FALL 2006 UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Course Number
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Section Number
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Course Title
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Instructor Name
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Days
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Time/Day
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Course
Description
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ENGL 052 |
001 |
FYS: Computers & English Studies |
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TR |
02:00-03:15 |
This course looks at ways in which students and scholars
can use computers to enhance and extend the study of literature. It
emphasizes lessons in how to read and write about literary works, offering
strategies for interpreting fiction, poetry, drama, music, art, and film.
Class activities will evolve around the question, How can computers and new
media be used to teach the skills needed to read and about these many forms
of literature? |
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ENGL 068 |
001 |
FYS: Radical American Writers: 1930-1960 |
Reinert |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
In this course, we will read fiction, plays, and essays by
American writers associated with the political left in the 1930's, and we
will see how the political notions of leftists shifted during the Second
World War and the McCarthy era. Authors will include such classics as Arthur
Miller, Clifford Odets, Mary McCarthy, and Bernard Malamud, as well as
lesser-known essayists and journalists like Anatole Broyard and Robert
Warshow. Class sessions will be run as discussions; there will be several
short papers and a final exam. |
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ENGL 070 |
001 |
FYS: Courtly Love--Then & Now |
Taylor, B |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
How have ideas about courtship changed between the
twelfth-century "Rules of Love" penned by Andrew the Chaplain and
1995's The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right?
Just what was "courtly love"? And how has it influenced our own
views of romance? Our readings will include literature which defined this
influential concept, from The Art of Love by the Latin writer Ovid; to
medieval Arthurian romances and troubador lyrics; to Renaissance sonnets and
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. We'll trace the influence of these traditions
in works by more recent writers such as Tennyson and Robert and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, and in contemporary films, cartoons, and advertisements. In
the process we'll be exploring the history of Western thought about gender
relations, and the political and economic implications of our ideas about
beauty, sex, and love. |
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ENGL 075 |
001 |
FYS: Interpreting the South from Manuscripts |
Eble |
TR |
11:00-12:15 |
The Southern Historical Collection of UNC Libraries contains the raw materials of people's lives-their letters, diaries, business records, scrapbooks, photographs, and other primary sources which allow people of the present to interpret the past. Taking full advantage of these materials requires an understanding of the nature of manuscript collections and of how to access and use them knowledgeably and responsibly in the context of contemporary scholarship and methodologies. Students will learn about and work directly with manuscripts under the guidance of two faculty members, one who makes use of manuscripts in research and one a professional librarian whose expertise is in manuscript resources. The aim of the course is to give beginning university students the requisite research skills to allow them to appreciate and to contribute to an understanding of the past by directly experiencing and interpreting records from the past. |
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ENGL 077 |
001 |
FYS: Seeing the Past |
Thompson |
TR |
09:30-10:45 |
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ENGL 120 |
001 |
British Literature: Chaucer to Pope |
Shrieves |
MWF |
09:00-09:50 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval,
Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose. |
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ENGL 120 |
002 |
British Literature: Chaucer to Pope |
Swezey |
MWF |
10:00-10:50 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval,
Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose. |
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ENGL 120 |
003 |
British Literature: Chaucer to Pope |
Lupton |
MWF |
01:00-01:50 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval,
Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose. |
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ENGL 120 |
004 |
British Literature: Chaucer to Pope |
Harper |
MWF |
01:00-01:50 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval,
Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose. |
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ENGL 120 |
005 |
British Literature: Chaucer to Pope |
Leinbaugh |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval,
Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose. |
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ENGL 120 |
006 |
British Literature: Chaucer to Pope |
Floyd-Wilson |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval,
Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose. |
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ENGL 120 |
007 |
British Literature: Chaucer to Pope |
Leinbaugh |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Medieval,
Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose. |
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ENGL 121 |
001 |
British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot |
Cohen |
MWF |
08:00-08:50 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian,
and Modern Periods. Poetry, novels, and plays. |
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ENGL 121 |
002 |
British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot |
Beres |
MWF |
01:00-01:50 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian,
and Modern Periods. Poetry, novels, and plays. |
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ENGL 121 |
003 |
British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot |
Hayes |
TR |
11:00-12:15 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian,
and Modern Periods. Poetry, novels, and plays. |
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ENGL 121 |
004 |
British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot |
Avery |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian,
and Modern Periods. Poetry, novels, and plays. |
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ENGL 121 |
005 |
British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot |
Taylor, B |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian,
and Modern Periods. Poetry, novels, and plays. |
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ENGL 121 |
006 |
British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot |
Cadwallader |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian,
and Modern Periods. Poetry, novels, and plays. |
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ENGL 121 |
008 |
British Literature: Wordsworth to Eliot |
Avery |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Required of English majors. Survey of Romantic, Victorian,
and Modern Periods. Poetry, novels, and plays. |
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ENGL 122 |
001 |
Introduction to American Literature |
Bruder |
MWF |
09:00-09:50 |
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 122 |
002 |
Introduction to American Literature |
D'Amore |
MWF |
01:50-01:50 |
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 122 |
003 |
Introduction to American Literature |
Snyder |
TR |
08:00-09:15 |
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 |
001 |
Introduction to Fiction |
Morgan |
MWF |
08:00-08:50 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others. |
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ENGL 123 |
002 |
Introduction to Fiction |
Kennedy, P |
MWF |
09:00-09:50 |
Engl 23 offers an introduction to the reading of prose
fiction. It features analysis of various forms of fiction and study of the
elements of fiction (such as point of view, theme, characterization, and
setting). A theme emphasized this semester will be challenges and choices. |
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ENGL 123 |
003 |
Introduction to Fiction |
Kennedy, P |
MWF |
10:00-10:50 |
Engl 23 offers an introduction to the reading of prose
fiction. It features analysis of various forms of fiction and study of the
elements of fiction (such as point of view, theme, characterization, and
setting). A theme emphasized this semester will be challenges and choices. |
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ENGL 123 |
004 |
Introduction to Fiction |
Bobo |
MWF |
02:00-02:50 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others. |
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ENGL 123 |
005 |
Introduction to Fiction |
Theisen |
TR |
08:00-09:15 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others. |
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ENGL 123 |
006 |
Introduction to Fiction |
Crystall |
TR |
08:00-09:15 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others. |
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ENGL 123 |
007 |
Introduction to Fiction |
McKinley |
TR |
11:00-12:15 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others. |
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ENGL 123 |
008 |
Introduction to Fiction |
McKinley |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Woolf, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others. |
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ENGL 123 |
009 |
Introduction to Fiction |
Douglass |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others. |
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ENGL 123 |
010 |
Introduction to Fiction |
Theisen |
TR |
11:00-12:15 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others. |
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ENGL 124 |
001 |
Contemporary Literature |
Westerman |
MWF |
12:00-12:50 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation. |
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ENGL 124 |
002 |
Contemporary Literature |
Crystall |
TR |
09:30-10:45 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation. |
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ENGL 124 |
003 |
Contemporary Literature |
Crystall |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation. |
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ENGL 125 |
001 |
Introduction to Poetry |
Panszczyk |
MWF |
01:00-01:50 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. A course designed to develop basic skills in reading poems from all periods of English and American literature. |
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ENGL 125 |
002 |
Introduction to Poetry |
Marchbanks |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. A course designed to develop basic skills in reading poems from all periods of English and American literature. |
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ENGL 126 |
001 |
Introduction to Drama |
Ashworth-King |
MWF |
09:00-09:50 |
Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Drama of the Greek, Renaissance, and Modern periods. |
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ENGL 127 |
001 |
Writing About Literature |
Phillips |
MWF |
11:00-11:50 |
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 127 |
002 |
Writing About Literature |
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TR |
03:30-04:45 |
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 |
001 |
Major American Authors |
LaPrade |
MWF |
12:00-12:50 |
This is an introductory-level course for freshmen and sophomores but also open to juniors and seniors. It serves as an introduction to the range of authors and topics in American literature from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth. |
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ENGL 128 |
002 |
Major American Authors |
Trippensee |
TR |
08:00-09:15 |
This is an introductory-level course for freshmen and sophomores but also open to juniors and seniors. It serves as an introduction to the range of authors and topics in American literature from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth. |
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ENGL 128 |
003 |
Major American Authors |
Ross, H |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
This is an introductory-level course for freshmen and sophomores but also open to juniors and seniors. It serves as an introduction to the range of authors and topics in American literature from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth. |
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ENGL 128 |
004 |
Major American Authors |
Green |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
This is an introductory-level course for freshmen and sophomores but also open to juniors and seniors. It serves as an introduction to the range of authors and topics in American literature from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth. |
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ENGL 129 |
001 |
Lit & Cultural Diversity (Native Amer Lit) |
O'Shaughnessey |
MWF |
01:00-01:50 |
NATIVE AMERICANS IN LITERATURE/NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE.
This course is largely a study of perceptions and perspectives. It will
examine first the well-documented European views of Native Americans
presented in historical accounts and on artists' canvases, views which tell
us as much about Europeans as they do about Natives. Then it will sample the
explosion of perspectives presented by Native American novelists, poets,
short story writers, and film makers whose voices, having been ignored for
centuries, eloquently provide alternative views of themselves and of America.
Because art is not produced in a vacuum, the course will also explore
political, social, and cultural issues which have influenced each group's
perception of the other. |
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ENGL 130 |
001 |
Introduction to Fiction Writing |
Shaw, D |
MW |
04:30-05:45 |
Prerequisite to English 206 and other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing fiction. Close study of a wide range of short stories and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises and stories. |
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ENGL 130 |
002 |
Introduction to Fiction Writing |
Wallace |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
Prerequisite to English 206 and other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing fiction. Close study of a wide range of short stories and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises and stories. |
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ENGL 130 |
003 |
Introduction to Fiction Writing |
Kenan |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Prerequisite to English 206 and other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing fiction. Close study of a wide range of short stories and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises and stories. |
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ENGL 130 |
004 |
Introduction to Fiction Writing |
Naumoff |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Prerequisite to English 206 and other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing fiction. Close study of a wide range of short stories and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises and stories. |
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ENGL 130 |
005 |
Introduction to Fiction Writing |
Moose |
TR |
05:00-06:15 |
Prerequisite to English 206 and other creative writing
courses. A course in reading and writing fiction. Close study of a wide range
of short stories and short works of fiction with emphasis on technical
problems. Class criticism and discussion of student exercises and stories. |
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ENGL 131 |
001 |
Introduction to Poetry Writing |
Riggs |
MW |
05:00-06:15 |
Prerequisite to English 207 and other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing poems. Close study of a wide range of published poetry and of the basic terms and techniques of the art. Composition and discussion and revision of a number of original poems. |
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ENGL 131 |
002 |
Introduction to Poetry Writing |
Shapiro |
TR |
09:30-10:45 |
Prerequisite to English 207 and other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing poems. Close study of a wide range of published poetry and of the basic terms and techniques of the art. Composition and discussion and revision of a number of original poems. |
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ENGL 131 |
003 |
Introduction to Poetry Writing |
Chitwood |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
Prerequisite to English 207 and other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing poems. Close study of a wide range of published poetry and of the basic terms and techniques of the art. Composition and discussion and revision of a number of original poems. |
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ENGL 131 |
004 |
Introduction to Poetry Writing |
Roderick |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Prerequisite to English 207 and other creative writing courses. A course in reading and writing poems. Close study of a wide range of published poetry and of the basic terms and techniques of the art. Composition and discussion and revision of a number of original poems. |
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ENGL 132H |
001 |
FYH: Intro Fict Writ |
Gingher |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ONLY. Writing intensive. Early short assignments emphasize elements of dramatic scene with subsequent written practice in point-of-view, dialogue, characterization, and refinement of style. Assigned short stories from textbook with in-depth analysis of technique, craft, and literary merit. Students will write and revise one full story which will be duplicated for all class members and criticized by instructor and class. The short story will be approximately 10--15 pages long. Revision in lieu of final exam. The course is informal but stringent; students may be asked to write each class meeting. Vigorous class participation in workshop is expected. Required texts. This course (or English 130) serves as a prerequisite for other courses in the fiction sequence of the creative writing program (Engl 206, 406, 693H). |
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ENGL 133H |
001 |
FYH: Intro Poet Writ |
White |
TR |
11:00-12:15 |
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ONLY. While the prime effort of the course will be the ten poems that each student will write and revise, we will also review closely the basic elements of poetry, such as imagery, figurative language, sound repetition, rhythm, with a mind to the potential of those elements in the student's own writing. In addition to these readings in the textbook, there will be assignments in texts on the reserve shelf, group reports on fellow students' poems, quizzes, and a mid-term exam. Each student will also keep a notebook of observations, impressions, quotations, isolated images that may give rise to poems, what have you. Most classes will begin with the reading of a contemporary poem, each student having an assigned day for that duty. For the most part, however, we will be writing poems and attempting to assess their strengths and weaknesses in open class discussion. Text: An Introduction to Poetry, ed. Kennedy & Gioia, 10th edition. |
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ENGL 134H |
001 |
Honors: Women's Lives |
Danielewicz |
TR |
11:00-12:15 |
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ONLY. Concentrating on the idea of the personal, this course will focus on stories of women's lives or the imaginative work of self-making through writing. In reading published essays (and in writing some of our own), we will investigate questions about self and identity as well as examine how experience, contexts, and characteristics (like gender or race) shape not only stories but persons themselves. The writing assignments, organized around four life-writing genres (autobiography, autoethnography, biography, and personal essay), will encourage students to experiment by writing these same forms. Given students' interests, writing projects may involve traditional literary criticism, autobiography, biography, or cultural history (using primary archival research and/or investigating individuals/communities outside the university). The course will be taught using a workshop approach that emphasizes writing as a process and fosters active reading and writing, and experiential and collaborative learning. Students will be organized into small working groups that will act as writing and discussion groups, creating smaller cohorts within the larger classroom community. Our class will culminate in the production of an on-line anthology of writing projects than can include visual and aural components. Published writers will visit as guest speakers. These may include Creative Writing professors and representatives from the Southern Oral History Project. Texts: (1) Possible autobiography or creative non-fiction include The Blue Jay's Dance by Louise Erdrich, The Liar's Club by Mary Karr, and Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen; (2) a Course Pack including selections of personal essays and criticism including Joan Didion, Linda Brodkey, Sidonie Smith, and Joan Scott. (3) Books about writing such as Composing a Life by Donald Murray and The Fourth Genre by Robert Root and Michael Steinberg. (This course was developed with the aid of a Paul and Melba Brandes Course Development Award.) |
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ENGL 135H |
001 |
Honors: Types of Lit |
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MWF |
11:00-11:50 |
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ONLY. This course is designed to explore the concept of utopia in all of its vast narrative manifestations. The word utopia, which was christened by Sir Thomas More, literally means "no place," but the figurative and metaphorical sense of utopia has increasingly come to suggest a kind of heavenly place (or time) of goodness and harmony. In this class, we will try to juxtapose these notions of utopia by tracing their respective traditions in politics, literature, science fiction, fantasy, and romance. What was the tradition purpose of utopia and why do we still seem to crave its satisfactions? Can the power of utopian narratives effect actual social change, or are we drawn to utopia precisely because it offers an escape from reality? Texts will likely include: More's Utopia; Austen's Pride and Prejudice; selections from The New Testament; Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, Marx's Communist Manifesto, Huxley's Brave New World, and Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents. |
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ENGL 135H |
002 |
Honors: Types of Lit |
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TR |
09:30-10:45 |
FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ONLY. A study of some of the
distinguishing features of drama and epic through the close reading of
characteristic examples of each genre. We will pay special attention to the
cultural uses to which these genres have been put. In particular, we will
look at the ways drama and epic imagine differences in class, gender, age,
and race and negotiate the conflicts that arise between those who command and
those who follow. Topics will include: husbands and wives (Ibsen, A Doll
House and Beckett, Happy Days); fathers and sons (O'Neill, Desire Under the
Elms and Wilson, Fences); masters and servants (Shakespeare, A Midsummer
Night's Dream and Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard); and God and man (Marlowe, Dr.
Faustus and Kushner, Angels in
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ENGL 140 |
001 |
Intro Gay/Lesbian Lit |
Weber |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
In this course, we will study gay/lesbian/queer literature and the cultural diversity it represents. We will explore the ways in which this literature explicates its historical, social, political, and artistic contexts. Our texts will be primarily contemporary American and British fiction. Format: some lecture, mostly class and group discussion; reading reflections, oral report, essay, midterm and final exams. |
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ENGL 140 |
002 |
Intro Gay/Lesbian Lit |
Weber |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
In this course, we will study gay/lesbian/queer literature and the cultural diversity it represents. We will explore the ways in which this literature explicates its historical, social, political, and artistic contexts. Our texts will be primarily contemporary American and British fiction. Format: some lecture, mostly class and group discussion; reading reflections, oral report, essay, midterm and final exams. |
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ENGL 142 |
001 |
Film Analysis |
Flaxman |
MW |
03:00-05:50 |
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. |
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ENGL 143 |
001 |
Film and Culture |
Oxman |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
"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 re-examine what is "familiar" and why. |
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ENGL 144 |
001 |
Popular Genres |
Corrigan |
MWF |
11:00-11:50 |
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 146 |
001 |
Science Fict/Fantasy/Utopia |
Curtain |
MW |
03:00-04:15 |
This course takes on the voluminous imaginative literatures that make claims to depict worlds not our own, times that never existed, and peoples and cultures outside of the real. An understanding of such fiction as allegory or political science (for example, More's Utopia, the sine qua non of such work, or Samuel Delany's Dhalgren), or a theory of such literature as scripting possible futures and necessary understandings of the past (such as Gibson's Neuromancer or Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon or Quicksilver) allow us to think about literature's function, value, and continued strength in our own lives, in the world of our making. |
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ENGL 206 |
001 |
Intermed Fiction Writing |
Naumoff |
MW |
03:00-04:15 |
Prerequisite, English 130 or 132H and permission of the
Director of Creative Writing. Substantial practice in those techniques
employed in introductory course. A workshop devoted to the extensive writing
of fiction (at least two short stories), with an emphasis on style,
structure, dramatic scene, and revision. |
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ENGL 206 |
002 |
Intermed Fiction Writing |
Athas |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Prerequisite, English 130 or 132H and permission of the
Director of Creative Writing. Substantial practice in those techniques
employed in introductory course. A workshop devoted to the extensive writing
of fiction (at least two short stories), with an emphasis on style, point of
view, structure, dramatic scene, and revision. |
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ENGL 206 |
003 |
Intermed Fiction Writing |
Wallace |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Prerequisite, English 130 or 132H and permission of the
Director of Creative Writing. Substantial practice in those techniques
employed in introductory course. A workshop devoted to the extensive writing
of fiction (at least two short stories), with an emphasis on style,
structure, dramatic scene, and revision. |
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ENGL 207 |
001 |
Intermed Poetry Writing |
|
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Prerequisite, English 131 or 133H and permission of the
Director of Creative Writing. An intensification of the introductory class. A
workshop devoted to close examination of selected exemplary poems and the
students' own poetry, with an emphasis on regular writing and revising. |
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ENGL 207 |
002 |
Intermed Poetry Writing |
Chitwood |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Prerequisite, English 131 or 133H and permission of the
Director of Creative Writing. An intensification of the introductory class. A
workshop devoted to close examination of selected exemplary poems and the
students' own poetry, with an emphasis on regular writing and revising. |
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ENGL 209 |
001 |
Writing Children's Lit |
Moose |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Prerequisite, Introduction to Fiction or Poetry (English
130, 131, 132H, or 133H) or permission of instructor. A course in reading and
writing children's fiction, focusing on five important forms: folk tale,
fairy tale, picture book, young adult, and biography. |
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ENGL 225 |
001 |
Shakespeare |
Goldberg |
MWF |
02:00-02:50 |
We will read from eight to ten representative comedies,
histories, and tragedies and discuss them in class with an eye to their
greatness--poetic, dramaturgic and philosophic. There will be several short
analytic papers and one longer essay, a mid-term and final examination. |
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ENGL 225 |
002 |
Shakespeare |
Matchinske |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
For centuries, artists have been performing and rewriting
the plays of William Shakespeare. Of late the big screen has become a
preeminent site for such adaptation. From low budget parodies like Billy
Morrissette's campy 2002 comic portrayal of
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|
ENGL 225 |
003 |
Shakespeare |
Matchinske |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
For centuries, artists have been performing and rewriting
the plays of William Shakespeare. Of late the big screen has become a
preeminent site for such adaptation. From low budget parodies like Billy
Morrissette's campy 2002 comic portrayal of
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|
ENGL 225 |
004 |
Shakespeare |
|
TR |
08:00-09:15 |
A study of representative histories, comedies, tragedies,
and romances. Our aim will be to develop strategies for close readings 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, religious controversy, and encounters with foreign cultures and
practices. We will praise Shakespeare without etherealizing him and explore
his limitations without demeaning his achievement. Teaching methods: We will
mix dialogue with soliloquy, meaning you will be encouraged to be garrulous
and I will be discouraged from being too much so. Requirements: Frequent quizzes
to keep you honest, a reading notebook to keep you thinking, two short papers
to keep you writing, and a final examination to keep you guessing. |
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ENGL 227 |
001 |
Lit of Early Renaiss |
Wolfe |
MWF |
01:00-01:50 |
Knowledge, Doubt, and Belief in the Renaissance: from
Religious Reformation to Scientific Revolution. Examining literary,
religious, and philosophical works written between around 1515 and 1625, this
course will focus on the intersections between religion and science, and
between reason and faith, during the most intellectually vibrant and
tumultuous years of the Renaissance. Beginning with the European Reformations
of the earlier sixteenth century and ending with the Scientific
"Revolutions" of the earlier seventeenth century, the course will
study how poets, dramatists, and artists, essayists and theologians, and
medical writers and other natural philosophers negotiate amongst competing
knowledge claims as well as amongst the conflicting religious, philosophical,
and scientific currents of their time. |
|
ENGL 261 |
001 |
Intro to Literary Criticism |
Fisher |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
An introduction to literary criticism in English studies, with an emphasis on historical developments from Plato to the present. |
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ENGL 265 |
001 |
Lit & Race, Lit & Ethnicity (SW as Contact Zone) |
DeGuzman |
TR |
08:00-09:15 |
Southwest as Contact Zone:
Reading "Chicana/o" and "Native American" in Relation. |
|
ENGL 265H |
001 |
Lit & Race, Lit & Ethnicity (Mixed Race in
|
Ho |
MWF |
11:00-11:50 |
Mixed Race in
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|
ENGL 278 |
001 |
Irish Writ, 1800-2000 |
Allen |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
This course serves as an introduction to current themes
and major texts in Irish writing from 1800 to 2000. An overview of the
literature, in drama, poetry and prose, the course will ground Irish writing
in the changing historical, social and political contexts of the period to
give a sense of writers active in their culture. Irish writing will emerge as
a postcolonial literature in English responsive to the pressures of
emigration, revolution and reaction, in Europe and
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|
ENGL 283 |
001 |
Life Writing |
Danielewicz |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
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ENGL 284 |
001 |
|
Langbauer |
MW |
02:00-02:50 |
How do we define children's literature and what function
does it serve? Why should we still care about it after we are adults? What
ends have different historical periods tried to advance through their
different understandings of what constitutes childhood? What do we mean by
childhood now? In what ways does children's literature point to our basic
assumptions about meaning, culture, self, society, gender, economics? |
|
ENGL 304 |
001 |
Adv Expos Writ for Business |
Weber |
TR |
05:00-06:15 |
This course is designed to give upper-division undergraduates an opportunity to learn, develop, and further practice forms of business and professional communication. In this advanced workshop, students will first analyze central values, conventions, and discourse practices of the profession. Then they will pratice those conventions, with a particular emphasis on written and oral discourse that accomplishes rhetorical aims and on mastering professional standards for format, genre, and citation. |
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ENGL 307 |
001 |
Stud in Fict: Stylistics |
Shapiro |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
Restricted to Creative Writing minors. Permission of
instructor required. A course for students who want to undertake the study of
literary forms outside the sequence of fiction or poetry workshops. |
|
ENGL 307 |
002 |
Stud in Fict: Stylistics |
Gingher |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Restricted to Creative Writing minors. Permission of
instructor required. A course for students who want to undertake the study of
literary forms outside the sequence of fiction or poetry workshops. Close
study of language and grammar as tools of style. Numerous short exercises.
Collaborative development and production of a language-arts show based on
original exercises. |
|
ENGL 313 |
001 |
Grammar of Current Engl |
Eble |
MWF |
10:00-10:50 |
An introduction to English linguistics mainly directed
toward prospective teachers. The focus will be on traditional grammar, with
some integration of structural and transformational approaches to word
formation and sentence structure. Teaching methods: Mainly lecture.
Requirements: Class attendance required, frequent short quizzes, two tests,
two short papers, final examination. Much memorization and attention to
detail. |
|
ENGL 313 |
002 |
Grammar of Current Engl |
Lindemann |
TR |
11:00-12:15 |
An introduction to the study of current American English,
intended primarily for prospective teachers. English 313 will introduce you
to the scientific study of language and to fundamental principles of language
analysis. We will begin by examining the sounds of English (phonology), then
study the forms and functions of words (morphology), and finally look at
major sentence patterns in English and their variations (syntax). The course
combines traditional, structural, and generative-transformational approaches.
Teaching methods: Lecture-discussion, with some in-class group work.
Requirements: Class attendance, frequent short quizzes, two tests, two short
papers, final examination. |
|
ENGL 320 |
001 |
Chaucer |
Wittig |
MWF |
11:00-11:50 |
In this course we will read a representative cross-section
of Chaucer's most important poetry: Troilus and Criseyde, The Parliament of
Fowels, and much of The Canterbury Tales. We will read these works in the
original Middle English (and students will be expected to give this their
best shot). But the emphasis will be "literary," not linguistic,
concentrating on what Chaucer has to say and on understanding him in his
historical, intellectual and literary context. Class attendance is expected.
Teaching methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements: Midterm and final
exam; weekly modernization quizzes; one term paper (6-8 pages). For Fall 2002
syllabus, see: http://www.unc.edu/~jwittig/52/en52.htm |
|
ENGL 338 |
001 |
19th C Brit Novel |
Langbauer |
MW |
01:00-01:50 |
We will read important novels of nineteenth-century
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|
ENGL 343 |
001 |
Amer Lit to 1860 |
Irons |
TR |
09:30-10:45 |
This course explores selected texts of American Literature
from its beginnings to 1860. We will ask "What constitutes American
Literature?" and explore the cultural work of the various texts within
their specific historical situation and social context. Among the concepts we
will address are issues of power and marginalization; conflict and consensus;
protest and negotiation; and revision and assimilation. |
|
ENGL 344 |
001 |
Amer Lit, 1860-1900 |
Thrailkill |
MWF |
12:00-12:50 |
Selected topics or authors in American literature from the
period of the Civil War through 1900. Attention is given to the rise of
Realism and Naturalism, and to the development of
fiction by women and African Americans. |
|
ENGL 344 |
002 |
Amer Lit, 1860-1900 |
Thrailkill |
MWF |
01:00-01:50 |
Selected topics or authors in American literature from the
period of the Civil War through 1900. Attention is given to the rise of
Realism and Naturalism, and to the development of
fiction by women and African Americans. |
|
ENGL 345 |
001 |
Amer Lit, 1900-2000 |
Coleman |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
Selected topics or authors in American literature in the
twentieth century. Emphases vary according to the instructor. |
|
ENGL 347 |
001 |
The American Novel |
Wagner-Martin |
MWF |
02:00-02:50 |
A survey of the development of the American novel over the
past 150 years. Includes Melville and Hawthorne and many twentieth-century
writers--Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Kerouac, Morrison and others.
Mini-lecture and discussion. Two substantial papers, 1200-1500 words; midterm
and final. |
|
ENGL 347 |
002 |
The American Novel |
Hobson |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
This course will examine the American novel from the
mid-nineteenth century through the late twentieth, beginning with The Scarlet
Letter and going through Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country. We will examine the
novels not only as works of art but also as reflections of their times and
places-as social and cultural commentary. Major writers included are
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry James, Edith Wharton, William
Faulkner, and Toni Morrison. Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion
(students should be prepared to discuss). Requirements: Two exams during the
term; reading quzzes; oral reports; final examination; one long paper (about
10-15 pp.). |
|
ENGL 350 |
001 |
20th C Brit & Amer Poetry |
Harmon |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Plodding scrutiny of hundreds of complex poems from 1860
to the present, half British (or Irish), half American. Somewhat more
technical detail--grammar, rhetoric, prosody--than comfort warrants. Teaching
method: Monologous discussion. |
|
ENGL 355 |
001 |
Brit Novel 1870-WWII |
Cooper |
TR |
09:30-10:45 |
We will read the development of the novel in English from
1870 to World War Two, a period that spans the rise and decline of high
empire, and a growth in global conflict. Allied to these changes were new
developments in knowledge, in technology and science, which contributed to
experiment in literature, expressed so radically in what we now consider
modernist works. This course will read a range of novels in English from the
period to explore how writers created new worlds in fiction, often barely
stranger than the new societies in which they found themselves. |
|
ENGL 360 |
001 |
Contemp Asian Amer Lit |
Ho |
MW |
03:00-04:15 |
This course will provide an introduction to contemporary
Asian American literature and theory. Through novels, films, and critical
essays, we will explore the richness of this burgeoning field and examine how
Asian American literature fits into, yet extends beyond, the canon of
American literature. With the 1989 publication of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck
Club, Asian American literature has flourished at an exponential rate. And
even before Tan's wildly successful publishing phenomenon, in the mid 1970s,
Maxine Hong Kingstons and Frank Chin pioneered the wave of current Asian
American literature. Asian American writers have won the Pulitzer Prize, been
featured in an anthology of the best writing of the century, and enjoy an
unprecedented popularity among readers in the
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|
ENGL 363 |
001 |
Feminist Lit Theory |
Salvaggio |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
We will survey a wide range of feminist literary theory
that has taken shape over the past 30 or so years and intersected with some
of the other conspicuous movements in contemporary theoretical studies. Our
readings will come from important collections of essays as well as a few
exemplary books, in an attempt to think broadly but also intensely about the
particular topics-especially those concerning the body, language, and matters
of epistemology--which feminist literary criticism has brought to contemporary
critical and cultural studies. |
|
ENGL 367 |
001 |
Afam Lit to 1930 |
|
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
This course provides an overview of the formative
influences, writers, and traditions of African American literature from its
beginnings in the late 18th century through the literary and cultural
watershed known as the New Negro, or
|
|
ENGL 367 |
002 |
Afam Lit to 1930 |
Fisher |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Survey of writers and literary and cultural traditions
from the beginning of African American literature to 1930. |
|
ENGL 373H |
001 |
Southern Amer Litd |
Gwin |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
"Southern Texts, Southern Culture." This course
in literatures of the southeastern region of the
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|
ENGL 383 |
001 |
Literary Non-Fiction |
Gwin |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
We will focus on a particular kind of life writing, the
contemporary memoir, and consider how, as Charles Baxter notes, both memory
and forgetting shape this literary genre--how the re-membering of one's own
experiences and observations of the world is always doubly haunted by
memory's powers and memory's failures. This re-membering, especially in cases
of trauma, often takes the form of aesthetic experiments in form and voice;
we will think about what such experiments require of their readers. Finally,
we will consider contemporary discussions about the memoir's responsibility
to truth. |
|
ENGL 401 |
001 |
Adv Comp for Elem Teach |
Lindemann |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
English 401 introduces you to the teaching of writing and
reading, especially in the elementary grades. You will gain an understanding
of current composition theory, discuss the research
that helps us understand how young writers and readers develop, and learn
more about effective practices for improving both your own and your students'
writing. Class discussions, small group activities, and individual projects
will define the practical implications of this theory and research for the
classroom. The course also provides opportunities for you to practice and
improve your own writing. |
|
ENGL 406 |
001 |
Advanced Fiction Writing |
Naumoff |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Prerequisite, English 206 and permission of the Director
of Creative Writing. A continuation of the Intermediate workshop with
emphasis on the short story, novella, and novel. Extensive discussion of
student work in class and in conferences with instructor. |
|
ENGL 436 |
001 |
18th C Lit-Contemp Iss |
Salvaggio |
TR |
12:30-01:45 |
Both classical and neoclassical literature and literary
forms devoted special attention to matters of landscape, environment, and
poetics. While we will survey several recent approaches to the study of the
18th century, our emphasis in this course will be on the "nature of
things" in an age that marked the institutionalization of the new
science and increasing control and regulation of the natural world. Our
readings will include some canonical texts, a number of early women writers,
and some works from the field of contemporary critical studies to suggest
questions, critical strategies, and historical and theoretical contexts. |
|
ENGL 439 |
001 |
Engl Lit, 1832-1890 |
Life |
TR |
11:00-12:15 |
A detailed critical examination of poetry and prose by
Dickens, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and other major
authors of the period. Teaching Methods: Lecture and discussion.
Requirements: Three essays written in class; one term paper; final exam. |
|
ENGL 440 |
001 |
Engl Lit, 1850-1910 |
Life |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Through the detailed examination of works representative
of this period, we will consider how literature illuminated the issues and
events of a rapidly changing world. In the process, we will see how the
naturalism exemplified by Zola in
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|
ENGL 466 |
001 |
Lit Theory-Contem Issues |
McGowan |
MWF |
11:00-11:50 |
Examines current issues in literary theory such as the
question of authorship, the relation of literary texts to cultural beliefs
and values, and to the formation of identities. |
|
ENGL 472 |
001 |
Afam Lit-Contem Issues |
|
TR |
11:00-12:15 |
A study of a particular aspect of African American
literature, such as the work of a major writer or group of writers, an
important theme, a key tradition, or a literary period. |
|
ENGL 486 |
001 |
Lit & Environment |
O'Shaughnessey |
MWF |
10:00-10:50 |
This course will explore the relationship between American
literature and the physical environment which helped shape it. In addition to
studying canonical texts expressing an abiding interest in nature, we will
examine works from the newer genres of environmental and nature writing,
works which blend history, science, and politics into a literary form. We
will, in addition, study the paintings and photographs which have helped
shape our response to the land about us. |
|
ENGL 661 |
001 |
Intro to Lit Theory |
Curtain |
M |
06:00-08:30 |
Examines contemporary theoretical issues and critical
approaches relevant to the study of literature. |
|
ENGL 693H |
001 |
CW Sr Honors Thesis, Pt 1 (F) |
Kenan |
TR |
02:00-03:15 |
Prerequisite, English 406 or 407 and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. The first half of a two-semester seminar. Requires a high level of commitment and creative ability. Each student begins a substantial body of work, a book of fiction (25,000 words) or poetry (1000 lines). Extensive discussion of student work in class and in conferences with instructor. |
|
ENGL 693H |
002 |
CW Sr Honors Thesis, Pt 1 (P) |
McFee |
TR |
03:30-04:45 |
Prerequisite, English 406 or 407 and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. The first half of a two-semester seminar. Requires a high level of commitment and creative ability. Each student begins a substantial body of work, a book of fiction (25,000 words) or poetry (1000 lines). Extensive discussion of student work in class and in conferences with instructor. |