ENGL 105 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
FALL 2008
Title: Freshman Honors English
Time:
Line #: 16542
Place: 225 Fraser
Instructor: KLAYDER, Mary
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will examine personal and cultural myths --presentations of self, cultural belief systems, cultural and personal metaphors, concepts of gender, art, nature, etc. -- and the relationship between as depicted in a great variety of literature. The work will consist of four papers, a final, a project, and several short writing assignments. During class we will emphasize discussion of the literature and related materials.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Selected poetry (handouts and internet);
Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; Shelley, Frankenstein; Fitzgerald, The
Great Gatsby; Morrison, Song of Solomon; Marquez, One Hundred
Years of Solitude; Power, The Grass Dancer; Fadiman,
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down; and Lawn, 40 Short Stories.
Title: Freshman Honors English
Time:
Line #: 16546
Place: 225 Fraser
Instructor: KLAYDER, Mary
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will examine personal and cultural myths --presentations of self, cultural belief systems, cultural and personal metaphors, concepts of gender, art, nature, etc. -- and the relationship between as depicted in a great variety of literature. The work will consist of four papers, a final, a project, and several short writing assignments. During class we will emphasize discussion of the literature and related materials.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Selected poetry (handouts and internet); Marlowe, Doctor Faustus;
Shelley,
Frankenstein; Fitzgerald, The Great
Gatsby; Morrison, Song of Solomon; Marquez, One
Hundred
Years of Solitude; Power, The Grass
Dancer; Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and
You Fall Down; and Lawn, 40 Short Stories
Title: Freshman Honors English
Time:
Line #: 36468
Place: 223 Fraser
Instructor: DALDORPH, Brian
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will explore the exciting world of contemporary
literature, by looking at a collection of prize-winning short
stories, a literary journal,
Review, and an
excellent new novel by
literature and relating it to contemporary issues. The class will also include opportunities for
Creative Writing assignments.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Stephen King, Ed., Best American Short
Stories 2007; Daldorph, Ed.,
Title: Freshman Honors English
Time:
Line #: 40872
Place: 4050 Wescoe
Instructor: HARDIN, Richard
COURSE DESCRIPTION: My English 105 course will follow the standard pattern of focus
on major works of literature through the ages. Texts will be divided between Renaissance and
modern, with the Renaissance ones centered on the characteristic practice of fools who speak
wisdom, culminating in the first and greatest novel ever written, Don Quixote. We’ll also read
20 or so significant poems in the English and American canon. Expect about 4,000 words of
writing, some in and some out of class. This is a discussion class--participation is highly
desirable. Students will have a chance to show their knowledge of the texts through more-or-less
weekly brief quizzes.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Erasmus, Praise of Folly; More, Utopia; Shakespeare, King Lear;
Cervantes, Don Quixote; Hemingway, Snows of Kilimanjaro & Other Stories; Henry James,
Turn of the Screw; Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; O. Henry Prize Stories 2007; O.
Williams ed. Immortal Poems.
Title: Freshman Honors English
Time:
Line #: 41888
Place: 4021 Wescoe
Instructor: EVERSOLE, Richard
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Rhetoric from antiquity to the early eighteenth century (about
2000 years) was the major educational program, comprising much of what we now recognize as
the departments of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ancient rhetorical theory by itself
still exerts an influence on our thought and is pretty relevant in an election year. Our course is
interested in the enduring implications of this great heritage. The first half will be a close
reading of theory (very much fun here) and the second half its illumination of work you may
think you know (if you’ve read them) but perhaps have not beheld in their rhetorical splendor.
Four
papers, one optional paper, an open book final exam.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Plato, Phaedrus;
Aristotle, Rhetoric;
“A Modest Proposal;” Shakespeare, Julius Caesar and Henry
V.
Title: Freshman Honors English
Time:
Line #: 34688
Place: 224 Fraser
Instructor: VALK, Michael
COURSE
DESCRIPTION: Seven texts--possibly more--of enduring interest
and relevance will be the subject of our study, a course of study characterized
by the close, patient, informed reading of the material and by an engaged,
sympathetic, critical, and, yes, creative response to the works' urgent visions
as created and revealed by those means particular to literary expression.
Required Work: 4 critical essays (1000 words plus), occasional take-home and
in-class writing assignments, and a final examination.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Shakespeare, Henry V; A Midsummer
Night's Dream; Hamlet; Collected
Poems of Emily Dickenson; Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Chopin, The
Awakening; Toomer, Cane.
Title: Freshman Honors English
Time:
Line #: 16550
Place: 222 Fraser
Instructor: WEDGE, Philip
COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this course we will study selected masterpieces of world literature, focusing on developing the student’s ability to read and write essays about literature. Required coursework consists of 4 major essays (50%) and a comprehensive final (25%). Homework (25%) includes pop quizzes and short writing assignments. Class participation is also of considerable importance.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Homer, The Odyssey; Chaucer,
V; Austen, Emma; Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles; Cather, My
Antonia; Achebe, Things Fall
Apart;
Rushdie, Midnight’s Children.
Title: Freshman Honors English
Time:
Line #: 37390
Place: 4021 Wescoe
Instructor:
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will be an introduction to the questions asked, answers given, arguments waged in the enjoyment, study, evaluation, and definition[s] of literature. Our readings will be loosely tied together by the idea of youth. In addition to the required texts we will also study a few classic plays, short stories and poems available on line. Depending on our progress and inclinations, we may look at some films. Classes will be discussion-driven. Written work will consist of 4 major papers and a final exam or essay. Some short writing exercise might also be assigned.
REQUIRED TEXTS: James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man; James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times; William Maxwell, So Long and See You Tomorrow;
Patricia Raybon, My First White Friend; Jonathan Lethem, Fortress of Solitude; Craig Thompson, Blankets; Laura Moriarty, The Center of Everything.
Title: Freshman Honors English
Time:
Line #: 16544
Place: 4021 Wescoe
Instructor: CAROTHERS, James
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course concentrates on writing about
literary texts, distinguishing among summary, analysis, and evaluation. We shall write at least three out-of-class
essays, of 1,000-2,000 words, and three in-class essays, including a
comprehensive final examination. Formal
and informal reports required on some individual texts. Regular class attendance and participation expected.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Homer, Iliad (Stanley Lombardo,
trans.); Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, and Hamlet;
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice; John Keats, Selected Poems;
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Zora
Neale Hurston, Their
Eyes Were Watching God; Ken Kesey, One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Cormac McCarthy, No
Country for Old Men.
Title: Freshman Honors English
Time:
Line #: 16548
Place: 223 Fraser
Instructor: VALK, Michael
COURSE
DESCRIPTION: Seven texts--possibly more--of enduring interest
and relevance will be the subject of our study, a course of study characterized
by the close, patient, informed reading of the material and by an engaged,
sympathetic, critical, and, yes, creative response to the works' urgent visions
as created and revealed by those means particular to literary expression.
Required Work: 4 critical essays (1000 words plus), occasional take-home and
in-class writing assignments, and a final examination.
REQUIRED TEXTS: Shakespeare, Henry V; A Midsummer
Night's Dream; Hamlet; Collected
Poems of Emily Dickenson; Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Chopin, The
Awakening; Toomer, Cane.