Writing Courses: 100-101-102-150Literature and Language Courses: 100-level 200-level 300-level
English Education Courses: 300-level and Graduate
An elective course designed for students who wish additional help in reading, writing, and rhetorical analysis.
ENGL 100: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric
10:00-10:50 MWF
Clara Mitchell
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Application of the principles of clear thinking and effective writing to expository and argumentative essays. Must be passed with a grade of C or better.
ENGL 101: Critical Thinking and Writing
See Schedule below
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01: Jennifer Propp
9:30 - 10:50 TTh
02: Clara Mitchell
9:00 - 9:50 MWF
03: Julie Kelly
6:30 - 9:20 Mon.
A continuation of English 101 but including training in writing documented research papers. Each instructor may choose a topic and assign selected readings, which provide the subject matter for student writing. Must be passed with a grade of C or better. Prerequisite: English 101 with a C or better.
ENGL 102: Research and Writing
See schedule below
Sections 3 and 4 Topic: Controversial Issues of the 21st Century
01: TBA
8:00 - 8:50 MWF
02: Suzette Zintara
9:00 - 9:50 MWF
03: Susan Fabian
10:00 - 10:50 MWF
04: Susan Fabian
11:00-11:50 MWF
This course is designed to introduce students to research, critical thinking, and argumentative/persuasive writing, using the Toulmin Method. The approach will be through an examination of current controversial issues, both in the news and in selected texts. Students will be expected to submit five short essays, two short in-class essays in response to a particular controversial issue, and a research paper of 8-10 pages.
Required texts:
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. NY: MLA, 1999.
Ramage, John D., John C. Bean and Susan Johnson. Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings. 5th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.
Note: Students will also need a current handbook.
This course will examine a variety of film topics, including artistic techniques, cultural/historical influences, and criticism. Films or film excerpts from different periods and genres will be shown throughout the course.
05: Joel Castellanos
12:00-12:50 MWF
Assignments will include various short papers on concepts discussed in class and a longer research paper on a topic of the student's choosingSection 6 Topic: Diversity and The Good Life
06: Laurence E. Musgrove
1:00 - 1:50 MWF
Section 8 Topic: Cultural Values: Constant and Changing
07: Amani Wazwaz
2:00 - 2:50 MWF
08: Marianne Grisolano
8:00 - 9:20 TTH
The research in this course will focus on a variety of literature, art and music from the 1960's into the 70's. Through critical reading and analysis, we will explore the constant and/or changing values of society from this era. Requirements: Several short papers (1-2 pages), oral presentations, and a documented research paper (8-10 pages).
Topic: Reading the Environment
09: Carol Poston
9:30 - 10:50 TTH
This course is designed to teach research writing as a process, beginning with observation and interview research, then searching electronic and written texts in a library setting. While there will be shorter, graded written assignments, the course will culminate in the research paper of 10-15 pages which we will produce in well-defined stages. The theme for the course is reading the environment in all its many aspects.Required texts:Reading the Environment by Melissa Walker and Research Writing in the Information Age by Arnold, Poston, and Witek.
Sections 10 and 11 Topic: American Culture and Subcultures
10: Carmen Lind
11:00 - 12:20 TTH
11: Carmen Lind
12:30 - 1:50 TTH
In this course students will examine different aspects of American culture.Sections 12 and 14 Topic: The Hero in Popular Culture
13: Maureen Bigane
11:00 - 12:20 TTH
12: John Gutowski
2:00 - 3:20 TTH
14: John Gutowski
6:30 - 9:20 Tues.
This course will help students to:
Develop their reading skills in relation to academic texts.
Analyze the ideas, contexts, and rhetorical strategies of what they read.
Develop questions for further inquiry in response to their readings.
Conduct research appropriate to the questions they want to answer.
Learn how to discover and assess the source materials related to their research.
Use the conventions and techniques fundamental to the writing of a documented research paper.
Acquire a conceptual foundation for a critical perspective on popular culture.
Apply knowledge of popular culture to a term research paper on the hero.
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This course is designed to open up issues of the self in relation to our natural environment, the world in which we live. We will collect information, discuss contemporary issues, and examine our assumptions using both written and "real life" texts. Everyone will compile a college writing portfolio which will include informal/journal response writing, an observation/description, an interview report, and a short documented research project. The portfolio will constitute the final product to be graded and will be due at the end of the semester.
ENGL 150 01: Honors English: "Reading the Environment"
12:30 - 1:50 TTH
Carol Poston
Required text: Research Writing in the Information Age by Arnold, Poston, and Witek.
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Principles of effective argument and exposition applied to writing about business and professional topics. Emphasis on clear and effective writing for the appropriate audiences.
ENGL 354: Business and Professional Writing
01: Augustus Kolich
9:30 - 10:50 TTH
02: Nelson Hathcock
6:30 - 9:20 Mon.
Prerequisites: English 101 and 102, Junior standing, or consent of the instructor.
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Close reading and analysis of poetry, fiction, and/or drama selections leading to a better understanding of how literature works and what it can do. Open to all students and designed for students who are not English majors. May be taken concurrently with English 101-102.
ENGL 154: Introduction to Literature
01: Laurence Musgrove
11:00 - 11:50 MWF
02: TBA
6:30 - 9:20 Mon.
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Recommended for the Foreign Culture or Literature/Fine Arts core requirement.
ENGL 160 01: Special Topics: Greek Drama
9:00 - 9:50 MWF
Norman Boyer
And you think Jerry Springer's guests are weird! In this introductory course, intended for students who are not English majors, we'll study several Greek tragedies and at least one comedy in modern translations. In them we'll meet such upstanding characters as Oedipus (a very complex figure!), who married his mother without knowing it; Clytemnestra, who murdered her husband Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia so that he could fight the Trojan war; Orestes, their son, who killed his mother and her lover for killing his father; Medea, who chopped up her brother and later killed her children to get back at a straying husband; and Lysistrata, who led the women to get back at the men for fighting a war by denying them — well, you'll just have to take the course to find out what she denied them. We'll also look at how Greek drama used the Trojan War and its aftermath to comment on the nature of war for an audience contemplating or involved in its own wars. Thus in addition to our main focus on the plays themselves, we will also attempt to situate these important texts of classic Greek culture and of the western cultural tradition within their literary, historical, and social contexts in fifth century BCE Greece, specifically Athens, and within our own.
Requirements: Two hour exams, a final exam, and an optional short paper (3-4 typed pages). There may also be short informal writing exercises and quizzes. Regular attendance and participation in class discussion are extremely important and will affect your grade.
Required texts: Paperback editions of all of the plays to be selected, plus a text describing the cultural contexts of the plays. Check the Spring 2002 booklist my web page for a detailed book list.
Note 1: This course satisfies 3 hours of the University core requirement in literature and fine arts or in foreign culture. It counts toward the English minor and the School of Education English concentration, but it does not count toward the English major.
Note 2: I tend to revise my course descriptions after they are published, so please check my web page for the most recent version.
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Recommended for the Literature/Fine Arts core requirement.
6:30 - 9:20 Wed.
Sheldon W. Liebman
English literature from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
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Recommended for the Literature/Fine Arts core requirement.
ENGL 204 01: North American Literature Since 1865
12:30 - 1:50 TTH
Augustus Kolich
Survey of major American writers after the Civil War, including Twain, James, Chopin, Frost, Hemingway, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Fitzgerald, Lowell, and Bishop.Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion
Assignments: Five exams during the semester.
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Recommended for the Literature/Fine Arts core requirement for students with a strong background in literature.
ENGL 207 01: Introduction to Literary Interpretation
11:00 - 12:20 TTH
Nelson Hathcock
English 207, which replaces the former English 158, is designed as a required introduction to the study of literature for English majors and minors, although other students with strong backgrounds in literature are also welcome, especially Education majors planning a concentration in English.
This course provides a foundation in the principles of "close reading" and then introduces students to the schools of critical theory that have proliferated in the past forty years. Readings will include poetry, short stories, and a novel, most likely Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The course will enable students to construct better written arguments based on their engagements with literary texts of different genres.Requirements: Three 4-5 page response papers; one 4-5 page research paper on a designated topic.
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Reading and analysis of sports classics in poetry, fiction, drama, and personal experience writing. Focus on sporting experience as metaphor for life and on the various ways that sports events are transformed into literature.
ENGL 235 01: Literature and Sports
11:00 - 12:20 TTH
John Gutowski
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English 304 is an advanced course designed for English majors and minors, not an introductory course. Others are welcome but should have a background in literary interpretation (such as that proviced by English 207 [formerly 158] or a strong interest in Shakespeare and experience in reading several plays.
10:00 - 10:50 MWF
Norman Boyer
(Revised 10/22/01) This course is designed to increase your enjoyment and understanding of Shakespeare's plays through a close study of several play texts in relation to performances of the plays, their social and historical setting, current theory and criticism, and current approaches to teaching the plays. Although the list of plays we will cover is still tentative, at this point it includes A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Part 1, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest.
Requirements: Three 5-page papers papers plus additional informal writing. There will be a substantial online portion of the course utilizing Blackboard, and there will be some sort of individual or group presentation of research near the end of the course. Regular attendance and participation in class discussion are very important and will affect your grade.
Required text: The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al.
Note 1: This is an advanced course designed for English majors and minors, not an introductory course. Others are welcome but should have a background in literary interpretation (such as that provided by English 207 [formerly 158]) or a strong interest in Shakespeare and experience in reading several plays.
Note 2: This course satisfies the English major Shakespeare requirement, and it counts toward the English minor and the School of Education English concentration. It also satisfies 3 hours of the University core requirement in literature and fine arts.
Note 3: I tend to revise my course descriptions after they are published, so please check my web page for the most recent version.
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Fulfills English Major requirement for 300-level British Literature.
ENGL 315 01: English Novel
2:00 - 4:50 M
Carol Poston
If there is one literary genre which can be said to be initiated and sustained by women, it is the novel. This course covers the British novel from its early inception until the late 20th century. While women writers are featured, inter-textual comparisons will be made with film, popular culture, and the male experience; e.g. Aphra Behn's Oroonoko will be paired with cultural versions of Robinson Crusoe to illuminate the colonial mythos. Written texts will include: Aphra Behn, Oronooko; Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria; Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility; Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; A.S. Byatt, Possession.
Requirements include a mid-term and a final exam along with a documented critical paper of 8 to10 pages.
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A thorough study of modern English grammar from the perspectives of traditional, structural and transformational grammar.
ENGL 346 01: Modern English Grammar
2:30 - 5:20 Wed.
Sheldon W. Liebman
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Fulfills English Major requirement for 300-level British Literature
ENGL 360 01: Modern Irish Literature
1:00 - 2:20 MW
Maire Mullins
The primary aim of this course will be to cultivate a greater and more insightful understanding of Irish literature, culture, and history through the reading of early twentieth century Irish drama, poetry, and prose. We will focus on the works of John Millington Synge, William Butler Yeats, and James Joyce, among others. We will read Riders to the Sea, On Baile's Strand, Playboy of the Western World, selections from Yeats's books of poetry, Dubliners, and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Requirements: three examinations and a ten page research paper.
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Fulfills English Major requirement for 300-level American Literature
ENGL 360 01: Modern American Drama
6:00 - 8:50 Thurs,
Augustus Kolich
We will read American plays since 1900, as well as European influences on American theatre and authors. American authors will include: O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Hansberry, Shepard, Wilson, Kushner, and Norman. European writers who have influenced American dramatists include: Brecht, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, and Pirandello.
Assignments: Two (2) exams; one (1) research-based essay on a dramatist in the course; one (1) playbook on a play read in the course.
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(Revised 10/22/01)"Sing me, O Muse, a song for Troy." So begins the first Chorus of Euripides' The Trojan Women (in Edith Hamilton's translation). In the Western tradition, Troy has come to stand for all cities and civilizations that once were great but now have fallen. Our aim in this course is to gain a appreciation and understanding of ancient Greek culture by reading Homer's two great tales of the Trojan War and its aftermath, The Iliad, called "the world's greatest war story," and The Odyssey, perhaps the world's greatest adventure story, as well as several Greek tragedies about the Trojan War, especially The Oresteia of Aeschylus and at least Iphigenia at Aulis, Hecuba, and The Trojan Women of Euripides. While our focus will be on reading the poems and plays themselves in recent translations, we will also attempt to situate these foundational texts of classical Greek culture and of the western cultural tradition within their literary, historical, and social contexts as well as ours, paying special attention to the roles played by women. In addition, we will pay attention to the modern "epic" of the discovery of the site of Troy and of Mycenean Greek culture in the last 150 years by reading the updated version of Michael Wood's In Search of the Trojan War and viewing portions of the TV series on which it was based.
ENGL 360 01: The Trojan War in Classical Greek Literature
12:00 - 12:50 MWF
Norman Boyer
Requirements: Three 5-page papers papers plus additional informal writing. There may be a substantial online portion of the course utilizing Blackboard, and there will probably be some sort of individual or group presentation of research near the end of the course. Regular attendance and participation in class discussion are extremely important and will affect your grade.
Required texts: Paperback editions of all of the works, to be selected, In Search of the Trojan War, and probably a short history of ancient Greece. Check the Spring 2002 booklist on my website (http://english.sxu.edu/boyer).
Note 1: This is an advanced course designed for English majors and minors, not an introductory course. Others are welcome but should have a background in literary interpretation (such as that provided by English 207 [formerly 158]) or a strong interest in earlier literature or history.
Note 2: This course satisfies 3 hours of the University core requirement in literature and fine arts or in foreign culture. It satisfies 3 hours of the English major requirement in cultural studies or as an elective, and it counts toward the English minor and the School of Education English concentration.
Note 3: I tend to revise my course descriptions after they are published. Please check my web page for the most recent version.
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We will read short works of fiction since 1945 in order to acquire a general understanding of the trends, themes, and issues that define contemporary writing. Mostly, we will be reading short stories by these authors, and generally, we will read two (2) stories each week.
2:00 - 3:20 TTH
Augustus Kolich
Assignments: Three (3) exams; one (1) research-based essay on one of the authors covered in the course.
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The premise of this course is the notion that the best way to begin learning how to teach writing is to study how you yourself have learned (and continue to learn) to write. By reflecting on your intuitions about writing, you'll be better equipped to understand and appreciate the research and intuitions of the scholars and writers we as a class will be reading throughout the semester. Thus, one of the principal assignments throughout the semester will be a journal in which you react to and reflect on the course readings in the context of your own remembered development as a writer.
ENGL 356 01: Teaching of Writing
5:00 - 7:50 Tues.
ENGLG 456 01: Teaching of Writing
Angelo Bonadonna
Our readings will address a variety of practical teaching of writing issues, including teaching the writing process, writing about literature, revising, collaborative learning, grammar and writing, the writing workshop, journals, responding to writing, the rhetorical nature of writing, and others. Other course work besides the readings and journal include two reaction papers, a research paper, and participation in a small group that will lead class on two separate days during the semester.
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An introduction placing equal emphasis upon aural comprehension, oral expression, the reading and writing of French. Class recitation, written exercises and reading of simple texts.
FRNCH 102 01: Elementary French II
1:00 - 1:50 MWF
Ruth Lenczycki
Prerequisites: French 101 or placement exam.
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An introduction placing equal emphasis upon aural comprehension, oral expression, the reading and writing of French. Class recitation, written exercises and reading of simple texts.
FRNCH 104 01: Intermediate French II
11:00 - 11:50 MWF
Ruth Lenczycki
Prerequisites: French 101 or placement exam.
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An introduction placing equal emphasis upon aural comprehension, oral expression, the reading, writing and structure of Spanish. Class recitation, laboratory practice and writing exercises, reading of simple texts.
SPAN 102 01: Elementary Spanish II
See schedule below
Prerequisites: Spanish 101 or placement exam.
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01: Olga Vilella
9:00 - 9:50 MWF
02: Olga Vilella
10:00 - 10:50 MWF
03: TBA
11:00 - 11:30 MWF
This language course is a combination of grammar review, vocabulary development and a strong oral component. This course is articulated around the Nuevos destinos program. Follow Raquel, an LA lawyer in her trip to different destinations in Spain and Latin America to unravel the mysteries of Spanish-Mexican family.
SPAN 104 01: Intermediate Spanish II
9:00 - 9:50 MWF
Alberta Gatti
Prerequisite: Spanish 103 or placement exam.
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The course is a combination of reading and writing practice in Spanish and the study of advanced Spanish grammar. Readings include a short novel and several short stories by Spanish and Latin American authors.
SPAN 202 01: Advanced Composition and Conversation
10:00 - 10:50 MWF
Alberta Gatti
Prerequisite: Spanish 104 or placement exam.
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An introduction to the study of literature in Spanish. Selected texts from poetry, prose and drama, from Latin American and Spain, are analyzed in order to familiarize the student with methods of interpretative criticism and with literary terminology in Spanish.
SPAN 220 01: Interpretation of Texts
12:00 - 12:50 MWF
Olga Vilella
Major requirement. In Spanish - course is open to all non-majors, but student must be either a native speaker of Spanish or have the equivalent of 6 semesters of Spanish course work.
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The second semester will explore major trends of Hispanic culture and civilization from the eighteenth century to the present, including the presence of the Hispanic culture in the U.S.
SPAN 232 01: Introduction to Hispanic Culture and Civilization (in English)
11:00 - 11:50 MWF
Alberta Gatti
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An overview of Latin America's literature of the twentieth century through the narrative of several of its major writers. Issues of national identity, revolutionary movements, and post-colonialism will be examined in the works of Mariano Azuela, Richardo Guiraldes, Jose Maria Arguedas, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Alejandro Paternain.
SPAN 306 01: Survey of Latin-American Literature
1:30 - 2:50 MW
Olga Vilella
Major requirement. In Spanish - course is open to all non-majors, but student must be either a native speaker of Spanish or have the equivalent of 6 semesters of Spanish course work.
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