Course Bulletin Spring 2012 Semester
English Courses
ENG 0099 BASIC SKILLS
09:00 AM - 09:50 AM MWF Cynthia Newlon
ENG 1010 COMPOSITION
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM MWF Sheila Rhea McNulty
03:00 PM - 03:50 PM MWF
ENG 1020 COMPOSITION II
Various Times English Faculty
ENG 1950 ST: ESL – ENGLISH
09:00 AM -09:50 AM MWF Cynthia Newlon
ENG 2050 VOCABULARY I
11:00 AM -11:50 AM MW Cynthia Newlon
Vocabulary I is a course that builds vocabulary and reading skills with roots and stems of the English language, practice exercises, and readings that reinforce and promote word-building skills, especially for those who plan on post-graduate work.
ENG 3000 INTRODUCTION TO LIT
Various Times English Faculty
ENG 3060 WESTERN LITERARY TRADTION
09:30 AM -10:45 AM TR Gillian Huang-Tiller
This course introduces major literary movements (Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, French Symbolism, Modernism, and Existentialism) and authors in the western world from the Neo-classical period to the present day. We will pay particular attention to the issues of the modern human condition and what it is to be a modern self, and explore authors’ responses to the issues in question. The course will include representative authors such as Molière, Voltaire, Goethe, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, Kafka, and Sartre.
ENG 3070 ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
12:00 PM -12:50 PM MWF Kenneth Tiller
This course centers on the development of the Arthur story in poetry and prose—including history and prose fiction—from its inception in medieval Britain through the modern period. Because the figure of King Arthur has been compelling throughout English history—witnessed by the numerous films and novels that ‘remake’ the legend—the course provides important background and insight into the development of a multifaceted and ever-renewing figure. Reading Arthurian texts their specific cultural and artistic contexts, we will discuss how this important legendary and literary figure has changed from his origins in medieval Britain to the twentieth century. This course also emphasizes close readings. It is not enough to get the “plot” of each work we read; you should consider the way different texts treat similar Arthurian themes and be prepared to discuss the reasons for these differences. Therefore, this course will acquaint you with the methods of critically reading and writing about works of literature.
ENG 3110 WOMEN IN LITERATURE
09:30 AM -10:45 AM TR Marla Weitzman
ENG 3120 TWL: INTRO TO POETRY
02:00 PM -02:50 PM MWF John M. Adrian
This course will introduce students to a wide range of poetic forms and genres. The goal is to not only engender an appreciation for poetry, but to develop critical methods of reading poetry as well as thinking and writing about poems. Writing assignments and class discussion will help you develop and demonstrate these skills on your own. Although individual poems will be connected to their historical and cultural contexts, the emphasis will be on the variety, defining characteristics, and function of various poetic genres. The course will not be chronological, but expect a wide sampling of major—and some minor—poets from the medieval to the contemporary.
ENG 3130 TAL: STUDIES IN AMERICAN HUMOR
11:00 AM-12:15 PM TR Gretchen Martin
ENG 3150 THE MYSTERY NOVEL
11:00 AM- 12:15 PM TR Marla Weitzman
ENG 3280 SURVEY OF BRITISH LIT.
12:30 PM -01:45 PM TR Christopher J Scalia
ENG 3710 18TH CENTURY BRITISH LIT
11:00 AM- 12:15 PM TR Christopher J Scalia
ENG 3820 SURVEY AMER POETRY/PROSE
02:00 PM-03:15 PM TR Gillian Huang-Tiller
This course surveys a significant range of works and introduces the rise of American literature(s) from the post-bellum period—when American literature came of age—to the post-modern era. We will begin the class by foregrounding the tension in American literature between the enormous yearning to forge a new literary and cultural identity and the need to come to terms with a European past. We will then explore how the developing idea of our national literature through its multi-cultural heritage provides an interpretive framework for our readings and how it gives rise to modern narrative and poetic forms. We will pay particular attention to the inter-relation of literature and culture, examining how issues of the formation of the modern American self relate to the literary trends, the American Dream, language and reality, politics and war, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and especially race. Students will consult both primary and secondary sources and will formulate their responses both in class discussion and in writing.
ENG 3960 ST: APPALACHIA IN LITERATURE
06:00 PM -08:45 PM M Amy Clark
ENG 4010 STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LIT
09:00 AM -09:50 AM MWF Kenneth Tiller
This course focuses on the major writers of the late fourteenth century, generally regarding as the greatest period in medieval English literature. With attention to the four major poets of the period—Chaucer, Langland, Gower, and the anonymous Gawain/Pearl poet—we will examine the major poetic forms of the period, including metrical poetry and the alliterative revival. We will further look at how each poet perfects the genres he(?) with, examining romance, spiritual allegory, debate, and epic in the context of late medieval (post-plague) England. Issues include: treatment of fortune and mutability, the decline of the “three estates” system as depicted in literature, the use of allegory, etc.
Texts for the course include: Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, The Romance of the Rose, Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, William Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman, Pearl, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure.
Requirements: one oral report (10%), one substantial research paper (50%), midterm and final exams (10% and 20% respectively), quizzes and class participation (10%).
ENG 4050 SHAKESPEARE: THE EARLY PLAYS
12:00 PM -12:50 PM MWF John M. Adrian
This course will sample 9-10 representative plays from Shakespeare’s early period (including all of the genres—comedies, histories, and tragedies—in which Shakespeare worked in the 1590s). Shakespeare has justly been called the most important figure in English literature. This course will search for clues in identifying his enormous influence and staying power, but we will also read Shakespeare critically and study him as a living author. How does Shakespeare’s craft grow and develop in these formative years? In particular, how does he subscribe to but also expand the conventions of the genres in which he worked? What questions (of his age and ours) do his plays grapple with and respond to? Are some of his plays better than others? By what standards? Much of our exploration of Shakespeare will be guided by close readings of passages that foreground issues of conflict, characterization, and theme. But we will also pay careful attention to the performative aspects of the plays. To that end, we will read select passages aloud, view film clips of key scenes, and attend productions of the plays themselves.
ENG 4070 THE 19TH CENTURY AMER LIT
09:30 AM -10:45 AM TR Gretchen Martin
ENG 4990 SENIOR SEMINAR 2
03:00 PM -05:00 PM MW John M. Adrian
French Courses
FRE 1010 ELEMENTARY FRENCH
11:00 AM -11:50 AM MWF Michael E. O'Donnell
FRE 1020 ELEMENTARY FRENCH II
Various Times French Faculty
FRE 2010 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH
12:00 PM -12:50 PM MWF Roman Zylawy
FRE 3210 ADVANCED FRENCH COMP
08:00 AM -09:15 AM TR Michael E. O'Donnell
FRE 4150 FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
To be announced Roman Zylawy
FRE 4560 FRENCH NOVEL
11:00 AM -11:50 AM MWF Roman Zylawy
German Courses
GER 1020 ELEMENTARY GERMAN
09:00 AM- 09:50 AM MWF Amelia J. Harris
GER 2020 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II
10:00 AM- 10:50 AM MWF Amelia J. Harris
GER 3150 THE GERMAN SHORT STORY
To be announced Amelia J. Harris
GER 3790 SURVEY OF GERMAN LIT
To be announced Amelia J. Harris
Spanish Courses
SPA 1010 ELEMENTARY SPANISH
08:00 AM- 08:50 AM MWF Clara Adame de Heu
12:00 PM -12:50 PM MWF
03:00 PM -03:50 PM MWF
SPA 1011 ELEMENTARY SPANISH LAN
09:00 AM- 09:50 AM M Donald Trivett
SPA 1020 ELEMENTARY SPANISH II
Various Times Spanish Faculty
SPA 1021 ELEMENTARY SPANISH LAN
Various Times Spanish Faculty
SPA 1030 ACCELERATED ELEMENTARY SPAN
08:00 AM- 08:50 AM MWF Anne Gilfoil
02:00 PM -02:50 PM MWF
SPA 2010 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH
Various Times Spanish Faculty
SPA 3010 INTRO. TO HISPANIC CIV
03:20 PM -04:35 PM TR Rut Roman'
SPA 3210 SPANISH CONVERSATION
12:30 PM- 01:45 PM TR Esteban Ponce
This course is mainly focused on developing oral skills in Spanish. The textbook used for this class is organized around a corpus of Hispanic Films that students will have to watch the movies before each class and the discussions will be about the language used in the movie, the different accents in the different regions and the Hispanic world, and the contents of the movies. Even thou listening and oral production of the language will be the main skills to develop in the class, there will be specific writing assignments and some grammar exercises also.
SPA 3270 ADVANCED GRAMMAR
08:00 AM -09:15 AM TR Clara Adame de Heu
SPA 3510 COLONIAL LATIN AMER LIT
11:00 AM -12:15 PM TR Rut Roman'
During this course we will read, study and discuss the literatures of native Spanish American cultures, the chronicles of the Spanish conquest of those native civilizations and the literary manifestations of the early Spanish colony in America. We will begin by reading early Mesoamerican mythologies such as the Popol Vuh, or the book of the community that tells the creation story of the Maya; the Chilam Balam, that preserves important traditional knowledge such as prophecies about the coming of the Spaniards to Yucatan. We will study pre-Hispanic Quechwa poetry and drama (native language spoken in the Andes).
In a second stage we will read the chronicles of the Spanish Conquest: firsthand accounts from the explorers, soldiers and missionaries that fought for church, crown, and gold. Among this group we will read the letters of Cristóbal Colón; those of Hernán Cortés, conqueror of Mexico; and Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one the soldiers of Cortés, who wrote a remarkable history of the conquest of Mexico; the history of the destruction of the Indies by the Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas that made him the “apostle of the Indians” and the author of the “black legend” of Spain.
We will also study early colonial poetry such as Chile's epic poem, La Araucana (1569) by Alonso de Ercilla, a soldier who described the conflict between the Spaniards and the Mapuches of Chile; the works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, a direct descendant of Incan lineage, who gives detailed account of his royal family and the history of the Incas of Peru. We will then finish our approach with the works of a 17th century extraordinary poet and nun: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
Textbook: Chang-Rodríguez, Raquel, Filer, Malva E. Voces de Hispanoamérica. Antología literaria. Cuarta edición. Boston: Heinle, 2011.
SPA 3950 ST:19C SPAN-ANGLO A
09:30 AM -10:45 AM TR Esteban Ponce
