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ENGL 2000-01: Introduction to Literary Studies
MWF 10 - 10:50
Dr. Laura Franey
This course introduces students to some of the techniques and methods necessary for the rich study of literature (especially literature in the Anglo-American tradition). We will study fiction, poetry, and drama, while also learning about different schools of criticism (such as New Historicism, Marxist criticism, feminist criticism). Students will also learn how to do research for critical essays on literature.
ENGL 2010-01: British and American Literary History, I
MWF 11 - 11:50
Dr. Eric Griffin
A history of British and American literature from the beginnings to 1800, with an emphasis on the meaning and development of literary history. (Description from the College Catalog.)
ENGL 2110-01: Modern Southern Fiction
MWF 9:00-9:50
Dr. Suzanne Marrs
In this course we will discuss the portraits of the South that emerge in fiction by William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy. We'll also discuss the varying theories of "southerness" that literary critics have applied to subject matter and technique, testing those theories against the fiction we are studying. Texts: The Sound and the Fury, Uncle Tom's Children, The Circus in the Attic and Other stories, Welty: Stories, Essays, Memoir, O'Connor: The Complete Stories, The Moviegoer. Grades will be based on mid-term and final examinations, a term paper, and reading quizzes.
(Note that on Major Access this course is entitled Southern Literature and Culture.)
ENGL 3190-01. Postcolonial Fiction
TTh 10 - 11:15
Dr. Laura Franey
Students will read, discuss and write about English-language literature produced by writers from former British and American colonies or spheres of influence in Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia. Some of the texts we will study are Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (India/Britain), V. S. Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur (West Indies), Ngugi wa Thiongo'sPetals of Blood (East Africa), and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters (the Philippines/U.S).
ENGL 3340-01: Shakespeare, and the Play of Cinema
Dr. Eric Griffin
This special edition of "Shakespeare, and the Play of Cinema" will focus on Global Shakespeares. For as the number of recent productions filmed worldwide confirms, not merely is interest in Shakespeare flourishing, our globalized culture enables us - whatever our nation of origin or heritage - to construct Shakespeare in our own image. So in addition to reading selected Shakespeare plays, students will attend required screenings of films not only from Britain and the U.S.A., but also from Japan, India, Mexico, and Russia, among other nations.
An intermediate level course, our aim will be will approach the study of William Shakespeare's dramatic works alongside important cinematic versions of the plays. As we work through the texts of representative comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances, we will analyze key elements of Shakespeare's aesthetic practice, observing the way he experiments with generic forms, plays with language, employs and interrogates a number of theatrical conventions. At the same time, introductory readings in film studies and adaptation theory will help us to focus our discussions of cinematic representations of his works.
Because all effective literary, historical, dramaturgical and cinematic interpretation depends upon attention to detail, we will also work on the continuing development of "close-reading" skills. During the course of the semester students will write short critical reviews. Original Final Projects, undertaken in either creative or critical modes, will be presented during the final weeks of class.
**In "Shakespeare, and the Play of Cinema: Global Shakespeares," students may opt for credit in English, Communication Studies and/or Film Studies. Recommended prior courses: English 1000, English 3310.
(Note that this course satisfies the major requirement for an Authorial Studies course and for a course in literature prior to 1800.)
ENGL 3350-01: Fitzgerald and Hemingway
TTh 1 p.m.
Dr. Steve Kistulentz
This major author course will investigate the lasting
influence of two of the early 20th century’s most influential
American novelist. Through examination of the novels, stories, letters, and
criticism surrounding these two figures, we will investigate why these two
authors have maintained their iconic stature, and we’ll explore the surprising
similarities in their work.
ENGL 3450-01. Writing for New Media
MWF 10, Th. 8
Dr. Anita DeRouen
(Description will be forthcoming soon. Please check with Dr. DeRouen with questions in the meantime.)
CRWT 2100-01. Introduction to the Reading and Writing of Poetry
MW 2:45 - 4
Dr. Greg Miller
(No prerequisite, but it is recommended that you have taken ENGL 1000 or are concurrently enrolled in ENGL 2000.)
Class time will be divided between discussing poetry by writers outside the class and by students in it. Students will not only write in established genres and forms but also explore more experimental forms of writing. Students will of necessity become well acquainted with editing and revising. The class will focus on understanding, evaluating, and mastering a variety of poetic techniques; we will also cultivate greater awareness of contemporary literary culture, including the process of publication in magazines (paper and electronic) and books, poetry readings, and the life of the world of poetry.
CRWT 3000-01: Advanced Reading and Writing of Fiction
W 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Steve Kistulentz
This course will study the ways and means of writing literary fiction. Through the examination of specimen texts, we’ll attempt to generate a working understanding of the conventions of the literary short story. Students will read extensively in contemporary fiction before turning their attention to the production and analysis of their own written work.
COMM 2000-01. Introduction to Communication
MW 1-2:40
Dr. Curtis Coats
Is it a problem that six or seven companies own 90% of the media? Have you ever wondered how meanings are constructed in texts? Do media really influence us? This course is designed to engage these questions through an exploration of communication and media theories that think about the production of media texts, the meanings embedded in texts, and the consumption of media texts. Most of us live media-saturated lives. This course will help us better understand our media-saturated lives and equip us to be critical media producers and consumers.
COMM 2400-01/PEAC 2750-01. Media Ethics
MW 2:45-4
Dr. Curtis Coats
Is airbrushing in advertising an ethical issue? Is using sex to sell, well, everything an ethical issue? How about embedded journalists in Iraq during the war -- any ethical concerns there? Does the recent Wikileaks saga create ethical dilemmas? How about that show, To Catch a Predator? Or what about that little social media site I'm guessing you all use called Facebook. Any issues there? In this class, we will take stock of ethics in the media. We will take the time to develop ethical frameworks, and we will learn the skill of ethical deliberation. When you take your media production job, you won't have time to develop this framework. You'll be busy enough meeting deadlines, handling clients, etc. Because of the frenetic pace of your mediated life, this class is designed to create the space and time for you to develop your ethical frame.
COMM 4900-01: Senior Seminar
TTh 1-2:40
Dr. Curtis Coats
The purpose of this course is to examine "culture" and the role of mediated communication therein. Is culture a "thing," "a process" or both? Is it a product of media industries, of individuals or both? Does language create culture, or does culture create language? This term, culture, is perhaps the most elusive, most contested term in all of communication studies. Our task is not to "solve" the question of culture; rather, it is to understand the terms of the debate and to reflect on our roles - past, present, and future - in its production and reproduction.
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