Department of English

Boise State University

Summer 2008

Upper-Division Courses in English and Linguistics

 

ENGL 377 American Renaissance
MTuWTh 11:50 am-1:50 PM Olsen-Smith, Steven, 1st Five Week Session

ENGL 397 Special Topics
Grammar, Style and Writing
MTuWTh 2:00 pm-4:00 pm LA105 Cook, Devan 2nd Five Week Session

ENGL 494 Workshop
Confronting Macbeth
Daily, Davis, Charles
Special Session
Class Meets July 28 - August 1

ENGL 497 Special Topics
C. S. Lewis & Plato, Literature & Philosophy
MTuWTh 9:40 am-11:40 Stockton, James
1st Five Week Session

ENGL 498 Senior Seminar
Uehling, Karen
Electronic Campus
Internet
1st Eight Week Session

ENGL 594 Workshop
BSUWP: Adv Inquiry Institute
Daily 8:00 am-4:00 pm, Morgan, Becky
Williams, Diane
Special Session 1
Class Meets June 23 - June 27
ES Writing Project

BSUWP: Writing for Social Change
Daily 8:00 am-4:00 pm, Uriarte, Paula
Hanson, Sharon
Special Session 1
Class Meets August 4 - August 8
ES Writing Project

BSUWP: Creative Nonfiction for Teachers
Daily 8:00 am-4:00 pm, Ballenger, Bruce
Special Session 1
Class Meets June 16 - June 20
ES Writing Project

Confronting Macbeth
Daily TBA, Davis, Charles
Special Session 1
Class Meets July 28 - August 1

ENGL 597 Special Topics
BSUWP: 2008 Invitational Summer Institute
Daily 8:00 am-8:50 am, Wilhelm, Jeffrey
06-09-08 - 06-13-08
M thru Sa 8:00 am-5:00 pm, Wilhelm, Jeffrey
06-23-08 - 06-28-08
Daily 8:00 am-5:00 pm, Wilhelm, Jeffrey
07-07-08 - 07-11-08
2nd Eight Week Session
ES Writing Project

LING 305 Intro to Language Studies
MTuWTh 11:50 am-1:50 pm Ryder, Mary
002 MTuWTh 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Ryder, Mary

LING 407 Appl Ling Teach Eng 2nd Lang
001 MTuWTh 9:40 am-11:40 am Shuck, Gail

LING 407G Appl Ling Teach Engl Sec Lang
001 MTuWTh 9:40 am-11:40 am Shuck, Gail


 

 

Fall 2008

Upper-Division Courses in English and Linguistics

These courses are offered at the Boise campus, with only a few exceptions as marked. Courses are listed in numerical order; the Linguistics courses follow the English courses.

 

ENGL 301.001: Teaching English Composition

TuTh   7:40 AM        

Staff

Theories and techniques for teaching English composition in secondary schools, with emphasis on individualization of instruction, student-centered activity, creativity, and relationships between composition and other aspects of English. Intended for students with a teaching option and a major or minor in English, and for teachers. PREREQ: Upper-division standing or PERM/INST. COREQ: ENGL 481.

ENGL 302.001 Technical Rhetoric

Dr. Mike Markel

Online

An introduction to the rhetoric of technical communication for technical communication emphasis students and others who are considering a career in the field. Topics include information design, technical communication ethics, instructional writing, and strategies of visual and verbal rhetoric. PREREQ: ENGL 102 and Technical Communication Emphasis, or PERM/INST.

ENGL 303.001: Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing

Dr. Michael Mattison

TuTh   9:15AM

Preparation for tutoring for the Boise State Writing Center. Emphasis on writing processes, interpersonal dynamics, questioning techniques, evaluation of writing-in-progress, and rhetorical theory as it pertains to tutoring. PREREQ: ENGL 102 and PERM/INST. COREQ: ENGL 493: Internship in Writing Center.

Prospective students should visit the Writing Center website (http://www.boisestate.edu/wcenter/consultants.html) and follow the steps to apply for admission into the class. Apply as soon as possible; space in ENGL 303 is limited.

ENGL 304.001: Argument

Dr. Michelle Payne

MWF 11:40AM

Study of various kinds of arguments (causal, proposal,
definition) used in academic and civic writing. Provides an overview of the history and
terminology of argument, and allows students to workshop their own argumentative writing.
PREREQ: ENGL 102 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 305: Intermediate Poetry Writing

Exploration of poetic technique and the study of how poets read and learn from other poets. Students will write original poetry and discuss it in a workshop format. May be taken twice for credit. PREREQ: ENGL 205.

ENGL 305.001

W   6 PM      

Prof. Abigail Wolford

ENGL 305.002

TuTh   10:40 AM

Prof. Jodi Chilson

ENGL 305.003

Tu        6:00 PM         

Prof. Adam Phillips

ENGL 306: Intermediate Fiction Writing 

Exploration of narrative technique, dialogue form, and the short story. Students will write original fiction and discuss it in a workshop format. May be taken twice for credit. PREREQ: ENGL 206.

ENGL 306.001          

W        6:00PM          

Prof. Alan Heathcock

ENGL 306.002

TuTh        1:40 PM 

Prof. Brady Udall

ENGL 306.003

TuTh        3:15 PM 

Prof. Brady Udall

ENGL 306.004          

Th        6:00 PM         

Prof. Christian Winn

ENGL 309: Introduction to Book Arts

The course introduces students to the study of basic history of books, including papermaking, typography, printing, binding, book decoration, and contemporary bookworks. Students produce a classroom edition of their own text and/or visual material. 

ENGL 309.001

M        6:00PM

Prof. Tom Trusky

ENGL 309.002

Tu        6:00 PM

Prof. Tom Trusky

ENGL 338.001: Twentieth-Century Continental Literature

MWF  11:40 AM      

Dr. Jim Maguire

Twentieth-century philosophical trends and cultural themes are emphasized in the reading. Includes works by Mann, Mauriac, Kafka, Hesse, Grass, and Solzhenitzyn, which examine mythological, existential, religious, and political themes in relation to contemporary human values. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 342.001: Medieval Drama

M   6:00 PM         

Dr. Linda Marie Zaerr

This course is an investigation of the development of theater in Europe from the early Middle Ages through the early Renaissance. Readings provide a survey of representative works. Production of a play is a major part of the course: students from the course and members of the community jointly form the Medieval Drama Guild and present dramatic entertainment from the Middle Ages for the community.

This year the Medieval Drama Guild will produce The Adventures of Sir Bevis and Princess Josian, a fourteenth-century tale about an English knight brought up in Armenia and the Armenian Princess Josian, a highly skilled musician and physician. They encounter a number of adventures in the strange world they inhabit, and this production will allow modern audiences entrance into that colorful and surprising world. For more information, see http://english.boisestate.edu/lzaerr/medieval1.htm.

ENGL 345: Shakespeare’s Tragedies & Histories

MWF  12:40 PM        

Dr. Mac Test

The purpose of this course is to introduce students, both English majors and non-majors, to Shakespeare’s tragedies and histories and the development of Shakespearean engagements with historical representation and received traditions of tragedy. Students in this course will be expected to engage with Shakespeare’s plays in a variety of ways including written analysis, performance, and imaginative engagement with music, film, and other media.  PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 346: Shakespeare’s Comedies & Romances

MWF  10:40 AM

Dr. Matthew Hansen

The purpose of this course is to introduce students, both English majors and non-majors, to Shakespeare’s comedies and romances and the development of Shakespearean comic theory and practice. I am an historicist critic and will therefore aim to provide some historical contexts concerning the original production, performance, and reception of Shakespeare’s plays. We will also endeavor, together, to test the validity of Shakespeare’s friend and critic Ben Jonson, who wrote that Shakespeare “was not of an age, but for all time.”  This course has an optional service learning component; more will be said about this optional element in the first few weeks of the course. Students in this course will be expected to engage with Shakespeare’s plays in a variety of ways including written analysis, performance, and imaginative engagement with music, film, and other media. Plays to be studied include The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 359: British Novel: Beginnings through Austen

MWF  2:40 PM        

Dr. Ann Campbell

An investigation of the novel tracing its roots and exploring the work of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Austen, and others. The emergence of the most popular genre of literature helps us to understand how fiction reflects our assumption about the world around us. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 376: Nineteenth-Century American Nonfiction

MWF  10:40 AM        

Dr. Tom Hillard

Studies some of our nation’s most central texts selected from the expression prompted by slavery, the Civil War, westward expansion, and rapid social and intellectual changes. Includes writers such as John Burroughs, George Catlin, Mary Boykin Chesnutt, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ulysses S. Grant, and Harriet Jacobs. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 381.001: English Teaching—Writing, Reading, and Language

TuTh   4:40 PM         

Dr. Bruce Robbins

Theories and methods of teaching secondary school English language arts, instructional planning, and integration of composition, literature, and language. PREREQ: ENGL 275. COREQ: ED-CIFS 401 and ED-LTCY 444.

ENGL 384: Literature of the American West

MWF  12:40 PM

Dr. Tom Hillard

We will survey a variety of literary approaches to the American West from the Revolutionary period to the present. We will read novels, some poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction inspired by the landscape and human society of the American West. Primary texts will trace the changing ideas of Americans toward the West and the changing ways that the West adapts itself as a symbol for American ideas of gender, class, labor, liberty, community, and more. Several texts will demonstrate the role literature can play in real-life social debates, both past and present. Assignments include a combination of short response papers, a longer research paper, and, possibly, jobs assisting in the editorial work of the Western Writers Series. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 390: Folklore

TuTh   1:40 PM

Dr. Dora Dhoore

Study of what folklore is, its written and oral traditions, and its different genres. PREREQ: ENGL 102.

ENGL 393.001: History of Literary Criticism

TuTh  4:40PM

Dr. Cheryl Hindrichs

This course is an introduction to how Western culture has defined and studied the literary arts since Plato. We will examine how critical theories have evolved historically, how movements have overlapped, clashed, and synthesized, and how critical debates emerged in particular contexts. In studying a wide range of theorists-from Aristotle to Said-and their contributions to critical movements-from aesthetics to postcolonialism, we will ask, “What is literary theory?” and, moreover, “What can theory do for us?” Theory is not meant to merely reaffirm our assumptions (although it certainly can do that), nor is it a secret language you master to enter an elite club (although it may sometimes seem so). Rather, theory has a rich history-including the theorization of poetics, debates about literature’s ability to offer knowledge and value, beliefs about the proper stuff of the art of fiction, and epistemological investigations of language and meaning. In gaining an appreciation for the history of criticism and in developing your ability to evaluate and use theory through this course, you will discover that good theory and good application of theory can open your readings of the texts and contexts in your life in incredible and challenging new ways. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

Texts: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism; David Richter’s The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.

ENGL 397.002: Femme Fatale in French Literature

TuTh   12:15 PM          

Dr. Mariah Devereux Herbeck (Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures)

What are the origins of the oft-used term "femme fatale"? Can this cinematographic term appropriately define socially deviant women in French literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries? From Manon Lescaut to Nana to Antéchrista, we will examine diverse representations of this difficult to define woman.

ENGL 397.4036: Special Topics

M   1:40 PM

Dr. Dora Ramirez-Dhoore

ENGL 401/401G: Advanced Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 401.001/401G.001: Advanced Nonfiction Writing

TuTh    3:15 PM

Prof. Karen S. Uehling

Focus

Journal writing: extensive journal writing from varied prompts, developed into pieces of various kinds

Study of writer's journals of the twentieth century: the range of journal approaches; how journal entries lead to professional writing though creative, analytical, and revision processes; the many genres journals support

Advice on journal keeping

Special element

Journaling and writing about/for Special Olympics: service learning assignment.
Format

Hybrid course: about half regular class meetings or in-person group meetings and half online discussion using "Discussion Board" feature of Blackboard--will need time available for some group meetings outside of class time.

Final portfolio of selected pieces: prose in several nonfiction genres, particularly forms that evolve from journal entries or forms that analyze and reflect on journal writing.

Likely texts

Daniel Halpern, Our Private Lives: Journals, Notebooks, and Diaries (1989)

Alexandra Johnson, Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal (2002)

Virginia Woolf (edited by Leonard Woolf), A Writer's Diary (2003)

Graduate credit

From catalogue: "Students seeking graduate credit will produce a greater quantity and higher quality of original work, will have a separate and more extensive reading list, and will be expected to participate more fully in class activities." This translates into equivalent of 600 pages (two books) of extra reading (both a complete book and selected excerpts), extra leadership of online discussion, and extra writing: longer, more extensive portfolio, including an analysis and additional creative work.

ENGL 401.002

MWF   12:40 PM      

Prof. Matthew Haynes

Advanced practice in nonfiction genres, and study of how writers read and learn from other writers. Experimentation with subjects, voice, organization, and style. Students may take the course twice, for a total of 6 credits. Students seeking graduate credit will produce a greater quantity and high quality of original work, will have a separate and more extensive reading list, and will be expected to participate more fully in class activities. PREREQ: ENGL 201.

ENGL 403.001: Technical Editing

W        6:00 PM         

Dr. Russell Willerton

An introduction to the role of the technical editor in organizational settings. Topics include copyediting, comprehensive editing, proofreading, working with authors, and preparing documents for publication. PREREQ: ENGL 312 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 406/406G: Advanced Poetry Writing

Intensive work in writing and critiquing poetry. Students seeking graduate credit will produce a greater quantity and higher quality of original work, will have a separate and more extensive reading list, and will be expected to participate more fully in class activities. May be repeated for up to six credit hours. PREREQ: ENGL 305 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 406/406G.001: Advanced Poetry Writing

TuTh 3:15 PM          

Prof. Janet Holmes

ENGL 406.002          

Tu        6:00 PM         

Prof. Jason Appelman

ENGL 407/407G: Advanced Fiction Writing

Intensive work in writing and critiquing fiction. Students seeking graduate credit will produce a greater quantity and higher quality of original work, will have a separate and more extensive reading list, and will be expected to participate more fully in class activities. May be repeated for up to six credit hours. PREREQ: ENGL 306 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 407/407G.001

Tu        3:15-5:55       

Prof. Mitch Wieland

ENGL 407/407G.002

M        6:00 PM         

Prof. Al Heathcock

ENGL 412.001: Women Writers

W   6:00 PM

Dr. Rena Sanderson

Literature by English speaking women, with special attention to cultural contexts, the themes and methods used by women writers, and how women writers have created their own tradition. The course may focus on writings of a particular period. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 415.001/415G.001: On-Screen Document Production

Th        6:00 PM         

Dr. John Battalio

An advanced study and application of the principles involved in designing, creating, and managing information on the screen. Topics include the relationship between screen layout and readability; techniques for integrating text, graphics, and multimedia; principles of writing and indexing on-screen instructional materials; and the use of online help and Web-authoring software. Students will practice effective hypertext and screen-design techniques in producing basic electronic documents, such as online help and Web sites PREREQ: ENGL 312 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 481.001: Literature for Use in Jr. & Sr. High School

TuTh   9:15 AM        

Staff

A literary content course designed for prospective or experienced teachers of secondary school English. Primary emphasis is on critical reading of literature ordinarily used with adolescents in secondary schools. Secondary emphasis is on methods of critical analysis appropriate to secondary students. All genres will be discussed. Both classical and popular authors will be included. PREREQ: Either ENGL 275 and two literature courses, or PERM/INST. COREQ: ENGL 301.

ENGL 485.001: British and American Poetry: 1900-1945

MWF  10:40 AM          

Dr. Jeff Westover

A study of the radical changes that W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and others made in poetry’s traditional aesthetic and thematic concerns, as seen in their work from the turn of the century through two world wars. PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 497: Special Topics

ENGL 497.001: Special Topics

TuTh  1:40 PM

Dr. Marcy Newman

ENGL 497.002: Special Topics

TuTh   10:40 AM

Prof. Steve Barrett

(Honors section: 5 spots for non-Honors students)

ENGL 497.003: Special Topics

W   2:40 PM         

Prof. Matthew Haynes

(Honors section: 5 spots for non-Honors students)

English 498: Senior Seminar

Required of all senior English majors. PREREQ: Senior standing or PERM/CHAIR.

English 498.001: Senior Seminar (Literature)

TuTh        1:40 PM

Dr. Tara Penry

PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

ENGL 498.002: Senior Seminar (Writing)  

MWF  2:40 PM

Dr. Devan Cook

PREREQ: ENGL 275 or PERM/INST.

LING 305: Introduction to Language Studies

A general survey of contemporary language study as it is carried on in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, and psychology, with emphasis on meaning, sounds, words, and sentence formation in English. PREREQ: ENGL 102 or PERM/INST.

LING 305.001

MWF 11:40 AM

Dr. Jon Dayley

LING 305.002

Th 6 PM

Dr. Mary Ellen Ryder

 LING 305.003

TuTh 3:15 PM

Dr. Mary Ellen Ryder

LING 306.001: Modern English Grammar

MWF 2:40 PM

Dr. Jon Dayley

An approach to modern English grammar based on linguistic principles. The course will cover word formation and sentence structure, including transformational, structural, and newly developing theories of grammar. PREREQ: LING 305.

LING 406.001: Psycholinguistics

Tu 6 PM

Dr. Mary Ellen Ryder

The study of language in relation to mind and cognition. Topics include the relationship between language, thought, and memory; language acquisition; language disorders; and the psychological processes involved in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and spelling. PREREQ: LING 305.

LING 497.001: Special Topics: The Politics of Language

TuTh 1:40 PM

Dr. Gail Shuck

LING 497.002: Special Topics: Types of World Languages
 

MWF 1:40 PM

Dr. Jon Dayley