ENGL 415.001     The English Novel I     MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM   |  Jarrells

In this course we will survey fiction writing from the long eighteenth century, including works by Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen.  We will do this in order to better understand what was novel about the then-new genre, the novel, and to reflect more generally on the following questions: 1. How does the novel, especially the realist novel that emerges in these years, negotiate the divide between fact and fiction? 2. Why did the novel, often maligned as frivolous and even immoral, become an effective vehicle for disseminating and testing Enlightenment ideas about nature, individualism, sympathy, equality, and progress? 3. Can this born-print genre that was closely connected to a new and expanding commercial society still thrive in a post-print world in which nobody seems to want to read books anymore?

ENGL 439.001     TOPICS: Enchanting Fictions: Magic and Belief in the Modern Novel    TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM   |  Gwara

An exploration of “magic” as social commentary in recent popular fiction, including skepticism and credulity; emotional states of sublimity; the occult science of Steam Punk; the malaise of social impotence; the alienation of the cosmic scale; and escapist fantasies of moral salvation. Novels include, for example, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Babel, The Crystal Cave and The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe.

ENGL 469.001     Creative Nonfiction     MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM   |  Barilla

This course will be a creative writing workshop which will explore the subgenre possibilities of creative nonfiction, with particular attention to contemporary experimental work at the boundaries of other genres such as autofiction and the lyric essay. The focus of the course will be the writing and sharing of new creative work using the workshop format, but we will also respond to exercises designed to prompt fresh creative ideas and develop the craft of writing. The goal will be to produce a portfolio of polished new work at the end of the course.

ENGL 490.001     TOPICS: Language and AI      TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM   |  Gavin

(Crosslisted with LING 405.001)

This course will examine the linguistic foundations for artificial intelligence. Current AI systems like ChatGPT are built atop large-language models (LLMs) that involve statistical analyses of enormous bodies of textual data. The theory that informs these models, called “distributional semantics,” originated among linguists, philosophers, and library and information scientists in the twentieth century. This course will cover current practices and applications of LLMs, as well as their intellectual history and theoretical foundations.

ENGL 566.001     TOPICS: Complex Television   TTH  |  1:15PM-2:30PM   |  Minett

(Crosslisted with FAMS566)

This class explores “complex television,” pursuing questions of seriality, sympathetic antiheroes, and cultural legitimation. Emphasis is placed on influential early 21st-century series, including Lost, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and The Wire. Students will apply course concepts to generate insightful accounts of a contemporary complex television series of their choice. 

ENGL567.001     TOPICS: Border & Identity   TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Ozselcuk

(Crosslisted with FAMS598)

This course focuses on a range of media (such as novels, fiction and non-fiction films, graphic novels, new and/or multimedia art, architecture) to investigate processes of b/ordering in the current context of global migration and proliferating borders. We will explore cultural texts from Africa, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East that articulate territorial borders with other boundaries, including racial, class, gender, linguistic, temporal, species, etc., and, in so doing, meditate on the constitutive role of border regimes in the making and imagining of the world. Some of these texts will allow us to think about the border not only as a site of control, exclusion and dispossession, but also inclusion, transformation and political possibility. Critical/theoretical readings will provide us with specific aesthetic and socio-political grounding and inform our discussions about the extent to which these cultural texts offer counter-narratives against the dominant representational regimes of humanitarianism and securitization.

ENGL 200.001     Creative Writing & Community     MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM   |  Bajo

(AIU & VSR)                                                       

In this course we will use a workshop format to explore connections between creative writing and community settings. Students will have the choice to write fiction or creative nonfiction. Fiction includes the short story form. Creative nonfiction includes travel, environmental, science and nature writing. Students will submit drafts of their work to the class workshop where merits and possibilities of their submission will be discussed.

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ENGL 200.002     Creative Writing & Community     MW  |  3:55PM-5:10PM   |  Barilla

(AIU & VSR)                                                       

Creative Writing, Voice, and Community is an introduction to writing as a form of social engagement, in which we will consider the ways our own aesthetic choices engage with the world. The course assignments will explore questions of self-discovery and community and reflect on the development of a personal aesthetic or artistic style. In addition to creating work of our own through exercises and assignments, we will read and analyze outside texts as models. We will also become accustomed to describing and helping further the development of our classmates’ writing, the ultimate goal being the creation of a workshop community in which everyone feels able to take risks in their writing.

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ENGL 200.003     Creative Writing & Community     TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM   |  STAFF

(AIU & VSR)                                                       

Workshop course on creative writing with a focus on values, ethics, and social responsibility.

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ENGL 200.004     Creative Writing & Community     TTH  |  1:15PM-2:30PM  |  STAFF

(AIU & VSR)                                                       

Workshop course on creative writing with a focus on values, ethics, and social responsibility.

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ENGL 200.005     Creative Writing & Community     TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM   |  STAFF

(AIU & VSR)                                                       

Workshop course on creative writing with a focus on values, ethics, and social responsibility.

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ENGL 200.006     Creative Writing & Community     MWF  |  10:50AM-11:40AM  |  STAFF

(AIU & VSR)                                                       

Workshop course on creative writing with a focus on values, ethics, and social responsibility.

ENGL 270.001     World Literature     MWF  |  9:40AM-10:30AM   |  Ren

(AIU, Crosslisted with CPLT270)

How do we imagine the relationship between ourselves and the world? This class offers a diverse selection of texts spanning various cultures, regions, and historical periods. We’ll examine how literature reflects and shapes both individual and cultural identity within broader global contexts. The course covers a wide range of genres, including epic, fiction, poetry, sci-fi, and more, drawing from both classical and popular literature. Through close readings and discussions, students will investigate how literature addresses universal themes such as love, war, diaspora, and belonging. By the end of the course, students will develop a deeper appreciation for the interconnectedness of literary traditions and their relevance to contemporary issues of identity and global cultural exchange.

ENGL 280.J10     Literature and Society     WEB ASYNCH  |  Muckelbauer

Science Fiction

Mathematician and novelist, Vernor Vinge summarizes a paper he delivered at a NASA conference in 1993 as follows: “Within 30 years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.” This event has become a popular topic of debate among scientists and artists alike: are we actually on the verge of a major transformation to our species?  Is this superhuman intelligence even possible? And if so, is it desirable? Or controllable? As we will see, Vinge and others focus primarily on the implications of artificial intelligence as the key element of this transformation.  However, other contemporary thinkers point to significant changes in bio-technology (for instance, our increasing ability to alter nuclear DNA) as indicating that our near future might look significantly “post-human.”  In fact, some have even argued that our society’s increasing dependence on mood-enhancing medications indicates that we are already well on our way to becoming something other than human.  But what exactly do we mean by this? What, precisely, does it mean to be human? These are big questions with profound moral, ethical, and legal implications. In this class we will engage a series of different works each week that not only pose the questions but wrestle with some possible responses (most weeks, this will involve a movie, a short story, and assorted videos and articles that explain the current state of a particular technology)  Our goal is not to definitively answer these questions, but to begin thinking seriously about them as we move toward our post-human future.

ENGL 282.003    TOPICS: Fiction and Mental Health       TTH  |  2:50PM-4:05PM  |  Jackson

(AIU)

Attending school can be stressful for all of us, but according to a 2019 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, America's colleges are currently witnessing a "student mental health-crisis."  In the last decade, the number of students visiting campus counseling services for depression and anxiety has grown by forty percent.  Our lives have only become more stressful with the advent of Covid.  What can fiction possibly teach us about mental health, and how might fiction, and stories more generally, help us achieve and maintain it?  In this course, we'll find out.  We'll read a variety of contemporary novels and short stories, and a few historical ones, about anxiety, depression, dissociation, and isolation but also consider fictions about healing, happiness, and wellness.  We'll probe the boundaries of what counts as fiction by reading clinical case histories and memoirs, and we'll investigate how fiction has operated in therapeutic practices such as Bibliotherapy, Existential, Narrative, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies.  We'll also investigate the value of traditional wellness practices including mindfulness and yoga.  We'll cover a wide range of approaches to interpreting and analyzing fiction and along the way learn about some basic concepts in mental health and wellness. Assessment will be by a variety of take home assignments.  This class is not a substitute for attending counseling, but our emphasis will be on reading fiction in ways that are not only perceptive but also helpful and hopeful.

ENGL 287.002    American Literature     TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM   |  Davis

(Designed for English Majors)

American Literature: Love and Loss
This course rapidly surveys a number of representative American literary works from the colonial period to the present moment through a focus on the intertwined themes of love and loss. The readings will include a mix of short fiction and poetry along with a graphic novel and the lyrics of several contemporary love songs. 

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ENGL 287.003    American Literature     TTH  |  2:50PM-4:05PM   |  Jelly-Schapiro

(Designed for English Majors)

An introduction to American literary history, emphasizing the analysis of literary texts, the development of literary traditions over time, the emergence of new genres and forms, and the writing of successful essays about literature. Designed for English majors.

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ENGL 287.004    American Literature     TTH  |  1:15PM-2:30PM   |  Keyser

(Designed for English Majors)

This class provides an introduction to nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. literature. We will read poetry, short stories, essays, and autobiographies. Over the course of the semester, we will ask how stylistic choices (genre, form, setting, characterization, diction, and tone) shape theme and message. We will also consider how the literature speaks to its historical and cultural contexts.

ENGL 390.001    Great Books of the Western World  I     MW  |  3:55PM-5:10PM   |  Beecroft

(Crosslisted with CPLT301)

This course examines some of the greatest texts of the ancient and medieval world through the theme of “us and them.” One of the most important things that literature can do is to define a community of people with shared history, goals, customs and tastes – a culture, in other words. As literature builds a sense of community and culture, it also creates the idea of its own “outside,” of the people and practices that don’t belong. How to decide who belongs in the group and who doesn’t, and how to deal with both insiders and outsiders, is one of the major tasks of any society, and literature plays a major role in addressing these questions and in representing possible answers. To explore these questions, and other related questions, we will read Homer’s Odyssey, Aeschylus’s Oresteia, Herodotus’ Histories (selections only), Plato’s Republic, Augustine’s  Confessions, and Dante’s Inferno. These texts cover a wide range of forms (epic, drama, fiction, history, philosophy). They have been central to debate on these questions for well more than a thousand years both in European cultures and beyond, and will form the basis for our conversations as well.

ENGL 392.001    Great Books of the Eastern World    MWF  |  12:00PM-12:50PM   |  Patterson

(Crosslisted with CPLT303)

A journey from ancient times to the contemporary period, this course invites students to examine selected literary works from the Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean traditions in a variety of genres including epic, poetry, drama, and the novel. The course is divided into two parts, the pre-modern and modern periods. We will pay special attention to the historical and cultural contexts in which these works were created and the mutual influences between these cultures.

ENGL 406.001    Shakespeare’s Comedies & Histories   TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM   |  Shifflett

Study of some of Shakespeare's best tragedies, with the goals of figuring out how they please us, what they are teaching us, and why they sometimes disappoint us. Requirements are likely to include weekly quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final exam.

ENGL 415.001    The English Novel I    MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM   |  Jarrells

In this course we will survey fiction writing from the long eighteenth century, including works by Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen.  We will do this in order to better understand what was novel about the then-new genre, the novel, and to reflect more generally on the following questions: 1. How does the novel, especially the realist novel that emerges in these years, negotiate the divide between fact and fiction? 2. Why did the novel, often maligned as frivolous and even immoral, become an effective vehicle for disseminating and testing Enlightenment ideas about nature, individualism, sympathy, equality, and progress? 3. Can this born-print genre that was closely connected to a new and expanding commercial society still thrive in a post-print world in which nobody seems to want to read books anymore?

ENGL 392.001    Great Books of the Eastern World    MWF  |  12:00PM-12:50PM   |  Patterson

(Crosslisted with CPLT303)

A journey from ancient times to the contemporary period, this course invites students to examine selected literary works from the Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean traditions in a variety of genres including epic, poetry, drama, and the novel. The course is divided into two parts, the pre-modern and modern periods. We will pay special attention to the historical and cultural contexts in which these works were created and the mutual influences between these cultures.

ENGL 426.001    New Media American Poetries    TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM   |  Vanderborg

What do we mean by “new media,” and how has it shaped American poetry in the late 20th and
21st centuries?

Print itself was once a revolutionary new medium, and its innovations still surprise and instruct.
We’ll examine new experiments in print speculative poetry, code poetry, concrete poetry, collage
poetry, and palimpsest poetry that transforms historical sources. We’ll read multimedia children’s
poetry books that bridge generations, languages, and art forms, map the exciting new genre of
comics poetry, and explore interactive print poetry texts and sculpture poems.

Then we’ll take a deep dive into multiple genres of digital poetry—hypertext poems, digital
documentary poems, photogram poetry, poem installations, infinite scroll poems, poem games,
poetry apps, poem films, and poems set against a sky-screen of night stars—as well as consider
ecopoems and biopoems.

For every medium, we’ll chart its possible messages, styles, and audiences, with selections that
represent the geographical diversity within the term “American,” featuring authors from the U.S.,
Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including Tracy K. Smith. M. NourbeSe Philip, Joy Harjo, Margaret Rhee, Christian Bok, Porpentine, Eduardo Kac, and Patti Kim.

The class emphasizes close reading and a discussion format. Assignments include two papers, a final creative/critical project, class prep activities, and take-home media poetry prompts.

ENGL 428A.001     African American Lit I: to 1903     TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM   |  Trafton

(Crosslisted with AFAM428A)

Representative works of African-American writers to 1903.

ENGL 432.001    Young Adult Literature     TTh  |  2:50PM-4:05PM   |  Whitted

This course is a critical survey of literature written for and about young adults. For Fall 2025, our primary readings will focus on one of the fastest growing areas of middle grade and young adult literature: comics and graphic novels. We will explore their representations of self-discovery, adventure, and transformation alongside a deeper consideration of the way these texts also serve as a testing ground for the issues that challenge us. Of particular interest will be questions about how and why young adult literature takes special risks in the effort to bridge the transition between childhood inexperience and maturity, often through stories that chronicle the search for identity and register the personal impact of difficult social realities. Readings and assignments will be attentive to craft elements that are unique to the comics form and shape the production and reception of visual narratives (although no previous experience studying comics is required). Please note that this course is reading intensive and includes short weekly assignments, exams, and discussion groups.

ENGL 436.J10     Science Fiction Literature     WEB ASYNCH  |  Muckelbauer

Science Fiction and Post-Humanism

Mathematician and novelist, Vernor Vinge summarizes a paper he delivered at a NASA conference in 1993 as follows: “Within 30 years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.” This event has become a popular topic of debate among scientists and artists alike: are we actually on the verge of a major transformation to our species?  Is this superhuman intelligence even possible? And if so, is it desirable? Or controllable? As we will see, Vinge and others focus primarily on the implications of artificial intelligence as the key element of this transformation.  However, other contemporary thinkers point to significant changes in bio-technology (for instance, our increasing ability to alter nuclear DNA) as indicating that our near future might look significantly “post-human.”  In fact, some have even argued that our society’s increasing dependence on mood-enhancing medications indicates that we are already well on our way to becoming something other than human.  But what exactly do we mean by this? What, precisely, does it mean to be human? Or post-human? These are big questions with profound moral, ethical, and legal implications. In this class we will engage a series of different works that not only pose the questions but wrestle with some possible responses (most weeks, this will involve a movie, a short story, and assorted videos and articles that explain the current state of a particular technology)  Our goal is not to definitively answer these questions, but to begin thinking seriously about them as we move toward our post-human future.

ENGL 437.001    Women Writers     TTH  |  4:25PM-5:40PM   |  Schoeman

(Crosslisted with WGST 437)

Women Writers: Family, Nation, History and Self
Mostly, when we write creatively, we write about ourselves. And when we write about ourselves we don't simply talk about our life but also about other people's lives, about history at large and the events in our personal past that contributed to the definition of a very specific, singular Self.

Documentary films, art, and graphic memoirs are among the many cultural expressions we will use for our exploration of how women in particular represent their historical, emotional, psychological, and social experiences.

Dr. Schoeman’s teaching method is Socratic (European style). In Schoeman’s classroom, dialogues (not research papers) are essential. The professor and the students extensively discuss together the materials, exchange thoughts, challenge long-established taboos, and thus students learn to become analytical interpreters, critical thinkers, intelligent interlocutors and commentators. It’s fun.

ENGL 438C.001    Irish Literature     MW  |  3:55PM-5:10PM  |  Madden

This course is a survey of Irish literature and culture, focusing on selected literary works since the 19th century, with some attention to music and popular culture. Through our reading of Irish literature, we will become familiar with major themes and issues of Irish culture, and we will examine literary texts in relation to social, historical, and cultural contexts. In doing so, we will also examine how literature represents identity, belonging, community, history, and nation.

ENGL 439.001    TOPICS: Enchanting Fictions: Magic and Belief in the Modern Novel    TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Gwara

An exploration of “magic” as social commentary in recent popular fiction, including skepticism and credulity; emotional states of sublimity; the occult science of Steam Punk; the malaise of social impotence; the alienation of the cosmic scale; and escapist fantasies of moral salvation. Novels include, for example, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Babel, The Crystal Cave and The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe.

ENGL487.001    Black Women Writers    TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Finney

(Crosslisted with AFAM 487.001)

An examination of literature by and about black women, including fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography. This study will focus on issues that emerge from the creative representations of black women and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class that interrogate what is both particular and universal experiences.

ENGL 240.001    Film and Media Analysis   TTH  |  2:50PM-4:05PM   |  Minett

(AIU, Crosslisted with FAMS 240.003)

Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze moving images and develop written arguments about film and media.

ENGL 240.002    Film and Media Analysis   TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM  |  Ozselcuk

(AIU, Crosslisted with FAMS 240.011)

 Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze moving images and develop written arguments about film and media.

ENGL 360.001    Creative Writing    TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM   |  Amadon

This course is an introduction to the writing of poetry and fiction. We will learn, as a class, ways of responding to creative work and use our discussions as a means of defining our own aims and values as writers and poets. The final goal of this course is a portfolio of original creative work, but peer response is fundamental; both will factor heavily in the final grade. The class will read works by contemporary and canonical writers as a way of expanding our view of what our writing can do. However, this course is designed as a creative writing workshop, and the majority of class time will be devoted to discussing new writing from students.

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 ENGL 360.002   Creative Writing    TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Dings

Workshop course on writing original fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction.

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ENGL 360.003   Creative Writing    TTH  |  4:25PM-5:40PM   |  Blackwell

This introduction to the art and craft of creative writing will focus on the elements of narrative, emphasizing fiction while also covering poetry. Students will look at contemporary examples and warm up with technique-focused writing exercises before moving into whole-class workshops of original stories.

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ENGL 360.006   Creative Writing    MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM   |  STAFF

Workshop course on writing original fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction.

SPCH 387.001    Introduction to Rhetoric     TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM  |  Edwards

(Crosslisted with ENGL 387)

What is rhetoric? In politics, people often use the term “rhetoric” to refer to empty speech or talk that is opposed to action. Some people argue that rhetoric is a means to conceal the truth and deceive audiences about actual conditions or issues. Others describe rhetoric as an essential feature of open and democratic societies. Today we find rhetoric in speeches and movies, social media posts and memes, novels and clothing and protests. We find rhetoric everywhere that people use words, music, images, or even their own bodies to produce, sustain, or challenge truth, knowledge, and authority in the world. We find rhetoric everywhere that people struggle to hold on to power or advocate for change.

During this semester, you will have the opportunity to study ancient and contemporary perspectives on rhetoric and develop a working understanding of rhetorical theory, criticism, and practice. Through course readings and your own rhetorical scholarship, we will work to differentiate between communication that sponsors violence or closes down dissent and communication that opens opportunities for understanding, productive disagreement, and collective action.

ENGL 439.001    TOPICS: Enchanting Fictions: Magic and Belief in the Modern Novel    TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM   |  Gwara

An exploration of “magic” as social commentary in recent popular fiction, including skepticism and credulity; emotional states of sublimity; the occult science of Steam Punk; the malaise of social impotence; the alienation of the cosmic scale; and escapist fantasies of moral salvation. Novels include, for example, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Babel, The Crystal Cave and The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe.

ENGL 460.001    Advanced Writing    MW  |  3:55PM-5:10PM  |  Rule

How do writers stand out? What about a writer's choices—about their sentences or structure or tiny word choices—make us feel like we're experiencing their "voice"? How do writers shape language to convey their unique perspective, their presence, or distinct personality? This course focuses on these questions, as we puzzle over what it means to say that writing has "voice" and experiment with how to bring out such force in our own writing (and other media). Through study of rhetorical style, sentence-craft, identification and other concepts, students can expect in this class to analyze a range of personal essays and other first-person genres, collect in a commonplace book samples of powerful sentences and excerpts, and develop your own composing projects in a semester-long writer's workshop and portfolio, including a multimodal project in which you literally give voice to your writing. Focusing neither on academic nor creative genres alone, this course will speak to any student interested in improving their facility with and impact in writing across domains.

ENGL 462.001    Technical Writing    TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Rees-White

Preparation for and practice in types of writing important to scientists, engineers, and computer scientists, from brief technical letters to formal articles and reports.

ENGL 463    Business Writing      (7) available sections on various days and times

Please see Self-Service Carolina for more details

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports

ENGL 464.001    Poetry Workshop    TTH  |  1:15PM-2:30PM  |  Dings

Workshop in writing poetry.

ENGL 469.001    Creative Nonfiction    MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM  |  Barilla

This course will be a creative writing workshop which will explore the subgenre possibilities of creative nonfiction, with particular attention to contemporary experimental work at the boundaries of other genres such as autofiction and the lyric essay. The focus of the course will be the writing and sharing of new creative work using the workshop format, but we will also respond to exercises designed to prompt fresh creative ideas and develop the craft of writing. The goal will be to produce a portfolio of polished new work at the end of the course.

ENGL 515.J10    Race, Gender, and Graphic Novels     WEB ASYNCH  |  Whitted

(Crosslisted with AFAM515)

Representations of race and gender in comics with a special emphasis on the experiences of African Americans.

ENGL 566.001    TOPICS: Complex Television    TTH  |  1:15PM-2:30PM   |  Minett

(Crosslisted with FAMS566)

This class explores “complex television,” pursuing questions of seriality, sympathetic antiheroes, and cultural legitimation. Emphasis is placed on influential early 21st-century series, including Lost, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and The Wire. Students will apply course concepts to generate insightful accounts of a contemporary complex television series of their choice. 

ENGL 567.001    TOPICS: Border & Identity    TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Ozselcuk

(Crosslisted with FAMS598)

This course focuses on a range of media (such as novels, fiction and non-fiction films, graphic novels, new and/or multimedia art, architecture) to investigate processes of b/ordering in the current context of global migration and proliferating borders. We will explore cultural texts from Africa, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East that articulate territorial borders with other boundaries, including racial, class, gender, linguistic, temporal, species, etc., and, in so doing, meditate on the constitutive role of border regimes in the making and imagining of the world. Some of these texts will allow us to think about the border not only as a site of control, exclusion and dispossession, but also inclusion, transformation and political possibility. Critical/theoretical readings will provide us with specific aesthetic and socio-political grounding and inform our discussions about the extent to which these cultural texts offer counter-narratives against the dominant representational regimes of humanitarianism and securitization.

ENGL 360.001     Creative Writing     TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM  |  Amadon

This course is an introduction to the writing of poetry and fiction. We will learn, as a class, ways of responding to creative work and use our discussions as a means of defining our own aims and values as writers and poets. The final goal of this course is a portfolio of original creative work, but peer response is fundamental; both will factor heavily in the final grade. The class will read works by contemporary and canonical writers as a way of expanding our view of what our writing can do. However, this course is designed as a creative writing workshop, and the majority of class time will be devoted to discussing new writing from students.

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ENGL 360.002     Creative Writing     TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Dings

Workshop course on writing original fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction.

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ENGL 360.003     Creative Writing     TTH  |  4:25PM-5:40PM  |  Blackwell

This introduction to the art and craft of creative writing will focus on the elements of narrative, emphasizing fiction while also covering poetry. Students will look at contemporary examples and warm up with technique-focused writing exercises before moving into whole-class workshops of original stories.

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ENGL 360.006     Creative Writing     MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM  |  STAFF

Workshop course on writing original fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction.

ENGL 464.001    Poetry Workshop    TTh  |  1:15PM-2:30PM   |  Dings

Workshop in writing poetry.

ENGL 469.001    Creative Nonfiction     MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM   |  Barilla

This course will be a creative writing workshop which will explore the subgenre possibilities of creative nonfiction, with particular attention to contemporary experimental work at the boundaries of other genres such as autofiction and the lyric essay. The focus of the course will be the writing and sharing of new creative work using the workshop format, but we will also respond to exercises designed to prompt fresh creative ideas and develop the craft of writing. The goal will be to produce a portfolio of polished new work at the end of the course.

ENGL 492.001     Advanced Fiction Workshop     TTH  |  2:50PM-4:05PM  |  Blackwell

Designed for students with previous experience reading and writing fiction, this course will deepen your understanding of the elements of craft. We’ll be guided by the word workshop. Work: We’ll roll up our sleeves to examine the nuts and bolts of craft via close reading and in-class writing exercises. Shop: We’ll spend some time talking shop, considering writing as both a vocation and a profession. Workshop: The heart of the class will comprise workshops in which you’ll submit original writing and respond to the fiction of others.

ENGL 363.001     Intro to Professional Writing     TTh  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Jordan

Overview of concepts, contexts, and genres used in professional communication. Intensive practice in analyzing, emulating, and creating textual and multimedia documents for a variety of professional, non-academic purposes (including commercial, informative, persuasive, and technical).

ENGL 387.001     Introduction to Rhetoric     TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM  |  Edwards

(Crosslisted with SPCH 387)

What is rhetoric? In politics, people often use the term “rhetoric” to refer to empty speech or talk that is opposed to action. Some people argue that rhetoric is a means to conceal the truth and deceive audiences about actual conditions or issues. Others describe rhetoric as an essential feature of open and democratic societies. Today we find rhetoric in speeches and movies, social media posts and memes, novels and clothing and protests. We find rhetoric everywhere that people use words, music, images, or even their own bodies to produce, sustain, or challenge truth, knowledge, and authority in the world. We find rhetoric everywhere that people struggle to hold on to power or advocate for change.

During this semester, you will have the opportunity to study ancient and contemporary perspectives on rhetoric and develop a working understanding of rhetorical theory, criticism, and practice. Through course readings and your own rhetorical scholarship, we will work to differentiate between communication that sponsors violence or closes down dissent and communication that opens opportunities for understanding, productive disagreement, and collective action.

ENGL 388.001    History of Literary Criticism & Theory    TTH  |  1:15PM-2:30PM   |  Forter

This course invites students to learn about the history of literary criticism and theory by focusing on the practices that continue to shape the study of literature today. Beginning with what was at the time a revolutionary new approach to criticism—the New Criticism of the mid-20th century—we will examine how that criticism’s focus on “close reading” has been revised, contested, complicated, and repudiated over the course of the past seventy-five years. This means tracing the intricate development and branching out of criticism into structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxist and Neo-Marxist approaches, psychoanalysis, critical race studies, postcolonial criticism, queer theory, and more. We will pair the theoretical readings with (mostly short) literary works in order to give students the opportunity to develop their own, theoretically-informed readings of literature.

TEXTS: Theorists and critics may include R. Barthes, L. Bersani, J. Butler, J. Derrida, S. Felman, M. Foucault, S. Freud, A. Kornbluh, S. Hartman, R. Jacobson, K. Marx, S. Mau, E. Said, R. Williams, W. K. Wimsatt & M. C. Beardsley. Literary authors may include S. Anderson, J. Baldwin, A. Barnett, W. Cather, H. James, J. Keats, N. Larsen, N. Okorafor, J. Toomer.

ENGL 460.001     Advanced Writing     MW  |  3:55PM-5:10PM   |  Rule

How do writers stand out? What about a writer's choices—about their sentences or structure or tiny word choices—make us feel like we're experiencing their "voice"? How do writers shape language to convey their unique perspective, their presence, or distinct personality? This course focuses on these questions, as we puzzle over what it means to say that writing has "voice" and experiment with how to bring out such force in our own writing (and other media). Through study of rhetorical style, sentence-craft, identification and other concepts, students can expect in this class to analyze a range of personal essays and other first-person genres, collect in a commonplace book samples of powerful sentences and excerpts, and develop your own composing projects in a semester-long writer's workshop and portfolio, including a multimodal project in which you literally give voice to your writing. Focusing neither on academic nor creative genres alone, this course will speak to any student interested in improving their facility with and impact in writing across domains.

ENGL 462.001     Technical Writing     TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Rees-White

Preparation for and practice in types of writing important to scientists, engineers, and computer scientists, from brief technical letters to formal articles and reports.

ENGL 463     Business Writing

7 available sections on various days and times

Please see Self-Service Carolina for more details

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports

ENGL 370.001   Language in the USA    TTh  |  2:50PM-4:05PM  |  Esposito

(Crosslisted with LING 345)

Linguistic examination of the structure, history, and use of language varieties in the U.S., with a particular focus on regional and sociocultural variation and relevant sociolinguistic issues.

ENGL 389.001     The English Language     MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM   |  STAFF

(Crosslisted with LING 301)

Introduction to the field of linguistics with an emphasis on English. Covers the English sound system, word structure, and grammar. Explores history of English, American dialects, social registers, and style.

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ENGL 389.002     The English Language     TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM   |  STAFF

(Crosslisted with LING 301)

Introduction to the field of linguistics with an emphasis on English. Covers the English sound system, word structure, and grammar. Explores history of English, American dialects, social registers, and style.

ENGL 450.001     English Grammar     MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM |  Holcomb

(Crosslisted with LING 421)

This course focuses on English grammar for future educators in both English and Linguistics. We’ll begin by examining the term “grammar” itself and the role its different meanings have played in scholarly debates over grammar’s place in the classroom. We’ll then move on to our main focus: a deep dive into the particularities of English grammar, from word classes to phrases and clauses. As we do so, we’ll develop an approach to grammar that has come to known as Rhetorical Grammar: that is, rather than viewing grammar strictly as a matter of compliance or error avoidance, Rhetorical Grammar sees it as strategy—that is, as ways for writers to leverage the resources of the language to help them achieve their broader communicative goals. We’ll end the semester with a unit on stylistics and explore ways in which we can reinforce instruction in grammar by using its terms and categories as a vocabulary for analyzing literary and non-fiction texts.

ENGL 490.001    TOPICS: Language and AI    TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM   |  Gavin

(Crosslisted with LING 405.001)

This course will examine the linguistic foundations for artificial intelligence. Current AI systems like ChatGPT are built atop large-language models (LLMs) that involve statistical analyses of enormous bodies of textual data. The theory that informs these models, called “distributional semantics,” originated among linguists, philosophers, and library and information scientists in the twentieth century. This course will cover current practices and applications of LLMs, as well as their intellectual history and theoretical foundations.

ENGL 283.H01     HNRS: TOPICS: Enchanting Fictions: Magic and Belief in the Modern Novel     TTH  |  2:50PM-4:05PM   |  Gwara

(AIU)

An exploration of “magic” as social commentary in recent popular fiction, including skepticism and credulity; emotional states of sublimity; the occult science of Steam Punk; the malaise of social impotence; the alienation of the cosmic scale; and escapist fantasies of moral salvation. Novels include, for example, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Babel, The Crystal Cave and The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe.

ENGL 285.H01    TOPICS: Seeing in Black and White: Race and Vision in African American Literature      TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM   |  Trafton

(AIU)

This is a course that takes selections from contemporary African American writers that highlight issues of race and visibility.  Our authors ask this:  since race is at least in part a function of sight – of some people seeing other people who look different than themselves – then what can be learned about race and race relations by artistically challenging our preconceptions about both what and how we see?  Using such texts as Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Toi Derricotte’s The Black Notebooks, and August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, we, along with our authors, will investigate these issues. 

ENGL 286.H01    HNRS Poetry     TTH  |  1:15PM-2:30PM   |  Vanderborg

Take a trip through English poetry’s earliest influences and roots to its newest digital forms!  

Watch the god Apollo draft the world’s first love poem in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.  

Learn how to close read sensational ballads and artful sonnets.  

Have fun writing your own Old English-style riddle poem, blues stanzas, and erasure poem.  

Explore rhyming children’s books, Blake’s illustrated poems, comics poetry, poetry apps, poems that are games, poems that talk back to you, sculpture and photography poems, a concrete poem film, an interactive documentary poem on the transcontinental railroad, DNA poems implanted in living cells, and digital poem-stories spread out in constellations against a night sky. 

The class has three exams as well as creative take-home quizzes and class preparation assignments. We’ll explore a rich range of English forms and dialects and many different experiments in lyric and narrative poetry. Come prepared to expand your ideas of what poetry looks like and can do!  

ENGL 287.H01     HNRS: American Literature     TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Jackson

(Designed for English Majors)

This class will be a survey of American Literature from its colonial beginnings in the Fifteenth Century to present. We’ll focus on texts that cluster around recurrent thematic questions.  These include: What is America? Who are Americans?  Is there one fixed definition? Are humans fundamentally flawed, basically neutral, or inherently good? What defines us best: our souls, our heads, or our hearts? How do we come to terms with human suffering and the prospect of death?  What is literature, and what is it good for?  What is reality, and how can it best be depicted?  Others themes will emerge through class discussion.  Our class will have three goals: to introduce you to the sweep of American literary history and suggest something of its power and significance, especially by understanding what various works meant in their historical context; to encourage you to read closely and carefully, understanding how those works worked as art; and to help you develop as writers of critical academic prose, through a series of essays and short assignments.

ENGL 360.H01     HNRS: Creative Writing     TTH  |  1:15PM-2:30PM  |  Amadon

This course is an introduction to the writing of poetry and fiction. We will learn, as a class, ways of responding to creative work and use our discussions as a means of defining our own aims and values as writers and poets. The final goal of this course is a portfolio of original creative work, but peer response is fundamental; both will factor heavily in the final grade. The class will read works by contemporary and canonical writers as a way of expanding our view of what our writing can do. However, this course is designed as a creative writing workshop, and the majority of class time will be devoted to discussing new writing from students.

ENGL 389.H01     HNRS The English Language    MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM   |  Chun

(Crosslisted with LING301H)

In this course, we will learn to describe and analyze the English language, using various methods of linguistics. We will examine how sounds, words, and sentences are structurally and systematically patterned as well as how language can convey meaning in relation to its context of use. Topics will also include language acquisition by children, historical changes in English, language differences across communities, and language ideologies about English.

ENGL 462.H01     HNRS: Technical Writing     MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM  |  Pierce

Preparation for and practice in types of writing important to scientists, engineers, and computer scientists, from brief technical letters to formal articles and reports.

ENGL 463.H01     HNRS: Business Writing     TTH  |  10:05-11:20AM  |  Jordan

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports.

SCHC 350.H01     HNRS: U.S. Bestsellers, Past and Present      TTH  |  1:15PM-2:30 PM  |  Davis

When a work of fiction appeals to millions of American readers, it must be tapping into often unspoken, widespread needs and desires within its own cultural moment. Bestsellers have influenced the tastes and purchasing habits of readers in the Unites States for over 175 years, and they can teach us a lot about what mattered to readers at different points in our nation’s history. In the past, the enormous popularity of bestsellers across various fictional genres has led to their omission from the American classroom due to a longstanding academic preference for aesthetically complex literary texts over popular and accessible fictional forms. In this course, we will take bestselling works seriously and seek historical as well as aesthetic explanations for the vast and at times lasting appeal of a variety of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century bestsellers. The course will start with teams of students each choosing and pitching a bestselling American novel from our current decade, followed by the class selecting one of these novels as our final assigned reading for the term. 

SCHC 353.H01     HNRS: Memory, Memoirs, and Memorials: Reading Personal Stories in Historical Context      TTH  |  2:50PM-4:05PM   |  Schoeman

Mostly, when we write creatively, we write about ourselves. And when we write about ourselves we don't simply talk about our life but also about other people's lives, about history at large and the events in our personal past that contributed to the definition of a very specific, singular Self.

Documentary films, art, and graphic memoirs are among the many cultural expressions we will use for our exploration of how women in particular represent their historical, emotional, psychological, and social experiences.

Dr. Schoeman’s teaching method is Socratic (European style). In Schoeman’s classroom, dialogues (not research papers) are essential. The professor and the students extensively discuss together the materials, exchange thoughts, challenge long-established taboos, and thus students learn to become analytical interpreters, critical thinkers, intelligent interlocutors and commentators. It’s fun.

SCHC 398.H01     HNRS: Asian Renaissance and Harlem Renaissance     TTh  |  2:50PM-4:05PM  |  Lee

A striking historical parallel, exactly one century apart, has emerged between the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and the ongoing Asian American Renaissance of the 2020s. Each movement found its cultural footing amidst a global pandemic (1918 and 2020), with its antiracist fightback against seasons of racist violence (Red Summer, 1919, and Stop Asian Hate, 2020-21), as well as during swiftly growing demographic shifts: the Great Migration that began in the 1910s and the twenty-first century boom in the Asian American population, the fastest growing minoritized racial group in the United States, in the 2020s. In addition to an emphasis on robust intramural social life, these cultural movements also share a wide range of genres, including cinema, music, performance (comedy, theater), visual art, and literature (drama, essay, poetry, novel). Most importantly, frameworks of relatively autonomous Black and Asian American cultures, signaling what Alain Locke describes in 1925 as “a renewed self-respect and self-dependence,” emerged from each renaissance. This course will attend to each movement’s major figures, as well as their canonical literary and cultural texts, in order to assess the in-group goal of a comprehensive cultural voice that indexes intramural-facing love, including notions of community, conviviality, filiality, pedagogy, and resistance.

SCHC 450.H01     HNRS: Playing in the Archives     MW  |  2:20PM-3:35PM   |  Stern

In this class, we will explore the archival holdings of libraries and centers on campus and other collections in the Columbia area. Our readings will include short fiction; non-fiction essays about archival research, the making of history, and the ethics of curation; and, of course, holdings from the archives themselves. By the end of this class, students will be able to craft narratives using archival materials; to write critically about the processes of making history; to identify key principles in the field of curation; and to participate in an informed discussion about the archives available on our campus and in our city. 

SCHC 452.H01     HNRS: Jane Austen and the Novel     MW  |  3:55PM-5:10PM  |   Jarrells

Although writers such as Sally Rooney have found huge audiences of late, there have been various rumblings in recent years about whether the novel remains a viable form in the twenty-first century. How could it be – a born-print genre in a decidedly post-print age? And who are the bourgeoisie anyway! Still, the work of Jane Austen, the writer who in many ways showed us what the novel is and was meant to look like, remains as popular as ever, and certainly more so than during her own lifetime, despite favorable sales and reviews of works such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma. In this course, we will begin by focusing on Austen’s life and work, including the period she lived in, the different possibilities for the novel that she drew on in some cases and foreclosed in others, and her development of free indirect discourse. We’ll do all of this, first, to get a better sense of how the novel worked to mediate individual experience on the front end of the same arc of commercial modernity that we find ourselves on the other side of today, and second, to ask which novelists and what narrative forms might be said to be doing similar kinds of work in the twenty-first century.

SCHC 456.H01     HNRS: Secrets & Lies     TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM  |  Woertendyke

What is secrecy, what does it serve to protect, and what, if any, kinds of deception do secrecy depend upon?  Secrecy is ubiquitous, guarding central aspects of our identities and creating a protective layer against knowledge, people, concepts, or things that threaten to invade our personal (and sometimes private) space. Unsurprisingly, then, secrecy is often at the core of narrative - a central mystery around which each strand of the story is moving to protect or reveal. Fiction is variously described as a type of deception or as a form of truth.  The course will introduce a range of fictional forms in history, literature, and contemporary popular culture – our aim will be to identify patterns, or keys, of secrecy in various genres including but not limited to diaries, confessions, tales, short stories, life writing, non-fiction essays, novels, and films. Ultimately, we will consider how, and to what effect, secrecy shapes contemporary culture in the United States.

SCHC 457.H01     HNRS: Decolonizing the Mind    TTH  |  11:40AM-12:55PM  |  Gulick

In the mid-twentieth century, countries across Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean severed its formal political ties with Europe’s old imperial powers. But writers, artists, and intellectuals from the Global South have long understood that a truer, fuller version of decolonization to entail a radical reworking of the imagination - an overhaul of how we think and what we know. Beginning with the Negritude poets of the 1930s and 1940s and concluding with literary and filmic dramatizations of South Africa’s recent student protest movements, this course will explore the what decolonizing imaginations, schools, and knowledge systems has meant to writers from across the globe and from many different historical periods. We’ll spend some time with classic works of anti-, post-, and decolonial thought—including Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, Edward Said’s Orientalism, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and Audre Lorde’s Sister/Outsider—alongside a series of extraordinary literary texts by writers such as Aimé Césaire, Okot p’Bitek, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Gloria Anzaldúa, Amitav Ghosh, and R.F. Kuang. Students can expect to write regular reading responses, develop longer papers that align closely with their interests and strengths, read a lot, and make sense of all that reading through rigorous, generous discussion. Email agulick@mailbox.sc.edu with any questions.

SCHC 490.H10     HNRS: Language and AI    TTH  |  10:05AM-11:20AM  |  Gavin

(Crosslisted with LING 405.001 and ENGL490.001)

This course will examine the linguistic foundations for artificial intelligence. Current AI systems like ChatGPT are built atop large-language models (LLMs) that involve statistical analyses of enormous bodies of textual data. The theory that informs these models, called “distributional semantics,” originated among linguists, philosophers, and library and information scientists in the twentieth century. This course will cover current practices and applications of LLMs, as well as their intellectual history and theoretical foundations.