Spring 2027
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 || Horn, Jacob
2000-Level Courses
2100. British Literature I
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.
2100 | TuTh 12:30 - 1:45 | Kneidel, Gregory
A survey of British literature from Beowulf through the 18th century, with a focus on the historical development of three characters: the hero, the saint, and the lover. Assessment will include a mix of critical and creative assignments as well as a trip or two to the Wadsworth Atheneum. CA 1; TOI 2
2203W. American Literature Since 1880
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011
2203W| TuTh 8:00 - 9:15 | Shea, Thomas
“American Literature and Film After 1880”
Open to Everyone: Just Ask for a Permission #
(thomas.shea@uconn.edu or blasket69@aol.com)
The purpose of this course is to enhance our appreciation of American Literature After 1880. We will explore short stories, poems, novels, plays, screenplays, and films from authors such as Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, August Wilson, Zora Neale Hurston, Ken Kesey, and Colum McCann.
Course grades will be based on class participation (50% of semester grade), two brief essays, a Midterm Essay, & a Final Essay.
USUALLY NO FINAL EXAM.
2301W. Anglophone Literatures
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011; open to sophomores or higher.
2301W | TuTh 3:30 - 4:45 | Rahman, Qazi Arka
2401. Poetry
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011; open to sophomores or higher.
2401 | TuTh 9:30 - 10:45 | Kneidel, Gregory
A study of the techniques and conventions of the chief forms and traditions of poetry in English. Assessment will include a mix of critical and creative assignments. CA 1; TOI 1 and 2
2640W. Studies in Film
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011; open to sophomores or higher.
2640W | 8:00 - 8:50 | Horn, Jacob
2720W. Writing the City
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011; open to sophomores or higher.
2720W | MW 2:00 - 3:15 | Campbell, Scott
Writing the City is a writing-intensive course with a focus on creativity and innovation in urban spaces, especially regarding issues of access, equity, and social justice. Writing the City connects writing studies practices for engaging with place and community with close contact with an urban environment. Because we are in Downtown Hartford, itself a centuries-old laboratory for urban experiments, we will examine Hartford contexts and make use of the Hartford Public Library, but there will be opportunities to reflect on and work with other urban sites as well.
Writing the City begins with some classic questions about cities, moves into place-based discovery and considerations of the stories that are told about a particular place (and who gets to tell them), and concludes with a contribution to an existing tension or problem at the site. With our writing/composing, we are not only reviewing and commenting on the creativity and innovation of others; we will be participating in the ongoing conversation about these places. Your projects and inquires will be at the center of our work, and we will ourselves be creators and innovators.
Please contact Prof. Campbell at scott.campbell@uconn.edu with any questions.
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
Content Areas: CA1: Arts & Humanities, CA4: Diversity & Multicultural
Topics of Inquiry: TOI1:Creativity: Des,Expr,Innv, TOI3: Div, Equity, Soc Just
3000-Level Courses
3122W. Irish Literature in English since 1939
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011; open to sophomores or higher.
3122W | TuTh 11:00 - 12:15| Shea, Thomas
“Contemporary Irish Literature and Film”
Open to Everyone: Just Ask for a Permission #
(thomas.shea@uconn.edu or blasket69@aol.com)
The purpose of this course is to enhance our appreciation of Contemporary Irish Literature and Film as they develop during the 20th – 21st centuries. We will explore short stories, novels, screenplays, and films from authors such as James Joyce, Anne Enright, Tomás O’Crohan, Edna O’Brien, Kevin Barry, Colum McCann, Martin McDonagh, and Claire Keegan.
Course grades will be based on class participation (50% of semester grade), two brief essays, a Midterm Essay, & a Final Essay.
USUALLY NO FINAL EXAM.