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English 150E: Literature, Self, and
Society Literature mainly from American and European cultures. Selections chosen from fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction addressing important issues in our lives. Classroom emphasis on ways to read and respond to literature. Open to first-year students. English 150E: Literature, Self, and
Society Literature mainly from American and European cultures. Selections chosen from fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction addressing important issues in our lives. Classroom emphasis on ways to read and respond to literature. Open to first-year students. English 150E: Literature, Self, and
Society Literature mainly from American and European cultures. Selections chosen from fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction addressing important issues in our lives. Classroom emphasis on ways to read and respond to literature. Open to first-year students. English 160E: Global Literature and
Human Experience English 220: Human Values in
British and American Literature This course serves as an introduction to the English Literature major. Students will be introduced to defining concepts, as well as key authors and works from each period of British and American Literature from Anglo-Saxon England to twentieth-century America. Coherence across the periods will be sustained by our thematic focus: attitudes toward the human being that prevail in each period. Units are organized to help students gain insight into the period courses from which they may select as they continue their education, and at the same time to provide a common intellectual community that can transcend this course and provide a basis for future dialogue. English 227: Foundations in
Creative Writing This course will focus on the foundational skills/tools common to the genres of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Throughout the semester we will study the writer’s use of observation, sound and language, imagery (five senses), figurative language, point of view, dialogue, exposition, action, tension, structure, and related elements of creative writing. We’ll accomplish this through readings from and discussions of our text, The Creative Writing Process by Carol Burke and Molly Best Tinsley, and other assigned essays/articles, stories, and poems by published authors. Using these as models, we will complete an extensive and sequenced series of writing exercises, which will form the basis of your writing journal. Before mid-semester, we’ll meet in conference to discuss your journals, from which you will develop at least one complete essay/article, story, or poem by the end of the course. During the second half of the course, we will meet in full-class and small-group workshops and individual/group conferences to discuss your work and provide you with constructive suggestions for revision and effective use of the foundational skills you have developed in the first half of class. In addition, we will continue to read and analyze the work of published authors. English 315E: English Language:
Historical & Analytical This course explores three related areas: history of the English language, structure of the English language, and social-linguistic debates about contemporary English. Course work includes unit examinations, grammar quizzes, and several short social-linguistic papers. To synthesize the three topics, students will choose either to write a series of short formal papers or a semester research project. To learn more about this course, visit the course web site at http://www.cord.edu/faculty/sprunger/e315. English 316: Writing for the World
of Work English
317: News
Writing This is good preparation for any writing course. It is also helpful to business and pre-law students, as it is an opportunity to hone writing skills. The class is composed of some lecture, discussion, peer writing workshops, and frequent guest speakers. Assignments will include five news stories (each with two drafts), writing exercises, correspondence via email with professional journalists who serve as mentors, and student led discussions on readings. We will be using the following texts: Reporting and Writing by Christopher Scanlan, and the AP Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law. English 346: British Literature:
Empire to Independence
Offered every third semester in rotation with ENG 326 and Eng 336. A study of texts, themes, and literary developments in British Literature from the Victorian period of empire building to the present day. Emphasis on such authors as Tennyson, Yeats, Woolf, and Joyce. We will also focus on applying various critical schools of thought, such as postcolonial, biographical, and gender theory. The final work will be a contemporary novel that utilizes the Victorian style in a very postmodern way. And since Dr. Duncan is teaching, you can be sure that Ireland will be sufficiently represented in the selections. English 353: American Literature:
Beginnings to Realism A study of the texts, themes and literary developments in American literature from the early 17th century to 1900.
Education 366: Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language Both in our own country and internationally, there is a high demand for English teachers who teach English to speakers of other languages. Students of any major are welcome, whether they wish to use the course as the first step toward ESL/ELL certification or to teach abroad for a year after graduation. Topics include how language is learned; how to assess someone’s language competence; how to teach reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing; and how to organize school programs for English language learners. The course includes a one-month practicum, during which time we don’t meet as a class. This class will meet fall semester on Thursday evenings, 7-10 PM. English 371: Editing Process A study and practice of the editing process in journalism, with emphasis on copy editing. Education 374: Young Adult Literature Prospective teachers from all disciplines are welcome in this course. Class participants are introduced to young adult literature and explore a myriad of ways YAL could be incorporated in a school setting. In addition, course participants study various strategies for effectively incorporating YAL in middle level through high school class settings and examine young adult literature resource materials. Most likely pre-service teachers have known first-hand the joy of reading young adult literature; in many ways this course will continue that journey through course reading, discussion, speakers, instructor and student presentations, handouts, individual and small group inquiry. Participants in this course will read, think about, discuss, and write about books and ideas foundational to the rapidly expanding, exciting field of young adult literature. The course also includes a partnership project with junior high students from Moorhead Junior High. English 378: Poetry Writing
Seminar A workshop in reading and writing contemporary poetry. Prerequisite: English 227 or consent of instructor. English 379: Fiction Writing
Seminar In
this course, we will explore the form of the short story and the ways in which
writers use such formal elements as point of view, psychic distance, dialogue,
narrative voice, tone, beginnings, etc. to craft their stories.
While much of our time will be spent workshopping students’ stories, we
will read and analyze the work of published writers as well.
We also will rely on journal responses and writing exercises to enhance
our knowledge and skill.
In particular, I’d like us to use the published stories we discuss to
spark specific journal exercises that you will use to experiment with new
techniques and ways to “open up” the stories on which you’re working for
this class. You
may or may not choose to incorporate these experiments into your final drafts,
but I believe you’ll find in all cases that they give you new insights into
your characters, dramatic scenes, etc. as well as strengthening your skills and
expanding the “toolkit” available to you as a writer.
Substantial revision required. English 390: Cooperative Education Students will gain on-the-job experience working for a variety of news organizations. Prerequisite: at least three courses in print journalism or consent of the instructor. See here for general information about the Cooperative Education program. English 401X: Shakespeare and the
English Renaissance This Integration course includes one play each week along with one chapter of the history text each week. We study plays from all four dramatic genres: comedy, history, tragedy, and romance. Film/video labs (optional) feature full-length productions of the plays every Wednesday and Thursday night. Texts are Shakespeare, Works, ed. Bevington, and Smith, This Realm of England. English 421: Minnesota
Writers English 421 is a variable topics course, focusing on traditions in literary genres. In English 421 fall semester, we will study regional writing as literary genre, studying Minnesota writers in particular. In this course, we will ask questions such as why is Minnesota home to so many outstanding, nationally recognized writers? Who are some of these writers? How has their writing been influenced by their Minnesota heritage? We will read works by writers who have spent much of their adult lives in Minnesota and have used Minnesota as the locale for much of their writing. Authors of two of the works we will be reading are coming for the English Department’s Fall Writers’ Festival, so we will have a great opportunity to interact first-hand with these authors. This class has no pre-requisites, and students from any major are welcome to enroll in this class. English 478: Advanced Poetry
Writing Seminar This
course, a
continuation of ENG 378, is an intensive writing workshop in reading and writing
contemporary poetry. In the first
part of the course, we'll read contemporary poets and write discussions based on
our readings. We'll also be writing poems during this part of the course. After our reading, we'll
concentrate on writing; our goal will be to put together a portfolio of eight
poems, including one form poem (sestina, villanelle, sonnet, etc.) by the end of
the semester. I say "we" because I'll be writing right along with you.
We'll critique our work as we did in 308, but in a much smaller group; we'll
know who the writers are. Toward the end of the semester, we'll talk about
submitting our poems for publication. We'll also give a reading. We'll work hard to
"perfect/finish" our work, but that is part of the fun of it; seeing
our poems taking shape, then actually "finishing" them. And too, it is
a fun class because it is less formal in some respects than 378 and because it
is small; we get to know each other and our work well. English 479: Advanced Fiction
Writing Seminar In
this course, we will explore, among other matters, the mystery of
“voice”—of the ways in which our characters become real to us, of the
ways in which we come to know how they make their way in the world.
Consequently, although you will focus on the short story, I will ask
that the stories you write for this course be linked in some way: through
theme, location, event, characters, etc.
At the conclusion of this course,
you
will turn in, as part of your portfolio, two much revised and polished stories
and an informal reflection paper on what you have learned about yourself as a
fiction writer.
English 491: Reading and Writing Methods for the Secondary
School All educators play an important role in developing students’ skills, strategies, and attitudes necessary for full literacy in today’s world. Course participants’ future classrooms should provide an environment of strong support and advocacy for competency in reading, writing, and communicating; this belief is the foundation for English 491. This course will emphasize practical suggestions and strategies for developing language-rich classrooms. Educators from all disciplines are welcome, although the course will focus primarily on the grades 7-12 English classroom setting. English 491 will help future educators develop a beginning understanding of how students acquire literacy and develop as literacy users. Participants will use a seminar approach to the course content; that is, participants gather to engage in lively discussion, reading, and research around a particular topic—literacy development in the secondary schools. English 480: Independent Study. |
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