ENGLG 456 01: Teaching of Writing 5:30 - 8:20 Mon.
Angelo Bonadonna
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.

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.

ENGLG 495 01: Teaching of College Writing 6:00 - 8:50 Thurs.
Laurence Musgrove
The writing process and the problems students have with it at the college level. Includes work in rhetorical theory, in interpreting and writing about literature, in teaching the research process, and in evaluating and grading student writing. Required of graduate students seeking an Apprenticeship in Teaching College Writing or a Teaching Assistantship at Saint Xavier University. Recommended for others preparing to teach at the college level or to engage in curriculum development.

ENGLG 496 01: Apprenticeship in the Teaching of College Writing Arr.
Laurence Musgrove
The student serves as an apprentice to an individual full-time English faculty member in a selected freshman writing course (Eng. 099, 101, 102). Open only to those invited to enroll by the English Graduate Program on the basis of applications submitted.

Prerequisite: English 495 or 538.

497 R: College Teaching Practicum (non-credit) Arr.
Laurence Musgrove
Experience teaching a freshman writing course. Open only to those invited to enroll by the English Graduate Program on the basis of applications submitted.

Prerequisite: English 495. (Also 496 for those who lack teaching experience.)

ENGLG 460 01: Nineteenth Century American Magazine Fiction 6:00-8:50 Wed.
Judith Hiltner
This course examines the culture of American magazine fiction in the first half of the nineteenth century. Magazines were the most widely read forum for American fiction and the forum employed by most authors who aspired to be literary professionals, including Irving, Poe, Melville and Hawthorne, as well as scores of other writers less widely read in our own times but far more well known in the nineteenth century: Sara Parton ("Fanny Fern"), Margaret Fuller, N.P. Willis, D.G. Mithcell ("Ike Marvel") and a wide range of "southwestern humorists." The same audiences were reading the stories of all of these authors. We will read widely from their magazine writings, first of all to enjoy entertaining stories that offer up sensational gothic hauntings, social satire, sentimental effusions, broad humor and even profound probings of the human psyche. Our discussions will explore some of the following questions: How did the expectations and tastes of popular audiences influence what writers could say and how they said it? How does popular fiction, even stories exploiting the "other worldly" devices of the gothic tradition, or stories set in foreign places and "olden times," actually reflect pressing issues and concerns of the young nation in the generation preceding the Civil War, a nation energized by the enthusiasms of democratic individualism, Manifest Destiny and an increasingly commercial economy, and a nation with mounting sectional tensions, increasing anxieties regarding the assimilation of "aliens," and shifting ideologies regarding race and gender.

The class format will include short background lectures, discussion of texts, and sharing with one another our informal (one page) "reaction writings" in response to assigned readings. Students will present perspectives from recent scholarship on this literature. They will complete a longer research projects that affords them the opportunity to explore the topics and texts that most engage them.

ENGL 502 01: The Rhetorical Tradition 6:00 - 8:50 Tues.
Angelo Bonadonna
This course takes a look at the art of rhetoric primarily as it was practiced and discussed in one of its richest, most productive periods, the classical era. We will read the rhetorics of Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Quintilian, and others. For our study of the historical and cultural context of the era and its influence in the Western tradition we will read George

Kennedy's Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times.

This course will operate as a graduate seminar, which means that students will be expected to conduct and sustain significant discussions of the course issues as they are raised in the weekly reading. Our central course questions will be the following: What is rhetoric? What significance does it have for contemporary students? How are rhetoric and literature related?

Course requirements include assigned readings, participation in seminar discussions (both in class and out of class, via the course Web site), and completion of a course research project.

ENGLG 536 01: Twentieth-Century Novel 6:00 - 8:50 Mon.
Augustus Kolich
The major genre in the twentieth century was the novel, but there is yet no clear consensus as to who the major novelists were in this century. A short list of possible candidates always seems incomplete or perhaps biased. Thus, for this course, I have selected a series of novels that might be considered as "unusual," while recognizing that this thematic principle is arbitrary at best. The list of authors includes: William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury), James Joyce (The Portrait of an Artist), Albert Camus (The Plague), Franz Kafka (Metamorphosis), Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), D.M. Thomas (The White Hotel), Kathy Acker (Empire of the Senses), and Ralph Ellison (The Invisible Man).

Requirements: 2 oral reports, 2 essays (6-8 pages each), mid-term and final.

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