Spring 2012 Courses

ENG

100-level Courses

ENG 100 - Introduction to Academic Writing (4 credits)


Intensive introduction to critical writing and reading in academic contexts. Exploration of writing processes and academic literacy skills: interpreting assignments; comprehending, analyzing, and evaluating college-level texts; inventing, drafting,and revising; seeking, providing, and responding to constructive feedback; collaborating effectively under varied learning models. Extensive writing practice and individualized coaching. Attention to grammar and conventions of standard written English. Intended as preparation for ENG 101. Credit for ENG 100 is not allowed if student has prior credit for ENG 101.

ENG 101 - Academic Writing and Research (4 credits)

Intensive instruction in academic writing and research. Basic principles of rhetoric and strategies for academic inquiry and argument. Instruction and practice in critical reading, including the generative and responsible use of print and electronic sources for academic research. Exploration of literate practices across a range of academic domains, laying the foundation for further writing development in college. Continued attention to grammar and conventions of standard written English. Most sections meet in computer classrooms.

For further information about the First-Year Writing Requirement, see http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/fwp/NewFrWrReq.htm.

200-level Courses

ENG 201 - Writing Literary Analysis (3 credits)

Writing about literature for a variety of audiences. Strategies for writing close textual analysis - including attention to versification, narrative technique, and dramatic structure - and for articulating biographical, literary-historical, and cultural-historical contexts. Conventional genres of literary analysis, including "close readings," reviews, and editorial introductions; conventions of organization and prose style in both academic and professional literary discourse; MLA conventions for prose style and documentation.

ENG 207 - Studies in Poetry (3 credits)

: Main features of poetry such as tone, voice, form, diction, figurative language, and sound patterns. Reading of poetry from different periods with the goal of learning how to understand, appreciate, and analyze different kinds of poems.

ENG 208 - Studies In Fiction (3 credits)

: Representative examples of novels and short stories from different periods, emphasizing understanding and appreciation of fiction as a genre, a knowledge of the features and techniques of fiction, and a sense of the development of the genre.

ENG 209 - Introduction to Shakespeare (3 credits)

: Shakespeare for non-English majors. Seven to ten major plays, including representative comedies, such as The Taming of the Shrew; histories, such as Richard III; tragedies, such as Hamlet; and romances, such as The Tempest.Does not satisfy requirements for English major.

ENG 210 - Introduction to Language and Linguistics (3 credits)

Linguistics theory and method. Topics include the English sound system, morphology, syntactic structure, semantics, and historical and contemporary dialect variation. Language acquisition, language and the brain, and computer processing and human language.

ENG 214 - Introduction to Editing (3 credits)

: Basic editorial skills with a wide range of publications. Stylistic editing (conventions of written English, consistency, effectiveness of syntax, appropriateness of diction), substantive editing (accuracy, legal issues, ethics), and production editing (layout, typography, electronic publication processing). Introduction to resources such as standard reference works and professional organizations.

ENG 219 - Studies in Great Works of Non-Western Literat (3 credits)

: Readings, in English translation, or non-Western literary masterpieces from the beginnings of literacy in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa to the modern period, including excerpts from texts such as the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Sundiata, Gilgamesh, A Thousand and One Nights, and the Quran and such authors as Confucius, Oe Kenzaburo, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, and Amos Oz.

ENG 220 - Studies in Great Works of Western Literature (3 credits)

Readings, in English translation, of Western literary masterpieces, from the beginnings of literacy in the Middle East and Europe towards the present, including such authors as Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Augustine, Danta, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Moliere, Voltaire, Goethe, Austen, Flaubert, Dickinson, Tolstoy, Kafka, and Woolf.Credit will not be given for both ENG/FL 220 and either ENG/FL 221 or ENG/FL 222.

ENG 221 - Literature of the Western World I (3 credits)

Readings from English translations of Biblical, Classical, Medieval, and Early Renaissance literature, including works by such authors as Homer, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Marie de France, and Dante.

ENG 222 - Literature of the Western World II (3 credits)

Readings from English translations of Renaissance, Neo-Classical, Romantic, and Early Modern literature, emphasizing the cultures of continental Europe from the Renaissance to 1900, and including such authors as Petrarch, Erasmus, Rabelais, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Moliere, Voltaire, Rousseau, Goethe, Flaubert, and Tolstoy.

ENG 223 - Contemporary World Literature I (3 credits)

: Twentieth-century literature of some of the following cultures: Russian, Eastern European, Western European, Latin American, Canadian, Australian.

ENG 224 - Contemporary World Literature II (3 credits)

Twentieth-century literature of some of the following cultures: Asian, Arabian, African, Caribbean, Native-American.

ENG 232 - Literature and Medicine (3 credits)

: Study of literature about illness, epidemics, and the science and practice of medicine. Readings will include works by authors such as Boccaccio, Defoe, George Eliot, Kafka, William Carlos Williams, Susan Sontag, and Tony Kushner.

ENG 246 - Literature of the Holocaust (3 credits)

Fictional and nonfictional versions of the Holocaust, focusing on themes of survival, justice, theology, and the limits of human endurance.

ENG 248 - Survey of African-American Literature (3 credits)

: African-American writing and its relationships to American culture and history. Covers such writers as Wheatley, Douglass, Chesnutt, Dunbar, DuBois, Hughes, Hurston, Wright, and Morrison.

ENG 249 - Native American Literature (3 credits)

A survey of Native American literatures from before contact with Europeans to contemporary culture. Writers may include: Apess (Pequot), Ridge (Cherokee), Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Momaday (Kiowa), Power (Sioux) Gunn Allen (Laguna-Sioux), Harjo (Creek), and Erdrich (Anishinaabe).

ENG 251 - Major British Writers (3 credits)

: Significant British authors chosen from among such figures as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Pope, Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Bronte, Dickens, Joyce, Eliot, Woolf, and Yeats.Credit will not be given for both ENG 251 andeither ENG 261 or 262.

ENG 252 - Major American Writers (3 credits)

: Significant American authors chosen from among such figures as Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Stowe, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Frost, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Morrison.Credit will not be given for both ENG 252 and either ENG 265 or 266.

ENG 260 - Introduction to Literary Study (3 credits)

Introduces fundamental questions in literary history and critical theory. Emphasizes critical reading skills and prepares students for the kinds of courses--surveys, genre courses, author courses, problem-based courses--that are part of the Englishmajor. Papers prepared using standard word processing programs.

ENG 261 - English Literature I (3 credits)

: A survey of English literature to 1660, including Old English, Middle English, and Renaissance writing, focusing on such central authors as Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, and Milton. Credit will not be given for both ENG 261 and ENG 251.

ENG 262 - English Literature II (3 credits)

A survey of English literature from 1660 to the present. Poetry, fiction, drama and intellectual prose by such central writers as Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Bronte, Carlyle, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce and Eliot. Credit will not be given for both ENG 262 and ENG 251.

ENG 265 - American Literature I (3 credits)

: A survey of American literature from the beginnings to the Civil War, including such central authors as Edwards, Franklin, Irving, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman. Credit will not be given for both ENG 265 and ENG 252.

ENG 266 - American Literature II (3 credits)

: A survey of American literature from the Civil War to the present, including such central authors as Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Crane, Wharton, Frost, Eliot, Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, Wright, O'Connor, and Morrison. Credit will not be given for both ENG 266 and ENG 252.

ENG 282 - Introduction to Film (3 credits)

: Examination of basic film techniques and basic methods of film analysis. Emphasis on understanding and appreciating film as a major art form.

ENG 287 - Explorations in Creative Writing (3 credits)

: Introduction to the basic elements and principles of three genres of creative writing: poetry, fiction and drama. Reading and class discussion of student work. Recommended for students with no prior experience in creative writing.

ENG 288 - Fiction Writing (3 credits)

Experience in writing short prose fiction. Class critiquing of student work and instruction in techniques of fiction.

ENG 289 - Poetry Writing (3 credits)

Experience in writing poetry. Class critiquing of student work and instruction in techniques of poetry.

ENG 292 - Writing About Film (3 credits)

: Comprehensive study of various approaches to writing about film. Primary focus is on the critical and evaluative practice involved in writing film criticism for non-academic audiences. Film screenings, discussion of assigned readings, and in-classwriting workshops aid students in preparing a portfolio of film writing that includes film reviews of various lengths.

ENG 298 - Special Projects in English (1-3 credits)

Faculty-guided independent study, or courses on special topics.

300-level Courses

ENG 305 - Women and Literature (3 credits)

Dr. Sharon Setzer (section 001)

Dr. Deborah Hooker (section 002)

In Silences, Tillie Olsen reminds us that, like their male counterparts, women have often written under economically and socially fraught conditions. Unlike male authors, however, women have, for centuries, written without the general "approval" of extant publishing or educational institutions. That is, women who sought writing as a profession had to navigate specific gender, class and racial ideologies that proclaimed her lack of fitness for (and the general impropriety of) the very thing she desired.

ENG 305 will initially explore some of the ideological and material obstacles for US women writers from the 18th century onwards. Following this brief historical overview, we will examine the ways in which class and racial ideologies and experiences intersect with gender to shape representations of women in 20th- and 21st-century novels, short stories, and poetry. (Myths and fairy tales will also be included where appropriate.) Although we will focus primarily on female representations--of motherhood, mother-daughter relationships, etc.--masculinity and trans identities as they are constructed in various texts by women writers will also be explored.

Course requirements include reading journals, Moodle posts, one shorter literary analysis, and a longer final project.

ENG 316 - Principles of News and Article Writing (3 credits)

ENG 317 - Designing Web Communication (3 credits)

ENG 323 - Writing in the Rhetorical Tradition (3 credits)

ENG 324 - Modern English Syntax (3 credits)

Prerequisite: ENG 101

Study of Modern English at the sentence level. Analysis of grammatical structure. Consideration of language variation in English.

ENG 325 - Spoken and Written Traditions of American Eng (3 credits)

ENG 326 - History of the English Language (3 credits)

Prerequisite: ENG 101

Development of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the present. Emphasis on historical and comparative linguistic methodology and on changes in sound, syntax, and meaning.

ENG 327 - Language and Gender (3 credits)

ENG 330 - Screenwriting (3 credits)

Prerequisite: two film and/or creative writing courses (6 hours total)

In this writing workshop, students will develop skills in narrative structure, screenplay

format, and story elements (character, dialogue, scene construction). In the first portion of

the course, we focus on structure, character and dialogue. The remainder of the course is

devoted to the writing and critique of full-length original screenplays.

ENG 331 - Communication for Engineering and Technology (3 credits)

Staff

Preq: Junior standing

This course is aimed primarily at students in engineering and other technological fields. Students may take only ONE of the following courses: ENG 331, ENG 332 or ENG 333. In this course, students become familiar with written communication in industrial and technical organizations. Students are encouraged to adapt writing assignments to their own work experience, professional goals, and major fields of study. Instruction covers all phases of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, and critiquing other people's work). Emphasis is placed on organizing for the needs of technical and management readers; concise, clear expression; and the use of visual aids. Typical assignments include job application letters and resumes, progress reports, proposals, technical instructions, and at least one oral presentation.

ENG 332 - Communication for Business and Management (3 credits)

Staff

Preq: Junior standing

This course (formerly ENG 221) is aimed primarily at students in business-, administration-, and management-related fields. Students may take only ONE of the following courses: ENG 331, ENG 332 or ENG 333. This course introduces students to the more important forms of writing used in business and public organizations. Students are encouraged to adapt writing assignments to their own work experience, professional goals, and major fields of study. Instruction covers all phases of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, and critiquing other people's work). Emphasis is placed on organizing for the needs of a variety of readers; concise, clear expression; and the use of visual aids. Students practice writing tasks dealing with the routine problems and details common in a work environment and more specialized writing such as problem analyses and sales and administrative proposals. Each student also gives one or two oral presentations related to the written work.

ENG 333 - Communication for Science and Research (3 credits)

Staff

Preq: Junior standing

This course is aimed primarily at students who plan careers in scientific research. Students may take only ONE of the following courses: ENG 331, ENG 332, or 333. This course introduces students to the more important forms of writing used in scientific and research environments. The course explores the relationship between research and writing in problem formulation, interpretation of results, and support and acceptance of research. Students are encouraged to adapt writing assignments to their own work experience, professional goals, and major fields of study. Instruction covers all phases of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, and critiquing other people's work). Emphasis is placed on organizing for the needs of a variety of readers; concise, clear expression; and the use of visual aids. Typical assignments include proposals, journal articles, and at least one oral presentation.

ENG 350 - Professional Internships (3 credits)

Susan M Katz (section 001)

Directed work experience for CHASS majors including work-site mentoring and evaluation. Department supervision includes course work directed toward designing employment application materials, developing a portfolio of professional work or relevant research paper, considering a variety of career options, and reading literature on workplace socialization. Students must provide their own transportation to the internship site. Modest liability insurance fee required.

Tom Wallis--Film Studies Internship (section 002)

Self-designed internship for Arts Studies-Film majors and LFM English majors only. Contact Professor Walis for more information.

ENG 368 - American Poetry to 1900 (3 credits)

ENG 371 - Late Twentieth-Century Fiction (3 credits)

Late Twentieth-Century Fiction

Elaine Orr

We will call this “Narrative Fiction Since 1950” in order to include books written in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Authors likely to be drawn from this list: O'Connor, Lessing, Coetzee, Pynchon, Morrison, McCarthy, Alice Monroe, Ha Jin, Chimamanda Adichie, Jose Edwardo Agualusa, Jose Saramago, Lee Smith.

ENG 373 - Late Twentieth-Century Poetry (3 credits)

Jon F Thompson: We’ll read collections by Allen Ginsberg, George Oppen, CD Wright, Franz Wright, August Kleinzahler, Denise Levertov, Fanny Howe, Charles Wright, Peter Riley and Yusef Komunyakaa. We will look at the “work” of these books--the aspirations they have as voices in the world--the traditions they have evolved out of, the notion of authorship they inscribe, and their proximate distance from the aspirations of the historical avant-garde. We will also read some critical essays and interviews. Pre-requisites: a willingness to be challenged by poetry. Written requirements will include two out-of-class critical essays, a midterm and a final.

ENG 374 - History of Film From 1940 (3 credits)

Technological developments and aesthetic movements that have shaped cinema production and direction from 1940 to the present. Evolution in camera movement, editing, sound, storyline, and the documentary. Post-war decline and re-emergence of the Hollywood film industry and the contributions of foreign filmmakers.

Sophomores, juniors, and seniors only.

ENG 375 - African American Cinema (3 credits)

ENG 376 - Science Fiction (3 credits)

John J. Kessel

This course is an historical and thematic survey of science fiction from its beginnings in the post-industrial revolution gothic romance, through its identification as a separate genre in the pulps of the early 20th century, to its practice by writers in and out of genre today. The course will concentrate on American science fiction, with consideration of significant developments in England and elsewhere. We will examine sf as a reflection of developing attitudes toward science and technology, as an expression of the "Two Cultures" debate, as a vehicle for social criticism and satire, as a metaphor used to examine character. Texts will be studied for their relation to literary movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the rise of popular fiction.

There will be two 3-5 page out-of-class papers on readings in the first month of the semester, a midterm, a term paper of 10 pages due in April and a final examination.

ENG 382 - Film and Literature (3 credits)

: Ora Gelley

Starting virtually with the birth of the movies, there exists a long history of adapting a variety of kinds of texts–plays, parables, novels, stories, etc–into films. No single “formula” or “theory” of adaptation exists. Rather, the work of adaptation involves a process of translation and transformation, a process which this course will explore. Our study of this process will force us to consider the form or genre of the original source text. In order, for instance, to gain some understanding of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film (from 1967) based on Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex, for instance, we must consider not one but three source texts: the Oedipus tale of Greek myth and drama, Sigmund Freud’s interpretation of that tale, and finally, a modern story based on Pasolini’s own autobiography which frames the mythic recreation of the film. In the case of Lars Von Trier’s The Five Obstructions (2003), to give another example, we will explore the process by which a filmmaker, in collaboration with his colleague, re-makes, in five entirely different versions, a short film produced by him 25 years earlier. In this case, the transformation does not involve a shift from text to screen, but rather, is driven by a series of “obstructions” (devised by the student, Von Trier, for his former film teacher, Jorgen Leth) which determine the form of each re-make. The course will cover a range of textual forms and cinematic and literary genres–including Greek tragedy, the Female Gothic, the novel, the biblical text, the short story, and the animated film. Issues, in addition to those of genre and adaptation, that will be discussed include: intertextuality; point of view (how, for instance, is the subjective or “first person” voice expressed differently in film and literature?); narrative and narration; historiography.

ENG 384 - Introduction to Film Theory (3 credits)

Film Theory

Devin Orgeron

This course will introduce students to a variety of critical approaches to and debates within film studies. We will consider the aesthetics of cinematic form and discuss the constituent elements of “film language”; we will enter the longstanding debates regarding film “authorship” and examine the work of one contemporary “auteur”; we will discuss the importance of “the star”; we will investigate theories of genre, exploring Film Noir and the horror film; we will study the cinema’s complex relationship to notions of “the real”; we will discuss film’s relationship to the other arts; and, finally, we will analyze issues of cinematic spectatorship and identification. Students will write two theoretically focused papers and take a cumulative final exam.

ENG 388 - Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop (3 credits)

ENG 392 - Major World Author (3 credits)

Nick Halpern

This class will focus on Dante's amazing Divine Comedy in its entirety. We will read Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. There will be three papers, a midterm and a final exam.

ENG 394 - Studies in World Literature (3 credits)

ENG 395 - Studies in Rhetoric and Digital Media (3 credits)

Kevin Michael Brock: Introduction to and extensive examination of principles of computation and code in humanities studies. Exploration of historical models and development of the role of code in contemporary media and art. Instruction in critical analysis of and creative composition through a selection of coding languages and structures. Special attention paid to the interdisciplinary nature of code studies.

ENG 398 - Contemporary Literature I (1900 to 1940) (3 credits)

Rebecca Ann Walsh

Locations of Modernity/Modernism

The first half of the twentieth century bears the imprints of much change and upheaval: devastating international wars, interracial conflict, the decline of some forms of imperialism, the struggle for gender equality and visibility for “non-normative” sexual expression, secularization, industrialization, the migration and movement of people, as well as the speed-up of technology and the increasing interconnectedness of burgeoning globalization. Many readers of modernism have seen the era as producing a profound sense of alienation in which formerly stable values and categories have been disrupted, making it difficult to locate oneself securely in the world or feel a sense of home. For some writers in this period, however, this is a liberating atmosphere in which new identities can be formed, different ways of relating to culture and nation can be imagined, and new forms of language and representation can be pioneered. This course investigates the ways that ideas of being at home, of identifying one’s position (in culture, in language and literature, in the nation-state) are mourned, redefined, and reterritorialized in various kinds of modernisms. In tracing various angles of vision on ideas of home and homelessness, our study of modernist texts will explore issues of travel, expatriation, and dislocation; the critique of language and representation; crises in knowing and being; the role of popular culture and the vernacular; changing definitions of national identity; and finally, but not least, the literary movements of modernism and postmodernism.

Likely authors we will study include James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, Richard Aldington, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Lorca, Miguel Hernandez, and W.H. Auden. “Locating” the various writers in the course in relation to modernism and modernity involves situating them within their historical context and the larger stories that have been told about modernism. Some of our reading will likely draw from cultural anthropology, sociology, and turn-of-the-century sexology, and from the manifesto and essay writing of the writers themselves.

400-level Courses

ENG 405 - Literature for Adolescents (3 credits)

Barbara A Bennett: This course covers the history, types, and characteristics of literature for adolescents, and emphasizes reading and analyzing the literature by exploring the themes, literary elements, challenges, and rationale for young adult literature. It addresses the ways in which this literature can be integrated and implemented in an English curriculum. Although the course is primarily designed for future and current high school English teachers, it can also be valuable for those working with adolescents in any capacity or for enhancing one's understanding of young adult literature past and present.

ENG 407 - Postmodernism (3 credits)

ENG 416 - Advanced News and Article Writing (3 credits)

Robert Kochersberger

Advanced News and Article Writing, begins with the rudiments of
reporting and writing learned in ENG 316 (formerly ENG 215) and carries them
to a higher level. The course will be organized on a beat structure, with
two students covering one area of news, either on or off campus. Some
stories will be written as a team, others individually. We will pay special
attention to the quality of the writing and the completeness of content.
Thorough knowledge of current events will be expected, as will substantial
discussion

ENG 417 - Editorial and Opinion Writing (3 credits)

Paul Cockshutt

This course focuses on the expression of opinion in daily newspapers and other media. The course covers editorials (the newspaper's corporate opinion), columns (both personal and issue-oriented) and reviews (of books, film, food, etc.) There is copious writing in the course, much discussion, guest speakers and field trips. I assume students have mastered the basics of newswriting. Prerequisite is ENG 215 or permission of instructor.

ENG 420 - Major American Author (3 credits)

James M. Grimwood: FAULKNER: Travel to sunny Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Friendly natives (dissolute planters, crazed sharecroppers, wayward belles, rebellious servants, impotent gangsters, idiots, . . . lots of idiots) demonstrating quaint local customs (barn-burning, throat-cutting, honeysuckle-smelling, flood-surfing, myth-mongering). Side trips to picturesque locales (the French Quarter in New Orleans, Miss Reba’s in Memphis, a deer camp in the Delta, the MGM studio in California). English spoken (no, not spoken but uttered by unamazed garrulous baffled ghosts, and less uttered than abrupted out of a hyperdistilled effluvium of outraged sound, nor abrupted either but . . .). Laaughter welcome, occasionally unavoidable, often nervous. About eight novels from the late 1920s through the early 1940s, read closely within the matrix of the social history of the South and the United States (the Rise of the Redneck, racial turmoil, two World Wars, the Great Depression) and within the contexts of contemporary literature, magazine fiction, Hollywood cinema, the blues. Biographical considerations. Main currents of Faulkner criticism. One or two short papers, a long paper, a midterm exam and a comprehensive final exam.

ENG 425 - Analysis of Scientific and Technical Writing (3 credits)

ENG 426 - Analyzing Style (3 credits)

David M Rieder PhD

Introduction to the analysis of style in print-based texts, hypertexts, and visual culture. The semester will be divided among three analytical approaches. First, we begin with Richard Lanham's textbook, Analyzing Prose, which introduces you to the important roles that style plays in prose writing. This first section will offer you a grounding in the rhetorical canon of style. Next, we'll study the changing role of style in the electronic form of hypertext writing. We'll focus our attention on Shelley Jackson's hypertext novel, Patchwork Girl. Finally, we'll look up and off the page/screen to analyze (postmodern) American culture, which is heavily influenced by communicational issues related to style.

In addition to two 6-7 page essays (and other shorter writing assignments), you will learn how to write a hypertextual essay in StorySpace, the same software program that Jackson used to write her hypertext novel.

ENG 439 - 17th-Century English Literature (3 credits)

ENGLISH NON-DRAMATIC LITERATURE

Robert Young

John Donne and the major metaphysical poets will be set against Ben Jonson and the Cavalier school. In addition, we shall read Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and the first book of Hobbes’s Leviathan. There will be a midterm, a final exam, two short papers, and frequent quizzes over the reading assignments.

ENG 448 - African-American Literature (3 credits)

ENG 451 - Chaucer (3 credits)

ENG 452 - Medieval British Literature (3 credits)

James Robert Knowles: This course is designed as an introduction to literature in Middle English, excluding Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. We will read a selection of major texts contemporary with Chaucer’s literary career, beginning with his other masterpiece, the historical romance of Troilus and Criseyde. From here we will move on to the works of the anonymous Pearl-poet, including the chivalric tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the dream-elegy called Pearl, and Patience, a retelling of the Book of Jonah written in vigorous alliterative verse. The second half of the course will focus on the extraordinary range of religious writing in late medieval England: from the allegorical dream-vision of William Langland’s Piers Plowman, to the civic spectacle of the York Mystery plays, to the visionary theology of Julian of Norwich (the first English woman to be identified as an author--though her true identity remains a mystery). No prior knowledge of Middle English is required. Instruction (and practice) in how to read and interpret Middle English poetry and prose will be a major component of the course, but for some of the texts we will enlist the help of facing-page modern translations.

ENG 455 - Literacy in the U.S. (3 credits)

Christopher M Anson

ENG 455 Literacy in the United States

At this moment, astonishingly complex processes are at work as you read, interpret, and reflect on these words. For most of us, these processes are unconscious: we read because we have been reading for most of our lives. It's something that, from our perspective as educated people, we take mostly for granted, yet almost every aspect of our lives—including our social and familial relationships, our further education, our jobs, our ambitions, even, on some levels, our survival—depends on it.

In this course, we'll examine the nature of literacy, including its history, purposes, acquisition, institutionalization, and present status in the United States, with special focus on cultural diversity and social equity. We'll learn about where written literacy came from, what actually happens (moment by moment) when we read, what's required to learn to read, and why some adults are illiterate. We'll explore controversies about the best approaches to reading instruction, the relationship of reading and writing, the relationship of speaking and reading (including the role of spoken dialects), and how new technologies are affecting literacy. We'll also consider some of the social, political, and ethical issues of literacy in the U.S.—for example, how literacy is related to power, or how written texts can exploit, deceive, or exclude. As part of the service-learning requirements for the course, you will tutor a child or young adult for two hours per week in a local school- or community-based literacy program that serves members of disadvantaged communities. Tutoring opportunities will be provided in class. Course requirements include frequent low-stakes writing, papers, and quizzes. The course is participatory: limited lecturing and lots of interaction.

ENG 460 - Major British Author (3 credits)

ENG 463 - The Victorian Period (3 credits)

Sharon M. Setzer

English 463—The Victorian Period

This course is designed as a selective survey of Victorian literature, with emphasis on poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction prose published between 1830 and 1900. Authors studied include Matthew Arnold, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, and Oscar Wilde. Class discussion will focus on analysis of literary texts within the larger cultural contexts of debates over art and aesthetics, industrialization, workers’ and women’s rights, science and technology, religion, imperial expansion, etc.

ENG 464 - British Literature, 1900-1945 (3 credits)

Laura R. Severin: This course explores the changing nature of British identity in the first half of the twentieth century by focusing on the topics of empire, war, gender and class and their intersection with literature and literary experimentation. We will read Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902), George Bernard Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession (1902), poems by William Butler Yeats, stories and excerpts from Ulysses by James Joyce, poems by the World War I poets, Rebecca West's Return of the Solider (1918), T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), poems by Stevie Smith, poems by W.H. Auden, and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938). In addition to two exams, students will be asked to complete a team oral report with a powerpoint and a substantial research paper written in several stages.

ENG 487 - Shakespeare, The Later Plays (3 credits)

ENG 488 - Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop (3 credits)

John J. Kessel

Eng 488 is a writing workshop class for students who have demonstrated competence in writing short fiction. The goal of this course is for you to write successful short stories, to improve your ability to identify in your own work and in others' just what is working and what is not, and to learn how to improve it.

In the course of this workshop your will turn in three complete short stories, and revise one of those stories. You will do written critiques of the manuscripts of your classmates. In the first month there will be readings on fiction techniques and of exemplary published stories. Grades will be based on your critiques of other student stories, your own stories, and your revision.

ENG 489 - Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop (3 credits)

Dorianne Louise Laux: This critique workshop will give special attention to creating new work through exercises gleaned from model poems. Submitted work will be discussed with an eye toward various modes of revision. The course continues to explore the themes, techniques and elements of poetry writing. We will read single collections of contemporary poems by a number of recommended authors. Students will choose one poem from among the course offerings for memorization and recitation and will create a handmade broadside. Interviews, essays, audio and video recordings and biographical works will be reviewed. The class may also enjoy a visit from a guest poet and participate in a class poetry reading. The course stresses reading as a writer and provides a foundation from which students can pursue further studies in poetry writing.

ENG 491 - Honors in English (3 credits)

Leila S May: In this course we will query the formal and thematic features that constitute Gothic literature, and, more specifically, the literary mode that has been referred to as the Female Gothic. How is this mode manifested differently at various historical moments? In what ways does the focus shift, and how different are the concerns, when a Gothic work is authored by a woman as opposed to a man? What happens, for example, when the woman who is "buried alive" speaks? How does the nature of the "horror" shift? We will explore the extent to which the Female Gothic underwrites or resists the dominant ideological positions of a given moment (in other words, the extent to which it is either a conservative or a subversive--or at least transgressive--literary form). After a study of numerous examples of the Female Gothic in England and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we will end the semester with Toni Morrison's extraordinary, densely-textured work Beloved, which will allow us to examine what happens to the Female Gothic when seen through the prism of race. This course satisfies the following distribution requirements: 18th/19th-Century British; 20th/21st-Century American or British; Literature After 1800.

ENG 492 - Special Topics in Film Styles and Genres (3 credits)

The Spanish Thriller (cross listed with FLS 495)

Jorge Mari

This seminar will explore the boom that the thriller as a genre (or rather, an amalgam of genres such as horror, action, mystery, and sci-fi) has experienced in Spain in recent years. Through the study of the thriller's history and theory, as well as its most prominent Spanish directors and films of the last two decades, the seminar will pose questions such as: what are the causes for this new Spanish thriller-mania? what cultural anxieties and desires, as well as financial interests, may be behind such boom? is there anything specifically "Spanish" about the Spanish thriller, any distinctive characteristics different from the Hollywood thriller that we can associate to the particular political, social, economic or cultural circumstances of contemporary Spain? Films will include Alejandro Amenábar's TESIS, Alex de la iglesia's LA COMUNIDAD, Daniel Monzón's CELDA 211, RodrigoCortés's BURIED, Juan Antonio Bayona's EL ORFANATO, and several others.

Cinema and the New Europe

Ora Gelley

The course will look at a broad selection of European films from the last twenty years as a means of gaining insight into the notion of a “New Europe,” led by a coalition of nations such as Germany, France, and Britain. The course will focus in particular on the following subjects: film and authorship; art cinema vs. popular cinema; the concept of national cinema; realism in the cinema; the representation of history, memory, and cultural identity in film; film production and film policy; gender roles and sexual identity. We will, in addition, look at recent European films that examine the experiences of minority and migrant communities within the new Europe, considering in particular the ways in which contemporary debates about immigrant communities in Europe are influenced by the legacy of European persecution of minorities during World War II. Filmmakers to be considered include Lars Von Trier, Catherine Breillat, Chantal Ackerman, Stephen Frears, Marjane Satrapi, Fatih Akin, Gianni Amelio, Cristian Mungiu, Mathieu Kassovitz, Matteo Garrone, Michael Haneke, and Paul Verhoeven.

ENG 498 - Special Topics in English (1-6 credits)

Maria T Pramaggiore

Advanced Independent Study. The student works with an instructor to develop a syllabus of readings and written assignments for the in-depth study of a specific topic at an advanced level. To enroll in ENG 498, the student should bring the signed Special Topics/Independent Study Proposal form (see Shirley Jones in Tompkins 246 for the form), attach a copy of the proposed syllabus, and submit this to Shirley Jones for approval by the Associate Head.

Jeffrey Leo Reaser

LTN Senior Seminar

restricted to senior LTN students

Students will complete a project within a single specialty area in which they demonstrate their ability to collect, evaluate, and sort existing knowledge about a self-defined sub-field of English Studies. One goal of this project is to establish a depth of knowledge about one specific area of interest within a candidates’ chosen field of inquiry.

500-level Courses

ENG 508 - Usability Studies for Technical Communication (3 credits)

Robert S Dicks: Advanced study of usability inspection, inquiry, and testing theories and practices related to instrumental and instructive texts (i.e., computer-related, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, financial, etc.). Practical experience testing a variety of texts using several testing methods, including completion of a substantial, lab-based usability test. For students planning careers in technical communication, human factors, software design, and multimedia design.

ENG 510 - Middle English Literature (3 credits)

ENG 511 - Theory and Research In Composition (3 credits)

Casie J Fedukovich

Casie Fedukovich

English 511 provides a broad survey of the histories and philosophies of composition studies and composition research. This seminar is a prerequisite for students who wish to teach composition at North Carolina State University. English 511 will help students become familiar with the theories and voices which frame composition studies; understand the development of composition as a research site; become acquainted with the major resources in the field, in order to conduct independent exploration; assemble professional-level materials and apply reading knowledge so as to join disciplinary discussions; and develop frames for the evaluation of sound, ethical research in writing studies.

ENG 516 - Rhetorical Criticism: Theory and Practice (3 credits)

ENG 517 - Advanced Technical Writing, Editing and Docum (3 credits)

David H. Covington

Preq: for undergraduates: ENG 314 or 317; for graduates: permission of instructor.

ENG 517 Advanced Technical Writing and Editing invites students to explore the writing, editing, and designing skills employed by professional technical writers in their work. The course offers students study in the theory and practice of information design -- that is, in the production of documents that are persuasive, informative, and easy to comprehend. For Spring 2010, we will focus on web design. Assignments include one major website project and shorter assignments in web page design and site navigation (HTML/CSS; Dreamweaver/Fireworks), web animation (Flash), and the design of dynamic web pages (mySQL/PHP). Class time will be devoted to computer activities. The course is aimed particularly at those who wish to pursue careers as technical communicators.

ENG 518 - Publication Management for Technical Communic (3 credits)

Robert S Dicks: Advanced study of project and personnel management issues as they relate to technical communication. Includes such topics as scheduling, estimating, budgeting, usability testing, staffing, performance evaluation, motivation, subcontracting, and ethics. For students planning careers as technical communicators, or for others managing groups involved in information development.

ENG 522 - Writing in Nonacademic Settings (3 credits)

Susan M Katz: Directed work experience for English Department graduate students including work-site mentoring and evaluation and concurrent academic assignments. Academic component includes reading and discussing articles relevant to the day-to-day practice of writing in nonacademic settings and completion of a project that connects academic and nonacademic components. Graduate Standing in an English Department graduate program required. Modest liability insurance fee required. Students must provide their own transportation to the practicum site.

ENG 523 - Language Variation Research Seminar (3 credits)

ENG 530 - 17th-Century English Literature (3 credits)

Tom Hester

Epigrams, Elegies, Satires, Songs & Sonnets, Anniversaries, Divine Poems, Metempsychosis.
Text: John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition).
3 tests; 3 explications.

ENG 533 - Bilingualism and Language Contact (3 credits)

ENG 561 - Milton (3 credits)

ENG 563 - 18TH-Century English Novel (3 credits)

ENG 564 - Victorian Novel (3 credits)

Leila S May: This seminar is designed to introduce you to the study of the Victorian novel at the graduate level through reading novels by such authors as the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, M.E. Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, and Bram Stoker. One of the principal areas of focus will be on what was commonly termed "The Woman Question"--something that was, in fact, a series of probes, reactions and heated debates concerning the status of women that transfixed the era. We will look not only at the figure of the Victorian Angel in the House but, in particular, at various "odd" and "other" women, those who go beyond the straightforward models set out for them by the social, legal, medical and domestic ideologies of their day.

ENG 565 - American Realism and Naturalism (3 credits)

Allen Frederick Stein: English 565 explores significant works by Henry James, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Harold Frederic, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser. In seeking to obtain fuller insight into the achievements of these writers, the course also explores what American Literary Realism and American Literary Naturalism were. The format is a mix of lecture and class discussion. There will be a mid-term exam, a final exam, a paper of seven to nine pages, and one of twelve to fifteen pages. There will also be several one-page response papers.

ENG 571 - 20TH-Century British Poetry (3 credits)

Laura R. Severin: The course will focus on changing definitions of the 20^th c. British poetic canon, with particular attention to the discussions surrounding the inclusion of women poets. We will start with readings that provide critical context, then move to a discussion of nine poets (Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Charlotte Mew, Edith Sitwell, T. S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney), and conclude with a special spotlight on contemporary Scottish women poets, including Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, and Jackie Kay. Requirements in the class include two oral reports, an annotated bibliography, and a 10-12 page research paper, in draft and final form. The writing and research assignments in the class will focus on preparing proposals and papers for conference presentations. Students will be encouraged to submit proposals to the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference.

ENG 576 - 20TH-Century American Poetry (3 credits)

ENG 580 - Literary Postmodernism (3 credits)

Jon F Thompson: Postmodern writing is sometimes regarded as self-indulgent “experimental” writing that is put in the service of a-historical, self-absorbed texts that do little more than reflect upon their own literary processes, or their own coming into being. In this seminar, we will focus on the less-examined relationship between self-conscious postmodern texts and history. Far from being a-historical or anti-historical, some of the most celebrated examples of postmodern writing are deeply interested in questions of history—how we construct history, how we repress history, how and what we can remember, what we choose to not remember. In addition to questions of history and memory, the question of writing—its power and limitations—is central to this body of writing. The reading list will consist of fiction, poetry and some essays (and a few texts that defy easy categorization). No familiarity with postmodern writing will be assumed. The writing we will read is some of the most brilliant, imaginative, intelligent writing of our era. Fiction by Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Walter Abish and William Gass; poetry by CD Wright, Anne Carson, Robert Hass and Peter Riley. Autobiographical/hybrid texts by WG Sebald, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. There will be a mid-term examination and a final examination and a seminar paper, as well as some shorter writing. Participation will be an important aspect of the seminar experience.

ENG 582 - Studies in Literature (3 credits)

W J Miller

Langston Hughes and Popular Culture. Using various works from Hughes's seventeen-volume oeuvre, the course examines Hughes's use of popular blues and jazz music to shape the rhythms and cadence of his poetry. We will then continue on through his dramatic works, track his influence on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and move into his weekly newspaper columns in the Chicago Defender from 1942-62. This seminar culminates with the previously unidentified role Hughes’s poetry played in the Civil Rights Movement.

ENG 583 - Studies In Composition and Rhetoric (3 credits)

Carolyn Rae Miller

Emerging Genres: History, Technology, Social Change

Genres can be understood rhetorically as ways of acting together, recurrent communicative interactions that enable social coordination. Genres both constrain and enable; they link together in systems and ecologies that mediate agency and social structure, constituting our social identities, institutions, and cultures. Genre has been an active area in rhetorical studies and professional communication for the past 20 years, and in literary and film studies for much longer. As a concept, genre cuts across disciplines and media—literature, film, painting, music—and thus offers the opportunity for cross-disciplinary inquiry.

Most recently, the dynamism and creativity of the internet have created new interest in genre studies (for example, Wikipedia has an elaborate taxonomy of videogame genres), as well as raising many questions. How do new genres emerge and evolve? How are they related to social and technological change? How can we understand the recurrence and stability of genres in times of cultural volatility? How are new genres related to old ones? Can the same theories that were developed for print genres account for visual, auditory, and digital genres?

This special topics course is designed for master’s students in English, Technical Communication, and Communication, and for doctoral students in CRDM and Design (master’s students should register for 583 and doctoral students for 798). We will read widely, to develop a multidisciplinary understanding of genre theory and to begin answering some of the questions raised above. We will also examine a wide variety of genres, to discern and analyze new genres as well as familiar genres when they were emerging, with an eye on the balance between stability and change and on the relationships between genre, identity, and power.

ENG 585 - Studies In Film (3 credits)

Educational Film

Co-Taught: Drs. Marsha & Devin Orgeron

Although film studies has always been dominated by the study of theatrical cinema, recent movements in the discipline encourage us to examine the more diverse reality of film history. Among the many nontheatrical film forms that circulated widely in the twentieth century, the educational film holds a special place that is only recently beginning to be assessed. From the birth of cinema, film was conceived as a tool for far more than just entertainment. It was valued and cultivated by many for its ability to document, illuminate, and educate.

This course closely examines the educational uses to which film has been put, both in nonfictional and fictional forms. We will study films that were used for an array of pedagogical purposes: in industry, public health, schools, the military, the church, government, as well as in movie theaters, just to name a few. We will take advantage of our geographical proximity to the A/V Geeks educational film archive (http://www.avgeeks.com/), which houses over 24,000 16mm film prints, as well as the unprecedented access we have to educational films in digital forms through online streaming.

In addition to a scholarly final project—which may take the form of a conventional academic research paper, or a more creative interaction with the genre in the form of a digital media project—students will: 1) conduct research, including an interview (when possible), and write a critical biography of a neglected educational film figure (with the opportunity to “publish” this work on the website of the Academic Film Archive of North America, http://www.afana.org/); 2) do a team oral research presentation on a self-discovered educational film; 3) work together as a class on a multi-media project and film retrospective of a North Carolina educational/industrial filmmaker.

This course is ideal for anyone interested in not just film history but in cultural studies, media studies, American studies, and the contemporary circulation of digital moving images.

ENG 588 - Fiction Writing Workshop (3 credits)

ENG 589 - Poetry Writing Workshop (3 credits)

ENG 590 - Studies In Creative Writing (3 credits)

Studies in Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry of East Asia MW 1:30-2:45 Winston 2

Section 001

John Balaban, Professor of English, 256 Tompkins jbalaba@ncsu.edu

In English 590, we will read East Asian poetry and prose, i.e.: works that have been formed within the historical contexts of Chinese literary tradition, as it was influenced by the “Three Religions” of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. The works we will read are connected by a theme of individual self-perfection threatened by social conventions.

Grades will be determined based on three 6-7 page papers, or two ten-page papers, or one twenty-page paper. I will help you find topics for these papers. I do not expect any prior background with the material. Just come ready to read.

Studies In Creative Writing: Memoir

Section 002

Elaine Orr

Techniques special to writing memoir, which include those we import from fiction and poetry. Some readings in classical and contemporary memoir. Workshop format. Topics likely to arise: How do we define truth in memoir? How imaginative can memoir be? Who is a memoir’s audience? Must memoir have “the narrative arc”? Likely experiments: micro-memoir; writing in second or third person; mapping a longer memoir.a

ENG 592 - Special Topics in Film Styles and Genres (3 credits)

600-level Courses

ENG 636 - Directed Readings (1-6 credits)

ENG 675 - Projects in Technical Communication (3 credits)

David H. Covington: ENG 675 Projects in Technical Communication is a 3-credit "capstone course" for the MS Program in Technical Communication, taken as close as possible to the last semester of the student’s curriculum, in lieu of a thesis. You are eligible to enroll only if you are nearing the end of your coursework in the MS Program; you need previous coursework to develop a sustained, more complex project and to defend your projects before the MS faculty. Your projects are the subject matter of this course. Our class sessions will be conducted as seminars, with discussion centering on the progress and problems of researching, designing, developing, and defending a larger project, and on helping each other work within established deadlines and different fields. Your project will provide you with an opportunity to gain deeper insight into your field, and to acquire greater ability to work in the profession of technical communication.

ENG 676 - Master's Project in English (3 credits)

ENG 685 - Master's Supervised Teaching (1-3 credits)

ENG 693 - Master's Supervised Research (1-9 credits)

ENG 695 - Master's Thesis Research (1-9 credits)

ENG 699 - Master's Thesis Preparation (1-3 credits)

700-level Courses

ENG 798 - Special Topics in English Studies (3 credits)

Carolyn Rae Miller: See description for ENG 583-001.

800-level Courses

ENG 810 - Directed Readings in English Studies (1-6 credits)

CRD

700-level Courses

CRD 703 - Communication in Networked Society (3 credits)

CRD 790 - Issues in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digita (3 credits)

Ann M. Penrose

Issues in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media:
Exploring Expertise and Enculturation in Interdisciplinary Contexts

A seminar examining problems and issues of interdisciplinary inquiry in the context of digital media. Synthesis of research and scholarship from multiple disciplinary perspectives as it applies to issues in communication, rhetoric and digital media. Emphasis on developing collaborative research projects drawing on multiple disciplinary perspectives. The Spring 2012 rendition of the course will examine disciplinary influences on research on writing and literacy and explore theories of disciplinary enculturation, the formation of professional identity, and the nature of expertise. These explorations are intended to contextualize the process of assembling prelim committees and reading lists, activities through which doctoral students actively define areas of professional expertise and community membership. Major projects include multi-literature reviews of both topic and method in students' projected dissertation areas.

800-level Courses

CRD 885 - Doctoral Supervised Teaching (1-3 credits)

CRD 890 - Doctoral Preliminary Exam (1-9 credits)

CRD 893 - Doctoral Supervised Research (1-9 credits)

CRD 895 - Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-9 credits)

CRD 899 - Doctoral Dissertation Preparation (1-3 credits)

HON

200-level Courses

HON 293 - Honors Special Topics-Literature (3 credits)

Thomas P. Phillips

THE POWERS OF HORROR

As applied to creative disciplines, the term horror has many connotations that reflect diverse aesthetic styles and ideologies over what is arguably a long span of time. Like other genres, horror is also deeply imprinted by the entertainment industry, particularly in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. This section of HON 293 will examine the genre through a variety of literary and filmic texts (among others, including music and painting) with the aim of gaining insight into the central question of why we are drawn to horror as entertainment and cultural practice. Additionally, the course will explore five commonly overlapping aspects of the genre: the psychology of spectatorship, horror as cultural commentary, gender, religion, and the democratization of discursive and visual art forms.

Students will be asked to engage with readings ranging from literary to theoretical texts on the aesthetics and psychology of horror as it relates to each medium. Most films will be viewed outside of class at designated times and places or at the student’s convenience, though we will watch clips in class. Evaluation will be based on class participation, one response essay, a longer research-based essay, and a final exam.