Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
English (ENGL)

NOTE: Course web pages are available for some ENGL courses.

ENGL 102   FRESHMAN SEMINAR                         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 104   BASIC COMPOSITION                        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
See Engl 103.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA                                 Tobin, Mary L.            Enr: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 201   INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING                Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 Recknagel, Marsha L.      Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 211   MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS: 1800-PRESENT      Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Readings in major British authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Required of English majors.
001 TBA                                 Logan, Jill Thad          Enr: 0 Max: 25
002 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM         TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: 30

ENGL 260   INTRO STUDY OF AMERICAN LIT              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 Aranda, Jose F.           Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 270   NOT THE OTHER: CONT. THEMES IN ASIAN AME Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This course is a thematic treatment of contemporary issues raised in Asian
American fiction and film.  Themes such as self-discovery and cultural identity
formation focus on variations of the concept of the "other".  Lectures,
readings and class discussion will explore the areas of genderized, exoticized
and eroticized roles--"asianness" in the distant and recent past in the context
of a "western" cultural identity being adopted, assimilated, reinvented and/or
rejected.  Discussion of the works also will encompass how the mediums of
fiction and film construe cultural modernity, for those in the category of
"asian pacific" descent.
001 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 302   FICTION WRITING                          Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA - T 01:00PM - 04:00PM           Apple, Max I.             Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 304   POETRY WRITING                           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Extensive reading in modern poetry as well as regular practice in the writing
of various forms will be required.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Wood, Susan               Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 306   EXPOSITORY WRITING                       Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A course in the composition of personal essays.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM         Tobin, Mary L.            Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 307   LITERATURE & THE ENVIRONMENT             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
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 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 308   ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION                Credits 1.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Rhetorical principles of analyzing situations and audience needs, organizing
information, and choosing communication strategies.  Students select units on
graphics, oral presentation, document design, ethics, technical style, and
editing.  Some assignments linked to topics from student's engineering courses.
 Must be concurrently enrolled in one or more engineering courses.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 309   INTERACTIONS OF STYLE AND AUDIENCE       Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Invites students to discuss and write critically about popular writing in the
U.S.  Includes ads, newspaper stories, feature articles, scripts, and best
selling fiction and nonfiction.  How these construct the identities of large
audiences and invite personal identification with certain themes and styles.
Compares student prose to linguistic forms of U.S. culture.
001 TBA                                 Driskill, Linda P.        Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 310   BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION: Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 317   MEDIEVAL WOMEN                           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of the origins and development of the Arthurian legend from the
earliest chronicles in the 6th century and later medieval French, Welsh, Irish,
and English Arthurian poems to modern adaptations of Arthurian material,
including films.
Also offered as WGST 300
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 318   TOLKIEN                                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, medieval scholar, fairy-tale teller,
epic-writer.  Emphasis will fall in analysis of his works within a literary,
philosophical, and historical context.  Medieval works which shaped Tolkien's
vision will also be read (Beowulf, Kalevala, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight).
001 TBA                                 Chance, Jane              Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 319   16TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE          Credits 1.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Works by More, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare's poems.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 320   INTRO TO MEDIEVAL CULTURE                Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Interdisciplinary course providing insights into the literature, art,
philosophy, history, music, science, and cuisine of the Middle Ages, with guest
lectures by specialists in various fields, slide lectures, and field trips.
001 TBA                                 Huston, Dennis            Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 322   APPROACHES TO MOD. DRAMA                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Representative plays, including tragedies, comedies, histories, and romances.
001 TBA                                 Doughtie, Edward O.       Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 331   FICTION WRITING                          Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 333   15th CENT BRITISH FICTION                Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 Joseph, Betty             Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 336   THE GOTHIC AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATIONAL Credits 3.00  Spring 00
This course asks why U.S. writing from the late eighteenth-century novels of
Charles Brockden Brown to the contemporary fiction of Toni Morrison  and
Stephen King has consistently turned to the gothic form to define a national
literary identity.  We will assess how the ghostly visions of the undead and
the "uncanny" create a distinctly "American" literature for "high brow" and
"low brow" readers/writers alike.  More particularly, we will consider how U.S.
writers use these gothic devices to script the diverse racial identies of the
populace into a U.S. narrative and how the gothic represents the writers' fears
that such racial identities will disrupt the cohesiveness of a distinct
national literature.  We will read work by Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen
Poe, Stephen King, John Winthrop, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Harriet Jacobs,
William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, among others.
001 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 339   SHAKESPEARE                              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The major writings of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM         Grob, Alan                Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 342   VICTORIAN FICTION                        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The novel, from Austen to Hardy.
001 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM         Michie, Helena            Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 350   VICTORIAN FICTION                        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 363   AMERICAN FICTION 1940-PRESENT            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 Doody, Terrence A.        Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 365   THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 367   AMERICAN ECOFEMINISM                     Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Course surveys women's efforts during nineteenth and twentieth centuries to
define and practice "pro-environmental" policies.  Interdisciplinary in method,
the course draws from literature, women's history, literary criticism, feminist
biology, and race and social justice theory.  Issues of first/third world
differences also figure in efforts to understand enviromnental justice.
001 TBA                                 Comer, Krista             Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 370   THE NOVEL IN THE 20TH CENTURY            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 374   CHICANO/A NOVEL                          Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 375   LITERATURE AND FILM: SHAKESPEARE ON FILM Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 376   MODERN DRAMA: 1940-PRESENT               Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Interaction of literature and music in song, opera, and film; music as subject
in drama and fiction. Technical knowledge of music useful but not required.
001 TBA                                 Doughtie, Edward O.       Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 377   ELIZABETHAN,JACOB.DRAMA                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM         Snow, Edward A.           Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 378   LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* 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 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 380   20TH CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS: THE POETS    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
NOTE: TITLE CHANGE
Also offered as WGST 327
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 387   CONTEMP ETHNIC POETRY                    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 388   GENERATION X IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description available
001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 389   STUDIES IN MODERNISM: ELIOT,JOYCE,WOOLF, Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 394   LING. STRUC. - ENG LANG                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
No description
Also offered as LING 394
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 395   HISTORY OF THE ENGL LANGUAGE             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
No description
Also offered as LING 395
001 TBA - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM         Gerhardt, Cornelia        Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 397   TOPICS IN LITERATURE                     Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 Derrick, Scott S.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 402   ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION       Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
Also offered as GMAN 407
001 TBA - M 07:00PM - 10:00PM           Apple, Max I.             Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 404   ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA - T 01:00PM - 04:00PM           Wood, Susan               Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 415   ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 441   VICTORIAN STUDIES: AUSTEN ONLY           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Michie, Helena            Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 470   AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
Also offered as WGST 453
001 TBA                                 Fultz, Lucille P.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 472   CHICANO/A AUTOBIOGRAPHY                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM         Aranda, Jose F.           Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 476   FOLKSONG AND FOLKLORE                    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
The study of oral verbal art in international folktales, British and American
ballads, American folk lyrics, spirituals, work songs, blues, and urban
legends.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 481   INTRO TO FEMINIST LITERARY THEORY        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
Also offered as WGST 307
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 484   STUDIES IN LITERARY TYPES: AUTOBIOGRAPHY Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 492   STUDIES IN MAJOR BRITISH AUTHORS:AUSTEN  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 493   DIRECTED READING                         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 494   AUTOBIOGRAPHIES,LETTERS,AND JOURNALS     Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA - TTH 07:00PM - 08:15PM         Patten, Robert L.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 495   SENIOR THESIS                            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA - SU 12:30AM - 01:30AM          Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 497   TOPICS IN LITERATURE: IMAGE AND NARRATIV Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
Also offered as WGST 411
001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM         Doody, Terrence A.        Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 498   STUDIES IN LITERARY CRITICISM: QUEER THE Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 499   STUDIES IN LITERARY THEORY               Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
No description
001 TBA                                 Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 506   SEM: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO COMPOSIT Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 509   MASTER'S THESIS                          Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 510   PEDAGOGY                                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
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001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 511   SEMINAR: AMERICAN LITERATURE             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 514   MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE:THE INVENTION  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Extensive reading in modern poetry as well as regular practice in the writing
of various forms will be required.
001 TBA                                 Chance, Jane              Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 517   SEMINAR:  VICTORIAN LITERATURE           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 521   SHAKESPEARE                              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
An enriched version of Engl 321 for graduate students. Additional readings,
papers, or meetings to be assigned by instructor.
001 TBA - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Skura, Meredith A.        Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 526   17TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE          Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Snow, Edward A.           Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 528   SHAKESPEARE AND THEORY                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
An enriched version of English 328 for graduate students.  Additional readings,
papers, or meetings to be assigned by the instructor.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 532   SEM: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 543   17TH CENTURY LIT                         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
An enriched version for graduate students of Engl 343.  Additional readings,
papers, or meetings to be assigned by the instructor.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 546   18TH CENT BRITISH LITERATURE             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 560   REST.&18-CENT.NON-FICT                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 580   SEMINAR:  WOMEN'S STUDIES end            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
An enriched version of Engl 321 for graduate students.  Additional readings,
papers, or meetings to be assigned by instructor.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 587   CULTURAL STUDIES: MARK                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
An enriched version for graduate students of Engl 387.  Additional readings,
papers, or meetings to be assigned by the instructor.
Also offered as HIST 548
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

ENGL 592   THE CHILD IN U.S. LITERATURE FROM NATION Credits 3.00  Spring 00
In cultural materialist as well as historicist and psychoanalytic accounts,
the modern child has consistently been equated with the
personal, the
individual, and/or the psychological. This course
alternately examines how
images of the child help to construct a
distinct national identity in U.S.
writing from nationhood through the nineteenth century. As a propnent of both
national and individual identity formation, the child in U.S. writing registers
the complex interrelations existing between the two. We will read essays by
Slavoj Zizeck, Joan Copjec, Teresa Brennan, and Homi Bhabha, among others, to
think about how the national and individual work with and against each
 other
and writings by Thomas Paine, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglas,
Mark Twain,
Harriet Wilson, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry James in order
to assess to what
ends the child facilitates dicverse political
 realtions or effects between
national identity and individual
001 TBA - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 594   AREA STUDIES: SEXUALITY AND SUBJECTIVITY Credits 1.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA - M 02:00AM - 05:00AM           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 599   LITERARY THEORY: POLITICS AND LITERARY T Credits 3.00  Spring 00
An investigation of political and ethical concerns in literary interpretation.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
Also offered as WGST 481
001 TBA - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM           Lamos, Colleen R.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 602   TEACHING PRACTICUM                       Credits 0.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Chance, Jane              Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 604   TEACHING OF LIT & COMPOSTITION           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 622   DIRECTED READING                         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 702   BRIT & AMER LITERATURE                   Credits   Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 704   RESEARCH LEADING TO CANDIDACY            Credits   Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

ENGL 800   PH.D. RESEARCH AND THESIS                Credits   Spring 00
To be taken after a student has been admitted to candidacy.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA