Online MA course rotations

This list subject to change based on faculty availability.

Summer 2023

ENGL 5010 - Rhetoric & Composition: History, Theory, & Practice - Rick Fisher

Fall 2023

ENGL 5220 - Medieval Literature - Carolyn Anderson

Spring 2024

ENGL 5055 - Narrative/Storytelling - Nancy Small

Summer 2024

ENGL 5885 - Studies in the Fine and Performing Arts - Kent Drummond

Fall 2024

ENGL 5000 - Creative Writing - Paul Bergstraesser

Spring 2025

ENGL 5270 - Cultures of Reading - Michael Edson

Summer 2025

ENGL 5885 - Disney Discourse - Susan Aronstein

Fall 2025

ENGL 5960 (thesis option) or TBA (coursework option)

Spring 2026

TBA (coursework option)

2022-2025 Online MA Course Rotation

This list is subject to change depending on faculty availability.

Summer 2022

ENGL 5010 - Rhetoric & Composition: History, Theory, & Practice - Rick Fisher

Fall 2022

ENGL 5000 - Non-Fiction Comics - Cliff Marks

Spring 2023

ENGL 5885 - Rhetoric of Popular Culture - Jason Thompson

Summer 2023

ENGL 5020 - Public-Facing English Studies: Author's Houses - Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Fall 2023

ENGL 5065 - Black American Rhetorics - Tracey Patton

Spring 2024

ENGL 5220 - Medieval Literature - Carolyn Anderson

Summer 2024

ENGL 5885 - Disney Discourse - Susan Aronstein

Fall 2024

ENGL 5960 (thesis option) or ENGL 5000 - Creative Writing - Paul Bergstraesser (coursework option)

Spring 2025

ENGL 5055 - Narrative/Storytelling - Nancy Small (coursework option)

2021-2024 Online MA Course Rotation

This list is subject to change depending on faculty availability.

Summer 2021

ENGL 5010 - Rhetoric & Composition: History, Theory, & Practice - Kelly Kinney

This special section of English 5010 is designed specifically for new students in the MA cohort. In addition to examining the topics described below, the course will also serve as an introduction to the online graduate program in English at UW. Throughout the course, students read and write about language arts and writing instruction, exploring the history behind best practices as well as the controversies in the profession. Reading a wide range of pedagogical theories, students write reflections on controversial issues in the field, including topics such as second language immersion; Black English; AP, IB, and concurrent enrollment programs; the place of grammar instruction in the classroom; and related professional position statements. Applying what they have learned, students develop a four-week unit of writing instruction for a course level of their choosing, including daily lesson plans, formal writing assignments, peer review activities, and an evaluation rubric: students will share the materials they develop in a formal presentation to the class. Finally, students will learn how to write a publication-ready book review of a scholarly monograph of interest to them in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies.

Fall 2021

ENGL 5230 - Studies in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare Then and Now - Susan Frye

This fall we will focus on at least 4 plays by William Shakespeare, drawn from his comedies, histories, and tragedies. After the seminar begins, I’ll ask you to choose which plays you’d like to focus on, although we will begin with Hamlet, together with the darkly witty play and film, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, as well as the 2020 novel Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell. The pandemic and the more general phenomenon of global Shakespeares have resulted in some fascinating versions of the plays, so I’ll ask you to help me hunt up some of the most recent productions in a variety of media for us to include. In the meantime, if you’d like to nominate a play for us to read, together with contemporary versions/media, by all means email me your suggestions. Reading the plays and the texts that form their aftermath with comprehension will be central to our course outcomes, as will thoughtful analysis of course materials and the course itself using contemporary theories of race, class, and gender. Everyone will produce work on the issue of their own choice throughout the course and as a final project.

The regular format of the class will be class discussions about the plays with some informal but limited lecturing. I’ll ask for student participation in short responses to reading and discussion, together with your helping to run the class with researched presentations and formulating key questions about our course materials.

Spring 2022

ENGL 5061 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism - Jason Thompson

Summer 2022

ENGL 5000 - Studies In: Cultures of Reading - Michael Edson

Fall 2022

ENGL 5350 -  Irish Literature - Julia Obert

Spring 2023

ENGL 5455 - Democracy in America - Scott Henkel

Summer 2023

ENGL 5020 - Public-Facing English Studies: Author's Houses - Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Fall 2023

ENGL 5960 (thesis option) or (coursework options) ENGL 5220 - Medieval Literature - Carolyn Anderson or ENGL 5065 - Black American Rhetorics - Tracey Patton

Spring 2024

ENGL 5230 - Early Modern Natural Worlds: From Pastorals to Disaster - Seth Swanner