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Supplemental Course Descriptions

Summer 2013 Upper-Level English Course Descriptions

ENC 3250: Professional Writing
Various
The Professional Writing course prepares students to be successful communicators in their chosen careers. A balance of theory and practice ensures students can apply and adapt the knowledge they develop in today’s changing workplace. Students learn a variety of communication strategies that emphasize promoting both efficiency and goodwill in workplace communication. Additionally, students learn the conventions of professional writing genres such as email, memos and letters, reports, proposals, and social media. Finally, students work on developing an appropriate writing style with an emphasis on professionalism as well as writing with precision.

ENL 4930 Special Topics In Literature: The Fantastic in Eighteenth-century Gothic Literature (Pre-1800)
Crone-Romanovski
Summer B
T/R 11:30-2:55
This course examines the fantastic in Gothic and Romantic literature of the late eighteenth century.   We will consider how the use of the fantastic in this period is distinctive from other eras and explore the social, political, and psychological implications of the fantastic in Romantic poetry and prose.  Topics of discussion will include the emergence and development of the Gothic novel, the Romantic appropriation of folk culture, and the fantastic as a potential subversion of socio-political norms.  Our approach to these topics will be informed by brief selections of secondary scholarship.  Possible primary readings may include Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto; Anne Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance; M.C. Lewis’s The Monk; William Beckford’s Vathek; William Godwin’s Caleb Williams; and poetry by Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Keats, Anne Bannerman, and Mary Robinson.

LIT 3301 Cultural Studies and PopulaR Arts
vILLains and Bombshells: The Global Politics of Film
Myra Mendible
Summer A
T/R 11:30-2:55
Focusing primarily on Hollywood, this course will explore cinema’s role in shaping national identity and political culture. We will analyze a range of films that have challenged or reinforced collective mythologies of ethnicity, race, gender, class, region, and sexuality in America. We will begin with a glimpse at the Silent film era (pre-Hollywood) then trace these early representations as they are recycled and revised in contemporary films. Using a “cultural studies” approach to the subject, students will evaluate the relationship between politics and popular culture; consider the reception and impact of selected films in their historical contexts; analyze how popular films frame public debates; and consider the extent to which they legitimize notions about America’s role on the world stage.

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Fall 2013 Upper-Level English Course Descriptions

AML 3213: Early American Literature and Culture (pre-1800)
Dr. Harrison 
M/W 9:30-10:45
A survey of major developments in American literature and culture from settlement to Civil War. Students will write three written exams and two short responses. 

AML 3242: 20th Century U.S. Literature and Culture: Literary and Critical Movements
Dr. Masami Sugimori
T/R 2:00-3:15
This course explores how twentieth-century American literature and culture interacted with each other. Accordingly, we will examine literary texts not only in their own terms but also in their complex negotiation with the country’s cultural, social, and historical contexts. As the course’s subtitle indicates, our engagement with the subject’s challenging multidimensionality will involve a close investigation of literary-critical movements--not only those that informed literary works at the time of their production, but also more recent theories such as reader-response, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist criticisms. Required coursework includes essays, exams, group presentation, daily quizzes, and in-class assignments.

AML 4930:  American Poetry: The Poetry of Recklessness in the 21^st Century
Dr. Jim Brock
M/W 2:00 – 3:15
This class explores a selection of 21^st-century poetry through some of the ideas and challenges about poetry set by Dean Young in his book The Art of Recklessness.  We’ll read individual books of poetry by a half dozen poets, including Young, Richard Blanco (who will be at this year’s Sanibel Island Writers Conference), Anne Carson, Denise Duhamel, Aimee Nezhukumatahil, and T. Zachary Cotler, crossing gender and generation, to consider how some contemporary poets write with and against tradition, with and against formal constraints, with and against polemics.  Deeply, and I think happily, marginalized in our culture, poets among other artists have a necessary obligation toward recklessness, and we will consider the aesthetic, psychological, and political dimensions of that necessity. 

ENG 3014 Intro to Literature & Cultural Studies
Myra Mendible
ENG 3014 is an introduction to the English Major at FGCU that explores current theoretical approaches, practices, and values related to the professional/academic study of literature. During the course, you will build a foundation for further learning experiences in the English Program, exploring critical theory and its implications; applying contemporary approaches; creating and sharing close analyses of a literary work; and developing and refining your critical thinking and writing skills.

ENL 3230: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Pre-1800)
Crone-Romanovski
M/W 12:00-1:45pm
This course provides an overview of major authors, genres, and works from the historical period spanning from the Restoration of Charles II (1660) to the beginning of the French Revolution (1789).  We will read poetry, drama, and prose (both fiction and non-fiction) by a diverse range of British authors in order to examine the ways in which these texts participate in and/or challenge the major political, social, economic, and literary developments of the period.  Topics for discussion will include Court culture; the emergence of modern notions of gender, marriage, and family; constructions of authorship and celebrity; satire; the cult of sensibility; colonialism; and the rise of the novel.

ENL 3251: Victorian Literature and Culture
Kim Jackson
T/R 9:30-10:45am
In this course, we will study works of British literature from the Victorian period (1837-1901).We will also take into account the cultural climate of the time, as well as the social, philosophical, scientific, and political revolutions that occurred during Victoria’s reign and how the literature both reflected and influenced these revolutions. Through careful analysis of both literary and non-literary sources, we will look at how the works both typify and, sometimes, defy the conventions of the literary movements of which they are a part.