Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2003
English (ENGL)

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ENGL 100   FRESHMAN ENGLISH SEMINAR                 Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Section 001:Freshman English Seminar: Beyond Homeland: Travel and... Beyond
Homeland: Travel and 'Literatures in English': This course will examine
fictional accounts of overseas travel. How does literature shape our
understanding of "home"? How do literary texts embody different ways of
thinking about distant lands? We will address such questions as we read
literary texts featuring travel from England to Africa and Eastern Europe, from
North America to Asia, and from the Caribbean to England. Class discussions
will especially focus on how literature evokes and addresses issues of
nationalism, imperialism, and globalization. The reading for this course
includes novels, short stories, and other narratives by authors from diverse
ethnic and national backgrounds.
Section 002: Freshman English Seminar:
Environmental Literatures, Environmental Legislations Environmental
Literatures, Environmental Legislations: This course pairs
readings of U.S.
policies that impact the environment with literatures that anticipate or
respond to them. The policies include selections from declarations, treaties,
acts, and laws, and will range from those that incorporate eighteenth-century
Enlightenment ideals of nature, to nineteenth-century tracts that reorganize
American Indian land grants and inaugurate wilderness preservation, to
twentieth-century texts that integrate land ethics and environmental justice.
Our primary focus, however, will be on literature. The literatures include
personal narratives, poetry, novels, and short stories demonstrating the range
of genres that lend insight to the complexity of environmental issues. In some
cases we will consider the trail of literature that led to a certain policy,
and in other cases we will see how certain writings respond to a policy. In all
cases, we will pay close attention to intertextuality between policy and
literature.
001 HUM 328 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Celikkol, Ayse            Enr: 12 Max: 25
002 SH 207B - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Ybarra, Priscilla Solis   Enr: 8 Max: 25

ENGL 103   INTRODUCTION TO ARGUMENT AND ACADEMIC WR Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Prepares students for writing in academic disciplines. Topics: identifying
argument patterns, using on-line databases, practicing heuristic techniques,
revising and editing papers with the conventions of formal written English, and
using MLA and APA documentation systems. Enrollment is limited to 17.
Prereq-permission of instructor.
001 FL SYM - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM      Tobin, Mary L.            Enr: 18 Max: 17
002 FL SYM - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Tobin, Mary L.            Enr: 23 Max: 17
003 HUM 119 - TTH 08:00AM - 09:15AM     Driskill, Linda P.        Enr: 19 Max: 17

ENGL 200   SEMINAR IN LITERATURE AND LITERARY ANALY Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Literature and Literary Analysis: 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.
001 FL 517 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM      Hasell, Duncan            Enr: 18 Max: NA
002 RH 304 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Hassell, Duncan           Enr: 9 Max: NA

ENGL 201   INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION       Credits 3.00  Fall 03
What Writers Read. There are writers called ''writers' writers''.  These are
writers whose works are consistently respected, recommended, and, in fact,
considered canonical.
We will read work by Raymond Carver, Donald Barthelme,
Lorrie Moore, Tobias
Wolfe, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway, Amy Hempl, Mary
Robison, and Rick
Moody.  Also on the reading list will be writers writing
about their craft.
The class will be run like a workshop. You will do writing
exercises, sort of
warm-up stretches for the imagination. The course is
designed to give
students who want to become writers the opportunity to learn
the vocabulary,
lore, and tribal secrets of the writing community.
001 HUM 119 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Recknagel, Marsha L.      Enr: 25 Max: NA

ENGL 210   MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: CHAUCER TO 1800   Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Readings in major British authors of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the
18th century.
001 RH 123 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Browning, Logan           Enr: 32 Max: NA
002 RH 123 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Logan, Thad               Enr: 41 Max: NA

ENGL 215   WORDS IN ENGLISH: STRUCTURE, HISTORY, US Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Introduction to the study of English words, focusing on their internal
structure and the nature and history of the English vocabulary.  Aims are to
enhance knowledge of the rich lexical resources of the language, and to
facilitate the acquisition of scientific, technical, and humanistic vocabulary.
No previous linguistics background required. Also offered as LING 215.
001 GRB 212W - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM    Kemmer, Suzanne E.        Enr: 10 Max: NA

ENGL 260   INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LI Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Introduction to the Study of American Literature: The
Novelizing of America:
We will examine the work of American novelists as self-conscious renderings of
the nation that could not find reasonable expression in genres like poetry and
autobiography. The expansive nature of
the novel lent itself early on to
capture, represent, and reify the progressive discourses of history that turned
New England Puritan theocracy into a secularized form of government, known as
democracy. On the other
hand, the novel has also been a form conducive to
critiques of society and the nation. Early in the nineteenth century, clergy,
politicians, and cultural elites viewed the novel as a subversive form of
entertainment that
encouraged disruptive individualism. For women and/or
people of color, the novel became the genre of choice when they allegorized
their stories of oppression in hopes of changing the legal and material culture
of their existence and those they represented. These matters, and others, will
be taken up during the course.
001 RH 123 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM      Aranda, Jose F.           Enr: 40 Max: NA
002 HUM 117 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM     Comer, Krista             Enr: 34 Max: NA

ENGL 275   INTRODUCTION TO FILM                     Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Introduction to Film: Film criticism. This writing-intensive course will teach
students to view films analytically and write film criticism. Each week,
students will view a film, read criticism of that film, and write their own
review of the film. Screenings will be taken from important movements in world
cinema history. Special emphasis on influential relationships between criticism
and film styles. Examples may include: Eisentein and Russian formalism; Bianco
e Nero and Italtian Neorealism; Cahiers du Cinema and the French New Wave; Film
Culture and American experimented film. Also offered as HART 285.
001 HUM 227 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Ostherr, Kirsten          Enr: 10 Max: 15

ENGL 300   PRACTICES OF LITERARY STUDY: READING MET Credits 3.00  Fall 03
"Practices of Literary Study: Reading Methods" is less a methodical survey of
contemporary criticism than it is a series of exercises, individual and
collective, explicating some of the key concepts routinely surfacing in
critical writing today.  Students read some short texts in the development of
contemporary theory and discuss them at length, revealing the ways that
literature is always practicing the ideas which theory articulates.
001 HUM 227 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Derrick, Scott S.         Enr: 4 Max: NA

ENGL 301   CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION                Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Creative Writing: Fiction. A course in the fundamentals of fiction writing,
with an emphasis on literary Realism and the short story. The class will
include a mixture of reading and writing assignments, all chosen to acquaint
students with the basic principles of narrative form, design and effect from a
maker's point-of-view. The general goal is that each student will have produced
(and revised) two short stories possessing imaginative ingenuity, structural
integrity, and literary merit by the end of the semester.
001 FL 528 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Cronin, Justin            Enr: 17 Max: NA

ENGL 304   CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY                 Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Creative Writing: Poetry. 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        Wood, Susan               Enr: 11 Max: NA

ENGL 305   PERSONAL ESSAY                           Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Writing and reading personal essay and autobiography.
001 FL 525 - MW 03:00PM - 04:30PM       Recknagel, Marsha L.      Enr: 14 Max: NA

ENGL 309   MYTHOLOGIES                              Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* 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, and modern (Borges, Philip Glass). Also
listed as MDST 368 and WGST 368.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Chance, Jane              Enr: 41 Max: NA

ENGL 310   DANTE IN TRANSLATION                     Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Dante in Translation: A close reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, with attention
to the meaning of words, images, symbols, figures, structures, the significance
of a canto within the respective cosmic hierarchy, the overall meaning of a
book, and with reference to the political and religious controversies of the
time in Florence, Italy, and medieval Europe and Africa. Also listed as MDST
310.
001 HUM 119 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:45PM     Chance, Jane              Enr: 18 Max: NA

ENGL 321   SHAKESPEARE                              Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Shakespeare: Making History.  From his early work with Henry VI to a late play,
All is True (Henry VIII), Shakespeare's theater played a significant role in
shaping English history. Characters like the evil Richard III, who puts the
young princes to death, or the brilliant Henry V, who triumphs at the battle of
Agincourt and briefly unites England as a nation, served to flesh out what
Stephen Greenblatt has called the "Theater of the Nation," in which
Shakespeare's dramas stage, revise, and reconstruct England's historical
identity.  Exploring the very flexible nature of "history" in these plays,
we'll examine both their early modern cultural contexts and 20th century film
versions such as Branagh's Henry V, McKellan's Richard III, and Welles' Chimes
at Midnight.  In what ways is history, according to these plays, always "in the
making?"
001 SH 303 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Dietz, Elizabeth          Enr: 29 Max: NA

ENGL 324   OLD ENGLISH                              Credits 3.00  Fall 03
This course is a combination of old English grammar and readings in old
English. Also offered as MDST 311 and LING 312.
001 RH 304 - MW 03:00PM - 04:15PM       Mitchell, E. Douglas      Enr: 7 Max: NA

ENGL 341   SURVEY OF VICTORIAN LITERATURE: VICTORIA Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Survey of Victorian Literature, Victorian Panorama: This course explores the
riches of Victorian writing and culture through the reading of poems and
non-fictional prose (travel writing, diaries, and articles in the popular
press, as well as essays on contemporary life, art, nature, and politics).
Writers studied include, but are not limited to, Arnold, Tennyson, Ruskin,
Swinburne, Pater, and Wilde.
001 HUM 328 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM     Logan, Thad               Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 342   SURVEY OF VICTORIAN FICTION              Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Survey of Victorian Fiction: the Nineteenth Century Novel: A survey of the many
genres of the nineteenth-century novel, this course will try to come to terms
with some of the insistent questions posed by and through the fiction of the
period. We will read examples of gothic, industrial, realist, romance, and
sensation novels focusing in many cases on their constructions of space,
history, the body, domesticity, and public life. This semester we will be
especially alert to tensions between privacy and publicity, to the ability of
language to represent those tensions in the public forum of the novel, and to
the workings of competing marriage, work, and detective plots. Also offered as
WGST 372.
001 FL 525 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Michie, Helena            Enr: 15 Max: NA

ENGL 361   AMERICAN LITERATURE 1860-1920            Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of the range of American literature during the period, beginning
with
detailed attention to Whitman and Dickinson and ending with major modernists
such as Hemingway or Eliot, and important writers of the Harlem
Renaissance
such as Hughes, Cullen, and Larsen. This course will use eachliterary text as a
staging ground to explore particular theoretical or political questions
(Whitmans dialectical handling of the paradox of democratic individualism,
say) as well as more general problems of cultural interpretation. Not
surprisingly, the course will make use of supplementary readings in critical
theory toward this end (Shoshana Felmans conjuring of
psychoanalysis and
feminism in her reading of James _The Turn of the Screw, for example). Some
facility and/or familiarity with literary theory is therefore recommended but
not required. Requirements will be a take-home
mid-term and final examination,
and probably a 10-12 page paper as well. Diligent attendance and preparation
will be expected.
001 FL 412 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Wolfe, Cary               Enr: 10 Max: NA

ENGL 362   SURVEY OF AMERICAN FICTION 1910-1940     Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Survey of American Fiction 1910-1940: The first half of the twentieth century
was one of great social turmoil and intense artistic experimentation.  We will
read novels and stories by Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Toomer, Scott
Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Zora Hurston, and Djuna Barnes to explore how
these writers both represented their era and greatly influenced literary
creativity in the second half of the century.  Three essays (7-10 pages each)
and several short (1 page or less) assignments will be required.
001 HUM 117 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM     Morris, Wesley A.         Enr: 60 Max: NA

ENGL 364   AMERICAN POETRY 1900 - 1960              Credits 3.00  Fall 03
This course will focus on the range of American poetry written during the first
two-thirds of the period (roughly, through 1940). Emphasis will fall on major
modernists such as Eliot and Stevens, and writers covered will
include Frost,
Williams, Pound, Moore, Riding (Jackson), Crane, Stein, Hughes, Cullen, and
perhaps others.  We will read the poems alongside a dossier of supplementary,
contextualizing materials: letters, essays, and
manifestos by the poets
themselves, as well as contemporary theoretical and critical writings that help
to clarify the philosophical, cultural, and political interests of the poems'
formal innovations. Requirements will consist of two take-home exams (a
mid-term and final), and probably a 10-12 page paper of research-based
interpretation. Diligent attendance and preparation will be expected.
001 FL 414 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Wolfe, Cary               Enr: 3 Max: NA

ENGL 366   TOPICS IN AMERICAN LIT: THE ASIAN AMERIC Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Topics in American Literature: The Asian American Novel: This course surveys
the thematics and historical contexts of Asian American literary traditions. We
read a range of texts, from the late nineteenth century to the present,
emphasizing the novel but also including some short fiction. We start in Gold
Rush California, move to early Chinese America, then to mid-century Chinatown,
and World War II and Japanese internment. The largest part of the course deals
in Civil Rights inspired literatures, and this backdrop also informs the
course's concluding look at recent texts that work from new and different
political and literary paradigms.  Also offered as ASIA 366.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Comer, Krista             Enr: 18 Max: NA

ENGL 368   LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT           Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Literature and the Environment: How does literature express or shape
environmental values?  In this class we will read American fiction and
nonfiction exploring the relationship between human and nonhuman nature.  Texts
include classics by Thoreau, Leopold, and Abbey as well as recent nature
writing and contemporary novels.  We will discuss literary ideas of nature and
wilderness, ecological awareness, environmental activism, sense of place, and
urban nature.  Students from all disciplines are encouraged to bring issues
from their own majors to our green readings.  Successful completion of this
course fulfills the Humanities requirement for environmental studies majors.
001 HUM 119 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM     Slappey, Lisa             Enr: 18 Max: NA

ENGL 377   LITERATURE AND ART                       Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Vermeer, Hitchcock, Hammett, Rilke.
001 SH 562 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Snow, Edward A.           Enr: 5 Max: 15

ENGL 380   20TH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS: AMERICAN AND Credits 3.00  Fall 03
20th Century American and British Women Writers: Lesbian Literature: Many of
the greatest women writers, such as Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, H.D., and
Adrienne Rich, are equally famous for their love of other women.  This course
surveys lesbian literature of Britain and America in the 20th century,
including a few works written by men about lesbians.  Beginning with the
emergence of "sapphism" around 1900, continuing through the literature of
"sexual inversion" to the "lesbian feminism" of the 1970's and the
"postlesbianism" of the 1990s, we will examine the different ways that female
homoeroticism has been conceived and represented. Also offered as WGST 327.
001 FL 524 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 4 Max: NA

ENGL 387   CULTURAL STUDIES                         Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Topic: Freaks and U.S. Culture. This course analyzes the enduring significance
of freaks to US political, literary, and social cultures from the nation's
inception through the twentieth century.  In order to consider the cultural
work accomplished by the popular representations of the abnormal and bizarre,
we will read a wide range of visual and literary texts, ranging from Puritan
accounts of 'monstrous births', to PT Barnum's exotic people exhibits.
001 GRB 211W - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM    Levander, Caroline        Enr: 13 Max: 35

ENGL 390   INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE                  Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* 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 106 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM      Ramont, Mark              Enr: 8 Max: NA

ENGL 394   STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE        Credits 3.00  Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Introduction of modern English grammer, phonology, and semantics. Also offered
as LING 394.
001 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM         Staff                     Enr: 4 Max: NA

ENGL 401   ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION       Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction. A follow-up to English 301, English 401
will be conducted for the most part as a workshop, although the course will
also include some assigned writing exercises and weekly reading of published
short stories to deepen students' understanding of narrative technique.
Students who are taking the course a second time will also be allowed to work
in longer forms, such as the novel or novella. Regardless of their experience
level, all students will be encouraged to think of their work in terms of a
semester-long project to broaden their range as literary artists. Some course
time will also be given to discussion of the role of research in literary
writing, the business of publishing, and the effects of the literary
marketplace on artistic production
Pre-req- Permission of the instructor.
001 FL 525 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM       Cronin, Justin            Enr: 11 Max: NA

ENGL 471   CHICANO/A STUDIES: TRANSITIONS AND TRANS Credits 3.00  Fall 03
This course will juxtapose literature written by Mexican Americans from
1848-1950 with literature written by Mexican nationals during the same period
of enormous changes.  The goal here is twofold:  one, to assess the common
ground between these two bodies of literature, and two, to ask what role does
translation play in our ability to interpret these texts.  The first goal will
invariably lead the class to consider the historical, cultural, and linguistic
similarities between the two bodies of literature.  The second goal will allow
the class to measure both the effect of translating Mexican American culture
into literature for an English-reading. U. S. audience, and translating Mexican
literature into English for a Latin Americanist readership.  The literature
studied in this course will be grouped under categories such as colonialism,
war, immigration, the border, socialism versus capitalism, etc.
001 FL 525 - W 09:00AM - 12:00PM        Aranda, Jose F.           Enr: 10 Max: NA

ENGL 475   MODERN DRAMA ON FILM AND IN PERMFORMANCE Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Modern Drama on Film and in Performance: This course will focus on drama not
only as text but also as performance.  So we will read modern plays, from
Enrico IV to Angels in America,  and discuss them as they are often discussed
in English courses, concentrating on theme, character, world, imagery,
language, and dramatic action. But in addition we will also examine the "texts"
as scripts, as working papers for actors and directors: in short, as source
materials for performance.  To this end we will also view movie versions of
many of these plays, and students will act a scene in class in an effort to
understand more fully the demands and possibilities of theatrical performance.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 ML 251 - MWF 02:00PM - 04:00PM      Huston, Dennis            Enr: 28 Max: 30

ENGL 490   MAJOR BRITISH AUTHORS                    Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Section 1: Dickens and the Birth of the Industrial Strength Author: This
seminar, open to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, tracks the
development of the 19th century concept of authorship through the early works
of Charles Dickens:  Sketches by Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and
Nicholas Nickleby.  We will also read Dickens's letters and biographical
statements, study the texts in their first printings, and consider the ways in
which subsequent adaptations--especially films--perpetuate the myths of
authorship Dickens and his contemporaries fashioned for an age of steam
printing, international commerce, growing literacy, and middle-class
leisure.
Section 2: Interpreting Shakespeare: This seminar is conceived as an
anti-survey course in Shakespeare.  We will immerse ourselves in only three
plays (Othello, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra) and pay close, loving
attention to all those internal aspects - language, psychology, motivation,
performance - that tend to get skimmed over in the rush to achieve coverage.  A
course, then, as much about reading per se, as about a particular playwright
named Shakespeare.
001 FL 412 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Patten, Robert L.         Enr: 4 Max: NA
002 FL 528 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Snow, Edward A.           Enr: 9 Max: NA

ENGL 493   DIRECTED READING                         Credits   Fall 03
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 2 Max: NA

ENGL 494   SENIOR SEMINAR                           Credits 3.00  Fall 03
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 495   SENIOR THESIS                            Credits   Fall 03
No description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 1 Max: NA

ENGL 499   STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY               Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Queer Theory: What is queer theory and why is it important?  This course aims
to answer these questions by examining key issues in queer theory and situating
them in the context of major literary and cultural theories of the past quarter
century.  As such, the course will also serve as an introduction to
psychoanalytic theory, poststructuralism, deconstruction, postcolonial theory,
film studies, and recent work on the relation between science and literature.
Also offered as WGST 427.
001 FL 528 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 3 Max: NA

ENGL 511   SEMINAR: PEDAGOGY                        Credits 3.00  Fall 03
NO DESCRIPTION
001 TBA - TBA                           Comer, Krista             Enr: 1 Max: NA

ENGL 542   VICTORIAN TOPICS: VICTORIAN AND MODERN S Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Victorian and Modern Sexualities: This course will focus on emerging ideas
about sex and sexuality in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century England and
the U.S.  We will be attentive throughout the course to distinctions and also
to parallels between sexual practices and identities, calling into question,
where useful, these fundamental terms. The course will begin with a discussion
of normativity as a concept and of conjugal marriage as a historically specific
institution that emerges in the late eighteenth century. We will then move on
to theoretical and practical challenges to conjugal marriage and to their
embodiments in particular acts, identities, political movements, and
institutions.
001 FL 517 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Michie, Helena            Enr: 6 Max: NA

ENGL 581   CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN U.S. CULTURAL STU Credits 3.00  Fall 03
This course will begin with a brief overview of the history of, and debates
within, US Cultural Studies: its origins and developments, its relation to
literary studies and literary theory, its prominence in American Studies, its
contributions to debates about the relation between culture and dominant
ideology and about the relation between culture and agency. We will go on to
study the cultures generated by prominent national events as well as cultures
that produce and challenge meanings for national subjectivity in the context of
everyday life. We will give attention to how various technologies contribute to
the shaping of significance; how, for example,do photography, print materials,
tv, and film differently produce and convey cultural knowledge? There will also
be a section of the course specifically on the intersection of cultural studies
with race and ethnicity studies.
001 TBA - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Lurie, Susan              Enr: 3 Max: NA

ENGL 585   POSTCOLONIALISM AND AFTER                Credits 3.00  Fall 03
In recent years postcolonial theory has been pressured to rethink the
importance of prior knowledge categories that were crucial for establishing its
political, ethical and rhetorical power. Now, intellectual debates around
globalization and cosmopolitanism have provided a new charge for the literary
and cultural critiques of postcolonialism. In this scenario, what is the place
of older imaginary maps and epistemological boundaries drawn by oppositions
such as the West/East, First/Third, dominant/minority, elite/subaltern, and
North/South? Given that the era of the British Empire and the era of political
independence of former colonies are being replaced by what Michael Hardt and
Antonio Negri have described as the US-driven "New Empire," what concepts,
metaphors and problems derived from the previous historical formation actually
translate into the new one? We will read classic works by Edward Said, Homi
Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak as well as recent work on subaltern studies,
transnational feminisms, psychoanalysis, cosmopolitanism, and the political
economy of globalization. We will read the theoretical works in terms of and
against the grain of novels: White Teeth, Sozaboy and Lucy as well as films:
Quartier Mozart and Monsoon Wedding.
001 FL 524 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Joseph, Betty             Enr: 11 Max: NA

ENGL 591   STUDIES IN LIT. AND OTHER DISCIP: VIS. C Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Visual Cultures, 1550-1800. This course traces the emerging traditions and
technologies of vision (in painting, masque, architecture and gardening, the
anatomy, optics, telescopes and microscopes) in their relation to other
disciplines: literature, philosophy, science.  Throughout, we will pay
particular attention to the ways culture is formed or informed by ways of
seeing, and consider the early modern's contribution to current arguments and
theories about the regime of the visual.
001 FL 525 - F 10:00AM - 01:00PM        Dietz, Elizabeth          Enr: 6 Max: NA

ENGL 599   LITERARY THEORY: FAULKNER AND CONTEMPORA Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Faulkner and Contemporary Theory: We will read closely and discuss fully four
or five of Faulkner's major novels in the context of a broad range of
twentieth-century interpretive strategies. The class will consider issues of
narrative form, social context, gender, race, and modern and postmodern
aesthetics.   One term paper (20+ pages) and several short (1 page) assignments
will be required.
001 SH 562 - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM       Morris, Wesley A.         Enr: 4 Max: NA

ENGL 600   PROFESSIONAL METHODOLOGY                 Credits 3.00  Fall 03
NO DESCRIPTION
001 FL 524 - T 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Derrick, Scott S.         Enr: 6 Max: NA

ENGL 601   TEACHING PRACTICUM                       Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Open only to graduate students serving as teaching assistants for courses in
English or the Humanities.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 5 Max: NA

ENGL 603   TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION   Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Open only to graduate students teaching Engl 101, 102, and 103.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 2 Max: NA

ENGL 605   THIRD-YEAR WRITING WORKSHOP              Credits 3.00  Fall 03
NO DESCRIPTION
001 FL 525 - T 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Levander, Caroline        Enr: 7 Max: NA

ENGL 621   DIRECTED READING                         Credits 3.00  Fall 03
No description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 1 Max: NA

ENGL 703   RESEARCH IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERAR Credits 3.00  Fall 03
Taken after completion of departmental course requirements for the master's or
doctorate and before admission to candidacy.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 9 Max: NA

ENGL 800   PhD RESEARCH AND THESIS                  Credits   Fall 03
To be taken after a student has been admitted to candidacy.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 17 Max: NA