An intermediate-level workshop in which writers develop their skills through intensive reading, writing, revising, and critique. Emphasis on narrative writing, broadly defined to include a variety of genres, depending on the interests of the current holder of the Lakes writing residency. Every day we receive information from words and pictures working in tandem: on road signs, storefronts, Facebook and Instagram, on cereal boxes and in films.

19th-century revivals and transformations of medieval literature, arts and social institutions; the remaking of the Middle Ages in the image of Victorian desires and aspirations. Arthurian legend in medieval and 19th-century England, the Gothic revival in British art and architecture, the cult of Chaucer, controversies over women's education, and the idealization of medieval communities in Victorian social theory.

This course has two central ambitions. First, it introduces themes of magic and witchcraft in (mostly) American literature and film. We work together to figure out how the figure of the witch functions in stories, novels and movies, what witches and witchcraft mean or how they participate in the texts' ways of making meaning. At the same time, we try to figure out how witches and witchcraft function as loci or displacements of social anxiety-about power, science, gender, class, race and politics.

Concentration on selected poems of the major Romantics (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats) as well as their lesser-known contemporaries, with prose writings by the poets themselves and by Austen and Wollstonecraft.

A study of detective fiction in English, starting with gothic mysteries in the late 18th century and the investigatory puzzles of Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s. Exploration of how the mystery genre's newly formed conventions reflect issues of class, gender, race and social change, and how in the 20th century those conventions were reinvented, stylized, parodied and transformed-including its extension into the medium of film. Writers discussed include Poe, Wilkie Collins, A. Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, E.C. Bentley, Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie.

Lectures, with occasional discussion, on the English novel from Conrad to the present day. The historical contexts and the formal devices (management of narrative and plot, stylistic and structural innovations, characterization, literary allusiveness) of works by such writers as Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, F.M. Ford, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Doris Lessing, Shirley Hazzard, V.S. Naipaul.

A study of the English literary tradition from the 19th century to modern times.

A study of the English literary tradition from the Middle Ages through the 18th century. Recommended for sophomores. Enrollment limited to 20 per section.

This two-semester course leverages students' previous coursework to address an engineering design problem. Students work on a design project sponsored by an individual member of the engineering faculty. Regular design meetings, progress reports, interim and final reports, and presentations are required. Prerequisites: EGR 220, 270, 290 and at least one 300-level engineering course, plus a clear demonstration of intent and a faculty sponsor. Corequisite EGR 410D.

Modeling and simulation are key elements of analysis and design of engineered systems. One of the major goals for this course is development of an understanding of the art and science of creating models and exercising those models in simulations, to include an appreciation for the associated inaccuracies and uncertainties. The finite element method has arguably become the most prevalent method for predicting the behavior of systems in most engineering disciplines.