Spring 2022 Courses
Explore our course offerings for the Spring 2022 semester.
ENG
100-Level Courses
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. Successful completion of ENG 101 requires a grade of C- or better. This course satisfies the Introduction to Writing component of the General Education Program.
Prerequisite: A grade of C- or better in ENG 100 or placement via English department guidelines.
200-level Courses
ENG 207 - STUDIES IN POETRY (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 208 - STUDIES IN FICTION (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 209 - INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE (3 CREDITS)
Dr.
William
Shaw
Ten
of
Shakespeare’s
thirty-seven
plays
will
be
read
during
this
sixteen-week
semester.
We
will
study
Shakespeare
as
both
Poet
and
Dramatist.
The
task
will
be
to
develop
a
solid
critical
appreciation
of
each
text
(or
“script”)
by
employing
a
variety
of
critical
approaches
to
the
form
and
content
with
an
eye
towards
understanding
how
these
approaches
might
engage
the
problems
and
choices
involved
in
making
the
text
(“script”)
viable,
comprehensible,
relevant
to
the
reader
and
entertaining
to
an
audience
in
performance.
ENG 210 - INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 214 - INTRODUCTION TO EDITING (3 CREDITS)
Paul
Isom
The
purpose
of
the
course
is
to
teach
editing
skills
that
will
help
the
student
understand
the
concepts
and
the
culture
of
editing
for
print
and
digital
publications.
The
course
will
also
help
the
student
be
a
more
effective
editor
in
a
number
of
contexts,
including
editing
his
or
her
own
work,
the
work
of
others,
professionally
and
non-professionally.
Christa
Williams
Gala
A
nuts-and-bolts
class
for
editing
different
kinds
of
writing
in
the
workplace--and
your
own.
Master
the
mechanics
of
grammar,
punctuation
and
AP
Style
and
implement
those
skills
to
make
copy
more
concise
and
interesting.
We'll
also
cover
headline
writing
and
the
telltale
signs
of
biased
writing,
libel
and
fake
news.
Learn
how
to
fact-check,
edit
and
rework
copy
with
a
discerning
eye.
ENG 219 - STUDIES IN GREAT WORKS OF NON-WESTERN LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
Meredith
G.
Fosque
Traditional
Non-Western
Literature
Readings
in
traditional
literature,
in
translation,
from
Africa,
the
Middle
East,
South
Asia,
China,
Japan,
and
the
Americas.
Students
will
be
introduced
to
the
origins
and
flourishing
of
these
oldest
cultures
through
the
oral
and
written
stories,
poems,
essays
and
plays
that
have
become
the
defining
works
of
these
societies.
At
the
same
time
we
will
look
at
the
geographical,
historical,
and
philosophical
contexts
from
which
these
texts
arise.
(Assignments
will
include
brief
Responses,
a
Presentation,
two
Papers,
Quizzes,
Midterm,
and
Final.)
ENG 222 - LITERATURE OF THE WESTERN WORLD II (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 223 - CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE I (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 224 - CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE II (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 232 - LITERATURE AND MEDICINE (3 CREDITS)
Lindsey
Catherine
Andrews
PhD
This
is
an
interdisciplinary
course
that
fits
broadly
into
the
category
of
"Medical
Humanities,"
which
considers
how
humanistic,
social
science,
and
arts
disciplines
interact
with
the
field
of
medicine.
In
this
class,
we
will
analyze
the
social
aspects
of
medical
knowledge
by
using
literature—memoirs,
fiction,
and
poetry—as
a
lens
through
which
to
understand
diagnosis
and
treatment
practices.
Throughout
the
semester,
we
will
examine
aesthetic
representation
and
linguistic
play
as
means
for
unpacking
the
often
hidden
assumption
that
undergird
medical
knowledge
and
inform
treatment
practices.
The
texts
we
investigate
will
help
us
to
understand
how
medical
knowledge
is
produced,
how
treatment
regimens
are
determined,
and
why
social
biases
persist
in
medical
practice.
Perhaps
most
importantly,
it
will
help
us
think
about
how
and
why
the
language
we
use
around
illness,
pathology,
disability,
death
and
dying
matters.
The
works
we
will
read
suggest
that
literature
and
art
are
not
useful
merely
for
historical
insight,
but
they
also
offer
crucial
alternatives
to
dominant
medical
narratives.
Although
we
will
look
at
the
long
history
of
medical
practice
and
the
emergence
of
professional
medicine,
our
texts
will
be
drawn
primarily
from
twentieth-century
US
authors.
Authors
may
include:
Carson
McCullers,
William
Carlos
Williams,
Emily
Dickinson,
Sylvia
Plath,
Octavia
Butler,
Virginia
Woolf,
Christina
Crosby,
Gayl
Jones,
Susanna
Kaysen,
Frank
Bidart,
Zora
Neale
Hurston,
Ralph
Ellison,
and
William
Burroughs.
ENG 248 - SURVEY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 251 - MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 252 - MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 260 - READING LITERATURE AND EXPLORING TEXTUALITY (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 261 - ENGLISH LITERATURE I (3 CREDITS)
Paul
Broyles
This
course
traverses
the
first
thousand
years
of
English
literature
(from
the
mid-7th
century
to
1667),
taking
in
a
wide
variety
of
genres
and
charting
major
authors
and
key
literary
developments.
From
Beowulf’s
reanimation
of
a
fading
heroic
past
to
Margaret
Cavendish’s
dazzling
sci-fi
vision
of
another
world,
we
will
see
how
literature
makes
and
remakes
the
world
with
its
changing
needs
and
dreams
as
it
responds
to
upheavals
like
invasion,
pandemic,
and
social
transformation.
We
will
examine
the
formal,
aesthetic
aspects
that
allow
literary
texts
to
resonate
across
time
and
move
us
even
today;
we
will
also
place
the
works
in
their
historical
contexts,
exploring
how
literary
texts
respond
to
their
environments,
and
how
they
might
help
reshape
society.
As
the
semester
progresses,
we
will
develop
vocabulary
and
technical
skills
that
allow
us
to
describe
very
precisely
how
literature
does
the
things
it
does.
William
P
Shaw
PhD
A
survey
of
the
most
significant
literary
works
from
"Beowulf"
through
"Paradise
Lost,"
highlighting
such
prominent
authors
as
Chaucer,
Spenser,
Marlowe,
Shakespeare,
Jonson,
Donne,
Milton
and
others.
The
course
will
chart
the
complex
interactions
between
literature
and
the
cultural
changes
that
occurred
during
the
more
than
eight
hundred
year
period
covered
in
this
sixteen-week
course.
James
Robert
Knowles
This
course
is
an
introduction
to
English
literature
of
the
medieval
and
early
modern
periods,
covering
a
500-year
period
from
the
late
twelfth
century
to
the
late
seventeenth
century.
We
will
read
a
selection
of
major
writers
and
texts
from
the
Anglo-Norman
period
(Marie
de
France),
the
Middle
English
period
(the
Gawain
poet,
Chaucer,
Julian
of
Norwich,
and
Margery
Kempe),
the
English
Renaissance
(Shakespeare),
and
the
seventeenth
century
(Donne,
Herbert,
Milton).
Our
approach
to
reading
and
discussing
these
texts
will
be
twofold.
First,
the
aesthetic
approach
to
reading
asks
us
to
recognize
these
poems
and
plays
as
works
of
art
with
transhistorical
value
and
enduring
appeal.
Secondly,
the
historical
approach
to
reading
literature
asks
us
to
understand
the
same
texts
as
cultural
objects
which
are
deeply
embedded
in
the
times,
places,
and
circumstances
of
their
creation.
Part
of
our
task
will
be
to
recognize
how
and
when
our
own
twenty-first-century
moral
and
aesthetic
impulses
(what
we
find
beautiful
or
moving
or
offensive)
diverge
from
(or
converge
with)
those
of
the
writers
we
are
studying.
Over
the
course
of
the
semester,
students
will
acquire
the
necessary
vocabulary
and
technical
skills
needed
to
analyze
literary
texts
on
their
own
terms
and
to
situate
texts
within
their
original
cultural
contexts.
For
CHASS
majors,
it
fulfills
the
Literature
I
requirement.
Fulfills
GEP
Humanities
credit
(3
hours).
ENG 262 - ENGLISH LITERATURE II (3 CREDITS)
Anna
Gibson
This
survey
of
English
literature
begins
in
the
late
1700s
and
brings
us
to
the
mid-20th
century,
taking
us
on
a
journey
through
the
poetry,
fiction,
drama,
and
prose
of
major
British
writers.
Along
the
way
we
will
focus
our
attention
on
three
literary
movements/periods:
the
Romantic,
the
Victorian,
and
the
Modern.
Studying
works
of
literature
in
the
context
of
these
movements
will
allow
us
to
listen
to
the
writers’
conversations
and
disagreements
across
and
within
these
literary
categories
and
to
situate
these
conversations
within
the
changing
landscape
of
British
cultural
history.
How
did
literary
texts
respond
to
massive
social
changes
such
as
industrialization,
empire
and
colonialism,
a
growing
population,
the
rise
of
cities,
shifting
gender
roles
and
social
classes,
and
two
world
wars?
And
how
did
these
texts
shape
people’s
experiences
of
such
changes?
How
did
writers
across
this
time
period
offer
new
ways
of
thinking
about
the
relationship
between
self
and
world?
We
will
ask
these
questions
as
we
read
works
by
such
writers
as
Mary
Wollstonecraft,
William
Wordsworth,
John
Keats,
Percy
Shelley,
Jane
Austen,
Mary
Prince,
Charlotte
Brontë,
Christina
Rossetti,
Alfred
Tennyson,
Elizabeth
Barrett
Browning,
Robert
Browning,
Charles
Dickens,
W.B.
Yeats,
Virginia
Woolf,
James
Joyce,
T.S.
Eliot,
and
Jean
Rhys.
Assignments
will
include
unit
tests,
reading
responses,
free-write
quizzes,
annotations,
a
short
paper,
and
a
small
creative/reflective
project.
ENG 265 - AMERICAN LITERATURE I (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 266 - AMERICAN LITERATURE II (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 267 - LGBTQI LITERATURE IN THE U.S. (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 275 - LITERATURE AND WAR (3 CREDITS)
Meredith
G.
Fosque
We
will
explore
how
people
speak
of,
reflect
on,
and
tell
stories
about
war
in
the
context
of
history
and
the
evolving
technology
of
conflict.
This
course
looks
at
writings
about
the
experience
of
war
both
historically
and
thematically
and
does
so
from
multiple
perspectives:
literary,
historical
and
technological.
Issues
will
include
the
nature
and
purpose
of
war,
the
role
of
weaponry
in
dictating
battle,
the
question
of
a
just
war,
the
theory
of
deterrence,
and
an
examination
of
the
soldier.
Texts
include
Sun
Tzu,
The
Iliad,
Tales
of
the
Heike,
Patrick
O'Brien’s
The
Ionian
Mission,
American,
British,
Russian,
and
Japanese
views
of
World
Wars
I
and
II,
Spycraft,
Holmstedt's
Band
of
Sisters,
and
Shepherd’s
R&R.
(Assignments
will
include
brief
Responses,
a
Presentation,
two
Papers,
Quizzes,
Midterm,
and
Final.)
ENG 282 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 287 - EXPLORATIONS IN CREATIVE WRITING (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 288 - FICTION WRITING (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 289 - POETRY WRITING (3 CREDITS)
Experience in writing poetry. Class critiquing of student work and instruction in techniques of poetry.
300-Level Courses
ENG 305 - WOMEN AND LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 316 - INTRODUCTION TO NEWS AND ARTICLE WRITING (3 CREDITS)
Christa
Williams
Gala
Learn
how
to
write
concise
stories
about
events
and
people
with
a
special
focus
on
the
tenets
of
media
writing,
including
writing
leads,
establishing
story
angles,
interviewing
and
research,
quote
gathering,
editing
and
fact-checking.
Students
will
learn
the
difference
between
writing
for
print
and
digital
platforms
and
practice
through
writing
their
own
stories,
including
articles
and
profiles.
Regular
quizzes
on
AP
Style
and
current
events
will
be
given.
Paul
Isom
This
course
is
designed
to
develop
and
hone
skills
in
fact
gathering
and
writing.
The
student
must
demonstrate
competence
in
collecting
information
and
interpreting
and
communicating
that
information
in
news
style.
Special
emphasis
is
given
to
news
judgment
and
collecting
information
from
primary
and
secondary
sources;
story
structure,
writing
quality,
proper
grammar
and
spelling,
editing
and
revising,
speed
with
accuracy
and
clarity;
and
responsibility
in
reporting.
ENG 317 - DESIGNING NETWORKED COMMUNICATIONS (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 321 - SURVEY OF RHETORICAL THEORY (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 323 - WRITING IN THE RHETORICAL TRADITIONS
Ronisha
Browdy
This
course
uses
ancient
African
and
Greco-Roman
rhetorical
concepts,
theories,
principles
and
practices
to
offer
students
opportunities
to
analyze
and
compose
rhetorical
texts.
It
provides
an
overview
of
western
cultural
rhetorical
concepts
like
rhetorical
situation,
rhetorical
appeals,
rhetorical
devices,
and
rhetorical
canons.
It
also
provides
an
introduction
to
rhetorical
traditions
from
African
cultural
traditions,
like
the
canons
of
ancient
Egyptian
rhetoric
and
African
philosophies,
principles,
and
practices
(e.g.,
nommo
and
Maat).
Through
this
multi-cultural
rhetorical
lens,
students
are
tasked
to:
1)
conduct
analyses
of
written,
oral,
and
visual
texts
from
a
variety
of
contexts,
genres,
and
mediums,
2)
compose
their
own
persuasive
texts
for
a
variety
of
audiences
and
purposes,
and
3)
interrogate
culture
and
identity
as
significant
parts
of
rhetoric
and
communication.
ENG 326 - HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (3 CREDITS)
Erik
Thomas
ENG
326
will
cover
the
known
history
that
lies
behind
the
English
language,
from
Indo-
European
to
the
present
day.
After
an
introduction
to
linguistic
terminology
and
writing
systems,
the
course
explores
Indo-European,
some
of
the
controversies
surrounding
it,
and
structures
of
it
that
are
important
to
understanding
later
developments.
It
then
discusses
Proto-Germanic
and
Ingvaeonic
Germanic,
how
they
relate
to
Indo-European
and
Old
English,
and
the
cultural
setting
associated
with
them.
Next,
the
coverage
of
Old
English
includes
its
linguistic
structure,
the
Anglo-Saxon
and
Viking
invasions,
and
an
introduction
to
Old
English
literature.
With
Middle
English,
the
course
examines
the
impact
of
the
Norman
invasion
and
other
factors
on
the
language
and
how
English
ultimately
prevailed
over
French,
accompanied
by
a
glimpse
at
Middle
English
literature.
The
Modern
English
period
begins
with
the
Great
Vowel
Shift
and
covers
various
innovations
in
linguistic
structure,
as
well
as
the
standardization
of
English
and
the
development
of
American
English.
Students
also
analyze
a
period
play
from
late
Middle
or
early
Modern
English,
affording
them
a
view
of
both
linguistic
and
literary
developments.
ENG 329 - LANGUAGE AND GLOBALIZATION (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 330 - SCREENWRITING (3 CREDITS)
Susan
Jenny
Emshwiller
Through
lectures,
film
clips,
screenplay
examples,
collaborative
brainstorming,
in-class
written
explorations
of
specific
concepts,
and
sharing
of
students’
work
we
will
explore
the
craft
and
art
of
screenwriting.
Students
will
learn
about
structure,
characterization,
creating
dynamic
dialogue,
subtext,
subplots,
theme,
exposition,
etc.
utilizing
established
screenplay
formats.
The
course
will
involve
studying
great
films
and
scripts,
participating
in
critiques,
and
the
writing
and
revising
of
original
material. Over
the
course,
students
will
write
scenes
focusing
on
specific
screenwriting
elements,
and
share
and
critique
these
pieces.
At
the
end
of
the
semester
the
students
should
have
a
clear
understanding
of
cinematic
storytelling
techniques
and
will
have
a
work-in-progress
screenplay.
ENG 331 - COMMUNICATION FOR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (3 CREDITS)
Prerequisite:
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)
Prerequisite:
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)
Prerequisite:
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 335 - LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (3 CREDITS)
Erik
Thomas
Language
Development
examines
the
stages
of
language
acquisition
by
young
children
and
the
mechanisms
and
hardware
that
children
use
to
learn
language.
It
begins
with
models
of
child
language
acquisition
and
an
examination
of
the
brain
structures
involved
in
language.
It
then
proceeds
through
different
age
levels,
from
birth
to
early
grade
school,
examining
how
children
learn
vocabulary,
morphological
and
syntactic
structures,
and
the
phonology
of
their
language
at
each
step.
The
course
concludes
with
discussion
of
the
early
steps
to
literacy.
ENG 342 - LITERATURE OF SPACE AND PLACE (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 350 - PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 361 - STUDIES IN BRITISH LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
ENG 374 - HISTORY OF FILM FROM 1940 (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 376 - SCIENCE FICTION (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 377 - FANTASY (3 CREDITS)
Dr.
Brian
Blackley
A
survey
of
representative
works
in
the
genre
of
fantasy
examining
characters
from
Beowulf
to
Bilbo
Baggins.
Primary
focus
on
the
heroic
quest,
including
the
search
for
revelation/transformation,
the
demands
and
types
of
leadership,
the
value
of
supporting
figures
(the
wise
old
man,
the
good
mother/goddess,
the
helper),
and
the
supernatural/magical
as
key
to
success
in
the
supreme
ordeal.
Prior
reading
of
works
by
J.
R.
R.
Tolkien
and
J.
K.
Rowling
recommended
(due
to
reading
load)
but
not
required.
There
will
be
two
tests,
multiple
quizzes,
and
an
essay.
ENG 378 - WOMEN & FILM (3 CREDITS)
Dr.
Marsha
Gordon
This
course
will
cover
the
rich
history
of
women’s
participation
in
the
motion
picture
industry.
Focusing
on
female
directors,
we
will
study
the
ways
women
have
gone
about
the
art
and
business
of
filmmaking
both
within
the
context
of
well-established
national
studio
systems
as
well
as
independently.
We
will
analyze
films
directed
by
women
in
a
number
of
countries
(likely
including
the
U.S.,
France,
Czechoslovakia,
Italy,
India,
and
Iran),
from
cinema’s
earliest
decades
through
the
present
day.
In
addition
to
considering
the
aesthetic
and
formal
elements
of
women’s
films,
we
will
discuss
the
range
of
social
issues
at
play
within
them.
Students
will
read
film
criticism
written
by
women
throughout
film
history
and
engage
critically
with
contemporary
essays
about
film
history
and
feminism.
Course
requirements
include
weekly
screenings
and
readings,
regular
class
participation,
a
class
project,
two
papers,
and
a
cumulative
final
examination.
ENG 381 - CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 382 - FILM AND LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 388 - IMMEDIATE FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 389 - INTERMEDIATE POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)
Dorianne
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
expects
students
to
be
familiar
with
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
a
poem
from
among
the
course
offerings
for
memorization
and
recitation
and
create
a
handmade
broadside
of
a
chosen
poem
or
create
a
chapbook.
Interviews,
essays,
audio
and
video
recordings
and
biographical
works
may
be
reviewed
as
well.
The
class
may
also
enjoy
a
visit
from
a
guest
poet
and
attend
a
campus
reading
and
write
a
response
paper.
The
course
stresses
reading
as
a
writer,
providing
a
foundation
from
which
students
can
pursue
further
studies
in
poetry
writing.
By the end of this course, students will be able to identify and apply the key complementary components of poetry. They will also be able to outline and explain various styles, structures and modes of contemporary poetry, evaluate their usefulness, and apply this knowledge in both classroom critique and revision. They will be able to identify and explain the uses and effects of metaphor, imagery, rhyme, rhythm and scansion in contemporary poetry as well as their own work and in the work of their classmates. They will design and formulate their own poems using modern and contemporary poems as models.
ENG 393 - STUDIES IN LITERARY GENRE (3 CREDITS)
Sujata
S.
Mody
Modern
Hindi-Urdu
Short
Story
This
course
provides
a
focused
treatment
of
the
modern
short
story
in
Hindi/Urdu.
We
will
consider
the
aesthetics
and
politics
of
the
genre
from
the
early
twentieth
century
onwards.
Emphasis
will
be
placed
on
the
development
of
the
modern
genre
in
the
colonial
and
nationalist
periods
in
South
Asian
literary
history;
students
will
also
be
introduced
to
some
writing
from
India
and
Pakistan
in
the
post-Independence
era.
All
readings
are
available
in
English
translation.
ENG 394 - STUDIES IN WORLD LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
Rebecca
Walsh
Studies
in
World
Literature:
Modern
Literature
of
and
about
South
Asia
This
course
examines
a
range
of
Indian
literary
texts
(originally
written
in
or
translated
into
English)
that
are
becoming
increasingly
central
in
the
modernist
literary
canon,
such
as
the
poetry
of
Rabindranath
Tagore
and
the
fiction
of
Mulk
Raj
Anand,
among
others.
Non-literary
course
readings
and
activities
will
help
students
read
the
work
of
these
Indian
authors
in
historical,
cultural,
religious,
and
political
context.
Part
of
the
course
will
place
Indian
literary
production
in
a
broader
global
conversation
about
identity
and
freedom
from
oppression
by
focusing
on
some
writing
produced
elsewhere
(the
Caribbean,
Ireland,
England
and
in
the
U.S.)
that
directly
influenced
Indian
literature
and/or
was
influenced
by
it.
One
specific
set
of
global
connections
we
will
explore
are
the
forms
of
exchange,
long-distance
support,
and
sometimes
misalignment
between
African
American
anti-racist
writing
and
Indian
anti-colonial
and
anti-caste
writing,
a
surprisingly
rich
transnational
network
that
emerged
in
the
1900s-early
1950s,
before
the
better-known
connections
between
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
and
Gandhi's
strategies
of
non-violent
resistance
of
the
mid-1950s
to
1960s.
Readings
will
focus
mainly
on
the
first
half
of
the
twentieth
century,
though
the
last
part
of
the
course
may
include
some
contemporary
literature
as
well.
ENG 395 - STUDIES IN RHETORIC AND DIGITAL MEDIA (3 CREDITS)
Aaron
Dial
Seeing
Sound
Jerry
Wexler
of
Billboard
is
credited
for
coining
the
term
“rhythm
and
blues”
in
1948.
This
term
replaced
“race
music”
in
light
of
changing
racial
sensitivities
during
the
postwar
era.
However,
the
naming
of
this
expansive
and
often
contradictory
musical
genre
presents
a
point
of
rupture
in
which
this
class
hopes
to
intervene.
That
is,
in
the
wake
of
Jazz’s
dwindling
popularity,
rhythm
&
blues
became
thought
of
as
the
de-facto
“sounds
of
Blackness.”
Furthermore,
these
innovations
of
sound
stem
as
much
from
technical
innovation
and
labor
as
any
assumptions
of
innate
talent.
With
this
in
mind,
a
question
emerges:
how
can
we
make
sense
of
a
musical
genre
that
is
defined
through
nativist
assertions
of
Black
talent
when
digital
technologies,
a
cosmopolitan
sense
of
culture
and
musicianship,
and
the
Othering
and
consumptive
regimes
of
popular
music
are
constantly
redefining
its
contours?
To
this
end,
this
class
hopes
to
situate
students
with
the
critical
tools
where
genre
interrogation
becomes
more
important
than
a
reading
of
any
particular
aural
text.
In
other
words,
within
this
class,
we
will
perform
an
archaeology
where
unearthing
micro-histories
and
untold
or
overlooked
narratives
glimpse
not
only
the
defining
elements
of
R&B
but
the
ways
in
which
classification
and
identification
from
within
and
without
the
genre
mediate
our
understanding
of
the
past,
our
performance
of
the
present,
and
our
imaginations
of
the
future.
To be clear, this class is not a survey of the genre’s sounds through time, though some of that work will happen. Moreover, this class does not make any authoritative claims as to what R&B is or is not. Instead, it is my sincere hope that students are empowered to ask better and different questions of this specific genre, popular music writ large, and their own tastes through a triangulation of reading relevant theoretical literature, listening to varied and diverse sounds, and scholarly practice that emphasizes student making and critical engagement much more than resuscitation.
400-Level Courses
ENG 410 - STUDIES IN GENDER AND GENRE (3 CREDITS)
Barbara
Bennett
Gender
and
Genre--Contemporary
Southern
Women
Novelists.
We
will
explore
a
variety
of
authors
including
Lee
Smith,
Dorothy
Allison,
and
Jesmyn
Ward.
Race,
Class,
and
Gender
will
be
at
the
heart
of
our
discussions.
ENG 411 - RHETORICAL CRITICISM (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 416 - ADVANCED NEWS AND ARTICLE WRITING (3 CREDITS)
Paul
Isom
The
purpose
of
the
course
is
to
prepare
the
student
for
advanced
reporting
in
print/broadcast
media.
Topics
can
include
in-depth
coverage
of
local,
state,
and
national
government;
criminal
justice
and
the
courts;
business
and
economics;
science
and
health
matters;
coverage
of
education,
science,
religion
and
sports.
This
course
will
seek
to
enhance
both
the
student’s
knowledge
of
these
topics
and
the
student’s
ability
to
successfully
report
on
them.
ENG 417 - EDITORIAL AND OPINION WRITING (3 CREDITS)
Christa
Gala
Learn
the
art
of
supporting
your
opinion
while
anticipating
the
points
on
the
opposing
side.
We'll
delve
into
discovering
different
opinion
columnists
from
both
right-
and
left-leaning
publications
(and
how
those
labels
are
established)
before
tackling
our
own
opinion
pieces,
including
political
columns,
personal
essays
and
blogs
on
topics
of
your
choosing.
We'll
also
learn
to
fact-check,
research
for
sound
evidence
and
argue
both
sides
of
an
issue.
A
decent
knowledge
of
grammar
and
AP
Style
is
assumed.
ENG 422 - WRITING THEORY AND THE WRITING PROCESS (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 425 - ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WRITING (3 CREDITS)
Daun
Daemon
Course
focuses
on
analyzing
scientific
and
technical
texts
and
presentations,
including
their
creation,
the
ethical
dimensions
of
communication
within
scientific
and
technological
communities,
the
impacts
and
interactions
of
scientific
and
technological
texts
within
broader
contexts.
Includes
field
research
in
scientific
or
technological
arenas.
ENG 426 - ANALYZING STYLE (3 CREDITS)
David
M
Rieder
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 430 - ADVANCED SCREENWRITING (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 451 - CHAUCER (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 462 - 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 486 - SHAKESPEARE, THE EARLIER PLAYS (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 488 - ADVANCED FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)
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ENG 489 - ADVANCED POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)
Dorianne
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
expects
students
to
be
familiar
with
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
a
poem
from
among
the
course
offerings
for
memorization
and
recitation
and
create
a
handmade
broadside
of
a
chosen
poem
or
create
a
chapbook.
Interviews,
essays,
audio
and
video
recordings
and
biographical
works
may
be
reviewed
as
well.
The
class
may
also
enjoy
a
visit
from
a
guest
poet
and
attend
a
campus
reading
and
write
a
response
paper.
The
course
stresses
reading
as
a
writer,
providing
a
foundation
from
which
students
can
pursue
further
studies
in
poetry
writing.
By the end of this course, students will be able to identify and apply the key complementary components of poetry. They will also be able to outline and explain various styles, structures and modes of contemporary poetry, evaluate their usefulness, and apply this knowledge in both classroom critique and revision. They will be able to identify and explain the uses and effects of metaphor, imagery, rhyme, rhythm and scansion in contemporary poetry as well as their own work and in the work of their classmates. They will design and formulate their own poems using modern and contemporary poems as models.
ENG 490 - STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
Professor
Jim
Knowles
Arthurian
Literature
The
full
title
of
this
course
is
“The
Green
Knight,
the
Fisher
King,
and
the
Fairy
Queen:
Arthurian
Legend
and
its
Afterlives.”
Stories
about
the
legendary
King
Arthur
and
his
knights
began
to
circulate
in
Britain
soon
after
the
departure
of
the
Roman
legions
from
the
island
in
the
fifth
century.
Since
then,
these
stories
and
their
offshoots
have
continued
to
captivate
audiences
across
temporal,
national,
and
linguistic
boundaries
for
well
over
a
thousand
years.
This
course
will
explore
a
subset
of
the
most
interesting
and
influential
medieval
and
early
modern
versions
of
the
Arthurian
legends
and
their
derivations.
Selections
may
include:
Chretien
de
Troyes,
Lancelot
and
Perceval;
Marie
de
France,
Lanval
and
Chevrefoil;
Heldris
of
Cornwall,
Le
Roman
de
Silence;
Sir
Gawain
and
the
Green
Knight;
Thomas
Malory’s
Le
Morte
d’Arthur;
and
parts
of
Edmund
Spenser’s
Faerie
Queene.
Students
in
the
course
will
fill
out
the
syllabus
through
end-of-term
presentations
on
modern
and
contemporary
reimaginings
of
Arthurian
material
(in
fiction,
poetry,
film,
serial
TV,
comics,
etc).
All
readings
in
English
or
in
English
translation.
For
English
majors,
this
course
can
fulfill
the
British
requirement
in
the
core,
the
pre-1800
co-requisite,
or
a
literature
elective.
ENG 491 - HONORS IN ENGLISH (3 CREDITS)
Barbara
Bennett
NC
Contemporary
Novelists
North
Carolina
Writers--North
Carolina
is
a
rich
environment
for
writers,
especially
in
development
and
support
of
authors.
In
this
class
we
will
look
at
a
number
of
authors
associated
with
North
Carolina
such
as
Jill
McCorkle,
Randall
Kenan,
and
Monique
Truong.
ENG 492 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM STYLES AND GENRES (3 CREDITS)
Andrew
Johnston
Rendering
Worlds:
Digital
Media,
Animation
&
F/X
This
course
will
explore
the
history,
theory,
and
aesthetics
of
contemporary
digital
media
technology,
with
an
emphasis
on
animation,
games,
and
special
effects.
Recent
cinema
has
become
more
reliant
on
special
effects
and
though
these
have
been
utilized
since
the
medium's
origins,
the
development
and
use
of
CGI
algorithms
have
changed
film's
contours
along
with
media
like
video
games
and
animation.
We
will
examine
the
historical
creation
and
rise
of
CGI,
rendering
engines,
and
other
technologies
that
wind
through
a
broader
media
landscape,
paying
attention
to
creative
applications,
expressive
potentialities,
and
the
interaction
of
spectacle
and
narrative
that
frame
and
create
worlds.
The
class
will
engage
with
a
variety
of
screen-based
media,
such
as
contemporary
games
and
consoles,
Star
Wars
in
the
1970s
to
its
contemporary
incarnations,
and
home
video
play
of
Atari
2400
games
in
the
1970s
to
Google's
DeepMind
AI
playing
them
today.
ENG 494 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN LINGUISTICS (3 CREDITS)
Robin
Dodsworth
ENG
494:001
Sociolinguists
recognize
linguistic
variables
as
elements
in
the
structure
of
every
language.
Quantitative
analysis
of
linguistic
variables
aims
to
uncover
the
relationship
between
linguistic
variation
and
two
kinds
of
influencing
factors.
The
first
kind
has
to
do
with
elements
of
the
grammar
such
as
sound
structures,
the
lexicon,
and
clause
type.
The
second
kind
has
to
do
with
social
structures,
especially
durable
economic
disparity
(social
class),
sex
and
gender,
age,
and
ethnicity.
This
course
covers
theory
and
methods
in
variationist
sociolinguistics
as
they
relate
to
both
kinds.
We
begin
with
what
has
come
to
be
known
as
"first-wave"
research,
which
began
during
the
1960s
and
focused
on
linguistic
differences
between
speakers
in
different
demographic
categories
within
what
were
called
speech
communities.
We
then
proceed
into
more
research
about
the
relationship
between
language
and
social
constructs,
including
work
that
explores
the
relationship
between
linguistic
variation
and
the
social
identities
and
personae
that
speakers
construct.
Throughout
the
course,
we
emphasize
and
practice
the
analysis
of
natural
language
data,
including
data
from
my
ongoing
study
of
language
change
in
Raleigh.
Coming
into
the
course,
you
will
need
basic
familiarity
with
phonetics,
phonology,
morphology,
syntax,
and
sociolinguistics.
You
will
not
need
any
background
in
quantitative
analysis
or
statistics.
Robin
Dodsworth
ENG
494:003
This
course
is
an
introduction
to
the
concepts
and
quantitative
methods
that
are
currently
central
to
the
analysis
of
sociolinguistic
variation.
It
is
not
a
statistics
course
per
se,
and
in
fact
the
challenge
inherent
to
this
course
is
to
develop
a
good
understanding
of
certain
quantitative
methods
without
delving
deeply
into
the
math
underlying
most
of
those
methods.
Coming
into
the
course,
you
don’t
need
any
mathematical
knowledge
beyond
high
school-level
algebra.
We
will
spend
the
first
part
of
the
course
learning
to
use
the
R
programming
language.
As
our
textbook
says
in
the
Preface,
"These
days,
it’s
safe
to
say
that
R
is
the
de
facto
standard
in
the
language
sciences."
We
will
focus
on
basic
data
handling,
simple
computation,
and
graphing.
If
you
already
have
some
experience
with
R,
you’ll
probably
still
learn
some
things
you
didn’t
know
during
this
first
part
of
the
course,
and
I’ll
be
happy
to
point
you
to
some
more
advanced
reading
about
R
programming
upon
request.
The
next
part
of
the
course
is
devoted
to
developing
an
intuitive
understanding
of
some
of
the
building
blocks
of
quantitative
analysis,
including
distributions,
descriptive
statistics,
probability,
sampling,
and
variance.
We
then
briefly
look
at
t-tests
but
quickly
move
on
to
the
most
common
statistical
test
in
variationist
sociolinguistics,
multiple
regression.
We
will
work
toward
developing
a
very
solid
practical
understanding
of
regression,
first
linear
and
then
logistic
regression.
We
will
practice
extensively
using
data
available
to
all
NC
State
linguists,
including
the
Raleigh
data.
You
are
also
most
welcome
to
bring
in
your
own
quantitative
data
for
us
to
work
on
together.
ENG 495 - STUDIES IN LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
Dr.
Jason
Miller
Langston
Hughes:
From
Popular
Culture
to
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
Langston
Hughes
(1901-1967)
absorbed
and
shaped
popular
culture
noting
that
his
greatest
source
of
inspiration
was
listening
to
(or
reading)
the
news.
In
shaping
both
Harlem’s
values
and
the
social
turmoil
of
the
1960s,
this
seminar
reassess
this
writer
whose
career
merely
begins
with
his
role
as
a
leading
figure
of
the
New
Negro
Movement
of
the
1920s.
Accessing numerous primary sources, this course examines Hughes’s use of popular blues and jazz music to shape the rhythms and cadence of his innovative poetry. Despite (or perhaps because of?) their blues influence, many of Hughes’s poems read like rehearsals for social change. We will then continue on through his dramatic works, track his influence on Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959), and move into his weekly newspaper columns written for the Chicago Defender from 1942-62. Final projects for this course might explore such questions as “What role did communism play in the life of this writer who was forced to testify on television before Joseph McCarthy in 1953 at the height of the Red Scare”? Of special note, this seminar begins and ends with extended exploration into the previously unidentified role Hughes’s poetry played in the Civil Rights Movement and its direct inspiration on the nation’s most visible dreamer— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
GRAD
500-Level Classes
ENG 511 - THEORY AND RESEARCH IN COMPOSITION (3 CREDITS)
Chris
Anson
This
course
provides
an
introduction
to
foundational
theories
and
research
in
the
field
of
composition
studies,
and
is
a
prerequisite
for
graduate
students
who
are
assigned
to
teach
ENG
101
in
the
First-Year
Writing
Program.
During
the
semester,
we
focus
on
the
dynamic
and
sometimes
competing
nature
of
theories
and
research,
keeping
in
mind
the
historical
and
political
contexts
in
which
they
emerged.
The
goal
of
the
course
is
to
examine
assumptions
underlying
current
theory
and
research
and
to
explore
implications
for
the
teaching
and
practice
of
writing.
Conducted
as
a
seminar,
the
course
is
designed
to
help
new
members
of
the
field
to:
- familiarize themselves with the range of voices and theoretical assumptions underlying the teaching of writing;
- understand various histories of the field of composition studies;
- become acquainted with major journals and resources in the field of composition, sufficient for conducting independent explorations of research and theory on topics of interest;
- develop a reading knowledge of research methods in composition, sufficient for interpreting and evaluating the results of published research in the field;
- apply knowledge of the field’s history, theory, and research in analyzing new contexts, developing new pedagogical insights, and raising new questions for research.
ENG 518 - PUBLICATION MANAGEMENT FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATORS (3 CREDITS)
Visit the NC State University online course catalog for the general course description for this course.
ENG 522 - WRITING IN NONACADEMIC SETTINGS (3 CREDITS)
Visit the NC State University online course catalog for the general course description for this course.
ENG 523 - LANGUAGE VARIATION RESEARCH SEMINAR (3 CREDITS)
Robin
Dodsworth
Sociolinguists
recognize
linguistic
variables
as
elements
in
the
structure
of
every
language.
Quantitative
analysis
of
linguistic
variables
aims
to
uncover
the
relationship
between
linguistic
variation
and
two
kinds
of
influencing
factors.
The
first
kind
has
to
do
with
elements
of
the
grammar
such
as
sound
structures,
the
lexicon,
and
clause
type.
The
second
kind
has
to
do
with
social
structures,
especially
durable
economic
disparity
(social
class),
sex
and
gender,
age,
and
ethnicity.
This
course
covers
theory
and
methods
in
variationist
sociolinguistics
as
they
relate
to
both
kinds.
We
begin
with
what
has
come
to
be
known
as
"first-wave"
research,
which
began
during
the
1960s
and
focused
on
linguistic
differences
between
speakers
in
different
demographic
categories
within
what
were
called
speech
communities.
We
then
proceed
into
more
research
about
the
relationship
between
language
and
social
constructs,
including
work
that
explores
the
relationship
between
linguistic
variation
and
the
social
identities
and
personae
that
speakers
construct.
Throughout
the
course,
we
emphasize
and
practice
the
analysis
of
natural
language
data,
including
data
from
my
ongoing
study
of
language
change
in
Raleigh.
Coming
into
the
course,
you
will
need
basic
familiarity
with
phonetics,
phonology,
morphology,
syntax,
and
sociolinguistics.
You
will
not
need
any
background
in
quantitative
analysis
or
statistics.
ENG 530 - 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
Margaret
Simon
This
course
introduces
you
to
the
poets,
politicians,
historians,
and
cultural
figures
of
seventeenth-century
England.
We'll
read
the
work
of
well-known
writers
like
Ben
Jonson
and
John
Donne,
but
we'll
also
spend
a
lot
of
time
encountering
authors
you've
likely
never
heard
of,
particularly
women
writers
and
non-elite
individuals
writing
for
a
growing
print
market.
We'll
especially
consider
the
production
of
English
literature
within
a
global
context.
How,
for
example,
can
we
think
of
the
many
English
advancements
in
the
seventeenth
(more
women
writers,
scientific
advancement,
travel
and
exploration,
and
social
legislation),
with
all
of
their
positive
connotations,
during
a
period
that
saw
the
brutal
establishment
of
England's
settler
plantations
and
the
trade
in
enslaved
peoples?
How
were
English
scientific
advancements,
and
other
intellectual
developments,
often
informed
by
unacknowledged
non-Western
scholarship?
We'll
consider
how
we
can
best
interpret
the
signal
works
of
an
era
and
culture
that
often
suppressed
the
voices
of
anyone
outside
of
a
male
English
elite.
With
trips
to
the
library's
Special
Collections
and
work
with
texts
in
their
original
print
and
manuscript
forms,
we
will
consider
what
we
can
learn
about
both
well-known
and
marginalized
voices
through
archival
research
and
non-canonical
literature.
This
class
will
include
traditional
research
papers,
as
well
as
a
multi-modal
final
project.
ENG 533 - BILINGUALISM AND LANGUAGE CONTACT (3 CREDITS)
Visit the NC State University online course catalog for the general course description for this course.
ENG 534 - QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS (3 CREDITS)
Robin
Dodsworth
This
course
is
an
introduction
to
the
concepts
and
quantitative
methods
that
are
currently
central
to
the
analysis
of
sociolinguistic
variation.
It
is
not
a
statistics
course
per
se,
and
in
fact
the
challenge
inherent
to
this
course
is
to
develop
a
good
understanding
of
certain
quantitative
methods
without
delving
deeply
into
the
math
underlying
most
of
those
methods.
Coming
into
the
course,
you
don’t
need
any
mathematical
knowledge
beyond
high
school-level
algebra.
We
will
spend
the
first
part
of
the
course
learning
to
use
the
R
programming
language.
As
our
textbook
says
in
the
Preface,
"These
days,
it’s
safe
to
say
that
R
is
the
de
facto
standard
in
the
language
sciences."
We
will
focus
on
basic
data
handling,
simple
computation,
and
graphing.
If
you
already
have
some
experience
with
R,
you’ll
probably
still
learn
some
things
you
didn’t
know
during
this
first
part
of
the
course,
and
I’ll
be
happy
to
point
you
to
some
more
advanced
reading
about
R
programming
upon
request.
The
next
part
of
the
course
is
devoted
to
developing
an
intuitive
understanding
of
some
of
the
building
blocks
of
quantitative
analysis,
including
distributions,
descriptive
statistics,
probability,
sampling,
and
variance.
We
then
briefly
look
at
t-tests
but
quickly
move
on
to
the
most
common
statistical
test
in
variationist
sociolinguistics,
multiple
regression.
We
will
work
toward
developing
a
very
solid
practical
understanding
of
regression,
first
linear
and
then
logistic
regression.
We
will
practice
extensively
using
data
available
to
all
NC
State
linguists,
including
the
Raleigh
data.
You
are
also
most
welcome
to
bring
in
your
own
quantitative
data
for
us
to
work
on
together.
ENG 549 - MODERN AFRICAN LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
Dr.
Juliana
Makuchi
Nfah-Abbenyi
This
course
will
focus
on
twentieth
and
twenty
first
century
African
narratives
by
male
and
female
authors.
We
will
address
“the
empire
writing
back
to
the
centre,”
paying
close
attention
to
discourses
of
empire
(colonialism,
nationalism,
and
postcolonialism).
We
will
explore
issues
of
language,
subjectivity,
hybridity;
gender
and
sexual
politics,
and
Africanfuturism.
We
will
further
examine
how
(Third
World)
feminisms,
postcolonial
theory,
transnationalism
and
globalization
are
imbricated
in
critical
readings
of
modern
African
literature
and
contemporary
postcolonial
cultural
studies.
This
course
fulfils
the
needs
of
students
in
American/British
Lit
and
in
World
Lit.
It
also
fulfils
the
need
for
any
concentration
as
an
elective.
ENG 554 - CONTEMPORARY RHETORICAL THEORY (3 CREDITS)
Visit the NC State University online course catalog for the general course description for this course.
ENG 560 - BRITISH VICTORIAN PERIOD (3 CREDITS)
Paul
Fyfe
Explore
how
writers
represented
the
tumultuous
Victorian
era
(1837-1901),
spanning
responses
to
industrialization,
political
reform,
religion,
colonialism,
class,
gender,
and
race
at
home
and
abroad.
The
course
covers
an
array
of
literary
forms
and
seeks
to
include
perspectives
from
within
the
British
Isles
as
well
as
from
across
the
British
empire.
Authors
include
Elizabeth
Gaskell,
Mary
Seacole,
Wilkie
Collins,
Toru
Dutt,
Olive
Schreiner,
and
others.
ENG 582 - STUDIES IN LITERATURE (3 CREDITS)
Dr.
Jason
Miller
ENG
582:001
Langston
Hughes:
From
Popular
Culture
to
the
Civil
Rights
Movement
Langston
Hughes
(1901-1967)
consistently
noted
that
his
greatest
source
of
inspiration
was
listening
to
(or
reading)
the
news.
In
shaping
both
Harlem’s
values
and
the
social
turmoil
of
the
1960s,
this
seminar
reassess
this
writer
whose
career
merely
begins
with
his
role
as
a
leading
poet
of
the
New
Negro
Movement
of
the
1920s.
After engaging with extensive works from Hughes’s seventeen-volume oeuvre, this course directs students into the archival realm of primary sources which includes his mentoring of NC’s own jazz singer Nina Simone. Music shaped the rhythms and cadence of a new innovative genre created solely by Hughes that David Chintz has rightly labeled “Blues Poetry.” Through regular student presentations, we will examine Hughes’s dramatic works, track his influence on Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959), and move into his weekly newspaper columns written for the Chicago Defender from 1942-62. Final papers for this course might explore such questions as How does literature serve as a rehearsal for social change? or What role did communism play in the life of this writer who was forced to testify on television before Joseph McCarthy in 1953 at the height of the Red Scare? Of special note, this seminar begins and ends with extended exploration into the newly identified role Hughes’s poetry played in the Civil Rights Movement and its direct inspiration on the nation’s most visible dreamer— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rebecca
Walsh
ENG
582:002
Studies
in
Literature:
Race,
Gender,
and
Transnationalism
in
American
Literature
This
course
responds
in
part
to
the
urgency
of
current
anti-racist
protest
movements
by
taking
as
its
focus
constructions
of
race
and
gender
in
post-1900
American
literature
in
the
context
of
nation/transnationalism.
We
will
attend
to
some
of
the
foundational
concepts
in
critical
race
theory
(with
roots
in
legal
scholarship),
and
current
directions
in
discussions
of
race,
gender,
comparative
ethnic
studies,
and
nation/globality.
By
considering
these
readings
in
relation
to
the
literature
on
tap,
we
will
explore
the
potential
for
the
literature
of
the
course
to
extend
our
understanding
of
systems
of
race,
gender,
nation,
and
power,
and
the
intersectional
nature
of
identity.
The
main
emphasis
of
the
course
will
focus
on
the
first
half
of
the
twentieth
century
but
the
last
section
of
the
course
will
push
beyond
this.
Readings
will
include
some
familiar
and
some
less
well-known
literary
texts,
and
will
also
draw
from
critical
race
theory
and
conceptions
of
racial
capitalism,
theories
of
intersectionality,
feminist
locational
theory,
and
theories
of
nation
and
transnationalism.
Dr.
Leila
May
ENG
582:003
The
Female
Gothic
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).
Our
readings
will
commence
with
two
Edgar
Allan
Poe
stories
in
order
to
help
us
set
up
a
kind
of
classic
male
Gothic
paradigm
against
which
to
read
the
Female
Gothic,
which
will
first
be
represented
by
Charlotte
Perkins
Gilman's
The
Yellow
Wallpaper.
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.
ENG 583 - STUDIES IN RHETORIC AND WRITING (3 CREDITS)
Stacey
Pigg
Technical
Communication
and
Learning
Technologies
The
global
COVID-19
pandemic
refocused
our
attention
in
new
ways
to
the
fragility
of
our
learning
technologies
and
infrastructures.
It
raised
questions
such
as:
How
can
we
support
students'
learning,
given
unequal
access
to
technologies,
wealth,
and
social
support?
How
should
we
plan
for
learning
in
the
future,
given
what
we
know
about
the
respective
challenges
of
face-to-face,
blended,
and
online
learning?
Interdisciplinary
questions
like
these
are
being
debated
globally,
as
the
Educational
Technology
industry
attempts
to
adapt
to
what
has
largely
been
understood
as
a
crisis
in
the
efficacy
of
learning
technologies.
In
this
course,
we
will
bring
theories
and
methodologies
from
technical
communication
to
bear
on
these
questions
and
reflect
on
how
expertise
in
technical
communication
might
contribute
to
the
design
and
evaluation
of
learning
and
educational
technologies.
This
course
will:
1)
offer
an
introduction
to
the
emerging
field
of
learning
experience
design
(LXD);
2)
offer
students
both
practice
and
critical
reflection
on
research
methods
for
understanding
learning
experiences
(e.g.,
learning
analytics
research,
contextual
inquiry);
and
3)
hone
critical
skills
for
understanding
the
challenges
and
promise
of
technologically-mediated
learning
including
issues
such
as
data
privacy
and
surveillance,
learner
access,
and
learner
mobility.
ENG 585 - STUDIES IN FILM (3 CREDITS)
Dr.
Marsha
Gordon
American
Film
+
Media
1920s/2020s
What
can
we
learn
about
American
film
and
media
history
by
exploring
echoes
across
a
century?
This
course
will
actually
begin
in
1919/2019
to
incorporate
the
twinned
pandemic
events
that
ushered
in
these
respective
centuries
and
will
proceed
through
a
study
of
emerging
technologies
and
forms,
as
well
as
changes
in
distribution
and
exhibition.
We
will
explore
questions
of
race
and
gender,
class,
immigration,
and
national
politics
as
these
matters
manifest
in
film
and
media
of
their
respective
eras.
We
will
engage
with
comparative
genre
studies
(including
horror,
comedy,
social
issue,
and
melodrama)
and
consider
the
way
news
reached/s
audiences
in
moving
image
form.
Although we will use films as the spine of the course, we will also be looking at other media and reading primary materials (reviews, opinion pieces, trade periodicals) alongside secondary writing by film historians. Students will be expected to write a series of short reflection and archival research papers, participate regularly in class discussions, and produce a final project that is suited to their disciplinary and scholarly interests. This final project can range from a traditional academic research paper, to a video essay, to a multi-media installation, to a web-based project (the nature of the project will be decided between each student and the professor). At the final exam each student will present their final projects to the class in the form of an abbreviated reading/performance, conference-style paper, or screening, depending upon the nature of the final project.
ENG 588 - FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)
Visit the NC State University online course catalog for the general course description for this course.
ENG 589 - POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP (3 CREDITS)
Dorianne
Laux
This
critique
workshop
will
focus
on
works
in
progress,
giving
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.
We
will
read
essays
on
poetry
as
a
way
to
begin
thinking
about
our
own
work.
Interviews,
essays,
audio
and
video
recordings
and
biographical
works
may
be
reviewed
as
well.
The
class
may
also
enjoy
a
visit
from
a
guest
poet.
The
course
stresses
reading
as
a
writer.
For
graduate
students
only.
ENG 590 - STUDIES IN CREATIVE WRITING (3 CREDITS)
Eduardo
Corral
Twenty-First
Century
Literary
Texts
In
this
seminar,
graduate
students
will
read
texts
published
in
the
last
twenty
years.
Class
discussions
will
revolve
around
emerging
twenty-first
literary
trends
and
compositional
strategies.
Students
will
explore
how
"new"
literary
trends
and
linguistic
and
structural
approaches
are
rooted
in
modern
and
postmodern
literature.
Students
will
compose
creative
work
that
borrows
the
structure
and/
or
linguistic
approach
of
a
text
read
in
class.
ENG 592 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM STYLES AND GENRES (3 CREDITS)
Dr.
Andrew
Johnston
Rendering
Worlds:
Digital
Media,
Animation
&
F/X
This
course
will
explore
the
history,
theory,
and
aesthetics
of
contemporary
digital
media
technology,
with
an
emphasis
on
animation,
games,
and
special
effects.
Recent
cinema
has
become
more
reliant
on
special
effects
and
though
these
have
been
utilized
since
the
medium's
origins,
the
development
and
use
of
CGI
algorithms
have
changed
film's
contours
along
with
media
like
video
games
and
animation.
We
will
examine
the
historical
creation
and
rise
of
CGI,
rendering
engines,
and
other
technologies
that
wind
through
a
broader
media
landscape,
paying
attention
to
creative
applications,
expressive
potentialities,
and
the
interaction
of
spectacle
and
narrative
that
frame
and
create
worlds.
The
class
will
engage
with
a
variety
of
screen-based
media,
such
as
contemporary
games
and
consoles,
Star
Wars
in
the
1970s
to
its
contemporary
incarnations,
and
home
video
play
of
Atari
2400
games
in
the
1970s
to
Google's
DeepMind
AI
playing
them
today.
600-Level Courses
ENG 636 - DIRECTED READINGS
Visit the NC State University online course catalog for the general course description for this course.
ENG 675 - PROJECTS IN TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION (3 CREDITS)
Huiling
Ding
Students
working
on
a
capstone
project
will
be
guided
through
a
review
of
research
and
design
methodologies,
data
gathering
and
analysis,
and
processes
of
drafting
and
reviewing
research-
and
design-based
projects.
It
runs
as
student-centered
seminars,
with
discussion
focusing
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.
A
typical
capstone
project
is
expected
to
provide
students
with
an
opportunity
to
gain
deeper
insight
into
the
field
and
to
acquire
greater
ability
to
work
in
the
profession
of
technical
communication.
ENG 676 - MASTER'S PROJECT IN ENGLISH (3 CREDITS)
Visit the NC State University online course catalog for the general course description for this course.
ENG 685 - MASTER'S SUPERVISED TEACHING (3 CREDITS)
Visit the NC State University online course catalog for the general course description for this course.
ENG 695 - MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH
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700-Level Courses
ENG 798 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH STUDIES (3 CREDITS)
Dr.
Marsha
Gordon
American
Film
+
Media
1920s/2020s
What
can
we
learn
about
American
film
and
media
history
by
exploring
echoes
across
a
century?
This
course
will
actually
begin
in
1919/2019
to
incorporate
the
twinned
pandemic
events
that
ushered
in
these
respective
centuries
and
will
proceed
through
a
study
of
emerging
technologies
and
forms,
as
well
as
changes
in
distribution
and
exhibition.
We
will
explore
questions
of
race
and
gender,
class,
immigration,
and
national
politics
as
these
matters
manifest
in
film
and
media
of
their
respective
eras.
We
will
engage
with
comparative
genre
studies
(including
horror,
comedy,
social
issue,
and
melodrama)
and
consider
the
way
news
reached/s
audiences
in
moving
image
form.
Although
we
will
use
films
as
the
spine
of
the
course,
we
will
also
be
looking
at
other
media
and
reading
primary
materials
(reviews,
opinion
pieces,
trade
periodicals)
alongside
secondary
writing
by
film
historians.
Students
will
be
expected
to
write
a
series
of
short
reflection
and
archival
research
papers,
participate
regularly
in
class
discussions,
and
produce
a
final
project
that
is
suited
to
their
disciplinary
and
scholarly
interests.
This
final
project
can
range
from
a
traditional
academic
research
paper,
to
a
video
essay,
to
a
multi-media
installation,
to
a
web-based
project
(the
nature
of
the
project
will
be
decided
between
each
student
and
the
professor).
At
the
final
exam
each
student
will
present
their
final
projects
to
the
class
in
the
form
of
an
abbreviated
reading/performance,
conference-style
paper,
or
screening,
depending
upon
the
nature
of
the
final
project.