For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENG5256 | Seminar in Interaction English Literature: Literature of Disaster and Healing | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This seminar will provide students with plenty of opportunity to discuss and present their projects/interest and share their writing based on their independent research on literature of disaster and healing they choose. This course will be student-centered and student-led. It is designed to develop students’ skills in literary analysis, discussion, presentation, and critical writing as well as strategies for dealing with selected topics and materials. | |||||||||
| ENG5257 | Topics in Biomedical Humanities: Literature and Disease | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course aims to bring literature and medicine into cross-disciplinary dialogue by examining representations of disease and body in literature, film, and medical texts. Thematic areas to be examined include the medical discourses of disease in the 19th and 20th centuries; illness as metaphor and as reality; and the significance of the body in the age of biopolitics. | |||||||||
| ENG5258 | Publication Workshop | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| In this workshop, students will write or rework a paper for publication. This course will be student-centered and student-led. It is designed to help students identify an appropriate journal and revise their writing for a successful submission. | |||||||||
| ENG5259 | Research Methods in English Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| In this course, students will learn about basic knowledge and skills needed to write an academic paper about English literature. | |||||||||
| ENG5260 | Seminar in Environmental Humanities: Animals, Anthropocentrism, and Early English Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course will focus on interaction between humans and nonhumans in medieval and Renaissance poems. We will study how early English literature imagines humanity in ways that both differ from and prefigure modern forms of anthropocentrism. We will begin by reading anonymous medieval texts such as Beowulf, “The Seafarer,” and “The Owl and the Nightingale.” We will go on to study excerpts from Marie de France’s Fables, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. | |||||||||
| ENG5261 | Topics in Environmental Humanities: Climate Change and Food | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| ENG5262 | Research Paper Workshop: English Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | English | Yes | ||
| This course is designed to help nonnative graduate students majoring English literature improve their ability to write for academic purposes in English. It covers topics essential to improve academic writing, from finding a topic for a research paper and avoiding plagiarism to constructing a research proposal and a research paper, producing abstracts and steps for publishing in journals. Possible assignments include analyzing published research papers from their own chosen fields and constructing their own research proposal and research paper. | |||||||||
| ENG5263 | Seminar Discussion Groups: English Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| A selected group study, with emphasis on individual writing and presentation, cross-disciplinary reading and discussion and/or development of collaborative research project. | |||||||||
| ENG5264 | Topics in Biomedical Humanities: Biopolitics and Immunity | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Recently scholars have increasingly grappled with the notion of biopolitics—its definition, its birth, its processes, and its significance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that begin with the terror of Nazi and in which the discourse of posthumanism seeks to redefine the boundaries surrounding modern philosophical and political understanding of the human. In this course, we will investigate the nature of power, sexuality, subject, and sovereignty through reading of the selected texts of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Roberto Esposito, the key texts that will allow us to become familiar with the debate about biopolitics. Interrogating the ways in which these foundational texts and others posited new perspectives through with to reinterpret traditional political and moral concepts, we will evaluate the ways they offered significant social critique. | |||||||||
| ENG5267 | Topics in Interaction English Literature: Literature and Science | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course addresses a fundamental antagonism between science and literature, which C. P. Snow famously calls “the two cultures.” Examining both literary and scientific texts, this course questions whether Snow’s claim is right and seeks to deepen our understanding of the relationship between science and literature. | |||||||||
| ENG5268 | Seminar in Interaction English Literature: Language and Awareness | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| An exploration of the possibility of poetics of awareness in the poetry of representative British and American poets. | |||||||||
| ENG5270 | Literature and History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This workshop will be student-centered and student-led. Students will research social, historical, economic, and cultural contexts represented in literary texts they choose and share and present their projects/interest and preliminary writing. This course will provide students with plenty of opportunity to discuss and present their projects and workshop their writing based on their independent research. | |||||||||
| ENG5271 | Topics in Environmental Humanities: Ecological Literature of the East and West | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course examines how the representative writers of the East and West understand and acknowledge the environmental problems that are present both locally and globally. We will focus on the cultural differences, and the problems of appropriation and ecoimperialism. | |||||||||
| ENG5272 | Seminar in Anthropocene and Mental Health | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Course description: The two primary agents in the Anthropocene effecting mental health and well-being are chemical and social. The chemicals—poisons, fertilizers, preservatives, growth hormones, pollution, anti-biotics, herbicides, pesticides, and so on—in our foods, our waters, and our lives in general are beginning to take their toll not only on our physical well-being but on our psychological well-being. Cognitive and neurological development issues (such as autism) have been rising exponentially with staggering social consequences. Social agents (trauma from media reports, stress, growing awareness of irrevocable environmental changes, and so on) and are also progressively taking their toll on mental health. Both of these agents effecting mental well-being are finding more and more representation in scientific and fictional literature. This course will look at such literature with an eye to understanding changing perceptions of mental health issues in the Anthropocene. | |||||||||
| ENG5273 | Seminar in Biomedical Humanities: Posthumanism and Human | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| AI further sparked various discourses about posthuman. Hence this course traces a different posthumanist trajectory flourishing more recently in cultural studies, animal studies, environmental studies, science studies, science fiction and various subcultures. | |||||||||