ENGL 110-106—Critical Reading and Writing
Halio, M
TR 9:30-10:45

FOR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN WRITING ON THE INTERNET.   Are you interested in exploring how computers change the writing process?  If so, sections 106, 107 and 108 are for you.  In these sections students will explore listserves and online news groups to find audiences of professionals and amateurs interested in the topics they care about.  Students will also have an opportunity to write hypertext research papers and post them on the world wide web.  For more information contact Marcia Halio (mhalio@udel.edu, phone 831-2297).   THIS COURSE SATISFIES THE UNIVERISITY REQUIREMENT FOR FRESHMAN WRITING.
 

ENGL 110-107—Critical Reading and Writing
Halio, M
TR 11:00-12:15

[See ENGL 110-106 for Course Description.]
 

ENGL 110-108—Critical Reading and Writing
Halio, M
TR 2:00-3:15

[See ENGL 110-106 for Course Description.]

ENGL 200-010—Approaches to Literature
Guarino, J
MWF 10:10-11:00

[See ENGL 200-013 for Course Description.]
 

ENGL 200-011—Approaches to Literature
White, P
MWF 11:15-12:05

[See ENGL 200-013 for Course Description.]
 

ENGL 200-012—Approaches to Literature:
Harbottle, K
TR 9:30-10:45

[See ENGL 200-013 for Course Description.]
 

ENGL 200-013—Approaches to Literature:  Literature without Borders
Quintana, A
TR 12:30-1:45

This "non-majors" course will introduce students to the basics related to reading, thinking, and writing about literature.  It will introduce students to poetry, fiction and drama from around the globe and provide opportunities for extensive practice in writing about literary subjects. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT AND 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.  ENGLISH 200 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
 

ENGL 200-014—Approaches to Literature:
Kucukalic, L
TR 2:00-3:15

[See ENGL 200-013 for Course Description.]

ENGL 202-010--Biblical and Classical Literature
Flynn, P
MWF 10:10-11:00

This course studies books of the Bible and works of Greek and Roman literature in their historical context and order.  The readings are the books of Genesis, Exodus, 1 and 2 Samuel; Homer’s Odyssey; Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Antigone; Virgil’s Aeneid; the Gospel According to Matthew, Acts of the Apostles, and Book of Revelation.  This is a course of lectures, with class-discussion encouraged.  Requirements include two papers, three examinations, and regular class attendance. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENTS AND THE GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE.
 

ENGL202-011—Biblical and Classical Literature
Flynn, P
MWF 2:30-3:20

[See ENGL 202-010 for course description.]
 

ENGL 202-012—Biblical and Classical Literature
Miller, G
MWF 3:35-4:25

Selected readings from, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, Homer, Sappho, the Greek Playwrights, Virgil, And Ovid.  The course will place the readings in historical and social context and will explore the intersections among the cultures.  How do Jewish readings of the Hebrew Bible differ from Christian readings of the “Old Testament”?  Are Biblical texts ever influenced by classical models?  Is the Book of Job modeled after Greek tragedy? To what extent can it be seen as an “epic”?  How are classical models and themes adapted by Christian writers?  Did you know, for example, that Jesus grew up three miles from the city of Sepphoris which had a four-thousand seat theater where Greek actors (“hypocrites”) performed Greek tragedies?  Selected paperback texts.  Requirements include reading quizzes, two papers, and a final exam. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT AND THE GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE.

ENGL 204-010—American Literature
Jebb, J
MWF 11:15-12:05

This course will focus on literary portrayals of American history.  That is, we will read novels and plays in which the authors look back to earlier time periods and events.  Thus we will discuss how writers such as Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Faulkner, Morrison and others who present lessons of history, especially the histories of colonial New England and of the South before and after the Civil War.  Indeed, the course will spend quality time on portrayals of the Civil War, including an alternate history.  The course will conclude with an American writer's take on ancient times.  For writing assignments, most weeks we will have one-page essays to get discussion going.  Late in the term, each student will do a short project on the history behind one of our texts.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.  ENGLISH 204 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
 

ENGL 204-011—American Literature
Brückner, M
TR 11:00-12:15

This course explores American best-sellers 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 journalisitc fiction, to the western, war stories, and science fiction. Authors include Hawthorne (Scarlet Letter), Child (Hobomok), Poe (short stories), Douglass (Narrative), Wilson (Our Nig), Davis (Life in the Iron Mills), Twain (Huck Finn), James (Turn of the Screw), Gilman (Yellow Wallpaper), Burroughs (Tarzan) and Baum (Wizard of Oz). Course requirements are active participation, a weekly reading journal, two papers, and a final exam. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.  ENGLISH 204 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
 

ENGL 204-012—American Literature
Pauly, T
W 6:00-9:00

This course will involve a combination of well-known and not so well-known American novels which treat the experience of growing up.  By examining this topic over a period spanning from the Civil War to the present, this course will explore how the operative assumptions about this process evolve and change—and in some cases persist.  You will be encouraged to reflect on how you would respond to problems raised by these books.  There will be two short papers and three exams.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.  ENGLISH 204 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL 205-010—British Literature I
Rewa, M
MWF 12:20-1:10

This section will use a professor-compiled anthology-workbook (available for less than $10.00) to survey English literature for its beginnings in the 8th century to its neoclassical achievements in the mid-18th century: from Beowulf to Gulliver’s Travels and beyond.  The course challenges students o see the objective as in itself it really is”  (to quote the great 19th-century critic Matthew Arnold).  Questions—when did audiences first see texts?  What did the contemporary first readers of a text like Paradise Lost see when they looked at the text?  What is a text?  Grades in this course will be bases on a mid-term, a final, and frequent writing exercises. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
 

ENGL 205-011—British Literature I
Miller, G
MWF 2:30-3:20

Readings from English literature from Chaucer to Bunyan.  Organized both chronologically and thematically, the course focuses on how literature, in a variety of genres, seeks to “teach” moral lessons to its readers.  Readings include (among others) Chaucer’s  Pardoner’s Tale, Julian of Norwich’s A Book of Showings; Margarey Kempe’s book; Everyman; Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book 1; Foxe’s Acts and Monuments; poems from Donne, Herbert, Aemilia Lanyer, and Crashaw; Milton’s Paradise Regained; and Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. Primary text is Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1.  Requirements include readings, quizzes, two papers, and a final exam.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
 

ENGL 205-013—British Literature I
White, P
TR 8:00-9:15

Study of representative Medieval and Renaissance British works, set in their historical and cultural contexts, introducing appropriate critical concepts.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
 

ENGL 205-080—Honors:  British Literature I
Yates, J
MWF 11:15-12:05

English 205-080: British Writers I (900-1700 C.E.).  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 are embarking 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 map the social and ideological co-ordinates that dictated what writing in a specific genre mean, and, in an age when only a fraction of the population could read and write, what counted as "text."  Central to the course, then, 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, live theater, video, and visual media both to bridge historical distances and call our attention to key differences we encounter in our journey.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE GROUP B REQUIREMENT AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.

ENGL 206-010—British Literature II
Rewa, M
MWF 11:15-12:05

In 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge published their ground-breaking Lyrical Ballads.  In the 200-year period since then, major writers have expanded or rejected the legacy they left.  This course will focus on, but not be limited to, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats (Romantics), Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (Victorians), Joyce and Eliot (Moderns).  Students will use a text/writing-notebook anthology produced by the instructor (available at minimum cost at the University Bookstore), plus three paperback text.  Evaluation will be based on submission of the text-notebook on two specified dates, 2 “hour” exams, frequent reading quizzes, and a final exam.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
 

ENGL 206-011—British Literature II
Robinson, C
TR 8:00-9:15

In this course we will study such eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers as Pope, Swift, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary and Percy Shelly, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, and Yeats.  In addition to the one-volume Major Authors Edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, we will be using the Mary Shelly Reader for her novel Frankenstein and her novella Mathilda.  There will be a mid-term, a final, and a required paper.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
 

ENGL 206-012—British Literature II
Dawson, C
TR 11:00-12:15

In this section of British Literature II, we will read a broad list of works from the late eighteenth to early twentieth century.  The course begins, however, with a novel from the 1960s, John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Women, which takes place in Victorian England.  Fowles offers a backward look at people and events in the year 1867 and introduces, not only the age itself, but important questions about imagining the past.  We move from fowles to English Romantic poets early in the nineteenth century and from them to the science-fiction novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.  In addition to selected Victorian poets, we will read another monster novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written near the end of the century.  Our focus throughout will be on questions of  “Nature,” the great topic of discussion throughout the nineteenth century.  In this course the texts will be The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, 6th edition, supplemented with John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Women.  Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.  Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP B BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.

ENGL 207-010—Introduction to Poetry
Brown, F
MWF 10:10-11:00

Text: The Norton Anthology of Poetry

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—Wordsworth, Byron, the Brownings, Whitman, Yeats, Frost, Dickinson, Cummings, Bishop, and others—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 tapes and watch videos of poets reading their own work, attend poetry readings, and even attempt to write a few poems. Three exams, a journal, and a few short papers.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
 

ENGL 207-011—Introduction to Poetry
Walker, J
MWF 1:25-2:15

The goal of this course is to heighten students’ enjoyment of poetry, old and modern, formal and informal.  It is a section particularly designed for students who write poetry themselves.  We will examine poems carefully for metaphor, voice, rhythm, sound, and meaning.  We will read poems aloud.  We will memorize a few poems.  We will write poems ourselves in various forms.  Finally we will write six short papers about specific poems.  The texts for the course will be an anthology of poetry, John Frederick Nims’ Western Wind, and the collected poems of Seamus Heaney and Mary Oliver. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ENGL 208-010—Introduction to Drama
Kinservik, M
TR 12:30-1:45

Introduction to Drama is a survey of dramatic literature from Ancient Greece to the present day.  The primary goal of the course is to familiarize you with some of the most important plays, with emphasis on European drama.   But we will also ask some important questions of these plays.  What strategies do playwrights use to represent real life on the stage?  And how successful are those various strategies?  Where does acting end and reality begin?  We will read 12 plays and write three exams.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ENGL 209-010—Introduction to the Novel
Pifer, E
TR 11:00-12:15

How do writers keep the novel's great tradition of social and cultural criticism alive today?  Do they even want to?  In this course, we'll examine the many ingenious, at times grotesque and even shocking effects that modern and contemporary novelists have created to wake up--and shake up--their readers.  Novels will include the following:  Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Wharton, Ethan Frome; Lessing, The Fifth Child; Burgess, A Clockwork Orange.  Requirements include three examinations, an optional paper, announced and unannounced quizzes, and class participation by all students.  Attendance will be taken.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP A REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE.

ENGL 210-010—Introduction to the Short Story
Kaplan, B
TR 11:00-12:15

In this class we will be reading a wide variety of both traditional and experimental fiction.  We will look at how stories are constructed and what stories say.  We will talk about how stories interact with "real life" and what the future of story telling itself is in the internet age.  Students in the class will take three hourly examinations.  ENGL 210 does not count toward the English major. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ENGL 217-010—Introduction to Film
Leitch, T
TR 2:00-3:15
T 0330-0530

This introduction to the dominant narrative form of our time focuses on the concept of cinematic literacy—how we watch the movies we do in the ways we do, and what happens to us as a result.  Taking our cue from weekly screenings of Hollywood films since Citizen Kane, we’ll begin by considering our interest in movies as stories that manipulate us without seeming to do so, and proceed to a look at the technical devices—mise-en-scene, lighting, framing, cinematography, editing, the use of color and sound—they’ve used to sucker audiences over the past sixty years.  Assignments will include four 3-page papers, graded with special attention  to writing problems, and two essay exams. THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP A BREADTH REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ENGL 300-010—Texts and Contexts: Bodies and Boundaries
TR 9:30-10:45
Thalheimer, A

According to Dani Cavallaro’s The Body for Beginners, “body” is a term that “will always mean something different, depending on the context in which it is used.” The word ‘body’ can stand for an individual or a group, such as a body politic or a body of work, and ‘body’ can also mean ‘text.’ We will undertake the question(s) of the body throughout the semester via diverse subjects including illness and medicine, body modification (tattoos, surgery, drag), vampires and cyborgs, and body image, among others--including the limits of the body. We will read a variety of texts (including drama and comic books), and amass a vocabulary of critical terms. Course requirements will involve six response papers (2-3 pages) and a final paper (6 to 8 pages). THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
 

ENGL 300-080—Texts & Contexts: Honors:  The "Gothic" Impulse
Spaulding, T
MWF 11:15-12:05

In this class we will address enduring questions that have circled around the study of literature in the academy: What is "literature" as a classification? What constitutes a "literary" text? What aesthetic and cultural function does literature serve? How (or perhaps even why) do we interpret literary and cultural texts? We will discuss the impact various "theoretical" schools of thought (psychoanalysis, feminism, race theory, amongst others) have had on the ways we answer these questions.  To ground our discussion of these issues, we will analyze several films (Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Jack Clayton's The Innocents), a novel (Toni Morrison's Beloved), and short stories (Edgar Allan Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" and others) in order to examine the gothic impulse as an enduring literary and popular cultural form. What might this particular genre, with its elements of horror and the macabre, tell us about the ways we infuse artistic texts with our own individual and cultural anxieties. Course requirements will involve weekly response papers (2-3 pp.) and a final exam.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.

ENGL 301-010—Expository Writing:  Viewing Tomorrow: Reviewing Technology
Harner, D
MWF 11:15-12:05

The notion of the dystopian future has long been a part of science fiction literature and film, and as the 21st century dawns, a critique of technology and its potential both to help and to harm is making its way into mainstream intellectual discourse.  Rather than seeking to reduce technology to the good/bad binary, this course will examine individual technologies specifically, including but not limited to the new modes of communication made possible by the Internet, in an effort to find various best fit lines between Ludditism and blind faith in scientific progress. After discussing historical work on the merits/weaknesses of both general and specific technologies, students will read reviews and critiques of both promised and existing technology.  They will then examine "pieces" of technology critically, arrive at evaluation criteria, and review the technology in terms of its specific usefulness (or not) for individuals, professional groups, and society as a whole.  Students will be encouraged to pursue technologies and sets of evaluation criteria that meet their own needs as scholars, and as soon-to-be professionals, in their chosen fields.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE, BUT DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD ENGLISH MAJOR CREDIT.
 

ENGL 301-011—Expository Writing:
Decker, T
MWF 12:20-1:10

This course gives you the opportunity to practice and enhance your critical reading, writing, and thinking skills by addressing questions concerning the issue of identity as reflected in twentieth-century American thought. We will discuss topics such as adolescent identity crises, racial identity, gender identity, determinism, and the impact of industrialization and technology upon the individual.  Readings will include selected books and essays by James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, Norman Mailer, and Allan Bloom, supplemented by literary texts that may include Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Edith Wharton's Summer, or Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Requirements: 4 short papers, 1 longer paper, and weekly writing assignments. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE, BUT DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD ENGLISH MAJOR CREDIT.
 

ENGL 301-012—Expository Writing:  Caring about Health
Bonk, R
M 6:00-9:00

How do we define "health"?  And how do our perceptions of health influence the care that we give or receive?  Through exploration of nonfiction texts, participants will practice writing techniques that pertain to health and its care.  Classes focus on analyzing document examples, preparing specific types, and revising editorial style.  Document types vary from papers comparing different healthcare systems to persuasive papers on healthcare changes.  Specific topics range from cultural perspectives and sociological factors, to practical situations and medical ethics.  Although tailored to students in health-related fields, this thematic course should also appeal to anyone who cares about health. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE, BUT DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD ENGLISH MAJOR CREDIT.
 

ENGL 301-013—Expository Writing:  Chocolate: Food of the Gods; Food for the Masses.
Satran, D
TR 12:30-1:45

This seminar will trace chocolate's history from its “discovery” in the new world, through its commercial development in Europe, to its mass production in the United States. By closely reading samples of chocolate advertising produced over the last four hundred years, we'll examine how chocolate, a product initially available only to the wealthiest classes, gradually came to be marketed to the masses. Paying particular attention to presentations of race, class, and gender, we'll consider the various arguments advertisers made for buying chocolate, as well as what the act of buying chocolate meant to consumers in a given period. Finally, we'll discuss chocolate's place in our culture, a culture in which a theme park devoted to chocolate thrives in Hershey, Pennsylvania and consumers pay to wear clothing advertising chocolate products. Besides a group analysis of chocolate, students will be invited to conduct research on products and services of their choosing from everyday items like bread, cheese, vegetables, soap, cosmetics, alcohol and running shoes, to technologically advanced products such as personal computers, cellular phones, Walkmans, and web service providers. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE, BUT DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD ENGLISH MAJOR CREDIT.

ENGL 305-010—Fiction Writing
Stark, C
TR 12:30-1:45

A student-centered writing workshop in which the emphasis is on students critiquing each others’ stories.  No background is required except a desire and determination to write.  Each participant is expected to write and rewrite at least two short stories during the semester, and to serve as the lead critic on two stories.  Admission to the workshop will be based on a writing sample, preferably a short story, the student should bring to the first class.  A final class list will be posted before the second class meeting.  The workshop will consist of the 10-15 students most qualified to take it.  Attendance and participation in each session is mandatory.  English 305 may be used as an elective for English major credit.  Remember:  No one is either in or not in the workshop until after the first class.  Bring a writing sample to the first meeting.

ENGL 306-010—Topics in Writing: Scriptwriting
Walker, J
MWF 10:10-11:00

In this course we will begin by considering the fundamentals of dialogue, moving from overheard, real dialogue to the kind of dialogue that builds purposeful scenes.  We will do exercises of various kinds to gain an understanding of beats, scenes, external action, characterization, climax, and theme.  We will consider differences between conventional TV “realism,” film, and what works in theater.  Because this course is workshop, be prepared to write every week.  Many classes will be spent reading and commenting on student writing, so be prepared to read the work of others in class.  Final project will be a one-act play, and we may try to perform these plays at the end of the semester.  Please bring a short scene to the first class.  Admission to the class is contingent upon a sample of your work.  Remember:  No one is either in or not in the workshop until after the first class.  Bring a writing sample to the first meeting.

ENGL 307-010—News Writing and Editing
Jenkins, M
TR 9:30-10:45

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, which must be read 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 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
 

ENGL 307-011—News Writing and Editing
Ross, H
TR 12:30-1:45

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.  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 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
 

ENGL 307-012—News Writing and Editing
Jackson, D
T 3:30-4:45
TW 7:00-8:15
 

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 topics; and newsroom ethics.  Professional print journalists will visit class.  The primary focus is on 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.  ENGL 307 also includes reading assignments, two Stylebook quizzes, a libel exam, but 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 journalism courses such as ENGL 308, ENGL 309, ENGL 310, ENGL 407, or Sportswriting.  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 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ENGL 308-010—Reporter’s Practicum
Yagoda, B
R 2:00-4:00

Prerequisite:  ENGL 307.  All students in this course report and write for The Review.  Class meets once a week, mainly to critique the latest issues of the newspaper, but there will also be regular conference time when students can review their writing with the instructor.  The final grade will be determined by the executive editors of The Review in consultation with the instructor.  At least one professional newspaper editor or reporter will visit class, and students may take a field trip to a local newspaper.  Builds on ENGL 307 with extensive reporting and writing for the campus newspaper.  Attention to libel and privacy issues.  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
TR 11:00-12:15

Prerequisite:  ENGL 307.  In this class we will study and practice advanced techniques of nonfiction writing. Students will write a couple of shorter pieces and several drafts of two or three longer stories over the course of the semester, and read from a number of the best nonfiction writers working today.  THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.   THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ENGL 310-010—Copy Editing and Layout
Fleischman, W
T 7:00-10:00

Prerequisite:  ENGL 307.  This course offers newspaper copyediting, headline writing, and layout, with an emphasis on practical experience.  It explores improvement or updating of news stories by rewriting. THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE JOURNALISM CONCENTRATION.

ENGL 312—Written Communications in Business
 

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-17 TR  3:30-4:45 Staff
-80—Honors  MWF  2:30-3:20 Staff

As a businessperson, you will need to understand the role of writing in corporate decision making; and you must communicate effectively both within organizations and between organizations and their various external audiences, including the public, government agencies, and the shareholders.  In this course, you will learn strategies for understanding and communicating in organizational settings.  You will also learn to write memos, letters, and reports that simulate on-the-job comment effectively on other people’s writing.  As is common in organizations, you will summarize various documents in oral briefings to the class.    THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ENGL 316-080—Peer Tutoring/Advanced Composition
Buffington, N
TR 9:30-10:45

An advanced course in writing and editing the academic essay.  This course trains a selected group of students in techniques of writing, editing, and tutoring through the study of composition theory, practice in editing each other’s papers, and techniques for writing conferences.  Through a workshop format, we study and experiment with various elements and strategies of argumentation and we practice methods of brainstorming, editing, revising, and participating in writing conferences.  In the following academic year (fall 2001-spring 2002), students who successfully complete this course will have the option of working as paid Writing Fellows in Honors courses.  ENGL 316-080 fulfills the upper-division writing requirement for students with junior status.  While the primary purpose of this course is to prepare students for Writing Fellowships, other qualified students are welcome. Enrollment is with permission of the instructor. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ENGL 318-010—Studies in Film
Feng, P
T 12:30-3:15
R 12:30-1:45

Through readings in film history and theory, we will investigate the Musical genre, paying particular attention to gender and sexuality both as depicted in the films and as they affect audiences. (What are the social implications of the Musicals treatment of womens bodies as objects of erotic spectacle? Why do gay audiences enjoy these emphatically heterosexual stories?) In the process, we will also study theories of genre, answering questions like: What are genres and how do they function? Why do genre labels (like the Musical and the Western) arise and who uses them?  Why are certain Genres popular in certain historical periods and less popular at other times?. Extended meeting hours to allow for screenings of films ranging through the early 1930s (Love Me Tonight, Dames), the classic period (Gigi, Singin' in the Rain), and the modern movie musical (Cabaret, Pennies from Heaven).  Students will complete several short writing assignments and a semester-long research project. Honors students will engage in collaborative research projects with the option of an oral report. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT OF CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.
 

ENGL 318-011—Studies in Film:  The Documentary
Kerrane, K
TR 2:00-3:15

This course will examine the art of telling true stories.  Each week will discuss one documentary movie, as well as comparable nonfiction writing by such authors as George Orwell, John Hershey, and Truman Capote.  Historical topics will include the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the rise of the civil rights movement in America.  We will explore such questions as these: What is Propaganda?  How can subjective or first-person reporting be fair and effective?  How do good storytellers evoke a sense of place, portray a real person dramatically, or package true tales for maximum impact?   NOTE:  The weekly movies will be shown on Wednesday evenings at 6:00 pm in the Library Viewing Room. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT OF CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.

ENGL 320-010—The Bible as Literature
Brockmann, J
TR 11:00-12:15

Now that you have completed ENGL 202, Biblical and Classical Literature, and want to know more about the Bible – this is the course for you!  It actually should be titled “The Bible as Literature or Literature and the Bible” because we will both examine the bible in depth and discover how great writers have responded to the Bible in poems, short stories, novels, and movies.  This course can be taken as part of the interdepartmental religious studies minor.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS A GROUP A REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE AND THE MODERN LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL324-010—Shakespeare
Bennett, R
MWF 10:10-11:00

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 play, problem play, and romance.   The text for the course is the Riverside edition of Shakespeare's complete works.  Requirements include two hourly exams, two 750-1000 word papers, and a final exam.  An acting project may substitute for the second paper.  Class sessions will make some use of available tapes of productions and in-class scene readings prepared by members of the class.  Attendance is important and will be closely monitored.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE GROUP A REQUIREMENT AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
 

ENGL 324-011—Shakespeare
Yates, J
MWF 1:25-2:15

The aim of this course is to introduce you to the range of Shakespeare’s plays, the world in which he wrote, and the kinds of issues his writing confronts. Shakespeare the Man, the Myth, and the Icon, will be our point of departure, examining the curious presence he exerts on our lives and culture.  We will then explore how his plays came to be written, why we receive them in the form we do, and how the realities of the Renaissance Theater shaped his writing.  Our reading of the plays themselves will focus on the image of community his plays envisage, focusing on what kinds of people are used to mark boundaries of class, race and gender in Shakespearean drama.  Taking the figure of the "cyborg"--part human, part machine but not quite a monster--from contemporary writings in science fiction and science studies as our model, we shall examine figures in Shakespearean drama that resist or redefine boundaries. Our aim this term then will be to read Shakespeare with an eye to the strange and the disturbing.  In addition to a number of writing assignments there will be opportunities for research on such topics as the Globe Theater, representations of Moors, Amazons, foreign travel, Italy, London, early modern medical knowledge, and film adaptations of plays.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE GROUP A REQUIREMENT AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.
 

ENGL 324-080—Honors:  Shakespeare
Poole, K
TR 11:00-12:15

This course will explore some of Shakespeare’s plays by positioning them within their historical context.  We will consider how Shakespeare’s theater reflected and promoted aspects of the English Renaissance such as the “discovery” of the new world, the emergence of the printing press, evolving notions of individualism, the implications of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and the representation of war.  Along the way, we will also consider what the idea of  “Shakespeare” has come to mean in our society.  We will be reading plays from all major genres (comedy, history, tragedy, and romance), and will be working extensively with the recent film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE GROUP A REQUIREMENT AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.

ENGL 331-010—The Age of Satire
Mell, D
MWF 10:10-11:00

This course will investigate satire produced between 1660-1760.  Works by Rochester, Dryden, Swift, Defoe, Pope, Lady Mary Worthy Montagu, Voltaire, Gay, Fielding, and Johnson constitute the main readings, but some attention will be paid to classical, nineteenth-century, and modern satire to show its persistence throughout literary history.  Modern essays on satire, as well as political and religious contexts, will be discussed when relevant.  Methods of Instruction:  lecture and discussion.  Course Requirements:  two hour tests, response papers (one page), a 4-5 page essay, and a final examination.  Participation in class discussion is expected.  Required Texts:  Writings of Jonathan Swift (Norton Critical); Alexander Pope (Riverside); Voltaire, Candide (penguin); Johnson, Rasselas (Oxford); instructor handouts; UD Bookstore packet contains:  definitions of satire and irony; Rochester and Dryden selections; Gay’s Beggar’s Opera, Defoe’s Shortest Way, Fielding’s Tragedy of Tragedies; Johnson’s Vanity of Human Wishes, among others. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 1700-1900 DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL 332-010—Studies in Restoration and 18th Century Literature
Kinservik, M
TR 2:00-3:15

This course will focus on Restoration drama (1660-1710).  This was an era of excess and experimentation on the London stage.  When the theatres reopened after the English Civil War, women were allowed to perform in public for the first time, traditional censorship was greatly weakened, and the royal court enthusiastically promoted play going.  New forms like the high-minded rhymed, heroic tragedy and the low-brow sex comedy were introduced to the stage.  We will read 10 plays and write weekly (one-page) reaction papers, two exams, and three short papers. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT 1700-1900.

ENGL 336-010—Victorian Poetry
Gates, B
TR 9:30-10:45

The course will be devoted to careful study of poems by Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, the Rossettis, Emily Brontë and others.  Nineteenth-century cultural, religious, and literary contexts will also be discussed, as will the poet’s role as defined by class and gender.  Class format:  predominantly discussion, with introductory lectures and some work on the internet.  Student participation strongly encouraged at all times. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT 1700-1900.

ENGL 340-010—American Literature to the Civil War
Samuels, S
TR 11:00-12:15

This class is both a survey of early American literature, roughly from 1620 to 1865, and a way to ask questions about how contests over racial and gender identifications make for national identity in the emerging republic.  We will read some classic authors – such writers as William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne - and we will read their contemporaries - such less-known figures as Sarah Kemble Knight, Judith Sargent Murray, Charles Brockden Brown, Catherine Sedgwick, and Olaudah Equiano.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS GROUP B REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AS WELL AS THE ENGLISH DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT 1700-1900.

ENGL 341-010—American Literature:  Civil War to WWII
Cotsell, M
MWF 10:10-11:00

The course will show the relevance of the American past to the American present.  We will emphasize how alive and true the literary tradition has been to American life, alive and true in its sentences, characters, plots and formal innovations.  Literature is history as the heartbeat: the being born and the dying; the passion and the loneliness; the back-breaking work and the long afternoons on the porch.  Among the issues the will come up along the way: the lingering effects of the Civil War; the Southern influence on American life; the role of the federal government; popular faith and the psychology; ideas of the personal and political freedom; the relevance of tradition and the pursuit of the new; mobility and the sense of place; consumerism and the role of corporations; the management of race and ethnicity; the distribution of wealth.  Writers and works we will look at include the poets Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes. The novels we will read will be Mark Twian’s Huckleberry Finn, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, William Faulkner’s  As I Lay Dying, Willa Cather’s  My Antonia, and Chester Himes’  If He Hollers Let Him Go.  We will read short stories by a variety of authors. THIS COURSE FULFILLS GROUP B REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AS WELL AS THE ENGLISH DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT 1700-1900 AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CORE REQUIREMENT.

ENGL 345-010—African American Literataure II
Henderson, C
TR 9:30-10:45

This course will analyze contemporary African American literature written after 1940. We will chart pivotal historical moments, focusing on key topics, innovations, and themes consistent with the building of an African American literary tradition. Issues discussed include the development of the "urban aesthetic," the redevelopment of the African American literary and cultural "voice," the recontextualization of "double consciousness," and the reformation of womanist/feminist thought as it pertains to gender politics.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GROUP B AND MULTICULTURAL REQUIREMENT AS WELL AS THE MODERN LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL 347-010—Studies in American Literature:  The 1920s and the Jazz Age
Pauly, T
TR 9:30-10:45

This course will consider a variety of literary materials—plays, novels, non-fiction, and film—and seek to learn what they can tell us about the literary and social culture of the 1920s.  Though we will be considering such issues as Prohibition, expatriatism, 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 exams and two papers.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE MODERN LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
 

ENGL 347-011—Studies in American Literature:  American Romanticism
Brückner, M
TR 2:00-03:15

This course provides an introduction to American Romantic literature.  Major subjects are nationalism and the romance novel, gender and authorship, the rise of mass culture, consumerism and class consciousness, race, travel, regionalism, and the rise of imperial attitudes in American culture. Readings will include classic and other important texts, such as Emerson (essays), Thoreau (Walden), Fuller (Summer), Poe (short stories), Hawthorne (Scarlet Letter), Child (Hobomok), Fern (Ruth Hall), Douglass (Narrative), Wilson (Our Nig), Melville (Moby Dick), Davis (Life in the Iron Mills), and a selection of poetry. Course requirements are active participation, a weekly reading journal, two papers, and a final exam.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT 1700-1900.

ENGL 348-010—Contemporary Jewish-American Literature
Safer, E
TR 2:00-3:15

Nineteenth-century European Jewish writers have been important in the development of Jewish-American literature, particularly the writers Sholem Aleichem, I.L. Peretz, and Isaac Babel. The concepts of exile, diaspora, and home have been important ideas in Jewish European literature and have been central to the shaping of Jewish identity.  These terms have also become central concepts in post WWII literature, imported and transformed to represent the experiences of marginalized and oppressed groups. This course will look at the development of these concepts in Jewish-American literature short fiction and on contemporary Jewish thought. The course will examine how the short fiction of Sholem Aleichem, I.L. Peretz, and Isaac Babel connects to that of Jewish American writers Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Ida Fink, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth.  The course will cover European Jewish writing, American immigrant writing, post-Holocaust writing and concepts of tradition and assimilation in Jewish American short fiction.  Course requirements: 1 essay (5-7 pages); two examinations; 2 response papers (1-2 pages); class discussion.  There also will be an option to write papers and take no exams:  response papers (1-2pages) for each author; 1 long paper (6-8pages); class discussion.  THIS COURSE SATISFIES THE UNIVERSITY'S MULTICULTURAL REQUIREMENT AND THE CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL 349-010—Introduction to Jewish Sources
Lefkovitz
TR 11:00-12:15

This course examines the central texts which form the basis of Jewish thought, religion and culture—the Torah, or Hebrew Bible (in translation) and interpretive traditions which have evolved to understand it (e.g. Midrash, Rashi, contemporary theology) as sources of uniquely Jewish meanings. THIS COURSE SATISFIES THE UNIVERSITIES MULTICULTURAL REQUIREMENT AND THE CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL 351-010—Introduction to Irish Literature
Scott, B
TR 9:30-10:45

We begin with the origins of Irish Literature in myths of the super-hero Cuchulain and the crafty Queen Maeve.  We move quickly to the turn-of the 20th-Centruy Irish literary revival, with emphasis on William Butler Yeats, Isabella Augusta Gregory, and James Joyce (studying much of his Ulysses).  The course ends with Irish Literature’s flourishing in recent short stories and the works of poets such as Nobel laureate, Seaus Heany, and Eavan Boland, who has struggled to redefine woman in the Irish national tradition.  Of interest whether or not you have Irish roots, this course will help put into place traditions of druids and leprechauns, the history of British dispossession of the Celts, patterns of emigration, and the violent divisions of Northern Ireland.  Film and music will diversify the literary selections.  A midterm, a final exam and several short papers are likely for undergraduates; graduate students will be expected to do oral presentations, several short essays and a long final essay.  It is required of minors in Irish Studies, who are urged to take it this spring.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE MODERN LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL 352-010—Studies in 19th-Century Literature:  Social Conflict
Buffington, N
MWF 9:05-9:55

What comes to mind when you think of the nineteenth century? Genteel manners, afternoon teas, Scarlett O'Hara gowns, perhaps.  But that's just part of the picture.  Important changes were occurring in the U.S. and Europe--revolutions (sometimes literal) in philosophy, politics, art, science and technology. Momentous social conflicts arose involving race, gender and class, transforming both cultural and literary landscapes. In this course, we will examine the ways in which nineteenth-century fiction in the U.S. and England engaged with such changes and conflicts.  We will read a selection of novels and short fiction by American authors such as Melville, Hawthorne, Bird, Stowe, Alcott and Chopin, and by British authors including Dickens, Hardy, Eliot and Conrad.  Major assignments will include two papers, a midterm and final exam.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT 1700-1900 AND THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ENGL 356-010—Studies in Modern/Contemporary Literature:  American Drama
Cotsell, M
M 6:00-9:00

This course will emphasize American Drama on stage.  The texts chosen will depend in part on dramatic productions available in the Delaware Valley.  You will be expected to attend three or four local productions (local meaning, Campus, Wilmington and Philadelphia region), and will meet dramatists, directors and actors. We will be also looking at video plays in production.  The plays we will study are chosen to represent a range of dramatic forms that American dramatists have employed.  Dramatists will include Eugene O’Neill, Sam Shepard, Maria Irene Fornes, David Rabe, and Tina Howe.  We will also look at experimental theatre including some fairly weird stuff.  We will be meeting once a week in the evening so we should have opportunity to enjoy ourselves and to explore plays in depth. The idea will be to catch the unfolding, living action of each play. THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE MODERN LITERATURE REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ENGL 371-010—Studies in Fiction:  Toni Morrison
Henderson, C
TR 12:30-1:45

This class will analyze the creative works of Toni Morrison, ever mindful of the ways in which Morrison's work challenges the traditional boundaries of fiction.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE MODERN LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL 372-010—Studies in Drama:  Medieval and Tudor Drama
Bennett, R
TR 9:30-10:45

This course will survey the English drama from its first great flowering in the mystery cycle plays of the fourteenth century through the morality plays and humanistic drama of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the major plays of Shakespeare's early contemporaries that met the needs of recently established professional theatre companies
(1580-1600).  From popular festivals, to private aristocratic great halls, to grammar schools, to universities, inn yards, and finally public playhouses, the plays are as varied as their historical periods and places of performance.  Our interest will be in valuing the artistry and mission of each work within the traditions that inform it and the occasion for which it is written.  Requirements include two hourly exams, a paper of six-to-eight typed pages, and a final exam.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL 380-010—Women Writers
Frawley, M
TR 9:30-10:45

Using novels, short stories, essays, autobiographies, and poetry, this course will explore what has been called a “poetics of gender.”  Considering the ways in which women’s writing constitutes its own tradition, we will ask how that tradition has changed over time and how women’s literature has transformed the canon.  Components of class discussion will include the ways that dimensions of identity such as race, class, ethnicity, or sexual orientation influence writing styles and subject matter.  The writers we study might include well-established figures from the past (e.g., Austen, C. Bronte, and Virginia Woolf) as well as more contemporary women writers (e.g., May Warton, Sandra Cisneros, Edwidge Danticat, and Lorrie Moore).  Written work will include a short essay, a research paper, and a variety of shorter assignments.  THIS COURSE IS CROSS-LISTED WITH WOMEN’S STUDIES AND FULFILLS THE UNIVERSITY MULTICULTURAL REQUIREMENT AS WELL AS THE GROUP A REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT’S CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT.

ENGL 382-010—Studies in Multicultural Literature in English
Feng, P
TR 3:30-4:45

This course surveys contemporary Asian American Literature, focusing on two different ways that the human interaction is thematized: sex and violence.  Does sex always signify acceptance?  Does violence always indicate hatred?  We will examine these themes in light of historical traumas associated with migration (particularly connected with U.S. wars in Asia), and as figures of the contemporary American cultural landscape – how does sexual politics work within minority communities, and what happens when people reach across divisions of gender, race, and sexual orientation?  Texts will likely include: Hwang's M. Butterfly, Cha’s Dictee, Mura's The Colors of Desire, and Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging.  Requirements: regular attendance and participation, and several essays (15 pages total) with multiple drafts required. Written assignments will incorporate historical research as well as critical analysis of literary texts. THIS COURSE SATISFIES THE UNIVERSITIES MULTICULTURAL REQUIREMENT AND THE CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL 404-010—Advanced Poetry Writing
Brown, F
W 12:00-3:00

Bring 5-6 of your own poems to the first class meeting, and I will post a class roster by the next day. ENGL304 poetry workshop is not a prerequisite. The Advanced Poetry Workshop merely assumes some previous practice at writing poems—some previous development of skills both from reading and from writing. We will examine student poems together in every class, but, as writers looking for techniques and approaches, we will also regularly study poems by established poets. You will be expected to produce a new poem each week while revising previous poems.  There will also be a number of very short papers assigned and a longer paper on a collection of poems. Your grade will be based on the semester’s portfolio (all poems and revisions), as well as on the assigned papers.

ENGL 405-010—Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
Kaplan, B
T 1:00-4:00

The focus in this class is on student stories.  We will spend out time critiquing the work of the class members.  Each student in the class is expected to write at least two stories and to revise them at least once. Admission to this class is granted on the basis of a story submitted on the first day of class.  ENGL 305 is not a fixed prerequisite for this course but it usually helps to have had it.  A final class list for this course will be posted on the day after the first class.  ENGL 405 assumes, above all, that the students in it have done a considerable amount of fiction writing and are aware of the discipline that this activity entails.

ENGL 407-010—Advanced Reporting
Yagoda, B
W 2:30-5:30

Prerequisites:  E308 or E309 or demonstrated ability and experience in writing for publication.  If you're interested in writing journalism that goes beyond last week's DUSC meeting or the latest speaker on campus, this is the course for you.  In a workshop setting, students will report and write in-depth articles. Possible topics could be: What does it mean for UD that the female-male student ratio is now 59-41? The impact and legacy of the Robert Wood Johnson grant. Is UD committed to on-line education--and if so will this dilute the value of a diploma? Who is the best professor on campus--and why?  The class will devote equal time to issues of coming up with and shaping the story idea, reporting and research (with special attention to on-line techniques), and structure, writing and rewriting.

ENGL 410-010—Technical Writing
Andrews, D
W 6:00-9:00

This course addresses students in such diverse fields as engineering, the physical and natural sciences, natural resources, nutrition, and agriculture.  If you are majoring in one of these, the course will help you to think like a writer and as a collaborator on projects across borders of culture, language, and technology.  You’ll learn strategies for communicating effectively in that context—and for enjoying the challenges of communication.  You’ll work both individually and as a member of a team to prepare e-mail messages, resumes and cover letters, proposals, and reports that simulate on-the-job communication tasks.  As is common in organizations, you will summarize various documents in oral briefings.  In class, we’ll discuss the principles and forms of a writing laboratory.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SECOND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.  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
Bonk, R
TR 2:00-3:15

Requirements: regular attendance and participation, and several essays (15 pages total) with multiple drafts required. Written assignments will incorporate historical research as well as critical analysis of literary texts.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SECOND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.  ENGLISH 410 MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING.

ENGL 411-010—Rhetoric for Business and Technical Writers
Brockmann, J
TR 12:30-1:45

Prerequisite:  ENGL 312, ENGL 410, or ENGL 415.  “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 persons” (Corbett, page 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.  THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING.

ENGL 412-010—Business and Technical Publications
Worley, R
TR 2:00-3:15

Prerequisite:  ENGL 312, ENGL 410, or ENGL 415.  In this course, students learn to write, design, and produce both print and screen publications.  During the first half, students create a 4-page newsletter, with scanned images, using Quark page layout software.  They also write and print a software documentation assignment.  During the second half, students create a multi-page Web site using HTML coding and Netscape.  They also revise and adapt the print version of their documentation assignment for computer screen display.  The course also includes an introduction to presentation and multimedia software programs.  Because this course makes intensive use of computer programs, the class sessions are divided between lectures on design and visual language and lab tutorials on the software.  THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS & TECHNICAL WRITING.

English 414-010—Technical Editing
Worley, R
TR 5:15-6:30

Prerequisite:  ENGL 312, ENGL 410, or ENGL 415.  This course provides practical instruction in technical editing of books and journals. The technical editor must pay close attention to every detail in a manuscript. The grammar must be logical and precise; the punctuation must be exact; and the editorial style must be both intelligent and consistent.  This course will benefit anyone contemplating publishing as a career—or anyone who, for any reason, wants to study the mechanics of clear communication in written English. THIS COURSE MAY BE COUNTED TOWARD THE ENGLISH MAJOR ONLY AS PART OF THE CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS & TECHNICAL WRITING.

ENGL 417-010—Film Theory and Criticism
Ross, H
TR 11:00-12:15
M 3:30-5:30

This edition of film theory will center on theoretical and critical writing about one of the oldest and certainly one of the most disreputable of film genres, the horror film.   The course will not be an historical survey of these films, but will focus on American horror films from the 1970s to the present.  Such films foreground questions essential to an understanding of cinema in general: Questions about the definition and uses of genre.  Questions about the pleasures offered by motion pictures to the spectator. Questions about the cinematic representation of gender.  Questions about the cinematic representation of violence. The student will be expected to read a number of theoretical and critical articles and to attend screenings of feature films. The final grade will be derived from two essay examinations and from critical papers.  This course is a requirement for the film concentration.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT'S REQUIREMENT FOR A COURSE IN CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES.

ENGL 464-010—Internship in Business and Technical Writing
Worley, R
TBA

Prerequisites:  ENGL 411 and ENGL 412.  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, medical/pharmaceutical writing, and others.  EBT concentrators must apply for internships and submit a portfolio at least one term in advance.  Internships are also available through ENGL 366 Independent Study.  THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO EBT CONCENTRATORS ONLY AND REQUIRES PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR.

ENGL 467-080—Honors: Screenwriting
Leitch, T
TR 12:30-1:45

An introduction to writing for the movies for students with no screenwriting experience. We'll spend some time analyzing two screenplays (one of them chosen by the class) and some time reading two of the standard screenwriting textbooks (Syd Field's Screenwriting and Andrew Horton's Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay). But the main work of the course will be writing and rewriting several versions of each stage in a screenplay: a concept, a summary, a treatment, a sample scene, and a completed screenplay. Students can expect twice-weekly writing assignments; class time will be devoted largely to pitching their work and critiquing everybody else's. Though longer assignments will be written increasingly in collaboration, students can expect by the end of the course to have contributed substantially to one feature-length screenplay.  Since the goal of the course is not professional accreditation but a deeper understanding of how screenplays work, the most helpful requisites are the ability to write English, think on your feet, and play a variety of roles, from novice screenwriter to deep-pockets producer.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.

ENGL 480-010—Seminar:  Norris, Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Davison, R
T 3:00-6:00

This seminar will read and study selected novels and short stories by Norris Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Steinbeck.  We will consider the works both in their historical context and for their artistic merits.  Course requirements will include two brief reports leading to two brief papers to be revised and resubmitted, a major oral report leading to a term paper, and a major examination.  Required reading:  Frank Norris, McTeague (Penguin), The Octopus (Penguin); F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribners); Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Scribners); John Steinbeck Vikings Portable (Viking), The Grapes of Wrath (Bantum). THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AS WELL AS THE MODERN LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
 

ENGL 480-011—Seminar:  Tales of California
Dean, J
M 1:00-4:00

This interdisciplinary course—literature, history, ecology, anthropology, ethnology—will focus on the Gold Rush of 1849, its tragic consequences for Native Americans in California, and the contingent destruction of wilderness areas.  We will read about colorful and strong-willed people in mining camps and recently-“settled” territories, who fashioned new identities for themselves while deliberately or inadvertently eliminating those who already occupied these lands.  Topics for exploration may include self-fashioning, the boundries of fiction and life, “tall tales,” humor and the west, immigration and the American experience.  Authors will include Bret Harte (his collection Gold Rush), Mark Twain (Jumping Frog, Roughing It), Joaquin Miller (Life Amongst the Modocs), Theodora Kroeber (Ishi in Two Worlds), and perhaps Carlos Castaneda (The Teachings of Don Juan)—but as someone who blurs the boundaries between fiction and anthropology.  To help us with anthropological material, we will study Clifford Geertz’s Local Knowledge.  We will pay special attention to California geography, including Yosemite Park (The Wild Muir), Placerville and the Gold Rush area, the region around Mt. Lassen (where Ishi and the Yana and Yahi Indians lived), and the region around Mt. Shasta (where the Modoc Indians lived).  Students will keep a journal and write a four-page paper and a ten-page paper; there will be no formal examinations, but I expect generous and full class discussion from all students in the course. THIS COURSE, A SECOND WRITING COURSE, FULFILLS THE 1700-1900 DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
 

ENGL 480-012—U.S. Latina (W)rites
Quintana, A
W 6:00-8:45

This seminar will feature the writing of contemporary U.S. Latina writers and attempt to develop an understanding of the literary traditions that have influenced their work.  Moving from the oral tradition--a tradition that relies heavily on close family networks and the dependence of generations of people living in the same community--we will consider the way Latina writers use their work to communicate when face to face contact is no longer possible.  We will examine two particular themes regarding writers and/or characters they choose to represent--the tensions within and between world(s) in which they live and interact, and their reactions to and relationship with their cultural/social environment(s). THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SECOND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AS WELL AS THE CULTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
 

ENGL 480-013—Jane Austen
Frawley, M
W 9:05-12:05

This course will focus on the works of Jane Austen, one of the first women writers to be included in the canon of English Literature.  We will question which aspects of Austen’s work have enabled her to achieve this status, and which dimensions may have been overlooked.  We will also consider issues such as what Austen’s novels teach us about the emergence of the novel and the role of domesticity in literary history as well as what can be learned about social history from her fiction.  Reading all of her major works will enable us to move beyond their obvious similarities to reflect on their critical differences.  Making use of internet and web sites featuring Austen, we will assess along the way distinctions between scholars and devotees, “Janeites,” as they are sometimes called.  In keeping with a seminar format, course members can expect to contribut heavily to class discussion.  Written work will include a short essay, a research paper, a report on a film adaptation, and a variety of shorter assignments.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SECOND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS 1700-1900 BREATH REQUIREMENT.
 

ENGL 480-014—Gender, Race, and Nation
Samuels, S
TR 2:00-3:15

This class examines an alternative tradition of women writing novels in the context of Britain and America during the twentieth century.  For several of these authors, the pressures of what might be called national allegiances affect their fiction.  All of them show the effect of historical context and family relations.  We will read such authors as Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Louise Erdrich, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Toni Morrison and we will ask what concepts of gendered, racialized, and national identities give their narratives momentum.  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE 2ND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AS WELL AS THE CUTURAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES DISTRIBUTION FOR THE ENGLISH MAJOR.
 

ENGL 480-015--Studies in Milton
Safer, E
TR 2:00-3:15

We will concentrate on most of Milton's major works--Lycidas, the Sonnets, the Nativity Ode, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes.  We will discuss the poet's adaptation of traditional genre:  elegy, sonnet, epic, tragedy, and ode.  Whenever possible, we will have oral reports which will compare themes, patterns, and archetypes in Milton's poetry with those in other literary works, ranging from the classical epic to contemporary literature.  Course requirements include two brief (15 minute) presentations leading to two 7-10 page papers; six 2-page response papers; participation in 4 or 5 small oral presentations, individually and in groups (based on the response papers).  THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE SECOND WRITING REQUIREMENT FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.

Required texts:  Paradise Lost, ed. Scott Elledge (Norton)
                         Samson Agonistes and the Shorter Poems, ed.
                         Barker (Harlan-Davidson-Forum)
                         Nicolson, A Reader's Guide to John Milton (Syracuse UP)
 

ENGL 481-010—Teaching English in Secondary Schools:  Seminar:  Teaching English
Del Fattore, J
TR 3:45-6:45

It provides student teachers with information on classroom management, professional issues (e.g., the use of state standards and assessments), and the preparation of professional credentials.  No one who is not student teaching this semester may take the course, since the content and assignments are based on the assumption that students have already completed all the other coursework in the English Education program.