Online Course Offerings, Spring 2010 (960)

Low Residency MFA Online Courses, Spring 2010 (960)

(Course descriptions and book lists included when available.)

All classes require permission. Email Bill Lavender or Jennifer Stewart with your request. After permission is assigned, you can enroll yourself in those classes via webstar.

Registration begins on November 2, and there are only a few seats available in the lit classes, so please register immediately via webstar after permission has been granted. For newly admitted students (first semester) registration does not open until later, though permissions can be requested and seats reserved now.

Note: We post syllabi and course descriptions when they are available.

Literature Courses:

20941 ENGL 4913G Early 20th Century Poetry- Zhaoming Qian. This course introduces students to the Anglo-American "Poetry Revolution" in the early 20th century. We will explore the colorful careers of seven twentieth-century poets—W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and Langston Hughes. Emphasis will be laid on discussing how their creative and critical work changed the character of poetry written in English.

TEXT: Ramazani, Ellmann, O’Clair, eds. Northern Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, vol. 1

20943 ENGL 4917G Contemporary Novel- John Cooke. Our course requires close reading of selected novels written since World War II by American, English, Colombian, Canadian, and Japanese writers. For each novel students will write 3-5 short essays in response to my questions (and also answer one question of their own devising). The course requires a substantial amount of reading; students who work well without day-to-day supervision usually do best in on-line formats such as in our class.

Readings are:
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
Requirements are essays written on each novel and a final exam.

20959 ENGL 6700 From Tears to Fears: Novels of Sensibility and the Gothic- Barbara Fitzpatrick.

An exploration of the development of the novel of sensibility in the latter half of the 18th century and the related evolution of the popular Gothic novel of the 1790s and later.  Whether providing accounts of eyes streaming with tears or bodies thrilling with horror, novelists worked at arousing readers’ affective responses.  Through a combination of reading, lectures, and written discussion responses, we shall explore the theoretical, cultural, religious, and gender issues informing these works.  We shall also consider critical reception of the novels, both contemporary and recent, including film adaptations of Clarissa, Sense and Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey.  Requirements include written weekly discussion assignments, a critical research paper of 15-20 pages, an annotated bibliography, a midterm exam, and a final exam.  Familiarity with Blackboard is a necessity.  An online course makes heavy demands on reading and writing, so be prepared!

TEXTS:
Richardson, Clarissa (Penguin, unabridged, 1986) [excerpts]
Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (Penguin, 2002)
Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (2d ed., Oxford World’s Classics, 2009)
Austen, Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World’s Classics, 2008)
Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (Oxford World’s Classics, 2009)
Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World’s Classics, 2008)
Austen, Northanger Abbey (Penguin, 2003)
Various e-texts (free)
Sterne, Tristram Shandy (Norton C.E., 1980) Optional
Scott, Waverley (Oxford World’s Classics, 2009) Optional

21315 FTCA 6020 476 Form & Idea in Media- Steve Hank This is a required core course for the MFA program.

ENGL 6397 Independent Study. To propose an independent study, email a description of your proposed course of study with a tentative reading list to the low residency program graduate coordinator, Bill Lavender <bill.lavender@uno.edu>. Independent Studies are intended to be literature classes, not writing workshops. Projects that consist of or include manuscript preparation or intensive writing are not appropriate for this course, which must include a reading load and term paper equivalent in volume and rigor to a three hour graduate-level literature course. Approval of independent study projects is contingent on agreement of a faculty member to work with the student as well as approval of the course plan or syllabus by the graduate coordinator.

Workshops:

20951 ENGL 6191 476 Remote Fiction Writing
Instructor: TBA

20952 ENGL 6193 476 Remote Poetry Writing
Instructor: Bill Lavender

The online poetry workshop this semester will focus on two components: composition and discourse.  For the composition component, we will begin by studying various compositional methodologies or procedures, from Christian Bök’s and George Perec’s alphabetic restrictions to generative methods such as homophonic translation and grammatical substitution. After a two to three week survey of these methods, each student will choose one or more to adopt and produce a body of work that will be the semester project, 30-40 poems.
For the discourse component, we will focus on the genre of the review. After a brief overview of the process, each student will go through the entire review-writing process, from solicitation of the book or manuscript to submitting for publication. Each student will solicit, write, and hopefully publish a minimum of five reviews of contemporary poetry books during the semester.

Texts: Numerous online sources. Each student also will be required to select (with consultation) five new or recent single-author books or collections of poetry to review.

20953 ENGL 6194 476 Remote Non-Fic Writing Wkshp
Instructor: TBA

11369 FTCA 6209 476 Remote Seminar Playwriting
Instructor: TBA

11371 FTCA 6259 476 Remote Seminar Screenwriting
Instructor: TBA

Thesis:

ENGL 7000 001 Thesis Research 1 - 9

ENGL 7040 001 Examination or Thesis Only
This can be use only when ALL hours have been completed and the only requirement remaining is submission of the thesis.

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