Summer 2 Courses
ENGLISH:
50243 - English 317: Online Course - Word Building
Professor-Robert J. Baumgardner
In this on-line course you will gain an understanding of the morphology of the English language. Language may be studied at several structural or functional levels (such as phonology or syntax, for example). However, your attention in this course will be directed to the word-formation component of language and to the relationship between this component and variation within and across individuals. We will examine morphology, or word-formation, from both a historical as well as a contemporary perspective. While emphasis will be placed on the study of words from Latin and Greek roots, the course will also examine word-formation processes (e.g., affixing, shift, back-formation, etc.) as well as borrowings from other languages that make up the English lexicon. You will become familiar with using a contemporary dictionary of American English as well as the Oxford English Dictionary on-line. Course requirements include quizzes, two examinations, homework and a term paper.
Textbooks include:
Ayers, Donald M. and Thomas D. Worthen. 1986. English Words from Latin and Greek Elements. 2nd ed. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Dettmer, Helena, and Marcia Lindgren. 1986. Workbook to Accompany the Second Edition of Donald M. Ayer’s English Words from Latin and Greek Elements. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Minkova, Donka and Robert Stockwell. 2009. English Words: History and Structure. Cambridge University Press.
A contemporary dictionary of American English
50244 - English 497: Plato's Rhetoric
Professor-Bill Bolin
Whether you register for the English or the philosophy side, this course will allow you opportunities to learn about two profoundly influential—and interesting—characters from Ancient Greece: Socrates and his student Plato. This course assumes no prior knowledge of Ancient Greek thinkers.
You’ll learn at least the following (and certainly much more):
- Socrates made his points by posing questions and herding his audience toward the correct answers.
- Plato authored the Socratic dialogues because Socrates did not write.
- Socrates (Plato) had certain firm ideas about the worth of philosophy and the worth of rhetoric.
- These dialogues cover, among other things, the debates over holiness, justice, duty, and wisdom.
Two textbooks are required:
Plato’s Gorgias (Focus Philosophical Library) ISBN: 9781585102433
Plato’s The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 9780140445824 or 978-0140449280
Assignments will include three response papers (1-2 double-spaced pages) addressing the assigned reading, one longer paper involving research, and an open-book final examination.
This is an online class, and you will participate in discussions and submit your work through a program called eCollege. There are no real-time meetings, so you can access the course at your convenience so long as you do so several times a week and keep up with the deadlines. If you do not have Internet access at home or at work, you may access it from any of the computer labs on any of our campuses.
Is this course for you? It probably is if you’re interested in reading and discussing some of the ancient arguments still relevant today and if you need an upper-level English course for your English major or you need an upper-level philosophy course for your philosophy or interdisciplinary studies minor.
50549 - English 503: Multicultural Literature and Languages
Professor—Derek Royal
This summer, ENG 503 will be devoted entirely to representations of race and ethnicity in comics and graphic novels. Over the course of the semester, we will read a variety of graphic narratives covering the wide spectrum of the American ethnic experience. More specifically, we will consider why it is that so many authors have used comics as a means of expressing racial and ethnic conflict and identity. Our goals over the summer session will be to provide a foundation of the various theoretical issues surrounding American ethnoracial criticism; to present a general overview of comics aesthetics; to give an introduction to the vast array of ethnic writing that makes up much of American literature, especially when it comes to comics; to explore the diverse nature of literature in the U.S. and its manifestation in visual narrative; to develop a deeper understanding of the ever-evolving issues involved in defining the American canon and in the national discourses on both “race” and “ethnicity”; and to encourage the reading of literature with a fine critical understanding and aesthetic appreciation that a graduate-level course should provide.
50247 - English 559: Online Course - Language and Culture in The Classroom
Professor-Robert J. Baumgardner
Students in our schools come from nearly every country in the world, and they bring with them an enormous variety of language experiences and cultural values. This course explores the relationship between language use in instructional activities and the development of language and literacy. The course concentrates on the language used in teaching and learning in the schools and on cultural contrasts in language use, with special emphasis on the acquisition of literacy.
In the course you will gain an advanced understanding of the scope and form that a personal theory of language and literacy in culturally diverse settings might take. You will consider myths and stereotypes about literacy and language diversity in North American school settings, and you will become aware of the impact of literacy policies and teaching practices on minority language learners.
Because this course emphasizes the development and evaluation of a personal point of view, you will make a continuous effort to incorporate information from what you read and from class discussion into that personal point of view. To help you achieve this goal, you will be asked to take part in on-line discussions of assigned readings, write journals based on readings, take two examinations, and write a term paper.
Textbooks:
Talkin Black Talk: Language, Education and Social Change. Edited by H. Samy Alim & John Baugh.
Ways With Words. Shirley Brice Heath.
Learning in a New Land.Carola Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco and Irina Tadorova.
Ethnicities. Ruben Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes
See On-Line Bookstore for Details.
50501 - English 570: Strategies in Composition
Professor-Bill Bolin
Eng570—Strategies in Composition—will focus on possible and likely influences of classical (Greek and Roman) rhetoric on contemporary composition instruction. The class assumes no prior knowledge of classical rhetoric. You will write brief reviews of a few germane journal articles in order to begin a useful library of such articles. You will also write two or three response papers (3-4 typed pages) addressing assigned reading. Additionally, you will write a draft (5-10 typed pages) of a potential conference paper. Finally, you'll have an open-book, open-note final exam. The following textbook is required:
A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric 3rd Edition (LEA, Inc.) by James J. Murphy. ISBN: 1880393352
This is an online class, and you will participate in discussions and submit your work through a program called eCollege. There are no real-time meetings, so you can access the course at your convenience so long as you do so several times a week and keep up with the deadlines.
Is this course for you? It probably is if at least one of the following applies:
- You are, or plan to be, a scholar of composition studies.
- You are, or plan to be, a teacher of writing.
- You need a graduate class this summer and you have not already taken Eng570.
50502 - English 697: Clint Eastwood - Actor and Director
Professor-Gerald Duchovnay
Clint Eastwood's career in film spans more than five decades as an actor, director, and composer. His early work as an actor included the stirring B-film Tarantula (1955) and a co-starring turn in the television series Rawhide (1959-1965). Well known for his roles as "The Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, and Dirty Harry, in that series, Eastwood has been cast in a variety of roles, from western anti-hero to boxing manager to racist, and from solider to detective to honkytonk man. Eastwood has honed his skills as an actor with appearances in more than sixty-six films. His interest in directing began as early as the Rawhide series, but was much influenced initially by Sergio Leone and Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. While often associated in the public's mind with westerns and the Dirty Harry films, Eastwood has had a distinguished career as a director of thirty-two films. (Another, The Human Factor, is now in production.) Less well known is his role as producer and composer.
This course will examine Eastwood as actor and director, with some glances at his musical interests, as we view and discuss a few of the key early films for themes, motifs, and cinematic techniques that influence his later filmmaking. We will then move on to some of his touchstone films of the last few decades. As we view these films, we will consider Eastwood's relationship with screenwriters and actors, his view of the world and filmmaking, and consider issues of theme, cinematography, adaptation, genre, and other theoretical approaches to his work. Films to be viewed may include: Beguiled (cult film), Bird (jazz influence), White Hunter Black Heart, Bridges of Madison County, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River (literary adaptations and influences), one or two of the spaghetti westerns and Unforgiven, Dirty Harry, In the Line of Fire, Flags of Our Fathers, Gran Torino (genre, cultural, and historical films). Exactly which films we will view and discuss will depend, in part, upon films you choose based on a selected list I will provide to those who sign up. Each member of the class will be responsible for researching and presenting information on one Eastwood film. In that way we will cover a substantive number of films and your research and writing will stay focused and manageable in the five-week course.
Required: Richard Schickel's Clint Eastwood: A Biography (1996/1997).
Additional readings may be added to the required reading list later in the spring.
SPANISH:
50507 Spanish 482 - Survey of Spanish Modern Literature
Professor-Inmaculada Lyons
This is an online course which aims to acquaint students with some of the most important poets, novelists, playwrights, and short story writers of Spanish Modern Literature, that is, literature produced from the 18th century until the present day. Emphasis will be placed on literary, and artistic concerns; but other facets (social, political, philosophical) also will be brought into consideration. Literary movements and tendencies of this period that will be studied are: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism and the Generation of 98, and Twentieth and Twenty-first century literary productions. This course is part of the Spanish major and minor. The class is conducted entirely in Spanish.
Textbook:
Mujica, Barbara. Milenio: Mil años de literatura española. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
Recommended: Lázaro Carreter, Fernando and Evaristo Correa Calderón. Cómo se comenta un texto literario. Madrid: Cátedra, 1992.
