10/20/2014 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COURSES SPRING 2015 10600 First Year Composition This is a 4-credit hour class that offers students extensive practice in writing clear and effective prose. Students receive instruction in organization, audience, style, multi-media and multi-modal writing, and research-based writing. This class typically meets four times a week, with one day being spent in a computer lab and one day a week in conferences with instructors. This course meets the required outcomes for Written Communication and Information Literacy on the University Common Core. For more information about English 10600, see http://icap.rhetorike.org/student. 10800 Accelerated First Year Composition: Engaging in Public Discourse This a three-credit hour accelerated composition course that substitutes for ENGL 10600. It is for students showing superior writing ability and who would like the challenge of a faster-paced writing course. All sections of ENGL 10800 are service learning classes in which students will engage in public writing and in community service outside the classroom. This course meets the required outcomes for Written Communication and Information Literacy on the University Common Core. For more information about English 10800, see http://icap.rhetorike.org/student. 20300-001-64885 Research Prof Writ MWF 10:30-11:20 Introduction to research sources and methods useful for professional writers, digital electronic resources. Focus on collecting print and online information, interviewing, surveying, and conducting observations; and on evaluating, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting research. 20500-001-18837 20500-002-18839 20500-003-18841 20500-004-18843 20500-005-18840 20500-006-18838 20500-007-18842 Intro Creative Writing Intro Creative Writing Intro Creative Writing Intro Creative Writing Intro Creative Writing Intro Creative Writing Intro Creative Writing MWF MWF MWF MWF MWF MWF MWF 08:30-09:20 10:30-11:20 02:30-03:20 03:30-04:20 09:30-10:20 02:30-03:20 03:30-04:20 Practice in writing short prose narratives and poetry for students who have finished composition and wish to develop their skills further. Workshop criticism. 22700-001-59287 Elements Linguistics MWF 12:30-01:20 This course is a basic introduction to the study of language. It is designed to sensitize the students to language as a human phenomenon, a vehicle for communication, and to acquaint them with the modern methods of linguistic research. 22700-H01-64935 Elements Linguistics-Honors xlist LING201 TR 04:30-05:45 Raskin, Victor The course is an elementary and largely non-technical introduction to language and the study of language, linguistics. Modern methods of describing the sound, the word, the sentence, and the meaning are introduced and illustrated with numerous examples drawn from English and other languages. The types of extant languages, their differences and similarities and language universals are discussed along with the problems of language change and acquisition of language. The relations of language to human mind and nature and to history, culture, and society are commented upon. The average course grade is calculated on the basis of four unit quizzes. The course is taught in the Macintosh-equipped instructional laboratory, and all the materials for the course are available on-line. 23000-001-18859 23000-002-65237 Great Narrative Works xlist LING201 Great Narrative Works TR 09:00-10:15 Lein, Clayton TR 01:30-02:45 Plotnitsky, Arkady Reading and discussion of great narratives from Homer’s Odyssey to the present, considering works from a variety of cultures and time periods in order to develop an understanding of their ideas, structures, styles, and cultural values. 23200-001-1539 Arab Women Writers Dahmen, Lynn SLC PROF; xlist ARAB239, CMPL230, IDIS490, LC239, WGSS281 This class will take a thematic approach to looking at Arab women writers from North Africa, the Middle East and North America; topics to be explored through the lens of feminist theory as well as with consideration of the impact of political and social changes in the regions include: sexuality, marriage, work, and travel/immigration. We will read some critical and sociological essays in addition to the literature. The class may include an online component. Writers to be read include: Leila Ahmed, Diana Abu-Jaber, Etal Adnan, Souad Amiry, Mohja Kahf, and Rajaa Alsanea. There will also be at least one film screening. This course has no prerequisites. 23500-001-59302 Intro To Drama TR 10:30-11:45 Lein, Clayton English 235 introduces students to some of the major plays and playwrights of the Western world from ancient Greece to contemporary America. Reading and discussion center on such elements as plot structure, characterization, themes, and symbols in dramatic works. 23700-001-53542 Intro To Poetry TR 12:00-01:15 Morris, Daniel The aim of this course is to show students how to read poetry with profit and pleasure. Primary emphasis, based upon the assumption that poetry is not as familiar to students as other modes of expression, is on basic characteristics. In general, the instructor leads the class in the reading of narrative and lyric poetry, and in discussion of matters of prosody, technique, literary history, tradition, convention, theme, etc. All the teaching takes into account that the course serves especially the non-major. 23800-002-43382 Intro To Fiction MWF 09:30-10:20 Deering, Dorothy Reading and discussion of short stories and 4-5 novels to promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the range, values, techniques, and meanings of modern fiction. There will be two or three tests and short papers (2-3 pages) on each novel. 23800-004-43380 Intro To Fiction TR 01:30-02:45 Shoffner, Melanie Using a variety of short stories and novels, this course will explore literary fiction through young adult, historical and modern fiction. Students will engage in class discussion and small group work to understand (and appreciate) literary structure, techniques and influences. 24000-001-18881 Brit Lit Thru 18 Ct xlist CMPL230, IDIS491 TR 09:00-10:15 Duran, Angelica The course takes a 3-part journey of 1) influential works of the Anglo-Saxon through the Medieval periods that help us understand how the united intellectual enterprise that Francis Bacon called “the advancement of learning” split into the arts and sciences, 2) onto some of the most revolutionary works from the Age of Milton, a.k.a. the English Scientific Revolution, a.k.a the Age of Discovery, 3) then texts from the Enlightenment, which tease out its outgrowths and help us understand what that split means for us today. Class lectures and discussions will be supplemented by film viewings, SpringFest, and more, based on students’ unique interests. Note: students seeking to fulfill the B.I requirement for the Religious Studies minor or major should register for IDIS490; students seeking to fulfill the A requirement for the English minor or major should should register for ENGL240; students from all majors and minors welcome. 24100-001-18883 Brit Lit Romantic Mod TR 10:30-11:45 Felluga, Dino Surveys authors, periods, and themes of British literature from the late eighteenth century through the modern period. 25000-001-18885 25000-004-15366 Great American Books Great American Books TR MWF 12:00-01:15 11:30-12:20 Mullen, Bill Layfield, Allison Selected works, such as The Scarlet Letter, MobyDick, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Walden, Huckleberry Finn, Absalom, Absalom, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Native Son, and Beloved, closely read and discussed as to their literary qualities and their cultural significance. 25000-003-18886 Great American Books MWF 02:30-03:20 Saunders, James We will consider works by authors such as Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, John Steinbeck, and Arthur Miller. Over the course of the semester, we will discuss various historical, social and literary issues with regard to each of those works. Class attendance and participation are essential and several essays will be required. 25700-002-18893 Lit Of Black America MWF 02:30-03:20 Shackelford, Renae A survey of literature written by black American authors. Close attention is paid to the history of black literature and to the historical context in which it was written. We will also discuss literary theories such as the color complex, elective affinity-vs-shared cultural intimacy and others as they apply to the text of major works by black authors. 26200-001-15540 Greek Roman Classics SLC PROF; xlist CLCS230 MWF 12:30-01:20 Syson, Antonia Study of important works of Greek and Roman literature, their intrinsic literary values, and their influence on later European and American writing and thinking. 26400-001-15048 Bible As Literature MWF 10:30-11:20 Deering, Dorothy My section of English 264 will read selected portions of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Apocrypha. The course will entail a close study of a variety of literary forms and techniques: the structure of historical and biographical narratives (the Garden of Eden, the Exodus from Egypt, the Crucifixion/Resurrection), development of plot and character (in the stories of Abraham, David, Elijah, Jesus), and growth of prophetic and poetic styles and traditions (Isaiah, Micah, Job, Psalms), and the distinctive features of wisdom (proverbs, parables) and apocalyptic literature (Daniel, Revelation). Students will write 10-12 one page papers. There will be no tests or final exam. Students will participate weekly in team discussions of the reading. 26600-003-13347 26700-001-43040 World Lit To 1700 A D xlist CMPL266 World Lit 1700 To Now xlist CMPL267 MWF 09:30-10:20 Benskin, Joanna TR 12:00-01:15 Alcantara, Christian World Literature in translation. A comparative and chronological survey of the masterpieces of Eastern and Western literature. 26700-003-69746 26700-004-14622 World Lit 1700 To Now xlist CMPL267 World Lit 1700 To Now xlist CMPL267 MWF 10:30-11:20 Huang, Y TR 09:00-10:15 O'Neil, M English 267 is designed to build on the backgrounds and interests of the students in order to expand their literary world views. While the readings deal primarily with European and American literatures, Asian, African, and South American works are frequently dealt with as well. Text: Mack, et al., Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Vol. 2. Additional texts may be selected. 30100-001-18900 30100-002-10901 Ways Of Reading Ways Of Reading TR MWF 12:00-01:15 09:30-10:20 Plotnitsky, Arkady Lukasik, Christopher Close reading of and significant writing about selected literary texts informed by a variety of critical and/or theoretical perspectives. 30600-001-49734 Intro Profess Writing MWF 09:30-10:20 Development of skill in analyzing rhetorical situations in the workplace. Practice in planning, writing, evaluating, and revising a variety of documents typical of those used in the arts and industry. 30900-001-66327 Computer-Aided Publish TR 01:30-02:45 Haynes, Linda In English 309, students will learn strategies for planning, writing, and revising the content and design of documents; improve their management of electronic tools that are often used in the workplace; learn the rules of design--and how to break those rules; integrate content, design, and audience needs & expectations into readable, inviting documents; develop a critical eye for design; and design a professional portfolio they can develop and use during job interviews. Students can expect weekly readings, quizzes, and homework. Students can also expect to juggle two or more projects at once; therefore, developing strong project management skills is a must. 32800-001-18910 Engl Lang II: Strc & Mean TR 10:30-11:45 Francis, Elaine The structure of American English and its dialects, with emphasis on syntax and semantics, including parts of speech, sentence structure, and meaning. Implications of recent theory for the teaching of English. 32900-001-10788 English Language III xlist LC361, LING311 MWF 10:30-11:20 Niepokuj, Mary The structure of American English and its dialects with emphasis on phonology and morphology. Implications of recent theory to the teaching of English. 33900-001-15127 20th Cent British Lit MWF 02:30-03:20 Linett, Maren During the first half of the twentieth century, many writers saw themselves as breaking from traditional literary forms and creating new, hybrid, experimental forms. In this class we will read groundbreaking novels, short stories, plays, and poetry by English and Irish authors such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Wilfred Owen, J.M. Synge, D.H. Lawrence, Rebecca West, Jean Rhys, and Kazuo Ishiguro. We will read poems and stories about World War I, texts sparked by the movement for Irish independence, and texts prompted by the struggle for women’s suffrage. And toward the end of the term we will consider more recent texts that reflect the multicultural community Britain has become. Active participation is required. 34100-001-65354 Lit, Nature, & Travel TR 03:00-04:15 Friedman, Geraldine This course will explore the interconnections between Western concepts of nature, travel, and literature. Throughout history, the motivations for travel to explore, study, or enjoy nature have been and continue to be many. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they were often driven by imperialist ambitions, the search for wealth, and scientific discovery, and they also greatly influenced literature, painting, and aesthetics. So-called voyages of discovery took Westerners to unfamiliar landscapes, climates, and habitats, and, in spawning travel narratives, poetry, art, and scientific reports, they brought such places to Western awareness and fired the Western imagination. At the same time, Westerners also began to travel more in their own countries and further afield in Europe. Travelers included adventurers, explorers often in the employ of governments, scientists in search of new knowledge about the natural world, artists, and the literate upper- and middle-classes with disposable income eager to enjoy the beauty of nature. Today, we travel in nature more than ever, and although the reasons may have evolved and changed from what they were in previous years, travel continues to generate a rich nature literature. Over the ages, some of the issues and concerns raised in such writing have remained constant, even though the answers may have changed. Among these we shall concentrate on how nature travel influences how we think of ourselves as individuals, members of a local community, a country, the world, and the universe; our ways of understanding, seeing, and relating to our natural surroundings—both familiar and new, and imagining our place in them, and ideas of how we should live in relation to the environment. Our readings are likely to include travel narratives, and other literary genres such as poetry, the novel, and the literary essay, and they will span the eighteenth century to the present. There are no pre-requisites for this course. Students from all colleges and departments are welcome. Requirements include careful reading and thinking about our readings, participation in class discussion, a presentation, 2 papers, a midterm and a final, and other smaller in-class and take-home writing assignments and quizzes. For more information, contact Professor Friedman at [email protected]. 35000-001-18914 American Lit To 1865 TR 01:30-02:45 Schneider, P Ryan This course surveys American literature from the early seventeenth century through the Civil War years and covers the development of genres including the captivity narrative, the slave narrative, the Gothic, the Romance, the Sentimental novel, autobiography, and poetry. We'll investigate the ways early American writers and their work were influenced by important modes of thought (Calvinism, Enlightenment rationalism, Romanticism, Sentimentality, Transcendentalism), and we'll study the relation between literature and key social and cultural issues. Writers likely will include: John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. 35100-001-53573 Am Lit 1865 Post WWII MWF 04:30-05:20 Lamb, Robert This survey in American literature since 1865 focuses on major literary movements (realism, regionalism, naturalism, modernism, postmodernism); literary texts as representations of such important and continually changing cultural matters as race, gender, ethnicity, region, and class; and literary texts as works of art both drawing upon and challenging inherited conventions. We will also explore the relations between literature and such important historical phenomena as the Civil War and Reconstruction, urbanization, immigration, modernization and modernity, America's rise to world power, the first World War, the African American migration to northern cities, the Depression, the Cold War, and the Nuclear Age. Although a survey course cannot possibly include every important author, we will read a wide diversity of texts, by such writers as Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, J.D. Salinger, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, John Barth, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Raymond Carver, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Beattie, Louise Erdrich, and Paul Auster. Because I don't care for any of the standard anthologies, I have put together a four-volume course pack that contains all of the readings, biographical introductions on the authors, and also my own write-ups on each of the historical periods and genres. In addition to the course pack, I will be ordering copies of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (U of California Press/Mark Twain Library edition), Kate Chopin's The Awakening (Penguin), and William Faulkner's Light in August (Vintage Corrected Edition). This course is designed for students who enjoy reading, who take their education seriously, and who want a strong foundation in this period that they can build upon in the future. There will be two take-home midterms in each of which students will do one-page explications (close readings) of 10 different passages selected from the texts we have discussed in class. The first of these midterms will cover the period 1861 to 1900, and the second will cover 1900-1945. There will also be a take-home final exam consisting of onepage explications of 8 passages from texts from the 1945-the present period, in addition to a six-page essay on a topic covering the whole course. There is a good deal of assigned reading, and approximately 34 pages of writing; students should take this into consideration before enrolling in the course. 35100-002-18915 Am Lit 1865 Post WWII TR 09:00-10:15 Morris, Daniel Discussion, lecture, and group work concerning short stories, a few plays, a few novellas, and some poetry by authors associated with the United States from 1865 to now. Emphasis will be placed on 20th Century literature and culture, although texts from the 1865-1900 period will be presented. Written assignments will include several short papers, a final paper, and a reading journal. 35800-001-54562 Black Drama MWF 01:30-02:20 Shackelford, Renae A critical analysis and discussion of selected representative works by African-American dramatists--from William Wells Brown to the moderns. 36000-001-65355 Gender And Literature TR 03:00-04:15 Sagar, Aparajita This course introduces you to new ways to think about the question of gender as it is represented in literature and as it, in turn, shapes novels, poetry, plays, and films. Our writers include heterosexual, gay, lesbian, and bisexual women and men from a range of historical periods and from communities across the globe (Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean, as well as United States). We will ask how these writers have represented gender and what links they have shown between gender-regimes and questions of power, privilege, knowledge and culture more generally. Are gender regimes fixed and static for all times, or do they shift and mutate in response to historical needs of their societies? What sense do the writers give us of those who escape or unsettle the regime of gender in their societies and in their times, and those who remain subjected to that regime? Over the course of the semester, we will read 6-7 novels, works of poetry, and plays, and watch one or two films. Expect to read 100-200 pages per week and to engage in very in-depth and intense discussions in class. Requirements include active participation, two short papers (5-6 pages each), additional 1-2 page in-class and take-home papers, a midterm and a final. 36500-001-15151 Lit And Imperialism MWF 12:30-01:20 Lopez, Alfred A study through cultural and theoretical works of the impact of imperialism on the ruling nations. 36600-001-42916 Postcolonial Lit TR 12:00-01:15 Marzec, Robert A study of third world literature, film and theory that emerged during and after western rule. 37300-H01-15135 Science Fict & Fantasy-Honors TR 03:00-04:15 Felluga, Dino This course will posit that speculative fiction (specifically, the speculative fiction one finds on television and film) represents one of the only still viable generic forms that deals with the present in an allegorical form. Starting from this premise, we will address a number of issues in contemporary culture through the popular science fiction and fantasy works we will be viewing, specifically postmodernism, our contemporary carceral culture, politics and power, and late capitalism. The course will also serve as an introduction to the major theories currently influencing English studies: narratology, theories of gender and sex, postmodernism, theories of ideology, and psychoanalysis. As such, the course will use my web-based Guide to Theory as one of its primary texts: <http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/>. I will suggest that speculative fiction gives us a special access to the ways we make sense of the world in our everyday lives. By pushing to the limits such issues as subjectivity, temporal sequentiality, and representation, speculative fiction can uncover the ways ideology, narrative, and epistemology function on a day-to-day basis. In short, as we progress through the semester, we will be taking both science fiction and pop culture seriously, and will consequently be dealing with a number of "serious" issues that concern us in our contemporary culture. 37700-001-65358 Major Modern Poetry TR 12:00-01:15 Flory, Wendy In this course we study poems by Hopkins, Owen, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Frost, Williams, Stevens, Hughes (Langston and Ted), Auden, Heaney, Alexie, Erdrich, Walcott, Bishop, Larkin, Rich, Plath, Ginsberg, O’Hara, Glück, Lee, Clifton, and Soto. Course assignments are three short papers and a final examination. 37900-H01-15040 The Short Story MWF 03:30-04:20 Lamb, Robert Although stories are as old as human society, the “modern short story” is a distinct genre that emerged in the early nineteenth century out of a mélange of older types of short narrative (folktale, sketch, legend, parable, myth, fable, novella) and, over the next century and a half, developed into one of the most popular of literary forms. The short story was heavily influenced by the same historical genres through which the novel passed: the romance, realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. But although these two kinds of narrative matured at the same time, they are distinctly different. Because of its lack of space, the short story is closer to lyrical poetry than it is to the novel, and storywriters have developed many techniques for saying more with less. Among these are very compressed and suggestive language, indirection, characterization through a few carefully selected details, the use of juxtaposition, and the omission of anything that does not directly contribute to the story's effect. Storywriters work with the episode that suggests the life; novelists address the life in all of its fullness. Storywriters work to a single main effect; novelists work with multiple plotlines and many effects. Storywriters focus on a significant moment in time; novelists treat change over time as one of their most important concerns. Focusing on the moment, doing more with less, storywriters can get closer than novelists to the pulse of life as felt, to the day-to-day moments of experience that, taken together, add up to life. As Flannery O' Connor has said, stories do not have less meaning than a novel, but the meaning they have is often implied rather than stated and, as a result, readers have to respond imaginatively and fill in the blanks. Texts: Because all the current anthologies are badly flawed, I've assembled a multi-volume course pack that contains the right texts and the best available translations of foreign texts, as well as: an overview on the rise of the short story that provides historical/cultural contexts; examples of previous short narrative forms out of which the modern short story developed; a list of questions to consider when reading a story; and my own lengthy glossary of terms and techniques necessary for understanding the short story. For each author we read, there is also a biographical head note and, whenever possible, interviews/passages/essays by them discussing their own work, as well as criticism of their stories by other storywriters. We will read stories by Nikolai Gogol, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Sherwood Anderson, Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frank O'Connor, Isaac Babel, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, Louise Erdrich, and others. Requirements: Students are expected to do the reading on a timely basis and to participate in class discussions. There will be two take-home midterm exams; on each, students will do 1-2 page close readings (explications) of 8 selected passages from the texts. A final exam, also a take-home, consists of three parts: 5 explications; a 5-page essay analyzing a story that we haven’t explored in class (I’ll hand out a list and each student will choose their own story), and a 5-6 page essay on the short story from a list of topics. Purpose of the Course: The main goal of this course is to explore the development of the modern short story as it emerged in the early nineteenth century in the works of Hawthorne, Gogol, and Poe, was transformed along two separate lines in the works of Maupassant and Chekhov, and then flowered into its present diverse state during the periods of high modernism and postmodern fiction. Our main concern will be with the genre: its development, its possibilities, and its achievements. There are three other purposes in this course: to introduce you to some of the finest storywriters and short stories ever written (I only wish we had time to do more of them); to help you become more sophisticated and satisfied readers of short fiction; and to learn, grow, and have fun doing so (which is sort of the whole point, after all). 38700-001-10283 38700-002-10288 Hist Film 1938-Pres Hist Film 1938-Pres WF T 11:3 -12:20 06:30-09:20 Duerfahrd, Lance Duerfahrd, Lance This is an intensive study of international cinema. The goals of the class will be to develop students’ capacity to read film, to articulate original responses to the medium, to enjoy difficult movies and to become A1 cinephiles. The class will make you sweat. The films, too. Particular attention will be given to the development of film form, image and sound editing and the what you, the viewer, do to make the movie come alive, even after the final credits. Some of the movements we will cover in weekly readings and screenings include Film Noir, the French New Wave, Direct Cinema, and the Dogme 95 group. Films range from Last Year at Marienbad to Borat. Directors include Fred Wiseman, Nicholas Roeg, Agnes Varda, Abbas Kiarostami, Roman Polanski, and John Waters. 39100-001-18931 Comp For Engl Teachers MWF 11:30-12:20 Knoeller, Christian Composition for English Teachers explores the theory, research, and practice of teaching writing in middle and secondary grades. We examine the many roles of writing in the overall English program with attention to instructional approaches and specific assignments that involve student writing in a variety of genres. We consider the pedagogical implications of relevant research and theory such as writing process models, as well as reflection on our own experiences both as students and as future teachers of writing. The course emphasizes pedagogical questions involved in designing writing assignments, providing response, and evaluating student work. Accordingly, assigned readings and activities address specific classroom practices such as peer response, writing conferences, writing portfolios, and grammar instruction. Approaching such topics from a practical, hands-on perspective, we will design, fulfill, and critique writing assignments; in addition, we will practice planning, presenting, and revising writing lessons. Overall, such ongoing reflection on instructional practice is central to the course. 39600-002-14782 Intro To Rhet & Comp: TR 09:00-10:15 The Power of Place: Space, Rhetoric, and Composition Rickert, Thomas There is increasing attention today to the power of place, both in the academic humanities and the larger public. How does place affect us, shape us? What draws us to some places, repels us in others, or invites us to change them? How does where we come from inflect who we are? These and other spatial questions are also the concerns of rhetoric. They ask us to think about how spaces persuade us, affect us, shape us. Our course will look at a number of writings on place in order to understand place and its effects and appeals. We also examine a number of popular movements that are centered on place, some of which might include attention to architecture and civic design; desire for local foods and products; concern for the environment; emerging technologies that transform our sense of place, or create new kinds of places; and more. In addition to reading about place, we will attempt to explore places (physical and digital; small and large) in various ways. Finally, we will explore various writing projects that allow us to experience, describe, discuss, share, and reflect on places that matter to us. 39600-003-15469 Wrld Narr: Vid Games & Narr Design TR xlist ENGL596 10:30-11:45 Blackmon, Samantha Every game designer and gamer knows that there is more to narrative than just words on a page. This course looks at the ways that narrative gets developed in games. We will begin by looking at the narrative elements in analog games that have been the foundation of many digital games and move on to look at the elements in digital games that come together to form the complete narrative. We will read a variety of texts from literature (such as Snow Crash, Ready Player One, Wolf in White Van), gaming manuals (Dungeons and Dragons), theory (First Person, Well Played, Literary Gaming), and games themselves (digital and analog). You will be required to play games as a part of this class. Some will be done during class time and some will be done outside of class. You do not have to be a "gamer" to take this course, but you will need to be open to playing games of various kinds. Students will be required to write weekly responses to reading/playing, do presentations, and complete a final project. For more information please contact [email protected]. 40700-001-18937 40700-002-18938 Intro Poetry Writing Intro Poetry Writing TR TR 12:00-01:15 01:30-02:45 Study of basic methods of composing poetry, with primary emphasis on the student’s own work, submitted frequently during the semester. Workshop criticism. 40900-001-18940 40900-002-18941 Intro Fiction Writing Intro Fiction Writing TR TR 01:30-02:45 12:0 -01:15 Leung, Brian Writing of several short fictional narratives. Study of short story techniques in published stories and student manuscripts. Workshop criticism. 41100-001-15162 Zora Neale Hurston TR 01:30-02:45 Freeman-Marshall, J. For a detailed description of this course please contact the instructor directly at [email protected] 41200-003-15146 American Women Poets TR 09:00-10:15 Flory, Wendy This course examines books of poetry by American women poets writing after World War II, specifically Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, Louise Glück, and Louise Erdrich. The main focus will be close reading of the poetry, but we will also consider biographical issues such as the influence of race and ethnicity (Clifton and Erdrich), the role of place (Elizabeth Bishop), the invention of a radical feminist poetic voice (Rich), the dramatization of psychological pain and poetic power (Plath), and the crafting of an intricate, book-length, poetic sequence (Gluck). The written assignments are three papers and a portfolio of commentaries on individual poems. 41300-001-15159 Queen Anne Boleyn in Literature and Film ; xlist MARS420 MWF 10:30-11:20 White, Paul Anne Boleyn, the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, is among the most sensational and controversial, as well as significant, queens in English history, and she has attracted the attention of fiction writers and filmmakers, along with historians, as an enduring icon of piety, beauty, heresy, and whoredom; for many she is a model of early modern feminism. In sorting out all these contradictions and explaining her widespread international appeal, the course will begin by looking at literary theorist Susan Bordo’s groundbreaking study, The Creation of Anne Boleyn (2013), and move from there to interrogate Anne’s representation in awarding-winning novels such as Hillary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies (2012), in Philippa Gregory’s “pulp fiction” The Other Boleyn Girl (2002) on screen in Anne of a Thousand Day and HBO’s The Tudors, and online in the explosion of websites and blogs devoted to Queen Anne and the Tudors since about 2005. These materials will be contextualized with reference to the representation of Ann in texts written during or close to her own sixteenth-century lifetime, e.g., the love lyrics of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the scandal-mongering ambassadorial postings of Gustave Chapuy, and the “martyrological” writing of John Foxe. Participation in class and online in Blackboard Discussions is essential; two short papers, a midterm, and a final. 41400-001-15157 The Black Male Image MWF 12:30-01:20 Saunders, James Literature frequently portrays the black male in such a way that reduces his humanity. In some texts, self-fulfilling prophecy occurs in terms of his various interactions. In the midst of such an environment, self-possession can become a distant goal to be achieved, when it does occur, at an extreme personal and societal cost. Students will read novels and, via lectures and discussion, examine these issues. Class attendance and participation are essential and several essays will be required. 41900-001-18948 Multimedia Writing TR 01:30-02:45 Johnson, Nathan Multimedia writing for networked contexts. Emphasizes principles, and practices of multimedia design, implementation, and publishing. Students work with clients and in teams to produce web sites, interactive media, software applications, and user documentation. 41900-001-18949 Multimedia Writing MWF 02:30-03:20 Multimedia writing for networked contexts. Emphasizes principles, and practices of multimedia design, implementation, and publishing. Typical genres include Web sites, interactive media, digital video, visual presentations, visual argument, and user documentation. 42000-001-18961 42000-002-18959 42000-003-18966 42000-005-18970 42000-006-18958 42000-007-18963 42000-008-18965 Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing MWF MWF MWF MWF MWF MWF MWF 07:30-08:20 08:30-09:20 09:30-10:20 10:30-11:20 11:30-12:20 12:30-01:20 01:30-02:20 42000-009-18956 42000-010-18971 42000-011-18968 42000-012-18969 42000-013-18972 42000-014-18953 42000-015-18964 42000-016-18955 42000-017-18960 42000-018-18967 42000-E01-42826 42000-E02-42824 42000-I01-42827 42000-Y01-18992 42000-Y02-46780 42000-Y03-46582 42000-Y04-18993 42000-Y05-18991 42000-Y06-58166 Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing Business Writing MWF MWF MWF TR TR TR TR TR TR TR MWF MWF TR 02:30-03:20 03:30-04:20 04:30-05:20 07:30-08:45 09:00-10:15 10:30-11:45 12:00-01:15 01:30-02:45 03:00-04:15 04:30-05:45 09:30-10:20 12:30-01:20 12:00-01:15 Arr 3 Hrs Arr 3 Hrs Arr 3 Hrs Arr 3 Hrs Arr 3 Hrs Arr 3 Hrs English 420 applies rhetorical principles to writing business letters, memos, reports, and resumes. Specifically, students will learn to define their purposes, analyze readers, gather and organize information, and develop an appropriate style. Writing assignments include: communications for large organizations, such as memos, proposals, progress reports, and final reports; business correspondence, such as routine, bad news, and persuasive letters; and employment communications, such as resumes and job application letters. There is approximately one writing assignment a week. All division/sections of English 420 and 420C are generally for students classified as 7 or 8. 42100-001-18998 42100-002-19002 42100-003-58127 42100-004-19000 42100-005-18996 42100-006-19001 42100-007-19003 42100-008-58126 42100-009-18999 42100-010-18997 42100-011-48995 42100-021-13519 42100-Y01-46583 42100-Y02-19010 42100-Y03-19009 42100-Y04-58167 42100-Y05-19011 42100-Y06-46659 Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing Technical Writing MWF MWF MWF MWF TR TR MWF MWF MWF TR TR TR 07:30-08:20 01:30-02:20 03:30-04:20 04:30-05:20 01:30-02:45 04:30-05:45 08:30-09:20 12:30-01:20 01:30-02:20 09:00-10:15 10:30-11:45 03:00-04:15 Arr 3 Hrs Arr 3 Hrs Arr 3 Hrs Arr 3 Hrs Arr 3 Hrs Arr 3 Hrs Workplace writing in networked environments for technical contexts. Emphasizes context and user analysis, data analysis/display, project planning, document management, usability, ethics, research, team writing. Typical genres include technical reports, memos, documentation, websites. 42201-001-13527 42201-002-13530 Wrtg Health Human Sciences Wrtg Health Human Sciences MWF TR 02:30-03:20 03:00-04:15 English 422 applies rhetorical principles to writing in health, medical, hospitality, nutrition, nursing and related fields in the Health and Human Sciences. All sections of 42201 are generally for students classified as 7 or 8. Prerequisites: ENGL 106, 108 or equivalent, advanced undergraduate standing. 44200-001-19013 Shakespeare MWF 12:30-01:20 White, Paul Students will study representative comedies, histories, romances, and tragedies; however, the number of plays considered will vary with each instructor. The nature of the course is that of analysis and discussion. 44200-002-10930 Shakespeare MW 04:30-05:45 Goodhart, Sandor English 442 is designed to introduce Shakespeare, the world’s foremost dramatist, to students. Ordinarily, students will study representative comedies, histories, romances, and tragedies; however, the number of plays considered will vary with each instructor. Each class is limited to twenty-five students. Although it is often necessary to explain, for instance, the Elizabethan world view or problems of staging or representation, the nature of the course is that of analysis and discussion. 48800-001-19018 48800-001-19018 48800-002-19019 48800-003-64936 48800-004-64937 48800-005-64938 Internshp Prof Writing Internshp Prof Writing Internshp Prof Writing Internshp Prof Writing Internshp Prof Writing Internshp Prof Writing W W 03:30-04:20 04:30-05:20 Arr Hrs Arr Hrs Arr Hrs Arr Hrs Bay, Jennifer Bay, Jennifer Bay, Jennifer Bay, Jennifer Bay, Jennifer Bay, Jennifer This course provides on-the-job experience in various kinds of professional writing, combined with a seminar in applied rhetoric. Students will work in selected internship settings, participate in seminar discussions of their work, and analyze their experiences through electronic journal entries. Service learning components may be involved in the course. 49200-001-19023 Lit Secondary Schools MWF 01:30-02:20 Knoeller, Christian Literature in the Secondary Schools explores connections between theory, research, and practice when teaching literature in middle and secondary grades. Course readings introduce a variety of perspectives—including those of secondary English teachers reporting on their own classrooms as well as other empirical researchers investigating literature teaching at the middle- and secondary-school levels—that offer different visions of literature teaching that can in turn inform our own instructional practices. The course also addresses questions of social identity and diversity in textual interpretation —as well as text selection—and their implications for shaping instruction. Activities and discussions in class, as well as individual assignments and collaborative projects, examine a wide variety of instructional practices, considering how each might be refined or adapted to differing instructional contexts and purposes. Lesson presentations by class members illuminate theoretical as well as practical aspects of literature instruction, such as relationships between class discussion and student writing in response to literature. Overall, the course models a reflective stance toward instructional practice for ongoing development as teachers of literature. 50200-001-19026 50200-002-19031 50200-002-19031 50200-003-66227 50200-004-15372 Prac In Tch Literature Prac Teach Cr Writing xlist ENGL505-19038 Prac Teach Cr Writing xlist ENGL505-19038 Prac Teach Oral ESL Prac Teach Written ESL T Arr Hrs 03:00-04:15 Sagar, Aparajita Platt, Donald T 03:00-04:15 Solwitz, Sharon Arr 1 Hr Arr 1 Hr Silva, Anthony The courses 502A through 502W, which deal with teaching English as a second language, literature, linguistics, freshman composition, Writing Lab, business writing, and technical writing in the college classroom or lab, are open only to graduate teaching assistants in the Department of English. 50500-001-19037 50500-001-19037 50500-002-19034 50500-002-19034 50500-003-19033 Teach First-Yr Comp II Teach First-Yr Comp II Teach First-Yr Comp II Teach First-Yr Comp II Teach First-Yr Comp II R T R T T 09:00-10:15 09:00-10:15 09:00-10:15 09:00-10:15 09:00-10:15 Dilger, C. Bradley Dilger, C. Bradley Haynes, Linda Haynes, Linda Kenzie, Daniel 50500-003-19300 50500-004-19036 50500-004-19036 50500-005-19035 50500-005-19035 50500-006-19038 50500-006-19038 Teach First-Yr Comp II Teach First-Yr Comp II Teach First-Yr Comp II Teach First-Yr Comp II Teach First-Yr Comp II Approaches/Creative Wr xlist ENGL502-19031 Approaches/Creative Wr xlist ENGL502-19031 R R T R T TR 09:00-10:15 09:00-10:15 09:00-10:15 09:00-10:15 09:00-10:15 03:00-04:15 Kenzie, Daniel Legg, Emily Legg, Emily Wallin, Jonathan Wallin, Jonathan Platt, Donald TR 03:00-04:15 Solwitz, Sharon Reading professional literature on the teaching of writing, linguistics, and ESL. Studies of methodologies, issues of assessment, and the relationship between theory and pedagogy. This course is not part of the degree requirement. 50700-001-14757 Poetry Writing TR 04:30-05:45 Platt, Donald A workshop for those experienced in the writing of poetry. Criticism by class and instructor. Study of the work of established writers. 50900-001-14789 Fiction Writing W 06:30-09:20 Solwitz, Sharon Study of the techniques of writing short stories. Discussion of professional stories. Exercises. Workshop. 51100-001-19043 Semantics II SLHS PROF; xlist LING531 Wilber, Ronnie An introduction to, and survey of, current semantic theories and methods with an emphasis on English. Basic concepts of linguistic semantics and its relation to the other semantics: compositional (transformational), model-theoretical (truth-conditional), pragmatic, and contextual semantics. 51500-001-645892 Adv Professional Writ TR 12:00-01:15 Johnson-Sheehan, R. Writing proposals and grants. This course will teach you how to write proposals and grants for professional, research, and academic purposes. You will learn how to analyze problems/opportunities, develop plans for projects, describe qualifications, and develop budgets. You will also learn how to analyze your readers, create a powerful visual design, and write with a persuasive style. You will also learn how to create business plans and use other entrepreneurial strategies to create new opportunities. 51800-001-19045 Engl Secnd Lg Prin/Prc MWF 01:30-02:20 Berns, Margie Examination of the interaction of various social and cultural contexts of learning and teaching of language with principles of course and materials design. The objective is twofold: (1) provide a principled basis for and practical experience in course and materials design and development, and (2) prepare participants for a range of teaching situations. 53100-001-15156 Rise Of The Novel T 04:30-07:20 Powell, Manushag For many years, the general thinking about the development of the English-language novel (cemented in large part by the towering influence of Ian Watt’s 1957 The Rise of the Novel) went something like this: In the beginning, there were four Great Writers (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett—some folks also added Sterne; Watt actually doesn’t bother with Smollett). They were Great, and created the Novel, largely sui generis, but it probably had something to do with the middle class (also rising at the time).* Then, during the Romantic period, thousands more novels were composed, but they were Not Great. Ms. Austen was okay, though. Eventually some Victorian chaps invented Realism, and we were back on track. *Also there were some women milling about, but their work was mostly rubbish. This course has very little interest in the above narrative. Not that the four (or five) Greats aren’t just super terrific, mind you—in fact, they are—but the novel most certainly did not come out of nowhere, or out of bourgeois masculinity left to itself, and there was a ton more going on throughout its development across the Augustan and Romantic milieus than the above story suggests. If you know nothing but the most famous texts of the four (or five) Greats, then in truth you know little about either the novel or its cultural interworkings with the eighteenth century (the best of all centuries). Rest assured that this class will not leave you in such a regrettable position. 53200-001-15129 Engl Novel In 19 Cent W 04:30-07:20 Allen, Emily This course will function as an introduction both to the nineteenth-century British novel and to the current field of nineteenth-century studies. Working across the span of the nineteenth century, we will consider the development of the novel as aesthetic, political, and material artifact. Coursework will include research assignments, multiple class presentations, and a substantial term paper. Mostly, our job will be to read and discuss long and glorious novels. (The reading list for this class is TBA, but likely novelists are J. Austen, E. Brontë, C. Brontë, G. Eliot, C. Dickens, O. Wilde, and T. Hardy). 54700-001-15123 British Romanticism TR 01:30-02:45 Friedman, Geraldine Through intensive textual readings and supplementary materials, this course will approach Romanticism as a discourse, constructed around such categories as subjectivity, interiority, imagination, aesthetics, nature, history, nation, empire, and gender. The project of the course is multiple. Its first goal is to provide an introduction to the canonical and some non-canonical authors of the period. Readings will include works by such figures as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Anna Seward, Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dorothy Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Mary Shelley. On the level of theory, we will explore the ways in which Romanticism both embodies and critiques a particularly powerful, distilled, and seductive version of Western metaphysics, including its textual, political, and gendered effects. On the level of history, we will seek to read Romantic texts with the political, social, and cultural developments of the period, such as the French Revolution, the Reform Movement, the accelerating rise of capitalism and colonial imperialism, and the emergence of modern domesticity and its forms of desire. Secondary readings will supply an entree into the history of the period, serve as an introduction to scholarship in the field, and help to locate Romanticism in recent theoretical developments. 55700-001-15153 19th Cent Af-Am Narr xlist AMST650 W 03:00-05:50 Patton, Venetria Nineteenth-century African American Narrative will explore the movement from the slave narrative to the African American novel. We will begin by studying archetypal slave narratives such as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and move on to early novels such as Clotel, Our Nig, Iola Leroy, Of One Blood. We’ll also read some twentieth-century novels to explore the continuity of themes and concerns within the African American narrative tradition. 56300-001-14811 Historical Linguistics xlist LING541 MWF 01:30-02:20 Niepokuj, Mary This course provides an introduction to the study of historical change. We will consider various kinds of linguistic change from descriptive and theoretical standpoints. Since much of the previous work in the field has involved Indo-European languages, the course will naturally center around these languages, with data from non-Indo-European languages cited whenever possible. Although we will use an introductory textbook as a preliminary introduction to the material, approximately a third of the course will consist of reading original articles which have proven significant to the field. 57000-001-58110 Intro To Semiotics SLC PROF; xlist ANTH519, COM507, LC570, LING593 Broden, Thomas The study of languages, literatures, and other systems of human communication includes a wide range of phenomena that can be brought together by means of a general theory of signs. The course deals with three fundamental areas: (1) verbal communication; (2) nonverbal communication (iconic systems, gesture, body language, etc.); and (3) communication through art forms. 59500-001-15134 Contemp Amer Fiction TR 03:00-04:15 Duvall, John This course will survey contemporary American Fiction since the late 1950s. My aim is provide some understanding of the distinction between modernism and postmodernism. An issue we will explore is the relation of the contemporary American novel to the aesthetic past and to history. If the directed intertexts of modernism were, as T.S. Eliot put it in describing James Joyce, instances of "mythological method," what are the intertexts of contemporary narratives? To a certain extent, we will see history replace the aesthetic past as the interext of the contemporary American novel. This turn to history, however, does not grant a special privelege to history; rather, contemporary writers acknowledge that any attempt to recover the past is always already implicated in fictional gestures. In addition to fiction by such writers as Kathy Acker, Don DeLillo, E.L.Doctorow, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Ishamel Reed, and Leslie Marmon Silko, we will read criticism and theory that attempts to define the aesthetic and cultural postmodern. In particular, we will look at Fredric Jameson's dismay over the degraded historicism of the present and Linda Hutcheon's celebration of historiographic metafiction as an expressive form able to produce social critique. There will be two shorter papers, an oral report, a longer paper, and a final examination. 59600-001-14653 Wrld Narr:Vid Games&Narr Desgn xlist ENGL396 TR 10:30-11:45 Blackmon, Samantha Every game designer and gamer knows that there is more to narrative than just words on a page. This course looks at the ways that narrative gets developed in games. We will begin by looking at the narrative elements in analog games that have been the foundation of many digital games and move on to look at the elements in digital games that come together to form the complete narrative. We will read a variety of texts from literature (such as Snow Crash, Ready Player One, Wolf in White Van), gaming manuals (Dungeons and Dragons), theory (First Person, Well Played, Literary Gaming), and games themselves (digital and analog). You will be required to play games as a part of this class. Some will be done during class time and some will be done outside of class. You do not have to be a "gamer" to take this course, but you will need to be open to playing games of various kinds. Students will be required to write weekly responses to reading/playing, do presentations, and complete a final project. For more information please contact [email protected]. 59600-002-14821 Young Adult Literature xlist EDCI551 R 04:30-07:20 Shoffner, Melanie This course is a survey of young adult literature and a study of relevant literary criticism and theories of reading. Attention will also be paid to the effective teaching of young adult literature to adolescents. 59600-003-15126 Modernism & Disabity M 04:30-07:20 Linett, Maren This course combines an introduction to theoretical materials in disability studies with readings of modernist texts that thematize disability. Questions that will drive the course include the following: how has the conception of the “normal” developed and changed over time? What cultural meanings are attached to various abilities and disabilities? How have people with disabilities been understood in terms of their subjectivity, rationality, and sexuality? How are mental disabilities seen differently from physical disabilities? And most importantly for our purposes, how does disability interact with aesthetics to help create formal properties of modernist literary works? A variety of theoretical, autobiographical, and critical texts will guide our discussions of these questions as they pertain to works by authors such as H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Olive Moore, Flannery O’Connor, Tennessee Williams, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and others. 59600-004-15132 “Bad” Mothers In Am Lit R 04:30-07:20 David, Marlo In this seminar, we will examine the multiple constructions of motherhood in 20th-century American literature, paying special attention to fiction depicting “bad” maternal figures. While there is no singular definition of a “bad” mother, this figure often appears in literature in ways that indicate the social limitations of gender, race, class, and sexual norms of any given time. These “bad” mothers are frequently represented as individuals of questionable morality who fail to live up to norms of gender and sexual propriety or who fail to uphold the naturalized expectations of reproduction. “Bad” mothers are cast as antithetical to the idealized liberal American subject and citizen, and they are often blamed for a variety of social problems. However, many American writers have subverted normative expectations of motherhood by depicting “bad” mothers in ways that challenge these norms. Therefore, the study of “bad” mothers offers ways of interrogating American concepts of family, nation, citizenship, belonging, and freedom through ideologies of race, class, gender, and sexuality in various historical periods. We will analyze the varied factors that shape and define representations of motherhood and their impact on society through literary works by Dorothy Allison, Octavia Butler, Anna Castillo, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Ruth Ozeki, Ann Petry, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tennessee Williams, and more. In addition to fiction, drama, and film, we will also read interdisciplinary theoretical analyses of motherhood, particularly paying attention to queer and feminist interventions. 59600-005-17040 Semantics II SLHS PROF; xlist LING532 Wilber, Ronnie An introduction to, and survey of, current semantic theories and methods with an emphasis on English. Basic concepts of linguistic semantics and its relation to the other semantics: compositional (transformational), model-theoretical (truth-conditional), pragmatic, and contextual semantics. 60100-001-15154 60100-001-15154 Teaching College Lit Teaching College Lit TR TR 09:00-10:15 09:00-10:15 Peterson, Nancy Sagar, Aparajita This course focuses on practical and theoretical issues related to teaching literature at the college level. It is designed to meet the needs and interests of Ph.D. students in literature and TCS—those who would like to be prepared to teach an introductory literature course in Purdue's English department, and those who would like to design a literature course and related documents as preparation for going on the job market. We will divide class time between three matters: engaging with current pedagogical research in our discipline and profession, that is, literature and cultural studies; designing strategies and toolkits for our immediate and long-term use in teaching literature; discussing everyday and ongoing issues that arise in and out of our classrooms when working with undergraduate literature students. PLEASE NOTE: This course is required for any Ph.D. student who has not yet taught a literature course at Purdue and who wishes to be eligible to teach literature for English in the future. Prerequisite: ENGL 50100, or department approval. If you have not taken ENGL 50100, please email the instructors to ask for an override ([email protected] and [email protected]); include your name, degree program, and area of research interest. 60600-001-19073 Sem In Poetry Writing W 04:30-07:20 Platt, Donald This seminar will focus on the workshopping of poems by graduate students and the discussion of issues of craft and content in contemporary American poetry. To supplement the workshop and sample the diversity of our contemporary poetic climate, we will read and discuss several recent collections (possibly Mary Rueffle’s Selected Poems, Kay Ryan’s The Best of It, Maurice Manning’s The Common Man, Dean Young’s Fall Higher, and Carrie Etter’s The Son). In our examination of these works, we will explore each poet’s differing sense of aesthetics, themes and obsessions, and the design by which each poet arranges poems to construct larger meanings within a book. 60700-001-64893 Craft And Theory Of Fiction W 11:30-02:20 Leung, Brian A study of the craft of poetry, fiction, or drama with some consideration of underlying theories. 60900-001-19074 Sem In Fiction Writing T 04:30-07:20 Solwitz, Sharon An advanced course in the writing of fiction. Workshop critiques. 61400-001-15095 Middle English Lit MWF 09:30-10:20 Armstrong, S. Dorsey Study of representative works in the major literary traditions and genres of middle English literature (exclusive of Chaucer): lyric, romance, satire, allegory. Detailed examination of major works such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, and Pearl. 61700-001-14817 Contemporary English TR 10:30-11:45 Staples, Shelley This course is a descriptive overview of English grammar from a corpus-based perspective, surveying English grammatical structures and major patterns of language use, and developing skill in grammatical analysis. We will discuss both written and spoken English grammar in the context of discourse and register characteristics, and will also discuss classroom implications. Students will complete a final project related to their own interests in applying the knowledge learned in the course (e.g., to ESL instruction). 61800-001-14654 Quantitative Research xlist LING689 TR 01:30-02:45 Ginther, April The course presents basic concepts of elementary statistics, data collection, data management, sampling, and research design for quantitative analyses. The main purpose of the course is to introduce basic characteristics of quantitative methodologies as applied to questions about language. Practical aspects of design along with ethical considerations that influence research projects will be considered. Class requirements: discussion of assigned readings, a take-home midterm, and a final paper. 62200-001-59590 Comp St: Classical W 11:30-02:20 Rickert, Thomas The course historicizes issues in Rhetoric and Composition from its ancient, primarily Greek beginnings to the Renaissance. 62500-001-64894 Emp Rsrch In Writing F 11:30-02:20 Sullivan, Patricia This course introduces empirical research designs appropriate for writing research. Students will read and discuss descriptive and experimental research, will learn about classes of statistics appropriate for various research designs, and will design research projects to address problems which interest them. There will also be a group project and a poster session. 62600-001-33654 Comp St: Postmodern M 11:30-02:20 Salvo, Michael The course historicizes how various postmodern theories and practices (cultural, political, ethical, philosophical, technological, aesthetic) influence the study and teaching of written discourse. 62700-002-59003 Syntax II LHS PROF; xlist LING522 Wilber, Ronnie This is an in-depth exploration of syntactic phenomena, including mechanics and theoretical motivations. Emphasis is on constructing analyses and evaluating competing analyses in terms of their explanatory adequacy for Universal Grammar. Topics include structural representations, functional projections, LF phenomena, and motivation from other interface phenomena. Although much of the discussion will focus on English, the course will pay special attention to the appropriateness of theoretical analyses for other languages, to crosslinguistic comparison, to motivation of changes in syntactic analysis, and to the history of generative syntax. 62700-004-69968 Phonology II SLC PROF; xlist LING 512 TR 09:00-10:15 Dmitrieva, Olga For a detailed description of this course please contact the instructor directly at [email protected] 62800-001-14779 Natrl Language Process xlist LING689 T 06:30-09:20 Raskin, Victor The course will focus on both the linguistic and computational systems which "understand" text in a natural language such as English and which perform various intelligent tasks, e.g., machine translation, information retrieval, automatic abstracting, and natural language interfacing for expert systems. The issues range from the formal description of English (primarily syntax and semantics) which would enable the computer to extract meaning from text, to the computational methods which make the procedure possible. The course will begin with a general overview of natural language processing and proceed first to simple formal syntactic descriptions and their computations resulting in syntactic parsers and then to semantic descriptions and computational analysis of meaning. There are no prerequisites for the course but some background in linguistics/semantics and/or computer science would be helpful. There will be a small individual research project/paper at the end and no exams. 62900-002-69970 Corpus Research xlist LING689 TR 03:00-04:15 Staples, Shelley This course will examine issues in corpus linguistics, both as a research methodology and as a field of study within Second Language Studies. The course has two major objectives: to present an overview of the current state of research findings in this field; and to develop the advanced analytical techniques required for students to carry out their own corpus linguistic research projects. Class members will be asked to read and discuss assigned texts and complete and present a term project. 63000-001-69971 Second Lang Writing T 06:30-09:20 Silva, Anthony This seminar will address major issues in ESL writing theory, research, and practice. The topics addressed will include the historical context of ESL writing, characteristics of ESL writers, ESL writers' composing processes, rhetorical and linguistic features of ESL writers' texts, assessment of ESL writing, comparisons of ESL and first language writing, reading/writing connections for ESL writers, and ESL writing pedagogy—approaches, methods, and materials. Class members will be asked to read and discuss assigned texts and to write journals, an article critique, and a term project. 63100-001-14806 World Englishes xlist LING689 MWF 02:30-03:20 Berns, Margie In-depth study of world Englishes as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, as a field of study, and as a research paradigm. Readings will cover the history of the field, the key issues driving research and scholarship, and the multiple disciplinary approaches adopted for the study of world Englishes. Assignments include extensive reading, class presentations, and a scholarly paper. 63300-003-11049 Arthurian Literature MWF 10:30-11:20 Armstrong, S. Dorsey A study of the development of the Arthurian tradition from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain to Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur. Considerable attention will be paid to recent critical treatments of medieval Arthurian literature. 66500-001-15114 World Lit: 1492-1700 AD xlist CMPL650 TR 10:30-11:45 Duran, Angelica This seminar focuses on major texts written in or related to the seminal period of 14921700 (a.k.a the Age of Discovery, a.k.a the Early Modern Period, a.k.a…), when travel, conceptions, and knowledge about the world were expanding in unprecedented ways. Texts include English translations of Spanish Lope de Vega’s Discovery of the New World and Cervantes’s Don Quixote (selections); English Dryden’s Indian Emperor and Behn’s Widow Ranter; Chinese Cao’s Dream of the Red Chamber; French Cyrano de Bergerac; selections from the 1649 English translation of the Qu’ran and the 1611 King James Bible; and texts that students will select from their languages of expertise. Instantiating the permeable borders of our readings and taking advantage of the course’s Tuesday/Thursday format, one of the weekly class meetings will be instructor- and student-led discussions and presentations, the other weekly class meeting, guest lectures by off-campus specialists, including Sabina Knight (Smith College; author of the Oxford UP Very Short Introduction to Chinese Literature); experts from the PU School of Languages and Culture and Comparative Literature; a panel of PU faculty in STEM fields; and a field trip to an artistic event. 66700-002-15254 Emm Lev In Phil Lit & Relg Sdy W 06:30-09:20 Goodhart, Sandor For a detailed description of this course please contact the instructor directly at [email protected] 67300-001-15149 19th Cen Transnat Am Studies xlist AMST650 M 04:30-07:20 Lopez, Alfred For a detailed description of this course please contact the instructor directly at [email protected] 68000-001-14791 Minority Rhetoric TR 01:30-02:45 Blackmon, Samantha In this course we will look at education and social justice writings of the 19th and 20th centuries which, while written primarily by authors of African descent, will gives us the foundation to discussion how the theories and practices of scholars and educators, past and present, can come together and serve as the basis for a pedagogy that can be used to teach all students. We will look at a variety of works by authors such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson, bell hooks, Victor Villanueva, Lisa Delpit, Mike Rose, and Geneva Smitherman. Assignments for this class will include (but are not limited to): weekly responses to reading, a seminar presentation, and a seminar paper. 68000-002-14794 WAC & Learning Transfer TR 10:30-11:45 Dilger, C. Bradley In the past ten years, writing studies has displayed considerable interest in writing transfer: the motivation of writing skills, experiences, and knowledge native to one context in another. For example, how does writing for a student or volunteer organization impact writing for school? While much of the conversation about transfer concerns first-year writing, scholars such as Doug Brent, Tara Lockhart and Mary Soliday, and Michelle Navarre Clearly are all researching transfer in other contexts. My own study of writing transfer at my former institution began because of questions about transfer into Writing Instruction in the Disciplines (WID) courses, especially for students from community colleges (hence our first project name, "Transfer @ transfer."). With this in mind, we will consider writing transfer in the contexts of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). Course texts will include essays and books from Yancey, Robertson, & Taczak, David Russell, Christiane Donahue, Elizabeth Wardle, and Driscoll & Wells, among others. We will begin with introductions to WAC and transfer, then investigate their intersection in depth, considering both scholarship and research methods. Deliverables will vary given students' academic focuses and experiences, but every student will produce, test, and revise a short handout designed to help WAC/WID faculty in other departments understand relevant research about writing (e.g. discourse community, genre, motivation, etc). For more details, please see http://dtext.org/s15/680/ or contact [email protected]. 68000-003-14795 Sem In Public Rhetorics TR 03:00-04:15 Johnson, Nathan Seminar focuses on publics theory. Readings span rhetoric & composition, sociology, literature, communication, and public policy studies. The course prepares students to produce publishable scholarship informed by cross-disciplinary reading. 69600-001-14975 European Modernism SLC PROF; xlist CMPL650, LC639 Coda, Elena For a detailed description of this course please contact the instructor directly at [email protected]
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