Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

 

 

Spring 2001 Course Descriptions

 

 

Undergraduate

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 200    Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

CRITICAL READING/WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Laura Nutten

Section Line #:  04558

Times:  6:05-8:55P  Tuesday

Description:  This course is designed to introduce English majors to literary genres, to introduce students to modes of textual analysis (i.e. literary theory), and to hone critical skills. We will take a thematic approach to the literature, investigating how literature both reflects and influences larger social structures. You will write short (1 page) responses to each assigned reading, two essays, one 5-7 pages, one 8-10 pages, and take a midterm and a final exam. 

Required Texts:

Abcarian & Koltz, Literature: The Human Experience 7th ed.

K.M. Newton, 20th Century Literary Theory: A Reader 2nd ed.

M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms 7th ed.

 

 

 

ENG 200

CRITICAL READING/WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Harris

Sections:  69603 at 8:40-9:30A  MWF

                50427 at 11:40A-12:30A MWF

Description: Introduction to the terminology, methods, and objectives of the study of literature, with practice in interpretation and evaluation. Prerequisite: English major or minor. General Studies: L/HU.

 

 

 

ENG 200

CRITICAL READING/WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Obermeier

Sections:  82294 at 9:40-10:30A MWF

                80556 at 10:40-11:30A MWF

Description:  ENG 200 is the first "professional" course for the English major; it is both a methods and skills course. The class intends to introduce the student to the profession of literary study, its terminology, methods, history, and modes of interpretation. Thus the aim of the course is to develop the student’s ability to understand and explain to someone else how words convey meaning in literary texts.

Required Texts:

Beaty, Hunter, eds. The Norton Introduction to Literature. 7th ed. Long Version.

Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. Manchester UP, 1995.

English Department Guide to Style. Newest Edition. MU Copy Center.

Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. McGraw-Hill. 1979.

Harmon, William and C. Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature. 8th ed. 1999.

Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. Ed. Frances E. Dolan. Bedford, 1996.

Twain, Mark. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Penguin.

Course Requirements:

Three 3-page papers worth 10% each
One 5-page paper worth 20%
One 6-page paper worth 25%
One In-class final worth 10%
Class Participation worth 15%

 

 

 

ENG 200   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

CRITICAL READING/WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Ken Donelson

Section Line #:  37593

Times:  1:40-2:55P TTh

Description:  Students are introduced to close reading of literature and to terminology and purposes for reading literature.  We interpret and evaluate poetry, short stories, and drama--usually in that order.  There are three examinations and five-six papers or projects.  The course is restricted to students who are either English majors or minors, most of whom find it a demanding but rewarding course.

 

 

 

ENG 202

WORLD LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Taylor Corse

Section Line #:  54093

Times:  1:40-2:55P TTh

Description: The Renaissance and modern periods. Selections from the great literature of the world in translation and lectures on the cultural background. General Studies: HU, H.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 210

INTRO CW: POETRY

 

Instructor:  Rios

Section Line #:  21979 & 60968

Times:  3:15-4:05P T   &    3:15-5:05P Th

Description: Beginning writing of poetry, fiction, and drama (both stage and screen). Separate sections for each genre. Each genre may be taken once.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 210 Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

INTRO CW: FICTION

 

Instructor:  Boyer

Sections:  45624 or 23324

Times:  3:15-4:05P T  &  3:15-5:05P  Th

Description:  

ENGLISH 210 is an introduction to the writing of fiction. It will consist of a weekly lecture and discussion section conducted by the professor running some fifty minutes, then a longer workshop conducted by your creative writing

instructor who will offer students the chance to try their hands at creating stories of their own. The lecture will focus on such fundamentals of narrative as plotting, dialogue, characterization, point of view and the like, encouraging the students to read as a writer might, that is, with an eye toward the mechanics of how print fiction is produced, and the subsequent weekly workshops will address these matters in turn as they can be applied to the student's own work.

 

 

 

ENG 213

INTRODUCTION TO STUDY LANGUAGE

 

Instructor:   Staff

Section Line #:    78633

Times:  10:40-11:55A

Description: Language as code; phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax; the lexicon; language acquisition; sociolinguistics.
 

 

 

 

 

ENG 215    Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

STRATEGIES OF ACADEMIC WRITING

 

Instructor:   Duerden

Section Line #:   22938

Times:   9:40-10:30A MWF

Description: Advanced interdisciplinary writing course emphasizing critical reading and thinking, argumentative writing, library research, and documentation of sources in an academic setting. Practice and study of selected rhetorics of inquiry (for example, historical, cultural, empirical, and ethnographic) employed in academic disciplines, preparing students for different systems of writing in their academic lives. Throughout this course, students will:

· significantly improve their academic writing;

· develop an understanding of how members of a particular discipline conceive of and engage in the rhetorical practices of that discipline;

· demonstrate understanding of the key conversations, the forms, and the conventions of writing in a particular discipline;

· gain experience in the construction of knowledge within a discipline and practice using its discourse;

· read critically and analyze rhetorically writings from a particular discipline and use those lenses to frame their own discourses;

· write in the different forms and styles of a particular discipline; and

· develop techniques for conducting research on the Internet and with other electronic databases.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 215   

STRATEGIES OF ACADEMIC WRITING

 

Instructor:   Heenan

Section Line #:   25696

Times:  3:15-4:30P  TTh

Description: Advanced course in techniques of analyzing and writing academic expository prose. Writing is research based. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

 

ENG 215

STRATEGIES OF ACADEMIC WRITING

 

Instructor:   Jeanne Dugan

Section Line #:  61596

Times:  9:15-10:30A  TTh

Description: Advanced course in techniques of analyzing and writing academic expository prose. Writing is research based. General Studies: L.

 

 

ENG 216

PERSUASIVE WRITING ON PUBLIC ISSUES

 

Instructor:   Wheeler

Section Line #:   48693

Times:  12:15-1:30P TTh

Description: Advanced course in techniques of analyzing and writing persuasive arguments addressing topics of current public interest. Papers are research based. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

ENG 217

WRITING REFLECTIVE ESSAYS

 

Instructor:   Dwyer

Section Line #:  84484

Times:  1:40-2:55P  TTh

Description: Critical examination of the influences discourse has on formation of identity; narrative analyses of self and culture. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

 

ENG 217

WRITING REFLECTIVE ESSAYS

 

Instructor:  Sudol

Section Line #:  81180

Times:  12:15-1:30P  TTh

Description: Critical examination of the influences discourse has on formation of identity; narrative analyses of self and culture. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

 

ENG 217

WRITING REFLECTIVE ESSAYS

 

Instructor:   John Ramage

Section Line #:  24639

Times:  1:40-2:55P  TTh

Description: Critical examination of the influences discourse has on formation of identity; narrative analyses of self and culture. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

 

ENG 217   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

WRITING REFLECTIVE ESSAYS

 

Instructor:   Staff

Section Line #:  50333

Times:  12:40-1:30P  MWF

Description: Critical examination of the influences discourse has on formation of identity; narrative analyses of self and culture. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 218   

WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Staff

Section Line #:  21719

Times:  3:15-4:30P  TTh

Description: Advanced writing course requiring analytical and expository essays about fiction, poetry, and drama. For non-English majors. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

 

ENG 221    Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

SURVEY ENGLISH LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Gentrup

Section Line #:  11797

Times:  6:05-8:55P  M

Description: Medieval, Renaissance, and 18th-century literature. Emphasis on major writers and their works in their literary and historical contexts. General Studies: HU, H.

 

 

 

 

ENG 221  

SURVEY ENGLISH LITERATURE

 

Instructor:   Voaden

Courses:  44498, 32563, 34780

Times:  1:40-2:30P  MWF
Description:  Read some of the most significant works of English literature.  Encounter writers such as Chaucer, Milton and Shakespeare, explore their writing, their lives and their times. Engage in the fascinating process of learning ways to think, speak and write about literature.  Midterm and final exams, 2 papers.  Texts TBA.

 

 

 

 

ENG 222   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

SURVEY ENGLISH LITERATURE

 

Instructor:   Paul Cook

Section Line #:  47110

Times:  6:05-8:55P  W

Description: Romantic, Victorian, and 20th-century literature. Emphasis on major writers and their works in their literary and historical contexts. General Studies: HU, H.

 

 

 

 

ENG 222

SURVEY ENGLISH LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Randel Helms

Section Line #:  69488

Times:  11:40-12:30P  MWF

Description:  Required for English majors; all others who love literature are welcome.  We will read important British authors from Blake and Mary Wollstonecraft in the late eighteenth century to Philip Larkin and Stevie Smith in the late twentieth.  This is a large lecture class with discussion sections on Fridays.  Students will write midterm and final exams and one term-paper.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 241

SURVEY AMERICAN LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS TO THE CIVIL WAR

 

Instructor:  Kehl

Section Line #:  39752

Times:  12:40-1:30P  MWF
Description:  This survey course discusses approximately twenty American writers from the Colonial period through the Romantics.  Get a new perspective on the Puritans ("Puritanism--the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy"--H.L. Mencken;  "They fell upon their knees and then/Upon the aborigines"--Arthur Guiterman; "Without some understanding of Puritanism, and that at its source, there is no understanding of America"--Perry Miller), on Ben Franklin ("Patron Saint of the Savings Account"), on Irving ("Playboy of Letters"?), on Poe ("Wizard in the Street"), on Hawthorne and Melville (with their "Power of Blackness"), on Emerson and Thoreau. 

Requirements:  Participate in class discussions, take three examinations, write two explication essays, make (voluntary) oral presentations.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 241

SURVEY AMERICAN LITERATURE

 

Instructor:   Pettipiece

Section Line #:  28386

Times:  1:40-2:30P  MWF

Description: From colonial times to the Civil War, including the growth of nationalism and romanticism. General Studies: HU.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 241   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

SURVEY AMERICAN LITERATURE

 

Instructor:   Paul Cook

Section Line #:  04373

Times:  6:05-8:55P  T

Description: From colonial times to the Civil War, including the growth of nationalism and romanticism. General Studies: HU.

 

 

 

 

ENG 242   

AMERICAN LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Sensibar

Section Line #:  10800, 13893, or 51650

Times:  10:40-11:30A  MWF

Description: From the Civil War to the present. Development of realism, naturalism, and modernism, and contemporary trends in prose and poetry. General Studies: HU.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 242

AMERICAN LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Paul Cook

Section Line #:  87739

Times:  6:05-8:55P  M

Description: From the Civil War to the present. Development of realism, naturalism, and modernism, and contemporary trends in prose and poetry. General Studies: HU.

 

 

 

 


 

ENG 301

WRITING FOR THE PROFESSIONS

 

Instructor:  Sudol

Line # and Times:   19458  at  7:40-8:55A  TTh

                                                    or

                                  02757  at  9:15-10:30A  TTh

Description: Advanced practice in writing and editing expository prose. Primarily for preprofessional majors. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

 

ENG 301

WRITING FOR THE PROFESSIONS

 

Instructor:   Hendin

Section Line #:  42620

Times:  6:15-7:30P  TTh

Description: Advanced practice in writing and editing expository prose. Primarily for preprofessional majors. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

 

ENG 301

WRITING FOR THE PROFESSIONS

 

Instructor:   Waggoner

Section Line #:  51956

Times:  9:00A-12:00P  Sat.

Description: Advanced practice in writing and editing expository prose. Primarily for preprofessional majors. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 310

INTERMEDIATE CW: POETRY

 

Instructor:  Staff

Section Line #:  07330

Times:  1:40-4:30P  Th

Description: Separate sections for fiction and poetry. May be taken once for poetry, once for fiction. Lectures, writing assignments, discussion, criticism. Prerequisite: ENG 210 or instructor approval.

 

 

 

 

ENG 310   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

INTERMEDIATE CW: POETRY

 

Instructor:  McNally

Section Line #:  48067

Times:  4:40-7:30P   T

Description: Separate sections for fiction and poetry. May be taken once for poetry, once for fiction. Lectures, writing assignments, discussion, criticism. Prerequisite: ENG 210 or instructor approval.

 

 

 

 

ENG 312  

ENGLISH IN ITS SOCIAL SETTING

 

Instructor:  Adams

Section #:  00169, 45689, or 79614

Times:  9:40-10:30 MWF
Description:  This course meets both the HU and SB General Studies requirements. Its goal is for you to understand that language use and our attitudes toward language are a part of everyday social practice. We will look at the varieties of speech patterns among speakers of American English and how they relate to issues of location and history, social expectations, class and ethnicity. We will also consider how speakers alter their language for different social purposes.

Text:  Walt Wolfram and Natalie Shilling-Estes, American English: Dialects and Variation. 1998. 

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 312   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

ENGLISH IN ITS SOCIAL SETTING

 

Instructor:  Don Nilsen

Section Line #:  03918

Times:  06:05-08:55P  T
Description:  In ENG 312 we study use the VARIES model to study variations in the English Language.  We study Vocational differences, Age differences, Regional differences, Informality (formality) differences, Ethnic differences, and Sex differences of various groups speaking American English.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 313   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

PHONOLOGY & MORPHOLOGY

 

Instructor:   Dawn Bates

Section Line #:  85180

Times:   12:40-1:30P  MWF

Description: Sampling texts from Shakespeare to contemporary rock lyrics, this course provides an introduction to English morphology, phonology, and sound-based literary devices.  Topics will include etymology: a window on the history of English; usage and word choice; word play; English sound-spelling correspondences; syllable structure; rhyme; alliteration; and rhythm, meter, and their linguistic representation.  In addition to a midterm exam, students will write a research paper and participate in class activities like "Our Word for the Day" and "The Cool Thing About this Song by Melissa Etheridge".

Text:  

Linguistics for Students of Literature, by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. 

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 314

MODERN GRAMMAR

 

Instructor:   Johnson

Section Line #:  99296 or 59308

Times:  11:40-12:30P  MWF

Description: Modern descriptive models of English grammar.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 321   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

INTRO TO SHAKESPEARE

 

Instructor:  Moulton

Section Line #:  19423

Times:  12:15-1:30P   TTh

Description: Shakespeare’s major comedies, histories, and tragedies. General Studies: L/HU.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 321   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

INTRO TO SHAKESPEARE

 

Instructor:  Scott Evans

Section Line #:  13846

Times:  6:05-8:55P  W

Description: Shakespeare’s major comedies, histories, and tragedies. General Studies: L/HU.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 332   

MAJOR AMERICAN NOVELS

 

Instructor:  Marjorie Lightfoot

Course # and Times:   67065  at  12:15-1:30P  TTh

                                                or

                                    26657 at  1:40-2:55P  TTh
Description:  This class will focus on initiation stories in outstanding American novels. It will be concerned with American men and women who undergo a rite of passage, a transition, from innocence to experience. The works chosen will represent some of the most famous authors of the first part of the 20th century and some highly acclaimed authors of more recent times who reflect ethnic diversity. The central characters undergo initiation from youth to maturity, e.g., in Chopin's THE AWAKENING, Wharton's ETHAN FROME, Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY, Hemingway's A FAREWELL TO ARMS, Faulkner's "The Bear" in GO DOWN, MOSES, Updike's THE CENTAUR, Welty's LOSING BATTLES, Potok's MY NAME IS ASHER LEV, Kingston's THE WOMAN WARRIOR, and Walker's THE COLOR PURPLE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 333   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

AMERICAN ETHNIC LITERATURES

 

Instructor:   Kathleen Sands

Section Line #:  90786

Times:  1:40-2:55P
Description:  This course examines America's multi-ethnic identity through works of literature of the modern and contemporary periods which depict ethnic, gender, and class sensibilities.  Genres include novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and autobiography written by authors from identified ethnic cultures.  The course will focus on Native American, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American with selections by authors from other ethnic backgrounds.

Readings:  Annie Proulx's ACCORDIAN CRIMES, James Welch's FOOLS CROW, Toni Morrison's BELOVED, John Odada's NO,NO BOY, Alfredo Vea's LA MARAVILLA, and shorter works by James Baldwin, Leslie Silko, Alberto Rios, Malcolm X Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and others.

Requirements:  Assigned reading, mid-term examination, short analytical essay, research paper, final examination.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 345  

SAI: MEDIEVAL LIT/TRANSLATIONS

 

Instructor:  Obermeier

Section Line #:  64308

Times:  12:40-1:30P  MWF
Description:  ENG 345 is the course for Knights and Damsels brave enough to join our adventure-filled quest to explore the mysteries of medieval minds, texts, and art from 700-1500. In translation, we will fight alongside Anglo-Saxon warriors, pray with English saints, sleuth with historians, learn the art of courtly love from medieval knights and ladies, fiddle with medieval minstrels, and watch medieval drama unfold. Successful questers will be richly rewarded by both an intellectually-stimulating environment throughout and a delectable medieval banquet at the end of the course. Come one, come all.  The course fulfills the pre-1660 requirement for English majors. It also is currently applying for General Studies credit.

Readings:  

Bede's  Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

The Bayeux Tapestry.

Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition. 

Cawley, A. C,  Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays. 

Hamer, Richard,  A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse.

The Lays of Marie de France.

Malory’s Morte D'arthur.

Osbern Bokenham, A Legend of Holy Women.

Requirements:  5-page paper, midterm, 8-to-10-page research paper, final.

 

 

 

 

ENG 345   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

SAI: BASEBALL FICTION

 

Instructor:  Candelaria

Section Line #:  45255

Times:  12:15-1:30P TTh

Description: This class on baseball in American literature offers an overview of the connections between professional baseball and America's history and culture over the last 200 years. Through close readings of approximately half a dozen novels, some short fiction and poetry, and as many films, class members will begin to comprehend what accounts for the amazing outpouring of published research, commercial writings, and persistent interest in "the National Pastime" as a fertile field of literary dreams.  Students will select from the following TENTATIVE reading list:   Rolfe Greenberg's The Celebrant, Mark Harris' The Southpaw and Bang the Drum Slowly (book and movie), Bernard Malamud's The Natural (book and movie), August Wilson's Fences, Bette Bao Lord's In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Don DeLillo's Underworld; and the films, The Lou Gehrig Story, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, A League of Their Own, Eight Men Out, and The Bad News Bears; as well as selections from Seeking the Perfect Game: Baseball in American Literature, Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Literature, Dreaming of Heroes, the special baseball issue of Aethlon (15:1, 1998), Baseball in April and other short story collections.   TENTATIVE other assignments include midterm and final, game simulation project, 1-3 short papers.  Contact Professor Cordelia.Candelaria@asu.edu after Thanksgiving for a preliminary syllabus.

 

 

 

 

ENG 352   

THE SHORT STORY

 

Instructor:  Harris

Section Line #:  42821, 76267, 77623 

Times:  12:40-1:30P  MWF

Description: Development of the short story as a literary form; analysis of its technique from the work of representative authors. General Studies: HU.

 

 

 

 

ENG 352   Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

THE SHORT STORY

 

Instructor:  Jewell P. Rhodes

Section Line #:  68529

Times:  6:05-8:55P   M
Description:  Stories. Stories and more stories.  A sampling of some of the worlds' finest stories with a strong emphasis on the American tradition.

 

 

 

 

ENG 354

AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT: POST-HARLEM RENAISSANCE

 

Instructor:  Fuse

Section Line #:  74698

Times:  9:15-10:30A  TTh

Description: Thematic and cultural study of African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Cross-listed as AFH 354. Credit is allowed for only AFH 354 or ENG 354. General Studies: L/HU, C.

 

 

 

 

ENG 354

AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT: POST-HARLEM RENAISSANCE

 

Instructor:  Lester

Section Line #:  12047

Times:  4:40-7:30P  M

Description: Thematic and cultural study of African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Cross-listed as AFH 354. Credit is allowed for only AFH 354 or ENG 354. General Studies: L/HU, C.

 

 

 

 

ENG 354

AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT: POST-HARLEM RENAISSANCE

 

Instructor:  Chancy

Section Line #:  47912

Times:  4:40-7:30P  M

Description: Thematic and cultural study of African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Cross-listed as AFH 354. Credit is allowed for only AFH 354 or ENG 354. General Studies: L/HU, C.

 

 

 

 

ENG 355  Scheduling information for this course differs from the published "Schedule of Classes." Information listed below should correspond with the updated registration information on the Registrar's website under "Open Class Sections."

HISTORY OF THE DRAMA

 

Instructor:  Curtis Perry

Section Line #:  49249

Times:  1:40-2:55P  TTh
Description:  The readings in this course are drawn from the history of European theater from Euripides to Caryl Churchill.  Coverage of this huge terrain is impossible, but careful attention will be paid to the changing formal and practical conventions that shape theatrical representaton in different historical moments.  

Readings:  This reading list will include at least many of the following plays: Euripides, Medea; Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Seneca, Thyestes; Mankind; Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Behn, The Rover; Congreve, The Way of the World; Moliere, The Misanthrope; Ibsen, Hedda Gabler; Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Brecht, The Good Person of Szechwan; Churchill, Top Girls.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 356  

THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Helms

Section Line #:  81783

Times:  9:40-10:30A   MWF
Description:   "The Old & New Testaments are the Great Code of Art" -- William Blake.
Educated people know something about the Bible. This class will read most of the historical narratives of the Hebrew Scriptures, and some of the poetic and prophetic material plus the Book of Daniel, and all the historical narratives (Gospels and Acts) of the Christian Testament, some of the letters, and the Book of Revelation. No previous knowledge of the Bible required.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 356

THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Anita Obermeier

Section Line #:  39214

Times:  6:05-8:55P    T
Description:  This course examines the Bible in historical and literary contexts. The course, however, is not about devotional reading. We will discuss selections from the Old and New Testament. Come join us in a fascinating journey through this most influential work of the last two millennia.

Texts:  The Jerusalem Bible; Harris, Understanding the Bible.

Requirements:  1 midterm, 1 final, 8-10-page paper, 10 ungraded 1-page response papers.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 359

AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE

 

Instructor:  Ellis

Section Line #:  14687

Times:  3:15-4:30P  TTh

Description: Selected oral traditions of American Indians and their influences on contemporary Native American literary works. General Studies: L/HU, C.

 

 

 

 

ENG 362

SOUND FILM GENRES

 

Instructor:  Boyer

Section Line #:  78726

Times:  1:40-2:55P  TTh  and  3:15-6:05P W
Description:  This course will consist of two weekly sessions of lecture and discussion, as well as a "lab" during which a particular film will be studied in depth. The focus of the course is to discover the patterns of

plotting, characterization, and so on in several major Hollywood genres, such as the Western, the gangster film, and romantic comedy, from Hollywood's Golden Years through the present.

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 372

DOCUMENT PRODUCTION

 

Instructor:  Tim Ray

Section Line #:  67230

Times:  12:15-1:30P  TTh

Description: Introduction to document design and production. Practice in critique and in writing the content of publications. Lecture, discussion. Prerequisite: First-Year Composition or instructor approval. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

 

ENG 372

DOCUMENT PRODUCTION

 

Instructor:  A. Cooper

Section Line #:  04013

Times:  6:05-8:55P T

Description: Introduction to document design and production. Practice in critique and in writing the content of publications. Lecture, discussion. Prerequisite: First-Year Composition or instructor approval. General Studies: L.

 

 

 

ENG 374

TECHNICAL EDITING

 

Instructor:   Jeanne Garland

Section Line #:  24483

Times:  10:40-11:30A  MWF
Description:   ENG 374, Technical Editing, is a pre-professional course that prepares students to become editors and information designers.  In this course, students learn proofreading skills, copyediting techniques, and comprehensive editing procedures, including working with authors from the beginning of the writing process to completion of a document.  Students also gain expertise in traditional areas of editing, such as style, grammar, punctuation, and formatting, and they learn principles for critical analysis of technical discourse.  This is an interactive course in which students work on editorial teams with each other to learn to make informed decisions about the process of producing professional/technical documents.  

 

 

 

 

 

ENG 394

ST: VIOLENCE, MADNESS, SEXUALITY

 

Instructor:   Michael Murphy

Section Line #:  07262

Times:  10:40-11:30A   MWF
Description:  This course seeks to remind us that we may be simultaneously horrified and pleased by art.  Indeed, the best artwork accommodates our attraction to the grotesque, our curiosity for taboo subject matter, and asks that we live at least a short while with fear.  This demand is important because it reminds us of our mortality as well as of those crimes for which we had forgotten we are humanly capable of committing.  "We need those who are condemned and we need books that condemn us."  Why?  Perhaps to remind us that we are responsible for suffering in the world as much as we are victims to it.  Violence. Madness. Sexuality. --This course will offer us a place to consider our attraction to these themes in the arts.  We will explore how they are important elements to art in general, and more specifically, how they are used in literature to develop issues of Gender, Fantasy, Rel