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ENGL 201 - 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 201 - 090 Intermediate Writing
- Class Number: 6276
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: No
- Fees: $525.00
- 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 209 - 001 Video Game Storytelling
ENGL 209 - 001 Video Game Storytelling
- Class Number: 6265
- Instructor: Carpenter, Justin
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: No
- Fees: $525.00
- Seats Available: 2
ENGL 209 - 090 Video Game Storytelling
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 209 - 090 Video Game Storytelling
- Class Number: 6266
- Instructor: Seegert, Alf
- Component: Lecture
- Type: Online
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: No
- Fees: $525.00
- 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 230 - 001 Intro Shakespeare
ENGL 230 - 001 Intro Shakespeare
- Class Number: 6516
- Instructor: Matheson, Mark
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: No
- Fees: $525.00
- Seats Available: 2
ENGL 261 - 001 Diversity in American Lit
ENGL 261 - 001 Diversity in American Lit
- Class Number: 6268
- Instructor: Marinkovski, Lepa
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: No
- Fees: $525.00
- Seats Available: 2
ENGL 551 - 001 Fiction Workshop
ENGL 551 - 001 Fiction Workshop
- Class Number: 6256
- Instructor: Mejia, Michael
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 0.0
- Wait List: No
- Fees: $525.00
- Seats Available: 2
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: 6277
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
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: 6278
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
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: 6279
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
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: 6280
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
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: 6271
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
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: 6281
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
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: 6282
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
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: 6283
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
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: 6284
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
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: 6285
- Instructor: Callaway, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
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 and Literature
This course will explore the how large language models “speak” in literary and not-literary ways. We will explore concepts of authorship, voice, tradition, and literary genealogy, examining both the promises and limitations of AI-generated poetry and prose.
ENGL 2086 - 001 AI and Literature
- Class Number: 6267
- Instructor: Robbins, Hollis
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
This course will explore the how large language models “speak” in literary and not-literary ways. We will explore concepts of authorship, voice, tradition, and literary genealogy, examining both the promises and limitations of AI-generated poetry and prose.
ENGL 2090 - 001 Video Game Storytelling
ENGL 2090 - 001 Video Game Storytelling
- Class Number: 6253
- Instructor: Carpenter, Justin
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 58
ENGL 2090 - 090 Video Game Storytelling
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.
ENGL 2090 - 090 Video Game Storytelling
- Class Number: 6254
- Instructor: Seegert, Alf
- Component: Lecture
- Type: Online
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 88
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.
ENGL 2300 - 001 Intro Shakespeare
ENGL 2300 - 001 Intro Shakespeare
- Class Number: 6300
- Instructor: Matheson, Mark
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 45
ENGL 2330 - 090 Intro to Children's 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 2330 - 090 Intro to Children's Lit
- Class Number: 6244
- Instructor: Straley, Jessica
- 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 2340 - 001 Bible As Literature
The Bible contains not only many texts but many kinds or genres of texts. This course will focus on three kinds: myths, wisdom, and visions. Our primary reading will come from the Hebrew Bible (the parts of the Bible that Christians call the "Old Testament"). We will also read a few adaptations and appropriations of these Biblical genres in the Christian "New Testament," as well as a handful of brief selections from adaptations in English literature.
ENGL 2340 - 001 Bible As Literature
- Class Number: 6258
- Instructor: Wall, Spencer
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
The Bible contains not only many texts but many kinds or genres of texts. This course will focus on three kinds: myths, wisdom, and visions. Our primary reading will come from the Hebrew Bible (the parts of the Bible that Christians call the "Old Testament"). We will also read a few adaptations and appropriations of these Biblical genres in the Christian "New Testament," as well as a handful of brief selections from adaptations in English literature.
ENGL 2610 - 001 Diversity In Amer Lit
ENGL 2610 - 001 Diversity In Amer Lit
- Class Number: 6306
- Instructor: Marinkovski, Lepa
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
ENGL 2620 - 001 Women Writers
Attentive to the legacy of the historical avant-gardes of the early 20th century, this class will sample some of the most radically experimental American women writers of the 21st century, including trans women. Texts will range from New Narrative prose to fractured lyric to digital literature. Works in Spanish will have translations provided.
ENGL 2620 - 001 Women Writers
- Class Number: 6310
- Instructor: Dworkin, Craig
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
Attentive to the legacy of the historical avant-gardes of the early 20th century, this class will sample some of the most radically experimental American women writers of the 21st century, including trans women. Texts will range from New Narrative prose to fractured lyric to digital literature. Works in Spanish will have translations provided.
ENGL 2640 - 001 Intro African Amer 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/ What is “African American” or “Black” literature, and is it important to label it as such? This course is a survey of works dated from the early twentieth century to the present and will provide a historical, cultural, and social context for the major themes, debates, and characters that make up this body of literature. Well-known writers of this tradition of this historical arc include Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Toni Morrison, but we will also read lesser-known writers from the Harlem Renaissance through the Black Arts Movement and up to the contemporary moment of Afrofuturism. In addition to reading relevant texts, students will be introduced to the academic study of literature; learn and employ key literary terms; and critically engage with literary works. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are a part of the course.
ENGL 2640 - 001 Intro African Amer Lit
- Class Number: 6311
- Instructor: Rudds, Crystal
- 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/ What is “African American” or “Black” literature, and is it important to label it as such? This course is a survey of works dated from the early twentieth century to the present and will provide a historical, cultural, and social context for the major themes, debates, and characters that make up this body of literature. Well-known writers of this tradition of this historical arc include Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Toni Morrison, but we will also read lesser-known writers from the Harlem Renaissance through the Black Arts Movement and up to the contemporary moment of Afrofuturism. In addition to reading relevant texts, students will be introduced to the academic study of literature; learn and employ key literary terms; and critically engage with literary works. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are a part of the course.
ENGL 2650 - 001 Intro Chicana/o Lit
ENGL 2650 - 001 Intro Chicana/o Lit
- Class Number: 6312
- Instructor: Mejia, Michael
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
ENGL 2680 - 090 Intro Global/Transnatnl
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 2680 - 090 Intro Global/Transnatnl
- Class Number: 6313
- Instructor: Jamison, Anne
- 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 2701 - 001 Intro Lit Hist 1
ENGL 2701 - 001 Intro Lit Hist 1
- Class Number: 6507
- Instructor: Wall, Spencer
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
ENGL 3510 - 001 Writing Fiction
Students must have taken an introductory creative writing course, such as ENGL 2500.
ENGL 3510 - 001 Writing Fiction
ENGL 3510 - 002 Writing Fiction
Students must have taken an introductory creative writing course, such as ENGL 2500.
ENGL 3510 - 002 Writing Fiction
ENGL 3520 - 001 Writing Poetry
Students must have taken an introductory creative writing course, such as ENGL 2500.
ENGL 3520 - 001 Writing Poetry
ENGL 3600 - 001 Intro Critical Theory
ENGL 3600 - 001 Intro Critical Theory
- Class Number: 6314
- Instructor: Stockton, Kathryn
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
ENGL 3850 - 001 Seminar in Lit. Study
In this seminar we will study in detail one of the most famous texts of English literature, Hamlet. We will close read the play slowly over several weeks, before turning our attention to a range of important critical essays written about Hamlet over the course of around a hundred years. In this way, we will construct a history of the discipline of English Studies, as well as of interpretations of the play.
ENGL 3850 - 001 Seminar in Lit. Study
- Class Number: 6259
- Instructor: Jones, Chris
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
In this seminar we will study in detail one of the most famous texts of English literature, Hamlet. We will close read the play slowly over several weeks, before turning our attention to a range of important critical essays written about Hamlet over the course of around a hundred years. In this way, we will construct a history of the discipline of English Studies, as well as of interpretations of the play.
ENGL 3850 - 002 Seminar in Lit. Study
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 3850 - 002 Seminar in Lit. Study
- Class Number: 6260
- Instructor: Pecora, Vincent
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
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 3850 - 003 Seminar in Lit. Study
ENGL 3850 - 003 Seminar in Lit. Study
- Class Number: 6261
- Instructor: Franta, Andrew
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
ENGL 3850 - 004 Seminar in Lit. Study
Gothic Romance: Following the release of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, this section of 3850 will examine the evolution of Gothic Romance. We’ll start at the end of the 18th century with selections from the original Gothic Novel™, tracking the genre’s development through nineteenth-century classics like Wuthering Heights and Dracula, before moving on to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s 2020 bestseller, Mexican Gothic.
ENGL 3850 - 004 Seminar in Lit. Study
- Class Number: 6262
- Instructor: Tett, Sam
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
Gothic Romance: Following the release of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, this section of 3850 will examine the evolution of Gothic Romance. We’ll start at the end of the 18th century with selections from the original Gothic Novel™, tracking the genre’s development through nineteenth-century classics like Wuthering Heights and Dracula, before moving on to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s 2020 bestseller, Mexican Gothic.
ENGL 4999 - 001 Honors Thesis/Project
ENGL 4999 - 001 Honors Thesis/Project
- Class Number: 6509
- Instructor: Wall, Spencer
- Component: Honors Thesis Project
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 5
ENGL 5090 - 001 Lit, Film, Video Games
The reading of literary texts is necessarily active, but the playing of video games is by definition interactive: a player’s choices characteristically affect outcomes, or at least feel like they do. As a result, the medium of video games can produce emotions which are rarely, if ever, found in other artistic media, such as responsibility or even guilt. To examine such concerns, this course examines literary texts and films alongside narrative-focused video games in order that each medium might illuminate the others. What are the promises, benefits, and liabilities of interactivity? What does the gap between player and player character feel like? How have film, literature, and video game media influenced one another? Other fundamental concerns of the class involve virtuality, linear vs. multilinear gameplay, narrative “vs.” interactivity, spiritual initiation and the logic of pilgrimage, time loops and mastery loops, the uses of failure, player-avatar relationships, and alternatives to the Hero’s Journey.
ENGL 5090 - 001 Lit, Film, Video Games
- Class Number: 6264
- Instructor: Seegert, Alf
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 30
The reading of literary texts is necessarily active, but the playing of video games is by definition interactive: a player’s choices characteristically affect outcomes, or at least feel like they do. As a result, the medium of video games can produce emotions which are rarely, if ever, found in other artistic media, such as responsibility or even guilt. To examine such concerns, this course examines literary texts and films alongside narrative-focused video games in order that each medium might illuminate the others. What are the promises, benefits, and liabilities of interactivity? What does the gap between player and player character feel like? How have film, literature, and video game media influenced one another? Other fundamental concerns of the class involve virtuality, linear vs. multilinear gameplay, narrative “vs.” interactivity, spiritual initiation and the logic of pilgrimage, time loops and mastery loops, the uses of failure, player-avatar relationships, and alternatives to the Hero’s Journey.
ENGL 5210 - 001 Film Genres
About a century ago, sociologist Max Weber famously declared that modernity had, through the combined powers of industrialization and technical rationality, brought about “the disenchantment of the world.” This disenchantment allegedly drained soul and meaning from the cosmos, leaving people alienated from themselves and nature, and rendering the earth a wasteland. In this class we examine how cinema both depicts and enacts – or attempts to enact – the powers of enchantment. The assigned films reveal both promise and peril in an enchanted perception of the world, specifically the delights and bewitchments of virtuality found in dreams, delusions, stage illusions, poetic art, digital devices, special effects, and the magic of the camera itself.
ENGL 5210 - 001 Film Genres
- Class Number: 6248
- Instructor: Seegert, Alf
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 4.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
About a century ago, sociologist Max Weber famously declared that modernity had, through the combined powers of industrialization and technical rationality, brought about “the disenchantment of the world.” This disenchantment allegedly drained soul and meaning from the cosmos, leaving people alienated from themselves and nature, and rendering the earth a wasteland. In this class we examine how cinema both depicts and enacts – or attempts to enact – the powers of enchantment. The assigned films reveal both promise and peril in an enchanted perception of the world, specifically the delights and bewitchments of virtuality found in dreams, delusions, stage illusions, poetic art, digital devices, special effects, and the magic of the camera itself.
ENGL 5410 - 001 Meth-Tchg Lang Arts 1
ENGL 5410 - 001 Meth-Tchg Lang Arts 1
- Class Number: 6316
- Instructor: Marinkovski, Lepa
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 4.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 23
ENGL 5510 - 001 Fiction Workshop
Students must have taken an intermediate fiction writing course (ENGL 3510). Two of the main goals of this fiction workshop will be creative production and development of your skills of reading for writerly technique. We'll be paying a lot of attention in this course: to our reading; to ourselves and to each other; to language and image; to rhythm, form, and style; to the choices we make, have made, can make; to media; and to our moment, too. Experiments responding to our readings will give us some space for play and, hopefully, with the aid of attentive feedback, they'll also generate workshop submissions and revisions that demonstrate your advanced capacity for the production of fiction that commands attention and that productively unsettles a reader, awakens them into an exquisite and unfamiliar feeling.
ENGL 5510 - 001 Fiction Workshop
- Class Number: 6497
- Instructor: Mejia, Michael
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 14
Students must have taken an intermediate fiction writing course (ENGL 3510). Two of the main goals of this fiction workshop will be creative production and development of your skills of reading for writerly technique. We'll be paying a lot of attention in this course: to our reading; to ourselves and to each other; to language and image; to rhythm, form, and style; to the choices we make, have made, can make; to media; and to our moment, too. Experiments responding to our readings will give us some space for play and, hopefully, with the aid of attentive feedback, they'll also generate workshop submissions and revisions that demonstrate your advanced capacity for the production of fiction that commands attention and that productively unsettles a reader, awakens them into an exquisite and unfamiliar feeling.
ENGL 5510 - 002 Fiction Workshop
Students must have taken an intermediate fiction writing course (ENGL 3510). 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: 6498
- Instructor: Drager, Lindsey
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
Students must have taken an intermediate fiction writing course (ENGL 3510). 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 5520 - 001 Poetry Workshop
Students must have taken an intermediate poetry writing course (ENGL 3520). Students will read and write a great deal of poetry this semester. Students will be required to write a poem each week. Most of these will be prompted by specific assignments, some formal, some focusing on subject matter or approach. Every fourth week, students will write poems with no specific requirements. Students will also have significant reading assignments every week and be required to write a weekly paragraph which will help jump-start class discussion about that reading.
ENGL 5520 - 001 Poetry Workshop
- Class Number: 6499
- Instructor: Osherow, Jacqueline
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
Students must have taken an intermediate poetry writing course (ENGL 3520). Students will read and write a great deal of poetry this semester. Students will be required to write a poem each week. Most of these will be prompted by specific assignments, some formal, some focusing on subject matter or approach. Every fourth week, students will write poems with no specific requirements. Students will also have significant reading assignments every week and be required to write a weekly paragraph which will help jump-start class discussion about that reading.
ENGL 5570 - 001 Screenwriting and Adapt
ENGL 5570 Screenwriting and Adaptation. Recent data estimates that 88% of scripted TV and film releases each year are based on existing material. In this course we'll explore the essential craft of adapting work from other mediums into screenplay format. We'll read, watch, pitch, write, and workshop our way through a semester of stories, honing practical techniques for artfully translating others' work (or your own!) to the silver screen. This class can be used to fulfill the 5000-level workshop requirement for the Creative Writing minor.
ENGL 5570 - 001 Screenwriting and Adapt
- Class Number: 6270
- Instructor: Boyer, Sam
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
ENGL 5570 Screenwriting and Adaptation. Recent data estimates that 88% of scripted TV and film releases each year are based on existing material. In this course we'll explore the essential craft of adapting work from other mediums into screenplay format. We'll read, watch, pitch, write, and workshop our way through a semester of stories, honing practical techniques for artfully translating others' work (or your own!) to the silver screen. This class can be used to fulfill the 5000-level workshop requirement for the Creative Writing minor.
ENGL 5650 - 001 Adv Sem Lit Study
ENGL 5650 - 001 Adv Sem Lit Study
- Class Number: 6249
- Instructor: Preiss, Richard
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
ENGL 5650 - 002 Adv Sem Lit Study
This course will examine notions of homeplace and the history of housing in the American literary imagination. From early tenements to midcentury kitchenettes to the first suburbs and high rises, American authors have contemplated the impact of shifting housing conditions on their access to the promises of democracy. We will examine representations of socioeconomics, immigration, race, and gender through a spatial lens, looking at how writers aestheticize homemaking and housing justice in fiction, non-fiction, and critical articles. This is a research seminar that will result in a 12-to-15-page polished essay. The course also emphasizes critical perspectives and communication skills by engaging with diverse texts.
ENGL 5650 - 002 Adv Sem Lit Study
- Class Number: 6250
- Instructor: Rudds, Crystal
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
This course will examine notions of homeplace and the history of housing in the American literary imagination. From early tenements to midcentury kitchenettes to the first suburbs and high rises, American authors have contemplated the impact of shifting housing conditions on their access to the promises of democracy. We will examine representations of socioeconomics, immigration, race, and gender through a spatial lens, looking at how writers aestheticize homemaking and housing justice in fiction, non-fiction, and critical articles. This is a research seminar that will result in a 12-to-15-page polished essay. The course also emphasizes critical perspectives and communication skills by engaging with diverse texts.
ENGL 5650 - 004 Adv Sem Lit Study
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 5650 - 004 Adv Sem Lit Study
- Class Number: 6251
- Instructor: Dworkin, Craig
- Component: Seminar
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
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 5701 - 001 Chaucer
Today, Chaucer is best known for The Canterbury Tales, but in the centuries following his death, many readers considered his greatest work to be Troilus and Criseyde. In this seminar, we begin with Chaucer’s minor works before turning to this dazzling and self-consciously bookish poem, which unfolds against the backdrop of the Trojan War. Along the way, we will also consider Chaucer’s afterlives in popular and contemporary culture, from Brian Helgeland’s 2001 film A Knight’s Tale to Zadie Smith’s Wife of Willesden.
ENGL 5701 - 001 Chaucer
- Class Number: 6317
- Instructor: Ripplinger, Michelle
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
Today, Chaucer is best known for The Canterbury Tales, but in the centuries following his death, many readers considered his greatest work to be Troilus and Criseyde. In this seminar, we begin with Chaucer’s minor works before turning to this dazzling and self-consciously bookish poem, which unfolds against the backdrop of the Trojan War. Along the way, we will also consider Chaucer’s afterlives in popular and contemporary culture, from Brian Helgeland’s 2001 film A Knight’s Tale to Zadie Smith’s Wife of Willesden.
ENGL 5710 - 001 Studies Renaissance Lit
ENGL 5710 - 001 Studies Renaissance Lit
- Class Number: 6501
- Instructor: Preiss, Richard
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
ENGL 5740 - 001 Studies Brit Romantic
This course will consider the romantic nature poem, paying particular attention to the formal innovations of poems like Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head, and Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind.”
ENGL 5740 - 001 Studies Brit Romantic
- Class Number: 6502
- Instructor: Franta, Andrew
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 23
This course will consider the romantic nature poem, paying particular attention to the formal innovations of poems like Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head, and Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind.”
ENGL 5750 - 001 Studies 19Th C Amer Lit
In 1873, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner co-authored a novel that satirized the acquisitiveness and materialism of post-Civil War America; before long, the period itself had become known by the phrase they invented: “the Gilded Age.” In this course we will examine the ways in which novels of the late nineteenth century depict the economic and social crises that dominated the period (and that are sometimes strangely reminiscent of our own moment). We will read works like William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham, Frank Norris’s McTeague, and Henry James’s The Spoils of Poynton, which track the class conflicts generated by the post-war economic boom; Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, which investigates the cultural, legal, and economic restraints placed on women; and Charles Chesnutt’s “conjure” stories, which confront the effects of racial segregation in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Along the way, we will explore the formal innovations of the period, especially the rise of realism and naturalism.
ENGL 5750 - 001 Studies 19Th C Amer Lit
- Class Number: 6503
- Instructor: Margolis, Stacey
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 23
In 1873, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner co-authored a novel that satirized the acquisitiveness and materialism of post-Civil War America; before long, the period itself had become known by the phrase they invented: “the Gilded Age.” In this course we will examine the ways in which novels of the late nineteenth century depict the economic and social crises that dominated the period (and that are sometimes strangely reminiscent of our own moment). We will read works like William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham, Frank Norris’s McTeague, and Henry James’s The Spoils of Poynton, which track the class conflicts generated by the post-war economic boom; Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, which investigates the cultural, legal, and economic restraints placed on women; and Charles Chesnutt’s “conjure” stories, which confront the effects of racial segregation in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Along the way, we will explore the formal innovations of the period, especially the rise of realism and naturalism.
ENGL 5760 - 001 Studies Victorian Lit
How to Make History in the Nineteenth Century: Why are we so obsessed with the nineteenth century? From Bridgerton to Wuthering Heights, we can’t seem to stop remembering (or misremembering) this particular historical period. Are we remembering it correctly? Should we remember it correctly? Why do we like remembering it so much, and so often? To answer these questions, we’ll read some of the classic Victorian novels you’d expect, some you’ve never heard of, and we’ll also take a look at some of the modern retellings of this period.
ENGL 5760 - 001 Studies Victorian Lit
- Class Number: 6504
- Instructor: Tett, Sam
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
How to Make History in the Nineteenth Century: Why are we so obsessed with the nineteenth century? From Bridgerton to Wuthering Heights, we can’t seem to stop remembering (or misremembering) this particular historical period. Are we remembering it correctly? Should we remember it correctly? Why do we like remembering it so much, and so often? To answer these questions, we’ll read some of the classic Victorian novels you’d expect, some you’ve never heard of, and we’ll also take a look at some of the modern retellings of this period.
ENGL 5773 - 001 Virginia Woolf
This is a course for upper division students who have completed their introductory studies for the major. We will be reading a few books by Virginia Woolf, including her major novels and criticism. The course will also focus on the shifting reception of Woolf’s work in the last hundred years or so. One major issue will be the relation between Woolf’s radical innovations in narrative form and the historical context of her career. A second will be Woolf’s lifelong preoccupation with madness, of both the individual and the social sort. Assignments will include both in-class writing and a more substantive critical essay.
ENGL 5773 - 001 Virginia Woolf
- Class Number: 6269
- Instructor: Pecora, Vincent
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 23
This is a course for upper division students who have completed their introductory studies for the major. We will be reading a few books by Virginia Woolf, including her major novels and criticism. The course will also focus on the shifting reception of Woolf’s work in the last hundred years or so. One major issue will be the relation between Woolf’s radical innovations in narrative form and the historical context of her career. A second will be Woolf’s lifelong preoccupation with madness, of both the individual and the social sort. Assignments will include both in-class writing and a more substantive critical essay.
ENGL 5780 - 001 Studies 20Th C Amer Lit
American literature came into its own in the 20th century, leading movements and welcoming voices and influences from around the world without ceding its own sense of American-ness. This course will explore what made American literature so American in the 20th century.
ENGL 5780 - 001 Studies 20Th C Amer Lit
- Class Number: 6505
- Instructor: Robbins, Hollis
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
American literature came into its own in the 20th century, leading movements and welcoming voices and influences from around the world without ceding its own sense of American-ness. This course will explore what made American literature so American in the 20th century.
ENGL 5900 - 001 Form & Theory
This From and Theory class will investigate poetry from a number of angles. We’ll look at various of forms and examine the ways poets make them their own; we’ll look at poets’ theories of poems in their essays, journals and letters and read these theories against their poems. Students will have the opportunity either to write short papers or to produce formal poems of their own. Students will also be required to write a paragraph each week about the reading, which will help jump-start class discussion.
ENGL 5900 - 001 Form & Theory
- Class Number: 6500
- Instructor: Osherow, Jacqueline
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 23
This From and Theory class will investigate poetry from a number of angles. We’ll look at various of forms and examine the ways poets make them their own; we’ll look at poets’ theories of poems in their essays, journals and letters and read these theories against their poems. Students will have the opportunity either to write short papers or to produce formal poems of their own. Students will also be required to write a paragraph each week about the reading, which will help jump-start class discussion.
ENGL 5910 - 001 Studies Crit/Theory
New Formalism and Institutional Critique. The last two decades have seen a boom in literary criticism that moves in two seemingly opposite directions: outward, away from the literary texts and into the institutions that produce, circulate, and receive them; and inward, into a “new” formalism that revives the study of the shapes literary texts take. This course will examine new formalism and institutional critique to ask if they can be reconciled and understand the state of literary criticism today.
ENGL 5910 - 001 Studies Crit/Theory
- Class Number: 6506
- Instructor: Rosen, Jeremy
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 25
New Formalism and Institutional Critique. The last two decades have seen a boom in literary criticism that moves in two seemingly opposite directions: outward, away from the literary texts and into the institutions that produce, circulate, and receive them; and inward, into a “new” formalism that revives the study of the shapes literary texts take. This course will examine new formalism and institutional critique to ask if they can be reconciled and understand the state of literary criticism today.
ENGL 5960 - 001 Theories Pop Culture
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. And, yet, think about how much time you spend watching tv, going to the movies, streaming music, playing video games, or posting on social media. 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. This course proposes to be something of a corrective in this regard. 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 5960 - 001 Theories Pop Culture
- Class Number: 6318
- Instructor: Shephard, Andrew
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 23
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. And, yet, think about how much time you spend watching tv, going to the movies, streaming music, playing video games, or posting on social media. 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. This course proposes to be something of a corrective in this regard. 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 5995 - 090 Digital Humanities
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 5995 - 090 Digital Humanities
- Class Number: 6272
- Instructor: Swanstrom, Elizabeth
- Component: Seminar
- 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 6480 - 001 Intro Critical Theory
ENGL 6480 - 001 Intro Critical Theory
- Class Number: 6298
- Instructor: Carpenter, Justin
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 15
ENGL 6670 - 001 19th-C American Lit
ENGL 6670 - 001 19th-C American Lit
- Class Number: 6299
- Instructor: Margolis, Stacey
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 15
ENGL 6700 - 001 American Cinema
This course will examine theories of the horror-film genre, diverse critical approaches to horror cinema, and the content, form, effects/affects, and meanings of several significant American horror movies. We’ll particularly consider how horror movies engage cultural and social fears, anxieties, and desires in relation to gender, sexuality, race, and disability. Possible films include Bride of Frankenstein, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, Carrie, Get Out, Nanny, I Saw the TV Glow, and The Substance.
ENGL 6700 - 001 American Cinema
- Class Number: 6273
- Instructor: Smith, Angela
- Component: Lecture
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 15
This course will examine theories of the horror-film genre, diverse critical approaches to horror cinema, and the content, form, effects/affects, and meanings of several significant American horror movies. We’ll particularly consider how horror movies engage cultural and social fears, anxieties, and desires in relation to gender, sexuality, race, and disability. Possible films include Bride of Frankenstein, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, Carrie, Get Out, Nanny, I Saw the TV Glow, and The Substance.
ENGL 6910 - 001 Indiv Study Masters
ENGL 6910 - 001 Indiv Study Masters
- Class Number: 6319
- Instructor: Drager, Lindsey
- Component: Independent Study
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 5.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 25
ENGL 6960 - 001 Master’s Research
ENGL 6960 - 001 Master’s Research
- Class Number: 6275
- 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: 6349
- Instructor: Drager, Lindsey
- Component: Thesis Research
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 10.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 25
ENGL 6980 - 001 Faculty Consultation
ENGL 6980 - 001 Faculty Consultation
- Class Number: 6380
- Instructor: Drager, Lindsey
- Component: Independent Study
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 25
ENGL 7030 - 001 Fiction Workshop
ENGL 7030 - 001 Fiction Workshop
- Class Number: 6377
- Instructor: Shavers, Rone
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 12
ENGL 7040 - 001 Poetry Workshop
In this class, each student will create a poetic project that focuses on a specific and personally meaningful location, either through researching a particular biological feature, notable person, field of industry, or architectural site that represents this place; through writing about its flora or fauna; or through examining the history of how this site itself was mapped—or through all these lenses. The end result will be a series of poems that take a kaleidoscopic look at how an environment evolves, utilizing a variety of poetic forms (conventional or self-invented) to create an extended poetic meditation of place.
ENGL 7040 - 001 Poetry Workshop
- Class Number: 6378
- Instructor: Rekdal, Paisley
- Component: Workshop
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: Yes
- Seats Available: 12
In this class, each student will create a poetic project that focuses on a specific and personally meaningful location, either through researching a particular biological feature, notable person, field of industry, or architectural site that represents this place; through writing about its flora or fauna; or through examining the history of how this site itself was mapped—or through all these lenses. The end result will be a series of poems that take a kaleidoscopic look at how an environment evolves, utilizing a variety of poetic forms (conventional or self-invented) to create an extended poetic meditation of place.
ENGL 7910 - 001 Indiv Study Ph D
ENGL 7910 - 001 Indiv Study Ph D
- Class Number: 6410
- Instructor: Drager, Lindsey
- Component: Independent Study
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 5.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 25
ENGL 7970 - 001 Thesis Research-Ph D
ENGL 7970 - 001 Thesis Research-Ph D
- Class Number: 6439
- Instructor: Drager, Lindsey
- Component: Thesis Research
- Type: In Person
- Units: 1.0 - 12.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 25
ENGL 7980 - 001 Faculty Consultation
ENGL 7980 - 001 Faculty Consultation
- Class Number: 6467
- Instructor: Drager, Lindsey
- Component: Independent Study
- Type: In Person
- Units: 3.0
- Requisites: Yes
- Wait List: No
- Seats Available: 25