Spring 2016 Course Descriptions
ENGL 2111: World Literature I (Griffin)
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This course is designed to provide a semester-length survey of world literature from the ancients through the
ENGL 2010: Technical Communication
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online
ENGL 2050: Standard English Grammar
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TR 2-3:15 (D)
TR 2-3:15 (G)
TR 3:30-4:45 (D)
ENGL 2111: World Literature I
CRN 1558
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MWF 9-9:50 (G)
MWF 11-11:50 (G)
MW 1:15-2:40 (G)
MW 2:40-3:55 (D)
TR 8-9:15 (G)
TR 9:30-10:45 (C)
TR 9:30-10:45 (G)
TR 2-3:15 (D)
TR 3:30-4:45 (D)
ENGL 2112: World Literature II
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CRN 5917
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MWF 8-8:50 (G)
MWF 10-10:50 (C)
MWF 10-10:50 (G)
MWF 10-10:50 (D)
MWF 11-11:50 (D)
MWF 1:15-2:30 (D)
TR 11-12:15 (G)
TR 3:30-4:45 (O)
online
ENGL 2121: British Literature I
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TR 8-9:15 (O)
TR 11-12:15 (D)
TR12:30-1:45 (D)
TR 2-3:15 (D)
TR 3:30-4:45 (D)
online
ENGL 2122: British Literature II
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CRN 5920
CRN 5919
CRN 1548
MW 2:40-1:45 (G)
MW 2:40-3:55 (D)
MWF 10-10:50 (D)
MWF 11-11:50 (D)
TR 11-12:15 (O)
TR 12:30-1:45 (O)
TR 12:30-1:45 (G)
DiMaggio
Brehe
Cowart
Brehe
seventeenth century. Selected texts from representative poetic genres (epic, tragedy, lyric, etc.) will be analyzed
in detail through close reading techniques, all with an eye toward developing keen literary sensibilities. In
addition, critical issues involving historical, social, and cultural contexts will be introduced. Please note: Some of
the coursework developed for this class reflects the recent collaborative partnership between UNG and both the
Atlanta Shakespeare Company and the Resurgens Theatre Company. As such, students should expect to attend
performances at the New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta.
English 2112: World Literature II (Kwon)
Laster
Laster
Griffin
Getty
J. Gilstrap
Francis
Worrall
Getty
Getty
Causey
Bridges
Fields
Kwon
Kwon
Kwon
A. Turlington
Horton
A. Turlington
Rigler
Corrigan
Robinson
Corrigan
Corrigan
Dillard
This course is a study of world literature from the seventeenth century to the present, which involves reading,
analyzing, and interpreting significant literary works within their historical, social, and cultural contexts.
English 2112: World Literature II: Monster Theory—Seven Theses (A. Turlington)
This course is a study of a selection of literature from many cultures covering the period from the 17th century to
the present. As our organizing principle, we will use Monster Theory to examine how all cultures use the idea of
monsters and monstrosity to cope with their fears and anxieties about their particular place and time. Texts will
include a variety of genres, including anime, graphic novels, and film.
English 2121: British Literature I (Ng)
Journey around the world and through time as we explore how different cultures discuss the individual, society, and
the tension of what it means to be human.
English 2121: British Literature I, online (Dillard)
This first half of the British Literature survey will provide an introduction to early British literatures through the
end of the eighteenth century. This is not a writing course, per se, but writing is an important part of articulating
understanding (and confusion) about the works we read, particularly in the absence of face-to-face interaction.
English 2122: Literature and Revolution (Edelman-Young)
Covering the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this survey of British literature focuses on the revolutionary
nature of literature as a means for social, cultural, and political change. Students will read, discuss, and write about
a variety of genres and authors from the Romantic, Victorian, modern, and post-colonial periods. This course also
traces the many ways in which the issues relevant to revolutionary literature in early times continues to be relevant
in the contemporary world.
ENGL 2122: British Literature II (Riede)
This course is a survey of British Literature from the end of the eighteenth century to the present, which involves
reading, analyzing, and interpreting significant literary works within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. The
course is roughly divided into four literary periods: Romantic, Victorian, Early Twentieth Century, and Contemporary.
During these periods, British subjects experienced hopes and fears of revolution, the massive expansion of their
global empire, an age of total war, and a period of imperial retraction characterized by what Jamaican born poet
Louise Bennett called “colonization in reverse.”
Edelman-Young
Riede
Riede
Riede
Barnes
Barnes
S. Gilstrap
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Spring 2016 Course Descriptions
ENGL 2131: American Literature I
ENGL 2131: American Literature I (Kurant-Rollins)
This class focuses on the literary works as well as the historical and cultural influences on the periods of Puritanism,
Federalism, Early American Romanticism, and American Romanticism.
ENGL 2132: America at War (Butts)
In this course, we will examine the way literary movements in American literature helped shape war literature from
the Civil War to oiur recent conflicts in the Middle East. Our texts will range from The Red Badge of Courage to
Catch-22, from Johnny Got His Gun to Slaughterhouse-Five. We will examine poetry by the likes of Walt Whitman,
Wilfred Owen, Randall Jarrell, and Brian Turner as well as the short fiction of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O’Brien.
ENGL 2132: American Literature II (Carney)
This section of American Literature II will survey American literature from 1865 to the present. This time frame aligns
with the emergence of the modern environmental movement, which has roots in the mid-nineteenth century when
the Conservationism began to emerge. Our readings will examine the national conversations about wilderness,
conservation, and aesthetics as reflected in fictional depictions of nature. How has the American environmental and
aesthetic consciousness been reflected in works of great writers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville,
Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, John Muir, Edith Wharton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Wallace Stevens, Leslie Marmon
Silko, Li-Young Lee, and Yusef Komunyakaa. In addition to writing essays and taking exams, students will regularly
post discussions in eLearning, and some classes will be conducted via discussions and activities in eLearning. This is
not a lecture course, so students will be actively engaged in discussing and writing interpretations of literature.
ENGL 2140: Gender and Lit (Williams)
In this course, students will be introduced to literature that challenges fixed notions of femininity and masculinity.
Our primary texts will include several novels and some short fiction, all of which will offer diverse representations
of gender and sexual identity. By examining the social, political, and historical contexts out of which these texts
emerged, we will interrogate the ways that these texts explore gay, lesbian, queer, trans, intersex, and other nonnormative gendered subjectivities. Students will also read some gender and cultural theory and will watch at least
one film in class.
ENGL 2150: Literature and Film: Epistemology in Detective Fiction and Film Noir (Cantrell)
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MWF 11-11:50 (O)
MW 4:05-5:20 (G)
MW 5:30-6:45 (G)
TR 9:30-10:45 (D)
TR 11-12:15 (D)
ENGL 2132: American Literature II
CRN 4650
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CRN 4651
CRN 1605
CRN 6067
CRN 5823
MW 1:15-2:30 (D)
MW 2:40-3:55 (O)
MW 4:05-5:20 (D)
TR 8-9:15 (G)
TR 3:30-4:45 (G)
online
ENGL 2140: Gender and Literature
CRN 1618
TR 12:30-1:45 (G)
Prestridge
Grandt
Grandt
Kurant-Rollins
Kurant-Rollins
Ellenberg
Johns
Ellenberg
Butts
Carney
Bell
Williams
ENGL 2150: Literature and Film
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MWF 9-9:50 (G)
Cantrell
MW 1:15-2:30 (O)
Horton
MW 2:40-3:55 (G)
Black
MW 4:05-5:20 (G)
Davis
TR 9:30-10:45 (G)
Black
TR 11-12:15 (G)
Easton
TR 11-12:15 (D)
Falk, Visiting Professor
TR 3:30-4:45 (G)
Pearson
TR 5:30-6:45 (G)
Strickland
Detective fiction, while having its literary basis as far back as Oedipus Rex, has some unique permutations in
American popular fiction and film. American detective fiction brought us hardboiled detective novels, leading to the
film noir genre. While the genres are interesting and influential in its own right, this course will focus on theories of
epistemology in detective fiction and noir film in order to focus on they can teach us about the nature of knowledge
and the nature of fiction(al) representation. This course will offer a historical and theoretical introduction to the
study of American detective fiction and noir film with a focus on the epistemological conventions of the genre. We
will begin the course by reading pre-twentieth century texts that set the foundation for the genre, before moving
onto variations of hardboiled and metaphysical detective fiction. Additionally, we will analyze a number of noir
and neo noir films. By the end of the course, students will be familiar with the conventions of American detective
fiction, be able to distinguish the different generic focuses throughout nineteenth and twentieth century detective
fiction and film, and be able to discuss how generic considerations in detective fiction impact the epistemological
foundations of the genre.
ENGL 2150: Literature and Film (Easton)
This course is a study of the relationships between film and literature, which focuses primarily on cinematic
adaptations of literary texts and/or cinema as text. It involves analyzing and interpreting significant texts within their
historical, social, cultural, and generic contexts. More specifically, this course explores the representation of Dust
Bowl refugees, Appalachian coal miners, and immigrants to the United States.
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ENGL 2160: Multicultural American Literature
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MWF 11-11:50 (O)
MW 1:15-2:30 (G)
MW 1:15-2:30 (D)
MW 2:40-3:55 (D)
TR 2-3:15 (G)
Copeland
Easton
Lin
Lin
Pearson
ENGL 2215: Magazine Production II
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TBA (G)
Dodson
ENGL 2230: Intermediate Composition
CRN 5925
CRN 5662
CRN 2995
MW 1:15-2:30 (O)
TR 12:30-1:45 (D)
TR 3:30-4:45 (G)
Ng
Brauer
Dodson
ENGL 2238: Business Communication
CRN 5724
online
DiMaggio
MW 4:05-5:20 (O)
TR 9:30-10:45 (G)
Johns
G. Bennett
ENGL 2275: Indtoduction to Poety Writing
CRN 3973
MWF 11-11:50 (G)
ENGL 2280: Introduction to Fiction Writing
CRN 5665
TR 3:30-4:45 (D)
Black
Mitchell
ENGL 2290: Introduction to Playwriting
CRN 5780
MWF 10-10:50 (G)
Blais
ENGL 3010/6010: History of the English Language
ENGL 3050/6050: Advanced English Grammar
CRN 4620/4622 TR 9:30-10:45 (D)
Brehe
Stavick
ENGL 3050H: Advanced English Grammar Honors
CRN 4621
TR 9:30-10:45 (D)
Stavick
ENGL 3120/6120: Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
CRN 3981/5633 MW 4:05-5:20 (G)
ENGL 3130/6130: Advanced Composition
CRN 4771/4772 TR 2-3:15 (D)
CRN 3979/5591 TR 12:30-1:45 (G)
ENGL 2160: Multicultural American Literature (Easton)
This course is a survey of American literature by writers with distinct national, social, or ethnic identities. This survey
involves reading, analyzing, and interpreting significant literary works within their historical, social, and cultural
contexts. In this course, students will use the lens of working-class literature to study multicultural literature. What
meaning do people get out of work in their lives? What does work take away from peoples’ lives? How is history
shaped by working-class people? What role does work have in the making of the United States? We will engage in
critical, reflective, and thoughtful conversations about these questions and others.
Students in this course explore the many facets of magazine production on behalf of the Chestatee Review, the UNG
award-winning literary and art magazine. This course carries two hours of academic credit. Students are encouraged
to enroll in English 2210 - Magazine I in the fall semester for an additional credit hour. The Magazine I and II courses
together make up an internship for the BA English Writing and Publications concentration degree.
ENGL 2230: Intermediate Composition (Dodson)
This course is an introduction to a variety of academic, professional, and public genres. Emphasis is placed on
evaluation and integrating various kinds of evidence for academic writing in the humanities. We will examine the
Aristotelian and Quintilian forms of classical rhetoric and the ways in which modern scholars utilize the rhetorical
strategies of the past. The course considers the composing process in light of rhetorical theory, current research in
writing, and technological advancements.
ENGL 2270: Introduction to Creative Writing (G. Bennett)
3000
CRN 5649/5653 MW 2:40-3:55 (D)
This course will introduce students to film studies, and the relation of the arts of film and literature. The goal of the
course is to develop students’ critical, analytical, and close reading skills, and apply these skills to film and other
media analysis. The course will focus loosely on cinematic and literary depictions of The Absurd and Absurdism
generally, which straddles everything from comedy and satire to fantasy and even horror. Related literature will span
Graham Greene and Terry Southern to Tom Robbins and Shirley Jackson via brief stopovers at Jonathan Swift, Evelyn
Waugh, Bernard Diederich and Alan Coren. Films will include the best of the Marx and Coen Brothers as well as a
medieval helping of Monty Python and Kubrick’s Armageddon farce, Dr Strangelove.
ENGL 2215: Magazine Production II (Dodson)
ENGL 2270: Introduction to Creative Writing
CRN 5926
CRN 5776
ENGL 2150: Literature and Film (Falk, Visiting Professor)
Shimkus
Brauer
Boedy
This course provides an introduction to creative writing in four genres—creative nonfiction, poetry, prose, and
drama—with concern for the relation of form to content, viewpoint, narrative voice, audience, syntax, imagery,
and diction. Students will be expected to write in all four genres; to read published examples of each genre; to
fully participate in all workshops; and to work toward the completion of a portfolio of creative work that has gone
through major revisions. Issues related to publication and writing will be a significant focus of the course as well.
Prerequisites: English 1102 or English 1102H with a grade of C or higher.
ENGL 2275: Introduction to Poetry Writing (Black)
This course will teach students to compose poetry. Also, with guidance from books of contemporary poetry and
classroom critiques, students will learn to revise and ready poems for publication. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 or ENGL
1102H with a grade of C or higher. Please note that students need not have taken ENGL 2270 to enroll in this course.
ENGL 3010/6010: History of the English Language (Brehe)
An introduction to the background, origins, development, and structure of the English language, to fundamental
tools and concepts used in the study of the language’s history (including the Oxford English Dictionary and portions
of the International Phonetic Alphabet), and to some of the terms and concepts of historical linguistics.
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ENGL 3140/6140: Literary Research and Writing
ENGL 3130/6130: Advanced Composition (Boedy)
There are two important arenas for professional writing: writing for organizations and writing digitally. In Advanced
Composition we will investigate these two through the lens of rhetorical theory. Students will learn how to apply
rhetorical theory to writing for non-profits, writing grant proposals, and in general writing for decision making.
In the second half of the semester, students will investigate digital rhetoric and practice information design/data
visualization, audio/sound writing, and writing for online audiences.
CRN 5975/5977 TR 5:30-6:45 (G)
English 3260: Creative Nonfiction (Falk, Visiting Professor)
CRN 4637/4638 MW 2:40-3:55 (D)
“Non-fiction is so exciting! The world, reality, is so exciting”, declares distinguished American profile writer Larissa
MacFarquar. The idea of this course is that by reading, writing and talking about Creative Non-Fiction in a workshop/
seminar setting, you will become immersed in the form, learning to compose, edit and revise with fluency everything
from memoir to travel writing, and more. The reading list will comprise some of the best of Creative Non-Fiction
from around the world including Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, William Fiennes’ The Music Room and Alain de
Botton’s The Art of Travel, all designed to help complement this course’s aim of promoting some adventurous
writing and shared experience of a timeless genre.
English 3310/6310: Immigrant Literature (Kwon)
This course will examine literary texts depicting the experiences of immigrants who have come from diverse cultures,
primarily to, though not limited to, the United States and the experiences of diaspora (people who are dispersed
from their original homeland—often involuntarily) in general. Intersecting our discussion of the literary works are
critical theories and concepts of race, gender, immigration, and diaspora, among others, as well as sociological
texts, films, and documentaries on immigration and diaspora, along with attention to current political debates on
immigration in the USA.
S. Gilstrap
ENGL 3260/6260: Creative Nonfiction
CRN 4642/4643 TR 3:30-4:45 (D)
Falk, Visiting Professor
ENGL 3310/6310: Immigrant Literature
ENGL 3430/6430: English Renaissance
CRN 4612/4613 TR 5:30-6:45 (D)
This course is designed to provide a semester-length introduction to Shakespeare’s plays. Selected texts from
Shakespeare’s comedies (and one from Shakespeare’s contemporary, Ben Jonson) will be analyzed in detail through
close reading techniques, all with an eye toward developing keen literary and theatrical sensibilities. In addition,
an assessment of the editorial/directorial choices made in live performance will complement our reception of
Renaissance drama. Please note: Some of the coursework developed for this class reflects the recent collaborative
partnership between UNG and both the Atlanta Shakespeare Company and the Resurgens Theatre Company. As
such, students should expect to attend plays at the New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta.​
Corrign
ENGL 3670/6670: American Realism and Naturalism
CRN 5782/5784 TR 11-12:15 (G)
Bell
ENGL 3915: Tutoring English Composition II
CRN 4174
TBA
Shimkus
4000
ENGL 4411/6411: Chaucer
CRN 4644/4645 MW 4:05-5:20 (D)
CRN 3978/4145 TR 3:30-4:45 (G)
ENGL 4432/6432: Shakespeare II
CRN 6097/6098 TR 2-3:15 (G)
ENGL 4432/6432: Shakespeare’s Comedies (Griffin)
Kwon
ENGL 4690/6690: Southern Literature
CRN 4630/4631 TR 2-3:15 (D)
Getty
Cowart
Griffin
Kurant-Rollins
ENGL 4810/6810: Special Topics
CRN 6248/6249: The Gothic Novel
MW 1:15-2:30 (G)
Edelman-Young
ENGL 4690/6690 Southern Literature (Kurant-Rollins)
This course is an examination of Southern literature and its representations of the South’s struggles with the past,
modernity, and its identity. The works discussed in class range from the Southern Renaissance (1920’s – 1940’s) to
contemporary works. Some of our authors include the Agrarians, Faulkner, Welty, O’Connor, Percy, Trethewey, and
Kenan.
ENGL 4810/6810: The Gothic Novel (Edelman-Young)
This course traces the rise of the Gothic novel in Britain from the 1764 publication of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of
Otranto to its climax with the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1818 and its second edition in 1831. This
course will explore the varieties of Gothic in Britain and the broad strokes of the critical history of the genre.
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ENGL 4810/6810: Special Topics
CRN 4625/4626 : Visions of Peace in East and West
TR 5:30-6:45 (D)
Gessell
ENGL 4820/6820: Science Fiction
CRN 4654/4655 MW 1:15-2:30 (D)
Riede
ENGL 4880: Senior Seminar in English: Writing
CRN 4803
CRN 5973
TR 11-12:15 (D)
TR 2-3:15 (G)
Rifenburg
Dillard
ENGL 4890: Senior Seminar in English: Literature
CRN 3977
MW 2:40-3:55 (G)
ENGL 4960: Internship
CRN 4112
TBA
Worrall
Brehe
ENGL 7990: Directed Readings for English Teachers
CNR 4656
TBA
various
ENGL 4810/6810 Visions of Peace in East and West (Gessell)
This course leads students on an intellectual journey to examine the ideas of peace, within different Eastern and
Western historical and cultural contexts to reveal its complexities and ways that conditions of peace can unsettle
political and social relationships. Requirement notes: This course may be taken as a minor or major requirement in
History, Philosophy, or English, or for the Environmental Studies or European Union Certificate. It also may be taken
as an elective by non-majors, with no prerequisite requirement. Students taking the course at the graduate level
must have graduate standing.
English 4820/6820: Special Topics: Science Fiction and the Limits of the Human (Riede)
This course will introduce students to canonical and emerging texts in the science fiction genre. We will read texts
that focus on what is arguably the principle locus of science fiction: the human body. Science fiction is inherently
concerned with physical reality, and the limitations and possibilities of the human subject or human population
within its physical world. For all humans, experience of the physical world starts and ends with embodiment. Science
fiction frequently attempts to imagine alternatives to, or ways around, the reality of human embodiment, and in
so doing it allegorizes what embodiment means to humans. The course is broken into three units that focus on
embodiment as it pertains to artificial life, animal life, and alien life.
ENGL 4880: Senior Seminar English Writing: Researching Writing (Rifenburg)
As the final course in the Writing & Publication track, upper-division students learn the conventions of writing
research methods and methodologies through engaging with Creswell’s Research Design, Blakeslee and Fleischer’s
Becoming a Writing Researcher, and Heath and Street’s On Ethnography. Guest-researchers appearing via Skype
and a seminar paper serve as additional methods of instruction. Finally, students assemble a portfolio which
encapsulates their undergraduate work at UNG.
ENGL 4880: Senior Seminar English: Writing (Dillard)
This capstone course for students in the Writing and Publication concentration encourages students to think about
their writing beyond the scope of the classroom. As part of this process, they will design, research, and present
a seminar-length writing project. They will also assemble a portfolio of their undergraduate work to signal the
culmination of their writerly development.
ENGL 4960: The Internship in Writing and Editing (Brehe)
An opportunity for majors in the English Department’s Writing and Publication concentration to receive academic
credit while interning for a University department or for an organization outside the University. The internship will
be a position that makes use of students’ writing skills while giving students opportunities to learn more about realworld requirements and skills. No class meetings are required.
ENGL 7990 Directed Readings/English Teachers
The student, in conjunction with a faculty member chosen from the English graduate faculty to be the major
professor, will determine areas of weakness, career objectives and expectations, and academic interests. Using this
information, the student and major professor will determine what area(s) will be represented on a list of no fewer
than ten book-length works or their equivalent. The student, the student’s major professor, and one other member
of the English graduate faculty will then draw up the reading list. The student will demonstrate competence over
the list by completing both a written and oral examination, by presenting a fifty-minute guest teaching session, and
by developing a portfolio. Students enrolled in the course must have graduate standing.
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