Fall 2014 Undergraduate Course Descriptions

Fall 2014 Undergraduate Course Descriptions

ENG 100: English Composition: Writing Center

TBA – University Union Room 254

One-to-one, individualized teaching to improve your writing.Pass-fail only. May be repeated for up to 3 credits.

ENG105: Critical Reading and Writing in the University Community

English 105 is a four-credit-hour survey course that introduces you to critical reading and writing in the academic community. Throughout 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 107: Intensive Writing Lab

TBA – Liberal Arts 302

One-to-one, individualized teaching to improve your writing.Pass-fail only.May be repeated for up to 3 credits.

ENG 110: Rhetoric in the Media

(#12194) TTH9:35-10:50 am

(#12195) TTH11:10-12:25 pm

Stephanie Capaldo

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 and the Teaching of Writing

ENG 121: The Story of English

(#12162) MW 12:40-1:30 pm; F 12:40-1:30 pm

(#12185) MW 12:40-1:30 pm; F 10:20-11:10 am

(#12186) MW 12:40-1:30 pm; F 9:10-10:00 am

Joan Jamieson

ENG 121 examines the social and historical factors that have influenced the history of the English language. An examination of the multi-cultural influences on the English language—not just from its present day state but from its historical development—will enhance your understanding of English and address some puzzling and remarkable facts concerning English. Students will have multiple opportunities to explore many aspects of English and English speakers to understand better how modern day English has evolved in the way it has.

Area: Linguistics

Fulfills: LS requirements for Cultural Understanding

ENG 130: The World of Literature

(#12088) TTH 12:45-2:00 pm

STAFF

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.

ENG 205: The Academic Writer's WorkshopThe Advanced Writer’s Workshop is a course for students who wish to improve and increase their writing abilities in response to the academic tasks they encounter. Students will review principles of rhetoric, and they will evaluate, research, and practice writing techniques. This will help them develop their skills as a writer as they learn to adapt forms and techniques that will enable them to write clearly and coherently. In addition, students use technological tools to enhance their writing and presentation style. Class time will consist of individual and group activities, in-class writing assignments, and short lectures. Students are responsible for being prepared for class discussion, participation, group work, and writing tasks. Course fee required.

ENG 210: Principles In Rhetoric

(# 12084) TTH 9:35-10:50 am

Amber Nicole Pfannenstiel

Readings and instruction in the art of effective written communication, directed toward enabling you to meet the demands of any rhetorical situation. Letter grade only.

Area: Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing

Fulfills: Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group

ENG 223: Language in the US

(#12163) MW 1:50 – 2:40 pm; F 9:10-10:00 am

(#12187) MW 1:50 – 2:40 pm; F 10:20-11:10 pm

(#12188) MW 1:50 – 2:40 pm; F 12:40-1:30 pm

Randi Reppen

English 223 is an introduction to English dialects and registers, which provides a general overview of regional, social, and situational varieties of English in the United States. Methods for collecting and analyzing spoken and written samples of dialects and registers are introduced. In addition to class participation and attendance, coursework will include, analytic tasks, tests and a final project.

Area: Linguistics

ENG 231: British Literature to 1750: Heroes, Villains, and Moral Ambiguity

(#12089) MWF9:10-10:00 am

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, agency, courage, villainy, and moral ambiguity, the course aims to define the Anglo-Saxon, medieval, early modern/Renaissance, and Restoration periods.

Area: Literature

Fulfills: Liberal Studies requirements for Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group

ENG 231: British Literature to 1750

(#12090) TTH11:10 AM – 12:25 PM

Jay Farness

“Major authors and movements in the literature of England from its beginnings to 1750,” says the NAU Catalog, but there’s more.

This class samples almost a thousand years of writing in Great Britain, giving us practice with most of the kinds of literature there are. We study influential or eye-opening examples of narrative, of lyric, and of drama, and we try to evaluate the celebrity of these works and their claims on our respect. Writers include Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Milton, and Pope, but you will meet or re-greet others as well. Class format emphasizes close reading of texts and discussion of contexts. Assignments include two short essays, three tests, and regular reading quizzes.

Area: Literature

Fulfills: Liberal Studies requirements for Aesthetic and Humanistic Inquiry

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results (Accuplacer WR 8; PLACE 50+) or International Exchange Student Group

ENG 232: British Literature after 1750

(#12091) MW 2:20 – 3:35 pm

Donelle Ruwe

Course Description: ENG 232 is a survey of British writers from 1750 to the present day. We discuss not only important literature but also cultural, artistic, and historical events. Students will gain a passing familiarity with the Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Postmodern literary periods. Students will learn key concepts and literary terms associated with different movements, and recognize important texts and historical events. This course covers 260 extraordinary years in the history of literature, and I hope that,by the end thisthis survey, you will discover authors and literary movements that you may choose to study at greater depth in the future. Grades will be determined through daily work, quizzes, midterm, final, and a casebook project. Required Texts: Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol 2 (9th edition, Feb. 2012, vols. D, E. F) and Norton Critical Edition of Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights.

Area: Literature

Fulfills: Aesthetic and Humanistic inquiry

Prerequisites: Eng. 105, or Hon. 191 or Hon. 192.

ENG 242: American Literature from Colonial to 1865

(#12098) TTH 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 before 1865. Readings will include works by Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Hannah Webster Foster, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, and Emily Dickinson. Instruction is discussion based, and evaluation will be based on a quizzes, small writing assignments, formal essays, and energetic class participation.

Area: Literature
Fulfills LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry
Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191

ENG 243: American Literature from 1865 to the Present

(#12099) TTH 4:00 – 5:15 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 Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, short stories by Edith Wharton, Jack London, Sui Sin Far, and William Faulkner; plays by Tennessee Williams and David Ives; and poetry by E. E. Cummings, Anne Sexton, and Billy Collins. Instruction is discussion based, and evaluation will be based on a variety of essays, quizzes, and exams as well as spirited class participation.

Area: Literature
Fulfills LS Requirements for: Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry. **Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191

ENG 245: US Multi-ethnic Lit Survey

(#12100) MWF 9:10-10:00 am

STAFF

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. We will survey the social conditions that have, at times, suppressed writing by racial and ethnic minorities and excluded these writers from the traditional literary canon. We will also challenge traditional conceptions of the category of “American Literature,” exploring the distinct contributions by multi-ethnic writers.

Area: Literature

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191

ENG 253: World Literature

(#14397) MWF 9:10-10:00 am

(#15220) MWF 10:20-11:10 am

STAFF

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

ENG 261: Introduction to Women Writers

(#12101)TTH 12:45-2:00

Nancy Paxton

This introductory course surveys poetry, drama, and fiction written in the19th and 20th century by British, American, and Anglo-phone women writers. Nearly half the readings in this course will focus on texts written by African-American, Native American, and other minority women. 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. Through short lectures, class discussions, and other activities, we will explore how gender intersects with class, race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. in these texts. Letter grade only.

Area: Literature

Fulfills: LS Requirements for Aesthetic & Humanistic Inquiry

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191

ENG 266: World Cinema: An Introduction

(#12102) W 4:00 – 6:30 pm

(#12103) W 4:00 – 6:30 pm

STAFF

An introductory survey of the first 100 years of cinema, including histories and texts from traditionally underrepresented areas such as Africa, the Middle East, Australia, Asia, and Latin America. Letter grade only.

Area: Literature

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191

ENG 270: Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction

(#12408) M 4:00 - 6:30 pm –Erin Stalcup

(#12136) TH 4:00 – 6:30 pm – Erin Stalcup

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

ENG 270: Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction

(#12137) TH 3:00 - 5:30 pm

(#13219) F 12:45 – 3:15 pm

Allen J. Woodman

ENG 270 offers beginning writers the chance to get their feet wet in the fundamentals of fiction writing, introducing them to the basic elements of narrative form, character, conflict, scene, point of view, and dialogue. The first part of the course will be devoted to covering the nuts and bolts of the creative writer's craft. The second part of the course will be devoted to workshop-style discussions of student writing projects (short stories).

Area: Creative Writing

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results

ENG 271: Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry

(#12138) TH 4:00 – 6:30 pm

(#12139) M 4:00 – 6:30 pm

(#15194) F 12:45 – 3:15 pm

Justin Bigos

Description: This course will introduce students to form, voice, and poetic technique. We’ll read a wide variety of contemporary poets and respond to their work both in class and in reading responses. Students will have the opportunity to workshop their poems and will comment, in writing and in the course discussion, on each other’s poems.

Area: Creative Writing

Prerequisite:ENG 105 or HON 190 or English Placement Test Results

ENG 272: Creative Nonfiction

(#12140) T 3:00 – 5:30 pm – Nicole Walker

(#15219) F 12:45 – 3:15 pm – Jane Armstrong

A beginning course in creative nonfiction writing that emphasizes the composition and revision of student essays. Letter grade only.

Area: Creative Writing

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190

ENG 300: Current Trends/Theories Teaching English

(#12141) MW 12:45 – 2:00 pm

Sandra Raymond

This course introduces the underlying theories of reading and writing instruction and how those theories translate into practice in the secondary classroom, as well as the current professional trends and issues facing public school English teachers. We will pay particular attention to trends and theories in media literacy, curriculum development, standards and standardized testing, policy issues, and public perception of teachers, with a special focus on the use of technology in the classroom and the use of electronic portfolios.

Area: English Education

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or equivalent

ENG 301W: Language and Literacy

(#12142) MW 4:00 – 5:15 pm

Renee Rude

In this course, we will explore the relationships among language, literacy, and learning as they impact practices of English teaching at the secondary level for native English speakers and English Language Learners (ELL). Central questions of the course include: What are the goals of language and literacy education in middle and secondary contexts? What insights are current research studies about language and literacy suggesting and debating? As we immerse ourselves in theoretical issues and debates both current and historical in language, literacy, and learning, we will also develop classroom practices, strategies, and lessons that follow from and hopefully complicate these theories.

Area: English Education

Fulfills: Junior Level Writing Requirement forBSED English Education students

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191 and 9 hours of ENG

ENG 302W: Technical Writing

(#13358) Online Asynchronous

(#13359) Online Asynchronous

(#12121) TTH 9:35-10:50 am

Alana Kuhlman

This course provides instruction in the characteristics of technical communication, and the qualities that comprise excellence in technical communication. Students will receive instruction and experience in writing different types of technical communications, including proposals, technical descriptions and instructions, analyses, evaluation and recommendation reports, abstracts, progress reports, business letters, technical articles, resumes, and correspondence.

Area: Professional Writing

Fulfills:NAU's junior-level writing requirement

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191

ENG 302W: Technical Writing

(#13360) Online Asynchronous

(#13361) Online Asynchronous

Michael Collins

Area: Professional Writing

Fulfills:NAU's junior-level writing requirement

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191

ENG 302W: Technical Writing

(#12123) MWF8:00 – 8:50 am

(#12124) MWF 9:10 – 10:00 am

(#12125) MWF 10:20 – 11:10 am

(#12126) MWF 11:30 – 12:20 am

Mark Gula

Area: Professional Writing

Fulfills:NAU's junior-level writing requirement

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191

ENG 302W: Technical Writing

(#13516) TTH9:35 – 10:50 am

(#13517) TTH 9:35 – 10:50 am

(#12122) TTH 8:00 – 9:15 am

(#12127) TTH 11:10 – 12:25 am

Sharon Crawford

Area: Professional Writing

Fulfills:NAU's junior-level writing requirement

Prerequisite: ENG 105 or HON 190 or HON 191

ENG 305W: WRITING IN DISCIPLINARY COMMUNITIES

(#13310) Online Asynchronous

(#13311) Online Asynchronous

(#15229) F 10:20 – 11:35 am

(#15230) F 10:20 – 11:35 am

Amanda Gilbert

English 305W: Writing in Disciplinary Communities is a survey course in writing and the professions. The course’s emphases are five writing principles found in all disciplines: purpose, audience, document design, sentence control, and workplace writing. Along with these writing principles, the following skills are developed: critical reading, analytical writing, research, presentation, and rhetorical strategies.