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Fall 2020 Course Offerings

Liberal Learning Key- 

GEN=Gender; GL=Global; RE=Race and Ethnicity; SCHP= Social Change in Historical Perspective; WVWK= World Views and Ways of Knowing
All LIT courses count toward Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts. 

VPA-E=Visual and Performing Arts for Education Majors

SECONDARY ED DISTRIBUTION KEY: AM=American; BR=British; WD=World

NOTE: For cross-listed courses, you may register using either prefix (for instance, AAS 378 counts toward the English major).

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Critical Content Courses

Class

Description

Professor

Days

Start Time

End Time

Designations

LIT 099-01

English Orientation for Dual Education Majors

Bennett

W

8:00am

8:50am

 

LIT 099-02

English Orientation for English Secondary Education Majors

Bennett

W

9:00am

9:50am

 

LIT 099-03

English Orientation for Dual Education Majors

Bennett

W

10:00am

10:50am

 

LIT 099-04

English Orientation for English Liberal Arts Majors

Bennett

W

11:00am

11:50am

 

LIT 201-01

Approaches to Literature

Steinberg, G. 

MR

3:30pm

4:50pm

 

LIT 202-03

Cultures and Canons

McMann

MR

9:30am

10:50am

 

LIT 202-04

Cultures and Canons

McMann

MR

11:00am

12:20pm

 

LIT 202-05

Cultures and Canons

Polidori

MR

2:00pm

3:20pm

 

 

Pre-1660 Literary History Courses

Class

Description

Professor

Days

Start Time

End Time

Designations

LIT 357-01

Early Modern British Literature

Steele

MR

11:00am

12:20pm

 

LIT 255-01

Shakespeare and Gender

Graham

TF

9:30am

10:50am

GEN

LIT 255-02

Shakespeare and Gender

Graham

TF

11:00am

12:20pm

GEN

 

Literary History Courses

Class

Description

Professor

Days

Start Time

End Time

Designations

LIT 280-01

Literature, Film and Art of American Politics

Blake

MR

3:30pm

4:50pm

AM, VPA-E, LH

LIT 280-02

Literature, Film and Art of American Politics

Blake

MR

12:30pm

1:50pm

AM, VPA-E, LH (Honors credit available) 

LIT 377-01/
AAS 377-01

African American Literature to 1920

Jackson

MR

11:00am

12:20pm

AM, RE

LIT 377-02/
AAS 377-02

African American Literature to 1920

Jackson

MR

2:00pm

3:20pm

AM, RE

LIT 360-01

British Augustans and their Rivals

Venturo

TF

11:00am

12:20pm

BR

 

English Secondary Education Courses

Class

Description

Professor

Days

Start Time

End Time

Designations

EED 380-01

Teaching Writing

Meixner

M

5:30pm

8:20pm

 

EED 390-01

Methods of Teaching Secondary Education English

Meixner

MR

2:00pm

3:20pm

 

EED 490

Student Teaching in English

 

 

 

 

 

 

English Elective Courses

Class

Description

Professor

Days

Start Time

End Time

Designations

CWR 206-01

Creative Writing

Rosemurgy

MR

11:00am

12:20pm

 

CWR 206-02

Creative Writing

Rosemurgy

MR

2:00pm

3:20pm

 

CWR 206-03

Creative Writing

Rosemurgy

MR

3:30pm

4:20pm

 

CWR 301-01

Writing Communities

 Row

TF

11:00am

12:20pm

 

CWR 306-01

Fiction Workshop

Row

TF

2:00pm

3:20pm

 

LIT 212-01

Cultural Representations of Gender

Graham

MR

5:30pm

6:50pm

GEN, GL

LIT 270-02

Topics in Literature: Gender and the Short Story

Neuman

MR

3:30pm

4:50pm

 

LIT 310-01

Literature for Younger Readers

Luettchau

W

5:30pm

8:20pm

If you have taken WLC 215 in place of LNG 201 or LNG 202 and need assistance registering please email: ordini@tcnj.edu

LIT 310-02

Literature for Younger Readers

Luettchau

T

5:30pm

8:20pm

If you have taken WLC 215 in place of LNG 201 or LNG 202 and need assistance registering please email: ordini@tcnj.edu

LIT 313-01

Queer Literature

Dalpe

M

5:30pm

8:20pm

 

LIT 316-01

Global Women Writers

Hopps

MR

11:00am

12:20pm

GEN, GL, WD

LIT 316-02

Global Women Writers

Hopps

MR

2:00pm

3:20pm

GEN, GL, WD

LNG 201-01

Introduction to English

Steinberg, G.

TF

2:00pm

3:20pm

 

LNG 202-01

Structure and History of the English Language

Steele

TF

9:30am

10:50am

SCHP

LNG 311-01

Understanding English Grammar

Steinberg, D.

MR

12:30pm

1:50pm

 

LNG 370-01

Special Topics in Philosophy: Animals Don’t Talk

Preti

R

3:30pm

6:20pm

WVWK

 

Capstone Courses

Class

Description

Professor

Days

Start Time

End Time

Designations

LIT 499-01

Seminar in Research and Theory: Melville and Disability

Blake

MR

11:00am

12:20pm

 

LIT 499-02

Seminar in Research and Theory: Graphic Novels & Narrative Theory

Hustis

W

4:30pm

7:20pm

 

LIT 499-03

Seminar in Research and Theory: The New Black Renaissance of 2010s

Jackson

MR

12:30pm

1:50pm

 

LIT 499-04

Seminar in Research and Theory: Utopia/Dystopia

Robertson

TF

2:00pm

3:20pm

 

LIT 499-05

Seminar in Research and Theory: Life Sentences: The Literature of Prison

Tarter

W

8:00am

10:50am

 

LIT 499-06

Seminar in Research and Theory: LGBTQ YA Literature

Meixner

MR

12:30pm

1:50pm

 

 

Graduate Courses- See course descriptions at: https://englishgrad.tcnj.edu/courses/fall-2020/

Class

Description

Professor

Days

Start Time

End Time

Designations

ENGL 544-01

Seminar in Language and Culture

Steele

R

5:00pm

7:30pm

 

ENGL 554-01

Seminar in Prose Fiction: Asian American Literature 

Hustis

T

5:00pm

7:30pm

 

ENGL 597-01

Advanced Topics in English: Partition and the Contemporary Novel

McMann

M

5:00pm

7:30pm

 

ENGL 670-01

Studies in Literature: Women and the Holocaust (please note that this course will be taught in the blended learning format)

Friedman

W

5:00pm

7:30pm

 

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