Fall 2007

 

Note: For Linguistics courses, see either under the ENG crosslist or in the list of LIN courses at the end of this webpage.

 

 

ENG 207-001                                     M 3:00-5:30                                                    Cardiff

BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

THIS COURSE INTRODUCES YOU to the forms and practices of creative writing. Focusing on each individual, our workshop will develop the skill in writing stories and/or personal narratives. To help foster your work, weekly exercises will help you develop an understanding of the elements of the craft such as character development, narrative structure, dialogic engagement, and scene development. You also will be expected to read peer work with care and to discuss this writing with constructive, informed, and articulate criticism to specific elements of the text that go beyond simple like and dislike. The study of works by writers such as Wallace Stegner, Denis Johnson, and Jhumpa Lahiri in the context of craft—as opposed to literary interpretation or historical analysis—is a critical part of your artistic discipline and creative output.

The main feature of the course is (of course) THE WORKSHOP itself, and you will have the opportunity to provide stories for peer evaluation three times over the course of the semester. Vital to writing is re-writing, of returning to your work and sculpting it into the shape you wish it to take. For your efforts, you will have the opportunity to further develop one workshopped piece for a second round of peer and instructor critique. As you practice becoming an effective and careful reader of both peer and established writing, you do become an effective and careful reader of your own. Writing, reading, and evaluating peer work all further your own creative practice. By the end of the term, you will feature your two workshopped stories and your choice of three shorter "best effort" writing exercises in a portfolio that you can be proud of, and one day, pass on to future progeny and fans.

 

ENG 207-002                                     R 3:30-6:00                                                     Edwards

BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

 

ENG 207-003                                     W 3:00-5:30                                                    Howell, Dan

BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: POETRY

 

ENG 207-004                                     T 3:30-6:00                                                     Staff

BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

 

ENG 207-401                                     CANCELLED                                                

BEGINNING WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

            This section has been cancelled.

 

ENG/LIN 210-001                              MW 4:00-5:15                                                            OÕHara

HISTORY OF THE 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; daily quizlets on the homework readings. 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.

                The Story of English. Robert McCrum, 3d edition. Penguin Books, 2002.

 

NOTES:          1) 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.

2) Attendance is mandatory  for all students including those on the

     Waitlist from the day their names appear on the Class Roster.

 

ENG/LIN 210-401                              MW 6:00-7:15                                                            OÕHara

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

            See description for ENG/LIN 210-001.

 

ENG/LIN 210-402                              TR 6:00-7:15                                                   OÕHara

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

See description for ENG/LIN 210-001.

 

ENG/LIN 211-001                              TR 3:30-4:45                                                   Guindon

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

 

ENG/LIN 211-002                              TR 5:00-6:15                                                   Guindon

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

This course will introduce and explore the forms and structures of human language, how they are similar, how they are recorded, 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 ÔblapsÕ a possible English word, but not ÔbsplaÕ? Why is the ÔsÕ at the end of ÔleavesÕ actually pronounced as a ÔzÕ?)
–word-formation (Why can we form ÔrealityÕ out of Ôreal + ityÕ and ÔsanityÕ out of Ôsane + ityÕ, but not ÔhappityÕ out of Ôhappy + ity?)
–sentence structure (Why is Ôpretty women and horsesÕ ambiguous? How are the two phrases in Ôlooking sharp, looking for loveÕ different?)

Students can expect daily homework assignments designed to enable them to understand linguistic forms, and to deduce linguistic structures by applying methods of structural analysis to data drawn from a variety of languages. Test formats will generally be based on the homework.

 

ENG/LIN 211-003                              MWF 9:00-9:50                                              Wheeler

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

 

ENG/LIN 211-004                              MWF 10:00-10:50                                          Wheeler

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

 

ENG/LIN 211-005                              TR 11:00-12:!5                                               Barrett

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

 

ENG/LIN 211-006                              MWF 1:00-1:50                                              Staff

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

 

ENG/LIN 211-007                              MWF 11:00-11:50                                          Zoubir-Shaw

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

 

ENG/LIN 211-401                              MW 5:30-6:45                                                            Guindon

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

            See description for ENG/LIN 211-002.

 

ENG/LIN 212-001                              TR 9:30-10:45                                                 Bosch

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS II

Please note: There is NO prereq for this course. 

This course should fulfill the Òlanguage moduleÓ requirement for the English major.

            This is one part of a two-semester sequence introducing the study of Linguistics; although both semesters are integrated with each other, students are free to take only one course or the other.  Linguistics encompasses the scientific study of human language as a system.  Everyone knows a language--but what does it mean to know a language?  How do infants learn a language?  How are languages different from one another?  How are they similar?  This course will introduce students to the social aspects of the study of linguistics, focusing on the issues and problems of interest within each of these fields. Topics include semantics, first and second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, brain and language, psycholinguistics, and animal communication.  There will be weekly homework assignments and quizzes, and three exams; the final is not cumulative.  Text: Contemporary Linguistics, 5th edition, edited by OÕGrady, Archibald, Aronoff, and Rees-Miller.  (This is the same text used in LIN/ENG 211). 

 

ENG/LIN 212-002                              MWF 12:00-12:50                                          Bishop

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS II

 

ENG 230-001                                     MWF 9:00-9:50                                              Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-002                                     MWF 10:00-10:50                                          Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-003                                     MWF 11:00-11:50                                          Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-004                                     TR 3:30-4:45                                                   Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-005                                     MWF 1:00-1:50                                              Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-006                                     TR 8:00-9:15                                                   Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-007                                     MWF 12:00-12:50                                          Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-008                                     TR 2:00-3:15                                                   Lewin

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-009                                     MW 3:00-4:15                                                            Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-010                                     TR 9:30-10:45                                                 Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-011                                     TR 11:00-12:15                                               Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-012                                     MWF 2:00-2:50                                              Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 230-401                                     MW 6:00-7:15                                                            Staff

INTRO TO LITERATURE

 

ENG 231-001                                     MWF 1:00-1:50                                              Staff

LIT AND GENRE

 

ENG 231-401                                     TR 7:30-8:45                                                   Staff

LIT AND GENRE

 

ENG 232-001                                     MWF 12:00-12:50                                          Carter

LIT AND PLACE: PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICAN WEST  

Since Europeans ÒsettledÓ the U.S. and Manifest Destiny proclaimed all the land theirs, the voices of the Native Americans and the Western pioneers have bounced against each other. This course will examine several of these voices, both native American and Anglo with the objective of discovering their shared and conflicted selves. We will focus on the late 20th century fiction, poetry, and non-fiction prose of writers as diverse as N. Scott Momaday, Gary Snyder, Richard Hugo, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Thomas McGuane, and others. We should have a rollicking good semester of reading and discussion. WeÕll write two 5-12 page essays and do some historical and contextual research.

 

ENG 233-001                                     TR 9:30-10:45                                                 Staff

LIT AND IDENTITIES

 

ENG 234-001                                     TR 8:00-9:15                                                   Staff

INTRO TO WOMENÕS LIT

 

ENG 234-002                                     MWF 11:00-11:50                                          Oaks

INTRO TO WOMENÕS LIT: TELLING WOMENÕS STORIES

English 234 samples the richness of womenÕs literature focusing on the kinds of stories women tell and the ways they tell those stories.  As well, students will explore their own stories through the creative forms that appeal to them—especially poetry and essays.  ÒTelling WomenÕs StoriesÓ will explore women-centered narratives, as opposed to the   more pervasive stereotypical stories of culturally constructed women.  They will have the opportunity to see narrative Òfrom the inside out,Ó in other words, to look at the creative process as readers and as writers. 

Works to be studied include: Transformations (fairy tale revisions by Anne Sexton), The Piano (film by Jane Campion), Storyteller (anthology by Leslie Marmon Silko), Daughters of the Dust (film by Julie Dash), Late (poetry by Cecilia Woloch), and Dangerous Beauty (film autobiography of the life of the courtesan/poet Veronica Franco).  Three five-page papers, two in-class presentations, short in-class writings, and much class discussion comprise the bulk of the course activities.

 

ENG 234-003                                     MWF 2:00-2:50                                              Staff

INTRO TO WOMENÕS LIT

 

ENG 261-001                                     MWF 10:00-10:50                                          Campbell, D.

WESTERN LIT GREEKS—RENAISSANCE

 

ENG 261-002                                     MWF 11:00-11:50                                          Campbell, D.

WESTERN LIT GREEKS—RENAISSANCE

 

ENG 261-201                                     T 6:00-8:30                                                     Wilke

WESTERN LIT GREEKS—RENAISSANCE

 

ENG/AAS 264-001                            TR 3:30-4:45                                                   Pierce

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

ENG/AAS 264-002                            TR 3:30-4:45                                                   Pierce

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

ENG/AAS 264-003                            TR 3:30-4:45                                                   Pierce

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

 

ENG/AAS 264-004                            TR 11:00-12:15                                               Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

 

ENG/AAS 264-005                            MWF 12:00-12:50                                          Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

 

ENG/AAS 264-006                            MWF 2:00-2:50                                              Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

 

ENG/AAS 264-401                            MW 6:00-7:15                                                            Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

 

ENG 271-001                                     MWF 9:00-9:50                                              Staff

THE NEW TESTAMENT AS LIT

 

ENG 281-001                                     TR 12:30-1:45                                                 Marksbury

INTRODUCTION TO FILM

A basic overview of film technique, form, genre, and theory.  WeÕll try to look at  films from different times (from the 1920s until today) and places (predominantly USA but also France, Italy, Russia, and maybe Japan), in black-and-white and color, silent and sound, genres like the western, the noir, the musical, the documentary and the horror film, in addition to truly unclassifiable ÒartÓ films.

            WeÕll discuss a film each week, and with the help of our text, The Film Experience, weÕll try to look more closely into the many particulars, the facets of the medium, which must cohere into that unified experience.  Movies ranging from Buster KeatonÕs Sherlock Jr. to Sunset Boulevard, from The Man with the Movie Camera to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and from Godard and Fellini and Nicholas Ray to The Stunt Man will serve as a springboard to talking (and writing) about reflexivity--films to the second power, films about films.

            Three fairly short essays, two exams.

 

ENG 281-002                                     MWF 9:00-9:50                                              Staff

INTRODUCTION TO FILM

 

ENG 281-003                                     MWF 10:00-10:50                                          Staff

INTRODUCTION TO FILM

 

ENG 281-004                                     MWF 1:00-1:50                                              Staff

INTRODUCTION TO FILM

 

ENG 281-401                                     TR 6:00-7:15                                                   Staff

INTRODUCTION TO FILM

 

ENG 330-001                                     TR 11:00-12:15                                               Lewin

TEXT AND CONTEXT: THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE

 

ENG 330-002                                     MWF 12:00-12:50                                          Oaks

TEXT AND CONTEXT: GHOST STORIES

Ghost stories constitute one of the oldest genre in American Literature.  This course will explore (for the most part) short fiction which articulates the interactions between the human and spirit worlds.  Probable authors include: Edith Wharton, Gloria Naylor, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Bowen, May Sinclair, Henry James, Leslie Marmon Silko.  The class will view some film adaptations as well.

Students will give one short article presentation, and write one short (5-6 page) and one long (10-12 page) paper. 

Workshopping and general discussion of texts will dominate class time.  After a careful reading of literary and student writing, class members will offer cordial yet persuasive arguments for their positions.  These activities—writing and critical response—constitute the heart of the course.

 

ENG 330-003                                     TR 2:00-3:!5                                                   Staff

TEXT AND CONTEXT:

 

ENG 330-004                                     MWF 10:00-10:50                                          Staff

TEXT AND CONTEXT:

 

ENG 330-005                                     MWF 11:00-11:50                                          Staff

TEXT AND CONTEXT:

 

ENG 331-001                                     TR 9:30-10:45                                                 MacDonald

SURVEY OF BRITISH LIT I

 

ENG 332-001                                     TR 12:30-1:45                                                 Allison

SURVEY OF BRITISH LIT II

Survey of British Literature (poetry and fiction) from the late 17th century to the 20th century, including (1) 18th century satire (John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift); (2) Romantics and Victorians (from William Blake to the Brownings); (3) Moderns and Modernism (from Thomas Hardy to W.H. Auden); (4) Literature since 1950. Emphasis on close reading, literary style, social, political and historical backgrounds. Exploring the literature using various critical and theoretical methods. Requirements to include: quizzes, mid-term exam and three (3-page) essays. Texts to include: Norton Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors (8th edition).

 

 

ENG 333-001                                     MWF 1:00-1:50                                              Staff

STUDIES IN BRITISH AUTHOR OR AUTHOR(S):

 

ENG 333-002                                     M 3:00-5:30                                                    Fulbrook

STUDIES IN BRITISH AUTHOR OR AUTHOR(S): CHARLES DICKENS

 

ENG 334-001                                     MWF 1:00-1:50                                              Staff

SURVEY OF AMERICAN LIT I

 

ENG 334-401                                     MW 6:00-7:15                                                            Doolen

SURVEY OF AMERICAN LIT I

The writing of early American culture stretches over three hundred years, across the different civilizations of Native, European, and African peoples, spans two hemispheres growing closer with each decade, and speaks in the languages of Narragansatts and Pueblos as much as English Puritans and Spanish explorers. Because of this enormous terrain, our course will focus on the evolution of American culture from 1740 to 1840. First, we will immerse ourselves in historical scholarship so that you can gain a deeper understanding of how forces such as imperialism and colonization contributed to the formation of US culture.  This historical context will help you read the many types of ÒliteratureÓ composed during the period: the captivity narrative, the slave narrative, political essays, travel narratives, and public rituals like the ÒBoston Tea Party.Ó You will need to be open to an interdisciplinary course of study that may look, at times, more like a History or Sociology class than an English class. You should be prepared to do a lot of reading, take extensive reading notes, and collaborate inside and outside of class. A substantial final project constitutes 40% of the final grade.

 

ENG 335-001                                     TR 11:00-12:15                                               James

SURVEY OF AMERICAN LIT II   

This course offers a survey of American literature from Mark TwainÕs Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the present.  We will focus on one literary form, the novel, and a few of the major preoccupations of American writers, namely: what makes American literature distinctive and valuable?  Should it reflect or influence the social world? Whose stories (past and present) count as American? After reading Twain, we will consider various apparitions of Òthe modernÓ and Òmodernism,Ó as they appear in representative American texts by James, Stein, Wharton, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway.  We will pay special attention to the ways in which modernism is gendered (as monstrous women, as wounded men) and the ways in which it depends upon and confounds racial categories: is it ÒmongrelÓ? or does the ÒmodernÓ encounter give rise to both ÒblacknessÓ and ÒwhitenessÓ? With Faulkner as our turning point, we will turn from the modern period to various post-war novels that explore the problems of narrating AmericaÕs secrets, past and present.  Can literature enable us to mourn our collective mistakes and losses?  Can it challenge us to re-imagine our national past and future? 

Two papers, midterm, and a final exam.

 

ENG 336-001                                     MWF 11:00-11:50                                          Reece

STUDIES IN AMERICAN AUTHOR(S): NONFICTION LITERATURE

 

ENG 336-002                                     MWF 12:00-12:50                                          Campbell, W.

STUDIES IN AMERICAN AUTHOR(S): ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WRITER

The class will study the writings of a man often considered one of AmericaÕs greatest writers, Abraham Lincoln.  WeÕll accompany our tracing of the evolution of Lincoln as a writer and thinker with a reading of David Herbert DonaldÕs biography, Lincoln.  Our texts will include the Donald biography, the Modern Library Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, and Donald L. WilsonÕs LincolnÕs Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words.  Each student will write two examinations (one a midterm, the other a final examination) and compose two five-to-seven page essays.  Regular attendance and class participation are required.

 

ENG 381-001                                     TR 9:30-10:45                                                 Marksbury

HISTORY OF FILM I

A history of cinema, with an emphasis on aesthetic development and attention to genre, technical innovation, audience reception and economics, the emergence of the director as auteur and the actor as movie star. There will be two film viewings per week as we trace the evolution of the medium from its inception and early attempts at narrative through the pioneers of the Hollywood silent film (alongside German, Russian, and French contemporaries) and the early years of the American studio system (sound films through 1941 or so).

The written text is A Short History of the Movies by Gerald Mast and Bruce Kawin. The movies we will watch represent as many different uses of film--on levels ranging from narrative to cultural--as possible. A short list would include work by Lumiere and Melies, The Great Train Robbery, Mack Sennett and Chaplin shorts, The Gold Rush, The General, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Battleship Potemkin, Un Chien Andalou (Salvador Dali and Bu–uel), The Rules of the Game, Freaks, Sullivan's Travels, The Blue Angel, Stagecoach, and His Girl Friday.

Note: Students are required to attend screenings of the films outside of class

 

 

ENG 395-001                                     Arrange with individual instructor                             

INDEPENDENT WORK

            Students taking this course should  pick up a form in room 1227 Patterson Office Tower.

 

ENG 401-001                                     TR 12:30-1:45                                                 Roorda

SPECIAL TOPICS IN WRITING: THE ESSAY

 

ENG 405-001                                     MWF 9:00-9:50                                              Thoune

EDITING ENGLISH PROSE

This writing intensive course will provide students with an introduction to the basics of editing and publishing and build upon prior knowledge of the essential elements of writing and style. Students will have multiple opportunities to practice editing and revision skills both in their own writing and the writing of others. Additionally, students will be expected to learn the techniques of the verification of sources, the preparation of manuscripts, and the major trends in the field of editing and publishing.  Finally, students should anticipate leaving this class with a good working knowledge of the history and conventions of the editing process.

 

ENG 407-001                                     T 3:30-6:00                                                     Marksbury

INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

            Fiction writing at a more accelerated level—in terms of quality, quantity, depth and subtlety of critical response to othersÕ work, and the amount of outside reading—than the beginning workshop, 207.  You are expected to be familiar with the workshop format, present on every level for the work which is shaping itself in front of you, and open to constructive criticism—both in terms of giving and receiving lots of it.

            There is the possibility here to put together one longish and unified piece of writing (40-50 pages of revised prose), but you still have the option of executing several shorter forays.  Raising the bar and taking some risks (working outside the comfort zone of your preconceived strengths and weaknesses, moving away from the generic into the more truly personal, creating fictional situations where you as writer have something close at stake) will be the focus here.

            Regular and committed attendance, preparation for three rounds of submissions and outside reading, an analysis (not so much critical as technical—what makes this work emotionally, psychologically, politically, and most of all aesthetically?) of a story from the anthology we havenÕt covered in class, and—last but obviously most important of all—a portfolio at the end of the semester with the best revisions you can produce.

            Our text is The Story and Its Writer: an introduction to short fiction, seventh edition, edited by Ann Charters.

 

ENG 407-002                                     W 3:00-5:30                                                    Vance

INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: POETRY

 

ENG 407-003                                     R 3:30-6:00                                                     Marksbury

INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: SCREENWRITING

Intended not so much as an introductory course but as a more intensive and ambitious intermediate level workshop, designed for students who are interested in launching, critiquing, and following through as far as possible on an extended project in this form. Working outwards from the bare bones of the individual ÒbeatsÓ and the isolated scene, weÕll try to build on that earliest connective tissue and develop a larger structure.
By the end of the semester, youÕll be expected to have nailed together the treatment for a feature-length screenplay and at least the first of the three acts which would comprise it. WeÕll run sections of your writing through the workshop and youÕll be expected to revise, enhance, and polish it as much as possible.

Regular attendance, an openness to sincere and constructive criticism and a willingness to provide it are a must. In addition to the central writing project, we will examine a number of films which will serve as paradigms (viewings outside class) in terms of construction, tension and resolution, dialogue, character development, etc. I hope this will help us to think in more pragmatic terms of what screenplays can and cannot accomplish.

 

ENG 480G-001                                  MWF 10:00-10:50                                          Foreman

STUDIES IN FILM: SHAKESPEARE & FILM

A study of a variety of Shakespeare's plays in both written and filmed forms.  We will begin with the poetic, dramatic, and (to some extent) theatrical values of Shakespeare's texts and thus especially with Shakespearean language ("wordplay") and the way words reveal, and hide, and make, character.  Then we will turn to movies made of or from the plays and to the elaborate and subtle visual "language" movies use to tell stories.  Inevitably, and intentionally, we will speak of what the filmmakers have "done to Shakespeare," but it is important to recognize that we will see the films not only as versions of the plays but also as original and integral works.  We will also attend to way the intelligence and imagination of audiences, including ourselves, engage the gaps in time and culture back to other periods, people, and places--to Shakespeare as the 16th century became the 17th, to people in several countries a hundred years ago trying to figure out how to "film Shakespeare," to Laurence Olivier in World War II Britain, to Akira Kurosawa in Japan in the 1950s (and again in the 1980s), to Al Pacino in 1990s' America, and so forth.  The sweep we make from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (c. 1592) to Julie Taymor's Titus (2000) should tell us something about the world over the last four hundred years and about ways of seeing it.

NOTE:  For Fall 2007, ENG 480G-001 and ENG 481G-001 are the same course, meeting at the same time and place with the same instructor and syllabus.  Topics for papers and exams will vary somewhat to accommodate primary focus on play text or film, according to student interest.  Students may register for whichever section best suits their curricular plans.

 

ENG 481G-001                                  MWF 10:00-10:50                                          Foreman

STUDIES IN BRITISH LIT: SHAKESPEARE & FILM

NOTE:  For Fall 2007, ENG 480G-001 and ENG 481G-001 are the same course, meeting at the same time and place with the same instructor and syllabus.  Topics for papers and exams will vary somewhat to accommodate primary focus on play text or film, according to student interest.  Students may register for whichever section best suits their curricular plans.

 

ENG 481G-001                                  TR 2:00-3:15                                                   Allison

STUDIES IN BRITISH LIT: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT

 

ENG 482G-001                                  MWF 11:00-11:50                                          Staff

STUDIES IN AMERICAN LIT:

ENG 483G-001                                  MWF 9:00-9:50                                              Staff

STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN OR DIASPORIC LIT:

 

ENG 507-001                                     CANCELLED -- SEE ENG 500-401             

ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

This section has been cancelled and replaced by ENG 507-401.  See below.

 

ENG 507-002                                     T 3:30-6:00                                                     Howell, J.

ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: POETRY

 

ENG 507-003                                     W 3:00-5:30                                                    Norman

ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: FICTION

Gurney Norman's Short Story School is a place for story writers and story tellers to meet regularly and practice their arts. The emphasis is on story writing, but learning to tell a few tall tales, folk tales, and personal anecdotes will be useful to aspiring fiction writers. Students will be asked to do weekly writing exercises both in and out of class. These exercises are designed to give the student writer practice in the basic elements of fiction, including character development, story structure, dialogue, and scene development. Students are expected to produce three best-effort, polished stories or personal narratives during the semester. We will read and discuss representative short stories by noted writers, including Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Bobbie Ann Mason, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., Louise Erdrich, Ernest Gaines, and many others. Students will be invited to read their work aloud in class for practice and for gentle critique by fellow students. PREREQUISITE: ENGLISH 207.

ENG 507-401                                     T 6:00-8:30                                                     Norman

ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN IMAGINATIVE WRITING: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

English 507: AUTOBIOGRAPHY offers students an opportunity to tell to themselves and to others the stories of their lives. Some of our stories are brief, often humorous anecdotes drawn from personal and family memory. Other stories come from our deepest psychological and emotional sources. Not all of our life experiences are told or written as stories. Many students will want to just write of their thoughts, feelings, memories and experiences. Writing practices and discussions both in and out of class will aid the writer in shaping and refining the material.

All people are marked by their life experiences. Often we are not even aware of some of the marks. Personal narrative writing is one way that individuals can discover their hidden selves, thereby gaining self-knowledge. Students will be asked to bring to class 1000 words (three or four pages) per week and turn in three best effort narratives during the semester. Students must faithfully attend every class meeting.

ENG/EDC 509-201                            W 5:00-7:30                                                    Williamson

COMPOSITION FOR TEACHERS

 

ENG/LIN 512-001                              MWF 11:00-11:50                                          Staff

MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR

 

ENG/EDC/LIN 513-001                     MW 4:30-5:45                                                            Clayton

TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

This class is the first of a two-semester series of classes relevant to English language teaching.  In this first class, we study second language acquisition (SLA)—how people learn languages.  What are the cognitive, environmental, and social dynamics of language acquisition?  Only when we understand something of the process of SLA can we profitably study language teaching (in TESL Materials and Methods, ENG / LIN / EDC 514).  This class is lecture/discussion course.  While there will be frequent lectures, a significant amount of class time will be devoted to the active engagement of all students in discussions of the readings, their implications, and their relation to one another and the field SLA.  In this class, students will become familiar with ideas and theories in SLA; they will become familiar with research traditions used by scholars in SLA (as well as language teaching and the social sciences generally); they will become acquainted with the major academic journals in SLA and language teaching; and they and will gain critical skills for reading original research articles.

 

ENG 600-001                                     TR 11:00-12:15                                               Allison

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND METHODS OF RESEARCH

This course is comprised of three parts: (1) Introduction to traditional and electronic research tools available in modern research libraries, with special sessions on bibliographies, reference guides, academic journals, online databases. Visits to Special Collections & Digital Archives. (2) Overview of the emerging discipline of Book History, including printing and publishing history, the early modern transition from manuscript to print, and the rise of electronic publishing. On a related note, we shall also think about book design and examine some notable collaborations between authors and designers. Examination of the history of ideas about authorship, intentionality, reading communities and reception. Visits to King Library Press. (3) Short history of 20th century editorial theory, from W.W. Greg and Fredson Bowers to Jerome McGann, including an examination of several famous, modern editorial case studies (Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Sylvia Plath). Exercises in transcription and annotation of manuscripts from the Peal Collection, King Library. Texts to include: David Finkelstein, Book History Reader; McGann, Critique of Modern Textual Criticism; McGann, Textual Condition; McGann, Radiant Textuality;; Hardy, Woodlanders; Plath, Ariel. A packet of related essays. Requirements to include oral reports, short written assignments, a longer research paper.

 

ENG 601-001                                     TR 12:30-1:45                                                 Roorda

ESSAYS & CREATIVE NONFICTION

 

ENG 609-001                                     TR 9:30-10:45                                                 Roorda

COMPOSITION FOR TEACHERS

 

ENG/LIN 617-001                  Arrange with instructor                                               Clayton

STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS: TESL PRACTICUM

 

ENG 618-001                                     MWF 1:00-1:50                                              Staff

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

 

ENG 642-001                                     TR 11:00-12:15                                               Allison

STUDIES IN MODERN BRITISH LIT

[This course has been cancelled for Fall 2007 and instead will be offered by Prof. Allison in Spring 2008.]

 

ENG 653-001                                     T 3:30-6:00                                                     James

STUDIES IN AMERICAN LIT SINCE 1900

This course will consider major and minor American modernist writers in various historical and critical contexts.  Authors include: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Cather, Toomer, and others. Requirements: leading and participating in discussion, one short essay (8 p) and one long essay (25 p). 

 

ENG 660-001                                     R 3:30-6:00                                                     Staff

MODERN CRITICAL THEORY

 

ENG 691-001                         Arrange with instructor                                               Eldred

READINGS IN RHETORIC: CONSULTING PRACTICES

 

ENG 722-001                                     TR 12:30-1:45                                                 MacDonald

SEMINAR IN RENAISSANCE STUDIES: POSTCOLONIAL SHAKESPEARE

As a central part of the curriculum in the secondary schools and universities established with the empire in British colonies around the globe, Shakespeare occupied an important intellectual place in what it meant to learn to be British. In the years since the breakup of the British empire, Shakespeare still occupies a central role in the phenomenon Salman Rushdie described as Òthe Empire writes back to the centre,Ó as writers born in former British colonies express their sense of the effects and aftereffects of British cultural importation. With Shakespeare at the center of our investigations, this class will look at a range of postcolonial responses to the imposition of British colonial formulations of nation, race, and cultural value. Some of these responses do take RushdieÕs form of Òwriting back,Ó as they critique, repudiate, and laugh at ShakespeareÕs standing as a measure of colonial conformity. Others, taking Shakespeare as a given, are more concerned with the process of reclaiming and rearticulating his texts and his cultural presence in local terms. We will read several Shakespeare plays and a range of dramatic and nondramatic texts raising these major kinds of responses to Shakespeare, along with some relevant examples of writings in postcolonial and performance theory. One major paper, one shorter project.

 

ENG 738-401                                     M 6:00-8:30                                                    Fulbrook

SEMINAR IN VICTORIAN LIT

 

ENG 751-001                                     W 3:00-5:30                                                    Clymer

SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LIT: 1800-1860: NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL

This course is appropriate for students whose focus is American literature and who plan to take Ph.D.-level qualifying exams in nineteenth-century American literature. 

The course has two goals: 1) at a more general level, students will gain a deep familiarity with the novelÕs development during this time period and, equally important, with current scholarly discussions regarding this period, its fiction, and its historical determinants; 2) at a more specific level, we shall trace a fairly definite theme throughout our readings, i.e., the changing economic stakes of intimate relationships during the antebellum period.

Assignments will include a series of position papers in response to critical readings; an annotated bibliography; and an oral presentation.

Our primary texts:  Charles Brockden Brown, Ormond; Hannah Foster, The Coquette; E.D.E.N. Southworth, Retribution; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle TomÕs Cabin; Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables; Herman Melville, Pierre; William Wells Brown; Clotel, or the PresidentÕs Daughter; Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

 

 

Linguistics Courses

 

LIN 317-001                                       TR 2:00-3:15                                                   Barrett

LANGUAGE & SOCIETY: ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

This course will examine the primary issues involved in language endangerment, including current debates within the field of linguistics and activism in indigenous and minority language communities.  Various methods for assessing the status of endangered languages will be considered, including methods based primarily on examining language in social institutions, those based on sociolinguistic variation within communities and those based on the structural consequences of language death.  The course will also examine programs for language revitalization, including literacy development, programs encouraging native language use, and various types of educational programs designed for language maintenance in various communities. 

 

LIN 317-002                                       MW 4:00-5:15                                                            Guindon

LANGUAGE & SOCIETY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL DECIPHER

What do you do when you find a document in an unknown script, possibly representing a known language, but possibly representing an unknown language?  This course will explore several instances where this has happened, and the scripts have been deciphered.  We may also explore a script which has yet to be deciphered, despite decades of intensive work.  Along the way, we will discuss the characters involved in the explorations, discoveries, and solutions; as well as the implications which the documents held for the societies which produced them.  Students should expect quizzes, homework, exams, and one short paper.

 

LIN 517-001                                       TR 12:30-1:45                                                 Bosch

SPECIAL TOPICS IN LINGUISTICS: LANGUAGE AND GENDER

            This course is an introduction to the study of language and gender.  Students need not have any background in linguistics to enroll, although students with some linguistic coursework will probably reap additional benefit from the course.  In this course we will consider some of the debates taking place currently in sociolinguistic studies of gender in order to examine whether, how, and why gender differences in language use may exist.  This area of language study also intersects with related work in the fields of anthropology, sociology, womenÕs studies, and psychology, so our readings will be varied.  Course requirements include two short essays, an oral presentation, and a research paper.  The research paper should be 8-10 pages long for undergraduates, and 10-12 pages for graduate students. 

 

LIN 520-001                                       MWF 1:00-1:50                                  Stump & Satheye

SANSKRIT I

The objective of this course is to enable students to read texts in Sanskrit, the classical language of ancient Northern India and the ancestor of the Modern Indic languages.  Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas (the earliest Hindu scriptures), of the Mah‰bh‰rata (the Indian national epic), and of a vast tradition of literary, philosophical, religious and scientific texts spanning nearly three millennia.  In this course, students will learn the devan‰gar” writing system and the fundamentals of Sanskrit grammar; with regular practice, they will cultivate an ability to translate Sanskrit texts into English with the aid of a grammar and dictionary.  The final weeks of the course will be devoted to translating passages from several texts, including portions of the Bhagavad-G”t‰.  Students taking this course will be able to pursue further Sanskrit study in the spring of 2008, when Sanskrit II (LIN 521) will be offered.