Winter Session 2009

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Undergraduate Classes | Writing Programs Classes | Graduate Classes

Undergraduate Classes

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.

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

Please click on the following Writing Programs courses to view their description page:

Stretch Program Courses:
WAC 101, WAC 107 (first-year writing)
 

100-level courses:
ENG 101, 102, 105 (first-year writing)
ENG 107, 108 (first-year writing for international students)
 

200-level courses:
ENG 215 (strategies of academic writing)
ENG 216 (persuasive writing on public issues)
ENG 217 (writing reflective essays)
ENG 218 (writing about literature)
 

300-level courses:
ENG 301 (writing for the professions)
ENG 3XX (writing in cyberspace)
ENG 372 (document production)
ENG 374 (technical editing)
 

400-level courses:
ENG 474 Review Writing
ENG 494 (rhetorical theory and criticism)

Graduate Classes