Summer Course Descriptions

2023 English and Spanish

ENG 1003/1013

Rachel E. Johnston, PhD

This hybrid face-to-face/asynchronous online co-requisite course combination is designed to support students in gaining reading and writing skills and strategies and is an introduction to rhetorical thinking and writing. Students will practice reading and grammar skills and strategies and write in multiple genres of composition from personal narratives, discovery and profile essays, to research and multimodal projects. This course pairing will follow a wellness theme, giving students study skills, organization and planning strategies, experience navigating multiple communication tools, and opportunities to discover ways to balance their full workloads, learn about career and college major options, and prepare for the work in classes across disciplines.

ENG 2393: Intro to Literature by Women: the American Girl

Mark Gallagher, PhD

This 100% online course, with required synchronous meetings at 6-7:20 p.m. on Tuesdays, examines a major literary theme in American culture: the American girl. This recurring trope of American identity, as it develops alongside the history of the United States, comes to represent ideas about American democracy, equality, gender, race and justice. We will read selections from writers such as Hannah Webster Foster, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet E. Wilson, Louisa May Alcott, Zitkala-Ša, María Ruiz de Burton and Willa Cather, study films by Greta Gerwig (including the forthcoming Barbie movie) and consider cultural texts in forms ranging from painting, sculpture and pop culture, as we seek to understand what these works have to say about American girls and the American women they become.

ENG 3023: British Literature 1760 - Present

Rachel E. Johnston, PhD

This three-hour, online, synchronous course with an asynchronous component will cover British Literature after 1740, focusing on identity and fashion in novels and the ways understanding historic clothing can be an entry point to understanding cultural ideologies. By tracing fashion shifts alongside literary works from both canonical and non-canonical authors, students will gain a deeper understanding of the history of the eighteenth century and beyond, as well as the way literature interacted and influenced this history.

ENG 3203: Advanced Grammar & Composition

Daniel Ernst, PhD
100% asynchronous online

Concentration on the basic terminology and procedures of English grammar, rhetoric, and composition, with intensive practice.

ENG 3293: American Literature: Realism to the Present

Jamie Barker, PhD

Survey of later American literature development within historical and cultural contexts. Research with primary and secondary sources. Prerequisites: ENG 1023. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 4423.50: Topics in British Literature: The Romance Novel: Austen to Heyer

Ashley Bender, PhD
100% online with synchronous sessions Mondays 6-7:20 p.m.

Join us for a jaunty exploration of the romance novel's development beginning with one of our foremost authors of the genre--Austen--and ending with Heyer, the mother if historical romance, whose Regency romances hearken back to, you guessed it, Austen! We'll explore questions of genre, gender, politics, culture, among a whole host of others, as we explore the evolution of the most popular genre in the contemporary book market.

ENG 5263: Studies in American Literature.

Jamie Barker, PhD

Directed investigation of a problem in the literary career of a writer, in a work, or in a trend in American literature. This course will focus on Appalachian literature. Authors may include, but are not limited to: James Wright, Wendell Berry, Jesse Stuart, Harriette Arnow, and Lee Smith. May be repeated for credit when the specific topic of investigation varies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.

ENG 5993.50: Studies in Lit by Women: The Romance Novel: Austen to Heyer

Ashley Bender, PhD
100% online with synchronous sessions Mondays 6-7:20 p.m.

ENG 6313: Rhetorical Criticism and Discourse Analysis – “Habeas Corpus, Rhetorica”

Brian Fehler, PhD

The “Great Writ” in the tradition of English jurisprudence, Habeas Corpus, bring forward the body, is a cornerstone of justice throughout the “rule of law” world. Existing in English Common Law since before the Magna Carta, habeas corpus provides the accused with the right of petition and to be heard before a court. From (and before) the time of Samuel Pepys, whose diary touches on his own habeas experience and which preceded by just a few years the formalization of habeas in law in 1679, to (and after) Guantanamo Bay, the most active set of discourse in contemporary US law and life, the so-called Great Writ has provided accused individuals with the guarantee of a right to be heard. Or often has done so, anyway, as law professor Leah Littman suggests, writing of the imbalance in the writ’s application. ENG 6313: Rhetorical Criticism and

Discourse Analysis, this time around, will take habeas corpus as its metaphor for considering the production and critique of discourses of petition and the rhetorical bodies that “bring them forward.” Readings will be available in Canvas.

ENG 6343: Major Rhetorical Theories: Writing, Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Ernst, PhD
100% online with synchronous sessions Tuesdays 6-7.20 p.m.

This course traces the history of artificially intelligent writing technologies, from grammar checkers to large language models. Along the way we will discuss the evolution of writing education and assessment and explore both practical and theoretical implications for the future of writing and rhetoric education amid current advances in Artificial Intelligence technology.

SPAN 1013.50

William Benner, PhD
Summer 3 (July 10-August 11)

(TCCN SPAN 1411) For students with no previous instruction in Spanish. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
Comments: FULLY ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS DELIVERY; STUDENTS MUST BE ONLINE FROM 10:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m., MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

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