FLC Department of English

Expanded Course Descriptions

FALL 2007

Course No.	CRN# Credits	Course Description	Time	Days		Instructor
116 A1 or T	10111 4.0	Introduction to Mass Communications	8:15-9:25	MWF		Chris Goold
116 A1 or T	10112 4.0	Introduction to Mass Communications	10:55-12:05	MWF		TBA
This is an introductory survey of mass communication and its many forms and effects in our lives. During the term we will examine, analyze, think critically about, enjoy, and discuss the various mass media we participate in every day: sound recordings, films, TV, books, newspapers, magazines, radio, advertising, videogames, public relations and the Internet. We will also look at different aspects of mass communication history and issues, and we will work together to develop media literacy skills that will help us all become more knowledgeable media participants. Be prepared for lots of in-class writing, quizzes and activities, group work, written projects and critical thinking about the media we are immersed in every day.
174	10945 4.0	African-American Literature	10:55-12:05	MWF		Nancy Cardona
This course examines the development and tradition of African American literature beginning with oral traditions of the slave spiritual. Over the course of the term, we will explore how differing understandings of what constitutes African American literature influence the various literary movements in the African American canon. Readings will include short stories, poetry, plays, and essays. Work includes weekly reflections on the readings, two examinations, an analysis of an outside work (4-6 p), and participation in a group presentation.
175 A1 or R	10114 4.0	Women’s Literature	3:15-4:25	MWF		MJ Moseley
We will read a broad range of literatures from diverse Native American traditions and eras to provide students with a basic knowledge of major issues in, and well-known texts by, Native American women authors. A Service Learning component will be required.
176 R	10115 4.0	Native American Literature	2:30-4:30	TR		M.J. Moseley
This course presents a survey of Native American literature from first contact to the present. The goals of the course are to trace the evolution of the literature, to understand the variety of genres in which Native authors create, to compare themes, genres and techniques used by native writers with those used in oral literatures, and to examine the connection between the literature and the history of Indian-white relations during the period in which they were written.
180	10116 4.0	Literature of the Environment	10:55-12:05		MWF		Ken Wright
This course explores a variety of environmental texts focusing on the Four Corners region, which are then related to a spectrum of views on the relationship between land, culture, community, and the individual.  Students will examine several genres, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, law, and film.  This course satisfies the pre-core requirement for the natural environment knowledge area.

215	10117 4.0	News Media Writing	1:55-3:05		MWF	Faron Scott
215	10118 4.0	News Media Writing	3:15-4:25		MWF	Faron Scott
This course will introduce you to the skills of news reporting and writing. Through writing a series of news stories during the semester, you will have the opportunity to learn news writing style, interviewing skills, and news judgment.
217	11297 4.0	Media Literacy	1:55-3:05		MWF	Leslie Blood
Media literacy—the ability to critically consume and create media—is an essential skill in today’s world. This course will help students develop skills that will help them understand not only the surface content of media messages but the deeper and often more important meanings beneath and beyond the surface.
230 A1 or R	10119 4.0	Survey of British Literature	8:00-10:00		TR	Delilah Orr
In this survey course, we will use the Norton’s Anthology of British Literature. This course is a quick introduction to major British writers from the Medieval Period to the 20^th Century. There will be three major tests and two writing assignments: one analytical and one creative.
240 A1 or R	10120 4.0	Survey of American Literature	3:15-4:25	MWF		Nancy Cardona
This course will introduce students to major movements, themes, and genres in American Literature. Students will be expected to reflect critically upon how we, as individuals and as a nation, choose to formulate our history and why this formulation continues to change. We will read short stories, poems, and plays by a wide variety of authors. Students will also be expected to read one novel by an American author of their choice. Course assignments will include one short critique, weekly electronic journal entries, unannounced quizzes, a midterm and a final exam.
250	10121 1-6	Practicum-Newspaper	3:35-5:35	M		Shawn Fullmer
This class gives an introduction to working on the Independent—writing, shooting photos, designing and laying out the paper, selling ads, and editing. Because practicum is intended to give credit for working on the newspaper, this class meets only once a week for one hour, and students meet with their individual newspaper departments for an additional hour. This course is required before 350. You can earn 2-3 credits per term. Up to 6 credits may count toward graduation. Prerequisite: Instructor permission required to register. Engl 250 has additional hours to be arranged.
251	10122 1-4	Practicum—Radio	3:35-4:30	W		Michele Malach
With this repeatable course, you can earn from 1-4 credits for learning as you work at the student radio station, KDUR. You will keep a log of the hours you work (30 hours per semester per credit required), correlate the log with self-evaluation, and submit projects at scheduled times. ENGL 251 requires weekly class attendance and serial work in broadcasting, production, and news. The course gives you an overview of radio and emphasizes hands-on work. Credit counts toward the English major. Override needed: Instructor permission required to register.
NOTE: ENGL 251 has an extra fee of $50.00.
258/358	10950 1-4	Practicum–Service Learning	TBA			Jennifer Gehrman
This class may be taken for 1-4 credits. Students must complete 30 hours of service in the community per credit. Although the majority of work in this class will be done in the community, students will also be expected to keep a journal, read a variety of assigned materials, meet with the instructor once per week to discuss what they are reading and experiencing in their placements, and do a creative project at the end of the semester based on their experiences. Service may be done at a variety of community, non-profit organizations, including the Phoenix Program, Manna Soup Kitchen, and many others. Override needed: Instructor permission required to register. NOTE: ENGL 258 has additional hours to be arranged.

265 A1 or S	10123 4.0	Semantics	10:10-12:10	TR	Chris Goold
Semantics explores the subtle and complex power of words in our lives – how we use (and misuse) the symbolic system of language; how language, thought and behavior are linked; how we shape (and are shaped by) the world around us through language. We’ll look closely at how language operates in such systems as politics and media; gender, race and cultural relations; artistic expression and humor. Be prepared for lots of in-class writing & activities, group work, written projects, & critical thinking about the use of language in our lives.
267 A1	10124 4.0	Persuasive Writing	10:10-12:10	TR	Shawn Fullmer
From the ancient Greeks to contemporary spin-doctors, rhetoric (the art of persuading or motivating an audience) has been central to shaping intellectual, academic, political, and professional domains. In this course, we will study some of the major ideas and figures within rhetorical theory. Students should expect to write reading-responses and an academic essay, and give a class presentation.
268 W	10125 4.0	Reading Texts/ Writing Texts	2:30-4:30	TR	Gordon Cheesewright
English 268 introduces the wide-ranging topics and methods of study in the English Department. We’ll read, talk about, and write about films, short stories, novels, poems, television, pop and high culture (and more). We’ll approach these texts from a variety of perspectives, and we’ll watch how texts change before our eyes when we put on different interpretive lenses that emphasize economics or race or psychology or gender or history (and so on). We’ll also look back at ourselves, at why we do what we do: the beliefs, theories, logic, impulses, desires, and acts of faith that lie behind and shape our discourse. We’ll always emphasize the connections among real and imagined life and self and texts. This course satisfies the CO 2 composition requirement.
268 W	10126 4.0	Reading Texts/ Writing Texts	1:55-3:05	MWF	TBA
This course is being taught by a new faculty member. Course description may be different than that mentioned about.
270 A1 or R	10127 4.0	History of the Film & Screening	5:00-9:00	M	Michele Malach
This course will be a survey of film history, starting briefly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and moving on to the 1940s to the 2000s. We will examine how films work and how they influence American culture, paying particular attention to films that broke new ground, whether socially, technologically, or culturally.
273 A1	10128 2.0	Introduction to Literary Genres--Creative Writing, Poetry Class meets: Aug. 27 – Oct. 19	10:10-12:10	TR	Steve Meyers
This is an introductory creative writing class that will explore poetry writing. Course content will include an introduction to poetry writing technique and discussion of contemporary poetry. Class time will be divided among discussion, writing exercises and group critique. NOTE: To enroll in BOTH sections of Engl 273, sign up on WebOPUS for one section, then go to Records to sign into the other section.
273 A1	10129 2.0	Introduction to Literary Genres--Creative Writing, Essay Class meets: Oct. 22 – Dec. 14	10:10-12:10	TR	Steve Meyers
This is an introductory creative writing class that will explore essay writing. Course content will include an introduction to essay writing technique and discussion of the contemporary short story. Class time will be divided among discussion, writing exercises and group critique. NOTE: To enroll in BOTH sections of Engl 273, sign up on WebOPUS for one section, then go to Records to sign into the other section.
273 11298 Introduction to Literary Genres— 8:15-9:25 MWF TBA Creative Writing, Fiction NOTE: To enroll in BOTH sections of Engl 273, sign up on WebOPUS for one section, then go to Records to sign into the other section.

273 11299 Introduction to Literary Genres-- 8:15-9:25 MWF TBA Creative Writing, Poetry
280 A1 or R	10130 4.0	Literature of the Southwest	8:15-9:25	MWF	Delilah Orr
This course is a survey of contemporary Anglo, Mexican, & Native American works. We will examine fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and film.
304	10131 4.0	Video Production	3:35-5:35	MW	Kurt Lancaster
In this digital filmmaking course, you will shoot two shorts: a fiction and a non-fiction. Film exercises will help you to discover sincerity in a shot, how pictures tell stories, how actions (not words) shape the story, how style expresses individuality, and how blocking, composition, and continuity will give you the tools that will enable you to seamlessly weave all these elements into a cohesive story during editing. Override needed: Instructor permission required to register. See Dawn in Noble 230 to be cleared for registration.
NOTE: ENGL 304 has an extra fee of $100.00
308 11315 Interactive Media Production 2:30-4:30 TR Kurt Lancaster This course will explore and define website storytelling and then attempt to innovatedly push the creative boundaries of convergent media. Working in teams, you will produce a cutting-edge interactive web-story integrating graphic and web design, text, images (including slide shows), audio, and video. In addition, each student will develop a personal multimedia project. Override needed: Instructor permission required. Please see Dawn in Nobel 230
315	10132 4.0	Media Writing: Reading the River	9:35-10:45	MWF	Shawn Fullmer
Together we will read about, float upon, and contribute to the protection of regional rivers, including the Colorado, the Green, and the Animas. We will consider the following questions: What is the history of human interaction (exploration, industrialization, recreation) with the river? What is the environmental condition of the river? Who are the key defenders of these rivers? Readings include excerpts from Powell, Abbey, Meloy, Zwinger, and other ecologically-minded authors. Movies include Let the River Run, Lost in the Grand Canyon, and Cadillac Desert: An American Nile. River trips, depending on water, weather, and class members, include the Colorado (Ruby/Horsethief, Westwater, or Cataract Canyon), the Green River, or the Upper Animas. Assignments include a journal, a “being in the world” essay, and a writing project developed in conjunction with a non-profit organization, such as Friends of the Animas River or the American Canoe Association. Instructor permission required to register. See Shawn in Noble 231 to be cleared for registration. This course is repeatable for credit provided the subject is different on each occasion.
315 11300 Media Writing: Magazine Feature Writing 10:55-12:05 MWF Chris Goold This class will focus on magazine feature writing with an emphasis on actually submitting and, hopefully, selling a completed magazine article. We will write a variety of article types throughout the term, such as profile, informative, personal experience and dramatic narrative. In the process, we will learn how to develop ideas, analyze and target magazine markets, write and submit a query letter, research, carry out interviews, prepare and submit a manuscript, understand copyright law, and handle other concerns of the magazine writer. Be prepared for lots of writing and participation in class. This course is repeatable for credit provided the subject is different on each occasion.
317	4.0	Mass Communication Topics: Graphic Novels	1:55-3:05	MWF	Michele Malach
Sequential art and storytelling. Pictures and words. Stories and images. Form and content. History, themes, authors, adaptations.

345 10946 Am. Lit: American Romanticism 8:00-10:00 TR Larry Different Drummers Hartsfield During the mid-nineteenth century the first creative explosion in American literature occurred-an era sometimes referred to as the American Renaissance. This is the period that created many of the literary and cultural issues that still dominate our culture today. We’ll be covering these issues as well as examining the beginnings of some of the characteristics that have made American literature what it is. The writers we will cover include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman. This course is repeatable for credit provided the subject is different on each occasion.
350	10133 2-4	Practicum—Newspaper	3:35-5:35 </