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SUMMER 2004 ENGLISH OFFERINGS
(the prerequisite for all of these courses is Engl 2110 unless otherwise noted)
(these are all eight-week courses)
Engl 2160/01 MW 2:00pm-4:45pm WB103 Fay
AMERICAN LITERATURE SURVEY TO 1914.
Engl 2170/01 TT 8:00pm-10:45pm Hu241 Bourdeau
BRITISH LITERATURE SURVEY TO 1914.
Engl 2270/01 MW 2:00pm-4:45pm Hu241 Evans
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 2290/01 MW 11:00am-1:45pm Hu231 Hunter
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIES. Designed both for declared English and English Education majors and for those students contemplating either a major or a minor in the subject, this course takes the shape of an ongoing exploration through conversation about reading and writing and the issues that arise from those activities. The course will be conducted as a seminar and a writing and research workshop. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Shakespeare's The Tempest will be the central, touchstone texts for discussions of such issues as the current design of curriculum in English Studies, definitions of literacy, conceptions of authorship, and the impact of technology on reading and writing.
Engl 3035/01 MW 8:00pm-10:45pm Hu241 Shope
INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS. This course will analyze the nature of human language. It will include an introduction to speech sounds, morphology, syntax, and semantics. A heavy emphasis will be placed on the social and pedagogical implications of modern linguistic theory which will include an examination of issues such as language acquisition, dialect variation, historical linguistics and English as a Second Language.
Engl 3100/01 TT 2:00pm-4:45pm Hu241 Wilson
POETRY WRITING. A workshop approach to poetry writing that emphasizes original writing, analysis and response from classmates, and revision. Some attention to the work of established writers for models.
Engl 3140/01 MW 8:00pm-10:45pm Hu134 Smith
Engl 3140/02 TT 8:00am-10:45am Hu231 Shinall
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 3220/01 TT 11:00am-1:45pm WB103 Tierce
STUDIES IN FILM. Briefly surveying several decades of the history of American film, this course will examine representative texts from the American Studio Years (1930-1946), the Post-WWII Hollywood Transition Years (1946-1963), and the Hollywood Renaissance (1964-1976), as well as the Post-WWII European films that had such a profound influence on the American Renaissance. Specifically, we will focus on films of the 40s and 50s which follow traditional Hollywood narratives and on films of the 60s and early 70s which challenge these familiar narrative patterns, including Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966), Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974). Robert Altman's The Player (1992) will also be used to explore the American blockbuster and the subsequent end of the American Renaissance. Thematically all of these films explore the connection between love and murder and sex and violence, exposing their audience to certain dark realities of American life.
Engl 3260/01 MW 8:00am-10:45am Hu235 J.Cope
GRAMMAR IN THE CONTEXT OF WRITING. A study of the approaches for teaching grammar in the context of writing instruction. Includes 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 11:00am-1:45pm Hu235 Levy
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 3350/01 MW 5:00pm-7:45pm Hu241 Watson
REGIONAL LITERATURE. The poet J.D. McClatchy has called regionalism "American poetry's strength," noting that innovation often follows from a poet's engagement with questions of local or regional identity. Seeking to encounter such innovation, we will be studying the work of eight twentieth-century poets who are often associated with specific American regions or cities-and one poet who wrote her most significant work in (and about) exile from any particular home ("wherever that may be," as she says). In the process, we will also be exploring the concept of "regionalism" itself, asking how certain regions -think of the south, for instance-accrue such complex and often conflicting meanings, and whether this concept expands or limits our interpretations of literary works. Poets studied will most likely include Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Levine, Gary Snyder, Andrew Hudgins, and Charles Wright.
Engl 3391/01 TT 5:00pm-7:45pm WB117 W.Cope
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 4220/01 TT 11:00pm-1:45pm Hu241 Williams
CRITICAL THEORY. An advanced course in interpretive theoretical paradigms as applied to the study of literature and culture, focusing on critical models such as Marxism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytic criticism, and Gender, Ethnic, and Cultural studies.
Engl 4340/01 TT 2:00pm-4:45pm WB103 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 4470/01 TT 8:00am-10:45am Hu241 Dabundo
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY. Are you afraid of poetry? Do you scorn the imagination? Do you hate beauty and truth and humanity and life? Do you flee from concise, intense, and beautiful writing? Then, give it one more chance by coming to English 4470 where we shall experience all that and more through the splendid verse of the late 18 th through the early mid-19 th centuries, commonly characterized as the flowering of English Romanticism. This is the magnificent literature of the imagination from the great age of revolutions, featuring the transcendent art of John Keats, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and Lord Byron, as well as many lesser known but no less accomplished men and women poets such as John Clare, Mary Robinson, Mary Tighe, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, all those triumphant masters and mistresses of the acme of English literature. We shall sail with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, track through English landscape with Wordsworth's pedlars and shepherds, burn in the forests of the night with Blake's Tyger, lament with Keats's song of the Nightingale, and emerge trailing clouds of glory! In Romanticism, we find, in brief, insights about all we are and all we have ever lost, the birth of the modern and the destinations of our truths.
Engl 4560/01 MW 11:00am-1:45pm Hu241 Yow
20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE. This course will focus on the literature of the New South, 1940-present. We will survey the storytelling tradition of this region, considering how the culture of the South has been represented in fiction, poetry, drama, and film.
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