Approved Course Proposals (Variable Topic Courses)
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Updated 01/10/06

ENGL 4/5109  Film As Literature

Film and the Novel: A Study in Adaptation
Images of the Female in Contemporary American Film
Film as Cultural History
Public and Private Fathers: Representations in Contemporary American Film
Cinematic Representations of Youth
American Independent Cinema
African-American Cinema
Adapting the Victorians
Just Whistlin' Dixie? The Celluloid South
It’s Alive: Frankenstein on Film

ENGL 4/5180 Studies in Regional Literature

Southern Literature (Hendricks and Hill) Am. Lit. II
Antebellum Southern Literature ( Newton) Am. Lit. I
Modern Irish Literature: Encountering the Landscapes of Identity (Doyle) Brit. Lit. II
Literature of the West (MacComb) Am. Lit II
Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World (M. Crafton) Brit. Lit. I

ENGL 4/5185 Studies in Literature by Women
Sentiment and Subversion in American Fiction (MacComb)
Studies in Literature by Women—British (L. Crafton)
Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Life Writing by Women (Hipchen) Genre
Reading Black, Reading Feminist

ENGL 4/5188 Individual Authors

Geoffrey Chaucer Brit. Lit I
William Shakespeare Brit. Lit I
John Milton Brit. Lit I
William Blake  Brit. Lit. II
Jane Austen Brit. Lit. II                         
Thomas Hardy Brit. Lit. II
James Joyce (Doyle) Brit. Lit. II
Seamus Heaney (Doyle) Brit. Lit. II
George Eliot (Mitchell) Brit. Lit. II
Virginia Woolf (Mitchell) Brit. Lit. II
Nathaniel Hawthorne Am. Lit. I
Benjamin Franklin (Erben) Am. Lit. I
Edith Wharton Am. Lit. II
William Faulkner Am. Lit. II
Henry James Am. Lit. II
Mark Twain Am. Lit. II
Toni Morrison Am. Lit. II       
T. S. Eliot Am. Lit II or Brit. Lit. II
Edgar Allan Poe ( Newton) Am. Lit. I
Langston Hughes (Davidson) Am. Lit. II
Ann Beattie (Hill) Am. Lit. II
James Dickey (Hill) Am. Lit. II
Elizabeth Bishop (Fraser) Am. Lit. II
Sylvia Plath (Davidson) Am. Lit. II
Shakespeare For Teachers

ENGL 4/5300 Studies in the English Language

History of the English Language
English Grammar
American English Dialects
History of African-American English

ENGL 4/5310 (Studies in Literary Theory)

Literary Theory
Postmodern Poetics (Davidson)

ENGL 4384 Senior Seminar

(Re)Constructing the American Literary Canon ( Newton)
Teaching the Conflicts: Literary Periodization (L. Crafton)
The Use and Abuse of Mythology in English Studies (M. Crafton)
The Madwoman in the Attic: Witchcraft and Madness in Literature and Film (L. Crafton)
Marriage and Literary Form (MacComb)
Extraordinary Bodies: Disability in Literature (Fraser)
Regionalist Perspectives in Literature (Hendricks)
The Invention of Nature: Environment and Literature (Davidson)
Imagining Nowhere: Utopian and Dystopian Fiction

ENGL 4/5385 Special Topics

Editing and Publishing (Hill and Snyder)
A World Made of Words: Studies in Native American Literature ( Newton) Am. Lit. II
Fictions of Selfhood: Passing as/for What? (MacComb) Am. Lit. II
The Un-virtuous Republic: Tropes of Transgression in the Early American Novel (Erben) Am. Lit. I
Adoption in Literature and Culture (Hipchen)
Faulker and McCullers: The American South in Transition (Umminger) Am. Lit. II
Theater of the Absurd and Beyond: Lost on Stage (Doyle) Genre
Modern Humor (Umminger) Genre
Contemporary Autobiography (Fraser) Genre
The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age
Shakespeare on Film