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English Graduate Courses Spring 2006

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ENGL 4003 History of Literary Theory

(A-F only, unless otherwise noted)
65798-001 LEC, 11:15 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., Tu,Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), FordH B80, TCEASTBANK, Farber, Lianna, 3 credits

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ENGL 4233 Modern and Contemporary Drama

(A-F only, unless otherwise noted)
31417 -001 LEC, 05:00 P.M. - 07:30 P.M., M (09/06/2005 - 12/14/2005), LindH 305, TCEASTBANK, Lee, Josephine D, 3 credits.

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ENGL 4605 Social Variation in American English

(credit will not be granted if credit received for: 3605W; meets CLE req of Cultural Diversity Theme; meets CLE req of Writing Intensive)
65799-001 WKS, 06:20 P.M. - 08:50 P.M., W (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 203, TCEASTBANK, Escure, Genevieve J, 4 credits
This course explores the sociohistorical context of language variation with particular attention to the varieties of English spoken in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Equal attention is given to standard forms of English spoken in various parts of the United States and Canada, and to other varieties or dialects spoken by minority and immigrant groups, including African American English and Spanglish, as well as English-based creoles spoken in the Caribbean and Central America. Language is viewed as a dynamic process reflecting continued linguistic and social change, and greatly influenced by social factors such as socio-economic status, ethnicity, age and gender, as well as stylistic context. An outline of prominent linguistic features (phonological, syntactic and lexico-semantic) differentiating standard from nonstandard varieties is presented. The focus is on recent research, applying a critical approach to data analysis and developing skills in employing the data in sociolinguistic argumentation. This course helps students develop research skills and critical thinking in culturally diverse U.S. contexts as well as in international contexts restricted to ethnically and linguistically related Central American and Caribbean groups (African Americans, Native Americans and Latinos, as well as other groups traceable to Europe).

Class Time: The learning process is facilitated by students' in-class presentations and critical evaluation of short articles illustrating current sociolinguistic research.
Work Load: Students submit written reviews/critiques of required articles, written project proposals, regular research updates and preliminary drafts of their final research paper.
Grade: The course grade is based on quality of research, critical/analytical skills (including self-evaluation) and writing ability.

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4722 Alphabet to Internet: History of Writing Technologies

(credit will not be granted if credit received for: 3633)
60432-001 DIS, 02:30 P.M. - 03:45 P.M., Tu,Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), FordH 130, TCEASTBANK, Hancher, Michael, 4 credits, 8 seat(s) reserved for Graduate Student
Technologies of writing— the alphabet, handwriting, printing, and electronic text—and their cognitive and social implications. Topics include writing and memory; literacy, power, and control; printing, language, and national identity; alphabetization and other ways of ordering the world; secrecy, privacy, and publicity; censorship and copyright; typography, legibility, and design; theories of technological determinism; the future of reading after the internet. Our readings will range from Homer and Plato to the most recent issue of Wired magazine.

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ENGL 5002 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

(prereq grad or instr consent)
62877-001 LEC, 03:35 P.M. - 06:05 P.M., Tu (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 315, TCEASTBANK, Craig, Siobhan S, 3 credits
This course will engage actively with a variety of theorists and "schools," and participate in the lively debates and controversies that characterize the field. What is it, exactly, that we do when we "do theory"? What does it mean to read or write, to remember, to "have" race or "be" a gendered subject? What happens when the ways in which we know the world and ourselves break down or fragment? How do we navigate the epistemological rubble? Our readings and discussion will be structured around several broad questions including subjectivity, writing, race, power, desire, gender and sexuality. We will look at the ways the various texts perform as texts, opening themselves to many different readings and styles of engagement. Theorists to be considered include: Barthes, Bahktin, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Butler, Derrida, De Man, Foucault, Freud, Said, Sedgwick, Spivak, amomg others.

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ENGL 5090 Readings in Special Subjects

(max crs 9; 3 repeats allowed; Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: ENGL 5100; prereq grad student or instr consent )

*001  Cancelled

66756-002 LEC, 06:00 P.M. - 08:30 P.M., Tu (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), AkerH 225, TCEASTBANK, Ferguson, Jeanine, Grant Writing and Development, 3 credits. Meets with: ENGL 3090 section 002

65193-003 LEC, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., W (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 216, TCEASTBANK, Damon, Maria, Writing/Life/History, 4 credits. Meets with: ENGW 5310 section 002

66757-004 LEC, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), AmundH 156, TCEASTBANK, Gonzalez, Ramon, Flash Forms: Nonfiction/Fiction, 4 credits. Meets with: ENGW 5130 section 001.
Participants in this course will study and practice the thriving literary genres of flash non-fiction and fiction. You can call them short-shorts, sudden prose, lyrical essays, or whatever. What is undeniable is the fact these tiny forms have found a dominant place in contemporary writing. By reading influential writers in both genres and studying the intricate process of craft they undertake, we will identify what works best in brief form. Each participant will create two distinct sequences—one in non-fiction and one in fiction. Detailed discussion of relevant approaches to shaping a flash essay and a flash fiction will give participants a chance to develop a foundation for manuscripts in each genre.
Reading List:
Julio Cortazar, Cronopios and Famas. New Directions.
Jim Crace, The Devil’s Larder.  Picador.
Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson is Indignant. Picador.
Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces. W.W. Norton.
Lyn Hejinian, My Life. Sun and Moon Press.
Judith Kitchen, editor, In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal. Norton.
David Shumate, High Water Mark. Prose Poems. University of Pittsburgh Press.
Barry Yourgrau, A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane. Arcade Books.
Several xeroxed flash essays to supplement In Brief.

66758-005 LEC, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Tu (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), AmundH 240, TCEASTBANK, Schumacher, Julie, Child Narrators, 4 credits. Meets with: ENGW 5130 section 002.
In this graduate level reading/writing class, we'll study the tenuous divide between literature for children and literature for adults. We'll also read a number of works—Push, Shadow Baby, Paddy Clark HaHaHa and others—that are narrated by children, but intended for an adult readership. How do authors mimic a child's consciousness to create vivid, realistic narrators? How do they avoid the pitfall of sentimentality and create adolescent speakers that are of interest to an adult readership?

66834-006 LEC, 12:20 P.M. - 02:50 P.M., M (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), FolH 306, TCEASTBANK, Noakes, Susan J., Watkins, John, Queenship, 3 credits. Meets with: MEST 5610 section 001, FREN 5350 section 001
This is a team-taught course with enrollments from English, French and Italian, and Medieval Studies that examines the changing institutional and cultural faces of queenship in early modern France and England. We will be particularly interested in intersections between the histories of literature, gender, diplomacy, religion, and politics during the Capetian and Plantagenet, Tudor and Valois periods. The heart of the course will be an investigation of texts produced by, for, and about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Marguerite de Navarre, and Elizabeth I, including the Heptameron, The Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Henry VI and King John, and Madame de Lafayette’s incomparable La Princesse de Cléves. Readings in French and English, although English translations will be available for those with inadequate French. All classes will be conducted in English. A final 15-page paper is required for those enrolled under the English designator.

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ENGL 5110 Readings in Middle English Literature and Culture

(max crs 9; 3 repeats allowed; credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5210; prereq Grad student or instr consent)
62884-001 LEC, 03:35 P.M. - 06:05 P.M., M (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 229, TCEASTBANK, Krug, Rebecca L, Dream Visions, 3 credits. Meets with: ENGL 3110 section 001.
The course explores one of the most important and intriguing genres of medieval literature, the dream vision. In this course we will explore the relationship between dreams and writing as represented in literature written before 1500. Why did writers including Chaucer and Dante draw so heavily on the dream in their works? Is medieval dreaming different from modern dreaming? Do dreams, as described in literature from the period, reveal or obscure the truth? Texts to be discussed may include Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, Dante's Inferno, selections from Malory's Death of Arthur, Piers Plowman, Pearl, and several anonymous "journeys to the otherworld" (purgatory, hell).
No prior knowledge of Middle English is required.  This course is designed to introduce students to the exciting challenges of medieval literature.

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ENGL 5140 Readings in 18th Century Literature and Culture

(Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: ENGL 3141; prereq Grad student or instr consent)
65800-001 SEM, 09:45 A.M. - 11:00 A.M., Tu,Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 302, TCEASTBANK, Haley, David B, Early Modern British Comedy, 3 credits. Meets with: ENGL 3141 section 001.
For this reading course, twelve plays have been chosen to illustrate the variety of British comedy from the Restoration of monarchy in 1660 down to the American Revolution a century later. Congreve, England’s greatest comic writer after Shakespeare, is the transitional figure in this brilliant dramatic literature. Arising from courtly traditions, early modern comedy reaches maturity with the emergence of female playwrights and the rise of our modern bourgeois culture that produced a gendered society and the romantic novel.

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ENGL 5180 Readings in Contemporary Literature and Culture

(credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5291; prereq Grad student or instr consent)
67519-001 LEC, 03:35 P.M. - 04:25 P.M., M,W,F (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 303, TCEASTBANK, Ch'ien, Evelyn Nien-Ming, World Englishes, Art.Practices, 3 credits. Meets with: ENGL 3180 section 001

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ENGL 5400 Readings in Post-Colonial Literature

(max crs 9; 3 repeats allowed; credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5140; prereq Grad student or instr consent)
67177-001 LEC, 12:45 P.M. - 02:00 P.M., Tu,Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), AkerH 225, TCEASTBANK, Tinsley, Natasha, Committed Lit & Women Writers, 3 credits. Meets with: ENGL 3400 section 001.
Decolonization and "Third World" feminisms are both movements that fundamentally transformed the intellectual and political landscapes of the twentieth century, recoloring and regendering academic and activist debates. Yet these movements are too often considered independent of, or even hostile to, one another. This course aims to create dialogue between these mutually influential discourses by considering a series of theoretical and fictional texts by postcolonial critics and Third World women novelists. These writers include Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Ann McClintock, Ann Laura Stoler, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Michelle Cliff, Zadie Smith, Edwidge Danticat, and Monique Truong. Reading between a variety of texts and spanning linguistic, psychoanalytic, and revolutionary approaches, this course problematizes hegemonic ideas of a monolithic "postcolonial discourse." As we negotiate between theory and close reading, we will focus not only on how the problematic juncture of gender and postcoloniality is constructed in specific times and places; but on how these constructions can be rethought to transform the personal and/as the political.

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ENGL 5510 Readings in Criticism and Theory

(max crs 9; 3 repeats allowed; credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5150; prereq grad or instr consent)
65802-001 LEC, 12:45 P.M. - 03:15 P.M., Tu (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 315, TCEASTBANK, Brennan, Timothy Andres, Theories of Globalization, 3 credits
"Globalization" is both a very familiar and a very blurry term. In spite of its fashionability, it has been around for some time, and is not likely to disappear soon.  Even very basic work in the humanities and social sciences today virtually demands that we understand the term's origins and scope in order to speak meaningfully about such fundamental things as identity, interdisciplinarity, and the economy. Globalization seems both to hold out hope for the creation of new communities and unforeseen solidarities and to be merely an advertisement for corporatization and imperial expansion. Is it about a new openness to the foreign and the out-of-reach, or only a kind of veiled Americanization? Our first order of business, then, will be  to clarify the terms of the globalization debate and locate them historically. Whatever else we accomplish, we will set out to demystify globalization's bewildering corollaries.  For example, what do we mean by the term "modernity"? Is there a "culture of capitalism"? How is "cosmopolitanism" as a desired ethical state related to "globalization" as an economic forecast? Are internationalism and globalization names for the same thing, or are they incompatible? The course will be structured around some of the following themes: Space/Place: "Cities, Circuits, Webs"; "Citizenship, Diaspora, and the State"; the "Spectral Media" of virtual globalism; and the economic images and underpinnings of cultural theory: "Meta-exchange, Finance, Value, Speed."

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ENGL 5630 Theories of Writing and Writing Instruction

(credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5630; prereq Grad student or instr consent)
61082-001 DIS, 03:35 P.M. - 06:05 P.M., M (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 216, TCEASTBANK, Flash, Pamela, 3 credits
In this seminar we examine writing instruction as it is (and can be) practiced in a variety of academic disciplines. Students consider writing processes (invention, drafting, revision) and major theories of writing pedagogy (from ancient Greece to current trends) in order to extrapolate those ideas and strategies that are relevant to their specific teaching contexts and disciplinary discourses. Classroom-ready writing assignments, commenting strategies, and grading schemes grow out of our theoretical discussions. Other course activities include conducting classroom observations, micro-teaching, responding to and grading samples of student writing, leading discussions on selected topics of interest, and developing philosophy of teaching statements.

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ENGL 5711 Introduction to Editing

(credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5401)
60446-001 WKS, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Tu (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 216, TCEASTBANK, Zuckerman, Jeffrey Jay, 4 credits.
This course is an introduction to the editing process—specifically, learning about the editor-author-publisher relationship, with an emphasis on building skills in basic copyediting, style, grammar, and mechanics. We focus primarily on nonfiction editing; assignments vary from newspaper and magazine articles to academic editing and, briefly, fiction editing. Professional editors from the community visit on several occasions. The course texts include The Chicago Manual of Style and several copyediting textbooks. Weekly practice homework assignments are given. There are two midcourse exams and one final. Each has two parts: a take-home portion, in which students have one week to edit an article and query the author, and an in-class portion, in which students show their knowledge of mechanics, grammar, and style in a deadline-driven (and open-book) publishing environment. Email access is required.

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ENGL 5712 Advanced Editing

(credit will not be granted if credit received for: 5402; prereq 5401 or 5711, dept consent)
64202-001 WKS, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 216, TCEASTBANK, Burnham, Laurie, 4 credits, 1 seat(s) reserved for Graduate Student; 1 seat(s) reserved for non-PSEO, non-admitted student
This course is designed for those who are considering an editorial career, or are simply curious (as many writers are) about the publishing process. We will spend the semester dissecting the job of book editor: looking at acquisitions (finding good books, striking deals with agents, drafting contracts); manuscript development (turning straw into gold, catering to both author and reader); the author-editor relationship; production (cover design, typeface, trim size); and marketing (writing jacket copy, seeking blurbs, getting reviews). Emphasis will be placed on current trends in tradebook publishing, and students are expected to actively participate in classroom discussions. By semester's end, students should be comfortable with a range of editorial tasks and be able to think critically and strategically about prospective book projects. Assignments include a significant editing project as well as the presentation of an original editorial plan to the class.

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ENGL 5992 Directed Readings, Study, or Research

(max crs 45; 15 repeats allowed; prereq instr consent, college consent)
67449-001 DRD (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), TCEASTBANK, 1 - 3 credits.

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ENGL 8090 Seminar in Special Subjects

(max crs 12; 4 repeats allowed; prereq Engl grad student or instr consent)

*001  Cancelled

67895-002 SEM, 12:45 P.M. - 03:15 P.M., Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), TCEASTBANK, Brown, Tony C, The Sublime in Lit and Theory, 3 credits
How do certain events and experiences appear to exceed human understanding? Is it possible to overcome such limits? If not, how do we deal with what we cannot know? Is confronting the unknowable ever pleasurable, only terrifying, or something else altogether? The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are periods of great speculation in the limits of human understanding and what the experience of those limits means for the human being. Even the major philosophical systemization of human knowledge in the period, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (1781), begins by pointing out that human reason confronts questions it neither can dismiss nor answer, “since they transcend every capacity of human reason.” But what is one to do when the apparently unthinkable presses too closely, or, as it was put in the long eighteenth century, what is one to do in the face of the sublime? The course will examine closely responses to this question across a broad range of literary and theoretical material. Writers we will read include Longinus, Burke, “Ossian,” Kant, Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Shelleys, as well as Adorno, Lyotard, Derrida and de Man.

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ENGL 8110 Seminar: Medieval Literature and Culture

(max crs 12; 4 repeats allowed; prereq Grad major or instr consent)
66932-001 SEM, 01:25 P.M. - 03:55 P.M., F (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 302, TCEASTBANK, Krug, Rebecca L, Visionary Women, 3 credits
Both Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, the two most familiar female writers from late medieval England, composed texts that described visionary experience. In this seminar, we will read Kempe's Book and Julian's Showings in their entirety and try to understand the nature of visionary experience in the period: what kinds of events were considered "mystical" and why were women authorized to have such experiences? Why was visionary writing so important for women writers? Who was reading this literature? Alongside the English writings of Kempe and Julian, we will study selections from Continental writers including Bridget of Sweden, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Hadewich of Brabant. We will read Kempe and Julian in the original language, but because this is very late Middle/Early Modern English, no prior experience with the language is necessary. This is an intense, 8000 level seminar and is designed for maximum student participation and direction.

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ENGL 8150 Seminar in Shakespeare

(max crs 9; 3 repeats allowed; prereq Engl grad student or instr consent)
65803-001 SEM, 12:20 P.M. - 02:50 P.M., W (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), FordH 110, TCEASTBANK, Haley, David B, 3 credits.

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ENGL 8200 Seminar in American Literature

(max crs 12; 4 repeats allowed; prereq Grad major or instr consent)
56549-001 SEM, 03:25 P.M. - 05:55 P.M., Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 315, TCEASTBANK, Griffin, Edward M, 3 credits 
This spring, the seminar in early American literature departs from my usual practice. The topic under investigation will be “Twentieth-Century Literature Encounters Early America.” We shall read the literature of early America through certain filters provided in many genres by writers of our time, both American and British, who have recovered the colonial and national periods for their own literary—and often political—purposes. What cultural work, we shall ask, have early American literature and history done in “the American century”? How and why have writers living three centuries after British colonization and the war for American independence chosen to seize those early days for their subject matter and even for their forms?

The reading list is selective but broadly representative. John Berryman's long poem “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet” takes us back to the seventeenth century and Anne Bradstreet, the mother of American verse in English. While Berryman meditates on the first great American poet, Peter Ackroyd's novel Milton in America transplants her contemporary, the great English poet John Milton, to seventeenth-century Massachusetts. Robert Lowell's verse drama “+Endecott and the Red Cross” rewrites Hawthorne to reconsider, in the 1960s, the issues of power in those very early years of the British colonial enterprise. Ackroyd's fellow English novelist Christopher Bigsby, like Lowell, retells Hawthorne in his novel Hester, a speculation on how Hester and Arthur got together before they arrived in seventeenth-century Boston and before Hawthorne's romance even begins. At the end of the century, the 1692 witchcraft episode receives its most famous modern literary treatment in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, but Esther Forbes's 1928 novel A Mirror for Witches may be even more compelling because of its superior historical accuracy. Moving into the eighteenth century, Hanging Katherine Garret, a recent novel by U of M Ph.D. candidate Abigail Davis, captures the ongoing ramifications of the Pequot war a century after the battles. Lowell's one-act play My Kinsman, Major Molineux, follows Hawthorne's lead about revolutionary America but reads that story in light of concerns of the mid-1960s. And two mammoth, “post-modern” novels, John Barth's The Sot Weed Factor (based on Ebenezer Cooke's eighteenth-century satirical poem) and Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (based on that duo's manifold adventures) will challenge the reading and interpretive skills of each of us.

The seminar will be challenging, for it requires everyone to cross many boundaries of history and literature, but border banditry can often be exciting, and I hope that this adventure will offer its share of thrills and chills.

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ENGL 8300 Seminar in American Minority Literature

(max crs 12; 4 repeats allowed; prereq Grad major or instr consent)
65804-001 SEM, 12:20 P.M. - 02:50 P.M., M (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 305, TCEASTBANK, Rabinowitz, Paula, 3 credits
This course is conceived in part as a practicum, in part as a research seminar, in part as a workshop. Students will research questions addressing "minority" literatures, multiculturalism and new media in conjunction with a hands-on project—VG/Voices from the Gap (a website devoted to North American Women of Color) and English 1301: Introduction to American Multicultural Literatures. Ideally, students will either be TAs for the course, or will expect to teach (at some point) American literature courses. Moreover, we will be using VG as a source for research and practice in the uses of the internet for student learning, writing and research. Finally, we will be exploring theoretical questions about identities and literatures in the context of new media, including web-based communities, blogs, databases and the blurring of borders—generic, national, political, racial, gendered—possible through new communication technologies. Readings include those from the 1301 syllabus, as well as such works as Trinh T. Minh-ha, Digital Film Event, Fatima Rony, The Third Eye, Mary Flanagan, Reload, Maria Fernandez, Domain Errors, Jennifer Terry, Processed Lives, and works by Tim Murray, N. Katherine Hayles, among others.

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ENGL 8444 FTE: Doctoral

(No Grade Associated, unless otherwise noted; prereq Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent)
67450 -001 THE, TCEASTBANK, 1 credit

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ENGL 8510 Studies in Criticism and Theory

(max crs 12; 4 repeats allowed; prereq Engl grad major or or instr consent)
67447-001 SEM, 03:35 P.M. - 06:05 P.M., W (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 325, TCEASTBANK, Wright, Michelle M, Theorizing African Diaspora, 3 credits 
This course is useful both to graduate students with a focus in African Diaspora/postcolonial literatures and theories as well as those students seeking to gain greater familiarity with these fields. While the number of monographs, anthologies and articles featuring the phrase “African Diaspora” seem to be increasing exponentially, explicit definitions of this Diaspora are hard to find. This course will be focusing on the competing epistemologies and ontologies of the African Diaspora in academic and literary discourse, specifically looking at the ways in which race, gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality have explicitly and implicitly informed the construction, deployment, performance of the African Diaspora as a concept and ideology. We will be moving through a range of texts (creative, descriptive, theoretical) that engage with the “problem” of defining the African Diaspora. Texts (and excerpts) include but will not be limited to: Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative; David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World; Mary Seacole’s The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole; Claude McKay’s Banjo; Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place, The Timeless People; Ronald Segal’s The Black Diaspora; Caryl Phillips’ The Atlantic Sound; Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic; Maryse Condé’s Heremakhonon; Theorizing the Diaspora edited by Jana Evans Braziel; Joanna Traynor’s Divine; Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo’s Black Cosmopolitanism and Brent Edwards’ The Practice of Diaspora.
Course requirements are one 25-page (6,250 words) paper and two separate 20-minute presentations on the week’s reading.

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ENGL 8666 Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits

(max crs 60; 4 repeats allowed; No Grade Associated, unless otherwise noted; prereq Max 18 cr per semester or summer; doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral)
67451-001 THE, TCEASTBANK, 1 - 18 credits

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ENGL 8888 Thesis Credit: Doctoral

(max crs 100; 10 repeats allowed; No Grade Associated, unless otherwise noted; prereq Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required)
67452-001 THE, TCEASTBANK, 1 - 24 credits

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ENGL 8992 Directed Reading in Language, Literature, Culture, Rhetoric, Composition, or Creative Writing

(max crs 15; 15 repeats allowed; prereq instr consent, dept consent)

67453-001 DRD (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), TCEASTBANK, 1 - 9 credits.

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EngW

ENGW 5130 Topics in Advanced Creative Writing

(max crs 16; 4 repeats allowed; prereq instr consent)
66589-001 WKS, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), AmundH 156, TCEASTBANK, Gonzalez, Ramon, Flash Forms: Nonfiction/Fiction, 4 credits, Topic prereq - grad student.  Meets with: ENGL 5090 section 004.
Participants in this course will study and practice the thriving literary genres of flash non-fiction and fiction. You can call them short-shorts, sudden prose, lyrical essays, or whatever. What is undeniable is the fact these tiny forms have found a dominant place in contemporary writing. By reading influential writers in both genres and studying the intricate process of craft they undertake, we will identify what works best in brief form. Each participant will create two distinct sequences—one in non-fiction and one in fiction. Detailed discussion of relevant approaches to shaping a flash essay and a flash fiction will give participants a chance to develop a foundation for manuscripts in each genre.
Reading List:
Julio Cortazar, Cronopios and Famas. New Directions.
Jim Crace, The Devil’s Larder. Picador.
Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson is Indignant. Picador.
Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces. W.W. Norton.
Lyn Hejinian, My Life. Sun and Moon Press.
Judith Kitchen, editor, In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal. Norton.
David Shumate, High Water Mark. Prose Poems. University of Pittsburgh Press.
Barry Yourgrau, A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane. Arcade Books.
Several xeroxed flash essays to supplement In Brief.

66591-002 WKS, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Tu (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), AmundH 240, TCEASTBANK, Schumacher, Julie, Child Narrators, 4 credits, Topic prereq - grad student  Meets with: ENGL 5090 section 005.
In this graduate level reading/writing class, we'll study the tenuous divide between literature for children and literature for adults. We'll also read a number of works—Push, Shadow Baby, Paddy Clark HaHaHa and others—that are narrated by children, but intended for an adult readership. How do authors mimic a child's consciousness to create vivid, realistic narrators? How do they avoid the pitfall of sentimentality and create adolescent speakers that are of interest to an adult readership? For MFA students, this class may count as either a literature or a workshop credit.

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ENGW 5205 Screenwriting

(prereq Jr or sr, one EngW 3xxx course, dept consent permission number available in creative writing office)
52959-001 WKS, 06:20 P.M. - 08:50 P.M., W (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 215, TCEASTBANK, 4 credits
A hands-on advanced workshop for students with experience in creative writing and/or a working knowledge of basic screenplay format. Students' scripts-in-progress may be either a complete short film or an excerpt from a feature-length film. Class critiques will emphasize issues of imagery, characterization, plot and structure, as well as the creative process within screenwriting. Also expect in-class screenings, guests, and nuts and bolts discussion about story pitches, synopses and other vagaries of the professional industry. For advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and writers from the community interested in continuing education. Non-MFA students must either be a junior or a senior with at least one completed 3000-level EngL/EngC/EngW course. Students need not be English majors. Application form available in 209 Lind.

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ENGW 5207 Screenwriting II

(prereq 5205, one Eng W or EngL or EngC 3xxx course, jr or sr, dept consent)
65520-001 WKS, 06:20 P.M. - 08:50 P.M., Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 215, TCEASTBANK, 4 credits

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ENGW 5310 Reading as Writers

(max crs 8; 2 repeats allowed; prereq grad student, dept consent)
55222-002 WKS, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., W (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 216, TCEASTBANK, Damon, Maria, Writing/Life/History, 4 credits. Meets with: ENGL 5090 section 003.

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ENGW 5993 Directed Study in Writing

(max crs 18; 18 repeats allowed; prereq instr consent, dept consent, college consent)
50885-001 DST (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), TCEASTBANK, 1 - 4 credits

54755-002 DST (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), TCEASTBANK, 1 - 4 credits

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ENGW 8110 Seminar: Writing of Fiction

(max crs 16; 4 repeats allowed; prereq dept consent)
67436-001 SEM, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Th (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 202, TCEASTBANK, Baxter, Charles, Writing Texts and Sub-texts, 4 credits

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ENGW 8120 Seminar: Writing of Poetry

(max crs 8; 2 repeats allowed; prereq dept consent)
67341-001 SEM, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., Tu (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 202, TCEASTBANK, Browne, M D, The Poet in the World, 4 credits 

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ENGW 8130 Seminar: Writing of Literary Nonfiction

(max crs 8; 2 repeats allowed; prereq dept consent)
56520-001 SEM, 04:15 P.M. - 06:45 P.M., M (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), LindH 302, TCEASTBANK, 4 credits

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ENGW 8333 FTE: Master's

(No Grade Associated, unless otherwise noted; prereq Master's student, adviser and DGS consent)
54954-001 THE, TCEASTBANK, 1 credit

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ENGW 8990 MFA Creative Thesis

(max crs 48; 24 repeats allowed; prereq 8140, 8150, 8160, creative writing MFA student, instr consent)
52727-001 THE (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), TCEASTBANK, 2 - 8 credits

54756-002 THE (01/17/2006 - 05/05/2006), TCEASTBANK, 2 - 8 credits

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EngC

ENGC 5051 Graduate Research Writing Practice for Non-native Speakers of English

(prereq Grad student)
54547-001 WKS, 12:45 P.M. - 02:00 P.M., Tu,Th (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 325, TCEASTBANK, 3 credits

56444-002 WKS, 02:30 P.M. - 03:45 P.M., Tu,Th (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 340, TCEASTBANK, 3 credits

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ENGC 5052 Graduate Research Presentations and Conference Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English

(prereq Grad student, non-native speaker of English or instr consent)

58667-001 LEC, 12:45 P.M. - 02:00 P.M., Tu,Th (01/16/2007 - 05/04/2007), LindH 320, TCEASTBANK, 3 credits

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Professor Jani Scandura leads graduate seminar

Professor Jani Scandura leads graduate seminar