English 100 is a basic writing course that provides instruction in fundamental composition skills to prepare the student for UCWR 110. The course emphasizes mastery of grammar, usage, and punctuation. Placement required.

English 102 is the first of a two-course sequence designed to improve the linguistic abilities of those for whom English is a second language. This course provides grammar and writing instruction for students who require more focused work in revising language usage and composing than English 103 can provide. Placement required.

English 103 is the second of two courses intended to improve the linguistic abilities of those for whom English is a second language. English 103 stresses the acquisition of necessary language skills in the areas of grammar and usage, comprehension and critical reading, and writing at a level appropriate to university study in an English-speaking country. Placement required.

English 210 provides training and practice in various forms of writing (such as memos, instructions, letters, resumes, proposals, and reports) relevant to students who are considering careers in business.

Studies in argument and exposition from a lawyer's perspective for students considering the study of law.

The course will survey British and American poetry, especially from the Romantic movement on, especially of lyric kinds. Class discussion will generally focus on the form and sense of individual poems, and will in general be about poetic ways of meaning, and individual poets' understandings of what poetry is and what it is to do.

This course focuses on the understanding, appreciation, and criticism of drama; extensive readings and several critical analyses are required. Students will also be able to demonstrate understanding of how plays are constructed in different ways to serve different purposes.

This course focuses on the understanding, appreciation, and criticism of prose fiction.

This course focuses on the works of Shakespeare as literature and as theatre, covering at least three of the four genres (comedy, history, tragedy, romance).

This course focuses on the development of the African American literary tradition from the emergence of the slave narrative to the contemporary present.

This course focuses on the development of the African American literary tradition from the emergence of slave narrative to the contemporary present. This particular version of the course focuses on material within the time period 1700-1900.

This course focuses on the development of the African American literary tradition from the emergence of slave narrative to the contemporary present. This particular version of the course focuses on material since 1900.

Requirement: UCLR 100 for students admitted to Loyola University for Fall 2012 or later. No requirement for students admitted to Loyola prior to Fall 2012 or those with a declared major or minor in the Department of English, Department of Classical Studies, or Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. This course focuses on the representation of women in literature, as discussed in a variety of literary works.

This course introduces the range of Asian American literature from its earliest works around the turn of the 20th century to its proliferation in contemporary literature.

This course introduces the study of literature and religion as a contemporary field of inquiry. It aims to explain and illustrate the nature and theoretical strategies of a religious literary criticism, and to encourage an appreciation of this valuable and productive way of reading.

This course focuses on the relationship of human beings and the environment in which they function, as represented in a variety of literary works.

This variable topics course focuses on a perennial psychological or philosophical problem facing the individual as exemplified in literary works, e.g., the passage from innocence to experience, the problem of death, and the idea of liberty.

An introduction to South Asian literatures and civilizations, from ancient to contemporary times, with attention to social institutions, religious practices, artistic achievements, literature, and modern challenges.

This advanced writing course will focus on scholarly theories about the practice and process of writing. Course work will center on students' reconsiderations of their own writing processes in the context of scholarly composition theory.

This advanced writing course will consider how communication is mediated and remediated in the digital age, and draw connections between historical moments of print culture with that of contemporary technological advancement. Writing will engage emerging digital genres (websites, blogs, memes), digital storytelling, multimodal composition, and social media.

Course will address problems of community concern through Jesuit rhetorical practice, with basis in thinking, acting and reflecting. Students will learn how to write and speak in a variety of outward-facing modalities. They will work in partnership with a local community organization, applying techniques and practices learned in the classroom.

This is a course in writing clear and effective prose in whatever form/genre is being studied; the subtitle will define the form/genre more precisely.

Study of the origin and development of English: its sounds, word-forms, and syntax.

A study of English grammar focusing on linguistic applications such as the teaching of Standard American English to native and non-native speakers, to speakers of Ebonics, and other classroom applications. Required for students planning to teach high school English, but open to others.

This course investigates significant issues raised in and by women-authored works. Readings may cover fiction, drama, and/or poetry from any literary period.

This course investigates significant issues raised in and by women-authored works. Readings may cover fiction, drama, and/or poetry from before 1700.

This course investigates significant issues raised in and by women-authored works. Readings may cover fiction, drama, and/or poetry within the period from 1700-1900.

This course investigates significant issues raised in and by women-authored works. Readings may cover fiction, drama, and/or poetry since 1900.

Students will study literature by U.S. Latino and Latina writers (esp. Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Dominican American, and Cuban American). Readings will highlight the variety of aesthetic styles and cultural points of view that characterize this rapidly growing field. Issues like language (bilingualism, translation, and code-switching), immigration, nationalism, transnationalism, and citizenship will be especially important.

This course adopts a transnational, trans-historical approach to Anglophone world literatures. Readings may include global, postcolonial, and/or diasporic literatures in English.

This course will introduce students to a range of critical and theoretical approaches to the study of world literatures in English. Authors studied may include leading theorists like Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, and Arjun Appadurai; and literary writers before 1700.

This course will introduce students to a range of critical and theoretical approaches to the study of world literatures in English. Authors studied may include leading theorists like Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, and Arjun Appadurai; and literary writers within the period of 1700-1900.

This course will introduce students to a range of critical and theoretical approaches to the study of world literatures in English. Authors studied may include leading theorists like Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, and Arjun Appadurai; and literary writers since 1900.

This course will survey a range of contemporary fiction that crosses national, cultural, social, political and personal borders. The study of border literatures will vary, and may include Hispanic-American writers, the Caribbean poet, Derek Walcott, and other literatures that move between disparate locations (England, India, Africa, Burma, etc.).

This course will survey a range of contemporary fiction that crosses national, cultural, social, political and personal borders. The focus of the study of border literatures before 1700 will vary, and may include various writers in literatures that move between disparate locations (England, the Americas, India, Africa, Burma, etc.).

This course will survey a range of contemporary fiction that crosses national, cultural, social, political and personal borders. The study of border literatures from within this period will vary, and may include various writers in literature that move between disparate locations (England, the Americas, India, Africa, Burma, etc.).

This course will survey a range of contemporary fiction that crosses national, cultural, social, political and personal borders. The focus of the study of border literatures from within this period will vary, and may include various writers in literatures that move between disparate locations (England, the Americas, India, Africa, Burma, etc.).

This course focuses on the study of literature written in English from South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. Authors studied may include Narayan, Naipaul, Desai, Sidhwa, and Rushdie.

This course focuses on the study of literature written in English from South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, focusing on the period since 1900. Authors studied may include Narayan, Naipaul, Desai, Sidwa, and Rushdie.

This course will introduce students to the study of literature written in English from the Caribbean in this period. Authors studied may include Lamming, Rhys, Walcott, Cliff, Lovelace, and Brathwaite.

This course provides extensive practice in both the reading and the writing of poetry.

This course will discuss the techniques of fiction writing and will offer guidance in writing some works of original short fiction.

By exploring the city of Rome through reading, writing, and on-site classes, students will be provided with an interdisciplinary approach to the generation of written work. This course will discuss the techniques of fiction writing, drawing inspiration from the city of Rome as a backdrop. On-site classes will enrich the fiction writing process, while in-class workshops will offer guidance in writing works of short original fiction.

A workshop in writing and critiquing original creative nonfiction in several representative sub-genres.

This course provides a survey of Old and Middle English Literature, studied partly in translation and partly in the original.

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of the Old English language (c. 600-1150), surveying poetry and prose in the original.

This course introduces students to the life and writings of Chaucer through the reading of a representative selection (but not necessarily all) of The Canterbury Tales and through considering a variety of critical perspectives on them.

Intensive study of specific topics in the field of Medieval literature and culture.

This course is a study of selected literature of the Tudor, Stuart, and Cromwellian periods, excluding Shakespeare, by authors such as Sidney, Spenser, Lanyer, Donne, Wroth, and Milton.

This course is an advanced study of selected plays as theatre and as literature. Topics may include Shakespeare's life, sources, and influence; background of Early Modern literature and drama; Shakespeare's theatre; the tradition of Shakespeare criticism.

Intensive reading of selected Shakespeare plays.

The course will be a highly selective survey of late Renaissance literature, from John Donne and Ben Jonson to Andrew Marvell.

This course will cover Milton's early poetry, one or two of his prose works, and his late, major poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.

This course focuses on the study of literature of the Romantic movement in its historical context; authors may include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Smith, Byron, P.B. Shelley, M.W. Shelley, Keats, Hemans, Hazlitt, and Austin.

Students will engage in intensive consideration of selected Romantic period texts. The focus of the course will vary according to the instructor's choice of topic.

This course provides a survey of important works of prose, poetry, and fiction from the Victorian period (1832-1901). Authors may include Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, the Brontës, Hopkins, Hardy, Newman, Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot.

This course provides an opportunity for intensive consideration of selected Victorian texts that centers on a particular theme or genre or author. The course will vary each time it is taught.

The course focuses on selected issues in current critical discussions of modernism. The issues may concern competing conceptions of modernism and individual writers associated with modernism.

This course focuses on selected examples of British poetry, fiction, drama, film, and non-fiction written in the 20th century. The principle of selection may be cultural, theoretical, or formal.

This course focuses intensively on selected twentieth century British texts in relation to social and literary issues of the period. The selection may focus on cultural, theoretical, or formal issues.

Postmodernism, as an aesthetic response to postmodernity, is an interdisciplinary concept, originating in architecture and encompassing literature, art in various media, digital media, and literary and cultural theory. Focusing primarily on Western literature and theory after WWII, this course investigates postmodernism as a literary period, an aesthetic style, an historical moment, and a cultural problematic.

Contemporary literature is most often defined as literature produced after WWII. This course explores the challenge of defining "contemporary" literature by reading a range of texts from the period in their aesthetic, social, historical, and cultural contexts.

This course, which is required of all English majors, introduces students to critical terminology and to issues in contemporary criticism and theory. Readings may include critical works that have informed and established formalist, feminist, psychoanalytic, and Marxist approaches to literary analysis, as well as those associated with gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonialism, and deconstruction.

Intensive study of specific topics in the field of literary criticism and theory.

This course examines literature from various periods in poetry and/or prose for technical innovation and genre development, with particular emphasis on applications to the creative process.

This course provides an introduction to the theory informing the field of Cultural Studies and to the history of theoretical writings about "culture."

Students will study the interactions between elite and popular culture, possibly focusing on a historical period or on a conceptual issue such as the framing of "canons." Students will review and assess the assumptions and goals of those who create and critique works of culture. Students will also analyze the criteria by which specific works are judged.

Students will study the interaction between elite and popular culture, focusing on the material and issues relating to the period before 1700. Students will review and assess the assumption and goals of those who create and critique works of culture. Students will also analyze the criteria by which specific works are judged.

Students will study the interaction between elite and popular culture, focusing on the material and issues relating to the period from 1700-1900. Students will review and assess the assumption and goals of those who create and critique works of culture. Students will also analyze the criteria by which specific works are judged.

Students will study the interaction between elite and popular culture, focusing on the material and issues relating to the period after 1900. Students will review and assess the assumption and goals of those who create and critique works of culture. Students will also analyze the criteria by which specific works are judged.

This course is a study of poetry written in response to the conditions of modernity from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th. The course focuses on poetic style and technique as well as on historical and cultural contexts.

Study of poetry centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries.

Study of poetry centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries, but will focus on poetry written before 1700.

Study of poetry centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries, but will focus on poetry written between 1700 and 1900.

Study of poetry centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries, but will focus on poetry written since 1900.

This course is a study of dramatists and dramatic forms, techniques, and innovations from the late-nineteenth century to the present.

This course is a study of drama centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries.

This course is a study of drama centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries, but will focus on drama written before 1700.

This course is a study of drama centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries, but will focus on drama written between 1700 and 1900.

This course is a study of drama centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries, but will focus on drama written since 1900.

This course focuses on women as playwrights, actors, directors, spectators, and subjects of drama before 1700.

This course focuses on women as playwrights, actors, directors, spectators, and subjects of drama between 1700 and 1900.

This course covers novels since the late 19th century and explores formal and cultural influences on the form.

This course is a study of fiction centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries.

This course is a study of fiction centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries, but will focus on fiction written before 1700.

This course is a study of fiction centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries, but will focus on fiction written between 1700-1900.

This course is a study of fiction centered on a theme, topic, genre, critical approach, author, or group of authors. Readings may cut across historical periods and geographical boundaries, but will focus on fiction written since 1900.

This course is a study of selected works of American Literature of this period against the background of historical events, political and social changes, moral and cultural traditions. Authors may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Franklin, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, and Thoreau.

This course is a study of the rise of American Literature of this period. Authors may include Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Dreiser.

This course is a study of literature of early twentieth-century America. Authors may include Cather, Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, O'Neill, Miller and Williams.

This course focuses on texts written by American authors. This advanced seminar course varies in topic and may concentrate on a selection of works by a major American writer or a particular literary movement, period, or theme.

This course focuses on texts written by American authors. This advanced seminar course varies in topic and may concentrate on a selection of works by a major American writer or a particular literary movement or theme before 1700.

This course focuses on texts written by American authors. This advanced seminar course varies in topic and may concentrate on a selection of works by a major American writer or a particular literary movement or theme in the period from 1700-1900.

This course focuses on texts written by American authors. This advanced seminar course varies in topic and may concentrate on a selection of works by a major American writer or a particular literary movement or theme in the period since 1900.

This course focuses on the study of U.S. literature and culture in relation to other literatures and cultures.

This course focuses on the study of U.S. literature and culture in relation to other literatures and cultures, with a focus on the period before 1700.

This course focuses on the study of U.S. literature and culture in relation to other literatures and cultures, with a focus on the period before 1700.

This course focuses on the study of U.S. literature and culture in relation to other literatures and cultures, with a focus on the period since 1900.

Intensive study of specific topics in the field of American culture.

Intensive study of specific topics in the field of American culture before 1700.

Intensive study of specific topics in the field of American culture between 1700 and 1900.

Intensive study of specific topics in the field of American culture since 1900.

Study of theological and religious symbols and themes in modern literature and/or in the arts.

Intensive study of texts written by African American authors. The course varies in topic and may concentrate on a selection of works by a major African American writer or a particular African American literary movement, period, or theme.

Intensive study of texts written by African American authors. The course varies in topic and may concentrate on a selection of works by a major African American writer or a particular African American literary movement or theme, 1700-1900.

Intensive study of texts written by African American authors. The course varies in topic and may concentrate on a selection of works by a major African American writer or a particular African American literary movement or theme since 1900.

This course is required of all English majors. It offers an advanced, intensive study of a period, author, genre, theme or critical issue in a seminar setting. Topics are announced when the course is offered.

This is a workshop in writing creative nonfiction, furthering work done in ENGL 319, Writing Creative Nonfiction. Students will write in different genres (e.g., memoir, travel writing, speculative essay, nature writing, the spiritual essay), and will further their study in using both traditional and experimental literary techniques in nonfiction.

This course offers training and practical experience in tutoring adults in written and spoken English in a volunteer literacy program at Loyola University. Students examine literacy issues and write a research paper.

This course provides on-the-job experience for majors in adapting their writing and analytical skills to the needs of such fields as publishing, editing, and public relations.

Content will vary each time the course is offered, but in general will entail in-depth study of a literary genre or a major author or theme in literature.

Students will read master poets as models and will write and revise poems of their own, which will be discussed by the class in a workshop format.

This course allows students to develop further their skills in writing and analyzing original fiction begun in ENGL 318, in a supportive workshop atmosphere.

Subject matter of this course will be designated by a subscript whenever the course is offered. Usually taken as an independent study.

This course is designed to help students integrate theory and practice in teaching literature and cultural studies courses at the college level.

This course will examine the history of written and printed texts from their beginnings to 1800, including such topics as book production and distribution, early ideas about textual editing, literacy, copyright, and censorship.

This course investigates "postmodernism" in its various uses--as a literary period, an aesthetic style, an historical moment, a cultural problematic, and a theoretical imperative. The course includes readings in literature and theory as well as other art forms, such as architecture and the graphic arts.

Latino/a literature has become an important focus in American literary studies because of its unique relation to questions of language, cultural hybridity, and borders. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latino/a fiction, poetry, and drama, including analysis of Latino/a genres like corridos, testimonios, and teatro campesino. Topics include identity politics, transnationalism, cultural traditions and literary forms, textual recovery, gender and sexuality, and (im)migration.