Undergraduate Course Schedule Summer 2008

ENGL 2413. 231 Intro to Lit / Frohock MTWR 9:00-11:40. CID 14783 This 4-week course focuses on the elements of literature and literary explication. We will read and discuss a variety of engaging short stories and poems as we explore subjects such as literary structure, figures of speech, characterization, and symbolism. In conjunction with literature, we will also study some basics of film language and analysis. Assignments may include short papers, a presentation, and exams

.ENGL 2453. 211 Intro to Film / B. Price MTWRF 2:30-5:20. CID 14778 An introduction to important film concepts and the language necessary for thinking, writing, and talking about cinema, with an emphasis on the interaction between style, meaning and culture.

 ENGL 2513. 241 Intro to Creative Writing / Lewis MTWR 12:00-2:40. CID 11423 Literary composition with emphasis on technique and style through readings and writings in fiction, poetry and/or creative non-fiction and drama.  

ENGL 3323. 001-005 Technical Writing / Various days, times, and instructors CID 11427 , 11428, 11429, 11430, 14784 Most career paths involve being able to communicate effectively in print and in person. Technical Writing teaches you how to understand the people with whom you’ll communicate, which rhetorical steps to take in order to achieve your goals, and how to create documents that fulfill your audience’s needs. The more effectively we communicate, the more efficiently we work and the better our careers become.

 ENGL 3323. 801, 802 Technical Writing ( Tulsa) / Various days, times, and instructors. CID 11431 , 11432 Most career paths involve being able to communicate effectively in print and in person. Technical Writing teaches you how to understand the people with whom you’ll communicate, which rhetorical steps to take in order to achieve your goals, and how to create documents that fulfill your audience’s needs. The more effectively we communicate, the more efficiently we work and the better our careers become.  

ENGL 3333. 211 Short Story / Wallen MTWRF 11:30-12:20. CID 14779 Good literature doesn't have to be long. This class will follow the brief history of the literary short story and its development from folktales, local legends, and urban myths. Two exams, class report.

 ENGL 3353. 231 Film as Lit / Walker MTWR 12:00-2:40/ Lab MTWR 2:45-4:45. CID 14780 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. 831 Popular Fiction ( Tulsa) / Takacs MTW 1:00-4:30. CID 14583 This course will focus on the popular genre of detective fiction, specifically American detective fiction. We will survey the historical development of the field from Edgar Allen Poe's short stories through the "hardboiled" fiction of Hammett and Chandler up to modern variations on the detective story by feminist authors and authors of color. Evaluation will consist of several short response papers and one longer research project.  

ENGL 3443. 241 Studies in Film Genre / Manon MTWR 10:30-1:10. CID 14785 This course works to analyze and compare selected Classical Hollywood genres and sub-genres that fall under the broad rubric of “Crime Film.” We screen and discuss both archetypes and obscurities in each of the following categories: Classical Detective “Whodunit,” Gangster Film, Film Noir, Gothic Melodrama, Police Procedural, and Heist Film. We also examine some of the paracinematic representations that emerge alongside these genres: news tabloids, True Crime magazines, comic strips, popular novels, television shows, and even children’s books.  

ENGL 4013. 241 English Grammar / Batteiger MTWR 12:00-2:40. CID 14786 English Grammar in sixteen easy lessons. Re-learn all the things you've forgotten since the eighth grade, and discover that English Grammar is neither difficult nor complicated. Attendance mandatory. Daily quizzes, two tests, final exam.

ENGL 4723. 231 Shakespeare / Pesta MTWR 9:00-11:40. CID 14787 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.

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