|
|
Course Descriptions: Fall 2005
ENGL 110
English 110 students write thesis-centered (especially persuasive) essays, mainly in response to texts. Instructors assign a minimum of 7500 words (about 30 pages), at least 5000 words of which takes the form of finished formal assignments, including a research-based essay of at least 2000 words. The course assumes a process approach to writing. Emphasis is on deep revision in response to critical evaluations from the instructor and peers. Instructors incorporate process teaching methods such as multiple drafts, portfolios, writing groups, individual conferences, group conferences, and peer evaluation.
*English 110 is a prerequisite for all upper-level English courses.
ENGL 183-010-Grammar for English Teachers
Ross, D
TR 8:00-8:50
This two-credit, required course is designed for junior and senior English Education majors and prepares them to teach grammar and punctuation in the classroom. The first part of the course teaches basic grammar-from parts of speech to phrases and clauses. The second covers punctuation issues. The third part deals with common grammatical errors, including subject-verb agreement and lack of parallel structure. The final part covers the spelling rules and shows how to teach them
ENGL200-Approaches to Literature
-010 MWF 9:05-9:55 Staff
-011 MWF 12:20-1:10 Staff
-012 MWF 1:25-2:15 Staff
-013 TR 2:00-3:15 Quintana
-014 TR 3:30-4:45 Quintana
Dual emphasis on reading and writing. Offers an introduction to poetry, fiction and drama, and provides for extensive practice in writing about literary subjects.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT AND 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 200 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
ENGL 202-010-Biblical and Classical Literature
Helmling, S
TR 2:00-3:15
Readings in the Old and New Testaments, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, Virgil and Ovid. The aim of the course is to give students the best substitute possible for a "classical education" in 14 weeks. The approach will be historical-both in the sense of restoring to these ancient mythological and religious texts some sense of their original contexts, and in the sense of considering the shadows they have cast, and the traditions of inquiry and interpretation they have prompted (from the theological to the anthropological), in subsequent history. Obviously the course aims to prepare students for majors in the Modern Literatures and Art History, but also to present the texts as "foundations of Western Civilization," and as documents in the history of Western consciousness. Daily quizzes, mid-term and final examinations.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 202-011-Biblical and Classical Literature
Helmling, S
TR 3:30-4:45
[See ENGL202-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 202-012-Biblical and Classical Literature
Brockmann, J
TR 9:30-10:45
We will exam eight works by Greek, Hebrew, and Roman writers so that we can begin to understand the enduring themes and conflicts which these works first introduced long ago. We will compare these ancient works to each other and to contemporary movies and television shows so that we can see their enduring quality first hand. You will carry out such comparisons and contrasts in three carefully crafted short pieces of writing that will combine both analytical as well as creative writing. Fate, sex, betrayal, love, humans' relationships to God, anger-they're all to be explored in this English major foundation course.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 202-013-Biblical and Classical Literature
Gross, N
TR 3:30-4:45
Study of Greek, Roman, and Biblical literatures, set in their mythical, historical and cultural contexts, introducing appropriate critical concepts.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 205-010-British Literature I
Brock, D
MWF 9:05-9:55
Emphasizing content, context, and critical concepts, this course offers a survey of representative Medieval and Renaissance works set in their historical and cultural contexts. Among others, authors studied included Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. Short analytical essay, term essay, occasional quizzes, midterm, and final are all required.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 205-011-British Literature I
Kinservik, M
MWF 12:20-1:10
The goal of this course is to survey the important works of British literature from the medieval period to the middle of the eighteenth century (from Beowulf to Pope). Given this historical coverage, the readings will be almost exclusively poems and plays. Because the genres and language of these works may seem archaic to the first-time reader, the course will emphasize literary history and genre, and we will engage in a great deal of close reading of texts.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 205-080-Honors: British Literature I
Yates, J
MWF 1:25-2:15
The aim of this course is to introduce you to British literature from its beginnings (circa 900 C.E.) as it develops to 1700. We will embark on what literary critics have traditionally called literary history: a survey and explanation of the major genres, literary movements, and tropes that shape what, today, we call "English Literature." Over the semester, we will try to understand what writers, readers and audiences expected from given genres, and, in an age when only a fraction of the population could read and write, what counted as "text." Central to the course are questions of authorship, of who wrote, who had access to different kinds of knowledge, and how texts circulated among different kinds of readers-issues that will require special attention to matters of class, gender, age, and technology. Texts will include works by Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, their contemporaries, as well as special units on texts produced by and about marginal social groups (peasants, mystics, criminals). Where possible, we'll make use of as many different sources as possible, drawing on films, theater, video, and visual media both to bridge historical distances and call our attention to key differences we encounter in our journey. Requirements will include reading logs, short weekly writing assignments, a longer thematic essay, and active class participation.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 206-010-British Literature II
Flynn, P
MWF 10:10-11:00
This course studies major British writers of the 18th- and 19th centuries-Pope, Swift, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti, and Dickens. These writers are studied within the contexts of (1) the rise of scientific empiricism, (2) the social, political, and psychological impact of the American and French revolutions, and (3) the industrial revolution and emergence of Darwinism. Requirements include two examinations and two 1500-word papers.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 206-011-British Literature II
Kaufman, H
MWF 12:20-1:10
This course will survey British literature from 1700-2000. Readings will include a range of genres including poetry, fiction, drama, and newspaper-style articles. Since people never write, read, or think in a vacuum, we will consider the ways in which historical, cultural, intellectual, social, and political movements and events shape and are shaped by writers and literary culture.
(THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 206-012-British Literature II
Kaufman, H
MWF 2:30-3:20
[See ENGL206-011 for Course Description]
ENGL 206-013-British Literature II
Robinson, C
TR 9:30-10:45
This course surveys the prose and the poetry of major eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British writers, including Pope, Swift, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, and Yeats. Prose fiction includes Gulliver's Travels, Rasselas, and Frankenstein. Lectures and discussion will focus on the philosophical ideas and the literary forms of these and other works. We will attempt to define the following for these writers: God, Man, and Nature; the didactic, the mimetic, and the expressive; the lyrical, the narrative, and the dramatic. Requirements: midterm essay exam; 5-page paper; final essay exam. Texts: the one-volume Norton Anthology of English Literature (Major Authors Edition) and The Mary Shelley Reader.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 206-014-British Literature II
McKenna, B
TR 11:00-12:15
Study of representative eighteenth through twentieth century British works, set in their historical contexts, introducing appropriate critical concepts.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 207-010-Introduction to Poetry
Brown, F
MWF 9:05-9:55
What makes a poem? How do you decide if it's a good poem? This course is for beginners as well as those who have studied poetry a little. We will focus on the work of major poets while learning about lyric and narrative poetry, the formal tradition (sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, ballads), and specific techniques of sound and sense. We will read aloud, listen to recordings and watch videos of poets reading their own work, attend poetry readings. There will be a chance to write your own poems as well. Several major projects and a number of quizzes.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 208-010-Introduction to Drama
DelFattore, J
MWF 12:20-1:10
This course will be organized around large questions, such as "To what extent do people control their own destiny, and to what extent are we at the mercy of fate?" and "Is there any such thing as honor, and if so, what is it?" In grappling with each question, students will examine what is said about it in plays written in a variety of times and places by authors of diverse backgrounds. Students will also consider the ways in which playwrights use language, symbolism, color, sound, and other elements of drama to convey certain ideas, moods, and complexities of character.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 209-010-Introduction to the Novel
Kaplan, B
TR 12:30-1:45
In this class we will read a wide variety of traditional and experimental novels both in English and in translation. We will look at questions of form and structure and ask how the reading of novels affects our daily lives. There will be five short papers in this course. There will be no examinations.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 210-010-Short Story
Stark, C
MWF 12:20-1:10
English 2l0 is a truly introductory course. It assumes no college background in interpreting literature. By reading and responding to a broad range of short fiction, students will acquire the basic skills necessary to appreciate and, one hopes, enjoy the narrative experience. Grading will be based upon three examinations.
*ENGL210 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 210-011-Short Story
Kaplan, B
TR 11:00-12:15
In this class we will be reading a wide variety of classic and contemporary short fiction. We will read both traditional and experimental stories. We will look both at how these stories work as artistic constructs and at how they work as humanistic documents which relate to our daily lives. A strong emphasis will be placed on guiding each student to achieve a sense of his or her own individual aesthetic of short fiction. There are three examinations in this class. The text for this class is Charters, ed., The Story and Its Writer, Compact Sixth Edition.
*ENGL210 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 210-080-Short Story
Kaplan, B
TR 11:00-12:15
[See ENGL210-011 for Course Description]
ENGL 217-010-Introduction to Film
Leitch, T
MWF 12:20-1:10
W 1:25-2:40
An introduction to the study of film organized around the concept of cinematic literacy: how and why we watch movies, and what happens to us when we do. The bulk of the course examines the ways different areas of filmmaking-screenwriting, acting, mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound, color, and special effects-aim to manipulate audiences while concealing the manipulation. Weekly Wednesday afternoon screenings of films from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Memento will provide practical illustrations. Writing assignments include four 3-page papers and two essay exams.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 300-010-Texts and Contexts
Yates, J
MWF 11:15-12:05
Intrigued by strange-sounding words like "deconstruction," post-modernism, cyborgs, ideology, metaphor, metonymy, queer theory, the canon? Or, are you just plain curious about what it is that Professors do when they tell you that they're going home to do their own "work?" If so, then this is the course for you. Texts and Contexts is a skills course that will serve as your introduction to a complex and exciting arena of study called Literary Theory-the study of how, why and what we are doing when we read. Over the course of the semester, we shall build a lexicon of key concepts or keywords that will enable us to think through some of the major questions that literary critics have raised about what happens when you or I read. What, for example, is this thing we call a "text?" What exactly is this curious, omniscient being we call the "Author?" Are you changed by the text you read-and if so, how? The overall theme of the course will be the complex and now litigious arena of what it means to remember-are your memories your own, what makes you "you"-or are they something alien to you, fictions, if you like, a place where you don't exactly have control over who you are, what you think, and who you will become. Possible Texts include: Philip K. Dick's Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep, Bladerunner, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Jewlle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly. Note: this is a writing intensive course with weekly assignments as well as longer essays. *THIS COURSE FULFILLS AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT OR THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 300-011-Texts and Contexts
Feng, P
MW 1:25-2:40
ENGL 300 is an introduction to theoretical approaches to reading, with an emphasis on ideological approaches, contextual analysis, and narrative structure. We will read and discuss theoretical writings about literature and film (such as Bakhtin, Barthes, Eco, Foucault, and Hall) and then apply these insights to primary texts (such as The Matrix and Nella Larsen's Passing). This course assumes the student has basic understanding of the fundamentals of film, therefore ENGL 217 is a highly-recommended prerequisite to this course. Requirements: regular attendance, numerous short writing assignments (15 pages total).
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT OR THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 301-010-Expository Writing
-010 MWF 9:05-9:55 Staff
-011 MWF 10:10-11:00 Staff
-012 TR 8:00-9:15 Staff
-013 TR 12:30-1:45 Staff
Expository writing, with related studies in grammar, diction and rhetoric.
*THIS COURSE DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 302-010-Advanced Composition
Staff
TR 12:30-1:45
Expository writing in a variety of forms, with emphasis on literary analysis.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 303-010-Scriptwriting
Walker, J
TR 2:00-3:15
If you've ever thought of writing a script for the theatre or for film, this workshop may be for you. Since this is an introductory workshop, you will not be expected to have experience writing dialogue, but general writing ability and/or the ability to enjoy writing will be useful. We will begin by reading several scripts and writing short scenes. Early in the semester you will be encouraged to develop an idea for a one-act play, and our work for the rest of the semester will involve the writing and revision of that script. We will work closely together, lending one another ideas, reading the scripts aloud, and offering critiques. This workshop will emphasize writing for the theatre, and it is an ideal setting to work on a script to enter in The University of Delaware Script Writing Competition.
ENGL 306-010-Introduction to Creative Writing
MWF 10:10-11:00
Brown, F/Stark, C
Introduction to Creative Writing is an opportunity for students from all majors to explore how poems, plays, stories, and creative essays are put together and then to experiment with creating such works themselves. Although welcome, no previous writing experience is necessary; the course itself will involve intensive engagement with both reading and writing. Enrollment in each section is limited to twenty-two students.
ENGL 306-011-Introduction to Creative Writing
MWF 11:15-12:05
Brown, F/Stark, C
[See ENGL 306-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 307-010-News Writing & Editing
Yagoda, B
TR 11:00-12:15
In addition to professional journalism training-including skills in reporting, interviewing, writing and editing skills-this class will focus on critical thinking, ethics, and the interpretation of local, national, and world affairs. Students will be required to subscribe to The New York Times and to read it daily. Requirements include weekly writing assignments, occasional quizzes on style and libel law, and in-class presentations on media and the world. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of B is required in ENGL 110.
*THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS A PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.
THIS COURSE DOES NOT FULFILL THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 307-011-News Writing & Editing
Jenkins, M
TR 2:00-3:15
In this course we will learn how to report, write, edit shorter pieces of journalism, both news stories and features. We will also closely follow the news of the day, learning how newspapers decide what constitutes news, where and how stories should be played, and how and why editorial positions are formed. We will study libel law, and discuss journalism ethics. Course requirements include writing at least five pieces of original journalism, and daily readings of The New York Times. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of B is required in ENGL 110.
*THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS A PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.
THIS COURSE DOES NOT FULFILL THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 307-012-News Writing & Editing
Staff
TR 3:30-4:45
News judgment, news gathering, feature writing, libel problems, and ethics. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of B is required in ENGL 110.
*THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS A PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.
THIS COURSE DOES NOT FULFILL THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 307-080-News Writing & Editing
Yagoda, B
TR 11:00-12:15
[See ENGL 307-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 308-010-Reporter's Practicum
Yagoda, B
R 2:00-4:45
All students in this course report and write for The Review-a minimum of 11 bylined stories. Class meets once a week to critique the latest issues of the newspaper, talk about important topics in newspaper writing (specific article types like speech, meeting and event stories; ethics; libel; interviewing; online reporting), and to hear from visiting newspaper and magazine professionals. Students' work will be evaluated by both Review staff and the professor. Prerequisite: ENGL 307.
*THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS A PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.
ENGL 309-010-Feature & Magazine Writing
Jenkins, M
TR 11:00-12:15
In this class we will explore the researching and writing of longer pieces of nonfiction, especially newspaper and magazine stories. We will discuss at length many of the finer points of writing, including the structuring of stories, the use of quotations, and alternative ways of opening and closing stories. Course requirements include writing at least three long pieces of nonfiction, and the weekly reading of The New Yorker magazine. Prerequisite: ENGL 307.
*ENGL 309 MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.
ENGL 310-010-Copy Editing & Page Design
Fleischman, W
T 7:00-10:00
Newspaper copy editing, headline writing and page design, with emphasis on practical experience. Includes improving stories by rewriting. Discussion topics include current issues in journalism and ethics. Working journalists from area newspapers are guest speakers. Prerequisite: ENGL307.
*THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.
THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 312-010-Written Communications in Business
-010 MWF 8:00-8:50 Staff
-011 MWF 9:05-9:55 Staff
-012 MWF 10:10-11:00 Staff
-013 MWF 11:15-12:05 Staff
-014 MWF 12:20-1:10 Staff
-015 TR 8:00-9:15 Staff
-016 TR 9:30-10:45 Andrews, D
-017 TR 11:00-12:15 Staff
-018 TR 12:30-1:45 Staff
-019 TR 3:30-4:45 Staff
-080 MWF 1:25-2:15 Staff
The course seeks to build an understanding of the role of writing in corporate decision making. Students discuss and practice communication situations within organizations and between organizations and their various external audiences, including the public, government agencies, and share holders. For assignments, 312 involves the following writing tasks: preparation of job search documents, namely the resume and drafts of cover letters; production of letters, memos, e-mail messages, and short reports that simulate on-the-job communication tasks; a project involving field research.
*THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 317-010-American Film History
Leitch, T
M 1:30-4:30
A whirlwind chronological tour of American cinema from The Great Train Robbery to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Weekly screenings will raise questions about the roles of politics, technological innovation, studio economics, and stylistic influences from outside Hollywood in shaping American movies. We'll devote special attention to the great Hollywood genres-slapstick and screwball comedies, social-problem films, Westerns, war films, crime films-in order to explore an American love/hate attitude toward heroic loners that transcends individual movies and genres. Writing assignments include four 3-page papers and two essay exams.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 321-010-Medieval Literature and Culture
Richards, M
TR 2:00-3:15
This course is organized around four major genres of medieval literature: the dream-vision, mystical writings, the drama, and the romance. All will be studied in depth from representative works. Writing assignments will include weekly response papers, essay exams, and a longer paper.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.
ENGL 321-080-Medieval Literature and Culture
Richards, M
TR 2:00-3:15
[See ENGL321-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 322-010-Chaucer
Dean, J
MWF 1:25-2:15
This course offers an introduction to the major narrative writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, including The Book of the Duchess, Troilus and Criseyde, and selections from The Canterbury Tales. Our emphasis will be on writings typically not covered in sophomore-level classes. We will also read some of Chaucer's lyric poems and, for background, selections from Chaucer: Sources & Backgrounds, an anthology of readings from Chaucer's time and before. We will focus on Chaucer's poetry rather than his language, but students will be expected to read and translate Chaucer's words from Middle English into Modern English. This course introduces the richness and variety of medieval literature and culture. It satisfies the departmental Medieval and Renaissance Literature distribution requirement. Lecture/discussions will sometimes include cinematic realizations of the Tales along with PowerPoint slide shows. The course will be mounted on WebCT, and students will turn in all requirements by attaching Word or Rich Text Format documents to e-mail messages. The requirements for the course include: class discussion; quizzes (some of them translation quizzes); one medium-sized paper (4-6 pages with both assigned and free choice topics), to be submitted in stages; a final exam; other projects, some of them in-class. Almost all of the work for this class will be accomplished through short to medium-sized essays. Texts: The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson, 3rd ed. (Houghton Mifflin); R. P. Miller, ed., Chaucer: Sources & Backgrounds (Oxford).
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.
ENGL 324-010-Shakespeare
Bennett, R
MWF 9:05-9:55
This course will introduce students to representative examples of the different major dramatic genres within which Shakespeare wrote: domestic tragedy, tragedy of state, festive comedy, history, and romance. While social, philosophical, and literary influences on Shakespeare's work will receive attention at appropriate points, the primary goal of the class is comprehending through a close and educated reading of the text the given play's insights into the nature of the human condition. We should approach each play with the eyes of a director who is faced with translating the words on the page into the verbal energies of the characters in their given situations. We will be alert to the means by which Shakespeare creates a complete and convincing dramatic vision of the human condition by his crafting and integrating the elements of drama: character (personality and psychological motivation), plot (conflict and the unfolding of events), setting (the "where and when" of a given action), and design (suggestive recurrent patterns in metaphors, words, situations, and the like). The text for the course is The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd ed. Requirements will likely include two hourly exams, two four-to-six page papers, and a final exam. An acting project component may be substituted for one of the papers. Class sessions will make some use of pro¬ductions available on tape or disk and of formal scene readings prepared in advance by members of the class. Attendance is required and evidence of prior preparation for the day's assigned reading is important.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 324-011-Shakespeare
Poole, K
MWF 10:10-11:00
NOTE: This course is open ONLY to incoming Freshmen English Majors; students enrolled in this course MUST also be enrolled in one of the linked corresponding sections of ENGL110. This course will provide students with an introduction to Shakespeare's plays and some of the fundamental concepts and skills of literary analysis. We will be exploring some of Shakespeare's plays by positioning them within their historical context. We will consider how Shakespeare's theater reflected and participated in aspects of the English Renaissance such as the emergence of the printing press and a growing leisure industry, changing notions of individualism and its implications for social and political systems, the cultural fascination with the concept of the racial "other," and the social and literary repercussions of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Along the way, we will also consider what the idea of "Shakespeare" has come to mean in our society, and we will be studying recent film adaptations of his plays. Throughout the semester, we will be discussing the nature of storytelling and concentrating on Shakespeare's vibrant use of language. NOTE: This course is open ONLY to incoming Freshmen English Majors; students enrolled in this course MUST also be enrolled in one of the linked corresponding sections of ENGL110.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 324-012-Shakespeare
Walker, J
TR 11:00-12:15
Although this class will serve as a good introduction to Shakespeare's work, it will also prove exciting for students who are more advanced. We will read some of the sonnets, but focus on the plays, including comedies, tragedies, and romances, with particular interest in performance. Although absolutely no acting experience is needed, students will be asked to read parts aloud in class and we will occasionally watch performances. Class attendance and attendance at two professional productions are required. Grades will be based on class participation, two papers, a mid semester exam, and a final.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 328-010-Milton
Miller, G
MWF 9:05-9:55
A study of Milton's major poems--A Maske, "Lycidas," Paradise Lost, ParadiseRegained, and Samson Agonistes--with an emphasis on the cultural, historical, and literary contexts in which each text is situated. Students will choose among a variety of assignments, including exams, close reading projects, creative work, and critical papers.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.
ENGL 330-010-The Detective In Film & Fiction
Jebb, J
MWF 1:25-2:15
This course merges the humanities and the social sciences. That is, the course studies issues in criminal justice through the prisms of detective/crime stories. We will discuss law, justice, police behavior, social order, and more, all via in-depth analysis of how authors have portrayed these issues in their fiction. A major theme throughout the course will be reasoning: how detectives-real and fictional-follow distinctive and rational methods as they investigate. The readings will cover the history of the genre: from its origins with Poe and Doyle, through the classical authors (Agatha Christie) and hard-boiled authors (Hammett and Chandler), culminating in contemporary variations. For our writing assignments, instead of long papers, each week we will have one-page essays to get discussion going. We will also view three films.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 331-010-The Age of Satire
Mell, D
MWF 10:10-11:00
This course will investigate literary satire produced between the years 1660-1760, the so-called age of the satire. Works by Dryden, Pope, Swift, Rochester, Defoe, Fielding, Gay, Johnson, Voltaire, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and other women writers constitute the main readings. References to earlier and later satirists will occasionally be made to indicate the persistence and continuity of the satiric mode throughout literary history. Definitions and descriptions will help provide a theoretical basis for understanding the purposes of satire.
Since satire is often topical, historical background and political and religious contexts will be treated when necessary. Methods of Instruction: lecture and discussion. Course Requirements: one hour test, a three to four page paper, a final exam, and five one-page double-spaced response papers. Texts: Voltaire, Candide (Bedford/St. Martin's); Johnson, Rasselas (Penguin); Pope, Poetry and Prose of Pope (Riverside); Writings of Jonathan Swift (Norton Critical); Course Binder. The binder contains the Dryden selections, the Rochester poem, Defoe's Shortest-Way, Fielding's Tragedy of Tragedies, as well as an eclectic sampling of definitions and descriptions of satire, eighteenth century and modern. Numerous instructor handouts will also be distributed during the semester.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 333-010-British Romanticism
Flynn, P
MWF 1:25-2:15
This course studies the poetry and prose of the first generation of British Romantic writers-Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge-within the contexts of the rise of scientific empiricism and materialism and of the expectations and disappointments of the French Revolution. Requirements include three papers and one examination.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 340-010-American Lit to the Civil War
Miller, G
MWF 10:10-11:00
The readings are divided into three periods-the literatures of the settlers of this "new world," of an emergent American voice and experience, and of a "flowering" of American Romanticism. With an emphasis on cultural, historical, transnational, and literary contexts, the course will examine the literature of colonial settlement, of revolution, of an emerging nationalism and regionalism. Students will choose among a variety of assignments, including exams, close reading projects, creative work, and critical papers.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT.
IT ALSO FULFILLS AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT OR THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 341-010-American Lit: Civil War to WWII
Cotsell, M
MWF 11:15-12:05
The course introduces you to major works of literature and thought-novels, short stories, poems, essays-from modern America. Our concern will be with the literature as its own achievement but also in its relation to major cultural and social issues, some obvious, some not obvious. Thus we will try to read the texts as fully as possible, and thereby improving our skills in perceiving what literature can communicate to us. Appreciation of form will go along with appreciation of the work of the text in history. Our texts take us from conflict to conflict-from the Civil War to World War II. In between, lie the Gilded Age; the completion of westward expansion; the beginnings of extra-continental American imperialism; the rise of feminism, socialism and the NAACP; the horrors of World War I; the roaring twenties and modernism; the Great Depression and domestic front of World War II. Among our authors, Whitman, Dickinson, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Zora Neal Hurston, a selection of Modernist poetry, stories by Hemingway, Anderson and Katherine Ann Porter and novels by Faulkner and Chester Himes.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT.
IT ALSO FULFILLS AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT OR THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 341-011-American Lit: Civil War to WWII
Pfaelzer, J
TR 11:00-12:15
"We Contain Multitudes"
Walt Whitman, in Song of Myself wrote, "I am large; I contain multitudes." What did Whitman mean by "containing" multitudes? How does literature do this? This section of English 341 looks at national "multitudes"--the richness and diversity of American literary cultures, together with themes and issues that preoccupied most Americans from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, and still trouble us now. As we read now, during the early years of the third millennium, we have not just discovered issues of racial identity and conflict, immigration, passion, gender, equality for women, the competing meanings of rural spaces, and the fears and seductions of the unknowable city. In fact, the way we understand and express these concerns is conditioned by the ways these preoccupations were interpreted, imagined, and represented in the era from slavery and the Civil War to the era of the Great Depression and World War II. How do literary traditions, movements and forms from this era--Sentimentalism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Blues, Jazz--shape how we experience the world today? What sorts of dialogues do we find between texts? between authors? between the traditional stars of the literary canon and authors new to the ever-changing canon of American lit? between the ways authors thought their works would be read and how we read them today. This will be a lecture and discussion course and will accept fifty students.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT.
IT ALSO FULFILLS AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT OR THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 342-010-American Literature Since WWII
Safer, E
TR 3:30-4:45
This course will discuss directions American literature has taken from World War II to the present. The range of work will be explored against a background of cultural, philosophical, and literary trends. Writers will include Allen Ginsberg (Howl), Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita), Flannery O'Connor (short stories), Saul Bellow (Henderson the Rain King), Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Philip Roth (American Pastoral), and Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five). Format: lecture and discussion. There will be one essay (5-7 pages), two examinations, and two response papers (two double-spaced pages).
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 344-010-African-American Literature I
Henderson Belton, C
MWF 10:10-11:00
This course will analyze African American literature written during pre- and post-emancipation, ending with the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. "Social sensitive," African American literature offers an interesting glimpse into pre-eminent social movements in American culture. Starting with the slave narrative, we will chart these pivotal historical moments, focusing on key topics, issues, innovations, and themes consistent with the building of an African American literary tradition. Issues discussed include the development of an African American "voice," the issue of the African American "double consciousness," and the rise of gender politics. Requirements: an appreciation for literature and a willingness to do work; rigorous class discussion, essays, midterm and final, and 1-2 page reader response papers.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE OR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 347-010-Studies in American Literature: Literature of the Twenties
Pauly, T
TR 9:30-10:45
This course will explore a variety of plays, novels, and short stories in order to discover what they tell us about the literary and social culture of the 1920s. Though we will be considering such issues as Prohibition, Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and Agrarianism, our chief concern will be the texts themselves and what they say about the literary and social culture of the period. The requirements will consist of two response papers and two major examinations, each consisting of a paper and an in-class examination.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 352-010-Studies in 19thC literature:
"Major British Poets from Wordsworth to Yeats-and beyond."
Dawson, C
TR 12:30-1:45
The first half of this course focuses on six very different poets across a century of British poetry. We will read and discuss Robert and Elizabeth Browning, for example, in relation to one another and to their times. There will be research assignments and reports, close readings and discussion, followed at mid-term by an exam. The second half of the course allows you to pick another poet than the ones already discussed, to make a presentation to the class (forty minutes), and lead the discussion. Any British poets from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth-century will be fine. You will write a 12-15 page paper on the poet you choose.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700 - 1900.
ENGL 356-010-Studies in Modern/Contemporary Literature:
Henderson Belton, C
MWF 12:20-1:10
This course will broadly survey American literature, focusing on the concept of "difference" as a way to critique how the American identity is written in American culture. Our studies in this course will explore topics such as class, gender, race, and religion by American writers of the 19th and 20th century. We will also view a film which addresses these issues from a multi-cultural perspective. Authors covered in this course include Kate Chopin, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks and Charles Chesnutt. Requirements for the course include regular attendance, rigorous class discussion, essays, oral reports, short reader response papers, and a final research paper.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 371-010-Studies in Fiction: Science Fiction
Kucucalic, L
TR 11:00-12:15
The "Introduction to science Fiction," will be a unique course in the Department, and will offer a historical survey of science fiction novels and short fiction from the turn of the century, through the "pulp fiction" period of the 1920s-40s, the Golden Age era of the 1950s, the New Wave of the 1960s and the1970s, the Cyberpunk movement of the 1980s, to the current writings at the turn of the 21st century (probably best described as a hybrid between mainstream and science fiction literature). The authors to be studied include: H. G. Wells, A. E. Van Vogt, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Ursula LeGuin, James Blish, Thomas Disch, James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), Octavia Butler, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Howard Hendrix. The course will also feature an overview of theoretical approaches. Students will be given a set of critical articles and chapters and asked to apply these critical approaches to the novels and stories read throughout the semester. Essays by Isaac Asimov, Kingsley Amis, Samuel Delany, Ursula Leguin, Eric S. Rabkin, Peter Brigg and others will provide the theoretical background. The final grade will be based upon three short papers, midterm, final exam, and brief class presentation.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 371-080-Hnrs Studies in Fiction:
Obsessed with Place: American Regional Writers
Goodman, Susan
TR 2:00-3:15
The California author Mary Austin once said of her friend Willa Cather, "There are some American writers who simply write about a region, and there are others so intrinsically western in their point of view that any book by them becomes a western book." Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, perhaps best known for her novel The Yearling, offered a different perspective. Regional writers, she argued, are "accidental"; that is, they use a specialized locale as a logical or coherent background for commonly shared feelings or beliefs. This course explores the whole vexed question of what makes one writer a 'regional" writer and another not by studying the short fiction and novels of some of America's best writers. I see the course falling into three sections, with a focus on the Northeast (short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne and novels by Edith Wharton); the South (works by Jean Toomer, Flannery O'Connor, and the contemporary Mississippi novelist Steve Yarbrough); and the West (Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner, and Leslie Silko); with a nod perhaps to the Midwest (Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio). I intend to give you a suggestive list of optional authors and texts, with the idea that students will pursue their own interests and report to the class either individually or in self-selected groups. Requirements include two critical papers (7-10 pages) and a personal essay about place.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 379-010-Intro To Ethnic & Cultural Studies
Pfaelzer, J
TR 2:00-3:15
This section of English 376, Introduction to Ethnic and Cultural Studies, will focus on the issue of class in America. What does "class" mean in a culture that promises and alleges that all are, think they are, think can be, or think they want to be "middle class." Is class about work? money? consumption? education? What defines class? We will think about class and consumption--how class defines what we wear, what we eat, what we sing, how we play. We will see films, read fiction, political theory, autobiography, and listen to music about how class shapes our personal and national identity. We'll consider the relationship between work and class: who works, what counts as work, who works "here" but lives somewhere else, who lives somewhere else and works "here." We'll read selections Marx's "Communist Manifesto", Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed", the autobiography of an autoworker "Rivethead" by
Ben Harper, and the history of the strike and fire at Triangle Shirt Waist Factory in the early 20th century. Next we'll consider the global formation of work, outsourcing, and sweatshops, and discuss whether or not there is and can be an international working class, and how this issue is represented in culture. We will talk about international nannies and sex workers, and look into modern slavery. We will do an archeology of our closets and discuss how a sweat shop produces a sweat shirt. We will view films such as "Take Out," "El Norte," "Salt of the Earth," "Roger and Me," "Harlem County," "The Global Factory," and "Brazil" to discuss how technology, immigration, and race define "here," what pay means, who gets it, for what, and how much. We'll discuss how unions have changed the nature of work and class, and how class shapes the communities and relationships that get forged at work. Finally, we will turn our lens at class at the University of Delaware. How is UDEL "classed"? We will talk and write about ourselves as workers: our experiences as workers and our dreams for our future as workers; what work means in our family; the difference between working and having a career. How does work affect kids? romantic life? creativity? What's the relationship between work and play? How can we make those happen at the same time?
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 380-010-Women Writers: Virginia Woolf & Lesbian Writing
Stetz, M
TR 11:00-12:15
This course examines the importance of Virginia Woolf's work, life, and reputation to writing that we might call "lesbian." We will look at shifting definitions of what "lesbian writing" has meant, especially in late-19th and 20th C. Britain. We will also consider "lesbian writing" as a form used by both male and female authors who do not necessarily identify as lesbians. Texts will include several novels by Woolf, along with Michael Cunningham's The Hours, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, etc. Course requirements include several short papers and one longer essay, written through a draft-and-revision process.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES OR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 382-010-Studies:
Multicultural Literature in English Fiction from and about Islam
Cotsell, M
MWF 1:25-2:15
This course is, as its title indicates, intended to introduce you to some of the methods and concerns of cross-cultural studies. It is centered on the Middle East, and deals mostly with fiction written by Islamic authors, both women and men-wonderful works of fiction (both novels and short stories) including by Nobel Prize Winner, Naguib Mahfouz..(It also includes the controversial film, The Battle of Algiers: the representation of political violence is inevitable in this course). The material deals with but is by no means confined to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I have not here attempted to provide "balance" since there are many professors in the university who can and do teach Jewish literature far better than I can do. Nevertheless I have included one powerful work by the Israeli author, Amos Oz, mainly to make a point about the legacy of colonialism Our concern here is to study Middle Eastern literature alongside of examples of American Orientalism, which we will discover has a long-literary history, excerpts from Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and others and work by Paul Bowles and Don DeLillo. We will also be looking at the representation of the "Black Hawk Down" incident in Somalia.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 390-010-English Linguistics
Bernhardt, S
MWF 12:20-1:10
This course covers patterns and structures of language use, with an emphasis on change, variation, and standards of correctness in written and oral language. The course covers grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and style. It is intended for prospective English language arts teachers.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 391-081-Honors Colloquium: Hip Hop Culture
Kaplan, B
TR 2:00-3:15
In this colloquium we will examine the phenomenon of hip hop culture. We will try to define hip hop and we will look at its manifestations in song, poetry, fashion, film and the visual arts. We will see ask if hip hop, a so-called popular culture, has influenced "high art." We will also ask questions in this colloquium about the very nature of studying a movement such as hip hop. What happens when such a culture is looked at academically? What standards should we use to judge such art? What makes hip hop a culture? There will be several short papers and one long paper in this colloquium. Students will keep a journal. There are no examinations. Our readings will include, Nelson George, Hip Hop America, Murray Furman, "The 'Hood Comes First ", Henry Chalfant, Spraycan Art and Donald Goines, Black Gangster. Note: Open to first year UHP students only.
ENGL 409-010-Topics in Journalism
Kerrane, K
TR 11:00-12:15
This course will examine detailed social reporting that deals with such issues as poverty, crime, race, war, and competitive sports. In addition to readings from journalists like George Orwell, Martha Gellhorn, David Simon, and Tom French, the syllabus will include at least six nonfiction films. We will also conduct several in-class interviews by speakerphone. Requirements: three tests, two major papers, and steady participation-which will include frequent postings on the class website.
*ENGLISH 409 MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN JOURNALISM.
ENGL 410-010-Technical Writing
Staff
MWF 9:05-9:55
Selected problems in technical communications, the preparation of reports and technical editing.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT. ENGLISH 410 MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING.
ENGL 410-011-Technical Writing
Brockmann, J
TR 12:30-1:45
Throughout most of your professional training, you have written only in the role of a student. Usually this has meant writing exclusively to individual audiences-professors-in their areas of specialization. However, on leaving the university, you will find that these student writing experiences do not adequately equip you for your new role as a professional writing for a complex and diverse audience. The purpose of this course is to train you in the particular sort of communication required of professionals. Specifically, you will learn how to use a systematic procedure to design technical reports, specifications, oral presentations, and presentations using business graphics. This systematic procedure will enable you to analyze your audiences, state the purposes of your document, select and arrange report materials, and edit your materials for improved readability.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT. ENGLISH 410 MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING.
ENGL 412-010-Business & Technical Publication
Worley, R
MW 5:15-6:30
With a focus on print documents, this course prepares students to write the text and design the layout for several publications. Divided between discussion and lab sessions, the course includes readings on visual rhetoric, document design, typography, public relations style, technical marketing, user and task analysis, as well as other topics. During lab sessions, students learn to design publications for specific target audiences using QuarkXPress software, MS Word, and Macromedia Fireworks. Specific projects in the course include a four-color, four-page newsletter, a technical marketing publication, and a software tutorial. The first two are individual projects, the third is a group project. This course does not require any prior experience with publication design.
*ENGLISH 412 MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING.
ENGL 414-010-Technical Editing
Andrews, D
TR 11:00-12:15
In this course, we'll look at editing as a broad process for ensuring that a communication product on a page or a screen works for its author and for its audience. Editors collaborate with authors to envision the many possibilities for conveying information and persuading audiences; they then help authors select the most effective one. To practice this collaborative approach, you will participate on a team of editors working throughout the semester with a team of mechanical engineering (ME) students to complete the various reports required in their senior design course. Editors also understand the components of style and are experts at marking text to achieve the best style for the audience and occasion. Readings in the text and workshops in class will give you extensive experience in stylistic analysis and design; they will help you become the "scrupulous" copy editor noted in most job descriptions. To help you prepare for a career in technical editing, guest speakers in the field will discuss their jobs with you and answer your questions. Finally, you will participate in a series of briefings on important issues that face professional communicators-and will face you as you become such a professional.
*ENGLISH 414 MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING.
ENGL 415-010-Writing in the Professions
Worley, R
MW 2:30-3:45
This course simulates as closely as possible the environment in which students will write as professionals in various business and technical disciplines. Structured around projects, the course includes assignments in which students write both individually and as team members, exchanging information and written drafts electronically. The course covers such topics as audience analysis, rhetorical purpose, information design, persuasive strategies, and visual communication, among others. Throughout the course, students research organizations using library and online resources, as well as personal interviews, and write in response to specific communication needs. Writing projects therefore include typical business documents such as letters, memos, and reports, as well as resumes and cover letters. For Fall 2005, students will research communication within non-profit organizations and write in response to their communication needs.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT. ENGLISH 415 MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING.
ENGL 464-010-Internship in Business-Technical Writing
Worley, R
TBA
The EBT internship offers students an opportunity to apply the theoretical and practical lessons learned in the classroom to the business world. Professional writing internships are available in a wide variety of disciplines, including corporate communications, public relations, technical writing, computer documentation, advertising, publishing, editing, medical/pharmaceutical writing, web development, and others. EBT concentrators must apply for internships and submit a portfolio at least one term in advance. Internships are also available through English 366 Independent Study.
*THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO EBT CONCENTRATORS ONLY AND REQUIRES PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR. ENGLISH 464 MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING.
ENGL 480-010-Seminar: Nature and Human Nature
Brock, D
MWF 11:15-12:05
Emphasizing the history of ideas, this course offers representative readings from the classical period to today that deal, at least in part, with the concepts of nature and human nature. The readings, some of which will include important works in the history and philosophy of science, will be considered in their historical, cultural, philosophical, scientific, and literary contexts. Short reaction essays, oral presentations, occasional quizzes, and a term essay will be required. No exams.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 480-011-Seminar: America in the 60s
Delfattore, J
M 2:30-5:30
Students in this interdisciplinary American culture course will examine poetry, novels, plays, essays, art, music, court decisions, news reports, political speeches, films, and documentaries from the 1960s. Having examined literary and nonliterary texts dealing with essentially the same ideas, students will be challenged to define and refine their ideas of what constitutes literature. Why is one text "literary" and another not? Students will also consider the ways in which a variety of genres and media combine to express a coherent yet highly varied and complex image of a critical era in American life and literature. The workload will include several short papers, oral reports, and panel discussions as well as an independent research paper at the end of the semester.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 480-012-Seminar: Elizabethan/Jacobean Drama
Bennett, R
MW 7:00-8:15
With William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson leading the way, the London stage from 1585-1616 became in its own day and remains a cultural phenomenon. The plays as enduring works of art and insight into the human condition will be our primary interest, but we will also give attention to the social, political, and cultural factors that help explain the unique flowering of dramatic art at this time. The plays variously engage a dialogue between stage and city, stage and court, and playwright with playwright. Court tragedies and city comedies are the dominant modes, reflecting respectively the coexisting but largely non-interacting worlds of the English royal court and the close-quartered teeming city life of everyone else: knights, lawyers, scholars, shop keepers, prostitutes, pick pockets and the like. Class discussion, small group work, and some research-based assignments will form the core of student responsibilities. There will also likely be a course "web log" in which students can raise and discuss with each other topics associated with the reading. The exact nature of required written work will be determined after consultation with the class members. There are no unexcused absences and class members are expected to come prepared to initiate and engage in discussion. Such participation is essential to the success of a seminar and will be weighed more than any other factor in determining your grade.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.
ENGL 480-013-Seminar: English Romanticism
Robinson, C
T 12:30-3:30
This undergraduate seminar, which will focus on the major works of Byron and Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley, will attempt to do 2 things: provide a context for these major works by a brief review of earlier English Romantic poetry (e.g., by Wordsworth and Coleridge); and provide an in-depth and intertextual study of such major works as Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Childe Harold III-IV, Manfred, Don Juan, and Cain; Percy Shelley's Alastor, Mont Blanc and Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Julian and Maddalo, Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, Adonais, and Defence of Poetry; and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Mathilda. We will also read Tomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey (a satire on Byron and Shelley and the other Romantic), and there will be short assignments on other works published at this time. Requirements: one short oral report; one long oral report on a major work or major issue; one term paper. Texts will include: Shelley's Poetry and Prose, ed. Reiman and Fraistat (Norton); The Mary Shelley Reader, ed. Bennett and Robinson (Oxford); Byron (The Oxford Authors), ed. McGann (Oxford); and Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, ed. Curran (Cambridge).
Students will be encouraged to inspect and/or use materials (first editions, manuscripts, microfilms, Byroniana) in The Byron Society Collection at the University of Delaware.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 480-014-Seminar: Studies in Irish Drama
Kerrane, K
TR 2:00-3:15
This seminar will explore the work of a dozen twentieth-century playwrights, including J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Billy Roche. We will look at major historical and political issues in the plays, but will focus mainly on their dramatic artistry-for example, their mixture of comedy and tragedy, their inventive use of language, and the pleasures of their presentation on stage. The course will require two major papers, frequent postings on the class website, and participation in scene-readings. We will take at least one trip to see a professional production off-campus.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 480-080-Seminar: Nature and Human Nature
Brock, D
MWF 11:15-12:05
[See ENGL 480-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 480-083-Seminar: English Romanticism
Robinson, C
T 12:30-3:30
[See ENGL 480-013 for Course Description]
ENGL 480-084-Seminar: Studies in Irish Drama
Kerrane, K
T 2:00-3:15
[See ENGL 480-014 for Course Description]
ENGL 482-010-Seminar in Teaching English I
Bieler, D
MWF 10:10-11:00
Prepares English education seniors and graduate students to teach oral and written composition at the secondary school level.
*THIS COURSE IS OPEN ONLY TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN APPROVED FOR STUDENT TEACHING IN SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH.
ENGL 482-011-Seminar in Teaching English I
Bieler, D
MWF 11:15-12:05
[See ENGL 482-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 483-010-Seminar in Teaching English II
Alvarez, D
MWF 10:10-11:00
Prepares English education seniors and graduate students to teach adolescent literature, classic literature and non-print literary expression at the secondary school level.
*ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED TO STUDENTS WHOSE STUDENT TEACHING APPLICATIONS FOR SPRING 2003 HAVE BEEN APPROVED.
ENGL 483-011-Seminar in Teaching English II
Alvarez, D
MWF 11:15-12:05
[See ENGL 483-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 494-010-History of the English Language
Richards, M
TR 5:00-6:15
This course surveys the history of English from its Indo-European origins until the present day. Using Baugh and Cable's A History of the English Language (5th edition) and the Companion workbook (3rd edition), we will combine lectures with class participation. Additional requirements will include textbook and workbook assignments and three examinations.
*THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.
Previous Term Course Descriptions
|
