Fall 2004 Course Descriptions

NOTE: THE TEXTBOOK A Glossary of Literary Terms, BY M. H. ABRAMS, IS REQUIRED FOR ALL SOPHOMORE LITERATURE CLASSES (287-289).

ENGL 270-001/CPLT 270 WORLD LITERATURE TTH 9:30-10:45 GARANE
Selected masterpieces of world literature from antiquity to present. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-001 FICTION MWF 10:10-11:00 BODIE
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-002 FICTION MWF 12:20-1:10 BODIE
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-003 FICTION MWF 1:25-2:15 STAFF
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-004 FICTION TTH 9:30-10:45 STAFF
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-005 FICTION TTH 12:30-1:45 STAFF
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL E282.851 FICTION MW 5:30-8:15 STAFF
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-001 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 LEVINE
(Designed for Non-majors)
Imagining Community
How does a community define itself? By language or geographic boundaries? By laws and government? By race and religion? This course surveys literary expressions of community to consider how the stories we tell help bring into existence categories for collective understanding. Readings will extend from Beowulf to the twentieth century, and include More's Utopia, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Mary Prince's History, Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, along with novels by Austen and Naipaul, some short stories, and one or two films. Requirements include short papers, two exams, and a final.

ENGL 283-002 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 11:00-11:50 LEVINE
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-003 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 3:30-4:20 LEVINE
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-004 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 11:15-12:05 LEVINE
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-005 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 2:00-2:50 LEVINE
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-006 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 11:15-12:05 LEVINE
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-007 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 11:15-12:05 LEVINE
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-008 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 2:00-2:50 LEVINE
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-501 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING MW 1:25-2:40 LEVINE
(Restricted to SC Honors College Student)
Imagining Community
How does a community define itself? By language or geographic boundaries? By laws and government? By race and religion? This course surveys literary expressions of community to consider how the stories we tell help bring into existence categories for collective understanding. Readings will extend from Beowulf to the twentieth century, and include More's Utopia, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Mary Prince's History, Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, along with novels by Austen and Naipaul, some short stories, and one or two films.

ENGL E284-092 DRAMA SAT. 9:00-2:00 HUNGERFORD
A survey of dramatic literature from ancient Greece to the present,with an emphasis on the elements of the genre. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-001 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 1:25-2:15 DAWES
(Designed for Non-majors)
The Other Great American Literature: Drama
Combining film, and cultural references, this course takes us through the complex and engaging world of Twentieth Century America through an examination of some of the most important plays written during the century. War, sex, race, business tricks, sports, witchcraft, politics and so much more are themes that leap out of these works by such playwrights as Amiri Baraka, Ntosake Shange, Susan Lori Parks, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, David Hwang, Thornton Wilder, Wendy Wassertein, Tony Kushner, among others. Plays must be studied as plays, as works to be mounted and lifted into the flight of the theatrical space. This course will make you a true believer in the power of the stage.

ENGL 285-002 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 3:30-4:20 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-003 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 2:30-3:20 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-004 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 3:30-4:20 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-005 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-006 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 2:00-2:50 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-007 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 1:25-2:15 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-008 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 3:30-4:20 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-009 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 2:00-2:50 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-010 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 2:30-3:20 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-011 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, F 1:25-2:15 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-012 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 DAWES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-013 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 10:10-11:00 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-014 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 11:15-12:05 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-015 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 12:20-1:10 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-016 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 1:25-2:15 WIMSATT
(Designed for Non-majors)
American Dreams and Nightmares
English 285 is reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. Texts: Alger, "Ragged Dick" and "Struggling Upwards"; Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"; Douglass, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave"; Richard Wright, "Uncle Tom's Children"; Langston Hughes, "Selected Poems." Films will be used to supplement the literary assignments. Written Assignments: Frequent quizzes; 2 tests; and a comprehensive final examination.

ENGL 285-017 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 2:30-3:20 WIMSATT
(Designed for Non-majors)
American Dreams and Nightmares
English 285 is reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. Texts: Alger, "Ragged Dick" and "Struggling Upwards"; Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"; Douglass, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave"; Richard Wright, "Uncle Tom's Children"; Langston Hughes, "Selected Poems." Films will be used to supplement the literary assignments. Written Assignments: Frequent quizzes; 2 tests; and a comprehensive final examination.

ENGL 285-019 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 9:30-10:45 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-020 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-021 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-023 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 2:00-3:15 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-024 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 3:30-4:45 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-501 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 COMPTON
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Exploring the New World
This course will focus on explorations of the American continent and consciousness over three hundred years of American literature. Through the examination of diaries, essays, stories, novels, poetry and plays we will attempt to join a strange and ever changing journey through the American mind, soul and spirit. Writers to be discussed include: Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Kate Chopin, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Hart Crane, William Faulkner, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Amiri Baraka, Flannery O'Connor, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hayden, Randall Jarrell, Suzan Lori Parks, Theodore Roethke, Adrienne Rich. Writing assignments: Four critical and a final project. Tests: A midterm and a final exam.

ENGL E285-300 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 5:30-6:45 FUNDERBURK
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E285-301 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 5:30-6:45 STAFF
(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E286-851 POETRY TTH 5:30-8:15 RAGAN
Poetry will acquaint students with skills and vocabularly needed to interpret, evaluate, and enjoy lyric poetry. Class discussions initially will focus on techniques of the genre, drawing examples from a wide range of poets since the Renaissance. In the second half of the course students will investigate in detail a range of work by individual poets, including Fred Chappell's book-length Midquest. TEXTS: Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry; Chappell, Midquest. EVALUATION: Reading quizzes, two short essays, final examination.

ENGL 287 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 287-001 AMERICAN LITERATURE MWF 10:10-11:00 STAFF
Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 287-002 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 9:30-10:45 WATSON
This course provides an introduction to a range of American writers and works from the 17th to the 20th century, tracing the development of major literary forms and themes, as well as key historical and cultural trends. Given this broad scope, our readings and discussions will focus on the role of social, religious, and political dissent in the formation of an American democratic culture and the multiple communities within it. Requirements: 3 critical papers (5pp), weekly reading responses, class presentation.

ENGL 287-003 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 2:00-3:15 STAFF
Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 287-004 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 3:30-4:45 BUTTERWORTH
A study of important American Writers of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries: Franklin, Jefferson, Irving, Emerson, Poe, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Douglas, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, W.C. Williams, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston, O'Connor, Bishop, Lowell, and others. 2 critical papers (1500 words); mid-semester test; 2 hour final examination. Lecture-Discussion. Texts: The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Shorter Edition); Melville, Moby-Dick; Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

ENGL 287-501 AMERICAN LITERATURE MWF 10:10-11:00 BURNS
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E287-300 AMERICAN LITERATURE MW 7:00-8:15 WILLIAMS
Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 288 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 288-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MWF 12:20-1:10 STAFF
British poetry, drama, and prose from Beowulf to the 18th century. For more information, contact the instructor

ENGL 288-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MW 1:25-2:40 GIESKES
ENGL 288 covers a wide range of important English texts from Beowulf to the early eighteenth century. We will undertake the critical reading of texts from the beginnings of literature in English to the later English Renaissance. Our intention will be to recognize the diversity of the English tradition while also recognizing important connections between works from very different times and cultures. Readings in the Norton Anthology of English Literature (volume one) to include: Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Milton's Paradise Lost, poems by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Donne, Milton and Shakespeare, as well as drama from the middle ages to the Renaissance. REQUIREMENTS: Three short papers, three one-page response papers, and a final exam.

ENGL 288-003 ENGLISH LITERATURE I TTH 12:30-1:45 COWART
Students will read major works of English literature in a variety of genres from the medieval period to the end of the eighteenth century, by such figures as the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Wyatt, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Bacon, Browne, Herbert, Jonson, Milton, Marvell, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Gray, Cowper, and Austen. How grade will be determined: daily writing or reading quizzes, 10%; poem memorization, 5%; midterm,15%; 2 3-5 page papers, 50%; final exam, 20%.

ENGL 288-501 ENGLISH LITERATURE I TTH 12:30-1:45 RICHEY
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
We will survey English literature, beginning with the first works sung by bards around 900 A.D. (necessarily in translation), and will move on to the English texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. By proceeding in chronological fashion, we will be able to see how each period revises and transforms the literary forms of those who have gone before them, encoding in the process their unique and innovative attitudes toward history, politics, gender and aesthetics. Warning: Most of this literature is written in poetry, though most of it does tell a story. Nevertheless, this means we will need to read very slowly and carefully.

ENGL 289 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 289-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE II MW 2:30-3:45 THESING
Detailed lecture and discussion of some of the major and minor poets and nonfiction prose writers, movements, styles, traditions, and themes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Some prose writers to be studied will include: Arnold, Mill, Nightingale, Pater, and Va. Woolf. Poets will include Blake, Wordsworth, E B Browning, Tennyson, R. Browning, Arnold, C. Rossetti, Morris, Hopkins, Hardy, and T. S. Eliot. Topics will include: the Industrial landscape, religion and science, conduct of ladies and gentlemen, aestheticism and decadence. We may study some novels by Dickens and/or Hardy. A standard literary anthology will be used, but please wait until the first class for announcements concerning textbooks and course packets. Many video-screenings and slide lectures will be given to illustrate the art and temper of the times. Class attendance and participation will be important and required. Two essay exams. Oral reports, quizzes, and various writing assignments.

ENGL 289-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 9:30-10:45 STAFF
British poetry, drama, and prose from the 18th century to the present. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 289-003 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 11:00-12:15 RICE
A survey of the major authors of British literature of the Romantic era, the Victorian period, and the twentieth century. Papers: 2, a diagnostic essay (c. 3pp) and a critical essay (c. 6 pp). QUIZZES: possible. EXAMS: 3 (essay, short answer, identification format). TEXTS: Norton Anthology of British Literature, volume II.

All English courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL 270-292

ENGL 360-001 CREATIVE WRITING MWF 12:20-1:10 GREER
This course will focus on the invention of characters within a short story, or even a novella. The class will be a workshop. Students will photocopy their work and read it aloud. There will be three to four stories or one novella due at semester=s end.

ENGL 360-002 CREATIVE WRITING TTH 9:30-10:45 STAFF
(Prereq: All English courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL 270-292) Workshop course on writing original fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 360-003 CREATIVE WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 STAFF
(Prereq: All English courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL 270-292) Workshop course on writing original fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 380-001/CPLT 380 EPIC TO ROMANCE MW 12:20-1:35 ARNOVICK
This course offers a chronological survey of medieval English literature, beginning with the Old English epic, Beowulf, and ending with the Late Middle English romance, Morte Darthur. We will read selections from a range of authors and a variety of literary genres. Throughout, we will trace the influence of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius on the literature and thought of the period.

Readings will include: The Consolation of Philosophy; Beowulf and selections of Old English poetry; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and House of Fame; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Middle English lyrics; the revelations of Julian of Norwich; The Second Shepherd's Play (Wakefield); Everyman; and Malory's Death of Arthur.

ENGL 381-001/CPLT 381 THE RENAISSANCE TTH 3:30-4:45 SHIFFLETT
A survey of major works of European literature, 1500-1700. Authors are likely to include Erasmus, More, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Castiglione, Rabelais, Montaigne, Spenser, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Donne, Jonson, Milton, Grimmelshausen, Pascal, and Dryden. Requirements will include a review of criticism on each author, two essays, and three exams.

ENGL 384-001 REALISM TTH 11:00-12:15 STERN
This course will investigate the realist genre in fiction, non-fiction, art, and film. We will read across continents and centuries, including works from eighteenth-century Britain, nineteenth-century France, twentieth-century America, and twenty-first century Hollywood (a country all its own). Implicit in our readings of these texts will be an interrogation of the relationship between representation and reality, and the strategies various authors employ to make that relationship more (or less) seamless. Assignments include weekly responses, two papers, a creative project, a midterm and a final exam.

ENGL 385-001 MODERNISM TTH 12:30-1:45 BUTTERWORTH
A study of selected texts of the Modernist period. Lecture/Discussion. Lectures will address historical and cultural issues that help explain modernism. Modernist examples of painting, music, and film will also be used as illustrations of modernism in other media. Papers: two 1500-2000 word papers which address modernist aspects of the texts we study. There will be a test after each text has been has been covered in class. Two-and-a-half-hour final examination. Texts to be studied: Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Joyce, Dubliners; Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises; Faulkner, The Wild Palms; Mann,Death in Venice; Camus, The Stranger; selected poems by Eliot and Williams; Jean Renoir's film Rules of the Game.

ENGL 386-001 POSTMODERNISM TTH 2:00-3:15 RICE
A study of the idea and cultural expressions of postmodernity, concentrating on international long and short fiction. Representative writers, tentatively, will include Coover and DeLillo (USA), Murdoch and Rushdie (UK), Schmidt (Germany), Calvino (Italy), Tolstaya or Pelevin (Russia), Kiundera (Czech Republic), Borges (Argentina), and Garcia Marquez (Colombia). Two papers (one a comparative research paper), midterm, final exam.

ENGL 387-001 INTRO. TO RHETORIC MW 2:30-3:45 D. SMITH
This course introduces students to major figures and concepts in the history of rhetoric and rhetorical theory. We'll begin with rhetoric's emergence in Ancient Greece as a systematic pedagogy of civic life and then move through the history of rhetoric by examining some of the tradition's canonical texts, concluding with some of the most recent work in theory. In addition to surveying this body of work, we will be concerned with engaging the questions that rhetorical theory poses to us about the connections among language, politics, knowledge, power, social identities, and civic action.

ENGL 388-001 HIST LIT. CRITICISM /THEORY TTH 11:00-12:15 STEELE
This course will survey some of the important theories of interpretation from Plato to the present. We will cover such figures as Aristotle, Marx, and Foucault, and such topics as feminism, postcolonialism, New Historicism, and psychoanalysis. There will be a ten-page paper, a weekly journal, two tests and an oral presentation.

ENGL 389-002/LING 301 THE ENGLISH LANG. TTH 2:00-3:15 ALDERETE
Introduction to the field of linguistics with an emphasis on English. Covers the English sound system, word structure, and grammar. Explores history of English, American dialects, social registers, and style.

ENGL 390-001/CPLT 301 GREAT BOOKS WEST WORLD I TTH 3:30-4:45 KALB
While the texts under discussion in this course emerged out of a broad variety of cultures and the interactions among them, they have come to be seen by many as fundamental works of the Western European literary tradition. This course will examine how such a "tradition" is created, on what basis, and by whom. Which texts are included, and which are left out? How do authors cross cultural and temporal boundaries to enter into dialogue with one another, reinforcing the prestige of their predecessors even as they polemicize with them? What myths are perpetuated from culture to culture, and how do they change depending on authorial or chronological circumstances? Observing, for example, reworkings of Homer in Vergil and of Vergil in Dante, echoes of the Old Testament in the New, and combinations of classical and Christian texts in Augustine, Dante, and Petrarch, we will attempt to explore these questions both in historical context and in reference to various cultural debates of our own age. REQUIREMENTS: regular, informed, and productive in-class participation; 1, 15-minute stint as class discussion leader, 2 brief ID quizzes, 1, 5-7 page paper, 1 final exam.

Texts: Epic of Gilgamesh; Genesis and Exodus (excerpts, Hebrew Bible); Homer's Odyssey; Sappho, poems Sophocles, Oedipus the King; Euripides, Medea; Plato, Republic (excerpts); Vergil, Aeneid (excerpts); Luke, Romans, 1 Corinthians (New Testament); Augustine, Confessions (excerpts); The Koran (excerpts); Beowulf Dante, Inferno; Petrarch, sonnets.

ENGL 405-001 SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES TTH 2:00-3:15 MILLER
Six plays: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear.Guided discussion. We will cover topics ranging from plot design, the construction of individual scenes, and Shakespeare's style, to recurrent themes, including kingship, religion, self-deception, and Shakespeare's sense of life itself as a social drama characterized by role-playing. Attendance is required, and yes, this requirement is strictly enforced. Other requirements include three critical essays, brief class presentations, and a major project for the semester: you will try Othello for the murder of Desdemona. Five class periods will be devoted to this trial, with members of the class serving as characters from the play (including those who die, since fictional characters still exist after their fictional deaths), lawyers (and paralegals) for the prosecution and defense, media hounds, and jurors. The instructor emphasizes both lively discussion and clear, effective writing; serious attention will be given, in and out of class, to the skills of critical analysis developed in your essays.

Texts: The Norton edition of the Tragedies, ed. Greenblatt et. al, and John Trimble's Writing with Style. Students who take this course should come out of it with a clearer and more confident sense of how to write a critical analysis. They should be able to read, watch, or discuss Shakespeare plays in the future with some knowledge of the historical context of Elizabethan theater, and they should be better able to appreciate the complexities of plot, character, theme, and languageCin Shakespeare specifically, but also in literary works generally.

ENGL 405-002 SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES TTH 11:00-12:15 GECKLE
A detailed study of several Shakespeare's tragedies, such as Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. PAPERS: Two, 4-5 pp. EXAMS: Midterm and final. TEXT: David Bevington, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 4th ed.

ENGL 406-001 SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES/HIST. TTH 9:30-10:45 RICHEY
We will explore the social energy--the "stir in the mind"-- that Shakespearean theater creates within an audience of watchers and readers, thinking especially in terms of Renaissance anxieties over political power, race, gender, and sexuality. In considering these issues, we will come to terms with some of the cultural practices which separate us from Elizabethan audiences as well as some which join us irrevocably to them. Requirements: Analytical discussion questions, two papers (the second involving research), a midterm, and a final exam.

ENGL 411-001 BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE TTH 2:00-3:15 FELDMAN
To understand our world and our values, we will explore works by writers of the romantic era in Britain. We will read selections from the poetry and/or prose of writers such as Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byron, and Felicia Hemans. We will examine the way in which literature responded to various forces, including political events (such as the American and French revolutions), aesthetics, social class, the abolitionist movement, the feminist movement, innovations in the book trade and an increasingly literate public. Classes are taught by the lecture/discussion method. There will be two short essays, a midterm and a final exam.

ENGL 412-001 VICTORIAN LITERATURE MW 3:35-4:50 SCOTT
This course provides an overview of Victorian cultural developments through a survey of major Victorian poets (and selected prose writings, chiefly non-fiction), from Carlyle and Tennyson in the 1830's to the Aesthetes of the 1890's. Texts: TBA. Written requirements: two shorter reports (3-5 pages, September, October), one longer paper involving library research (7-10 pages, November), final exam. There may also be occasional short reading quizzes.

ENGL 420-001 AMERICAN LIT. TO 1830 TTH 11:00-12:15 WALLS
Inventing America
Founding fathers. The last frontier. The last of the Mohicans. The city on a hill. Love it or leave it. Who created the idea of "America," anyway? And how did it become the governing ideal of the United States? This course proposes that "America" was created through language and literature, starting with the first tentative imaginings of explorers, propagandists, and settlers, shaped by the fighting words of Paine and Jefferson, and refined by the post-revolutionary fictions of early American novelists and playwrights. We will conduct a thematic survey of early American literature, in cultural, political, and philosophical context, exploring the creation of the idea of "America." How did the colonists come to define themselves as "American," separate from both the Indians and the English? Why did "nature" become so closely tied with American literature and identity? How does the witch trial fit in with an emergent democracy?--or Jeffersonian democracy with a slave society? How, during the turbulent Revolution, did early American fiction and drama help us define ourselves to ourselves? And how are we even yet using the past to tell ourselves who we are today?

ENGL 426-001 AMERICAN POETRY TTH 3:30-4:45 VANDERBORG
This course explores the diverse poetic innovations of American modernist poetry, ranging from precursors like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to early and late twentieth-century authors. How did these poets "make it new," as Pound put it, and what specific conventions of genre, syntax, and symbolism did they revise or break? What makes them uniquely American? COURSE GOALS: 1. To gain familiarity with key modernist poets and movements. 2. To practice close reading techniques for poetic analysis. ASSIGNMENTS: 1. An in-class midterm examination. 2. A final 3. A 4-page class preparation essay (approx. 1000-1200 words) on any poem or brief passage from a particular day's reading on the syllabus. 4. One 7-page essay (approx. 1800-2100 words). For this longer assignment, please feel free to choose any piece by a post-1865 American poet except a poetry selection listed on the syllabus. 5. Daily preparation assignments. GRADING: Midterm: 25%; 1st Paper: 15%; 2nd Paper: 25%; Final Exam: 30%; Class participation: 5%.

ENGL 427-001 SOUTHERN LITERATURE TTH 9:30-10:45 SHIELDS
The south: is it a region, a culture, an attitude, a phantom polity, a community? This course will introduce students to the distinctive and vivid voices that have at one time or another been identified with the south. It will explore Athe south before there was a south@CAthe culture that failed to become a nation@Cand the 20th century region haunted by memory, troubled by racism, and animated by a hope for redemption and transcendence. We will read novels, poems, short stories, and brief histories. We will listen to some of the rich heritage of folk and popular music that came from the region. Authors: Captain John Smith, Ebenezer Cook, William Byrd, George Ogilvie, William Gilmore Simms, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Mark Twain, George W. Cable, Kate Chopin, Charles Chesnutt, Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, Maya Angelou, Bobbie Anne Mason. There will be one substantial paper, two brief written exercises in interpretation, a brief written piece supplying the historical context of a reading, two tests, and an examination.

ENGL 428-001 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT. TTH 3:30-4:45 RENEAU
In this course, we will examine literary and film works by 20th Century African Diaspora writers with a view towards interrogating the role of the middle passage in the literary/artistic imagination of writers/film makers of the African Diaspora. We will read texts and watch films by the following artists, Olaoudiah Equiano, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Tom Feelings, Kwame Dawes, Estella Conwill Majozo, Grace Nichols, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Stephen Spielberg and Ayi Kwei Armah.

ENGL 429N-001 TOPIC/GOD=S TROMBONE MW 12:20-1:35 WHITTED
God's Trombones: Religion and Spirituality in African-American Literature
This course scrutinizes the increasingly complex and diverse ways that African-American literature engages the sacred dimensions of life through religion. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the cultural intersections between race, spirituality, and social identity in works ranging from the eighteenth-century poems of Phillis Wheatley to James Baldwin's classic, Go Tell it on the Mountain. Other readings to include works by James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, Alice Walker, and Ernest Gaines. Among the major themes that we will examine are the influences of West African beliefs and practices on slave religion, spirituals, black conversion experiences, womanist theology, and the debates over accommodation and resistance in the church. Because this course focuses primarily on Christian representations and modes of theological inquiry, general knowledge of the Bible is especially helpful, but not required. Course assignments to include weekly quizzes, a mid-term, and a research paper (12-15 pages).

ENGL 429P-001 TOPIC/MEN, WOMEN & FREEDOM MW 12:20-1:35 FORTER
This course examines how American authors of the twentieth century have conceptualized freedom in relation to gender. We will look at a range of texts from across the century, including novels, poems, a graphic novel, popular songs, film, and essays. The assumption guiding the course is that the aspiration toward freedom is for these texts' authors intimately bound up with the question of what it means to be a man or a woman. This is equally true for black and white authors, straight and gay authors, working-class authors and authors from more privileged classes. One of our central concerns, then, will be to articulate the relations between the categories of race, class, sexuality, and gender. This will entail exploring the various social forces that limit freedom and human agency: racism, sexism, homophobia, familial trauma, industrial capitalism. Above all, we will try to discover how and to what extent our authors imagine that these constraints can be overcomeCto what extent they believe human freedom is possible, and how their visions of freedom are inflected by conceptions of gender.

TEXTS (to be drawn from the following): K. Chopin, Awakening; E. Cleaver, Soul on Ice; W. E. B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk; D. Dinnerstein, Mermaid and the Minotaur; W. Faulkner, Light in August; F. S. Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby; H. D., Flowering of the Rod; L. Hughes, Selected Poems; Z. N. Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; N. Larsen, Passing; P. Monette, Love Alone; T. Morrison, Beloved; T. Olsen, Yonnondio; M. Robinson, Housekeeping; M. Rukeyser, The Poem as Mask; A. Spiegelman, Maus; A. Walker, Meridian; I. B Wells, On Lynching; Malcolm X, from Autobiography; shorter texts by J. Baldwin, S. Bordo, C. C. Catt, T. S. Eliot, M. Garvey, E. Goldman, A. Lorde, B. Nugent, A. Rich, R. Wright, M. Sanger, T. Veblen.

ENGL 431-001 CHILDREN=S LITERATURE TTH 11:00-12:15 JOHNSON
This course, most appropriately, would be titled "Multicultural American Children's Literature." It will begin with an examination of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, published at the turn of the century, and will go on to examine other texts which are in some way related to central ideas of and about America and Americans. In the second half of the course we will read books by and about Asian, African, Hispanic, Native, and other Americans. We will explore issues such as sexism, classism, and racism in children's literature as well as "the politics" of the publishing industry. In addition, we will address topics as wide ranging as censorship, authorship, child psychology, and book illustration. PAPERS: Annotated Bibliography (or project) and 1 critical paper, 7-10 pp. TEXTS: Alma Flor Ada, My Name is Maria Isabel; Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie; L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz; Yoshiko Uchida, Journey Home, Lois Lowry, Number the Stars; Nat Henloff, The Day They Came to Arrest the Book; Virginia Hamilton, Zeely; Mildred Taylor, The Friendship/The Gold Cadillac; David Russell, Literature for Children: A Short Introduction; Betty Bacon, ed., How Much Truth Do We Tell the Children?: The Politics of Children's Literature. Picture books as assigned and critical articles as assigned. Individual meeting with professor, lead one class discussion, one 15-page paper OR project developed in consultation with professor, one short research paper, one take-home examination.

ENGL 432-001 ADOLESCENT LITERATURE MWF 11:15-12:05 WILLIAMS
The topic of this course is contemporary young adult literature and how young adults develop an understanding of adult literature through reading this genre. We will examine several issues during the semester: What is the difference between adult literature and young adult literature? What is the history of this genre? What are the classics of the genre? How does the genre illuminate adolescent psychological development? We will read and respond in writing logs to a wide range of diverse YA literature, including several recent Newbery Medal winners as well as multi-ethnic novels and a biography. Assessment will be based on students' portfolios, which will consist of diverse reading logs, a personal essay connected to one of the selections, a critical essay exploring one writers work, and a project.

ENGL 437-001/WOST 437 WOMEN WRITERS TTH 2:00-3:15 STERN
This class will offer a survey of texts and issues in women's literature, with a focus on works by 19th- and 20th-Century British and American women writers. We will read a variety of genres, with particular emphasis on the novel. Hot topics include sexuality, race, education, and subversion. Course requirements: weekly response paragraphs, one short paper, one research paper, a midterm, and a final exam.

ENGL 439K-001 TOPIC/CARIBBEAN LITERATURE MW 11:15-12:30 DAWES
The course in Commonwealth Literature will focus primarily on Caribbean writing. The course will entail a close textual analysis of the work of several Caribbean writers. The course will cover all major genres--poetry, fiction and drama. The course will also entail an introduction to literary theory and post-colonial analysis as well as a careful examination of the socio-political conditions that have shaped Caribbean society and Caribbean literature. This course will focus exclusively on writing in English. PAPERS: There will be four essays. One from each genre and a research paper. EXAMS: There will be two in-class context exercises. There will be a three hour examination at the end of the course. Students will be expected to make presentations in class. The class will engage in a detailed textual reading of Walcott=s Omeros. The class will entail a combination of lectures, presentations, and in-class discussions. There will be a viewing of the film AThe Harder They Come@.

ENGL 439O-501 TOPIC/CAUGHT IN THE CREATIVE ACT MW 5:30-6:45 HOSPITAL
(Restricted to SC Honors College students and others with permission of the instructor)
Caught in the Creative Act is a new kind of course, one that connects authors and readers, daily life and art, a culture and its living writers. The course consists of alternating lectures and vibrant interactive sessions with the authors of the works being studied (contemporary novels, collections of short stories, poetry, memoirs.) Though the course is available for undergraduate credit, it is also open for audit (with auditor's fee) to graduate students, to any member of the university community, and to the public at large. To ensure wide accessibility, class sessions will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings. The visiting authors will read from their work and answer questions.

ENGL 450-001/LING 421 ENGLISH GRAMMAR TTH 9:30-10:45 DISTERHEFT
An intensive survey of English grammar: sentence structure, the verbal system, discourse, and transformations. Also discussed are semantics, social restrictions on grammar and usage, histories of various constructions, etc. Please read Chapter 1 of the textbook before the first class meeting. TESTS: one midterm, one final. TEXT: Dorothy Disterheft, Advanced Grammar: a manual for students. Prentice-Hall.

ENGL 453-001/LING 431 DEVELOPMENT ENGLISH LANG. MWF 10:10-11:00 ARNOVICK
When Chaucer made the observation, "that in forme of speche is chaunge," he stated the self-evident, perhaps without knowing the principles of historical linguistics. He emphasized the fact that words change, but he had nothing to say on pronunciation or sentence structure.

English has been written down for more than 1200 years, and the earliest written sources show the language in a form radically different from today's. This course traces the language through its three stages of Old English (about 500 to 1100 CE), Middle English (1100 to 1500), and Modern English (1500 to present). Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of the pronunciation from the earliest times to now, on the changes in the meaning and form of words, and on changes in sentence structure. Attention will also be given to social and historical factors which bring about language change. At the beginning of the course the relationship of English to other Indo-European languages will be explored briefly. Prior knowledge of linguistics is not necessary.

Texts: Pyles, Thomas and John Algeo, 1993. The Origins and Development of the English Language. 4th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers. ISBN: 0-15-500-168. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.Texts will be supplemented by handout packet.

ENGL 460-001 ADVANCED WRITING MW 12:20-1:35 HOLCOMB
The purpose of this course is to explore more advanced, more sophisticated approaches to the analysis and composition of English prose. In particular, we will focus on Acreative nonfiction,@ a sub-genre that encourages us to see connections among the three areas that define contemporary English studies: literature, creative writing, and composition. While seeking to make such connections, we will develop a complex vocabulary of prose analysis which will, in turn, enhance our repertoires for producing original prose compositions. In the end, I hope to make you more aware and more self-conscious as both readers and writers of English prose. Course work will include three papers (5-6 pages each), a weekly writing journal, 10 short exercises, and a take-home final. Required Texts: Sims, Norman and Mark Kramer. Literary Journalism. New York: Ballantine Books, 1995; Williams, Joeseph M. Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Seventh edition. New York: Longman, 2003.

ENGL 460-002 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 3:30-4:45 N. BUTTERWORTH
English 460 is an extensive practice in different types of nonfiction writing. TEXTS: Cooley, Thomas. The Norton Sampler. 6th ed., and Hampl, Patricia. I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory. REQUIREMENTS: Students will: write and revise 5 essays in different modes: Narration, Description, Metaphor/Analogy, Comparison-Contrast, and Persuasion/Argumentation; present one essay to the class for peer evaluation; participate in numerous conferences with the instructor; read and analyze model essays The Norton Sampler and I Could Tell You Stories; and keep a reading/writing journal. EVALUATION: Grades in the course will be based upon successful completion of all the assignments. Emphasis will be placed on giving the students constructive suggestions for revision. Each essay (except the last) will be submitted, discussed in conference, and revised before a grade is recorded. If the grades are erratic, they will be averaged; however, if the student is making steady progress, the final grade will reflect this improvement. Essays will count 85%, the journal, reading quizzes and test on I Could Tell You Stories, and class participation about 15%.

ENGL 460-003 ADVANCED WRITING MWF 11:15-12:05 STAFF
Extensive practice in different types of nonfiction writing. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 460-004 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 WATSON
This course approaches the refinement of writing skills through the development of rhetorical acumen. To that end, this course is organized around two main components. First, it will serve as an intensive introduction to a range of classical and contemporary rhetorical terms and concepts in order to provide insight into how language works persuasively and stylistically. Second, we will apply this rhetorical understanding to our own and others writing. The course will include readings and discussions; peer review and writing workshops; practice in various genres through short, informal and longer, formal writing assignments; and a final project on a topic and in a nonfiction genre of the studentos own choosing.

ENGL 461-001 TEACHING OF WRITING MW 2:30-3:45 WILLIAMS
This course explores the theory and practice of the teaching of writing in middle and secondary school. During the semester, students will focus on themselves as teachers, but they will inevitably develop their own writing skills as a result of their participation in writing response groups. Assessment will be based on students portfolios, which will consist of reading logs, a personal reflective essay, a bibliographical essay, and a report on a project connected to the teaching of writing in public schools.

ENGL 462-001 TECHNICAL WRITING MW 2:30-3:45 STAFF
Preparation for and practice in types of writing important to scientists, engineers, and computer scientists, from brief technical letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-001 BUSINESS WRITING MWF 10:10-11:00 STAFF
Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-002 BUSINESS WRITING MWF 11:15-12:05 STAFF
Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-003 BUSINESS WRITING TTH 8:00-9:15 STAFF
Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E463-092 BUSINESS WRITING SAT. 9:00-2:00 PARROTT
Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E463-300 BUSINESS WRITING WED. 5:30-8:15 B. ANDERSON
This course is designed to allow for the application of written communication skills to practical, real-world situations. The focus is on the writing process as it is utilized in professional contexts. Students will be introduced to current theory in business communication regarding style and formats, audience analysis and adaptation, composing and designing documents, persuasive messages, direct mail packages, and sales brochures. Other topics to be covered may include but are not limited to using graphs and visuals in presentations, creating effective resumes and cover letters, ethics in communication, bias-free documents, and writing for international and culturally diverse audiences. Instruction in the course will be delivered through lectures, small group work, outside of class assignments, audio-visual resources and presentations, and student discussion.

Required Course Materials:
Textbook: Business and Administrative Communication, 6th edition.
Kitty O. Locker. Available in bookstore.
Black, 8 2 by 11 inch pocket folder. Other supplies as needed for assignments
College dictionary. All students must purchase a textbook for the course by the second class meeting.

ENGL 464-001 POETRY WORKSHOP TTH 3:30-4:45 DINGS
This course is an advanced undergraduate poetry writing course. Students with no previous training should enroll in a lower division course instead of this one. Students should be prepared to write poems in a variety of forms, including traditional forms using meter and rhyme and open forms. This course uses the workshop method, and students must be prepared to have their work discussed openly in class by their peers. Students must also be prepared to contribute regularly and intelligently to these group discussions. Grades will be determined by class participation and a portfolio of revised original poetry. TEXTS: The Making of a Poem, edited by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland, W. W. Norton.

ENGL 465-001 FICTION WORKSHOP TTH 12:30-1:45 GREER
In this course, the student will write four short stories. Photocopies will be made by each student and his/her story presented to the class. The course is taught by a contemporary writer. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E465-300 FICTION WORKSHOP TTH 5:30-6:45 LAMB
This is a fiction workshop. The idea is to learn by doing, as well as by studying how others did it. Everybody has at least one story to tell and the ability to tell it. How good it is is another matter, but, generally speaking, the secret to good writing is rewriting. We also explore the creative impulse and the magic of story.