Timeroom: Fall 2023

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 797 (J01) - Special Studies in Literature

Special Studies in Literature

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

Class Size: 20
CRN: 15422

A) Old English Literature, B) Medieval Literature, C) 16th Century, D) 17th Century, E) 18th Century, f) English Romantic Period, G) Victorian Period, H) 20th Century, I) Drama, J) Novel, K) Poetry, L) Non-fiction, M) American Literature, N) A Literary Problem, O) Literature of the Renaissance, R) Race and Racial Theories. The precise topics and methods of each section vary. Barring duplication of subject, may be repeated for credit. For details, see the course descriptions available in the English department.

Section Comments: Special Topic: The English Novel in the World

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.

Cross listed with : ENGL 897.J01

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Sandhya Shetty

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	TR	11:10am - 12:30pm	HS 240

Additional Course Details:

Fall 2023 Detailed Description: The English Novel in the World

Study of the postcolonial Anglophone novel from the mid-twentieth century to the present day (possibly one or two translations). This course will engage questions of form and genre as they emerge for novelists engaged in shaping an imaginative response to colonialism and its long aftermath, one that includes the rise of new nations and nationalisms, exile and migration, and transnational cultural exchanges that dismantle assumed boundaries. In addition to shifts from realism to magical realism and back, subgenres of fiction, we will also study the modes in which postcolonial literary narratives grasp ecological destruction, animal extinction, and human responsibility. Required texts to be selected from the work of Salman Rushdie, Amitava Ghosh, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, Mohsin Hamid, Michael Ondaatje, Abdul Rahman Munif, and Mahasweta Devi.

In fall 2023 this course satisfies a Post-1800 Literature requirement for English Department majors.

In fall 2023 this course satisfies the Anglophone Literature in Global or Transnational Contexts requirement for English Literature majors.

ENGL 797J may be taken for Capstone credit by general English majors if not used to satisfy other major requirement areas. Pick up a Capstone Declaration Form in the main English office (HS 230F) if interested.

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Manchester Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 800 (M1) - Studies in Literature

Studies in Literature

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

Class Size: 2
CRN: 13446

Students in the MAT, MEd, and MST programs, as well as non-degree students, can register for graduate course work in English under this number. The precise topics and focus of each section vary. Topics include Old English Literature, Medieval Literature, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, English Romantic Period, Victorian Period, 20th and 21st Century, Drama, Novel, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, A Literary Problem, Literature of the Renaissance, Postcolonial Literature, 20th to 21st Century American Literature. Barring duplication of subject, may be repeated for credit. Note: Students in the MA and PhD programs in English may not take English 800 for credit toward their degrees. English 800 will only be offered on the Manchester campus.

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

Cross listed with : ENGL 787.M1

Instructors: Susan Walsh

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	R	1:10pm - 4:00pm	PANDRA P531

Additional Course Details:

ENGL 800, Studies in Literature: Contact Zones

This course considers how individual and cultural identities are shaped in a world where people are on the move, literally and metaphorically, voluntarily and involuntarily. When borders are crossed and histories are remade, what is lost and what is gained? As Mohsin Hamid observes, “To a certain extent we are all refugees, at least in an emotional sense. Migration is the fundamental nature of what it is to be a human being. A human being is somebody with a particular genetic configuration: yes. But a human being is also someone who migrates through time.”

Through fiction, drama, poetry and film, we’ll explore the myriad ways in which we experience ourselves, and one another, as we develop new understandings of family, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, class, and nationality. Writers will include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jericho Brown, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Mohsin Hamid, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Lynn Nottage, Tommy Orange, Diane Seuss, and Jesmyn Ward, among others. Supplemental readings will provide frameworks for talking about a range of critical issues.

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 804 (01) - Advanced Nonfiction Writing

Advanced Nonfiction Writing

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

Class Size: 10
CRN: 11786

This workshop embraces all forms of narrative nonfiction, including essays, memoir, literary journalism, and travel writing. Students write multiple pieces that serve as the heart of class discussion. In addition, the class discusses elements of craft and a myriad of selected readings that reflect the genre's range. May be repeated for credit with approval of the MFA director.

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

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 24 credits.

Instructors: Jaed Coffin

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	R	9:40am - 12:30pm	HS 232

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 805 (01) - Advanced Poetry Workshop

Advanced Poetry Workshop

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

Class Size: 10
CRN: 10258

Workshop discussion of advanced writing problems and submitted poems. Individual conferences with instructor. Knowledge of writing poetry required. May be repeated for credit with the approval of the department chairperson.

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

Instructors: David Blair

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	T	2:10pm - 5:00pm	HS 232

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 806 (01) - The Art of Research for Creative Writers

Research for Creative Writers

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

Class Size: 10
CRN: 15412

Many writers think that the heart of creative nonfiction is style, but in truth, the genre's soul is in its content. This course covers tools such as intimate reporting, periodicals, the Internet, and first-hand observation to research people, places, issues, and history. The skills learned will serve graduate students of all kinds of writing, from fiction to academic. Permission of instructor required.

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

Instructors: Sue Hertz

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	M	9:10am - 12:00pm	HS 250C

Additional Course Details:

Fall 2023 Detailed Description:

This workshop celebrates content and the role that research plays in creative writing. Unless you are writing only from memory or imagination, you will need to gather material, and to that end we will spend the semester cultivating the skills that enable nonfiction master John McPhee to write volumes on rocks, memoirist Vivian Gornick to recount settings and conversations, novelist Ian McEwan to describe the work of Cold War spies, and poet Amanda Gorman to craft her infamous inaugural poem. Details build narrative and we will explore the resources and techniques – which range from interviewing to intimate reporting to mining periodicals and databases – that will help you collect the content needed to write credibly and with authority about people, place, and conflicts in tales of fact or imagination. Students will write one 3,000-5,000-word researched narrative or two shorter pieces in the genre of their choice. Authors we will read include Geraldine Brooks, Isabel Wilkerson, Lee Gutkind, Ayana Mathis, and Anthony Doerr. MFA writers of all genres welcome.

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 810 (01) - Teaching Writing

Teaching Writing

Credits: 1.0 to 6.0
Term: Fall 2023 - Full Term (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 5
CRN: 15418

An introduction to various methods of teaching writing. Combines a review of theories, methods, and texts with direct observation of teaching practice.

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

Cross listed with : ENGL 725.01

Instructors: Alecia Magnifico

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	MW	3:40pm - 5:00pm	HS 107

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Manchester Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 810 (M1) - Teaching Writing

Teaching Writing

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

Class Size: 4
CRN: 13970

An introduction to various methods of teaching writing. Combines a review of theories, methods, and texts with direct observation of teaching practice.

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

Cross listed with : ENGL 710.M1

Instructors: C.C. Hendricks

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	T	3:40pm - 6:00pm	PANDRA P347

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Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 815 (01) - Teaching English as a Second Language: Theory and Methods

TESL: Theory and Methods

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

Class Size: 10
CRN: 14530

A course on the linguistic, psychological, and sociological theories that inform our understanding of language acquisition and current best practices in the teaching of ESOL. Provides an overview of first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, learner individual differences (e.g. age, motivation, aptitude, learning strategies), and sociocultural contexts of ESL teaching and learning.

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

Cross listed with : ENGL 715.01

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Instructors: Soo Hyon Kim

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	TR	6:10pm - 7:30pm	HS 240

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Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 819 (01) - Sociolinguistics Survey

Sociolinguistics Survey

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

Class Size: 5
CRN: 15978

How language varies according to the characteristics of its speakers: age, sex, ethnicity, attitude, time, and class. Quantitative analysis methods; relationship to theoretical linguistics. Focus is on English, but some other languages are examined. Introduction to linguistics required prior to registering for this course.

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

Cross listed with : ENGL 719.01, LING 719.01

Instructors: Rachel Burdin

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	MW	10:10am - 11:30am	HS 332

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 829 (01) - Spec Top/Composition Studies

Spec Top/Composition Studies

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

Class Size: 10
CRN: 16052

Advanced course on a topic chosen by the instructor. Precise topics and methods of each section vary. Possible topics include: alternative discourses and rhetorics; contrastive rhetoric; electronic discourse and digital rhetoric; women's rhetorics and feminist pedagogies; Montaigne and the essay tradition; theories of literacy; theories of persuasive writing; theories of transactional writing; and written discourse analysis. Barring duplication of subject, may be repeated for credit. For details see the course descriptions available in the English Department.

Section Comments: FA23 Topic: Race, Writing & Composition Studies

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

Instructors: Florianne Jimenez

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/28/2023	12/11/2023	W	9:10am - 12:00pm	HS 336

Additional Course Details:

FA23 Special Topic: Race, Writing & Composition Studies

What is race, and how does its socially constructed nature influence writing and rhetorical practice? Race, Writing, and Composition Studies examines how race and racial legacies in the U.S. and around the globe impact our social and scholarly conceptualizations of writing, language, and education. In this course, we will examine how race shapes the field of composition and rhetoric, and how the field has responded, with specific attention to understandings of racial minority students and their language practices.

Required Reading:

Inoue, Asao B. Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future. The WAC Clearinghouse; Parlor Press.

Martinez, Aja Y. Counterstory. National Conference of Teachers of English/Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, 2021.

Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge.

Prendergast, Catherine. Literacy and Racial Justice : the Politics of Learning after Brown V. Board of Education. Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.

Pritchard, Eric Darnell. Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy. Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.