Fall 2015
| ENGL 215: Going Home Again – Homecoming | WWW, WW1 |
| Instructor: Allen, Gabi Gautreaux | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 215; Introduction to Thematic Approaches to Literature; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. The study of a specified theme as it recurs through literature. (23.0101). | |
| Course Theme: Going Home Again: The Literature of Homecoming | |
| Course Description: Through a selection of readings from poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, students will explore the emotionally fraught subject of returning home after significant absence, looking closely at how the journey transforms the traveller—and the place called “home.” | |
| Textbook Requirements: Required reading, a combination of fiction and non-fiction, will include Joshilyn Jackson’s Gods in Alabama, William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Rob Dreher’s The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, and selections from Homer’s Odyssey. | |
| ENGL 215: Seven Deadly Sins | 2M |
| Instructor: Stanga, Linda | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 215; Introduction to Thematic Approaches to Literature; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. The study of a specified theme as it recurs through literature. (23.0101) | |
| Course Theme: The Seven Deadly Sins in Literature | |
| Course Description: The Seven Deadly Sins left a profound mark on Western literature and art and continue to inspire. Students who take this course should be able to communicate intelligently about the history and development in Western thought of the notion of the seven deadly sins, drawing on evidence from literature and popular culture. They should also be able to follow and analyze complex arguments as well as construct their own arguments related to the course theme. | |
| Textbook Requirements: The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler, Daniel Born et al., eds.; The Seven Deadly Sins Today, Henry Fairlie; The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde | |
| ENGL 215: Narratives: War, Peace, and PTSD | 2T |
| Instructor: Schmidt Staley, Elka | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 215; Introduction to Thematic Approaches to Literature; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. The study of a specified theme as it recurs through literature. (23.0101) | |
| Course Theme: Seeing Combat: Narratives of War, Peace, and PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder) | |
| Course Description: Narratives of “seeing combat” as presented in the short story, the memoir, the essay, or the novel and the effects of war, peace, and PTSD. | |
| Textbook Requirements: Fives and Twenty-Fives – Michael Pitre. Redeployment – Phil Klay. Thank you for Your Service – David Finkel. Plenty of Time When We Get Home – Kayla Williams. With the Old Breed – E.B. Sledge. All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr. | |
| ENGL 215: Gods – Goddesses – Visions | 6T |
| Instructor: Udall, Jay | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 215; Introduction to Thematic Approaches to Literature; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. The study of a specified theme as it recurs through literature. (23.0101) | |
| Course Theme: Using various literary genres, this course will explore religious/spiritual ideas and experiences. | |
| Course Description: In this course we will explore images and ideas of the divine as expressed in poems, plays, short stories, novels, essays, and film from around the world and throughout history. Our focus will be on how the divine or sacred is experienced, defined, and redefined by different writers, and how these experiences and definitions both reflect and respond to the historical, social and cultural conditions from which they arise. We will also examine the ways in which spiritual ideas influence our notions of the body, sexuality, nature, art, education, and politics. | |
| Textbook Requirements: Australian Aboriginal myths (short stories), The Enlightened Heart, Stephen Mitchell, Editor (anthology of spiritual poetry from around the world), Siddartha, Hermann Hesse, The Bacchae, Euripides, C.K. Williams, Translator (drama), The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams (drama), Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya (novel), The Color Purple, Alice Walker, Between Godliness and Godlessness (essay), The Great Mother (essay), and various selected film scenes. | |
| ENGL 215: World War II – War Stories |
7M |
| Instructor: Pejic, April | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 215; Introduction to Thematic Approaches to Literature; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. The study of a specified theme as it recurs through literature. (23.0101) | |
| Course Theme: World War II Literature | |
| Course Description: The devastation of World War II shaped the political climate and geography of the world we know today, and it also inspired some fantastic literature. In this course, we will examine works from many different perspectives: a Japanese girl dealing with the nuclear fallout of an atomic bomb, an American soldier witnessing the bombing of Dresden, a German radio operator occupying France, a member of the Norwegian Underground fleeing capture on the fjords, and a Polish concentration camp survivor struggling with guilt. We will explore not only the way that war shapes the political identities of countries, but also the personal identities of soldiers and civilians alike. | |
| Textbook Requirements: Black Rain by Ibuse Masuji, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Maus by Art Speigelman, We Die Alone by David Howarth, and A Woman In Berlin by Anonymous | |
| ENGL 216: Women’s Travel Literature | WWW |
| Instructor: Tuman, Myron | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 216; Appreciation of Literary Genres; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. A general introduction to the study and appreciation of genres and subgenres of literature. (23.0101) | |
| Course Theme: Women’s Travel Literature | |
| Course Description: A look at the writings–mostly memoirs, letters, and essays–by noted women authors and some fearless women, recounting their travels to unusual places in search both for new adventures and, just as often, a deeper sense of themselves. | |
| Textbook Requirements:
Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller Eat, Pray, Love; Elizabeth Von Arnim’s Enchanted April; along with a series of web readings, including memoirs by Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, Mary Shelley. We will also view a number of feature films, including The Enchanted April (1992), Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), and Summertime – (1954)
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| ENGL 216: Survey of Southern Noir | 3T |
| Instructor: Schmidt Staley, Elka | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 216: Appreciation of Literary Genres; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. A general introduction to the study and appreciation of genres and subgenres of literature. (23.0101) | |
| Course Theme: Grit Lit: Survey of Southern Noir. (Short Story and Novel). | |
| Course Description: Growing out of Southern Gothic and Grotesque and Flannery O’Conner, this contemporary genre explores the “Rough South,” and the lives, and especially the crimes, of “rednecks” and other characters–broke, divorced, violent–not good country people. Some are the sensitive types, struggling to be “the one who got away.” Fans of crime fiction, film noir, mysteries, and thrillers will find a lot to like in these shorts stories and novels, as well as fans of Flannery O’Conner, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers. | |
| Textbook Requirements: Grit Lit: A Rough Southern Reader(ed. Carpenter), Bastard Out of Carolina (Allison), The Missing (Gautreaux), Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Franklin) | |
| ENGL 216: The Picaresque Novel | 4M |
| Instructor: Illidge, Mabelle | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 216; Appreciation of Literary Genres; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. A general introduction to the study and appreciation of genres and subgenres of literature. (23.0101) | |
| Course Theme: This course will provide a glimpse into the 16th and 17th centuries landscape as depicted by some of the great writers of the Golden Age of Spanish literature. | |
| Course Description: This course comprises the end of the Renaissance and the Spanish Baroque periods. Through the study of the Picaresque Novel, thus named after its main character el pícaro (rogue or rascal), students will have a greater appreciation of this period, through investigation and evaluation of its aesthetic, historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions. Although the works will be read in translation, the student will develop an appreciation for the excellent prose of the writers to be studied. | |
| Textbook Requirements: The students will read El Lazarillo de Tormes (unknown author) 1554; El Buscón (The Swindler) by Francisco de Quevedo 1604-1620; and Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán 1599-1604. In addition, there will be short readings by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Rinconete y Cortadillo from Novelas Ejemplares or Exemplary Novels; and excerpts from El Periquilo Sarniento by Fernández de Lizardi, México, 1816. | |
| ENGL 216: Introduction to Irish Literature |
5M |
| Instructor: White, Robin | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 216; Appreciation of Literary Genres; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. A general introduction to the study and appreciation of genres and subgenres of literature. (23.0101) | |
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| ENGL 216: Survey of Japanese Literature | 7M |
| Instructor: Portier, Jenna | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 216; Appreciation of Literary Genres; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. A general introduction to the study and appreciation of genres and subgenres of literature. (23.0101) | |
| Course Theme: A broad survey of the different types of literature from Japan | |
| Course Description: For this course, we will cover the following genres: Japanese folklore, short stories based on folklore, the poetry form native of Japan, the haiku, the first novel ever, a manga, some film, and a few modern novels. This class is meant to be a broad overview of the literature of Japan by looking a selected works to see how the literature is directly affected by the culture and history of Japan. No prior experience with Japanese culture is needed since the main cultural influences of Japan, for example Zen Buddhism, will also be covered. | |
| Textbook Requirements: The texts we will read for this class will probably include: haiku by Basho, the Noh play Atsumori, selected folktales from Japanese Tales by Royall Tyler, selected sections of The Tales of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, selected articles from The Japanese Mind by Davies and Ikeno, A Robe of Feathers by Teresa Matsuda, After Dark by Haruki Murakami, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, a manga (possibly Battle Royale by Koushun Takami), and one more novel. The books were purposely picked to keep book costs down as much as possible. We will also watch the PBC documentary The Buddha and other cultural-related videos. | |
| ENGL 217: Baseball, Literature, and Media |
WWW |
| Instructor: Landry, Kelly | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 217; Survey of Literary and Media Studies; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. A study of literature and its relationship to other forms of media. (23.0101) | |
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| ENGL 217: Topics in Sports Literature |
WW1 |
| Instructor: Tuman, Myron | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 217; Survey of Literary and Media Studies; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. A study of literature and its relationship to other forms of media. (23.0101) | |
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| ENGL 217: Writers / Directors and The Art of Adaptation |
3M |
| Instructor: Remark, Melissa | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 217; Survey of Literary and Media Studies; 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. A study of literature and its relationship to other forms of media. (23.0101) | |
| Course Theme: A study in the art of adapting literature to script to screen. | |
| Course Description: “Writers, Directors, and the Art of Adaptation” investigates the various techniques and devices writers and directors use to create meaning in story. In this course, students will fine-tune their analytical skills studying narrative structure, characterization, dialogue, and scene in literature, and then examine the choices made by screenwriters and directors to shape story into film. We’ll read selected novels, short stories, and scripts, and also watch and discuss the resulting films. We’ll debate whether the screenwriters and directors have maintained the integrity of the original work and argue which version of the story has the most impact and why. Basic knowledge of filmmaking terms will be an asset in this course. | |
| Textbook Requirements: Potential reading list includes: Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, and Diana Ossana; Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Adaptation (script) by Charlie Kaufmann. | |
| ENGL 240: Introduction to Film |
4T |
| Instructor: Bernard, Marla | |
| Catalog Description: 3-3-0. Prerequisite: C or better in ENGL 102. An introduction to the critical study of film. (23.9999). | |
| Course Theme: Intro to Film | |
| Course Description: With advancements in technology and broadening platforms, now is an exciting time to study film. This course offers students a sweeping introduction to the art, culture, history, industry, and experience of watching movies. Through readings, lectures, screenings, and conversation, we’ll develop the unique vocabulary of the film industry and of film criticism, and learn how the language of movies crosses cultural boundaries and media outlets. The course will survey form and genre, elements of film like cinematography and editing, as well as the social, cultural, and economic aspects of film. | |
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| ENGL 484. Advanced Technical and Professional Writing | 5T—1:30-2:50 |
| Instructor: Banville, Scott D. | |
| Catalog Description: ENGL 484. Advanced Technical and Professional Writing. 3-3-0. Prerequisites: C or better in ENGL 310 or 368 or BSAD 310 and junior standing. Students will practice researching, planning, and writing a variety of technical and professional documents. Students will also gain experience using a wide range of digital media. (23.1303) | |
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| Course Description: For this course we will examine, evaluate, and practice a wide range of technical and professional writing. We will research, compose, edit, and design proposals, grants, newsletters, websites, social media texts, videos, forms, and other documents used in professional and technical settings. Many of the documents produced will be grounded in real world situations and we will work with clients from the University and/or the community. Students will also work in groups for projects and for individual assignments. | |
| Textbook Requirements: Strategies for Technical Communication in the Workplace, 3rd edition by Laura J. Gurak and John M. Lannon—tentative/proposed. | |
