Fall 2008 & Spring 2009 Teaching Opportunities for Graduate Students in ENGL and CMPL
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LITERATURE COURSES |
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ENGL 120 |
British Literature, Chaucer
to Pope |
Required of English majors.
Survey of Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and
prose. |
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ENGL 121 |
British Literature,
Wordsworth to Eliot |
Required of English majors.
Survey of Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Periods. Poetry, novels, and plays. |
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ENGL 122 |
Introduction to American
Literature |
This course introduces
prospective English majors to the range of American writing from the period
of European settlement of the |
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ENGL 123 |
Introduction to Fiction |
Novels and shorter fiction
by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others. |
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ENGL 124 |
Contemporary Literature |
The literature of the
present generation. |
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ENGL 125 |
Introduction to Poetry |
A course designed to
develop basic skills in reading poems from all periods of English and
American literature. |
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ENGL 126 |
Introduction to Drama |
Drama of the Greek,
Renaissance, and Modern periods. |
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ENGL 127 |
Writing About Literature |
This course explores how to
think and write about literature. It assumes that all of us can begin with
our personal responses to literature and use critical thinking and writing skills
to develop interpretations exploring the literary aspects of these works and
the ways they relate to our lives and culture. The course also extends study
of literary works to include items that reflect both historical and
contemporary thinking and culture. In addition to familiar poems, plays,
essays, and stories, items of study include works of art and images as well
as music and film. Class activities include lecture, discussion, group work,
and project-based workshops. |
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ENGL 128 |
Major American Authors |
A study of approximately
six major American authors drawn from Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville,
Stowe, Whitman, Clemens, Dickinson, Chesnutt,
James, Eliot, Stein, Hemingway, O'Neill, Faulkner, Hurston,
or others. |
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ENGL 143 |
Film and Culture |
"Film and
Culture" examines the ways in which culture and history shape and are
shaped by motion pictures. This course uses comparative methods that groups
related films according to contrasts, such as historic or contemporary,
mainstream or cutting-edge, English- or foreign-language. The goal of this
course is for students to extend more technical, analytical knowledge about
films offered in other courses to specific cultural contexts and issues. As
such, the course emphasizes discussion and a broad range of screenings, as
opposed to canonical film studies topics and movies. The course attempts to
pair each week a movie that is likely to be familiar with one that is less
accessible. The purpose of this strategy is for students to broaden their
perspectives on film by appreciating connections between the past and the
present, between established ideas and reinterpretations of those ideas, and
between films and filmmakers separated by time, geography, ideology,
language, and fashion. By playing the familiar against the unfamiliar,
students are asked to use what they already know as a foundation to learn
more. More importantly, such oppositions encourage students to rexamine what is "familiar" and why. |
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ENGL 144 |
Popular Genres |
This course will introduce
students to the study of popular genres in fiction. Students will read works
drawn from categories as diverse as mystery, romance, westerns, science
fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and horror fiction, to name only a
few. Articles about the form and cultural function of such genres will be
read alongside the primary texts. |
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ENGL 145 |
Literary Genres |
An investigation of
selected literary genres, including epic, drama, poetry (or any of its
various forms: lyric, ode, etc.), novels (or any of its various forms:
gothic, epistolary, magical realism, etc.), short stories, literary non
fiction (such as autobiography, memoir, etc.) that approaches a group of
texts as a genre, concentrating on changing definitions of form. This course
will locate works within a formal context, often cutting across period or
nationality, to focus on formal tradition and critical context. |
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ENGL 148 |
Horror |
From its origins in Gothic and
pre-Gothic literatures and arts, this course examines the complexities and
pleasures of Horror. Topics include psychology, aesthetics, politics,
allegory, ideology, and ethics |
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RECITATION SECTIONS |
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ENGL 120
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British Literature, Chaucer
to Pope
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ENGL 142 |
Film Analysis |
The purpose of this course
is to introduce students to the vocabulary and rhetoric of film analysis,
from the most basic concepts of the cinema (shot, frame, montage) to more
complicated ideas about space, time, action, genre, and narrative. In this
sense, the aim of the class will be twofold: on the one hand, students will
be asked to critically re-consider and re-evaluate the habitual ways we all
watch and think about the movies; on the other hand, students will be asked
to begin open themselves to cinematic techniques, ideas, and histories that
they may not have encountered in the past. Each teaching fellow will lead one recitation section twice a week for 50 minutes. Fall 2008 Lecture taught by Dr. Gregg Flaxman; Spring 2009 lecture taught by Dr. Todd Taylor. |
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ENGL 225 |
Shakespeare |
A study of representative
histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. The aim of the course is to
develop strategies for close readings of Shakespearean
drama that pay attention to generic expectation, language, and the physical
properties of the stage; at the same time, we will seek to read Shakespeare
culturally, to recognize the ways these texts participate in their historical
moment and in the debates over social ordering, gender, political authority,
economic change, and religious and philosophical controversy. Each teaching fellow will lead two recitation sections once per week for 50 minutes each. Lecture instructor TBA. Spring 2009 semester only. |
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ENGL 284 |
Reading Children's
Literature |
An overview of the
tradition of children's literature, considering the ways those books point to
our basic assumptions about meaning, culture, self, society, gender, economics. Each teaching fellow will lead two recitation
sections once per week for 50 minutes each. Lecture taught
by Dr. Laurie Langbauer Fall 2008 only.
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ENGL 338 |
Nineteenth-Century British
Novel |
Important novelists in the
tradition, from Austen to Wilde. Each teaching fellow will lead two recitation
sections once per week for 50 minutes each. Lecture taught
by Dr. Laurie Langbauer Fall 2008 only.
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