Summer 2003 Courses

Course information is organized in the following format:

Course Number
Course Title
Course Time
Instructor
Course description.

English 101.001
MTWRF 0920-1020
Comp I: Exposition
Leslie Jae Dennis

English 101.002
MTWRF 1030-1130
Comp I: Exposition
Amberly Pyles

English 101.003
MTWR 1730-1845
Comp I: Exposition
Jana Giles

English 102.001
MTWRF 0920-1020
Comp II: Analys & Arg
Rebecca Hooker

English 102.002
MTWRF 1030-1130
Comp II: Analys & Arg
Katyna Johnson

English 102.003
MTWRF 1140-1240
Comp II: Analys & Arg
Stephanie Gustafson

English 102.004
MTWRF 1730-1845
Comp II: Analys & Arg
Matt Teorey

English 102.005
MTWRF 1900-2015
Comp II: Analys & Arg
Birgirt Schmidt-Rosemann

English 102.006
MTWRF 1250-1350
Comp II: Analys & Arg
Susan Reese

English 102.007
MTWRF 1030-1130
Comp II: Analys & Arg
Paul Lynch

English 150.001
MTWRF 1400-1500
The Study of Literature: Introduction to Literature
Hector A. Torres
The U.S. Southwest is the theme of this introductory English course. In this class we will examine the works of native New Mexican writers such as Denise Chavez, Demetria Martinez and Leslie Marmon Silko. We will also study the works of Chicana author Ana Castillo. In addition to novels, we will also read poetry by the following Southwestern poets: Pat Mora, Simon Ortiz, and Gary Soto. We will venture outside the purview of the literary text and learn to read the representation of the Southwest in popular films such as Born in East L.A. and Lone Star. To round out our introduction to the study of the Southwest in literature and film, we will also become acquainted some of the basic tools of literary criticism. At the end of our eight weeks together, it is my hope that this course has helped enriched your understanding of both the Southwest and the literature it has produced.

Novels:
Ana Castillo So Far From God
Denise Chavez Face of An Angel
Demetria Martinez Mother Tongue
Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony

Poetry:
Pat Mora Borders
Simon Ortiz Woven Stone
Gary Soto New and Selected Poems

Nonfiction:
Charles Bressler Literary Criticism: an introduction to theory and practice
Ana Castillo Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

English 219 (sections, times, and instructions below)
Technical Writing
In this course, students will learn and practice various communication strategies and genres of technical writing. We will pay particular attention to the composition and design of larger documents like manuals, reports, and proposals. We will also compose and design smaller documents like memos, letters, descriptions, and instructions. To sharpen rhetorical skills, we will practice interpreting writing situations in the technical workplace; then, we will use strategies of audience-analysis, organization, style, and page layout to develop documents that address those rhetorical situations. Whenever possible, students will have the option to compose documents that suit their major or future discipline. This course is designed for students who want to study technical writing as part of their career preparation in engineering, business, social service, science, or other technical fields.

English 219.001
MTWRF 0920-1020
Technical Writing
Mary Rooks

English 219.002
MTWRF 1730-1845
Technical Writing
Roy Turner

English 219.003
MTWRF 1030-1130
Technical Writing
Logan Greene

English 219.004
MTWRF 1140-1240
Technical Writing
Mary Rooks

English 219.005
MTWRF 1500-1600
Technical Writing
Roy Turner

English 240.001
MTWRF 1030-1130
Traditional Grammar
Jerry Shea
A course in the basics of traditional grammar-syntax, tenses, parts of speech, transformations, and so forth. Grammar is the bones of writing (as rhetoric is the flesh), so we shall become chiropractors, osteopaths. Exercises, a series of tests, possibly some extra credit work. Text: Kolln and Funk, Understanding English Grammar 6e.

English 250.001
MTWRF 0920-1020
The Analysis of Literature
David Jones

English 294.001
MTWRF 1140-1240
Survey of Earlier English Literature
Cheryl Fresch
English literature from the seventh through the eighteenth century will be our concern in this survey course. While we will read such remarkable traditional works as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, "The Rape of the Lock," and The Duchess of Malfi, we will also read many of the less well known and re-covered works that have been introduced anew in The Norton Anthology of English Literature. We will also access the internet materials provided at the Norton website. Assignments: Four exams, one on each of the four major literary-historical periods between the seventh and the eighteenth century.

English 297.001
MTWRF 1030-1130
Survey of Later English Literature: Later American Literature
Antonio Márquez
Spanning approximately 100 years of literary history, this survey course concentrates on the inception and development of modern American fiction, drama, and poetry. Text: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume 2.
Requirements include three Examinations and a Final Essay: (1) 30%, (2) 30%, (3) 30%, (4) 10%.

English 298.001
Restricted course/Times arranged
Workshop in Literature or Writing
Rebecca Hooker
This workshop is a one-credit, non-graded (credit/no credit) course designed to help you prepare a strong Writing Proficiency Portfolio. We will focus on understanding the evaluation criteria, selecting appropriate work, and revising the proper contents of your portfolio for submission. We will also discuss effective cover letters and the portfolio procedures, including the interview. The workshop meets once a week with time available for individual conferences with the instructor.

English 352.001
MTWRF 1030-1130
Shakes-History-Comedies
Barry Gaines

English 354.001
MTWRF 0920-1020
Milton
Cheryl Fresch
Milton's shorter poems, as well as his prose treatise Areopagitica, will be the primary texts for the first half of the summer term. The second half will be devoted to Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Assignments: Two exams, and four papers. The four papers will be literary, critical essays. Three of the four papers will investigate sources or parallels for Milton's poetry, and the fourth will respond to a major critic as he or she responds to Milton's poetry.

English 387.001
MTWRF 0810-0910
ST/Prose Sytlistics
Jerry Shea
What makes for good and graceful and memorable prose? In this course we shall try to find out, and tease out some rules. My own gurus in these matters include Joseph Williams, Winston Weathers, Richard Lanham, and Francis Christensen, among others. We shall work at the sentence and paragraph level, stretching, sometimes, into the short essay. Expect to do close analysis, to rub your nose in the prose. Text: Lanham, Analyzing Prose.
This course may substitute for E320 or E420 in both the major and minor professional writing concentrations.

English 422.31
MTWRF 1030-1230
Creative Writing Poetry
Lisa D. Chavez
What is the role of place in poetry? How does being grounded in a particular landscape or culture effect poems? This advanced poetry workshop will focus on the relationship between poetry and a particular place--the Southwest. We'll read work by writers who celebrate the landscape and cultures of the region, and we'll do writing exercises--and perhaps take short field trips--aimed at exploring own connections to poetry and place. While our reading and exercises will focus on a particular place, class time will also be dedicated to the critique of student poetry which does not necessarily have to relate to our Southwestern theme.

English 463.001
MTWRF 1250-1350
Modern American Literature: Novel
Antonio Márquez
Ranging from Naturalism to Existentialism, this course considers major literary movements of modern American fiction and examines important, influential American novels and their place in cultural-literary history. Requirements: Three Examinations and a final essay. Students enrolled for 563 will submit an essay on an individual reading assignment. Texts: Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Chopin, The Awakening; Wharton, Ethan Frome; Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises; Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury; West, The Day of the Locust; Wright, Native Son.

English 471.001
MTWRF 1030-1130
20th Century Drama: Contemporary Latino Theatre
David Richard Jones
This survey of the past thirty-five years begins with plays from the two outstanding Latino playwrights of the 1960s: Luis Valdez, father of Chicano drama, founder of Teatro Campesino, and author of political "actos" and Zoot Suit; and Maria Irene Fornes, the Cuban-American painter-turned-playwright who broke into a new poetic form in New York's downtown theatre and then turned into the maestra of so many younger Latino playwrights in the US.

The rest of the reading list covers writers of the past twenty years who are Chicano, Cubano, and Nuyorican, gay and straight, poetic and realistic, comic and tragic and downright rasquachi. The syllabus is designed to stress the variety of contemporary Latino theatre, from the border-bending performance art of Guillermo Gomez-Pena to the commercial comedy Our Lady of the Tortillas. Other writes include Octavio Solis, Cherríe Moraga, Milcha Sanchez-Scott, José Rivera, and Eduardo Machado.

Classes will be discussion-oriented with occasional lectures. Requirements include midterm and final exams plus a paper.

English 539.310
MTWRF 1300-1500
Teachng Technical Writing
LynnDianne Beene
This course explores the theory, practice, and pedagogy of technical and professional writing, preparing graduate students to teach English 219: Technical Writing. Course participants critically examine the methods and materials used in English 219 and then put them into practice. That is, participants will practice writing feasibility studies, proposals, progress reports, and a range of minor items from abstracts to letters of transmittal. We will focus particularly on the theory and methods of teaching purpose, exigency, audience, document design, ethics, the rhetoric of science and technology, and the relationships among technology, corporate culture, and professional communication. We will also investigate the rhetorical skills needed to create communicative web pages, the challenges of teaching technical communication on-line, and the specific needs of international students writing technical discourse. The course assumes basic knowledge of rhetoric and composition theory and pedagogy, but we expand and develop that basic knowledge as we specifically apply it to professional writing. Students will explore, evaluate, and report on different teaching methods, the roles of technical writing instructors, and the expectations of technical writing students, and explore how they differ from traditional composition classes. Assignments include a literature review and oral report of a topic in teaching technical writing, 7 habits critical reflection and teacher development and oral report, class participation, and peer classroom visit and evaluation.

English 540.001
MTWRF 0920-1020
Topics: Language & Rhetoric
Chuck Paine

English 563.001
MTWRF 1250-1350
Modern American Literature: Novel
Antonio Márquez
Ranging from Naturalism to Existentialism, this course considers major literary movements of modern American fiction and examines important, influential American novels and their place in cultural-literary history. Requirements: Three Examinations and a final essay. Students enrolled for 563 will submit an essay on an individual reading assignment. Texts: Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Chopin, The Awakening; Wharton, Ethan Frome; Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises; Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury; West, The Day of the Locust; Wright, Native Son.

English 571.001
MTWRF 1030-1130
20th Century Drama: Contemporary Latino Theatre
David Richard Jones
This survey of the past thirty-five years begins with plays from the two outstanding Latino playwrights of the 1960s: Luis Valdez, father of Chicano drama, founder of Teatro Campesino, and author of political "actos" and Zoot Suit; and Maria Irene Fornes, the Cuban-American painter-turned-playwright who broke into a new poetic form in New York's downtown theatre and then turned into the maestra of so many younger Latino playwrights in the US.

The rest of the reading list covers writers of the past twenty years who are Chicano, Cubano, and Nuyorican, gay and straight, poetic and realistic, comic and tragic and downright rasquachi. The syllabus is designed to stress the variety of contemporary Latino theatre, from the border-bending performance art of Guillermo Gomez-Pena to the commercial comedy Our Lady of the Tortillas. Other writes include Octavio Solis, Cherríe Moraga, Milcha Sanchez-Scott, José Rivera, and Eduardo Machado.

Classes will be discussion-oriented with occasional lectures. Requirements include midterm and final exams plus a paper.

English 582.001
MTWRF 1250-1350
Teaching the Plays of Shakespeare: Hamlet
Barry Gaines
In her groundbreaking trio of books on the teaching of Shakespeare, Peggy O'Brien, the Founding Director of the Teaching Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C., laid out a manifesto:
1. The most significant work in the entire world goes on in schools. Period.
2. The people who know most and best about teaching are the folks who do it every day with real kids in real classrooms.
3. Shakespeare is for all students of all ability levels and reading levels, every ethnic origin, in every kind of school.
4. Shakespeare study can and should be active, intelligent, energizing, and a pleasure for teacher and student.

This seminar, led by a former Director of the Teaching Shakespeare Institute, will use Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest play and one taught at schools of all levels, to explore methods and approaches to the teaching of Shakespeare's plays. Hamlet is the most discussed piece of art in the world and Shakespeare's most performed play. We will consider the text and sources of the play as well as critical approaches (although over four hundred works on Hamlet are published annually). And we will discuss ways to use the wide variety of video productions of Hamlet that are available. (Wait until you see Arnold Schwarzenegger contemplating a skull.) Participants will develop and compare curricular ideas and lesson plans for their classes.

English 587.001
MTWRF 0810-0910
ST/Prose Sytlistics
Jerry Shea
What makes for good and graceful and memorable prose? In this course we shall try to find out, and tease out some rules. My own gurus in these matters include Joseph Williams, Winston Weathers, Richard Lanham, and Francis Christensen, among others. We shall work at the sentence and paragraph level, stretching, sometimes, into the short essay. Expect to do close analysis, to rub your nose in the prose. Text: Lanham, Analyzing Prose.
This course may substitute for E320 or E420 in both the major and minor professional writing concentrations.