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Department of English Course DescriptionsFall 2016English 3301.001: Critical Theory and Practice for English Majors (WI)MWF 9am-9:50am, FH 227Instructor:Graeme Wend-WalkerCourse Description:Course introduces the critical theories underpinning rhetorical and literary analysis within various branches of English Studies and develops the skills of reading, writing, and research. Required for majors and open to minors; must be taken in the first semester of upper-division classes.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: graeme@txstate.eduEnglish 3301.002: Critical Theory and Practice for English Majors (WI)MW 11am-12:20pm, FH 228English 3301.004: Critical Theory and Practice for English Majors (WI)MW 2pm-3:20pm, FH 226Instructor:Suparno BanerjeeCourse Description:This course introduces students to the critical approaches, methods, and priorities that enable the effective reading of literature. We will consider some of the major critical approaches such as S0tructuralism, Post-structuralism, Psychoanalytical criticism, Marxism criticism etc. and the benefits and limitations of each kind.Books:Possible texts: Peter Barry’s Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Kafka’s The Trial and other shorter readingsEvaluation: Student presentations, essays, exams, quizzes, attendance, and participation.E-Mail: sb67@txstate.eduEnglish 3301.003: Critical Theory and Practice for English Majors (WI)MW 12:30pm-1:50pm, FH 228Instructor:Allan ChavkinCourse Description:Current approaches to literature with attention to reading strategies and artistic techniques and conventions.Books:Saul Bellow, Collected Stories; Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism edited by Peter Beidler; Arthur Miller, The Portable Arthur Miller; Louise Erdrich, Shadow Tag, David Mikics, New Handbook of Literary Terms, Junichiro Tanizaki, The Key.Films: Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; The InnocentsEvaluation: Class participation and 4 exams E-Mail: chavkin@txstate.eduEnglish 3301.005: Critical Theory and Practice for English Majors (WI)TR 12:30pm-1:50pm, FH 227Instructor:Eric LeakeCourse Description:Course introduces the critical theories underpinning rhetorical and literary analysis within various branches of English Studies and develops the skills of reading, writing, and research. Required for majors and open to minors; must be taken in the first semester of upper-division classes.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: eleake@txstate.eduEnglish 3301.006: Critical Theory and Practice for English Majors (WI)TR 2pm-3:20pm, FH 252Instructor:Elizabeth Skerpan-WheelerCourse Description:As English majors we all at some point need to justify what we do, whether to ourselves or to others. We like to read, but why should a person who likes to read undertake formal study of literature? Also, given that we have only so much time, how do we decide what to read? In this course we shall investigate some possible responses to those questions. We shall read two literary works of students' own choosing both to explore the many possibilities for studying them and to consider questions about the importance of these and works like them to a modern, culturally diverse American society.Books:Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory, 3rd ed.; Herman Rapaport, The Literary Theory ToolkitEvaluation: Three short (500-750 words) papers 30%; short project 15%; long project (35%); Final 20%. The final exam will be an essay exam. E-Mail: es10@txstate.eduEnglish 3302.001: Film and Video Theory and Production (WI)MW 3:30pm-4:50pm, FH 120Instructor:Kathleen McClancyCourse Description:This course will introduce students to the techniques and theories of film and digital video production by teaching students how movies are made. This is a hands-on class, and students should expect to spend significant time with a camera. We will discuss shot composition, location scouting, cinematography, and non-linear editing, among other topics. As we learn the elements of the medium of film, we will put our new knowledge into action, creating our own digital videos. Necessary equipment is provided.Books:TBDEvaluation: Individual and group film projects, weekly written, photographic, and video work, participation, quizzes.E-Mail: krm141@txstate.eduEnglish 3303.010: Technical Writing (WI)MW 11am-12:20pm, FH G14English 3303.016: Technical Writing (WI)MW 2pm-3:20pm, FH G14Instructor:Beverley BraudCourse Description:The study and practice of expository writing in technical and scientific professions. Emphasis on planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: bb08@txstate.eduEnglish 3303.015: Technical Writing (WI)MW 12:30pm-1:50pm, FH 120English 3303.017: Technical Writing (WI)MW 2pm-3:20pm, FH 120Instructor:Susie TilkaCourse Description:This course teaches the skills needed for writing in scientific and technical fields. Students produce documents for various purposes and audiences, drawing on their own disciplines for subject matter. Writing applications include memos, letters, abstracts, resumes, and a longer documented project--all with consideration of document design.Books:Technical Communication by Markel – 11th editionEvaluation: Written documents onlyE-Mail: st11@txstate.eduEnglish 3303.024: Technical Writing (WI)TR 8am-9:20am, FH G14English 3303.025: Technical Writing (WI)TR 9:30am-10:50am, FH G14Instructor:Pinfan ZhuCourse Description:The study and practice of expository writing in technical and scientific professions. Emphasis on planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: pz10@txstate.eduEnglish 3303.027: Technical Writing (WI)TR 11am-12:20pm, FH G14Hybrid; meets TUE in class, THU onlineInstructor:Aimee RoundtreeCourse Description:This course prepares students for technical and workplace writing. Specific genres include instructions, proposals, memos, reports, job letters and résumés, Web design, use of graphics, and document design. Students also learn how to analyze audiences and use rhetorical strategies to target them. Students will also learn best practices for the writing process, from invention to editing and research skills. The course is writing intensive but also teaches students oral presentation skills and some application software skills. Students will participate in group discussion, web board response, online research, and in-class exercises.Books:Practical Strategies for Technical Communication Markel, Mike 1319003362 or 13: 978-1319003364Bedford/St. Martin's 2016 Evaluation: Job MaterialsProgress ReportProposalRecommendation ReportPresentationParticipation ActivitiesE-Mail: akr@txstate.eduEnglish 3303.043: Technical Writing (WI)W 6:30pm-9:20pm, FH 114Instructor:Libby Allison, Ph.D.Course Description:This course introduces students to various kinds of technical documents that professionals in businesses, agencies, organizations, and industries write, edit, design, and distribute to different audiences. Students will learn key principles of communicating and writing that can be applied to any technical and professional writing activity including ones in students’ majors and careers.Books:Technical Communication Today, 5th ed. by Richard Johnson-Sheehan. New York: Pearson Longman, 2015. Students must bring their books to class.Evaluation: Class participation, in-class activities, and homework= about 30% of overall gradeLarger writing projects= about 40% of overall gradeQuizzes and exams=about 30% of overall gradeE-Mail: lallison@txstate.eduEnglish 3303.045: Technical Writing (WI)W 6:30pm-9:20pm, AVRY ARROnline course; meets 09/07 and 10/19, RRHEC; email dprice@txstate.edu for more information.English 3303.046: Technical Writing (WI)THU 6:30pm-9:20pm, AVRY ARROnline course; meets 09/08 and 10/20, RRHEC; email dprice@txstate.edu for more information.Instructor:Dan PriceCourse Description:This course prepares students for writing in the workplace. Specific genres include letters, memos, job application materials, manuals, reports, and presentations. Specific skills developed include document design, web page design, use of graphics, collaborative writing, audience analysis, and project management. The course is writing and computer intensive and requires active participation.Books:Markel, Mike. Technical Communication, 11th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015.Evaluation: Five major writing assignments and a final.E-Mail: dprice@txstate.eduEnglish 3304.003: Professional Writing (WI)TR 8am-9:30am, FH 114English 3304.004: Technical Writing (WI)TR 9:30am-10:50am, FH 114Instructor:Susan HansonCourse Description:English 3304 adapts the principles of expository writing for use in the workplace. The course teaches students in non-technical fields to write documents commonly used in professional settings. Computer technology is included. (You will be expected to learn the basics of Photoshop and InDesign in order to complete several projects.)Books:A Pocket Style Manual,?Hacker and Sommers, Eds., Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014.Evaluation: 90% writing projects, 10% quizzes & attendanceE-Mail: sh17@txstate.eduEnglish 3306.001: Writing for Film (WI)T 2pm-4:50pm, FH 113Instructor:Jon Marc SmithCourse Description:This course is an introduction to screenwriting that combines the study of published film texts with workshop practice in writing for film.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: js71@txstate.eduEnglish 3307.002: Introduction to the Study of Film (WI)TR 12:30pm-1:50, FH 224Instructor:Victoria SmithCourse Description:This course introduces students to the vocabulary of film, contextualizes film historically and culturally, and situates each film within a generic framework—for example, German expressionism, film noir, the western, Italian neo-realism, the melodrama, and recent social problem films.Books:Corrigan and White. The Film Experience (4th. ed.—though any edition is acceptable), various readings on TRACSTentative list of films: M, Maltese Falcon, Brokeback Mountain, Pan’s Labyrinth, Dr. Strangelove, Chinatown, Imitation of Life, The Hurt Locker, Thelma and Louise, Breathless, Dr. Strangelove, Do the Right Thing, American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club.Evaluation: Oral presentation, various short in-class written assignments, 2 papers, a midterm, and a finalE-Mail: vs13@txstate.eduEnglish 3307.002: Introduction to the Study of Film (WI)MW 12:30pm-1:50p, FH 341Instructor:Kathleen McClancyCourse Description:In this class, we will examine the many aspects of the medium of film, from the script to the shot to the sound. We will consider films as constructs and cultural artifacts, as texts and as art. We will unravel the history of the medium, to discover how film has transformed since its origin. And we will ask ourselves whether, in this era of digital production, we can still call this medium “film” at all. In our plan of study we will alternate between an examination of film techniques and an exploration of the history of film productions. As a result, we will consider film as a medium in transition, dynamic rather than static.Books:Textbook TBD. Films may include: Bamboozled (2000); Blade Runner: the Final Cut (2007); Breathless (1960); Brick (2005); Citizen Kane (1941); Chinatown (1974); Double Indemnity (1944); Drive (2011); The Maltese Falcon (1941); Metropolis (1927); Psycho (1960); The Searchers (1956), Sherlock Jr. (1924).Evaluation: Exams, writing assignments, quizzes, final essay.E-Mail: krm141@txstate.eduEnglish 3308.001: Advanced Topics in FilmTR 2pm-3:20pm, FH 227Instructor:Rebecca Bell-MetereauCourse Description:Course offers a focused examination of film as text, with an emphasis on critical, theoretical, cultural, historical, and stylistic aspects. Topics may include history of classical Hollywood cinema, silent film; world, European, or national cinemas; or the documentary. Repeatable once when topic varies.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: rb12@txstate.eduEnglish 3311.001: Scientific Writing (WI)TR 9:30am-10:50am, FH 120Instructor:Dr. MogullCourse Description:In this course, students will learn to:Write and edit of scientific articles,Use databases to effectively find scientific articles,Create publication-quality manuscripts, tables, and graphs, and design scientific posters for conferences.Books: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) by APA and additional readings available through TRACSEvaluation: Anticipated course assignments (and approximate value) included: Database search for scientific/medical journal articles on a specific topic (10%)Writing/editing a scientific article by section and preparing a manuscript for journal submission (50%)Conference poster & presentation (20%)Quizzes (20%)E-Mail: mogull@txstate.eduEnglish 3311.003: Writing for the Computer Industry (WI)TR 2pm-3:20pm, FH G14Instructor:Beverley BraudCourse Description:Study and practice of advanced expository writing, with focus on achieving clarity and readability. Recent emphases have included The Essay, Nature Writing, Argument, Writing for the Government, Online Communication. May be repeated once for credit when emphasis varies.Books: Evaluation: E-Mail: bb08@txstate.eduEnglish 3312.001: Internship in English StudiesM 6:30pm-9:20pm, FH 252Hybrid: meets in class 08/29, 09/12, 09/26, 10/10, 10/24, 11/07, 11/21, 12/05: all other Mondays online; email dprice@txstate.edu for more information.Instructor:Dan PriceCourse Description:This course is paired with an internship during which students apply knowledge of writing, editing, design, copy editing, and production in the professional workplace. Students will have worked with professors in their concentrations and the Internship Director to establish goals and learning objectives specific to their internships.Books:Smith, Herb and Kim Haimes-Korn. Portfolios for Technical and Professional Communications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2007.Evaluation: Journal, timesheets, employer evaluations, presentation and portfolio.E-Mail: dprice@txstate.eduEnglish 3315.001: Introduction to Creative Writing (WI)MW 3:30pm-4:50pm, FH 226Instructor:Jason CoatesCourse Description:A critical seminar for writers of fiction, poetry, and articles. Creativity, criticism, and revision are emphasized.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: jc209@txstate.eduEnglish 3315.002: Introduction to Creative Writing (WI)TR 9:30am-10:50am, FH 252Instructor:Cecily ParksCourse Description:Our studious approach to creative writing will focus on two genres: poetry and fiction. Be prepared to read as much as you write, as our readings will provide launching pads for technical and imaginative exploration. You will be expected to do in-class improvisational writing as well as structured writing assignments, and share your work with the class. Workshop will give you the opportunity to critique your peers’ work and receive feedback on your own.Books:Janet Burroway, Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, 4th ed.Evaluation: Poems & stories submitted for critique (30%); written critiques of peer work (15%); final portfolio of polished work (35%); class participation (20%).E-Mail: cgp35@txstate.eduEnglish 3315.003: Introduction to Creative Writing (WI)MW 3:30pm-4:50pm, FH 226English 3315.005: Introduction to Creative Writing (WI)ARR ARR ARR: Course taught onlineInstructor:Roger JonesCourse Description:A critical seminar for writers of fiction, poetry, and articles. Creativity, criticism, and revision are emphasized.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: rogerjones@txstate.eduEnglish 3315.004: Introduction to Creative Writing (WI)TUE 6:30pm-9:20pm, FH 225Instructor:Tomas MorinCourse Description:A critical seminar for writers of fiction, poetry, and articles. Creativity, criticism, and revision are emphasized.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: tm28@txstate.eduEnglish 3315.006: Introduction to Creative Writing (WI)TR 3:30pm-4:50pm, FH 252Instructor:Kathleen PeirceCourse Description:A critical seminar for writers of fiction, poetry, and articles. Creativity, criticism, and revision are emphasized.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: kathleenp@txstate.eduEnglish 3318.001: Everyday RhetoricTR 12:30pm-1:50pm, FH G14Hybrid; meets TUE in class, THU online; email akr@txstate.edu for more informationInstructor:Aimee RoundtreeCourse Description:In this course, we’ll explore how rhetoric can help us understand current issues in the news and on our minds by exploring the rhetorical dimensions of the texts we encounter in our everyday lives. We’ll use different lenses of rhetorical analyses to understand, explain and write about the effects of everyday texts including emails, reports, articles, images, videos, signs, and other oral, written, pictorial, social and digital objects in terms of their theoretical, historical, cultural, and technological contexts. We will also create and analyze new everyday texts such as presentations, annotated bibliographies, and rhetorical analyses on everyday topics.Books:Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Timothy Borchers. Waveland Press. 2011.ISBN-10: 157766731X. ISBN-13: 978-1577667315"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. W. W. Norton & Company; 3 edition (February 4, 2014)ISBN-10: 0393935841. ISBN-13: 978-0393935844Evaluation: Reading responses, presentations, annotated bibliographies, rhetorical analysesE-Mail: akr@txstate.eduEnglish 3319.001: The Development of English (WI)MW 2pm-3:20pm, FH 227Instructor:Dr. Susan MorrisonCourse Description:This course provides an overview of the historical development and changes of English from Indo-European to modern American English and the other "Englishes" that exist throughout the world today. We will discuss the origins and growth of the English language with particular attention to the social, cultural and historical contexts for phonological (pronunciation), morphological (form of words), and grammatical changes. We will also examine dialects, spelling and dictionaries. This course is vital for understanding American English today and for understanding literature written in English in both the medieval and postmedieval periods.Books:Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 6h Ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2013. 6th edition: ISBN-10: 0205229395; ISBN-13: 978-0205229390.Evaluation: Final exam: 20%Papers: 35% [the four page paper with the highest grade is worth 20%; the 4 page paper with the lowest grade is worth 15%]Mid-term Tests: 30 % [15% each]Wiki project and presentation: 5%Participation, attendance and in-class work: 10%E-Mail: morrison@txstate.eduEnglish 3319.002: The Development of English (WI)TR 11am-12:20pm, FH 225Instructor:Dr. Leah SchwebelCourse Description:Origin and growth of the English language with particular attention to phonological, morphological, and grammatical changes; history of dialects, spelling, and dictionaries; sources of vocabulary.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: las235@txstate.eduEnglish 3321.001: The Short Story (WI)ARR ARR ARR: course taught onlineInstructor:Roger JonesCourse Description:The short story throughout the world since Poe and Gogol.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: rogerjones@txstate.eduEnglish 3331.001: Literature of Black America (WI)MWF 9am-9:50am, FH 228Instructor:Elvin HoltCourse Description:African-American poetry, drama, and fictionBooks:Evaluation: E-Mail: eh07@txstate.eduEnglish 3333.001: Early American LiteratureMW 3:30pm-4:50pm, FH 228Instructor:Dr. Robert T. Tally, Jr.Course Description:This course will focus on the development of narrative forms America prior to the Civil War. We will pay special attention to the different ways narratives were used to represent the shifting social spaces in the United States in the nineteenth-century.Books:This list is subject to change, but readings will likely include selections from Washington Irving’s local sketches, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers, Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno.”Evaluation: The final grades will be based on short papers, a midterm exam, and a final exam.E-Mail: robert.tally@txstate.eduEnglish 3335.001: American Literature: 1865-1930 (WI)MW 2pm-3:20pm, FH 228Instructor:Allan ChavkinCourse Description:An introduction to American literature from 1865-1930. The course will concentrate on the major American writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, Willa Cather, and others. We will examine a variety of subjects and literary techniques in the works. An important focus will be on the problem of adapting a classic play or work of fiction into film (e.g. “the hard-boiled” crime novellas Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice of James Cain). When possible we will compare works with their film adaptations.Books:James Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice and /or Double Indemnity, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener; some poems and short stories by Willa Cather, Charlotte Gilman, and others Films: Long Day's Journey Into Night; Paul Case (based on Willa Cather’s short story); The Turn of the Screw; Double Indemnity; The Postman Always Rings TwiceEvaluation: Class participation and examsE-Mail: chavkin@txstate.eduEnglish 3335.002: American Literature: 1865-1930 (WI)TR 11am-12:20pm, FH 228Instructor:Mark BusbyCourse Description:The readings include works from various genres covering a wide range of themes and styles used by American writers of the period. These works will lead to investigations of the changing perceptions of America and American literature. Classes will primarily be class discussions of the assigned literary works after I provide brief introductions to the writers and their works. Objectives: The purpose of the course is to examine works by the important writers in the period covered to see how they confront the issues they found the most compelling and to compare how authors merged style and substance. Additionally, the readings are intended to enhance the reading, writing, and analytical skills of the students.Books:The assigned works will include such works as Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, stories by Ernest Hemingway, James Weldon Johnson’ Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, and among others.Evaluation: One semester research essay, quizzes, two exams and final exam, attendance, and class participationE-Mail: mb13@txstate.eduEnglish 3336.001: American Literature 1930-Present (WI)TR 11am-12:20pm, FH 254Instructor:Victoria SmithCourse Description:This course aims to provide, through literature (mostly the novel), some snapshots of America in time—from the thirties to the present. We will be looking at these works to remember and understand history, cultural contexts, and formal literary innovation. As we do so, we will analyze some peculiarly American myths: that of the American Dream, the freedom of the road, and racial, sexual and economic equality.Books:Tentative texts: Faulkner, William, Absalom, Absalom (1936); Morrison, Toni, Beloved (1987); Allison, Dorothy, Bastard out of Carolina (1992); Fountain, Ben, Billy Lynn’s Long Half Time Walk (2012); Diaz, Junot, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008); John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) various readings on TRACSEvaluation: Oral presentation, reading responses, 3 papersE-Mail: vs13@txstate.eduEnglish 3336.001: American Literature 1930-Present (WI)TR 11am-12:20pm, FH 254Instructor:Robin CohenCourse Description:A survey of American literature from 1930 to the present.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: rc08@txstate.eduEnglish 3340.002: The BeatlesTR 9:30am-10:50am, FH 113Instructor:Katie KapurchCourse Description:A study of popular youth culture using the Beatles as a touchstone for literary and rhetorical analysis. Specific areas of inquiry will include readings of the Beatles’ artistry as literature, the cinematic rhetoric of films, and the rhetoric of style. Throughout the semester, our investigation of theory will produce critical engagements with issues of class, race, gender, sexuality, and age as they relate to Beatle-authored texts, fan-authored texts, and youth culture phenomena more broadly.Books:BooksSawyers, ed. Read the Beatles, ISBN-10: 0143037323. Penguin (2006)Womack and Davis, eds. Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four, ISBN-10: 0791467163. SUNY Press (2006)Womack, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles, ISBN-10: 0521689767. Cambridge UP (2009)Supplementary reading on TRACSFilmsA Hard Day’s Night (1964)Help! (1965)Magical Mystery Tour (1967)Nowhere Boy (2009)MusicAccess to the Beatles discographyEvaluation: Written responses, Term Paper, Mid-term, Final ExamE-Mail: kk19@txstate.eduEnglish 3340.003: Gothic Literature (WI)TR 12:30pm-1:50pm, FH 225Instructor:Dr. Kathryn LedbetterCourse Description:Gothic literature transports readers into remote and unreal places where they encounter wild landscapes, ruined castles and abbeys, dark, dank labyrinths, marvelous supernatural events, and uncontrollable passions and desires. Gothic literature was and is known for its effects of terror, supposedly operating vicariously in the mind of the reader through the representation of terror in the mind of the protagonist. This course will study the evolution of Gothic literature from the first Gothic novel, Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto (1764), to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas (1864), and Bram Stoker’s late nineteenth-century classic, Dracula (1897). We will also read a large selection of Gothic poetry, short fiction, and prose, including contributions to the genre by U. S. writers, among others.Books:Students will be required to purchase a packaged set published by Broadview that includes Gothic Evolutions, Frankenstein, and Dracula. The set will include important online research content. Also required for the course are the Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Dover) and Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (Dover).Evaluation: Two critical research essays, 60%; daily reading quizzes, 15%; article review and presentation, 15%; final exam, 10%. This course adheres to a strict attendance policy.E-Mail: kledbetter@txstate.eduEnglish 3341.001: Studies in World LiteratureTopic: The Sounds of Silence: A Biodiversity of Mute and Quite Women in a World of Brutal Noise (WI)MW 3:30pm-4:50pm, FH 227Instructor:Susan S. MorrisonCourse Description:Philomela—raped and mutilated—survives as a mythic emblem of female voicelessness. This course looks at silent women, quiet women, and mute women. Sometimes their hush is self-imposed, other times it is violently forced upon them. Yet, even with their tongues cut out, women speak. Sexually violated, they insist on their story. Passing, they erase their race and gender orientation. Enslaved, they shape their ends. Some texts we look at are modern novels that tell the stories of women denied their chance at speech—in feminist versions of Homer’s Odyssey, Beowulf, and Jane Eyre. In a variety of texts –from Roman myth, Icelandic saga, and medieval religious sign language texts to a cross-dressed female knight, victimized wife, and deaf nun—we will attempt to hear these quiet voices from the past and rowdily proclaim their vibrancy for their future.NOTE: This course assumes knowledge of Homer’s Odyssey, Beowulf, and Jane Eyre.Books:Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (Canongate, 2006); ISBN-10: 1841957984; ISBN-13: 978-1841957982The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale. Bergljot S Kristjansdottir, Ed. Penguin, 2008. ISBN-10: 014044775X; ISBN-13: 978-0140447750Susan Signe Morrison: Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife. Winchester, UK: Top Hat Books, 2015. ISBN-10: 1785350099; ISBN-13: 978-1785350092Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance, Sarah Roche-Mahdi, trans., Michigan State University Press; Revised edition (1999). ISBN-10: 0870135430; ISBN-13: 978-0870135439.The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena. Trans. Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez. ISBN-10: 0859914461; ISBN-13: 978-0859914468. Boydell & Brewer, 1998.William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (The Pelican Shakespeare), ed. Russ McDonald Penguin/Pelican (2000); ISBN-10: 014071491X; ISBN-13: 978-0140714913 *This play is also available online.Ben Johnson, Epicoene: Or, The Silent Woman ed. Roger Victor Holdsworth (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama), ISBN-10: 0713666684; ISBN-13: 978-0713666687 *This play is also available online.Larson, Nella. Passing. Penguin Classics. ISBN-10: 0142437271; ISBN-13: 978-0142437278Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (August 17, 1992); ISBN-10: 0393308804; ISBN-13: 978-0393310481Evaluation: 20% final conference/research paper or creative work with analysis: 3,000 words20% short critical paper (5-7 pages) with oral report; each report needs a handout 20% Midterm 1 exam 20% Midterm 220% class participationE-Mail: morrison@txstate.eduEnglish 3341.080: Studies in World Literature (WI)ARR ARR ARR: Via internet for OCED majors; call 512-245-2115 for approval.Instructor:Chad HammettCourse Description:Selections from ancient and modern literature in western and/or non-western cultures. Repeatable once, in special situations, when topic varies.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: ch34@txstate.eduEnglish 3342.001: EditingInstructor:Beverley BraudCourse Description:A study of editing, to include instruction in making editorial changes, preparing MSS for typesetter, marking galley and page proof; fundamentals of layout and design (typeface, paper, headlines, etc); problems and possibilities in desktop publishing; and the current status of electronic publications.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: bb08@txstate.eduEnglish 3342.002: EditingTR 11am-12:20pm, FH G14Hybrid; meets in class THU, online TUE; email mogull@txstate.edu for more informationInstructor:Dr. MogullCourse Description:In this course, students will learn the editing process as well as the professional context in which editors work. Students will practice the techniques of editing (the major content of the course), including sentence-level and global editing. Students will explore other topics related to the editing profession, such as: common language, page layout, graphic design and editing, and electronic editing software.Books:Course packet available through bookstore.Evaluation: Anticipated course assignments (and approximate value) included: Weekly editing assignments (70 points)Active participation/sharing of edited work during the weekly discussion (60 points)Editing exam (100 points)Editing and revising complete document and brief presentation of edits/revision to class (25 points)10 to 15 minute presentation of editing profession topic (requires research) (45 points)Total points possible = 300 (Final course grade based on percent of points earned)E-Mail: mogull@txstate.eduEnglish 3343.002: Dante (WI)Instructor:Leah SchwebelCourse Description:The study of a single author from an interdisciplinary perspective. Repeatable once, in special situations, when topic varies.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: las238@txstate.eduEnglish 3344.001: Chicano/A Narrative and Social History (WI)THU 6:30pm-9:20pm, AVRY ARR [offered in Round Rock ONLY]Instructor:Jaime MejiaCourse Description:A survey of narrative written by US citizens of Mexican descent.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: jm31@txstate.eduEnglish 3344.002: Mexican American Narrative and Social History (WI)THU 6:30pm-9:20pm, AVRY ARR [offered in Round Rock ONLY]Instructor:Edna RehbeinCourse Description:This course is a chronological and thematic introduction to short stories, novels, plays and poetry written by U.S. citizens of Mexican background after the Civil Rights Movement. The survey looks briefly at World War II writings, focuses on the works written at the height of the Hispanic movement during the 1970s and 1980s, and examines more recent collections through the present. Social, historical, and political backgrounds that have given rise to the literature are also emphasized along with an analysis of the literary techniques and motifs the authors employ in their creative writings.Books:Tomás Rivera, And the Earth Did Not Devour HimRudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, UltimaSandra Cisneros, The House on Mango StreetDemetria Martinez, Mother TongueDiana Lopez, Sofia’s SaintsEvaluation: 2 Essays2 Tests2 PowerPoint Presentations 1 Research PaperE-Mail: er04@txstate.eduEnglish 3345.001: Southwestern LiteratureTR 11am-12:20pm, FH 130Instructor:William JensenCourse Description:This course is the first in a two-course sequence leading to a minor in Southwestern Studies, designed to examine the richness and diversity of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. The course offers a multicultural focus by studying the region’s people, institutions, history, and physical and cultural ecology. An intercultural and interdisciplinary approach increases awareness of and sensitivity to the diversity of ethnic and cultural traditions in the area. Students will discover what distinguishes the Southwest from other regions of the United States, as well as its similarities, physically and culturally. The images, myths, themes, and perceptions of the region will be examined in light of historical and literary texts.Books:The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca by ?lvar Nú?ez Cabeza de Vaca (available free online at )Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 by David Montejano (University of Texas Press, 1987)American Indian Myths and Legends edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Oritz (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library 1984)Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (Vintage International 1992)Evaluation: Two papers, one midterm, and a final exam. Graduate students must also give a formal fifteen minute presentation.E-Mail: wj13@txstate.eduEnglish 3348.001: Creative Writing: Fiction (WI)MW 11am-12:20pm, FH 252English 3348.002: Creative Writing: Fiction (WI)MW 3:30pm-4:50pm, FH 252Instructor:John BlairCourse Description:A seminar for writers of fiction, with emphasis on creativity, criticism, and revision. Prerequisite: English 3315Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: ch34@txstate.eduEnglish 3348.004: Creative Writing: Fiction (WI)MW 12:30pm-2pm, FH G06BInstructor:Chad HammettCourse Description:A workshop and seminar for writers of fiction, with emphasis on creativity, criticism, and revision. Prerequisite: ENG 3315.Books:On Writing, Stephen KingStation Eleven, Emily St. John MandelEvaluation: Each student will produce two-to-three pieces of fiction, for class workshop. In-Class activities, participationE-Mail: ch34@txstate.eduEnglish 3349.001: Creative Writing: Poetry (WI)MON 3:30pm-6:20pm, FH G06BInstructor:Cyrus CassellsCourse Description:A seminar for writers of poetry, with emphasis on creativity, criticism, and revision. Prerequisite: English 3315Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: cc37@txstate.eduEnglish 3354.001: Early ShakespeareMW 11am-12:20pm, FH 113English 3354.002: Early ShakespeareMW 2pm-3:20pm, FH 113Instructor:Joe FaloccoCourse Description:English 3354 studies representative works of Shakespeare’s career up to but not including Hamlet. Students will read these plays in their entirety, take quizzes on this reading, and prepare paraphrases and textual analyses for key passages from each play. For a final project, students will have the opportunity to either write a five-page paper or prepare a scene for performance.Books:Complete Works of Shakespeare. Ed. David Bevington. Seventh. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004. ISBN 03231886518.Evaluation: This course is graded on a “cost” basis. In other words, everyone starts with an “A.” Students will lose a full-letter grade if they miss class (or are late) more than four times. All assignments (weekly paraphrase/text analysis assignments; quizzes; papers; and the final project) are graded pass/fail. If students fail (or miss) more than two quizzes, they lose a full letter grade for the semester. Students will lose a full letter grade if they fail the paper, the final project, or any paraphrase/text analysis. For a detailed description of each assignment and the standards required for passing, please ask the professor for a copy of the syllabus.E-Mail: jf48@txstate.eduEnglish 3357.001: English Literature of the Restoration and Augustan Periods, 1660-1750 (WI)TR 11am-12:20pm, FH 224Instructor:Elizabeth Skerpan-WheelerCourse Description:This course provides both a general survey of the authors and chief literary modes and genres of this highly complex and lively period, and intensive practice in writing about literature. Authors include widely known poets such as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, as well as many of their contemporaries. Themes include political poetry and satire, the rise of journalism, and the emergence of women writers. The course interprets works within their political, social, and other cultural contexts.Books:British Literature 1640-1789, ed. Robert DeMaria, Jr. 4th ed.; John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress; Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders.Evaluation: Three short papers (30%), one short project (15%), one long project (35%), final exam (20%)E-Mail: es10@txstate.eduEnglish 3359.001: British Literature, 1750-1800TR 2pm-3:20pm, FH 228Instructor:D. M. HeaberlinCourse Description:A study of the fiction, drama, essays, and poetry of the period, focusing on such writers as Henry Fielding, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Blake, and Samuel Johnson.Books:E-books and videos of the authors’ works downloaded from the library and web.Evaluation: One test, three themes, and a final exam.E-Mail: heaberlin@txstate.eduEnglish 3365.001: British Victorian Literature (WI)TR 9:30am-10:50am, FH 229Instructor:Dr. Kathryn LedbetterCourse Description:This course will be an engaging and lively study of literature written in Victorian Britain from 1830 to 1900. We will read a selection of Victorian poetry, short fiction, and essays from the period, as well as two classic novels: Elizabeth Gaskell’s love story set in the industrial region of northern England, North and South, and Bram Stoker’s famous late-century Gothic thriller, Dracula. Books: Students will be required to purchase a packaged set that includes the Broadview Anthology of British Literature, 2nd edition (Vol. 5) and Dracula. Gaskell’s novel, North and South, will be available in a Penguin edition.Books:Students will be required to purchase a packaged set that includes the Broadview Anthology of British Literature, 2nd edition (Vol. 5) and Dracula. Gaskell’s novel, North and South, will be available in a Penguin edition.Evaluation: Two argumentative critical essays, 60%; daily reading quizzes, 15%; article review and presentation, 15%; final exam, 10%. This course adheres to a strict attendance policy.E-Mail: kledbetter@txstate.eduEnglish 3370.001: 20th Century British Literature (WI)TR 3:30pm-4:50pm, FH 227Instructor:Victoria SmithCourse Description:This course will examine some major issues in twentieth and twentieth-first century British literature and culture—formal literary innovation, class, gender, family, and race—mostly through the lens of the modern novel, which is perhaps the paradigmatic form of (literary) expression of our time. This material is challenging—in terms of both form and content.Books:Tentative Texts: Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Zadie Smith, NW, Pat Barker, Toby’s RoomEvaluation: Oral presentation, various short in-class written assignments, 3 papersE-Mail: vs13@txstate.eduEnglish 3385.001: Children’s Literature (WI)TR 11am-12:20pm, FH 229English 3385.002: Children’s Literature (WI)TR 12:30pm-1:50pm, FH 229Instructor:Dr. Teya RosenbergCourse Description:This course is a survey of traditional, classic, and contemporary children’s literature. It provides some historical overview of the development of children’s literature and an examination of different genres within the literature. It also touches on some of the critical and scholarly approaches to and debates about children’s literature. This course does not focus on teaching children; its focus is what the literature is and how it works. The goal of this course is to increase knowledge, deepen understanding, and encourage appreciation of children’s literature as an art form.Books:Hallett and Karasek, Folk and Fairy Tales, Concise Edition; MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin; Bang, When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry; Soto and Guevara, Chato and the Party Animals; Gaiman, Coraline; Lobel, Frog and Toad Together; Curtis, The Watsons Go to BirminghamEvaluation: Essay, mid-term exam, reading questions and quizzes, final exam, participation.E-Mail: tr11@txstate.eduEnglish 3386.001: Adolescent Literature (WI)MWF 11am-11:50am, FH 229Instructor:Graeme Wend-WalkerCourse Description:A survey designed to provide a critical philosophy and working repertoire of literature for adolescents.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: graeme@txstate.eduEnglish 3386.002: Adolescent Literature (WI)TR 12:30pm-1:50pm, FH 113English 3386.003: Adolescent Literature (WI)TR 8am-9:20am, FH 113Instructor:Katie KapurchCourse Description:This course is premised on the idea that adolescent literature is a “borrowing” genre. Throughout the semester, we will ask: How does a canonical or classic text influence the social construction of adolescence? And, how does a YA text borrow from, integrate, or allude to a canonical text or narrative pattern in order to address issues of contemporary adolescence, especially issues related to age, class, race, gender, sexuality, and the body? Why does a work “hang onto” certain themes, forms, and motifs while radically transforming others available in the source text? To address these questions, we will use critical theory to deepen our conversations about each novel, especially its relevance to a historical moment. Spotlighting individual authors will enhance our understanding of a YA texts’ expression of their cultural context. And, given film’s import to the study of youth culture, as well as the popularity of YA cinematic adaptations, we will consistently consider movies that offer applicable tie-ins to our YA text/author.Books:The reading list MAY include the following titles:Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsChbosky, The Perks of Being a WallflowerMeyer, TwilightHinton, S.E. The OutsidersCisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango StreetMyers, Walter Dean. MonsterSmith, Cynthia Leitich. TantalizeBlock, Francesca Lia. Love in the Time of Global WarmingSupplemental reading: “Perseus,” The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Hamlet, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Frankenstein, The Vampyre, “Cinderella,” Seventeenth SummerThis course may also require you to view at least a couple of films outside of class.Evaluation: Two exams, two essays.E-Mail: kk19@txstate.eduEnglish 3388.001: Women and Literature (WI)MW 11am-12:20pm, FH 227Instructor:Geneva GanoCourse Description:A survey of women’s writing in English, in various genres, over a period of some 600 years (14th century to the present). Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: gmgano@txstate.eduEnglish 3389.001: The Discipline of English (WI)TUE 6:30pm-9:20pm, FH 229Instructor:Keith NeedhamCourse Description:The nature of English studies as a formal field, its components and their relationships. Open only to candidates with 90+ semester credit hours. Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: kn19@txstate.eduEnglish 4310.001: Modern English SyntaxTR 9:30am-10:50am, FH 1130Instructor:D. M. HeaberlinCourse Description:Student will learn to recognize the structure of English sentences, beginning with very simple structures and progressing throughout the semester to increasingly complex ones. Books:My guidebook, English Syntax, will be placed on Tracs.Evaluation: Four test and a final.E-Mail: heaberlin@txstate.eduEnglish 4323.001: Studies in Autobiography and BiographyTR 9:30am-10:50am, FH 227Instructor:Rebecca Bell-MetereauCourse Description:Selected works in autobiography and biography. Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: rb12@txstate.eduEnglish 4348.001: Senior Seminar in Fiction Writing (WI)TR 2pm-3:20pm, FH 257Instructor:Debra MonroeCourse Description:This course has two pre-requisites. You must have already taken English 3315 (Intro to Creative Writing) and English 3348 (Adv Fiction Writing). Student stories are the primary focus of the course. We will also read contemporary stories and discuss them to have a body of work to serve as a point of reference when we workshop student stories. Each student will submit three pieces of fiction. The first will be a fragment—a scrap, not an entire story—and we will workshop it with an eye to improving what’s already there, but also with an eye to finishing the emerging story while maximizing its potential. The other two submissions will be drafts of entire stories. You will read classmates’ stories and write helpful critiques. We will cover the following issues: form as the best shape for the story’s content; character development; a theory of endings; style (including how to better achieve “voice,” which depends on muscular syntax, precise word choice, use of telling details). My first responsibility is to the student whose story is being workshopped. Yet each story also serves as a lesson for the entire class. Having your work critiqued is, of course, never entirely pleasant, but I promise I run a workshop that’s constructive in the true sense of the word—the work is under construction and we help make it sturdier. So we will begin each discussion by first describing the work’s ideal goals, its ideal shape, and techniques and craft decisions that are helping deliver that story. Only then will we move to a discussion of craft decisions or shortfalls that detract from that story’s success, features that need to be reconsidered. My strength as a teacher is seeing what the story intends to be, seeing it in embryo, and helping assess what craft decisions can make you story more realized.Books:Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction.(After that, students’ work -in-progress is the text)Evaluation: Class participation, including cognitive participation (measured by quizzes) and attendance 15%Written critiques of other students’ work 15%A partial piece of fiction 15%A draft of a completed story 15%A draft of a completed story 15%Final portfolio, containing two revised, finished stories 25%E-Mail: dm24@txstate.eduEnglish 4348.002: Senior Seminar in Fiction Writing (WI)MW 2p-3:20pm, FH 257Instructor:Jennifer duBoisCourse Description:Workshop in writing fiction and evaluating manuscripts. Sudents produce portfolio of creative work. Prerequisite: English 3348.Books:Evaluation: E-Mail: jjd64@txstate.eduEnglish 4358.002: Milton (WI)TR 9:30am-10:50am, FH 226Instructor:Elizabeth Skerpan-WheelerCourse Description:Fulfilling the single-author course requirement, this class provides an overview of Milton’s works and focuses on the construction of the self in both his poetry and prose, concentrating on Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Areopagitica, and Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Students will learn how even a “major writer” like Milton may be fruitfully studied as a participant in contemporary debates, and how political and social issues form an important part of Milton’s understanding of the development and fulfillment of the self.Books:John Milton, The Major Works, ed. Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg; Thomas N. Corns, ed., A Companion to Milton, 1st ed. (a Kindle version of the 2nd ed. is available and recommended).Evaluation: 35% long project; 30% three short papers; 15% short project; 20% final examination.E-Mail: es10@txstate.eduEnglish 4385.001: Advanced Children’s and Adolescent Literature (WI)MWF 10am-10:50am, FH 228Instructor:Graeme Wend-WalkerCourse Description:YA Sci-Fi and FantasyBooks:Evaluation: E-Mail: graeme@txstate.edu ................
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