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Subject Notes for Undergraduate Students

(1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate Students
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ENG 1A 1	Introduction to Literary Studies [ hum wi ]	M,W,Th 10:00 AM–10:50 AM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies002	Open 60 / 999 / 0	Quinney, Laura	View Books
ENG 6A 1	American Literature in the Age of Lincoln [ hum ]	M,W,Th 9:00 AM–9:50 AM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr116	Open 12 / 999 / 0	Burt, John	View Books
ENG 10B 1	Poetry: A Basic Course [ hum wi ]	M,W,Th 12:00 PM–12:50 PM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies002	Open 81 / 999 / 0	Burt, John	View Books
ENG 18B 1	Writing the Holocaust [ hum wi ]	M,W 2:00 PM–3:20 PM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr112	Open 29 / 999 / 0	Skorczewski, Dawn M.	View Books
ENG 28A 1	Nature Writing [ hum ]	M,W 2:00 PM–3:20 PM Kutz Hall 130	Open 17 / 999 / 0	Irr, Caren	View Books
ENG 33A 1	Shakespeare [ hum ]	M,W,Th 12:00 PM–12:50 PM Golding Judaica Center101	Open 43 / 999 / 0	Flesch, William	View Books
ENG 34A 1	A Haunted America: American Dreamers as Wanderers, Visionaries, Isolates [ hum oc wi ]	M,W 5:00 PM–6:20 PM Pearlman Hall 203	Open 8 / 12 / 0	Whelan, Michaele	View Books
ENG 57B 1	Writing the Nation: James Baldwin, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison [ hum ]	T,F 12:30 PM–1:50 PM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr104	Open 24 / 999 / 0	Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah	View Books
ENG 79A 1	Directed Writing: Beginning Screenplay [ hum wi ] See Course Catalog for Special Notes Instructor's Signature Required Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Will not participate in July Registration	M 6:30 PM–9:20 PM Shiffman Humanities Ctr125	Closed Consent Req. 18 / 12 / 0	Weinberg, Marc	View Books
ENG 79B 1	Writing Workshop: From Memory to Craft [ hum wi ] See Course Catalog for prerequisites. See Course Catalog for Special Notes Instructor's Signature Required Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Will not participate in July Registration	T 2:00 PM–4:50 PM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302	Open Consent Req. 5 / 12 / 0	Channer, Colin	View Books
ENG 87B 1	Queer Readings: Beyond Stonewall [ hum ]	T,Th 2:00 PM–3:20 PM Shiffman Humanities Ctr125	Open 23 / 999 / 0	King, Thomas A	View Books
ENG 88B 1	Contemporary British Literature [ hum ]	T,F 11:00 AM–12:20 PM Mandel Ctr for HumanitiesG10	Open 14 / 999 / 0	Sherman, David R.	View Books
(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ANTH/ENG 150A 1	Cases and Clues: Reading Novels and Ethnographies as Cultural Explorations [ hum ss ]	T,F 9:30 AM–10:50 AM Mandel Ctr for HumanitiesG10	Open 12 / 999 / 0	Ferry, Elizabeth Emma Plotz, John	View Books
ENG 109A 1	Directed Writing: Poetry [ hum ] See Course Catalog for Special Notes Instructor's Signature Required Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Jacob Ziskind Visiting Poet-in Residence for 2012-13: Liz Bradfield. Writing samples for April registration should be emailed to lizbradfield@gmail.com. Will not participate in July Registration	Th 2:00 PM–4:50 PM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr116	Open Consent Req. 9 / 12 / 0	Bradfield, Elizabeth	View Books
ENG 109B 1	Directed Writing: Short Fiction [ hum wi ] Instructor's Signature Required See Course Catalog for Special Notes Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Students should email their manuscripts to the instructor, Colin Channer, channer@brandeis.edu. Will not participate in July Registration	W 5:00 PM–7:50 PM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies202	Open Consent Req. 11 / 12 / 0	Channer, Colin	View Books
ENG 111B 1	Postcolonial Theory [ hum ]	T,Th 5:00 PM–6:20 PM Mandel Ctr for HumanitiesG11	Open 7 / 999 / 0	Anjaria, Ulka	View Books
ENG 119A 1	Directed Writing: Fiction [ hum wi ] See Course Catalog for Special Notes Instructor's Signature Required Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Will not participate in July Registration	T 9:00 AM–11:50 AM Rabb Graduate Center119	Closed Consent Req. 14 / 12 / 0	McCauley, Stephen D.	View Books
ENG 119B 1	Directed Writing: Poetry [ hum wi ] Instructor's Signature Required See Course Catalog for Special Notes Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Will not participate in July Registration	W 2:00 PM–4:50 PM Rabb Graduate Center333	Closed Consent Req. 13 / 12 / 0	Broumas, Olga	View Books
ENG 144B 1	The Body as Text [ hum wi ]	T,F 11:00 AM–12:20 PM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr124	Open 16 / 999 / 0	King, Thomas A	View Books
ENG 147A 1	Film Noir [ hum ] Screening time: Mondays 7-9p in Mandel G03	M,W,Th 1:00 PM–1:50 PM Mandel Ctr for HumanitiesG03	Open 85 / 90 / 0	Morrison, Paul	View Books
ENG 148B 1	Me, Myself, and I: The Theme of Self-Conflict [ hum ]	M,W,Th 1:00 PM–1:50 PM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr112	Open 28 / 999 / 0	Quinney, Laura	View Books
ENG 187A 1	American Fiction since 1945 [ hum ]	M,W,Th 11:00 AM–11:50 AM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies203	Open 31 / 999 / 0	Irr, Caren	View Books
Core Course for the English Major and Minor
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ENG 1A 1	Introduction to Literary Studies [ hum wi ]	M,W,Th 10:00 AM–10:50 AM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies002	Open 60 / 999 / 0	Quinney, Laura	View Books
Core Courses for the Creative Writing Major
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ENG 1A 1	Introduction to Literary Studies [ hum wi ]	M,W,Th 10:00 AM–10:50 AM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies002	Open 60 / 999 / 0	Quinney, Laura	View Books
English: Literary Theory / Criticism Courses
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ENG 111B 1	Postcolonial Theory [ hum ]	T,Th 5:00 PM–6:20 PM Mandel Ctr for HumanitiesG11	Open 7 / 999 / 0	Anjaria, Ulka	View Books
English: Media and Film Courses
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ENG 147A 1	Film Noir [ hum ] Screening time: Mondays 7-9p in Mandel G03	M,W,Th 1:00 PM–1:50 PM Mandel Ctr for HumanitiesG03	Open 85 / 90 / 0	Morrison, Paul	View Books
English: Multicultural Literature/World Anglophone Courses
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ENG 57B 1	Writing the Nation: James Baldwin, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison [ hum ]	T,F 12:30 PM–1:50 PM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr104	Open 24 / 999 / 0	Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah	View Books
English: Pre-1800 Courses
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ENG 33A 1	Shakespeare [ hum ]	M,W,Th 12:00 PM–12:50 PM Golding Judaica Center101	Open 43 / 999 / 0	Flesch, William	View Books
ENG 144B 1	The Body as Text [ hum wi ]	T,F 11:00 AM–12:20 PM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr124	Open 16 / 999 / 0	King, Thomas A	View Books
ENG 148B 1	Me, Myself, and I: The Theme of Self-Conflict [ hum ]	M,W,Th 1:00 PM–1:50 PM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr112	Open 28 / 999 / 0	Quinney, Laura	View Books
English: Post-1800 Courses
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ENG 6A 1	American Literature in the Age of Lincoln [ hum ]	M,W,Th 9:00 AM–9:50 AM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr116	Open 12 / 999 / 0	Burt, John	View Books
ENG 18B 1	Writing the Holocaust [ hum wi ]	M,W 2:00 PM–3:20 PM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr112	Open 29 / 999 / 0	Skorczewski, Dawn M.	View Books
ENG 28A 1	Nature Writing [ hum ]	M,W 2:00 PM–3:20 PM Kutz Hall 130	Open 17 / 999 / 0	Irr, Caren	View Books
ENG 34A 1	A Haunted America: American Dreamers as Wanderers, Visionaries, Isolates [ hum oc wi ]	M,W 5:00 PM–6:20 PM Pearlman Hall 203	Open 8 / 12 / 0	Whelan, Michaele	View Books
ENG 87B 1	Queer Readings: Beyond Stonewall [ hum ]	T,Th 2:00 PM–3:20 PM Shiffman Humanities Ctr125	Open 23 / 999 / 0	King, Thomas A	View Books
ENG 88B 1	Contemporary British Literature [ hum ]	T,F 11:00 AM–12:20 PM Mandel Ctr for HumanitiesG10	Open 14 / 999 / 0	Sherman, David R.	View Books
ENG 187A 1	American Fiction since 1945 [ hum ]	M,W,Th 11:00 AM–11:50 AM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies203	Open 31 / 999 / 0	Irr, Caren	View Books
English: Directed Writing Courses
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ENG 79A 1	Directed Writing: Beginning Screenplay [ hum wi ] See Course Catalog for Special Notes Instructor's Signature Required Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Will not participate in July Registration	M 6:30 PM–9:20 PM Shiffman Humanities Ctr125	Closed Consent Req. 18 / 12 / 0	Weinberg, Marc	View Books
ENG 79B 1	Writing Workshop: From Memory to Craft [ hum wi ] See Course Catalog for prerequisites. See Course Catalog for Special Notes Instructor's Signature Required Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Will not participate in July Registration	T 2:00 PM–4:50 PM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302	Open Consent Req. 5 / 12 / 0	Channer, Colin	View Books
ENG 109A 1	Directed Writing: Poetry [ hum ] See Course Catalog for Special Notes Instructor's Signature Required Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Jacob Ziskind Visiting Poet-in Residence for 2012-13: Liz Bradfield. Writing samples for April registration should be emailed to lizbradfield@gmail.com. Will not participate in July Registration	Th 2:00 PM–4:50 PM Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr116	Open Consent Req. 9 / 12 / 0	Bradfield, Elizabeth	View Books
ENG 109B 1	Directed Writing: Short Fiction [ hum wi ] Instructor's Signature Required See Course Catalog for Special Notes Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Students should email their manuscripts to the instructor, Colin Channer, channer@brandeis.edu. Will not participate in July Registration	W 5:00 PM–7:50 PM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies202	Open Consent Req. 11 / 12 / 0	Channer, Colin	View Books
ENG 119A 1	Directed Writing: Fiction [ hum wi ] See Course Catalog for Special Notes Instructor's Signature Required Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Will not participate in July Registration	T 9:00 AM–11:50 AM Rabb Graduate Center119	Closed Consent Req. 14 / 12 / 0	McCauley, Stephen D.	View Books
ENG 119B 1	Directed Writing: Poetry [ hum wi ] Instructor's Signature Required See Course Catalog for Special Notes Offered exclusively on a credit/no credit basis. All Creative Writing courses are by instructor's permission, after the submission of a manuscript sample. Manuscript samples should be no more than 6 pages long, and in the genre of the Creative Writing workshop the student is applying for; poetry, fiction, screenwriting. Samples should be emailed to the relevant instructor as early in the registration process as possible, in a single document, (.doc or .doxc). Each workshop is capped at 14, with the exception of screenwriting, which is capped at 16. During early registration each workshop will accept up to 12 students, allowing room for incoming first-years and transfer students during the fall registration period. Will not participate in July Registration	W 2:00 PM–4:50 PM Rabb Graduate Center333	Closed Consent Req. 13 / 12 / 0	Broumas, Olga	View Books
Foundational Courses for the Creative Writing Major
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ENG 10B 1	Poetry: A Basic Course [ hum wi ]	M,W,Th 12:00 PM–12:50 PM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies002	Open 81 / 999 / 0	Burt, John	View Books
English: Other Elective Courses
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ANTH/ENG 150A 1	Cases and Clues: Reading Novels and Ethnographies as Cultural Explorations [ hum ss ]	T,F 9:30 AM–10:50 AM Mandel Ctr for HumanitiesG10	Open 12 / 999 / 0	Ferry, Elizabeth Emma Plotz, John	View Books
Cross-Listed in English: Media/Film
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
SAS 130A 1	Film and Fiction of Crisis [ hum ]	T,Th 2:00 PM–3:20 PM Mandel Ctr for HumanitiesG10	Open 18 / 999 / 0	Singh, Harleen	View Books
Cross-Listed in English: Multicult/World Anglo. Lit
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
AAAS 79B 1	Afro-American Literature of the Twentieth Century [ hum ss wi ]	T,F 9:30 AM–10:50 AM Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302	Open 7 / 999 / 0	Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah	View Books
SAS 140A 1	We Who Are at Home Everywhere: Narratives from the South Asian Diaspora [ hum ]	T,Th 3:30 PM–4:50 PM Shiffman Humanities Ctr125	Open 14 / 999 / 0	Singh, Harleen	View Books
Cross-Listed in English: Pre-1800
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
COML 103B 1	Madness and Folly in Renaissance Literature [ hum wi ]	T,Th 2:00 PM–3:20 PM Shiffman Humanities Ctr218	Open 8 / 15 / 0	Lansing, Richard H	View Books
Cross-Listed in English: Post-1800
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
RECS 154A 1	The Art of Vladimir Nabokov [ hum ] See Course Catalog for Special Notes	T,Th 3:30 PM–4:50 PM Shiffman Humanities Ctr120	Open 10 / 999 / 0	Powelstock, David	View Books
THA 76A 1	British, Irish, and Postcolonial Theater [ ca wi ] See Course Catalog for Special Notes	T,Th 3:30 PM–4:50 PM Kutz Hall 130	Open 16 / 30 / 0	Holmberg, Arthur	View Books
Cross-Listed in English: Other Elective Courses
Course #	Course Title	Time Location	Enrl / Lim / Wait	Instructor(s)	View Books
ECS 100A 1	European Cultural Studies Proseminar: Modernism [ hum wi ]	M,W 2:00 PM–3:20 PM Shiffman Humanities Ctr125	Open 16 / 999 / 0	Dowden, Stephen	View Books
HSSP 118B 1	Viewing Health Policy Through the Lens of Literature [ ss ]	M,W 3:30 PM–4:50 PM Kutz Hall 130	Open 13 / 25 / 0	Garnick, Deborah W.	View Books
THA 11A 1	Theater Texts and Theory I [ ca ] See Course Catalog for Special Notes	T,Th 2:00 PM–3:20 PM Kutz Hall 130	Open 29 / 30 / 0	Holmberg, Arthur	View Books