ENGL 206.01 Literature of Place
Duncan, P
CRN 12056
MWF 9:05a.m.-9:55 a.m.
In this class, we will explore the literature of the southern Appalachian region, particularly western North Carolina. What is Appalachian literature? The simple answer is literature written for, about, or by people from the Appalachian Mountain region of the Eastern United States. That simple answer is complicated by many issues, including stereotypes and racism, education and ignorance, poverty and greed. Students will be exposed to a wide range of material – fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, film, oral history, and site visits. The course will explore topics such as sense of place and the effect of place on people, the story-telling tradition, history, environmental issues, Cherokee culture, music, crafts, and migration. (P4)
ENGL 207.01 Popular Literature and Culture
Bruder, M
CRN 12058
TR 8:00a.m.-9:15a.m.
Violent America
This course will complicate accepted notions of the American culture of violence by investigating its depiction in popular film and literature. More than being simply “guilty pleasures,” violent representations allow us to focus on the role violence plays in the constitution and maintenance of our culture. That is to say, that violence in the popular culture “speaks” to us of violence in the real world and often offers strategies for coping with it. Our objective in this class will be to develop the skills to enter into the discussion the culture holds with itself and thereby confront some of our preconceptions about violence, its ethics and its uses. We will begin by looking for the roots of a typically American form of violence in myths of the frontier and the reluctant hero before considering the implications of our continuing celebration of violent heroics. After characterizing the violent hero, we will focus on his counterpart, the serial killer, as a figure who calls into question not only our associations of violence and creativity, but also our culture’s propensity to both gender and “ethnicize” violence. Finally, we will end the semester by considering representations of terrorism and school violence with an eye towards understanding the popular media’s engagement with these issues as a form of social problem solving rather than simply condemning it as a mercenary appeal to our worst and most basic instincts. (P4)
ENGL 207.02 Popular Literature and Culture
Bruder, M
CRN 12059
TR 12:35p.m.-1:50p.m.
Exploring Participatory Culture
In direct contrast to the Frankfurt School’s censure of the passivity and obedience encouraged by mass culture, media theorists like Henry Jenkins and Lev Manovich have come to celebrate a “participatory” popular culture. As the result of new technologies, individuals are increasingly able to see themselves as both producers and consumers of texts. In the process, distinctions between writers, readers and texts have become blurred.
In this class we will explore the trend towards increased interactivity in the popular culture. We will begin by addressing fandom and sampling as a form of participation with traditional media like film and literature. After looking at contemporary adult versions of the Choose Your Own Adventure novel, we will work our way through Hypertext, MyStories, Wikis, E-Literature and Video Games (to name a few), exploring how new technologies allow us to re-envision our relationships with both “old’ and “new” media texts. Not only will we read and interpret interactive texts, we will also use available technologies to investigate new and personal ways of responding to, commenting on and taking part in the participatory culture that surrounds us. (P4)
ENGL 207.03 Popular Literature and Culture
Christoper, C
CRN12060
MWF 9:05a.m.-9:55a.m.
Examines various popular literary genres, including gothic, popular romances, mysteries, westerns, science-fiction and fantasy, children’s literature, film, television, and the Internet. (P4)
ENGL 207.70 Popular Literature and Culture
Saunders, S
CRN 12062
MW 4:00p.m.-5:15p.m.
Examines various popular literary genres, including gothic, popular romances, mysteries, westerns, science-fiction and fantasy, children’s literature, film, television, and the Internet. (P4)
ENGL 207.71 Popular Literature and Culture
Whitford, S
CRN 12063
TR 3:35p.m.-4:50p.m.
Examines various popular literary genres, including gothic, popular romances, mysteries, westerns, science-fiction and fantasy, children’s literature, film, television, and the Internet. (P4)
ENGL 209.01 Past Times: Literature and History
Kinser, B
CRN 12064
MWF 10:10a.m.-11:00a.m.
“True Fiction and False History: ‘It’s a Puzzlin’ World’”
As Mr. Tulliver from George Eliot’s immortal The Mill on the Floss bemoans, it is indeed a “puzzlin’ world.” We humans find ourselves continually adrift within a chaotic swirl of past, present, and future. Nowhere does this cosmic relation that defines human experience reveal itself more than in literature. In this course we will explore the historic in the fictional, and vice versa, by reading a wide range of historical and literary texts, both in print and online. (P4)
ENGL 231.01 Interpretation of Literature
Ghnassia, J
CRN 12067
MWF 12:20p.m.-1:10p.m.
An introduction to the close reading of poetry, fiction, and drama, emphasizing theme, structure and form, figurative language, and style. Introduction to Major critical approaches. (P4)
ENGL 231.02 Interpretation of Literature
Ghnassia, J
CRN 12069
TR 2:05p.m.-3:30p.m.
An introduction to the close reading of poetry, fiction, and drama, emphasizing theme, structure and form, figurative language, and style. Introduction to Major critical approaches. (P4)
ENGL 231.03 Interpretation of Literature
Saunders, S
CRN 12070
MWF 12:20p.m.-1:10p.m.
An introduction to the close reading of poetry, fiction, and drama, emphasizing theme, structure and form, figurative language, and style. Introduction to Major critical approaches. (P4)
ENGL 231.04 Introduction to Literature
Carter, C
CRN 12072
MWF 9:05a.m.-9:55a.m.
This course focuses on honing critical reading and analytic skills as applied to poetry, fiction, and drama; students will also develop an awareness of major movements in literary criticism. We'll read much, discuss vigorously, and write at least two critical essays with at least two drafts each. Assessments also include two examinations, near-daily quizzes (on which, however, students may use their notes), and regular, constructive class participation. The Tempest; M. Butterfly; Lucille Clifton: come on, you know you can't resist. And, even better, it's required! (P4)
ENGL 251.01 Survey of English Literature I
Addison, J
CRN 12073
TR 2:05p.m.-3:20p.m.
Major periods of English literature from the beginnings through the eighteenth century, emphasizing backgrounds and styles characteristic of each period. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 251.70 Survey of English Literature I
Gastle, B
CRN 12075
MW 4:00p.m.-5:15p.m.
Major periods of English literature from the beginnings through the eighteenth century, emphasizing backgrounds and styles characteristic of each period. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 251.71 Survey of English Literature I
Adams, M
CRN 12076
MW 4:00p.m.-5:15p.m.
Major periods of English literature from the beginnings through the eighteenth century, emphasizing backgrounds and styles characteristic of each period. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 252.01 Survey of English Literature II
Kinser, B
CRN 12077
MW 2:30p.m.-3:45p.m.
“From Blake to Lessing and Back Again: A Survey of 19th and 20th-Century British Literature.”
In this course we will explore one of the most remarkable periods of literary history. Beginning with the magnificent plates of William Blake and working our way through the Romantics, the Victorians, and the moderns towards the middle half of the twentieth-century, we will read some of the greatest texts ever written, and at the same time, we will come to know the artists who wrote them and the issues that both concerned and inspired them. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 252.70 Survey of English Literature II
Ghnassia, J
CRN 12078
TR 3:35p.m.-4:50p.m.
Major periods of English literature from the nineteenth century through the present, emphasizing backgrounds and styles characteristic of each period. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
English 261.01 Survey of American Literature I
Samal, L
CRN 12079
TR 9:30a.m.-10:45a.m.
“What then is the American, this new man?”
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
This course will explore what it means to be American through reading and writing about our literature, beginning with the earliest recorded Native American myths and the accounts of the early explorers and continuing through our greatest conflict: the American Civil War. The course will emphasize the connection between modern American beliefs and practices and their roots in the thinkers and writers of the American past, with special emphasis given to the American Renaissance. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 261.02 Survey of American Literature I
Spencer, W
CRN 12080
MW 2:30p.m.-3:45p.m.
An exploration of early American literature from its beginnings through Romanticism, including works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 262.01 Survey of American Literature II
Carter, C
CRN 12081
MWF 10:10a.m.-11:00a.m.
The course aims to build a broad sense of literary trends and movements from 1865 forward while examining numerous works in more detail. Students will read 1-2 novels and endless shorter works, and, yes, Ursula Le Guin is still on the syllabus. We'll read much, discuss vigorously (not to say savagely), and write at least two critical essays with at least two drafts each. Assessments also include two examinations, near-daily quizzes (on which, however, students may use their notes), and regular, constructive class participation. You'll never have a better time while simultaneously fulfilling a core requirement and avoiding Huckleberry Finn. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 262.70 Survey of American Literature II
Claxton, M
CRN 12083
TR 3:35p.m.-4:50p.m.
This survey covers American literature from the early Realists to the present. Through the close study of selected texts, students will be encouraged to develop critical skills, to learn major literary movements and concepts, and to understand the relationship between the works and their cultural contexts. Most of our readings will come from the Heath Anthology of American Literature volumes C-E, but we will also read Cormac McCarthy’s recent novel The Road. Requirements include a writing journal, midterm and final exams, and a discussion list. Writing project yet to be determined. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 278.01 Introduction to Film Studies
Heffelfinger, E
CRN 12084
MW 2:30p.m.-3:45p.m.
Watch Great Films!
Forrest Gump
Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane
The original King Kong
John Ford’s The Searchers
And Jaws
Learn the language of film studies
Watch early films
Discover the hysterical slapstick of Buster Keaton
Watch silent films—and love them!
Requirements include short papers, a midterm and a final exam
This course is required:
for English students with a major or minor in Motion Picture Studies
for students in the Motion Picture and Television Production program
for anyone interested in visual culture! (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
English 302.01 Introduction to Creative Writing & Editing
Duncan, P
CRN 12085
TR 9:30a.m.-10:45a.m.
This introductory course explores the four basic creative writing genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. It is designed to fit the needs of a range of students, including those with concentrations in writing, literature, or education. At the end of this course, you will have a good understanding of the four basic creative writing genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. You will have the opportunity to explore your creative side through a variety of exercises and using techniques practiced by professional writers. You will also gain skills in the writing workshop process, revision, and editing, proofreading, and professional manuscript preparation. By the end of the semester, you will have written, edited and revised poems, a short story, an essay, and a play. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 303.01 Introduction to Professional Writing and Editing
Greenstone, K
CRN 12086
MW 2:30p.m.-3:45p.m.
Career opportunities, practices and skills in professional writing, editing, and conventional and electronic publication. (Closed to freshmen 0-24).
ENGL 303.02 Introduction to Professional Writing and Editing
Greenstone, K
CRN 12087
TR 2:05p.m.-3:20p.m.
Career opportunities, practices and skills in professional writing, editing, and conventional and electronic publication. (Closed to freshmen 0-24).
ENGL 305.01 Technical Writing
Price, K
CRN 12089
MWF 12:20p.m.-1:10p.m.
A survey of the basic communicative purposes, forms, styles, and visual elements commonly used by professionals who write and edit scientific and technical documents, including summaries, abstracts, proposals, formal and informal technical reports, and instructions. In addition to developing proficiencies writing these types of documents, students learn to write and edit in a collaborative environment. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 306.70 Nonfiction Writing Workshop
Elliott, D
CRN 12092
TR 3:35p.m.-4:50p.m.
In this writing workshop, we'll write and critique our own personal essays, memoirs, and "shorts" (brief bursts of nonfiction energy similar to prose poems or flash fiction). We'll read the best of contemporary nonfiction and use those works as our models.
Some of the most dynamic writing these days is nonfiction. If you want to be published, this is the genre to choose. Nonfiction outsells poetry and fiction 12 to 1!
Creative nonfiction is writing about: yourself, family, travel, politics, religion, the outdoors, science, sports, art, music and so much more! (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
English 308.70 Fiction Writing Workshop
Duncan, P
CRN 12093
MW 4:00p.m.-5:15p.m.
This course will include the study and practice of technique and form in fiction writing; workshop discussion of students' stories and assigned exercises; original work and revision. This course is designed to fit the needs of a range of students, including those with concentrations in writing, literature, or education. At the end of this course, you will have a good understanding of the elements of fiction and will have completed and revised several stories. You will also gain skills in the writing workshop process, revision, and editing, proofreading, and professional manuscript preparation. In addition, you will gain an overview of publishing fiction and jobs available in this profession. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 312.01 Grammar for Teachers
Rogers, C
CRN 12095
TR 12:35p.m.-1:50p.m.
The grammar of standard American English. For students who wish to pursue careers in teaching English and language arts. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 313.01 Authoring Multimedia
Price, K
CRN 12096
TR 12:35p.m.-1:50p.m.
This course is designed to give instruction in effective graphical user interface design; the skills and resources needed for developing, editing, and deploying multimedia information; and the techniques for creating graphics and other external media. The class introduces the principles of planning, designing, usability testing, editing, and publishing multimedia information in a variety of digital formats—video, PDFs, Flash movies, podcasts, and MP3s—and provides the opportunity to apply these principles to multimedia projects using software programs such as Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Flash, and Acrobat Pro. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 319.02 The Teaching of Grammar
Lawrence, B
CRN 12098
TR 11:00a.m.-12:15p.m.
This course is designed to help future teachers of English and the language arts understand the theoretical and practical choices they will have to make in their own classrooms when they teach grammar to elementary, middle grades, and high school students. By the end of this semester, students will have a better grasp of the linguistic challenges that students face when they prepare oral and written assignments in English. Students should leave the course with the knowledge and skills to implement effective instructional practices for grammar instruction in their own future classrooms. The primary assessments for the course will include quizzes, teaching demonstrations, and an instructional portfolio. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours). PREQ: 312.
ENGL 333.01 Introduction to Shakespeare
Addison, J
CRN 12099
MWF 1:25p.m.-2:15p.m.
General survey of Shakespeare’s life, times, and most popular plays. (Literature majors should take 431, Shakespeare and His Age.) (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours). (P4)
ENGL 350.01 The Renaissance
Fenton, M
CRN 12100
MWF 10:10a.m.-11:00a.m.
Examines the Renaissance: the rise of religious debate, print culture, humanist philosophies, voyages of discovery, and the effect these had on art and literature. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours). (P4) PREQ: 101 and 102.
ENGL 352.01 Journey in Literature
Yazan, M
CRN 12101
MWF 11:15a.m.-12:05p.m.
Examines literature with the journey as its focal point, both in short pieces like poems and short stories as well as in longer, epic works. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours). (P4) PREQ: 101 and 102.
ENGL 352.02 Journey in Literature
Baker, M
CRN 12103
TR 11:00a.m.-12:15p.m.
American Literature in a Nonviolent Tradition
What’s American? Literature? Nonviolent? Tradition? How do they go together?
Travelers on this “journey” will read, write, and discuss a variety of American texts and writers in search of “concrete ways of resolving conflict, resisting injustice, and building a just social order without harming persons” (Michael True in An Energy Field More Intense than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature). We’ll read True’s book as a guide and authors including Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Denise Levertov, and Barbara Kingsolver.
Students will contribute their education and experiences from non-literary fields, in the spirit of upper level liberal studies. Work accompanying the readings includes a response journal, seminar discussions, two analytical essays, and a collaborative class project. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours). (P4) PREQ: 101 and 102.
English 366.01 Literature of Immigration
Samal, L
CRN 12104
TR 2:05p.m.-3:20p.m.
“Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history”
--Oscar Handlin
Some scholars argue that the immigration experience is the fundamental American experience, one that has deeply affected our culture and continues to be repeated in many typical American behaviors today. Most of us are either the descendents of immigrants or immigrants ourselves. This course will our immigrant roots as we learn about the joys and sorrows, the gains and losses in coming to America, through the fiction of some of our finest immigrant writers, including O.E. Rölvaag, Abraham Cahan, Pietro DiDonato, and Younghill Kang. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours). (P6)
ENGL 368.70 Film Genres: Documentary
Heffelfinger, E
CRN 12105
TR 3:35p.m.-4:50p.m.
This course is designed to introduce you to documentary films: the history of the genre, their contemporary significance (due, in part, to their current revival in theaters), and their role in social and political culture. We’ll watch classic documentaries like Flaherty’s Nanook of the North, controversial documentaries like Livingston’s Paris is Burning, and current documentaries like Longley’s Iraq in Fragments. Over the course of the semester, we’ll try to answer some important questions about documentary: How do documentaries help us understand social, political and cultural trends, events and problems? What is important to know about the documentary form? Who makes documentaries? How? Why? What can we learn about studying documentaries? In April, students in this class will have the opportunity to meet the featured documentary filmmaker who visits campus as part of the Half Frame Film Festival. (P4)
ENGL 380.70 Ecology in Fiction and Film (Studies in English)
Co-Teachers: Deidre Elliott, English Beverly Collins, Biology
T 6:00p.m.-8:00p.m.
This course examines the intersection of literature, film, and ecology. Students will read classic and contemporary eco-literature, discuss the scientific issues that form the basis for these novels (and one nonfiction work), and then view films that illustrate both the literature and the science.
In addition, students will hear from a variety of guest speakers: scholars specializing in a wide range of scientific subjects, experts in literature, and professionals in the language of film.
ENGL 390.01 The Bible as Literature
Adams, M
CRN 12106
NWF 11:15a.m.-12:05p.m.
The Bible as literature examines key portions of the Bible, exploring its array of subjects and themes, and of literary styles and genre. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours). (P4) PREQ: 101 and 102.
ENGL 401.01 Writing for Careers
Pant, D
CRN 12129
MWF 1:25p.m.-2:15p.m.
Theory and application of rhetoric in professional communication: emphasis on triad of author, subject, and audience. Practical assignments: memos, letters, resumes, reports, and persuasive messages. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 405.01 Advanced Creative Writing
Rash, R
CRN 12131
MW 2:30p.m.-3:45p.m.
English 405/608 is the advanced fiction workshop in the short story. Prerequisites are either English 308 or permission of the instructor. The course emphasizes intense reading as well as writing. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours). PREQ: Satisfactory writing sample and permission of instructor.
ENGL 412.01 Grammar for Writers
Mackey, A
CRN 12133
TR 9:30a.m.-10:45a.m.
If you are looking for a course that focuses solely on sentence-level error correction, this may not be for you. To quote Sir Winston Churchill, “This is the kind of errant pedantry, up with which I will not put!” Instead of looking purely at “correctness,” this class will examine the relationship between grammar and individual style. It will cover ways to improve paragraph quality through discussions of such issues as syntax, cohesion, and wordiness, as well as help you gain mastery over principles of style that will allow you to recognize problems within your own prose. By the end of the course, you will have more confidence in your own style, along with a greater range of rhetorical options for editing and revision. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 414.70 Fundamentals of Teaching Composition
Lawrence, B
CRN 12134
W 6:00p.m.-8:50p.m.
This course will analyze various approaches to teaching composition for elementary, middle grades, and secondary teachers. It should help future teachers of English and the language arts develop a practice of writing, as a means both of learning and of personal expression and exploration: that is, this course takes the stance that writing teachers should write. Students will leave this course with a more thorough understanding of the choices they will make as writing teachers and with a variety of strategies and specific practices they can implement in their teaching careers. For the major course assessments, students will compose a memoir, teach a model lesson, and assemble an instructional portfolio. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 430.01 English Literature of the Renaissance
Fenton, M
CRN 12135
MWF 9:05a.m.-9:55a.m.
Representative Tudor and Jacobean prose and nondramatic poetry. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 450.01 Major American and British Writers
Addison, E
CRN 12136
MW 2:30p.m.-3:45p.m.
A Major Figures Course
What do you do with a literary giant? Emerson was so famous, so provocative, so much the “Sage of Concord” in the nineteenth century that other writers could not help but deal with the shadow he cast. An erotics of resistance or scholarly desire characterizes the responses of Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, Chopin, and many others—even English writers. They quarreled with Emerson, responded to his ideas, took up his banner or threw it down. We will explore ways they used him and sometimes abused him, becoming literary giants themselves as they played fugues and variations on ideas he inspired: a vibrant sense of nature, a fluid symbolism, the often tragic problems with idealism and self-reliance, even realism and naturalism. Several short papers, research presentation, final exam. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
English 470.01 Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Postcolonial Literature*
Wright, L
CRN 12137
MWF 11:15a.m.-12:05p.m.
Although there is considerable debate over the precise parameters of the
field and the definition of the term ³postcolonial,² for the purposes of
this course, consists of the study of the interactions between European
nations and the societies they colonized both during the period of
colonization as well as after independence. In this course we will read a
variety of postcolonial theoretical texts in conjunction with and as a way
of understanding primary literary texts written by postcolonial authors from
India, Africa, and Ireland. Our theoretical grounding will help us explore
issues of power, race, and gender with regard to colonial domination within
the literary texts we will read. In this course, we will work to develop an
understanding of and appreciation for various literatures being written in
the historic colonies and dependencies of the European powers as we examine
how the colonial experience may have affected the type and content of
literature produced in these areas. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
* Works as a substitution for English 496
ENGL 471.01 Modern Poetry
Adams, M
CRN 12138
MWF 1:25p.m.-2:15p.m.
Developments in poetry, forms, and readership. Frost, Yeats, Hardy, Pound, Eliot, Moore, Neruda, Sexton, Plath, Rich, Lowell, Brooks, etc. examined in context of current criticism. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 472.01 Modern Fiction
Spencer, W
CRN 12140
TR 9:30a.m.-10:45a.m.
We’ll read short stories and novels by the greatest fiction writers in the first half of the 20th century, including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and D.H. Lawrence. Since modern fiction writers were especially interested in exploring human consciousness—memory, imagination, and the perception of time—several of them experimented with innovative narrative techniques to present the verbal and pre-verbal stream of consciousness of their characters. Others, such as Hemingway, wrote in a straightforward, journalistic style. If you enjoy exploring social, psychological, and philosophical themes in challenging stories about characters with complexity and depth—you’ll enjoy this course. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
English 478.01 Film Theory
Heffelfinger, E
CRN 12142
TR 11:00a.m.-12:15p.m.
Film Theory Meets Terminator II
This course is designed to introduce you to film theory: the exploration of methods of analysis that take films as their object of study. Film theorists “think” film—they want to know how film participates in our culture, in our psyches, as language, and as art. Film theorists are concerned with the analysis of individual film texts, and so much more—the relationship between film and realism; the role of the spectator and audience reception; and, race, gender and psychoanalytic perspectives that explore the relationship between us, our culture and the cinema.
Film theory is a necessary area of study for any film scholar, and a dynamic and exciting way to learn about film. Some of the most interesting work in film studies is theoretical, and in this class we’ll not only take a more rigorous approach to film viewing, we’ll also learn how to read and write critically about popular films like Terminator II, Thelma and Louise and Pretty Woman. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 479.01 Studies in Literature
Conley, R
CRN 12503
MWF 12:20p.m.-1:10p.m.
Topics vary. (Closed to freshmen 0-24 hours).
ENGL 601.80 Gender Studies
Wright, L
CRN 12147
T 6:00p.m.-8:50p.m. (Asheville)
This course will focus on world literature by and about women in order to explore the ways that our assumptions about gender and gender role behavior are shaped by the culture in which authors live and write, as well as by race, socioeconomic status, and the impact of colonization on an author’s nation of origin. We will also read feminist and cultural theory that actively engages with western, transnational, and postcolonial perspectives in order to explore the following questions: what is women’s literature and what specific challenges have historically faced women who have engaged in a literary life? What constitutes feminism? Texts will range from the 1725 novella Fantomina by British writer Eliza Haywood to Nigerian author Helen Oyeyemi’s 2005 novel The Icarus Girl. While this course will focus on literature by women, we will also explore the idea of gender – both masculine and feminine – as socially constructed and performed behavior.
ENGL 606.70 Nonfiction Writing Workshop
Eliott, D
CRN 12149
M 6:00-8:50p.m.
Explore the current revolution in American literature--the rise of creative nonfiction--in this hands-on writing workshop. We'll work with three types of creative nonfiction: the personal essay, the memoir, and the "short" (a brief burst of nonfiction energy that has a lot in common with the prose poem and flash fiction).
We'll read the best of contemporary nonfiction and we'll workshop our own experiments in truth-telling. We'll also examine publishing possibilities. If you want to be published, this is the genre to choose. Nonfiction outsells poetry and fiction 12 to 1.
Note: This is an especially helpful class for future composition teachers. You'll learn--from the inside out--how to create dynamic nonfiction writing.
ENGL 608.01 Advanced Creative Writing
Rash, R
CRN 12132
MW 2:30p.m.-3:45p.m.
The advanced fiction workshop in the short story. Prerequisites are either English 308 or permission of the instructor. The course emphasizes intense reading as well as writing.
ENGL 618.70 Methods in Literary Research
Kinser, B
CRN 12154
T 6:00p.m.-8:50p.m.
“Who’s Afraid of Cotton Vitellius A.xv?”
The world is much, much different than it was when I took this class, and that was not so long ago, in 2000. Computer technology has changed everything about the way we conduct research, and this course will reflect that (r)evolution. We will look at books and understand them for the wonderful artifacts that they are. We will read texts and understand them in various theoretical contexts. We will improve our skills as users of the library, understand methods of archival research, and actually touch paper. But, we will also acknowledge the overwhelmingly significant impact of digital technologies on the field. In the present, what my old friend Thomas Carlyle once called a “conflux of two eternities,” we will acknowledge the past as we look to the future of English Studies.
ENGL 625.80 Introduction to Linguistics
Blake, C
CRN 12156
T 6:00p.m.-8:50p.m. (Asheville)
ENG 625 is a three-hour MA-level course that introduces students to the main content areas and research practices of linguistics and applied linguistics. Linguistics involves the “internal” systems of a language – phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics. Familiarity with these systems permits research and teaching on the way language is used “externally” – language variation, language change, standardization, language development/acquisition/learning. This course will introduce you to the internal systems of language and their external uses, using English as the main source of exemplification. It will also introduce you to the main research themes and techniques used by linguists to describe how language is organized and used. You will also examine major assumptions about language use, including common misconceptions about particular forms of languages, the people who speak those languages, and language in general.
ENGL 627.80 ESL Methodology – Teaching of Reading and Writing
Blake, C
CRN 12158
R 6:00p.m.-8:50p.m. (Asheville)
This course provides an overview of the major issues related to ESL literacy acquisition and will introduce students to various methods and materials that are available for teaching literacy skills to ESL learners. By the end of the course, students will be able to
• Explain the factors and processes that influence an individual’s ability to read and write in a second language.
• Design and implement lesson activities for teaching reading and writing skills to ESL students.
• Identify online and offline resources that are available for facilitating ESL literacy acquisition.
• Evaluate curriculums and textbooks that are currently used to teach reading and writing skills to ESL students.
English 660.80 Early American Literature Romanticism
Claxton, M
CRN 12162
W 6:00 p.m.-8:50p.m. (Asheville)
Examination of American literature from first European contacts through flowering of American Renaissance. Inquiry into what it meant to face the radical unknown, become a nation, and form an indigenous literature. We will read novels and shorter selections. Requirements will include exams, a longer paper, and oral reports.
ENGL 671.70 Post-WWII British Literature
Addison, J
CRN 12163
M 6:00p.m.-8:50p.m.
This course is a seminar in Post-WWII British Literature. We begin with a couple of works published shortly after 1945—namely, Graham Greene's important short story "The Destructors" and William Golding's Lord of the Flies (both 1954). We then examine A.S. Byatt's remarkable romance, Possession, and compare it with Tom Stoppard's wonderful play, Arcadia. Further reading and discussion bring us to several recent, clearly Postmodern works: Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Graham Swift's Waterland, and Ian McEwan's Atonement. In addition to reading these works, we will also watch a number of film versions of the works, making necessary comparisons. Course requirements include three examinations and a research paper on some aspect of British Literature since 1945.