Prerequisites:  ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

1103 | TuTh 12:30 - 1:45 | Kneidel, Greg

A survey of representative works from the sixteenth-century to the present with a focus on the theme of human / machine interaction. Requirements may include in-class critical writing, in-class creative assignments, a midterm and a final exam and consistent, informed class participation.

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

• General Education Requirements:
  • Content Area Four (Diversity & Multiculturalism - USA)
  • The W version of this course satisfies a Writing Competency requirement
• English Major Requirements: 
  • 2021-2023 Plans: Core Category: Antiracism, Globality, and Embodiment (Group 1) or one of Four Additional Courses
    • Meets one requirement for the Literature, Antiracism, and Social Justice Track
    • Meets one requirement for the Literary Histories and Legacies Track
• Meets one of NEAG’s Secondary Education Multicultural Literature requirements for IB/M and TCPCG

2214W| MWF 10:10 - 11:00 | Campbell, Scott

ENGL 2214W provides a survey of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day and will include a very wide range of texts and genres. We can’t hope to “cover” this material, but we will make a series of investigations into texts we’ll use as examples, demonstrations, and cases. Our goals will include learning some historical context and developing a vocabulary and set of practices for engaging with African American literature. Along the way, we’ll question, too, the categories and boundaries we’re using to gather and define this work. For example, we will feature elements of African American rhetoric (forms of speaking and writing), including songs and speeches, as informing what we’re calling “literature.” Also, because coverage of a 400-year period is impossible in a single semester, our emphasis will be on the most recent century (1922-2022).

The course is discussion-driven, and you will be asked to take responsibility for shaping that discussion, sometimes in the form of HuskyCT posts or rotating leadership of class sessions. In addition to regular weekly work, there will be two graded major projects—each of which will go through a proposal, draft, review, and revision process—and a final exam.

ENGL 2214W fulfills the UConn General Education requirement of Content Area 4 (CA4). CA4 courses are designed to “inform, educate and initiate culturally conversant citizens who have a greater level of comfort with and the ability to navigate cultural differences.” CA4 courses enable students to become “aware of and sensitive to different cultural perspectives and representations of groups that traditionally have been misrepresented and/or underrepresented in mainstream media, education and other cultural systems.” See more about CA4 https://geoc.uconn.edu/ca4-assessment-and-learning-outcomes/

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

• General Education Requirements:
  • Content Area One (Arts & Humanities - Literature)
  • The W version of this course satisfies a Writing Competency requirement
• English Major Requirements:
  • 2021-2023 Plans: One of Four Additional Courses
    • Meets the Literary Genres or Methods requirement for the Creative Writing Track
    • Meets the Cultural, Genre, and Media Studies requirement for the English Teaching Track
• Meets one of NEAG’s Secondary Education Genre requirements for IB/M or TCPCG

2408W| MWF 9:05 - 9:55 | Shea, Tom 

The purpose of this course is to enhance our appreciation of Modern Drama as it developed during the 20^th century and continues to develop in the 21st. Some of the playwrights we will engage may include Oscar Wilde, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Marina Carr, Samuel Beckett, Eve Ensler, August Wilson, and Martin McDonagh. We will also have opportunities to take advantage of live, professional theater in Hartford and the surrounding communities.

Course grades will be based on

• Active Verbal Participation--40% of your semester grade

• All Writing—60% of your semester grade, broken down as follows:

Occasional Brief Writings: 20%

A Midterm Essay: 20%

A Final Essay: 20%

Usually, NO FINAL EXAM.

Questions?  Email Thomas.Shea@uconn.edu

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

• General Education Requirements:
  • Content Area One (Arts & Humanities -Literature)
  • The W version of this course satisfies a Writing Competency requirement
• English Major Requirements:
  • 2021-2023 Plans: One of Four Additional Courses
    • Meets the Literary Genres or Methods requirement for the Creative Writing Track
    • Meets one requirement for the Cultural Studies/Media Studies Track
    • Meets the Cultural, Genre, and Media Studies requirement for the English Teaching Track

2413W | TuTh 11:00 - 12:15 | Horn, Jacob

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

This course is required of all English majors and should be taken within a semester of declaring the major or at its next offering. This course is offered at all campuses, but only once a year at each Regional campus. 

2600 | TuTh 2:00 - 3:15| Kneidel, Greg  

This course takes up the fundamental questions of literary criticism: What are we reading? What does it mean? Why is it important? We will survey a broad variety of approaches to these questions, from textual scholarship to cultural materialism and much in between. We will focus more narrowly interplay of text and image in works from a variety of genres – likely including William Blake, The Songs of Innocence and Experience; Natasha Trethewey, Thrall; Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; Amma Asante, Belle (film); and Ali Smith, How To Be Both – and we will make a couple visiting to the Wadsworth Atheneum next door. Requirements may include short critical papers, creative assignments, and consistent, informed class participation.

Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.

2635E LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

• General Education Requirements:
  • Content Area One (Arts & Humanities - Literature)
  • Environmental Literacy Requirement
• English Major Requirements:
  • 2021-2023 Plans: One of Four Additional Courses
    • Meets the Literary Genres or Methods requirement for the Creative Writing Track
    • Meets the Cultural, Genre, and Media Studies requirement for the English Teaching Track
    • Meets one requirement for the Literature, Antiracism, and Social Justice Track
    • Meets one requirement for the Literature of Place and Environment

• Meets one of NEAG’s Secondary Education Genre requirements for IB/M or TCPCG

2635E | TuTh 9:30 - 10:45| Choffel, Julie 

In this class we will explore the many ways that literature reflects and shapes our relationship to the environment: How do the concepts we encounter about our environment frame the human and the nonhuman, the natural and the built, the living and the nonliving? How do our resulting interpretations continue to shift our roles within these ecologies? We will learn from environmental texts across many genres, including nonfiction, poetry, and visual media. In-class discussion and group activities will be essential to the course. Assignments will include regular writing responses with options for working in the genres that most appeal to each student.