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Current Courses​
English 414B Spring 2019
Course outline: Syllabus Engl 414B Spring 2019
414B Assignment Upload Link (Microsoft Word format only, please)
​Research proposal and essay: assignment
Research proposal and essay: assessment rubrics 
​Hollywood Classical Narrative: Key features
Peer editing: worksheet 
Purdue OWL: getting started with the Writing Process
​Purdue OWL: Developing a Thesis (for fiction, film, and similar media)
Purdue OWL: Building an Argument 
Film research database: Film and Television Literature Index (EBSCO)
Film research database: Film Index International (ProQuest)
Film research database: FLI Online - Film Literature Index

English 581 Spring 2019
Course outline: Syllabus Engl 581 Spring 2018
581 Assignment Upload Link (Microsoft Word format only, please)

​General Interest
The Nightmare of Citation
Meditation for Students
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Archive
Selected syllabi from Dr. Shlensky's previous courses
English 414A spring 2018: American Film to 1945
English 439a fall 2018: Postcolonial Literature and Theory
English 203 fall 2017: Introduction to American Literature
​English 581 summer 2016: Graduate Seminar on Terror, Film, Literature
English 438 fall 2014: Postcolonial literature and theory
CSPT 500 Spring 2014: Postcolonial Cinema, Diasporic Hollywood
English 146 - Fall 2012 - Introduction to Literary Genres, Themes and Styles
English 475 - Spring 2012 - North American Modern Jewish Literature
English 201 - Fall 2011 - Modernism
English 581 - Summer 2011 - Postcolonial Caribbean literature
English 466 - Spring 2010 - Cultural Studies
English 200C - Fall 2008 - Victorian Literature