AMST100 Self/Community in American Culture, 1600-1877 | 3 credits | 10:00 - 10:50 AM | MWF | Instructor TBA

Critical analysis of the meaning and development of American culture, 1600-1877, through themes of self and community in art, politics, society, and religion.

AMST101 Self/Community in American Culture Since 1877 | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Critical analysis of the meaning and development of American culture since 1877, through themes of self and community in art, politics, society, and religion.

CO130 Academic Writing | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Academic writing, critical thinking, and critical reading through study of a key academic issue.

CO150 College Composition | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Understanding and writing for rhetorical situations; critical reading and response; writing source-based argument for academic and public audiences.

Must have taken CO 130 or Composition Challenge Essay (score of 3, 4, or 5) or SAT Verbal/Critical reading score of minimum 570 or SAT Evidence Based Reading/Writing score of minimum 620 or ACT COMPOSITE score of minimum 26 or Directed Self-Placement Survey code of 15.

Sections may be offered online.

CO300 Writing Arguments | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Reading, analyzing, researching, and writing arguments.

Prerequisite: CO 150 or HONR 193. Sections may be offered online.

CO301A Writing in the Disciplines: Arts and Humanities | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Learning writing strategies for addressing general audiences in arts and humanities.

Prerequisite: CO 150 or HONR 193. Sections may be offered online.

CO301B Writing in the Disciplines: Sciences | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Learning writing strategies for addressing general audiences in sciences.

Prerequisite: CO 150 or HONR 193. Sections may be offered online.

CO301C Writing in the Disciplines: Social Sciences | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Learning writing strategies for addressing general audiences in social sciences.

Prerequisite: CO 150 or HONR 193. Sections may be offered online.

CO301D Writing in the Disciplines: Education | 3 credits | 11:00 - 12:15 PM | TR | Dr. Rosa Nam

Learn to read and write like a teacher. This course emphasizes real-world assignments and activities for future teachers.

Prerequisite: CO 150 or HONR 193. Sections may be offered online.

CO302 Writing in Digital Environments | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Writing strategies, patterns and approaches for online materials.

Prerequisite: CO 150 or HONR 193. 

E140 The Study of Literature | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Basic principles of reading literary texts.

This course fulfills Category 3B: Arts & Humanities for the AUCC requirements.

E142 Reading Without Borders | 3 credits | 10:00 - 10:50 AM | MWF | Instructor TBA

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

E150 English Studies Symposium | 3 credits | 03:00 - 3:50 PM | MWF | Multiple Instructors

Introduces majors to the study of English across the whole array of the department's concentrations and approaches.

Credit not allowed for both E 150 and E 181A1.

E179 Western American Literature: Contemporary Poets and the Shaping of the American Democracy | 3 credits | 08:00 - 09:15 AM | TR | Camille Dungy

We will read the work of recent U.S. poet laureates and public-facing poets who have ties to the American West to consider how poetry and literature shape our views of social justice, inclusive practices, public policy, political engagement, environmental engagement, and communal care. Poets studied this term include: Ada Limon, Tracy K. Smith, Joy Harjo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Robert Hass, Amanda Gorman, CMarie Furman, Natalie Diaz, TC Tolbert, Matthew Zapruder, Tommy Pico, and Brenda Hillman.

E200 Inquiry-Based Teaching, Learning, and Communicating | 3 credits | 1:00 - 1:50 PM | MWF | Dr. Cindy O'Donnell-Allen

How can we develop inquiry in learning spaces, in our own lives, and in community with others? Learn how to use public debate and deliberation to address social issues and global concerns. You’ll have choice in assignments to explore your interests!

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 | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Literature of Western cultural tradition from ancient times to present.

This course fulfills Category 3B: Arts & Humanities for the AUCC requirements.

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

Examines form, technique and interpretation in short fiction.

This course fulfills Category 3B: Arts & Humanities for the AUCC requirements.

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

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

Sections may be offered online.

E240 Introduction to Poetry | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

Development of critical skills necessary to understand and enjoy poetry.

E242 Reading Shakespeare | 3 credits | 03:00 - 04:15 PM | MW | Roze Hentschell

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

This course fulfills Category 3B: Arts & Humanities for the AUCC requirements.

E245 World Drama | 3 credits | 02:00 - 02:50 PM | MWF | Instructor TBA

World drama in cultural contexts.

Sections may be offered online.

E270 Introduction to American Literature | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Multiple Instructors

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

This course fulfills Category 3B: Arts & Humanities for the AUCC requirements.

E276 British Literature: Medieval Period to 1800 | 3 credits | 03:00 - 03:50 PM | MWF | William Marvin

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

This course fulfills Category 3B: Arts & Humanities for the AUCC requirements.

E277 British Literature: After 1800 | 3 credits | 08:00 - 09:15 AM | TR | Philip Tsang

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

This course fulfills Category 3B: Arts & Humanities for the AUCC requirements.

E305.001 Principles of Writing and Rhetoric | 3 credits | 12:30 - 01:45 PM | TR | Lisa Langstraat

This course offers a humanities-based exploration of central principles of writing and other forms of rhetoric. Students will explore critical concepts in ancient and contemporary readings – everything from Plato to Nietzche to Foucault. We’ll ask questions like, what is rhetoric? What is writing? How has our 12 understanding of them changed over time? Do rhetoric and writing create or merely reflect reality? How do writing and rhetoric reinforce and challenge power? And why should we care?

This is a required core course in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy concentration. It counts as English elective credit for all others.

E310 – Researching and Writing Literary Criticism | 3 credits | 01:00 - 01:50 PM | MWF | Zach Hutchins

This class is designed to help students learn to do literary research and write literary criticism—skills that will facilitate your success in upper-division literature courses. We’ll practice those skills by reading the work of three authors selected by students, in the opening weeks of the course. If you really want to hone your writing chops, this is the class for you, and since you're helping to pick the books—the reading should be pretty good, too.

E311A Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Ramona Ausubel

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

Must register for lecture and recitation. Sections may be offered online.

E311B Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry | 3 credits | 12:30 - 01:45 PM | TR | Devon Fulford

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

Must register for lecture and recitation. Sections may be offered online.

E311C Intermediate Creative Writing: Nonfiction | 3 credits | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | TR | Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

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

Must register for lecture and recitation. Sections may be offered online.

E320 – Introduction to the Study of Language | 3 credits | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | TR | Tony Becker

This course introduces the basic concepts and theories that linguists/applied linguists adopt in trying to understand how language works and how language is used. Language is studied from a structural perspective, with emphasis on morphology, phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Additional topics of interest include language acquisition, language variation, and language change. This course is recommended for, but not limited to, students interested in language description and its applications, such as TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), language documentation, computational linguistics, foreign language teaching and teaching in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms.

This is a required core course in the Linguistics and Culture Interdisciplinary Minor and strongly advised for students with the Language concentration.

E324 – Teaching English as a Second Language | 3 credits | 9:30-10:45 AM | TR | Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala

This course offers participants with an introduction to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages in the U.S. or abroad. This is a course that may potentially contribute to teacher certification. This is a highly interactive and participatory course intended to offer a rich introduction to this exciting area of work in the field of applied linguistics. It will offer a combination of both theory and practice with plenty of opportunities to discuss current topics related to the teaching of English learners across contexts.

E332 – Modern Women Writers | 3 credits | 3:30-4:45 PM | TR | Lisa Langstraat

Women’s writing/activism has often radically challenged traditional notions of aesthetics and the organization of knowledge.  In the spirit of that challenge, this course is structured not by historical period, nor by “literary movements.”  Instead, I’d like us to engage in a spirit of inquiry that asks questions and seeks (provisional) answers for questions that reflect women writers’ challenges to—and from—our cultural norms and expectations:

• Why do we need/have a course devoted to women writers?  That is, what makes a woman author’s writing “women’s writing”?
• Do we read women’s writing differently?  If so, how?  If not, why not?
• How does women’s writing reflect the union of the personal and the political, the aesthetic and the social?  Can art change the world?  Does women’s writing take a special position in light of that world change?
• How does an author’s subjectivity and identity frame her process of creation and the creative product?

Given these questions, this course is designed to address

1. A selection of late-20^th century women writers who represent various identities, nationalities, and ethnicities. We will be reading works that reflecta diverse range of experience, perspective, and aesthetic approach;
2. A variety of literary forms and genres, including the traditional narrative sprinkled with the fantastic, the epistolary novel, autobiographical and journal writing, lyric and prose poetry, the essay, journalistic writing, manifestoes, and many more.
3. A multitude of feminist/womanist perspectives that represent theorizing experience and experiencing theory insofar as they blend the personal & political, the intellectual and the emotional, aesthetic transformation and social transformation.

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

E333 – Critical Studies of Popular Texts: The New American Essay | 3 credits | 2:00-3:15 PM | TR | Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

The course is inspired by controversial writer John D’Agata, who advocates the broadest definition of the essay, which at its French root, essai, means to attempt, to endeavor, to try. According to D’Agata, writers should be free to use any and all methods at their disposal in pursuit of their intellectual, spiritual, cultural or aesthetic goals, including blurring genre, form, fact and imagination. Drawing from such sources as The Art of the Personal Essay edited by Phillip Lopate and The Next American Essay edited by D’Agata himself, the course will examine that assertion. We will discuss what makes an essay and essay as well as how events, places, memories and social, political, cultural, environmental landscapes influence approach and content. In addition to active discussion and critical work, we will write our own creative essays and imitation exercises to experiment with narrative technique and audience.

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

E337.001 Western Mythology | 3 credits | 01:00 - 01:50 PM | MWF | William Marvin

The gods who emerged from the timelessness of pre-creation, the cannibal gods and the cosmic gods who with war shaped the order of existence, and the gods who loved sacrifice, ruled in discord, and had ado with mortals in the guises of human-and-animal-kind: These are the personified inscrutables that “western myth” built a coherent core of narration around, and to this narration attached plots and characters in endless variety. Even the story-telling itself, like creation, began in time immemorial. Its main cycles coalesced in spite of migrations and the wrack of civilizations, long even before the advent of writing and literature. But literature, when it came, changed everything. No longer was hieratic myth, the mythology of priests, to be solely the property of cult. This course is about how poets in the age of writing reshaped the potential of the gods. We will track the gods’ wanderings from their cultic origins in magic and hymn to their fluorescence in Sumerian and Greek creation myth, Indic and Germanic dragon slaying, Greek siege epic around the war for Helen of Troy, up to the point of the Roman de-sacralization of the gods in a modern kind of erudite, humane irony. We shall discover furthermore how myth first prompted literary criticism, when readers asked if what Homer said about the immortal gods was true? So, the course will also cover the history of reading myth from classical antiquity to the present, develop this history into a set of critical perspectives, and apply these as hermeneutic tools to the myths as we read them.

This course fulfills a Category 4 elective requirement for English majors and world literature for English Education concentrators. It also counts toward the Religious Studies minor.

E338 - Ethnic American Literature | 3 credits | 09:30 - 10:45 AM | TR | Leif Sorensen

This class offers a survey of contemporary ethnic writing from the U.S. We will read a range of genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and graphic novels). Because contemporary writing is in dialogue with a range of media, we will also watch films and discuss digital art and storytelling. Our texts include popular commercial blockbusters, critically acclaimed works from mainstream publishers, and lesser-known experimental works from small presses. Focusing on ethnic writing published since the year 2000 will give us an opportunity to think about how ethnicity functions in the twenty-first century U.S. and to consider how different artists imagine the future of identity. Authors covered will likely include Claudia Rankine, Colson Whitehead, Ocean Vuong, Valeria Luiselli, Ta-Nahesi Coates, Stephen Graham Jones, and others. Students will write a final project on a topic of their choosing as well as a series of short papers focused on individual texts.

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

E341 Literary Criticism and Theory | 3 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Paul Trembath

Theory and practice of modern literary analysis and evaluation; writing about literature.

E344 - Shakespeare | 3 credits | 01:00 - 01:50 PM | MWF | Aparna Gollapudi

In this course, we will study a selection of Shakespeare's plays through the lens of race and colonialism. While we will also focus on elements such as Shakespeare’s use of dramatic conventions and modes, his figurative language, issues of gender and sexuality etc., the course will emphasize the production of national and global identities through theatrical performance in plays such as Titus Andronicus, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest.

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

E370 – American Literature in Cultural Contexts: Mothering in the Margins | 3 credits | 2:00 - 2:50 PM | MWF | Elizabeth Steinway 

What are the parameters of American motherhood? Who is included in these definitions and who is left out?

Motherhood is often presumed to be a natural status for women, an identity category that is marked both by reproductive capability and societal expectation. Because of this, the act of mothering becomes a site of ideological debate, with “good” and “bad” mothers pitted against each other. In this course, we will examine motherhood as an ideological and social construction, focusing on representations of mothers in American literature, visual media, public discourse, and popular culture who disrupt maternal conventions through radical acts of mothering.

E373 - The Afterlives of Literature | 3 credits | 11:00 - 11:50 AM | MWF | Lynn Shutters

The Afterlives of Classical Women: Helen, Cassandra, Antigone, Medea: these are a few of the famous women from Greco-Roman myth, women who are involved in the larger affairs of men—wars, quests, and such—but who either lack power and agency in a patriarchal world or are branded wicked or dangerous if they do have power. While the legends of these and other classical women begin in classical antiquity, they don’t stop there: authors have rewritten classical women for generations, up until the present. In this class, we’ll begin with classical literature, works by Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, and Ovid, among others, and wend our way forward to consider how various authors have reshaped classical women and how classical women themselves have serves as touchstones for how femininity is contemplated and represented in Western culture. It’s no exaggeration to say that the history of female identity in the West is a history of these women. To bring this class up to the present, we’ll spend significant time on contemporary authors and creators, particularly women and BIPOC authors, including Kamila Shamshie, Jesmyn Ward, and Spike Lee, who remain fascinated by stories of classical women.

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

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 | 04:30 - 07:20 PM | W | Kelly Burns

Learning to read is a civil right. In this course, we integrate evidence-based foundational reading instruction with the reading workshop model through lenses of culturally responsive and sustaining practices. We craft an agency-based and student-centered philosophy that grows readers in a civically-engaged classroom.

E402 Teaching Composition | 3 credits | 04:30 - 07:20 PM | R | Kelly Burns

Writing is our thinking made visible. In this course, we cultivate writers through evidence-based writing instructional practices that are embedded within the writing workshop model to move past outdated writing practices into iterative, agency-based, and authentic writing that honors the "mesearch" of individuals and the research of our communities in service of social change and civic engagement.

E405 Young Adult Literature | 3 credits | 12:30 - 01:45 PM | TR | Rosa Nam

Come read and discuss contemporary diverse young adult literature using various lenses in Young Adult Literature. We'll read best-sellers and hidden gems that support critical literacy skills.

3 credits of CO or E.

E412A Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction | 3 credits | 12:30 - 01:45 PM | TR | Nina McConigley

Individual projects with group discussion and analysis.

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

E431- Nineteenth-Century British Fiction | 3 credits | 3:30 - 4:45 PM | TR | Philip Tsang 

In this course, we will read some of the most celebrated novels from Victorian England. The nineteenth century saw the transformation of England into a modern professional society. Thanks to the increasing division of labor brought about by industrialism and capitalism, society could no longer be managed by hereditary aristocrats or wealthy landlords. Instead, individuals with specialized training and expertise dominated every sector. One’s social status was determined less by circumstances of birth than by education and professional pursuits. The novelists from this period reflected on a series of questions that still resonate today: How does one find meaning and fulfillment from career development? Is there such a thing as a vocation or calling? How does one negotiate the tensions between personal desire and professional demand? The answers to these questions were in turn shaped by gender, sexuality, social reform, and imperialism. Our novels will include Benjamin Disraeli’s Coningsby, Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Finn, and Rudyard Kipling’s Kim.

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

E465 - Topics in Literature and Language: Intercultural Communication | 3 credits | 03:00 - 04:15 PM | MW | Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker

This course will introduce students to the process of communication between and among individuals from different cultures or subcultures. The term “culture” is broadly defined to include race, ethnicity, national origin, economic class, gender, and other markers of social identity. The course will provide theoretical and methodological insights into intercultural communication and will give students an opportunity to apply their knowledge through reflection and critical analysis of various manifestations of intercultural communication differences.

This course fulfills the capstone requirement for all majors. English majors who already have the capstone can count it as a Category 3 elective. 

E466 – Interdisciplinary English Studies: Literature and Politics in the Contemporary US | 3 credits | 12:30 - 01:45 PM | TR | Andrew Altschul and Leif Sorensen

Is the pen still mightier than the sword? Was it ever? This capstone class invites students to identify strategies that writers adopt to address political subject matter, to assess the ability of literature to intervene in political issues, and to develop their own approaches to writing and reading politically in our current moment. Class readings will bring together important critical writings from Marxist, Critical Race, Queer, Trans*, and Feminist theories with an eclectic range of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and popular culture. Students will write both critically and creatively in response to assigned texts, and the closing weeks of the semester will be devoted to presentations and workshops of students’ projects on topics of their choosing.

This course fulfills the capstone requirement for all majors. English majors who already have the capstone can count it as a Category 3 or 4 elective.

E478 – Modern Poetry | 3 credits | 12:30-1:45 PM | TR | Matthew Cooperman

What is Modern Poetry, let alone what is Modern? When did it begin? Where? What are its characteristics? Is it still happening? And is Modern the same as Modernity? Modernism? What's Modernity's relationship to democracy? And how does the Contemporary interact with and/or supplant the Modern? These questions hinge on definitions that are neither stable nor consensually ratified. This Modern thing is moving. From “Make it New!” (Pound) to “Buy it Used!” (Jameson) we are witness in Modernism to a radical transformation of forms, values and historical understandings that are intensely present for us across the whole range of the arts (and indeed the sciences). Modern Poetry brackets the debate by parsing out an historical period that shows the loss of meter and the gain of free verse. Something radical happens from the 19th c. to the 20th. As such, we might claim the Modern—or Modern Poetry—as something occurring possibly from mid 19th c to the end of World War II. But as with all things Modern, pronouncements induce a deep skepticism. Belief and doubt, history and its opposite, things to query and worry and wonder.

The purpose of this course is to help you discover the joys and difficulties of Modern Poetry. We will explore the transformations of poetry from Romanticism and the Victorian era (and whatever it’s called in America) to High Modernism, and the transition to what’s next. We will do this by reading history in the poems, and by the poems, and by developing strategies to unlock Modern Poetry’s notorious difficulty. We will also try to situate Modern Poetry in the socio-political context from which it—and all the arts—arise. Is modern poetry a signet of democracy? Culture formation then, as much as close reading, and the development of a critical vocabulary by which we might understand this period so conjunct with our own. We will do this primarily by reading poems and discussing them in class. The goal of all this learning will be the deep pleasure of recognition; for if Modern Poetry is relevant to our time, it is still happening, still evocative of the daily joys and struggles of a recognizably human condition.

This course fulfills a Category 2 or 4 elective requirement for English majors. 

E487B.001 Internship: Literary Editing – Greyrock Review | 1 credit | 07:30 PM - 09:50 PM | M | 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 2022 and Spring 2023—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 2022 and Spring 2023. This is a one-year commitment. Interested students should contact Tobi Jacobi at tobi.jacobi@colostate.edu.