Texas Tech University Spring Level Courses in English

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1 Texas Tech University Spring Level Courses in English Department of English Lubbock, Texas English CallNumber Poetry Just Poetry MWF 9-9:50AM Michael Holko This introductory course will familiarize you with the various techniques used to shape poetry. We will also explore how poems operate as fair representations of thought and expression. Our survey will be organized around three general questions: How does a poem function as an object of beauty? To what degree does beauty influence the relationship between language and meaning? In what way does poetry reflect this relationship and its correlation to truth? With these questions in mind, our inquiry into matters of poetic form, diction and content will lead us to skillfully read, analyze and understand poetry as a contemplative and meaningful approach towards knowledge. Coursework consists of in-class and take-home close-reading assignments, a critical essay (with draft-work) and a final examination. Regular attendance and active participation is mandatory. The required texts are Helen Vendler s Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (2 nd Edition) [ISBN ] and Elaine Scarry s On Beauty and Being Just [ISBN ]. English CallNumber Poetry MWF 10-10:50AM Jack Turner jack.turner@ttu.edu English 459 English CallNumber Poetry Just Poetry MWF 11-11:50AM Michael Holko

2 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 2 mholko@ic.sunysb.edu Coursework consists of in-class and take-home close-reading assignments, a critical essay (with draft-work) and a final examination. Regular attendance and active participation is mandatory. The required texts are Helen Vendler s Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (2 nd Edition) [ISBN ] and Elaine Scarry s On Beauty and Being Just [ISBN ]. English CallNumber Poetry MWF 12-12:50AM Jack Turner jack.turner@ttu.edu English 459 English CallNumber Poetry 12:30-1:50PM Karen Keck karen.keck@ttu.edu English 457 Poetry, says Robert Frost, is what is lost in translation. Poetry, however, may be a way of translating life into words, but it is also a way to deepen one s perception of life. Although analysis seems to kill at least in the minds of some analyzing poetry can open the poem to and for the reader. Students will be expected to complete two interpretive papers, 3-4 and 6-8 pages in length; an anthology of poetry; a creative project; daily responses; and a mid-term and a final exam. Students are allowed up to two unexcused absences before absences affect the grade. Attendance is taken from the first day of classes; students who register during the add/drop period start accumulating absences from the date of registration. Text: The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry and a course pack. English CallNumber Poetry 2-3:20PM Karen Keck Poetry, says Robert Frost, is what is lost in translation. Poetry, however, may be a way of translating life into words, but it is also a way to deepen one s perception of life. Although analysis seems to kill at least in the minds of some analyzing poetry can open the poem to and for the reader. Students will be expected to complete two interpretive papers, 3-4 and 6-8 pages in length; an anthology of poetry; a creative project; daily responses; and a mid-term and a final exam. Students are allowed up to two unexcused absences before absences affect the grade. Attendance is taken from the first day of classes; students who register during the add/drop period start accumulating absences from the date of registration.

3 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 3 karen.keck@ttu.edu English 457 accumulating absences from the date of registration. Text: The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry and a course pack. English CallNumber Drama MWF 11-11:50AM Dean Bowers deanbowers24@yahoo.com English 205 English CallNumber Drama MWF 12-12:50AM Dean Bowers deanbowers24@yahoo.com English 205 English CallNumber Drama No description available. Please contact teacher. Course added MW 9:30-10:50AM Marliss Desens m.desens@ttu.edu English 429

4 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 4 English CallNumber Drama CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 9:30-10:50AM English CallNumber Drama 11-12:20PM Constance Kuriyama constance.kuriyama@ttu.edu English 428 English CallNumber Drama 12:30-1:50PM Constance Kuriyama constance.kuriyama@ttu.edu English 428 English CallNumber Haunting Histories: s of North American Native Writers MWF 11-11:50AM This course will engage students in a detailed study of short fiction and novels by North American Native authors. We will aim to situate the texts within their particular historical, cultural, and geographical contexts, while considering such issues as the function of history (both oral and written) in each novel. More specifically, our class discussions will focus on the ways in which ghosts and haunting historical moments shape Native literatures in North America, thereby moving the class towards a consideration of the relationship between history and fiction, between narrative and memory, between specters and survival. Indeed, how do writings by North American First Peoples contest America s supposed newness its lack of pastness and Canada s supposed ghostlessness? At the same time, this class will also keep in mind

5 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 5 Karen Clark kmclark@ualberta.ca English 478 Canada s supposed ghostlessness? At the same time, this class will also keep in mind the words of Susan Power: Native peoples, and their stories and histories are not a social studies unit of an interesting sub-category. [ ] We are American history. [ ] Every track and trace of the American experience runs through our communities, our culture. We have been the transformers so much more than we are ever credited to have been. I am so tired of our image as the transformed the lost, the dead, always those who are acted upon, always those who have been pushed to the edges, where we can be watched compassionately, nostalgically, seen as little more than a decorative fringe. Class participation, inksheds, reading quizzes and attendance form the daily work of this course. Formal writing assignments include two short response papers, and a longer analytical paper. There will also be a short oral presentation, a mid-term examination, and a final examination. Three absences are allowed without penalty. Each subsequent absence will reduce a final grade by 5 percentage points. Excessive absences more than 6 in total may result in failure of the course, regardless of other grades earned. Absences accrue from the first day of class. Texts: NOVELS: Erdrich, Louise. Tracks: A Novel New York: Perennial, King, Thomas. Truth and Bright Water. Toronto: HarperPerennialCanada, Momaday, N.Scott. House Made of Dawn New York: Perennial Classics, Robinson, Eden. Monkey Beach Toronto: VintageCanada, Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony New York: Penguin, SHORT FICTION: Available on e-reserve or to be handed out in class. FILM: Scenes taken from Smoke Signals, based upon Sherman Alexie s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. English CallNumber MWF 12-12:50AM Bethany Yates bethanydawn79@hotmail.c om English 422 English CallNumber 14069

6 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 6 MWF 1-1:50PM Bethany Yates bethanydawn79@hotmail.c om English 422 English CallNumber Course added No description available. Please contact teacher. MW F 1-1:50PM James Whitlark jswhitlark@yahoo.com English 464 English CallNumber :30-10:50AM Ya-hui Irenna Chang irenna.chang@ttu.edu English 458 This course aims to study fiction in relation to adaptation. Students will read short stories and novels written in different historical periods as well as by authors of different ethnic backgrounds. To compare and contrast how character, theme, setting, and point-of-view are treated in fiction and film, adaptations of two novels, Jane Eyre and Joy Luck Club, will be shown in the class. Students will be expected to participate in class and to complete in-class quizzes, three peer critiques (2-3 pages), three essays (4-5 pages), and a final exam. Three unexcused absences are allowed. Five or more absences will result in course failure. Required Texts: (Book-length texts are all available at the Barnes and Noble on campus or Varsity bookstore across from the campus.) Ross Murfin & Supryia M. Ray, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms Novels: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate Henry Fielding, Tom Jones Toni Morrison, Beloved Amy Tan, Joy Luck Club Short Stories: Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence over the Owl Creek Bridge Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants Edgar Allan Poe, The Mask of the Red Death

7 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 7 English CallNumber :20PM John Samson john.samson@ttu.edu English 481 English CallNumber :30-1:50PM Anne Hiemstra anneh10@msn.com English 416 English CallNumber :20PM Ya-hui Irenna Chang This course aims to study fiction in relation to adaptation. Students will read short stories and novels written in different historical periods as well as by authors of different ethnic backgrounds. To compare and contrast how character, theme, setting, and point-of-view are treated in fiction and film, adaptations of two novels, Jane Eyre and Joy Luck Club, will be shown in the class. Students will be expected to participate in class and to complete in-class quizzes, three peer critiques (2-3 pages), three essays (4-5 pages), and a final exam. Three unexcused absences are allowed. Five or more absences will result in course failure.

8 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 8 irenna.chang@ttu.edu English 458 Required Texts: (Book-length texts are all available at the Barnes and Noble on campus or Varsity bookstore across from the campus.) Ross Murfin & Supryia M. Ray, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms Novels: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate Henry Fielding, Tom Jones Toni Morrison, Beloved Amy Tan, Joy Luck Club Short Stories: Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence over the Owl Creek Bridge Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants Edgar Allan Poe, The Mask of the Red Death English CallNumber Course opened No description available. Please contact teacher. MW 2-3:20PM Yuan Shu yuan.shu@ttu.edu English 465 English CallNumber Course opened No description available. Please contact teacher. MW 3:30-4:50PM Yuan Shu yuan.shu@ttu.edu English 465 English This is a mega-section and is not I t i

9 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 9 CallNumber Intensive :20PM Anne Hiemstra anneh10@msn.com English 416 English 2308.H02 * CallNumber Nonfiction about Nature, Landscape, and Place T 2-4:50PM Dennis Covington dennis.covington@ttu.edu English 434 This course will further acquaint students with the connection between the humanities and the natural sciences by focusing on literature about the natural world. We ll be reading In the Wilderness, by Kim Barnes; Refuge, by Terry Tempest Williams; and The End of Nature, by Bill McKibben. Students will be asked to write at least three prose pieces of their own based on observations in the field. Minor assignments will include in-class and outof-class exercises. Hopefully, there will be opportunities for field trips to natural sites, including an optional weekend visit to Tech s Junction campus in the Texas hill country. The emphasis will be on careful observation, thoughtful reflection, and writing imbued with what Henry James called solidity of specification. English CallNumber Nonfiction MWF 11-11:50AM Monica Norris monica.norris@ttu.edu English 468 * You need a 3.0 overall GPA to enroll in an Honors section. It puts you in a small class with other people with 3.0 s and higher. The courseload is no heavier than normal. Preparation and participation may be higher. To enroll please go to the Honors College, McClellan Hall 103.

10 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 10 English CallNumber Nonfiction MWF 12-12:50AM Monica Norris English 468 English 2311 Technical Notes: Prerequisite: English 1301 and English 2311 assists students in developing the writing ability required by their future professions. Six to nine writing assignments are required. Students in this class will analyze the communication situation fully and accurately (needs, audiences, uses, and constraints); gather, interpret, and document information logically, efficiently, and Instructor Section Day Time Call Number ARTHUR FRICKE English 408 DMII STANCHEVICI English 454 ARTHUR FRICKE English 408 DMII STANCHEVICI English 454 ARTHUR FRICKE English 408 AMBER LANCASTER English 457 PINFAN ZHU English MW 8-9:20AM MW 9:30-10:50AM MW 9:30-10:50AM MW 11-12:20PM MW 11-12:20PM MW 1-12:20PM MW 12:30-1:50PM 14107

11 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 11 ARTHUR FRICKE English 408 NATALIA MATVEEVA English 458 NICOLE MADISON English 457 RYAN BOETTGER English 476 NICOLE MADISON English 457 PINFAN ZHU English 461 RYAN BOETTGER English 476 DMII STANCHEVICI English 454 RUSSELL WILLERTON English 424 JURGEN HEISE English 411 JURGEN HEISE English 411 JURGEN HEISE English 411 RUSSELL WILLERTON English MW 12:30-1:50PM MW 2-3:20PM MW 2-3:20PM MW 2-3:20PM MW 3:30-4:50PM MW 3:30-4:50PM MW 6:30-7:50PM :20AM :20AM :20AM :30-10:50AM :20PM :30-1:50PM 14120

12 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 12 JURGEN HEISE English 411 MIALISA HUBBARD English 468 MIALISA HUBBARD English 468 DAVE YEATS English 401 NATALIA MATVEEVA English 458 PINFAN ZHU English 461 PINFAN ZHU English 461 AMBER LANCASTER English :30-1:50PM :20PM :30-4:50PM MW 9:30-10:50AM MW 12:30-1:50PM MW 8-9:20AM MW 2-3:20PM MW 3:30-4:50PM English CallNumber Creative MWF 9-9:50AM Gail Folkins Koehler English 417 Students will explore creative writing through reading and writing assignments in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Along with honing our craft and finding the muse on an individual basis, we'll share work in a supportive workshop setting. We'll also look at the works of visiting writer Enid Shomer, in anticipation of her reading this spring. Texts: Imaginative by Janet Burroway Black Drum by Enid Shomer English CallNumber Students will explore creative writing through reading and writing assignments in fi i i fi i d Al i h h i f d fi di h

13 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 13 Creative MWF 10-10:50AM Gail Folkins Koehler English 417 fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Along with honing our craft and finding the muse on an individual basis, we'll share work in a supportive workshop setting. We'll also look at the works of visiting writer Enid Shomer, in anticipation of her reading this spring. Texts: Imaginative by Janet Burroway Black Drum by Enid Shomer English CallNumber Creative CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. MWF 11-11:50AM English CallNumber Creative MWF 12-12:50AM Meredith Doench meredithdoench@hotmail.com English 456 English CallNumber Creative MWF 1-1:50AM Sharon Miller In literature courses, students examine fiction and poetry for their meaning and historical significance. In this class, students will examine how writers manipulate language words, sentences, rhythm, stanzas, etc. to convey their vision of the world. Following these examples, students will develop and practice their own skills as literary writers. During the first three months of the semester, students will read contemporary, literary poetry and fiction works currently being published in the most respected literary journals. During class, the instructor and students will discuss how these readings demonstrate the craft of creative writing. At the same

14 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 14 English 404 discuss how these readings demonstrate the craft of creative writing. At the same time, students will begin writing their own poetry and fiction, striving to mirror the artistic standards of the reading assignments. Throughout the semester, students will participate in peer critiques intended to teach them how to read their work and their peers works critically, how to offer sound suggestions for improvement, and how to improve their own writing so they can complete one manuscript either a short story or five poems for class discussion. During the final weeks of the semester, the class as a whole will discuss each student s poetry OR fiction in a group workshop, and then students will revise their manuscripts. At the end of the semester, a final exam will test the students knowledge of the techniques and terminology associated with literary writing as well as the students editing skills. Text: Thiel, Diane. Crossroads: Creative Exercises in Four Genres. Pearson/Longman, English CallNumber Creative 9:30-10:50AM Marcus J. Weekley whynottryitagain@hotmail.com English 453 English CallNumber Creative 2-3:20PM Scott W. Sandlin bardscott1@aol.com English 469 English CallNumber 14138

15 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 15 Creative 8-9:20AM Matthew Purdy English 476 English CallNumber Creative 3:30-4:50PM Patrick Whitfill English 404 English CallNumber Creative 11-12:20PM Scott W. Sandlin English 469 English CallNumber Creative

16 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 16 MWF 2-2:50AM Meredith Doench English 456 English CallNumber Creative MWF 3-3:50AM Sharon Miller English 404 In literature courses, students examine fiction and poetry for their meaning and historical significance. In this class, students will examine how writers manipulate language words, sentences, rhythm, stanzas, etc. to convey their vision of the world. Following these examples, students will develop and practice their own skills as literary writers. During the first three months of the semester, students will read contemporary, literary poetry and fiction works currently being published in the most respected literary journals. During class, the instructor and students will discuss how these readings demonstrate the craft of creative writing. At the same time, students will begin writing their own poetry and fiction, striving to mirror the artistic standards of the reading assignments. Throughout the semester, students will participate in peer critiques intended to teach them how to read their work and their peers works critically, how to offer sound suggestions for improvement, and how to improve their own writing so they can complete one manuscript either a short story or five poems for class discussion. During the final weeks of the semester, the class as a whole will discuss each student s poetry OR fiction in a group workshop, and then students will revise their manuscripts. At the end of the semester, a final exam will test the students knowledge of the techniques and terminology associated with literary writing as well as the students editing skills. Text: Thiel, Diane. Crossroads: Creative Exercises in Four Genres. Pearson/Longman, English CallNumber Creative 12:30-1:50PM Refugio (Ito) Romo r.romo@ttu.edu English 469 English

17 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 17 CallNumber Creative 12:30-1:50PM Marcus J. Weekley English 453 English 2371 Language in a Multicultural America Course not offered this semester. English 2388 Film Studies Course not offered this semester. English CallNumber Critical Doom and Gloom: Literature of Despair 9:30-10:50AM Brian McFadden brian.mcfadden@ttu.edu English 430 This course will introduce students to the critical reading of prose, poetry, and drama and also to writing coherent critical arguments about them. The main theme and question of the course: Why do people give up on life, love, friendship, faith, country, and other things that humans cherish? Simple answers don t exist, and the texts I have chosen (along with the essay topics) will be challenging in their ways of getting to the heart of the issue. Students will be expected to complete three 1200-word essays; an equivalent amount of ungraded but required in-class writing; active participation; a midterm exam and a final exam. The attendance policy is effective on the first day of registration: three absences allowed; four absences, notification of the dean and 30% off participation grade; five absences, failure in the course. If you miss three classes in a row without contacting me, you will fail in most circumstances. In short, plan on attending or plan on failing. Texts: Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms; Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener ; Vonnegut, Mother Night; Tolkien, The Homecoming of Byrhtnoth; The Battle of Maldon; The Wife s Lament; The Husband s Message; The Ruin; Wulf and Eadwacer; selections from Tacitus, The Germania; Marlowe, Dr. Faustus; Miller, Death of a Salesman; selections from Sidney, Astrophil and Stella; Book One of Spenser s Faerie Queene. English CallNumber The purpose of English 2391 is to introduce students to the premises and practices of li l i W ill f l di d i i kill d

18 Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 18 Critical 3:30-4:50PM Jennifer Frangos English 476 literary analysis. We will focus on close reading and interpretive skills, argument and critical thinking, and an overview of literary criticism and theory. This course is writing intensive. Students will be expected to complete four informal response papers to primary texts, 5 essays, and 1 class presentation, with handout. Regular attendance and participation is also required. There will be a strict attendance policy, whereupon two weeks worth of absences or more will lower the final grade for the class. Students are encouraged not to miss the first day of class for this reason. Texts: J.A. Cuddon, ed., The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms ISBN (or a comparable handbook) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Bedford ISBN Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Signet ISBN ISBN Jonathan Swift, Gulliver s Travels, Bedford ISBN NOTE: please purchase the Bedford editions listed above, since the critical apparatus and supplementary material specific to these editions will be part of the required reading and class discussion; different editions of these primary texts will not be acceptable. English CallNumber Critical 2-3:20PM Michael Borshuk mborshuk@hotmail.com English 425 This course will introduce students to the conventions of literary criticism. We will focus on developing close reading skills and interpretation, on articulating sustained arguments about literature in academic prose, and on building both a working knowledge of approaches and a critical vocabulary to allow for those goals. We will consider a variety of texts in different genres: prose, poetry and drama. Students should note that this course is both discussion-heavy and writing intensive. Informed participation is expected, and students will be required to complete four formal essays as well as a number of informal writing assignments. Tentative Required Text List: Jonathan Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction; T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (Norton Critical Edition required); Kate Chopin, The Awakening (Bedford Critical Edition required); Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Recommended: Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, Critical Terms for Literary Study