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ENGL 209 - 070 Video Game Storytelling
This class meets at the Sandy Center 10011 Centennial Parkway, Suite 100, Sandy. For directions call 801.587.2520 or visit https://sandy.utah.edu
ENGL 209 - 070 Video Game Storytelling
- Class Number: 17836
- Instructor: VERRAN, ERICK
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: No
- Fees: $525.00
- Seats Available: 2
This class meets at the Sandy Center 10011 Centennial Parkway, Suite 100, Sandy. For directions call 801.587.2520 or visit https://sandy.utah.edu
ENGL 230 - 001 Intro Shakespeare
In this course, we’ll read seven plays that sample the broad range of theatrical genres and content with which Shakespeare worked. We’ll read plays spanning from near the beginning of Shakespeare’s career (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) to the end (The Winter’s Tale). We’ll read popular plays that are frequently taught in the classroom and performed on the stage (As You Like It, King Lear, Henry V), plays you may have heard of but will seldom see (Antony and Cleopatra), and a play that almost everybody neglects (Troilus and Cressida).
ENGL 230 - 001 Intro Shakespeare
- Class Number: 9374
- Instructor: WALL, SPENCER
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Fees: $525.00
- Seats Available: 2
In this course, we’ll read seven plays that sample the broad range of theatrical genres and content with which Shakespeare worked. We’ll read plays spanning from near the beginning of Shakespeare’s career (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) to the end (The Winter’s Tale). We’ll read popular plays that are frequently taught in the classroom and performed on the stage (As You Like It, King Lear, Henry V), plays you may have heard of but will seldom see (Antony and Cleopatra), and a play that almost everybody neglects (Troilus and Cressida).
ENGL 250 - 003 Intro Creative Writing
ENGL 250 - 003 Intro Creative Writing
- Class Number: 9134
- Instructor: Johns, Aristotle
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: No
- Fees: $525.00
- Seats Available: 3
ENGL 351 - 001 Writing Fiction
ENGL 351 - 001 Writing Fiction
- Class Number: 9136
- Instructor: THILEN, SAM
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: No
- Fees: $525.00
- Seats Available: 2
ENGL 352 - 001 Writing Poetry
ENGL 352 - 001 Writing Poetry
- Class Number: 9160
- Instructor: HE, CHENGRU
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Fees: $525.00
- Seats Available: 1
ENGL 2010 - 090 Intermediate Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 090 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 9163
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Instructor: Wyckoff, Briley
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 091 Intermediate Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 091 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 9164
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Instructor: Wyckoff, Briley
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 092 Intermediate Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 092 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 9165
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Instructor: Okpara, Damian
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 093 Intermediate Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 093 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 9166
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Instructor: Okpara, Damian
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 094 Intermediate Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 094 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 9167
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Instructor: VERRAN, ERICK
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 2
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 095 Intermediate Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 095 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 9168
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Instructor: STOLCENBERG, KYLE
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 12
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 096 Intermediate Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 096 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 9169
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Instructor: Islam, Shafiqul
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 16
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 097 Intermediate Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 097 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 9170
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Instructor: Islam, Shafiqul
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 21
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 098 Intermediate Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 098 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 9171
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Instructor: Islam, Shafiqul
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 11
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 099 Intermediate Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2010 - 099 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 9172
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Instructor: Farwell, Matthew
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2050 - 090 Lit Of The Amer West
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2050 - 090 Lit Of The Amer West
- Class Number: 9187
- Instructor: Marinkovski, Lepa
- Component: Lecture
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2086 - 001 AI/Literary Imagination
This course will explore the intersections between literature and artificial intelligence. We will focus on four ancient myths—Prometheus, Daedalus, Narcissus, and Pygmalion—and later literary elaborations that continue to inform the way both researchers and the public think about the possibilities and dangers of AI. Along the way, we will study the history, key concepts, and major controversies surrounding the development of AI, and consider how both fiction writers and chatbot developers create plausible characters. We will also learn how to be critical consumers of AI content and to understand the environmental, labor, and psychological consequences of the technology.
ENGL 2086 - 001 AI/Literary Imagination
- Class Number: 9159
- Instructor: POTOLSKY, MATTHEW
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 31
This course will explore the intersections between literature and artificial intelligence. We will focus on four ancient myths—Prometheus, Daedalus, Narcissus, and Pygmalion—and later literary elaborations that continue to inform the way both researchers and the public think about the possibilities and dangers of AI. Along the way, we will study the history, key concepts, and major controversies surrounding the development of AI, and consider how both fiction writers and chatbot developers create plausible characters. We will also learn how to be critical consumers of AI content and to understand the environmental, labor, and psychological consequences of the technology.
ENGL 2090 - 001 Video Game Storytelling
ENGL 2090 - 001 Video Game Storytelling
- Class Number: 9138
- Instructor: CARPENTER, JUSTIN
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 29
ENGL 2090 - 070 Video Game Storytelling
This class meets at the Sandy Center 10011 Centennial Parkway, Suite 100, Sandy. For directions call 801.587.2520 or visit https://sandy.utah.edu
ENGL 2090 - 070 Video Game Storytelling
- Class Number: 17722
- Instructor: VERRAN, ERICK
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 31
This class meets at the Sandy Center 10011 Centennial Parkway, Suite 100, Sandy. For directions call 801.587.2520 or visit https://sandy.utah.edu
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/ Video Game Storytelling explores the interplay between game and story in video game media. Students will play and analyze video games, specifically those with strong narratives, and engage with broader literary/theoretical issues in video game and literary studies. Texts include video games themselves, as well as a selection of films, fiction, and critical/theoretical resources.
- Class Number: 9139
- Instructor: SEEGERT, ALF
- Component: Lecture
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 12
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/ Video Game Storytelling explores the interplay between game and story in video game media. Students will play and analyze video games, specifically those with strong narratives, and engage with broader literary/theoretical issues in video game and literary studies. Texts include video games themselves, as well as a selection of films, fiction, and critical/theoretical resources.
In this course, we will read epic war stories, as well as chivalric romances about knights finding adventures. We’ll encounter two of western world literature’s most well-known warrior-heroes, Achilles and Lancelot, as well as less well-known heroes from similarly exciting stories, such as Chretien de Troye’s Erec and Enide, and Edmund Spenser’s Redcrosse Knight. The heroes of all these stories share their worlds with threatening gods and meddling monsters, against whom they struggle. But we’ll focus first on gods in Homer’s epic Iliad, then on heroes in Chretien’s romances, then on monsters in Spenser’s epic-romance of The Faerie Queene, which is itself a kind of monster of a text; a generic, chimeric hybrid of epic and romance, war and adventure.
- Class Number: 9161
- Instructor: WALL, SPENCER
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
In this course, we will read epic war stories, as well as chivalric romances about knights finding adventures. We’ll encounter two of western world literature’s most well-known warrior-heroes, Achilles and Lancelot, as well as less well-known heroes from similarly exciting stories, such as Chretien de Troye’s Erec and Enide, and Edmund Spenser’s Redcrosse Knight. The heroes of all these stories share their worlds with threatening gods and meddling monsters, against whom they struggle. But we’ll focus first on gods in Homer’s epic Iliad, then on heroes in Chretien’s romances, then on monsters in Spenser’s epic-romance of The Faerie Queene, which is itself a kind of monster of a text; a generic, chimeric hybrid of epic and romance, war and adventure.
The Lord of the Rings on Page and Screen. This class will explore fantasy literature through the writings and legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien. To that end we will study Tolkien’s three-volume work The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s 2001-2003 film series, with special attention to the cinematic adaptation of print text and the representational limits and possibilities of each medium. We will also examine selections from Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and his theories of enchantment and secondary worlds in “On Fairy-Stories.”
- Class Number: 9140
- Instructor: SEEGERT, ALF
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 1
The Lord of the Rings on Page and Screen. This class will explore fantasy literature through the writings and legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien. To that end we will study Tolkien’s three-volume work The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s 2001-2003 film series, with special attention to the cinematic adaptation of print text and the representational limits and possibilities of each medium. We will also examine selections from Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and his theories of enchantment and secondary worlds in “On Fairy-Stories.”
ENGL 2250 - 002 Intro Creative Writing
ENGL 2250 - 002 Intro Creative Writing
- Class Number: 9189
- Instructor: UNCAPHER, DANIEL
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
ENGL 2250 - 003 Intro Creative Writing
ENGL 2250 - 003 Intro Creative Writing
- Class Number: 9190
- Instructor: Johns, Aristotle
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 11
ENGL 2250 - 004 Intro Creative Writing
This course will meet both on-campus and off-campus at a local middle or high school, where students will lead creative writing lessons in small groups. All off-campus visits will take place on Wednesdays.
ENGL 2250 - 004 Intro Creative Writing
- Class Number: 9191
- Instructor: DURINGER, ALEXANDER
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
This course will meet both on-campus and off-campus at a local middle or high school, where students will lead creative writing lessons in small groups. All off-campus visits will take place on Wednesdays.
ENGL 2250 - 005 Intro Creative Writing
ENGL 2250 - 005 Intro Creative Writing
- Class Number: 9192
- Instructor: THILEN, SAM
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 11
ENGL 2250 - 090 Intro Creative Writing
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2250 - 090 Intro Creative Writing
- Class Number: 9193
- Instructor: UNCAPHER, DANIEL
- Component: Lecture
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 2250 - 091 Intro Creative Writing
ENGL 2250 - 091 Intro Creative Writing
- Class Number: 18051
- Instructor: YORDY, JACOB
- Component: Lecture
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 10
ENGL 2300 - 001 Intro Shakespeare
In this course, we’ll read seven plays that sample the broad range of theatrical genres and content with which Shakespeare worked. We’ll read plays spanning from near the beginning of Shakespeare’s career (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) to the end (The Winter’s Tale). We’ll read popular plays that are frequently taught in the classroom and performed on the stage (As You Like It, King Lear, Henry V), plays you may have heard of but will seldom see (Antony and Cleopatra), and a play that almost everybody neglects (Troilus and Cressida).
ENGL 2300 - 001 Intro Shakespeare
- Class Number: 9186
- Instructor: WALL, SPENCER
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 17
In this course, we’ll read seven plays that sample the broad range of theatrical genres and content with which Shakespeare worked. We’ll read plays spanning from near the beginning of Shakespeare’s career (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) to the end (The Winter’s Tale). We’ll read popular plays that are frequently taught in the classroom and performed on the stage (As You Like It, King Lear, Henry V), plays you may have heard of but will seldom see (Antony and Cleopatra), and a play that almost everybody neglects (Troilus and Cressida).
ENGL 2510 - 001 Intro Crtv Wrtg BK Arts
ENGL 2510 - 001 Intro Crtv Wrtg BK Arts
- Class Number: 9135
- Instructor: CHALLIS, JESSICA
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Fees: $20.00
- Seats Available: 8
ENGL 2610 - 001 Diversity In Amer Lit
ENGL 2610 - 001 Diversity In Amer Lit
- Class Number: 9194
- Instructor: SHAVERS, RONE
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 18
ENGL 2701 - 001 Intro Lit Hist 1
ENGL 2701 - 001 Intro Lit Hist 1
- Class Number: 9343
- Instructor: RIPPLINGER, MICHELLE
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 17
ENGL 2702 - 001 Intro Lit Hist 2
ENGL 2702 - 001 Intro Lit Hist 2
- Class Number: 9344
- Instructor: MARGOLIS, STACEY
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 18
ENGL 3510 - 001 Writing Fiction
Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 or 2510.
ENGL 3510 - 001 Writing Fiction
- Class Number: 9195
- Instructor: THILEN, SAM
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 or 2510.
ENGL 3510 - 002 Writing Fiction
Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 or 2510.
ENGL 3510 - 002 Writing Fiction
- Class Number: 9196
- Instructor: Johns, Aristotle
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 10
Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 or 2510.
ENGL 3520 - 001 Writing Poetry
Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 or 2510.
ENGL 3520 - 001 Writing Poetry
- Class Number: 9197
- Instructor: HE, CHENGRU
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 12
Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 or 2510.
ENGL 3590 - 001 Storycrafting for Games
ENGL 3590 - 001 Storycrafting for Games
- Class Number: 9148
- Instructor: WILSON, SAM
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
ENGL 3775 - 090 Native American Lit.
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 3775 - 090 Native American Lit.
- Class Number: 9154
- Instructor: Marinkovski, Lepa
- Component: Lecture
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 16
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
- Class Number: 9198
- Instructor: HECHT, ZAK
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 24
ENGL 3850 - 002 Seminar in Lit. Study
In this seminar, we will study lyric and narrative poetry, including sonnets, odes, satires, and romances written by British and American poets from William Shakespeare to Elizabeth Bishop. The course is organized chronologically, and we will pay attention to how forms develop over time, but our primary focus will be on the analysis and interpretation of individual poems. Written assignments will break critical writing about literature down into discrete tasks: how to construct close readings of texts, how to formulate questions and claims about literary works, and how to manage evidence and make arguments about literature. The course is designed to introduce you to a selection of great poems in English and to help you to develop skills you will need as an English major.
ENGL 3850 - 002 Seminar in Lit. Study
- Class Number: 9145
- Instructor: FRANTA, ANDREW
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
In this seminar, we will study lyric and narrative poetry, including sonnets, odes, satires, and romances written by British and American poets from William Shakespeare to Elizabeth Bishop. The course is organized chronologically, and we will pay attention to how forms develop over time, but our primary focus will be on the analysis and interpretation of individual poems. Written assignments will break critical writing about literature down into discrete tasks: how to construct close readings of texts, how to formulate questions and claims about literary works, and how to manage evidence and make arguments about literature. The course is designed to introduce you to a selection of great poems in English and to help you to develop skills you will need as an English major.
ENGL 3850 - 003 Seminar in Lit. Study
In this section of 3850, we will examine the evolution of the detective form, beginning with its origins and pursuing several case studies of how it has expanded over time. Texts to be studied include short stories, novels and their film adaptations, as well as critical essays. Through discussion, writing assignments, and close reading, we will think through how to formulate questions and claims about how this literature works, and how to manage evidence when making arguments about it.
ENGL 3850 - 003 Seminar in Lit. Study
- Class Number: 9146
- Instructor: RUDDS, CRYSTAL
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
In this section of 3850, we will examine the evolution of the detective form, beginning with its origins and pursuing several case studies of how it has expanded over time. Texts to be studied include short stories, novels and their film adaptations, as well as critical essays. Through discussion, writing assignments, and close reading, we will think through how to formulate questions and claims about how this literature works, and how to manage evidence when making arguments about it.
This is a course for new majors in English Literature designed to provide “training in the rudiments of the discipline, from close reading to research methods to evidence-based critical argument.” The course is therefore constructed around short readings that require close attention to interpretation and brief written assignments that emphasize clear argumentation and familiarity with the consultation and citation of primary and secondary sources. A short piece of in-class writing will be due periodically throughout the course—1 page to start with, building to 5 pages by the end of the term.
- Class Number: 9147
- Instructor: PECORA, VINCENT
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 5
This is a course for new majors in English Literature designed to provide “training in the rudiments of the discipline, from close reading to research methods to evidence-based critical argument.” The course is therefore constructed around short readings that require close attention to interpretation and brief written assignments that emphasize clear argumentation and familiarity with the consultation and citation of primary and secondary sources. A short piece of in-class writing will be due periodically throughout the course—1 page to start with, building to 5 pages by the end of the term.
ENGL 4990 - 001 Directed Reading
ENGL 4990 - 001 Directed Reading
- Class Number: 9200
- Instructor: WALL, SPENCER
- Component: Independent Study
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 3.0
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 5
ENGL 4999 - 001 Honors Thesis/Project
ENGL 4999 - 001 Honors Thesis/Project
- Class Number: 9346
- Instructor: WALL, SPENCER
- Component: Honors Thesis Project
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 2
Prerequisite: "C-" or better in ENGL 2090. The course fee covers digital course materials through the Instant Access program. Students may request to opt out here: https://portal.verba.io/utah/login In this class we will examine longstanding video game genres and their afterlives, from role-playing games to puzzle platformers to point-and-click adventures to interactive films to first-person so-called “walking simulators” to open-world exploration and boss-monster action adventures and beyond. Specifically, we will play and analyze a series of video games that re-imagine – or even subvert – genre expectations, focusing particularly on how they implement narrative in doing so.
- Class Number: 9151
- Instructor: SEEGERT, ALF
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 20
Prerequisite: "C-" or better in ENGL 2090. The course fee covers digital course materials through the Instant Access program. Students may request to opt out here: https://portal.verba.io/utah/login In this class we will examine longstanding video game genres and their afterlives, from role-playing games to puzzle platformers to point-and-click adventures to interactive films to first-person so-called “walking simulators” to open-world exploration and boss-monster action adventures and beyond. Specifically, we will play and analyze a series of video games that re-imagine – or even subvert – genre expectations, focusing particularly on how they implement narrative in doing so.
ENGL 5225 - 090 Speculative Fiction
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 5225 - 090 Speculative Fiction
- Class Number: 9153
- Instructor: SWANSTROM, ELIZABETH
- Component: Lecture
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
ENGL 5510 - 001 Fiction Workshop
Prerequisite: ENGL 3510, 3520, or 3530.
ENGL 5510 - 001 Fiction Workshop
- Class Number: 9336
- Instructor: SHAVERS, RONE
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 9
Prerequisite: ENGL 3510, 3520, or 3530.
ENGL 5510 - 002 Fiction Workshop
Prerequisite: ENGL 3510, 3520, or 3530. This class requires students to read (closely and seriously) a set of published stories in order to write two complete stories themselves. Our primary concerns will be two-fold: generating and modifying work through writing prompts and sharing this work in a supportive and collaborative setting. We will cover the basics (plot, character, scene, setting, theme, motif, worldbuilding, conflict, allusion, metaphor, point of view, tense, voice, and other elements of narrative structure) but we’ll also ask more difficult questions, such as: What is the relationship between “the what” of a story and “the way” of a story (fabula and syuzhet)? How might a better understanding of how our stories are engineered lead us toward a richer sense of who we are as writers? What can storytelling—as an artform, as a means of processing, as an exercise in human expression—do for us as thinkers, interlocutors, participants in the social realm? And—perhaps most important right now—why does fiction matter?
ENGL 5510 - 002 Fiction Workshop
- Class Number: 9337
- Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
Prerequisite: ENGL 3510, 3520, or 3530. This class requires students to read (closely and seriously) a set of published stories in order to write two complete stories themselves. Our primary concerns will be two-fold: generating and modifying work through writing prompts and sharing this work in a supportive and collaborative setting. We will cover the basics (plot, character, scene, setting, theme, motif, worldbuilding, conflict, allusion, metaphor, point of view, tense, voice, and other elements of narrative structure) but we’ll also ask more difficult questions, such as: What is the relationship between “the what” of a story and “the way” of a story (fabula and syuzhet)? How might a better understanding of how our stories are engineered lead us toward a richer sense of who we are as writers? What can storytelling—as an artform, as a means of processing, as an exercise in human expression—do for us as thinkers, interlocutors, participants in the social realm? And—perhaps most important right now—why does fiction matter?
ENGL 5530 - 001 Creative Nonfic Wkshp
Prerequisite: ENGL 3510, 3520, or 3530.
ENGL 5530 - 001 Creative Nonfic Wkshp
- Class Number: 9338
- Instructor: MEJIA, MICHAEL
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 14
Prerequisite: ENGL 3510, 3520, or 3530.
ENGL 5570 - 001 Screenwriting and Adapt
Prerequisite: ENGL 3510, 3520, or 3530. Nearly 90% of film and TV releases each year are adapted from existing material. In this course, we'll explore the essential craft of adaptation, building core skills in screenwriting, story structure, and critical analysis. We’ll also learn how to develop an original approach to an existing intellectual property — and how to pitch that story to people with the power to hire you as a writer. Whether you’re interested in writing for the screen or you’re more curious as to why the movie is seldom better than the book, the practical techniques you pick up in this workshop can serve as one more arrow in your literary quiver.
ENGL 5570 - 001 Screenwriting and Adapt
- Class Number: 9162
- Instructor: BOYER, SAM
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 8
Prerequisite: ENGL 3510, 3520, or 3530. Nearly 90% of film and TV releases each year are adapted from existing material. In this course, we'll explore the essential craft of adaptation, building core skills in screenwriting, story structure, and critical analysis. We’ll also learn how to develop an original approach to an existing intellectual property — and how to pitch that story to people with the power to hire you as a writer. Whether you’re interested in writing for the screen or you’re more curious as to why the movie is seldom better than the book, the practical techniques you pick up in this workshop can serve as one more arrow in your literary quiver.
ENGL 5590 - 001 Adv Symp Creative Wrtg
Writing the Frame: Reflexive Narration: This undergraduate writing workshop, taught by visiting writer Miranda Mellis, will delve into forms of reflexive storytelling, exploring how authors can narrate not just events but the act and meaning of telling. We’ll encounter fractal forms, comedically recursive structures, and the effects of embedded commentary. By what strategies and for what purposes do authors shake the narrative frame, lay bare the device, multiply possible readings of a given text, and effectively make authorship and narration itself part of the story? We’ll experiment, in our own writing exercises, with forms of doubling, mirroring, and reflexivity. For registration information, please contact Karli Sam (karli.sam@utah.edu).
ENGL 5590 - 001 Adv Symp Creative Wrtg
- Class Number: 9156
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 3.0
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 10
Writing the Frame: Reflexive Narration: This undergraduate writing workshop, taught by visiting writer Miranda Mellis, will delve into forms of reflexive storytelling, exploring how authors can narrate not just events but the act and meaning of telling. We’ll encounter fractal forms, comedically recursive structures, and the effects of embedded commentary. By what strategies and for what purposes do authors shake the narrative frame, lay bare the device, multiply possible readings of a given text, and effectively make authorship and narration itself part of the story? We’ll experiment, in our own writing exercises, with forms of doubling, mirroring, and reflexivity. For registration information, please contact Karli Sam (karli.sam@utah.edu).
ENGL 5590 - 002 Adv Symp Creative Wrtg
Parables of Place: In this graduate class, taught by visiting writer Miranda Mellis, we will read works that deeply intertwine senses of place (allegorical and historical), with contingencies of character. We’ll consider the dreamlike bureaucracies and institutional absurdism of Robert Walser and Lynne Tillman; poetic inheritance in Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal; the ecological site specificity of Lorine Niedecker and Allison Cobb; place-making and intimacy in Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter; and the formation of literary coteries and styles in Chile and San Francisco with Alejandro Zambra and Robert Glück, respectively. Participants will also be guided to begin a site-specific writing project of their own. For registration information, please contact Karli Sam (karli.sam@utah.edu)
ENGL 5590 - 002 Adv Symp Creative Wrtg
- Class Number: 9157
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 3.0
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 7
Parables of Place: In this graduate class, taught by visiting writer Miranda Mellis, we will read works that deeply intertwine senses of place (allegorical and historical), with contingencies of character. We’ll consider the dreamlike bureaucracies and institutional absurdism of Robert Walser and Lynne Tillman; poetic inheritance in Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal; the ecological site specificity of Lorine Niedecker and Allison Cobb; place-making and intimacy in Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter; and the formation of literary coteries and styles in Chile and San Francisco with Alejandro Zambra and Robert Glück, respectively. Participants will also be guided to begin a site-specific writing project of their own. For registration information, please contact Karli Sam (karli.sam@utah.edu)
ENGL 5650 - 001 Adv Sem Lit Study
Time travel narratives are one of the oldest and most popular subgenres within science fiction, dating back to the nineteenth century. This seminar will examine key works within this subgenre and chart its development over the prevailing centuries. As a science fictional conceit, time travel has been used to explore questions of historical contingency and how they have shaped our lives in the present, as a means of estranging us from contemporary societal trends and where they might take us, or simply what it would be like to live in another time period. This course will discuss all of the above. In addition, it will talk about how the tropes of the genre have evolved over time: From the simple timeslip scenarios of early time travel narratives to the more involved conceits such as time machines, alternate timelines, dystopian futures, temporal paradoxes, and questions of free will vs determinism which define the genre today. We will also discuss what it means to contemplate our relationship to the passage of time and history from different standpoints in terms of race, gender, and sexuality. And we will consider how such scenarios continue to evolve today. Authors and filmmakers to be discussed include: Washington Irving, H.G. Wells, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Tim Powers, William Gibson, Connie Willis, James Tiptree Jr, Ted Chiang, Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron, and Christopher Nolan.
ENGL 5650 - 001 Adv Sem Lit Study
- Class Number: 9130
- Instructor: SHEPHARD, ANDREW
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
Time travel narratives are one of the oldest and most popular subgenres within science fiction, dating back to the nineteenth century. This seminar will examine key works within this subgenre and chart its development over the prevailing centuries. As a science fictional conceit, time travel has been used to explore questions of historical contingency and how they have shaped our lives in the present, as a means of estranging us from contemporary societal trends and where they might take us, or simply what it would be like to live in another time period. This course will discuss all of the above. In addition, it will talk about how the tropes of the genre have evolved over time: From the simple timeslip scenarios of early time travel narratives to the more involved conceits such as time machines, alternate timelines, dystopian futures, temporal paradoxes, and questions of free will vs determinism which define the genre today. We will also discuss what it means to contemplate our relationship to the passage of time and history from different standpoints in terms of race, gender, and sexuality. And we will consider how such scenarios continue to evolve today. Authors and filmmakers to be discussed include: Washington Irving, H.G. Wells, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Tim Powers, William Gibson, Connie Willis, James Tiptree Jr, Ted Chiang, Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron, and Christopher Nolan.
ENGL 5650 - 002 Adv Sem Lit Study
ENGL 5650 - 002 Adv Sem Lit Study
- Class Number: 9131
- Instructor: PREISS, RICHARD
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 11
ENGL 5650 - 003 Adv Sem Lit Study
This class will focus on Mina Loy – one of the most interesting Anglo-American poets of the twentieth century. Enormously gifted in her own right, Loy was also part of a lively group of avant-garde artists such as Joseph Cornell, and Marcell Duchamp, as well as writers such as Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes. To read Loy means entering a world of vibrant possibility and boundary crossing -of all kinds.
ENGL 5650 - 003 Adv Sem Lit Study
- Class Number: 9132
- Instructor: SHREIBER, MAEERA
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 4
This class will focus on Mina Loy – one of the most interesting Anglo-American poets of the twentieth century. Enormously gifted in her own right, Loy was also part of a lively group of avant-garde artists such as Joseph Cornell, and Marcell Duchamp, as well as writers such as Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes. To read Loy means entering a world of vibrant possibility and boundary crossing -of all kinds.
ENGL 5650 - 004 Adv Sem Lit Study
ENGL 5650 - 004 Adv Sem Lit Study
- Class Number: 9133
- Instructor: CARPENTER, JUSTIN
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 8
ENGL 5703 - 001 Beowulf through Time
In this class we’ll take a deep dive into the earliest major poem in English Literature, Beowulf. We’ll study the poem closely and slowly until the mid-semester break, using a facing-page Modern English translation alongside the original poem (so no need for language learning). After the break we will study a range of modern and contemporary responses to, and adaptations of the poem, in a variety of media including novels and films. In this way, we’ll get a sense of what Beowulf meant in its own time(s), as well as what it continues to mean in our time.
ENGL 5703 - 001 Beowulf through Time
- Class Number: 9158
- Instructor: JONES, CHRIS
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 7
In this class we’ll take a deep dive into the earliest major poem in English Literature, Beowulf. We’ll study the poem closely and slowly until the mid-semester break, using a facing-page Modern English translation alongside the original poem (so no need for language learning). After the break we will study a range of modern and contemporary responses to, and adaptations of the poem, in a variety of media including novels and films. In this way, we’ll get a sense of what Beowulf meant in its own time(s), as well as what it continues to mean in our time.
ENGL 5711 - 001 Shakespeare
ENGL 5711 - 001 Shakespeare
- Class Number: 9342
- Instructor: MATHESON, MARK
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 20
In this course we will be reading some of the best works of American literature from just after the Revolutionary War through the 1840s. We will focus on how a variety of writers—from memoirists to novelist—influenced debates over slavery, Indian dispossession, the rights of women, and the role of popular entertainment in educating the citizenry. We will take a close look at the dark side of American culture in the early republic, reading fiction about sensational crimes and political intrigue. Works will include Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, Hannah Foster’s The Coquette, Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland, Washington Irving’s Sketch-Book, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Class Number: 9339
- Instructor: MARGOLIS, STACEY
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 10
In this course we will be reading some of the best works of American literature from just after the Revolutionary War through the 1840s. We will focus on how a variety of writers—from memoirists to novelist—influenced debates over slavery, Indian dispossession, the rights of women, and the role of popular entertainment in educating the citizenry. We will take a close look at the dark side of American culture in the early republic, reading fiction about sensational crimes and political intrigue. Works will include Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, Hannah Foster’s The Coquette, Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland, Washington Irving’s Sketch-Book, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
ENGL 5741 - 001 Jane Austen
Have we been reading Jane Austen all wrong? This course invites you to rethink Austen’s reputation as a “romance novelist,” and to ask instead: who was Jane Austen? Even her earliest admirers were divided on this question: was her vision traditional, hierarchical, and conservative, or was it progressive, democratic—perhaps even radical? Were her allegiances with the old ways, or with the new ones? We’ll read Austen’s six completed novels alongside selections from her unfinished works and recent film adaptations. Along the way, we’ll explore the world in which Austen was writing—its politics, gender norms, and literary traditions—while also asking why her fiction continues to capture readers and audiences two centuries later. Why do so many people still swoon over Darcy? Are we even supposed to? What makes her love plots so endlessly adaptable? And what do her novels really have to say about love?
ENGL 5741 - 001 Jane Austen
- Class Number: 9141
- Instructor: TETT, SAM
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
Have we been reading Jane Austen all wrong? This course invites you to rethink Austen’s reputation as a “romance novelist,” and to ask instead: who was Jane Austen? Even her earliest admirers were divided on this question: was her vision traditional, hierarchical, and conservative, or was it progressive, democratic—perhaps even radical? Were her allegiances with the old ways, or with the new ones? We’ll read Austen’s six completed novels alongside selections from her unfinished works and recent film adaptations. Along the way, we’ll explore the world in which Austen was writing—its politics, gender norms, and literary traditions—while also asking why her fiction continues to capture readers and audiences two centuries later. Why do so many people still swoon over Darcy? Are we even supposed to? What makes her love plots so endlessly adaptable? And what do her novels really have to say about love?
ENGL 5760 - 090 Studies Victorian Lit
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/ This course explores both what haunted the Victorians and how the Victorians continue to haunt us. Our reading will include gothic novels, detective fiction, fairy tales, and ghost stories from inside England and the outskirts of the British Empire. Fostered by some of the wackiest specimens of Victorian literature, we will ask how the literary tropes of “haunting” reveal (and shroud) anxieties about the changing conceptions of family and gender roles, nation and empire, urbanization and capitalism, we well as modern science and technology in the nineteenth century. This course will be entirely online; class assignments will include individual writing, collaborative annotations, and discussion boards.
ENGL 5760 - 090 Studies Victorian Lit
- Class Number: 9340
- Instructor: STRALEY, JESSICA
- Component: Lecture
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/ This course explores both what haunted the Victorians and how the Victorians continue to haunt us. Our reading will include gothic novels, detective fiction, fairy tales, and ghost stories from inside England and the outskirts of the British Empire. Fostered by some of the wackiest specimens of Victorian literature, we will ask how the literary tropes of “haunting” reveal (and shroud) anxieties about the changing conceptions of family and gender roles, nation and empire, urbanization and capitalism, we well as modern science and technology in the nineteenth century. This course will be entirely online; class assignments will include individual writing, collaborative annotations, and discussion boards.
ENGL 5771 - 001 James Joyce
In this course we will be reading, discussing, analyzing (sometimes marveling at, sometimes laughing with, sometimes swearing at) the wonderful but difficult works of James Joyce. The books we will be looking at--Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake--are each, in their own ways, revolutionary redefinitions of the literary and stylistic genres they are embedded in, each radically revolutionizing and influencing the course of modern fiction. Ulysses, voted #1 in the Random House list of the Top 100 books of the 20th Century, is arguably the single most important and influential novel of modern times--and one of the most controversial, having been banned as obscene in the US and England for decades. (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake were #25 and #43, respectively, in the same Random House Top 100 list). These books also have much to do with important issues concerning the ways we think and lead our lives. We will attempt to provide ourselves with a thorough understanding of Joyce and of these particular works; and to think about, discuss, analyze, and write about the implications, both experiential and literary, of the readings.
ENGL 5771 - 001 James Joyce
- Class Number: 9143
- Instructor: CHENG, VINCENT
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 17
In this course we will be reading, discussing, analyzing (sometimes marveling at, sometimes laughing with, sometimes swearing at) the wonderful but difficult works of James Joyce. The books we will be looking at--Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake--are each, in their own ways, revolutionary redefinitions of the literary and stylistic genres they are embedded in, each radically revolutionizing and influencing the course of modern fiction. Ulysses, voted #1 in the Random House list of the Top 100 books of the 20th Century, is arguably the single most important and influential novel of modern times--and one of the most controversial, having been banned as obscene in the US and England for decades. (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake were #25 and #43, respectively, in the same Random House Top 100 list). These books also have much to do with important issues concerning the ways we think and lead our lives. We will attempt to provide ourselves with a thorough understanding of Joyce and of these particular works; and to think about, discuss, analyze, and write about the implications, both experiential and literary, of the readings.
ENGL 5775 - 001 Holocaust Literature
The Holocaust poses a grave challenge to the aspirations and cultural functions of literature – fiction and film. We will examine this problem —paying particular attention to questions of aesthetics and ethics as we consider how these works depict the Holocaust. We consider the particular kinds of challenges that genocide poses to both linguistic and visual expression, and probe the role memory plays in Holocaust representation. With these issues in mind, we will read the work of powerful writers including Paul Celan, Jacob Glatstein, and Charlotte Delbo all of whom write from the position of the first generation survivor. We will also read two graphic novels by second and third generation survivors, as well as how this seismic event has been represented in film
ENGL 5775 - 001 Holocaust Literature
- Class Number: 9152
- Instructor: SHREIBER, MAEERA
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 20
The Holocaust poses a grave challenge to the aspirations and cultural functions of literature – fiction and film. We will examine this problem —paying particular attention to questions of aesthetics and ethics as we consider how these works depict the Holocaust. We consider the particular kinds of challenges that genocide poses to both linguistic and visual expression, and probe the role memory plays in Holocaust representation. With these issues in mind, we will read the work of powerful writers including Paul Celan, Jacob Glatstein, and Charlotte Delbo all of whom write from the position of the first generation survivor. We will also read two graphic novels by second and third generation survivors, as well as how this seismic event has been represented in film
Current right-wing rhetoric seeks to demonize, demean, silence, and erase certain people. This seminar will try to figure out what the reactionaries are so afraid of. Considering a range of genres – from science-fiction to memoir, poetry to film, music to critical theory – we will analyze how the aesthetics of resistance and radical refusal developed over the last century. Plus, we will consider some unthreatening writers who wield a politically powerful and capaciously comforting reassurance (we’re all about the viewpoint diversity). Open-minded students of all ideologies and identities are warmly welcome; no prerequisites or prior knowledge expected.
- Class Number: 9341
- Instructor: DWORKIN, CRAIG
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 4
Current right-wing rhetoric seeks to demonize, demean, silence, and erase certain people. This seminar will try to figure out what the reactionaries are so afraid of. Considering a range of genres – from science-fiction to memoir, poetry to film, music to critical theory – we will analyze how the aesthetics of resistance and radical refusal developed over the last century. Plus, we will consider some unthreatening writers who wield a politically powerful and capaciously comforting reassurance (we’re all about the viewpoint diversity). Open-minded students of all ideologies and identities are warmly welcome; no prerequisites or prior knowledge expected.
ENGL 5800 - 001 Studies Contemp Lit
"The Poetics of Water.” This course will consider how water has been a source of inspiration and innovation in poetry going back to the beginnings of the art form and in contemporary writing. In addition to analyzing texts such as Alice Oswald’s Dart and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!, students will visit the receding waters of the Great Salt Lake and produce a creative project based on their observations.
ENGL 5800 - 001 Studies Contemp Lit
- Class Number: 17601
- Instructor: PIERCE, NICHOLAS
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 11
"The Poetics of Water.” This course will consider how water has been a source of inspiration and innovation in poetry going back to the beginnings of the art form and in contemporary writing. In addition to analyzing texts such as Alice Oswald’s Dart and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!, students will visit the receding waters of the Great Salt Lake and produce a creative project based on their observations.
Representations of disability—including physical disabilities, neurodiversity, and chronic illness, and other bodymind differences—pervade our literary and filmic texts. This course considers how and why cultural texts depend on and exploit disability, how depictions of disability produce certain responses in readers/viewers, and how textual disability relates to lived experience of disabled people. Texts will include short stories, feature films, non-fiction essays, critical analyses, and theory.
- Class Number: 9150
- Instructor: SMITH, ANGELA
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 7
Representations of disability—including physical disabilities, neurodiversity, and chronic illness, and other bodymind differences—pervade our literary and filmic texts. This course considers how and why cultural texts depend on and exploit disability, how depictions of disability produce certain responses in readers/viewers, and how textual disability relates to lived experience of disabled people. Texts will include short stories, feature films, non-fiction essays, critical analyses, and theory.
ENGL 5900 - 001 Form & Theory
How to Build a Poetry Machine. In 1845, an inventor named John Clark built the Eureka machine, a hand-cranked poetic contraption roughly the size of a piano. Users of the machine could pull down on a lever and then look through a small window as the machine displayed a randomly generated line of latin hexameter. The history of literature is scattered with moments like this where scholars, inventors, and poets blurred the lines between machines and poetry. In this class, students will explore the history of text generation leading up to ChatGPT. The course will have a two-part structure. One class each week students will read examples of machine writing and discuss these texts alongside theory. The other class will be a creative writing “workshop” where students will present their own creative work they produced using one of the recently discussed historical examples of mechanized writing. Throughout the semester, the class will have occasional “lab” days, when it will meet in a computer lab and work on technical projects together. Through these technical and creative explorations the class will seek to build a historical context for the hard-to-pin-down contemporary phenomena of ChatGPT and AI.
ENGL 5900 - 001 Form & Theory
- Class Number: 17606
- Instructor: SCHLEICHER, MAX
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 22
How to Build a Poetry Machine. In 1845, an inventor named John Clark built the Eureka machine, a hand-cranked poetic contraption roughly the size of a piano. Users of the machine could pull down on a lever and then look through a small window as the machine displayed a randomly generated line of latin hexameter. The history of literature is scattered with moments like this where scholars, inventors, and poets blurred the lines between machines and poetry. In this class, students will explore the history of text generation leading up to ChatGPT. The course will have a two-part structure. One class each week students will read examples of machine writing and discuss these texts alongside theory. The other class will be a creative writing “workshop” where students will present their own creative work they produced using one of the recently discussed historical examples of mechanized writing. Throughout the semester, the class will have occasional “lab” days, when it will meet in a computer lab and work on technical projects together. Through these technical and creative explorations the class will seek to build a historical context for the hard-to-pin-down contemporary phenomena of ChatGPT and AI.
ENGL 5940 - 001 Theory Gender/Sexuality
“Queer Theory and You”: A broadly-encompassing, question-asking, fascinating field that raises queries for every single one of us, whoever we may be, is our specific focus for this advanced seminar. “Queer Theory,” as a field since 1990, asks about the strangeness of anyone’s gender and sexuality—and, therefore, addresses issues pertinent to anyone’s way of living, dressing, loving, reading. We will use fictions, including films, to explore how life- forms are substantially vectored through words and genres. And we’ll learn the overlap of queer theory with feminisms, gay and lesbian history, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, theories of race, modes of activism, and literary theoretical issues of form.
ENGL 5940 - 001 Theory Gender/Sexuality
- Class Number: 9142
- Instructor: STOCKTON, KATHRYN
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 0
“Queer Theory and You”: A broadly-encompassing, question-asking, fascinating field that raises queries for every single one of us, whoever we may be, is our specific focus for this advanced seminar. “Queer Theory,” as a field since 1990, asks about the strangeness of anyone’s gender and sexuality—and, therefore, addresses issues pertinent to anyone’s way of living, dressing, loving, reading. We will use fictions, including films, to explore how life- forms are substantially vectored through words and genres. And we’ll learn the overlap of queer theory with feminisms, gay and lesbian history, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, theories of race, modes of activism, and literary theoretical issues of form.
ENGL 5945 - 001 Black Feminist Theory
This course traces theoretical, political, and literary love lines from classic Black feminist intellectual thought to its contemporary formations and practices. Students can expect discussion, two short papers, and a creative research project.
ENGL 5945 - 001 Black Feminist Theory
- Class Number: 9155
- Instructor: RUDDS, CRYSTAL
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
This course traces theoretical, political, and literary love lines from classic Black feminist intellectual thought to its contemporary formations and practices. Students can expect discussion, two short papers, and a creative research project.
Popular culture is a subject that we often dismiss as unworthy of serious discussion, largely owing to both its ubiquity as well as the sense that the media we consume for relaxation is by its very nature frivolous. Considering how much of our lives are consumed with popular culture in one way or another, I would argue that the subject merits more thoughtful consideration than we often give it. Together, we will look at various theorizations of popular culture across a number of different media forms, including literature, film, television, music, comics, video games, and new media forms native to the internet.
- Class Number: 9232
- Instructor: SHEPHARD, ANDREW
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 12
Popular culture is a subject that we often dismiss as unworthy of serious discussion, largely owing to both its ubiquity as well as the sense that the media we consume for relaxation is by its very nature frivolous. Considering how much of our lives are consumed with popular culture in one way or another, I would argue that the subject merits more thoughtful consideration than we often give it. Together, we will look at various theorizations of popular culture across a number of different media forms, including literature, film, television, music, comics, video games, and new media forms native to the internet.
ENGL 6260 - 001 Literary Traditions
Poetry and Poetics of the Commons. For hundreds of years, once common properties have been increasingly privatized, and once common customs have been outlawed. This class will look at some of the literary responses to those enclosures. Readings will span over four centuries and a variety of genres, including contemporary punk zines, 17th-Century antinomian tracts, Romantic poetry, film, Indigenous novels, media theory, environmental humanities, radio plays, political theory, and a mud wizard.
ENGL 6260 - 001 Literary Traditions
- Class Number: 9183
- Instructor: DWORKIN, CRAIG
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Fees: $50.00
- Seats Available: 0
Poetry and Poetics of the Commons. For hundreds of years, once common properties have been increasingly privatized, and once common customs have been outlawed. This class will look at some of the literary responses to those enclosures. Readings will span over four centuries and a variety of genres, including contemporary punk zines, 17th-Century antinomian tracts, Romantic poetry, film, Indigenous novels, media theory, environmental humanities, radio plays, political theory, and a mud wizard.
ENGL 6610 - 001 Medieval Literature
How did people in the tenth and eleventh centuries imagine the End of the World? In this class we’ll study Old English language until the mid-semester break, after which we will read, in the original language, a variety of early English poems and prose texts that deal with apocalyptic anxieties and eschatological hopes. We’ll encounter geological and cosmological disasters, complex visions of the afterlife and macabre depictions of undead bodies being devoured by worms and tormented by demons. No previous language experience needed and we go at beginners’ speed. Why rush the End of the World?
ENGL 6610 - 001 Medieval Literature
- Class Number: 9184
- Instructor: JONES, CHRIS
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 1
How did people in the tenth and eleventh centuries imagine the End of the World? In this class we’ll study Old English language until the mid-semester break, after which we will read, in the original language, a variety of early English poems and prose texts that deal with apocalyptic anxieties and eschatological hopes. We’ll encounter geological and cosmological disasters, complex visions of the afterlife and macabre depictions of undead bodies being devoured by worms and tormented by demons. No previous language experience needed and we go at beginners’ speed. Why rush the End of the World?
ENGL 6910 - 001 Indiv Study Masters
ENGL 6910 - 001 Indiv Study Masters
- Class Number: 9233
- Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
- Component: Independent Study
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 5.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 5
ENGL 6960 - 001 Master’s Research
ENGL 6960 - 001 Master’s Research
- Class Number: 9215
- Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
- Component: Special Projects
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 10.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 25
ENGL 6970 - 001 Thesis Research-Masters
ENGL 6970 - 001 Thesis Research-Masters
- Class Number: 9258
- Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
- Component: Thesis Research
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 10.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 24
ENGL 6980 - 001 Faculty Consultation
ENGL 6980 - 001 Faculty Consultation
- Class Number: 9283
- Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
- Component: Independent Study
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 10
ENGL 7040 - 001 Poetry Workshop
ENGL 7040 - 001 Poetry Workshop
- Class Number: 9217
- Instructor: OSHEROW, JACQUELINE
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 9
ENGL 7460 - 001 Theory & Prac of Poetry
We use the terms “lyric” and “narrative” to describe poems all the time, but what do these terms—historically and practically—mean for understanding a specific poem’s structure? What characterizes the lyric voice? What are the limitations of time presented by the narrative? Are there specific prosodic forms that organically attach themselves to or best inform either lyric or narrative modes? How do elements of the lyric and/or narrative mode shape poetic movement, even subject matter? Finally, how might any poem, especially a long work, toggle back and forth between narrative and lyric impulses? This class will examine these questions and more by looking at a range of poems from the classical to the contemporary period, ending with a study of three recent notable long or book-length poems.
ENGL 7460 - 001 Theory & Prac of Poetry
- Class Number: 9216
- Instructor: REKDAL, PAISLEY
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 5
We use the terms “lyric” and “narrative” to describe poems all the time, but what do these terms—historically and practically—mean for understanding a specific poem’s structure? What characterizes the lyric voice? What are the limitations of time presented by the narrative? Are there specific prosodic forms that organically attach themselves to or best inform either lyric or narrative modes? How do elements of the lyric and/or narrative mode shape poetic movement, even subject matter? Finally, how might any poem, especially a long work, toggle back and forth between narrative and lyric impulses? This class will examine these questions and more by looking at a range of poems from the classical to the contemporary period, ending with a study of three recent notable long or book-length poems.
ENGL 7830 - 001 Genealogies of Lyric
This course will consider the genre and theory of lyric poetry from the Renaissance to Romanticism (with some attention to classical antecedents). We will survey lyric forms (especially the sonnet, ode, and elegy) and examine critical, literary historical, and definitional questions raised by the genre. Course assignments will include several short papers, one of which will be presented in class, and a longer final paper or project. Students with an interest in non-Western lyric forms, such as ghazal or haiku, may choose to develop final projects on these traditions. Readings will include poems by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Wroth, Donne, Milton, Marvell, Cowley, Gray, Collins, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats and critical and theoretical works by René Wellek, Theodor Adorno, Cleanth Brooks, Reuben Brower, M. H. Abrams, Gérard Genette, Helen Vendler, Jonathan Culler, Frances Ferguson, Barbara Johnson, and Virginia Jackson, among others.
ENGL 7830 - 001 Genealogies of Lyric
- Class Number: 17521
- Instructor: FRANTA, ANDREW
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 10
This course will consider the genre and theory of lyric poetry from the Renaissance to Romanticism (with some attention to classical antecedents). We will survey lyric forms (especially the sonnet, ode, and elegy) and examine critical, literary historical, and definitional questions raised by the genre. Course assignments will include several short papers, one of which will be presented in class, and a longer final paper or project. Students with an interest in non-Western lyric forms, such as ghazal or haiku, may choose to develop final projects on these traditions. Readings will include poems by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Wroth, Donne, Milton, Marvell, Cowley, Gray, Collins, Smith, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats and critical and theoretical works by René Wellek, Theodor Adorno, Cleanth Brooks, Reuben Brower, M. H. Abrams, Gérard Genette, Helen Vendler, Jonathan Culler, Frances Ferguson, Barbara Johnson, and Virginia Jackson, among others.
ENGL 7910 - 001 Indiv Study Ph D
ENGL 7910 - 001 Indiv Study Ph D
- Class Number: 9284
- Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
- Component: Independent Study
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 5.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 5
ENGL 7970 - 001 Thesis Research-Ph D
ENGL 7970 - 001 Thesis Research-Ph D
- Class Number: 9309
- Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
- Component: Thesis Research
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 12.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 3
ENGL 7980 - 001 Faculty Consultation
ENGL 7980 - 001 Faculty Consultation
- Class Number: 9334
- Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
- Component: Independent Study
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 10
ENGL 7990 - 001 Cont Reg-Ph D
ENGL 7990 - 001 Cont Reg-Ph D
- Class Number: 9335
- Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
- Component: Continuing Registration
- Type: In Person
- Units: 0.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 10