English Current Courses

Every English major at Grinnell receives a thorough grounding in the tools of literary analysis, studies the literary traditions of a variety of ages and places, and completes ambitious research projects. The department offers students a range of choices as they pursue those ends; the flexible curriculum allows students to read American, British, Irish, and postcolonial literatures from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. We represent the relationships among our courses, requirements, and departmental goals on our English curricular map.

Within this curriculum, every English major develops his or her own questions and interests. The major begins with a 100-level course in which students develop their analytical skills by paying close attention to texts and developing an awareness of contemporary approaches to literary study. The 200 level includes courses that introduce students to the practices of creative and argumentative writing; the traditions of American, African-American, ethnic American, British, Irish, and postcolonial literatures; and the theoretical tools of historical linguistics and gender studies. Those courses provide the necessary background for the three 300-level seminars that every English major completes. Courses at the 300 level require more advanced work in literary study and creative writing; these courses train students in advanced skills of self-directed research and writing. To complement this intensive study of English as a discipline, English majors also complete at least an introductory study of a foreign language and one course that involves an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic inquiry.

The English Major and Requirements offers more information about all these courses and details of the department’s major requirements.

Spring 2024

  • ENG-120-01 Literary Analysis - C. Jacobson
  • ENG-120-02 Literary Analysis - E. Simpson
  • ENG-120-03 Literary Analysis - E. Simpson
  • ENG-120-04 Literary Analysis - S. Sanchez
  • ENG-121-01 Introduction to Shakespeare - S. Abdelkarim
  • ENG-205-01 The Craft of Fiction - S. Sanchez
  • ENG-205-02 The Craft of Fiction - P. Smith
  • ENG-206-01 The Craft of Poetry - R. Savarese
  • ENG-210-01 Studies in Genre - P. Smith
  • ENG-215-01 Reading and Writing Youth Cult - S. Jones
  • ENG-223-01 Tradition of English Literature I - S. Abdelkarim
  • ENG-224-01 Tradition of English Literature II - C. Jacobson
  • ENG-229-01 Tradition African Amer Literature - S. Andrews
  • ENG-231-01 American Literary Traditions III - 
  • ENG 240-01 Lighting the Page: Digital Methods Literature Studies - E. Simpson
  • ENG 310-01 Studies in Shakespeare - S. Abdelkarim
  • ENG-329-01 Studies in African American Literature -
  • ENG-331-01 Studies in American Prose II - R. Savarese
  • ENG-386-01 Writing Seminar: Poetry - H. Phan
  • ENG-388-01 Writing Seminar: Advanced Nonfiction Writing - R. Savarese

Fall 2023

  • ENG-120-01 Literary Analysis  - S. Andrews
  • ENG-120-02 Literary Analysis - N. Kim
  • ENG-120-03 Literary Analysis - N. Kim
  • ENG-120-04 Literary Analysis - P. Smith
  • ENG-121-01 Introduction to Shakespeare - S. Abdelkarim
  • ENG-205-01 The Craft of Fiction - S. Sanchez
  • ENG-206-01 The Craft of Poetry - R. Savarese
  • ENG-207-01 Craft of Creative Nonfiction - R. Savarese
  • ENG-223-01 Tradition of English Literature I - S. Abdelkarim
  • ENG-227-01 American Literary Traditions I - S. Andrews
  • ENG-232-01 Traditions of Ethnic American Literature - N. Kim
  • ENG-295-01 ST: Salman Rushdie’s Worlds - S. Kapila
  • ENG-295-02 ST: Anthropocene Fictions - S. Kapila
  • ENG-328-01 Studies American Poetry II - S. Andrews
  • ENG-332-01 The Victorians - C. Jacobson
  • ENG-385-01 Writing Seminar: Fiction - S. Sanchez
  • ENG-395-01 ST History and Future of the Book - E. Simpson

 

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