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file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/cba-daugustine/Desktop/descriptions/ugradF00.htm Lost in the Funhouse. To Table of Contents To Class Description List Engl 210I--Illness & Health in Literature Time Days Sec. Instructor Call# 0930a-1020a MWF 020 Brookes 7962 Aim: This course is about the ways in which novelists, poets, autobiographers, and other story-tellers represent illness and health. Such texts offer ways of understanding how we experience, think about, and deal with illness in ourselves or in others. We will look at illness, aging, disability, and health from the point of view of patients, doctors, nurses, caregivers, friends, family, strangers (both healthy and not), and society. The course should be of special interest to students thinking about careers in health or to anyone else interested in human experience. The literature itself creates a world beyond illness and so may appeal to any reader, though, yes, not all the stories have happy endings. Teaching Method: Discussion, some informal lectures or mini-lessons, some group work. Requirements: Frequent short informal response papers; several formal papers; midterm and final essay exams. Tentative Reading List: Bobbie Ann Mason, Spence and Lila; Reynolds Price, A Whole New Life; Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind; Lucy Grealey, Autobiography of a Face; a collection of poems; probably works by Verghese, Tolstoy, Tillie Olson, Styron, Carver, and Shapiro. Engl 210T--Stories & Human Experience Time Days Sec. Instructor Call# 1100a-1215p TR 035 Staff 3728 To Table of Contents To Class Description List (Further information unavailable at this time.) Engl 211A--Plains Literature Time Days Sec. Instructor Call# 0930a-1020a MWF 020 Kaye 8478 1130a-1220p MWF 040 Haller 7991 020 - Kaye Aim: The purpose of this course is to introduce people to novels, short stories, non-fiction prose, poetry, and drama set on the Great Plains. You should expect to do a great deal of reading, some of it in familiar texts, some unfamiliar. Our focus will be mostly on works by writers of American Indian (or First Nations) or European descent. Teaching Method: This is primarily a discussion class, with some background lectures by the professor, some group work, and important student presentations. Requirements: Reading all texts and attending class are the first and most important requirements. Expect to write at least file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/cba-daugustine/Desktop/descriptions/ugradF00.htm (8 of 30) [5/16/2007 12:29:12 PM]
file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/cba-daugustine/Desktop/descriptions/ugradF00.htm seven reader's notebooks, attend and write up at least two out-of-class events, and make a presentation to the class. Tentative Reading List: We will read a cross-section of books from the Great Plains region of North America, focusing mostly on the 20th century. We will include Nebraska authors such as Willa Cather and John Neihardt, Canadians such as Margaret Laurence and Sinclair Ross, American Indian authors such as James Welch and Louise Erdrich, poets such as William Stafford, non-fiction writers such as Mary Clearman Blew, and dramatists such as Rex Deverell. 040 - Haller Aim: This is a course in the literature of the Great Plains which tries to represent that literature over time and with attention to the diversity of its peoples. Our object will be to identify the defining features of this literature and to assess how the peculiar history, geography and economics of the Plains have created a unique literature. We will assess the effectiveness of this literature in establishing an identity for people of the Plains and knowledge of its special qualities for those from outside. Teaching Method: Primarily class discussion based upon study questions and analyses. There will be some slide presentations, excursions and open sessions for the exchange of experiences on the Plains. Requirements: Three papers. One will involve a close analysis of passages, one will take a sociological or geographical or anthropological look at the literature, and one will be personal and the choice of each student. There will be a midterm evaluation and a take-home final examination. Tentative Reading List: Readings from the following: Wister, The Virginian; Roolvaag, Giants in the Earth; Cather, O Pioneers; Roger Welsh, Omaha Myths; McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne; James Welsh, Winter in the Blood; Margaret Laurence, A Bird in the House; Mari Sandoz, Sandhills Sundays; Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz; William Least Heat Moon, PrairyErthe. A packet containing Lewis and Clark journals, original reports of explorations. Narratives of Indian captivity. Speeches of Standing Bear, W.J. Bryan; Sermons, Chautauqua presentations. Charles L. Woodard, ed, As Far as I Can See. Contemporary Writing of the Middle Plains. Windflower Press, 1989. To Table of Contents To Class Description List Engl 213E--Intro to Film History Time Days Sec. Instructor Call# 0930a-1045a MW 001 Dixon 3729 1100a-1215p MW 002 Olney 3730 NOTE: Must be free to view films for English 213E on Tuesdays at 1:00pm at Sheldon or on Tuesdays at 7:00pm at BH 117 or on Wednesdays at 3:00pm at Sheldon. Special fee = $20.00 Aim: An overview of film history from 1896 to the present. 001 - Dixon Teaching Method: Lectures, discussion, papers, group work, screenings with notes. Requirements: Three papers of five pages length each, typed, with works cited in proper MLA format; weekly one-page in-class writing assignments; assigned readings in the books cited below; regular attendance at all screenings and lectures; taking notes on all class lectures and screenings; one oral report per semester per student on a film of her/his choice; constructive participation in class. Tentative Reading List: A Short Guide to Writing About Film (Third Edition) by Timothy Corrigan. New York: Longman. PAPERBACK ONLY, ISBN #0-321-01110-4; History of Film by David Parkinson. New York: Thames file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/cba-daugustine/Desktop/descriptions/ugradF00.htm (9 of 30) [5/16/2007 12:29:12 PM]
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