COURSE DESCRIPTION
BOOKLET
DEPARTMENT
OF
ENGLISH
State University of New York at Fredonia
FALL
2015
Notes:
Former Speaking Intensive courses, except for ENGL400
and ENED450, DO NOT apply to the new oral
communication requirement in the CCC effective
Fall 2012.
All ENGL pedagogy courses have been retitled with ENED as
their prefix.
The new ENED courses count the same as the prior ENGL
courses for English Adolescence Education majors.
EDU419 has been retitled and renumbered to ENED 451.
EDU430 has been retitled and renumbered to ENED 453.
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PRE-REQUISITE OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR:
STUDENTS: You must have the appropriate pre-requisites
for FALL 2015 registration. Check the online listings to see
what the current pre-requisites are -- note that these may be
different from what is listed in the current catalogue.
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TO THE STUDENT:
Before selecting a course, consider the following: You might
find it useful to decide what your purpose is in selecting a
course in English: curiosity? knowledge? involvement with
issues? background for major or career? Have you consulted
your advisor? Have you thought of asking for a conference
with the instructor of the course?
Also consider:
It is strongly advised that you take a 200-level introductory
course in literature before taking a 300-level course.
300-level courses are studies that usually require some
research, perhaps an oral report, probably a major paper.
These courses are intended for the serious student, but not
exclusively for English majors.
400-and 500-level courses are for advanced students who are
ready for specialized study and research.
FOR THE MAJOR OR MINORS IN ENGLISH:
See the catalog and/or handouts for requirements.
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ENGL 106 01
THE ENGLISH MAJOR:
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
Description:
ENGL 106 will provide students with a full semester overview of
the major areas within and current approaches to literary students. It
is required for all students entering the English major (323) and is
designed to open the many different fields of English studies to new
majors and to help students develop a context for the courses they may
have already have taken and will be taking throughout their career as
English majors at Fredonia. Students will gain insight into literary
history, the process of and critical debates concerning canon formation,
and the multiple functions and genres of literature and writing. This
course will also require a significant literary research paper designed to
introduce students to effective modes of library research, strategies for
integrating secondary sources, and important terms and concepts that
are fundamental to literary analysis.
Readings:
A variety of short fiction, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, introductory
critical theory, and literary scholarship.
Exams, Papers:
Mandatory attendance; two short analytical essays; annotation of
critical scholarship; and a research portfolio containing a topic
statement and description, a sample source summary, an annotated
bibliography, a Says/Does outline, and a final research essay of 8-10
pages.
Time Class Meets:
MWF
Instructor:
D. Kaplin
2-2:50
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ENGL 205 01, 02
EPIC AND ROMANCE
Description:
In this course, we will read epics and romances from various time
periods and geographical locations. Our discussions will particularly
focus on the concepts of desire, heroism, and social class.
Readings:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Aeneid
Memed, My Hawk
Tristan and Iseult
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Exams, Papers:
Five one-page response papers, one 1000-word book review,
midterm (take-home essay), presentation.
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 7 - Humanities
Core course in English major
Time Class Meets:
01:
02:
Instructor:
I. Vanwesenbeeck
MW
MW
3-4:20
4:30-5:50
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ENGL 206 01
SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
Description:
This survey will introduce students to the history of American literature
up until the Civil War, a vast period of rich and diverse literary
traditions. The course readings will include multiple genres and a
diverse range of authors.
Readings:
TBA, but will likely include several longer works (captivity narratives
and novels) and plenty of short stories and poems by early and 19thcentury American authors, both canonical and non-canonical.
Exams, Papers:
TBA, but certainly will include analytical essays and response papers,
and likely a mid-term exam.
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 7
Time Class Meets:
MWF
Instructor:
E. VanDette
11-11:50
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ENGL 207 01, 02
DRAMA AND FILM
Description:
This course will explore drama and film as visual texts in works
ranging from ancient Greece to the present. Through a thematic lens of
the journey, whether physical or metaphorical, and in some cases with
an eye to adaptation, we will critically examine texts, including
theatrical elements. What choices can be made and have been made in
the visual (re)presentation? These questions will inform our discussion
of the drama and the film. Our study will consider the relationship of
the texts to the historical times and places in which they are situated,
tracing ways the texts reflect their cultures.
Readings:
A range from Sophocles to Kushner
Exams, Papers:
and active
Response papers, research paper, final project,
participation
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 7 - Humanities
Core course in English major
Time Class Meets:
01:
02:
SCREENING:
Instructor:
TR
TR
11-12:20
12:30-1:50
W
5-7:30
McEwen G26
A. Siegle Drege
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ENGL 207 03
DRAMA AND FILM
Description:
We will explore drama from many different cultures and time
periods, from the ancient Greeks to works of a more contemporary
nature. The films we view will also offer the work of a variety of
filmmakers from a diversified selection of countries and time periods.
Readings:
The Bedford Introduction to Drama 5th Edition
Edited by: Lee A. Jacobus
Exams, Papers:
- Participation in Class Discussions
- Response papers
- A Midterm Exam
- One longer paper of analysis/synthesis
- Student led class discussion
- Reading quizzes
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 7 - Humanities
Core course in English major
Time Class Meets:
MWF
2-2:50
SCREENING:
M
4:30-7
Instructor:
C. Thomas Craig
Fenton 153
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ENGL 208 01
AMST 210
AMERICAN POPULAR AND
MASS CULTURES
Description:
This course will focus on American popular and mass culture
from the early part of the 19th century to the present. We will discuss
popular culture as a convergence of economic forces, technological
developments, and various historical and cultural trends. Specific topics
will include such things as spectacles: circuses, freak shows, dime
museums, stunts and publicity events; technology: photography, film,
television, the Internet; history: Wars and their aftermath, immigration,
race relations, travel and tourism, as well as multiple other topics.
Readings:
Undecided, probably Doctorow, Ragtime, Stowe, Uncle Tom's
Cabin, and Moore, Watchmen
Exams, Papers:
Formal and informal student writing, including probably written
assignments including probably a reading journal in the form of a blog,
a midterm quiz, a final project, attendance and participation in class
discussion, additional exercises as assigned.
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 4 – American History
Time Class Meets:
TR
Instructor:
S. McRae
11-12:20
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ENGL 209 01, 02
NOVELS AND TALES
Description:
A study of long and short fiction of several kinds, including myth,
fable, and realistic narrative, from a variety of places and times. The
course will familiarize students with basic approaches to reading,
interpretation, and literary analysis. This section will examine the role
of bodies in these diverse narratives including how language constructs
bodies, the meaning produced by body language and gestures in the
texts, as well as the impact of the body of the author and reader. We will
study the ways literary narratives are filled with bodies in multiple
forms and figures: including bodies that gaze and bodies that are gazed
upon; bodies in motion (working, grasping, pointing, birthing, dancing);
bodies marked by race, class, gender and sexuality; as well as figurative
bodies: bodies of knowledge, social bodies, bodies of evidence, and
national bodies.
Readings:
Allende, Isabel Eva Luna
Danticat, Edwidge The Farming of Bones
Gaiman, Neil Hansel and Gretel
Ozeki, Ruth My Year of Meats.
There will also be additional readings posted on ANGEL
Exams, Papers:
3 response papers, discussion leading, blog
posts, contemporary connections presentation,
Final Project
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 7 - Humanities
Core course in English major
Time Class Meets:
01:
02:
Instructor:
S. McGee
MWF
MWF
11-11:50
1-1:50
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ENGL 209 03, 04
NOVELS AND TALES
Monsters on the Global Stage
Description:
Like a reanimated corpse back from the dead, this
version of Novels and Tales has returned to cause mischief, mayhem
and, hopefully some delightful learning. In this section we will read a
variety of fictional works from different historical periods and cultures,
examining the roles that “monsters” play in these texts. In addition to
analyzing formal elements of each work, we will explore how
characterizations of the monstrous, evil, strange, grotesque, and “other”
reflect the cultures in which they were created. What do these figures
symbolize? How do they represent specific social concerns of their time?
How do notions of the “monstrous” highlight what counts as “normal”
in a given time and place? As we investigate these and other questions,
students will also develop their critical reading, thinking, and writing
skills.
Tentative Reading List
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Bulgakov, The Heart of a Dog (IF I can find a decent translation)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories
Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”
Joyce Carol Oates, Zombie OR Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Norton Critical Ed.)
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Writings by Marquez, Le Guinn, de Maupassant, Jackson, O’Connor,
Vonnegut, Homer, Beowulf author, and others (as well as study of
Godzilla texts)
Exams, Papers: Several critical essays (various lengths), final research
project, brief contemporary monster text presentation, discussion
questions, final exam, and spirited participation.
CCC Fulfilled:
CCC 5
Time Class Meets:
03:
04:
Instructor:
C. Jarvis
TR
TR
12:30-1:50
9:30-10:50
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ENGL 209 05
NOVELS AND TALES
Description:
This section of Novels & Tales will deal with ideas of immortality.
Our texts and discussions will involve characters questing for
immortality, fears of death and the unknown, and the consequences one
would face if we lived forever.
Readings:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Jitterbug Perfume by
Tom Robbins, The Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as various short
stories, myths, poems, fairy tales, and current research into
prolonging human life indefinitely.
Exams, Papers:
Multiple response papers, reading quizzes, and
a final essay assignments
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 7 - Humanities
Core course in English major
Time Class Meets:
MWF
Instructor:
D. Laurie
10-10:50
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ENGL 211 01
WORLD POETRY
Description:
Our focus will be on using poetry to honor the dead. We will
critically examine poems from a variety of nationalities, ethnicities, and
time periods. We will begin the semester with close readings, learning
how to critically examine poetry. We will then engage literary criticism
to further our understanding of poetry.
Readings:
Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies, edited by
Sandra M. Gilbert; handouts and readings on Angel.
Exams, Papers:
1 midterm critical analysis, 1 short literary analysis, 1 final
project on a poet of one's choice, 1 group presentation, original poem(s),
and discussion questions; mandatory class attendance.
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 7 - Humanities
Core course in English major
Time Class Meets:
MWF
Instructor:
A. Fearman
9-9:50
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ENGL 211 02, 03
WORLD POETRY
Description:
We will read, recite, and write poetry. In some cases, we will
trace the evolution of poetic verse forms from around the world and
across the centuries. Ancient poetry and literary criticism will
foreground our semester examination of poetry as both cultural artifact
and personal expression. Discussion of traditional forms will include
the ode and sonnet, whose migrations from Ancient Greece and
Medieval Italy throughout the world, and their eventual transformation
into politically charged and global contemporary practices we will
follow. Additionally, study of both Eastern and Western poetics
(through a comparison of figurative-based verse) will focus on
renowned poets Kahlil Gibran and Wislawa Szymborska. Discussions of
contemporary verse from current texts and periodicals provides the
denouement for our trip “around the world and through the ages… in
15 weeks”.
Readings: (subject to change)
Handouts provided by instructor and/or available via ANGEL.
Hirsch, Edward. How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry
Washburn, Katharine and Major, John S Editors. World Poetry:
An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time
Oliver, Mary. A Poetry Handbook.
Gibran, Kahlil. The Prophet
*Poetry book of student choice, costing no more than $15.00
Exams, Papers:
Final paper and minor projects require students to read, write,
examine, memorize, recite, theorize and discuss poetry.
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 7 - Humanities
Core course in English major
Time Class Meets:
02:
03:
Instructor:
K. Moore
TR
TR
9:30-10:50
11-12:20
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ENGL 211 04
WORLD POETRY
Description:
TBD
Readings:
TBA
Exams, Papers:
TBA
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 7 - Humanities
Core course in English major
Time Class Meets:
TR
Instructor:
Staff
2-3:20
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ENGL 260 01, 05, 06
INTRO CREATIVE WRITING
Description:
In this class, students will form a community in which they learn about
fiction and poetry writing through reading and discussion of published
authors’ work, and through the creation and sharing of the students’
own stories and poems. The class will study different forms and genres,
drafting and revision techniques, and more. Student workshops will be
conducted, and attendance is mandatory.
Readings:
Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft (Third Edition), by Janet
Burroway; The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, edited by Joyce
Carol Oates, (1992); MLW Visiting Writers Series authors’ books (two
per semester); and poetry and story handouts (distributed in class).
Exams, Papers:
Short writing assignments, midterm project (creative), final revision
project (takes the place of final exam), workshop material and letters to
classmates, in-class writing, and reading quizzes.
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 8 – Arts
Time Class Meets:
01:
05:
06:
Instructor:
R. Schwab Cuthbert
MW 3-4:20
TR 2-3:20
TR 3:30-4:50
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ENGL 260 02, 03
INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING
Description:
Introduction to Creative Writing is the first in a sequence of
Creative Writing courses offered at Fredonia. Through close reading of
poetry and short fiction, we will study concepts of form and content in
contemporary literature. We will practice our craft via in-class writing
exercises, workshops, recitations, and discussions. This class attracts
students from a wide range of disciplines, and is therefore designed to
relate to both beginning writers and writers further along in their
practice. One of the major goals of the course is to create a community
of writers that can help each participant grow, no matter how new or
accustomed to the concerns of creative writing.
Readings:
 Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within. Addonizio, Kim.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009.
 Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. Burroway and
Stuckey-French Ed. 9th Edition. New York: Pearson, Longman,
2014.
 The Peripatetic Coffin Ethan Rutherford
 New Testament Jerico Brown
Exams, Papers:
 Midterm Short Stories Analysis
 Illuminated Poem Assignment
 Final Reflective Portfolio
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 8 - Arts
Time Class Meets:
02:
03:
Instructor:
J. Daly
MW 4:30-5:50
MW 6-7:20
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ENGL 260 04
INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING
Description:
TBD
Readings:
TBA
Exams, Papers:
.
TBA
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 8 – Arts
Time Class Meets:
TR
Instructor:
Staff
12:30-1:50
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ENGL 291 01
BIBLE AS LIT
Description:
In this course, we examine the Bible as a set of literary, cultural,
and historical works with specific cultural origins and reflective of
complex values and thoughts.
Readings:
Besides reading and analyzing books of the Old and New
Testament directly, we will look as well at literature that surrounds it,
including Sumerian and Egyptian antecedents and later literary and
artistic works.
Exams, Papers:
Coursework includes close and careful reading,
class discussion, short papers, and a final
project.
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 5 Western Civ
Time Class Meets:
TR
Instructor:
S. McRae
2-3:20
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ENGL 296 01
AMST 296
AMERICAN IDENTITIES
Description:
An exploration of the historical construction of American gender,
ethnicity/race, and class; their present status; and their literary and
cultural representations. Focusing on intersections between these
categories of identity, the course will utilize an interdisciplinary
approach, integrating materials from fields such as literary studies,
history, women's studies, ethnic studies, geography, sociology, music,
and art.
Readings:
Some of the following: Playing Indian, Deloria; Black Like Me,
Griffin; The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead; A People’s History of the
United States, Zinn; In the Shadow of No Towers, Spiegelman; The 9/11
Report: A Graphic Adaptation, Jacobson and Colon; Angels in America,
Kushner; The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston; leadbelly,
Tyehimba Jess; The Country Without a Post Office, Agha Shahid Ali;
Fever, John Edgar Wideman.
Exams, Papers:
Mid-term, final, several short responses.
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 4 - American History
Category 11 – Speaking Intensive
Time Class Meets:
TR
Instructor:
D. Parsons
2-3:20
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ENGL 303 01
GLOBAL LITERARY LANDMARKS
Description:
We will read ancient and modern texts from
India, South Africa, and the Middle East.
All texts in English or English translation.
Readings:
TBA
Exams, papers:
Research paper, short essays, midterm exam.
Time Class Meets:
MWF
Instructor:
I. Vanwesenbeeck
11-11:50
21
ENGL 313 01
SCRIBBLING WOMEN
Description:
The prolific and successful American women writers from the 19th
century – the group of authors Nathaniel Hawthorne once referred to as
“that damned mob of scribbling women” – were excluded from 20thcentury memories and studies of American literature. Thanks to
recovery efforts of the past 20-30 years, many of the neglected works of
women writers have been restored to print. This resurfacing of women’s
literature has changed the American literature canon to account for the
rich, diverse, and complex literary traditions shaped by women writers
in the nineteenth century.
In this class, we’ll examine a diverse collection of female-authored
texts: texts that represent a variety of genres and literary traditions,
including poems, novels, and short stories; texts that represent multiple
social, political, personal, and aesthetic motives and consequences; texts
that represent a diversity of perspectives about class, race, and gender
hierarchies. Our overarching goal will be to make sense of how these
texts have participated in and shaped American literary traditions, both
historically and presently.
Required Texts
TBA, but probably will include the following poetry, short stories, and
novels by some or all of the following authors:
Hannah Webster Foster, Lydia Marie Child, Catharine Maria
Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson,
Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Pauline Hopkins, ZitkalaSa, Kate Chopin.
Exams, Papers:
Specific assignments TBA, but will include analytical essays, response
papers, group presentations, and, of course, reading and class
participation.
Time Class Meets:
MWF
10-10:50
Instructor:
E. VanDette
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ENGL 314 01
WOMEN WRITERS
Description:
This course introduces students to a broad range of foundational
feminist writings and current theories of gender. The class will have a
multidisciplinary approach and engage the intersections between
gender, race, class, sexuality, nationality and disability as categories of
analysis and sources of oppression and empowerment. Students will
employ the theories to analyze and evaluate the various “texts” they are
engaged with everyday including classroom and discipline specific
content and practices, literary texts, popular media representations, and
campus and community events.
Readings: TBA
Exams, Papers:
4 response papers, 2 contemporary connections
blog posts& oral presentation, final project &
group research presentation
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 5 - Western Civilization
Time Class Meets:
MWF
Instructor:
S. McGee
10-10:50
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ENGL 326 01
THE VICTORIAN AGE
Period Course
“I do feel that there is a screw of such magnitude loose
somewhere that the whole framework of society is shaken, and
the very first principles of things can no longer be trusted.”
-- Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
Description:
Our course provides an introduction to selected Victorian fiction,
poetry, drama, and non-fiction prose in the context of individual and
group efforts to find or manufacture order and sense during times of
great social, technological, economic, and political change. We will
examine some of the most important cultural issues circulating during
Queen Victoria’s reign, including British cultural identity; religion,
science, and the changing character of knowledge; the economics and
social realities of industrialization; and gender issues, including
definitions of masculinity and “the Woman Question.” As the period
progressed (a loaded term, as we shall see), writers explored various
alternatives of making sense of these big issues, locating sources of
authority within the human imagination, national character, the laws of
science, the marketplace, and the family. Their writings show us which
screws of great magnitude these authors felt were loose in Victorian
Britain, and how they proposed to tighten (or remove) them.
Readings:
Most of the Longman anthology of British Literature (4th ed.),
Vol. 2B (The Victorian Age), plus Dickens’s Dombey and Son, Eliot’s
The Mill on the Floss, and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Exams, Papers:
Mandatory attendance; one short essay of 4-6 pages; one 15-page
research paper; one final exam; one 10-minute class presentation;
several short reaction papers.
Time Class Meets:
MWF
Instructor:
D. Kaplin
1-1:50
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ENGL 343 01
WGST 377
QUEER STUDIES IN LITERATURE
Description:
This course offers students an introduction to literary and
theoretical approaches to issues of sexuality and gender identity, as they
pertain to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender peoples. We
investigate queerness both in terms of a range of identity issues, and as a
set of approaches to reading texts. We will look at such representations
through literature and film, from various historical, cultural, and
theoretical perspectives.
Readings:
Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
Ann Bannon, I Am a Woman
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
J. Sheridan LeFanu, Carmilla
Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love
Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels like the Movies
Vivek, Shraya, She of the Mountains
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
Riki, Wilchins, Queer Theory, Gender Theory
Films:
Before Stonewall
Blue is the Warmest Color
Fire
Pariah
Soldier’s Girl
Exams, Papers:
Assignments will include: discussion questions, a Tumblr book project,
a video essay, and a scholar-activism group project.
Time Class Meets:
TR
3:30-4:50
Instructor:
J. Iovannone
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ENGL 345-01
CRITICAL READINGS
Description:
Focus on helping students develop an awareness of their own acts
of interpretation in reading and an understanding of the strengths of
different approaches to interpretation and criticism. This section is an
introduction to major modes of and issues in literary criticism and
theory, with a special focus on surveillance and trauma. In it, we will be
relating literature, criticism, and theory, but our emphasis will be on
understanding, analyzing, evaluating, and working with different modes
of reading the world and its texts. We will consider the strengths and
weaknesses of a range of interpretive, contextualizing, and
interventionist critical strategies, their stakes and historical contexts,
and their relations to social struggles for dignity, justice, and creativity.
Readings: To be determined, but most likely will include:
● Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA,
and the U.S. Surveillance State
● Steve McQueen, dir., 12 Years a Slave
● Toni Morrison, Beloved
● Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, eds., Literary Theory: An
Anthology (2nd ed.)
● Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Exams, Papers: To be determined, but most likely a mix of
attendance/participation/preparation, online participation, group
presentation project, and final research project.
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 11 – Speaking Intensive
Time Class Meets:
TR
Instructor:
B. Simon
11-12:20
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ENED 352 01
TEACHING WRITING IN THE
PRIMARY GRADES
Description:
This course rests on the belief that children, even very young
children, need to write every day. Future primary grade teachers will
learn how to approach the teaching of writing to our youngest writers.
The course will cover the following elements: establishing a writing
workshop, preparing units of study, planning and conducting minilessons, conferring, and assessing.
Tentative Readings:
About the Authors: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers by
Katie Wood Ray and Lisa B. Cleaveland
Puddles by Jonathan London
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Shortcut by Donald Crews
Saturdays and Teacakes by Lester Laminack
Rain by Manya Stojic
Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee
Big, Blue Whale by Nicola Davies
Atlantic by G. Brian Karas
Exams, Papers:
“Reading Like Writers” (and Teachers of Writing) Notebook
A Memoir + Reflection
Mentor Author Study and Craft Talk
Discussion Leading + Notes
Literary Nonfiction Project + Reflection
About the Authors Response Paper
CCC Fulfilled:
IB
Time Class Meets:
MWF
Instructor:
M. Wendell
11-11:50
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ENED 355 01
ADOLESCENT LITERATURE
**Although previously open only to students in an education program, this
course is now open to all students and counts as an English elective.**
Description:
This course has three main goals. First, of course, students will
read and discuss a wide variety of adolescent literature. Second, they
will learn about ways to teach literature in the secondary classroom.
Students will actually engage in many of these approaches—Socratic
Circles, Literature Circles, drama- and arts-based activities—both in
and out of the classroom, and as a class we will evaluate their usefulness
for teaching. This is an active class, with a combination of discussion
and hands-on experiences. And finally, this course uses literature
representing a wide range of identities and experiences to launch
discussions about diversity, equity, and social justice education. We will
discuss issues related to race, class, gender, and sexuality, and we will
talk about how to address these issues in secondary classrooms as well.
Readings:
Although this list is not finalized, the readings will likely include
books from the following: The Fault in Our Stars (Green); Eleanor and
Park (Rowell); The Book Thief (Zusak); The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian (Alexie); Pinned (Flake); Chanda’s Secrets (Stratton);
The Hunger Games (Collins); Persepolis I (Satrapi); The Giver (Lowry);
and choices from sets of books that may include Boy Meets Boy (
Levithan); Luna (Peters); From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
(Jacqueline Woodson); American Born Chinese (Yang); Friends With
Boys (Hicks); The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
(Lockhart); Thirteen Reasons Why (Asher); and selected slam poetry.
Exams, Papers: Responses to each book; one paper; one podcast based
on
interviews (completed with a partner); 1 mini-lesson.
Time Class Meets:
* EXTRA HOURS:
Instructor:
MW 4:30-5:50
4:30-7:00: 9/21, 10/12, 11/2, 12/7
H. McEntarfer
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ENED 357 01, 02
LITERACY, LANGUAGE,
LEARNING THEORY
Description:
Students will examine human language acquisition
(psycholinguistics) and cognitive learning theory; how these theoretical
bases help us to understand how it is people learn to read and write.
Students will explore what is involved in the initial stages of learning to
read and write and move toward an exploration of mature (critical?)
literacy, approaches to teaching reading and writing grades K-12,
cultural literacy, and Whole Language approaches to teaching and
understanding literacy.
Readings:
Courts. Multicultural Literacy: Dialect, Discourse, and Diversity.
Moustafa. Beyond Traditional Phonics
Either
or
1) Goodman. On Reading
2) Routman. Literacy at the Crossroads
A broad range of periodical articles and handouts.
Exams, Papers:
At least one personal essay, 10 annotated bibliographies, reader
response log, class presentation, 3 essay examinations, final
research paper.
Time Class Meets:
01:
02:
TR 12:30-1:50
MW 3-4:20
Instructor:
S. Johnston
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ENED 358 01, 02
TEACHING WRITING IN THE
INTERMEDIATE GRADES
Description:
This course rests on the premise that to be an effective teacher of
writing, one must be a writer. Thus, students will spend time
developing their own writing skills as they learn how to teach writing in
the intermediate grades (3-6).
Tentative Readings:
A Writer’s Notebook by Ralph Fletcher
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Writing Workshop by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi
The Orphan of Ellis Island by Elvira Woodruff
Letters From Rifka by Karen Hesse
Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman
Exams, Papers:
Writer’s Notebook
“When I Was Your Age” Memoir Project
Editing Checksheets & Personal Proofreading List
Immigration Project
Mentor Text Project
CCC Fulfilled:
IB
Time Class Meets:
01
02
Instructor:
M. Wendell
MWF
MWF
9-9:50
10-10:50
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ENGL 362-01
INTERMEDIATE POETRY WRITING
* Portfolios due: Wednesday, April 1, 2015
**Prerequisite: portfolio review/permission of instructor
**PLS. NOTE: instructor permission and writing sample
required for enrollment into this course. Please submit 5 poems
with coversheet (available in the English department office) by
4:00 PM
Description:
Readings:
TBA
Exams, Papers:
TBA
Time Class Meets:
TR
Instructor:
Staff
9:30-10:50
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ENGL 365 01
FORM & THEORY OF WRITING
Description:
There are a great many workshops in academia where students
learn the hard truths about fiction and poetry. But much can come from
looking at the writing that exists in contemporary creative writing, as
well as the criticism surrounding it. Francine Prose and others have
termed this “Reading like a writer” and it points to a problem in many
young writers’ educations: do we spend enough time understanding
how an author has created an effect? Instead of looking for parallel
themes as we might do in a literature class, couldn’t we also examine
what Isabelle Allende calls “the duende” or the spirit and soul of a
work? Is it possible to understand how contemporary writers do what
they do? This class endeavors to do so.
Readings:
Exhaltation of Forms, Ed. Finch &Varnes
The Peripatetic Coffin Ethan Rutherford
New Testament Jerico Brown
Exams, Papers:
Mid-term, final, several short responses.
Time Class Meets:
TR
Instructor:
D. Parsons
12:30-1:50
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ENGL 366 01
OPINIONS IN JOURNALISM
Description:
This multi-media opinion-writing course is designed specifically for English
majors, writing minors and journalism majors, though all students are welcome.
The goal is to strengthen students’ ability to critique professional opinion pieces,
craft their own opinion pieces, and become more sophisticated, critical consumers
and producers of media and information. In a time of profound upheaval in all
sectors of planetary life, the role of opinion in journalism deserves profound
attention. We’ll be discussing the way social media networks are pushing
mainstream journalism opinion, and whether mainstream opinion still matters (and
if so, how).
I’ll be focusing this semester around multiple examples of how media opinion
deals with “terror(ism)” and spectacle: we’ll explore several facets of that topic,
beginning with a unit on “racial terror” and its reporting – or non-reporting – in the
media historically (i.e., in the black press, mainstream press and other “coded”
communications), from slavery and Jim Crow, through the current moment of
police violence against unarmed men and women of color. A related unit will
specifically focus on “sexual terror,” from reporting on campus sexual assault and
violence against transgendered people to global terrorist threats against women and
girls and state violence against LGBTQ communities. A third unit will focus on the
post-9.11 “war on terror” in its many variations. Part of our discussion throughout
the semester will be on how different media – including social media – construct
knowledge for public consumption.
Assignments:
Students in this primarily discussion-based course will engage in substantial
research, approach writing as a process, and engage in frequent peer review and
editing. Writing for a particular audience, and determining the appropriate
medium, will be a vital part of our discussions. Students will produce several
individual opinion pieces and also engage in a longer “signature” opinion
assignment involving historical research. This course is available for a 4th credit in
service learning as well.
Readings:
Subscription to the New York Times required as well as a subscription to
Twitter; lots of online reading of professional and independent opinion writers. One
or two primary texts will be required, TBA.
Time Class Meets:
MW
3-4:20
Instructor:
J. McVicker
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ENGL 373 01
ENGLISH GRAMMAR FOR EVERYONE
Description:
Students will gain a broad and basic understanding of the aims
and means of different types of grammatical description, specifically
pertaining to English. Students acquire a basic competence in
grammatical description, including a very basic understanding of
English morphology, and an understanding of English phrase and
sentence syntax. Most importantly, students will acquire the ability to
evaluate and critique claims about grammatical “correctness.” In this
course, we will see grammar as a set of descriptive tools and terms, and
style as a set of optional, variable, and conventional preferences, closely
linked with specific genres and uses.
Readings:
Fussell, Paul. Class: A Guide through the American Status System.
Touchstone, 1992.
Selected articles
Other texts TBA
Exams, Papers:
Blog entries
Projects/Paper
Time Class Meets:
TR
Instructor:
S. Spangler
9:30-10:50
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ENGL 375 01
WRITING FOR THE PROFESSIONS
Description:
Clear, effective oral and written communication skills are the
bedrock of any profession. Whether you are an editor, computer
programmer, technical writer, manager, or entry-level worker in any
field, you will need to use writing to solve problems and to negotiate
personal, social, and political factors in the workplace. In this course,
you will learn the basics of how to write for professional audiences and
purposes. You will gain experience researching, writing, and revising
written work in a variety of professional mediums (e.g., emails, letters,
memos, proposals). You will also enhance your appreciation of how
ethical concerns as well as contextual factors, such as financial and time
constraints, layout, and cross-cultural communication, enter into
effective decisions about how to shape professional documents for
different audiences and for different print-based or electronic mediums.
Since this is a writing-intensive course, you should be prepared to turn
in 20-25 pages of written work and to write, critique others' writing,
and revise on a weekly basis.
Readings/Viewings:
Writing That Works: Communicating Effectively on the Job (11th
ed.); required course readings posted to ANGEL, including your peers'
work-in-progress; career-search materials on the Career Development
Office's site; possibly, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What
Matters Most
Assignments:
Correspondence portfolio; company report and career documents
portfolio; possibly, an e-portfolio; proposal and oral presentation
Time Class Meets:
TR
11-12:20
Instructor:
N. Gerber
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ENGL 380 01
NARRATIVE FILM: SILENCE TO SOUND
* 4 cr. hr. course
Description:
This historical survey presents early film as in intersection of art,
technology, economics and popular culture from the dawn of the
twentieth century on up through the Depression. We focus on the
“classic” films, filmmakers and personalities that shaped and defined
the cinematic art, including the phenomenon of Hollywood, but also
explore various avant-garde experiments that were occurring in
America and Europe and on early animation.
Particular attention will be given to changing cinematic depictions
of gender, race, sexuality, class, and to glamour as a newly emergent
cultural force.
Readings:
TBA
Exams, Papers:
Course work will include short papers and
essay exams.
CCC Fulfilled:
Category 5 – Western Civ
Time Class Meets:
R
3:30-4:20
T
3:30-6:30
Screening:
Instructor:
S. McRae
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ENGL 393 01
LITERATURES OF COLONIZATION
and GLOBALIZATION
Description:
Readings:
TBA
Exams, Papers:
TBA
CCC Fulfilled:
Time Class Meets:
TR
9:30-10:50
Instructor:
B. Simon
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ENGL 399 02
SPECIAL TOPICS:
Writing in the Disciplines
Description:
A writing workshop course in which students practice researchbased writing for multiple academic audiences, investigate discourse
conventions for a variety of academic disciplines and fields of study, and
use critical reading, writing, and discussion to inform their writing.
Readings:
Variety of popular essays, scholarly articles, and
other compositions
Exams, Papers : Course portfolio of papers written during the
semester
CCC Fulfilled :
This course is an elective for the Writing and Rhetoric
minor
Time Class Meets:
TR
12:30-1:50
Instructor:
S. Spangler
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ENGL 400 01
**Note:
SENIOR SEMINAR
Departmental Approval and Co-requisite ENGL
401-01 Portfolio Completion, is a requirement for
this course.
Description:
This section of Senior Seminar will balance advanced scholarly study of
literature and literary history with real-world opportunities for
engagement. Students should expect an ambitious research requirement
and a high standard for professionalism in this section of the capstone.
Readings:
TBA, but will likely include a major literary work with extensive
secondary and primary source research, as well as readings about
professional writing methods.
Exams, Papers:
TBA, but certainly will include a major scholarly essay and
presentation; professional writing assignments; community-based
literary project.
CCC Fulfilled:
Speaking Intensive/Basic Oral Communication – 10b
Time Class Meets:
MW
3-4:20
Instructor:
E. VanDette
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ENGL 427 01
MAJOR WRITERS:
Kurt Vonnegut
Description:
There are really only four words that you need to know about this course:
“Best. Vonnegut. Course. Ever.” However, here’s a course description anyway.
Do you find yourself wondering what the real “Breakfast of Champions” is?
Have you imagined what it would be like to live among the harmoniums on
Mercury? Would you like to know what happened to Wanda June’s birthday cake?
Are you a fan of Kilgore Trout’s flash fiction? Have you ever wondered, “what are
people for?” If you answered “yes” to or are intrigued by any of these questions,
then this course is for you.
This seminar will explore Kurt Vonnegut’s roles as popular satirist, artist,
and literary figure/public intellectual of the mid- to late-twentieth century. In
addition to analyzing key works that span the length of Vonnegut’s career and
assessing the Vonnegut canon, we will consider a range of questions. What does it
mean to study a major author? In what ways was Vonnegut specifically a major
American writer? Why and how should we study (and teach) the works of
Vonnegut?
Tentative Reading List:
Player Piano OR Sirens of Titan
Cat’s Cradle
Slaughterhouse-Five
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Breakfast of Champions
Deadeye-Dick OR Jailbird
Galápagos
Bluebeard
Timequake OR A Man Without a Country
Nonfiction selected from Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (Opinions), Palm
Sunday, and Fates Worse Than Death
Several short stories (mostly from Welcome to the Monkey House, but also from
several posthumous collections)
Exams, Papers: short papers and discussion questions, a group project that will
engage a broader audience on some aspect of Vonnegut’s work, spirited
participation, and a significant final project.
CCC Fulfilled:
Major requirement
Time Class Meets:
TR
Instructor:
C. Jarvis
2-3:20
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ENED 450 01
SEMINAR FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
Description:
Readings:
TBA
Exams, Papers:
TBA
Time Class Meets:
T
Instructor:
A. Siegle Drege
3:30-6:00
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ENED 451 01
METHODS FOR ENGLISH EDUCATION
Description:
This course will address principals, materials,
and methods for teaching English in the
secondary school.
Readings:
TBA
Exams, Papers:
Each student will complete a course/teaching
portfolio.
Time Class Meets:
R
Instructor:
H. McEntarfer
3:30-6:00
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ENGL 461 01
ADVANCED FICTION WRITING
Description:
Intensive critical discussion of student fiction. Readings in
contemporary fiction. The orientation of the course is professional, and
students are expected to submit their work to periodicals for
publication.
Readings:
A few of the following: Visiting Fiction Writer texts fall and
spring; Cathedral, Raymond Carver; A Good Man is Hard to Find,
Flannery O’Connor; Drown, Junot Diaz; The Thing Around Your Neck,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri;
Volt, Alan Heathcock; Last Evenings on Earth, Roberto Bolano; others.
Exams, Papers:
Final portfolio for the semester, short “craft” essays, two
technical studies of contemporary literature, one of which is a book
review for publication.
Time Class Meets:
T
5-7:30
Instructor:
D. Parsons
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ENGL 500 01
INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE STUDIES
IN ENGLISH
Description:
ENGL 500 introduces new graduate students to contemporary
issues, designs and methods in the field of English studies. Emphasis will
be on scholarly approaches and aims of research in literature, rhetoric,
and pedagogy, showing points of intersection and connection across
various aspects of the discipline. By the end of the course, students will
develop preliminary plans for pursuing their own research interests,
providing them with a strong foundation for their individual program
of advanced study leading to a degree project.
Texts: will likely include but not limited to:
From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the 21st Century, ed.
Anouk Lang (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012)
Literary Theory in the 21st Century, Vincent B. Leitch (Bloomsbury,
2014) 978-1472527707
Critical Terms for Literary Study, 2nd ed., eds. Frank Lentricchia &
Thomas McLoughlin (University of Chicago Press, 1995)
Other text(s) to be announced by the campus’s 2015-2016 Convocation
keynote speaker and department’s Mary Louise White annual lecturer
and available on the course Moodle
NOTE: All grad students should have a copy of the MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers (7th ed), ed. Joseph Gibaldi for their own personal reference
Assignments:
Students will work in a variety of forms to gain practical experiences for
work in the graduate program, including short critical analysis, a
research teaching presentation utilizing technology, discussion of IRB
training for doing research with human subjects, annotated
bibliographies, etc.
Time Class Meets:
Instructor:
R
5-7:30
J. McVicker
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ENGL 590-01
(521)
SPECIAL TOPICS:
Ethics of Writing
Description:
This course will expose students to contemporary issues of ethics
as they are encountered in the writing process. Such topics may include,
but are not limited to, copyright and plagiarism issues; the question of
how to write about others; maintaining integrity in marketing
rhetoric; the ethical implications of new media for writers; and the
status of truth within contemporary creative non-fiction. We will
combine contemporary scholarship with analyses of real-life case
studies (like those of James Frey and Steven Salaita) to evaluate ethical
positions as well as proposed and actual regulations on conduct and
expression. This graduate course may also be taken by senior
undergraduates with 90 credit hours and GPAs of 3.0 or higher, with
permission of the department. However, assignments and expectations
will obtain at the graduate level for all students.
Readings:
Martha Vicinus and Caroline Eisnner, eds. Originality, Imitation, and
Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age (U of Michigan P, 2008);
additional criticism, theory, and case study materials.
Exams, Papers:
Reaction papers, case study analyses, proposal
for improving an ethical problem, active class
discussions.
Time Class Meets:
T
Instructor:
D. Kaplin
5-7:30
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ENGL 590-02
(524)
SPECIAL TOPICS:
Art of Grammar
Description:
Art of Grammar will help students learn the principles underlying
internalized rules of English and the range of choices available to
speakers and writers.
The course will engage with debates around whether language is
primarily cognitive or social in nature as well as language in use and on
some fundamental principles of all languages--namely, variation and
change.
Readings:
TBA
Exams, Papers:
TBA
Time Class Meets:
W
Instructor:
K. Cole
5-7:30
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