Special Topics
Undergraduate English Courses: Special Topics and Single Author
Summer and Fall 2021
Summer II:
ENG 3316.751 Film Studies (50215) Group D, Forms, Language, Writing; Group A, British Literature
Topic: Jane Austen
MTWRF 12:00-1:40 ONLINE Mr. Chad Hammett
Fall:
ENG 3308.001 Advanced Topics in Film (12557) Group B, American Literature
Topic: The 80s on Film
TR 3:30-4:50 Dr. Kate McClancy
ENG 3311.001 Practices in Writing and Rhetoric (10300) Group D, Forms, Language, Writing
Topic: Life Stories
TR 3:30-4:50 Dr. Eric Leake
ENG 3311.002 Practices in Writing and Rhetoric (13457) Group D, Forms, Language, Writing
Topic: Mexican Food
TR 11:00-12:20 Dr. Jaime Mejía
ENG 3311.003 Practices in Writing and Rhetoric (16619) Group D, Forms, Language, Writing
Topic: Arguing for Nature
THURS 6:30-9:20 Ms. Keri Fitzgerald
*Meets in RR
ENG 3318.001 Theories of Writing and Rhetoric (18245) Group D, Forms, Language, Writing
Topic: Writing the Self Into Culture
TR 12:30-1:50 Dr. Rebecca Jackson
ENG 3329.001 Mythology (147577) Group C, World Literature
Topic: Old & New World Myth
TR 9:30-10:50 Dr. Geneva Gano
ENG 3329.002 Mythology (17546) Group C, World Literature
Topic: Chicana Feminist Myth
MW 11:00-12:20 Dr. Sara Ramírez
ENG 3329.003 Mythology (19928) Group C, World Literature
Topic: Coming-of-Age Archetypes in Contemporary Literature
TR 3:30-4:50 Dr. Debra Monroe
ENG 3341.001 Studies in World Literature (10315) Group C, World Literature
Topic: Fiction & Imperialism
MW 11:00-12:20 Dr. Suparno Banerjee
ENG 3343.001 Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature (10317) Group A, British Literature
Author: Zadie Smith
MW 12:30-1:50 Dr. Simon Lee
ENG 3343.002 Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature (10318) Group B, American Literature
Author: Gloria Anzaldúa
TR 9:30-10:50 Dr. Sara Ramírez
ENG 3343.003 Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature (18250) Group B, American Literature
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
TR 11:00-12:20 Dr. Robert Tally
ENG 4350.001 Senior Seminar in Film (16628) Group D, Forms, Language, Writing; Group B, American Literature
Topic: The Coen Brothers
TR 2:00-3:20 Dr. Kate McClancy
ENG 4385.001 Advanced Children’s and Adolescent Literature (18255) Group C, World Literature
Topic: YA Sci-Fi & Fantasy
MWF 11:00-11:50 Dr. Graeme Wend-Walker
Special Topics and Single Author (Since 2011)
· Mainstream Queer Film
· Computers and Writing
· Video Game Writing
· Arguing for Nature
· Writing the City
· Comics and Graphic Narratives
· Sexing the Word
· Race, Place, & Nation
· Fiction and Imperialism
· Gloria Anzaldua
· James Joyce
· Dante
· Spike Lee
· Writing for the Web
· Writing About Music
· Food Writing with an Emphasis on Mexican Food
· Arguing for Nature
· British Women Writers
· Chicanx Literature
· International Sci Fi
· Mary Shelly
· Sandra Cisneros
· Magical Realism
· Jane Austin
· Computers and Writing
· The Personal Essay
· Hear My Voice! (Re)Writing the Self into Culture
· Translated Word
· Silent and Quiet Women
· Dystopian Literature
· Monsters!
· Ernest Hemingway
· Robert Frost
· Life Stories
· The Rhetoric of Food
· Literacy and Culture
· Visual Rhetoric
· Myth, Fairy Tales, and Pop Culture
· Women and Beat Generation
· Comics and Graphic Narratives
· A Survey of Major African Writers
· Boccacio
· Edgar Allan Poe
· Series Stories
· The Posthuman in Film
· Writing About the Environment
· Writing About Music
· Affect/Emotions
· Theories of Sex and Gender
· Sounds of Silence: A Biodiversity of Mute and Quiet Women in a World of Brutal Noise
· Kafka & Co.: Contemporary Czech Lit
· Otherwordly Lit
· Growing up Female: Women’s Stories of Self
· Teen Idols: Byron to Beatles to Beyonce
· Everyday Rhetoric
· YA Sci Fi and Fantasy
· Women of the Beat Generation
· Writing for the Computer industry
· Digital Video Writing and Production in Tech Comm
· The Rhetoric of Food
· Writing the City
· Existentialism
· History and Theory of the Picture Book