Course Descriptions: SPRING 2005
200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700
Advising
The
undergraduate major program in English requires students to take ENG 330 (Text
& Context), one Language module course (210, 211, or 310), four 300-level
Literature modules courses (two in British Literature two in American
Literature, of which three must be surveys), and four additional courses from
the Area modules, at least two of which must be drawn from one Area
module. The Area modules are: Literature, Film & Media, Writing,
Imaginative Writing, Language Study, Theory, Education.
A complete description of the English major is available in the English
Advising Office (1227 Patterson
Office Tower).
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 first-year
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 (March 31 –
April 23). Because of the demands made
upon the office during this period, appointments are required. Appointments with the advisors – Julie Walter
and Christine Luft – 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).
200 Level
ENG 207-001 M
3:00-5:30
pm 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 W
3:00-5:30
pm Sexton
BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN
IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION
Description not available at publication time. Please contact the instructor for
information.
ENG 207-003 W
3:00-5:30
pm Howell
BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN
IMAGINATIVE WRITING: POETRY
Note: New classroom GCHI 201.
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 207-004 R
3:30-6:00
pm Reece
BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN
IMAGINATIVE WRITING: CREATIVE NON-FICTION
This course will introduce young
writers to the art of shaping the truth, using
many of the same techniques as fiction writers. It will also familiarize
students with the major American writers who have helped create this emerging
genre.
ENG/LIN 210-001 MW 4:00-5:15 pm O’Hara
ENG/LIN 210-401 MW 6:00-7:15 pm O’Hara
ENG/LIN 210-402 TR 6:00-7:15 pm O’Hara
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PREREQUISITE: NONE
This is an introductory course in
the History of the English Language in which we will study the ways in which
English has developed from its origins to modern times.
PURPOSE of the course: To answer the following questions: Where does
Modern English come from? How has English changed over the last 1200 years?
What do those changes show us about the process of language change in general?
What influence have class, race, gender, and politics had on the development of
English? What are some of the more common myths about language and why are they
wrong? What is the future of English as a world language?
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: The student
will be able to analyze, compare, and contrast language data drawn from all
periods of English
and to explain the processes by which Modern English evolved. Learning to do
this kind of analysis is the most important part of the course
METHOD: Four exams based on the
assigned readings and selected videos; short analytical exercises and written
assignments to reinforce what has been learned in
class. No cumulative mid-term or final.
TEXTS: The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of the English Language, David Crystal,
2d edition, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Language Myths, (eds) Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill, Penguin, 1998.
NOTES: 1) English majors will find that this
course complements their work in literature.
2) Students in the
College of Communications
can satisfy their Language
requirement
(under Option B) by taking ENG/LIN 210 and
ENG/LIN 211 in any order.
3) Attendance is
mandatory from the first day of class for all students
including those
on the waitlist.
ENG/LIN 211-001 MW 4:00-5:15 pm Guindon
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
I
This course will introduce and explore the forms and
structures of human language, how they are similar, how they differ, and how
they can change over time. Significant sections of the course will cover:
–human speech sounds and how they are used (Why, for
instance is ‘blaps’ a possible English word, but not ‘bspla’? Why is the ‘s’ at the end of ‘leaves’ actually pronounced as a
‘z’?)
–word-formation (Why can we form
‘reality’ out of ‘real + ity’ and ‘sanity’ out of ‘sane + ity’, but not
‘happity’ out of ‘happy + ity?)
–sentence structure (Why is ‘pretty women and horses’
ambiguous? How are the two phrases in ‘looking sharp, looking for love’
different?)
Students can expect daily homework assignments designed to
enable them to understand linguistic concepts and forms, and to deduce
linguistic structures by applying methods of structural analysis to data drawn
from a variety of languages. There will also be at least four exams and
one quiz; exam formats will generally be based on the homework. Heavy
emphasis is placed upon classroom preparation and participation.
ENG/LIN 211-002 TR 3:30-4:45 pm Stump
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
I
This
course is the first semester of a two-course introduction to the scientific
study of human language; this section will be taught in a large lecture
format. We will explore the principles regulating three domains of
linguistic organization (those of phonology, morphology, and syntax), examining
both the ways in which languages differ in these domains and the ways in which
they are alike; we will additionally investigate the causes and processes of
language change in each of these domains. Students can expect regular
homework assignments designed to enable them to understand linguistic
principles and to apply methods of formal analysis to data drawn from a variety
of languages. The textbook will be Contemporary Linguistics, 5th
edition (Bedford, St. Martin’s, 2004), by William O’Grady, John
Archibald, Mark Aronoff & Janie Rees-Miller.
ENG/LIN 211-401 MW 5:30-6:45 pm Guindon
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
I
See
description for ENG/LIN 211-001.
ENG/LIN 211-402 TR 5:30-6:45 pm Guindon
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
I
See
description for ENG/LIN 211-001.
ENG/LIN 212-001 MWF 9:00-9:50 am Marks
ENG/LIN 212-002 MWF 11:00-11:50 am Marks
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
II
The goal of this course is to
expand your 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, and writing systems. Success in this class will be measured
by your ability to demonstrate the recurring structural patterns of language
and to analyze the function of language as a part of society as a whole.
In addition, you will be able to illustrate the usefulness of linguistic
approaches to language in everyday life.
ENG 230-001 MWF
10:00-10:50
am Froula
INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
In this course, we will explore dreams and their function in
culture as
they appear in mythology, fairy tale, poetry, fiction, film, and other
forms of storytelling. We will also examine theories on the meaning of
dreams--as divine message, bodily and mental dysfunction, and voice of the
unconscious--from ancient, early modern, and modern
times. Examining
selections across several genres--novels, poetry, drama, short stories,
and films--we will structure our textual analysis around the following
issues: as readers, how do we approach literary representations of
dreams? How do we recognize and react to elements in the dream as text,
i.e., "read" dreams? How do concepts of dreaming shape our
perceptions of
text, self, and world? How do we use dreams as entry points through which
to effectively analyze a text? We will consider these questions as the
basis to fulfill our course objectives: to analyze literary and film
texts while interrogating the definitions and functions of "dream"
and
"dreaming"; to investigate what narrative significance dreams carry;
to
examine how authors use dreams to draw upon cultural ideas to affect the
reader/viewer; to move from the personal to the abstract, developing new
ways of seeing and understanding our own and the texts' relationships
to fundamental social issues and universal human concerns; to understand
the representation of dreams within cultural contexts and theoretical
paradigms; and to study images from mass media to interpret how culture
"canonizes" certain representations or images as meaningful dreams.
Texts include:
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Freud's On Dreams O'Brien's
In
the Lake of the Woods, Kingston's Woman
Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood
among Ghosts, and other short stories,
essays, and poetry.
Films include: Mulholland Drive (2002), The Matrix (1999), Waking Life (2001) and Repulsion (1965), Sherlock Jr. (1924), Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and The Ring (2002).
ENG 230-002 TR
11:00
am-12:15 pm Fulbrook
INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: METAMORPHOSIS
This course will provide a means to
become acquainted not only with literature from a broad range of historical
periods, but with a wide array of methodologies for reading and analysis. In
this course, bodies and narratives, history and fantasy, dreams and nightmares
are resurrected, revised, and rewritten through a selection of texts chosen for
their investment in both stories of metamorphosis and the metamorphosis of
story across a variety of literary genres and historical periods. Next to the
study of works by Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm for example,
we will study Anne Sexton's and Angela Carter's erotic and feminist retellings
of these well known fairy tales for children into twentieth-century poems and
short-stories for adults. Next to Ovid's Metamorphosis, we will consider
After Ovid, a collection of
contemporary poetry wherein the great figures and scenes of ancient mythology
are rewritten and transformed into
stories of Elvis and James Dean, modern relationships and modern technology.
Exploring texts such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Picture of
Dorian Gray, William Shakespeare's A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream,
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, and Toni Morrison's Beloved, this
course will include readings and class discussions designed to offer you a
chance to get your feet wet with a variety of literary genres, historical fields,
and critical approaches to literary study. Our general thematic, loosely
defined, will be metamorphosis -- bodily, psychic, historical, generic,
critical, etc. --and we will consider plays, novels, fairy-tales, and poems
which turn upon this issue either at the level of "plot," by telling
a tale about transformation, or at a more meta-textual level by retelling,
re-imagining, and reconfiguring earlier sites of literary creation. The course
requirements will include two 5-8 page papers, a revision, an annotated
bibliography, and a final, group project.
ENG 230-003 MWF
12:00-12:50
pm Simon
INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: THE FRONTIER
This course will explore the
literature of the American frontier, beginning with the thirteen colonies
through the conquest of the West. The topics we will explore are the
significance of the American frontier, the development of frontier mythology,
and the importance of the frontier to American identity. Not only will we
look at the stereotypical depictions of cowboys and Indians, but we will
examine how the vision of the West changes throughout literature as well as
adjusts to industrialization. We will also explore racial and gender
issues in these frontier texts. Some questions we will explore: How did
the frontier help shape our national identity? What stereotypes from
frontier/Western mythology do we still use to define our Americanness?
How has the mythology of the frontier changed as America has moved from an
agrarian nation to an industrial nation? Course texts may include: Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans, Norris’s McTeague, Gilman’s The Crux, Cather’s O Pioneers,
Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage,
Ford’s The Searchers, and Stevens’s Shane.
ENG 230-004 TR
9:30-10:45
am Zunshine
INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: LYING BODIES:
PRETENSE, PERFORMANCE, AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL
Eighteenth-century novels feature a
spectacular array of liars, from Defoe’s Moll Flanders (Moll Flanders) and Henry Fielding’s Blifil (Tom Jones) to Frances Burney’s Mr. Moncton (Cecilia) and Jane Austen’s Wickham (Pride and Prejudice). This course takes as its starting point the
proliferation of liars in eighteenth-century fictional narratives to consider
the following questions: 1) The eighteenth century is credited with developing
what we consider today a recognizably modern novel, that is, a novel attuned in
subtler ways to the psychology of its characters and readers and capable of
representing the unprecedentedly nuanced interpersonal consciousness. What is
the relationship, then, between the period’s obsession with lying and the
emergence of this new “psychological” novel? 2) Given the popularity, in the
eighteenth-century, of non-fictional treatises on the body language associated
with faking one’s emotions on stage, what is the relationship between the
theatrical and the novelistic treatments of lying? 3) And, finally, how does
our desire to identify liars in our social environment influence the kind of
fictional stories that we want (or pointedly do not want) to read?
A tentative reading list includes
Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Fielding’s Tom Jones, Burney’s Cecilia, Austen’s Pride and
Prejudice and Emma, as well as
several plays and non-fictional treatises on the “art of lying.” Two long
papers, six short writing assignments, a midterm, and a final.
ENG 230-005 MWF
2:00-2:50
pm Godbey
INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: THE CITY IN
AMERICAN LITERATURE
As one of the defining features of
American life since the Civil War, urbanization, alongside the development of
American cities into centers of culture and politics, has had a profound effect
American life and literature. This course seeks to explore this effect
throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries by using American novels and their
relationship to cities as an introduction to American literature. We will
read a variety of authors from diverse backgrounds, literary traditions, and
time periods in order to better understand the effect of urbanization on both
literature and American life. Thus, while the focus of the class will be
on texts that address cities and urbanization (whether directly or by contrast
as in the suburban novel), it is also a broad introduction to American
literature.
Class discussions, exams, and
papers will be based on close textual reading and analysis, supplemented by research
that will help you place each text in its proper historical and cultural
context.
Some of the questions this course
will address are: How has the development of the city affected modern
identity? How has the city affected our conception of what it means to be
an American as well as ideas about individual identity? How has our
relationship with the city changed? How can we see urbanization and its
changes reflected in literature? In what ways have authors responded,
stylistically and thematically, to either life in the city or urbanization?
Possible Texts:
Maggie
a Girl of the Streets (1893) Stephen Crane
Sister
Carrie (1901) Theodore Dreiser
O
Pioneers! (1913) Willa Cather
Native
Son (1940) Richard Wright
Revolutionary
Road (1961) Richard Yates
Less
than Zero (1985) Bret Easton
Ellis
Tropic
of Orange
(1997) - Karen Tei Yamashita
ENG 230-401 TR
6:00-7:15
pm Fisher
INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: TALES OF HOLLYWOOD
This course will explore the novels
and films about the Hollywood film industry
itself. We'll examine the social, cultural, historical, ethical, and
aesthetic issues of Hollywood, from
what goes into making a successful film, to what happens to the human
characters who get involved with filmmaking, either as a producer, director, or
actor. We'll also look at how Hollywood
promotes itself as a "land dreams," while the texts more often than
not suggest a "land of nightmares."
Books
(tentative): Nathaniel West's Day
of the Locust; F. Scott Fitzgerald's The
Love of the Last Tycoon; Ray Bradbury's A
Graveyard for Lunatics; Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister; Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty; plus a few others
Films
(tentative): Sunset Blvd.; Mulholland Drive.; Sherlock, Jr.; The Player;
Adaptation; Lost in La Mancha; Ed Wood,
Barton Fink, Sullivan’s Travels
ENG 231-001 TR
2:00-3:15
pm Rogers-Carpenter
LITERATURE AND GENRE: NOVELS & FILM
ADAPTATIONS, OR IS THE BOOK ALWAYS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE?
In this
course, students will examine the film adaptations of five different novels in
conjunction with the original works in order to gain a better understanding of
how literature plays a role in their everyday lives. The diverse formats of the
novels included here—Choderlos De Laclos’s epistolary Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1842), Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind (1936), Toni
Morrison’s Beloved (1987), Susan
Orleans’s The Orchid Thief (1998),
and Max Allan Collins’s graphic novel, The
Road to Perdition (2002)—present distinctive aesthetic challenges for
screenwriters and producers. As a class, we will analyze what happens to these
narratives when they are adapted to film paying special attention to aesthetic
implications, in addition to exploring political and commercial influences on
this process. Course requirements include two group research projects, weekly
responses, one shorter paper, and one longer final essay.
Course texts--novels/films:
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1842
[Trans. Douglas Parmée—1999])/ Dangerous
Liaisons (1988: Dir. Stephen Frears)
Gone With the Wind (1936)/ Gone With the Wind (1939: Dir. Victor
Fleming)
Beloved (1987)/Beloved (1998: Dir. Jonathan Demme)
The Orchid Thief (1998): Adaptation (2002: Dir. Spike Jonze)
The Road to Perdition (2002): The Road to Perdition (2002: Dir. Sam
Mendes)
Also ancillary excerpts from Film Studies and historical sources
ENG 231-002 MWF
9:00-9:50
am Voss
LITERATURE AND GENRE: WRITING LIVES,
WRITING LIES: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND/AS FICTION
When is one’s story fact and when is it fiction? In
this course, we will investigate the thin line between “fact” and “fiction” by
examining (embellished) autobiographies and (autobiographical) novels from
nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, including Lauren
Slater’s Lying, Herman Melville’s Typee, Frederick Douglass’s My
Bondage and My Freedom, Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall, John Griffin’s Black
Like Me, and James McBride’s The Color of Water. We will
investigate corroborating (or contradictory) “evidence” for some of these texts
and consider questions such as: Why do some authors choose to write
autobiography and some novels? What are the distinctions between the two
genres? How might the conventions of each genre influence the composition
of a piece? Which texts are “true” and what does that mean, anyway?
Finally, we will begin writing our own (fictional?) autobiographies.
ENG 233-001 MWF
10:00-10:50
am Reese
LITERATURE AND IDENTITIES: SEXUALITY AND
CENSORSHIP
We will examine a series of texts
in this class that deal explicitly with a variety of issues concerned with sex
and sexuality (from sex itself to homosexuality to “perverse” sexualities) and
that because of their explicitness have in some way been censored or banned in
the past. We will concern ourselves with
how these texts articulate a variety of approaches to talking about or “dealing
with” sex and sexuality. We will also
examine how the censoring of these texts exhibits certain fears or concerns
that we have had culturally in the past and discuss whether or not we have
“gotten over” these issues. As part of
this process, this class will ask questions such as: How do we think about sex and sexuality and
why do we think about it in these ways?
How have we thought about sex in the past? Why are we afraid to talk about some of these
issues? Are these texts pornographic? What is pornography and how do we decide when
a text has crossed that line? When does
a person become capable of dealing with these issues? Note: This class will contain texts that deal very
explicitly with sexual content using explicit language to do so. We will talk frankly about these uses in this
class.
Texts for this class:
Lady
Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Portnoy’s
Complaint by Philip Roth
Giovanni’s
Room by James Baldwin
Maurice
by E.M. Forster
The
120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
ENG 234-001 MWF
1:00-1:50
pm Oaks
INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S LITERATURE
This course samples the richness of women’s literature focusing on life writing.
As well, students will be able to explore their own lives through the individual creative forms that appeal to them—journal-writing, poetry, essays. Possible authors include Alice Walker, Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Cecilia Woloch, Rita Dove, Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, Marilyn Hacker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Julia Alvarez. In addition to creative explorations, course work will involve expository writing as well as much class discussion.
ENG 234-002 TR
8:00-9:15
am Davis
INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S LITERATURE
English 234 is a survey of American
women’s writing. In this course, we will
focus on the following themes: women and
work, identity formation, and sexuality.
We will begin in the 1920s and work our way through each decade to the
present, employing a historical and cultural approach to American Women Writers
and gender studies. In addition, we will
place the works we are studying in their immediate historical context by
recovering contemporaneous reviews of the novels, as well as reading additional
works by the authors we are studying.
Possible texts for the course include works published by past presenters
and upcoming participants in the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. The following is a sample list of the texts
we will most likely read: Toni
Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970),
selections from Susan Bordo’s Unbearable
Weight (1993), Marya Hornbacher’s Wasted
(1998), Alexandra Robbins’s Pledged (2004),
as well as poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikky Finney, Adrienne Rich, and Sonia
Sanchez.
ENG 234-401 MW
6:00-7:15
pm Purdue
INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S LIT: SCIENCE
FICTION BY WOMEN WRITERS
In this course we will read
nineteenth and twentieth-century science fiction by women writers. We will consider the common elements, approaches,
and techniques among the authors; the importance of race, gender, class and
“otherness” in the texts; and the subgenres and special themes that emerge as
characteristic of science fiction. Some questions that we will explore are: If science fiction reflects the world of the
present in its presentation of worlds of the past, future, or elsewhere, what
kinds of judgments/ appeals/ criticisms can we draw from the texts about the
contemporary world? What is unique or
different about women’s science fiction?
Why do the themes of sexuality, gender roles, reproduction, and genetic
engineering occur frequently in science fiction texts by women? Texts include: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Ursula LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, Marge
Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale, and Octavia
Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
ENG 262-001 MWF 11:00-11:50
am 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 evolving 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 two examinations, one 5-8 page paper, and two shorter
papers.
ENG 262-201 M 5:00-7:30 pm Wilke
WESTERN LITERATURE: 1660 TO PRESENT
Meets at Carnegie Center. Contact Distance Learning for more
information: 257-3377.
ENG 264-001 TR 9:30-10:45 am Barrio-Vilar
MAJOR BLACK WRITERS
New classroom: CB 331
This course serves as an introduction to literature written by Black
authors. Although our main focus will be the study of African American
literature, we will also consider works by other writers of the African
Diaspora. We will explore various literary genres in order to discover
how different writers articulate the Black experience in specific
cultural, historical, and political contexts. Moreover, we will consider
how Black literature has evolved over time and has impacted various social
and political movements around the world, such as Emancipation and
Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, Negritude and Negrista movements,
Postcolonialism, Feminism, and the Black Arts movement. We will discuss
issues such as the following: What kinds of works constitute the (Black)
literary canon? How is the Black experience articulated in
literature? In what ways do race, class, gender, sexuality, and culture
affect the construction of Black identity and Black literature? How does
Black literature influence society? How do the assigned texts speak to
each other?
ENG 264-002 MWF 9:00-9:50 am Tucker
MAJOR BLACK WRITERS
Using texts from various time periods, we will examine how the search for African-American identity manifests itself through the desire to connect with one's individual history as well as attempts to negotiate through and belong to a community. This search takes places across political, literary, and historical cycles such as slavery, reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, and contemporary society. By viewing the combination of these cycles, we will view these works to see how the authors create characters who navigate through the minefields of race, gender, and class to find a place they can call home.
ENG 264-003 MWF 1:00-1:50 pm Fairfield
ENG 264-004 MWF 2:00-2:50 pm Fairfield
MAJOR BLACK WRITERS
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instructor for information.
ENG 281-001 MWF
12:00-12:50
pm Staff
INTRODUCTION TO FILM
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time. Please contact the
instructor for information.
ENG 281-002 TR
12:30-1:45
pm Staff
INTRODUCTION TO FILM
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instructor for information.
300 Level
ENG 301-001 MWF 1:00-1:50 pm Roorda
STYLE FOR WRITERS
This course is meant to help you
understand prose style and develop as a stylist in your own writing. We’ll consider what it means to have or
discern a style, how style in writing can be attended to and discussed, how
styles and registers shift with changes in situation, what principles and
techniques help us manipulate texts to achieve (or betray) varied effects. We’ll move between activities dealing with
style in global, descriptive, even philosophical terms, and those that focus on
composing and editing in a particular, practical, broadly effective style
stressing “clarity and grace.” Class
sessions will shuttle between small group tasks and whole class recitations
based on regular daily work of several sorts—short writings, reading responses,
analysis and imitation of passages, exercises in constructing and editing
sentences and paragraphs—all toward the end of improving our prose, not to
mention (a related thing) what we take as ourselves. There will be quizzes and a final project as
well, the project entailing the drafting, revising, editing, and stylistic
analysis of a prose work of your own, in a genre and for purposes you
determine. While the work will seem
detailed and even niggling at times, our credo is broad: style is that aspect
of any activity involving the grounds
for choice. Working with style, we try the possibilities
and conditions of our expression, and thus, our freedom.
ENG 306-001 MWF 9:00-9:50 am Morley
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 market their work to journals and magazines, including how to find
the right journal, what to write in a cover letter, and how to edit for
publication. Also, we will also focus on professional editing in theory and
practice, in both publishing and teaching. We will have guest speakers and an
occasional field trip to see and meet professional editors and publishers in
their own environment. In this course you will get resume-worthy experience as
a Peer Tutor in the UK Writing Center, as a special staff member of Limestone
(the Literary Art Journal at UK), and hopefully your own publication.
ENG 306-002 TR 9:30-10:45
Dotson
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 market their work to journals and magazines, including how to find the right
journal, what to write in a cover letter, and how to edit for publication.
Also, we will also focus on professional editing in theory and practice, in
both publishing and teaching. We will have guest speakers and an occasional
field trip to see and meet professional editors and publishers in their own
environment. In this course you will get resume-worthy experience as a Peer
Tutor in the UK Writing Center, as a special staff member of Limestone
(the Literary Art Journal at UK), and hopefully your own publication.
ENG/LIN 310-001 TR
11:00 am-12:15 pm Bosch
AMERICAN ENGLISH
This class 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 northerners say if they don't say
"y'all"? Topics include regional, social, ethnic, and gender-based
variation; research methods in dialectology; the “English-Only” question;
dialect and education.
Goals of the course: This class
will give you practice writing, speaking, arguing, presenting a position,
discussing it, testing a hypothesis, and following an idea through to its
conclusion. Upon completion of this
course, the student will be able to:
·
Describe the major linguistic properties that
may vary from dialect to dialect, and provide examples of each;
·
Explain how dialect differences arise, and
identify three main factors contributing to dialect divergence;
·
Identify the major regional dialect areas of the
United States, and their distinguishing characteristics;
·
Discuss how speech marks a speaker’s social
identity;
·
Describe two ways in which factors such as
region, social class, and ethnicity may affect speech;
·
Describe two ways in which dialect study can
contribute to our understanding of related areas such as education, testing,
and community awareness.
Requirements: Five homework assignments, 10-12 page final research
paper, oral presentation of research.
ENG 330-001 TR
11:00 am-12:15 pm Eldred
TEXT AND CONTEXT: AGE OF INNOCENCE
(WHARTON)
Published in1920, The Age of Innocence is Edith
Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the "perils of a perfect
marriage." We will study the way The Age of Innocence was
received (critically and popularly). We'll also study the novel in
the context of Wharton's upper-class life on two continents. Because
the U.K. Opera Theatre is producing Madame Butterfly (originally
produced in 1904), we’ll take advantage of seeing that opera and discussing
themes in common to Wharton’s novel. In addition to The Age of
Innocence, readings include the movie script for The Age of Innocence; Wharton's
autobiography, A Backward Glance; Wharton's nonfiction book, French
Ways and Their Meanings;
and selections by Wharton biographers R.W.B. Lewis and Shari Benstock. For
a basic introduction to Wharton's life and work, see http://www.edithwharton.org/ and http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/6741/.
ENG 330-002 MWF 10:00-10:50 am Campbell, D.
TEXT AND CONTEXT: REVOLUTION & THE
ENGLISH ROMANTICS
With the political and social upheavals of the
later 18th century came dramatic and far-reaching changes in western world
thinking. In England, these changes are
reflected in, shape, and give special meanings to the poetry of the era. Our course will study an important sampling
of that poetry, especially that of William Blake and William Wordsworth. We will also examine selected writings from
such influential political thinkers of the era as Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine,
and Mary Wollstonecraft. There will be
two papers and two examinations. Grades
will also be based on class participation and regular attendance.
ENG 330-003 MWF
11:00-11:50 am Carter
TEXT AND CONTEXT: THE DARK MARK TWAIN
We know the kindly, mustachioed,
white-haired-gentleman author of The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and
of “Leaping Frog …” fame, and the humorist who traveled the globe cheering
thousands with his irreverent views on governments and the late 19th
century world. What we may be less familiar with is the cynical, “blasphemous”
writer that even his family hid from the public after his death. This dark
Twain tackled religion’s hypocrisy and mankind’s ignorance as well as other
issues of his day. We’ll begin with Adam and take our tour of Mark Twain’s
Bible through to the early 20th century and “The Mysterious
Stranger” that Samuel Clemens was. Work
load will be daily readings, two short essays, one larger essay, and other
contextual assignments.
ENG 330-401 M
6:00-8:30 pm Meckier
TEXT AND CONTEXT: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
(ORWELL)
A meticulous
reading of Orwell’s masterpiece.
Where does it stand in the modern British utopian tradition? What does Orwell have to say to us 21 years
after 1984? Additional readings: Animal Farm, Homage to Catalonia, Zamiatin’s We,
Huxley’s Brave New World, Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, Kesey’s One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest, Orwell’s essays. Informal lecture-discussion, mandatory attendance, mid-term paper, final
paper.
ENG 330-402 T
6:00-8:30 pm Meckier
TEXT AND CONTEXT: LADY CHATTERLY’S LOVER
(LAWRENCE)
A close, frank
examination of Lawrence’s controversial novel, possibly his best. Additional texts: Sons and Lovers, Women in
Love, Huxley’s Point Counter Point
and Brave New World, Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, selected Huxley
and Lawrence essays, plus a reconsideration of the trial of Lady Chatterly for obscenity. Informal lecture-discussion, obligatory
attendance, two papers: mid-term paper, final paper.
ENG 331-001 MWF
11:00-11:50 am Prats,
J.
SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE I
In ENG
331 we will survey British literature from Beowulf through Paradise Lost. We
will read representative texts from the Old and Middle English periods as well
as from the Renaissance and 17th Century. As we explore the varied
genres and themes within their historical and cultural backgrounds, we will
consider the intriguing development of the English language. Along the way, we
will inquire into the changing role of literature in society. How do we define literature? Who is the writer? How is the work produced and circulated? Who are the readers? We will discover how
these shifting contexts shape the literature of each period.
Expect lively lecture-discussion
classes enriched with film and web presentations and student activities. Students will complete a mid-term and a final
exam (with essay, short-answer, and identification questions). Other requirements are individual and group
oral presentations involving research, and three papers (one shorter
explication, one shorter chronology, and one longer essay reflecting
conscientious research). Attendance and spirited participation required.
ENG 332-401 W
6:00-8:30 pm Dathorne
SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II
This will be a study of British
literature drawn from various time periods in examining various texts. We shall bear in mind issues relating to
race, class, and gender.
Grades will be awarded as follows:
Participation in class –
20%
Oral presentation in class
– 20%
A take-home mid term –
25%
A take-home final – 35%
ENG 333-001 TR
9:30-10:45 am Campbell, W.
STUDIES IN A BRITISH AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE
This course will be a survey of
Shakespeare's works, from early to late. Our readings will include
histories (Richard III, Richard II, 1 Henry IV), comedies (The
Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Measure
for Measure), selected sonnets, tragedies (Hamlet, King Lear), a
romance (Cymbeline), and perhaps one
of the early narrative poems. The course requirements will include
regular attendance, participation in class discussions and in-class writings,
and completion of five written assignments: three examinations and two critical
essays. The text for the course will be The Complete Works of Shakespeare, fifth edition, ed. David
Bevington.
ENG 333-002 MWF 10:00-10:50
am Allison
STUDIES IN BRITISH AUTHORS: W. B. YEATS
& JAMES JOYCE
A study of the writings of poet
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) and novelist James Joyce (1882-1941), in relation to the
social, political, and literary contexts in which they lived. Two very different authors, working in different traditions.
Yeats, once described as a “Victorian Gael,” characterized himself as one of “the
last romantics”- and yet his later poetry plays an important part in the
history of 20th century poetic Modernism. We’ll read Joyce’s novels Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and
Ulysses. We’ll think about poetic
form, the form of the novel, and the shape of epic narrative, and we’ll explore
the relationship between literature and its backgrounds: nationalism, the
Celtic Revival, modernity, modernism.
ENG 333-301 MTWRF 10:00 am-12:00 pm
12:30-2:30 pm Broome
STUDIES IN A BRITISH AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE
Winter Session: December 20-January
11.
This course is designed to
introduce you to a variety of Shakespeare’s works in several genres: comic,
tragic, historical, romance drama, and lyric poetry. We will study the
conventions of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and poetry and examine how
Shakespeare adopts and adapts them in his work. We will also pay some attention
to the ways his plays have been adapted to twentieth-century cinema.
We will focus closely on the
language of the works, familiarizing ourselves with its historical context and
learning to appreciate the variety of ways it can be interpreted. This course
will ask you to think and write critically—to test the validity of yours and
others’ assertions, to construct arguments in response to specific and general
prompts that reflect current developments in Shakespeare and English studies,
and to present conclusions drawn from your own research into aspects of
Shakespearean literature. I hope that your increased familiarity with and
understanding of Shakespeare’s works will deepen your appreciation of them, too.
Due to the condensed nature of
the winter session, we’ll need to move quickly if we hope to cover the works
I’ve chosen. We won’t attend to them in a shallow way, though; we’ll have at
least two days of intense discussion for each large work. Please read the
entire play before we begin discussing it in class. We will usually discuss the
first three acts on Day 1 and the final two on Day 2, unless we need to change
plans to accommodate our screening of a film clip. Some of the films we’ll
screen clips from include Hoffman’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999),
Branagh’s Henry V (1989), Olivier’s Henry V (1944), Parker’s Othello
(1995), and Nelson’s O (2001). You will also need to study selected
sonnets alongside the plays; in groups, you’ll analyze and present them to your
colleagues.
Required Texts
New Penguin Shakespeare editions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream ISBN:
0140707026; Henry V ISBN: 0140707085; Othello ISBN: 0140707077; The
Tempest ASIN: 0140707131; Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint ISBN:
0140707328. You may use editions that you have on hand, including editions of
collected works. The recommended texts are inexpensive single editions that
include some useful notes and introductory statements by respected editors.
Other required readings will be distributed in class.
ENG 334-001 TR 12:30-1:45 pm Clymer
SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE I
This course will be an immersion in
the literature and cultural history of America
from the sixteenth century through roughly the Civil War. Our primary focus will be on the complex and
often ambivalent ways in which issues of race, identity, and nationhood were
imagined and intertwined by writers in these centuries. Our reading will begin with the literature of
empire – narratives of exploration written for a European audience by
sixteenth-century adventurers and merchants.
This will be followed by a unit focusing on the writing produced by
early New England and Southern colonials; here we will
read accounts of internal strife and dissent stemming from gender and religious
differences, while we also study the colonists’ fear borne of their contact
with natives. Next, as the colonies make
the turn toward nationhood in the eighteenth century, we will study their
increasing preoccupation with what being an “American” seemingly implies and
entails, as well as what it excludes.
Finally, we will devote the last several weeks of the term to the
stunning outpouring of work generated by American writers in the middle decades
of the nineteenth century. In this unit,
we will read the writing of America’s
most famous authors – including Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Emerson, and
Douglass – within the context of a roiling historical milieu dominated by
slavery, women’s rights, and a changing economic structure.
The primary text will be the Heath Anthology of American Literature,
volume 1. Students should expect to come
away from this class with a deep knowledge of both famous and often-undervalued
American writers, as well as a firm grounding in the cultural history within
which these men and women produced their work.
Grades will be based on a 6-8 page essay, a collaborative research
project, a mid-term, and a final exam.
ENG 335-001 MWF 1:00-1:50 pm Marksbury
SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE II
A survey of American literature running from the Civil War (we'll start with Whitman) to the near-present (we'll probably finish with the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross). The emphasis will be on major authors and fiction, with forays into Southern and African American writing. Texts include The Norton Anthology and Don DeLillo's White Noise. Close readings and connections between the texts across time will be stressed as we try to balance forms as various as the novel, the short story, the poem, the essay--and possibly the film. Expect plentiful reading, heated discussion, and three take-home exams.
ENG 336-001 TR 2:00-3:15 pm Reece
STUDIES IN AN AMERICAN AUTHOR: WENDELL
BERRY
This course is dedicated to the
work of Wendell Berry, and will examine how his agrarian philosophy manifests
itself through fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. We will begin with the hugely
influential Unsettling of America, then move to That
Distant Land (stories) and the Selected
Poetry. We will take a hard look at Berry’s
response, throughout his career, to the current ecological crisis brought on by
industrialism and consumerism.
ENG 336-002 MW 3:00-4:15 pm Trask
STUDIES IN AMERICAN AUTHORS: WILLA CATHER
& ELIZABETH BISHOP
This class will focus on two of the
most highly regarded 20th-century American writers: the novelist
Willa Cather and the poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Cather died in 1947, a year after Bishop
published her first book of poems. They
were not friends or contemporaries, and neither influenced the other. Yet both were women; both were attracted to
women; and both refused to be categorized as women writers. These commonalities
will form the basis of the crucial questions we shall ask in this course. Expect to pay close attention to questions of
sexuality, feminist literary history (its strengths and limitations),
formalism, modernism, and post-modernism.
We’ll read 5 of Cather’s novels and a number of her short stories, and
we’ll read all of Bishop’s poetry and her major prose. We’ll also acquaint ourselves with the
critical literature on both writers, as well as with something of the literary
milieu in which each practiced. The
class will be divided evenly between the two writers. Two short papers and a somewhat longer one
will be required, along with occasional reading checks.
Willa Cather, The Song
of the Lark, My Antonia, A Lost Lady, The Professor’s House, Death
Comes for the Archbishop, Collected
Stories.
Elizabeth
Bishop, The Complete Poetry, The Complete Prose.
ENG 395-001 To
be arranged Rosenman
INDEPENDENT WORK
This course allows English majors to
pursue an area of specific interest under the guidance of a professor in the
English Department. Interested students
should stop by 1227 P.O.T. (English Advising Office) for the proper paperwork. Students’ plans must be approved by their
directors and by the Chair of the English Department.
400 Level
ENG 401-001 TR 12:30-1:45 pm Reece
SPECIAL TOPICS IN WRITING: NATURE WRITING
For students looking to get outside
the classroom walls, this course might offer an open door. We will study many
of America’s
important nature writers, but we will also range freely ourselves through
various natural and unnatural environments around campus and around Lexington.
A major portion of the grade for this course will depend on a field journal
kept throughout the semester.
ENG 401-401 M 5:30-8:00 pm Oaks
SPECIAL TOPICS IN WRITING: ADAPTATIONS
This course examines contentious versions of stories. Clearly, an individual narrative creates its
own singular life out of experience (actual or psychic); but the raw material
of experience can elicit any number or representations. In fact, representations themselves can provoke
alternate narratives. Since the act of
comparing works evokes meanings not available in an examination of each piece
in isolation, the comparison process can enhance our understanding of texts and
expand the possibilities for writing creatively about them.
Possible works to be explored include: “Tony’s Story” by
Leslie Marmon Silko and
“The Killing of a State Cop” by Simon Ortiz, Devil in a Blue Dress (novel and film versions), “The Knight’s
Tale” and “The Miller’s Tale” from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The
Business of Fancydancing (book of poetry and film
adaptation), “Snow White (variations by the Grimm Brothers, Anne Sexton, and
Angela Carter), Gaudi
Afternoon (novel and film versions),
and “Death and the Compass” (short story and film versions).
ENG 407-001 W 3:00-5:30 pm Finney
INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE
WRITING: POETRY
This mid-level poetry writing
course is a seminar designed for the student writer drawn to the music and
craft of poetry. The burgeoning, serious, poetically-inclined or
poetically-inquisitive student, who is committed to a continuing dialogue about
the magic and mechanics of this most ancient and gracious literary genre is
invited into this circle. This course begins with a refresher moment that looks
at some of the foundations of the form: line length, image and symbol, rhythm,
and various themes. Mid-semester the focus shifts to a discussion of how poetry
wraps its long luscious arms around art, history, science, and geography. In
the last weeks of the semester the course wraps up with a look at the
importance of poetry in contemporary society: How, when, and why, it is used.
From the beginning to the end of this class the student poet writes and shares
poetry in the poetry circle, which is always dedicated to sincere improvement
of the poem. From the beginning to the end of this lyrically-inclined
conversation we learn how to read and talk about poetry. We do not try and
define what a poem means. We look at how the poet accomplishes what she/he has
set out to do. As a student writer in this course you are encouraged to leave
all safe zones and construct risky thoughtful writing. Any and all texts will
be announced on the first day of class, which is a mandatory attendance day.
ENG 407-002 T 3:30-6:00 pm Finney
INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE
WRITING: FICTION
This intermediate section of
Imaginative Writing – Fiction is a seminar dedicated to the reading,
understanding and crafting of strong imaginative narrative. After an
introduction and review of the elements of good fiction which include;
character building, the placement of conflict, lovely luminous language,
strategic openings and closings, the class moves into the major journey of the
semester, the workshop setting. Within the workshop circle the various student
voices come together to share in the common goal of moving the work in progress
closer to clarity and completion. During the semester, two stories, 6 – 10
pages in length, are crafted by each student with special time and attention
given to the Revision process towards the end of the semester. The weekly
critique uses the foundational elements of good fiction as guide. Each week the
student writer is also given complimentary reading material and writing
exercises to help steward and gird the original student work in progress. The
published stories used for this mentoring work are explicitly chosen from
exciting and inventive writers from around the globe. Any and all texts will be
announced on the first day of class, which is a mandatory attendance day.
ENG 480G-001 TR 11:00 am-12:15 pm Prats, A.
STUDIES IN FILM: THE VIETNAM WAR AND/IN FILM
An exploration of Hollywood’s
many versions of the Vietnam War, with particular attention to the historical
and cultural questions raised by these movies, from The Green Berets (1968) to We
Were Soldiers (2002). We will screen some 18 or 20 movies, all of them
outside of class (in the Media Lab of the Young Library). Some of the titles
that I will consider for discussion (in addition to the two mentioned above): The Deer Hunter; Full Metal Jacket; Coming
Home; Apocalypse Now; Apocalypse Now Redux; Platoon; Born on the Fourth of July; First Blood; Rambo: First Blood, Part II; Uncommon
Valor; Jackknife; Tigerland; 84 Charlie MoPic; Jacob’s Ladder; Go Tell the
Spartans; Twilight’s Last Gleaming. In addition we will screen all the
installments of the famous PBS series: Vietnam.
Required Text: Karnow, Vietnam: A History. Requirements: Midterm
(essay & “objective”); Final (essay & “objective”); Research paper. Class Participation.
ENG 481G-001 MWF
12:00-12:50
pm Allison
STUDIES IN BRITISH LITERATURE: MODERN
POETRY
An examination of
a range of 20th century poets, British and Irish, in relation to social and
literary contexts. W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice,
Stevie Smith, Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney and one or two more. Stress on close
reading, poetic language and poetic forms, but also on backgrounds social,
political, biographical. When do you want to make background materials really
matter, and when not? We’ll talk a lot about meaning and interpretation, and
about how you understand your role as a reader.
ENG 482G-001 TR
2:00-3:15
pm Doolen
STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: RISE OF THE
U.S. NOVEL
This course is an introduction to
the rise of the novel in the United States. We will read a mix of famous and relatively
unknown authors, as well as investigate how the form of the novel changes over
the first half of the nineteenth century. In our reading, we will focus on two
related questions: how does the novel capture the social and political pressures
of a particular historical moment? Where is the line between fiction and
history, dreams and reality? The works we will study cut across several
literary genres, including the American Gothic, the Sentimental Novel, and the
Historical Romance, and we will try to understand the relationship between
literary and historical writing. Requirements include an extensive portfolio,
both analytical and creative in nature, a positive attitude, and an openness to new ideas.
ENG 483G-401 R
6:00-8:30
pm Dathorne
STUDIES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN/DIASPORIAN LITERATURE:
GLOBAL SURVEY OF BLACK LITERATURE
This course will be concerned mainly
with texts from African, African American, and other Disaporian writers. Note that after each section there will be a
book which you MUST purchase. This will
constitute the basis of lectures, and assignments will be set from this.
Grades will be awarded as follows:
Participation in class –
20%
Oral presentation in
class – 20%
A take-home mid term –
25%
A take-home final – 35%
ENG 487G-001 TR
12:30-1:45
pm Blum
CULTURAL STUDIES: PSYCHOANALYSIS &
CULTURE
What can psychoanalytic perspectives contribute to our
understanding of cultural phenomena—practices, ideals, the contemporary stories
of pleasure and happiness that “work” for us? This course will focus on
certain key themes in psychoanalytic theory—the child, gender difference,
narcissism, and borderline disturbances and will go on to consider in some more
depth psychoanalytic accounts of body image and beauty culture. The
course will introduce students in depth to psychoanalytic principles (which
will involve weekly two-page response papers). There will also be a final
take-home examination.
500 Level
ENG 507-001 R 3:30-6:00 pm Edwards
ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION
This is an advanced
undergraduate/graduate level course designed to explore in great depth the
writing of fiction, especially the short story. Students will gain an
extensive understanding of narrative form, and will examine many aspects of the
story, including characterization, narrative motion, and the use of language
and imagery. Students will look at both traditional and experimental
forms, will explore these forms in their own writing, and will participate
fully in a supportive workshop setting, giving and receiving thoughtful
criticism, which will be used as a basis for revision. This is a writing
class, and that will be our focus, but since reading and writing are a symbiotic pair, each essential to the other, we will
also take close, analytical look at published work, seeking to understand the
forms and unravel the process of creation. The class will be organized as a
writing workshop, in which you will have a chance to present your own work, and
also the opportunity to critique the work of your peers. You will be
expected not only to take your own work seriously, but also to give fair,
constructive, and helpful feedback to the other students in the class.
ENG 507-002 W 3:00-5:30 pm Vance
ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING:
POETRY
Imaginative Writing 507-002 is an
advanced course in the craft of writing poems, for students who have
demonstrated commitment to this work and to the reading of contemporary
poets. We will form an audience for each
other’s poetry, and will read widely in an anthology.
ENG 507-003 T 3:30-6:00 pm Edwards
ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
This is an advanced
undergraduate/graduate level course designed to explore in great depth the
writing of autobiography and memoir. Students will gain an extensive
understanding of multi-faceted and sometimes elusive form. We will
explore the border between memory and imagination, how a writer weaves
experience, research, and perception to create an autobiography that's cogent,
unique, and relevant to a wider audience. Students will participate fully
in a supportive workshop setting, giving and receiving thoughtful criticism,
which will be used as a basis for revision. This is a writing class, and
that will be our focus, but since reading and writing are
a symbiotic pair, each essential to the other, we will also take close,
analytical look at published work, seeking to understand the form and unravel
the process of creation. The class will be organized as a writing workshop, in
which you will have a chance to present your own work, and also the opportunity
to critique the work of your peers. You will be expected not only to take
your own work seriously, but also to give fair, constructive, and helpful
feedback to the other students in the class.
ENG 509-201 T 5:00-7:30 pm Williamson
COMPOSITION FOR TEACHERS
This course introduces students to
the theories, practices, and approaches for teaching composition, with an
emphasis on the middle and secondary level. The major aim of this course is to
equip future teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary to better teach
students to express their ideas through printed text. The course focuses on
assignment and lesson development, strategies for improving writing, and response
and assessment of writing. A review of grammar, usage, and mechanics is
included. Questions about this course can be directed to the instructor
at jrwilliam@ft-thomas.k12.ky.us
. Note: Course meets at Carnegie
Center. Contact Distance Learning Program for more
information: 257-3377.
ENG/EDC/LIN 514-401 MW 5:30-6:45 pm Clayton
TESL MATERIALS & METHODS
An extension of ENG/EDC/LIN 513,
this course introduces participants to materials used in the Teaching of
English as a Second Language (TESL) and to methods used by teachers in the
profession. Course requirements include attending lectures, participating
in class discussions, planning and teaching a variety of language lessons
individually and in small groups, observing ESL classes, and undertaking a
materials evaluation research project. Prereq: ENG/EDC/LIN 513
preferred, but not required.
ENG/ANT/LIN 516-001 TR
9:30-10:45
am 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 equivalent.)
ENG 570-001 MWF 3:00-3:50 pm Oaks
SELECTED TOPICS IN ADVANCED STUDY OF LIT: THE
WOMAN DETECTIVE
Students must enroll through WS
595-001.
Description not available at publication
time. Please contact the
instructor for information.
ENG 570-401 TR 6:00-7:15 pm Popkin
SEL TOPICS IN ADV STUDY OF LIT: AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
THEORY & CRITICISM
Once
regarded as nothing more than the simple transcription of an author's life,
autobiography is now recognized as a complex literary genre that poses
complicated questions about the relationship between memory, experience, and
writing. In this course, we will explore the theoretical issues involved
in the reading and study of autobiography, and test these perspectives through
the reading of selected autobiographical texts, from Augustine's Confessions to contemporary first-person
literature.
For more information, contact
Jeremy Popkin, Professor of History, popkin@uky.edu. Cross-listed as HIS
595-401.
ENG 610-001 TR 12:30-1:45 pm Zunshine
STUDIES IN RHETORIC: THE TEACHING OF THE
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL
When you are on the job market, your
ability and willingness to teach a class on the eighteenth-century English
novel makes you a more attractive candidate, no matter what your main field is.
Thus, one practical objective of this course is to prepare you for teaching
such a class. We will read a broad selection of eighteenth-century novels,
focusing on such authors as Behn, Defoe, Fielding, Haywood, Richardson, Burney,
and Austen, and discuss (and apply in our pedagogical practicums) a variety of
teaching approaches and theoretical methodologies. We will also consider such
questions as 1) the relationship between institutional settings, personal
histories, and career goals, on the one hand, and individual teaching
philosophies, on the other; 2) the formation of our implicit assumptions about
our students (e.g., how much they know; how much would they be willing to read)
and about the texts under consideration
(e.g., what constitutes a “new” canon of
English literature?); and 3) the relationship between theoretical
approaches and specific pedagogical dilemmas. Requirements: a series of
response papers, a sample syllabus with a course description, a teaching
philosophy statement.
600 Level
ENG/LIN 617-001 MW 3:00-4:15 pm Clayton
STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS: RESEARCH METHODS
This class has two purposes.
First, students will become acquainted with research traditions, methods, and
assumptions in the study of language acquisition, teaching, and policy.
Second, students will learn how to write proposals appropriate for social
science research. Students are encouraged to focus reading and writing
assignments toward their own research interests. Class is open to
advanced undergraduate students (with consent of the instructor) and graduate
students in English, linguistics, educational policy studies, foreign language
pedagogy, and similar fields. Prereq: ENG/EDC/LIN 513 preferred,
but not required.
ENG 642-001 MW 3:00-4:15 pm Allison
STUDIES IN MODERN BRITISH LIT: YEATS,
JOYCE, AND BECKETT
A study of the writings of W.B.
Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett, in relation to the social, political,
and literary contexts in which they lived. Very different authors, working in
different traditions, though all of them Irish and each of them influenced in
different ways by the Irish revolution, or in Beckett’s case by its aftermath
(resistance fighter in more ways than one, his war was world war two). A study of how authors develop and change, and how they use and
adapt sources for their own artistic ends. An
examination of literary Modernism in poetic, fictive, and dramatic terms.
If Yeats was the last Romantic, was Beckett the last Modernist? And how
have their successors responded to their examples? Yeats’s poems and plays;
Joyce’s poems and novels, Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses;
Beckett’s poems, two plays and at least one novel: Murphy. We’ll talk about poetic and dramatic form, the form of the
novel and the shape of narrative, and the relationship between literature and
its backgrounds: nationalism and post-nationalism, the Celtic Revival and the
counter-Revival, modernity, modernism, and what comes after. Required:
oral reports, one shorter paper, and a longer term paper.
ENG 653-001 M 5:00-7:30 pm Trask
STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1900
We’ll look at the history of
sexuality between the rise of the New Woman and the AIDS emergency from a
variety of angles (historical, theoretical, literary-critical). We’ll look at all the major turns of events
within the sex-gender system in the last century: the bohemian 20s, the “free
love” 60s, transformations in masculine and feminine self-definition, the rise
of feminism and gay liberation, and the enduring battles over these movements
and others (like birth control). The
syllabus will mix and match recognizable literary texts with some primary
documents—from life-narratives to Supreme Court decisions (such as Loving v. Virginia)—spanning
the 20th century. The class
is meant to teach students how to think about the interdisciplinary subject of
sexuality within the context of the humanist classroom. No prior expertise in
feminism, lesbian and gay studies, or theory is necessary. In addition to some
influential essays, the reading list will in all likelihood contain the
following:
Michel Foucault, The
History of Sexuality: Volume One
Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex”
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements*
Christine Stansell, American Moderns*
George Chauncey, Gay New
York*
Estelle Freedman and John D’Emilio, Intimate Mattters*
Betty Friedan, The
Feminine Mystique*
Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male*
Margaret Sanger, My Fight for Birth Control*
Djuna Barnes, Ladies Almanack
Emma Goldman, The Traffic
in Women
Mary Casal, The Stone
Wall
Ralph Werther, Autobiography of an Androgyne
Mary McCarthy, The
Company She Keeps
Tennessee
Williams, Suddenly Last Summer
Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums
Leroi Jones, The Toilet
Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
James Baldwin, Another
Country
Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook
Thom Gunn, The Man With
Night Sweats
* excerpts
ENG 681-001 TR
9:30-10:45 am Prats, A.
STUDIES IN FILM
By request (though most likely by
default), maybe even out of necessity (in other words, in the paramount interest
of “coverage”), the spring 2005 version of ENG 681 will focus on major Hollywood
genres after 1929. Not all genres will be treated equally, however, since the
instructor’s predilections, to say nothing of his whims, will tend to tip the
scales in favor of Westerns (Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, High
Noon, Shane, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Unforgiven [and I’m not even
listing the Indian Westerns]) and war
movies (Paths of Glory, Bataan, Sands
of Iwo Jima, To Hell and Back, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, The Thin Red
Line, Saving Private Ryan, Three Kings, Black Hawk Down), followed closely
by film noir (The Maltese Falcon, The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, To Have
and Have Not [am I getting too obvious here?] The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, Chinatown, The
Conversation]), then by the gangster movie (The Public Enemy, White Heat, The Godfather, and that insult to
every respectable and self-respecting Cuban, Scarface) with horror a
distant fifth (Dracula, Night of the
Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead [Romero], though we might also pay attention
to Carrie and The Shining). While the “coverage” commitment requires attention to
the musical (Top Hat, The Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the
Rain, Chicago)
and the romantic comedy (Pretty Woman [are
there any others? Is Sleeping with the
Enemy an appropriate sequel?] and maybe Bridget Jones’s Diary) we are not likely to do much work with screwball comedy or slasher films. Required:
John Cawelti, Adventure, Mystery, and
Romance, and Belton, American Cinema/American
Culture. Final Exam, Final Essay, Class Participation.
ENG 690-001 T 3:30-6:00 pm Bordo
STUDIES IN LITERATURE & GENDER: NABOKOV’S
LOLITA & HER DESCENDANTS
A half century after its
publication, Lolita continues to
irritate the nerves of contemporary sexual politics, and forces us to confront
aspects of human behavior that we'd prefer not to look at. Assessing Lolita today is a complex business,
however. For in the years since Lolita was published, Nabokov's literary
creations have generated a set of images that seem more inspired by cultural
archetypes and ideological agendas than by the details of the novel, and that
have virtually usurped those details in the popular imagination.
This
course will explore the complex conversation that has existed between Nabokov's
Lolita and post-War culture,
beginning with a close reading of the novel, then focusing on the film
adaptations of Nabokov's novel—Stanley Kubrick's (1962) and Adrian Lyne's
(1998)--and concluding with an exploration of other contemporary
"participants" in the conversation, including Sam Mendes' American Beauty, photographic and mass
media representations of the nymphet, child beauty pageant culture, the
contemporary sexualization of children, as well as recent novelistic attempts
to give Lolita her voice (Pia Pera's Lolita's
Diary; Nancy Jones' Molly), and
portions of Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita
in Tehran. Throughout, we will discuss the role cultural politics have
played in interpretations and uses of the novel and images inspired by its
characters.
ENG 691-001 To be arranged. Eldred
READINGS IN RHETORIC: CONSULTING PRACTICES
This course allows graduate
students to integrate readings in Rhetoric and Composition scholarship and
provides an opportunity to discuss research with faculty associated with
Rhetoric and Composition. In addition to readings, students will be expected to
post a reading journal on the Discussion Board or complete a brief annotated
bibliography which they must also post on the Discussion Board. This course may
be repeated for a maximum of three credits. Prerequisites: ENG 609 and 610 or
consent of the instructor.
700 Level
ENG 700-001 To be arranged Pierce
ENG 700-002 To
be arranged Pierce
TUTORIAL FOR PHD CANDIDATES
This course is designed
to prepare advanced doctoral students for qualifying examinations. Much of the
work will be done individually and in small groups, tailored to each student's
place in the process. We will work on constructing the lists and rationales,
develop strategies for note-taking and studying, and take practice exams.
Students preparing for the oral examination will work on drafting the
prospectus. You must have completed your course work to take this class. Any
exceptions will have to be cleared by the instructor.
ENG 722-001 TR 2:00-3:15 pm MacDonald
SEMINAR IN RENAISSANCE STUDIES: SHAKESPEARE
& OVID: HISTORY, DESIRE, & CHANGE
This semester, the focus of English 722 will be
Shakespeare's recourse throughout his career to the works of his favorite
classical poet, Ovid. The Renaissance fascination with Ovid's portrayals of
desire and its fateful consequences--rape, unnatural births, gender-blurring
transformations of all kinds--will form one important strand in the class's
investigations. Another strand will be contributed by Ovid's habits of revising
"official" version of Roman events. How does Shakespeare express an
Ovidian understanding of history and politics? Primary texts will include the
two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, a
selection of Shakespeare's plays, and lyrics by such Renaissance poets as Lyly,
Lodge, Spenser, Marlowe, and Barnfield. Latin is welcome, although not
necessary, since all Roman texts will be read in Renaissance translation.
Course requirements will include an annotated bibliography, critical analyses
of selected critical articles, an abstract of a potential conference paper, and
a final term paper for the course.
ENG 738-001 TR 11:00 am-12:15
pm Rosenman
SEMINAR IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE
This course will explore what we
call “class formation” in the heart of the nineteenth-century, which saw “the
rise of the middle class,” “the making of the English working class,” the
establishment of “the two nations,” to cull out a couple of truisms about the
period. We will understand “class formation” and these more specific phenomena
as processes, not entities, for class identities remained under construction
throughout the century, with shifting and permeable boundaries, multiple and
fluid membership critieria, and unpredictable connections and antagonisms.
We’ll attend to figures who temporarily stabilize
class positions (the sober mill owner, the tragic factory worker) as well as
those liminal figures who trouble class boundaries, such as the seamstress and
the social climber.
We’ll take a cultural studies
approach, combining literature, social history, and modern criticism. Literary
readings will include Dickens’ Hard Times, Gaskell’s North and South,
Collins’ Basil, Tonna’s Helen Fleetwood, as well as poetry and
fiction from Chartism, the most significant working-class movement of the
period.
And another thing: the library is
likely to acquire a wonderful collection of primary sources on the British
Empire in the nineteenth century, enhancing the substantial
primary holdings it already has. If this happens, I’ll also devote a portion of
the class to empire, looking at the same issues of identity formation with an
emphasis on race, nationality, and religion. I can’t set the syllabus until I
look at the collection, but expect to read some microfilm and on-line sources
for this part of the course. In this case, the title of the course is “Under
Construction: Selves and Others in Victorian Britain.”
No surprise: although I haven’t
designated gender as a structuring category for the class, it will be a crucial
part of our discussions throughout the semester.
Expect to write a long seminar
paper, a shorter paper (which can serve as a tune-up for the longer paper), and
an in-class report. Of course, expect to come to class and talk. Because this
is a 700-level course, we’ll devote extra time to exploring scholarly resources
and preparing work for presentation and publication. If you have special
interests in the nineteenth century, social class, or imperialism, let me know
and I’ll do my best to accommodate them.
ENG 748-001 To
be arranged Rosenman
MASTER’S THESIS RESEARCH
Please contact the instructor for
information.
ENG 749-001 To be arranged Rosenman
DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Please contact the instructor for
information.
ENG 750-401 T 6:00-8:30 pm Doolen
SEMINAR IN COLONIAL LITERATURE
This course will cover the rise of
the novel in the United States
from the end of the revolutionary period to the 1850s. We will read those
authors who dominate US literary history—authors such as Charles Brockden
Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, and Herman Melville—but we will also study other
writers who challenge conventional wisdom and help us to imagine alternative
literary histories in the US.
In our reading, we will focus on two related questions: how does the novel
capture the social and political pressures of a particular historical moment?
Where is the line between fiction and history, dreams and reality? The novels
we will study cut across several literary genres, including the American
Gothic, the Sentimental Novel, and the Historical Romance, and we will attempt
both to understand and to theorize the relationship between literary and
historical writing. This course will give graduate students from any area an
opportunity to deepen their understanding of the novel form. In addition,
students will gain appreciation and working knowledge of an exciting, and still
neglected, period of US
literary history. Requirements include an annotated bibliography and a final
seminar paper.
ENG 752-401 W 6:00-8:30 pm Clymer
SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1860-1900
This seminar explores the class
politics of late-nineteenth-century American literature. Traditionally identified as the period of
“Realism” and “Naturalism,” these years have always been viewed as ones in
which authors were especially interested in social conditions. We will both engage with this traditional
literary history and push past it. Our
wider focus will include the emergence of a modern commodity culture,
speculative financial shenanigans, the economics of marriage and gender roles,
American imperialism, the nationalization of the marketplace, working-class
protest writing, and the peculiar intersections of class and racial
politics. The approach will combine
historicist criticism with close textual reading, and we will also be attentive
to the intersection of individual writers’ lives with the social and
institutional mechanisms of writing, publishing, and literary history.
Texts include Henry James, The American; Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country
of the Pointed Firs; Jacob Riis, How
the Other Half Lives; Edith Wharton, The
House of Mirth; Theodore Dreiser, Sister
Carrie; Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Stories; William Dean Howells, An Imperative Duty; Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, Women & Economics; Maria
Amparo Ruiz de Burton, The Squatter and
the Don; Jack London’s short stories; and Theresa Malkiel, The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker.
There will also be a healthy amount
of literary and historical scholarship.
Grade to be based
on 15-20 page paper, annotated bibliography, and class participation.
ENG 768-001 To be
arranged Rosenman
RESIDENTIAL CREDIT FOR THE MASTERS DEGREE
Please contact the instructor for
information.
ENG 769-001 To be arranged Rosenman
RESIDENTIAL CREDIT FOR THE DOCTORS DEGREE
Please contact the instructor for
information.
ENG 780-001 To be
arranged Rosenman
ENG 780-002 To be arranged Rosenman
DIRECTED STUDIES
Please contact the instructor for
information.
Linguistics Courses
ENG/LIN 210-001 MW 4:00-5:15 pm O’Hara
ENG/LIN 210-401 MW 6:00-7:15 pm O’Hara
ENG/LIN 210-402 TR 6:00-7:15 pm O’Hara
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PREREQUISITE: NONE
This is an introductory course in
the History of the English Language in which we will study the ways in which
English has developed from its origins to modern times.
PURPOSE of the course: To answer the following questions: Where does
Modern English come from? How has English changed over the last 1200 years?
What do those changes show us about the process of language change in general?
What influence have class, race, gender, and politics had on the development of
English? What are some of the more common myths about language and why are they
wrong? What is the future of English as a world language?
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: The student
will be able to analyze, compare, and contrast language data drawn from all
periods of English
and to explain the processes by which Modern English evolved. Learning to do
this kind of analysis is the most important part of the course
METHOD: Four exams based on the
assigned readings and selected videos; short analytical exercises and written
assignments to reinforce what has been learned in
class. No cumulative mid-term or final.
TEXTS: The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of the English Language, David Crystal,
2d edition, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Language Myths, (eds) Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill, Penguin, 1998.
NOTES: 1) English majors will find that this
course complements their course work in literature.
2) Students in the
College of Communications
can satisfy their Language
requirement
(under Option B) by taking ENG/LIN 210 and ENG/LIN 211 in any order.
3) Attendance is
mandatory from the first day of class for all students
including those
on the waitlist.
ENG/LIN 211-001 MW 4:00-5:15 pm Guindon
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
I
This course will introduce and explore the forms and
structures of human language, how they are similar, how they differ, and how
they can change over time. Significant sections of the course will cover:
–human speech sounds and how they are used (Why, for
instance is ‘blaps’ a possible English word, but not ‘bspla’? Why is the ‘s’ at the end of ‘leaves’ actually pronounced as a
‘z’?)
–word-formation (Why can we form
‘reality’ out of ‘real + ity’ and ‘sanity’ out of ‘sane + ity’, but not
‘happity’ out of ‘happy + ity?)
–sentence structure (Why is ‘pretty women and horses’
ambiguous? How are the two phrases in ‘looking sharp, looking for love’
different?)
Students can expect daily homework assignments designed to
enable them to understand linguistic concepts and forms, and to deduce
linguistic structures by applying methods of structural analysis to data drawn
from a variety of languages. There will also be at least four exams and
one quiz; exam formats will generally be based on the homework. Heavy
emphasis is placed upon classroom preparation and participation.
ENG/LIN 211-002 TR 3:30-4:45 pm Stump
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
I
This
course is the first semester of a two-course introduction to the scientific
study of human language; this section will be taught in a large lecture
format. We will explore the principles regulating three domains of
linguistic organization (those of phonology, morphology and syntax), examining
both the ways in which languages differ in these domains and the ways in which
they are alike; we will additionally investigate the causes and processes of
language change in each of these domains. Students can expect regular
homework assignments designed to enable them to understand linguistic
principles and to apply methods of formal analysis to data drawn from a variety
of languages. The textbook will be Contemporary Linguistics, 5th
edition (Bedford, St. Martin’s, 2004), by William O’Grady, John
Archibald, Mark Aronoff & Janie Rees-Miller.
ENG/LIN 211-401 MW 5:30-6:45 pm Guindon
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
I
See
description for ENG/LIN 211-001.
ENG/LIN 211-402 TR 5:30-6:45 pm Guindon
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
I
See
description for ENG/LIN 211-001.
ENG/LIN 212-001 MWF 9:00-9:50 am Marks
ENG/LIN 212-002 MWF 11:00-11:50 am Marks
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
II
The goal of this course is to
expand your 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, and writing
systems. Success in this class will be measured by your ability to
demonstrate the recurring structural patterns of language and to analyze the
function of language as a part of society as a whole. In addition, you
will be able to illustrate the usefulness of linguistic approaches to language
in everyday life.
ENG/LIN 310-001 TR 11:00 am-12:15
pm Bosch
AMERICAN ENGLISH
This class 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 northerners say if they don't say
"y'all"? Topics include regional, social, ethnic and gender-based
variation; research methods in dialectology; the “English-Only” question;
dialect and education.
Goals of the course: This class
will give you practice writing, speaking, arguing, presenting a position,
discussing it, testing a hypothesis, and following an idea through to its
conclusion. Upon completion of this
course, the student will be able to:
·
Describe the major linguistic properties that
may vary from dialect to dialect, and provide examples of each;
·
Explain how dialect differences arise, and
identify three main factors contributing to dialect divergence;
·
Identify the major regional dialect areas of the
United States,
and their distinguishing characteristics;
·
Discuss how speech marks a speaker’s social
identity;
·
Describe two ways in which factors such as
region, social class, and ethnicity may affect speech;
·
Describe two ways in which dialect study can
contribute to our understanding of related areas such as education, testing,
and community awareness.
Requirements: Five homework assignments, 10-12 page final research
paper, oral presentation of research.
LIN 317-001 TR 3:30-4:45 pm Guindon
LANGUAGE & SOCIETY: INDO-EUROPEAN
LANGUAGE & CULTURE
This course will review how the Indo-European language was
reconstructed on the basis of its daughter languages such as English, Latin,
Greek, Sanskrit, Lithuanian, etc. We will then go on to discuss the
phonological system which was reconstructed for Indo-European and problems with
that reconstruction, then discuss the morphological/syntactic structures of the
language. After exploring Indo-European, we will then discuss what the
linguistic evidence and the archaeological evidence tells us about the culture
of the people who spoke the language. Students should expect extensive
memorization, and at least four exams and one quiz. Heavy emphasis is
placed upon classroom preparation and participation.
LIN 317-002 MW 3:00-4:15 pm Rouhier-Willoughby
LANGUAGE & SOCIETY: LANGUAGE &
CULTURE
How many colors are there in the
world? If you are a speaker of Dani, a language spoken in Papua
New Guinea, you might say 2. If you are a
speaker of Russian, you might say 12. How is this possible, given that all human
eyes see the same colors? This is just one of many conundrums that we will
study in our discussion of language and culture. We will examine how and
whether our understanding of the world is dependent on the words we say.
LIN 318-001 TR 12:30-1:45 pm Rouhier-Willoughby
SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
Would you prefer
to be called a flip-flopper or open-minded? These words may have the
same meaning, but they convey very different attitudes and as a result, perhaps
different meanings. This course will study the approaches to meaning and its
variation in English and other languages. We will consider the meanings of
words, of sentences, and of utterances, and the rich variety of information we
convey with language, sometimes without even saying a word.
ENG 395-001 To be arranged Bosch
INDEPENDENT WORK
Please contact the instructor for
information.
ENG/EDC/LIN 514-401 MW 5:30-6:45 pm Clayton
TESL MATERIALS & METHODS
An extension of ENG/EDC/LIN 513,
this course introduces participants to materials used in the Teaching of
English as a Second Language (TESL) and to methods used by teachers in the
profession. Course requirements include attending lectures, participating
in class discussions, planning and teaching a variety of language lessons individually
and in small groups, observing ESL classes, and undertaking a materials
evaluation research project. Prereq: ENG/EDC/LIN 513 preferred, but
not required.
ENG/ANT/LIN 516-001 TR
9:30-10:45
am 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 equivalent.)
ENG/LIN 617-001 MW 3:00-4:15 pm Clayton
STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS: RESEARCH METHODS
This class has two purposes.
First, students will become acquainted with research traditions, methods, and
assumptions in the study of language acquisition, teaching, and policy.
Second, students will learn how to write proposals appropriate for social
science research. Students are encouraged to focus reading and writing
assignments toward their own research interests. Class is open to
advanced undergraduate students (with consent of the instructor) and graduate
students in English, linguistics, educational policy studies, foreign language
pedagogy, and similar fields. Prereq: ENG/EDC/LIN 513 preferred,
but not required.
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