Fall 2011 Courses: 200-Level

ENG 2013.001

Instructor: Karen Dodwell
Class Time: MWF 8:00 - 8:50 a.m.
Class Location: MH 2.02.10

Course Description
The course helps students develop analytical skills and appreciate language and literature. Students will examine genres (poetry, drama, stories), formal features (plot, character, theme, setting), and social issues (racism, feminism, economics). The emphasis is on developing a vocabulary for talking and writing about literary texts and on performing close readings of texts.

Course Texts:

Norton Introduction to Literature: Shorter edition; Editor: Booth; 10th edition; 2010; W. W. Norton; ISBN:9780393935141

Course Assignments for Grades

Class attendance & participation 10%
Active reading, writing, response journal #1 5%
Active reading, writing, response journal #2 5%
Test #1 15%
Test #2 15%
Test #3 15%
Test #4 15%
Final Exam 20%

For questions, contact Karen Dodwell at karen.dodwell@utsa.edu

ENG 2013.002

Instructor: Karen Dodwell
Class Time: MWF 9:00 - 9:50 a.m.
Class Location: MH 2.01.32

Course Texts:

Norton Introduction to Literature: Shorter edition; Editor: Booth; 10th edition; 2010; W. W. Norton; ISBN:9780393935141

Course Assignments for Grades

Class attendance & participation 10%
Active reading, writing, response journal #1 5%
Active reading, writing, response journal #2 5%
Test #1 15%
Test #2 15%
Test #3 15%
Test #4 15%
Final Exam 20%

For questions, contact Karen Dodwell at karen.dodwell@utsa.edu

ENG 2013.005: Introduction to Literature

Instructor: Maia Adamina
Class Time: MWF 12:00 - 12:50 p.m.
Class Location: MH 2.01.40

Course Description
This course is an introduction to literature for English and non-English majors. It includes a survey of literary works from various genres and periods by culturally diverse authors. Through this introduction to literary terms and methods of analysis, students gain experience in reading, analyzing, interpreting, and writing about literature. This course also establishes connections between literature and film, music, and live performance.

Course Texts

Literature and its Writers. 5th ed. Charters and Charters.
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.
The Narrow Road of the Interior by Basho.
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Course Assignments for Grades

60% - 4 genre specific exams (15% each)
15% - 5 Quizzes (3% each)
10% - Participation – worksheets
15% - Final Exam

ENG 2013.006: Introduction to Literature

Instructor: Erin Ranft
Class Time: TR 8:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Class Location: MB 0.222

Course Description
This course, intended for non-English majors, offers an introduction to the study and analysis of literature with an emphasis on drama, plays, and poetry by a variety of authors. The course focuses on forms of analysis and the application of literary terms, and students gain experience in reading, interpreting, and writing about different forms of literature.

Course Grades
Short writing assignments (in class and on Blackboard), in-class discussion and participation, several quizzes, 3 in-class exams (including final exam)

ENG 2213.007: Literary Criticism and Analysis

Instructor: Melissa Whitney
Class Time: TR 8:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Class Location: MH 3.03.20

Course Description
This course requires students to engage literature in a variety of ways. Students will learn to analyze poems, short stories, novels, and plays through different critical lenses such as historicist criticism, formalist criticism, psychological criticism, feminist criticism, and reader-response criticism. Besides the primary and secondary readings, the course also requires students to learn the appropriate terminology in order to be able to successfully discuss various genres. The students will be graded on participation, a midterm and final exam, a major research paper, and three short papers.

Texts

30/30 Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years, Ed. Porter Shrever and B. Minh Nguyen, Penguin, ISBN 0-321-33898-7.
A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Guerin et al, Oxford UP, ISBN 978-0195394726.
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Norton Critical Edition ISBN 978-0393929584 (or any edition)
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, Penguin Classic, ISBN 978-0143105282 (or any edition)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Norton Critical Edition ISBN 978-0393964585 (or any edition)
Donald Hays's The Dixie Association, Louisiana State UP, ISBN 0-780807-122266
Rushdie Salman's Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Penguin, ISBN 9-780140-157376
Additional handouts

Recommended
A Glossary of Literary Terms, ED. M. H. Abrams, Thomson Wadsworth, ISBN 978-1-4130-0218-8

ENG 2213.009: Literary Criticism and Analysis

Instructor: Melissa Whitney
Class Time: TR 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Class Location: MH 3.03.20

Texts

30/30 Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years, Ed. Porter Shrever and B. Minh Nguyen, Penguin, ISBN 0-321-33898-7.
A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Guerin et al, Oxford UP, ISBN 978-0195394726.
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Norton Critical Edition ISBN 978-0393929584 (or any edition)
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, Penguin Classic, ISBN 978-0143105282 (or any edition)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Norton Critical Edition ISBN 978-0393964585 (or any edition)
Donald Hays's The Dixie Association, Louisiana State UP, ISBN 0-780807-122266
Rushdie Salman's Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Penguin, ISBN 9-780140-157376
Additional handouts

Recommended
A Glossary of Literary Terms, ED. M. H. Abrams, Thomson Wadsworth, ISBN 978-1-4130-0218-8

ENG 2213.011: Literary Criticism and Analysis

Instructor: Margaret Cantú-Sánchez
Class Time: TR 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Class Location: TBA

Course Description
This course requires that students engage in a variety of ways of reading, analyzing, and writing about literature. We will analyze poems, prose, and plays from many different sources using critical approaches such as: formalist criticism, structuralist criticism, reader-response criticism, and others. This course is reading and writing intensive and is meant to prepare the student for more advanced literary studies.

ENG 2233.002: British Literature II

Instructor: Debbie Lopez
Class Time: TR 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Class Location: MB 0.208

Course Description
Covering the period from the eighteenth through the twentieth-centuries, this course focuses on poetry. However, several essays, three novels, two novellas, and two plays are also included. Through close reading students will have the opportunity to appreciate the aesthetic qualities distinguishing these works. They will discuss critical analyses and examine the primary texts within their historical and social contexts.

Course Texts

Abrams, Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2
Shelley, Frankenstein
Bronte, Jane Eyre
Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Austen, Northanger Abbey
Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Course Assignments for Grades

20% Course participation, including frequent quizzes covering not just the assigned readings for the day but also material discussed in the previous day’s lecture.
20% 4-5 page researched paper.
60% three exams.

ENG 2263.001: American Literature I

Instructor: Linda Woodson
Class Time: MWF 12:00 - 12:50 p.m.
Class Location: MH 2.02.16

Course Description
The course will focus on readings and discussions of representative works of American literature from the pre-Colonial period to 1865. It is a required course for students majoring in English.

Requirements
In addition to the readings, you may expect one shorter examination (10%), a mid-term examination (30%), a ten- to twelve-page paper (30%), and a final examination (30%). Class attendance is mandatory. Missing more than four (4) classes will be considered excessive and may cause you to fail the course.

Text

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, ed. Baym et al. 7th Ed. Vol. A & B.

ENG 2293.002: American Literature II (1865-Present)

Instructor: Steven Kellman
Class Time: TR 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.120

Course Description
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
--Mark Twain

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
--Henry James

Following the Civil War that almost destroyed it, the United States began to emerge as a major economic, military, and cultural power. During the past century and a half, American writers have ceased to cultivate European muses and sought their own distinctive forms of expression. Designed for prospective majors, American Literature II is a survey of some of the most provocative fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction produced in this country from 1865 to our own time. Through close reading of notable texts and an examination of their historical contexts, we will try to arrive at an understanding of what is distinctive about American literature as well as what links it to the cultures of other times and other places.

Course Texts

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

Course Assignments for Grades
Weekly quizzes; writing assignments; class presentation; midterm exam; final exam.

ENG 2323.001: Creative Writing: Fiction

Instructor: Debra Peña
Class Time: W 2:00 - 4:45 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.103

Course Description
This course focuses on writing fiction with extensive attention paid to the short story. Although this is an introductory course, which assumes no previous writing experience, it is specifically designed for students who are serious about writing, and around the belief that one must read widely and closely in order to write well. Students will be required to participate in multiple in-class activities, reading and writing assignments, as well as peer review and class discussion roles. Reading as writers, we’ll also study strong short stories, evaluate how they work, and learn how their authors solve the same problems all writers face. We’ll practice the skills necessary to write engaging, convincing, original works of fiction, and focus on the fundamental steps of the writing process from discovering and developing fresh material to drafting, revising, and editing. Students will produce 25 pages of original work during the semester.

Course Texts

Burroway, Janet, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. 8th ed. New York: Longman, 2010. ISBN 9780205750344

*Additional Readings to be distributed in class and via Blackboard

Course Assignments for Grades

Class Participation/Attendance: 15%
Reader Response Essays (5): 10%
Critique of Literary Event: 5%
Peer Review Critiques: 15%
Presentation: 5%
Short Story or Flash Fiction Series 15pp: 25%
Final Portfolio & Assessment: 25%

ENG 2333.901: Creative Writing: Poetry

Instructor: Elaine Wong
Class Time: T 5:30 - 8:15 p.m.
Class Location: FS 3.402 (Downtown)

Course Description
This course introduces the craft of poetry writing to students with or without previous poetry-writing experience. The course provides ample opportunities for writing poems, to be guided by weekly readings and themes/genres as assigned by the instructor, as well as for revising and sharing poems through constructive comments from the instructor and class participants. We will pay special attention to how we interact with language as we write poems and how we reach out through poetry writing to other people and beings.

Required Texts (Tentative)

Ted Kooser, The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, Bison Books, 2007, paperback [0803259786].
Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell eds., American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, Wesleyan, 2007, paperback [0819567280].
Czeslaw Milosz, A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, Mariner Books, 1998, paperback [0156005743].
Poems and articles to be downloaded from Blackboard.

Course Assignments for Grades

Attendance & Class Participation 20%
Weekly Poems (one per week, to follow instructor’s guidelines) 20%
Weekly Written Peer Critiques (for two poems per week) 10%
Weekly 1-page Responses for Assigned Readings 10%
In-class Writings 5%
Group Project (Presentation on a Poetic Genre/Technique or Team Poem) 5%
Mid-term Poem Revisions 10%
Final Portfolio 20% including

All Original Weekly Poems & Revisions for Each Poem
Responses for Selected Peer Critiques
1-page Response for Attending a Literary Event
3- to 5-page Reflective Essay on Your Poetry Writing in this Course

ENG 2413.001: Technical Writing

Instructor: Kristina Gutierrez
Class Time: MWF 8:00 - 8:50 a.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Course Description
Prerequisite: Students must first successfully complete the core curriculum requirement in rhetoric before taking ENG 2413.

This course focuses on expository writing in workplace environments, including but not limited to: preparing memorandums, resumes, proposals, and newsletters. ENG 2413 is a degree requirement for a Bachelor’s degree in English with a Professional Writing Concentration.

Course Text
Alred, Gerald J., Charles T. Brusaw, and Walter E. Oliu. Handbook of Technical Writing, 9 ed. (ISBN: 978-0312575120) (Tentative)

Course Assignments for Grades
Two tests, learning portfolio, option of competing a group project or a service-learning project, final presentation

ENG 2413.002: Technical Writing

Instructor: Maia Adamina
Class Time: MWF 9:00 - 9:50 a.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Course Description
Technical Writing is designed for students in all fields of study. The emphasis is on the writing process with careful analysis of audience. The assignments involve establishing a clear, concise style in both written and oral communication.

Course Texts

Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings Diana C. Reep 8th ed.

Course Assignments for Grades

8 In-class writings (ICW) = 2.25% each (18%)
8 Individual Assignments (IA) = 5% each (40%)
3 Group Assignments (GA) = 4% (12%)
Oral Presentation and Proposal = 15%
Portfolio= 15%

ENG 2413.003: Technical Writing

Instructor: Maia Adamina
Class Time: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 a.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Course Texts

Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings Diana C. Reep 8th ed.

Course Assignments for Grades

8 In-class writings (ICW) = 2.25% each (18%)
8 Individual Assignments (IA) = 5% each (40%)
3 Group Assignments (GA) = 4% (12%)
Oral Presentation and Proposal = 15%
Portfolio= 15%

ENG 2413.004: Technical Writing

Instructor: Robert Wilhite
Class Time: MWF 11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Course Description
This technical writing course is designed for students interested in exploring the nature of workplace communication. We will imagine an enterprise of our own choosing and prepare a number of documents in text, spreadsheet, and presentation media. Much of what we write will be presented. We will study the characteristics of common business documents, such as resumes, memos and reports. We will study the elements and characteristics of formal writing. We will become more literate about visual design. In addition, we will write, produce and present a fifteen-second video advertising our imaginary product or services.

Requirements
Writing
We will write an overview of the imaginary enterprise; statements of vision, mission, and values; four types of plans integrated into a single document; Gantt chart; expense budget, cash postion; resume and cover letter; funding package cover letter and abbreviated business plan; and an ad video script.

Quizzes and Final Examination
We will take quizzes on general business terms, financial terms, and marketing terms. The final examination questions will probably be drawn from these quizzes.

Presentations
To build confidence, we will present three or four times, practicing that most-feared form of communication – public speaking.

Attendance influences the course grade.

Course Text
This is to be determined as of March 7, 2011.

ENG 2413.005: Technical Writing

Instructor: Robert Wilhite
Class Time: MWF 12:00 - 12:50 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Quizzes and Final Examination
We will take quizzes on general business terms, financial terms, and marketing terms. The final examination questions will probably be drawn from these quizzes.

Presentations
To build confidence, we will present three or four times, practicing that most-feared form of communication – public speaking.

Attendance influences the course grade.

Course Text
This is to be determined as of March 7, 2011.

ENG 2413.009: Technical Writing

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

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. Blackboard is also utilized in this section.

Course Texts

Harris, Muriel, and Jennifer L. Kunka. Prentice Hall Reference Guide.
8th ed. Prentice Hall.
Markel, Mike. Technical Communication. 9th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Course Assignments for Grades
Definition Assignment: 5%
Instructions-Group Assignment: 5%
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 2413.010: Technical Writing

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

Course Texts

Harris, Muriel, and Jennifer L. Kunka. Prentice Hall Reference Guide.
8th ed. Prentice Hall.
Markel, Mike. Technical Communication. 9th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Course Assignments for Grades
Definition Assignment: 5%
Instructions-Group Assignment: 5%
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 2413.012: Technical Writing

Instructor: Paula Tran
Class Time: TR 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Class Location: TBA

Course Description
This course examines the techniques of expository writing. The course is designed for students in all fields of study – to include liberal arts majors. A technical background is not needed. All features of good writing emphasized in other writing courses are emphasized again with particular stress on style, clarity, and audience analysis.

This course will provide practice in editing and in the writing of various types of documents, including proposals, instructions, process descriptions, e-mail, memorandums, letters, and progress reports. Reading and analysis of appropriate technical writing models will assist students in the development of these writing skills. Students will learn to make oral presentations. The course culminates in a formal report that integrates the skills gained throughout the semester.

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

Goals

The student will gain an overview of technical writing and will review the writing process as it relates to technical writing.
The student will be aware of audience in all technical writing.
The student will write assignments based on the writing patterns of definition, description, process, comparison and contrast, and argument.
The student will produce electronic correspondence, reports, graphics, business letters, memorandums, and proposals.
The student will give an oral presentation of the proposal that is also a written project.
The student will collaborate within a group setting. A major feature of this section of English 2413 is to learn to work in groups.

ENG 2413.013: Technical Writing

Instructor: Paula Tran
Class Time: TR 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Class Location: MH 3.04.12

Goals

The student will gain an overview of technical writing and will review the writing process as it relates to technical writing.
The student will be aware of audience in all technical writing.
The student will write assignments based on the writing patterns of definition, description, process, comparison and contrast, and argument.
The student will produce electronic correspondence, reports, graphics, business letters, memorandums, and proposals.
The student will give an oral presentation of the proposal that is also a written project.
The student will collaborate within a group setting. A major feature of this section of English 2413 is to learn to work in groups.

ENG 2423.001: Literature of Texas and the Southwest

Instructor: Linda Woodson
Class Time: MWF 11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Class Location: BB 3.01.06

Content and Goals
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

Lone Star Literature, ed. Don Graham
George Washington Gomez, Americo Paredes
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy

ENG 2433.001: Editing

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

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

Harris, Muriel, and Jennifer L. Kunka. Prentice Hall Reference Guide.
8th ed. Prentice Hall.
Exercise Workbooks to be determined at a later date.

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%

ENG 2433.002: Editing

Instructor: Amanda Williams
Class Time: MWF 2:00 - 2:50 p.m.
Class Location: TBA

Course Description
Editing is concerned primarily with perfecting skills in grammar, mechanics, usage, etc. However, the multifaceted nature of editing has expanded. In this class, we will discuss editing as a profession, different levels of editing, the use of style guides, and more. Some original writing will also be required. The work will be both individual and group. Presentations will be required.

Course Texts
TBA

Course Assignments for Grades
Exams, quizzes, a group presentation, many small editing exercises.