Courses - Fall 2025
English as a second language classes are listed under UMEI.
For more detailed course descriptions, click here to visit the English department website.
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 TWSE score below 33 must take ENGL 101A in place of ENGL101. Students for whom English is a second language should consider taking ENGL101X in place of ENGL101.
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.
Students should take ENGL 101A rather than ENGL 101 if their TWSE score (a subscore of the SAT verbal) is 33 or below.
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.
For general honors students or students with a verbal SAT of 600 or better.
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.
This course is 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. The following are indications that a student should register for English 101X: 1) an iBT TOEFL score of 100 overall, with a writing section score of at least 24; 2) an IELTS score of 7.0 overall, with a writing score of at least 7.0; 3) satisfactory completion of UMEI 005: Advanced English as a Foreign Language.
ENGL120
Acting Human: Shakespeare and the Drama of Identity
Shakespeare's ideas of dramatic realism studied through close examination of literary and dramatic techniques. How Shakespeare generates the fiction of a living, thinking person in the space of five acts, and how readers participate in the making of that fiction. Some attention to Shakespeare on film and what the playwright can teach us about different media.
ENGL126
Consider how short stories, novellas, and novels are vital to understanding our world and ourselves. Read and analyze a diverse range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, and apply the techniques of form and craft to your own experiments in fiction writing. Use critical analysis and hands-on creative experimentation to explore how fiction helps us understand the past, engage in the present, and build a better future.
ENGL134
The Rites of Discovery: Science, Law, and Literature, 1492-1992
History of idea of "discovery" from sixteenth-century debate about European "rights of discovery" to 500th anniversary, in 1992, of Columbus' landfall in New World. Evolution of modern concept of discovery, both as part of history of science and in legal context of history of European colonialism and cultural encounter with Native peoples of Americas, Africa, and Asia. Exploration of primary and secondary sources relating to international law, science, and literature.
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.
ENGL154
Race, Children's Television, and the Legacies of Jim Henson
Credit only granted for: ENGL154 or ENGL439J.
Formerly: ENGL439J.
How do children form ideas about race from television? We will approach this question by studying representations of race in children's television from the founding of the animation industry in the 1910s to educational programming epitomized by Sesame Street and the work of Jim Henson. We will also explore representations of race in the "Saturday Morning Cartoon Lineup" and in the subsequent proliferation of computer-generated images, gifs, and memes. Students will visit archives on campus pertaining to Jim Henson's work and reflect on what they find. Assignments will include a paper focused on critical analysis and self-reflection, and students will have the option of completing a multimedia project featuring video production, puppet making, or another creative means of producing a lesson for children.
ENGL201
The Medieval Imagination
How and why do the Middle Ages resonate with us now? Explore a wide range of narratives, poems, artworks, and songs from ancient, medieval, and Renaissance cultures. Study popular culture, manuscript and print technologies, and the relationship between the sacred and the profane over a millenium. Learn about modern and contemporary medievalist revivals that might include authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien and N.K. Jemisin, television series such as Game of Thrones, and more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ENGL244
Drama, Performance, and Spectacle
Exploration of drama through a consideration of plot, narrative flow, analytical flow, staging, performance, manuscript and printing history, text and textual change over time, and interpretation. Plays will be approached as public attempts to understand what it means to be alive.
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.
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.
ENGL251
Detective Fiction
Explore "whodunnit" fiction from its nineteenth-century beginnings to the contemporary moment. Why are readers intrigued by the methodical discovery of the exact circumstances of a mysterious event? How does the figure of the eccentric, intelligent, often unofficial investigator take prominence? How does detective fiction emerge from and react to global imperialism, the modern metropolis, forensic science, and the modern legal system? How does the genre represent and respond to gender, class, and racial inequities? Texts may range from the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, to the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" in the 1920s and 30s by writers such as Agatha Christie, to late-twentieth century and contemporary novelists such as Chester Himes, P.D. James, and Mia P. Manansala, to film and television adaptations such as Enola Holmes, See How They Run, and Kenneth Branagh's Hercule Poirot films.
ENGL255
Literature, 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."
ENGL262
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Cross-listed with: JWST262, HEBR298B.
Credit only granted for: JWST262, HEBR298B, or ENGL262.
Origins of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), with attention to literary formations, archaeology, and social-political settings. Explorations of major questions, including who wrote the Bible, and when; relationships of the biblical tradition to the mythology and religious structures of ancient Israel's near eastern neighbors; and dynamics of politics, religious leadership, and law.
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: An Introductory 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: An Introductory 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
Writing for the Stage and Screen: An Introductory Workshop
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.
Cross-listed with ARHU275.
ENGL280
The English Language: Histories, Diversity, and Change
Explore the many structures and historical developments of the English language, with a focus on techniques of linguistic analysis. Major topics include the sound systems of English and its patterns of word formation and sentence structure, and the ways these have changed over time and vary around the world.
ENGL289I
Cross-listed with: WGSS280.
Credit only granted for: ENGL289I or WGSS280.
Isaac Azimov once said of science fiction that it is the genre that "deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology." With this definition in mind, we will embark on a critical exploration of sci-fi film and other media, using it as a lens for analyzing society's deepest fears and most furtive hopes. Our investigation will center on the liminal space between hegemonic culture and its prescribed excesses. These liminal spaces--between self and other, disability and enhancement, cultural hybridization, and gender crossing--shift in response to real-world sociopolitical tensions. We will consider feminist and anti-racist media scholars' concerns over representation, authorship and ideology alongside questions of technological change. Students will use analytical and creative assignments to explore not only how the scientific imaginary serves as fertile ground for feminist, disability, and anti-racist critique, but also provides a locus for alternative futures.
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.
ENGL291
Prerequisite: Must have satisfied Fundamental Studies Academic Writing requirement.
Intermediate-level, writing-intensive course for students who have successfully satisfied the Fundamental Studies Academic Writing requirement but wish to hone skills in analyzing and producing rhetorically attuned, well-styled prose. Deeper study of rhetorical theory and its application to a wide variety of arguments and situations. Additional writing practice, techniques of revision, study of effect of stylistic choices. Topics may include argumentation theory, visual rhetoric, stylistic theory, and writing theory.
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.
ENGL296
Reading and Writing Disability: Rights and Representation
Locate and analyze disability in various settings, modes, and texts. Investigate the material and cultural effects of the language, stories, and myths of disability. Explore the many definitions and frameworks of disability: as dynamic lived experiences, as a political identity, as a rich culture, as socially constructed barriers, and as an oppressed minority group. Examine how disability is portrayed, controlled, stereotyped, and celebrated across social, medical, political, cultural, and personal networks.
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
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.
ENGL302
Medieval Literature in Translation
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Surveys major works of English and continental Middle Ages. Readings may include romance, lyric and drama, Germanic epic, works of Dante, Chretien de Troyes, Jean de Meun, Christine de Pisan, Malory, English and continental mystics.
ENGL308G
Special Topics in Shakespeare; Shakespeare and Appropriation
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL312
Romantic to Modern British Literature and Culture
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Explore 19th- and 20th-century British and Anglophone literary cultures, including Romanticism, Victorianism, and Modernism. We will read poetry, prose, and drama by authors such as Mary and Percy Shelley to Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Tagore, and Woolf. Learn about the history of empire and resistance, the industrial revolution, capitalism, communism, feminism, race, and new forms of literary and artistic creation.
ENGL319C
Special Topics in Science, Literature, and Media; From Frankenstein to Dracula: the Monstrous and Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL329I
Special Topics in Film Studies; Film and the Fantastic: Fantasy Films from Melies to Marvel
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGLR245, FILM245, SLLC283, or FILM283; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with CINE344. Credit only granted for ENGL329I or CINE344.
ENGL329J
Special Topics in Film Studies; The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, or CINE245; or permission of ARHU-College of Arts & Humanities. Cross-listed with CINE345. Credit granted for ENGL329J or CINE345.
ENGL329Z
Special Topics in Film Studies; The Henson Family as Filmmakers
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, or CINE245; or permission of ARHU-College of Arts & Humanities. Cross-listed with CINE319Z. Credit only granted for ENGL329Z or CINE319Z.
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.
ENGL358A
Special Topics in U.S. Latinx Literature; How to Read a Postcolonial Love Poem
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with USLT398A. Credit will be only granted for USLT398A or ENGL358A.
ENGL362
Cross-listed with: LACS348E.
Credit only granted for: ENGL362, LASC348E, or LACS348E.
Political and literary traditions that intersect in the fiction, poetry, and drama written in English by Caribbean writers, primarily during the 20th century.
ENGL368B
Special Topics in African American, African, and African Diaspora Literatures; Blues and African American Folksong
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL368I
Special Topics in African American, African, and African Diaspora Literatures; Representing Black Soldiers in American Literature
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL373
Senior Honors Project
Credits:
2
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENGL370.
Restriction: Must be in English Language and Literature program.
Research and writing of senior honors project. Strongly recommended for students planning graduate work.
ENGL381
MGA Legislative Seminar
Prerequisite: Students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department; or ENGL101.
Restriction: Permission of ARHU-English department.
Cross-listed with: HONR368A.
Credit only granted for: HONR368A or ENGL381.
Additional information: Application required. Contact english@umd.edu for more information.
Prepares students to intern for the Maryland General Assembly. Introduces standard legislative genres and assigns extended practice in researching legislative issues.
Cross-listed with HONR368A. Credit only granted for one of the following : ENGL381 or HONR368A. Admission to this course is by application only. Click here for more details.
ENGL385
English Semantics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
We use language all the time to share our thoughts and understand others, but how do we do this? Where does language get its meanings, and how do speakers know how to use them? Study a view of meaning grounded in human cognition and social interaction, emphasizing the relations between linguistic structures and the conceptual structures employed in understanding language. Topics include the relation between lexical and constructional meaning, the role of metaphor in language and thought, and the complex relations between language, culture and cognition.
ENGL388D
Writing, Research, and Media Internships; Dickinson Electronic Archives
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits.
ENGL388E
Writing, Research, and Media Internships; BookLab Internship
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: permission of the department.
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 department. Repeatable to 12 credits. Contact english@umd.edu.
ENGL388T
Writing, Research, and Media Internships; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Internships
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg
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 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.
Students taking ENGL388W for the first time should register for section 0101 for 4 credits. When taking the course again 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 Honors College or departmental Honors programs.
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 Honors College or departmental Honors programs.
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 Honors College or departmental Honors programs.
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.
Limited to students for whom English is a second language and who have a score below any of the following: SAT Verbal 400, TOEFL 575, CELT 250. Students who have received an "A" in ENGL 101 or its equivalent cannot register for ENGL 393X.
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. Not open to students who have completed ENGL391A. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENGL398A or ENGL391A. Formerly ENGL391A. An advanced composition course which emphasizes writing about the arts.
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 course 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. An advanced composition course which emphasizes writing cases and investigative reports.
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.
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 or equivalent. 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. Not open to students who have completed ENGL394N. Credit will be granted for only one of the following ENGL398N or ENGL394N. Formerly ENGL394N. A busniness writing class focusinog on writing about nonprofits.
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. Not open to students who have completed ENGL393E. Credit will be granted for only one of the following ENGL398V or ENGL393E. Formerly ENGL393E.
ENGL402
Chaucer
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses beyond Fundamental Studies; or permission of ARHU-English Department.
Explore the works of Geoffrey Chaucer in their literary and cultural environment. Texts read in Middle English. Readings may include Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, dream visions, and lyric poems.
ENGL416
18th-Century British Literature and Culture
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.
ENGL420
British Romantic Literature and Culture
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses beyond Fundamental Studies; or permission of ARHU-English Department.
Explore a time (roughly 1780-1830) of great change, political revolution, empire-building, changing economic and sexual relations, and philosophical innovation. Arguably, many of our contemporary notions about literature and what an author is were created during this period. Consider the influence of these changes in such authors as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Godwin, Wollstonecaft, Austen, and more.
ENGL428D
Seminar in Language and Literature; Murder, They Wrote: Investigating Detective Fiction
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.
ENGL428F
Seminar in Language and Literature; Literary Genre, Political Philosophy, and the History of Emotion
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.
ENGL433
American Literature: 1914 to the Present, the Modern Period
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses beyond Fundamental Studies; or permission of ARHU-English Department.
Modernism, Postmodernism. Writers such as Stevens, Stein, Ellison.
ENGL438D
Selected Topics in Media Studies; Reading and Writing in Immersive Media
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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 courses in literature or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Also offered as ENGL439D, LGBT448Y and WGSS498Y. Credit granted for ENGL439D, LGBT448Y, WGSS498Y or WMST498Y.
ENGL439N
Spotlight on Major Writers; Dying to Learn: Tragedy from the Greeks to "Lear" and "Succ ession"
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL439O
Spotlight on Major Writers; Wright-Ellison-Baldwin
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL459C
Selected Topics in LGBTQ+ Literatures and Media; Life Writings in Different Media
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with LGBT459D. Credit only granted for ENGL459C or LGBT459D.
ENGL459D
Selected Topics in LGBTQ+ Literatures and Media; Queer Youth
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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
ENGL467
Creative Approaches to Digital Textuality
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: One English course beyond Fundamental Studies; or permission of ARHU-English department.
Examines electronic literature and other aspects of the literary world online with a focus on experimental writing with computers. Topics may include digital fiction and storytelling, bots, book hacking, flash fiction, narrative in games, and artificial-intelligence-generated fiction, poetry, and art. No programming experience required.
ENGL469P
The Craft of Literature: Creative Form and Theory; Lyric Realities: Poem, Person, Planet
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.
ENGL478J
Selected Topics in Literature before 1800; The Essay Form: The Art of Unfinished Thought
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL479Y
Selected Topics in Literature after 1800; Seminar in Poetry Translation
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Two English courses in literature or permission of ARHU-E nglish department. Cross listed with CMLT679T. Credit only for ENGL479Y or CMLT679T.
ENGL483
American English(es)
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: LING200, ENGL280, or HESP120; or permission of ARHU-English department.
Examines the diversity of dialects, registers, and jargons of English found in the United States, as well as their origins, structures, and functions in society.
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.
ENGL488C
Topics in Advanced Writing; User Interface (UI) Design
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
ENGL493
Writing Genres as Social Action
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Recommended: Satisfactory completion of the professional writing requirement (FSPW).
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 60 credits.
A rhetorical genre studies approach to understanding the work that texts do in the world. Examines issues of identity, power, and medium as they relate to writing in various contexts. Students analyze the texts, context(s), and social significance of a public, professional, digital, and/or advanced academic genre and produce writing that meets, modifies, and subverts expectations.
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.
Restriction: Must be in English Language and Literature program; or must be in Secondary Educ: English Language Arts program.
ENGL498
Advanced Fiction Workshop
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: ENGL352 or ENGL396; or permission of department.
ENGL499
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: ENGL397 or ENGL353; or permission of department.
ENGL601
Introduction to Graduate Studies
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
An introduction to different elements of graduate work and an exploration of what it means to get a doctoral degree in English. Considers different career trajectories, in and outside of academia, as well as the future of higher education.
For majors only.
ENGL602
Critical Theory and Literary Criticism
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
An introduction to critical theory and literary criticism, with an overview of major movements (including formalism, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and feminism). Designed to help graduate students assess the various ways of approaching and writing about literature.
ENGL659A
Readings in Postcolonial Literatures and Theory; Race, Indigeneity, and the Postcolonial Australian Novel
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
ENGL679
Professional and Career Mentoring for Master's Students
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
S-F
ENGL688
Poetry Workshop
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENGL689
Fiction Workshop
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENGL699
Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
ENGL708F
Seminar in Rhetoric; Emotion and Persuasion
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
ENGL739B
Seminar in the Digital Humanities; Machines Reading, Machines Writing
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
ENGL809
Academic Publishing Workshop
Credits:
1 - 2
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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