Autumn Quarter 2021 — Undergraduate Course Descriptions

200 A READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Kumler M-Th 9:30-10:20 14788

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) McCauley M-Th 10:30-11:20 14789

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 C READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) George M-Th 11:30-12:20 14790

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) Wirth M-Th 12:30-1:20 14791

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.

202 A INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Foster MWF 10:30-11:20 14793

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AA INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Pinnata M 9:30-10:20 14794

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AB INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Pinnata M 12:30-1:20 14795

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AC INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Gibbons W 11:30-12:20 14796

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AD INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Gibbons W 1:30-2:20 14797

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AE INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Cuffman F 9:30-10:20 14798

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AF INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Cuffman F 12:30-1:20 14799

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

204 A POPULAR FICTION & MEDIA (Popular Fiction and Media) Wong MW 11:30-1:20 14800

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

213 A MODERN/POST MOD LITERATURE (Modern & Postmodern Literature) Burstein TTh 11:30-1:20 14802

Catalog Description: Introduction to twentieth-century literature from a broadly cultural point of view, focusing on representative works that illustrate literary and intellectual developments since 1900.

225 A SHAKESPEARE (SHAKESPEARE) Streitberger MW 11:30-1:20 14803

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) Chrisman TTh 12:30-2:20 14804

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) McCue TTh 9:30-11:20 14805

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

243 A READING POETRY (Reading Poetry) Preus TTh 1:30-3:20 14807

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

250 A American Literature (American Literature) Abrams MW 4:30-6:20p 14808

Catalog Description: Introduces American culture through a careful reading of a variety of representative texts in their historical contexts.

257 A Asian American Lit (Asian American Literature) Liu TTh 1:30-3:20 14809

Catalog Description: Examines the emergence of Asian American literature as a response to anti-Asian legislation, cultural images, and American racial formation. Encourages thinking critically about identity, power, inequalities, and experiences of marginality.

259 A LIT & SOC DIFFERENCE (Literature and Social Difference) Ishii MW 3:30-5:20 14811

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.

265 A INTRO ENVIR HUMANITIES (Introduction to Environmental Humanities) Ottinger TTh 3:30-5:20 14812

Catalog Description: ntroduces the study of the environment through literature, culture, and history. Topics include changing ideas about nature, wilderness, ecology, pollution, climate, and human/animal relations, with particular emphasis on environmental justice and the unequal distribution of environmental crises, both globally and along class, race and gender lines.

270 A USES OF ENGL LANG (The Uses of the English Language) Webster MW 1:30-3:20 14814

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) Gillis-Bridges TTh 2:30-4:20 14815

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) Daniel MW 10:30-12:20 14816

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 E INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Gilbert MW 12:30-2:20 14819

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 G INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Hitchman T 10:30-12:20, Th 10:30-12:20 23356

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 H INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Ramsey MW 1:30-3:20 23814

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.

282 A INT MULTIMODAL COMP (Intermediate Multimodal Composition) Ghasedi TTh 10:30-12:20 14821

Catalog Description: Strategies for composing effective multimodal texts for print, digital physical delivery, with focus on affordances of various modes--words, images, sound, design, and gesture--and genres to address specific rhetorical situations both within and beyond the academy. Although the course has no prerequisites, instructors assume knowledge of academic writing.

282 C INT MULTIMODAL COMP (Intermediate Multimodal Composition) McCourt MW 12:30-2:20 14823

Catalog Description: Strategies for composing effective multimodal texts for print, digital physical delivery, with focus on affordances of various modes--words, images, sound, design, and gesture--and genres to address specific rhetorical situations both within and beyond the academy. Although the course has no prerequisites, instructors assume knowledge of academic writing.

283 A BEGIN VERSE WRITING (Beginning Verse Writing) Kenney TTh 10:30-11:50 14825

Catalog Description: Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.

283 B BEGIN VERSE WRITING (Beginning Verse Writing) Kingsley MW 10:30-11:50 14826

Catalog Description: Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.

284 A BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Crouse TTh 10:30-11:50 14827

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

284 B BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Lenk MW 10:30-11:50 14828

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

288 B Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Macarthy MW 1:30-3:20 14831

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

288 C Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Medina TTh 2:30-4:20 14832

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

288 D Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Macarthy TTh 4:30-6:20p 14833

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

288 E Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Postal MW 10:30-12:20 23832

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

296 A Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences (Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences) Peters TTh 3:30-5:20 14835

Catalog Description: Develops critical literacy in the diffuse but interlocking disciplines of the natural sciences. Through analysis and composition of various texts, students become authoritative participants in scientific discourse while also becoming familiar with ways that Western values are embedded and centered (often invisibly) in the sciences and its related institutions. Offered: AWSp.

297 A ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Daniel TTh 8:30-83:0p 14836

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified humanities course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

297 B ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Lovett MWF 9:30-10:20 14837

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified humanities course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 A ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Concannon TTh 11:30-12:50 14839

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 B ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Sobers MWF 1:30-2:20 14840

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 C ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Ghasedi TTh 1:00-2:20 14841

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 D ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Saung TTh 3:30-4:50 14842

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 E ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Fisher MWF 12:30-1:20 14843

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 F ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Thu TTh 11:30-12:50 14844

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 A ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Ozeryansky MW 3:30-4:50 14845

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 C ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Shelton MW 11:30-12:50 14847

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 D ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Matthews MWF 1:30-2:20 14848

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 E ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Matthews MWF 2:30-3:20 14849

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 F ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Laufenberg MWF 12:30-1:20 14850

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 G ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Abella MW 2:30-3:50 14851

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

300 A READING MAJOR TEXTS (Reading Major Texts) Diment TTh 12:30-2:20 14852

Catalog Description: Intensive examination of one or a few major works of literature. Classroom work to develop skills of careful and critical reading. Book selection varies, but reading consists of major works by important authors and of selected supplementary materials.

302 A CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Harkins TTh 12:30-2:20 14853

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.

302 B CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Patterson MW 9:30-11:20 14854

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.

306 A INTRO TO RHETORIC (Introduction to Rhetoric) Rai TTh 9:30-11:20 14856

Catalog Description: Introduces rhetorical theory from the classical period to the present, including an overview of core issues, vocabulary, and concepts in rhetorical theory; a discussion of methods for studying rhetoric, and a consideration of the social importance of studying rhetoric in the contemporary moment.

320 A ENGL LIT: MID AGES (English Literature: The Middle Ages) Remley TTh 11:30-1:20 14859

Catalog Description: Literary culture of Middle Ages in England, as seen in selected works from earlier and later periods, ages of Beowulf and of Geoffrey Chaucer. Read in translation, except for a few later works, which are read in Middle English.

330 A ROMANTIC AGE (English Literature: The Romantic Age) Faulkner MW 2:30-4:20 14860

Catalog Description: Literary, intellectual, and historical ferment of the period from the French Revolution to the 1830s. Readings from major authors in different literary forms; discussions of critical and philosophical issues in a time of change.

336 A EARLY 20TH C ENGL LIT (English Literature: Early Twentieth Century) Kaplan TTh 1:30-3:20 14861

Catalog Description: Explores fiction, poetry, and drama in English from the period of 1900-1945. Considers the literature in socio-historical context. Modernism, realism, imperialism, and questions f nationality may be foregrounded.

343 A CONTEMPORARY POETRY (Contemporary Poetry) McCue TTh 1:30-3:20 23290

Catalog Description: Explores poetry since World War II. Focus can be American, British, or global Anglophone.

346 A STDYS SHORT FICTION (Studies in Short Fiction) George MW 11:30-1:20 14863

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.

347 A Non-Fiction Prose ( Studies in non-Fiction Prose) Burstein TTh 2:30-4:20 14864

Catalog Description: Explores the workings and evolution of non-fiction prose. Introduces the distinct styles and purposes of non-fiction prose such as autobiography, biography, personal essay, reflective and meditative writing, social and scientific inquiry, and persuasive writing

352 A US LIT TO 1865 (Literatures of the United States to 1865) Griffith M-Th 9:30-10:20 14865

Catalog Description: Explores American fiction, poetry, and prose from the early nineteenth century through the Civil War. May include such representative authors of the period as Emerson, Melville, Hawthorne, Douglass and fuller, along with supplementary study of the broader cultural and political milieu.

355 A CONTEMP AM LIT (American Literature: Contemporary America) Ishii MW 12:30-2:20 14866

Catalog Description: Examines recent American literature and its historical and cultural contexts.

369 A Research Lang/Rhet (Research Methods in Language and Rhetoric) Rai TTh 12:30-2:20 14869

Catalog Description: Introduces research theories and methodological approaches in language and rhetoric. Methods and content focus will vary by instructor and may include ethnography, corpus analysis, case study, discourse analysis, rhetorical criticism, and various other qualitative and quantitative research methods

370 A ENGL LANG STUDY (English Language Study) Sánchez-Martín TTh 2:30-4:20 14870

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.

374 A LANGUAGE OF LIT (The Language of Literature) Moore TTh 11:30-1:20 14871

Catalog Description: Explores evolution of English sounds, forms, structures, and word meanings form Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Topics include the history of standardizing practices, colonial/post-colonial English, the evolution of English words, and textual history. Prerequisite: either ENGL 370, LING 200, or LING 400.

379 A SPEC TOP POWER DIFF (Special Topics in Power and Difference) Patterson MW 12:30-2:20 14872

Catalog Description: Introduces and explores a specific area of form, genre, or media as it has influenced the production, practice or study of literature, language and culture in English

381 C ADV EXPOSITORY WRIT (Advanced Expository Writing) Daniel TTh 1:30-3:20 14875

Catalog Description: Concentration on the development of prose style for experienced writers.

382 A SPECIAL MULTIMODAL (Special Topics in Multimodal Composition) Medina M 10:30-12:20, W 10:30-12:20 14876

Catalog Description: Focuses on emerging questions, debates, genres, and methods of multimodal analysis and production. Topics vary but might include transmedia storytelling, digital humanities, audiovisual essays, new media journalism, and performance. Although course has no prerequisites, instructors, assume knowledge of academic argumentation strategies.

383 A CRAFT OF VERSE (The Craft of Verse) Kenney TTh 1:30-2:50 14878

Catalog Description: Intensive study of various aspects of the craft verse. Readings in contemporary verse and writing using emulation and imitation.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284

384 B CRAFT OF PROSE (The Craft of Prose) Sonenberg MW 10:30-11:50 14880

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

388 A Profnl & Tech Writing (Professional and Technical Writing) Walwema MW 10:30-12:20 14881

Catalog Description: Prepares students to become conscious and conscientious communicators in various modes, platforms, and professions. Recommended: ENGL 288

388 B Profnl & Tech Writing (Professional and Technical Writing) Walwema MW 8:30-10:20 23180

Catalog Description: Prepares students to become conscious and conscientious communicators in various modes, platforms, and professions. Recommended: ENGL 288

452 A TOPICS AM LIT (Topics in American Literature) Abrams MW 2:30-4:20 14883

Catalog Description: Exploration of a theme or special topic in American literary expression.

471 A TEACHING WRITING (The Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing) Callow TTh 9:30-11:20 14884

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

483 A ADV VERSE WORKSHOP (Advanced Verse Workshop) Bierds TTh 1:30-2:50 14886

Catalog Description: Intensive verse workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student poetry.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384

484 A ADV PROSE WORKSHOP (Advanced Prose Workshop) Sonenberg MW 12:30-1:50 14887

Catalog Description: Intensive prose workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student fiction and/or creative nonfiction.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384

494 A HONORS SEMINAR (Honors Seminar) Kaup MW 10:30-12:20 14894

Catalog Description: Survey of current issues confronting literary critics today, based on revolving themes and topics. Focuses on debates and developments affecting English language and literatures, including questions about: the relationship of culture and history; the effect of emergent technologies on literary study; the rise of interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities.

494 B HONORS SEMINAR (Honors Seminar) Liu TTh 10:30-12:20 14895

Catalog Description: Survey of current issues confronting literary critics today, based on revolving themes and topics. Focuses on debates and developments affecting English language and literatures, including questions about: the relationship of culture and history; the effect of emergent technologies on literary study; the rise of interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities.

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