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ENGLISHContact InformationEnglishhttp://www.english.rice.edu/225 Herring Hall713-348-2666

Rosemary HennessyDepartment Chairrosemary.hennessy@rice.edu

The English department's undergraduate program offers a broadspectrum of courses, including British and American literature, creativewriting, women and gender studies, cultural studies, literary theory, mediastudies, and film. Beyond gaining a critical appreciation of literature,students also will sharpen their written communication and analyticalskills.

The English department's graduate program offers concentrations in allfields of British and American literature and literary theory.

Bachelor's Programs• Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree with a Major in English  (ga.rice.edu/

programs-study/departments-programs/humanities/english/english-ba)

• and a Major Concentration in Creative Writing (ga.rice.edu/programs-study/departments-programs/humanities/english/english-ba-creative-writing-concentration)

Master's Program• Master of Arts (MA) Degree in the field of English*

Doctoral Program• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Degree in the field of English 

(ga.rice.edu/programs-study/departments-programs/humanities/english/english-phd)

* Although students are not normally admitted to a Master of Arts (MA)degree program, graduate students may earn the MA as they worktowards the PhD. 

ChairRosemary Hennessy

Director of Undergraduate StudiesScott S. Derrick

Director of Graduate StudiesHelena Michie

ProfessorsKrista ComerTerrence Arthur DoodyRosemary HennessyCaroline Levander

Helena MichieWesley Abram MorrisTimothy MortonKirsten OstherrJudith RoofMeredith SkuraEdward A. SnowCary E. Wolfe

Associate ProfessorsJosé F. Aranda Jr.Joseph A. CampanaAmber DermontScott S. DerrickSarah EllenzweigBetty JosephColleen LamosSusan LurieAlexander RegierNicole Waligora-Davis

Assistant ProfessorsEmily Houlik-RitcheyLacy JohnsonPaul Otremba

Professors EmeritiLinda P. DriskillJ. Dennis HustonSusan Wood

Professor in the PracticeLogan Delano Browning

Senior LecturerJill "Thad" Logan

LecturersAmanda JohnsonIan Schimmel

Writer in ResidenceJustin C. Cronin

For Rice University degree-granting programs:To view the list of official course offerings, please see Rice’sCourse Catalog (https://courses.rice.edu/admweb/!SWKSCAT.cat?p_action=cata)To view the most recent semester’s course schedule, please see Rice'sCourse Schedule (https://courses.rice.edu/admweb/!SWKSCAT.cat)

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English (ENGL)ENGL 100 - INTRODUCTION TO LITERATUREShort Title: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: This course is designed to introduce students from a varietyof academic backgrounds to the major literary genres of fiction, poetry,drama, and creative non-fiction. Students will learn and practice the skillsof close reading, interpretation, and literary analysis through discussionand critical writing about literature and language. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 121 - AP/OTH CREDIT IN ENGLISHShort Title: AP/OTH CREDIT IN ENGLISHDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: TransferCredit Hours: 3Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: This course provides credit for students who havesuccessfully completed approved examinations, such as AdvancedPlacement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hoursrequired for graduation.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 122 - AP/OTH CREDIT IN ENGLISHShort Title: AP/OTH CREDIT IN ENGLISHDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: TransferCredit Hours: 3Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: This course provides credit for students who havesuccessfully completed approved examinations, such as AdvancedPlacement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hoursrequired for graduation.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 175 - GLOBAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISHShort Title: GLOBAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISHDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: An introduction to global literary studies and critical writingin which students study a range of literatures in English. The subject istwentieth-century modernism and its successors; postmodernism; andpostcolonialism.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 200 - CRITICAL READING AND WRITINGShort Title: CRITICAL READING AND WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: A course designed for and required of all prospective Englishmajors. Emphasis is on close reading, literary interpretation, and criticalwriting. Attention is paid to the major genres (poetry, drama, and fiction)across a range of historical periods.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 201 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITINGShort Title: INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: A course dedicated to the study and craft of fiction,nonfiction, and poetry. Through engaged reading and creative exercises,students will analyze the use of various elements of creative writing -including image, voice, tension, character, setting, and story. Students willdevelop a writing portfolio as well as a sense of the possibilities inherentin and unique to each genre.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 202 - THE CREATIVE CULTURAL ESSAYShort Title: THE CREATIVE CULTURAL ESSAYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: A course dedicated to the craft of the cultural essay: writingthat analyzes and creatively engages the art forms, texts, and culturalexperiences that move us, challenge us, and compel us to write throughour responses to the world. Students will develop prose skills, a portfolio,and a sense of today's publishing environment.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 203 - TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITINGShort Title: TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: An introductory, variable topics workshop in creative writingthat asks students to work in multiple genres (fiction, non-fiction, poetry,reviewing, etc.). Topics will vary from semester to semester and mayinclude "Food Writing," "Writing Green," "Persona," and more. Repeatablefor Credit.Course URL: english.rice.edu

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ENGL 204 - FORMS OF POETRYShort Title: FORMS OF POETRYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: This course examines the fundamental architecture ofpoetry. How do poets create a sense of shape? What are the nuts andbolts of a poem? Students will read widely in the history of poetry fromtraditional meters and historical forms to contemporary free verse andexperimental or open forms. Part workshop and part seminar, this coursewill feature critical and creative assignments and is designed for majorsand non-majors, writers and non-writers alike.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 210 - BEGINNINGS: BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1800Short Title: BRITISH LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: A survey of representative British authors of the MiddleAges, the Renaissance, and the 18th century for both majors and non-majors.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 211 - MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: 1800 TO PRESENTShort Title: MJR BRIT WRITERS:1800-PRESENTDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: A survey of representative British authors of the 19th and20th centuries for both majors and non-majors.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 212 - SURVEY OF OLD ENGLISHShort Title: SURVEY OF OLD ENGLISHDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: An introduction to Old English Literature, this course willfocus on the following: Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, especially thetradition of oral poetry, the textuality of manuscripts, and the relationshipbetween the spoken and written word.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 222 - THE WORLD AND SOUTH ASIAShort Title: WORLD AND SOUTH ASIADepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Introduction to important 20th and 21st-century writersin English from South Asia - the region that includes India, Pakistan,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Readings include award-winning andbestselling works (fiction and non-fiction) by writers who address a widerange of issues including national and cultural identity, colonialism,sexuality, religion, globalization and political violence. Cross-list:ASIA 222.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 245 - INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHESShort Title: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Interdisciplinary study of cultural forms as diverse as poetry,advertisement, and film as well as topical interdisciplinary courseson literature and the arts, psychology, cultural studies, film media,anthropology, social theory, philosophy, law, and ethics. Taught by EnglishDepartment Ph.D. candidates. Cross-list: HURC 245. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 250 - HISTORY OF THE NOVELShort Title: HISTORY OF THE NOVELDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Course designed to introduce first and second year studentsto the intellectual, historical and aesthetic importance of the novelistictradition. Selection of works from the 19th century to the present mayinclude Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, James, Woolf, Ellison, Nabokov,Rushdie, and Franzen, and others.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 251 - POETRY AND POETICSShort Title: POETRY AND POETICSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Course designed to introduce first and second yearstudents to significant works of the poetic tradition, from ancient tocontemporary, and from American and English masterworks to worldpoetry in translation.

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ENGL 255 - THE IDEA OF SHAKESPEAREShort Title: SHAKESPEAREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Who was Shakespeare? How do we understand the globalmultimedia icon that is "Shakespeare"? Designed for non-majors or forpotential English majors, this course offers an introductory approach tothe works of William Shakespeare and to the Shakespeare "phenomenon"through close attention to his poems, play texts, and after effects.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 260 - WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATUREShort Title: WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: A survey of representative U.S. authors from the 18thcentury to the present designed for both majors and non-majors.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 265 - JEWISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTUREShort Title: JEWISH-AMERICAN LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: A survey of Jewish-American literature from the early 20thcentury to the present. The course explores novels, poems, non-fictionprose, and film in context of the literary, social and political movementsof the last century. Writers may include: Kahane, Yezierska, Miller, Stein,Olsen, Ginsberg, Ozick, Roth, Rich, Chaybon, Foer.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 267 - INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATUREShort Title: INTRO TO AFRICAN AMER LITDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: An introduction to the history and traditions of AfricanAmerican literature. Course will examine the poetry, essays, and fiction bypeople of African descent from the 18th to the 21st centuries.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 268 - INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATUREShort Title: NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: This multi-genre course introduces students to NativeAmerican literature through the contemporary novel, autobiography,critical essays, poetry, and film. An awareness of historical, cultural,and political movements important to American Indian peoples willsupplement literary analysis. The class will address issues of sovereignty,land claims, activism, and identity.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 269 - GREEN WORLDS: SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ENVIRONMENTShort Title: SCI FI AND THE ENVIRONMENTDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 1-3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Examines the ways that science fiction has expressed andchallenged ideas about nature, culture, society and politics and imaginedalternative 'green' worlds. Will focus on authors such as MargaretAtwood, Octavia Butler and Paolo Bacigalupi: films such as "Wall-E" and"Avatar": and accessible secondary criticism. Cross-list: ENST 265.

ENGL 270 - ASPECTS OF MODERN LITERATUREShort Title: ASPECTS OF MODERN LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: An introduction to modern/postmodern culture that mayinclude readings of novels, plays, short stories, poems, psychoanalytictheory, and art criticism/philosophy. The emphasis is on reading andinterpreting different kinds of texts in broad cultural contexts.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 272 - LITERATURE AND MEDICINEShort Title: LITERATURE AND MEDICINEDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Designed for, but not limited to, students interested in themedical profession, this course introduces the study of medicine throughreading imaginative literature--novels, plays, essays, poems--by and aboutdoctors and patients, focusing on understanding ethical issues and ondeveloping critical and interpretive skills.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 273 - MEDICINE AND MEDIAShort Title: MEDICINE AND MEDIADepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Lecture/LaboratoryDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: An interdisciplinary exploration of the role of imagingtechnologies in the practice of medicine, and the role of mass media inshaping our understandings of the body, health, and disease. This courseexamines visual media structure "ways of seeing" for physicians and forthe public. Emphasis will be placed on developing media literacy skills.Cross-list: SWGS 273.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 274 - LITERATURE AND RELIGIONShort Title: LITERATURE AND RELIGIONDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Literature and Religion examines the place of religiousthought in literature and culture from the pre-modern to the modernworld. The course examines how religious problems and questions froman investment in a theological world view to the critique of God and theprovidence have shaped literary form and function.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 275 - FILM CRITICISMShort Title: FILM CRITICISMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 4Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: This course focuses on the concepts and techniquesnecessary to write film criticism and interpretation. Each two-weeksection will concentrate on a film, sample critical essays on that filmand writing about the film to develop their skills, analytic techniques,and strategies for effective critical contribution. This course will draw onfilms in Hollywood, avant-garde, contemporary and international cinema.Cross-list: FILM 273, HART 285.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 277 - LITERATURE AND FORENSICSShort Title: LITERATURE AND FORENSICSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: This pre-law course develops the skills necessary for legaland other argumentative writing. We learn the tactics associated with theinterpretation of texts, muster evidence, and employ persuasive rhetorics.The course doubles its forensic investment by working through literary,historical and legal texts.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 278 - MEDICINE IN THE AGE OF NETWORKED INTELLIGENCEShort Title: MED IN AGE OF NETWORKED INTELLDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: This course imagines and predicts the future of medicine atits evolving intersection with technology. Examines how developmentsin mobile, social, personal and global health are transforming medicalresearch, communication, practice. Emphasis on active learning throughhands-on creative projects. Topics include social media, quantified self,big data, ethics, doctor-patient relationship.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 286 - CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FILM AND THEORYShort Title: CLASSICAL & CONTEMPORARY FILMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: A course focusing on contexts such as movies and ads,familiar plots and conventions define their significance. Cross-list:HART 286.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 290 - TOPICS IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL ANALYSISShort Title: LITERARY CULTURAL ANALYSISDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Introductory courses that cover a range of texts in social,political and aesthetic contexts, and can also include introductorycourses on literary theory, cultural theory, and narrative. Please consultEnglish department website for specific details. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 299 - ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE PUBLIC HUMANITIESShort Title: ENGLISH LIT/PUBLIC HUMANITIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: In this course, students learn to apply critical humanisticmethods to issues of public importance, especially in the Houston area.Participants study necessary applications of humanistic inquiry to civiclife and contribute to this work themselves. Consult the HumanitiesResearch Center or the English department for more information. Cross-list: HURC 299. Repeatable for Credit.

ENGL 300 - PRACTICES OF LITERARY STUDY: READING METHODSShort Title: PRACTICES OF LITERARY STUDYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that identifies and explores key concepts of recentcritical theory. Students read short texts of contemporary theory anddiscuss the relation between theory and literature. Required for Englishmajors.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 301 - INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITINGShort Title: INTRO TO FICTION WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that teaches the fundamentals of fiction writing,and includes a mixture of reading and writing assignments. The goal isfor each student to produce two short stories possessing imaginativeingenuity, structural integrity, and literary merit by the end of thesemester.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 302 - SCREENWRITINGShort Title: SCREENWRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course will introduce students to the art and craft ofscreenwriting through a focused study of terminology, formatting andcinematic technique. Assignments will include writing exercises, weeklyviewing of films and readings of screenplays. Students will write theirown treatments, outlines and full-length screenplays. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 303 - PLAYWRITINGShort Title: PLAYWRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Playwriting will explore and engage in various rudiments,skills, practices, stagings and performances of stage plays.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 304 - INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITINGShort Title: INTRO TO POETRY WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An introduction to poetry writing through the study ofcontemporary poets and the writing of poems. The class will payextensive attention to such elements of poetry as imagery, figurativelanguage, tone, syntax, and form in order to create a vocabulary forstudents to discuss their own poems. Students' poems will be critiquedby the class in a workshop setting.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 305 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITINGShort Title: INTRO CREATIVE NONFICT WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course in reading and writing creative nonfiction prose forthe beginning writer. Sections may focus on a range of nonfiction genresor one specific form, e.g. personal essay/memoir, travel narratives, literaryjournalism, science and nature writing.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 306 - TOPICS IN FICTION WRITINGShort Title: TOPICS IN FICTION WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics workshop in the writing of fiction. Topicswill vary from semester to semester and may include "Fairytales, Folklore,Fantasy, and Fright," "Persona," "Experiments in Fiction," and more.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 307 - TOPICS IN POETRY WRITINGShort Title: TOPICS IN POETRY WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics workshop in the writing of poetry. topicswill vary from semester to semester and may include "Sonnet, Elegy, Ode,""Writing Green," "The Art of the Archive," "Poems and Paintings," and more.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 309 - TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITINGShort Title: TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTIONDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics workshop in the writing of creativenonfiction. Topics will vary from semester to semester and mayinclude "Nature Writing," "Life Writing," "History of the Essay," and more.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 311 - TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND/OR CULTUREShort Title: MEDIEVAL TOPICSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A special course in Medieval literature and/or culture. Topicswill vary.

ENGL 312 - TOPICS IN OLD ENGLISHShort Title: TOPICS IN OLD ENGLISHDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A various topics course that includes a wide range of readingof poems, prose, materials from chronicle, myth, and legend. Topics willvary from semester to semester. Cross-list: MDEM 312. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 313 - BEOWULF FOR THE 21ST CENTURYShort Title: BEOWULF FOR THE 21ST CENTURYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A close reading of Beowulf with attention to Anglo-Saxonculture and Old English poetics. Cross-list: MDEM 313.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 314 - MEDIEVAL ROMANCEShort Title: MEDIEVAL ROMANCEDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that examines the development of romance as agenre during the medieval period. Cross-list: MDEM 319.

ENGL 315 - MEDIEVAL CULTURES THROUGH FILMShort Title: MEDIEVAL CULTURES THROUGH FILMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 4Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An interdisciplinary course exploring the literature, art,philosophy, history, music, and science of the Middle Ages, with filmsby Pasolini, Bergman, Dreyer, Einstein, Annaud, Vigne, and others, andhighlighted by a medieval banquet. Cross-list: MDEM 315.

ENGL 316 - CHAUCERShort Title: CHAUCERDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales,Middle English, and the political and cultural climate of the fourteenthcentury. Cross-list: MDEM 316, SWGS 305.

ENGL 317 - ARTHURIAN LITERATUREShort Title: ARTHURIAN LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A survey of the origins and development of the Arthurianlegend from the earliest chronicles in the sixth century and later medievalFrench, Welsh, Irish, and English Arthurian poems to modern adaptationsof Arthurian material, including films. Cross-list: MDEM 317, SWGS 301.

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ENGL 319 - INTRODUCTION TO RENAISSANCE LITERATUREShort Title: INTRO RENAISSANCE LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Some of the greatest drama, poetry, and art in the Westerntradition (British or European) flourished amid the religious andpolitical tumult of the Renaissance. This course will survey the work ofRenaissance literary figures who have profoundly influenced Westernthought and culture, and it will introduce students to terminology andmethods for analyzing them.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 320 - SHAKESPEARE ON FILMShort Title: SHAKESPEARE ON FILMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that examines both the text of selectedShakespearean plays and films based on them, focusing on the differencebetween film and drama.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 321 - EARLY SHAKESPEAREShort Title: EARLY SHAKESPEAREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An examination of representative early Shakespearean plays,including tragedies, comedies, and histories. Plays vary from year to year.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 322 - LATE SHAKESPEAREShort Title: LATE SHAKESPEAREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An examination of representative Shakespearean works.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 323 - RENAISSANCE DRAMAShort Title: RENAISSANCE DRAMADepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course focusing on selected plays of Elizabethan andJacobean England, read both for their literary significance and for theway they were part of the period's social, economic, and political forces.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 325 - STUDY ABROAD: RICE ENGL MAJORS AT THE UNIVERSITYOF EXETERShort Title: STUDY ABROAD: RICE AT EXETERDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300Description: Special course for the transfer credit of pre-approvedcoursework taken at the University of Exeter, as part of the Englishdepartment's study abroad program for English majors at the Universityof Exeter. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

ENGL 326 - EARLY MODERN LITERATUREShort Title: EARLY MODERN LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course focusing on various genres of English literaturefrom the early modern period. Topics vary and have recently included"Love, Sex and Death in the Renaissance" and "Heaven and Hell."Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 328 - MILTONShort Title: MILTONDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course on the major poems and prose of John Milton withan emphasis on 'Paradise Lost.' Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency:ENGL 528. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannot be earned for ENGL 328 andENGL 528.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 330 - ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVELShort Title: ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVELDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course focusing on the most important literary innovationof the 18th-century: the birth of the novel. We will examine the modernsocial and cultural forces crucial to and inextricable from this watersheddevelopment: the emergence of liberalism, conservatism, feminism, class,secular culture, the sex/gender system, individualism, and the separationof public and private spheres.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 331 - TOPICS IN 18TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATUREShort Title: TOPICS IN 18TH C. BRITISH LITDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course that covers the major themes,forms, authors, and genres in 18th-century British literature. Topicsmay include studies in the early novel tradition, literature's connectionto Enlightenment innovations in philosophy, politics, social structure,religion, and gender relations. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 332 - LITERATURE OF THE BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENTShort Title: LIT OF BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENTDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that examines a representative range ofBritish prose and poetry from 1660-1790, the period known as theEnlightenment. This was a volatile age of plots, revolution, philosophicaland scientific innovation, and literary transformation. Our readingswill cover poems of several genres, short prose narratives, essays andphilosophical treatisesCourse URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 333 - 18TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTIONShort Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTIONDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that explores the emergence and consolidation ofthe English novel and its dynamic relationship to many other 18th-centurylegacies: the modern individual, capitalism, civil society, the middle class,democracy, and colonialism.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 336 - IRISH LITERATUREShort Title: IRISH LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that surveys Irish Literature since the 19th centuryand includes poetry, drama, and fiction. It focuses upon the politicalturmoil preceding and following the War of independence as well asdebates concerning the ideological operations of literature. Some authorscovered may be, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, O’Brien, Bowen, Heaney andBoland. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 338 - BRITISH ROMANTICISMShort Title: BRITISH ROMANTICISMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A multi-genre course on the Romantic period. Thiscourse will explore the excesses, extremes, and diversities of BritishRomanticism across a variety of media: plays, tales, confessions, novels,and satires (including illustrations, paintings, and visual spectacles).Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 339 - ROMANTICISM IN RUINSShort Title: ROMANTICISM IN RUINSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: The incomplete ruins - fragments - fascinate us. Thecourse examines how this concern forms in the Romantic Period andhow it remains relevant today. It focuses on texts (novels, poems,philosophy, history) and visual art; most sources will be Romantic, somecontemporary (e.g. Wordsworth, Volney, Schlegel, Piranesi, Shelley, Burke,Sebald).Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 341 - VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTUREShort Title: VICTORIAN LITERATURE & CULTUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A multi-genre course that explores the array of creativeworks that examines the Victorian period through poetry, non-fictionprose, fiction, art and material culture.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 342 - SURVEY OF VICTORIAN FICTIONShort Title: VICTORIAN FICTIONDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A survey of the many genres of the nineteenth-century novel,this course will try to come to terms with some of the insistent questionsposed by and through the fiction of the period. Cross-list: SWGS 372.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 343 - JANE AUSTEN'S WORLDSShort Title: JANE AUSTEN'S WORLDSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An exploration of Jane Austen as Regency writer andcontemporary icon. The course will focus both on Austen's writing hernovels, her juvenilia and her letters and on visual and textual adaptationsof her work. Cross-list: SWGS 343.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 346 - 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATUREShort Title: 20TH CENT BRITISH LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A survey of major works in British Literature of the period,in all genres, and including Commonwealth literatures, with varyingemphasis.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 350 - SURVEY OF EUROPEAN FICTION: 20TH CENTURYShort Title: EUROPEAN FICTION: 20TH CENTURYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A survey of political and formal developments in French,German, Russian, and Eastern European novels by writers such as Proust,Hacek, Pasternak, Hrabal, and Boll.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 351 - THE CITY IN LITERATUREShort Title: THE CITY IN LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Since 1700, literature's most important work has been toexplain the city's effect on consciousness and modern individuality -in British, European, and American societies; in historical, cultural, andpolitical terms; in poetry, drama, and fiction. The Unreal City can only beimagined.Course URL: english.rice.edu

ENGL 353 - MODERN DRAMAShort Title: MODERN DRAMADepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An examination of plays from traditions of 20th centuryand contemporary theatre and performance, including work by O'Neill,Williams, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Albee, Shepard, Mamet, Parks, andKane. Course will include writing critical papers and some performance.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 354 - QUEER LITERARY CULTURESShort Title: QUEER LITERARY CULTURESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An introduction to queer literary theory by reading works inseveral genres, from Sappho to the present day, including Shakespeare,Dickinson, Tennyson, Whitman, Proust, Stein and Woolf. Cross-list:SWGS 364.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 355 - MODERN SHORT STORY: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF FICTIONShort Title: MODERN SHORT STORYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Study of great modern short fiction with emphasis onreading as an ethical enterprise. Selected critical essays complementworks from Melville to Maupassant, Flaubert to Kafka to O'Connoras we talk about alienation and solitude, death and violence and thevicissitudes of family. Does not count toward French major. Cross-list:FREN 355. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level course or abovein English or French Studies, or HUMA 101 or 102.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 356 - MODERNISMSShort Title: MODERNISMSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An exploration of modernist work from the late 19th centuryto World War II. Course includes fiction, poetry, film, painting, theatre,music and theories of art.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 357 - ORIGINS OF THE POSTMODERNShort Title: ORIGINS OF THE POSTMODERNDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An examination of diverse cultural manifestations of the"postmodern" through the last half of the twentieth century. Popularmusic, novels, plays, film, art, and fairy tales may be discussed.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 358 - CONSUMPTION AND CONSUMERISMShort Title: CONSUMPTION & CONSUMERISMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An exploration of the history, philosophy and culture ofeating, drinking, shopping and other forms of consuming. Featuringdetailed analysis of literatures in English, visual art, music, film and food.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 359 - WRITING ON/WRITING OFF NEW ORLEANSShort Title: WRITING ON/OFF NEW ORLEANSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An examination of the relation between New Orleans andthe writing in and about it. Works by Kate Chopin, William Faulkner,Tennessee Williams, Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, John Kennedy Toole,Michael Ondaatje, and others will be studied. Students will create theirown New Orleans text in a final paper.Course URL: english.rice.edu

ENGL 360 - AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE THE CIVIL WARShort Title: AMER LIT BEFORE THE CIVIL WARDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that focuses careful attention on complete readingon a number of the most significant traditionally valued texts of the"American Renaissance."Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 361 - US LITERATURE FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO WWIShort Title: US LITERATURE CIVIL WAR TO WWIDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A survey of the literature of the major authors of the period,that might include Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, HenryJames, and others.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 362 - MODERN AMERICAN FICTIONShort Title: MODERN AMERICAN FICTIONDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A survey of the fiction of the first half of the 20th century, oneof the great periods of social turmoil and intense artistic experimentation.Authors may include Chopin, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Toomer, Faulkner,Hurston, Barnes.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 363 - THE US NOVEL POST-WORLD WAR IIShort Title: US NOVEL POST-WORLD WAR IIDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An examination of the narrative experiments and trends ofthe period, from 1950 to the present.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 364 - MODERN AMERICAN POETRYShort Title: MODERN AMERICAN POETRYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A survey of representative American poets of the period.These may include Gertrude Stein, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, WallaceStevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 365 - AMERICAN POETRY 1960-PRESENTShort Title: AMERICAN POETRY 1960-PRESENTDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A survey of contemporary U.S. poetry: poets studied mayinclude Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Randall Jarell, John Berryman,Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Denise Levertov, James Merrill, JohnAshbury, Philip Levine, Anne Sexton, and others.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 366 - TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATUREShort Title: TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course focusing on themes, movements orgenres across several periods of American literature. Topics may includeimmigration, modernism, and post-nationalism. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 367 - LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE US-MEXICOBORDERLANDSShort Title: LIT & CULT, US-MEX BORDERLANDSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: The course focuses on the cross-national cultures of theUS-Mexico borderlands with attention to key issues in the history ofthe region: haunted modernities, organized resistance, migration, labor,and the traffic in bodies, drugs, and other goods. Readings includenovels, short stories, critical essays, histories, film, and video. Cross-list:SWGS 367.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 368 - LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENTShort Title: LITERATURE & THE ENVIRONMENTDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that asks the question: How does literature expressor shape environmental values? In this class we will read American fictionand nonfiction exploring the relationship between human and nonhumannature. Cross-list: ENST 368.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 369 - THE AMERICAN WEST AND ITS OTHERSShort Title: THE AMERICAN WEST & ITS OTHERSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Survey of a body of literature, film, and critical theory aboutthe American West and the concept of regionalism. Explores region inrelation to the nation and its borders, global media, coloniality, indigeneityand race, gender, and an ethics of place. Cross-list: SWGS 329.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 370 - AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATUREShort Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that traces, through various genres and themes,African American literary history from the late eighteenth century to thepresent. Attention is given to theories and critiques of African Americanliterature and culture. Cross-list: SWGS 370.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 371 - CHICANO/A LITERATUREShort Title: CHICANO/A LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A mixed-genre course focusing on the Chicano movement,the Chicano renaissance, and alternative literary and mythic traditionsassociated with them. Cross-list: SPPO 354, SWGS 354.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 372 - THE AMERICAN WEST/AMERICASShort Title: THE AMERICAN WEST/AMERICASDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An investigation of U.S. Western concerns as they encounterthe cultures, literatures, economies, ecologies, languages, and peoplesof the Americas. Comparative study of notions of frontier, borders, thestate, the Other. Attention to knowledges traveling south to north viaimmigration, narco-culture, and Latin Americanist scholarship.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 373 - SURVEY OF AMERICAN FILM AND CULTUREShort Title: SURVEY OF AMER FILM & CULTUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 4Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that explores the history of cinema in the U.S. fromits origins to the present day. Cross-list: FILM 373, HART 380.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 374 - CINEMA STUDIESShort Title: CINEMA STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course central to the study of cinematheory, criticism, and history. Repeatable for Credit.

ENGL 375 - FILM AND LITERATUREShort Title: FILM AND LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An exploration of twelve masterpieces of world cinema, withspecial attention to the texts (when applicable) on which they are based.Some of the filmmakers covered: Akira Kurosawa, Jean Renoir, BernardoBertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Roberts Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, HowardHawks, and Kar Wai Wong.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 377 - ART AND LITERATUREShort Title: ART AND LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An exploration of how artworks in various media becomemeaningful at the level of detail. This work will entail learning how to look,think, and feel at the same time. Key authors and artists may includeVermeer(painting), Hitchcock(film), Hammett(detective fiction).Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 378 - LITERATURE OF THE AMERICASShort Title: LITERATURE OF THE AMERICASDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A mixed-genre variable topics course that examinesliteratures in English from North and South America, including theCaribbean. The focus of the course may vary from a survey of a specificgeographical region or a group of writers, to a theme that incorporatesmore than one geographical region or national literature. Cross-list:SWGS 378. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 379 - INTRODUCTION TO THIRD WORLD LITERATUREShort Title: INTRO THIRD WORLD LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that primarily surveys fiction, poetry, drama, film(in English) from postcolonial contexts, especially those of Africa, theCaribbean, and the Indian subcontinent. Authors discussed may includeRushdie, Narayan, Roy, Wolcott, Ngugi, Coetzee, and Achebe.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 380 - CONTEMPORARY ANGLOPHONE LITERATURESShort Title: CONTEMPORARY ANGLOPHONE LITDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course that focuses on literatures in English that emerge inthe wake of European colonialism, except those from the United States.Writers might include those from Africa, Australia, Canada, India, or theCaribbean. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 381 - TOPICS IN WOMEN WRITERSShort Title: TOPICS IN WOMEN WRITERSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course that focuses on women writers fromvarious traditions. Cross-list: SWGS 327. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 382 - FEMINIST THEORYShort Title: FEMINIST THEORYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course focusing on concepts that drive and divide socialmovements centered on gender equality, women's issues, and sexualidentity in the two-thirds and one-third world, among them feminism; thebody; race; labor; rights, needs, and desires. Cross-list: SWGS 380.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 383 - GLOBAL FICTIONSShort Title: GLOBAL FICTIONSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course has two components: one, it looks at recentfiction in English by U.S., British, and international writers that deal withglobal and transnational issues; and two, it studies the work of recentcultural critics who provide new understandings of an increasinglynetworked world as well as the imaginative and narrative tools --fictional,artistic, cinematic , electronic and visual--that we use to process the fast-paced realities of contemporary globalization.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 384 - AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMAShort Title: AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMADepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 4Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Explores the history of filmmaking outside of Hollywoodin the United States throughout the 20th century, emphasizing theperiod from 1959 to the present. Special attention to the contributionsof marginalized communities and the art world, innovative film styles,and the interdependence of alternative and mainstream media cultures.Cross-list: FILM 384.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 385 - FILM STUDIESShort Title: FILM STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course that may focus on such areasas film genres, national cinemas, world cinema, directors or otherthematically organized topics. Cross-list: FILM 385. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 589. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannotbe earned for ENGL 385 and ENGL 589. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 386 - MEDICAL MEDIA ARTS LABShort Title: MEDICAL MEDIA ARTS LABDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Lecture/LaboratoryDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 4Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Students will collaborate with health professionals to createsolutions to real-world medical communication, visualization and designproblems. Working individually and in teams, students will apply criticalthinking and theory to hands-on design. Projects may include productionof short videos, infographics, app development, 3-D virtual models,creative writing, and other media arts. Cross-list: FILM 381.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 387 - CULTURAL STUDIESShort Title: CULTURAL STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3,4Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course that may focus on one or moretheorist, on a genre or theme, or on debates within the field of culturalstudies. Recent topics have included film, mass culture, Marx, andcontemporary ethnic studies. Not limited in period, scope, or geography.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 388 - MEDIA STUDIESShort Title: MEDIA STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3-4Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course that addresses interdisciplinaryapproaches to studying the relationships between film, photography,television, and digital technologies such as the internet and computer-generated imaging. Cross-list: FILM 386. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 389 - YOUTH STUDIESShort Title: YOUTH STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course exploring the cultural productions ofyouth, their social geographies, and youth as a critical field important tothe theorization of activism, technology, law and incarceration, medicine,consumerism, citizenship, immigration, labor, posthumanism. Previoustopics: Generation X, Third Wave Feminism, Obama and the Youth Vote,Twilight culture, Harry Potter & Gen Y. Cross-list: SWGS 389.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 390 - INTRODUCTION TO THEATREShort Title: INTRODUCTION TO THEATREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A survey course of the art and theory of the theatre throughan examination of dramatic literature from the Greeks through themodern era. The course will also explore the craft of the theatre as it ispracticed today. Requires attending several theatre productions in localHouston venues. Cross-list: THEA 303.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 392 - CONTEMPORARY POETRYShort Title: CONTEMPORARY POETRYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An in-depth analysis of contemporary poetry and poetics,from a variety of national traditions that raises questions about traditionand innovation, the personal and the political, aesthetics, technique,and experience. Readings will focus on the rich variety of work writtenin English between the last decades of the twentieth century and thepresent.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 393 - BLACK MANHATTAN: 1915-1940Short Title: BLACK MANHATTAN: 1915-1940Department: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An examination of the key figures, political movements, andblack radicalisms and nationalisms that are remembered as part of theHarlem Renaissance. We will focus on the effects of WWI, the Depression,and segregation on black cultural expression.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 396 - LITERARY GENRESShort Title: LITERARY GENRESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course that offers an in-depth look at aparticular literary genre or subgenre over a range of historical periods.Topics may include detective fiction, romance, the novel, magical realism,the lyric, or melodrama. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 397 - TOPICS IN LITERATURE AND CULTUREShort Title: TOPICS IN LITERATURE & CULTUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course in a wide variety of fields andgenres. Past topics have included "War Stories," "Electronic Literature,""The Avante Gard," "City in Literature," and "The American Seen ThroughBritish Eyes." Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 398 - SLAVERY IN 20TH CENTURY FILM AND FICTIONShort Title: SLAVERY IN 20TH C. FILM & FICTDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course studies how twentieth century reconstructionsof slavery in American literature and film engage contemporary anxietiesregarding race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. These neo-slavenarratives often critique modernity; challenge how we think about history,evidence, memory, and trauma; and trouble narrative conventions.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 399 - THE BLACK IMAGINARY: 1775-PRESENTShort Title: THE BLACK IMAGINARYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course addresses some of the leading questions thatshaped black writings and expressive culture in the United States fromthe late 18th century forward. Our readings will include Wheatley, Walker,Delany, Douglass, Du Bois, Ellison, Baldwin, King, Malcolm X, Morrison,Percival Everett, and early and contemporary films and music.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 400 - SEMINAR FOR MAJORSShort Title: SEMINAR FOR MAJORSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Junior orSenior. Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A special seminar that focuses on the development ofadvanced research, presentation, and writing skills for intermediate toadvanced level students. Topics will vary. Not offered every semester.Contact English department for further information. RecommendedPrerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 401 - ADVANCED FICTION WRITINGShort Title: ADVANCED FICTION WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Lecture/LaboratoryCredit Hours: 4Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 301Description: A course conducted mostly as a workshop. It will alsoinclude some assigned writing exercises and weekly reading of publishedshort stories to deepen students' understanding of narrative technique.Additional time will be spent on special film viewings, reviews, andcritiques and readings as directed. Procedures for entrance intothis course may vary by semester and/or instructor. Consult Englishdepartment website for more information. Instructor PermissionRequired. Repeatable for Credit.

ENGL 402 - WRITING LONGER FICTION: NARRATIVE DESIGNShort Title: WRITING LONGER FICTIONDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A course for advanced fiction writers who wish to expandtheir knowledge of narrative design and work in longer forms. Studentswill write a proposal for a longer project at the start of the semester andcomplete no fewer than sixty pages (a novel excerpt, a complete novella,2-3 linked stories) by the end.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 404 - ADVANCED POETRY WRITINGShort Title: ADV POETRY WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 304Description: An in-depth study of contemporary poetry, this courseemphasizes the careful analysis of books by six to eight contemporarypoets, the reading of selected essays on poetic technique, and the writingof poems with a view toward finding a personal voice. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 405 - ADVANCED PERSONAL ESSAY WRITINGShort Title: ADV PERSONAL ESSAY WRITINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An advanced reading and writing workshop for writers whohave some familiarity with the nonfiction genre. Published works will beread as blueprints for the construction of student work. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 412 - INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGEShort Title: INTRO TO OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGEDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An introduction to the language, prose and shorter poems.Cross-list: MDEM 412. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 512.Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannot be earned for ENGL 412 and ENGL 512.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 413 - BEOWULF IN OLD ENGLISHShort Title: BEOWULF IN OLD ENGLISHDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 412 or MDST 412Description: A course in the study of Beowulf in Old English. Cross-list:MDEM 413. Repeatable for Credit.

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ENGL 418 - RENAISSANCE DRAMAShort Title: RENAISSANCE DRAMADepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Junior orSenior. Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300Description: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 419 - TOPICS IN SHAKESPEAREShort Title: TOPICS IN SHAKESPEAREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course that provides an opportunity toexplore some dimension of Shakespeare's work with specialized focus.Please consult English department for specific details. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 422 - 18TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIESShort Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge of eighteenth-century literature and/or culture gained earlier inthe curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 424 - 20TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIESShort Title: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge of twentieth-century literature and/or culture gained earlier inthe curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 430 - EMPIRE AND BRITISH LITERATURE 1700-1950Short Title: EMPIRE & BRITISH LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300Description: This course provides detailed knowledge of a diverse rangeof eighteenth and nineteenth-century texts that engaged the realities,possibilities, fantasies and pitfalls of the British Empire. Course alsoincludes historical and archival material as well as recent critical andhistorical approaches to the study of empire and its relationship tocultural identity. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: english.rice.edu

ENGL 432 - TOPICS IN RICHARDSON'S CLARISSAShort Title: RICHARDSON'S CLARISSADepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A seminar-style course that reads and examinesRichardson's 1500 page novel from a range of critical perspectives.Topics considered will include gender; economics; history of the novel;history of marriage; and philosophical perspectives on literature.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 438 - THE GROTESQUEShort Title: THE GROTESQUEDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course examines the grotesque in literature and art. Itcovers a variety of textual and visual sources across periods; theoreticalmaterials will include works from literary studies, visual culture, arthistory, critical theory and aesthetics. Cross-list: HART 430.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 441 - VICTORIAN STUDIESShort Title: VICTORIAN STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Junior orSenior. Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300Description: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge of Victorian literature and/or culture gained earlier in thecurriculum. Recent topics have included the family, "The Pre-Raphaelites","Around 1900" the "Long Victorian Novel", and "Victorian Legacies".Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 459 - TOPICS IN LITERATURE AND ECOLOGYShort Title: LITERATURE AND ECOLOGYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A special topics course that addresses literature andculture from 1750 to the present, with a view to understanding the newgeological era that humans have created, and its ecological implications.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 460 - TOPICS IN ANGLO-AMERICAN/TRANSATLANTICLITERATURE AND CULTUREShort Title: TRANSATLANTIC LIT AND CULTUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A special topics course in Transatlantic literary studiesthat examines the movement of literary works across the national and(post) colonial borders of Great Britain and the Americas. Varied content,historical periods, critical approaches, and thematic emphases. Primarilyintended for seniors or advanced English majors. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 461 - 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN STUDIESShort Title: 19TH-CENTURY AMER STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge of 19th-century American literature and/or culture gainedearlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 462 - 20TH-21ST CENTURY AMERICAN STUDIESShort Title: 20TH-21ST CENTURY AMER STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. literature and/orculture gained earlier in the curriculum. Recent topics have includedsocial justice and contemporary fiction. Cross-list: SWGS 462. Repeatablefor Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 466 - STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTUREShort Title: AMERICAN LITERATURE & CULTUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Junior orSenior. Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300Description: A special topics course in American literature and culturethat transcends historical periods. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 470 - STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATUREShort Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge of African American literature gained earlier in the curriculum.Recent topics include black women writers. Cross-list: SWGS 453.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 471 - STUDIES IN CHICANO/A LITERATUREShort Title: CHICANA/O LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge of chicano/a literature and culture gained earlier in thecurriculum. Past topics have included the Chicano/a novel, andTransitions and Translations Chicano/a Autobiography. Cross-list:SPPO 456. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 480 - ADVANCED YOUTH STUDIESShort Title: ADVANCED YOUTH STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Variable topics course designed to build on knowledgestudents gain earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 481 - STUDIES IN FEMINIST LITERARY THEORYShort Title: STUDIES IN FEMINIST LIT THEORYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge of feminist theory gained earlier in the curriculum. Pasttopics have included sexualities, Marriage and Its Others, and Third WaveFeminism. Cross-list: SWGS 407. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 484 - STUDIES IN LITERARY GENRESShort Title: STUDIES IN LITERARY GENRESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300Description: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge gained earlier in the curriculum.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 485 - STUDIES IN MODERN LITERATUREShort Title: STUDIES IN MODERN LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge of modern literature gained earlier in the curriculum.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 486 - STUDIES IN CRITICAL REGIONALISMShort Title: STUDIES IN CRITICAL REGIONALSMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course designed to build on knowledgestudents gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 489 - STUDIES IN FILMShort Title: STUDIES IN FILMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3,4Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable topics course designed to build on studentknowledge of film studies gained earlier in the curriculum. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 493 - INDEPENDENT STUDY/DIRECTED READINGShort Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY/DIR READINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 1-6Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A variable-credit course designed for students who want topursue intensive semester-long study of a particular topic not includedin the curriculum. Students must identify and receive the approval of anEnglish department faculty member. Instructor and Department approvalmust be granted prior to registration. Instructor Permission Required.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 494 - SENIOR THESIS PREPARATIONShort Title: SENIOR THESIS PREPARATIONDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: ResearchCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300Description: Special work, research and preliminary preparation of asubstantive research project for advanced English majors under thesupervision of a member of the English department. Prerequisites:ENGL 200 and ENGL 300. Consult English department website forprocedures and application. Instructor and department approval must begranted prior to registration. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatablefor Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 495 - SENIOR THESISShort Title: SENIOR THESISDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: ResearchCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300 and (ENGL 493 or ENGL 494)Description: Writing and completion of a substantive research projectunder the supervision of a member of the English department. Priorapproval of instructor and department approval must be granted priorto registration. Consult English department website for procedures andapplication. Instructor and department approval must be granted priorto registration. Prerequisites: ENGL 200; ENGL 300; ENGL 493 or 494.Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 497 - STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND CULTUREShort Title: VARIOUS TOPICS IN LIT & CULTDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): ENGL 200 and ENGL 300Description: A variable topics course in a variety of fields and genres,such as City in Literature. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 498 - QUEER THEORYShort Title: QUEER THEORYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An examination of key issues in queer theory that linksthose issues to other major literary and cultural theories of the pastquarter century. As such the course will also serve as an introductionto psychoanalytic theory, postculturalism, deconstruction, postcolonialtheory, film studies and recent work on the relationship between scienceand literature. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 509 - MASTER'S THESISShort Title: MASTER'S THESISDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateCourse URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 510 - PEDAGOGY SEMINARShort Title: PEDAGOGY SEMINARDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: For third-year graduate students preparing to teach their ownclasses in their fourth year. This course will help students put togethersyllabi and other teaching materials, address various pedagogical issuesand problems, formulate their teaching philosophies.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 512 - OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGEShort Title: OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGEDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A graduate level introduction to the language, prose andshorter poems. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 412.Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannot be earned for ENGL 512 and ENGL 412.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 513 - THEORY AND MEDIEVAL LITERATUREShort Title: THEORY AND MEDIEVAL LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A course in Literary and/or Critical Theory’s engagementwith Medieval Literature. Topics may include, “Gender Theoryand Chaucer,” “The Neighbor in Medieval Romance,” “MedievalEcologies,” “Postcolonial Medieval,” “Imagining Medieval Geographies/Cartographies.” Repeatable for Credit.

ENGL 514 - MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE AND SUBJECTIVITYShort Title: MIDDLE ENGL LIT & SUBJECTIVITYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A survey of middle English lyrics, romances, dream visions,debate poems, mystery and morality plays, and other philosophical andbiographical treatises from 1250-1500.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 516 - CHAUCER AND THE SUBVERSIVE OTHERShort Title: CHAUCER & THE SUBVERSIVE OTHERDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: An exploration of exemplary treatments of alterity anddifference in Chaucer. See course webpage for additional information.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 517 - MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERSShort Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: An examination of the most significant medieval Europeanwomen authors from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries, fromthe Byzantine Empire to France, Germany, Italy, England, Austria, Belgium,Bohemia, and Spain. See course web page for additional information.Cross-list: SWGS 517.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 520 - SHAKESPEARE AND DIFFERENCEShort Title: SHAKESPEARE AND DIFFERENCEDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Please consult the English department website for additionalinformation. Cross-list: SWGS 520.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 521 - SHAKESPEAREShort Title: SHAKESPEAREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 522 - SHAKESPEARE AND THEORYShort Title: SHAKESPEARE AND THEORYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional information. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 525 - LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTShort Title: LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course examines the relationship between literatureand visual art. It covers a variety of textual and visual sources; theoreticalmaterials will include works from literary studies, visual culture, arthistory, critical theory and aesthetics. Cross-list: HART 518. Repeatablefor Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 527 - STUDIES IN RENAISSANCE LITERATUREShort Title: RENAISSANCEDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variables topics course. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 528 - MILTONShort Title: MILTONDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: . Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 328. MutuallyExclusive: Credit cannot be earned for ENGL 528 and ENGL 328.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 532 - 18TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIESShort Title: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional information. Recent topics includeEnlightenment Institutions, Origins of British Novel, Eighteenth-centuryEmergences, and Libertinism. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 537 - 19TH CENTURY STUDIESShort Title: 19TH CENTURY STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional information. Recent topics haveincluded "The Serialization of the Novel," Victorian Nonhumans," and"Genealogy of Geopolitics." Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 538 - ROMANTICISM IN CONTEXTSShort Title: ROMANTICISM IN CONTEXTSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Topics might include: Wordsworth;Blake; Keats & Shelley; Romanticism and Visual Cultures: RomanticPoetics; Aesthetics. For additional information consult the Englishdepartment website. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 541 - VICTORIAN STUDIESShort Title: VICTORIAN STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional information. Recent topics haveincluded "Material Constructions, or What Things Have to Do With Us",and "On or About 1860". Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 542 - VICTORIAN FICTIONShort Title: VICTORIAN FICTIONDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional information. Recent topics haveincluded "The Victorian Marriage Plot", "The History of the Novel, Part II";and "Victorian and Modern Sexualities". Cross-list: SWGS 542. Repeatablefor Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 546 - SPECIAL TOPICS: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATUREShort Title: SP: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional course information. Cross-list:SWGS 546. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 560 - 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN/US LITERATUREShort Title: 19TH C. AMERICAN/US LITERATUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional course information. Recent topics haveincluded Dickinson and Crane; Hawthorne and Stowe; Male Subjectivities;Howells and Wharton; 19th-century Women Writers; Slavery and theSentiment Novel; Liberalism; and Agency, Class and Anxiety in 19th-century American Literature and Criticism. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 564 - FAULKNER AND CONTEMPORARY THEORYShort Title: FAULKNER & CONTEMP THEORYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: An intensive examination of four or five of Faulkner's majornovels in the context of a broad range of twentieth-century interpretivestrategies. The class will consider issues of narrative form, social context,gender, race, and modern and postmodern aesthetics. Consult the Englishdepartment website for additional information.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 569 - TRANSNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIESShort Title: TRANSNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Course introduces the major critical voices in thetransnational turn that has been underway in American literary studiesfor the last decade. Further, it focuses on a series of literary texts andcase studies that have occasioned reanalysis of the critical tools andassumptions governing American studies.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 570 - AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIESShort Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional course information. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 572 - CHICANO/A STUDIESShort Title: CHICANO/A STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional course information. Recent topics haveincluded Narrative Theory and Chicano/a Ethnography. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 577 - EMERGENT MEDIA: TECHNOLOGIES, NETWORKS, CULTUREShort Title: EMERGENT MEDIA:TECH, NET, CULTDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course will delve deeply into media theory, examiningthe complex interplay between the emergence of new media technologiesin different historical periods (past, present and future), the networks ofcommerce and creativity that fuel and arise from these innovations, andthe cultural productions that result.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 581 - CULTURAL STUDIES: CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE,CULTURE AND POLITICSShort Title: CONTEMP.LIT., CULTURE & POLIDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional course information. Recent topics haveincluded Contemporary Issues in U.S. Culture and Studies in Sexuality:Thinking Sex Under Neo-Liberalism. Cross-list: SWGS 581. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 582 - FEMINIST LITERARY THEORYShort Title: FEMINIST LITERARY THEORYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional course information. Recent topics haveincluded Sexualities. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 583 - READING MATERIALShort Title: READING MATERIALDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course considers the contesting claims made on theterm "material" and their implications for how we read critically, withparticular attention to the question of class; the material status of natureand the body; gender, race, and sexual identities. Cross-list: SWGS 583.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 584 - THINKING SEX UNDER NEO-LIBERALISMShort Title: THINKING SEX UNDER NEO-LIBDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Taking as its historical period the social crises defining theemergence of neo-liberal capitalism in the late twentieth century, thiscourse focuses on new formations of gender and sexuality in US andtransational culture and inquiries into critical concepts being forwardedto address it. Cross-listed with SWGS 584. Cross-list: SWGS 584.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 585 - POSTCOLONIALISM AND BEYONDShort Title: POSTCOLONIALISM AND BEYONDDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A course that serves both as an introduction to postcolonialtheory and as a reevaluation of its political and ethical ends vis-a-visrecent debates around globalization and cosmopolitanism. For additionalcourse information please consult the English department website.Cross-list: SWGS 585.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 589 - FILM STUDIESShort Title: FILM STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional course information. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ENGL 385. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannotbe earned for ENGL 589 and ENGL 385. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 591 - STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND OTHER DISCIPLINESShort Title: STUDIES IN LIT & OTHER DISCIPLDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional information. Recent topics haveincluded Visual Cultures 1550-1800 and Problems of Close Reading inLiterature and Film. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 592 - STUDIES IN MODERNISMShort Title: STUDIES IN MODERNISMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional course information. Recent topics haveincluded What Was Modernism; and Joyce and Modernism. Repeatablefor Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 594 - STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTUREShort Title: CONTEMP. LIT AND CULTUREDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional course information. Recent topics haveincluded Global English; Globalization and its Discontents; and CriticalRegionalisms. Cross-list: HART 594. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 596 - STUDIES IN MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORSShort Title: STUDIES IN MAJ AMER AUTHORSDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Lecture/LaboratoryCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the Englishdepartment website for additional course information. Recent topics haveincluded Emerson and Posthumanism. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 599 - STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY: READING MATERIALSShort Title: STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A variable topics course. Please consult the English deptwebsite for additional course information. Recent topics have includedPragmatism and Postmodernity; Systems Theory; Post-Structuralismand Postmodernity; and Where We've Been: Reflecting on the Academy.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 600 - TOPICS IN LITERARY STUDIESShort Title: TOPICS IN LITERARY STUDIESDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: The first in a two-semester sequence of courses designedto introduce first-year graduate students to different methods andtheoretical approaches, to the history and culture of the university asan institution, and to professional genres. Restricted to first-semestergraduate students in the English Department.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 601 - FALL TEACHING PRACTICUMShort Title: FALL TEACHING PRACTICUMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: Internship/PracticumCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Open only to those graduate students serving as teachingassistants for courses in English. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 602 - SPRING TEACHING PRACTICUMShort Title: SPRING TEACHING PRACTICUMDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: Internship/PracticumCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Open only to those graduate students serving as teachingassistants for courses in English. Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 603 - FALL TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITIONShort Title: FALL TEACHING OF LIT & COMPDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: Internship/PracticumCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Open only to graduate students teaching independentcourses in the English department in the fall semester. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 604 - SPRING TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITIONShort Title: SPRING TEACHING OF LIT & COMPDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: Internship/PracticumCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Open only to those graduate students teaching independentcourses in the English department in the spring semester. Repeatable forCredit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 605 - THIRD-YEAR WRITING WORKSHOPShort Title: THIRD-YEAR WRITING WORKSHOPDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A workshop required of third-year students designed to helptransform seminar papers into works of publishable quality.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 610 - TOPICS IN LITERARY STUDIES PART 2Short Title: TOPICS IN LITERARY STUDIES 2Department: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduatePrerequisite(s): ENGL 600Description: The second in a two-semester sequence of courses designedto introduce first-year graduate students to different methods andtheoretical approaches, to the history and culture of the university as aninstitution, and to professional genres.Course URL: english@rice.edu

ENGL 621 - FALL DIRECTED READINGShort Title: FALL DIRECTED READINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A course designed for students who want to pursueintensive semester-long study of a particular topic not included in thecurriculum. Students must identify and receive the approval on an Englishdepartment faculty member. Instructor and Department approval must begranted prior to registration. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatablefor Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 622 - SPRING DIRECTED READINGShort Title: SPRING DIRECTED READINGDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A course designed for students who want to pursueintensive semester-long study of a particular topic not included in thecurriculum. Students must identify and receive the approval of an Englishdepartment faculty member. Instructor and Department approval must begranted prior to registration. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatablefor Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 703 - FALL RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACYShort Title: RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: ResearchCredit Hours: 1-9Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

ENGL 704 - SPRING RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACYShort Title: RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: ResearchCredit Hours: 1-9Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

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ENGL 705 - SUMMER RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACYShort Title: RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACYDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: ResearchCredit Hours: 6Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course provides for graduate students to continue theirresearch leading to candidacy during summer session. Repeatable forCredit.

ENGL 800 - PHD RESEARCH AND THESISShort Title: PHD RESEARCH AND THESISDepartment: EnglishGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: ResearchCredit Hours: 1-9Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: To be taken after a student has been admitted to candidacy.Repeatable for Credit.Course URL: www.english.rice.edu

Description and Code LegendNote: Internally, the university uses the following descriptions, codes, andabbreviations for this academic program. The following is a quick reference: 

Course Catalog/Schedule • Course offerings/subject code: ENGL 

Department Description and Code • English: ENGL 

Undergraduate Degree Description and Code • Bachelor of Arts degree: BA 

Undergraduate Major Description and Code• Major in English: ENGL 

Undergraduate Major Concentration Description andCode

• Major Concentration in Creative Writing: ECRW 

Graduate Degree Descriptions and Codes• Master of Arts degree: MA• Doctor of Philosophy degree: PhD

Graduate Degree Program Description and Code• Degree Program in English: ENGL