Winter Quarter Language and Literature Courses

English Language and Literature Courses, Winter 2005

English 126 Modern English Grammar M 06:30PM-10:00PM IC 3103 Kies, Daniel G.

Modern English Grammar is a systematic and rigorous survey of the structure of contemporary English grammar. The course also explores the usage problems associated with contemporary grammar in both speech and writing. The topics we will cover are wide in scope, including (1) the structure of English words, phrases, clauses, and sentences; (2) sentence structure problems; (3) punctuation; (4) agreement errors; (5) commonly confused and misused words; and (6) spelling — just to name a few. The course also focuses on the three fundamental issues underlying all errors of grammatical usage: the notion of Standard English, the effects of language change on English grammar, and the effects of language attitudes on our ideas of "correct" English. This course will be of interest not only to English, education, journalism and technical writing students, but also anyone who wishes to improve his/her editing and proofreading abilities. This course will satisfy the State of Illinois English language requirement for teachers and education majors. (Reg # 21015)

English 130 Introduction To Literature MWF 08:00am-09:25am IC 3099 Thorpe, Dan K.

This class develops student’s understanding of the elements of literature, including character, theme, point of view, symbol, imagery, tone, and rhythm. Reading selections include short fiction, poetry, and drama. (Reg # 21016)

English 130 Introduction to Literature MWF11:00am-12:25pmIC 3009 Siddall, Jeffery L

English 130 Introduction to Literature MW 07:00pm-09:20pm M 107 Leppert, William A.

English 130 Introduction to Literature TR 12:00pm-02:20pm IC 1055 Higgins, Lisa Anne

Wide range of texts, both canonical and noncanonical, including short stories in James Joyce’s Dubliners and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club; John Kennedy Toole’s comic satire, A Confederacy of Dunces; August Wilson’s blues play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; selected poetry of the 19th to 21st centuries and a peek at banned literature. (Reg # 26507)

English 130 Introduction to Literature IC 200 Leinweber, Linda G

English 130 Introduction to Literature TBA Internet Whiteacre, Elizabeth A.

English 130 Introduction to Literature TBA BLC Leinweber, Linda G

Eng. 135 Introduction to Film Art MW 01:00pm-03:20pm IC 3103 Georgalas, Robert N

Each week students in this class are introduced to the basic elements of filmmaking (e.g., screenwriting, cinematography, acting, editing etc.) so that they may better develop their appreciation of cinema, as well as understand how film marries narrative and technology. Class discussions cover not only the technical and literary aspects of film, but also touch upon the social and historical impact of cinema. (Reg # 21019)

English 150 Short Fiction MW0 9:00am-11:20amIC 3111 Golec, Gloria

Do you like to read? Satisfy a General Education requirement in Humanities and sign up for this class. Stories will be analyzed and discussed for themes, structure, and statements about life. (Reg # 21020)

English 150 Short Fiction T 06:30pm-10:00pm ADC 110 Rice, Tammy J.

This class explores a range of short story authors including Faulkner, Hemingway, and Melville. We will also look at the works of a number of modern and contemporary writes such as Raymond Carver, Louise Erdrich, and Joyce Carol Oates. (Reg # 21021)

English 150 Short Fiction “Honors” TR 11:00am-01:20pm IC 3103 Georgalas, Robert N

Utilizing selections from a variety of authors, countries and time periods, this class focuses on both the stylistic and thematic issues raised by some of the world’s finest short stories and novellas. (Reg # 21022)

English 150 Short Fiction TBA IC 200Carter, Allan B. / Montgomery-Fate, Thomas

This study of selected short stories aims to increase student’s understanding and enjoyment of the form thorough reading and discussion. (Reg # 23067)

English 150 Short Fiction TBA Internet McGrath, David M.

This has always been my favorite class, since it's great literature combined with great entertainment, by the finest storytellers. The course format is simple. After reading and enjoying each of the twelve short stories, you take the non-graded Self Test to enhance your understanding of the story and of its literary components. Then go on to the next story and next literature lesson in the course content. Grading is based primarily on a midterm essay exam, a final essay exam, and a 5-page term paper on a novel. Models are provided for the term paper and the essay exam answers. The course is self-paced and web based, to fit your own schedule and location. (Reg # 23068)

English 150 Short Fiction TBA BLC Carter, Allan B.

This study of selected short stories aims to increase student’s understanding and enjoyment of the form thorough reading and discussion. (Reg # 23069)

English 151 Novel “Honors” MWF 09:00am-10:25am IC 3023Snart, Jason

This study of selected novels aims to increase student’s understanding and enjoyment of the form thorough reading and discussion. (Reg # 21023)

English 152 Poetry TR 01:00pm-03:20pm IC 3009 Chu, Mike S

This study of selected poems aims to increase student’s understanding and enjoyment of the form thorough reading and discussion. (Reg # 21024)

English 152 Poetry “Honors” MW 01:00pm-03:20pm M 113 Libman, Freyda K

This study of selected poems aims to increase student’s understanding and enjoyment of the form thorough reading and discussion. (Reg # 21025)

English 152 Poetry TBA IC 200 Libman, Freyda K

This study of selected poems aims to increase student’s understanding and enjoyment of the form thorough reading and discussion. (Reg # 23073)

English 154 Film as Literature M 06:30pm-10:00pm IC 3009 Fries, Sanford C.

This course introduces methods of analyzing and interpreting the literary aspects of film in order to enhance enjoyment and understanding. Students will compare literary and film techniques through the stuffy of a variety of motion pictures. (Reg # 21026)

English 154 Film as Literature TBA IC 200 Barillari, Joseph P.

English 156 Science Fiction TR 10:00am-11:20am M 158 Allen, James E

Come trek across the galaxies, conquer new worlds, encounter new life forms, travel through time and dimensions, all the while delving into a host of enduring questions about human values, concerns and conflicts. In addition, we'll examine the history and trends of science fiction and share our own favorite authors and works. Humanity's brightest dreams and darkest nightmares await you! (Reg # 21027)

English 159 Greek Mythology M 06:00pm-10:00pm NC 25b Weshinskey, Gwenna J.

This course introduces the mythology of Classical Greece (fifth century B.C.) as it appears in narrative and dramatic forms. These are studied in relation to modern culture. (Reg # 21028)

English 160 Native American Literature” Hon" W 06:30pm-10:00pm IC 3009 McGrath, Jackie

This class will sample from Native American oral tradition, slam poetry, oratory, and modern fiction and nonfiction from a wide variety of authors and time periods. Selected readings include the works of Sherman Alexie, Joy Harjo, Simon Ortiz, Wendy Rose, Lucy Tapahanso, Gerald Vizenor, Louis Owens, Janet Campbell Hale, and Leslie Marmon Silko. (Reg # 21029)

English 160 Native American LiteratureTBA Internet McGrath, David M.

In addition to the fact that Native American Literature (English 160) is a certified I.A.I. course that transfers to all Illinois universities, it also fulfills the College of DuPage general education requirement for either Humanities, Human Relations, or International Education. As such, it is an independent study, self-paced survey of Indian literature, which means reading and enjoying tales, songs, poems, memoirs, speeches, essays, short stories, and novels told or written by Indians, about Indian people. (Reg # 23084)

English 221 British Lit: Restortn-19c TR 10:00am-12:20pm IC 3009 Snart, Jason

We will be reading major British authors in their literary and cultural contexts. We will be authors ourselves, responding to what we read by creating text and hypertext, by using words and images. Beginning with selections from John Milton's Paradise Lost, we will examine the development of British literature from the Restoration to the end of the nineteenth century. We will be reading works by Pope, Swift, and Johnson, by the major Romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats, and by the important Victorian poets and novelists. How did these writers engage the possibilities for social and political transformation, for human agency in an industrializing world, and for the role of the human imagination in creating a new and better world? (Reg # 21034)

English 224 American Lit: Civil War-WW I W 06:30pm-10:00pm IC 3085 Lopez, Sam

This is a survey of representative American authors from the Civil War through World War I in their literary, intellectual, social, and political contexts. (Reg # 21035)

English 226 Masterpcs of World LiteratureTBA Internet Leinweber, Linda G

This class focuses on novels, dramas, and short stories from different cultural backgrounds and from different historical periods. (Reg # 23096)

English 227 Modern European Literature T 06:30pm-10:00pm IC 3115 Moore, Michelle E.

Modernism is a response to the monumental changes that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the rise and fall of European imperialism, enormous advances in science and technology, world war, communist revolutions, crises in economies, and the rise of fascism. It is a description of the world in which we live and also an attempt to make sense of that world. This course will provide an introduction to the conflicting ideas, texts, and products that define European modernism. Along the way, we’ll think about filmmaking, tanks, robots, labyrinths, the New Woman, representation, masculinity, plastic surgery, schizophrenia, vampires, and the inward turn of narrative. (Reg # 21036)

English 228 Shakespeare “Honors” MTWRF 11:00am-11:50am IC 2013Kumamoto, Chikako D.

Was Shakespeare a moral man? Was Shakespeare "indeed honest, and of an open and free nature" as Ben Jonson, his friend and professional rival, observed? Built on the axis of these questions, this Honors English 228, in fertile collaboration with Honors Philosophy 110, delves into Shakespeare's ethical soul which his poetic works provocatively dramatize for the students' enlightenment and pleasure. Besides the de rigueur survey of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage business, we will carefully read his key plays and sonnets as aesthetic and historic beings while mindful of both the timeless and contemporary moral and ethical issues close to home. (Reg # 21037)

English 228 Shakespeare TBA IC 200 Hagman, Ida

This course involves reading and discussing various Shakespearean works, including six to nine plays, and may include discussion, recordings, films, oral readings and lectures to illuminate the material. (Reg # 23097)