500-level classes for the Fall 2004 Semester (11 sections)
501 - 01: Independent Study
Instructor: TBA,Meeting Times:
Room:
Registration Number: 1901
Prerequisites:Overall average of 3.0, an average of 3.5 in the department, and at least 18 semester hours credit in the department.
Class Description:
501 - 02: Independent Study
Instructor: Ryan, SusanMeeting Times: 0am - 0am
Room:
Registration Number: 7742
Prerequisites:Overall average of 3.0, an average of 3.5 in the department, and at least 18 semester hours credit in the department.
Class Description:
504 - 01: Advanced Creative Writing II
Instructor: Griner, PaulMeeting Times: TTH 2:30-3:45 PM
Room: BR100C
Registration Number: 7379
Prerequisites:ENGL 503 and consent of instructor
Class Description: The course catlog entry for this course reads:
Prerequisite: ENGL 503 and consent of instructor. A continuation of 503, but individuals
concentrate on a given form. Spring.
It's wrong. You don't take it in the spring, and you don't have to have had 503. It will, however, be an advanced workshop, and you should have taken a workshop or workshops before.
The course will concentrate on fiction.
506 - 01: Teaching of Writing - WR
Instructor: Cross, GeoffMeeting Times: MW 4pm - 5:15pm
Room: HM123
Registration Number: 1301
Prerequisites:ENGL 309 or ENGL 310, or consent of instructor.
Class Description:
In focusing upon the nature of writing, this course will introduce you to:
" basic rhetorical concepts,
" an overview of rhetorical history, and
" knowledge of different kinds of classroom discourse.
It will also provide
" an enhanced awareness of the rhetorical situation of writing and aspects of written texts including tone, structure, and logic;
" an increased appreciation of good rhetoric, of "the good person writing well," the ethical dimension that should be present;
" knowledge of dialects and the student's right to his/her own language;
" knowledge of individual and group writing processes;
" the opportunity to improve your own writing through study, teaching, and practice.
In focusing upon the teaching of writing, this course will address
" the fundamentals of planning lessons--converting knowledge into action;
" sequencing assignments and planning units;
" classroom teaching;
" evaluating writing formatively and summatively, including developing an appreciation of writing in process;
" evaluating tone, syntax, arrangement, format, and ideas;
" evaluating the teaching of others and oneself; and
" developing reflective practice.
518 - 01: Foundations of Language
Instructor: Soldat-Jaffe, TatjanaMeeting Times: TR 1pm - 2:15pm
Room: HM103
Registration Number: 7631
Prerequisites:
Class Description:
522 - 01: Structure of Modern American English
Instructor: Mullen, KarenMeeting Times: MWF 9am - 9:50am
Room: HM106
Registration Number: 7380
Prerequisites:
Class Description: This course is intended for those who wish to know the fundamentals of English grammatical structure. We will explore the means by which words in English are assigned a grammatical classification, and we will examine ways in which these classifications interact with one another to form a grammatical system. This will lead to an examination of the major features of English grammar and a discussion of what constitutes grammaticality. There will be exercises throughout the course, and quizzes/examinations will be scheduled periodically.
Texts for the course will be: Analysing Sentences by Noel Burton-Roberts and the instructor's course workbook.
535 - 75: Applied Linguistics for English Teachers
Instructor: St. Clair, RobertMeeting Times: TR 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Room: DA204
Registration Number: 1904
Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or ENGL 105.
Class Description:
Grammatical approach to teaching language based in the theoretical foundations of cognitive linguistics. Concepts include prototype theory, cognitive grammar theory, figure and ground, frame and script, cognitive blending, iconicity, metaphor, metonymy, and grammaticalization.
Required: final paper, language X projects on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and social script theory. The course is managed through Black Board 6.1.
Cross-listed with Ling 535
TEXTS
INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
F. Ungerer and H-J Schmid
Longman, 1999 papeber back
ISBN: 0-582-239664 PPR
TEACHING GRAMMATICAL CONCEPTS
Course pack, Robert N. St. Clair, 2004
Available through Grays Bookstore
Special Notes:Access to BB 6.1
542 - 75: Studies in Tudor and Elizabethan Literature
Instructor: Billingsley, DaleMeeting Times: MW 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Room: HM221
Registration Number: 7381
Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105; junior standing.
Class Description: Studies in Tudor and Elizabethan Literature is an intensive survey of the major forms of literary expression during the Tudor dynasty (1485-1603). Prose readings will include selections from Malory's Morte d'Arthur and More's Utopia as well as specimen texts from writers of the Elizabethan period, but most of the course will be devoted to the study of Tudor poetry from Skelton through Spenser, with particular attention to prosody, metrics and the formal requirements of poetic expression in rigorous forms.
Graded course work includes in-class assignments or exercises and several short papers. Graduate students will write a longer term paper, possibly to include a brief class presentation.
Basic text: Abrams et al., Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, is on order with the campus store, but most of the readings will also be available in other anthologies or Dover cheap editions.
Special Notes:Work in the course will include regular contributions to a Blackboard discussion group. Papers will be submitted electronically for peer and instructor review.
See the instructor's course web site
551 - 01: 19th-C Am Lit & Social Reform (Special Topics in Literature in English)
Instructor: Ryan, SusanMeeting Times: MWF 1-1:50
Room: HM 119
Registration Number:
Prerequisites:
Class Description: Reformers and Their Critics in 19th-Century American Literature
(This is the title I prefer, but it wouldn't fit in the number of spaces allowed for official titles)
This course will address the relationship between nineteenth-century American literature and a range of movements, agendas, and practices of persuasion that we commonly label "social reform." Some of the texts we?ll read pursue their reformist agendas with an earnestness that shocks our (post)modernist sensibilities; others critique the reform movements of their day, even as they advance more subtle, but no less political, agendas of their own. We?ll consider the following questions, among others: To what extent and through what means can (or could) literature effect social change? What rhetorical strategies did nineteenth-century authors use to advance their agendas? Is politically engaged literature, as some critics have suggested, less aesthetically pleasing than literature without an overt reformist purpose? Or is there an aesthetics of persuasion that might operate in place of, or alongside, other evaluative criteria? How do the texts we?re reading intersect with and illuminate such critical and historical paradigms as the public sphere, sentimentalism, domesticity, critical race theory, nineteenth-century feminism(s), and transnational American studies?
Requirements: active participation in class discussion; brief response papers; a class presentation, a midterm exam, and a substantial final paper. Graduate students will write a longer final paper and will give an extra class presentation based on their research.
561 - 01: Chaucer
Instructor: Van, ThomasMeeting Times: MWF 10am - 10:50am
Room: HM215
Registration Number: 7382
Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105; junior standing.
Class Description:
575 - 01: Genre Studies in African-American Literature
Instructor: Majozo, EstellaMeeting Times: MWF 11am - 11:50am
Room: HM108
Registration Number: 7368
Prerequisites:ENGL 102 or 105; junior standing.
Class Description:
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