English

Description for ENGL611:
This course develops a theory and practice for the teaching of literature, applicable to both secondary and post-secondary education. The class reads, discusses, and analyzes sample presentations on literary texts in a variety of genres. The course serves teachers, prospective teachers, and non-teachers who seek an introduction to literature from pedagogical points of view.

Prerequisite: Graduate students in ENGL only. Requires permission of department. For more information, please contact department (617.287.6700).

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for ENGL613:
This course explores the potential uses of technology in the teaching of classes in English Studies. It situates this work within disciplinary pedagogical theory as it relates to the traditional areas of English Studiescomposition, literature, and language.

Prerequisite: Requires permission of department. For more information, please contact department (617.287.6700).

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Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for ENGL660:
This course explores a variety of ethnic literatures written by US writers in the 20th century, within their sociocultural contexts. Students study texts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: historical, literary, sociological, and cultural. Some of the writers likely to be included are Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston, M Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston and Frank Chin, Richard Rodriguez and Sandra Cisneros.

Prerequisite: Graduate students in ENGL only.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for ENGL697:
"English 697: Literary Sites and Spaces" engages students in literary "field work," encouraging experiential learning at libraries, museums, archives, and writers’ homes and communities. The course creates opportunities for students to explore what happens when a literary text is connected to a literary site. The act of situating literary texts within different spaces of literary inspiration, production, and preservation can have a profound impact on how those texts are understood. The Boston area offers an unparalleled opportunity to connect literature to spaces of writing, reading, and collecting; our field trips will include walking tours of Boston, Cambridge, and Salem and include sites such as the JFK Library, the Mass State Archives, the Boston Public Library, the Longfellow Historic Site, the House of the Seven Gables, and the Salem Witch museum (a trip to Concord sites might also be arranged). Each unit of the course will feature on-site learning in a literary space, with field trips, workshops, and assignments designed to give students unique insights into the interpretive possibilities created by field-based research. By working outside of the classroom, students will place literature in new social and historical contexts, while also testing the latest theoretical understandings of literary history, literary and cultural geography, cultures of the book, and the history of the book.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335

Description for ENGL697:
"English 697: Literary Sites and Spaces" engages students in literary "field work," encouraging experiential learning at libraries, museums, archives, and writers’ homes and communities. The course creates opportunities for students to explore what happens when a literary text is connected to a literary site. The act of situating literary texts within different spaces of literary inspiration, production, and preservation can have a profound impact on how those texts are understood. The Boston area offers an unparalleled opportunity to connect literature to spaces of writing, reading, and collecting; our field trips will include walking tours of Boston, Cambridge, and Salem and include sites such as the JFK Library, the Mass State Archives, the Boston Public Library, the Longfellow Historic Site, the House of the Seven Gables, and the Salem Witch museum (a trip to Concord sites might also be arranged). Each unit of the course will feature on-site learning in a literary space, with field trips, workshops, and assignments designed to give students unique insights into the interpretive possibilities created by field-based research. By working outside of the classroom, students will place literature in new social and historical contexts, while also testing the latest theoretical understandings of literary history, literary and cultural geography, cultures of the book, and the history of the book.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $1335