Graduate Courses
Description of Courses
Fall 2008
ENGL 242 Literary Editing and Publishing, instructor Connie Hales: Students will help with all aspects of administering the 2008 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry competition.
ENGL 243 Seminar in Form and Theory of Fiction, instructor Steve Yarbrough
Seminars in Literature and/or Critical Theory
ENGL 250T Distaff Tradition, instructor Dr. Laurel Hendrix:
This course traces the British literary tradition in sixteenth and seventeenth century on the distaff/women's side. Reading, discussion, and analysis of poetry, prose, and drama produced by major British women writers, 1550-1700.
ENGL 250T Film Theory, instructor Dr. Mike Tate:
Comprehensive introduction to film theory: Structural and post structural approaches, psychology and sociology of film art. Students present group analysis of selected films (project) and final paper.
ENGL 250T Northern Middle Ages, instructor Dr. Lisa Weston:
Although the influences of Latin, Norman French and (later) Italian literaturesare better known, Medieval British literary culture also owed much to Britain's geographical and historical position within the world(s) of the North Atlantic. This course will focus on the Celtic and Norse literatures and cultures, especially in so far as they impacted literature in England before 1300. Readings will include eddic and skaldic verse and prose sagas from the Old Norse/Icelandic canon, and Old Irish and Middle Welsh prose narratives and lyrics, as well as a gathering of literary examples of cultural transference of myth, genre, and poetic form into "English" texts.
ENGL 250T Asian American Literature, instructor Dr. Samina Najmi
ENGL 250T Experimental American Nonfiction, instructor Steven Church
ENGL 278T Rhetoric Fiction, instructor Dr. Bo Wang
Workshop Classes
ENGL 261 Poetry, instructor Connie Hales
ENGL 263 Fiction, instructor David Anthony Durham
ENGL 265 Creative Nonfiction, instructor John Hales