Spring 2020 Courses That Fulfill English Distribution British/Irish Literature Pre-18
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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH COURSE DESCRIPTIONS: SPRING 2020 COURSES THAT FULFILL ENGLISH DISTRIBUTION BRITISH/IRISH LITERATURE PRE-1800 MEDIEVAL 2101 Foundations of Brit Lit I 3160 Fabulous Middle Ages 3260 Revenge Tragedy RENAISSANCE 2101 Foundations of Brit Lit I 3290 Revengers, Murderers, Malcontents 3440 Harlots, Rakes and Libertines RESTORATION & 18th CENTURY 2101 Foundations of Brit Lit I 3440 Harlots, Rakes and Libertines 19th CENTURY BRITISH/IRISH LIT 3530 Victorian Doubles AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1900 4001 Major American Writers I 4003 African-American Lit Tradition I AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER 1900 2301 Lit of Science Fiction 4622 African-American Women Writers 4647 Gender and Sexuality English courses, 2000-5000, Spring 2020 /2 Note Course Numbering Format: 2000 range: courses focused on writing, theory, methodology, genre, and literature in translation 3000 range: courses on British, Irish, and other anglophone literature/culture beyond the Americas 4000 range: courses on literature/culture of the Americas Courses offered that count for the Minor/Concentration in Creative Writing: 1842 Freshman Creative 2009 Writing/Traditional Writing Novel 2003 Intro to Creative Writing 2016 Writing Speculative 2006 Writing of Poetry Fiction Courses offered that count for the GIS:Major/Minor in Africana Studies 4003 African American 4622 African American Literary Tradition I Women Writers Courses offered that count for the GIS: Major in Cultural Studies 2046 Teaching English as a 2302 Apocalyptic 2nd Language Literature 2360 Adaptation: Film as 2410 The Art of Lit Translation Courses offered that count for the Major/Minor in Gender & Women’s Studies 2350 Narrative Television 5000-1 Senior Seminar: 3440 Harlots Rakes and Immigrant Libertines English courses, 2000-5000, Spring 2020 /3 Courses offered that count for the Major/ Minor in Peace & Justice: 2046 Teaching English 2nd 5000-1 Senior Seminar: Language American Immigrant Narratives Courses offered that count for the Minor/Concentration in Writing and Rhetoric: 2003 Intro to Creative Writing 2045 Sports Writing 2006 Writing of Poetry 2046 Teaching English 2nd 2009 Writing/Traditional Language Novel 2070 Legal Writing ad 2016 Writing Speculative Analysis Fiction 2250 Ways of Reading 2020 Digital Journalism 2991 English Majors in the 2030 Tutoring Writers Workplace Other programs also offer courses that count for English credit: Check the English listings in Novasis and Nova Schedule Builder. English courses, 2000-5000, Spring 2020 /4 A Message from the Chair Hi, Everyone! As you’ll notice throughout this booklet, we’ve modified a number of our course numbers this year. We’ve given official catalog numbers to many courses previously run as “special topics.” We’ve also modified the meaning of existing number ranges. The 3000s, which were once exclusively British offerings, now include non-American Anglophone literature from across the globe. Our 4000s now incorporate the literature of the Americas broadly, including Latin America and the Caribbean. Our two senior seminars, “Lear and Adaptations,” and, “Immigrant Literature,” will offer you a variety of ways of synthesizing the thinking you’ve done about literature throughout your four years at Villanova. There are some interesting possible clusters of courses you might pursue this semester. If you like science fiction, you could consider taking “Science Fiction,” “Apocalyptic Literature,” “Tolkein and the Inklings,” and our new “Writing Speculative Fiction” creative writing workshop. If you’re excited about exploring visual narrative, you could take our new “Narrative Television” course, along with “Adaptation: Film as Literature,” and our Heimbold Chair course “Film and the Irish Nation.” I also want to urge you to consider taking our indispensable English 2991 “English Majors in the Workplace” one-credit course. This course provides you with a remarkable skillset—the ability to deeply understand and clearly articulate to prospective employers the abilities you have cultivated as an English major. Similarly, I hope you’ll consider exploring internship opportunities. The process is explained in this booklet in the English 2993 section. I’m happy to answer any questions about the internship process at [email protected]. As always, please let me know if you have any suggestions about courses or programs you would like to see offered in the future! Best, Dr. Hicks English courses, 2000-5000, Spring 2020 /5 ADVANCED ENGLISH COURSES ENG 2003-001 Introduction to Creative Writing MW 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM Cathy Staples In this introductory course, students will develop as creative writers and readers through a series of prompts and exercises, weekly reading of literature, and workshops. We will look at such writers as Natasha Trethewey, Gabriel García Márquez, Anne Beattie, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Eleanor Wilner, Louise Erdrich, Gretel Ehrlich, Ross Gay, Paisley Rekdal, Virginia Woolf, Anthony Doerr and others. We will study writing we admire, trying to figure out what makes it tick and hum, how to follow its leads. Students will begin by writing creative non-fiction, drawing upon memory and sense of place, then move on to poetry and short fiction, engaging imagination as well as utilizing research. One genre will lay the groundwork for the next. We’ll examine word choice, imagery, metaphor, sound, and form—as well as the sentence and the line. The focus will be on process: the pursuit and discovery of technique and strategy that help us to find our clearest voices, even our subjects. The final portfolio involves revision and polishing of selected pieces. English courses, 2000-5000, Spring 2020 /6 This course number can be taken multiple times This course counts towards the minor in Creative Writing This course counts toward the minor/concentration in Writing and Rhetoric ENG 2006-001 Writing of Poetry TR 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Lisa Sewell This course will immerse you in the practice of reading and writing poetry with a special emphasis on collaboration. While we will study the fundamentals of poetry—imagery, figurative language, voice, sound, rhythm, line and form—we will also expand our definitions of what a poem can look and sound like, exploring what happens when we work with, borrow (or steal) from, and respond to others. Collaborating with images, places, documents, works of art, other poems, and other people can be fun, illuminating, eye- opening and surprising. It can allow you to explore your creativity in new and exciting ways. Over the course of the semester, we will create poems that collaborate with others in a host of ways, writing English courses, 2000-5000, Spring 2020 /7 poems that respond to fine art or other images, poems that are built out of other poems or other source texts, poems that are uncovered or found within already published works we love and admire. We will also collaborate with each other to create group-based and dual-authored poems and write poems that incorporate the news, history, science, and the non-human world. We will read individual poems, as well as excerpts from books that will provide us with examples of some of the different forms poetic collaboration can take. The poets we’ll read will include Ross Gay, Robin Coste Lewis, Brenda Shaughnessy, Diane Gillam Fisher, Julia Kasdorf, Philip Metres, Jena Osman, Adrian Matejka, Srikanth Reddy, Solmaz Sharif, Claudia Rankine and Brian Teare. We will also read each other’s poems and work together to become careful, exacting, but generous critics. Previous experience or knowledge is not required – just a desire to read and write poems. Requirements: Active participation in class discussion and workshops; weekly poems and reading journal; in-class writing exercises; final creative project of poems including revisions; and a presentation. This course number can be taken multiple times This course counts towards the minor in Creative Writing This course counts toward the minor/concentration in Writing and Rhetoric English courses, 2000-5000, Spring 2020 /8 ENG 2009-001 Writing the Traditional Novel TR 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM Alan Drew Writing long fiction can be like running a marathon: a long, stamina-stretching affair filled with pain, excitement, epiphany, and an immense sense of accomplishment. This course is designed for students eager to leap into the complex process of writing a novella or short novel. This process will include not only the reading of longer pieces by well-established contemporary authors, but also the production of your own novella or chapters of a novel. The goals of this course are to analyze from a writer’s perspective the work of a number of contemporary novella and short novel writers, use what you learn through this process to inform your own writing, and foster a creative, thoughtful environment in which to create original works of narrative fiction. Since the instructor of this course will also be working on a novel, he will share his own work and process with the class. The class will also discuss issues particular to the serious writer: how to approach your work, how to overcome writers’ block, how to deal with the emotional hurdles of spending hours alone writing, how and when to publish, and various other problems that arise during the creative process. Class time will be divided among reading published stories, writing exercises that emphasize elements of craft and structure, exploration of purpose in your writing, and constructive discussion of students’ works in a workshop format. Since good writers are also good readers,