Statement on Senator Rand Paul’s CCAS 3000 Course for GW Students
Marshall Alcorn (Chair, Department of English)
Marshall Alcorn (Chair, Department of English)
An Exciting Fall 2017 English Course Offering: This exciting course links authors Toni Morrison and William Faulkner through the ways in which their fictional and discursive practices reflect on each other. Specifically, we will examine how the texts of both authors reenact and resist racism and patriarchal structures; how they explore the ways in which memory…
Registration for Fall 2020 has begun! Course descriptions are now available at the links below. Undergraduate course descriptions for Fall 2020: PDF or Word doc Graduate course descriptions for Fall 2020: PDF or Word doc. These Fall 2020 graduate course listings are also listed on the GW English website. Stay tuned for more information, and…
Note this NEW course being offered by Prof. Jonathan Hsy this fall! This course fulfills the pre-1700 requirement of the English major. Vikings, Mongols, Moors: A Global Middle Ages, Yesterday and Today ENGL 3830.10 (CRN 15259) Prof. Jonathan Hsy Tue/Thu 9:35-10:50 Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Merlin, Vikings, Harry Potter: in popular…
Disability Studies: Composing Disability, or Why Art Matters ENGL 3910.10 (CRN 14687) Prof. Jonathan Hsy Tue/Thu 12:45-2 This course offers a gateway into the interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies, a burgeoning field that examines the wide cultural meanings of disability across time and space. Our main objective will be to interrogate varied and capacious perceptions…
This Fall 2018 Semester, The English Department will offer two courses, ENGL 3210: Slow Reading Virginia Woolf and ENGL 3551: The 19th Century British Novel. Each course dives deep into some of English literature’s most popular and enduring novels. Both courses are taught by Professor Jennifer Green-Lewis. ENGL 3210 – Readings in Creative Writing: Slow Reading Virginia Woolf…
The following policy about transfer of course credit for English majors goes into effect in the fall semester of 2009. The thinking behind the new rule is simple: taking an upper division English literature course at a local community college is likely not the same as taking an upper division English literature course at GW….