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ENGL 270-001 WORLD LITERATURE MWF 10:10-11:00 HAMBY

This course will survey the literatures of several cultures including East Asian, Indian and Arabian sources as well as various European literatures. The goal of the course is to develop an understanding and appreciation for the diversity of literatures throughout our world. PAPERS: 10 short papers, 2-4 pp (500 words minimum). QUIZZES: Occasional pop quizzes. EXAMS: mid-term essay exam and final essay exam. TEXTS: Norton Anthology of World Literature, (Vol. 1).

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

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

ENGL 282-002 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 FOX

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 ADAIR

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

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

We shall read a wide selection of fiction that spans the last two centuries. Most of our attention will be given to short fiction, but we also shall read three novels. The syllabus is ambitious because of the amount of reading assigned. Your responsibility is to keep up with the reading on a daily basis so that you are prepared to discuss it each day in class.

REQUIREMENTS: Oral report (25%); paper 5-8 pages (25%); Final exam (25%); Class participation (25%). In the oral report (10-15 minutes) you will introduce your classmates to the writer and her/his work. Attention will be given to biographical matters, style of writing, subject matter(s) of primary interest to writer, and suggestions about what material the interested person will want to read. Ideally, your oral report will provide the foundation for a paper, although you may write on a different topic if you desire. The final exam will ask you to discuss a theme that interests you in the literature we read. You will consider how several writers (three or four) treat that theme.

ENGL E282-300 FICTION TTH 5:30-6:45 STAFF

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

ENGL E282-851 FICTION MW 5:30-8:15 LABBE

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

ENGL 283-001 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 8:00-8:50 MILLER
(Designed for Non-majors)
Family Matters: What is a family?

Preachers, pundits, activists, social scientists and therapists all debate what does or doesn’t count as a family. Poets and novelists don’t debate: they tell stories.

What kinds of stories has our culture told, and what ideas about family have these stories featured? In this class, we’ll start with the most authoritative and influential of stories: the aqedah, or binding of Isaac, and the four gospels. We’ll go on to examine works that have been enshrined as “classics”: Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice , Great Expectations. We’ll look at one of Sigmund Freud’s stories—Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria—and then at Richard Wright’s powerful novel Native Son. We’ll study one of the great Hollywood comedies of an earlier day, The Philadelphia Story, starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart. And we’ll wind up with a celebrated novel by the African Anglophone writer Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.

With all these narratives, we’ll be asking what kind of structure the family has, how the roles within it are defined, and what kinds of conflicts or tensions it tends to create. We’ll also think about how families fit into larger social structures: what they have to do with nations, races, social and economic classes, tribes, clans, villages, or neighborhoods—and how these larger structures may shape family life from within. Naturally, we will also have to talk about the powerful emotions that bind families together and often drive them apart: love and hatred, intimacy and privacy, power and dependency, the need to respect boundaries and the allure of crossing them.

PAPERS: one critical essay, 5-7 pages. QUIZZES: weekly, in discussion sections. EXAMS: two hour tests and one final exam. TEXTS: selections from the Bible (textbook still to be chosen); Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Penguin paperback); Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Norton critical edition); Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Penguin classics); Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Collier paperback); Richard Wright, Native Son (Harper Perennial); George Cukor, director, The Philadelphia Story; (DVD, ISBN 0-7907-4417-1); Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Anchor paperback)

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

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-003 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 12:30-1:20 MILLER

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-004 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, TH 2:00-2:50 MILLER
Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-005 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 9:05-9:55 MILLER

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-006 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 10:10-11:00 MILLER

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-007 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 11:15-12:05 MILLER

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-008 THEMES IN BRIT. WRIT. MW 11:15-12:05, F 12:20-1:10 MILLER

Same as ENGL 283-001.

ENGL 283-009 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING MWF 12:20-1:10 R. MILLER

(Designed for Non-majors)
The theme of this class will be “ethics and decision-making.” We shall examine works from varying times and periods in British literature, concerning ourselves with how authors and characters define “ethics.” A related goal will be to appreciate how such literature can lead one to make both harmful and beneficial decisions.

REQUIREMENTS: Likely to include three tests with both essay and objective sections, a cumulative final exam, occasional quizzes, and occasional written homework assignments. Class participation will also be considered.

ENGL 283-010 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING MWF 12:20-1:10 STAFF

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent themes of British culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-011 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 9:30-10:45 COONEY

(Designed for Non-majors)
This course will examine how literature treats war -- not only in works about the battlefields themselves, but also in works that examine the impact on non-combatants. Some of the questions we will consider in particular include: what motivates a person to take the risk involved in combat? What makes a person a hero? What impact does war have on the society that sends its army to fight? To answer these and other questions, we will begin with excerpts from the great poem of war, The Iliad, and continue on to more recent works by authors including Orwell, Unsworth, Barker, and Farah. In addition, we will watch at least one film relating to the novels. REQUIREMENTS: Students will take two exams and write a paper, but a substantial portion of the grading will be based on daily participation.

ENGL 283-012 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 9:30-10:45 STAFF

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent themes of British culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-013 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 MILLER

ENGL 283-014 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 STAFF

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent themes of British culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-015 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 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. REQUIREMENTS: Two essay tests & one paper. TEXTS: Shakespeare's KING LEAR and Johnson's RASSELAS; and an anthology (probably Xeroxed).

ENGL 283-016 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 COONEY

(Designed for Non-majors)
This course will examine how literature treats war -- not only in works about the battlefields themselves, but also in works that examine the impact on non-combatants. Some of the questions we will consider in particular include: what motivates a person to take the risk involved in combat? What makes a person a hero? What impact does war have on the society that sends its army to fight? To answer these and other questions, we will begin with excerpts from the great poem of war, The Iliad, and continue on to more recent works by authors including Orwell, Unsworth, Barker, and Farah. In addition, we will watch at least one film relating to the novels. Students will take two exams and write a paper, but a substantial portion of the grading will be based on daily participation.

ENGL 283-017 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 STAFF

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent themes of British culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 283-501 THEMES IN BRITISH WRITING MWF 12:20-1:10 GWARA

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)

Legends of the Rings.

An intensive study of the Germanic legends and themes underlying Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, to include texts like Beowulf and Old English poetry, Volsunga saga, the Elder Edda, Hrolfssaga Kraka, Kalevala, Sir Orfeo, King Lear, Macbeth, and some Victorian children's fiction. It is expected that students taking the course will already know The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and Lord of the Rings intimately.

ENGL E284-092 DRAMA SAT. 9:00-2:00P.M. HUNGERFORD

Drama from several countries and historical periods. Attendance at several theatre productions will be required. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-001 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, TH 8:00-8:50 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 Sixth (?) Edition (ISBN: 0393979695); 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 WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, TH 11:00-11:50 COWART
Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-003 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, TH 12:30-1:20 COWART

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-004 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, TH 2:00-2:50 COWART

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-005 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, TH 3:30-4:20 COWART

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-006 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, F 9:05-9:55 COWART

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-007 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, F 9:05-9:55 COWART

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-008 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, F 10:10-11:00 COWART

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-009 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, F 11:15-12:05 COWART

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-010 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, F 11:15-12:05 COWART

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-011 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, F 12:20-1:10 COWART

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-012 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, F 1:25-2:15 COWART

Same as ENGL 285-001.

ENGL 285-013 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 1:25-2:15 LEPPARD

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-014 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MWF 2:30-3:20 HEAFNER

(Designed for Non-majors)

“What Is an American?” Constructing and Construing the American Identity

With all that has happened during the last five years, many people around the world have had to define/redefine/question/struggle to understand what it means to be American. These efforts show that the term “American” doesn’t simply denote one’s country of origin. Instead, this great melting pot of persons is also a melting pot of ideas about what this country is and what it should be. We will start the semester by looking at some of the documents on which this country was founded (and a few others that were selectively ignored), and as the semester progresses, we will see how writers from each generation have not only reimagined, but also reinforced ideas about what it means to be American. Issues such as government, education, religion, gender roles, class structures and racial identities will frequently appear in our readings, and hopefully, by discussing these topics in the light of historical information and our own personal experiences, we will come to understand ourselves better in the process. Some of the authors we will cover are: Jefferson; Crèvecoeur; Emerson and Thoreau; Frederic Douglass and Harriet Jacobs; Rebecca Harding Davis; Melville; Twain; some Harlem Renaissance poets; Flannery O’Connor; Joyce Carol Oates; Louise Erdrich.

ENGL 285-015 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 9:30-10:45 BEALER

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-016 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 9:30-10:45 SA. BROWN

(Designed for Non-majors)
Themes in American poetry. The course is based on a number of American authors, mostly in the 20th century. PAPERS: Five papers, 2-3 pp. EXAMS: midterm (short essay questions) and final (short essay questions). TEXTS: 100 Great Poets of the English Language, (ed. Dana Gioia), plus a few handouts.

ENGL 285-017 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 ASHLEY

(Designed for Non-majors)
The course will consist of literary materials set in the American South and by Southern authors. There will be readings from prose fiction, poetry and drama. There will be two exams: A mid-term and final exam and one paper about medium length.

ENGL 285-018 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 HEAFNER

(Designed for Non-majors)
Please see description for 285-014.

ENGL 285-019 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 12:30-1:45 STAFF

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285-020 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 STAFF

(Designed for Non-majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 285C-001 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING TTH 11:00-12:15 STRICKLAND

(Restricted to Opportunity Scholars Students)
This course will cover selections from major American writers from colonial times to the late 20th Century. The focus of the discussions will be on examining the definition of an American literature, its development and its diversity. PAPERS: Two, 3-5 pp. each (each must be revised). QUIZZES: Weekly quizzes covering reading assignments. EXAMS: 2 exams - short answer and essay. FINAL: Yes, short answer and essay. TEXTS: Perkins, et al., The American Tradition in Literature, 8th ed.

ENGL E285-300 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 5:30-6:45 WILLIAMS

(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 E285-801 THEMES IN AMERICAN WRITING MW 5:30-8:15 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 286-001 POETRY MW 1:25-2:40 THESING

We will read poetry written by 19th and 20th century British and American poets. We will also study their lives. Lecture and discussion. Some of the poets to be studied might include: Thomas Hardy, G. M. Hopkins, Whitman, Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Masters, Robinson, Frost, R. Jeffers, Jarrell, Millay, T. S. Eliot, Lowell, James Dickey, and Sylvia Plath. We will also sample the poems of some of our state’s practicing poets. Video screenings of the authors and their works. REQUIREMENTS: Essay examinations (midpoint and end of semester), quizzes throughout the term, and various writing assignments. Class attendance is very important.

ENGL 286-501 POETRY TTH 11:00-12:15 FELDMAN

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
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

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Poetry from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more information, please contact the instructor.

ENGL 287 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 287-001 AMERICAN LITERATURE MW 12:20-1:35 DAVIS

Love, American Style
This course will survey American literature addressing the twin themes of love and loss. Most of our texts will be novels. Students will be expected to submit regular written assignments including short and longer papers as well as to pass both a midterm and final.

ENGL 287-002 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 11:00-12:15 WALLS

This course will provide an introduction to American literature through many of its most resonant voices, from the Puritan settlers through the Revolution and the Civil War to the twentieth century. From the beginning, the paradox fueling America’s national literature has been the quest for freedom in a slave society. This survey will highlight key works of American literature as they explore the many forms of servitude, actual and metaphoric, against the great American ideal of freedom. Readings will include Puritan poetry and captivity narratives; autobiographies by Franklin, Equiano, and Douglass, Thoreau’s Walden; poetry by Whitman and Dickinson; short stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Rebecca Harding Davis, novels by Mark Twain and Kate Chopin; and works by Native American writers. REQUIREMENTS: a number of short response writings; two formal 5-7 page papers; midterm and final exams. TEXTS: Norton Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition; Mark Twain, Huck Finn; Kate Chopin, The Awakening; Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony.

ENGL 287-003 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 12:30-1:45 WHITTED

This course surveys representative texts, periods, and themes in American Literature and focuses on how a diverse range of writers grapple with issues of nation and identity in their creative work. REQUIREMENTS: class discussion, weekly responses, two papers, a mid-term and a final examination. TEXTS: Heath Anthology of American Literature (Concise Edition) and Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye.

ENGL 287-004 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 2:00-3:15 BUTTERWORTH

A study of important American Writers of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries: Franklin, Jefferson, Irving, Emerson, Poe, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Douglas, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, W.C. Williams, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston, O’Connor, Bishop, Lowell, and others. Lecture-Discussion. REQUIREMENTS: 2 critical papers (1500 words); mid-semester test; 2 hour final examination. TEXTS: The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Shorter Edition); Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter; Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

ENGL 287-005 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 3:30-4:45 HEAFNER

(Please see description for 285-014.)

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

This course covers American literature from its 17th century origins to the present day, with an emphasis on how we as a nation got from there to here in our thinking, attitudes and values as reflected in our literature. Readings and discussions will consider the role of social, religious, and political influences, and will focus on how to interpret and analyze what one reads. Class participation and critical papers on three novels will be required.

ENGL E287-301 AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 5:30-6:46 WRIGHT

English 287 is a survey of American literature from Benjamin Franklin to Sylvia Plath, covering the major authors, genres, and literary periods with emphasis on the histrory of ideas. The course treats the principal philosophic movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism, and Modern.

ENGL 288 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 288-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MWF 10:10-11:00 R. MILLER

We shall survey English literature in chronological order, beginning with such works as Beowulf and ending with 18th century works. The Middle Ages and Renaissance will also be major focuses.

REQUIREMENTS: Likely to include two-three tests with both essay and objective sections, one longer research essay (8-10 pages), a cumulative final exam, and occasional quizzes and written homework assignments. Class participation will also be considered.

ENGL 288-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MW 12:20-1:35 CROCKER

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

ENGL 288-003 ENGLISH LITERATURE I MWF 1:25-2:15 SIBLEY-JONES

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with some of the great works of English Literature from Beowulf to Paradise Lost, and to develop students’ skills in critical reading, interpretation and writing. REQUIREMENTS: Two 5-page papers (15% each); Mid-term (20%); Final (20%); Class participation and quizzes (30%)

The only way to pass the course is to read the material. You will be questioned and quizzed periodically. If you are unable to answer the questions and pass the quizzes, you will get an F for 30% of your grade. If you miss more than 7 classes, you are disqualified from the course with a grade of F.

ENGL 289 Is Required for English Majors

ENGL 289-001 ENGLISH LITERATURE II MW 11:15-12:30 MAPP

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

ENGL 289-002 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 9:30-10:45 MADDEN

This course is a survey of British literature from 1800 to the present. Our first objective will be to gain some familiarity with major periods, issues, and authors in British literature of the last two centuries, exploring historical, generic, and thematic connections. Our second course objective will be to explore ways of thinking and writing about literature in general, and British literature in particular. Among the themes we will explore: the tension between the individual and his/her society, the retelling of traditional stories from other points of view, the status of Ireland, religious faith, and representations of social difference. TEXTS: Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2 (7th edition); Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa; Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; and Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things. REQUIREMENTS: Writing assignments will include 2 short critical essays, a memoir essay, and 1 final paper, as well as some short writing assignments (response papers) and occasional reading quizzes. There will be a midterm and a final exam (not comprehensive).

ENGL 289-003 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 11:00-12:15 STERN

A survey of British literature from the Romantic era to the present. Discussion of texts by canonical and non-canonical authors will emphasize major literary and historical movements. This course covers a range of genres, including poetry, non-fiction prose, the novel, drama, music, and film. TEXTS: Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2; Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry. REQUIREMENTS: response paragraphs, two papers, two exams.

ENGL 289-004 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 12:30-1:45 JARRELLS

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

ENGL 289-501 ENGLISH LITERATURE II TTH 12:30-1:45 RICE

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
A survey of the major authors of British literature of the Romantic era, the Victorian period, and the twentieth century. PAPERS: one diagnostic essay (c. 3 pp); one critical essay (c. 6 pp). QUIZZES: possible. EXAMS: 3 (essay, short answer, identification format). TEXTS: Norton Anthology of British Literature, volume II.

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

ENGL 360-001 CREATIVE WRITING MWF 11:15-12:05 LURIA

(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 MWF 12:20-1:10 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 TTH 2:00-3:15 CATANESE

ENGL 380-001/CPLT 380 EPIC TO ROMANCE MWF 10:10-11:00 GWARA

A survey of literature from the Iliad to Chaucer, with special attention paid to the transition of epic themes and character in romance genres. TEXTS: to include Homer’s Iliad, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Beowulf, Chretien de Troyes (various romances), and Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde.

ENGL 381-001/CPLT 381 THE RENAISSANCE TTH 9:30-10:45 RHU

Study of Renaissance literature in England from the court of Henry VIII to the age of Shakespeare. Key precursors on the continent such as Erasmus, Castiglione, Ariosto, and Montaigne will be included. Since the Reformation coincides significantly with the Renaissance in England, the literary consequences of Protestantism will be a central topic as will English lyric poetry of the sixteenth Century.

ENGL 384-001 REALISM TTH 11:00-12:15 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 - 22 hour. TEXTS: Defoe, 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; Chekhov, The Three Sisters; Hemingway, Winner Take Nothing.

ENGL 385-001 MODERNISM TTH 2:00-3:15 STEELE

This course will examine modernism in Europe and America through a study of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, history, and film. There will be two tests, an oral report, and a paper.

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.

ENGL 387-001 INTRO. TO RHETORIC MWF 11:15-12:05 ROLLINS

This course introduces rhetoric as a theoretically powerful and useful system of study, the principles of which have been employed in law, politics, education, science, and religion from classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, into modern times. We will study the emergence of rhetoric in antiquity and trace its theoretical and historical development through the twentieth century. Because of the historical breadth and theoretical diversity of this field, we will read texts by a broad range of rhetorical theorists including Plato, the Sophists, Aristotle, Isocrates, Cicero, Quintilian, Erasmus, Vico, Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Foucault, and Derrida. In addition to the careful reading of and active in-class discussion about these texts, the course requires 3 formal response papers (2-4 pages each), a mid-term, a final exam, and a course paper (10-12 pages).

ENGL 388-001 HIST LIT. CRITICISM /THEORY MW 2:30-3:45 MUCKLEBAUER

This course is designed to provide you with an introduction to some of the key concepts, problems, and issues in literary and social theory, with a particular emphasis on the last 30 years and the challenges of postmodern theory. In general, we might say that recent theory attempts to ask questions about some of the common-sense practices that we engage in all the time, though we rarely question how they work. In this sense, “theory” is something that always structures our actions, whether we happen to be aware of it or not. For instance, when we attempt to figure out the meaning of a literary work by asking about the author’s social context we are bringing 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 “What exactly do we do when we read and interpret?” and “What assumptions do we make about individuals, history, and writing when we try to come up with a meaning?” Through this survey you will gain some familiarity with an array of different responses to these and other “theoretical” questions and, in the process, you might also discover some new ways to read, as well as some new ways to think about writing. The course will include regular response papers as well as 2 exams and a final project.

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

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 391-001/CPLT 302 GREAT BKS. WEST WORLD II TTH 11:00-12:15 LOPES

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

ENGL 392-001/CPLT 303 GREAT BKS. EASTERN WORLD MW 2:40-4:00 YE

After a survey of literary classics in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, and Japan, we will start close readings of Dreams of Red Mansions (Cao Xueqin, China) and The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu, Japan). To place the works within their cultural and historical context, such basic religious and philosophic tenants as Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islamism will be introduced. In the 2nd week, you need to choose two research topics for your mid-term and final essays. With my assistance, you should conduct your own research after class. The two research topics are also your 15-minute presentation topics in class. Before the presentation, you need to prepare copies of a handout, which should include the outline, the reference material, and questions for your classmates. In both presentations and essays, I am looking for three things: originality, organization, and research. By the end of this course you should have acquired preliminary knowledge of the best literature in the East as well as the people who created it. Please be aware of USC's policy of class attendance, which is also important in the grading. TEXTS: Literatures of Asia; Dreams of Red Mansions; The Tale of Genji. REQUIREMENTS: Classroom Discussions and Quizzes 30%; Presentation A (10 minutes) 10%; Presentation B (10 minutes) 10%; Mid-term Essay (5-7 pages due Feb 27, 5:00 pm) 20%; Final Essay (7-10 pages due Apr 26, 5:00 pm.) 30%.

ENGL 405-001 SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES TTH 2:00-3:15 GIESKES

We will read a representative selection of Shakespeare's tragedies while placing the plays in 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. TEXTS: likely to include Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. We will also read extensive selections from McDonald's Companion to Shakespeare. REQUIREMENTS: three papers, a play or film review, a treatment of one scene, and a final exam.

ENGL 405-002 SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES TTH 9:30-10:45 RICHEY

We will read many of Shakespeare’s tragedies, beginning with his early attempts at the genre: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar. We will then take up his late, very great work--Macbeth, Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra. We will focus on issues that shaped Shakespeare’s cultural moment and continue to shape our own, reading these texts for their historical, political, psychological, religious, and theatrical/artistic dimensions. REQUIREMENTS: Daily discussion questions, mid-term, final, and two essays.

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

We will explore the social energy--the Astir in the mind--that Shakespearean theater creates within an audience of watchers and readers, thinking especially in terms of Renaissance anxieties over political power, race, gender, and sexuality. In considering these issues, we will come to terms with some of the cultural practices which separate us from Elizabethan audiences as well as some which join us irrevocably to them. REQUIREMENTS: Analytical discussion questions, two papers (the second involving research), a mid-term, and a final exam.

ENGL 411-001 BRITISH ROMANTIC LIT. TTH 2:00-3:15 FELDMAN

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

ENGL 419O-001 THE POETRY OF EDMUND SPENSER MW 1:25-2:40 MILLER

Poets, critics, and scholars of Elizabethan England recognized Spenser as “prince of poets in his time.” Later writers, from Milton and the English Romantic poets to Hawthorne, Melville, T. S. Eliot, and C. S. Lewis, have found in Spenser’s poetry a powerful source of inspiration, a model of craftsmanship in verse, a haunting world of fantasy and romance, and a searching exploration of human experience--especially, for modern readers, the whole range of erotic experience. Camille Paglia, the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), calls Spenser’s major work “the most extended and extensive meditation on sex in the history of European poetry.”

In this class we will begin with a look at Spenser’s debut poem, The Shepheardes Calender, published for the first time in 1579 with a commentary already provided by the anonymous, and perhaps fictional, glossator “E.K.” We will ponder the function of editorial glosses since the practice began in ancient Greece, and will repair to the rare book collection at the library to consider the significance of marginal glosses in Renaissance books. We will then read Books 1-3 of Spenser’s allegorical romance epic, The Faerie Queene. Students taking the course will have the opportunity to engage in primary research for the preparation of a new scholarly edition of this text as part of a forthcoming Oxford edition of Spenser’s complete works. We will focus on the requirements of critical commentary—the apparatus of notes, glosses, references and explanations that makes a text accessible to modern readers. Instead of writing term papers, students will work in groups to research and write their own commentaries on a single passage or episode from the poem. Text: Spenser: The Faerie Queene, ed. A.C. Hamilton. Longman, 2001. REQUIREMENTS: 1 short critical essay, regular reading quizzes, and an extended research project.

ENGL 421-001 AMERICAN LIT. 1830-1860 TTH 9:30-10:45 JACKSON

English 421 offers an intensive introduction to the literature of the antebellum period, an era of explosive social, religious, and political ferment. Against a background of territorial expansion, debates over slavery and women's rights, the rise of big cities, the advent of evangelical revivals, the emergence of the middle class, and the development of mass media, authors grappled with what it meant to write about America and what it meant to be an American writer. Our readings will include novels (several of them substantial), short stories, poems, and a variety of non-fictional genres: some of theses texts are utterly ethereal, others painfully gritty. Authors will likely include Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Lydia Maria Child, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and N. P. Willis. Topics to be explored will include transcendentalism, sentimentalism, the gothic, abolitionist writing, urban journalism, travel narratives, regionalism, nationalism, and feminism. REQUIREMENTS: several essays, a midterm, a final exam, and some in-class assignments.

ENGL 427-001 SOUTHERN LITERATURE MW 11:15-12:30 POWELL

Southern literature of the past and present contributes in interesting ways to regional and national dialogue, and studying it not just as excellent American literature, but as the output of a particular regional tradition and set of circumstances, is useful to students from all different backgrounds who are interested in how literature is created and its relationship to the society in which it is written, published, and read. With these assumptions, this course provides an introduction to key characteristics, phases, and issues in southern literature through a systematic survey of major authors from Thomas Jefferson to Yusef Komunyakaa, as well as deeper reading in a smaller selection of influential works. Particular attention is paid to slave narratives, the Southern Renascence, and contemporary literature of the New South. A variety of topics are explored including the relationship between literature and regional identity, the potential relationship between literature and political action, the intersection of biography and creative output, and changing writing styles. Students prepare two papers on contemporary writers in different genres, compose brief, informal commentaries on primary texts, participate in and lead class discussions, and make several presentations. Students also review at least two readings, plays, or films by southern writers attended during the term. Expect regular quizzes, groupwork, discussion, and a final exam.

ENGL 428-001 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE TTH 3:30-4:45 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. REQUIREMENTS: class discussion, weekly responses, two papers, a mid-term, and a final examination. TEXTS: Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Second Edition) and Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon.

ENGL 429J-501 DOCTORS AND PATIENTS WHO WRITE TTH 12:30-1:45 RHU

(Restricted to SC Honors College Students)
Illness and healing have had an exceptional impact upon certain American writers, whether as physicians or patients or both. This course will focus upon a group of writers who share that primary distinction and other affinities arising from regional origins, political challenges, and spiritual kinship. Assigned readings will include works by such writers as Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy, William Carlos Williams and Robert Coles. Class discussion will address such questions as the relationship between the writer and the doctor, between literary representation and clinical observation, between prose fiction and diagnostic case histories.

ENGL 429R-001 AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE TTH 11:00-12:15 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 20th-century 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, film, autobiographies, performances of oral literature, and music. 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. REQUIREMENTS: will include a mid-term exam, weekly writing responses, a research paper, and a few viewings of films outside of class. TEXTS: will include D'Arcy McNickle, The Surrounded; John Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks; N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn; Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine; Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; Linda Hogan, Solar Storms; Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings; Ruppert and Purdy, Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature.

ENGL 430A-001 AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE MWF 12:20-1:10 COMPTON

In this course we will explore the major plays, movements, figures, and critical strategies which have marked the development of African American theatre in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The class will help students understand the historical origins and development of African American Theatre; explore the history and contributions of African Americans in American Theatre; develop an appreciation for the importance of African American dramatic literature in the canon of modern theatre; and understand the interplay of movements, political, cultural and artistic ideas, and critical theories which mark the development of African American theatre.

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 ethnicities and backgrounds. Discussion topics will include the meaning of “excellence” in children’s book-writing and illustration, the cultural politics of the children’s book publishing world, and current issues and controversies in the field.

ENGL 432-001 ADOLESCENT LITERATURE TTH 12:30-1:45 JOHNSON

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

ENGL 437/WOST 437 WOMEN WRITERS MWF 10:10-11:00 AMLONG

In English 437, we will concentrate on the ideas and strategies of representative texts by American women writers. In the course of our investigations, we will become familiar with the application of feminist theory to works by women authors and we will examine how women writers respond to historical moments and how they shape their culture. We will begin with an examination of the profession of authorship and the rise of women in the literary marketplace and conclude with an assessment of the place of women authors in the literary canon. The writers we will cover include Susanna Rowson, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Adrienne Rich, and Alice Walker. There will be oral presentations, papers, a midterm and a final exam.

ENGL 438A-001 STUDIES/S.C. WRITERS MW 11:15-12:30 THESING

We will read and discuss novels, poetry, and prose written by and about some of our state’s greatest twentieth-century writers. We will study the life and works of James Dickey--his son’s memoir, his poetry, and two of his novels, including Deliverance. We will read a novel by Pat Conroy. We will read works by William Price Fox and Ben Greer. We will also study the poems of and meet in person some of our state’s practicing poets. Lecture and discussion. Video screenings of the authors and their works. REQUIREMENTS: Essay examinations (at midpoint and end of the semester), quizzes throughout the term, and various writing assignments. Class attendance is very important.

ENGL 450-001/LING 421 ENGLISH GRAMMAR TTH 9:30-10:45 DISTERHEFT

An intensive survey of English grammar: sentence structure, the verbal system, discourse, and transformations. Also discussed are semantics, social restrictions on grammar and usage, histories of various constructions, etc. Please read Chapter 1 of the textbook before the first class meeting. REQUIREMENTS: one midterm, one final. TEXT: Dorothy Disterheft, Advanced Grammar: a manual for students. Prentice-Hall.

ENGL 457-001 AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENGLISH MW 12:20-1:35 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 9:05-9:55 COOK

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

ENGL 460-002 ADVANCED WRITING MWF 1:25-2:15 LOHNES

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

ENGL 460-003 ADVANCED WRITING MWF 2:30-3:20 SHEHI

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

ENGL 460-004 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 8:00-9:15 BAJO

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

ENGL 460-005 ADVANCED WRITING TTH 3:30-4:45 N. BUTTERWORTH

English 460 is an advanced nonfiction writing class which gives students much practice both in close reading of essay text models and in composing their own. TEXTS: Thomas Cooley, The Norton Sampler 6th ed., and Patricia Hampl, 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-Contrast or Analogy/Metaphor, Satire/Persuasion/Argumentation, and Exemplification; present one essay to the whole class for group peer evaluation, as well as do small group evaluations on every essay; participate in numerous conferences with the instructor; read and analyze model essays in The Norton Sampler and I Could Tell You Stories, and keep a reading/writing journal. EVALUATION: Grades in the course will be based upon successful completion of all the assignments. Emphasis will be placed on giving the students constructive suggestions for revision. Each essay (except the last) will be submitted, discussed in conference, and revised before a grade is recorded. If the grades are erratic, they will be averaged; however, if the student is making steady progress, the final grade will reflect this improvement. Essays will count 20% apiece; the journal, reading quizzes and test on I Could Tell You Stories and class participation will count about 20%.

ENGL 461-001 TEACHING OF WRITING MW 12:20-1:35 WILLIAMS

This course explores the theory and practice of the teaching of writing in middle and secondary school. During the semester, students will focus on themselves as teachers, but they will inevitably develop their own writing skills as a result of their participation in writing response groups. Assessment will be based on students’ portfolios, which will consist of reading logs, a personal reflective essay, a bibliographical essay, and a report on a project connected to the teaching of writing in public schools.

ENGL 462-001 TECHNICAL WRITING MW 12:20-1:35 HOLCOMB

Preparation for and practice in types of writing important to scientists, engineers, and computer scientists, from brief technical letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please see the instructor.

ENGL 463-001 BUSINESS WRITING MWF 9:05-9:55 BAILEY