USC Schedule of Classes

Introductory workshop in writing poetry, short fiction and nonfiction for love of the written and spoken word. Not for English major credit. Not for English major or English (Creative Writing) major credit.

History, political-economy and aesthetics of the African Diaspora with emphasis on Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa.

Intensive reading of major writers to 1800.

Intensive reading of major writers, 1800-1950.

Intensive reading of representative writers.

Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing prose fiction.

Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing poetry.

Introduction to the techniques and practice of lyric essay, memoir, personal narrative, and scientific, medical, nature, culinary and travel writing.

Practical course in relations between editing and the creative process in fiction, poetry, and exposition

Apprenticeship with experienced writer-teachers, providing students with a pedagogical framework and practical experience for teaching creative writing in schools and community settings.

A practical course in composition of prose fiction.

A practical course in poetry writing.

Prerequisite: English 405 and/or consent of instructor.

Prerequisite: Acceptance of manuscript by instructor.

Selected studies in the major figures, genres, and themes of Middle English literature to Malory, with special emphasis on Chaucer.

Selected studies of prose and poetry in the age of Bacon, Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Browne, Marvell, and Milton.

Studies in English literary modernism, including the prose of Conrad, Joyce, and Woolf, and the poetry of Pound, Eliot, Yeats, and Auden.

Major history plays, comedies, and tragedies.

American poetry and prose with special attention to Twain, James, Dickinson, Henry Adams, Crane, and Dreiser.

American poetry, fiction, and drama since World War I with special attention to Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, O'Neill, Stevens, Faulkner, and Nabokov.

Development of the novel in African-American literature beginning with the anti-slavery fiction of William W. Brown and his pre-Emancipation contemporaries and concluding with the emerging novelists of the late Sixties.

Survey of Asian American literature from the earliest time to the present; development of prose, poetry, and novel.

A concentrated reading and criticism of the works of one period or one genre of American literature; for example, colonial literature, the American Renaissance, American poetry, American drama.

Study of prose written in English since 1945, principally fiction of the past two decades.

Study of poetry written in English since 1945, with special emphasis on the last two decades.

Theory and practice of fiction in works of major writers such as Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy.

English poetry, plays, novels, and discursive prose by and about women from 1375 to 1800.

Women as writers and as subjects, with special emphasis on feminist and liberationist traditions and on changing female images after 1800.

An examination of hw literature and related arts intersect in a particular cultural milieu. Selected topics.

Theoretical and applied studies of literature in English as social activity and cultural production; its expression of, and influence upon, social values, concepts, and behavior.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Selected problems in literary history and criticism.

Seminar in workshop form to accompany completion of Senior HonorsThesis. Bi-weekly meetings to complete thesis according to contract.

Intensive engagement with current research, problems, and methodologies in Early Modern discourses and cultures. Required capstone seminar for Interdepartmental Minor in Early Modern Studies.

Studies in the works of one or more authors, or in the development of a theme or genre.

Studies in prose, poetry, drama, and culture of the period 1661-1800.

Research leading to the Master's Degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Studies in rural and urban fictions, modernism, the shift from imagism and symbolism to confessional poetry, recovered writers, hemispheric traditions, literature and kindred arts, and other topics.

Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching within college disciplines. Intended for teaching assistants in Dornsife College.

Thematic, theoretical, or experimental studies in British and American literatures and cultures.

Development of strategies for preparing articles for publication in scholarly journals. Aspects of publication will include abstracts, introductions, argumentation, style and footnotes.

Issues and theory of studying literature in relation to history, science, politics, psychology, religion, sociology, media, the visual arts, and other disciplines.

History and ideology of gender studies, feminist theory, gay and lesbian discourse, and other studies in feminisms and masculinities in relation to literature.

Theories of race and ethnicity, cultural imperialism, discourse of power and class, literatures of the Americas, and other topics.

History, transformation, and theory of genre; studies in epic, lyric, drama, comedy, tragedy, the novel, biography, essay, and other forms.

Seminar. Studies in fiction form and function or critical theory.

Intensive practicum in advanced level poetry writing, intended to develop high level creative compositional ability. Open only to Creative Writing Ph.D. degree candidates.

Seminar. Studies in poetry form and function or critical theory.

A structured environment in which to craft a research project, write a dissertation prospectus, and define areas of professional expertise. Graded CR/NC. Recommended preparation: passage of screening exam. Not available for degree credit.

Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. GRADED CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit upon acceptance of Dissertation. Graded CR/NC.