Graduate Program in English

Future Courses

NOTE:  These are the graduate courses we expect to offer in upcoming semesters.  Please note that they are subject to change.  Times and days will be added as these become available.

NOTE: The Citadel's calendar is different from the College's. Be sure to consult their schedule.

May Evening 2011

ENGL 517: Nineteenth Century American Women Writers, MW 5:30-8:30, CofC, Piepmeier
(Counts toward American Literature Requirement)
This is a course in which we will be studying some of the most important, and most neglected, written work of the nineteenth century:  writing by women.  Through our readings and class conversations, we will develop an in-depth understanding of the range of American women’s writing in the nineteenth century.  We will also become familiar with the common literary theoretical approaches to this writing, and we will develop interpretive frames of our own. 

ENGL 517: Irish Mythology and the Celtic Revival, CofC, Ward and Kelly
Note:  This is a 6-hour credit travel course that will spend time in Ireland.  Please see Dr. Ward or Dr. Kelly for more information.
This course will begin with two weeks of study in Charleston, during which students will learn the central stories of the two main cycles of Irish mythology—the Ulster cycle and the Finn cycle. The course will cover the pre-history of Ireland—both real and mythical—and the culture of the Celts in the first few centuries A. D. Students will learn about the medieval transmission of these pre-Christian, Celtic tales. And they will learn about the revival of these myths at the turn of the last century by studying the works of W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, James Joyce, and others.

Then we will go to Ireland and visit the sites we’ve been studying: the Stoneage archeological sites, such as Knocknarea (Queen Maeve’s grave) and the celebrated Newgrange monument; sites crucial to the Irish epic, The Tain, such as Queen Maeve’s Gap on the beautiful Cooley Peninsula; and sites of immense literary value, such as the Aran Islands, and the Yeats and Joyce towers. The trip will include a short visit to the Yeats Summer School in Sligotown, four nights at the historical Trinity College in the heart of Dublin, and visits to the vibrant modern and medieval cities of Galway and Kilkenny.
(3 hours count toward post-1800 British Literature Requirement; the other 3 hours count as an elective)

ENGL 521: World Literature II, TR 5:30-8:30, Citadel, Mailloux
Masterpieces of world literature in translation from Voltaire to the present time with special attention to the philosophical content and the development of literary forms.

Summer Evening 2011

ENGL 554: History of the English Language, MW 5:30-8:30, Citadel, Allen
A historical survey of the development of Old, Middle, and Modern English. The course begins with a study of Indo-European languages and traces the development of the English language through major phonological, morphological, and syntactic changes; some attention is given to dialectical variations and semantic changes.

ENGL 573: Topics in African American Literature--Racial Indeterminacy, TR 5:30-8:30, Citadel, Hendriks
(Counts toward American Literature Requirement)

Fall 2011

ENGL 512: Southern Literature, W 4-6:45, CofC, Eichelberger
(Counts toward American Literature Requirement)
A study of texts by and about residents of the U. S. South, with an emphasis on work produced since 1900. The course will explore themes that recur in texts written about this region: race, class, family, and place; land, labor, and the pastoral ideal; nostalgia, history, and the global South. In addition to literary texts by canonical and lesser-known writers, the course will also examine folklore and other cultural productions that interpret and interrogate these “Southern” themes.

ENGL 517: The Revolution Starts Now: American Literature of the 1850s, M 4-6:45, CofC, Peeples
(Counts toward American Literature Requirement)
While mid-nineteenth-century America did not follow Europe’s example of political revolution, throughout the 1850s the nation was increasingly “a house divided” over slavery, frequently erupting in violence that presaged the Civil War.  Meanwhile, other forms of revolutionary change and conflict were in the air: a national women’s rights movement, class conflict heightened by rapid urbanization, the rise of the anti-immigrant “Know-Nothing” party, and radical utopian and reform movements.  This course will examine the literature of this tumultuous decade, which is itself often revolutionary in form and content: Melville’s Moby-Dick, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Thoreau’s Walden, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Brown’s Clotel, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and other works.

ENGL 531: Modern British Poetry, Time TBA, Citadel, Horan
(Counts toward post-1800 British Literature Requirement)
A study of the poetry of major 20th-century British authors, such as Hardy, Yeats, Thomas, and Auden.

ENGL 556: Theory and Practice of Teaching Composition, M 7-9:45, CofC, Warnick
This course will introduce you to key debates that have informed, and continue to inform, the scholarship and teaching of Composition.  We will examine the pedagogical theories underlying current textbooks and engage with scholarship on basic writing pedagogy, assessment, grammar, technology, and other issues relevant to writing instruction.  You will also have the opportunity to produce work that helps you reach your current professional objectives, whether you plan on completing an Internship in Teaching Composition, entering a Ph.D. program in English, or further developing your teaching career.     

ENGL 560: Film Studies, Time TBA, Citadel, Heuston
This film course will expose students to films from a variety of nations and filmmakers that represent the chief cinematic movements of the twentieth century (Weimar Expressionism, French New Wave, American noir, etc.), and it will instruct students in the terminology and techniques of filmmaking. The students will, by studying the relationship between the tools of filmmaking and the finished products, learn to "read" films as metaphors of reality.

ENGL 700: Seminar: Religion, Politics, and English Renaissance Literature, TBA, Citadel, Lucas
(Counts toward pre-1800 British Literature Requirement)

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