Summer Quarter 2019 — Undergraduate Course Descriptions

111 B COMPOSITION: LIT (Composition: Literature) Howard M-Th 1:10-2:10 11398

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing; topics derived from reading and discussing stories, poems, essays, and plays.

131 A COMPOSITN: EXPOSITN (Composition: Exposition) Daud M-Th 9:40-10:40 11399

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects.

131 C COMPOSITN: EXPOSITN (Composition: Exposition) Bou Ayash M-Th 10:20-11:20 11400

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects.

131 E COMPOSITN: EXPOSITN (Composition: Exposition) Shelton M-Th 2:20-3:20 11401

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects.

200 A READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Callow M-Th 9:40-11:50 11402

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 B READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) O'Neill M-Th 9:40-11:50 11403

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 D READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) McCue M-Th 12:00-2:10 11404

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

204 A POPULAR FICTION & MEDIA (Popular Fiction and Media) Wacker ONLINE 14466

Catalog Description: Introduces students to the study of popular culture, possibly including print or visual media, understood as sites of critical reflection. Particular attention to dynamics of production and reception, aesthetics and technique, and cultural politics. Topics may foreground genres (science fiction; romance) or forms (comics; graffiti

207 A INTRO CULTURE ST (Introduction to Cultural Studies) George M-Th 12:00-2:10 11405

Catalog Description: Asks three questions: What is Cultural Studies? How does one read from a Cultural Studies perspective? What is the value of reading this way? Provides historical understanding of Cultural Studies, its terms and its specific way of interpreting a variety of texts, i.e. literature, visual images, music, video, and performance.

210 A LIT 400 to 1600 (Medieval and Early Modern Literature, 400 to 1600) Remley M-Th 9:40-11:50 11406

Catalog Description: Introduces literature from the Middle Ages and the Age of Shakespeare, focusing on major works that have shaped the development of literary and intellectual traditions of these periods.

225 A SHAKESPEARE (SHAKESPEARE) Staten M-Th 9:40-11:50 11407

Catalog Description: Survey of Shakespeare's career as dramatist. Study of representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and history plays.

242 A READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Wacker M-Th 9:40-11:50 11408

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods

242 B READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Harkins M-Th 12:00-2:10 11409

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods

243 A READING POETRY (Reading Poetry) Matthews M-Th 10:50-1:00 11410

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in poems. Different examples of poetry representing a variety of types from the medieval to modern periods.

251 A Lit & Amer Pol Cltr (Literature & American Polical Culture) MW 9:40-11:50 14497

Catalog Description: Introduction to the methods and theories used in the analysis of American culture. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to American literature, including history, politics, anthropology, and mass media.

259 A LIT & SOC DIFFERENCE (Literature and Social Difference) Wong MW 9:40-11:50 11412

Catalog Description: Literary texts are important evidence for social difference (gender, race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship status, sexuality, ability) in contemporary and historical contexts. Examines texts that encourage and provoke us to ask larger questions about identity, power, privilege, society, and the role of culture in present-day or historical settings.

270 A USES OF ENGL LANG (The Uses of the English Language) Bou Ayash M-Th 12:00-2:10 11413

Catalog Description: Survey of the assumptions, methodologies, and major issues of English in its cultural settings. Designed to connect English Language study with the study of literature, orality and literacy, education, ethnicity, gender, and public policy.

277 A CHILD & YOUNG ADULT LIT (Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature) M-Th 9:10-11:20 14501

Catalog Description: Introduction to creative works written for children and young adults, with emphasis on historical, cultural, institutional, and industrial contexts of production and reception. Also examines changing assumptions about the social and educational function of children's and young adult literature.

281 A INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Simmons-O'Neill M-Th 9:40-11:50 11414

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

281 B INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Wacker M-Th 12:00-2:10 11415

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

284 A BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Shields M-Th 9:40-11:20 11418

Catalog Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of writing the short story.

295 A English Study Abroad (Study Abroad) ARR 11420

Catalog Description: Equivalency for 200-level English courses taken on UW study abroad programs or direct exchanges. May not apply to major requirements

302 A CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Patterson M-Th 9:40-11:50 11421

Catalog Description: Intensive study of, and exercise in, applying important or influential interpretive practices for studying language, literature, and culture, along with consideration of their powers/limits. Focuses on developing critical writing abilities. Topics vary and may include critical and interpretive practice from scripture and myth to more contemporary approaches, including newer interdisciplinary practices.

310 A BIBLE AS LITERATURE (The Bible as Literature) Griffith M-Th 8:30-9:20 11422

Catalog Description: Introduction to the development of the religious ideas and institutions of ancient Israel, with selected readings from the Old Testament and New Testament. Emphasis on reading The Bible with literary and historical understanding.

318 A BLACK LIT GENRES (Black Literary Genres) M-Th 12:00-2:10 11424

Catalog Description: Considers how generic forms and conventions have been discussed and distributed in the larger context of African American, or other African diasporic literary studies. Links the relationship between generic forms to questions of power within social, cultural, and historical contexts. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 318; AWSp.

323 A SHAKESPEARE TO 1603 (Shakespeare to 1603) Streitberger M-Th 10:50-1:00 11425

Catalog Description: Explores Shakespeare's early drama and poetry. May include the sonnets, narrative poems, and selected comedies, histories, or tragedies.

346 A STDYS SHORT FICTION (Studies in Short Fiction) George M-Th 9:40-11:20 11426

Catalog Description: Explores the workings and evolution of short fiction. Introduces the distinct styles and pruposes of short fiction, such as the realistic, the fantastic, the explicitly instructive, and the non-didactic descriptive, as well as the historical development of the short story from the simple tale and fable to the psychologically complex narrative.

353 A AMER LIT LATER 19C (American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century) Patterson M-Th 12:00-2:10 11428

Catalog Description: Explores American fiction, poetry, and prose during the latter half of the nineteenth century. May include such representative authors of the period as Twain, Dickinson, DuBois, Crane, Wharton and Chopin, along with supplementary study of the broader cultural and political milieu.

370 A ENGL LANG STUDY (English Language Study) Stygall M-Th 12:00-2:10 11430

Catalog Description: Wide-ranging introduction to the study of written and spoken English. Includes the nature of language; ways of describing language; the use of language study as an approach to English literature and the teaching of English.

384 A CRAFT OF PROSE (The Craft of Prose) Shields M-Th 12:00-1:40 11431

Catalog Description: Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. Readings in contemporary prose and writing using emulation and imitation.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284

387 A SCREENWRITING (Screenwriting) Wong MW 12:00-1:40 14394

Catalog Description: Students read screenwriting manuals and screenplays, analyze exemplary films, and write synopses, treatments, and first acts of their own screenplays.

422 A ARTHURIAN LEGENDS (Arthurian Legends) Remley M-Th 12:00-2:10 11432

Catalog Description: Medieval romance in its cultural and historical setting, with concentration on the evolution of Arthurian romance.

471 A TEACHING WRITING (The Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing) Stygall M-Th 3:30-5:40 11433

Catalog Description: Reviews the research, core debates, and politics tht have shaped the practice, teaching and study of writing. Introduces theoretical and methodological approaches that inform the teaching and learning of writing

491 A INTERNSHIP (Internship) Sisko IS ARR 11436

Catalog Description: Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open only to upper-division English majors. Credit/no credit only.

492 A EXPOSIT WRIT CONF (Advanced Expository Writing Conference) IS ARR

Catalog Description: Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.

493 A CREATIVE WRIT CONF (Advanced Creative Writing Conference) IS ARR 11438

Catalog Description: Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.

499 A INDEPENDENT STUDY (INDEPENDENT STUDY) Sisko IS ARR 11439

Catalog Description: Individual study by arrangement with instructor.

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