FLC Department of English

 

Expanded Course Descriptions

 

SUMMER 2008

 

First Summer Session

 

Course No.

CRN# Credits

Course Description

 

Time

Days

Instructor

270

10090

4.0

History of the Film

 

12:20-2:20

M-F

Michele Malach

This course will be a brief introduction to the history of international, narrative, feature film. Students will also learn how to watch movies.

280  A1 or T

10076

4.0

Lit. of the Southwest

 

9:40-11:40

M-F

MJ Moseley

 

432

10077

4.0

Shakespeare

 

9:40-11:40

M-F

Larry Hartsfield

In this course we will be looking at Shakespeare’s plays in the four traditional Shakespearean genres: comedy, history, tragedy, and romance.  We will also examine Shakespeare’s Sonnets.  We will be discussing Shakespeare’s language and principal themes as well as examining Shakespeare’s culture and his cultural context.

TS2S 391

10089

4.0

Mass Media Ethics

 

12:20-2:20

M-F

Faron Scott

This class will guide students in becoming more educated and empowered participants within the media system. The course will focus on the American mass media and our social, political and economic systems as a complex system of meaning production. Students will examine and analyze this system through a variety of texts.

TS2N 408 

10065

4.0

EcoTexts

 

7:30-9:30

M-F

Larry Hartsfield

In this course we will examine the ways humans construct and interact with the world in scientific, historical and imaginative tests.  The primary themes of this course will include sustainability and interconnectedness.  We will be paying special attention to the theme of representation and questions concerning how humans create representations of the world and of nature as well as of the other beings that share the world with us.

 

 

Second Summer Session

 

116

10072

4.0

Intro to Mass Communication

 

9:40-11:40

M-F

Leslie Blood

 

380

SW 380

10065

4.0

Native American Lit:  Contemporary

Fiction/Film

 

9:40-11:40

M-F

Delilah Orr

This Native American Literature Topics course focuses on contemporary and post-modern works by Native American authors, three of which have been made into film.  The goals of the course are to introduce a variety of themes around which these authors write, to become acquainted with some of the historical and cultural contexts in which the texts are situated, and to analyze both the literary texts and the film adaptations of those texts. 

 

Students from any major are welcome, but each student should be prepared to do critical reading of class texts and to write clear, well organized, basically grammatical expository prose.

 

Required Texts:   The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie, Tracks, Louise Erdrich; Skins, Adrian C. Louis; The Powwow Highway, David Seals.  There will also be some course material on electronic reserve in Reed Library.

TS2S 391

10067

4

Mass Media Ethics

 

12:20-2:20

M-F

Leslie Blood

 

 

 

Third Summer Session

 

TS2N 408

10017

4.0

EcoTexts

 

9:40-11:40

M-F

Gordon Cheesewright

This course will examine the ways humans construct and interact with the world in scientific, historical, and imaginative texts.  We will pay particular attention to the theme of representation-how humans represent the world, nature, themselves, and the other beings that share the world with us. Most of those representations are organized by principles of sustainability and interconnectedness, although we will sample other perspectives as we proceed.  Always we will focus attention on the assumptions and values that shape the perspectives we’re encountering.