Summer 2022 Undergraduate Courses

[Dialogue] ENGL 2600 Irish Literary Culture Abroad

Instructor: Professors Joseph Nugent and Patrick Mullen

Attributes:

• Major Requirement 20th-21st Century Literature, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath IC, EX

Explores Irish writers from the nineteenth century through the present. Emphasizes their relationships to contemporary Irish society. Explores the formal traditions of Irish writing as well as the historical, political, and cultural discourses that Irish writing has both helped to shape and within which the writing circulates. As the course takes place in Dublin during the summer term, offers students an opportunity to meet living Irish writers who talk about their relationship to the literary tradition and their own craft. Covers writers such as Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Kate O’Brien, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Paul Murray, Kevin Barry, and Maeve Binchy.

Please note the application deadline for this Dialogue has passed. See the GEO website for more information.

[ADDED ON 2/28] ENGL 1450 Reading & Writing in the Digital Age

Instructor: Tieanna Graphenreed

Attributes:

• Major Requirement: Comparative
• NUPath: IC, AD, WI

Grapples with the long and sometimes tumultuous relationship between texts and new media technologies. Offers students opportunities to historicize and engage the social and intellectual upheavals of our own technological moment through reading, discussion, writing projects, and practicums that seek to develop skills for analyzing the data and metadata of texts through both qualitative and quantitative methods.

[Dialogue] ENGL 2620 What is Nature?

Instructor: Professor Kathleen Kelly

Attributes:

• Major Requirement Comparative, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath IC, EX

Focuses on a variety of texts (imaginative literature, memoir, scientific writing, creative nonfiction, and popular journalism) that take nature, ecology, and the environment as their subject. Examines paintings, photography, and other visual representations (such as computer simulations) of the natural world. Taught in Boston or in the United Kingdom.

Please note the application deadline for this Dialogue has passed. See the GEO website for more information.

[Dialogue] ENGL 3487 Film & Text Abroad

Instructors: Professors Joseph Nugent and Patrick Mullen

Attributes:

• Major Requirement Comparative, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath IC, EX

Studies the similarities and differences between literary texts and film versions of those texts or the interrelations between film and literature as a means of cultural expression in a specific country outside the United States. May be repeated without limit.

Please note the application deadline for this Dialogue has passed. See the GEO website for more information.

[CANCELLED] ENGL/AFAM 3664 Black Poetry and the Spoken Word

Instructor: Alanna Prince
Sequence: MW 1:30-5 PM

Attributes:

• Major Requirement Comparative, Diversity

Please note: this class has been cancelled as of 3/22/22 due to low enrollment.

[CANCELLED] ENGL 3340 Technologies of Text

Instructor: Tieanna Graphenreed
Sequence: ONLINE

Attributes:

• Major Requirement Theories & Methods, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath EI, AD, EX

Please note this course has been cancelled for the summer.

ENGL 2700 Creative Writing

Instructors:

• Section 1: Professor Isabel Sobral Campos
• Section 2: Professor Ellen Noonan

Sequence: ONLINE (both sections)

Attributes:

• Major Requirement Writing
• NUPath EI

Gives the developing writer an opportunity to practice writing various forms of both poetry and prose. Features in-class discussion of student work.

[Dialogue] ENGL 338o Writing Seminar: Food Writing

Instructor: Professor Caitlin Thornbrugh

Attributes: 

• Major Requirement Writing, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath EI, WI

In recent years, food writing (reviews, criticism, and history) has increased in popularity. Food is interdisciplinary, immersive, and interactive. Food teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. Writing about food is writing about the self, the body, human invention, and history. There are myriad stories to tell about what we eat, why we eat it, and with whom. In this course, students will explore the intersection of food and Southeast Asian culture through fieldwork: cooking, interviewing, researching, and, of course, dining. We will read food writing by Anthony Bourdain, Andrea Nguyen, Jonathan Gold, and local writers. We will analyze documentaries and television series about food culture and create our own visual stories about our experiences abroad. Students will build a collection of food writing as well as give and receive feedback about their work.

Please note the application deadline for this Dialogue has passed. See the GEO website for more information.

[Dialogue] ENGL 2600 Irish Literary Culture Abroad

Instructors: Professors Joseph Nugent and Patrick Mullen

Attributes:

• Major Requirement 20th-21st Century Literature, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath IC, EX

Explores Irish writers from the nineteenth century through the present. Emphasizes their relationships to contemporary Irish society. Explores the formal traditions of Irish writing as well as the historical, political, and cultural discourses that Irish writing has both helped to shape and within which the writing circulates. As the course takes place in Dublin during the summer term, offers students an opportunity to meet living Irish writers who talk about their relationship to the literary tradition and their own craft. Covers writers such as Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Kate O’Brien, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright, Paul Murray, Kevin Barry, and Maeve Binchy.

Please note the application deadline for this Dialogue has passed. See the GEO website for more information.

[Dialogue] ENGL 2620 What is Nature?

Instructor: Professor Kathleen Kelly

Attributes:

• Major Requirement Comparative, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath IC, EX

Focuses on a variety of texts (imaginative literature, memoir, scientific writing, creative nonfiction, and popular journalism) that take nature, ecology, and the environment as their subject. Examines paintings, photography, and other visual representations (such as computer simulations) of the natural world. Taught in Boston or in the United Kingdom.

Please note the application deadline for this Dialogue has passed. See the GEO website for more information.

[CANCELLED] ENGL 3340 Technologies of Text

Instructor: Tieanna Graphenreed
Sequence: ONLINE

Attributes:

• Major Requirement Theories & Methods, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath EI, AD, EX

Please note this course has been cancelled for the summer.

[Dialogue] ENGL 338o Writing Seminar: Food Writing

Instructor: Professor Caitlin Thornbrugh

Attributes: 

• Major Requirement Writing, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath EI, WI

In recent years, food writing (reviews, criticism, and history) has increased in popularity. Food is interdisciplinary, immersive, and interactive. Food teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. Writing about food is writing about the self, the body, human invention, and history. There are myriad stories to tell about what we eat, why we eat it, and with whom. In this course, students will explore the intersection of food and Southeast Asian culture through fieldwork: cooking, interviewing, researching, and, of course, dining. We will read food writing by Anthony Bourdain, Andrea Nguyen, Jonathan Gold, and local writers. We will analyze documentaries and television series about food culture and create our own visual stories about our experiences abroad. Students will build a collection of food writing as well as give and receive feedback about their work.

Please note the application deadline for this Dialogue has passed. See the GEO website for more information.

[Dialogue] ENGL 3487 Film & Text Abroad

Instructors: Professors Joseph Nugent and Patrick Mullen

Attributes:

• Major Requirement Comparative, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath IC, EX

Studies the similarities and differences between literary texts and film versions of those texts or the interrelations between film and literature as a means of cultural expression in a specific country outside the United States. May be repeated without limit.

Please note the application deadline for this Dialogue has passed. See the GEO website for more information.

[CANCELLED]] ENGL/AFAM 3664 Black Poetry and the Spoken Word

Instructor: Alanna Prince
Sequence: MW 1:30-5 PM

Attributes:

• Major Requirement Comparative, Diversity

Please note: this class has been cancelled as of 3/22/22 due to low enrollment.

ENGL 2695 Travel and Place-Based Writing

Instructor: Professor Kathleen Kelly
Sequence: ONLINE

Attributes: 

• Major Requirement Comparative OR Writing
• NUPath EI, IC

Focuses on travel writing and place-based writing. Examines the history, global cultural contexts, conventions of, and theories about the genres through reading exemplary texts and studying photographs and films. Offers students an opportunity to produce examples of travel writing and place-based writing as well as short videos and photo-collages.

ENGL 2695 Travel and Place-Based Writing

Instructor: Professor Kathleen Kelly
Sequence: ONLINE

Attributes: 

• Major Requirement Comparative OR Writing
• NUPath EI, IC

Focuses on travel writing and place-based writing. Examines the history, global cultural contexts, conventions of, and theories about the genres through reading exemplary texts and studying photographs and films. Offers students an opportunity to produce examples of travel writing and place-based writing as well as short videos and photo-collages.

ENGL 2700 Creative Writing

Instructors:

• Section 1: Professor Jeremy Bushnell
• Section 2: Professor Christopher Ayala

Sequence: ONLINE (both sections)

Attributes:

• Major Requirement Writing
• NUPath EI

Gives the developing writer an opportunity to practice writing various forms of both poetry and prose. Features in-class discussion of student work.

ENGL 3375 Writing Boston

Instructor: Professor Patrick Mullen
Sequence: Online
Attributes:

• Major Requirement  Writing, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath EI, IC, WI, EX

Explores how writing shapes the life of, and life in, the city. Considers how Boston is constructed in a range of discourses and disciplines. Offers students an opportunity to research and write about the city and participate in a community-based writing project.

ENGL 3375 Writing Boston

Instructor: Professor Patrick Mullen
Sequence: Online
Attributes:

• Major Requirement  Writing, Experiential in the Major
• NUPath EI, IC, WI, EX

Explores how writing shapes the life of, and life in, the city. Considers how Boston is constructed in a range of discourses and disciplines. Offers students an opportunity to research and write about the city and participate in a community-based writing project.