SPRING 2017
ENGL, FILM, AND WRIT OFFERINGS
(the prerequisite for all of these courses is ENGL 2110, ENGL 2111, ENGL 2112, ENGL 2120, ENGL 2121, ENGL 2122, ENGL 2130, ENGL 2131, ENGL 2132, or ENGL 2300 unless otherwise noted)
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING 3 COURSES ARE OFFERED ONLY ON THE MARIETTA CAMPUS AND THAT THEY CAN BE TAKEN ONLY BY CURRENT DWMA MAJORS: ENGL 4170/01 (13317), ENGL 4490/01 (13313) and ENGL 4800/01 (13356).
Engl 2145/01 MW 9:30am-10:45am EB134 Gephardt
Engl 2145/02 W 2:00pm-3:15pm EB134 Walters
[THIS IS A HYBRID SECTION]
Engl 2145/03 MW 5:00pm-6:15pm EB266 Watson
Engl 2145/04 TR 11:00am-12:15pm EB134 Shelden
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIES. This course introduces students to the reading, writing, research, and critical strategies essential to the KSU English and English Education majors. The course draws connections among the four content areas in the English Department (Literature, Language, Writing, and Theory) and focuses on their relationship to broader social and personal contexts, enabling students to make informed choices about their program of study and their careers.
Engl 2160/01 MW 3:30pm-4:45pm EB166 Watson
Engl 2160/02 TR 2:00pm-3:15pm EB166 Rice
AMERICAN LITERATURE SURVEY FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT.
Engl 2172/01 M 11:00am-12:15pm EB168 Bowers
[THIS IS A HYBRID SECTION]
Engl 2172/02 M 3:30pm-4:45pm EB168 Bowers
[THIS IS A HYBRID SECTION]
BRITISH LITERATURE SURVEY TO 1660.
Engl 2174/01 T 9:30am-10:45am EB166 A.Davis
[THIS IS A HYBRID SECTION]
Engl 2174/W02 Online Online Gephardt
[THIS IS AN ONLINE SECTION]
BRITISH LITERATURE SURVEY FROM 1660 TO THE PRESENT.
Engl 2271/01 MW 9:30am-10:45am EB253 Crovitz
PRESENTATION IN THE ENGLISH/LIBERAL ARTS CLASSROOM. Professional and community standards demand that English teachers model effective language arts skills and application. In this course, students will prepare for that role. They will study, practice, and apply the effective language strategies and skills needed to guide today’s English/Language Arts classrooms.
Engl 3030/02 TR 2:00pm-3:15pm EB72 Bohannon
STUDIES IN GRAMMAR AND LINGUISTICS. FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR FOR DIGITAL AUTHORING. This specialized writing course traces language conventions and syntactic structures as they change through digital writing spaces and teaches students to apply these conventions in the fields of content creation and interactive design. This course focuses specifically on critical technology theory, descriptive grammar as it evolves in cyber-spaces, and collaborative, public, digital writing. Students practice through applied projects examining Internet dialects as well as language differences among multimodalities.
Engl 3035/01 TR 11:00am-12:15pm EB166 D.Johnson
Engl 3035/W02 Online Online D.Johnson
[THIS IS AN ONLINE SECTION]
INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS. This course analyzes the nature of human language. It includes an introduction to speech sounds, morphology, and syntax. A heavy emphasis is placed on the social and pedagogical implications of modern linguistic theory, which includes an examination of issues such as Standard English, dialect variation, language acquisition, or English as a Second Language.
Engl 3040/W01 Online Online D.Johnson
[THIS IS AN ONLINE SECTION]
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. This course reviews the development of English, with attention to influential historical events and to the evolving structure of the language. Changes in the language are studied in conjunction with changes in English literature and literacy. The course begins with a study of the language’s Indo-European roots and its establishment in England. The course examines the three periods of English: Old English (the era of Beowulf, the first epic poem in English), Middle English (the time of Geoffrey Chaucer, “the father of English poetry”), and Modern English (which starts during the Renaissance, the time of William Shakespeare). The course concludes with the rise of World English--that is, the varieties of English spoken in America and across the globe.
Engl 3232/01 T 2:00pm-4:45pm SS3007 Botelho
TOPICS IN DRAMA. SHAKESPEARE ON FILM. What are the implications of moving Shakespeare from stage to screen? This course will examine current critical debates about Shakespeare on film and provide an introduction to the history and significance of Shakespeare’s presence in Hollywood. We will consider various offshoots, adaptations (both faithful and unfaithful), and spin-offs of five of the Bard’s plays during the course of the semester, includingGeorge Cukor'sA Double Life(1947),Orson Welles’Othello(1952),George Sidney’s Kiss Me Kate (1953),Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957),Andrew McLaglen’s McLintock! (1963),Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996),Kenneth Branagh'sHamlet(1996),Gil Junger's10 Things I Hate About You (1998), and Johathan Levine's WarmBodies (2013). Requirements include four interpretative film responses, a review essay, a group presentation, a final essay exam, and active participation. This course is cross listed with FILM 3220/01.
Engl 3241/01 TR 9:30am-10:45am EB253 Moran
TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL MEDIA IN THE ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM. The purpose of this course is for future English/Language Arts teachers to study and create a wide range of print and nonprint texts for multiple purposes. Students will learn how to use and integrate technologies into the twenty-first century English/Language Arts classroom. The prerequisite for this course is Engl 2271.
Engl 3250/01 TR 11:00am-12:15pm EB253 Moran
TEACHING WRITING IN MIDDLE GRADES LANGUAGE ARTS. This course is an exploration of current theories of composition pedagogy in practice at the middle grades level, including a variety of strategies for teaching and assessing writing while dealing with institutional policies (including state standards and high-stakes testing). Students write for a variety of purposes and audiences; analyze traditional and non-traditional writing assignments for their strengths and limitations; and develop effective instructional strategies, materials, and assessments. The prerequisite for this course is Engl 2271.
Engl 3270/01 TR 9:30am-10:45am EB140 Wright
TEACHING GRAMMAR AND USAGE IN MIDDLE GRADES LANGUAGE ARTS.
This course examines approaches for teaching grammar in the middle grades. Students practice grammatical appropriateness in oral and written communication; develop an understanding of grammatical concepts and constructions; analyze errors in order to develop effective instruction; study structures as a means of promoting syntactic growth and diversity of style in writing; and develop constructive, use-based lessons. This course includes an overview of modern grammars, the history of grammar instruction, and research on grammar instruction. The prerequisite for this course is Engl 2271.
Engl 3310/01 MW 2:00pm-4:45pm EB253 Goodsite
Engl 3310/02 TR 11:00am-1:45pm EB140 Devereaux
PRINCIPLES OF WRITING INSTRUCTION. An exploration of current theories of grammar instruction and theories of composition pedagogy and assessment, including a variety of strategies for teaching writing while dealing with institutional policies, such as standardized testing; and acquiring grammatical competence in oral and written communication, understanding what grammar errors reveal about writing, promoting syntactic complexity in writing, and studying grammatical structures that promote syntactic growth and diversity of style in writing. In a writing workshop environment, students will write for a variety of purposes and audiences. The prerequisite for this course is Engl 2271.
Engl 3330/01 W 5:00pm-7:45pm EB72 Niemann
GENDER STUDIES. This course will enable students to become better informed about border issues as they relate to gender. We will look at films, travel narratives, novels, and auto ethnography from the three groups that co-exist in Southwestern culture: Hispanic, Native American, and Anglo. The course focuses on the contested spaces of the American Southwest and the Mexican border through the lens of race, gender, and class, primarily focusing on literature and film as primary texts. We will view the overlapping maps of East-to-West Anglo migration, South-to-North Hispanic migration and return, and the Native American experience of contact. We will examine tourism and travel as they relate to these larger ideas. We will use an interdisciplinary approach that contextualizes the West in terms of geography, social history, politics, visual culture, tourism, and the cultural production of traditional stories. The four major works by Native American, Anglo, and Hispanic authors all cross the border or have the border cross them. We will also read poetry, stories, and non-fiction that contextualize and interrogate ideas and histories embedded in the major texts. This required reading will be on D2L. We will view films which establish and deconstruct myths of the West and which reveal counter-histories of the region. Students will develop projects suitable for conference presentations and as possible first drafts of applied projects involving travel to Mexico and participation in Study Abroad. This course is cross listed with AMST 3760/01 and GWST 4040/01.
Engl 3330/W02 Online Online Guglielmo
[THIS IS AN ONLINE SECTION]
GENDER AND POPULAR CULTURE.: This cross-listed course engages students in an examination of gender as depicted in popular culture texts. Surveying a range of popular culture forms, students will critique depictions of gender; practice using theories and methods of analysis from gender and women’s studies, rhetorical studies, and literary studies to understand popular culture’s role in shaping gender identity; and engage inresearch on gender in the context of popular culture. This course is cross listed with GWST 3030/W01.
Engl 3340/01 MW 9:30am-10:45am EB72 Kim
ETHNIC LITERATURES. INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. This course explores the literary productions of Asian American artists. By examining these novels, short stories, poems, memoirs, and plays, we seek to understand the particular connections between literary form, expression, and production and the social formations of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationalism. Through this, we will try to understand how even the seemingly most personal relationships expressed in cultural production are rooted in and shaped by historical and social circumstances. As we explore how various artistic productions by Asian Americans redefine American history and geography, ideas of individualism and citizenship, identity and difference, this course will also introduce some historical frameworks for understanding contemporary American life. However, Asian Americans come from a diverse range of national and cultural backgrounds, and their literature presents many different perspectives and experiences. Hence this course will not attempt a survey of these works; rather, our readings will reflect particular preoccupations that regularly surface in these works. These include racism and stereotypes, migration, and redefining home and America. This course is cross listed with ASIA 3780/01 and AMST 3780/01.
Engl 3350/01 MW 11:00am-12:15pm EB166 King
REGIONAL LITERATURE. THE LITERATURE OF GEORGIA: With the advent of the Southern Renascence, Georgia—like the rest of the Deep South—became “a nest of singing birds.” The diverse chorus of literary voices from Georgia has continued unabated to the present day. So many splendid writers have come from Georgia that it is in fact impossible to consider them all in a single course. Yet this section of Regional Literature will address a number of the very best. Beginning with Sidney Lanier and Joel Chandler Harris, we will move into the 20th century with readings of Jean Toomer and Erskine Caldwell, but our primary focus will be upon the great Georgia writers who shaped a literature that transcends the regional to become truly universal. We will read selections from Margaret Mitchell, Lillian Smith, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O’Connor. We will reconsider the poetic legacies of Byron Herbert Reece and James Dickey. And, beginning with Alice Walker, we will move into an appreciation of more recent poets and novelists whose experiences and literary imaginations were shaped by a rapidly changing Georgia that, while not always perfect, has established itself as one of the most progressive states in the entire South. Fittingly, the course will also consider the work of our two Georgia Nobel Laureates Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jimmy Carter. Their achievements are enduring proof that Georgia literature has shaped not only the region, but indeed the entire world. Because there are so many great writers to consider, students will be granted autonomy to explore their own personal favorites in addition to the required readings. The course will also require site visits to the myriad of literary shrines across Metro Atlanta and the state.
Engl 3350/02 TR 9:30am-10:45am UC202 Miles
REGIONAL LITERATURE. NORTHERN IRELAND. In this upper-division seminar, we will explore the complex and capacious literature of Northern Ireland. Originating from a land historically fraught and long politically and culturally divided, Northern Irish literature remains one of the world’s richest repositories of artistic endeavor; its review invites the careful reader to consider the relationship between art and politics, in particular. Using the region as the primary category of analysis—both as textual backdrop and authorial homeland—students will be introduced to the poetry, fiction, and drama of writers such as Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Deirdre Madden, and Brian Friel. Through the lens of literature, participants will expand their knowledge of a region small geographically but mighty in political, cultural, and historical contexts. Students will investigate Northern Ireland’s relationship to the Republic of Ireland and to the United Kingdom; examine the fraught history of the region’s sectarian politics and the often violent consequences of regional affiliations; and consider the region’s place on the globalized map of the current century. This course is cross listed with HON 3301/01.
Engl 3360/01 TR 11:00am-12:15pm EB72 Washington
MAJOR AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS. This course examines the development of African American
literature with emphasis on major African American writers defining trends, movements, genres, and
themes. Students will analyze literature written from the 18th century to the present. This course is cross listed with AADS 4040/02.
Engl 3390/01 TR 5:00pm-6:15pm EB166 Hamby
GREAT WORKS FOR MIDDLE GRADES TEACHERS. A survey of classic literature written by diverse authors. The texts studied are frequently found in middle grades classrooms. Focus will be on text analysis and writing about literature.
Engl 3391/01 TR 8:00am-9:15am EB166 Montgomery
TEACHING LITERATURE TO ADOLESCENTS. Using narrative as a central genre, this course introduces current English teaching philosophy and practice in teaching literature to adolescents. This course models current ways to integrate technology into the curriculum, identifies a variety of multicultural teaching texts, and extends the study of critical theory into the teaching of literature to adolescents.
Engl 4220/01 MW 11:00am-12:15pm EB72 Morgan
CRITICAL THEORY. This is an advanced course in interpretive theoretical paradigms as applied to
the study of literature and culture, focusing on critical models such as Marxism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytic criticism, and Gender, Ethnic, and Cultural studies. The prerequisite for this course is Engl 2145.