Faculty & Courses The Director Michael Ferber, director of the program, is a Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of New Hampshire and Director of the Graduate Program in its English Department. He majored in Greek at Swarthmore College, has his doctorate in English from Harvard, and was an assistant professor at Yale. He has written five books, one on the history of draft resistance in the sixties, two on the poet and painter William Blake, one on the poet Shelley, and A Dictionary of Literary Symbols (Cambridge, 1999; 2nd ed. 2007); and he has edited an anthology called European Romantic Poetry and a collection of essays entitled The Blackwell Companion to European Romanticism. Undergraduate Courses At the University of New Hampshire, lower-division courses are numbered 400-599; upper-division courses may be numbered either 600-699 or 700-799. The Department of English uses the 600 level to designate courses slightly less advanced than those listed at the 700 level. The Department of History lists the upper-division courses at the 600 level. All courses offered are four-credit courses. Graduate Courses Students taking courses on the graduate level participate in all class sessions with the undergraduate students. In addition, they are expected to write a long paper or complete a special project along with other course requirements, and to participate in individual tutorials with instructors as needed in conjunction with the long paper or project. 2008 Course Offerings Click on course numbers for detailed course descriptions and faculty bios. History 600 Advanced Explorations in History: The British Monarchy 1509-2000. This course is also available for graduate credit as History 800. History 600 Advanced Explorations in History: War and Society in Early Modern Britain and Europe. This course is also available for graduate credit as History 800. English 758 Shakespeare (performance and interpretation) This course is also available for graduate credit as English 858. English 769 English Romantic Period This course is also available for graduate credit as English 869. English 773 British Literature of the 20th Century (poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Eliot) This course is also available for graduate credit as English 873. English 797 (H) Special Studies in Literature: James Joyce's Ulysses This course is also available for graduate credit as English 897 (H). English 797(N) Special Studies in Literature: Race, Realism and Empire This course is also available for graduate credit as English 897(N)