For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENG4025 | Literary Criticism and Theory | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English Language and Literature | - | No | |
| We will study major works of Western literary criticism and theory. Possible topics for discussion include media, mimesis, rhetoric, authorship, and close reading. We will study not only major literary critics, but philosophers who have shaped our understanding of literature. In an essay due at the end of the semester, students will have an opportunity to demonstrate their own critical and theoretical knowledge. | |||||||||
| ENG4028 | Jane Austen | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
| The course surveys the writings of Jane Austen, the most canonical of English novelists. We will read works from each period of her career, from her juvenilia to her last novels. We will also read major critical essays about Austen. Class discussion may gravitate toward the following topics: style, irony, narrative structure, imperialism, revolution, gender, and money. | |||||||||
| ENG4028 | Jane Austen | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English Language and Literature | - | No | |
| The course surveys the writings of Jane Austen, the most canonical of English novelists. We will read works from each period of her career, from her juvenilia to her last novels. We will also read major critical essays about Austen. Class discussion may gravitate toward the following topics: style, irony, narrative structure, imperialism, revolution, gender, and money. | |||||||||
| ENG4029 | Special Topics in Conversation Analysis | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
| The purpose of this course is to introduce students to theories and methods of conversation analysis. Students will learn the basic methodologies of conversation analysis (including transcription theory and practice, turn-taking, adjacency pairs, repair), and read studies on conversations within institutional contexts (i.e., medical interaction, courtroom interaction, classroom interaction, media interaction). An interest in basic human interaction and social action is required. | |||||||||
| ENG4029 | Special Topics in Conversation Analysis | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English Language and Literature | - | No | |
| The purpose of this course is to introduce students to theories and methods of conversation analysis. Students will learn the basic methodologies of conversation analysis (including transcription theory and practice, turn-taking, adjacency pairs, repair), and read studies on conversations within institutional contexts (i.e., medical interaction, courtroom interaction, classroom interaction, media interaction). An interest in basic human interaction and social action is required. | |||||||||
| ENG4031 | Seminar in Biomedical Humanities | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
| This course aims to bring humanities and medicine into cross-disciplinary dialogue by examining representations of life, body, and disease in literature, film, and medical texts. Thematic areas to be examined include, among others, the medical discourses of disease that reflect racial and gender politics, illness as metaphor and as reality, and the significance of the body in the age of biopolitics. | |||||||||
| ENG4031 | Seminar in Biomedical Humanities | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English Language and Literature | - | No | |
| This course aims to bring humanities and medicine into cross-disciplinary dialogue by examining representations of life, body, and disease in literature, film, and medical texts. Thematic areas to be examined include, among others, the medical discourses of disease that reflect racial and gender politics, illness as metaphor and as reality, and the significance of the body in the age of biopolitics. | |||||||||
| ENG4032 | English Linguistics Capstone | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
| The goal of this course is to introduce students to the basics of experimental semantics. We will cover the major components of experimental linguistic research: finding research questions, extracting testable predictions from hypotheses, designing experiments, analyzing data and interpreting the results. Students are expected to conduct a self-directed, culminating experimental project on issues dealt with in the class using R, PsychoPy, etc. We will work through concrete examples from real experiments and point to additional readings that students can use to construct their own experiments. | |||||||||
| ENG4032 | English Linguistics Capstone | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English Language and Literature | - | No | |
| The goal of this course is to introduce students to the basics of experimental semantics. We will cover the major components of experimental linguistic research: finding research questions, extracting testable predictions from hypotheses, designing experiments, analyzing data and interpreting the results. Students are expected to conduct a self-directed, culminating experimental project on issues dealt with in the class using R, PsychoPy, etc. We will work through concrete examples from real experiments and point to additional readings that students can use to construct their own experiments. | |||||||||
| ENG4033 | Climate Change and Disaster Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English | Yes | ||
| This course is interested in the representations of climate change disaster. The course will examine how literature and various media represent environmental issues such as pollution, natural disasters, and health as they are impacted by climate change. There are two novels in the course: Odds Against Tomorrow and Ministry for the Future. We will look at what different visions these two novels offer and how these visions play out in the world outside of fiction. Throughout the course, we will try to find resonances in real life, which means that we will discuss Covid-19 as a real life example of an ongoing disaster. | |||||||||
| ENG4033 | Climate Change and Disaster Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English Language and Literature | English | Yes | |
| This course is interested in the representations of climate change disaster. The course will examine how literature and various media represent environmental issues such as pollution, natural disasters, and health as they are impacted by climate change. There are two novels in the course: Odds Against Tomorrow and Ministry for the Future. We will look at what different visions these two novels offer and how these visions play out in the world outside of fiction. Throughout the course, we will try to find resonances in real life, which means that we will discuss Covid-19 as a real life example of an ongoing disaster. | |||||||||
| ENG4034 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English | Yes | ||
| In this course, you will explore some digital tools and technologies used in the humanities and study digital projects available in current humanities research. You will learn about the history of digital humanities, data-cleaning, data-visualization and mapping, website-management, and text-mining. The goal of this course is to give you a chance to expose yourself to a variety of possibilities emerging from the convergence between humans and artificial intelligence, developing before and after Generative AI. | |||||||||
| ENG4034 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English Language and Literature | English | Yes | |
| In this course, you will explore some digital tools and technologies used in the humanities and study digital projects available in current humanities research. You will learn about the history of digital humanities, data-cleaning, data-visualization and mapping, website-management, and text-mining. The goal of this course is to give you a chance to expose yourself to a variety of possibilities emerging from the convergence between humans and artificial intelligence, developing before and after Generative AI. | |||||||||
| ENG4035 | Game Theory and English Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English | Yes | ||
| In this course, students will be introduced to a variety of game theories that are fundamental to the study of games as an academic discipline. Storytelling, a core value of the humanities, is rapidly evolving in the 21st century into an interactive, reader/audience participatory narrative through the convergence of the digital content environment and the genre of games. In this course, students will read the theoretical works of scholars who form the foundation of game studies to familiarize themselves with the definition, components, types, genres, and research methodologies of digital games that lie at the intersection of technology and narrative. Students will then complete a research paper to develop a critical appreciation of games as a kind of storytelling experience that can be as powerful as novels, poetry, plays, or essays in a digitally technological society. | |||||||||
| ENG4035 | Game Theory and English Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English Language and Literature | English | Yes | |
| In this course, students will be introduced to a variety of game theories that are fundamental to the study of games as an academic discipline. Storytelling, a core value of the humanities, is rapidly evolving in the 21st century into an interactive, reader/audience participatory narrative through the convergence of the digital content environment and the genre of games. In this course, students will read the theoretical works of scholars who form the foundation of game studies to familiarize themselves with the definition, components, types, genres, and research methodologies of digital games that lie at the intersection of technology and narrative. Students will then complete a research paper to develop a critical appreciation of games as a kind of storytelling experience that can be as powerful as novels, poetry, plays, or essays in a digitally technological society. | |||||||||