English Department - University Of Pennsylvania

Undergraduate Spring 2008 Courses
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Sector 1: Theory and Poetics - Standard Major http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/standard.php
016.301	Modern American Poetry Park TR 3-4:30
016.302	Modern Primitivism Brown MW 3:30-5
040.001	British Poetry, 1660-1914 Riebling MW 3:30-5
066.001	Literature and Law Eng TR 12-1:30
069.001	Poetry and Poetics Burnham MW 2-3:30
085.401	Medicine in Literature and Film, 1850-Present Wahlert TR 4:30-6
088.001	American Poetry in the 20th-Century Perelman MW 3:30-5
093.001	Postcolonial Literature and Theory Saint-Amour TR 10:30-12
094.402	Introduction to Literary Theory Eng TR 3-4:30
099.401	American Folk Literature Hufford TR 1:30-3
257.301	Reading Joyce Rabaté TR 12-1:30
259.401	Aestheticism and Decadence Saint-Amour TR 1:30-3
269.301	Love Sonnets A. Jones MW 3:30-5
274.301	Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar: Art Spiegelman, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Jerome Rothenberg Filreis M 2-5
281.401	African-American Modernism T. Davis TR 12-1:30
294.301	The Public Intellectual in an Era of New Media A. Levy TR 10:30-12
294.401	RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar -- This is a year long course A. Levy W 2-5
294.402	Beckett and Theory Rabaté TR 9-10:30
295.301	Cultural Studies Heffernan TR 1:30-3
390.401	The Burden of Representation Love TR 12-1:30

Sector 1: Film Analysis - Cinema Studies Track http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/film.php
092.601	Film Analysis and Methods Mazaj T 5-8 Evening Screenings R 5-8

Sector 2: Language, Literature and Culture - Standard Major http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/standard.php
081.401	Samplin’ and Signfyin’: Survey of African-American Literature Tillet MW 3:30-5
090.401	Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Bowers TR 3-4:30
093.001	Postcolonial Literature and Theory Saint-Amour TR 10:30-12
099.401	American Folk Literature Hufford TR 1:30-3
269.301	Love Sonnets A. Jones MW 3:30-5
270.401	Topics in Latina/o Literature: The Latina/o Body in American Literary and Cultural Memory Lima T 1:30-4:30
272.401	Asian-American Literature of War Park TR 10:30-12
281.401	African-American Modernism T. Davis TR 12-1:30
282.401	Rebelling Against Stereotypes: Native American Film Powell TR 12-1:30
284.401	Intimacy and Distance: Faulkner, Hurston, Welty, and Wright Beavers TR 10:30-12
290.401	Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Home and Hearts Auerbach TR 12-1:30
295.301	Cultural Studies Heffernan TR 1:30-3
341.301	Slavery and Abolition in the Eighteenth Century Yang TR 9-10:30

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 - Standard Major http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/standard.php
025.001	Age of Chaucer Wallace MW 2-3:30
034.401	Cultures of the Book Stallybrass, Comberg T 1:30-4:30
057.001	Colonial and Pre-Colonial America: The Origins of American Literature Powell TR 9-10:30
087.401	THEATRE, HISTORY, CULTURE I: Classical Athens to Elizabethan London Schlatter TR 1:30-3
218.301	Beowulf E. Steiner MW 2-3:30
231.301	Shakespeare's Poems & Plays de Grazia TR 9-10:30
231.601	The Demon Other and Other Demons Riebling R 5:30-8:30
238.301	Milton: English Poetry and Selected Prose Curran TR 10:30-12
269.301	Love Sonnets A. Jones MW 3:30-5
326.301	Introduction to Shakespeare Rackin MW 2-3:30
366.301	Law, Religion, and Literature in Renaissance England Sanchez TR 3-4:30

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1640-1832) - Standard Major http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/standard.php
034.401	Cultures of the Book Stallybrass, Comberg T 1:30-4:30
040.001	British Poetry, 1660-1914 Riebling MW 3:30-5
046.001	Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama: Aphra Behn to Elizabeth Inchbald Kaul MW 2-3:30
050.001	The Romantic Period J. Richman TR 4:30-6
057.001	Colonial and Pre-Colonial America: The Origins of American Literature Powell TR 9-10:30
090.401	Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Bowers TR 3-4:30
241.301	The Pamela Craze: A Research Seminar Bowers TR 12-1:30
286.301	Enlightenment and its Discontents Howell TR 9-10:30
341.301	Slavery and Abolition in the Eighteenth Century Yang TR 9-10:30

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature - Standard Major http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/standard.php
040.001	British Poetry, 1660-1914 Riebling MW 3:30-5
050.001	The Romantic Period J. Richman TR 4:30-6
053.601	Our Dark Materials: Nineteenth Century American Gothic Fiction Burnham W 6-9
081.401	Samplin’ and Signfyin’: Survey of African-American Literature Tillet MW 3:30-5
085.401	Medicine in Literature and Film, 1850-Present Wahlert TR 4:30-6
089.001	American Fiction: Americans Abroad J. Edwards MWF 11-12
255.301	Empire and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Srebro M 3:30-6:30
259.401	Aestheticism and Decadence Saint-Amour TR 1:30-3
290.401	Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Home and Hearts Auerbach TR 12-1:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature - Standard Major http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/standard.php
016.301	Modern American Poetry Park TR 3-4:30
016.302	Modern Primitivism Brown MW 3:30-5
059.401	Modernisms and Modernities Heffernan TR 9-10:30
066.001	Literature and Law Eng TR 12-1:30
074.001	Contemporary British Fiction Harzewski TR 9-10:30
081.401	Samplin’ and Signfyin’: Survey of African-American Literature Tillet MW 3:30-5
085.401	Medicine in Literature and Film, 1850-Present Wahlert TR 4:30-6
088.001	American Poetry in the 20th-Century Perelman MW 3:30-5
089.001	American Fiction: Americans Abroad J. Edwards MWF 11-12
093.001	Postcolonial Literature and Theory Saint-Amour TR 10:30-12
094.402	Introduction to Literary Theory Eng TR 3-4:30
099.401	American Folk Literature Hufford TR 1:30-3
256.601	Three American Playwrights: Williams, Albee, Shepard Fox W 4:30-7:30
257.301	Reading Joyce Rabaté TR 12-1:30
259.401	Aestheticism and Decadence Saint-Amour TR 1:30-3
260.401	Jane Austen & Company: The Novel of Manners Tradition Harzewski TR 10:30-12
263.301	Literature of the Great Depression C. Turner TR 9-10:30
270.401	Topics in Latina/o Literature: The Latina/o Body in American Literary and Cultural Memory Lima T 1:30-4:30
272.401	Asian-American Literature of War Park TR 10:30-12
281.401	African-American Modernism T. Davis TR 12-1:30
284.401	Intimacy and Distance: Faulkner, Hurston, Welty, and Wright Beavers TR 10:30-12
294.301	The Public Intellectual in an Era of New Media A. Levy TR 10:30-12
294.402	Beckett and Theory Rabaté TR 9-10:30
295.301	Cultural Studies Heffernan TR 1:30-3
390.401	The Burden of Representation Love TR 12-1:30

Pre-1700 or Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement - Standard Major http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/core.php
218.301	Beowulf E. Steiner MW 2-3:30
231.301	Shakespeare's Poems & Plays de Grazia TR 9-10:30
231.601	The Demon Other and Other Demons Riebling R 5:30-8:30
238.301	Milton: English Poetry and Selected Prose Curran TR 10:30-12
326.301	Introduction to Shakespeare Rackin MW 2-3:30
366.301	Law, Religion, and Literature in Renaissance England Sanchez TR 3-4:30

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement - Standard Major http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/core.php
241.301	The Pamela Craze: A Research Seminar Bowers TR 12-1:30
255.301	Empire and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Srebro M 3:30-6:30
259.401	Aestheticism and Decadence Saint-Amour TR 1:30-3
286.301	Enlightenment and its Discontents Howell TR 9-10:30
290.401	Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Home and Hearts Auerbach TR 12-1:30
341.301	Slavery and Abolition in the Eighteenth Century Yang TR 9-10:30

Elective Seminar - Standard Major http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/core.php
010.301	Creative Writing: Writing the Personal Essay, Writing Fiction Kirk T 1:30-4:30
010.302	Creating Possibilities in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry Devaney MW 5-6:30
010.601	Creative Writing Mossin W 5:30-8:30
111.301	Experimental Writing Bernstein W 2-5
111.302	Poetry and Poetics Morris T 1:30-4:30
112.301	Fiction Writing Workshop Rile M 2-5
112.302	Fiction Writing Workshop McKinney-Whetstone R 1:30-4:30
114.401	Playwriting Graham M 2-5
115.301	Advanced Fiction Writing M. Apple T 1:30-4:30
115.601	Advanced Fiction Writing Watterson R 5:30-8:30
116.401	Screenwriting DeMarco Van Cleve T 1:30-4:30
116.601	Screenwriting Workshop Lapadula M 5-8
118.301	Advanced Poetry Workshop Djanikian T 1:30-4:30
121.301	Writing for Children Van Doren R 1:30-4:30
130.401	Advanced Screenwriting DeMarco Van Cleve W 2-5
130.402	Advanced Screenwriting Rosenthal R 3-6
135.301	Creative Non-Fiction Writing Cary R 1:30-4:30
135.302	Creative Non-Fiction Writing: Writing Your Travels Kant W 2-5
135.303	Creative Non-Fiction Writing Rile TR 12-1:30
145.301	Advanced Non-Fiction Writing Hendrickson T 1:30-4:30
145.302	Advanced Non-Fiction Writing Eisenberg F 2-5
145.401	Writing in Concert Cary T 1:30-4:30
155.301	Documentary Writing Hendrickson M 2-5
161.301	The Art of the Profile Polman M 2-5
162.301	The 2008 Presidential Primaries Polman W 2-5
165.301	Writing through Culture and Art Goldsmith R 1:30-4:30
218.301	Beowulf E. Steiner MW 2-3:30
231.301	Shakespeare's Poems & Plays de Grazia TR 9-10:30
231.601	The Demon Other and Other Demons Riebling R 5:30-8:30
238.301	Milton: English Poetry and Selected Prose Curran TR 10:30-12
241.301	The Pamela Craze: A Research Seminar Bowers TR 12-1:30
255.301	Empire and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Srebro M 3:30-6:30
256.601	Three American Playwrights: Williams, Albee, Shepard Fox W 4:30-7:30
257.301	Reading Joyce Rabaté TR 12-1:30
260.401	Jane Austen & Company: The Novel of Manners Tradition Harzewski TR 10:30-12
263.301	Literature of the Great Depression C. Turner TR 9-10:30
269.301	Love Sonnets A. Jones MW 3:30-5
270.401	Topics in Latina/o Literature: The Latina/o Body in American Literary and Cultural Memory Lima T 1:30-4:30
272.401	Asian-American Literature of War Park TR 10:30-12
274.301	Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar: Art Spiegelman, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Jerome Rothenberg Filreis M 2-5
281.401	African-American Modernism T. Davis TR 12-1:30
282.401	Rebelling Against Stereotypes: Native American Film Powell TR 12-1:30
284.401	Intimacy and Distance: Faulkner, Hurston, Welty, and Wright Beavers TR 10:30-12
286.301	Enlightenment and its Discontents Howell TR 9-10:30
290.401	Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Home and Hearts Auerbach TR 12-1:30
291.401	Cinema, Realism, and Social Justice: the Social Problem Film Genre and Cinematic Politics Scott W 2-5
291.601	Germ-USA Hollywood Era C. McGrath TR 6:30-8 Evening Screenings W 6-9 Cancelled
292.401	Cinema of the Balkans Mazaj TR 9-10:30
294.301	The Public Intellectual in an Era of New Media A. Levy TR 10:30-12
294.401	RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar -- This is a year long course A. Levy W 2-5
294.402	Beckett and Theory Rabaté TR 9-10:30
295.301	Cultural Studies Heffernan TR 1:30-3
295.401	Television in the 1950s Boddy TR 1:30-3
323.401	Dante's Divine Comedy Brownlee TR 10:30-12
392.401	Cinema and Photography Beckman R 1:30-4:30
415.640	Writing Linked Short Stories Zoffness T 5:30-8:10
435.640	Writing and Remembering: A Memoir Workshop Watterson T 5:30-8:10

Required Creative Writing Seminar - Creative Writing Track
010.301	Creative Writing: Writing the Personal Essay, Writing Fiction Kirk T 1:30-4:30
010.302	Creating Possibilities in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry Devaney MW 5-6:30
010.601	Creative Writing Mossin W 5:30-8:30
111.301	Experimental Writing Bernstein W 2-5
111.302	Poetry and Poetics Morris T 1:30-4:30
112.301	Fiction Writing Workshop Rile M 2-5
112.302	Fiction Writing Workshop McKinney-Whetstone R 1:30-4:30
114.401	Playwriting Graham M 2-5
115.301	Advanced Fiction Writing M. Apple T 1:30-4:30
115.601	Advanced Fiction Writing Watterson R 5:30-8:30
116.601	Screenwriting Workshop Lapadula M 5-8
118.301	Advanced Poetry Workshop Djanikian T 1:30-4:30
121.301	Writing for Children Van Doren R 1:30-4:30
130.401	Advanced Screenwriting DeMarco Van Cleve W 2-5
135.301	Creative Non-Fiction Writing Cary R 1:30-4:30
135.302	Creative Non-Fiction Writing: Writing Your Travels Kant W 2-5
135.303	Creative Non-Fiction Writing Rile TR 12-1:30
145.301	Advanced Non-Fiction Writing Hendrickson T 1:30-4:30
145.302	Advanced Non-Fiction Writing Eisenberg F 2-5
145.401	Writing in Concert Cary T 1:30-4:30
155.301	Documentary Writing Hendrickson M 2-5
161.301	The Art of the Profile Polman M 2-5
162.301	The 2008 Presidential Primaries Polman W 2-5
165.301	Writing through Culture and Art Goldsmith R 1:30-4:30
415.640	Writing Linked Short Stories Zoffness T 5:30-8:10
435.640	Writing and Remembering: A Memoir Workshop Watterson T 5:30-8:10

Free Elective - Standard Major http://www.english.upenn.edu/Undergrad/core.php
078.401	Television Studies Boddy TR 10:30-12
091.401	Film History Decherney TR 3-4:30 Screenings M 4:30-6:30
092.601	Film Analysis and Methods Mazaj T 5-8 Evening Screenings R 5-8