A seminar in writing poetry for students who demonstrate familiarity with the basics of imagery, rhythm, and form. Students write regularly, read and criticize one another's writing, read in contemporary poetry.

A seminar in writing short stories and other fiction for students who demonstrate familiarity with the basis of scene and story. Students write regularly, read and criticize one another's writing, read in contemporary fiction. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 354 with a grade of 'B' or better.

A seminar in writing short stories and other fiction for students who demonstrate familiarity with the basis of scene and story. Students write regularly, read and criticize one another's writing, read in contemporary fiction. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 354 with a grade of 'B' or better.

Writing in the various modes of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay. Analysis of student writing in class and in tutorial; development of critical skills. Course may be taken twice for credit and is not repeatable for grade forgiveness.

Writing in the various modes of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay. Analysis of student writing in class and in tutorial; development of critical skills. Course may be taken twice for credit and is not repeatable for grade forgiveness.

Writing in the various modes of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay. Analysis of student writing in class and in tutorial; development of critical skills. Course may be taken twice for credit and is not repeatable for grade forgiveness.

Reading and discussion of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, and reports by individuals on readings by Behn, Congreve, Goldsmith, Smollett, Walpole, Burney, Beckford, Edgeworth. Main stress on themes, social context, moral and social ideas; some discussion of form and technique.

Introduction to the Arthurian legends, in both romance and chronicle, in medieval English literature, stressing both their significance to the societies they reflect and Malory's use of the earlier romances and chronicles in his great achievement, the Morte D'Arthur.

Seminar-sized course in literary and rhetorical criticism. Organized around themes, it stresses analysis from critical and theoretical perspectives that sharpen understanding of texts, their contexts, and our reading of them. This course fulfills the Junior-Year Writing Requirement. See the English Department course description guide for various sectional sub-titles and descriptions. https://www.umass.edu/english/undergraduate-english-courses

Seminar-sized course in literary and rhetorical criticism. Organized around themes, it stresses analysis from critical and theoretical perspectives that sharpen understanding of texts, their contexts, and our reading of them. This course fulfills the Junior-Year Writing Requirement. See the English Department course description guide for various sectional sub-titles and descriptions. https://www.umass.edu/english/undergraduate-english-courses