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. • • • 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. 2 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. 3 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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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 8 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 9 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 10 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 11 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 12 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 13 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 14 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 15 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 16 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 17 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 18 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 19 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 20 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 22 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 23 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 24 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 25 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 26 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 27 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 28 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 29 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 30 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 31 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 32 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 33 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 34 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 35 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 36 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 37 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 38 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 39 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 40 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 41 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 42 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 43 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 44 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 45 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 46