Summer 2008 Course Offerings
ENG 100, Introduction to English Studies, 3 sem. hrs., Ricardo Cortez Cruz
Section 01, May 19, 4 weeks, M-R, 1:00-3:30, WIH 105
English 100 is the department’s gateway course into the major and the minor. It serves as a key introduction to the diverse and dynamic subjects that compose English Studies. We can think of any composition as a bundle of parts. Learning is the creation of the relationship between the known and the unknown. So, concern yourself with feasibility, not probability.
Primary areas of emphasis (main units of study) will be:1.Research (ways of, and different approaches to, making knowledge in the field); 2. Language, the role and function of it; 3. Reading (“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson; reading as listening); 4. Writing (fall in love with your vision, not your words, and always consider the total impression you want to have, leave, on your audience); 5. Diversity (“The power to imagine is the first step in changing the world”—Walter Mosley); 6. Shape of the Discipline because the past does not equal the future unless you live there; and, 7. Pedagogy (gladly we learn and teach). All of these areas necessitate the stepping-up of rhetoric and critical thinking.
The course will feature discussions, lectures, and presentations. Also, students will be required to showcase assigned work, make it public. Effort and response-ability will be key criteria in grading.
ENG 101, Composition & Critical Inquiry, 3 sem hrs., Staff
Section 01, May 19, 8 weeks, M-R, 1:00-2:15
Rhetorical approach to writing, taught through extensive collaborative drafting, revising, and editing. Emphasis on critical reading and analysis. Computer-assisted.
IDS 121.19, Texts & Contexts, 3 sem hrs., Eileen Bularzik
Section 01, June 16, 4 weeks, M-R, 1-3:30
Interdisciplinary writing-intensive course focusing on significant humanities texts in relationship to their historical and cultural contexts.
ENG 125, Literary Narrative, 3 sem. hrs., Rhonda Nicol
Section 01, May 19, 4 weeks, M-R, 3:40-6:30
Critical reading and analysis of a variety of literary narratives that reflect on human experience.
ENG 145, Writing in the Academic Disciplines, 3 sem. hrs, Kathryn Kerr
Section 01, May 19, 8 weeks, M-R, 1:00-2:15 in WIH 1A
Introduction to research-based writing for multiple academic audiences. Computer-assisted.
ENG 145.13, Writing in the Academic Disciplines (Bus.), 3 sem. hrs., Joan Crooks
Section 01, May 19, 8 weeks, M-R, 8:00-9:15
Introduction to research-based writing, with emphasis on writing for business and governmental organizations.
ENG 249, Technical & Professional Writing, 3 sem. hrs., Lee Brasseur
Section 01, May 19, 8 weeks, M-R, 11:00-12:15
Introduction to technical and professional writing. Includes study of manuals, reports, proposals, audience analysis, formatting, and style.
ENG 271, Literature for Young Children, 3 sem. hrs., Jan Susina
Section 01, June 16, 4 weeks, M-R, 8:00-10:30
This is a course in children's literature that will focus on texts that appropriate for reader and pre-readers from age five to nine. The course will examine wide variety of children’s texts including fairy tales, pictures books, nursery rhymes and poetry, music, television, films, informational books, graphic novels, chapter books, and web sites that have been created for or given to children. The focus of the course will be to understand how children understand these texts and how these children's books help to express and confirm certain ideologies and beliefs concerning children and childhood.
ENG 283, Rhetorical Theory and Applications, 3 sem. hrs., Amy Robillard
Section 01, June 16, 4 weeks, M-R, 11:00-1:30
This course is designed to introduce you to the field of rhetoric--its classical origins and its modern-day applications--in order to encourage students to become better producers and consumers of language. In this summer section, we will come to understand and practice rhetoric by investigating contemporary rhetorics of plagiarism—in the media, in the university, and in our everyday lives. What do contemporary discussions of plagiarism reveal about the world we live in? More specifically, how do rhetorics of plagiarism limit the ways we understand what it means to work with the ideas of others?
ENG 285, Drama, 3 sem. hrs., William McBride
Section 01, May 19, 4 weeks, M-R, 11:00-1:30
Critical and analytical examination of the nature and historical development of drama as a genre. The course will cover literary, cultural, and technical aspects of Western drama from its origins through the Modern period.
ENG 375, Studies in Literature for Adolescents, 3 sem. hrs., Roberta Trites
Section 01, June 16, 4 weeks, M-R, 1:00-3:30
In this class we will define the concept of adolescence, discuss characteristics of Young Adult Literature and literary criticism, and use that criticism toanalyze texts for adolescents.
ENG 384, Introduction to Cultural Theory, 3 sem. hrs., Ron Strickland
Section 091, May 19, 4 weeks, Internet Class
This course will be delivered in an entirely on-line format. It is available for undergraduate or graduate credit; all students will read the same core texts, but graduate students will have a more substantial final paper assignment. English 384 is a historically-focused introduction to the theory informing cultural studies. The course will begin with a survey of some foundational texts in the field, including readings from Marx and Engels, The German Ideology and Capital, Vol. I. Then the course will trace the development of cultural theory through the twentieth century, focusing especially on conceptions of art, popular and mass culture, and ideology.
A preview of the course is available at the following website: http://www.english.ilstu.edu/strickland/384/.
ENG 409.06, The Writing Project, 3 sem. hrs., Jan Neuleib
ENG 590, Seminar in Composition, 3 sem. hrs., Jan Neuleib