Winter Session 2009
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Undergraduate Classes
English 200
Larry Ellis
SLN 90382 & SLN 90407
Online
Course Description: This class is designed to introduce undergraduate English majors and minors to the terminology, methods, and objectives of the study of literature. Over the course of the semester, we will read, interpret, and evaluate a wide selection of short stories, poems, and plays. Daily participation in online discussion boards will lead toward the production of one major class paper that will hone your skills in producing the quality of writing that will be expected of you in undergraduate literature courses.
English 221
Title: Survey of British Literature
Instructor: Dr. J. White
Section Line Number: 90426
Time: Online
Description:
English 221 is a survey class; it is designed to introduce students to the entire scope of British Literature before 1800. It is not a course that deals with authors, genres or period in-depth; it is intended as introductory and focuses on the breadth of literature produced in the British Isles before the French Revolution of 1789, a watershed moment in history. We will take a primarily cultural studies approach to this task, which means we will look at the entire culture of the British people that shaped and influenced their literature.
British literature before 1800 is basically divided into three periods: The Middle Ages, the Early Modern Period, and Restoration and 18th Century. We will read the most important contributions by the most important writers of each of the three periods. When appropriate, we will also discuss how these writers and their works and ideas influenced American literature and culture as well.
Required Text:
Damrosch, ed. The Longman Anthology of British Literature, vol. 1, 4th edition.
Daily Discussion Board contributions required
3 exams
3 essays
English 356
Title: The Bible as Literature
Instructor: Sturges
Section Line Number: 90327
Time: Online
Description: This online course focuses on selected books of the Old and New Testaments, treating them not as religious documents but as literary texts, and focusing on such issues as plot, character, structure, style, and theme. Students are responsible for material covered in brief daily required readings and in regular Powerpoint lectures accessible from the Blackboard course website. Students are also required to contribute to daily discussions on the course discussion boards, facilitated by the instructor's daily study questions. Written requirements include midterm and final exams and a term paper of 7-10 pages.
ENG 369: SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES
SLN 90251—Paul Cook
Science Fiction Studies is a fully online class that examines various topics in the field of science fiction. This particular class is an Introduction to Science Fiction which looks at the origins of science fiction in the gothic literatures of the 19th century to its current permutations in the short fiction of Philip K. Dick and Harlan Ellison. Students read several novels, about a dozen short stories, and answer several discussion board questions. Depending on the semester and the topics covered, one paper is also required.
ENG 414 (90324) Topic: Introduction to Applied Linguistics
Meeting times: Exclusively Online
Professor: B. Smith
SLN 90324
Anticipated assignments:
Daily postings on assigned readings; mid-term exam; one annotated bibliography.
Course Description:
This course examines a multitude of topics and issues in applied linguistics.
The course will focus on research and theory in applied linguistics and classroom applications of this theory and research. Students in this course will become familiar with the theoretical background of applied linguistics, become familiar with the
existing research on a variety of sub-areas within the field of applied linguistics, and
actively engage in discussions and applications of this work as it applies to and
informs instructional and evaluation strategies for linguistics minority students.
Course Objectives:
Students will demonstrate knowledge of many some of the fundamental areas of
applied linguistics, including the basic features of language and communication,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse studies, language development, research into the skill area development, individual differences, and varieties of (American) English, among others.
Anticipated textbook:
Schmitt, N. (2003). An introduction to applied linguistics. New York: Arnold.
English 440 -- Noir Fiction
Online
Winter Session
Prof. Joe Lockard
Noir fiction is one of the most popular forms of literary modernism. This online course examines four American hard-boiled novelists who published during the rise of the noir novel between 1929-1950: Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, and Patricia Highsmith. Why has this been such a consistently popular genre? How did the crime novel respond to issues of class, capitalism, race, gender, and sexuality? How do these novels instance the complex interrelationships between narrative and film? The course will include five novels, three films, and selected criticism.
[in reading order]
Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1930) [film]
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest (1929)
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (1939) [film]
Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945)
Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train (1950) [film]
Writing Programs Classes
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Stretch Program Courses:
WAC 101, WAC 107 (first-year writing)
400-level courses:
ENG 474 Review Writing
ENG 494 (rhetorical theory and criticism)
Graduate Classes
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