Spring 2005 Course Descriptions: Undergraduate Programs in English, University of South Carolina

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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 12:20-1:10 GREER

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

ENGL 282-002 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 282-003 FICTION TTH 3:30-4:45 RENEAU

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

ENGL 282-004 FICTION MWF 1:25-2:15 ELLIOTT

In English 282 you=ll sharpen your argumentative skills by applying them to literary analysis. In addition to mastering terminology and theories that will help you become a more conscientious reader of literature, you=ll learn to research literary works and incorporate the analysis of professional critics into your essays. In this particular sectionCFantastic FictionCwe=ll explore various forms of fabulist fiction, i.e., fiction that falls outside the realist tradition: surrealism, absurdism, magic realism, sci-fi, dystopian satire, tales and fables of all kinds. After writing two critical essays on other writers= fabulist visions, you=ll write your own fabulous short story. For your first major essay you have two choices: you may write a close reading that examines the way figurative devices shape a work=s Ameaning@ or analyze the ways an author uses an imaginary world to present arguments about the real world. In your second major essay you=ll use a contemporary literary theory to write a theoretical analysis of one of the works on our syllabus. As you analyze many forms of fabulist literature, I hope you=ll come up with some interesting ideas for your final project (short story).

ENGL 282-005 FICTION TTH 11:00-12:15 ASHLEY

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

ENGL 282-006 FICTION TTH 2:00-3:15 ASHLEY

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 ELLIOTT

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
In English 282 you=ll sharpen your argumentative skills by applying them to literary analysis. In addition to mastering terminology and theories that will help you become a more conscientious reader of literature, you=ll learn to research literary works and incorporate the analysis of professional critics into your essays. In this particular sectionCFantastic FictionCwe=ll explore various forms of fabulist fiction, i.e., fiction that falls outside the realist tradition: surrealism, absurdism, magic realism, sci-fi, dystopian satire, tales and fables of all kinds. After writing two critical essays on other writers= fabulist visions, you=ll write your own fabulous short story. For your first major essay you have two choices: you may write a close reading that examines the way figurative devices shape a work=s Ameaning@ or analyze the ways an author uses an imaginary world to present arguments about the real world. In your second major essay you=ll use a contemporary literary theory to write a theoretical analysis of one of the works on our syllabus. As you analyze many forms of fabulist literature, I hope you=ll come up with some interesting ideas for your final project (short story).

ENGL E282-092 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, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E282-801 FICTION MW 5:30-8:15 FUNDERBURK

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
GECKLE
(Designed for Non-majors)
The Concept of the Alien

What does it mean to be an alien? To be of foreign or other origin? To be excluded from the privileges of citizenship? To be of a nature or character different from that of the dominant culture? To be alienated from family, religion, or country? This course will explore expressions of alienation in various forms of literature (poetry, prose, and drama) from the time of William Shakespeare to the twentieth century. The readings will be organized chronologically and will include works by writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, and Pat Barker, as well as others. Course requirements: quizzes (6-8), midterm and final exams, two papers (6-8 pages each).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ENGL 283-009 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MWF 10:10-11:00 COONEY
(Designed for Non-majors)
Sin and the Anti-Hero
This class will explore the roots and progress of the fallen anti-hero through British literature, paying particular attention to questions such as why these darker figures are sympathetic, how they relate to broader social issues of the periods, and what relevance and resonance they have today. Works MAY include excerpts from the King James Bible; excerpts from Milton=s AParadise Lost@; Byron=s A Cain@; Shelley=s Frankenstein; Stoker=s Dracu la; Greene=s The End of the Affair; and Coetzee=s Disgrace.

ENGL 283-010 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MWF 12:20-1:10 COONEY
(Designed for Non-majors)
Sin and the Anti-Hero
This class will explore the roots and progress of the fallen anti-hero through British literature, paying particular attention to questions such as why these darker figures are sympathetic, how they relate to broader social issues of the periods, and what relevance and resonance they have today. Works MAY include excerpts from the King James Bible; excerpts from Milton=s AParadise Lost@; Byron=s A Cain@; Shelley=s Frankenstein; Stoker=s Dracu la; Greene=s The End of the Affair; and Coetzee=s Disgrace.

ENGL 283-011 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MWF 10:10-11:00 RIDENHOUR
(Designed for Non-majors)

Vampires. Ghosts. Crumbling castles. Windswept moors. The gaslit streets of London. Murderous lovers and lovely murderers. This course will celebrate the hey-day of Victorian and Edwardian Gothic writing, focusing in particular on the ways in which an anxiety about the past in all its forms underpins works that have become classics in the field of horror. We will read several horrifying novels, quite a few ghost stories, and watch some atmospheric films, all the while exploring how these works do what they do and why we like it that way. Why do characters like Count Dracula continue to haunt our culture? What are we afraid of and why do we enjoy it? Assignments will include participation in an electronic discussion forum, an annotated bibliography (10 items), a research paper (10-15 pages), mid-term and final.

ENGL 283-012 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT TTH 11:00-12:15 SIEBERT
(Designed for Non-majors)

Our theme is mortality: how literary art has dealt with the fact of death--and the necessary art of living well. We'll examine literary genres such as tragedy, the elegy, the epitaph, the hymn, as well as the essay; also themes such as carpe diem and subjects like war. Lecture/discussion. Two essay tests & one paper.
Texts: Shakespeare's KING LEAR and Johnson's RASSELAS; and an anthology (probably xeroxed).

ENGL 283-501 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. TTH 12:30-1:45 SHIFFLETT
(Designed for Non-majors)

A study of the themes of forgiving and forgetting in British and European literature. Major authors on the syllabus will include Sophocles, Ovid, the Evangelists, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Hardy among others. Requirements are likely to include two exams, two papers, and one class presentation.

ENGL E283-300 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. TTH 5:30-6:45 HAWKINS
(Designed for Non-majors)
Utopias and Dystopias in British Literature

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live in a perfect world? Would life be perfect and peaceful or would there always be something to spoil it? This course aims to answer some of these questions through reading and discussing utopias and dystopias in British literature. We'll begin with Thomas More's _Utopia_. The reading list may include the following works. Cavendish=s Blazing World, Wells= The Time Machine, Huxley=s Brave New World, and Lessing=s Memoirs of a Survivor. Requirements include midterm and final exams, one longer paper (4-6 pages) and two to four short (one page) papers.

ENGL 285-001 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRIT. MW 9:05-9:55, F 1:25-2:15
COWART
(Designed for Non-majors)
American Neurosis/American Sanity

Ezra Pound defined literature as "news that stays news." William Carlos Williams adds: "It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there." This course will consider American psychological health as reflected--positively or negatively--in our national literature. We'll read mostly short stories and short novels (including a couple of complete collections of short fiction by Flannery O'Connor and J. D. Salinger), with occasional forays into the work of poets such as Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost. TEXTS: Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Fifth Edition (ISBN: 0-393-97291-7); Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (HarperCollins ISBN: 0060931671); Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Harcourt Brace ISBN: 0151707553); Flannery O'Connor, Everything that Rises Must Converge (Noonday Pr ISBN: 0374504644 ); J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories (Lb Books ISBN: 0316769509)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ENGL 285-013 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRIT. MWF 12:20-1:10 GARY
(Designed for Non-majors)
American Hardboiled Fiction of the 1930s

The study of novels such as Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, will be combined with interpretations of the genre, discussions and film
analysis. Requirements: critical papers and class presentations.

ENGL 285-014 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRIT. MWF 1:25-2:15 WIMSATT
(Designed for Non-majors)
American Dreams and Nightmares
English 285 is reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. TEXTS: Alger, ARagged Dick@ and AStruggling Upwards@; Fitzgerald, AThe Great Gatsby@; Douglass, ANarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave@; Richard Wright, AUncle Tom=s Children@; Langston Hughes, ASelected Poems.@ Films will be used to supplement the literary assignments. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: Frequent quizzes; 2 tests; and a comprehensive final examination.

ENGL 285-015 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRIT. MWF 2:30-3:20 WIMSATT
(Designed for Non-majors)
American Dreams and Nightmares
English 285 is reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. TEXTS: Alger, ARagged Dick@ and AStruggling Upwards@; Fitzgerald, AThe Great Gatsby@; Douglass, ANarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave@; Richard Wright, AUncle Tom=s Children@; Langston Hughes, ASelected Poems.@ Films will be used to supplement the literary assignments. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: Frequent quizzes; 2 tests; and a comprehensive final examination.

ENGL 285-016 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRIT. MWF 1:25-2:15 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 285-017 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRIT. 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 285-018 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRIT TTH 12:30-1:45 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: MidtermB2/5, Final ExaminationB2/5, PaperB1/5.

ENGL 285-019 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRIT. 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 E285-300 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRIT. .MW 6:00-7:15 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 285-501 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRIT. MWF 11:15-12:05 HUDOCK
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)

Humans are social animals--and many of us grow out of and then make families for ourselves (blood kin or otherwise). Like other humans, many American writers grew up in families, rebelled against them, hated them, loved them, tried to learn to live with them, created their own, and then started the adjustments to family all over again. Therefore, American authors have often explored in their writing the complexities of family relations in the formation of identity as well as role of the family in the identity of the nation. This course will examine how US writers have explored the theme of "The American Family" from the perspectives of mothers, fathers, and children. Some of the sub-themes to explored in the literature will be: sex and pregnancy; teenage pregnancy; identity and adoption; blended families; giving birth; child rearing and personal growth; parents living with teenagers; teenagers living with parents; parents and children learning to let go; families with grown children; the deaths of parents and children; gender roles within the family; family and the state; the family as economic unit; family as political tool, and more.

Books: FATHERHOOD: AN ANTHOLOGY; BREEDER: REAL-LIFE STORIES FROM THE NEW GENERATION OF MOTHERS; BIRTH: A LITERARY COMPANION; ROOM TO GROW: 22 WRITERS ENCOUNTER THE PLEASURES AND PARADOXES OF RAISING YOUNG CHILDREN; Toni Morrison. BELOVED. Amy Tan. THE JOY LUCK CLUB. Susan Veecher. ARTEMISIA. Pat Conroy. PRINCE OF TIDES. Margaret Atwood. A HANDMAID=S TALE. A course packet will also be required.

ENGL 286-001 POETRY TTH 2:00-3:15 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 286-002 POETRY TTH 11:00-12:15 SA. BROWN

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

ENGL E286-851 POETRY TTH 5:30-8:15 RAGAN

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

ENGL 287 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 287-001 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 2:00-3:15 JAMES

Survey of American literature from settlement through the twentieth century, emphasizing ties between representative works of fiction, poetry, and drama and the cultures from which they emerged. Evaluation
will include frequent brief writing assignments and three exams. Text is the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed. in one volume, ed. by Nina Baym et al., 1999.

ENGL 287-002 AMERICAN LITERATURE MWF 10:10-11:00 HUDOCK

This a survey course designed to prepare English Majors for upper division American literature courses that focus on specific periods, themes, or groups of writers. In contrast to the depth and specificity offered in upper division courses, this survey course provides a overview of American literary history by comparing and contrasting literary periods and their authors. 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. COURSE OBJECTIVES: By the end of this course, you should be able to: 1. Identify a sample of US authors, their key quotes, and their literary periods. 2. Define, compare, contrast, justify, and challenge the major US literary historical periods. 3. Engage in meaningful debate about literary texts. 4. Write effective analytical essays about literature. 5. Correctly use literary terms.
6. Improve critical reading skills and creative engagement with the texts. 7. Examine issues of racial, cultural, gender, and sexual identity in American literature. BOOKS: Paul Lauter. THE HEATH ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (CONCISE EDITION) and Marc Shell and Werner Sollors. THE MULTILINGUAL ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.

ENGL 287-003 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 9:30-10:45 HUDOCK

ENGL 287-004 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 11:00-12:15 HUDOCK

ENGL 287-005 AMERICAN LITERATURE MWF 12:20-1:10 HEAFNER

Over the last decade, many movies, such as The Matrix, The Truman Show and Momento, have artistically grappled with similar questions--namely, can we ever wholly understand who we are and, if we can, then are we ever able to understand those people and situations that we encounter daily? Recent political decisions have also opened the door to similar uncertainties about the world. These questions are not easily answered, and therefore, we will spend the semester wrestling with them and learning that a person=s or culture=s identity is not as cut-and-dried as many of us often like to think it is. Through readings, nightly writings and class discussion, we will not only learn to understand others= opinions on this topic, but realize and develop our own views as well. We will be covering a wide range of American literature, including, but not limited to the following: Benjamin Franklin=s Autobiography, selected essays by Emerson and Thoreau, Harold Frederic=s The Damnation of Theron Ware, selections from J. D. Salinger=s short stories and Toni Morrison=s The Bluest Eye.

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

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

ENGL 288 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 288-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MWF 12:20-1:10 GWARA

Survey of British Literature from the Old English period to ca. 1700. Works will include Beowulf, Troilus and Criseyde, Gawain and the Green Knight, and at least two Shakespeare plays. For more information, please contact the instructor.

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

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

ENGL 288-003 NGLISH 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 themesBchivalry, love, heroism, virtue, religionBas they evolve from one period to the next. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 288-004 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MWF 11:15-12:05 SIBLEY-JONES

ENGL 289 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 289-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 12:30-1:45 HUSEMAN

This course will be a survey of British Literature from 1798 to 1932. Although we will focus on the distinct characteristics of the three literary periods studied (Romantic, Victorian, and Modern), we will also discuss literature as a continuum on to which these designations are projected. For the class we will be reading from the Norton Anthology of British Literature, Pride and Prejudice, and Cold Comfort Farm. In addition to the readings, students will be required to visit the Victorian Visions exhibition at the Columbia Museum of Art. The workload will include one short paper (4-5 pages), a research essay (8-10 pages), and a cumulative final exam.

ENGL 289-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE II MWF 11:15-12:05 RIDENHOUR

This course will provide an overview of British writing in the 19th and 20th century and the ways in which historical context shapes fiction and poetry, with a particular focus on the rise of urban space and its influence on literature. We will cover some of the major authors of these two hundred years (i.e. Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Dickens, Wilde, Joyce, Forster, Heaney, and a host of others) as well as some lesser known names (such as Amy Levy, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Fields). We will use the Longman anthology for shorter readings; there will be two or three novels, probably Howard= s End as well as a longer work by Dickens and something from the late twentieth century (Kazuo Ishiguro or Zadie Smith). Assignments will include participation in an electronic discussion forum, an annotated bibliography (10 items), a research paper (10-15 pages), mid-term, and final.

ENGL 289-003 ENGLISH LITERATURE II MWF 9:05-9:55 COONEY

While this will be largely a survey intended to introduce majors to a wide range of important and influential writers since the 18th century, we will also consider more specifically the effects of the unresolved conflicts between the Enlightenment and Romanticism and how those conflicts inform our world. Major writers we will read will include Wordsworth, Byron, Blake, Tennyson, Hopkins, the Brownings, Hardy, Eliot, Woolf, Yeats, Auden, and Larkin. We will also read two novels.

ENGL 289-501 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 9:30-10:45 HUSEMAN
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)

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

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 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 381-001/CPLT 381 THE RENAISSANCE TTH 3:30-4:45 SHIFFLETT

A survey of major works of European literature, 1500-1700. Authors are likely to include Erasmus, More, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Castiglione, Rabelais, Montaigne, Spenser, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Donne, Jonson, Milton, Grimmelshausen, Pascal, and Dryden. Requirements will include a review of criticism on each author, two essays, and three exams.

ENGL 382-001 THE ENLIGHTENMENT MW 12:20-1:35 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 Enlightnment 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.

ENGL 384-001 REALISM TTH 2:00-3:15 BUTTERWORTH

A study of the rise of realism in the literature of Europe, England, and America, beginning in the 18th century and extending through the 19th into the 20th century. We will study as well parallel developments in the plastic arts. We will also view film versions of several of the works for comparative study. PAPERS: 2 analytical/critical papers, 6-8 pp. ORAL REPORTS: One for each student. QUIZZES: Unannounced. EXAMS: Mid-term, 1 hour 15 minute, Final, 2 -2 2 hour. TEXTS: Robinson Crusoe; Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises; Balzac, Pere Goriot; Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, James, Daisy Miller; Hardy, Tess of the d=Urbervilles; Checkov, The Three Sisters; Hemingway, Winner Take Nothing.

ENGL 385-001 MODERNISM TTH 3:30-4:45 FORTER

This course approaches modernism as an international, multimedia, and cross-disciplinary phenomenon. Though our focus will be on the tradition of American literary modernism, we will also read texts from the British tradition, and will watch at least one film (probably Swedish) and look at several paintings (Spanish and French). The questions I hope to encourage are: what are the expressive, psychological, and social meanings of modernist representation? What kinds of stories do modernists tell, and how do they tell them? How do modernists think of the relations between perception and the object perceived? Between wholeness and fragmentation? Between masculinity and femininity? And to what kinds of experiences--personal loss, historical transformation, etc.--are modernist formal experiments a response? ASSIGNMENTS: 2 formal papers of about 6 pages; 3 informal writing assignments; and a final exam. TEXTS: Faulkner, Light in August; Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway ; Kafka, AThe Metamorphosis@; Mann, Death in Venice; Breton, Nadja 0.

ENGL 386-001 POSTMODERNISM MW 2:30-3:45 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 388-001 HIST LIT. CRITICISM /THEORY TTH 2:00-3:15 MUCKLEBAUER

This course is designed to provide you with an introduction to some of the key concepts, problems, and issues in literary theory, with a particular emphasis on contemporary theory. In general, we might say that contemporary theory attempts to ask questions about a whole series of common-sense practices that we engage in all the time, though we rarely question how they work. In this sense, Atheory@ is something that always structures our actions, whether we happen to be aware of it or not. For instance, to attempt to figure out the meaning of a literary work by asking about the author=s social context implies a whole series of assumptions about how language, literature, meaning, authorship, and contexts work. In this class, we will survey some very different views about some of the more prominent assumption in literary studies, asking questions such as AWhat exactly do we do when we read and interpret?@ and AWhat assumptions do we make about individuals, history, and writing when we try to come up with a meaning?@ In order to respond to these and other questions, we will survey a number of different theoretical perspectives, from formalism to new criticism to structuralism to deconstruction (and a host of others), and will consider how they work in conjunction with several works of fiction. As a result, you will gain some familiarity with an array of different responses to these and other Atheoretical@ questions and, in the process, you might also discover some new ways to read, as well as some new ways to think about writing.

ENGL 389-001/LING 301 THE 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 389-001/LING 301 THE ENGLISH LANG. TTH 2:00-3:15 DISTERHEFT

The structure of English and how it is used by its speakers. Topics covered include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, social variation, and history. TESTS: One midterm and a final exam. TEXTBOOK: Frank Parker and Kathryn Riley, Linguistics for Non-linguists. Allen & Bacon.

ENGL 391-001/CPLT 302 GREAT BKS. WEST WORLD II MW 3:35-4:50 DUFFY

In this course we will read a number of important novels, stories, plays and poems demonstrating large trends in the development of literature in the Western World since the Renaissance. Because of the imperialist expansion of European nations that spans this time period, the idea of Western Civilization is complicated. We will define Western Literature as works originally written in a European language, regardless of where the work was written. We will discuss features of different movements (romanticism, realism, modernism, etc.). The works chosen will also allow discussion of the challenges Western Civilization has presented to itself and to the rest of the world. Works treated include (with revisions possible): Cervantes, Don Quixote; Voltaire, Candide; Austen, Sense and Sensibility; E.T.A Hoffman, Tales;, Zola, The Masterpiece; Chekhov, The Seagull; Proust, Combray; Kafka, The Trial; Genet, The Maids; Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Garcia-Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Morrison, Beloved; selected poetry from different eras. There will be regular quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Students will be required to discuss all works in class. Each student will be required to participate in a discussion board discussion on at least one of the pre-1900 works and one of the post-1900 works.

ENGL 392-001/CPLT 303 GREAT BKS. EASTERN WORLD TTH 12:30-1:45 ALBER

To achieve a basic understanding of selected classics of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese literature, and through them, to become familiar with the basic philosophical tenants of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. The course attempts, wherever possible, to place the works within their cultural and historical context. COURSE REQUIREMENTS: Three reflection papers (10% each) of no less than 3 and no more than 5 pages in length; all references, whether to the text or other sources, must be cited according to some standard format. Essays will be judged by the clarity, genuineness, persuasiveness, and the intellectual insights of the argument. Students are required to write one paper for each of the three countries studiedCIndia, China, and JapanCand in that order. Daily quizzes (20%) will begiven to determine if students have completed the readings. There will also be a midterm (25%) and a final (25%).

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 12:30-1:45 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 406-001 SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES/HIST. TTH 9:30-10:45 RICHEY

We will explore the social energyBthe Astir in the mind@Bthat 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 mid-term, and a final exam.

ENGL 413-001 MODERN ENGLISH LIT. TTH 9:30-10:45 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 MWF 11:15-12:05COMPTON

Representative British plays from the Restoration through the present day. Playwrights include, among others, Wycherly, Aphra Behn, Farquhar, Gay, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Boucicault,, Wilde, Shaw, Synge, Pinter, Stoppard, and Caryl Churchill. PAPERS: four 3-5 critical papers, a term project: EXAMS: Mid-term and Final.

ENGL 419L-001 TOPIC/GENDER, AND IDENTITY MWF 10:10-11:00 GWARA

Gender, Identity, and Selfhood in the Middle Ages

Throughout the Middle Ages the experience of one=s identity or Aself@ was negotiated as a compromise between personal desire and the enactment of social paradigms. In fact, quite limited notions of masculinity and femininity dictated expressions of selfhood, since Adesire@ was explicitly bound by gender expectations, as defined, for example, by marriage, the military institutions of knighthood, misogynist polemic, etc. In this course we will define masculinity and femininity as a reflection of cultural ideology and explore expressions of one=s gendered identity in conflict with selfhood. The course will cover a variety of medieval works in translation, including (but certainly not limited to): Beowulf and certain Old English elegies, verse romances by Chretien de Troyes, the ABook of Wicked Wives,@ Chaucer=s Troilus and Criseyde, Legend of Good Women, and so-called Amarriage group@ of The Canterbury Tales. Since the twelfth century is often called the AAge of the Individual,@ we will also tackle some philosophical writings on social institutions from the period, e.g., on Courtly Love, Penance, Friendship, etc. Readings from significant gender and personality theorists will preface each reading, and articles on relevant topics will be assigned. Count as a pre-1800 literature course.

ENGL 427-001 SOUTHERN LITERATURE MWF 10:10 GARY

This course will focus on a variety of aesthetic and ethical choices made by writers from the American South belonging to the same period such as Flannery O'Connor (novels and short stories), Walker Percy's The
Moviegoer, William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness, Reynolds Price's A Long and Happy Life. Most discussions will center on the text itself. Requirements: critical papers and class presentations.

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 Hurtson, 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 429Q-001 TOPIC/WRITING THE CIVIL WAR TTH 12:30-1:45 SHIELDS

No event in American history had more historical resonance than the Civil War. No event has haunted the nation=s literary imagination more inexorably. In this course we will examine the texts that provoked the warBthe poetry, fiction, reportage, songs, and photography that the conflicted engenderedBthe memoirs, histories, and novels that attempted to shape the meaning of northern victory and southern defeat in civic memoryBthe modernist revision of the war in cinema and southern fictionBand the late 20th century fascination with the war revealed in reenactments, the popular history industry, and the post-modern civil war novel. Writers include Stowe, Melville, Whitman, Timrod, Chesnut, De Forest, Twain,Grant, Mosby, Crane, Faulkner, Foote, Shaara. Counts as a post-1800 literature course.

ENGL 431-001 CHILDREN=S LITERATURE 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 Aexcellence@ 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 LITERATURE TTH 12:30-1:45 JOHNSON

This course is a broad introduction to the world of contemporary American young adult literature. Students will examine texts which are in some way related to central ideas of and about America and Americans of various ethnicities and experiences. Discussion topics will include the meanings of Aexcellence@ in young adult literature, the politics of the larger children=s book publishing world, and current issues and controversies in the field.

ENGL 437-001/WOST 437 WOMEN WRITERS TTH 11:00-12:15 FELDMAN

A survey of poetry, drama and fiction by women writing during the Romantic era. We will read works by the following authors: Anna Letitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, Jane Taylor, Mary Robinson, Mary Tighe, Joanna Baillie, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and others. Classes are conducted by the lecture/discussion method. Two essays of 3 to 5 pages each, a mid-term exam, and a final exam are required.

ENGL 439P-001 TOPIC/SLAVE=S NARRATIVE TTH 11:00-12:15 WHITTED

THE SLAVE'S NARRATIVE: African-American Autobiography and Fiction of Slavery

This course examines the experiences of African American slaves through autobiography and historical 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. While historical readings will contextualize our studies, our primary focus will be on tracing the development of the slave narrative as a literary genre with its own rhetorical and authenticating strategies, tropes, and thematic patterns. We will also evaluate the aesthetic revisions and structural modifications of these writings in contemporary "neo-slave narrative" fiction. Course requirements 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 include autobiographical writings by Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and fiction by Fred D=Aguiar, Toni Morrison, and Edward P. Jones. Counts as a post-1800 literature course.

ENGL 439R-001 TOPIC/LANGUAGE & GENDER MW 12:20-1:35 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. Topics to be addressed include the acquisition of gender-differentiated language, gender and conversational interaction, sexism in language, and the relationship between language, gender, and society. Readings include Gender Voices by Joan Swann and David Graddol (1989) and a course packet. Evaluation will be based on journal entries, 3 exams, a project proposal, presentation, and final research project. A prior linguistics background is helpful but not required. Fulfills the linguistic requirement.

ENGL 439S-001 TOPIC/MAKING A LIVING MW 12:20-1:35 THESING

Emphasis on British and American writings about the theme and dream of real and ideal work from the 19th and 20th centuries. Work as Mission; Work as Opportunity; Work as Oppression; Separate Gender Spheres of Work; the Positive and Negative Aspects of the American Dream. Some authors to be studied will include: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Florence Nightingale, William Morris, John Steinbeck, D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Miller, Studs Terkel, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Alison ASami@ Sweeney.

Students will be asked to keep a journal concerning their own work experiences on a job. Some attention to gritty conditions in coal mines will be studied through various texts and films. Also, students will examine the positive and negative depictions of corporate America in texts and films. Students will consider how, why, and when people draw boundaries between their work and their lives away from work. Various exams and quizzes, papers, and class participation exercises (both oral and written). Count as a post-1800 literature course.

ENGL 439T-/LING 405L TOPIC/LANGUAGE & LAW TH 3:30-4:45 MCCARTNEY
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)

The law is an overwhelmingly linguistic institution. This course surveys the various ways in which this is true. The obvious is covered legal language and legal persuasion but so too is the less obvious: the status of plain language in the law, accent discrimination, the disparity between word meaning and usage, the right to understand, and an array of forensic linguistics: voice identification, authorship authentication, and interrogation techniques qua linguistic trickery.

ENGL 450-001/LING 421 ENGLISH GRAMMAR TTH 9:30-0:45 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 460-001 ADVANCED WRITING MWF 12:20-1:10 STAFF

Extensive practice in different types of nonfiction writing. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 460-002 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 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 460-003 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/Contex; 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. Empasis 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 460-004ADVANCED WRITING TTH 2:00-3:15 WATSON

This advanced writing course focuses on public rhetoric. It offers reading, study, and practice in forms of writing for public audiences of local, state, national, or global concern. It includes readings on the function of rhetoric in democracies, practice in rhetorical reasoning and strategies of persuasion, and examples of political rhetoric on a range of contemporary, public issues. Students will write several short analyses of readings and produce a major research project of persuasive writing for a public forum. Students may be asked to present their public-interest project to the class. Students will write approximately 40 pages of polished prose over the course of the semester.

ENGL 460-005 ADVANCED WRITING MWF 11:15-12:05 STAFF

Extensive practice in different types of nonfiction writing. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 461-001 TEACHING OF WRITING MW 2:30-3:45WILLIAMS

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 SIBLEY-JONES

Designed to help students develop writing skills to enhance professional performance. Attention given to clarity and function of professional writing. The several forms (memoranda, letters, proposals, etc.) required, library research, collaboration with others, ethical issues involved in business/technical writing, document design. PAPERS: 1 research paper. REPORTS: Oral and written. QUIZZES: Yes. No mid-term or final. TEXTS: Technical Communication, ed., Rebecca E. Burnett, 5th edition, Thomas/Heinle.
ENGL 463-001 BUSINESS WRITING MWF 10:10-11:00 STAFF