Below you will find the current coures offerings listed by semeseter and then alphabetically by department. If you have any questions about these courses, please contact the Registrar's Office at registrar@simmons.edu or 617-521-2111.
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Fall 2013 Course Schedule - Updated Hourly
East Asian Studies
EAS 370 - Internship
4-8 sem. hrs. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Zhigang Liu | Open | 9 | Yes | 4.00 |
Economics
ECON 100 - Principles of Microeconomics
4 sem. hrs. Addresses debates about whether market capitalism provides the best institutional context for organizing the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Considers consumer and business behavior under various competitive conditions. Assesses the appropriate role for government policy in improving performance of market capitalism. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 11:00AM-12:20PM | N/A | Carole Biewener | Open | 6 | No | 4.00 |
| 02 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 02:00PM-03:20PM | N/A | Carole Biewener | Open | 18 | No | 4.00 |
ECON 101 - Principles of Macroeconomics
4 sem. hrs. Provides perspective on the economy as a whole. Examines how interactions among national levels of consumption, saving, investment, trade, and government policy cause inflation, unemployment, and the economy's oscillation between prosperity and recession. Pays close attention to current macroeconomic events, including changes in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy and the fiscal impact of the national budget. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 12:30PM-01:50PM | N/A | Niloufer Sohrabji | Open | 14 | No | 4.00 |
ECON 200 - Intermediate Microeconomics
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ECON 100 and 101. Provides an intermediate study of the neoclassical theory of consumer choice, producer choice, market structures, general equilibrium, and welfare economics. Emphasizes the way micro decision-making leads to the market allocation of resources. Basch.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 11:00AM-12:20PM | N/A | TBA | Open | 17 | No | 4.00 |
ECON 214 - Women in the World Economy
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ECON 100 and 101 or consent of the instructor. A reading seminar that addresses the theoretical and practical implications of considering global economic development issues and programs from the standpoint of women and/or gender. Examination of the feminization of work, along with strategies for contending with the many challenges and opportunities globalization presents to women in communities across the world. Biewener.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon,Wed | 01:30PM-02:50PM | N/A | Carole Biewener | Open | 9 | No | 4.00 |
ECON 218 - International Trade
Prereq.: ECON 100 and 101. Introduces students to international trade theory and policy with an emphasis on issues of current interest. Examines theories of why nations trade, the political economy of trade protection and strategic trade policy, debates surrounding the growth of transnational corporations, and concerns about international competitiveness. Sohrabji.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 09:30AM-10:50AM | N/A | Niloufer Sohrabji | Open | 15 | No | 4.00 |
ECON 231 - Money & Banking
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ECON 100 and 101 or consent of the instructor. Examines the U.S. monetary and financial systems, monetary theories, and monetary policy. Surveys theories of interest rates, theories of the interaction between the economy's monetary and productive sectors, and monetary policy. Places monetary theories within the context of broad economic debates. Tracks developments in monetary policy and financial markets, analyzing impacts on financial intermediation and the macroeconomy. Aoki.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 12:30PM-01:50PM | N/A | Masato Aoki | Open | 20 | No | 4.00 |
ECON 247 - Environmental Economics
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ECON 100 and 101 or consent of the instructor. Analyzes environmental problems and policies, with emphasis on the difficulties of measuring environmental costs and benefits. Considers pricing incentives vs. direct control approaches to regulating water pollution, air pollution, atmospheric change and acid rain, and the disposal of solid and hazardous wastes. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 02:00PM-03:20PM | N/A | TBA | Open | 10 | No | 4.00 |
ECON 349 - Directed Study
Prereq.: Consent of the department. Directed study addresses coursework required for the major or degree not being offered formally that semester. Students work under the close supervision of a faculty member. Consent is required for a directed study, which does not count toward the independent learning requirement. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Masato Aoki | Open | 6 | Yes | 4.00 |
ECON 350 - Independent Study
4 or 8 sem. hrs. Prereq.: Consent of the department. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Masato Aoki | Open | 6 | Yes | 4.00 |
ECON 355 - Thesis
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ECON 350 and consent of the department. Written as the culmination of a two-semester project, following writing of an acceptable thesis proposal in spring of junior year and writing of a literature review in ECON 350 in fall of senior year. Includes oral defense with members of the department. Required for consideration for honors in economics. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Masato Aoki | Open | 6 | Yes | 4.00 |
ECON 370 - Internship
4-16 sem. hrs. Prereq.: Senior standing and consent of the instructor. Provides students with opportunities for workplace experience and supervised research projects that incorporate economic analysis. Biewener.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Carole Biewener | Open | 17 | Yes | 4.00 |
ECON 393 - Econometrics
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: MATH 118 and either ECON 200 or 201 or consent of the instructor. Introduces the quantitative measurement and analysis of actual economic phenomena using regression analysis. Uses regression techniques to describe economic relationships, to test hypotheses about economic relationships, and to forecast future economic activity. Constructs and tests economic models using a computer statistical package. Sohrabji.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon,Wed | 11:00AM-12:20PM | N/A | Niloufer Sohrabji | Open | 14 | No | 4.00 |
Education
EDUC 108 - Intro to Early Child Education
4 sem. hrs. Provides a comprehensive view of early childhood education with particular focus on the critical examination of models of effective early childhood programs and practices. Emphasizes the social contexts of the education of young children, with attention to the role of culture, families, peers, play, and social behaviors. Examines specific programs and models of early childhood education. Requires site visits. Schnapp.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue | 03:30PM-06:20PM | N/A | Honey Schnapp | Open | 18 | No | 4.00 |
EDUC 156 - Schools in an Era of Change
4 sem. hrs. Engages students in a range of issues and ideas that are part of the American educational scene, including schools as social organizations, special education, the role of technology in teaching, standardized testing, the philosophy and history of education, and the search for instructional excellence and equity in education. Requires fieldwork and computer use. Oakes, Cunnion, Bettencourt.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue | 12:30PM-03:30PM | N/A | Maryellen Cunnion | Open | 15 | No | 4.00 |
EDUC 205 - Thinking Through Art
Examines the Visual Thinking Strategies teaching method, in which open-ended group discussions of visual art help learners of all ages to develop critical thinking skills. Students will explore the theory and research underpinnings, practice facilitating discussion, study assessment strategies and consider applications of VTS in both classrooms and art museums. Guest speakers and visits to the Gardner Museum and Museum of Fine Arts are included in the work for this course. No experience in art or art history is necessary. Grohe. 4 sem. hrs.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Wed | 06:00PM-08:50PM | N/A | Michelle Grohe | Open | 15 | No | 4.00 |
EDUC 349 - Directed Study
4 sem. hrs. Directed study addresses coursework required for the major or degree not being offered formally that semester. Students work under the close supervision of a faculty member. Consent is required for a directed study, which does not count toward the independent learning requirement. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Ms. Helen Guttentag | Open | 20 | Yes | 4.00 |
EDUC 350 - Independent Study
4 sem. hrs. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Ms. Helen Guttentag | Open | 20 | Yes | 4.00 |
| 02 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Gary Oakes | Open | 20 | Yes | 4.00 |
EDUC 388 - Fieldwork in Education
8 sem. hrs. Prereq.: Consent of the department. Limited enrollment. Two full days a week of clinical experience in a private or public school classroom. Guttentag.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Gary Oakes | Open | 19 | No | 8.00 |
English
ENGL 105 - Creative Writing: Non-Fiction
4 sem. hrs. Designed for students with a solid base of writing skill who wish to grow further as writers. Teaches writing of non-fiction that a non-captive audience would willingly read. Focuses primarily on the personal narrative. Pei, Wollman, Weaver, Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 12:30PM-01:50PM | N/A | Lowry Pei | Clsd | 0 | No | 4.00 |
| SS | 09/10/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue | 04:30PM-08:30PM | N/A | Kevin Andrew O'Brien | Open | 14 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 109 - Creative Writing: Poetry
4 sem. hrs. Targets the eager and curious writer of poems seeking structure, feedback, and models of excellence in a workshop setting. Assumes that those who want to write are those who have been deeply moved by the writing of others. Includes extensive reading and attendance at poetry readings in the Boston area. Weaver, Wollman.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 12:30PM-01:50PM | N/A | Afaa M. Weaver | Open | 5 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 112 - The Bible
4 sem. hrs. Closely studies the Old and New Testaments, with attention to the problem of strategies of interpretation. Considers themes including the use of metaphor; shifting attitudes toward sex; time and typology; and theological versus cultural perspectives. Wollman.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 11:00AM-12:20PM | N/A | Richard Wollman | Open | 4 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 121 - Shakespeare
4 sem. hrs. Analyzes major plays with commentary on the theater of Shakespeare's London. Includes films and attendance at live performances of Shakespeare's plays when possible. Wollman.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 02:00PM-03:20PM | N/A | Richard Wollman | Open | 6 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 139 - Modern Poetry
4 sem. hrs. Examines cross-cultural influences in 20thcentury poetry, such as the case of the negritude poets, Harlem Renaissance poets, and the French surrealists. Emphasis on American poets such as Langston Hughes, H.D., and William Carlos Williams. Attention will be given to fundamental approaches to the criticism of poetry. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 09:30AM-10:50AM | N/A | Afaa M. Weaver | Open | 7 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 178 - Multicultural Themes in Modern American Literature
4 sem. hrs. Studies personal, family, and cultural conflicts created by the tensions between ethnic and American loyalties in fictional and non-fictional works by African American, Jewish, Native American, Asian American, Latino, and other authors. Focuses on the dilemma of affirming the values of ethnic identity in a civilization professing the virtues of assimilation. Bergland, George.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 02:00PM-03:20PM | N/A | Dr. Renee L. Bergland | Open | 3 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 193 - Women in Literature
4 sem. hrs. Explores the writings and cultural contexts of literature by and about women from the 19th century to the present. Features novels, short stories, speeches, poems, and plays. Selected topics may include: education, friendship, sexuality, the marriage plot, labor, and protest and politics. Hager, Bergland, Bromberg, Leonard.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon,Wed,Fri | 10:00AM-10:50AM | N/A | Phyllis Thompson | Wlst | 9 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 195 - Art of Film
4 sem. hrs. Serves as an introduction to film analysis by teaching the basics of mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound as well as fundamental principles of film narrative, style, genre, and theory. Films chosen from a number of different historical periods and national contexts, including classical Hollywood cinema. Leonard.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon,Thu | 03:00PM-04:20PM | N/A | TBA | Wlst | 1 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 199 - Approaches to Literature
4 sem. hrs. An introduction to the English major, 199 provides a grounding in the skills and questions basic to the study of literature: how to trace an image, how a novelist constructs a character, what a poet is doing with meter and rhyme, and how to make comparisons between different texts. Required for all English majors. Bergland, Bromberg, George, Hager, Leonard, Pei, Weaver, Wollman.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon,Wed | 01:30PM-02:50PM | N/A | Lowry Pei | Wlst | 0 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 243 - English Novel Through Austen
4 sem. hrs. Considers the development of the English novel, with emphasis on narrative technique and the cultural history of the novel in the 18th century. Novelists may include Behn, Haywood, Fielding, Burney, Austen, and Walpole. Bromberg.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue,Thu | 11:00AM-12:20PM | N/A | Pamela S. Bromberg | Open | 9 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 275 - American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
4 sem. hrs. Focuses on the literature, music, and culture that emerged after WWI in places like Harlem. Examines the period's atmosphere of creativity and experimentation through the works of both major 'white' writers like Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Eliot, and major African-American writers like Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, Du Bois, and Toomer. George.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon,Wed | 11:00AM-12:20PM | N/A | Sheldon George | Open | 7 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 311 - Victorian Children's Lit
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 199 or ENGL 210 and junior standing. Examines the wide variety of Victorian literature written for children, from fairy tales and nonsense verse to didactic fiction and the bildungsroman. Authors studied may include Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Dinah Mulock Craik, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Mary Yonge, and Rudyard Kipling. Hager.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon | 03:00PM-05:50PM | N/A | Kelly Hager | Open | 12 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 313 - Survey of Literature for Children And Young Adults
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 199 or ENGL 210 or junior standing. Provides a broad overview of the field of children's and young adult literature, including historical and contemporary considerations, criticism, and representative works from major genres. Mercier.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon | 03:00PM-05:50PM | N/A | Megan D. Lambert | Open | 12 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 316 - Native American Literature
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 199 or ENGL 210, and junior standing. Not offered in 2012- 2014.] Considers sermons, memoirs, poetry, short stories, and novels by Samson Occom, William Apess, Jane Johnston, Schoollcraft, Ella Deloria, N. Scott Momaday, Leslis Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, and others in the context of Native American history and particular tribal and familial oral cultures. Also covers critical essays and studies by Native and non-Native scholars including Paula Gunn Allen, David Moore, Elaine Jahner, Arnold Krupat, Karl Kroeber, David Murray, and Phil Deloria. Bergland.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue | 03:30PM-06:20PM | N/A | Dr. Renee L. Bergland | Open | 13 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 323 - Special Topics in Literature
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 109 or consent. Offers an intensive study of a particular genre of literature. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon | 06:30PM-09:20PM | N/A | Hanna Musiol | Open | 17 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 332 - English Lit of the 17th Century
4 sem. hrs. Introduces literature of the 17th century through study of the metaphysical wit and cavalier poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, and Jonson; the prose of Bacon and Browne; and the poetry of Phillips, Wroth, and Amelia Lanyer. Themes include manuscript and print culture, public politics and private culture, and sex and religion. Wollman.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon | 03:00PM-05:50PM | N/A | Richard Wollman | Open | 15 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 370 - Internship
4- 8 sem. hrs. Prereq.: consent of faculty supervisor and approval of CEC staff. In collaboration with the Career Education Center and under the supervision of a member of the English faculty, students intern for 8-10 hours a week (for 4 credits) or 16-20 hours a week (for 8 credits) in workplace sites connected to their major. Students complete a final paper that reflects on their experience and its connection to their major. Staff.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Kelly Hager | Open | 25 | Yes | 8.00 |
ENGL 390 - Seminar in Literary Scholarship
4 sem. hrs. Prereq.: ENGL 199 or 210 and junior standing. Offers a framework for advanced independent work in literary studies. Anchored in a common topic that changes each year. Texts include some of the critical and theoretical approaches that help to define the topic. Bergland, Bromberg, George, Hager, Leonard, Wollman.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Thu | 03:30PM-06:20PM | N/A | Pamela S. Bromberg | Open | 9 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 400 - Direct Study: Graduate Level
Offers opportunity for students to study a topic of their choosing. Requires the consent of a supervising faculty member; approval of the prgm director; and a brief proposal outlining the focus, purpose, and projected outcome, to be submitted to the program during the semester prior to registration.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Afaa M. Weaver | Open | 19 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 405 - Contemporary Critical Theory
Introduces graduate students to the concepts and practices of contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Surveys poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, new-historicist, postcolonial, feminist, and gender theory, bringing these perspectives to bear on key literary and historical texts. (Also listed as GCS 405 and SPAN 405.) Bromberg.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue | 06:30PM-09:20PM | N/A | Sheldon George | Open | 10 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 411 - Victorian Children's Literature
Examines the wide variety of Victorian literature written for children, from fairy tales and nonsense verse to didactic fiction and classic examples of the Victorian bildungsroman. Authors studied may include Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Dinah Mulock Craik, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Mary Yonge, and Rudyard Kipling. Hager.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon | 03:00PM-05:50PM | N/A | Kelly Hager | Open | 12 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 513 - Survey of Children's Literature
Provides a broad overview of the field of childrens and young adult literature, including historical and contemporary considerations, criticism, and representative works from major genres. Bloom, Mercier.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon | 03:00PM-05:50PM | N/A | Megan D. Lambert | Open | 15 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 516 - Native American Literature
Considers sermons, memoirs, poetry, short stories, and novels by Samson Occom, William Apess, Jane Johnston, Schoollcraft, Ella Deloria, N. Scott Momaday, Leslis Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, and others in the context of Native American history and particular tribal and familial oral cultures. Also covers critical essays and studies by Native and non-Native scholars including Paula Gunn Allen, David Moore, Elaine Jahner, Arnold Krupat, Karl Kroeber, David Murray, and Phil Deloria. Bergland.
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Tue | 03:30PM-06:20PM | N/A | Dr. Renee L. Bergland | Open | 11 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 523 - Special Topics in Lit
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon | 06:30PM-09:20PM | N/A | Hanna Musiol | Open | 7 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 532 - English Lit of 17th Century
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Mon | 03:00PM-05:50PM | N/A | Richard Wollman | Open | 18 | No | 4.00 |
ENGL 590 - Seminar
| Section | Section Dates | Days | Times | Room | Instructor | Section Status | Avail Seats | Requires Consent | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 09/05/2013 - 12/10/2013 | ,Thu | 03:30PM-06:20PM | N/A | Pamela S. Bromberg | Open | 15 | No | 4.00 |
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- School of Management
- School of Social Work
Please note: Simmons College and its Graduate Schools make every effort to ensure that the information contained in their catalogs is accurate and complete. Occasionally, however, changes are made and mistakes are discovered after the catalog has been placed online. Degree requirements may also change because of changes in curriculum, accreditation standards or legal requirements.
If you have questions about a program, especially with regard to the course or training requirements for a particular degree, we encourage you to be in contact with the Dean of the School, the director of the program, or the chairman of the relevant department for definitive information.



