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	ENGL 299 - Seminar for Prospective Majors FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Completion of FW composition requirement and at least one course chosen from English courses numbered from 201 to 295. A study of a topic in literature issuing in a research process and sustained critical writing. Some recent topics have been Detective Fiction; American Indian Literatures; Revenge; and David Thoreau and American Transcendentalism.
	ENGL 304 - Literary Book Publishing FDR: HA Credits: 3 One course chosen from ENGL 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 210, 215, 306, 308, 309, 391, or instructor consent. This course is an introduction to the publishing industry, its culture and commerce. We examine the history of the industry and how it operates today, with an emphasis on active learning and practice. This class consists, in part, of active discussions with industry professionals, studying the life of a single book: its author, its agent, its editor, its book designer, its publisher. It gives you an overview of how the publishing industry works through the eyes of the people who work in it. It also gives you a chance to put what you learn into practice. Using a book you’re working on (or a theoretical book you may someday write), you compose a query letter, design a book jacket, and create marketing material in support of your project. The term culminates with a book auction where students form publishing teams and bid on the books they would most like to publish. Staples.
	ENGL 306 - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry FDR: HA Credits: 3 Prerequisites: One creative writing course completed at W&L, chosen from ENGL 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 210, 215, 304, 307, 308, 309, 391, or instructor consent. A workshop in writing poems, requiring regular writing and outside reading. Staff.
	ENGL 307 - Fresh/Local/Wild: The Poetics of Food FDR: HA Credits: 4 Prerequisite: One course chosen from ENGL 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 210, 215, 306, 308, 309, 391, or instructor consent. This class visits fresh/local/wild food venues each week, where sensory explorations focus on all aspects of foraging, creating, adapting and eating food. Coursework includes guided writing exercises based on the landscape/geography of food both in the field and classroom, with in-depth readings that help us turn topics like food politics, food insecurity, sustainable agriculture and genetically modified foods into poetry. Individual handmade chapbooks of the term’s poems serve as the final product. A service learning component is also included in the course through Campus Kitchen. Miranda.
	ENGL 308 - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction FDR: HA Credits: 3 in fall and winter, 4 in spring Prerequisites: Three credits in any 200- or 300-level creative writing workshop, ENGL 203 recommended. Students who do not meet the requisite may submit a fiction writing sample for possible instructor consent. A workshop in writing fiction, requiring regular writing and outside reading. Gavaler.
	ENGL 309 - Advanced Creative Writing: Memoir FDR: HA Credits: 3 in fall and winter, 4 in spring Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English and instructor consent. Flannery O’Connor once said that any writer who could survive childhood had enough material to write about for a lifetime. Memoir is a mosaic form, utilizing bits and pieces from autobiography, fiction, essay and poetry in ways that allow the author to muse (speculate, imagine, remember, and question) on their own life experiences. Modern literary memoir requires tremendous work from the author, as she moves both backward and forward in time, re-creates believable dialogue, switches back and forth between scene and summary, and controls the pace and tension of the story with lyricism or brute imagery. In short, the memoirist keeps her reader engaged by being an adept and agile storyteller. This is not straight autobiography. Memoir is more about what can be gleaned from a section of one’s life than about chronicling an entire life. Like a mosaic, memoir is about the individual pieces as much as the eventual whole. Work focuses on reading established memoirists, free writing, and workshopping in and out of class. Miranda.
	ENGL 312 - Gender, Love, and Marriage in the Middle Ages FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. A study of the complex nexus of gender, love, and marriage in medieval legal, theological, political, and cultural discourses. Reading an eclectic range of texts–such as romance, hagiography, fabliau, (auto)biography, conduct literature, and drama–we consider questions of desire, masculinity, femininity, and agency, as well as the production and maintenance of gender roles and of emotional bonds within medieval conjugality. Authors include Chaucer, Chretien de Troyes, Heldris of Cornwall, Andreas Capellanus, Margery Kempe, and Christine de Pisan. Readings in Middle English or in translation. No prior knowledge of medieval languages necessary. Kao.
	ENGL 313 - Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. This course considers the primary work on which Chaucer’s reputation rests: The Canterbury Tales. We pay sustained attention to Chaucer’s Middle English at the beginning of the semester to ease the reading process. Then we travel alongside the Canterbury pilgrims as they tell their tales under the guise of a friendly competition. The Canterbury Tales is frequently read as a commentary on the social divisions in late medieval England, such as the traditional estates, religious professionals and laity, and gender hierarchies. But despite the Tales’ professed inclusiveness of the whole of English society, Chaucer nonetheless focuses inordinately on those individuals from the emerging middle classes. Our aim is to approach the Tales from the practices of historicization and theorization; that is, we both examine Chaucer’s cultural and historical contexts and consider issues of religion, gender, sexuality, marriage, conduct, class, chivalry, courtly love, community, geography, history, power, spirituality, secularism, traditional authority, and individual experience. Of particular importance are questions of voicing and writing, authorship and readership. Lastly, we think through Chaucer’s famous Retraction at the “end” of The Canterbury Tales, as well as Donald R. Howard’s trenchant observation that the Tale is “unfinished but complete.” What does it mean for the father of literary “Englishness” to end his life’s work on the poetic principle of unfulfilled closure and on the image of a society on the move? Kao.
	ENGL 316 - The Tudors FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. Famous for his mistresses and marriages, his fickle treatment of courtiers, and his vaunting ambition, Henry VIII did more to change English society and religion than any other king. No one understood Henry’s power more carefully than his daughter Elizabeth, who oversaw England’s first spy network and jealously guarded her throne from rebel contenders. This course studies the writers who worked for the legendary Tudors, focusing on the love poetry of courtiers, trials, and persecution of religious dissidents, plays, and accounts of exploration to the new world. We trace how the ambitions of the monarch, along with religious revolution and colonial expansion, figure in the work of writers like Wyatt, Surrey, and Anne Askew; Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Southwell; and Thomas More and Walter Ralegh. Gertz.
	ENGL 319 - Shakespeare and Company FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. Focusing on the repertory and working conditions of the two play companies with which he was centrally involved, this course examines plays by Shakespeare and several of his contemporary collaborators and colleagues (Jonson, Middleton, Fletcher). Attentive to stage history and the evolution of dramatic texts within print culture, students consider the degree to which Shakespeare was both a representative and an exceptional player in Renaissance London’s “show business.” Pickett.
	ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. In a given term, this course focuses on one or two of the major genres explored by Shakespeare (e.g., histories, tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies/romances, lyric and narrative poetry), in light of Renaissance literary conventions and recent theoretical approaches. Students consider the ways in which Shakespeare’s generic experiments are variably inflected by gender, by political considerations, by habitat, and by history. Pickett.
	ENGL 321 - Celluloid Shakespeare FILM 321 FDR: HL Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Two 200-level English courses. The films adapted from or inspired by William Shakespeare’s plays are a genre unto themselves. We study a selection of films, not focused on their faithfulness to the original playscript but on the creative choices and meanings of the distinct medium of film. We see how the modern era has transmuted the plays through the lens of contemporary sensibility, politics, and culture—and through the new visual mode of film storytelling. We hear reports from students about additional films to expand the repertoire of films we study and enjoy. Dobin.
	ENGL 326 - 17th-Century Poetry FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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 335 - 18th-Century Novels FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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 345 - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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 349 - Middlemarch and Devoted Readers FDR: HL Credits: 4 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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 353 - 20th-Century British and Irish Poetry FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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 356 - Whitman vs Dickinson FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: One course numbered between ENGL 201 and 295, and one course numbered between ENGL 222 and 299. In this seminar, students read two wild and wildly different U.S. poets alongside queer theory about temporality. Since we are discussing queerness in the past, present, and future, we will also consider 2lst-century reception of 19th-century literature and history, and students will participate in a Nineteenth-Century Poetry Slam. Wheeler.
	ENGL 359 - Literature by Women of Color FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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 361 - Native American Literatures FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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 363 - American Poetry from 1900 to 1945 FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. 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: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. 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. Winter 2022, ENGL 365A-01: Studies in Contemporary Poetry: Twenty-First Century Poetry (3). Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. Place—imperiled by climate change—is enormously important to twenty-first century poetry in English, no matter where the writer lives. Students in this class will read and discuss ecopoetic work from Jamaica, Oceania, the U.S. South, and elsewhere. Because place and time are always mutually implicated, many of the readings situate their material in history as well as exploring contemporary environments. For the final project, students will each choose a spacetime and edit a digital anthology of poetry about it. (HL) Wheeler.
	ENGL 366 - African-American Literature FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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. Staff.
	ENGL 369 - Late 20th-Century North American Fiction FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. 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: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. A survey of major schools of literary theory including New Criticism, Formalism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, New Historicism, Postcolonial and Native Studies, Feminisms, Queer Studies, Ecocriticism, and New Media. In addition to close reading, we examine alternative methods such as surface reading, flat reading, paranoid reading, and reparative reading. The final paper is tailored to individual student’s interests. According to student interests, we also discuss preparations for graduate programs and explore the genres of thesis and grant proposals. Kao.
	ENGL 382 - Hotel Orient FDR: HL Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. 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 386 - Supervised Study in Great Britain FDR: HL Credits: 4 Prerequisite: MRST 286 and take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. Instructor consent required. 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.
	ENGL 391 - Topics in Creative Writing FDR: HA Credits: 3 Prerequisite: 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. Staff.
	ENGL 392 - Topics in Literature in English before 1700 Credits: 3 in fall or winter, 4 in spring Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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. Winter 2022, ENGL 392A-01: Topics in Literature in English before 1700: Villainy and Virtue on Stage (3). Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. English theater of the Middle Ages and Renaissance revels in displays of rampant vice and spectacles of maligned virtue. When Shakespeare’s Falstaff delights audiences with his combination of outrageous lies and quick wit, his charm is buoyed by a tradition of unabashed villainy and skillful temptation that began with medieval representations of Lucifer. When Hermione stands trial for adultery in The Winter’s Tale, the authority of her defense (and the stone-heartedness of her accuser) recalls popular tales of female saints and mystics. Why were these character types so compelling for so long—and to audiences who vowed to shut down the public theater, what made them so potentially dangerous? This course, by focusing on the villains that audiences love to hate and the saintly figures who inspire both faith and doubt, exposes the rich transhistorical conversations that occur between plays and across genres; with works like Mankind and the Chester Antichrist set next to Dr. Faustus and The Devil is an Ass, the schedule connects Shakespeare and his contemporaries to their predecessors in order to uncover the active, unruly, and even profane world of early English drama. (HL) York.
	ENGL 393 - Topics in Literature in English from 1700-1900 Credits: 3 in fall or winter, 4 in spring Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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.
	ENGL 394 - Topics in Literature in English since 1900 Credits: 3 in fall or winter, 4 in spring Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. 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. Fall 2021, ENGL 394A-01: Topics in Literature in English since 1900: American Outdoor Adventure Stories (3). Prerequisites: One English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. Here in the New World, where Europeans arrived already excited about untouched wilderness waiting to be explored (and willfully blind to the native peoples living here), stories about travel and adventure were popular from the start. This class studies selected stories historically, seeing how the careers of writers like Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, and Herman Melville began with travel writings, and how adventure stories since then have developed, contributing to an explosion in extreme sports and outdoor recreation. Other authors may include John Muir, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, Hampton Sides, Jon Krakauer, and Cheryl Strayed. We also study contemporary movies like Free Solo and corporations like Patagonia. How do these outdoor adventure stories impact our lives and culture now? (HL) Smout.
	ENGL 395 - Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions Credits: 3-4 Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 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 2022, ENGL 395-01: Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions: Women’s Memoir (3). For all of American history, the rights of women have been under attack—our right to vote, to pursue education, to own property, to work and have careers, to make decisions about our bodies—and since 2016, rights and securities that have been guaranteed us for decades are back on the chopping block. In this class, we’ll read a selection of memoirs by women published between 2016 and 2021 and consider how they’re in conversation with the current social, political, economic, and environmental climates in the United States. (HL) Womer. Winter 2022, ENGL 395A-01: Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions: Malcolm X (3). Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. Malcolm X was one of the most significant civil and human rights activists in the world, and yet few among us in the United States remember or acknowledge the fullest scope of his legacy. This class will offer an in-depth study of his literary, cultural, political, and religious impact, from his encounters with his contemporaries (Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Muhammad Ali, John Lewis, Yuri Kochiyama) to his effect on hip hop culture. Texts will include the Autobiography of Malcolm X, speeches by Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, and other select primary and secondary sources. (HL) Kharputly. Fall 2021, ENGL 395A-01: Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions: Unchoreographed Duets: The Drama of August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks (3). Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. While the elastic lyricism of August Wilson’s dramas cannot accurately be termed “kitchen sink realism,” they—in many significant ways—are worlds separated from Suzan-Lori Parks’ experimental productions. These artists reflect the twin engines of post-Brown v. Board black theater as the older extends the efforts of Lorraine Hansberry and the younger refines the strategies of Adrienne Kennedy. Notwithstanding the differences in their creative works, these two playwrights ruled the last two decades of the twentieth century with a thoroughness that is unprecedented in black theater history. The Black Arts Movement may have propelled African American drama to widespread mainstream recognition; however, the string of Pulitzers and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards garnered by Wilson and Parks marks an unmatched degree of acclaim. Gauging their impact on American society between the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, this course will study Wilson’s entire oeuvre and all of Parks’ dramatic works up until 2006. (HL) Hill. Fall 2021, ENGL 395B-01: Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions: Asian American Racial Formations (3). Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. A study of fiction and nonfiction narratives across genre (novels, short stories, poetry, essays, film) to explore racial formations in contemporary Asian American writing. We will examine literary representations of race and racism through the lens of immigration and citizenship, faith and religion, mixed race identity, the model minority myth, the perpetual foreigner syndrome, and transracial adoption. Potential authors include: Ocean Vuong, Cathy Park Hong, Randa Jarrar, Celeste Ng, Viet Thanh Nguyen. (HL) Kharputly.
	ENGL 401 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 1 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Directed study individually arranged and supervised.
	ENGL 403 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A course designed for continuing a line of study begun in an earlier or concurrent course, or in an area not covered by other courses. All topics of study must be approved by the department and by the faculty director. This independent study culminates 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 2022, ENGL 413-01: Senior Research and Writing: The Art of Narrative (3). Prerequisites: Six credits in English at the 300 level, senior major standing, and instructor consent. Enrollment limited to six. The course focuses on the analysis and development of narrative strategies in short creative works. Students will produce two types of writings: creative narratives and an analytical essay exploring a related literary topic. (HL) Gavaler. Winter 2022, ENGL 413-02: Senior Research and Writing: Versions of Epic (3). Prerequisites: Six credits in English at the 300 level, senior major standing, and instructor consent. Enrollment limited to six. This capstone courses centers upon the theory and practice of epic from Aristotle and Le Bossu through leading modern theorists of this form or mode such as Georg Lukacs, Franco Moretti, and Herbert Tucker. In addition to emphasizing the theoretical tradition, the course will sample exemplary instances from poetry, history, and the novel to film, television, and video games in order to provide a fruitful context in which individual students can conceive and pursue a major term paper on texts, theorists, and debates about epic that most appeal to them. (HL) Adams. Fall 2021, ENGL 413-01: Senior Research and Writing: Taking Literature Personally (3). Prerequisites: Six credits in English at the 300 level, senior major standing, and instructor consent. This capstone seminar begins with readings about reading, emphasizing cognitive studies, queer theory, and the postcritique movement. Most other readings will be chosen by students for student-led discussions. For the final project, everyone is encouraged to choose a research topic and methodology informed by their previous studies or, perhaps, addressing a gap in their experience of the major. The topics will likely vary wildly, and their forms may, too: while projects must be well-researched and argument-driven, creative or hybrid approaches will be welcome. (HL) Wheeler. Fall 2021, ENGL 413-02: Senior Research and Writing: Queering the Text (3). Prerequisites: Six credits in English at the 300 level, senior major standing, and instructor consent. Does text have a gender or sexuality? Or does text both embody and challenge socio-political norms? One of the aims of this seminar is to investigate the inherent queerness and transness of text. Reading across historical periods and working on individual projects, we ask whether constructs of sexuality and gender inform or problematize studies of texts, and how race, class, and culture complicate notions of the queer. We learn how to engage in practices of queering and transing, a la Raymond Williams, through a series of keywords: body, prosthetic, desire, friendship, romance (and “bromance”), performativity, author, reader, time, space, normativity, marriage, conduct, and reproduction. (HL) Kao.
	ENGL 431 - Master Class in Creative Writing Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 1 Prerequisites: One 200- or 300-level English creative writing workshop (ENGL 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 210, 215, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309. 391) and a 5-7 page writing sample in the relevant genre to Professor Lesley Wheeler for consideration. An advanced workshop taught by the Glasgow Writer in Residence. The genre varies, but the course includes readings, workshops, and individual conferencing. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different. Glasgow Writer in Residence.
	ENGL 453 - Internship in Literary Editing with Shenandoah Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 3 Prerequisites: At least one course in creative writing, sophomore standing and instructor consent. Interested students should email Professor Staples (bstaples@wlu.edu) with information about their previous coursework and interests in editing, publishing, and contemporary literature. An apprenticeship in editing 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 of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics, and translations; substantive editing of manuscripts, copyediting; communicating with writers; social media; website maintenance; the design of promotional material. 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. Staples.
	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 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 120 - Environmental Systems, W&L Campus, and LEED Credits: 1 How does our campus’ built environment interleave with larger systems issues such as climate change, environmental degradation, and sustainability? This course examines these larger systems issues in our local context. Campus grounds and specific buildings are explored for environmental and social impacts with mitigation options considered. Students become conversant in the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating systems, and investigate how W&L could minimize adverse impact on the environment and maximize credits within a LEED Campus master site framework. This course provides a large systems context for the LEED lab Spring Term course (ENV 220) but is not a prerequisite. Trimmer.
	ENV 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar Credits: 3 First-Year Seminar. Prerequisite: First-year class standing only. Limited to 15 students, these seminars are reading- and discussion-based with an emphasis on papers, projects, studio work, or hands-on field experience rather than exams. First-year seminar. Topics, applicabililty to FDRs, and other requirements vary by term. Staff.
	ENV 201 - Environmental Science FDR: SC Credits: 3 Prerequisite or corequisite: ENV 110. Restricted to ENV majors or minors, or others by instructor consent. A foundation in the natural sciences for environmental studies students, this course introduces foundational concepts in earth ecological sciences and their application in understanding human-environment relationships. Local, regional, and global environmental case studies are considered. Hamilton.
	ENV 202 - Society and Natural Resources FDR: SS1 Credits: 3 Prerequisite or corequisite: ENV 110. Restricted to ENV majors or minors, or others by instructor consent. A foundation in the natural sciences for environmental studies students, this course emphasizes understanding how socio-economic conditions are studied to inform and shape environmental policy. Local, regional, and global environmental case studies are considered. Kahn.
	ENV 203 - Environmental Humanities FDR: HU Credits: 3 Prerequisite or corequisite: ENV 110. Restricted to ENV majors or minors, or others by instructor consent. An introduction to the examination of human-environment relationships arising from the humanities, this course draws broadly upon the fields of philosophy, history, cultural anthropology, eco-criticism, art and art history, and the emerging interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities. Students receive a broad introduction to humanist perspectives on environmental challenges and solutions and preparation for examining specific fields in greater depth later in their studies. Staff.
	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 214 - Eco-Poetry (ENGL 214) FDR: HA Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Completion of FDR FW requirement. Limited enrollment. A course in the practice of writing poetry, involving workshops, literary study, and critical writing. This study of poetry will have two aspects: (1) attention to the works of classic and contemporary ecopoets through close-reading, literary analysis, and discussion, and (2) attention to our own ecopoetry and the ecopoetry of our classmates through both the act of writing and participation in “writing workshop”. Green.
	ENV 220 - Campus Sustainability Consulting and LEED Expertise Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 3 ENV 120 provides a large systems context for this course (ENV 220) but is not a prerequisite. Using the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating systems and working alongside sustainability consultants, students investigate the W&L campus grounds and facilities and develop detailed action plans for the university, in order to meet sustainability and climate goals and maximize credits toward a LEED Campus designation. The consulting teams present their findings to decision makers in order to assist W&L in achieving LEED Silver Certification or better for all new construction and major renovations. Trimmer, Harbor, Junkunc.
	ENV 230 - Food and the Environment Credits: 3 Prerequisite: ENV-110, or instructor consent. Food is intimately connected with the environmental justice challenges of the Anthropocene - and to understand those connections fully, we need to examine how they developed in the past. This course explores how food has transformed societies and environments in the United States over centuries, and investigates how the legacies of those transformations continue to affect how we eat and drink today. We will use archaeology, history, anthropology, and other approaches from the environmental humanities to deepen our understanding of the (un)sustainability of modern U.S. food systems. We will study the potential lessons the past may hold for the future, and leverage this knowledge to evaluate the sustainability and environmental justice of our 21st century foodways. Fisher.
	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 263 - Nature as Self: Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene (ENGL 263) FDR: HL Experiential Learning (EXP): EXP Credits: 3 This course will study American fascinations with ideas of “Nature” and “Self” as they manifest in contemporary literature and thought. We will discuss the implications of these categories for humans as members of ecosystems as well as of “advanced societies”. We will read essays, novels, and poetry at the cutting edge of American environmental writing, as well as those who contribute to its historical path. We will test our own understandings of human roles in relation to the greater-than-human world, and will consider implications that these understandings may carry for the individual life as well as for a globalized world in which ecological issues are of great concern. Green.
	ENV 288 - Key Thinkers on the Environment (HIST 288) FDR: HU Credits: 3 “Key thinkers on the environment” are central to this course, ranging from ancient greats such as Aristotle to modern writers such as David Suzuki and E.O. Wilson about the ecosystem crises of the Anthropocene. We highlight certain 19th-century icons of environmentalist awareness and nature preservation, such as Alexander von Humboldt in Europe and Humboldtians in America, including Frederic Edwin Church and Henry David Thoreau. Rupke.
	ENV 295 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ENV 110 or BIOL 111. This course 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 330 - Environmental Archaeology Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Instructor consent required. Long-term sustainability requires that we look not only ahead to the future, but back to the past. How did past societies interact with their environments? How did people in the past respond to environmental challenges? What can we learn from their responses to address the challenges we face today? This class applies a long-term perspective to human environment relationships using approaches drawn from archaeology and the environmental humanities. We focus on three major practices contributing to the environmental challenges of the 21st century - industrial agriculture, fossil fuel extraction, and deforestation - and use archaeology to understand how each of these practices developed over human history. Place-based learning through field trips are key in developing student engagement with environmental archaeological approaches throughout the course. Fisher.
	ENV 365 - Seminar in Environmental Ethics (PHIL 365) FDR: HU Credits: 3 This course examines selected topics in environmental ethics. Topics may vary from year to year, and include the proper meanings and goals of environmentalism; the goals and methods of conservation biology; major environmental issues in current political debates; and balancing the ethical concerns of environmental justice and our responsibilities to future generations. Fall 2021, ENV 365-01: Seminar in Environmental Ethics: Values: Environmental Ethics and Agriculture (3). Following a critical assessment of the dominant agricultural paradigm - industrial agriculture - we explore more ecologically informed alternatives such as regenerative agriculture and conservation agriculture. The course places special emphasis on climate change, examining issues such as the role of animals in agriculture and the potential for agricultural practices to sequester carbon in the soil. (HU) Cooper.
	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 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 221 - Writer in Residence Seminar (THTR 221) Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 1 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A one-credit intensive seminar course in playwriting/screenwriting taught by a guest arist-in-residence and focusing on a specific topic. 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 237S - Field Documentary FDR: HA Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Experiential Learning. Taught by W&L faculty at the University of Cape Coast as part of the W&L in Ghana program. This course teaches students how to research, conceptualize and develop a non-fiction story idea into a film. Students receive instruction on effective research strategies, idea development, production planning, and proposal writing and pitching. They learn the theoretical, aesthetic, and technical principles of non-linear editing for documentary. Principally, students are taught how to: digitize and organize source material, create basic effects and titles, develop sequences, and organize and edit their raw materials into a polished final product. In addition to making films, we screen various documentaries, analyze the techniques, and put them to use in our own creation and editing. Sandberg.
	FILM 238 - Documentary Filmmaking FDR: HA Credits: 3 Skills for creating effective documentary films. The topic varies for each term’s documentary. Students work collaboratively to create the documentary from the seed idea through to the finished product, using readings, screenings, analysis, discussion, equipment orientation, field production, and editing. Students deepen their production and communication skills through creating a professional-quality documentary film. Sandberg.
	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 Modern-Day Slavery in Ghana: Creating Short Documentary Film FDR: HA Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Spring Term Abroad. An examination of 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 252S - Peoples and Culture of Ghana Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Experiential Learning. Taught by W&L faculty at the University of Cape Coast as part of the W&L in Ghana program. An immersion in Ghanaian culture through field trips, field documentary, and field visits to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and development organizations. We visit eight different regions of Ghana on weekend field trips plus one longer week-long excursion to the Ghanaian North. Students are divided into teams that create travel documentaries, each taking on different roles with camera, sound, and logistics. Students also work on creating policy proposals for one of the NGOs or development organizations of their choice. The short travel documentaries and policy proposals are presented in the final month of the term. Blunch and Sandberg.
	FILM 255 - Seven-Minute Shakespeare FDR: HA Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Completion of the FDR FW requirement. After intensive collective reading and discussion of three 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 321 - Celluloid Shakespeare ENGL 321 FDR: HL Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Two 200-level English courses. The films adapted from or inspired by William Shakespeare’s plays are a genre unto themselves. We study a selection of films, not focused on their faithfulness to the original playscript but on the creative choices and meanings of the distinct medium of film. We see how the modern era has transmuted the plays through the lens of contemporary sensibility, politics, and culture—and through the new visual mode of film storytelling. We hear reports from students about additional films to expand the repertoire of films we study and enjoy. Dobin.
	FILM 401 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 1 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Students enrich their academic experience by undertaking a performance project. Students must demonstrate ability to work with little supervision and must develop a written proposal defining the issue to be addressed, an outline of the proposed methodology, and a statement of the intended outcome with a schedule for completion. The project must include written, historical, and practical components, and permission must be secured in advance of registration. May be repeated for up to 12 credits.
	FILM 402 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 2 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Students enrich their academic experience by undertaking a performance project. Students must demonstrate ability to work with little supervision and must develop a written proposal defining the issue to be addressed, an outline of the proposed methodology, and a statement of the intended outcome with a schedule for completion. The project must include written, historical, and practical components, and permission must be secured in advance of registration. May be repeated for up to 12 credits.
	FILM 413 - Research and Writing Film Capstone 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.
	FILM 421 - Directed Individual Research Credits: 1 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Students enrich their academic experience by pursuing advanced study in a specialized area of film and visual culture. Permission to undertake directed individual research is a priveleage granted to those students who have demonstrated their ability to work with little supervision. The student wishing to undertake this class must develop a three- to five-page written proposal that includes the problem or issue to be addressed, an outline of the proposed methodology to be used in executing the research, and a statement of the intended outcome with a schedule for completion. Student must be secure approval for the research by the faculty adviser of the project. May be repeated for up to 12 credits.
	FILM 422 - Directed Individual Research Credits: 2 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Students enrich their academic experience by pursuing advanced study in a specialized area of film and visual culture. Permission to undertake directed individual research is a priveleage granted to those students who have demonstrated their ability to work with little supervision. The student wishing to undertake this class must develop a three- to five-page written proposal that includes the problem or issue to be addressed, an outline of the proposed methodology to be used in executing the research, and a statement of the intended outcome with a schedule for completion. Student must be secure approval for the research by the faculty adviser of the project. May be repeated for up to 12 credits.
	FILM 423 - Directed Individual Research Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Students enrich their academic experience by pursuing advanced study in a specialized area of film and visual culture. Permission to undertake directed individual research is a priveleage granted to those students who have demonstrated their ability to work with little supervision. The student wishing to undertake this class must develop a three- to five-page written proposal that includes the problem or issue to be addressed, an outline of the proposed methodology to be used in executing the research, and a statement of the intended outcome with a schedule for completion. Student must be secure approval for the research by the faculty adviser of the project. May be repeated for up to 12 credits.
Finance
	FIN 196 - Williams Investment Society Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 1 Prerequisite: Permission of the department head. Students must participate in a competitive application process in order to participate. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. This cocurricular educational student organization manages a portion of Washington and Lee’s endowment. Students meet in formal and informal sessions conducted by faculty advisers and attend presentations made by outside speakers hosted by the Williams School. The experiential learning that occurs in this setting is grounded in fields such as accounting, economics, and finance, as well as the practice of investments and banking. Straughan.
	FIN 221 - Managerial Finance Credits: 3 Prerequisites: ECON 100 or both ECON 101 and 102; ACCT 100 or both ACCT 201 and 202; and at least sophomore standing. Prerequisite or co-requisite: one course from INTR 202, ECON 202, DCI 202, CBSC 250, or SOAN 218. Preference to BSADM, ACCT majors and ENTR minors during the first round of registration. A study of finance from a managerial perspective emphasizing the primary goal of the firm as stockholder wealth maximization. Emphasis is on decisions relating to the acquisition of assets and funds and internal management-financial analysis, planning and control, working capital management, capital budgeting, sources and forms of long-term financing, financial structure and the cost of capital, and valuation. Hoover, Kester.
	FIN 297 - Topics in Finance Credits: 3 credits in fall or winter, 3 or 4 credits in spring Prerequisite: ACCT 100. Study of specific finance issues. Pedagogy depends on the specific topic but generally emphasizes discussion, research, fieldwork, projects, or case analysis. Specific course content changes from term to term, and is announced prior to preregistration. May count towards degree credit (dependent on course content) with permission of department head and if topics are different. Spring 2022, FIN 297A-01: Topics in Finance: Personal Finance (3). This course provides an overview of personal finance issues, including personal financial statements and ratios, the time value of money, money management, budgeting, consumer credit, customer purchasing strategies, stocks, mutual funds, housing, and retirement planning. This subject matter is highly valuable for those students that want to learn how to manage their own finances and make better financial decisions. Not available to declared ACCT, BUS and ECON majors during the first round of registration. Ricciardi.
	FIN 302 - Seminar in Finance Credits: 3 credits in fall or winter; 4 in spring Prerequisite: BUS 221 and at least junior standing. Preference to BSADM, ACCT, or JMCB majors during the first round of registration. Offered from time to time when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
	FIN 350 - Building Financial Models Credits: 3 Prerequisites: FIN 221. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. This course offers exposure to a variety of topics in financial modeling. Students will build financial spreadsheets to analyze situations presented in case studies. Class time is devoted to introduction of finance principles, development of Excel skills, and discussion of the case studies. Topics include: retirement planning, capital budgeting, stock valuation, real estate valuation, derivative securities, and other topics. Staff.
	FIN 353 - Real Estate Development Credits: 3 Prerequisite or corequisite: BUS 221, at least junior standing, and instructor consent required. Preference to BSADM majors during first round of registration. Students who took this course as BUS 302, should not take BUS 353. Studying the development of commercial real estate, the course covers a range of topics from the idea stage until the property is eventually sold after completion. Although much of the course is qualitative in nature, students also learn how to create simple financial models to analyze properties. In addition, students study in some depth the real estate crisis that began in late 2007. Through exploration of case studies and interaction with practitioners (guest speakers), emphasis is placed on application rather than theory. Assignments include readings, case studies, and one examination. Guest speakers will typically speak in the evening and except in rare circumstances students will be required to attend those sessions. Hoover.
	FIN 355 - Cases in Corporate Finance Credits: 3 Prerequisite: BUS 221 and at least junior standing. Through use of the case method of learning, this course focuses on applied corporate finance strategy, including financial forecasting, financing sales growth, short-term versus long-term financing, commercial bank borrowing, leasing, and capital structure policy. Classroom participation is emphasized. Kester.
	FIN 356 - Financial Risk Management Credits: 3 Prerequisites: BUS 221 and at least junior standing. Preference to BSADM majors during first round of registration. This course provides an introduction to financial derivatives and risk management and is intended to help upper-division students planning a career in finance or actuarial science. The course considers options and futures from a practical and theoretical perspective. Topics explored include: derivative markets, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, binomial option pricing, Monte-Carlo simulation, future pricing, parity relationships, and hedging with derivatives. Text, projects, participation, and problem-solving. Staff.

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ENGL 299 - Seminar for Prospective Majors

ENGL 304 - Literary Book Publishing

ENGL 306 - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

ENGL 307 - Fresh/Local/Wild: The Poetics of Food

ENGL 308 - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction

ENGL 309 - Advanced Creative Writing: Memoir

ENGL 312 - Gender, Love, and Marriage in the Middle Ages

ENGL 313 - Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

ENGL 316 - The Tudors

ENGL 319 - Shakespeare and Company

ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres

ENGL 321 - Celluloid Shakespeare

ENGL 326 - 17th-Century Poetry

ENGL 330 - Milton

ENGL 335 - 18th-Century Novels

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

ENGL 349 - Middlemarch and Devoted Readers

ENGL 353 - 20th-Century British and Irish Poetry

ENGL 354 - Contemporary British and American Drama

ENGL 356 - Whitman vs Dickinson

ENGL 359 - Literature by Women of Color

ENGL 361 - Native American Literatures

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 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 386 - Supervised Study in Great Britain

ENGL 387 - Visions and Beliefs of 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 401 - Directed Individual Study

ENGL 403 - Directed Individual Study

ENGL 413 - Senior Research and Writing

ENGL 431 - Master Class in Creative 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 120 - Environmental Systems, W&L Campus, and LEED

ENV 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar

ENV 201 - Environmental Science

ENV 202 - Society and Natural Resources

ENV 203 - Environmental Humanities

ENV 207 - Nature and Place

ENV 214 - Eco-Poetry

ENV 220 - Campus Sustainability Consulting and LEED Expertise

ENV 230 - Food and the Environment

ENV 250 - Ecology of Place

ENV 263 - Nature as Self: Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene

ENV 288 - Key Thinkers on the Environment

ENV 295 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies

ENV 330 - Environmental Archaeology

ENV 365 - Seminar in Environmental Ethics

ENV 390 - Special Topics: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Issues

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 221 - Writer in Residence Seminar

FILM 233 - Introduction to Film

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

FILM 237S - Field Documentary