English
Chair:
Katherine O’Brien-O’Keeffe,
Ph.D.
Dept. Tel.: (574) 631-7226
Undergraduate
Courses. Courses beginning with a “2” or a “4” are open
to
sophomores, juniors, and seniors and may be applied to literature
requirements
in the colleges or in the Department of English.
Graduate
Courses. Courses
beginning with “90” are open to students
in any of
the M.A. programs, the Ph.D. program, and unclassified graduate
students. With
the approval of the department, “90” courses may also be taken by
advanced
undergraduates.
Course
Descriptions. The following course descriptions
give the
number
and title of each course. Lecture hours per week, laboratory and/or
tutorial
hours per week, and semester credit hours are in parentheses. The
University
reserves the right to withdraw any course without sufficient
registration. CRNs for
independent study
courses may be obtained from the department office, from the Summer
Session
office, or from insideND.
ENGL 20108. Test and Image in
Literature
3 credits, Montgomery
(3-0-3)
8:55–11:25
TR 6/17–7/31
CRN 3719;
ENGL 20708 01
Last “add” date:
6/22
“Drop” dates:
refund, 6/26; last, 7/10
This course has three objectives. First, the
course will help you to think critically about issues related to race
and
ethnicity in American society. These issues include the meaning of race
and
ethnicity; the
extent of racial and ethnic inequality in the United States,
the nature of
racism, discrimination, and racial stereotyping;
the pros and cons of affirmative action;
the development of racial identity;
differences between assimilation, amalgamation, and multiculturalism;
and social and individual change
with respect to race relations. The second objective is to foster a
dialogue
between you and other students about racist and ethnocentric attitudes
and
actions. The third objective is to encourage you to explore your own
racial and
ethnic identity and to understand how this identity reflects and shapes
your
life experiences.
ENGL
20215. Introduction to Shakespeare
3 credits, Martin (5-0-3)
1:15–3:45
MW 6/17–7/30
CRN 3138;
ID # ENGL 20215 01
Last “add” date:
6/22
“Drop” dates:
refund, 6/26; last, 7/10
This course introduces students to a wide variety
of forms and themes in Shakespeare’s plays as well as to the plays’
context,
conventions, and performance history.
In Shakespeare’s plays, the social and personal
relationships that hold society together are often severely tested by
conflicting loyalties, individual desires, and external pressures.
Using a
variety of critical approaches, we will explore these and other related
themes
in Shakespeare’s comedies (A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Much Ado About
Nothing, Twelfth Night),
histories (Henry the Fifth),
tragedies (Romeo and Juliet,
Hamlet,
Macbeth),
and romances (The Tempest).
Care will be taken to give the plays a cultural
and literary context, and particular emphasis will be placed on the
plays’ nature
as scripts for the stage and, more recently, film. We will study both
the
historical circumstances under which they were first produced, as well
as
current trends. There will be required videos for most of the plays
under
discussion, several essays, and a midterm and final examination.
ENGL. 40210. ND Shakespeare
Festival Young Company Program
Cancelled
06/11/08
(Cross-listed with FTT 40001)
3 Credits, Jay Skelton (3-0-3)
10:00–4:00 MTWRF 6/17–7/31
CRN 3757;
ID # ENGL 40210 01
Last “add” date: 6/22
“Drop” dates: refund, 6/26; last, 7/10
A unique team-taught course, to which students
are admitted by permission of instructor only. Enrolled students will
receive a
financial stipend and a summer housing allowance. Every student in this
course
will receive training leading to active roles in all aspects of the
Notre Dame
Shakespeare Festival. The course is unlike most English or theatre
courses in
that it is taught from both “theatrical” and “literary” perspectives.
In
practice we do not wish to separate “Shakespeare in the Study” from
“Shakespeare in the Theater.” By “Shakespeare in the Study” we mean
close
attention to the historical, literary, and social contexts of the texts
utilized for the Young Company and Mainstage productions, along with
the
analysis of text, themes, conventions. We include the stage history of
these
playtexts, noting how productions of each century reflect current
critical and
scholarly thinking. By “Shakespeare in the Theater” we refer to
instruction in
the crafts of directors, designers, theater technicians, and actors as
related
to the season productions. Topics include speaking Shakespeare’s verse,
movement on stage, voice, and stage combat. After the initial segment
of the
course, the “classroom” will be the theater. Instruction is shared by
artistic
director, director, and selected professional actors.
ENGL 40701. The American Novel
3 credits, Werge (5-0-3)
11:50–1:10
MTWR 6/17–7/31
CRN 1389;
ID # ENGL 40701 01
Last “add” date:
6/22
“Drop” dates:
refund, 6/26; last, 7/10
Enrollment limit:
15
A study of selected American novels with special
attention to their forms, cultural contexts, religious and
philosophical
concerns, and relationships to the promise and trials of the American
democratic vision. Readings will be selected from the following:
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter;
Melville, Moby Dick or Billy
Budd, Sailor;
Stowe, Uncle
Tom’s Cabin;
Twain, Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn;
Wharton, Ethan Frome;
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby;
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God;
Agee, A
Death in the Family;
Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath;
Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea;
O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away;
Maclean, A River Runs Through It.
We
will supplement these readings with brief selections from Lincoln,
Douglass,
and others.
ENGL 47999. Special Studies
Variable credits, Hall (V-V-V)
CRN 1003.
ID # ENGL 47999
All students register under Prof. Benedict,
regardless of who the instructor will be. Students must have permission
from
the instructor before registering.
ENGL 90110. English for
Non-Native Speakers
3 credits, Deane-Moran (5-0-3)
11:30–1:00
MTWR 6/17–7/31
CRN 1203;
ID # ENGL 90110 01
Last “add” date:
6/22
“Drop” dates:
refund, 6/26; last, 7/10
Enrollment limit:
15
This course is designed to improve written, and
primarily, spoken English of non-native speakers at the intermediate
level,
with a specific goal of increasing communication skills for teaching,
research
and discussion purposes. Mastery of English pronunciation, vocabulary,
idiomatic expression, and sentence structure will be the focus.
Emphasis will be placed on learning to command
clear and accurate spoken English for the purpose of classroom
instruction and
participation. To this end, we will stress phonology, stress placement,
intonation, juncture, accent, tempo, general pronunciation, linguistic
posture
and poise (kinesics), conversational diction, presentation of material,
handling questions, and other matters of instruction related to
language arts.
Active and continued verbal participation will be
required. There will be quizzes and worksheet assignments in and out of
class,
as well as oral presentation.
The main textbook will be Manual of American English
Pronunciation.
Fourth Edition. Clifford H. Prator and Betty Wallace Robinett. Holt,
Rinehart,
and Winston, 1985. ISBN 0-03-000703-8. An additional recommended text
is Two-Word Verbs in English.
J.N. Hook, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1981. ISBN 0-15-592506-7.
ENGL 90534. Britsh
and Irish Modernism
Cancelled
06/16/08
3
credits, Smyth (3-0-3)
1:10-2:05 MWF
6/17-8/1
CRN 3599; ID #
ENGL90534 01
Last
“add” date: 6/22
“Drop”
dates: refund, 6/26; last, 7/10
This
course will cover the main writers and themes of British and Irish
literary
modernism from c. 1914 to c. 1939. While we will be reading some of the
more
familiar 'English' modernists - Lawrence, Eliot, Woolf, Forster - we
will also
be paying attention to developments during this period in Ireland,
Scotland and
Wales, particularly in the realm of what we might call 'vernacular
modernisms'.
We will look at some work by Scots Hugh MacDiarmid and Lewis Grassic
Gibbon;
Welsh writers Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas; and, with some Joyce and
Yeats,
we will read Patrick Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien. Given the condensed
nature of
this summer course, I will expect students to similarly intensify their
reading, so that the material is read well ahead of time. Participation
in
discussion; demonstration of close-reading ability; a final paper of
fifteen
pages - these will constitute the grading criteria for this course.
ENGL 94513. Republics and
Empires
(Cross-listed with IRST 64099)
3 credits, Deane, Gibbons, O’Buachalla, Whelan
(20-0-3)
1:00–6:00 TWRF 6/26–7/13
CRN 3104; ID # ENGL
94513 01
Last “add” date:
“Drop” dates : refund, ; last,
The theme for the Irish Seminar 2008 is Republics
and Empires. The seminar is interdisciplinary, open to all faculty and
graduate
students in Irish studies, and cross-listed with the Department of
English.
Graduate students opting to take the Irish Seminar for three credits
will be
assessed on the basis of participation. While a guaranteed number of
places
will be reserved for University of Notre Dame, Trinity College,
and University College Dublin students, all applicants will be assessed
on the
basis of their academic record and recommendations.
Participants will have unprecedented access to
the finest scholars in Irish studies during daily closed sessions with
program
faculty.
The aims of the Irish Seminar include the creation of a cosmopolitan
community of young scholars: the 18th-century Republic of Letter
reconfigured for the 21st century. It provides an intellectual
infrastructure
for scholarly collaboration, balancing the theoretically rich with the
empirically rigorous. It adopts a flexible pluralization of approaches,
less
constrained by the firmness of institutional boundaries and
disciplinary
consolidation. It is self-reflexive about professional and intellectual
formation, while seeking to generate a supportive environment which
nurtures
the intellectual poise and confidence of young scholars.
ENGL 96001. Directed Readings
Variable credits, Hammill (V-V-V)
CRN 1155;
ID # ENGL 96001
All students register under Prof. Hammill,
regardless of who the instructor will be. Students must have permission
from
the instructor before registering.
ENGL 97001. Special Studies
Variable credits, Staff (V-V-V)
CRN
varies with instructor
ID # ENGL 97001
Student must have permission from the instructor
before registering.
ENGL 98000. Nonresident Thesis
Research
1 credit, Hammill (0-0-1)
CRN 1936;
ID # ENGL 98000
All students register under Prof. Hammill,
regardless of who the instructor will be. Students must have permission
from
the instructor before registering.
ENGL 98001. Thesis Direction
Variable credits, Staff (V-V-V)
CRN
varies with instructor
ID # ENGL 98001
Student must have permission from the instructor
before registering.
ENGL 98600. Nonresident
Dissertation Research
Variable credits, Hammill (0-0-V)
CRN 1156;
ID # ENGL 98600
All students register under Prof. Hammill,
regardless of who the instructor will be. Students must have permission
from
the instructor before registering.
ENGL 98601. Research and
Dissertation
Variable credits, Staff (V-V-V)
CRN
varies with instructor
ID # ENGL 98601
Student must have permission from the instructor before
registering.