Timeroom: Spring 2025

Manchester Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 534 (M1) - 21st Century Journalism: How the News Works

21st Century Journalism

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 54378

This class explores ways new technology, including social media, has affected the practice of journalism, and examines journalism past and present. Students discuss libel law, ethics and how to define plagiarism in the digital age. This survey is meant not only to lay a foundation for prospective journalists, but also to provide a broad understanding of the news media for those interested in how the news works.

Attributes: Environment,Tech&Society(Disc)

Instructors: Erika Cohen

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	M	9:10am - 12:00pm	PANDRA P307

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ENGL 560 (R01) - Introduction to Latinx Literature and Culture

Intro to Latinx Lit & Culture

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 56687

This course introduces students to the field of Latinx literature and culture in order to develop the ability to speak and think critically about race relations in the USA. Course readings will be drawn from texts produced primarily in English by individuals of Latin American descent. Readings may include immigration and borderlands discourse, art, music, television and film, histories of Latinx subjects in America, and the intersectionality of race with gender, sexual orientation, economic class and religion.

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Inquiry (Discovery), Humanities(Disc)

Instructors: Charli Valdez

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MWF	10:10am - 11:00am	HS 105

Additional Course Details:

This course satisfies the Race, Gender & Postcolonial Studies requirement for English Majors.

This course satisfies the Race & Racial Theories requirement for English Literature, English: TBD, English/Journalism, English/Law 3+3, English Teaching Majors.

In Spring 2025 this course may be taken for WGS Major or Minor credit.

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 581 (01) - Reading the Postcolonial Experience

Reading Postcolonial Exp

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 56732

Modern South Asia and Africa have been shaped by their history of colonization. What is it like to live in places once dominated by foreigners, then reshaped by nationalisms and various injustices intensified by globalization? In this course, we?ll read literary depictions that illuminate the lives, dreams, joys, hates, and failures of individuals and groups in these places, exploring both ordinary life and extraordinary experiences created by dispossession, political tyranny, civil war, and environmental trauma.

Equivalent(s): ENGL 581H

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, World Cultures(Discovery)

Instructors: Sandhya Shetty

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	3:40pm - 5:00pm	HS 108

Additional Course Details:

This course satisfies a Post-1800 Literature requirement for English Literature, English: TBD, English/Journalism, English/Law 3+3 Majors.

This course satisfies the Foundational Survey: Modern Literature requirement for English majors

This course satisfies the "One English Department course in Writing, Linguistics, Critical Theory, Film or Literature" requirement for English Teaching majors.

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Manchester Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 595 (M1) - Literary Topics

Lit Top/Digital Creative Writ

Online Course Delivery Method: Online Asynchronous

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 53196

Investigate in depth a literary topic of particular interest, in a course specially designed for both majors and non-majors. Themes vary from semester to semester--recent topics include the contemporary short story, Irish literature, animals in literature, and the literature of the Vietnam War. See the English Department for details of current offerings. May be repeated for credit, barring duplication of topic.

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

Equivalent(s): ENGL 595H, ENGL 595W

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Kristilyn Waite

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025		Hours Arranged	ONLINE

Additional Course Details:

As the world changes, so do the ways in which art is created and consumed. In response, this course will entail equal parts exploration and innovation. Students will survey emerging techniques and consider the ways in which multimedia design and technology can be utilized in storytelling projects, and then apply those techniques toward new ways of telling their own stories.

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 602 (01) - Advanced Professional and Technical Writing

Adv Professional & Tech Writ

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 52830

An advanced writing course focusing on writing in a global and technological workplace. In addition to fluency in the documents of the workplace, students focus on visual rhetoric in a technological environment through web design and usability while studying the issues of globalism, ethics, and the environment that affect all professional writing today. May be repeated with approval of instructor.

Section Comments: This course required for ENGL:TBD Majors

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

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Molly Campbell

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	11:10am - 12:30pm	HS 340

Additional Course Details:

This course is required for all ENGL:TBD majors

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ENGL 616A (01) - Studies in Film/Genre

Studies in Film/Genre

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 56411

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.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated up to unlimited times.

Equivalent(s): AMST 605, ENGL 616

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Delia Konzett

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	3:40pm - 5:00pm	HS G35

Additional Course Details:

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This course will explore the important concept of genre in film, analyzing its various styles and conventions. We will discuss genre both as a critical term and as a system of classification that defines and characterizes groups of related narrative and cinematic form. Strict genre films (Westerns, war films, comedy, melodrama, horror films, musicals, gangster films, sci-fi films, etc.) as well as sub-genre and crossover films that blend several genres will be discussed. Topics include genre criticism, audience expectations, spectatorship, the tension between genre and auteurism, and genre and its relation to popular culture. Films include The Shining (Kubrick, 1980), Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2012), Eagle vs Sharks (Taika Waititi, 2007), John Wick (Chad Stahelski, 2014), Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (Ritchie, 1998), Marriage Story (Baumbach, 2019), and Dune: Part One (Villeneuve, 2021). This course requires use of Canvas. No prerequisites.

This course satisfies the 'Genres or Theory' requirement for English majors.

This course satisfies the GENRE requirement for English Literature majors.

This course counts towards the DH Component requirement for English: TBD majors.

This course may satisfy the 'One English Course in Writing Linguistics, Critical Theory, Film or Literature' requirement for English Teaching majors.

This course satisfies the 'One additional 500/600/700 level (non-Journalism course) requirement for English/Journalism majors.

This course satisfies an upper-level ENGL course requirement for English/Law 3+3 majors.

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ENGL 616D (01) - Studies in Film/Narrative and Style

Stdy in Film/Narrative & Style

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 56412

Section Comments: S25 Special Topic: Film Noir

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
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	2:10pm - 3:30pm	HS G35

Additional Course Details:

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This course explores contemporary and classical film noir in the context of style and narrative. As critics Paul Schrader and David Desser have pointed out, film noir is not simply a genre but rather a style that is highly adaptable and hence can be found in various film genres in international and contemporary cinemas. As a style, noir foregrounds a culture of corruption and may be seen as a critical social narrative. At the same time, noir also involves aesthetic play with light, water, images of the femme fatale, violence, and crime as its essential ingredients. Our course will cover a variety of contemporary examples foregrounding different issues such as masculinity and consumer culture (Fight Club 1999), environment and social corruption(Michael Clayton, 2007), corporate/media culture (Nightcrawler, 2014) nationhood and borders (Sicario, 2015; No Country for Old Men, 2007), assassins and professionalism (In Bruges, 2008; John Wick: Chapter 2, 2017) and contemporary nihilism and dark comedy (Joker, 2019;The Batman, 2022; The Big Lebowski, 1998). No prerequisites.

This course satisfies the 'Genres or Theory' requirement for English majors.

This course satisfies the GENRE requirement for English Literature majors.

This course counts towards the DH Component requirement for English: TBD majors.

This course may satisfy the 'One English Course in Writing Linguistics, Critical Theory, Film or Literature' requirement for English Teaching majors.

This course satisfies the 'One additional 500/600/700 level' (non-Journalism course) requirement for English/Journalism majors.

This course satisfies an upper-level ENGL course requirement for English/Law 3+3 majors.

Durham Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 621 (01) - Newswriting

Newswriting

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 51541

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: Contact Prof. Lisa Miller for permission to enroll

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

Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 401 or ENGL 401H) and ENGL 534

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

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Tom Haines

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	11:10am - 12:30pm	HS 104

Additional Course Details:

Contact Prof. Lisa Miller for permission to register for ENGL 621 in Spring 2025: LC.Miller@unh.edu

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ENGL 623 (01) - Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 55669

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.

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

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Jaed Coffin

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	9:40am - 11:00am	HS 232

Additional Course Details:

This course satisfies the Linguistics or Writing requirement for all English majors.

This course counts towards the 'One English Dept course in Writing, Linguistics, Critical Theory, Film or Literature' requirement for English Teaching majors.

This course counts towards the 'One of Three on-campus Journalism courses' requirement for English/Journalism majors.

This course satisfies an upper-level ENGL course requirement for English/Law 3+3 majors.

Manchester Liberal Arts :: English

ENGL 623 (M1) - Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 10
CRN: 56048

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

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Susanne Paterson

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	W	9:10am - 12:00pm	PANDRA P504

Additional Course Details:

This course features creative nonfiction which is focused on peril, risk, and survival. It showcases memoirs, investigative reportage, and reflective works. We will be analyzing both the contents and the craft of the texts, and we will be developing our own creative nonfiction projects over the course of the semester. Any student with an enthusiasm for or interest in creative nonfiction, memoir-writing, and developing a distinctive writerly voice is welcome.

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