FEATURED COURSES (Fall 2010)
ENG 4307.01 . Criminal Acts!
Applied Discourse Studies MW 1:10-2:25 CoAS253
#13852 (D.Brown | danika@utpa.edu)
What's up with all those crime shows on TV? Why do we build new prisons and close down schools? Whose running those prisons anyway? And what's with the new push to make immigration a crime against the state? In ENG 4307-Applied Discourse Studies, students will be learning the skills of rhetorical analysis and criticism in order to answer those questions and more. We will be looking at popular TV versions of criminality and crime-solving; we will look at programs that encourage people to watch their neighbors; we'll look at the "Stop Snitchin" campaign. Additionally, we'll look at prison expansion and privatization, and spend some time with the notorious new anti-immigration law in Arizona. As we do this, we will be learning to apply rhetorical principles for criticism and analysis, and we will all be smarter people in the end! Sign up! (How's that for persuasion?)
ENG 3301.01 . Love, Sex, and Death in the Middle Ages
Medieval Literature TR 9:10-10:25
#10572 (J.McDonie | r.jacob.mcdonie@gmail.com)
We will read a variety of English literary works from the Middle Ages, when English first began to develop as a language in a trilingual culture; special attention will be paid to themes of love, sex, death, and their important interrelationships in medieval literature and culture. We will read the epic poem Beowulf (much better than the movie), romance/fables by the first female author in England, the first autobiography written in English (by a delusional woman with fourteen children), the hilariousCanterbury Tales (more sex than Cinemax), dream visions, drama, and the Arthurian legend (Lancelot, Guinevere, and the Round Table).
