Introductory English Courses Fall 2024
ENGL 210: Introduction to Poetry
Instructor: Brian Daldorph
16849 | MWF 10:00-10:50 AM | Wescoe 4035 - LAWRENCE
20635 | MWF 11:00-11:50 AM | Wescoe 4035 - LAWRENCE
ENGL 220: Introduction to Creative Writing
Instructor: Kevin Mulligan
23860 | TuTh 9:30-10:45 AM | Fraser 223 - LAWRENCE
17315 | TuTh 11:00-12:15 PM | Fraser 223 - LAWRENCE
In this course, students will study the practices of creative writing in three genres: short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Through rigorous inquiry, discussion, and creative experimentation, students will gain a strong understanding of each genre’s conventions, strategies, and contexts--and then will put that knowledge into practice to produce original writing. Writing assignments in the course will be split between critical work, which analyzes the technique and function of various creative pieces and allows students to read creative works as potential models or sites of learning opportunities, and creative work, which allows students to develop their own creative philosophy as it applies to each genre they work within. In lieu of a final exam, students will submit a portfolio of their revised work, along with a short reflection paper.
Instructor: Alex Crayon
26647 | MW 11:00-12:15 PM | Fraser 207 - LAWRENCE
26648 | MW 12:30-1:45 PM | Fraser 207 - LAWRENCE
In this course, students will study the craft of creative writing across four genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting/screenwriting. Throughout the semester, students will first survey these genres, reading and discussing exemplary models of each, and will investigate the conventions that writers follow—and break—when composing their creative work. In addition, students will produce four original creative pieces, one for each genre, to apply their study. This class will then include a workshop component during which students will provide both written and oral feedback to their fellow writers by immersing themselves in a constructive critical atmosphere. At the end of the semester, students will submit a portfolio of their revised creative work and a short reflective essay.
ENGL 300: Introduction to English Studies
Instructor: Jonathan P. Lamb
19933 | MW 3:00-4:15 PM | WES 4047 - LAWRENCE
Where do texts come from? What kinds of relationships do they have with each other? How do writers relate across texts and across time? English 300 will introduce students to the main areas and methods of English studies—literary studies, creative writing, and rhetoric—by examining how texts relate, how they rewrite, retell, steal from each other. Pondering these relationships will allow us to contemplate the conditions of reading and writing across contexts, genres, and rhetorical situations. They help us think about what it means for a text to be fictional, poetic, persuasive, convincing, creative, engaging, boring, or even true. Students will write three main assignments and as well as several shorter assignments and a final project, comment on readings in Teams, and create a short presentation. Students will finish the course with a fuller sense of what it means to be an English major or minor. Texts include: Jeffrey Nealon & Susan Searls Giroux, 'The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences,' 2nd Ed. (9780742570504); William Shakespeare, 'The Tempest: A Case Study in Critical Controversy.' 2nd Ed. (9780312457529); Margaret Atwood, 'Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold: A Novel' (9780804141312); Frederick Douglass, 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself,' Third Ed. (9781319048897); Harriet Jacobs, 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself' (Norton Critical Edition) Second Ed. (9780393614565)
