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Texas Tech University Spring 2005 English 3000 & 4000 Level Courses

Department of English Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091 806-742-2501 Please notify Suzi Duffy, [email protected] or 742-2500 ext 254, if you find errors.

English 3302.001

CallNumber 14146

Old and Middle English Literature Middle English Literature: Knights, Maidens & Love-Talk

TR 12:30-1:50PM

Julie Nelson Couch [email protected]

English 431

Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 2000-level English. May be repeated once when topics vary.

This course offers a survey of early English literature from circa 1066 to 1400 AD, from King Arthur to Chaucer, from chronicle to romance, from saints to merchants. In this course we will read literary works analytically, paying particular attention to the expectations genre imposes on the text. We will also explore the cultural contexts of early writings including their original placement in handwritten manuscripts. By the end of this course, the student should be able to mount an argument and support it effectively and correctly with textual evidence, both orally and in writing. Students will be expected to complete one six-page essay, one ten-page research essay, a midterm, and a final. Weekly written responses, occasional quizzes, one oral presentation, and active class participation will also be required. Attendance is mandatory. Texts: Readings will include Arthurian romances including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, saints lives, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

English 3302.002

CallNumber 21025

Old and Middle English Literature Middle English Literature: Knights, Maidens & Love-Talk

TR 3:30-4:50PM


English 431


This course offers a survey of early English literature from circa 1066 to 1400 AD, from King Arthur to Chaucer, from chronicle to romance, from saints to merchants. In this course we will read literary works analytically, paying particular attention to the expectations genre imposes on the text. We will also explore the cultural contexts of early writings including their original placement in handwritten manuscripts. By the end of this course, the student should be able to mount an argument and support it effectively and correctly with textual evidence, both orally and in writing. Students will be expected to complete one six-page essay, one ten-page research essay, a midterm, and a final. Weekly written responses, occasional quizzes, one oral presentation, and active class participation will also be required. Attendance is mandatory. Texts: Readings will include Arthurian romances including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, saints lives, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

English 3304

CallNumber 14147

Medieval and Renaissance Drama CourseSubtitle

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Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 2

MW 12:30-1:50PM

Constance Kuriyama [email protected]

English 428

English 3305

British Renaissance Literature


Course not offered this semester.

English 3307

CallNumber 14149

Restoration & 18th Century British Literature Writers, Readers, Conversations 1660-1742

TR 11-12:20PM

Jennifer Frangos [email protected]

English 479


This course will be a survey of British literature written between 1660 and 1742, with an emphasis on reading these texts in their social and cultural contexts. We will look at major and minor writers, a wide variety of literary genres, and a range of supplementary materials (political treatises, scientific writing, art and music, fashion, maps, popular entertainments, and so forth). Our focus will be on the interplays between the writer, the written text, the reader, the culture at large, and so on… As we read and discuss, we will consider questions such as: How is a text created by a culture and how does it in turn help to create that culture? What problems, tensions, and issues does the literature seem to be working out for the culture? What issues seem important to literary texts, what issues seem unimportant, and why? Who has power in the culture, who is resisting or perpetuating that power structure, and how does literature (or a given literary text) reveal, perpetuate, resist, or re-imagine the culture’s power structure? Students will be expected to complete response papers, short essays, periodic reading quizzes, an in-class presentation/research project, and a mid-term and a final exam (each partly take-home). There will be a strict attendance policy, whereupon two weeks’ worth of absences or more will lower the final grade for the class. Students are encouraged not to miss the first day of class for this reason. Texts:

Damrosch, David, et al. The Longman Anthology of British Literature, second edition, volume 1C (The Restoration and the 18th Century); ISBN 0-321-10668-7

Defoe, Daniel. Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress; John Mullan (Ed.); Oxford World Classics, ISBN 0192834592

Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews and Shamela and Related Writings; Homer Goldberg (Ed.); W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-95555-9

Richardson, Samuel. Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded; Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakeley (Eds.); Oxford World Classics, ISBN 0-19-282960-2

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels; Albert J. Rivero (Ed.); W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-95724-1


http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/english/nce/gulliver/



English 3308

CallNumber 14150

Nineteenth Century British Literature Mid-Century Transformations, 1820-1870

TR 12:30-1:50PM

Ann Hawkins [email protected]

English 435


The ends of the nineteenth-century—Romantic or Victorian—get the most press. But what do we call the middle? Is it Romantic or Victorian—or something else? This course takes that question as a starting point and examines a number of movements that seem to begin by being Romantic and end up Victorian. For example, how do we get from Sir Walter Scott’s stories of knights and ladies to the Tennyson’s Morte D’Arthur or Morris’s “Defense of Guinevere”? What happens with Byron’s legacy of iconoclasm that leads Carlyle to proclaim, “Close thy Byron, Open thy Goethe”? And why do the Victorians like Wordsworth so much?

The course will begin with a brief primer in Romanticism (to define our terms) and Shelley’s Frankenstein; then we’ll read through a variety of prose, poetry, drama, and non-fiction to address our central question. In particular, we’ll look at disjunctions, places where the interests of the mid-nineteenth-century seem at odds with each other. We’ll place, for examine, Robert Browning’s narratives of passion (often gone awry), particularly in the Ring and the Book, alongside Carlyle’s vision of a new social order in Sartor Resartus. We’ll examine the growing literature of social protest alongside contemporary ghost stories (by Mrs. Jewsbury and others) or nonsense texts like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. And we’ll think about how the pesky “woman question”-- particularly in Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh-- gets played out in the middle of a century that started with Wollstonecraft and Hannah More and ends with Victoria. Students will complete one short essay (and class presentation based on it), one long essay, and a final exam. Absences accrue from the first class meeting; each absence after two reduces final averages by 5%.

English 3309.J01

Modern and Contemporary British Literature


Course offered in Junction, Texas.

English 3309.001

CallNumber 14152

Modern and Contemporary British Literature CourseSubtitle

MW 12:30-1:50PM

Jen Shelton [email protected]

English 486


No description available. Please contact the teacher.




English 3309.002

CallNumber 20600

Modern and Contemporary British Literature CourseSubtitle

MW 12:30-1:50PM


English 486



English 3309.170



Course offered in Fredericksburg, Texas.

English 3309.172



Course offered at Highland Lakes satellite campus in Marble Falls, Texas..

English 3323

CallNumber 14155

Early American Literature CourseSubtitle

TR 11-12:20PM

Cristobal Silva [email protected]

English 466


This course is a survey of American literary history from the European conquests to the early US Republican period. Our goal will be to develop an ever-expanding notion of what constitutes American literature, and of how specific American literary traditions may have evolved into being. As a means to this end, we will continually interrogate our notions of what America is, of how writers and thinkers have tried to express what it means to be American, and of what literary critics do. Course topics will range from the language of exploration and of colonial encounters (Columbus, De las Casas), to the major strains of New England Puritanism (Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards), the meanings of American individualism and liberty (Franklin, de Crevecoeur, Equiano, Jefferson), the mythology of American exceptionalism, and the position of dissent in American ideology. Students will be expected to complete two short papers, a term paper, a mid-term, and a final exam. Absences accrue from the first day of class: participation grade is lowered on the third absence, and students fail the course on the fifth.

Texts: Overview is included in the description above. We will also read Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly.




English 3324. H01*

CallNumber 20601

Nineteenth Century American Literature Literature and Culture

TR 9:30-10:50AM

Bryce Conrad [email protected]

English 312C


The nineteenth century witnessed the rapid transformation of America from an agrarian society to an urbanized and mechanized civilization. The pace of change was so fast that Henry Adams, a prominent intellectual of the day, developed the idea of “the law of acceleration” in history to explain the forces that were moving America forward with such precipitous speed. We will not simply read literature as an illustration of history, but investigate how literature both reacts to and participates in the cultural debates and historical tensions of this dynamic era. Authors to be covered include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Alan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane. Writing requirements include several short exploratory essays (1-2 pages) that provide students opportunity to discover themes, ideas, and motifs that they may wish to explore in more detail for the longer essay (10 pages) due at the end of the semester.

English 3324.002

CallNumber 14157

Nineteenth Century American Literature Survey of Poetry and Fiction

TR 2-3:20PM

John Samson [email protected]

English 481


The course will survey poetry and fiction of the period, beginning with traditional poetry of the early century, then proceeding to the American Renaissance and continuing with literature of the post-Civil War period. Lectures on literary history will be combined with discussions of individual texts. Students will write two 4-5 pp. interpretive papers and take objective midterm and final exams. Beginning with the second week of classes students will be allowed three unexcused absences; beyond that absences cause their grade to be lowered by 1/3 of a letter grade.

Texts: John Hollander, ed., American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century; Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings; Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories; Herman Melville, Great Short Works of Herman Melville; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner; Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; and Kate Chopin, The Awakening

English 3325.001

CallNumber 14158

Modern and Contemporary American Literature CourseSubtitle

MWF 11-11:50AM



* You need a 3.0 overall GPA to enroll in an Honors section. It puts you in a small class with other people with 3.0’s and higher. The courseload is no heavier than normal. Preparation and participation may be higher. To enroll please go to the Honors College, McClellan Hall 103.




Doug Crowell [email protected]

English 427

English 3325.002

CallNumber 21035

Modern and Contemporary American Literature CourseSubtitle

MWF 1-1:50PM


English 427



English 3335

Ancient and Medieval World Literature

Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 2000-level English. May be repeated once when topics vary. Fulfills the Multicultural requirement.


English 3336

Early Modern World Literature



English 3337

CallNumber 14161

Modern and Contemporary World Literature Trauma and Healing

MWF 11-11:50AM

Ann Daghistany


Do not attempt to add after January 18, 2005.

Modern Continental Literature, which utilizes the approach of Comparative Literature, will focus on fiction, with some presentation on drama, that entail the twin themes of trauma and healing. Students will read works on important political conflicts and wars, as well as the healing aspects of art and relationships. Readings include Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago, on the Russian Revolution, Remarques’s All Quiet on the Western Front, on World War I, Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians, on apartheid in South Africa, Hoeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow and Borderliners concerning Denmark and the Inuit, Allende’s House of the Spirits on the Pinochet regime in Chile, Dan Fesperman’s The Small Boat of Great Sorrows




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English 207

Spirits on the Pinochet regime in Chile, Dan Fesperman’s The Small Boat of Great Sorrows set in the Balkans, Sena Jeter Naslund’s Four Spirits on the American Civil Rights South, and Aziz’ immigrant adventure in Lorraine Adams’ Harbor. Requirements include weekly quizzes on the readings, a midterm, a final, an oral presentation, and a paper contrasting a character in the fiction/film version of one of these works. One absence is allowed with no penalty. Thereafter, 5 points off for each undocumented absence from overall course grade. For further information please contact the teacher.

English 3351.001

CallNumber 14162

Creative Writing

Genre: Nonfiction: The Art of Memory

TR 9:30-10:50AM

Jacqueline (McClean) Kolosov-Wenthe [email protected]

English 433

Notes: Prerequisite: Two sophomore English courses or, if a student’s major does not require those courses, completion of English courses required by the student’s major. May be repeated once, under a separate genre, from Fall 2002. If course taken prior to Fall 2002, may not be repeated.

”The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”—Milan Kundera

“Of course I may be remembering it all wrong after, after—how many years?” –Elizabeth Bishop

“Count what was bitter and kept you awake”—Paul Celan

The focus of this course is memory.

Bound up in the study are questions of nature, identity, creativity, myth, culture, witness, representation, and (im)mortality. Crucially, memory is inextricably linked to inspiration and imagination. After all, Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, is the mother of the classical muses. Or, to quote Toni Morrison: “Memory (the deliberate act of remembering) is a form of willed creation.” We will read voraciously in the genres of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. The writings will be in creative nonfiction. We will rely on a xeroxed course packet for many of the readings. In addition, we’ll use 2-3 books of creative nonfiction (about $14.95 each). The first is Words From the Land—writings about the natural world. The second is Brenda Miller’s Season of the Body—essays dealing with memory, the body, family history, love—by one of creative nonfiction’s most luminous voices. We may use a creative nonfiction handbook, though to keep costs down, I will probably include a number of craft essays in the xeroxed course packet and make the handbook an optional purchase. In addition, I will order 3-4 copies of works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by writers like Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov that we will draw upon in the class. You will not have to purchase these books, though I believe some of you will want to do so. You will write 3-4 short essays (about 1,500 words each) during the first 10 weeks of the semester. These short essays will help you find a longer project and enable you to explore various writing strategies within creative nonfiction. The final project will be a longer work of creative nonfiction (essay, memoir, etc.) of some 5,000 words. In addition, you will be expected to do a good deal of reading. Strict attendance policy begins day 1. Everyone is allowed 3 absences. After that, I take points off. 7 absences is a mandatory “F” or “W” depending upon where we are in the semester. To take this class, you need to be absolutely committed to coming to class.

Readings include the following authors: St. Augustine, William James, Carl Jung (Phenomenon of Memory); Pattiann Rogers, William Wenthe, Leslie Ullman, Peter Matthiessen, Annie Dillard (Nature); Patricia Hampl, Marcel Proust, H.D., Eavan Boland (Creativity); Joy Harjo, Paul Celan, Anna Akhmatova, Etty Hillesum, Maxine Hong Kingston (Culture); Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov (Representation).




English 3351.002

CallNumber 14163

Creative Writing

Genre: Fiction

TR 11-12:20PM

Stephen Jones [email protected]

English 312G



English 3351.003

CallNumber 14164

Creative Writing

Genre: Poetry

MW 12:30-11:50PM

John Poch [email protected]

English 312F



English 3351.004

CallNumber 14165

Creative Writing

Genre: Fiction

TR 2-3:20PM

Jill Patterson [email protected]

English 312E


In this course, students will learn the narrative strategies for writing literary fiction. We’ll read, as examples, stories from the text entitled Student Body, a collection of contemporary stories about college students and college professors. In class, we’ll discuss various elements of fiction writing: viewpoint, dialogue, character development, setting, theme, etc. We will be workshopping manuscripts in class as well. Course assignments will include reading quizzes, daily writing exercises, two short stories (first drafts and revised manuscripts,) one midterm, and one final exam. Attendance is recorded through daily reading quizzes which cannot be made up except in cases of official excused absences: death in the family, illness with proper documentation, school-sponsored trip, religious holiday. Any student who misses more than seven days of class will receive an automatic F in the course. Students should always attend the first day of class.

Texts: The Student Body: Short Stories about College Students and Professors. 1st Edition. Ed. by John McNally. University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. $16.95.

Packet of daily exercises and lecture notes available at Copy Outlet. Approx. $15.00



English 3360.001

CallNumber 14169

Issues in Composition

TR 3:30-4:50PM

Vicki Hester [email protected]

English 416

Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 2000-level English.

Revised 12/10/04. This course focuses on reading, writing, and thinking about current issues in composition for the purpose of introducing students to the many issues and research efforts that continue to shape the field of composition. While this course will build on contemporary issues in this field, there will be some historical review of composition as well. Students will read and write about successful approaches to professional writing and study successful teaching practices. Analyzing professional writing and teaching practices fosters the kind of reflection that leads to an understanding of the inner workings of the writing process. To also add to this understanding, English 3360 requires students to write often, to comment on the writings of classmates, to analyze and comment on published writings, and to discuss why some writing fails and other writing works. In other words, this is a course in both theory and practice. We will think about theory and practice, and we will practice those theories that we study. English 3360 students will write multiple drafts for most assignments and produce a portfolio by the end of the semester according to the process theories we study during the semester. Students will practice theories of social construction as they work on group projects and provide peer commentaries for one another. By focusing on issues of theory and practice in composition, students work toward becoming members of an academic community of writers and writing teachers. Together, we will strive toward understanding what it means to have clearly defined theories and practices about writing and teaching writing—toward understanding what it means to reflect on those theories and practices, and why we should continually research to better understand the ongoing issues in teaching composition. In addition to our own individual research, there will be outside assigned readings, and the three texts required below:

Mitchell, Diana and Lelia Christenbury. Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2000.

Rose, Mike. Lives on the Boundary. NY: Penguin, 1990.

Tremmel, Robert, and William Broz, eds. Teaching Writing Teachers of High School English and First-Year Composition. NY: Boynton/Cook: 2002.

English 3365

Professional Report Writing

Notes: Prerequisite: Junior standing.

The purpose of English 3365 is to prepare you for writing as a professional person. It focuses on gathering information and presenting it to specific audiences. The assignments include a library/internet guide, an annotated bibliography, a recommendation report, a progress report, a proposal, and an oral report. You will

Instructor Section Day Time Call Number AMY KOERBER [email protected]

English 363D 001 TR 12:30-1:50PM 14170

KEN BAAKE [email protected]

English 363B 002 MW 9:30-10:50AM 14171





DAPHNE ERVIN [email protected]

English 475 003 MW 11-12:20PM 14172

AMY HANSON [email protected]

English 204 004 TR 8-9:20AM 14173


English 204 005 TR 9:30-10:50AM 14174


English 204 006 TR 11-12:20AM 14175


English 204 007 TR 3:30-4:50PM 14176

AMY KOERBER [email protected]

English 363D 008 TR 2-3:20PM 14177

DAPHNE ERVIN [email protected]

English 475 009 MW 12:30-1:50PM 14178

CRAIG BAEHR [email protected]

English 363F 010 TR 9:30-10:50AM 14179

SEAN ZDENEK [email protected]

English 472

011 OPENED 12/10/04

TR 9:30-10:50AM 23998

English 3366.001

CallNumber 14180

Style in Technical Writing

TR 11-12:20PM

Angela Eaton

Notes: Prerequisite: Junior standing.

In Style in Technical Communication, we will examine what constitutes a style, and identify characteristics of the most frequently used styles in technical and professional communication. We will study discourse communities, how they determine which styles are appropriate for which contexts, and how we as authors can determine the appropriateness of a certain style for a situation. Finally, we will learn how to create these styles in our own writing. Work expected of the students is included in the table below with links to Dr. Eaton’s web site. There is a strict attendance policy—more than five absences is an automatic failure. It kicks in from the first day of class.











[email protected]

English 363G

of class.

Texts: Jones, D. (1997). Technical Writing Style. Pearson Longman and additional research articles.

Assignment Percentage of Final Grade

Daily Assignments 20%

Error Project 10%

Style Investigation Project 10%

Revision Project #1 10%

Revision Project #2 10%

Final Project 30%

Final Exam 10%

English 3367

Usability Testing Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 2311 or 3365.


English 3368

CallNumber 23021

World Wide Web Publishing of Technical Information

TR 12:30-1:50PM

Craig Baehr [email protected]

English 363F

Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 2311 or 3365.


http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/aeaton/3366/syllabus/daily.htm

http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/aeaton/3366/syllabus/error.htm

http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/aeaton/3366/syllabus/investigation.htm

http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/aeaton/3366/syllabus/final_proj.htm

http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/aeaton/3366/syllabus/final_exam.htm




English 3369

Information Design Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 2311 or 3365.


English 3371

CallNumber 22992

Linguistic Science

TR 9:30-10:50AM

Mary Jane Hurst [email protected]

English 485

Notes: Prerequisite:6 hrs of 2000-level English.

This course will provide an introduction to the study of language at the undergraduate level. Our primary objective will be to learn what language is and how language systems work. We will examine some of the main components of language – sounds, word forms, and sentence structure – and we will also investigate the principles of language change and language variation. Our approach will be descriptive rather than prescriptive, and our primary focus will be on the English language. Class meetings will be organized around a lecture-discussion format. For more information, refer to the Course Information section and other sections of Dr. Hurst’s website : http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/hurst.

Course Requirements

Students will conduct themselves in a manner appropriate for a university classroom. Students will attend class regularly, having completed the designated readings and assignments, and will participate positively in class discussions. (Students with more than seven absences can expect a failing grade for the course.)

Students will take three tests, one of which will be the final exam.

Students will write two or three papers. Specific written instructions for the papers will be distributed in class.

Students will deliver oral presentations about their independent work.

Texts: Akmajian, Adrian; Richard A. Demers; Ann K. Farmer; and Robert M. Harnish. Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. Fifth Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2001.

Two or three additional essays that will be available at the library or at CopyTech.

Recommended Materials: A collection of materials available at the reserve desk of the library.

English 3372

History of the English Language


Course not offered in Lubbock this semester. This course is NOT a distance/online/correspondence course.

English 3373

Modern English Syntax



English 3381.001

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http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/hurst



CallNumber 20628

Literature of the Fantastic Imagining Healing

MWF 11-11:50 AM

James Whitlark [email protected], English 464


The course will study why fantasy and science fiction have become so popular, what they contribute to readers' self-actualization, how they are therapeutic, and what if their popularity continues to grow.

Texts: Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Ballantine), Wu Cheng?En, Monkey (Grove), Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Bantam), Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) (Ballantine), Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (Ballantine), Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Tom Doherty)

For further information please contact the teacher.

English 3382

Women Writers Notes: Prerequisite:6 hrs of 2000-level English.


English 3383

Bible as Literature Notes: Prerequisite:6 hrs of 2000-level English.


English 3384

Religion and Literature


Course not offered this semester. English 3385.J01, 170, 172 Shakespeare


These sections not offered in Lubbock. This course is NOT a distance/online/correspondence course.

English 3385.001

CallNumber 20610

Shakespeare

MW 9:30-10:50AM

Marliss Desens [email protected]

English 429

Notes: Prerequisite:6 hrs of 2000-level English. Opened 11-29-04.

Course cancelled 12-13-04




English 3386

CallNumber 22932

Literature and Science Biology and Gender in Women’s Science Fiction

MW 12:30-1:50PM

Bruce Clarke [email protected]

English 210A


This course offers a review of contemporary biology and an introduction to feminist science studies as context for the study of some significant female-authored works of science fiction that foreground matters of biology and gender. Microbiologist Lynn Margulis discusses the cultural background of biological science while presenting important revisions to evolutionary theory. Co-authored with her son Dorion Sagan, What is Life? works through the origins and evolution of the five living kingdoms with an emphasis on symbiotic relationships. In Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium, feminist historian of science Donna Haraway critiques a range of bioscientific topics and practices, from cloning to the human genome project. We will work through these texts while reading some acclaimed novels that use science-fictional scenarios to dramatize issues of life and death in terms of constructions of femininity and masculinity, while speculating about alternative worlds and alien bodies: Naomi Mitchison, Solution Three; Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness; Joan Slonczewski, A Door Into Ocean; and Octavia E. Butler, Lilith's Brood (aka the Xenogenesis trilogy). Students will deliver class reports and write a midterm paper, building towards an end-of-term project that combines literary study with research on technoscientific topics.

English 3387.001

CallNumber 14190

Multicultural Literatures Introduction to Multiethnic Short Stories

MW 2-3:20PM

Yuan Shu BJ Manriquez [email protected]

English 206


The class will read a selection of stories from five different American ethnic or culture groups. The course is thinking, writing, and reading intensive. Students will be expected to complete four papers 4-5 pages in length, a midterm essay, and a personal project for the final. Students will use TOPIC, the English Dept software program. Attendance is rewarded from the first day.

A new textbook might be available. If not, then we will use a reading packet costing about $20.

Revision caused by change of teacher, 12/14/04.

English 3387.002

CallNumber 14191

Multicultural Literatures CourseSubtitle

MW 3:30-4:50PM

Yuan Shu


This course investigates multicultural literatures of America in terms of critical race theory. We begin by asking the questions of what race means and why it matters in our culture and society today. In reading literary works by African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Latino/as diachronically, we discuss how race and ethnicity have been constructed and what impact such construction has produced upon racial minorities. Moreover, we also examine racial issues synchronically as articulated in the literary works, focusing on affirmative action, immigration and border crossing, the model minority myth, as well as the Southwest as a site of cultural encounters. We

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English 465

conclude by rethinking the existing racial categories and reflecting upon the possibility of a post-ethnic future.

Requirements include one class presentation, two exams, and three research papers.

Primary Texts: Paul Lauter, The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2, Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues, Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, David Henry Hwang, M Butterfly, Toni Morrison, Beloved, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Secondary Text: Richard Delgado and Jean Stepancic, Critical Race Theory: an Introduction

English 3387.003

CallNumber 20604

Multicultural Literatures African American Literature

TR 9:30-10:50AM

Michael Borshuk [email protected]

English 425


This section of 3387 will examine the development of African American literature from the slave narratives of the nineteenth century to postmodern fiction at the turn of the twenty-first. We will begin with a discussion of critical approaches to African American literature, and then proceed chronologically through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among our topics for interrogation and discussion will be: the influence of oral and musical traditions on the development of African American writing; the intervention(s) into traditional constructions of the American canon that black literature inaugurates; the ways that African American writers redress stereotypes and problematic representations of black Americans; and the “alternative” histories that African American literature proposes alongside America’s dominant historical records. Students will be expected to complete two brief response papers, a major research paper, and a final examination.

Tentative Text List:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie McKay, eds., The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Second Edition (2004); Harriet E. Wilson, Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859); Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) ; Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987); Percival Everett, Erasure (2002)

English 3387.004

CallNumber 14192

Multicultural Literatures Introduction to Multiethnic Short Stories

TR 9:30-10:50AM

BJ Manriquez [email protected]

English 206








English 3387.005

CallNumber 14193

Multicultural Literatures CourseSubtitle

TR 11-12:20PM


English 206




English 3388.002

CallNumber 14194

Film Genres: Avant-Garde, Documentary, and Narrative Hollywood Cinema

TR 11-12:20PM

Michael Schoenecke [email protected]

English 482E

Notes: Prerequisite:6 hrs of 2000-level English. May be repeated once when topics vary.

English 3388 will lay out contemporary Hollywood's most important and typical narrative strategies (which are in most respects the same as those in use during the earlier studio eras) and then to examine closely several recent films to show how these strategies are used in practice. We will discuss how films typically break down into large-scale parts, usually with carefully balanced proportions that help shape the trajectory of the narrative. We will also examine the notion of the "goal-oriented protagonist" so characteristic of classical narratives and will show how character goals often change, helping to shape the plot and indeed often marking the transitions between large-scale portions of the narrative. This class is aimed at students interested in learning how films tell stories. The class will also be useful to scriptwriters because it offers a more fine-grained account of how actual films work than do screenplay manuals.

English 3389.002

CallNumber 14196

Short Story

Culture, Crisis, Relationships

MWF 10-10:50AM

Ann Daghistany [email protected]

EN 207


The Short Story will provide the student with eleven basic short story forms, using the approach of Comparative Literature, which establishes the historical context in which the form appeared. It will begin with the Classical backgrounds of the short story and continue through the medieval period through the Rennaissance to the present day. The literary treatment of heroism, and passion, will be discussed. The goals of the course include a greater appreciation of story reading, as well as a wider selection of forms and techniques for story writing. Requirements include a creative short story written especially for this class, a midterm, a final, an oral presentation, and weekly quizzes on the readings. The texts include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, and The Longman Masters of Short Fiction (2002 edition). One absence is allowed without penalty. Thereafter, five points will be subtracted from the overall course grade for each undocumented absence. For further information please contact the teacher.





English 3390.002

CallNumber 21042

Literatures of the Southwest CourseSubtitle

TR 2-3:20PM


English 206

Notes: Prerequisite:6 hrs of 2000-level English. Fulfills the Multicultural requirement.


English 4301.001

CallNumber 14201

Studies in Selected Authors Charles Dickens: The Haunted Man

TR 11-12:20PM

Sean Grass [email protected]

English 312B


Perhaps no novelist of the nineteenth century in England wrote so many major novels as Charles Dickens—the man who called himself “the Inimitable” and signed his earliest works “Boz.” Most students believe that Dickens was paid by the word; to some extent, they are right. But they do not know that this literary giant was an irrevocably wounded man: scarred by childhood neglect, deeply insecure, desperately unhappy, and obsessed with achieving a level of literary success that would erase his secret pain. His works are important enough in themselves, but they are also a window onto the private identity of a human being whose life was essentially a tragedy—a series of early traumas reworked and rewritten through thirty years as England’s preeminent writer of fiction.

Readings for this course include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, some relatively unknown (and highly unusual) pieces of short fiction, and secondary readings from biographical and critical works. Grading will be based upon class participation, 4-6 brief response papers of 2 pp. each, a longer critical essay of 10-15 pp., and a final exam session in which students present their critical essay to the group. Students must plan to attend class regularly beginning with their first day of enrollment in the course.

English 4301.002

CallNumber 20608

Studies in Selected Authors ‘Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know’: Byron and Byronism

TR 9:30-10:50AM

Ann Hawkins


When Lady Caroline Lamb described Byron as ‘mad, bad, and dangerous to know,’ she had no idea her description would stick. But Lamb’s version of Byron as bad-boy iconoclast or sex-god informs popular images of young rebels to this day, from James Dean with his collar flipped-up to Colin Firth, whose Byronic D’Arcy wowed audiences in A&E’s Pride and Prejudice. These images have become a staple of popular culture, appearing in movies like Gothic and Haunted Summer, the cult TV series Highlander, and most recently as the main character (a vampire) in Tom Holland’s Lord of the Dead. What accounts for such a pervasive fame—even among those who have never read his poetry?




[email protected]

English 435

This course will follow the trajectory of Byron’s career, tracing the roots of our modern obsession. We will begin with Byron’s juvenilia in the harshly reviewed Hours of Idleness and his vitriolic satiric response in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, then move to his fame-making Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and his immensely popular Oriental tales of pirates and forbidden love. From his sorcerer Manfred and his effeminate king, Sardanapalus, we’ll end with Don Juan, his “more sinned against than sinning” seducer. Students will complete one short paper on an aspect of Byron’s modern image, a longer project (and presentation) tracing the production and reception of an individual Byron poem, and a final exam. Absences accrue from the first class meeting; each absence after two reduces final averages by 5%.

English 4311.001

CallNumber 20609

Studies in Poetry

Twentieth-Century British Poetry

MW 11-12:20AM

William Wenthe [email protected]

English 312A


This course will explore the major movements and figures in British Poetry for roughly the past hundred years. The majority of our readings will cover the rapid changes in English poetry from about 1910 to World War II, when poets were working to revise the English poetic tradition into deliberately "modern" forms. This course will explore some of the richest, most exciting, and controversial writings in our language. I do require that all students be committed to the readings in this course. The readings are by no means great in quantity, but they will demand to be read differently than one would read prose. Like 20th-century painting, the history of 20th-century poetry is largely a history of form, engaging in similar disputes between the artwork as a representation of the world, and the artwork as its own world. Thus we will be examining poems not only for what they say, but for what they do—that is, what effects, what possible meanings, are created by the formal qualities of the poem.

Work required of students:

READING: Students are assumed to have read the assignments thoroughly, and will be quizzed accordingly.

WRITING: You will write three short essays as specified in the syllabus. I may or may not assign topics for the essays, depending on the needs of the class or of individual students. We may do a short research project in lieu of a final essay. You will also be responsible for any smaller, informal writing assignments that I may give.

EXAMS: If the class desires, there may be a midterm exam; there will certainly be a final exam

Three absences allowed. These include excused absences ; they are not in addition to excused absences. Each absence after that drops FINAL grade by five points. Anyone with seven absences, regardless of reason, must withdraw or fail the course.

Texts: Modern Poems: A Norton Introduction and a Xerox packet.

English 4312.001

CallNumber 20610

Studies in Drama

Shakespeare’s English History Plays


CLASS CANCELLED. 11-29-04




MW 9:30-10:50AM

Marliss Desens [email protected]

English 429

English 4313

Studies in Fiction Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 3000-level English. May be repeated once when topics

vary.


English 4314.001

CallNumber 20611

Studies in Nonfiction

Literary Biography & Autobiography

MW 9:30-10:50AM


English 486



English 4315.001

CallNumber 14204

Studies in Film

Film Noir

TR 9:30-10:50AM

Michael Schoenecke [email protected]

English 482E


For the Spring 2005 term, 4315.001 will examine film noir; although some people would argue that it has always been easier to recognize film noir that to define it, we will do both. Whatever noir is, it originated in America, emerging out of a synthesis of hard-boiled fiction and German Expressionism. To gain an understanding of noir’s narrative traits in film, we will consider such films as Cape Fear, Double Indemnity, The Usual Suspects, House of Games, Blade Runner, Batman, Seven, etc. The noir world is not characterized by garden parties, ties and other ceremonies of the well-to-do but by dark streets, back alleys, grungy offices (with a pint of booze in the desk drawer), desolate hotel rooms, sleazy bars and other attractions that dominate(d) the wrong side of town. As we discuss these films, we will also address why America continues to produce films that expose its cultural myths.

English 4321.001

CallNumber 14205






Studies in Literary Topics

Europe and Literature: From the Practical Construction of an Identity to the Theoretical Construction of a Space

MW 2-3:20PM

Bertrand Westphal [email protected]

Topics to be covered throughout the semester include the following:

1. The Greek construction of Europe and the myth of Europe (Aeschylus, Moschos, Tatius, painters); 2. Europe from the Middle Ages literature to 1900 (epos, Hugo, Goethe); 3. Europe during the 2Oth century: evolution through literature and philosophy (texts about the geographical and cultural limits of Europe and Preamble of the European Constitution Project); 4. Two very European writers: Cees Nooteboom and Milan Kundera; 5. Plural Europe: from the western extremities to the eastern ones (text: Jonathan S. Foer); 6. Fictional Europe: Imaginary Balkans from Ruritania to Poldevia and Molvania (Anthony Hope, Jacques Roubaud, Rob Sitch). Theory: 7. Postmodern spaces; 8. History of Spatial Representations; 9. Real Spaces, Fictional Spaces; 10. Touristic Spaces; 11. Geocriticism; 12. Conclusions. Students will be expected to deliver at least one lecture during the course; complete one mid-term long paper and one final short essay.

Texts: Aeschylus, Persians; Moschos, Europé; Achilles Tatius, Leucippé and Clitophon (chosen passages); Cees Nooteboom, L’Enlèvement d’Europe (chosen passages, no English Translation available); Milan Kundera, Art of the Novel; Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated; Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda; Jacques Roubaud, Our Beautiful Heroine; Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, Rob Sitch, Molvania. A Land untouched by modern dentistry. For students who read French: Yves Hersant, Fabienne Durand-Bogaert, Europes, anthologie critique et commentée, Paris: Robert Laffont, coll. Bouquins.

English 4342

Studies in Literary Theory



English 4351.002

CallNumber 20612

Advanced Creative Writing Genre: Poetry

MW 9:30-10:50AM

John Poch [email protected]

English 312F

Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of creative writing (ENGL 3351) and consent of instructor. May be repeated.

No description available. Please contact the teacher. To apply for the course submit three poems either via email or under his office door. Email is preferred.

English 4360

Advanced Exposition Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 3000-level English. May be repeated once when topics

vary.




English 4365

Special Topics in Technical Communication

Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 3365 or consent of instructor. May be repeated once when topics vary.


English 4366

Technical and Professional Editing



English 4367

Developing Instructional Materials



English 4368

CallNumber 20613

Advanced Web Design

TR 2-3:20PM

Craig Baehr [email protected]

English 363F

Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 3367, 3368, or 3369.


English 4369

Interaction Design Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 3367, 3368, or 3369.


English 4373

Studies in Linguistics

CourseSubtitle



English 4374.001

CallNumber 14212

Notes: Prerequisite: 15 hrs junior or senior English. Required of English majors doing either Literature & Language or Teacher Certification specializations.



Senior Seminar

CourseSubtitle

TR 9:30-10:50AM


English 431


English 4374.002

CallNumber 14213

Senior Seminar

CourseSubtitle

MWF 9-9:50AM


English 427

Notes: Prerequisite: 15 hrs junior or senior English. Required of English majors doing either Literature & Language or Teacher Certification specializations.


English 4378.001

CallNumber 14214

Internship in Technical Communication

TBA

Thomas Barker [email protected]

English 363E or 211A

Notes: Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, ENGL 3365, declared specialization in technical communication, and approval of director of technical communication.


English 4380.001

CallNumber 20614

Professional Issues in Technical Communication

TR 9:30-10:50AM

Notes: Prerequisite: Senior standing, declared specialization in technical communication, 3 hours of 4000-level English courses, or approval of the technical communication director.

CLASS CANCELLED. 12-6-04





Sean Zdenek [email protected]

English 472


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