Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2001
English (ENGL)
Rice Course Schedule as of 10/28/2001.
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NOTE: Course web pages are available for some ENGL courses.
ENGL 101 FRESHMAN SEMINAR Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Analysis and discussion of literary texts: poetry, drama, prose, fiction.
Students submit essays frequently.
001 FL 412 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Smartt-Chance, Janna Enr: 6 Max: NA
002 FL 412 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Lee, Iris Enr: 8 Max: NA
003 FL 412 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Stripling, Mary Kathryn Enr: 15 Max: NA
004 ML 251 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Hariprasad, Jaya Enr: 23 Max: NA
ENGL 103 INTRO TO ARGUMENTATION AND ACADEMIC WRIT Credits 3.00 Fall 01
English 103, An Introduction to Argument Design and Academic Writing, prepares
students for the kinds of writing and communication professors will require of
them in Rice University courses. English 103 is not a remedial course and is
not expected to repeat high school work. Students will write reports,
interpretations, and problem analyses concerning topics presently at issue in a
variety of disciplines. Each section of the course will emphasize the role of
argument in discourse communities and individuals' need for rhetorical skill.
International as well as campus topics may be included.
Prereq-permission of instructor.
001 FL 517 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Tobin, Mary L. Enr: 17 Max: NA
002 FL 517 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Tobin, Mary L. Enr: 20 Max: NA
003 FL 524 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Keller, Delores Enr: 16 Max: NA
ENGL 121 ADVANCED PLACEMENT CREDIT IN ENGLISH Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Course indication credit given for advanced placement in english.
Prereq-AP score of 4 or 5.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ENGL 122 ADVANCED PLACEMENT CREDIT IN ENGLISH: CR Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Course indicating credit given for Advanced Placement in English. Criticl
reading of literature.
Prereq- AP score of 4 or 5
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ENGL 201 INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION Credits 3.00 Fall 01
No description
001 HUM 328 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Diaz, Antonio Enr: 18 Max: 0
ENGL 210 MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: CHAUCER TO 1800 Credits 3.00 Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Readings in British major authors of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the
eighteenth century. Required of English majors.
001 GRB 211W - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Browning, Logan Enr: 34 Max: NA
002 GRB 211W - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Ellenzweig, Sarah Enr: 44 Max: NA
ENGL 260 INTRO STUDY OF AMERICAN LIT Credits 3.00 Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The Novelizing of America: With some notable exceptions, this course will read
the narratives of American novelists as self-conscious renderings of the nation
that could not find reasonable expression in genres like poetry and
autobiography. Indeed, the expansive nature of the novel lent itself early on
to capture, represent, and reify the progressive discourse of history that
turned New England Puritan theocracy into a secularized form of government,
known as democracy.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Levander, Caroline Enr: 44 Max: NA
002 HUM 118 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Derrick, Scott S. Enr: 30 Max: NA
ENGL 280 THE ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Also offered as ASIA 280.
001 TBA - TBA Yeh, Meng Enr: 0 Max: NA
ENGL 301 FICTION WRITING Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Description and analysis of student fiction.
001 FL 414 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Blake, Glenn Enr: 16 Max: 0
ENGL 304 POETRY WRITING Credits 3.00 Fall 01
A workshop in the writing of poetry, involves not only writing but reading the
work of professional poets and critiquing their poems as well as those of the
class. Permission of the instructor required.
001 HZ 122 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Hawkins, Gary Enr: 11 Max: 0
ENGL 311 MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS Credits 3.00 Fall 01
A close reading of the Divine Comedy, with attention to its theological,
philosophical, scientific, literary, historical, and artistic background.
Refert o course webs ite at http:\\www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance. Different topics
may be repeated for credit.
001 HUM 119 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Chance, Jane Enr: 5 Max: 0
ENGL 321 SHAKESPEARE Credits 3.00 Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Representative plays, including tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances.
Preference will be given to english majors, juniors, and seniors. Permission of
instructor is required. Enrollment limited to 40.
001 HUM 117 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Grob, Alan Enr: 47 Max: 40
ENGL 333 18TH CENTURY BRITISH FICTION Credits 3.00 Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 GRB 211W - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Joseph, Betty Enr: 7 Max: 0
ENGL 342 VICTORIAN FICTION Credits 3.00 Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The novel, from Austen to Hardy. Also offered as WGST 372.
001 GRB 212W - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Michie, Helena Enr: 26 Max: 0
ENGL 346 MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Fall 01
The center of this course in twentieth-century British fiction will be Ulysses,
surrounded by its contemporary modernist competition- -Passage to India, Mrs
Dalloway--and their postmodernist counterparts--Midnight's Children,
Regeneration, White Teeth, and maybe a few others. There will be several
required papers--some short, some longer.
001 FL 525 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Lamos, Colleen R. Enr: 19 Max: NA
ENGL 355 MODERN SHORT FICTION FROM BALZAC TO BORG Credits 3.00 Fall 01
A study of great works of American and European short fiction from the late
18th through the20th century. Focus on the particular anxieties and the
particular pleasures of the modern period, with readings for Kleist, Balzac,
Poe, Hawthrone, Gogol, Melville, Maupassant, LeFanu, Kafka, Faulkner, O'Connor,
Calvino, and Borges.Also offered as FREN 355.
001 HZ 212 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Harter, Deborah A. Enr: 38 Max: NA
ENGL 359 THE ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Credits 3.00 Fall 01
NO DESCRIPTION.
001 TBA - TBA Yeh, Meng Enr: 1 Max: NA
ENGL 362 AMERICAN FICTION 1910-1940 Credits 3.00 Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hurston, Dos Passos and their
contemporaries.
001 HZ 210 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Morris, Wesley A. Enr: 43 Max: 0
ENGL 366 SLAVERY AND THE SENTIMENTAL NOVEL Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Topics will vary.
001 GRB 212W - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Levander, Caroline Enr: 16 Max: NA
ENGL 368 MYTHOLOGIES Credits 3.00 Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to a variety of world
mythologies and mythmakers, from the beginnings to the modern period. Designed
to explore the relationship between a culture and its myths as expressed in
specific literary or religious works, “Mythologies” offers a means of
understanding cultural difference as well as the fundamental topics of human
desire and aspiration (creation and birth, the purpose of life, heroic struggle
against nature and death, the hope for rebirth, etc.). Included mythologies:
Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Welsh, Old Norse,
Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, modern (Borges, Philip Glass). Refer to
course web site at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/myth.htm
Also offered as
WGST 368 and MDST 368.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Chance, Jane Enr: 27 Max: 0
ENGL 369 LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST: WOMEN I Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Also offered as WGST 329
001 FL 524 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Comer, Krista Enr: 11 Max: NA
ENGL 370 SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
NO DESCRIPTION.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Fultz, Lucille P. Enr: 21 Max: NA
ENGL 378 LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Credits 3.00 Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
We will read a series of works that explore our relationship with the natural
world and the personal, social and philosophical dimensions and consequences of
that relationship. Readings will include environmental writing, or nature
writing as it is often called, and will focus on immediate personal
interaction with the natural world as that encounter is represented in fiction
and creative nonfiction. The course is by nature interdiscplinary, touching as
it must on scientific matters, natural and environmental history, the relation
of different responses to nature based on gender and on diverse cultural
backgrounds, as well as on issues of literary representation.
001 GRB 211W - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Slovic, Scott Enr: 28 Max: 0
ENGL 390 INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE Credits 3.00 Fall 01
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of the art and theory of the theatre through an examination of
dramatic literature from the greeks through the modern era. The course will
also explore the craft of the theatre as it is practiced today. Also offered
as THEA 303.
001 HZ 119 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM Ramont, Mark Enr: 9 Max: NA
ENGL 395 HISTORY OF THE ENGL LANGUAGE Credits 3.00 Fall 01
No description
001 SH 301 - MW 03:00PM - 04:30PM Mitchell, E. Douglas Enr: 11 Max: NA
ENGL 401 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Limited Enrollment.
Pre-req- Permission of the instructor.
001 HUM 118 - M 07:00PM - 10:00PM Blake, Glenn Enr: 16 Max: 0
ENGL 404 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY Credits 3.00 Fall 01
An advanced level workshop in the writing of poerty, involves not only writing
but reading the work of professional poets and critiquing their poems as well
as those of the class. Must have taken English 304 or its equivalent and must
have permission of the instructor to enroll.
Pre-req- ENGL 304
001 FL 525 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Wood, Susan Enr: 8 Max: 0
ENGL 470 TOPICS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT: BLACK WO Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Also offered as WGST 453
001 FL 517 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Fultz, Lucille P. Enr: 7 Max: NA
ENGL 487 AREA STUDIES: GLOBAL FICTIONS Credits 3.00 Fall 01
This course examines narrative fiction that represent various attempts to grasp
the global-- as an idea, a cognitive map, a pattern of movement, a series of
events, a montage of images, etc. We will read novels alongside a
number of
essays on literary and cultural theory, especially work that connects the role
of narratives,language and representation to broader debates about capitalism,
transnational culture, immigration, slavery, revolution and international
feminism. The course will have a historical as well as a broad geographical
reach and may include works by Michael
Ondaatje, Don Delillo, Barbara
Kingsolver, Salman Rushdie, Nuruddin Farah, Ahdaf Soueif and Michelle Cliff.
001 HZ 120 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM Joseph, Betty Enr: 8 Max: 0
ENGL 493 DIRECTED READING Credits 3.00 Fall 01
No description
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 7 Max: 0
ENGL 494 SENIOR SEMINAR Credits 3.00 Fall 01
No description
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ENGL 495 SENIOR THESIS Credits 3.00 Fall 01
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ENGL 510 PEDAGOGY Credits 1.00 Fall 01
A two-hour credit course in which graduate students teaching ENGL 101/102 meet
to discuss pedagogical approaches and problems.
001 FL 517 - T 03:00PM - 04:00PM Fultz, Lucille P. Enr: 4 Max: 0
ENGL 532 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EMERGENCES Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Many of the literary and extra-literary developments that have been central to
our discipline have their roots in the eighteenth century. Their gradual
emergences and early incarnations will be the object of our inquiry for the
semester. The most obvious and important literary emergence of the eighteenth
century was, of course, the novel. We will examine the modern social and
cultural forces crucial to and inextricable from this watershed literary
development: the emergence of liberalism, conservatism, feminism, class,
secular culture, the sex/gender system, individualism, and the separation of
public and private spheres.
001 HZ 118 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Ellenzweig, Sarah Enr: 6 Max: NA
ENGL 559 AGENCY, CLASS, AND ANXIETY IN 19TH CENTU Credits 3.00 Fall 01
NO DESCRIPTION.
001 FL 528 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Derrick, Scott S. Enr: 8 Max: 0
ENGL 578 LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: ECO-CRIT Credits 3.00 Fall 01
NO DESCRIPTION.
001 GRB 211W - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Slovic, Scott Enr: 4 Max: NA
ENGL 599 LITERARY THEORY: WHAT'S LEFT OF THEORY Credits 3.00 Fall 01
The seminar will explore the cultural souces and developmenmt of postmodernism.
Discussions will focus on classic fairy tales like "The Threee Little Pigs",
"The Beatles", "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", movies by Michelangleo
Antonioni ("Blow Up") and Brain DePalma ("Blow Out"), plays by Tom Stoppard
(Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) and Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot),
Don DeLillo's novel, MaoII, and theoretical speculations by Fredric Jameson
(Postmodernism Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism), Jean-Francois Lyotard
(Just Gaming and The Postmodern Condition), and Michael Foucalt (This is Not a
Pipe).
001 FL 525 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM Lamos, Colleen R. Enr: 8 Max: 0
ENGL 600 PROFESSIONAL METHODS Credits 3.00 Fall 01
A course for first-semester graduate students designed to introduce them to
professional debates, methodologies, and genre as well as to department
faculty.
001 FL 525 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Lurie, Susan Enr: 8 Max: NA
ENGL 601 TEACHING PRACTICUM Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Open only to graduate students serving as teaching assistants for courses in
English or the Humanities.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 7 Max: 0
ENGL 603 TEACHING OF LITERATURE & COMP Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Open only to graduate students teaching Engl 101, 102, and 103.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 4 Max: 0
ENGL 605 THIRD-YEAR WRITING WORKSHOP Credits 3.00 Fall 01
A workshop format seminar for third-year graduate students focusing on the
rewriting of papers written for other courses with the goal of publication
and/or conference presentation.
001 FL 414 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Snow, Edward A. Enr: 6 Max: NA
ENGL 621 DIRECTED READING Credits 3.00 Fall 01
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 3 Max: 0
ENGL 701 BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Topics in British and American Literature or Literary Theory.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ENGL 703 RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY Credits 3.00 Fall 01
Topics in British and American Literary theory. To be taken after a student has
completed departmental course requirements for the Master's or Doctorate, and
before being admitted to candidacy.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 11 Max: 0
ENGL 800 PH.D. RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits Fall 01
To be taken after a student has been admitted to candidacy.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 16 Max: 0
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