Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2003
English (ENGL)

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ENGL 100   FIRST YEAR SEMINAR IN LITERATURE AND LIT Credits 3.00  Spring 03
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 FL 517 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM      Fultz, Lucille P.         Enr: 2 Max: 15

ENGL 102   MONSTROUS ENCOUNTERS IN LITERATURE AND C Credits 3.00  Spring 03
Monsters, dragons, aliens, E.T., and Frankenstein. Creatures, threatening or
lovable, are present in the myths, fairy tales, legends, and literature of most
cultures. A knight had to slay a dragon to prove his courage; aliens need to be
destroyed in order to save our homes and lives. Monsters have always threatened
social order. Today, monsters are allies who protect us in foreign worlds, or
foreigners who must be monitored in our own world.
	In this course we will
raise questions about how and why different types of people or beings are
characterized as monstrous. We will explore ideas of alienation and exclusion.
What happens when we are monsters? Or we encounter a monstrous aspect of
ourselves? We will explore images of, and encounters with, monstrosity and
alienation through myth, fairy tales, novels, short stories, plays, and popular
Hollywood films.
Enrollment is limited to 25.
001 HANS 207 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM    Berger, Ronit             Enr: 27 Max: 0

ENGL 103   INTRODUCTION TO ARGUMENT AND ACADEMIC WR Credits 3.00  Spring 03
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 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Tobin, Mary L.            Enr: 16 Max: NA
002 FL SYM - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Driskill, Linda P.        Enr: 6 Max: NA
003 FL SYM - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM      Driskill, Linda P.        Enr: 7 Max: NA

ENGL 211   MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: 1800 TO PRESENT   Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Readings in major British authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Required for
English majors.
001 HANS 207 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM    Browning, Logan           Enr: 21 Max: 0
002 SS 106 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM      Doody, Terrence A.        Enr: 34 Max: NA

ENGL 260   INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LI Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* 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 RH 123 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM      Aranda, Jose F.           Enr: 36 Max: NA
002 HUM 328 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM     Coulombe, Lauri           Enr: 33 Max: NA

ENGL 300   PRACTICES OF LITERARY STUDY: READING MET Credits 3.00  Spring 03
This course 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. By pairing words of criticism with works of literature, we'll discover
the ways that literature is always practicing the ideas which theory
articulates. The course aims to make students familiar with these theories, and
to make them aware of their own point of view, which is at work whenever they
read literature or view a film. Texts may include the following (prose, poetry,
or film): Freud, "On Dreams", Hitchcock, "Vertigo", Poe, "The Purloined
Letter," Delillo, "White Noise", Conrad, "Heart of Darkness", Stein, "Tender
Buttons", Melville, "Billy Budd", Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," Woolf, "A
Room of One's Own," Irigaray, "This Sex Which is Not One," Jonson, "To
Penhurst," Friel, "Translations". Assignments include four short (5-6 pp.)
papers, a midterm, and final.
001 RH 121 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Dietz, Elizabeth          Enr: 11 Max: NA

ENGL 302   FICTION WRITING                          Credits 3.00  Spring 03
This course will closely examine both student and published work, thereby
identifying those elements of craft and theme which distinguish successful
literary fiction.
001 SH 309 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Cambor, Kathleen          Enr: 15 Max: 0

ENGL 303   DRAMATIC WRITING                         Credits 3.00  Spring 03
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 - 04:30PM      Mitchell, E. Douglas      Enr: 14 Max: NA

ENGL 304   POETRY WRITING                           Credits 3.00  Spring 03
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 528 - T 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Hawkins, Gary             Enr: 8 Max: NA

ENGL 306   EXPOSITORY PROSE                         Credits 3.00  Spring 03
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: 17 Max: 0

ENGL 320   SHAKESPEARE AND FILM                     Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
In this course will examine both the text of selected Shakespearean plays and
films made from them, focusing on the difference between film and drama.  What
happens to a Shakespearean play when it is converted to film?  How must it be
changed in order to work successfully in this medium?  Plays studied in this
class change some from year to year, but they are likely to be drawn from the
following list:  Richard III, Twelfth Night, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet,
Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet.
Enrollment limited to 40.
001 RH 123 - MWF 02:00PM - 04:00PM      Huston, Dennis            Enr: 44 Max: 0

ENGL 322   SHAKESPEARE                              Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Representative plays, including tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances.
001 RH 123 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Skura, Meredith A.        Enr: 50 Max: 0

ENGL 328   MILTON                                   Credits 3.00  Spring 03
No description
001 FL 525 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Snow, Edward A.           Enr: 6 Max: NA

ENGL 339   BRITISH ROMANTICS: POETRY                Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The major writings of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
001 HUM 119 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM     Grob, Alan                Enr: 30 Max: NA

ENGL 355   MODERN SHORT FICTION FROM BALZAC TO BORG Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Discussion course devoted entirely to the modern American and European short
story with readings from such writers as Balzac, Melville, Flaubert, Mann,
Maupassant, Gogol, Chekhov, Gilman, Kafka, O'Connor, Nabokov, Carver,
Cortazar,
Garcia-Márquez, and Borges.  Emphasis on close reading as we talk about
alienation and the modern period, the "ethics" of telling, and about death,
violence, and sexuality.   Selected essays from Freud, Benjamin,
Kermode, and
Ortega y Gasset will complement our readings in fiction. Also offered as FREN
355.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:45PM     Harter, Deborah A.        Enr: 59 Max: NA

ENGL 362   SURVEY OF AMERICAN FICTION 1910-1940     Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hurston, Dos Passos and their
contemporaries.
001 HUM 117 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM     Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 39 Max: 0

ENGL 364   AMERICAN POETRY 1900 - 1960              Credits 3.00  Spring 03
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 HUM 119 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM     Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 30 Max: 0

ENGL 370   SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE    Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course traces, through various genres and themes, African American
literary history from the late eighteenth century to the present. The course
provides an overview of representations of African American identities. We will
ask how the construction of identity shapes ideas about what it means to be
African American. Texts include, among others, slave narratives, fiction,
poetry, drama, and film. Attention is given to theories and critiques of
African American literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the
present. Also offered as WGST 370.
001 HUM 119 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM     Fultz, Lucille P.         Enr: 27 Max: NA

ENGL 383   FEMINIST ISSUES: THIRD WAVE FEMINIST CUL Credits 3.00  Spring 03
This course explores the cultural and political productions of a diverse group
of young "third wave" women. We read novels and essays, listen to music and
stand up comedy, go online for magazines like bust and bitch and organizations
like the Third Wave Foundation. Our focus throughout is to understand the
differences between Boomer women's lives and those of Generation X and Y, so we
can approach constructively the current feminist generation gap.  We also focus
on women in sports, and the role of consumer culture in producing youth values.
Also offered as WGST 337.
001 ML 251 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM      Comer, Krista             Enr: 26 Max: NA

ENGL 387   CULTURAL STUDIES: RACE, GENDER, AND THE  Credits 3.00  Spring 03
How are categories of identity constituted through culture? How does capital
investment affect the forms of cultural expression? How does the global flow of
bodies, commodities, and information complicate our interpretation of
individual texts? This course will examine the uses of audiovisual media in the
production and contestation of racial and gender identities in both mainstream
and oppositional forms of culture, in the U.S. and abroad. We will consider
theories of representation, spectatorship, and subjectivity, in relation to
questions about the politics and economics of the mass media, avant-garde and
experimental art forms, community-based activist video, and independent film
production. Examples will be drawn from Latin American grassroots video (such
as Chiapas Media Project), queer safer sex videos (from Gay Men's Health
Crisis), antiracist film and television (from the black British film collective
Sankofa and Paper Tiger Television), feminist film distribution networks (Big
Miss Movieola and Women Make Movies), and various Hollywood productions. Also
offered as WGST 387 and HART 387.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Ostherr, Kirsten          Enr: 7 Max: 7

ENGL 390   INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE                  Credits 3.00  Spring 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 SS 106 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM      Ramont, Mark              Enr: 7 Max: NA

ENGL 394   STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE        Credits 3.00  Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Introduction of modern English grammer, phonology, and semantics. Also offered
as LING 394.
001 BROW 145 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM    Shibatani, Masayoshi      Enr: 8 Max: NA

ENGL 397   TOPICS IN LITERATURE: THE CULTURE OF LOV Credits 3.00  Spring 03
This course explores how the poetry and art of England from Elizabeth's
accession in 1558 to the restoration of Charles II created a culture of love,
and how that culture of love in turn shaped the language and thought of those
living in it. Why was the "self" during this period so persistently thought,
written, and lived in terms of its desires, affections, and attachments? How is
the lover defined through the objects of his or her affection? Examining a wide
range of poetry, prose, and visual artifacts, we will consider the impact of
this love culture on issues of gender, spectatorship, interiority and the gaze;
examine popular forms of bodily depiction in love poetry such as anatomies and
blazons; study the interrelationship of magic and eros; and examine the
problematic distinction between arts depicting diving and profane love. This
course meets the pre-1800 requirement for the English major. Also offered as
WGST 397.
001 FL 525 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM      Dietz, Elizabeth          Enr: 17 Max: NA

ENGL 402   ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION       Credits 3.00  Spring 03
Through the careful reading and critique of student fiction, as well as the
fiction of established authors, this course will consider various ways of
rendering fundamental aspects of the art-characters, dialogue, plot, shape, and
the openings and endings of the stories.
001 FL 528 - TH 02:00PM - 05:00PM       Cambor, Kathleen          Enr: 9 Max: 0

ENGL 404   ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY        Credits 3.00  Spring 03
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 528 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Wood, Susan               Enr: 9 Max: 0

ENGL 441   VICTORIAN STUDIES: AROUND 1900           Credits 3.00  Spring 03
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 SH 207A - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM     Logan, Thad               Enr: 21 Max: NA

ENGL 458   DISEASE AND DIFFERENCE: THE BODY IN VISU Credits 3.00  Spring 03
This couse examines the history of visual representations of disease in
photography, cinema, and digital media. We will consider how nationally,
racially, and sexually marked bodies constitute an iconography of social and
organic contamination. Topics include early cinema, colonialism, photography,
eugenics, immigration, science fiction, and internet "viruses". Also offered as
HART 486 and WGST 448.
001 SH 562 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM      Ostherr, Kirsten          Enr: 2 Max: NA

ENGL 462   HISTORY, MEMORY, AND IDENTITY IN LATER 2 Credits 3.00  Spring 03
Also offered as WGST 462.
001 FL 524 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM      Lurie, Susan              Enr: 6 Max: 0

ENGL 493   DIRECTED READING                         Credits   Spring 03
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 12 Max: NA

ENGL 494   SENIOR SEMINAR                           Credits 3.00  Spring 03
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 1 Max: 0

ENGL 495   SENIOR THESIS                            Credits   Spring 03
No description.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 3 Max: NA

ENGL 510   PEDAGOGY                                 Credits 2.00  Spring 03
A two-hour credit course in which graduate students teaching ENGL 101/102 meet
to discuss pedagogical approaches and problems.
001 FL 528 - M 01:00PM - 02:00PM        Comer, Krista             Enr: 2 Max: NA

ENGL 523   ELIZABETHAN & JACOBEAN DRAMA             Credits 3.00  Spring 03
Early Modern (Mostly Non-Shakespearean) Drama
001 TBA - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Skura, Meredith A.        Enr: 8 Max: NA

ENGL 528   MILTON                                   Credits 3.00  Spring 03
An enriched version of English 328 for graduate students.
001 FL 524 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM        Snow, Edward A.           Enr: 3 Max: 0

ENGL 572   CHICANO STUDIES: NARRATIVE THEORY AND CH Credits 3.00  Spring 03
NO DESCRIPTION
001 FL 414 - T 10:00AM - 01:00PM        Aranda, Jose F.           Enr: 7 Max: 0

ENGL 588   SLAVERY AND THE SENTIMENTAL NOVEL        Credits 3.00  Spring 03
NO DESCRIPTION
001 FL 517 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM        Levander, Caroline        Enr: 7 Max: NA

ENGL 602   TEACHING PRACTICUM                       Credits 3.00  Spring 03
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 7 Max: 0

ENGL 604   TEACHING OF LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION   Credits 3.00  Spring 03
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 3 Max: 0

ENGL 622   DIRECTED READING                         Credits 3.00  Spring 03
NO DESCRIPTION
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 4 Max: 0

ENGL 701   BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE          Credits 3.00  Spring 03
Topics in British and American Literature or Literary Theory.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: 0

ENGL 702   BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE          Credits   Spring 03
No description
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 0

ENGL 704   RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY            Credits   Spring 03
Course may be repeated for credit.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 7 Max: 0

ENGL 800   PhD RESEARCH AND THESIS                  Credits   Spring 03
To be taken after a student has been admitted to candidacy.
001 TBA - TBA                           Staff                     Enr: 15 Max: NA