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

ENGL 360-001              CREATIVE WRITING              MW 11:15-12:30                        BAJO

(Prereq: All English courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL 270-292) The course will introduce students to elements of poetry composition and fiction writing. The course will be split equally for each genre, beginning with poetry. Students will study and discuss basic meters, forms and language dynamics, attempting to understand and express the relationship between structure and content in poems they compose and submit to workshop. For assessment, students will be expected to complete 3 - 4 substantial poems and a prose explanation of the poem’s aspirations. This close exploration of language will segue into a study of the basic elements of literary fiction. Students will compose two short stories drawing on their understanding of those elements and submit at least one to workshop, both for grading.

ENGL 360-002  CREATIVE WRITING          MWF12:20-1:10                                          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                MWF 3:35-4:25                              REID

(Prereq: All English courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL 270-292)
This course will combine readings and workshop, and will introduce students to the genres of creative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.  Coursework will include written responses to literary readings, quizzes, in-class writing exercises, journal writings, workshop participation, written critiques of peer submissions, and a portfolio of original creative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry (submitted to workshop in manuscript form and then revised).  Suitable for both beginning and experienced writers, this course is designed for students who love to read and want to learn how to get their creative thoughts down on paper.

ENGL 360-004        CREATIVE WRITING           TTH 12:30-1:45                                 BARILLA

(Prereq: All English courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL 270-292) This course will function primarily as a workshop in several genres of creative writing, in which students will share work in progress with other members of the course. We will work with poetry, short fiction and narrative nonfiction, with emphasis on fiction and poetry. The course will also involve reading and discussing published work in these genres, as well as numerous in-class and out-of-class writing exercises. Students will produce original work in each genre over the course of the semester, which they will turn in as a portfolio at the end of the course for a final grade.

ENGL 380-001/CPLT 380     EPIC TO ROMANCE MW 1:25-2:40                              GWARA

Discussion of major works of literature: the Iliad, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Beowulf, romances by
Chrétien de Troyes, and Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde.  Two papers and a mid-term.  Daily
quizzes on the readings.

ENGL 383-001           ROMANTICISM         TTH 2:00-3:15                                     FELDMAN

The Romantic period was a moment in Western cultural history that concerned itself with issues of the environment. Long known for the poetry of nature, Romantic-era literature has shaped the environmental consciousness of our own time.  This course will consider how the relationship between people and the landscape was imagined in both prose and poetry and how that imagining
intersected with class, race, gender, politics, science, economics, ethics and law.  Both environmentalism and Romanticism emphasize introspection and self-reflection, so we will think about these texts in relation to our own experience and the ways we choose to live in the world, both collectively and as individuals.  Class requirements:  Two group presentations, two 5-page essays, mid-term and final examination.

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

This course will grapple with realism as a mode of representation by focusing on its premier vehicle, the novel.  The course will begin with classical realism such as Honore Balzac’s Pere Goriot and Leo Tolstoy’s  Anna Karenina.  The rest of the course will be spent reading novels that bend, critique, or otherwise subvert classic realism, including Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World, Henry James’ “In the Cage,” and Marguerite Duras’ The Ravishing of Lol Stein.  In addition to the novels, readings will include canonical critical statements by George Lukacs, Roland Barthes, Erich Auerbach, and Peter Brooks.  We will conclude the course with two films:  the Italian neo-realist film by Vittorio DeSica’s The Bicycle Thief and Mexican filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s labyrinth. 

ENGL 385-001                       MODERNISM               TTH 12:30-1:45                                      GLAVEY

This course will offer both an introduction to the study of Anglo-American modernism and an opportunity to think about the way that modernist formal experimentation responds to the experience of gender in the early twentieth century. Until recently, many of the stories told about modernism have focused almost exclusively on male artists--male artists, moreover, that often seem intent on raising misogyny to an aesthetic ideal. A typical creed for this take on modernism, for instance, might be James Joyce’s comment that “T. S. Eliot ends the idea of poetry for ladies.” Yet even Ezra Pound--by no means a feminist--recognized that some of the most exciting poetry of the twentieth-century was being written by women such as H. D. and Mina Loy. In this course we will take a close look at this poetry, as well as the poetry, novels, and short fiction of other figures—men and women—for whom modernism’s quest to “make it new” meant asking questions about gender and sexuality. Some of the writers we will be reading include: Djuna Barnes, Mary Butts, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Nella Larsen, Bruce Nugent, Laura Riding, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. The texts we will be studying represent a wide array of forms, genres, and styles as well as subject matter. As such, they will provide wonderful opportunities to develop attentive and critical reading skills and to consider broader questions about the relation between works of art and their cultural contexts. Assignments will include a number of brief exercises, one 7-10 page paper, and a final exam.

ENGL 386-001           POSTMODERNISM              TTH 9:30-10:45                             COWART

This course will seek to define postmodernism more precisely than “what happens after 1950.”  Focus will be on the American postmoderns, but with additional attention to such important extramural figures as Borges, Calvino, Stoppard, and Angela Carter.  LIKELY works (titles sometimes go out of print) include Calvino’s Cosmicomics, Borges’s Labyrinths, Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Hwang’s M. Butterfly, Nabokov’s Real Life of Sebastian Knight, DeLillo’s Players, Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, Spiegelman’s Maus, Maxine Hong Kingston's, Woman Warrior, Gardner's Grendel, Barthelme's, The Dead Father, a novel by Gloria Naylor, and stories by Flannery O’Connor.  SEMESTER GRADE:  10% daily reading quizzes; 15% midterm; 25% first of two five-page papers; 30% second of two five-page papers and 20% final exam.

ENGL 387/SPCH 387      INTRO. TO RHETORIC  TTH 12:30-1:45                     DOXSTADER

What is rhetoric? For many, rhetoric is a “mere” good, empty words that cover truth with deception. For others, rhetoric is a vital art, a means of embracing the uncertainty of life and a fragile power to create understanding in situations where truth has more than one face. What can we do with rhetoric? Since antiquity, critics and theoreticians have struggled with the question of whether rhetoric’s practice can be grasped in a systematic way. Too, they have devoted considerable time to understanding the potential of rhetoric and how it may shape human identity, politics, and culture.

This course offers a writing-intensive introduction to the theory and criticism of rhetoric. In it, we will ask after the nature of rhetoric, explore the means of its production, and analyze its importance. We will consider how rhetoric both energizes and limits the ability of human beings to voice their experience, the ways in which rhetorical activity shapes the contours of public life, and how the critical study of rhetoric may provide way of differentiating forms of speech and writing that sponsor violence and those forms that hold opportunities for understanding, productive disagreement, and collective action.

ENGL E405-300        SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES        TTH 5:30-6:45                   ASHLEY

We will read a representative selection of Shakespeare's tragedies while placing the plays in their dramatic and historical contexts.  For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 406-001    SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES/HIST.     TTH 3:30-4:45                CROCKER

We will read a representative selection of Shakespeare's comedies and histories while placing the plays into their dramatic and historical contexts.  For more information, contact the instructor.

ENGL 419J-001         TOPIC/ JOYCE’S ULYSSES            MW 3:30-6:15                            RICE

(8-week course, begins March 2008)
The goals of this class are to lead you through a close reading of Ulysses, the major work of James Joyce, with particular emphasis on the principal critical models for, and approaches to the reading of this novel, and with practice in both local and global analysis of this work.  After an initial overview of Joyce's earlier works, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man--ideally, students should already be familiar with both these books--the classes will concentrate on reading and discussion of Ulysses, chapter by chapter.

Assignments: three short papers, increasing in projected length (2, 4, and 6 pages respectively) and weight (10, 20, and 30% of final grade, respectively), regular participation in a class discussion-board for each class meeting through the term (5%), and a comprehensive final examination essay (25%).  Class participation will be encouraged (10%).  In addition, there will be 3-4 screenings of related films, tentatively scheduled for c. 8-10 p.m. on Monday or Wednesday evenings.            Required texts: Ulysses (ed. Gabler, 1984) and The New Bloomsday Book (Blamires).  Optional, recommended: The Portable James Joyce (ed. Levin)--which contains Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man--and Ulysses Annotated (ed. Gifford).

ENGL 419N-001 TOPIC/ MEDIEVAL MASCULNITIES      TTH 12:30-1:45              CROCKER

This course explores the construction of medieval masculinities through literary representation, paying particular attention to the ways different genres inflect contrasting modes of masculinity.  The thematic apparatus of the class is not in place to limit or narrow critical inquiry in our discussion, but is instead meant to destabilize a category of identity often privileged in scholarly discourse.  Besides thinking about masculinities across authors including Geoffrey Chaucer, the Gawain poet, and Chretien de Troyes, we will also pursue the social implications of literary representations.  As Wycliffitte writings and conduct manuals demonstrate, becoming a man in medieval society is not an easy or safe process, and thinking through the cultural expectations that define masculinities opens up avenues of inquiry relevant to other gender and social positions.  We will, therefore, read several texts written by, for, or from the point of view of women to see how those writers respond to various types of masculine authority.  We will also discuss what kinds of influence women have over shaping meanings of manhood in medieval society, from Christine de Pizan to Margery Kempe.
           
ENGL 427-001      SOUTHERN LITERATURE        TTH 11:00-12:15                    BRINKMEYER

A survey of the major works of Southern literature from the Old South to the present, with a focus on the significance of regionalism and regional identity. We will read mostly works of fiction, but there will be some autobiography and poetry as well.  Writers we will look at include:  Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Allen Tate, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Anne Porter, Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy.  Requirements: midterm exam, 2 papers, and final exam.

ENGL 428-001    AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE    TTH 9:30-10:45                  WHITTED

A survey of representative texts, themes, and critical approaches to the study of African-American Literature from its colonial beginnings through the twentieth century. Course readings will emphasize the intersections between mobility, visibility, and freedom through the writings of enslaved black people, narratives of racial uplift, passing, post-war migration, and southern flight, as well as literary engagements with social and cultural movements within the last five decades. Grades will be based on class discussion, weekly responses, two papers, a mid-term and a final examination. Required texts: Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Second Edition) and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

ENGL 429R-001      TOPIC/AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE   MW 2:30-3:45      R.  WALLS

American Indians have long been trapped in a betwixt and between state, caught by the forces of past and present, tradition and assimilation, romanticization and caricature. Yet through it all, native voices have continued to speak of the Indian experience with great power and eloquence. This course will introduce Native American literature as a distinctive contribution to American and world literature. We will examine a wide range of expressive culture from the last century, including novels, poetry, autobiographies, performance of oral literature, music, and film. Through the passion, creativity, and humor of Indian authors, we will learn something of the historical experience of native men and women, and how they have reacted to massacres and mascots, racism and reservations, poverty and political oppression.  Above all, we will try to understand how indigenous people have used literature to engage crucial issues of race and culture that continue to influence their lives: identity, self-discovery, the centrality of place, cultural survival, and the healing power of language and spirituality. Course assignments will include a mid-term exam, weekly writing responses, and a research paper.

ENGL 429S-001      TOPIC/CONTEMP. CAROLINA NOVELIST     MW 2:30-3:45          POWELL

This course features visiting lectures by half a dozen contemporary novelists from the South.  A variety of topics are explored, including the relationship between literature and regional identity, the intersection of biography and creative product, and the writing process.  This section is crosslisted with Southern Studies 405L, and English majors may choose to enroll under either heading depending on the availability of seats.  The course is open to majors and nonmajors.  Expect four short essays, a midterm and cumulative final, quizzes, and class discussion.

ENGL 429V-001     TOPIC/SOPHISTICATED  LADIES    TTH 11:00-12:15                      KEYSER

Sophisticated Ladies: Modern Women Writers, Humor, and the City

Has the image of sophistication associated with chicly-dressed women sipping martinis restricted the output of literary women or enabled their independence?  This course will address humorous pieces, both prose and poetry, written by women living and working in cities during the modern period.  These writers, such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Mary McCarthy, were often considered to be middlebrow, traditional, even snobbish or retrograde.  We will examine their satirical and humorous works in order to uncover the cultural critiques they made about urban life, modern gender roles, and the growing mass media.  We will also read the work of their male counterparts, such as the members of the Algonquin Round Table, and we will discuss their takes on sophistication and the changing gender roles of the modern period.  If time allows, we may also consider the role of Broadway and Hollywood in creating a bantering type of the modern woman.  Requirements include reading responses, two critical essays, and a final exam. 

ENGL 429W-001    TOPIC/AMERICAN REVOLUTION    MW 1:25-2:40                        SHIELDS

Expressing the American Revolution

 While the founders of the United States declared that the actions of the American people in overthrowing British imperial rule and constituting their own political state enacted a "novos ordo seclorum"--a new order of the ages--the question remains: what did the Revolution create other than the U.S.A.?  This class, employing the draft materials for the NEH webportal on the American Revolution, will explore what was new, old, and essential to the documents and actions that separated American from Britain.  It will explore the literature of public documents, the cartoon and caricature wars which pitted Yankee Doodle against John Bull, the memoirs of the combatants, the theatrical expressions, and the poetry that were vehicles for American national ethnogenesis. 

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.  (It could be subtitled “The cultural politics of the American Children’s Book World.”)  Students will examine texts, both picture books and chapter books, that are in some way related to central ideas of and about America and Americans of various backgrounds, experiences, and orientations to the world.  Discussion topics will include the meaning of literary excellence in children’s book writing and illustration, the politics of the children’s book publishing industry, and current issues and controversies in the field.  Though the professor is mindful that many students in this course are Education students, students should bear in mind that this is an English course. 

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 (YA) literature.  (It could easily be subtitled “The cultural politics of the American children’s and YA book world.”)  Students will examine texts, including picture books, graphic novels, fiction, and  nonfiction that are in some way related to central ideas of and about America and Americans of various backgrounds, experiences, and orientations to the world.  Discussion topics will include the meaning of literary excellence in YA literature, the politics of the YA/children’s book publishing world, and current issues and controversies in the field.  The professor is mindful that many students in this course are Education students; however, students should bear in mind that this is an English course.

ENGL 437/WOST 437   WOMEN WRITERS   MW 2:30-3:45                                           JAMES

Survey of major themes, genres, and influences in twentieth-century writing by women in English.  Requirements: frequent brief writing assignments, three essay exams, faithful class participation. Text: Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Vol. II, Third Edition, 2007.

ENGL 439O-501     TOPIC/CAUGHT IN THE CREATIVE ACT   MW 5:45-7:00       HOSPITAL

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Caught in the Creative Act is a new kind of course, one that connects contemporary culture and its living writers and gives students an opportunity to meet nationally and internationally known authors face to face, to ask questions, and to discuss the work with the writer. The course consists of alternating lectures and vibrant interactive sessions with the authors of the works being studied (novels, collections of short stories, poetry, memoirs.)  The course is available for undergraduate Honors College credit, though during the weeks when the authors are visiting it is also open to the public at large. To ensure wide accessibility, class sessions will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings.  The visiting authors will read from their work, discuss the process of creating the book, and answer questions.  For non-Honors College students, permission of professor is required. 

ENGL 439U-001/LING 405U TOPIC/LANG. ACQUISITION TTH 2:00-3:15             SCHULZ

Native and Non-native Language Acquisition

This course is an introduction to the field of first (L1) and second (L2) language acquisition. It will explore how the study of language development relates to the field of linguistics in general and to what extent acquiring a native language differs form/is similar to the acquisition of a second language. The course will look at the various research questions that are addressed in both L1 and L2 research as well as the methods used by researchers to answer these. After a short introduction to syntactic theory, the course will focus on comparing the syntactic development of first and second language learners. We will cover a variety of syntactic phenomena that have been documented in first and second language development and will investigate what these observable facts tell us about the nature of the underlying language system that L1 and L2 learners employ.

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with what we currently know about the syntactic development in L1 and L2 acquisition and to enable students to evaluate empirical research on language acquisition in a critical way. This course is heavily research-oriented, and for this reason we will read primary research articles as well as conduct our own experiments. Thus, the course will provide students with the opportunity to gather first hand experience on carrying out empirical
research in a guided fashion.

The course will be a combination of assigned readings, lectures, class discussions and projects. Prior basic knowledge of linguistics is helpful, but we will review all relevant linguistic concepts in class.

ENGL 450-001/LING 421      ENGLISH GRAMMAR           TTH 11:00-12:15       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.  TEXT: Dorothy Disterheft, Advanced Grammar: a manual for students. Prentice-Hall.  REQUIREMENTS: one midterm, one final.

ENGL 457-001/LING 442      AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENGLISH    TTH 11:00-12:15    WELDON

This course is designed to introduce students to the structure, history, and use of the distinctive varieties of English used by and among many African Americans in the U.S. In this course, we will examine some of the linguistic features that distinguish African-American English (AAE) from other varieties of American English. We will consider theories regarding the history and emergence of AAE. We will look at the representation of AAE in literature. We will examine the structure and function of various expressive speech events in the African-American speech community. And we will consider attitudinal issues regarding the use of AAE, especially as they relate to education and the acquisition of Standard English.  Cross-listed with LING 442, AFRO 442 and ANTH 442.

ENGL 460-001           ADVANCED WRITING             MWF 10:10-11:00                         STAFF

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

ENGL 460-002           ADVANCED WRITING               MW 12:20-1:35                          WATSON

This course is an advanced writing workshop appropriate for any upper-level student who wants to work on his/her writing.  The reading and writing assignments will range across contemporary genres, including but perhaps not limited to, short fiction, literary nonfiction/creative essay, argument analysis, and persuasive writing.  This is a discussion-based class that requires students’ active participation.  Students will prepare in-depth responses to readings and to peers’ writings, in addition to generating their own fiction and nonfiction work.  Instruction will focus on rhetoric, style, voice, and genre to help students improve their writing.  Requirements: 5 papers (varying length), 10 reading responses, 5 peer responses, in-class writing, discussion, and a final portfolio. 
 
ENGL 460-003           ADVANCED WRITING               TTH 8:00-9:15                                    RAY

This course will give anyone a good introduction to the elements and expectations for writing in the relatively new field of creative nonfiction. Although the course is workshop-based, with students producing three major essays (approx ten pages each), we will also read essays from contemporary
nonfiction writers from the journal Creative Nonfiction as well as more established authors like Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, and others. The major questions we’ll pose throughout the semester: what makes creative nonfiction different from fiction? What makes this genre different from standard journalism? How have both fiction and journalism evolved, and how have these genres influenced one another?

ENGL 460-004           ADVANCED WRITING               TTH 9:30-10:45                         BARILLA

This course will function as a workshop in the craft of creative nonfiction, in which students will share work in progress with other members of the course. We will encounter different subgenres of nonfiction, including memoir and literary journalism, and we will experiment with the expectations of the essay form. The class will include reading and discussing published work, and will include numerous in class and out of class exercises designed to stimulate ideas and hone skills. Students will produce a portfolio of written work, which they will turn in at the end of the course for a final grade.

ENGL 460-005           ADVANCED WRITING   TTH 11:00-12:15                                      STAFF

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

ENGL 460-006           ADVANCED WRITING  TTH 12:30-1:45                                          STAFF

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

ENGL 460-007           ADVANCED WRITING           TTH 2:00-3:15                                 SHEHI

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seem to be able to give plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
                                                                   -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
                                                                        
“If you want to be a writer, write. Write all the time.”
                                                                      -- Samuel Johnson

Why do we write? We write for different purposes. Sometimes we write to explore an issue and find out what we think about it, sometimes we write to convey information, sometimes we write just to express our feelings or create an impression, often we write to persuade, and at times we write simply to play.

In this course, 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.

ENGL 460-008           ADVANCED WRITING  TTH 3:30-4:45                          BUTTERWORTH

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                        HOLCOMBE

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 4:00-5:15                                   CONLEY

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, contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-001  BUSINESS WRITING         MWF 8:00-8:50                                            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 9:05-9:55                          D. WRIGHT

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    MWF 10:10-11:00                                        STAFF

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief  letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-004     BUSINESS WRITING   MW 12:20-1:35                                              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 463-005               BUSINESS WRITING        TTH 8:00-9:15                            MCMANUS

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from memos and letters to formal articles and reports. Attendance is mandatory. Assignments will be as followed: Memos and letters, Evaluative Report, Instructional Report, Resume and Job Letter, and Long Report. In addition to the daily readings, there will be some short writing assignments. No exams or quizzes.

ENGL 463-006              BUSINESS WRITING         TTH 9:30-10:45                            COOPER

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief  letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-007                BUSINESS WRITING       TTH 11:00-12:15                          COOPER 

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief  letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-008               BUSINESS WRITING        TTH 3:30-4:45                       CAVANAUGH

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief  letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 463-009                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   SAT. 9:00-2:00                                      PARROT

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E463-300          BUSINESS WRITING        MON. 5:30-8:15                          ANDERSON

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

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

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL E463-851               BUSINESS WRITING        TTH 5:30-8:30                          MCMANUS   

Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from memos and letters to formal articles and reports. Attendance is mandatory. Assignments will be as followed: Memos and letters, Evaluative Report, Instructional Report, Resume and Job Letter, and Long Report. In addition to the daily readings, there will be some short writing assignments. No exams or quizzes.             

ENGL 464-001                  POETRY WORKSHOP  TTH 11:00-12:15                                GREER

(Prerequisite:  ENGL 360)
Workshop in writing poetry for students who have successfully completed ENGL 360.  Please contact the instructor for further information.

ENGL 465-001           FICTION WORKSHOP      MW 1:25-2:40                                       BAJO

(Prerequisite:  ENGL 360)
This course explores the intricacies of the literary elements studied basically in English 360 to teach students how to write literary short stories. Students will use models and discussion to gain an understanding of the level of story composition at stake in this course, and then they will begin submitting new stories of their own to workshop assessment in order to discover how to enhance readerly impact. The course is designed for writers aspiring to MFA fiction programs or to students of literature who wish to deepen their perspective on language by exploring the other side of the printed page.

ENGL E465-300         FICTION WORKSHOP      TTH 5:30-6:45                                        LAMB

(Prerequisite:  ENGL 360)
This is a fiction workshop. The idea is to learn by doing, as well as by studying how others did it: why a story works, if it does, and why it doesn’t work if it doesn’t. Everybody has stories to tell and the ability to tell them. How good they are is another matter, but, generally speaking, the secret to good writing is rewriting. We also explore the creative impulse and the magic of story.

ENGL 467B/SPCH 499C    TOPIC/RHETORIC-SCIENCE & TECH.    TTH 2:00-3:15    GEHRKE

Rhetoric of Science & Technology: Arguments in
Nanotechnology.

This course will introduce students to the study of the rhetoric of science and technology.  We will examine how scientists, industry, government, and citizen groups engage in persuasion over science and technology controversies and policies.  In the latter half of the course we will use the specific case of nanotechnology to analyze how rhetoric, risk, and policy interact to affect public perceptions of science and scientists' perceptions of the public.  Throughout the semester we will engage these arguments through active participation in class debates, culminating in a final public debate on an issue related to emerging technology.  No prior knowledge or training in science or technology issues is necessary.  However, public advocacy is a required component of this course.

ENGL/FILM 473-001                FILM THEORY MW 11:15-12:30                                        COOPER

Theories of film from the 1910s to the present; early debates over the aesthetics of film, its debts to and departures from other media; more recent accounts of how cinema organizes desire and shapes perceptions of reality (territories, populations, governance); consideration of cinema's possible futures.  Film screenings will be held on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 p.m.

ENGL 475-001/FILM566G HISTORY OF CINEMA II TTH 12:30-1:45                               HARK

A survey of the major films, film makers, and national cinematic traditions after World War II.  The first half of the course will concentrate on Hollywood, the second on France, Japan, Germany, Australia, and China.  REQUIREMENTS: Two 3‑5 page papers; midterm and final objective exams.   After initial screening, films are available for review in Thomas Cooper Library.  Film screenings will be held on Thursdays from 7:15-9:15 p.m.

ENGL 490H-501         TOPIC/ MEDICINE, LITERATURE & FILM  TTH 11:00-12:15       DAVIS

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Stories of Suffering: Medicine, Literature, and Film
Does pain have any meaning? This is not a question doctors typically seek to answer as they focus their energies on alleviating physical suffering and symptoms. When writers and filmmakers treat pain, however, they grapple directly with its significance, creating narratives that make sense of suffering in ways that can justify or alleviate the anguish experienced. Depending on the sense made, readers or viewers may feel drawn into these stories until we, too, begin to suffer, or we may feel distanced in a clinical fashion, intellectually but not emotionally involved. In this course, we will explore the curative and explanatory properties of such stories and assess the power of narrative to lend coherence, meaning, and purpose to suffering.  Readings will include 1) stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Lorrie Moore, Lucy Grealy, and Reynolds Price; 2) poems by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, and Donald Hall; and 3) essays by Weir Mitchell, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Susan Sontag. Films may include “Three Faces of Eve,” “The Doctor,” “Outbreak,” “And the Band Played On,” and “Girl, Interrupted.” Students will be asked to post brief weekly response papers to Blackboard and to produce both a creative project and a final seminar paper. 

ENGL 491-001          ADVANCED POETRY WORKSHOP     TTH 3:30-4:45            MCMANUS

(Prerequisite: ENGL 360 and 464)
This course will further develop skills in poetic technique, through intense invention exercises and thorough critique. Students will be given assignments as well as choose assignments for drafting poems. Exercises and homework assignments will be required as will the open discussion of student work by peers. Regular critique in class is required of all students as per the workshop method. If you are reluctant or unwilling to engage in this kind of open discussion, you should not enroll in this course. Attendance is mandatory.  Grading will be as followed:  two response essays on the books we read, one essay on the portfolio, and the portfolio (12-15 poems). No exams or quizzes.

ENGL 565-001           AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE     TTH 3:30-4:45                COMPTON           

An exploration of the major plays, movements, figures, and critical strategies that marked the development of African American drama and theatre in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Students will read and write about a variety of plays, attend theatrical performances, present short oral reports, and participate in a term project. There will be a midterm and a final exam.  Cross-listed with THEA 565 AND AFRO 398H.                                                                                           

ENGL 566F/FILM566F    THE SOUTH ON FILM                    MW 2:30-3:45            COURTNEY

This course studies a range of popular and independent films about the American South from the silent era to the present, to ask questions like: What does the South look and sound like on film? What cultural mythologies of region, race, class, nation, gender, and sexuality circulate with such films? How have such films functioned in the broader landscape of US culture more generally not only to represent “the South,” but also to imagine and work through crucial histories and conflicts for the entire nation? What do films about the South tend to remember and forget, and how? And how do key filmic images of the South shift and change, fade and return, over time?  Film screenings will be held on Mondays  from 4:00-6:30 p.m.

ENGL 566G/FILM 566G TOPIC/SCIENCE FICTION FILMS  TTH 3:30-4:45                    HARK

Covers a variety of sci-fi films from the 1920s-2000s. Considers sf as history and political allegory; sf as a space of utopia and dystopia; sf and the metaphysics of time, space and consciousness; sf’s interactions with other genres; and sf fandom. Film screenings will be held on Wednesdays from 7:15-9:15 p.m.