2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
English
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www.smu.edu/english
Professor Darryl Dickson-Carr, Department Chair
Professors: Darryl Dickson-Carr, Thomas DiPiero, Dennis Foster, Ezra Greenspan, David Haynes, Ross Murfin, Jasper Neel, Rajani Sudan, Steven Weisenburger
Associate Professors: Angela Ards, Richard Bozorth, Greg Brownderville, Michael Holahan, Daniel Moss, Beth Newman, Timothy Rosendale, Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue, Nina Schwartz, Lisa Siraganian, Bonnie Wheeler
Assistant Professors: Timothy Cassedy, Jacob Rubin, Martha Satz
Professors of Practice: Carol Dickson-Carr, Angela Wood
Senior Lecturers: Diana Grumbles Blackman, Jo Goyne, Vanessa Hopper, Pamela Lange, Bruce Levy
Lecturers: Stephanie Amsel, Joan Arbery, Marta Harvell, Mary Catherine Mueller, Pauline Newton, Patricia Pisano, Kristen Polster, Ona Seaney, Emily Sharma, Sam Ross Sloan, Lori Ann Stephens
General Information
The B.A. in English offers a rich intellectual experience through the study of American, British and other literature written in English. The course of study engages with contemporary modes of literary inquiry in order to arrive at an understanding of how language, culture and society work. At the same time, it emphasizes the aesthetic, emotional and intellectual pleasures of imaginative writing. The degree is appropriate for students who wish to obtain a broad liberal education as a foundation for careers or further study, and is especially recommended as preprofessional training for fields such as law, administration, and business that require high proficiency in written and oral communication and in analytical thinking.
Departmental Distinction
This program is open to seniors by invitation. To enter the program, a student ordinarily must earn an overall GPA of at least 3.000 by the middle of the junior year, and a 3.500 average or better in courses fulfilling requirements for the major. Candidates for distinction must take ENGL 5310 in the fall of the senior year. Candidates completing ENGL 5310 with a grade of B+ or better will then choose from the following options: ENGL 5381 (culminating in a senior thesis); or a graduate pro-seminar in English numbered 6320–6380 (requires permission of instructor); or (for creative writing specialists only) ENGL 4394 . Candidates must earn a B+ or better in the option selected, and attain a 3.500 GPA in all courses counting toward the major and distinction. ENGL 4394 , ENGL 5381 and ENGL 5310 may not be used to satisfy the 12 hours required in 4000-level courses. A minimum of 36 hours is required to graduate with departmental distinction.
ProgramsMajor(s)Minor(s)CoursesEnglish
The courses are numbered by the final two digits as follows.
| Expository Writing (00–09) |
DISC 1311, 1312, 1313, 2305, 2306 ENGL 1300, 1400, 2306, 2406, 3301, 3305, 3308, 5301, 5309 |
| Genre, Method, Criticism (10–19) |
ENGL 2310–15, 3310, 4310, 5310 |
| Medieval, c. pre-1500 (20–29) |
ENGL 1320, 3320, 3329, 4320, 4321, 4323 |
| Early Modern, c. 1500–1775 (30–39) |
ENGL 1330, 3330–32, 3335, 4330–33, 4336, 4339 |
| Age of Revolutions, c. 1775–1900 (40–49) |
ENGL 3340, 3341, 3344–48, 4340, 4341, 4343, 4345, 4346, 4349
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| Modern to Contemporary, c. 1990–present (50–69) |
ENGL 1360, 1362, 1363, 1365, 2361, 3350, 3354, 3355, 3359, 3360, 3362–69, 4350, 4351, 4356, 4360, 4369 |
| Other Literature/Language Courses (70–89) |
ENGL 1370, 1380, 1385, 2371, 3189, 3370, 3371, 3373–85, 3389, 4370, 5378, 5381 |
| Creative Writing (90–99) |
ENGL 2390, 3390, 4390, 4394 |
- ENGL 1300 - Foundations for Rhetoric
- ENGL 1301 - Rhetoric I: Introduction to College Writing
- ENGL 1302 - Rhetoric II: First-Year Seminar in Rhetoric, Contemporary Issues
- ENGL 1305 - Perspectives of Thought
- ENGL 1320 - Cultures of Medieval Chivalry
- ENGL 1330 - The World of Shakespeare
- ENGL 1360 - The American Heroine
- ENGL 1362 - Crafty Worlds
- ENGL 1363 - The Myth of the American West
- ENGL 1365 - Literature of Minorities
- ENGL 1370 - Tragedy and the Family
- ENGL 1372 - English Studies Abroad
- ENGL 1380 - Introduction to Literature
- ENGL 1385 - Power, Passion, and Protest in British Literature
- ENGL 1400 - Developmental Reading and Writing
- ENGL 2102 - Spreadsheet Literacy: Excel for Students in the Humanities and Natural and Social Sciences
- ENGL 2302 - Business Writing
- ENGL 2306 - Honors Humanities Seminar II
- ENGL 2310 - Imagination and Interpretation
- ENGL 2311 - Poetry
- ENGL 2312 - Fiction
- ENGL 2313 - Drama
- ENGL 2314 - Doing Things With Poems
- ENGL 2315 - Introduction to Literary Study
- ENGL 2322 - Guilty Pleasures
- ENGL 2361 - Fortune, Fame, and Scandal: The American Dream
- ENGL 2372 - English Studies Abroad
- ENGL 2390 - Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL 2391 - Introductory Poetry Writing
- ENGL 2392 - Introductory Fiction Writing
- ENGL 3189 - Directed Studies
- ENGL 3301 - Advanced Expository Writing
- ENGL 3305 - Writing and the Public Intellectual
- ENGL 3308 - English Studies Internship
- ENGL 3310 - Contemporary Approaches to Literature, Language, and Culture
- ENGL 3320 - Topics in Medieval Literature
- ENGL 3329 - Courtly Cultures and King Arthur
- ENGL 3330 - Topics in Early Modern Literature
- ENGL 3331 - British Literary History I: Chaucer to Pope
- ENGL 3332 - Shakespeare
- ENGL 3335 - Transatlantic Encounters I
- ENGL 3340 - Topics in British Literature in the Age of Revolutions
- ENGL 3341 - British Literary History II: Wordsworth Through Yeats
- ENGL 3344 - Victorian Gender
- ENGL 3345 - Transatlantic Encounters II
- ENGL 3346 - American Literary History I
- ENGL 3347 - Topics in American Literature in the Age of Revolutions
- ENGL 3348 - History of Print and Digital Culture in America
- ENGL 3350 - Topics in Modern and Contemporary British Literature
- ENGL 3354 - Non–Western Culture and Literature
- ENGL 3355 - Transatlantic Encounters III
- ENGL 3359 - American Narratives of Discovery
- ENGL 3360 - Topics in Modern and Contemporary American Literature
- ENGL 3362 - African–American Literature
- ENGL 3363 - Chicana/Chicano Literature
- ENGL 3364 - Women and the Southwest
- ENGL 3365 - Jewish–American Literature and Culture
- ENGL 3366 - American Literary History II
- ENGL 3367 - Ethical Implications of Children’s Literature
- ENGL 3368 - Literary and Artistic Taos: The Town Seen Through Multiple Lenses
- ENGL 3369 - Study of Native American Authors
- ENGL 3370 - Special Topics
- ENGL 3371 - Joan of Arc: History, Literature, and Film
- ENGL 3372 - English Studies Abroad
- ENGL 3373 - Masculinities: Images and Perspectives
- ENGL 3374 - Literature of Religious Reflection
- ENGL 3375 - Expatriate Writers: The Invention of Modernism
- ENGL 3376 - Literature of the Southwest
- ENGL 3377 - Literature and the Construction of Homosexuality
- ENGL 3378 - Studies in the English Language
- ENGL 3379 - Literary and Cultural Contexts of Disability: Gender, Care, and Justice
- ENGL 3381 - Semiotics of Culture
- ENGL 3382 - Heroic Visions: The Epic Poetry of Homer and Vergil
- ENGL 3383 - Literary Executions: Imagination and Capital Punishment
- ENGL 3384 - Literature and Medicine
- ENGL 3385 - Literature of the Holocaust
- ENGL 3386 - The Gothic Novel
- ENGL 3389 - Directed Studies
- ENGL 3390 - Studies in Creative Writing: Thematic, Experiential, Craft, or Workshop
- ENGL 3391 - Intermediate Poetry Writing
- ENGL 3392 - Intermediate Fiction Writing
- ENGL 4310 - Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
- ENGL 4320 - Medieval Writers
- ENGL 4321 - Studies in Medieval Literature
- ENGL 4323 - Chaucer
- ENGL 4330 - Renaissance Writers
- ENGL 4331 - Restoration and Enlightenment Writers
- ENGL 4332 - Studies in Early Modern British Literature
- ENGL 4333 - Shakespeare
- ENGL 4336 - Studies in Early Modern American Literature
- ENGL 4339 - Transatlantic Studies I
- ENGL 4340 - Romantic Writers
- ENGL 4341 - Victorian Writers
- ENGL 4343 - Studies in British Literature in the Age of Revolutions
- ENGL 4345 - American Writers in the Age of Revolutions
- ENGL 4346 - Studies in American Literature in the Age of Revolutions
- ENGL 4349 - Transatlantic Studies II
- ENGL 4350 - Modern and Contemporary British Writers
- ENGL 4351 - Studies in Modern and Contemporary British Literature
- ENGL 4356 - Modern and Contemporary American Writers
- ENGL 4360 - Studies in Modern and Contemporary American Literature
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