Fall 2003 Undergraduate Courses

Course information is organized in the following format:

Course Number
Course Title
Course Time
Instructor
Course description.

English 150.001
The Study of Literature
MWF 1000-1050
Amberly Pyles
For most of us, it seems as if our economy, our nation and our very identities are in a constant state of flux. But what do shifting gender values and racial identities, global capitalism and the threat of terrorism have to do with reading literature, especially old, creepy classics? This course, designed for non-English majors, will teach students how to use literature to better understand their own world. In this class, we'll look at American and world literature from the past 200 years to investigate how race, gender and class have shaped and continue to shape nationalist identities. Given the current political situation, understanding the history of nationalism is central to understanding our world. This class is designed to help you discover literature's power to form and represent competing identities. In this class, we'll look back to the nineteenth century to understand how gender, economic and racial values emerged, changed and continue to the present day. We'll investigate these themes by looking at all forms of literature: poems, short stories, drama, and novel. Requirements include short responses to texts, one exam, and one research paper. What will make this class come to life, though, is lots and lots of compelling class participation.

English 150.002
The Study of Literature
MWF 1400-1450
Patricia Stone
Passion, tragedy, and comedy, oh my! What would life be without them? Pretty boring, you say? Nevertheless, when we experience our own passions, misfortunes, and comic misadventures, we often wonder how we got into them, and how we can get through them. Literature helps us answer these questions. Basically, literature mirrors society, reflecting back to us what our culture's best thinkers and artists have observed about the human experience. This course is designed to introduce non-English majors to the many pleasures and ideas literature offers us. We will explore the relevance of "timeless" themes to contemporary life, and will also observe how the treatment of particular themes may change over time. More importantly, we will see that a text's meanings may be differently interpreted depending upon one's gender, class, and ethnic background, and that multiple interpretations add richness and depth to our experience of a literary work. This course encourages students to think about texts and discuss them in class. You will also be asked to keep a journal of your thoughts and your responses to themes, ideas, and the uses of language to articulate or suggest the author's thoughts. Grades will be based on excerpts you select from your journal, and on three take-home exams. Required texts include: The Norton Introduction to Literature, Eighth Edition; Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko; A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry.

English 150.604
The Study of Literature
TR 1401-1515
Donna Knaff

English 150.616
The Study of Literature
TR 0801-0915
John Crawford

English 211.001
Eighteenth-Century Theater in Performance
TR 1230-1345
Carolyn Woodward
The eighteenth century was the great age of theatrical entertainment, for in a typical London evening, one might first enjoy a fiddler prancing across the stage, after which the curtain would open onto a five-act play, itself punctuated by an "interlude": a high-wire act? a baroque ballet? Italian greyhounds doing tricks on their hind legs? And the evening wouldn't end at the conclusion to the main play, for then would follow a short after-piece­possibly an outrageous political farce, or perhaps something sweet and pastoral. We'll study the development of theater during this time and enjoy several plays representing the genres of Heroic Romance, Menippean Satire, Social Comedy, and Laughing Comedy. We'll perform scenes and two full plays in reader's theater, that is, acting with scripts in hand. (No prior experience is necessary in this informal method of bringing plays to the stage.) Using props and costumes that range from a pink prom dress and a black bustier to a collection of eighteenth -century pistols, writing quills, tavern pipes, and K-Mart wigs, we'll have lots of fun creating our own theatrical illusions and, as well, learning something about the literature and culture of another time and place.

Texts: The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama and a photocopy packet of excerpts from eighteenth -century instructions to actors. (Plays include Nicholas Rowe, Tamerlane; Henry Fielding, The Author's Farce; Aphra Behn, The Rover; Susannah Centlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife; Hannah Cowley, The Belle's Stratagem; and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal.) Requirements: frequent short writing, one brief historical report, participation in reader's theater.

English 219 (sections 1-25) Section times listed 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, Technical Writing, MWF 0900-0950, Roy Turner
English 219.002, Technical Writing, MWF 0900-0950
English 219.003, Technical Writing, TR 1230-1345
English 219.004, Technical Writing, TR 0800-0915
English 219.005, Technical Writing, MWF 1400-1450
English 219.006, Technical Writing, MWF 1400-1450
English 219.007, Technical Writing, S 1045-1315
English 219.008, Technical Writing, MWF 1100-1150
English 219.009, Technical Writing, MWF 0800-0850
English 219.010, Technical Writing, MWF 1400-1450
English 219.011, Technical Writing, MWF 1400-1450
English 219.012, Technical Writing, MW 1730-1845
English 219.013, Technical Writing, MW 1730-1845
English 219.014, Technical Writing, TR 0930-1045, Kate Mortellaro
English 219.015, Technical Writing, TR 0800-0915, Kate Mortellaro
English 219.016, Technical Writing, TR 1100-1215, Scott Rode
English 219.017, Technical Writing, MWF 1300-1350
English 219.018, Technical Writing, TR 1600-1715, Mary Rooks
English 219.019, Technical Writing, TR 1600-1715
English 219.020, Technical Writing, TR 1230-1345, Scott Rode
English 219.021, Technical Writing, MWF 0800-0850
English 219.022, Technical Writing, MWF 1100-1150
English 219.023, Technical Writing, MWF 1000-1050
English 219.024, Technical Writing, TR 0930-1045
English 219.025, Technical Writing, TR 1100-1215

English 220.001
Expository Writing
MW 1900-2015
Katyna Johnson

English 220.002
Expository Writing: The 1960s
TR 0930-1045
Rebecca HookerWas there really a time when people protested against a war?" Would you believe there was a British invasion in the 20th century? Who put their "soul on ice?" The answers to these questions can be found in an investigation of the 1960s, one of the most turbulent decades in modern history.

The United States changed tremendously in this ten year period. In this class, we'll look at these changes and their impact on American politics, values, music, art, literature, and other areas. After a brief historical overview, we will begin looking at the political upheaval of the decade, including the Vietnam War; the assassinations of John Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy; and the Civil Rights Movement. We'll also investigate the art of the 1960s, including the pop art explosion, and literature. Naturally, we'll discuss music, including the Beatles and other British supergroups, and the rise of Motown. Finally, we'll try to uncover some of the major social changes that occurred during the decade, including the hippy movement, the psychedelic drug culture, the push for women's rights and the rise in the importance of youth culture.

Students will choose specific topics that interest them and will work in groups, investigating, writing about, and reporting on their work to their classmates. The focus will be on generating topics, discovering sources to help inform writing, and proposing arguments about students' topics that will be presented to the class for discussion and debate.

English 220.003
Expository Writing
MWF 1200-1250
Anne Egger
This course focuses on expository writing. Exposition is a broad term that includes argumentative, historical, environmental, political, travel, and personal writing styles, among others. The class will examine and demonstrate the breadth of expository writing through its plentiful reading and writing assignments. Expect to write short responses to the readings as well as 2-3 longer essays in which you experiment with various forms of exposition. The readings will cover several genres, including non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and drama. We will examine each text as apprentices in the craft of writing: how does the text draw us into its subject matter? How does it make us want to read on? What literary techniques are present that inform and improve our own writing? As no piece of writing is perfect, where does it fall short in engaging us?

English 220.004
Expository Writing
TR 1400-1515
Ron Shumaker

English 220.005
Expository Writing
MWF 1000-1050
Jack Trujillo

English 220.006
Expository Writing
MWF 1100-1150
Jack Trujillo

English 220.007
Expository Writing
MWF 1300-1350
Jerry Shea
This is English 102 on steroids, rubbing your nose in your prose. More than half of the course is rewriting (or--my term--"rewhacking"). Expect a lot of writing/rewritng and close engagement with your ideas and mine. Expect, also, dangerous flexibility, taking things where they lead us.

English 221.001
Intro to Creative Writing Fiction
MWF 1000-1050
Carrie Meadows
Stories live in each of us; the trick is to get them out into the open. The goal of this class, then, is to unlock the stories inside of each student. We will the study basic elements of fiction necessary to breathing life into these stories by looking closely at the advice of writer Janet Burroway in the area of craft. An eclectic mix of readings from the masters as well as currently publishing authors to include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Anton Chekov, Ha Jin, and Jamaica Kincaid will also guide us in successfully applying the lessons of craft to story.In addition to reading craft essays and short fiction, we will discuss the basics of analyzing student work. Each student will complete a series of assignments related to our discussions of craft leading to the completion of a short story to be discussed by the class. Student contribution to class discussions is a vital element of the course. The ultimate goal of the class is not only for each student to complete and revise a full-length piece of fiction, but also for class members to develop together as encouraging and insightful critics. Required book: Imaginative Writing; The Elements of Craft by Janet Burroway

English 221.002
Intro to Creative Writing Fiction
TR 1400-1515
E.Dianne Bechtel
From conflict to rising action and resolution, the short story mirrors universality of human experience in every culture. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has described successful writing as a process "which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation." This course will serve as an introduction to that levitation. Nowhere is the meeting of real life and imagination more intense than on the boundaries where minds, bodies, and cultures meet. This is a challenge for beginning writers, but one that can be met through the systematic study and practice of narrative structure and its elements: character, plot, setting, point of view, and imagery, the ingredients for keeping the illusion aloft with little or no visible support. Reading is foremost in this endeavor. We will study successful writers and discuss craft through a multicultural approach to the short story form.The course will be conducted in a workshop format where writers will be provided with constructive critique of their work. Students will produce one short piece of prose fiction of at least ten pages. The draft will be workshopped, and then revised and polished for a final grade. An analysis/comparison of a classic short story and an ethnic writer will be presented to the class, focusing on any structural element: character, dialogue, plot, setting, and tone. Students will also attend two outside readings over the course of the semester and write responses. Janet Burroway's Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft will be our guide.

English 221.003 (call no. 21041)
Intro to Creative Writing Fiction
MWF 1400-1450
Kate Fitzgerald
Flannery OÕConnor wrote, "Art is the habit of the artist; and habits have to be rooted deep in the whole personality. They have to be cultivated like any other habit, over a period of time, by experience; and teaching any kind of writing is largely a matter of helping the student develop the habit of art." Just as the student of drawing learns by studying the works of master artists and practicing techniques of perspective, foreshortening, light and shadow, so the student of writing learns by studying the works of master writers and practicing the elements of fiction such as character, point of view, plot, setting, and dialogue. Great stories evolve from good ideas; but it is the skill with which stories are told that make them true works of art. The chief focus of this course will be learning to read as a writer. We will read works by masters of the short story form (OÕConnor, Capote, Baldwin, Marquez, and Carver, to name a few), and explore the elements that make them work. Writing exercises geared towards specific craft features will help you to apply this learning, using your own words and creativity. As the semester progresses, peer workshops will provide you with feedback on your writing and will help you in your goal to revise and polish one short piece of fiction.

English 221.004
Intro to Creative Writing Fiction
W 1900-2130
Jana Giles
I'd rather be mad with the truth than sane with lies. ÑBertrand Russell
Expressing our creativity can be one of our most satisfying experiences; equally satisfying, although usually more challenging, is learning to shape that expression into a more refined art. In this beginning-level workshop, we will explore the role of fiction in our lives and the world around us, and the craft of literary fiction. We will refine our skills of observation, and practice exercises intended to sharpen the use of character, dialogue, plot, setting, and other fundamental aspects of story-telling. Students will write and revise one or two short stories for the workshop. Also required will be a short analytic paper and presentation on a short story by an established author. We’ll also look at least one film adaptation as time permits. This should be a demanding but fun class: come prepared to write a lot, share your work and opinions with others, and enjoy rigorous critiques. Required texts are Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft by Janet Burroway, and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.

English 222.001
Intro to Creative Writing Poetry
MWF 1100-1150
Anne Egger
Can poetry be taught? Regardless of the answer to this, the fact of the matter is that poetry CAN be learned. This introductory poetry workshop will focus on reading, discussing, and writing poetry. The class will examine various poetic forms and techniques to help build a foundation for effectively communicating ideas, images and voice on the printed page. In class, we will read a variety of contemporary poets and write rough drafts of our own poems. Along with learning to recognize and use poetic elements (such as image, metaphor, and voice), we will have in-class writing exercises to help us explore various processes in creating.Course requirements will include reading, writing and workshopping as well as written critical responses to poetry and attendance at poetry readings. There will be one required "Intensive Writing Week" where students will write, write, and write some more as a way of pushing beyond some of our writing perimeters. The semester will culminate with a portfolio of eight to ten revised poems including an introductory statement about your own work. This is a course for those who want to seriously study poetry as readers, writers, and lovers of language.

English 222.002
Intro to Creative Writing Poetry
TR 1100-1215
Sarah Azizi
This course is designed for serious writers who wish to develop and refine poetic skills. You will write one poem per week as well as study several published poets. Poets we will study include Elizabeth Bishop, C.K. Williams, Amiri Baraka, and Henri Cole. Much of the class will introduce techniques of workshopping student work as well as critically studying the work of established poets. To this end, each student will be expected to become well-acquainted with the poems of one established poet, culminating in a self-directed project. I will give weekly assignments that may be formal (such as the sestina, villanelle, sonnet) and/or thematic. This class is NOT for the unmotivated. My goal is to lead you to comprehend the rhythms and structures in the work of others so that you may employ them in your own.

English 222.003 (call no. 11361)
Intro to Creative Writing Poetry
MW 1730-1845
Marisa P. Clark
In this introductory poetry-writing class, we wilt explore and practice some of the fundamental methods of crafting literary-quality poetry. We will begin the course by destroying some of the myths surrounding poetry:
• Myth #1: Poetry is and/or should be abstract.
• Myth #2: Poetry is and/or should be an expression of the deepest inner reaches of the poet's heart and need not be comprehensible to anyone else.
• Myth #3: Poetry is and/or should be open to any interpretation the reader wants to give it.
The reason we must destroy these myths is that they promote laziness in the writer and incomprehensibility in the writing. The fact is that producing good poetry requires more chiseling and precision than any other form of writing and its aim should always be clear communication between a poet and his/her reader. To that end, our reading and writing assignments will focus on the creation of clear, comprehensible poetry through the use of narrative techniques, concrete (sensory) images and significant detail, and the impact of the poetic line. We will also familiarize ourselves with the language of poetry.You should expect to do a lot of writing both in and outside class, so that by the end of the course you have a portfolio of at least five carefully revised literary-quality poems, (Remember: Poems are like photographs, in that one of every ten-to twenty is "good.") You will also read and closely analyze many published poems and at least one book-length collection by a poet. Finally, the class will evaluate at least two of your poems in order to familiarize you with workshop techniques.Texts: The Practice of Poetry (ed. Robin Behn and Chase Twichell)
An Introduction to Poetry (10th edition, ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia)

English 223.001
Intro to Creative Writing Non-Fiction
TR 1100-1215
Rachel Pratt

English 223.002
Intro to Creative Writing Non-Fiction
MWF 0900-0950
Jeremy Collins

English 240.001 (call no. 19373)
Traditional Grammar
MWF 1100-1150
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.

English 240.002
Traditional Grammar
TR 1400-1515

English 240.003
Traditional Grammar
TR 1900-2015
James Burbank
This course explores basic grammarÑsyntax, verb tenses, parts of speech, transformations and other structural elements of the language. Studying grammar allows us to investigate the descriptions we use to examine the structural framework of written English. WeÕll also provide context for our investigations by discussing issues surrounding terminology and use. The course will require regular quizzes and tests to assess comprehension.

English 250.001
The Analysis of Literature
TR 0930-1045
Hugh Witemeyer
This gateway course is designed to enrich your contact with literature of all types, and to sharpen your reading and writing skills. Reading assignments and class discussions will emphasize the detailed analysis of poems, plays, and works of prose fiction, and the mastery of critical terms and approaches useful in such interpretation. Writing assignments will include three essays and three shorter exercises, in which you articulate your analysis of specific literary works. There will also be a final examination.
Texts: Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia, eds., 8th ed.; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

English 250.002
The Analysis of Literature
MW 1600-1715
Feroza Jussawalla

English 250.003
The Analysis of Literature
MWF 0900-0950
Carolyn Woodward
English 250 introduces students to literary genres and serves as a practical preparation in critical writing, bibliographic methods, and research. This section will feature works by the English Restoration writer Aphra Behn (poetry, a novel, and a play), short stories by other writers, and the films Casablanca and The Crying Game. You'll practice close reading, structural analysis, and deconstruction; study perspectives from the fields of literary history, cultural history, feminist theory, and gender studies; and gain experience in preparing a bibliography and researching both primary and secondary sources. Requirements: frequent short writing, 3 critical essays, and one research paper. Texts: Mario Klarer, An Introduction to Literary Studies; Aphra Behn, The Rover (Broadview) and Oroonoko (Bedford Cultural Edition); and a photocopied collection.

English 250.004
The Analysis of Literature
MWF 1000-1050
Steve Brandon

Possible texts include: Villarreal, Pocho; Valdez, Zoot Suit and Other Plays; Zeta Acosta Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo; Moraga, Loving in the War Years; Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory; Moraga, Heroes and Saints and Other Plays; Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters; Martinez, Mother Tongue; Rebolledo, Infinite Divisions.

English 290.001
Intro to Professional Writing
MWF 1300-1350
Jerry Shea
CANCELLED

English 290.002
Intro to Professional Writing
TR 1730-1845
James Burbank
This course introduces you to the many options available to those who chose professional writing as a career. WeÕll discuss and write in a variety of genres that professionals use. Technical writing, proposal writing, public relations, business writing, writing for magazines, basic editing and writing for the internetÑthese and many other forms of professional writing will serve as the focus for workshops, guest presenters, lectures and class discussions. We will also relate these exciting and challenging assignments to studentsÕ professional writing goals through an intensive reading program that will foster the studentÕs critical capacities to analyze and respond to a wide variety of writing situations. The class will encourage students to begin to think and plan as career writers. The foundation course in the professional writing program, this class will give students a number of skills, techniques and insights that will serve as a basis for professional development throughout a writing career.

English 292.001
World Literature: Ancient World through the Sixteenth Century
TR 0930-1045
Gary Harrison
This course takes you on a journey through the major texts of world literature from 2000 B.C.E. through the sixteenth century. We will read selections from some of the world's greatest epics, from Valmiki's Ramayana and Homer's Odyssey to Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Inferno. From the epic, we move to the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Kalidasa, and Zeami; and then to selections from some of the great novels of the world, including Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji, Cervantes' Don Quixote, and Wu Chengen's Monkey. In addition, we will read short excerpts from world travelers in the ancient and medieval world, historical documents about heroes and rulers, and short poems by some of the world's finest lyric poets, including Sappho, Catullus, Bhartrihari, Tao Qian, Li Bai, Rumi, Petrarch, Sor Juana, and Mirabai. As we marvel at powerful tales about love and war, heroic journeys and spiritual pilgrimages, overweening pride and saint-like humility, we will be alert to the richly diverse threads that have been woven into the intricate web of our increasingly global culture. Note: This course satisfies one of the Core Curriculum requirements for the Humanities.

English 294.001
Survey of Early English Literature
TR 1730-1845
Mary Rooks
This exciting and important course surveys British Literature from three historical periods: Medieval (Old and Middle English), Renaissance, and Restoration/Eighteenth century. Heroism and villainy, romance and sensuality, damnation and salvation, logic and passionÑhow do these supposedly oppositional forces both compete and meld in the drama of human existence? We will explore the horrific torments caused by Grendel, the "dark doer of hateful deeds in the black nights," and suffered by Faust, whose pact with the devil costs him his soul. We will contemplate with John Donne the luck of the flea, who "swells with one blood made of two," and with John Milton the motivation of Eve, who literally turns her back on AdamÕs welcome in Paradise Lost. We will wander through the strange worlds of the tiny Lilliputians and giant Brobdingnaggians of GulliverÕs Travels, and mourn with PopeÕs Belinda over the rape of her golden lock. Bring to the classroom your knowledge and commentary on some of the most beautiful and captivating works of literature in English. While our focus will be on the literature and major developments of genre and style, we will also consider important cultural trends and historical events, as well as key philosophical and social issues, in each period. Required texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature and photocopy packet.

English 294.002
Survey of Early English Literature
MW 1300-1415
Ayanna Thompson
Why read British texts from the 7th-18th centuries? Is the study of "the canon" relevant to your life? This survey and introduction to the study of British literature will explore the stylistic and thematic strains that helped create modern (and even post-modern) literature and sensibilities: the development of the lyric, the rise of secular theatre, the role of women in society and literature, constructions of cultural and racial conflicts, and the birth of the novel. This course will be divided into four sections: Old English literature, Medieval literature, Renaissance Literature, and the Eighteenth Century. Although portions of the course will be structured around lectures, class participation in the form of discussions and presentations is mandatory.

English 296.001
Early American Literature
TR 0930-1045
Elizabeth Archuleta
This course surveys American Literature to 1865. The question, "What is American Literature?" will guide us through the semester as we consider various answers from a number of perspectives. We will survey the recognized canon of American literature, read diverse works by Anglo-American, American Indian, African American, male and female writers, but more importantly, we will pay special attention to the encounters between "self" and "other" brought about by European contact with American Indians and by the institution of slavery.

English 296.002
Earlier American Literature
MWF 1000-1050
Peter White

English 296.003
Earlier American Literature
TR 1730-1845
Staff

English 304.001
The Bible Literature
MW 1430-1545

English 304.002
The Bible Literature
MW 1730-1845
Staff

E nglish 305.001
Viking Mythology
TR 0930-1045

English 315.001
Intro to Medieval Culture
TR 1230-1345
Helen Damico
Do you want to learn about the Early Middle Ages? This is the course for you. Multi-disciplinary (Music, Art, Archaeology, and more), cross- cultural (England, Iceland, Norway, France, Byzantium), the course is an introduction to the study of the cultures of Medieval England, Scandinavia, and Continental Europe. We read major medieval works in literature, history, art and architecture, and philosophy, and make distinctions between disciplines. The syllabus is organized around significant events and personages--Heloise and Abelard, Abbess Hild, Alfred, the Norman Invasion, as examples--and approaches them from two or three different perspectives. Selected Texts: Bayeux Tapestry, Stave Church Paintings of Norway, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Historia Calamitatum, Laws of Aethelbert and Cnut, Njal's Saga, Troubadour songs. Midterm, quizzes, short paper, final. Slide lectures and taped- music lectures. This course applies toward the Minor in Medieval Studies.
Prerequisites: English 102

English 320.002 (call no. 19497)
Advanced Expository Writing Classical Rhetorical Tropes
MWF 0900-0950
Jerry Shea
This is the writing course you would have taken five hundred years ago-or twenty-five hundred years ago. Your writing and your analysis of will be based upon classical rhetorical tropes. "Anadiplosis," "erotesis," "parrhesia," and "parecbasis" are not diseases; rather, these and a plethora of others are names of word and sentence and paragraph strategies that can still serve writers well. This is truly (Sophis)ticated writing. Several essays to be written; others to be read and analyzed. Text: Lanham, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms.

English 320.003
Advanced Expository Writing-MA
T 1800-2100
Matthew McDuffie

English 321.001
Intermediate Creative Writing Fiction
TR 1230-1345
Julie Shigekuni
In this workshop we will explore voice--how it is created in the work of contemporary masters and how it arises in your work. During the first half of the semester, we will read stories and conduct a series of experiments that focus on various elements of craft. Alongside this experimentation will be an ongoing discussion on how authenticity is achieved and a constant push at what is possible in the realm of fiction. During the second half of the semester you will develop a story to be read and critiqued in class. Central to the workshop will be your writing and the lively discussion of stories.

English 321.002
Intermediate Creative Writing Fiction
MWF 1100-1150
Sharon Warner
This course is an intermediate-level workshop with an emphasis on mastering the elements of craft: point of view, character, theme, plot, setting, and symbolism. Our focus will be on observation and transformation, on taking what we see and hear around usÑthe conversations of strangers, offbeat relatives, the news, childhood adventures, romances, daydreams, and liesÑand turning it into fiction.
Requirements: Frequent reading assignments from literary magazines and the texts, a reading and writing journal, and two short stories plus revisions, and attendance at local readings. Texts: Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, Blue Mesa Review #15, and an issue of Puerto del Sol.

English 321.003
Intermediate Creative Writing Fiction
MWF 1300-1350
Sharon Warner
(see 321.002 description, above)

English 322.001
Intermediate Creative Writing Poetry
TR 1600-1715
This class will be staffed by an experienced teacher and published author from the greater Albuquerque community.
This is an intermediate level workshop in which students will use assigned readings and their own writing to develop a deeper understanding of poetry. Students who enroll must have completed English 222 or have the consent of the instructor. By the end of the semester, students will have gained an appreciation for contemporary poetry and have learned how to prepare their own work for publication

English 322.002
Intermediate Creative Writing Poetry
MWF 1400-1450
(see English 322.001 above)

English 323.001 (call no. 20464)
Intermediate Creative Writing Non-Fiction
MWF 1400-1450
Marisa P. Clark
The focus of this intermediate- level creative nonfiction workshop will be memoir writing, in which the author reflects on how a significant memory has shaped his/her perspective and then artfully renders that memory in such a way that the reader can view and experience it through the author's interpretive lens. Class discussions will concern elements of literary craft, naturally, but also the kinds of responsibility that fall on writers of-nonfiction work. Subjects of-writing and reading assignments will include the following:o childhood memory: how one particular early memory or event has shaped the adult author's existence or self-understandingo the self in contact with place:, the impact of a place on the authoro the self in contact with history: the impact of a historical moment or event on the authoro the author's relationship With his/her writingAs with any creative writing class, you can expect to read a great deal of published nonfiction pieces. Of equal if not greater importance is the emphasis that will be placed on your own production of literary-quality nonfiction pieces. Not only will you work on numerous short exercises in and outside class to help you generate material for memoir pieces, but you will also write and revise two complete memoir pieces and workshop at least one of them.Prerequisite: any other creative writing course, or permission of the instructorOur reading list will be drawn from The Best American Essays (Third College Edition, ed. Robert Atwan), In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction and In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal (ed. Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones), and other creative nonfiction anthologies, and we will also read at least one book-length memoir (perhaps Paul Monette's Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, Linda Hogan's The Woman Who Watches over the World: A Native Memoir, or Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone., Box Afe Up and Ship Me Home).Contact clarkmp@unm.edu with questions about the course.

English 351.001
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
MW 1430-1545
Anita Obermeier
This course is designed to offer interested students an opportunity to study critically Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, one of the greatest, most imaginative, and varied pieces of English literature. We will explore Chaucer's most famous work in relation to the turbulent historical, intellectual, literary, and social world of late-medieval England­­a world of both decay and renewal, of catastrophic violence and decline for some, but dazzling possibility for others. Through the voices of competing storytellers, Chaucer's last great poem tests the boundaries of social possibility in a "disenchanted" age, weighing the competing claims of allegory and realism, chivalry and commerce, men and women, traditional authority and individual experience. And it does so in our ancestor language of Middle English, simultaneously a colorful, earthy, and lofty idiom. In this course we will, in essence, ride along with the Canterbury pilgrims on our own journey through the Middle Ages.
Requirements: 3-5-page paper, 8-10-page paper, in-class midterm, in-class final, 10 one-page response papers.Larry D. Benson, ed., The Riverside Chaucer. Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Trans. V.E. Watts. Penguin, 1962.

English 352.001
Early Shakespeare
TR 1100-1215
Barry Gaines

English 352.002
Early Shakespeare
TR 1230-1345
Barry Gaines

English 353.001
Later Shakespeare
TR 1400-1515
Cheryl Fresch
Beginning this semester the English Department takes a new look at Shakespeare. This course will focus on the plays­comedies, tragedies, romances­which Shakespeare wrote after 1603, after Elizabeth I died, and James I ascended the throne and also became the patron of Shakespeare's acting company which re-named itself The King's Men. We will closely read ten plays, including King Lear, Othello, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale. We will analyze structure, characterization, poesy, we will consider the literary/historical sources behind the plays, and we will try to situate the plays in Jacobean England. Assignments: two preliminary exams, one comprehensive final exam, and three papers on assigned topics.

English 354.001
Milton
TR 1100-1215
Cheryl Fresch
Milton's shorter poems, as well as his prose treatise Areopagitica, will be the primary texts for the first half of the semester. Most of the second half of the semester will be devoted to Paradise Lost, but we will conclude the semester reading Paradise Regained. Throughout the semester, a great deal of attention will also be brought to the so-called literary paintings of the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries which were prompted by Milton, both the man and his poetry. Assignments: two preliminary exams, a final exam, and three papers. The three papers will investigate either Milton's literary sources or his literary critics.

English 360.001
Faulkner
TR 1230-1345
Antonio Marquez
This course introduces students to the major work of the William Faulkner, the greatest American fiction writer of the twentieth century. We will provide critical analyses of the texts and examine the social, cultural and intellectual currents that influenced Faulkner
and his work. Requirements: a midterm examination, a final examination, and a final essay. Texts: Flags in the Dust, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet, Go Down, Moses.

English 411.001
American Banned Books
W 1900-2130
Gary Scharnhorst
Our First Amendment tradition of free speech notwithstanding, many of our richest literary works have been censored or otherwise challenged at some time by school boards, local governments, and self-appointed moral crusaders on social, political, sexual, and/or religious grounds. All of the books we read in this course, which might be retitled "Great American Books," have been censored in some sense, either by removal from school curricula or public library shelves or challenged in court or suppressed by their publishers or allowed to lapse from print while under attack. This course considers several of these texts, including Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Nabokov's Lolita, Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, and Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and the cultural context in which they have been challenged; that is, we will also consider their publication and reception histories.

English 411.003
Post Colonial Cousins-HONORS
MW 1430-1545
Feroza Jussawalla

English 411.007
Medieval English Mystics
T 1730-2000
Michael Demkovich
Through a study of the major contributions made by such great English mystics of the Middle Ages as the anonymous author of ?The Cloud of Unknowing,? Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and Margary Kempe, we shall trace the English part of the development of mysticism in Christianity. This course applies toward the Minor in Medieval Studies.

English 416.001/516.001
American Biography and Autobiography
T 1730-2000
David Dunaway
(The undergraduate seciton (416.001) of this course has been cancelled. The graduate section (516.002) has been rescheduled as 516.002.)

English 417.001
Editing
TR 1530-1645
Rick Johnson-Sheehan
Editing is the bedrock of the publishing industry. In this course, we will study the editing of books, magazines, journals, and websites. You will learn how to work collaboratively with authors and negotiate the publishing industry. You will learn to work within the four levels of editing: proofreading, line editing, substantive editing, and global editing. Each level requires specific abilities and offers different challenges. The course is mostly aimed at people who want to write/edit non-fiction prose. However, people who are interested in learning how to edit fiction would learn a also great amount from this course. At the end of the semester, you will have mastered the fundamental skills needed to work as an editor in the publishing industry. At a minimum, you will be a stronger editor of your work and the work of others.

English 418.001
Grants/ Proposals
R 1600-1830
Crystal McClernon
Students will learn how to identify and evaluate grant and proposal opportunities, how to analyze and address the rhetorical situations related to grant and proposal writing, how to research and compile data for use in proposals or business plans, how to use basic and advanced elements of persuasive writing in an effective and ethical manner, how to apply basic document design techniques, and how to present a proposal. Students will work in small groups, as well as individually throughout the semester. Representatives from area foundations and funding organizations will guest lecture. Each class will be split more or less in half: lecture and presentation, group analysis and problem-solving or peer review. Assignments include 2-3 shorter written assignments, sections of a proposal, and one complete proposal package. Individual and group oral presenations may also be required.
Text: Writing Proposals: Rhetoric for Managing Change, R. Johnson-Sheehan; photocopied articles

English 419.001/519.011
Visual Rhetoric and Design
MW 1300-1415
Susan Romano
Writers and readers alike now share a growing realization that contemporary written discourse has significant visual dimensions. Indeed ready access to digital cameras, graphics editors, and desktop and online publishing software assures us that visuals are no longer mere accessories to the making of meaning. They are central to it. In Visual Rhetoric and Design, we'll work with the two faces of rhetoric: analysis and production. First we'll analyze the effects of imagery and design in public discourse, in propaganda, and in professional and community contexts. Then, with our hands on the very tools for making visual meaning, we'll work as creative designers and editors. Plan on producing numerous sample designs, on generating cogent rationales for your design decisions, and on offering critical analyses of other people's designs. You'll revise the most promising of your set of samples for a professional portfolio.

English 420.001/520.001
Blue Mesa Review Editorial Class
T 1900-2130
Julie Shigekuni
This course provides students with hands-on training in all aspects of running a nationally circulated literary magazine. Editorial assistants solicit and read manuscripts, correspond with authors, and take part in deciding the contents, cover art, and layout of the review. Meeting times and places of various editorial boards are decided at the first mandatory meeting which takes place annually on the Sunday before fall classes begin. The meeting time listed in the course catalog is not when most boards meet. For more information, contact Julie Shigekuni, Editor, at jshig@unm.edu. Registration requires permission from the instructor; no exceptions.

English 420.002/520.002
Science and Medicine in the News
TR 15:30-16:45 (3 Credits)
Janet Yagoda Shagam
There are many career opportunities for people able to translate science, technology, medical or environmental news for public understanding. Students enrolled in Science and Medicine 420/520, by becoming familiar with the science behind the story will learn how to research and write about newsworthy topics. Some areas of discussion and class research will include community water, genetic engineering and genomics, emergent and reemergent diseases, public health and biological warfare. The class format will include lecture, guest presentations, field trips, class critiques and student presentations. Students will have opportunities to interact with science writers, representing both print and broadcast media, from various European countries. Text Book and Readings: Selected readings from newspapers, books, journals and news releases. Blum, D and M Knudson. A Field Guide for Science Writers. ISBN 0-19-510068-9

English 421.001
Creative Writing Wksp Prose Fiction
TR 1100-1215
Julie Shigekuni
The premise for this course is that strong content arises out of identifying and carefully nurturing each layer of a story. As such, we may begin by examining a story you wrote in an earlier fiction class, focusing critique on possibilities for development, asking questions like: What is the heart of this story? What do we know about the main character? What does the beginning lead us to expect? How are our expectations met or thwarted? What do we love, desire, fear? These basic questions emerge as central to all good stories and bear the heart of the storyteller--so come prepared for scrutiny, and for celebration too. We'll do some experiments, shaping and reshaping stories from various angles, and then, possibly, we'll begin something new. Each student is expected to write daily, and to create and revise a minimum of two stories.

English 421.002
Creative Writing Wksp Prose Fiction
MW 1730-1845
Daniel Mueller
Every piece of fiction, at each stage of its metamorphosis, contains the blueprint of its ultimate realization. Consequently, responding constructively to another's fiction is as great an act of the imagination as writing one's own fiction and requires just as much practice. For this reason, I have found addressing the issues raised by a piece of fiction in terms of the structural and stylistic decisions the writer has made and the extent to which the characters and idea of a fiction have been deeply imagined by the author to be a constructive, systematic approach to critiquing narratives. In addition to helping one another hear what our own fiction is telling us about what it wants to become, we will read essays on the theory and craft of fiction as well as short fiction by variety of writers from around the world.
Required texts include: Crafting Fiction: In Theory, In Practice; The Art of the Tale.

English 422.001
Advanced Creative Writing Poetry
MW 1300-1415
This class will be staffed by an experienced teacher and published author from the greater Albuquerque community.
This is an upper division poetry workshop focusing on the poems of our students. Students who enroll must have completed English 222 and 322 or have the consent of the instructor. Class participation and original work will be the primary requirements, along with an examination of some of the best of contemporary poetry.

English 422.002
Advanced Creative Writing Poetry
TR 1300-1415
(for description, see 422.001 above)

English 441.001/541.001
Grammars
MW 1430-1545
Hector A. Torres
This course approaches the study of English grammar from a descriptive standpoint. This means that throughout the course we will be more concerned with how the English language works and less with what it is. We will begin by examining the difference between descriptive as opposed to prescriptive approaches to the study of English grammar. We will learn to do grammatical analysis of words, phrases, and sentences. Our descriptive approach to the English language will also include a close examination of the English sound system. Along the way, we will explore such topics as the relationship of language to issues, identity, gender, culture. As time and interest permit, issues in linguistic theory will raised.

English 448.001/548.001
Literary/Historical Sources in Medieval Latin
TR 1600-1715
Timothy C. Graham
This course will enable graduate students and upper-level undergraduates to develop their skills in reading medieval texts written in Latin. Familiarity with key Latin texts of the Middle Ages is vital both for medieval historians-for whom most of the key primary materials are written in Latin-and for those interested in medieval vernacular literatures, which were so heavily influenced by Latin. Those with a knowledge of classical Latin will find a new world opening up before them when they begin to engage with medieval Latin, for the quantity of works that survive from the Middle Ages far surpasses that from the classical period, encompassing a much wider range of genres. Participants in the course will read and translate key passages from texts dating from the fourth to the thirteenth century, including biblical literature, historical chronicles, hagiographic writings, personal memoirs, and beast fables. Specific authors studied will include Jerome, Bede, Eadmer, and Bonaventure, among others. Changes in conventions of grammar and orthography that took place during the Middle Ages, and that serve to distinguish medieval from classical or king with medieval Latin texts and will receive training in the use of those resources. The methods of modern editors will be a point of focus, and students will learn how to interpret and use the apparatus criticus of a scholarly edition. The fundamental aim of the course is to enable students to develop their abilities in reading and translating to the point that they become confident of their own abilities to engage with a medieval Latin text. They will thereby develop a skill vital to their progress in the field of Medieval Studies and of later periods. There will be regular translation assignments, a research project, and a final examination.
Selected Texts: The Vulgate, the Gesta Romanorum, Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, Eadmer's Historia Novorum, Bonaventure's Life of St.Francis. This course applies toward the Minor in Medieval Studies. See also under 548.001.

English 448.002
Medieval Drama
MWF 1100-1150

English 449.001/549.001
Old English
TR 1730-1845
Helen Damico
An introduction to the language, literature, and civilization of Anglo-Saxon England (A.D. 600-1100), the course is designed to prepare students for more advanced linguistic, literary, and cultural studies in this and later periods. Further, this course is essential for students in the literature of later periods for the texts represent the first examples of such genres as emblem poetry, dream vision poetry, elegy, saints lives, and public rhetoric. In addition to translation and the concurrent study of grammar, phonology, and versification, the course will offer lectures on the elements of Germanic language, on developments into modern English, and slide presentations dealing with art, archaeology, and social and political history. Quizzes, midterm, final. Graduate students will do a paper. The course is open to undergraduates. This course applies toward the Minor in Medieval Studies.
Selected Required Texts: Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer; Pope/Fulk, Eight Old English Poems; Hall's Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. See also under 549.001.

English 459.001/559.001
Irish Literature
MWF 1100-1150
Mary Power
You will be introduced to the writers of the Irish Literary Renaissance in this course and learn about the development of the Abbey Theatre. We will read both poems and plays by William Butler Yeats and plays by Lady Gregory to John Synge and Sean O'Casey. Then we will encounter the realism and wit of Joyce and let him take us in another direction in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist. We will also read Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds, and short story writer including Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Elizabeth Bowen and Mary Lavin.. There will be two or three public lectures by visiting scholars to supplement this course. (Two tests, two papers).

English 461.001
American Romanticism: Mid-nineteenth-century American literature
TR 1230-1345
Jesse Alemán
This course will survey and analyze the key texts and authors of mid-nineteenth-century
American literature. It will focus on major movements such as transcendentalism and romanticism; major literary forms such as essays, short stories, novels, and poetry; and major socio-historical factors such as Indian removal, slavery, domesticity, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, and the rise of market capitalism and industry. We'll hopefully come to understand the relationship between intellectual movements, literary production, and the formation of the nation at mid-century.Possible Texts:
Dickinson, Emily. Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Douglass, Frederick. The Oxford Frederick Douglass.
Emerson, Ralph. The Portable Emerson.
Fuller, Margaret. The Portable Margaret Fuller.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
Melville, Herman. Billy Budd and Other Short Stories.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Tales and Poems.
Rollin Ridge, John. The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Civil Disobedience.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose.This course is open for undergraduate enrollment only.

English 463.001
Modern American Literature
MWF 1300-1350
Antonio Marquez
Ranging from Naturalism to Existentialism, this course considers major literary movements of modern American fiction and covers important, influential American
novels and their place in cultural-literary history. Required Texts: Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and The Monster; Chopin, The Awakening; Wharton, The House of Mirth; Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio; Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury; Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; West, The Day of the Locust; Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath; Wright, Native Son.

English 470.001/570.001
Modernist Literature
TR 1400-1515
Hugh Witemeyer
This course survey a selection of works in poetry and prose by five of the great writers of the earlier twentieth century: W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. Writing assignments will include two essays, a midterm examination, and a final examination. Each member of the class will also help to prepare a set of discussion questions. As background for Joyce's Ulysses, students are urged to read or review Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before the end of the Fall break. The course will include graduate students as well as undergraduates.Texts: W. B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays, ed. M. L. Rosenthal; Ezra Pound, Selected Poems; T. S. Eliot, Selected Poems and Selected Prose; James Joyce, Ulysses: The Corrected Text; Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.

English 472.001/572.001
Contemporary Literature
M 1900-2130
Robert Gish
A survey of the poetry, fiction, drama and nonfiction prose of the Post-1945 era in the United States and Britain with some consideration of the international influence of and upon these literatures. Course content varies from semester to semter. This semester the focus is on interrelationships of literature, culture, and politics with analysis of literature as writing. Course texts include: Green, Collected Stories; OÕConnor, A Good Man is Hard to Find; Silko, "Yellow Woman" and other stories in The Man to Send Rain Clouds; Erdrich, Love Medicine; Welch, Winter in the Blood; Joyce Carol Oates, Telling Stories; and Lentricchia, Critical Terms for Literary Study. Diane HackerÕs A Writer's Reference is recommended.

English 486.001/586.001
British Fiction: The Victorian Crisis of the 1890s
TR 1230-1345
Leon Higdon
Each decade struggles through crises of various kinds, but the 1890s brought crises to Victorian society, culture, science, economic, and politics which Thomas Hardy would quite presciently label "the ache of modernism." As the decade increasingly reshaped virtually every paradigm of the earlier Victorian world, it found itself fearful of, indeed at times terrified by, the future, yet contemptuous of the past. Facing demands for the reformation of packaging and marketing books, the novelists quickly opened their works to new subjects, new varieties of language, and new ideas as they wrenched apart many of the existing Victorian motifs. We will look first at the unraveling dualities of the rational and irrational in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and selected Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. We will then move to the battles over gender roles and relationships in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1896) and George Gissing's The Odd Women (1893). The semester will conclude with the explosion of new subgenres represented by colonial novels and science fiction: Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly (1895), H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895), and Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901). Throughout the semester, we will be weighing the relationship between self and society and testing the validity of Lord Henry Wotton's 1891 very un-Victorian assertion that "the aim of life is self-development."

English 486.002/586.002
Theory of the Novel
MWF 0900-0950
Mary Power
We will read some theoreticians of the novel from Fielding to Bahktin, and observe how the somewhat loose forrn of the novel has been tested. We will look at Defoe's Robinson Crusoe with an eye to fiction in conflict with true adventure. We'll examine the compatibility of novel and epic with Fielding's Joseph Andrews and excerpts from Joyce's Ulysses. We'll investigate some problems of time in the novel with Salmon Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds-biography and the novel with Flaubert's Parrot We'll also compare some famous "re-makes" - Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, and more recently, Virginia Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham's The Hours.

English 499.001
Internship
W 1200-1250
Rick Johnson-Sheehan
All English majors and minors, not just those in the Professional Writing concentration, may apply for and complete an Internship as part of their undergraduate work. If you are about to begin or about to complete an internship, or if you have completed an internship during the past two semesters, see Professor Johnson Sheehan for an add card to the Internship Seminar. During the first week of class, come to the Wednesday meeting to receive a syllabus and schedule for the term. The class will meet about seven times during the semester to discuss topics of interest to enrolled students and to others seeking internships. Seminar topics include reading the job ads, writing job applications and resumes, searching the Internet for jobs, building a professional portfolio, and general problems and successes with ongoing or completed internships. Students must attend the seminar meetings and complete two documents: an internship proposal (1-3 pages) and a career portfolio. In addition, students give two oral presentations: at least one brief progress report and a more formal (about 20 minutes) final report on their internship or job search.
This course is credit/no credit.