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analyze such complex problems. First, the use of decision tress for structuring decision problems under uncertainty is
discussed. Next, Monte Carlo simulation is used as a modeling environment, using add-in programs as necessary.
Prerequisite: Familiarity with Excel, enrollment in the Master of Engineering Management program, or permission of
instructor. 3 units.
296. Engineering Management Practicum. The Engineering Management Practicum is provides a real life view of
various challenges faced by organizations. Projects at the intersection of engineering and business will be chosen for
this practicum. Students will work in teams and will conduct a mentored, semester-long project for an organization. The
learning objectives of this course include: (i) learn how engineering and technology impact organizations and how they
are integrated into an organization to achieve desired results; (ii) understand, through an experiential environment, how
organizations function and the difference between theory and implementation in an organizational setting; and (iii)
develop team based skills in an applied environment and learn how to communicate technical issues to a variety of
personnel in an organization. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
298. Special Readings in Engineering Management. Individual readings in advanced study and research areas of
engineering management. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
299. Advanced Topics in Engineering Management. Opportunity for study of advanced subjects related to programs
within engineering management tailored to fit the requirements of a small group. Permission of instructor required.
Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
English
Professor Tennenhouse, Chair (312 Allen); Associate Professor Mitchell, Director of Graduate Studies (316 Allen);
Professors Aers,Aravamudan, Armstrong, Baucom, Beckwith, Clum, Davidson, Ferraro, Holloway, Khanna, Moi,
Pfau, Pope, Porter, Price, Quilligan, Smith, Strandberg, Tennehouse, Torgovnick, Wald; Associate Professors Harris,
Holland, Jones, Mitchell, Moses, Moten, Psomiades, Somerset, Sussman, Tetel, Wallace; Assistant Professor Metzger;
Professor of the Practice Hijuelos; Associate Professor of the Practice Malouf; Adjunct Professors Andrews and O’Barr;
Lecturer Carlson-Hijuelos; Senior Lecturing Fellows Gopen, Donahue; Lecturing Fellows Fox, Hillard
The department only admits students seeking a PhD (though see below on JD/MA). In addition to the dissertation,
the PhD in English requires completion of a minimum of eleven courses, a reading proficiency in at least one foreign
language (the specific language to be determined by the student’s major areas of academic concentration), and a
preliminary examination of three subfields (one major, two minor) that consists of both a written and oral part by the
end of the third year of study. Within six months of the preliminary exam, a dissertation chapter meeting is required
with the thesis committee. A JD/MA degree is offered by the department in cooperation with the Law School. JD/MA
students must apply for admission to the Law School, and must combine relevant course work in English with fulltime
work toward a law degree.
Particular faculty interests currently cutting across the chronological and geographical categorizations of literature
include the cultural work of memory; orientalism; mourning, history and reconciliation; literatures and discourses of
the Atlantic; diasporic literatures; religion; and science and technology. Students are encouraged to read broadly in
English and American literatures (including four-nations British literature, English and America in the Black Atlantic,
the Irish Atlantic and other Atlanticist literatures, Anglo-diasporic literatures, and postcolonial literatures). They are
also encouraged to interrogate the constitution and writing of literary and cultural history, and to develop the specific
range of linguistic, philosophical, and historical skills relevant to their chosen field and their chosen intervention therein.
For additional information, visit our Web site, http://english.duke.edu/grads/.
English (ENGLISH)
201S. Writing Poetry: Formal and Dramatic Approaches. A workshop comparing meter, stanza, and rhyme with free
verse, to illuminate the freedom and form of all poetry. Narrative and conceptual content considered within the poem's
emotive, musical dynamic. Group discussion of technique, personal aesthetic and creative process; revisions of poems.
Instructor: Pope. 3 units.
202S. Narrative Writing. The writing of short stories, memoirs, tales, and other narrations. Readings from ancient and
modern narrative. Close discussion of frequent submissions by class members. Instructor: Porter or Price. 3 units.
205. Semiotics and Linguistics (DS4). 3 units. C-L: see Russian 205; also C-L: Linguistics 205
207A. Introduction to Old English (DS1). An introduction to the language of the Anglo-Saxon period (700-1100), with
readings in representative prose and poetry. Not open to students who have taken 113A or the equivalent. Instructor:
Somerset. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 207A
212S. Middle English Literature: 1100 to 1500 (DS1). Selected topics. Instructor: Aers, Beckwith, or Somerset. 3 units.
C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 209S
213S. Chaucer and His Contexts (DS1). The first two-thirds of his career, especially Troilus and Criseyde. Instructor:
Aers, Beckwith, or Somerset. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 213S
214S. Selected Topics Centered on the Seventeenth Century (DS2). Topics vary be semester. Instructor: Aers. 3 units.
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