Undergraduate Course Schedule Summer 2007

ENGL 2453. 231 Intro to Film / Megow MTWR 9:00-11:30 An introduction to important film concepts and the language necessary for thinking, writing, and talking about cinema, with an emphasis on the interaction between film techniques, narrative, and style. Course grade will be determined by short papers (1-2 pages) tying textbook concepts to films we view, a midterm, a final exam, and a short film analysis as a final paper.

ENGL 2513. 241 Intro to Creative Writing / Lewis MTWR 12:00-2:30 Literary composition with emphasis on technique and style through readings and writings in fiction, poetry, and/or creative non-fiction and drama.

ENGL 3163. 211 World Lit I / Wallen MTWRF 11:30-2:15 . Too busy to tour Europe this summer? Here's your chance to get the Continental Experience without the bother of confusing exchange rates, rude waiters, or uncomfortable plumbing. In this class you'll read short works from Greece, Italy, Gaul, and the heathen German states -- and best of all, you won't get jet lag. Group reports, mid-term and final.

ENGL 3203. 231 Advanced Composition / Brooks MTWR 10:30-1:00 This course aims to help students understand the range of writing processes, move from private to public writing, and to experience the social and collaborative dimensions of writing. Students will be expected to research and revise their work extensively throughout the course of the semester.

ENGL 3333. 231 Short Story / Frohock MTWR 9:00-11:30 What constitutes a short story? How did the genre develop over time, and in different parts of the world? What have literary critics said about the form and some of its prominent practitioners? These are the types of questions this class will consider over the course of this four-week term. Presentation, writing assignments, exams.

ENGL 3353. 211 Film as Lit / Walker MTWRF 11:30-2:15 From page to stage, from stage to page. We call it film adaptation. But adaptation is often recycling, remaking, and retelling stories. Just as books and stage plays become movies, so, too, can movies become novels, screenplays, Broadway musicals, television shows, and remakes. Explore the theories and practice of adaptation as we try to discover how and why we recycle, remake, and retell the same stories in different forms.

ENGL 3410. 241 Popular Fiction: 19 th Century Science Fiction / Prchal MTWR 9:00-11:30 Some of science fiction's most enduring and defining motifs developed during the nineteenth century. Examples include scientific experiments having monstrous results, interplanetary space crafts, and underworld civilizations. We will read some of the works that established these motifs and others, including authors such as Poe, Shelley, Verne, and Wells.

ENGL 3933. 241 Shakespeare / Pesta MTWR 12:00-2:30 An overview of the plays of Shakespeare designed for beginners. No one understood human nature like Shakespeare. His comedies expose the romance and folly of love, and his tragedies and histories offer profound insights into mortality and probe the depths of human nature. A college degree without a course in Shakespeare is like a degree in medicine without a course on anatomy.

ENGL 4450. 211 Culture & Moving Image / Price, B. MTWRF 2:30-5:10 This class will introduce you to a wide range of experimental filmmaking, from alternative narrative traditions to the major works of the international avant-garde. The course is devoted to filmmaking practices that seek to exist outside of the mainstream film industry and standardized techniques and narrative forms. We will consider filmmakers such as John Cassavetes, who worked as an actor within Hollywood, so that he could direct films independently outside of it. We will also look at films made within Hollywood that have “failed” precisely because of their resistance to market testing and the shared techniques of mainstream cinema. You will also be introduced to various avant-garde traditions, such as Surrealism, Dadaism, Dogme 95, and filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Peggy Awesh, Marlon Riggs, Maya Deren and Paul Sharit.

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