Graduate Courses Spring 2007

ENGL 9000 Literary Theory

Aruna Krishnamurthy

Monday 5:30pm-8:00pm  

3 grad. credits

This course surveys theories of literature with emphasis on applying them to our readings of a wide variety of texts. Study includes a brief historical survey, but focuses on such contemporary practices as cultural studies and feminist theory. Texts and theoretical schools may vary from semester to semester. Practical applications in the classroom and in one's own reading guide class discussion.

ENGL 9078  Genre, Adaptation, and Hybridity in Twentieth-Century Literature 

Ian Williams

Tuesday 5:00pm-7:30pm

3 grad. credits    

In this course, we will study contemporary twentieth-century writers who create literature in more than one genre or who defy genre by destabilizing fixed systems of classification.  Such writers may receive hybrid identities from critics: poet/novelist, poet/musician, poet/diarist, novelist/screenwriter, etc.  Throughout the semester we will determine whether a writer can be equally skillful�or whether a writer can even be evaluated�in multiple genres.  In the first third of the course, we will consider an author�s thematic and stylistic consistencies from one genre to another, as well as his or her reasons for choosing to write in one genre instead of another.  In the second part, we will consider the links between originals and adaptations.  The final section of the course examines hybridity as a concept of identity and a descriptor of multi-generic textual expression. 

ENGL 9510  Advanced Research in English - CAGS   

Patricia Smith

Tuesday  6:00pm-8:30pm

4 grad. credits

This course is designed for students who have a range of training in graduate research in the field of English. This course will review where the students are at in their prior knowledge of the concepts of research, but will also include a basic approach to what it means to study and to research English, to think of English in terms of a discipline. The primary content of this class is not mastery of a literary period or genre, but rather about what it means to do English, combined with an overview of critical and research approaches that focus on what one can do with reading.

ENGL 9010 Chaucer

Roberta Adams

Wednesday 5:00pm-7:30pm 

3 grad. credits

Students read Chaucer's major works, beginning with early poems and lyrics, then concentrating on The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Focus is on the Middle English Language; critical approaches, and literary analysis.

ENGL 8000 Advanced Methods of Teaching at the Secondary Level

Melanie Gallo

Thursday 5:00pm-7:30pm 

3 grad. credits

Combines academic study with clinical practice and supervision. Theories and topics studied and demonstrated include learning styles, critical thinking, computer applications, and inclusive learning environments. Emphasis is placed on integrating culturally or linguistically diverse students and those with special needs. Interdisciplinary course development and implementation, student assessment including portfolio assessment and writing are studied for utilization across the curriculum.

ENGL  9084 Creative Non-Fiction: Life Into Literature       

Margarite Roumas

Thursday 6:00pm-8:30pm  

3 grad. credits

This course gives students experience in reading and writing memoir, personal essay and other popular forms. Students will study how to select and shape experience into a variety of formats, using workshop and lecture, to creatively shape experience into art.