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ENGL 223 American Transcendentalism 6 credits
The last time US citizens were so politically polarized as now was in the 1840s and 50s, a period that gave rise in New England to the loose band of social and religious reformers known as the Transcendentalists. This interdisciplinary course investigates the major figures of the movement—Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Walt Whitman— alongside less well-known figures, grappling with their experiments in living and writing, and contextualizing in the disruptions of the times their collective search for better ways of doing life and thought, labor and politics, friendship and education.
- Spring 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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ENGL 259 Creative Travel Writing Workshop 6 credits
Travelers write. Whether it be in the form of postcards, text messages, blogs, or articles, writing serves to anchor memory and process difference, making foreign experience understandable to us and accessible to others. While examining key examples of the genre, you will draw on your experiences off-campus for your own work. Student essays will be critiqued in a workshop setting, and all work will be revised before final submission. Some experimentation with blended media is also encouraged. This course was formerly listed as CCST 270.
CCST 259 is cross listed with ENGL 259.
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student has enrolled in any of the following course(s): Any Carleton OCS course or Non-Carleton OCS course with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 259.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty: Peter Balaam 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 302 1:50pm-4:50pm
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ENGL 295 Critical Methods 6 credits
Required of students majoring in English, this course explores practical and theoretical issues in literary analysis and contemporary criticism.
Not open to first year students.
- Fall 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One English Foundations including (100) course with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 on the English Literature and Composition AP exam or received a grade of 6 or better on the English Language A: Literature IB exam AND 6 credits from English courses (100-399) not including Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 395 The Romantic Mode 6 credits
In Anglo-US literary study, “Romanticism” usually delineates an historical period beginning with the French Revolution and coming to an end with realism and modernism. Following recent Marxist theorists, in this Advanced Seminar we will construe the Romantic as an expressive resource, a mode of thought beholden to no particular period and instead a form of cultural critique available to artists, writers, and thinkers across time. An interdisciplinary approach to the topic with primary literary sources drawn from Rousseau, Wordsworth, Burke, Marx, Thoreau, Cather, Chaplin, and beyond.
Repeatable: Course is repeatable provided the topics are different.
- Spring 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student must have completed any of the following course(s): ENGL 295 and one 300 level ENGL course with grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 400 Integrative Exercise 6 credits
Senior English majors may fulfill the integrative exercise by completing one of the four options: the Colloquium Option (a group option in which participants discuss, analyze and write about a thematically coherent list of literary works); the Research Essay Option (an extended essay on a topic of the student’s own devising); the Creative Option (creation of a work of literary art); or the Project Option (creation of an individual or group multidisciplinary project). The Research Essay Option is open to students who have completed a senior seminar in the major by the end of fall term senior year. The Creative Option is open only to students who have completed at least two creative writing courses (one of which must be at the 300 level) by the end of fall term senior year.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration
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Student is an English major AND has Senior Priority.