First Summer 2007

ENG/LIN 211-010 MTWR 1:00-3:30 Staff

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

ENG/LIN 211-011 MTWR 10:00-12:30 _______ Staff

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

ENG/LIN 212-010 MTWR 10:00-12:30 Bosch

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS II

Please note: There is NO prereq for this course.

This course should fulfill the “language module” 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 daily homework assignments and quizzes, and three exams (the final is not cumulative). Text: Contemporary Linguistics, 5^th edition, edited by O’Grady, Archibald, Aronoff, and Rees-Miller. (This is the same text used in LIN/ENG 211).

ENG 230-010 MTWR 10:00-12:30 Rosenman

INTRO TO LIT

Using a selection of poems and short stories, this course will familiarize you with the ways we read and write about literature. We’ll concentrate on strategies for reading texts that often imply rather than declare, that have many layers, that use figurative language, that are in dialogue with other texts that have come before them. Some of these strategies will emerge in discussion; some will come from learning key terms and ideas used by literary critics to direct our thinking. Most of the reading will come from 20^th and 21^st c. British and American authors, though there is no thematic focus – just a selection of interesting, varied works that make their meanings in interesting, varied ways.

Part of the class will also consist of Lit. Crit. Bootcamp – practice in boring but essential conventions such as punctuating quotations, citing sources, etc., so you never have to worry about them again!

ENG 230-011 MTWR 1:00-3:30 Prats, A.

INTRO TO LIT

I would like to introduce all students, majors, potential majors, and non-majors alike, to thinking and writing about (and from) literature. Chiefly, however, I hope to teach you why these works of literature are worth studying—what about them reveals, in fact, the enduring and ever-urgent need to study them. We will study classical and modern texts in the three major genres (drama, poetry, and prose fiction), and we will undertake a study of the terms—e.g., irony, metaphor, point of view, etc.—used in the study of literature. All the works are certified “great,” A1, Blue Ribbon, Must Read, so come and experience Beauty, Truth, and Goodness. Sophocles, Oedipus; Shakespeare, Macbeth; Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener and Billy Budd; selected poetry from the Norton Seagull Reader. Also we will use some movies—e.g., Polanski’s Macbeth and Coppola’s Apocalypse Now—for purposes of illustration

ENG 234-010 MTWR 10:00-12:30 Tarrant-Hoskins

INTRO TO WOMEN’S LIT

Same as GWS 300-010

This course will examine narratives of re-creation, particularly those that have influenced the literary canon in the past two centuries.  Examining representations of re-creation, motherhood, and progeny, we will look at how gender plays into authorship, and ultimately question whether women and men “create” different versions of these narratives.  Additionally, we will examine whether gender roles are challenged, reinforced, or reinvented in these narrative re-creations?   We will pay close attention to the following themes: reproduction, sexuality, social inequality, eugenics, and aggression, and concentrating on these depictions and constructions of re-creation, we will ultimately attempt to answer why certain narratives become canonized, while others remain on the margins. Additionally, as an introduction to women’s literature, we will direct much of our attention to literary devices and techniques, such as narration, theme, point of view, structure and the like, as well as key literary terms.

Texts:

Shelley, Mary.  Frankenstein. (1818) 

Wells, H.G. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)

Stoker, Bram. Dracula (1897)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland (1915)

Atwood, Margaret.  The Handmaid’s Tale (1986)

Excerpts from : Adrienne Rich, Nancy Chodorow, Ann Dally, Marianne Hirsch, Anne Kaplan, and Mary Jacobus

Barton and Hudson’s A Contemporary Guide to Literary Terms with strategies for writing essays about literature (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

*We may also devote some time to analyzing the film versions of these novels

ENG 335-010 MTWR 9:00-11:30 Doolen

SURVEY OF AMERICAN LIT II

This course is an introduction to twentieth-century American literature and will explore different literary forms, such as the short story, poetry, and the essay. We will focus on techniques of literary analysis and pay special attention to historic cultural movements (the short list includes American Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat Movement, and Postmodernism). Students will read “classic” writers alongside lesser-known but equally compelling authors. The diverse selection of authors include Langston Hughes, E.E. Cummings, Nella Larson, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Toomer, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, Frank Chin, Toni Cade Bambara, James Welch, Sherman Alexi, Gary Soto, and Tim O’Brien. Requirements: Class participation, attendance, mid-term exam, and final exam.

ENG 481G-010 MTWR 10:00-12:30 Allison

STUDIES IN BRITISH LIT: BRITISH & IRISH SHORT STORY

The short story as a genre can sometimes be difficult to classify and there are extremely short and extremely long short stories currently in print. However, despite (or because of) its brevity the short story can have unusual literary and emotional power. It’s a cousin or distant cousin of several other literary genres, such as the novella, the fable, the fairy tale or legend, but we shall arrive at some crisp conclusions about definition as we proceed with our reading and discussion. We shall dedicate ourselves to close and attentive reading of around 30 stories by British and Irish authors, focusing not only on questions of genre (what are the limits of the short story?) and form (how are stories structured and organized?) but also on the social and historical contexts which may illuminate aspects of the texts. We shall have lots of discussion, some oral reporting and some reading aloud. Reading texts include Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (ed. Malcolm Bradbury) and Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories (ed. William Trevor), and The Hill Road by Patrick O’Keeffe (a University of Kentucky graduate). Requirements will include regular class attendance and participation, oral reports, three writing assignments and a final examination.

LIN 517-010 MTWR 10:00-12:30 DuBravac

SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to theories and research in Second Language Acquisition SLA. The course is designed to provide an introductory overview of the linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition (SLA) and to provide a basis for understanding the SLA research related to second language teaching. It will cover the following topics: 1) key concepts and issues; 2) history of recent SLA research; 3) SLA research methodology; 4) SLA data analysis; 5) interlanguage; 6) morphosyntax; 7) phonology; 8) lexis; 9) psychology and SLA; 10) functionalism; 11) input and interaction; 12) sociocultural theory; 13) sociolinguistics and SLA; 14) interlanguage pragmatics; and 15) instructed SLA.; The course is organized around lectures, class discussions of the textbook chapters and supplementary readings, and L2 learning data analysis exercises. This course assumes completion of LIN 212 (Introduction to Linguistics) or equivalent since many of the topics discussed in this course find their foundation in the concepts discussed in LIN 212.

Second Summer 2007

ENG/LIN 210-020 MTR 11:30-2:10 O’Hara

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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 211-020 MTWR 11:30-12:45 Bishop

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS I

This is the first semester of a two-semester sequence introducing the study of Linguistics. This course will introduce students to several aspects of the study of linguistics, focusing on the issues and problems of interest within each of these fields; topics include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and historical linguistics.

ENG 230-020 MTWR 11:30-2:00 Prats, J.

INTRO TO LIT

Getting Even: The Theme of Revenge in Literature and Film We will step into the weird worlds of revenge in literature and film by exploring William Blake’s “A Poison Tree,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (the printed play as well as several film versions). You will be expected to study, discuss, and write about these imaginative works and about other worthy revenge tales of your choosing.

Writing Requirements: two shorter essays of four pages each; one longer essay of eight to nine pages; frequent in-class writing exercises.

Attendance required. Participation expected.

Note: class meets for four weeks, 06/07/2007-07/05/2007; MTWR 11:30AM-02:00PM.

ENG 230-021 MTWRF 9:10-11:10 Staff

INTRO TO LIT

ENG 230-420 TR 6:00-8:30 Staff

INTRO TO LIT

ENG 231-020 MTWRF 9:10-10:10 Staff

LIT AND GENRE

ENG 234-420 MTR 5:30-7:45 Purdue

INTRO TO WOMEN’S LIT

ENG/AAS 264-020 MTWRF 10:20-11:20 Staff

MAJOR BLACK WRITERS

ENG 330-020 MTWR 11:30-2:00 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 19^th 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 20^th century and “The Mysterious Stranger” that Samuel Clemens was. Work load will be daily readings, two 5-10 page essays, and other contextual assignments.

ENG 401-220 Off campus Staff

SPECIAL TOPICS IN WRITING: PROJ IN ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING

ENG 481G-020 MTWRF 9:10-11:20 Foreman

STUDIES IN BRITISH LIT: SPOKEN SHAKESPEARE

Meets June 7-July 5 only.

Shakespeare's plays were designed to be spoken aloud and understood aloud, but John Heminges and Henry Condell, two of his longtime partners in the theater business, also thought they were valuable texts for private reading so they published a collected edition several years after their friend's death.  This course is founded on the notion that these forms of encounter with the plays- private reading (whether silent or aloud) and communal reading aloud--are mutually illuminating and provide a way into a capacious understanding and appreciation of the interacting emotions and arguments of the characters, their ideas and doubts, their desires and needs, their griefs and joys.  To read a Shakespearean role as if you knew what it meant is a great start toward finding out what in fact it does mean, as is hearing other people read other characters as if they too knew what they meant by what they said.  We will also look at how different oral performances find different meanings in the same works.  We will use two plays, chosen (by the instructor, who, as he writes this in early March, is indecisive) from (probably) the following: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, The Winter's Tale.  We will read lots of Shakespeare's words in class, tinkering with rhythm, stress, and silence, and we will look at video and listen to audio versions of our plays to get a sense of how other people think they should sound.  There will be short written exercises due for most class meetings, as well as in-class work, which will include reading aloud every day, but no long papers or "major" exams.  (Grades will measure the diligence and intelligence and sensitivity of students' work, but not their ability as "actors.")

ENG 482G-020 MTWR 11:30-2:00 Marksbury

STUDIES IN AMERICAN LIT: THE HISTORY OF HIP

What is this thing called Hip? This off-hand question about something which appears to be so arbitrary might disclose some surprisingly deep-rooted and enduring answers—both continuities and contradictions you might not have expected. And more questions only proceed from there, about the sources, half-life and future of a certain kind of long-running relationship between American and global, high and popular, mainstream and alternative cultures.

Eschewing the merely trendy and casting as wide a net as possible, we’ll be looking at Hip as attitude, aesthetic, definition, process—and, yes, product. It’s an ongoing (counter) cultural tradition, not just this year’s model and last month’s haircut but Ezra Pound definition of poetry as “news that stays new.”

John Leland’s overview Hip: the History will serve as a central text and paradigm, and the connections and contexts he provides will help us begin looking into and talking about the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation, bebop, blues, and Beats, Patti Smith and Lou Reed, abstract expressionism, dystopian science fiction (Blade Runner), Richard Pryor, tricksters and riot grrls and signifying monkeys, film noir (Detour), loony tunes and merry melodies (Duck Amuck), and some forebears Leland calls the “original gangsters”—Melville, Whitman, Emerson, and Thoreau.

ENG 572-020 MTWRF 9:10-11:10 Campbell, W.

STUDIES IN ENGLISH FOR TEACHERS:

With Drew Gilpin Faust’s Mothers of Invention and Nina Silber’s Daughters of the Union as guides, we’ll explore the lives, roles, and contributions of American women, North and South, in the Civil War era. Our other texts will include Jean Bakers Mary Todd Lincoln, Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Kate Stone’s Brokenburn, the diary of Frances Peter, and Jane E. Schultz’s Women at the Front. Each student will keep a reading journal, give one oral presentation, and write two short essays.

ENG 617-020 Arrange with instructor Clayton

STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS:

ENG 771-220 Off campus Staff

SEMINAR IN SPECIAL TOPICS: THE TEACHING OF WRITING

ENG 771-221 Off campus Staff

SEMINAR IN SPECIAL TOPICS: THE TEACHING OF WRITING