English

The study of literature, how writers produce it, and how it affects individuals and society is essential to a liberal arts education. Literary study also may explore the effects of history, religion, science, philosophy, and other disciplines upon readers and writers of different times and places. Emory's program gives undergraduates knowledge of the different genres and periods of British, American, and other Anglophone literatures and of literature as an index to culture in the broadest sense. It also stresses instruction in the techniques of analysis, research, and writing. It provides an educational foundation of critical thinking, sound judgment, and clear writing valuable to students planning careers in business, teaching, law, medicine, or other fields.

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Concentrations

Courses

ENG 100-Level Courses

This course introduces students to some of the monumental works of Western civilization. It does not fulfill a writing requirement, but it does have students study classic texts from the ancient and modern worlds.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Every semester. Freshmen only. Through readings on variable topics, frequent writing assignments, and in-class discussions, the seminar emphasizes reasoned discourse and intellectual community. Does not satisfy first-year writing requirement.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: FS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ENG 200-Level Courses

Studies in poetry and poetic forms. Readings may vary in individual sections, but all sections emphasize critical reading and writing about poetic art. Required for English majors.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies in poetry and poetic forms. Readings may vary in individual sections, but all sections emphasize critical reading and writing about poetic art. Required for English majors.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An introduction to the study of narrative, with an emphasis on narrative fiction and the critical vocabulary used to describe it. Readings will vary by semester, and may include examples from other disciplines.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An introduction to one or more major authors in English literature, with an emphasis on literary merit and its determination, canon formation, literary movements, and reading strategies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An introduction to one or more major authors in English literature, with an emphasis on literary merit and its determination, canon formation, literary movements, and reading strategies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An exploration of the connections between literature and various other mimetic and expressive arts, including painting, film, theater, music, sculpture, architecture, and dance.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An exploration of the connections between literature and various other mimetic and expressive arts, including painting, film, theater, music, sculpture, architecture, and dance.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An exploration of literary works (fiction, poetry, drama, essays) that have had or have a popular readership, and an examination of the factors governing popular taste and literary production.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An exploration of literary works (fiction, poetry, drama, essays) that have had or have a popular readership, and an examination of the factors governing popular taste and literary production.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An inquiry into the various expressions of human desire through readings of selected works of literature. Topics may include romance, psychoanalysis, gay and lesbian studies, or the four loves, classically conceived.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An exploration of Anglophone literatures from around the world. Regional focus and selection of texts will vary but may include works by Achebe, Cliff, Friel, Head, Lamming, Rushdie, Silko, Soyinka, Tan, and/or Walcott.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

General history of the theater from its origins through the Renaissance, focusing on representative dramatic works and on the influence of actor, staging, and audience.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 215

General history of the theater from French neoclassicism through the twentieth century, focusing on representative dramatic works and on the influence of actor, staging, and audience.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 216

Readings in American literature, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Readings in American literature, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAWE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Readings in American literature from 1865 to the present, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Readings in American literature from 1865 to the present, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Readings in English literature written up to 1660, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Readings in English literature written up to 1660, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Readings in English literature written from 1660 to the early twentieth century, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Readings in English literature written from 1660 to the early twentieth century, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An introduction to the themes, texts, and methodologies of Irish studies. Required for the Irish studies minor but open to all students.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.

Credit Hours

GER

HAE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AAS 261

Credit Hours

GER

HAWE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AAS 261W

An overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.

Credit Hours

GER

HAE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AAS 262

Credit Hours

GER

HAWE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AAS 262W

This course offers a structured introduction to the history and cultre of the United Kingdom, including its political, architectural, literary and environmental context .

Credit Hours: 1 - 2
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Study of Indigenous literatures before 1850, with attention to visual, oral, pictographic, and alphabetic writings produced before and after European invasions. Includes historical, political, and cultural contexts.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAWE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

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Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

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Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Introduction to key texts, themes, and issues in the study of Asian American literature and culture. Students will develop a basic understanding of key texts, themes, and issues and analyze literature and culture in relation to Asian American history and politics.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAWE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An introduction to literary and legal forms of interpretation, with consideration of the relationship between these two discourses. Emphasis on close reading, critical analysis, and argumentative writing.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Long historical surveys of national, regional, or ethnic traditions; or of genres or subgenres. Examples: History of African Literature, History of Latinx Literature, History of Science Fiction, History of the Sonnet, History of Southern U.S. Literature, History of Drama.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ENG 300-Level Courses

Introduction to the Old English language and readings of representative prose and poetry.

Credit Hours

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 363

Introduction to the Old English language and readings of representative prose and poetry.

Credit Hours

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 363W

The earliest English epic, read in the original language.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The earliest English epic, read in the original language.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Representative works of Middle English literature from 1100 to 1500, exclusive of Chaucer.

Credit Hours

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 364

Representative works of Middle English literature from 1100 to 1500, exclusive of Chaucer.

Credit Hours

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 364W

Readings in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and selected other works.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Readings in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and selected other works.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Readings in the medieval and subsequent Arthurian tradition.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Readings in the medieval and subsequent Arthurian tradition.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Representative medieval, Elizabethan, and Jacobean plays with some attention to the development of early English drama.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Representative medieval, Elizabethan, and Jacobean plays with some attention to the development of early English drama.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected major plays from the histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected major plays from the histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Special topics in the study of Shakespeare. May include historical approaches, thematic emphases, performance studies, etc.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Special topics in the study of Shakespeare. May include historical approaches, thematic emphases, performance studies, etc.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of sixteenth-century literature, including authors such as More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of sixteenth-century literature, including authors such as More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of early to mid-seventeenth century literature, with an emphasis on the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Vaughan, and Marvell.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of early to mid-seventeenth century literature, with an emphasis on the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Vaughan, and Marvell.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected major works (poetry and prose) with particular emphasis on the early lyric verse, Comus, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected major works (poetry and prose) with particular emphasis on the early lyric verse, Comus, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of Restoration and Augustan literature, including authors such as Dryden, Behn, Congreve, Swift, Pope, Addison, and Steele.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of Restoration and Augustan literature, including authors such as Dryden, Behn, Congreve, Swift, Pope, Addison, and Steele.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of later eighteenth-century authors such as Johnson, Boswell, Burke, Burns, Blake, and Wollstonecraft.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of later eighteenth-century authors such as Johnson, Boswell, Burke, Burns, Blake, and Wollstonecraft.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of the English novel in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with representative works by novelists such as Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Sterne.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of the English novel in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with representative works by novelists such as Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Sterne.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of Romantic literature with an emphasis on poetry, including poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, as well as selections from prose writers such as Hazlitt and DeQuincey.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Representative works from the Victorian period, including poets such as Tennyson, the Brownings, and the Rossettis, and prose writers such as Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, and Cobbe.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Representative works from the Victorian period, including poets such as Tennyson, the Brownings, and the Rossettis, and prose writers such as Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, and Cobbe.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of the English novel in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including authors such as Austen and Scott and significant genres such as the gothic novel and the novel of education.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of the novel in the United Kingdom and the British Empire during the Victorian period.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of the novel in the United Kingdom and the British Empire during the Victorian period.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works from various genres by twentieth-century authors writing in English such as Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, Eliot, Lawrence, Auden, and Thomas.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works from various genres by twentieth-century authors writing in English such as Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, Eliot, Lawrence, Auden, and Thomas.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of the modern English novel with representative works by authors such as Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Lawrence, Waugh, and Naipaul.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of the modern English novel with representative works by authors such as Joyce, Forster, Woolf, Lawrence, Waugh, and Naipaul.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An interdisciplinary course which examines the trajectory of Irish writing from the 1890s to the present.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An interdisciplinary course which examines the trajectory of Irish writing from the 1890s to the present.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

New literatures in English by writers from former British colonies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

New literatures in English by writers from former British colonies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies in contemporary British drama with representative works by authors including Pinter, Churchill, Stoppard, and others.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies in contemporary British drama with representative works by authors including Pinter, Churchill, Stoppard, and others.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works from various genres by writers from the 1950s to the present.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works from various genres by writers from the 1950s to the present.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected American writings of the colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods including authors such as Taylor, Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, and Irving.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected American writings of the colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods including authors such as Taylor, Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, and Irving.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected poetry and prose works of nineteenth century American authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, Howells, James, and Twain.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected poetry and prose works of nineteenth century American authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, Howells, James, and Twain.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works from various genres by twentieth-century American writers such as Frost, Eliot, Stevens, W. C. Williams, Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Neill, Miller, and T. Williams.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works from various genres by twentieth-century American writers such as Frost, Eliot, Stevens, W. C. Williams, Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Neill, Miller, and T. Williams.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The early development of the American novel with representative works by novelists such as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Howells, and Twain.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The early development of the American novel with representative works by novelists such as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Howells, and Twain.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of the modern American novel with representative works by novelists such as Wharton, Dreiser, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, and Bellow.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of the modern American novel with representative works by novelists such as Wharton, Dreiser, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, and Bellow.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Study of Indigenous literatures, with a focus on a specific topic. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAPE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Study of Indigenous literatures, with a focus on a specific topic. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HPWE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of Southern literature with representative works by writers such as Mark Twain, Cable, Glasgow, Chesnutt, Faulkner, Welty, O'Connor, and Percy.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The development of Southern literature with representative works by writers such as Mark Twain, Cable, Glasgow, Chesnutt, Faulkner, Welty, O'Connor, and Percy.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Major literary traditions of African American writers to 1900.

Credit Hours

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AAS 358

Major literary traditions of African American writers to 1900.

Credit Hours

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AAS 358W

A topics course dealing with major traditions and issues in African American literature from 1900 to the present. Possible topics include passing and miscegenation, black novels since 1950, Afrofuturism, and black theater.

Credit Hours

GER

HAPE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AAS 359

Credit Hours

GER

HPWE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AAS 359W

Structure and history of the English language.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 360

Structure and history of the English language.

Credit Hours

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 360W

Modern English grammar, with attention to phonology, morphology, and contemporary models of syntactic description.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Modern English grammar, with attention to phonology, morphology, and contemporary models of syntactic description.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HSCW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Discourse analysis explores language use beyond the sentence level. With an interdisciplinary perspective, students learn about important theoretical frameworks and practice the methodologies associated with them to examine structures of expression and meaning.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Development of modern drama from the late nineteenth century to 1950, including dramatists such as Ibsen, Shaw, Yeats, Synge, O'Neill, and Williams.

Credit Hours

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 365

Development of modern drama from the late nineteenth century to 1950, including dramatists such as Ibsen, Shaw, Yeats, Synge, O'Neill, and Williams.

Credit Hours

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 365W

Selected works of the contemporary theater since 1950, including dramatists such as Beckett, Bond, Fornes, Gems, Pinter, Shepard, and Wilson.

Credit Hours

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 366

Selected works of the contemporary theater since 1950, including dramatists such as Beckett, Bond, Fornes, Gems, Pinter, Shepard, and Wilson.

Credit Hours

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 366W

An introduction to the relationship between literary studies and the study of cultural theory and popular culture.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An introduction to the relationship between literary studies and the study of cultural theory and popular culture.

Credit Hours

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

FILM 384W

A study of major satiric literary works, primarily English and American, with some attention to visual and journalistic satire and to theories of satire.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

A study of major satiric literary works, primarily English and American, with some attention to visual and journalistic satire and to theories of satire.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Digital humanities involves the use of computational methods in humanistic research, and it analyzes the socio-cultural implications of digital technologies. This course introduces the field's central methods and debates about their use, culminating in a final project guided by the instructor.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HSCW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Study of Asian American literature and culture, with a focus on a specific topic, theme, movement, or genre. Students develop a deeper understanding of a specific topic and analyze literature and culture in relation to Asian American history and politics.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: ETHN
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CWE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Topics and perspectives vary over successive offerings, such as the political novel and feminist poetics. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Topics and perspectives vary over successive offerings, such as the political novel and feminist poetics. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of British and American women, including authors such as Browning, Rossetti, Dickinson, Plath, Levertov, Rich, and Lorde. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected works of British and American women, including authors such as Browning, Rossetti, Dickinson, Plath, Levertov, Rich, and Lorde. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected prose works of British and American women, including authors such as Behn, Austen, Woolf, Lessing, Morrison, and Walker. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Selected prose works of British and American women, including authors such as Behn, Austen, Woolf, Lessing, Morrison, and Walker. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Prerequisites: two courses in literature or the instructor's consent. The relationship of critical theory to various literary forms. Specific material for analysis will vary in successive offerings of this course. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course introduces students to the methods and materials of academic literary research and criticism. Focusing on a small body of literature and scholarship within one area of study, the course will teach students to engage with secondary sources, including contextual and/or archival material.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HSCW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Exploration of the ways in which literary writers have developed scientific ideas and scientists have expressed themselves through creative writing.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Exploration of the ways in which literary writers have developed scientific ideas and scientists have expressed themselves through creative writing.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Prerequisites: one course in religion and one in literature or the instructor's consent. Reading and interpretation of literary works (poems, novels, plays) with special attention to the religious issues they address and/or the way they engage the Bible. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

A study of literary works of various genres and other imaginative writing about the relation of humans to the non-human world. Approaches may focus on particular genres, periods, or themes (e.g.,ecofiction, ecopoetry, literature of climate change, multispecies writing, animal ethics, etc.).

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

A study of literary works of various genres and other imaginative writing about the relation of humans to the non-human world. Approaches may focus on particular genres, periods, or themes (e.g., ecofiction, ecopoetry, literature of climate change, multispecies writing, animal ethics, etc.).

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Literary topics vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Literary topics vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Every semester. Credit variable; may be repeated for a maximum of eight hours of credit. Prerequisite: approval of project by adviser before preregistration. For students wishing to pursue projects of their own design.

Credit Hours: 1 - 12
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 12
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ENG 400-Level Courses

Studies focus on groups of plays, dramatic genres, Shakespearean criticism, non-dramatic verse, or similar subjects. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies focus on groups of plays, dramatic genres, Shakespearean criticism, non-dramatic verse, or similar subjects. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Advanced study of Asian American literature and culture, with attention to theory and method.Students develop a nuanced understanding of a specific topic, analyze literature and culture in relation to Asian American history and politics, and explore questions of theory and method.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: ETHN
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CWE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies in poetry. Readings may focus on one or more authors or poetic traditions. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies in poetry. Readings may focus on one or more authors or poetic traditions. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies in drama and theater history. Readings may focus on one or more authors or on questions of dramaturgy and theater history. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies in narrative fiction and narrative forms. Readings vary and may focus on one or more authors or on questions of literary art. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies in narrative fiction and narrative forms. Readings vary and may focus on one or more authors or on questions of literary art. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies in literary criticism, the history of criticism, and literary theory. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies in literary criticism, the history of criticism, and literary theory. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Collaborative projects designed to deepen students' knowledge of a particular topic, and to develop individual & group research/presentation skills. Examples: archives; exhibitions; digital projects; anthologies; investigative journalism; large-scale textual analyses; public humanities projects.

Credit Hours: 3 - 4
GER: XA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4 - 5
GER: XAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Intensive study of specific literary topics, e.g., questions of form or history, or concentrations on one or more authors or literary movements. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Intensive study of specific literary topics, e.g., questions of form or history, or concentrations on one or more authors or literary movements. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Fall semester. Required of honors students (other seniors may enroll with permission of director of undergraduate studies). Readings in the theory and practice of literary criticism. Designed to assist honors students in researching their theses.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

A tutorial designed primarily to assist honors candidates in preparing their projects. Students will be approved for Honors in Playwriting 494R when the principal focus of the project is the development and/or production of an existing script.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 494R

A tutorial designed primarily to assist honors candidates in preparing their projects. Students will be approved for Honors in Playwriting 494RW when the principal focus of the project is writing a new script.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 494RW

Every semester. Credit, variable; may be repeated for a maximum of eight hours of credit. Prerequisite: approval of adviser and the director of undergraduate studies. Open to students writing honors theses.

Credit Hours: 1 - 8
GER: XA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 1 - 8
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Every semester. Credit, variable; may be repeated for a maximum of twelve hours of credit (does not count toward the major). Open to junior and senior English majors with approval of the coordinator. Applied learning in a supervised work experience, using skills related to the English major.

Credit Hours: 1 - 12
GER: XA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ENGRD 100-Level Courses

Instruction in rhetorical composition, critical reading, reflection, and writing as recursive process. Across themed sections, students engage with diverse genres. Courses share some common assignments including research writing and final student-curated portfolio with reflection project.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: FW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Students who speak English as an additional language will research, analyze, and practice English Grammar to develop their knowledge of form, meaning, and usage in a communicative context.

Credit Hours: 1
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An Academic communication skills course designed to prepare English language learners for success at Emory and throughout their academic careers. Focus on speaking, reading, listening, and vocabulary skills through engagement with authentic materials, such as lectures and presentations.

Credit Hours: 1
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

First-Years only. Variable topics course introducing students the study of rhetoric and public discourse through various topical approaches.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: FS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ENGRD 200-Level Courses

This topic course can be offered as a stand-alone course or tied to another course and will provide an opportunity for students to engage in an experiential learning opportunity through writing and reflection.

Credit Hours: 1 - 2
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Students write and report for newspapers, radio, magazines, online sites and social media and develop websites to publish multimedia writing and news reports. They learn the basics of news writing and reporting, interviewing, and audio and video production. No journalism background required.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Designed as a companion to first semester experience as a Writing Center Tutor. Course includes theoretical and pedagogical readings, reflection on tutoring experiences, practice in tutoring methods, discussion of rhetorical concepts, and development of tutoring-based research.

Credit Hours: 1
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An introduction to the Rhetoric, Writing, and Information Design minor, in which students begin to create the writing portfolio that will be developed in more advanced courses across the minor.

Credit Hours: 1
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Introduction to rhetoric and rhetorical analysis. While learning rhetorical tactics of Ancient Greece and Rome, students will apply that learning to their academic and vocational goals. Practice in writing and speaking, grounded in ethics, are central to the course.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Prerequisites: English 101 or 181 and written permission of instructor. Practical introductions to various kinds of media and professional writing. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Prerequisites: English 101 or 181 and written permission of instructor. Practical introductions to various kinds of media and professional writing. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Through a study and analysis of grammar's impact on rhetorical effectiveness, students work with their own writing as they learn to make and adapt grammatical choices to fit audience, purpose, constraints, exigencies, and timing.

Credit Hours: 1
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

3-credit class repeated over 4 semesters. Designed to develop English proficiency for scholars in the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative. Focus on reading, listening, interpreting, discussion. Intro to life in America and American culture, history, and traditions through guest speakers. Pairing with a Writing Center tutor is part of class.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Introduction to fundamental principles of effective oral communication. Topics may include voice, diction, projection, gestures. Practice may include speaking with visuals, debate, oral interpretation, impromptu, discussion of ethics, analysis of effective and poor communication.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Introduction to professional writing genres and strategies across a range of fields, with emphasis on producing ethical, effective, and efficient communications. Assignments may include career materials (resume, cover letter, personal statements), a research report, and a multimodal project.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ENGRD 300-Level Courses

This writing-intensive course provides students with practice developing rhetorically effective and ethically sensitive communication in genres that characterize professional activity across and outside the university. No prior technical knowledge required.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

QTM 302

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

QTM 302W

History is rife with warnings, prohibitions, and laws that have prevented various groups of people from full access to the practices of reading and writing. This class investigates literacy practices as rhetorical endeavors of resistance to power structures.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Students will learn about media studies and cultural studies frameworks to analyze popular media throughout the century. Students write in class daily, blog to larger audiences weekly, draft and revise multiple multimodal projects, and respond meaningfully to peers' work in structured workshops.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CWE
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Hands-on exploration of the editorial and publication process shaping different fields, genres and venues. Focus on mechanics of publication, various forums and opportunities for publication germane to student work in different disciplines, and professional opportunities in non-fiction publishing.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course explores how interactivity opens up possibilities for storytelling by playing narrative-focused games and interactive stories, reading critical and technical literature about mechanics and story structure in published interactive fictions, and experimenting with our own writing.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Course topics will vary but always will be focused on writing, rhetorical composition and analysis, or literacy skills. Topics possible include a variety of options such as journalistic writing, non-fiction, debate, argumentation, persuasion, digital writing, among others.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HAP
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HAPW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Provides mentoring for writing and presentation components of a course undertaken in students' home departments. Runs concurrently with development and presentation of students' research and/or experiential projects.

Credit Hours: 1
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

3 credit class repeated over 4 semesters. Designed to develop English proficiency. Focus on reading, listening, interpreting, discussion. Intro to life in America and American culture, history, and traditions through guest speakers. Pairing with a Writing Center tutor is part of class.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ENGRD 400-Level Courses

A topical course in rhetoric, writing, or literacy in which students study theories and trends of literate practices with application in current culture. Course will build on principles learned in other course in the Writing Program.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Students curate and defend a portfolio of revised work developed in the RWID Minor. Each portfolio will be introduced by a reflective essay that situates student work within the theoretical perspectives learned in the program. Prerequisite: Senior standing.

Credit Hours: 1
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 3 - 4
GER: XA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4 - 5
GER: XAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Students work with a faculty advisor to select an internship experience that applies prior work within the RWID Minor to an extra-academic setting. Internships must include communication activities. In addition to weekly assignments, a final portfolio and reflection project is required.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: XA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

English

Concentrations

Faculty

Courses

ENG 100-Level Courses

ENG 150: Great Works of Literature

ENG 190: Freshman Seminar:English

ENG 200-Level Courses

ENG 205: Poetry

ENG 205W: Poetry

ENG 206: Introduction to Narrative

ENG 206W: Introduction to Narrative

ENG 210: Topics in Lit.: Major Authors

ENG 210W: Topics in Lit.: Major Authors

ENG 211: Literature and the Arts

ENG 211W: Literature and the Arts

ENG 212: Readings in Pop Lit/Culture

ENG 212W: Readings in Pop Lit/Culture

ENG 213: Fictions of Human Desire

ENG 213W: Fictions of Human Desire

ENG 214: Global Literature in English

ENG 214W: Global Literature In English

ENG 215: History of Drama and Theater I

ENG 216: History of Drama & Theater II

ENG 250: Amer Lit:Beginnings to 1865

ENG 250W: Amer Lit:Beginnings to 1865

ENG 251: American Lit: 1865 to Present

ENG 251W: American Lit: 1865 to Present

ENG 255: British Literature Before 1660

ENG 255W: British Literature Before 1660

ENG 256: British Literature Since 1660

ENG 256W: British Literature Since 1660

ENG 258: Introduction to Irish Studies

ENG 261: Survey Af-Am Lit Before 1900

ENG 261W: Survey Af-Am Lit Before 1900

ENG 262: Survey Af-Am Lit Since 1900

ENG 262W: Survey Af-Am Lit Since 1900

ENG 268R: Intro to British Studies

ENG 270: Indigenous Lit.Before 1850

ENG 270W: Indigenous Lit.Before 1850

ENG 271: Indigenous Lit.Since 1850

ENG 271W: Indigenous Lit.Since 1850

ENG 275: Intro.to Asian Am.Lit.Culture

ENG 275W: Intro.to Asian Am.Lit.Culture

ENG 280: Law and Literature

ENG 280W: Law and Literature

ENG 290: Topics in Literary History

ENG 290W: Topics in Literary History

ENG 300-Level Courses

ENG 300: Old Eng Language & Literature

ENG 300W: Old Eng Language & Literature

ENG 301: Beowulf

ENG 301W: Beowulf

ENG 303: Mid Eng Language & Literature

ENG 303W: Mid Eng Language/Literature

ENG 304: Chaucer

ENG 304W: Chaucer

ENG 308: Arthurian Literature

ENG 308W: Arthurian Literature

ENG 310: Medieval & Renaissance Drama

ENG 310W: Medieval & Renaissance Drama

ENG 311R: Shakespeare

ENG 311RW: Shakespeare

ENG 312: Studies in Shakespeare

ENG 312W: Studies In Shakespeare

ENG 314: Renaiss Literature: 1485-1603

ENG 314W: Renaiss Literature: 1485-1603

ENG 315: Renaiss Literature: 1603-1660

ENG 315W: Renaiss Literature: 1603-1660

ENG 317: Milton

ENG 317W: Milton

ENG 320: Restoratn & Early 18th Cent.

ENG 320W: Restoratn & Early 18th Cent.

ENG 321: Later 18th C Lit:1740-1798

ENG 321W: Later 18th C Lit:1740-1798

ENG 325: The Early English Novel

ENG 325W: The Early English Novel

ENG 330: Romanticism

ENG 330W: Romanticism

ENG 332: Victorian Literature