The Department of English offers over courses for undergraduate- and graduate-level students. These courses focus on a diverse array of topics from across the fields of American and British literature; world literature; critical and narrative theory; film, video game analysis and other areas of popular culture studies; writing, rhetoric and literacy; digital media studies; and folklore.
We also offer creative writing workshops in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. For complete and accurate meeting days and times for courses of interest, and to register, please visit the Ohio State Master Course Schedule. The master schedule is maintained by University Registrar and includes information about Department of English courses offered across all of our campuses. While we make every effort to ensure that the information below is complete and correct, the link above is guaranteed to be so.
Instructor: Staff Practice in the fundamentals of expository writing, as illustrated in the student's own writing and in the essays of professional writers. Taught with an emphasis on literary texts. Instructor: Jill Galvan This class will dig through the complexities of British cultural history and consider how it has generated interesting, world-important literature and ideas that still resonate with us today. Art forms and movements will also be central to our discussions.
Some examples include poetry of Romantic sublime, the Gothic, satire, Aestheticism, detective fiction, realism, and magic realism. Likely course requirements: active and engaged participation, three short response papers, two exams, and a final critical project. Section 20 Instructor: Alan B. Farmer In this course we will read several plays written by Shakespeare and consider how they both conform to and work against the genres of comedy, tragedy, history, and romance.
Looking at the plays as works to be both performed and read, we will pay particular attention to the politics of gender, religion, and kingship in the plays, topics that Shakespeare returned to again and again and that were vitally important, and indeed controversial, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
