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The Simmons College English Department

The following is a list of classes offered by the English Department Spring Semester 2002.
ENGL 104: Modes of Writing	Pei	Monday 3:30-6:20
A course for intermediate and advanced students who want to expand their writing skills by working on a variety of forms:interviews, persuasive essays, film, theatre and art reviewing, journalism, and autobiography. Readings include contemporary examples of each form. Students will have considerable opportunity to work on individual writing projects.
ENGL 110: Introduction to Literature	Pei	Monday, Wednesday 1:30-2:50
Teaches the art and skill of reading fiction, poetry, and plays for pleasure and understanding. It is designed for those who love to read but are not necessarily intending to major in literature. Seminar-style discussions and frequent writing.
ENGL 108	Conley	Monday, Wednesday 1:30-2:50
This course is designed for both the eager and curious and for seasoned writers who seek structure, feedback, and models of excellence in a workshop setting. The premise of this course is that those who want to write are those who have been deeply moved by the writing of others. Therefore, in addition to their own writing, students read extensively in both genres and attend readings in the Boston area.
ENGL 112: The Bible	Wollman	Tuesday, Thursday 12:30-1:50
Close study of both the Old and New Testaments, with particular attention paid to the problems of different strategies of interpretation. The course examines both poetry and prose within the various genres of biblical writing. Some ongoing themes throughout the semester: the use of metaphor; shifting attitudes toward sex; time and typology; the role of women; and theological versus cultural perspectives.
ENGL 172: Modern American Fiction	Perry	Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00-9:50
The novels of major American writers of the last 60 years, including such authors as Faulkner, Morrison, Mary Gordon, Philip Roth, William Styron, John Gardner, and Anne Tyler.
ENGL 175: Harlem Renaissance	Scott	Monday, Thursday 11:00-12:50
Intensive study of the Harlem Renaissance period, including fiction, poetry, and drama. Focus is on the double consciousness of black writers. Other topics include the politics of DuBois, Garvey, and the Negro uplift movement, the impact of jazz on literature, the demand on black writers to create positive images and appease a white audience during the times of lynching and Jim Crow laws, a look at the controversial writer and socialite Carl Van Vetchen, and the attacks on writers who spotlighted the problems of color and class prejudice among blacks. Writers include: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Dorothy West, and W.allace Thurman..
ENGL 193: Women in Literature	Hagar	Tuesday, Thursday 11:00-12:00
An exploration of how 19th- and 20th-century women writers have challenged conventional notions of who women really are and who they long to become. Writers may include Charlotte Brontė, Virginia Woolf, Anzia Yezierska, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and others.
ENGL 210: Critical Interpretation	Hager	Tuesday, Thursday 2:00-3:20
An introduction to literary criticism and the study of literary genres, historical periods, and major authors. The course considers how we read, analyze, and write about literature from different critical perspectives. Specific genres, periods, and authors vary from semester to semester. Frequent, varied writing assignments. This course is required for all English majors.
ENGL 321: Studies in Shakespeare	Wollman	Wednesday 6:30-9:20
Close analysis of a few major plays and of the various critical approaches to them.
ENGL 351: Problems in Romantic Literature	Bromberg	Tuesday, Thursday 2:00-3:20
This course begins with Milton’s Paradise Lost, the subtext for all Romantic rebellion, and moves to Blake, its great theorist and visual artist; the poetry of Wordsworth and selected works by Byron and Shelley are also studied. The courseconcludes with the female perspective on Romantic rebellion in the novels of the Brontė sisters and in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
ENGL 361: Classic American Writers	Perry	Thursday 6:30-9:30
Studies in depth, with critical readings, of the major 19th-century writers Hawthorne and Melville, with attention to their contributions to the development of a distinctively American literature.
ENGL 382: Postmodern Novel	Bromberg	Tuesday 6:30-9:20
Designed for graduate students and advanced English majors, this course explores an array of postmodern fiction, primarily from England and the Continent. Films are also included. Authors include Barnes, Kundera, Fowles, Calvino, Byatt, Atwood, and Swift.