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Majors and Courses of InstructionEnglish319. Screenwriting (Olmstead)Designed to introduce the student to screenplay form and technique, this workshop moves fromreadings through written exercises to a completed dramatic script of about thirty minutes in length.Prerequisite: 260 or 265 or consent of the instructor. F.480. Advanced Creative Writing Workshop (Caplan, Olmstead)The capstone creative writing course, this workshop is for students who have successfully completedtwo of the four genre workshops: Writing Fiction (ENG 314), Writing Poetry (ENG 316),Playwriting (ENG 318), or Screenwriting (ENG 319) and wish to do advanced work in theirchosen genre. Prerequisite: 314, 316, 318, or 319. S.482. Non-Fiction Writing Workshop (Disler, Musser)This capstone course helps juniors and seniors who want to continue developing their nonfictionwriting style(s). The workshop will cover a wide variety of non-fiction. Students will writenumerous essays in various non-fiction modes, comment on their peers’ work, and revise their ownessays. Prerequisites: One from 260, 265, 310, 312, 314, or 316. S.British Literature 330. Medieval Literature (DeMarco)English literature from its Anglo-Saxon beginnings through the 15th Century. The works read inthe course illustrate the generic range and imaginative spirit of this near-millennium: Beowulf TheWanderer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, Piers Plowman, The Pearl,and selections from The Book of Margery Kempe and from Julian of Norwich’s Showings. S.334. Chaucer and his Contemporaries (DeMarco)This course focuses on the works of “the father of English literature,” Geoffrey Chaucer, especiallyThe Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. In order to explain the historical, social, andpolitical issues to which Chaucer reacted, the course might also include readings from John Gower’sConfessio Amantis, William Langland’s Piers Plowman, and the Paston Letters, as well as selectionsfrom present-day studies of medieval literature and culture.336. Studies in Shakespeare (Long)(Not offered 2010-2011)A survey of Shakespeare’s plays and poems through the lens of a specific theme. Readings willsample a range of the genres in which Shakespeare wrote (comedy, tragedy, history, romance, lyricand narrative poetry) and span the breadth of Shakespeare’s career. Whenever possible the playsread will be viewed in performance or on film. Possible topics include: “Shakespeare on Love,”“Shakespeare and Religion,” “Shakespearean Cross-Cultural Encounters,” “Shakespeare andTrauma,” and “Shakespeare on Film.” Students will read different plays in ENG 336 than in ENG338.338. Shakespeare: This Great Stage (Long)An investigation of the theatrical world of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Readings willinclude representative works by Shakespeare and other playwrights from major genres associatedwith the Renaissance stage: e.g., revenge tragedy, city comedy, history play, and tragicomedy andromance. Whenever possible, the plays read will be viewed in performance or on film. Studentswill read different plays in ENG 338 than in ENG 336. S.118