Spring 2013 English Course Offerings

 

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Eng 100-01: Topics in Literature, Will Pritchard
MWF 10:20AM-11:20AM

Emphasis on a particular theme or subgenre in literature to be chosen by the professor. Recent topics have included heroines in British fiction, literature and the environment, love and the novel, history of the lyric poem, and literature of immigration.
Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits

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Eng 100-02: Topics in Literature, Pauls Toutonghi
TTH 9:40AM-11:10AM

Emphasis on a particular theme or subgenre in literature to be chosen by the professor. Recent topics have included heroines in British fiction, literature and the environment, love and the novel, history of the lyric poem, and literature of immigration.
Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 105: Art of the Novel, Lyell Asher
MWF 9:10AM-10:10AM

A study of major works in English, American, and European fiction, from the 17th century to the present. Goals include increasing awareness of the particular kinds of knowledge and perception that the novel makes available; considering the variety of ways in which novels braid moral and aesthetic concerns; understanding how novels respond both to everyday human experience and to previous literary history; and heightening appreciation for the range of pleasures that the novel can afford. Writers may include Cervantes, Sterne, Austen, Flaubert, Kafka, Woolf, Nabokov, Kundera, Pynchon.
Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 200: Introduction to the Short Story, Pauls Toutonghi
 TTH 1:50PM-3:20PM

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.
Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits

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Eng 201: Introduction to Poetry and Poetry Writing, Mary Szybist
MW 11:30AM-1:00PM

Elements of poetry such as imagery, rhythm, tone.  Practice in the craft.  Frequent reference to earlier poets.
Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits

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Eng 206-01: Major Periods and Issues in English Literature,  Kurt Fosso
TTH 9:40AM-11:10AM

Eng 206-02: Major Periods and Issues in English Literature, Rachel Cole
TTH 1:50PM-3:20PM

Eng 206-03: Major Periods and Issues in English Literature, Rishona Zimring
MW 11:30AM-1:00PM

Introduction to ways of reading and writing about literature; historical development of English literature. Romantic period to middle of 20th century.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and completion of English 205 or consent of instructor.

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Eng 208: Prose Writing - Creative Nonfiction, Staff
MW 7:00PM-8:30PM

Writing in the genre known variously as the personal essay or narrative, memoir, autobiography, to introduce students to traditional and contemporary voices in this genre. Daily writing and weekly reading of exemplars such as Seneca, Plutarch, Montaigne, Hazlitt, Woolf, Soyinka, Baldwin, Walker, Hampl, Dillard, Selzer, Lopez.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 209: Introduction to American Literature, Kristin Fujie
MWF 10:20AM-11:20AM

Survey of major periods and issues in American literature, from the Puritan theocracy and early Republican period through American Romanticism and Modernism. Authors may include Edwards, Franklin, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Cather, Williams, Faulkner, Wright, Ellison.
Prerequisite: None; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 244: Practicum

Literary Review, Mary Szybist/Pauls Toutonghi
Content: Production of a first-rate literary review. In weekly workshops, students gain
some familiarity with all the processes involved (editorial, layout, printing, business,
distribution) and intimate experience with at least one.May be taken four times for credit.

Peer Tutoring in Writing, Susan Hubbuch
Content: Designed for any student interested in learning theories and methods for teaching writing one-on-one; required of students interested in becoming tutors in the Writing Center. Social dimensions of a tutorial, including a Writing Center user’s perceptions of good writing and the writing process, his or her perception of the role of the tutor, how all of these elements affect a writing conference.  Rhetorical dimensions of writing, including strategies and techniques to help student writers solve their own problems.
Prerequisite:  Consent of Instructor

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Eng 301: Poetry Writing, Jerry Harp
M 3:00PM-4:30PM, TH 3:30PM-5:00PM

Discussion of student work with occasional reference to work by earlier poets. Students develop skills as writers and readers of poetry.
Prerequisites: English 201 and junior standing, or consent of instructor.

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Eng 313: Restoration/18th Century Literature, Will Pritchard
MWF 11:30AM-12:30PM

An introduction to British literature written between 1660 and 1800 (i.e. between John Milton and Jane Austen). Covers the full range of the period’s genres, except for the novel, and includes many of the period’s major authors (John Bunyan, John Dryden, Aphra Behn, William Congreve, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson). Topics include the tension between Puritanism and Libertinism, the relation of 18th-century authors to their classical forebears, the contrast between country and city, and the growth of England’s empire.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 314: The Romantics, Kurt Fosso   
TTH 11:30AM-1:00PM

British writers circa 1785 to 1834, an era of “imagination” and “feeling” as well as of revolution, war, and social change. Authors may include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, Hemans.
Prerequisites: Junior standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 319: Postcolonial Lit: Africa, India, Caribbean, Rishona Zimring
M 3:00PM-4:30PM, TH 3:30PM-5:00PM

Post-World War II literary works and essays exploring the literary and cultural issues raised by the collapse of the colonial world order. Western travel and primitivism; decolonization and national allegories; authenticity and the invention of tradition; immigrant dreams; constructions of race; women and the nation; adolescence and the novel of education. Rhys, Rushdie, Emecheta, Coetzee, Achebe, Ghosh.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 324: Modern American Lit: Post WWII, Kristin Fujie
MWF 12:40PM-1:40PM

American literature in the second half of the 20th century as writers respond to such historical and cultural forces as the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, the Vietnam War. Aesthetics of postmodernism and the breakdown and mingling of traditional literary genres. Baldwin, Barth, Bellow, Doctorow, Ellison, Erdrich, Lowell, Mailer, Morrison, O’Connor, Olsen, Plath, Salinger, Silko, Walker.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor; 4 semester credits. 

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Eng 331: Shakespeare: Early Works, Lyell Asher
MWF 1:50PM-2:50PM

Critical reading of plays representative of the development of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies. Usually covers six or seven plays and selected poetry, typically including The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor; 4 semester credits.

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Eng 333-01: Major Figures, Rachel Cole
TTH 9:40AM-11:10AM

Detailed examination of writers introduced in other courses. Figures have included Austen, Blake, the Brontes, Ellison, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Woolf.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor; 4 semester credits. 

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Eng 333-02: Major Figures, Lyell Asher
MWF 10:20AM-11:20AM

Detailed examination of writers introduced in other courses. Figures have included Austen, Blake, the Brontes, Ellison, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Woolf.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor.

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Eng 333-03: Major Figures, Will Pritchard
MWF 1:50PM-2:50PM

Detailed examination of writers introduced in other courses. Figures have included Austen, Blake, the Brontes, Ellison, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Woolf.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor.

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Eng 333-04: Major Figures, Rishona Zimring

TTH 9:40AM-11:10AM

Detailed examination of writers introduced in other courses. Figures have included Austen, Blake, the Brontes, Ellison, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Woolf.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor.

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Eng 401-01: Advanced Poetry Writing, Mary Szybist

M 3:00PM-4:30PM, TH 3:30PM-5:00PM

An opportunity for experienced student writers to develop their skills as poets and to work on a sustained project. A workshop in which at least half of class time will be spent discussing student writing, with an emphasis on revision. Work will include the examination of literary models.

Prerequisite: English 301 and senior standing, or consent of instructor.

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Eng 402-01: Advanced Fiction Writing, Pauls Toutonghi

TTH 11:30AM-1:00PM

Students complete a long project (a collection of short stories, a novella or the beginning of a novel, or some combination thereof). Workshop format plus additional reading as needed.

Prerequisite: English 200, 300, and senior standing, or consent of instructor.