Session 1: English Courses — 5/24/20 - 7/03/10
English 1002: Rhetoric and Composition 2 3 semester hours Professor Tom Massnick 101 MTWR 11:30-1:05 Public Literacy Fulfills UCCS Rhetoric requirement Please see First Year English brochure for course description. Course Learning Objectives
English 2720: Introduction to Literature: Drama 3 semester hours Professor Virginia Chappell 999 ONLINE (SEE SUMMER 2010 ON CHECKMARQ) Fulfills UCCS LPA requirement
English 4931/5931 Topics in Literature/Writing: THE VIKINGS Professor Tim Machan 1001 MTWR 8:00 am -9:35 am This course will be devoted to the history, culture and literature of Scandinavia during the age of the Vikings. Our concerns will be both with the social and political events of the period and with the ways in which medieval Scandinavians used fiction, history, and mythology in order to present and interpret the world in which they lived. The issues that we will consider include Viking religion and mythology, the unification of the individual Scandinavian kingdoms, the Christianization of a heroic warrior culture, the Vikings¹ own concerns with history and self-representation, and the raids and colonizing missions that they effected in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the North Atlantic. This course qualifies as a pre-1800 course in English.
English 6700: Studies in 20th C American Literature: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ETHNIC LITERATURE Professor Amara Graf 101 TUTH 9:45-1:15 In this course we will examine different critical approaches to contemporary Ethnic-American fiction. We will explore different types of fiction (short stories and novels) from a variety of cultural (African-American, Latina/o, Asian-American, American Indian) and critical (feminist, gender, post-colonial) perspectives. In particular, we will look at ways that readings generated from within the authors’ respective communities produce different interpretations than readings generated from outside that community. For example, we will read the critical perspectives of Ethnic Studies and Post-Colonial theorists such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Franz Fanon, and Toni Morrison. By paying proper attention to the ways in which theorists approach literature produced within their respective communities, as well as the cultural and historical moments in which these works are occurring, we will develop a sense of the aesthetic and political stakes of Ethnic American literary production.

Session 1: English Courses — 5/24/20 - 7/03/10

English 1002: Rhetoric and Composition 2

3 semester hours

Professor Tom Massnick

101 MTWR 11:30-1:05 Public Literacy
Fulfills UCCS Rhetoric requirement
Please see First Year English brochure for course description.
Course Learning Objectives

English 2720: Introduction to Literature: Drama

3 semester hours

Professor Virginia Chappell

999 ONLINE (SEE SUMMER 2010 ON CHECKMARQ)
Fulfills UCCS LPA requirement

English 4931/5931 Topics in Literature/Writing: THE VIKINGS

Professor Tim Machan

1001 MTWR 8:00 am -9:35 am

This course will be devoted to the history, culture and literature of Scandinavia during the age of the Vikings. Our concerns will be both with the social and political events of the period and with the ways in which medieval Scandinavians used fiction, history, and mythology in order to present and interpret the world in which they lived. The issues that we will consider include Viking religion and mythology, the unification of the individual Scandinavian kingdoms, the Christianization of a heroic warrior culture, the Vikings¹ own concerns with history and self-representation, and the raids and colonizing missions that they effected in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the North Atlantic.

This course qualifies as a pre-1800 course in English.

English 6700: Studies in 20th C American Literature: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ETHNIC LITERATURE

Professor Amara Graf

101 TUTH 9:45-1:15

In this course we will examine different critical approaches to contemporary Ethnic-American fiction. We will explore different types of fiction (short stories and novels) from a variety of cultural (African-American, Latina/o, Asian-American, American Indian) and critical (feminist, gender, post-colonial) perspectives. In particular, we will look at ways that readings generated from within the authors’ respective communities produce different interpretations than readings generated from outside that community. For example, we will read the critical perspectives of Ethnic Studies and Post-Colonial theorists such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Franz Fanon, and Toni Morrison. By paying proper attention to the ways in which theorists approach literature produced within their respective communities, as well as the cultural and historical moments in which these works are occurring, we will develop a sense of the aesthetic and political stakes of Ethnic American literary production.

Session 2: English Courses -- 7/06/10 - 8/14/10
English 1: Rhetoric and Composition 1 (7/06/10 - 8/06/10) Professor Jason Nado 101 MTWRF 8:00 - 9:30 Academic Literacy 102 MTWRF 9:50 - 11:20 Academic Literacy Fulfills UCCS Rhetoric requirement Course Learning objectives
English 2710: Introduction to Fiction: COMPETING PARADIGMS: LITEARY PERIODS & ETHNIC CATEGORIES Professor Kris Ratcliffe 701 MW 5:30 - 9:00 PM Fulfills UCCS LPA requirement Course Description: This summer we will read lots of short stories (by Dorothy Allison, James Baldwin, Charles Chestnutt, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Gish Jen, Cynthia Ozick, Edgar Allan Poe, Amy Tan, Helena Viramontes, Kurt Vonnegut, and others) and a couple novels (e.g., The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie and Beloved by Toni Morrison); in the process, we will question/evaluate two paradigms used to read U.S. literature. First, we will study U.S. literary periods of Romanticism, Realism/Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism not just as historical periods but as cultural threads that continue to inform contemporary U.S. literature and culture; second, we will examine muliti-ethnic categories of African American literature, American Indian literature, Chinese American literature, Latino/a Literature, (White) Suburban literature, “White Trash” literature, and (unmarked) literature not just as classifications of literary texts but as cultural threads that inform contemporary U.S. literature and culture. • Upon completing this course, you will be able to: (1) identity elements of narrative and explain their functions in fictional texts; (2) identify and critique two paradigms for studying literature—literary periods and multi-ethnicity; (3) identify values in U.S. fiction and evaluate the merits of these values today; (4) enhance your analytical reading, writing, and speaking abilities. Assignments: 2 position papers; 2 essays; 1 oral presentation; and one final exam.
English 4610/5610: Individual Author: W.B. YEATS AND SEAMUS HEANEY: ROMANTIC MODERNISM Professor John Boly 1001 MTWT 11:30 - 1:05 Description: The two Nobel laureates who bestride twentieth century poetry both happen to be Irish. Yet aside from their shared nationality, W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney have little else in common. Yeats was aristocratic, Protestant, arrogant, and cosmopolitan in his steady invention of ever-changing, and increasingly bizarre, mythic systems. In contrast, Heaney is a common farmer’s son, Catholic, reticent, and parochial in his frequent returns to the memories and images of his boyhood on a small farm in Northern Ireland. Yet different, even opposite, as Yeats and Heaney are, they share a crucial poetic attribute. Both are the descendants of the romantic tradition of visionary and prophetic poetry. Both compose verses which call an entire civilization to task, demand radical change in conduct and thought, and forecast dire consequences if their insights are ignored. So in this course we will balance both the contradictions and the congruencies between these two literary giants by studying their major poetic works. Our basic texts will be the collected poems of each poet, but we will also consider their extensive critical writings, as well as occasional chapters from their biographies. Two papers, two hourlies, and occasional class reports.
English 6500: Seminar in Twentieth-Century British Literature: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERNIST POETICS: WHITMAN, ELIOT, FROST, AUDEN, THOMAS, LOWELL AND PLATH Dr. John Boly 101 MTWT 9:45 -11:20 Course Description: Although literary critics frequently bandy about the categories of "modernism," "anti-modernism," and "post-modernism," it is hard to altogether stifle the suspicion that these terms are a currency with little or no backing. While they may have a rough chronological basis, as in early vs. late twentieth century, they are left too profligately inclusive to serve as much more than preliminary descriptors. This seminar will search for the common denominators that convincingly, and coherently, link literary modernism to the major historical, scientific, philosophical, and artistic trends of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet we will also seek to discover how these shared factors can, in turn, generate a wide array of technical, topical, stylistic, and generic variations. To keep the whole project honest, more or less, we use as our basis of selection the contradictory criteria that our focal poets must collectively fit into the category of modernism, yet individually remain as spikily aloof from one another as imaginable. Hence our readings will gather together the incompatible imaginations and aspirations of six poets who probably had nightmares about ever being linked: Whitman, Eliot, Frost, Auden, Robert Lowell, and Plath. Two essays, two hourlies, and brief class readings.

Session 2: English Courses -- 7/06/10 - 8/14/10

English 1: Rhetoric and Composition 1

(7/06/10 - 8/06/10)

Professor Jason Nado

101 MTWRF 8:00 - 9:30 Academic Literacy
102 MTWRF 9:50 - 11:20 Academic Literacy
Fulfills UCCS Rhetoric requirement
Course Learning objectives

English 2710: Introduction to Fiction: COMPETING PARADIGMS: LITEARY PERIODS & ETHNIC CATEGORIES

Professor Kris Ratcliffe

701 MW 5:30 - 9:00 PM
Fulfills UCCS LPA requirement

Course Description: This summer we will read lots of short stories (by Dorothy Allison, James Baldwin, Charles Chestnutt, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Gish Jen, Cynthia Ozick, Edgar Allan Poe, Amy Tan, Helena Viramontes, Kurt Vonnegut, and others) and a couple novels (e.g., The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie and Beloved by Toni Morrison); in the process, we will question/evaluate two paradigms used to read U.S. literature. First, we will study U.S. literary periods of Romanticism, Realism/Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism not just as historical periods but as cultural threads that continue to inform contemporary U.S. literature and culture; second, we will examine muliti-ethnic categories of African American literature, American Indian literature, Chinese American literature, Latino/a Literature, (White) Suburban literature, “White Trash” literature, and (unmarked) literature not just as classifications of literary texts but as cultural threads that inform contemporary U.S. literature and culture.

• Upon completing this course, you will be able to: (1) identity elements of narrative and explain their functions in fictional texts; (2) identify and critique two paradigms for studying literature—literary periods and multi-ethnicity; (3) identify values in U.S. fiction and evaluate the merits of these values today; (4) enhance your analytical reading, writing, and speaking abilities.

Assignments: 2 position papers; 2 essays; 1 oral presentation; and one final exam.

English 4610/5610: Individual Author: W.B. YEATS AND SEAMUS HEANEY: ROMANTIC MODERNISM

Professor John Boly

1001 MTWT 11:30 - 1:05

Description: The two Nobel laureates who bestride twentieth century poetry both happen to be Irish. Yet aside from their shared nationality, W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney have little else in common. Yeats was aristocratic, Protestant, arrogant, and cosmopolitan in his steady invention of ever-changing, and increasingly bizarre, mythic systems. In contrast, Heaney is a common farmer’s son, Catholic, reticent, and parochial in his frequent returns to the memories and images of his boyhood on a small farm in Northern Ireland.

Yet different, even opposite, as Yeats and Heaney are, they share a crucial poetic attribute. Both are the descendants of the romantic tradition of visionary and prophetic poetry. Both compose verses which call an entire civilization to task, demand radical change in conduct and thought, and forecast dire consequences if their insights are ignored. So in this course we will balance both the contradictions and the congruencies between these two literary giants by studying their major poetic works.

Our basic texts will be the collected poems of each poet, but we will also consider their extensive critical writings, as well as occasional chapters from their biographies. Two papers, two hourlies, and occasional class reports.

English 6500: Seminar in Twentieth-Century British Literature: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERNIST POETICS: WHITMAN, ELIOT, FROST, AUDEN, THOMAS, LOWELL AND PLATH

Dr. John Boly

101 MTWT 9:45 -11:20

Course Description: Although literary critics frequently bandy about the categories of "modernism," "anti-modernism," and "post-modernism," it is hard to altogether stifle the suspicion that these terms are a currency with little or no backing. While they may have a rough chronological basis, as in early vs. late twentieth century, they are left too profligately inclusive to serve as much more than preliminary descriptors. This seminar will search for the common denominators that convincingly, and coherently, link literary modernism to the major historical, scientific, philosophical, and artistic trends of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet we will also seek to discover how these shared factors can, in turn, generate a wide array of technical, topical, stylistic, and generic variations. To keep the whole project honest, more or less, we use as our basis of selection the contradictory criteria that our focal poets must collectively fit into the category of modernism, yet individually remain as spikily aloof from one another as imaginable. Hence our readings will gather together the incompatible imaginations and aspirations of six poets who probably had nightmares about ever being linked: Whitman, Eliot, Frost, Auden, Robert Lowell, and Plath. Two essays, two hourlies, and brief class readings.

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