Course Descriptions: Spring 2008

Please note that these course descriptions are preliminary only and subject to change before the course begins. Check my web site at www.russellgreer.com for updates before the courses begin.  

ENG 2063.01. Literature and Medicine.  Traditional, face-to-face lecture class.  Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2:20 p.m. ASB 204. Course catalog: "Literary works that illustrate the cultural, ethical, political and/or psychological dimensions of medical practice, health, and illness.  Prerequisite: ENG 1023 or its equivalent.  Three lecture hours a week.  Credit: Three hours."  Required texts: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall(432 pages.  Vintage. ISBN: 0375719180 ); The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (240 pages.  Vintage.  ISBN: 1400078431) ; Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sonntag (192 pages.  Picador.  ISBN: 9780312420130); They Say/I Say by Gerald Graff (81 pages.  W.W. Norton. ISBN: 0393924092) ; Wit by Margaret Edson (96 pages.  Faber and Faber.  ISBN: 0571198775) ; Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses (288 pages.  University of Iowa Press.  ISBN: 0877458383). Also: selected, additional poems and prose.  This class will require short writing assignments, a presentation, class discussion, and a 5-7 page research paper.  This course fulfills the Core Humanities requirement.

ENG 6313.01. Studies in Rhetorical Criticism and Discourse Analysis: Seminar in Mikhail Bakhtin and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Traditional, face-to-face lecture class.  Thursdays 6-9 p.m.  ASB 305.  Course catalog: "Directed investigation of topics in semiotics, narratology, discourse analysis, and stylistics as approaches to written texts and other forms of symbolic communication.  May be repeated for credit when the special topic of investigation varies.  Three lecture hours a week.  Credit: Three hours."  Thursdays 6-9 p.m.  ASB 305. Required texts: (1) Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin.  (333 pages.  Edited and Translated by Caryl Emerson.  Introduction by Wayne Booth.  U of Minnesota P, 1984.  ISBN: 0816612285); (2) Notes from Underground; The Double  by Fyodor Dostoevsky (288 pages.  Penguin Classics.  ISBN: 0140442529); (3) The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (320 pages.  Modern Library.  ISBN: 0375756884); (4) The Brothers Karamazov (1050 pages.  Oxford World's Classics.  ISBN: 0192835092 ; (5) Crime and Punishment (704 pages.  Norton Critical Edition.  ISBN: 0393956237. 

Last updated: 25 October 2007