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  • CAS EN 385: Auteur Filmmaking
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120). - Topic for Fall 2024: Chantal Akerman. A survey of the work of acclaimed Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman from the perspective of global art cinema. Assigned films and readings cover a wide range of topics such as documentary aesthetics, queer theory, and feminist film theory. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
  • CAS EN 386: Topics in Anglophone Literature
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester. May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester. Past topics include Post Colonial Theater, Feminist Comics. Please see English Department's Website for current topic.
  • CAS EN 390: Topics in Comparative Literature
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
  • CAS EN 393: Technoculture and Horizons of Gender and Race
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - Explores new media theory, postmodernist thought, social media, and video games to confront gender, race, and sexuality. Through critical reading, writing, and hands-on digital technology use, students consider how race, sexuality, and gender live in virtual worlds. Also offered as CAS WS 393. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
    • Digital/Multimedia Expression
  • CAS EN 394: Cultures of Science
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - This course explores the shared cultures of the sciences and literature from the Enlightenment through the Victorian eras in Britain and Europe. We combine the history of science, the social history of literature and related arts, and sociology of knowledge. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Social Inquiry II.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Social Inquiry II
  • CAS EN 401: Senior Independent Work
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: approval of Honors Committee. - SR INDEP WORK
  • CAS EN 402: Senior Independent Work
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: approval of Honors Committee. - SR INDEP WORK
  • CAS EN 403: Advanced Writing of Poetry
    This course is is intended for those who wish to learn to write in a variety of poetic forms, voices and styles, and who wish to further develop their skills in writing print-based verse and to deepen their familiarity with contemporary poetry. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Creativity/Innovation
    • Writing-Intensive Course
  • CAS EN 404: History of Literary Criticism I
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - A historical survey of western literary-critical standards from the earliest surviving formulations in classical Athens to the dawn of the twentieth century. Writers include Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Augustine, Dante, Sidney, Hume, Wordsworth, Marx, Nietzsche. 4 cr. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Aesthetic Exploration.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
  • CAS EN 405: Advanced Writing of Fiction
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor, to whom two or three short stories must be subm itted during the period just before classes begin. - The writing of short stories and perhaps longer fiction. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
  • CAS EN 406: History of Literary Criticism II
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Survey of recent literary critical theory. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
  • CAS EN 437: Thinking with Animals
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - In literary texts, animals appear as tricksters, clueless victims, predatory men, eloquent captives, and heroic matriarchs. This course analyzes narratives about animals in Anglo-American philosophy, science, and literature. Human myths about animals and the supremacy of the human are central to beliefs about race, gender, and private property. Focuses on animals as food, embodied mindedness, environmental justice, and ecological thinking. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
  • CAS EN 452: Asian American Studies: Theory and Methods
    A brief overview of the theories and methods of Asian American studies, reading theory, literature, history, culture, sociology, and legal study to define a mode of inquiry and action inspired by a legacy of activism and survival from the Asian diaspora. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
  • CAS EN 465: Critical Studies in Literature and Society
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: Two previous literature courses or junior or senior status. - Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Fables and Tales, Hamlet/Lear/Macbeth, etc. Please see English Department's website for current topic.
  • CAS EN 466: Critical Studies in Literature and Society
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: Two previous literature courses or junior or senior status. - Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Literature of the Early Black Atlantic, Environmental Imaginaries, etc. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic.
  • CAS EN 474: Critical Studies in Literary Genres
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Topic varies. Past topics include Film Noir, Early Modern Women Authors, etc. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic.
  • CAS EN 476: Critical Studies in Literature and Gender
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Introduces major movements and texts in gender and sexuality studies central to literary studies. Sub-topics include race, nationhood, family, erotics, the self, public/private spheres, and literary forms. Readings include theoretical works (feminist, queer, transgender, etc.), novels, graphic novels and films.
  • CAS EN 477: Critical Studies: Black Diaspora Theory and Practice
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Explore "diaspora" as a keyword for black studies, intervene in the term's emergence, usage, and many theorizations. Beginning with Paul Gilroy's take on diasporic culture and consciousness, course goes on to complicate/extend/challenge through lens of black gender and sexuality studies. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Critical Thinking
  • CAS EN 480: Critical Studies in American Writers
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Topic for Spring 2021: Pragmatism and Literature. How do we determine truth? What do we do when faced with uncertainty? This course pairs pragmatist philosophy with novels, poems, essays, and autobiographies (including Emerson, Poe, Dickinson, Du Bois, Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and Stephen Crane).
  • CAS EN 482: Critical Studies in Modern Literature
    Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Topic varies. Past topics include Global Literature, Approaches to the Postmodern novel, etc. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Aesthetic Exploration.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings

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