Past courses - FALL 2007
This is a select and incomplete set of course descriptions for the English and Linguistics courses that will be offered in FALL 2007. Others will be added as the Department receives them.
For a complete course offerings for Fall 2007 English and Linguistics courses (without full descriptions), please consult the Graduate College's UIC TIMETABLE. Note that some of the information below updates and corrects information (particularly concerning course topics, times and room locations) in the printed version of the Timetable.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
22332/20585
Buslik, Gary
TR 12:30-1:45 p.m.
In this introductory course, we will read and learn how to appreciate great works of literature. We will study short stories, novels, poetry, and drama.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
11051/20580
Casey, John
MWF 9:00-9:50
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
11047/20577
Franks, Pete
MWF 8:00-8:50
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
25643/25645
Layng-Awasthi, Tracey
MWF 12:00-12:50 / 161 BSB
Reading is an intellectual activity. Whether you like a book and would recommend it to your friends, or you dislike a book enough to seriously think about chucking it in the trash, you have still had an intellectual engagement with the text. In this course, we will analyze a variety of texts using literary theory and critical approaches in order to be able to discuss our responses to texts with coherence and precision.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
22335/22331
Nilges, Mathias
TR 9:30-10:45
As the rather ambitious title of this course suggests, ideally students are supposed to leave this class having finally understood literature. What does it mean, though, to say that one has to “understand” literature? As we will see, there have been historically just as many definitions of what it means to “understand” literature as there have been definitions of literature itself. What this class will try to do, thus, is introduce you to the things literature (let’s think of it as ice cream) has historically done (i.e. the kinds of flavors it comes in and ways in which it has been served—hence genres and periods). Parallelly, we will briefly survey the ways in which people have tried to understand literature (i.e. ways of eating and digesting). Part of this critical survey will be an introduction to basic theoretical concepts and terminology involved in understanding literature, so that you will be able to know what it means when someone clumsily and unnecessarily beats a metaphor to death.
Consequently, we will read a wide variety of American short fiction, drama and poetry, examine how these genres differ from each other, as well as how the genres themselves have changed over time, or have served different purposes in different historical situations. We will read short stories by Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Chesnutt, Chopin, Hemingway, Barth, Barthelme, Silko and Reed, poetry by Whitman, Dickinson, Ginsberg, Snyder, Frost, Fearing, Pound, Stevens, Hughes, Rukeyser, Plath and Baraka, as well as plays by writers such as Hellman, Miller, or Mamet. “But wait,” you say, “isn’t there literature outside the United States?” Yes, it is true. Recently, literature has also been discovered in Texas. However, focusing on the developments of the mentioned genres throughout US history will provide us with an isolated, thus simplified test-case for a general understanding of literature as a changing entity, which should encourage you to repeat the same procedure for literatures outside the US. The actual goal of this class is therefore to allow you to leave this class knowing that you have not understood literature, but that you are in possession of some basic tools that will allow you to begin making more sense of the complex multitude of ways in which literature can function.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
20578/22330
Partica, Harvey
TR 8:00-9:15
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
21618/21619
Sheerin, Brian
MWF 11:00-11:50
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
20581/11066
Sims, Wes
TR 9:30-10:45
ENGL 102: Introduction to Film
11104
Lyons, MaryAnne
MW 4:00-6:50
This course examines the ways in which image, movement, language, and sound combine to make meaning in film. We will focus on developing familiarity with the structural elements of filmmaking—like narrative, cinematography, editing, and mise-en-scène and with how these elements combine to make meaning in film narratives. We will examine the social values implied by such meanings, taking into consideration questions of context, reception, and ideology. Screenings for the class will include international, Hollywood, and American independent films.
ENGL 103: English and American Poetry
26199/26200
Bernheim, Erica
MWF 1:00-1:50
ENGL 103: English and American Poetry
2065/20646
Craighead-Kintis, A. M.
TR 11:00-12:15
ENGL 105: English and American Fiction
11129/20595
Haisman, Alice
MWF 10:00-10:50
ENGL 105: English and American Fiction
20597/11126
Russo, Nicole
TR 2:00-3:15
ENGL 105: English and American Fiction
25646/25647
Brooks, Ryan
MWF 12:00-12:50 / 309 LH
In this course, we will explore some of the basic formal and contextual elements of literary fiction. The goal of our exploration will be to prepare you to analyze, interpret and make argumentative claims about literary texts. We will read 20th century novels and short stories focusing on issues of race, gender, freedom, and authenticity, including works by Charles W. Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, Grace Paley, Angela Carter, and Norman Mailer.
ENGL 105: English and American Fiction
20594/11123
Henningsen, Tim
TR 8:00-9:15
ENGL 107: Introduction to Shakespeare
25683/25695
Zabic, Snezana
MWF 2:00-2:50
* This course fulfils the distribution requirement in materials before 1660
ENGL 108:British Literature and British Culture
22313
TR 11:00-12:15
*This course fulfils the distribution requirement in materials between 1660 and 1900.
ENGL 109: American Literature and American Culture
25262/25236
Casey, John
MWF 11:00-11:50
ENGL 109: American Literature and American Culture
25233/25237
McFarland, Scott
MWF 12:00-12:50
ENGL 109: American Literature and American Culture
25234/25238
Nilges, Mathias
TR 11:00-12:15
Topic: “From Postmodern to Post-Fordist US Literature and Culture”
This course will present an overview of the major aesthetic developments in US literature and culture that reflect the rise to dominance of the post-Fordist socioeconomic system. We will examine the precise interrelation between major changes in the socioeconomic system and aesthetic production, developing out of this a clearer understanding of what it is that US literature and culture from the mid-1960s until today have been doing. As the above suggests, a vague, immediate answer is that US literature and culture can represent “structures of feeling.” In other words, literature can serve as an index, or as a way to complicate analyses of how people feel about the historical period they inhabit, which in turn can tell us something about the dominant systemic structures of a period and the ways in which people articulate their existence in relation to these structures. How, then, do we feel about the period we inhabit? What does literature have to say about this? How does culture in general reflect this feeling? Is it the same feeling people had in the 60s and 70s? Is there a dominant feeling? These are all seemingly very simple questions to which we shall find very confusing answers in order to make sure that you do not leave this class with a stable, final account of what it is that literature does, but with the desire to keep asking the critical questions indicated above. To that end we will watch movies (Dawn of the Dead (2004), V for Vendetta, Blade Runner, The Terminator and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) and read the following book-length texts:
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (students are expected to have read this text by the first day of class)
Sam Shepard (The Curse of the Starving Class and two other plays to be determined)
E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wild Shore
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Pacific Edge
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
ENGL 109: American Literature and American Culture
25231/25235
Partica, Harvey
TR 9:30-10:45
ENGL 110: English and American Popular Genres
11166/25598
Cassidy, Marsha
T 2:00-4:445/R 2:00-3:15
ENGL 111: Women and Literature
11191
King, Margaret
MWF 11:00-11:50
ENGL 112: Intro to Native American Literature
25239
Franks, Pete
MWF 9:00-9:50
ENGL 113: Introduction to Multiethnic Literatures in the United States
11236
Alexander, Nneeka
MWF 10:00-10:50
ENGL 113: Introduction to Multiethnic Literatures in the United States
25649
Martinez, Nicole
TR 9:30-10:45
ENGL 113: Introduction to Multiethnic Literatures in the United States
11238
Ulibarri, Kristy
TR 2:00-3:15
ENGL 115: Understanding the Bible as Literature (Lecture)
21000
Havrelock, Rachel
MW 10:00-10:50
We will read and consider the Bible as a literary work with distinct genres, themes and conventions. The thematic connections between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament will be explored at the same time that differences in their style and message are investigated. While reading the Bible, we will develop a vocabulary for discussing literary texts as well as a vocabulary specific to texts from the ancient world.
ENGL 115: Understanding the Bible as Literature (Discussion)
25391/26205
Cravens, Cynthia
F 9:00-9:50
ENGL 115: Understanding the Bible as Literature (Discussion)
26340/26338
Sheerin, Brian
F 9:00/9:50
ENGL 118: Introduction to African American Literature, 1760-1910
11245
Clarke, Ainsworth
TR 11:00-12:15
*This course fulfils the distribution requirement in materials between 1660 and 1900.
ENGL 120: Film and Culture
26208
Joyce, Justin
MW 4:00-6:50
Filming the West: Western Genre Films and Cultural Ideologies
An influential critic and scholar, Will Wright, suggests about the Western genre that “While the Western itself may seem simple (it isn’t quite), an explanation of its popularity cannot be; for the Western, like any myth, stands between individual human consciousness and society.” This course will explore the intersections between the Western as a film genre and American culture, seeking to explore the genre’s incredible success and influence on film as an artistic medium. Our in-depth analysis of the Western is meant to provide students with a critical, intellectual understanding of the ways genres function to inform the production, distribution, and reception of films. We shall engage with various critical explanations for the Western’s hold upon the American imagination. Selected films by major Western directors such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, and Clint Eastwood will be covered, along with a limited sampling of television Westerns. While not a strictly historical course, we will be covering some major historical moments from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through our analysis of the Western as an historical genre which, at its best, is inherently allegorical. This course aims to build upon students’ working knowledge of the formal components of moving image artistry with an emphasis on the ways films construct and convey meanings through generic repetition and change. Accordingly, a certain familiarity with film analysis will be invaluable. Students will be required to read, participate in class discussions, write two papers, and complete additional writing assignments to ensure class preparation. As students in this class will be called upon to participate in a number of activities that emphasize the craft of the written argument, a high level of reading and writing proficiency is expected.
ENGL 121: Introduction to the Moving Image
20666
Messenger, Carrie
TR 4:00-6:50
ENGL 122: Understanding Rhetoric (CCLCP)
27003
Druschke, Caroline; Pittendrigh, Nadya
TR 9:30-10:45
ENGL 122: Understanding Rhetoric
19878
Pavesich, Matthew
MWF 11:00-11:50 / 111 SH
This introductory course interrogates rhetoric and its operation as a productive force and a tool of analysis. Course subject matter will include theorizing rhetoric and its function in contexts such as urban planning, political activism, and popular music. Students will be expected to pursue individual projects based on their own interests.
ENGL 122: Understanding Rhetoric
27257
Layng-Awasthi, Tracey
MWF 10:00-10:50
ENGL 123: Introduction to Asian American Literature
19879
Chiang, Mark
MWF 10:00-10:50
200 Level
ENGL 200: Basic English Grammar
12066
Parr, Katherine
MWF 9:00-9:50 / 313 TH
ENGL 200: Basic English Grammar
21003
Rosenbush, Mimi
TR 9:30-10:45 / 208 SH
ENGL 201: Introduction to the Writing of Non-fiction Prose
12072
Das, Smita
TR 3:30-4:45
ENGL 201: Introduction to the Writing of Non-fiction Prose
12070
Malik, Surbhi
TR 9:30-10:45
ENGL 202: Media and Professional Writing
12076
Allen, J. Linn
TR 2:00-3:15
ENGL 202: Media and Professional Writing
23568
Andrews, Linda
TR 9:30-10:45
Chicago, one of the most competitive news towns in America, provides a dynamic backdrop for English 202. Reporters and public relations professionals interact with the class to offer wisdom acquired in the newsroom and on the street. Students learn to be analytical when judging news, feature stories, and editorials. Through readings, class discussions, writing, and interviews, students will form a perspective on today’s media, which is undergoing historical transformation because of technology. The goals of the course are: 1) develop a news sense 2) gain an understanding of the media business, 3) be an aggressive and ethical newshound. 4) learn the style of journalistic writing, 5) create a writing portfolio for internship and employment interviews.
ENGL 210: Introduction to the Writing of Poetry
12682
Brown, Garrett
MWF 1:00-1:50
ENGL 210: Introduction to the Writing of Poetry
26214
Fouts, Tasha
MWF 9:00-9:50
ENGL 210: Introduction to the Writing of Poetry
12086
Pittendrigh, Nadya
TR 2:00-3:15
ENGL 212: Introduction to the Writing of Fiction
22429
Cravens, Cynthia
MWF 2:00-2:50
ENGL 212: Introduction to the Writing of Fiction
12098
Pate, James
TR 3:30-4:45
The purpose of this class is to help you develop your fiction writing
skills through the techniques and strategies which we will discuss during
the semester. We will read published stories in order to analyze multiple
aspects of the craft. We will also workshop student stories. Over the
course of the semester you will be asked to turn in two stories, and also
offer a page of written critique to each student story being workshopped.
ENGL 212: Introduction to the Writing of Fiction
22428
Rodden, Ivan
MWF 9:00-9:50 / 320 TH
We will investigate short fiction published in a range of venues from single-author collections to anthologies to literary journals. We will read these pieces less as literary critics than as fellow writers; therefore our primary attention will go towards process and technique – the writer's craft – in order to access how the writer does what she or he does. We will, as a class, develop a common language for discussing significant detail, character, plot, scene, summary, symbolism, setting, and dialogue, among other components of "the story." We will devote ourselves to published short stories, your writing exercises and original short stories, and the text. This is a writing class, and as the basis for writing, you will be expected to read a ton of stories and write constantly.
ENGL 212: Introduction to the Writing of Fiction
12103
Shearer, Jay
TR 9:30-10:45
ENGL 222: Tutoring in the Writing Center
12108
Henderson, Aneeka
T 3:30-4:45
ENGL 222: Tutoring in the Writing Center
12110
Wulff, Alex
W 3:00-4:15
ENGL 232: History of Film I: 1890 to World War II
12114/12118
Hall, S
TR 12:30-3:20 / B6 BH
Topic: History of German Film in International Context 1895 - 1945
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
22317/22321
Grimes, Christoper
TR 12:30-1:45
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
22356/22357
Huntington, John
TR 9:30-10:45 / 115 SH
The purpose of English 240 is to acquaint students with the basic issues that motivate literary theory and with some ways of analyzing texts. The course will read closely a few texts (a novel, some stories and poems, and a film) and discuss them extensively. We will simultaneously study a few critical essays which address questions about what we read, how we understand, and how we judge what we read. Students will write five short papers (3-5 pages) over the semester. The class will be conducted as a discussion.
Texts:
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw. Norton Critical Edition
[Conrad, The Secret Sharer
James, short novel and film
Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier.
William Shakespeare, King Lear
Samuel Beckett, Endgame
A small anthology of poetry
A film
Critical Terms for Literary Study,. 2nd Edition, ed Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin (Chicago: 1995). Abbreviated as CT.
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
20653/20654
Kuiken, Kir
MWF 11:00-11:50
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
20653/20654
Whalen, Terence
MWF 11:00-11:50
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
Aleksa, Vainis
TR 8:00-9:15
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
22332/19883
Clarke, Ainsworth
TR 3:30-4:45
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
20656/22323
Gruba, JoAnne
MWF 1:00-1:50
ENGL 241: English Literature I (Discussion)
22324/22310
Swain, Larry
F 11:00-11:50
ENGL 241 TA: English Literature I (Discussion)
22241/22242
Spicer, Kevin
F 11:00-11:50
ENGL 241: English Literature I: Beginnings to 1660 (Lecture)
12171
Bestul, Tom
MW 12:00-12:50
This course is part of a required sequence for English majors. We will study representative works from the Old English period to the end of the seventeenth century. Authors covered include Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. We will pay particular attention to the historical and cultural contexts of the readings. This course will be taught as lectures on Monday and Wednesday, with small discussion sections on Friday. Midterm and final exam; two papers. Text: Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th ed., vols. A and B; Shakespeare, Macbeth (Penguin).
ENGL 242: English Literature II 1660–1900 (Lecture)
12192
Kornbluh, Anna
MW 10:00-10:50
ENGL 242: English Literature II 1660–1900 (Discussion)
22314/22315
Monson-Rosen, Madeleine
F 10:00-10:50
ENGL 242: English Literature II 1660–1900 (Discussion)
12174/12180
Poore, Jonathan
F 10:00-10:50
ENGL 243: American Literature: Beginnings to 1900 (Lecture)
12200
Messenger, Chris
MW 11:00-11:50
A study of the major works and themes in American Literature to 1900. Works will include Hawthorne, selected stories; Sedgwick, HOPE LESLIE; Douglass, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE ...; Stowe, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; Melville, BENITO CERENO; Whitman, Dickinson, selected poems; Twain, HUCKLEBERRY FINN; James, DAISY MILLER; Crane, selected stories. Two lectures each week and discussion section on Friday. Requirements include several ungraded Reaction Papers, MidTerm Exam, two short (5pp.) Papers, Final Exam. HOPE LESLIE and UNCLE TOM'S CABIN are very long novels. Perhaps get ahead of the game with summer reading?
ENGL 243: American Literature: 1790 to 1865 (Discussion)
12196/12198
Bennett, Mark
F 10:00-10:50
ENGL 243: American Literature: 1790 to 1865 (Discussion)
12195/12196
Wulff, Alex
F 10:00-10:50
ENGL 260: Comparative Black Literatures
24489
Barnes, N.
TR 12:30 - 1:45
ENGL 295: Latino Literary Studies
25053
Rudolph, J.
MWF 9:00-9:50
300 Level
ENGL 302: Studies in the Moving Image
21666
Rubin, Martin
TR 3:30-5:50
ENGL 303: Studies in Poetry
Winters, Anne
TR 11:00-12:15
*This course fulfils the distribution requirement in materials between 1660 and 1900.
ENGL 315: Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
Freeman, Lisa
TR 12:30-1:45
*This course fulfils the distribution requirement in materials between 1660 and 1900.
ENGL 316: British Romanic Literature
27043
Kuiken, Kir
MWF 10:00-10:50
*This course fulfils the distribution requirement in materials between 1660 and 1900.
ENGL 317: Victorian Literature
Poston, Larry
MWF 2:00-2:50
*This course fulfils the distribution requirement in materials between 1660 and 1900.
ENGL 328: Asian American Literature
19897
Chiang, Mark
MWF 12:00-12:50
ENGL 358: Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature
Cirillo, Nancy
MWF 1:00-1:50
400 Level
ENGL 400: History of the English Language
Bestul, Tom
MW 3:00-4:15
* This course fulfils the distribution requirement in materials before 1660
We will study the fascinating development of the English language from the beginning to the present day and learn to appreciate its many varieties. Topics covered include the phenomenon of language change, writing systems and the effects of writing on speech, the major language families of the world, Old and Middle English, dialect and the rise of standard English, the use of English as a world language. The emphasis will be on social and historical aspects rather than on technical linguistic matters, although students will be expected to learn basic linguistic terms and concepts. Student discussion will be expected and encouraged. Students do NOT need English 200 as a prerequisite for this course.
Requirements: several quizzes, oral reports, regular workbook assignments, mid-term and final exam.
Text: C. M. Millward, A Biography of the English Language, 2nd ed., with accompanying workbook.
ENGL 413: Topics in Shakespeare
Lukacher, Ned
TR 3:30-4:45
* This course fulfils the distribution requirement in materials before 1660
This course will examine a broad range of issues beginning with
Shakespeare's relation to early modern philosophy, the relation of
drama and poetry to philosophy generally, and the relation between
Shakespeare's crypto-Catholic political theology and the generally
eccentric but pervasive influence his work has had on the history of
philosophy. The focus will be on HAMLET, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and
THE WINTER'S TALE, and on works by philosophers from Montaigne and
Machiavelli to Kant and Derrida.
ENGL 426: Topics in American Literature and Culture to 1900
Whalen, Terry
TR 11:00-12:15
*This course fulfils the distribution requirement in materials between 1660 and 1900.
ENGL 459: Introduction to the Teaching of English in Middle and Secondary Schools
20650/24468
DeStigter, Todd
TR 3:30-4:45
ENGL 459: Introduction to the Teaching of English in Middle and Secondary Schools
20648/21077
Schaafsma, David
TR 2:00-3:15
ENGL 481: Methods of Teaching English in Middle and Secondary Schools
21079/21080
Farquhar, Aimee
R 4:00-6:50
ENGL 491: Advanced Writing of Fiction
12509/20342
Wildman, Gene
TR 2:00-3:15
ENGL 491: Advanced Writing of Fiction
12507/20341
Wildman, Gene
W 3:00-5:50
ENGL 492: Advanced Writing of Nonfiction Prose
22510/22511
Barrigar, Dale
TR 2:00-3:15 p.m.
Primarily an advanced writing workshop in literary nonfiction. As such, a large part of the class is given to discussion and analysis of original student writing. Class participation is a large part of the course, and includes submitting new nonfiction writing to the workshop and discussing peers' drafts. Also, readings will be assigned to help explore craft and technique issues and the question of what, exactly, is meant by the term "creative nonfiction," and why this term is important to contemporary literature.
ENGL 493: Internship in Nonfiction Writing
25243/25244
Andrews, Linda
R 4:00-4:50
The large metropolitan area of Chicago offers many internship opportunities for English majors in publishing, non-profits, corporations, government agencies, and public relations firms. Tasks vary and may involve writing a brochure, collecting data for a white paper, or interviewing employees for a company’s newsletter. While writing, editing, or researching in an internship, students are enrolled in English 493. Resume, cover letter, and writing samples are required to apply. The three-credit course meets for an hour each week to give students an opportunity to share knowledge gained in the internship, write short papers, and learn about the culture and business of professional writing. Internships give students an opportunity to examine different work scenarios and to build a network of contacts before graduation.
ENGL 498/499: Educational Practice with Seminar I/II
12523/12533
Rutter, Sarah
ARR
ENGL 498/499: Educational Practice with Seminar I-II
12518/12530
Schaafsma, David
W 4:00-5:50
500 Level
ENGL 500: Master's Proseminar
22397
Kornbluh, Anna
M 5:00-7:50
ENGL 503: Proseminar I
21006
Brown, Nicholas
W 5:00-7:50
ENGL 517: British Literature and Culture
Rose, Mary Beth
R 9:30-12:20
ENGL 518: Newberry Library Seminar in Renaissance Literature
23654
Williams, Jessica
ENGL 540: Seminar in Modern or Contemporary Studies
Messenger, Chris
W 2:00-4:50
Fitzgerald and Doctorow: The Erotics of Materialism
Fitzgerald and Doctorow are not usually linked but I hope to persuade
otherwise. They share a passionate interest in their broad thematics
of American dreaming, ambitious historical grounding, and the
relations among melodrama, romance and realism. We'll study them
through what I will tentatively call the "erotics of materialsim (and
hope with your help to figure out what this may mean).. FSF and ELD
will be framed through contemporary critical discourses of
gender,race, and class as well as in their intimate relation to
sentiment, to popular culture, and to issues in modernism and
psotmodernism. Ample opportunity to develop research projects: FSF
and ELD have not been well-served or done to death in our critical
climate. Primary works will be THE GREAT GATSBY, TENDER IS THE
NIGHT, THE LAST TYCOON, SAVE ME THE WALTZ, RAGTIME, THE BOOK OF DANIEL, BILLY BATHGATE, and THE WATERWORKS. Summer reading of primary texts makes good sense indeed. Several reaction papers, perhaps two short papers. Final
Project. Inquiries welcome.
ENGL 555: Teaching College Writing
12546
Feldman, Ann
T 9:30-12:20
ENGL 557: Language and Literacy
23604
DeStigter, Todd
T 5:00-7:50
Teaching for Democracy and Social Justice: Problems and Possibilities
What does it mean to "teach for democracy"?
What specific classroom practices promote or hinder ideals of democracy and social justice? How do competing notions of “democracy” complicate educators’ efforts to provide equal educational opportunities for all students?
How might people with very different histories, languages, and experiences find ways to define and work toward “social justice”?
These are among the questions we will explore in the fall, 2007, section of English 557. Though the reading list for the course will evolve according to our collective interests, some of the books we will likely use to get started are these:
IS THIS ENGLISH? By Bob Fecho
THE DIALECTIC OF FREEDOM by Maxine Greene
Selections from THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS, FREEDOM AND CULTURE, and DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION by John Dewey
HEARING THE OTHER SIDE: PARTICIPATIVE VS. DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY by Diana C. Mutz
SEEING LIKE A STATE: HOW CERTAIN SCHEMES TO IMPROVE THE HUMAN CONDITION HAVE FAILED by James C. Scott
DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM by Amartya Sen
ELUSIVE TOGETHERNESS: CHURCH GROUPS TRYING TO BRIDGE AMERICA’S DIVISIONS by Paul Lichterman
PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED by Paulo Freire
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK by W.E.B. DuBois
RACE MATTERS by Cornel West
AMAZING GRACE by Jonathon Kozol
THE DIALOGIC IMAGINATION by M.M. Bakhtin
Selections from THE FOUCAULT READER, ed. Paul Rabonow
Selections from THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES and LOCAL KNOWLEDGE Clifford Geertz
Course requirements include weekly “conversation papers” used to prompt class discussions, a mid-term paper, and an end-of-term paper/project of the students’ choosing. All graduate English and/or Education students are invited to enroll. If you have any questions, please email me at <tdestig@uic.edu>.
ENGL 570: Program for Writers: Poetry Workshop
12547
Winters, Anne
T 2:00-4:50
ENGL 571: Program for Writers: Fiction Workshop
12548
Grimes, Christoper
R 2:00-4:50
ENGL 572: Program for Writers: Novel Workshop
12549
Mazza, Cris
T 5:00-7:50
This workshop is open to any graduate student in the English Department's Program for Writers. All other graduate students from the English Department or from other departments must get prior approval of the professor.
This is a writing workshop where we evaluate and discuss novels-in-progress. You do not have to have a completed novel to participate. You may have only an idea or a single chapter, perhaps several drafted chapters, or even a short story that a previous workshop told you would make a good novel or beginning of a novel. If you do have a completed draft of a novel, that’s fine too. Story-cycles are also welcome. The workshop will not distribute nor discuss genre novels or any kind of formula-driven fiction. Aspects of publishing and other functional or philosophic issues in a novelist's life are also frequent fodder for workshop conversation.
ENGL 579: The Past Decade
24348
Canuel, Mark
M 2:00-4:50
Topic: Foucault and His Interpreters
This course will examine key texts by Michel Foucault, from MADNESS AND CIVILIIZATION to the HISTORY OF SEXUALITY. Readings are entirely in English translation. We will also discuss a range of recent interpreters of Foucault (Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Roderick A. Ferguson, Nancy Fraser, Jurgen Habermas, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and others), assessing his impact on different aspects of critical theory while also scrutinizing the conflicts in interpretive paradigms that have appropriated his work. Requirements: attendance, one presentation, one response, final paper of publishable length and quality.
ENGL 581: Interdisciplinary English Studies
24349
Gardiner, Judith
M 5:00-7:50 / 301 TH
This seminar will explore how contemporary gender studies, feminist criticism, masculinity studies, critical race theory, and queer theory intersect and diverge, with a focus on post-millennial writings. Seminar participants will begin with a joint reading list but then develop collaborative research groups based around topics of individual choice. Assignments may include leading discussions, short response papers, draft, critique, and final research paper. Some joint readings may include Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing, 2005; Dennis Altman, Global Sex, 2001; R.W. Connell, Masculinities, 2005; Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, eds., Posthuman Bodies, 1995; Inderpal Grewal, Transnational America: Feminisms, 2005.
ENGL 585: Theoretical Sites
Lukacher, Ned
R 5:00-7:50
In Part 1 of "The Secret" we pursued the secret in Kant and
post-Kantian philosophy. In Part 2 we will examine the secret in
narrative fiction by Melville, Kafka, and Beckett. The distinction
between the literary and the philosophical and theological secret will
be approached vis-a-vis Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of religion
and Derrida's account of the work of art from Hegel to Heidegger.
BILLY BUDD, THE CASTLE, and HOW IT IS will be at the center of the
seminar.
In order to register for ENGL 591, 592, 596, 597 or 599, students must first meet with the faculty member with whom he or she will be working (the "Project Supervisor") and agree on the workload and schedule. Students then must complete an Independent Study/Research form ("the Purple Form") and attach a brief description of the project or research. The form requires the semester/year, faculty member's CRN number, number of credits, topic or title of project, and signature of the project supervisor, academic advisor (if different) and Director of Graduate Studies. Forms must be submitted no later than the first Friday of the semester. Once approved, students must go online and register for the appropriate section.
Hard copies of the purple form are available outside the Graduate Studies office (UH 2002).
ENGL 591
Prospectus Preparation
1-12 credits (variable)
Supervised research and development of dissertation prospectus and colloquium committee.
ENGL 592
Preliminary Exam Research
1-12 credits (variable)
For doctoral students only
Supervised research and reading that facilitates the student's preparation for the preliminary examinations. Course is graded S/U only. Credit 1 to 8 hours, may be repeated for maximum of 12 hours of credit.
ENGL 596
Independent Study
4 credits maximum
Individualized research and study, with the supervision of a faculty member, in topics not covered by regular course offerings. It should not substitute for available courses.
ENGL 597
Master's Project Research
0-4 credits (variable)
Supervised research and reading that facilitates the student in preparation of the Project research. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. No more than 4 hours of ENGL 597 may be applied toward the degree. Open only to Master's degree students.
ENGL 599
Thesis Research
1-16 credits
All doctoral students are expected to enroll for Thesis Research when they have passed their Preliminary Examination and have completed their prospectus. They may earn up to 32 hours for the dissertation.
LING 415: Linguistic Structures I
12232/20329
Cameron, Richard
TR 12:30-1:45
LING 483: Methodology of TESOL
12262/20528
Judd, Elliot
TR 2:00-3:15
LING 531: Grammatical Structures of English for TESOL
12233
Williams, Jessica
MWF 2:00-2:50
LING 594: Internship in TESOL
12242
Xiang, Xuehua
ARR
CHIN 111: Chinese for Heritage I
Xiang, Xuehua
TWRF 9:00-9:50
