Department of English
100-level Literature & Linguistics Courses
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103 - Experimental Course- Essentials of Professional & Business Writing
103-01 MWF 11:00-11:50 - B. Yarbrough
An introductory course in written professional and business communication needed for success in work settings. The primary emphasis is on understanding the rhetorical principles of writing in business and professional settings. Learning outcomes include developing the ability to construct purposes, recognize audiences, and devise strategies for writing clear, concise, messages; ensuring that effective communication accommodates a global, diverse workforce with different backgrounds, perceptions, and cultures; following formatting protocols and procedures; producing grammatically accurate, professional documents; analyzing others’ writings; collaborating on assignments; and distinguishing among different genres and styles of writing.
103-02 MWF 13:00-13:50 - B. Yarbrough
An introductory course in written professional and business communication needed for success in work settings. The primary emphasis is on understanding the rhetorical principles of writing in business and professional settings. Learning outcomes include developing the ability to construct purposes, recognize audiences, and devise strategies for writing clear, concise, messages; ensuring that effective communication accommodates a global, diverse workforce with different backgrounds, perceptions, and cultures; following formatting protocols and procedures; producing grammatically accurate, professional documents; analyzing others’ writings; collaborating on assignments; and distinguishing among different genres and styles of writing.
104 - Approach to Literature
All 104 sections meet General Education Core
Requirements for Literature (GLT) and AULER/CLER (BL/CBL)
104-01 MW 15:30-16:45 - R. Bowman
104-02 MWF 10:00-10:50 - J. Rosenblum
104-03 MWF 12:00-12:50 - T. Atchison
104-04 MW 15:30-16:45 - J. Whitaker
104-05 TR 8:00-9:15 - S. Simpson
In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “Arturo’s Flight,” the teenaged narrator from the barrio in modern-day New Jersey imagines a connection between himself and the clever seducer of John Donne’s “The Flea.” This, perhaps, is the power of literature—the power to stretch beyond the boundaries of time and speak to the experiences of human beings from different walks of life. This course will serve as a guided tour of the expansive world of poetry, short fiction, and drama. We will learn how to analyze these texts through the lenses of several literary theories as we discuss the ways in which these pieces speak to our understanding of the human experience.
104-06 TR 12:30-13:45 - C. Tedder
104-07 TR 15:30-16:45 - B. Beshere
104-08 MWF 8:00-8:50 - D. Hall
104-09 MW 18:00-19:15 - R. Bowman
104-10 MWF 13:00-13:50 - W. Johnson
104-11 TR 12:30-13:45 - J. Watson
105 - Introduction to Narrative
All 105 sections meet General Education Core Requirements for Literature (GLT) and AULER/CLER (BL/CBL)
105-01 MWF 9:00-9:50 - D. Phillips
105-02 MWF 12:00-12:50 - D. Hall
105-03 MWF 11:00-11:50 - S. Whetstone
105-04 MWF 12:00-12:50 - C. Scott
105-05 MWF 13:00-13:50 - D. Kuykendal
105-06 MW 15:30-16:45 - J. Dietzer
This course is an introduction to the works of various American and British authors with a focus on historical, cultural, and literary backgrounds. You are not expected to have previous knowledge of literary elements in order to succeed in this class. You will be exposed to some very strange fiction this semester: vampires, a man who morphs into a cockroach, lunatics, serial killers, surrealism, magical realism, and people caught in time warps. Hopefully these authors and their stories will not only help you learn the basics of narration, but will also intrigue you for years to come.
105-07 TR 9:30-10:45 - S. Womick
105-08 TR 11:00-12:15 - C. Colby
105-09 MWF 8:00-8:50 - D. Phillips
105-10 TR 18:00-19:15 - A.Chandler
Narratives of Love This course will serve as an introduction to the structure and dynamics of narrative form, but we will accomplish this goal by concentrating on how writers and producers of culture have sought to organize, express, or convey a single, famously tricky affective complex: love . We will consider the historical roots of several key cultural narratives about love--such as courtly love, marital bliss, and familial devotion--and place these cultural stories in dialogue with specific narrative texts by Jane Austen, Henry James, Marcel Proust, Zora Neale Hurston, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Paul Auster, and Lydia Davis. Students will engage in analytical writing and scholarly research; they will also participate in group projects in which they present historical research into important conceptual intersections. such as "Love and Heterosexuality" and "Love and Nation," as well as a second set of group projects in which they present a critical reading of love tropes in a television series, such as "Grey's Anatomy" or "Friends." Throughout, students will be asked to reflect critically on how dominant narratives of love's discipline, purpose, and image give shape to their own relational experiences with partners, family members, and in the broader community, but we will also attend to the realms of our experiences these narratives neglect.
105-11 MWF 8:00-8:50 - W. Duffy
106 - Introduction to Poetry
All 106 sections meet General Education Core Requirements for Literature (GLT) and AULER/CLER (BL/CBL)
106-01 TR 9:30-10:45 - C. Tedder
106-02 MWF 11:00-11:50 - T. Christopher
Poetry is arguably the oldest form of literature, and humans have never ceased to express their thoughts, feelings and experiences through poems. With a careful balance of engagement, reflection and examination, we will explore what poetry is, its forms and its functions. Our readings will cover a variety of times and places; they are the wheel on which we will shape our skills of reading and analysis. Additional assignments will include weekly mini-essays, infrequent quizzes, a midterm, a final, one critical essay, and class participation.
106-03 MWF 12:00-12:50 - J. Aufrance
106-04 MW 14:00-15:15 - A. Saulters
106-05 TR 11:00-12:15 - D. Roderick
106-06 TR 12:30-13:45 - L. Moseley
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to poetry as a genre of literature and acquaint you with a wide variety of British and American poets. By the end of the semester you should be able to identify and understand the characteristics and elements of poetry, scan poems with ease and precision, apply techniques of literary analysis to poems, and understand the social and historical contexts in which these poems were written.
106-07 MWF 12:00-12:50 - K. Reigle
106-08 MWF 13:00-13:50 - J. Exoo
106-09 MWF 9:00-9:50 - K. Schreyer
110 - World Literature in English
110-01 MWF 8:00-8:50 - R. DeRosse
111 - Introduction to Linguistics
111-01 MWF 9:00-9:50 - E. Doman