Spring 2012 Courses: 2000-Level

ENG 2013.001: Introduction to Literature

Instructor: Erin Ranft
Class Time: MWF 9:00 - 9:50 a.m.
Class Location: MH 2.01.44

Course Description
This course introduces students to multiple genres of literature. It is a course “about literature” as much as of literature. You will have the opportunity to learn the art of close reading as you interpret and analyze a variety of poetry, fiction, and drama. Schakel and Ridl argue that meaning is created in the interaction between the reader and the text, stating that the stories, plays, and poems within their text “are not objects, not just writing on the page, but potential works that need to be completed in the reader’s mind.” In our class you will practice developing a set of critical tools that will enable you to deepen that intelligent potential with the text. You will also be able to enhance your library research skills and document your research using MLA.

Course Texts

  • The Heath Anthology of American Literature (6th edition). Editor: Lauter ISBN:9780547201801

Requirements
Quizzes, In-class responses, Blackboard Responses, Midterm, Final

ENG 2013.002 and 2013.003: Introduction to Literature

Instructor: Christine Caver

Class Section: 2013.002
Class Time: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 am.m.
Class Location: MH 2.01.24

Class Section: 2013.003
Class Time: MWF 11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Class Location: MH 2.01.24

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.

Course Texts
Ann Charters; Samuel Charters, Literature & Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 5th ed., Bedford St. Martin’s

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 Blackboard, 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.

ENG 2013.009: Introduction to Literature

Instructor: Maia Adamina
Class Time: TR 12:30 - 1:15 p.m.
Class Location: MH 2.01.36

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 and is designed to enhance and strengthen a student’s critical thinking skills.

Course Texts

  • Literature and its Writers. 5th ed. Charters and Charters 55.25 used, 73.50 new, 35.83 rent
  • Tartuffe by Moliere 3.75 used and 4.95 new (also available via Kindle)

Requirements
Exams, quizzes, class participation, and a final exam

ENG 2013.010: Introduction to Literature

Instructor: Karen Dodwell
Class Time: TR 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Class Location: MH 2.01.40

Course Description
The course helps students develop concepts and vocabulary for talking and writing about literary texts. Students will examine genres (poetry, drama, stories), formal features (plot, theme, imagery, figurative language, rhyme, meter), and social issues (race, ethnicity, nationality, social class, religion, gender).

In the spring 2012 semester, students will read John Phillip Santos’ memoir Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation. The author will be part of the UTSA Creative Writing Series on campus in February 2012, and students will be able to meet the author. The class will focus on memoir writing and students will be encouraged to think about their personal story and identity.

Course Texts

  • Norton Introduction to Literature: Shorter edition; Editor: Booth; 10th edition; 2010; W. W. Norton; ISBN:9780393935141
  • Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation. John Phillip Santos Penguine, 2000 ISBN 0-670-86808-6 ISBN 987-0-14-029202-2 Paperback

Requirements
Class attendance, 3 response journals, 4 tests, memoir project, final exam

ENG 2213.003 and 2213.004: Literary Criticism and Analysis

Instructor: Margaret E. Cantú-Sánchez

Class Section: 2213.003
Class Time: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 a.m.
Class Location: HSS 3.02.48

Class Section: 2213.004
Class Time: MWF 11:00 - 11:50 a.m.
Class Location: HSS 3.04.10

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: feminist criticism, postcolonial 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.

Course Texts 
Critical Theory Today, Lois Tyson 2nd ed.  (ISBN 0-415-97410-0)

ENG 2213.008 and 2213.009: Literary Criticism and Analysis

Instructor: Melissa Whitney

Class Section: 2213.008
Class Time: TR 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Class Location: MB 1.101

Clss Section: 2213.009
Class Time: TR 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Class Location: MH 2.02.22

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 two short papers. At the end of the course students will be able to critically read, discuss, and write about literature.

Course Texts

  • The Seagull Reader Poems, Second Edition, Ed. Joseph Kelly, Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-93093-1
  • 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
  • Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Penguin, ISBN 9-780140-157376
  • The Seagull Reader Stories, Second Edition, Ed. Joseph Kelly, Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-93091-7

ENG 2213.010 and 2213.011: Literary Criticism and Analysis

Instructor: Chelsey Patterson

Class Section: 2213.010
Class Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.120

Class Section: 2213.011
Class Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Class Location: MB 0.208

Course Description
This course introduces students to a variety of ways of reading, analyzing, and writing about contemporary literature. It is designed to prepare students for advanced courses in literature. We will read, interpret, and analyze works of poetry, fiction, and drama using critical approaches, including: New Criticism, Marxist criticism, Postmodern Criticism, and Feminist criticism, including Chicana theory and Black feminist theory. We will focus on literary terms and the form of texts while studying different literary genres. This course is reading and writing intensive. ENG 2213 is a degree requirement for a bachelor’s degree in English. Successful completion of the course will also fulfill the Core Curriculum requirement in Domain IIIA.

Course Texts

  • Brown, Derrick C. Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife. (ISBN 978-0-9789989-0-5)
  • Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street 2nd ed. (25th Anniversary Edition) (ISBN 978-0-679-73477-2)
  • Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun (ISBN 978-0679755333)
  • Ellis, Bret Easton. Less than Zero (ISBN 0-679-78149-8)
  • Plascencia, Salvador. The People of Paper (ISBN 978-0156032117)
  • Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today, 2nd ed. (ISBN 978-0-415-97410-3)

Requirements
Poetry explication, three literary criticisms, weekly quizzes, one group presentation, final exam

ENG 2213.012: Literary Criticism and Analysis

Instructor: Debra D. Peña
Class Time: TR 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Class Location: MH 3.02.24

Course Description
The primary goal of this course is provide students with the skills necessary to critically engage, read, and write about literature from a variety of critical perspectives. Since this course is an introduction to Literary Criticism and Analysis and is meant to prepare students for advanced courses in literature, students will be required to analyze fiction, poetry, and drama using critical approaches such as: feminist criticism, postcolonial criticism, reader-response criticism, and others. In addition to the primary and secondary readings, students are required to learn the appropriate literary terminology in order to be able to successfully discuss various genres. This course is reading and writing intensive. ENG 2213 is a degree requirement for a bachelor’s degree in English. Successful completion of the course will also fulfill the Core Curriculum requirement in Domain IIIA.

Course Texts

  • X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia. Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, 4/E. ISBN-13: 9780205151660
  • Charles E. Bressler. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 5/E, ISBN-13: 9780205791699
  • Fergus, Jim. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Todd ISBN-13: 9780312199432

Requirements
Assignments may be a mix of the following: Reading Quizzes, Midterm Exam, Final Exam, Poetry Explication, three literary critiques, and one research paper (to include outline, annotated bibliography, & 1st draft).

ENG 2213.013 and 2213.014: Literary Criticism and Analysis

Instructor: Christina Gutierrez

Class Section: 2213.013
Class Time: TR 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Class Location: MH 2.02.22

Class Section: 2213.014
Class Time: TH 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Class Location: MH .01.08

Course Description
This course introduces students to different ways of reading and interpreting literature. It is a course “about literature” as much as of literature. It is designed to prepare students who are serious students of English Studies to take advanced courses in literature. We will read, interpret, and analyze a variety of poetry, fiction, and drama by using a number of literary critical approaches and critical theories. In doing so, we will pay attention to literary terms and to the form of the text in order to understand the notion of literary genre. As a consequence of these activities, this course will involve intensive reading and extensive writing. We will also enhance our library research skills and document our research using MLA.

Course Texts

  • Kennedy, X. J., and Dana Gioia, ed. Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2012. Print.
  • Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print.

Requirements
Critical theory papers, quizzes, midterm, group presentation, final paper, final exam

ENG 2223: Introduction to British Literature I

Instructor: Mark Bayer
Class Time: MWF 1:00 - 1:50 p.m.
Class Location: MH 3.02.24

Course Description
English 2223 provides an introduction to selected non-dramatic literature of the medieval, early modern, and Restoration periods. Special attention will be paid to the content and form of these texts but also to their social, economic, and political contexts and to the networks of patronage, readership, and often collaborative authorship that led to their production. In an effort to impose some sort of order on this often bewildering array of writings, in this course we will interrogate the selected texts according to an overarching “humanist” paradigm to which these works contribute and comment. We will also examine the ways that the humanist ideas presented in this literature have been influential in constructing modern attitudes to a number of varied issues.

Requirements
Two examinations, one term paper, and a series of short quizzes.

Course Texts 
Stephen Greenblatt et. al, Eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 1, 8th edn.

ENG 2233: British Literature II

Instructor: Mark Vareschi
Class Time: TR 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.126

Course Description
British Literature II is a survey course intended to provide English majors and minors with a broad overview of British literatures from approximately 1700 to present. As you will see over the course of the semester, the categories of both “British” and “Literature” will continue to be redefined and renegotiated throughout the period. Our focus in this course will be on the literary representation of the subject and subjectivity over the (roughly) three hundred-year span of the course. Our central questions will include: What is a subject? Subjectivity? How does one represent a believable subject? What literary techniques are necessary to do so? How have they changed over time?

ENG 2293.002: American Literature II

Instructor: Karen Dodwell
Class Time: 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Class Location: MH 3.04.26

Course Description
The course is a survey of American literature from the Civil War through the present. The course is divided into these units:

  • Two famous poets: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
  • Two Americans abroad: Henry James and Edith Wharton
  • Two African American Voices: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois
  • American modernism
  • Post World War II states of mind
  • Postmodernism
  • Women writers and feminist Issues
  • Ethnic literature

Students learn about the trends in American literature, develop their vocabulary by talking and writing about literature, and gain an understanding of cultural studies perspectives (gender, social class, race, ethnicity, religion, etc.)

Skills developed in writing arguments in freshman English classes are applied to writing about literary texts.

Course Texts

  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 7th edition, Volume 2, 1865 to the Present. Nina Baym, General Editor. W. W. Norton & Co. 2008. ISBN: 978 0 393-93055-9
  • Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation. John Phillip Santos Penguine, 2000 ISBN 0-670-86808-6 ISBN 987-0-14-029202-2 Paperback

Requirements
Class attendence; active reading, writing, response journal, tests, final exam, focused feedback writing, term paper

ENG 2323.002: Creative Writing: Fiction

Instructor: Debra D. Peña
Class Time: R 2:00 - 4:45 p.m.
Class Location: MH 3.03.12

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

Requirements
Class participation, reader-response essays, critique of literary event, writing workshop, short-story or flash-fiction series, final portfolio

ENG 2333.002 Creative Writing: Poetry

Instructor: Elaine Wong
Class Time: T 5:30 - 8:15 p.m.
Class Location: MH 2.02.22

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.

Course Texts

  • 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 and UTSA Library.

Requirements
Attendance and participation; weekly poems, peer critiques, and one-page responses; in-class writings; group project; mid-term revisions; final portfolio

ENG 2413.001 and 2413.002: Technical Writing

Instructor: Kristina Gutierrez

Class Section: 2413.001
Class Time: MWF 8:00 - 8:50 a.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Class Section: 2413.002
Class Time: MWF 9:00 - 9:50 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.

In this course, we will explore professional communication writing styles and methods of exposition, including but not limited to: definition, description, and problem-methods-solution. We will focus on terms and the form of texts to analyze the audience, purpose, style, and visual elements of professional communication genres.

ENG 2413 is approved support work for a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a Professional Writing concentration.

Course Text

  • Markel, Mike. Technical Communication. 9th ed. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2010. (ISBN-13: 978-0-312-69216-2)

Requirements (tentative)
Reading Quizzes, Two exams, Extended Definition , Set of Instructions, Résumé, references list, Research project or Service-learning project

ENG 2413.008: Technical Writing

Instructor: Paula Tran
Class Time: TR 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Course Description
This course, which examines the techniques of expository writing, is designed for students in all fields of study – including 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 intensive practice in editing and in the writing of various types of documents, including proposals, instructions, technical 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 professionally-prepared 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 highly-prized assets, is imperative.

Course Texts

  • Technical Communication, 9th Ed., Mike Markel, ISBN-978-0-312-692d16-2
  • Prentice Hall Reference Guide, 8th Ed., Muriel Harris and Jennifer L. Kunka ISBN 978-0-205-074662

Requirements

  • Instructions Group Activity
  • Business Plan
  • Two in-class activities: A memo and a progress report
  • A formal business letter
  • A practical proposal
  • Job application project, including cover letter, resumes, and thank you letters
  • A brochure
  • Oral presentation
  • Several grammar quizzes and unannounced reading quizzes

ENG 2413.009: Technical Writing for Health Professionals

Instructor: Paula Tran
Class Time: T 5:30 - 8:15 p.m.
Class Location: MH 3.03.12

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

  • Writing in the Health Professions, Barbara A. Heifferon, ISBN 0-321-10527-3
  • Prentice Hall Reference Guide, 8th Ed., Muriel Harris and Jennifer L. Kunka

Requirements

  • Admissions Letter
  • Instructions activity – group work
  • Rhetorical analysis / critical evaluation of health care brochure
  • Semester project – mentoring with an Allied Health professional
  • Two in-class projects—a memo and a progress report
  • Grant and government document writing project
  • Proposal and oral presentation
  • Several grammar quizzes and unannounced reading quizzes

ENG 2413.010 and 2413.011: Technical Writing

Instructor: Maia Adamina

Class Section: 2413.010
Class Time: TR 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Class Section: 2413.011
Class Time: TR 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Course Description
Technical Writing is writing designed for students in all fields of study –to include liberal arts majors. A technical background is not needed. The emphasis will be on the writing process with careful analysis of audience. The assignments will involve varying occasions for both technical and non-technical audiences although the latter is stressed. In the market place, the ability to communicate effectively gains positive recognition and rewards – as much or more than any other criterion. Therefore, it is imperative to sharpen these skills which are such a prized asset.

Course Texts

  • Strategies for Technical Communication in the Workplace by Gurak and Lannon

Requirements
In-class assignments, individual assignments, group assignments, oral proposal and presentation, portfolio

ENG 2413.012 and 2413.013: Technical Writing

Instructor: Deanna M. White

Class Section: 2413.012
Class Time: TR 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Class Location: MB 1.206

Class Section: 2413.013
Class Time: TR 8:00 - 9:15 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. 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.

ENG 2433.003: Editing

Instructor: Deanna M. White
Class Time: TR 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Class Location: MB 1.103

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.
  • Ingalls, Anna, and Dan Moody. The Pearson Editing Exercises, 2nd ed. Pearson.
  • Runciman, Lex, Carolyn Lengel, and Kate Silverstein. Exercises for The Everyday Writer. 4th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s.

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