Timeroom: Fall 2023

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 616B (01) - Studies in Film/Authorship

Studies in Film/Authorship

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 15407

Advanced, focused study of the narrative, dramatic, and poetic practices of cinema, within one of four possible subject areas: A) Genre; B) Authorship; C) Culture and Ideology; D) Narrative and Style. Precise issues and methods may vary, ranging from general and specific considerations of how a given subject area involves film theory, criticism, and history, to its use in diverse analyses of selected national cinemas, periods, movements, and filmmakers. May be repeated for credit barring duplication of topic. Barring duplication of material taken for credit in CMN 650, course may be repeated for credit. Detailed course descriptions available in the English department office.

Section Comments: Special Topic: Thriller Films

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated up to unlimited times.

Equivalent(s): AMST 605, ENGL 616

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Matthias Konzett

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	TR	3:40pm - 5:00pm	HS G35

Additional Course Details:

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This course examines the narrative structure of the thriller made famous in the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock. How does suspense function in various thrillers following in the vein of Hitchcock and its updated versions in recent cinema? How do characters regain control and authorship in narratives that place them radically at a loss of control? Looking at subgenres such as the spy, conspiracy, crime, legal, psychological, action, and sci-fi thriller, we will try to understand the multifaceted possibilities of thrillers to confront audiences with a sense of loss of power, of larger and mysterious forces of history determining the fate of the individual, while also assuring them of their powerful position as spectators observing protagonists engaged in uninvited conflicts and struggles for survival. We will also ask how recent thrillers accommodate the expression of identity such as class, race, gender, and nationality as well as their intersectionality. Filmmakers in addition to Hitchcock (North by Northwest) will include David Fincher (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Christopher Nolan (Memento), Joanthan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), Michael Mann (Collateral), Sam Mendes (Skyfall), and Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men). This course requires intensive use of Canvas.

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 618 (01) - Film Theory

Film Theory

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 11000

Examines basic theories of film and their relationship to the practice of close analysis of film. Theories are meant to provide students with a vocabulary for critical analysis and stress the many ways of seeing film.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Matthias Konzett

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	TR	2:10pm - 3:30pm	HS G35

Additional Course Details:

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We will examine basic theories of film and their relationship to the practice of “close analysis.” How do film theorists discuss the experience of film, spectatorship, apparatus, and production in a variety of theoretical contexts and explore major film theories such as those of formalism, realism, auteurism, star/celebrity culture, gender, psychoanalysis, genre, race, cultural and media studies? Theories are meant to provide students with a vocabulary for close analysis of film and will stress the many ways of seeing and experiencing film. Our primary responsibility will be finding ways to speak and write about film and its significance as a complex aesthetic and social sign. Films discussed in class iinclude works by Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Coen Brothers, Christopher Nolan, Ryan Coogler, Kathryn Bigelow, Lana and Lily Wachowski, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Benny and Josh Safdie, Peter Jackson, and Alejandro Iñárritu.

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 620 (01) - English Major Internship

English Major Internship

Credits: 1.0 to 4.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Credit/Fail Grading

Class Size: 15
CRN: 10496

Open to all English majors. Internships allow students to use skills learned in the major in a supervised work setting. In addition to the job experience, the English major internship requires research and writing assignments overseen by a faculty sponsor. These supplementary assignments must be outlined in a written proposal describing the work involved in the internship and how it relates to the student's academic training. Registration requires permission from the employer, faculty sponsor, major advisor, and department chairperson. The employer must be an established organization approved by Career Services. This course does not count toward the English major or substitute for English 720, the Journalism Internship.

Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Instructors: Carla Cannizzaro

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 621 (01) - Newswriting

Newswriting

Online Course Delivery Method: Hybrid / Blended

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 10048

Students get a strong journalistic foundation with hands-on experience reporting and writing compelling news stories for print and digital platforms. Skills taught include finding news stories and tracking down sources; conducting interviews and verifying facts; and drafting and revising stories. ENGL 621 may be taken more than once for credit with the approval of the Journalism Program Director. Students must fill out a Permission to Repeat an English Course For Credit form, available in the department office.

Section Comments: Students repeating this course for credit must visit the ENGL department office for a "Repeat for Credit" form.

Instructor Approval Required. Contact Instructor for permission then register through Webcat.

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 401 and ENGL 534

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Online with some campus visits, EUNH

Instructors: Nicholas Stoico

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	MW	9:40am - 11:00am	HS 104
8/28/2023	12/11/2023		Hours Arranged	ONLINE

Additional Course Details:

In Fall 2023 ENGL 621 will run in HYBRID modality. https://www.unh.edu/registrar/registration/course-delivery-modality-glos...

Online course meetings on Mondays; Wednesday class will meet on campus in the room indicated.

Interested students should contact Prof. Tom Haines for permission to register in ENGL 621 (Fall 2023). https://cola.unh.edu/person/tom-haines

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 623 (01) - Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 11196

Intensive writing course emphasizing the blend of basic elements that constitute creative nonfiction: research, observation, and personal experience. Also readings and discussion of some of the best published creative nonfiction. Students must fill out a Permission to Repeat an English Course For Credit form, available in the department office.

Section Comments: Students repeating this course for credit must visit the ENGL department office for a "Repeat for Credit" form.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 501 or ENGL 526 or ENGL 527

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Sue Hertz

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	MW	2:10pm - 3:30pm	HS 340

Additional Course Details:

Fall 2023 Detailed Description:

Learn to make facts dance. By employing the imagery of a poet, the drama of a novelist, and the content drive of a journalist, we will craft vivid and compelling and maybe even publishable narratives based on your life and the lives of others. We will study and write both longform and flash, as well as digital and oral forms of CNF. For inspiration, we will read the masters such as Nikesh Shukla, Rebecca Skloot, Jerald Walker, Leslie Jamison, Joe Wilkins, and Jesmyn Ward. In this class you will hone your storytelling skills, which transfer well to other forms of creative and academic writing, as well as career pursuits.

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 625A (01) - Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop: Screenwriting

Screenwriting

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 15417

In this course, intermediate creative writers will learn the craft of writing scripts for film and television. Students will continue to explore the elements of effective storytelling by writing and significantly revising loglines, outlines, and complete short screenplays. The course will combine in-depth analysis of classic and contemporary screenplays (including shorts, teleplays, and feature-length films) with lectures, writing exercises, and peer workshops. Topics will include dramatic structure, professional formatting and planning, and how to develop vividly compelling characters, scenes, conflict and dialogue. The aim of the course will not be to simply reinforce existing narrative principles but rather to test the validity of existing conventions. Throughout we will address the questions: What makes a story relevant, moving, thrilling, or meaningful? Why does this story need to be told visually? What makes a great script great? ENGL 625A may be taken more than once for credit, recommended with two different instructors. Students must fill out a Permission to Repeat an English Course For Credit form, available in the department office.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 501 or ENGL 526 or ENGL 527

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Thomas Payne

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	MW	9:40am - 11:00am	HS 240

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 627 (01) - Intermediate Poetry Writing Workshop

Intermediate Poetry Workshop

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 13905

Workshop discussion of poems written by students, with focus on more complex techniques and forms. Individual conferences with instructor. ENGL 627 may be taken more than once for credit, recommended with two different instructors. Students must fill out a Permission to Repeat an English Course For Credit form, available in the department office.

Section Comments: Students repeating this course for credit must visit the ENGL department office for a "Repeat for Credit" form.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 501 or ENGL 526 or ENGL 527

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Shelley Girdner

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	TR	9:40am - 11:00am	HS 240

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 655 (01) - Reading in all Directions: Comics and Graphic Narrative

Comics and Graphic Narrative

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 15408

"Reading happens in all directions," says Hilary Chute about the study of comics and graphic narrative. In this course, students will learn to read images and texts from all directions: up, down, horizontally, vertically, across panels and jacket flaps, in seriality and on the internet. Comics' ability to represent both trauma and the trivial takes students from newspaper funnies to the Holocaust, from superheroes in mid-century floppies to Underground comix and current autobiographical comics, comics journalism, comics history, and fiction.

Section Comments: Fall 2023 Special Topic: Graphic Medicine.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Monica Chiu

	Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
	8/28/2023	12/11/2023	MW	9:10am - 10:30am	HS 108
Final Exam	12/18/2023	12/18/2023	M	8:00am - 10:00am	HS 108

Additional Course Details:

ENGL 655 satisfies a Post-1800 Literature requirement for English Department majors.

In Fall 2023 this course satisfies the Race & Diversity requirement for English Department majors.

In Fall 2023 this course may be applied towards Medical Humanities Minor requirements: https://cola.unh.edu/interdisciplinary-studies/program/minor/medical-hum...

Manchester Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 657 (M1) - Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 15
CRN: 14066

An introduction to the main periods of Shakespeare's playwriting career, addressing representative works from each of the genres in which he wrote (tragedy, comedy, history, romance). We will discuss such matters as a Renaissance theater architecture and performance conventions, Shakespeare's poetic language, the representation of women, commoners and minorities on stage, royal power and court politics, love, sex, religion, and revenge. Live and filmed performances will be included as available.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 401

Equivalent(s): ENGL 657H

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Susanne Paterson

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	W	9:10am - 12:00pm	PANDRA P347

Manchester Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 694 (M1) - Special Topics in Creative Writing

SpcTop/Visual Narrative

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 13436

Courses offered under this number feature a variety of topics having to do with creative writing. Barring duplication of subject, course may be repeated for credit. For details, see the course descriptions available in the English Department.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Online (no campus visits), EUNH

Instructors: Kristilyn Waite

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023		Hours Arranged	ONLINE

Additional Course Details:

With a focus on comics and graphic novels. students in this writing intensive course will examine usage of visual language - pictorial elements, devices, and techniques - in storytelling and communication. Discussion and analysis of an array of visual narrative works grounded in theory on visual storytelling will provide a foundation from which students can explore and cultivate their own unique approaches in application, developing various original projects.