Literature and Creative Writing

ENGL 122: Introduction to World Mythologynew window
CRN: 21940 |Professor Genevieve Carminati
9/12/2023 - 12/17/2023
TR 12:00-3:30pm, In-person, RV SB004

ENGL 122: Introduction to World Mythology (PDF, )
CRN: 22881 | Professor Shweta Sen
Rockville campus, In person
MW- 12:30-1:45pm

Read stories about:Creation Love Revenge War Life 
Let the ‘mythical’ journey begin!

• Satisfies the humanities (HUMD) distribution
• One of the Institutional Requirement Courses (GEIR)
• General Education Elective (GEEL)
• Meets the Global and Cultural Perspectives (GCP) requirement
• Has wide transferability

ENGL 190: Introduction to Literaturenew window
CRN: 21941 | Professor Eurae Muhn 
9/11/2023 - 12/17/2023 
MW 10:00-11:30am, In-person, RV HU107 

ENGL 233: The Short Storynew window
CRN: 20256 | Professor Leah Sneider   
9/11/2023 - 12/17/2023 
MW 1:00 -2:30pm, In-person, RV HU107 

ENGL235: Film and Literature (PDF, )
CRN: 20290 | Professor Megan Howard
Wednesdays, 2:00-5:05pm, RV campus, In-person
Fall 2023
Earn our ARTD Gen Ed credit! 
Why are we so fascinated with superheroes? Read the myths & comics. Watch the movies.

Why are there so many movies about Batman? How is Thor from Marvel like Thor from Norse mythology? Why do we keep making superhero movies? Take ENGL235 to find out! Read original Wonder Woman & Batman comics. Explore Norse myths about Thor. Watch Black Panther, Wonder Woman, and The Dark Knight.

Fulfills the Arts Distribution and Global and Cultural Perspectives Requirements

ENGL 264: Introduction to Creative Writing Fictionnew window
CRN: 20289 | Professor Jarvis Slacks
8/28/2023 - 12/17/2023 
MW 10:00-11:15am, In-person, RV SC459 

ENGL 264: Introduction to Creative Writing Fictionnew window
CRN: 21634 | Professor John Wang
9/12/2023 - 12/17/2023
TR 12:00-1:30pm, In-person, RV HU207

ENGL122: Intro to Mythologynew window
CRN: 21668 | Professor Joe Couch 
9/11-12/17, Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30, REMOTE
This is a course for story lovers! Read about creation & destruction.

Join in on adventures involving heroes, monsters, and journeys of growth!
A truly global experience!
Fulfills Humanities Distribution and Global and Cultural Perspectives Requirements  
Fulfills Business AA GCP requirement (recommended for students in their third semester)
Transfers to as HUM elective

ENGL 122: Introduction to Mythologynew window
CRN: 22581 | Professor Alejandro G. Leopardi
09/11/23 - 12/17/23
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ENGL 190: Introduction to Literaturenew window
CRN: 20127 | Professor Swift Dickison
9/11/2023-12/17/2023  
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ENGL 190: Introduction to Literaturenew window
CRN: 20287  | Professor Jamie Gillan 
TR 12:30-2:00pm  9/12/2023-12/17/2023
REMOTE

ENGL 190: Introduction to Literaturenew window
CRN: 22504 | Professor Miriam Simon
No class meetings; all work is online
Fall 8/28-12/17/2023

"Students have done very well in the class. One thing I’m very proud of is that I've found poems and assignments that keep poetry lovers engaged and enjoying the discussion while also enabling those with anxiety about reading poetry get over their fear.” Professor Simon

Fulfills HUMD, GEIR, GEEL, &  GCP requirements
Transfers everywhere as a Humanities elective

ENGL 190: Introduction to Literaturenew window
CRN: 23497 | Professor Chip Gladson
09/11/23-12/17/23  
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ENGL 201: INTRO TO WORLD LIT Inew window
CRN: 21424 | Professor Joan Naake
09/11/23-12/17/23
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Do you want to travel to Greece, to India, to China, to Italy, to Japan, and to the United Kingdom? Come explore the globe through world literature this Fall - September 11 through December 17, 2023.
ENGL 201 is online so it can adapt to your schedule.
Assessment Levels: English 101/011

Fulfills Humanities Distribution and Global and Cultural Perspectives Graduation Requirements

ENGL 205: Asian Literature (PDF, )
CRN: 23173 | Professor Jennifer Lee
Fullfills Humanites distribution and Global and Cultural Perspectives requirements
Class meets on Wednesday on Zoom from 2:00-4:55 pm (9/13-12/17/2023)

Join Professor Jennifer Lee this fall for a survey course of Asian literature that will present significant literary texts from across East, South, and Southeast Asia from its earliest beginnings to contemporary works.

Readings will consist of short and medium-length fiction, essays, and poetry in English translation.

Students will read and analyze the thematic development of literature from different regions, examining the relationship of literature to historical, socio-political, and cultural contexts.

Students will have the opportunity to choose readings from from a country of interest preference.

Open discussions and reflective/creative exercises in response to various readings will help us explore the works of Asian authors whose works you may not have read before!

Fulfills Humanities Distribution and Global and Cultural Perspectives Requirements

ENGL 208: Women in Literature (PDF, )
CRN: 23655 | Professor Lynn Roessner-Ankney
9/13-12/17/2023, Wednesdays, 12:00-14:55, REMOTE, Gen Ed Humanities
The content of this course MATTERS to everyone who cares about race, gender, and social justice.  
“This class gave me the words and information I needed to talk about things that are important to me.” 
Read short stories, graphic novels, sci fi, and magical realism by Alison Bechdel, NK Jemisin, Lisa See, Isabel Allende, and more…!

• Fulfills Business AA GCP requirement (recommended for students in their third semester)  
• Arts and Sciences AA, recommended 3rd semester course!  
• Recommended for 3rd semester students pursuing advanced study in art
  
• Fulfills GEIR, GEEL, GCP & ARTD requirements 
  

ENGL 211: American Literature I, Beginning to 1865 (PDF, )
CRN: 23614 | Professor Rebecca Eggenschwiler
TR, 12:30-2:00 PM, REMOTE | HUMD

What kind of country is this?
Find out this Fall 2023
Read American short stories, essays, and poems by great authors - those with power and those with none. Explore issues of race, oppression, democracy, power, gender, violence, identity, and ethics in American texts. Connect the past to the present. Find out what they thought. Find out what you think.

American author and activist James Baldwin reminds us that "history is literally present in all that we do." If that's true, understanding America's past is crucial to understanding its present. In ENGL 211, we'll explore voices, stories, and ideas from America's past. We'll look at how a diverse group of authors told their own American stories—stories of power, loss, hope, oppression, violence, idealism, and attempts at democracy. Come read beautiful, painful, forceful, hopeful, despairing texts and understand how the American past creates our American present—and maybe the future.

This course fulfills humanities distribution

ENGL 213: SURVEY OF BRIT LIT Inew window
CRN: 21425 | Professor Alejandro G. Leopardi
09/11/23-12/17/23  
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New course and offered fully online!
ENGL 228: Latinx Literature in the U.S. (PDF, )
CRN: 23644 | Professor Emily Rosado
This is a Z-course. No text purchases required.
We will lift up the voices of the marginalized as we journey through the stories of Latinx Americans in the United States.

This course fulfills the Humanities distribution requirement

ENGL 233: The Short Storynew window
CRN: 20128 | Professor Dawn Downey
9/11/2023-12/17/2023  
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ENGL 264: Intro to Creative Writing Fiction (PDF, )
CRN: 20359 | Professor Mike LeBlanc
8/29-12/17/2023, Tuesdays 14:30-17:00, REMOTE

Arts and Sciences AA, recommended 3rd semester course!
General Education ARTS!

ENGL 272: Introduction to Creative Writing Poetrynew window
CRN: 21799 | Professor Marianne Szlyk
9/11/2023-12/17/2023
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