Frommer's New Mexico, The Hills Have Eyes, Blue Mesa Review -- each of these texts offers a different mapping of New Mexico and its relationship to us, the rest of the world, and the universe.  The men and women living in England from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Romantic period did not, of course, have access to these texts.  But during these periods they were beginning to map the worlds they inhabited in images and in literature.  This course uses the concept of mapping to introduce students to the range of poetry, prose, and drama written in England from the tenth to eighteenth centuries.  The works of Chaucer, Milton, and Swift, among others, will contribute to our discussions of how literature portrays England's place in Europe, the globe, and the cosmos. We will explore how writers present familiar landscapes as well as unknown regions, urban jungles and African ones, utopias and dystopias. Particular attention will be given to the way changes in English culture -- religion, government, science, and class and gender relations -- shaped contemporary depictions of space and place.  Students should expect discussion to constitute a large portion of class meetings; therefore, participation will factor considerably into final grades.