Spring 2025 Course Descriptions: Waterbury Campus

Spring 2025


Each semester the faculty for the Department of English provide course descriptions that build upon the University's catalog descriptions. These individually crafted descriptions provide information about variable topics, authors, novels, texts, writing assignments, and whether instructor consent is required to enroll. The details, along with reviewing the advising report, will help students select course options that best meet one's interests and academic requirements.

The following list includes Undergraduate courses that are sequenced after the First-Year Writing requirement and will change each semester.

1000-Level Courses

1616W: Major Works of English and American Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

1616W | MW 1:25-2:40 | Falco, Daniela

2000-Level Courses

2100: British Literature I

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

2100 |MW 11:15 - 12:30 | Falco, Danielle

2201: American Literature to 1880

Also offered as AMST 2200
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

2201 | TuTh 2:00-3:15 | Sommers, Sam

2276: American Utopias & Dystopias

Also offered as AMST 2276
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

2201 | TuTh 4:00 - 5:15 | Sommers, Sam

2301: Anglophone Literatures

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

2301 | TH 3:30 - 6:00 | Islam, Najnin

2407: The Short Story

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

2407 | TH 11:00 - 1:30 | Carillo, Ellen 

This course is comprised of English majors and students seeking to meet a general education requirement. The course introduces students to the short story as a literary form and includes short stories from a range of periods and authors. Students will also read theoretical texts and pieces of literary criticism. "The Short Story" will also ask students to think broadly about stories and why we tell them. Students will participate in a story exchange in order to explore what we can achieve by storytelling and the kinds of dispositions (e.g., empathy) that telling and listening to stories can help us develop. Students will have the opportunity to explore the role that storytelling, broadly construed, plays in their chosen major, discipline, or field.