Fall 2010 Courses: 2000-Level

ENG 2013.003: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE (FOR NON-ENGLISH MAJORS)

Instructor: Christine Caver
Class Time: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 a.m.
Class Location: BB 2.01.18

Course Description
English 2013 will introduce non-English majors to the discipline of literary study, and fulfills the Core Curriculum requirement for Humanities & Visual and Performing Arts—Literature requirement.

Content and Goals:
This course is designed to provide students with the fundamental skills required for understanding literary concepts and contemporary trends in interpretation, including the ability to identify elements of literature such as setting, plot, characterization and point of view in prose fiction, and rhythm, sound, and imagery in poetry. Literature helps you to better understand not only your own experiences and culture, but also the lives and cultures of people quite different from you—people you will meet on whatever path you take after you have finished your degree requirements.  The problem-solving skills learned through analyzing literature are also those you will need in fields as varied as teaching and engineering, or business and medicine.

Requirements:
Students should have read the assigned material before class, and bring the book every day.  You are responsible for all material presented in class and posted on WebCt, including the lecture outlines.  All exams include questions on material presented only in class.  There will be five multiple-choice exams:  four will be given during the semester and the last one will be held during the final exam period.  The lowest of your first four exams will be dropped. The final exam must be taken, however, and will not be dropped even if it is your lowest grade. NO MAKE-UP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN—BEFORE OR AFTER THE SCHEDULED EXAM.

Required Text:

  1. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, Michael Meyer, Ed., 8th edition, Bedford/St. Martin's Press.

ENG 2013.004: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE (FOR NON-ENGLISH MAJORS)

Instructor: Christine Caver
Class Time: MWF 11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Class Location: HSS 2.01.36

Course Description
English 2013 will introduce non-English majors to the discipline of literary study, and fulfills the Core Curriculum requirement for Humanities & Visual and Performing Arts—Literature requirement.

Content and Goals:
This course is designed to provide students with the fundamental skills required for understanding literary concepts and contemporary trends in interpretation, including the ability to identify elements of literature such as setting, plot, characterization and point of view in prose fiction, and rhythm, sound, and imagery in poetry. Literature helps you to better understand not only your own experiences and culture, but also the lives and cultures of people quite different from you—people you will meet on whatever path you take after you have finished your degree requirements.  The problem-solving skills learned through analyzing literature are also those you will need in fields as varied as teaching and engineering, or business and medicine.

Requirements:
Students should have read the assigned material before class, and bring the book every day.  You are responsible for all material presented in class and posted on WebCt, including the lecture outlines.  All exams include questions on material presented only in class.  There will be five multiple-choice exams:  four will be given during the semester and the last one will be held during the final exam period.  The lowest of your first four exams will be dropped. The final exam must be taken, however, and will not be dropped even if it is your lowest grade. NO MAKE-UP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN—BEFORE OR AFTER THE SCHEDULED EXAM.

Required Text:

  1. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, Michael Meyer, Ed., 8th edition, Bedford/St. Martin's Press.

ENG 2013.006: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

Instructor: Ken Burchenal
Class Time: TR 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Class Location: BB 2.01.14

Course Description
This course introduces students to the traditional terminology and methods of Literary Study. In short, we will learn and practice the prevailing modes of scholarly work in the field of literature.  This course focuses upon careful, critical reading combined with compulsory interaction with me during lectures, therefore keeping up with the assignments and class attendance is crucial. This course is designed to give students a foundation for further scholarly labor in the Liberal arts, although our primary focus will be the analysis of literature. 

More specifically, you will:

  • Learn the terminology and conventions associated with the major literary genres.
  • Learn the terminology, theory, and rhetorical conventions of literary study in general.
  • Practice these conventions in class, your journals, and by writing your own critical essays
  • To learn efficient reading and analytical skills for this discipline
  • To improve your academic writing skills in general

Required Texts and Materials - bring to every class meeting

  1. The Norton Introduction to Literature, shorter 9th ed. Booth et al eds.
  2. Several (approx. 10) Parscore Quiz grading sheets (pink), and 2 form X-101-864 
  3. Your reading journal and materials to take notes.
  4. Occasional additional readings available on Blackboard

Grades
Two tests, daily quizzes, short paper, journal, and class participation


ENG 2013.008: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

Instructor: Ken Burchenal
Class Time: TR 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Class Location: HSS 2.01.32

Course Description
This course introduces students to the traditional terminology and methods of Literary Study. In short, we will learn and practice the prevailing modes of scholarly work in the field of literature.  This course focuses upon careful, critical reading combined with compulsory interaction with me during lectures, therefore keeping up with the assignments and class attendance is crucial. This course is designed to give students a foundation for further scholarly labor in the Liberal arts, although our primary focus will be the analysis of literature. 

More specifically, you will:

  • Learn the terminology and conventions associated with the major literary genres.
  • Learn the terminology, theory, and rhetorical conventions of literary study in general.
  • Practice these conventions in class, your journals, and by writing your own critical essays
  • To learn efficient reading and analytical skills for this discipline
  • To improve your academic writing skills in general

Required Texts and Materials - bring to every class meeting

  1. The Norton Introduction to Literature, shorter 9th ed. Booth et al eds.
  2. Several (approx. 10) Parscore Quiz grading sheets (pink), and 2 form X-101-864 
  3. Your reading journal and materials to take notes.
  4. Occasional additional readings available on Blackboard

Grades
Two tests, daily quizzes, short paper, journal, and class participation.


ENG 2013.009: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

Instructor: Ralph Millis
Class Time: TR 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Class Location: HSS 2.01.32

Course Description
“Introduction to Literature” provides an opportunity for students to analytically read and respond to poetry, plays, and short fiction.

Objectives

  • Learn to recognize the structural elements of poetry, plays, and short fiction   
    and how they contribute to the “meaning” and enjoyment of the works.
  • Recognize literary themes and perspectives and evaluate the validity of these
    as expressed in specific works.
  • Develop the ability to think critically about literature and the human condition 
    as it is portrayed across literary genres.
  • Analyze literature the way one ideally analyzes all “problems,” by using   
    abstraction, generalization, particularization, concrete examples, deduction, and induction.
  • Form aesthetic evaluations.

Required Textbook

  1. The Bedford Introduction to Literature, 9th edition, Michael Meyer (if available; otherwise the 8th edition will be required).

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Two  in-class tests. 200 pts. each
  • One final examination. 300 pts.
  • Regular class attendance; on-going class participation.  100 pts.
  • Quizzes.  100 pts.
  • Additional out-of-class readings on the Internet when assigned

ENG 2013.010: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

Instructor: Ralph Millis
Class Time: TR 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Class Location: HSS 2.02.10

Course Description
“Introduction to Literature” provides an opportunity for students to analytically read and respond to poetry, plays, and short fiction.

  • Objectives
    Learn to recognize the structural elements of poetry, plays, and short fiction   
    and how they contribute to the “meaning” and enjoyment of the works.
  • Recognize literary themes and perspectives and evaluate the validity of these
    as expressed in specific works.
  • Develop the ability to think critically about literature and the human condition 
    as it is portrayed across literary genres.
  • Analyze literature the way one ideally analyzes all “problems,” by using   
    abstraction, generalization, particularization, concrete examples, deduction, and induction.
  • Form aesthetic evaluations.

Required Textbook

  1. The Bedford Introduction to Literature, 9th edition, Michael Meyer (if available; otherwise the 8th edition will be required).

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Two  in-class tests. 200 pts. each
  • One final examination. 300 pts.
  • Regular class attendance; on-going class participation.  100 pts.
  • Quizzes.  100 pts.
  • Additional out-of-class readings on the Internet when assigned.

ENG 2213.003: LITERARY CRITICISM AND ANALYSIS

Instructor: Roberta Barki
Class Time: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 a.m.
Class Location: HSS 2.02.10

Course Description
In this course, we will explore poetry, prose, and drama along side of major theories of the twentieth-century. Theories we will examine include, but are not limited to, Postcolonial Theory, Feminism (including Third Space Feminism), New Historicism/Cultural Materialism, Marxism, and Postmodernism. Students will choose two specific literary terminologies that will be explicated within two individual 1pg papers in regard to their major components. In addition to the Literary Criticism aspect of this course, we will also engage the course texts utilizing field specific language to enhance close reading skills. The midterm exam will include close-reading of short poems and definition of various literary terms. The final exam will be comprised of an explanation of major theories in relation to one poem. The term paper, due prior to the end of the course, will engage one of the course’s texts and provide a researched reading of that text based on a major theory examined within the course.

Course Texts

  1. Abrahms, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 8th ed. Boston, MA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2004. ISBN: 978-1-4130-0218-8
  2. Alexie, Sherman. Ten Little Indians. New York: Grove, 2003. ISBN:0-8021-1744-9
  3. Angelou, Maya. Poems. New York: Bantam, 1993. ISBN: 0-553-25576-2
  4. Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/ La Frontera. 3rd ed. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-879960-74-9
  5. Castillo, Ana. Peel My Love Like an Onion. New York: Anchor, 1999. ISBN: 978-0-385-49677-3
  6. Espada, Martin. Alabanza. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. ISBN: 0-393-32621-7
  7. Guerin, Wilfrid,Earle Labor, Lee Morgan, Jeanne Reesman, John Willingham, Eds. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. 6th ed. New York: Oxford UP: 2010. ISBN: 978-0-19-539472-6
  8. Hacker, Diana. A Writer’s Reference. 6th ed. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006/9. ISBN: 0312450257 
  9. Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Scribner, 2003. ISBN: 0-684-80071-3
  10. Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King’s Horseman. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975. ISBN: 0-393-32299-8

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Terminology 1 page write ups (2 x 10%): 20%
  • Mid-Term Exam: 15%
  • Class Participation: 20%
  • 5-8pg Term Paper: 25%
  • Final Exam: 20%

ENG 2213.004: LITERARY CRITICISM AND ANALYSIS

Instructor: Roberta Barki
Class Time: MWF 11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Class Location: BB 2.05.04

Course Description
In this course, we will explore poetry, prose, and drama along side of major theories of the twentieth-century. Theories we will examine include, but are not limited to, Postcolonial Theory, Feminism (including Third Space Feminism), New Historicism/Cultural Materialism, Marxism, and Postmodernism. Students will choose two specific literary terminologies that will be explicated within two individual 1pg papers in regard to their major components. In addition to the Literary Criticism aspect of this course, we will also engage the course texts utilizing field specific language to enhance close reading skills. The midterm exam will include close-reading of short poems and definition of various literary terms. The final exam will be comprised of an explanation of major theories in relation to one poem. The term paper, due prior to the end of the course, will engage one of the course’s texts and provide a researched reading of that text based on a major theory examined within the course.

Course Texts

  1. Abrahms, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 8th ed. Boston, MA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2004. ISBN: 978-1-4130-0218-8
  2. Alexie, Sherman. Ten Little Indians. New York: Grove, 2003. ISBN:0-8021-1744-9
  3. Angelou, Maya. Poems. New York: Bantam, 1993. ISBN: 0-553-25576-2
  4. Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/ La Frontera. 3rd ed. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-879960-74-9
  5. Castillo, Ana. Peel My Love Like an Onion. New York: Anchor, 1999. ISBN: 978-0-385-49677-3
  6. Espada, Martin. Alabanza. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. ISBN: 0-393-32621-7
  7. Guerin, Wilfrid,Earle Labor, Lee Morgan, Jeanne Reesman, John Willingham, Eds. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. 6th ed. New York: Oxford UP: 2010. ISBN: 978-0-19-539472-6
  8. Hacker, Diana. A Writer’s Reference. 6th ed. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006/9. ISBN: 0312450257 
  9. Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Scribner, 2003. ISBN: 0-684-80071-3
  10. Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King’s Horseman. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975. ISBN: 0-393-32299-8

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Terminology 1 page write ups (2 x 10%): 20%
  • Mid-Term Exam: 15%
  • Class Participation: 20%
  • 5-8pg Term Paper: 25%
  • Final Exam: 20%

ENG 2213.001: LITERARY CRITICISM AND ANALYSIS

Instructor: Jeff Turpin
Class Time: TR 8:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Class Location: MB 1.208

Course Description
In this class we will analyze poems, prose and plays from many sources, paying close attention to literary terms, criticism, and genre characteristics. This course requires lots of reading and writing and is intended to prepare you for more advanced literary studies.  We will apply aesthetic, gender, post-colonial, cognitive, and evolutionary criticisms where appropriate, and take particularly pointed looks at the roles of both writer and critic.   As a course highlight we will see a live, on-campus performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Along the way I will try my best to entertain you, and you will do your best to instruct me. 

Grading will be based on attendance, informal short papers, class presentations, two formal papers, and two exams.

Required Texts

  1. Course Reader (photocopy).
  2. Wm. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (any edition)
  3. The Norton Anthology of American Literature 1945-present(seventh edition, used copies are fine) (ISBN 978-0-393-92743-6)

Recommended Text

  1. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms (ISBN 978-0-19-860883-7)

ENG 2213.014: LITERARY CRITICISM AND ANALYSIS

Instructor: Lapetra Bowman
Class Time: TR 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.204

Course Description
A study of poetry, fiction, and drama, with close attention to literary terms, literary criticism, and the characteristics of each genre. This course includes intensive reading and extensive writing requirements and is designed to prepare students who intend to take advanced courses in literature and other students who have a commitment to the rigorous study of literature.  The study of literature within this course will be all-inclusive and far-reaching.  With a focus on world literatures and the interstitial spaces which exist/emerge between/among cultures, this course will provide students the opportunity to read literatures from the 16th century to contemporary times, to include French, English, Irish, Asian, Caribbean, African-American, Mexican-American and Chicana/o, in addition to other U.S. and World literatures/authors.  Ultimately, students will be encouraged to claim their subject positions and their ideologies, to posit themselves within the literary discourse, and explore how literature means.

Course Texts

  1. Barnet, Cain, Burto, and Bergman, Eds,  Introduction to Literature (15th edition)
  2. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
  3. Vandana Khanna,Train to Agra 
  4. Jamaica Kincaid,  Annie John 
  5. Loida Maritza Pérez, Geographies of Home 
  6. Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Love, Anger, Madness 
  7. Helena María Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Daily Reading Quizzes: 15%
  • Reader Response Essays (2 pages minimum each): 20%
  • Annotated Bibliography: 15%
  • Poetry Analysis/Explication Paper (3-5 pages): 15%
  • Short Story, Drama, or Novel Final Paper (7-9 pages): 35%

ENG 2223.001: BRITISH LITERATURE I

Instructor: Mark Allen
Class Time: TR 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Class Location: SB 2.02.02

Course Description
Designed for English majors, this course enables students to explore British literary tradition from its beginnings to about 1700. It fulfills 3 of the 12 hours of literary survey required in the English major and minor.  Because UTSA English majors and minors are required to take a separate course in Shakespeare’s drama, his plays are not included here. Nonetheless, you will find Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and much more. The course offers students opportunities to demonstrate their skills of literary analysis and to examine aesthetic, linguistic, intellectual, and social backgrounds to the literature of the medieval period and the early modern period (also known as the Renaissance).

Course Texts

  1. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1, A&B, edited by M. H. Abrams and others.  8th ed.  New York: Norton, 2006.

Course Assignments for Grades 
Two exams (each 35% of the course grade) are means for students to demonstrate both their skills of literary analysis and their knowledge of the subject matter. Students must take both of the exams. Regular quizzes emphasize fundamental knowledge of the assigned readings, while class discussion will focus on analysis of these readings. Together the quizzes and attendance are worth 30% of the course grade.


ENG 2263.001: AMERICAN LITERATURE I

Instructor: Ken Burchenal
Class Time: TR 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Class Location: MB 0.226

Course Description
This course explores the history of American literature through detailed readings of some of the "masterpieces" of that genre written before the middle of the 19th century. A secondary academic focus is the development of American culture as reflected in broad literary trends such as the Renaissance, Classicism and Romanticism. This course entails careful, critical reading and writing combined with compulsory interaction with me during lectures, therefore keeping up with the assignments and class attendance is crucial. Although our primary focus will be the analysis of American literature, this course is designed to give students a foundation for further scholarly labor in the Liberal arts in general and Literary studies in particular. 

More specifically, you will:

  • Learn the terminology and conventions associated with American literature.
  • Learn the terminology, theory, and rhetorical conventions of literary study in general.
  • Practice these conventions in class, your journals, and by writing your own critical essays
  • To learn efficient reading and analytical skills for this discipline
  • To improve your academic writing skills in general
  • Read a lot canonical American literary works.

Required Texts and Materials

  1. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th Ed. Baym, Nina, ed. Vols. A and B.

Also:

  • Various other texts made available on Blackboard.
  • Several (approx. 10) Parscore Quiz grading sheets (pink), and 2 form X-101-864 
  • Your reading journal and materials to take notes.

Grades
Two tests, daily quizzes, short paper, journal, and class participation


ENG 2293.002: AMERICAN LITERATURE II

Instructor: Ralph Millis
Class Time: TR 9:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Class Location: HSS 3.04.08

Course Description
American Literature II is a survey of American fiction, poetry and drama from the end of the Civil War to the present.

Objectives

  • Identify the major themes in traditional/modern American literature.
  • Discover the congruence of American literature with American history/
  • American social values.
  • Examine the opposing concepts/theories of American particularism and
  • American universalism.
  • Analyze and appreciate American literary artists and place them in a personal          
    aesthetic framework.

Required Textbook 

  1. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vols. C, D, E, 7th Ed.

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Two tests. 250 pts. each
  • One final examination. 350 pts.
  • Regular class attendance; on-going class participation and quizzes.  150 pts.
  • Additional out-of-class readings on the Internet when assigned.

ENG 2323.001: CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION

Instructor: John Buentello
Class Time: W 5:30 - 8:15 p.m.
Class Location: HSS 3.02.38

Course Description
This course will introduce students to the craft of writing fiction. It is an introductory course which assumes no previous writing experience. The course includes in-class writing exercises and critiques of students’ original fiction. Students will examine how professional writers created their works of fiction from developing the idea to writing the story. Students will practice the various skills involved in writing a story and learn how to apply those skills to their own fiction.

Course Texts
Alice LaPlante, The Making of a Story, (Norton)
Peter Turchi & Andrea Barrett The Story Behind the Story (Norton)
Handouts from the Instructor as needed.

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Attendance
  • Participation in workshop discussions & critiques
  • In-class writing assignments
  • Written critiques of student fiction
  • Final Portfolio (includes a critique of a literary event, stories written for class, revisions of stories, critique leader notes & all in-class writing)

ENG 2343.001: CREATIVE WRITING: NON-FICTION/THE GRAPHIC MEMOIR

Instructor: Nicole Provencher
Class Time: M 5:30 - 8:15 p.m.
Class Location: HSS 3.02.38

Course Description
“With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.  When you do enter into the book, the theme of what will last?  What is ephemeral? What is timeless?  What is passing?  What scale does [the] event really have?”
—Art Spiegelman on his writing of In The Shadow of No Towers

In the above quote, Art Spiegelman considers the “truth” evident in the writing of creative non-fiction, a genre that builds on memory, experience, and personal events. He reflects on the message that we pass on to others when we craft our own stories and experiences into fiction and memoir.  This course offers extensive work in the genre of creative non-fiction with special attention paid to the graphic memoir. Students will have the opportunity to read a variety of authors who engage in creative non-fiction as a way to share this “truth” and learn how transform our own “events” into creative forms through the production of our own non-fiction pieces, graphic or otherwise, through class discussion, workshop shop participation, and revision.  This course will require engaged participation in class discussions, peer review, and in class writing activities.  While prior experience with the graphic memoir or graphic literatures is not required, blending of text and image will be encouraged.  Students who do not wish to “draw” and illustrate their own comics are invited to utilize picture images, collage, photographs, or and digital media.   This course will require 25 pages of original writing.

Course Requirements

  • Class Participation - 15%
  • Critique of Literary Event - 5%
  • Critique Leader - 10%
  • Response Papers (7) - 10%                 
  • Peer Story Critiques - 10%
  • Short Story (15 pages) - 25%
  • Final Portfolio w/ Revised Work - 25%

Required Course Texts/Materials

  • Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.
  • Katin, Miriam. We Are On Our Own: A Memoir
  • Modan, Rutu. Exit Wounds
  • Pekar, Harvey. The Quitter
  • Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis.
  • Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
  • Thomas, Craig. Blankets.

Additional Readings/Articles to be distributed in class.

Please bring art materials of choice to class with you.  These materials can include colored pencils, pastels, crayons, markers, picture clippings, copies of photographs, glue, and other materials as appropriate for this workshop.  If you are unsure if materials are appropriate please ask me.


ENG 2413.007: TECHNICAL WRITING: HEALTH PROFESSIONS

Instructor: Paula Tran
Class Time: W 5:30 - 8:15 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Course Description
This course, which examines the techniques of expository writing, is designed specifically for students preparing to enter any of the allied health professions.  In it, we will examine how the body of medical knowledge and practice is constructed, focusing on the variety of audiences affected by these documents.  All features of good writing emphasized in other writing courses are emphasized again with particular stress on style, clarity, technical correctness, and audience analysis.

Technical Writing for Medical Professionals will provide intensive practice in editing and in the writing of various types of documents, including proposals, instructions, medical descriptions, e-mail, memorandums, letters, and reports.  Reading and analysis of appropriate medically based writing models will assist students in the development of these writing skills.  Students will also study the regulations and laws surrounding their profession, including the system of ethics involved with medical discourse and decisions.  Students will deliver a professionally-prepared oral presentation analyzing a complex issue involved in modern medicine.  The course culminates with a formal report that integrates the skills gained throughout the semester.

The assignments will involve varying occasions for both non-technical (e.g., patients) and technical audiences, though the latter is stressed.  In the professional world, the ability to communicate effectively gains positive rewards and recognition – as much as or more than any other criterion.  Therefore, sharpening these skills, which are such highly prized assets, is imperative.

Course Texts

  1. Heifferon, Barbara A.  Writing in the Health Professions.  NY: Pearson Longman, 2005.
  2. Dodds, Jack   The Ready Reference Handbook, 4th Ed. NY:  Pearson Longman, 2006. 

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Personal statement for acceptance into professional programs 
  • Ethics in health care
  • Analysis, critique, and construction of health brochures
  • Project with Heath Care Faculty, constructing a technical project
  • Grant / government documents 
  • Proposal with oral presentation component
  • Several impromptu activities (memos, e-mail, letter-writing, forms)

ENG 2413.008: TECHNICAL WRITING

Instructor: Deanna White
Class Time: TR 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Course Description
English 2413 examines the techniques of expository writing adapted to technological and workplace subjects.  All features of good writing emphasized in the other writing courses are emphasized again with particular stress on style, clarity, and audience analysis.

This section of 2413 provides practice in editing and in the writing of instructions, extended definition, resumes, business correspondence, feasibility reports, electronic correspondence, and proposals.  There will also be an oral presentation.  In this section, the use of Readiness Assessment Tests for individual and group assessments will be used to assess the students’ knowledge of assigned reading materials.  There will be two group projects.  The Web CT is also utilized in this section.

Course Texts

  1. Dodds, Jack.  The Ready Reference Handbook.  4th edAllyn and Bacon,    
  2. Markel, Mike.  Technical Communication. 9th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Definition Assignment: 10%
  • Correspondence Assignment (2 parts): 10%
  • Electronic Correspondence Assignment (2  parts): 10%
  • Job Hunt Assignment (3 parts): 10%
  • Feasibility Study (Group Project): 10%
  • Proposal: 10%
  • Oral Presentation: 10%
  • Assessment Tests: 10%
    • Individual   2/3
    • Group   1/3
  • Post Diagnostic Grammar Test: 5%                 
  • Grammar Online Tests: 10%
  • Attendance: 5%

ENG 2413.009: TECHNICAL WRITING

Instructor: Deanna White
Class Time: TR 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Course Description
English 2413 examines the techniques of expository writing adapted to technological and workplace subjects.  All features of good writing emphasized in the other writing courses are emphasized again with particular stress on style, clarity, and audience analysis.

This section of 2413 provides practice in editing and in the writing of instructions, extended definition, resumes, business correspondence, feasibility reports, electronic correspondence, and proposals.  There will also be an oral presentation.  In this section, the use of Readiness Assessment Tests for individual and group assessments will be used to assess the students’ knowledge of assigned reading materials.  There will be two group projects.  The Web CT is also utilized in this section.

Course Texts

  1. Dodds, Jack.  The Ready Reference Handbook.  4th edAllyn and Bacon,    
  2. Markel, Mike.  Technical Communication. 9th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Definition Assignment: 10%
  • Correspondence Assignment (2 parts): 10%
  • Electronic Correspondence Assignment (2  parts): 10%
  • Job Hunt Assignment (3 parts): 10%
  • Feasibility Study: 10%
  • (Group Project)
  • Proposal: 10%
  • Oral Presentation: 10%
  • Assessment Tests: 10%
  • Individual   2/3
  • Group   1/3
  • Post Diagnostic Grammar Test: 5%                 
  • Grammar Online Tests: 10%
  • Attendance: 5%

ENG 2423.001: LITERATURE OF TEXAS AND THE SOUTHWEST

Instructor: Linda Woodson
Class Time: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 a.m.
Class Location: HSS 2.02.04

Course Description
Because this is a course that will fill the Core Curriculum requirement in literary studies, the course has been designed to include novels, short stories, poetry, and other genres of literature.  The course will include an introduction to some of the major writers from Texas and the Southwest.

Requirements

  • Three shorter examinations: 20%
    Pop Quizzes: 10%
    Final examination: 30%

Texts

  1. Lone Star Literature, ed. Don Graham
  2. Three novels to be announced

ENG 2433.002: EDITING

Instructor: Deanna White
Class Time: MWF 12:00 - 12:50 p.m.
Class Location: MB 0.224

Course Description
This course should prepare students to edit written material and visuals in the workplace and in the students’ own writing.  The editing process as it functions in the workplace will be studied.  Students will review grammar conventions in order to be able to edit and to explain the need for editing to others.

Course Texts

  1. Editing for Writers, Lois Johnson Rew, 1st ed., Prentice Hall.
  2. Exercises in Editing, Rew and White, 1st ed., Pearson Custom

Course Assignments for Grades

  • Daily Assignments: 10%
  • Quizzes: 15%
  • Midterm: 15%
  • Final: 20%
  • Group Project: 
    • Written: 10% 
    • Total: 20%
  • Oral: 10%
  • Post Diagnostic Grammar Test: 10%                 
  • Attendance: 10%

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