Schedule of Classes Undergraduate / Spring 2010 / English and American Literature

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Notes for Undergraduate Students

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Subject Notes for Undergraduate Students

HUM 10a, The Western Canon, counts as an ENG elective. See University Writing for UWS class listings.

Core Course for the English Major and Minor

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
4727 ENG 1A 1 Introduction to Literary Studies
[ hum wi ]
Block D
M,W,Th 11:10 AM–12:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies201
Open
34 / 999 / 0
Lanser, Susan S
 

Core Courses for the Creative Writing Major

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
4727 ENG 1A 1 Introduction to Literary Studies
[ hum wi ]
Block D
M,W,Th 11:10 AM–12:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies201
Open
34 / 999 / 0
Lanser, Susan S
 

English: Literary Theory / Criticism Courses

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5121 ENG 151A 1 Queer Studies
[ hum ]
See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
Block E
M,W,Th 12:10 PM–1:00 PM
Golding Judaica Center101
Open
46 / 999 / 0
Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah
King, Thomas A
 

English: Media and Film Courses

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5651 ENG 30B 1 New American Cinema of the 1960s and 70s
[ hum ]
Block N
T,F 1:40 PM–3:00 PM
Golding Judaica Center110
Open
41 / 999 / 0
Irr, Caren
 

English: Multicultural Literature/World Anglophone Courses

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5375 ENG 16A 1 Slavery and Self-Making in African American Literature
[ hum ]
Block K
M,W 2:10 PM–3:30 PM
Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr124
Open
15 / 999 / 0
Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah
5328 ENG 70B 1 The Global Humor Novel
[ hum ]
The instructor of this course has been awarded a University Prize Instructorship (UPI). These prestigious awards give exceptional doctoral students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences the opportunity to design and teach an upper-division course in their field of research. Enrollment in this course is open to undergraduate students only.
Block B
M,W,Th 9:10 AM–10:00 AM
Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr104
Open
14 / 20 / 0
Wepler, Ryan
5557 ENG 162A 1 Totalitarian Fictions
[ hum ]
Block C
M,W,Th 10:10 AM–11:00 AM
Kutz Hall 130
Open
31 / 999 / 0
Anjaria, Ulka
 

English: Pre-1800 Courses

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5116 ENG 23A 1 Remembering and Dismembering: Staging the Body in Early Modern England
[ hum ]
Block L
M,W 3:40 PM–5:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies202
Open
10 / 999 / 0
King, Thomas A
5325 ENG 33A 1 Shakespeare
[ hum ]
Block J
T,F 12:10 PM–1:30 PM
Golding Judaica Center110
Open
78 / 999 / 0
Flesch, William
5120 ENG 132B 1 Chaucer I
[ hum ]
See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
Block F
M,W,Th 1:10 PM–2:00 PM
Shiffman Humanities Ctr125
Open
8 / 999 / 0
Campbell, Mary Baine
 

English: Post-1800 Courses

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5650 ENG 18B 1 Writing the Holocaust
[ hum wi ]
Block V
T,Th 5:10 PM–6:30 PM
Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr104
Open
12 / 999 / 0
Skorczewski, Dawn M.
5117 ENG 40B 1 The Birth of the Short Story: Gods, Ghosts, Lunatics
[ hum wi ]
Block N
T,F 1:40 PM–3:00 PM
Golding Judaica Center101
Open
41 / 999 / 0
Plotz, John
5587 ENG 58A 1 Literature and Medicine
[ hum ]
Block D
M,W,Th 11:10 AM–12:00 PM
Kutz Hall 130
Open
24 / 999 / 0
Sherman, David R.
5579 ENG 78B 1 Modernism, Atheism, God
[ hum ]
Block K
M,W 2:10 PM–3:30 PM
Golding Judaica Center107
Open
20 / 999 / 0
Sherman, David R.
5545 ENG 136A 1 Race and Realism
[ hum ]
Block F
M,W,Th 1:10 PM–2:00 PM
Rabb Graduate Center236
Open
11 / 999 / 0
Gilmore, Michael T
5122 ENG 157B 1 American Women Poets
[ hum ]
See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
Block M
M,W 5:10 PM–6:30 PM
Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr112
Open
9 / 999 / 0
Campbell, Mary Baine
5123 ENG 187A 1 American Fiction since 1945
[ hum ]
Block H
T,F 10:40 AM–12:00 PM
Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr112
Open
17 / 999 / 0
Irr, Caren
5364 FYS 13A 1 Coming of Age in Literature
[ hum ]
Counts toward the English major as a Post-1800 course.
Block E
M,W,Th 12:10 PM–1:00 PM
Shiffman Humanities Ctr125
Open
17 / 18 / 0
Anjaria, Ulka
 

English: Directed Writing Courses

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
4441 ENG 79B 1 Writing Workshop: From Memory to Craft
[ hum wi ]
Instructor's Signature Required
See Course Catalog for Special Notes
See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
This course may not be repeated by students who have taken ENG 129a in previous years.
Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis.
Students will be selected after the submission of a sample of writing of no more than five pages. Samples should be submitted to the department office (Rabb 144) no later than two days before the first class meeting. May be repeated for credit.
Th 2:10 PM–5:00 PM
Golding Judaica Center107
Closed
Consent Req.

14 / 14 / 0
Braverman, Melanie
5119 ENG 109A 1 Directed Writing: Poetry
[ hum ]
Instructor's Signature Required
See Course Catalog for Special Notes
Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. Students will be selected after the submission of a sample of writing, preferably 4-7 pages. Sample should be submitted to the department office (Rabb 144) no later than two days before the first class meeting. May be repeated for credit.
Block S7
F 9:10 AM–12:00 PM
Shiffman Humanities Ctr122
Open
Consent Req.

12 / 14 / 0
Braverman, Melanie
2193 ENG 109B 1 Directed Writing: Short Fiction
[ hum wi ]
Instructor's Signature Required
See Course Catalog for Special Notes
Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis.
Students will be selected after the submission of a sample of writing, preferably 4-7 pages. Samples should be submitted to the department office (Rabb 144) no later than two days before the first class meeting. May be repeated for credit.
Block S2
T 1:40 PM–4:30 PM
Rabb Graduate Center333
Open
Consent Req.

11 / 14 / 0
Benedict, Elizabeth
2194 ENG 119A 1 Directed Writing: Fiction
[ hum wi ]
See Course Catalog for Special Notes
Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. Students will be selected after the submission of a sample of writing, preferably 4-7 pages. Sample should be submitted to the department office (Rabb 144) no later than two days before the first class meeting. May be repeated for credit.
Instructor's Signature Required
M 5:10 PM–8:00 PM
Rabb Graduate Center333
Closed
Consent Req.

14 / 14 / 0
Benedict, Elizabeth
5295 ENG 119B 1 Directed Writing: Poetry
[ hum wi ]
Instructor's Signature Required
See Course Catalog for Special Notes
Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. Students will be selected after the submission of a sample of writing, preferably 4-7 pages. Sample should be submitted to the department office (Rabb 144) no later than two days before the first class meeting. May be repeated for credit.
Block S3
W 2:10 PM–5:00 PM
Rabb Graduate Center335
Open
Consent Req.

13 / 14 / 0
Broumas, Olga
 

Foundational Courses for the Creative Writing Major

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5296 HUM 10A 1 The Western Canon
[ hum ]
Block G
T,F 9:10 AM–10:30 AM
Kutz Hall 132
Open
27 / 999 / 0
Burt, John
 

Cross-Listed in English: Multicult/World Anglo. Lit

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5072 AAAS 132B 1 Introduction to African Literature
[ hum nw ss wi ]
This course is a Davis Foundation WI course, and will involve the creation of a writing portfolio that you may choose to include in a study of writing at Brandeis.
Block N
T,F 1:40 PM–3:00 PM
Shiffman Humanities Ctr217
Open
8 / 999 / 0
Smith, Faith Lois
 

Cross-Listed in English: Pre-1800

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5632 CLAS 166A 1 Medieval Literature: A Millennium of God, Sex, and Death
[ hum wi ]
Block F
M,W,Th 1:10 PM–2:00 PM
Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr201
Open
12 / 999 / 0
Walker, Cheryl L
 

Cross-Listed in English: Post-1800

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5131 COML 185A 1 Dickens and Dostoevsky
[ hum ]
Block G
T,F 9:10 AM–10:30 AM
Shiffman Humanities Ctr125
Open
8 / 999 / 0
Miller, Robin Feuer
5263 NEJS 172A 1 Women in American Jewish Literature
[ hum ]
Block S2
T 1:40 PM–4:30 PM
Golding Judaica Center107
Open
11 / 999 / 0
Fishman, Sylvia
 

Cross-Listed in English: Theory

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5130 COML 100A 1 Comparing Literatures: Theory and Practice
[ hum wi ]
This course is a Davis Foundation WI course, and will involve the creation of a writing portfolio that you may choose to include in a study of writing at Brandeis.
Block P
T,F 3:10 PM–4:30 PM
Shiffman Humanities Ctr125
Open
7 / 999 / 0
Powelstock, David
 

Cross-Listed in English: Other Elective Courses

Class # Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
5642 COML 190B 1 Fictional Thinking
[ hum ]
Block P
T,F 3:10 PM–4:30 PM
Shiffman Humanities Ctr122
Open
25 / 999 / 0
Flesch, William