Vanderbilt University's ENGL 2318 and ENGL 2318W World Literature, Classical cover Great Books from Classical Greece through the Renaissance, focusing on literary expression and changing ideologies.
ENGL 2239.01: Persuasive Journalism at Vanderbilt University explores the landscape of contemporary journalism, opinion writing, and the tactics and techniques at the core of opinion writing.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 2200 Foundation of Literary Study covers fundamentals including close reading, analytic writing, historical context, abstract reasoning in theory, and creative expression.
Akshya Saxena teaches the course ENGL 2319.01: World Literature, Modern: Literature and Language Loss at Vanderbilt University, which explores how languages are threatened by colonialism, climate change, migration, and technology.
In the Vanderbilt University course ENGL 1100.06, students analyze short stories by Octavia Butler and Ted Chiang, alongside supplemental readings, to explore why writers create fictional narratives.
ENGL 3336.01: Shakespeare: Early Plays at Vanderbilt University requires students to complete a group presentation, analytic essays, research assignments, and regular participation.
Kathryn Schwarz teaches the course ENGL 3337.01: Shakespeare: Tragedies & Romances: Later Plays at Vanderbilt University, which examines Shakespeare's plays in relation to social hierarchies, identity, gender, sexuality, and politics.
The Vanderbilt University Department of English course ENGL 8410.01, titled 'Studies in Romantic and Victorian Literatures: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture' and taught by Rachel Teukolsky, studies nineteenth-century British literature alongside the era's visual culture, including paintings, sculptures, stereoscopes, panoramas, and world exhibitions.
ENGL 3230 Intermediate Fiction Workshop at Vanderbilt University provides instruction in fiction writing, includes supplementary readings that illustrate traditional aspects of prose fiction, requires instructor consent for admission, may be repeated for credit once if there is no duplication in topic, and allows students to enroll in more than one section per semester.
The Vanderbilt University Department of English seminar on fiction, poetry, and media explores how fantastic and futuristic themes address social concerns related to race, gender, science, technology, and environmental crisis.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 2310 course, 'Representative British Writers (to 1660),' covers British literature from its beginnings to 1660 with attention to literary periods and contexts.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3330 course, 'Sixteenth Century,' covers the prose and poetry of the sixteenth century, with an emphasis on Edmund Spenser and his contemporaries.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1240 Beginning Nonfiction Workshop focuses on writing various forms of prose nonfiction.
The creative writing course at Vanderbilt University requires students to analyze how setting informs character and plot development and to design their own imaginary worlds.
ENGL 3742 Feminist Theory at Vanderbilt University covers topics including cross-cultural gender identities, the development of masculinity and femininity, racial, ethnic, class, and national differences, sexual orientations, the function of ideology, strategies of resistance, visual and textual representations, and the nature of power.
The course ENGL 1230W.02, titled 'Literature and Analytical Thinking: Women in the City' and taught by Emma Palmer at Vanderbilt University, explores texts about women in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, focusing on the intersection of race, class, and gender.
Rick Hilles describes free verse as a relatively young and largely American innovation in the context of the ENGL 3250.01: Intermediate Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3364 course, 'The Eighteenth Century English Novel,' studies the development of the English novel as a literary form from its beginning through Jane Austen, including selected works by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1100 Composition course emphasizes writing skills and the analysis of modern nonfiction writing for students who need to improve their writing.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3898 course, titled 'Special Topics in English and American Literature,' features varying topics.
The final requirement for the Vanderbilt University ENGL 3230.02 course consists of significant revisions of two stories produced during the semester.
Scott Juengel teaches the course ENGL 3361.01: Restoration and the 18th-Century: The Making of Jane Austen at Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 2310 Representative British Writers (to 1660) covers selections from British literature from the beginnings to 1660, with attention to contexts and literary periods.
The course ENGL 1230W.01, titled 'Literature and Analytical Thinking: Reading the Storm' and taught by Remy Rendeiro at Vanderbilt University, examines how weather events in literature serve as symbols, plot devices, and lenses for discussing race, gender, and class in the context of ecological crisis.
The AXLE Writing Requirement at Vanderbilt University comprises four components: English Composition (ENGL 1100), First-Year Writing Seminar (ENGL 1111), one additional W course, and one 1000-level or 2000-level English course or another W course of any level.
The Vanderbilt University course 'Women Who Kill' (GSS 2242.01), taught by Kathryn Schwarz, examines the representation of violent women in Western cultural history, ranging from classical texts to modern novels, films, cultural theories, and new media.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3316 course, 'Medieval Literature,' covers the drama, lyrics, romance, allegory, and satire of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries within the context of the period's intellectual climate and social change.
Vanderbilt University Department of English offers ENGL 3692 Desire in America: Literature, Cinema and History, which examines the influence of desire and repression on American culture and character from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3891 course, titled 'Special Topics in Creative Writing,' provides advanced instruction in creative writing in emerging modes and hybrid genres.
The ENGL 3678 and ENGL 3678W Anglophone African Literature courses at Vanderbilt University cover literature from the Sundiata Epic to the present, with an emphasis on the novel and attention to issues of identity, post-coloniality, nationalism, race, and ethnicity in Sub-Saharan and Maghrib literatures, including authors such as Achebe, Ngugi, Gordimer, Awoonor, and El Saadawi.
The ENGL 3891.01 course at Vanderbilt University is associated with The Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series and its Literary Salon.
The English major or minor at Vanderbilt University requires 3-6 credit hours in pre-1800 literature and 3-6 credit hours in diverse perspectives, depending on the specific program.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3658 course, 'Latino-American Literature,' covers texts and theory relevant to understanding constructs of Latino identity, including race, class, gender, and the basis for immigration, within the context of American culture.
The ENGL 3662 and ENGL 3662W Asian American Literature courses at Vanderbilt University cover the diversity of Asian American literary production after 1965, addressing topics such as gender, sexuality, memory, desire, diaspora, and panethnicity in the context of the aesthetics and politics of the Asian American experience.
The Vanderbilt University ENGL 3250.01 course covers prosody, including metrical feet, rhyme schemes, stanzas, and specific forms such as the sonnet, the villanelle, and the sestina.
Rick Hilles teaches the course 'CORE 2500.33: Literary Salon' at Vanderbilt University, which engages with the work of contemporary writers and poets featured in the Gertrude C. and Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series.
ENGL 3710.01: Literature and Intellectual History: Nobel Laureates is a course taught by Mark Schoenfield at Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt University's Department of English offers ENGL 3240W, 'Pop Science: The Art and Impact of Popular Science Writing,' which focuses on the mechanics and influence of popular science writing in the 21st century, including critiquing bestselling books and journalism, publishing student blogs, and interacting with science writers and editors.
ENGL 3630 'The Modern British Novel' at Vanderbilt University covers the British novel from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, including works by Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Forster, and other novelists selected by the instructor.
The ENGL 3664 Jewish American Literature course at Vanderbilt University covers literature from the nineteenth century to the present, addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, immigration, and diaspora.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 2311 Representative British Writers (from 1660) covers selections from British literature from 1660 to the present, with attention to contexts and literary periods.
The Vanderbilt University course ENGL 3894.02, 'Major Figures in Literature: William Faulkner', taught by Vera Kutzinski, examines how different audiences have interpreted William Faulkner's work, specifically focusing on the New Critics' perspectives during the post-WWII era.
ENGL 1220W.01: Introduction to Drama at Vanderbilt University examines historical theatrical devices, specifically the Greek chorus and the Elizabethan soliloquy.
ENGL 3742W Feminist Theory at Vanderbilt University covers the same topics as ENGL 3742 and serves as repeat credit for ENGL 3742.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1290 Beginning Poetry Workshop is a course that provides an introduction to the art of poetry writing.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3899 course, 'Special Topics in Film,' covers the theory and practice of cinema as an aesthetic and cultural form, with a maximum of 6 credits total allowed for all semesters.
In ENGL 3210.01: Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop at Vanderbilt University, students identify parts of their lives with resonance and craft them for the page with the goal of compelling readers.
The Honors Thesis course (ENGL 4999.01) at Vanderbilt University requires students to have been admitted to the honors program and to have completed the Honors Colloquium (ENG 4998) in the fall semester.
The course ENGL 1260W.01 at Vanderbilt University examines how authors from antiquity to the early modern period wrote about love, beauty, and pleasure, covering authors including Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch, Labé, Stampa, Ronsard, Montaigne, Donne, Shakespeare, Marvell, Behn, and Rochester.
The Vanderbilt University course ENGL 1210W.01, titled 'Reading Fiction: Robots, Androids, and Enhanced Humans' and taught by Vera Kutzinski, examines literary representations of intelligent machines and their relationship to human identity.
The Vanderbilt University course 'ENGL 1260W.06: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis: Good Girls Gone Bad: Milton to Miley' examines the concept of the 'fallen woman' by comparing early modern literature and drama with contemporary pop culture.
The course ENGL 1230W.03, titled 'Literature and Analytical Thinking: The Victorian Bizarre' and taught by Maya Riles at Vanderbilt University, examines the concept of the 'bizarre' in sensation fiction and its relationship to sexuality, eroticism, and empire during the Victorian era.
ENGL 3250 Intermediate Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University provides instruction in poetry writing, includes supplementary readings illustrating traditional aspects of poetry, requires instructor consent for admission, may be repeated for credit once if there is no duplication in topic, and allows students to enroll in more than one section per semester.
Enrollment in ENGL 3215.01: The Art of Blogging at Vanderbilt University requires a 500-1000 word writing sample on a topic of the student's choosing, submitted to Professor Amanda Little by March 31st.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1260W Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis involves the analysis of texts in social, political, and aesthetic contexts, including interdisciplinary study of cultural forms such as poetry, advertisement, and film.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 2318 and 2318W courses, 'World Literature, Classical,' cover Great Books from Classical Greece through the Renaissance, focusing on literary expression and changing ideologies.
Christiana Castillo teaches ENGL 1290.01: Beginning Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University, which meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 1:25 PM to 2:15 PM.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1270W Introduction to Literary Criticism covers selected critical approaches to literature.
ENGL 3897.01: Special Topics in Critical Theory: Modernity and Revolution is a course taught by Alex Dubilet at Vanderbilt University.
The Vanderbilt University course ENGL 1102.01, 'Creative Writing Tutorial: Poetry', taught by Sydney Mayes, is a self-directed course involving weekly meetings to discuss student work and instructor-assigned readings to help students develop independent writing projects.
The Vanderbilt University English course described in the first paragraph combines literary studies with ethical frameworks, specifically Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, John Rawls’ theory of justice, and Alain Badiou’s Ethics.
The ENGL 1100.01 Composition course at Vanderbilt University focuses on three fundamental elements of an excellent essay: analysis, argumentation, and explication.
Students in the Vanderbilt University course 'Exploratory Core: Contemporary Writers at Work' study the ecosystem of literary programming, including the curatorial process, marketing, and implementation of reading series.
ENGL 3260.01: Advanced Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University approaches the practice of writing poetry as something living, three-dimensional, and sustained.
The course titled "Radiant Intertextuality" at Vanderbilt University focuses on interdisciplinary studies, incorporating critical theory, literary criticism, marine science, and natural philosophy to examine the Oceans as culture, space, atopia, and image.
All Fall 2025 ENGL 1100 composition courses at Vanderbilt University are available only to students simultaneously enrolled in any section of the course CORE 1010.
Students eligible for financial aid at Vanderbilt University should contact their Financial Aid Officer to discuss funding options.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 2320 Southern Literature covers the works of Southern writers from Captain Smith to the present.
Enrollment in the Vanderbilt University ENGL 3230 course requires either completion of the Beginning Fiction Workshop or any Intermediate or Advanced creative writing workshop, or permission from the instructor.
The ENGL 3230.01: Intermediate Fiction Workshop at Vanderbilt University requires students to participate in a workshop where they offer and receive supportive and constructive feedback on short stories written for the class.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1111 First Year Writing Seminar focuses on independent learning and inquiry, requiring students to express knowledge and defend opinions through class discussion, oral presentations, and written expression.
Vanderbilt University's Department of English offers ENGL 3215, 'The Art of Blogging,' which covers the conventions of blogging, the creation and maintenance of a personal blog, the critique of online journalism across genres like activism and politics, and interaction with professional bloggers.
A Vanderbilt University English course on the philosophy of lying examines canonical meditations on deception from antiquity to the contemporary era, utilizing authors such as Plato, Shakespeare, Kant, J.L. Austin, and Hannah Arendt.
ENGL 3645 'Twentieth Century American Novel' at Vanderbilt University explores themes, forms, and social cultural issues in works by American novelists after 1945, including Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Hurston, Ellison, McCarthy, Bellow, Kingston, Morrison, and Pynchon.
The Vanderbilt University course 'ENGL 2248.01: The Curious Pursuit of Knowledge' examines how scientific curiosity led to the nuclear age and the subsequent regret felt by Manhattan Project scientists regarding the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Students in the Beginning Poetry Workshop (ENGL 1290.01) at Vanderbilt University are required to write weekly poems and compile a final portfolio of revised poems to showcase their growth as writers, readers, and literary thinkers.
Vanderbilt University Department of English offers ENGL 3681 Twentieth Century Drama, which covers dramatic literature from American, British, and world traditions within the contexts of performance and theatrical production.
The Vanderbilt University Department of English course taught by Roger Moore (ENGL 1250W.01) is designated as a writing-intensive course that requires students to write and revise several papers and includes class time devoted to the discussion of writing strategies.
ENGL 1220W.01: Introduction to Drama at Vanderbilt University covers plays from the Golden Age of ancient Athens to the present, featuring works by Sophocles, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Chekhov, O’Neill, Odets, Kaufman and Hart, Miller, Williams, Hansberry, Norman, Shepard, Vogel, Hwang, Auburn, Parks, and Durang.
The ENGL 3674 Caribbean Literature course at Vanderbilt University covers Caribbean literature from 1902 to the present, with an emphasis on writing since 1952, which marks the beginning of West Indian nationalism and the rise of the West Indian novel.
In ENGL 1290.01: Beginning Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University, students study craft elements, develop a critical vocabulary, and generate ten original poems.
The Vanderbilt University Department of English course ENGL 1250W.03, titled 'Intro to Poetry: Poetry and the Oppressed' and taught by Salik Geelani, explores the relationship between poetry, identity, history, oppression, and resistance through close reading of poems from various historical and political contexts.
Students in the poetry course are required to attend poetry readings in the Vanderbilt University Visiting Writers Series and submit a 3-page, double-spaced listener’s response for each reading, which may be submitted with the final portfolio.
In ENGL 3250.01: Intermediate Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University, students engage in activities including reading poems, writing poems, listening to podcasts, seeking art, listening to music, taking walks, making things, and breaking things to fuel creativity.
ENGL 3260 Advanced Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University provides continuing instruction in poetry writing, requires instructor consent for admission, may be repeated for credit once if there is no duplication in topic, and allows students to enroll in more than one section per semester.
Geoffrey Chaucer is frequently referred to as the 'father of English literature' in the context of the Vanderbilt University course ENGL 3314.01: Chaucer.
The Beginning Fiction Workshop (ENGL 1280.03) at Vanderbilt University aims to help students develop their writing voice by breaking down writing into components such as voice, perspective, character, plot, and structure.
ENGL 3622 'Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers' at Vanderbilt University focuses on themes and forms of American women's prose and poetry, emphasizing alternative visions of the frontier, progress, class, race, and self-definition, with authors including Child, Kirkland, Fern, Jacobs, Harper, Dickinson, and Chopin.
In the course ENGL 3230.01: Intermediate Fiction Workshop at Vanderbilt University, students write one short story and revise it twice over the course of the semester.
The Vanderbilt University ENGL 3230.02 course, titled 'Intermediate Fiction Workshop: Speculative Fiction Writing' and taught by Justin Quarry, focuses on incorporating speculative elements into literary fiction to drive plot and develop character.
Vanderbilt University Department of English offers ENGL 3694 America on Film: Art and Ideology, which analyzes American culture and character through film, film theory, and literature.
The Vanderbilt University Department of English course ENGL 1250W.01, titled 'Intro to Poetry' and taught by Roger Moore, focuses on reading English and American poetry organized by themes such as love, loss, and nature, while also examining poetic forms like the sonnet and dramatic monologue.
Students at Vanderbilt University may count one 1000-level course toward their English major or minor, specifically from the following list: ENGL 1111, 1210W, 1220W, 1230W, 1240, 1250W, 1260W, 1270W, 1280, or 1290.
The Vanderbilt University English course described in the first paragraph examines how works of art critique communal and situational truth claims, including themes of mortal responsibilities in 'The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemir', medical science in 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', human perfectibility in 'The Birthmark', rights of man and woman in 'Frankenstein', and criminality in 'Crime and Punishment'.
The English Honors Program at Vanderbilt University requires students to apply and be admitted to participate in the colloquium, where they develop thesis topics in collaborative writing groups.
John Ruskin, an art critic studied in the Vanderbilt University course ENGL 8410.01, used a political lens to theorize aesthetics in the nineteenth century.
Vanderbilt University's Department of English offers ENGL 2740, 'Topics in Literature and Philosophy,' which covers literary, philosophical, and cultural texts on varied philosophical topics and allows students to enroll in more than one section per semester.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1210W Prose Fiction: Forms and Techniques involves the close study of short stories and novels and the written explication of these forms.
The Vanderbilt University course ENGL 1280.01, 'Beginning Fiction Workshop', taught by Kumari Devarajan, focuses on analyzing elements of short stories through reading established authors and practicing writing and revision through in-class exercises and at-home assignments.
The course ENGL 1210W.04, titled 'Reading Fiction: AI, Humanity, and the Future' and taught by Payam Rahmati at Vanderbilt University, explores how fiction represents artificial intelligence and the boundaries between humans and machines.
The Vanderbilt University course 'ENGL 1260W.07: Introduction to Literary Criticism: Forms of Revolt' investigates theoretical frameworks for studying revolt and insurrection across various textual genres including critical theory, philosophy, manifestos, speculative fiction, historical writing, and film.
The course ENGL 7470.01: The Historical Poem: Writing into Time, taught by Major Jackson at Vanderbilt University, focuses on the trend of historical poetry in American literature, specifically examining poems that explore unacknowledged figures and rarely commemorated events in United States history.
Students at Vanderbilt University may enroll in more than one section of ENGL 3890, 3890W, 3892, 3892W, 3894, 3894W, 3896, and 3897 in a single semester.
The Beginning Fiction Workshop (ENGL 1280.03) at Vanderbilt University requires students to submit two original short stories, which are discussed in a friendly, respectful, and safe environment, with one piece revised extensively for the end of the term.
The final requirement for the Vanderbilt University ENGL 3230 course is a final revision of a short story.
Vanderbilt University Department of English offers ENGL 3710 Literature and Intellectual History, which explores overarching themes in English and American literature across historical periods to trace their genealogy and evolution.
ENGL 3618 'The Nineteenth-Century English Novel' at Vanderbilt University involves the study of selected novels by Dickens, Thackeray, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and other major novelists of the period.
Admission to ENGL 3742 and ENGL 3742W at Vanderbilt University requires the consent of the instructor.
The primary objectives of the ENGL 1100.01 Composition course at Vanderbilt University are to demystify the college-level essay and to develop writing skills for quality essay composition during and after the student's time at the university.
ENGL 3336.01: Shakespeare: Early Plays, taught by Kathryn Schwarz at Vanderbilt University, focuses on the first half of William Shakespeare's career and examines clusters of plays to analyze genre and political themes.
The Vanderbilt University ENGL 3250.01 course, titled 'Intermediate Poetry Workshop' and taught by Rick Hilles, focuses on traditional elements of poetry including meter, rhyme, and form.
ENGL 3624W 'Literature of the American Civil War' at Vanderbilt University examines the origins and impact of the American Civil War as depicted in short stories, novels, poems, and films by authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Margaret Mitchell, William Faulkner, and Margaret Walker.
ENGL 3240 Advanced Fiction Workshop at Vanderbilt University provides continuing instruction in fiction writing, requires instructor consent for admission, may be repeated for credit once if there is no duplication in topic, and allows students to enroll in more than one section per semester.
The course ENGL 3611.01: The Romantic Period: The Passions and the Horrors is taught by Mark Schoenfield at Vanderbilt University.
The Vanderbilt University course ENGL 1101.01, 'Creative Writing Tutorial: Fiction', taught by Langston Cotman, is a self-directed course where students bring personal work for weekly review and discussion with the instructor.
The pedagogical method for ENGL 3230.02: Intermediate Fiction Workshop at Vanderbilt University involves students reading published stories, completing writing exercises, workshopping two complete short stories, and producing a radical revision of one story based on critiques from the professor and peers.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1230W Literature and Analytical Thinking focuses on close reading and writing across various genres and periods, emphasizing productive dialogue, persuasive argument, and effective prose style.
The final project for ENGL 3250.01: Intermediate Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University consists of a portfolio of the student's own poems and a craft essay.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3654 and ENGL 3654W courses, 'African American Literature,' examine literature produced by African Americans, potentially including literary movements, vernacular traditions, social discourses, material culture, and critical theories.
Teresa Goddu teaches the course 'CORE 2500.28: Reading Trees' at Vanderbilt University, which examines the climate and environmental humanities and includes the study of Richard Powers' 2018 novel, The Overstory.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3370 course, 'The Bible in Literature,' examines how the Bible and biblical imagery have functioned in literature and fine arts, ranging from Old English poems to modern poetry, drama, fiction, cartoons, and political rhetoric.
Vanderbilt University Department of English offers ENGL 3683 Contemporary British Literature, which focuses on the novel, short story, and verse in Great Britain since World War II.
Students in ENGL 3250.01: Intermediate Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University are required to attend poetry readings in the Vanderbilt University Visiting Writers Series and write a brief, three-page, double-spaced listener’s response for each reading.
Students in the Vanderbilt University courses ENGL 1100.07, 1100.08, and 1100.09 are tasked with considering how they consume narratives and how they present themselves as credible sources of information.
Vanderbilt University course ENGL 2264.01, titled 'Imagining Asian America: Bad Asians' and taught by Ben Tran, studies the 'bad Asian' archetype as a counter-history to the 'model minority' stereotype.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 2316 and ENGL 2316W Representative American Writers cover selections from the entire body of American literature with attention to contexts and literary periods.
The ENGL 3260.01: Advanced Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University encourages students to experiment with different forms and styles of poetry while reading the work of peers and published poets.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3314 course, 'Chaucer,' focuses on the study of 'The Canterbury Tales' and the world of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3897 course, titled 'Special Topics in Critical Theory,' covers a diverse range of literary, philosophical, cultural, and political texts.
The course 'Literature and Analytical Thinking: Reading the Storm' (ENGL 1230W.01) at Vanderbilt University includes works by Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward, Patricia Smith, Olive Senior, Rob Nixon, and Amitav Ghosh.
Vanderbilt University's Department of English offers ENGL 3614, 'The Victorian Period,' which covers the works of authors including Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Hardy.
The Vanderbilt University course ENGL 8410.01 includes a field trip to the Vanderbilt Museum of Art for a curator-led tour of the exhibition 'Paper Backs: Hidden Stories of European Prints from VUMA’s Collection'.
The Honors Colloquium (ENGL 4998.01) at Vanderbilt University prepares students to write their Honors Thesis in the spring semester.
The course ASAM 3107.01: Science, Technology, and the Body in Global Asia, taught by Ben Tran at Vanderbilt University, examines the social, cultural, and political dimensions of science, technology, and the human body.
The Honors Thesis course (ENGL 4999.01) at Vanderbilt University involves students developing an individual thesis in collaboration with advisors, the Writing Studio, and a cohort of fellow writers, concluding with an oral examination.
The Vanderbilt University Department of English course on poetry as a tool of resistance examines diverse genres including jazz poems and ghazals, as well as radical literary-cultural traditions such as the Black Arts Movement in the United States and the Progressive Writers’ Movement in South Asia.
ENGL 3634 'Modern Irish Literature' at Vanderbilt University covers major works from the Irish literary revival to the present, with special attention to the works of Yeats, Synge, Joyce, O'Casey, and Beckett.
ENGL 3642 'Film and Modernism' at Vanderbilt University examines film in the context of major themes of literary modernism, including the divided self, language and realism, nihilism and belief, and the spatialization of time.
The final project for ENGL 3230.01: Intermediate Fiction Workshop at Vanderbilt University consists of a revision of the student's short story.
At Vanderbilt University, 3000-level English electives may fulfill the Diverse Perspectives Requirement if indicated in the course schedule by the instructor, or if approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies for courses from other departments.
Vanderbilt University course ENGL 2292.01 includes readings from authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Gerrard Winstanley, Herman Melville, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, CLR James, Huey Newton, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman, Eman Abdelhadi, ME O’Brien, and Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3892 and ENGL 3892W courses, titled 'Problems in Literature,' study common themes, issues, or motifs across several historical periods.
The course CAL 2725W.01: Why Argue About Politics?: An Approach to Deliberative Democracy, taught by Dana Nelson at Vanderbilt University, explores the ideals and practices of deliberative democracy in the United States and the prospects for conversation in a divided political era.
Mark Schoenfield serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the English Department at Vanderbilt University.
ENGL 3210 Intermediate Nonfiction Writing at Vanderbilt University provides instruction in the forms and techniques of nonfiction writing, requires instructor consent for admission, and may be repeated once for credit.
The course 'Literature and Analytical Thinking: Women in the City' (ENGL 1230W.02) at Vanderbilt University includes works such as Nella Larsen’s 'Passing', Joan Didion’s 'The White Album', Sandra Cisneros’ 'The House on Mango Street', and Ottessa Moshfegh’s 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation'.
English courses 3890(W), 3892(W), 3894(W), and 3898 at Vanderbilt University may be repeated for credit if the topics are different.
The Vanderbilt University Department of English course ENGL 1250W.02, titled 'Intro to Poetry' and taught by Lisa Dordal, focuses on close reading of poetry and developing critical writing skills, with a curriculum covering formal considerations like diction, tone, imagery, figures of speech, and sound.
The course CORE 2500.01: Exploratory Core - The Divided Metropolis: Culture and Design in the City, taught by Elizabeth Meadows and Christopher Rowe at Vanderbilt University, unites English and Engineering to explore the evolution of urban environments and the role of literature and culture in that evolution.
The Honors Seminar at Vanderbilt University requires a cumulative 3.4 GPA for enrollment.
Vanderbilt University's Department of English offers ENGL 3610 and 3611, 'The Romantic Period,' which covers the prose and poetry of authors including the Wordsworths, the Shelleys, Byron, and Keats.
Students in the Vanderbilt University course ENGL 1210W.01 learn to think critically and write effectively about literature through class discussions, workshops, reading responses, and formal essays with mandatory revisions.
The Vanderbilt University Department of English courses ENGL 1100.07, 1100.08, and 1100.09, titled 'Composition: Storytelling and Storytellers' and taught by Jordan Ivie, investigate the phenomena of storytelling across various genres, media, and time periods.
ENGL 3220 Advanced Nonfiction Writing at Vanderbilt University provides further instruction in the form and techniques of nonfiction writing, requires instructor consent for admission, may be repeated for credit once if there is no duplication in topic, and allows students to enroll in more than one section per semester.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3310 course, 'Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature,' covers the study of the Old English language, selected historical and literary prose, and short heroic poems.
Iman Saleem teaches ENGL 1280.02: Beginning Fiction Workshop at Vanderbilt University, which meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3896 course, titled 'Special Topics in Investigative Writing in America,' is taught by a distinguished visiting journalist from a major U.S. newspaper or magazine.
Enrollment in ENGL 3343.01: Race and Early Modernity at Vanderbilt University requires a cumulative 3.4 G.P.A.
Students at Vanderbilt University can locate courses that meet AXLE requirements or Liberal Arts Requirements by searching the course lists, the undergraduate catalog, or the YES system using corresponding codes.
The course ENGL 1220W.01, titled 'Art of Drama' and taught by Judy Klass at Vanderbilt University, examines plays ranging from the Golden Age of ancient Athens to the present.
Justin Quarry teaches ENGL 3210.01: Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop at Vanderbilt University, which meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3650 and ENGL 3650W courses, 'Ethnic American Literature,' cover texts and theory relevant to race, culture, and ethnicity in the formation of American culture, requiring literature from at least three groups including African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latino Americans, Caribbean Americans, and European Americans.
ENGL 3343.01: Race and Early Modernity, taught by Shoshana Adler at Vanderbilt University, examines the history of race-making in medieval and early modern English literature.
Vanderbilt University's Department of English offers ENGL 3280, 'Literature and the Craft of Writing,' which examines the forms and techniques of creative writing, including contemporary practices in fiction and poetry within a historical context.
ENGL 1220W.02: Introduction to Drama at Vanderbilt University explores how performance tools and concepts shape identities and understandings of others, particularly in the context of social media and modern performance practices.
ENGL 3680 'Twentieth Century Drama' at Vanderbilt University covers topics in twentieth-century drama from American, British, and world traditions, studying formal structures within the contexts of performance, theatrical production, and specific dramatic careers.
ENGL 3646 'Poetry Since World War II' at Vanderbilt University is offered on a graded basis only, and the poets studied vary at the discretion of the instructor.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3332 and 3332W courses, 'English Renaissance: Drama,' cover English drama from 1550 to 1642, excluding William Shakespeare, and featuring authors such as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and John Webster.
The creative writing course at Vanderbilt University culminates in a final presentation where each student presents their designed imaginary world, the narrative's inhabitants, the conflict, and their development strategies.
Students in the Vanderbilt University course ENGL 3620.01 examine primary sources from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North America and the Caribbean to analyze how Black writers used literature and print culture to contest the injustices of slavery and envision freedom.
Enrollment in ENGL 3250.01: Intermediate Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University requires either completion of the Beginning Poetry Workshop class or any Intermediate or Advanced creative writing workshop, or permission from the instructor, Professor Rick Hilles.
ENGL 3640 'Modern British and American Poetry: Yeats to Auden' at Vanderbilt University is a course in the interpretation and criticism of selected modern masters of poetry, emphasizing poetry as an art.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 2319 and ENGL 2319W World Literature, Modern cover Great Books from the 17th century to the contemporary period, focusing on literary expression and changing ideologies.
The poetry course taught by Rick Hilles at Vanderbilt University focuses on a writing workshop format where students discuss their own poems and those of their peers.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1250W Introduction to Poetry involves the close study and criticism of poems, the nature of poetry, and the process of literary explication.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3312 and 3312W courses, 'The Medieval World,' examine English literature and culture in relation to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, with a focus on cross-cultural exchange, national and religious identity, and race.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1280 Beginning Fiction Workshop is a course that provides an introduction to the art of writing prose fiction.
The Vanderbilt University course ENGL 3654.01, 'African American Literature: Black Memoir', includes the study of works by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Audre Lorde, and Kiese Laymon.
Elizabeth Covington teaches the course 'CORE 2500.11: Masculinity in the Contemporary United States' at Vanderbilt University, which examines how standards of masculinity are produced by factors including race, class, popular culture, science, and politics.
The ENGL 3670 and ENGL 3670W Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature courses at Vanderbilt University explore European colonialism and its aftermath from the eighteenth century to the present, covering topics such as language, gender, agency in the colonial encounter, anti-colonial resistance movements, and postcolonial cultures.
Creative Writing majors at Vanderbilt University must complete 12 credit hours of 3000-level creative writing workshops in at least two different genres, such as nonfiction, fiction, or poetry, with admission by instructor consent.
ENGL 3620 'Nineteenth-Century American Literature' at Vanderbilt University explores themes, forms, and social and cultural issues in works by authors such as Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Douglass, Jacobs, Stowe, Melville, Dickinson, Alcott, Whitman, and Twain.
The course 'Hysterical!: Insanity, Impropriety, and Gender' (MHS 2155.01) at Vanderbilt University is structured into four major categories: the history of hysteria as a 19th-century mental health pathology, mental health narratives, the horror genre, and comedy.
The ENGL 3658W Latino-American Literature course at Vanderbilt University examines literature by Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and Latin American writers in the United States, focusing on constructs of Latino identity including race, class, gender, and the basis for immigration in the context of American culture.
The Vanderbilt University English course on Medieval and Renaissance literature explores the rules and techniques writers used to shape reality, negotiate historical context, and affect their audiences.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3890 and ENGL 3890W courses, titled 'Movements in Literature,' study intellectual currents that create a group or school of writers within a historical period.
Athena Nassar teaches ENGL 1290.02: Beginning Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University, which meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM.
ENGL 4998 Honors Colloquium at Vanderbilt University provides background for writing the honors thesis with an emphasis on research methods, critical approaches, and the students' own projects.
Vanderbilt University course ENGL 2264.01 counts toward English, Asian Studies, and Asian American and Asian Diaspora majors and minors.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3894 and ENGL 3894W courses, titled 'Major Figures in Literature,' study the works of one or two writers, focusing on the development of the writer's individual canon, the biographical dimension of the work, and critical responses to it.
ENGL 3720.01: Literature, Science, and Technology is a course taught by Pav Aulakh at Vanderbilt University.
ENGL 3250.01: Intermediate Poetry Workshop at Vanderbilt University concentrates on traditional elements of poetry, including meter, rhyme, form, prosody, metrical feet, rhyme schemes, stanzas, and specific forms like the sonnet, the villanelle, and the sestina.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3318 course, 'The History of the English Language,' covers the development of English syntax and the history of English vocabulary, including word formation, borrowing, semantic change, and meter.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3361 course, 'Restoration and the Eighteenth Century,' explores the aesthetic and social world of letters from the English Civil War to the French Revolution, covering drama, poetry, and prose by authors such as Behn, Dryden, Congreve, Addison, Swift, Finch, Pope, Fielding, Burney, Johnson, and Inchbald.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 1220W Drama: Forms and Techniques involves the close study of representative plays from major periods and formal categories such as tragedy and comedy, including written explication of these forms.
Vanderbilt University's ENGL 3898W course, 'Special Topics in English and American Literature,' covers varying topics and allows students to enroll in more than one section per semester.
ENGL 3644 'Twentieth Century American Novel' at Vanderbilt University explores themes, forms, and social cultural issues in works by American novelists before 1945, including Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Hurston, Ellison, McCarthy, Bellow, Kingston, Morrison, and Pynchon.
Shoshana Adler teaches the course ENGL 3314.01: Chaucer at Vanderbilt University, which focuses on reading Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in Middle English.
The Vanderbilt University English course on the history of curiosity examines foundational myths, scientific narratives, and literary works to explore how society has historically viewed the pursuit of knowledge.
The Vanderbilt University course 'Women Who Kill' explores how the capacity for lethal acts gives women access to power and how a fixation on that capacity licenses masculine oppression, connecting these themes to the politics of agency, misogyny, history, identity, and community.
Amanda Little teaches ENGL 2239.01: Persuasive Journalism at Vanderbilt University, which meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:30 PM to 3:45 PM.
Vanderbilt University Department of English offers ENGL 3695 America on Film: Performance and Culture, which studies film performance in relation to identity, gender, social meaning, and public image in America.
Vanderbilt University course ENGL 2310W.01, titled 'British Literature to 1660' and taught by Shoshana Adler, explores premodern culture, including topics such as disorderly sexualities, religious piety and discrimination, early colonialism, chivalric warrior culture, gendered authorship, and the grotesque.
Vanderbilt University course ENGL 2292.01, titled 'Literature, Philosophy, and Culture: Figures of the Political' and taught by Alex Dubilet, explores the definition of the political, its relationship to literature, modern history, time, and colonialism.
Vanderbilt University's Department of English offers ENGL 2330, 'Introduction to Environmental Humanities,' which provides an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between human beings and the environment, incorporating literary, artistic, historical, and philosophical perspectives.
The Beginning Poetry Workshop (ENGL 1290.01) at Vanderbilt University involves reading 20th-century and contemporary poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Don Mee Choi, Ocean Vuong, Safia Elhillo, and Amanda Gunn, to analyze the tools used to create impactful poems.
The Vanderbilt University Department of English offers two Honors seminars each semester, which are 3000-level courses requiring a 3.4 GPA for enrollment.
ENGL 3230.02: Intermediate Fiction Workshop at Vanderbilt University focuses on the craft of writing fiction, specifically elements such as plot, setting, character, voice, dialogue, authority, and detail.
The course ENGL 1210W.02 and 1210W.03, titled 'Reading Fiction: The Art of World-Building' and taught by Justin Quarry at Vanderbilt University, requires students to read speculative novels and engage in creative writing exercises to design their own imaginary worlds.
ENGL 3730.01: Literature and the Environment: What is Nature? taught by Rachel Teukolsky at Vanderbilt University examines how artists and writers have constructed nature as an idealized place or set of qualities.
Vanderbilt University Department of English offers ENGL 3711 Literature and Intellectual History, which focuses on the emergence of modern consciousness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The reading list for the Vanderbilt University course ENGL 3614.01 includes Robert Lewis Stevenson's 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' (1886), Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Grey' (1890), H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine' (1895), Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' (1897), H. Ryder Haggard's 'She' (1887), Pauline Hopkins's 'Of One Blood' (1903), Octavia Butler's 'Kindred' (1979), and Colson Whitehead's 'Underground Railroad' (2016).