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College Catalog 2009-2011 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

Economics
  

  • ECON 210 - Business Communications

    This course is intended to help students improve their own critical communication skills and explore how those skills can be best applied in business situations. Students will polish writing skills, with sessions that focus on resumes, cover letters, and everyday business communications like email. Students will learn best practices of effective presentations and will deliver several powerpoint presentations in class. The course will use the case method to review real corporate communication issues, such as crisis management, interpersonal communications challenges, negotiation simulations and the like. Prerequisite(s): ECON 113  or ECON 119  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 221 - Introduction to International Economics

    This course explores the theoretical foundations and empirical realities of international trade flows, commercial policies (tariffs, quotas, etc.) and international finance. The course emphasizes the welfare implications of international trade and commercial policies and links these to discussion of disputes over international trade agreements. The international finance portion of the course covers the foreign exchange market, balance of payments analysis and an introduction to open economy macroeconomics. Recommended for students majoring in international studies. Every year. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 225 - Comparative Economic Systems

    Cross-Listed as  
    This course examines the workings of economic systems from the perspective of the incentives facing the firm and consumer. The course provides an introduction to the economics of information and organization which is used to evaluate resource allocation under the specific institutional environment of different economic systems. Our understanding of the incentive system is then used to evaluate the overall economic system. The focus of the course is primarily on the U.S. economy, Japan and the former Soviet Union/Russia. As time permits the course may examine China, Germany and Central Europe. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 227 - Adam Smith and Karl Marx

    The objective of this course is to study the lives and the original writings of two of the most important scholars in the history of economic thought. Adam Smith, the patron saint of laissez-faire capitalism, was the founding father of modern economics, as well as the intellectual predecessor of Marx. Marx’s historical and political vision embraced an equally large panorama. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 231 - Environmental Economics and Policy

    This course analyzes the economics of public policy toward the environment. It examines the problem of market failure in the presence of externalities and public goods, and considers policy responses to these market failures, including command-and-control regulations, tax and subsidy incentives, and marketable pollution permits. These policies are examined in the context of, for example, urban air pollution, ozone depletion and global warming, water pollution, municipal and hazardous waste, threats to biodiversity, and economic development. Particular attention is paid to methods of quantifying the benefits and costs of environmental protection. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 242 - Economics of Gender

    Cross-Listed as WGSS 242 
    This course uses economic theory to explore how gender differences lead to different economic outcomes for men and women, both within families and in the marketplace. Topics include applications of economic theory to 1) aspects of family life including marriage, cohabitation, fertility, and divorce, and 2) the interactions of men and women in firms and in markets. The course will combine theory, empirical work, and analysis of economic policies that affect men and women differently. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 252 - Economics of Not-For-Profit

    This course focuses on the economics of not-for-profit institutions. The course will deal with both underlying theoretical concepts and their applicability to Macalester College. Indeed, the college will provide the framework for the course. Using the tools of economic analysis acquired in the Principles course, we will examine the mission/purpose/aims of the college and how they relate to governance (the interplay between the Board of Trustees, the President and his/her staff, the various faculty/staff committees, students, and other constituencies); planning and goal setting; resource allocation (both operating and capital budgets); the interplay between human capital, financial capital, and physical capital; agency matters and incentives; and the issues that must be confronted in deciding whether to spend more from the endowment now vs later. We will also study how not-for-profits tend to self-evaluate their progress and how external evaluating methodologies (eg U.S.News) might influence all of the above. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 256 - Intro to Investment Banking

    This course will provide a one semester overview of investment banks. The role of equity capital markets, debt capital markets, research, sales and trading, and investment banking will be covered. Basic corporate finance techniques will be introduced. Current financial issues in the business world will be reviewed. Classroom work, case studies, and outside speakers will be utilized. The key objectives of this course are for students to obtain a solid understanding of the various disciplines within the investment banking field and to prepare themselves for interviews and internships. The course is well suited for students who are contemplating a career in investment banking, banking, or corporate finance. Prerequisite(s): ECON 113  and ECON 119 . (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 269 - Economics of International Migration

    Cross-Listed as LATI 269  and INTL 269 
    This course will examine the global movement of people through an economic lens. The course will study the impact that emigration has on the economy of the home country, such as brain drain and population change, the historic role that migration has played in economic development, and finally the effect that immigration has on immigrant-receiving countries. The various economic issues in the current immigration debate in the United States will be analyzed including the economic assimilation of immigrants, and the impact of immigration on native born workers. Every other spring. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 292 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (2 Credits)
  

  • ECON 294 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 323 - Economic Restructuring in Latin America

    Cross-Listed as INTL 323  and LATI 323 
    This course uses economic principles to examine the transition from Import Substitution Industrialization to trade liberalization in Latin America. The goal of the course is to understand the economic antecedents to free trade as well as the resulting impact on workers and resource allocation. The course also addresses peripheral aspects of economic restructuring, such as the drug trade, migration, and the maquiladora industry. Prerequisite(s): 200-level ECON course, ECON 221  preferred (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 325 - China, Russia and Central Europe in Transition

    This course surveys the theoretic and empirical literature on Soviet-style central planning and the transition to a market economy. The economic history of central planning is examined with emphasis on the experience of the Soviet Union and its variants in Eastern Europe and China. The tool of analysis is the branch of economics known as the economics of organization and information, which will be used to analyze the operation, strengths, and limitations of central planning. The legacy of central planning forms the backdrop for an examination of the transition to a market economy. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s):   and a 200-level ECON course; ECON 221  or ECON 225  are recommended (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 333 - Economics of Global Food Problems

    Cross-Listed as ENVI 333  and INTL 333 
    This course will examine food distribution, production, policy, and hunger issues from an economics perspective. It explores and compares food and agriculture issues in both industrialized and developing countries. Basic economic tools will be applied to provide an analytical understanding of these issues. Topics such as hunger and nutrition, US farm policy, food distribution, food security, food aid, biotechnology and the Green Revolution, the connection between food production and health outcomes, as well as other related themes will be explored in depth throughout the semester. Offered every other spring semester. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119   and 200-level ECON course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 342 - Economics of Poverty in US

    This course focuses on the economic aspects of poverty and inequality in the United States. The course utilizes economic theory and empirical research to analyze the determinants of, and potential strategies to overcome poverty and inequality. Topics include measurement and trends of poverty and inequality, labor markets, education, discrimination, residential segregation, and immigration. The course also investigates the role of public policy in fighting poverty and inequality. There is a required service learning component in this course. Offered every year. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119  and 200-level ECON course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 353 - Managerial Accounting

    Planning is the key to business success. How do firms plan for the future? Setting objectives and budgets. Evaluating and rewarding employee performance. Controlling inventory, cash budgeting, and capital budgeting. Extensive use of case studies and group work. Prerequisite(s): ECON 113  or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 356 - Capital Markets

    The structure, operation, regulation and economic role of financial markets and institutions; fundamental security analysis and present-value techniques; forecasts of earnings and analysis of yields on stocks and bonds; the portfolio theory and characteristic lines, betas and mutual-fund ratings; futures and options markets. Prerequisite(s): ECON 113  and ECON 119  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 358 - Introduction to Securities Analysis

    This course will primarily focus on equity securities analysis (stocks) from the perspective of institutional (Wall Stree) investors. Topics will include industry analysis and forecasting, financial statement analysis, fundamental company analysis and valuation methods. Students will form industry groups and will each research a company in that industry. Students will build complete historical and projected financial statement models in Excel. The end product of the course will be a company report written by each student. Prerequisite(s): ECON 113  and ECON 256 , or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 361 - Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis

    Methodology of economic science; theory of consumer behavior; theory of the firm; market structure and price determination; factor markets and income distribution; general equilibrium analysis; market failure. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 , MATH 135  or MATH 237 , and a 200-level ECON course. Not open to first-year students except by permission of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 371 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis

    This course develops in detail theories of the determination of national income, employment and the price level. The foundations and mechanics of neo-classical and Keynesian models of the aggregate economy are studied and modern syntheses of these approaches are explored. Considerable attention will be paid to current behavior of the national economy. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 , ECON 361  and MATH 135  or MATH 237 , or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 381 - Introduction to Econometrics

    This course investigates the methods economists use to test theories and conduct economic forecasts. This course will provide the student with the ability to design, conduct, and evaluate empirical work in economics and other social sciences. The primary focus of the course is on the final project that consists of a research paper that will integrate library research, economic theory, and econometric analysis. The course will take a “hands on” approach as much as possible with weekly use of the microcomputer in class. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 , any Economics course in the 200s, MATH 135  or MATH 237  and MATH 153  or MATH 155 . (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 394 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 422 - International Macroeconomics and Finance

    This is a course in open economy macroeconomics and international finance. Special emphasis is placed on the causes and consequences of the international financial system’s evolution. The four major international monetary regimes of the twentieth century, the classical gold standard, the interwar gold-exchange standard, the Bretton Woods System, and the floating-rate dollar standard, are explored in chronological order as well as attempts at monetary union in Europe. Topics examined include: 1) exchange rate determination, 2) balance of payments, 3) macroeconomic adjustment, and 4) international monetary institutions. Case studies are used extensively. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361  and ECON 371  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 424 - Effects of International Competition

    This course provides an in-depth look at current issues in international trade. The course begins with a more rigorous examination of both classical and “new” trade theories. Then, we explore empirical tests of trade theories, models of outsourcing and production fragmentation, and the literature relating trade and the environment. We also examine the debates over the effect of trade on wages, multilateral versus bilateral trade negotiations, and the relationship between trade and growth. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361 , ECON 371 , and ECON 381  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 426 - International Economic Development

    This course will apply the tools of economic analysis to gain an understanding of economic development problems and their solutions. Patterns of economic development in an historical and dynamic context will be examined. The central role of agriculture and the problem of technological change in agriculture will also be examined. Other topics will include neo-classical growth models, domestic and international economic policies, international trade, foreign aid, external debt, technology transfer, rural-urban migration and income distribution. Every year. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361 , ECON 371 , and ECON 381  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 431 - Public Finance

    This course examines government taxation and expenditures. It relies on theoretical and empirical research to explore how government affects the allocation of resources and the distribution of income. The first portion of the course considers taxation in the presence of externalities and public goods and analyzes the effect of social security, unemployment insurance, and social welfare programs on labor supply, savings, and government revenue. The second portion focuses on models to estimate the distributional burdens of taxation, theories of optimal commodity and income taxation, and incentives for investment by firms. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361 , ECON 371 , and ECON 381  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 442 - Labor Economics

    This course uses theoretical and empirical research to examine the economics of work from both the point of view of the firm and the worker. Economic tools will be used to analyze some of the important issues relevant to labor economics, such as labor force participation, the division of labor within the household, occupational choice, investments in education, minimum wage legislation, wage elasticities, employment-hours tradeoff, labor market discrimination, unions, and job search. Offered every year. Prerequisite(s):   ECON 361 , ECON 371 , and ECON 381 . (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 444 - Honors Seminar

    An honors seminar to enhance the senior capstone requirement. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 457 - Finance

    This course concentrates on developing and applying economic principles to the decision making process of the firm. Typically the course is taught from the viewpoint of the financial manager of a firm (profit or non-profit). Traditional corporate finance topics will be covered, including: cash flow management, sources of capital, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and financial structure. Recent theoretical developments in the capital asset pricing model and portfolio theory also will be examined. Actual case studies of financial decision making often are included in the course. Prerequisite(s): ECON 113 , ECON 361  and ECON 381 . (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 461 - Selected Topics in Microeconomic

    This course will extend the subject matter of Intermediate Microeconomics, considering both theory and selected applications in four broad areas: (1) Extensions of the theory of choice to considerations of risk and uncertainty, the expected utility hypothesis, and the economics of information; (2) Extensions of the competitive market model to examine the supply of exhaustible resources, airline regulation and deregulation, and rent controls; (3) Extensions of simple, undifferentiated oligopoly theory to examine product differentiation, game theory, and contestable markets; and (4) Extensions of the theory of factor markets to study discrimination in the labor market, the negative income tax, and the incidence of the social security payroll tax. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361 , ECON 371  and ECON 381 , and Senior standing or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 481 - Advanced Econometrics

    This course will introduce advanced topics in applied econometrics. Among other topics, it will examine limited dependent variable models, vector autoregression and advanced time series techniques, simultaneous equations models and the econometrics of panel data estimation. Although the emphasis will be on applied work, the course will also examine the underlying mathematical structure of these estimation methods. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361 , ECON 371 , ECON 381  and MATH 135  or MATH 137  and MATH 236 , or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 485 - Empirical Finance

    This class concentrates on applying econometric techniques and computer programming to empirically test major financial theories. The econometric techniques used in the clss include but is not restricted to OLS, GLS, GMM, Maximum Likelihood method, Nonparametric method, panel data models (random effect model, fixed effect model, pooled regression, etc.), time series models (VAR, ARMA, ARMAX, GARCH, etc.). Main programming language used in the class is Matlab, while R and STATA may also be used occasionally. Major finance topics tested in the class include market efficiency, portfolio theory, stock selection models, market microstructure, anomalies in the financial markets, calendar effects, etc. Offered every other year. Prerequisite(s): ECON 356  and ECON 381 , MATH 135  (or MATH 137 ) and MATH 236 , and COMP 121  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 490 - Behavioral Economics

    This course surveys recent developments in behavioral economics and considers applications in labor economics, macroeconomics, finance, public finance, consumer choice, and other areas. Our goal is to draw on recent work in cognitive and evolutionary psychology to better understand human behavior and incorporate these insights into neoclassical reasoning and modeling. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361  and ECON 371  (4 Credits)
  

  • ECON 494 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)

Educational Studies
  

  • EDUC 194 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 220 - Educational Psychology

    An introduction to theory and research in educational psychology. Topics include learning theory, learner characteristics, intelligence, creativity, motivation, measurement and evaluation, and models of teaching appropriate for diverse learners from early childhood through young adulthood. Students are required to complete observations in classroom settings. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 230 - Community Youth Development in Multicultural America

    Brofenbrenner’s bioecological model of human development suggests the critical importance of social contexts besides the classroom in supporting the healthy development of children and youth from diverse social and economic backgrounds. This course examines the multiple systems affecting the developmental process through course readings, meetings, and assignments, grounded in a field placement of the student’s choosing. Appropriate field placements will engage students in a variety of youth development capacities, including centers for research and program development, social service organizations, and agencies aimed at improving youth-oriented social policy. This course provides an opportunity to examine education more broadly defined, and to explore fields of youth development such as social work, counseling, athletics, youth leadership, and youth-centered research. Every spring. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 260 - Philosophy of Education

    What is the nature and purpose of education? In what ways should educational institutions support, challenge, or transform predominant social values? What is ethical educational policy and practice? Such questions are considered in light of a variety of philosophic perspectives. Students will define a personal philosophy of education and assess its implications for current educational theory and practice, in addition to their own educational development. Spring semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 280 - Re-envisioning Education and Democracy

    Cross-Listed as AMST 280 , POLI 211 
    This course explores the design, implementation, and evaluation of public education policy as a primary means for engaging more active, inclusive and effective approaches to social inquiry and civic participation. Drawing from classic and contemporary theories of education and democracy, complemented by recent developments and controversies in public policy studies, students work to design innovative, principled, educationally sound and politically feasible responses to significant civic concerns. Fall semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 292 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (2 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 294 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 300 - Education/Family/Community

    This course examines a variety of topics affecting student learning. Included are the impact of family, health and economic conditions; characteristics of chemical use, abuse, and dependency; effective communication, violence prevention, and conflict resolution; legal concerns and responsibilities; the role of the teacher in crisis situations; the importance of co-curricular and extracurricular activities; and establishing productive relationships with parents/guardians, and networking with school professionals in addition to members of the business community and civic organizations to support youth development and learning. Fall semester. (2 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 310 - Education and Advocacy

    This course engages students in experiential learning within educational settings. Fieldwork opportunities include assisting in urban classrooms (kindergarten through high school), contributing to youth development activites, and furthering educational policy-related initiatives in diverse settings. Weekly seminar sessions, readings, reflective writing, and peer workshop activities complement the experiential nature of the course, making it a good fit for both students who wish to extend previously established educational work or who are eager to begin an initial relationship in a larger community. S/NC grading only. Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): one prior course in Educational Studies or permission of instructor. (2 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 320 - Educating Exceptional Students

    This course examines the special needs, challenges, interests and potentials of exceptional students. Topics include historical and legal foundations of special education; current state and federal guidelines; categories of exceptionality; impact of cultural, linguistic, economic, and family structures; evaluation, placement, appropriate accommodations, and methods of instruction and assessment for exceptional learners. Spring semester. (2 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 340 - Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in Education

    Cross-Listed as  AMST 345 
    This survey course will explore history, policy, and pedagogy as they relate to race, ethnicity, and culture as education. K-12 public education will be the primary focus with topics including desegregation, standardized testing, multi-cultural and ethnocentric pedagogy, the teacher’s role and experience, and significant historical events in education. The course will culminate by analyzing current trends and future expectations in education. Spring semester (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 360 - Education and Emerging Technologies

    This course explores ways in which instructional technologies not only support, but also shape processes of thinking, learning, teaching, experiencing and interpreting life in a digital age. Theoretical frameworks drawn from developmental psychology, cognitive science, media studies, curriculum and instructional design, and varied philosophical perspectives on education are used to assess the instructional potential of major existent (e.g. presentation, conceptual mapping, multi-media authoring, electronic portfolio, and course management applications) and emerging technologies (e.g. Wiki’s, research and knowledge construction, social networking applications). Multi-dimensional, broadly inclusive, collaborative and constructivist approaches to teaching and learning are emphasized. Spring semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 370 - Education and the Challenge of Globalization

    Cross-Listed as ENVI 370 
    The complex phenomenon of globalization affects the quality of learning and life worldwide. In the United States and abroad; across dimensions of philosophy, policy, and practice; educators, government officials, policy makers, public intellectuals, and citizens struggle with the implications of globalization for public education and civic life. The purpose of this course is to join in that struggle. We will explore interdisciplinary scholarship and policy design that integrates civic, environmental, moral, and multicultural education for the purpose of mitigating the negative consequences of cultural economic globalization. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 392 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (2 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 394 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 460 - Education and Social Change

    This course explores the question: How can we educate to promote change toward more just, compassionate, and sustainable approaches to living and learning in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world? We will consider contemporary barriers to and opportunities for systemic, progressive education reform and civic renewal on local, national and international levels. We will then work both individually and collectively, on campus and in the community, to analyze specific social issues and reform strategies in addition to conceptualizing plans for principled social action. Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): Two prior courses in Educational Studies or permission of Department Chair. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 480 - Urban Education in Theory, Policy, and Practice

    This course draws from an extensive theory and research based educational psychology, curriculum and pedagogy, educational philosophy, and policy studies grounded in the social sciences to support interdisciplinary explorations of the peril and promise of urban public education. An intensive school-based internship (6-8 hours/week) is integrated with weekly seminar sessions (2-3 hours/week) to study advanced topics in teacher preparation and policy analysis relevant to learning and life in public school settings serving students who represent diverse cultural, linguistic, and economic backgrounds, a broad range of academic interests and aptitudes, and varied forms of exceptionality. Fall semester. Prerequisite(s): Three prior courses in Educational Studies or permission of Department Chair. (4 Credits)
  

  • EDUC 494 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)

English
  

  • ENGL 101 - College Writing

    Instruction and practice for writing in college. This course does not satisfy the requirements for the English major or minor. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 105 - American Voices

    American literature contains a greater variety of voices than most other national literatures. Each section of this course explores some aspect of that wide range of voices and may include the writing of women, of minority groups, or of various sub-groups from the dominant literary culture. Consult the detailed course descriptions in the English department or on its web page for the content of individual sections. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 110 - Introduction to African American Literature

    This course provides an introduction to major authors, periods, and movements in African American literature. It will also provide an introduction to methods of literary study and analysis. It will cover a range of genres, including poetry, slave narratives, essays, short stories, novels, and plays, by authors such as Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Bakara, Toni Morrison, Essex Hemphill, and Suzan-Lori Parks. It will also cover movements such as the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. Depending upon section and instructor, this course may be primarily lecture. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 115 - Shakespeare

    This course will offer an introduction to his work through a wide-ranging survey of his major plays in all categories (history, comedy, tragedy, and romance) plus maybe some poetry. Texts and topics will vary. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 125 - Studies in Literature

    A writing-intensive course in traditional and non-traditional literatures, each section of which will have a different focus, topic, or approach; recent offerings have examined the short story, major women writers, new international writing, and the literary Gothic. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 135 - Poetry

    An introduction to the study of poetry. Topics and methods vary, but all sections emphasize techniques of close reading, critical inquiry, and engaged communication fundamental to the discipline of literary studies. Consult the detailed course description in the English department or in its web page for the content of individual courses and sections. Offered every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 136 - Drama

    An introduction to the study of drama. Topics and methods vary, but all sections emphasize techniques of close reading, critical inquiry, and engaged communication fundamental to the discipline of literary studies. Consult the detailed course description in the English department or on its web page for the content of individual courses and sections. Offered every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 137 - Novel

    An introduction to the study of the novel. Topics and methods vary, but all sections emphasize techniques of close reading, critical inquiry, and engaged communication fundamental to the discipline of literary studies. Consult the detailed course description in the English department or on its web page for the content of individual courses and sections. Offered every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 138 - Literature in Critical Perspectives

    A course designed to pair selected works of literature with major trends and topics in literary theory, likely to cover some relevant landmarks in the history of poetics, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and/or political activism. Particular texts will vary. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 150 - Introduction to Creative Writing

    The focus of this course is on the development of skills for writing poetry and short fiction through a close study of the techniques involved in these forms, analysis of model literary works, and frequent writing exercises. This course must be completed at Macalester as a PREREQUISITE for the further study of creative writing at Macalester. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 194 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 200 - Major Medieval and Renaissance British Writers

    This course surveys selections from major works of three writers foundational to the literature of the British Isles and other literatures in English: the late-medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer, the Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser, and the 17th century writer John Milton. Study of selections from The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost will highlight the formative role of these writers for later explorations of gender, the religious imagination, politics and ideas of liberty, and the historical emergence of a specifically poetic history. Offered alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 205 - Readings in Critical Method

    An engagement with the diverse set of critical reading practices now arrayed under the heading “English.” Surveys the most prominent schools of recent theory and their antecedents, covering topics such as: New Criticism, Marxism, the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, feminism, structuralism, deconstruction, queer theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory. Emphasis on the strategies of reading, interpretation, and social critique these modes of thought enable. Depending on the topic, texts may include essays by Plato, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Benjamin, Adorno, Barthes, Kristeva, Cixous, Derrida, de Man, Foucault, Jameson, Deleuze, Butler, Gilroy, Spivak, Said, Agamben, Badiou. Works of literature, film, and visual performance art also introduced. No prior exposure to theory is required or assumed, but a previous English course at Macalester is strongly recommended. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 208 - Literary Publishing

    This course approaches the dynamic field of publishing, from acquisitions of literary titles to their entrance into the marketplace, from the writer’s hands to the editor’s desk to the reader’s library. With explorations into the history of the book, new technologies, and the vibrant literary scene in the Twin Cities and beyond, this course illuminates the complex realities of how literature meets our culture. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 210 - Film Studies

    This course will focus on different topics from year to year. Possible topics include Great Directors, Russian Film, French Film, Film and Ideology, Literature and Film, and Images of Black Women in Hollywood Films. Please consult the specific course description in the English department. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 220 - Eighteenth-Century British Literature

    A study of British literature from the restoration of the British monarchy in 1660 to the revolutionary turn of the nineteenth century, emphasizing relationships between literary language and the continuing experiene of modern life. Readings will include prose fiction, drama, poetry, periodical essays, and philosophy from the period, supplemented as necessary by late-modern material. Topics may include the eighteenth-century literary history of, e.g., description and other poetic figures; free-market economics, sensibility, and other eithical systems; gender and personal identity; and modern forms of feeling. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 230 - Nineteenth-Century British Literature

    A study of literature’s dynamic interaction with historical change in the period that has been called the “Pax Britannica” (“British Peace”), but also “The Age of Revolution,” “The Age of Capital,” “The Age of Democracy,” and “The Age of Empire.” Emphais on the diversity of forms emerging alongside the novel; poetry, drama, policital writing, and print journalism. Authors may include Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys (P.B. and Mary), Godwin, Keats, Bryon, Tennyson, Arnold, Rossetti, the Brontes (Charlotte and Emily), Sinburne, Hopkins, Pater, Carlyle, Mill, and Marx. Novelists may include those listed under ENGL 331 . Articles and manifestos from Blackwood’s, The Westminster Review, The Saturday Review, and Household Words.. Particular themes vary. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 240 - Twentieth Century British Literature

    A study of works of British and Irish fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction prose from 1900 to the present. Along with novelists such as those enumerated under ENGL 341  below, this course treats selected poets such as W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, and Philip Larkin, playwrights from the Irish National Theater at the beginning of the century (Lady Gregory, Sean O’Casey, J. M. Synge) through Samuel Beckett to current dramatists such as Michael Frayn or Tom Stoppard, and non-fiction commentary from Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and others. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 242 - Anglophone Literature

    A study of literature written in English-speaking countries other than the U.S. and Great Britain, including but not limited to : Canada, Ireland, India, Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, Anglophone Africa, and the Anglophone Caribbean. Course may consider multiple literary genres (drama, poetry, prose fiction, essays), in addition to visual art, film, and critical/theoretical contexts. We’ll consider how twentieth-century independence movements, as well as particular colonial and post-colonial histories, have reframed the languages and contours of contemporary literature into more transnational and/or diasporic contexts. We’ll also examine the meanings, cultural assumptions, and limitations of the term “Anglophone” and consider what’s at stake in acts of textual and cultural translation. Potential topics include: Anglophone Literature and Violence; Afro-Caribbean Literature; Anglophone Prison Literature; Anglophone Fiction and Film. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 260 - Science Fiction: From Matrix Baby Cannibals to Brave New Worlds

    Cross-Listed as ENVI 260 
    In the past fifty years science fiction has emerged as the primary cultural form in the Anglophone literary tradition for thinking about the eco-apocalypse: overpopulation, plague, resource depletion, natural and man-made disasters. It has also emerged as the primary cultural form for imagining a sustainable human future, through technological innovation, a balanced human ecosystem, and human flourishing through utopian principles of social justice. In this course we will examine works of science fiction as complex aesthetic achievements, as philosophical inquiries into the nature of being and time, and as theoretical examinations of the challenge of human sustainability. We will engage in intensive readings of contemporary texts, including works by Philip K. Dick, Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, P. D. James, Octavia Bulter, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Charles Stross, Walter Miller, Stanislaw Lem, China Mieville, Cormac McCarthy, and Kazuo Ishiguro. A companion film series will include the Matrix trilogy and other films in the genre. Offered yearly. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 262 - Studies in Literature and the Natural World

    Cross-Listed as ENVI 262 
    A course studying the ways that literary writing develops thought and feeling about nature and our part in it. In a particular term, the course might address, for example, nature poetry from Milton to Frost; literature and the agrarian; gendered representations of nature; literary figures of relationship among humans and other kinds; nature, reason, and the passions; literatures of matter and of life; time, flux, and change in literary and science writing. Offered yearly. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 264 - Literature of the Americas

    The literature of the United States exists in a broad hemispheric context which will be the subject of this course. Specific focus will vary, but may include Caribbean literature (including francophone and hispanophone in translation), Latin American literature in a comparative U.S. context, Canadian literature, or other combinations in the writings of the Americas. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 265 - Justice

    In this course we will examine texts by, about, and for workers for social justice. Our method will be interdisciplinary. With an eye toward aesthetics, we will examine novels and plays that have at their center protagonists who have been called to realize a vision of the just society or, more desperately, to stand alone against seemingly inevitable assaults upon human dignity. We will at the same time examine philosophical and sociological accounts of political action, including works that evaluate the effectiveness of different individual and organizational strategies for social change. Central issues may include obedience and disobedience, economic justice, eco-activism, globalization, human rights, gender, race, and the question of personal vocation-that is, how do we bring together our ethical commitments and our working lives? Central figures will range from Sophocles to Naomi Klein, Zola to James Baldwin. Students will be provided extensive opportunities for service and experiential learning in local organizations committed to social justice. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 272 - Nineteenth Century American Literature

    This course examines an array of American literature written in the second half of the nineteenth century, including poetry, autobiography, essays, stories and novels. It might focus on a particular moment in the late nineteenth century, a particular group of authors, or a particular thematic concern, but it will be concerned to trace out the complicated relation between literary representation and a rapidly changing social, economic, and political landscape. Authors might include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, William Dean Howells, Edith Warton, Henry James, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 273 - American Literature 1900-1945

    America in the first half of the twentieth century seemed to be infatuated with the future-with skyscrapers and automobiles, Hollywood cinema and big business. But in an age that also saw the struggle of Progressivism, the Great Depression, and two foreign wars, many voices called attention to the dark side of success. This course will include such authors as Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Walker Evans and James Agee, Eugene O’Neill, and Dashiell Hammett. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 274 - American Literature 1945-Present

    The complacent malaise of the Cold War, the turmoil of Vietnam and the Sixties, and the postmodern fascination with computers and visual culture-all of these have had radical consequences for the American literary form. While questioning boundaries between high and low culture, image and reality, and identity and difference, recent American writers work against a pervasive sense of fragmentation to imagine new relations between community and personal desire. The course will consider authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Ralph Ellison, Walker Percy, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, Robert Stone, Thomas Pynchon, John Guare, Raymond Carver, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, Art Spiegelman, and Neal Stephenson. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 275 - African American Literature to 1900

    This course will trace the development of an African American literary tradition from the end of the eighteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century, from authors such as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano to Frances Harper and Charles Chesnutt. The course will investigate the longstanding project of writing an African American self as both a literary and a political subject, and it will consider texts from multiple genres-such as lyric poetry, protest poetry, slave narratives, spirituals, folktales, personal correspondence, essays, short stories, autobiographies, novels, transcribed oral addresses, and literary criticism and theory. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 276 - African American Literature 1900 to Present

    This course will trace the development of an African American literary and cultural tradition from the turn of the century to the present, from writers such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Pauline Hopkins to Walter Mosley and Toni Morrison. It will examine the ways that modern and contemporary African American writers and artists have explored political, social, racial, and aesthetic issues in a variety of genres-including autobiographies, poetry, novels, blues songs, photographs, short stories, plays essays, film, visual art, and literary and cultural criticism. Among the many topics the course will consider are: the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Black Arts Movement, and the current flourishing of African American arts and letters and cinema. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 278 - Literatures and Cultures of the Caribbean

    This course will focus primarily on the writing but also on the music and film of the Caribbean. It will examine the works of authors such as Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Merle Hodge, George Lamming, Edwidge Danticat, Frances Aparicio, Rosario Ferre, Mayra Santos-Febre, Ana Lydia Vega, Reynaldo Arenas, Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Maryse Conde, Lyonel Trouillot, Rene Depestre, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Aima Cesaire. It will also examine the works of musicians and performers such as Attila the Hun, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Boukman Eksperians, Manno Charlemagne, and Haitiando. The course will cover multiple musical genres - among them, calypso, ska, reggae, compa, music rasin, and troubadou. The course material may also include Caribbean films, such as The Harder They Fall, “Life and Debt, and Haiti: Killing the Dream. Finally, the course will include extensive readings in literary and postcolonial theory, situating the literature, music, and film within specific historical, political, regional, ethnic, linguistic, national, and postcolonial contexts. Theorists will be chosen from among Paul Gilroy, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Kamau Brathwaite, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Michael Dash, Paul Farmer, Mimi Sheller, Joan Dayan, Laennec Hurbon, Edouard Glissant, Francoise Lionnet, and others. The course may focus on Anglophone, Francophone, and/or Hispanophone texts and be team-taught by faculty from English, French and Francophone studies, and/or Hispanic and Latin American studies departments. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 280 - Crafts of Writing: Poetry

    This course will focus in a variety of ways on the development of skills for writing poetry, building on the work done in ENGL 120. Depending on the instructor, it may approach the creative process through, for example, writing from models (traditional and contemporary), formal exercises (using both traditional and contemporary forms), or working with the poetry sequence (or other methodology selected by the instructor: see department postings for details). It will involve extensive readings and discussion of poetry in addition to regular poetry writing assignments. The course may be conducted to some extent in workshop format; the emphasis will be on continuing to develop writing skills. Course may be taken twice for credit, so long as it is with a different instructor. Every year. Prerequisite(s):   taken at Macalester. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 281 - Crafts of Writing: Fiction

    This course will focus in a variety of ways on the development of skills for writing fiction, building on the work done in ENGL 120. Depending on the instructor, it may approach the creative process through, for example, writing from models of the short story (both classic and contemporary), working with the technical components of fiction (e.g., plot, setting, structure, characterization), or developing linked stories or longer fictions (or other methodology selected by the instructor: see department postings for details). It will involve extensive readings and discussion of fiction in addition to regular fiction writing assignments. The course may be conducted to some extent in workshop format; the emphasis will be on continuing to develop writing skills. Course may be taken twice for credit, so long as it is with a different instructor. Every year. Prerequisite(s):   taken at Macalester. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 282 - The Crafts of Writing: Creative Nonfiction

    This course will focus in a variety of ways on the development of skills for writing nonfiction, building on the work done in ENGL 120. Depending on the instructor, it may approach the creative process through, for example, translating personal experience into autobiography or memoir, or developing the essay form, the opinion piece, the journalistic report or a variety of other forms. It will involve extensive readings and discussion of nonfiction in addition to regular nonfiction writing assignments. The course may be conducted to some extent in workshop format; the emphasis will be on continuing to develop writing skills. Course may be taken twice for credit, so long as it is with a different instructor. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s):   taken at Macalester. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 283 - The Crafts of Writing: Scriptwriting

    This course will focus in a variety of ways on the development of skills for writing plays. The emphasis will be on written dialogue and dramatic action, with the aim of producing brief scripts. There will be extensive readings and discussion of published and unpublished plays in addition to regular writing assignments. The course may be conducted to some extent in workshop format; the emphasis will be on continuing to develop writing skills. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s):   taken at Macalester. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 284 - The Crafts of Writing: Screenwriting

    This course will focus in a variety of ways on the development of skills for writing screenplays, building on the work done in ENGL 120. The emphasis will be on narrative films, with the objective of writing a feature-length screenplay during the semester. There will be extensive readings and discussion of published and unpublished screenplays in addition to regular writing assignments. The course may be conducted to some extent in workshop format; the emphasis will be on continuing to develop writing skills. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s):   taken at Macalester. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 294 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 304 - Medieval Heroic Narrative

    This course studies the heroic storytelling traditions of the medieval British Isles and Scandinavia. We read poems, tales, myths, and non-fiction of these far northwestern European archipelagos, locating their traditions in migrations and conquests of tribes across Asia and Europe. The course deploys gender theory, narrative theory, and history to explore formations of masculinity and femininity, heroic ethos, gender politics in stories of magic, marvels, enchantment and disenchantment. Works may include: the Scandinavian Volsung Saga and the Saga of King Hrolf Kraki; the Irish legends Sweeney Astray and The Tain; the Welsh Mabinogion; the English Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, Old English riddles, translated excerpts from Bede and from the Iais of Marie de France, Sir Orfeo, The Wedding of Sir Gawain & Dame Ragnelle, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, excerpts from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain and from Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 305 - Falling in Love in the Middle Ages

    A focused examination of either: 1) a particular topic in the long tradition of philosophical and conceptual writing known as theory; 2) a specific methodological debate in literary studies relevant to Macalester English majors; or 3) the work of a single critic/theorist (or group of theorists) and his or her (or their) oeuvre(s). Topics might include deconstruction, Michel Foucault, formalism, Fredric Jameson, the Enlightenment, the Frankfurt School, the Black Atlantic, or global feminisms. Offered occasionally. Prerequisite(s): One 100-level ENGL course. ENGL 205  or comparable preparation recommended. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 308 - Literature and Sexuality

    Cross-Listed as WGSS 308 
    This course examines ways in which literary works have represented desire and sexuality. It looks at how constructions of sexuality have defined and classified persons; at how those definitions and classes change; and at how they affect and create literary forms and traditions. Contemporary gay and lesbian writing, and the developing field of queer theory, will always form part, but rarely all, of the course. Poets, novelists, playwrights, memoirists and filmmakers may include Shakespeare, Donne, Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, or Henry James; Wilde, Hall, Stein, Lawrence, or Woolf; Nabokov, Tennessee Williams, Frank O’Hara, Baldwin, or Philip Roth; Cukor, Hitchcock, Julien, Frears, or Kureishi; White, Rich, Kushner, Monette, Lorde, Allison, Cruse, Morris, Winterson, Hemphill, or Bidart. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 310 - Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies

    Close study of half a dozen plays of Shakespeare, with special attention to his development of resources from performance arts and poetry into a powerful form that would come to engage the likes of Bertolt Brecht and other avant-garde theatre artists. Plays will be selected by critical interests and topics, for example gender and race in Shakespeare; masculinity in the Roman plays; the problem of character; Shakespeare and mythology; Shakespeare and later women writers; intercultural Shakespeare; the tragic and the comic. Offered yearly. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 313 - Literature in the Age of Shakespeare

    Study of major works of the English Renaissance by Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, and other poets and dramatists, with special attention to the work done by categories of gender, sexuality,and class in the period’s explorations of literary and dramatic genres. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 315 - Milton

    A study of that pivotal poet in British literary history, John Milton, through Paradise Lost and his lyric and narrative verse. Topics may include Milton’s arguments on liberty, gender, justice, religious issues, and his central role for later writers, thinkers, and movements from the 18th century to the present. Offered occasionally. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 321 - Eighteenth Century British Novels

    The literary history of long prose fictions in English, from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth. Emphasis on the instability of “the novel” during this formative period in its development. Readings may include prose fictions that were not called “novels” (like Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe or Richardson’s Pamela) as well as prose fictions that were (like Haywood’s Love in Excess or Burney’s Evelina). Readings in nonfiction, particularly early-modern philosophy and late-modern criticism, assigned as needed. Topics may include the development of realist description, shifting notions of taste, manifestations of gender, modes of didacticism, and forms of character. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 325 - British Poetry Between Revolutions

    British poetry from the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660 to around the turn of the nineteenth century, emphasizing changes in modes of poetic form and figuration in the mysterious period between the English civil wars and the French revolution. Themes may include developments in the forms of lyric, the poetry of natural description, hymns and other songs, and poetic modes of ethics. Readings may include poetry by Rochester, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Prior, Watts, Finch, Thomson, Johnson, Young, Gray, Collins, Akenside, Smart, MAcpherson, Goldsmith, Cowper, Beattie, Burns, Darwin, and others; criticism and theory, from the period and later, included as needed. Offered occasionally. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 331 - Nineteenth Century British Novel

    An advanced course on aspects of novel form developed and possibly perfected in the nineteenth century. Formal achievements in realism, sensationalism, the domestic novel, the adventure romance, the detective tale, the marriage plot, and the gothic will be analyzed in light of the social and political changes they emerged to address: the rise of nationalism, the expansion of empire, the codification of gender ideology, the invention of the modern human being. Novelists may include Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, William Godwin, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Braddon, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde. Criticism introduced as appropriate. Particular themes vary. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 341 - 20th Century British Novel

    Fiction from a range of British and Irish novelists, including authors from the early part of the century such as E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Elizabeth Bowen, along with more recent writers such as Iris Murdoch, Martin Amis, Anita Brookner, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson, and Julian Barnes. Works will be considered both in their historical contexts and as examples of the evolving form of the novel itself. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 342 - Anglophone Literature

    A study of works written in English from English-speaking countries other than the U.S. and Great Britain. Countries whose literature might be examined in this course include Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, and the English speaking countries of the Caribbean. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 350 - 20th Century Poetry

    An analysis of twentieth century poetry from modernists W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Robert Frost through major midcentury poets such as Elizabeth Bishop and Langston Hughes, to contemporary writers such as Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, John Ashbery and C. D. Wright. This course will stress close analytical reading of individual poems. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
  

  • ENGL 351 - 20th Century Dramatic Literature

    Study of the development of modern drama from Ibsen to the present by reading and discussion of the major late nineteenth century and twentieth century European and American dramatists such as August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Federico Garcia Lorca, Eugene O’Neill, Samuel Beckett, Lillian Hellman, and August Wilson. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): one 100-level ENGL course. (4 Credits)
 

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