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	ENGL 326 - 17th-Century Poetry FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. Readings of lyric and epic poetry spanning the long 16th century, and tracing the development of republican and cavalier literary modes. Genres include the metaphysical poetry of Donne, Herbert, Katherine Philips, and Henry Vaughan; erotic verse by Mary Wroth, Herrick, Thomas Carew, Marvell, Aphra Behn, and the Earl of Rochester; elegy by Jonson and Bradstreet; and epic by Milton. Gertz.
	ENGL 330 - Milton FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. This course surveys one of the most talented and probing authors of the English language – a man whose reading knowledge and poetic output has never been matched, and whose work has influenced a host of writers after him, including Alexander Pope, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley. In this course, we read selections from Milton’s literary corpus, drawing from such diverse genres as lyric, drama, epic and prose polemic. As part of their study of epic form, students create a digital humanities project rendering Paradise Lost in gaming context. Quests, heroes,ethical choices and exploration of new worlds in Paradise Lost are rendered as a game. Students read Milton in the context of literary criticism and place him within his historical milieu, not the least of which includes England’s dizzying series of political metamorphoses from Monarchy to Commonwealth, Commonwealth to Protectorate, and Protectorate back to Monarchy. Gertz.
	ENGL 334 - The Age of Unreason: Studies in 18th-Century Literature FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. The “long eighteenth century” began roughly twenty years after a revolution unseated England’s king and reflects subsequent upheavals in England’s culture and literature. This course examines these revolutions through poems, plays, art, and philosophy that extol the birth of science; satirize experiment and reason; and debate the status of slaves and what it means to be human. We consider contemporary gossip, read scurrilous love poetry, witness a host of scandals, and even peek into the lives of London’s city dwellers, considering how these works reflected and shaped the turbulent world of an increasingly modern age. Authors are likely to include Pope, Swift, Defoe, Behn, Haywood, Gay, Addison, Johnson, and Sterne. Keiser.
	ENGL 335 - 18th-Century Novels FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. A study of prose fiction up to about 1800, focusing on the 18th-century literary and social developments that have been called “the rise of the novel.” Authors likely include Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, and/or Austen.
	ENGL 336 - Ghost in the Machine FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. This course considers the way in which literature–from the 17th and 18th centuries to the present–responds to problems of self, soul, matter, and consciousness. We read scurrilous love poetry and experimental novels where the body has a mind of its own. We see how writers attempt to capture the fleeting movements of the psyche by developing a “stream of consciousness” style. We consider how certain literary texts give us a glimpse into the inner lives of non-human thinking things (such as a bat, a talking parrot, and even a brain in a vat). We also think about how literature responds to developments in neuroscience. Keiser.
	ENGL 341 - The Romantic Imagination FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. A study emphasizing the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, but giving some attention to their own prose statements, to prose works by such associates as Dorothy Wordsworth, Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, and to novels by Austen and Scott. Adams.
	ENGL 345 - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. Novels and topics vary from year to year depending upon the interests of the instructor and of the students (who are encouraged to express their views early in the preceding semester). Authors range from Austen and Scott through such high Victorians as Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, and Trollope to late figures such as Hardy, Bennett, and James. Possible topics include the multiplot novel, women novelists, industrial and country house novels, mysteries and gothics, and the bildungsroman . Adams.
	ENGL 348 - Victorian Poetry: Victorian Pairs FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. This course offers an overview of Victorian poetry by examining four pairs of poets. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband, Robert, offer lessons in gender roles in Victorian England. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his sister, Christina, provide a window into the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Works by Alfred Tennyson and Matthew Arnold exemplify the Victorian elegiac mode, and Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas Hardy illustrate faith and skepticism in the transition to modernism. Adams.
	ENGL 349 - Middlemarch and Devoted Readers FDR: HL Credits: 4 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. This seminar begins with and centers upon George Eliot’s Middlemarch, a novel often regarded as one of the greatest and most ambitious produced in the era of the novel’s securest cultural dominance and famously described by Virginia Woolf as one of the “few English novels written for grown-up people.” It then problematizes this encounter by setting it in light of Rebecca’s Mead’s critically-acclaimed My Life in Middlemarch, a memoir of her devoted lifelong reading and reading of it, not just for pleasure but for its profound wisdom and insight. The question of such intense admiration verging on fandom is one that has received increasing scholarly attention, particularly in relation to the so-called Janeite phenomenon, that is, the love of Jane Austen fans for her novels, but extends to numerous other novelists, poets, playwrights, fun-makers, and their fans. Students supplement this focus of the course by researching and presenting their own exemplary case studies of such readerly devotion, obsession, or fandom. Adams.
	ENGL 350 - Postcolonial Literature FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. A study of the finest writers of postcolonial poetry, drama, and fiction in English. The course examines themes and techniques in a historical context, asking what “postcolonial” means to writers of countries formerly colonized by the British. Topics include colonization and decolonization; writing in the colonizer’s language; questions of universality; hybridity, exile, and migrancy; the relationship of postcolonial to postmodern; Orientalism; censorship; and the role of post-imperial Britain in the publication, distribution, and consumption of postcolonial literature. Keen.
	ENGL 351 - World Fiction in English FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. Topics in narrative fiction written in English by writers from nations formerly colonized by the British. Readings include novels and short stories originally written in English. Emphasis on techniques of traditional and experimental fiction, subgenres of the novel, international influences, and historical contexts. Keen.
	ENGL 352 - Modern Irish Literature FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. A study of the major Irish writers from the first part of the 20th century, focusing particularly on Joyce, Yeats, Synge, and Gregory. Some attention is paid to the traditions of Irish poetry, Irish history and language, and the larger context of European modernism that Irish modernism both engages and resists. Major themes may include the Irish past of myth, legend, and folklore; colonialism, nationalism and empire; religious and philosophical contexts; the Irish landscape; and general modernist questions, such as fragmentation, paralysis, alienation, and the nature of the work of art. Conner.
	ENGL 353 - 20th-Century British and Irish Poetry FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. Selected readings in British poetry from the turn of the century to the present, including the English tradition, international modernism, Irish, and other Commonwealth poetry. We will examine how many poets handle inherited forms, negotiate the world wars, and express identity amid changing definitions of gender and nation. Wheeler.
	ENGL 354 - Contemporary British and American Drama FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. This course examines both the masterpieces and undiscovered gems of English language theater from Samuel Beckett to the present. The course investigates contemporary movements away from naturalism and realism towards the fantastical, surreal, and spectacular. Student presentations, film screenings, and brief performance exercises supplement literary analysis of the plays, though no prior drama experience is presumed. Pickett.
	ENGL 355 - Studies in British Fiction Since 1900 FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENGL 299. Focused study of novels and short stories by 20th- and 21st-century British writers. Topics may include modernist experimentation, theories of the novel, cultural and historical contexts, and specific themes or subgenres. Emphasis on the vocabulary and analytical techniques of narrative theory. Keen.
	ENGL 358 - Literature of Gender and Sexuality Before 1900 FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. A study of poetry, narrative, and/or drama written in English before 1900. Texts, topics, and historical emphasis may vary, but the course addresses the relation of gender and sexuality to literature. Staff.
	ENGL 359 - Literature by Women of Color FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. This course focuses on the intersection of race and gender as they meet in the lives and identities of contemporary women of color via literature: African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanas, Asian-Americans, and mixed bloods, or ‘mestizas.’ Our readings, discussions and writings focus on the work that “coming to voice” does for women of color, and for our larger society and world. Students read a variety of poetry, fiction, and autobiography in order to explore some of the issues most important to and about women of color: identity, histories, diversity, resistance and celebration. Literary analyses-i.e., close readings, explications and interpretations-are key strategies for understanding these readings. Miranda.
	ENGL 360 - Cowboys and Indians FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. A post-modern study of the “Cowboys and Indians” motif in American literature. Beginning with some stories of Native Americans, we examine how they were depicted in early American literature and history, leading up to “Indian removal” to the West, Custer’s Last Stand, and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. We then study the rise of the Western itself as a story of national origins, psychology, policy, and destiny focused in the figure of the cowboy. We trace some competing versions of “Cowboy and Indian” stories told since then as America changes and develops, through fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and film by many famous writers and moviemakers including contemporary Native American writers. The goal is to understand why the “Cowboy and Indian” trope is one of the most powerful and widely known stories in the world. Smout.
	ENGL 361 - Native American Literatures FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. A study of American Indian literature, primarily from the 20th century but including some historical and prehistorical foundations (oral storytelling, early orations and essays). Texts and topics may vary, but this course poses questions about nation, identity, indigenous sovereignty, mythology and history, and the powers of story as both resistance and regeneration. Readings in poetry, fiction, memoir, and nonfiction prose. Authors may include Alexie, Harjo, Hogan, Erdrich, Silko, Chrystos, Ortiz, LeAnne Howe and Paula Gunn Allen. Miranda.
	ENGL 362 - American Romanticism FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. A study of American themes and texts from the middle decades of the 19th century. Readings in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose. Representative figures could include Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. Warren.
	ENGL 363 - American Poetry from 1900 to 1945 FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. A consideration of American poetry from the first half of the 20th century, including modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and popular poetry. Students will investigate the interplay of tradition and experiment in a period defined by expatriatism, female suffrage, and the growing power of urban culture. Wheeler.
	ENGL 364 - American Poetry at Mid-Century FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299 or instructor consent. Readings from the middle generation of 20th century U.S. poets with attention to the Beats, the New York School, Black Arts, and many other movements. Writers may include Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Robert Hayden, and others. Wheeler.
	ENGL 365 - Studies in Contemporary Poetry FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299 or instructor consent. Focused study of poetry in English from 1980 to the present. Topics vary but can include the role of place in contemporary writing or 21st-century poetry and performance. Depending on interest and department needs, readings may involve mainly U.S. authors or English-language poetry from other regions such as Ireland or the Pacific.
	ENGL 366 - African-American Literature FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. A focused engagement with the African-American literary tradition, from its beginnings in the late 18th century through its powerful assertions in the 21st. The focus of each term’s offering may vary; different versions of the course might emphasize a genre, author, or period such as poetry, Ralph Ellison, or the Harlem Renaissance. Staff.
	ENGL 367 - 19th-Century American Novel FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. A reading of major American novelists, focusing especially on Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. We also consider the relationship between the novel and punishment, especially in the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Lippard, and William Wells Brown. Additionally, we read fictions during the second half of the century by Twain, Chopin, and Chesnutt. Winter 2018: The Nineteenth Century and Its Shadow. This course explores canonical American literature from the nineteenth century alongside a small selection of contemporary literary and cinematic texts that call on and intervene with this body of work. Following Toni Morrison’s charge that the contemplation of a black presence “is central to any understanding of our national literature and should not be permitted to hover at the margins of the literary imagination,” this course focuses on how ideas of race are explored throughout the canon and how they have been carried forward. Works considered come from, among others, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Stephen Spielberg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Jacobs, Quentin Tarantino, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Staff.
	ENGL 368 - The Modern American Novel FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. A careful examination of the great achievements in the American novel in the early 20th century. We focus particularly on the work of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Wharton. Key texts include Winesburg, Ohio, The Age of Innocence, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Sound and the Fury, and Go Down, Moses. Assignments include a long research essay on one of the novels of the course. Conner.
	ENGL 369 - Late 20th-Century North American Fiction FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. An exploration of fiction since World War II. Authors may include Wright, O’Connor, Highsmith, Nabokov, Capote, Pynchon, Silko, Atwood, and Morrison. Gavaler.
	ENGL 370 - Contemporary North American Fiction Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. A study of 21st-century novels and short stories by North American authors. The course examines the recent movement of literary fiction into traditional pulp genres. Authors may include: Chabon, Atwood, Allende, Alexie, Butler, McCarthy, Diaz, Whitehead, Link, Fowler, and Grossman. Gavaler.
	ENGL 373 - Hitchcock FDR: HL Credits: 4 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. An intensive survey of the films of Alfred Hitchcock: this course covers all of his major and many of his less well-known films. It supplements that central work by introducing students to several approaches to film analysis that are particularly appropriate for studying Hitchcock. These include biographical, auteur, and genre-based interpretation, psychological analyses, and dominant form theory through the study of novel-to-film adaptations. Adams.
	ENGL 374 - King and Kubrick FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299 for English majors or WRIT 100 and instructor consent. This course explores and juxtaposes the novels, films, epic ambitions, dark visions, and cultural rivalry of two of the most popular, influential, and original narrative artists of 20th- and 21st-century America. We survey all of Kubrick’s 13 feature films, more closely engage with several of the most important, and highlight a small but representative selection of King’s vast oeuvre, emphasizing King’s literary and cultural ambitions more than his practice as a master of horror. At the center stand King’s and Kubrick’s versions of The Shining and the angry reaction of King to Kubrick’s cold, dark, even post-human adaptation of the far more ethical and humane novel. This rivalry and argument becomes the lens through which this course takes up the larger debate over the modernist and postmodernist cultural ranking of works and authors into categories such ”masscult” and “midcult” or “highbrow,” “middlebrow,” and “lowbrow.” Adams.
	ENGL 375 - Literary Theory FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. An introduction to literary theory, focusing on classic texts in literary criticism and on contemporary developments such as Formalism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Marxism, New Historicism and Cultural Studies, Feminism and Gender Studies, and Ecocriticism. Warren.
	ENGL 382 - Hotel Orient FDR: HL Credits: 3 credits in fall or winter, 4 in spring Prerequisite: ENGL 299 or instructor consent. This seminar charts the historical encounters between East and West through the very spaces that facilitate cross-cultural transactions from the medieval to the postmodern. If modern hotel consciousness is marked by transience, ennui, eroticism, and isolation, we ask whether or not the same characteristics held true in premodern hotel practices, and if the space of the Orient makes a difference in hotel writing. Semantically, “Orient” means not only the geographic east. As a verb, to orient means to position and ascertain one’s bearings. In this sense, to write about lodging in the East is to sort out one’s cultural and geopolitical orientation. Kao.
	ENGL 384 - Ireland in Literature, History, and Film FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English. This seminar seeks to immerse the student in the history and culture of Ireland through a range of media and methods. The primary focus of the course is on modern Irish literature–the seminal writings of the early 20th century, the so-called “Irish Renaissance”–but its secondary focus is on the world from which those writings emerged, and the world that followed upon those writings and was changed utterly by them. Through literary readings (both primary and secondary), texts of cultural history, memoir, and folklore, and through film (an increasingly potent form of expression in Ireland), we seek to understand the major movements in Ireland that led to its great cultural achievements in the 20th century, as well as the near-century that has followed the Renaissance and that still structures Ireland to this day. The seminar is also the prerequisite ENGL 388: Spring Term in Ireland taught in the following term, serving as orientation and preparation for that program and enabling students to be well-prepared when they arrive in Ireland. Conner
	ENGL 385 - Preparatory Reading for Study Abroad Credits: 1 Pass/Fail only. Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Seminar in reading preliminary to study abroad. Staff.
	ENGL 386 - Supervised Study in Great Britain FDR: HL Credits: 4 Prerequisites: ENGL 299 or instructor consent. An advanced seminar in British literature carried on in Great Britain, with emphasis on independent research and intensive exposure to British culture. Changing topics, rotated yearly from instructor to instructor, and limited in scope to permit study in depth.
	ENGL 387 - Visions and Beliefs of the West of Ireland (REL 387) FDR: HU Credits: 4 Prerequisite: INTR 301. Experiential Learning. This course immerses the student in the literature, religious traditions, history, and culture of Ireland. The primary focus of the course is on Irish literary expressions and religious beliefs and traditions, from the pre-historic period to the modem day, with a particular emphasis on the modem (early 20th-century) Irish world. Readings are coordinated with site visits, which range from prehistoric and Celtic sites to early and medieval Christian sites to modem Irish life. Major topics and authors include Yeats and Mysticism, St. Brendan’s Pilgrimage, Folklore and Myth, Lady Gregory and Visions, Religion in Irish Art, the Blasket Island storytellers, the Mystic Island, and others. Brown, Conner.
	ENGL 388 - Exploring the West of Ireland Credits: 4 Prerequisites: ENGL 384 and at least one course in English at the 200-level or higher or instructor consent. Non-majors welcome. Spring-term abroad course. This course spends four weeks in the southwest of Ireland, based in Dingle, County Kerry. From here we visit and study the dramatic Irish landscape of the Dingle Peninsula and the Irish Southwest. We focus primarily on sites associated with the great 20th-century Irish writers, such as Yeats’ tower of Thoor Ballylee, Lady Gregory’s estate of Coole Park, and the Aran Islands so beloved of J. M. Synge. We read a range of Irish literature, from medieval poetry and mythic saga to the great achievements of the Irish Revival, such as the poetry of Yeats and the plays of Synge, and also work from more recent Irish writers such as Heaney and O’Brien. Students write four interpretive essays, several “site readings,” and a travel journal/experiential web log of their travels. Conner.
	ENGL 391 - Topics in Creative Writing FDR: HA Three credits in 200-level English and instructor consent. Previous workshop experience recommended. Students who have successfully completed ENGL 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, or 207 should inform the department’s administrative assistant, who will grant them permission to enroll; otherwise a writing sample will be required. An advance workshop in creative writing. Genres and topics will vary, but all versions involve intensive reading and writing. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Spring 2018, ENGL 391-01: Topic: Exploring Prose Poems and Other Hybrid Forms (3). Prerequisite: Students who have taken a previous creative writing workshop in any genre should write to Mrs. O’Connell at oconnells@wlu.edu to obtain instructor consent. Other students should send a short sample of their creative writing to Professor Wheeler at wheelerlm@wlu.edu. Students explore how the language, devices, forms, music, cadences, and impulses of poetry, prose, and related disciplines may be brought to bear on the creation of hybrid forms. We read, discuss, and write reflective essays about hybrid works that blur or multiply a text’s visual, aural, sonic, intellectual, emotional, tactile, political, cultural, and other effects. Students also create at least one hybrid piece each week and prepare a larger final project or portfolio. Above all, they playfully engage practices outside their usual comfort zones, and in generating new work, push towards intellectually and aesthetically challenging experiences. (HA) Igloria.
	ENGL 392 - Topics in Literature in English before 1700 Credits: 3 in fall or winter, 4 in spring Prerequisite: ENGL 299. Enrollment limited. A seminar course on literature written in English before 1700 with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	ENGL 393 - Topics in Literature in English from 1700-1900 Credits: 3 in fall or winter, 4 in spring Prerequisite: ENGL 299. Enrollment limited. A seminar course on literature written in English from 1700 to 1900 with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Fall 2017, ENGL 393A-01: Moby Dick: Its Origins, Legacy, and Environmental Context (3). Prerequisite: ENGL 299. This course centers upon Melville’s famous quest narrative, which many critics regard as having the best claim to the title of “Great American Novel”. We first look to such major British influences as Romantic poet S.T. Coleridge, Victorian prose master Thomas Carlyle, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea, and Spielberg’s Jaws. The literary and theoretical emphasis, however, stresses Moby Dick’s generic status as both an epic and a georgic, that is, a heroic tale of humankind’s effort to conquer the natural world through technological prowess—and the tragic results of that (in)glorious aspiration for both humanity and the environment. In this regard, both genre theory and eco-criticism are central to this course’s effort to contextualize and comprehend the larger achievement of Melville’s masterpiece. (HL) Adams.
	ENGL 394 - Topics in Literature in English since 1900 Credits: 3 in fall or winter, 4 in spring Prerequisite: ENGL 299 or vary with topic. Enrollment limited. A seminar course on literature written in English since 1900 with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Winter 2018, ENGL 394A-01: Topics in Literature in English since 1900: New Topographers: Contemporary Environmental Writers (3). In this seminar, we read contemporary environmental writers of the last 40 years. The readings include poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including major works by Barry Lopez, Robert Macfarlane, and Robin Kimmerer. A course pack is the source for representative works by some 25 other writers. Along with shorter writing assignments and oral presentations, plan to write a research paper for the course. (HL) Warren. Fall 2017, ENGL 394A-01: Topics in Literature in English since 1900: Between the Acts: The Life and Writing of Virginia Woolf (3). Virginia Woolf is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. She is best remembered for contributions to the modern British novel, but she was also an astute (and prolific) literary critic, as well as an influential feminist thinker. This course considers Woolf in context, reading her work alongside key examples of modernist fiction. Born into a world of strict Victorian morals but coming of age among the vibrant avant-garde, Woolf’s life mirrors the fast-paced changes of the early 20th century, and thus her biography and her literary coterie are focal points of our discussion. In addition to canonical works like Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), we also read Between the Acts (1941) and Orlando (1928), as well as selections of Woolf’s feminist theory and literary criticism. (HL) Walle.
	ENGL 395 - Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions Credits: 3-4 Prerequisite: ENGL 299. Enrollment limited. A seminar course on literature written in English in an area of “counter traditions” with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Spring 2018, ENGL 395-01: Planetary Lines in World Literature (3). Prerequisite: ENGL 299. How do we read world literature in the Age of the Anthropocene? The growing debates around environmental crises have an emerging literary counterpart—whether these be realist novels on climate refugees in the Global South, eco-fiction works on dystopic survival, or documentary representations of a dissolving and privatizing landscape. This reading-intensive course examines multi-genre depictions from North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania of a human-impacted ecology. The question of “world” as universal and “planet” as material are thus considered, as are aesthetic moves narrating dis/placement and non/human relations. Course work includes in-class writing, group presentations, and a hybrid final paper that may incorporate creative elements. A midterm field project engaging with translation, as an underlying aspect of worlds in world literature, helps students collaborate across disciplinary and linguistic interests. (HL) Rajbanshi.
	ENGL 403 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A course designed for special students who wish to continue a line of study begun in an earlier advanced course. Their applications approved by the department and accepted by their proposed directors, the students may embark upon directed independent study which must culminate in acceptable papers. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	ENGL 413 - Senior Research and Writing Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Six credits in English at the 300 level, senior major standing, and instructor consent. Enrollment limited to six. A collaborative group research and writing project for senior majors, conducted in supervising faculty members’ areas of expertise, with directed independent study culminating in a substantial final project. Possible topics include ecocriticism, literature and psychology, material conditions of authorship, and documentary poetics. *Winter 2018, ENGL 413-01: Senior Research and Writing: Transing the Text (3)*. How does a text generate and direct its economy of movements? A prefix, trans denotes moving across, into, and through; it connotes departure, flow, and arrival—from here to there. It is a turn (think of the volta in sonnets) that, as Eva Hayward and Jami Weinstein observe, “is cause to move, a difference in position, a change in nature”. The asterisk affixed to trans further marks both the word’s prefixial motions and its expansive suffixial space to which all sorts of objects and ideas can attach themselves. With roots in affect, gender, and post-human studies, transing investigates various tipping points that facilitate the traffic within and transgression of socio-political norms. For instance, the bite of a monster induces a transformation of not only the body but the nature of desire; or, a rejection of the marriage plot blocks certain narrative fulfillments but makes available the transition into different possibilities of identity. We learn how to engage in practices of transing, a la Raymond Williams, through a cluster of sticky keywords: animacy, speciation, form, matter, body, object, affect, monstrosity, liminality, and border. Students compile a portfolio of reading responses in the first half of the seminar as preparation for their individual guided research project. (HL) Kao. Winter 2018, ENGL 413-02: Senior Research and Writing: Documentary Poetics (3). How do 20th- and 21st-century poets bear witness to social change, violence, and disaster? Students in this capstone read works by Muriel Rukeyser, Carolyn Forché, Patricia Smith, and many others, considering both the uses of poetry and the politics of documentation. What sources do documentary poets draw on and how do they handle the ethics of representation and citation? In response to the readings, students write critically and creatively, eventually pursuing research-based poetry projects on topics of their choosing. Previous workshop experience is not required but may be helpful. (HL) Wheeler. Fall 2017, ENGL 413-01: Senior Research and Writing: The Art of Narrative (3). This seminar focuses on the development of narrative strategies in short stories and narrative essays. You identify specific literary techniques, analyze them, and apply them in your own writing—fiction, non-fiction, or a combination. A literary technique is any use of language that can be studied in the context of a literary work, abstracted into a general method, and then recreated in an entirely new work. During the term, you develop two major pieces of writing simultaneously, each worth one third of your final grade: (1) a portfolio of original short fiction and/or personal essays that employs some of the identified techniques; and (2) an analytical essay exploring literary techniques from a range of published works. The essay establishes patterns of technique use and argues why certain techniques are employed for similar or contrasting effects in varying contexts. The remaining third of your final grade is the accumulative average of smaller and process assignments leading up to the major pieces. (HL) Gavaler.
	ENGL 453 - Internship in Literary Editing with Shenandoah Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 3 Prerequisites: At least junior standing and consent of the Shenandoah editor. An apprenticeship in editing for one or more students each 13-week term with the editor of Shenandoah , Washington and Lee’s literary magazine. Students are instructed in and assist in these facets of the editor’s work: evaluation of manuscripts, proofreading/copyediting, the arrangement of work within an issue, selection of cover art, composing contributor’s notes, responding to queries, and issuing news releases. Interns also work toward an understanding of the role of journals in contemporary literature. May be applied once to the English major or Creative Writing Minor and repeated for a maximum of six additional elective credits, as long as the specific projects undertaken are different. R. T. Smith.
	ENGL 493 - Honors Thesis Credits: 3-3 Prerequisite: Senior major standing and honors candidacy. Instructor consent. A summary of prerequisites and requirements may be obtained at the English Department website (english.wlu.edu).
Environmental Studies
	ENV 110 - Introduction to Environmental Studies FDR: SS5 Credits: 3 Prerequisite: First-year or sophomore standing or instructor consent. An interdisciplinary introduction to environmental studies with an emphasis on how societies organize themselves through their social, political and economic institutions to respond to environmental problems. The course begins with a discussion of the development of environmental thought, focusing on the relationship between humans and the environment. Participants then discuss alternative criteria for environmental decision making, including sustainability, equity, ecological integrity, economic efficiency, and environmental justice. The course concludes with an examination of contemporary environmental issues, including global warming, invasive species, energy and the environment, tropical deforestation, and the relationship between the environment and economic development in developing countries. Kahn.
	ENV 111 - Environmental Service Learning Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 1 Prerequisites: ENV 110 and instructor consent. Practical application of student knowledge of environmental issues based on supervised volunteer work in the greater Rockbridge community. Students will participate in a service-learning environment. Topics will include environmental education, campus sustainability, conservation and sustainable agriculture in the surrounding region. The course culminates with a paper integrating students’ knowledge with practical application throughout the term. Staff.
	ENV 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar Credits: 3 First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. .
	ENV 207 - Nature and Place (REL 207) FDR: HU Credits: 3 This course explores a variety of ideas about and experiences of nature and place Through a consideration of work drawn from diverse disciplines including philosophy, religious studies, literature, art, and anthropology. Questions to be Considered may include: what is the nature of place in our societies, and is there a place for nature in our cultures? How have human beings made places for themselves to dwell in or out of nature? What might make a place a sacred place? Are there any sacred places? ( Kosky
	ENV 212 - Land Use and Aquatic Ecosystems in the Chesapeake Watershed FDR: SC Credits: 4 Prerequisite: ENV 110 or instructor consent. This field-based course examines Chesapeake aquatic ecosystems from the headwaters through the estuary and how they are affected by human land use. Emphasis is placed on current research and management practices aimed at restoring degraded habitats and promoting sustainable land use and environmental stewardship in coastal watersheds. Humston.
	ENV 250 - Ecology of Place Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Think globally, study locally. This course explores globally significant environmental issues such as biodiversity conservation, sustainable delivery of ecosystem goods and services, and environmental justice, as they are manifested on a local/regional scale. We examine interactions among ethical, ecological, and economic concerns that shape these issues. Students are fully engaged in the development of policy recommendations that could guide relevant decision makers. The course incorporates readings, field trips, films, and discussions with invited experts. Cooper, Hurd.
	ENV 295 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENV 110 or BIOL 111. This courses examines special topics in environmental studies, such as ecotourism, the environment and development, local environmental issues, values and the environment, global fisheries, global climate change, tropical deforestation and similar topics of importance, which could change from year to year. This is a research-intensive course where the student would be expected to write a significant paper, either individually or as part of a group, of sufficient quality to be made useful to the scholarly and policy communities. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	ENV 390 - Special Topics: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Issues Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENV 110 and 9 credits at the 200 level or above in the environmental studies major. This course examines causes of, consequences of, and solutions to contemporary environmental problems. Though topics vary from term to term, the course has a specific focus on the integration of environmental science, policy, and thought so students understand better the cause and effect relationships that shape the interaction between human and environmental systems. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	ENV 395 - Special Topics in Environmental Ethics Credits: 3 This course explores areas of topical concern within the field of environmental ethics. The issues explored may vary from year to year. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Fall 2017, ENV 395A-01: Environmentalism in the Anthropocene (3). No prerequisites. Students may not also register for PHIL 395A-01. Many people believe we have entered a new geological epoch: The Anthropocene, or Age of Human Domination. Some of the central questions explored in this seminar include: What does it mean to be an environmentalist in the Anthropocene? Are the traditional goals of wilderness preservation and conservation of biodiversity still appropriate? Should conservation biology shift its goals in the direction of conserving valuable ecosystem goods and services? Should our attitudes towards introduced and/or invasive species be transformed? Should we assist the migration of species that are unable to respond on their own to the habitat shifts that will result from global warming? Has the planet become, in effect, one large human garden to be managed as best we can? (HU) Cooper
	ENV 396 - Pre-Capstone Research Seminar Credits: 1 Prerequisite: Declaration of a major or minor in environmental studies. In this seminar, students develop a proposal for the research that they will conduct in the subsequent Winter-term class, ENV 397. Both quantitative and qualitative research projects are encouraged and all research projects must have an interdisciplinary component. Students develop their research questions, prepare progress reports, annotated bibliographies, discussions of data, methods, and the significance of their proposed research. The final product is a complete research proposal which serves as a blueprint for the capstone research project. Students are also responsible for reviewing the work of classmates. Staff.
	ENV 397 - Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENV 110 and completion of any two of the three remaining areas for the Program in Environmental Studies, and instructor consent. ENV 396 is strongly encouraged as preparation. An interdisciplinary capstone course intended for students in the environmental studies program. Students analyze a particular environmental issue and attempt to integrate scientific inquiry, political and economic analysis and ethical implications. The particular issue changes each year. Staff.
	ENV 401 - Directed Individual Studies Credits: 1 Prerequisite: ENV-110 and instructor consent. Students undertake significant original research or creative activity in the area of environmental studies, under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	ENV 402 - Directed Individual Studies Credits: 2 Prerequisite: ENV-110 and instructor consent. Students undertake significant original research or creative activity in the area of environmental studies, under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	ENV 403 - Directed Individual Studies Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENV-110 and instructor consent. Students undertake significant original research or creative activity in the area of environmental studies, under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	ENV 493 - Honors Thesis in Environmental Studies Credits: 3-3 Prerequisite: Senior standing, honors candidacy, and consent of the environmental studies faculty. Honors Thesis. Staff.
Film Studies
	FILM 109 - Film Performance Laboratory Credits: 1 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Participate as a writer, actor, cinematographer or technician in a faculty supervised film production. May be repeated for degree credit for a total of 3 credits. Spice
	FILM 121 - Script Analysis for Stage and Screen (THTR 121) FDR: HL Credits: 3 The study of selected plays and screenplays from the standpoint of the theatre and screen artists. Emphasis on thorough examination of the scripts preparatory to production. This course is focused on developing script analysis skills directly applicable to work in production. Students work collaboratively in various creative capacities to transform texts into productions. Sandberg, Levy, Collins, Evans.
	FILM 195 - Topics in Film Studies FDR: HA Credits: 3 credits in Fall or Winter; 4 credits in Spring Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement, and other prerequisites may vary with topic. Selected topic in film studies, focused on one or more of film history, theory, production, or screenwriting. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	FILM 196 - Topics in Film and Literature FDR: HL Credits: 3 credits in Fall or Winter; 4 credits in Spring Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement, and other prerequisites may vary with topic. Selected topics in film and literature. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	FILM 220 - Screenwriting FDR: HA Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Completion of the FDR writing requirement (FW). Additional course fee required, for which the student is responsible after Friday of the 7th week of winter term. In this course, students learn about the art and business of screenwriting, studying story and narrative structures, and what makes a story interesting to us. We begin by looking at the human need for story and how we can both access and feed this basic principle of human existence. In addition, you learn how to write your own stories into a screenplay. With creative discipline, you practice writing believable characters and scenes that will draw audiences in through the art of crafting great dialogue. You begin with the spark of your idea at the beginning of the term, turn it into a treatment, and eventually a full screenplay that you then have an opportunity to pitch to a producer for feedback. From your first draft, you learn the art of refining your screenplay, focusing on how to give it great tonality and form, building your skills as a writer, a creative thinker, and following through a whole artistic process. Sandberg.
	FILM 233 - Introduction to Film (ENGL 233) FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. An introductory study of film taught in English and with a topical focus on texts from a variety of global film-making traditions. At its origins, film displayed boundary-crossing international ambitions, and this course attends to that important fact, but the course’s individual variations emphasize one national film tradition (e.g., American, French, Indian, British, Italian, Chinese, etc.) and, within it, may focus on major representative texts or upon a subgenre or thematic approach. In all cases, the course introduces students to fundamental issues in the history, theory, and basic terminology of film. Staff.
	FILM 236 - Science Fiction & Fantasy: From Page to Screen and Beyond FDR: HL Credits: 4 Film, almost from origins, has been fascinated by the evocation of fantasy worlds and by the effort to imagine and represent future worlds filled with technological marvels.(Film is, of course, a medium obsessed by its own technological improvements from sound and color to 30 and virtual reality.) From such major directors as Lang and Kubrick to Lucas and Spielberg, science fiction has attracted some of the finest and most innovative directors. In this course, we study major examples of this phenomenon along with the technological history and philosophical speculations contributing to it. Adams.
	FILM 250 - Preparing for Ethnographic Study of Modern Day Slavery in Ghana Credits: 1 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A course preparatory to FILM 251. Students in this course learn about Ghanaian culture and history, along with modern-day slavery practices and prevention, including organizations working with the spring-term course. Students learn the essentials of interviewing and shooting short documentary so that each student is fully prepared for the experience. Students complete short readings and assignments each week. Sandberg.
	FILM 251 - Ethnographic Study of Modem Day Slavery in Ghana: Creating Short Documentary Film FDR: HA Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad. This course examines culture and social-justice issues in Ghana, particularly focusing on issues of modern day slavery. Together, we study Ghanaian culture, visiting cultural sites and learning about how the country is faring with modern-day slavery. We collect true stories through ethnographic study, interviewing and filming to create short documentaries for presentation on campus at the end of the spring term. We examine the development of modern-day slavery in Ghana, visiting organizations and government programs that are working on the issue as well as listening to the stories of those who have been rescued from slavery. Sandberg.
	FILM 255 - Seven-Minute Shakespeare FDR: HA Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Completion of the FDR FW and HL requirements. After intensive collective reading and discussion of four Shakespeare plays in the first week, students organize into four-person groups with the goal of producing a seven-minute video version of one of the plays by the end of the term, using only the actual text of the play. The project requires full engagement and commitment, and includes tasks such as editing and selecting from the text to produce the film script, creating storyboards, casting and recruiting actors, rehearsing, filming, editing, adding sound tracks and effects. We critique and learn from each other’s efforts. Dobin.
	FILM 285 - Music in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (MUS 285) FDR: HA Credits: 4 How does music add power and meaning to a film? What are the connections between the flow of music and the flow of a dramatic narrative? How does music enhance visual images? The course will focus on the pre-existent classical compositions chosen by Stanley Kubrick for his movies 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), and The Shining (1980). The ability to read music is not a requirement for this course. Gaylard.
	FILM 413 - Research and Writing Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 3 Prerequisite: FILM 233 or ENGL 233 and at least nine additional credits for the minor. A collaborative group research, writing, and/or production project for junior or senior minors, conducted in supervising faculty members’ areas of expertise, with directed independent study culminating in a substantial final project. Possible topics include global and national film, focused treatments of auteur-directors or genres, film and psychology, film and technological change, film and painting, original film production.
French
	FREN 111 - Elementary French I Credits: 4 Limited enrollment. Preference is given to first-year students with no prior preparation in French. Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing. Staff.
	FREN 112 - Elementary French II Credits: 4 Prerequisite: FREN 111 or departmental permission. Limited enrollment. Emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking, with gradual introduction of reading and writing. Staff.
	FREN 161 - Intermediate French I Credits: 3 Prerequisite: FREN 112 or the equivalent in language skills. Extensive grammar review with acquisition of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom. The course acquaints students with French life and culture. Staff.
	FREN 162 - Intermediate French II FDR: FL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: FREN 161 or the equivalent in language skills and departmental permission. Extensive grammar review with practical application of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the classroom. The course acquaints students with French life and culture. Staff.
	FREN 164 - Advanced Intermediate French FDR: FL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Departmental permission as a result of placement examination for entering students. Students with credit in FREN 164 may not receive subsequent credit in a lower numbered French course. Students with credit in a lower numbered French course are, in general, ineligible for credit in FREN 164. Students may not receive degree credit for both FREN 162 and 164. Emphasis on reading and composition skills, with extensive practice in speaking and listening through class discussion. Some grammar review. Staff.
	FREN 212 - Supervised Study Abroad Credits: 4 Prerequisite: FREN 162, 164 or equivalent. Majors in subjects other than French, including other languages, are encouraged to apply. Spring Term Abroad course. A period of direct exposure to the language, culture, and people of France. The program includes formal language instruction, living with a French family, excursions, and other cultural activities. In addition to weekly journal entries, students are required to adopt a neighborhood, a street, an organization, a market, etc., in their choice of surroundings. A 10-15-page easy is required on a unique aspect of their chosen subject. Students are encouraged to take advantage of their home-stay families in gathering information for this project. Staff.
	FREN 261 - Conversation et composition: Cours avancé Credits: 3 Prerequisite: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. Further development of conversational skills and beginning work in free composition, with systematic grammar review and word study in various relevant cultural contexts. Staff.
	FREN 272 - Humour et Comedie: Explorations, Jeux, Spectacles FDR: HL Credits: 4 Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. An exploration of modern French comedy and humor in theatrical works by modern and contemporary playwrights. The course culminates with a performance of student-acted and student-produced comic scenes and one act plays. Radulescu.
	FREN 273 - Introduction à l’analyse littéraire FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: FREN 162, FREN 164 or equivalent. An introduction to French literature and literary analysis based on a study of selected prose, poetry, and theater. Focus on textual analysis in composition and oral presentations. Staff.
	FREN 280 - Civilisation et culture francophones FDR: HU Credits: 3 Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A study of significant aspects of culture and civilization in francophone countries. Topics may include: contemporary Africa, pre-colonial Africa, West Indian history and culture, and Canadian contemporary issues. Readings, discussion and papers in French further development of communication skills. Fall 2017, FREN 280-01: Civilisation et culture d’Afrique francophone (3). Prerequisites: FREN 261 or equivalent and instructor consent. This course is an introduction to modern African society and culture, with specific focus on Francophone West Africa (Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali, among others). We examine the various ways societies deal with issues of modernization and globalization in their political, cultural and socio-economic lives. We also look at the impact of significant historical events (the transatlantic slave trade, colonization, the world wars, and globalization, for example) on the African continent and its inhabitants. Course materials include anthropological, sociological, and historical documents, literary texts, and films. (HU) Kamara.
	FREN 281 - Civilisation et culture françaises: Traditions et changements FDR: HU Credits: 3 Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A study of significant aspects of French culture and civilization, seen in a diachronic perspective. Emphasis on economic, sociological and historical changes that shaped present-day institutions and national identity. Readings, discussions and papers in French for further development of communication skills.
	FREN 282 - Civilisation et culture françaises: La France d’aujourd’hui FDR: HU Credits: 3 Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A study of modern France. This course examines the economic, political, social and intellectual issues which shape contemporary French life. Readings, discussions and papers in French for further development of communication skills.
	FREN 283 - Histoire des idées FDR: HU Credits: 3 Prerequisite: FREN 162, FREN 164 or equivalent. This course retraces the evolution of thought in France across centuries through the examination of intellectual, cultural and artistic movements. Readings, discussions and paper in French for further development of communication skills. Staff.
	FREN 285 - Spring Term Topics in French Civilization Credits: 4 Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A study of significant aspects of culture and civilization through direct experience abroad in France and/or Francophone countries. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Spring 2018, FREN 285-01: Topic in French Civilization: Contemporary French Society through Film (4). Prerequisite: FREN 162 or 164, or equivalent. Open to intermediate and advanced levels. Taught entirely in the southern French city Toulouse and offering an alternative view of France from what many experience in Paris. During the four weeks, students are introduced to the most important issues in modern French society, including immigration, university life, social justice, art, culture, and gastronomy. The course uses contemporary French cinema as a platform for discussion, debate, and advanced grammar review. Class sessions are conversation intensive and review the most difficult points of French grammar through cultural and conversational contexts. An integral part of the course is connecting the issues examined through film with the urban and social fabric of Toulouse. Students are required to use their French to interact with local non-profit agencies and investigate cultural and social issues on-site. The ultimate goals of the program are to boost students’ confidence in spoken and written French, develop an awareness of social issues in contemporary French society, and learn how to function independently abroad. During their stay in Toulouse, students are also enrolled in an intensive grammar-review course taught by a French professor, accommodating a variety of linguistic levels. Students live with host families and go on two different excursions, to Albi and Carcassonne. McCormick.
	FREN 295 - Atelier avancé de langue, littérature et culture Credits: 3 inf fall and winter; 4 in spring Prerequisites: FREN 162, FREN 164, or equivalent. A third-year topics or advanced grammar workshop. Recent offerings include: Les dossiers de la presse; Regards sur la ville. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Fall 2017, FREN 295-01: Atelier avancé de langue, littérature et culture: La Francophonie autour de l’Amérique du Nord (3). An exploration of the Francophone cultures of Canada, Louisiana, and the Caribbean. The Cajun and Creole cultures of Southwest Louisiana are considered through literature, oral tradition, music, and food. The course features literary works and films from Francophone Canada, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti. Readings, discussion, and papers in French for further development of communication skills. Leva.
	FREN 331 - Etudes thématiques FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. This course gives students a general knowledge of the evolution of French literature and ideas over the centuries through the study of one main theme. Recent offerings include: L’Exil; Regards sur la ville; Le dépaysement; Le voyage dans la literature française; L’esprit critique au XVIIIe siècle. May be repeated for degree credit if the theme is different.
	FREN 332 - Études de genre FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. This course gives students a general knowledge of the evolution of French literature and ideas over the centuries through the study of a single genre, its styles and techniques. Recent offerings include: L’Essai de Montaigne Camus; Ecriture feminine/Ecriture féministe? L’amour dans la poésie lyrique; Le conte et la nouvelle. May be repeated for degree credit if the genre is different.
	FREN 341 - La France de l’Ancien Régime FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Three courses in French at the 200 level. Readings in French literature and civilization from before the Revolution of 1789. May be repeated for degree credit if the topic is different. Fall 2017, FREN 341-01: Introduction à la littérature médiévale d’expression française (3). This course aims to introduce students to strategies for reading, understanding, interpreting, and discussing medieval literature written in French. We read the most important works in written medieval Francophonia (including Northern France, Italy, England, and the Holy Land) and explore how these narrative traditions continue to inform our cultural imaginary today. Students acquire a general timeline of medieval history through a series of student-centered presentations. Topics range from gender studies, manuscript studies, history, chivalry, the notion of the quest, beasts and dragons, and the way the Middle Ages are read and reused today. Texts include excerpts from La Chanson de Roland; the Roman de Renart; the Quatre fils Aymon; the Roman de Silence; and the Roman de Perceval. All course discussion, content, and student work is entirely in French, and we continue to review advanced stylistics in French through written compositions. (HL) McCormick.
	FREN 342 - La France moderne FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. Readings in French literature and civilization of the 19th and 20th centuries. Recent offerings include: La poésie moderne et contemporaine ; Théâtre de l’absurde-Théâtre de la dérision ; L’enfance et l’adolescence dans la prose française moderne. May be repeated for degree credit if the topic is different. Fall 2017, FREN 342-01: Crime et Société: Du Fait Divers à la Série Noire (3). Prerequisites: Three 200-level French courses or instructor consent. An examination of the rise of crime fiction as a popular genre in 20th-century French literature and film. We discuss public fascination with crime, criminals, detectives, and victims as represented in popular literature and films, and read and discuss critical and theoretical texts to better understand the relationship between crime and society. Students study Georges Simenon, Léo Malet, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Didier Daeninckx, Yasmina Khadra, Lakhdar Belaïd, and Jean-Claude Izzo, among others, give class presentations, and write short analytical papers in French. (HL) Lambeth.
	FREN 343 - La France à travers les siècles FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Three courses at the 200 level. Readings in French literature and civilization from across the centuries. May be repeated for degree credit if the topic is different.
	FREN 344 - La Francophonie FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Three courses in French at the 200 level. An analysis of styles, genres, and themes in relation to particular cultural contexts, as represented in literary works written in French by authors from countries other than France. Of particular interest is French language literature from Africa, the Caribbean, and Canada. May be repeated for degree credit if the topic is different. Winter 2018, FREN 344-01: La Francophonie: Le Roman Francophone à la Première Personne (3). An introduction to francophone prose, focusing on first-person narratives including autobiographical, semi-autobiographical, and fictional texts. We examine the way the narrating subject represents herself or himself in the context of or in opposition to a collective entity or experience. Issues such as narrative technique, point of view, space and identity, subjectivity, and representation receive special attention. Texts are from Africa, Québec, and the Caribbean. (HL) Kamara. Staff.
	FREN 397 - Séminaire avancé FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Three courses in French at the 200 level. The in-depth study of a topic in French literature and/or civilization. Recent offerings include: La Littérature francophone du Maghreb; La littérature Beure; La France sous l’occupation; Les femmes et l’écriture au XVIIe siècle; Les écrivains du XXe siècle et la diversité culturelle; L’affaire Dreyfus. Students are encouraged to use this course for the development of a personal project. May be repeated for degree credit when the topics are different. Winter 2018, FREN 397-01: Séminaire Avancé: France Under Nazi Occupation (3). Prerequisite: 3 courses in French at the 200 level or equivalent or instructor consent. A close examination of life in France under Nazi occupation (1940-44), through documents, texts, songs and films, and of its effect on memory, institutions, political life, and French arts. Students study documents and analyses, alone and in groups, reflect on the ethical and strategic choices facing the authorities and individual citizens, and confront their interpretations in class discussions. Continued development of skills in hearing, oral expression, reading, and writing. (HL) Frégnac-Clave.
	FREN 401 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 1 Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level French and consent of the department head. Taught In French. Nature and content of course to be determined by students’ needs and by instructors acquainted with their earlier preparation and performance. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	FREN 402 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 2 Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level French and consent of the department head. Taught In French. Nature and content of course to be determined by students’ needs and by instructors acquainted with their earlier preparation and performance. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
	FREN 403 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 3 Prerequisites: At least nine credits of 300-level French and consent of the department head. Taught In French. Nature and content of course to be determined by students’ needs and by instructors acquainted with their earlier preparation and performance. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	FREN 451 - Internship Abroad Credits: 1 Prerequisite: Instructor consent prior to travel abroad. Supervised experience in a French-speaking country in an agency, research organization, or other venue, to be followed by related academic work on campus the subsequent term. Requires at least 48 work hours over no fewer than four weeks and a research paper or an academic equivalent focused on the off-campus activities. Credit is based on the academic component of the internship experience. Both the work component and the academic component shall be in French. May be carried out during the summer. McCormick.
	FREN 452 - Internship Abroad Credits: 2 Prerequisite: Instructor consent prior to travel abroad. Supervised experience in a French-speaking country in an agency, research organization, or other venue, to be followed by related academic work on campus the subsequent term. Requires at least 96 work hours over no fewer than four weeks and a research paper or an academic equivalent focused on the off-campus activities. Credit is based on the academic component of the internship experience. Both the work component and the academic component shall be in French. May be carried out during the summer. McCormick.

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ENGL 326 - 17th-Century Poetry

ENGL 330 - Milton

ENGL 334 - The Age of Unreason: Studies in 18th-Century Literature

ENGL 335 - 18th-Century Novels

ENGL 336 - Ghost in the Machine

ENGL 341 - The Romantic Imagination

ENGL 345 - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel

ENGL 348 - Victorian Poetry: Victorian Pairs

ENGL 349 - Middlemarch and Devoted Readers

ENGL 350 - Postcolonial Literature

ENGL 351 - World Fiction in English

ENGL 352 - Modern Irish Literature

ENGL 353 - 20th-Century British and Irish Poetry

ENGL 354 - Contemporary British and American Drama

ENGL 355 - Studies in British Fiction Since 1900

ENGL 358 - Literature of Gender and Sexuality Before 1900

ENGL 359 - Literature by Women of Color

ENGL 360 - Cowboys and Indians

ENGL 361 - Native American Literatures

ENGL 362 - American Romanticism

ENGL 363 - American Poetry from 1900 to 1945

ENGL 364 - American Poetry at Mid-Century

ENGL 365 - Studies in Contemporary Poetry

ENGL 366 - African-American Literature

ENGL 367 - 19th-Century American Novel

ENGL 368 - The Modern American Novel

ENGL 369 - Late 20th-Century North American Fiction

ENGL 370 - Contemporary North American Fiction

ENGL 373 - Hitchcock

ENGL 374 - King and Kubrick

ENGL 375 - Literary Theory

ENGL 382 - Hotel Orient

ENGL 384 - Ireland in Literature, History, and Film

ENGL 385 - Preparatory Reading for Study Abroad

ENGL 386 - Supervised Study in Great Britain

ENGL 387 - Visions and Beliefs of the West of Ireland

ENGL 388 - Exploring the West of Ireland

ENGL 391 - Topics in Creative Writing

ENGL 392 - Topics in Literature in English before 1700

ENGL 393 - Topics in Literature in English from 1700-1900

ENGL 394 - Topics in Literature in English since 1900

ENGL 395 - Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions

ENGL 403 - Directed Individual Study

ENGL 413 - Senior Research and Writing

ENGL 453 - Internship in Literary Editing with Shenandoah

ENGL 493 - Honors Thesis

ENV 110 - Introduction to Environmental Studies

ENV 111 - Environmental Service Learning

ENV 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar

ENV 207 - Nature and Place

ENV 212 - Land Use and Aquatic Ecosystems in the Chesapeake Watershed

ENV 250 - Ecology of Place

ENV 295 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies

ENV 390 - Special Topics: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Issues

ENV 395 - Special Topics in Environmental Ethics

ENV 396 - Pre-Capstone Research Seminar

ENV 397 - Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies

ENV 401 - Directed Individual Studies

ENV 402 - Directed Individual Studies

ENV 403 - Directed Individual Studies

ENV 493 - Honors Thesis in Environmental Studies

FILM 109 - Film Performance Laboratory

FILM 121 - Script Analysis for Stage and Screen

FILM 195 - Topics in Film Studies

FILM 196 - Topics in Film and Literature

FILM 220 - Screenwriting

FILM 233 - Introduction to Film

FILM 236 - Science Fiction & Fantasy: From Page to Screen and Beyond

FILM 250 - Preparing for Ethnographic Study of Modern Day Slavery in Ghana

FILM 251 - Ethnographic Study of Modem Day Slavery in Ghana: Creating Short Documentary Film

FILM 255 - Seven-Minute Shakespeare

FILM 285 - Music in the Films of Stanley Kubrick

FILM 413 - Research and Writing

FREN 111 - Elementary French I

FREN 112 - Elementary French II

FREN 161 - Intermediate French I

FREN 162 - Intermediate French II

FREN 164 - Advanced Intermediate French

FREN 212 - Supervised Study Abroad