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List of English Courses

The courses taught by the Carleton English Department--at a glance. If you would like to have details about any particular offering, click on the course name for a full description.Lower-level courses are listed immediately below.

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Lower-Level Courses

100. Literature Seminar

109. Writing Seminar I

110. English Literature I

111. English Literature II

112. Introduction to American Literature

114. Introduction to Medieval Narrative

117. African American Literature

118. Introduction to Poetry

119. Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Literature

120. Introduction to Literary Modernism

144. Shakespeare I, for students not majoring in English

200. Methods of Interpretation

220. Arts of Oral Presentation

227. Borderlands: Places and People

230. African American Autobiography

234. Literature of the American South

235. Asian American Literature

236. American Nature Writing

237. American Indian Literature

238. African Literature in English

239. American Best-Sellers

240. Transatlantic Romanticism

241. Language Thieves: Woman in American Poetry

242. Contemporary Ethnic Literature

243. Text and Film

244. Shakespeare I, for English majors and prospective majors

246. Women's Texts in History 1600-1700

249. Irish Literature

250. Modern Indian Fiction

251. Modern Indian Fiction II

252. Caribbean Literature

259. Advanced Essay Writing

260. Introduction to Creative Writing

270: The Crafts of Writing: The Short Story

271. The Crafts of Writing: Poetry<

272. Truth vs. Power: A Journey in Journalism

275. The Crafts of Writing: The Essay, From Imitation to Invention

280. The Crafts of Writing: Creative Non-Fiction

ENGL 290 London Program: Independent Project

Upper-level Courses

300. Chaucer I: Canterbury Tales

301. The Courtly Chaucer

308. English Renaissance Verse

ENGL 309 Renaissance Selves

310. Shakespeare II

313. Major Works of the English Renaissance: The Faerie Queene

314. Major Works of the English Renaissance: Paradise Lost

318. The Gothic Spirit

319. The Rise of the Novel

322. The Art of Jane Austen

323. English Romantic Poets

327. The Victorian Novel

329 Inventing "America," Literature of the Colonial US.

328. Victorian Poetry

330. Literature of the American West

331. American Transcendentalism332. Studies in American Literature: Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald

333. Contemporary Native American Literature

334. Studies in American Literature: Postmodern American Fiction

335 Postcolonial Literature In Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

335. (Post)Colonialism and Identity

336. Romance to Novel: Poe, Hawthorne, James

337 Art & Argument in U.S. Literary Realism From the 1870s to WWI

339. Contemporary American Playwrights of Color

341. Contemporary Poetry

342. Contemporary Latino/a Poetry344. Twentieth-Century Literature

362. Narrative Theory

365. British Comedy370. Advanced Crafts of Writing: The Short Story371. Advanced Crafts of Writing: Poetry375. Advanced Rhetoric

380-07. London Program

381 Staging the Early Modern City, 1400-1650

384-07. Ireland Program

362-00. Senior Seminar: Narrative Theory

395-00. Senior Seminar: Dissenting Americans, Literature, Authority, and Social Change

395-00. Senior Seminar: Seductive Fictions

395-00. Senior Seminar:

ENGL 395. Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate

400. Integrative Exercise: Four New Options