Fall 2005 Course Descriptions

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

ENGL 270-286 Designed for Non-majors.

ENGL 270-001 WORLD LITERATURE MW 3:30-4:45 DUFFY

Selected masterpieces of world literature from antiquity to the present. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-001 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 282-003 FICTION TTH 12:30-1:45 GREER

Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-004 FICTION TTH 2:00-3:15 FOX

Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-501 FICTION MWF 11:15-12:05 STAFF
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)

Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL E282-092 FICTION SAT.9:00-2:00 RAGAN

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 LEWIS

"It had been my accidental reading of fiction and literary criticism that had evoked in me vague glimpses of life's possibilities." Richard Wright wrote this in 1945. In this course, we will glimpse some of life's possibilities as seen in memorable selected fiction. We will use fiction and literary criticism as meaningful and powerful tools for exploring the variety and diversity of human beings. We will read texts critically, draw connections among them, and let them talk with each other.

ENGL 283-001 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 RICE
(Designed for Non-majors)

The Subaltern Matrix--Class, Gender, Coloniality

This course will survey the reflections of patriarchal power and subordination in English fiction, from the end of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Among the works read will be H.G. Wells' The Time Machine; Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; James Joyce's The Dead; George Orwell=s 1984; Margaret Drabble=s The Millstone; Tsitsi Dangarembga=s Nervous Conditions; J. M. Coetzee=s Dusklands; Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day; and stories by Katherine Mansfield.

ENGL 283-002 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 RICE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-003 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 RICE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-004 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 RICE
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-005 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 RICE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283- 006 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 RICE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-007 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 RICE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-008 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 RICE

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 284-001 DRAMA MWF 12:20-1:10 COMPTON

An introduction to drama as literature and performance. Students will read plays from a variety of periods and genres, as well as attend two plays and have discussions with theatre artists. Plays will be selected from the following: Aristophanes: Lysistrata; Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night=s Dream; Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of An Author; Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun; Caryl Churchill: Top Girls August Wilson: Fences; Tony Kushner: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches; Anna Devoir Smith: Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities; Sudan Lori Parks: Topdog/Underdog Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics; Harold Pinter: Betrayal and Sam Shepherd: True West.

ENGL 285-001 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS
(Designed for Non-majors)

UP & DOWN THE LADDER OF SUCCESS

American culture has an enduring obsession with the quest for personal success. From the Puritan agonizing over salvation to the American Idol Contestant yearning for celebrity, images of aspiration and narratives of failed hopes dominate the culture's literature. How has success been envisioned? How does one get it? What is the cost (individual, social, environmental) of personal triumph? What is the recipe for failure? How glorious can success be, and how abject can failure be? What is the pathology of the quest?

TEXTS: Captain John Smith, Advertisement for Experienced Planters; Cotton Mather, Life of William Phipps; Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Mason L. Weems, The Life of George Washington; Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Artist of the Beautiful; P. T. Barnum, Struggles & Triumphs of 40 Years; Narrative of Sojourner Truth; Horatio Alger, Bound to Rise; William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham; Andrew Carnegie, "The Gospel of Wealth"; Willa Cather, "The Professor's House"; Nathaniel West, The Day of the Locust; Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman; "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying".

ENGL 285-002 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-003 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-004 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-005 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-006 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-007 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-008 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-009 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-010 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-011 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-012 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 SHIELDS

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-013 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 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 AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 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 AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 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 AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 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 285-017 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 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 285-018 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT TTH 9:30-10:45 BODIE
(Designed for Non-majors)

This course is intended to acquaint the student with the writings of significant authors from many different periods and backgrounds. It is not intended to be a historical survey. Instead, it is organized around prevalent themes and ideas dealt with in various ways by American writers: humor and tall tales, terror or horror, religion, nature, the search for maturity, solitude, war, race, social change, and the past. The primary emphasis will be on the literature itself; the lives and backgrounds of the authors will be dealt with only to the extent that they contribute to understanding and appreciating the literary works.

TEXTS: Nina Baym, ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter 6th ed.; M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms. TESTS and EXAMINATIONS: There will be a midterm test and a final examination. These will consist largely of discussion questions (some rather brief) but will also include some factual questions. The final examination will cover only material taken up after the midterm test. WRITING: You will write one paper, three to five pages in length. GRADE DETERMINATION: Midterm–2/5, Final Examination–2/5, Paper.

ENGL 285-019 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 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 AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 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 AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 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 AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 STAFF
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)

Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E285-300 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 WILLIAMS
(Designed for Non-majors)

This English 285 course is a survey course that explores recurring themes in American literature. A typical class will include discussion, lecture and analysis of assigned readings. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E285-300 THEMES IN AMER. WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, TH 8:00-8:50 FUNDERBURK
(Designed for Non-majors)

This English 285 course is a survey course that explores recurring themes in American literature. A typical class will include discussion, lecture and analysis of assigned readings. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 286-001 POETRY TTH 12:30-1:45 STAFF

Poetry from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 286-501 POETRY TTH 9:30-10:45 DINGS
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)

This course will focus on the close reading of various important poems by canonical and contemporary British and American poets. While a one-semester course cannot be comprehensive, this course will introduce students to a broad range of poets and poems, historically and formally. We will read some of the best poems written in the English language. Comprehensive readings of poems will be enhanced by an understanding of formal techniques and metaphorical thought. Students will be expected to offer intelligent and insightful commentary on assigned poems each class period. Grades will be determined by exams, quizzes, papers, class participation, and attendance.

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 287-002 AMERICAN LITERATURE MWF 11:15-12:05 STAFF

Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 287-003 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 11:00-12:15 JACKSON

ENGL 287 is a survey of American Literature from its colonial origins in the fifteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth. To goal of the course is to introduce you to the broad sweep of American literary history and to help you develop your skills as close readers. Readings will include poems, short stories, novels, and non-fictional prose, and the periods we will cover include the Age of Atlantic Exploration, Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Transcendentalism and Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism. Assessment will be based on two essays, a midterm, a final examination, and a variety of briefer, in-class and take-home assignments.
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ENGL 287-004 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 2:00-3:15 STAFF

Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 287-005 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 12:30-1:45 JACKSON

Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, contact the instructor.

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, contact the instructor.

ENGL E287-300 AMERICAN LITERATURE MW 5:30-6:45 LAMB

Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 288 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 288-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MWF 10:10-11:00 STAFF

British poetry, drama, and prose from Beowulf to the 18th century. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th ed., Vol. I; M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 6th ed. For more information, contact instructor.

ENGL 288-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE I TTH 9:30-10:45 STAFF

British poetry, drama, and prose from Beowulf to the 18th century. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th ed., Vol. I; M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 6th ed. For more information, contact instructor.

ENGL 288-003 ENGLISH LITERATURE I TTH 12:30-1:45 RICHEY

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, Renaissance, and Restoration. 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. Most of this literature is written in poetry, and most of it does tell a story. Nevertheless, this means we will need to read very slowly and carefully.

ENGL 288-501 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MWF 9:05-9:55 CROCKER
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)

An introductory survey of major authors from Chaucer to the 18th Century, exploring the ways literary form and expression interact with cultural circumstances. Emphasis upon Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton among others.

ENGL 289 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 289-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE II MWF 10:10-11:00 STAFF

British poetry, drama, and prose from the 18th century to the present. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 289-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE II MW 1:25-2:40 JARRELLS

In this course we will survey British writing from the Romantic to the Modern period. Readings will be organized primarily by period and genre. However, some close attention will be paid to historical and thematic links across period and genre--in particular, those relating to empire and authorship. Required texts: The Longman Anthology of British Literature, vol. 2, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

ENGL 289-004 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 2:00-3:15 MADDEN

This course is a survey of British literature from 1800 to the present. Our first objective will be to gain some familiarity with major periods, issues, and authors. To that end we will develop part of our semester historically, moving through the major periods (Romanticism, Victorianism, Modernism, Postmodernism and Contemporary), exploring historical, generic, and thematic connections. Our second course objective will be to explore ways of thinking and writing about literature in general, and British literature in particular. We will focus on a number of themes, and on 20th-century literature. Two primary emphases will be: (1) the exploration of the tension between the individual and his/her society and (2) the retelling of traditional stories from other (sometimes nontraditional) points of view. Of special interest will be the status of Ireland; the exploration of gender and sexuality; representations of religious faith; and portrayals of social difference.

Textbooks will include: Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol 2; a packet of poetry and short fiction; a play, Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel; and two short novels, History of the World in 10 2 Chapters by Julian Barnes and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson.

Writing assignments will include 3 short critical essays, a few short writing assignments (response papers), and occasional reading quizzes. There will be a midterm and a final exam (not comprehensive).

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

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 FOX

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 MWF 10:10-11:00 GWARA

A study of major works of epic and romance expressive of heroism, love, civilization, irrationality and Christian philosophy. Texts include Homer=s Iliad, Ovid=s Metamorphoses, Beowulf, Chrétien de Troyes= Knight of the Cart (King Arthur), Njal=s Saga (medieval Scandinavian), Chaucer=s Troilus and Criseyde, with secondary readings assigned.

ENGL 381-001/CPLT 381 THE RENAISSANCE TTH 2:00-3:15 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 382-001 THE ENLIGHTENMENT TTH 3:30-4:45 JACKSON

ENGL 382 is an in-depth exploration of the Age of Enlightenment and its literary legacies from the 1680s through the 1810s. Punctuated by revolutions in England, America, France, and Haiti, the Enlightenment has been associated with innovation, individualism, and liberty, and at the same time with moderation, reason, and restraint. It was both. It has been seen as the basis of modern science and also as the harbinger of soulless consumerism. It was all of these and more. Priests and atheists, politicians and revolutionaries, scientists and poets, all claimed the Enlightenment as their own. They were all right. This course will trace the development of Enlightenment across three centuries and two continents, and look at the literary dimensions of the age in poetry, philosophy, political propaganda, and pornography as well as in travel narratives, abolitionist tracts, scientific polemic, and scandalous satire. Readings will range from brief extracts to complete novels and assignments will include several papers, presentations, in-class activities, a mid-term, and a final exam. This course counts as a pre-1800 in the major checklist.

ENGL 384-001 REALISM MWF 11:15-12:05 MAPP

Realism as a mode of discourse does not offer universal Truth; instead it promises particular truths filtered through individual viewpoints and shaped by specific social moments. In four centuries of British and American fiction we=ll explore how this emphasis on particular truths arose and attempt to gauge its continuing influence. We=ll read realist novels and short stories, touch on realist flourishes to be found in other genres like painting, philosophy, poetry and film, and supplement our own conclusions with brief critical readings. We=ll start with the eighteenth-century English novelist Daniel Defoe; read nineteenth-century British and American authors such as Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and Henry James; and then confront twentieth and twenty-first-century versions of the realist form. Assignments include weekly responses, two papers, a midterm and a final.

ENGL 385-001 MODERNISM MW 12:20-1:35 FORTER

This course examines the international modernist movement in the context of World War I (with some attention to World War II and the Spanish Civil War). We will be especially concerned with the relations between modernist formal techniques*that is, the stylistic innovations of modernist authors*and the psychic and social disruptions caused by the war. Can we conceive of the formal peculiarities and difficulties of modernist texts as attempts to record the fragmentation and disorientation that many contemporaries felt in the wake of the "Great War"? Is the war itself best understood as a unique, unprecedented event, or as one cataclysmic symptom of the spread of industrial capitalism in the years 1890-1920? We will pursue these questions through a range of texts from the American, British, French, and German traditions. Other issues central to our inquiry will be the role of gender in determining responses to the war; the differences between literary and political representations of the war; and the place of the war in African American fiction, poetry, and politics of the 1920s and 1930s. TEXTS: H.D., Trilogy; Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms; Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front; Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; Wright, Long Black Song; McKay, poems; Hughes, poems.

ENGL 386-001 POSTMODERNISM TTH 11:00-12:15 VANDERBORG

We will cover an international selection of post-World War II fiction, focusing on the metaphor of the city. How are communal spaces and histories described in the texts? Who inhabits these postmodern cities? The course is reading-intensive and discussion-oriented, with brief introductory lectures. Close reading of textual passages is emphasized. COURSE GOALS: 1. To examine themes and styles associated with postmodernist narrative. 2. To gain a critical vocabulary for analyzing contemporary literature. REQUIREMENTS: An in-class midterm, a two hour final, a 2100-word close reading paper, and unannounced quizzes on the reading selections. Each student is also expected to come to every class with at least one question or comment about the reading selection for that day. GRADING: Midterm: 25%; Paper: 30%; Final exam: 35%; Quizzes and class participation: 10%. ABSENCES: You can have up to three absences in the course, after which each absence will reduce your final grade by 1/3 of a grade. Seven absences will be an automatic failure for the course.

ENGL 387-001 INTRO. TO RHETORIC MW 2:30-3:45 WATSON

We rarely hear the word rhetoric used today without a negative connotation: empty rhetoric or mere rhetoric. Yet rhetoric is an ancient and useful system of study, the principles of which have been employed in law, politics, education, science, and religion from classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, into modern times. This course will explore how rhetoric is variously defined, and how it shapes the way people develop, organize, and deliver their ideas in a variety of contexts. Students will be introduced to the history and theories of rhetoric, especially as they apply to contemporary issues and situations. Students will write several 4-6 page papers and do an oral presentation.

ENGL 388-001 HIST LIT. CRIT /THEORY TTH 3:30-4:45 STEELE

This course will survey some of the important theories of interpretation from Plato to the present. We will cover such as 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 389-001/LING 301 ENGLISH LANG MWF 10:10-11:00 STAFF

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. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 389-002/LING 301 ENGLISH LANG MWF 11:15-12:05 STAFF

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. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 390-001/CPLT 301 GREAT BKS. WEST WORLD I TTH3:30-4:45 STAFF

European masterpieces from antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 405-001 SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES TTH 12:30-1:45 MILLER

Objectives: This course should help you understand Shakespeare=s plays, if you don=t already. It should improve your experience whether reading or watching them. It should also give you a chance to improve your skills of critical analysis and expository writing.

We will read six playsCfour major tragedies along with two plays normally listed as comediesCso we can think about differences between the genres. Discussion will key on aspects of Shakespeare=s dramaturgy, including plot design, the construction of individual scenes, style (verse and prose), and recurring themes, especially Shakespeare=s sense of social and political life as a drama characterized by role-playing.

A distinctive feature this fall is that our section of ENGL 405 will be partnered with a graduate course on ATeaching Shakespeare to Undergraduates.@ Graduate students from this course will attend our class, and at some point in the semester they=ll take turns at teaching. They will also work informally as mentors to undergraduates in the class.

Requirements include three critical essays, one brief class presentation, and participation in a major course project: during a two-week period in the second part of the semester, we will meet in the moot court trial room at the USC law school and try Othello for the murder of Desdemona.

Attendance is required, and this requirement is strictly enforced. 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 for ENG 425 are the Norton edition of the Tragedies, ed. Greenblatt et. al, and John Trimble=s Writing with Style.

ENGL 405-002 SHAKESPEARE=S TRAGEDIES TTH 9:30-10:45 RHU

A survey of Shakespeare's major tragedies and romances from Hamlet to The Tempest. Attention to genre and other matters of literary interest will be set against the background of Renaissance thought and English political history. A range of current critical and creative responses will also be explored.

ENGL 406-001 SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES/HIST TTH3:30-4:45 GIESKES

We will read a representative selection of Shakespeare's comedies and histories while placing the plays into their dramatic and historical contexts. Our intent will be to read the plays closely as literature-objects of verbal art-and as playtexts-scripts for theatrical production. In addition we will attempt to situate Shakespeare's plays in the context in which they were produced: early modern London. Plays likely to include: As You Like It, Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, Richard III, Richard II, 1 Henry IV, and Henry V. We will also read extensive selections from McDonald's Companion to Shakespeare. REQUIREMENTS: two papers, a play or film review, a treatment of one scene, a midterm, and a final exam.

ENGL 411-001 BRITISH ROMANTIC LIT. 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 419N-001 MEDIEVAL MASCULINITIES MW 12:20-1:35 CROCKER

This course investigates the ways that medieval literatures constitute varying masculine subjectivities, paying attention to the ways different genres inflect contrasting modes of masculinity. Besides thinking about distinctions between romance and fabliau masculinities across authors including Geoffrey Chaucer and the Gawain-poet, we will also pursue the social implications of such literary representations. As Wycliffite writings and conduct manuals demonstrate, becoming a man in medieval society is not an easy or safe process, and thinking through the cultural expectations that define masculinities opens up avenues of inquiry relevant to other gender and social positions. We will, therefore, read several texts written by, for, or from the point of view of women to see how those writers respond to various types of masculine authority. We will also discuss women's influence over different meanings of manhood in medieval society, from Christine de Pizan to Margery Kempe. This course counts as a pre-1800 in the major checklist.

ENGL 420-001 AMERICAN LIT. TO 1830 MW 12:20-1:35 SHIELDS

An encounter with the writings produced by and about America from the European contact to the founding of the American republic. The emergence of America on the world stage was, perhaps, the decisive happening in world history during the last millennium. We shall read a host of writings from 1585-1800 dealing with the exploration of unknown lands, the encounter with a new world of plants, animals, and peoples, imperial wars, political revolutions, Christian mission and kingdom-building, heroic commerce, the rise of capitalism, the scientific challenge to revealed religion, the enslavement of Africans, liberation of early modern women, the transformation of world aesthetics, the shattering of traditional paradigms of knowledge, the creation of the United States and the attempt to articulate an American destiny. ENGL 420 counts as a pre-1800 literature course in the major.

Topics and Texts: The European Discovery of American and the Crisis of Western Self-understanding. Wishes and Wonders: Hariot, A Briefe and True Report, Columbus, Letter. Virginia: Captain John Smith, Of the Natural Inhabitants, Advertisements; James Revel, The Poor Unhappy Felon=s Sorrowful Account. The Rise of Slavery. Las Casas, The Tragical History of the West Indies. The holy commonwealth. Cotton Mather, Galeacius Secundus; William Bradford, All anthologized sections of Of Plimoth Plantation; Winthrop, Model of Christian Charity. & Sinners: Thomas Morton, New England=s Canaan, Cotton Mather, Intro Magnalia Christi Americana, Anne Bradstreet, Poems. Missions, Native Wars, Mary Rowlandson, A True History of the Captivity and Restoration. Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography Parts 1 & 2, Way to Wealth: The Civilizing Process: Henry Brooke, Poems; Dr. Alexander Hamilton, AOf Clubs in General,@ Ebenezer Cooke, The Sot-Weed Factor. Women & the World of Letters. Revolution: Jefferson, Writings, Paine, Writings, Madison, Federalist #10.The Genius of Africa: Phillis Wheatley, Poetry, Equiano, The Life of Gustavas Vasa, James Grainger, The Sugar-Cane Book IV.

ENGL 421-001 AMERICAN LIT. 1830-1860 TTH 11:00-12:15 WALLS

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, religious and political authority in the United States was in a state of collapse. Sweeping change seemed not just possible, but essential: as a result, Utopian hopes jostled against the brutal realities of slavery, injustice, and the emerging industrial revolution. These conflicts are played out in America=s first great literature, a period often called AThe American Renaissance@: America Reborn. This was the time of abolitionism, women=s rights, and Thoreau at Walden Pond; of Emerson=s defiant ASelf-Reliance,@ Hawthorne=s twisted psychic dramas, Melville=s breakthrough fictions, and the grotesque fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe; of moralistic best-sellers such as Alcott=s Little Women, Whitman=s expansive poetry of the body and Emily Dickinson=s dense poetry of the mind. As we navigate this period, our questions will be: what connects these writers with their time? With each other? With us? Students will write two papers and complete a midterm and a final examination.

ENGL 426-001 AMERICAN POETRY TTH 2:00-3:15 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 Amake 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 LIT. TTH 11:00-12:15 BUTTERWORTH

A study of major texts in Southern Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Lecture/Discussion. Lectures will address Southern writing of the 17th and 18th centuries and other significant texts of the 19th and 20th centuries to provide contexts for the works we will read. Papers: one short (1500 word) paper, and one 8-10 page research/critical paper. Tests and Exams: Unannounced tests on readings under discussion; a mid-term test (one-hour-fifteen-minutes); final examination (two-and-a-half-hours). Texts to be studied: Poe, selections from Poetry, Tales & Selected Essays; Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; selections from A. B. Longstreet, J. J. Hooper, T. B. Thorpe, and G. W. Harris; Chopin, The Awakening; Faulkner, Go Down Moses; selections from Ranson, Tate and Warren; O=Connor, Wise Blood and selected stories; Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner; Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Percy, The Moviegoer.

ENGL 428-001 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT. TTH 8:00-9:15 DAWES

A close textual study of the works of the major African American authors of the last fifty years with close attention to recent African American writers. It will include writers like Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Zora Neal Hurston, Jean Toomer, James Baldwin and others. Evaluation: Three essays, one research paper, in class presentations and a final exam. TEXT: Norton Anthology of African American Writers, ed., Henry Louis Gates.

ENGL 429L-001 TONI MORRISON TTH 2:00-3:15 WHITTED

This course offers an in-depth analysis of the work of African-American writer Toni Morrison from her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970) to her most recent work, Love (2003). We will use Morrison=s fiction as a framework for investigating issues of race and nation, black feminism, folk culture and belief, and postmodern theories of language and narrative. Special attention will be given to the distinctive form and style of Morrison=s writing which uses magical realism and stream-of-conscious narration to imagine the discursive spaces where history, memory, and collective identity intersect. Literary influences such as T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and the oral traditions of African storytelling will also be considered and our analysis of her novels will be coupled with critical literary scholarship and interviews with the author. In addition, we will examine Morrison=s short story, ARecitatif@ and her play, ADreaming Emmett,@ along with the film adaptation of her fifth novel, Beloved. Course assignments include weekly quizzes, two close-reading papers, and an oral presentation.

ENGL 429R-001 ENCYCLOPEDIA IMAGINATION TTH 12:30-1:45 COWART

At the rate of roughly a book a week, the course will take up three especially important contemporary American novelists: Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Richard Powers. Emphasis on the major novels and selected nonfiction writings. Fictions to be studied will probably include: Pynchon=s V., The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Gravity=s Rainbow; Powers=s Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Galatea 2.2, Operation Wandering Soul, and The Gold-Bug Variations; and DeLillo=s Great Jones Street, Libra, The Names, White Noise, and Mao II.

This course is for students undaunted by the prospect of reading fourteen or so demanding novels in the course of a single semester.

SEMESTER GRADE: 10% daily quizzes and writing; 15% midterm; 25% first five-page paper; 30% second five-page paper; 20% final exam.

ENGL 431-001 CHILDREN=S LIT TTH 9:30-10:45 JOHNSON

This course is a broad introduction to the world of contemporary American children’s literature. Students will examine texts which are in some way related to central ideas of and about America and Americans of various ethinicities and backgrounds. Discussion topics will include the meaning of “excellence” in children’s book writing and illustration, the cultural politics of the children’s book publishing world, and current issues and controversies in the field.

ENGL 432-001 ADOLESCENT LIT TTH 11:00-12:15 JOHNSON

The subject matter of this course is contemporary American young adult literature. Students will examine texts which are in some way related to central ideas about America and Americans of various backgrounds and experiences. Discussion topics will include the meaning of literary excellence in the YA literature world, the politics of the children's book publishing industry, and current issues and controversies in the field, including awards, censorship, gender, authorship, and race.

ENGL 437/WOST 437 WOMEN WRITERS TTH 2:00-3:15 DAVIS

Are They Any Good?: American Women Writers and the Question of Literary Value

For as long as women have been writing, they've had to face questions about aesthetics. It isn't just that men have bemoaned their "scribbling"; many a literary foremother prefaced her work with a humble apologia. In this course, we'll examine a series of controversial works by authors from Wheatley to Walker. Our aim will be to elucidate--with the help of close readings, historical context, contemporary reviews, and critical articles--the vexing, contested issues of literary merit and lasting literary value. Authors will include the aforementioned plus Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Gertrude Stein, and Sylvia Plath. Two reports, in-class exam, three position papers, one midterm, and a final.

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 455-001/LING 440 LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY TTH 3:30-4:45 STAFF

Patterns in language use as a reflection of social group memberships or the negotiation of interpersonal relationships; special attention to social dialects and stylistic differences in American English. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 460-002 ADVANCED WRITING MW 2:30-3:45 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 "Literary Journalism," a sub-genre that encourages us to see connections among literature, journalism, memoir, travel writing, and ethnography. While seeking to make such connections, we will develop a vocabulary of prose analysis that 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.

ENGL 460-003 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 MADDEN

This course will offer extensive practice in different types of nonfiction writing. Most of the course will focus on creative nonfiction, with a particular emphasis on memoir essay, but we will also spend some time on persuasive writing, with a focus on the op-ed or commentary essay. The course will include readings and discussions, peer review and writing workshops, a number of short writing assignments and four longer formal assignments. Grade will be based on successful and timely completion of assignments, with most of the grade tied to a final portfolio of work completed and revised.

ENGL 460-005 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 2:00-3:15 K. BUTTERWORTH

Intensive workshop in writing creative non-fiction. Analysis of readings in creative non-fiction as well. PAPERS: 6, 5-6 pp. REPORTS: A writer=s journal. QUIZZES: Unannounced on readings. TEXTS: Cooley, ed., The Norton Sampler, 8th ed. and Edward Abbey=s Desert Solitaire.

ENGL 460-006 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 3:30-4:45 N.BUTTERWORTH

English 460 is a advanced nonfiction writing class which gives the students much practice both in close reading of essay text models and in composing their own. 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 4 essays in different modes: Narration/Description, Comparison-Contras or Analogy/Metaphor ,Persuasion/Argumentation, and Exemplification/Context; present one essay to the whole class for group peer evaluation, as well as do small group evaluations on every essay; participate in numerous conferences with the instructor; read and analyze model essays in 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 20% apiece; the journal, reading quizzes and test on I Could Tell You Stories and class participation will count about 20%.

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 461-002 TEACHING OF WRITING MW 12:20-1:35 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 MWF 9:05-9:55 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 see 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 PARROT

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 MON. 5:30-8:15 ANDERSON

English 463 (Business Writing) is a course designed to give students experience in audience analysis, writing documents for a wide range of audiences external to the academic setting. The assignments provide opportunities to apply current composition theory as it relates to professional and business writing. Using communication scenarios and/or problems found in current business/professional environments, students draft and format documents such as direct requests, informative memos and letters, sales brochures, short reports, executive summaries, graphical organizers, resumes, and letters of application for inclusion in their portfolios. The course is intended for upper division students who desire to improve their ability to write for a variety of purposes and develop a clear, more concise style of written communication.

ENGL E463-301 BUSINESS WRITING WED. 5:30-8:15 ANDERSON

English 463 (Business Writing) is a course designed to give students experience in audience analysis, writing documents for a wide range of audiences external to the academic setting. The assignments provide opportunities to apply current composition theory as it relates to professional and business writing. Using communication scenarios and/or problems found in current business/professional environments, students draft and format documents such as direct requests, informative memos and letters, sales brochures, short reports, executive summaries, graphical organizers, resumes, and letters of application for inclusion in their portfolios. The course is intended for upper division students who desire to improve their ability to write for a variety of purposes and develop a clear, more concise style of written communication.

ENGL 464-001 POETRY WORKSHOP TTH 11:00-12:15 DINGS
(Prerequisite: ENGL 360)

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 BLACKWELL
(Prerequisite: ENGL 360)
This course is for students who have taken introductory creative writing and seek intensive study of fiction writing through readings, exercises, criticism, and the crafting of original stories. The class format will combine literary analysis, studio learning, and workshop. We will focus on reading and writing literary fiction; genre fiction (e.g., science fiction, mystery, romance, horror, fantasy) will be excluded from this class.

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.

ENGL 566A/FILM 566A TOPIC/THE WESTERN MW 12:20-1:35 HARK

This course will examine the western genre according to the paradigm of genre development that includes the four stages: primitive, classical, revisionist, and parodic. Ways in which the western at any given moment illustrates the political, social and economic concerns of the moment in which the film is produced, as well as of the 19th-century American reality it depicts will also receive emphasis.

Films screened will include "The Great Train Robbery," "Stagecoach," "Red River" ","High Noon","The Searchers," "The Man from Laramie," "Shane,"" Ride the High Country, AFor a Few Dollars More,@ ALittle Big Man," "Unforgiven," and "Blazing Saddles."

Undergraduate students will take a mid-term and final exam and write two five-page essays devoted to critical interpretation of one or more films. Graduate students will write 20-page term papers that focus on one of the historical, socio-economic, political, or industrial contexts. Film screenings will be held on Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m.

ENGL 566F/FILM 566F TOPIC:THE SOUTH ON FILM TTH 3:30-4:45 COURTNEY

TOPIC: This course will analyze representations of the American South in American cinema. Studying a range of films from the silent era to the present, we will consider questions like: What does the South look and sound like in American movies, and how do these representations function? What mythologies of region, race, place, and nation are particular to films set in the South? How do these myths function in the wider popular culture of the US more broadly, and how do they shift, change, and return over time?

The course is open to undergraduates and graduate students. All students will complete: a diagnostic essay (2-3 pp.); a sequence analysis essay (5-7 pp.); a final paper (7-9 pp.); and a final (essay) exam. In addition, graduate students will be required to research and write a more extensive final paper (15-20 pp.).
Film screenings will be held on Sundays from 7-9 p.m. or Mondays from 4:30-6:30 p.m.