Old English Major (1995-2015)
41831
People respond to movies in different ways, and there are many reasons for this. We have all stood in the lobby of a theater and heard conflicting opinions from people who have just seen the same film. Some loved it, some hated it, some found it just OK. Disagreements, however, can reveal a... (read more)
41833
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41835
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41842
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22222
This course is designed to provide students with the equipment they need to understand the theory and practice of public speaking as a... (read more)
22223
Though signifying idealized notions of love in popular parlance, romance is about more than the transcendent power and emotional magic... (read more)
22226
Students’ Rights to their Own Sentences
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22228
Do we read literature differently when we read for the environment? How are environmental issues connected to colonialism, gender,... (read more)
22229
This course surveys African American literature from its origins to the present. We will read a wide... (read more)
22230
This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and... (read more)
22231
This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and... (read more)
22238
Travel, or the journey, is often conceptualized in relation to home as the point of departure and return: in Homer’s Odyssey,... (read more)
22239
BS, Fake News, and Argumentation
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22241
This course introduces students to critical thinking about the aesthetic, historical and economic factors influencing film, media, and... (read more)
22243
ENG 399 Writing Associates Development is a variable-credit, hybrid, companion course designed to support tutors in ENG 404 ... (read more)
22244
What happens to literature when text moves from page to screen? This online course invites students of all majors and levels of... (read more)
22253
How can artists ethically represent war? Are certain media predisposed to certain kinds of narratives and interpretations of war? Do... (read more)
22256
Wherever slavery existed, there were those who resisted it, many of whom paid with their lives. This course examines the literature of... (read more)
25959
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional, and technical writing; weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions, instructions, summaries. Use of documentation in publication.
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25960
Emphasis on form, function, and style of scientific, professional, and technical writing; weekly writing assignments include proposals, reports, definitions, instructions, summaries. Use of documentation in publication.
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25961
Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business... (read more)
26303
An introduction to contemporary folklore studies, with emphasis on the meanings of stories, rituals, festivals, body art, subcultures,... (read more)
26306
Examines the research questions and theoretical models used by folklorists and other scholars in the study of vernacular religion and... (read more)
26543
Fantasy and Violence will examine the role of violence in literature of the fantastic with special attention to the problems violence... (read more)
26544
This course is an introduction to the genre of comedy. It surveys examples of comedy across a long historical range—from classical... (read more)
26545
Shakespeare’s Extremities... (read more)
26546
This course introduces students to some of the major works, authors, and themes of Asian American literature, a diverse body of writing... (read more)
26547
The prolific White Earth Ojibwe writer Gerald Vizenor conceptualizes the cultural work of Indigenous literatures as “survivance,”... (read more)
26548
This course provides an introduction to the analysis of comics and graphic narratives in terms of their poetics, genres, forms, history... (read more)
26549
This course is designed to introduce students to some important theories and practices of literary and cultural criticism. My goals for... (read more)
26550
Bovilsky, Lara; Peppis, Paul; Saunders, Ben
ENG 304 addresses the following questions: What is a context? How do texts and history interact? We will... (read more)
26554
Hallucinations, Prophecies, and the Supernatural. Working from the 19th century to the present, this course will consider African... (read more)
26555
One could say that most comics are about the human body, in all its variations, exaggerations, erotics, poses, powers, and... (read more)
26556
This course presents a survey of American novels in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It will cover a variety of styles and... (read more)
26557
“Things Fall Apart”: Revolution, Reaction and Renewal in Early Twentieth Century Culture (1895-1945)... (read more)
26559
Cinema and Ireland
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26560
This course addresses the relationship between narrative and cartography. The course engages two perspectives on this topic, as... (read more)
26563
ENG 427 invites students to engage selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Texts will include the more familiar comedic... (read more)
26564
OEII reviews and builds on the grammatical foundations learned in OEI and adds to students’ knowledge of early English literature and... (read more)
26568
This interdisciplinary course looks at how ideas of nature and the natural world shape early modern understandings of the Americas.... (read more)
26570
According to Wendell Berry, “You don’t know who you are until you know where you are.” Yet, as we know from the fierce... (read more)
26576
There is perhaps no image more widely recognized yet more grossly misunderstood in American popular culture than the “Indian.”... (read more)
26578
Rhetoric has been characterized as a power to lead the soul, the universal form of communication, the art of persuasion, the way we... (read more)
26664
What happens when digital tools and literature meet? What can the “digital turn” in literary studies help us to understand about... (read more)
26666
This course focuses on fictional constructions of nation in British novels of the nineteenth century. In an era embracing massive... (read more)
26942
This discussion section is a space to practice the methodologies you will be learning throughout the ENG 304 lecture sessions. We will use our weekly meetings to review and cement the concepts introduced... (read more)
26943
This discussion section supplements your lectures with opportunities for direct participation in the form of... (read more)
26945
This discussion section supplements your lectures with opportunities for direct participation in the form of questions, comments, and conversation with classmates. Our discussions will be most... (read more)
26971
Practice in writing and analyzing internal and external messages common to business, industry, and professions. Suggested for business... (read more)
26988
What makes a poem modern or a poet a modernist? The history of modern poetry, like that of any literary period, is a ... (read more)
12101
War, Peace, and Hospitality in Ancient Poetry and Prose
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12102
This course is an introduction to film and media studies and various methods of critical analysis. In this course, we will see that... (read more)
12105
Listening rigorously and deeply, inquiring into issues and topics of importance to our communities, and speaking effectively are key elements that assist our... (read more)
12106
This course will introduce students to the genre of testimonial literary discourse, or testimonio: an authentic narrative, told... (read more)
12111
This course is a survey of literature by African American authors from the 19th century into the present. We will read texts from a range of genres... (read more)
12112
As an introductory survey, this course emphasizes the formal, thematic, and cultural diversity of Latinx literature. We will read novels, poetry, short stories... (read more)
12113
In 1968, Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for American literature. The award signaled for many the “... (read more)
16422
Though the slave narrative genre reached its peak in the mid-19... (read more)
16423
This course examines the pithy praise appearing on book jackets and other product packaging. Blurbs are quick descriptions. They... (read more)
16424
This class explores depictions of the environment in literature with a particular emphasis on contemporary U.S. fiction and non-fiction. By attending to the... (read more)
