Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 130 BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE
(CRN 3807 Professor Laurence Shine TR 8:00-9:15am Ketchum 219)
The purpose of English 130 is to employ classical texts to develop a significant theme in human society over an
extended time. This is certainly true of this course, whose purpose is to retrieve and unravel and analyze by means of a
number of texts the myths of Prometheus and Lucifer and ask what it means to mankind now and to its problematical
future. So this should turn out to be a real education and enjoyable too, because how could stories about warlike gods and
ambitious heroes and sneaky devils and horrible monsters not be entertaining, provoking, and instructive?
Prometheus the fore-seeing was one of the fallen Titans of early Greek mythology who joined the new divine
regime of the Olympians under Zeus’s command. In defiance of Zeus, he brought fire in a stalk of fennel to the new race of
humans and thus, in terms of knowledge, technology, and power, allowed them to become “like gods.” Prometheus, the
friend of mankind (or not), suffered terribly and enduringly for the theft of fire. The Greek myth parallels the Hebraic
Genesis story of the rebellion in heaven of Lucifer (light or fire-bringer) and the serpent’s seduction of Adam and Eve into
eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. It seems that the god-like and Satanic possession of knowledge is
fundamental to our understanding of the human project, at least as far as the Greek and Hebrew origins of the now world-dominant West are
concerned. By the broken lights of the myth of Prometheus and the sinister story of Satan we will ask: What is it about being “like gods” that puts
mankind at war with them and with the Past and the Nature and the Justice and the Cosmos that they represent?
This course fulfills the IF Western World Civilization Requirement and the Western World Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 130 BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE
(CRN 3974 Professor Johanna Fisher ONLINE)
Works selected from Biblical literature and from Latin and Greek literature before Constantine.
This course fulfills the IF Western World Civilization Requirement and the Western World Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 151 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
(CRN 1702 Professor Johanna Fisher ONLINE)
(CRN 2087 Professor Marilyn Asquith MWF 11:00-11:50am Ketchum 315)
(CRN 2914 STAFF TR 3:05-4:20pm Ketchum 111)
(CRN XXXX STAFF TR 9:25-10:40am XXXX)
Verbal and formal techniques of English and American poetry. Prosody, verse forms, conventions, genres, diction, and imagery.
Social and historical contexts. Representative authors and periods.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 160 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE AND FILM: Shakespeare on Film
(CRN XXXX STAFF MWF 1:00-1:50pm XXXX)
Analysis of film as the creative and critical interpretation of fiction or drama; how such films respond to aesthetic, cultural, technological, political, and
ideological influences, both in the source text and in the contemporary moment.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
ENG 160 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE AND FILM: Literature of the Fantastic
(CRN 3909 Professor Tim Bryant TR 10:50-12:05pm Ketchum 219)
Man-made monsters, blood-sucking vampires, spectral hauntings, artificial intelligences, and costumed avengers are the
human, inhuman, and superhuman subjects this course explores through literature and film from the early nineteenth
through twenty-first centuries. We will compare how literary sources and film adaptations represent such fantastic
possibilities through strategic choices in writing and image that address their evolving historical, cultural, and aesthetic
contexts.
Prerequisites: None. This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
ENG 190W INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY INTERPRETATION
(CRN 1758 Professor Laurence Shine TR 9:25-10:40am Ketchum 106)
The purpose of the English 190W is to provide students who are prospective English majors with background, practice, and technical
expertise in the reading, analysis, and discussion of the genres and types of English literary productions: the short story, poetry, the novel, and drama.
The student’s progress and accomplishments will be measured on the basis of four revisable essays and the final examination on the technical terms
and categories of English literary history and practice.
The revisable essays comprise the following assignments and themes: The short story (Joyce’s “The Sisters” and “Araby”). This is a written
exercise in close-reading analysis and thematic development. The analysis is predicated on identifying and defining the significant absence (the
gnomon), and the organizing topic in “Araby” is Romance. The novel (Conrad’s Heart of Darkness). The subject here will be the structural
development of the classic novel and the modernist deployment of a classical model to reveal the unspeakable darkness of a contemporary history.
The poem (Ginsberg’s Howl). The lyric utterance here takes the form of a four-part mourning lament and accusation that has biblical and
apocalyptical sources and implications. The topic of incarceration and the consequent mad desire to escape dominates and reveals an ominous
psychology at work in post-war America. Examples of traditional forms and types of poetry will be provided for analysis and comparison. Drama
(Aristotle, Sophocles and Synge). Sophocles’ Oedipus the King will be the central and classical example of a powerful drama that will illustrate the
key elements of Aristotle’s definition of tragedy and provide the model for Synge’s modern comedy and its gestation of the sons’ revolutionary
impulse to reject the dead fathers of history.
Prerequisites: CWP 102, or the equivalent.
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 190W INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY INTERPRETATION
(CRN 1757 STAFF MWF 10:00-10:50am )
(CRN 2051 Professor Aimable Twagilimana MW 3:00-4:15pm Ketchum 313)
The basic types of responses to literature; the defining characteristics of poetry, fiction, and drama; as well as the skills of close reading of literary
texts. Students should take this class immediately after completing the freshman writing requirement or within the first year of transferring into the
English major.
Prerequisites: CWP 102, or the equivalent.
ENG 200 FIELD EXPERIENCE IN SECONDARY ENGLISH EDUCATION
(CRN 1703 Professor Dennis Wojtaszczyk R 8:00-10:40am Ketchum 315)
This introductory course focuses on the English Language Arts classroom, curriculum and pedagogy. The course is handled within a
seminar framework and highlights various issues in the ELA classroom today. Students are required to complete twenty-five hours of
classroom observation and twenty-five hours of tutoring.
Prerequisites: Standing in the English Education Major or Post Baccalaureate Certification Program.
ENG 201 THE CRAFT OF WRITING
(CRN 4193 Professor Ed Taylor MWF 1:00-1:50 Bacon 202)
Writing is not, as Hemingway said, sitting at a typewriter and opening a vein. It’s a series of processes and tactics and strategies, and
skills (“skill” comes from an Old Norse word meaning a physical act practiced until mastered). This class focuses on the processes,
tactics, and strategies of expository writing, professional writing (including writing for the public media), and creative writing—both
the things they have in common and the things unique to each functional kind of writing.
ENG 205 HISTORY OF CINEMA I
(CRN 2610 STAFF Time TBD )
This course provides the student with an understanding of cinema history from 1890 to 1960. Students will examine trends in cinema's aesthetic forms,
technical breakthroughs, innovators, cultural antecedents, and impact.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
ENG 206W HISTORY OF CINEMA II
(CRN 2767 Professor Geraldine Bard ONLINE - meets for 6 weeks starting Sept 2)
This course provides the student with an understanding of cinema history since 1960. Students will examine representative trends in
cinema's aesthetic form, technical breakthroughs, key innovators, cultural antecedents and cultural impact.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement and the Writing across the Curriculum requirement.
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 206 HISTORY OF CINEMA II
(CRN 3911 Professor Heidi Dietz Faletti MWF 10:00-10:50am Bacon 117)
This course provides the student with an understanding of cinema history since 1960. Students will examine representative trends in
cinema's aesthetic form, technical breakthroughs, key innovators, cultural antecedents and cultural impact.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement
ENG 210 BRITISH LITERATURE BEFORE 1700
(CRN 2916 STAFF MWF 2:00-2:50pm Ketchum 219)
(CRN 2917 Professor Natalie Haid TR 3:05-4:20pm Ketchum 219)
A study of selected topics, themes, and authors in British literature before 1700.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
This course fulfills the pre-1850 British Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 211 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE 1700-1914:The Development of the Essay
(CRN 3969 Professor Mark Fulk MWF 12:00-12:50 pm Classroom B118)
This course surveys the development of British literature from near the end of the Stuart monarchs up to the point of World
War I. As a theme across periods, we will examine the development of the essay form ("academic," "popular," and
otherwise) alongside other developments in poetry and prose.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
This course fulfills the pre-1850 British Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 211 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE 1700-1914
(CRN 3965 STAFF TR 4:40-5:45pm Ketchum 320)
A study of selected topics, themes, and authors in British literature from 1700 to 1900.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement
This course fulfills the pre-1850 British Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 212 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE SINCE 1914
(CRN 3327 Professor Marilyn Asquith MWF 1:00-1:50pm Ketchum 320)
An overview of important movements in British literature from the late Victorian period through contemporary literature, such as Fabianism,
Modernism, Marxism, Aestheticism, The Movement and the Angry Young Men, postmodernism, post-Empire writing, Black British writing and
women's and queer literature.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement, as well as the post-1850 British Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 220 AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1865
(CRN 2233 Professor Tom Newhouse MWF 9:00-9:50am Ketchum 315)
(CRN XXX STAFF TR 8:00-9:15am XXXX)
Survey of the various genres of influential American writing-including biographies, captivity and slave narratives, essays, poems, short stories and
criticism, as well as Gothic, epistolary, sentimental, and Romantic novels produced between the late seventeenth century and mid-nineteenth century.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
This course fulfills the pre-1900 American Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 220 AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1865
(CRN 2310 Professor Peter Ramos MW 4:30-5:45pm Classroom B119)
We will begin the course with A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,
published in 1682 and written by the wife of a prominent Calvinist-Puritan minister. We’ll then move on to two famous
texts written just as this nation was forming itself: The Declaration of Independence and The Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin. After reading sections of Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments, we’ll explore texts that
develop Smith’s idea of “sympathy,” as well as some questions this idea raised in many of this country’s writers and
inhabitants. In this particular light we will read Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple, William Hill Brown’s The Power
of Sympathy, and Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette.
For many, even the terms “sympathy” and “freedom” posed inherent contradictions. With this in mind, we’ll read some of Ralph Waldo
Emerson essays, as well as some sections from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.
By mid-(19th-) century, slavery was already threatening to dissolve the Union and send the country into civil war. Such a national conflict
would come a decade later, but we’ll read the book responsible, as Abraham Lincoln once half-jokingly noted, for staring the Civil War: Harriet
Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. We’ll then read a text from one who escaped the bonds of slavery: Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass. From the nineteenth century on, slavery (and by extension, race) would continue to be one of the most important topics in our nation’s
discourse, in our literature and our politics, and we’ll end the course by reading two texts by Herman Melville that address this subject.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
This course fulfills the pre-1900 American Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 221 AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1865: Buffalo Based Authors
(CRN#2349 TR 1:40-2:55 pm Professor Thomas Reigstad Ketchum 315)
What do Mark Twain and Joyce Carol Oates have in common? They lived and wrote in Buffalo. This course will
focus on them, along with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lucille Clifton, and Carl Dennis—among other authors—to explore
the lives and works of literati associated with Buffalo. We will read, discuss and write about novels, essays, short
stories, poetry, and journalistic reports that reveal Buffalo’s contribution to American literature, history and culture
after the Civil War.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement and the post-1900 American Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 221 AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1865
(CRN 2309 Professor Gregg Biglieri MWF 12:00-12:50pm Ketchum 320)
Previous themes for this course have been: America as Science Fiction; That Seventies Show (If 70s Were 00s); American Noir; Western Westerns;
Monsters, Zombies, and Ghosts. This fall’s topic will blow your mind.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
This course fulfills the post-1900 American Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 221 AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1865
(CRN 1704 Professor Tom Newhouse MWF 11:00-11:50am Ketchum 320)
A study of topics, themes, and authors in American literature after the Civil War.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
This course fulfills the post-1900 American Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 230 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
(CRN 3912 Professor Gregg Biglieri MWF 11:00-11:50am Ketchum 111)
Is that a man in this photograph or is it a statue? Perhaps it’s the image of someone who’s gotten lost and
simply stopped in midstride, as if for a moment coming out of a daze to find himself alone in a piazza,
peppered by an overspill of hundreds of abandoned, mismatched shoes; leftovers, perhaps, from those who
have entered the order of the Discalced. How did he get there? Perhaps he had become momentarily
transfixed thinking of the books that he would be reading for this course and woke up to find that he was
somewhere else, in a place he could never have imagined himself to be had he not become so happily lost in
thinking about such books, rich and strange, that he had already imagined having sampled as if they’d been
so many kinds of imaginary footwear, as if his imagination were the factory in which Cinderella’s slipper was originally manufactured, where it was
possible to download any kind of shoe in the world.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
This course fulfills the non-Western World Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 230 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
(CRN 2904 Professor Heidi Dietz Faletti MWF 2:00-2:50pm Ketchum 320)
Comparative analyses of the ways in which literary periods, genres, movements, and social forms are shaped by the languages and cultural contexts
through which they come into being.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement and the non-Western World Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 231W WOMEN IN LITERATURE
(CRN 2705 Professor Sharon Gerring ONLINE)
(CRN 2706 Professor Sharon Gerring ONLINE)
(CRN XXXX STAFF MW 3:00-4:15pm XXXX)
The images of women in literature as they reflect attitudes about women and their roles. Emphasis on authors and eras varies with instructors.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement, the Writing across the Curriculum Requirement, the IF Diversity Requirement and the Minority
Literature Requirement in the English BA
ENG 231 WOMEN IN LITERATURE
(CRN 3923 Professor Julie O'Connor-Colvin TR 9:25-10:40am Ketchum 320)
The images of women in literature as they reflect attitudes about women and their roles.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement and the IF Diversity Requirement.
This course fulfills the Minority Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 240 AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1940
(CRN 2905 Professor Jennifer Ryan MWF 10:00-10:50am Ketchum 320)
In this course, we will study the complex traditions of African-American literature that emerged from slavery and from
the accompanying struggles for freedom, security, and autonomous selfhood. As writers articulated protests against the
abuses of slavery, they cultivated a political consciousness that encompassed not only abolition but also issues related to
literacy, women’s rights, and national identity. A range of musical forms, including spirituals, gospel, blues, and jazz,
shaped the creative explorations of these issues,. We will read selections from several representative genres, including
slave narratives, novels, poetry, essays, and short fiction, as we consider what literary elements helped to define the black
literatures of America. Our discussions will focus on key historical periods such as the 18th- and 19th-century slave
uprisings, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Harlem Renaissance as we investigate the social functions
that this literature serves.
This course fulfills both the IF Humanities and IF Diversity Requirements.
This course fulfills either the post-1900 American Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS, or the Minority Literature Requirement in the
English BA
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 243 INTRODUCTION TO LATINO/A LITERATURE: Colonialism, Empire and Immigration
(CRN 2458 Professor Lorna Pérez TR 10:50-12:05pm Upton 230)
This course examines the literary production of the four major Latina/o groups in the United States:
Chicano/a/Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Dominican. This body of literature, written in
English by US based writers, nonetheless reveals the profound connections between the nations of what Jose
Marti called "Our America", and further speaks to the unique historical and social positions of different
Latino/a groups in the United States. Some of the texts that we will be considering are Americo Paredes's
George Washington Gomez, Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican, Cristina Garcia's Monkey
Hunting and Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize winning The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement and the IF Diversity Requirement.
This course fulfills either the Minority Literature Requirement in the English BA or the post-1900 American
Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 245W WRITING ABOUT THE ARTS
(CRN3958 Professor Kim Chinquee TR 10:50-12:50pm Bacon 217)
A practicum in writing about the arts. The course teaches skills essential to developing a discerning critical eye and to communicating one's emerging
critical insights in various forms of writing about the arts. Students participate in projects that highlight both traditional and contemporary subjects
and approaches to arts criticism.
ENG 253 TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE II
(CRN 3975 Professor Johanna Fisher ONLINE)
Literature in English from 1945 to the present.
ENG 255 THE SHORT STORY
(CRN 3341 STAFF MW 4:30-5:45pm Ketchum 118)
(CRN 3914 Professor Marilyn Asquith MWF 2:00-2:50pm Ketchum 315)
(CRN 3921 Professor Shannon Kern MWF 10:00-10:50am Ketchum 315)
(CRN 3925 Professor Julie O'Connor-Colvin TR 1:40-2:55pm )
(CRN XXXX STAFF ONLINE)
Various examples of influential short fiction produced around the world since the nineteenth century. Familiarizes students with various literary
techniques involved in the craft of short fiction.
This course fulfills the IF Humanities Requirement.
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ENG 260 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
(CRN 1708 Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor MWF 9:00-9:50am Bulger 0N)
This course provides opportunities to investigate the history and culture surrounding the origins and develop-ment of
literature for children. From “instruction with delight” and fairy tales to the recent push for nonfiction by proponents of
the common core, students will debate, explore, and evaluate literature for children over the last three hundred years.
Prerequisite: Sophomore, junior, or senior status.
ENG 260 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
(CRN 2062 Professor Natalie Haid TR 1:40-2:55pm Ketchum 320)
Types of children's literature, with attention to the principles of book selection and reading interests of children.
Prerequisite: Sophomore, junior, or senior status.
ENG 266W THE PERSONAL ESSAY
(CRN 3977 Professor Shannon Kern MWF 12:00-12:50pm Ketchum 302)
The personal essay and how it both relates to and diverges from more objective forms of essays often encountered in academic contexts. Students
practice close reading of essays and compose original essays with peer and instructor evaluations.
ENG 300W WRITING FOR THE PROFESSIONS
(CRN 1759 Professor Mark Hammer ONLINE)
(CRN 1760 Professor Mark Hammer ONLINE)
(CRN 2615 Professor Tamara Rabe MWF 8:00-8:50am Ketchum 328)
(CRN 4181 Professor Ralph Wahlstrom TR 10:50-12:05pm Ketchum 302)
Practice for students who wish to improve their competence in writing and editing for a variety of professions.
Prerequisite: CWP 102.
ENG 301W ADVANCED COMPOSITION
(CRN 1762 STAFF TR 10:50-12:05pm Ketchum 313)
(CRN 1761 Professor Tamara Rabe MWF 10:00-10:50am Ketchum 200)
(CRN 2902 Professor Mark Hammer ONLINE)
(CRN 4206 Professor Theresa Desmond TR 3:05-4:20pm Ketchum 106)
Practice in writing expository papers. Writing assignments emphasize stylistic strategies, diction, and revision.
Prerequisite: CWP 102.
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 303W LITERATURE IN FILM
(CRN 3852 Professor Geraldine Bard ONLINE—meets 6 weeks starting 2nd week of classes)
The motion picture as a vehicle for literature. Analysis and comparison of verbal and pictorial forms.
This course fulfills the Writing across the Curriculum requirement.
ENG 304 FORMS OF FILM
(CRN 3885 STAFF)
Breadth and depth of selected film forms. Emphasis on the film as art, medium of communication, and social document.
ENG 304 FORMS OF FILM: History Goes To The Movies
(CRN 3883 Professor Donn Youngstrom MW 3:00-4:15pm Ketchum 207)
The course examines “Hollywood’s” version of history as well as British films in depicting historical
periods, events and individuals from ancient to 20th century.
ENG 305W CREATIVE WRITING: NARRATIVE
(CRN 2451 STAFF)
The writing of narrative. Prerequisite: CWP 102.
ENG 305W CREATIVE WRITING: NARRATIVE
(CRN 1965 Professor Jeffrey Hirschberg T 11:00-1:30pm Theater 111)
Writing the short film. Requires instructor permission. Students will also take ENG 402W in Spring 2015.
Prerequisite: CWP 102.
ENG 305W CREATIVE WRITING: NARRATIVE—Young Adult & Fantasy Fiction
(CRN 2037 Professor Ralph Wahlstrom TR 1:40-2:55pm Bacon 207)
In this introduction to writing short fiction, we’ll explore the worlds of fantasy, dystopias and teen angst as we practice the
craft of writing the short story. The class is open to any student interested in learning to write short stories.
Prerequisites: CWP 102, or permission of the instructor.
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ENG 306W CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY
(CRN 1763 Professor Ed Taylor MWF 11:00-11:50 Ketchum 313)
Want to learn magic? Learn to make poetry—in this class, even the sky’s not the limit. We’ll write, read, and enjoy
the art form about which W. C. Williams said, humans “die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”
Prerequisites: CWP 102, or permission of the instructor.
ENG 308 TUTORING PRACTICUM
(CRN 3888 Professor Natalie Haid TBD Ketchum 323)
Prerequisite: CWP 102, minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 in English courses, permission of instructor.
Students meet weekly with Writing Center director, conduct tutoring sessions, and gain practical experience as writing tutors in the Writing Center.
ENG 309W TEACHING AND EVALUATING WRITING
(CRN 1764 Professor Tom Reigstad TR 10:50-12:05pm Ketchum 315)
Learn how to teach and assess writing skills in an individualized way and in a variety of settings—schools and the workplace.
We will explore strategies for encouraging and responding to developing writers. Donald Murray’s A Writer Teaches Writing will be our
touchstone.
Pre-requisite: completion of CWP 102
ENG 311 METHODS IN TEACHING LANGUAGE
(CRN 1712 Professor Dennis Wojtaszczyk MWF 8:00-8:50am Ketchum 300)
This course focuses on the use of writing to teach language. Therefore, it is a creational rather than correctional course. It merges
craft with correctness. Time is spent on the twenty most common errors made by writers. In addition, the course highlights
linguistic diversity and respect for home languages.
ENG 314 CHAUCER
(CRN 2452 Professor Angela Fulk MWF 11:00-11:50am Ketchum 100)
This course focuses on the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, a medieval writer labeled by John Dryden as “the father of English
poetry.” Half of the course time will be spent on his well-known Canterbury Tales, the other half on lesser-known works. All
reading will be done in Middle English. This course will satisfy either the major author requirement or the pre-1850 British
literature requirement; ENG 190 is a prerequisite.
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 315 SHAKESPEARE I
(CRN 3889 Professor Gregg Biglieri MWF 9:00-9:50am Ketchum 118)
Shakespeare's work to 1600: the sonnets, early tragedies, histories, and comedies.
This course will satisfy either the major author requirement or the pre-1850 British literature requirement;
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or THA 316 or permission of instructor.
ENG 345 WORLD LITERATURE AFTER 1945
(CRN 2608 Professor Aimable Twagilimana W 6:00-8:40pm Ketchum 320)
Post-World War II literature around the globe. Poetry and fiction along with the cultural background of at least two continents.
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
This course fulfills the non-Western World Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 350 TWENTIETH-CENTURY DRAMA I
(CRN 2273 Professor Heidi Dietz Faletti MWF 12:00-12:50pm Ketchum 219)
Drama from the 1880s to the end of World War II of such playwrights as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Lorca,
Synge, O'Casey, and O'Neill. Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of instructor.
This course fulfills the Western World Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS.
ENG 353 AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE: Tradition and Transformation
(CRN 3859 Professor Tim Bryant TR 3:05-4:20pm Ketchum 100)
The Origin Myth of Acoma is the tale of two sisters, Iatiku and Nautsiti, whose descendants have lived in North America
longer than any other people. Starting with this primordial origin story, our studies will proceed through traditional myths
and tales to contemporary fiction, poetry, and film by, about, and for the diverse populations of indigenous North Americans.
Prerequisite: Three credit hours of literature.
This course fulfills either the post-1900 American Literature Requirement in the English BA and BS or the Minority
Literature Requirement in the English BA. This course fulfills the IF Diversity and non-Western Civilizations requirement.
ENG 354 ETHNIC AMERICAN MINORITY LITERATURES
(CRN 1714 Professor Julie O'Connor-Colvin TR 8:00-9:15am Ketchum 320)
The background, development, and contemporary contribution of ethnic American minority literature (folk, poetry, short story, novel, biography, and
play) and individual authors. The literary characteristics of the literature, its contribution to the field of American literature, and its place in today's
society. This course fulfills either the post-1900 American Literature or the Minority Literature Requirement in the English BA, and is required for
the English BS.
ENG 354 ETHNIC AMERICAN MINORITY LITERATURES
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
(CRN 2900 Professor Jim Cercone TR 1:50-2:55pm Bacon 217)
The background, development, and contemporary contribution of ethnic American minority literature (folk, poetry, short story, novel, biography, and
play) and individual authors. The literary characteristics of the literature, its contribution to the field of American literature, and its place in today's
society. This section will focus on teaching these works in the English Language Arts classroom. This course fulfills either the post-1900 American
Literature or the Minority Literature Requirement in the English BA. It is required for the English BS.
ENG 356 FUTURISTIC FICTION: The Future is Now
(CRN 3808 Professor Barbara Bontempo TR 1:40-2:55pm Bacon 220)
Science Fiction is more than space opera, time travel fantasy, and bug-eyed monsters. It is a genre rich in its language, its literary traditions, and its
multi-faceted subject matter. Using extrapolation, it provides a window into our own psyche and consciousness; it puts into bold
relief our human foibles and triumphs; it celebrates our insatiable curiosity to know, to understand, and to create. In this course
we explore that branch of speculative fiction that looks to possible futures in order to understand our past and our present. We
trace the evolution of science fiction from its “Golden Age” to the present through exemplary authors such as: H.G. Wells, the
father of SF, Phillip Dick, early post-modernist, Ursula LeGuin, a “new wave” writer, William Gibson, inventor of
“cyberspace”, and McCarthy, whose contemporary dystopian vision of the future is at once filled with both tenderness and
despair.
Through discussion, written analysis, and online research, we examine such questions as:
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What makes us human?
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How far can (should) we go in merging man and machine?
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Are we alone in the universe?
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Who are the real aliens?
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Will our near future be a “brave new world”, or a dystopian nightmare?
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Who will speak for this fragile blue planet?
The wonders and mysteries of this life, of this universe are many, and SF explores these as “thought experiments” for our minds and our
imaginations.
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or permission of the instructor.
ENG 357 LITERARY PUBLISHING
(CRN 3797 Professor Kim Chinquee TR 4:30-5:45pm Ketchum 300)
The course is a theoretical and practical introduction to literary publishing. The theoretical component of the course will involve a study of the
history of the literary magazine from the founding of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in 1912 to the present time, including an understanding of both
the function of the magazine as a literary force and the interaction of design and text. The practical component of the course will focus on editing
ELJ, the SUNY-Buffalo State’s literary magazine. The work will include soliciting and selecting material, copy-editing and proofreading, design,
desktop publishing, dealing with printers, publicizing and distributing the magazine.
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 370 FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE
(CRN 2148 Professor Shannon Kern MWF 9:00-9:50am Ketchum 320)
(CRN 2478 Professor Aimable Twagilimana MW 4:30-5:45pm Ketchum 320)
(CRN 3853 Professor Geraldine Bard ONLINE - class meets first 6 weeks of semester)
The structure of language with emphasis on English, relation to speech and writing. Language families and their relationships. Language change.
Significance of regional and social dialects.
ENG 380 THE HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK
(CRN 3854 Professor Lisa Berglund MWF 2:00-2:50pm Ketchum 207)
The book as a physical object. Topics include the technologies of typesetting, printing, binding, and paper-making;
history of reading, writing, printing and publishing; books as commodities; the impact of electronic media; textual
editing; annotating, defacing and otherwise using and abusing books. Field trips, hands-on analysis of old printed
books, workshops in printing and typesetting. Assignments will include short essays, quizzes, class discussion and an
original research project. Pre-requisite CWP 102.
ENG 389 SEMINAR IN RESEARCH IN LITERARY STUDIES
(CRN 3855 Professor Barish Ali TR 9:25-10:40am Ketchum 118)
This is a 3-credit special topics course that will be part scholarly methods & part guided individual research. Successful
completion of this class will allow students to take the optional spring semester continuation class (Honors Thesis; 3
credits), which will be completed as an independent study.
Prerequisites: ENG 190 and instructor permission
ENG 390 LITERARY THEORY
(CRN 1717 Professor Barish Ali TR 1:40-2:55pm Bacon 204)
This course is designed to provide a clear, systematic understanding of the concept of “literature” as it is developed and transformed in the texts of
various 20th-century schools of criticism. Although the course is organized as a general historical survey, in actual fact all of the texts covered
connect together and have been selected to develop a sustained conceptual argument; the trajectories of this argument will become clear during the
course of the semester.
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or instructor permission
ENG 402W ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: NARRATIVE
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
(CRN 3129 Professor Ed Taylor MWF 2:00-2:50pm Ketchum 313)
Building on English 305, this class will be a collaborative seminar on more specific elements of fiction writing for more advanced practitioners. The
class will involve more intensive reading and writing and regular full-group workshopping of ongoing projects.
Prerequisite: ENG 305W
ENG 410 COMPOSITION AND RHETORICAL THEORY
(CRN 2457 Professor Ralph Wahlstrom M 3:00-5:45pm Ketchum 100)
Trends in contemporary composition and rhetorical theory with an emphasis of the theory of discourse communities. Students develop skills in
producing critical, theoretical, creative, and rhetorical discourse.
Prerequisite: ENG 201.
ENG 418 THE BRITISH NOVEL, Ordination in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
(CRN 3858 Professor Mark Fulk MWF 10:00-10:50am Classroom B106)
We will survey the nineteenth-century British novel from feminist, Marxist, ecological, and other radical perspectives. As a loose theme, we will look
at ordination, which not only signifies induction to the priesthood but also the discovery and sacralization of one's vocation (or lack thereof) in the
life of the times.
Prerequisites: ENG 190, or permission of the instructor, and 3 hours of literature.
ENG 422 JAMES JOYCE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
(CRN 3806 Professor Laurence Shine TR 10:50-12:05pm Ketchum 320)
A course on Joyce and his contemporaries is necessarily a reading of all of Modernism, because Joyce
himself was so much the arch-modernist that his figurative power is in the process of defining the
shocking and bewildering era in human history known to us as the Modern. It will not be long before
Joyce lends his name and his significance to an age of brutal change the way Shakespeare did to his. As
with Shakespeare, Joyce even transcends his era, but also, as with Shakespeare, reading his texts, all of
them masterpieces, with and against those of his contemporaries can yield a truth-content for Modernism
that will go a long way towards building our comprehension of an era that even now is still working and
wreaking our common fate.
This course requires students to read selections from Joyce’s Portrait, Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans
Wake in the company of Eliot’s The Waste Land and The Four Quartets, Yeats’s poetry post-1916,
Synge’s Playboy of the Western World, and selections from Sigmund Freud. Can the Great Comedian
James Joyce help us discern, perhaps, the lineaments of a monstrous creation that is not all fatal? This
course may be used to fulfill the post-1850 British literature requirement for the English BA and BS.
Prerequisites: ENG 190, or permission of the instructor, and 3 hours of literature
ENG 442 THE AMERICAN NOVEL TO 1900: Landscapes of Feeling
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
(CRN 2896 Professor Tim Bryant TR 9:25-10:40am Ketchum 219)
Heartstrings will be pulled, home-fronts will fall besieged, and the many mysteries of American culture will be mystified further
still in this survey of the early American novel. Readings include The Coquette, Wieland, Hobomok, The Last of the Mohicans,
Moby-Dick, The House of the Seven Gables, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Pudd'nhead Wilson.
This course fulfill the pre-1900 American literature requirement for the English BA and BS.
Prerequisites: ENG 190 and three credit hours of literature.
ENG 443 AMERICAN POETRY AFTER 1900
(CRN 3857 Professor Jennifer Ryan MWF 9:00-9:50am Ketchum 200)
In this course, we will explore the ways in which innovation becomes tradition by studying some of the authors, texts, and poetic movements that
have defined American poetry for the past 100+ years. We will cover a range of poetic movements, including
Imagism, modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, Black Mountain poetry, the Beats, the San Francisco Renaissance,
the New York School, Confessionalism, Language poetry, Black Arts, feminist writings, and ethnic poetries. We
will explore the innovations central to the history of 20th-century American poetry by analyzing formal
techniques, historical contexts, and artistic philosophies in class discussions and by applying our findings in
writing assignments. Our discussions will pay particular attention to movements’ chronological overlap and
shared influences.
This course fulfills the post-1900 American literature requirement for the English BA and BS.
Prerequisites: ENG 190 and 3 credit hours of literature, or instructor permission.
ENG 451 STUDIES IN FICTION: Black British Identity
(CRN 3856 Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor MWF 11:00-11:50am Bacon 204)
Through historical and recent texts, this course will use literature to examine the development of Black British Identity from
the fights over abolition in the 18th and early 19th centuries to the mass migration of West Indians to Britain following World
War II to the current moment.
This course may be used to fulfill the post-1850 British literature requirement for the English BA and BS.
Prerequisites: ENG 190 and 3 credit hours of literature, or instructor permission.
ENG 461 YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
(CRN 1748 Professor Theresa Harris-Tigg TR 3:05-4:20pm Ketchum 315)
Prerequisites: ENG 190 and 3 credit hours of literature, or permission of instructor. Literature appropriate to students in grades 7-12.
ENG 463 METHODS, MATERIALS, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
(CRN 1308 Professor Theresa Harris-Tigg TR 8:00-10:40am Ketchum 313)
Prerequisites: EDF 303, ENG 200; minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 in major.
Includes secondary school curriculum, New York State standards for the language arts, planning, assessment, and classroom management. Additional
emphasis on professional development with on-site observations, practice teaching sessions, and interactions with public-school teachers and
personnel.
ENG 490W ENGLISH SEMINAR: American Renaissance
(CRN 2094 Professor Peter Ramos MW 3:00-4:15pm Ketchum 219)
The American Renaissance (in literature) is generally thought to be the period in the mid-nineteenth century (1850 – 1855, specifically) during which were
produced what many would consider the most influential or important works of American literature. We will read, among other writings, Herman Melville’s Moby
Dick, several novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, selected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden,
writings by Margaret Fuller, as well as some short stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
Prerequisites: ENG 190 and 3 credit hours of literature, or instructor permission.
ENG 490W ENGLISH SEMINAR: Zombie Fiction
(CRN 1765 Professor Lorna Pérez TR 1:40-2:55pm Bacon 205)
Cultures do not create their monsters arbitrarily; at certain moments certain monsters scare us or capture our imagination more than others. Horror as
a genre has undergone interesting shifts and fluxes--what is one decade's vision of horror, becomes the next
decade's cliché. In this course, we will be looking specifically at the phenomenon of the rise of zombie
fiction and imagery in the post-9/11 world. By tracing the trajectory of zombie fiction--beginning arguably
with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through to Max Brooks World War Z, from George Romero's classic Night
of the Living Dead through Zombieland--we will explore what the zombie signifies, and interrogate what
forces in our culture have made it so dominant at this particular historic moment. Specifically, we will be
considering how zombie texts function within the parodic and allegoric modes and interrogate what they
become parodies and allegories of. In other words, what in our society and culture are so rotten, diseased,
infested, and grotesque as to inspire nightmare images of the undead? What do these creatures tell us about
ourselves, our fears, and our anxieties?
Prerequisites: ENG 190 and 3 credit hours of literature, or instructor permission.
ENG 601 RESEARCH IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
(CRN 2274 Professor Lorna Pérez T 4:30-7:15pm Ketchum 111)
This is your introduction to the theories, methodologies, and critical frameworks that define literary and cultural studies at the graduate level. In
many ways this course is pragmatic in nature: we will be considering a wide array of different literary theories and
reading practices in order to help situate you in both graduate life and the larger academic community.
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor. This course is required by the English M.A. and should
be taken early in the program.
ENG 610 MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
(CRN 4172 Professor Angela Fulk M 4:30-7:15pm Ketchum 328)
Medieval British Literature: This course is designed for the study of medieval British literature other than Chaucer. This section
of the course will take the theme of Beginnings and Endings, and will examine works from both the beginning and the end of
the Middle Ages in Britain. The first half of the course will focus on texts from the Anglo-Saxon period, including the epic
Beowulf, and the last half will focus on the Middle English vernacular revival of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, including
the works of the Gawain poet and the visionary anchoress Julian of Norwich. Primary texts from the Anglo-Saxon period will
be read in translation; Middle English texts will be read in the original. Critical articles from a variety of theoretical approaches
will be consulted. Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor.
ENG 614 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE: British Women Poets
(CRN 2862 Professor Mark Fulk M 7:25-10:05pm Classroom B106)
We will be looking at women's poetry in the long eighteenth century, particularly through formal concerns. Much
work has been done in the last twenty years defending women's poetry in this period as the equivalent of that of their
male counterparts, and we will examine the poetry and criticism as a way of articulating both the challenges that formalism makes on women's
studies and the challenges that women's studies of this period make on formalist analysis of poetry. Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English
education major or appropriate premajor.
ENG 621 AMERICAN LITERATURE: Hawthorne and Melville
(CRN 2054 Professor Peter Ramos W 7:25-10:05pm Ketchum 300)
Selected periods, writers, forms, movements, and theoretical approaches.
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor.
ENG 641 STUDIES IN THE NOVEL
(CRN 3848 Professor Barish Ali R 7:25-10:05pm Ketchum 328)
The purpose of the Booker Prize is to “promote the finest fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year”; yet, many critics have argued that the
Booker merely commodifies cultural differences – turning something different into something exotic and thus marketable. Other
critics have noted that the Booker favors those books that challenge the centrality of British and European literary and historical
practices. With the emergence of postcolonial fiction like the ones that often win the Booker Prize there arguably has been more
critical and popular attention given to those books that question the hegemony of Anglophone cultures and offer a counternarrative against the official historical records that are promoted by these cultures. ENG 641, therefore, serves as an introduction
to postcolonial literature through the examination of Booker Prize recipients from Australia, India, and several African nations.
One central goal of the course is to critically examine the history of the Man Booker Prize. Do we read – or value – a work of
literature differently if it is decorated with a gold emblem declaring “Winner of the 2008 Booker Prize,” “Winner of the Nobel
Prize in Literature,” or even “Oprah’s Book Club”?
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor.
Buffalo State English Department Fall 2014 Course Schedule
ENG 652 LITERARY CRITICISM
(CRN 2861 Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor T 4:30-7:15pm Ketchum 113)
This course will give students an overview of modern literary theory, from the New Critics to recent theorists.
A good preparation for those planning to continue in academia, the course is accessible to all students and will
Offer multiple ways to approach, examine, and analyze literature.
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor.
ENG 692 THE TEACHING OF WRITING
(CRN 3851 Professor Michele Ninacs T 4:30-7:15pm Ketchum 302)
Advanced course in the teaching of writing discussing the philosophical, psychological, and sociological foundations needed to teach writing; the
relation of forms of thinking, rhetoric, and communication theory to writing; the management of a writing program; introduction to research in the
teaching of writing.
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor.
ENG 693 RESEARCH IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH
(CRN 4197 Professor James Cercone W 4:30-7:15pm Ketchum 328)
Introduction to research and research methodology. Students write a project or thesis proposal as part of class activities. Prerequisite: Admittance to
the M.S. program in secondary English.
ENG 695 MASTER'S THESIS
(CRN 2189 Professor Jennifer Ryan W 4:30-7:15pm Ketchum 318)
Student's accumulated skills brought to focus in individual research with a faculty member's approval and guidance. An original inquiry into a
literary question (writer, theme, ideology, etc.), or a linguistic or critical question resulting in an essay of 40-60 pages.
Prerequisites: Graduate status; English or English education major or appropriate premajor and permission of the instructor.