Courses - Spring 2024
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English as a second language classes are listed under UMEI.
ENGL101
Academic Writing
Additional information: Students must complete this course with a minimum grade of C- in order to fulfill the General Education Fundamental Studies Academic Writing requirement.
An introductory course in expository writing.
Students with a TSWE score of 33 or below must take ENGL 101A in place of ENGL 101. Students for whom English is a second language should consider taking ENGL 101X in place of ENGL 101.
ENGL101A
Academic Writing
Additional information: Students must complete this course with a minimum grade of C- in order to fulfill the General Education Fundamental Studies Academic Writing requirement.
An introductory course in expository writing.
ENGL101H
Academic Writing
Additional information: Students must complete this course with a minimum grade of C- in order to fulfill the General Education Fundamental Studies Academic Writing requirement.
An introductory course in expository writing.
ENGL101S
Academic Writing
Additional information: Students must complete this course with a minimum grade of C- in order to fulfill the General Education Fundamental Studies Academic Writing requirement.
An introductory course in expository writing.
Restricted to College Park Scholars.
ENGL101X
Academic Writing
Additional information: Students must complete this course with a minimum grade of C- in order to fulfill the General Education Fundamental Studies Academic Writing requirement.
An introductory course in expository writing.
Limited to students for whom English is a second language. To register for ENGL 101X, a student must first demonstrate competence in English. Proof of one of the following should be brought to advisors: 1) a minimu m score of 100 on the iBT 2) a minimum score of 7 on the IELTS or 3) successful completion of UMEI 005, Advanced English as a Foreign Language, Semi-Intensive.
ENGL125
Poetry is most often understood as self-expression; it's also communal expression, and cultural expression; it's also a particular kind of construction made out of language. Explore the art form called poetry, including its formal properties, its conventions, and its legacy of experimentation. What role does poetry play in how we think about the human condition; what constitutes knowledge and wisdom, interior subjectivity and collective identity; and how shall this knowledge be used in confronting new challenges and the perennial questions: how to live with oneself, and as oneself; in time, and with others; here, where we reside; and elsewhere, where we imagine ourselves going. This is a hands-on course in reading and practicing the art of poetry, including short critical and creative writing exercises.
ENGL142
Credit only granted for: ENGL142 or ENGL289M.
Formerly: ENGL289M.
What does the literature of Maryland teach us about our state's past, present, and future? "Literary Maryland" explores this question by taking students on a tour of our state's prose, poetry, and drama from colonization to the present. In addition to reading fascinating writing and visiting interesting places, you'll learn how the Chesapeake was formed; why nobody sings the entire national anthem; and what led Baltimore to name its football team after a poem written by a Virginian.
ENGL143
Explores how technology and people shape our current age of information through the various forms of visually representing information. Visualizations do not show us things that are evident--visualizations make things evident. We will thus examine the history of visualization practices, the theories of image-making that guide their production, and the current state of the art. Students will engage critically with a wide range of information visualization practices to gain an understanding of the work involved in producing them and their histories. Students will also seek out contemporary visualizations, interact with the practitioners who produce them, and produce their own visualization as a response or critique.
ENGL222
American Literature(s)
Explore American literary traditions in a variety of poetic and narrative forms and in diverse historical contexts, ranging from colonization to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Genres examined in this course might include lyric poems, travel narratives, gothic short fiction, slave narratives, and science fiction. Emphasis on developing skills of literary interpretation and critical writing, while attending to the place of race, class, gender, and sexuality in American literary culture. Authors may include Phillis Wheatley, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, among others.
ENGL233
Cross-listed with: AAST233.
Credit only granted for: ENGL233 or AAST233.
What is the role of literature in the lives of contemporary Asian Americans? How do Asian American authors imagine identity, violence, and social justice? Consider the role of Asian American literature in forming our understanding of past and present Asian America, and explore Asian American cultures and experiences.
ENGL234
Cross-listed with: AAAS234.
Credit only granted for: ENGL234, AAAS234 or AASP298L.
An exploration of the stories black authors tell about themselves, their communities, and the nation as informed by time and place, gender, sexuality, and class. African American perspective themes such as art, childhood, sexuality, marriage, alienation and mortality, as well as representations of slavery, Reconstruction, racial violence and the Nadir, legalized racism and segregation, black patriotism and black ex-patriots, the optimism of integration, and the prospects of a post-racial America.
Cross-listed with AASP298L. Credit granted for AASP298L or ENGL234.
ENGL235
Cross-listed with: AMST298Q.
Credit only granted for: ENGL235 or AMST298Q.
Examines the poetry, prose, and theater of Latinx communities in the United States from their origins in the Spanish colonization of North America to their ongoing development in the 21st century. Considers how authors use literary form to gain insight into human experience, including mortality, religious belief, gender and sexuality, war and peace, family, language use, scientific inquiry, cultural tradition, ecology, and labor. Also studies how Latinx literary traditions have shaped and been shaped by broader currents in American literature, as well as what connections exist between Latinx literature and social and artistic developments in other parts of the world, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean. Authors may include Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Eulalia Perez, Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Jose Marti, Arthur A. Schomburg, Jesus Colon, Julia de Burgos, Cesar Chavez, Ariel Dorfman, Gloria Anzaldua, Junot Diaz, and Cristina Garcia.
Cross-listed with AMST298Q. Credit granted for ENGL235 or AMST298Q.
ENGL241
What the Novel Does
Novels offer spaces for realist expression, and they also push the boundaries of fiction and imagination. Explore consciousness, community, belonging, philosophy, and human difference in a range of national and cultural traditions. Study how novels present thought in radically different ways, crossing lines of class, gender, chronology, and locale.
ENGL243
What is Poetry?
An exploration of arguably the most complex, profound, and ubiquitous expression of human experience. Study through close reading of significant forms and conventions of Western poetic tradition. Poetry's roots in oral and folk traditions and connections to popular song forms.
ENGL245
Film Form and Culture
Cross-listed with: CINE245.
Credit only granted for: ENGL245, CINE245 or FILM245.
Formerly: FILM245.
Introduction to film as art form and how films create meaning. Basic film terminology; fundamental principles of film form, film narrative, and film history. Examination of film technique and style over past one hundred years. Social and economic functions of film within broader institutional, economic, and cultural contexts.
ENGL246
Introduction to the Short Story
Explore how short stories quickly take hold of the imagination. Topics may include historical developments in the genre of the short story, popular trends in short fiction, short stories in diverse cultures, the short story collection as a unique form, and how the short story differs from the novel, the novella, and flash fiction.
ENGL250
Cross-listed with: WGSS255.
Credit only granted for: ENGL250, WMST255 or WGSS255.
Formerly: WMST255.
Explores literary and cultural expressions by women and their receptions within a range of historical periods and genres. Topics such as what does a woman need in order to write, what role does gender play in the production, consumption, and interpretation of texts, and to what extent do women comprise a distinct literary subculture. Interpretation of texts will be guided by feminist and gender theory, ways of reading that have emerged as important to literary studies over the last four decades.
ENGL255
Literature of Science and Technology
Consider the relationship between fiction and science. How does science as we know it depend on certain fictions or narratives? How do we come to know science through the fictions we encounter? How do literary works represent the ethics of science and technology? What role does science play in the oppression of peoples? What alternative, more liberatory ways of using science are possible?
ENGL256
Fantasy Literature
How fantasy employs alternate forms of representation, such as the fantastical, estranging, or impossible, which other genres would not allow. Through novels, short stories, graphic novels, and film, traces fantasy's roots in mythology and folklore, then explores how modern texts build upon or challenge these origins. Examination of literary strategies texts use to represent the world through speculative modes. How to distinguish fantasy from, and relate it to, other genres such as horror, fairly tales, and magical realism. Fantasy's investment in world-building, history, tradition, and categories of identity such as race, class, and gender. How fantasy, as a genre, form, and world-view, is well-suited to our contemporary reality.
ENGL257
Children's Literature
Literature of the nineteenth through the twenty-first century concerned with, and written for, children and young adults. How such narratives speak to themes of changing social, religious, political, and personal identity. Through poetry, novels, graphic novels, and film, explores how children's tales encapsulate and reflect on human existence, while pushing boundaries of what constitutes "children's literature" and what exactly defines the "child." Considers questions of literary classification through investigation of political and religious issues, gender politics, animal rights, social justice, race, war, and what it means to "grow up."
ENGL265
Restriction: Must not have completed LGBT265.
Cross-listed with: LGBT265.
Credit only granted for: ENGL265 or LGBT265.
A study of literary and cultural expressions of queer and trans identities, positionalities, and analytics through an exploration of literature, art, and media. We will examine historical and political power relations by considering the intersections of sexuality and gender with race, class, nation, and disability. Topics include the social construction and regulation of sexuality and gender, performance and performativity, intersectionality, and the relationship between aesthetic forms and queer/ trans subjectivity. Our interpretations will be informed by queer and trans theories.
ENGL271
Writing Poems and Stories: An Introductory Workshop
Introduction to theory and practice of writing fiction and poetry. Emphasis on critical reading of literary models. Exercises and workshop discussions with continual reference to modeling, drafting, and revising as necessary stages in a creative process.
ENGL272
Writing Fiction: A Beginning Workshop
Introduction to theory and practice of writing fiction. Emphasis on critical reading of literary models. Exercises and workshop discussions with continual reference to modeling, drafting, and revising as necessary stages in a creative process.
ENGL273
Writing Poetry: A Beginning Workshop
Introduction to theory and practice of writing poetry. Emphasis on critical reading of literary models. Exercises and workshop discussions with continual reference to modeling, drafting, and revising as necessary stages in a creative process.
ENGL275
Cross-listed with: ARHU275.
Credit only granted for: ENGL275 or ARHU275.
Introduction to the theory and practice of scriptwriting with an opportunity to read, view, evaluate, write, and revise texts meant to be performed. Students will practice writing for the stage, film, and television and also examine selected scripts, performances, and film and television clips as models for their own creative work. Students will complete frequent writing exercises, participate in workshops, and learn to apply scholarship to the analysis and critique of scripts.
ENGL289G
Special Topics in English; Machine Learning in Language and Art
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Cross-listed with ARhU299M and COMM298M. Credit only granted for ARHU299M, COMM298M, or ENGL289G.
How do language models like ChatGPT generate essays, poems, and stories? How do machine learning models learn to determine the author of a text, or identify the artist behind a painting? What makes language models like ChatGPT different from image generators like Stable Diffusion? And can language models be used to make music? We will teach you how to build models that read and write in natural languages, what makes those models different from applications of machine learning to visual art and music, how to use Python for data analysis and statistics, how to visualize data, and how to apply mathematical and statistical knowledge to practical problems in the digital humanities. No background in coding or statistics is required, but students with some programming or statistics experience are also very welcome in the course.
How do language models like ChatGPT generate essays, poems, and stories? How do machine learning models learn to determine the author of a text, or identify the artist behind a painting? What makes language models like ChatGPT different from image generators like Stable Diffusion? And can language models be used to make music? We will teach you how to build models that read and write in natural languages, what makes those models different from applications of machine learning to visual art and music, how to use Python for data analysis and statistics, how to visualize data, and how to apply mathematical and statistical knowledge to practical problems in the digital humanities. No background in coding or statistics is required, but students with some programming or statistics experience are also very welcome in the course.
ENGL290
Introductory course in digital studies. Surveys contemporary humanities work in digital technologies, including the web and social media and their historical antecedents. Explores design and making as analytical tools alongside reading and writing. Situates digital media within power and politics and develops critical awareness of how media shape society and ethics. Interdisciplinary approaches to creativity, analysis, and technology. While the course will include hands-on practice, no prior experience of programming, designing, or making required other than a willingness to experiment and play.
ENGL292
Prerequisite: Permission of ARHU-English department.
Recommended: ENGL101.
Restriction: Requires application and references.
Jointly offered with: ENGL388C.
Credit only granted for: ENGL292 or ENGL388C.
Service learning in collaboration with students at area high schools. Explores how writing can be a tool for social change. Participants serve as mentors, create a performance event concerning a pressing social issue, and compose reflections, literacy narratives, publicity materials, and a multimodal project. Focus on developing critical self-awareness.
Jointly offered with ENGL388C. Credit granted ENGL292 or ENGL388C.
ENGL293
Recommended: ENGL101.
A hands-on exploration of rhetoric, technology, and digital expression. Study a variety of digital writing and content creation platforms, and learn about theories and practices in digital communication. Learn to analyze and create the kinds of multimodal documents (websites, podcasts, videos) that constitute communication in a digital world.
ENGL294
Recommended: Fundamental Studies Academic Writing requirement.
Why are influencers canceled? What role does social media play in the spread of (mis)information? What is possible through social media activism? How does advertising work in online spaces? How do people use social media to discover and craft identity? What role do social media play in user wellbeing? Explore questions like these using ideas from rhetoric to develop critical awareness about power, ideology, and digital content. Learn to create effective, ethical social media content. Become a more informed reader and writer on social media across public, personal, and professional contexts.
ENGL295
Introduction to Digital Storytelling and Poetics
What is the thread weaving through an animated visualization of economic data in a popular newspaper, an indie text-based videogame, a saucy twitter bot spitting out haikus, and an interactive digital essay? Storytelling--using whatever is at hand to communicate with audiences in evocative and connected ways. Combining technical and textual analysis with their own experiments in digital composition, students will learn to use new media techniques for the interpretation, creation, and dissemination of both critical and imaginative writing. From branching narratives to hypertext media and video games, to more recent developments in machine-generated poetry, XR, and embodied and location-based narrative, the methods and materials in this introductory course link creative expression and analysis of texts to contemporary conversations about social difference, representation, interface, and computation.
ENGL297
Research and Writing in the Workplace
Prerequisite: ENGL101.
Introduction to the rhetorical principles and professional practices of professional writing, particularly the research, writing, communication, analytical, and technological skills needed for the Professional Writing minor. How culture and technology relate to the work of professional writing; design principles and rhetorical moves; digital tools, research skills, and writing strategies of professional writers. Develops skills needed to publish a writing portfolio that showcases students' professional writing competencies and projects their professional writer identities.
ENGL301
This is English: Fields and Methods
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Restriction: Must be in English Language and Literature program; or must be in Secondary Educ: English Language Arts program.
"English" means a lot of things. Are you looking for literature, or linguistics? For writing--creative, critical, or professional? For theater, or debate? For film, or even videogames? This gateway course for the English major introduces you to all of these areas and more, as well as to our discipline's unique resources for studying and enjoying them. The English discipline includes three main interpretive fields: Literary and Cultural Studies; Language, Writing, and Rhetoric; and Media Studies. This course brings together the fundamental concepts and methods for reading, viewing, and researching practiced in these fields, launching you into English studies and and helping you to choose the major track that is right for you.
ENGL317
African American Literature
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Consideration of key texts in African American literature that explore the experiences of people of African descent in America from the mid-nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Relationship between literary texts, historical events and cultural formations. Examines a range of texts and genres (autobiography, slave narrative, travel narrative, poetry, essays, fiction), and their contribution to national literary tradition.
Cross-listed with AASP398C and AMST328U. Credit granted for AASP398C, AMST328U, or ENGL317.
ENGL329A
Special Topics in Film Studies; Cinema of Liberation
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with CMLT398C. Credit granted for ENGL329A or CMLT398C. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Studies in various periods and genres of film.
ENGL329B
Special Topics in Film Studies; Cartoons on the Page and on the Screen
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245, CINE283, FILM283, or SLLC283; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with CINE319F. Credit only granted for CINE319F, FILM319F or ENGL329B.
ENGL329M
Special Topics in Film Studies; Ecomedia
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, SLLC283, CINE245 or FILM283 or CINE283; or permission of instructor.
ENGL329N
Special Topics in Film Studies; Post-Cinema: Theories of Media and Technological Change
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245, CINE283, FILM283, or SLLC283; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with CINE369T. Credit only granted for CINE369T or ENGL329N.
ENGL329R
Special Topics in Film Studies; The Cinema of Steven Spielberg
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisites: ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245, CINE283, FILM283, or SLLC283, or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with CINE359Q. Credit only granted for ENGL329R, CINE359Q, or FILM359Q.
ENGL329Y
Special Topics in Film Studies; A Cinema of Migration as Message
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL331
American Jewish Literature
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with JWST341.
Credit only granted for: ENGL331 or JWST341.
An exploration of the role played by literature in the development of American Jewish ethnic identity. Primary materials include essays, poetry, plays, short stories, novels, films and music.
ENGL346
Twentieth Century Fiction
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Major British, American, and other fiction writers of the twentieth century studied in the context of the broad global, intellectual, and artistic interests of the century.
ENGL352
Intermediate Fiction Workshop
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of A- in ENGL271 or ENGL272; or permission of ARHU-English department.
A class in the making of fiction. Intensive discussion of students' own fiction. Readings include both fiction and essays about fiction by practicing writers. Writing short critical papers, responding to works of fiction, and the fiction of colleagues, in-class writing exercises, intensive reading, and thinking about literature, in equal parts, and attendance at readings.
ENGL353
Intermediate Poetry Workshop
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of A- in ENGL271 or ENGL273; or permission of ARHU-English department.
A class in the making of poetry. Intensive discussion of students' own poems. Readings in both poetry and essays about poetry by practicing poets. Writing short critical prose pieces, responding critically to colleagues' poems, in-class and outside writing exercises, memorization, and attendance at poetry readings.
ENGL354
Intermediate Scriptwriting for Theater, Film, and Television
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: 1 course with a minimum grade of A- from (ENGL275, ARHU375, THET340).
Demystifies the art of dramatic writing. Students will come to understand that a play or screenplay is never a lecture, and that we write scripts to find out something about ourselves and the subjects we tackle. Students will analyze plays and screenplays, as well as workshop each others' scripts, to help them produce their own successful plays and screenplays written for the stage, screen, or box.
ENGL358F
Special Topics in U.S. Latinx Literature; Contemporary Latinx Literature
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL361
Prerequisite: Students must have completed one course in English, Latin American Studies, or Education.
Service-learning course that gives students an opportunity to develop writing, interviewing, and communication skills as they contribute to the work of a community organization. In the classroom, students will reflect on the process and do background research to understand the particular context of the organization's work. In the field, students will interview (or have informal discussions with) young people helped by the organization in order to construct a narrative about their lives, their perceptions of themselves, and their experiences.
ENGL368B
Special Topics in African American, African, and African Diaspora Literatures; Blues and African American Folksong
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL368J
Special Topics in African American, African, and African Diaspora Literatures; Contemporary Black Literature
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL370
Junior Honors Conference
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Candidacy for honors in English.
Preparation for writing the senior honors project.
ENGL376
The Speculative Imagination: Science Fiction on Page and Screen
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Credit only granted for: ENGL379Y or ENGL376.
Formerly: ENGL379Y.
Examines a global cross-section of science fiction in literature, film, television, comics, and other media. Studies the unique formal qualities of science fiction and traces its history from its origin in the eighteenth century to the present. Explores how the twenty-first century has brought new prominence to science fiction by creators of color, women creators, and queer creators, as well as intersections of these. Considers how science fiction addresses a range of phenomena--from environmental destruction to surveillance to imperialism and militarism. Students learn how to analyze and write about the formal and historical dimensions of the genre.
ENGL378C
Special Topics in English; How to Make a Magazine: Introduction to Literary Publishing
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL378W
Special Topics in English; Deep Time: Memory, Media, and Ecological Imagination in the Americas
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-Listed with AASP398I. Credit for ENGL378W or AASP398I.
ENGL379R
Special Topics in Literature; The Jazz Paradigm
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with CMLT398D. Credit granted for CMLT398D or ENGL379R.
ENGL384
Concepts of Grammar
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Explore the nature of grammar from a variety of perspectives, developing the vocabulary and technical skills needed to identify and describe the basic grammatical structures of English words and sentences. Understand the structures used in all varieties of Present Day English, including formal and colloquial, spoken and written, and standard and non-standard dialects, with a focus on standard British and American varieties. Topics include grammatical categories, syntactic roles, phrase structure, and inflection. Consider why it is that languages should include such structures in the first place and how awareness of these structures might or might not help you become a more effective reader and writer. Emerge with a deeper understanding of the human mind and a new appreciation for the prodigious complexity of even the most trivial acts of language use.
ENGL388C
Prerequisite: Permission of ARHU-English Department .
Recommended: ENGL101.
Restriction: Requires application and references.
Jointly offered with: ENGL292.
Credit only granted for: ENGL292 or ENGL388C.
Service learning in collaboration with students at area high schools. Explores how writing can be a tool for social change. Participants serve as mentors, create a performance event concerning a pressing social issue, and compose reflections, literacy narratives, and publicity materials. Students also design individual projects that link course content and students' own professional interests.
ENGL388D
Writing, Research, and Media Internships; Dickinson Electronic Archives
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: permission of the department. Contact Professor Martha Nell Smith, mnsmith@umd.edu
ENGL388E
Writing, Research, and Media Internships; BookLab Internship
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: permission of the department. Contact Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum, mgk@umd.edu.
ENGL388M
Maryland General Assembly Writing Internship
Prerequisite: ENGL381 or HONR368A.
Restriction: Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0; and must have earned a minimum of 60 credits; and must be admitted to the MGA program.
Cross-listed with: HONR379W.
Credit only granted for: ENGL388M or HONR379W.
Experiential learning at the Maryland General Assembly (early January through early April). Interns participate in standard office tasks, research legislative issues, and draft legislative texts such as constituent letters, notes on bills, newsletters, policy memos, and testimony. Specific assignments vary according to the host legislator's needs and the intern's schedule.
Cross-listed with HONR379W. Credit granted for ENGL388M or HONR379W.
ENGL388P
English Careers Internship
Prerequisite: Permission of ARHU-English department. Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs.
Additional information: Each enrolled credit equals 45 hours of on-site internship work.
Students receive credit for an internship of their choice that focuses at least half of its work on core English skills such as writing, editing, and research. Students secure their own internship placements. Course assignments include, for instance, an activity log, reflection papers, a supervisor evaluation, and a final portfolio of work.
Prerequisite: permission of the department. Contact english@umd.edu.
ENGL388T
Writing, Research, and Media Internships; Digital Humanities Research Assistantship
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Cross-listed with MITH388. Credit only granted for MITH388 or ENGL388T.
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits.
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits.
ENGL388V
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in English
Prerequisite: Permission of the ARHU-English department. Repeatable to 12 credits.
Additional information: Students should consult with the UTA Coordinator to determine the number of enrollment credits.
A weekly teaching practicum and concurrent internship as an undergraduate teaching assistant in an English course. Students will explore the theories and best practices of teaching and learning in the various fields of the English discipline, particularly writing and literary studies. The emphasis is on creating inclusive classrooms and working with diverse learners and is grounded in theories of critical pedagogy. Students will apply principles of learning theory to develop and facilitate learner-centered lessons and discussions. They will also study composition pedagogy in preparation for responding to student writing in the course for which they are an assistant.
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits. Contact Lyra Hilliard, lyrahill@umd.edu. Students taking ENGL388V for the first time should register for either section 0101 or 0401 for 4 credits. When taking the course again in subsequent semesters, students should register for 2001 or 3001 for 3 credits."
ENGL388W
Writing Center Internship
Prerequisite: Permission of the Writing Center (1205 Tawes Hall). Repeatable to 12 credits.
Cross-listed with: SPAN388W.
Credit only granted for: ENGL388W or SPAN388W.
Examines face-to-face and online writing center theory and practice through readings, exercises, and supervised tutoring. Students investigate the writing process and help other writers to negotiate it.
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits. To apply, go to http://www.english.umd.edu/academics/writingcenter/ internship. Cross-listed with SPAN388W. Credit only greanted for ENGL388W or SPAN388W.
Students taking ENGL388W for the first time should register for section 0101 for 4 credits. When taking the course a gain in subsequent semesters, students should register for 2001.
Students taking ENGL388W for the first time should register for section 0101 for 4 credits. When taking the course a gain in subsequent semesters, students should register for 2001.
ENGL390
Science Writing
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits; and junior standing or higher.
Credit only granted for: ENGL390 or ENGL393S.
Formerly: ENGL393S.
Specifically designed for students interested in further study in the physical and biological sciences. Exposes students to the conventions of scientific prose in the genres of research articles and proposals. Students also learn to accommodate scientific information to general audiences.
ENGL390H
Science Writing
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits; and junior standing or higher.
Credit only granted for: ENGL390 or ENGL393S.
Formerly: ENGL393S.
Specifically designed for students interested in further study in the physical and biological sciences. Exposes students to the conventions of scientific prose in the genres of research articles and proposals. Students also learn to accommodate scientific information to general audiences.
Restricted to students in the University or departmental Honors program.
ENGL391
Advanced Composition
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
An advanced composition course which emphasizes constructing written arguments accommodated to real audiences.
ENGL391H
Advanced Composition
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
An advanced composition course which emphasizes constructing written arguments accommodated to real audiences.
Restricted to students in the University or departmental Honors program.
ENGL392
Legal Writing
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Conventions of legal writing and research. Students learn how to read and write about cases, statutes, or other legislation; how to apply legal principles to fact scenarios; and how to present a written analysis for readers in the legal profession. Assignments may include the law-school application essay, case briefs, legal memos, and client letters.
ENGL393
Technical Writing
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Focuses on the writing of technical papers and reports.
ENGL393H
Technical Writing
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Focuses on the writing of technical papers and reports.
Restricted to students in the University or departmental Honors proram.
ENGL393Q
Technical Writing
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Focuses on the writing of technical papers and reports.
ENGL393X
Technical Writing
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Focuses on the writing of technical papers and reports.
ENGL394
Business Writing
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Intensive practice in the forms of written communication common in the business world: letters, memos, short reports, and proposals. Focus on the principles of rhetoric and effective style.
ENGL395
Writing for Health Professions
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Focus on accommodating health-related technical material and empirical studies to lay audiences, and helping writers to achieve stylistic flexibility and correctness.
ENGL398A
Writing for the Arts
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Examines the situations and genres in which working professionals (practitioners, advocates, administrators, and educators) write about art, culture, and artists. The course covers the complex process that writers need to learn, including how to accommodate information to specific audiences, how to use stylistic and visual devices to make information more accessible, and how to edit their own work as well as that of their peers. Assignments parallel the writing demands that students will face in the workplace, including analyzing and composing artist statements, an arts manifesto, art education guides, press releases about artists and their work, critical reviews of exhibits and performances, and proposals to funding agencies and foundations.
Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement.
ENGL398B
Writing for Social Entrepreneurship
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Designed for students who want to develop the skills needed to start a successful social venture--a start-up business with a social mission or a new nonprofit program. The course centers on a major writing project such as a business plan, a website design plan, a fundraising proposal, or a concept paper for a new nonprofit organization. Students produce other communication projects that social entrepreneurs use to develop their businesses and nonprofits, such as presentations or pitches to prospective investors/donors, marketing materials, and a job announcement. Students will learn from local social entrepreneurs who share their experiences of using writing to succeed in the field.
Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This c ourse satisfies the professional writing requirement.
ENGL398C
Writing Case Studies and Investigative Reports
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Designed for students interested in becoming police investigators, educators, case workers, insurance adjusters, nurses, or program evaluators, or in entering branches of the social sciences that investigate cases and value reports based on accurate descriptions and compelling narratives. Such reports must be factual and yet useful to decision makers, unbiased and yet focused. Students study genres and language skills from careful summarizing to convincing storytelling.
Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement.
ENGL398E
Writing About Economics
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Examines the characteristic genres of writing in modern economics, including theoretical and empirically based journal articles, reports for government and commercial clients, and economic information presented to a variety of non-professional audiences, such as citizen-oriented and public policy organizations. Students learn how to analyze these documents rhetorically and how to communicate economic information using the content, arrangement, style, and visual graphics best suited to the purposes and standards of particular audiences. Core assignments include a genre-based journal and document analysis, presentations on economics-related topics for both economists and non-professional audiences, and a major research-based writing project for an audience outside of the classroom.
Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement.
ENGL398L
Scholarly Writing in the Humanities
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Examines scholarship in the humanities as a genre of professional writing and investigates the norms and procedures of advanced academic writing. Assignments parallel the writing demands that students will face in the academic workplace, including a graduate school application essay, a genre review, an annotated bibliography, a journal article, and an oral presentation of article subject matter.
Prerequisite:60 credits and completion of ENGL101. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement.An advanced composition class focusing on the norms and procedures of advanced academic writing.
ENGL398N
Writing for Non-Profit Organizations
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Examines professional writing and communication work in the non-profit sector. Students will analyze the audiences and document genres that they may encounter in real-world non-profit work and will learn how to compose many of these documents, from press releases and other public relations material to position papers, reports, and grant proposals. Students may also have the opportunity to add a service-learning component to the course by working with and for an area non-profit.
Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement.
ENGL398R
Writing Non-Fictional Narratives
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Approaches nonfiction narrative-a kind of writing influenced by fiction, magazine journalism, memoir, and personal essay--as a form of professional writing used in publishing and a range of careers involving proposal writing, work documentation, lobbying, social marketing, and political commentary, among others. Students learn to use many of the same tools as fiction writers, such as dialogue, vivid description, developing characters, nonlinear structure, and shifts in tense, time, and points of view. They also learn how to edit their own work as well as that of their peers, doing multiple revisions of the major assignments for a final portfolio. Major assignments include essays targeted to specific publications, query letters, audience analysis, and a publisher analysis.
Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement.
ENGL398V
Writing About the Environment
Prerequisite: Must have fulfilled the Academic Writing (FSAW) requirement.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Designed for those aspiring to work in a variety of fields that influence and are influenced by environmental science, including public policy, advocacy, science, and industry. Students learn to apply principles of technical writing to a range of scenarios and issues particular to the intersection of scientific knowledge and environmental policy. Writing audiences range from the public to decision-makers. The course emphasizes writing both within and across disciplines to enlist research for practical contexts.
Prerequisite: 60 credits and completion of ENGL101 or equivalent. This course satisfies the professional writing requirement.
ENGL403
Shakespeare: The Early Works
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses beyond Fundamental Studies; or permission of ARHU-English Department.
Close study of selected works from the first half of Shakespeare's career. Generic issues of early histories, comedies, tragedies. Language, theme, dramatic technique, sources, and early modern English social-historical context.
ENGL416
Literature of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1750
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses beyond Fundamental Studies; or permission of ARHU-English Department.
The literatures of the Enlightenment grappled with a sea change in the understanding of humans, commodities, the planet, non-human animals, the body, newly-encountered "others," and God. Once called the "Age of Reason," novels, plays, and philosophy from this period in fact plumb passions, emotions, and sentiments through plots about love, exploitation, envy, crime, desire, and ambition. Satirists mocked everything from colonialism to virtue claims to satire itself. Read works that transformed what it meant to love, resist, exploit, and desire. Paradoxically, this "Age of Passions" elevated sympathy in the crucible of capitalism, invented human rights in the context of Empire; and formulated racial categories on the road to abolition and religious toleration. Authors might include Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Bernard Mandeville, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, William Congreve, Olaudah Equiano, and others.
ENGL422
English Victorian Literature
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses beyond Fundamental Studies; or permission of ARHU-English Department.
An age of cultural, political, and aesthetic upheaval, the Victorian period was a time of enormous social change: working-class agitation, struggles for women's rights, industrialization, imperial aggression, scientific discovery, and shifting ideas about race and colonialism. Through the study of novels, poems, and non-fiction prose, this course will consider how literature of the British nineteenth century engages with the disordered age in which it was composed. Authors may include Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, and Mary Seacole, among others.
ENGL428T
Seminar in Language and Literature; Imagining Catastrophe
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Junior standing. For ENGL majors only. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Course intended prima ily for students in English Honors Program. English majors with strong academic records may also apply. Permission from the Director of Honors required.
ENGL428W
Seminar in Language and Literature; Women Writing Race in the Early British Transatlantic
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Junior standing. For ENGL majors only. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Course intended primarily for students in English Honors Program. English majors with strong academic records may also apply. Permission from the Director of Honors required.
ENGL429
Independent Research in English
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg
Prerequisite: ENGL301 and two English courses, excluding Fundamental Studies requirement.
ENGL439D
Spotlight on Major Writers; Dickinson, Erotics, Poetics, Biopics: Some (Queer) Ways We Read Poetry
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English cours es in literature; or permission of ARHU-English department. Cross-listed with LGBT448Y and WGSS498Y. Credit only granted for ENGL439D, LGBT448Y, WGSS498Y, or WMST498Y.
ENGL452
English Drama From 1660 to 1800
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses beyond Fundamental Studies; or permission of ARHU-English Department.
Explore Restoration and 18th-century British drama, with attention to the history of gender, sexuality, capitalism, empire, philosophy, and race. Learn about tragedy, comedy, farce, parody, and burlesque, as well as dramatic and verbal wit.
ENGL457
The Modern Novel
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses beyond Fundamental Studies; or permission of ARHU-English Department.
Explore the remarkable development and transformation of the novel in the twentieth century. Learn about the development of the novel through realism, modernism, and postmodernism, from the transformations made by major modernists like Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, and Katherine Ann Porter to playful, unusual and fascinating postmodern and contemporary fiction by Ralph Ellison, Kathy Acker, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and others.
ENGL459C
Selected Topics in LGBTQ+ Literatures and Media; Life Writings in Different Media
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Crosslisting with LGBT459D. Credit only granted for ENGL459C or LGBT459D.
ENGL462
Folksong and Ballad
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Explore America's diverse folksong heritage and its impact on world culture. Learn about such regional, ethnic, and popular music forms as ballad, country, bluegrass, blues, rock, gospel, soul, rap, and zydeco within their specific cultural contexts and as commercial products commodified by a voracious music industry. While we will consider the European and African roots of many of these musical traditions, our focus will be on American contributions in the twentieth century. Reading and listening will focus on genres such as blues or bluegrass; particular artists such as Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Bill Monroe, and Louis Jordan; and major figures in the recording industry or fieldworker collectors such as Alan Lomax.
Prerequisite: Two English courses in literature; or permission of ARHU-English department.
ENGL469D
The Craft of Literature: Creative Form and Theory; Shapeshifting and Genre Theft: New Literary Forms
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses in literature or creative writing and have completed a 200-level creative writing workshop in ENGL or permission of ARHU-English Department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.
ENGL475
Postmodern Literature
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses beyond Fundamental Studies; or permission of ARHU-English Department.
Explore the origins and ongoing development of postmodern literature. Learn about the "postmodern condition," such as the collapse of identity, the erasure of cultural and aesthetic boundaries, and the dissolution of life into textuality. Explore art that has come in the wake of postmodernism and has attempted to move beyond it. Readings might include novels and other genres in varied media by Samuel Beckett, Art Spiegelman, Julian Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Ruth Ozeki, Zadie Smith, and others.
ENGL478C
Selected Topics in Literature before 1800; Good Grades: The Literature of Meritocracy and its Discontents
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses in literature; or permission of ARHU-English department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.
ENGL479F
Selected Topics in Literature after 1800; Walking and Writing: The Plays, Screenplays and Teleplays of Aaron Sorkin
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses in literature; or pe rmission of ARHU-English department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.
ENGL487
Principles and Practices of Rhetoric
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Students must have satisfied Fundamental Studies Academic Writing requirement.
A seminar examining foundational concepts and approaches in the theory and practice of rhetoric in civic, professional, academic, and interpersonal settings; focusing on key issues in persuasion, argumentation, and eloquence in historical and contemporary contexts.
ENGL494
Editing and Document Design
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: One course in Fundamental Studies Professional Writing; or permission of ARHU-English Department.
Principles of general editing for clarity, precision and correctness. Applications of the conventions of grammar, spelling, punctuation and usage, and organization for logic and accuracy. Working knowledge of the professional vocabulary of editing applied throughout the course.
ENGL495
Independent Study in Honors
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL373 and ENGL370.
Restriction: Must be in English Language and Literature program; and candidacy for honors in English.
Completion and presentation of the senior honors project.
ENGL497
English at Work
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: ENGL301; and an ENGL course at the 300-level or higher.
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
Examines how English majors put their academic knowledge and skills to work in professional workplaces after graduation. Students learn strategies to research careers, and they shadow a person in a career of interest for a day. Students learn to compose different professional genres to write and speak about and for professional development and advancement, including inquiry letters, technical descriptions, professional portfolios, and elevator pitches. Students will critically examine the learning they have done in their undergraduate coursework and compose a vision for bringing that learning to life in their future work.
ENGL498
Advanced Fiction Workshop; Advanced Fiction Workshop
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: ENGL396 or ENGL352; or permission of department.
ENGL499
Advanced Poetry Workshop; Advanced Poetry Workshop
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: ENGL397 or ENGL353; or permission of department.
ENGL611
Approaches to College Composition
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: Permission of ARHU-English department.
Additional information: Required for graduate assistants (optional to other graduate students).
A seminar emphasizing rhetorical and linguistic foundations for the handling of a course in freshman composition.
ENGL621
Readings in Renaissance English Literature
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
For ENGL majors only.
ENGL626
Readings in American Literature before 1865
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
For ENGL majors only.
ENGL648
Contemporary American Literature
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
For ENGL majors only.
ENGL658D
Readings in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas; Caribbean Critical Theory
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Restriction: Permission of English Department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Cross-listed with CMLT679M. Credit only granted for ENGL658D or CMLT679M.
ENGL679
Professional and Career Mentoring for Master's Students
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
S-F
ENGL688
Poetry Workshop; Poetry Workshop
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENGL689
Fiction Workshop; Fiction Workshop
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENGL699
Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENGL708E
Seminar in Rhetoric; Black Feminism as Methodology in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
ENGL759D
Seminar in Literature and the Other Arts; Booklab: History and Futures of the Book
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENGL788
Studies in Poetic Form
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
ENGL789
Form and Theory in Fiction
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENGL798B
Critical Theory Colloquium
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENGL799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
ENGL878
Pedagogical Mentoring for Doctoral Students
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
S-F
ENGL879
Professional Mentoring for Doctoral Students
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
S-F
ENGL888
Practicum in English Studies
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
S-F
ENGL898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg
ENGL899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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