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Course Websites
Freshman Writing
Creative Writing
Current Courses
*A booklet with the current and forthcoming semester's course offerings is also available from the Secretary to the English Department, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041, for those using text-only browsers which will not reproduce this schedule.
Course Catalogue:
A complete listing of courses, both current (academic year 2007-2008) and active (in the course catalog but not offered this year).
Introductory courses (100 level)
101L is taken in the freshman year as part of the freshman writing seminars; sections are limited to 15 students. Reading lists for each section vary, but typically include works by Homer (or another epic writer of similar importance to the English language tradition), Shakespeare, nineteenth-century British or American poets andnovelists, and modern writers who recall, revise, and supplement concerns developed by their predecessors.
These course are limited enrollment, open to all classes upon submission of a writing sample.
Literature courses (200 level)
Admission to the major requires completion of two courses at the 200 level by the end of the sophomore year; one of these must be an "introductory emphasis" course (a list of such courses will be issued each semester). English 101L may be presented in place of one 200 level course.
The prerequisite for all 300 level courses is two courses in English at the 200 level or permission of the instructor, unless otherwise indicated. Courses vary from year to year.
Courses with active web sites:
Several courses in the department are actively involved in using computer technologies as an important engagement with the materials of the course. Among these are:
Stephen Finley's Remembrance and Mourning: Literature of the Great War,1914-1918 (see student work on Benjamin Britten's War Requiem).
Maud McInerney's Chaucer. The Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde; Legends of Arthur; Medieval Visions: Text and Image ; Sex and Gender in the Middle Ages;and Apocalyptic Literature.
Rajeswari Mohan's Postcolonial Women Writers: The South Asian Instance
Debora Sherman's The Novel, Joyce & Beckett, Modern Irish Literature , On the Sublime and The Modernist Movement in Literature and Art, 1900-1920 (see student work on James Joyce's Ulysses)
Gustavus Stadler's 19th c. American Women's Narratives
There are also links for the texts studied in the two semesters of Junior Seminar.
For additional websites external to the department that faculty consider valuable adjuncts to research, see Resources.
Student web sites
The department has begun to receive senior essays submitted as hypertext:
Meredith Lewis, "The Metaphysical Garden of Andrew Marvell", Spring, 2001.
Concentrations:
The major has been successfully combined with areas of concentration in Gender & Sexuality Studies, Africana Studies, Education and Education Studies and such independent concentrations as Queer Studies.
Students have also successfully double-majored in English and Classics, Russian at Bryn Mawr, Religion, Philosophy, Biology, and Music. They have also majored in English and completed the premedical program to enter medical school following Graduation.
Courses taken in English in both the Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore departments may also be counted towards the major at Haverford:
Courses in English at Bryn Mawr College
Courses in English at Swarthmore College