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.

Introduction to the pleasures and power of poetry, exploring elements drawn from high-points of English poetry, and the lives and works of major poets. (Duplicates credit in ARLT 101g)

An exploration of the culture, vibrance, heritage, mythology, variety, and pathology of a city that was born in hopes and captured the worlds imagination. Duplicates credit in ARLT 101g.

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.

Examines history of popular cultural forms such as literature, music, dance, theater, and visual arts produced by and about African Americans.

Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing narrative in fiction and literary non-fiction

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

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 in the non-dramatic literature of Renaissance England, with emphasis on Sidney, Spencer, and Shakespeare.

Selected studies in the poetry, prose, and fiction of such writers as Defoe, Dryden, Fielding, Richardson, Pope, Swift, and Johnson.

Selected studies in the prose and poetry of such figures as Tennyson, Dickens, the Brontes, the Brownings, Hopkins, Arnold, Ruskin, and Newman.

Major history plays, comedies, and tragedies.

American poetry and prose to the Civil War with special attention to Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman.

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.

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

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.

Representative plays, especially those of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Restoration periods.

Representative plays of England, Ireland, and the United States, especially those written after 1890.

Selected British, Irish and American drama from the post World War II period (1945 to the present).

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

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.

Critical approaches to narrative form in literature and film; readings and films from several genres and periods, emphasis on gender, ethnicity, and cultural studies.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Selected problems in literary history and criticism.

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

The assumptions and practices of major theorists and theoretical schools from Plato to literary modernism.

The principal methods and assumptions by which race, class and gender have been studied in reference to literary and cultural discourse.

Studies in poetry and patronage, the popular tradition in literature and drama, the social and sexual dynamics of comedy, historical and cultural uses of genres, among other topics.

Studies in British literature and culture, from the 1790s to 1830s, including gender and genre, authorship and authenticity, "romance" and revolution, forms of belief and doubt, and other topics.

Studies in British literature and society, 1837-1901, including gender and genre, industrialism, science and technology, empire and race, new forms of media and narrative, and other topics.

Studies in canonic and non-canonic literature in the American Renaissance, cultural nationalism, the consequences of race, immigration, expansion, urbanization, science, and marketplace, and other topics.

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.

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

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

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 fiction writing, intended to develop high level creative compositional ability. Open only to Creative Writing PhD degree candidates.

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

This two-credit course helps ABD students craft their professional identities and placement materials as they make the transition from graduate school to their academic position. Graded CR/NC. 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.