Great Courses in the English Department: Coming this Summer!
First Summer Session
ON-CAMPUS
ENGL-T125-001
WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE/EMERGING SELF (10076)
MTWR 10:45-12:45PM
Kate Adams
ENGL-V189-001 VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE (10236)
MTWR 01:00-03:00PM
Peggy McCormack
ENGL-V192-001 THE SIXTIES THROUGH LITERATURE (10248)
MTWR 10:45-12:45PM
Andrew Macdonald
Popular novels: Ken Kesey‚s One Flew Over the Cuckoo‚s Nest; Joseph Heller‚s Catch-22 (in excerpts); other novels as projects individually chosen by students; poetry: Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Merwin, and others (one or two poems per class meeting); drama: LeRoi Jones‚ Dutchman, Edward Albee‚s Who‚s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Peter Weiss, Marat/ Sade (dir. Peter Brooks); films: Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation. Music: Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles . . . one or two songs per class). Readings: Brief excerpts from seminal Sixties works, including Herbert Marcuse, R.D. Laing, Malcolm X, the Port Huron Statement and others. Coursework: Daily exercises or written responses, weekly quiz, one final project
ENGL-V194-001 GRAPHIC NOVELS AND NARRATIVES (10249)
MTWR 01:00-03:00PM
Dale Hrebik
The course surveys graphic narratives (or comics), examining the unique way the form uses words and pictures in combination to tell stories. We'll cover as much of the diversity of the form as possible from fiction (Sin City) to non-fiction (Maus), from the mundane (A Contract with God) to the fantastic (Watchman) - love, death, sex, violence, and superheroes.
ONLINE COURSES
ENGL-V194-W51 SIX FEET UNDER: AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH (10254)
Mary McCay
A multidisciplinary approach to analyzing and writing about television. Students watch episodes
of Six Feet Under, examine critical articles on the series in the text, Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die For, edited by Kim Akass and Janet McCabe and examine Jessica Mitford’s American Way of Death (1963). The class will analyze why Americans fear death, how we deal with death and dying in the family and in the community, and how mortality defines individual and cultural identity.
ENGL-T125-W51 WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE/ THE EMERGING SELF (10299)
Tracey Watts
We often overlook the violence and gruesomeness of our favorite childhood stories, and Disney too has helped to sanitize the tales as well. In this class, we return to the site of these tales with a closer eye and then apply our newly refined skills to more contemporary tales of violence. This unit of study takes us abroad; we'll read award-winning works by three celebrated international writers before turning our attention to violence in film. In our closing unit, we'll explore the films Fight Club and Thirteen to see how each depicts violence among young Americans today.
Second Summer Session
ENGL-T125-010
THE EMERGING SELF (10289)
MTWR 10:45-12:45PM
Jennifer Jeanfreau
ENGL-A211-010 INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING (10307)
MTWR 10:45-12:45PM
Nancy Rowe
Courses Abroad
ENGL-G415-001
CREATIVE WRITING:TRAVEL WRITING: STUDY ABROAD in PARIS
10070
Mary McCay
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