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Texas Tech University Spring 2005 2000 Level Courses in English Department of English Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091 806-742-2501

English 2305.002

CallNumber 14038

Introduction to Poetry “Just Poetry”

MWF 9-9:50AM

Michael Holko [email protected]

Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 and 1302.

This introductory course will familiarize you with the various techniques used to shape poetry. We will also explore how poems operate as “fair” representations of thought and expression. Our survey will be organized around three general questions: How does a poem function as an object of beauty? To what degree does beauty influence the relationship between language and meaning? In what way does poetry reflect this relationship and its correlation to truth? With these questions in mind, our inquiry into matters of poetic form, diction and content will lead us to skillfully read, analyze and understand poetry as a contemplative and meaningful approach towards knowledge.

Coursework consists of in-class and take-home “close-reading” assignments, a critical essay (with draft-work) and a final examination. Regular attendance and active participation is mandatory. The required texts are Helen Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (2nd Edition) [ISBN 0-312-25706-6] and Elaine Scarry’s On Beauty and Being Just [ISBN 0-691-08959-0].

English 2305.003

CallNumber 14039

Introduction to Poetry CourseSubtitle

MWF 10-10:50AM

Jack Turner [email protected]

English 459


No description available. Please contact the teacher.

English 2305.004

CallNumber 14040

Introduction to Poetry “Just Poetry”

MWF 11-11:50AM

Michael Holko

mailto:[email protected]


Fall 2003 Graduate Courses in English 2

[email protected] Coursework consists of in-class and take-home “close-reading” assignments, a critical

essay (with draft-work) and a final examination. Regular attendance and active participation is mandatory. The required texts are Helen Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (2nd Edition) [ISBN 0-312-25706-6] and Elaine Scarry’s On Beauty and Being Just [ISBN 0-691-08959-0].

English 2305.005

CallNumber 14041


MWF 12-12:50AM

Jack Turner [email protected]

English 459



English 2305.010

CallNumber 14044


TR 12:30-1:50PM

Karen Keck [email protected]

English 457


Poetry, says Robert Frost, is what is lost in translation. Poetry, however, may be a way of “translating” life into words, but it is also a way to deepen one’s perception of life. Although analysis seems to kill – at least in the minds of some – analyzing poetry can open the poem to and for the reader. Students will be expected to complete two interpretive papers, 3-4 and 6-8 pages in length; an anthology of poetry; a creative project; daily responses; and a mid-term and a final exam. Students are allowed up to two unexcused absences before absences affect the grade. Attendance is taken from the first day of classes; students who register during the add/drop period start accumulating absences from the date of registration.

Text: The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry and a course pack.

English 2305.011

CallNumber 14045


TR 2-3:20PM

Karen Keck


Poetry, says Robert Frost, is what is lost in translation. Poetry, however, may be a way of “translating” life into words, but it is also a way to deepen one’s perception of life. Although analysis seems to kill – at least in the minds of some – analyzing poetry can open the poem to and for the reader. Students will be expected to complete two interpretive papers, 3-4 and 6-8 pages in length; an anthology of poetry; a creative project; daily responses; and a mid-term and a final exam. Students are allowed up to two unexcused absences before absences affect the grade. Attendance is taken from the first day of classes; students who register during the add/drop period start accumulating absences from the date of registration.





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English 457

accumulating absences from the date of registration.

Text: The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry and a course pack.

English 2306.001

CallNumber 14048

Introduction to Drama CourseSubtitle

MWF 11-11:50AM

Dean Bowers [email protected]

English 205



English 2306.003

CallNumber 14050


MWF 12-12:50AM

Dean Bowers [email protected]

English 205



English 2306.005

CallNumber 14052


MW 9:30-10:50AM

Marliss Desens [email protected]

English 429


No description available. Please contact teacher.

Course added 12-13-04.






English 2306.006

CallNumber 14053

Introduction to Drama

TR 9:30-10:50AM


CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

English 2306.007

CallNumber 14054


CourseSubtitle

TR 11-12:20PM

Constance Kuriyama [email protected]

English 428



English 2306.008

CallNumber 14055


CourseSubtitle

TR 12:30-1:50PM

Constance Kuriyama [email protected]

English 428



English 2307.009

CallNumber 14064

Introduction to Fiction Haunting Histories: Fictions of North American Native Writers

MWF 11-11:50AM


This course will engage students in a detailed study of short fiction and novels by North American Native authors. We will aim to situate the texts within their particular historical, cultural, and geographical contexts, while considering such issues as the function of history (both oral and written) in each novel. More specifically, our class discussions will focus on the ways in which ghosts and haunting historical moments shape Native literatures in North America, thereby moving the class towards a consideration of the relationship between history and fiction, between narrative and memory, between specters and survival. Indeed, how do writings by North American First Peoples contest America’s supposed “newness” – its lack of “pastness” – and Canada’s supposed “ghostlessness”? At the same time, this class will also keep in mind




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English 478

Canada’s supposed “ghostlessness”? At the same time, this class will also keep in mind the words of Susan Power:

Native peoples, and their stories and histories are not a social studies unit of an interesting sub-category. […] We are American history. […] Every track and trace of the American experience runs through our communities, our culture. We have been the transformers so much more than we are ever credited to have been. I am so tired of our image as the transformed – the lost, the dead, always those who are acted upon, always those who have been pushed to the edges, where we can be watched compassionately, nostalgically, seen as little more than a decorative fringe.

Class participation, inksheds, reading quizzes and attendance form the daily work of this course. Formal writing assignments include two short response papers, and a longer analytical paper. There will also be a short oral presentation, a mid-term examination, and a final examination. Three absences are allowed without penalty. Each subsequent absence will reduce a final grade by 5 percentage points. Excessive absences – more than 6 in total – may result in failure of the course, regardless of other grades earned. Absences accrue from the first day of class.

Texts: NOVELS: Erdrich, Louise. Tracks: A Novel. 1988. New York: Perennial, 2004. King, Thomas. Truth and Bright Water. Toronto: HarperPerennialCanada, 1999. Momaday, N.Scott. House Made of Dawn. 1966. New York: Perennial Classics, 1999.Robinson, Eden. Monkey Beach. 1999. Toronto: VintageCanada, 2001. Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. 1977. New York: Penguin, 1986. SHORT FICTION: Available on e-reserve or to be handed out in class. FILM: Scenes taken from Smoke Signals, based upon Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

English 2307.011

CallNumber 14066

Introduction to Fiction CourseSubtitle

MWF 12-12:50AM

Bethany Yates [email protected]

English 422



English 2307.014

CallNumber 14069








MWF 1-1:50PM

Bethany Yates [email protected]

English 422

English 2307.015

CallNumber 14070


MWF 1-1:50PM

James Whitlark [email protected]

English 464


Course added 12-13-04. No description available. Please contact teacher.

English 2307.019

CallNumber 14074


TR 9:30-10:50AM

Ya-hui Irenna Chang [email protected]

English 458


This course aims to study fiction in relation to adaptation. Students will read short stories and novels written in different historical periods as well as by authors of different ethnic backgrounds. To compare and contrast how character, theme, setting, and point-of-view are treated in fiction and film, adaptations of two novels, Jane Eyre and Joy Luck Club, will be shown in the class. Students will be expected to participate in class and to complete in-class quizzes, three peer critiques (2-3 pages), three essays (4-5 pages), and a final exam. Three unexcused absences are allowed. Five or more absences will result in course failure.

Required Texts: (Book-length texts are all available at the Barnes and Noble on campus or Varsity bookstore across from the campus.)

Ross Murfin & Supryia M. Ray, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms

Novels: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate Henry Fielding, Tom Jones Toni Morrison, Beloved Amy Tan, Joy Luck Club Short Stories: Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence over the Owl Creek Bridge” Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street” William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mask of the Red Death”






English 2307.023

CallNumber 14078


TR 11-12:20PM

John Samson [email protected]

English 481



English 2307.025

CallNumber 14080


TR 12:30-1:50PM

Anne Hiemstra [email protected]

English 416



English 2307.027

CallNumber 14082


TR 2-3:20PM

Ya-hui Irenna Chang


This course aims to study fiction in relation to adaptation. Students will read short stories and novels written in different historical periods as well as by authors of different ethnic backgrounds. To compare and contrast how character, theme, setting, and point-of-view are treated in fiction and film, adaptations of two novels, Jane Eyre and Joy Luck Club, will be shown in the class. Students will be expected to participate in class and to complete in-class quizzes, three peer critiques (2-3 pages), three essays (4-5 pages), and a final exam. Three unexcused absences are allowed. Five or more absences will result in course failure.




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English 458

Required Texts: (Book-length texts are all available at the Barnes and Noble on campus or Varsity bookstore across from the campus.)

Ross Murfin & Supryia M. Ray, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms

Novels: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate Henry Fielding, Tom Jones Toni Morrison, Beloved Amy Tan, Joy Luck Club Short Stories: Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence over the Owl Creek Bridge” Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street” William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mask of the Red Death”

English 2307.028

CallNumber 14083


MW 2-3:20PM

Yuan Shu [email protected]

English 465


Course opened 12-13-05. No description available. Please contact teacher.

English 2307.030

CallNumber 14085


MW 3:30-4:50PM

Yuan Shu [email protected]

English 465


Course opened 12-13-05. No description available. Please contact teacher.

English 2307.161

Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 and 1302. This is a mega-section and is not Writing I t i





CallNumber 14087


TR 11-12:20PM

Anne Hiemstra [email protected]

English 416

Intensive.


English 2308.H02*

CallNumber 23038

Introduction to Nonfiction Writing about Nature, Landscape, and Place

T 2-4:50PM

Dennis Covington [email protected]

English 434


This course will further acquaint students with the connection between the humanities and the natural sciences by focusing on literature about the natural world. We’ll be reading In the Wilderness, by Kim Barnes; Refuge, by Terry Tempest Williams; and The End of Nature, by Bill McKibben. Students will be asked to write at least three prose pieces of their own based on observations in the field. Minor assignments will include in-class and out-of-class exercises. Hopefully, there will be opportunities for field trips to natural sites, including an optional weekend visit to Tech’s Junction campus in the Texas hill country. The emphasis will be on careful observation, thoughtful reflection, and writing imbued with what Henry James called “solidity of specification.”

English 2308.003

CallNumber 14095

Introduction to Nonfiction CourseSubtitle

MWF 11-11:50AM

Monica Norris [email protected]

English 468



*You need a 3.0 overall GPA to enroll in an Honors section. It puts you in a small class with other people with 3.0’s and higher. The courseload is no heavier than normal. Preparation and participation may be higher. To enroll please go to the Honors College, McClellan Hall 103.





English 2308.004

CallNumber 14096

Introduction to Nonfiction CourseSubtitle

MWF 12-12:50AM

Monica Norris [email protected]

English 468



English 2311

Introduction to Technical Writing

Notes: Prerequisite: English 1301 and 1302.

English 2311 assists students in developing the writing ability required by their future professions. Six to nine writing assignments are required. Students in this class will analyze the communication situation fully and accurately (needs, audiences, uses, and constraints); gather, interpret, and document information logically, efficiently, and

Instructor Section Day Time Call Number ARTHUR FRICKE [email protected]

English 408 002 MW 8-9:20AM 14101

DMITRI STANCHEVICI [email protected]

English 454 003 MW 9:30-10:50AM 14102

ARTHUR FRICKE [email protected]

English 408 004 MW 9:30-10:50AM 14103


English 454 005 MW 11-12:20PM 14104


English 408 006 MW 11-12:20PM 14105

AMBER LANCASTER [email protected]

English 457 007 MW 1-12:20PM 14106

PINFAN ZHU [email protected]

English 461 008 MW 12:30-1:50PM 14107











English 408 009 MW 12:30-1:50PM 14108

NATALIA MATVEEVA [email protected]

English 458 010 MW 2-3:20PM 14109

NICOLE MADISON [email protected]

English 457 011 MW 2-3:20PM 14110

RYAN BOETTGER [email protected]

English 476 012 MW 2-3:20PM 14111

NICOLE MADISON [email protected]

English 457 013 MW 3:30-4:50PM 14112


English 461 014 MW 3:30-4:50PM 14113

RYAN BOETTGER [email protected]

English 476 015 MW 6:30-7:50PM 14114


English 454 016 TR 8-9:20AM 14115

RUSSELL WILLERTON [email protected]

English 424 017 TR 8-9:20AM 14116

JURGEN HEISE [email protected]

English 411 018 TR 8-9:20AM 14117


English 411 019 TR 9:30-10:50AM 14118


English 411 020 TR 11-12:20PM 14119

RUSSELL WILLERTON [email protected]

English 424 021 TR 12:30-1:50PM 14120
















English 411 022 TR 12:30-1:50PM 14121

MIALISA HUBBARD [email protected]

English 468 023 TR 2-3:20PM 14122

MIALISA HUBBARD [email protected]

English 468 025 TR 3:30-4:50PM 14123

DAVE YEATS [email protected]

English 401 026 MW 9:30-10:50AM 14125

NATALIA MATVEEVA [email protected]

English 458 027 MW 12:30-1:50PM 14126


English 461 028 MW 8-9:20AM 14127


English 461 029 MW 2-3:20PM 14128

AMBER LANCASTER [email protected]

English 457 030 MW 3:30-4:50PM 14129

English 2351.001

CallNumber 14131

Introduction to Creative Writing CourseSubtitle

MWF 9-9:50AM

Gail Folkins Koehler [email protected]

English 417


Students will explore creative writing through reading and writing assignments in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Along with honing our craft and finding the muse on an individual basis, we'll share work in a supportive workshop setting. We'll also look at the works of visiting writer Enid Shomer, in anticipation of her reading this spring. Texts:

Imaginative Writing by Janet Burroway

Black Drum by Enid Shomer

English 2351.002

CallNumber 14132


Students will explore creative writing through reading and writing assignments in fi i i fi i d Al i h h i f d fi di h












MWF 10-10:50AM

Gail Folkins Koehler [email protected]

English 417

fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Along with honing our craft and finding the muse on an individual basis, we'll share work in a supportive workshop setting. We'll also look at the works of visiting writer Enid Shomer, in anticipation of her reading this spring. Texts:

Imaginative Writing by Janet Burroway

Black Drum by Enid Shomer

English 2351.003

CallNumber 14133

Introduction to Creative Writing

MWF 11-11:50AM


CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

English 2351.004

CallNumber 14134


MWF 12-12:50AM

Meredith Doench [email protected]

English 456



English 2351.005

CallNumber 14134


MWF 1-1:50AM

Sharon Miller


In literature courses, students examine fiction and poetry for their meaning and historical significance. In this class, students will examine how writers manipulate language—words, sentences, rhythm, stanzas, etc.—to convey their vision of the world. Following these examples, students will develop and practice their own skills as literary writers.

During the first three months of the semester, students will read contemporary, literary poetry and fiction—works currently being published in the most respected literary journals. During class, the instructor and students will discuss how these readings demonstrate the craft of creative writing. At the same




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English 404

discuss how these readings demonstrate the craft of creative writing. At the same time, students will begin writing their own poetry and fiction, striving to mirror the artistic standards of the reading assignments. Throughout the semester, students will participate in peer critiques intended to teach them how to read their work and their peers’ works critically, how to offer sound suggestions for improvement, and how to improve their own writing so they can complete one manuscript—either a short story or five poems—for class discussion. During the final weeks of the semester, the class as a whole will discuss each student’s poetry OR fiction in a group workshop, and then students will revise their manuscripts. At the end of the semester, a final exam will test the students’ knowledge of the techniques and terminology associated with literary writing as well as the students’ editing skills.

Text: Thiel, Diane. Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres. Pearson/Longman, 2005.

English 2351.006

CallNumber 14136


TR 9:30-10:50AM

Marcus J. Weekley [email protected]

English 453



English 2351.007

CallNumber 14137


TR 2-3:20PM

Scott W. Sandlin [email protected]

English 469



English 2351.008

CallNumber 14138







TR 8-9:20AM

Matthew Purdy [email protected]

English 476


English 2351.009

CallNumber 14139


TR 3:30-4:50PM

Patrick Whitfill [email protected]

English 404



English 2351.010

CallNumber 14140


TR 11-12:20PM

Scott W. Sandlin [email protected]

English 469



English 2351.011

CallNumber 14141








MWF 2-2:50AM

Meredith Doench [email protected]

English 456

English 2351.012

CallNumber 21050


MWF 3-3:50AM

Sharon Miller [email protected]

English 404


In literature courses, students examine fiction and poetry for their meaning and historical significance. In this class, students will examine how writers manipulate language—words, sentences, rhythm, stanzas, etc.—to convey their vision of the world. Following these examples, students will develop and practice their own skills as literary writers.

During the first three months of the semester, students will read contemporary, literary poetry and fiction—works currently being published in the most respected literary journals. During class, the instructor and students will discuss how these readings demonstrate the craft of creative writing. At the same time, students will begin writing their own poetry and fiction, striving to mirror the artistic standards of the reading assignments. Throughout the semester, students will participate in peer critiques intended to teach them how to read their work and their peers’ works critically, how to offer sound suggestions for improvement, and how to improve their own writing so they can complete one manuscript—either a short story or five poems—for class discussion. During the final weeks of the semester, the class as a whole will discuss each student’s poetry OR fiction in a group workshop, and then students will revise their manuscripts. At the end of the semester, a final exam will test the students’ knowledge of the techniques and terminology associated with literary writing as well as the students’ editing skills.

Text: Thiel, Diane. Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres. Pearson/Longman, 2005.

English 2351.013

CallNumber 21051


TR 12:30-1:50PM

Refugio (Ito) Romo [email protected]

English 469



English 2351.014





CallNumber 21052


TR 12:30-1:50PM

Marcus J. Weekley [email protected]

English 453



English 2371

Language in a Multicultural America


Course not offered this semester.

English 2388

Introduction to Film Studies


Course not offered this semester.

English 2391.001

CallNumber 14143

Introduction to Critical Writing Doom and Gloom: Literature of Despair

TR 9:30-10:50AM

Brian McFadden [email protected]

English 430


This course will introduce students to the critical reading of prose, poetry, and drama and also to writing coherent critical arguments about them. The main theme and question of the course: Why do people give up on life, love, friendship, faith, country, and other things that humans cherish? Simple answers don’t exist, and the texts I have chosen (along with the essay topics) will be challenging in their ways of getting to the heart of the issue. Students will be expected to complete three 1200-word essays; an equivalent amount of ungraded but required in-class writing; active participation; a midterm exam and a final exam. The attendance policy is effective on the first day of registration: three absences allowed; four absences, notification of the dean and 30% off participation grade; five absences, failure in the course. If you miss three classes in a row without contacting me, you will fail in most circumstances. In short, plan on attending or plan on failing.

Texts: Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms; Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”; Vonnegut, Mother Night; Tolkien, The Homecoming of Byrhtnoth; The Battle of Maldon; The Wife’s Lament; The Husband’s Message; The Ruin; Wulf and Eadwacer; selections from Tacitus, The Germania; Marlowe, Dr. Faustus; Miller, Death of a Salesman; selections from Sidney, Astrophil and Stella; Book One of Spenser’s Faerie Queene.

English 2391.002

CallNumber 14144


The purpose of English 2391 is to introduce students to the premises and practices of li l i W ill f l di d i i kill d




Introduction to Critical Writing

TR 3:30-4:50PM

Jennifer Frangos [email protected]

English 476

literary analysis. We will focus on close reading and interpretive skills, argument and critical thinking, and an overview of literary criticism and theory. This course is writing intensive. Students will be expected to complete four informal response papers to primary texts, 5 essays, and 1 class presentation, with handout. Regular attendance and participation is also required. There will be a strict attendance policy, whereupon two weeks’ worth of absences or more will lower the final grade for the class. Students are encouraged not to miss the first day of class for this reason. Texts:

J.A. Cuddon, ed., The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms ISBN 0140513639 (or a comparable handbook)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Bedford ISBN 0312112238

Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Signet ISBN ISBN 0451526880

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Bedford ISBN 0312066651

NOTE: please purchase the Bedford editions listed above, since the critical apparatus and supplementary material specific to these editions will be part of the required reading and class discussion; different editions of these primary texts will not be acceptable.

English 2391.003

CallNumber 14145

Introduction to Critical Writing CourseSubtitle

TR 2-3:20PM

Michael Borshuk [email protected]

English 425


This course will introduce students to the conventions of literary criticism. We will focus on developing close reading skills and interpretation, on articulating sustained arguments about literature in academic prose, and on building both a working knowledge of approaches and a critical vocabulary to allow for those goals. We will consider a variety of texts in different genres: prose, poetry and drama. Students should note that this course is both discussion-heavy and writing intensive. Informed participation is expected, and students will be required to complete four formal essays as well as a number of informal writing assignments.

Tentative Required Text List:

Jonathan Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction; T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (Norton Critical Edition required); Kate Chopin, The Awakening (Bedford Critical Edition required); Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Recommended:

Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, Critical Terms for Literary Study



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