Fall 2007 Graduate Courses

ENGL 4901.351 Tutor Training / Damron
W 8:30-9:20 208 M This course 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.
CID 12931

ENGL 5013.001 Introduction to Graduate Studies / Cheng
TR 10:30-11:45 202 M An overview of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and statistical procedures for those in TESL, Linguistics, Composition/Rhetoric, or Professional Writing. Student will practice a variety of elicitation techniques, analyze verbal data, and conduct research investigations related to their specific fields of study.
CID 18310

ENGL 5093.351 Milton, Politics, and the American Founding Fathers / Jones
MWF 10:30-11:20 310 M Milton has always been admired more in America than in England. This course will look at the ostensible reasons why: his expression of republican notions in his prose writing of the 1640s and 1650s and Paradise Lost. In tracing Milton's ideas of authority and state from the execution of Charles I to the restoration of his son, this course will also consider how his poetry and prose were read, admired, and put to very different uses by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 1 seminar paper, 1 presentation, 1 exam, and 1 tutorial.
CID 18311

ENGL 5143.001 Seminar in Descriptive Linguistics / Garzon
TR 12:30-1:45 301 M 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.
CID 12967

ENGL 5163.001 Middle English Literature: Canon & Culture / Price, M.
TR 10:30-11:45 208 M We will read a number of Middle English texts, including both the frequently and the infrequently anthologized, in order to open up discussion on high and popular culture in the Middle Ages and today. Students will be expected to make presentations and lead discussion on their chosen text. Assessment includes translation assignments, a presentation, and a research paper.
CID 18313

ENGL 5213.001 Composition Theory & Pedagogy / Brooks
MWF 11:30-12:20 202 M 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.
CID 13000

ENGL 5223.001 Teaching Technical and Business Writing / Cheng
TR 9:00-10:15 310 M 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.
CID 13001

ENGL 5243.001 Teaching English as a Second Language / Sheorey
T 6:45-9:30, 310 M This course provides an introduction to theories, principles and methodologies underlying the learning and teaching of English as a second or foreign language. In addition to weekly homework assignments, which may include short written assignments as well as reading, students will take a midterm, design and teach two ESL or EFL lessons, and write a final paper.
CID 19180

ENGL 5243.801 Teaching English as a Second Language (Tulsa) / Schick
T 4:30-7:10 221 T-NCB This course provides an introduction to theories, principles and methodologies underlying the learning and teaching of English as a second or foreign language. In addition to weekly homework assignments, which may include short written assignments as well as reading, students will take a midterm, design and teach two ESL or EFL lessons, and write a final paper.
CID 13002

ENGL 5293.001 Interdisciplinary Uses English: The Cinema of the International Avant-Garde / Price, B.
M 6:45-9:30 303 M This course will introduce you to major movements and figures in non-narrative, avant-garde traditions of filmmaking. We will look at the cinematic production of Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Situationists, as well as at the works of filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Andy Warhol, Marlon Riggs, Su Friedrich, Paul Sharits, Ken Jacobs, Len Lye and others. The class will also be an occasion to reflect on larger theoretical questions about institutions of art, autonomy, aesthetics and politics, perception and representation, narrative and abstraction. If anything unites the avant-garde across period and nations, it is a shared resistance to the notion of unity and consensus itself. We will, as such, work toward a consideration of art as that which is irreducible, and all that that might imply for an understanding of culture more broadly.
CID 18314

ENGL 5333.801 Seminar in TESL: Testing (Tulsa) / Halleck
M 4:30-7:10 218 T-NCB The major goal of this course is to explore the key issues in second language assessment. In this exploration, we will discuss the theory, construction, and use of standardized and teacher-made tests and will become familiar with basic statistical concepts used in second language testing.
CID 13005

ENGL 5360.351 Seminar in Screen Studies: Convergence and Control / Takacs
W 6:45-9:30 303 M In the 1990s media theorists speculated that digitalization would lead to a form of technological convergence that would make old media distinctions obsolete and enable a new utopia of interactive exchange. While this has not quite come to pass, there have been some significant changes in the forms and functions of our media systems. This class will examine some of these trends and what they mean for an interpretation of late capitalist culture. How exactly has such "convergence" altered media production, distribution, and reception? And what does this mean for society? Does convergence really portend greater social freedom and consumer empowerment, or does it represent a new, more efficient mode of social control? What theories might help us come to grips with this emerging media environment and its relationship to social regulation? The course will take a materialist approach to media systems; readings may include selections from the theories of Marshall McLuhan, Michel Foucault, Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and Howard Rheingold (among others) as well as the following texts: Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital, Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture, and Mark Andrejevic, Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched.
CID 18810

ENGL 5513.001 Introduction to Technical Communications / Warren
T 4:30-7:10 106 M This course is, in effect, a course in research methodology for students in the MA Program in Technical Writing who intend to pursue a career other than an academic one. However, should students decide to study for a Ph.D. (here or somewhere else), they will have had a sufficient introduction to research methodology (including statistical interpretation) to pursue the Ph.D. comfortably.
CID 13007

ENGL 5520.351 Internship: Technical Writing / Warren
TBA TBA 205 M Practical work experience for technical communicators. Requires 200 hours work for 6 hours credit. Progress reports; employer evaluation; portfolio; final report. Consult with instructor before enrolling or beginning work.
CID 13008

ENGL 5523.001 New Genres in Technical Writing / Warren
M 4:30-7:10 304 M This course focuses on developing online documentation. We will trace the procedures used to identify users, tasks, format, tutorials, and content as well as examining usability, graphics, readability, alpha and beta testing, storyboarding, minimalism, and screen layout and design. Students will work on the main project using RoboHelp and other computer programs. They will develop and perform various usability tests.
CID 18964

ENGL 5583.001 Environmental Writing / Batteiger
MWF 1:30-2:20 310 M This course will study various kinds of environmental writing, including nature writing, criticism, and official documents, such as Environmental Impact Statements. Students will also write frequently. Writing assignments will include criticism of existing environmental writing as well as writing for the public (non-fiction) and official documents. One major paper and a final examination.
CID 18316

ENGL 5660.351 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville / Decker
MWF 9:30-10:20 310 M We will read major works of Douglass and Melville (along with selections from Jacobs, Walker, Whitman, and Thoreau) in an effort to understand black and white canonical literature within multiethnic, national, and transnational frames of reference. One critical review, one seminar paper, and a final examination.
CID 18317

ENGL 5740.351 Seminar in Poetry Writing / Lewis
M 6:45-9:30 310 M An advanced poetry workshop with readings in recent contemporary poetry and/or poetics.
CID 13010

ENGL 6130.351 Studies in Fiction Writing / Graham
TR 3:30-4:45 310 M This is a craft-oriented workshop environment with outside readings. Emphasis lies with bringing work to the professional level.
CID 13034

ENGL 6240.351 Studies in Literature - Literature and Disability Studies / Grubgeld
MWF 12:30-1:20 310 M Working with theories of the body drawn from gender studies, postcolonialism, material rhetoric, theology, legal writing, and autobiography and narrative theory, the course will analyze representations of the disabled body from a wide variety of sources, including performance art and new media as well as traditional genres such as fiction and non-fiction, drama, and poetry. Readings will be taken primarily, although not exclusively, from the 20th century, but students are welcome to pursue a seminar topic in the area of their specialization. Book list available on request.
CID 19169

ENGL 6410.351 Topics in Linguistics: Cognitive Linguistics / Moder
R 4:30-7:10 307 M This course will introduce students to the theory and practical applications of cognitive linguistics, which views grammar as conceptualization and which assumes knowledge of language emerges from language use. Topics of focus will include conceptual metaphor, blending, and construction grammar. Language analysis exercises, response papers, 2 exams, and a research paper.
CID 13068

English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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