Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2002
English (ENGL)
Rice Course Schedule as of 03/20/2002.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
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NOTE: Course web pages are available for some ENGL courses.
ENGL 102 FRESHMAN SEMINAR Credits 3.00 Spring 02
SECTION 1: In this sesction, students will be expected to read six American
novels of the 20th Century, one each by Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway,
Faulkner, Hurston, and Barth. Also offered as UNIV 117.
Enrollment is limited to 25.
001 FL 517 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Minter, David L. Enr: 8 Max: 0
002 FL 525 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Benson, Michon Anita Enr: 5 Max: NA
Reid, Mandy Aimil
ENGL 103 INTRODUCTION TO ARGUMENT AND ACADEMIC WR Credits 3.00 Spring 02
REGISTRATION: PERMISSION SLIP REQUIRED. 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 HUM 119 - TTH 08:00AM - 09:15AM Driskill, Linda P. Enr: 19 Max: 0
002 FL SYMD - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Tobin, Mary L. Enr: 16 Max: NA
ENGL 211 MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: 1800-PRESENT Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
SECTION 2: A survey of British writing with an emphasis on representing the
natural world.
001 HUM 117 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Browning, Logan Enr: 49 Max: 0
002 SH 303 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Logan, Thad Enr: 44 Max: NA
ENGL 260 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LI Credits 3.00 Spring 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.
001 HZ 212 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Aranda, Jose F. Enr: 34 Max: NA
ENGL 302 FICTION WRITING Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This course will closely examine both student and published work, thereby
identifying those elements of craft adn theme which distinguish successful
literary fiction.
001 GRB 212W - TH 02:00PM - 05:00PM Bauer, Doug Enr: 12 Max: 0
ENGL 303 DRAMATIC WRITING Credits 3.00 Spring 02
An introduction to playwriting, in which the individual language of each
character is emphasized, tri-partite structure is aimed at, and consideration
of a theater's physical facilities is kept in mind.
001 HUM 328 - MW 03:00PM - 04:20PM Mitchell, E. Douglas Enr: 11 Max: 0
ENGL 304 POETRY WRITING Credits 3.00 Spring 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. Permission of the instructor required.
001 FL 528 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Hawkins, Gary Enr: 12 Max: 0
ENGL 305 PERSONAL ESSAY Credits 3.00 Spring 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 HUM 120 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Recknagel, Marsha L. Enr: 13 Max: 0
ENGL 306 EXPOSITORY PROSE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Intensive practice of the skills of developing persuasive arguments in prose.
As background for refining individual writing styles, students read
traditionally acknowledged masters of prose styles in English. Limited
Enrollment.
001 FL 525 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Tobin, Mary L. Enr: 15 Max: 15
ENGL 307 MEDICAL/TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION Credits 3.00 Spring 02
A course in physician-patient communication. Also builds skills in writing and
presentations to help students prepare for medical school. Not open to
freshmen.
001 RH 305 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Volz, Tracy Enr: 21 Max: NA
002 FL SYMD - TTH 02:30PM - 03:45PM Volz, Tracy Enr: 15 Max: NA
ENGL 311 MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: DANTE (IN TRANSLATI Credits 3.00 Spring 02
A close reading of the Divine Comedy, with attention to its theological,
philosophical, scientific, literary, historical, and artistic background. Refer
to course webs ite at http:\\www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance. Different topics may be
repeated for credit.
001 SH 307 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:45PM Chance, Jane Enr: 16 Max: 0
ENGL 318 J.R.R TOLKIEN Credits 3.00 Spring 02
J.R.R. Tolkien, an Oxford professor and eminent medievalist now recognized as
one of the greatest writers of the 20th century for his masterpiece, Lord of
the Rings (written ca. 1930s-early 1950s), wrote out of what he knew about Old
English, Old Norse, and Middle English literature. This course will trace the
tension between the exile (wraecca) and the community; otherness and heroism;
identity and marginalization; and revenge and forgiveness. To locate Lord of
the Rings within a broader historical and literary context, we will read the
Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and Tolkein's works on fantasy and mythmaking,
"Mythopoiea", "Leaf by Niggle," and "On Fairy-Stories". Refer to course web
site at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance. Limited enrollment. Also offered as
MDST 318.
001 RH 123 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Chance, Jane Enr: 28 Max: 0
ENGL 322 SHAKESPEARE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Representative plays, including tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances.
001 SS 106 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Skura, Meredith A. Enr: 41 Max: 0
ENGL 339 BRITISH ROMANTICS: POETRY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The major writings of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
001 HUM 119 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Grob, Alan Enr: 31 Max: 0
ENGL 346 MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE - THE BRITISH Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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 RH 123 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Doody, Terrence A. Enr: 41 Max: 0
ENGL 364 AMERICAN POETRY 1900 - 1960 Credits 3.00 Spring 02
In this course, students will read the poetry of several, if not all, of the
following poets: Frost, Stevens, Moore, Pound, Roethke, Lowell, Dickey, Rich,
Tomer, and Plath. Although the assigned readings will not be long, they will
require careful reading and re-reading.
001 RH 123 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM Minter, David L. Enr: 21 Max: 0
ENGL 367 AMERICAN ECOFEMINISM Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Environmental degradation disproportionately affects women, children, the
nonwhite and the poor-this fact is basic to feminist environmentalism. But
beyond this, how might we make sense of an extremely varied, theorectically
embattled, and internally contentious contemporary political and cultural
movement-one which at the same time underwrites midnnight pagan rituals,
organized civil disobedience actions, and postcolonial assaults on hegemonic
western feminism itself? We begin investigating the evolution of contemporary
environmentalism and the problems of dominant environmental thought. We
consider those alongside American women's history, especially women's work for
peace. We then focus on the post-World War II struggles by women activists,
including writers, to end nuclear proliferation--ecofeminism as we understand
it today emerges from this immediate social context.
We also study
ecofeminism's roots in deep ecology, new age spirituality, women's studies
programs, and the Women in Development (WID) movement. In our final meetings,
we will take, as a case study in the "new environmentalism, " the recently
formed "Mobilization for Global Justice" coalition. A group originally founded
to protest globalization, the IMF and World Bank, after September 11, it now
devotes itself to thinking peace. Throughout the course, we take on what it
might mean to create alternative cultures of peace. Also offered as WGST 367.
001 RH 204 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Comer, Krista Enr: 11 Max: 0
ENGL 377 LITERATURE AND ART Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Vermeer, Hichcock, Hammett, Rilke
001 SH 562 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Snow, Edward A. Enr: 8 Max: 0
ENGL 380 20TH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS: SEX, GENDER Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Reading the ficiton and poetry of British and American women writers of the
first half of the 2oth century, such as Woolf, Stein, Larsen, Mansfield,
Barnes, and Moore, we will examine their understandings of gender adn
sexuality. We will pay particular attention to the effects of modernity upon
their writings. Also offered as WGST 327.
001 GRB 212W - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Lamos, Colleen R. Enr: 7 Max: 0
ENGL 382 FEMINIST FILM THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
An overview of developments in feminist film theory over the last three
decades, with an emphasis on the writing of the last decade. The course
explores how feminist film theory makes use of and contributes to a range of
methodologies, including psychodynamic approaches, historcist approaches, and
critical race and ethnicity theory. We will view lots of relevant films with an
eye to understanding both how the art of cinema shapes socially powerful
meanings and how feminist interpretation, and feminist film making, make a
difference in the kinds of cultural work that cinema performs. Also offered as
WGST 480.
001 SH 303 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Lurie, Susan Enr: 16 Max: NA
ENGL 387 TRANSITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: MEX-AMERIC Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Also offered as WGST 387. Enrollment is limited to 20.
001 FL 528 - M 01:00PM - 04:00PM Aranda, Jose F. Enr: 13 Max: 10
ENGL 388 GENERATION X IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
A survey of literary, political, and musical cultures associated with
Generation X that asks: what, who, and why is Gen X? Are today's students Gen
X, Gen Y, both? Readings drawn from history, literature, sociology, gender and
race studies, and musicology. Short papers, a midterm, a final project.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Comer, Krista Enr: 48 Max: 0
ENGL 390 INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE Credits 3.00 Spring 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 RH 123 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Ramont, Mark Enr: 5 Max: 0
ENGL 392 SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN DRAMA 19 Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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 in whose work will be studied will include
Mamet, Guare, Lucas, Wilson and many others. Also offered as THEA 330.
001 TBA - TBA Huston, Dennis Enr: 0 Max: NA
Ramont, Mark
ENGL 394 STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Introduction of modern English grammer, phonology, and semantics. Also offered
as LING 394.
001 SH 352A - TBA Staff Enr: 6 Max: 0
ENGL 402 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Through the careful reading and criticism of student fiction, we will consider
various ways of rendering fundamental aspects of the art-- characters,
dialogue, tone, the openings and endings of stories, dramatic events, etc.
001 HUM 119 - M 07:00PM - 10:00PM Bauer, Doug Enr: 13 Max: 0
ENGL 404 ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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 517 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Wood, Susan Enr: 6 Max: 0
ENGL 442 VICTORIAN STUDIES: REPRESENTING VICTORI Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Sexuality, broadly defined, was central to Victorian literature, art, drama,
science, and popular culture, despite the fact that in the twentieth century
the Victorian era has been linked persistently with repression and prudery. We
will investigate representations of masculinity and feminity, representations
of erotic experience, and various ways of understanding, constraining, and
evoking desire. Also offered as WGST 443.
001 FL 525 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Logan, Thad Enr: 12 Max: 0
ENGL 468 NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This course examines the literature of the Native American Renaissance, from N.
Scott Momaday's groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, House Made of Dawn
(1968), to the recent works of some emerging writers. Although our focus will
be on the contemporary novel, we will also explore American Indian
autobiography and other works of nonfiction. Our literary analysis will be
supplemented by an awareness of the cultural and political movements important
to American Idian peoples in the late 20th century. To what extent are Native
texts both innovative forms of artistic expression within a literary tradition
and instruments of social change? How might Native American works be read as
"resistance" literature? In exploring such questions, the class will address
issues of sovereignty, land claims, activisim, and identity.
001 FL 525 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Slappey, Lisa Enr: 12 Max: NA
ENGL 490 MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS: POE & HAWTHORE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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001 FL 525 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Derrick, Scott S. Enr: 8 Max: 0
ENGL 493 DIRECTED READING Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 7 Max: 0
ENGL 494 SENIOR SEMINAR Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0
ENGL 495 SENIOR THESIS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 1 Max: 0
ENGL 497 TOPICS IN LITERATURE: THE CITY IN LITER Credits 3.00 Spring 02
Freud call human consciousness The Eternal City-- a wonderful metaphor that
tells us something about modern literature as well, which grows up in the city
and explores the unanticipated effects size and density have on our sense of
ourselves. The novel is the city's genre and the poetry that most reflects
urban experiences is the poetry like Whitman's that is most influenced by
contemporary prose. Paris will be a focal point, but we will look into other
cities, and at Impressionist painting too.
001 SH 303 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Doody, Terrence A. Enr: 16 Max: 0
ENGL 499 STUDIES IN THEORY: QUEER THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
This course analyzes the conceptual issues at stake in queer theory. We will
discuss writings by literary theorists, historians, anthropologists, and
philosophers concerning the impact of queer theory upon their disciplines. The
course will also focus upon the ethics and politics of friendship from
classical to modern times. Also offered as WGST 430.
001 FL 528 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Lamos, Colleen R. Enr: 1 Max: 0
ENGL 510 PEDAGOGY Credits 2.00 Spring 02
A two-hour credit course in which graduate students teaching ENGL 101/102 meet
to discuss pedagogical approaches and problems.
001 FL 524 - M 02:00PM - 04:00PM Recknagel, Marsha L. Enr: 8 Max: 0
ENGL 522 SHAKESPERE AND THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL C Credits 3.00 Spring 02
We will read Shakespeare's plays as part of the historically specific cultural
context in which they were produced and should be read. The particular aspects
of culture selected for study were chosen not only because they are important
in themselves but also because compelling modern critical studies have been
written about them. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1599) will provide a common
text for the class, but in addition each member of the seminar will be
responsible for choosing three or four other Shakespearean plays to report on
for the semester, each week considering these same plays, along with Twelfth
Night in light of that's week's cultural focus.
We will read Shakespeare's
plays as part of the historically specific cultural context in which they were
produced and should be read. The particular aspects of culture selected for
study were chosen not only because they are important in themselves but also
because compelling modern critical studies have been written about them.
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1599) will provide a common text for the class,
but in addition each member of the seminar will be responsible for choosing
three or four other Shakespearean plays to report on for the semester, each
week considering these same plays, along with Twelfth Night in light of that's
week's cultural focus.
001 FL 525 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Skura, Meredith A. Enr: 4 Max: NA
ENGL 539 WOODSWORTH AND KEATS Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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001 HUM 120 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Staff Enr: 4 Max: NA
ENGL 575 FILM & THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 02
50's Hollywood melodrama, Hitchcock, "oddball" film noir
001 SH 460 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Snow, Edward A. Enr: 6 Max: 0
ENGL 599 LITERARY THEORY: ORIGINS OF THE POSTMODE Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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 Morris, Wesley A. Enr: 8 Max: 0
ENGL 602 TEACHING PRACTICUM Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 5 Max: 0
ENGL 604 TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION Credits 3.00 Spring 02
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001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: 0
ENGL 622 DIRECTED READING Credits 3.00 Spring 02
NO DESCRIPTION
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 9 Max: 0
002 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ENGL 702 BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE Credits Spring 02
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001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 3 Max: 0
ENGL 704 RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY Credits Spring 02
Course may be repeated for credit.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 9 Max: 0
ENGL 800 PH.D. RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits Spring 02
To be taken after a student has been admitted to candidacy.
001o TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 15 Max: NA
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