Courses Offered

Summer I 2006 courses

ENGL 7010 Children�s Literature  

Jan Alberghene    

Mon., Wed. 5:30-9:15 P.M.  

3 grad. credits                              

 Students in this class study the content of classic and contemporary children's literature plus various approaches for interpreting and teaching a wide variety of children's texts. Close attention is paid to emerging trends in children's literature as well as to the literature's enduring concerns.

ENGL 8085 Literature and Film 

Tom Murray  

Mon, Wed, 5:30 � 9:15 P.M.

3 grad. credits

This is an introduction to the relationship between literature and film through the critical study of each medium. Special consideration is given to matters of characterization, narration, plot, setting, theme, and tone in written works and films. Students are introduced to conventions of the documentary and fictional film, principles of scriptwriting, and the elements of formal screen production.

ENGL 8076 Process Writing Across the Curriculum   

Patricia Smith

3 grad. credits

Mon., June 26; Wed., June 28; Thurs., June 29; Wed., July 5; Thurs., July 6; 8:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.                                         

Provides learners with the opportunity to investigate their own thinking as they go beyond the surface level of text or subject matter to arrive at meaningful connections and insights. Students investigate various creative approaches to writing in the content areas. They review current research journals to understand the connection between theory and practice. As they work independently and in cooperative learning groups, participants immerse themselves in the reading/writing/thinking process, creating their own portfolios, designing mini-lessons, conducting research, and sharing their learning and thinking.

ENGL 8250 Curriculum & Technology 

Nancy O�Mealey    

Tues., Thurs., 5:00-8:45 P.M. 

3 grad. credits

This course looks at the integration of educational technology in the classroom, and its relationship to learning theories. Mac and IBM computer hardware, and interfaces for classroom inquiry including video and microscope cameras, digital image capture, scanners, and computer projection panels are examined. Students learn similarities between standard software programs available for writing, computation, and data analysis. It includes a survey of software for studies, ranging from Encyclopedias on CD-ROM to programs that are specific to the study of various topics in science, art literature, math, and language. The class explores the use of the internet as a classroom resource, the hardware and software necessary to get on line, search engines, browsers, URLs, online journals, education web sites, online interest groups, and how to design a web page.

ENGL 9014 Teaching College Writing 

Patrice Gray 

Tues., Thurs., 5:00-8:45 P.M. 

3 grad. credits

This course introduces students to several of the practices, pedagogies, and theories of rhetoric and composition embedded in teaching first-year composition in colleges.  Exploring some of the important issues, problems, and questions involved in such literacy education, students will construct their own viable and theoretically sound composition pedagogies for their own current or future teaching.

ENGL 9075 American Historical Fiction: Practice & Theory  

Ben Railton

Tues., Thurs., 5:30-9:15 P.M.   

3 grad. credits

 An examination of the genre of historical fiction, which includes some exemplary models as well as critical perspectives on those models. Authors we examine include Hawthorne, Sedgwick, Chestnutt, Twain, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Silko and Morrison.