E140 The Study of Literature | 3 credits | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | TR | Grant Bain

Basic principles of reading literary texts.

E142 Reading Without Borders | 3 credits | 10:00 - 10:50 AM | MWF | Elizabeth Steinway

Authors from a range of international, cross-national, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds focusing on themes of immigration, exile, or education.

E200 - Inquiry-Based Teaching and Communication | 3 credits | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | TR | Cindy O'Donnell-Allen

E202 - Language Use in Society | 3 credits | 1:00 - 1:50 PM | MWF | Luciana Marques

Language is a hallmark of human cognition and the essential mode of human communication. However language is also a means of social identity expression and a target for social attitudes. Focusing on English in the US and around the world, you will study the aspects of language that mark such identities and attitudes.

E204 - Creative Writing as Transformative Practice | 3 credits | 3:30 - 4:45 PM | TR | Ramona Ausubel

Emphasizes the transformative possibilities of creative writing by exploring its relationship to the social, environmental, intellectual, aesthetic, and personal. Engage and develop the many ways that creative writing methodologies can change both the self and the world.

E206 - Language for Activist Rhetoric and Writing | 3 credits | 2:00 - 2:50 PM | MWF | Sarah Cooper

In this course we will explore the role of rhetoric in social movements by analyzing foundation texts in social movements and rhetorical scholarship that examines the language of social change.

E210 Beginning Creative Writing | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Basic techniques of writing fiction and poetry, including writer workshops. May include some elements of drama and/or creative non-fiction.

Sections may be offered online.

E232 Introduction to Humanities | 3 credits | 3:00 - 3:50 PM | MWF | Paul Trembath

Literature of Western cultural tradition from ancient times to present.

E236 Short Fiction | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Examines form, technique and interpretation in short fiction.

E237 – Introduction to Science Fiction | 3 credits | 2:00 - 2:50 PM | MWF | Lynn Badia

How do we imagine the future in literary texts? From post-apocalyptic landscapes to the alternative worlds of Indigenous futurism, we will analyze a range of speculative realities offered to us in science fiction. This course explores the history of the science fiction genre and the topics that continually animate it, including utopia/dystopia/heterotopia, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and resource wars. We will examine science and speculative fiction through a range of media (novels, films, short stories, manifestoes, etc.) and think critically about the questions it poses concerning science, community, ecology, colonialism, and the future of the human species.

E238 Contemporary Global Fiction | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Contemporary fiction chosen for its relevance to global and cultural awareness.

E238.001 Contemporary Global Fiction | 3 credits | 2:00 - 3:15 PM | TR | Aparna Gollapudi

Short stories can offer nuanced kaleidoscopic snapshots of a specific culture, place, and time. In this course you will study two contemporary fiction-writers – Jhumpa Lahiri and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Lahiri’s The Interpreter of Maladies  includes stories set in India as well as in Indian-American diasporic culture. Adichie's The Thing Around My Neck explores life in Nigeria along with the complexities of immigrating to America.

E240 Introduction to Poetry | 3 credits | 2:00 - 2:50 PM | MWF | Debra Walker

Development of critical skills necessary to understand and enjoy poetry.

E242 Reading Shakespeare | 3 credits | 2:00 - 3:15 PM | TR | Barbara Sebek

Reading of Shakespeare texts, using various approaches of interpretation for understanding and relation to our contemporary cultural situation.

E245 World Drama | 3 credits | 12:30 - 1:45 PM | TR | Ryan Campbell

World drama in cultural contexts.

E270 Introduction to American Literature | 3 credits | 10:00 - 10:50 AM | MWF | Karen Montgomery Moore

History and development of American writings from 16th-century travel narratives through early 20th-century modernism.

Sections may be offered online.

E276 British Literature: Medieval Period to 1800 | 3 credits | 12:00 - 12:50 PM | MWF | William Marvin

British literature from Beowulf through the 18th century in relation to its historical contexts.

Sections may be offered online.

E277 British Literature: After 1800 | 3 credits | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | TR | Philip Tsang

British literature from the Romantics to the present in relation to its historical contexts.

Sections may be offered online.

E301 – Framing Texts with Critical Theories and Teaching Equity, Justice, and Activism | 3 credits | 3:00 - 4:15 PM | MW | Rosa Nam

This course explores the ways in which literary critical theories and approaches can be used to frame texts and rethink pedagogy for secondary education. Students will apply lenses for understanding young adult texts and centering equity in education. All majors welcome.

This course satisfies the requirement for AUCC 4A and 4B.

E311A Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction | 3 credits | 2:00 - 3:15 PM | TR | Ramona Ausubel

Group discussion of student writing, literary models, and theory; emphasis on developing individual style.

Must register for lecture and recitation.

E311B Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry | 3 credits | 3:00 - 4:15 PM | TR | Sasha Steensen

Group discussion of student writing, literary models, and theory; emphasis on developing individual style.

Must register for lecture and recitation.

E311C Intermediate Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction | 3 credits | 12:30 - 1:45 PM | TR | Sarah Perry

A workshop-based course examining various forms of the personal essay, including braided essays, travel essays, food writing, found forms, music writing, and flash/micro essays. Students will read published examples and discuss them, analyzing author's craft decisions with an eye toward creating their own work. Numerous opportunities for in-class writing, plus regular workshop submissions, in an atmosphere of supportive risk-taking.

Must register for lecture and recitation.

E322 – English Language for Teachers | 3 credits | 12:30 - 1:45 PM | TR | Naitnaphit Limlamai

Although we use language on a daily basis, we often take for granted its cultural and even communicative power. In this class we recognize the importance of language and its features, honor students’ communication practices, and help hone them as acts of justice as we view all dialects and languages—and therefore people—as valuable. All majors welcome.

E326 – Development of the English Language | 3 credits | 9:00 - 9:50 AM | MWF | Luciana Marques

English is very unique and has gone through many changes throughout its history, from early Anglo-Saxon to Modern varieties. In this course, you will study the four historical stages of English (Old, Middle, Early Modern, Modern) with emphasis on grammar, vocabulary, and phonology and how these stages reflect the several socio-economic-cultural aspects in the history of the peoples who speak it.

E329 – Pragmatics and Discourse | 3 credits | 11:00 - 11:50 AM | MWF | Luciana Marques

Communication happens in context, and we perceive and produce different language structures depending on who, where and when we talk. Focusing on English in the US, you will examine communicative contexts of language interaction, and the language structures employed in successful communication. The course will emphasize the application of such concepts to linguistically-informed User Experience (UX) conversational assistants, such as chatbots.

E339 - Literature of the Earth | 3 credits | 10:00 - 10:50 AM | MWF | Lynn Badia

In this course we will explore how narratives shape our knowledge and experience of the more-than-human world. Including works of fiction, nonfiction, film, theory, and poetry over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we will consider topics such as landscape, climate, multispecies kinship, ecology, climate, and energy.

This course fulfills a Category 2 or 3 elective requirement for English majors.

E341 Literary Criticism and Theory | 3 credits | 11:00 - 11:50 AM | MWF | Leif Sorensen

This course will introduce you to several major schools of contemporary literary theory and provide an overview of the history of theory as an academic field. The primary goal of the course is to make students critically aware of the way that acts of reading, writing, and making art are connected to a range of political, social, cultural, and nonhuman forces at work in the world around us.

E344 – Shakespeare | 3 credits | 10:00 - 10:50 AM | MWF | William Marvin

A course in close-reading, we'll analyze a selection of plays that dramatized Shakespeare's view of the classical and medieval past.

This course fulfills a Category 1 or 4 elective requirement for English majors.

E373 – The Afterlives of Literature: The Afterlives of Classical Women | 3 credits | 9:30 - 10:45 AM | TR | Lynn Shutters

This course focuses on three women from Greek myth: Helen, Medea, and Antigone. While we’ll begin with Ancient Greek masterpieces—think Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides—we’ll also study the “afterlives” of these women as they appear in contemporary works by women, queer, and/or BIPOC authors—think Cherríe Moraga, Anne Carson, and Jesmyn Ward. Let's think about what we cherish—or overlook—in literatures both present and past.

E384.001 Supervised College Teaching: Classroom | 1 to 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Supervised assistance in instruction.

Written consent of department chair. A maximum of 10 combined credits for all 384 and 484 courses are counted towards graduation requirements.

E401 Teaching Reading | 3 credits | 3:30 - 4:45 PM | TR | Kelly Burns

Teaching Reading is designed to introduce students to current theory, research, and instructional strategies founded on a critical literacy approach that amplifies a human-first approach for growing readers in secondary grades, within and beyond the classroom.

E402 Teaching Composition | 3 credits | 2:00 - 3:15 PM | TR | Naitnaphit Limlamai

Writing is a powerful and dangerous act, and teaching students how to write affords them the opportunity to learn this skill. In this class, we develop our writerly identities, unpack our ideologies about language, learn how to design effective writing assessments, provide humanizing feedback to writers, and design and teach lessons. Ultimately this course builds confident writers who go on to teach confident writers.

E405 Young Adult Literature | 3 credits | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | TR | Todd Mitchell

E405 is designed to give future teachers, writers, and literature students a survey of mostly contemporary novels for young adults. During this course, you'll be asked to read a wide variety of YA and middle grade novels (approximately a book a week). Class sessions will focus on discussions that apply a critical literacy lens, practices for teaching YA books critically in the classroom, and creative activities to help readers connect with texts. Central to our study will be an exploration of identity, how we ‘read’ and ‘write’ the self, and how adolescents are impacted by social and textual constructions of race, class, gender, sexuality, immigration, culture, war, mental health, technology, and consumerism.

E407 – Genre Bending: Comedies 1660-1800 | 3 credits | 9:30 - 10:45 AM | TR | Aparna Gollapudi

Dangerously seductive rakes, pretty flirts, crotchety old men, garrulous servants, saintly wives, good-hearted beaux, merchants both greedy and generous – these are the colorful characters that thronged the stage in comedies from 1660 to the end of the eighteenth century. We will be reading some hilarious plays with razor-sharp wit and rollicking farce.  The course contextualize the plays within the historical milieu and explore the socio-political functions of comedy.

E412A - Advanced Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Individual projects with group discussion and analysis on the practice of Fiction! This is a workshop-heavy class in which students will critique others and write their own fiction.

Must register for lecture and recitation. Maximum of 6 credits allowed in course.

E412C - Advanced Creative Writing Workshop: Nonfiction | 3 credits | 2:00 - 3:15 PM | TR | Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Hands-on, craft based, group discussion of peer essays, memoirs, narrative nonfiction and hybrids - with a focus this semester on flash forms.

Must register for lecture and recitation. Maximum of 6 credits allowed in course. Sections may be offered online.

E422 – African American Literature | 3 credits | 3:00 - 4:15 PM | TR | Camille Dungy

Reading work from writers such as Phillis Wheatley—the first black person in the American colonies to publish a book—through some of the great writers of the early 21st century, we’ll consider how African American writers have influenced how Americans of all races write and think about the world today.

E423 – Latinx Literature | 3 credits | 9:00 - 9:50 AM | MWF | Leif Sorensen

Beginning with translations of travelogues and journals by Spanish explorers and concluding with work by contemporary writers based in North America with ties to greater Mexico, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean, this course examines writing by a range of Latinx authors. Our study will explore how writers represent class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and national origin. Readings will include fiction, memoir, poetry, drama, performance art, popular song, and hybrid texts. Authors studied will include early figures like María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Jovita Gonzales de Mirales, major figures from the Chicano movement and the Nuyorican poets, and contemporary figures like Eduardo Corral, Carmen Maria Machado, and Sylvia Moreno Gacia.

E424 – English Renaissance Literature | 3 credits | 9:30 - 10:45 AM | TR | Barbara Sebek

This course will dive into the themes of ambition and over-reaching in a range of writers from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, both well established and more recently canonical (Marlowe, Webster, Spenser, Milton, Jonson, Donne, and Cary). How do sexual, social, economic, and military ambitions intersect and clash in this period? Students will vote on the readings for the last two weeks of class. Final projects can be tailored to your major concentration or minor.

This course satisfies the pre-twentieth century requirement for English majors.

E455 – European Literature after 1900 | 3 credits | 12:00 - 12:50 PM | MWF | Paul Trembath

This course is an introduction to literary Modernism in Europe and, in two instances, Great Britain. The purpose of the course is twofold: to familiarize ourselves with some of the primary material of literary Modernism (and in two possible cases, literary Postmodernism) while learning to read Modernist texts from critical perspectives that are irreducible to those within which the “canonical” texts of literary Modernism were initially received.

E465 - Topics in Literature and Language: Empathy, English Studies and Social Change (Capstone) | 3 credits | 12:30 - 1:45 PM | TR | Lisa Langstraat

Many scholars and activists claim that, because empathy can build connection and solidarity amongst otherwise unrelated people, empathy can be a powerful force for social change. In this course we'll learn about different theories of and approaches to empathy, paying careful attention to the ways that empathy circulates in our reading and writing practices and developing strategies for empathetic engagement with both personal and public audiences.

E470 – Individual Author: The Language and Literary Landscape of Emily Dickinson | 3 credits | 1:00 - 1:50 PM | MWF | Sasha Steensen

This course will explore the legacy, lineage, and language of Emily Dickinson. While looking intensely at Dickinson's poems and letters, we will follow words back to their Biblical roots; we will ponder Dickinson’s often idiosyncratic spellings; we will linger over her strangely beautiful images; we will mediate on her early preference for the exclamation point and her later adoption of the dash, and we will explore the etymological underpinnings of her poems. We will read poets whose work is heavily influenced by Dickinson, and we will watch excerpts from the recent films and TV shows depicting her life and work.

E487B.001 Internship: Literary Editing – Greyrock Review | 1 credit | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM | W | Stephanie G'Schwind

Students can receive credit (one free elective credit per semester for up to four semesters) for an internship with Greyrock Review, CSU's annual, student-run, undergraduate literary magazine. During this year-long internship, students learn the intricacies of publishing, printing, and promoting a literary journal. As a staff intern, you will be expected to attend weekly staff meetings to discuss promoting the call for submissions, reading submissions, copyediting, layout, proofreading, and publicity.

Students must be Junior or Senior English majors or minors with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and should have taken E210. Qualified students must register for both Fall 2024 and Spring 2025—this is a one-year commitment. Interested students should contact Stephanie G’Schwind at Stephanie.GSchwind@ColoState.EDU.

E487C.001 Internship: Community Literacy Center | 1-3 credits | Tobi Jacobi

Students may receive credit (up to 3 per semester for up to two semesters) for an internship with the Community Literacy Center, an outreach arm of the English Department, which coordinates creative writing workshops for confined populations in the community. In this internship, you will have opportunities to blend academic and experiential learning through three primary focus areas: program design and facilitation, administration and leadership, and public engagement and dissemination. An interest in literacy and confined communities is useful, though no experience is required. Training provided in facilitation methods and responses.

Students must be Juniors or Seniors with a minimum GPA of 3.0 Qualified students must register for both Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. This is a one-year commitment. Interested students should contact Tobi Jacobi at tobi.jacobi@colostate.edu.