Loyola University Chicago

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SUMMER SESSION I

271-201
Introduction to Poetry
MTWR 4:00pm - 5:40pm
Water Tower Campus
Instructor: TBA

In this course, students will receive training in the understanding, appreciation and criticism of poetry. The chief objective of this course is to improve students' abilities as readers of poetry. Students will acquire and be able to use the technical vocabulary necessary for understanding poetry (literal v. figurative language, image, symbol, metaphor, metonymy, archetype, etc.) and will deploy that vocabulary in written critical analyses. Extensive readings and several critical analyses are required.

273-01W
Introduction to Fiction
MTWR 8:00 am - 9:40 am
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: TBA

Engl 273-01W is a writing intensive class.

The primary goal of Introduction to Fiction is to train students in the understanding, appreciation and criticism of prose fiction. Students will study works of fiction as a means of exploring human experience and understanding the creative process. Because fiction represents ideas and beliefs indirectly, it requires analysis and interpretation to elucidate its potential meanings. Students in this course will learn to understand how fiction expresses ideas, feelings, values and will acquire the critical and technical vocabulary that will enable them to describe, analyze, formulate arguments and interpret works of fiction.

283-62W
Women in Literature
TR 6:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Water Tower Campus
Instructor: J. Ash

(Crosslisted with WOST 283-62W)

Engl 283-62W is a writing intensive class.

This course focuses on literature by and about women to gain knowledge of women's lives and writings and to investigate the structures and strategies of representative literary works by women authors. The course explores the historical, social and ideological determinants of gender in a particular historical moment and geographic locale, or across historical periods and geographic regions. Students will learn how to analyze texts in terms of both their textual forms and strategies (e.g., point of view in narrative fiction) and their historical and social contexts. In addition to literary texts, historical, critical and theoretical texts may also be included.

289-02W
Society in Literature
MTWR 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: H. Mann

Engl 283-02W is a writing intensive class.

Adopting an international and cross-disciplinary perspective, this section will examine the representations of society in modern and contemporary works by selected non-western writers from Africa, the West Indies, South Asia and USA. Focusing on texts in which adolescent and young adult protagonists confront critical questions about self-identity, the course will encourage students to address similar issues in their own lives; to discern parallels between other cultures, time periods, and/or nations and their own society; and to recognize the interdependence of the world. This class will consider the role of religion, tradition, nationalism, race, ethnicity, gender, and class/caste in the societies portrayed. In addition, students will analyze the cultural bases of contributing literary techniques, including structure, language, narrative focalization, and characterization to arrive at comparative assessments of the individual-society link depicted in modern world literature. Most importantly, the course will equip students to articulate a personal philosophy of social responsibility based on an informed and sympathetic understanding of the world. Authors include Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Jean Rhys (Dominica), Maxine Hong Kingston (USA), Athol Fugard (South Africa) and Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan), among others.

NOTE: This course meets the multicultural requirement of the English undergraduate major.

310-63W
Advanced Writing: Business Writing
MW 6:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Water Tower Campus
Instructor: TBA

Engl 310-63W is a writing intensive class.

This course introduces students to the writing of memos, letters, such as job application and adjustment letters, resumes, progress reports, proposals and interview questions. Students work both individually and in groups, present projects on successful or failed businesses, and grapple with business ethics.

351-100

Contemporary Literature
MTWR 10:00 am - 11:40 am
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: H. Mann

This course will examine the issues of colonization and decolonization as depicted in selected twentieth-century fiction from Africa, the West Indies, Australia, and South Asia. To familiarize students with the debates informing the field of postcolonial studies and to apprise them of the political and aesthetic challenges that postcolonial texts pose for both writers and readers, western and non-western, students will investigate the following concerns among others: (a) the definition of "postcoloniality"; (b) the composition by postcolonial writers of fictional histories of their lands that counter imperial and neocolonial "master narratives"; (c) the use of English as a literary language, and the creation of experimental linguistic and textual structures based upon indigenous traditions; (d) the effects of writing simultaneously for an indigenous and western audience; (e) the portrayal of religion, race, ethnicity, gender and class; and (f) the role of postcolonial literatures in the western academy.

NOTE: This course meets the multicultural requirement of the English undergraduate major.

372-600
Studies in Fiction
MW 6:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: M. Clarke

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to three important Victorian novels, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, and to explore how those novels have been interpreted on film. After reading these works, to ensure that students thoroughly know and understand each novel, the class will discuss the ways in which that novel has been interpreted on film. Film theory will be incorporated into course content for students to better understand the connections and differences between literature and film. Discussion will focus on formal elements of both novels and films, and on thematic continuities and discontinuities among these works. Thus, the course will cross both historical and generic boundaries. Please note that students may use any good edition of these novels, but recommended editions will be for sale in both Beck's and Barnes and Noble bookstores on the Lake Shore Campus.

394-101
Internship
TBA
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: M. Clarke

TBA

399-103
Special Studies in Literature
TBA
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: TBA

TBA

433-801
Emily Bronte
TR 6:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: M. Clarke

TBA

NOTE: This is a graduate course. Students must preregister with the English Department's Director of Graduate Programs, Dr. Pamela Caughie.

487-802
Postcolonial Literature
TR 12:00 pm - 3:10 pm
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: H. Mann

This course will examine the beginnings and development of the field of postcolonial studies by analyzing the portrayal of modern-day colonization and decolonization in selected fiction and drama from Africa, South Asia, the West Indies, Australia, and England. Course topics will include the various definitions of "postcoloniality"; the anti-imperialist and counter-discursive charge of postcolonial literature; the role of an author's language, target audience, location, and positionality in determining the context and extent of decolonization; the thematization of history, nation, language, race, class and caste, religion, gender and sexuality, and migrancy, diaspora, and globalization in postcolonial literature; and the ideological, disciplinary, and pedagogical practices underwriting the study of postcolonial literature in the western and non-western academies. In addition, we will discuss key essays by postcolonial theorists like Said, Spivak, Bhabha, and the Subaltern Studies Collective, among others. Students will be responsible for presentations, a short essay, and a final seminar paper.

Possible texts for the course include:

1. Achebe, Chinua (Nigeria). Things Fall Apart (1958)
2. Rhys, Jean (Dominica). Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
3. Keneally, Thomas (Australia). The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972)
4. La Guma, Alex (South Africa). In the Fog of the Season's End (1972)
5. Soyinka, Wole (Nigeria). Death and the King's Horseman (1975)
6. Gordimer, Nadine (South Africa). July's People (1981)
7. Athol Fugard (South Africa). Master Harold and the Boys (1982)
8. Emecheta, Buchi (Nigeria, UK). Second-Class Citizen (1983)
9. Hanif Kureishi (UK). My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
10. Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya). Matigari (1987)
11. Sidhwa, Bapsi (Pakistan). Cracking India (1991)
12. Roy, Arundhati (India). The God of Small Things (1996)
13. Rushdie, Salman (India, UK). Shalimar the Clown (2005)
14. Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman, eds. Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory (1994)

NOTE: This is a graduate course. Students must preregister with the English Department's Director of Graduate Programs, Dr. Pamela Caughie.

273-20W
Introduction to Fiction
MTWR 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm
Water Tower Campus
Instructor: T. Boyle

Engl 273-20W is a writing intensive class.

The primary goal of Introduction to Fiction is to train students in the understanding, appreciation and criticism of prose fiction. Students will study works of fiction as a means of exploring human experience and understanding the creative process. Because fiction represents ideas and beliefs indirectly, it requires analysis and interpretation to elucidate its potential meanings. Students in this course will learn to understand how fiction expresses ideas, feelings, values and will acquire the critical and technical vocabulary that will enable them to describe, analyze, formulate arguments and interpret works of fiction.

283-60W
Women in Literature
TR 6:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: J. Ash

(Crosslisted with WOST 283)

This course focuses on literature by and about women to gain knowledge of women's lives and writings and to investigate the structures and strategies of representative literary works by women authors. The course explores the historical, social and ideological determinants of gender in a particular historical moment and geographic locale, or across historical periods and geographic regions. Students will learn how to analyze texts in terms of both their textual forms and strategies (e.g., point of view in narrative fiction) and their historical and social contexts. In addition to literary texts, historical, critical and theoretical texts may also be included.

290-203
Human Values in Literature
MTWR 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm
Water Tower Campus
Instructor: TBA

In this course, students will study a perennial psychological or philosophical problem facing the individual as exemplified in literary works, e.g., the passage from innocence to experience, the search for truth, the pursuit of liberty and justice, the understanding of community or the problem of death. The chief objective of this course is to improve students' ability to examine the portrayal of human values in literary texts. Because it is a basic assumption of the course that a familiarity with some of the common critical terms used to discuss literature will assist in the process, students will acquire and be able to use the technical vocabulary necessary for understanding literature and will deploy that vocabulary in written critical analyses.

309-204
Irish Fiction
MTWR 2:00 pm - 3:40 pm
Water Tower Campus
Instructor: T. Boyle

This course explores the evolution of Irish literature from the late 1900s to the present day. From the establishment of the Irish Literary Society (during the Gaelic Revival in the 19th Century), Irish writers have explored questions such as; identity, colonialism, post-colonialism, and culture, in an attempt to answer some of the questions posed with being Irish. Society is scrutinized through a number of literary genres, each in turn highlighting another facet of this fascinating but complicated question. The establishment of the Irish Free State and the creation of the Northern Ireland in 1921 brought an even greater quest for understanding and examining cultural differences. Students will examine literature from both sides of the Irish border.

318-21W
The Writing of Fiction
MTWR 4:00 pm - 5:40 pm

Water Tower Campus
Instructor: TBA

Engl 318-21W is a writing intensive class.

Students will learn the art and craft of writing fiction in a supportive, workshop environment through (a) reading and discussing of master writers; (b) writing three original stories; and (c ) having these stories discussed and critiqued by the instructor and by fellow writers. Class participation is emphasized.

326-621
Plays of Shakespeare
TR 6:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Water Tower Campus
Instructor: TBA

Advanced study of selected Shakespearean plays as theatre and as literature. Representative plays will illustrate the major genres; tragedy, comedy, history and romance, and will help students understand stylistic and thematic development. Topics may include Shakespeare's life, sources and influence, Renaissance literature and drama background, Elizabethan theatre, and the tradition of Shakespeare criticism.

394-102
Internship
TBA
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: M. Clarke

TBA

399-104
Special Studies in Literature
TBA
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: TBA

TBA

415-800
Media and Culture: Seeing Films in Theory and Technology
TBA
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: J. Janangelo

In our course, we will examine major film theories and discuss them in the context of selected films. We will also discuss Hollywood film as part of an evolving technology�one that includes silent image, soundtrack, VHS and DVD technology, as well as web-based and video-sharing sites. We will also examine theories and artifacts of �star studies� in order to discern how the concept of the film star was charted in the early Twentieth-Century, how it evolved during that century, and how it is being reconfigured in the Internet era. Assignments include essays, exams, in-class writing, and a formal oral presentation.

NOTE: This is a graduate course. Students must preregister with the English Department's Director of Graduate Programs, Dr. Pamela Caughie.

499-800
AP Summer Workshop
TBA
Lake Shore Campus
Instructor: P. Caughie

(Crosslisted with HIST 499)

"American Themes in the AP Classroom" is a five-day seminar (July 9-13) at Loyola University's beautiful lakefront campus that concentrates on the latest trends in American historiography, literature, and composition, and allows experienced U.S. history and English teachers to hone their skills and keep abreast of trends in their disciplines. The instructors organize this seminar in a fashion similar to other five-day institutes; it is sanctioned by the College Board, uses AP materials, and is taught by College Board certified instructors.

AP American Themes caters specifically to the experienced teacher who wants to study U.S. history or English language in a subject-centered, interdisciplinary environment. As most students take an AP class their junior year, "American Themes" will concentrate on AP U.S. history and AP English language.

Loyola University offers graduate credit in English or U.S. history for "American Themes in the AP Classroom".

Please contact Jason Stacy with questions about American Themes in the AP Classroom: jstacy@siue.edu

NOTE: This is a graduate course. Students must preregister with the English Department's Director of Graduate Programs, Dr. Pamela Caughie.