Spring 2022 Courses

English courses enable students to focus deeply on the diversity of stories people tell and to develop their own stories.

The Department of English offers over 200 courses each year about the stories people tell—past and present—with a focus on literature, language, rhetoric, film, media, and creative and analytical writing. Our courses for English majors contain 15-25 students, allowing for discussion-centered, hands-on experiences.

See the Undergraduate Catalog for a full list of our course offerings and Testudo for our current courses. Also see the Office of Extended Studies website for information about our summer and winter courses. Below are specialized descriptions for current and upcoming courses.

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Course	Title	Section	Instructor
CMLT235	Black Diaspora Literature and Culture	0101	TBA
CMLT270	Global Literature and Social Change	Multiple	TBA
CMLT275	World Literature by Women	Multiple	TBA
CMLT277	Literatures of the Americas	0101	TBA
CMLT280	Film Art in a Global Society	Multiple	Luka Arsenjuk
CMLT398C	Special Topics in Comparative Studies; Cinema of Liberation	0201	Eugene Robinson
CMLT398D	Special Topics in Comparative Studies; The Jazz Paradigm	0201	Eugene Robinson

Course	Title	Section	Instructor
ENGL101	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101A	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101H	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101S	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101X	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL121	The Power of Song: Renaissance Lyric and Its Afterlives	Multiple	Scott Trudell
ENGL125	Why Poetry Matters	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL142	Literary Maryland	Multiple	Randy Ontiveros
ENGL146	Seeing the Present: Graphic Storytelling in the Age of Social Media	Multiple	Lee Konstantinou
ENGL202	Inventing Western Literature: Renaissance to Modern	0101	TBA
ENGL211	English Literature: Beginnings to 1800	0101	TBA
ENGL212	English Literature: 1800 to the Present	0101	TBA
ENGL222	American Literature: 1865 to Present	0101	TBA
ENGL233	Introduction to Asian American Literature	0101	TBA
ENGL234	African-American Literature and Culture	0101	TBA
ENGL235	U.S. Latinx Literature and Culture	0101	TBA
ENGL241	What the Novel Does	0101	TBA
ENGL243	What is Poetry?	0401	TBA
ENGL245	Film Form and Culture	Multiple	TBA
ENGL246	Introduction to the Short Story	0101	TBA
ENGL250	Reading Women Writing	0201	TBA
ENGL255	Literature of Science and Technology	0201	TBA
ENGL256	Fantasy Literature	0101	TBA
ENGL265	LGBTQ+ Literatures and Media	0201	TBA
ENGL271	Writing Poems and Stories: An Introductory Workshop	Multiple	TBA
ENGL272	Writing Fiction: A Beginning Workshop	Multiple	TBA
ENGL273	Writing Poetry: A Beginning Workshop	Multiple	TBA
ENGL275	Scriptwriting for Theater, Film, and Television	Multiple	TBA
ENGL280	The English Language	0101	Michael Israel
ENGL290	Introduction to Digital Studies	0101	TBA
ENGL292	Writing for Change	0101	Justin Lohr
ENGL293	Writing in the Wireless World	0101	TBA
ENGL294	Persuasion and Cleverness in Social Media	0101	TBA
ENGL297	Introduction to Professional Writing	Multiple	TBA
ENGL301	This is English: Fields and Methods	Multiple	TBA
ENGL313	American Literature	0101	Robert Levine
ENGL329A	Special Topics in Film Studies; Cinema of Liberation	0101	Eugene Robinson
ENGL329M	Special Topics in Film Studies; Ecomedia	0101	Oliver Gaycken
ENGL329Y	Special Topics in Film Studies; A Cinema of Migration as Message	0201	Eugene Robinson
ENGL344	Nineteenth-Century Fiction	0101	Jason Rudy
ENGL349J	Asian American Literatures; New World Arrivals: Literature of Asian American Migration and Diaspora	0101	Edlie Wong
ENGL352	Intermediate Fiction Workshop	Multiple	Rion Scott
ENGL353	Intermediate Poetry Workshop	0101	TBA
ENGL354	Intermediate Scriptwriting for Theater, Film, and Television	0101	Michael Olmert
ENGL361	Recovering Oral Histories	0201	Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
ENGL370	Junior Honors Conference	0101	Julius Fleming
ENGL375	J.R.R. Tolkien: Middle-earth and Beyond	0101	Vessela Valiavitcharska
ENGL378G	Science and Fiction: From Milton to the Moon Landing	0101	David Simon
ENGL378W	Special Topics in English; Deep Time: Memory, Media, and Ecological Imagination in the Americas	0101	Marisa Parham
ENGL379R	Special Topics in Literature; The Jazz Paradigm	0201	Eugene Robinson
ENGL383	Language in Its Social Contexts	0101	Linda Coleman
ENGL384	Concepts of Grammar	0101	Michael Israel
ENGL388C	Writing for Change	0101	Justin Lohr
ENGL388D	Writing, Research, and Media Internships; Dickinson Electronic Archives	0101	Martha Nell Smith
ENGL388M	Maryland General Assembly Writing Internship	0101	Thomas Lowderbaugh
ENGL388P	English Careers Internship	0101	Karen Lewis
ENGL388T	Writing, Research, and Media Internships; Digital Humanities Research Assistantship	0101	Purdom Lindblad
ENGL388V	Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTA) in English	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL388W	Writing Center Internship	Multiple	Thomas Earles
ENGL390	Science Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL390H	Science Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL391	Advanced Composition	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL391H	Advanced Composition	0201	TBA
ENGL392	Legal Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL393	Technical Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL393H	Technical Writing	6102	TBA
ENGL393Q	Technical Writing	3001	TBA
ENGL393X	Technical Writing	1401	TBA
ENGL394	Business Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL395	Writing for Health Professions	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398A	Writing for the Arts	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398B	Writing for Social Entrepreneurship	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398C	Writing Case Studies and Investigative Reports	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398E	Writing About Economics	0801	TBA
ENGL398L	Scholarly Writing in the Humanities	0301	TBA
ENGL398N	Writing for Non-Profit Organizations	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398R	Writing Non-Fictional Narratives	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398V	Writing About the Environment	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL402	Chaucer	0101	Thomas Moser
ENGL403	Shakespeare: The Early Works	0101	Kim Coles
ENGL416	Literature of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1750	0101	Laura Rosenthal
ENGL425	Modern British Literature	0101	Brian Richardson
ENGL428N	Seminar in Language and Literature; Food Words: Stories, Being, and the Gut	0101	Christina Walter
ENGL428P	Seminar in Language and Literature; Australia, New Zealand, and the British Empire	0101	Jason Rudy
ENGL435	American Poetry: Beginning to the Present	0101	Martha Nell Smith
ENGL439B	Spotlight on Major Writers; Hemingway and the Pathos of Gender	0101	David Wyatt
ENGL439E	Spotlight on Major Writers; Faulkner and the Rumor of Race	0101	David Wyatt
ENGL439J	Spotlight on Major Writers; Race, Early Childhood TV, and the Legacies of Jim Henson	0101	Chad Infante
ENGL448C	Literature by Women of Color; Literature, Visual Culture and Art by Women of Color	0101	Sangeeta Ray
ENGL449A	Selected Topics in U.S. Latinx Literature; The Latinx Short Story	0101	Gabrielle Fuentes
ENGL455	The Eighteenth-Century English Novel	0101	Tita Chico
ENGL459C	Selected Topics in LGBTQ+ Literatures and Media; Life Writings in Different Media	0101	Martha Nell Smith
ENGL460	Archival Research Methods in English Studies	0101	Jessica Enoch

ENGL462	Folksong and Ballad	0101	Barry Pearson
ENGL467	Critical and Creative Approaches to Digital Textuality	0101	Kari Kraus
ENGL469J	The Craft of Literature: Creative Form and Theory; Writing the Impossible: Fantastic Beings, Haunted Places, Other Worlds	0101	Emily Mitchell
ENGL470	African-American Literature: The Beginning to 1910	0101	Edlie Wong
ENGL475	Postmodern Literature	0101	Brian Richardson
ENGL478A	Selected Topics in Literature before 1800; Comedy and Cruelty	0101	David Simon
ENGL479F	Selected Topics in Literature after 1800; Walking and Writing: The Plays, Screenplays and Teleplays of Aaron Sorkin	0101	Michael Olmert
ENGL479M	Selected Topics in Literature after 1800; Roots, Music and Film	0101	Barry Pearson
ENGL479Z	Selected Topics in Literature after 1800; South Asian Literature on the Move	0101	Sangeeta Ray
ENGL483	American English(es)	0101	Linda Coleman
ENGL487	Principles and Practices of Rhetoric	0101	Cecilia Shelton
ENGL488G	Topics in Advanced Writing; Rhetoric of Style	0101	Vessela Valiavitcharska
ENGL491	Digital Rhetoric	0101	Melanie Kill
ENGL497	English at Work	0101	Melanie Kill
ENGL498	Advanced Fiction Workshop; Advanced Fiction Workshop	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL499	Advanced Poetry Workshop; Advanced Poetry Workshop	0101	Elizabeth Arnold
ENGL302	Medieval Literature in Translation	0101	Thomas Moser
ENGL312	Romantic to Modern British Literature	0101	Orrin Wang

Graduate Courses

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Spring 2022 Courses

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Major Requirements

Spring 2022 Undergraduate Courses: CMLT Comparative Literature

Undergraduate Courses: English

Graduate Courses