Course Information
All English Courses and Descriptions
Winter 2010
General Prerequisites for Courses Numbered 200 and 300:Unless otherwise indicated, the prerequisite for 200- and 300-level courses is English 110 or 111 or equivalent.
General Prerequisites for Courses Numbered 400 or above:
Unless otherwise indicated, the prerequisites for 400-, 500- and 600-level courses are 10 credit hours of English courses at the 200 or 300 level or permission of instructor. A 367 offered by any department is acceptable towards the 10 hours.
500-level courses may provide graduate credit only in departments other than English.
Ordinarily all 500- and 600-level courses are offered at least once a year, but quarters of offering vary. Check the English listing in the quarterly Master Schedule of Classes Bulletin.
600-level courses may provide graduate credit in all depts.
201H Selected Works of British Literature: Medieval through 1800
jones.1849This course will cover selected major works of English literature from its beginnings through the eighteenth century. The syllabus includes Beowulf, selected Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain, Spenser’s Faerie Queene (excerpts), Renaissance lyric, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and selected works by Milton, Swift, and Pope. While engaging in close study of individual readings, the ultimate objective of this course is to give students a big-picture understanding of how English literature developed during its first several centuries, and how those changes relate to larger trends in political, social, and religious history.
202H English Literature II
conroy.1Course will examine the three rough eras of British literature since the turn of the nineteenth century: Romanticism, Victorianism, and Modernism. Although all three will be given some weight, more emphasis will fall upon the first two. Our texts will be the latest edition of the NOrton Anthology of English Literature, along with Jane Austen's Emma, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier. There will be two take-home examinations, along with a short paper on one of the novels.
Class #: 10366
261 Introduction to Fiction
goscilo.2Ever since cave-dwellers gathered around their fires, storytelling has been an integral part of the human experience. more in course description.....
261H Introduction to Fiction
tyler.1This course will examine the elements of fiction—plot, character, setting, point of view, theme, symbol, etc.—in an effort to determine the part each element plays in creating the overall effect of fiction. We will focus on some great fictional works and look at their problems, innovations, complexities, and their influence on contemporary writing. I emphasize close reading in my approach to literature.
Readings/Texts: Works are likely to include Madame Bovary, Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, Dubliners, The Good Soldier, and To the Lighthouse.
Course Requirements/Assignments: Your responsibilities will include several response papers, active engagement and participation, and in-class written responses to the works.
Meeting Days/Times: MoWe: 1:30-3:18
Instructor: Natalie Tyler
Class #: 10373
262H Honors Introduction to Drama
erickson.5Drama refers to the heightening of the intensities and conflicts of life that reveal people's character, their relations with others, and the worlds they inhabit. more in course description.....
269 Introduction to Digital Media
comer.64“Introduction to Digital Media” will explore what it means to be literate in the digital age—What kinds of strategies and skills do authors and audiences need to engage effectively in contemporary communication?—as we expand our own digital literacies. The course will help you to better understand the principles of rhetorical design, to critically analyze digital texts of various kinds, and to plan and create your own rhetorical compositions. more in course description.....
276 Introduction to Rhetoric
jensen.125Persuasion is power. Disputes are no longer settled by Greco-Roman wrestling and important decisions are not made through Rock-Paper-Scissors. Decisions, disputes, and deliberation are all mediated by persuasive forces—what is more formally known as rhetoric. Someone who has a thorough understanding of rhetoric knows not just how to convince others and move them to action, but how to decode persuasion—how to break it down and see how all the parts work together. Similar to the dilemma faced by superheros, these powers can be used for both good and evil. You'll be encouraged to first figure out what "good" means to you personally and then act in that direction.
This course will approach the study, practice, and art of human communication by looking at issues of radical and pervasive social change (pssst . more in course description.....
280H The English Bible
hamlin.22The Bible contains some of the weirdest and most wonderful literature you will ever read, and there is certainly no book that has had a greater influence on English and American literature from Beowulf to Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, The Second Shepherds’ Play to Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. more in course description.....
281 Introduction to African American Literature
williams.2941This course explores the major authors and movements of African American literature from its origins to the present. We will identify continuities and dissonances within the literary tradition, as well as discuss the historical and cultural contexts of each work.
281 Introduction to African American Literature
williams.2941This course explores the major authors and movements of African American literature from its origins to the present. more in course description.....
305 Technical Writing
buehl.7English 305 (Technical Writing) is designed to improve the communication skills and career prospects of three groups: (1) science and engineering majors preparing for technology-focused careers, (2) humanities majors interested in exploring career options in technical communication, and (3) students of any major who want to enhance their marketability by learning about workplace writing. You do not need extensive background in science, technology, or writing to do well in this course. All projects will be related to the common goal of representing our class as a viable technical consulting service. Our “firm” will produce technical documents for a real client: The OSU Digital Media and Composition Institute.
Working individually, in small groups, and as a class, you will produce documents that demonstrate your credentials (such as résumés, biographical summaries, and Web sites) and documents that demonstrate your technical and rhetorical proficiencies (such as research reports, proposals, and instructions).
Reading/Texts:
Alred, Gerald, Charles Brusaw and Walter Oliu. Handbook of Technical Writing. more in course description.....
364 Special Topics in Popular Culture: True Crime & Popular Culture
hewitt.33"This course will study the long and varied tradition of true crime narratives. more in course description.....
367.01H The American Experience with Literacies
graff.40Reading and writing, along with other literacies, are most often seen as cultural practices whose forms, functions, and influences take their shape and play their influence as part of larger contexts: social, cultural, political, economic, historical, material and ideological. more in course description.....
367.03 Special Section: Literacy, Memory, and Community: Collecting Life Histories and Digital Literacy Narratives in Black Columbus
selfe.2"In this course-which welcomes community members and volunteers associated with the African American and African Studies Community Extension Center (AAASCEC)-students will learn about collecting and preserving the life-history narratives of Black Columbus, focusing specifically on narratives having to do with literacy practices occurring in the home, church, community, and schools. more in course description.....
367.03 African American Voices
adeeko.1We will study poetry, drama, and political polemics that are representative of how African American thinkers have used self-consciously artistic writing to shape the appreciation of American life and culture. more in course description.....
378 Special Topics in Film and Literature: Film and Literature of the Jazz Age
friedman.193This course examines the construction of the American 1920s as a historical “age” with its own distinct sensibility and culture. more in course description.....
378 Special Topics in Film and Literature: Film and Literature of the Jazz Age
friedman.193This course examines the construction of the American 1920s as a historical “age” with its own distinct sensibility and culture. We will trace the origins of these notions about the 20s through the (mostly silent) film and literature of the period, focusing on the cultural fascination with youth and the “younger generation,” the rise of consumer society and advertising, and the popularity of satire as a mode of representation.
398 Writing for English Majors: Writing Mysteries
higginbotham.37Come unravel the mystery of writing strong English essays! In this section of 398 we will be using mysteries to investigate what it takes to transform a literary interpretation into a successful analytical paper. Along with the thrill of guessing whodunit, students will work with literary theory and have the opportunity to practice the skills necessary to be successful English majors: close reading, stylistic analysis, and coherent argumentation. Our readings will trace the development of the mystery genre from its early days in the hands of Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to its Golden Age in the early twentieth century with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
398 Writing for English Majors
farmer.109The goal of this course is to make students better readers and betters writers about literature. more in course description.....
398 Writing for English Majors
singleton.1In this course, students will work with a range of poetry and short fiction with the goal of growing familiar with critical approaches and writing conventions of academic English studies. The literature will be an eclectic mix, from Homer to to Sylvia Plath. In addition, we will be reading Haruki Murakami’s short post-modern novel After Dark. Our exploration of critical approaches will be guided by Stephen Lynn’s Texts and Contexts, 5th Ed. While we will emphasize sustained careful reading throughout the quarter, we will also focus on discovering the critical approaches most likely to yield insight about particular works of literature. Students will write preliminary and final drafts of two 3-4 page essays and one 5-6 page essay that includes secondary sources. In addition, students will make brief formal presentations to the class.
Readings/Texts: "“Introduction to Literature, English 398” Pearson Custom Publication for this course Lynn, Stephen. more in course description.....
398 Writing for English Majors: Writing Mysteries
higginbotham.37Come unravel the mystery of writing strong English essays! In this section of 398 we will be using mysteries to investigate what it takes to transform a literary interpretation into a successful analytical paper. more in course description.....
398 Writing for English Majors
allen.559English 398 is designed to help students develop their critical reading, analysis, and writing skills for the English major. In this particular section of 398, we will focus on critical approaches to reading a number of iconic narratives of U.S. more in course description.....
398 Writing for English Majors: Literary Detection; or Lost in Translation
hewitt.33This course will introduce students to the methods and techniques of literary critical analysis and critical writing about a variety of genres (but our focus will be on narrative fiction and lyric poetry). more in course description.....
398H Honors Writing for English Majors
wheeler.213The course teaches you how to read, discuss, and write like an English major. more in course description.....
405 Writing about Science (Special Topics in Professional Communication)
buehl.7This course will prepare you to approach professional writing tasks that engage scientific discourses, such as accommodating science for non-specialists and editing technical scientific prose. You will complete assignments in which you will (1) edit technical prose, (2) accommodate science for different audiences, (3) develop metaphors and analogies, (4) create explanatory visuals, and (5) analyze technical and popular science publications. You do not need a science background to do well in this course.
Projects might include editorial responses to technical documents, science policy memos, marketing materials, magazine-style pieces, and museum materials.
Readings/Texts:
A Field Guide for Science Writers (Paperback), Blum, Knudson, and Henig; The Best Science Writing of 2007, Kolata and Cohen.
Time: MoWe 11:30-1:18
Class: 2588
466 Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop: POETRY
cole.466This is an intermediate level class in poetry writing for those who wish to improve their craft as poets while broadening their knowledge of poetry. The class will include weekly exercises in lyric genres; the aubade, the nocturne, the pastoral, the elegy, the prayer, the self-portrait, the autobiography, the travelogue, the apology, the apostrophe, the birth poem, etc.
466 Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop: POETRY
cole.466This is an intermediate level class in poetry writing for those who wish to improve their craft as poets while broadening their knowledge of poetry. more in course description.....
514 Middle English Literature
winstead.2"Special topic: Romance. more in course description.....
520.01 Shakespeare
highley.1The course examines several plays from different genres from from across Shakespeare's career. We will study these comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances within their original historical, cultural, and theatrical contexts.
Readings/Texts: Six or seven plays by Shakespeare
Course Requirements/Assignments: Regular attendance, papers, exams, quizzes
Meeting Days/Times: MoWe 9:30-11:18
Instructor: Christopher Highley
Class #: 10441
520.01 Shakespeare
dutton.42This course examines Shakespeare's mastery of four genres, spanning the Elizabethan and Jacobean phases of his career: romantic or festive comedy (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night), chronicle history (1 Henry 4, Henry 5), tragedy (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear) and romance/tragicomedy (The Tempest). more in course description.....
520.02 Weird Shakespeare
hamlin.22One might argue that every play by Shakespeare is weird in its own way (think of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the marriage play about rapists, amazons, and bestiality, or Hamlet, the revenge play without revenge). more in course description.....
522 Renaissance Heroisms
oleary.79What made someone heroic in the Renaissance? This course seeks to answer that question and to track the changes in Renaissance conceptions of heroism from the virginal heroics of Elizabeth, to the courtly heroics of James, to the anti-heroes of the English Civil War (1641-1660). more in course description.....
543 20th Century British Fiction
davis.3186The aim of this course is to examine the formal innovations of 20th century British fiction alongside the slow and often violent decline of British global power. more in course description.....
547 20th-Century Poetry
shuttleworth.12The course examines a selection of important poetic writing from the twentieth century. We will focus on individual figures as well as literary movements (for example: Modernism, The Movement, Beat poetry, Postmodernism) and work with material from the beginning of the century to its end. A central concern will be the way in which poetic writing has responded to changing historical and cultural environments, informing notions of personal identity, ethical experience, nationality, class and gender. We will also consider differing ideas on the role of poetry and the poet in this period. Students will be instructed in techniques of close textual analysis and discussion, and will at the end of the course have a command of the poetry of the period and an awareness of its importance as a body of writing.
Readings/Texts: Richard Ellmann and Robert O?Clair (eds.), Modern Poems: A Norton Introduction, second edition (Norton)
Course Requirements/Assignments: Two Essays, Midterm
Meeting Days/Times: MoWe 11:30-1:18
Instructor: Anthony Shuttleworth
Class #: 26046
553 20th-Century U.S. Fiction
fink.5The purpose of this course is to study closely a range of significant American fiction of the 20th century. We will read quite a diverse group of writers, with very different perceptions and experiences of what it means to live (and write) in 20th-century America. more in course description.....
559 Introduction to Narrative and Narrative Theory
herman.145Our lives are woven from a multitude of stories, fictional and factual, literary and quotidian, verbal and visual. more in course description.....
562 Special Topics in Drama: Blood, Gore, and Poisoned Coins: Revenge in the Renaissance Theatre
oleary.79Is revenge a dish best served cold? Should the punishment fit the crime? And how exactly does one die by means of poisoned coins? These questions and more will inform our exploration of the gory, violent, excessive, sometimes hilarious, and often disturbing genre of revenge tragedy. more in course description.....
563 Contemporary Literature (Lecture)
mchale.11For the purposes of this course, “contemporary literature” will mean “literature published since January 2000”: 21st-century literature. more in course description.....
564.04 Major Authors: Salman Rushdie
jani.4This section of "Major Authors" will introduce students to Salman Rushdie, one of the most celebrated writers in the English language in the past twenty-five years. more in course description.....
565 Creative WCriting Advanced Fiction Workshop
abbott.4This is most advanced course we offer the undergraduate student in the writing of original fiction. more in course description.....
566 Writing Poetry II
fagan.3This is the advanced poetry workshop intended for all those poetry students hoping to eventually apply to MFA programs in Creative Writing and for those completing an honors thesis in poetry and/or a minor in Creative Writing. more in course description.....
567 Rhetoric and Community Service: A Writing Seminar
wright.7In this undergraduate seminar, you will extend your critical and rhetorical skills beyond the classroom into the world of community action as you think about writing as an instrument of social change. more in course description.....
569 Digital Media in English Studies
dewitt.18This course will take up the study of digital media and text production. more in course description.....
570 Intro to the History of English
redenbarger.2E570 analyzes the linguistic history of English from its origin among the Germanic dialects to the present day, studying the evolution of the English sound system, its inflections, word order, vocabulary, and spelling. more in course description.....
572 Traditional Grammar and Usage
markels.1In English 572 we will do a systematic study of traditional English grammar and usage. Our study will have the following objectives: (1) to develop students’ understanding of grammar in general; (2) to familiarize students with traditional grammar’s categories, terminology, and conventions; (3) to provide students with a basis for making informed decisions about style, usage, and grammar pedagogy, and, lastly, (4) to introduce students to the “cool” side of grammar.
Readings/Texts: Understanding English Grammar, 6th. more in course description.....
575 American Counterculture
martinez.202"This course will examine both the cultural production and the sociopolitical causes and ramifications of 1960s dissent. more in course description.....
578 Special Topics in Cinema: Ideology and American Cinema After World War II
friedman.193This course examines the ways in which Hollywood films made in the years following World War II reflect, expose, and/or scrutinize the period’s ideologies—its collectively-held assumptions about what is desirable or “natural” in the social sphere. more in course description.....
578 Special Topics in Cinema
conroy.1This class will meet in the South Campus Gateway Movie Theatre, House #4.
Special Topics in Cinema. This course will focus on 1940s film noir (Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, etc.), along with a couple of "neo- noir" or retro-style films from the late century (Chinatown, etc.).
Instructor: Mark Conroy
Class #: 10459
578 Special Topics in Cinema: Ideology and American Cinema After World War II
friedman.193This course examines the ways in which Hollywood films made in the years following World War II reflect, expose, and/or scrutinize the period’s ideologies—its collectively-held assumptions about what is desirable or “natural” in the social sphere. Moving chronologically from the war era to the late 1950s, we will trace the emergence of specific ideologies (of class, race, gender, and sexuality) from post-war developments such as: the “reconversion” of the industrial economy, the rise of consumer culture, the homecoming of veterans, the abandonment of war-related political projects, the rise of the corporate “organization,” and fears of Communist infiltration and atomic catastrophe.
580 Gay and Lesbian Language and Literature
moddelmog.1This course will focus on what literary scholars call “Queer Literary Modernism.” This term plays on multiple meanings, including efforts to draw attention to alternative sexualities that were much discussed and practiced during the modernist literary movement of the early twentieth century (approximately 1915-1930) as well as to new understandings of modernist literature that redefine its concerns, texts, and possibilities. more in course description.....
583 Literatures of Oceania
allen.559This course will introduce students to contemporary Indigenous literatures of Oceania, in a variety of genres and media: plays, poems, stories, novels, essays, documentary and feature films, animation, music, and so forth. It will also introduce students to relevant ways of conceptualizing and understanding the Pacific Ocean and its Indigenous peoples. We will spend most of the quarter comparing and contrasting contemporary texts produced by Kanaka Maoli (indigenous Hawaiians) with contemporary texts produced by Maori from Aotearoa/New Zealand and contemporary texts produced by Pacific Islanders from places such as Tonga, Samoa, Rotuma, Niue, the Cook Islands, and Fiji. In addition, we will explore a few texts produced by Indigenous peoples living on either side of the Pacific, including Aboriginal peoples in Taiwan and American Indians and First Nations peoples in North America.
Meeting Days/Times: TuThur 1:30-3:18
Instructor: C. more in course description.....
587 Henna and Hip-Hop: South Asians in America
jani.4Slumdog Millionaire 's triumph at the Oscars is just the tip of the iceberg. more in course description.....
590.02H Honors Seminar in English Renaissance Literature
highley.1What was the Renaissance in England? When did it begin and end and what were its salient features? This class looks at the literature produced between the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I with an eye to answering these questions. Writers studied will include Thomas More, Erasmus, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Sir Philip Sidney. As the cultural ideals and innovations of fifteenth century Italy spread to northern Europe and to England, they influenced not only literary representations but all forms of human thought and expression. We will therefore situate the literary achievements of sixteenth century England alongside other cultural developments in the arts of painting, building, and state-making.
Readings/Texts: Norton anthology of English Lit. more in course description.....
590.03H Honors Seminar in Eighteenth-Century British Literature: Novelistic Markets and Pleasure
brewer.126In recent decades, the eighteenth-century novel has been overwhelmingly discussed in terms of its alleged ideological effects: the ways in which it supposedly produces (or attempts to produce) things like deep gendered subjectivity or compliant middle-class behavior or imperialist fervor. more in course description.....
590.06H The Modern Period (Seminar)
mchale.11This course will explore the modern period through the literary products and cultural contexts of a single year, 1925, arguably the highwater-mark of modernism in the English-speaking world (and elsewhere, too). more in course description.....
591.01H Generating Language for Poetry and Prose
fagan.3"We'll look at modes of utterance in verse and prose and study writerly strategies in order to generate lyrical or narrative language of our own. more in course description.....
592 Women in Science Fiction
collingwood.7"In this course you will come across aliens, amazons, cyborgs and avatars. more in course description.....
595 Literary London
higginbotham.37This Literary Locations program offers an expedition through the towers, domes, theaters, and temples of London through the eyes of England's most famous writers. more in course description.....
595 Literary London
higginbotham.37This Literary Locations program offers an expedition through the towers, domes, theaters, and temples of London through the eyes of England's most famous writers.
597.04H Narrative, Emotion, and the Contemporary World
aldama.1This version of H597.04 "Narrative, Emotion, and the Contemporary World" explores the following questions: What role do emotions play in the making and engaging with narrative fiction in general and contemporary narrative fiction in particular? How does the emotion system help articulate the worldview and the ethical system in the implied author/artist/filmmaker as construed by the reader or viewer? How do emotions work at the level of characters, informing their worldviews, morals, goals, incentives, and motives for action? How do the narrative devices used in any given narrative fiction media work to trigger in the reader or viewer specific kinds of emotions? What are some of the distinctive patterns of devices being employed in contemporary narrative, and what do those patterns reveal about contemporary culture? How might different assemblies of content and form in the narrative fiction create peculiar forms of feelings, nervous tensions, and moods in readers and viewers? How is the more durative mood established?
713 Introduction to Middle English
green.693This course is intended as an introduction to the study of Middle English literature and language. more in course description.....
756 Introduction to Graduate Study in American Literature, 1840-1910
renker.1This class addresses the needs of graduate students who would benefit from a survey-style introduction to some major canonical works of the period 1840-1905. Reading will include Emerson’s “Experience” and short excerpts from WALDEN; MOBY-DICK (to which we will devote three weeks); the Whitman and Dickinson texts on the M.A. more in course description.....
763 Graduate Workshop in Poetry
hudgins.6In this class, we will emphasize your poetry. more in course description.....
765 Graduate Workshop in Fiction
mcgraw.46This graduate workshop is intended for students who are experienced fiction writers. We will talk about and practice the techniques relied on in fiction writing--scene and summary, dialogue, plot, characterization, and figurative language, among others--in order to analyze their function and judge their use and effectiveness. Students should emerge with an increasingly sophisticated understanding of fictional techniques and devices, comfort with fiction's critical/rhetorical vocabulary, and newly generated work.
Readings/Texts: Salman Rushdie (ed), BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2008, Bernard Malamud, THE ASSISTANT
Course Requirements/Assignments: Each student will be required to submit at least two pieces of fiction, either stories or novel chapters, for workshop discussion. One of these pieces must be revised at the end of the quarter. In addition, each student will write three short (2-3 page) single-topic analyses, each one focusing on work chosen from this quarter's reading list. Class discussions will be lively, and I will expect everyone to participate.
Meeting Days/Times: Mo 12:30-3:18
Instructor: Erin McGraw
Class #: 10637
766 Introduction to Graduate Study in 20th Century Literature, 1900-1940
davis.3186This course will introduce students to the advanced study of Anglophone modernism and the current debates surrounding it. more in course description.....
769 Sonnets and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotted Mind -- Graduate Workshop in Creative Writing (Special Topics)
cole.466When the role of the poet has a special importance today because of his or her status as an outsider and as a challenger of convention, why would a poet want to write in a form like the sonnet, where syllables and stresses are counted, and where the little hurricanes of the heart – fear, wonder, desperation, triumph – must be squeezed into fourteen lines, like a live body into a coffin? Isn’t the eccentric modern mind made to seem dutiful and bland? Isn’t the spirit normalized? I don't think so. more in course description.....
776.01 Critical Theory from Plato to Pater
macpherson.4This course is a survey in the history of critical theory before Structuralism—which is to say, before the emergence of “theory” as a discipline located in English departments rather than Philosophy departments.
779.02 Introduction to Graduate Study in Rhetoric: Renaissance to 20th Century
johnson.112"The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of western rhetorical theory and practice from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. more in course description.....
817 Seminar in Early Medieval English Literature: Religion and Literary Culture in the Later Anglo-Saxon Period
jones.1849In the study of Old English, one of the most important trends of the last forty years has been the growing awareness of ways in which late Anglo-Saxon religious institutions, in particular those associated with the so-called Benedictine Reforms of the tenth century, had a profound impact not only literary production and reception, but the Old English language itself. This seminar aims to introduce students to some of the key primary sources for studying these phenomena, as well as to examples of current research that demonstrates the value and the limitations of “Benedictine Reform” in historicist readings of late Anglo-Saxon texts.
820 Seminar in Shakespeare
farmer.109“Multiple-Text Shakespeare Plays”: This course will focus one of the enduring mysteries of Shakespearean scholarship: the large number of plays that exist in two or more variant texts. more in course description.....
860.03 Seminar in 20th-Century British & American Literature: Queer Modernism
moddelmog.1This course will focus on “Queer Modernism,” a topic that has been making waves in the profession as witnessed by the most recent issue of PMLA, which was devoted to it. more in course description.....
861 Studies in Narrative Theory: The Rhetoric, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Narrative Discourse
phelan.1This course will examine various aspects of narrative discourse from the perspective of rhetorical theory. more in course description.....
879 Autobiographical Rhetoric: Theory, Pedagogy, Criticism
hesford.1In this seminar, we will examine shifting configurations of autobiographical subjectivity and authorship, and rhetorical concepts such as agency, memory, identity, recognition, evidence, and emotion. more in course description.....
884 / History775 Literacy Past and Present
graff.40Taking a historical approach, we will seek a general understanding of the history of literacy primarily but not exclusively in the West since classical antiquity but with an emphasis on the early modern and modern eras. more in course description.....
889 Digital Media Studies: Electronic Textual Editing
ulman.1Digital technologies are transforming the work of scholarly editing, affecting the texts we read, the questions we ask of those texts, and our processes of answering those questions. more in course description.....
891 Seminar in Disability Studies in Language and Literature
brueggemann.1Class Description This course will alternate days/readings/attention to critical work (on Mondays) and then primary texts (fiction, poetry, film, etc.) on Wednesdays. more in course description.....
Arts and Sciences 331 Thinking Theoretically
phelan.1This course will focus on critical theory as having two major components: theory as a body of knowledge and theory as an activity or “theory as a noun” and” and “theory as a verb.” It will explore the ways in which understanding theory as an activity (or a verb) transforms our relation to theory as a body of knowledge (or a noun). more in course description.....
