UTM College of Humanities and Fine Arts
Summer English Classes 2007
Term 1 (6/4/07 - 7/6/07)
English 100—English Studies M – F 11:00-12:30 Laura Jarmon
English 100 provides intensive practice in the college level treatment of texts. It is predominately a skills course that requires students to think critically, to respond in writing to a variety of readings, and to generate, revise, and edit texts of their own. There is a lab requirement for the course. English 100 must precede and may not be substituted for English 110. In order to advance to English 110, students must complete English 100 with a grade of C or higher. Placement in English 100 is determined by ACT English subscores and high school GPA.
English 111—Composition M – F 12:45-2:15 Laura Jarmon
An introduction to the fundamentals of written discourse, English 111 includes a study of rhetoric, grammar, and style as means to effective prose. Students must complete English 111 and 112 in sequence. In order to proceed to English 112, students must complete English 111 with a grade of C or higher. Placement in English 111 is determined by ACT English subscores and high school GPA.
English 112—Composition M – F 9:15-10:45 Chris Hill
Utopias: The Perfect Society from Plato to the Present
It’s still a vexing question: how do we create a perfect society—one where everyone’s needs are met, where injustice and corruption are unknown, where human potential can be fully realized? We will spend the term studying various reactions to this knotty problem, using utopian models in literature as a jumping-off point for our own explorations and criticisms. Though we will read a fair amount of writing from a broad range of sources, our focus will be on generating a lot of our own writing, both formal and informal. This course will use a workshop format emphasizing the use of class time to actively work on writing skills with peers.
English 250—British Literary Tradition I M – F 11:00-12:30 Chris Hill
This will be a fast-paced, reading-intensive introduction to the beginnings of English literature. Starting with the wonderful romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we will read multiple works involving quests, knights, lust, love, piety, flattery, heroism, and humor. We will focus on social and material contexts of the works we read, but we will also spend a good amount of time discovering how writers respond to each other and to the demands of the forms they choose to write in: epic, romance, lyric, drama, religious prose, and so on. Major writers we are sure to cover include Shakespeare and Chaucer, Milton and Pope, Jonson and Johnson, Sidney, Herbert, and Donne.
English 305/505—Advanced Composition M – F 11:00-12:30 Margrethe Ahlschwede
This is a class in non-fiction writing and we’ll do lots of it—writer’s notebook, drafts, and finished essays coming out of the drafts. Our reading list includes Georgia Heard’s Writing towards Home, Bob Cowser’s Scorekeeping, Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones, and James McBride’s The Color of Water. If you learn best through open assignments and group work, with time to develop your thoughts, this class could be a good fit. English 305 is a course in the writing option English major. It is a required course for secondary English education majors. English 305 is also a valuable experience for students who are thinking about university work beyond the undergraduate degree including medicine, law, veterinary science, and business. The course will be computer assisted.
Term 2 (7/10/07 -8/10/07)
English 110—English Composition M – F 12:45-2:15 Tim Hacker
This course continues the work with the fundamentals of written discourse begun in English 100. Study of rhetoric, grammar, and style as a means to effective prose are achieved through readings and concomitant writing assignments. It is predominately a skills course and there is a lab requirement. Prereq: successful completion of English 100. In order to proceed to English 112, students must complete English 110 with a grade of C or higher.
English 112—Composition M – F 11:00-12:30 Neil Graves
Further study of written English and practice in composition, English 111 focuses on readings and research writing with documentation. Students must complete English 111 and 112, or English 100, 110, and 112, in sequence. In order to complete English 112 students must earn a grade of C or higher.
English 251—British Literary Tradition II M – F 9:15-10:45 Neil Graves
What are the legacies of revolution, alienation, mechanization, and evolution for modern society? English 251 surveys literature written in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the late eighteenth century to the present day. The course considers writers such as Wordsworth, Keats, Woolf, Eliot, and Lessing in historical, political, artistic, and philosophical contexts. English 251 may be taken before English 250.
English 261—American Literary Tradition II M – F 11:00-12:30 Heidi Huse
This course will survey the literature of the United States from 1865 to the present. The major movements in our literature during this period, including Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism, will be examined. The assigned readings will be selected based upon their value as examples of significant trends in the development of American literature. These readings will include works by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Stephen Crane, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, Eugene O’Neill, Langston Hughes, Thomas Pynchon, and Allen Ginsberg. Lectures and discussions will concentrate on the explication of these essential texts but will also allow time for covering relevant historical and aesthetic contexts. The often uneasy relation authors during this period have with our nation and our collective history in the wake of the Civil War and the many atrocities of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries will provide some additional focus for and continuity to our discussions. English 261 may be taken before English 260.
Completion of first-year composition is a prerequisite for all English classes 200-level and above.
If you have any questions about these classes or about the English Department generally, please call Lynn Alexander at 731.881.7300 or visit our website at http://www.utm.edu/departments/chfa/english/.