2023-24 Variable Topics Course Offerings

 

300-level

variable topics courses

FALL 2023

topic

(INSTRUCTOR)

WINTER 2024

TOPIC

(INSTRUCTOR)

SPRING 2024

TOPIC

(INSTRUCTOR)

361: Reading Instruction for the Teaching of Young Adult Literature      (Guise)
370: World Cinema      
371: Film Styles and Genres

Contemorary Film Noir

(Keesey)

 

 

 

372: Film Directors

 

Films of Alfred Hitchcock

(Keesey)

Films of David Fincher and Nicolas Roeg

(Keesey)

373: Topics on Gender Representation in Film

 

Gender and Horror

(Helmbrecht)

 

380: Literary Themes

 

 

 

       

381: Diversity in Twentieth-Century American Literature

 

Diversity in U.S. Drama

(Hatch)

 

Decolonial Worldmaking

(Martinez)

 

382: LGBT Literature and Media      
       

400-level courses &

variable topics courses

FALL 2023

TOPIC

(iNSTRUCTOR)

WINTER 2024

TOPIC

(INSTRUCTOR)

sPRING 2024

tOPIC

(iNSRUCTOR)

411: New Media Arts I      
412: New Media Arts II      
421:  Advanced Topics in Technical & Professional Communication      

User Experience & Design

(Sarraf)

424: Teaching English in Secondary Schools (Guise)    
425: English Clinical Experience Seminar   (Elvin) (Elvin)
431: Shakespeare      
439: Significant British Writers 

 

 

Jane Austen Fiction & Film

(Allen)

 

Elizabethan/Jacobean Drama

(Fitzhenry)

 

Virginia Woolf

(Marchbanks)

 

Love in Medieval Literature

(Schwartz)

 

 

449: Significant American Writers

 

Madness in American Literature

(Campbell)

Black Women Writers in American Literature

(Clemons)

 

Women's Fiction: 1861-1914

(Forster)

459: Significant World Writers

The Existential Tradition

(Hampsey)

 

Introduction to Criticism and Theory

(Hatch)

 

Classical Greece

(Hampsey)

 

Literary Mesmerism

(Waitinas)

467: Topics in Rhetoric and Writing  

 

Women's Rhetorics

(Helmbrecht)

470: Selected Advanced Topics  

Editing & Publishing:

The Practice

[instructor consent required]

(Martinez)

 

487: Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction  (Pierce) (Pierce)  
488:  Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry  (Rosenthal) (Rosenthal)  
495: Topics in Applied Language Study 

World Englishes

(Moretti)

   
497: Theories of Language Learning and Teaching  (Moretti)    
498:Approaches to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages   (Moretti)  
499: Practicum in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages     (Moretti)

500-level courses &

variable topics courses

fall 2023

topic

(instructor)

winter 2024

topic

(instructor)

spring 2024

topic

(instructor)

501: Introduction to English Studies (Stegner)    
502: Seminar in Critical Analysis

 

   
503: Graduate Intro to Linguistics      
505: Composition Theory     (Peters)
506: Pedagogical Approaches to Composition (Helmbrecht)    
510: Seminar in Authors  

 

 
511: Seminar in American Literary Periods

 

Indigenous Americas

(Martinez)

California Literature and Geography

(Campbell)

512: Seminar in British Literary Periods

Race, Gender & Empire in the Long 18th Century

(Allen)

Romantics

(Hampsey)

 

513: Seminar in Special TopicsT

 

Love in Medieval Literature

(Schwartz)

Ecopoetry

(Rosenthal)

515: Apprenticeship: Teaching Lit, Comp, or Linguistics at the College Level      
518: Graduate Technical Communication      
519: Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing    

 

570: Selected Advanced Topics      
590: Directed Study      
598: Graduate Project (Hatch) (Hatch)

(Hatch)

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