ENG 407G LIT. NATURALISM (3)
Griffith, 444 PLC
MEETS: 2:30-5:00 W
FORMAT: Seminar
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 15
WEEKLY REAEIKG: Book a week
PREREQUISITES: Open, by permission,
to graduate students and seniors,
majoring in Literature.
DESCRIPTION: The concern is withthe
theory and practice of the
Naturalistic Novel. Novelists are
Zola (in English translation); Frank
Norris; Theodore Dreiser; John
Steinbeck; Richard Wright.
ENG 41OG FOLK NARRATIVE (3)
Schrager, 465 PLC
MEETS: 9:30-10:50 UH, 134 GIL
FORMAT: Lectui e/Discu&sion
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: Licit 40
WEEKLY READING: 125 Paget
EVALUATION: 105-Attendance; 705-3
Papers; 205-Final
READINGS: Lord, THE SINGER OF
TALES; Dundes, CINDERELLA: A
CASEBOOK; Shlomith and Rimtuon-kenan,
NARRATIVE FICTION: CONTEMPORARY
POETICS; Packet
DESCRIPTION: The course is an
introduction to the study of oral
narrative, focusing on folktale and
epic. The class will explore the
role of storytellers in traditional
societies, the functions of stories
in comc.unlty life, the actual
performing of stories, and the
invented worlds the stories protray.
Ue will examine past and present
folklore scholarship on the subject,
as well as perspectives from recent
marrative theory. We will also
trace the continuing power of
l'olktale-like plots to represent
human aspirations, and the
utilization of these plots in film,
politics, and other arenas of
contemporary society.
ENG 446G FILM AID FOLKLORE (3)
Sherman, 457 PLC
MEWS: 12:30-13:50 UH
FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 40
WEEKLY READING: 50-100 Pages
EVALUATION: 60S-2 Papers; 40%
Project
READINGS: Keider, ETHNOGRAPHIC
FILM; Jacobs, 1 HE DOCUMENTARY
TRADITION; Sherman, HUMAN DOCUMENTS:
FOLKLORE AND TEE FILMS OF JORGE
PRELORAN, SOUTHWEST FOLKLORE
DESCRIPTION: English 466G, Film and
Folklore, is a survey course which
oeals with the development of film
use by folklorists and folkloric
filmmakers. Several levels of
analysis will be used in examining
folkloric films. Folklore genres,
theories about folkloric data, and
methoos of fieldwork implicit in
films will be related tc the
techniques used by filmmakers. One
or more films will be screened and
discussed during each class session.
The precursors of folkloric films
(documentaries and
ethnodocumentaries or "ethnographic"
films) will be analyzed in addition
to folklore films, per se.
COMMENTS: Students will write two
five—page film critiques ana an in
depth film proposal.
ENG 447G AMERICA! POPULAR LITERATURE
(3)
Sherman, 457 PLC
MEETS: 9:30-10:50 UH
FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 40
WEEKLY READING: 1 Novel per week
PREREQUISITES: Jr. standing
EVALUATION: 30S-Paper; 30*-Kidterm;
40$-Final
READINGS: Alger, RAGGED DICK;
Cooper, THE DEERSLAYER; Ellis, SETH
JONES; lias nett, THE MALTESE FALCON;
Mitchell, GONE WITH THE WIND; Wolfe,
THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST; and
a "modern romance."
DESCRIPTION: This course surveys
the main currents of American
popular and cultural aesthetics
reflected in America's popular
literature. Students will be
exposed to novels which had
widespread and popular circulation
from pioneer times to the present
and that were written and published
in America. These novels will be
examined as a means of viewing
speciic genres of pop. literature
(such as cetective fiction, Western
stories, dime novels, historical
romances, and new journalism) and
their relationship to other types of
popular culture, and to mass
culture, folk culture, and the
American experience.
BIG 170 VICTORIA* LITERATURE AID
CULTURE (3)
Stein, 472 PLC
KELTS: 11:00-12:20 UH
FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 22
EVALUATION: 755-3 Papers; 255-Final
READINGS: Carlyle, PAST ALD
PRESENT; Darwin, VOYAGE OF TP.E
BEAGLE; Dickens, DAVID COPPERF1ELD;
Gaskell, MARY BARTON; Bronte,
WBTHERING HEIGHTS; Barrett, AURORA
LEIGH; browning ana Tennyson,
Selected Poems.
DESCRIPTION: A survey of attitudes
towards seif ana society amen*, major
writers of the early Victorian
period, with some consideration of
the wider cultural context in which
they worked. Fiction, poetry, and
ncn-fictlonsl prose aaonfc the
rescinds. Sone visual materials
induced as well.
BUG *790 AMERICA! LITERATURE BEFORE
1900 (3)
Griffith, AAA PLC
MEETS: 11:30 MbF
FORK AT: Lecture
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: AO
WEEKLY READING: Book a week
PREREQUISITES: Open to graduates
and upper-class undergraduates.
Sot. e prior work in American
Literature (sophomore survey, e.g.)
will be helpful.
READINGS: Twain, OLD TIKES OK THE
MISSISSIPPI, CONNECTICUT YANKEE IK
KING ARTHUR'S COAST; Howell, RISE OF
SILAS LAP11AM; James, PORTRAIT OF A
LADY; Belxaby, LOOKING EACKWARD;
Jewett, COUNTRY OF FOINTED FIRS.
DESCRIPTION: Concern is with the
theory of literary realists and the
practice of it in American realistic
literature (1870-1900).
UR 531 GRAD. CHEAT. WRIT. (3)
Lyons, 356 PLC
MEETS: 19:00-21:50 U, 232 PLC
FORMAT: Discussion/Seminar /Workshop
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 15
WEEKLY READING: 4 Short stories by
students in class.
PREREQUISITES: Peruission of
instructor based cn writing sample.
DESCRIPTION: Course is designed to
help individual student writers
develop their individual talents and
styles; to help them improve their
own critical abilities as reaaers of
their own, as well as others', work.
COMMENTS: Though this class may
enroll KFA students in creative
writing, it is hoped that atuaents
in other disciplines will be
attractea to it.
Folk and
Ethnic Studies
ES 102 I NT HO TO ETBB1C COMMUNITIES
(3)
Ross, 461 PLC
MEETS: 11:00-12:20 UH, 176 ED
FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 60
WEEKLY READING: 20 Pates
EVALUATION': 5G*-Kioterm; 50>-Final
READINGS: Welch, THE DEATH OF JIM
LONEY; Packet
DESCRIPTION: This course is aesigned
to acquaint the student with the
American Indian reservation. This
course will explore how past and
present feoeral policies affect the
American Indian, how the reservation
system was formed, its importance
today and current issues affecting
reservation Incian people.
ES 410 G EYES ON THE PNIZE
(TELECOURSE) (3)
harris, 461 PLC
MEETS: Telecourae offeree Vinter
Tern only (6 weeks)
FORMAT: Telecourse
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 20-25
WEEKLY READING: 50 Pages
PREREQUISITES: Open enrollment
EVALUATION: lOOJ-Final
READINGS: Aptheker, UNFOLDING
DRAMA: STUDIES IN U.S. HISTORY;
Carson, EYES ON THE PRIZE - STUDY
GUIDE; WillIans, EYES OK THE PRIZE -
AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
DESCRIPTION: Tbis teleccurse will
focus on the history of the U.S.
Civil Rights movement-focusing on
such issues as : 1) What role
should governmentand political
leaoers play in the process of
social change? 2) How does the
Unitea States ensure that its
democratic values are translated
into reality? 3) How oo upheavals in
the social order affect the daily
lives of individuals?
COMMENTS: There will be one final
exam which will cover class lectures
anc assigned reading. For further
details contact the Ethnic Studies
Program 686-3539 or the Division of
Continuing Education 686-3537.
ES 410 ETHNICITY, PROPAGANDA, AND
PERSUASION (3)
Harris, 461 PLC
MEETS: 11:3C KVF
FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 1C-15
WEEKLY READING: 50-75 Pages