Course Descriptions: Spring 2009

ENG 3353.50 The Twentieth-Century English Novel. Catalog Course Description: "Analysis of works by the major novelists from 1900 to the present, including such figures as Conrad, Joyce, Waugh, and Greene.  Prerequisite: Nine hours of English.  Three lecture hours a week.  Credit: three hours." 

This course will be taught completely online. There are no required face-to-face meetings, no orientation (except by appointment in my office), and no final examination (although there is a final project).  We will read five novels, one work of literary criticism, and one text on writing an academic essay: (1) An Introduction to the English Novel--Volume Two: Henry James to the Present by Arnold Kettle (Paperback.  Nord Press.  ISBN-13: 978-1406719482); (2) Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (544 pages.  Oxford World's Classics.  ISBN-13: 978-0192801548); (3) The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett (Penguin.  ISBN-13: 978-0141442112 ); (4) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (312 pages.  Harvest Press.  ISBN-13: 978-0156030472); (5) The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence (544 pages.  Oxford World Classics.  ISBN -13: 978-0199553853); (6) Party-Going by Henry Green (Penguin.  ISBN-13: 978-0140186918); and (7) They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein (W.W. Norton. ISBN: 0393924092).  

Please note that this reading list is tentative only until the first day of class.  But at this point, these are the texts I intend to assign.

ENG 3323.50 American Fiction.  Online.  Catalog Description: “American fiction from the eighteenth century to the present, with stress on major novels and short stories.  Three lecture hours a week.  Credit: three hours.” 

This course will be taught completely online. There are no required face-to-face meetings, no orientation (except by appointment in my office), and no final examination (although there is a final project). We will read (1) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain (550 pages.  Bedford/St. Martin's.  ISBN: 978-0312400293); (2) Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen (546 pages. W.W. Norton. ISBN-13: 978-0-393-97916-9); (3) Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison (608 pages.  Vintage.  ISBN-13: 978-0679732761); selections from (4) The Best American Short Stories of the Century.  Edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison (Houghton Mifflin.  ISBN: 0-395-84367-7; and (5) They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein (W.W. Norton. ISBN: 0393924092); and (6) Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison (Vintage.  ISBN: 978-0679745426).   

Please note that this reading list is tentative only until the first day of class.  But at this point, these are the texts I have ordered. 

Last updated: 18 January 2009