Here's the information for the Summer I Short Story course being offered - ENGL 6391 (taught by Dr. Marty Lewis):
In this course we will consider the history of short stories, definitions, and varieties of structures. Our readings will be mostly from American writers and divided roughly into two periods: pre and post 1950. For the later period, I will provide material published recently in magazines such as the New Yorker, and from current academic journals. As part of our study of structure we will also read two short story cycles: Winesburg, Ohio and Woman Hollering Creek.
Work for the course will include one research paper focusing on a particular author [which may be revised one time for a higher grade] and a take-home final exam.
The texts for the course are listed below and, with a bit of luck and early planning, you should be able to acquire all of them from Amazon.com for well under $40 [total].
New Short Story Theories, Charles May
Short Story Masterpieces, ed Robert Penn Warren
Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
Woman Hollering Creek, Sandra Cisneros
Also in Summer I - Rhetorical Theory: ENGL 6321 (taught by Dr. Teresa Murden)
This will be the first time this has been taught since we changed the name and focus of this course. I hope many of you will join me in this study this summer. Of course, it will be an ambitious undertaking for such a compressed time frame, but I guarantee that it will be well worth it. The class is being listed in the course schedule as a Hybrid and that means that 50% of the course will be delivered in an online format through BlackBoard. During the course we will take a "rehtorical journey" from ancient times to the present.
Some of you who know me already understand that I am not a big textbook person. I hate to ask students to buy books just for the sake of supporting publishers, but in this case I have to make an exception and ask you all to purchase two texts for the course.
They are critical reference texts and they may be a little pricey, but I am confident that you can find some reasonably priced texts online if you shop around a bit.
Here is the info you need to start shopping:
Bizzell,Patricia and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. ISBN: 0-312-14839-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-14839-3
Glenn Cheryl. Rhetoric-Retold-Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity through the Renaissance. 1st ed. Carbondale: SIUP,1997. I SBN: 0-312-14839-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-14839-3
In Summer II - Bible as Literature: ENGL 6303 (taught by Dr. Mimosa Stephenson)
English 6303 presents a literary rather than religious approach to the Bible and considers “literary truth,” truth to human nature, rather than historical truth. Students will consider form—structure, literary devices, and rhetoric—and look for recurring characters, themes, and patterns in this pastoral book. Special attention will be paid to stories and passages that appear repeatedly in literature of the Western World as Western authors, until recently, have assumed their readers to have a basic knowledge of biblical literature. Students who come to the course with some knowledge of the Bible in their backgrounds will find the reading and study easier, but even those who have read little or none of the Bible should be able to read it, especially if they are comfortable reading Shakespeare, who was still writing plays in 1611 when the King James Version, the standard version for literary study, was translated. The translators deliberately used simple language that could be read by common people. Any copy in that translation will serve as the text for the course. We will read as much as seems reasonable during a summer session. The bookstore will carry an inexpensive copy, but students may purchase one at any bookstore. For their research students will draw topics “from a hat” that are symbolic motifs running throughout the Bible as the time is too short to read the book and then choose a topic.
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