English Graduate Program
Course offerings for Fall 2006

ENGL 4901.351 CID#12703Tutor Training (for those in the writing center) W 8:30-9:20am 208M/Damron. Provides graduate students with tools to become effective writing tutors/teachers through seminar presentations and discussion of current writing center theory and practice. Journals chart progress as each tutor conducts face-to-face conferences with writing students, based on model conferences and mentoring by experienced tutors. Required of all new first-semester writing center tutors.

ENGL 5063.001 CID# 17741 Seminar in Shakespeare: The Human Body/Pesta M 4:30-7:10pm 310M. Why do so many dead, decayed, and dismembered bodies appear in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries? In sixteenth-century Europe, the burgeoning science of human dissection helped undermine long-standing assumptions about the sanctity of the human body. Such dissections raised a host of fears and anxieties that transgressed some of society’s most deeply-held beliefs. English 5063 will trace the impact of these somatic anxieties in the plays of Shakespeare and a few select contemporaries, paying special attention to the body as epistemological construct. Readings will include Shakespeare’s T itus Andronicus, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, and Coriolanus (among others), John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman, and Cyril Tourneur’s The Atheist’s Tragedy. Term paper, midterm, final exam, seminar presentation.

ENGL 5123.801 ( Tulsa) CID#18160 Social and Psychological Aspects of Language/Schick M 4:30-7:10pm 216T-NCB. An introduction to current theories concerning how language is acquired, processed and used by speakers within the social and cultural environments in which they live and interact.

ENGL 5143.001 CID#12737 Seminar in Descriptive Linguistics/Garzon TTh 12:30-1:45pm 301M. An introduction to the linguistic analysis and description of language, focusing on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Students will examine linguistic data from a variety of the world's languages.

ENGL 5213.001 CID#12769 Composition Theory and Pedagogy/Brooks MWF 11:30am-12:20pm 202M. English 5213 is a course that helps teachers develop methods and generate materials for teaching college composition at Oklahoma State. Students work collaboratively within a workshop format to design units for their future classes. Course readings offer theories of learning and composing that will help them develop effective instructional strategies. Topics include environmental approaches to teaching, unit planning, the writing process, conferencing, dynamic modeling, evaluation, professional responsibilities, and problem-solving strategies.

ENGL 5223 .001 CID#12770 Teaching Technical and Business Writing/Cheng TR 9:00-10:15am 301M. This course will examine the theories and practices of teaching technical and business writing. We will explore the needs of students of technical and business writing, survey major approaches to teaching technical and business writing, and examine the major genres often taught in technical and business writing courses. As a class, we will also design a theoretically informed and learner-sensitive teaching portfolio. The course is required to teach ENGL 2333/3323. Assignments will include class presentations, a needs-analysis project/paper, a materials development portfolio, and a final exam.

ENGL 5243.001 CID#12771 Teaching English as a Second Language Sheorey M 4:30-7:10pm 307M . The course provides theoretical background for a better understanding of the processes involved in learning and teaching a second language, especially as it relates to teaching English as a second language. Practical issues such as dealing with native language interference and student errors as well as the teaching of language skills—understanding, speaking, reading, and writing—are also discussed.

ENGL 5313.801 CID#18161 ( Tulsa) Internship in TESL/Sheorey T 4:30-5:30pm 218 T-NCB and Room TBA T-NCB. The course examines various aspects of second language teaching methodology, including post-method eclecticism, and provides opportunities to observe experienced ESL teachers in a variety of instructional situations and classrooms and to learn from their teaching techniques. Students also engage in [supervised] practice teaching and/or tutorin

ENGL 5333.001 CID#12773 Seminar in TESL:Testing/Halleck Th 4:30-7:10pm 212M

ENGL 5460.351 CID#17743 Gothic Novels/Wallen Th 6:45-9:30pm 202M. Well before Dickens filled his pages with characters so vapid that even Laura Bush could approve, the novel was a dangerous genre that moralists and physicians warned would ruin English youth. This course will examine these works of the Dark Side from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Reports, research paper. -- "Any book with the Devil in has to be good!" (Albert Einstein)

ENGL 5513.001 CID#12777 Introduction to Technical Communication Warren T 4:30-7:00pm 307M. A course in research methodology primarily for students in the MA Program in Technical Writing who intend to pursue a career other than an academic one. Goals and objectives include understanding technical communication as a profession, critically analyzing statistically-based research articles used to justify technical writing/communication decisions in the workplace, managing the academic career. Major assignments: book review, writer’s notebook, oral presentation, review of literature, library exercise, final exam.

ENGL 5520.351 CID#12778 Internship in Technical Writing/Warren Hours TBA 205M This course is open only to students in the MA Option or PhD in Professional Writing. Students who wish to enroll must receive prior permission from the instructor.

ENGL 5553.001 CID#17744 Information Design/Warren Th 4:30-7:10pm 106M. In-depth study of information providing a theoretical foundation for designing, developing, testing, and producing information products. Students will develop projects that require them to apply design theories and principles to all levels of information design—from selecting appropriate media and genres to designing the page layout or computer interface to creating navigational tools and typographical cues to creating graphic displays of information. Major assignments include book report, oral presentation, literature review, design analysis of an information product, final exam.

ENGL 5740 .351 CID#12780 Seminar in Poetry Writing/Ai TTh 12:30-1:45pm 310M. This is a graduate seminar in poetry writing. It is an intensive course with an emphasis on craft. Some outside reading is required and I expect students to be able to discuss what they've read in class.

ENGL 6110.351 CID#17745 Marianne Moore & Elizabeth Bishop/Leavell T4:30-7: 10pm 310M. Moore and Bishop met when Moore was an established poet and Bishop a college student. They liked each other immediately and became lifelong friends. Both have a precise eye for detail, both write about animals, and although both resist easy classification, both are highly regarded by a wide range of poets. The seminar will examine not only their poetry and prose but also their respective generations and the dynamics of influence between mentor and protégé.

ENGL 6130.351 CID#12804 Studies in Fiction Writing/Staff TBA Th 4:30-7:10pm 310M. This is a craft-oriented workshop environment with outside readings.

ENGL 6220.351 CID#17748 Seminar in Genre: The Narrative and Techniques of Persuasion Walker MWF 1:30-2:20pm 310M. An examination of how storytellers (novelists, filmmakers, dramatists, historians) use diverse narrative strategies to shape the attitudes and beliefs of their readers and/or their audiences. Some talk of Austen and Dickens, Allen and Bergman, Albee and Chekhov, Goodwin and friends.

ENGL 6253.001 CID#12834 Seminar in Film and Society/Shabazz TTh 3:30-4:45pm 303M. This seminar is designed to introduce and familiarize students with African and Asian women filmmakers throughout the Diaspora who struggle to resist, subvert, or oppose not only their positions within a larger colonial discourse as ethnic and racial "others" but as women within the confines of their respective cultural patriarchies. Using postcolonial theory, we will investigate how these filmmakers in the African and Asian Diasporas 1) translate social, cultural, and political issues of women into a cinematic narrative and 2) articulate an active voice for women and 3) create alternative representations of women that are empowering and differ greatly from mainstream Hollywood productions.

ENGL 6260.001 CID#17749 Lacan and His Followers/Manon W 6:45-9:30pm 310M. Originally published in 1966, Jacques Lacan’s masterwork, Écrits, has just become available for the first time in English—all 878 pages of it—a good sign that Lacanian theory is as relevant (and daunting) as ever. This seminar takes Bruce Fink’s new translation as occasion to explore Lacan in the primary, including sections from Écrits, Four Fundamental Concepts, and The Seminar, Book XX: Encore. Our course will begin as a primer in the cornerstones of Lacanian theory: Real, Imaginary & Symbolic, the notion that “the unconscious is structured like a language,” and the famous assertion that “there is no sexual relationship.” Later, we will engage in a discussion of works by the some of the best contemporary Lacanians: Slavoj Žižek, Michel Chion, Joan Copjec and others. This seminar engages with theory per se, and has no particular programmatic affiliation; students from all disciplines are encouraged to enroll. Several short response essays, one presentation, and a 20-plus page term paper.

ENGL 6410. 351 Rhetorical Genre Theories, Language, and Writing/Cheng TR 10:30-11:45 M310. This course will examine three schools of rhetorical genre theories—Systemic Functional Linguistics, The New Rhetoric, and English for Specific Purposes. We will focus on how these three schools theorize the relation between language and genre. We will also examine the relevance of rhetorical genre theories to the teaching of composition, technical writing, and second language (writing). Assignments will include class presentations, a genre-analysis project/paper, a case study, and a final exam.

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