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Course Descriptions
Course Descriptions
Booklet
Booklet
Fall 2020
Spring 2021
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DDepartment of English Spring 2021 Course Descriptions
The courses outlined in this booklet are subject to change.
For the most up-to-date list of classes, days, times, sections and rooms, please refer to the class schedule through my Sac State.
NOTEU : U English 1X, 5, 5M, 10, 10M, 11, 11M, 15, 20, 20M, 60, 60M, 85, 86, 87, 109M, and 109W cannot be counted toward the English Major, English Minor, or the English Single Subject Waiver.
1X: College Composition Tutorial (1 unit) - Staff Requirements: A minimum of 5,000 words to be completed in ENGL Offers supplemental instruction in elements of composition and 10 and ENGL 11. assists students in mastering the writing process with special emphasis on G.E.: Fulfills area A2 of the GE Requirements. planning and revising essays. Instruction takes place both in traditional classroom setting and in small group and individual tutorials. Students enrolled in this tutorial must also be co-enrolled in a first-year composition course as the focus will be drafting and revising the work done for the 11M: Academic Literacies II-ML (3 units) - Staff primary writing course. Continued study (following ENGL 10M) to help multilingual students Corequisite: ENGL 5 or ENGL 5M or ENGL 11 or ENGL 11M use reading, writing discussion, and research for discovery, intellectual Graded: Credit / No Credit. Units: 1.0 curiosity, and personal academic growth - students will work in Note: May be taken for workload credit toward establishing collaborative groups to share, critique, and revise their reading and writing. full-time enrollment status, but is not applicable to the Students will engage in reading and writing as communal and diverse baccalaureate degree. processes; read and write effectively in and beyond the university; develop a metacognitive understanding of their reading, writing, and thinking processes; and understand that everyone develops and uses multiple discourses. 5: Accelerated Academic Literacies (3 units) - Staff Prerequisites: ENGL 10M Intensive, semester-long course to help students use reading, writing, Requirements: A minimum of 5,000 words to be completed in ENGL discussion, and research for discovery, intellectual curiosity, and personal 10M and ENGL 11M. academic growth - students will work in collaborative groups to share, G.E.: Fulfills area A2 of the GE Requirements. critique, and revise their reading and writing. Students will engage in reading and writing as communal and diverse processes; read and write effectively in and beyond the university; develop metacognitive understandings of their reading, writing, and thinking processes; and 16: Structure of English (3 units) - Seo understand that everyone develops and uses multiple discourses. MW 3:00-4:15pm Requirements: Must write a minimum of 5000 words. This course will introduce important terms, concepts, rules, and G.E.: Fulfills area A2 of the GE requirements. usages of traditional grammar and help students build foundational knowledge at both the sentence level and discourse level.
Presentation: Lecture-discussion. 5M: Accelerated Academic Literacies for Multilingual Writers (3 units) - Staff Requirements: Quizzes, two midterm exams, final exam, projects. Intensive, semester-long course to help multilingual students use reading, Text: Altenberg, E. P. & Vago, R.M. (2010). English writing, discussion, and research for discovery, intellectual curiosity, and Grammar: Understanding the Basics. Cambridge personal academic growth - students will work in collaborative groups to University Press. share, critique, and revise their reading and writing. Students will engage in reading and writing as communal and diverse processes; read and write effectively in and beyond the university; develop metacognitive understandings of their reading, writing, and thinking processes; and 20: College Composition II (3 units) - Staff understand that everyone develops and uses multiple discourses. An advanced writing course that builds upon the critical thinking, Requirements: Must write minimum of 5000 words. reading, and writing processes introduced in English 5 or 10/11. This class G.E.: Fulfills area A2 of the GE Requirements. emphasizes rhetorical awareness by exploring reading and writing within diverse academic contexts with a focus on the situational nature of the standards, values, habits, conventions, and products of composition. Students will research and analyze different disciplinary genres, purposes, 11: Academic Literacies II (3 units) - Staff and audiences with the goals of understanding how to appropriately shape Continued study (following ENGL 10) to help students use reading, their writing for different readers and demonstrating this understanding writing, discussion, and research for discovery, intellectual curiosity, and through various written products. personal academic growth - students will work in collaborative groups to Prerequisite: 30 units and a grade of C- or better in ENGL, 5, 10/11, share, critique, and revise their reading and writing. Students will engage in or equivalent. reading and writing as communal and diverse processes: read and write Requirement: A minimum of 5,000 words. effectively in and beyond the university; develop a metacognitive G.E.: Fulfills the second semester composition requirement. understanding of their reading, writing, and thinking processes; and (English majors are exempt from the GE requirement; understand that everyone develops and uses multiple discourses. majors take English 120A instead.) Prerequisites: ENGL 10
Prerequisites: None 20M: College Composition II (Multilingual) (3 units) - Staff Requirements: Assignments and quizzes. An advanced writing course for multilingual students that builds upon Fulfills GE AREA C2. the critical thinking, reading, and writing processes introduced in English 5, Texts: Wharton, Age of Innocence; Franklin, Three Negro 5M, 10/11, or 10M/11M. This class emphasizes rhetorical awareness by Classics; Sinclair, The Jungle; Murayama, All I exploring reading and writing within diverse academic contexts with a focus Asking for is My Body; Valdez, Zoot Suit; Lee-Keller, on the situational nature of the standards, values, habits, conventions, and Guidelines for Critical Reading, Thinking, and products of composition. Students will research and analyze different Writing; and an online course reader disciplinary genres, purposes, and audiences with the goals of understanding how to appropriately shape their writing for different readers and demonstrating this understanding through various written products. Prerequisite: 30 units and a grade of C- or better in ENGL 5, 10/11 60: Reading for Speed & Efficiency (2 units) - Staff or equivalent. W 10:00-10:50, 12:00-12:50, R 12:00-12:50 Requirement: A minimum of 5,000 words. Strategies and techniques to promote greater reading efficiency and G.E.: Fulfills the second semester composition requirement. flexibility and increase reading speed. Drills to develop rate and (English majors are exempt from the GE requirement.; comprehension as well as supplementary practice in the English reading lab. majors take English 120A instead) Note: Utilizes computers; may be repeated for credit.
30B: Introduction to Writing Fiction (4 units) - Williams 65: Introduction to World Literatures in English (3 units) -Ghosal Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) MW 12:00-1:15pm This class will consist of reading, writing and commenting on peer This course will survey the representation of subnational and work. Students will work on plot, dialogue, descriptive passages and international conflicts and migrations in late twentieth and twenty-first character sketches with the goal of learning to write substantial short stories. century Global Anglophone literatures. While attending to narrative form The class will culminate in students producing a portfolio of writing and conditions of literary production, we will discuss the inadequacy of assignments and several short stories, which have been revised and nation-states and national identities as conceptual frameworks for situating workshopped texts. We will then analyze the texts with reference to theories of Presentation: Lecture, discussion and workshop transnationalism, post-colonialism, and cosmopolitanism, and consider the Requirements: Weekly quizzes, attendance, in-class writing different ways in which the “world” is imagined as a concept from particular assignments, and multiple drafts of two short stories. locales. The literary works covered in the course are remarkable for their Texts: Annie Proulx’s Close Range: Wyoming Stories; Anne experimentations with narrative form and inventive use of language. Lamott's Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing Presentation: Lecture-discussion. and Life; James Thomas and Robert Shapard’s Flash Requirements: Reading quizzes, pop-analyses, mid-term and final Fiction Forward exams. Texts: May include Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People (1981);
David Malouf, Remembering Babylon (1993);
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997); Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and shorter works 40B: British Literature II (3 units) – Cope by Derek Walcott, Chris Abani, Xiaolu Guo, and Elif MW 4:30-5:45pm Shafak, among others. This course introduces students to a variety of British literary texts from the late eighteenth through the twentieth century. One text is a late
Victorian novel – Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure (1895) – and the rest are mostly poems, with a few essays here and there (e.g., Arnold and 85: Grammar for Multilingual Writers: (2 units)______-Staff Woolf). There will be a multiple-choice reading quiz for every class (i.e., MW 2:00-2:50pm two quizzes a week), administered via Canvas, as well as weekly recorded 2-unit course that covers the major systems of English grammar in the lectures to listen to. There is also a midterm and a final exam. The quizzes context of reading passages and the students' own writing. Practice in and exams are drawn from both the readings and the lectures. editing authentic writing. Credit/No Credit. Presentation: Lecture Multiple-choice reading quizzes twice a week; weekly Requirements: online lectures; a midterm examination; a cumulative
final examination. 105: Film Theory and Criticism (4 units) - Toise 1 Greenblatt, Stephen, editor. The Norton Anthology Required texts: . TR 4:30-5:45pm of English Literature, The Major Authors. 10th ed. Vol. 2 This course engages with an influential body of work in film Norton, 2013. ISBN: 9780393603095. studies devoted to theoretical approaches to vision/spectatorship, language, 2. Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Edited by Ralp Pite. 3rd representation, and identity. You will be watching some great and ed. Norton, 2016. ISBN: 978-0393937527. interesting films: our viewings will likely include Eve’s Bayou, Vertigo, Moonlight, Alien, Inception, and Cache (titles subject to change). Through these films and assigned readings, we’ll start by exploring foundational approaches of film theory: psychoanalytic, structuralist, and 50B: Introduction to American Lit II. (3 units) –Lee poststructuralist theory and then branch out to examine additional MW 1:30-2:45pm theoretical approaches that can more specifically address gender, sexuality, English 50B is a survey of American literature from 1865 to the and critical race theory as important foci for theoretical approaches to topics present. In particular, we will take a post-nationalist approach to American like spectatorship, identification, performance of gender, the Lacanian gaze, literature. By focusing on texts that examine the complex and contradictory etc. In taking up this subject, the course focuses on theoretical approaches intersections of race, gender, class, and immigration, we will interrogate to the study of film (in contrast to the study of film history and film what an “American literature” means and what are its purposes. We will production) study literary production in relation to the costs of urbanization and Prerequisites: None industrialization, the legalization of racism, U.S. territorial expansion, and Presentation: Discussions, lectures. Students will be required to civil rights focusing on key historical moments. watch films on their own. Method of Presentation: Synchronous; weekly lecture and discussion.
Requirements: Several short papers (approx. 2 pages), mid-term, final 110B. History of the English Language (3 units) - Clark paper, and regular attendance/participation in zoom TR 3:00-4:15pm meetings. A survey of the linguistic and social history of the English language, Texts: (required) Poststructuralism: A Very Short tracing it from its misty Proto-IndoEuropean origins, through its arrival on Introduction (Belsey; 978-0192801807), Film and the British Isles (Old English), its absorption of Old French-speaking Theory: An Anthology (Stam and Miller; 978- vikings (Middle English), to its becoming the most widely spoken 0631206262), Film Theory: An Introduction (Stam; language of the world. Costumes optional. 978-0631206545). Presentation: Lecture-discussion. Requirements: assignments, examinations. Texts: TBA
109M: Writing for GWAR Placement (Multilingual) (3 units) - Staff English 109M provides intensive practice in prewriting, drafting, 110J. Traditional Grammar and Standard Usage (3 units) - Seo revising, and editing academic writing for multilingual writers. Students MW 12:00-1:15pm & TR 4:30-5:45pm research, analyze, reflect on, and write about the kinds of writing produced Using a combination of lecture, exercises in and out of class, in academic disciplines. Students produce a considerable amount of writing quizzes, and exams, this course will cover basic concepts in traditional such as informal reading responses, rhetorical analyses, and an extended grammar and usage: the parts of speech, the types of phrases, clauses, and academic research project. Students will submit their writing late in the sentences, their various functions, and the conventions of standard written semester in a GWAR Portfolio, from which they will receive a GWAR English. While this course will include a unit on how to respond to errors in Placement. student writing, its focus is not "how to teach" grammar; instead, the goal is Prerequisites: Must have passed ENGL20 (or a comparable course) to provide future teachers with a foundational knowledge of those formal with a C- or higher, have completed at least 60 semester aspects of the English language that are important in English classes, units, and have English Diagnostic Test score of 4 or 5, including grammar, punctuation, and writing. credit in LS86 or WPJ placement number of 50. Presentation: Lecture, in-class group work, discussion. Requirements: 5 quizzes, 1 midterm, 1 project, 1 final exam. Texts: Barry, A. K. (2002 or 2012). English Grammar (2nd or 3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. 109W: Writing for GWAR Placement (3 units) - Staff English 109W provides intensive practice in prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing academic writing. Students research, analyze, reflect on, and write about the kinds of writing produced in academic 110P: Second Language Learning and Teaching (3 units) - Komiyama disciplines. Students produce a considerable amount of writing such as TR 1:30-2:45pm informal reading responses, rhetorical analyses, and an extended academic This course will introduce students to the major theories and issues in research project. Students will submit their writing late in the semester in a second language acquisition, as well as the theories and assumptions GWAR Portfolio, from which they will receive a GWAR Placement. underlying historical and current trends in second language pedagogy. The Prerequisite: English 20 with a C- grade or better and have materials and activities introduced in class will focus on the acquisition and completed at least 60 semester units. teaching of English as a second/foreign language, in particular. Because the content of this course assumes some prior knowledge of linguistics, it is recommended that students have completed or are currently enrolled in English 110A: Linguistics and the English Language (or equivalent). 109X: Writing-Intensive Workshop (1 unit) - Staff Presentation: Lecture-discussion. Student-centered group tutorial which will offer supplemental Prerequisites: None. (English 16, 110A, 110J, and/or 110Q can be instruction in elements of academic writing taught in writing-intensive helpful.) upper-division courses; it will provide support to students concurrently Requirements: Project 1; Project 2 (which involves teaching enrolled in writing-intensive upper-division courses throughout the writing demonstration); two exams; online discussions. process, including drafting, revising, and editing, for a variety of papers Texts (Recommended): (1) Lightbown, P. M. & Spada, N. (2013). WPJ Placement score of 70; student who receive a 4- Prerequisite: How Languages Are Learned (4th Ed.). Oxford unit placement on the WPJ. University Press; (2) Larsen-Freeman, D. & Writing-Intensive upper-division course. Co-requisite: Anderson, M. (2011). Techniques and Principles in
Language Teaching (3rd Ed.). Oxford University
Press.
110A: Linguistics and the English Language (3 units) - Komiyama
TR 12:00-1:15pm 110Q: English Grammar for ESL Teachers (3 units) - Staff English 110A is an introductory course for students who have no TR 10:30-11:45am previous formal studies in modern linguistics. This course is designed to A survey of those aspects of English grammar that are relevant to acquaint students—especially those who wish to teach English—with the teaching second language learners of English. The emphasis is on elements ways language operates, focusing on the subareas of linguistics that are most of simple and complex sentences, particularly the structure of noun phrases, relevant for classroom teachers. Major topics covered in the course include the meanings of verb forms, and the expression of adverbial meanings. phonetics, phonology, morphology, morphophonology, and syntax. Presentation: Lecture-discussion. Whenever relevant, language acquisition and social patterns of language use Prerequisites: None; however, previous or concurrent will also be discussed. English 110A is required for the English Subject enrollment110A is recommended. Matter Program, TESOL Minor, and TESOL Certificates. It is a prerequisite Requirements: TBA for the TESOL MA Program. Texts: TBA Lecture-discussion. Presentation: Prerequisites: None, but English 16 or 110J is recommended.
Requirements: Quizzes; online discussions; graded take-home assignments. Text (Recommended): Justice, P. W. (2004). Relevant linguistics (2nd 116A: Studies in Applied Linguistics (3 units) - Clark ed.).Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications TR 10:30-11:45am & 12:00-1:15pm This course is designed to equip elementary school teachers with necessary knowledge regarding the development of oral language and literacy skills in young children. We will cover four general topic areas: The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes (2002), Edited language acquisition, the teaching of reading, language variation (dialects), by Anthony J. Cascardi and specific issues and literary acquisition and the second language MLA Handbook Eighth Edition (2017) learner. Joseph Harris, Rewriting: How to do things with texts Presentation: Lecture-discussion. (2006) Requirements: Three examinations, three minor assignments, three Canvas Reader (to include critical essays and theoretical major assignments. sources) Texts: TBA
120A: Advanced Composition (4 units) - Montgomery MW 12:00-1:15pm 116B: Children’s Literary Classics (3 units) - Zarins The glitz and glamour of the 1920s are often associated with the TR 9:00-10:15am & 10:30-11:45am exciting new jazz music which was based on the principle of improvisation In this SYNCHRONOUS class that meets twice a week via or spontaneously creating something new from the materials at hand. This Zoom, we will study a variety of children‘s books targeted toward different idea of improvisation can also be applied to the literature of the period as ages (from ages 0 to 18, though the focus will be on K-6 readers). Be writers and their characters explore new lifestyles and invent new kinds of prepared to read roughly a novel a week. Despite the wide range of these writing to investigate the unprecedented possibilities (or anxieties) of their readers and the fact that the texts span the early 20th century to the present, post-Victorian worlds. Our reading selections are taken from multiple several tenets will make the diversity of texts cohere: (1) children’s genres (fiction, poetry, film) with special attention given to gender, race, literature is just as complex as literature for adults—to be sure, there are and the texts’ representations of the relationship to significant events in books for entertainment for all age groups, but also books to encourage deep African American history and culture. Authors include but are not limited thinking (which we’ll focus on primarily); (2) every child deserves to see to Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay and themselves in the pages of a book, and it is important to see how children Langston Hughes. are represented in literature; (3) books are springboards for important As an advanced writing course, students will learn to read and conversations and invitations to wonder; (4) complexity of thought/content write with a critical point of view that displays depth of thought and is is matched by complexity of craft and structure; how something is said mindful of the rhetorical situation (not just how to write, but awareness of matters as much as what is said. Through class discussion, extensive audience, genre, and purpose) in the discipline of Literature. Students will projects, the Writing Partners Program (in which we write letters to learn how to devise and define a research topic and perform research in the elementary students), and additional assignments, this course aims to satisfy library and databases. The writing assignments include critical and two kinds of students, those who enjoy reading children’s books for their reflection essays, a proposal, an annotated bibliography, two short papers, a own sake, and those who seek to bring literature alive to children. research prospectus, and a short presentation. These different kinds of Presentation: Lecture-discussion writing will contain arguable theses and demonstrate personal engagement Requirements: Several short writing assignments, midterm paper, with diverse aspects and issues of the Harlem Renaissance/Jazz Age. In final paper, class presentation, quizzes; several addition, these assignments will encourage increased sophistication in community engagement projects including writing to critical reading and writing with a purpose, including addressing multiple children audiences through a range of styles and voices. Texts: Texts (TBA) may include Charlotte‘s Web by E. B. Presentation: Lecture on writers, race, gender, and historical White; Holes by Louis Sachar; Rules by Cynthia Lord; contexts, and advanced writing techniques. Discussion Esperanza Rising by Pam Muños Ryan; It Ain’t So will also be a major mode of exchanging ideas, writing Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas skills, and conveying information.
Requirements: Active participation, discussion leader, a 7-8 page
Research Essay, peer editing, annotated bibliography,
two short thinking/reflection papers (2 pages), 1 page 120A: Advanced Composition (4 units) - Martinez research prospectus. This course will also have a Cervantes’s Don Quixote guided project that will require approximately fifty TR 3:00-4:15pm hours of work over the course of the semester. In the opening pages of Don Quixote, Cervantes writes the following Texts: (Novels subject to change:) Cathy Birkenstein, Gerald of his protagonist, "In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading Graff, They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading Academic Writing, Jean Toomer, Cane, Nella Larsen, from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his Quicksand, Claude McKay, Banjo brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind." Indeed, the writing process can also cause someone to lose their mind. Why not bring the two together
– too much reading and too much writing? I call this experiment “advanced composition.” And for this course about writing we will study the “first 120T: Technical Writing. (4 units) – Dunn modern novel,” titled Don Quixote (Part I in 1605, Part II in 1615). How do Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) writers dare to write about such a towering author and offer new insight into This course will help students develop the skills necessary to be successful his novel? How might you, my dear student, dare to write about the technical communicators, translating information created by technical celebrated Cervantes and his legendary knight? Each week, you will experts for non-expert readers such as business decision-makers or immerse yourself in selected chapters, and, as a class, we will enter members of the public. In learning to be a technical communicator, you intriguing realms of study to become experts of Cervantes and his invention will practice crafting messages in a variety of genres and mediums, and of the novel. In addition to exploring traditional genres and varying using a variety of technologies. That said, writing will be the clear focus of theoretical perspectives, we will examine themes like love's deception and this course, not using technology. fantasy, physical comedy and violence, gender trouble and performance, To be clear, all levels of technical proficiency will be welcome and and racial histories and their repercussions. This semester-long study will accommodated in this class. illuminate a plethora of trajectories that confront the long list of commentary Students will produce a number of technical writing genres intended on Cervantes’s genius yet that welcome you into that conversation. for various technical and lay audiences. In doing this, students will Presentation: Zoom. Lecture-Discussion. Workshop. Project Portfolio. (hopefully) work on authentic client-based projects, meaning some of the Requirements: Paragraph Assignments. Creative Activity. Research work students complete will be done in response to the needs of real Essay. Portfolio Project. clients with real technical writing needs. Booklist: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote (1605, Much of the technical writing work produced in real workplaces is 1615), Translated by Edith Grossman done through a mix of individual and collaborative efforts, and as such,
ENGL 120T will emphasize both individual and collaborative writing 125B: Writing and the Young Writer (4 units) - Fanetti projects. At the end of this class, students will have a portfolio of technical Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) writing samples that they might conceivably use as pieces of a larger Starting from the premise that masterful communication is the portfolio that can be presented to potential employers. cornerstone skill for all areas of scholarship and citizenship, we will discuss Requirements: There will be four major projects, one of which (Project the ways and means of teaching writing to students at the critical middle and 4) will be completed independently, outside of class: secondary levels. We will engage in activities to help us understand our Project 1: Job Documents (resume, cover letter, online own writing processes and we will read theoretical and practical texts as we presence) think about best practices for encouraging students to become clear, Project 2: Technical Descriptions (one that is strictly interesting, critical writers, thinkers, and members of community. text-based and one that is multimodal) Presentation: Asynchronous online. Lecture and discussion. Project 3: Collaborative Usability Report Prerequisites: Eng 110J or equivalent, Eng 20 or 120A Project 4: Independent Technical Writing Research Requirements: Participation in online discussions and activities, Project (there will be a variety of options for this project regular reading, viewing, and writing assignments, and which you will select in consultation with Dr. Dunn) a final project. There will also be other, smaller Texts: Teaching Adolescent Writers, by Kelly Gallagher assignments/requirements such as asynchronous class The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in discussions, response papers, and scaffolding Democratic Education, by Diana E Hess and Paula assignments that will help you prepare with the major McAvo projects. Teaching Composition: Background Readings 3rd ed., Required Texts: Technical Communication, 13th Edition, Mike Markel ed. T.R. Johnson and Stuart Selber, ISBN: 9781319245009 The Nondesigner’s Design Book, 4th Edition, Robin Williams, ISBN: 978-0133966152 (available online through the CSUS library) 125F: Teaching Oral Skills (3 units) - Clark GE: Fulfills Writing Intensive Requirement TR 6:00-7:15pm This course will provide students with both the necessary background knowledge and well as the specific pedagogical tools for promoting proficiency in spoken interaction, listening skills, and pronunciation in second language/foreign language contexts, specifically, English as a 121: Writing Center Tutoring (1 unit) - Staff Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL). One-on-one tutoring in reading and writing at the University Writing Presentation: Lecture-discussion. Center. Student writers will meet with assigned tutor an hour a week. Topics Prerequisites: None. English 110A and 110A highly recommended, could include understanding assignments, prewriting, revising, reading Text: TBA strategies, editing strategies, integrating research, etc. Students must sign up for a regular tutoring session time during week two of the semester at the University Writing Center. 130J: Writing Feature Film Scripts (4 units) - Williams
Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings)
This class will introduce students to the craft and art of 125A: Literature and Film for Adolescents (4 units) - Fanetti screenwriting. Students will learn how to pitch, notecard and eventually Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) write a screenplay. This course will have a strong emphasis on outlining and The main focus of this course is pedagogy: the “why” of rewriting. Writing well can be a lonely and arduous task, and there truly is teaching—in this case, the “why” of teaching literature and film to a cost to creating something great, but this effort and focus is what makes adolescents. The “what” and “how” of teaching are important factors in the outcome so rewarding. The goal of this class is to give students the understanding the “why,” of course. So, we’ll be reading a lot, writing a lot, foundation and tools necessary to take a good idea and transform it into a talking a lot, and engaging other media. We’ll cover a range of genres and great screenplay. movements. All this talking, reading, writing, and viewing (not to mention Presentation: Lecture, discussion, workshop thinking!) will be supported by and focused on teaching—while we will of Requirements: Weekly quizzes, a story pitch, a script treatment, 60 course be analyzing the texts we encounter together, we’ll be doing so in notecards and 30 pages of an original screenplay ways that help us understand how to help students engage with literature Texts: Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat: The Last Book on and film. Screenwriting that You’ll Ever Need; there will also be Presentation: Asynchronous online. Lecture and discussion. numerous screenplays read throughout the semester Requirements: Participation in online discussions and activities, (i.e. Casablanca, Winter’s Bone, Get Out, Lady Bird, regular reading, viewing and writing assignments, and etc.), but digital copies of these will be provided online a final paper. without charge. Texts: The reading list for 125A is not yet finalized, but likely
titles include:
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the
Universe, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz 130Y: Creative Writing for Young Adults (4 units) - Zarins The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas. TR 1:30-2:45pm The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins In this SYNCHRONOUS class that meets twice a week via Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs Zoom, we will learn how to write fiction for children and teens. We will Maus (Parts I and II), by Art Spiegelman begin with the seemingly simple picture book—telling an evocative story in Othello, by William Shakespeare under 500 words—and work our way to middle grade and young adult A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry novels, of which you’ll make a solid start by writing the initial chapters and Our textbook will be Teaching Young Adult Literature doing exercises that help you think about the shape of your story. Please be Today, 2nd ed., Judith A. Hayn and Jeffrey S. Kaplan, aware you will do a lot of reading and writing in this class—to some, eds. children’s literature may seem easy, but it isn’t! That’s okay, though, because we’ll form a community and make time to write during this pandemic. Let’s improve our craft. Presentation: Lecture-discussion-workshopping; in-class writing
Requirements: Class presentation, picture book text; two novel 0142437261; Harriet Wilson: Our Nig (Penguin) chapters; multiple assignment ISBN: 978-0143105763; Ralph Waldo Emerson: Texts: Texts (TBA) may include Cheryl Klein, The Magic Nature (Penguin 978-0142437629); Henry David Word Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (Dover 978- 0486275635). Note: Free, online version of the required readings will also be available.
145B: Shakespeare—Early Plays (4 units) - Gieger Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) Our course will focus on a sampling of William Shakespeare’s 170M. Literatures of Sexuality (4 units) - Martinez plays from the 1590s, plays written during the last decade of the 45-year Brown Love reign of Queen Elizabeth I. We will start with two of his famous tragedies, T 6:30-9:20pm the earlier Romeo and Juliet and then, from about 1600, Hamlet. We will Taking José Muñoz’s declaration as our guide—“Brownness is about then read a couple of Shakespeare’s histories, plays that merge tragedy and something else. As a concept, even a method, it offers us a sense of the comedy as they detail the lives and fates of Prince Hal and Falstaff (Henry world"—this course is designed around brown feelings in short stories by IV, Part I and Henry IV, Part II as well as small portions of Henry V). We brown folk, in particular Chicano/Latino/a and Native American authors. In will begin to wrap up the semester with two comedies that take their young a world of anti-brown sentiment, what are the ways in which these authors New Comedy lovers away from corrupt courts and potential death and out pursue racial love, gendered love, and queer love? We will read authors in into Northrop Frye’s liberating “green world” of Nature, rebirth, and unique couplings – Cisneros and Alexie, Diaz and Erdrich, Castillo and sexuality (A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It), and to finish Ortiz – to contend that lurking in the archive of a brown past is Muñoz’s our course, we will read Much Ado About Nothing, a comedy that very reorientation of brown love. As we set out to illuminate Muñoz’s hopeful nearly becomes a tragedy. Along the way, we will meet some of English and utopic plea, we will track in our authors both literary form and (world?) literature’s greatest characters (and their famous, oft-quoted words discursive strategies in the representation of brown bodies (heterosexual, and speeches): Juliet, Romeo, Hamlet, Ophelia, Gertrude, Prince Hal, homosexual, bisexual, transsexual ... etc.) to emphasize how brown folk Falstaff, Puck, Bottom, Titania, Oberon, Rosalind, Touchstone, Jaques, and managed to love each other, love themselves, and (re)imagine love. What Beatrice & Benedick. Selections from The Bedford Companion to language is crafted, historically, to articulate such an expansive, radical Shakespeare (as well as from the various editions of our texts and some project that voices not just love but resistance and survivability in the search photocopies) will help us to understand the plays and the cultural, literary, for the potentiality of brownness that is futurity bound? This imaginative and political cross currents of Elizabethan England. call will guide our own cruising through the literature of the course to Presentation: Asynchronous on-line Lecture/Discussion examine the relation between sexuality and literature, explore conceptions Requirements: midterm and final exam, response papers, quizzes, of sexuality over time and across cultures, and glimpse the rhetorical performance project, longer writing assignment with strategies in representations of sexuality in brown texts. Within the short scholarly research component. story of the brown subject’s experience, here is a horizon into futurity that Texts: Russ McDonald, The Bedford Companion to only brown love dares to take us. Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents (2nd Presentation: Zoom. Lecture-Discussion. Project Portfolio. Edition: Bedford/St. Martin’s, ISBN: 978- Requirements: Paragraph Assignments. Research Essay. Portfolio 0312248802); William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet Project. (New Folger Library/Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 978- Booklist: Jose Munoz, The Sense of Brown (2020) 0671722852); Hamlet (Modern Library/Random Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An House, ISBN: 978-0812969092); Henry IV, Part One Introduction (1976) and Part Two (Longman Cultural Edition, ISBN: 978- Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other 0321182746); A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Texts Stories (1991) and Contexts (Bedford/St. Martin’s, ISBN: 978- Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in 0312166212); As You Like It (Penguin/Pelican Heaven (1993) Shakespeare, ISBN: 978-0143130239); Much Ado Junot Díaz, Drown (1994) About Nothing (Signet Classics, ISBN: 978- Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible: Selected and New 0451526816 Stories (2010) Ana Castillo, Loverboys (1996) Simon Ortiz, Men on the Moon: Collected Short Stories (1999) 150B: American Romanticism (4 units) - Sweet Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) The “wild delight” of Emerson’s transcendentalism, the horror and madness of Poe’s fiction, and the “Vesuvian” emotions of the poetry of 180B: Forms African-American Fiction (4 units) - Montgomery Dickinson all share a Romantic fascination with the extremes of the human MW 3:00-4:15pm experience. In this class, we will explore works of early to mid-nineteenth- This course explores three major categories: Blues, Jazz and century American literature that reflect upon the intensities and mysteries Urban Realism, (Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man) Postmodernist Aesthetics of life and that represent searching quests for knowledge of Nature, God, (Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon), Black Speculative Fiction (Octavia beauty, and the self. We will also inquire into the ways in which writers of Butler’s Kindred and Kiese Laymon’s Long Division). Addressing key the Romantic era both embrace and resist Enlightenment-era perceptions of “events” or “moments,” we will analyze the determining effects of race the world as knowable and governed by rational order. Our study will begin relations on the reorientation of U.S. racial, sexual, and with eighteenth-century texts that straddle the Enlightenment and Romantic regional/transnational politics from in the New Negro Renaissance to the eras and then we will turn to mid-nineteenth century poetry, essays, short 2000s. We will also closely consider verbal and literary modes including, stories, and novels. African retentions, oral traditions, signifying, folklore, and music, as well GE: Fulfills Writing Intensive Requirement as their evolutions and how they have created a uniquely African American Presentation: Asynchronous literary voice and how that voice has transformed to fit this con-temporary Requirements: Weekly quizzes and written online posts, creative moment. In an effort to critically map the trajectories of contemporary project, short analytical essays. African American literature we will be interrogating not only the historical Texts Likely to Include: Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug and Other and political contexts of the works, but also the ways in which issues of Stories (Dover); ISBN: 978-0486268750; Nathaniel gender, sexuality, and class specifically inform the works. Key questions for Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (Penguin) ISBN: 978- the course are: 1) Does literature have a distinctive social purpose? and
What makes a text “black”? 2) What does it mean to write about resistance (unauthentic citizen/American) and enshrined models of national identity and revolution, even when the outcomes are considered unsuccessful? 3) (authentic citizen/American). Framing the course with Anzaldúa, Muñoz, How does race play a determinative role in culture? 4) How do race, class, and Du Bois, we will reflect on classic texts to examine genre and gender, and sexuality interact in African American literature? contextualize several authors, through whose works we will follow how Presentation: Lecture on writers, race, gender, and historical structures of discrimination and institutions of privilege sustain and break contexts, but discussion will be our primary mode of communities on the cultural path toward “Americanness.” exchanging ideas, writing skills, and conveying Presentation: Zoom. Lecture-Discussion. Workshop. information. Requirements: Paragraph Assignments. Research Essay. Portfolio Requirements: Active participation, discussion leader, a 7-8 page Project. Research Essay, peer editing, annotated bibliography, Booklist: Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New two short thinking/reflection papers (2 pages), This Mestiza (1987) course will also have a guided project that will Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima (1972) require approximately fifty hours of work over the John Rechy, City of Night (1963) course of the semester. Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Texts: (Novels subject to change:) Octavia Butler, Kindred; Buffalo (1972) Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon; Ralph Ellison, Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Invisible Man; and Kiese Laymon’s Long Division. Richard Rodriguez (1982) Additional Readings available on Canvas Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1984) GE: Fulfills Writing Intensive Requirement Canvas Reader (Essays, Short Stories) GE: Fulfills Writing Intensive Requirement
180H: American Identities (4 units) - Lee TR 1:30-2:45pm ASYMMETRICAL ASSIMILATION. “Before we can agree 195A: Writing Center: Internships (4 units) - Staff on what the American identity is made of, we have to concede that as an TR 4:30-5:45pm immigrant settler society superimposed on the ruins of considerable native interns with an opportunity to apply tutoring principles while presence, American identity is too varied to be a unitary and homogenous working at tutors in the writing center. This course will also have a thing; indeed the battle within it is between advocates of a unitary identity guided project that will require approximately fifty hours of work over and those who see the whole as a complex but not reductively unified one” the course of the semester. (Said, Culture and Imperialism xxv). Note: ENGL 195A is a paired course with ENGL 410A, but the graduate Through a variety of literary and cultural texts, such as film, level class has a significantly increased reading, writing, and research music, history, fiction, and scholarly works; this course will examine how component. May be repeated for up to 8 units of credit. migration and immigration shape changing ethnic, racial, class, gender, sexual, and national ideologies informing the concept of an “American Identity.” We will pay attention to the concept of the family within the formations of multiple ethnic groups. We will examine the manifestations of these processes at key moments of domestic crises and international 198T: Senior Seminar (4 units) - Fanetti conflicts in U.S. history. Dystopian Realities: Theorizing Science Fiction Method of Presentation: Synchronous; weekly lecture and discussion Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) Prerequisites: None Mary Shelley and H.G. Wells notwithstanding, the origin of GE: Fulfills Race & Ethnicity Graduation Requirement (RE) modern science fiction is usually traced from the middle of the 20th Requirements: Assignments and quizzes; independent, online project century—from magazines like Galaxy and Amazing Stories to novels like Texts: Fae Myenne Ng, Bone; Milton Murayama, All I Asking Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Is My Body; John Okada, No-No Boy; Viramontes, Relegated mainly to the literary margins where pulp fiction and B movies Under the Feet of Jesus; Tim Wise, White Like Me; dwell, sci-fi spoke truth to power—often engaging in socio-political and John Sayles, Lone Star; Ang Lee, Brokeback cultural critique in ways that more mainstream texts did not (could not?). Mountain; and Edward Zwick, Courage Under Fire; These midcentury texts are not unproblematic themselves; they are often and additional readings are included in an Online (rightly) accused of racist and sexist content. Course Reader. Sci-fi is now in the midst of a robust resurgence and has in many ways moved deeply into the mainstream. The novels, films, video games, and television series that are so much a part of our contemporary culture all owe a heavy debt to those weird stories from a few generations ago. Despite 180L: Chicano Literature (4 units) - Martinez this shift in esteem and popularity, science fiction texts continue to The Souls of Brown Folk challenge what we think, how we act, and where we’re headed. R 6:30-9:20pm We will read classic and contemporary science fiction, see some This course examines the culture, politics and souls of brown folk in classic and contemporary science fiction films and TV, and take a look at a Chicano literature. It takes its inspiration from W.E.B Du Bois’s book title few video games. We’ll engage all of these texts through various theoretical while engaging Gloria Anzaldúa’s claim that a “new mythos” of belonging lenses, including (but not limited to) eco-crit, feminist, queer, and can only occur through “a massive uprooting of dualistic thinking in the postcolonial. individual and collective consciousness.” Rooting her call in Du Bois’s Presentation: Asynchronous online. Lecture and discussion. theory of double consciousness and José Esteban Muñoz’s feeling brown (a Prerequisites: Eng 120A, senior status mode of brown politics about survivability) we will trace the dynamics of Requirements: Participation in online discussions and activities, cultural separation as they occur between racialized subjects and regular reading, viewing, and writing assignments, a communities of color in autobiographies, especially those that narrate social culminating seminar paper. mobility through educational achievement. How is this uprooting Texts: The text list for this course is not yet finalized, but experience staged in stories of the learning self, not in a context of shared likely titles include: cultural revolution, but through deeply self-reflective moments of non- The Power, by Naomi Alderman; recognition in which the “I” is caught between nostalgia for heritage and The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood; desire for racial mobility. We will define an ethics of brownness and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury; examine how mobile racial and gendered subjects negotiate terms of The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler; “authenticity” as they move between marginalized ethnic identities Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick;
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Method of Presentation: Synchronous; seminar/workshop You will also be required to watch several films and a Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of ENGL 120A. few television seasons; you’ll need access to Netflix, Requirements: One final paper, with multiple revisions of various Amazon Prime, and HBO streaming accounts. lengths; various assignments building to the final paper; a paper proposal; individual conferences; and intensive peer-review and workshop participation; independent, online project. 198T: Senior Seminar (4 units) - Gieger Texts: Harris, Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts; Lee- Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) Keller, Guidelines for Critical Reading, Thinking, and Aphra Behn & William Congreve: Writing; MLA Handbook, recent edition, and a course Love, Sex, and Marriage, 1670-1700 reader. Our senior seminar will focus on two writers, Aphra Behn and Texts, Note A: Students will be expected to select a paper that they’ve William Congreve, from the late seventeenth century, the Restoration already written and are interested in developing England of King Charles II as well as the era of the “Glorious Revolution” further throughout the semester; this may or may not that deposed King James II in favor of his son-in-law and daughter, William be one on which they received a “good” grade. and Mary. We will see the ways that our writers interacted with the politics and history of the age (Congreve happily sided with the Revolution while Behn, it is believed, served as a spy for Charles II!). More centrally, we will read these writers’ works in terms of changes to ideas about love, sex, and 198X: Senior Portfolio (2 units) - Laflen marriage in the period as the culture debated the tradition of marriage of Asychronous (no scheduled class meetings) alliance/arranged marriage against developing ideas of companionate In this asynchronous online course, you will reflect on your marriage (that suggested some equality between women and men). Behn is experiences as an English major and your goals—including career goals— often credited as the first English woman to attempt to make a living by her for the future. You will also assemble and edit your senior portfolio, which pen (Virginia Woolf famously wrote that “All women together ought to let will help you to showcase your work for future job applications, graduate flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them school applications, etc. the right to speak their minds”) while Congreve’s greatest heroine had a Credit/No Credit dread of “dwindl[ing] into a wife” in his The Way of the World, one of Method of Presentation: Asynchronous; online, self-directed English literature’s most celebrated comedies. We will read multiple comic Prerequisites None plays (Behn: The Rover, The Feigned Courtesans, The Lucky Chance; Requirements: Assignments; independent, self-directed Congreve: The Double Dealer, Love for Love, The Way of the World) from portfolio both playwrights (written for the newly reopened post-Restoration theaters Texts: Online readings [the Puritans and the English Civil Wars had shuttered them in the 1640s and 1650s] that finally allowed actresses on stage for the first time) as well as poetry and fiction (both Behn and Congreve are considered prose innovators at the very start of the “rise of the novel”). We will encounter 198X: Senior Portfolio (2 units) - Lee these texts in their own moments but also think about ways they still might Asychronous (no scheduled class meetings) speak to us 350 years later. As such, we will read history and criticism In this course, students, as one element of their capstone throughout the semester to help us better understand and approach these two experience, will reflect on their work in their classes and portfolio projects; great authors, their works, and their worlds. As a culmination to this, in the the English major, its structure, curriculum, and values; their career goals last month or so of the course, we turn to the researching, drafting, and and life-long learning; and the meanings of education and literacies in the revision of a seminar paper of 12-15 pages on our texts and our topic. academy and popular cultures. Students will edit and finalize their senior Finally, as a warning or as a teaser, some of the texts we will study feature portfolio. moments of profanity, violence, and/or explicit sexuality. Method of Presentation: Asynchronous; online, self-directed Presentation: Asynchronous on-line Lecture/Discussion Prerequisites: None Requirements: A Seminar Paper (12-15 pages) and its Rough Requirements: Assignments; independent, self-directed portfolio Drafts/Draft Assignments, an Annotated Bibliography, Texts: Online course reader Reading Response Papers, PowerPoint Presentation. Credit/No Credit Texts: Aphra Behn: The Rover and Other Plays (Oxford 978- 0199540204) & Oroonoko and Other Works (Oxford 978-0199538768); William William Congreve: The Way of the World and Other 198X: Senior Portfolio (2 units) Martinez Plays (Penguin 978-0141441856); MLA Handbook, Asychronous (no scheduled class meetings) 8th Edition (Modern Language Association 978- From College to Career 1603292627) This course, titled “Senior Portfolio: From College to Career,” is an independent study that is fully on-line. It allows English majors to assemble a portfolio made up of several writing activities and projects, with a primary focus of reflecting on individual experiences within the major overall and 198T: Senior Seminar (4 units) - Lee the life-long learning goals that shape the student’s transition from college TR 4:30-5:45pm to career. The Senior Portfolio invites students to reflect on the relation Brief Description: Revising for a Specific Purpose and Audience between their classes, independent work, and future plans, as well as “Writing is hard work, a huge commitment of time, energy, encourage students to take an active role in understanding the value of the faith, passion, and there’s nothing shameful in the attempt, even if the English BA degree as well as to learn how to speak about specific skill sets work doesn’t end up succeeding.” Julia Alvarez. learned across their course of study. Above all, the Senior Portfolio may Building upon an essay that you have already written in the Sac become a significant resource that can be downloaded by students prior to State English Department, students will revise that essay for a larger graduation and used as a resource to apply for jobs or graduate programs. As audience, such as at a conference or symposium. Revision is not editing or a two-unit on-line course, students will explore several degree-related and proofreading, but a lengthy, intensive process of evaluating and rethinking career-related assignments, such as: a final student-centered assessment your original argument and of reworking it for more clarity and a specific essay; one or two writing samples; reflection essays on departmental and audience/purpose. Students will revise with a specific audience in mind in civic engagement; career exploration statement; training in producing a order to move beyond the habit of “writing for the Professor.” Emphasis cover letter and résumé or curriculum vitae; and, creative activities will be on the writing process and will include drafts and revisions and a exploring accomplishments in the major. variety of analytical essay formats. Presentation: Independent Study.
Requirements: Short Essays. Professional Writing (Statements, Cover Bachman & Dambock. (2017). Language Assessment Letter, CV). for Classroom Teachers. ISBN: 978-019421839 Booklist: Canvas Reader (Essays, YouTube Lectures, TEDTalks)
201D: Contemporary Literary Theory (4 units) -Ghosal W 6:30-9:20pm 198X: Senior Portfolio (2 units) - Montgomery This course introduces students to the place of theoretical texts Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) in literary studies and engages with theory through a survey of This is a fully on-line course that asks you to assemble a set of approaches and/or a thematic inquiry. It exposes students to a wide reflections on your experience in the major and your goals—including range of aesthetic and cultural approaches that grew out of the decline career goals— for the future. For those who have done work on independent of ‘New Criticism’ in the twentieth century. These approaches include projects in their four unit classes, it will also give you time to edit and reflect but are not limited to structuralism, poststructuralism, narratology, on those, building a portfolio for future job applications, graduate school psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonial and critical race studies. The applications, etc. For those of you who haven’t had a chance yet to do those syllabus will survey key theoretical schools and require students to independent projects, it will give you some options, such as developing a engage with theory through rigorous discussion. It will also require creative project based on some of your readings in your other courses. students to read literary anchor texts using different theoretical lenses. Presentation: Independent and Fully online course. Requirements: Several reflection pieces, creative projects, and The course is intended to offer students a comprehensive overview of professional writing (including draft CV). literary theory rather than cover special topics in theory. Booklist: Several short readings on Canvas or a through a class ENGL. 201D thus contains knowledge essential for anyone reader who lays claim to a graduate degree in English with a concentration in literature. It also contains knowledge essential for anyone who plans to teach literature at the high school or at the college level. Presentation: Lecture-discussion. 198X: Senior Portfolio (2 units) - Williams Requirements: Reading quizzes, Timed Analysis Exercises, and Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) Essays. This is a fully on-line course that asks you to assemble a set of Texts: Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Ryan. Literary Theory: reflections on your experience in the major and your goals—including An Anthology. Third ed., John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, career goals—for the future. For those who have done work on independent 2017; Felski, Rita and Elizabeth Anker (ed.), projects in their four unit classes, it will also give you time to edit and reflect Critique and Postcritique, Duke University Press, on those, building a portfolio for future job applications, graduate school 2017; William Shakespeare’s The Tempest; Toni applications, etc. For those of you who haven’t had a chance yet to do those Morrison’s Jazz independent projects, it will give you some options, such as developing a creative project based on some of your readings in your other courses. Presentation: Independent and Fully online course. Requirements: Several reflection pieces, creative projects, and 215A: Reading/Vocabulary Acquisition (3 units) - Komiyama professional writing (including draft CV). MW 4:30-5:45pm Booklist: Several short readings on Canvas or a through a class This course will examine classroom approaches, materials, and reader. assessment options appropriate for reading and vocabulary instruction for adult learners of English. Topics will include theoretical foundations of reading skills development and vocabulary acquisition, teaching of second language literacy and vocabulary, principles of content-based instruction, 198X: Senior Portfolio (2 units) - Zarins textbooks and materials design, lesson planning and syllabus design, and Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) assessment techniques. In this course, students, as one element of their capstone Presentation: Seminar. experience, will reflect on their work in their classes and portfolio projects; Requirements: Lesson planning and materials development the English major, its structure, curriculum, and values; their career goals assignments; a classroom visit/teacher interview and life-long learning; and the meanings of education and literacies in the report; a take-home exam; an activity demonstration. academy and popular cultures. Students will edit and finalize their senior Prerequisites: See TESOL prerequisites. portfolio. Credit/No Credit Texts: (1) Birch, B. M. (2014 OR 2020), English L2 Reading: Note: On-line course, asynchronous Getting to the Bottom (3rd OR 4th Ed.). Routledge; (2) Grabe, W. & Stoller, F. (2019). Teaching and Researching: Reading (4th Ed.). Pearson; (3) Zimmerman, C. B. (2008). Word Knowledge. Oxford 200E. Curriculum and Assessment (3 units) - Heather University Press. MW 3:00-4:15pm This course will introduce language teachers to the multiple factors which influence the design of curricula and assessment instruments. The course takes the view that curricula and assessment are part of a single 215B: ESL Writing/Composition (3 units) - Heather ongoing, collaborative, reiterative process which is influenced by a wide TR 6:00-7:15pm range of theoretical principles and educational and institutional factors. The This course provides the groundwork to prepare teachers of class will combine discussions and workshops to identify and explore the English to speakers of other languages for composition instruction. An role of these factors in curriculum and assessment design. examination of the theoretical bases of composing processes and Presentation: Seminar. correction/revision strategies will enable students to plan writing lessons. Prerequisites: None. This course will also cover syllabus design, text evaluation, and writing Requirements: Semester-long individual projects; two summary- assessment. analyses. NOTE: This is a hybrid course where approximately 50% of class meetings Texts: Graves, K. (2000). Designing Language Courses. will occur online. ISBN:978-0838479094; Requirements: Tutoring; written assignments; lesson-planning project; group projects.
Texts: Ferris & Hedgcock (2013), Teaching ESL 230A: Writing Fiction (4 units) - Staff Composition: Purpose, Process, & Practice (3rd Ed.) M 6:30-9:20pm ISBN-13:978-0-415-89472-2; Seminar in the workshop format designed for experienced writers of Matsuda, P., Cox, M, Jordan, J. , & Ortmeier-Hooper, fiction. It is designed to provide intensive instruction in the theory and C. (Eds.). (2006). Second-language writing in the composition classroom. ISBN-13:978-0-312-44473-0 craft of writing short stories, novels, and screenplays.
240Z: Order in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, its Maintenance 220D: Teaching and Composition Research (4 units) - Clark-Oates and Disruption; or, The Inessential Shakespeare (4 units) - Gieger TR 4:30-5:45pm Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) English 220D is a graduate seminar examining the history and the current trends of research methods and methodologies in Writing Studies. An investigation into early modern ideologies of order as well as This course is designed to prepare students to write MA theses in challenges/revisions to these hierarchies in the plays of William Composition and to prepare Composition Certificate students to engage in Shakespeare. This semester, however, we will bring such historicist, action research to inform their teaching practice. We will explore the ways cultural, and political approaches to Shakespeare plays that are not research has been conducted in Writing Studies, and you will draw on what necessarily “high” canon (interesting/quirky in their own ways, they’re you’ve learned about research in Writing Studies to design and conduct your plays that I enjoy and want to share with you, so let’s say they’re “lesser own pilot research project or proposal. known” rather than “inessential”). In other words, if you have read and/or We will explore the following questions: studied many of the Big Titles in the Shakespeare repertory, this is your • What are the exigencies in Writing Studies research? chance to discover/revisit some plays that normally don’t get taught (I won't say “get studied” because, c'mon, it's Shakespeare! Thus, I figured this • What theories inform research in Writing Studies? would be a good 240Z topic for this all-online moment since even non- • What types of methods do writing studies researchers choose? canonical Shakespeare will have a lot written about it and available online). • What ethical principles guide research in writing studies? We will start with the three Henry VI history/chronicle plays and Richard • How should research inform the teaching of writing? III (okay, that last play is pretty canonical, but it completes the not-as- famous “first tetralogy”). Then, we will move on to an early romantic • How can the teaching of writing contribute to research in writing comedy (Love's Labour’s Lost), a “problem play” that mixes the comic and studies? the tragic (Troilus and Cressida), a tragedy (Coriolanus—this play is pretty • What are some of the central issues and scholarly debates in close to canon these days), and a late romance (Pericles). We will work with Writing Studies research? the McDonald Bedford Companion as well as many other secondary works Texts: Not yet finalized, but likely titles include: to help us read and contextualize these texts. Creswell, J.W. (2014). Research design: Qualitative, Presentation: Asynchronous on-line Lecture/Discussion Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Los Requirements: Reading Response Papers, PowerPoint Presentations, Angeles: Sage; Paper Proposal and Review of Criticism/Annotated Nickoson, L., & Sheridan, M.P. (Eds.). (2012). Bibliography, Researched Seminar Paper Writing studies research in practice: Methods and Texts: Russ McDonald, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents (2nd Methodologies. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Edition: Bedford/St. Martin’s, ISBN: University Press. 978-0312248802); William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part One; Henry VI, Part Two; and Henry VI, Part Three (Signet Classics, ISBN: 978-0451529848); Richard III (Norton Critical Edition, ISBN: 978- 220P: Professional Writing (4 units) -Laflen 0393929591); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Modern MW 6:00-7:15pm Library/Random House, ISBN: 978-0812969146); This course will introduce you to the most common Troilus and Cressida (Penguin/Pelican Shakespeare, professional writing genres used in career fields ranging from business ISBN: 978-0143131755); Coriolanus (Oxford UP, to public relations to nonprofit management. Focuses on how business ISBN: 978-0199535804); Pericles (New Folger or technical communication is different from academic styles and Library/Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 978-0743273299). introduces students to the current writing challenges and practices in these fields. Students will gain instruction and practice composing various essential writing formats, such as memos, reports, and feasibility studies. 250F: Whitman and Dickinson (4 units) - Sweet During this online section of English 220P you will gain real- TR 4:30-5:45pm world experience as a professional writing researcher by participating Once asked to define poetry, Emily Dickinson responded, “If I in semester-long professional writing research project. This means that read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I in addition to the hands-on experience you will gain, you will also have know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken the chance to contribute to original research in professional writing. As off, I know that is poetry.” The works of both Dickinson and her contemporary Walt Whitman often strike receptive readers with such a class, we will research how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted the work power. These two innovative, nineteenth-century U.S. poets broke all the of professionals in diverse positions and fields, and you will use this literary rules of their age as they composed works that challenge the very research to write a conference-length paper presenting the results of our notion of what poetry is and what it can do. While Whitman set out to research. construct a poetic voice grand enough to speak for his nation in the self- Requirements: Participation, weekly reading, regularly scheduled described “barbaric yawp” of Leaves of Grass, the elusive and intensely writing assignments and activities (some of which private Dickinson would liken her own poetic voice to a “loaded gun,” involve collaboration), a final project. whose report would sound from surrounding mountains. In common, the Texts: Solving Problems in Technical Communication, by two writers would harness the power of poetic expression to explore such Johndan Johnson-Eilola (Editor), Stuart A. Selber vital, subversive, and urgent themes as sex and the body, death, desire, (Editor); The Non-Designers Design Book, 4th loneliness, transcendence and despair. In this course, we will read the poetry edition, Robin Williams (Author) of both authors alongside contemporary writings and a selection of critical works.
Requirements: Weekly online participation, presentation, analytical 500: Culminating Experience (2 units) - Rice essays. M 6:30-9:20pm Texts Likely to Include: Michael Moon, ed.: Leaves of Grass and Other All English MA students signing up for English 500 (project, Writings (Norton ISBN: 978-0393974966);. R.W. Franklin, literature comprehensive exam, creative writing comprehensive exam, and ed.: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition (Belknap thesis) should fill out the sign-off sheets for the Culminating Experience ISBN: 978-0674018242); Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature and (English 500) found on the English Department website, Selected Essays (Penguin ISBN: 978-0142437629) and a https://csus.instructure.com/courses/63359/pages/graduate-ma-forms selection of critical essays that will be available online please go to Permission to ENGLISH 500 and use the proper form. This form can be turned as soon as your registration period for Spring 2021 is open and you have collected the appropriate signatures and required material; the form must be submitted no later than the second week of the 410A: Writing Center: Internships (4 units) - Staff Spring 2021 semester. For students preparing to take the Comprehensive TR 4:30-5:45pm Examination in Literature: this class will meet a few times before the exam Provides interns with an opportunity to apply tutoring principles in April; meetings are directed solely towards 500 students who are studying while working at tutors in the writing center. This course will also have a for the comprehensive exam in literature. Students studying for the guided project that will require approximately fifty hours of work over Comprehensive Examination in Creative Writing should contact the the course of the semester. creative writing faculty. Other students working on theses and projects Note: ENGL 195A is a paired course with ENGL 410A, but the graduate should register for 500, but need not attend any class meetings. Shortly level class has a significantly increased reading, writing, and research before the start of the semester, Professor Rice will e-mail registered 500 component. May be repeated for up to 8 units of credit. students with a list of meeting times and topics for the exam class. The purpose of the meetings is not to teach texts on the exam list; rather, we will discuss strategies for studying and practicing for the exam. The focus will be on general literary knowledge and themes, skills for timed writing, understanding the exam format, what readers look for, and managing 410B: Internship – ESL Teaching (3 units) - Komiyama anxiety productively TR 4:30-5:45pm Texts: For students preparing to take the comprehensive exam, the Students will serve as interns in an approved ESL course. They will suggested books are: Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An observe the class and assist their mentor teachers (i.e., instructor of record Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. New York: of the ESL course) by helping with small group activities, leading whole Manchester University Press, 2009. Isbn: 978-0719079276 ; group discussions, designing activities, creating materials, etc. (The Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. Malden, MA: students’ responsibilities as interns vary, depending on the assigned course Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Isbn: 9781405192286 ; Parker, and the mentor teacher.) The seminar meetings will provide students with Robert Dale. How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for opportunities to reflect on their experiences as an intern, as well as receive Literary and Cultural Studies. New York: Oxford University peer feedback on their teaching experiences. Contact [email protected] Press; 2011. Poplawski, Paul. English Literature in Context. New to enroll in the class. York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Isbn: 9780521549288; Presentation: Seminar-workshop. Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Guide. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2006. Isbn: 0415974100 Hellen Lee, Prerequisites: TESOL prerequisites; requires instructor consent. Guidelines for Critical Reading, Thinking, and Writing 978- Requirements: Semester-long interning in an ESL class; one teaching 1581525328 observation conducted by 410B instructor; a portfolio (which includes: an observation/teaching log, a critical- incident analysis; lesson plans and supplementary materials; a reflection on second language learning and 598T: TESOL Culminating Experience (3 units) - Heather teaching; one other piece of material of your choice, MW 6:00-7:15pm such as an example student work) Review of the field of TESOL in preparation for the M.A. Texts: (1) Richards, J. & Farrell, T. (2011). Practice teaching: Comprehensive Examination. TESOL students who choose the thesis or A reflective approach. ISBN-13 978-0-521-18622-3; (2) project options for the culminating experience should also register for this Scrivener, J. (2012). Classroom management course. techniques. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Presentation: Seminar. ISBN-13: 978-0-521-74185-9. Prerequisites: TESOL program required courses and linguistics electives. Requirements: Discussion leading, comprehensive examination. Text: No book required.
410E: Internship in Teaching Writing (4 units) - Laflen Asynchronous (no scheduled class meetings) Students considering a teaching career intern in a composition class at Sacramento State. They work with a mentor teacher via their online course shell and meet periodically online with the internship coordinator. The internship provides students with an opportunity to experience the day- to-day life of an online composition class and hands-on opportunity to design learning activities, low-stakes process assignments, respond to student writing, conduct class discussions, etc. Students read composition and rhetorical theory with an eye toward day-to-day application in the classroom. This internship is open to students seeking a certificate in teaching composition or in the composition MA. Contact Dr. Laflen for more information.