DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: COURSE OFFERINGS

Spring, 2016
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ENGL 101 ENGLISH COMPOSITION
(Total of 28 sections, see Schedule)
This course will assist you in making responsible and effective
contributions to intellectual discussions in a range of academic and other
cultural settings. You will be challenged to establish a strong foundation
in critical reading, writing, researching, and reflecting. In a variety of
rhetorical situations, you will also demonstrate your ability to express
ideas and to craft and articulate arguments with and for other writers and
readers. English 101 is intended to be taken in conjunction with PHIL
101 and SPCO 101.
ENGL 102, ENGL 105, & ENGL 106,
fulfills the 100-level literature core requirement.
ENGL 102, 01, 02 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
Dr. Ciesla (01) M W F 9:00 - 9:50 a.m.
(02) M W F 10:00 - 10:50 a.m.
This course introduces the concepts, terms, and practices encountered in
literary study. We will examine poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama
with an emphasis on careful reading and interpretation. Graded
components of the course include short papers, quizzes, two exams, and
thoughtful participation in class discussion.
ENGL 102, 03, 05 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
Dr. Thayer (03) M W F 10:00 - 10:50 a.m.
(05) M W F 1:10 - 2:00 p.m.
Part of the University core curriculum and required of all
undergraduates, this course exposes students to a range of literary genres
and assists students in developing and articulating ideas about texts in
oral and written form.
ENGL 102, 04, 06, 07 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
TBA (04) M W F 12:00 - 12:50 p.m.
(06) M W F 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
(07) M W F 11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
ENGL 102, 10 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
Dr. Smith (10) T TH 1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
ENGL 105, 01, 03 / WGST 219, 01, 03 IMAGINATION AND
Prof. Roewe IDENTITY
(01) M W F 8:00 - 8:50 a.m.
(03) M W F 9:00 - 9:50 a.m.
Many authors address the creative power of the imagination in their
works, and this class will explore the ways the individual imagination
contributes to the conception of the self. This class will also explore the
intersection between imagination and identity by interrogating how
gendered representations of male and female imaginations shift across
time. Students in this course will learn strategies for analyzing
literature, careful and interpretive reading, and conventions of academic
writing.
ENGL 105, 02 / WGST 219, 02 FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN
Prof. Roden (02) M W F 9:00 - 9:50 a.m.
Meaning comes in a variety of shapes and forms. For some, the written
word is powerful, but for others the visual may be more provocative.
This course will ask how meaning is created as we examine the
relationship between word and image. Through an exploration of the
many ways in which primary texts are altered and adapted into other
genres and other media, students will become more aware of the
connection between the stories we tell, the mediums we express these
stories in, and the world we live in. In doing so, students will gain
familiarity with the major genres of Literature (Poetry, Fiction, Drama)
and come to a greater awareness of the interplay between Literature and
the variety of popular texts that make up our world.
ENGL 105, 04, 05 / WGST 219, 04, 05 POLITICS IN GENDER
Dr. Fowler (04) M W F 10:00 - 10:50 a.m.
(05) M W F 11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Broadly, politics refers to complex social relationships involving authority
and power in any given culture. This course, then, will examine literature
that explores the ways in which gender and sexuality intersect with
dominant cultural ideology. Topics include constructions of masculinity
& femininity, representations of sexualities, and depictions of power
relations among genders and sexualities. Course requirements include
active and mature participation, two exams, two papers, and weekly
reading quizzes.
ENGL 105, 06 HOW TO TELL A TRUE WAR STORY
Prof. Roewe (06) M W F 11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Can a story about war convey a truth even it isnt true? Do the stories we
tell about war show us what we must remember, or what we want to
forget? In this course we are interested in the ways narrative mediates
what we know, or what we think we know about war and about men and
women encountering war. By reading literature (poetry, fiction, drama)
across time that confronts war, including our most current conflicts, this
course explores what war-literature teaches us beyond the facts of
violence. Course assignments will include regular writing for class, two
formal essays, and exams.
ENGL 105, 12 / WGST 219, 07 SEXUAL POLITICS
Dr. Ciasullo (12) T TH 9:25 - 10:40 a.m.
In this course, we will critically examine literature that addresses the
intersections between identity and gender, identity and sexuality, and
sexuality and power. Our readings will explore the politics of
homosexuality and heterosexuality; our cultural understandings of
femininity and masculinity; the sexual rivalry between women; the misuse
and abuse of sexual power; and the relationship between racial/ethnic
identities and sexual identities. Course requirements include active
participation, weekly writing assignments, a midterm, and a final.
ENGL 105, 08 DEPICTING THE DIVINE IN LITERATURE
Prof. Roden (08) M W F 12:00 - 12:50 p.m.
Through an examination of literary representations of the divine, this
course will consider how Literature has provided a medium by which men
and women are able to explore the complexities of crafting a relationship
between the fallen and the immortal, the divine and the earthly, and
between man and his maker. It is the goal of this course that by exploring
Literatures treatment of this complicated, but incredibly rich relationship,
we will better understand how Literature enables us to contemplate our
own humanity and the human condition itself.
ENGL 105, 09 / WGST 219, 09 MAN & WOMAN IN LIT
Prof. Roden (09) M W F 1:10 - 2:00 p.m.
The battle of the sexes has been an age-old literary theme; male and female
authors alike have struggled to represent, defend, counter, and interrogate
social roles associated with the sexes, love (both romantic and sexual), and
the complicated nature of relationships between men and women. This
course addresses these themes by considering a range of literary works of
various genres and time periods to examine precisely how Literature
enables both readers and authors to explore what it means to be a man or
woman.
ENGL 105, 10, 11 OF MONSTERS AND THE MONSTROUS
Dr. Marshall (10) T TH 9:25 - 10:40 a.m.
(11) T TH 10:50 - 12:05 p.m.
In this course well study literature that explores various conceptions of the
monstrousboth the supernaturally monstrous and the human monstrosity.
Well consider what has been historically considered monstrous and how
conceptions have changed in the last two hundred years. Possible authors
(of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) include Shelley, Browning, Capote,
Larson, Gonzales, Shields, and others. Students will write essays and take
exams. Participation is expected.
ENGL 105, 13, 14 VOCATION: THE MEANING OF WORK
Dr. Lewis (13) T TH 10:50 - 12:05 p.m.
(14) T TH 1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
Why work? The question might seem too obvious to be worth asking: we
work to pay for food, for clothes, for tuition (one hopes!). But anyone who
works, or who is preparing for the work force, cannot help but pose such
questions to herself at some point: what is the value of my work? How
does my work define me? What makes work fulfilling? In this course, we
will explore how literary texts, from sonnets to slave narratives to modern
novels, have imagined the meaning--or futility--of work. Assignments will
range from response papers and quizzes to formal essays and exams.
Students will learn the protocols of academic writing and gain a greater
appreciation for the pleasures and insights literary works can offer.
ENGL 106 SPECIAL TOPICS: (RE-)IMAGINING AFRICA
Prof. Dodd T TH 8:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Many of us are drawn to Africas beauty and mystery, but we often dont
realize that its literature is rich with complex storytelling traditions and
intellectual orientations. Well examine a range of questions that continue
to drive a vibrant and diverse literary landscape, including: How do oral
traditions retain cultural value in the 21st century? How did struggles for
national independence shape writers work (and vice versa)? How can we
even discuss African literature, when the continent comprises more than 50
nation-states and over 1,500 languages? And, of course, who was the real
Lion King? Graded assignments will include three projects, a reading
journal, one exam, and thoughtful participation in class discussion.
All 200-level literature courses require prerequisites:
(ENGL 101, ENGL 200, or ENGL 103 H) and
(ENGL 102, ENGL 105, ENGL 106, or ENGL 104 H)
ENGL 200 the form and analysis of a poem, attention to language (200-level read subgenres Concentration claimed about the ENGL 402
INTERMEDIATE content of poetry, two papers, and two and the literature ENGL, including: memoir, Elective requirement. literature of these ADVANCED
COMPOSITION paying attention to exams, as well as historical/cultural excluding personal essay, Victorians, it is that FICTION WRITING
Written permission matters of genre, various shorter situations of the writing class literary journalism, ENGL 340 THE every artistic Dr. Cooley
from the Director of individual poetic assignments. texts. Active ENGL 200) and travel writing. ROMANTIC AGE movement and - 4:25 p.m.
Composition styles, and some Participation will be participation is Through the Dr. Cooney every paradigm of This course will focus
Dr. Eliason aspects of poetrys crucial, exciting, and essential. Other processes of close 10:50 - 12:05 p.m. values was met by a on crafting fiction
10:50 - 12:05 p.m. historical graded. graded work will ENGL 301 reading, analysis, At the tail end of the conflicting reaction. through the practice of
Building upon skills development. include mid-term POETRY collaboration, 18th C., Britain and In this course, we writing and extensive
developed in earlier Requirements ENGL 202, 01, 02 and final exams and WRITING experimentation, and Europe were will read texts in a revision. Students will
courses that include a reading STUDIES IN two to three formal Dr. Butterworth revision, we will contending with the variety of literary explore character
required writing, notebook, two FICTION essays. 2:40 - 5:10 p.m. focus on the skills social tumult genres (including creation, plot
you will engage in a papers, at least one Prerequisites: ENGL The purpose of this necessary to produce resulting from two prose fiction, non- development, voice
deliberate study of exam, and engaged 101 & 100-level ENGL 220, 01, 02 course is to learn and critique writing in epochal events: The fiction, and drama and other elements of
the art and craft of critical attention in literature course BRITISH various strategies the genre. French Revolution but emphasizing fiction. They will
writing and give reading and Dr. Butterworth LITERATURE for writing poems Participation is and the Industrial lyric and narrative become more
special emphasis to classwork. T TH 9:25 - 10:40 SURVEY II and to practice crucial and written Revolution. These poetry), setting the conscious of the
building a multi- a.m. Prerequisites: ENGL using meter, work includes writing destroyed age-old texts in writing process with
genre portfolio of ENGL 201, 02 101 & 100-level rhyme, alliteration, exercises, longer social hierarchies, conversation with an emphasis on
your original STUDIES IN 12:05 p.m. literature course assonance, works, peer critiques, ravaged one another and in revision and read a
compositions. POETRY Students will study Dr. Cooley figurative and craft papers. communities, and the cultural contexts number of
Prerequisites: the elements of W F 10:00 - 10:50 language, imagery, Fulfills Writing continued the of a fascinatingly contemporary short
ENGL 201, 01 ENGL 101 & 100- fiction through an a.m. particular verse Concentration demographic shift dynamic period. stories. Those who
STUDIES IN level literature examination of short kinds, stanzaic Elective requirement. from country to city. Students will have choose to take this
POETRY course stories and novels. 11:50 a.m. patterns, and other In this class, we will some flexibility in class should be highly
Prerequisites: Dr. Tredennick Requirements: active This course will poetic devices. ENGL 306 look at how major choosing their own motivated and self-
ENGL 101 & 100- T TH 2:40 - 3:55 participation, mid- examine major There will be SPECIAL TOPICS figures of the period, assignments. directed, with time to
level literature p.m. term and final exams, works of British weekly reading and IN WRITING: including William Options will devote to intensive
course two formal papers, literature beginning writing Wordsworth, John include essays, writing. Workshop
Dr. Easterling Poetry is what gets and a range of with the Romantic assignments, and Clare, and Lord exams, and format. Two original
lost in translation. WRITING IN THE
T TH 1:15 - 2:30 informal writing writers (around class time will be Byron, reflected on presentations. stories and extensive
Robert Frost WORKPLACE
p.m. assignments. 1800) and moving divided between and revolted against Fulfills British revisions required.
Poets are the Dr. Eliason
Today we live in a unacknowledged
through the present lecture, discussion, what was, in effect, Literature Post- Fulfills Writing
1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
24-7, device-driven, legislators of the ENGL 205, 01, 02 time. Requirements and workshop. the beginning of 1660 requirement. Concentration and/or
Students in this
attention-splintered world. Percy STUDIES IN include two papers, Fulfills Writing what we now call English Elective
course will learn how
society, with little Bysshe Shelley SHAKESPEARE two exams, informal Concentration modernity. Students ENGL 390 requirement.
to identify and
trust in the language A poet can survive Prerequisites: ENGL writing assignments, Elective will be expected to WRITING
everything but a navigate social and
of political leaders 101 & 100-level active class requirement. write two papers, do CENTER ENGL 413 / WGST
misprint. Oscar communicative
or of ephemeral literature course participation and regular reading PRACTICUM 422C 19th CENTURY
Wilde contexts that affect
media. What then is To have great poets
Dr. Ranum informal ENGL 303 responses, take a Requires written AMERICAN
writing and
the place and there must be great W F 12:00 - 12:50 presentations. CREATIVE final exam, and permission from the NOVEL
composing processes
significance of audiences too. Walt p.m. NON-FICTION participate actively. English Dr. Miller
in organizational
poetrys precise Whitman WRITING Fulfills British Department Chair. - 10:40 a.m.
settings. To support
language and 2:00 p.m. Dr. Ciesla Literature Post-1660 Dr. Eliason In this course we will
In this class, we *** UPPER their learning,
observations in such This course presents 1:10 - 2:25 p.m. requirement. Tutoring student read nineteenth-
will study both the DIVISION students will write
a world? What is the opportunity for This course will writers and century American
form and the OFFERINGS *** and read about
poetry? In this close, careful reading focus on the art and ENGL 342 developing novels that explore
content of poetry, All ENGL 300 and writing in the
course we will ask and lively discussion craft of creative VICTORIAN ERA academic resources gendered spaces:
paying attention to 400 level courses workplace, critique
and try out of texts by Western nonfiction. We Dr. Ranum and promotional natural, domestic,
issues of genre, require samples of
thoughtful answers literatures most will study the 10:00 - 10:50 a.m. materials for the and/or urban spaces
individual poetic prerequisites: professional writing,
to these questions famous writer, historical The Victorian Era in Writing Center. that are fraught with
style, and (ENGL 101, ENGL and research
while developing as William development of the England was a time May be taken for connotations of
historical 200, or ENGL 103 workplace writing in
attentive readers of Shakespeare. We genre to gain of unprecedented 1, 2, or 3 credits. femininity or
development. H) and situ, within an
poetry and the ways will explore plays footing in this economic, political, masculinity. To what
Requirements (ENGL 102, ENGL organization of their
it makes meaning. from different literary tradition and social change. If extent is a kitchen or a
include a formal 105, ENGL 106, or choosing. Fulfills
We will study both genres, paying close and will write and one constant can be river boat, for
ENGL 104 H) and Writing
instance, associated STUART Pre-1660 semester, we will nineties. This class as women began
with the idea of DRAMA: requirement. investigate changing will explore both writing professionally
rigid gender roles or cultural norms the questions and for the first time. We
indicative of ENGL 455 surrounding various answers as will focus largely on
SEX AND THE
separate spheres? SPECIAL TOPICS: ownership and they appear in the bawdy comedies
CITY ON THE
We will assess how AMERICAN intellectual property, literature, in the and political satires
LONDON
these novels depict, VISIONARY the affordances and academy, and in staged between 1660
STAGE
evaluate, or critique constraints of the lived and the Theatre
Dr. Easterling
these gendered writing in digital experience of Licensing Act of
TH 2:40 - 3:55 LITERATURE
spaces and examine environments, and people who do not 1737, but we will
p.m. Dr. Marshall
how other notions of the significance of fit societys examine a later 18th
We associate the 1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
identity (nationality, race, gender, and heteronormative C. play in order to see
dramatic In this course, we
race, class) and class identities in model. The course how government
achievements of will study authors of
moral sentiment, online communities. will include active censorship and
the early modern the last hundred and
especially as it is The goal of this reading and evolving cultural
period primarily fifty years to explore
located in the idea course is to consider discussion as well mores affected the
with Shakespeare, what is meant by the
of sympathy, how changing as reflective and genre. The seminar
but Shakespeare term visionary,
overlap or conflict technological formal writing; no format requires
was only one of a what we can know of
with gendered environments affect previous course extensive, meaningful
great number of the authors unique
identity. We will us as producers and work in Literary participation. Other
playwrights who social, metaphysical,
also situate these consumers of Theory required. requirements may
together created a national, historical,
books in the context culture. Fulfills Fulfills English include an annotated
stunning and aesthetic, and
of American literary English Literature Literature Elective bibliography, class
eclectic range of mystical visions; and
and cultural history, or Writing requirement. presentation, and a
plays in what we can glean of
which means we Concentration longer research paper.
Tudor/Stuart the contexts out of
will define, apply, Elective ENGL 495 Students should
London. In this which these visions
complicate, and requirement. SENIOR register for ENGL
course well be emerged. We will
question the notions SEMINAR: 495 and ENGL 499
focused on this also consider the
of Sentimentalism, ENGL 466, 02 / concurrently.
non- relevance of their
Romanticism, WGST 380 Fulfills English
Shakespearean visions for us RESTORATION
Realism, TOPICS IN LIT: Senior Seminar
drama. Reading an today. Possible & 18TH C.
Naturalism, and the QUEER THEORY requirement. One
extensive range of authors include: DRAMA
literary canon. Dr. Tredennick seminar required for
plays as well as Emerson, Thoreau, Prerequisite:
Fulfills American 10:50 - 12:05 p.m. English Lit majors.
secondary sources Whitman, Dickinson, Senior status or
Literature Pre-1900 What is the
both historical and Muir, Agee, instructors
requirement. relationship between ENGL 496
critical, we will Ginsberg, Creeley, permission.
biological sex, WRITING SENIOR
discuss specific Kerouac, Rich, Dr. Fowler
gender, and PROJECT
works and the Dillard, Lesy, Lee, - 4:40 p.m.
sexuality? How has Dr. Marshall
space of the stage, and Graham. Fulfills This course traces
ENGL 423 the traditional model
including the American Literature the development of
CHAUCER linking these ENGL 499
centrality of Post-1900 drama beginning
Dr. Thayer categories shaped SENIOR PROJECT
gender to playing requirement. with the re-opening
11:00 - 11:50 a.m. both modern Dr. Miller
in the period. of the London
A survey of constructions of
Requirements ENGL 466, 01 stages in 1660 after
Chaucers major identity and modern
likely will include: TOPICS IN LIT: the Restoration of
works with special society, and what
regular informal DIGITAL Charles II to the
emphasis on The would an alternative
and formal writing RHETORIC English throne.
Canterbury Tales. modela queer
about our readings, Dr. Bollig This is an
Texts in original identitylook like?
class 12:00 - 12:50 p.m. important time in
Middle English. Shaped in large part
presentations, a This course explores the development of
Fulfills British by the gay and
term paper, and digital culture and drama and theatre
Literature Pre-1660 transgender rights
readiness to be an digital media objects as women stepped
requirement. movements, queer
engaged and active through the lenses of onto London stages
theorists have been
participant in the rhetorical theory and as actors for the
ENGL 434 / WGST wrestling with these
class. Fulfills critical theory. Over first time, and even
417 TUDOR & questions since the
British Literature the course of the more significantly,