Baylor University

Department of EnglishCourse Descriptions

Spring 2010

The Funeral of Shelley, Louis Edouard Fournier (1889)

Special Matters

English majors should take the required junior level surveys before taking 4000-level classes.

Students majoring in the natural sciences may take English 3300 instead of English 1304.

Please Note

It is sometimes necessary to change course offerings, class schedules, and teacher assignments. The Department of English retains the right to add, change, or cancel any courses, class schedules, or teacher assignments listed herein at any time without prior notice.

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0300 Developmental English

This course is for students who need additional prepara-tion to do college-level work. English 0300 introduces students to the fundamentals of writing by emphasizing grammar, mechan-ics, punctuation, sentence structure, paragraph structure, and essay structure. Ample exercises—from identifying subjects and verbs to proof-reading paragraphs—are a hallmark of this course. Paragraph and essay assignments reinforce the need for coherence and detail in student writing. Satisfactory completion of English 0300 is based on the student’s performance on the departmental final essay, which is pass or fail. Although this course gives load credit, it satisfies no degree requirement.

Wilhite, Sec. 01, TR 9:30

1302 Thinking and Writing Prerequisite(s): ENG 0300 for students whose diag-nostic test indicates inability to do satisfactory work in ENG 1302.

A course designed to help students better understand English grammar, rhetoric, and usage for correct and effective writing. The course focuses on the several steps in organizing and writing the expository essay for a variety of purposes. Essay assignments develop students’ capacity for logical thought and expression.

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1304 Thinking, Writing, and Research Prerequisite(s): ENG 1302 or FAS 1302 or advanced placement.

A course designed to teach students to gather and evaluate information from a variety of sources and to incorporate ideas from

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these sources into the writing of a research paper. In addition, the course explores the techniques of persuasive and critical writ-ing.

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2301 British Literature Prerequisite(s): ENG 1302 and 1304 (or equivalent).

A study of the literature of Great Britain, em-phasizing the works of major writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, the Romantic poets, the Victorian poets, and the major novelists.

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2304 American Literature

Prerequisite(s): English 1302 and 1304 (or equivalent).

A study of the literature of the United States, emphasiz-ing the works of major writers such as Frost, Ellison, Haw-thorne, Melville, Poe, Dickinson, Whitman, Twain, Heming-way, Faulkner, and Morrison.

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2304 American Literature (ENG Majors Only) Prerequisite(s): English 1302 and 1304 (or equivalent).

This course is designed to introduce English ma-jors to significant works of American literature as paths toward understanding the United States’ literary hertage and the events and forces that have shaped American literature and life. Readings and class discussion will of

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fer an overview of literary terms, genres, and criticism to further students’ critical and analytical reading skills and to encourage students’ appreciation of a variety of literary styles and techniques. Student course work will include daily reading and discussion, writing assignments using both primary and secondary sources, and exams.

Callan, Sec. 04, MWF 10:10

2306 World Literature Prerequisite(s): ENG 1302 and 1304 (or equiva-lent).

A study of the literature of countries other than Britain and the United States, emphasizing the work of major writers such as Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Goethe, Flaubert, Dos-toevsky, and Tolstoy, and giving attention to selected classical works of non-Western literature.

Foster, Sec. 01, MWF 9:05Airaudi, Sec. 03, TR 11:00McDonald, Sec. 04, MWF 9:05

3300 Technical and Professional Writing

English 3300 is an advanced writing course designed to meet the needs of students who are preparing for careers in engineer-ing, science, technical, business and writing professions. The course emphasizes rhetorical concepts such as purpose, audience, style, and situation as well as strategies for planning, organizing, design-ing, and editing technical and professional communication. In addition, students will learn strategies for communicating technical information to a variety of audiences, including managers and us-ers, both technical and non-technical.

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Craven, Sec. E1, MWF 8:00; Sec. E3, MWF 9:05Medhurst, Sec. E2, TR 8:00; Sec. E4, TR 11:00Krasienko, Sec. E5, MWF 11:15Hoffman, Sec. E6, TR 12:30; Sec. E7, TR 3:30

3300 Technical and Professional Writing (Professional Writing Majors Only)

ThissectionofEnglish3300,designedspecificallyforPro-fessional Writing majors, is an advanced writing course that empha-sizes rhetorical concepts such as purpose, audience, style, and situa-tion as well as strategies for planning, organizing, designing, and editing technical and professional communication. Students will learn strategies for communicating technical information to a va-riety of audiences, including managers and users, both technical and non-technical. Students will also work in teams for several of the projects and learn how to write collaboratively.

Alexander, Sec. E8, TR 9:30

3302 Modern English Grammar Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing

This course examines the structure of present-day English. The primary goal is to make explicit the conventions native speakers of English know implicitly. The terms and concepts covered in class should be helpful as you work to improve your writing and will allow youtodiscussgrammarmoreconfidentlyandprecisely.

Butler, Sec. 01, MWF 10:10

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3303 Advanced Expository Writing Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing or consent of instructor.

This course offers junior and senior students the oppor-tunity to study and work with advanced concepts and techniques of expository writing. This section will explore the special topic of food writing. Students will read, analyze, and practice writing different genres of food writing including food memoirs, reviews, and investigative essays. Students will also practice different methods of research including interviews and observation. This class will be struc-tured in a workshop format where students will brainstorm story ideas, peer review their writing, and revise based on the feedback they receive.

Shaver, Sec. 01, TR 9:30

3305 Language in Society Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing or consent of instructor.

The complexities of the relationship between language and social identity have become a popular topic of interest for people in social sci-ences. Sociolinguistic research has shown that we behave and speak in waysthatarehighlyinfluencedbyourupbringing,ourlifeexperiences,and our sense of self. We want to belong to certain groups and to distance ourselves from others. One way of expressing our actual or desired group identity is by adopting or rejecting a group's speech style. However, some people have more ability and greater access to learning a desired style than others, and this disparity has been found to reinforce and perpetuate the traditional power structures of society. This course covers some of the key featuresofvariationinlanguagethatweusetobothreflectandconstructour social identity.

Butler, Sec. 01, TR 9:30

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3307 Screenplay and Scriptwriting Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing or consent of instructor

Screenplay and Scriptwriting is a creative writing class designed for beginning to intermediate writers with an interest in dramatic forms like TV, movies, and writing for the stage. The class will focus on close reading of scripts and study of film and on the writing of a substantial portion of an actual screenplay. Among the elements we will discuss are pitches, scenes, structure, dialogue, genre, adaptation, and the business of screenwriting.

Garrett, Sec. 01, T 3:30-6:30

3309 Writing for the Popular Market Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing or consent of instructor.

Aworkshopinwritingnonfictionprosethatemphasizeswriting and rhetorical strategies appropriate for popular media in-cludingmagazines,featuresectionsofnewspapers,andnonfictionbooks.Commonlyreferredtoascreativenonfiction,literaryjour-nalism, new journalism, and even feature writing, Kevin Kerrane describes this broad genre as “making facts dance.” In this course, weanalyzeseveralrepresentativeexamplesofcreativenonfiction/literary journalism texts. We will also practice using literary tech-niques and traditional journalistic reporting to tell true stories.

Shaver, Sec. 01, TR 12:30

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3310 Introduction to Language and Linguistics Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing or consent of instructor. What do we know when we know a language? How do we learn it? These are the central questions we will be concerned with in this course. We will examine the core subsystems of natural language (sound structure, word structure, sentence structure, and components of meaning) and ask how these subsystems are ac-quired by children. We will also explore the biological basis of lan-guage in the human brain, and compare human language to animal communicationsystems.Youwillgainascientificunderstandingof language structure that you can apply in many areas. You will learnhowlinguisticexpertsfindevidencefortheirviews,andgetatasteforsomeofthemainissuesinthefield.

Denton, Sec. 01, MWF 11:15

3311 English Literature through the 16th Century Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing. This is a survey course of selected works of Medieval and Early Modern (Renaissance) English literature from the Four-teenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries, designed to give stu-dents an understanding not simply of the literature itself but espe-cially of the cultural and social contexts out of which it developed. Representative works include translations of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (selections) and his Troilus and Cressida, the Medieval mir-acle play The Second Shepherds’ Pageant, the Medieval morality play Everyman, Wyatt’s and Surrey’s sonnets, Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella (selections), Book 1 of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, and Shake-speare’s sonnets (selections) and his comedy Twelfth Night. Three in-classexamsandafinalexamandonerelativelyshortcritical

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essay form the basis for the grade.

Hunt, Sec. 01, TR 11:00

3331 English Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

A survey of English poetry, prose, and drama from 1600 to 1800, studied in relation to the cultural and social character of the period.

Gardner, Sec. 01, MWF 12:20

3351 British Literature from the 19th Century to the Present Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

In this course, we will study authors and movements including the Romantics, Victorians, Moderns, and contemporary writers. Through broadranging lectures and guided discussion, this course aims to encourage students to analyze the literature of the periods in literary, cultural, and historical contexts. Students are expected to bring an alert mind, curiosity, and a sense of humor to each discussion. Tentatively, the major texts for the course are the Longman Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 2, Mary Shel-ley’s Frankenstein, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and pos-sibly others.

Henry, Sec. 01, MWF 11:15

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3372 The Oxford Christians Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

English 3372 explores the work of the Oxford Christians, a loosely knit group of twentieth-century writers, thinkers, and scholars committed to explor-ing the interfaces between Christianity and their culture. The course will begin by studying some of the sources of the Oxford Christians’ thinking in George MacDonald and G.K. Chesterton. Then students will read the fiction, drama, and prose of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams with particular attention to the construction of myths as vehicles for conveying complex theological and philosophical principles.

Wood, Sec. 01, TR 2:00

3377 The Art of Film Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

Thiscourseexaminesfilmasanartformbyconsideringthemedium as both a text and an adaptation of text (verbal, cinematic, musical,dramatic,etc.),aswellasbyanalyzingfilminitsculturalcontext--asaproductofculture,areflectionofculture,andashaperofculture.Wewillemployvariousformsoffilmcriticismandtheory, including auteur, genre, and cultural criticism. Our view-ingexampleswillrangewidely,andmayincludefilmsbyAlfredHitchcock, the Coen Brothers, George Cukor, Gillian Armstrong, Akira Kurosawa, Jane Campion, and Errol Morris. Students will write blogpostsaboutfilmsandassignedreadings,giveagrouppresenta-tiononanaspectofcontemporarytheoryandcriticism,takeafinalexam, and write an eclectic, multimedia term paper. This course may be taken for Honors credit by contract with instructor.

Campbell, Sec. 01, TR 9:30

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3378 Topics in Literature: Classics of Children’s Literature Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

This course will review children’s literature from the beginning (folk fairy tales, nursery rhymes) to the present (Harry Potter). We will read such classic works as Perrault’s Fairy Tales, Tales from the Broth-ers Grimm, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, other children’s poems an-cient and modern (e.g., Shel Silverstein’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends”). Other works may include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Harry Potter 1 (probably 1—perhaps 7); The Awakening (Margaret Mahy, a New Zealand author); From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler; Anne of Green Gables; and several others. Students will write daily journal entries, one short paper, and three-four examina-tions.

Hanks, Sec. 01, MWF 10:10

3380 American Literature through Whitman Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

English 3380 is a survey of the literature of the United States through Whitman, emphasizing the work of major writers such as Brad-street, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Wheatley, Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Poe, Douglass, Whitman, and others. The objectives of the course are to develop an understanding of the ethical and aesthetic motivations for the greatest works of American literature from the beginnings through Whitman,tounderstandtheebbandflowofartisticmovementsinAmeri-can history, and to hone the critical skills necessary for analyzing this great literature.

Fulton, Sec. 01, TR 11:00

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3390 American Literature from Whitman Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing. This course introduces American Literature from the middle of the 19th Century to the present. The approach will follow American literary history: Realism, Impressionism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. Students will write two or three essay exams, and at least one paper.

McDonald, Sec. 01, MWF 11:15

4301 Advanced Creative Writing: Prose Prerequisite(s): ENG 3306 or consent of instructor. Aworkshopcourseforadvancedfictionwriters.Whilewewillreadanddiscusssomepublishedfiction,wewillemphasizeworkshopsofstudentworksinprogress.Eachstudentwillrespondtohis/hercol-leagues’ work and compile a portfolio of polished work for the major course grade.

Garrett, Sec. 01, R 3:30-6:30

4305 Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry Prerequisite(s): ENG 3304 or consent of instructor.

This is a workshop course in the writing of poetry on an advanced level. It is available to those students who are seriously interested in the craft of poetry and who have already demonstrated that interest in practice by having taken English 3304 or by having permission from the instructor. The course will primarily be devoted to the practical matters of the criticism and the revi-sion of poems written by the students enrolled. Each student will be expected to finish a substantial body of work during the course of the semester.

Davis, W. V., Sec. 01, W 2:30-5:30

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4308 Applied Linguistics: Second Language Acquisition Prerequisite(s): ENG 3302 or 3310 or consent of instructor. This course will examine such linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociocultural, and educational issues of current second language acquisitionresearchasinterlanguage,therelationshipbetweenfirstand second languages, Universal Grammar, age, learning styles, motivation, and cultural variables. By the end of the course, students should have formulated a working hypothesis about how second languages are acquired, based on reading research studiesand recent second language acquisition theories, interaction with non-native speakers of English, and observations of language teachers. Prospective ESL and foreign language teachers, students who anticipate being asked to tutor English while living overseas, and others interested in how languages are learned will be inter-ested in the issues raised in this course. A report of observations of local language classes, oral presentations, two or three exams, atake-homefinalexam,andapaperwilldeterminethestudent'sgrade.

Klingman, Sec. 01, TR 2:00

4309 Advanced Argumentative and Persuasive Writing Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing or consent of instructor.

This class is designed for experienced readers and writers who are interested in developing sophisticated argumentative and persuasive compe-tence needed for communicating in a variety of genres required in educational and real-world settings. In this course, you will not only learn how to construct an argument, but you will also become more aware of why people argue and what purposes argument serves. You will be introduced to the Classical, Toul

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min, and Rogerian methods of framing arguments, and learn critical reading and writing strategies for engaging arguments. Readings will include argu-mentative essays, as well as nonfiction books, such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: A Story of Success and Mark Bauerlein’s The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30). Possible writing assignments include criti-cal responses, a book review, and a persuasive essay.

Alexander, Sec. 01, TR 11:00

4312 Semantics and Pragmatics Prerequisite(s): ENG 3310

This course will explore the meanings and uses of language following the theoretical framework of linguistic pragmatics. Pragmaticslooksbeyondthedefinitionofwordsandthesyntaxof sentences to the tools and goals of language use in real social contexts. How do we organize turns in conversation? How do we use gestures to support our message? How is it possible to interpret a question like "Where are my keys?" as both a request for infor-mation and an accusation that the hearer moved the keys? How do menandwomenmarktheirutterancesingender-specificways?Students in this course will work together on a class project col-lecting, transcribing, and analyzing original data using a Conversa-tion Analysis (CA) approach.

Butler, Sec. 01, TR 12:30

4313 Later Middle English Literature Excluding Chaucer Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

Students and the instructor will discuss Middle English and MiddleScotsliteraturefromthefourteenthandfifteenthcenturies.

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Chaucer’s works, covered in another course, will not appear on the syllabus. Instead, the class will cover a wealth of literature by his con-temporaries and successors. Readings might include Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, medieval drama, secular and sacred lyrics, Piers Plowman, devotional prose by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe as well as the Moral Fables by Robert Henryson. Selected readings will be in the original language. Students will write an 8-10 page academic paper supported by secondary sources. The class will learn about cultural contexts through student presentations on topics relevant to the assigned readings. Other aspects of course assessment involve a daily readingjournal,amidtermandacomprehensivefinalexamination.

Johnston, Sec. 01, MWF 9:05

4315 Phonetics and Phonology Prerequisite(s): ENG 3310

This course is an introduction to the study of speech sounds and sound systems of the world’s languages with a focus on those sounds and sound patterns which occur in English. We will examine speech sounds in terms of their production, their articulatory and acoustic features, and their graphic representation in phonetic notation. The introduction of basic phonological theories will provide the framework for analysis of various phonological processes which occur in English and other languages. Us-ing computerized acoustic analysis of speech samples from class mem-bers, we will compare the ways phonological theory and acoustic phonetic analysis can account for the ways in which adjacent sounds affect each other.

Denton, Sec. 01, MW 2:30-3:45

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4318 Writing for the Workplace Prerequisite(s): Upper-level standing or consent of instructor.

Advanced study of workplace skills, including editing, desktop publishing, document design and testing, and project management. De-signed for students who will work in writing-intensive professions.

Pittman, Sec. 01, TR 2:00

4324 Shakespeare: Selected Plays Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

A survey of Shakespeare’s plays (major comedies, histories, problem plays, and tragedies), approached with relevance for students of various fields of interest. Background in Shakespeare’s life, times, theater, and sonnets pro-vided. Plays will include The Taming of the Shrew; Twelfth Night; Richard III; Julius Caesar; Measure for Measure; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; Antony and Cleopatra; and The Tempest.Threetestsandabriefanalytical/criticalpaperarerequired.Eachtest/papercountsasapproximatelyone-fourthinthecourse grade, with some allowance made for improvement and other factors to be announced on the first day of class.

Ray, Sec. 01, MWF 12:20

4342 English Poetry and Prose from 1745 to 1798 Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

This course surveys the literature of the second half of the eigh-teenth century, beginning with the mid-century poets Thomas Gray and William Collins, and concluding with the recovery of the lyric and the early stirrings of Romanticism in the poems of Robert Burns and William Blake. We will also read and discuss important critical, political, and historical

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works by various authors including Samuel Johnson, David Hume, and Ed-mund Burke in order to trace the development of sensibility, historicism, and skepticism as important concerns during this period. Our focusing theme will be the eighteenth-century quest for a literature of experience. Grades willbebasedontwofive-to-seven-pagepapersandtwoessayexaminations.

Foster, Sec. 01, MWF 10:10

4362 Victorian Poetry Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing. English 4362, Victorian Poetry, focuses on the range and variety of poetry written during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. This was an age of contraries: of faith and doubt; of suspicion of art and worship of art; of industrial waste and addiction to nature; of strict gen-der roles and emergent feminist protest; of swarming cities and existen-tialisolation;ofnostalgiafortraditionandconfidenceinprogress.WewillstudythewaysinwhichVictorianpoetsreflectedontheirtumultu-ous times, as well as the poetic forms they invented and remade, from the dramatic monologue to the sonnet and verse novel. This poetry will magnetize us, I believe, not only because it is beautiful and shocking, but also because the contraries with which these poets struggled have shapedtheworldweknow.Intheirpoems,wefindprefiguredourownintellectual and spiritual concerns, and in many ways our times are the times that they both hoped and feared would come. In this class, then, we will study Victorian poetry in its original contexts, but we will also reflectonitsenduringrelevance.Oursyllabuswillincludesomenameswith which you are probably familiar, such as Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Chris-tina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Yet we will also closely read works by poets such as George Meredith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James Thomson, and Algernon Charles Swinburne.

King, Sec. 01, MWF 9:05

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4368 Nineteenth-Century British Novel Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing. Beginning with Emma (1816) and ending with Dracula (1897), this course will provide you with an overview of the daz-zling nineteenth century. The focus is on England, and you will observetheemergenceoftheworld’sfirstsuperpowerthroughtheeyes of its novelists, including Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, James, Wilde, and Stoker. These novelists chronicle the human vanity and misery that accompanied England’s meteoric rise to greatness—and unfailingly scourge the politicians, ecclesiastics, and petty bureaucrats who perpetuated the have and have-not mentality. A general goal is to expose you to a wide variety of novelists, novels, and narrative techniques. Active participation, response papers, examinations, and critical essays allcounttowardsthefinalgrade.

Losey, Sec. 01, MWF 12:20

4372 Modern British and Continental Drama Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

This course surveys major plays from the European con-tinent in translation and plays in English from Britain and Ireland since1880.Thedramaoffivemajorplaywrightswillanchorourreadings this semester: Henrik Ibsen, John Synge, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, and Tom Stoppard. We will devote approximately two weeks to the work of each of these dramatists; we will also read selected plays by August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, George Ber-nard Shaw, Eugene Ionesco, T. S. Eliot, Dorothy Sayers, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Seamus Heaney, and Marina Carr. We will also seek to understand the different movements out of which these dramas were written, including realism, naturalism, existentialism, mod

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ern Anglican drama, and theatre of the absurd. Close reading and vibrant discussion are expected. Assignments include two papers, critiquesoffilmedversionsofparticularplays,arequiredevalu-ation of Baylor Theatre’s production of Chekhov’s The Seagull, a mid-term,andafinalexamination.

Russell, Sec. 01, TR 11:00

4377 Internship in Professional Writing Prerequisite(s): One advanced writing course or consent of instructor.

English 4377 is an internship course that providesProfessional Writing majors with a continuous period of on-the-job experience in a professional setting. As an intern, you will have multiple opportunities to apply the skills and knowledge you have acquired through your coursework to a professional context. Over the course of the semester, you will work under the supervision of both a faculty member and an employee at the placement site to complete at least 154 documented hours of work as an intern (about 12 hours a week). You are expected to secure your own internship (although I do have a list of potential sites), and the type of internship you secure is fairly open. The internship site must be approved by me before work begins. In addition to work at the site, you will attend regular class meetings and write biweekly reflections over your experiences, both of which will give you regular opportunities to share and discuss accomplishments, observations, and problems that arise on the job. At the end of the course, you will reflect on your learning and experiences by assembling a professional portfolio that represents your talents and skills.

Alexander, Sec. 01, M 12:20

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4381 Colonial American Literature Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

This course will explore the adventure of settling a "new world" as well as the experiment of creating a new nation. By reading primary texts from the European explorers and the Puritan coloniststothelaterdocumentsandfictionofthenewrepublic,wewill trace the idea of "America" as it is conceived and reconceived by various writers. We will pay particular attention to how the works imaginatively construct the identity of the "American" and howrace,class,gender,andotherfactorsareusedtodefineanddebate who is an "American" in this new world. Our readings will includepoetryandfictionaswellastraveljournals,captivitynar-ratives, and autobiographies to gain a broad understanding of this turbulent time period.

Ford, Sec. 01, MWF 11:15

4387 Modern American Novel/1900–1945 Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

The period between the two world wars was one of the richest and most productive periods of American literature. In this course,wewillstudyarangeofAmericannovelsfromthefirsthalf of the twentieth century. We will cover a range of the differ-entvoicesmakingthemselvesheardinfictionduringthisperiod.We will begin with the great modernist writers, such as Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner, and we will read one of Steinbeck’s ma-jor social novels. We will read two African American novels, and wewillfocusonsomeofthefictionwrittenbywomenduringthisperiod. We will cover the work of Jewish, Southern and proletarian novelists,watchaWorldWarIImovie,andfinishwithaglimpseatwhatbeginstohappeninAmericanfictionafter1945.Theaim

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of this course is for students to get to know and to think for them-selves about a representative sample of the wide range of American voices expressing themselves in the form of the novel during the firsthalfofthetwentiethcentury.Wewillstudytheseworksinthecontext of the historical background that produced them, and we will also look at some of the theories of the novel articulated dur-ing this period.

Ferretter, Sec. 01, TR 12:30

4390 Literature of the South Prerequisite(s): ENG 2301 and either 2304 or 2306; and upper-level standing.

In this course we will read short stories, poetry, and novels written by Southern writers from the colonial period to the present. Although we will discuss these texts from several points of view, oneofourprimarytaskswillbetoexaminehowtheyreflecthis-torical and cultural issues related to the South, both as a physical placeandasafictionalconstruct.Amongtheauthorsincludedwillbe Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Ernest Gaines. Requirements will include two exams and a research paper.

Ford, Sec. 01, MWF 9:05

4397 Internship in English Prerequisite(s): One advanced writing course or consent of instructor.

If you are an English major interested in gaining real-world experience, learning what types of careers you may like, and build-ing up your resume, an internship is for you! English 4397 is an internship course that provides you with a continuous period of on-the-job experience in a professional setting. As an intern, you

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will have multiple opportunities to apply the skills and knowledge you already possess to a professional context; you will also have numerous occasions to learn new skills. Over the course of the se-mester, you will work under the supervision of both a faculty mem-ber and an employee at the placement site to complete at least 154 documented hours of work as an intern (about 12 hours a week). You are expected to secure your own internship (although I do have a list of potential sites), and the type of internship you secure is fairly open. The internship site must be approved by me before work begins. In addition to work at the site, you will attend regular classmeetingsandwritebiweeklyreflectionsoveryourexperi-ences, both of which will give you regular opportunities to share and discuss accomplishments, observations, and problems that ariseonthejob.Attheendofthecourse,youwillreflectonyourlearning and experiences by assembling a professional portfolio that represents your talents and skills. Internships look really good on resumes (to potential employers and graduate schools) because of the experience and skills you will gain, so if you’re interested, I encourage you to register for the course.

Note: If you want to enroll in the course but have a sched-ulingconflictwiththetimethecourseisoffered,pleasecontactmeand we can arrange an alternative time to meet one-on-one.

Alexander, Sec. 01, M 12:20

5306 Literary Criticism

In this course, we will be looking at the main developments in literary theory since about 1960, which have revolutionized the way in which we think and write about texts of all kinds, from Shakespeare to Sex and the City.Literarytheorycanbeadifficultsubject, and this course will emphasize a clear understanding of the basic arguments of each of the authors we study. To that end, we will study excerpts from the primary texts of some of the major

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literary theorists of the last few decades, along with a commentary on their work, which explains their ideas and the contexts of those ideas in somewhat clearer language than the average French philosopher tends to use. We will cover Russian Formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, postmodernism, Marxism, psycho-analysis, feminism, post-colonialism, gender theory, hermeneutics and eco-criticism. The value of literary theory, in my view, lies primarily in the ways it allows you to open up and interpret texts in new and previously unthought-of ways, and so we will be empha-sizing the practice of interpreting texts of all kinds in the light of the theories we study. Students will be encouraged to judge for themselves the strengths and weakness, the uses and abuses, of the theories we will cover in understanding texts, and the world which theydefine,forthemselves.

Ferretter, Sec. 01, T 3:30-6:30

5310 Rhetoric and Composition: Composition Theory and Pedagogy

ThiscourseintroducesstudentstothefieldofRhetoricandComposition. Part of the agenda for this course is to help students explore the histories, theories, and pedagogical practices that de-finethefield.Additionally,studentswillbeaskedtoexaminetheirparticipationinthefieldasteachers,scholars,andwriters.Vari-ous readings and in-class activities will help us investigate some of the issues, problems, challenges, practices, and questions that historicallyandpresentlyinterestandtroublethefieldofRhetoricand Composition. Ultimately, this course should help us discover the importance of literacy education for all “our students” and the pedagogical practices we use to teach writing.

Pittman, Sec. 01, T 3:30-6:30

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5340 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: Seminar Eighteenth-century England witnessed a phenomenal growth of interest in personal narrative and in a literature of ex-perience—an interest generated in large part by changing cultural conceptions of the self. This seminar will focus on how identity is constructed, situated, even subverted in the narrative literature of the period, beginning with John Bunyan’s spiritual autobiography andconcludingwiththeGothicfictionofLewis,Radcliffe,andGodwin. Our focus will be on cultural and narrative constructions of selfhood in satire, novel, biography, and autobiography. Prima-ry texts will also include selected works by Defoe, Swift, Richard-son, Sterne, Johnson, and Boswell. Students will be expected to present at least two seminar reports, to submit revisions of these reports as short essays or position papers, and to produce an anno-tated bibliography and a formal research paper.

Foster, Sec. 01, R 3:30-6:30

5361 Victorian Poetry: Seminar

English 5361 is a graduate seminar focusing of the work of the leading poets of the Victorian period, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Although we will concentrate on major longer works such as Tennyson’s In Memo-riam and Idylls of the King, Browning’s The Ring and the Book, Arnold’s Empedocles on Etna, and Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese and Aurora Leigh, we will also read selected shorter works by each of these six major poets as well as selected poems representing the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetes. Along withworksofpoetry,wewillalsoexaminesignificantnineteenth-century works of criticism that will provide a critical context in which to read the poetry. These include classic nineteenth-century

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essays on poetry and poetic theory such as Browning’s “Essay on Shelley”, Arnold’s “Preface to the First Edition of Poems,” and “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” as well as critical essays by poets or critics such as Arthur Henry Hallam, John Stuart Mill, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Arthur Hugh Clough, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, Robert Buchanan, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. Students in the seminar will be responsible for participation in class discussion, class presentations on the readings, an annotated bibliography and survey of criticism on a selected poet, and a 15-20 page seminar paper.

Vitanza, Sec. 01, M 4:00-7:00

5371 Seminar: Modern British Literature

This course will focus on British poetry during the Modern period. Beginning with Gerard Manley Hopkins, a pre-modern poet,wewillthenconcentrateonseveralsignificantpoetsofthehigh modernist mode: William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, Edwin Muir, Alun Lewis, Dylan Thomas, and David Jones. We will conclude our study with Lynette Roberts, a post-modernist poet. Each student will make several short presentations and write several short papers, and one longer one.

Davis, W. V., Sec. 01, M 4:00-7:00

5372 Contemporary British Literature: Seminar This course will survey developments in British and Irish fictionafter1940bycloselyreadingthesenovels:FlannO’Brien’sThe Third Policeman, Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair, George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe, Graham Swift’s Waterland, Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Deirdre Madden’s One by One in the Darkness, John McGah-ern’s Amongst Women, Pat Barker’s Regeneration, Ian McEwan’s

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Atonement, Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger, and John Banville’s The Sea. The course’s main objective is to chart an ethical trajec-toryincontemporaryBritishandIrishfictionbyexploringnovelsthat foreground confession, the environment, and history. Assign-ments include presentations and a publishable research paper. Spirited discussion is expected.

Russell, Sec. 01, W 4:00-7:00

5394 Modern American Literature: Nature, Naturalism, & Noir

Students in this course will explore the relationship be-tween Nature, Naturalism, and Noir in the work of such writers as William James, Kate Chopin, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, John Muir, Jack London, Ellen Glas-gow, Horace McCoy, James Cain, Edward Anderson, Américo Paredes, and Nella Larsen. Students will engage in original re-search (concluding with a seminar paper), make numerous pre-sentations to their peers, and each will be in charge of at least one meeting of the class.

Fulton, Sec. 01, R 3:30-6:30

Quotable:

“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehen-sively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many oth-ers; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination—and poetry admin-isters to the effect by acting upon the cause.”

P.B. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry (1821)