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Course Descriptions: Spring 2007
ENGL 183-010—Grammar for English Teachers
Ross, D
MW 0905-0955
Prepares English education majors for student teaching by providing them with comprehensive, systematic coverage of traditional approaches to grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling.
ENGL 200—Approaches to Literature
-010 MWF 0800-0850 Thibert-Bragg,A
-011 MWF 0905-0955 Edson, M
-012 TR 1100-1215 Zaleski, M
-013 TR 0930-1045 Pierce, H
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 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT AND A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT. ENGLISH 200 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
ENGL 202-010—Biblical and Classical Literature
Helmling, S
TR 0200-0315
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 "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 A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 202-011—Biblical and Classical Literature
Helmling, S
TR 0330-0445
[See ENGL202-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 202-194—Biblical and Classical Literature
Brockmann, J
UDOnline
We will exam eight central 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 course. The course is paced at an average of three hours of viewing time per week including the time to view the five movies. On campus the course is taught twice a week, and thus the syllabus lists the twice a week items that will be discussed. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 202-195—Biblical and Classical Literature
Brockmann, J
UDOnline
[See ENGL202-194 for Course Description]
ENGL 205-010—British Literature I
Miller, G
MWF 0905-0955
Readings from English literature from Chaucer to Bunyan. Organized both chronologically and thematically, the course focuses on how literature, in a variety of genres, seek to “teach” moral lessons to its readers. Attention is paid to historical and cultural contexts and to building connections with life in the 21st century. Readings include selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Julian of Norwich’s A Book of Showings, Margery Kempe’s autobiography, medieval drama, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Langland’s Piers Plowman, Foxe’s Acts and Monuments; poems from Donne, Herbert; and Milton, and Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. Primary text is the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1. Requirements typically include two exams, four short response papers, a creative project, and a final exam. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 205-011—British Literature I
Richards, M
MWF 0230-0320
Are you interested in time travel? We cover nearly 800 years of early English literature in this course, from Beowulf through John Milton. Along the way we will read selections from Chaucer, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” medieval drama, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Donne. In addition to the readings, requirements include a class presentation, short writing assignments, a longer paper, and two essay examinations. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 205-012—British Literature I
Brock, D
TR 0930-1045
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 to be studied include Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. Short analytical essay, term essay, occasional quizzes, Problem Based Learning group presentations, midterm, and final are all required. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 206-010—British Literature II
Kinservik, M
TR 0330-0445
This course will survey British literature from the late 18th to the 20th century. We will pay particular attention to texts that illustrate shifts in literary styles and periods. Many of these texts express anxieties about the enduring value of literature, which helps us to see how literary value is determined at different moments in history. This ought to lead us to wonder how literary reputations are made and unmade, and what part we, as students of literature, play in this process. You will write two close reading assignments, two formal essays, and two exams. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 206-011—British Literature II
Penna, C
MWF 1115-1205
The course will examine the historical and philosophical contexts of British literature from the 18th century to the present. We will identify the chief characteristics of the Restoration, Romantic, and Modernist periods of British literature. While reading widely we will also spend time on close analysis of representative texts. Requirements include participation in class discussions, several short reaction papers, a five-page essay, a mid-term exam, and the choice of either a final exam or a final paper. Like all English courses, it is also a course that places high expectations on your writing. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 206-080—Honors: British Literature II
Flynn, P
MWF 1010-1100
This course studies major British writers of the 18th- and 19th centuries - - Pope, Swift, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Rossetti, Browning, 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 the rise of Social Darwinism. Requirements include two examinations and two 1500-word papers. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 206-194—British Literature II
Penna C
Online: WebCT
The course will examine the historical and philosophical contexts of British literature from the 18th century to the present. We will identify the chief characteristics of the Restoration, Romantic, and Modernist periods of British literature. While reading widely we will also spend time on close analysis of representative texts.
Though offered in an online format using WebCT, this class requires regular, weekly participation in online class discussions. In addition to the weekly online discussions, there will be a five-page essay, a mid-term exam, and the choice of either a final exam or a final paper. Like all English courses, it is also a course that places high expectations on your writing. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 206-195—British Literature II
Penna C
Online: WebCT
[See ENGL206-194 for Course Description]
ENGL 208-010—Introduction to Drama
Kerrane, K
MWF 1010-1100
This course will cover about a dozen plays, ranging from classic to contemporary, with special emphasis on drama in performance. Many of the assigned plays will be on the spring performance schedule of the PTTP and E-52, and at least one other will be in production at a theater in the Wilmington-Philadelphia area. In addition to seeing plays on stage, we will use film clips and group readings in the classroom to study scripts as blueprints for stage action. Requirements: two or three tests, occasional quizzes, a series of short papers, and participation in a discussion board on WebCT. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 208-011—Introduction to Drama
Cotsell, M
MWF 1115-1205
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the forms and history of drama. Drama lives in the theater, and a feature of this year's course will be the requirement to attend on-campus productions of great tragic and comic classics produced by our on campus Professional Theater Training Company. This is a great opportunity and a wonderful time to take this course. We will discuss the organization and the original contexts of the plays along with seeing them interpreted in a stage production. . Among plays we will see are two great Renaissance comedies Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Moliere’s Tartuffe; Brecht’s epic, The Life of Galileo, Tennessee William’s passionate tragedy A Streetcar Named Desire and Suzan Lori-Parkss’s contemporary African-American play, Topdog/Underdog. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 210-010—Introduction to the Short Story
Kaplan, B
TR 1100-1215
In this class we will be reading a wide variety of both traditional and experimental short fiction. We will look at the stories both as literary constructs and as vehicles for life experiences. We will talk a good deal about literary techniques and the way literary aesthetics are formed.
There are three examinations in this class. There are no papers. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT. ENGL 210 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
ENGL 210-011—Introduction to the Short Story
Brock, D
TR 1100-1215
Focusing on content, context, and critical concepts, this course offers a survey of representative Australian and New Zealand short fiction. Short critical essay, midterm, and comprehensive final are all required. Occasional quizzes may also be given. The reading load is heavy, but almost all of the stories can be read in one sitting. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT. ENGL 210 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
ENGL 210-012—Introduction to the Short Story
Kaplan, B
TR 1230-0145
[See ENGL 210-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 217-010—Introduction to Film
Leitch, T
MWF 1220-0110
A general introduction to film studies organized around the concept of cinematic literacy—how we watch films, why our viewing habits seem so natural and inevitable, and how our filmgoing affects us. After an overview of cinematic literacy, the course will consider the different techniques films use to shape our thoughts and emotions: screenwriting, acting, mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound, color, and special effects. Weekly screenings, mostly of Hollywood films from Citizen Kane to Memento, will illustrate each filmmaking technique and provide material for discussion. The goal of the course is not to train future filmmakers but to encourage students to watch movies more thoughtfully and critically. Written work includes four brief papers graded with special attention to writing problems and two essay exams. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 267-010—Literature of America
Dinius, M
TR 1230-0145
In this class we will survey American literature from the colonial period through the twentieth century. Our examinations will be guided by a critical concern for the constitution of “American” identities and the formation of a representative national literature. Lectures, discussion, writing assignments, and exams all will take up the ways in which essays, novels, poems and other “texts” (such as maps, needlework, photographs, songs, and machines) not only reflect but also construct the cultures of which they are a part. THIS COURSE FULFILLS AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT
ENGL 267-011—Literature of America
Larkin, E
TR 0200-0315
This class will focus the representation of America in travel narratives from the earliest accounts by English explorers and adventurers to the accounts of nineteenth century Americans eager to map the countries western expansion. We will focus in particular on how these texts, which include letters, personal narratives, novels, and poems, invent and construct different versions of America and the American self. THIS COURSE FULFILLS AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT
ENGL 267-012—Book Culture
Kinservik, M
W 1220-0110
How do books take shape? What are the many shapes books can take? What decisions, technologies, materials, images, and attitudes go into the construction of the books we read? English departments tend to value books for the language and ideas they contain, but this course will take a much different approach and focus instead on the material culture of books. This one-credit course will feature a series of guest lectures by experts in fields such as book history, printing, and book collecting to help answer some of these questions. Class sessions will be held in the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection reading room in the Morris Library, and as part of the course we will visit other places of interest on the central campus such as the library’s Special Collections department, the Paul R. Jones Collection, and UD’s Raven Press. THIS IS A ONE-CREDIT, PASS/FAIL COURSE
ENGL 300-010—Texts and Contexts
Larkin, E
TR 0930-1045
What is the relationship between literature and history? How do literary texts engage historical events or problems to construct alternate narratives of the past? This course will focus on the period of the American Revolution to explore how various literary texts of the time engage the political and historical transformations of the period. Building on theoretical work on the relationship between history and literature, we will read novels, poems, histories, and plays from the first decades of the United States alongside political pamphlets and documents such as the Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, and the Federalist Papers. We will not only consider how the political concerns over ideas of freedom and independence manifested themselves in the literature of the era, but also how literary, aesthetic, and rhetorical strategies shaped the supposedly non-literary political writings of the period. THIS COURSE FULFILLS EITHER AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT OR THE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT OF CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
ENGL 301-010—Expository Writing
Jebb, J
MWF 1115-1205
The law will be the focus of our writing tasks in this section of 301. Using a recent textbook about legal cases, we will sift court documents and judges’ opinions to investigate legal decision-making. We will then write our own decisions about legal issues. We will also read a couple literary works (perhaps plays or a novel) that depict trials; we will use these works to study what goes on in courtrooms and to discuss legal ethics. The capstone of our course will be research into the issues and ramifications of a specific capital case. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. ENGLISH 301 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
ENGL 301-011—Expository Writing
Piturro, V
MWF 1115-1205
This course is designed to build upon earlier writing courses to enhance your writing skills in the specific areas of description, research, argument, and analysis. Our method will be to examine texts and their influences in the world. We will use several different types of “texts” in this course: non-fiction prose, short arguments, and films. The goal of the course will be to write more concise, engaging, and persuasive papers of our own. To that end, we will incorporate different strategies such as online research, library research, rhetorical reading, textual analysis, and classroom discussion. The course assumes a process approach to writing. Emphasis is on extensive revision in response to critical evaluations from the instructor and peers. We will work with process methods such as multiple drafts, portfolios, writing groups, individual conferences, group conferences, and peer evaluation. We will also address language concerns such as style, tone, diction, grammar, and mechanics according to the needs of the students. The end result will enhance our critical thinking, critical reading, critical viewing, and critical writing skills. Our theme for the course will be an examination of violence in our contemporary world—both in American society and in the Middle East. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. ENGLISH 301 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
ENGL 301-012—Expository Writing
Baer, E
TR 0800-0915
Sharing the Commons
Years ago, Garrett Hardin wrote about “The Tragedy of the Commons,” arguing that when spaces are commonly shared, individuals, acting on a short term basis, will try to get as much out of these commons as possible. Hence, a common pasture for grazing sheep will soon be overgrazed as each farmer tries to get as much of the green for his or her own livestock. The metaphor covers the rights and responsibilities shared between individuals and society. Does this seminal idea apply today? If we look at issues related to the environment through Hardin’s lens, what can we learn? We will look at a number of environmental issues, including global warming, factory farming, and energy consumption. Students will apply their own lenses developed in their majors – wildlife conservation, health, economics, public policy, history, to name a few—as we read and write about these topics. Projects will emanate from both individual and PBL group work (Problem Based Learning). Writing assignments will be frequent and include both formal and informal writing in a variety of genres including papers, blogs, newsletters, wikis, and visual media. We will also learn and practice a variety of techniques for improving individual writing style. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. ENGLISH 301 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
ENGL 301-013—Expository Writing
Lutz, B
TR 1230-0145
This joint English/ETE is a three-credit second writing requirement course (ENGL 301) specifically earmarked for education majors who will be working with middle school students. The course combines educational objectives from composition studies and elementary education pedagogy with a service learning experience. Students in the course will apply composition theory to tutoring middle school students, primarily online, using a WebCT course program. Some travel to A.I.Dupont Middle School required. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. ENGLISH 301 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
ENGL 301-014—Expository Writing
Piturro, V
MWF 1220-0110
See ENGL 301-011 for course description.
ENGL 302-010—Advanced Composition
Slaugh-Sanford, K
TR 1230-0145
This course will explore the connections between reading and writing by engaging in a variety of texts and producing several written arguments about these texts. Specifically in this section, we will read sample some novels and short stories that use the theme of travel to explore some component of movement and development through geographic, social, political, gendered, racial and/or psychological spaces. We will then use this theme to discuss our movement through the writing process. As such, we will focus on each stage of our individual writing processes, from conception and prewriting through to final draft. This course will ask students to write several short responses to the readings and then extend their reactions into three substantial arguments including a researched project. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
ENGL 304-010—Poetry Writing
Walker, J
MWF 0125-0215
This course will be run as a workshop. That means student participants will be kept to a small number. During the semester we will read, write, and discuss poetry--written by others and written by us. We will also read and talk about strategies for writing poetry, among them, metaphor and simile, rhythm and meter, sound, ways of choosing subjects, beginnings, endings, narrative voice. The course assumes that poetry is a form with a long and important history rather than whatever comes into any individual's head, that poetic forms need to be learned, that writing is a skill, which improves with attention and practice. The work involved in this class will include the following. Reading assigned poems and being ready to talk about them intelligently. Writing a one-page paper every week on an assigned poem. Writing twelve poems to satisfy specific assignments. Writing two revisions. Reading about poetic technique. Reading your classmates' poems carefully and making comments. Keeping a journal for the semester. Passing a scanning quiz and composing in meter. Memorizing two poems that you choose from our readings.
ENGL 307-010—News Writing and Editing
Jackson, M
MWF 1220-0110
ENGL 307 News Writing and Editing focuses on "news" judgment; how to find story ideas; reporting and interviewing skills; information-gathering through the "Lexis-Nexis" database; finding sources; structuring stories; attributions; different genres of newspaper prose (e.g., speech stories, police and fire beat, obituaries, features); libel laws; multicultural news; and newsroom ethics. Professional print journalists will visit class. The primary focus will be training reporters for eventual entry into professional journalism. One class meeting per week will be a journalism lab, where we discuss your most recent story, and the other meeting will be mostly lecture. Students will write stories almost weekly, and will have an obligation to report some stories for (possible) publication in the campus newspaper, The Review. E307 also includes reading assignments, Stylebook quizzes, a libel exam. (No Final Exam.) Students are expected to have an active interest in writing. Note: You cannot take this course unless you have a grade of "B-" or better in Freshman English, or Advanced Placement Standing. You must take ENGL 307 *before* you sign up for other journalism courses. ENGL 307 is a prerequisite for all other journalism courses. THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS A PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION. THIS COURSE DOES NOT FULFILL THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
ENGL 307-011—News Writing and Editing
Ross, H
TR 0200-0315
News Writing is designed to give students an overview of print journalism and to provide training in the fundamentals of reporting, writing and editing both news stories and features. Weekly classroom assignments will help to accomplish that, and stories that derive from these assignments will be submitted to the campus newspaper, The Review. Stories printed in the campus newspaper are a good way to convince parents that tuition is money well spent. The final grade will be based on several news stories, a feature story, and two examinations. News Writing is a prerequisite for all other journalism courses except for Engl. 409, Topics in Journalism. ENGL 307 is a prerequisite for all other journalism courses. THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS A PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION. THIS COURSE DOES NOT FULFILL THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
ENGL 307-012—News Writing and Editing
Jackson, M
MWF 0125-0215
[See ENGL 307-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 308-010—News Writing and Editing/Reporter’s Practicum
Yagoda, B
TR 1100-1215
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 PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.
ENGL 309-010—Feature and Magazine Writing
Jenkins, M
MWF 0125-0215
In this class we will discuss the exploration, research, reporting, structuring, writing and editing of longer pieces of nonfiction, especially newspaper- and magazine-style features. Over the course of the semester, students will be required to write at least two drafts of three separate longer pieces of approximately 1,200 words (five or six pages)
Required Texts: The New Yorker (weekly); The New York Times (daily). THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.
ENGL 310-050—Copy Editing and Layout
Fleischman, W
T 0700-1000
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.
ENGL 312—Written Communications in Business
-010 MWF 1115-1205 Hodges, E
-011 MWF 1220-0110 Hodges, E
-012 MWF 0125-0215 Mink, P
-013 TR 0330-0445 Rivers, W
-014 TR 0800-0915 McDowell, E
-015 TR 0930-1045 McCabe, C
-017 TR 1100-1215 McCabe, C
-050 TR 0500-0615 Ward, C
-080 MWF 0905-0955 White, P
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 FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT. THIS COURSE MAY BECOUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING.
ENGL 312-016—Written Communications in Business
Andrews, D
TR 1100-1215
This course will help you meet the following goals:
1. Understand and apply the principles of effective communication in an increasingly global, technologically mediated, and complex business environment
2. Create effective, accessible, and well designed communication products that help you fulfill personal needs, contribute to the vitality and values of the organizations you’re associated with, and make a positive difference in your community
3. Become familiar with the genres and contexts of professional communication and know how and when to adjust genres for changing circumstances and technologies
4. Manage the development and presentation of communication products on a team, including virtual teamwork
In the course, you will prepare the documents of a job search (a resume and cover letter) and participate in a service learning project that requires several forms of communication including emails and a final report. You will also complete other exercises in class geared toward the course learning goals. Most classes are workshops, many in a computer lab. 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 312-194—Written Communications in Business
Penna, C
Online
This course examines the role of written communication in corporate decision making. Students discuss and practice communication situations within organizations and between organizations and their various external audiences. Writing assignments include resumes, letters, memos, e-mail messages, short reports, and a project involving research.
Though taught in an online format using WebCT, this course requires regular, weekly participation in online class discussions, peer editing of drafts, and collaborative work on team projects. 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 312-195—Written Communications in Business
Penna, C
Online
[See ENGL 312-194 for Course Description
ENGL 316-080—Honors: Peer Tutoring and Advanced Composition
Peters, R
TR 0200-0315
This course is an advanced composition course with a focus on responding to writing at the college level. Students will receive training in peer tutoring through the study of composition theory, hands-on experience with peer editing and conferencing, and several writing projects. The course will prepare students to tutor peers at many stages of the writing process. In addition, they will learn how to meet the many different needs of students on writing projects typically used in the academic world: exposition, analysis, argumentation, and research. Students who complete this course with a B+ or higher will have the option of working as peer tutors in the UHP Writing Fellows Program next year. Cross-listed with ARSC 316-080. Satisfies the Arts & Sciences Second Writing Requirement for students with junior or senior status. Requires permission of instructor.
ENGL 318-010—Studies in Film: Payback
Leitch, T
M 0335-0635
Revenge is one of the most common subjects for movies—so common that no genre has a monopoly on it. This course examines a broad array of revenge films from many different genres including the romantic comedy (The Lady Eve), the Western (Rancho Notorious), the film noir (D.O.A.), the superhero film (Darkman), and the domestic melodrama (In the Bedroom) in order to consider the emotional satisfactions of revenge, its power as a structural principal, and its limits in films like Point Blank, In the Company of Men, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Written work includes four brief papers graded with special attention to writing problems and an essay exam. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 318-011—Studies in Film: Hollywood of the 1970s
Ross, H
TR 1100-1215
M 0335-0700
At the start of the 1970s, the movie business was in disarray. The bread-and-butter films–the big budget star vehicles–were tanking at the box office, and the studios were sinking under a mountain of debt. Universal and Columbia ended the 1960s close to liquidation, and at the start of the 1970s, 20th Century-Fox teetered on the brink of bankruptcy with losses of $103 million. If there was a shortage of profits, there was no shortage of talent because pounding on the studio’s doors was a new generation of filmmakers, the first to be trained in film schools. One of these Movie Brats, Steven Spielberg, recalled: “The ‘70s was the first time that a kind of age restriction was lifted, and young people were allowed to come rushing in with all of their naiveté and their wisdom and all of the privileges of youth. It was just an avalanche of brave new ideas, which is why the ‘70s was such a watershed.” Unable to anticipate what their audience wanted, studio executives ushered in young filmmakers like Coppola, Scorsese, Lucas, and Spielberg, along with older mavericks like Robert Altman and Sam Peckinpah, who had honed their craft in television. And because the executives were so uncertain and so desperate, they gave these directors, at least for a time, unprecedented freedom. The result was a period of American filmmaking that has been called the Hollywood Renaissance, a time, as author Peter Biskin has written, that “marked the last time it was really exciting to make movies in Hollywood, the last time people could be consistently proud of the pictures they made, the last time the community as a whole encouraged good work, the last time there was an audience that could sustain it.” This course will examine this remarkable decade through such films as The Godfather, The Godfather II, American Graffiti, Taxi Driver, MASH, The Conversation, Jaws, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller. A section of Engl. 318 is required for all film concentrators. 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 & Culture
Richards, M
MWF 1220-0110
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 324-010—Shakespeare
Walker, J
MWF 1220-0110
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 A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 324-011—Shakespeare
Wilson, M
TR 0930-1045
This course is meant to provide an introduction to the diversity and richness of Shakespearian works. Over the course of the term, we will read representative poems, comedies, tragedies, and histories. The works are organized around specific topics, both as a means of facilitating discussion and as a way of drawing attention to how form alters the ways we understand elements of culture such as family, political power, and the uses of the imagination. As we read each text, we will also consider how Shakespeare’s works reflected and promoted aspects of the English Renaissance such as the emerging notions of individualism, the implications of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, representations of war, ideal relationships between men and women, and attitudes to a rapidly changing world. Along the way, we will consider the larger question, why is “Shakespeare” as an institution so important for us? The class will be discussion-based with papers, exams, and analysis of dramatic productions. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 324-080—Honors: Shakespeare
McKenna, B
MWF 0230-0320
THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
ENGL 325-010—Renaissance Literature
Wilson, M
TR 1230-0145
What we think of as “The Renaissance” often takes on a glossy quality in our 21st century imaginations. Shakespeare still ranks as one of the “greatest writers ever;” the Elizabethan era is seen by many as a “golden age” of literature and culture. And yet, the period was also one of great intolerance, rigid social and gender norms, colonialist impulses, and exuberant displays of public violence. In this class, we will consider the literature of the period within its historical and social context. We will also explore the ways literature participates in and shapes ideas of appropriate behavior, individuality, gender, sexuality, and what we now call race. Through the literature of writers such as Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, William Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, and John Webster, we will discuss issues such the performance of death, the uses of the body, desire and love, and the relationship between subjects and the State. This literature of this course offers us a way to understand not only English culture of the time period, but also how, and at what costs, some of our most important ways of understanding ourselves arose. The class will be discussion-based with papers, a criticism project, and exams. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.
ENGL 331-010—The Age of Satire
Mell, D
MWF 1010-1100
This course will investigate satire produced between the years 1660-1760, the so-called age of the satire. Main readings include works by Dryden, Pope, Swift, Rochester, Defoe, Fielding, Gay, Mandeville, Johnson, Voltaire; and by Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and other women writers. References to earlier and later satirists will occasionally be made to indicate the continued presence and continuity of the satiric mode throughout literary history. Definitions and descriptions will help provide a theoretical basis for understanding the function and 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 four page paper, a final exam, and five one-page double-spaced response papers. Texts: Voltaire, Candide (Bedford/St. Martin's); Johnson, History of 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 poems, Defoe's Shortest-Way, Fielding's Tragedy of Tragedies, Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, 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, including Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 336-010—Victorian Poetry
Flynn, P
MWF 0125-0215
This course studies major British poets of the Victorian era – Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Christina and Dante Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling. These poets are studied within the contexts of the industrial revolution, the conflict between science and religion, and the “women question” in Victorian society. Requirements will include two examinations on prosody and three 1,000-word papers. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 337-010—Victorian Prose
Quintus, J
TR 1230-0145
This course will explore Victorian concepts of society, culture, religion, and art. It will include essays by Carlyle, Darwin, Arnold, Nightingale, Wilde, and many others in an effort to understand the world around them that Victorian writers examined. The course will reflect on topics that have resonance today: evolution, social justice, women’s rights, scientific inquiry, personal and artistic freedom. It will study concepts of government as well as the role of beauty in creating, to the Victorian mind, a life worth living. The course will reveal that the Victorians, far from being reserve and dull, brought a “hard, gem-like flame” to light their way to self-analysis and self-realization. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 340-010—American Literature to the Civil War
Brueckner, M
MWF 1010-1100
Early American Literature, 1588-1860
This course provides a survey of early American literature from early modern Colonialism to the American Civil War. During this period, the radicalism of the “American” experience – New World discoveries, contact and conquest, slavery, political and social revolutions, including American individualism – resulted in distinctive literary forms. Throughout the course we will be reading classic and less known texts from genres such as travelogues, captivities, biographies, gothic fiction, sentimental novels, and romantic poetry. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT. THIS COURSE ALSO FULFILLS AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE COURSE OR THE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT OF LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 341-010—American Literature: Civil War to WWII
Goodman, S
MWF 0800-0850
This course looks at a range of writers in conversation about what it means to be an “American.” We will read a range of texts from both well-known and rediscovered authors as we examine contemporary debates about woman's place, immigration, and political enfranchisement. Requirements include short papers, presentations, a project, and class discussion. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT. THIS COURSE ALSO FULFILLS AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE COURSE OR THE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT OF LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 341-011—American Literature: Civil War to WWII
Andrews, D
TR 0800-0915
This course examines major works written in America during this period in the context of the development of a national cultural identity and sense of place. We’ll look at key movements in literature and the arts, like realism, regionalism, naturalism, modernism. We’ll also look at the historical forces shaping the US as a whole, like urbanization, industrialization, war, socialism, the great depression, tourism, among others. We’ll see how writers responded to such forces as they also carved out their own individual style and voice. We’ll pay particular attention to interactions and influences among writers and artists as we read a broad range of texts in different genres and look at the art and architecture emerging at the same time. Requirements: two short response papers, two four-page papers, two in-class exams. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT. THIS COURSE ALSO FULFILLS AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE COURSE OR THE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT OF LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 347-010—Studies in American Literature: Literature of the 1920s
Pauly, T
TR 0930-1045
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 literature and culture of the period. There will be two papers and two in-class exams. The readings will be: S. Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; E. O’Neill, Hairy Ape, Emperor Jones, and Anna Christie; E. Hemingway, In Our Time; A. Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; F. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; A. Yezierska, Bread Givers; N. Larsen, Passing; M. Watkins, Chicago; D. Hammett, The Maltese Falcon. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 348-010—Contemporary Jewish-American Literature
Safer, E
MWF 0230-0320
What is "Jewish" and what is "American" about "Jewish American literature" and what does the term imply? What is Jewish humor? Can it be related to the Jewish stage? We shall think about these questions as we read twentieth-century writing that has been described (by its authors or by others) as examples of "Jewish American literature." The class will consider such issues as the immigrant and post-immigrant experience, ethnic and cultural identity; the place of gender; and the relationship of Jewish American literature to other minority discourses. Readings include short stories and novels by Anzia Yezierska, Allegra Goodman, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Elie Wiesel, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and Chaim Potok. Course Requirements: one 5-7 page essay; two examinations, and journal entries on the fiction. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 356-010—Studies in Modern/Contemporary Literature: Historical Fictions/Fictional Histories
Spaulding, A
MWF 1115-1205
In this course we will examine and discuss selected works of contemporary fiction which focus on specific historical events and on the nature of History as a concept. In their examination of things past, do these texts say anything about our contemporary moment in time? What do these texts suggest about the relationship between past and present? How does the narrative act construct our view of the past? How does our present perspective alter the way we see history? In what may seem, on the surface, a paradoxical enterprise, we will try to examine and critique our present moment in time through our discussion of texts which deal with the past. Over the course of the semester we will blur the sometimes simple distinctions we make between “the contemporary” vs. “the historical” and “the fictional” vs. “the real.” We will examine the ways concepts like national identity, gender and sexuality, race, and war are historically determined and defined. Course texts will include Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, among others. Course requirements will include five 2-3 page response papers, extensive class participation, and a final exam. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 356-011—Studies in Modern/Contemporary Literature: American Drama
Cotsell, M
MWF 0125-0215
The course traces the development of American drama in modern times. We are particularly fortunate in that we will have two standout plays by American dramatists in performance by the Professional Theater Training Company on campus, Tennessee William’s passionate tragedy A Streetcar Named Desire and Suzan Lori-Parks’s contemporary African-American play, Topdog/Underdog. Look to attend at least one other local production of a play as we explore the unique experience of the masterwork in performance. Other dramatists include Eugene O’Neill’s in his great tragic vein, the expressionist drama of Sophie Treadwell, and a work by the great dramatist of the 1930s, Clifford Odetts, as well as plays by sensational moderns such as Sam Shepard, David Mamet and Marsha Norman. American life cries out to us to us from the circle of fire, as Artaud might have put it, in a century’s concentrated drama. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 379-010—Intro to Ethnic & Cultural Studies
Henderson, C
TR 0200-0315
The tragic transatlantic journey of one Sara “Saartjie” Baartman embodies the troubling paradox of communal and political engagement found at the site of the body. Lured to Europe as a young African woman with the false promises of fame and fortune, Baartman found herself “on display,” a critical prop in the twisted racial imaginings of nations intent on naming the Other (and likewise themselves) through the flesh.
Baartman—also known as “The Hottentot Venus”—may have ended up a sad footnote in a long list of dreamers lost in the maze of misspent hopes and energies, yet it is the narrative of her bones, and the waging war over who would not only own them, but also possess the spiritual integrity of her story that brings to the forefront of this discussion the rhetorical and performative strategies of (embodied) texts and (cultural) con/texts in the international community.
What we will endeavor to do in this class is to examine the life of Sarah Baartman (what little we know) from the archival and theoretical information available. Our second goal will entail an examination of the revisionary and restorative figurations of Baartman’s story in the literature of Suzi-Lori Parks’s play Venus, Elizabeth Alexander’s poetry collection The Venus Hottentot, Barbara Chase-Riboud’s novel The Hottentot Venus as well as other archival materials in and out of print. Such an examination will allow us to trace the journey of not only Baartman, but also the popularization of this racially charged term “The Hottentot Venus” and its legacy for black women here and abroad. In doing so, we will demonstrate that this phrase is more than just a derogatory term used to name black women as sexually deviant. It is a fluid marker used to name nations, conflate identities, and colonize the black bodies of the inhabitants therein.
This class requires a commitment to rigorous intellectual inquiry. Requirements include 3-4 short paper assignments, a reading journal, a midterm, final, and an oral report. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT OF CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
ENGL 390-010—English Linguistics
Rivers B
TR 1230-0145
This course is intended to prepare English teachers to understand the sentence and how it works. The course is also of interest to anyone whishing to understand and improve control over grammar and style. The course stresses a practical understanding of traditional classroom grammar and usage. Students will learn to describe and exemplify sentence structure (parts of speech, parts of sentences, case, agreement, number, gender, references, etc.). They will learn to identify and solve individual problems of grammar, punctuation and phrasing as well as learn to understand how sentence structure and phrasing affects style. Students will also study language generally, especially how it changes over time and across communities of speakers and writers. Further, students will develop an instructional philosophy and pedagogical approaches to language issues in the English language arts classroom. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 405-010—Advanced Fiction Writing
Kaplan, B
TR 0200-0315
This is an advanced fiction writing workshop. It assumes students have had E305 or its equivalent. Students must also have the permission of the instructor. The class is centered on student work. Each student is expected to complete a minimum of two short stories, each of which he or she will revise at least twice. There are no examinations in this class. This is a small class and students are expected to participate fully.
ENGL 407-010—Advanced Reporting
Yagoda, B
TR 0200-0315
Students in this course will spend the semester working in small groups of two-four people. Each group will concentrate on a general subject area, and each student in the group will produce a substantial piece of journalism on one aspect of the subject. Possible general areas include: real estate, the university and the city of Newark; grades and grade inflation; an assessment of the Roselle years; a profile of the UD student population; highway memorial markers; and the textbook industry and textbook prices. Roughly equal attention will be paid to developing and shaping the idea, reporting and research, and structuring and writing the story. Prerequisites: ENGL 307 and either ENGL 308 or 309. THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.
ENGL 409-010—Topics in Journalism
Kerrane, K
MWF 0125-0225
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: two or three tests, two major papers, shorter writing exercises, and steady participation-which will include frequent postings on the class website.
ENGL 409-440—Topics in Journalism: Opinion Writing
Shea, S
R 0600-0900
This course will focus on effective opinion writing, including newspaper, magazine, and online commentary, criticism, editorials, sports and humor columns, and personal essays, with some discussion of blogs and other forms. The course relies heavily on reading, writing and discussion of current issues and events, as well as critiques of fellow students’ work. Students will be expected to research and write at least five writing assignments, and to read and critique a wide variety of columns and editorials. Prerequisite: ENGL 307. THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.
ENGL 410-010—Technical Writing
White, P
MWF 0800-0850
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 1100-1215
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 experiences of writing 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 411-010—The Rhetoric of Business and Technical Writing
Brockmann, J
TR 0930-1045
“Rhetoric” is the “art or discipline that deals with the use of discourse, either written or spoken, to inform or persuade an audience, whether that audience is made up of a single person or a group of persons” (Corbett, p. 3). Within this art, we will specifically examine the rhetoric of business, technology, and electronic documents. Strategies and tactics vary in rhetoric, and this class will examine these variations from different perspectives, including: classical rhetoric, contemporary psychology, technical communication, and business or organizational science. ENGLISH 411 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
MWF 0230-0320
Would you like to explore the possibilities that professional writing offers? Open to all English majors, this course studies the rhetorical theory and practical applications of professional writing as a career choice in a wide variety of business and technical disciplines. If you are interested in public relations writing, corporate communications, or technical marketing, this course explores the persuasive strategies you will need to know, and know how to apply. Perhaps the idea of writing in the sciences, medicine, or one of the technical fields appeals to you. If that's the case, this course examines writing for all types of readers, specialized and non specialized. It also gives you practice designing and structuring information, whether that information is destined for a website, a CD, or a print document such as a letter, memo, or report. And it includes an employment module—writing the cover letter, constructing a resume, and interviewing. Finally, the course covers communication theory as it applies to choice of media. Given a specific communication scenario, should you write a letter, send an email, make a phone call, or organize a small group discussion? The course is structured around readings and discussion, lab time and writing projects. During the course of the term, students work both individually and as team members on projects sponsored by various community organizations. 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 416-050—Designing Online Information
Worley, R
MW 0515-0630
Are you interested in writing for the web? This course focuses on the design of information displayed on the computer screen, including websites and CD or DVD based materials. Specifically it examines the computer screen as a multimedia environment that combines text, color, graphics, motion, and sound, and studies the effective use of these different media. It focuses particularly on text, answering the question "How do you write for the web? With readings from a variety of sources, the course covers such topics as information design, visual literacy, and the rhetoric of text on the computer screen. Divided between lecture and lab sessions, the course is also segmented into projects, with several weeks devoted to each. No previous experience with website design is required.
ENGL 417-010—Film Theory and Criticism
Feng, P
TR 0200-0315
T 0315-0445
ENGL 417 is an advanced film course that satisfies a requirement for the English major with a concentration in Film. We will view films, read comics, and read theoretical writings on the two media for this discussion-centered course. Some of the topics we will discuss: identification with characters and/or narratives, the depiction of space and time (and their relation to conventions of realism), genres, and feminist theories of representation. We will spend some time talking about the film and comics industries, but this is not primarily a history of comics' course. Readings and screenings will be drawn from the following: theorists such as Eisenstein, Bazin, Metz, Mulvey, and McCloud; films by Eisenstein, Welles, and Hitchcock; and comics such as Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, Mack's Kabuki, and Gregory's A Bitch is Born. Writing assignments include weekly response papers and take-home exams. Attendance at weekly screenings (in addition to class meetings) is required. Prerequisite: ENGL 217.
ENGL 464-010—Business and Technical Writing Internship
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 469. THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO EBT CONCENTRATORS ONLY AND REQUIRES PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR.
ENGL 480-010—Seminar: Writing of Faith: Genre and Reader Experience
Miller, G
MWF 1010-1100
Much of medieval and renaissance literature (and art) deals with religious subjects. Texts teach and explore the mysteries of faith. Some are intended for a wide audience who presumably are in need of basic teaching; some seem intended only for those who are initiated. What is expected of a reader of such texts? How do these texts “teach”? Do reader expectations and experience differ as you move from genre to genre, from printed text to art and architecture? Readings start with medieval interpretations of the Hebrew Bible’s “Song of Solomon,” range through the morality play Everyman, Julian of Norwich’s mystical writings, Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, George Herbert’s The Temple, Donne’s Devotions on Emergent Occasion/, and end with C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. Some attention will also be paid to art and architecture. Readings will be also come from Otto’s The Idea of the Holy and Hirsch’s Validity in Interpretation. Students will elect assignments from a wide range of options. No pre-requisites. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE.
ENGL 480-011—Seminar: The Fog of War
Jenkins, M
MWF 1115-1205
The Fog of War. In this class we will examine the literature, journalism and film that has arisen from three international conflicts: World War Two; Vietnam; and The War on Terror. Of primary concern: How do writers, film makers and individual soldiers spar with politicians over the uses of contemporary war imagery? After a war is over, what becomes remembered as "the official record"? How have images of long-finished wars change over time? Among the books to be studied will be Reporting World War Two; Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried; Frank Rich's The Greatest Story Ever Sold, and the new anthology of stories written by soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Operation Homecoming. Films may include "Saving Private Ryan;" "Platoon," "Full Metal Jacket;" "Three Kings" and "Pearl Harbor." THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 480-012—Seminar: Bestsellers and Book History, 1800-2000
Brueckner, M
MWF 1220-0110
This course explores American bestsellers from the Revolution to the early 20th-Century. We will consider the rise of mass culture in the United States, and the way this affected definitions of identity, family, and society in popular literary genres, ranging from romance, detective, and journalistic fiction, to the western, war stories, and fantasy fiction. Required readings include classic and other important texts by authors as diverse as: Franklin, Hawthorne, Stowe, Algers, Alcott, Twain, Rice, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bradbury, Morrison, Spiegelman, and Rowling. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 480-013—Seminar: Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Kaufman, H
TR 1100-1215
Salman Rushdie’s hero of Haroun and the Sea of Stories wonders, “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” Taking this question as our lead, this course will focus on the “use” or uses of nineteenth-century novels. What do readers gain by reading stories written in another age, depicting the lives of imaginary people? What uses did they have when they first appeared in print in the nineteenth century? Why read them today? As we place stories from the nineteenth century in their historical contexts, we will consider some of the anxieties and issues that make their way into these novels. In the process, we will try to understand how these anxieties are resolved, or made to seem as though they’ve been resolved, by the novels’ logic and structure. We will also try to understand the use of these stories for contemporary readers. This course will have several short papers and one long paper. Texts will be selected from among the following authors: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, H. Rider Haggard, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR LITERATURE BETWEEN 1700-1900.
ENGL 480-014—Seminar: Christian Mythmakers: J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Others
Brockmann, J
TR 0200-0315
Meet orcs, elves, fairies, anarchists, and unlikely heroes in this exploration of 19th and 20th Century Christian myths. Grounding ourselves first in the Christian narrative of the Gospel of Luke, we will next explore the application of Jungian psychology in Northrop Frye’s theory of Christian myth (The Great Code). We will then use the narrative and the theory of Frye to explore the work of:
· The great Victorian founders of Christian mythology, George MacDonald and G. K. Chesterton;
· The three Inklings (Lewis, Tolkien, and the lesser known spiritual, horror writer, Charles Williams); and
· Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, Walter Wangerin’s The Book of the Dun Cow, and Robert Siegel’s The Ice at the End of the World: The Longest Journey.
We will conclude by exploring whether prose Christian myth can be successfully translated to the big screen by examining such movies as Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time and the Chronicles of Narnia as well as Iron Giant and Breaking the Waves.
It will be very helpful to have had Engl 202: Biblical and Classical Literature. THIS COURSE WILL COUNT TOWARDS THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES MINOR. THIS COURSE ALSO FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
ENGL 480-015—Seminar: African American Literature & the Jazz Aesthetic
Spaulding, A
M 0335-0635
In this course we will examine the interaction between two forms of African American cultural expression: Jazz music and African American Literature. We will discuss the ways various writers throughout the African American literary tradition (Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and others) incorporate a jazz aesthetic into their poetry and prose as a means of creating a distinctly African American aesthetic. We will also look at the ways key figures from the jazz tradition (Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane) influenced and inspired writers of their generation. Some of the key questions we will debate and try to answer are: What is jazz? How does jazz function as a political, economic, and aesthetic form? Why is jazz such an influential and important art form in the African American cultural and literary imagination? What role does race, class, and gender play in the production, consumption, and reception in both African American literature and jazz music? As a seminar, we will work together as a class to explore and offer answers to these questions. Therefore, a good portion of your grade will involve class participation. Course texts will include James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Toni Morrison’s Jazz, among others. Course requirements will include several short response papers, an in-class presentation, and a 12-15 page seminar paper. THIS COURSE WILL COUNT TOWARDS THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES MINOR. THIS COURSE ALSO FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2nd WRITING REQUIREMENT AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR MODERN LITERATURE.
ENGL 480-080—Honors Seminar: Writing of Faith: Genre and Reader Experience
Miller, G
MWF 1010-1100
[See ENGL 480-010 for Course Description]
ENGL 480-082—Honors Seminar: Bestsellers and Book History, 1800-2000
Brueckner, M
MWF 1220-0110
[See ENGL 480-012 for Course Description]
ENGL 480-085—Honors Seminar: African American Literature & the Jazz Aesthetic
Spaulding, A
M 0335-0635
[See ENGL 480-015 for Course Description]
ENGL 481-010—Teaching English Secondary School
Alvarez, D
T 0430-0730
Accompanies student teaching in secondary school English. Explores pedagogical, curricular, and professional issues and provides opportunities for student-teachers to engage in inquiry and praxis.
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