Writing Courses: ENGL 102; ENGL 354Literature and Language Courses: 300-level
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 01: Research and Writing
9:00-11:50 TTH
Clifford (Tom) Long
5/22-7/17
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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.
6:30 - 9:20 TTH
Clifford (Tom) Long
5/22-7/17
Prerequisites: English 101 and 102, Junior standing, or consent of the instructor.
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Our aim is to gain an appreciation and understanding of literature by Native Americans. We will be looking at examples of traditional native literatures, but our emphasis is on reading and discussing works by some of the most important contemporary Native American writers. We will be reading short stories, poetry, essays, and five longer works by contemporary authors: Linda Hogan (Chickasaw), Solar Storms; James Welch (Blackfeet/Gros Ventre), Winter in the Blood; N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), The Way to Rainy Mountain; Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Ceremony; and Louise Erdrich (Ojibwa), Love Medicine. We will also have access to several videos, films, music selections, and storytellers on tape and perhaps even guests (live!) to speak to us. We will concentrate on some of the ways in which a variety of Native American cultural experiences are given form and voice in literature and other arts, and on how the tradition of storytelling continues to exert a strong influence on contemporary Native American writing. During the summer you will have the opportunity to visit websites by and about Native Americans and to attend at least one Native American function (such as a powwow) or exhibition in the Chicago area (which has one of the largest NA communities in the US.) I will announce any activities that I hear about in the area, and I invite you to do the same.
ENGL 336 01: Native American Literature
9:00 - 12:00 TTH
Margaret Boyer
5/22-7/17
Requirements: two short papers or projects, take-home midterm and final exams, a response on at least one Native American exhibition or function, frequent informal written responses, and participation in the class listserv. Regular attendance and participation in class discussion are extremely important and will affect your grade.
Required texts: paperback editions of the works listed above.
This course counts toward the English major and minor as a Cultural Studies course. It also satisfies the state teaching certification requirement in non-western or third world culture and the SXU Foreign Culture or Literature/Fine Arts core
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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
9:00 - 12:00 MW
Sheldon Liebman
5/21-7/16
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England and Europe were confronted in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with those they regarded as Others in a way they had not been previously. Europeans had their first encounters with the New World and its Native American population. At the same time, Europeans expelled the Moors and Jews from Spain, encountered Turks and Moors in the Mediterranean, attempted to conquer the Irish, and enslaved black people from Africa. In this course, we will consider the impact of these European experiences on England, primarily by looking at several key texts. For the New World encounters, these include Sir Thomas More's Utopia, selections from Michel de Montaigne, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain John Smith (on Pocahontas), and William Shakespeare's The Tempest. For the Old World encounters, our texts include Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Othello, and two masques by Ben Jonson. We will conclude with the forced combining of Old World and New through the African slave trade in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and a brief selection from Olaudah Equiano's Life. To provide a critical and theoretical context for our reading of these early modern texts, we will also read Stephen Greenblatt's 1991 study of the European response to the New World, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Bernard Lewis's 1993 lectures on Europe's relations with the larger world, Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery; selections from the work of Kim Hall on blackness in Early Modern England and from the work of Nabil Matar on relations between the Turks and Moors and the English in the Age of Discovery; and a selection of other Renaissance texts and modern essays.
ENGL 360 01: English Renaissance Discourses of the Other
1:00 - 4:00 TTH
Norman Boyer
5/22-7/17
Requirements: seven listserv postings (200-300 words each), a paper (7-8 typed pages), a short oral presentation based on the paper, and perhaps other oral and written assignments. Regular attendance and participation in class discussion are extremely important and will affect your grade.
Required texts: Thomas More, Utopia (Norton Critical Edition, ed. Robert M. Adams); Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (New Mermaids, ed. James R. Siemon); Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (Norton Critical Edition, ed. Joanna Lipking); and the books by Greenblatt and Lewis. You will also need access to Shakespeare's Othello, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and sonnets in any edition; because the Shakespeare texts are easily obtainable (including online) I will not order a specific text for the course.
Please note: This is an advanced course designed for English majors and minors, not an introductory course for core credit. 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 English Renaissance literature and at least experience in reading several Shakespeare plays.
Also please note: I tend to revise my course descriptions after the department booklet is published. Check my web page for the most recent version.
This course counts toward the English major and minor as a 300-level British literature course. It also satisfies the SXU Literature/Fine Arts core requirement.
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