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| Instructor | Prefix | Course Number | Section Number | Title and Subtile | Course Description | Texts |
| Sisk | ENGL | 1000 | 2 | Exploring Literature: Global Understanding | ENGL 1000 Global Understanding
is a unique Literature class that incorporates a variety of World Literature
texts with Global Virtual Exchange. Students will read, research, and explore
culture in our partner institutions, and develop a new appreciation for their
own culture. The Global Understanding course is taught in a shared virtual classroom with students and faculty from more than 40 institutions, in approximately 25 countries. Daily live videoconference discussions, chats, and collaborative student projects provide personal, global experiences that open student perspectives about other cultures and build the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to thrive in a global multicultural society. |
Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, Everyday Use by Alice Walker, The Dangers of a Single Story by Chimamanda Adichie, Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe |
| Froula | ENGL | 1500 | 1 | Topics in Words, Images, and Ideas: Taylor's Version | I don’t know how it gets better than this. Using Taylor Swift’s career as a focal point, we’ll explore a range of topics within contemporary media cultures, including star studies, poetry and lyricism, fan studies, girlhood, activism, race, gender, and parasocial relationships. We’ll analyze the texts of her songs along with the paratexts of her music videos, acting roles, documentaries, and public appearances. This class features multiple guest lecturers on writing and analyzing poetry, marketing, and creative nonfiction. We’ll have a marvelous time, ruining everything. | Various Taylor Swift music
videos: Miss Americana (Netflix, 2020) Taking on Taylor Swift (CNN, 2023) Shut Up and Sing (Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck, 2006) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1988) An insane amount of news coverage from 2023-2024 |
| Herron | ENGL | 2000 | 1 | Interpreting Literature: Monsters Without and Within | Principal genres of literature
with attention to literary devices, techniques, and interpretation. Theme is
MONSTERS: what are they in famous works of literature? Why are we so fascinated with them, and
what do they tell us about ourselves? |
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Frankenstein; Dracula; Heart of Darkness |
| Tedesco | ENGL | 2000 | 2 | Interpreting Literature: Mythic Fantasy by Tolkien, Lewis, and Others | Focusing primarily on “Inklings” J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, this writing-intensive course in “mythopoeic” fantasy focuses on literary works that create other worlds with an underlying mythology or belief system. We’ll read portions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Narnia series; both authors’ essays about fairy and fantasy literature; a fantasy by Lewis’s model author George MacDonald, and one more recent mythic fantasy. | The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Wilson-Okamura | ENGL | 2000 | 3 | Interpreting Literature: Poetry by Women | I don’t know where this course is going. Oh, we’ll have a syllabus, schedule, and detailed guidance on writing papers. We are going to read poems by women, talk about poems by women, write about poems by women. But there’s no message, program, or even progression. The course is not a survey: these are just five authors that I’ve wanted to teach for a long time, to admire their craft and learn from their wisdom. | Tentatively: Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Mary Oliver |
| Deena | ENGL | 2000 | 601 | Interpreting Literature: Repression, Resistance & Restoration in Race & Sexual Relations | ||
| Gueye | ENGL | 2000 | 602 | Interpreting Literature: Literary Voyages into Multicultural and Transnational Worlds | This course will closely study 20th and 21st-century multicultural fiction, poetry, and drama. We will learn to analyze literary works to discover their relevant meanings critically. We will study how culture is reflected through literature. | Literature: The Human Experience (13th edition). Edited by Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, and Samuel Cohen. New York: Bedford St. Martin, 2019 |
| Herron | ENGL | 2100 | 1 | Major British Authors: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives | An exploration of British
identity through literature, with a particular focus on key colonial and
post-colonial authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Genres include poetry, short stories and
novels. |
Rowlandson, Captivity Narrative;
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Kipling, “The Man Who Would be King”; Conrad, Heart
of Darkness; Lessing, The Grass is Singing; Achebe, Things Fall Apart |
| Watson | ENGL | 2200 | 1 | Major American Writers | The goal of this course is to
explore various writers who have been identified as excellent examples and
models for literary studies in American society. In this course, you will be
required to read selected political, social, and creative works that best
represent American literary traditions. You will also be required to write
and think critically, while going through a series of quizzes and
examinations that will test your knowledge of literature, terminology, and
history related to the literary time periods and authors. |
American Literature Volumes 1
and 2 By Cain, William E. McDermott, Alice Newman |
| Bauer | ENGL | 2230 | 1 | Survey of Southern Literature | We read Southern-set short fiction, as well as perhaps a play and finally, a novel, by 19th through 21st-century Southern writers. Students develop their critical reading, thinking, writing skills through paragraph responses to passages and/or articulating central themes and conflicts. | Most of the short fiction for this class are available electronically through the open-access (free) Documenting the American South UNC database. Typically, we also read an Ernest Gaines novel at the end--something like A Lesson Before Dying. |
| Miles | ENGL | 2260 | 1 | Topics in Contemporary African American Cultural Texts: Afrofuturism and Afrosurrealism in Literature and Film | While Afrofuturism is a look at
how Black people can reclaim their joyous and anguished past to project
themselves into a living future where they thrive instead of survive, Afro
surrealism exists in the “future-past”; it challenges all oppositions that have been forced on us whether they be
“White/Black, European/African, and civilized/savage.” Between those extremes is the subjective
NOW, where the awareness of this often hidden, strange reality can generate
both fear and inspiration! This course
will examine these genres and more in modern TV, film, comics, and
literature! |
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| Parille | ENGL | 2480 | 1 | Science Fiction | A survey of science fiction literature. |
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| Kitta | ENGL | 2570 | 1 | The Supernatural | We will explore supernatural belief traditions and what they mean to us. | David Hufford's The Terror that
Comes in the Night Diane Goldstein, Sylvia Grider, and Jeanie BanksThomas Haunting Experiences Jeanie Banks Thomas Putting the Supernatural in Its Place |
| Johnson | LING | 2710 | 1 | English Grammar | English Grammar (LING 2710) is a descriptive grammar course that provides students with a linguistic framework for analyzing language in general and the English language in specific. The analytic framework students learn in this course can be used to analyze standard American English as well as other varieties of English from multiple perspectives (e.g., Psychology, Anthropology, Education, Communications). | Morenberg, M. (2014). Doing
grammar (5th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University press. |
| Sudina | LING | 2740 | 1 | Language in the USA | This course presents a linguistic perspective on the emergence of American English in North America, specifically within the context of the many languages heard in what is today called the United States as spoken by those persons involved in and affected by colonialism and immigration, both past and present. We will discuss several varieties and dialects of American English, and examine issues related to language usage, language variation, linguistic pluralism, and its implications in the United States and its territories. This course can be taken for foundation (humanities) credit and domestic diversity credit. | Wolfram, W., & Shilling, N.
(2015). American English: Dialects and variation (3rd ed.). Wiley
Blackwell. ISBN: 9781118390221 (paper) | ISBN: 9781118391426 (ebook) |
| Thomas | ENGL | 2815 | OO1 | Introduction to Creative Writing | In this course students will develop creative writing skills through active participation in individual creative writing projects and the study of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting. Students will deepen their understanding of the elements of craft and develop strategies that real writers use to produce works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. This course will guide students in uncovering their unique creative perspectives and what they want to express through their writing. The environment in this class is one of support and encouragement, welcoming self-expression and development. | Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide & Anthology by Nancy Pagh (2nd edition only) |
| Thomas | ENGL | 2815 | OO2 | Introduction to Creative Writing | In this course students will develop creative writing skills through active participation in individual creative writing projects and the study of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting. Students will deepen their understanding of the elements of craft and develop strategies that real writers use to produce works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. This course will guide students in uncovering their unique creative perspectives and what they want to express through their writing. The environment in this class is one of support and encouragement, welcoming self-expression and development. | Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide & Anthology by Nancy Pagh (2nd edition only) |
| Hoppenthaler | ENGL | 2815 | 3 | Introduction to Creative Writing | This course provides an introduction to creative writing in four major genres—poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and drama—and to practice in the basics of image, metaphor, line, form, sound, plot, characterization, and voice. It focuses specifically on literary genres as they appear on the page. The course also acknowledges the important relationship between creative writing and the practice of literary critique and explication by requiring students to read, analyze, discuss, pass informed judgment upon, and write about contemporary literary genres. | The Portable MFA in Creative Writing |
| Dighton | ENGL | 2885 | 1 | Writing and Document Design | This course is designed to improve your writing and design skills while providing you with a basic rhetorical understanding of communicating professionally in academia, business, industry, technical, governmental, non-profit, and any other professional setting or context. Students will engage writing processes (planning, preparing, production) of professional communication documents (print and digital), which might include instructions, procedures, & documentation; brochures, flyers, postcards, newsletters, press releases & other promotional materials; multimodal presentations, webpages, blogs, microblogging, social media, Snapchat stories, and infographics among others. We will focus on basic design and layout skills and work with typography, color, and visuals to design effective documents. Course includes experiential learning component in which students will work with Adobe InDesign software and the North Carolina Literary Review to format book reviews for publication. | The Non-Designer's Design Book |
| Klein | FILM | 2900 | 001 and 002 | Introduction to Film Studies | The goal of this course, as its
title suggests, is to “introduce” you to the broad field of film studies,
including formal analysis, genre studies, film history and theory. By the end
of the semester you will have the basic critical tools necessary for understanding
and analyzing the language of motion pictures. Ideally, this course will
enable you to not only gain a richer understanding of the films you watch but
also the television shows, You Tube videos, commercials, and other media you
encounter on a daily basis. This course fulfills ECU’s Humanities (HU)
requirement. |
Scarface (1932, Howard
Hawks) City of God (2002, Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund) Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee) Midsommar (2019, Ari Aster) West Side Story (1961, Jerome Roberts and Robert Wise) Tangerine (2015, Sean Baker) |
| Glover | ENGL | 3010 | 1 | History of British Literature, 1700-1900 | In this course, we’ll explore
(arguably) the two most important centuries in the development of English
literature, in which England and its language rose from second-tier European
power to global empire – and read some of the best English-language writing
of all time, as well. Considering works of art both as timeless human
expressions and as parts of historically-specific technological and social
structures, we’ll read poetry, drama, and both fictional and non-fictional
prose. Behn, Oroonoko; *Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year; *Poems of Alexander Pope; *William Wordsworth; *John Keats; *Anna Laetitia Barbauld. |
Behn, Oroonoko; *Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year; *Poems of Alexander Pope; *William Wordsworth; *John Keats; *Anna Laetitia Barbauld. |
| Sharer | ENGL | 3030 | 601 | Intro to Rhetorical Studies | ENGL 3030 explores rhetoric as part of the things we encounter in our everyday lives, including advertising, clothing, websites, social media, memes, exhibits, and even the Canvas site for the course. First, we’ll gain a better understanding of what “rhetoric” means today and how that meaning derives from the past. From there, we’ll apply rhetorical principles to the study of current-day texts and use those principles to improve our own writing. | Leith, Sam. Words Like Loaded
Pistols. Basic Books, 2023. ISBN: 978-1541603738. Toye, Richard. Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-19-965136-8. |
| Kain | ENGL | 3050 | 1 | Introduction to Information Design | Do you want to learn how to create effective charts, graphs, infographics, & other visuals? This course focuses on design principles and practices in visual story-telling, data visualization, and incorporating visual displays of information and data into written and other forms of communication. We will also consider the roles of persuasion and ethics in visual communication. No design experience or expertise in technology is needed! | 9781138503915 Data Visualization Made Simple by Sosulski, Kristen and other readings provided. |
| Montgomery | ENGL | 3070 | 1 | Shakespeare's Histories | Shakespeare’s English history plays raise big questions: about power, politics, good (and bad) government, revolution, violence, war, social pressure, gender, class, race, family bonds, performance and playacting…the list goes on… Together, we’ll read, watch, and perform three of these challenging and exciting plays, considering how they both transport us into the past and speak to issues that are important to us in the present. | Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Part I |
| Watson | ENGL | 3260 | 1 | History of African American Literature | The Black American Literature tradition has, in the past, been largely overlooked on all levels of education. It has only been recently that efforts have been made to increase public and educational awareness of the African American contributions to literature. This course is designed to present a few of many black-authored works so that a thorough and critical analysis can be made. Against the backdrop of historical lecture about key events, students will learn how to read, write, and think critically so that an effective response can be made competently through either written or verbal expression. The goal of this course is to help one gain a full appreciation and understanding of the African American tradition in literature and history. | Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Written by Himself Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Native Son Richard Wright Beloved Toni Morrison The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature Chapman (optional) A Turbulent Voyage Floyd W. Hayes, III |
| Gueye | ENGL | 3280 | 1 | African Literature: Not an African Safari, But Just as Cool | This is an introduction to African Literature from the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will learn the founding tenets of African literatures and their aesthetics, paying particular attention to literary movements and heterogeneities. | Rienner Anthology of African Literature, Anthonia Kalu |
| Kirkland | ENGL | 3570 | 001 and 002 | American Folklore (WI) | ||
| Wilson-Okamura | ENGL | 3600 | 1 | Classics from Homer to Dante | Not just an essential background
for modern literature, these authors will also give you images and ideas to think with for the rest of your life. |
Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy |
| Feder | ENGL | 3660 | 1 | Literature and Film of Environmental Crisis | Every year we gain a better understanding of just how precious, how unique and interrelated, every form of life is, and each month we lose, or find we are in greater danger of losing, plants and animals and the habitat upon which they – and we – depend. This course will examine literature and film concerned with aspects of the multifaceted environmental crisis of the Anthropocene, critiquing and drawing connections between forms of art and popular culture. | Them!, Gordon Douglas,
1954 The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, 1963 Soylent Green, Richard Fleischer, 1973 The China Syndrome, James Bridges, 1979 Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982 Silkwood, Mike Nichols, 1983 Microcosmos, Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou, 1996 Life and Debt, Stephanie Black, 2001 Food Inc., Robert Kenner, 2008 Anthropocene: the Human Epoch, Burtynsky & Baichwal & de Pencier, 2018 |
| Sudina | LING | 3730 | 1 | The Structure of English: Phonology and Morphology | Have you ever wondered what allophones of the same phoneme and Clark Kent/Superman have in common? Has it ever occurred to you that “softly” and “sadly” have much more in common than “friendly” and “silly”? Having taken this course, you will be able to answer these and other relevant questions about English phonology, the distribution of sounds in a language and how they interact, and English morphology, the component of mental grammar that deals with types of words and how words are formed out of smaller meaningful pieces and other words. (Offered with ENGL 6526) | 1. Applied English Phonology,
4th Edition, by Mehmet Yavas; ISBN: 978-1-119-55744-9 2. Morphology: A Distributed Morphology Introduction, by Jeffrey P. Punske; ISBN: 978-1-119-66783-4 |
| Johnson | LING | 3750 | 1 | Introductory Linguistics | LING 3750 is an introduction to the field of linguistics, providing a general overview of the study of language from a linguistic perspective. Students are introduced to various sub-fields of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. While exploring these sub-fields, students examine major assumptions about language in addition to common misperceptions about particular languages, people who speak those languages, and language in general. LING 3750 acquaints students with the basic tools and techniques used by linguists for analyzing language and identifying the organizing principles of language. (Offered with ENGL 6530) | Dawson, K., & Phelan, M. (Eds.). (2016). Language Files (12th ed.). Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press. |
| Cope | LING | 3760 | 1 | Linguistics for Speech and Hearing Clinicians | The purpose of this course is to introduce prospective speech and hearing clinicians to the methods and techniques of linguistic analysis, especially as applied to the phonological, morphological and syntactic structures of English. | Klammer, T. P., Schulz, M. R., & Volpe, A. D. (2013) . 7th edition. Analyzing English grammar. New York: Pearson/Longman. 9780205252527 |
| Haywood | ENGL | 3810 | 601 | Advanced Composition (Writing to Resist: African American Writing and Rhetorical Practice(s) | This class will explore writing/composing as an on-going practice of resistance. Learning from writing and rhetorical practices within Black/African American communities and culture(s), this course approaches writing/composing as a method of existing, surviving, and ‘pushing back’ in the world. Studying a number of texts (e.g., books, slave narratives, articles, music, social media writing, etc.) and composing resistance pieces ourselves, this course engages students with a rich history and practice of writing that's less commonly explored. | Gilyard, K., & Banks, Adam
J. (Adam Joel). (2018). On african-american rhetoric(1st ed.). Routledge.
Klassen, S., Kingsley, S., McCall, K., Weinberg, J., & Fiesler, C. (2022). Black lives, green books, and blue checks: Comparing the content of the negro motorist green book to the content on black twitter. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3492846 Knight Steele, C. (2021). When the black lives that matter are not our own: Digital black feminism and a dialectic of self and community. Feminist Media Studies, 21(5), 860-863. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1949370 Royster, J. J. (2000). Traces of a stream: Literacy and social change among african american women. University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrb9s Sanger, K. L. (1995). Slave resistance and rhetorical self-definition: Spirituals as a strategy. Western Journal of Communication, 59(3), 177-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570319509374516 |
| Hoppenthaler | ENGL | 3840 | 1 | Introduction to Poetry Writing | This course is an introduction
to the writing of poetry and the basics of contemporary poetic practice,
focusing on a poem’s architecture (shape, line breaks, stanzaic structure,
etc.), its movement within that architecture (flow), and its content (plot,
diction, syntax, metaphor, voice, image, symbols, sensory details, “music,”
etc.). It focuses specifically on literary poetry as it appears on the page
and attempts to move students beyond vague, mistaken or outdated notions of
what literary poetry is or does and into a contemporary understanding of
poetry’s mechanisms and potential to matter in modern society. |
The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things by Sean Thomas Dougherty and TBD. |
| TBA | ENGL | 3850 | 00 1 | Introduction to Fiction Writing | ||
| Kain | ENGL | 3870 | 1 | Introduction to Editing and Publishing | You’ll learn about publication processes and principles of editing for various audiences and purposes. The course focuses on editing documents using established print conventions and electronic methods. You’ll work with authors, manage an editing and publishing process, and create and apply templates and styles while participating in editorial activities including analyzing, critiquing, and revising manuscripts for publication by designing, editing, and assembling the next issue of The Lookout: A Journal of Undergraduate Research at ECU. | Amy Einsohn, Marilyn Schwartz, The Copyeditor’s Handbook |
| Froula | FILM | 3900 | 1 | American and International Film History, Part I | Before George Clooney charmed, Clark Gable enchanted. Before Jim Carrey’s pratfalls, Buster Keaton coined the art of gag. Before Taylor Swift reminded us of Clara Bow, the silent film actress lit up the screen. How much have our stars, our stories, and our storytelling devices changed since the invention of cinema? Find out as we study the major films, genres, regulatory bodies, economic structures, and pure joy of cinema, both American and International, from the mid-1890s through World War II. | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain
Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) The Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933) The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938) It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928) The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927) |
| Tedesco | ENGL | 3950 | 001, 002 | Literature for Children | This literature course focuses on attentive reading of recent and classic literature for children ages 4 to 13, with emphasis on works with a journey motif. We will read award-winning picture books, historical novels, a graphic novel, family stories, a school story, and a verse novel, among other works. The culturally diverse reading list includes works by African-American and Latino authors and features characters of color and differently abled characters. | Becker, Aaron. Journey
(2013) Creech, Sharon. Love That Dog (2001) Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 (1995) de la Peña, Matt. Last Stop on Market Street (2015) DiCamillo, Kate. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (2013) Sloan, Holly Goldberg. The Elephant in the Room (2019) |
| Squint | ENGL | 4340 | 1 | The Multicultural South | In this class we will explore the themes of race, gender, and in-between-ness, considering the ways that these ideas intersect within texts and intertextually across our readings. We will also focus on the cultural diversity of the U.S. South, a region that has traditionally been viewed through a binaristic lens, investigating what it means to be “southern” and the ways the region has always been a diverse ethnic space. | Bitter in the Mouth
(Truong) A Visitation of Spirits (Kenan) Shell Shaker (Howe) Woman Hollering Creek (Cisneros) The Aguero Sisters (García) |
| Parille | ENGL | 4530 | 1 | Special Topics Seminars: Comics and Graphic Novels | A survey of comics and graphic novels. (Offered with 6575) | |
| Johnson | LING | 4710 | 601 | TESOL: Theories and Principles | TESOL: Theories and Principles introduces undergraduate and graduate students to theories of second language acquisition (SLA). Over the course of the semester, we will compare first language (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition and the factors that impact the process of language learning/language acquisition. (Offered with ENGL 6528) | Lightbown, P. M., & Spada,
N. (2013).How languages are learned (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University
Press. |
| TBA | ENGL | 4850 | 1 | Advanced Fiction Writing | ||
| Thomas | ENGL | 4860 | 1 | Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing | This course supports the development of creative nonfiction writing skills in memoir and personal essay with a focus on forms such as lyric essay, collage, hermit crab, new journalism, portrait, travel writing, and the essay of place. In this course, you will explore the stories that are important in your life and discover how to present these experiences most effectively in writing. Students should be prepared to share their writing with their peers every week in workshop and discussions. | The Best American Essays 2019
edited by Rebecca Solnit The Best American Travel Writing 2019 edited by Alexandra Fuller The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction edited by Dinty W. Moore |
| Haywood | ENGL | 4885 | 601 | Digital Writing (Composing Through Digital Black Feminism) | This course applies a Black feminist lens to the study of digital writing and works to improve students’ understanding of how digital writing technologies can impact the way people compose, communicate, commune, resist, and heal. This course works to acquaint students with work, conversations, and ideas that 1) inform our digital composing practices and 2) center values located in Black feminism, digital writing and rhetoric-related fields, and social movement/activist studies. | Alexander, J., & Rhodes, J.
(Eds.). (2018). The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric (1st
ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315518497 Boylorn, R. (2013). Blackgirl blogs, auto/ethnography, and crunk feminism. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 9(2), 73-82. Steele, C.K. (2021). Digital Black Feminism. NYU Press. |
| Bauer | ENGL | 4890 & 4891 | 1 | Practicum: Careers in Writing: Internships | Serve as an intern on ECU's award-winning North Carolilna Literary Review staff while earning 3.0 hours of WI credit. It's learn-as-you-go; all you need are strong writing skills (and the editor's permission to special add). Find out more about an NCLR internship (which looks great on a resume) here: https://nclr.ecu.edu/wp-content/pv-uploads/sites/460/2023/04/NCLR_Internship_Info.pdf | |
| Henze | ENGL | 4890 & 4891 | 2 | Practicum: Careers in Writing: Internships | Serve as an intern on ECU's award-winning North Carolilna Literary Review staff while earning 3.0 hours of WI credit. It's learn-as-you-go; all you need are strong writing skills (and the editor's permission to special add). Find out more about an NCLR internship (which looks great on a resume) here: https://nclr.ecu.edu/wp-content/pv-uploads/sites/460/2023/04/NCLR_Internship_Info.pdf | |
| Klein | FILM | 4980 | 1 | Topics in Film Aesthetics: Trash Cinema & Taste | Though most film studies courses strive to provide students with the accepted canon of “quality films” like Citizen Kane and Casablanca, this course is focused on those texts existing on the margins of good taste: “trash cinema.” As a course on film aesthetics we will discuss what qualities categorize a film alternately as trash – as “bad,” “low brow” or “cult” -- and how taste cultures and taste publics are established. We will discuss why certain films are believed to have “cultural capital” and why and how trash cinema rewrites the rules about which films are worth watching. | Freaks (1932, Tod
Browning) The Room (2003, Tommy Wiseau) Reefer Madness (1936, Louis J. Gasnier) Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965, Doris Wishman) 2000 Maniacs (1964, Herschell Gordon Lewis) Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971, Melvin Van Peebles) Magic Mike XXL (2015, Gregory Jacobs) |
| Martoccia | ENGL | 4999 | 1 | English Professional Seminar | This one-hour course is meant to give you professional and networking resources to help you in the next chapter of your life. This course is recommended for seniors. | |