UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS, Spring 2015

English Department, 260 Allen Hall, www.english.lsu.edu
UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS, Spring 2015
See schedule booklet or web page for updates. Go to the LSU catalog for course descriptions not listed here.
Course/Sect.
1001 (multiple sections)
Course Title
English Composition I
Course Description
Introduction to writing in forms of expressive and informative discourse. Placement by department.
1004 (multiple sections)
English Composition for
International Graduate
Assistants
Same as ENGL 1001, with emphasis on usage and idiom problems specific to international students. Required
during the first semester of residence for all international students (graduate, undergraduate, and transfer
students) who demonstrate on the placement examination need for work in English, but not at the intensive level of
English 0004. Graduate students graded pass/no credit. Prerequisite: ENGL 0004 or placement by department.
For international students only.
1005 (multiple sections)
English Composition for
International Graduate
Assistants
Spoken English for
International Graduate
Assistants
Same as ENGL 2000, with continued work on problems specific to international students. Graduate students graded
pass/no credit. Prerequisite: ENGL 1004 or placement by department. For international students only.
English Composition II
Students will learn to write academic arguments and conduct research beyond the beginning level.
1051 (multiple sections)
2000 (multiple sections)
Developing spoken English skills (pronunciation, stress, intonation, rhythm); improving overall comprehensibility
through tasks/activities, drills, and videotaped oral presentations. Graduate students graded pass/no credit.
Prerequisite: Oral interview and permission of program coordinator. For current and potential international
graduate assistants only. May be taken for a maximum of 9 sem. hrs. credit.
There are over 100 sections of ENGL 2000. Only those sections of ENGL 2000 with special emphases are posted below.
2000-006 1:30-3:00 TTH
2000-007 10:30-12:00 TTH
2000-017 9:00-10:30 TTH
2000-018 3:00-4:30 TTH
Rohloff, J
English Composition
Music and Culture
Students will explore and write about the intersection of music and culture. The major assignments will move the
students from focusing on their own experiences as “consumers” of music to broader considerations of the interplay
between music and race, gender, sexuality, law, economics, etc.
2000-024 11:30-12:30 MWF
Granger, S
English Composition
Icons, Adverts, Shopping,
and Gaming
Students focus on writing to explore the impact media icons, advertising, online media, and gaming have on the
current American culture and themselves as individuals. Note: This course is laptop-friendly.
2000-005 9:00-10:30 TTH
McCaughey, D
English Composition
Cultural Exchanges
This service-learning course investigates the ongoing phenomenon of globalization through hands-on experience.
Students partner with ESL graduate students and share their experiences on a class blog.
2000-008 10:30-12:00 TTH
2000-012 1:30-3:00 TTH
2000-026 3:00-4:30 TTH
Witherow, J
English Composition
Responsibility, Ethics, &
Culture in a Globalized
World
Strategies in research and composition, focusing on complexities inherent in our globalized world and how decisions
based on responsibility and ethics can empower us to improve our world. We will study current global issues through
various perspectives found in mainstream news sources and journals, and develop arguments based on fair and
responsible assessments of the most responsible courses of action.
2000-055 9:00-10:30 TTH
Armistead, Christina
English Composition
Cultural Exchanges
2000-025 10:30-12:00 TTH
2000-045 9:00-10:30 TTH
2000-084 3:00-4:30 TTH
Turner, M
English Composition
Nutrition and Industry
Students will investigate the ongoing phenomenon of globalization through both academic research and hands-on
experience. Not only will you read, discuss and write about global issues, but you will also partner with an
international student for weekly conversation to gain insight into life in other cultures. Through partner meetings,
writing, and class discussions, you will consider how actively engaging with various cultural perspectives improves a
writer’s ability to successfully appeal to a multicultural audience.
Students will delve into America’s food industry. We will begin with a realistic look at the average American diet and
how it compares to healthy guidelines for optimal living. We will then look at the many industries that influence our
food choices, dictate them, and are a possible effect of them—such as the agricultural industry, FDA,
pharmaceutical industry, diet industry, farmers’ markets, grocery associations, school lunch programs, etc. Students
will become knowledgeable on this topic as we study current research, organization, web sites, biographies, and
documentaries.
2000-034 2:30-3:30 MWF
2000-047 10:30-11:30 MWF
2000-110 9:30-10:30 MWF
Pulliam, J
English Composition
Teaching and Learning
Students will consider how their formal educations have variously facilitated and thwarted their ability to synthesize
and formulate knowledge in order to become critical thinkers. Our exploration of how we become critical thinkers will
include consideration of topics as varied as single sex education, on-line degree programs, and even Montessoristyle education and schools that don’t give grades. While there will be a lecture component to this class, writing
instruction will be primarily done in a workshop setting that better resembles Friere’s “Problem-Posing Model of
Education,” where teacher and students are critical co-investigators rather than the more traditional “Banking Model
of Education,” where students merely regurgitate facts in order to demonstrate their mastery of the course material.
2000-065 10:30-12:00 TTH
2000-101 3:00-4:30 TTH
2000-111 1:30-3:00 TTH
Andrews, S
2000-089 11:30-12:30 MWF
Hill, D
English Composition
Writing for Community
Action & Advocacy
This service-learning course focuses on the use of language, especially written language, as a tool for empowerment
within the community. Students will be challenged to think about their roles in the community and the use of writing to
persuade, inspire and create change.
English Composition
Manifestos and Argument
A manifesto is a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government,
sovereign, or organization. We will use manifestos to study written and spoken argument and rhetoric. We will
explore issues from a variety of vantage-points: cultural, political, social, economic, racial, ethnic, gender-based, etc.
Our goal is to write a researched argument essay that examines a contemporary issue of your choice and argues
your position related to that issue. We will read a variety of manifestos, and the issues that you choose to write about
will emerge from these texts. You will also write your own manifesto and other writing assignments that will prepare
you for the final researched argument essay. We will read a variety of authors, ranging from the Founding Fathers, to
Malcolm X, and study cultural manifestos from sources as diverse as the book of Genesis to modern Hip Hop music.
2005-001 12:00-1:30 TTH
Nelson, J
Introduction to Writing Short
Stories
This course is composed of these elements: exercises designed to explore various forms of fiction writing and
elements of craft; reading, discussing, and learning from a variety of contemporary short stories; writing your own
original short fiction to be submitted for workshop; and honing your ability to respond critically to the work of your
peers.
2005-002 9:30-10:30 MWF
Drummond, L
Introduction to Writing Short
Stories
In this participation- and workshop-focused class, students will read a variety of short stories, complete a number of
craft exercises, and compile a portfolio of their original work.
2007-001 12:30-1:30 MWF
Krieger, D
Introduction to Writing
Poetry
Students will (1) write poems both of their own invention and in response to assigned prompts; (2) experiment with a
variety of poetic forms, styles, traditions, and writing methods; (3) engage in compassionate but constructive
workshop-style criticism of each other’s work; and (4) learn to read and analyze a wide range of recent and
contemporary poetry in order to hone critical thinking skills, improve the quality of workshop discussion, and grow
into more knowledgeable and historically relevant artists.
2007-002 12:00-1:30 TTH
Wilson, A
Introduction to Writing
Poetry
Investigate and create. This poetry workshop centers on generation of original creative work. We look at student
work, contemporary poetry collections, sound poetry, visual-poetic hybrids, and poetic artifacts. Reading and
discussion stimulate invention and expand our understanding of the methods and the madness of poetic practice.
2009-002 9:00-9:00 T
Kornhauser, M
Introduction to Writing
Screenplays
2025-001 1:30-3:00 TTH
Turner, M
Fiction
Southern Literature
2025-004 12:00-1:30 TTH
Feifer, M
Fiction
21st Century Postcolonial
Literatures
2025-005 10:30-12:00 TTH
Sandiford, K
Fiction
Fictions of The Caribbean
We will watch films and discuss the language of character driven screenplays, as well as learn the 3-act structure of
a feature length film. You will keep a log of the films and scripts you read outside of class and write a series of
exercises, which culminates in the writing of the first act of your feature length screenplay.
This general education course will focus on literature that is distinctively Southern. Through unique southern settings
and southern characters, we will explore issues of race, gender, war, education, and marriage as we study a variety
of writers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Particular emphasis will be placed on Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Flannery
O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, Ernest Gaines, and Toni Morrison.
What is post-colonial literature? What are the cultural contexts within which post-colonial literature is produced? Why
are the activist efforts and literary works of post-colonial writers so important? What arguments within post-colonial
theory resonate today? Through the multi-genre readings of major texts within twenty-first century postcolonial
literature (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sherman Alexie, Teju Cole, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Cristina
Henríquez, Randa Jarrar) our class will explore post-colonial topics including: border crossings, globalization,
nationalism and transnationalism, diaspora and migration. Through the close analysis of post-colonial themes
present in the various texts, students will develop the skills of close-reading the literal and figurative meanings within
literary passages, creating analytical and argumentative claims about themes within a text, and engaging in critical
dialogue about the socio-political importance of twenty-first century post-colonial literatures.
The focus is on major fiction from the Anglophone Caribbean communities. Students will first be trained in skills for
reading fiction and then apply those skills to a selection of Caribbean short stories and novels drawn from George
Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, Samuel Selvon, Michael Thelwell, and others. Themes include historical experiences,
cultural values, class struggle and religion. Projects designed to connect the literary texts with the music and festivals
of the region (calypso, reggae, carnival, Rastafari).
2025-006 9:00-10:30 TTH
Witherow, J
Fiction
A Historical Perspective
Through Literature on
Louisiana’s Diversity
The focus is on literature of the unique cultural diversity in Louisiana, from the antebellum to the present eras.
Discussions will address such issues as slavery, racism, class distinction within African-American, Cajun, and Creole
cultures, and change effected through civic action. We will examine various cultures, their interrelated struggles,
triumphs, and contributions.
2025-008 11:30-12:30 MWF
White, D
Fiction
19th Century Horror Fiction
Students will explore the horror genre and its role in 19th century literature. Authors including Mary Shelley, Edgar
Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker will be studied as an introduction to this popular genre and the role of fiction.
2025-012 9:30-10:30 MWF
Rezaie, A
Fiction
Postcolonial Literature
This course covers a range of narratives that deal with issues relating to cultures and cultural differences from 19th
century to the present.
2025-013 4:30-6:00 MW
Alexius, N
Fiction
LSU Fiction
2027-001 1:30-3:00 TTH
McCaughey, D
Poetry
Hero in Poetry
Students will read the work of well-known and critically acclaimed short story writers and novelists who enrolled at
LSU as students, served on the faculty, or staffed the university's esteemed literary journals. The impressive 70-year
span of LSU's literary history enriches our study of fiction.
Hero in Poetry focuses on the hero in poetry from Homer to the present. Works include “The Iliad,” “The Odyssey,”
“Dante’s Inferno,” and “Paradise Lost,” as well as lyric poems that comment on Greek and Roman heroes. The
course explores how a poet shapes a culture’s understanding of itself through the depiction of its heroes.
2027-003 9:00-10:30 TTH
Andrews, S
Poetry
Social Issues and Poetry of
Witness
This course is designed as a study of selected poets, poems, and poetry movements as "poetry of witness," with a
dominant focus on specific social issues, including early historical influences, protest poems, specific themes of
poverty, race and class, violence, gender, family and relationships. Includes a service-learning requirement and is
also certified as “Communication Intensive.” Students will work collaboratively to produce a deliverable that "bears
witness" to the experiences they encounter through our community partner.
2027-006 11:30-12:30 MWF
Horacek, J
Poetry
This course covers basic approaches to reading and interpreting poetry. Students will learn to analyze form, identify
themes, and place poems in a larger cultural context. The readings will include a variety of genres, forms, and time
periods with an emphasis on modernism and poetry in translation.
2029-001 12:30-1:30 MWF
Rosell, C
Drama
Disguising Identity
What does it mean to wear a mask? How can disguise both reveal and conceal identity? How do we perceive
fictional characters who impersonate others, mask their intentions, or even cross-dress? This course will explore the
dramatic use of literal and figurative disguises through a range of plays from antiquity, the early modern period, and
the twentieth-century. We will develop skills for reading and writing about drama, while studying generic conventions
and critical perspectives.
2123-001 9:30-10:30 MWF
Nohner, L
Studies in Literary Traditions
and Themes
Contemporary Horror:
Making Meaning of Our
Monsters
Studies in Literary Traditions
and Themes
The Art of Resistance
Horror has long been a space for exploring popular fears and cultural anxieties. This course will focus on novels and
short stories, but will also include movies and music. We will read contemporary horror fiction from a collection of
subgenres: ghost, evil child, carnival monster, vampire, slasher, robot, and zombie. These readings will be
supplemented with compelling critical essays which serve to help students understand the genre's history and
context.
Can literature lead to change? If so, how? We will analyze how contemporary English-language novels dramatize,
reflect upon, and act as tools of, resistance. We will read novels which thematically lend attention to pressing global
issues (primarily based on gender, race, and economics) and formally lead us to question their ability—as objects of
art—to intervene in these issues. Ultimately, these novelists—including Morrison, Coetzee, Atwood, Zadie Smith, and
David Foster Wallace—allow readers to consider the power, and purpose, of art.
Shakespeare
The Best of the Best: An investigation into the wit and wisdom of one of literature's superstars. We will examine
Shakespeare's time, his language, his genres, and his works, noting how specific works (both plays and sonnets)
contribute to the current discussion on defining the boundaries (or lack of boundaries) between leadership and
tyranny, male and female, revenge and justice, art and life.
2123-002 12:30-1:30 MWF
Bergholtz, B
2148-007 3:00-4:30 TTH
Viguerie, M.P.
2173-001 12:00-1:30 TTH
Bibler, M
Louisiana Literature
Strange and True
Available to students of all majors, this course examines fiction, poetry, essays, and films that highlight Louisiana’s
unique place in the American imagination. We will focus on fantasies and mythologies that make Louisiana look
“strange,” but we will also look at the state's history and culture to ask how these mythologies are, at the same time,
strangely “true.”
2270-001 10:30-11:30 TTHF
Kennedy, G
Major American Authors
2593-001 12:00-1:30 TTH
Jeansonne, C
Images of Women
2710-001 11:30-12:30 MWF
Smith, J
Descriptive Grammar of
English
(Large lecture with weekly breakout session.) This course builds intellectual confidence, critical understanding, and
cultural awareness in a fast-moving tour of literary America from the colonial era to our own time. Readings feature
such well-known authors as Franklin, Hawthorne, Poe, Douglass, Dickinson, Twain, Chopin, Faulkner, Hemingway,
and Morrison. This will be a flipped" classroom”: lecture content will be available on Moodle before class; course time
will focus on intensive discussion of student-defined interpretive issues.
This course is designed for General Education and English majors. It presents an opportunity to explore the rhetoric
around constructions of our concepts of “woman,” “women”. Students will define and deconstruct various images of
women in their critical readings of texts and culture. This is offered as a Communication-Intensive (C-I) Course "and
will be identified as such on transcripts if students meet all of the requirements for a C-I Course."
This course involves the use of linguistic theory to examine what every native speaker of English has internalized
about the structure of phrases and sentences in English.
2823-001 3:00-4:30 TTH
Armistead, C
Honors Literary Themes and
Traditions
Adolescence in Narrative
Television
Students will define and deconstruct the genre of "teen TV." Can such a genre be said to exist? If so, what are its
parameters? How does it influence society's understanding of adolescent experience? We will explore answers to
these questions by watching samples of popular "teen TV shows" from the 1990's until now. Through readings, class
discussion, and writing assignments, students will think critically about how genres are formed and what they reveal
about social norms and expectations.
2824-001 12:30-1:30 MWF
Geheber, P
Honors: Critical Analysis of
Literature
Contemporary Irish
Literature
3020-001 12:00-1:30 TTH
Barrett, C
British Literature I: Middle
Ages, Renaissance & 18th
Century
3020-002 10:30-11:30 MWF
King, E
British Literature I: Middle
Ages, Renaissance, & 18th
Century
3022-001 10:30-11:30 MWF
3022-002 10:30-12:00 TTH
Crump, R
3072-002 12:00-1:30 TTH
Lavender, I
British Literature II:
Romantics, Victorians and
Moderns
American Literature II:
Coming of Age
Potential Americas
An introduction to critical approaches that aims to begin building a student's critical toolkit and honing their critical
eye. We'll examine recent Irish fiction, film, poetry, drama, and comics using a variety of perspectives, like
psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, queer theory/gender studies, and post-colonialism. Course emphasizes practical
application of theories in reading and writing about literature leading students to more deeply question, analyze, and
understand our contemporary world.
A whirlwind tour of a thousand years of English literary experiments. We’ll cover some of the most famous and most
thrilling poetry in English, with attention to the often surprising historical context of these works and authors (who was
a spy, who had a hand fungus, and whose still unopened tomb has dozens of original poems locked inside it).
Emphasis on developing close reading skills and on considering how these texts continue to resonate today.
Tracing the evolution of British literature over one thousand years, this course attends to changing conceptions of
sovereignty. Questions that will guide us include: What are the rights afforded to and responsibilities of subjects and
their sovereigns? How might desire, sexuality, and gender extend or foreclose one’s personal sovereignty? How do
we account for advocacy for personal liberty alongside the realities of British imperialism and its slave trade?
Survey of British literature from the French Revolution through the Industrial Revolution into the 20th century.
In the post-Civil War period, America understands itself as a place where anything can happen—in good ways, and
in bad. In effect, America is a place of shifting possibilities. We will read and respond to a variety of foundational,
canonical, and non-canonical works as we consider several of these potential Americas. We will examine Realism,
Naturalism, Modernism and Post-Modernism in addition to exploring the alternative voices of women, African
Americans, Native Americans, and others.
3084-001 12:30-1:30 MWF
King, E
Modern Criticism
Mic Check: Theorizing
Resistance, Revolution, and
Social Transformation
This course interrogates modes of revolution and resistance in its introduction to contemporary critical theory.
Examining canonical texts from the fields of structuralism, Marxism, deconstruction, postmodernism, postcolonialism,
cultural studies, and gender theory, we will engage with the following questions: How might critical theory and the
ways in which we read it constitute a revolution? And how might critical theory simultaneously reveal the limits of that
revolution?
3202-001 3:00-4:30 MW
Bickmore, S
Dynamics of Learning in the
English Classroom
Prereq: EDCI 3001 and ENGL 3201. Concurrent enrollment in EDCI 3002. Dynamics of learning in middle school
and high school English classes, including methods of small group and whole class interaction and instruction,
including integration of technology.
3223-001 3:00-4:30 TTH
Pulliam, J
3301-001 12:00-1:30 TTH
Bridwell-Bowles, L
Adolescent Literature
Critical analysis and survey of literatures with adolescents as main characters and written for adolescent and adult
audiences.
The history of writing as a technology (clay tablets, alphabets, the codex, the printing press, digital media) is
interwoven with the history of pedagogies. What can a retrospective look at the history of writing and writing
instruction teach us about today's literacy? What is "new" about the ways we teach and learn to write in the 21st
century? Not only will we read and talk about these questions, but we will experiment with different approaches. Of
special interest to Rhetoric, Writing & Culture, English Education, and Literature concentrations.
3310-001 8:30-9:30 MWF
Wingenbach, J
Historical Perspectives on
Language Issues
The Language of Chaucer &
Shakespeare
We will look at how the English language established itself in the British Isles before focusing on the language of
Chaucer and Shakespeare, the two most frequently read and influential authors who wrote before the eighteenthcentury. Students will learn to understand the nuances of Chaucer’s English which get lost in modern translation, and
appreciate how Shakespeare’s English can sound so modern and so archaic at the same time.
3716-001 12:30-1:30 MWF
Smith, J
Dialects of English
This course focuses on the examination and analysis of differences in pronunciation, vocabulary, and syntax of the
major American English dialect regions.
4005-001 12:00-1:30 TTH
Davis, J
Short Story Writing
This course offers an in-depth study of the fundamentals of fiction writing (narrative voice, structure, plot, theme,
dialogue, setting, point-of-view, character development), with a primary emphasis on the short story. Students will
read craft essays and contemporary short stories, as well as write and workshop their own short stories. Students will
learn what effects are produced by the stylistic moves in their writing and in the writing of others, and students will
leave the course as confident editors of their own work.
4007-001 2:30-3:30 MWF
Wilky, A
Writing Poetry
Digital Media & Hybrid
Genres
4008-001 1:30-3:00 TTH
Euba, F
Writing Drama
Advanced Playwriting
Workshop
In this course we’ll be experimenting with and examining the ways in which form is also content. To do so: a) digital
mediums will be briefly introduced at the start of the semester (web-based, audio, and video techniques); b) we will
be “reading” text-, performance-, installation-, sound/audio-, video/film- and web-based work, as well as artists books;
c) we will write (with pens, pencils, camera lenses, microphones, keyboards; on paper, computers, memory cards,
film, servers, www, databases).
Designed to organically stimulate the creative potential and equip the student with the techniques of writing good
drama.
4009-001 6:00-9:00 M
Kornhauser, M
Advanced Screenwriting
Workshop
Writing: Practice, Pedagogy
and History
From clay tablets to the
Internet: The past, present
and future of writing and
writing instruction
Prereq: ENGL 2009. Practice in advanced screenwriting; students will be required to write a feature length
screenplay, critique each other’s work, and present an analysis of the films watched over the semester.
4050-001 3:00-4:30 TTH
Sandiford, K
Studies in the Restoration &
18th Century
Bling! Sex, Love, Fame,
Wealth, and Society in 18th
century England
4060-001 12:00-1:30 TTH
Rovee, C
Studies in the Romantic
Movement
Jane Austen and Romantic
Fiction
Capstone Seminar in
Literature
W. E. B. Du Bois and
William Faulkner
4104-002 10:30-11:30 MWF
Moreland, R
Readings focused on the causes and effects of wealth expansion in the period (Wealth of Nations; Fable of the Bees;
Moll Flanders). Some texts related to the loosening of sexual mores at Charles II’s court, and the impetus he and
certain nobles gave to the prevalence of womanizing, drinking, gambling, and other lusts of the flesh (The Libertine,
“The Maimed Debauchee,” The Man of Mode). Other texts illustrating ranges of reactions to these trends: Pope’s
conservative panic (Epistle to Burlington), Hogarth’s comic satirical eye (The Rake’s Progress), and Johnson’s
philosophical moralism (Rasselas). Group projects assigned to include movies and multi-media content on such
topics as period food, fashion, household furnishings, sports, entertainments, advertisements and certain addictions.
Intensive readings of Jane Austen's major novels, combined with a rich historical understanding of British Romantic
fiction and the revolutionary events that gave rise to it.
These two major American writers focused on similar questions and similar historical periods, yet their writing could
hardly be more different. Reading them together in this capstone seminar will pull together a wide range of what
we’ve practiced and learned in the literature concentration. A service-learning project will help us reflect on how all
this might translate into life after LSU.
4720-001 10:30-11:30 MWF
Shport, I
Second Language
Acquisition
How are second languages learned? Why are some learners more successful than the others? Do bilinguals have
perfect knowledge of their languages? This course provides a survey of key issues in second language acquisition
(SLA) research and theory, including the effects of age, native language, linguistic environment, cognitive, and social
factors on language learning.
4104-001 12:00-1:30 TTH
Massé, M
Capstone Seminar in
Literature
Stories to Live By: Gender,
Age, and the Novel of
Formation
In tracing the shift from innocence to experience, the novel of development weaves fictions about what identity
means as characters learn about life, love, and work. We will look at the differences sex and age make, not only in
the stories we choose to tell ourselves, but also in how we tell them. Reading will include novels such as Little
Women, Huckleberry Finn, Sons and Lovers, Quicksand, The Praisesong for the Widow, and Gilead.
4105-001 1:30-3:00 TTH
Davis, J
Capstone Seminar in Writing
Fiction
This course will provide students with the sophisticated tools necessary to write polished, effective, and affecting
fiction. Students will produce and workshop new work, with an emphasis on the creative research often required to
create complex and nuanced characters and plots. Students will also engage in an in-depth study of the process of
revision. Ideally, students will leave the course with at least one polished short story or novel excerpt suitable for
submission to graduate schools or literary journals.
4147-001 9:30-10:30 MWF
Nardo, A
Studies in Milton
4148-001 12:00-1:30 TTH
Richardson, M
Studies in Shakespeare
Shakespeare and History
We will focus on Paradise Lost. We will investigate whether or not Milton was a visionary, even a proto-feminist, who
reimagined human sexuality and marriage. In collaboration with two undergraduate classes and a graduate seminar,
we will read the entire poem together on two festive spring nights—with costumes, sets, music...perhaps even a real
serpent.
Corruption. Betrayal. Weak leaders. Regime change. Negative campaigns. As usual, the Big Guy got there first.
Reading and viewing Shakespeare’s History plays, with a glance in the mirror.
4148-002 10:30-11:30 MWF
Percy, L
Studies in Shakespeare
Shakespeare & the Other
Discover how race, ethnicity and sexuality generate tension in five Shakespeare plays.
4204-001 TBA Friday
Weinstein, S
Capstone Seminar in
English Education
Prereq: EDCI 4003 and ENGL 4203. Concurrent enrollment in EDCI 4004 and EDCI 4005. For English majors in the
Secondary Education Concentration. Independent research project. Course topics will vary. Usually offered in spring
semester only. Advanced seminar in which students consolidate their knowledge in English and obtain a perspective
on the significance of the knowledge.
4220-001 9:00-10:30 TTH
Euba, F
Drama of Africa and African
Diaspora
A study of the form and characteristic features of drama as expressed by playwrights in Africa and African diaspora
in the New World.
4231-001 4:30-6:00 MW
Maciak, P
Studies in Literature & Film
American Spectacle: Visual
Culture at the Turn of the
Century
The American turn of the century was a crucial moment in the histories of literary and cinematic realism, but it was
also a boon time for hoaxes, humbugs, frauds, and fantasies. The eye that relished realist depictions of the urban
scene also looked for scenes of magic and monstrosity. We’ll encounter novels, films, and a bizarre array of visual
cultures that offered spectacles of the real, the unreal, and everything in between.
4323-001 9:00-10:30 TTH
Gourdine, A
Studies in Caribbean
Literature
Touring Identity & Culture in
Narrative
Across linguistic differences and competing nationalist impulses, the rhizomatic mangrove biome unites the
Caribbean. This course explores this unique ecosystem as a discursive formation, which, along with food and music,
revises “creoleness” and defines a Caribbean literary ecology. We will read novels, short stories and poetry. In
addition to traditional research the course will make use of social and popular media representations of the
Caribbean environ and includes a Spring Break Excursion to Guadeloupe.
4713-001 3:00-4:30 TTH
Weltman, J
Syntax
Basic principles of syntactic structure; topics include constituency, subordinate clauses, coordinate structures,
question formation, topicalization and the passive.
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