FALL 2004ENGLISH OFFERINGS

(the prerequisite for all of these courses is Engl 2110 unless otherwise noted)

Engl 2145/01	MW 11:00am-12:15pm	Hu235	Walters
Engl 2145/02	MW 6:30pm-7:45pm	EB266	Williams
Engl 2145/03	TT 11:00am-12:15pm	Hu235	Fay
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIES. This course introduces students to the reading, writing, research, and critical strategies essential to the KSU English and English Education majors. The course draws connections among the four content areas in the English Department (Literature, Language, Writing, and Theory) and focuses on their relationship to broader social and personal contexts, enabling students to make informed choices about their program of study and their careers. If you have already taken either Engl 2140, 2150 or 2290, do not take this class. If you are an English or Secondary English Education major and have not taken either Engl 2140, 2150, or 2290, then by all means take this course.

Engl 2160/01	MW 11:00am-12:15pm	EB168	Yow
Engl 2160/02	MW 5:00pm-6:15pm	EB166	Barrier
AMERICAN LITERATURE SURVEY FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT.

Engl 2172/01	MW 12:30pm-1:45pm	EB166	Stevenson
Engl 2172/02	TT 5:00pm-6:15pm	EB166	Bowers
BRITISH LITERATURE SURVEY TO 1660. DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE IF YOU HAVE ALREADY TAKEN ENGL 2170.

Engl 2174/01

MW 2:00pm-3:15pm

EB72

Bowden

BRITISH LITERATURE SURVEY FROM 1660 TO THE PRESENT. DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE IF YOU HAVE ALREADY TAKEN ENGL 2170.

Engl 2270/01	MW8:00pm-9:15pm	EB72	Staff
Engl 2270/02	TT 9:30am-10:45am	EB66	Graham
Engl 2270/03	F 8:00am-10:45am	EB166	Tucker
LANGUAGE AND USAGE. Study of the elements of language and of usage in formal writing and speaking; a review of grammar rules and their application in a variety of academic and professional contexts (no prerequisite).

Engl 3030/01	MW 5:00pm-6:15pm	EB72	Tucker
STUDIES IN GRAMMAR AND LINGUISTICS. Are you a logophile? That is, a word (logo)lover (phile)? Do you enjoy the pleasure of exploring a strange word's shape and meaning? Do you appreciate the power of words to influence our thinking and perception? Do you love adding a new word to your vocabulary? If so, then ENGL 3030, Etymology: Origins of English and American Words, is the course for you. This class introduces the fascinating world of word histories. We will explore the ancestors, roots, and affixes of the American English lexicon, examine the relationship between word and style, and sharpen your vocabulary to make you a better communicator. Take this class and find out what pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is and when to say it!

Engl 3035/01	TT 3:30pm-4:45pm	Hu235	Da.Johnson
INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS. This course will analyze the nature of human language as both an internal mental faculty and an external social enterprise by examining the major areas of linguistic inquiry. It will use linguistic arguments to dispel popular myths concerning language especially those dealing with language acquisition, variation, change, and the perceived superiority of some languages. A heavy emphasis will be placed on the social aspects of language and how society influences and shapes both language and our perception of language. Finally, the course will apply the concepts and terms to an examination of various real-world contexts including but not limited to educational settings, business environments, and governmental policies.

Engl 3109/01	W 6:30pm-9:15pm	Hu235	Walters
CAREERS IN WRITING. Learn about a variety of careers in the fields of writing, editing, and publishing; advertising and public relations; arts and entertainment; federal government; scholastic, academic, and nonprofit institutions; and freelance services. We shall practice writing for those careers, preparing proposals, resumes, letters, web pages, brochures, and instructions manuals, and analyze and create a wide variety of professional texts ranging from technical, business, and government documents to medical, community-based, and web-based documents.

Engl 3120/01	TT 6:30pm-7:45pm	EB72	G.Johnson
FICTION WRITING. This course in fiction writing will explore plotting, characterization, point of view, and other aspects of narrative craft. We will read and discuss some model stories, but most of our class time will be devoted to intensive critique of student manuscripts.

Engl 3140/01	MW 8:00am-9:15am	Hu235	Richards
Engl 3140/02	MW 3:30pm-4:45pm	Hu235	Giddens
Engl 3140/03	F 11:00am-1:45pm	Hu235	Richards
TECHNICAL WRITING. Analysis of and practice in writing of business and technical documents from the perspective of technical personnel whose writing supplements but does not define their job description.

Engl 3260/01	MW 12:30pm-1:45pm	EB66	A.Levy
Engl 3260/02	TT 6:30pm-7:45pm	EB170	A.Levy
GRAMMAR IN THE CONTEXT OF WRITING. A study of the approaches for teaching grammar in the context of writing instruction. Including acquiring grammatical competence in oral and written communication, understanding what grammar errors reveal about writing, promoting syntactic complexity in writing, and studying grammatical structures that promote syntactic growth and diversity of style in writing. Also includes an overview of modern grammars, the history of grammar instruction, and research on grammar instruction. Prerequisite: Engl 2270.

Engl 3309/01	MW 3:30pm-4:45pm	EB251	J.Cope
PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING WRITING. An exploration of current theories of composition pedagogy and assessment in practice, including a variety of strategies for teaching writing while dealing with institutional policies, such as standardized testing. Students will write for a variety of purposes and audiences. Prerequisite: Engl 1102 and Engl 2270.

Engl 3320/01	F 8:00am-10:45am	EB168	Dabundo
SCRIPTURAL LITERATURE. THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE. This is not Sunday School! And it is not a course in Christianity or theology or religion or history or science. Rather, this is a study principally of the literature of the Hebrew Scriptures, known to Christians as the Old Testament. This is an upper-level literature course, designed to study the aesthetic and cultural value of a work of literature, in this case, the collection of writings commonly known as the Bible, in the historical and cultural context of the time of its writers. We shall read and savor and appreciate the short stories, the poetry, the epics, and the drama and the characters, the plots, the themes, and the rich, allusive language found in the Bible.

Engl 3350/01	TT 5:00pm-6:15pm	SS102	Yow
HIST 3304/01 GEORGIA HISTORY & ENGL 3350 REGIONAL LITERATURE. Students may take this team-taught course for either English or History credit. The class will explore the history and literature of a typical southern state. The South has carved a remarkable niche in our national literature, with Georgia producing its share of great writers. The class will read works by Georgia's literary giants, as well as letters, speeches, and other writings of key historical figures. For more information, please contact Dr. Dede Yow or Dr. Tom Scott

Engl 3360/01	MW 2:00pm-3:15pm	EB168	Thompson
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. This course is a survey of African American writers in their literary, historical and cultural contexts. We will begin with the earliest known writer, a poet by the name of Lucy Terry, who wrote an occasional poem, and end with Alice Walker, awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The Color Purple in 1983.

Engl 3391/01	MW 9:30am-10:45am	EB168	W.Cope
Engl 3391/02	TT 8:00pm-9:15pm	EB170	A.Levy
TEACHING LITERATURE TO ADOLESCENTS. Using narrative as a central genre, this course introduces current English teaching philosophy and practice in teaching literature to adolescents. This course models current ways to integrate technology into the curriculum, identifies a variety of multicultural teaching texts, and extends the study of critical theory into the teaching of literature to adolescents.

Engl 4120/01	MW 2:00pm-3:15pm	EB170	Wilson
ADVANCED POETRY WRITING. Prerequisite: Any 3000-level creative writing course or permission of the instructor.

Engl 4230/01	TT 9:30am-10:45am	EB170	Morgan
THEORY-BASED STUDIES IN LITERATURE.

Engl 4340/01	TT 2:00pm-3:15pm	EB166	Bowers
SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE, WORKS, AND "BUSINESS." We will examine the author's career as a poet, playwright, actor, and theatre owner, but we will also explore some non-traditional “angles” of Shakespeare's plays. For example, what can we learn from his plays about 16th century economics, politics, religion, racism, xenophobia, and power? How can we understand Shakespeare's success within the profit-driven world of Elizabethan -- and 21st century -- theatre? What is the “business” in/of Shakespeare? The course will employ lecture, class discussion, and video. There will be regular reading quizzes, a research paper that may focus on either criticism, pedagogy, or performance, and a midterm and final examination. Attendance at a local production of a Shakespearean drama is likely.

Engl 4380/01	MW 5:00pm-6:15pm	EB170	Stevenson
WORLD LITERATURE BEFORE 1800. Students will read literature involving East-West encounters of the Middle Ages. Beginning in 1096, Christian knights responded to the Pope's call for the First Crusade and launched an invasion of Jerusalem. The series of wars known as the Crusades give rise to an extensive body of literature, including the French epic The Song of Roland and Arabic stories that will form a part of Tales from the Arabian Nights. In twelfth-century Europe, authors create for their royal patrons the popular literary genre that is still greatly loved and admired today--the medieval romance. Marie de France in her Lais tells about the love affairs of King Arthur's knights, while earlier in Japan, Lady Murasaki Shikibu writes the world's first (and, many argue, greatest) novel, The Tale of Genji, a historical romance about the Shining Prince Genji.The Middle Ages draws to a close at the end of the fourteenth century, and no event was more traumatic during this century than the Black Death, a devastating disease brought to Europe by ships returning home from Asia. This disaster is the inspiration for Giovanni Boccaccio's humorous, bawdy, and at times tragic Decameron.

Engl 4470/01	TT 3:30pm-4:45pm	EB72	Williams
NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE.

Engl 4480/01	MW 8:00pm-9:15pm	EB66	Gephardt
NINETEENTH-CENTURY WORLD LITERATURE. The nineteenth century was an era of nation-building and imperial expansion, and so many literary works of the period creatively responded to issues of national identity and cultural difference. In this course, we will read texts that represent various forms and manifestations of cross-cultural contact: revolution and war, love and marriage, travel and tourism, exoticism and colonialism, terrorism and anarchy. We will focus primarily on European literature, but also consider how its representations of non-European cultures contributed to the mapping of the world in the nineteenth century. The reading list will include works such as Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Madame de Staël's Corinne, or Italy, Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time, Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Fyodor Dostoyevski's The Devils, and Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes.

Engl 4490/01	T 6:30pm-9:15pm	EB70	Niemann
FEATURE WRITING. This is a class in writing feature stories which have a narrative or literary component. We will use the workshop format to brainstorm, develop and critique stories for magazines. We will also focus on finding a market.

Engl 4490/02	MW 11:00am-12:15pm	WB103	Robbins
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES. This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of American cultures. Students will use a wide variety of readings and activities from multiple academic disciplines and popular culture to examine the meaning and place of “America” in a global society. Assignments will include analyzing an “American” public space (e.g., a shopping mall, an historic site) and reporting on an interview focused on myths about “being American” or “coming to America.” Since America's reach and influence does not end with the U.S.'s national borders, the course explicitly incorporates study of American culture in a global context, including the movement by various social groups into contested American spaces and cross-cultural contact both within and outside the United States. Students may count this course for credit in either history or English.

Engl 4560/01	MW 3:30pm-4:45pm	EB166	Fay
REWRITING LITERATURE AND HISTORY. How do we explain writers of a later era choosing an earlier era to write about? How do the cultural ideas of the later era play out in both the choice and the re-imagining of the earlier era? And how do we explain writers who take a work from an earlier era and sometimes re-imagine it in a different genre or artistic medium? To begin to answer these questions, this course will look at 20th-century works in three groups: the 1900s to 1920s (Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Doctorow's Ragtime, movie and musical versions of Ragtime, Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Morrison's Jazz), the 1930s to 1940s (Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, and Ellison's Invisible Man) and works with both an historical and cross-cultural focus (Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Watanna's A Japanese Nightingale, and Hwang's M Butterfly). Relevant musical selections will also be examined.

Engl 4570/01	TT 11:00am-12:15pm	EB168	Tierce
20TH-CENTURY BRITISH POETRY. In this very traditional survey of major twentieth-century male British poets, we will begin with the transitional writers Thomas Hardy and Gerard Manley Hopkins and end with the contemporary poets Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott. Much emphasis will also be given to William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot, and we will spend some time with Wifred Owen, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and, of course, Philip Larkin. The class will focus primarily on establishing close readings of essential poetic texts.

Engl 4620/01	MW 9:30am-10:45am	HU235	Robbins
SENIOR SEMINAR. BEST SELLERS—THEN AND NOW, HOW AND WHY. The primary question the course will address is this one: what forces combine to make a book a “best seller” in American culture? We will read a range of texts that would fit that broad category, and we will experiment with interpreting a number of relevant sub-categories (e.g., “popular” versus literary best sellers, “Oprah” and other reading clubs' best-selling books, movie-to-book/book-to-movie texts, books defined by authorial identity [such as “a Stephen King novel” or “a John Grisham novel”]). Students will draw on writing assignments for the class and reflection on work they've done in past courses to create a mini-portfolio demonstrating the multi-faceted learning they've achieved as English majors.

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