English Major
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This course offers a broad introduction to literature via examination of the American short story. We will begin in the 19th century with several of Poe’s short stories and examine samples of his work to appreciate his innovations in genre and form, and then trace these developments to his 20th ... (read more)
41831
People respond to movies in different ways, and there are many reasons for this. We have all stood in the lobby of a theater and heard conflicting opinions from people who have just seen the same film. Some loved it, some hated it, some found it just OK. Disagreements, however, can reveal a... (read more)
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People respond to movies in different ways, and there are many reasons for this. We have all stood in the lobby of a theater and heard conflicting opinions from people who have just seen the same film. Some loved it, some hated it, some found it just OK. Disagreements, however, can reveal a... (read more)
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“This is who we are, Mama. Real women.” This declaration made by America Ferrera’s character Ana in the 2002 coming-of-age film Real Women Have Curves marks a powerful turning point for Ana as she stands up for all women who have been made to feel ashamed for their bodies, their choices, their... (read more)
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This course studies works of film and media as representational objects that engage with communities identified by intersectional categories including sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nation, class, and ability. It considers historical and contemporary effects of prejudice, intolerance,... (read more)
41840
Escape! Whether we’re reading for pleasure or entertainment, the novel has been a means of escape for readers: an escape from reality, from the anxieties or doldrums of everyday life and into other lives and worlds. For nineteenth-century American readers who craved a fictional escape,... (read more)
41842
After the end of the world
after death
I found myself in the midst of life
creating myself
building life
--“In the Midst of Life,” Tadeusz Rózewicz
After the cataclysm of WWII, the old order was beginning to crumble. In this aftermath, many artists viewed the... (read more)
43549
This course studies works of film and media as representational objects that engage with communities identified by intersectional categories including sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nation, class, and ability. It considers historical and contemporary effects of prejudice, intolerance,... (read more)
43552
This course investigates how contemporary female writers of color represent diaspora, immigration, and inequality in transnational contexts. Through reading Michelle Cliff, “White Chocolate,” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Real Durwan,” we will explore how contemporary short stories reconsider ethical... (read more)
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43660
This course provides an introduction to the analysis of form and style in cinema and related media, focusing on narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound. This course aims to develop your media literacy by providing you with a precise set of critical tools for analyzing moving... (read more)
32130
In this class, we will read short stories by African American women writers. These texts will be our common ground as we learn to think deeply and... (read more)
32134
The intention of this course is to provide students with the skills necessary to understand and appreciate poetry as a unique form of linguistic... (read more)
32136
Since antiquity, for a variety of reasons, people have left home and hit the road. Journeys have always been a part of life, and travel writing has... (read more)
32138
Madness, truth, honor, pity—these are a few of the concepts Shakespeare explores in his earliest plays. In this online course, we will scrutinize... (read more)
32139
Grammar is the language we use to talk about language. It’s a tool for describing how written sentences work and figuring out and explaining why... (read more)
32142
This course is a survey of writings by African American authors. We will study fiction, essays, and poetry in their historical, political, and... (read more)
32144
In 1968, Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for American literature. Momaday's award signaled... (read more)
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In this course, we will explore the basic elements of media aesthetics through the very contemporary issue of global pandemics. For our purposes, we will take the word “pandemic” loosely, following its association with pandemonium, as “a place or state of utter confusion and uproar.” Deriving... (read more)
32380
In this course we study car collecting and customizing as vernacular art traditions, and survey of some of the astonishing range of human behaviors... (read more)
32871
This course will allow us to enter into the often hidden parts of the Middle Ages through letters, diaries, memoirs... (read more)
36154
Introduces the study of beliefs about the supernatural by examining diverse approaches to the description and analysis of belief traditions and religious cultures. Topics... (read more)
36155
This course brings together readings of the Bible in the Judeo-Christian tradition with apt mythological, folkloristic, and traditional contexts,... (read more)
36258
An introduction to contemporary folklore studies, with emphasis on the meanings of stories, rituals, festivals, body art, subcultures, street art,... (read more)
36471
In this course, you will explore important concepts in rhetoric and argumentation theory, and you will gain skill in discovering the questions that... (read more)
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Early in his career, Shakespeare was fascinated by intoxication: the kind brought on by drugs and potions, yes, but also the thrills of poetic... (read more)
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Latinxs have lived, worked, and thrived in what is now considered the United States for a long time. This course is an introductory survey of U.S. Latinx literature that will give students a glimpse of the wide range of formal, thematic, and cultural diversity of... (read more)
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Bovilsky, Lara; Peppis, Paul; Saunders, Ben
The Foundations of the English Major is a three-course series (ENG 303, ENG 304, ENG 305) introducing students to the discipline of English as practiced at the University of Oregon. The series provides English majors with a common intellectual experience and a foundation for future coursework in... (read more)
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This discussion section is a space to put the methodologies you learn in the lecture sessions into practice. We will use these weekly meetings to review and cement the concepts introduced in lecture, answer lingering concerns, and prepare for upcoming assignments. You might consider this... (read more)
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This discussion section is a space to put the methodologies you learn in the lecture sessions into practice. We will use these weekly meetings to review and cement the concepts introduced in lecture, answer lingering concerns, and prepare for upcoming assignments. You might consider this... (read more)
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Narrating the Sunset of the British Empire: The Twentieth-Century Novel from Modernism to Postmodernism
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Latinx Comics and Graphic Narratives
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This course explores sexuality and self-expression by studying transgender comedy, including in poetry, novels, and digital performance. We will... (read more)
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On the back of Broken Harbor (in the Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French, of which we’re reading the first installment), a reviewer’s comment reads: “It’s literature masquerading as police procedural.” While the overlapping genres of detective fiction, mystery, and psychological... (read more)
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This course considers, as its point of departure, bell hooks’ evocative quote that “to be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body.” This term,we’ll consider the peoples, places,and ideas that often exist in the margins of American literature. In this... (read more)
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This term, we will examine texts that feature hauntings, broadly defined, to consider the echoes of history, memory, and culture in literature. We will work to consider how these... (read more)
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Why do stories matter? In this class we will read novels of childhood and adolescence, both fantasy and realistic, and compare them to... (read more)
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This course is an introduction to film and media studies and various methods of critical analysis. In this course, we will see that... (read more)
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This course is designed to provide students with the equipment they need to understand the theory and practice of public speaking as a... (read more)
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Though signifying idealized notions of love in popular parlance, romance is about more than the transcendent power and emotional magic... (read more)
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Students’ Rights to their Own Sentences
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Do we read literature differently when we read for the environment? How are environmental issues connected to colonialism, gender,... (read more)
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This course surveys African American literature from its origins to the present. We will read a wide... (read more)
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This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and... (read more)
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This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and... (read more)
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Travel, or the journey, is often conceptualized in relation to home as the point of departure and return: in Homer’s Odyssey,... (read more)
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BS, Fake News, and Argumentation
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This course introduces students to critical thinking about the aesthetic, historical and economic factors influencing film, media, and... (read more)
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ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 ... (read more)
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What happens to literature when text moves from page to screen? This online course invites students of all majors and levels of... (read more)
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How can artists ethically represent war? Are certain media predisposed to certain kinds of narratives and interpretations of war? Do... (read more)
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Wherever slavery existed, there were those who resisted it, many of whom paid with their lives. This course examines the literature of... (read more)
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Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional, and technical writing; weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions, instructions, summaries. Use of documentation in publication.
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25960
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional, and technical writing; weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions, instructions, summaries. Use of documentation in publication.
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Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business... (read more)
26303
An introduction to contemporary folklore studies, with emphasis on the meanings of stories, rituals, festivals, body art, subcultures,... (read more)
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Examines the research questions and theoretical models used by folklorists and other scholars in the study of vernacular religion and... (read more)
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This course is an introduction to one of the major genres in literary studies. Students will read, discuss, analyze, and attend plays... (read more)
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Fantasy and Violence will examine the role of violence in literature of the fantastic with special attention to the problems violence... (read more)
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This course is an introduction to the genre of comedy. It surveys examples of comedy across a long historical range—from classical... (read more)
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Shakespeare’s Extremities... (read more)
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This course introduces students to some of the major works, authors, and themes of Asian American literature, a diverse body of writing... (read more)
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The prolific White Earth Ojibwe writer Gerald Vizenor conceptualizes the cultural work of Indigenous literatures as “survivance,”... (read more)
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This course provides an introduction to the analysis of comics and graphic narratives in terms of their poetics, genres, forms, history... (read more)
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This course is designed to introduce students to some important theories and practices of literary and cultural criticism. My goals for... (read more)
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Bovilsky, Lara; Peppis, Paul; Saunders, Ben
ENG 304 addresses the following questions: What is a context? How do texts and history interact? We will... (read more)
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Hallucinations, Prophecies, and the Supernatural. Working from the 19th century to the present, this course will consider African... (read more)
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One could say that most comics are about the human body, in all its variations, exaggerations, erotics, poses, powers, and... (read more)
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This course presents a survey of American novels in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It will cover a variety of styles and... (read more)
26557
“Things Fall Apart”: Revolution, Reaction and Renewal in Early Twentieth Century Culture (1895-1945)... (read more)
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Students in “Shakespeare’s World” learn to read Shakespeare’s works in relation to the cultural, literary, and historical contexts in... (read more)
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Cinema and Ireland
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This course addresses the relationship between narrative and cartography. The course engages two perspectives on this topic, as... (read more)
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ENG 427 invites students to engage selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Texts will include the more familiar comedic... (read more)
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OEII reviews and builds on the grammatical foundations learned in OEI and adds to students’ knowledge of early English literature and... (read more)
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This interdisciplinary course looks at how ideas of nature and the natural world shape early modern understandings of the Americas.... (read more)
26570
According to Wendell Berry, “You don’t know who you are until you know where you are.” Yet, as we know from the fierce... (read more)
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There is perhaps no image more widely recognized yet more grossly misunderstood in American popular culture than the “Indian.”... (read more)
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Rhetoric has been characterized as a power to lead the soul, the universal form of communication, the art of persuasion, the way we... (read more)
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What happens when digital tools and literature meet? What can the “digital turn” in literary studies help us to understand about... (read more)
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This course focuses on fictional constructions of nation in British novels of the nineteenth century. In an era embracing massive... (read more)
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This discussion section is a space to practice the methodologies you will be learning throughout the ENG 304 lecture sessions. We will use our weekly meetings to review and cement the concepts introduced... (read more)
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This discussion section supplements your lectures with opportunities for direct participation in the form of... (read more)
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This discussion section supplements your lectures with opportunities for direct participation in the form of questions, comments, and conversation with classmates. Our discussions will be most... (read more)
26971
Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business... (read more)
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What makes a poem modern or a poet a modernist? The history of modern poetry, like that of any literary period, is a ... (read more)
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This course investigates how three contemporary female writers, Michelle Cliff, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Helena María Vitamontes, represent contemporary issues alienation, racism, immigration, (in)hospitality, environmental justice in diasporic contexts. Through reading Cliff, “The Dissolution of Mrs... (read more)
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Through this course, students develop analytical skills that will allow them to think, write, and speak intelligently about fiction.... (read more)
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Why do stories matter? In this class we will read novels of childhood and adolescence, both fantasy and realistic, and compare them to... (read more)
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War, Peace, and Hospitality in Ancient Poetry and Prose
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12102
This course is an introduction to film and media studies and various methods of critical analysis. In this course, we will see that... (read more)
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Listening rigorously and deeply, inquiring into issues and topics of importance to our communities, and speaking effectively are key elements that assist our... (read more)
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This course will introduce students to the genre of testimonial literary discourse, or testimonio: an authentic narrative, told... (read more)
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This course is a survey of literature by African American authors from the 19th century into the present. We will read texts from a range of genres... (read more)
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As an introductory survey, this course emphasizes the formal, thematic, and cultural diversity of Latinx literature. We will read novels, poetry, short stories... (read more)
12113
In 1968, Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for American literature. The award signaled for many the “... (read more)
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This course introduces students to the Digital Humanities (DH) — broadly defined as the use of digital tools, platforms, and critical perspectives to address... (read more)
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This course provides an introduction to the analysis of comics and graphic narratives in terms of their poetics, genres, forms, history, and the academic... (read more)
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Provides students concurrently enrolled in WR 121 with one-on-one tutoring. Enrollment priority based on entrance exam (SAT or ACT) scores. Repeatable once.
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Supervised writing projects in nonfiction prose. Repeatable up to five times.
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The practice and ethics of tutoring writing in the context of writing in various academic disciplines. Theories of teaching, tutoring techniques, and assessment of writing.
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Though the slave narrative genre reached its peak in the mid-19... (read more)
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This course examines the pithy praise appearing on book jackets and other product packaging. Blurbs are quick descriptions. They... (read more)
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This class explores depictions of the environment in literature with a particular emphasis on contemporary U.S. fiction and non-fiction. By attending to the... (read more)
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This course is an introduction to drama, one of the major genres in literary studies. Students will read, discuss, and analyze plays... (read more)
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This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the formal properties of poetry in English. Through careful analysis of poems by... (read more)
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This course provides an introduction to the analysis of comics and graphic narratives in terms of their poetics, genres, forms, history... (read more)
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