Opportunities
Fall 2012 Advising Guide for Undergraduate English Majors in the Literature Concentration
Fall 2012 Advising Guide for Undergraduate English Majors in the Creative Writing Concentration
Fall 2012 Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Fall 2012 Graduate Course Descriptions
Majors reservation week is April 2 - 6. See your advisor to discuss your schedule and get an advisement key number. Requirements are not the same for everyone; check your DARS report to see which courses you need to graduate. Check Banner to verify course offerings.
Literary Analysis
ENG 303.01 Intro. Lit. Analysis MWF 12:20-1:10 Burstein, M.
ENG 303.02 Intro. Lit. Analysis MWF 1:25-2:15
ENG 303.03 Intro. Lit. Analysis TR 2:00-3:15 Karl, A.
ENG 303.04 Intro. Lit. Analysis MWF 11:15-12:05 Whittingham, E.
ENG 303.05 Intro. Lit. Analysis MWF 2:30-3:20
Shakespeare
ENG 323.01 Shakes. Hst. & Trag. M 6:30-9:15 Busch, A.
ENG 324.01 Shakes. Com. & Rom. TR 3:30-4:45 Conti, B.
ENG 325.11 Shakespeare (Summer 2012) MTWRF 12:30-04:30 Brooke A. Conti
British Lit before 1800
ENG 230.01 Brit. Lit. I MWF 8:00-8:50 Whittingham, E.
ENG 323.01 Shakes. Hst. & Trag. M 6:30-9:15 Busch, A.
ENG 324.01 Shakes. Com. & Rom. TR 3:30-4:45 Conti, B.
ENG 325.11 Shakespeare (Summer 2012) MTWRF 12:30-04:30 Brooke A. Conti
ENG 371.01 Heresy & Dissent in Med. England MWF 2:30-3:20 Jurasinski, S.
British Lit after 1800
ENG 231.01 Brit. Lit. II MWF 2:30-3:20 Burstein, M.
ENG 376.01 British Novel II MW 3:35-4:50 Burstein, M.
ENG 431.01 English Romantic Writers MW 3:35-4:50
ENG 432.21 Victorians & Others (Summ 2012) MW 05:00-09:30 Robert Baker
American Lit before 1900
ENG 240.01 Amer. Lit. I TR 9:30-10:45 Young, P.
ENG 329.01 Captivity and Slavery MWF 11:15-12:05 Hinds, J.
American Lit after 1900
ENG 241.01 Amer. Lit. II TR 2:00-3:15 Obourn, M.
ENG 382.01 American Gothic SLN Young, P.
ENG 382.31 American Gothic (Summer 2012) TR 5:00-9:30 Phil E. Young
ENG 389.01 Am Lit and Env. Imagination TR 2:00-3:15 Black, R.
World Literature
ENG 220.01 Early World Lit MWF 12:20-1:10 Turkkan, S.
ENG 220.02 Early World Lit MWF 1:25-2:15 Turkkan, S.
ENG 223.01 Mod. World Lit. MWF 11:15-12:05 Volpe-Van Dijk, H.
ENG 223.02 Mod. World Lit TR 12:30-1:45 Dache-Gerbino, A.
ENG 223.31 Modern World Lit (Summer 2012) MTWR 01:00-03:05 Herma Volpe-van Dijk
ENG 228.01 Lit & Arts of Ancient China TR 11:00-12:15 Mazzola, L.
ENG 311.01 Bible as Literature TR 2:00-3:15 Conti, B.
ENG 312.21 Classical Myth (Summer 2012) MTWR 10:15-12:20 Elizabeth A. Whittingham
ENG 316.21 African Novel (Summer 2012) SLN J Roger Kurtz
ENG 365.21 Confronting Death (Summer 2012) TR 05:30-09:30 Austin Busch
Capstone
ENG 472.02 Historical Fictions TR 3:30-4:45 Karl, A.
ENG 472.03 Milton and Revolution R 6:30-9:15 Conti, B.
Upper-division electives may be chosen from the categories above or from the following:
ENG 300.01 Advanced Comp. MWF 12:20-1:10 Green, A.
ENG 304.01 Fiction Workshop MWF 1:25-2:15 Whorton, J.
ENG 305.01 Poetry Workshop TR 3:30-4:45 Fellner, S.
ENG 305.02 Poetry Workshop TR 12:30-1:45 Black, R.
ENG 306.01 Nonfic Workshop TR 2:00-3:15 Panning, A.
ENG 348.01 Sex/Gender in Lit Theory TR 3:30-4:45 Obourn, M.
ENG 479.01 Linguistics M 6:30-9:15 Eloi, S.
ENG 481.01 Grammar MW 3:35-4:50 Jurasinski, S.
ENG 482.01 Children's Lit. MW 3:35-4:50 Zuris, S.
ENG 482.02 Children's Lit. W 6:30-9:15 Zuris, S.
ENG 484.01 Young Adult Lit. TR 9:30-10:45 Metzger, Th.
ENG 484.02 Young Adult Lit. TR 12:30-1:45 Metzger, Th.
ENG 484.31 Young Adult Lit (Summer 2012) MTWR 10:15-12:20 Thomas R. Metzger
ENG 495.01 Writer's Craft W 6:30-9:15 Whorton, J.
FLM 490.01 Film Melodrama MW 5:00-9:30 Soles, C.
Close Reading: 304, 305, 306, 311, 312, 316, 329, 348
Texts and Contexts: 365, 371, 376, 382, 389
400-level Seminar: 431, 432
Majors reservation week is April 2 - 6. See your advisor to discuss your schedule and get an advisement key number. Requirements are not the same for everyone; check your DARS report to see which courses you need to graduate. Check Banner to verify course offerings.
Literary Analysis
ENG 303.01 Intro. Lit. Analysis MWF 12:20-1:10 Burstein, M.
ENG 303.02 Intro. Lit. Analysis MWF 1:25-2:15
ENG 303.03 Intro. Lit. Analysis TR 2:00-3:15 Karl, A.
ENG 303.04 Intro. Lit. Analysis MWF 11:15-12:05 Whittingham, E.
ENG 303.05 Intro. Lit. Analysis MWF 2:30-3:20
Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 210.01 Intro. Cr. Wrtg. MWF 9:05-9:55 Cedeno, S.
ENG 210.02 Intro. Cr. Wrtg. MWF 10:10-11:00 Cedeno, S.
ENG 210.03 Intro. Cr. Wrtg. TR 3:30-4:45 Iuppa, MJ
ENG 210.04 Intro. Cr. Wrtg. TR 2:00-3:15 Iuppa, MJ
ENG 210.05 Intro. Cr. Wrtg. T 6:30-9:15 Reed-Mullen, KaTrina
ENG 210.21 Intro. Cr. Wrtg. (Summer 2012) MTWR 01:00-03:05 Iuppa, MJ
British Literature
ENG 230.01 Brit. Lit. I MWF 8:00-8:50 Whittingham, E.
ENG 231.01 Brit. Lit. II MWF 2:30-3:20 Burstein, M.
ENG 323.01 Shakes. Hst. & Trag. M 6:30-9:15 Busch, A.
ENG 324.01 Shakes. Com. & Rom. TR 3:30-4:45 Conti, B.
ENG 325.11 Shakespeare (Summer 2012) MTWRF 12:30-04:30 Brooke A. Conti
ENG 371.01 Heresy & Dissent Med. England MWF 2:30-3:20 Jurasinski, S.
ENG 376.01 British Novel II MW 3:35-4:50 Burstein, M.
ENG 431.01 English Romantic Writers MW 3:35-4:50
ENG 432.21 Victorians & Others (Summ 2012) MW 05:00-09:30 Robert Baker
American Literature
ENG 240.01 Amer. Lit. I TR 9:30-10:45 Young, P.
ENG 241.01 Amer. Lit. II TR 2:00-3:15 Obourn, M.
ENG 329.01 Captivity and Slavery MWF 11:15-12:05 Hinds, J.
ENG 382.01 American Gothic SLN Young, P.
ENG 382.31 American Gothic (Summer 2012) TR 5:00-9:30 Phil E. Young
ENG 389.01 Am Lit and Env. Imagination TR 2:00-3:15 Black, R.
World Literature
ENG 220.01 Early World Lit MWF 12:20-1:10 Turkkan, S.
ENG 220.02 Early World Lit MWF 1:25-2:15 Turkkan, S.
ENG 223.01 Mod. World Lit. MWF 11:15-12:05 Volpe-Van Dijk, H.
ENG 223.02 Mod. World Lit TR 12:30-1:45 Dache-Gerbino, A.
ENG 223.31 Modern World Lit (Summer 2012) MTWR 01:00-03:05 Herma Volpe-van Dijk
ENG 228.01 Lit & Arts of Ancient China TR 11:00-12:15 Mazzola, L.
ENG 311.01 Bible as Literature TR 2:00-3:15 Conti, B.
ENG 312.21 Classical Myth (Summer 2012) MTWR 10:15-12:20 Elizabeth A. Whittingham
ENG 316.21 African Novel (Summer 2012) SLN J Roger Kurtz
Fiction or Nonfiction Workshop
ENG 304.01 Fiction Workshop MWF 1:25-2:15 Whorton, J.
ENG 306.01 Nonfiction Workshop TR 2:00-3:15 Panning, A.
Poetry Workshop
ENG 305.01 Poetry Workshop TR 3:30-4:45 Fellner, S.
ENG 305.02 Poetry Workshop TR 12:30-1:45 Black, R.
Advanced Workshop
ENG 491.01 Adv Fiction Wksp. TR 3:30-4:45 Panning, A.
ENG 492.01 Adv Poetry Wkshp R 6:30-9:15 Fellner, S.
Writer's Craft
ENG 495.01 Writer's Craft W 6:30-9:15 Whorton, J.
Upper-division electives may be chosen from the categories above or from the following:
ENG 300.01 Advanced Comp. MWF 12:20-1:10 Green, A.
ENG 348.01 Sex/Gender in Lit Theory TR 3:30-4:45 Obourn, M.
ENG 479.01 Linguistics M 6:30-9:15 Eloi, S.
ENG 481.01 Grammar MW 3:35-4:50 Jurasinski, S.
ENG 482.01 Children's Lit. MW 3:35-4:50 Zuris, S.
ENG 482.02 Children's Lit. W 6:30-9:15 Zuris, S.
ENG 484.01 Young Adult Lit. TR 9:30-10:45 Metzger, Th.
ENG 484.02 Young Adult Lit. TR 12:30-1:45 Metzger, Th.
ENG 495.01 Writer's Craft W 6:30-9:15 Whorton, J.
FLM 490.01 Film Melodrama MW 5:00-9:30 Soles, C.
ENG 210.01 Creative Writing
CRN #3711
9:05 – 9:55 a.m. M W F
Ms. Sarah Cedeno
207 Holmes
This class requires a serious investment in creating and sharing imaginative work. Students will develop a basic knowledge of the craft by discussing elements of polished essays, poems and stories. During the semester, students will write pieces of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and share those pieces with classmates. As part of a writing workshop, students are required to offer constructive criticism to others, as well as accept written and verbal critiques for use in revising their own work.
ENG 210.02 Creative Writing
CRN #3712
10:10 – 11:00 a.m. M W F
Ms. Sarah Cedeno
219 Hartwell
Same as above.
ENG 210.03 Creative Writing Workshop
CRN #3713
3:30 – 4:45 p.m. T R
Ms. M.J. Iuppa
209 Holmes
This gateway course is a four genre smorgasbord that’s guaranteed to whet the creative writer’s appetite. Students will explore the fundamental skills of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and play writing. For some, this creative writing workshop experience will be new– unlike any other they’ve experienced; while others may find this workshop an opportunity to push their writing skills further. The course is designed around the belief that one must read widely and closely in order to write. This is an intensive writing course, meant for students who are dedicated readers and serious about the process of writing. We will examine the works of both established and emerging writers in hopes of discerning and emulating the qualities of good poetry, fiction, nonfiction and play writing. Frequent writing exercises will provide the opportunity to practice, to imitate, and to experiment. Class members will work together to create a welcoming and productive workshop, including extensive in-class discussion of both published writers and student work. Students will write four critical shorts that explore elements of writer’s craft.
At the end of the semester, each student will submit a portfolio of selected (revised) creative works. Get ready for an all you can write semester.
ENG 210.04 Creative Writing Workshop
CRN #3714
2:00 – 3:15 p.m. T R
Ms. M.J. Iuppa
TBA
Same as above.
ENG 210.05 Creative Writing
CRN #3715
6:30 – 9:15 p.m. T
Ms. KaTrina Reed-Mullen
209 Holmes
ENG 220.01 Early World Literature
CRN #4627
12:20 – 1:10 p.m. M W F
Ms. Sevinc Turkkan
218 Hartwell
ENG 220.02 Early World Literature
CRN #4628
1:25 – 2:15 p.m. M W F
Ms. Sevinc Turkkan
218 Hartwell
ENG 223.01 Modern World Literature
CRN #3799
11:15 – 12:05 p.m. M W F
Ms. Herma Volpe-van Dijk
218 Hartwell
Explores literatures of the world since 1700 with a focus on texts outside the British and American literary traditions. Introduces major themes and developments in modern world literature, from a global and comparative perspective; situates the Western literary tradition within that larger framework.
ENG 223.02 Modern World Literature
CRN #3800
12:30 – 1:45 p.m. T R
Ms. Amalia Dache-Gerbino
218 Hartwell
ENG 228.01 Literature & Arts of Ancient China
CRN #4053
11:00 – 12:15 p.m. T R
Mr. Lars Mazzola
B0001 Holmes
This course is divided into two parts--1) accessing the sources of creativity and 2) developing the art of writing clearly, correctly, and gracefully. The first part of the course will explore multiple intelligence, Jungian psychology, and non-violent communication. The second part will highlight the different worlds of academic, business, civic, legal, and political discourse. At the same time, students will develop their skills in making accurate summaries and paraphrases; synthesizing diverse sources of information; annotating and presenting information in a variety of ways; dealing with uncertainty; making valid conclusions; and searching for an authentic style.
ENG 230.01 British Literature I
CRN #3707
8:00 – 8:50 a.m. M W F
Dr. Elizabeth Whittingham
218 Hartwell
Ever fought an underwater battle? visited Fairyland? competed in a storytelling contest? fought a dragon or a giant green knight? walked in the garden of Eden? Then come join us for a vicarious experience of early English literature that will cover the 1000 years from Beowulf to Milton. We will read works by such authors as Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne. We will follow the development of the English language, and examine these works within their social, cultural, and political context. Requirements include a challenging reading load, class participation, two papers involving scholarly research, and pop quizzes. This course fulfills the British Literature before 1800 requirement.
ENG 231.01 British Literature II
CRN #3708
2:30 – 3:20 p.m. M W F
Dr. Miriam Burstein
218 Hartwell
This course offers a grand tour of major British authors from the Romantic period to World War I. Along the way, we will dwell on topics ranging from changing attitudes to self-consciousness to new developments in poetic genres. The class will emphasize poetry, but also cover both fiction and nonfiction prose. Our main textbook will be the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, plus Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Paper, three exams, quizzes.
ENG 235.01 Intro Afro-American Literature
CRN #3716
1:25 – 2:15 p.m. M W F
Dr. John Marah
B0002 Holmes
An introductory survey of the literature of Black peoples in the Americas. The course will acquaint students with major literary figures and significant historical periods. Issues regarding the relationship between the writer and socio-political and cultural movements will be discussed. Questions concerning the socio-cultural function that the Black writer serves for his/her community will also be addressed. This course fulfills the AAS major/minor lower division and humanities elective.
ENG 240.01 American Literature I
CRN #3709
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. T R
Dr. Phil Young
218 Hartwell
Surveys texts written in or about America from the post-Civil War era to the present. Introduces students to literary movements of the period such as realism, modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat generation, postmodernism, and the rise of ethnic American writing. May include writers such as James, Stein, Hughes, Ginsberg, Pynchon, and Kingston.
ENG 241.01 American Literature II
CRN #3710
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. T R
Dr. Megan Obourn
218 Hartwell
American Literature II is a survey class that covers U.S. literary writing from the post-Civil War era to the present. Though we will focus on canonical literary works, we will also be looking at some less canonical, emergent writers toward the end of the semester. We will examine major literary movements such as realism, modernism and post-modernism. We will also look at social and political contexts—including Reconstruction and its failure, turn-of-the-century immigration, the World Wars, the Great Migration, New Social Movements—and their relation to broad literary movements and particular literary texts. By the end of the semester, I expect you to have a good grasp of literary time periods, historical contexts, and close reading techniques.
ENG 300.01 Advanced Composition (fulfills Adolescence Education certification requirement)
CRN #3736
12:20 - 1:10 p.m. M W F
Ms. Amy Green
11 Hartwell
Being a professional requires the ability to communicate effectively with professors, colleagues, clients, and/or the public. Advanced Composition will focus on some kinds of writing tasks demanded by academic, professional, and business worlds. Major projects will include narrative, analytical, and research writing. In addition, techniques of summarizing, reviewing, synthesizing, compiling statistics, and analyzing will be covered. The final project, an investigative research paper on a topic of the student’s choice, will invite students to explore both primary and secondary sources and encourage them to use enhancements, (i.e. illustrations, graphs, appendices, informational footnotes, PowerPoint presentations) which will help to convey their ideas effectively.
ENG 303.01 Introduction to Literary Analysis
CRN #3731
12:20 - 1:10 p.m. M W F
Dr. Miriam Burstein
B0001 Holmes
This course offers students a “toolkit” for close reading. We will work with multiple genres—poetry, fiction, drama, film—and practice the skills necessary for analyzing and appreciating each. Among other things, students will practice basic poetic scansion, learn what constitutes different genres, and develop a working knowledge of critical vocabulary. This is a hands-on course, not a lecture: students should come prepared for in-class discussion and regular exercises. Readings include extensive poetry selections; Shakespeare’s King Lear; Balzac’s Pere Goriot; and one or two contemporary dramas. We will also watch Akira Kurosawa’s Ran. Three essays, midterm, final, group oral presentation.
ENG 303.02 Introduction to Literary Analysis
CRN #3732
1:25 - 2:15 p.m. M W F
ENG 303.03 Introduction to Literary Analysis
CRN #3733
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. T R
Dr. Alissa Karl
31 Hartwell
"For English majors and prospective majors. Provides skills needed to understand literature in English. Includes close reading of selected texts and study of literary genres, critical terms, and the relationship between text and context. Provides practice in writing literary analyses. Emphasizes skills of generating, rewriting, and editing the documented critical essay and other nonfiction prose suitable to the needs and future careers of English majors. Majors and minors must earn a "C" or better."
ENG 303.04 Introduction to Literary Analysis
CRN #3734
11:15 – 12:05 p.m. M W F
Dr. Elizabeth Whittingham
B0002 Holmes
This foundational course will examine the forms and devices of poetry, drama, and fiction as a means to a close reading of the assigned texts. Students will begin learning how to read, write, and think like serious students of literature. We will learn literary terms, improve grammar and rhetoric, and develop critical thinking skills. Finally, we will consider theories that will provide a basis for different approaches to literary texts. As well as classical drama, Macbeth, and The Importance of Being Earnest, we will read a variety of 19th and 20th century poems and short fiction.
ENG 303.05 Introduction to Literary Analysis
CRN #3735
2:30 - 3:20 p.m. M W F
TBA
202 Holmes
ENG 304.01 Fiction Workshop
CRN #3717
1:25 - 2:15 p.m. M W F
Dr. James Whorton
216 Hartwell
This is an intermediate course in fiction writing. We will study stories by Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Raymond Carver, Mary Robison, and Alice Munro, among others. Each student will write two short stories to be discussed in the workshop. Written critiques will be due at every meeting, and revised stories will be due at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: ENG 210.
Required Text:
Strunk and White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. Allyn & Bacon, 1999. ISBN 0-205-31342-6
ENG 305.01 Poetry Writer’s Workshop
CRN #3729
3:30 - 4:45 p.m. T R
Dr. Stephen Fellner
207 Holmes
ENG 305.02 Poetry Writer’s Workshop
CRN #3730
12:30 - 1:45 p.m. T R
Dr. Ralph Black
127 Hartwell
English 305 is a seminar designed to study and practice the art and craft of poetry writing, its uses, methods, and traditions. My assumption is that, though you may not be widely read or practiced in poetry writing, you have had some experience as readers and writers of poetry (in ENG 210, and in various literature courses). I assume that you are serious about the commitment that any serious art form demands. Much of our time will be spent reading and discussing your own poems (some written in response to particular assignments, others written from deeper kinds of necessity). A variety of writing assignments (“creative” and critical) will get you writing regularly, and rethinking your assumptions about what poetry is, what it’s for, how it functions, etc. Grades based on a portfolio of revised poems, a critical paper, presentations and quizzes.
ENG 306.01 Literary Nonfiction Workshop
CRN #4629
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. T R
Dr. Anne Panning
219 Hartwell
NOTE: This course is for creative writing majors in English who have met the proper prerequisites (ENG 210).
In this course, students will produce at least two original essays (there will be some guidelines about form and topic), as well as engage in a digital storytelling project using multimedia approaches. Students will read widely in the genre, and will be expected to try their hands at different sub-genres in their own work. There will be regular quizzes on the reading, and several out-of-class excursions.
ENG 311.01 Bible as Literature
CRN #4630
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. T R
Dr. Brooke Conti
B0002 Holmes
This course will provide an in-depth examination of the literary design and philosophical, theological, and historical significance of biblical literature, as well as an overview of the Bible’s major literary forms—which include sustained narrative, lyric poetry, and epistle. As the course title suggests, we are interested in the Bible primarily as a work (or rather, a collection of works) of literature. So although we will certainly be discussing our readings within their original religious contexts and sometimes their later religious interpretations, this course assumes no prior familiarity with either the Hebrew or Christian Bible or with the doctrines of Judaism or Christianity. Indeed, since we are dealing with very ancient texts that originated in cultures quite different from our own, even students who know the Bible quite well may be in for some surprises as we explore their literary and intellectual underpinnings.
This course’s assignments include two 5-6 pp. papers, a midterm and a final, as well as regular short written responses and active class participation.
ENG 323.01 Shakespeare History & Tragedy
CRN #3825
6:30 - 9:15 p.m. M
Dr. Austin Busch
TBA
This course will examine ten of Shakespeare’s histories and tragedies. We will consider these works as both literary and performance texts, with some attention to the works’ historical context and original staging. You may also expect regular video clips, in-class performances of individual scenes, and at least one screening of a recent film adaptation in its entirety. Requirements: regular quizzes and short written assignments, two essays, a midterm, and a final exam.
ENG 324.01 Shakespeare Comedy & Romance
CRN #3803
3:30 - 4:45 p.m. T R
Dr. Brooke Conti
216 Hartwell
This course will examine ten of Shakespeare’s comedies. We will consider these works as both literary and performance texts, with some attention to the works’ historical context and original staging. You may also expect regular video clips, in-class performances of individual scenes, and at least one screening of a recent film adaptation in its entirety. Requirements: regular quizzes and short written assignments, two essays, a midterm, and a final exam.
ENG 329.01 Captivity and Slavery (early American)
CRN #4632
11:15 - 12:05 p.m. M W F
Dr. Janie Hinds
B0001 Holmes
Focus is on the clashes of cultures in the context of captivity and slavery. Readings (in translation) from texts originally written in English, Spanish, and French, ranging from 1542 to 1861, from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone. Study of these narratives provides a broad historical and literary overview of New World literature before the Civil War. Course will require reading of such texts as The Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542); Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682); Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789 ); A Narrative of the Life, Adventures, Travels & Sufferings of Henry Tufts (“Autobiography of a Criminal—Henry Tufts," 1807); and Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).
General Education Diversity Requirements Central to the history of slavery in America are the issues of race prejudice and social conflict. The following texts analyze and report on the social institution devoted to racism against African Americans and Africans imported to the New World for the purposes of slavery:
•John Marrant, A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, 1785
•Samuel Sewell, The Selling of Joseph, 1700 (first New World anti-slavery document)
•Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of…, 1789
•Slave Testimony (John Blassingame, stories from Sierra Leone), 1837-62
•Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life, 1845
•Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861
Relatedly, the “Indian Captivity Narrative” grew out of a particularly American cultural situation: the movement of Native Americans from their land, usually with violence, by English, French, and Spanish explorers, and the Natives’ retaliation by taking hostages from among these populations. Captivity Narratives explore race conflicts between Native Americans and Europeans:
•The Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, 1542
•Isaac Jogues, Novum Belium, 1655
•Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, 1682
•The Story of Hannah Duston (at least in part by Cotton Mather), 1697
•A Narrative of the Life, Adventures, Travels & Sufferings of Henry Tufts (“Autobiography of a Criminal—Henry Tufts”), 1807
•Anonymous, “The Indian Captive,” 1838, from Columbian Almanac (probably fictional)
•Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly
Slave Narratives and Captivity Narratives share issues of violence, captivity, brutalization, and forced travel. The Captivity Narrative includes ransom and redemption. These are the issues central to the course.
ENG/WMS 348.01 Sex and Gender in Literary Theory
CRN #3805
3:30 - 4:45 p.m. T R
Dr. Megan Obourn
B0006 Holmes
This course provides an advanced introduction to the traditions of literary theory and criticism related to sex and gender studies. We will closely analyze primary theoretical material as well as literature in relation to theories of gender and sexuality. The course is organized according to the “school” of criticism or theory that each of our critics works within. Most gender and sexuality theories draw on multiple schools of thought; be prepared to see overlaps in critics’ approaches. Though theories of sex and gender have a long, complex and international history, we will focus on selected contemporary critical approaches largely by authors from Europe and the Americas. We will touch on sex and gender criticism in relation to structuralist, post-structuralist, psychoanalytic, queer, intersex, Marxist, critical race, postcolonial, and disability theory. This is not an exhaustive list but does cover many of the main schools of contemporary critical thinking about gender and sexuality.The course includes both the theory itself and the applied theory: you will learn not just theoretical descriptions of gender criticism and theory, but how to use this theory in your critical thinking, reading and writing practices. To that end, we will read a novel along with some applied criticism.
ENG 371.01 Heresy and Dissent in Medieval England
CRN #4634
2:30 - 3:20 p.m. M W F
Dr. Stefan Jurasinski
106A Edwards
The Reformation established through the labors of Luther and Calvin in the sixteenth century had roots in the “heresies” of the later Middle Ages. Protestant ideas were particularly indebted to a movement associated with the fourteenth-century Oxford theologian John Wyclif and his followers, who became known in their own era as “Lollards.” One of their major achievements, appreciated even by those who did not belong to their sect, was the first translation of the Bible into English to have been attempted since the eleventh century. We will explore the writings of those associated with the Lollard movement and those who opposed them, with occasional glances at heresies of the earlier Middle Ages (such as Waldensianism and the truly strange Cathar movement, which was wiped out only by one of the few crusades to have been directed against West Europeans). Possible readings will include the shorter “A” version of Piers Plowman, the Life of Margery Kempe, and the writings of Lollards themselves, read as much as possible in the original Middle English.
ENG 376.01 British Novel II
CRN #4635
3:35 - 4:50 p.m. M W
Dr. Miriam Burstein
207 Holmes
Our survey of British fiction from the nineteenth century to the mid-1960s will focus on the emergence of one of the novel’s most popular, but also most contested, genres: the historical novel. Historical fiction was key in shaping the development of nineteenth-century realism; in fact, Sir Walter Scott, the most famous historical novelist of his era, was arguably the most influential novelist in Europe. More recently, the historical novel has become a vehicle to challenge assumptions about realist representation, cultural and political change, and even the nature of language itself. We will read Scott’s Heart of Midlothian, Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner that Held Them, and John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Two papers, midterm, final, quizzes.
ENG 382.61 American Gothic
CRN #4026
Dr. Phil Young
SLN
ENG 389.01 American Literature and Environmental Imagination
CRN #4787
2:00 – 3:15 p.m. T R
Dr. Ralph Black
216 Hartwell
ENG 389 is an interdisciplinary, team-taught course that is offered periodically by Dr. Ralph Black (from the English Dept.) and Dr. Chris Norment (from the Dept. of Environmental Biology). Focusing on literary texts from the 19th and 20th centuries—novels, poems, essays, memoirs— we will consider such issues as the role of natural history in the development of American literary form, the evolution of the nature essay as a genre, the place of environmental literature in literary history, and the role of nature writing as a form of environmental activism.Some of the questions to be addressed in the course: Why have American authors been so consistently concerned with and inspired by the idea of wilderness? How did our culture move from the Puritan notion of a “howling wilderness” to the Transcendentalist vision of divine nature to contemporary nature writers’ concerns with imperiled ecosystems? What can literary texts tell us about the interactions between nature and culture, and about our own places (as writers, readers, dwellers) in the natural world? Can an understanding of literature help us to “read” the natural world? And, can an understanding of ecological systems help us to read literature? Coursework will include class presentations, critical essays, and field-study projects, including bird banding, live-trapping of small mammals, and insect & plant studies.
ENG 431.01 English Romantic Writers
CRN #4636
3:35 - 4:50 p.m. M W
TBA
101 Holmes
ENG 472.02
Historical Fictions
CRN #3806
3:30 - 4:45 p.m. T R
Dr. Alissa Karl
B0002 Holmes
In this course we will study a number of examples of so-called “historical fiction” – that is, novels that narrate historical moments and events prior to that of their own production. The point of this seminar is not to determine how “accurate” (or not) a novel is at rendering the past; rather, we will analyze how such historical narratives matter in the present, and why the way that novels tell them matter. We’ll also consider how notions of “fiction” and “history” interact: are they opposed to one another? Are both versions of storytelling?More specifically, in the course of our readings we will scrutinize narrative, stylistic and temporal strategies; examine teleological and progressive models as well as alternate forms of historical time and movement; consider what it means to assert historical knowledge, and whether there can be different versions of it; and inquire into how literary accounts of the past emphasize the status of women, racial and ethnic minorities, colonial subjects, or other non-dominant subjects in national histories. Again, our readings will themselves be historically situated—that is, we will consider the moment of a historical novel’s production (that is, what political, economic, social and cultural contexts inform the production of a text) as a key factor in the kinds of forms and representations that it generates.Authors studied will likely include Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jean Rhys, Pat Barker, and Toni Morrison. We will also read theory and criticism pertaining to historical fiction. Among other assignments, students will prepare a lengthy scholarly research paper as well as response papers and discussion posts.
ENG 472.03 Milton and Revolution
CRN #3807
6:30 - 9:15 p.m. R
Dr. Brooke Conti
107 Edwards
This class will focus on the life and works of John Milton. One of England’s greatest writers and most radical thinkers, Milton lived during a particularly turbulent period of British history and his works are inseparable from the controversies and opportunities of that age. Although we will be reading a wide selection of Milton’s works, including his early poems and selections from his daring defenses of divorce, freedom of speech, and political revolution, most of the semester will be devoted to the products of Milton’s later years: _Paradise Lost_, _Paradise Regained_, and _Samson Agonistes_.
ENG 479.01 Linguistics
CRN #3811
6:30 - 9:15 p.m. M
Ms. Sasha Eloi
214 Hartwell
ENG 481.01 Standard Grammar
CRN #3718
3:35 - 4:50 p.m. M W
Dr. S. Jurasinski
214 Hartwell
ENG 482.01 Children’s Literature
CRN #37203:35 - 4:50 p.m. M W
Ms. Susan Zuris
TBA
This course is designed to focus on the study of children’s literature: its history, genres, themes, and effective usage in the early education classroom. As an upper level literature class, students will be expected to exhibit higher-order thinking in their analyses of course texts through daily discussion, group activities, and analytical research papers. All coursework will be completed using the MLA style of documentation. This semester we will focus on a genre I like to call “Rabbit-Hole Fiction,” wherein the protagonist is transported to a fantasy realm, has adventures, learns lessons, and is (usually) returned to the “real” world wiser for the journey. Texts may include, but are not limited to: Alice in Wonderland; James and the Giant Peach; A Wrinkle in Time; Coraline; Peter Pan; The Wizard of Oz; The Phantom Tollbooth; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; and Where the Wild Things Are.
ENG 482.02 Children’s Literature
CRN #3722
6:30 - 9:15 p.m. W
Ms. Susan Zuris
214 Hartwell
Same as above.
ENG 484.01 Young Adult Literature
CRN #3725
9:30 - 10:45 p.m. T R
Mr. Thomas Metzger
125 Hartwell
ENG 484.02 Young Adult Literature
CRN #4637
12:30 - 1:45 p.m. T R
Mr. Thomas Metzger
214 Hartwell
ENG 491.01 Advanced Fiction Workshop
CRN #4638
3:30 - 4:45 p.m. T R
Dr. Anne Panning
B0001 Holmes
NOTE: This course is for creative writing majors in English who have met the proper prerequisites. In this course, students will produce at least two original short stories for critique and feedback, as well as engage in a digital storytelling project using multimedia approaches. You will also read one contemporary short story collection and write a review of it. There will be periodic quizzes and exercises in class to accompany assigned reading.
ENG 492.01 Advanced Poetry Workshop
CRN #3726
6:30 - 9:15 p.m. R
Dr. Stephen Fellner
207 Holmes
ENG 495.01 Writer’s Craft
CRN #3743
6:30 - 9:15 p.m. W
James Whorton
B0005 Cooper/219 Hartwell
This is a reading course taught from the perspective of practicing writers. We will meet with and study the work of writers visiting campus as guests of the Writers Forum. Students will write short response papers as well as longer essays focusing on craft. Attendance at Writers Forum readings is required. See the web site,
http://www.brockport.edu/wforum/
, for more information. This course may be repeated for credit.
Required Texts:
Strunk and White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. Allyn & Bacon, 1999. ISBN 0-205-31342-6.
Others to be announced.
FLM 200.01 Art of the Film
CRN #3840
6:30 – 8:30 T R
Dr. Sidney Rosenzweig
M0002 Cooper
This introductory course in film studies focuses on two main areas of film studies: (1) the technical vocabulary of filmmaking and film art and (2) the basics of film history. The first considers "film language," the techniques filmmakers use to express ideas and emotions, in other words, to create "meaning.” The second looks at some major film movements, genres, and directors, concentrating on Classical Hollywood Cinema (American studio-made feature films from the 1930s to the mid 60s) as well as some major silent films and important foreign films. Required for Film Studies minors.
FLM 250.01 Film History
CRN #3824
12:30 – 1:45 T R
Dr. Sidney Rosenzweig
M0002 Cooper
This introductory course in film studies focuses on two main areas of film studies: (1) the technical vocabulary of filmmaking and film art and (2) the basics of film history. The first considers "film language," the techniques filmmakers use to express ideas and emotions, in other words, to create "meaning.” The second looks at some major film movements, genres, and directors, concentrating on Classical Hollywood Cinema (American studio-made feature films from the 1930s to the mid 60s) as well as some major silent films and important foreign films. Required for Film Studies minors.
FLM 301.01 Film Theory and Criticism
CRN #3082
5:00 – 6:15 T R
Dr. Carter Soles
218 Lennon
From its inception in the late 1890s through the current impacts of digital technology, film as a medium has always been subject to intense scrutiny and inquiry regarding its meanings, aesthetics, and social effects. This course will offer an overview of many of these debates, examining how film scholars and cultural critics have approached the interpretation of film (and other popular media). This class, therefore, will introduce you to the key terms, ideas, and discourses within the theory and criticism of film as a medium. Focusing primarily on the last 30 years of institutionalized film studies as an academic discipline, this course will offer you a set of interpretative tools and analytical frameworks not only for your future academic study of film but for your everyday consumption of film and other media. We will pay particular attention to the application of theory and criticism: how do you take the broad ideas of theory and use them in your own interpretations? How do you take the specific interpretations of criticism and develop a broader argument that can be applied to other texts? To that end, we will examine both historically significant films as well as more contemporary films in our examination of film and “meaning.”
FLM 490.01 Film Melodrama
CRN #4790
12:30 – 1:45 T R
Dr. Carter Soles
102 Edwards
For some critics, melodrama is sweeping category or "mode" that includes most Hollywood film, from the works of D.W. Griffith to those of Steven Spielberg, from the chick flick to the action film. Others define the form more narrowly, linking it specifically with film and television genres such as the woman's film, the weepie, and the soap opera. In either case, melodrama is a specific mode of narrative common to theater, film and television. It is also a major structure of feeling found in social discourse, where it offers a familiar way to think about events that shape history and the events of daily life. Besides having a rich tradition in North America and Europe, melodrama has a long history in Latin America, India, and China. Furthermore, the study of melodrama has been critical to the development of film studies. This class will examine influential examples of film melodrama in the context of theoretical works that have shaped contemporary film theory and criticism. Students will develop an understanding of these theories while increasing their formal film analysis skills.
ENG 579.01 Linguistics
CRN #3812
6:30 – 9:15 p.m. M
Ms. Sasha Eloi
214 Hartwell
ENG 581.01 Standard Grammar
CRN #3719
3:35 – 4:50 p.m. M W
Dr. S. Jurasinski
214 Hartwell
ENG 582.01 Children’s Literature
CRN #3721
3:35 – 4:50 p.m. M W
Mrs. Susan Zuris
TBA
This course is designed to focus on the study of children’s literature: its history, genres, themes, and effective usage in the early education classroom. As an upper level literature class, students will be expected to exhibit higher-order thinking in their analyses of course texts through daily discussion, group activities, and analytical research papers. All coursework will be completed using the MLA style of documentation. This semester we will focus on a genre I like to call “Rabbit-Hole Fiction,” wherein the protagonist is transported to a fantasy realm, has adventures, learns lessons, and is (usually) returned to the “real” world wiser for the journey. Texts may include, but are not limited to: Alice in Wonderland; James and the Giant Peach; A Wrinkle in Time; Coraline; Peter Pan; The Wizard of Oz; The Phantom Tollbooth; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; and Where the Wild Things Are.
ENG 582.02 Children’s Literature
CRN #3723
6:30 – 9:15 p.m. W
Mrs. Susan Zuris
214 Hartwell
Same as above.
ENG 584.01 Young Adult Literature
CRN #3728
9:30 – 10:45 a.m. T R
Mr. Thomas Metzger
125 Hartwell
ENG 584.02 Young Adult Literature
CRN #4639
12:30 – 1:45 p.m. T R
Mr. Thomas Metzger
214 Hartwell
ENG 595.01 Writer’s Craft
CRN #3727
6:30 – 9:15 a.m. W
James Whorton
219 Hartwell/B0005 Cooper
This is a reading course taught from the perspective of practicing writers. We will meet with and study the work of writers visiting campus as guests of the Writers Forum. Students will write short response papers as well as longer essays focusing on craft. Attendance at Writers Forum readings is required. See the web site, http://www.brockport.edu/wforum/, for more information. This course may be repeated for credit.
Required Texts:
Strunk and White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. Allyn & Bacon, 1999. ISBN 0-205-31342-6.
Others to be announced.
ENG 625.01 Seminar in Literary Figures
CRN #4029
6:30 – 9:15 p.m. M
Dr. Sevinc Turkkan
217 Hartwell
ENG 629.01 Modern British Literature
CRN #4789
6:30 – 9:15 a.m. T
Dr. Alissa Karl
214 Hartwell
Modern British Literature and the Body: In this course we will study British literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a special emphasis on physical and textual embodiment. Our focus on material, figurative and textual bodies will provide a framework for examining matters of economic modernity and labor; sex and gender; empire, race and ethnicity; war; politics and citizenship; and science and technology in the texts we read. We will pay special attention to the diverse and sometimes challenging forms of these texts and developing vocabularies and strategies for analyzing them. We’ll ask why it matters the ways in which bodies are incorporated into these works; how the literary works themselves might constitute bodily forms; and how bodies of various kinds both signify, and are placed under strain by, political, economic, and cultural factors. In addition, we will place particular emphasis on the “Britishness” of these texts and of the bodies and body politics within them; treating Britain as a site of production rather than a hard-and-fast category, we will think about how literary texts can embody the process by which individual and collective national bodies are made.
Authors studied may include Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, Mulk Raj Anand, Mina Loy and Wyndham Lewis. While our focus will be on modernist novels, we will also study examples of poetry, short fiction, little magazines and visual art. We will also read a fair amount of theory and criticism relevant to our topic; students will study these, along with the literary texts, in detail in order to hone their skills in reading, synthesizing and utilizing literary scholarship. Students will prepare class discussion posts, class presentations, an annotated bibliography, an 18-25 page critical research paper, and other written assignments as needed.
ENG 633.01 American Literature and Civil Rights
Studies in American Literature after 1870
CRN #4640
6:30 – 9:15 p.m. R
Dr. Megan Obourn
B0227 Tuttle N.
This course looks at several major writers in the time period leading up to the civil rights movement in the United States, or what is called by some historians the long civil rights era. We will discuss the work of William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright and James Baldwin in relation to modernism and racial whiteness and blackness. We focus on the novel form but look comparatively at other genres including the essay, short story, and ethnography. We will frame these texts socially, historically, and politically looking specifically at intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. We end with readings of Brown v Board and Baldwin’s political essays as texts representative of and engaged with the burgeoning of Civil Rights.
ENG 690.01 Advanced Writing
CRN #4030
6:30 – 9:15 p.m. W
Dr. Austin Busch
32 Hartwell
To be taken upon completion of 12 graduate credit hours. A grade of “B-“ or higher is required to proceed to ENG 697: Advanced Project in Literature.
This course is designed to acquaint graduate students with common research and writing practices in the disciplines of literary study. Students are required to practice research skills and produce annotated bibliographies and other summaries of sources. Written projects also include book reviews and peer reviews, abstracts, letters of transmittal, a conference-length paper and an article-length paper. The article-length paper is developed from a paper written from a course already completed.
ENG 691.01 Grad Prose Workshop
CRN #3815
6:30 – 9:15 p.m. T
Dr. Anne Panning
32 Hartwell
This class is for graduate students in the creative writing track of the M.A. in English program. This is a prose workshop, meaning you will be writing either fiction or creative nonfiction. You will write at least two original works, as well as engage in a digital storytelling project using multimedia approaches. You will also read two book-length works of fiction/creative nonfiction and write review essays of them. Additionally, students will work with editing partners and also present pedagogy elements and exercises to the class.
FLM 590.01 Film Melodrama
CRN #4791
12:30 – 1:45 p.m. T R
Dr. Carter Soles
Hartwell
For some critics, melodrama is sweeping category or "mode" that includes most Hollywood film, from the works of D.W. Griffith to those of Steven Spielberg, from the chick flick to the action film. Others define the form more narrowly, linking it specifically with film and television genres such as the woman's film, the weepie, and the soap opera. In either case, melodrama is a specific mode of narrative common to theater, film and television. It is also a major structure of feeling found in social discourse, where it offers a familiar way to think about events that shape history and the events of daily life. Besides having a rich tradition in North America and Europe, melodrama has a long history in Latin America, India, and China. Furthermore, the study of melodrama has been critical to the development of film studies. This class will examine influential examples of film melodrama in the context of theoretical works that have shaped contemporary film theory and criticism. Students will develop an understanding of these theories while increasing their formal film analysis skills.
CCNY Conference
8 am - 6 pm
Counseling Centers of New York (CCNY) Conference
10 am - 4 pm
CCNY Conference
8 am - 6 pm
Counseling Centers of New York (CCNY) Conference
10 am - 4:15 pm
Counseling Centers of New York (CCNY) Conference
8 am - 1 pm
