Spring 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 282-001 FICTION MWF 9:05-9:55 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 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 282-005 FICTION TTH 2:00-3:15 ELLIOTT
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-006 FICTION TTH 3:30-4:45 ELLIOTT
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 282-501 FICTION MWF 12:20-1:10 TRAYWICK
(Honors College Course)
This course will survey fiction from several countries and historical periods, examining closely the elements and techniques of the genre. We will read David Lodge's Art of Fiction, the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, and at least two novels. Weekly written responses will be required, as well as two short papers (4-6 pages) and two exams.

ENGL E282-300 FICTION SAT. 9:00-2:00 HUNGERFORD
This course will focus on the elements of the genre, with most of the readings coming from 20th Century American Writers. For more information, pleas contact the instructor.

ENGL E282.801 FICTION MW 5:30-8:15 BURGGRAF
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 BURGGRAF
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL Z282.801 FICTION M-TH 12:00-1:15 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 amongthem, and let them talk with each other.

ENGL 283-001 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 12:20-1:10, F 1:25-2:15 GIESKES
(Designed for Non-majors)
ENGL 283 will take up the theme and idea of education in British Literature from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. "Education" will be understood broadly to refer not only to formal pedagogy but to other kinds of learning as represented in literary texts of various genres from the British tradition. Readings are likely to include works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton, Dickens, Somerset Maugham, and Nick Hornby, among
others.

ENGL 283-002 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 12:20-1:10, TH 3:30-4:20 GIESKES
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-003 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 12:20-1:10, F 2:30-3:20 GIESKES
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-004 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 12:20-1:10, TH 3:30-4:20 GIESKES
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-005 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 12:20-1:10, TH 8:00-8:50 GIESKES
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-006 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 12:20-1:10, TH 2:00-2:50 GIESKES
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-007 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 12:20-1:10, F 1:25-2:15 GIESKES
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-008 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 12:20-1:10, TH 3:30-4:20 GIESKES
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-009 THEMES IN BRIT.WRIT. TTH 8:00-9:15 STAFF
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent changes. For more information please contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-010 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 9:30-10:45 SA BROWN
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Among the works to be read are these books by 20th Century British writers: Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent; W. B. Yeats, Selected Poems; James Joyce, The Portable Joyce; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; T.S. Eliot, Selected Poems; Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (this may be changed to another title by Spark). The written work will consist of three exams and a paper.

ENGL 283-011 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 2:00-3:15 SA BROWN
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Among the works to be read are these books by 20th Century British writers: Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent; W. B. Yeats, Selected Poems; James Joyce, The Portable Joyce; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; T.S. Eliot, Selected Poems; Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (this may be changed to another title by Spark). The written work will consist of three exams and a paper.

ENGL 283-501T THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING MW 2:30-3:45 GIESKES
(Honors College Course)
ENGL 283 will take up the theme and idea of education in British Literature from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. "Education" will be understood broadly to refer not only to formal pedagogy but to other kinds of learning as represented in literary texts of various genres from the British tradition. Readings are likely to include works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton, Dickens, Somerset Maugham, and Nick Hornby, among others.

ENGL E283-300 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 5:30-6:45 HAWKINS
(Designed for Non-majors)
Haunted Houses, Mysterious Specters, and Supernatural Experiences
This course will explore the themes and motifs of gothic literature beginning with a cornerstone of gothic literature, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. While considerable time will be spent examining canonical gothic literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, we will also investigate the appearance and application of gothic themes and motifs in some 20th century works that fall outside the traditional gothic canon. Tentative reading list: Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Iris Murdoch's Unicorn and Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop. We will also view excerpts from film adaptations of some of the novels.

ENGL 285-001 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 2:30-3:20,F 1:25-2:15 JAMES
(Designed for Non-majors)
“American Gothic,” the theme we will explore in our readings of American texts from the 19th and 20th centuries, will lead us to consider the origins and development of native versions of European experiments in the aesthetic uses of terror. Grades will be based on attendance, participation, and performance on frequent brief writing assignments and three essay exams.

ENGL 285-002 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING W 2:30-3:20, TH 3:30-4:20 JAMES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

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

ENGL 285-004 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 2:30-3:20, TH 3:30-4:20 JAMES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-005 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING W 2:30-3:20, TH 8:00-8:50 JAMES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-006 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 2:30-3:20, TH 2:00-2:50 JAMES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-007 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 2:30-3:20, F 1:25-2:15 JAMES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-008 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW2:30-3:20,TH 3:30-4:20 JAMES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-009 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 2:30-3:20,TH 2:00-2:50 JAMES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-010 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW2:30-3:20, F 2:30-3:20 JAMES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-011 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW2:30-3:20, F 1:25-2:15 JAMES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-012 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW2:30-3:20,TH 8:00-8:50 JAMES
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-013 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 9:05-9:55 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 1:25-2:15 WIMSATT
(Designed for Non-majors)
The specific topic for the course is "American Dreams and American Nightmares." We will study this topic through the work of Horatio Alger, "Ragged Dick" and "Struggling Upward"; F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"; Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man"; Richard Wright, "Uncle Tom's Children"; and Langston Hughes, "Selected Poems." Films will be used to supplement the reading assignments.

ENGL 285-015 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 12:20-1:10 SIBLEY-JONES
(Designed for Non-majors)
The course will explore several themes in American Literature, including humor, religion, horror, romanticism, consumerism, and slavery. Attention will be given to poetry, short stories and the novel. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-016 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 1:25-2:15 SIBLEY-JONES
(Designed for Non-majors)
The course will explore several themes in American Literature, including humor, religion, horror, romanticism, consumerism, and slavery. Attention will be given to poetry, short stories and the novel. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-017 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 2:30-3:20 WIMSATT
(Designed for Non-majors)
The specific topic for the course is "American Dreams and American Nightmares." We will study this topic through the work of Horatio Alger, "Ragged Dick" and "Struggling Upward"; F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"; Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man"; Richard Wright, "Uncle Tom's Children"; and Langston Hughes, "Selected Poems." Films will be used to supplement the reading assignments.

ENGL 285-018 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 8:00-9:15 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 285-019 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 9:30-10:45 HUDOCK
(Designed for Non-majors)
This course will explore how ethnicity, gender, class, and region have influenced writings about nature in the US. We will examine a broad range of literary works--songs, personal narratives, essays, poetry and fiction-by authors from various periods of United States history and from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The required books will include: American Nature Writing 2000: A Celebration of Women Writers, selected by John A. Murray (Oregon State University Press), Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers, edited by Judith Dyer, and the short Norton Anthology of American Literature.

ENGL 285-020 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 HUDOCK
(Designed for Non-majors)
This course will explore how ethnicity, gender, class, and region have influenced writings about nature in the US. We will examine a broad range of literary works--songs, personal narratives, essays, poetry and fiction-by authors from various periods of United States history and from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The required books will include: American Nature Writing 2000: A Celebration of Women Writers, selected by John A. Murray (Oregon State University Press), Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers, edited by Judith Dyer, and the short Norton Anthology of American Literature.

ENGL 285-021 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 285-022 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 285-023 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 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 285C-001 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 STRICKLAND
(Restricted to Opportunity Scholars Students)
This course will cover selections from major American writers from colonial times to the late 20th Century. The focus of the discussions will be on examining the definition of an American literature, its development and its diversity. PAPERS: 2, 3-5 pp. (each must be revised). QUIZZES: Weekly quizzes covering reading assignments. EXAMS: 2 exams - short answer and essay. FINAL: Yes, short answer and essay. TEXTS: Perkins, et al., The American Tradition in Literature, 8th ed.

ENGL E285-300 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 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 7:00-8:15 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 286-001 POETRY TTH 11:00-12:15 ASHLEY
Introduction to the art and craft of poetry. Poems will be selected from British and American poetry with emphasis on Donne, Browning, Hopkins, Yeats, Dickinson, Ransom and Stevens. There will be two exams, and two papers (4-6 pages).

ENGL 286-002 POETRY TTH 12:30-1:45 SIEBERT
A survey of mainly lyric poetry of various genres, modes, and themes from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Two tests involving identifications of passages and essays; one oral presentation; one medium length paper; lecture and discussion. TEXT: The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th ed.

ENGL 286-501 POETRY MWF 10:10-11:00 AVIRAM
(Honors College Course)
In this course, we shall get to know the Western tradition of lyric poetry, concentrating especially on a few high points in history: the Renaissance, the Romantic movement, and Modernism. The main point of the course will be to develop and strengthen your skills in "close reading," i.e., making sense out of what you read, finding its organizing patterns, discovering the "game" of a work of literary art, and accounting for how all the parts contribute to the total effect. We shall not be looking for "deeper" or "hidden meanings," but getting better at catching the wit, appreciating the ingenuity, and feeling the poignancy of great lyric poems.

Each student will memorize at least four lyric poems and will be responsible for reciting them aloud to the class and explaining anything that the rest of us might need to know -- such as the meanings of unusual or old words -- in order to follow the sense and appreciate the wit. Textbook: Norton Anthology of Poetry.

ENGL E286-851 POETRY TTH 5:30-6:45 RAGAN
Poetry will acquaint students with terminology and skills needed to interpret, evaluate, and enjoy lyric poetry. Class discussions initially will focus on techniques of the genre through reading examples drawn from a wide variety of poets in English; in the second half of the course, students will investigate the work of a single poet in greater depth. TEXTS: To be announced. 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 HUDOCK
Questions of identity are central to the development of literature in the territory that is now the United States. We will examine a broad range of literary works--songs, personal narratives, essays, poetry and fiction- by authors from various periods of United States history and from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. We will explore how our writers have participated in and reacted against the construction of an "American" mythology and literature through the stories they tell about themselves and their cultures. In particular, we will focus on the literature that explores how contact between different cultures has shaped American literature.

ENGL 287-002 AMERICAN LITERATURE MWF 11:15-12:05 HUDOCK
Questions of identity are central to the development of literature in the territory that is now the United States. We will examine a broad range of literary works--songs, personal narratives, essays, poetry and fiction- by authors from various periods of United States history and from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. We will explore how our writers have participated in and reacted against the construction of an "American" mythology and literature through the stories they tell about themselves and their cultures. In particular, we will focus on the literature that explores how contact between different cultures has shaped American literature.

ENGL 287-003 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 9:30-10:45 STAFF
Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 287-004 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 11:00-12:15 STAFF
Survey of American literature: major authors, genres, and periods. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E287-300 AMERICAN LITERATURE MW 6:00-7:15 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 9:05-9:55 SIBLEY-JONES
A survey of themes/genres in British Literature before 1700. We shall study epic literature, romance, the lyric, drama; and we shall give attention to development of themes–chivalry, love, heroism, virtue, religion–as they evolve from one period to the next. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 288-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MWF 10:10-11:00 SIBLEY-JONES
A survey of themes/genres in British Literature before 1700. We shall study epic literature, romance, the lyric, drama; and we shall give attention to development of themes–chivalry, love, heroism, virtue, religion–as they evolve from one period to the next. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 288-003 ENGLISH LITERATURE I TTH 2:00-3:15 ASHLEY
A survey of British Literature with emphasis on major writers: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Swift and Pope. There will be two exams and one paper (8-10 pages).

ENGL 289 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 289-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 11:00-12:15 HUSEMAN
This course will cover the history of British Literature from the late 18th century to the early 20th century, focusing particularly on the way social changes resonated in the literature of the day. The Norton Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 2 will serve as the primary text for the course. One to two novels will also be assigned.

ENGL 289-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 12:30-1:45 HUSEMAN
This course will cover the history of British Literature from the late 18th century to the early 20th century, focusing particularly on the way social changes resonated in the literature of the day. The Norton Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 2 will serve as the primary text for the course. One to two novels will also be assigned.

ENGL 289-003 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 3:30-4:45 HARRIS
A survey of major (and a few not so major) English authors from the late eighteenth century to the present, focusing on representative works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose. Class participation is important. PAPERS: One. EXAMS: 2 mid-terms and a final. TEXTS: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol 2.

ENGL 289-501 ENGLISH LITERATURE II MW 2:30-3:45 HUSEMAN
(Honors College Course)
This course will cover the history of British Literature from the late 18th century to the early 20th century, focusing particularly on the way social changes resonated in the literature of the day. The Norton Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 2 will serve as the primary text for the course. One to two novels will also be assigned.

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

ENGL 360-001 CREATIVE WRITING MWF 10:10-11:00 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 360-002 CREATIVE WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 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 360-003 CREATIVE WRITING TTH 2:00-3:15 BAUKNIGHT
This course will serve as an introduction to the writing of poetry, fiction, and, perhaps, creative non-fiction. In class, we will discuss and practice forms and techniques; examine works of literature as readers and writers; and hold workshops on student writing. Outside of class, we will read a lot and write even more. The major course requirement will be a portfolio of creative work (poetry and prose) due at the end of the semester. Students also will keep a writing notebook and write brief “craft papers” on one poet and one prose writer. For more information, contact Lee Bauknight at lbauknight@sc.edu.

ENGL 360-501 CREATIVE WRITING TTH 2:00-3:15 DINGS
(Honors College Course)
This course will introduce students to the art of writing stories, poems, and plays. Students will read professional examples in all genres, will write original work, and will critique the work of their peers. Although the teaching method includes some lecture, the majority of class time will be spent discussing writing. The workshop method will be used to discuss student work. PAPERS: 2 stories, 1 play, 3-4 poems. EXAMS: none TEXTS: Seagull Readers, W. W. Norton (tentative)

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 3:30-4:45 SHIFFLETT
A study of the art, humanism, and political values of Renaissance literature and literary culture, ca. 1500 1700, in an international context. Major works are likely to include More's Utopia, Sidney's Defence of Poesy, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller, Shakespeare's Tempest, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Milton's Paradise Lost. Emphasis will be placed on the influence of religious and intellectual traditions on early modern institutions, on the social and political functions of literature during times of great social and political change, and on humanistic ideas of form and beauty that encouraged Renaissance writers to look beyond their daily lives and imagine better lives and better worlds. Class meetings will involve lectures and intensive group discussions. Requirements are likely to include several quizzes, a reading journal, two papers, two midterms, and a final exam.

ENGL 382-001 THE ENLIGHTENMENT TTH 9:30-10:45 SIEBERT
This course is an introduction to the literature (and major ideas) of the Enlightenment, a period in the 17th and 18th centuries in which many of the issues and assumptions that still concern us were formulated, including those instrumental in the foundation of our own country. Thus such questions as “What are basic human rights?” and “What is the nature of human nature?” and “How and where is human happiness to be found?” will recur in our reading. PAPERS: 2 short critical papers, 4-5pp. REPORTS: Possibly one. EXAMS. Midterm and final. TEXTS: We may use an anthology and probably paperback copies of Johnson’s Rasselas and Voltaire’s Candide. There will also be a xerox packet of reading material.

ENGL 384-001 REALISM TTH 9:30-10:45 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 11:00-12:15 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 MW 1:25-2:40 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 as well as student research presentations. Close reading of textual passages is emphasized. Requirements: An in-class midterm examination; a two-hour final; a 7-page close reading paper; and unannounced quizzes on the reading selections.

ENGL 387-001 INTRO. TO RHETORIC MW 12:20-1:35 MUCKLEBAUER
This course will introduce you to the major theories and theorists of rhetoric, from the Classical Greek world of the Sophists, Plato, and Aristotle, to the contemporary rhetorics of poststructuralism. For each text, we will be concerned with delineating the complex connections between such things as language, truth, knowledge, subjectivity, and civic action.

ENGL 388-001 HIST LIT. CRITICISM /THEORY TTH 2:00-3:15 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 389-001/LING 301 THE ENGLISH LANG. MW 12:20-1:35 HYESON-PARK
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 389-002/LING 301 THE ENGLISH LANG. TTH 2:00-3:15 FORD
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 391-001/CPLT 302 GREAT BOOKS WEST WORLD II TTH 3:30-4:45 LOPES
This courses focuses on the Renaissance and one of its major developments, the discovery of America. We shall study significant fiction, poetry, and drama of both Europe and the Americas. Requirements: Two ID quizzes (25%), leading the class in discussion once (20%), one 5-7 page paper (30%), and final exam (25%). Students should be prepared for each and participate in each class meeting.

ENGL 392-001/CPLT 303 GREAT BOOKS EASTERN WORLD MW 1:25-2:40 ALBER
Selected works of South and East Asian literature with an emphasis on China, Japan, and India. Readings from some of the great books of wisdom, the Upanishads and the Bagavadgita, will begin the course, followed by some of the great Confucian and Taoist classics, The Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu. Next will be an introduction to poetry, including the great Tang poets, Han Shan, Wang Wei, Li Bo and Du Fu, and the haiku as exemplified by Basho. Selections will also be taken from Noh drama, the novel Genji, and Dream of the Red Chamber. In addition to the mid term and a final, students will be required to write a short theme on each of these three or four genres.

ENGL 405-001 SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES MW 2:30-3:45 KAY
A study of seven to nine of Shakespeare’s tragedies through script and film. The goals are to increase the students’ appreciation of Shakespeare’s achievement as a popular Renaissance dramatist, whose reflections of his own age also show us our own. Emphasis will be placed on the plays as dramatic scripts intended for stage production, with special attention given to genre, language, and character. We will consider Shakespeare’s development as a dramatist, moving from such early tragedies as Titus Andronicus, to the major tragedies, such as Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear, to such late plays as Antony and Cleopatra. PAPERS: 2 five-page critical papers. TESTS: mid-term and final. TEXT: Riverside Shakespeare, or Bevington, or Norton edition. plus Russ McDonald, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare.

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. There may be, in addition, some discussion of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry.

ENGL 406-001 SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES/HIST. TTH 12:30-1:45 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 11:00-12:15 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, Jane Taylor, Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, John Keats, Mary Tighe, 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 12:20-1:35 THESING
Survey of major and selected minor Victorian poets; emphasizes the development of Victorian poetic theory and the contemporary critical response. Some poets that we are likely to study will include: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, G.M. Hopkins, Thomas Hardy as well as E B Browning, Christina Rossetti, Amy Levy, Charlotte Mew, Michael Field, and several others. Some general themes to be considered will include: Victorian poetry and the city, religion, science, social and historical issues, gender relationships, and art. Several weeks of the course will also be devoted to reading some Victorian novels (by Dickens, Hardy, and others) as well as selections of Victorian nonfiction prose. Supplementary xerox packets and materials will be available at Universal Copies. Students should not purchase any textbooks until the final, definitive list is distributed at the first class meeting. Feel free to contact the instructor if you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns. Assignments: class participation grades; 2 essay exams; a 5-page term paper. Regular class attendance and participation will be required.

ENGL 413-001 MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE TTH 2:00-3:15 RICE
This course will survey the major writers and concerns of twentieth century British literature, giving students both experience in reading and critically analyzing works in a variety of genres, and practice in written analysis and interpretation. Authors: H.G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, G.B. Shaw, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Iris Murdoch, and others. Papers (3): a brief diagnostic essay (c. 2pp.) and two critical essays (c. 5 pp. ea.) Examinations (2): midterm and final – will comprise primarily identification and critical discussion of representative passages chosen from the authors read. Format: informal lecture and class participation (strongly encouraged).

ENGL 414-001 ENGL DRAMA SINCE 1660 MW 12:20-1:35 HARK
Representative British plays from the Restoration through the present day. Playwrights include, among others, Aphra Behn, Farquhar, Gay, Sheridan, Boucicault, Gilbert, Wilde, Shaw, Pinter, Stoppard, and Caryl Churchill. PAPERS: one, 7-10 pp. EXAMS: Mid-term and Final. TEXTS: Etherege, The Man of Mode; Behn, The Rover and 2 anthologies: Meridian Classic Book of 18th and 19th Century British Drama and Modern and Contemporary Drama.

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 “the south before there was a south”—“the culture that failed to become a nation”—and 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 429O-001 CONTEMP. AMER. IMMIGRANT NOVELISTS TTH 12:30-1:45 COWART
We’ve heard a good deal from first-generation writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Oscar Hijuelos, Richard Rodriguez, Paule Marshall, et al. They frequently chronicle the travail of their own and their parents’ generations–battling discrimination, learning English, being split between old world and new world customs and expectations. But what about the literary talents of immigrants who naturalize? Quite a number are making a name for themselves. Like Nabokov, Bellow, and Auden a few decades back, many of these new literary immigrants arrive on these shores already educated or already speaking English. Those who came as children–one thinks of Julia Alvarez–sometimes even remember positive experiences in the American classroom. This course will take up some of these writers to see if they invite fresh thinking about ethnicity and identity or about distinctions one might make among exile, expatriate, and immigrant.

Students will be asked to read a novel or novel-length collection per week. The fictions covered will be contemporary American writers not born in this country or to Americans abroad. The emphasis will be on books that focus on the American scene, as opposed to the old country. We’ll start with a couple of paradigmatic immigrants writers–Nabokov, Bellow, perhaps Kosinky–before moving on to more contemporary figures from a host of countries, including Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Germany, India, Pakistan, Burma, Cuba, Antigua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

Students will be evaluated as follows: 10% daily reading quizzes; 15% midterm; 25% first five-page paper; 30% second five-page paper; 20% final exam. (This course will count as a post-1800 literature requirement).

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, Terry McMillan, John Edgar Wideman, 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 431-001 CHILDREN’S LITERATURE TTH 9:30-10:45 MURPHY
In this course we explore literature for children age one through eleven. Students will gain an understanding of children’s literature from a historical, literary, and psychological perspective. Readings will include classical fairy tales, Morning Girl by Michael Dorris, The BFG by Ronald Dahl, Seedfolks by Sid Fleishman, Love That Dog by Sharon Creech, Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary, Bud, Not Buddy by C. P. Curtis, and Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo, and Battling Dragons: Issues and Controversies in Children’s Literature.

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 writer’s work, and a project.

ENGL 437-001/WOST 437 WOMEN WRITERS TTH 11:00-12:15 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 elucidat--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 439P/AFRO 398E SLAVE NARRATIVES TTH 11:00-12:15 WHITTED
African-American Fiction and Autobiography
This course examines the experiences of African slaves in the Americas through autobiography and fiction. From the words, "I was born..." to the harrowing accounts of their escape from bondage, former slaves transformed the act of writing and self-expression into a revolutionary assertion of black humanity. With this in mind, our study will trace the development of the slave narrative as a literary genre with its own rhetorical and authenticating strategies, tropes, and themes. We will also evaluate the poetic revisions of these colonial and antebellum literary forms in modern neo-slave narrative fiction. Course requirements to include a short essay, research paper, and final exam. Students will also be required to complete weekly in-class writing assignments and participate in group discussion. Course readings to include autobiographical writings by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and fiction by Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Fred D’Aguiar. (This course will count as a post-1800 literature requirement).

ENGL 439R/LING 541 LANGUAGE & GENDER TTH 3:30-4:45 WELDON
This course provides an introduction to the use of language by men and women, with a focus on how socialized ideas about gender affect language use and perception. Drawing from empirical and theoretical studies in sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, discourse analysis, and women’s studies, this course addresses a range of issues, including the acquisition of gender-differentiated language, gender and conversational interaction, sexism in language, gender images in society, and the relationship between language, gender, and other social constructs such as class, culture, power, and politeness.

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 MW 2:30-3:45 MYERS-SCOTTON
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. Requirements include quizzes, an in-class mid-term, a final examination, and also a short research paper. Directions on "how to do it" for the paper are given in class.

ENGL 460-001 ADVANCED WRITING MWF 9:05-9:55 STAFF
Extensive practice in different types of nonfiction writing. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 460-002 ADVANCED WRITING MWF 11:15-12:05 BOHL
In this section of English 460 we will read and discuss essays in a variety of non-fiction genres, but most of our time and energy will be devoted to writing and especially re-vising our own writing. Students will be responsible for choosing the topics they wish to pursue, producing work on time, giving and receiving constuctive criticism and being active participants in class discussions and peer editing groups. Over the course of the semester you will select your best pieces of writing to revise, polish, edit and eventually include in a portfolio that will be submitted for a final course grade.

ENGL 460-003 ADVANCED WRITING MWF 12:20-11:10 GREER
An introduction to various forms of composition through the disciplined practice of writing and revision: fiction, criticism, autobiography, and exposition. The course will carefully examine the structure and intent of composition. Eight papers; two conferences. Papers to be discussed in the workshop arena. TEXTS: Cooley, The Norton Sampler; Zinsser, On Writing Well.

ENGL 460-004 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 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 “creative 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 460-005 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 3:30-4:45 STAFF
Extensive practice in different types of nonfiction writing. For more information, please contact the instructor.

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 9:05-9:55 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 463-004 BUSINESS WRITING TTH 3:30-4:45 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 S AT. 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

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 2:00-3:15 MADDEN
This course will combine the practice of writing poetry with readings of contemporary poets. The class will be devoted primarily to workshops in which student poems will be discussed. Each workshop participant will turn in a draft of a poem every week. Since good writers of poetry are usually good readers, however, we will spend some time discussing contemporary poetry, and each student will be required to write an analysis paper as well as a portfolio of creative work. Grade will be based on consistent participation in the writing workshops, several short writing assignments, a final portfolio of poetry, and a short final paper (5-8 pages) on a contemporary poet. There will be no exams. TEXTS: Best American Poetry 1999; The Wild Iris, Louise Gluck; The Father, Sharon Olds; Trinity, Susan Ludvigson; Rose, Li-Young Lee; and a short packet of readings.

ENGL 465-001 FICTION WORKSHOP TTH 12:30-1:45 FOX
Prose workshop–short stories and articles. For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 490C-501 TOPIC/SENSATION TTH 2:00-3:15 STERN
This class will explore the relationship between text and body, focusing on the genre of sensation and its physical effects. Our readings will be variously literary, theoretical, and popular. Primary texts include a range of Victorian sensation novels, banned books, (potential authors include Cleland, Braddon, Collins, Dickens, Wilde, Lawrence, and the ever-popular Anonymous), journalism, daytime television, and the infamous art show that nearly brought down the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Critical works will provide a context for theorizing the generic aspects of sensation, its power in marketing, politics, and aesthetics, and its effects upon the reading bodies of both present and historical audiences. This will be a rigorous, provocative class, meant to interrogate the history and particulars of a specific genre, and, more broadly, the relationship between reading subjects and the fleshly houses in which they live. Assignments include short (1-2 page) papers throughout the semester, a creative project, and a final research paper of at least 15 pages. The course is open to upper-level English majors and honors students. Majors who are not honors students need to get clearance to register by contacting Ms. Armstrong in the undergraduate office or Dr. Stern (stern2@gwm.sc.edu). (This course will count as a post-1800 literature requirement).

ENGL 566F-001 THE SOUTH ON FILM TTH 3:30-4:45 COURTNEY
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 wide popular culture of the US more broadly, and how do they shift, change, and return over time?

This course will be taught in conjunction with the international film symposium taking place at USC March 25-27, 2004 entitled “On Location: Place and Region in Forgotten Films.” The course will prepare students to participate in the symposium, and students will be expected to take advantage of the opportunities it presents and attend the symposium as their class schedules permit.

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 (15-20pp.) Film screenings will be held on Monday nights from 4:30-6:30 p.m. or Sunday nights from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

ENGL 566G-001 SCIENCE FICTION FILM TTH 12:30-1:45 HARK
The course will consider a variety of science fiction films from the 1920s to the 2000s. Among the concepts considered will be the use of sf as historical and political allegory; sf as a space for imagining both utopia and dystopia; the relation between sf and evolving cinematic technology; sf and the metaphysics of time, space and consciousness; sf’s intersections with other genres; and sf fandom.

All students will take an essay midterm and final examination and write a research paper on the reception and production context of a single science fiction film. Graduate students will write an additional paper on sf film theory and will be required to consult a greater number and variety of sources for the research paper. Film screenings will be held on Thursday nights from 7:00-9:00 p.m.