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.
Spring 2010
ENGL 505: Milton, Th 4:00-6:45, Citadel, Lucas(Counts toward pre-1800 British Literature Requirement)
John Milton’s poetry is in many ways the culmination of the English Renaissance. Like none before him, Milton managed to weave together the influences of classical literature, Protestant theology, contemporary political theory, cutting-edge scientific discoveries, and, of course, the greatest advances in early modern English verse into a body of work unparalleled in its own time or since. This course will focus on exploring the genius of Milton’s great poetry, but it will also place Milton’s verse within the larger cultural contexts of the poet’s own time. We will thus view Milton’s religiously themed writings in the larger context of ongoing debates about church and faith in seventeenth-century England; we’ll read Milton’s political works in the context of the fraught political emergencies that led Milton to witness the execution of one king, the establishment of the first English republic, and then the restoration of yet another monarch all within less than fifteen years; and we’ll see how Milton selects his chosen literary genres not only as prime vehicles for artistic creation but also as salvoes in the fierce debate over the proper style and role for poetry during Milton’s time. Along the way, expect to examine Milton’s most important English poems, his celebrated masque Comus, a selection of his religious and political prose works, and short pieces from writers whose texts inspired (or, in many cases, provoked) Milton to compose his greatest literary triumphs.
ENGL 550: Writing Labs: Theory and Practice, W 4:00-6:45, CofC, Devet
Designed for graduate students interested in major issues associated with writing centers, this course focuses on the nature of composition theory as found in a writing center, how students learn to write on a one-to-one basis in a center, the organizing and directing of a writing center, the concept of being a consultant (tutor), the role of technology in teaching writing one-to-one, and the future of writing labs.
ENGL 557: Creative Writing--Poetry, M 4:00-6:45, CofC, Allen
This class is designed to introduce participants to the craft of writing poetry. It is geared toward those who want to write poetry as well as those who want to have a cache of lessons in writing, either poetry or prose, when they go into their own classrooms to teach any age.
ENGL 560: Film Studies, W 7:00-9:45, CofC, Bruns
This course will examine films from a variety of nations and filmmakers. Although the films themselves will take the lead in class discussions, we will also address some of the major concepts in film theory, as well as the historical and cultural underpinnings of these theories. Students will demonstrate visual literacy and their ability to understand difficult theoretical and analytical texts by writing a number of short response papers as well as a final research paper that integrates the student’s own analysis with relevant secondary sources.
ENGL 571: Harlem Renaissance & the Black Arts Movement, MW 2:00-3:15, CofC, Francis
(Counts toward American Literature Requirement)
This course looks at the two major periods of African American literary history: the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. In addition to studying major writers and works from each movement, we will consider the following questions: What were the goals of the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement? What was the social/historical/political context of each movement? What were the prominent aesthetic and ideological debates of each movement? What do the movements have in common ideologically/aesthetically? How do they differ? What is the legacy of each movement?
ENGL 700: Literary Dystopias, Tu 4:00-6:45, Citadel, Horan
(Counts toward post-1800 British Literature Requirement)
This seminar provides an overview of speculative political fiction by contemporary writers from Britain and former British colonies with supplemental readings of cultural and literary theory, featuring novels and stories by Atwood, Carter, Coetzee, Emecheta, Greene, Gordimer, Ishiguro, P.D. James, Naipaul, and Rushdie.
May Evening 2010
ENGL 517: Body Count: Renaissance Tragedy and its Contexts, MW 5:30-8:30, CofC, Thomas(Counts toward pre-1800 British Literature Requirement)
This course will explore the generic principles, historical events, cultural values, and thematic concerns informing dramatic tragedies from sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. Particular attention will be paid to the ways violence is deployed and how bodies become complex cultural signifiers. Readings will include plays representing key tragic sub-genres (revenge, domestic, tragicomic) and cover authors such as Sackville and Norton, Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton, and Webster.
ENGL 553: Modern English Grammar, Tu/Th 5:30-8:30, Citadel, Allen
Summer Evening 2010
ENGL 517: Regionalism and Local Color in 19th Century American Literature, MW 5:30-8:30, CofC, Duvall(Counts toward American Literature Requirement)
A survey of American regionalist and local color writing in the 19th century with special attention paid to the development of the genre and recent criticism and theory. Writers studied will include (but not be limited to) Mark Twain, Mary Noailles Murfree, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, George Washington Cable, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Jack London.
ENGL 520: World Literature I, Tu/Th 5:30-8:30, Citadel, Lucas
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