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| Instructor | Session | Prefix | Course Number | Section Number | Course Title and Subtitle | Course Description | Texts | |
| Feder | Summer I 2024 | ENGL | 1000 | 601 | Networked Animals | Humans are animals—but we may be more homo narrans than homo sapiens. But what does it mean to write and read these narratives? What does it mean to “appreciate literature”? And what counts as “literature”? Love poetry? Comic fiction? Horror fiction? Science Fiction? This introductory, asynchronous online course will explore these and other questions as we sample genres and consider the networked, or social, nature of our species. | Glengarry Glen Ross, by David
Mamet (Grove Press) Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry vol.1 (Norton, third edition) Many short stories and other course materials have been scanned to Canvas, including: Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine,” Stephen Crane’s “The Blue Hotel,” Penelope Fitzgerald,’s “The Axe,” and Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” |
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| Miles | Summer I 2024 | ENGL | 1500 | 601 | Topics in Words, Images, and Ideas (GU) | This course will explore and
analyze Japanese culture and its popular representations, such as manga,
anime, toys, and film. How have these
different pop-cultural mediums been influential in Western Culture? In turn, HOW has Western culture also
influenced these popular Japanese mediums?
In addition to these reflections, you will ALSO talk and collaborate
with students in Japan about various topics and do a collaborative project
with them! |
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| Herron | Summer I 2024 | ENGL | 2000 | 601 | Interpreting Literature: Monsters Without and Within | This course will focus on
classics of the horror genre in an exploration of literary genres and
techniques. The books read will not
only shock, excite, and perhaps scare us (!) but will give us valuable
insight into the cultures and individuals who created them. The course theme is MONSTERS. What are they? Where do they come from? Reality? Our imaginations? Individuals? Society? How does literature create them, and how do they reflect who we are as both individuals and as social beings? |
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Frankenstein, Dracula, Heart of Darkness | |
| Hoppenthaler | Summer I 2024 | ENGL | 2200 | 601 | Major American Writers: What is "American" about American Literature? | English 2200 is an introduction
to some of the influential writers in American literature. In fiction,
non-fiction, and poetry, the American voice has become singular in its power
and presence in the world. Individual works present a vision and model for
the American sense of longing–that is, to be unique, individual, free from
tradition and the past, and empowered to create and re-create the world. The
course offers frequent opportunities to read, discuss, and write about a
range of literary works. We will examine these texts from various critical
perspectives; reflect on their similarities and differences; situate them
within their artistic, historical, and cultural contexts; and interpret them.
It will be taught fully online in an asynchronous manner. |
Selected work by Whitman and Dickinson, Huckleberry Finn, Native Guard, The Bluest Eye, selected work by Joey Hart and Natalie Diaz. | |
| Freeman | Summer I 2024 | ENGL | 2815 | 601 | Introduction to Creative Writing | |||
| Miles | Summer I 2024 | ENGL | 3260 | 601 | History of African American Literature | This course focuses on African American literature as represented by significant works from different historical periods, emphasizing the twentieth century. It traces, in a brief manner, the development of African American literature from slavery to present, and it includes works by male and female writers. We will study their use of literary conventions to see how their imaginations are portrayed. We will also discuss American history, sociology, and politics, for example, to examine the role of African-Americans in the United States, see the forces that have influenced their works, and discover the particular role the African-American writer serves in the African-American community. | ||
| Frost | Summer I 2024 | ENGL | 3820 | 601 | Scientific Writing | |||
| Frost | Summer I 2024 | ENGL | 3820 | 602 | Scientific Writing | |||
| Hackett | Summer I 2024 | ENGL | 3950 | 601 | Children's Literature | Literature for Children is a course intended primarily for undergraduate education and English majors, but it makes a wonderful elective, too. The course focuses on reading and interpreting texts written for early childhood through junior high school. We will revisit classic fairy tales that you may have read as child and look at various versions of those tales. In addition, we will discuss contemporary issues in children's literature and have a Q&A session with Greg Howard, the author of The Whispers. | Folk and Fairy Tales - Second Concise Edition; Broadview Press and The Whispers; G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
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| Raper | Summer II 2024 | ENGL | 2000 | 601 | Interpreting Literature: Stages of Power: Shakespeare and Marlowe, 1592 | Through Reacting to the Past gameplay, we'll explore Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the historical context in which they wrote. | Stages of Power: Shakespeare and Marlowe, 1592; Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; Marlowe's Faustus | |
| Johnson | Summer II 2024 | LING | 2710 | 601 | 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. |
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| Thompson | Summer II 2024 | ENGL | 3820 | 601 | Scientific Writing | |||
| Hackett | Summer II 2024 | ENGL | 3950 | 601 | Children's Literature | Literature for Children is a course intended primarily for undergraduate education and English majors, but it makes a wonderful elective, too. The course focuses on reading and interpreting texts written for early childhood through junior high school. We will revisit classic fairy tales that you may have read as child and look at various versions of those tales. In addition, we will discuss contemporary issues in children's literature and have a Q&A session with Greg Howard, the author of The Whispers. | Folk and Fairy Tales - Second Concise Edition; Broadview Press and The Whispers; G.P. Putnam's Sons | |