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English Courses

Literature and Writing

Introductory Course
ENG 101 Literary Consciousness

Course for Non-majors
ENG 165 Shakespeare for Non-majors


Creative Writing Courses
ENG 260 Creative Writing
ENG 305 Poetry Workshop
ENG 307 Playwriting Workshop
ENG 308 Screenwriting
ENG 309 Fiction Workshop
ENG 310 Creative Non-Fiction Workshop


Core Literature and Criticism Theory Courses
ENG 202 Modern Short Story
ENG 207 American Literature to Melville
ENG 208 American Literature from Crane
ENG 210 Modernist American Poetry
ENG 216 Literature of the Gilded Age
ENG 217 Chaucer
ENG 223 Environmental Literature
ENG 225 Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies
ENG 226 Shakespeare: Tragedies
ENG 228 Comparative Medieval Literature
ENG 236 Post-Apocalyptic Literature
ENG 238 Flexing Sex
ENG 239 Popular Fiction
ENG 240 18th-Century Literature and Art
ENG 246 Globalism and Literature
ENG 249 18th-Century Novel
ENG 250 English Romantic Poets
ENG 255 Victorian Literature
ENG 256 The Gothic Novel
ENG 257 Dickens and His World
ENG 258 19th-Century English Novel
ENG 261 Literature of Decadence
ENG 262 Irish Literary Renaissance
ENG 264 Post World War II American Poetry
ENG 278 Introduction to Dramatic Literature
ENG 281 Literature of Sexual Minorities
ENG 284 Comic Agony
ENG 285 Three English Novelists
ENG 290 African-American Autobiography
ENG 291 Introduction to African-American Literature I
ENG 292 Introduction to African-American Literature II
ENG 300 Literary Theory Since Plato
ENG 302 Post-Structuralist Literary Theory
ENG 304 Feminist Literary Theory
ENG 312 Psychoanalysis and Literature
ENG 318 Body, Memory, and Representation
ENG 322 Renaissance Imagination
ENG 327 The Lyric
ENG 334 The Epic
ENG 337 James Joyce’s Ulysses
ENG 338 Poe, Dickinson and Frost
ENG 339 The American Tale
ENG 342 Readings in Multi-Ethnic Women’s Literature
ENG 343 After Huck Finn: Literature of Initiation
ENG 354 Forms of Memoir
ENG 356 Nabokov, Borges, Calvino
ENG 360 20th-Century Central European Fiction
ENG 372 20th-Century Latin American Literature
ENG 381 Sexuality and American Literature
ENG 389 Shakespeare’s Language
ENG 394 Story and History
ENG 399 Milton


Core Theatre Courses
ENG 178 Acting I
ENG 275 Acting II
ENG 307 Playwriting Workshop

Core Film Courses
ENG 176 Film Analysis I
ENG 229 Television Histories, Television Narratives
ENG 230 Film Analysis II
ENG 233 The Art of the Screenplay
ENG 287 Film Histories I
ENG 288 Film Histories II
ENG 289 Film Histories III
ENG 368 Film and Ideology
ENG 370 Hollywood on Hollywood
ENG 375 Science Fiction Film
ENG 376 New Waves

Literary Courses Outside the Department
AMST 100 History and Forms of American Culture
AMST 101 American I, Eye, Aye
AMST 201 American Attitudes toward Nature
ASN 210 Buddhism and Taoism through Chinese Literature
ASN 342 Chinese Cinema: Gender, Politics,
and Social Change in Contemporary China
CLAS 108 Greek Tragedy
CLAS 112 Classical Myths
CLAS 213 Ancient Comedy
FRNE 341 Boulevard Saint-Germain
RUSE 350 Survey of 19th-Century Russian Literature
RUSE 351 Other Voices in 20th-Century Russian Literature: Women Writers
WRRH 250 Talk and Text: Introduction to Discourse Analysis
WRRH 310 Power and Persuasion: Readings in Rhetoric, Ancient to Medieval
WRRH 312 Power and Persuasion: Readings in Rhetoric, Renaissance to Modern
WRRH 322 Adolescent Literature
WRRH 420 Writers Guild


Comparative Literature Courses
ENG 228 Comparative Medieval Literature
ENG 236 Post-Apocalyptic Literature
ENG 240 18th-Century Literature and Art
ENG 287 Film Histories I
ENG 288 Film Histories II
ENG 300 Literary Theory Since Plato
ENG 302 Post-Structuralist Literary Theory
ENG 304 Feminist Literary Theory
ENG 312 Psychoanalysis and Literature
ENG 322 Renaissance Imagination II
ENG 356 Nabokov, Borges, Calvino
ENG 360 20th-Century Central European Fiction
ENG 376 New Waves

Demerest Hall

Department of English
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Demarest Hall
Geneva, New York 14456

Phone: (315) 781-3347
Fax: (315) 781-3348


David Weiss, Professor of English, ext. 3644, 123D Demarest


Secretaries:

Tina Phillip and Cindy Warren
(315) 781 - 3347
(8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Fax: (315) 781-3348