Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2002
English (ENGL)
Rice Course Schedule as of 11/26/2002.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
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NOTE: Course web pages are available for some ENGL courses.
ENGL 100 FRESHMAN SEMINAR IN LITERATURE AND LITER Credits 3.00 Fall 02
This course serves as an introduction to the English major, but it is also open
to non-majors. It emphasizes the close reading of literature and critical
writing about literature, as well as understanding the social, historical, and
cultural contexts within which imaginative works are produced and interpreted.
Enrollment is limited to 15. Also offered as FSEM 100.
001 SH 560 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Ellenzweig, Sarah Enr: 6 Max: 30
002 FL 517 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Fultz, Lucille P. Enr: 5 Max: 30
ENGL 101 FRESHMAN ENGLISH SEMINAR Credits 3.00 Fall 02
ENGL 101.001- Christopher Colombus was mad. Anyone who could have thought the
world was round must surely have been a bit touched, right? History shows that
no one single definition of madness exists. Differences such as gender, race,
culture and economics factor into both the disease of madness, as well as its
diagnosis. We will investigate madness as it is depicted in novels, poetry,
plays and film. Texts to be covered include works by Shakespeare, Dostoevsky,
Siegfried Sassoon, Tennessee Williams, Toni Morrison and Rebecca
Wells.
Analysis and discussion of literary texts: poetry, drama, prose,
fiction. Students submit essays frequently.
001 GRB 211W - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Pollard, Amy Enr: 11 Max: 0
ENGL 103 INTRODUCTION TO ARGUMENT AND ACADEMIC WR Credits 3.00 Fall 02
REGISTRATION: PERMISSION SLIP REQUIRED (Obtain from English Department Office
in Fondren Library 500 and attach to registration form). 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.
*SYMONDS LAB IN FONDREN LIBRARY
Prereq-permission of instructor.
001 FL SYM - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Tobin, Mary L. Enr: 20 Max: 0
002 FL SYM - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Tobin, Mary L. Enr: 20 Max: NA
ENGL 121 ADVANCED PLACEMENT CREDIT IN ENGLISH Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Course indication credit given for advanced placement in english.
Prereq-AP score of 4 or 5.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 0
ENGL 122 ADVANCED PLACEMENT CREDIT IN ENGLISH Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Course indicating credit given for Advanced Placement in English. Criticl
reading of literature.
Prereq- AP score of 4 or 5
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max: 0
ENGL 209 GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA Credits 3.00 Fall 02
GREEK: A reading and dramatic analysis of Aeschylus's "ORESTEIA"(three plays),
Sophocles's "OEDIPUS THE KING", "OEDIPUS AT COLONUS", "ELECTRA and ANTIGONE";
of Euripides's "MEDEA", "ORESTES", and "ELECTRA".
LATIN: A reading and
analysis of the "MENAECHMI" and the "MILES GLORIOSUS" of Plautus, the "PHORMIO"
of Terencen and the "MEDEA" of Seneca.
Also offered as CLAS 209.
001 RH 305 - MW 03:00PM - 04:30PM Mitchell, E. Douglas Enr: 11 Max: NA
ENGL 210 MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: CHAUCER TO 1800 Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Readings in major British authors of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the
eighteenth century. Required of English majors.
001 SH 301 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Browning, Logan Enr: 43 Max: 0
002 HUM 328 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Logan, Thad Enr: 36 Max: NA
ENGL 211 MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: 1800 TO PRESENT Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Readings in major British authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Required for
English majors.
001 HUM 328 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Dayton, Anne Enr: 32 Max: NA
ENGL 260 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LI Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* 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.
Section 2: In this section of the American Literature
Survey, we will work our way from
the 17th century to the 21st, examining a
sampling of those texts that have
caused some degree of excitement and/or
controversy at the time of their
publication. While attempts were made to ban
some of these books, others
struggled to find publication, caused disapproval
or actual social upheaval,
or perhaps just surprised, shocked, or titillated
their audience. As we
examine these texts from a modern perspective, inundated
as we are with
explicit music, movies, video games, magazines, and books, we
might find it
hard to believe these texts were so shocking, or provoked so
much
excitement, in prior centuries. Why did they? Who was the audience? What
factors (including but not limited to race, gender, ethnicity, nationality,
sexuality) influenced the texts content and reception? In this course, I
would like us to consider the ways in which knowledge has been (and still
is)
considered subversive, to uncover the different forms of knowledge
represented
in these texts, and to understand why that knowledge might have
been, and
perhaps still is, controversial.
001 SH 307 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Derrick, Scott S. Enr: 37 Max: 0
002 BL 131 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Comer, Krista Enr: 43 Max: NA
ENGL 301 FICTION WRITING Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Description and analysis of student fiction.
001 RH 123 - MW 03:00PM - 04:30PM Recknagel, Marsha L. Enr: 13 Max: 0
ENGL 304 POETRY WRITING Credits 3.00 Fall 02
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.
001 FL 525 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Wood, Susan Enr: 11 Max: 0
ENGL 305 PERSONAL ESSAY Credits 3.00 Fall 02
In this course we will read the work of current practicioners of the personal
essay such as Philip Lopate, bell hooks, Lucy Grealy, Lauren Slater, David
Sedaris and Tobias Wolff. Students in the workshop also are required to write
and critique their own work, which will inlcude autobiographical sketches,
personal essays, and memoir.
001 FL 414 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Recknagel, Marsha L. Enr: 13 Max: NA
ENGL 317 ARTHURIAN LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of the origins and development of the Arthurian legend from the
earliest chronicles in the sixth century and later medieval French, Wlesh,
Irish, and English Arthurian poems to modern adaptations of Arthurian material,
including films. Refer to course web site at
http//www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/arthurian2.html. Also offered as WGST 301 and
MDST 317.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Chance, Jane Enr: 29 Max: 0
ENGL 324 OLD ENGLISH Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Study of Phonology and Morphology of old English grammar. Readings in Old
English. Also offered as MDST 311 and LING 312.
001 KH 105 - TTH 03:00PM - 04:15PM Mitchell, E. Douglas Enr: 8 Max: 0
ENGL 332 LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH ENLIGHTENMENT Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course will provide an introductory survey of the literature and culture
of the Restoration and eighteenth century. We will read a representative range
of prose and poetry from a volatile and exciting age of plots, revolution, and
literary transformation. As England struggled with the concept of monarchy,
questioned the value of social and sexual hierarchy, and witnessed the
increasing prominence of a "middling" or middle class, the category
"literature" began to assume its modern integrity and coherence; our notions of
"authorship" and the aesthetic took shape; and women and laboring men for the
first time became significant forces in the reading and writing of literature.
Our readings will cover poems of several genres, short prose narratives,
essays, and philosophical treatises. Authors will include Bunyan, Butler,
Rochester, Dryden, Behn, Finch, Astell, Swift, Defoe, Addison and Steele,
Locke, Hume, Pope, Montagu, Duck, Collier, Leapor, Collins, Gray, Haywood,
Johnson, Smith, Burke, Goldsmith, Crabbe, Boswell, and others.
001 FL 524 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Ellenzweig, Sarah Enr: 11 Max: 0
ENGL 346 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: THE BRI Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course will be a very broad survey of the novel written in English by
writers who are not only English but Polish, Irish, Indian, Scots, South
African, and Australian. Which gives you an idea of what the English
language
has become even if the sun has set on the Empire. Aesthetics and history,
modernism and postmodernism, the Empire and its aftermath, race and gender in
these new worlds will be among the topics we address.There will be three short
papers (2 pg) and three longer ones (6 pg), and to pass the course you will
have to write ALL of them.
001 HUM 119 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Doody, Terrence A. Enr: 36 Max: NA
ENGL 358 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN FILM AND CULTUR Credits 3.00 Fall 02
This course will examine a variety of claims about the relationship between
cultural change and the proliferation of mass-mediated images and sounds in the
postwar United States. Historical analysis will be focused through a range of
topics, including shifts in production, distribution, and exhibition of films
and television programs; the status of television in social movements such as
the civil rights struggle and Vietnam war protests; suburbanization and the
expansion of consumer culture during the postwar economic boom; and the role of
entertainment/information technologies in the global culture industries that
are said to exemplify postmodernity. Also offered as HART 380.
001 SH 301 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Ostherr, Kirsten Enr: 25 Max: 0
ENGL 362 SURVEY OF AMERICAN FICTION 1910-1940 Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hurston, Dos Passos and their
contemporaries.
001 SH 562 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Jackson, Chuck Enr: 26 Max: NA
ENGL 369 LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN W Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Surevey of literature on the American West, emphasizing the contemporary
period. Also offered as WGST 329
001 FL 528 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Comer, Krista Enr: 15 Max: 0
ENGL 377 ART AND LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Vermeer, Hitchcock, Hammett, Rilke
001 SH 562 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Snow, Edward A. Enr: 5 Max: 0
ENGL 378 LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: ECOFICTI Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course will consider how the environment is used in fiction as setting,
subject, or battleground, and will explore the ways men and women interact in
the natural world. Materials for the course are novels by Wendell Berry,
Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy, among others, and
selected short fiction by Updike, Jewett, Bass, Oates, et.al. and by the
instructor.
001 HUM 119 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Nelson, Kent Enr: 28 Max: NA
ENGL 379 INTRODUCTION TO THIRD WORLD LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course surveys new novelistic and literary traditions from Africa, the
Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent and pays particular attention to the
shared concerns that derive from a common (post) colonial experience: the
relationship between the first and the third worlds, between art and politics,
between race and culture, between consumerism and communitty. To provide
historical and critical contexts, we will also look at short essays and film
clips.
001 HUM 119 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Joseph, Betty Enr: 25 Max: 0
ENGL 386 CHICANO POETRY Credits 3.00 Fall 02
NO DESCRIPTION
001 FL 525 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Aranda, Jose F. Enr: 17 Max: 0
ENGL 390 INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* 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 HUM 227 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Ramont, Mark Enr: 12 Max: 0
ENGL 392 CONTEMPORARY DRAMATIC LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Fall 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
In this course we will examine contemporary American plays that have had a
significant impact on theatrical form or that are highly reflective of
contemporay society. Plalywrights whose work will be studied will include
Mamet, Guare, Lucas, Wilson and many others. Also offered as THEA 330.
001 HUM 117 - MWF 02:00PM - 04:00PM Huston, Dennis Enr: 22 Max: 0
Ramont, Mark
ENGL 401 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Limited Enrollment.
Pre-req- Permission of the instructor.
001 FL 528 - TH 02:00PM - 05:00PM Nelson, Kent Enr: 8 Max: 0
ENGL 426 17TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERARY STUDIES: S Credits 3.00 Fall 02
The period between the accessions of James I and
Charles II (1603—1660) saw a
continuous state of
religious upheaval and experimentation which in
turn
produced the diverse religious lyrics of Donne,
Herbert, Lanyer, Crashaw,
Traherne, Vaughan, Herrick,
and Milton. This poetry involved, for many, new
and
even radical ways of thinking about the relationship
between the self and a
higher spiritual authority—most
typically an "authority" figured in the
monarchy and
the Divine. This course will examine the outpouring
of religious
poetry in 17th-century England. Among
other topics, we will explore the early
influence of
political absolutism on Donne and Herbert; the
Protestant
injunction against art and the poet’s
status as a maker of art; the adoption of
courtly
erotics in divine poetry; the renewed emphasis on
ritual and holiday
pastimes; the visionary and
apocalyptic traditions and the rise of
"radical"
Puritan sects (Quaker) .
001 FL 517 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Dietz, Elizabeth Enr: 8 Max: NA
ENGL 441 VICTORIAN STUDIES: AUSTEN ONLY Credits 3.00 Fall 02
This course focuses on British fiction, poetry, drama from the Late Victorian,
Edwardian, and Georgian periods, and includes some early Modernist works.
Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle,
William Butler Yeats, Katherine Mansfield, the War Poets, and Virginia Woolf.
The course aims to investigate possible connections among writers usually
considered to be separated by the turn of the century and the first world war.
Also offered as WGST 405.
001 FL 525 - M 02:30PM - 05:30PM Michie, Helena Enr: 19 Max: 0
ENGL 443 THE PRE-RAPHAELITES Credits 3.00 Fall 02
A specialized study of the Pre-Raphaelites and thier circle, including literary
and visual art. We will pay close attention to the development of the aesthetic
movement more generally.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Logan, Thad Enr: 7 Max: NA
ENGL 470 TOPICS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT: WOMEN IN Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Also offered as WGST 453
001 FL 517 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Fultz, Lucille P. Enr: 7 Max: 0
ENGL 472 CHICANO AUTOBIOGRAPHY Credits 3.00 Fall 02
No description
001 FL 528 - W 10:00AM - 01:00PM Aranda, Jose F. Enr: 5 Max: 0
ENGL 493 DIRECTED READING Credits Fall 02
No description
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 6 Max: 0
ENGL 495 SENIOR THESIS Credits Fall 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: 0
ENGL 510 PEDAGOGY Credits 2.00 Fall 02
A two-hour credit course in which graduate students teaching ENGL 101/102 meet
to discuss pedagogical approaches and problems.
001 TBA - TBA Recknagel, Marsha L. Enr: 2 Max: 0
ENGL 516 CHAUCER AND THE SUBVERSIVE OTHER Credits 3.00 Fall 02
A fourteenth-century poet who worked for the king as controller of customs and
works, Chaucer nevertheless embedded in his poems sympathetic treatments of
women, the commons, homosociality, and otherness as expressed through
multicultural indicators expressive of nation and religion. This seminar will
explore exemplary treatments of alterity and difference in Chaucer and the
complex poetic strategies he chose to conceal his sympathies. Refer to course
web site at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/ch.html. Also offered as WGST 305
and MDST 416.
001 TBA - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Chance, Jane Enr: 1 Max: 0
ENGL 534 18TH CENTURY NOVEL: ORIGINS AND DISPLACE Credits 3.00 Fall 02
NO DESCRIPTION
001 FL 528 - F 10:00AM - 01:00PM Joseph, Betty Enr: 10 Max: 0
ENGL 542 VICTORIAN FICTION: ON OR ABOUT 1860 Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Topics vary from year to year. Different topics may be repeated for credit.
Also offered as WGST 484.
001 FL 525 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Michie, Helena Enr: 7 Max: NA
ENGL 563 LATE 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AD Credits 3.00 Fall 02
NO DESCRIPTION
001 FL 528 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Lurie, Susan Enr: 6 Max: 0
ENGL 600 PROFESSIONAL METHODS Credits 3.00 Fall 02
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 - TH 02:00PM - 05:00PM Derrick, Scott S. Enr: 6 Max: 0
ENGL 601 TEACHING PRACTICUM Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Open only to graduate students serving as teaching assistants for courses in
English or the Humanities.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 6 Max: 0
ENGL 603 TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Open only to graduate students teaching Engl 101, 102, and 103.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: 0
ENGL 605 THIRD-YEAR WRITING WORKSHOP Credits 3.00 Fall 02
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 524 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Snow, Edward A. Enr: 3 Max: 0
ENGL 621 DIRECTED READING Credits 3.00 Fall 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: 0
002 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ENGL 701 BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Topics in British and American Literature or Literary Theory.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 1 Max: NA
ENGL 703 RESEARCH IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERAR Credits 3.00 Fall 02
Taken after completion of departmental course requirements for the master's or
doctorate and before admission to candidacy.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 5 Max: NA
ENGL 800 PhD RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits Fall 02
To be taken after a student has been admitted to candidacy.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 17 Max: 0
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