Spring Semester 2017

Undergraduate Course Descriptions

Department of English and

Comparative Literature

ENGB 3006 Intro to Shakespeare 001-Instructor: Kamholtz TH 11:00am - 12:20pm An introduction to the challenges and pleasures of reading Shakespeare. We read seven plays: Taming of the Shrew, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. We’ll think about such issues as these: What sorts of ideas did Shakespeare turn to comedy to explore? How is early modern culture changing around the time of Shakespeare’s career? How is dramatic role a model for selfhood? In what ways are gender roles (among other social roles) flexible, and in what ways are they fixed? In addition to reading the plays, you will be working with a variety of productions of Shakespeare in order to sharpen your critical awareness of how productions make decisions about printed texts, and how theatrical interpretations compliment (and complicate) our sense of what "literary" interpretation entails and signifies.

ENGB 2034 Survey of British Lit I 001-Instructor: Carlton-Ford Thurs 6:00pm - 8:50pm Readings in English Literature from the Old English Period to 1780. Material will be selected from the following: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, selected Canterbury Tales, medieval drama, Sidney's Essay of Dramatic Poetry, More's Utopia, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century lyric poetry, Early Modern drama, Milton's Paradise Lost, poems by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Thomas Gray, Behn's Oroonoko, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and Fielding's Joseph Andrews.

ENGB 2035 Survey of British Lit II 001-Instructor: Carlson TH 12:30pm - 1:50pm This half of the Survey in English will emphasize the close reading of fiction and poetry of the Romantic, Victorian, and modernist periods. In preparation for in-depth analysis of Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel To the Lighthouse, we will examine literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that register new ways of thinking, feeling, and being in time; new conceptions of nature and art, the human and the animal; and challenges to tradition effected by political revolution, scientific discovery, and modern warfare. Texts include Jane Austen’s Emma, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. This class requires active engagement and collaboration.

ENGB 3017 19th Century Gothic Lit 001-Instructor: Heller TH 11:00am - 12:20pm Vampires, ghosts, detectives, and double lives: in this class, we’ll explore how 19th-century Gothic texts dramatize the fears and transgressions lurking below the surface of conventional existence. Paying particular attention to the representation of gender, sexuality, class, and imperialism, we will examine how 1800s-era Gothic reflects the period’s tumultuous history and cultural anxieties. Readings will include Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, J. S. LeFanu’s lesbian vampire tale “Carmilla,” ghost stories by women writers, and Sherlock Holmes adventures.

ENGB 3070 Modern Irish Literature 001-Instructor: Larkin TH 9:30am - 10:50am

The course surveys Irish Literature from the late nineteenth century through the second half of the twentieth century. It explores the ways in which Irish literature reflects Irish culture, politics and socio-economic realities. The course also looks at how Irish legends, myths and folklore have been integrated into the literature to give voice to a Celtic heritage.

ENGC 3025 Intro to Critical Theory 001-Instructor: Epstein Online This survey of contemporary critical theory introduces students to major schools and movements in the contemporary period that have shaped the study of literature and culture, such as New Criticism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, New Historicism, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Race Studies, and Queer Theory.

ENGC 3026 Intro Cultural Studies 001-Instructor: Carlson TH 5:00pm - 6:20pm Since the earliest phases of western culture, the face has been a site of literary and artistic fascination. More recently, it has been subject to scientific scrutiny also. According to cognitive scientists, so critical is the ability to identify individuals—and to interpret their feelings and intentions—that specialized circuits in the brain have evolved to process facial information. However, in states of heightened emotion we are apt to forget and misidentify faces; some individuals even lose the ability to recognize and respond to them. How have these faces featured in the verbal, visual, and digital arts, and in scientific and medical discourses? How have particular cultural modes focused this site of feeling and identity (the close-up, the caricature, the emoticon/emoji)? We will examine film, photography, painting, and cartooning; a novel, a memoir, and a medical case study; maps and diagrams; and the Victorian popular sciences of physiognomy and phrenology.

ENGC 4096 Writing in Medical Science 001-Instructor: Arduser MWF 10:10am - 11:05am As a professional in the medical sciences, you'll need strong writing and communication skills to interact effectively with other medical experts, your colleagues, patients and their families, and the public at large. This course is designed to give you experience in a range of activities focused on researching, writing, and sharing medical and scientific information with others. You will develop skills to write clear, accurate, and audience-appropriate content. The course will include both individual and collaborative exercises and will require several writing, editing, and revising assignments. We will also read and dissect example of good writing in addition to analyzing medical and scientific writing genres.

ENGC 5181/6081 Exile In Modern Lit 001-Instructor: Romagnoli TH 2:00pm - 3:20pm

Starting with an overview of the topos of exile in the modernist period, the course will continue to explore this theme in the literature written in the last sixty years or so. The focus will be on writers whose primary literary identity was formed around the fracture of exile or dislocation in the aftermath of colonialism and globalization. We will read mostly fiction but also nonfiction and especially autobiographical works and essays. A few of the writers we read in past editions of this course are: V. S. Naipaul, E. Said, W.G. Sebald, L. Weschler and also Claire Messud, Marjane Satrapi and Ayan Hirsi Ali. Our focus will be on primary texts, but especially graduate students will do readings in postcolonial theory. Students will participate in online discussion forums, give presentations, and write two shorter essays and one research project. Individualized assignments will be made available for graduate students.

ENGL 1018 Freshman Seminars 001- America, Literature, Film and the Environment Instructor: Person MWF 12:20pm - 1:15pm Four books and four films (made from those books) that reflect our fascination with wild places and the physical, mental, and imaginative challenges wild places present to individuals who go alone “into the wild.” We shall read Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and watch the film of the same name—an account of Chris McCandless’s decision to give up most of his possessions, cut all ties to his family, and venture into a wild section of Alaska. We shall read Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, an account of her solo thru-hike of the Pacific Coast Trail, and watch the film Wild starring Reese Witherspoon. We shall read Michael Punke’s The Revenant and watch the film featuring Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio—based on the true story of mountain man Hugh Glass. Finally, we shall read Andy Weir’s science fiction novel, The Martian, and watch the film starring Matt Damon. Our primary goal in the course is to examine the interactions between individuals and wild environments and to track human responses to wildness both outside and inside the individual self. 002- Medical Humanities Instructor: Reutter MWF 10:10am - 11:05am Often we think of issues of health and medicine in a scientific light without considering the great extent to which they are in fact humanitarian matters. Many students in applied mental or physical health care fields, for instance, nursing and social work, receive specific practical preparation for working with patients and clients. And yet, whether we or anyone we love is on the giving or receiving end of health care of any sort--from the laboratory to the doctor's office, from the cradle to the grave--we are all affected by the humanitarian aspects of the medical arts. A study of literature and film involving medical and health care issues allows for exploration and critical thinking, and indeed "helps to develop and nurture skills of observation, analysis, empathy, and self-reflection."

ENGL 2002 Topics in Literature 001- Literary Origins of the Lord of the Rings Instructor: Leech / Borah MWF 3:35pm - 4:30pm

The Lord of the Rings books and movies are very popular, but how did Tolkien create this world? What were his inspirations? This course will explore the texts that most directly influenced Tolkien’s creation of Middle Earth. Some, like Beowulf, may be familiar to students. Others, such as the Norse Volsunga saga, Norse mythology, and Old English poems, may not be. These texts will be read together with the Lord of the Rings to demonstrate the direct influence these works had on Tolkien. We will also

examine how Tolkien’s works have been adapted into other mediums and the resulting influence and development of related fan communities. We will read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, so we strongly encourage students to begin reading the series before the class starts. 002- Nature vs. Technology Instructor: Nordgren MWF 11:15am- 12:10pm This course will explore the concepts of “nature” and “technology,” and the various ways in which authors have conceived of the relationship between these two forces. When do we see nature and technology in opposition to one another? When are we asked to choose between them? When do seeming divisions between them become blurry or invisible? And has there ever truly been a dividing line? As manmade technologies continue to develop at ever-increasing rates, categories that we may have found useful in the past are distorting, shifting, and dissolving. Throughout this course, we will close-read works in a variety of genres including fiction, essays, drama, poetry, and film that approach these questions, all the while developing our understanding of possible implications for our selves, our societies, the planet, and the evolution of humanity.

003- The Urban American Novel Instructor: Sulzman TH 3:30pm- 4:50pm "The urbanite is presented with a series of partial visibilities . . . figures framed in the windows of highrises, crowds observed from those same windows, partly drawn blinds, taxis transporting strangers, noises from the other side of the wall, closed doors and vigilant doormen, streets on maps or around the bend but never traversed, hidden enclaves in adjacent neighborhoods. Faced with these and unable or unwilling to ignore them, the city dweller inevitably reconstructs the inaccessible in his imagination. Because no urbanite is exempt from this partial exclusion and imaginative reconstruction, every urbanite is to some extent an outsider.”

-Tava Wirth-Nesher This course will focus on the relationship between urban space and narrative perspective in 20th and 21st Century American literature; how cities shape the consciousness and perceptions of individual characters, and how those characters interpret and recreate their urban environment through specific personal histories of race, gender, class, etc. Some of the works that we will read include: McTeague (Frank Norris), If He Hollers, Let Him Go (Chester Himes), Brown Girl, Brownstones (Paule Marshall), The Wire: Season 1 (David Simon), and Fortress of Solitude (Jonathan Lethem).

004- American Football Literature Instructor: Paul MWF 2:30pm - 3:25pm Is football something we talk about over Thanksgiving to avoid talking about politics and religion? Or is it, for many Americans, the primary language we have with which to discuss these important things? Is it a violent spectacle that corrupts society, or is a text that reveals and helps us understand the violence that’s already there? Does our common interest in football help unite us as a country, or do its ethics of competition and violence contribute to our divisiveness? Does playing and consuming football teach us important ethics like teamwork and sacrifice, or does it contribute to a toxic culture of masculinity? And why is it so compelling and often addictive? Is football an opiate for the masses, is it modern day equivalent of Roman gladiators, or is it closer to its own religion? Love it or hate it, we cannot deny that tackle football is a ubiquitous cultural phenomenon, a series of texts worthy of greater study. In this course, we will examine texts (such as movies and novels) about football, as well as look at football as a text itself, trying to better understand what the most popular entertainment form in American tells us about our country and culture. 005- Kids Who Kill (Honors section) Instructor: Dziech / Bourke Thurs 3:30pm - 6:20pm

This is a course you won’t forget! We’ll discuss the history and demographics of homicidal children and adolescents; theories and debates about psychosocial, genetic and metaphysical causation; legal issues and debates about punishment; and the homicidal youth character in literature, film and television. We’ll host a variety of speakers including researchers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges. And we’ll visit 2020, Hamilton County’s medium security Juvenile Court Youth Center, a facility used to house and rehabilitate juvenile offenders. Students with 3.4 GPAs who are not enrolled in the Honors Program should contact Professor Dziech (dziechbw@uc.edu) to check if there is space for additional participants.

ENGL 2005 Topics in Rhetoric: 001- Beer and Cincinnati Instructor: Shivener TH 3:30pm - 4:50pm In recent years, Cincinnati’s craft beer scene has been flowing with breweries and beer bars across the city. In this course, we focus on the writing practices within and outside local breweries and those who participate in beer culture––from brewers and social media teams, to brewery visitors and fans who talk all things beer on the web. By tapping into the city’s beer, materials (e.g., beer cans), spaces and websites, we will study the incredible amount of writing that brews Cincinnati’s beer industry. Assignments include visits to taprooms, dialogues with those who participate in industry, and a major project that explores local breweries and their writing practices. Raising a glass to the suds of the Queen City, this course will appeal to majors across campus––from English studies and Design, to Business and Marketing.

ENGL 2007 American Lit Survey I 001-Instructor: Arner Online 002-Instructor: Person MWF 10:10am -11:05am We shall read important works of American literature, beginning with the Puritans, but with emphasis on mid-19th-century writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, and Whitman, and ending with such writers as Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Kate Chopin. A goal of the course is to examine ideas, themes, images, genres considered foundational for American literature and culture: genres such as the captivity narrative, the rags-to-riches story, the fugitive slave narrative; ideas such as individualism and the “city upon a hill,” political movements such abolitionism and women’s rights.

ENGL 2010 Intro to Creative Writing: Poetry & Prose (Topic: Fiction and Playwriting) 001-Instructor: Smith MWF 12:20pm - 1:15pm In this course, students will explore the crafts of both fiction and playwriting, completing one short story and one ten-minute play. Students will also engage with the published fiction and plays we'll be reading through a number of short creative-writing exercises. By studying the two genres side by side, we'll seek to arrive at a better understanding of each. Among other things, this course asks: How might a richer understanding of internality and point of view, as utilized in fiction, help us grasp the subtext and motivations of characters in drama? And conversely, how might studying the choices made by playwrights and other theater artists--including the nuances of gesture, expression, delivery, and timing in an actor’s performance--help us write more convincing characters in fiction? Where do the two genres overlap, borrow from, and bleed into one another? No previous experience with either genre is required.

ENGL 2011 Intro to Creative Writing: Fiction 001-Instructor: Henley Online 002-Instructor: Peynado Online 003-Instructor: Skinner MWF 11:15am-12:10pm 004-Instructor: Case TH 12:30pm-1:50pm 005-Instructor: Houston TH 2:00pm-3:20pm Writing of short stories; examination and discussion in class of students' work; assigned readings for history, theory of the short story, and critical analysis.

ENGL 2013 Intro to Creative Nonfiction 001-Instructor: Collins MWF 10:10am-11:05am Learn how to tell true stories with style. Students in this reading and writing class will be introduced to key concepts and techniques of literary nonfiction writing, including memoir, the essay, and literary journalism. We will study the genre from a writerly perspective and develop skills needed in the writing of creative or literary nonfiction through writing exercises, creative research, workshopping full-length essays, and reading both published works and peer manuscripts.

ENGL/DMC 2015 Intro to Screenwriting 001-Instructor: Online 002-Instructor: Amatulli TH 11:00am-12:20pm 003-Instructor: MW 4:00pm- 5:20pm This course is a rigorous introduction to studying, learning, and practicing screenwriting techniques. The student will learn about screenplay structure, analyze dramatic strategies in film and television, learn and apply correct script form, and creatively engage in the various stages of original scriptwriting for short and feature-length films.

ENGL/DMC 2016 Script to Screen 001-Instructor: Castillo Online 002-Instructor: Amatulli Thurs 3:30pm - 6:20pm This analytical course examines the screenplay's evolution to the screen from a writer's perspective. Students will read feature length scripts of varying genres and then perform a critical analysis and comparison of the text to the final produced versions of the films. Storytelling conventions such as structure, character development, theme, and the creation of tension will be used to uncover alterations and how these adjustments ultimately impacted the film's reception.

ENGL 2017 Intro to Creative Writing: Poetry 001-Instructor: Doyle Online 002-Instructor: Opengart TH 12:30pm – 1:50pm The poem has been described as “a machine made of words.” In this class students will explore the parts that make up this machine and the mechanisms that enable them to operate in concert. Students will engage and extend the creative process and gain practice writing and revising poems, reading “like poets,” and discussing their classmates’ poems. Depending on their availability, we may have a visitor or two from the poetry faculty to broaden our perspectives. Students will be required to attend and write about one campus reading, and to read and write about a full length collection by one of the published poets whose work we discuss.

ENGL 2022 World Literature II 001-Instructor: Tsang Online 002-Instructor: Tsang Online

This course surveys some of the most significant works of modern world literature. Our emphasis will be on close reading: how do we read a text? What are we looking for when we analyze a text’s formal and stylistic features? What is the relationship between a text and its historical context? Our readings will most likely include the works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Anton Chekhov, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wisława Szymborska, and Italo Calvino.

ENGL 2023 Afrofuturism 001-Instructor: Johnson TH 9:30am - 10:50am Afrofuturism encompasses science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, myth, magic realism and Afrocentricity. It examines not only present-day issues of race, but also re-examines and "revisions" the past. In short, Black science fiction, not just bugs in space. This course examines the fusion of past and present, real and fantastic in order to discuss the ways afrofuturism reveals the conflicts, struggles, differing perspectives and circumstances of people of color. We examine the ways in which what is "reality" is neither necessary nor inevitable in nature, history, or psychology. Short works such as Du Bois' 1920, "The Comet" to Due's and Butler's 21st contemporary vampire novels raise questions for discussion of the uses of historic "fact" in literature. No previous knowledge of "speculative fiction" is required.

ENGL 2047 Intro to Linguistics 001-Instructor: Leech MWF 12:20pm - 1:15pm 002-Instructor: Leech MWF 2:30pm - 3:25pm

This course focuses on the study of human language, what it is and how it works, how people learn, comprehend, and produce language, how language and society interact, and how languages develop and change over time.

ENGL 2051 Outrageous Women Writers 001-Instructor: Meem TH 11:00am – 12:20pm

This course examines fiction, poetry, drama, oratory, and political rhetoric that can be read as "outrageous," either contemporaneously or in its historical context. The course will consider why certain literary forms or the content of literary output is or has been deemed "outrageous" from the standpoint of different disciplines in the humanities.

ENGL 2061 Fantasies of Children’s Literature 001-Instructor: Hundemer Online An online course that explores classic and contemporary works of children's fantasy, with discussion of the values and lessons they convey. Topics include the historical meaning and influence of early rhymes and tales on societies that created them and contemporary social issues related to children's literature.

ENGL 2067 Topics in Film 001- Cult & Femme Fatales Instructor: Cummins Thurs 5:00pm - 7:50pm 002- Generation X Directors Instructor: Knippling TH 3:30pm - 4:50pm This course examines the work of five U.S. film directors (two of whom are a team of twins), all of whom were born within a fairly tight 1969–1972 timeframe, allowing us to raise questions of generational sensibility among other topics. The directors are the Hughes brothers (Menace II Society, Dead Presidents), Sofia Coppola (Marie Antoinette, The Bling Ring), Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will be Blood, The Master), and Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel). Critical essays may focus on primary texts (films required in the class) or supplementary texts (other films from the oeuvres); they must engage with secondary texts (writings about the films). Some videographic criticism—that is, a class presentation including analytic film clips—will be required in addition to traditional essays. 003- Women in Film Instructor: Bateman TH 5:00pm - 6:20pm This course explores the representations of women in contemporary Hollywood (Western) film. Using feminist and queer approaches to the study of film, we will analyze discourses of femininity and difference in popular films and look at the ways in which Hollywood films engage with present-day critical debates about femininity and difference. We will examine how codes of gender, race, class, sexuality, etc. are played out within contemporary Western cinema and study how images, stories, and icons in popular film respond to and participate in the social construction of a certain kind of womanhood and a particular narrowness of femininity.

ENGL 2080 US Ethnic Literature 001-Instructor: Reutter MWF 9:05am-10:00am The Ethnic Epic. Includes works by Chaim Potok, Toni Morrison, Khaled Hosseini, Denise Giadina, Caryl Phillips, and others representing a diversity of US ethnic cultures and themes.

ENGL 3000 Intro to Lit and Cultural Studies 001-Instructor: Henley Online 002-Instructor: Hennessey MWF 2:30pm-3:25pm This course will aim to provide you with tools that will serve you well in your path towards a degree in literary and cultural studies. We’ll begin by tracing the development of English studies as a discourse over several centuries, then we’ll work to develop skills that will serve you well as a 21st century scholar, including multiple media literacies, research methods in the age of Google, and new critical possibilities presented by the digital humanities. Along the way, we’ll work closely with diverse array of texts and write with multiple audiences in mind.

ENGL 3005 Peer Tutoring 001-Instructor: Cunningham TH 2:00pm-3:20pm This course prepares qualified undergraduate students for paid tutoring positions in the Academic Writing Center.

ENGL 3020 Contemporary American Fiction 001-Instructor: Glaser MWF 10:10am-11:05am This course surveys representative American fictions since 1950: realistic, absurdist, experimental. The course also considers the historical and cultural context that produces contemporary American fiction, including (but not limited to) postmodernism, transnationalism, and ethnic studies.

ENGL 3022 Writing Science Fiction&Fantasy 001-Instructor: Henley Online This course will explore the trends, themes, and techniques crucial to the writing of science fiction, fantasy, and related subgenres. Students will read published work, comment on classmates' work, and produce short fiction in the genres.

ENGL 3028 Memoir as Literature 001-Instructor: Drury TH 9:30am-10:50am We’ll read wonderful book-length memoirs by Danielle Cadena Deulen (The Riots), Mark Doty (Firebird), Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City), Kristen Iversen (Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats), and Tracy K. Smith (Ordinary Light), as well as shorter memoir essays by writers such as Rebecca Lindenberg (“Archipelago”). In addition to responding to these texts, you’ll have a chance to do some memoir-writing of your own, either first-person (autobiographical) or third person (about the life of someone you have known). Assignments will include two papers, daily responses to reading assignments, and a memoir essay.

ENGL 3030 Writing the Love Poem 001-Instructor: Lindenberg TH 11:00am-12:20pm

For as long as there has been poetry, there has been poetry about love. Love is an exciting subject for poetry because it creates many opportunities for drama – love poems are less often about love itself than the myriad things that get in the way of love: a rival lover, the beloved’s piety and virtuousness, moral propriety, social class boundaries, racial or ethnic or cultural conflict, issues relating to gender and sexuality, the beloved’s disinterest or disdain, distance, even death. Because of this, love poetry often finds itself as the confusing and fascinating intersection of the political and the personal. Love is also an exciting subject for poetry because it creates opportunities for writing that activates the senses, trying to evoke or awake

physical response in the reader (I think of C.D. Wright’s lines: “I have come to talk you into physical splendor/ I do not wish to speak with your machine”), to remind the reader they have a body, and that body wants things from them. Love is, too, an interesting subject for poetry because it raises the question – do love poems reflect the way we love each other in the “real” world? Or do love poems teach us how we think we should love each

other, or how we want to be loved, in the “real” world? There is nothing “natural” about the way we construct love-relationships – they’re just that, constructions. So how do we construct them? And how is that different across time and place? What does love have to do with intensity of feeling? What does love have to do with duration? We have a set of expectations for each other and we’re made happy by their fulfillment – or are we? Love poems give us an opportunity both as readers and as writers to ask big questions about what we mean by that word – one of the most important and most elusive in our lives – Love. We’ll read love poetry from throughout the tradition and consider the poetic strategies we encounter there, and how they evolve and transform over time, and why. And we’ll write – the perfect compliment, a persuasive (seduction) poem, a “carpe diem” poem, a break-up poem, and more. We will look deeply into how, in the 21st century, we can find something new to say and/or news ways of saying things on a subject as ancient as poetry itself.

ENGL 3032 Music and Poetry 001-Instructor: Drury TH 2:00pm-3:20pm Music has an essential connection to poetry, a shared dependence on rhythm, but too often the genres are separated and their relationship ignored. This course will reunite these two branches of what Lessing calls “temporal arts” and examine how they have complemented each other since antiquity. As Ezra Pound remarks, poetry “atrophies…when it gets too far from music.” In this course, we will read and listen to song lyrics and lyric poems by a wide range of poets and songwriters from many different periods (including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Joni Mitchell, W.H. Auden, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, and Walt Whitman), concentrating on poetic techniques and analyzing how the poets’ words operate within the confines of musical structures. We will investigate musical forms such as traditional ballads, blues, fugues, sonatas, odes, and jazz, as well as varieties of song structure. We will learn how deeply poetry is rooted in music, ending the term with sessions devoted to hip hop, to presentations of recorded songs students want to share, and to “open-mike” performances of their own work, spoken or sung. Students will respond to some songs/poems in class and some in written responses; they will also write poems and/or song lyrics of their own, making use of techniques and devices learned in this course.

ENGL 3033 Writing Prose, Poetry and Flash Fiction 001-Instructor: Reid MWF 12:20pm-1:15pm This course will explore the related cross-genre forms of prose poetry and its newer variant, flash fiction (a.k.a. short short fiction, microfiction,etc.), analyzing the characteristics each genre shares and what differentiates them. In addition to reading literary works in each genre, students will experiment with writing their own pieces in these forms and consider the role of characterization, plot, imagery, and music in each.

ENGL 3034 Audiopoetics 001-Instructor: Hennessey MWF 1:25pm-2:20pm This workshop will explore the influence of media, technology, and performance as generative tools within the poetic process, and explore a variety of works that reflect these preoccupations. Students will produce both audio and written texts over the course of the term, and will receive training in the use of free audio editing software. This is a companion course to ENGL 3015 (Poetry: Sound, Media, and Performance), however that class is not a prerequisite.

ENGL 3037 American Lit & Film: Hardboiled America 001-Instructor: Kamholtz / Hogeland TH 3:30pm-4:50pm The hard-boiled novel—a major American contribution to twentieth century culture—has its roots in a society in reeling from the Great Depression and our long recovery. The tough, cynical, edgy voice of the hard-boiled crime-solver (and, occasionally, criminal) responds in the 1930s to the traditions of detective fiction, to the changing economics of American life, and to the familiar understandings of gender roles in culture and fiction. Dangerous women and bad, bad men (and good-bad men) populate these novels. The course will include classics of the genre, including works by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James Cain. We’ll move through the 1950s, as the hard-boiled tradition more explicitly takes on issues of gender, race, and class. with writers like Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes, and Jim Thompson. The hard-boiled continues into the present day, and we’ll read contemporary novels as well as contemporary theory and critical analyses. The course will feature a selection of films across the decades, and will use newspapers, magazines, and newsreels to give a sense of the culture’s visions of itself.

ENGL 3053 Digital Age Creative Writing 001-Instructor: Bales TH 11:00am-12:20pm

In this fiction workshop, we will embrace and explore technology's influence on the ways we tell and experience stories. We will examine and experiment with the narrative possibilities of forms made possible by technology, such as video games, storytelling on social media, fan fiction, and/or transmedia narratives. Students will produce a variety of narratives, which might include stories written through collaboration, or with character limits, inclusion of audio and visual components, and/or choice-driven narratives.

ENGL 3059 Intro to Rhetoric and Professional Writing 001-Instructor: Cook TH 9:30am-10:50am This course, required for English majors in the Rhetoric and Professional writing track, offers a common foundation for understanding, theorizing, and applying rhetorical principles and for developing advanced writing skills.

ENGL 3060 Public Discourse 001-Instructor: Cook TH 12:30pm-1:50pm Students will improve and heighten their ability to observe and interpret the language that is usedin various disciplines, professions, and "communities," whether formally or informally structured. As a secondary goal, students will also consider ways in which they might effectivelyand responsibly participate in the language of a given social/professional domain. Students will look at conventions of language in a variety of discourse communities (i.e. science/medicine, the law, business/public relations/advertising, government, and the public sphere). This course may revolve around a theme or specific topic (e.g.health, environment, food) and may include a service-learning component.

ENGL 3069 Web Authoring 001-Instructor: Wilson MWF 10:10am-11:05am Students will learn to use the digital tools of the 21st century to publish professional documents for multiple purposes and audiences. Projects include writing, design, and production of web materials, flyers, brochures, presentations, and marketing materials. Projects may be client focused.

ENGL 3074 Rhetoric of Social Media 001-Instructor: Wilson MWF 12:20pm-1:15pm This course will examine the professional use of various social media tools. Through readings, primary and secondary research, and discussion, students will assess and critique how social media are effective (or not), how they function rhetorically, and whether they achieve their purposes. In addition to analysis, students will participate in a semester-long Twitter discussion, develop and deliver a team-teaching day, create a promotional video, and develop a social media campaign for a company of their choice. After taking this course, students will: • Improve writing skills and promote critical thinking • Gain experience with/knowledge about social media marketing to enhance skill

sets for job placement. • Produce effective social media (as they relate to purpose, audience, and scope)

ENGL 3076 Writing with Style 001-Instructor: Griegel-Mccord MWF 10:10am-11:05am This course introduces students to style as a rhetorical concept in written communication and creates opportunities for students to apply a range of stylistic techniques to their own writing.

ENGL 3086 Forms of Fiction 001-Instructor: Bachelder TH 11:00am-12:20pm The first aim of this class is to build the vocabulary and knowledge students need to read like writers. The second aim of this class is to examine closely some of the structural and formal possibilities for fiction writing. Students will do extensive reading of both fiction and analysis of fiction. Writing assignments may include imitations of others' writing and analyses of one's own writing. Our specific focus this semester will be the short novel. We’ll be reading a variety of work, perhaps including such writers as Mary Shelley, Julie Otsuka, Donald Antrim, Padgett Powell, and Muriel Spark.

ENGC 4001 Capstone – Comparative Literature: Transnational Cinemas 001-Instructor: Epstein TH 12:30pm-1:50pm While 20th century cinema developed through the support, both financially and politically as a national product, filmmaking over the first and second decade of the 21st century have become more transnational reflecting a more global marketplace. One of the effects of these films that are created, produced and distributed internationally is that the films have displaced the dominance of western colonial narratives to assemble a more accented cinema with both multicultural and multiethnic characteristics. This capstone class will examine a set of these partnership films, such as Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Babel (2006) or the increasingly popular “anthology” films, featuring diversity in cast, subject matter and production values. The class will examine definitions of transnational cinema and attempt to distinguish grand narratives that are being contested as well as well as those being re-envisioned with a global citizenry in mind. The course will include films screened in and out of class, and critical readings on the subject and the films.

ENGL 4032/DMC3035 Screen Writing 001-Instructor: Benedyk Tues 4:00pm-6:50pm In order to complete the course in screenwriting, students will write and workshop their own screenplays at an advanced level. In reading and studying diverse scripts from others, students will refine and challenge their ideas and strategies concerning the craft of screenwriting as well become more cognizant of their own writing and creative processes. Students will write and revise their work in addition to contribute to the collaborative workshop efforts.

ENGL 4091 Business Writing 001-Instructor: Kissling Online 002-Instructor: Patterson MWF 12:20pm-1:15pm 003-Instructor: Kissling Wed 6:00pm-8:50pm This course readies students for the kinds and purposes of writing they will do as they advance in their business careers. Good writing is a means to effective management and profitable customer relations. In studying the theory and practice of writing in the business environment, students will develop strategies for adjusting content, style, design, and delivery method to different rhetorical contexts. This course often operates as a writing intensive workshop where student participation is necessary and vital. This course is not a review of basic composition or grammar skills, although students will learn techniques for successful revising and editing.

ENGL 4092 Technical and Scientific Writing 001-Instructor: Luebering Online 002-Instructor: Madani Online 003-Instructor: Online 004-Instructor: Online 005-Instructor: Kleier MWF 12:20pm-1:15pm 006-Instructor: Wilson MWF 1:25pm-2:20pm *007-Instructor: Cook TH 11:00am-12:20pm 008-Instructor: Larkin TH 3:30pm–4:50pm 009-Instructor: Boehr Mon 6:00pm-8:50pm 010-Instructor: Specter Tues 6:00pm-8:50pm 011-Instructor: Hemmer Wed 6:00pm-8:50pm 012-Instructor: Thurs 6:00pm-8:50pm * CEAS Majors ONLY This course readies students for the kinds and purposes of professional writing they will do in their professional careers in technology, science, and engineering. Writing in these fields supports design processes, research studies, problem solving, and business transactions. In studying the theory and practice of writing in specialized environments, students will develop strategies for adjusting content, style, design, and delivery method to different rhetorical contexts. This course often operates as a writing intensive workshop where student participation is necessary and vital. This course is not a review of basic composition or grammar skills, although students will learn techniques for successful revising and editing.

*ENGL 5009 English Study Tour: A Cultural Journey Through Medical Education and Practice 001-Instructor: Reutter MWF 12:20pm-1:15pm The spring, 2017 English Study Tour course, "A Cultural Journey Through Medical Education and Practice," includes classroom instruction, reading, research and writing before and after the educational spring break tour in Athens, Corinth, and Cos. This course takes you on a cultural journey through medical education and practice from the roots of modern medicine in ancient Greece to corresponding examples in the contemporary US. Through text research and on-site visits, we'll explore practices in ancient and modern medicine as well as the health care spaces in which they operate. Foundational texts for medical education and practice include not only scientific theory but also religious, literary, historical, philosophical, legal, ethical, and social perspectives. It is this culture studies and medical humanist approach which will inform our scholarly exploration. Each of you in the course will contribute with your own research, writing, presentations, and commentaries, in real or virtual spaces. On the locations where they originated and were applied, we will look at Greco-Roman medical writers, and the development of Jewish and Christian healing traditions. In literature, we'll explore modern perspectives on medicine and contemporary medical systems. *Interested student should contact Michelle Reutter michele.reutter@uc.edu. ENGL 5095/7095 Capstone – Rhetoric/Professional Writing 001-Instructor: Debs Thur 5:00pm-7:50pm This capstone course is required for students completing the Department of English undergraduate track in Rhetoric and Professional Writing. This course offers students an opportunity to demonstrate mastery and integration of the skills, principles, and knowledge gained from their coursework. It requires the application of that learning to a field project that will be evaluated by faculty and clients. The course is open only to undergraduate students who are at the end of their coursework in the Rhetoric and Professional Writing track for the B.A. in English.

ENGL 5111 Senior Writing Seminar: Fiction 001-Instructor: Iversen Tues 12:30pm-1:50pm 002-Instructor: Bachelder Wed 12:20pm-3:25pm “The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.” This famous line by Emily Dickinson will lead us into a close examination of character, motivation, and desire in short fiction. What makes people—and our fictional characters—do what they do? This course is an intensive study and practice in the various forms and approaches of fiction writing, including workshop discussion of individual student manuscripts. Students will write and revise two new short stories and discuss contemporary examples of short fiction. Texts include Best American Short Stories 2016, edited by Junot Diaz, and Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular, by L. Rust Hills.

ENGL 5117 Capstone - Poetry 001-Instructor: Lindenberg TH 2:00pm-3:20pm

One of the richest and most exciting poetry resources in the nation is housed here at the University of Cincinnati – the Elliston Poetry Archive. This sound archive of recorded readings and lectures dating back to the 1950’s is a splendid resource, and in this course, we will take advantage of it. Each week, we will read one book from an author represented in the Elliston Poetry Archive, and listen to either a reading or a lecture by that poet, from the archive. And each week, students will generate original material based on the conversation that emerges from those models, which we will workshop in class together. In this way, students will have an opportunity to work with unique primary-source archival poetry material from some of the most important poets of the 20th and 21st century, and will have an opportunity to think beyond the page in their own work - thinking about how the aural experience and the social experience of poetry read out loud informs the experience of writing and producing poems. Students will give a presentation on one poet from the Elliston Archive whose work is not covered on the syllabus. And students will, at the end of the semester, the class will give a reading/performance of their own work in the Elliston Room, to be recorded and added to the archive – a unique opportunity for young writers.

PWRT 5124/6024 / ENGL 5124 Editing 001-Instructor: Rentz Wed 4:40pm-7:30pm Would you like to learn about the different types of editing jobs out there and what each entails? Would you like to practice doing different types of editing for different types of publications? Do you wish you knew what those funny-looking proofreading symbols mean and how to use them? Are you a little nervous about the stylistic appropriateness and grammatical correctness of your writing? This course will open up a broad area of potential employment for you, teach you some tools and tricks of the trade, and strengthen your own stylistic skill.

PWRT 5125/6025 / ENGL 5125 Information Design 001-Instructor: Meloncon Tues 6:00pm-8:50pm Ever wonder how to create all the cool information graphics or visually appealing documents you see? Information design is a course that will help you learn how to design different types of information for different audiences and purposes. You will practice analyzing audience, design information graphics and texts for readability and comprehension, and integrate graphics and media into different document types for both print and online purposes. Working with clients, you will also have an opportunity expand project management skills and build their portfolio.