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English Course Descriptions
English Course Descriptions – Spring
2009
All literature courses fulfill the College of Arts & Sciences literature requirement and MPSL culture track requirement.
Any writing course 200 or above fulfills the advanced writing requirement.
January 2009 Immersion Courses - four offerings in English
CRN • Course • Sec • Crd • Course Title • Faculty • Days • Times • Room • Limit • Prereq
34332 EN 120 3 Intro to Literature: The Strange and Bizarre George MWF 8:00-8:50 25
The strange and bizarre have become commonplace in popular culture. From horror films such as Hostel to films based on comic books and video games, audiences seem uncannily drawn to narratives that include the out-of-the-ordinary. Yet this type of narrative is nothing new. This course will explore the strange and bizarre throughout literary history, using such works as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Anthony Burgess’s Clockwork Orange, Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and other narratives—with the goal of determining the attraction of these narratives and why they remain so popular.
32616 EN 160 1 Reading Rndtble-Fantasy Fiction by Women Writers McKenna M 3:00-3:50 15
Students will explore fantasy as a genre using texts written by women writers. In the past the genre was largely dominated by male writers. In the last forty years, the genre has become an element of the women’s movement as women seek new definitions of themselves and their lives using mythology and fantasy to explore other times and mythic worlds that are woman centered and designed. We will explore four fantasy novels with a variety of mythic and female centered perspectives and discover why the novels appeal to women’s expanded views of themselves in the 21stcentury.
30777 EN 170 1 LV Writing Roundtable Matthews W 6:00-6:50 20 LV Scholar
In this course, Long-Vanderburg Scholars will sharpen their writing, editing and proofreading skills as they also increase awareness of the LV program on campus. During the semester, students will write articles for campus publications, including D-Talk and the Decaturian; assist with the coordination and promotion of the African American Read-In; write, edit, and assemble a packet for prospective students; participate in interviews with prospective students; write a final essay reflecting on the contributions of LV Scholars to the Millikin community; organize the final essays into a magazine that can be displayed or distributed on campus; and plan and coordinate activities to raise the profile of the LV program, both on campus and in the surrounding community.
34533 EN 170 1 Contemplation Writing Roundtable Braniger M 2:00-2:50 Lib. 8 15
This course offers a space for cultivating and contemplating self/other relationships. Keeping in mind the intimate relationship between reading and writing, we will learn about and engage in the contemplative practices of self-writing (a kind of journal-keeping) and correspondence (letter-writing). We will observe, remember, imagine. We will broaden our notion of what it means to think. As we contemplate and call into question the way one apprehends oneself and others, our goal is to come to recognize the potential for reading, writing, listening and speaking to help us construct identity and transform the way we interact with others. Major writing projects include letter writing, hupomnēmata writing,and critical and reflective writing.
34716 EN 180 1 Introduction to Writing Center Tutoring Crowe tba
This course provides you with theoretical and experiential grounding in peer tutoring of writing, engaging you in examining and experiencing the roles of peer tutor and collaborator. Throughout the course our concerns will be practical as well as pedagogical. We will explore the philosophy of the Writing Center and how it fits into the theoretical/ pedagogical approaches to peer tutoring, and move into practice, focusing on interpersonal dynamics, audience adaptation, and collaborative learning. You will engage in active sharing and development of tutoring styles, skills, and strategies, investigate writing in the disciplines, and engage in self-reflection concerning the practice of peer tutoring. This course will be a combination of discussion, reflection, group work, and tutor presentations which will allow us opportunities to share, analyze, and critique as well as connect theory and pedagogy to real world tutoring experiences.
32617 EN 201 3 Intro to Creative Writing McKenna MWF 1:00-1:50 20 IN 151
This introduction to creative writing allows students to explore a variety of writing styles and genres as we explore ideas about the craft of creative writing. Using various writers as models and reading about the way other writers developed their writing and craft, students will gain a sense of the many paths that writers take to develop their art. Over the course of this study, students will be producing their own body of work and have the opportunity to “test the waters” in a variety of forms. Students will also engage with one another’s writings and learn to give helpful feedback about the writings of their peers.
Fulfills the advanced writing requirement for English majors.
31995 EN 215 3 Newswriting I Freeman TR 12:30-1:45 20 IN 151/consent
Introduction to basic methods of news reporting and writing. Students learn Associated Press style basics and an introduction to journalism ethics while writing the basic types of news stories: obituaries, advances, follow-ups, breaking news, controversy and research-based. Focuses on print journalism, but also addresses broadcast newswriting
Fulfills the advanced writing requirement for English majors.
30788 EN 220 3 Children’s Lit on Third Reich Meyer W 6:00-8:30 12 IN 151
64750 IN 350
In this course our goal is to read, appreciate, and examine literature for children about the Third Reich—Nazi Germany (and other countries which came under Nazi control during this time). Within this category we will look at three specific areas: the experience of Jews in the Third Reich; the experience of non-Jews (such as ordinary German citizens) in the Third Reich; and the experience of people, in Germany and in other countries under Nazi control, who were working to resist Nazi Germany. We will compare primary sources—memoirs and film documentaries—with texts written for children. Students will read some books on their own and will try their hand at preparing a book for children on some lesser-known aspect of life in the Third Reich.
Fulfills Global studies or 20th C. literature core requirement
34747 EN 220 3 A History of Intolerance Meddaugh TR 12:30-1:45 15 Sophomore
34748 IN 250
"A History of Intolerance: Who’s White, Who’s Right, Who Cares?"
This course investigates the history of intolerance in the United States, investigating the four periods of white supremacist activity in the United States after the Emancipation Proclamation: the original Ku Klux Klan of the post Civil War era; the 1920s Klan; the Klan of the civil rights period; and the present day white supremacist movement, which is comprised of hundreds of organizations. The class examines the historical, cultural, social and economic conditions in which hate groups have evolved, as well as analyze the rhetorical strategies and discursive tactics of white supremacist argumentation. Students learn to appreciate the power of language in creating realities that liberate or oppress, as well their own opportunities in challenging the racial paradigm endemic to US culture.
Fulfills U.S. Studies requirement
30797 EN 232 3 American Literature in the 20th Century O’Conner MWF 10:00-10:50 25 IN 151
This course surveys a wide range of modern American writers from around 1900 to the present. It examines these writers in the cultural, intellectual, and historical contexts of the 20th Century. Units include Regional and Social Realism, Early 20th century Poets, Modernist Portraits, the Southern Renaissance, the Literature of Liberation and the Search for Identity, among others. Along with close readings and examinations of the literature, we will look at a broad range of the cultural contexts that influence this literature including the fine arts, history, material culture, religion, politics, music, cultural geography, folklore and anthropology.
Fulfills the English core Literature in the 20thCentury requirement or American Lit requirement for English Education majors.
31997 EN 280 1 Decaturian Newspaper Meddaugh tba
Staff members of the Decaturian, Millikin's campus newspaper, receive credit for writing and other staff responsibilities. This course can be repeated each semester for up to eight credits.
34810 EN 300 3 Advanced creative Writing: Novella Frech TR 9:30-10:45 15 IN 151
The novella shares features with the short story and the novel, but has its own distinguishing characteristics, not the least of which is its possibility of being read in an afternoon. This course will explore which narrative structures and methods lend themselves to the novella’s shorter length, with the goal of improving students’ own fiction and producing at least one longer work. The class will read a number of 20th century novellas to serve as models, among them Nobel Prize winners (ie Camus) and novellas made into films (ie Hrabal’s Closely Observed Trains).
Fulfills an advanced writing requirement
34734 EN 301 3 New Media Writing: An Introduction Fitzgerald MWF 11:00-11:50 25 IN 151
Ever wonder why Facebook, MySpace, blogs and wikis are so popular? Ever wanted to do more with these new media forms? This course helps you explore these genres and examine online texts from a variety of perspectives including journalism, creative writing, narrative theory, communication and technology studies. We will investigate forms, genres and examples of New Media such as mobile computing, blogs, wikis, video games, electronic literature and social network sites as well as the theories about writing and communication which emerge from these genres. Much of the work of the course will be online examining forms of new media, as well as reading, writing and creating new media texts.
Fulfills advanced writing requirement for English majors or the publishing course requirement
34735 EN 305 3 Web Publishing Fitzgerald TR 2:00-3:15 20 IN 151
A workshop-based studio course, web publishing provides students with the exciting opportunity of learning web design. Students will develop an understanding of design principles as they produce projects using Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and other software programs. Students work with on and off-campus clients throughout the semester. This is an advanced writing course which explores the potential of web content through individual projects ranging from fiction, technical writing, narrative, and poetry to educational resources, marketing and professional portfolios.
Fulfills advanced writing requirement for English majors or the publishing course requirement.
30828 EN 310 3 Applying Writing Theory Zhao TR 2:000-3:15 25 IN 151
Applying Writing Theory introduces you to rhetorical theories and contemporary writing theories and offers you opportunities to apply these rhetorical and writing theories to your own writing and/or to the teaching of writing. This course focuses on major theories on writing processes and provides an overview of important elements of the writing process—invention, arrangement, argument, audience, style, and grammar. This course asks you to apply theories through such writing assignments as reading response papers, writing theory research project, grammar/style assignment, writing theory application essays, and developing your own writing theory and/or writing pedagogy.
Fulfills the Applying Writing Theory course requirement for writing majors and English Education majors.
34335 EN 316 3 Feature Writing Meddaugh TR 6:00-7:15 20 EN 215/consent
Feature Writing is an advanced journalism course suggested for students interested in further developing their skills for feature or magazine writing. The course is designed to cultivate the voice of the beginning writer, learning and applying sophisticated writing techniques and story formats. Students learn about the use of observational, ethnographic, literary strategies to enhance audience interaction with the text. Additionally, the course centers on editing and polishing techniques to produce stories of publishable quality.
Fulfills an advanced writing requirement
33089 EN 325 3 Shakespeare: Poems and Later Plays Klotz MWF 11:00-11:50 25 IN 151 & 1 lit course
This course emphasizes the study of Shakespeare’s work in its historical context. We will examine the ways in which this poet/playwright negotiates the conflicting religious, philosophical, political, social, and scientific ideas of his day. We will also engage in close readings that pay attention to genre and language, and imagery in particular.Works studied will include a selection of poems and later comedies, tragedies, and romances, written after the year 1601 or so. Methods: Lecture and discussion. Requirements: 2 midterm exams, an essay, a final exam. Required text: The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Portable Edition. Ed. David Bevington. Longman Publishers, 2007.
Fulfills the Shakespeare requirement for English majors as well as the dramatic literature requirement for Theatre majors.
34739 EN 340 3 The Romantic Sublime: British Romantic Poetry Frech TR 12:30-1:45 20 IN 151
The world nearly glowed in the late 18th, early 19th century with revolution. Romanticism takes shape in that climate not so much as an organized movement, but as an irresistible re-evaluation of man and beauty and the function of the mind and imagination – essentially, a philosophic and aesthetic revolution to accompany the political ones. While all poetry of the west has moved forward from Romanticism, none has fully left its orbit, its magnetic sense of the artist as seer, an intimate with the world’s own organic forces and process. The Romantic genius who dies young: Keats. The Romantic exuberance that burns itself out: Byron. The Romantic “noble savage”: Clare. And the Romantic sublime, beauty so great, so over-whelming it terrifies with its threat of obliterating us: Shelley. This class will read the six major British Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, and Keats) and John Clare, their too often over-looked contemporary, dismissed because of his raw, unschooled poetics and his madness.
Fulfills the English Tradition from 1700-modern requirement or Studies in Poetry requirement for literature majors.
33903 EN 350 3 Medieval Drama George MWF 11:00-11:50 25 IN 151 & 1 lit course
This section of Studies in Drama focuses on an introduction to Medieval drama from England. The English native dramatic tradition is rich and varied, and we will trace medieval drama from some of its liturgical beginnings through the most popular of medieval plays—the mystery cycles and morality drama—through early humanist drama. Most students of English drama are familiar with the contributions of the Roman playwrights Terence and Plautus and perhaps even such medieval playwrights as Hildegard von Bingen. Yet much of the native tradition is often ignored when teaching the history of English drama. The medieval plays that you will study are essential for the development of English drama, for many were performed into the Early Modern period, providing playwrights like Kyd, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.
Fulfills the Studies in Drama requirement for literature majors.
30844 EN 366 3 Epic and Counter-Epic Tradition Klotz MWF 9:00-9:50 25 IN 151 & 1 lit course
Cannonballs in heaven, warrior goddesses, journeys to hell and back: Where can you find such things but in the great classical and Renaissance epics? Beginning with Homer’s Iliad, this course will trace how epic conventions and values are transformed and challenged by later poets, including Virgil, John Milton, and Alexander Pope, with room for students to consider modern versions of epic. Works read in full will include Homer’s Iliad, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Fulfills the Studies in Poetry requirement and Studies in Literary History requirement
34756 EN 366 3 Global Women’s Writing Zhao MWF 2:00-2:50 10 IN 151 & 1 lit course
34755 IN 350
As a Millikin University’s Global Studies course and an advanced writing class, this advanced course invites you to examine diverse writings from the perspectives of feminist rhetoric beyond the western paradigm of masculine classical rhetoric. In this course, you will read brilliant women writers who have been persistently silenced and recently “discovered” in the mainstream literary and rhetorical traditions of America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Feminist scholars urging for a reevaluation of these writers will also be on the reading list. Through reading, class discussion, watching movies, and writing about these women’s writings in such diverse genres as poetry, fiction, drama, and essays, you are learning to understand how their writings have both contributed to and challenged the Western and non-Western literary and rhetorical paradigms; meanwhile, you are also encouraged to reflect on and revise your own preconceived notions about literary and rhetorical traditions and eventually to develop a more complicated understanding about writing and literature.
Fulfills the Literature in the 20th C. requirement, the Studies in Literary History requirement and the Global Studies requirement
33458 EN 382 1-3 Art of Publishing Brooks TR 12:30 1:45 15 IN151 or consent
Art of Publishing is a learning practicum in publishing. Students learn by working as an editor or student leader carrying out specific responsibilities for Bronze Man Books, Millikin University’s student publishing company. Students may enroll by consent only, following applications and interviews for needed positions in the publishing house. Interviews will be conducted on advising day or the day before advising day. Watch for campus posters promoting this opportunity. Possible student positions include: editor, acquisitions editor, assistant editor, legal research, production manager, art director, designer, sales manager, marketing manager, marketing research, publicist, and advertising manager. For questions contact either one of the co-teachers: Randy Brooks or Ed Walker.
Fulfills a publishing requirement for English majors, but does not fulfill advanced writing requirement.
34746 EN 382 1 Broadside Publishing Frech W 4:00-4:50 15 IN 151/consent
Blue Satellite Press prints poetry broadsides (more commonly known as posters) in both letterpress and offset formats. We will learn aspects of design and print production that letterpress printing encourages: layering, color “interaction” and font as a design element, all aspects one can learn in computer layout, but only with deliberate, conscious effort. And we will be doing the editorial work of an ongoing press: selection of work to print, communications with poets, and distributing the printed broadsides.
Fulfills a publishing requirement for English majors, but does not fulfill advanced writing requirement.
34742 EN 420 3 The Romantic Sublime: British Romantic Poetry Frech TR 12:30-1:45 20 junior/consent
The world nearly glowed in the late 18th, early 19th century with revolution. Romanticism takes shape in that climate not so much as an organized movement, but as an irresistible re-evaluation of man and beauty and the function of the mind and imagination – essentially, a philosophic and aesthetic revolution to accompany the political ones. While all poetry of the west has moved forward from Romanticism, none has fully left its orbit, its magnetic sense of the artist as seer, an intimate with the world’s own organic forces and process. The Romantic genius who dies young: Keats. The Romantic exuberance that burns itself out: Byron. The Romantic “noble savage”: Clare. And the Romantic sublime, beauty so great, so over-whelming it terrifies with its threat of obliterating us: Shelley. This class will read the six major British Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, and Keats) and John Clare, their too often over-looked contemporary, dismissed because of his raw, unschooled poetics and his madness.
34736 EN 480 1-3 Internship: Professional Writing Fitzgerald tba Consent of department chair
Professional Writing Internship is an opportunity for you to gain experience working as a writer a few hours a week. In the past, students have interned for local organizations writing and designing brochures, web sites, books, newsletters, grant proposals, and other documents. You can establish a network of contacts for future job referrals and build up a portfolio of successful documents. You must complete a learning contract including (1) site supervisor contact information, (2) task description, (3) learning goals, and (4) professional expectations. See Dr. Fitzgerald for further details and help getting placed.
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