Graduate Courses
Summer 2025 Graduate Courses
EH 502 - Graduate Writing for English | McLaughlin
W 6:00 - 8:30
EH 502 is required of all M.A. students in their first year of course work. The central purpose of this course is to prepare students for research and academic writing at the graduate level, but it also aims to prepare students for direct engagement with the academic conversations, discourses, and practices that circulate around and through the study of literary texts—in this case, the filmic texts of auteurs who handle sound and vision in unique ways.
EH 505 - Teaching College Writing | Shaw
MW 2:30 - 3:45
This course examines issues in composition history, theory, and pedagogy in the context of teaching first-year composition. Students will use this knowledge to develop course material appropriate to teaching first-year composition. Topics include syllabus and assignment design, lesson planning, course management, teaching in the linguistically and culturally diverse classroom, and assessment. Pre-requisite / Co-requisite: EH 502.
EH 571- Modern British Fiction | Raczkowski
M 6:00 - 8:30
This course on the modernist British novel is curiously bookended by E.M. Forster's Howard's End (1908) on one side and Zadie Smith's On Beauty (2006) on the other. While we will focus on modernist novels that investigate the relationships between art, ethics, and politics, my cunning plan is to use Smith's postmodern rewriting of Howard's End as a means of evaluating the current status of modernist claims (like Forster's) that art and aesthetic experience can make the world new. Let's hope Forster was right...
EH 577 - The Renaissance Epic | Hillyer
R 6:00 - 8:30
We will be studying in modern English translation Torquato Tasso's Renaissance epic Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), a crusader narrative. Aside from its pleasing variety of episodes involving love and war, Tasso's narrative has a chief point of interest in that one of the most eminent warriors is a woman (Clorinda). The assigned writing will consist of a research paper developed in stages.
EH 583/4 - Grad Fiction Writing Workshop I/II | Cullity
M 6:00 - 8:30
Special individual instruction in fiction writing.
EH 585/6 - Grad Poetry Writing Workshop I/II | Staff
T 6:00 - 8:30
Special individual instruction in poetry writing.
EH 590 - Editing and Document Design | Amare
TR 11:00 - 12:15
This course combines the principles of editing with document design to prepare students for the vast world of professional publishing. Students gain applied experience editing and designing publications for the trade book industry, academic journals, and corporations and organizations in print and digital formats. Throughout the course, students learn general editing principles, editorial roles, and editorial terms as well as the theories and aesthetics of design. Students hone their skills in visual rhetoric by becoming more proficient in understanding the relationship between textual content, format, and graphics.
EH 590 - Contemporary Black Fiction | Vrana
MWF 12:20 - 1:10
This course will examine post-1965 African American novelists' representations of enslavement and other key events in distant and recent black history, with focus on how authors respond to the present by writing about race, gender, and politics in America's past. We will discuss both realistic and imaginative or speculative depictions of the past. Texts may include: Beloved (Toni Morrison), The Chaneysville Incident (David Bradley), Leaving Atlanta (Tayari Jones), The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead), and Kindred (Octavia Butler).
