Fall 2012 English Course Offerings

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Eng 100-01: Literary Representations of Childhood, Andrea Hibbard
MWF 11:30AM-12:30PM.

This course traces the development of Anglo-American literary conceptions of the child from William Blake to the present.  Although much of our focus will be on the years leading up to and including the so-called “golden age” of children’s literature (from about 1860 to 1920), we will begin the semester by considering how and why so many important Romantic poets idealized childhood.  We will go on to explore the significance of Victorian fictional and non-fictional writings about exploited child workers, lonely orphans, and dying invalids.  How did Victorian authors use these children to challenge the social and economic status quo and to satisfy the sentimental tastes of adult readers?  We will also examine popular child heroes of adventure narratives, ghost stories, and fairytales.  What is the allure of texts that figure the child as the uncivilized or wild “other”?  How did these fictions both teach and transgress gender roles?  The semester will end with a selection of recent works that seek to express the perspective of children caught in the crossfire of adult struggles over race, religion, and land.  Authors include William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Maurice Sendak, Opal Whiteley, Henry James, Dinah Craik, Toni Morrison, Mariane Satrapi, and Dave Eggers.
Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 100-02:  Topics in Literature,  Staff
MWF 12:40PM-1:40PM

Course description forthcoming.

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Eng 100-03: Experimental Fiction, Kristin Fujie

MWF 10:20AM-11:20AM

This course focuses on 20th- and 21st-century British and American fiction that employs innovative formal techniques. By studying our writers’ use of devices such as frame narratives, unreliable and non-traditional narrators, stream-of-consciousness
style, non-linear plot, collage, and pastiche, we will explore how literature since 1900 bends, stretches, breaks, and otherwise manipulates linguistic and narrative conventions in order to create new experiences for its readers. Writers may include
Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

Prerequisites: None.

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Eng 200: Intro to Short Story, Pauls Toutonghi

TTH 9:40AM-11:10AM

Elements of fiction such as plot, character development, descriptive language, and voice. Emphasis on craft-based exercise. Extensive reading of short stories, culminating in the writing and revision of a final story.

Prerequisites: None.

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Eng 205-01: Major Periods and Issues in English Literature, Will Pritchard
 MWF 10:20AM-11:20AM

Eng 205-02: Major Periods and Issues in English Literature, Jerry Harp
MWF 12:40PM-1:40PM

Introduction to ways of reading and writing about literature; historical development of English literature.  Middle Ages to end of 17th century.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits

Eng 205-03: Major Periods and Issues in English Literature, Lyell Asher
TTH 9:40AM-11:10AM

Introduction to ways of reading and writing about literature; historical development of English literature.  Middle Ages to end of 17th century.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits

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Eng 300: Fiction Writing,  Pauls Toutonghi
TTH 11:30AM-1:00PM

Discussion and small-group workshop.  Required reading aloud from an anthology, with student-led discussion of authors’ texts.  Daily exercises in various elements of short fiction, graduating to full-length stories; emphasis on revision.  All students write evaluations of peers’ work and participate in oral critique.
Prerequisite: English 200 and junior standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 301: Poetry Writing, Mary Szybist
M 3:00PM-4:30PM TH 3:30PM-5:00PM

Course description forthcoming.

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Eng 312: Early English Novel, Will Pritchard
MWF 12:40PM-1:40PM

Course description forthcoming.

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Eng 315: The Victorians, Andrea Hibbard
MWF 9:10AM-10:10AM

Course description forthcoming.

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Eng 317: 20th-Century British Lit, Post-WWII, Rishona Zimring
TTH 9:40AM-11:10AM

Course description forthcoming.

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Eng 320: Early American Lit, Rachel Cole
MWF 10:20AM-11:20AM

Course description forthcoming.

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Eng 323: Modern American Lit, 1900-WWII, Kristin Fujie
TTH 9:40AM-11:10AM

American literature in the first half of the 20th century as it is shaped by American writers’ growing familiarity with European modernism, with the failure of Victorian values exposed by World War I, and with the increasing presence of women
and minority writers. Anderson, Cather, Dos Passos, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hurston, LeSueur, Stein, Steinbeck, Toomer, West, Wright.

Prerequisite: None.

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Eng 326: African American Lit, John Callahan

TTH 11:30AM-1:00PM

Course description forthcoming.

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Eng 333-01: Major Figures: Ellison, John Callahan

TTH 1:50PM-3:20PM

Detailed examination of writers introduced in other courses. Figures have included Austen, Blake, the Brontes, Ellison, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Woolf. May be repeated for credit with a change of topic, however registration for subsequent sections must be done via the Registrar’s Office.

Prerequisite: None.

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Eng 333-02: Major Figures: Milton, Jerry Harp

MWF 1:50PM-2:50PM

Course description forthcoming.

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Please view the Senior Seminar page on this website for Fall 2011 Eng 450 course offerings and registration information .