Fall 2015 Undergraduate Course Descriptions
ENG 100: English Composition: Writing Center
TBA – University Union Room 254
One-to-one, individualized teaching to improve your writing. Pass-fail only. May be repeated for up to 3 credits.
ENG 105: Critical Reading and Writing in the University Community
English 105 is a four-credit-hour survey course that introduces you to critical reading and writing in the academic community. Throughout the
semester we practice the reading process: generating questions or deriving answers from texts; summarizing texts; identifying examples, drawing
inferences, and making logical or comparative connections; organizing information in a variety of ways; seeing and learning rhetorical skills used by
effective writers; and evaluating the merits of what we read. At the same time, we practice the writing process: identifying audience and purpose;
gathering or finding ideas; organizing and interrelating those ideas for readers; drafting in order to develop, support, and illustrate ideas; revising
from trial-and-error and in light of peer input; editing for clarity and accuracy. Course fee required
ENG 107: Intensive Writing Lab
TBA – Liberal Arts 302
One-to-one, individualized teaching to improve your writing. Pass-fail only. May be repeated for up to 3 credits.
ENG 121: The Story of English
(#4811) MW 12:40-1:30 pm; F 9:10-10:00am
(#4833) MW 12:40-1:30 pm; F 10:20-11:10am
(#4834) MW 12:40-1:30 pm; F 12:40-1:30pm
William Crawford
ENG 121 examines the social and historical factors that have influenced the history of the English language. An examination of the multi-cultural
influences on the English language—not just from its present day state but from its historical development—will enhance your understanding of
English and address some puzzling and remarkable facts concerning English. Students will have multiple opportunities to explore many aspects of
English and English speakers to understand better how modern day English has evolved in the way it has.
Area: Linguistics
Fulfills: LS requirements for Cultural Understanding
Prerequisite: None
ENG 130: The World of Literature
(#4740) MW 2:20-3:35pm
Ryan Farrar
In his poem “Tintern Abbey,” William Wordsworth mentions how meditating on Nature can allow one to “see into the life of things.” By crafting his
poem on the paper included in his poetry collection, a part of Nature is transformed into literature, allowing us, in a slightly different way, to “see into
the life of things.” As a guiding theme for this course, we will study a variety of literature that revolves around ideas of sight, foresight, and
perspective. To accomplish this end, this course will familiarize you with three genres of literature: poetry, fiction, and drama. We will examine works
from a wide range of time periods and cultures in an attempt to better understand the creative expression, through written means, of the human
condition. Our aim will be to draw connections between the diverse selections, specifically studying how each one focuses on the nature of sight and
seeing or the lack thereof. This course will give attention, through assessment, to the four essential skills of critical reading, critical thinking, effective
writing, and effective oral communication.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: Freshman or Sophomore status or Honors Student Group
ENG 205: The Academic Writer's Workshop
The Advanced Writer’s Workshop is a course for students who wish to improve and increase their writing abilities in response to the academic tasks
they encounter. Students will review principles of rhetoric, and they will evaluate, research, and practice writing techniques. This will help them
develop their skills as a writer as they learn to adapt forms and techniques that will enable them to write clearly and coherently. In addition, students
use technological tools to enhance their writing and presentation style. Class time will consist of individual and group activities, in-class writing
assignments, and short lectures. Students are responsible for being prepared for class discussion, participation, group work, and writing tasks.
Course fee required.
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 40+) or International Exchange
Student Group
ENG 210: Principles In Rhetoric
(#4737) TTH 9:35-10:50am
Amber Nicole Pfannenstiel
Readings and instruction in the art of effective written communication, directed toward enabling you to meet the demands of any rhetorical situation.
Letter grade only.
Area: Rhetoric, Writing and Digital Media Studies
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 211: Principles in Argumentation and Digital Media Writing
(#18143) TTh 11:10-12:25pm
Greg Glau
This course uses argumentation to examine how digital media and the writing practices we employ influence notions of what it means to participate
in community, society, and public discourse. Students will compose across different digital media platforms and explore theoretical literature to
examine the ways these tools are evolving.
Area: Rhetoric, Writing and Digital Media Studies
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 223: Language in the US
(#4812) TTh 9:35-10:50am
Meghan Moran
English 223 is an introduction to English dialects and registers, which provides a general overview of regional, social, and situational varieties of
English in the United States. Methods for collecting and analyzing spoken and written samples of dialects and registers are introduced. In addition to
class participation and attendance, coursework will include, analytic tasks, tests and a final project.
Area: Linguistics
Fulfills: LS requirements for Cultural Understanding
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 230/230H: Introduction to Literature/ Honors
(#18343) MW 12:45-2:00pm
Anne Scott
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 231: British Literature to 1750: Heroes, Villains, and Moral Ambiguity
(#4742) TTh 9:35-10:50am
Patricia Marchesi
What makes a hero? What constitutes a villain? Is it always easy to tell between the two? Why do some authors present us with morally ambiguous
characters, narrators, and/or viewpoints? These are some of the questions we will explore as we read genres such as epic, drama, personal
narrative, and poetry. Through an analysis of the concepts of heroism, virtue, agency, courage, villainy, and moral ambiguity, the course aims to
define the Anglo-Saxon, medieval, early modern/Renaissance, and Restoration periods.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 231: British Literature to 1750
(#4741) TTh 11:10-12:25pm
Jay Farness
“Major authors and movements in the literature of England from its beginnings to 1750,” says the NAU Catalog, but there’s more.
This class samples almost a thousand years of writing in Great Britain, giving us practice with most of the kinds of literature there are. We study
influential or eye-opening examples of narrative, of lyric, and of drama, and we try to evaluate the celebrity of these works and their claims on our
respect. Writers include Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Milton, and Pope, but you will meet or re-greet others as well. Class format emphasizes
close reading of texts and discussion of contexts. Assignments include two short essays, three tests, and regular take-home and in-class reading
quizzes.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 232: British Literature after 1750
(#4743) MWF 10:20-11:10am
Donelle Ruwe
Course Description: ENG 232 is a survey of British writers from 1750 to the present day. We discuss not only important literature but also cultural,
artistic, and historical events. Students will gain a passing familiarity with the Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Postmodern literary
periods. Students will learn key concepts and literary terms associated with different movements, and recognize important texts and historical
events. This course covers 260 extraordinary years in the history of literature, and I hope that, by the end this this survey, you will discover authors
and literary movements that you may choose to study at greater depth in the future. Grades will be determined through daily work, quizzes, midterm,
final, and a casebook project.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 242: American Literature from Colonial to 1865
(#4747) MWF 10:20-11:10am
Karen Renner
This course is designed to familiarize you with the themes, stylistic features, and historical/cultural contexts of major works of American literature
before 1865. Readings will include works by Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Hannah Webster Foster, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, and Emily Dickinson. Instruction is discussion based, and assignments will include inclass and take-home quizzes, formal essays, and class participation.
Area: Literature
Fulfills LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student
Group
ENG 243: American Literature from 1865 to the Present
(#4748) MW 4:00-5:15pm
Ryan Farrar
This course will familiarize students with the developments of American literature in poetry, fiction, and drama from 1865 to the present. Students will
acquire a fundamental understanding of literary movements and their representative authors, including Realism, Naturalism, Modernism,
Postmodernism, and multi-ethnic literatures. Readings may include works by Henry James, Jack London, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, Arthur Miller, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, and more. Students will be evaluated based on class participation, short
papers, a group presentation, and exams.
Area: Literature
Fulfills LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 245: US Multi-Ethnic Lit Survey
(#4749) TTh 9:35-10:50am
Jeff Berglund
This introductory course surveys multi-ethnic literature written in the United States from the formation of “America” to the present. In order to capture
the diversity and complexity of these traditions in writing, we will read poetry, autobiography, fiction, and drama by Asian American, African
American, Chicano/a and Native American writers. Discussions will explore various ways that race, class, gender and ethnic identity are expressed
in these texts, and consider each text, not in isolation, but in its proper aesthetic, historical and political context. We will survey the social conditions
that have, at times, suppressed writing by racial and ethnic minorities and excluded these writers from the traditional literary canon. We will also
challenge traditional conceptions of the category of “American Literature,” exploring the distinct contributions by multi-ethnic writers.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 261: Introduction to Women Writers
(#4750) MW 2:20-3:35pm
Mara Reisman
The goal of this course is to introduce you to a wide range of women writers. We will pay particular attention to the historical and cultural issues
surrounding each text and each period. Among the major issues we will address are the following: humor, subversion, revision, social criticism,
domestic space, politics, motherhood, and identity. We will also discuss the sometimes fraught issue of authority for women writers. In short, we will
cover personal, public, and professional issues. One of the big topics we will consider is the relationship between expectations for women and the
realities of their lives, and we will address what Angela Carter calls the “social fiction of femininity”—the cultural construction of gender roles—and
how the authors under consideration deal with this subject. In other words, how do these women writers adhere to social fictions, defy them, or
redefine them? Requirements: quizzes, response papers, exams, presentations, and an active participation in class discussions.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 266: World Cinema: An Introduction
(#4751) W 4:00–6:30pm, lab W 7:00-9:30pm
(#4752) W 4:00–6:30pm, lab W 7:00-9:30pm
Rebecca Gordon
An introductory survey of the first 100 years of cinema, including histories and texts from traditionally underrepresented areas such as Africa, the
Middle East, Australia, Asia, and Latin America. ENG 266: Intro to World Cinema focuses on the birth of cinema to the end of the Second World War,
including international silent cinema and developments such as Soviet montage, German expressionism, British documentary--including
documentary film across the British Empire, and French avant-garde cinema. We will also watch American cinema from the Golden Age of
Hollywood which both influenced and was influenced by international developments. Letter grade only.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS requirements for Cultural Understanding
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 270: Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction
(#4785) M 4:00-6:30pm
(#4786) Tu 4:00–6:30pm
Erin Stalcup
This class begins an in-depth investigation of the art of writing fiction. You will write your own stories or chapters (at least two!) and revise at least
one, you will read your classmates’ work to explain what excited you and to offer suggestions for revision, and you will read the work of published
authors in order to see how they shape the elements of short fiction into powerful tales. Together, we’ll see how different authors generate
Character, Plot, Conflict, Atmosphere, Language, Change, and Significance, and how iconic story forms get retold, yet in new ways. Because this
class specifically focuses on literary short stories, you might be introduced to a kind of storytelling you aren’t familiar with. I believe fiction writing is
alive and well and beautiful stories are being written today—by famous authors and by college undergraduates—and I want you to leave this course
with an enthusiasm for the form and a sense of how to craft the kind of stories you want to tell. Previous writing experience is not required, though
desire to write and read a lot is.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 271: Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry
(#4787) Tu 4:00–6:30pm
(#4788) Th 4:00–6:30pm
Justin Bigos
Description: This course will introduce students to form, voice, and poetic technique. We’ll read a wide variety of contemporary poets and respond to
their work both in class and in reading responses. Students will have the opportunity to workshop their poems and will comment, in writing and in the
course discussion, on each other’s poems.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 272: Creative Nonfiction
(#4789) F 12:45-3:15pm – Jane Armstrong
(#5951) W 4:00-6:30pm – Justin Bigos
A beginning course in creative nonfiction writing that emphasizes the composition and revision of student essays. Letter grade only.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results
ENG 300: Current Trends/Theories Teaching English
(#4790) MW 12:45–2:00pm
Sandra Raymond
This course introduces the underlying theories of reading and writing instruction and how those theories translate into practice in the secondary
classroom, as well as the current professional trends and issues facing public school English teachers. We will pay particular attention to trends and
theories in media literacy, curriculum development, standards and standardized testing, policy issues, and public perception of teachers, with a
special focus on the use of technology in the classroom and the use of electronic portfolios.
*Contact the instructor for more details and permission to enroll
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or equivalent
ENG 301W: Language and Literacy
(#4791) TTh 4:00–5:15pm
Lisa Ashley
In this course, we will explore the relationships among language, literacy, and learning as they impact practices of English teaching at the secondary
level for native English speakers and English Language Learners (ELL). Central questions of the course include: What are the goals of language and
literacy education in middle and secondary contexts? What insights are current research studies about language and literacy suggesting and
debating? As we immerse ourselves in theoretical issues and debates both current and historical in language, literacy, and learning, we will also
develop classroom practices, strategies, and lessons that follow from and hopefully complicate these theories.
Area: English Education
Fulfills: Junior Level Writing Requirement for BSED English Education students
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190/191/192 or English Placement Test Results AND 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 302W: Technical Writing
(#4777) MWF 8:00–8:50am
(#18095) MWF 9:10–10:00am
(#18096) MWF 10:20–11:10am
(#18097) MWF 11:30–12:20am
Mark Gula
This course provides instruction in the characteristics of technical communication, and the qualities that comprise excellence in technical
communication. Students will receive instruction and experience in writing different types of technical communications, including proposals, technical
descriptions and instructions, analyses, evaluation and recommendation reports, abstracts, progress reports, business letters, technical articles,
resumes, and correspondence.
Area: Professional Writing
Fulfills: NAU's Junior-level writing requirement
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 302W: Technical Writing
(#18098) TTh 9:35–10:50am (Blended)
(#18099) TTh 11:10-12:25pm (Blended)
(#118100) TTh 12:45-2:00pm (Blended)
(#18101) TTh 12:45-2:00pm (Blended)
Sharon Crawford
This course provides instruction in the characteristics of technical communication, and the qualities that comprise excellence in technical
communication. Students will receive instruction and experience in writing different types of technical communications, including proposals, technical
descriptions and instructions, analyses, evaluation and recommendation reports, abstracts, progress reports, business letters, technical articles,
resumes, and correspondence.
Area: Professional Writing
Fulfills: NAU's Junior-level writing requirement
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 305W: WRITING IN DISCIPLINARY COMMUNITIES
(#4738) TTh 8:00-9:15am
(#5955) TTh 2:20-3:35pm
(#5956) TTh 12:45-2:00pm
(#18161) MW 2:20-3:35pm
Amanda Gilbert
English 305W: Writing in Disciplinary Communities is a survey course in writing and the professions. The course’s emphases are five writing
principles found in all disciplines: purpose, audience, document design, sentence control, and workplace writing. Along with these writing
principles, the following skills are developed: critical reading, analytical writing, research, presentation, and rhetorical strategies.
As students become more familiar with various styles of writing, the five principles of writing reveal themselves, giving the writer an opportunity to
take control of the document’s development. Students are encouraged to explore and to engage with material inside and outside of their prospective
areas of study.
Area: Rhetoric, Writing and Digital Media Studies
Fulfills: NAU's Junior-level writing requirement
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 308: Introduction to Linguistics
(#4817) MW 3:00-3:50pm, F 9:10-10:00am
(#4837) MW 3:00-3:50pm, F10:20-11:10am
(#4838) MW 3:00-3:50pm, F 12:40-1:30pm
Julieta Fernandez
Basic concepts of descriptive linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and language
processing. ENG 308 is a prerequisite for all 400-level linguistics courses; concurrent enrollment acceptable. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENG
105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test
Area: Linguistics
Fulfills: LS requirements for Cultural Understanding
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 327: British Fiction After 1900
(#4753) MW 12:45-2:00
Mara Reisman
This course provides an overview of twentieth-century and twenty-first century British fiction. During the semester, we will establish a historical,
cultural, literary, and critical framework in which to situate the works under consideration. Some of the issues we will discuss include modernism and
modernist aesthetics, the relationship between politics and literature, feminism and the women’s movement, postmodern concerns about form and
language, narrative strategies, and the use and revision of history and familiar narratives. Required work includes quizzes, in-class writings,
response papers, an oral presentation, an annotated bibliography, a midterm exam or paper, and a research paper.
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 335: Shakespeare
(#4760) TTh 11:10-12:25pm
Patricia Marchesi
This course will examine a variety of Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, focusing on language, imagery, themes, and the relationship of
literature to theater. The course will also address the different ways in which we, in the early 21st century, respond to Shakespeare in text, theatrical
productions, and film adaptations.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 335: Shakespeare
(#4761) TTh 12:45–2:00pm
Jay Farness
“Reading and discussion of selected works of Shakespeare,” says the NAU Catalog, but there’s more. This class studies the best examples of
Shakespeare's comic and tragic playwriting and explores those persistent themes and insights that have won Shakespeare a reputation as the
master pessimist of English literature. Probable readings include Much Ado about Nothing, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, one
more tragedy, and one more comedy. Study of Shakespeare's backgrounds will focus on remarkable developments in Elizabethan attitudes about
theater, about the family, and about the human person in society--developments that helped make possible the dazzling power and success of
Shakespeare's plays. Class format emphasizes close reading and discussion. Assignments include two essays, three essay-tests, and a short
objective test.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 340: Studies in Children’s Literature
(#18361) MW 12:45-2:00pm
Donelle Ruwe
This course examines children's literature from an historical and theoretical perspective. For example, we'll examine the history of the Stratemeyer
Syndicate, and how this corporate author established a blockbuster formula that moved children's detective fictions like Nancy Drew and the Hardy
Boys to the top of the bestseller charts. We’ll examine Curious George from a postcolonial perspective and The Cat in the Hat as an example of
minstrelsy and blackface textual performance. We'll examine how the fairy tale genre began as court literature for adults, and how this genre was
gradually co-opted for children and then Disneyfied in the 1930s. We'll consider the rise of the "it" narrative (stories with toys, animals, or objects as
the pt. of view speaker) from the 1780s to the present day. We'll compare Black Beauty to Brighty of the Grand Canyon and learn how to critique the
ideology behind animal stories. We'll examine the rise of sentimental literature and the political and moral imperative behind certain blockbuster
children's texts like Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under my Bed as well as Go the F**k to Sleep and Horton Hears a Who--and we'll also consider
whether or not these titles really "count" as children's literature. The emphasis of this course is on interpretive approaches and the body of critical
literary theory on children's books. Students will submit readings notes on secondary and primary texts, complete brief analyses of texts, and take
reading quizzes, a midterm, and a final.
Area: Literature
Prerequisites: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 341: American Fiction
(#4763) MW 12:45-2:00pm
Karen Renner
This course will introduce you to early American fiction, focusing primarily on the nineteenth century. In addition to studying primary texts, we will
also learn about the period’s dominant beliefs and cultural history. Authors studied will likely include Catherine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Frank Baum, and Edith Wharton. Instruction is discussion based, and assignments will include
quizzes, short academic essays, multimedia projects designed to present information and arguments in alternative forms to the academic essay, and
class participation.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange Student Group
ENG 362: Drama
(#18362) TTh 12:45-2:00pm
Patricia Marchesi
This course provides students with an overview of Western drama, from its earliest roots to its current manifestations. Students will learn about
playwrights' use of stage conventions and nuances of language to establish character, mood, theme, and so on. As we cover an eclectic array of
plays, we will look in particular at playwrights' word choice and imagery, as well as the historical and literary context of plays.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 364: Popular Literature
(#5392) TTh 12:45-2:00pm
Karen Renner
This class will focus on one or more popular genres of literature. In Fall 2015, the genre upon which we will focus will be science fiction. We will seek
to understand science fiction's literary history, its primary themes and features, and its relationship to the academy. We will also study the genre
through the lens of various critical approaches, such as Marxism, Feminism, and Queer Theory. Authors studied will be mainly British and American
and may include H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, and Isaac Asimov. Instruction is discussion based, and assignments will
include quizzes, regular response papers, an 8-10-page research essay, and class participation.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for Cultural Understanding
Prerequisites: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (PLACE 60+) and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International
Exchange Student Group
ENG 370W: Intermediate Fiction Writing
(#4792) W 4:00-6:30pm
Erin Stalcup
This class continues an investigation of the art of writing through examining “genre” fiction versus “literary” fiction. You will write your own stories or
chapters (at least two!) and revise at least one, you will read your classmates’ work to explain what excited you and to offer suggestions for revision,
and you will read an anthology of genre fiction written by famous genre writers such as Stephen King and Neil Gaiman as well as literary masters
such as Aimee Bender and Sherman Alexie, and you'll read the best literary story collection from the past ten years, Battleborn by Claire Vaye
Watkins, which is full of the same kinds of plots as the anthology. I seek to dismantle the firm divide between these kinds of stories in this class. I
believe fiction writing is alive and well and beautiful stories are being written today—by famous authors and by college undergraduates—and I want
you to leave this course with an enthusiasm for the form, and a sense of how to craft the kind of stories you want to tell.
Area: Creative Writing
Fulfills: NAU's Junior-level writing requirement
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 399: SPECIAL TOPICS: UTOPIAN & DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
(#18363) TTh 11:10-12:25PM
Ryan Farrar
This course offers a general survey of the utopian and dystopian imagination in literature over a span of four centuries. The course will focus on
European literature while exploring theories regarding the nature of the visions produced in the name of Utopia. The readings for this course will be
accompanied by historical overviews that demonstrate how social contexts inform critical understandings of the texts. The format of class meetings
will be discussion-based and readings will include works by authors of various nationalities: Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish, Voltaire, Edward
Bulwer-Lytton, William Morris, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forester, Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Karel Čapek, and Katherine Burdekin. Students will be
evaluated based on class participation, four short critical papers, a midterm, and a final.
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 400 & 580: Methods of Teaching Literature in the Secondary Classroom – Co-convened
(#4807 & #) Th 4:00-6:30pm
Angela Hansen
This course will focus on a balance between the theoretical and practical approaches necessary to teaching literature at the secondary level. In
addition, much of the course will focus on the professional and pedagogical approaches to teaching all aspects of the English language arts at the
secondary level. Students are required to write an extensive unit plan upon which successful completion is part of the evaluation process for
admittance into student teaching. In order to maximize success in the class, students should not enroll in ENG 400 until they have fulfilled the
majority of their English education requirements (such as ENG 300, ENG 301W, and ENG 403 and appropriate English content courses).
*Contact the instructor for more details and permission to enroll
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (PLACE 60+) and 9 hours of ENG-English coursework
ENG 401 & 689: English Education Practicum – Co-convened
(#4806 & # 4805) Th 6:00-6:50pm
Lisa Ashley
This practicum will allow students to experience a middle school and high school English language arts classroom. Through the 45 hours students
spend in the classroom, approximately 22-23 hours at each level, they will observe teacher practices as well as student reactions to lessons
facilitated by a practicum model teacher. Students will also be responsible for working with adolescents at the individual, small group, and whole
group levels. This course should be taken in conjunction with ENG 400: Methods of Teaching Literature and should not be taken until they have
fulfilled the majority of their English education requirements (such as ENG 300, 301W, ENG 403 and appropriate content courses).
*Contact the instructor for more details and permission to enroll
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 and 9 hours of ENG
ENG 403 & 583: Approaches to Teaching Writing in the Secondary Classroom – Co-convened
(#4803 & #) MW 4:00-5:15pm
Sandra Raymond
This course is designed to prepare secondary and elementary education majors to teach writing in their future classrooms. Current teachers and
those planning to teach at a university or community college may also find this course useful. This course requires and expects participants to look at
writing from a pedagogical viewpoint. Students will examine and discuss theories, methods, trends and practices in the areas of composition,
rhetoric, and creative writing, as well as issues and concerns facing writing teachers today. This is a very intensive course which attempts to cover a
large amount of information in a short period of time. Expect to do a great deal of reading and writing.
*Contact the instructor for more details and permission to enroll
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: ENG 301W
ENG 404: Seminar in the Teaching of English
(#4802) TTh 12:45–2:00pm
Jean Boreen
This course focuses on Young Adult Literature and how you, as a future teacher, can conceptualize how to use YA lit in the classroom by itself and
with classic texts. We will also explore how YA Lit can be used as a bridge to help students understand a variety of issues and literary concepts in
both literature written for them as well as in the classic texts most school curricula expect students to master. To accomplish this, we will consider
the thought-processes behind the development of the classroom teacher’s philosophy for teaching literature and how this, in turn, determines the
choices s/he makes for facilitating students’ learning. Another feature of the course is to conduct a survey of young adult literature. The class will
make critical evaluations of the literature as well as investigate strategies for encouraging student reading. Finally, we will explore the use of Nancie
Atwell’s reading workshops in secondary classrooms.
*Contact the instructor for more details and permission to enroll
Area: English Education
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191, ENG 300, and 9 hours of ENG
ENG 406: ESL Methods/Materials for Secondary Ed Teachers
(#4826) TTh 2:20-3:35pm
Luke Plonsky
English 406 provides an overview of current methods and materials for teaching learners for whom English is a second language at the middle- and
secondary grade levels. The course will be run through a combination of lectures, large and small group discussions, critiques of videotapes of ESL
teaching techniques, and development of final projects that may eventually be used in actual secondary classrooms. (Fulfills 3 hours of the 6-hour
SEI requirement for Arizona teachers.)
*Contact the instructor for more details and permission to enroll
Area: Linguistics Course for English Education students
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 408: Fieldwork
(#5178) M 4:00-6:30pm
Nancy Barron
*Contact your advisor for details. Instructor Consent required for registration.
ENG 410C: Seminar in Rhetoric: Writing In Blogs and Vlogs
(#5378) TTh 2:20-3:35pm
Amber Nicole Pfannenstiel
This course will explore meaning making in contemporary blogs and vlogs to better understand what it means to read, write and participate. We will
grapple with the rhetorical strategies employed to create and consume information through blogs and vlogs, and we will discuss participation in these
situated contexts. This class will require students to use blogs and vlogs to be apprenticed into a community of fans, producers and meaningmakers. We will not cover how to produce and share social media materials, we will focus on the reading, writing and participating of members of
media-making communities to understand the practices involved.
Area: Rhetoric, Writing and Digital Media Studies
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 411C: Diversity and Culture: The Rhetoric of Memoirs
(#4801) TTh 11:10–12:25pm
Laura Gray-Rosendale
In this course we will read rhetorical theory and learn about the history of the memoir genre. In addition, we will read a series of contemporary memoirs.
We will produce short analytic responses to the memoirs. Finally, we will write a larger seminar-length Reflective Project. Memoirs we read for the
course may include works by Nick Flynn, Susan Jane Gilman, Nic Sheff, Haven Kimmel, Leigh Newman, and others.
Area: Rhetoric, Writing and Digital Media Studies
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisites: ENG 210, 211, or ENG 105, HON 190, or HON 191 & 9 hrs of other English classes
ENG 420C: Seminar in Language: Applied Linguistics Overview
(#4818) TTh 9:35-10:50am
Soo-Jung Youn
Intensive study of selected topics in language and linguistics. Letter grade only. May be repeated for up to 9 units of credit with different content.
Area: Linguistics
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 435: Topics in Shakespeare: EcoShakespeare
(#4779) TTh 2:20-3:35pm
Patricia Marchesi
The course will give students a broad introduction to ecocriticism, “a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social
and political contexts” (Gabriel Egan, Green Shakespeare). Focusing on issues related to ecocriticism (depictions of flora, fauna, ocean, weather,
food, society, human beings’ biological needs, etc.), we will read and discuss Henry V, Macbeth, As You Like It, Antony & Cleopatra,King Lear,
Coriolanus, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. We will also explore the relevance of Shakespeare to contemporary
discussions and views of sustainability.
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 451C: Seminar in Comparative Literature
(#18369) MW 2:20-3:35pm
Jay Farness
“Intensive study of selected topics in international literature,” says the NAU Catalog. Here are specifics for the fall: This is a class in a classic version
of “comparative literature” centered on Europe in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It samples a reading list that made astonishing innovations in
what was termed literature, a reading list that invited mind-opening transformations by later writers and artists touched by European cultural
influence. Our sample includes The Golden Ass, Arthurian romance, troubadour songs, Dante’s Inferno, The Decameron, the Utopia, Don Quixote,
Part One, an essay of Montaigne, maybe a little Shakespeare, and criticism that helps document the historic emergence of European imaginative
writing in a variety of genres, discourses, media, and modes. These texts profoundly shape our ideas of literary imagination, fantasy literature,
narration, the love song, the essay, the novel, the short story, and theatrical fiction. These texts help shape, among other things, European-inspired
cultural ideas of romantic love, chivalry, marriage, honor, faith, and heaven and hell. Class format emphasizes literary interpretation, close reading,
and discussion. Assignments include response papers, formal papers, and an essay final.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 460C: Seminar in Literary History: Evil Children in Film and Literature
(#4782) Tu 4:00-6:30pm
Karen Renner
Since the middle of the twentieth century, depictions of “evil” children in literature, film, and even video games have been on the rise. What is the
appeal of the evil child? What sort of cultural work does it perform? These are the questions that we will seek to answer in this course. Rather than
approach the “evil child” as a singular convention, we will consider the historical contexts and ideological implications of several subtypes of evil
children, which may include the possessed child, the feral child, the antichrist-as-child, and the serial killer-as-child. Texts studied will likely include
The Bad Seed, Lord of the Flies, and short stories by Ray Bradbury, Jerome Bixby, and Peter Straub; clips from video games; and several films.
Instruction is discussion based, and assignments will include weekly response papers and a 12-15-page research paper on a text of your choice that
incorporates and adapts one of the narrative patterns we discuss during the semester.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (PLACE 60+) and 12 hours of ENG-English coursework
ENG 467C: Seminar in Film Studies: Film Noir
(#18370) TTh 2:20-3:35pm
Rebecca Gordon
As the U.S. moved in the 1940s from a war-time experience to a new, postwar context, works of popular culture expressed both the hopes and fears
that came with that transition. Film noir, a trend of films that started during the war but really exploded in the postwar moment, expresses a bleaker,
more bitter and downbeat vision of the historical moment than the populist films of war-time. Here, heroes turn into confused loners caught in the
dead ends of the city. These films express tensions around urban life, around sexual roles and identity, around work and success. “Film noir,” then,
refers to an important cinematic legacy. At the same time, “film noir” is a critical category developed by French film critics after the fact—the term did
not exist until 1955; thus, film noir is also an idea we have projected—and continue to project—onto the past. We will examine noir both thematically
and stylistically to reveal its expressive commentary on social trends and tensions. Furthermore, the course will attend to the ongoing fascination
with—and frequent revival of—noir style and subject-matter to consider how the social concerns of film noir continue to express complications in the
success story of America as a nation. Our primary texts will be the films themselves, accompanied by secondary literature (film criticism, theory, and
history). Course assignments will consist of frequent short writing assignments, two short essays, a research paper, and consistent, engaged
discussion of the material.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 470C: Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction
(#4800) F 12:45-3:15pm
Allen J Woodman
This special section of ENG 470 is designed for creative writing students interested in structuring and writing parts of a novella or novel. Although
we plan to write fiction, we will do an intensive study, application, and deconstruction of Blake Snyder’s fifteen storytelling beats for screenwriters
from Save the Cat! You will use these storytelling beats to create/write an original logline, beat sheet, and three chapters for a longer work of fiction.
The heart of the course is the workshopping of original novel plans and chapters (fiction).
Area: Creative Writing
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI AND
ENG 370W
ENG 470C: Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction
(#5352) Th 4:00–6:30pm
Erin Stalcup
This class is a study in the Forms of Fiction, and how they intersect with and deviate from the genres of fiction. Specifically, we will focus on the
forms available within the genre of short fiction. You will turn in six submissions, each in a different form. You will read two collections of stories
written in a variety of forms: The Complete History of New Mexico by Kevin McIlvoy, and How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanis Yanique.
You will workshop once in a large group, and four times with a small group of your peers. This class is an intensive focus on the craft of short fiction,
because I believe fiction writing is alive and well and beautiful stories are being written today—by famous authors and by college undergraduates—
and I want you to leave this course with an enthusiasm for and better understanding of the forms it offers in order to craft kind of stories you want to
tell.
Area: Creative Writing
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI AND
ENG 370W
ENG 471C: Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry
(#18133) Tu 5:00-7:30pm
Barbara Anderson
Area: Creative Writing
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI
ENG 472C: Seminar in Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
(#4799) Tu 12:45-2:00pm (Blended)
Nicole Walker
Intensive study of the craft of creative nonfiction, emphasizing the writing of personal essays, memoirs, or subjective criticism. Letter grade only. May
be repeated for up to 9 units of credit with different content.
Area: Creative Writing
Fulfills: Senior Capstone
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 or English Placement Test and 3 hours of ENG-English coursework or International Exchange group AHI AND
ENG 370W
ENG 485: Undergraduate Research
*Contact your advisor for details. Instructor Consent required for registration.
ENG 494C: Supervised Teaching: Secondary
*Contact your advisor for details. Instructor Consent required for registration.
ENG 497: Independent Study
*Contact your advisor for details. Instructor Consent required for registration.