ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Upper Level Courses
Summer & Fall 2016
Summer 2016
ENGLISH 307, SECTIONS 431: WRITING FOR MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC
RELATIONS AND THE PROFESSIONS
This course will explore the ethical contexts for written communication at the
workplace. Students will gain practice and guidance in using appropriate language, tone and
format for effective letters, memos, reports, proposals, job application materials and writing for
mass media. Emphasis will be placed on purpose and clarity in the context of specific cases. We
will focus particularly on how and why to develop and shape a professional ethos through
writing. 3 credits (McCracken) Session III Online Writing Emphasis
ENG 341, SECTION 411: ADOLESCENT LITERATURE
This course will focus the teaching of young adult literature in grades 6-12, as well as how to
engage adolescent readers outside of school. We will discuss text selection, critical lenses,
strategies for facilitating discussions, how to incorporate technology to encourage higher-level
thinking, how to address Common Core Standards and how to use adolescent literature
strategically within a curriculum that favors canonical texts.
3 credits (Jones) Session I Online
ENGLISH 452, SECTION 411: PROFESSIONAL WRITING PRACTICUM
This course is for students who need to complete their internship/practicum for the Professional
Writing Minor, and requires instructor approval to enroll.
3 credits (Steiner) Sessions I II III Online Writing Emphasis
Fall 2016
ENGLISH 301, SECTIONS 01 & 10L Lab: FOUNDATIONS FOR LIT STUDIES
An introduction to foundational knowledge and skills for the advanced study of literature. The
course fosters understanding of the importance of historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts for
literary study as well as appreciation for the diversity of literary expression. Students can expect
to develop the facility for critical work with literature by expanding their understanding of
literary genres and basic literary terminology, and by improving their abilities to engage in
literary research, conduct close textual analysis, and write critically about literature.
4 credits (Fowler) TuTh 2:15-3:40 & Lab TuTh 3:55-4:50
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ENGLISH 303, SECTION 01: ADVANCED COMPOSITION
What makes writing “effective” in a given discipline, profession, or context? This course invites
you to explore how different discourse communities answer this question. We will give special
attention to strategies to help you focus, organize, develop, style, and correct your writing for
diverse audiences using multiple genres. As you build on what you already know about written
communication, you will improve your writing abilities and become better able to evaluate and
your own and others’ work. 3 credits (Kopplin) TuTh 3:55-5:20
ENGLISH 304, SECTION 01: WRITING/HUMANITIES
An advanced writing course designed especially for students majoring in the arts and humanities.
The course will focus on the types of inquiry and discourse appropriate to these disciplines.
Students will be instructed in the rhetorical strategies of invention (that is, discovering content
and establishing lines of reasoning, analyzing audience, and determining the writer’s purpose and
persona), arrangement and style. 3 credits. (Wilkie) TuTh 11:00-12:25.
ENGLISH 305, SECTIONS 01 &02: CREATIVE WRITING
A course emphasizing the writing of poetry and short fiction taught by a professor who is a
published fiction writer and poet. Students will develop skills in each of these genres, participate
in workshops in which student work is critiqued, and analyze the works of professional writers.
The class may also meet with visiting writers. The course is intended as the basic course in the
creative writing English minor. Primarily for English majors and minors. It is also for students
interested in writing short fiction and/or poems. Prerequisite: three credits in 200-level English
courses. 3 credits (Stobb) TuTh 5:30-8:15; (Cashion) TuTh 2:15-3:40 Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 307, SECTIONS 01, 02: WRITING FOR MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC
RELATIONS AND THE PROFESSIONS
An advanced course designed for students interested in administration, business, accounting,
law, and other professions, public relations and any other area where skills will be required. The
course will explore the ethical contexts for written communication at the workplace with an
emphasis on purpose and clarity in the context of specific cases. Class members will gain
practice and guidance in using appropriate language, tone and format for effective letters,
memos, reports, proposals, job application materials and writing for mass media.
3 credits (McCracken) MWF 9:55-10:50 or 11:00-11:55 Hybrid
ENGLISH 307, SECTION 411: WRITING FOR MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC RELATIONS
AND THE PROFESSIONS
An advanced course focusing on written communication for relations with clients, boards,
organizations, customers, constituents, or the public. Students practice writing as an effective
process of gathering and conveying information, answering questions, and solving problems. The
course will explore appropriate language, tone, and format for workplace genres that may
include effective letters, memos, news releases, reports, proposals, abstracts, and summaries.
There is emphasis on purpose, audience, and clarity. Not open for credit in the English education
major or minors except for credit in the professional writing minor.
3 credits (Steiner) Online Writing Emphasis Course
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ENGLISH 308, SECTION 01: TECHNICAL WRITING
The aim of technical writing is to report factual information objectively and clearly. This course
is designed to prepare students from all disciplines to organize information and communicate it
effectively to a targeted audience. The course emphasizes design principles needed to create
appropriate layouts, which may include such formats as computer slide presentations, Web sites,
posters, and videos, as well as text documents. 3 credits (Konas) MWF 12:05-1:00.
ENGLISH 311, SECTIONS 01: CRITICAL THEORY
This course is founded on the notion that we are made of the stories we tell about ourselves,
about each other, and about the worlds in which we live. We will focus on stories transmitted
through literature, science, film, and television, and we will survey different theoretical
approaches to understanding how our tellings of those stories shape us in significant ways.
3 credits (McCracken) TuTh 2:15-3:40 Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 311, SECTIONS 02: CRITICAL THEORY
Students in this course will study various major theoretical schools and begin to develop their
conceptual literacy in approaching literary and other cultural texts (for example, creative and
other modes of writing, public discourses, aesthetic and/or social movements, images, film, and
other media). The course will facilitate students' dynamic participation in the unfolding
conversations and debates about texts and culture. 3 credits (D. Hart) TuTh 9:25-10:50
ENG 313, SECTIONS 01: PROSE STYLE AND EDITING
A practical course in developing a flexible and effective capacity for writing prose. Students will
master techniques and strategies of emphasis, coherence, clarity, conciseness, balance, and
rhythm. Use of tropes and figures (particularly metaphorical language and imagery) and tone
will be explored in the context of rhetorical appropriateness and strategy. The course will
provide students with the fundamentals of prose technique--the basis for an art, which they can
continue to refine and develop for the rest of their lives.
3 credits (Cashion) MW 2:15-3:40 Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 314, SECTION 01: GRANT WRITING
This course is designed to develop knowledge of theories and practices of grant writing by
including topics such as conventions of proposal writing as well as political, social and cultural
aspects and practices of grant writing. Students will develop skills in identifying sources of grant
funding, engage in various research methods, and learn to rhetorically respond to requests for
proposals. Students will also learn to write requests for proposals, and analyze varying
stakeholders and writing situations. 3 credits (Steiner) TuTh 2:15-3:40 Writing Emphasis Course
ENG 325, SECTION 01: REPORTING & COPY EDITING
This course focuses on both traditional writing, reporting, and editing skills and also multimedia
production, such as photography, video and audio editing. Students will write three news stories
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and produce photos and videos to accompany the stories. The department has video cameras for
check out. No prior video and photo editing experience is required.
3 credits (Zhang) F 1:10-2:05 Hybrid
ENGLISH 327, SECTION 01: PUBLISHING IN DIGITAL AGE
The emergence of "digital" publishing-from blogging to podcasting, Twitter to the Kindle, and
from YouTube to a global network of satellite communications-has become synonymous with a
fundamentally new way of thinking about the production and consumption of information.
Instead of a "broadcast" model of communications, in which information is presumed to be
centralized and "one-way," new media and digital publishing is said to represent a revolutionary
model of "openness" in which, as Mark Poster writes, "cultural acts, symbolizations in all forms
[are] in the hands of all participants" (What's the Matter with the Internet?). And yet, recent
studies show that digital publishing might not be immune from the same forces which have led to
the crisis in print. A recent study found that while 5,000-7,000 companies accounted for fifty
percent of all web traffic in 2007, today that number has been reduced to just 150 companies.
What do these competing accounts of digital culture mean for publishing today? Through an
investigation which will move from design theory and the study of the history of the page to the
practical applications of blogging, hypertext, Photoshop, and web design, students will examine
the possibilities and limits of digital publishing. By the end of the semester, students will have
established new online publications. 3 credits (Wilkie) TuTh 12:40-2:05
ENGLISH 332, SECTIONS 01&02: MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMARS
An introduction to the structure of the English language, focusing primarily on its syntax.
Investigation of the various grammatical functions that words perform and how those words
combine to create phrases, clauses, and sentences. Development of skills for analyzing and
describing English sentences. 3 credits (Mann) MW 2:15-3:40 (01) or MW 3:55-5:20 (02)
ENGLISH 333, SECTION 01 & 02: INTRO TO RHETORIC & WRITING STUDIES
How does rhetorical invention (what we write about) relate to organization/style (how we write
about it)? Rhetoricians and composition scholars differ in their answers to this question, and this
introductory course to the field of Rhetoric and Composition examines three different views
regarding this relationship, which entail three different processes of writing, three different
approaches to improving writing. Course responsibilities include reading, daily in-class writings,
three take-home exams, and one final project.
3 credits (Lan) TuTh 9:25-10:50 (01), (Kopp) TuTh 12:40-2:05 (02) Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 334, SECTION 01: LANGUAGE STUDIES FOR TEACHERS
Designed for pre-service teachers, this course is intended to provide a theoretical base for
structuring effective language education, for teaching writing and other language activities, and
for understanding linguistic diversity. It will cover issues basic to understanding how language
acquisition is a developmental process and how language functions in thinking, learning, and
social interaction. 3 credits (Mann) T 5:30-8:15
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ENGLISH 335, SECTION 01: INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL WRITING
Introduction to Professional Writing is designed as an introductory course for students who are
interested in writing in professional settings. The course will include an introduction to various
field definitions of professional writing, an overview of professional writing history and theory,
provide space to study key concepts that are currently relevant in the field, and apply these
histories and concepts to concrete documents that constitute study in the field of professional
writing. 3 credit (Steiner) TuTh 11:00-12:25 Hybrid Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 337, SECTION 01: RHETORICS OF STYLE
This course helps students write clearly as well as meaningfully, emphasizing that “writers have
a responsibility to their readers to write as clearly as they can.” Drawing upon Western technical
traditions of rhetoric, the course provides students with ample opportunities to practice rhetorical
strategies based on prototypical reader expectations, and it also guides the students to examine
and reflect upon the grammar, the ethics, and the politics of the use of rhetorical strategies.
Besides class discussions, students will take quizzes, write précis, and edit their own writings.
3 credits (Lan) TuTh 11:00-12:25 Writing Emphasis Course
ENG 341, SECTION 01: ADOLESCENT LITERATURE
This course will focus the teaching of young adult literature in grades 6-12, as well as how to
engage adolescent readers outside of school. We will discuss text selection, critical lenses,
strategies for facilitating discussions, how to incorporate technology to encourage higher-level
thinking, how to address Common Core Standards and how to use adolescent literature
strategically within a curriculum that favors canonical texts.
3 credits (Jones) MWF 12:05-1:00 Hybrid
ENGLISH 342, SECTION 01: THE ESSAY
This course will provide both contemporary and historical contexts for the essay. Students will
engage in disciplinary conversations on how we define, identify, and complicate the essay as
genre in addition to reading and writing a wide variety of essays.
3 credits (Thoune) MWF 8:50-9:45 Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 344, SECTION 01: THE NOVEL
This course focuses on the history and development of the novel as a modern form, from its
origins in 18-century England to its postmodern realizations on today’s world literature scene.
We will examine theoretical explanations of the novel’s form and social functions, and read
novels of different formal types that have developed over those centuries. The course will
include some novels translated from foreign languages. This semester satisfies English
Education Major requirement category for "World Literatures"; contact department for
details. 3 credits (Butterfield) Th 5:30-8:15
ENGLISH 362, SECTION 01: ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
A focused survey of English literature from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with close
consideration of the changing perceptions of desire and devotion. What did it mean to be a
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desiring or a devoted self in early modern England? And how did their perceptions of selfhood
resonate with and differ from our own? Students can expect to study works from a variety of
genres (e.g., poetry, essay, play, epic, prose fiction) by a variety of authors (e.g., F. Bacon, E.
Spenser, P. Sidney, B. Jonson, C. Marlowe, T. Middleton, J. Donne, K. Phillips, A. Lanyer, R.
Herrick) and through the lenses of history, culture, and theory.
3 credits (Eschenbaum) TuTh 12:40-2:05
ENGLISH 363, SECTION 01: SHAKESPEARE I
The course focuses on Shakespeare's early plays and typically includes plays such as, Richard
II, Richard III, Henry IV, Part One, Comedy of Errors, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About
Nothing, Midsummer Night's English Dream, As You Like it, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar,
Hamlet, Cymbeline. For the specific course, to be taught in Spring 2014, plays studied in class
will be chosen from this list. Some film adaptations will also be shown.
3 credits (Hogan) W 5:30-8:15.
ENG 364, SECTION 01: SHAKESPEARE II
Study of Shakespeare’s later plays within their cultural contexts and through close reading and
analysis; includes consideration of some recent adaptations and strategies for studying
Shakespeare in the classroom, on the stage, and in contemporary culture.
3 credits (Friesen) MWF 11:00-11:55 Writing Emphasis Course
ENG 367, SECTION 01: 19th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
By reading the major writers of the years 1790-1901, students will become familiar with the
classic literary works of the Romantic and Victorian periods of English literature, as well as the
social, philosophical, and critical contexts that inspired them. 3 credits (DeFazio) MW 5:30-6:55
ENG 371, SECTION 01: 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE
The course will intensively examine important texts in fiction, poetry, autobiography, and essay
from the American 1800’s. Authors may include Hawthorne, Poe, Cooper, Melville, Douglass,
Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Stowe, Whitman, Davis, Alcott, Jacobs, Dickinson, Howells, James,
Twain, or others. 3 credits (Gray) TuTh 9:25-10:50
ENG 382, SECTION 01: LATINO LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Study of representative works in original English or translation by writers of Mexican American,
Cuban American, Puerto Rican, and other Latino or Latin American origins, emphasizing the
aesthetic dimensions of this literature as well as its historical roots and contemporary cultural
contexts. 3 credits (Barillas) MW 2:15-3:40
ENGLISH 385, SECTION 01: WOMEN AUTHORS
The course will provide introductions to major feminist approaches to analyzing literature in
English by women. Primary authors may include poets, playwrights, story-writers and novelists
such as Sappho, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Christina
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Rosetti, Emily Dickinson, Sophie Treadwell, Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, H.D.,
Marianne Moore, Adrienne Rich, Ann Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, Rita Dove, Toni
Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Angela Carter, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jean Rhys, and
Arundhati Roy. Course Assignments include exams, essays, and group discussion work in class.
3 credits (Crutchfield) TuTh 2:15-3:40 Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 405, SECTION 01: TEACHING ENGLISH IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL
This course will be integrated with a field experience. In the context of a real classroom, teacher
candidates will learn how to plan for and assess student learning in English. With a focus on
content knowledge, teacher candidates will plan a variety of meaningful learning experiences,
assess student learning, and monitor and modify instruction to best support the individual
learners in the classroom. The teacher candidate will design, enact, and assess activities that
advance student understanding to more complex levels. Teacher candidates will gain experience
in monitoring the obstacles and barriers that some students or groups of students face in school;
candidates will learn how to design learning experiences to support all learners.
3 credits (Jones) MTuWThF 9:25-10:50.
ENGLISH 413, SECTIONS 01: WRITING PORTFOLIO
This course will challenge students to review, revise, and reconsider the body of writing they’ve
produced during their undergraduate careers as rhetoric and writing emphasis majors. As
students prepare to assemble their portfolios they will be asked to reimagine previous writing
projects through the lenses of various writing research methodologies.
3 credits (Thoune) MWF 11:00-11:55 Writing Emphasis Course
ENG 417, SECTION 01: SEMINAR IN ADVANCED POETRY WRITING
An advanced seminar in writing poetry with an experienced poet. Emphasis on the creative
process, poetics, revision. Workshop format and individual tutorial meetings with poet. The class
will also include information about literary magazines, ideas about publishing, and visits from
other poets. Prerequisite: ENG 305. Consent of instructor.
3 credits (Stobb) MW 3:55-5:20 Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 445, SECTION 01: LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION
This course will introduce you to the new field of ecologically oriented literary and cultural
studies, Ecocriticism. While the study of literature in relation to environment has always been
integral to literary criticism, only since the 1990s has it assumed the proportions of a
movement. There are now professional organizations, academic journals, and, ultimately,
classes like this one dedicated to careful study of this relationship. But this apparatus is
developed not simply as an end in itself, but also as a means of bringing into focus such broader
questions as: What is the relation between environmental experience and literary representation
of the environment? How do the definitions of "nature" and "wilderness"—and the values
attached to these—change from age to age? Moreover, how have the literary and cultural modes
of environmental perception been translated into environmental ethics that influence social
action and political policy? In order to explore these questions, we will critically examine both
British & American cultural constructions of “the pastoral,” “wilderness” and “the animal” in a
range of texts exemplifying different environmental discourses (e.g. philosophical, historical)
and literary genres (e.g. fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film). In addition, consideration will be
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given to the emergence of a number of distinct approaches within ecocritical studies, such as
Marxist ecological approaches, ecofeminism, ecophenomenology, animal studies and
environmental justice. This course is a Humanities elective in the Environmental Studies minor.
This course may include two field trips on Saturdays TBD.
3 credits (Sultzbach) TuTh 3:55-5:20 Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 446, SECTION 01: FORMS OF FICTION
An investigation of traditional and contemporary narrative forms and some problems involved in
writing within them. Students will be invited to write fictions of various kinds and find solutions
to specific writing problems. 3 credits (Cashion) TuTh 12:40-2:05 Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 452, SECTION 411: PROFESSIONAL WRITING PRACTICUM
This course is for students who need to complete their internship/practicum for the Professional
Writing Minor, and requires instructor approval to
enroll.
3 credits (Steiner) Online Writing Emphasis
Course
ENGLISH 481, SECTION 01: Seminar Literature/Culture: Feminism and Sexuality
An advanced seminar in the study of literature and culture, ENG 481: Feminism and Sexuality
will examine the intersections between erotic literature, feminist thought, and cultural
representations of erotic life. The first half of the course will explore female sexuality through
the lens of literary historicism, engaging with early modern and Enlightenment narratives of
heteronormativity and queerness, marriage, orgasm and sexual pleasure, auto-eroticism,
menstruation, fertility and sexual generation. The second half of the course will build from this
history to critically engage twentieth-century and contemporary feminist writings on
pornography and sexual violence. In addition to reading novels by Denis Diderot, the Marquis de
Sade, Jane Austen and Anne Desclos, several works of poetry, and watching two films (the
documentary Inside Deep Throat and Steven Shainburg's Secretary), we will also read essays by
feminist scholars who raise significant questions about the ethics and politics of Western erotic
culture. Students taking this course should be aware that they will be asked to read, discuss, and
write scholarly projects on sexually explicit material.
3 credits (Parker) MW 3:55-5:20 Writing Emphasis Course
ENGLISH 497, SECTION 01: SEMINAR IN RHETORIC AND WRITING "Genre &
Culture."
According to Charles Bazerman, “Genres are not just forms. Genres are forms of life, ways of
being. They are frames for social action.” How do forms of writing reflect and reproduce our
cultural realities? This seminar will be an occasion to discuss the “genre turn” in rhetoric and
writing, charting over time how genre has been reconceptualized and how it has informed
contemporary cultural research. Seminar participants will become familiar with conversations in
the field and, by the end of the semester, conduct their own genre studies.
3 credits (Kopp) TuTh 9:25-10:50 Writing Emphasis Course
Please refer to the Undergraduate Catalog and Course Timetable for more information.
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