Course Descriptions(To view current Spring 2013 course offerings, click here: Spring 2013.) Fall 2013 Courses
3 credits. An introduction to English literature from Beowulf to Swift, presented in cultural context, tracing the development of literary genres, such as the epic, the sonnet, and prose fiction. (ATTR: ARTS, ELIT, ENUL) 03 MWF 9:10-11:10 Kiernan 109 Clements 10 TR 2:35-4:00 Kiernan 110 Akstens
3 credits. This course introduces students to English language prose, poetry, and other diverse forms of cultural expression of the Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Contemporary periods. Students will analyze these works in the context of social, historical, and political changes that affected English and Anglophone literary production after the close of the eighteenth century. (ATTR: ARTS, ELIT, ENUL) 06 TR 11:10-12:35 Siena 123 Nevárez
3 credits. This course is a study of women’s various roles in literature from classical to modern times. Novels, short stories, poems, dramas, biographies and autobiographies across cultures and class emphasize the evolving image of women and the role of women as writers of literature. (Same as WSTU-210) (ATTR: ARTS, CAL, ENUL, LTTP, NOEX, WSTU) T T 4:10-7:00 Standish L12 Liptak
3 credits. This survey course will examine the emergence and development of American literature from the pre-Colonial era through the Contemporary period, which includes a broad range of significant writers in poetry, prose and drama. Examined in their historical and cultural contexts, the major periods of literature will be studied in order to provide an overview of the scope, diversity, and evolution of the authors and themes of American literature. (ATTR: AMSC, ARTS) 09 MWF 1:30-2:30 Siena 317 Farnan
ENGL 215: Sexuality in Literature (06) & HNRS: Sexuality in Literature (04) 3 credits. This course examines the treatment of sexuality in Twentieth and Twenty First Century literature. We will study a variety of multicultural modern and contemporary works that focus upon questions of sexuality as central to literary expression. Our readings will cover issues such as: relations between religion and sexuality, formations of heterosexuality and homosexuality, power and desire, social controls of sexual expression, sexual violence, and AIDS. We will read fiction, drama, poetry, and also major theorists and critics who focus upon this topic. As we read each text, we will explore how it represents the ways in which aspects of human diversity such as gender, class, race, religion, political affiliation sexual orientation impact sexual practices and sexual relationships. Readings may include: Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison; The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood; Trans-Sister Radio, Chris Bohjalian; What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage; “The Vagina Monologues,” Eve Ensler (handout); The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Group; American Knees by Shawn Wong. (Same as WSTU-215) (ATTR: ARTS, CAL, ELIT, ENUL, LTTP, NOEX, WSTU, CFD / + HNRS for section 04) 04 TR 9:35-11:00 Kiernan 104 Stein – PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED 06 TR 11:10-12:35 Siena 122 Stein
3 credits. This course is designed for students pursuing the English/Education certificate. The main goal of the course is to familiarize students with the genre of adolescent literature. Students are required to write critical response papers and to lead class discussion. A final project involving the creation of a literature unit appropriate for a middle school classroom, is required. (ATTR: ARTS, LTTP, NOEX) 13 MW 3:50-5:15 Kiernan 109 Shatraw
3 credits. A study of several major Shakespearean plays. The works will be analyzed against the background of Shakespeare’s life and times. (ATTR: ARTS, ELIT, ENUL, LTIB, LTBA, MRST) 6E T 6:00-8:50 Kiernan 121 Akstens
ENGL 250: The Drama 3 credits. A study of representative dramatic types designed to increase appreciation of the drama as literature. Attention is paid to the historical development of the genre. (ATTR: ARTS, CAL, ELIT, ENUL, NOEX, CFH) 04 9:35-11:00 Siena 105 Trainor 06 11:10-12:35 Siena 105 Trainor
This course examines the short story as a distinct, culturally diverse literary genre. By reading a variety of short fiction, students will learn the history, the artistry, and the versatility of the genre. Special emphasis will be given to critical reading and writing skills. (ATTR: ARTS, CAL, ELIT, ENUL, NOEX, CFD) 03 MWF 9:10-10:10 Kiernan 121 Fitzgerald-Hoyt 05 MWF 11:20-12:20 Kiernan 121 Fitzgerald-Hoyt
ENGL 256: The Novel 07 MWF 11:30-12:30 Kiernan 109 Dollar
3 credits. This course examines British culture from the postmodern and contemporary era. By drawing on historic, political, and aesthetic concerns, this class may consider multiple genres of literature, but also emphasize how other arts shape what it means to have a British identity. Film, visual arts, popular music, and other cultural productions may be studied as primary or secondary sources in order to bolster a broader sense of how to understand the role of Britishness in the contemporary world. Readings will be taken from a variety of backgrounds and may include authors from the United Kingdom or Anglophone writers who reflect on the sordid legacy of the British Empire. This semester in particular, we will be focusing on representations in film. (ATTR: ARTS, ENUL, LTIB, LTTP)
3 credits. This course provides the opportunity to study authors from various countries in Eastern Europe, such as Poland, Russia, Ukraine, The Czech Republic, and countries of the former Yugoslavia. Authors include Gogol, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Tolstoya, Milosz, Herbert, Szymborska, Hoffman, Kafka, Kundera, Ugrešić, and Drakulić. Works are selected from a range of genres, including the folk tale, the novel, poetry, memoir, film, and music. The course also includes a consideration of the historical, cultural, political, and philosophical context of these writers and their works. (ATTR: ARTS, ENUL, LTTP) 13 MW 3:50-5:15 Kiernan 110 Santilli
ENGL 285: Post-colonial Literature 08 TR 1:00-2:25 Kiernan 116 Mayer
ENGL 340: Contemporary Irish Literature 3 credits. This course considers recent Irish writing in the context of the historical, political, religious, economic, and cultural influences that have shaped that literature. Readings will be drawn from a variety of backgrounds and genres, and may include works by William Trevor, Conor McPherson, Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and Brian Friel. (ATTR: ARTS, ELIT, ENUL, LTIB, NOEX) 04 TR 9:35-11:00 Siena 315 Fitzgerald-Hoyt
ENGL 345: Early American Literature 3 credits. Early American Literature examines the origins and developments of the American literary traditions from the period of European expansion through the establishment of the early American republic. Students may read authors such as Bradford, Jefferson, Knight, Sedgwick, Cooper, Adams, Rowson, and Brown. (ATTR: AMSC, ARTS, ELIT, ENUL, LTAM, NOEX, ASLT, LTBA, REB) 7E M 6:00-8:50 Kiernan 121 Farnan
ENGL 372: Native American Literature 3 credits. This course surveys Native American creation myths, oral history, poetry and prose by such authors as Black Elk, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie and Linda Hogan. Students will study the literature within its cultural and historical context. The course may include films, guest lectures and a field trip. (ATTR: AMSC, ARTS, ELIT, ENUL, LTAM, MULT, NOEX, CFD, REB) 11 MWF 2:40-3:40 Kiernan 109 Dollar
ENGL 374: Asian American Literature 3 credits. This course surveys the development of Asian American literature within the context of different Asian and Asian American cultural and historical traditions, and dominant American literary, racial, and political discourses. Students will read a wide array of literary, theoretical, and critical works by Asian American writers. (Same as MULT 345) (ATTR: AMSC, ARTS, CAL, ELIT, ENUL, LTAM, MULT, NOEX, CFD) 04 TR 9:35-11:00 Kiernan 122 Mayer
ENGL 376: Latino/a Literature 3 credits. This course surveys Latino/a literature written in English. Students will be introduced to Latino/a poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction prose. Latino/a literature will be examined within the context of American literature, and as a unique literary movement. Attention will be given to historical and social contexts and their impacts upon Latino/a literary tradition. Same as MULT-335. (ATTR: AMSC, ARTS, CAL, ELIT, ENUL, LTAM, MULT, NOEX, CFD, LALA) 10 TR 2:35-4:00 Kiernan 109 Nevárez ENGL 378: Contemporary American Literature 3 credits. This is a multi-genre survey of American literature produced in the contemporary period (1980s to the present). We will examine literary texts in their historical, social and aesthetic contexts, exploring the various ways American literature responds to the complexities of race, class, gender, and sexuality in contemporary society. In part, this means thinking about American literature in an increasingly postmodern, multicultural, global context. Course readings will draw from a diverse range of contemporary American authors. Reading selections will vary, but could include works by: Sherman Alexie, T.C. Boyle, Raymond Carver, Junot Díaz, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Jorie Graham, Gish Jen, Edward P. Jones, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chang-rae Lee, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Sharon Olds, Philip Roth, Kay Ryan, Paula Vogel, and August Wilson. (ATTR: AMSC, ARTS, LTAM, LTTP, ASLT) 09 MWF 1:30-2:30 Siena 315 Wilhite
1-3 credits. This course enables students to earn academic credit while gaining work experience in broadcast and print media, public relations, and other communications fields. Interns must complete 120 hours of on-site work as well as fulfilling the academic components of the course, including regular written assignments. Evaluation will be conducted by the Department Internship Director in consultation with the worksite supervisor. The internship is open to Junior and Senior English majors and minors or Writing minors who have completed at least 12 hours in English and/or Writing and have an index of at least 3.0 in those courses. Permission of the Internship Director is required for admission to the course. (Same as WRIT 480.) (ATTR: ARTS, ENUL, INT, NOEX) AR Arranged Leslie – PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED
3 credits. By focusing on the films that Alfred Hitchcock directed between 1935 and 1960, this course will explore the psychoanalytic and ideological fears that animate some of the most talked about texts in cinema history. Framed by the historical horrors of World War II and the subsequent expansion of American economic and military power, the films of Hitchcock's most fertile period helped to develop, and simultaneously to conceal, psychological concerns about modern masculinity, femininity, sadism, masochism, consumer culture, and the cold war. By interrogating films ranging from The Lady Vanishes and Rebecca to Vertigo and Psycho, we will attempt to engage not only with the manifest messages of Hitchcock's cinema, but also with the latent and troubling fears about our society and ourselves that his cinema seems to embody. Psychoanalytic and feminist film theory will aid us greatly in unpacking all of these things in Hitchcock's work. (ATTR: ARTS, CAL, ELIT, ENUL, HNRS, NOEX) W W 1:30-3:35 Siena 313 Hertz – PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED
3 credits. In this seminar, we will analyze and discuss literature’s engagement with questions of law, morality, ethics, individual responsibility, and relations of power, primarily in the modern and contemporary era. More specifically, we will focus on marginalized voices, investigating how the values, policies, and practices of justice are realized or, more often, under-realized across different strata of society. We will investigate spaces that the law protects, regulates and, at times, neglects while exploring issues related to citizenship, ethnic identity, women’s rights, war crimes, indefinite detention, and reconciliation. Drawing on a wide assortment of topics, we will analyze how literature constructs and questions concepts of justice and injustice, right and wrong, truth and falsehood across a diverse range of cultural contexts. Our seminar will include literary and theoretical readings by authors such as: Michelle Alexander, Judith Butler, Albert Camus, J. M. Coetzee, Louise Erdrich, Franz Kafka, Paul Monette, Deborah Nelson, and Richard Wright (ATTR: ARTS, CAL, ELIT, ENUL, HNRS, NOEX) 7E M 6:00-8:05 Kiernan 102 Wilhite – PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED
WRIT 100: Introduction to Writing 3 credits. The purpose of this course is to teach students what writings is and to assist them in writing clear, coherent prose. The approach is process oriented, emphasizing multiple drafts, peer critique and reversion. A research paper is required in this course. (ATTR: ARTS, NOEX, WRIT) 09 MWF 1:30-2:30 Siena 319 Lin-Greenberg 6E T 6:00-8:50 Kiernan 116 Godson-Glynn 12 TR 4:10-5:35 Kiernan 102 Godson-Glynn
WRIT 200: Advanced Writing 3 credits. The purpose of this course is to teach students to develop and refine a sophisticated writing style. The approach is process-oriented, emphasizing multiple drafts, peer critique and revision. (ATTR: ARTS, NOEX, WRIT) 06 TR 11:10-12:35 Siena 121 Snyder
3 credits. Introducing students to basic theories and concepts about communication, this course explores how verbal and nonverbal communication operates in public and private settings in relationship to gender, culture and class. Students develop skills in active listening, public speaking, interviewing, oral interpretation, providing feedback, and conflict resolution. (ATTR: ARTS, NOEX, WRIT) 10 TR 2:35-4:00 Roset 218 Snyder 12 TR 4:10-5:35 Roset 120 Snyder
WRIT 320: Journalistic Writing 3 credits. An introduction to the basic techniques of journalistic writing. Among the areas covered are: conducting interviews, researching news stories, examining categories of journalistic writing, journalistic ethics. (ATTR: ARTS, NOEX, WRIT) 02 TR 8:00-9:25 Siena 313 Moore
3 credits. This course will use peer evaluation and the traditional writing workshop to foster student skills in writing short fiction. Students are required to distribute stories they have written to class for critique and group evaluation. The works of contemporary writers will be studied with an eye toward formal concerns and techniques. Students will be introduced to the art of contemporary short fiction writing. (ATTR: ARTS, NOEX, WRIT) 07 MWF 11:30-12:30 Siena 217 Lin-Greenberg
3 credits. This course will use peer evaluations and the traditional writing workshop to foster student skills in writing poetry. Students are required to distribute poems they have written to the class for critique and group evaluation. Poetic theory and technique will be examined, and the works of contemporary poets will be studied. Students will be introduced to the art of writing contemporary poetry. (ATTR: ARTS, NOEX, WRIT) 10 TR 2:35-4:00 Kiernan 102 Leslie
WRIT 390: Writing Creative Nonfiction 3 credits. In Writing Creative Nonfiction we’ll explore how to artfully write and shape true stories. Often, we’ll rely on the tools associated with fiction writing and consider craft elements such as characterization, setting, description, and use of figurative language as we write about real events and people. Topics we’ll examine include the challenge of turning oneself into a character in an essay, the ethics of creative nonfiction, how to write about what we don’t remember, recreating conversations, and writing about family and friends. We will read and write various types of essays including memoir, the personal essay, the lyric essay, the nature essay, the graphic essay, and the humorous essay. Assignments include three essays and many shorter craft exercises. Students will also be responsible for analytical responses to published work. There will be a workshop component to this course, and students will be expected to share their work with classmates and engage in peer review. (ATTR: ARTS, NOEX, WRIT) 13 MW 3:50-5:15 Siena 106 Lin-Greenberg
WRIT 390: Introduction to Creative Writing 3 credits. Introduction to Creative Writing will make students familiar with the basic skills necessary to write poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Students will also become experienced in working within a writing workshop setting, and in critiquing the work of their peers. Selected examples of these three literary genres will be read and discussed. (ATTR: ARTS, NOEX, WRIT) 08 TR 1:00-2:25 Kiernan 102 Leslie
WRIT 480: Internship in Writing 1-3 credits. This course enables students to earn academic credit while gaining work experience in broadcast and print media, public relations, and other communications fields. Interns must complete 120 hours of on-site work as well as fulfilling the academic components of the course, including regular written assignments. Evaluation will be conducted by the Department Internship Director in consultation with the worksite supervisor. The internship is open to Junior and Senior English majors and minors or Writing minors who have completed at least 12 hours in English and/or Writing and have an index of at least 3.0 in those courses. (Same as ENGL 480.) (ATTR: ARTS, ENUL, INT, NOEX) AR Arranged Leslie – PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED
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