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Spring 2008
All sections of ENGL 100 are
technologically enhanced.
ENGL 100 Composition 3 credits
Grade Method: REG
GEP/GFR:Satisfies Eng Comp Req.
[2624] 0101 MWF........9:00am- 9:50am (FA 001) SIMS, D
[2625] 0201 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (ITE 237) BLOOM, R
[2626] 0301 M..........7:10pm- 9:40pm (FA 001) TERHORST, R
[2627] 0401 MWF.......10:00am-10:50am (MP 102) DUNNIGAN, B
[2630] 0701 MWF.......11:00am-11:50am (FA 001) BROFMAN, M
[2631] 0901 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (SOND112) MCGURRIN JR, A
[2632] 1001 TuTh.......8:30am- 9:45am (FA 001) MABE, M
[2634] 1201 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (FA 001) PUTZEL, D
[2636] 1401 TuTh.......2:30pm- 3:45pm (FA 001) SNEERINGER, H
[2637] 1501 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (ENGR104) WALTERS, A
[2638] 1601 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (FA 001) PUTZEL, D
[2639] 1701 TuTh.......4:00pm- 5:15pm (FA 001) WALTERS, A
[2641] 1901 Th.........7:10pm- 9:40pm (FA 001) MACEK, P
[2642] 2001 Tu.........7:10pm- 9:40pm (FA 001) WILKINSON, R
ENGL 100A Composition 4 credits
Grade Method: REG/AUD
GEP/GFR:Satisfies Eng Comp Req. Students
enrolled in ENGL100A will be required to
sign up for one hour/week in the writing
lab. This is a computer environment.
[2644] 0101 MWF........9:00am- 9:50am (SOND203) DUNNIGAN, B
M.........11:00am-11:50am (FA 002) LAB
[2645] 0102 MWF........9:00am- 9:50am (SOND203) DUNNIGAN, B
W.........11:00am-11:50am (FA 002) LAB
[2646] 0201 MWF.......10:00am-10:50am (SOND207) BROFMAN, M
M..........9:00am- 9:50am (FA 002) LAB
[2647] 0202 MWF.......10:00am-10:50am (SOND207) BROFMAN, M
W..........9:00am- 9:50am (FA 002) LAB
[2648] 0301 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (MP 008) BLOOM, R
M.........10:00am-10:50am (FA 002) LAB
[2649] 0302 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (MP 008) BLOOM, R
W.........10:00am-10:50am (FA 002) LAB
[2650] 0401 TuTh.......1:00pm- 2:15pm (SOND105) FINDLAY, J
Tu........12:00pm-12:50pm (FA 002) LAB
[2651] 0402 TuTh.......1:00pm- 2:15pm (SOND105) FINDLAY, J
Th........12:00pm-12:50pm (FA 002) LAB
[2652] 0501 MW.........4:00pm- 5:15pm (ACIV013) HAZELL, E
M..........5:30pm- 6:20pm (FA 002) LAB
[2653] 0502 MW.........4:00pm- 5:15pm (ACIV013) HAZELL, E
W..........5:30pm- 6:20pm (FA 002) LAB
[2654] 0601 TuTh.......8:30am- 9:45am (ENGR104) WALTERS, A
Tu........10:00am-10:50am (ENGR104) LAB
[2655] 0602 TuTh.......8:30am- 9:45am (ENGR104) WALTERS, A
Th........10:00am-10:50am (ENGR104) LAB
[2658] 0801 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (FA 006) HAZELL, E
M..........1:00pm- 1:50pm (FA 002) LAB
[2659] 0802 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (FA 006) HAZELL, E
W..........1:00pm- 1:50pm (FA 002) LAB
[2660] 0901 TuTh.......4:00pm- 5:15pm (SOND209) KIDD, K
Tu.........5:30pm- 6:20pm (FA 002) LAB
[2661] 0902 TuTh.......4:00pm- 5:15pm (SOND209) KIDD, K
Th.........5:30pm- 6:20pm (FA 002) LAB
ENGL 110 Composition for ESL Students 4 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG
GEP/GFR:Satisfies Eng Comp Req. Students
need permission from Dr. Paul Taylor in
the English Language Center or from the
instructor.
[2662] 0101 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (ACIV121) COLLINS, E
M..........2:30pm- 3:20pm (FA 002) LAB
[2663] 0102 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (ACIV121) COLLINS, E
W..........2:30pm- 3:20pm (FA 002) LAB
ENGL 190 The World of Language I 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH. Also listed as MLL 190,
LING 190.
[2664] 0101 MW.........7:10pm- 8:25pm (BIOL LH1) WESTPHAL, G
ENGL 191 The World of Language II 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP:Meets C. GFR:Meets AH or C. Also
listed as MLL 191, HUM 191.
[2665] 0101 TuTh.......2:30pm- 3:45pm (ACIV LH4) MCCRAY, S
ENGL 210 Introduction to Literature 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH.
[2666] 0101 MWF.......10:00am-10:50am (ACIV150) MCGURRIN JR, A
[2667] 0201 Tu.........4:30pm- 7:00pm (ACIV145) FINDLAY, J
ENGL 226 Grammar and Usage of Standard English 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH.
[2668] 0101 MWF.......10:00am-10:50am (FA 018) HARRIS, L
ENGL 241A Currents in British Literature King Arthur 3 credits
of Britain
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH. For 1500 years, heroic,
romantic, and mystical legends have
swirled around the quasi-historical figure
of Arthur. This course focuses on the
origins and development of the English
Arthur, from the evidence for 5th century
a Romano-British dux bellorum to Celtic
and French influences. Texts may include
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight, the alliterative Morte
Arthure, Sir Thomas Malory, selections
from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene,
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the
King, T. H. White, and Rosemary Sutcliff,
as well as film adaptations.
[2669] 0101 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (FA 018) ORGELFINGER, G
ENGL 243 Currents in American Literature Native 3 credits
American Literature
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH. An introduction to
Native American Literature. Although there
is a wide variety to this literature -
song, chant, ceremonial oral stories, oral
histories, oratory, poetry and drama - in
this class we will be focusing on
contemporary fiction, movies and
photographs that have shaped common
misunderstandings of Native Americans. We
will also read at least one
autobiographical work.
[2671] 0101 TuTh.......8:30am- 9:45am (ACIV145) BENSON, L
ENGL 250 Introduction to Shakespeare 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH.
[2672] 0101 TuTh.......1:00pm- 2:15pm (FA 006) ORGELFINGER, G
ENGL 250H Introduction to Shakespeare - Honors (AH) 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP:N/A. GFR:Meets AH.
[2673] 0101 TuTh.......1:00pm- 2:15pm (FA 006) ORGELFINGER, G
ENGL 271 Introduction to Creative Writing - Fiction 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH.
[2674] 0101 Tu.........7:10pm- 9:40pm (SOND209) SAWYERS, S
ENGL 273 Introduction to Creative Writing - Poetry 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP:N/A. GFR:Meets AH.
[2675] 0101 MWF.......11:00am-11:50am (ITE 241) MCGURRIN JR, A
ENGL 291 Introduction to Writing Creative Essays 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH.
[2676] 0101 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (MP 012) BENSON, L
[2677] 0201 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (ITE 237) SHIVNAN, S
[2678] 0301 TuTh.......2:30pm- 3:45pm (FA 440) MABE, M
ENGL 301 Analysis of Literary Language 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP:Meets WI.
[2679] 0101 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (ACIV305) DONOVAN, J
[2680] 0201 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (ACIV210) SMITH, O
[2681] 0301 MW.........4:00pm- 5:15pm (SOND205) GWIAZDA, P
ENGL 303 The Art of the Essay 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2682] 0101 TuTh.......8:30am- 9:45am (SOND202) FARABAUGH, R
ENGL 304 British Literature: Medieval and 3 credits
Renaissance
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2683] 0101 TuTh.......2:30pm- 3:45pm (SOND206) FALCO, R
ENGL 305 British Literature: Restoration to 3 credits
Romantic
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2684] 0101 TuTh.......2:30pm- 3:45pm (SOND205) SMITH, O
ENGL 306 British Literature: Victorian and Modern 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2685] 0101 TuTh.......1:00pm- 2:15pm (FA 018) FERNANDEZ, J
ENGL 307 American Literature: from New World 3 credits
Contact to the Civil War
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2686] 0101 MW.........5:30pm- 6:45pm (SOND110) STEWART, C
ENGL 308 American Literature: The Civil War to 1945 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2687] 0101 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (SOND107) GWIAZDA, P
ENGL 314 Topics in Drama NON-SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD This course
covers a wide range of Elizabethan and
Jacobean drama written by contemporaries
of Shakespeare, such as Christopher
Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Ben Jonson, George
Chapman, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher,
and John Webster. The aim of the course is
to give students a sense of the vibrant
and competitive world of the English
theater during this period. Not only did
the early modern era witness extraordinary
social changes-including the transition
from Tudor to Stuart rule, burgeoning
overseas exploration, increased urban
population, bouts of bubonic plague,
skirmishes abroad, and civil unrest at
home-but it also remains one of the most
astonishing literary epochs in British
history. This course will explore the
relationship of the changing social and
literary landscape to the development of
16th and 17th century drama and of the
theater tradition in which it flourished.
We will read Edward II, Doctor Faustus,
The Spanish Tragedy, Volpone, Bussy
D'Ambois, The Duchess of Malfi, The
Changeling, Women Beware Women, The Maid's
Tragedy, The Broken Heart, A Woman Killed
With Kindness, and The Knight of the
Buring Pestle. Prerequisite: Completion of
a 200-level literature course with a grade
of "C" or better.
[2688] 0101 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (ACIV145) FALCO, R
ENGL 320 Topics in Communication and Technology The 3 credits
Memoir
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD In this course
we will examine the memoir through both
reading and writing. We will read a
selection of contemporary memoirs,
discussing them both as artistic creations
and purportedly factual documents. As part
of the study of the genre and craft of
memoir, students will do their own
writing, ranging from in-class free-writes
to at home writing exercises that invite
experimentation with various storytelling
techniques. The final section of the
course will investigate the issues raised
by translating/shaping a written memoir
into an aural performance. Students may
have an opportunity to participate in a
storytelling performance similar to the
Stoop Storytelling Series
(stoopstorytelling.com). Prerequisite:
Completion of a 200-level literature
course with a grade of "C" or better. For
permission contact Chris Corbett at
corbett@umbc.edu.
[2689] 0101 M..........6:00pm- 8:30pm (FA 440) WEXLER, L
ENGL 322 Women and the Media: Myths, Images, and 3 credits
Voices
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH. Also listed as AFST
347, MLL 322 and GWST 322.
[7587] 0101 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (PUP 208) TAYLOR, D
ENGL 324 Theories of Communication and Technology 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2690] 0101 TuTh.......1:00pm- 2:15pm (FA 015) BURGESS, H
ENGL 326 The Structure of English 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2691] 0101 MWF.......11:00am-11:50am (FA 018) FITZPATRICK, C
ENGL 331 Contemporary British Literature 3 credits
Post-Modern Fiction and the Victorian Past
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP:N/A. GFR:Meets AH. The obsession of
post-modern novelists since the late 1960s
to revisit the Victorian age and revision
the 19th-century realist novel is a
phenomenon that has attracted growing
critical attention. How do metafictional
narrative strategies operate in order to
address concerns of feminism, religious
doubt, science, repression, or
colonization? Possible texts include John
Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman
(1969), A. S. Byatt's Possession (1990),
Emma Tennant's Two Women of London: The
Strange Case of Ms. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde
(1989), D. M. Thomas' Charlotte: The Final
Journey of Jane Eyre (2000), Michele
Roberts' In the Red Kitchen (1990),
Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace (1996), and
Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the
White (2002). We'll look at how the stock
parade of Victorian characters such as
fallen women, maidservants, psychics and
spiritualists, darwinian scientists,
detectives, lunatics and famous authors
present problems for post-modern literary
characters such as the "scholar-reader."
We'll examine how an interplay between the
cultural legacy of Thatcherite Britain and
the theoretical legacy of deconstruction
impacts upon narrative form in the
contemporary novel. Prerequisite:
Completion of a 200-level literature
course with a grade of "C" or better.
[2692] 0101 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (PHYS201) FERNANDEZ, J
ENGL 340 Major Literary Traditions and Movements 3 credits
English Rhymed Couplet
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD A study of the
evolving "art" or formal character of this
workhorse English meter from its inception
to the recent past. We will look closely
at the structure of the pentameter and
incidentally the tetrameter couplet to see
how its handling on the level of clause,
sentence, and verse governs the remarkable
range of effects of which it is capable.
Featured poets include Chaucer, Gascoigne,
Marlowe, Donne, Johnson, Dryden, Pope,
Goldsmith, Crabbe, Coleridge, Keats,
Browning, Frost, Winters, and Lowell.
Prerequisite: Completion of a 200-level
literature course with a grade of "C" or
better.
[2693] 0101 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (FA 015) EDINGER, W
ENGL 349 The Bible and Literature 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH. Focusing on narratives
and poetry of the Hebrew Bible, this
course will consider the literary
qualities of these texts and the
connections between the Bible and other
selected literary works. We will consider
issues of translation and the internal
relationships among biblical stories. Our
discussions will be informed by both
literary and biblical scholarship.
Non-biblical texts will represent a
variety of genres from poetry to science
fiction. We will examine the ways in which
the Bible is revisited and revisioned in
these pages. Prerequisite: Completion of a
200-level literature course with a grade
of "C" or better.
[2694] 0101 TuTh.......4:00pm- 5:15pm (MP 008) OSHEROW, M
ENGL 351 Studies in Shakespeare 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2695] 0101 MW.........4:00pm- 5:15pm (FA 015) EDINGER, W
ENGL 369 Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Literature 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP/GFR:Meets AH. At the beginning of the
20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, "The
problem of the twentieth century is the
problem of the color-line." His statement
was made against the backdrop of the
history of chattel slavery in the United
States and the continuing denial of
freedom for descendants of slavery. We
will consider the shifting manifestations
of this color line in mid-19th and
20th-century literatures, and how the line
of race intersects with ethnicity. How do
varied social identities - religious,
gendered and classed - converge with race
and ethnicity in different contexts, such
as slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction,
imperialism and immigration? Early writers
may include Herman Melville, William Wells
Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson
and Harriet Beecher Stowe. From the 20th
century, works may be drawn from W. E. B.
Du Bois, Zitkala-Sa, Anzia Yezierska, Jean
Toomer, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni
Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko.
Prerequisite: Completion of a 200-level
literature course with a grade of "C" or
better.
[2696] 0101 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (FA 015) STEWART, C
ENGL 371 Creative Writing-Fiction 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD Prerequisite:
ENGL 271 with a grade of "C" or better or
permission of instructor.
[2697] 0101 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (ACIV007) SHIVNAN, S
ENGL 373 Creative Writing-Poetry 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD Prereq: ENGL 273
with a grade of C or Better or permission
of the instructor.
[2698] 0101 TuTh.......4:00pm- 5:15pm (MP 012) FALLON, M
ENGL 379 Principles and Practices in Technical 3 credits
Communication
Grade Method: REG
[2699] 0101 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (ITE 241) MAHER, J
ENGL 380 Introduction to News Writing 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2700] 0101 W..........6:30pm- 9:00pm (ENGR122A) WEISS, K
ENGL 382 Feature Writing 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2701] 0101 TuTh.......8:30am- 9:45am (FA 440) CORBETT, C
ENGL 386 Adult Literacy Tutoring 4 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG This is a service
learning course in which students spend
half their time in the college classroom
discussing theories of adult literacy
learning. The other half is spent tutoring
adult learners in a Baltimore City
literacy center. This course is geared
toward undergraduates who are interested
in understanding the educational, social
and political issues surrounding adult
literacy acquisition, It is also for
students who want to make a difference by
engaging in hands-on practice. Permission
of the SHRIVER CENTER IS REQUIRED.
[2702] 0101 M..........4:00pm- 5:15pm (FA 440) MCCARTHY, L
ENGL 387 Web Design and Multimedia Authoring 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD This course will
give students a foundation in the
production and analysis of digital texts.
Like other kinds of texts, digital texts
require the exercise of language: in this
case, the "languages" of code and image.
We will thus learn to use Hypertext Markup
Language (XHTML) and Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) - the code basis of web texts
- in order to gain a thorough
understanding of digital writing. We will
also learn to "read" digital texts in
their many incarnations - web texts,
hypertexts, and interactive media (CD/DVD)
texts. We will learn the complexities of
digital narrative and design, and learn
how to compose creative and critical texts
in our new medium. Prerequisites: ENGL 100
and a 200-level English course with grades
of "C" or better. Permission of the
instructor is required.
[2703] 0101 W..........4:30pm- 7:00pm (ENGR336) BURGESS, H
ENGL 391 Advanced Exposition and Argumentation 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2704] 0101 MWF.......11:00am-11:50am (ITE 237) BURNS, M
[2705] 0201 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (ACIV151) FITZPATRICK, C
[2707] 0401 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (MP 105) SNEERINGER, H
ENGL 392 Tutorial in Writing 1-3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD Sections 1001
and 1101 will meet in FA 442.
[2708] 0101 W..........1:00pm- 2:15pm (FA 438) BENSON, L
[2709] 0201 W..........2:30pm- 3:45pm (FA 438) BENSON, L
[2710] 0301 Tu.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (FA 438) BENSON, L
[2711] 0401 Tu........10:00am-11:15am (FA 444) FALLON, M
[2712] 0501 Th........10:00am-11:15am (FA 444) FALLON, M
[2713] 0601 Tu.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (FA 444) FALLON, M
[2714] 0701 M..........9:30am-10:45am (FA 448C) SHIVNAN, S
[2715] 0801 M.........10:45am-12:00pm (FA 448C) SHIVNAN, S
[2716] 0901 W.........10:45am-12:00pm (FA 448C) SHIVNAN, S
[2717] 1001 Tu.........4:00pm- 5:15pm (TBA) EDINGER, W
[2718] 1101 Tu.........5:30pm- 6:45pm (TBA) EDINGER, W
[2719] 1201 F..........1:00pm- 2:15pm (FA 439) FITZPATRICK, C
ENGL 393 Technical Writing 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
GEP:Meets WI.
[2723] 0101 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (FA 018) HICKERNELL, M
[2724] 0201 MWF.......11:00am-11:50am (ENGR104) HARRIS, L
[2725] 0301 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (ENGR104) HARRIS, L
[2726] 0401 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (ENGR122) ROCKETT, D
[2727] 0501 W..........7:10pm- 9:40pm (ENGR104) SINGH, Y
[2728] 0601 Tu.........7:10pm- 9:40pm (ENGR104) HESS, L
[2730] 0801 TuTh.......4:00pm- 5:15pm (ENGR104) SIMS, D
[2731] 0901 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (ENGR122) ROCKETT, D
[2732] 1001 Th.........7:10pm- 9:40pm (ENGR122) SIMS, D
ENGL 393E Technical Writing for ESL Students 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD Open to students
whose native language is not English.
Completion of ENGL100 with a grade of "C"
or better and Junior standing required.
[2736] 0101 Tu.........7:10pm- 9:40pm (ENGR122A) SLYTHOMPSON, A
ENGL 398 Journalism Internship 1-4 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD Individual
Instruction course: contact department or
instructor for permission to enroll.
Course meets in FA 443.
[2738] 0101 Time and room to be arranged CORBETT, C
ENGL 400 Special Projects in English 1-4 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG Course will meet in FA
441.
[2739] 0101 Time and room to be arranged SHIPKA, J
ENGL 401 Methods of Interpretation 3 credits
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2740] 0101 TuTh.......2:30pm- 3:45pm (ITE 237) FERNANDEZ, J
[2741] 0201 MW.........1:00pm- 2:15pm (FA 018) STEWART, C
ENGL 407 Language in Society 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD Permission of
Instructor required.
[2742] 0101 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (SOND205) MCCARTHY, L
ENGL 410 Seminar in Genre Studies Joyce, Proust & 3 credits
Faulkner
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD Ever wanted to
read Ulysses but were afraid to ask? Heard
about Proust but didn't know how to start?
Been intrigued by Faulkner but didn't know
where to head after As I Lay Dying? This
course is for you. We will read ambitious
works of modernist fiction while asking
the questions: why do so many modernists
write encyclopedic fiction? What
distinguishes these works? How do matters
of character, place, and time develop
differently in the modernist long novel?
Along the way we will read for
interconnections between content and
experimental style, resonances of history
and culture, and the sheer pleasure of
language. Prerequisites: ENGL 301 with a
grade of "C" or better, senior standing,
and some familiarity with modernism.
Permission of the instructor is required.
This course is crosslisted with CPLT 480.
[2743] 0101 TuTh.......1:00pm- 2:15pm (FA 440) BERMAN, J
ENGL 442 Seminar In Visual Literacy 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD The argument for
visual literacy is the argument that just
as texts can be read if we learn to speak
the language (both literally and
structurally), so too can we learn to
"read" images, which have their own kind
of language - a visual one. This class
will focus on the reading, interpretation
and creation of visual culture in the form
of images, video and graphic novels. It
will also investigate ways in which visual
and textual languages often cross over -
from cave paintings to the language of
typography. Prerequisites: Senior
standing and permission of the instructor.
[2744] 0101 TuTh.......4:00pm- 5:15pm (FA 440) BURGESS, H
ENGL 448 Seminar in Literature and Culture Nation & 3 credits
Gender in Irish Literature
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD This course
explores the significance of gender in the
construction of nationalist and
colonialist ideology in Ireland and in the
formation of the Irish nation state. In
particular we analyze a familiar topos
whereby Ireland has been imagined as a
woman. This topos has a long-standing
history in Irish Literature and includes
the ninth-century poem, "The Old Woman of
Beare," a 1364 ode that begins "Ireland is
a woman," Edmund Spenser's personification
of Ireland as a female nymph in Book V of
The Faerie Queene (1590), Johnathan
Swift's "The Story of an Injured Lady"
(1707), Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish
Girl (1806), and more modern
manifestations such as W. B. Yeat's
Cathleen ni Houlihan, James Joyce's Anna
Livia Plurabelle, Seamus Heaney's "Act of
Union" (1975), Paul Muldoon's "Aisling"
(1983), and Eavan Boland's Object Lessons
(1995). As we analyze texts by these
authors and others, we will consider the
permutations of the body poitic and why
some Irish writers have found it difficult
to extricate themselves from the
simplication of the nation-gender
equation. Prerequisites: ENGL 301 with a
grade of "C" or better,senior standing and
permission of the instructor. Course will
meet in FA 440.
[2745] 0101 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (FA 440) DONOVAN, J
ENGL 480 Seminar in Advanced Journalism Mencken to 3 credits
the Millennium
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD A seminar
focusing on various topics of modern
journalism including the works of the
American journalist, critic and gadfly H.
L. Mencken, the most influential
journalist of the first half of the 20th
century, the British journalist and writer
George Orwell, the linguist and media
theorist Noam Chomsky and the media critic
Neil Postman, author of such works as "How
To Watch TV New." The course will also
focus on how news decisions are made -
particularly in terms of the content of
television news. Prerequisites: ENGL 380
with a grade of "C" or better, senior
standing and permission of the instructor.
[2746] 0101 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (FA 440) CORBETT, C
ENGL 493 Seminar in Communication and Technology 3 credits
Seminar in Communication and Technology
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD This seminar
explores the social nature of learning and
how individuals, through their
interactions with others, can become
successful participants in communities
formed out of shared practices. With an
emphasis on the role of genre in mediating
activity, we will examine how and why
individuals, through their tool-use (e.g.,
genre, language, music, computing,
architecture) can learn to act
purposefully so as to achieve desired
outcomes. But rather than understanding
these activities, motivations, and
outcomes as individual-specific, we will
uncover the ways in which the activity
systems in which action occurs are part of
a larger socio-cultural network that sets
the conditions by which success and
failure can occur. Finally, we will not
only analyze mediated activity within
specific communities of practice (e.g.,
classrooms, workplace organizations,
academic disciplines, etc.) but also
develop strategies by which we can
critically examine our own tool-use as
participants, or would-be participants, of
certain communities. Prerequisites: Senior
standing and permission of the instructor.
Also listed as LLC 635.
[2747] 0101 M..........4:30pm- 7:00pm (SOND203) MAHER, J
ENGL 495 Internship 1-4 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG Individual Instruction
course: contact department or instructor
for permission to enroll. Course will
meet in FA 437.
[2748] 0101 Time and room to be arranged GWIAZDA, P
ENGL 499H Senior Honors Project 4 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD
[2749] 0101 Time and room to be arranged FALCO, R
ENGL 649 GENRE ANALYSIS Genre Analysis 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG This seminar explores
the social nature of learning and how
individuals, through their interactions
with others, can become successful
participants in communities formed out of
shared practices. With an emphasis on the
role of genre in mediating activity, we
will examine how and why individuals,
through their tool-use (e.g., genre,
language, music, computing, architecture)
can learn to act purposefully so as to
achieve desired outcomes. But rather than
understanding these activities,
motivations, and outcomes as
individual-specific, we will uncover the
ways in which the activity systems in
which action occurs are part of a larger
socio-cultural network that sets the
conditions by which success and failure
can occur. Finally, we will not only
analyze mediated activity within specific
communities of practice (e.g., classrooms,
workplace organizations, academic
disciplines, etc.) but also develop
strategies by which we can critically
examine our own tool-use as participants,
or would-be participants, of certain
communities. Prerequisites: Senior
standing and permission of the instructor.
[7540] 0101 M..........4:30pm- 7:00pm (SOND203) MAHER, J