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  • EDUC 339: Seminar.The Politics of Urban Public Schools

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Rich This seminar examines recurrent issues in public school management and governance. Critical questions include the changing demo-graphics of inner-city schools, the evolving role of school boards, big-city mayors, urban superintendents, teachers unions, and school finance. We will discuss alternatives to public schools (parochial, private, and charter schools), high-stakes testing, and district-state rela-tions. The seminar will also analyze the increasing intervention of state and federal governments in local school administration and the role of the courts in curriculum controversies, student life, and security. Students may register for either POL1 339S or EDUC 339 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: One 200-level education course or one 200-level American politics course. Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • EDUC 350: Research or Individual Study

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Prerequisite: Open to juniors and seniors by permission of instructor. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • EDUC 350H: Research or Individual Study

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Prerequisite: By permission of instructor. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 0.5
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  • ENG 112: Introduction to Shakespeare

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Shakespeare wrote for a popular audience and was immensely successful. Shakespeare is also universally regarded as the greatest playwright in English. In this introduction to his works, we will try to understand both Shakespeare's popularity and greatness. To help us reach this understanding, we will focus especially on the theatrical nature of Shakespeare's writing. The sylla-bus will likely be as follows : Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lea r, a nd The Winter's Ta le. Prerequisite: None. Especially designed for the non-major and thus not writing-intensive. It does not fulfill the Shakespeare requirement for English majors. Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video or Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1
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  • ENG 113: Studies in Fiction

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Sides Topic for 2009-10: Fantastic Fictions. When fiction blurs or crosses the line between our ?real? world and ?other worlds,? the reader (as well as the narrator or main character) has entered the realm of ?the fantastic,? a genre that (broadly interpreted) contains ?the uncanny,? ?the supernatural or ghost story,? and ?science fiction.? We will read ?fantastic? novels and short fiction by nineteenth-century, twentieth-century, and twenty-first century masters from Europe, Japan, North and South America. Taught primarily in lecture, this course will not be writi ng-intensive. Students may register for either ENG 113 or CPLT 113 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: None. Especially recommended to non-majors. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fa
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  • ENG 114: Great Works of American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. American literature contains an astonishing myriad of voices and forms. This course introduces students to highlights and countercurrents of the American tradition. Featuring guest lectures from faculty members in the English department, the course will span the colonial period to the present. We will read fiction, essays, drama, poetry, and autobiography, devoting time to the ?greats? whom students may have already encountered, and to lesser known and more recent authors. The reading list likely will include: Rowlandson, Native American stories and myths, Emerson, Melville, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Fitzgerald, Hughes, Hurston, Wharton, Faulkner, Williams, Ginsberg and the Beats, Plath, contemporary Asian-American and Hispanic poets, and Morrison-and crea-tive writers on Wellesley's own faculty. Films, music, and visual arts will also figure prominently in the course Prerequisite: None. Especially recommended to non-majors. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 115: Great Works of Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Chiasson A study of the major poems and poets of the English language, from Anglo-Saxon riddles to the works of our contemporaries. How have poets found forms and language adequate to their desires to praise, to curse, to mourn, to seduce How, on shifting historical and cultural grounds, have poems, over time, remained useful and necessary to human life Approximately 1,000 years of poetry will be studied, but special attention will be brought in four cases: Shakespeare's Sonnets; John Milton's ?Lycidas?; the odes of John Keats; the poems of Emi-ly Dickinson. The course will conclude with a unit on contemporary poets (Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, John Ashbery and other s). Prerequisite: None. Especially recommended to non-majors. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1
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  • ENG 120: Critical Interpretation

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Chiasson, Fisher (American Studies), Sabin, Wall-Randell A course designed to increase power and skill in critical interpretation by the detailed reading of poems and the writing of interpretive es-says. This course satisfies the WRIT 125 requirement and the critical interpretation requirement of the English major. Includes a third ses-sion each week. Prerequisite: None. Open only to first-year students. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 122: Narrative Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Lee (English) How are stories put together How do they create the sense that they are told from a distinct perspective How do they create anticipation and retrospection How do we distinguish the telling from the tale This course offers an introduction to narrative theory, or theories that explain the devices and structures that stories use in order to make meaning. We will read excerpts from major works of narrative theory (Bal, Genette, Barthes), and we will explore how their concepts yield a better understanding and appreciation of short stories (as well as novels). Authors may include Balzac, Joyce, Conrad, and Faulkner. This course satisfies the WRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit toward the English major. Includes a third session each week. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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  • ENG 123: Storytelling in the Middle Ages

    3.00 Credits
    Wellesley College

    Leff (English) As modern readers, we are accustomed to reading privately (whether on screens or in books), but in the Middle Ages stories were often delivered orally, at court and in wealthy households. This course explores the cultural significance of telling stories in the Middle Ages through an examination of both popular stories and narratives that dramatize acts of storytelling. We will investigate the ways storytelling could entertain, edify, bring a community closer together, or serve as a means of social control. Readings will likely include selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio' s Decameron , saints' lives, and a medieval romanc e. This course satisfies both theWRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit toward the major in English. Includes a third session each week. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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