- Department of English - Georgetown College

Level I electives serve as the primary means of immersion into various fields of study in English. No prior knowledge of the field is expected. The majority of these courses count toward the HUMW II requirement.

ENGL-108 Chaucer

Professor J. Hirsh

ENGL-111 Medieval and Renaissance Drama

Professor M. Collins

ENGL-121 Early Modern Drama

Professor L. Orlin

ENGL-124-01 Shakespeare

Professor M. Collins

ENGL-127 Jacobean Drama

Professor M. Yiu

ENGL-154 19th Century British Poetry

Professor P. O'Malley

ENGL-155-01 19th Century British Novel

Professor R. Boylan

ENGL-180 Turn-of-the-Century Fiction

Professor M. Debelius

ENGL-182 Modern & Avant Garde Poetry

Professor M. McMorris

ENGL-189 Modernist Women Writers

Professor K. Shaup

ENGL-190 Literature in the Time of Empire

Professor M. McMorris

ENGL-198-01 Contemporary India: Film & Lit

TBD

ENGL-207 American Expatriate Writers

Professor W. Knoll

ENGL-213 Science Fiction and Fantasy

Professor C. Shinn

ENGL-215 American Women's Autobiography

Professor M. Corrigan

ENGL-216 Jewish-American Literature

Professor J. Berlinerblau

ENGL-218 Literature of the City

Professor M. Corrigan

ENGL-220 African American Literature: Beginnings-1903

Professor R. Patterson

ENGL-227 African American Poetry

Professor L. Rifkin

ENGL-241 Faulkner

Professor W. Knoll

ENGL-245-01 Introduction to Cultural Studies

Professor E. Gorman

ENGL-245-02 Introduction to Cultural Studies

Professor E. Gorman

ENGL-247 Political Documentary

Professor J. Young

ENGL-248 Problems in Postmodernism

Professor E. Tietz

ENGL-252 Post-WWII American Cinema

Professor A. Scahill

ENGL-255 History of New Media

Professor C. Benson-Allott

ENGL-261 Introduction to Queer Theory

Professor J. Brogan

ENGL-277 Utopia and Dystopia

Professor S. Schotland

ENGL-279 Comics and the Graphic Novel

Professor J. Brogan

ENGL-280 Introduction to Creative Writing

Professor D. Gewanter

ENGL-283 Introduction to Fiction Writing

Professor D. Ebenbach

ENGL-285 Introduction to Poetry Writing

Professor D. Gewanter

ENGL-287 Creative Nonfiction Workshop

Professor N. Tilden

ENGL-289 Script Writing

Professor J. Glavin

ENGL-294 Revolution & Respect: Writing for a Cause

Professor D. Williams

ENGL-296 CBL: Reading, Teaching, Social Reflection

Professor J. Hirsh

ENGL-298-01 Sursum Corda

Professor J. Hirsh

Level Two Electives (ENGL 300 - 459)

Level II electives provide a more intense understanding of a particular field of study. They assume students are proficient at close reading and are able to engage with secondary sources.

ENGL-321 Shakespeare's Exotic Romances

Professor M. Yiu

ENGL-333 18th Century Quixotism

Professor A. Hanlon

ENGL-355 The Other Victorians

Professor N. Hensley

ENGL-357 Wordsworth and Coleridge

Professor D. Wu

ENGL-365 Staging Anti-Slavery

Professor G. Cima

ENGL-376 Modern British Class Novel

Professor P. Fox

ENGL-454 Intermediate Fiction Writing: Short Story

Professor D. Ebenbach

ENGL-456 Intermediate Scriptwriting

Professor J. Glavin

ENGL-457-01 Advanced Scriptwriting

Professor J. Glavin

ENGL-458 The Writer's Perspective

Professor D. Mengestu

Senior Capstone Seminar (ENGL 460 - 499)

These small seminars (capped at 18) are open to senior English majors only. They offer substantial engagement in a particular topic and assume students’ ability to apply critical methodology.

ENGL-464 Capstone: Shakespeare

Professor M. Kaplan

ENGL-471 Capstone: 19th Century Comedy

Professor J. Pfordresher

ENGL-486 Capstone: Queer Cinema

Professor D. Luciano

ENGL-495-01 Capstone: Honors Thesis

Professor J. Fink