Fall 2015

Fall 2015

1142 ENGL 202-01 Introduction to Creative Writing:

MWF 9-9:50 am DA107 (Professor Ridge )

This course serves as an introduction to creative writing; students will become familiar with the conventions of poetry, fiction and drama. Through deep engagement with literary texts, students will identify elements of craft and utilize these techniques as they draft and revise their own original work. This course will also provide an introduction to the creative writing workshop: students will develop an analytical framework, provide feedback on their peers' work, engage in constructive dialogue with one another, and utilize the comments they receive to refine their own writing.

1603 ENGL 202-02 Introduction to Creative Writing:

MWF 12:00-12:50pm DA101 (Professor Ridge)

This course serves as an introduction to creative writing; students will become familiar with the conventions of poetry, fiction and drama. Through deep engagement with literary texts, students will identify elements of craft and utilize these techniques as they draft and revise their own original work. This course will also provide an introduction to the creative writing workshop: students will develop an analytical framework, provide feedback on their peers' work, engage in constructive dialogue with one another, and utilize the comments they receive to refine their own writing.

5779 ENGL 202-03 Introduction to Creative Writing:

MWF 2-2:50pm NS036 (Professor Weinberg)

This course gives you the opportunity to explore the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama; think of them as vast nations you’ll visit only briefly, but long enough to decide if you want to return in future semesters. Your main projects will be a short story, a series of poems, and a ten-minute play. The first month will be a primer in four areas of craft applicable to all three genres: detail/image, voice/point-of-view, character, and setting. You’ll experiment with these foundation elements in writing exercises and discuss how published writers apply them. For the remainder of the semester, you’ll take a closer look at each genre in mini-units, and you’ll be introduced to the creative writing workshop, in which you’ll exchange constructive criticism of your fiction and poetry.

5291 ENGL 202-04 Introduction to Creative Writing:

T/Th 1:00-2:15pm SH001 (Professor Stansel)

This course introduces students to three genres of creative writing: poetry, drama, and fiction. Students will read a variety of works in each, analyzing and discussing the texts from a writerly perspective. Students will examine the works using particular aspects of the writing craft (image, point of view, dialogue, etc.) as foundations for understanding. Then the class members will try their own hands at the creation of poems, plays, and stories. The class will discuss methods of invention and development and practice the art of revision. Each student will write and revise one story, one ten-minute play, and a group of poems. This is a discussion-based class and students should be ready to voice their thoughts and ideas using a developing workshop vocabulary.

1143 ENGL 202-75 Introduction to Creative Writing:

T/Th 5:30-6:45pm DA206 (Professor Martinez)

The student who will benefit most from English 202 is one who is curious about the world, who engages in non-required reading as a primary activity and who writes daily (or who aspires to these habits and is eager to do the work necessary to get there).

English 202, An Introduction to Creative Writing, offers the opportunity to explore the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama with the goal of enabling students to gain or improve competence as readers, writers, and critics in all three genres. Students will leave English 202 prepared for the demands of higher level creative writing courses, having learned a set of techniques for invention, writing, and revision; a critical vocabulary for each genre; experience in workshop sessions; and a broader knowledge of contemporary literature in each genre.

4137 ENGL 250-01 Introduction to Literature –H:

MWF 12:00-12:50pm DA204 (Professor Willey)

5780 ENGL 300-01 Introduction to English Studies-WR:

MWF 10-10:50am DC119 (Professor Willey)

4342 ENGL 300-02 Introduction to English Studies-WR:

T/Th  9:30-10:45am WS002 (Professor Ridge)

(Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 105) In this course, you will be provided the tools to engage with a range of poetry, fiction, and drama as the English major does: with curiosity, original thought, and skillful writing. Through the process of active reading, classroom dialogue, small group collaboration, short presentations, and—most importantly—formal and informal written responses, you will practice looking beneath the surface of a text in order to articulate what the average reader might not glean. You will become conversant with literary terms, familiar with schools of literary theory/criticism, and adept at articulating your own original ideas and perspectives. My hope is that, by the end of our semester together, you can critically approach any poem, story, or play—no matter how traditional or abstract.

5037ENGL 300-03 Introduction to English Studies-WR:

MW 4-5:15pm HM223 (TBA)

8195 ENGL 300-04 Introduction to English Studies-WR:

MWF 1:00-1:50pm ED102 (Professor Anderson)

This course, which serves as an introduction to the English major, will examine the important literary genres of fiction (the short story and novel), poetry, and drama. We will also discuss key terms for these genres, and practice methods used in analyzing texts. Finally, the course will call on students to explore the nuances of particular literary works, as well as the artistic and cultural contexts in which the writing was produced.  There will be at least one paper on each genre, revision and writing support, and tests on key terms and ideas.

4351 ENGL 301-01 British Literature I:

T/Th 11am-12:15pm EH310 (Professor Dietrich)

We will read a selection of the writings of English-speaking peoples from 660 to the Restoration. We will focus on the ways they constructed their views of the world and on the role of writing in that construction, paying particular attention to changes and continuities in cultural values.

We will read a selection of the writings of English-speaking peoples from 660 to the Restoration. We will focus on the ways they constructed their views of the world and on the role of writing in that construction, paying particular attention to changes and continuities in cultural values.

1391 ENGL 302-01 British Literature II:

MWF 12-12:50pm DA104 (Professor Jaffe)

1668 ENGL 303-01 Scientific and Technical Writing-WR:

T/Th 2:30-3:45pm  NS212F(Professor Turner)

ENGL 303: In this class, you will improve and practice your written communication skills in technical and scientific-related fields by learning about the conventions of several common genres: research reports and review articles, fact sheets and brochures, and scientific posters. You will learn how to analyze different communication situations, and create and present information to meet the needs of different readers. You will also learn about visual communication including document design.

1419 ENGL 303-02 Scientific and Technical Writing-WR:

MWF 1:00-1:50pm HM204 (Professor Hartline)

5950 ENGL 303-03 Scientific and Technical Writing-WR:

T/Th 11:00am-12:15pm HM015 (Professor Holladay)

4439 ENGL 305-01 Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry:

MWF 11-11:50am NS139  (Professor Petrosino)

Prerequisites:ENGL 202

1145 ENGL 306-01 Business Writing-WR:

MWF 8:00-8:50am HM101 (TBA)

This section may open later

1146 ENGL 306-02 Business Writing-WR:

MWF 9:00-9:50am HM104A (Professor Smith)

The English Composition Program states that “The focus of English 306 is recognizing and responding in writing to different rhetorical situations in the professional world. A student in English 306 should expect to create and revise documents that incorporate elements of critical thinking as well as demonstrate intellectual and professional standards of effective communication.” In keeping with this focus, students in this section of English 306 Business Writing will observe, analyze, research, and write about professional documents and writing practices in businesses and organizations that are aligned with their majors and career goals. The course design will also be informed by the professional practices of problem-solving, peer review, collaboration, and revision. Students should expect to write 4-6 major assignments, which will include developing an intensive team research project, delivering one presentation to the class, and compiling a final portfolio.

1147 ENGL 306-03 Business Writing-WR:

MWF 10-10:50am NS130 (Professor Johnson)

1148 ENGL 306-04 Business Writing-WR:

T/Th 1:00-2:15 p.m. HM015 (Professor Kelley)

1149 ENGL 306-05  Business Writing-WR:

T/Th 9:30-10:45am HM204 (TBA)

1150 ENGL 306-06 Business Writing-WR:

MWF 11am-11:50am HM204 (Professor Tetreault)

1151 ENGL 306-07 Business Writing-WR:

T/Th 2:30-3:45pm HM105 (Professor Rose)

4273 ENGL 306-08 Business Writing-WR:

T/Th 4:00-5:15pm DA203 (Professor Rose)

4448 ENGL 306-09 Business Writing-WR:

MWF 12:00-12:50pm HM104A (Professor Smith)

The English Composition Program states that “The focus of English 306 is recognizing and responding in writing to different rhetorical situations in the professional world. A student in English 306 should expect to create and revise documents that incorporate elements of critical thinking as well as demonstrate intellectual and professional standards of effective communication.” In keeping with this focus, students in this section of English 306 Business Writing will observe, analyze, research, and write about professional documents and writing practices in businesses and organizations that are aligned with their majors and career goals. The course design will also be informed by the professional practices of problem-solving, peer review, collaboration, and revision. Students should expect to write 4-6 major assignments, which will include developing an intensive team research project, delivering one presentation to the class, and compiling a final portfolio.

5034 ENGL 306-10 Business Writing-WR

MW 4:00-5:15pm SH103 (Professor Peck)

4980 ENGL 306-50Business Writing-WR: (Distance Ed.)

(Professor Tanner)

4981 ENGL 306-53 Business Writing-WR:(Distance Ed.)

(Professor Tanner)

4982 ENGL 306-54 Business Writing-WR: (Distance Ed.)

Distance Ed. (Professor Tanner)

9436 ENGL 306-55 Business Writing-WR: (Distance Ed.)

Distance Ed. (Professor Tanner)

1152 ENGL 306-75 Business Writing-WR:

MW 5:30-6:45pm HM223 (Professor Dehn)

4488 ENGL 306-77 Business Writing-WR:

T/Th 5:30-6:45pm DA301 (TBA)

4138 ENGL 309-01 Inquiries in Writing-WR:

MWF 9:00-9:50am HM015 (Professor Olinger)

Writing Across Media

How often do you stop to think about the medium in which you are communicating?  How does a specific medium change the way you write?  What does it mean to “read” an image?  How does our use of technology shape the way we communicate?  What theories inform our relationships with media?

The ability to communicate effectively in multiple types of media is a crucial part of literacy in our society.  In this class, you will compose in different media—including images, sound, video, and print--while identifying (and perhaps even challenging) their implicit conventions. You will also read about how “new media” helps us reimagine traditional rhetorical concepts like authorship, audience, and process.

1153 ENGL 309-02 Inquiries in Writing-WR:

T 4:00-6:45pm HM101 (Professor Rogers)

*This section requires permission from the department

English 309, Inquiries in Writing, is a course that focuses on nonfiction narrative and research writing.  The class will read and discuss creative nonfiction genres such as essays, memoirs, and literary journalism, and will also work on research projects focused on the academic interests of each student.  The final portfolio for this course will include about twenty pages of revised writing and a number of journal entries.

5781 ENGL 310-01 Writing About Literature Nonmajor-WR:

T/Th 9:30am-10:45pm HM111 (Professor Biberman)

We will survey drama, prose and poetry and practice writing about our readings.  Texts include the plays Romeo and Juliet and Antigone., various modern American short stories and poems, and a couple of novels: Gone Girl and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Midterm take home comprised of short essays and a final paper with an accompanying presentation.

5292 ENGL 310-02 Writing About Literature Nonmajor-WR:

MWF 9:00-9:50am SH001 (Professor Rabin)

This course will provide an introduction to the English major through a consideration of the related notions of the comic and the tragic in the history of western literature. Beginning with the ancient Greeks, we will trace how ideas of comedy and tragedy influence the development of a variety of literary genres.  As we do so, we will develop an understanding of the vocabulary interpretive strategies necessary for literary analysis.  As this is a discussion-based class, we will no doubt cover a wide variety of topics, and I strongly encourage students to bring their own intellectual interests into the classroom.

4139 ENGL 310-03 Writing About Literature-Nonmajor-WR:

T/Th 4:00-5:15pm DA103 (Professor Stanev)

English 310 is designed as an introduction to the field of English studies for non-majors. You will be asked to read, discuss, and write about literary works drawn from the three major genres: fiction, poetry, and drama. The course is approved for the Arts and Sciences upper-level requirement in written communication (WR), which means that you will be expected to formulate, refine, and analyze arguments and their assumptions in several formal writing projects. We will also complete workshop activities, in which you will be asked to revise preliminary drafts of your own work with the help of several peers. The student learning outcomes of this course are thus to provide a diverse entry into the methods, terminology, and critical approaches to literature, as well as to hone and extend your rhetorical, argumentative, and critical thinking skills. At the end of the semester, you should feel more comfortable with the conventions, specific questions, and certain interpretative approaches that inform short stories, poems, and plays, and be prepared to respond to works from all three major literary genres in cogent academic papers that may involve a significant amount of research.

1154 ENGL 311-01 American Literature I:

MW 2:00-3:15pm DA306 (Professor Mattes)

“American Literature, Beginnings to 1865”

Our course surveys texts in American literature from the pre-colonial period up to 1865—texts that were composed and interpreted by people hailing from numerous ethnicities, including Anglo-Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, and Europeans. We will pay especially close attention to the minoritized expressions of women, natives, and people of African descent who lived, worked, and wrote during European and American quests for empire and social control. We will also focus on the media, formats, and practices used to constitute literature across a wide array of genres. So, in addition to assigned readings from our anthology and on the course website, we will spend time considering the mediation of our semester’s readings—in the past and in our own time. Our media-aware approach will help us account for our reliance upon acts of translation, transmission, and transcription that make this diverse literature available to us.

1155 ENGL 311-02 American Literature I:

T/Th 11:00-12:15pm DA104 (Professor Mattes )

“American Literature, Beginnings to 1865”

Our course surveys texts in American literature from the pre-colonial period up to 1865—texts that were composed and interpreted by people hailing from numerous ethnicities, including Anglo-Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, and Europeans. We will pay especially close attention to the minoritized expressions of women, natives, and people of African descent who lived, worked, and wrote during European and American quests for empire and social control. We will also focus on the media, formats, and practices used to constitute literature across a wide array of genres. So, in addition to assigned readings from our anthology and on the course website, we will spend time considering the mediation of our semester’s readings—in the past and in our own time. Our media-aware approach will help us account for our reliance upon acts of translation, transmission, and transcription that make this diverse literature available to us.

1156 ENGL 312-01 American Literature II:

MWF 1:00-1:50pm DA104 (Professor Adams)

American Literature II: American Selves, American Others

This course will introduce major texts of American poetry and prose from (roughly) 1860 to 1940. We will pay particular attention to how writers articulated ideas of “self” and “other,” how they appealed to these notions to reflect or critique rapidly changing historical and cultural conditions, and how these texts shaped (and continue to shape) our conception of what counts as “American.” Authors will include (among others) Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, James, Chopin, Gilman, DuBois, Black Elk, and Faulkner.

3617 ENGL 325-01 Introduction to Linquistics:

MWF 10:00-10:50am HM106 (Professor Soldat-Jaffe )

Linguists believe that language is a complex social phenomenon – not an autonomous entity -, which occurs exclusively in social settings, and that these two factors (i.e. language and its social settings) influence each other. In this understanding, language is a form of social behavior and therefore fundamental for the speaker’s identification with its environment. Moreover, language and its social setting interact, language influences social settings and social settings influence language.

This class is an introductory course into the science of language, also known as linguistics. We will look at how language "works": what is the internal structure of language (the description of language) and the usage of it (the analysis of language)? We will investigate in this course what it means when we say that "language is more than just a language". We will find answers to questions such as "what is language?", "how do we use language?", "how do children learn language?", "are there other forms of language?", or "what happens when we loose language due to an accident e.g.?"

5293 ENGL 330-01 Language and Culture:

MWF 1:00-1:50pm HM106 (Professor )

*This course is cross-listed

1157 ENGL 333-01 Shakespeare I:

T/Th 9:30-10:45am DA103 (Professor Wise)

9202 ENGL 350-75 Graphic PR: Heroes HB COM-WR

MW 5:30pm-6:45pm DA104 (Professor Fuller)

Graphic Prose: The Craft of Comics

In this special topics course, we will be collecting our knowledge of graphic prose—examining traditional “heroic” comic books, punk zines, and artist books, then onward to graphic novels and memoirs filled with pictures that are all too true. Throughout the semester you will also be assigned creative exercises that will allow you to model after the successful elements of our readings, before creating meaningful works of your own. Ultimately this course will culminate in each of us producing an extended work of graphic prose.

Additionally, our course will coincide with a major comic convention in Louisville, as well as several compelling local events that can help us build our community of graphic writers. Together as a class we will develop our artistic and writing skills independently, before joining these forces to tell more vivid stories. Whatever your genre of writing, whatever your style of art, in this course we will find examples of graphic literature that will motivate your sense of narrative, while building your own portfolio of graphic prose.

9205 369-01 ENGL Minority Trads ENGL Lits-CD2

MWF 12:00-12:50pm HM121 (Professor Heryford)

1158 ENGL 373-01 Women in Literature-CD2:

MWF 1:00-1:50pm HM108 (Professor Sheridan )

*This course is cross-listed

As the title of this course indicates, this class will focus on the construction of Women and of Literature.  To do that, we will examine constructions of "women" by women, often in relation to Others in apparent binaries (e.g., women-girls, women-men) and across global representations (e.g., Nigerian, Iranian). To focus on literature, we will examine traditional genres (primarily print-based novels, but also short stories and possibly poetry) and other genres (e.g., graphic novels, video games).  Finally, we will read some contemporary commentary on the topic.

1685 ENGL 373-02 Women in Literature-CD2:

T/Th 9:30-10:45pm HM108  (Professor Ryan)

This course uses the work of selected American women writers from the early national period to the mid-twentieth century to explore two overlapping literary modes—sentimentalism and sensationalism—that have figured prominently in the gendering of literary production, reception, and analysis. In the process, we will address matters of literary value/status; reform & activism via literature; and the interdependence of literary and cultural histories. The course will fulfill a 1700-1900 period requirement for English majors and a cultural diversity (CD2) requirement for all students.

9206 ENGL 376-01 Literature & Mythology

T/Th 1:00-2:15pm NS212C (Professor Biberman)

In this course we will read a range of books in order to explore the historical connections between literature and religion as these concepts coalesced in Europe from the Renaissance to today.  At the same time we will investigate these themes as they get deployed in books aimed at adults and at young readers.  With that in mind we will read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and the Hunger Games as examples of young adult fiction.  We will also read Bernard Malamud’s The Natural, Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49, and Donald Barthelme’s Snow White.  We will also read T. S. Eliot’s Wasteland and S.T. Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Requirements:  Midterm take home essay set, final take home essay set. Journal exercises

7275 ENGL 401-01 HON: Boys2Men MU 19^th Cent-WR:

T/Th 11:00-12:15pm HR204 (Professor Griffin)

*This section is restricted to students eligible for the Honors Program

Boys to Men: Constructing Masculinities in the 19^th Century

In nineteenth-century Britain and America, economic, political, and demographic changes created a new stage of life: adolescence. American and British cultures focused a good deal of attention on this potentially dangerous, liminal phase. Not surprisingly, then, many nineteenth-century novels trace boys’ journeys to—and sometimes escapes from—male adulthood. This course will study how such fictions construct masculine identities: boy, youth, and man. Defining and celebrating boyhood; depicting adventure (on the seas, in the American West, in colonial India); classifying healthy and sick male bodies; categorizing normal and deviant behaviors;  educating characters through work and play; introducing or avoiding romance, these novels address, sometimes explicitly, imperialism and nationalism, sexual identities and behavior, race, class, criminality, and the rule of law. Rather than reading these fictions as transparent windows on the nineteenth century, we will look closely at their  narrative techniques, rhetoric, and genres, analyzing how these authorial choices function in depicting masculinity.  What cultural work is done by Victorian narratives of maleness? Why were these stories popular? Why are so many of them still read today? What can they tell us about the history of childhood? About nostalgia? What did it mean to become a man in nineteenth-century America? Britain? Especially because these Victorian definitions of maleness became naturalized, they have persisted, sometimes as traces, at other times more powerfully, in contemporary culture. Studying their origins will illuminate both what has persisted and what has changed in how we imagine, depict, and understand the transition from boy to man.

4558 ENGL 403-01 Advanced Creative Writing:

MW 4:00-5:15pm HM215 (Professor Griner )

English 403 is a multi-genre (fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction) workshop style class.  Class sessions are used primarily to discuss work written by class members, which is distributed and studied in advance of the discussion.

As writers, you'll know better than I do what you hope to get from the course, and the most important goals are probably the ones you discover and define.  Personally, I expect to see all students improve as writers, readers and critics.  That doesn’t necessarily mean I expect you to become more polished writers; in some cases it may mean you’re more willing to take risks, while in others it may mean you’ll gain greater expertise in things you already do well.  The direction(s) you push yourself in is/are largely (but not completely) up to you; I ask mainly that you do.

5784 ENGL 413-01 British Literature-Medieval Arth Lit:

MWF 11:00-11:50am HM217 (Professor Rabin)

The narrative cycle that grew up around King Arthur and his knights is one of the most vibrant literary traditions to emerge from the English Middle Ages. Tales such as those of the Sword in the Stone, Merlin the Magician, Lancelot and Guinevere, and the Holy Grail provided medieval authors with allegorical frameworks through which they could express deep-seated anxieties, fantasies, and desires.  In this class, we will return to the medieval sources of the Arthurian cycle in order to trace its origins in the sixth century through its ultimate flowering in the fifteenth. In doing so, we will see how a regional folktale grew into one of the most influential narratives in European literary history.

9208 ENGL 418-01 American Literature to 1830-WR:

T/Th 2:30-3:45pm DA308 (Professor Mattes)

“Literature of the American Enlightenment”

This course explores American literature written during the late-colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods. Students consider how Enlightenment-era writers yoked assumptions about reason, feeling, and representation to comprehend their worlds. After a brief introduction to the underpinnings of Enlightenment thought, students delve into works on revolution and political representation; the place of Native Americans and African Americans in science, history, and education; the transnational dimensions of Enlightenment discourse; the private and public writings of women; and the verbal and visual arts. Readings may include works by Thomas Paine, Abigail and John Adams, William Bartram, Thomas Jefferson, Phillis Wheatley, Samson Occom, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Olaudah Equiano, Jane and Benjamin Franklin, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Martha Ballard, and Charles Brockden Brown. In addition to a series of short, formal responses, students will write a significant final essay that incorporates archival sources and scholarship. This research will help us better understand the histories, genres, and media that constitute our semester’s readings.

5785 ENGL 421-01 American Literature 1910-1960-WR:

T/Th 2:30-3:45pm HM123 (Professor Adams)

This course will survey the rise of literary modernism in American prose and poetry, paying close attention to the way these texts complicate our common sense notions of 1) national or personal identity and 2) the function and purpose of literary art. Authors will include James Weldon Johnson, Black Elk, T.S Eliot, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Stevens, William Faulkner, Eugene O’Neill, and others.

9209 ENGL 422-01 American Literature 1960-Pres-WR:

MWF 10:00-10:50am DA108 (Professor Heryford)

1664 ENGL 423-01 African/American Literature 1845-Present-WR: CD1

T/Th 4:00-5:15pm HM207 (Professor Schneider )

1159 ENGL 450-01 Cooperative Internship in English Studies: Internship

(Professor Chandler )

*This section requires permission from the instructor

8278 ENGL 455-01 Cooperative Internship in English-CUE

(Professor Chandler)

*This section requires permission from the instructor

9431 ENGL 460-01 – The Brontes-WR:

T/Th 12:30pm-1:45pm DA204 (Professor Lutz)

In this course we will immerse ourselves in the lives and works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. We will begin with the imaginary worlds of Angria and Gondal, created by all four siblings (including their brother Branwell) when they were children. We will then read some of their early poetry and all of their major novels in the order they were written: Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Shirley, and Villette. We will consider how these young writers drew on late Romantic and early Victorian literature and culture, but we will also be attentive to their utterly anomalous qualities. Gender roles and early feminism will be central to our discussions, as well as such themes as madness, outcasts, dangerous lovers, incest, the gothic, and reading and writing as ways of forming the self. Another focus will be the material culture of the time and its place in the Brontës’ lives and literature. We will explore (and look at pictures of) needlework, letters, jewelry made of human hair, boxes, portable desks, and other domestic ephemera that gave texture to everyday life. Important to our understanding of their work will be our study of their manuscripts as material objects: they recorded their early tales in miniature booklets they made by hand; they kept notebooks; and Emily composed her poetry on tiny snippets of paper, often recycled. What do the papery lives of their writings tell us about the novels we will hold in our hands and read together?

3674 ENGL 491-01 Interpretive Theory:New Criticism-Present:

T/Th 11:00am-12:15pm DA206 (Professor Hadley)

Using Tyson’s Critical Theory Today and a number of shorter primary and secondary essays, this course aims to introduce students to 20^th century theories of interpretation. Emphasis throughout will be on students learning to recognize theoretical terms, concepts and approaches, and to consider these approaches in relation to their own perspectives. For the purposes of the course, theoretical concepts and approaches introduced will be explored through the evaluation and interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby. Class sessions will be conducted seminar-style and will be structured around interrogation and discussion.

4458 ENGL 491-02 Interpretive Theory:New Criticism-Present:

MW 4:00-5:15pm DA206 (Professor Kopelson)

5783 ENGL 504-01 ADV Creative Writing II-Fiction

T/Th 4:00-5:15pm HM114 (Professor Ridge)

This upper-division fiction workshop is designed to get students producing and workshopping original material (short stories, novel chapters, and flash fiction cycles). Class time is devoted to discussing work written by class members as well as fiction by a range of contemporary authors. In addition to creative work, students will be required to write various kinds of critical responses. Prerequisite: two undergraduate creative writing classes or graduate-student status.

1160 ENGL 506-75 Teaching of Writing-WR:CUE

MW 5:30-6:45pm DA209B (Professor Horner)

This course will be devoted to making useful sense of scholarship on the teaching of writing by examining the terms, concepts, assumptions, and concerns that seem to be key in some of the literature constituting that scholarship.  No course could adequately review the substantial literature on writing pedagogy. Readings for this course represent a small network of past and recent writings addressing writing pedagogy from the perspective of the teaching of college composition.  Students will be expected to approach these texts as part of ongoing scholarly conversations and debates that they are in a position to begin to engage with and to contribute to through their written responses to these readings, discussions of these, and in their essays.  In posing and pursuing questions about these texts—in journal responses, discussions, and position papers—students should become familiar with this writing pedagogy scholarship and find ways to make sense of it in ways that will be useful to them in their own thinking about and preparation for teaching writing.

4352 ENGL 510-01 Grad Coop Internship MA Level:

(Professor Schneider)

*This section requires permission from the instructor

5854 ENGL 518-01 Found of Language:

T/Th 11:00-12:15pm HM106 (Professor Soldat-Jaffe)

Language is at the heart of all things human. We use it when we talk, thing, read, write, and listen. Accordingly, linguistics is the study of how language works. We will investigate in this course what it means when we say that "language is more than just a language". We will find answers to questions such as "what is language?", "how do we use language?", "how do children learn language?", "how do we process language?"etc.  This course is a survey of contemporary theories of language and their applications.

4200 ENGL 522-01 Structure of Modern English:

T/Th 1:00-2:15pm HM210 (Professor Stewart, Jr.)

*This is a cross-listed course

Course description and objectives:
This course is designed as a linguistic exploration of the various forms and combinations of words, phrases, and sentences that contemporary speakers of English typically recognize as belonging to that language.

To help in this exploration, students will:

*examine both popular and technical conceptions of “grammar”

• examine that variety of English referred to as Standard American English (SAE)
• consider some of the ways in which one can vary from SAE and still be speaking English
• consider the role of situation, audience, etc., in determining “appropriate use”
• acquire terminology and methods that permit clear description of English grammar
• collect real-life examples of actual English usage for detailed description
• identify and monitor trends in English usage to evaluate “changes in progress”

Note: This course can count in the Theoretical Track concentration or as an Elective for the Undergraduate Minor in Linguistics. For more information, see http://bit.ly/UG_lingminor

Student learning outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. distinguish between language issues that are fundamental to the construction of English sentences and those that constitute “pet peeves” and “complaint triggers”;
2. identify English examples in terms of grammatical categories, inflectional forms, clausal functions, and syntactic constructions;
3. produce original examples of each of the types listed in (2) above; and
4. describe, compare, and contrast example English structures in detail through the rigorous application of the concepts, categories, and methods of descriptive linguistics.

9211 ENGL 542-75 Studies in Tudor & Eliz Literature-CUE

T/Th 7:00-8:15pm SK111 (Professor Billingsley)

Early modern English poets used prosody, metrics, stanza form and the genre expectations identified with those conventions to organize, discipline and elaborate the substantial content of their poetry. In this intensive survey of sixteenth-century English poetry, we will examine those conventions and expectations in detail to develop our understanding of Tudor poetic practice; you will exercise your ability to describe that practice in rhetorically effective critical writing. Since no familiarity with these conventions is assumed, instruction in technical prosody and metrics will be integrated with analysis and criticism of the poetry.  Prose readings from the period illuminate the cultural context in which these poets worked.

By successful work in this course, students should be able to gain or reinforce these learning outcomes:

• General familiarity with sixteenth-century English poetry and its formal conventions, cultural context and social purposes;
• Basic understanding of English prosody as a formal and intellectual discipline for writers;
• Increased familiarity with the structure and organization of secondary critical arguments ; and
• Improved ability to identify or synthesize common threads of agreement and understanding in a community of readers.

Principal text:  Stephen Greenblatt, et al., eds.  Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9^th ed., Vol. B (ISBN 978-0-393-91250-04).  Other texts may be assigned from online sources, to which links will be given in the syllabus.

Graded work for the term includes the following elements:

• Daily work (25% total) includes Blackboard forum contributions, prepared in advance to get you ready for each class meeting, and other assignments, prepared in advance or completed in class;
• Two hourly examinations (25% and 25%) with objective and quotation ID/short-answer sections and a brief essay response
• An essay project in three parts (25% total).

A draft syllabus, subject to change of readings and due dates, is posted on Blackboard for review.

9646 ENGL 546-01 Stud Brit Lit Victorian-CUE

(Fulfills a 1700-1900 requirement)

T/Th 4-5:15pm HM223 (Professor Lutz)

Novelists of the Victorian period worked to represent the minutiae of what it meant to be alive in nineteenth-century Britain. Moved by the social and aesthetic concerns of their time, Victorian writers developed a realism attentive to such matters as class, work, and society. In this course we will focus on the novels of a few women writers, especially George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell. We will be interested in their development of secular humanism—a set of morals based not on religious belief but rather on human principles and ethics. Gender and sexuality will be pressing issues for us, as will industrialization, the modern city, poverty, religion, and philosophy. We will keep in mind the vast and exuberant changes that were influencing these authors’ lives and those of everyone around them. Many of the difficulties and darknesses that trouble our time, as well as the heady interests and endeavors, have their origins in the Victorian period.

7487 ENGL 551-01 The Gothic Novel

T/Th 9:30am-10:45am HM123 (Professor Hadley)

Populated by banditti, hero-villains and native heroines, ghostly apparitions, and dark mysterious castles with labyrinthine corridors and damp dungeons, the gothic novel originated in eighteenth-century England and reached an apex in the Romantic period. This course will consider the use of the Romantic gothic novel as a critique of dominant social narratives and cultural ideologies, particularly as they apply to gender and sexuality. Related to these concerns, we’ll examine the role of the supernatural, particularly where it informs the gothic sublime (the experience of “delightful horror”) as an alternative to moral beauty and the picturesque. Representative authors will include Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Anne Radcliffe, James Hogg, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley. As gothic novels are often substantial, be forewarned that weekly course readings will average 150 pp./week.

9212 ENGL 564-01 Con Poets & Early Amer Txts

MW 2:00-3:15pm LU321 (Professor Golding)

Eng. 564: “Under the Influence: Contemporary Poets & Early American Texts”

Open to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this course focuses on post-World War II North American poets’ use of earlier American texts. When later, often “so-called” experimental writers directly incorporate and respond to the work of predecessors in their own writing, what can we learn about influence, filiation, the idea of “originality?” What buried lineages or connections might be uncovered in American literary history when we examine these links across the centuries? The course offers students simultaneously both an introduction to some significant recent poets (Susan Howe, Rosmarie Waldrop, Charles Olson, John Berryman, M. NourbeSe Phillip are among the likely choices) and recent techniques of appropriation / citation, and an immersion in selected writings by, among others, Mary Rowlandson, Roger Williams, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville. Full reading list to be determined. Likely course requirements: Undergraduates: one 5-7-page paper; a 12-page research paper; Graduate students: One 8-page paper; a 15-20-page research paper; 250-500-word conference prospectus that may also serve as a proposal for your research paper.

Everyone: Participation in online discussion via Blackboard, consisting of a minimum of 8 ungraded reading responses (one per author).

9216 ENGL 577-01 Harlem Renaissance-CUE

MWF 11-11:50am WS002 (Professor Anderson)

This course will introduce you to the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro Renaissance, the first large-scale African American arts movement. I will focus primarily on literature, but will also refer to both art and music in the course. The course will discuss the historical, social, and cultural contexts of early twentieth-century America that inform the movement, (such as World War I, urban migration, segregation and integration, rapid industrialization, and changes in education). Writers will include Hughes, McKay, Cullen, Larsen, Fauset, Nugent, and Brown.