DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS FOR SPRING 2003
(excluding ENG 101, 102, 105, 203, 204, 205)

Updated course information will be posted here as available.


The undergraduate major program in English requires students to take ENG 320 (Introduction to Literary Study), a single author course, a course in English literature before 1800, and a coherent body of five courses in any of several areas of study: English Literature, American Literature, Modern Literature, Film, Folklore, Writing, Imaginative Writing, English Education. (Other concentrations are possible under a Special Advisory Plan.) A complete description of the English major is available in the English Advising Office (1227 P.O.T.).

The English Advising Office in Patterson Office Tower (rooms 1225, 1227, and 1229) is a center for information and guidance on undergraduate degree programs and post-graduation planning. The Advising Office serves not only English majors, but also those students working on a minor in English, those seeking Teacher Certification in English, those working on Topical majors in which English is prominent, and students from any area of the University seeking information or advice on English Department courses. (Inquiries about freshmen writing courses should be directed to the Writing Program Office, 1221 P.O.T.)

The English Advising Office will be open Monday - Friday, from 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. throughout the Priority Registration period (November 4 - November 27). Because of the demands made upon the office during this period, appointments are required. Appointments with the advisors - Arthur Wrobel, PhD and Julie Walter - can be made by contacting staff associate Andy Johnson in 1227 P.O.T. or by phone: (859) 257-3763. Students are strongly encouraged to see the advisors as early as possible, preferably a week before their registration time. Please note that students in Arts and Sciences will not be able to register without having seen an advisor and having the advisor hold lifted.

Note on registration for writing courses (ENG 207, 305, 407, 507, and 607): Students wishing to take these courses should advance register for them and attend the first class meetings. These students should be aware, however, that (as stated in the UK Catalog) ultimate enrollment in the courses will be by consent of instructor, given after the first class meeting (thus, registration for the course does not guarantee a place on the final roll).


COURSE LEVELS: 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 | Linguistics



200-Level

ENG 207-001 M 0300PM-0530PM Marksbury

BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

We will concentrate on the essentials of fiction-voice, character, point of view, image, structure, and sequence-and the ways in which these mysteries intersect and cohere. We'll keep one eye on the rudiments of narrative technique-description, compression, exposition, and dialogue-and the other on the look-out for lateral moves along the lines of scrimmage. We'll forge taut and lyric sentences into chains of inevitable surprise. We'll find occult correspondences amidst reassuring dislocations, and start letting go of what we've been taught to keep hidden. Maybe we can even figure out what needs to be withheld. We'll write stories.

Or at least we'll try. Along the way, we enter into real and half-life dialogue with each other and everyone who dared to come before us-a heated conversation that's been going on for quite a while. We'll look at established texts: some will serve as paradigms for generating narrative, and some will instructively disrupt those very paradigms. Then you will put your own work on the table. And we'll look into it as closely as we can. The emphasis is on process. You should be willing to take chances, and ready to revise. Growth and forward movement will be rewarded.

As Henry James was wont to tantalize, the house of fiction has many windows. Let's try to break into some of them. Let's try to come away with something useful.


ENG 207-002 T 0330PM-0600PM Marksbury

BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

Starts the same as ENG 207-001, but with special attention later on to the related but remarkably different formal demands of the screenplay. For the last third of the semester, the class will shift focus to the discussion and writing of film scripts. Outside viewing will be required of some films I regard as having either air-tight structures (Chinatown) or endlessly open ends (8 ½). We'll engage these problems ourselves, no doubt at a more meat-and-potatoes level, but you will be expected to write a short screenplay of your own-an original idea, if you've got one well enough developed to follow through, or an adaptation of a short story.


ENG 207-003 T 0330PM-0600PM Edwards

BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

Description not available at time of publication. Please contact the instructor or check back here for updated information.


ENG 207-004 T 0330PM-0600PM Howell

BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: POETRY

A poetry writing workshop that focuses on how our writing improves when we are active members of a writing community. The workshop will act as this community; writers involved will be responsible for new work every week, while also being committed readers of their fellow members' work. As the weeks progress, we work to "experience" poetry, rather than "think through" poetry, understanding the difference between the academic-mind and the artist-mind.


ENG/LIN 211-001 MW 0400PM-0515PM Guindon

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS I

This course will introduce the systematic study of human language. We will explore the units of meaning and patterned structures of three of the four aspects of human grammar: morphology, phonology and syntax. We will then examine how the morphological, phonological and syntactic systems of all human languages are similar, and how they can change over the course of time.

Students can expect daily homework assignments designed to enable them to understand linguistic structures and apply methods of structural analysis to data drawn from a variety of languages. Exam formats will be based on the homework.


ENG/LIN 211-002 TR 1230PM-0145PM Guindon

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS I

See description for ENG 211-001 above.


ENG/LIN 211-003 TR 0330PM-0445PM Guindon

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS I

See description for ENG 211-001 above.


ENG/LIN 212-001 TR 1100AM-1215PM O'Hara

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS II

PREREQUISITE: ENG/LIN 211 completed in Fall 2002 only.

This course is the second semester of a sequence of introductory courses on the scientific study of human language. Credit will not be given to students who have credit for ENG/LIN 211 prior to Fall 2002.

PURPOSE of the course: To expand students' knowledge of linguistics as an academic discipline through a study of various sub-fields of Applied Linguistics, focusing on the main issues and problems of interest in semantics, first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and animal communication.

GOAL of the course: To demonstrate how language is acquired and used as a system communication.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: The student will be able to analyze language data, formulate and test hypotheses, and argue persuasively for one solution over another. These skills will be developed by doing linguistic analyses: discovering patterns of acquisition and use in data drawn from English and a variety of foreign languages. Learning to do this kind of analysis is the most important part of the course.

METHOD: Daily quizlets; quizzes on individual chapters; exams on related chapters; frequent analytical exercises to reinforce what has been learned in class. No cumulative mid-term or final.

TEXTS: Contemporary Linguistics, William O'Grady, et al; 4th edition. Bedford/St. Martin's; the Workbook is NOT required for this course.

NOTES:
1) No overrides will be given for this course.
2) A section of ENG/LIN 212 will be offered during the 4-Week Summer Session.


ENG/LIN 212-002 TR 0430PM-0545PM O'Hara

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS II

See description for ENG/LIN 212-001 above.


ENG 221-001 MWF 0900AM-0950AM Staff

SURVEY OF ENGLISH Literature I

Description not available at time of publication. Please contact the instructor or check back here for updated information.


ENG 221-002 MWF 0100PM-0150PM Staff

SURVEY OF ENGLISH Literature I

Description not available at time of publication. Please contact the instructor or check back here for updated information.


ENG 221-003 TR 0930AM-1045AM Zunshine

SURVEY OF ENGLISH Literature I

A survey of English literature from Beowulf through Milton (Norton Anthology, vol. I). Emphasis on close reading; a series of short writing exercises, two long papers, a midterm, and a final.


ENG 221-004 MW 0300PM-0415PM Staff

SURVEY OF ENGLISH Literature I

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ENG 222-001 MWF 1000AM-1050AM Staff

SURVEY OF ENGLISH Literature II

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ENG 222-002 TR 0330PM-0445PM Staff

SURVEY OF ENGLISH Literature II

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ENG 251-001 TR 0800AM-0915AM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature I

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ENG 251-002 TR 0930AM-1045AM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature I

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ENG 251-003 TR 0200PM-0315PM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature I

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ENG 251-004 TR 0330PM-0445PM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature I

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ENG 251-005 MWF 0900AM-0950AM Tri

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature I

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ENG 251-006 MWF 0100PM-0150PM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature I

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ENG 251-007 MWF 1000AM-1050AM Carter

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature I

"But the cups did not grow into kettles," ends the tale told by Menominee elder, Waioskasit. Similarly, the early American literature from the 17th century oral traditions of Native Americans to the 19th century nearly modern poetry of Walt Whitman still seeks its kettle. This course will attempt to understand the culture that forms during that time by reading the prose, poetry, folktales and placing them in a historical and literary context. From the less than meek Anne Bradstreet to the reclusive Emily Dickinson, we'll meet the writers and their works to better understand who we are today. Two major essays, midterm and final examination, and several shorter writings.


ENG 252-001 MWF 1000AM-1050AM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature II

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ENG 252-002 MWF 1100AM-1150AM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature II

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ENG 252-003 MWF 1200PM-1250PM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature II

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ENG 252-004 MWF 0100PM-0150PM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature II

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ENG 252-005 MWF 0900AM-0950AM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature II

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ENG 252-006 TR 0200PM-0315PM Bebensee

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature II

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ENG 252-007 TR 0330PM-0445PM Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN Literature II

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ENG 262-001 MWF 1000AM-1050AM Campbell, D.

WESTERN LITERATURE: 1660 TO PRESENT

English 262 surveys Western World literature from the Enlightenment to the present, focusing upon works of great literary merit which represent main elements in the developing western culture. In this course we will engage the ideas and examine the evolving world view of these three hundred years, relating our discussions to our own ideas and values. There will be three examinations, one paper and a number of short writing assignments.


ENG 262-002 MWF 1100AM-1150AM Campbell, D.

WESTERN LITERATURE: 1660 TO PRESENT

See description for ENG 262-001 above.


ENG 262-201 Telecourse Uebel

WESTERN LITERATURE: 1660 TO PRESENT

This is a television course based on the PBS program "Living Literature: The Classics and You," involving one hour-long television class per week. Student work will be web-based, and will involve short exercises in addition to a midterm and a final. We will study several of the primary literary texts that have shaped Western culture from the Enlightenment to modernity. Readings include: Voltaire's Candide, Goethe's Faust, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych, and Kafka's Metamorphosis. Themes emerging during the course will include: the problem of identity (Who am I? Where did I come from?), the problem of codes and value systems (How should I live?), the problem of society formation, God and religion, illusion and reality, and art and the artist.

E-mail for further details:
uebel@pop.uky.edu


ENG 264-001 MWF 0900AM-0950AM Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

Description not available at time of publication. Please contact the instructor or check back here for updated information.


ENG 264-002 MWF 1000AM-1050AM Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

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ENG 264-003 TR 1230PM-0145PM Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

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ENG 264-004 MW 0300PM-0415PM Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

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ENG 264-005 MWF 1200PM-1250PM Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

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ENG 264-401 MW 0600PM-0715PM Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

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ENG 281-001 MWF 1200PM-1250PM Staff

INTRODUCTION TO FILM

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300-Level

ENG 301-001 MWF 1100AM-1150AM Roorda

STYLE FOR WRITERS

This course is devoted to helping students understand prose style and develop as stylists in writing of their own. We'll consider what it means to have or discern a style, how style in writing can be understood and discussed, how styles and registers shift with changes in situation, what terms and techniques help us manipulate texts-all toward the end of improving our own prose, not to mention our hearts and minds.


ENG 306-001 TR 0930AM-1045AM Reece

INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONS IN WRITING

This course attempts to answer the question, "But can I make money at this?" "Professions in Writing" offers a pragmatic introduction to the following career paths: freelance writing, editing and publishing, and teaching writing. Students will learn how to write a marketable magazine profile and query letter, how to copy-edit, and how to edit for story. We will conclude by exploring some philosophies of writing with an eye toward teaching.


ENG 306-002 TR 0330PM-0445PM Reece

INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONS IN WRITING

See description for ENG 306-001 above.


ENG/LIN 310-001 TR 1230PM-0145PM Bosch

AMERICAN ENGLISH

(No prerequisites) This course will focus on spoken American English in all its variety. How does your speech differ from mine? How is it similar? Can language change in the space of a generation? What's the difference between "good" English and "bad" English? Can we (or do we) speak more than one dialect? What do Yankees say if they don't say "y'all"?

Topics to be covered include regional, social, gender-, and ethnically-based dialects, dialect study and methodology, issues of dialect and education, African-American Vernacular English ("Ebonics"), the "English-Only" movement. Requirements: four homework assignments, class participation, one oral presentation, and a 10-15 page original research paper.


ENG 320-001 MWF 0100PM-0150PM Oaks

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY

This course is designed to help students improve reading, writing, and interpretive skills. Texts (including films) from various periods and genres will provide the stimulus for spirited debate touching multiculturalism, feminism, canonicity, literary pedagogy, composition studies, and other contemporary issues.


ENG 320-002 MWF 1200PM-1250PM Oaks

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY

This course is designed to help students improve reading, writing, and interpretive skills. Texts (including films) from various periods and genres will provide the stimulus for spirited debate touching multiculturalism, feminism, canonicity, literary pedagogy, composition studies, and other contemporary issues.


ENG 320-003 MWF 0900AM-0950AM Staff

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY

Description not available at time of publication. Please contact the instructor or check back here for updated information.


ENG 320-004 TR 0930AM-1045AM Miller

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY

This section of ENG 320 will focus on a number of works conventionally classified as comedies and tragedies, including Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the 1939 film The Philadelphia Story, Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Othello, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. We will also read Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

Students in the class will be asked to choose a specific approach to literary study. For example, you may elect to become an apprentice formalist, historicist, or psychoanalytic critic, a student of race theory or post-colonial cultural studies; or you might specialize in issues of gender and sexuality, or connections between literature and religion.

Requirements: Students in the class will be required to keep a reading journal. This journal should be used to develop a set of reading and discussion questions for each text, based on the student's chosen approach to literary study, and to develop a bibliography of secondary and supplementary materials that define and illustrate this approach.

Students will also be required to participate in class discussion on a regular basis, using course readings in tragedy and comedy as a way of teaching each other about their chosen approaches. In other words, fledgling psychoanalytic critics in the class will explain to the feminists what kinds of questions a psychoanalytic approach encourages us to ask about Pride and Prejudice or Native Son, and the feminists will explain to them what kinds of questions feminism would have us ask. The Marxists will then explain to both groups why they ought to be more concerned with issues of class and economic privilege. Or perhaps it will fall to the historicists, the psychoanalysts, the gender-benders, or the post-colonial culture critics to step in with a different set of questions and concerns. That will depend on what sorts of critical approaches students in the class choose to advocate.

Finally, each student will be responsible for developing a final essay of 6-10 pages (not counting the bibliography, mentioned above) defining an approach, illustrating it, and explaining its value. There will be a number of shorter journal assignments leading up to and incorporated into this final essay.

Students with questions about the course may contact the instructor via email at
unique1@uky.edu.


ENG 320-005 TR 0200PM-0315PM White, P.

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDY

AVOID THIS CLASS unless willing to read every word of the selections from modern fiction, poetry, and drama and then to create fresh stories, unwritten, untold until you write them, based on very close and detailed readings of the originals. HEAVY READING LOAD. Text must weigh eight lbs. INSTRUCTOR GOES BALLISTIC unless students display curiosity, a desire to know. Prerequisite: Vision. 20/20 not enough. Third eye, mind's eye, or second sight required. Class discussions necessitate attendance; journals demand dialogue with texts, instructor; and instructor demands meaningful encounters with material and subsequent reflections recorded in journals & papers. In short, EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. Experience the material and come prepared to discuss.


ENG/AAS 356-001 TR 1230PM-0145PM Davis

STUDIES IN BLACK AMERICAN LIT: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRATION NARRATIVE

This course examines the migration of African Americans from the South to the North and the development of the African-American migration narrative in post-Civil War America. We will explore the economic, political, and social implications of the Great Black Migration, specifically the ways in which this historical moment evolved and informed various social and political movements in this country, such as Emancipation and Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Possible readings include Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods (1902), James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912), Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928), Richard Wright's Black Boy (1945), Ann Petry's The Street (1946), and Dorothy West's The Living is Easy (1948) and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada (1976).


ENG/AAS 356-401 T 0600PM-0830PM Dathorne

STUDIES IN BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE

African-American literature, theory, and text. We will study specific texts. Students will:
a. develop a presentation
b. write a take-home paper for mid-term
c. do a formal paper for the final.
Topics to be agreed on before hand.


ENG 360-401 W 0600PM-0830PM Meckier

THE SHORT STORY: THE MODERN BRITISH SHORT STORY

A survey with emphasis on Joyce and Lawrence but with readings from Stevenson, Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Kipling, Wells, Conrad, Mansfield, Forster, Huxley, Waugh, and Greene. Mandatory attendance, mid-term paper. Final paper.


ENG 361-001 TR 0200PM-0315PM Reece

LITERARY TYPES: ESSAYS AND CREATIVE NONFICTION

From the Italian, essai means to make an attempt. Such a taproot has always given this genre a plasticity that makes it at once a populist form and a fecund source of experimentation. This course will examine creative nonfiction in all of its prismatic forms, from the memoir to the polemic to the lyric essay, from nature writing to cultural criticism. Our bias will be toward American writers who elevated the essay to the level of literature, beginning with Thoreau and ending with Cynthia Ozick.


ENG 363-001 MW 0300PM-0415PM Roorda

SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE: AMERICAN NATURE WRITING

This course will sample some key moments in the development of American nature writing, from Thoreau and Susan Fenimore Cooper through Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry. We will highlight connections between reading and doing in several ways: by dwelling in part upon landscapes like those found in Kentucky; by composing as well as reading works in the genre; and by undertaking field trips, of a frequency and scale still to be determined, but likely commencing with a mid-winter slog through the woodlot of the UK Arboretum and culminating in a full-spring excursion to a flowering Red River Gorge.


ENG 375-001 MWF 1000AM-1050AM Fulbrook

THE WOMAN WRITER: CLEVER GIRLS AND SCRIBBLING WOMEN

This will be a course about those mad, bad women of the nineteenth and twentieth century who picked up a pen and began to write. From the stinging humor of Jane Austen to the haunted corridors of Wuthering Heights, from Toni Morrison to Shakespeare's sister, in the texts we will read in this class, women writers will emerge, in their multiplicity, with their mayhem. . Sometimes married, sometimes monstrous, sometimes mad or glad or sobbing or laughing, sometimes white or black or Latina or grey, and always writing -dreams, utopias, revolution, history: these are women writers; this course is an invitation to read them.


ENG 375-002 MWF 1100AM-1150AM Fulbrook

THE WOMAN WRITER: CLEVER GIRLS AND SCRIBBLING WOMEN

See description for ENG 375-001 above.


ENG 380-001 MWF 1100AM-1150AM Smith, D

FILM CRITICISM

This course will introduce you to the history of film studies criticism. We will look at significant contributions to writing on film, focusing on genre (such as "the melodrama" or "the action film") and significant film movements that have generated a lively exchange among critics (for example, the French New Wave and Italian Neo-Realism). Along the way, we will watch exemplary films that are in dialogue with these readings, generating our own critical responses to films. By the end of the semester, you will not only have a new understanding of how films operate in relation to these critiques but also will be able to write meaningful, analytical essays contributing to ongoing discussions in academic film studies.


ENG 383-001 TR 1100AM-1215PM Waller

JAPANESE FILM

Japan through the lens of 14 feature films, ranging from samurai sagas to futuristic anime, domestic melodramas to historical epics. Coupled with readings in sociology, anthropology, history, and religion, these movies offer a comprehensive introduction to the rich complexity of post-World War II Japan. Particular emphasis on Japanese family relations, gender roles, and traditional values, the effects of modernization and Americanization, the legacy of World War II and the rise (and fall?) of Japan as a world economic power. This course satisfies the cross-cultural requirement in the University Studies Program.


ENG 390-001 TR 0930AM-1045AM Sanders

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR: J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Tolkien: author, industry, or cultural event? This class will survey the most influential fictional and scholarly works by J.R.R. Tolkien through biographical, historical, theoretical (especially feminist, race, and social), and close readings. Central, required texts will include The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, "On Fairy Stories," "Beowulf: the Monster and the Critics," and Tolkien's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. We will also consider critical reactions to Tolkien as well as artistic attempts--in prose, film, cartoons, and video games--to reproduce, refine, duplicate, and even contradict his work. The final grade will be determined by daily work (mainly frequent reading quizzes), group oral presentations, three essays, and a final exam.


ENG 390-401 MW 0600PM-0715PM Campbell, W.

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR: WRITING THE CIVIL WAR

The writings produced during and reflecting on the American Civil War constitude a vast Literature I
mportant to our understanding of this nation's sense of itself. To better understand and appreciate this crucial era in the formation of the American character, the class will explore key writings and the issues they represent. We will follow a format combining discussion, report, lecture, and visual media presentations.

Required of each student are regular attendance, two oral presentations, short written assignments (as practice and as preparation), and two essays (the first of about six or seven pages, the second of about fifteen pages). Students will be encouraged to explore their own special interests for paper topics.

Course texts: Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, 1619-1877; Bruce Catton, The Civil War; Edward Porter Alexander, Fighting for the Confederacy; Henry Steele Commanger, ed., The Blue and the Gray, Volumes I and II; and Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, ed. John Q. Anderson.


ENG 395-001 Arranged individually. Waller

INDEPENDENT WORK

ENG 395 students should stop by 1227 P.O.T. (English Advising Office) to receive and return Independent Study forms.

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400-Level

ENG 401-001 TR 1230PM-0145PM Edwards

SPECIAL TOPICS IN WRITING: LITERARY NONFICTION

What is a literary essay? How can the familiar events of your life take on a cohesive shape and become compelling to a larger audience? Where is the border between memory and imagination, and how does a writer weave experience, research, and perception to form an essay that's appealing and unique? These questions will open this advanced undergraduate class on literary nonfiction, and will serve as a point of embarkation for an in-depth study of this fascinating and sometimes elusive genre. Through writing exercises, students will explore their own experiences and perceptions; through revision, they will shape this raw material into memoirs, personal essays, and literary journalism. Why do this? In the words of Scott Russell Sanders, "I choose to write about my experience not because it is mine, but because it seems to me a door through which others might pass." This class is a workshop, where student writing will be an important text.


ENG 407-001 W 0300PM-0530PM Vance

INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: POETRY

A workshop for poets, neither beginning nor advanced, who want to practice their craft, read lots of contemporary poetry, and serve as constructive critics for other workshop participants. This is all to the end of gaining access to that deep place from which can rise the honest voice which is yours alone.


ENG 407-002 R 0330PM-0555PM Edwards

INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

This class in imaginative writing focuses on fiction, particularly the short story. Writing fiction is really a process of discovering the story you wish to tell and then working to give your narrative shape and coherence. Thus, in this class students will generate new work through exercises, freewriting, and journal assignments. Through on-going revision, these initial writings will then be shaped into stories. This class is a workshop, so student work will be an important text. Lively, thoughtful discussions will be essential, too.


ENG 423G-001 TR 1100AM-1215PM Lewin

ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: 1600-1660: THE RELIGIOUS LYRIC IN THE RENAISSANCE

Why does the most passionate love poetry in the Renaissance focus on divine and not earthly love? What made a poet like John Donne tell his God, "Take me to you, imprison me"? In this course, we will read religious poetry of George Herbert, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, and Henry Vaughan alongside readings in primary texts, including the Psalms, that influenced these strange and wonderful poets. We will investigate topics such as: how does religion affect ideas about chastity, courtship and marriage? About eating, drinking, and writing poetry? Why was poetry considered an instrument of witchcraft or the devil, and how were audiences supposed to know? What was the power of prayer and how did it help poets to define their poetic vocation and their beliefs.


ENG 425G-001 TR 1230PM-0145PM Foreman

SHAKESPEARE SURVEY

An introductory survey of Shakespeare's plays, covering all forms (comedies, histories, and tragedies) and periods (early, middle, and late). Consideration of Shakespearean theater and performance (physical and philosophical shape, performance as interpretation, visualization of written texts, audience as part of action, play as play); of Shakespearean language and its relation to "truth" (arguments, meanings, metaphors, puns, verse, poetry: in short, wordplay); of the way the structure of the plays produces meaning (function and order of scenes); of the way words make characters, and the way characters interact, verbally and visually; and of the social implications of the plays (for both the 16/17th and the 20th centuries) and the ways audiences (including ourselves) interpret the plays. We will read about eight plays, probably including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, 1 Henry IV, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale.


ENG 425G-002 TR 0930AM-1045AM MacDonald

SHAKESPEARE SURVEY

Description not available at time of publication. Please contact the instructor or check back here for updated information.


ENG 441G-001 M 0300PM-0530PM Fulbrook

THE 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL: SCRIPTS, SCENES, SCANDALS, AND SPECTACLES: THEATRICALITY IN THE NINTEENTH CENTURY NOVEL

If you've ever heard the phrase the theater of the imagination or even psycho-drama, you are already on your way to thinking about the subject of this course, but have you ever asked yourself: what is a theater doing in my head? Or for that matter, how did it get there? If you have asked yourself these questions or if you would like to think about these or other such scenes of literature or psychology, this class will help. From the playgrounds of a mad monk's mind to the melodramatic scenes of the Victorian actress, from the Dr.'s office to The Picture of Dorian Gray, from marriage plots to magic shows, garden parties to ghost stories, the theater emerges on the pages and stages of the nineteenth-century novel and in the heads, hearts and minds of its characters In this class we will read a variety of novels of differing genres, considering authors such as Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Charlotte Bronte as a means of making sense of this spectacular and literary scene of writing and theory.


ENG 442G-401 M 0600PM-0830PM Meckier

THE 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL

A study of the major novels with a view toward defining modernism. Close readings of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Joyce's Portrait of the Artist, Rebecca West's Return of the Soldier, E. M. Forster's Passage to India, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover, Huxley's Brave New World. Mandatory attendance, class discussion, mid-term paper, final paper.


ENG 446G-401 T 0600PM-0830PM Meckier

20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: MODERN BRITISH LITERARY UTOPIAS: FROM EREWHON TO ISLAND

Close readings of Butler's Erewhon, Wells's The Time Machine and A Modern Utopia, Zamyatin's We, Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover, Huxley's Brave New World and Island, Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. Mandatory attendance. Mid-term paper. Final paper.


ENG 448G-001 TR 1230PM-0145PM MacDonald

ENGLISH DRAMA: RENAISSANCE DRAMA WITHOUT SHAKESPEARE

This semester, English 448 is subtitled "Renaissance Drama Without Shakespeare." Concentration on the accomplishments of William Shakespeare often obscures the fact that he was only one member of a brilliant generation of playwrights, and that his work is often completely different from that of his peers. This semester, students in English 448 will read plays by a wide range of Renaissance playwrights--from Thomas Kyd to Aphra Behn--working to discover the achievements of these often-neglected peers. A second aim of the course will be to understand the importance and prevalence of of typical (but mostly non-Shakespearean) Renaissance dramatic kinds such as city comedy, civic entries, travel and adventure plays, and closet drama. Besides Kyd and Behn, other likely authors will include Middleton, Marlowe, Francis Beaumont, Elizabeth Cary, Anthony Munday, Ben Jonson, Jane Lumley, and Thomas Heywood. Assignments will probably include an annotated bibliography, a paper, and two exams.


ENG 454G-001 MWF 1000AM-1050AM Wrobel

AMERICAN NOVEL BEFORE 1900

Through their depictions of somnambulists, ghosts, white whales, adulterers and adulteresses, murderers, crazed dentists, shipwrecks, mesmerists, and fallen women and prostitutes, some nineteenth-century American authors probed below the placid surface of life's appearances and forced readers to confront a range of issues that have philosophical, ethical, and social bearing. Writers as Charles Brockden Brown, Robert Montgomery Bird, Henry James, Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, and William Dean Howells, examined man's ethical capacities, raised doubts about the reality of what we designate as real is "really read," questioned whether a procedural or definable rationale governs the universe, mused about the seemingly irremediable corruption of Adam and Eve's children, and challenged commonplace assumptions about the stability of character, and gender and racial identity.


ENG 465G-001 TR 1230PM-0145PM Miller

STUDIES IN AN AUTHOR: POETRY OF EDMUND SPENSER

Poets, critics, and scholars of Elizabethan England recognized Spenser as "prince of poets in his time." Later writers, from Milton and the English Romantic poets to Hawthorne, Melville, T. S. Eliot, and C. S. Lewis, have found in Spenser's poetry a powerful source of inspiration, a model of craftsmanship in verse, a haunting world of fantasy and romance, and a searching exploration of human experience-especially, for modern readers, the whole range of erotic experience. Camille Paglia, the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), calls Spenser's major work "the most extended and extensive meditation on sex in the history of European poetry."

In this class we will read selections from Spenser's allegorical romance epic, The Faerie Queene, along with his two "marriage" poems, Epithalamion and Prothalamion. Students taking the course will have the opportunity to engage in primary research for the preparation of a new scholarly edition of Spenser's works. We will focus on the requirements of critical commentary-the apparatus of notes, glosses, references and explanations that makes a text accessible to modern readers. After examining a range of existing commentaries, students will work in groups to research and write their own commentaries on a single "canto" of The Faerie Queene.


ENG 490G-001 TR 0930AM-1045AM Nelson

TOPICS OF GENDER IN LIT. STUDIES: MANLINESS AND BROTHERHOOD IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE: 1776-1900

The United States was founded in the spirit of democratic fraternity. It was also founded in the spirit of advancing capitalism. What has this meant for American men on the ground? Political brothers? Economic foes? We'll investigate an array of responses to the promises and tensions of American brotherhood, and to a range of practices of manliness in the new United States. Course texts may include some of the following: Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Father, Tyler's The Contrast, Weems' biography of George Washington, Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, Walker's Appeal, Douglas's Heroic Slave, Thoreau's Walden, Ridge's Joaquin Murietta, Southworth's Hidden Hand, Whitman's Song of Myself, Howells' Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham, James's The Bostonians and Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition. Alongside these texts we'll consider phenomena like universal white manhood suffrage, secret fraternal orders, civil war and bachelorism.


ENG 490G-401 T 0600PM-0830PM Uebel

TOPICS OF GENDER IN LIT. STUDIES: SEX IN THEORY

SEX: not gender difference, not a bodily state, certainly not love, something more. Sex as a kind of bestial madness, divine enchantment, organic exaltation, mental anguish, contractual perversion, all of the surplus forces that make sex at once the most social (reproductive and useful) and the most antisocial (transgressive and deadly) of forces. Study of this interplay between libido and aggression will be one of our guiding concerns.

This course will concern itself completely with analyzing the conflicting forces that comprise what we call sex. We'll consider how sex calls into question the crucial distinctions Western culture takes for granted: those between self and other, mind and body, reality and fantasy, pleasure and pain.

To think about sex, we will examine the fringes and undercurrents of sex: porn and subjection (MacKinnon's Only Words, Dworkin's Intercourse, and Laura Kipnis's Bound and Gagged); masochism as a paradigm for thinking about perversion (vn Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs; and Jessica Benjamin's important feminist study The Bonds of Love); queer sex (Bersani's Homos); phone sex (Amy Flowers's The Fantasy Factory); as well as classic statements on the subject of transgressive sex (Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and other essays in the psychoanalytic field); and strip clubs (Kate Frank's new book, G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire).

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500-Level

ENG 507-001 T 0330PM-0555PM Finney

ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

Description not available at time of publication. Please contact the instructor or check back here for updated information.


ENG 507-002 W 0300PM-0530PM Finney

ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: POETRY

Description not available at time of publication. Please contact the instructor or check back here for updated information.


ENG 509-401 R 0600PM-0830PM Williamson

COMPOSITION FOR TEACHERS: TEACHING WRITING

The course, appropriately subtitled "Teaching Writing," introduces students to the theories, practices, and assumptions about the teaching of writing in America's middle and secondary schools, with an emphasis on Kentucky schools. The major aim of this course is to prepare future and current teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary to better teach students to express their ideas through printed text. The course is divided into units focusing on these essential questions:
1. What does it mean to be a professional writing teacher?
2. How do teachers use evaluation and assessment to help students improve their own writing?
3. How can teachers design prompts that lead to better student writing?
4. How do teachers use theories and approaches to structure writing classes and environments?
5. How can literary models and grammar be incorporated into the teaching of writing?

The structure of the course is similar to a graduate seminar where students are asked to grapple with ideas and test their own assumptions and theories about the teaching of composition. Thus, the course is part composition and part teaching methods. Ultimately, the final grade is based on several writing assignments (including unit lesson plans), class participation, and the final exam. Those with additional questions should e-mail the instructor at
jrwilliam@ft-thomas.k12.ky.us.


ENG/EDC/LIN 514-401 MW 0530PM-0645PM Clayton

TESL MATERIALS & METHODS

Are you interested in travel? Living in another country? Getting to know people, cultures, and languages from around the world? You can do all these things as an English Language Teacher. And you can take an important step toward becoming an English Language Teacher by completing this class. We will discuss historical and contemporary methods of language teaching. We will examine books and other curricular materials used in English language classrooms. There will be chances to observe English language classes and to learn from teachers in UK's Center for English as a Second Language and other programs. Finally, there will be ample opportunity to practice teaching in simulated classroom settings.

Prerequisites: None. Class is open to undergraduates and graduates in English, linguistics, educational policy studies, foreign language pedagogy, and similar fields. Contact Tom Clayton (tmclay@uky.edu) for more detail.


ENG/EDC/LIN 516-001 TR 0930AM-1045AM Stump

GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS

The more human languages you look at, the more you are struck both by their amazing diversity and by the fundamental ways in which they are alike. In this course, we will methodically investigate the differences and similarities among grammatical systems, drawing upon extensive data from a wide variety of languages. Several class periods will be devoted to the "hands-on" elicitation and transcription of linguistic data from one or more speakers of a designated foreign language; these data will provide the basis for three written assignments and a term project in which students will develop their own original grammatical analyses. (The designated languages which we have investigated in past years include Amharic, Bambara, Berber, Chichewa, Kikuyu, Lingala, Luganda, Tamil, Telugu, and Uyghur; members of this spring's class should expect a comparably "exotic" language.) The textbook will be Lindsay Whaley's Introduction to Typology (Sage Publications, 1997).

(Prerequisite: ENG/LIN 211 or ENG 414G or equivalent.)

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600-Level

ENG 610-001 TR 1230PM-0145PM Nelson

STUDIES IN RHETORIC: THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE

This class is designed to introduce new teachers of literature to the institutional, theoretical and pedagogical questions that inform the teaching of literature and writing critically about literature. The course will focus on three questions:
1) How do we teach students to read and to what ends?;
2) How does the writing/reading classroom become an interpretive community?; and
3) How do professors of literature formulate their teaching goals and philosophies?

Drawing on journal articles, books and recent professional debates, the class will focus on developing an understanding of how others have moved from literary criticism and theory to literary pedagogy and practice. It will ask students to explore connections (and the validity of those connections) between their developing critical sensibility and their developing pedagogical principles and philosophies.


ENG/LIN 617-001 MW 0300PM-0415PM Clayton

STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS: RESEARCH METHODS

Are you working toward an honors' thesis, master's thesis or dissertation involving language teaching or learning? If so, this class will help you prepare for your research study. We will examine and discuss different methods for data collection and analysis. We will write several "prospectuses" (brief research proposals) to help you think about how to study questions you are interested in. We will write one full-length proposal (the semester-end project) that you could take to your thesis/dissertation committee for preliminary approval. Finally, we will discuss UK Institutional Review Board procedures, which govern research involving human subjects at the university. Prerequisites: None. Class is open to advanced undergraduates and graduates in English, linguistics, educational policy studies, foreign language pedagogy, and similar fields. If you are a linguistics major thinking about graduate school, you should take this class. Contact Tom Clayton (
tmclay@uky.edu) for more detail.


ENG 619-401 W 0600PM-0830PM Kiernan

BEOWULF

This course will use the digital archive of Beowulf materials assembled in the Electronic Beowulf CD-ROM set. The collection includes full facsimiles of the manuscript, the eighteenth-century Thorkelin transcripts, the earliest and most important nineteenth-century collations, and the first edition of the poem. It also includes an electronic edition, transcript, comprehensive glossary, and current bibliography. Powerful search tools facilitate countless innovative, individualized, investigations of the text.

We will meet in CB 343 unless we require the facilities in the collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH) in Young Library, 3-52. There is no printed textbook. Instead, we will use the edition and glossary from the Electronic Beowulf, accessible from the Syllabus page of the course website. The complete Users' Guide to Electronic Beowulf, a bibliography, and supplementary articles are available at http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm.

There are three major requirements for the course: active participation in discussion of assigned topics and translations in class and online (30 percent); two oral presentations on assigned sections of the text (30 percent); and one formal research paper (40 percent), taking advantage of the image archive and the search facilities of the Electronic Beowulf CD set, available in RCH and in Young Library CD collections. The research paper is due no later than 6 pm on the last day of class, 30 April. Incompletes are strongly discouraged.


ENG 626-001 TR 0200PM-0315PM Lewin

STUDIES IN SPENSER, SHAKESPEARE, MILTON: STUDIES IN JOHN MILTON

John Milton's poetry, prose and drama are among English literature's most radical and most memorable texts, both for their controversial and lasting formal innovations and for their original arguments about the relationship between poetic vocation and religious, scientific, and political truth. This course enables graduate students to explore and appreciate Milton's work, its decisive impact on the course of English and American literature, and its place in the academy today. After reading early poems including Lycidas, we will spend the bulk of the semester immersing ourselves in the great epics Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. We will be treated to visits by leading Miltonists from around the country who will present new interdisciplinary research, and we will actively discuss how to teach Milton to undergraduates throughout the semester. Special attention will be paid to Milton's influences, as well as to the cultural climate in which he gained his fame. Other topics we will cover are genre, censorship and free speech, free will, and gender.


ENG 642-001 MWF 1000AM-1050AM Allison

STUDIES IN MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE: MODERN IRISH LITERATURE: 1890-1940

A course on Irish writing during the period of the "Literary Revival" and the "counter-Revival" (approximately 1890-1940), from W.B.Yeats to James Joyce. Authors include Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge, George Bernard Shaw, George Russell ('AE'), Katherine Tynan, and Joyce. Themes to be explored include the role of Literature I
n a cultural nationalist ("decolonising") program, relations between fin de siecle aestheticism and occultist nationalism, and the importance of Celtic source materials for writers like Yeats, Lady Gregory and others. What shape did the Shavian, Joycean "counter-Revival" take, and to what extent can nationalist writing of these years be regarded as postcolonial? What relationships exist between literary Modernism and the cultural movements emerging in Ireland at this time, and what are the links between artistic form and the cultural politics of the period? The course will coincide with an exhibition of rare Irish books and autograph letters from the Special Collections of Margaret I. King Library, including over one hundred items from the period 1700 to 1940 (from Swift to Joyce). In mid-February, Professor Helen Vendler of Harvard University will be here to open that exhibition and present a lecture, and (for this class) lead a seminar on Yeats's poetry. Requirements: lots of class participation please, oral reports, one shorter paper and a final research paper.


ENG 653-001 TR 0930AM-1045AM Weisenburger

STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1900

A course of readings in American modernist literature from 1914-1945, with particular attention to what and how we teach and research in the field. We want to ask: What makes American modernist writing "American" when many who produced it lived the exile's life in Europe? What are key aspects and issues of aesthetic modernism, especially as regards current approaches to problems of gender, race, class, and mass culture? How can we translate our critical studies into effective teaching? Our base-text: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 6th Edition, Volume D, Between the Wars, 1914-1945 (New York: 2003). Supplemental texts will likely include: John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (1925); William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929); and Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts/Day of the Locust (1933-1940).


ENG 656-401 M 0600PM-0830PM Dathorne

BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE

Advanced interpretation of African-American literature, paying specific attention to both theory and text. We shall look at various genres of African-American literature, paying specific attention to the contemporary period.

Students will:
a. develop a presentation
b. write a take-home paper for mid-term
c. do a formal paper for the final (10-15 pages).

ENG 656-401 is the same as AAS 656-401.


ENG/AAS 656-402 W 0600PM-0830PM Pierce

BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE: NARRATIVES OF SLAVERY

This course will examine autobiographical and fictional accounts of slave experiences, a wide variety of texts that span two hundred years of literary history. Some issues to be examined include: defining the slave narrative tradition; specifying which historical, cultural, and literary factors influenced the writing of slave narratives; and exploring how questions of audience and authorship, as well as issues of class, gender, and race affect the telling of a slave story.


ENG 681-001 TR 0200PM-0315PM Prats, A.

STUDIES IN FILM: HOLLYWOOD AND ITS "OTHER"

I would like to offer this version of ENG 681 as an exploration of the narrative methods and cultural assumptions through which Hollywood represents an / the Other. We will begin by studying classic representations of Otherness in early silent films-especially Griffith's The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (Hollywood's Indian), The Birth of a Nation (Hollywood's African American), and Broken Blossoms (Hollywood's Asian). We will further explore the Hollywood Other through the Indian Westerns, especially those of John Ford (e. g., Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers). But I would like to extend our investigation to the less likely realm of science fiction: at first, I would like to explore several sci-fi movies of the Cold War era (thus linking the represented alien and the subversive Communist), chiefly through Night of the Living Dead, but I would also want to include more recent movies, for example, Blade Runner, Alien, the Terminator movies, Independence Day, and Predator. Three short (6-8) papers, tons of class participation, a final exam.


ENG 690-001 W 0900AM-1130AM Bordo

STUDIES IN LITERATURE & GENDER: SECOND WAVE FEMINISM

Students must register for this course as WS 600-001 (Course code 06150).

In this course, we will examine a range of feminist genres-manifestos, social theory, literary criticism, novels, poems, street theatre-in historical context. Special attention will be paid to (1) the politics and culture of the nineteen-sixties as historical backdrop for the emergence of the second wave; (2) the ongoing tension between feminism and mass media representations of feminism; (3) the intellectual legacy of early second-wave thought. In the context of (3), we will pay particular attention to "personal politics," the politics of the body/sexuality, and the emergence of cultural theory. Historical/contextual readings will likely include Sara Evans' Personal Politics and Susan Brownmiller's In Our Time, as well as selections from bell hooks, Feminist Theory from Margin to Center and Susan Douglas, Where the Girls Are. Original sources will include selections from the writings of Simone deBeauvoir, Betty Friedan, Kate Millet, Andrea Dworkin, Shulamith Firestone, Robin Morgan, Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Ntozake Shange, Luce Irigaray, Anne Koedt, Pat Mainardi, Alix Kates Shulman and June Jordan, as well as various collective documents.


ENG 691-001 W 0900AM-0950AM Eldred

READINGS IN RHETORIC: COMPOSITION

Creative nonfiction. Hybrid academic essays. Academic memoir. Personal essays. These terms are appearing everywhere. This 1-unit course will function mainly as a writing workshop with a specific aim: to link academic writing with writing about lived experience (either 3rd person or 1st person). We'll explore nonfiction's formal possibilities by writing and reading each other's manuscripts. We will, of course, also add some outside reading. To get you started, take a look at Erik Reece's powerful essay "Nine Drafts of a Suicide Note" on http://www.artkrush.com. Once at the site, click on "The Articles" on the top frame and look for Reece's name on the left.

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700-Level

ENG 700-001 To be arranged Rosenman

TUTORIAL FOR PH.D. CANDIDATES

A preparatory course for the written and oral qualifying exams. Students will work mainly in small groups depending on their stage in the exam process. We will cover constructing reading lists, writing rationales, and studying and test-taking strategies for the writtens; and writing a prospectus for the orals. In other words - the whole deal.


ENG 700-002 To be arranged Rosenman

TUTORIAL FOR PH.D. CANDIDATES

See description for ENG 700-001 above.


ENG 720-401 M 0600PM-0830PM Uebel

SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: PATHOLOGY, VIOLENCE, AND TRANSCENDENCE IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

This seminar will study the ethics and realities of violent transgression across a range of medieval texts from the European tradition. We will begin with a rather obscure wartime essay published in The Journal of American Psychiatry in 1942 on "Psychogenic Disorders and the Civilization of the Middle Ages," which poses what is perhaps the central question of late medieval textuality: why does pathology incessantly haunt the medieval text? We will spend our semester interrogating the violent and deadly forms of this pathology, focusing on the social and psychical values of "joyful cruelty" (Clément Rosset), that which alone facilitates genuine transcendence.

Tentative Reading List:

English Texts:
King Horn
Havelok the Dane
The alliterative Morte Arthure & the stanzaic Morte Arthur
St. Erkenwald
Sir Gowther
Sir Orfeo
Chaucer, The Manciple's Tale

Continental Texts: Chretien de Troyes, Lancelot
The Song of Roland
Fulcher of Chartre, The History of the First Crusade
The Letter of Prester John
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzifal
Bataille, The Trial of Gilles de Rais

Critical Texts:
Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
Girard, Violence and the Sacred
Foucault, "Preface to Transgression"
Rosset, "The Principle of Cruelty"
Abraham, "Notes on the Phantom: A Complement to Freud's Metapsychology"


ENG 730-001 TR 1230PM-0145PM Zunshine

SEMINAR IN 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE

Novels of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen and a broad selection of critical essays. Topics to be considered: evolving cultural practices of novel-reading; the novel in history and the history of the novel; eighteenth-century fiction and contemporary popular culture. Short written responses, pedagogical practicums, one final paper.


ENG 748-001 To be arranged Waller

MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH


ENG 749-001 To be arranged Waller

DISSERTATION THESIS RESEARCH


ENG 768-001 To be arranged Waller

RESIDENCE CREDIT FOR MASTER'S DEGREE


ENG 769-001 To be arranged Waller

RESIDENCE CREDIT FOR DOCTOR'S DEGREE


ENG 771-001 TR 0200PM-0315PM Stump

SEMINAR IN SPECIAL TOPICS: MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

In English, inflectional morphology serves to express a range of grammatical properties; for instance, the suffixation of -s in a verb form such as puts simultaneously expresses the grammatical properties "third person," "singular," "present," and "indicative." The categories into which such properties fall-categories of person, number, tense, mood, and so on-are widely observable in human language. At the same time, the number and significance of the properties subsumed by any given category vary widely from one language to another: for example, while English inflection distinguishes three cases (nominative, accusative, and genitive), Georgian inflection distinguishes seven, Estonian distinguishes fourteen, and so on.

In this seminar, we will investigate parameters of cross-linguistic variation in the morphological expression of inflectional categories. In the first part of the course, we will read and discuss two exemplary studies of specific inflectional categories: the books Gender and Number, both by Greville Corbett. During the course of the semester, each student will conduct original research into the characteristics of a particular inflectional category, drawing on evidence from a range of languages. In the closing weeks of the semester, students will present their research in class and ultimately submit a written account of their findings.


ENG 780-001 To be arranged Waller

DIRECTED STUDIES


ENG 780-002 To be arranged Waller

DIRECTED STUDIES

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Linguistics

ENG/LIN 211-001 MW 0400PM-0515PM Guindon

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS I

This course will introduce the systematic study of human language. We will explore the units of meaning and patterned structures of three of the four aspects of human grammar: morphology, phonology and syntax. We will then examine how the morphological, phonological and syntactic systems of all human languages are similar, and how they can change over the course of time.

Students can expect daily homework assignments designed to enable them to understand linguistic structures and apply methods of structural analysis to data drawn from a variety of languages. Exam formats will be based on the homework.


ENG/LIN 211-002 TR 1230PM-0145PM Guindon

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS I

See description for ENG 211-001 above.


ENG/LIN 211-003 TR 0330PM-0445PM Guindon

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS I

See description for ENG 211-001 above.


ENG/LIN 212-001 TR 1100AM-1215PM O'Hara

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS II


PREREQUISITE: ENG/LIN 211 completed in Fall 2002 only.

This course is the second semester of a sequence of introductory courses on the scientific study of human language. Credit will not be given to students who have credit for ENG/LIN 211 prior to Fall 2002.

PURPOSE of the course: To expand students' knowledge of linguistics as an academic discipline through a study of various sub-fields of Applied Linguistics, focusing on the main issues and problems of interest in semantics, first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and animal communication.

GOAL of the course: To demonstrate how language is acquired and used as a system communication.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: The student will be able to analyze language data, formulate and test hypotheses, and argue persuasively for one solution over another. These skills will be developed by doing linguistic analyses: discovering patterns of acquisition and use in data drawn from English and a variety of foreign languages. Learning to do this kind of analysis is the most important part of the course.

METHOD: Daily quizlets; quizzes on individual chapters; exams on related chapters; frequent analytical exercises to reinforce what has been learned in class. No cumulative mid-term or final.

TEXTS: Contemporary Linguistics, William O'Grady, et al; 4th edition. Bedford/St. Martin's; the Workbook is NOT required for this course.

NOTES:
1) No overrides will be given for this course.
2) A section of ENG/LIN 212 will be offered during the 4-Week Summer Session.


ENG/LIN 212-002 TR 0430PM-0545PM O'Hara

INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS II

See description for ENG/LIN 212-001 above.


ENG/LIN 310-001 TR 1230PM-0145PM Bosch

AMERICAN ENGLISH

(No prerequisites)

This course will focus on spoken American English in all its variety. How does your speech differ from mine? How is it similar? Can language change in the space of a generation? What's the difference between "good" English and "bad" English? Can we (or do we) speak more than one dialect? What do Yankees say if they don't say "y'all"?

Topics to be covered include regional, social, gender-, and ethnically-based dialects, dialect study and methodology, issues of dialect and education, African-American Vernacular English ("Ebonics"), the "English-Only" movement. Requirements: four homework assignments, class participation, one oral presentation, and a 10-15 page original research paper.


LIN 317-001 MWF 0200PM-0250PM Guindon

LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

It is surely universally known that people in different parts of the world speak different languages, each containing a unique set of sounds, vocabulary, and structures. What is less widely known is that linguistic signs and structures also vary according to social factors such as gender, age, socioeconomic status, etc.

This course will explore these social factors and how they affect language use, as well as the causes of language variation; individual, social, and national attitudes towards certain language varieties; and what language varieties and the attitudes towards them reveal about the cultures in which they occur.

Students can expect weekly reading assignments, and weekly written assignments designed to enable them to understand the principles, methods, and findings of Sociolinguistic investigation.


LIN 317-002 TR 0330PM-0445PM Hong-Fincher

LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY: CHINESE SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Description not available at time of publication. Please contact the instructor or check back here for updated information.


LIN 318-001 MWF 0100PM-0150PM Rouhier-Willoughby

SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

How do humans know what words mean? Are only words meaningful or can other parts of language convey meaning? Where does meaning end and culture begin? What is the nature of language and meaning? How does context alter meaning? Do we really say what we mean? This course will examine these issues by looking at words, sentences and conversations in the world's languages. Students will learn about the major linguistic approaches to semantics and pragmatics of the 20th century. Prerequisite: LIN 211


ENG 514-401 MW 0530PM-0645PM Clayton

TESL MATERIALS & METHODS

Same as EDC/LIN 514-401

Are you interested in travel? Living in another country? Getting to know people, cultures, and languages from around the world? You can do all these things as an English Language Teacher. And you can take an important step toward becoming an English Language Teacher by completing this class. We will discuss historical and contemporary methods of language teaching. We will examine books and other curricular materials used in English language classrooms. There will be chances to observe English language classes and to learn from teachers in UK's Center for English as a Second Language and other programs. Finally, there will be ample opportunity to practice teaching in simulated classroom settings.

Prerequisites: None. Class is open to undergraduates and graduates in English, linguistics, educational policy studies, foreign language pedagogy, and similar fields. Contact Tom Clayton (
tmclay@uky.edu) for more detail.


ENG/EDC/LIN 516-001 TR 0930AM-1045AM Stump

GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS

The more human languages you look at, the more you are struck both by their amazing diversity and by the fundamental ways in which they are alike. In this course, we will methodically investigate the differences and similarities among grammatical systems, drawing upon extensive data from a wide variety of languages. Several class periods will be devoted to the "hands-on" elicitation and transcription of linguistic data from one or more speakers of a designated foreign language; these data will provide the basis for three written assignments and a term project in which students will develop their own original grammatical analyses. (The designated languages which we have investigated in past years include Amharic, Bambara, Berber, Chichewa, Kikuyu, Lingala, Luganda, Tamil, Telugu, and Uyghur; members of this spring's class should expect a comparably "exotic" language.) The textbook will be Lindsay Whaley's Introduction to Typology (Sage Publications, 1997).

(Prerequisite: ENG/LIN 211 or ENG 414G or equivalent.)


ENG/LIN 617-001 MW 0300PM-0415PM Clayton

STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS: RESEARCH METHODS

Are you working toward an honors' thesis, master's thesis or dissertation involving language teaching or learning? If so, this class will help you prepare for your research study. We will examine and discuss different methods for data collection and analysis. We will write several "prospectuses" (brief research proposals) to help you think about how to study questions you are interested in. We will write one full-length proposal (the semester-end project) that you could take to your thesis/dissertation committee for preliminary approval. Finally, we will discuss UK Institutional Review Board procedures, which govern research involving human subjects at the university. Prerequisites: None. Class is open to advanced undergraduates and graduates in English, linguistics, educational policy studies, foreign language pedagogy, and similar fields. If you are a linguistics major thinking about graduate school, you should take this class. Contact Tom Clayton (tmclay@uky.edu) for more detail.

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