Albertson College of Idaho
2006 - 2007 Catalog
Lower Division Courses
ENG-100.1 Basic First Year Composition 3.0 cr.
Fall. Coreq: HIS-101 or 102 or 103 or 105 or 106. A course in the essential elements of critical thinking and rhetorical strategies necessary for effective college writing. The course emphasizes writing as process and focuses extensively on revision. A research paper, which involves library work and instruction in research techniques, is required. Required of all students scoring below the established cutoff in either column of the descriptive Test of Language Skills. Students enrolled in ENG-100, whose native language is English, are encouraged to enroll in STS-110, Effective Studying. Students whose native language is not English may be required to do work in English as a Second Language (MFL-101, 102) prior to enrolling in ENG-100. All first-year students are required to attend the evening programs.
ENG-101 Writing the First Year Experience 3.0 cr.
Fall, spring. Coreq: HIS-101 or 102 or 103 or 105 or 106. A course in the essential elements of critical thinking and rhetorical strategies necessary for effective college writing. The course emphasizes writing as process and focuses extensively on revision. Participation in the First Year Book Program is required. All first-year students are required to attend the evening programs. (WRITING)
ENG-140 Native American Art & Literature 3.0 cr.
(Same as ART-140). Winter. This course will offer students an opportunity to see the connection between Native American art and literature. The focus will be on Navajo and Pueblo traditions involving word and image. Authors will include Leslie Silko and Scott Momaday. (HUMANITIES and FINE ARTS and CULTURAL DIVERSITY)
ENG-202 Techniques of Contemporary Poetry 3.0 cr.
Spring. An investigation of traditional poetic meter and techniques of scansion and a survey of stanzaic forms exploited across the centuries, with attention to the diverse possibilities of form, rhythm, diction, subject matter, and voice available to poets writing today. Writers may include Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, Pattiann Rogers, Thomas Lux, and Garrett Hongo. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-203 Techniques of Contemporary Fiction 3.0 cr.
An examination of the poetics of international contemporary fiction. Students will study elements of fiction (point of view, characterization, setting, etc.) and concepts of authorship, and will evaluate how contemporary works of fiction bend the rules of storytelling. Readings may include House of Leaves, White Teeth, and Running in the Family. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-204 Techniques of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction 3.0 cr.
Fall. An examination of the various forms, methods (including fieldwork), and subject matter of nature writing. Writers studied may include Diane Ackerman, Stephen Jay Gould, Barry Lopez, Gary Nabhan, and Terry Tempest Williams. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-218 Poetry Writing Workshop I 3.0 cr.
Spring. An opportunity for students to read widely in and begin writing poetry.
ENG-219 Fiction Writing Workshop I 3.0 cr.
Spring. An opportunity for students to work in a variety of fictional forms.
ENG-220 Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop I 3.0 cr.
Spring. An opportunity for students to write creative nonfiction focused on natural history, nature, environment, conservation, science, medicine, landscape, or place.
ENG-294 Independent Study 1.0 to 3.0 cr.
Fall, winter, spring. Prereq: Permission. A special research project on a selected topic. This course will not fulfill the Liberal Arts Core requirement for independent work. See independent study guidelines.
ENG-299T.3 Money in Literature 3.0 cr.
Sampling several centuries, countries, and literary genres, this course traces the love-hate relationship between literary art and financial calculation, a relationship which raises questions regarding what has value and what doesn't, what is real and what isn't, what humans in society owe to one another, and what purpose artistic endeavor is supposed to serve in a world where such endeavor rarely pays. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-299T.8 Forever Mourning: Narratives of Loss in Expatriate & Immigrant Writing 3.0 cr.
Through a cross-genre mixture of travel writing, memoir, fiction, poetry, and essays on displacement, this course will address particular elegiac narratives unique to the expatriate and immigrant experience. In addition to examining transnational modes of mourning, the class will also evaluate whether or not such displaced writers can ever achieve consolation. Possible authors include Hanif Kureishi, Bharati Mukherjee, Derek Walcott, Agha ShahidAli, Mohsin Hamid and Edward Said. (HUMANITIES OR CULTURAL DIVERSITY)
ENG-299T.9 Visions of Environment 3.0 cr.
This course focuses on writers who have shaped thinking about the environment in the United States. The course first examines the historical and philosophical bases for American conceptions of nature, and then analyzes literary treatments of concepts such as bioregionalism, wilderness, sense of place, and environmentalism. Authors include Henry David Thoreau, George Perkins Marsh, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and others. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-299T.10 Shakespearean Comedy 3.0 cr.
This course will trace the development of Shakespearean comedy through representative plays from all stages of the dramatist's career. In the process, the class will explore the literary, theatrical, religious, political, and cultural significance of comedy, both in general and in its Shakespearean form. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-299T.18 You Can't Read This: Censorship & the Politics of Literature 3.0 cr.
This course will explore the political and ideological dimensions of literature through a study of censorship and book banning. The course will focus on the power of literature, both real and imagined, as a subversive and disruptive force in society through case studies of banned books. Case studies may include Huckleberry Finn, The Awakening, Lolita, and The Satanic Verses. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-299T.19 Introduction to Shakespeare 3.0 cr.
Through careful scrutiny of representative plays in several genres and from different periods in Shakespeare’s career, this course will test popular perceptions of English literature’s most overexposed figure by situating him in his literary, theatrical, historical, and cultural contexts. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-299T.20 Captivity & Emancipation 3.0 cr.
This course looks at representations, both fictional and non-fictional, of captivity and enslavement. Students will explore the psychological, political, and intercultural dynamics of captivity and domination, as well as the role of language in defining, enabling, justifying, and protesting captivity as well as emancipation. Authors may include Mary Rowlandon, William Apess, Frederick Douglas, and Ken Kesey. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-299T.21 Literature & Medicine 3.0 cr.
This course focuses on literature as a medium of empathy and explores such relationships as those between doctor and patient, mind and medicine, the scalpel and the act of poetry. Authors may include William Carlos Williams, Robert Coles, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekov, and Toni Morrison. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-299T.22 The Literature of Motherhood 3.0 cr.
This course will critically examine various constructions of motherhood through close readings of literature written by both mothers and non-mothers. Authors may include Pattiann Rogers, Jane Smiley, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Barbara Kingsolver. (HUMANITIES)
ENG-299T.23 Asia Through Its Movies 3.0 cr.
Students will analyze contemporary Asian cultures through movies from Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, mainland China and the Indian subcontinent. Genres will include wu-xia, anime, sci-fi, musicals, yakuza narratives and "art house" movies. Course readings will include cultural studies theory, short stories, and the directors' and artists' essays and commentaries. (HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY)