| Department of English, Philosophy and Modern Languages Upcoming Courses
2000-Level Classes Gods and Monsters
ENGL 2321-70 British Literature Do the gods curse us with monsters? Or do we create them? To answer these questions, we’ll confront texts and films that give us the most famous monsters in all literature—Grendel, Frankenstein’s Creature, Dracula, Satan, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—as well as the gods and men who try to control them. Web-based; Instructor: M. Hart. American Literature
ENGL 2326-01 Selected significant works of American literature arranged around a common theme(s), period or culture. MW 9:00-10:15 a.m.; Instructor: Tyrer. The Classical Tradition
ENGL 2341-01 Introduction to Literature.We will examine numerous foundational works of western literature, as well as selected works from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, aligning their themes and approaches with contemporary American culture. We will also examine the practice of literary analysis as a lens for both these specific literary works and general cultural phenomena. TTh 1:00-2:15 p.m.; Instructor: Jacobsen. Comic Film and Literature
ENGL 2341-02: Intro to Literature What kinds of art make us laugh, and why? Why are some kinds of laughter cruel and coercive, others uplifting and liberating? Authors studied include Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Flannery O'Connor; films by Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson and/or the Coen Bros. T: 5:30-8:10 a.m.; Instructor: Doty. The Dark Side: Witches and Ghouls
ENGL 2341-03: Intro to Literature Investigate the way narratives deal with their creepiest characters in this exploration of literature and the occult. MW 10:30-11:45 a.m.; Instructor: Trela. Sports and Literature
ENGL 2343-01. Literature and Ideas Get sweaty through this examination of the cultural meaning and value of sports through fiction, nonfiction, poetry and film. MW 1:00-2:15 p.m.; Instructor: Hunt.
3000/4000-Level Classes Creative Writing: Prose
ENGL 3302 Reading and writing-intensive workshop-format course focused on "creative" nonfiction. Such writing combines various types of research with personal essay strategies. This course is appropriate for writers interested in general nonfiction book and magazine publication. Shorter writing assignments in various modes of writing will build toward a final course project. T 5:30-8:10 p.m.; Instructor: Hunt. Visual Languages and Document Design
ENGL 3307 Why is it that a picture is worth a thousand words? And can you make it worth a million? ENGL 3307 will address these questions by examining how we process documents visually and how we can use that knowledge to make our documents more effective. MW 1:00-2:15 p.m.; Instructor: Severn. Language Structure
ENGL 3311 Language makes us, us. To understand language structure is to understand the foundation of the human condition. From sounds (phonology) to words (morphology) to sentences (syntax) to speeches (discourse), linguistics illuminates the basic components of language and the fundamental behavior of humanity itself. TTh 1:00-2:15 a.m.; Instructor: Jacobsen. Survey of English Literature to 1800
ENGL 3351 This course surveys the major authors of English literature, including the Gawain poet, Chaucer, Wyatt, Elizabeth I, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Milton, and Behn. We'll pay special attention to genre, the religious and political uses of literary art, and the rise of professional authorship. MW: 9:00-10:15 a.m.; Instructor: Doty. Survey of American Literature to 1865
ENGL 3360 Surveying American literature through 1865, we will look at issues and literatures of exploration, nation building, nation questioning and the many voices that comprise the American tradition through the Civil War. Eras covered will include early North American literatures, Puritan texts, 18th-century ideas and writings, and the early development of American fiction and identity in the first half of the 19th century. MW 10:30 -11:45 a.m.; Instructor: MacDonald. Literary Analysis
ENGL 3380 Introduction to fundamentals of literary analysis, critical vocabulary, and close reading of a wide range of literature across a variety of periods and genres. MW 1:00-2:15 p.m.; Instructor: Tyrer. Introduction to Comparative Literature
ENGL 3382 In addition to investigating comparative literature’s traditions in translation, this course will draw on literature, popular film, art, and twentieth-century critical theory as a basis for placing widely divergent texts in dialogue. We will examine New Criticism, psychoanalysis, Marxist theories, Cultural Studies, feminisms, Queer Theory, ecocriticisms, postcolonialisms, and more. MW: 10:30-11:45 a.m.; Instructor: Roos. Advanced Composition
ENGL 4301 When you hear the term “composition,” what typically comes to mind? Likely, you recall writing narratives for your high school English classes, or essays for your first-year composition courses. In this portfolio class, we will explode the term “composition” to engage in multiple composing genres, experiment with stylistic variation, and explore the possibilities of rhetorical invention. TTh 9:00-10:15 a.m.; Instructor: Walls. Language Acquisition
ENGL 4311 How speakers of English make meaning though language. Emphasizes phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax. TTh 10:30-11:45 a.m.; Instructor: Jacobsen. Arthurian Legend
ENGL 4350 Medieval Literature King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are among the most pervasive heroes of medieval literature. Students will investigate some of the best medieval Arthurian texts as sites of cultural and political contest. This is not a self-paced course. Web-based; Instructor: Wilcox. Eighteenth-Century Literature
ENGL 4365 True or False: Manners & Morals + Dignity & Decorum + Fuss & Formality = 18th-Century Literature. False! In no other age was language so energetically obscene and passion so gleefully uncontained. Possible readings include Moll Flanders, Pamela/Shamela, Humphry Clinker, The Rake’s Progress, The Beggar’s Opera, The Castle of Otranto. TTH 1:00 -2:15 p.m.; Instructor: M. Hart. Ulysses and the Irish Famine
ENGL 6350 Studies in English Literature Explore Joyce’s most famous novel through an examination of his sources (e.g. Shakespeare, Homer), his Irish contemporaries (Yeats, Synge), his expatriate contemporaries (Shaw, Wilde), his references to historical events (the Irish Potato Famine, the Easter Rebellion) and his use of contemporary theory (Marxism, gender studies). Supplemental works may include Homer’s Odyssey, W. B. Yeats’s Cathleen ni Houlihan, J. M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World and Cecil Woodham-Smith’s The Great Hunger. W 5:30-8:10 pm.; Instructor: Roos. Composition Pedagogy and Theory
ENGL 6380 Introduction and practice with professional resources that support teaching of writing in higher education. M 5:30-8:10 pm.; Instructor: Walls. Remnant Trust Seminar: The City in History
ENGL 6392 Special Topics. (Cross-listed with HNRS 3373 ). Since their first appearance 5000 years ago, cities have, despite representing but a small fraction of the world’s societies, accounted for nearly all of history’s material, intellectual, cultural and spiritual advances. Fifty years ago this year Lewis Mumford published what remains the preeminent work on this phenomenon, The City in History. This course revisits Mumford’s classic study and considers it together with other important works on the city, both scholarly and imaginative: classics like Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Politics, St. Augustine’s City of God, and Thomas More’s Utopia, as well as more modern works like Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (also 50 this year), and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City. For Aristotle and Plato, the class will be working with original first editions of translations; and for Augustine and More, we will be working with original, first edition volumes. Th 5:30-8:10 pm. Instructor: Baum. | 
