Pope, and Haywood. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENEC 8120 - English Literature and the Late Eighteenth-Century


    Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1740-1800. Among the authors typically read are Johnson, Boswell, Gray, and Burney. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENEC 8400 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama


    Studies the British theater from 1660 to 1800, including works by writers such as Wycherley, Behn, Congreve, Dryden, Centlivre, Steele, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENEC 8500 - Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature


    Topics vary and recently include ‘From Classic to Romantic’ and ‘Eighteenth-Century Poetry.’ For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENEC 8559 - New Course in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of restoration and eighteenth-century literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENEC 8600 - Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction


    Studies prose fiction in the 18th century. Authors include Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Sterne, and Austen. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENEC 9500 - Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature I, II


    Topics vary, focusing on a theme, genre, or group of writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENEC 9559 - New Course in the subject of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature.


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of restoration and eighteenth-century literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENEC 9910 - Research in Restoration and Eighteenth Century


    Research in Restoration and Eighteenth Century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3

English-Special Topics in Literature

  
  • ENSP 5559 - New Course in Special Topics In Literature


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Special Topics In Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENSP 5810 - Film Aesthetics


    Studies film as a work of art produced by cinematic skills and valued for what it is in itself. Emphasizes major theoretical works and analyzing individual films. Studies films with reference to the techniques and methods that produce the ‘aesthetic effect’ style, and the problems of authorship arising out of considerations of style and aesthetic unity.   For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENSP 5820 - The Culture of London Past and Present


    The Culture of London: Past and Present” offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in London, it runs for a month each year from early June to early July. Faculty members from the University direct, teach and lead the class; they are complemented by London-based specialists in architecture, art history, religious studies and contemporary politics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 6
  
  • ENSP 5821 - The Culture of London Past and Present


    “The Culture of London: Past and Present” offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in London, it runs for a month each year from early June to early July. Faculty members from the University direct, teach and lead the class; they are complemented by London-based specialists in architecture, art history, religious studies and contemporary politics.



    Credits: 1
  
  • ENSP 5822 - The Cultural History of London


    The Cultural History of London’ offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in the city that it names, the program runs for a month each year from early June to early July.



    Credits: 4
  
  • ENSP 5830 - Literature and the Film


    Studies the relationship between the two media, emphasizing the literary origins and backgrounds of film, verbal and visual languages, and the problems of adaptation from novels and short stories to film. Seven to nine novels (or plays) are read and analyzed with regard to film adaptations of these works. Film screenings two to two and one half hours per week outside of class. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENSP 5910 - Literary Journal Editing


    An introduction to editing in which students use desktop publishing software to design a magazine or book, and print-on-demand to generate a final print project. They also write book reviews, screen manuscripts, and assist in the production of Meridian, a literary journal. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENSP 6400 - Science Fiction


    Explores some of the classic works of nineteenth-century science fiction. Offers new perspectives on their larger symbolic meanings, particularly in social and political terms. Looks at these stories as constituting a body of myths for the modern world, and stresses their continuing relevance.



    Credits: 1
  
  • ENSP 6401 - Modern Novel


    The Course will examine central themes and strategies used by most distinguised 20th Century novelists and will consider ways in which those strategies survive today in modern novel and in other forms of writing.



    Credits: 1
  
  • ENSP 8559 - New Course in Special Topics In Literature


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Special Topics In Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ENSP 8620 - Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women Writers


    Studies the works of George Eliot, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and Sylvia Plath, and an investigation into feminist critical perspectives. Readings include four novelists and one poet from each of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in order to establish both developments and interconnections in considerations of female authorship and recurrent themes in the works.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ENSP 8700 - Special Topics in Pedagogy


    Seminar in Pedagogy. Topics may vary from one course offering to the next. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.



    Credits: 3
 

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