English Courses 101

To celebrate "Back to School" time, I wanted to offer a fresh pickin' of nifty English department courses being offered by various colleges and universities for the upcoming semesters. Lots of them sound so interesting I wish I could become a full-time student again!

• Literature and Film for Adolescents (California State University, Sacramento)

• Victorian Prose and Poetry: 1830-1895 (College of New Jersey)

• Techniques of Popularization (University of Baltimore)

• Uses of Autobiography in the Creation of the Short Story and Novel (University of Miami)

• Irving to Melville (Temple University)

• The Gothic: A Genre, Its Theory and History (University of New South Wales--Australia)

• Publication Arts (Northeastern University)

• Sensibility and the Self in Eighteenth-Century British Literature (Dartmouth College)

• The Southwest in Film (Southwest Texas State University)

• Nineteenth-century Women's Ghost Stories (University of Glasgow)

• Gender and South African Writing (University of Chicago)

• Generative Syntax (College of William & Mary)

• American [Writer]s in Paris in the 1920s (Georgetown University)

• English Dialects (University of Iceland)

• Jewish-American Fiction (University of Colorado at Boulder)

• Family Sagas and the Literature of Medieval Scandinavia (Harvard University)

• Western and Detective Film (University of Wyoming)

• Major Texts of the Environmental Movement (University of Nevada, Reno)

What interesting courses did you take from the English department of your school? Do you know of any interesting English courses currently being offered by schools? Post now in a discussion on this article!

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