DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
SPRING 2011
English 270-286 designed for non-majors
ENGL 270-001
WORLD LITERATURE
MWF 9:05-9:55
WUETIG
(Cross-listed with CPLT 270)
Selected masterpieces of world literature from antiquity to present. For more information, please
contact the instructor.
ENGL 270-002
WORLD LITERATURE
(Cross-listed with CPLT 270)
Same as ENGL 270-001
TBA
STAFF
ENGL 282-001
FICTION
MWF 8:00-8:50
STAFF
(Designed for non-majors)
Fiction from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more
information, please contact the instructor. Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent
ENGL 282-002
FICTION
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 282-001
MWF 9:05-9:55
STAFF
ENGL 282-003
Same as ENGL 282-001
FICTION
MWF 12:20-1:10
STAFF
ENGL 282-004
Same as ENGL 282-001
FICTION
TTH 8:00-9:15
STAFF
ENGL 282-005
Same as ENGL 282-001
FICTION
TTH 9:30-10:45
RIVERS
ENGL 282-006
Same as ENGL 282-001
FICTION
TTH 2:00-3:15
STAFF
ENGL 282-007
Same as ENGL 282-001
FICTION
TTH 3:30-4:45
STAFF
ENGL 282-501
Same as ENGL 282-001
FICTION
MW 8:40-9:55
SIBLEY-JONES
ENGL E282-092
Same as ENGL 282-001
FICTION
S 9:00-2:00
WRIGHT JT
ENGL Z282-801
Same as ENGL 282-001
FICTION
MW 5:20-7:50
ELLIOTT
ENGL 283-001 THEMES BRITISH WRITING
MW 11:15-12:05, Th 9:30 SHIFFLETT
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
“The Heroic”
Ultimate human achievement in British literature from Beowulf to Lawrence of Arabia's Seven
Pillars of Wisdom. Emphasis on norms as well as increasingly critical stances taken by writers
towards the norms. Lecture and discussion. Two papers, midterm, and final exam.
ENGL 283-002 THEMES BRITISH WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 283-001
MW 11:15-12:05, Th 11:00 SHIFFLETT
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ENGL 283-003 THEMES BRITISH WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 283-001
MW 11:15-12:05, Th 12:30
SHIFFLETT
ENGL 283-004 THEMES BRITISH WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 283-001
MW 11:15-12:05, Th 2:00
SHIFFLETT
ENGL 283-005 THEMES BRITISH WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 283-001
MW 11:15-12:05, Th 3:30
SHIFFLETT
ENGL 283-006 THEMES BRITISH WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 283-001
MW 11:15-12:05, F 9:05
SHIFFLETT
ENGL 283-007
THEMES BRITISH WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 283-001
MW 11:15-12:05, F 12:20
SHIFFLETT
ENGL 283-008 THEMES BRITISH WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 283-001
MW 11:15-12:05, F 1:25
SHIFFLETT
ENGL 283-009 THEMES BRITISH WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 283-001
MW 11:15-12:05, F 10:10
SHIFFLETT
ENGL 283-010 THEMES BRITISH WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 283-001
MW 11:15-12:05, F 3:35
SHIFFLETT
ENGL 283-011
THEMES BRITISH WRITING
MWF 10:10-11:00
STAFF
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Reading a variety of British texts that exemplify persistent themes of British culture. For more
information, please contact the instructor. Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent
ENGL 283-012 THEMES BRITISH WRITING
TTH 11:00-12:15
GIESKES
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
"I am not what I am": (Re) presenting the Individual. This course will examine a range of texts
from the British Renaissance to the 20th century which engage in the representation of selfhood
and self-understanding. The attempt to present "individuals" on stage or on the page has taken
many forms--from the apparent introspection of the Shakespearean soliloquy to modernist streamof-consciousness narrative. We will look at representative texts and study how various writers at
various historical moments have dealt with the problem of the literary representation of
personhood. Course requirements to include reading quizzes, 3 short essays, and a final exam.
ENGL 283-013
THEMES BRITISH WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 283-011
TTH 3:30-4:45
STAFF
ENGL 283-501
THEMES BRITISH WRITING
TTH 11:00-12:15
MADDEN
(Restricted to South Carolina Honors College Students Only)
In this class we will examine the literature and culture of Ireland, with special attention to the
literature of the last two centuries, as well as film and popular music. From Victorian Irish vampire
tales to feminist fairy tales, from the Act of Union to the Belfast Agreement, from the Big House
novel to Bloody Sunday, from political ballads to the songs of U2, we will discuss the political and
cultural debates informing the literature and culture of Ireland. Our learning objectives will
include: to demonstrate an understanding of the cultural themes and issues that inform Irish
literary texts; to demonstrate an awareness of the social and political issues that animate Irish
culture; and to demonstrate an awareness of how literature may be read within its social and
historical contexts. Grades will be based on two essays, a class presentation, and a creative final
project.
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Linked to this class (but not required), there will also be an optional Maymester study abroad
seminar of two weeks of travel in Ireland.
ENGL 284-001
DRAMA
MWF 1:25-2:15
STAFF
Drama from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more
information, contact instructor.
ENGL 284-002
DRAMA
MW 2:30-3:45
MCALLISTER
This course introduces students to the major genres (tragedy, comedy, modern drama, etc.) and
performance styles (naturalism, epic theater, absurdism. etc.) of western theater. Our guiding
question will be: Why drama? What purposes or agendas does this type of cultural performance
serve at any historical moment? The course is divided into four units. Unit one introduces students
to Victor Turner’s theory of “social drama” (breach, crisis, redressive machinery, reconciliation) as
it applies to dramatic, even tragic events in their everyday lives. In unit two, we ground students in
the basic structural elements of a play (plot, character, idea, language, given circumstances), as we
trace the development of western theater from ancient tragedy up to the birth of modern drama.
Unit three focuses on structural and cultural analyses of modern dramas by Henrik Ibsen, August
Strindberg, Bertolt Brecht, and Lorraine Hansberry. Unit four turns to structural and cultural
investigations of post-modern dramas by Eugène Ionesco and Tony Kushner. Course assignments
consist of weekly critical responses, an analytical essay, four unit exams, class discussion, and an
oral project consisting of a “social drama” slide show, a short presentation on a playwright, or a
monologue performance.
ENGL 284-003
DRAMA
Same as ENGL 284-001
TTH 12:30-1:45
STAFF
ENGL 285-001
THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
MWF 12:20-1:10
STAFF
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Reading a variety of American texts that exemplify persistent themes of American culture. For more
information, please contact the instructor.
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent
ENGL 285-002
THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for non-majors)
Same as ENGL 285-001
MWF 2:30-3:20
STAFF
ENGL 285-003
THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for non-majors)
Same as ENGL 285-001
TTH 12:30-1:45
STAFF
ENGL 285-011 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING MW 10:10-11:00, Th 9:30
(Designed for non-majors)
American Cyborgs: Transformations of the Body in Speculative Literature
VANDERBORG
The dictionary defines a cyborg as “a human being” who is “aided or controlled by mechanical or
electronic devices.” But are body-changing technologies perceived as beneficial or malevolent, as
liberating or limiting? This course examines transformed bodies in texts ranging from science
fiction to magic realism. Authors include Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, Orson Scott Card, Adrienne
Rich, Ralph Ellison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Steve Tomasula. We will also watch the seminal scifi film Blade Runner. Course requirements include two short papers, a midterm, and a final.
ENGL 285-012 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for non-majors)
Same as ENGL 285-011
MW 10:10-11:00, Th 11:00 VANDERBORG
ENGL 285-013 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for non-majors)
Same as ENGL 285-011
MW 10:10-11:00, Th 12:30 VANDERBORG
ENGL 285-014 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for non-majors)
Same as ENGL 285-011
MW 10:10-11:00, Th 2:00
ENGL 285-015
THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 285-011
MW 10:10-11:00, Th 3:30 VANDERBORG
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VANDERBORG
ENGL 285-016 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 285-011
MW 10:10-11:00, F 9:05
VANDERBORG
ENGL 285-017 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 285-011
MW 10:10-11:00, F 10:10 VANDERBORG
ENGL 285-018 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 285-011
MW 10:10-11:00, F 11:15 VANDERBORG
ENGL 285-019 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 285-011
MW 10:10-11:00, F 12:20 VANDERBORG
ENGL 285-020 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING
(Designed for Non-English Majors)
Same as ENGL 285-011
MW 10:10-11:00, F 1:25
VANDERBORG
ENGL 285-501 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING MW 2:30-3:45
(Restricted To SC Honors College Students Only)
Same as ENGL 285-011
VANDERBORG
ENGL 285C-001 THEMES IN AMER WRITING
(Restricted To Opportunity Scholars)
Same as ENGL 285-001
MWF 10:10-11:00
JONES D
ENGL 285C-002 THEMES IN AMER WRITING
(Restricted to Opportunity Scholars)
Same as ENGL 285-001
TTH 11:00-12:15
COOPER M
ENGL E285-851 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING MW 5:30-8:30
(Accelerated Session Begins 03/14/2011 and Ends 04/25/2011)
Same as ENGL 285-001
NESMITH W
ENGL Z285-851 THEMES AMERICAN WRITING MW 8:00-10:30
(Off-campus course Begins 03/14/2011 and Ends 05/05/2011)
Same as ENGL 285-001
FUNDERBURK
ENGL 286-001
POETRY
MWF 9:05-9:55
STAFF
Poetry from several countries and historical periods, illustrating the nature of the genre. For more
information, please contact the instructor.
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent
ENGL 286-002
Same as ENGL 286-001
POETRY
MWF 11:15-12:05
STAFF
ENGL 286-003
Same as ENGL 286-001
POETRY
MW 2:30-3:45
MCMANUS L
ENGL 286-004
Same as ENGL 286-001
POETRY
TTH 12:30-1:45
STAFF
ENGL 287-001
AMERICAN LITERATURE
MW 4:00-5:15
JACKSON
(Designed for English majors)
ENGL 287 is a survey of American Literature from its colonial origins in the fifteenth century to the
dawn of the twentieth. To goal of the course is to introduce you to the broad sweep of American
literary history and to help you develop your skills as close readers. Readings will include poems,
short stories, novels, and non-fictional prose, and the periods we will cover include the Age of
Atlantic Exploration, Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Transcendentalism and
Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism. Assessment will be based on two essays, a midterm, a final
examination, and a variety of briefer, in-class and take-home assignments.
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ENGL 287-002
AMERICAN LITERATURE
MWF 9:05-9:55
STAFF
(Designed for English Majors)
An introduction to American literary history, emphasizing the analysis of literary texts, the
development of literary traditions over time, the emergence of new genres and forms, and the
writing of successful essays about literature. Designed for English majors.
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent
ENGL 287-003
AMERICAN LITERATURE
TTH 9:30-10:45
GLAVEY
(Designed for English Majors)
This course will serve as an introduction to important themes in American literature from
Benjamin Franklin through the twentieth century, paying particular notice to the tensions that arise
between historical injustices and the nation's ideals of democracy and freedom. Our goal will be to
attend to the specific artistic means by which writers respond to these tensions, and to think about
what their responses can teach us about America and its history as well as its literature. Our
readings will be drawn from a diverse range of authors and from multiple genres including fiction,
memoir, and poetry. Requirements include reading quizzes, written critiques/summaries, various
creative exercises, one essay, a midterm, and a final exam. The course is designed for English
Majors.
ENGL 287-004
AMERICAN LITERATURE
TTH 12:30-1:45
COWART
(Designed for English Majors)
This course, aimed at sophomore English majors but welcoming non-majors and students less and
more advanced, is intended to promote knowledge of literary and intellectual history. Students may
expect to learn a good deal about the workings of some important and exemplary texts. They
should also improve skills associated with close-reading, writing, and analytical thinking.
Though proceeding chronologically from Puritan times well up into the twentieth century, this
course will not be organized around a single theme. Rather, we’ll read widely across the spectrum
of American literature, with an eye to discovering some of the themes that make it distinctive Band
American. The reading load will not be excessively heavy, but we’ll try to cover a lot of ground,
aiming at a representative sampling. Emphasis on poetry and fiction, with occasional selections in
nonfiction. Bradstreet to Frost, then, and Hawthorne to Cather.
The course will include daily reading quizzes, a midterm, and a final. Students will also memorize a
short poem and write a couple of 5-page analytical papers.
ENGL 288-001
ENGLISH LITERATURE I
MW 2:30-3:45
LEVINE
(Designed for English Majors)
This introduction to British literature extends from 1500 to 1700, beginning with Thomas More’s
fictive travelogue Utopia and concluding with Aphra Behn’s new-world novel Oroonoko. Readings
will concentrate on selected “greatest hits” from this 200 year period—Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus,
Shakespeare’s Richard III and The Tempest, Milton’s Paradise Lost, lyric verse by Shakespeare,
Spenser, Sidney, and Donne—supplemented by a sampling of modern critical essays. In a series of
short, web-surfing assignments using the on-line archive EEBO (Early English Books On-Line),
you’ll also have the chance to explore some of the popular reading that doesn’t make it into
standard “English Lit” anthologies—cheap pamphlets on witchcraft and necromancy, cookbooks
and travel guides, for example, and all sorts of “how-to” manuals.
ENGL 288-002
ENGLISH LITERATURE I
TTH 11:00-12:15
GULICK
(Designed for English Majors)
When William Shakespeare started writing plays, England was an island off the coast of Europe
with a newly confident naval fleet and a queen who was decidedly uninterested in colonization.
Three centuries later, England was the metropolitan center of the British Empire, upon which, so
the saying goes, the sun never set. This section of ENGL 288 will explore the ways in which British
and Anglophone literature, like England itself, has been “going global” for a long time. We’ll
investigate themes of New World encounter, sea adventure, shipwreck, and modern subjectformation in texts such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Equiano’s
Interesting Narrative, Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle
and Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau. Later in the course we’ll attend to how 20th century literature
has dealt with imperial decay and post-colonialism in texts such as Woolf’s To the Lighthouse,
Walcott’s The Star-Apple Kingdom, and Coetzee’s Foe. In addition to reading voraciously and
engaging in candid, generous discussions about these texts, course participants can expect to hone
their skills at college-level literary analysis, master the critical terminology of the study of
literature, and learn the basics of research in the humanities.
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ENGL 288-003
ENGLISH LITERATURE I
TTH 2:00-3:15
FELDMAN
(Designed for English Majors)
An introduction to English literary history, emphasizing the analysis of literary texts, the
development of literary traditions over time, the emergence of new genres and forms, and the
writing of successful essays about literature. Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or equivalent.
All English courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL 270292
SCHC 158-501
RHETORIC
TTH 12:30-1:45
(Restricted To South Carolina Honors College)
For course information, please contact the instructor.
ERCOLINI
SCHC 158-502
RHETORIC
TTH 3:30-4:45
(Restricted to South Carolina Honors College)
For course information, please contact the instructor.
SMITH D
SCHC 350R-501 PROSEM: BOB MARLEY
MW 8:40-9:55
DAWES
(Restricted to South Carolina Honors College)
Using the lyrics of Bob Marley, video footage, and several texts that engage with Marley the artist
and figure, along with close analysis of his music paying attention to issues of politics, religion, race,
sexuality and identity, this course will introduce students to one of the most important musical
icons of the twentieth century. The course will combine lecture, discussion and an innovative
journaling system to connect students with the music of Bob Marley.
SCHC 356P-501 PROSEM: POETRY&PROPERTY TTH 9:30-10:45
(Restricted to South Carolina Honors College)
For course information, please contact the instructor.
RICHEY
ENGL 360-001
CREATIVE WRITING
MWF 9:05-9:55
Z. O’NEILL
Workshop course on writing original fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction. For more
information, please contact instructor.
ENGL 360-002
CREATIVE WRITING
TTH 11:00-12:15
GREER
This course will focus on the invention of characters within a short story, or even a novella. The
class will be a workshop. Students will photocopy their work and read it aloud. There will be three
to four stories or one novella due at semester’s end.
ENGL 360-003
Same as ENGL 360-001
CREATIVE WRITING
TTH 9:30-10:45
BARILLA
ENGL 360-004
Same as ENGL 360-001
CREATIVE WRITING
TTH 2:-3:15
B. TAILOR
ENGL 360-501
CREATIVE WRITING
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students Only)
Same as 360.001
TTH 2:00-3:15
DINGS
ENGL E360-300
Same as ENGL 360-001
TTH 5:30-6:45
BARILLA
CREATIVE WRITING
ENGL 380-001
EPIC TO ROMANCE
TTH 3:30-4:45
GWARA
(Cross-listed w/CPLT 380)
Comprehensive exploration of medieval and other pre-Renaissance literature using texts
representative of the evolution of dominant literary forms. Cross-listed Course: CPLT 380
Note: All Literature Courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL
270-292.
ENGL 381-001
THE RENAISSANCE
TTH 12:30-1:45
RHU
(Cross-listed w/CPLT 381)A survey of major works of Renaissance literature. Authors are likely to
include Erasmus, More, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Castiglione, Montaigne, Sidney, Shakespeare, Spenser,
and Milton.
ENGL 384-001
REALISM
(Cross-listed with CPLT 384)
TTH 11:00-12:15
6
STEELE
This course will explore realism as a concept that we find in lots of disciplines and as a term used to
characterize works of specific literary period. We will look at a variety of literary texts from inside
and outside the period as well as some short readings from law and philosophy. The course will
study the ways that literature embraced, rejected and reworked a scientific conception of realism.
There will be two tests, an oral presentation, and a ten-page term paper.
ENGL 385-001
MODERNISM
TTH 12:30-1:45
FORTER
This course explores modernism as an international, interdisciplinary response to the expansion of
capitalist modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. The response was largely formal—that is,
it had to do with innovative new techniques, styles, and narrative methods, through which authors
sought to give shape to a world they felt to be increasingly out of joint. The large questions that will
frame our discussion are these: What were the historical developments that seemed to these
authors so destabilizing (if also at time exhilarating)? How were those developments lived at the
deepest psychological level? And how were modernism’s formal innovations related to these
historical/psychic experiences? We will move easily between genres, national traditions, and
media: the focus is mostly on literature but will include paintings, film, and music as well; and the
works are from the British, German, American, and Russian traditions. Finally, since modernist
formal experiments continue to be practiced today, we will read works by two contemporary
modernists and ask how their formal inventions can help us make sense of the world in which we
live.
TEXTS: Faulkner, Light in August; Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”; Larsen, Passing; Morrison, Beloved;
Spiegelman, Maus; Toomer, Cane; Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. REQUIREMENTS: 2 close reading papers
(about 2pp each); one 5-7 page paper; final exam; regular homework.
ENGL 387-001
INTRO TO RHETORIC
TTH 11:0-12:15
SMITH
(cross-listed with SPCH 387)
The study of rhetoric generally takes two forms. The first involves learning to become skilled and
effective in various in arts communication (spoken, written, etc.). The second, which will be the
focus of this course, involves studying rhetoric historically, critically, and conceptually. It also
involves examining rhetoric’s new role in helping us to question and rethink: the nature of human
individuality and autonomy; how we understand processes of learning and the acquisition of
knowledge and skilled practices; and, finally, relationships among human capacities for rationality,
complex thought, intelligence, creativity and their fundamental link to multiple forms social
communication.
We’ll begin by mapping the emergence of rhetoric and its development into the study and art of
human “excellence” in archaic and ancient Greece. That will set the stage for examining how
rhetoric’s significant role in ancient Greek education and culture contributed to the “birth” of
philosophy and its opposition to rhetoric—a battle whose ramifications are still evident in
education today. The course will then shift its historical focus and we’ll attend to the reemergence
of ancient rhetorical concepts and ideas in a variety of contemporary contexts. We’ll examine, for
example, exciting research in social narrative studies, communal neuroscience, and emerging
paradigms of business leadership and organizational learning, change, and innovation.
IN SHORT, ENGL/SPCH 387 will introduce students to dimensions of the history, study, and
practices of rhetoric that extend beyond the common perception that its purview is restricted to
“the arts of persuasion” and “effective communication.” Students who successfully complete the
course will acquire and be capable of demonstrating an informed critical understanding of: the
historical origins of rhetoric and its enduring significance; rhetoric’s core theoretical and practical
concepts of communication and social dynamics; and how a “philosophy” of rhetoric complements
critical thinking with complex thinking and its focus on “inventing” possibilities.
ENGL 388-001
HIST LIT CRITICISM/THEORY
TTH 2:00-3:15
STEELE C
Representative theories of literature from Plato through the 20th century.
Prerequisites: Note: All Literature Courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course
between ENGL 270-292.
ENGL 389-001
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
TTH 12:30-1:145
LIDE
(Cross-listed with LING 301)
Introduction to the field of linguistics with an emphasis on English. Covers the English sound
system, word structure, and grammar. Explores history of English, American dialects, social
registers, and style. Note: All Literature Courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one
course between ENGL 270-292.
ENGL 389-002
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(Cross-listed with LING 301)
7
MW 2:30-3:45
SCHULZ
This course is an introduction to the study of language, with particular attention to the structure of
English. It will examine the component parts of language, namely, phonetics and phonology (the
sound system), morphology (the internal structure of words), syntax (the structure of sentences),
and semantics and pragmatics (meaning) as well as touch on other linguistic topics (e.g., native
language acquisition, English dialects, etc.). While emphasis will be given to the structure of English,
especially its morphosyntax, data from other languages will also be looked at. The overall goals are
(a) to become familiar with the key concepts and terminology needed to describe and analyze
language; (b) to gain a better understanding of the structure of English; and (c) to appreciate how
languages differ (and how they're the same).The course will be a combination of assigned readings,
lectures, exercises, small group discussions and individual/group projects. No prior knowledge of
linguistics or language description is assumed.
ENGL E391-300
GREAT BOOKS WEST WORLD II
MW 5:30-6:45
CLEMENTI
Through the discovery, analysis and interpretation of several international works of fiction in
English translation, this course will enable students to understand, in its historical context, the
evolution (and revolution) of modern European literary traditions, from the Enlightenment to the
present. This course is structured chronologically and its approach is strongly comparative and
interdisciplinary—it takes into account history, philosophy, the development of the modern artistic
taste in painting, architecture, music, theater and film. Through a thorough treatment of textual and
metatextual issues, students will begin to clearly see how the present is shaped from this complex
literary, artistic and historical past, as well as how we are active creators in our time of cultural
discourses that are already shaping the future.
ENGL 405-001
SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES
TTH 2:00-3:15
GIESKES
We will read a representative selection of Shakespeare's tragedies while placing the plays in their
dramatic and historical contexts. Our intent will be to read the plays closely as literature--objects of
verbal art-and as playtexts--scripts for theatrical production. In addition we will attempt to situate
Shakespeare's plays in the context in which they were produced: early modern London. TEXTS:
likely to include Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear,
and Macbeth. We will also read extensive selections from McDonald's Companion to Shakespeare.
REQUIREMENTS: three papers, a play or film review, a treatment of one scene, and a final exam.
ENGL 406-001
SHAKESPEARE’S COM/HIST
For course information, please contact the instructor.
TTH 12:30-1:45
RICHEY
ENGL E406
SHAKESPEARE’S COM & HIST
MW 5:30-6:45
LEVINE
This course examines Shakespeare’s comedies and histories in relation to his time and to our own.
Looking closely at seven plays (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II, 1
Henry IV, Henry V, Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure), we’ll examine the interplay between
these popular plays and the Elizabethan-Jacobean culture in which they were produced, taking up
such issues as politics, social order, gender, and family relations. Our approach should raise
provocative and important questions, which we’ll then use to structure class discussion and writing
assignments. Two papers, quizzes, mid-term, and final exam.
ENGL 413-001
MODERN ENGLISH LIT
TTH 9:30-10:45
COWART
This course, aimed at English majors but welcoming non-majors and students less and more
advanced, is intended to promote knowledge of literary and intellectual history. Students may
expect to learn a good deal about the workings of some important and exemplary texts. They
should also improve skills associated with close-reading, writing, and analytical thinking.
We’ll read poetry by Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, Stevie Smith, and Ted Hughes;
fiction by Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Woolf, and perhaps Atwood; and plays by Shaw, Beckett, and
perhaps Stoppard. Some nonfiction prose by Woolf and Orwell to round things out.
Reading quizzes at every meeting, two five-page papers, midterm, and final.
Semester Grade:
5% Poem Memorization
10% Regular reading Quizzes
15% midterm
50% Two five-page papers
20% Final Exam
ENGL 421-001
AMERICAN LIT 1830-1860
MW 2:30-3:45
JACKSON
English 421 offers an intensive introduction to the literature of the antebellum period, an era of
explosive social, religious, and political ferment. Against a background of territorial expansion,
debates over slavery and women's rights, the rise of big cities, the advent of evangelical revivals, the
emergence of the middle class, and the development of mass media, authors grappled with what it
meant to write about America and what it meant to be an American writer. Our readings will
include novels (several of them substantial), short stories, poems, and a variety of non-fictional
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genres: some of these texts are utterly ethereal, others painfully gritty. Authors will likely include
Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, David
Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt
Whitman, Lydia Maria Child, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and N. P. Willis. Topics to be explored will
include transcendentalism, sentimentalism, the gothic, abolitionist writing, urban journalism, travel
narratives, regionalism, nationalism, and feminism. REQUIREMENTS: several essays, a midterm, a
final exam, and some in-class assignments.
ENGL 427-001
SOUTHERN LITERATURE
TTH 11:00-12:15
POWELL
Southern literature of the past and present contributes in interesting ways to regional and national
dialogue. Studying it not just as American literature, but as the output of a particular regional
tradition and set of circumstances, is useful to readers from different backgrounds who are
interested in how literature is created and its relationship to the society in which it is written,
published, and read. With these assumptions, this course introduces key characteristics, phases,
and issues in southern literature through a systematic survey of selected major authors that
emphasizes slave narratives, the Southern Renascence, and contemporary literature of the New
South. Students prepare several short essays and one research paper. Expect quizzes, group
activities, discussion, a midterm, and a final exam.
ENGL 428B-001
AFRI-AMER LIT II: 1903-PRES TTH 2:00-3:15
ALAO
(Meets w/AFRO 398B)
This introductory course surveys African American literature from the early twentieth century to
the present. The course is organized chronologically and examines formal and thematic concerns of
twentieth century African American writers. While we will examine major themes and concerns of
writers during different historical periods, we will pay particular attention to the theme of
migration. Using migration as a lens, students will contemplate the relationships between cultural
production and historical phenomena such as the Great Migration and the Great Return Migration.
They will also examine how writers interrogate race, gender, and class through their exploration of
multiple landscapes and use of various genres.
ENGL J429B-001
TOPIC/STUDIES AMER LIT: F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
BUCKER
(WEB Course: See Distance Ed.)
Prereq: Students must complete one sophomore literature course (282-289) before taking any
upper level course). A survey of the author’s works and career through 26 recorded lectures by
preeminent Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, Matthew J. Bruccoli.
ENGL 429C-001
HISTORICAL MEMORY, UTOPIAN FICTION TTH 3:30-4:4
FORTER
This course explores how literature shapes the way we remember the past. The books we will read
retell central episodes in the history of Europe and the US, with the aim of developing counterstories
to our dominant way of understanding those events. They offer “histories from below” that reclaim
the tales of those marginalized by history—stories of the downtrodden and dispossessed, of
history’s “losers” rather than its victors. A central aim of the course will be to ask how these
counterstories alter our ways of thinking about who “we” are: what kinds of experiences and events
have remained inassimilable to our (national or “Western”) self-understanding? What happens to
our sense of belonging once we assimilate those experiences and events? These two questions lead
to a further issue that will be central: the books on our list are often concerned with how the
dispossessed have managed to develop utopian alternatives to the historical regimes that constrain
them. The course will explore the conditions that make it possible not merely to dream of, but to
incarnate, such egalitarian, democratic alternatives. TEXTS: Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!; Woolf,
Mrs. Dalloway; Unsworth, Sacred Hunger; Ghosh, Sea of Poppies; Morrison, Beloved; Farrell, The
Siege of Krishnapur; Roy, The God of Small Things; Thomas, The Book of the Night Women. Essays by
J. Benjamin, S. Buck-Morss, P. Chaterjee, M. Cohen, P. Gilroy, F. Jameson, H. Klein, M. Rediker and P.
Linebaugh. REQUIREMENTS: 2-page close reading exercise; 2-page essay on a theoretical or
historical text; paper proposal; 10-paage final paper.
ENGL 429R-001
TOPICS: AMER INIAN LIT
MW 4:00-5:15
WALLS R
American Indians have long been trapped in a betwixt and between state, caught by the forces of
past and present, tradition and assimilation, romanticization and caricature. Yet through it all,
native voices have continued to speak of their experience with great power and eloquence. This
course will introduce Native American literature as a distinctive contribution to American and
world literature. We will examine a wide range of expressive culture from the last century,
including novels, poetry, film, autobiographies, and performances of oral literature, speeches, and
music. Through the passion, creativity, and humor of Indian authors, we will learn something of the
historical experience of native men and women, and how they have reacted to massacres and
mascots, racism and reservations, poverty and political oppression. Above all, we try to understand
how indigenous people have used literature to engage crucial issues of race and culture that
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continue to influence their lives: identity, self-discovery, the centrality of place, cultural survival,
and the healing power of language and spirituality.
ENGL 431-001
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
MW 2:30-3:45
SCHWEBEL
This course provides an introduction to the critical study of children’s literature. We begin by
tracing the history of English-language children’s books, reading a selection of 19th and 20th century
novels understood to comprise the first “Golden Age” of children’s literature. After the midterm, we
turn our attention to the great expansion of children’s literature at midcentury, exploring the
proliferation and politics of literary prizes, the increased publication of books authored by people
of color, and the arrival of new experimentations in genre and form. Even as conceptions of
childhood and children’s literature have shifted, the subjects and themes dominating criticallypraised children’s books have endured. As we read contemporary and classic children’s literature
against each other, we will think deeply about the dialectic of continuity and change—and what this
means for the possibilities of children’s literature.
ENGL E432-300
ADOLESCENT LITERATURE
MW 5:30-6:45
SCHWEBEL
While many people understand Adolescent Literature as the “problem novels” that first became
popular in the 1970s, the genre is much more capacious. In this course we read both newly
released novels and literary classics written for middle and high school students. Our focus is on
two genres: dystopian literature and historical fiction. A major emphasis of study will be on
contextualization; that is, how to better understand a novel by examining the ways in which it is in
dialogue with contemporary and historical discourses, including those of race, class, and gender.
ENGL 437-001
WOMEN WRITERS
MW 2:30-3:45
CLEMENTI
(Cross-listed with WGST 437)
What does a writer write about when she writes about herself? And why do we read about other
people’s lives? What are we in search of when we demand of a writer to tell us “the truth, nothing
but the truth” about her/the past? This course aims at exploring the way in which women have
visited and revisited their specific historical, emotional, psychological, social experiences in
literature in the course of the last three hundred years. Through an in-depth engagement with the
primary texts (in English translation), we will discover the various stylistic approaches to
autobiographical writing from the XVII century to nowadays: the styles, voices, metaphors, and
other rhetorical devices chosen or dismissed by our captivating group of writers—selected from
quite diverse historical, religious, racial, and national backgrounds. Together we will unveil and
expose the numerous artistic and psychological mechanisms behind every memoir (a French word
that literally means “memory”) and how they partake in the construction and deconstruction of
power-relations within family and outside world.
ENGL 438E-001
STUDIES: CARIBBEAN
TTH 2:00-3:15
GULICK
(Meets w/AFRO 398E)
A French politician once referred to the Antilles as “specks of dust” scattered uselessly somewhere
out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. But 500 years of history tell a very different story about the
region: in many ways, the Caribbean can be understood as the birthplace of globalization. In this
course, we’ll look at a rich and rapidly growing canon of Caribbean literature that reflects on the
region’s complex past, dreams of its possible futures, and contends with a complex set of presentday island cultures and identities. The syllabus will center around Anglophone and Francophone
texts. Authors will likely include Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, Derek
Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite, Earl Lovelace, Edouard Glissant, Audre Lorde, Jamaica
Kincaid, Patrick Chamoiseau and NourbeSe Philip. You don’t need to be an English major to take
this course. But you should plan to read voraciously, write carefully, engage with textual material
that departs from many North American and European literary conventions, and approach
discussions with inquisitiveness, candor and generosity.
ENGL 439C-001
TOPICS/STHRN WRITR&WEST
MW 2:30-3:45
BRINKMEYER
(Cross-listed w/SOST 405P)
The course will explore a significant development in Southern fiction of the twentieth century, that
of Southern writers writing about the American West. While the focus of the course will be
primarily on Southern writers turning westward, we will also read several classic Westerns to
provide context and contrast, as we explore the interplay of the cultural mythologies of the two
regions. We will also view several films to deepen our understanding of the rich interplay of
Southern and Western visions in popular culture. Requirements: participation; midterm; book
review; research paper. Tentative list of authors: Conrad Richter, Jack Shaeffer, Larry McMurtry,
Walter Van Tillburg Clark, Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Dickey, Cormac McCarthy, Edward Abbey,
Jon Krakauer, and Darcey Steinke.
ENGL 439E-001
TOPICS/EASTRN RELG&POETRY
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TTH 9:30-10:45
DINGS
(Cross-listed w/RELG 491P)
Global citizenship requires that we understand ourselves in relation to our global neighbors. As we
see daily in the news, failure to develop this mutual understanding is disastrous. The fact is that
most people around the world think and act in some relationship to core beliefs that they hold; it is
also true that for many societies around the world these beliefs are religious or grow out of
religious traditions. Knowledge of these traditions can lead to greater understanding and discovery
of shared values. This course will explore Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism and
their relationship to one another. A planned sequel to be offered in the fall 2011 semester will
explore Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Students may take either course or both. Students will
read about each religion as well as read canonical and contemporary poetry that looks at life
through the particular world view in focus. Grading will be determined by four tests, homework
assignments, quality and regularity of class performance, and one final 12-15 page paper.
ENGL 439H-001
TOPICS/HOMOPHOBIA IN LANG
MW 2:30-3:45
MANN S
(Meets w/WGST 289H and LING 405H)
In recent years, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has produced a series of
public service announcements to combat the prevalence in U.S. high schools of the expression
‘that’s so gay,’ claiming that the expression is homophobic, because it equates being homosexual
with being stupid or bad. Others argue that the expression is only homophobic if speakers are using
it with homophobic intentions, which is not true in most cases. The ‘that’s so gay’ debates will serve
as a starting point for a course in which students will explore the nature of homophobic and sexist
discourse (HSD). Over the course of the semester, we will address questions such as: What are the
origins of HSD? What are the criteria speakers and hearers use to categorize an utterance as HSD?
How does HSD get disseminated? What are its effects? What can and should be done about it?
Additionally, we will address the practice of reclaiming derogatory terms as terms of address and in
group names like “Queer Nation” and “Dykes on Bikes.” Throughout the semester, we will also
consider HSD within a broader category of discriminatory language, by comparing it to similar
language practices (e.g., racist and anti-Semitic discourse). The focus of the course will be the
English language, but we will occasionally consider homophobic and sexist language practices in
non-English and/or non-Western contexts.
ENGL 450-001
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
TTH 11:00-12:15
DISTERHEFT
(Cross-listed with LING 421)
An intensive survey of English grammar: sentence structure, the verbal system, discourse, and
transformations. Also discussed are semantics, social restrictions on grammar and usage, histories
of various constructions, etc. Please read Chapter 1 of the textbook before the first class meeting.
TEXT: Dorothy Disterheft, Advanced Grammar: a manual for students. Prentice-Hall.
REQUIREMENTS: one midterm, one final.
ENGL 455-001
LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY
MW 4:00-5:15
CHUN
(Cross-listed w/LING 440)
Study of language patterns within and across social groups and contexts, focusing on how language
reflects and creates speakers' memberships, relationships, and identities. Special attention will be
given to dialects and styles in U.S. settings.
ENGL 460-001
ADVANCED WRITING
MWF 10:10-11:00
STAFF
Extensive practice in different types of nonfiction writing. For more information, please contact the
instructor.
ENGL 460-002
ADVANCED WRITING
Same as ENGL 460-001
MWF 11:15-12:05
STAFF
ENGL 460-003
ADVANCED WRITING
Same as ENGL 460-001
MWF 11:15-12:05
STAFF
ENGL 460-004
ADVANCED WRITING
MW 2:30-3:45
MUCKLEBAUER
This course introduces you to the rhetorical conventions of several types of nonfiction writing.
Although it devotes some attention to academic writing, this course focuses primarily on genres of
nonfiction found in popular presses (e.g., The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Atlantic Monthly). As a
result of reading and discussing many samples of nonfiction prose, you will be better able not only
to analyze the conventions that help define this genre but also to incorporate them into your own
writing repertoire.
ENGL 460-005
ADVANCED WRITING
Same as ENGL 460-001
TTH 11:00-12:15
STAFF
ENGL 460-006
TTH 12:30-1:45
STEELE C
ADVANCED WRITING
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Same as ENGL 460-001
ENGL 460-007
ADVANCED WRITING
Same as ENGL 460-001
TTH 3:30-4:45
MCMANUS L
ENGL 461-001
THE TEACHING OF WRITIN TTH 3:30-4:45
SKIPPER
Theory and methods of teaching composition and extensive practice in various kinds of writing.
Recommended for prospective writing teachers.
Note: All Literature Courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL
270-292.
ENGL 462-001
TECHNICAL WRITING
MWF 12:20-1:10
STAFF
Preparation for and practice in types of writing important to scientists, engineers, and computer
scientists, from brief technical letters to formal articles and reports. For more information, please
contact the instructor.
ENGL 463-001
BUSINESS WRITING
MWF 9:05-9:55
STAFF
Extensive practice in different types of business writing, from brief letters to formal articles and
reports. For more information, please contact the instructor.
ENGL 463-002
BUSINESS WRITING
Same as ENGL 463-001
MWF 10:10-11:00
STAFF
ENGL 463-003
BUSINESS WRITING
Same as ENGL 463-001
MWF 3:30-4:25
STAFF
ENGL 463-004
BUSINESS WRITING
Same as ENGL 463-001
TTH 8:00-9:15
STAFF
ENGL 463-005
BUSINESS WRITING
Same as ENGL 463-001
TTH 3:30-4:45
STAFF
ENGL E463-092
BUSINESS WRITING
Same as ENGL 463-001
S 9:00-2:00
PARROTT
ENGL E463-093
BUSINESS WRITING
Same as ENGL 463.001
S 9:00-2:00
PARROTT
ENGL E463-300
BUSINESS WRITING
Same as ENGL 463-001
M 5:30-8:15
ANDERSON
ENGL E463-301
BUSINESS WRITING
Same as ENGL 463-001
T 5:30-8:15
STAFF
ENGL 464-001
POETRY WORKSHOP
TTH 9:30-10:45
DINGS
(PREREQ: ENGL 360)
Some experience in writing poetry at the 360 level is highly recommended. Students will focus on
the most important techniques involved in the writing of poetry by closely reading a variety of
professional poems and by writing poems which use those techniques. The aim here is to create
art, not just fulfill assignments. To that purpose students are encouraged to find and develop their
own content as well as individuate their use of techniques in a growth toward their own unique
style and voice. Poems will be read and discussed in class by the students’ peers. Grading is done
by portfolio; significant revision of original drafts is expected.
ENGL 465-001
FICTION WORKSHOP
TTH 11:00-12:15
BAJO
(Pre-requisite English 360)
Pre-requisite English 360. This course explores the intricacies of the literary elements studied
basically in English 360 to teach students how to write literary short stories. Students will use
models and discussion to gain an understanding of the level of story composition at stake in this
course, and then they will begin submitting new stories of their own to workshop assessment in
order to discover how to enhance readerly impact. The course is designed for writers aspiring to
the profession or to students of literature who wish to deepen their perspective on language by
exploring the other side of the printed page.
ENGL 467-001
TOPICS IN RHETORIC
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TTH 2:00-3:15
HAWK
This course will focus on understanding popular music from the perspective of rhetorical and
cultural theories. The course will address close listening for musical elements such as song
structure and instrumentation; examine how lyrics operate rhetorically through troping, rhyming,
and repeating; think about the relationship between creativity and rhetorical situation; analyze
how music connects with an audience rhetorically and affectively; work through the relationship
between sub- and fan- culture; theorize the racial and gendered ramifications of musical
expression; and discuss the economical and technological mediations that influence music
production. Throughout these discussions, the course will emphasize the critical approaches being
taken over the particular genres being examined. Early in the semester students will identify an
artist or genre that they will examine over the course of the semester using these rhetorical
approaches. Toward this end, students will be expected to do the readings diligently, write weekly
in response to readings and to music, do a mid-term project with corresponding class presentation,
develop an ongoing research approach, and produce a final research paper that critically analyzes a
song, album, artist, genre, or scene of their choice.
ENGL 473-001
FILM&MEDIA THEOR&CRITCSM
MW 12:20-1:35
VANCOUR
(PreReq: FILM 240 or Consent of Instructor Cross-listed w/ FILM 473)
Theory and criticism of film and media from the 1910s to the present. Considers a range of critical
approaches to analyzing what different forms of audio-visual media do to and for the audiences
they address and the worlds they depict. Prerequisites: FILM 240 or consent of instructor
ENGL 490-501
"Editing Spenser's The Faerie Queene" MW 2:30-3:45
MILLER, D
(Restricted to SC Honors College Students Only)
Students taking ENGL 490 in the Spring of 2011 will be invited to participate in the preparation of a
new Oxford University Press edition of the "Collected Works of Edmund Spenser."
Our text for the semester will be The Faerie Queene, Part One, as published in 1590. Our "textbook"
will consist of digital files made available online: the text of the poem itself as edited by the
instructor and his co-editors, and draft commentary on the text written by two of the editors.
Students will be invited to suggest revisions to these materials, in effect acting as a focus-group.
We'll be giving the edition, its format and apparatus, a test-drive. In addition to the text and
commentary, a selection of critical articles will be assigned. Requirements for the course, in
addition to regular attendance and participation, will include one class presentation (a "Word for
the Day" chosen from Spenser's unusual vocabulary) and a total of about twenty pages of critical
writing. Students will be invited to decide on an individual basis (in consultation with the
instructor) how many papers, of what type and length, will comprise this total.
ENGL 565
AFRICAN AMERICAN THEA II
TTH 12:30-1:45
MCALLISTER
(Cross-listed w/THEA 565)
This class represents the second part of a two-course sequence which can be taken independently
of one another. The first part, African American Theatre I: So Real, So Natural, focuses on black
theater artists working with realism and naturalism in the American theater. This second part
looks at the contributions of black artists to cutting edge theatrical production. Quite often, black
performing artists are not recognized for their experimental aesthetics, but they are frequently
responsible for moving our national theater in new and exciting directions. To trace this radical
tradition in African American theater and performance, we begin with nineteenth-century dancedramas from Nigeria’s Apidan Theatre, and then cross the Atlantic to explore African American
experiments with stage Europeans, whiteface minstrelsy, blackface minstrelsy, the American
musical, symbolism, expressionism, the Black Arts Movement, solo performance/spoken word,
documentary theater, and Hip Hop theater. Some of our vanguard artists will include: James
Hewlett, Bob Cole, Marita Bonner, Adrienne Kennedy, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, August Wilson,
Anna Deavere Smith, Suzan-Lori Parks, Lynn Nottage, and Tarell Alvin McCraney. "Course
requirements will consist of two analytical essays, a mid-term, a final, an in-class monologue,
discussion participation, and an end-of-the-semester public performance. Any graduate students
taking the course will be expected to complete three analytical essays and an oral presentation on a
specific artist."
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