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Texas Tech University Fall 2006 3000 & 4000 Level Courses in English

Department of English Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091 806-742-2501

English 3302.001

CallNumber 13623

Old and Middle English Literature Old English: Monsters, Vikings, Miracles

MWF 11‐11:50AM

Brian McFadden [email protected]

EN 430

Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 2000-level English. May be repeated once when topics vary.

This course will examine Old English literature (c. 730-1066) in the context of the major events of the period, the Viking invasions and the Benedictine reforms, which began to establish the idea of England as a nation and to define it as a “self” against foreign “others.”. Genres will be Anglo-Saxon history (Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle); saints’ lives (Ælfric’s Lives of Saints, the Life of St. Margaret) homilies and sermons (Ælfric, Wulfstan); allegory (Panther, Phoenix, Whale); riddles; heroic poetry (Beowulf, Judith, The Battle of Maldon, Dream of the Rood); elegies (The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Husband’s Message, The Wife’s Lament, Wulf and Eadwacer); and monster texts (The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle; Wonders of the East). We will also examine several Anglo-Norman and Middle English texts (Hali Meiðhad, Lanval, the Bayeux Tapestry, and some romances) to examine how the genres changed in England after the Norman Conquest. Requirements: participation; two exams; final exam; 7-8 page research essay. Attendance is expected from the first day of registration and frequent absences (over 4) will be penalized.

English 3302.003

CallNumber 13625

Old and Middle English Literature Middle English Literature: Knights, Maidens & Love‐Talk

TR 12:30‐1:50PM

Julie Couch [email protected]

EN 431


This course offers a survey of early English literature from circa 1066 to 1400 AD, from King Arthur to Chaucer, from chronicle to romance, from saints to merchants. In this course we will read literary works analytically, paying particular attention to the expectations genre imposes on the text. We will also explore the cultural contexts of early writings including their original placement in handwritten manuscripts. By the end of this course, the student should be able to mount an argument and support it effectively and correctly with textual evidence, both orally and in writing. Students will be expected to complete one short analytical essay, a longer research essay, a midterm, and a final. Weekly written responses, occasional quizzes, one oral presentation, and active class participation will also be required. Attendance is mandatory. 7 absences will earn an F for the course.

Texts:

• Kolve, V. A. and Glending Olson, eds. The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue. Norton, 2005.

• Geoffrey of Monmouth. History of the Kings of Britain. 1966. Trans. Lewis Thorpe. reprint ed. New York: Penguin, 1977.

• Winny, James, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Reprint ed. broadview literary texts, 2001.

• Winstead, Karen A. Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends. Cornell, 2000.

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Fall 2003 Undergraduate Courses in English 2

English 3304.001

CallNumber 13626

Medieval and Renaissance Drama CourseSubtitle

TR 3:30‐4:50PM

Constance Kuriyama [email protected]

EN 428


No description available. Please contact teacher.

English 3305

British Renaissance Literature


Course not offered this semester.

English 3307.001

CallNumber 13628

Restoration & 18 th

Century British Literature CourseSubtitle

TR 9:30‐10:50AM

?Snead Email & office number unknown


Section added 4-14-06.

No description available. Instructor not yet in Lubbock.

English 3307.002

CallNumber 13629

Restoration & 18 th

Century British Literature CourseSubtitle

TR 2‐3:20PM





Jennifer Frangos [email protected]

EN 479

English 3308.001

CallNumber 13630

Nineteenth Century British Literature Mid‐century Transformations, 1820‐ 1870

TR 9:30‐10:50AM

Ann Hawkins [email protected]

EN 435


The ends of the nineteenth-century--Romantic or Victorian--get the most press. But what do we call the middle? Is it Romantic or Victorian--or something else? This course takes that question as a starting point and examines a number of movements that seem to begin by being Romantic and end up Victorian. For example, how do we get from Sir Walter Scott's stories of knights and ladies to Tennyson's Morte D'Arthur or Morris's "Defense of Guinevere"? What happens with Byron's legacy of iconoclasm that leads Carlyle to proclaim, "Close thy Byron, Open thy Goethe"? And why do the Victorians like Wordsworth so much? The course will begin with a brief primer in Romanticism (to define our terms); then we'll read through a variety of prose, poetry, drama, and non-fiction to address our central question. In particular, we'll look at disjunctions, places where the interests of the mid-nineteenth-century seem at odds with each other. We'll place, for examine, Robert Browning's narratives of passion (often gone awry), particularly in the Ring and the Book, alongside Carlyle's vision of a new social order in Sartor Resartus. We'll examine the growing literature of social protest alongside contemporary ghost or mystery stories (by Mrs. Jewsbury and others) or nonsense texts like Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. And we'll think about how the pesky "woman question"-- particularly in Barrett Browning's “Aurora Leig”-- gets played out in the middle of a century that started with Wollstonecraft and Hannah More and ends with Victoria.

I allow each student two absences without penalty to accommodate doctor's appointments, job interviews, and other emergencies of daily life, such as illness, car trouble, family need, etc. After two, each absence reduces a final grade by 5 percentage points. For example, a third absence causes a final grade of 90 to become an 85, a fourth 80, etc. Absences accrue from the first day of class, regardless of individual registration status. Excessive absences - more than 5 in total - may result in failure of the course, regardless of other grades earned. Arriving to class late or leaving early - in either case, by more than 5 minutes - constitutes an absence.

Text: (There will be more than this). Collins and Rundle, eds. Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory. Broadview, 1999.

English 3308.002

Nineteenth Century British Literature

TR 11‐12:30PM

Ann Hawkins [email protected]

EN 435


Cancelled. 3-20-06





English 3309.002

Modern and Contemporary British Literature Jen Shelton


Cancelled. 3-29-06

English 3323.002

CallNumber 13635

Early American Literature Survey

TR 2‐3:20PM

Cristobal Silva [email protected]

EN 466


This course is a survey of American literary history from the European conquests to the early US Republican period. Our goal will be to develop an ever-expanding notion of what constitutes American literature, and of how specific American literary traditions may have evolved into being. As a means to this end, we will continually interrogate our notions of what America is, of how writers and thinkers have tried to express what it means to be American, and of what literary critics do. Course topics will range from the language of exploration and of colonial encounters (Columbus, De las Casas), to the major strains of New England Puritanism (Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards), the meanings of American individualism and liberty (Franklin, de Crevecoeur, Equiano, Jefferson), the mythology of American exceptionalism, and the position of dissent in American ideology. Students will be expected to complete two short papers, a term paper, a mid-term, and a final exam. Absences accrue from the first day of class: participation grade is lowered on the third absence, and students fail the course on the fifth.

Texts: Overview is included in the description above. We will also read Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly.

English 3324.001

CallNumber 13637

Nineteenth Century American Literature Survey of Poetry, Fiction, and Non‐fiction

MWF 2‐2:50PM

John Samson [email protected]

EN 481


This course will survey American literature throughout the century, dividing our discussion according to the major movements of the period: Romanticisms, Slavery and the Civil War, Realism, and Naturalism. Students will read short stories by Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville; novels by Phelps, Twain, and Norris; non-fiction by Thoreau and Douglass; and works by poets throughout the century. In addition to daily quizzes or responses, students will write two interpretive (3-5pp.) papers and take a midterm and a final exam.




English 3325.H01 *

CallNumber 22365

Modern and Contemporary American Literature American Modernism

TR 2‐3:20PM

Bryce Conrad [email protected]

EN 312C


“This course covers American literature from 1900 to 1940. Also known as the modernist period, the early decades of the twentieth century are often remembered for innovation and experimentation in literary form and style. But American modernists also sought to make visible the historical and cultural landscape of their time, and their texts serve as a living record of events and phenomena such as the waning of small town America, the emergence of an urban consumer society, the impact of World War I on American life, the significance of the expatriate movement for American artists, the importance of the Harlem Renaissance for the American cultural scene, and the political challenges posed by the Great Depression. Our engagement with this rich body of literature will focus equally on form and content.

“Authors to be covered include Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Eugene O’Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Williams Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Steinbeck. Requirements include two short essays, midterm exam, research paper, and final exam.” from Honors College booklet, Summer/Fall 2006.

English 3325.003

CallNumber 13642

Modern and Contemporary American Literature Reading Historically

TR 9:30‐10:50AM

Madonne Miner [email protected]

EN 483


ENGL 3325, Modern and Contemporary American Literature, is supposed to survey literary works produced in America from 1900 to the present. Given the impossibility of truly surveying the incredibly rich materials written and published over one hundred and six years, we will focus primarily on texts from two periods of experimentation with literary forms and subjects: the 1920s and the 1970s/80s. We most likely will read novels by Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Cather, Pynchon, Doctorow, Morrison and others; we also will read poetry, short fiction, and a few plays. Students will be required to write several short response papers, a few short essays (4-5 pp) and a longer essay (10 pp) that makes use of secondary materials. I give almost-daily reading quizzes to ensure that students come to class prepared to discuss assigned readings. We most likely will have mid-term and final exams. I believe that attendance is extremely important for student learning. We will engage in small-group, paired, and large-group work in class. Students must attend if they are to understand our readings. Thus, I work with a strict attendance policy. More than four absences will bring down a student’s overall grade in the class. I put this policy in effect as soon as a student registers for class.

English 3335

Ancient and Medieval World Literature

Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 2000-level English. May be repeated once when topics vary. Fulfills the Multicultural requirement.


* You need a 3.0 overall GPA to enroll in an Honors section. It puts you in a small class with other people with 3.0’s and higher. The courseload is no heavier than normal. Preparation and participation may be higher. To enroll please go to the Honors College, McClellan Hall 103.




English 3336

Early Modern World Literature



English 3337.001

CallNumber 13646

Modern and Contemporary World Literature Trauma and Healing

MWF 11‐11:50AM

Ann Daghistany Ransdell [email protected]

EN 207


Utilizing the approach of Comparative Literature, this course will explore the twin terrors of war and unjust punishment, as well as the antidotes to those terrors in art, healing, courage and relationships. We will focus on fiction, with some presentations in drama. We will learn about historical events that produced powerful literature of political conflict. We will read Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front on World War I, and Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago on the Russian Revolution. We will discuss the aftermath of racism in both Nallund’s Four Spirits, concerning the Civil Rights Movement, and in the apartheid connected with Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. We will read the depiction of Chile’s Pinochet Terror in Allende’s House of the Spirits. Housseini’s portrait of the Russian and Taliban invasions of Afghanistan in The Kite Runner will be followed by Scott Simon’s rendition of the Bosnian-Serbian clash in Pretty Birds. We will end the semester with the cultural collisions that produced Andre du Bus’ House of Sand and Fog. Requirements include weekly quizzes on the readings, a midterm, a final, an oral presentation, and a paper contrasting a character in the fiction/film version of one of these works. The attendance policy allows no absences beyond three without documentation through some kind of dated bill or paper. This policy begins upon the student’s registration in the class.

English 3351.002

CallNumber 13649

Creative Writing

Genre: Nonfiction

M 6‐9:50PM

Jill Patterson [email protected]

EN 312E

Notes: Prerequisite: Two sophomore English courses or, if a student’s major does not require those courses, completion of English courses required by the student’s major. May be repeated once, under a separate genre, from Fall 2002. If course taken prior to Fall 2002, may not be repeated.

Section added 7706. No description available. Please contact teacher.

English 3351.004

CallNumber 13651

Creative Writing

Genre: Nonfiction






TR 9:30‐10:50PM

Dennis Covington [email protected]

EN 434

English 3351.005

CallNumber 13652

Creative Writing

Genre: Poetry

TR 11‐12:20PM

William Wenth [email protected]

EN 312A


To take this class, you should have completed two sophomore English courses or, if English is not your major, the English requirements as specified in your major. It is not necessary to have studied poetry. It is necessary that you want to study poetry seriously: successful poetry writing means successful reading of other poets. We will do both in this course.

The classroom work will consist of intensive discussion of our own and others’ poetry. As a whole, this course will require a steady commitment; for in addition to preparing for each class, you will also be writing your own poems, on your own time. The bulk of your grade will depend on how well you apply the skills learned in class to your own writing outside of class. Of course I will be available to guide you in all phases. You will be required to complete a series of poetry exercises and short (one-page) informal essays that I call “response papers,” to write original poems, and discuss poems—including your own—in class. Each student will create a final portfolio of seven original poems. The process of writing and revision must be carried on at your own initiative, outside of class; the writing process must be consistent through the semester. The attendance policy is very strict. It begins from the first day of registration. Three absences are allowed; each absence thereafter takes five percent off FINAL GRADE. More than six absences, regardless of reason, means you fail the course.

Texts:

Required: —The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. J. D. McClatchy.

—A Pocketful of Poems. Ed. David Madden.

—a journal or notebook: something you’re comfortable carrying around, and writing in. Choose what appeals to you, personally, in its design and construction; but consider elements of practicality (is it easy to write in?), size (is it big enough to write in, small enough to carry around), and durability (will it fall apart in my backpack?).

—Xerox Packet. Available from Copy Outlet, on Broadway.

English 3351.007

CallNumber 13654

Creative Writing

Genre: Fiction






TR 12:30‐1:50PM

Mathew Purdy [email protected]

EN 456

English 3351.011

CallNumber 13658

Creative Writing

Genre: Poetry

TR 3:30‐4:50PM

Diane Warner [email protected]

Southwest Collection


Students in this class will learn basic poetic techniques--including alliteration, meter, simile and metaphor--by writing a new poem each week, so the best way to approach this class is to be willing to write and write and write. In the workshop environment, students will critique each other’s work, offering intelligent and thoughtful advice and praise. I will make suggested assignments (forms or topics) for students who need this structure, but in general, students should write poems on topics that interest them. We will also be reading and discussing work by a variety of poets; they will be our models and our mentors. The final will consist of a portfolio of 10 poems (revisions of work submitted during the semester) and a 3-5 page essay on the student’s reasons for writing poetry. Attendance will be an important factor in the final grade.

Texts: Oliver, Mary. A Poetry Handbook. San Diego: Harcourt, 1994.

McClatchy, J.D., ed. The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry. 2 nd ed. NY: Vintage, 2003.

An issue of Iron Horse Literary Review and one or two titles by specific contemporary poets.

English 3351.012

CallNumber 21795

Creative Writing

Genre: Fiction

TR 3:30‐4:50PM

Mathew Purdy [email protected]

EN 456



English 3360.001

CallNumber 13660

Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 2000-level English.





Issues in Composition

CourseSubtitle

TR 3:30‐4:50PM

Staff Email & Office unknown


English 3365

Professional Report Writing

Notes: Prerequisite: Junior standing.

The purpose of English 3365 is to prepare you for writing as a professional person. It focuses on gathering information and presenting it to specific audiences. The assignments include a library/internet guide, an annotated bibliography, a recommendation report, a progress report, a proposal, and an oral report. You will learn uses, purposes, conventions, and structures for the reports and the proposal. You will also learn strategies for producing such documents, including analyzing purpose, gathering data, managing time, and revising. You will also develop your options, including visual and oral presentation and formatting verbal texts, for presenting information. You will review grammar and principles of effective style. All of your work will be on topics of your choosing, preferably related to your major or intended career. For further information please contact the teacher.

Instructor Section Day Time Call Number

Staff Email & Office number unknown

J01 MEETS IN JUNCTION, TX

TBA TBA 21352

Vicki Hester [email protected]

Office number unknown

170 MEETS IN FREDERICKSBURG/ KERRVILLE, TX

TBA TBA 21350

Vicki Hester [email protected]

Office number unknown

172 MEETS IN MARBLE FALLS, TX

TBA TBA 21351

See below for Lubbock

English 3365

Professional Report Writing


The purpose of English 3365 is to prepare you for writing as a professional person. It focuses on gathering information and presenting it to specific audiences. The




assignments include a library/internet guide, an annotated bibliography, a recommendation report, a progress report, a proposal, and an oral report. You will learn uses, purposes, conventions, and structures for the reports and the proposal. You will also learn strategies for producing such documents, including analyzing purpose, gathering data, managing time, and revising. You will also develop your options, including visual and oral presentation and formatting verbal texts, for presenting information. You will review grammar and principles of effective style. All of your work will be on topics of your choosing, preferably related to your major or intended career. For further information please contact the teacher.

Instructor Section Day Time Call Number

Amy Hanson

[email protected]

EN 204 001 MW 8‐9:20AM 13663

Amy Hanson

[email protected]

EN 204 003 MW 9:30‐10:50AM 13665

Laura Palmer

[email protected]

EN 476 004 MW 9:30‐10:50AM 13666

Amy Hanson

[email protected]

EN 204 005 MW 11‐12:20PM 13667

Sean Zdenek

[email protected]

EN 472 006 MW 12:30‐1:50PM 13668

Sean Zdenek

[email protected]

EN 472 007 MW 2‐3:20PM 13669

Susan Youngblood

[email protected]

EN 475 010 TR 9:30‐10:50AM 13672

Angela Eaton

[email protected]

EN 363G 012 TR 11‐12:20PM 13674

Brian Still

[email protected]

EN 411 014 TR 2‐3:20PM 13676











Craig Baehr

[email protected]

EN 363F 015 TR 3:30‐4:50PM 13677

English 3366.001

CallNumber 21803

Style in Technical Writing

TR 9:30‐10:50AM

Kenneth Baake [email protected]

English 363B


Style in writing involves choosing words and sentence structures that best deliver the writer's ideas on behalf of readers. This course will fine-tune students' writing skills, consider different styles in technical communication, and assess the ways that different styles of writing convey social attitudes, ideologies, and power structures. The class also will introduce theories of style as found in Classical Greek and Roman writing handbooks.

We will approach the topic of style from a theoretical and applied perspective. Drawing from rhetorical theory, each of you will analyze existing documents and workplace writing genres for style; you will write regular style exercises and short analysis postings to the class electronic bulletin board (Web Board); you will research issues of style in the workplace, write a research paper or report and present the information to the class; and you will write an exam that covers course content. Attendance and participation will count toward your grade.

At the end of the course each of you should be able to 1) display skills in analyzing writing styles and reproducing them in your own writing; 2) display understanding of the stylistic choices we make as academic and workplace writers; 3) display an understanding of the rhetorical considerations that affect writing style; 4) demonstrate improvement in your own writing and the ability to move among different styles; and 5) contribute to the body of knowledge about technical writing style.

Texts for the course will most likely be the following. Total cost for new books could be as much as $100, although I will try to get the bookstore to look for used copies:

Dan Jones. Technical Writing Style. ISBN: 0205-19722-1.

Edward Smith and Stephen A. Bernhardt. Writing at Work: Professional Writing Skills for People on the Job. ISBN: 0-8442-5983-7

A Coursepack—Free electronic and for purchase hard-copies will be available.

Instructor's lecture notes, discussion prompts, and class agenda will be posted to the Web Board in advance of each class.

English 3367.002

CallNumber 13680

Usability Testing

TR 12:30‐1:50PM

Brian Still

Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 2311 or 3365..

This course introduces you to usability testing, or the practice of observing real users interacting with real things for the purpose of improving real products and services. We will divide our time between a) reading about how to do usability testing--writing test plans, conducting a user analysis, practicing facilitating, analyzing results, and so on; and b) actually conducting usability tests in our usability lab, which will involve plugging in wires, positioning microphones and cameras, shooting and editing video, practicing doing all the various roles required of a group usability test, and generally becoming




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English 411

comfortable with all the workings of gathering data.

Work required of students:

Exam over readings

Discussion postings (responses to readings)

Usability Testing project

Site visit

There is an attendance policy that begins on the first day of class.

Texts:

Barnum, Carol M. Usability Testing and Research. Allyn & Bacon, 2002.

Other online & journal readings as assigned

English 3368

World Wide Web Publishing of Technical Information

Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 2311 or 3365.


English 3369

Information Design Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 2311 or 3365.


English 3371.001

CallNumber 13684

Linguistic Science

TR 12:30‐1:50PM

Mary Jane Hurst

Notes: Prerequisite:6 hrs of 2000-level English.

This course will provide an introduction to the study of language at the undergraduate level. Our primary objective is to learn what language is and how language systems work. We will first examine the main components of language – sounds, word forms, and sentence structure – and we will then investigate principles of language variation and language change. Our approach will be descriptive rather than prescriptive, and our primary focus will be on the English language. Class meetings will be organized around a lecture-discussion format. Specific learning outcomes, assessment measures,



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Admin

and other information can be found at the following site: http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/hurst//3371f02.html.

Students will take two tests and a final exam. The final exam, which is comprehensive, will count as two grades. The tests and the exam will cover material presented in the lectures and discussions as well as material presented in the textbooks. Students will be expected to demonstrate college-level writing skills in completing the tests and exam.

Students will write two papers. Specific written instructions for the papers will be distributed in class. Students will deliver oral presentations about their independent work.

Students will conduct themselves in a manner appropriate for a university classroom. Students will attend class regularly, having completed the designated readings and assignments, and will participate positively in class discussions. Attendance is taken every day. Students with more than seven absences will receive an F for the semester.

Required Texts: Akmajian, Adrian, Richard A. Demers, Ann K. Farmer, and Robert M. Harnish. Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. Fifth Ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2001.

Additional essays available from the reserve desk of the library or from CopyTech.

Recommended Texts and Materials: Freeman, David E. and Yvonne S. Freeman. Essential Linguistics: What You Need to Know to Teach Reading, ESL, Spelling, Phonics, and Grammar. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2004.

English 3371.002

CallNumber 25128

Linguistic Science

W 6‐8:50PM

Daniel Siddiqi [email protected]

EN 453




English 3372.001

CallNumber 13685

History of the English Language

MWF 10‐10:50AM

Brian McFadden




http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/hurst/3371f02.html



[email protected]

EN 430

English 3372.002

CallNumber 25129

History of the English Language

TR 11‐12:20PM


EN 453




English 3373.002

CallNumber 13687

Modern English Syntax

TR 2‐3:20PM


EN 453


Course opened 4-15-06.

No description available. Please contact teacher..

English 3373.003

CallNumber 25130

Modern English Syntax

T 6‐8:50


EN 453




English 3381






Literature of the Fantastic



English 3382.001

CallNumber 13688

Women Writers

Women Writers of the American West

MWF 11‐11:50AM

Sara Spurgeon [email protected]

EN 206


We will sample a variety of women’s primary textual genres situated in various “Wests,” as well as critical scholarly essays. Students will be asked to think about issues such as inter-cultural exchanges of and by women, life writing, varied relationships between gender and the Western landscape, and negotiations of colonialism. Interdisciplinary perspectives are reflected in the scholarly readings. Students will be required to complete 2 short essays, a group presentation with annotated bibliography, a mid-term, and a final. Students who miss more than six class periods after being registered for the class will be dropped.

Texts will include:

Stories from the Country of Lost Borders, ed. Marjorie Pryse (contains The Land of Little Rain and Lost Borders), Mary Hunter Austin

We Fed Them Cactus, Fabiola Cabesa de Baca

At the Feet of Jesus, Helena Maria Viramontes

Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua

The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich

English 3383

Bible as Literature Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 2000-level English.


English 3384

Religion and Literature



English 3385.001

CallNumber 13690

Shakespeare

CourseSubtitle

MWF 10‐10:50AM

Marliss Desens [email protected]

EN 429






English 3386

Literature and Science



English 3387.J01, 170, 172 Multicultural Literatures


These course sections not offered in Lubbock this semester. Only offered at Tech’s satellite campuses. See below for description of the section offered in Lubbock.

English 3387.001

CallNumber 13693

Multicultural Literatures CourseSubtitle

MWF 10‐10:50AM




No description available. Instructor not yet assigned.

English 3387.002

CallNumber 13694

Multicultural Literatures CourseSubtitle

MWF 11‐11:50AM




No description available. Instructor not yet assigned.

English 3387.004


CallNumber 13696

Multicultural Literatures African American Literature

TR 12:30‐1:50PM

Michael Borshuk [email protected]

EN 425


This section of 3387 will examine the development of African American literature from the slave narratives of the nineteenth century to postmodern fiction at the turn of the twenty-first. We will begin with a discussion of critical approaches to African American literature, and then proceed chronologically through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among our topics for interrogation and discussion will be: the influence of oral and musical traditions on the development of African American writing; the intervention(s) into traditional constructions of the American canon that black literature inaugurates; the ways that African American writers redress stereotypes and problematic representations of black Americans; and the “alternative” histories that African American literature proposes alongside America’s dominant historical records. Students will be expected to complete two brief response papers, a major research paper, and a final examination.

Tentative Text List:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie McKay, eds., The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Second Edition (2004)

Harriet E. Wilson, Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859)

Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)

Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979) Percival Everett, Erasure (2001)

English 3388.001

CallNumber 13698

Film Genres: Avant‐ Garde, Documentary, and Narrative Sports Narratives

TR 9:30‐10:50AM

Mike Schoenecke [email protected]

EN 482E

Notes: Prerequisite:6 hrs of 2000-level English. May be repeated once when topics vary.

Not only is sport important and beautiful, it says a lot about who we are and who we aspire to be. Sports films capture clear, clean moments of human aspiration and success/defeat. Film seems attracted to the athletic contest, whether it be by individuals against the limitations of time and space or the efforts of teams working toward a common goal. Race, gender, nationalism, and class are major components of sport and its reflection through cinema. Sports to be examined include boxing, baseball, football, golf, and basketball. Students will be expected to complete quizzes, 2 short papers, a mid-term and a final exam. Students are allowed three absences.

Texts:

Boggs, Joseph M. & Dennis W. Petrie. The Art of Watching Films. 6th edition. Mayfield.

Readings on sports and sport films will be on electronic file.

English 3388.002

CallNumber 13699

Film Genres: Avant‐ Garde, Documentary, and Narrative Sports Narratives

Notes: Prerequisite:6 hrs of 2000-level English. May be repeated once when topics vary.

Not only is sport important and beautiful, it says a lot about who we are and who we aspire to be. Sports films capture clear, clean moments of human aspiration and success/defeat. Film seems attracted to the athletic contest, whether it be by individuals against the limitations of time and space or the efforts of teams working toward a common goal. Race, gender, nationalism, and class are major components of sport and its reflection through cinema. Sports to be examined include boxing,




TR 11‐12:20AM

Mike Schoenecke [email protected]

EN 482E

English 3389.001

CallNumber 13701

Short Story

Culture, Crisis, Relationships

MWF 10‐10:50AM


EN 207


The Short Story will provide the student with the eleven basic short story forms, using the approach of Comparative Literature, which establishes the historical context for the form. It will begin with the classical backgrounds of the short story and continue through the medieval period and the Renaissance to the present day. The goals of the course include a greater appreciation of story reading, as well as a wider selection of forms and techniques for story writing. Requirements include a creative short story written especially for this class, a midterm, a final, an oral presentation, and weekly quizzes on the readings. The texts include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, James Joyce’s Dubliners, and The Longman Masters of Short Fiction (2002 edition). The attendance policy allows no absences beyond three without documentation through some kind of dated bill or paper. This policy begins upon the student’s registration in the class.

English 3389.002

CallNumber 13702

Short Story

Culture, Crisis, Relationships

MWF 1‐1:50AM


EN 207


The Short Story will provide the student with the eleven basic short story forms, using the approach of Comparative Literature, which establishes the historical context for the form. It will begin with the classical backgrounds of the short story and continue through the medieval period and the Renaissance to the present day. The goals of the course include a greater appreciation of story reading, as well as a wider selection of forms and techniques for story writing. Requirements include a creative short story written especially for this class, a midterm, a final, an oral presentation, and weekly quizzes on the readings. The texts include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, James Joyce’s Dubliners, and The Longman Masters of Short Fiction (2002 edition). The attendance policy allows no absences beyond three without documentation through some kind of dated bill or paper. This policy begins upon the student’s registration in the class.

English 3390

Literatures of the Southwest

Notes: Prerequisite:6 hrs of 2000-level English. Fulfills the Multicultural requirement.


English 4300





Individual Studies in English


Course number normally used for individual/independent studies arranged between an English professor and a student. Students must have already completed a course with the instructor. The instructor is not obligated to agree to supervise the independent study. The student will normally have a topic in mind and will approach the instructor for feasibility. A form, which may be picked up in EN 211C, must be filled out and approved by the Chair of the English Department. The form is then delivered to 211C and the advisor enrolls the student. The teacher submits the grade to the Chair for posting.

English 4301.001

CallNumber 13715

Studies in Selected Authors CourseSubtitle

MWF 1‐1:50PM

Brian McFadden [email protected]

EN 430



English 4301.002

CallNumber 13716

Studies in Selected Authors “I Speak for You”: Ralph Ellison and American Culture

TR 2‐3:20PM

Michael Borshuk


While a “studies in authors” course on a writer who published only one novel in his lifetime may seem peculiar, few would argue against Ralph Ellison’s expansive influence in African American literature, and in American letters more broadly. Ellison’s Invisible Man, for instance, with its comprehensive use of vernacular and literary sources, is inextricable from both conservative definitions of the American canon and “radical” reconsiderations of that ostensibly unified tradition. Ellison’s writing is as varied and ambitious as the American culture he simultaneously idealized and criticized. To read his work in its entirety is to be engaged with multiple, seemingly contradictory visions of American identity and culture at once.



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EN 425

This class will study Ellison’s work in various forms: his masterpiece, Invisible Man, of course, but also his early short fiction, his unfinished second novel, and his essays and cultural criticism. We will be attentive to Ellison’s development as a fiction writer, observing his move from social realism and experimentation with folk forms in early stories, to a mature fusion of politics and vernacular play in later work like “Flying Home,” “King of the Bingo Game” and Invisible Man. Throughout, we will observe how Ellison’s fiction embodies the dramatization of his own critical conception of American literature and culture, as articulated in his non-fiction writing. That is, we will consider how Ellison’s fiction reveals his own faith in American culture’s hybrid character; how it explores a distinctly American tension between formal and improvised cultural elements; and how it redresses the limited or problematic representations of non-white Americans offered by seminal “white” voices in American literature. Finally, while we will bring a close critical attention to Ellison’s engagement with American culture as a reader and writer, we will also consider his specific relationship— sometimes complementary, sometimes antagonistic—to other notable African American writers like Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Albert Murray and Amiri Baraka.

Students will be expected to keep an extensive and ongoing reading journal, from which they will choose three entries of 2-3 pages to be submitted for marks throughout the term. Students will also be required to make a brief oral presentation, and complete a research paper of 12-15 pages, to be handed in before classes end. Informed participation from all is expected and attendance is mandatory.

Tentative Text List:

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison, Flying Home and Other Stories

Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth

Ralph Ellison, The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

Plus a coursepack of relevant criticism and biographical materials, and selections from Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray’s published letters.

English 4311.001

CallNumber 13717

Studies in Poetry

Heroic Souls and Saintly Bodies: The Poems of a 1300 Manuscript Miscellany

TR 9:30‐10:50AM

Julie Nelson Couch


This course will immerse students in the poems of a medieval manuscript, the Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 108. This manuscript, dated to about 1300 and written entirely in Middle English, includes a cycle of verse saints lives known as the South English Legendary, the Middle English romances, Havelok the Dane and King Horn, a poem animating the apocryphal Childhood of Christ, a verse debate between the Body and Soul, a political poem, and other examples of ‘religious’ verse, including “The Three Foes of Mankind.” Paleographic and codicological evidence indicates that the texts contained within the manuscript were intentionally ordered; such a deliberate collation reveals a blurring of generic boundaries, that is the overlapping of religious, political, and fantastic modes of poetry. In this course, we will read the Laud poems and



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EN 431

consider the interpretive implications of their original manuscript context. Using the microfiche facsimile of this manuscript, we will examine the actual manuscript layout of the poetry. We will examine intertextual relationships among the romances, saints' lives, and political poems. Students will be expected to write two short critical essays about individual poems from the manuscript and a final research paper which articulates a hypothesis about possible meanings, priorities, or readers of the Laud Misc. 108. Weekly written responses, occasional quizzes, and active class participation will also be required. Attendance is mandatory. 7 absences will constitute failure for the course.

Texts:

“King Horn,” “Havelok the Dane”. In Four Romances of England Eds. Ronald B. Herzman, Graham Drake, and Eve Salisbury. Medieval Institute, 1999.

Horstmann, Carl, ed. The Early South English Legendary or Lives of Saints. Reprint. Kessinger, 2004.

English 4312

Studies in Drama Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 3000-level English. May be repeated once when topics

vary.


English 4313.001

CallNumber 13719

Studies in Fiction

West of Everything: Myths of Empire in Literature and Film

MWF 1‐1:50PM

Sara Spurgeon [email protected]

EN 206


In this course we will examine texts engaging and challenging the myth of the frontier, including works by Native American, Chicano/a, Asian American, and Anglo American writers and directors. We will be exploring these texts from a number of different angles: What did the myth of the frontier look like in the past and what shape is it assuming in American culture today? How has it been used to justify or deconstruct American ideas about conquest, colonization, and empire? How might it work to define our ideas about gender, race, class, sexuality, national identity, borders, etc.? How has it formed the genre we know today as the “Western”? How do the works of non-Anglo Westerners writing from "the other side" of the frontier reinterpret that myth? We will be doing close readings of novels, films, and theory. Students will be expected to complete 2 short essays, one long paper, a mid-term and a final. Students who miss more than six class periods after being registered for the class will be dropped.

Texts will include:

James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans

Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

English 4314




Studies in Nonfiction Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of 3000-level English. May be repeated once when topics vary.


English 4315.001

CallNumber 13722

Studies in Film

Multicultural American Cinema

TR 2‐3:20PM

Scott Baugh [email protected]

EN 463


Roll call: Halle Berry, Salma Hayek, Denzel Washington, and Ice Cube. Jimmy Smits, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, and Jennifer Lopez. Jackie Chan, Tom Cruise, and Lucy Liu … and Woody Allen. These are just a few of the faces you will see in this film studies course.

In this course, students investigate the extent to which the aesthetics of film represent and express American multiculturalism. With special attention to the dynamics of “mainstream” and independent feature films, the course covers a diverse range of issues involved in the formulation of American multiculturalism in cinema, including race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class and socio-political status, among others. Students, then, not only practice analytical reading skills through film interpretation, but also explore and identify significant aspects of our American culture. In addition to active participation, required assignments include in-class quizzes, two short (5 to 7 pages) critical essays, a response journal, and two exams.

Textbook readings:

Students will be required to purchase and read our cinema ‘primer,’The Critical Eye (Kasden, et al.; 3 rd rev. ed., Kendall-Hunt). In addition, a number of article-length readings—some critical, others theoretical in nature, and still various others—will provide a pathway through landmark topics throughout the course; these will be available as a coursepack and/or as downloadable files.

Possible Films:

Birth of a Nation and Intolerance (Griffith); Crash (Haggis) The Searchers (Ford); El Norte, Mi Familia/My Family, and Selena (Nava); Far from Heaven (Haynes); High Noon (Zinneman); Shanghai Noon (Dey); Windtalkers, Face/off, and Mission: Impossible II (Woo); Rush Hour (Ratner); Anaconda (Llosa); Thriller (Potter); Manhattan (Allen); Heartland (Pearce); Across the Moon (Gottlieb); Old Gringo (Puenzo); New York, New York and Age of Innocence (Scorsese); Boyz-N-the-Hood and Shaft (Singleton); Shaft (Parks); Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X (Lee); Powwow Highway (Wacks); Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life (Anders); Swordfish (Sena); Training Day (Fuqua); Fools Rush In (Tennant); Glory (Zwick); Mississippi Masala (Nair); El Mariachi and Desperado (Rodriguez); The Godfather trilogy (Coppola); Blade Runner (Scott); Philadelphia (Demme); and more.

English 4321

Studies in Literary Topics



English 4342



Studies in Literary Theory



English 4351.001

CallNumber 13725

Advanced Creative Writing Genre: The Shared Terrain of Poetry and Fiction Genre changed 4‐5‐06

MW 2‐3:20PM

Jacqueline Kolosov‐ Wenthe [email protected]

EN 433

Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of creative writing (ENGL 3351) and consent of instructor. May be repeated.

Please email instructor for permission to enroll in the course. * What can a poet learn from a fiction writer?

* What can a fiction writer learn from a poet?

These questions will be the starting points for this advanced creative writing workshop in which each student can work primarily in one genre or move as fluidly as he/she likes between poetry and fiction. Workshops will be at the center of the course, as will reading and voracious discussion. Readings will be drawn from both genres. In addition, we will read some hybrid forms such as David St. John’s Faces, a novella in verse; Kim Addonizio’s Jimmy & Rita, a love story in poems; and Michelle Richmond’s linked story collection, The Girl in the Flyaway Dress. Over the course of the semester, each student will create a unified/linked body of work. This could be a sequence of poems or stories exploring a relationship, a history, even a memory from many angles. What if several characters commented on the same event? What if a memory was explored at different points in time including the time BEFORE it happened? Consider a sequence that brings together poems in the form of postcards (postcard as prose poem?) with stories that open up/reveal/complicate the role of the postcards within the overall work. Consider what would happen if you were to introduce the villanelle’s principles of repetition into a linked group of stories.

In order to gain permission to register, please email, via word attachment, 3 poems or a fiction writing sample, to Dr. Kolosov-Wenthe at [email protected].

English 4351.002

CallNumber 13726

Advanced Creative Writing Genre: Nonfiction

TR 12:30‐1:50PM

Dennis Covington [email protected]

EN 434

Notes: Prerequisite: 6 hrs of creative writing (ENGL 3351) and consent of instructor. May be repeated.

Please email instructor for permission to enroll in the course. No description available. Please contact teacher.

English 4360.001

CallNumber 13727






Advanced Exposition

CourseSubtitle

TR 3:30‐4:50PM

Susan Lang [email protected]

EN 488


English 4365

Special Topics in Technical Communication

Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 3365 or consent of instructor. May be repeated once when topics vary.


English 4366

Technical and Professional Editing



English 4367.001

CallNumber 13730

Developing Instructional Materials

TR 3:30‐4:50PM

Kirk St. Amant [email protected]

EN 484



English 4368.001

CallNumber 13731

Advanced Web Design

TR 2‐3:20PM

Craig Baehr

Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 3367, 3368, or 3369.





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EN 363F

English 4369

Interaction Design Notes: Prerequisite: ENGL 3367, 3368, or 3369.


English 4373.001

CallNumber 13733

Studies in Linguistics

Semantics

MW 2‐3:20PM

Min‐Joo Kim [email protected]

EN 480


Revised 8-24-06. Permission of instructor required. What is semantics? It’s a study of meaning. What is then meaning? We seem to know what we mean by ‘meaning’ but it isn’t always easy to define what it is. Obviously, we use ‘meaning’ in various contexts. For instance, we say ‘What do you mean by that?’ when we don’t understand a word, be it in English or in another language, or when we don’t understand the meaning of a sentence. But we also say ‘What do you mean?’ when we don’t understand the other party’s intention.

In this course, we will examine basic concepts in word and sentence meaning, and the way in which sentences are used and interpreted in context. More specifically, we will investigate why ‘Every man loves a woman’ can be ambiguous, why ‘John is knowing Sue’ is ungrammatical, why we are not actually asking a question when we say ‘Could you please pass me the salt?’, and why we imply something about Mary when we say ‘Mary got pregnant and then got married,’ as opposed to ‘Mary got married and then got pregnant’.

If you want to know more about this class, please contact Dr. Min-Joo Kim at min‐ [email protected].

English 4374.001

CallNumber 13734

Senior Seminar

CourseSubtitle

MWF 9‐9:50AM

Doug Crowell [email protected]

EN 427

Notes: Prerequisite: 15 hrs junior or senior English. Required of English majors doing either Literature & Language or Teacher Certification specializations.

Please contact English undergraduate advisor ([email protected], 742-2500 ext 254, EN 211C) for permission to enroll in the course. No description available. Please contact teacher.

English 4374.002

CallNumber 13735

Notes: Prerequisite: 15 hrs junior or senior English. Required of English majors doing either Literature & Language or Teacher Certification specializations.







Senior Seminar

What Can You Do with English?

TR 12:30‐1:50PM

Bryce Conrad [email protected]

EN 312C

Please contact English undergraduate advisor ([email protected], 742-2500 ext 254, EN 211C) for permission to enroll in the course. The subtitle for this senior seminar, "What Can You Do with English?" poses a question that is not merely meant to be rhetorical. We will reflect on what we have done as English majors, and we will explore the ways in which literature and the humanities play a vital role in our shared cultural life.

English 4378.021

CallNumber 13737

Internship in Technical Communication

TBA

Notes: Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, ENGL 3365, declared specialization in technical communication, and approval of director of technical communication.

Internship arranged with director of technical communication. Contact Dr. Thomas Barker ([email protected], EN 363E, 742-2500 ext 279.)

English 4380

Professional Issues in Technical Communication

Notes: Prerequisite: Senior standing, declared specialization in technical communication, 3 hours of 4000-level English courses, or approval of the technical communication director.





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