Course will be flexible to allow focus on a survey of women poets, on regional writers, on North and South American poets, or on a single theme or topic. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in the Advanced Writing Tutorial required. Consent of department required. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195.

Examines a theme, symbol, or image in Western and/or non-Western literature to consider how texts reveal, respond to, and influence culture or cultural change over time. Topics will vary in specificity and may explore more than one genre, literary-historical period, or culture. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in the Advanced Writing Tutorial required.

Examines a recurrent theme, symbol, or image in British literature to consider how texts reveal, respond to, and influence change in British culture or society over time. Topics will vary in their specificity and may explore more than one genre, literary-historical period, or non-Western culture. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in Advanced Writing Tutorial required.

Examines a recurrent theme, symbol, or image in American literature to consider how texts reveal, respond to, and influence change in American culture or society over time. Topics will vary in their specificity and may explore more than one genre, literary-historical period, or non-Western culture. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need upper division credit.

Intensive study of prose and/or poetry by English and American women after 1700 including such authors as Charlotte Lenox, Clara Reeve, Fanny Burney, Anne Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Carter, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, Angela Carter, Julia Alvarez, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, Paule Marshall, Leslie Marmon Silko. Attention to gender, race, and class situated in a historical context, and brief consideration of feminist literacy theory.

Examines multiple works by a single author in World literature to consider themes, topics, and development of work over time. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in the Advanced Writing Tutorial required. Consent of department required. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. LA

Examines multiple works by a single author in British literature to consider themes, topics, and development of work over time. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in the Advanced Writing Tutorial required. Consent of department is required. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. LA

Examines multiple works by a single author in American literature to consider themes, topics, and development of work over time. This course exists as both a 200-level course for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need UD credit. Concurrent enrollment in the Advanced Writing Tutorial required. Consent of department required. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. LA

Major comedies, histories, and tragedies studied as poetry and as drama; selections from the sonnets. Concurrent enrollment in Advanced Writing Tutorial required. Consent of department required. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. LA

Students will engage with theories of rhetoric and social justice to explore what it means to do socially responsible journalism in the digital age. Building on their engagement with these theories and their understanding of journalistic practices, students will work with La Crosse area community members to produce a variety articles that address issues of social justice and the common good. Students must complete 10 hours of service for one community organization. Prior journalism courses such as ENGL 213 or 218 recommended. Prerequisite: ENGL 104 or 105 or 195. SJE