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English Course Descriptions English Course LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES ENG 200-001 Understanding Literature MWF 1:00-1:50 - Green LITERATURE CREATIVE WRITING CINEMA & CULTURE WRITING STUDIES STUDIES Fall 2020 Fall Northern Kentucky University Kentucky Northern English Course Descriptions English Course LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 200-001 Understanding Literature MWF 1:00-1:50 - Green This course will enable students to understand multiple perspectives and identities through the study of fiction, poetry, drama, and visual narrative. Authors to be studied may include: Herman Melville, Jamaica Kincaid, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and T.S. Eliot. FULFILLS: Culture & Creativity Gen Ed, Core Course for English Majors LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 200-002 Understanding Literature TR 9:25-10:40 pm – Soliday This course will introduce students to English studies (what it is, why we do it, how it is useful) through studying a variety of genres (such as poetry, drama, fiction, and prose), periods, authors, styles, etc. Students should leave ENG 200 with a basic understanding of literary studies, including critical analysis, close reading, and writing about literature; a desire to read for pleasure; and basic skills in reading and critical interpretation. Texts may include Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Leslie Mar- mon Silko’s Ceremony, Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and selected poetry. FULFILLS: Culture & Creativity Gen Ed, Core Course for English Majors LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 200-003 Understanding Literature MW 2:00-3:15 pm – Walton The course will primarily look at the three major genres in literature. I half jokingly call it “mostly Irish” because for many of the examples of the three genres I have chosen Irish writers, because of my own interest in Ireland and Irish literature. The students read sections of Gulliver’s Travels, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. These narratives will be supplemented with videos and discussions of various possible approaches to those narratives. Then, we move on to poetry and examine various elements of poetry and the poetic tradition, looking at many various writers and traditions from William Shakespeare to the writers of the Harlem Renaissance. We end with an examination of Tragedy and Comedy by reading, discussing and viewing selected videos of the plays Oedipus and Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. We also discuss such far flung comic traditions at Slap Stick and Black Humor. I also offer many extra credit opportunities and encourage my students to bring in their own creative work. FULFILLS: Culture & Creativity Gen Ed, Core Course for English Majors LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 202-001 Survey of British Literature I MWF 1:00-1:50 pm - Gores This course offers a survey of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the eighteenth century. In this survey, we will trace the historical development of a national canon of literature and of literary genres, including epic and lyric poetry, drama, satire, and the novel. We will also focus on several interrelated themes that recur in the selected texts: the individual’s relation to society--his/her duties, codes of conduct, and violations of those codes—and relations between the sexes. Starting with Beowulf, the class will then move into the literature of the Middle Ages with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The English Renaissance will be represented by a group of love poems alongside Shakespeare’s final solo play, The Tempest. Milton’s epic re-telling of Genesis, Paradise Lost, sits squarely in the middle of the reading list, followed by our only true novel, Oroonoko, Aphra Behn’s tragic story about an enslaved African prince. The semester wraps up with a trio of 18th-century readings:Gulliver’s Travels, The Rape of the Lock, and a final comedic play, She Stoops to Conquer. This survey will give you a great foundation in early English literature! FULFILLS: Core Course for English Majors and English Secondary Education Majors LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 202-002 Survey of British Literature I ONLINE – Kent-Drury Raymond William said that at any time, some components of culture were residual (from the past) and some were emergent (new and pointing toward growing, later importance. In this course, we study important concepts underlying the literature and culture of the medieval, renaissance, and 17th/18th century periods of British literature, focusing on materials that help us understand how literature functioned in the past, but also how we came to understand ourselves as “modern.” We also consider materials you will not study in later courses, but which will help you understand materials you will encounter later in your academic study of literature. as well as why people resort to literature to explain what exceeds humans to comprehend and express the inexpressible--in other words, how humans persist, and how imaginitive thinking exceeds understanding. Come join us. FULFILLS: Core Course for English Majors and English Secondary Education Majors LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 203-001 Survey of British Literature II M 2:00-3:15 pm – Kapadia This course will introduce students to Romantic, Victorian, and Twentieth- Century British Literature. We will read and discuss works from the canonical British tradition as well as literature by emerging authors. We will explore the historical and cultural foundations of canon formation and expansion. Throughout the semester we will work to develop close reading and critical analysis skills. Authors we will read include: William Wordsworth, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Virginia Woolf, and Salman Rushdie, among many others. FULFILLS: Core Course for English Majors and English Secondary Education Majors LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 206-001 Western World Literature I MW 2:00-3:15 pm - Kent-Drury Before the evolution of nation-states--like Great Britain, the United States, and other “national” states , the idea of history was different. European societies saw themselves as the inheritors of Greek and Roman societies, informed by later Judeo- Christian belief. In other words--they saw history and its literary traditions as their own, collapsed into the present moment--not as “native” to them, but as the basis of their “own” literatures. In this course, we study what this meant to people of the classical (Greek and Roman); Medieval; and Renaissance periods, with a focus on what European influences and concepts teach us about later British and American traditions. Our goal is to understand how the traditions of British and American literatures were formed from past and contemporary influences, and why, while building a basis for understanding materials you will study in later courses. Come join us. FULFILLS: Core Course for English Secondary Education Majors, Group A in Literary and Cultural Studies Track LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 208-001 Survey of American Literature I TR 1:40-2:55 pm – Walton In this course students will understand the concepts that inform the development of American literature in both their socio/historical and literary contexts through the Colonial, Federalist, and Romantic periods and gain familiarity with the major authors and works of these periods. Students will also synthesize understanding of the literature and the culture of the pre-Civil War United States and, by extension, the aesthetics associated with the Native American oral tradition, the Puritan tradition, the Enlightenment, and Romanticism through group work, oral presentations, and/or written assignments, which could include reaction papers and critical analyses as well as library and internet research using MLA format. FULFILLS: Core Course for English Majors LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 209-001 Survey of American Literature II TR 10:50-12:05 pm – Soliday This course introduces students to the genres of poetry, drama, novel, and short story from the Civil War to the present. Course readings will feature works by men and women authors reflecting diverse ethnic, regional, class, and racial backgrounds. These readings help illustrate how all segments of the American populace have contributed to form our culture, and specifically American literature. FULFILLS: Core Course for English Majors LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 212-001 Literatures of Inclusion TR 12:15-1:30 - Yohe In this section of Literatures of Inclusion, we will explore how selections from multicultural American fiction, poetry, film, and autobiography address issues of identity formation. Our focus will be on how these texts engage multiple representations of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. We also will consider how these works engage issues—and sometimes intersections—of manhood, womanhood, religious identification, cultural identity, history, power dynamics, and more. We will read and discuss literary works by Sandra Cisneros, Jhumpa Lahiri, Frank X Walker, Janis Mirikitani, Toni Morrison, Gerda Weissmann Klein, and Khaled Hosseini. We also will watch and analyze the film Black Panther. FULFILLS: Cultural Pluralism Gen Ed LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES & CULTURAL LITERARY ENG 217 - 001 Survey of African American Literature to 1940 TR 1:40-2:55 pm - Yohe In this introductory class, which covers a wide range of early African American writers, we will explore writings from many genres from 1773 to the late 1930s. We will give special attention to cultural, political,
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