CURRENT Course Descriptions
Course Descriptions | Course List
This is a select and incomplete set of course descriptions for the English and Linguistics courses that will be offered in SPRING 2009. Others will be added as the Department receives them.
For a complete course offerings for Spring 2009 English and Linguistics courses (without full descriptions), please consult the UIC's online Schedule of Classes. 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
CRN: 18934
Instructor: Eighan, J
Time/Day: MW; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
Reading the Monster: In this course, we will read and analyze works of fiction, poetry, and drama to gain a better understanding of what constitutes literature. We will observe how authors utilize literary techniques, which will serve as the basis of our analyses of the texts. While we will read a variety of different works, our course will fundamentally explore “the Monster” in literature. In particular, we will examine character psychology, and consider how themes of identity and the “monstrous body” contribute to our overall understanding of these texts. Grades will be based largely on class participation, quizzes, and analytical essays.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
CRN: 18932
Instructor: Cycholl, G
Time/Day: MW; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
Religion and Literature: This literature course is centered on contemporary writers who affirm, confront, or reconfigure religious themes (i.e., the problem of evil, displacement, the modern secular city, etc.) in their work. Writers for consideration here include Peter de Vries, Ron Hansen, Barbara Kingsolver, Walker Percy, and Jose Saramago. Part of the course will also include an examination of sacred texts and how their forms (i.e., parables, apocalyptic, poem, etc.) tell their “old, old stories.”
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
CRN: 29113
Instructor: Baez, M
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
In this section of Understanding Literature we will examine a variety of works that engage some particular aspect of "place." Specifically, we will focus on relationships between "place" as a topic and writers' compositional choices. Reading primarily in poetry and fiction, authors will include: Herman Melville, Arthur Rimbaud, Vladimir Mayakovsky, William Carlos Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, Pablo Neruda, Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Clayton Eshleman, Michael Anania, John Jacob, Gary Sullivan, Garin Cycholl, and Kimberly Lojek.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
CRN: 14318
Instructor: Franks, P
Time/Day: MW; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
CRN: 14320
Instructor: Ulibarri, K
Time/Day: MW; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
Looking at a variety of short stories, poems, and novels, this section of Understanding Literature will question what literature is, what literature does, and how to perform literary analysis. As a whole, this course will pay particular attention to the role of allegory. As a literary device, allegory will allow us to consider the way texts participate in conversations with one another and the way literature utilizes symbols to interrogate social problems. Through this particular focus, you will develop critical reading skills, write analytical papers, and expand your knowledge of literature.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
CRN: 29115
Instructor: Grunow, S
Time/Day: MW; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
The poet William Blake, writing in the late eighteenth century during an age of accelerated material, indusrial expansion, claimed that the writer’s imagination opened the “doors of perception.” People use their senses on a representational level, but the writer of literature sees reality in a different way; he really sees it, reaching beyond the surface and superficial using precise forms and creative language in ways that both teach and delight the reader. The critic John Ruskin went as far as to claim that “To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion … all in one.” Taking this convergence of visions farther, a famous Hindu author, A. K. Coomaraswamy, posits that “Religion and art and thus names for one and the same experience—an intuition of reality and of identity.” In response to these claims, literary works will often approach a lack of vision or imagination, exploring issues of individual alienation and questioning world-views and belief systems.
What is it about literature that makes it a vehicle for this type of visionary experience? Can writers really see a world both in and beyond their own? In this class, we will read, converse with, communicate with, a wide range of texts: their words, their stories, their characters, their images, and ultimately, their personal and public meanings. In what special ways do they communicate with their audience, you, the reader, and your place in a wider community of readers.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
CRN: 18973
Instructor: Buslik, G
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:14 p.m.
In this introductory course, we will read and learn how to appreciate great works of literature. We will study fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, drama, and biography. We will read, discuss, and write about: three short stories (titles to be determined); a dozen or so poems (titles to be determined); the nonfiction book THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY (Erik Larson); Shakespeare's play HAMLET; and the biography SHAKESPEARE, LIFE AS STAGE (Bill Bryson).
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
CRN: 26886
Instructor: Martinez, N
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:14 p.m.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
CRN: 18929
Instructor: Oh, S
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-11:44 a.m.
In this introductory course to literature, we will cover major literary genres including poetry, fiction, and drama, spanning through various time periods and ages. For the first half, we will define the important literary terms, and based on that, read the literary texts closely to analyze them. For the second and last half, we will think about how to make an argument in the literary interpretation, and will read criticisms along with the literary works to learn how to respond to the critics when writing about a literary work. During the whole course, we will think about the meaning of literature in our time and culture, and what the lesson and insight would be that we are going to acquire while reading literary works.
ENGL 101: Understanding Literature
CRN: 22164
Instructor: King, M
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-2:44 p.m.
ENGL 102: Introduction to Film
CRN: 27619
Instructor: Russo, N
Time/Day: W; 4:00-6:50 p.m.
This course will explore the elements of film form and style, while simultaneously examining how these elements work in conjunction to convey meaning. Secondarily, we will investigate how to situate these meanings in a socio-historic context. Or, in other words, how do we view films in an active and critical manner, instead of merely letting them wash over us in the dark in an act of passive consumption. Overall, the class aims to provide you with an understanding of film as an artistic medium and to equip you with the vocabulary for discussing and writing about it. Course grades will be based on exams (midterm and final), response papers, final paper, quizzes, class attendance and participation.
ENGL 103: English and American Poetry
CRN: 14326
Instructor: Fouts, T
Time/Day: MW; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 103: English and American Poetry
CRN: 14328
Instructor: Heltzel, C
Time/Day: MW; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Place in English and American Poetry: This course will explore poets' relationships with the notion of place. The course will be roughly sectioned three ways: poetry and nature, poetry and the city, and the role of time and place in poetry. We will focus primarily on twentieth century American poets and some criticism, but we may also look at the Romantics and early English eclogues and pastorals. Students will be responsible for several short papers and one long paper, at least one presentation, and a midterm and final. Among the poets we will likely study are Charles Wright, James Wright, Brenda Hillman, Maxine Kumin, Louise Gluck, Jorie Graham, Robert Frost, W.S. Merwin, A.R. Ammons, and Ed Roberson.
ENGL 103: English and American Poetry
CRN: 29117
Instructor: McDermott, E
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-2:45 p.m.
ENGL 105: English and American Fiction
CRN: 20924
Instructor: Underwood, S
Time/Day: MW; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
The Literature of Exile: English and American Fiction, 1900 to the Present. In this course, students will read selections of English and American fiction in its various forms (novel, novella, short story), from a variety of eras (spanning the last hundred years, roughly). For our purposes, “English” and “American” are not designations strictly of nationality, referring to the literature of the United Kingdom and the United States, respectively. Instead, these terms, taken together, denote a more cosmopolitan English-language literary tradition, which better reflects the cultural dynamics at work on both sides of the Atlantic. What’s more, our usage of these terms derives from an inescapable observation about world literature, which gives us the theme for our course: Exile is a surprisingly common condition among writers, is perhaps the condition of the writer. Within the English and American literary tradition, exile cuts both ways, with some writers opting into the Anglo/American worlds and others opting out of them. However, exile is not always a literal condition; it might be figurative, an internal or metaphorical state of displacement or homelessness. The various writers and texts that we will encounter all speak to the theme of exile in some fashion. Our course readings include works by Joseph Conrad (a Polish-born British writer), Vladimir Nabokov (a Russian-born American writer), and Chinua Achebe (a Nigerian-born English-language writer). Also included are the works of notable expatriates, like James Joyce, who spent most of his writing life in voluntary exile from his native Ireland (which was part of the British empire until 1922), and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote a “classic American” novel while residing in Europe.
The verb “read,” from the first sentence above, also bears elaboration as it contains, in capsule form, our course methods. In this class, we will analyze the form and content of literary texts, exercising in each instance our interpretive imagination. As we explore the fundamentals (and the subtleties) of prose, students will acquire a set of strategies for appreciating and responding to the art of fiction. A sequence of three exams and three writing assignments will contribute to the acquisition of these skills.
ENGL 105: English and American Fiction
CRN: 20940
Instructor: Weeg, M
Time/Day: T; 8:00-9:15 a.m.
The purpose of this course is to begin to acquaint you with British and American fiction and to introduce you to some of the basics of literary analysis and criticism. We will be mostly looking at the literary movement called Modernism in both England and America between the years 1880-1940. In this period industrialism had exploded, and Manifest Destiny and Imperialism are a few of the outward signs of each nation’s core mythic belief. Both countries go from these dominant and powerful stances during the Victorian era, to entering and fighting in WW1. In the earlier books (Jane Eyre, Benito Cereno, poetry by Kipling, excerpts of Horatio Alger), we will look at how each author deals with their country’s national myth. We will then follow how subsequent early 20th century modernist writers began to deal with the complexity of each nation as their countries grapples with the onslaught of changes the modern world was experiencing. (Heart of Darkness, In Our Time, WW1 Poets, Wide Saragasso Sea, Miss Lonelyhearts.) We will end with looking at Death of a Salesman and Look Back in Anger to discern the new tone of each country after this modern period. We are looking at primarily, how do writers grapple with the changing world around them. How do they depict it? What is affective? Two short formal papers, several focused response papers, and one short story on your struggling American story.
ENGL 105: English and American Fiction
CRN: 20941
Instructor: Jakalski, D
Time/Day: T; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Responding to Revolution: In this course, we will read transatlantic literary reactions to the American and French Revolutions which occurred at the end of the eighteenth century. We will examine texts from a number of genres (autobiography, gothic, epistolary, short story, etc.), time periods (18th century to the present), and authors (Jane Austin, Mary Shelley, Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, among others) in order to further appreciate the impact of this period of profound social and political change. Assignments will include short reading quizzes, one class presentation, three short papers, and a final research paper.
ENGL 107: Introduction to Shakespeare
CRN: 25569
Instructor: Romeo, R
Time/Day: T; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
This course is an introduction to the life and works of William Shakespeare-actor, director, theatre manager, poet, and playwright. We will view part of the PBS series, In Search of Shakespeare, and examine how Shakespeare and his works were a product of the turbulent times of 16th century England. In addition to discussing the Sonnets, the genres of History, Tragedy, and Comedy, students will study Shakespeare’s use of language, of episodic plot structure, and of “dramatic conflict,” in order to examine the relationship of motive, behavior, and dramatic action. Students will also examine the Elizabethan age and Shakespeare’s life and times in order to investigate possible influences on his writing. Finally, students will discuss historical events referenced and/or presented in the plays.
ENGL 108: British Literature and British Culture
CRN: 19653
Instructor: Ford, W
Time/Day: MWF; 2:00-2:50 p.m.
We will begin this course by looking at poetry written in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution (1789) by one William Blake, Englishman, engraver, printer, and poet. We'll work our way through the major Romantic poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats), have a look at several novelists (Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, and Eliot), and plunge into works of Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (and other eminent Victorians), taking us to the fin de siecle with Wilde. Yeats, Hardy, and Housman will bring us up to the World War I poets, and we will do the best we can to cover later poems by Yeats, stories by Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf, and finally, T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden. Optimally, the course runs to 1939 and the eve of World War II. Realistically, at least three quarters of the course is occupied by discussion of Nineteenth-Century works.
ENGL 109: American Literature and American Culture
CRN: 24546
Instructor: Sims, C
Time/Day: MW; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
In this class, we will explore cinematic, televisual, and literary representations of the US prison system. Also, in order to contextualize the prison, we will read theoretical writings that describe the historic development and the current purpose of the US prison system. The topic of prisons presents a unique opportunity to examine and think critically about a seemingly commonplace cultural representation, or as Angela Davis writes, "On the whole, people tend to take prisons for granted. It is difficult to imagine life without them. At the same time, there is a reluctance to face the realities hidden within them, a fear of thinking about what happens inside them. Thus, the prison is present in our lives and at the same time, it is absent from our lives."
ENGL 109: American Literature and American Culture
CRN: 24548
Instructor: Wulff, A
Time/Day: MW; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
"Cold Case File 109: Who Killed Utopia?" Our class begins with a missing person's case gone cold: Utopia. Titles like Russell Jocaby's The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy tell us that there are no more Utopian ideals or ideas. We supposedly live in a "post-political" and "post-human" era that is done imagining utopian alternatives. Though I might be stretching the term "person" more than a little, we will examine the implications of "missing" utopia and various utopian visions of the person. Much like the television drama the course titles riffs, we will flashback to a moment when there were utopias. We will work to establish historical "evidence" and "motive" for each utopia and then examine the cause of death. Gradually we will gather enough evidence to determine the killer of American utopias writ large. Because many of America's most famous utopian literary visions came at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the twentieth, we will begin with Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance. Once we have prepped the crime scene, we will examine what some have called the "golden age" of the American Utopia. Texts will include Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward; Mark Twain, Connecticut Yankee Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland; and other selections. Requirements for the course will include two case file presentations, an autopsy report, one short paper and a final term paper.
ENGL 109: American Literature and American Culture
CRN: 24550
Instructor: Schaafsma, D
Time/Day: R; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
This course will focus entirely on graphic narratives. We will look at American Culture of the 20th and 21st century through comics and sequential art that address topics like superheroes, war, history, ethnicity, gender and urban life. Texts may include: The Watchmen, Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth, MAUS, American Born Chinese, What It Is, Fun Home, Blankets, Understanding Comics and others. Assignments will include tests, papers, and projects, and we plan to have artists and experts as guest speakers.
ENGL 109: American Literature and American Culture
CRN: 26250
Instructor: Poore, J
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:14 a.m.
Labor and Leisure in American Literature and Culture: Arguably, one of the foundational myths of American culture is the ideal of a “classless” society—a society made up of self-determining individuals, where the economic and social distinctions of the “Old World” (i.e. Europe) no longer apply. American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries did much to challenge the reality of that ideal. The texts we will study in this class explore issues such as self-reliance and social mobility, slave labor and racial discrimination, women in the workplace and in the home, and the creation of an American “leisure class.” Readings include works by Herman Melville, W.E.B. Du Bois, Upton Sinclair, Edith Wharton and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others.
ENGL 111: Women and Literature
CRN: 14584
Instructor: Milks, M
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 113: Introduction to Multiethnic Literatures in the United States
CRN: 14340
Instructor: Hitosis, C
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 113: Introduction to Multiethnic Literatures in the United States
CRN: 22459
Instructor: Lewis, J
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
This section of English 113 will introduce students to concepts and literature that surround “ethnicity” and group identity in American literature. We will explore the origin and meaning of these terms, and will acquaint ourselves with certain seminal critical articles. We will read short stories, poetry, and novels, and read them not only for comprehension, but we will look for ways to connect them to the larger political and theoretical movements of their, and our, times. We will write quite a bit. We will focus on learning how to write a compelling and polished academic argument, and how to access and galvanize our own thoughts and opinions through the writing process. Students will be evaluated via bi-weekly 1-2 page formal response essays, two longer (five-page) essays, a final exam and class participation and preparedness.
Required Texts:
Diaz, Junot. Drown; Erdrich, Louise. Tracks;
Jin, Ha. Waiting;
Johnson, James Weldon. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man;
Jones, Edward P. Lost in the City;
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies;
Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones;
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Enemies: A Love Story.
ENGL 114: Introduction to Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
CRN: 28382
Instructor: Das, S
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
ENGL 117: Introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Literature
CRN: 22168
Instructor: Petrovic, R
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
As a class, we will consider the theme of “women’s bodies as objects.” Through discussion and written assignments, we will develop our critical reading and analysis skills. We will read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Sandra Cisneros’s A House on Mango Street, and Vladimir Nabakov’s Lolita.
ENGL 119: Film and Culture
CRN: 14588
Instructor: Jun, H
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 122: Understanding Rhetoric
CRN: 27463
Instructor: Pavesich, M
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
This introductory course explores rhetoric as a persuasive art and as a distributed, generative force. We’ll move back and forth between the principles and strategies of ancient rhetoric and how rhetoric figures in more contemporary contexts like American politics and urban planning, among others. Students are expected to participate in discussions, read and write every week, and pursue research projects based on their own interests.
ENGL 122: Understanding Rhetoric
CRN: 24552
Instructor: Cintron, R
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
Rhetoric emerged as a focus of study in classical Greece where it concerned itself with the making of effective arguments in public settings. Over time the study of rhetoric became one of the cornerstones of Western education. It offered the basic tools for the study and production of literature but also of oratory.
Today, rhetorical studies has vastly expanded its objects of analysis. We now think that all kinds of discourse (language) are fundamentally rhetorical. That is, poems, short stories, and novels are rhetorical, but everyday talk, political speeches, laws, supreme-court proceedings, business reports, scholarly articles, highway signs, street-gang graffiti, rap, and so on are also rhetorical. Indeed, many have claimed, of late, that even non-discursive processes and entities function rhetorically, meaning that architecture, appliance design, the clothes that we wear, urban planning, etc. are legitimate objects of rhetorical study.
This course, then, will help us build a basic understanding of the key terms, principals, and theories that have endured since at least the time of classical Greece. We will read a few key texts by Plato and more recent writers, but we will read them critically (that is, rhetorically). For these documents may be "classics," but they are not "truth-telling"—they too are making arguments in specific social settings and addressing specific audiences in order to answer the problems of their day.
As the course progresses, we may (or may not) take up a specific social inquiry in order to investigate its rhetorical elements. In the past, this section of the course has focused on presidential campaigns, the war on terror, and so on.
ENGL 125: Introduction to Asian American Studies
CRN: 24628
Instructor: Su, K
Time/Day: MW; 3:00-3:50 p.m.
ENGL 150: Intro to Academic Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English
CRN: 27196
Instructor: Romeo, R
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 150: Intro to Academic Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English
CRN: 23921
Instructor: Williams, C
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 152: Introduction to Academic Writing
CRN: 14347
Instructor: Culliton, P
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 152: Introduction to Academic Writing
CRN: 25917
Instructor: Petrovic, R
Time/Day: TR; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14357
Instructor: Newirth, M
Time/Day: MWF; 8:00-8:50 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14359
Instructor: Saravia, L
Time/Day: TR; 8:00-9:15 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 26188
Instructor: Hibbeler, M
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14360
Instructor: Knabb, J
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14356
Instructor: Newirth, M
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 26186
Instructor: Baez, M
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14355
Instructor: Saravia, L; Marshall, L
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14363
Instructor: Gardner, N
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 26190
Instructor: Lewis, J
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14354
Instructor: Parr, K
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 27287
Instructor: Petrovic, R
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14364
Instructor: Hibbeler, M
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14379
Instructor: Knabb, J
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14366
Instructor: Marshall, L
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14365
Instructor: Walser, A
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 26187
Instructor: Weeg, M
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 a.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 26189
Instructor: Drown, J
Time/Day: TR; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14374
Instructor: Hibbeler, M
Time/Day: TR; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14367
Instructor: Villanueva, C
Time/Day: TR; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 26185
Instructor: Kini, A
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14369
Instructor: Walser, A
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 19837
Instructor: Lewis, J
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 19835
Instructor: Parr, K
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 27288
Instructor: Baez, M
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
CRN: 14372
Instructor: Walser, A
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14420
Instructor: Carey, K
Time/Day: MWF; 8:00-8:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14384
Instructor: Conner, M
Time/Day: MWF; 8:00-8:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14422
Instructor: Cox, N
Time/Day: MWF; 8:00-9:15 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14388
Instructor: Jenks, P
Time/Day: TR; 8:00-9:15 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14415
Instructor: Johnson, S
Time/Day: TR; 8:00-9:15 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14405
Instructor: Marincic, D
Time/Day: TR; 8:00-9:15 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14407
Instructor: Pate, J
Time/Day: MWF; 8:00-8:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14396
Instructor: Young, A
Time/Day: TR; 8:00-9:15 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14462
Instructor: Conner, M
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14425
Instructor: Cycholl, G
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14431
Instructor: Grunow, S
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14408
Instructor: Hammond, J
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14417
Instructor: Johnson, L
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14459
Instructor: Kang, E
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14402
Instructor: Krughoff, L
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14402
Instructor: Krughoff, L
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14451
Instructor: Wilson, M
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14465
Instructor: Barrigar, D
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14427
Instructor: Cox, N
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 26193
Instructor: Jenks, P
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14464
Instructor: Johnson, S
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14463
Instructor: Marincic, D
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 25973
Instructor: Robinson, K; Wodda, A
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 26875
Instructor: Schaffenberger, K; Berner, J
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14457
Instructor: Young, A
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14473
Instructor: Adiutori, V
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 29119
Instructor: Carey, K; Kang, E
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14409
Instructor: Grunow, S
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14452
Instructor: Hammond, J
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14432
Instructor: Hawe, J
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 21585
Instructor: Johnson, L
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14434
Instructor: Kohler, S
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14433
Instructor: Krughoff, L
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14387
Instructor: Tracey, S
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14435
Instructor: Adcox, J
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14469
Instructor: Boyer, M
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 26880
Instructor: Barrigar, D
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14467
Instructor: Ford, W
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14418
Instructor: Glomski, C
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 29118
Instructor: Hawe, J; Tracey, S
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14468
Instructor: Jenks, P
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14381
Instructor: Marincic, D
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14411
Instructor: Meinhardt, M
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14439
Instructor: Phillips, D
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14401
Instructor: Robinson, K
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 26194
Instructor: Sarmiento, C; Charest, B
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14443
Instructor: Sherfinski, T; Cox, N
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14442
Instructor: Young, A
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14400
Instructor: Alexander, N
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14412
Instructor: Cuppernull, C
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14454
Instructor: Cycholl, G
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14470
Instructor: Kohler, S
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 22118
Instructor: Phillips, D
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14444
Instructor: Smirnov, B
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 26192
Instructor: Yamshon, L
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14471
Instructor: Boyer, M
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14446
Instructor: Culliton, P
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14382
Instructor: Gunther, S
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14460
Instructor: Hitosis, C
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 26882
Instructor: Rosenbush, M
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14399
Instructor: Sarmiento, C
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14456
Instructor: Schneider, J
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14389
Instructor: Sherfinski, T
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14472
Instructor: Williams, C
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14474
Instructor: Adcox, J
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14414
Instructor: Christmas, D
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14391
Instructor: Cuppernull, C
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14458
Instructor: Farkas, A
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14368
Instructor: Glomski, C
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14394
Instructor: Meinhardt, M
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14447
Instructor: Saha, A
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14398
Instructor: Andersen, M
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14383
Instructor: Boyer, M
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14450
Instructor: Christmas, D
Time/Day: MWF; 2:00-2:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14395
Instructor: Douglas, J
Time/Day: MWF; 2:00-2:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14404
Instructor: Farkas, A
Time/Day: MWF; 2:00-2:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 22116
Instructor: Krall, A
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14413
Instructor: Meinhardt, M
Time/Day: MWF; 2:00-2:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14390
Instructor: Rosenbush, M
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 29121
Instructor: Saha, A; Adiutori, V
Time/Day: MWF; 2:00-2:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14437
Instructor: Douglas, J
Time/Day: MWF; 3:00-3:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 22115
Instructor: Ford, W
Time/Day: MWF; 3:00-3:50 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 26883
Instructor: Andersen, M
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 22117
Instructor: Burchiel, A
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14428
Instructor: Hitosis, C
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14397
Instructor: Krall, A
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14403
Instructor: Messenger, C
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:15 p.m.
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
CRN: 14445
Instructor: Sherfinski, T
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:15 p.m.
ENGL 198: Field Research in Writing and Rhetoric
CRN: 29145
ENGL 200: Basic English Grammar
CRN: 19970
Instructor: Romeo, R
Time/Day: MWF; 8:00-8:50 a.m.
This course is an introduction to the patterns, relationships and structures upon which the English sentence is built. The goal will be to look carefully at the English language and its grammar. Students will develop a working relationship with the components and patterns of English grammar.
ENGL 200: Basic English Grammar
CRN: 27465
Instructor: Rosenbush, M
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
During the first part of the semester, students will be introduced to grammar by examining the framework of English sentences. Through diagramming experiences, students will develop an understanding of the ten basic sentence patterns, the expanded verb pattern, and sentence variations and their applications. The last part of the class will cover morphology and a close look at form and structure classes, wrapping up with an informative section on purposeful punctuation. Take-home quizzes and in-class exams will measure student progress throughout the semester. Students will complete two final projects: Language Logs, which record observations and explanations of interesting uses of English (written and oral) and a syntactical and morphological analysis of Jabberwocky.
ENGL 200: Basic English Grammar
CRN: 26085
Instructor: Parr, K
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
Grammar is an important component to writing. It enables a writer to produce sentence structures that affect how well a message, essay, or other document will be received by the reader. This section of Basic Grammar will apply a rhetorical lens to the traditional study of grammar and style. Students will recognize parts of speech in terms of their functions in sentences and will practice sentence forms in order to appreciate the impact of a sentence on its reader. Students will also produce short essays and will examine works by professional writers in terms of their grammatical and stylistic choices, recognizing that good writing is situation appropriate.
ENGL 201: Introduction to the Writing of Non-fiction Prose
CRN: 14479
Instructor: McFarland, M
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 201: Introduction to the Writing of Non-fiction Prose
CRN: 22216
Instructor: Newirth, M
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 202: Media and Professional Writing
CRN: 23683
Instructor: Andrews, L
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Chicago, one of the most competitive media cities in America, provides a dynamic backdrop for English 202. Students learn to write for public audiences and to analyze media content. Through readings, class discussions, writing, and interviews, they will gain a perspective on today’s media, which is undergoing historical transformation because of technology and accompanying financial constraints. The goals of the course are: 1) to understand and respond to the needs of the audience; 2) to develop a news sense; 3) to be aware of the rapidly changing media business and the opportunities this presents; 4) to be an aggressive and ethical newshound; 5) to learn the style of public writing; 6) to create a writing portfolio for internship and employment interviews. Students attend two workshops to learn InDesign, a layout software widely used today.
ENGL 202: Media and Professional Writing
CRN: 14482
Instructor: Allen, J
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
The purpose of the course is to develop the craft of media and fact based professional writing by having students learn the basics of journalism. Assignments will require them to come up with story ideas, do their own reporting and write stories that meet a high standard for clarity, accuracy and readability. Understanding the news media business and creating a writing portfolio for getting internships and jobs are also crucial goals.
ENGL 210: Introduction to the Writing of Poetry
CRN: 14486
Instructor: Moore, J
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
This course is designed to introduce beginning and continuing writers to the elements of poetry through reading, writing, workshop, and discussion of texts. The first half of the term will be devoted primarily to analysis of a variety of poetic and critical materials in order to develop a working vocabulary for use in workshop, which will take place during the second half of the term. Students will become familiar with how a workshop functions, including how to critique a poem and how to apply criticism in the revision process. As a result students will produce a body of original work, submitted at the end of the term as a final portfolio. Requirements for this course also include a class presentation and a midterm exam.
ENGL 210: Introduction to the Writing of Poetry
CRN: 14487
Instructor: Morse, J
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
A practical and workshop class that introduces writers to the elements of poetry, open to beginning and continuing writers. Class work will include reading the work of established poets, studying the craft of writing, and considering creative writing within and outside the boundaries of the genre. Students will participate in a variety of activities, including but not limited to: in-class writing, group writing, workshop, technique-specific practices, reading, and group discussion. These activities are meant to support the purpose of the class, which is to familiarize the student with the writing of poetry.
ENGL 212: Introduction to the Writing of Fiction
CRN: 22214
Instructor: Rodden, D
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
In this class we will investigate short fiction from a range of styles. We will read these pieces less as literary critics than as fellow writers. Therefore, our primary attention will go towards process and technique – craft – in order to become familiar with what the writer does. We will 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 class time to the Burroway text, published short stories, writing exercises and original short stories. Our discussion and work-shopping of peers' stories will focus on the skills and techniques studied throughout the course. The main tools available for writing fiction are reading and writing. You will be expected to write and read a lot.
ENGL 212: Introduction to the Writing of Fiction
CRN: 14489
Instructor: Mohanraj, M
Time/Day: TR; 9:30-10:45 a.m.
ENGL 212: Introduction to the Writing of Fiction
CRN: 14488
Instructor: Costello, D
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
This creative writing class will begin by analyzing works by established authors to better understand literary techniques, as well as composing a number of creative exercises to try out these new and different approaches to storytelling. The latter part of the course will consist of workshops of student texts.
ENGL 222: Tutoring in the Writing Center
CRN: 29134
Instructor: Aleksa, V
Time/Day: M; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
The focus of this tutor education course is science writing. In addition to considering assignments, such as labs, we will discuss larger issues of science literacy, such why student diversity varies from discipline to discipline. There will be weekly reading and writing. Tutors will reflect on their own writing and revising process as a way to enrich their conversations with other writers. All students interested in science writing, whether they are science majors or not, are encouraged to apply.
ENGL 222: Tutoring in the Writing Center
CRN: 14496
Instructor: Sarmiento, C
Time/Day: W; 3:00-4:15 p.m.
In this class entitled "Negotiating Academic Literacies,"
we will discuss not only how literacy is defined differently across the disciplines, but how it can also be informed by multiple identities such as race, class, and gender. These conversations will be grounded in writing center teaching theories and how they intersect and manifest in the actual practice of peer tutoring and teaching.
ENGL 222: Tutoring in the Writing Center
CRN: 14495
Instructor: Williams, C
Time/Day: T; 3:30-4:45 p.m.
This class will focus on the process of English Language Learners engaged in academic writing. It will concentrate on collaborative tutoring methodologies, as well as the teaching of grammar and structure. The class will meet Tuesdays for 75 minutes; in addition to in-class time, students must complete 3 hours of scheduled tutoring in the UIC Writing Center each week.
English 233: History of Film II: World War II to the Present
CRN: 14590
Instructor: Hall, S; Cravens, C
Time/Day: W; 3:00-3:50 p.m.
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
CRN: 27475
Instructor: Graff, G; Birkenstein-Graff, C
Time/Day: T; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
As a course that fulfills the Writing in the Disciplines requirement for English Majors, this section of ENGL 240 is designed to help students write their way into the conversations of literary critics. As a result, we will read not only a variety of literary works (by authors such as William Shakespeare, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, and Matthew Arnold), but also critical debates that illuminate these works and provide entry points for student writing. One such debate will focus on whether these works, and literature in general, should be read as expressions of timeless, universal values, as aesthetic objects, or as historical documents that intervene in social, political conflicts. Another will focus on objectivity and subjectivity: whether readers should be encouraged to express subjective, merely "personal" opinions about what they read, to find "objective" truths in their readings, or some combination thereof.
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
CRN: 20947
Instructor: Davis, L
Time/Day: MW; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
CRN: 27473
Instructor: Clarke, A
Time/Day: T; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
Required Texts:
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews;
Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me;
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye;
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes;
Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers;
Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy (These books are available at Chicago Textbook, 1076 W. Taylor St.). Selected critical essays (available at library reserve desk).
Course Requirements and Evaluation
Class attendance and participation: 20%
One 2-pp. paper: 5%
Two 3-4-pp. short papers: 20%
One 5-pp. paper: 25%
One 10-pp. final paper: 30%
On Attendance: As the final mark is partly based on attendance and class participation, points will be deducted from your final mark if you have an excessive number of absences. My attendance policy is that you are allowed three absences over the semester (no questions asked); further absences will affect your grade in class unless exceptional circumstances warrant leniency
On Class Participation: You are required to complete the assigned readings for each class. I will assign two or three discussion questions on the readings in advance of each class. You should come to class prepared to discuss these questions (i.e., you should have responses prepared for each question), and I will ask students to present short (five minute) responses to these questions in class (each student will make one presentation during the semester)
On submitting assignments:
- You should observe MLA format in the documentation for your written assignments. On MLA format, consult Joseph Gibaldi, The MLA Handbook (6th ed. 2003).
- Assignments are to be submitted in class on the due date. If you submit an assignment to the English Department office, be sure to do so during office hours so that the assignment can be date-stamped.
- Late assignments are subject to a penalty of 1/3 a letter grade per each class late, except where circumstances warrant leniency.
- Assignments are to be submitted on paper, not by email.
- Always keep a copy of your assignments, in case something goes astray.
- Be aware that plagiarism is a serious offence. Each paper for this class must be your own work, with citations provided as necessary. Plagiarism, which constitutes the presentation of someone else’s work as your own, will result in a “0” for the assignment a well as possible further penalties.
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
CRN: 20949
Instructor: Messenger, C
Time/Day: R; 11:00-11:15 a.m.
We’ll study the ways in which literary reading is accomplished and the tools we have to do it. We’ll read a number of essays about critical approaches and apply same to poetry, short fiction, novels and cinema. Poets will include Frost, Stevens, Williams, Keats, and Dickinson. We’ll read some Hawthorne short stories, excerpts from Frederick Douglass, Hemingway’s In Our Time, Cather’s My Antonia, Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night. Our film will be Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game. Our methods text will be Lentricchia, Critical Terms for Literary Study. Several ungraded reaction papers, three short (5pp.) papers, midterm exam, final exam. Inquiries welcome.
ENGL 240: Introduction to Literary Study and Critical Methods
CRN: 24804
Instructor: Grimes, C
Time/Day: MW; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 241: English Literature I: Beginnings to 1660
CRN: 14497
Instructor: Thomas, A
Time/Day: WF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 241: English Literature I: Beginnings to 1660
CRN: 27478
Instructor: Bestul, T
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:45 p.m.
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. 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 to 1900
CRN: 14507
Instructor: Kornbluh, A
Time/Day: WF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
This course surveys the development of genres and the innovation of forms across two and an half centuries of British literary history, from the Restoration through the Victorian era. We will situate literary forms and themes in relation to a broad cultural and historical context including the expanse of global trade and capitalism, the rise of the middle class, and new technologies and sciences. To balance the historical and generic breadth of the course content, we will emphasize techniques of close reading to carefully appreciate the specific formal strategies involved in writing poems, plays, or novels. Authors include Behn, Pope, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Wilde, Conrad, and others.
English 243: American Literature: Beginnings to 1900
CRN: 14514
Instructor: Whalen, T
Time/Day: MW; 2:00-2:50 p.m.
This course will examine some of the principal works of American literature written before 1914. Primary emphasis will be upon close reading and study, but we will also devote some attention to the social and cultural background of selected texts. Longer works will include Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter; and Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth. Requirements: two short papers; mid term and final exams; frequent random quizzes; and class participation. Attendance is mandatory.
English 265: The Harlem Renaissance
CRN: 28631
Instructor: Clarke, A
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
300 Level
ENGL 302: Studies in the Moving Image
CRN: 14521
Instructor: Rubin, M
Time/Day: TR 5:00-7:50 p.m.
"The Musical Film": Popular modernism? Near-extinct dinosaur? Comeback kid? Traditionalist...or transgressive? The musical film is the most paradoxical, perplexing, and, at its best, sheerly exhilarating of Hollywood genres. This course seeks to grasp the musical's slippery heart by tracing its roots in 19th-century and African American entertainment forms (minstrel show, vaudeville), its antecedents on the early 20th-century stage (Florenz Ziegfeld, Jerome Kern), its birth in the early talkie era (Al Jolson, Ernst Lubitsch), its growth in the 1930s (Busby Berkeley, Fred Astaire), its apogee at MGM in the 1950s (The Band Wagon, Singin' in the Rain), its latter-day forays into revisionism (Cabaret, Pennies from Heaven) and rock (A Hard Day's Night, Rock 'n' Roll High School), and its recent resurgence (Hairspray, High School Musical). A musical (Silk Stockings) and nonmusical (Ninotchka) version of the same story will be screened as part of our quest to locate the musical's problematic place in the Hollywood system. Readings range from Mikhail Bakhtin on the carnivalesque, to John F. Kasson on Coney Island, to D.A. Miller and John M. Clum on growing up as a show queen, to Colin McCabe and Christian Metz on poststructuralist theory.
ENGL 303: Studies in Poetry
CRN: 27481
Instructor: Winters, A
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
This course in American poetry follows Calvinist themes and typology as they developed along with later imaginative constructions of America in poetry. In the first few days we’ll explore the earliest American concept of the New World as an "Elect Nation," a community encountering special responsibilities and unusual temptations—a people chosen, but also imperiled, by God.
The rest of the course will consider American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth century and how they re-interpreted, and sometimes radically inverted, this early imagining. In nineteenth-century American poetry, we’ll be reading Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. In the twentieth century, we’ll begin by looking at Robert Frost's religious and national poems. We'll study Robert Lowell's subversive psychological revisioning of the earliest Calvinist traditions, and Robert Hayden's "cannibal flower" America in such poems as his elegies for Malcolm X. We will close by turning to the Beat Generation for Allen Ginsberg's apocalyptic visions of the nation in the nineteen-fifties and sixties. Other books may be added.
Teaching Method: Lecture and Discussion.
Workload: Reading the texts, papers, oral participation, exams.
Evaluation Method: pop quizzes, papers, midterm, final exam.
ENGL 305: Studies in Fiction
CRN: 26203
Instructor: Tabbi, J
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
A consideration of recent work by established and emerging novelists and conceptual writers in the United States and how such work bears on longstanding international debates on World Literature, World Systems, and (more recently) the rise of Neoliberalism in the U.S. and elsewhere. Attention will be given to authors who discover ways, not to deny to the systems that increasingly define contemporary life, and not to resist these systems mindlessly, but rather to reform the systems - and at the same time do the hard work of reforming, informing, and remaking oneself. Formally, the works are also chosen for their adaptive qualities, the way they do not simply follow the rules of a given genre or mode, but rather use these formulas toward unpredictable, innovative ends. This plasticity of form extends even to the mixture of poetry and essayistic writing, image and narrative, and other combinations of fields and practices normally kept separate.
ENGL 305: Studies in Fiction
CRN: 27643
Instructor: Hokanson, C
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
This is a course both in critical reading/analytical writing and creative writing. In this course we will study the origins and evolvement of the detective fiction genre. We’ll start with Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and proceed to representative works of the Golden Age/classical whodunit (Christie, Sayers, Stout) and of the hard-boiled tradition (Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald). We’ll end by studying examples of postmodern anti-detective fiction that use and subvert the genre’s formulas in illuminating ways. A major component of this course will also be collaboratively writing our own short, experimental detective novel as a class.
ENGL 312: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Literature
CRN: 26029
Instructor: Lukacher, N
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:45 p.m.
The focus will be largely on extensive readings in 16th- and 17th-century English drama. A wide selection of plays from Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson to Fletcher, Middleton, and Massinger will provide an occasion to analyze the various modes of prose and verse composition that characterize English Renaissance literature. Frequent quizzes will ensure that students are keeping up with the rather fast-paced survey of a broad array of texts. Online materials will be of little or no help in this kind of course, where reading comprehension is uppermost. Please note that course prerequisites include English 240, 241, and 242 and will be strictly observed.
ENGL 313: Major Plays of Shakespeare
CRN: 27645
Instructor: Hokanson, C.
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
In this introductory course to Shakespeare we will study some of the Bard’s greatest works from each of the major genres: Comedy, Tragedy, Histories, Romances, and Sonnets. We will enrich our exploration of Shakespeare’s dramatic works through readings of his works with historical background materials about the Renaissance, with film adaptations, and with acting out scenes from the plays in class. Readings may include: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Henry IV, Part 1, and The Tempest.
ENGL 315: Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
CRN: 27518
Instructor: Agnani, S
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
"Enlightenment Narratives, Colonial Subjects:
Emerging Global Visions of the Eighteenth Century." Given that the global world we live in today had its antecedents in pivotal periods like the eighteenth-century, with its commerce, seafaring trade, and establishment of colonial empires, how do we learn to read Europe’s literature and history in a more cosmopolitan manner? How did writers and thinkers in this period conceive of cultural, racial and religious difference? We will read novels (from Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Rousseau), life narratives (Olaudah Equiano) and prose writings (from Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Denis Diderot) to explore this. Interspersed throughout the course will be short excerpts from relevant literary critics to help us answer some key questions: how does one read literature in relation to history? Can a novel convey “the spirit of an age” better than an historical work? What is the difference between fact and fiction, fiction and prose? Themes to be considered include ideas of savagery and civilization, slavery and abolition, and revolution. Other related topics in the period--such as theories of childhood and education--will also be discussed.
ENGL 317: Victorian Literature
CRN: 27646
Instructor: Hokanson, C
Time/Day: MWF; 9:00-9:50 a.m.
This course in British literature provides an overview of key authors, texts, and preoccupations of the Victorian Age (1837-1901). The nineteenth century was a time of great social tumult and advancement due to industrialization, scientific breakthroughs, etc., and we will be focusing on ways in which the Victorians experienced and anticipated many of the cultural anxieties of today. We will read representative poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and dramatic works by Victorian authors and will discuss each work in the context of its artistic, political, social and historical framework, especially through the lens of class, gender, and social reform. Possible authors to be read include: Dickens, Hardy, Eliot, the Brontës, Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Wilde, etc.
ENGL 324: American Literature: 1865-1900
CRN: 27482
Instructor: Whalen, T
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
Explores the rise of American literary realism and naturalism between the Civil War and World War I. Although the course of historical events seemed unplanned if not utterly chaotic, American literature was marked by a peculiar fascination with destiny and determinism. In many major works of the period, this paradox takes the ironic from of a “destiny market” in which fictive versions of fate or nature are circulated as if they were inescapable. Primary texts include: Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth; Herman Melville, Billy Budd; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage; and several novels by Mark Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Pudd’nhead Wilson). We will also consider short works by such authors as Henry James and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The class will emphasize close reading and study, but we will also devote some attention to the social and cultural background of selected texts. Requirements: full preparation for class discussion; two critical papers; mid-term and final exams; and class participation. Random pop quizzes may be given. Attendance is mandatory.
ENGL 328: Asian American Literature
CRN: 27483
Instructor: Jun, H
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:45 p.m.
ENGL 341: Literature and Popular Culture
CRN: 27484
Instructor: Bestul, T
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
The story of King Arthur and his knights of the round table has been an enduring phenomenon in the popular culture of the Western world from the medieval period to the present time. This course begins by exploring the origins of the legend in the remote archeological past and moves forward to consider how it is expressed in contemporary literature, music, and film. We will read foundational writers of the Middle Ages, such as Chrétien de Troyes and Sir Thomas Malory; and then take up the great Arthurian revival of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining, for example, the paintings of Burne-Jones, Wagner’s operas (Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde), poetry such as Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, and novels such as Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. For the twentieth century, we will read novels such as T. H. White’s Once and Future King, Walker Percy’s Lancelot, and “feminist” retellings of the legend such as Sharan Newman’s Guinevere and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon. We will also consider films such as Disney’s animated Sword and the Stone, the Bing Crosby version of Connecticut Yankee, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, John Boorman’s Excalibur, and the latest Hollywood version, King Arthur (2004). One of our aims will be to understand the varying cultural, social, and ideological uses of the Arthurian legend at different moments in history, and to explore distinctions between high art and popular culture as revealed in this material.
Requirements: midterm and final exam; one short paper (3-5 pages); one long paper (8-10 pages). This course will be lecture/discussion format with extensive use of multi-media resources.
Texts: The Romance of Arthur, vol. 1, ed. James J. Wilhelm (Garland), and others selected from titles mentioned above.
ENGL 342: Cultural and Media Studies
CRN: 26095
Instructor: Cassidy, M
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-4:15 p.m.
This course looks back at television’s connection to major cultural shifts in the United States since 1945. We study television’s relationship to significant social and national movements across time, concluding with discussions of contemporary television texts and their place within today’s cultural and ideological transformations.
Topics studied include television’s interconnection with cigarette smoking, the Civil Rights Movement; the “sexual revolution”; feminism and postfeminism; the cult of personality; the culture of crime and violence; “reality”; and political satire.
Students are introduced to television theory, theories of postmodernism, key TV genres, and television history.
Past screenings have featured The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Murphy Brown, The Cosby Show, Twin Peaks, Margaret Cho’s All-American Girl, and Queer As Folk. Added this semester will be the examination of political comedy and its influence on the 2008 Presidential election, with a focus on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and the resurgence of Saturday Night Live.
Students complete several short daily assignments; a midterm and final exam; and one research paper of 8-10 pages.
ENGL 351: Topics in Black Art and Literature
CRN: 29104
Instructor: Barnes, N
Time/Day: T; 4:00-6:50 p.m.
This course will examine the history and representation of racial violence that surrounds post-bellum lynching practices in the United States and study its “memorialization” in film, photography, fictional narrative, oral history and community mobilization and activism. We will be paying attention to the symbiosis between white supremacist justifications of the practice and the discursive strategies deployed by anti-lynching advocates throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will also examine how “lynching studies” found its tenuous articulation in academic scholarship and consider how and when the disciplines of sociology and history incorporated lynching violence in its disciplinary epistemes. A considerable portion of the course will attend to the contemporary circulation of lynching narrative in African American oral and popular cultures, in museum exhibits like “Without Sanctuary,” and local community memorial group activism. In addition to historical, legal, sociological and literary approaches to lynching, we will also debate the utility of various field theories such as trauma theory, cultural studies etc.
ENGL 358: Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
CRN: 27485
Instructor: Mohanraj, M
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
In this course we will examine the literature of the colonial period, the writers of resistance and revolution, and the stories of what came after, in the wake of new nations which emerged, shaken and often fragmented, from the rubble of what were once European colonies. In such regions as India, Africa, the Caribbean, and Ireland, we will examine how national, cultural and individual identities have been radically altered by the experience of colonization. We will examine how authors have related this postcolonial condition; or, as some have put it, how "the empire writes back." As a product of such colonization myself (born in Sri Lanka to Tamil ancestors, who became Catholic as a result of Portuguese colonizing missionaries, and who became an English professor in the wake of British colonizers and their imposition of English on my nation), and as a fiction writer whose own work focuses on issues of nationalism, immigration, emigration, gender, sexuality, and race, I'm particularly pleased to be offering this course. Texts may include: Heart of Darkness (Conrad), "The Man Who Would Be King" (Kipling), The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon), Things Fall Apart (Achebe), Dubliners (Joyce), Midnight's Children (Rushdie), and selected essays by Said and Spivak.
ENGL 372: History of Literary Criticism
CRN: 27486
Instructor: Tabbi, J
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
A study of critical writing, and key terms from Longinus to Derrida, with particular emphasis on how such terms are being gathered and presented in new media: The Electronic Literature Directory, and its metatag vocabulary of keywords in literature and criticism, will be a main resource for the class, along with traditional readings in Literary Criticism (David Richter, The Critical Traditon: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends).
ENGL 375: Rhetoric and Public LIfe
CRN: 27487
Instructor: Feldman, A; Reich, S
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
ENGL 398: English Honors Seminar
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ENGL 399: Independent Study in English
CRN: Varies by professor
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ENGL 408: Topics in Medieval Literature
CRN: 27488/27489
Instructor: Thomas, A
Time/Day: MWF; 1:00-1:50 p.m.
The Hero and the King: Testing Masculinities in Medieval Epic and Romance: In this course we shall examine the treatment of masculinity in the medieval epic and romance, focusing on the figures of the “hero” and the “king” in Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Nibelungenlied; Chrétien’s The Knight of the Cart; The Death of King Arthur from the French Vulgate Cycle; Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur. We shall explore the development of the hero from the epic tradition, where the distinction between a dynamic, young warrior (Beowulf, Roland) and an ineffectual older ruler (Hrothgar, Charlemagne) is clearly drawn, to the world of romance in which this opposition is eroded and ultimately effaced due to the impact of courtly love, the emergence of the “lady” as a powerful figure in her own right, and the gradual decline in the values of chivalry.
ENGL 416: Topics in Renaissance Literature and Culture
CRN: 27490/27491
Instructor: Rose, M
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
This course will provide a general overview of the works of John Milton. Focusing primarily on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, we will concentrate on such themes as heroism, gender and sexuality, and politics. Considering Milton in the historical context of the late seventeenth century, we will also explore two of his prose works, Areopagitica and Of Education. We will read Milton’s texts closely, with a view to examining his poetic techniques.
ENGL 419: Topics in Romantic Literature and Culture
CRN: 27492/27493
Instructor: Canuel, M
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
Although Romanticism is often understood in national contexts, this course will allow us to think about Romanticism as a broader movement (we will focus this class on Europe) that finds aesthetic channels for a range of intertwined yet often conflicting energies of the late eighteenth century: political revolution, nationalism, expanding market economies, colonization (just to name a few). This course will focus on Romanticism across Europe, focusing on English, French, German, and Russian examples (all non-English literatures in translation). We’ll place a particular emphasis on relations across borders and the issues that border-crossing illuminates. So, for instance, we’ll compare views on tradition and selfhood in Rousseau and Wordsworth, notions of guilt and responsibility in Goethe’s Faust and Byron’s Manfred, and relations between print, poetry, and commodification in Byron’s Don Juan and Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. Requirements: consistent attendance and participation, in-class presentations and responses, 3 papers, take-home final exam. Prerequisites: English 240, 241, or 242.
ENGL 421: Topics in Victorian Literature
CRN: 26097/26184
Instructor: Kornbluh, A
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
Victoria and Freud: Psychoanalysis and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. This seminar explores the literary roots of psychoanalysis, focusing on the many points of exchange between the Victorian novel and the work of Sigmund Freud, for whom literature was an indispensable interlocutor. Primary authors include Bronte, Collins, Dickens, Eliot, and James. In addition to numerous texts by Freud, psychoanalytic texts will include writings by Victorian psychologists like George Henry Lewes and Alexander Bain, and by contemporary theorists such as Peter Brooks, Shoshana Felman, and Slavoj Zizek. Emphasis will be on the method of close reading, on understanding psychoanalytic concepts, and on critically evaluating the commonalities between literature and psychoanalysis. Instructor permission required for enrollment.
ENGL 428: Topics in Literature and Culture, 1900-Present
CRN: 26100/26150
Instructor: Messenger, C
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
Topic: Joseph Conrad and His Heirs. We’ll study selected works by the great modern novelist Joseph Conrad and then branch out to gauge his influence on a number of fictional sub-genres. Conrad novels will be Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes. Other novels include LeCarre, The Little Drummer Girl; LeGuin, The Dispossessed; Smith, White Teeth; Naipaul, Half A Life; and Smith, Gorky Park. Several ungraded reaction papers, two short (5-7pp.) papers, midterm exam, final exam. Inquiries welcome.
ENGL 440: Topics in Cultural and Media Studies
CRN: 27496/27497
Instructor: Davis, L
Time/Day: T; 2:00-4:50 p.m.
This year’s course will focus on the works of Sigmund Freud and his followers. The course will be an in-depth study of Freud in which all his major works and some of his minor ones will be read for the first half of the semester. We will not be reading Freud as an authority on psychology but as a significant thinker in the realm of the biocultural. I am less interested in the classic Freud or the authoritarian Freud or the sexist Freud as in rediscovering the radical roots of psychoanalysis. I want to see how Freud links up with his predecessors and how his transforming insights are then used by his followers. This is not a Freud worshipping or a Freud bashing class, but rather a cultural, philosophical, and biocultural reconsideration of a major thinker of the 20th century. After establishing a basis for understanding the key concepts of psychoanalysis and exploring the gender implications of Freud’s opus, we will read work by Theodor Adorno, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, Adam Phillips, Slavoj Zizek and others to see how Freud’s insights can be applied to philosophy, theory, politics, and various identity studies.
Students will be required to do an in-class presentation and to write a 20-25 page paper.
ENGL 446: Topics in Criticism and Theory
CRN: 27500/27501
Instructor: Michaels, W
Time/Day: MW; 4:00-5:15 p.m.
This is a course on legal and literary theory. What brings the two areas together is a focus on questions about meaning: does the meaning of, say, the Constitution change or stay the same? (In legal theory, this is the debate over originalism.) Do poems mean what their authors intend them to mean or what their readers understand them to mean? (In literary theory this is the debate over reader response.) Or do they mean what the rules of the language make them mean (New Criticism, textualism)? Does the fact that laws are applied make them different from, say, novels, which aren’t? Does it make them more like plays, which, if not exactly applied are nonetheless performed? Readings will usually be one essay or law review article a week; the emphasis will be on understanding the different arguments rather than on covering a lot of material. Written assignments will involve several short papers and a take-home final.
ENGL 446: Topics in Criticism and Theory
CRN: 24820/24821
Instructor: Lukacher, N
Time/Day: R; 5:00-7:50 p.m.
The focus will be on readings of works by Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Slavoj Zizek. Serious interest in 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy, deconstruction, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis will be exceptionally helpful. Students with a background or interest in the history of philosophy and/or the philosophy of religion, and who work in departments other than English (e.g. Philosophy, French, and German), are particularly encouraged to enroll.
ENGL 459: Intro to Teaching of English in Middle and Secondary Schools
CRN: 19861/19863
Instructor: Charest, B
Time/Day: TR; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
Intended as a general initiation to the field of secondary English teaching, this course focuses on many of the crucial issues facing teachers in contemporary language arts classrooms and on innovative ways in which educators might think about these issues more productively and humanely. In this course we will explore the deceptively simple question, Why teach English? In doing so, we will undoubtedly uncover a range of theoretical assumptions we have about teaching, about schools, about students, and about how we learn. One of our goals this semester will be to complicate our understanding about teaching and schooling in order to better prepare ourselves to teach in a culturally and linguistically diverse community like Chicago. In addition to reading a variety of texts—teacher stories, theoretical works, young adult literature—you will also have the opportunity to participate in schools and examine these institutions as part of the larger socioeconomic, political, and cultural context that shapes them.
ENGL 462: Topics in American Literary Nonfiction Prose
CRN: 27498/27499
Instructor: Urrea, L; Pilat, R
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
This course will focus on the vibrant genre of modern American non-fiction narratives. We will take a literary tour through the forms and themes, focusing on a series of unexpected books. The areas covered will include the new journalism, travel, crime writing, memoir, nouveau nature and ethnic.
ENGL 478: The Bible as Literature
CRN: 26179/26180
Instructor: Havrelock, R
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
The central texts studied in this course come from the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament. Particular focus will rest on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, the Deuteronomistic History, the Song of Songs and the book of Ruth. The texts are analyzed in a literary fashion with an eye to the literary conventions of antiquity as well as how biblical interpretation has impacted the study of literature. The secondary texts include Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative; Michael Fishbane, Biblical Text and Texture; Ilana Pardes, The Biography of Ancient Israel; Mary Douglas, Leviticus as Literature; and Robert Polzin, Moses and the Deuteronomist. After reading the poetry of the Song of Songs and the novella known as the book of Ruth, we will explore the hybrid poetic-narrative texts found in the books of the prophets. Through the secondary literature, the course also explores the roots and canon of the Bible as Literature movement.
ENGL 481: Methods of Teaching English in Middle and Secondary Schools
CRN: 19874/19876
Instructor: Rutter, S
Time/Day: TR; 3:30-4:45 p.m.
ENGL 482: Campus Writing Consultants
CRN: 14540/14542
Instructor: Saravia, L
Time/Day: R; 12:00-1:50 p.m.
ENGL 489: The Teaching of Writing in Middle and Secondary Schools
CRN: 19905/19907
Instructor: Destigter, T
Time/Day: TR; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
The Teaching of Reading and Literature in Middle and Secondary Schools (3 hrs.) This course covers various approaches to the teaching of literature, while also focusing on how to work with struggling readers, including strategies for motivation, reading comprehension, and individualized and culturally sensitive instruction. Students read works appropriate for high school students and develop strategies for teaching these texts. Special consideration is given to teaching multicultural works in American and world literature, as well as one of Shakespeare's plays. Also featured is the rapidly-growing genre of Young Adult Literature. (Includes a 12 hour practicum experience.)
ENGL 490: Advanced Writing of Poetry
CRN: 19913/19914
Instructor: Glomski, C
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
English 490 is the advanced undergraduate poetry workshop and the successor to English 210, which is its pre-requisite (and in which UIC students are required to achieve a grade of “B” or better). If you enroll for this course you are expected to have a working knowledge of basic poetic forms, meters, and tropes, and to have some experience participating in a creative writing workshop. In addition to pursuing your own work, you should be prepared to respond to various poetic writing assignments (intermittently given throughout the semester); to offer regular critical commentary on peer work; and deliver informal, but thoughtful, presentations on assigned topics. Readings will focus on a course topic to be announced. Previous topics have been “Years of the Modern,” “Secrets of Surrealism,” and “Literary Anthologies, Literary Communities.”
ENGL 491: Advanced Writing of Fiction
CRN: 19260/19261
Instructor: Stolley, L
Time/Day: MWF; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
ENGL 491: Advanced Writing of Fiction
CRN: 14547/14548
Instructor: Grimes, C
Time/Day: MWF; 12:00-12:50 p.m.
ENGL 491: Advanced Writing of Fiction
CRN: 22828/22829
Instructor: Wildman, E
Time/Day: TR; 2:00-3:15 p.m.
ENGL 492: Advanced Writing of Nonfiction Prose
CRN: 24123/24124
Instructor: Stolley, L
Time/Day: MWF; 11:00-11:50 a.m.
ENGL 492: Advanced Writing of Nonfiction Prose
CRN: 14549/19262
Instructor: Barrigar, D
Time/Day: MWF; 12:30-1:45 p.m.
In this course, we’ll explore the notion of how one can be creative in language while adhering to nonfiction subject matter. Among other questions, we’ll consider just how far one can push her or his material in the direction of imagination and creative techniques while staying firmly rooted in “real life.” We’ll investigate separate genres such as memoir, literary journalism, and personal essay. The course is run in a lecture-discussion, and mostly in a workshop format. Students will write and revise three creative nonfiction essays throughout the semester.
ENGL 493: Internship in Nonfiction Writing
The large metropolitan area of Chicago offers many internship opportunities for English majors in publishing, television and radio stations, non-profits, corporations, government agencies, and public relations firms. Tasks vary and may involve writing copy for a brochure, collecting information for a grant, or interviewing employees for a company’s newsletter, to name a few. While writing, editing, or researching in an internship, students are enrolled in English 493. Resume, cover letter, and two 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.
CRN: 22507
Instructor: Andrews, L
Time/Day: R; 4:00-4:50 p.m.
CRN: 26976
Instructor: Andrews, L
Time/Day: W; 3:00-3:50 p.m.
ENGL 498: Educational Practice with Seminar I
Student Teaching with Seminar (12 hours) This course is required as the final semester in both the BA and MA English teacher certification programs. It includes 14 weeks of directed student teaching and a weekly seminar from 4-6 on Wednesday afternoons. Permission of the instructor and formal student teaching application are required.
CRN: 14555
Instructor: Manski, C
CRN: 14556
Instructor: Manski, C
CRN: 14557
Instructor: Ruhl, K
CRN: 14558
Instructor: Williams, K
CRN: 14559
Instructor: Williams, K
CRN: 27503
Instructor: Dolezal, R
CRN: 14554
Instructor: Destigter, T
ENGL 499: Educational Practice with Seminar II
Student Teaching with Seminar (12 hours) This course is required as the final semester in both the BA and MA English teacher certification programs. It includes 14 weeks of directed student teaching and a weekly seminar from 4-6 on Wednesday afternoons. Permission of the instructor and formal student teaching application are required.
CRN: 14560
Instructor: Destigter, T
Time/Day: W; 4:00-5:15 p.m.
CRN: 14561
Instructor: Manski, C
CRN: 14562
Instructor: Manski, C
CRN: 14563
Instructor: Ruhl, K
CRN: 14564
Instructor: Williams, K
CRN: 14565
Instructor: Williams, K
CRN: 27504
Instructor: Dolezal, R
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ENGL 504: Proseminar II: Seminar in Critical Studies
CRN: 20011
Instructor: Cintron, R
Time/Day: W; 6:00-7:50 p.m.
Most graduate instruction in English Departments studies some combination of aesthetics, literary texts, and literary theory and/or criticism. In contrast, this course will turn its attention to some combination of rhetorical theory, social theory, political theory, and economic theory in transnational contexts. As a consequence, interdisciplinarity will be foregrounded. Some students may approach interdisciplinarity as a method to do better readings of literature or a method to produce better kinds of creative writing. These are common practices in English departments and the basis of cultural studies. Students in this course may practice this if they choose. However, for a variety of reasons, which will be discussed in the course, I prefer to read social, political, and economic theories in only two ways: firstly, as claims about material life and secondarily as claims that are rhetorically produced.
Of additional importance is to consider how everyday discourse—and not just theoretical discourse—renders our social, political, and economic contexts. For instance, consider the 1911 theoretical work of Robert Michels and his analysis of the forces of oligarchy and bureaucracy in modern political life, and then compare his work to contemporary theorists of agency. Which theorists make more sense, but just as significantly how does everyday political talk from both politicians and citizens echo this theoretical machinery? Similarly, consider urban space and architecture in transnational contexts as summarized in the concept of “global cities” or “world-class” cities. Here space and architecture are certainly an economics and a politics, in so far as they are the products of economic and political maneuvering. They are also objects of talk, as well as a medium whose design is a visual rhetoric sending messages to taxpayers, tourists, and investors about the placement of a specific nation-state in the vanguard of modernity.
In short, the course will presume two things: 1) that we can discern rhetorical motive in the production of discursive and non-discursive materials and 2) that the materiality of life is of greater concern than its aestheticization.
A sample of texts that may construct the course:
Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
Giovanni Arrighi: Adam Smith in Beijing
Christian Marazzi: Capital and Language
Karl Marx: The Essential Writings
James Aune: Rhetoric and Marxism
Kenneth Burke: The Rhetoric of Religion
Elizabeth Markovits: The Politics of Sincerity
Jean-Luc Nancy: The Inoperative Community
Mike Davis: Planet of Slums
Ananya Roy: Calcutta, a Requium
Arturo Escobar: Encountering Development
Robert Michels: Political Parties
The Belgrade Circle: The Politics of Human Rights
J.S. Mill: Considerations on Representative Government
Faisal Devji: The Terrorist in Search of Humanity
Documenta 11_Platform 1: Democracy Unrealized
Étienne Balibar: We the People of Europe
Pierre Rosanvallon: Democracy Past and Future
The Foucault Effect, Studies in Governmentality
ENGL 507: Theory, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics
CRN: 27505
Instructor: Havrelock, R
Time/Day: T; 2:00-4:50 p.m.
In this course we consider the ways in which genre determines audience expectation, interacts with content, encodes ideology and functions as discourse. The genres in question are biblical: Creation myth, historical narrative, epic poetry, wisdom hymns, gospels and letters. As we look at how the various genres transmit meaning and assume authority, we will also consider the question of whether specific genres beget the modes of their transmission and interpretation. For example, does the genre of creation myth require commentary as a mode of interpretation, do legends lend themselves to cinematic renderings, and do the Pauline letters invite philosophical exploration?
ENGL 510: Seminar in Language and Rhetoric
CRN: 28794
Instructor: Harkin, P
Time/Day: R; 5:00-8:00 p.m.
ENGL 517: British Literature and Culture
CRN: 27506
Instructor: Huntington, J
Time/Day: R; 5:00-7:50 p.m.
This course will think about literary change by studying and comparing two important moments in English literary history. We will spend the first seven weeks on the rapid development of popular Elizabethan drama (circa 1590), with emphasis on plays by Marlowe, Kyd, and the early Shakespeare. The second seven weeks will be spent on the “rise of the novel” (circa 1740). Readings will include Richardson’s Pamela, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and Fielding’s Joseph Andrews. We will read a number of recent theorists on the nature of these changes and how and why they occurred. Each student will be responsible for three short papers, an in-class presentation, and a final paper of modest length.
ENGL 540: Seminar in Modern and/or Contemporary Studies in English
CRN: 26178
Instructor: Chiang, M
Time/Day: M; 2:00-4:50 p.m.
This course will examine the central question of what it would mean to conceive of minority literature as a form of cultural capital. If we accept Pierre Bourdieu’s contention that the primary function of the university is the reproduction of social inequality by means of the regulation of access to cultural capital, then any form of culture which manages to acquire legitimacy and thus entrench itself in the university curriculum must inevitably constitute a form of cultural capital. All of the fields in what we are calling “minority studies” emerged out of the new social movements and originally opposed the university as the primary instrument of social domination. Given that context, how do we understand the political project of minority studies in the current moment in which those fields have become more or less thoroughly institutionalized within the university? We will take the fields of Asian American literature and literary studies as our primary case studies, although we will also attempt to expand our analyses to other sectors of the field of minority literature as well. The requirements will consist of two shorter papers and one 15-20 page final paper. The reading list will include such authors as Pierre Bourdieu, John Guillory, John Okada, Maxine Hong Kingston, Lisa Lowe, Theresa Cha, Chang-rae Lee, Jessica Hagedorn, Pamela Lu, Paul Beatty, and Junot Diaz. Although optional, it is recommended that students familiarize themselves with Distinction (Bourdieu) before the first day of class..
ENGL 557: Language and Literacy
CRN: 26884
Instructor: Schaafsma, D
Time/Day: T; 5:00-7:50 p.m.
Though this seminar is sometimes available to MA students, this particular version is only open to doctoral students so we can better attend to theoretical issues relevant to framing doctoral projects of various kinds. I hope the focus is broad enough for us to go in a variety of directions at this point, which to me is a good thing. The list of texts that I am considering using at this point include Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais (paying particular attention to his notion of carnival), Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge, Pierre Bourdieu's Language and Symbolic Power, and Antonio Gransci's Prison Notebooks, but I have plenty others in mind, and if this interests you, maybe you can suggest some as well. The majority of the texts will be selected by the class. There will be one final paper or related project. Students will share responsibility for leading discussions, taking turns with each book. Please email me if you have any questions about whether the course will fulfill your needs.
ENGL 567: Discourse Analysis
CRN: 27507
Instructor: Xiang, X
Time/Day: R; 5:00-7:50 p.m.
ENGL 567: Discourse Analysis
CRN: 27507
Instructor: Xiang, X
Time/Day: R; 5:00-7:50 p.m.
ENGL 570: Program for Writers: Poetry Workshop
CRN: 14576
Instructor: Winters, A
Time/Day: W; 3:00-5:50 p.m.
This is the Graduate Poetry Workshop, open to graduate students in the Writing Program. Discussion of student poems, poetic techniques, structure, and revision modes.
Teaching Method: Discussion.
Evaluation: Poems, Presentations, careful participation in the critiquing of student poems, final sheaf of poems
ENGL 571: Program for Writers: Fiction Workshop
CRN: 14577
Instructor: Wildman, E
Time/Day: W; 3:00-5:50 p.m.
The focus of this workshop will be on the short story as well as short shorts, but will also be construed to include more experimental modes such as mixed media and inter-genres. Segments from longer compositions will be considered provided the material is self-contained.
ENGL 572: Program for Writers: Novel Workshop
CRN: 14578
Instructor: Mazza, C
Time/Day: T; 5:00-7:50 p.m.
ENGL 574: Program for Writers: Non-Fiction Workshop
CRN: 20018
Instructor: Urrea, L
Time/Day: T; 2:00-4:50 p.m.
ENGL 579: The Past Decade
CRN: 27508
Instructor: Ashton, J
Time/Day: M; 6:00-8:50 p.m.
The material for this course will be almost entirely poetic work published between 1998 and 2008, and mainly by younger poets (e.g., Kenneth Goldsmith, Maureen McLane, K. Selim Mohammad, Tao Lin, Rodrigo Toscano, Noah Eli Gordon, Michael Magee, Katie Degentesh, Jennifer Moxley, Joshua Clover). But we'll also take in some recent work by more established poets (e.g., Allen Grossman, Rae Armantrout, Harryette Mullen, Jorie Graham, C.D. Wright, Cole Swensen). Along with a selection of poems each week, we'll read recent critical and theoretical statements about poetry, ranging from manifestos for new poetic movements, to critiques of recent claims to the avant-garde, to efforts to construct a philosophical foundation for poetic value, to debates over the perceived domination of lyric as a genre in the context of the so-called "New Lyric Studies." Much of the work we'll be covering is fun to read and think about, and the theoretical discussions that arise out of that work will be useful beyond the context of poetic discourse. Students will be expected to complete 2 short papers, including an in-class panel-style presentation, and to work throughout the semester on a final critical or theoretical essay on one or more of the poetic projects we discuss in the course.
ENGL 581: Seminar in Interdisciplinary English Studies
CRN: 27509
Instructor: Schneiderman
Time/Day: R; 2:00-5:00 p.m.
This seminar will investigate several modes of literary and cultural collaboration: 1) explicit, active collaborations between artists, 2) implicit collaborations between texts (postmodern pastiche and its various modes), and 3) the more sinister use of the term to suggest complicity with hegemonic structures. To these ends, we will study artists or topics such as Kathy Acker, William S. Burroughs, Raymond Federman, Jean Genet, Lidia Yuknavitch, the Surrealists, the Oulipo, wikinovels, fan fictions, hypertext fictions, DJ culture (particularly DJ Spooky), mash-ups, and community based projects such as the Virtual Burnham Initiative (an Chicago-based endeavor to model the 1909 Plan of Chicago on Google Earth). Students will collaborate in all aspects of the course, from papers and oral reports to a final collaborative project.
ENGL 585: Seminar in Theoretical Sites
CRN: 27510
Instructor: Barnes, N
Time/Day: R; 2:00-4:50 p.m.
During his or her academic career, a student may enroll in a variety of independent studies. A student must obtain approval from the professor with whom he or she expects to work. It is the student’s responsibility to find a professor willing to direct the student’s independent study. Students then must complete an Independent Study/Research form ("the Purple Form") which needs to be signed by the professor who will supervise the work and presented to the Director of Graduate Studies for approval. A brief description of the project or research should be attached as well. Professors have the right to decline to take independent study students in a given semester. It is also the student's responsibility to meet regularly with the professor and to fulfill the special demands of the independent study. The work should be completed in the semester in which it is undertaken.
ENGL 591
Prospectus Research
1-12 credits (variable).
For doctoral students only. Supervised research and development of dissertation prospectus and colloquium committee. All doctoral students are expected to enroll
for Prospectus Research when they have passed their Preliminary Examination.
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 12 hours, may be repeated for maximum of 12 hours of credit.
ENGL 596
Independent Study
1-4 credits (variable). Individualized research and study, with
the supervision of a faculty member, in topics not covered by regular course
offerings.
ENGL 597
Master's Project Research
0-4 credits (variable).
For Master's degree students only. Supervised research and reading that facilitates the student's preparation of project research. Course is graded S/U only. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours. No more than 4 hours of ENGL 597 may be applied toward the degree.
ENGL 599
Thesis Research
1-16 credits (variable). All doctoral students are expected to enroll
for Thesis Research when they have passed their Preliminary Examination (they must also enroll in ENGL 591).
They must earn up to 32 hours for the dissertation.
LING 160: Language and Society
27461/ 27462
Drown, J
MWF 1-1:50
MWF 2-2:50
This course provides an introduction to sociolinguistics. We will be looking at how an examination of language, through concepts such as language variation and personal style, can provide a wealth on information ranging from ideas about gender to national identity. We will be treating language as data, and going out in the field for our own research studies during the semester. Some topics include: Language variation and Style, Politeness, Social Class and Networks, Gender, and Language Contact and Change.
LING 402: Trial Interaction
29203/29204
Matoesian, G.
TR 12:30-1:45
LING 487: Computer Assisted Language Learning
26649/26647
Rott S.
TR 12:20-1:45
LING 496:
Independent Study
1-4 credits
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. A maximum of 6 hours is allowed for undergraduate students, and 8 hours of credit for graduate students. Prerequisite(s): 9 hours of linguistics and approval of the head of the department. This course counts toward the limited number of independent study hours accepted toward the undergraduate degree and the major.
LING 556: Second Language Learning
14142
Short, K.
MWF 1-1:50
LING 567 Discourse Analysis
Xiang, X.
R: 5:00-7:50 p.m.
28575
This course is designed to provide students with a broad and empirically oriented understanding of various discourse-based approaches to language, e.g., reference, pragmatics, speech act theory, conversation analysis, politeness theory, literary pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistic, narrative, language and ideology, language socialization, and critical discourse analysis. Within the course of the semester, students will be guided to use discourse analytic approaches to conduct original, empirical research, focusing on aspects of language use within students' own research and/or pedagogical interests.
LING 583 Materials and Curriculum Development in TESOL
14133
Xiang, X.
TR 2:00-3:15
This course aims to facilitate students’ development of a systematic understanding and practical knowledge of materials and curriculum development with a primary focus on the teaching of English as a second/foreign language. Through a multiple-step course design project, students develop expertise essential for language teachers within and without the classroom, including, but not limited to the ability: to assess teaching situations and students needs, to select syllabus types appropriate for the target situation and learning group, to evaluate, supplement and adapt textbooks to maximize learning results, to design instructional modules based on authentic language data, and to utilize instructional technology in the second/foreign language classroom (prerequisite: LING483).
LING 586: Classroom Testing for TESOL
14134
Judd, E.
M 3-5:50
LING 594: Internship in TESOL
24114
25591
Judd, E.
ARRANGED
W 3-5:45
LING 596: Independent Study in Linguistics
ARRANGED
See instructor.
LING 598: Master’s Thesis Research
ARRANGED
See instructor.
