Courses offered Spring 2015:
Undergraduate Level
ENG100 ENGLISH COMPOSITION:WRITING CENTER (1-3 credits) (#1012)
Brandon Kelone
One-to-one, individualized teaching to improve your writing. Pass-fail only.May be repeated for up to 3 units of credit.
ENG107 ENGLISH COMPOSITION:WRITING CENTER (1-3 credits) (#4916)
Rachel Koch
One-to-one, individualized teaching to improve your writing. Pass-fail only.May be repeated for up to 3 units of credit.
ENG105 CRITICAL READING AND WRITING IN THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY (4 credits)
English 105 is a four-credit-hour survey course that introduces you to critical reading and writing in the academic community. Through the semester, we practice the reading process: generating questions or deriving answers from texts; summarizing texts, identifying examples, drawing inferences, and making logical or comparative connections; organizing information in a variety of ways; seeing and learning rhetorical skills used by effective writers; and evaluating the merits of what we read. At the same time, we practice the writing process; identifying audience and purpose; gathering or finding ideas; organizing and interrelating those ideas for readers; drafting in order to develop, support, and illustrate ideas; revising from trial-and-error and in light of peer input; editing for clarity and accuracy. Course fee required.
ENG 110: Rhetoric in the Media
(#5599) TTH8:00-9:15 am
Kyle Boggs
This introductory course examines the texts of American popular culture (advertising, television, film, sports, spaces, cultural rituals, radio, and videogames) to teach critical thinking, reading, and writing; rhetorical analysis; and argumentation. Students write close analyses of cultural criticism texts as well as produce their own innovative criticisms of pop culture texts—both through creating ad spoofs and composing final projects about American pop culture.
Area: Rhetoric & the Teaching of Writing
ENG 130: The World of Literature
(#5598) TTH 8:00-9:15 am
(#6153) TTH 12:45-2:00 pm
Robert Canfield
What does it mean to be a hero? What does it mean to be human? Where do the two intersect? In English 130 we will study a variety of literature from the three basic genres: poetry, fiction, and drama. We will examine works from a wide range of time periods and cultures in an attempt to better understand the creative expression, through written means, of the human condition. Our aim will be to draw connections between the diverse selections, specifically studying what it means to be human, what it means to be a hero, and whether the two have anything to do with each other. This course will pay attention, through assessment, to the four essential skills of critical reading, critical thinking, effective writing, and effective oral communication.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: Freshman or Sophomore status or Honors Student Group.
ENG205 THE ACADEMIC WRITER'S WORKSHOP (2 credits)
Reading and writing skills in response to academic texts.Letter grade only.
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 40+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG210 PRINCIPLES IN RHETORIC (3 credits)
(#4374) TTH 9:35-10:50
Nicole Pfannenstiel
This course will follow a western approach to rhetoric beginning with Classical Rhetoricians (the Sophists, Plato), and concluding with more modern approaches to communicative acts. The end goal is for you to become more aware, more explicit, and more conscious on language, visual, audio, and video choices for communicating ideas. You will practice analyzing, researching, and presenting on theories as well as other people's use of rhetoric. You will also practice creating and developing your own end products with rhetorical frameworks to guide your conscious decisions.
Area: Rhetoric & the Teaching of Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG211 PRINCIPLES OF WRITTEN ARGUMENTATION (3 credits)
(#5227)TTH 9:35-10:50 am
Greg Glau
During the semester, we will discuss what argument means in our society. We will read many examples of arguments, and you will be able to differentiate the types, methods, and conventions of argumentation in articles you read and write. We will look at various ways of delivering argument, and thoroughly cover audience analysis. Your goal is to improve your argumentative writing skill for use in any discipline or situation. The central question for the semester will be, “Is everything an argument?” By evaluating your own habits, beliefs and interactions, along with current issues and events, we hope to definitively answer the preceding question.
The subjects covered in class will most likely spur emotional and logical debate, and should be quite fun. Keep in mind that all opinions are to be valued and respected. You don’t have to agree with anyone else. You do have to respect everyone else and keep anything you say respectful. I don’t want to coddle people who are “offended” if anybody says anything they don’t happen to agree with. On the other hand, I don’t want to allow anybody to say hurtful, obscene, or derogatory things. Sometimes, this is a hard balance to find. As we grow as a class, your opinions may change or may become stronger, so it is important that we provide an atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable sharing their views and ideas.
This is a Liberal Studies course in the Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry distribution block.Courses in this block involve students in the study of the human condition through philosophical inquiry and analysis of the various forms of creative expression. These courses help students develop an understanding of the relationship between context and human creative expression, major conceptual frameworks utilized to make sense of the creative arts, and how human experience and values are expressed through creative endeavors. Students will also develop their capacities for analysis and ethical reasoning along with an understanding of the multiple facets of the human condition. The mission of the Liberal Studies Program at Northern Arizona University is to prepare students to live responsible, productive, and creative lives as citizens of a dramatically changing world. To accomplish the mission of Liberal Studies, Northern Arizona University provides a program that challenges students to gain a deeper understanding of the natural environment and the world’s peoples, to explore the traditions and legacies that have created the dynamics and tensions that shape the world, to examine their potential contributions to society, and thus to better determine their own places in that world. Through the program students acquire a broad range of knowledge and develop essential skills for professional success and life beyond graduation.
Through the program students acquire a broad range of knowledge and develop essential skills for professional success and life beyond graduation. In addition to discipline specific skills, this course will emphasize effective writing, an essential skill defined in the University’s Liberal Studies Program.
Course Goals and Student Learning Expectations/Outcomes for this Course
To successfully complete this course, students must do the following in written and oral forms:
- Identify and discuss strategies of argumentation (an outcome linked to the aesthetic & humanistic inquiry distribution block)
2.Demonstrate developed critical thinking and writing skills through interpretation and analyses of the readings in the text, as well as other readings supplied throughout the semester (effective writing is the essential skill that will be assessed for the Liberal Studies program)
3.Strengthen writing skills by engaging in varied forms of writing assignments (effective writing is the essential skill that will be assessed for the Liberal Studies program)
ENG220 ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE (3 credits)
(#1088) MW 12:40-1:30 pm, F 10:20-11:10 am
(#3452) MW 12:40-1:30 pm, F 11:30-12:20 pm
(#3453) MW 12:40-1:30 pm, F 12:40-1:30 am
Soo Jung Youn and Meghan Moran (TA)
Current views on American English usages.Surveys prescriptive-descriptive grammar debate in relation to norms, dialects, and cultural values.Letter grade only.
Area: Applied Linguistics
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG 231SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE TO 175O: Heroes, Villains, and Moral Ambiguity (3 credits)
(#1077) TTH 12:45-2:00 pm
Patricia Marchesi
What makes a hero? What constitutes a villain? Is it always easy to tell between the two? Why do some authors present us with morally ambiguous characters, narrators, and/or viewpoints?These are some of the questions we will explore as we read genres such as epic, drama, personal narrative, and poetry. Through an analysis of the concepts of heroism, virtue, courage, villainy, and moral ambiguity, the course aims to define the Anglo-Saxon, medieval, early modern/Renaissance, and Restoration periods.
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190n or HON 191
ENG 232: BRITISH LITERATURE AFTER 1750 (3 credits)
(#5786) MW 4:00-5:15 pm
Ryan Farrar
This course will introduce students to British literature from 1750 to the present. Students will learn of prominent literary movements including Romanticism, Victorian literature, and Modernism. Readings will include works by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Shelley, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, and George Orwell. Students will be evaluated based on participation, quizzes, short papers, and exams.
Area: Literature
Fulfills LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 232: BRITISH LITERATURE AFTER 1750 (3 credits)
(#4918) TTH 8:00-9:15 am
Gabrielle Mortellaro
This course will introduce students to British literature from 1750 to the present. Students willlearn of prominent literary movements including Romanticism, Victorian literature, andModernism. Readings will include works by William Blake, William Wordsworth, MaryWollstonecraft, Percy Shelley, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, WilliamButler Yeats, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, and George Orwell.Students will be evaluated based on participation, quizzes, short papers, and exams.
Area: Literature
Fulfills LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG242 AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO 1865 (3 credits)
(#3178) MW 2:20-3:35 pm
Ryan Farrar
This course will orient students to the developments of American literature in poetry, short stories, nonfiction, and novels from the time of British colonization up to 1865. Students will acquire a fundamental understanding of philosophical and literary movements including Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Transcendentalism. Readings will include works by John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Susana Rowson, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. Students will be evaluated based on participation, quizzes, short papers, and exams.
Area: Literature
Fulfills LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG243AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM 1865 TO PRESENT (3 credits)
(#1409) MW 2:20-3:35 pm
Karen Renner
This course is designed to familiarize you with the themes, stylistic features, and historical/cultural contexts of major works of American literature from 1865 to the present as well as the common terms used to discuss this period of literature. Readings will include short stories by Edith Wharton, Jack London, Sui Sin Far, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Hurston, plays by Eugene O’Neill and David Ives, and poetry by e. e. cummings and William Carlos Williams. Instruction is discussion based, and evaluation will be based on essays, quizzes, and class participation.
Area: Literature
Fulfills LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG245 U.S. MULTI-ETHNIC LITERATURE SURVEY (3 credits)
(#4919) TTH 9:35-10:50 am
Jeff Berglund
This introductory course surveys multi-ethnic literature written in the United States from the formation of “America” to the present. In order to capture the diversity and complexity of these traditions in writing, we will read poetry, autobiography, fiction, and drama by Asian American, African American, Chicano/a and Native American writers. Discussions will explore various ways that race, class, gender and ethnic identity are expressed in these texts, and consider each text, not in isolation, but in its proper aesthetic, historical and political context.
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG247INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3 credits)
(#6158) Online Asynchronous
(#7361) Online Asynchronous
Monica Brown
This course is a survey of African-American literature in the United States, from the antebellum period to the present.
Area: Literature
Fulfills: LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry.
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG 253: World Literature
(#6155) MWF 9:10-10:00 am
Robert Canfield
Selected texts in world literature with an emphasis on problems of comparative literary and cultural study. Letter grade only
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191
ENG261 INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN WRITERS (3 credits)
(#3053) TTH 4:00-5:15 pm
Nancy Paxton
In this introductory course, students will read poetry, drama, and fiction written in the19th and 20th century by British and American women writers. Nearly half the readings in this course will focus on texts written by African-American, Native American, and other minority women writers. In order to better understand how gender, sexual identity, and the female body have been “constructed” in the past and continue to shape American women’s sense of “self,” we will read a variety of classic, “lost,” and contemporary texts written in English by British, American, and Native American women. Class discussions will explore how class, race, ethnic identity, and sexual orientation intersect with gender in these texts. Through short lectures, class discussions, and other activities, students will explore various features of “difference” in women’s writing, how gender affects genre definitions, how canonization has shaped our view of women’s creative writing, and our knowledge of our “foremothers.”
Area: Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student
ENG 266 WORLD CINEMA: AN INTRODUCTION (3 credits)
(#3584) M 4:00-6:30 pm
(#4515) M 4:00-6:30 pm
Rebecca Gordon
An introductory survey of the first one hundred years of cinema, including histories and texts from traditionally underrepresented areas such as Africa, the Middle East, Australasia, Asia, and Latin America.Letter grade only.
Area: Literature
Prerequisite:ENG 105 or HON 190 or instructor's consentCU
ENG270INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING:FICTION (3 credits)
(#3478) F 12:45-3:15
Alan Woodman
Beginning course in short-story writing that emphasizes the composition and revision of student stories.Letter grade only.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG270 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING:FICTION (3 credits)
(#3588) T 4:00-6:30 pm
Erin Stalcup
This class begins an in-depth investigation of the art of writing fiction. You will write your own stories or chapters (at least two!) and revise at least one, you will read your classmates’ work to explain what excited you and to offer suggestions for revision, and you will read the work of published authors. Together, we’ll see how writers generate Character, Plot, Conflict, Atmosphere, Language, Change, and Significance, and how iconic story forms get used again and again, yet in new ways. Because this class specifically focuses on literary short stories, you might be introduced to a kind of storytelling you aren’t familiar with. I believe fiction writing is alive and well and beautiful stories are being written today—by famous authors and by college undergraduates—and I want you to leave this course with an enthusiasm for the form and a sense of how to craft the kinds of stories you want to tell. Previous writing experience is not required, though desire to write and read a lot is.
Beginning course in short-story writing that emphasizes the composition and revision of student stories.Letter grade only.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG270 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING:FICTION (3 credits)
(#3589) W 4:00-6:30 pm
Staff
Beginning course in short-story writing that emphasizes the composition and revision of student stories.Letter grade only.
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG271 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING:POETRY (3 credits)
(#4204) TH 4:00-6:30 pm
(#4920) T 4:00-6:30 pm
Justin Bigos
This course will introduce students to the genre of poetry – not some rarified, dusty old thing, but an ancient art form that is continually being reinvigorated with each new generation of poets. We’ll read a culturally and aesthetically diverse array of contemporary American poets, as well as a hands-on primer, and respond to these works both in class and in reading responses. We will focus on how use of syntax and line, rhythm and meter, imagery, diction, structure, and tone contribute toward the making of poems. Students will have their poems workshopped by their peers and teacher – verbal participation is crucial. While some class time will be devoted to in-class writing exercises (such as the “textu,” or poem-as-text-message, coined by poet Fady Joudah), students should expect to spend a few a week writing and revising poems outside of class. The final portfolio will consist of five poems (two substantially revised).
Area: Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group
ENG272 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING: CREATIVE NONFICTION (3 credits)
(#3450) M 4:00-6:30 pm
Justin Bigos
This course will introduce students to the genre of creative nonfiction. We will focus on how style, technique, voice, and narrative development help form successful essays. We’ll read an anthology of contemporary essayists, as well as a full-length memoir, and respond to these works both in class and in written reading responses. Students will have their essays workshopped by their peers and teacher – verbal participation is crucial. While some class time will be devoted to in-class writing exercises (such as the “Tiny Truths Contest,” sponsored by Creative Nonfiction magazine, in which people tweet 130-character “true stories”), students should expect to spend a few hours a week writing and revising essays outside of class. The final portfolio will consist of two essays (one substantially revised), as well as a short, reflective essay on the craft of creative nonfiction.