Albertson College of Idaho
Albertson College of Idaho
2006 - 2007 Catalog

Upper Division Courses

IND-307.01 London: Art, Architecture, Literature 2.0 cr.

Fall 2006. This course is a prerequisite for the winter session off-campus study course IND307.02 of the same name. This course, together with it's companion course IND 307.02, will count toward fulfillig the following general graduation requirements: FINE ARTS and/or HUMANITIES and/or CULTURAL DIVERSITY.

IND-307.02 London: Art, Architecture, Literature 4.0 cr.

Winter 2007. An on-site, interdisciplinary study of the history, art, architecture, literature, and culture of 19th and 20th-century London as reflected in the literature, memoirs, art, periodicals, and other public documents of the day. The course will consider the central place of London as an imperial metropole and its continuing existence as a city operating at the center of an emerging modern world leisure economy. The central three weeks of the course will be conducted in London. This course, together with it's companion course IND 307.01, will count toward the following general graduation requirements: FINE ARTS and/or HUMANITIES and/or CULTURAL DIVERSITY.

Note: Three and four hundred level ENG courses are designed for junior and senior English majors and minors. All other students who are interested in taking an upper-level English course should speak with the professor teaching the course before enrolling.

ENG-301 Advanced Writing 3.0 cr.

Prereq: ENG-101 or WRI-150 and junior standing. The study of modern forms of writing; course requires weekly writing assignments, totaling 50 to 60 pages of original work by the end of the term and develops lifetime writing skills. The course emphasizes writing as process and focuses extensively on revision.

ENG-307 Seminar: Origins & Traditions of English Literature 3.0 cr.

Prereq: ENG-101, WRI-150 or permission. A survey of landmark poetry and prose from the Anglo-Saxon Era to the Enlightenment, with special emphasis on how the assumptions, concerns, and techniques of these texts came to be seen as the kernel of a coherent national literary tradition. This course does not fulfill the Liberal Arts Core requirement in literature.

ENG-308 Seminar: Origins & Traditions of the Literature of the United States 3.0 cr.

Fall or spring. Prereq: ENG-101, or WRI-150 or permission. This course features a range of "literature," including transcribed Native American oral stories, colonial promotional tracts, sermons, speeches, captivity narratives, political pamphlets, personal letters, and slave narratives. The class will explore personal and cultural issues that concerned early Americans, and discuss how texts both define and complicate some of the terms associated with this period, including "Puritan," "Enlightenment," "Transcendental," "liberty," and even "American." This course does not fulfill the General Education Curriculum requirement in literature.

ENG-309 Seminar: Constructing World Literatures 3.0 cr.

Fall or spring. Prereq: ENG-101 or WRI-150 or permission. In order to see the picture, one must step out of the frame. In this course, students will step out of their own cultural frames by studying how and why genres, politics, trade/war, religion (and also how we ourselves) construct global culture and identity. The texts will provide not only vicarious experiences of lands and cultures but will also reflect the dialogic nature of specific cultural and cross-cultural literary traditions. Possible traditions covered may include those of the Ancient Near East, the Ottoman Empire, the Subcontinent, Mogul and Persian poetry, Greco-Roman culture, North Africa, Native America, and the Caribbean-African-Asian heritage. (CULTURAL DIVERSITY)

ENG-318 Poetry Writing Workshop II 3.0 cr.

Spring. Prereq: ENG-218 or permission. An opportunity for students to continue reading and writing poetry. Students are expected to demonstrate continued development as writers and to submit work for publication.

ENG-319 Fiction Writing Workshop II 3.0 cr.

Spring. Prereq: Permission. A continuation of ENG-219, intended primarily for students who have already taken that course. Students are expected to show evidence of continuing development as writers and to submit their work for publication.

ENG-320 Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop II 3.0 cr.

Spring. Prereq: Permission. A continuation of ENG-220 intended primarily for students who have already taken that course. Students are expected to show evidence of continuing development as natural history writers and to submit their work for publication.

ENG-325 Introduction to Literary Theory & Criticism 3.0 cr.

Fall or spring. Prereq: WRI-150 or permission. This course introduces the principal theoretical traditions that inform advanced literary study. Students will evaluate the major figures, schools, and concepts of literary theory and criticism through intensive reading and application. This course does not fulfill the Liberal Arts Core requirement in literature.

ENG-326.3 Author Seminar: Naipaul & Rushdie 3.0 cr.

Fall 2004. V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie describe themselves as marooned men caught between imaginary homelands, and as such, Naipaul and Rushdie reside in between cultures, languages, and religions. In this course, we will vicariously travel with Naipaul and Rushdie as they navigate between the "real" worlds of Trinidad, East Africa, London, India, Pakistan, and New York, and the "imaginary" worlds of brutal colonization, partitions of countries, and the ghostly lyrics of "native" poetry. We will examine how these authors ultimately turn to writing as a way to record and to grapple with the cruelties of history. Possible books assigned: A Way in the World, Letters between Father and Son, The Enigma of Arrival, Shame, Midnight's Children, and The Moor's Last Sigh.

ENG-368 The Prison Experience 6.0 cr.

(Same as SOC-368) Winter. Prereq: Permission. An opportunity to learn firsthand about prisons and prison life as students read prison-related texts in sociology and literature and as they write in response to what they read and what they see at local correctional institutions. Authors will include Jimmy Santiago Baca, Jerome Washington, Malcom X, and Agnes Smedley. (HUMANITIES and 3 CREDITS SOCIAL SCIENCES)

ENG-380.6 Seminar: The Arthurian Tradition 3.0 cr.

Fall 2004. This course will trace the evolution of Arthurian literature from its first flowering in 12th-century European court culture, to its influential gathering and retelling in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, to its persistent presence in modern literature and culture. Along the way we’ll ask what Arthurian literature tells us about medieval conceptions of heroism, aspiration, hierarchy, and failure, and about why a cultural product so quintessentially “medieval” continues to fascinate modern writers. Authors may include Chretien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Thomas Malory, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, and Walker Percy.

ENG-380.7 Seminar: 20th Century English Literature 3.0 cr.

Spring 2005. Alt. years. A study of the major figures in English literature from 1900 to the present. Authors may include Conrad, Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Eliot, Auden, Fowles, Lessing, and Amis.

ENG-380.8 Seminar: Postcolonial Authors 3.0 cr.

Prereq.: permission. Intensive study of Salman Rushdie's and V.S. Naipaul's works, and their shaping of postcolonial and third-world cultural studies. For additional context, other postcolonial authors may be examined. (CULTURAL DIVERSITY)

ENG/MFL/EDS-446 Linguistics for Language Teachers 3.0 cr.

Spring. Alt. years. Prereq: Junior or senior standing. A study of the central concepts of linguistic theory. Includes the theoretical areas of pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology; and the applied areas of language variation, first language acquisition, second language acquisition, written language, and the neurology of language. Students will acquire the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as an essential tool for disciplined examination of linguistic phenomena. Issues of socio-linguistics will be addressed as students wrestle with the relationship between language, thought, and culture, and the nature of the cognitive and brain systems that relate to language learning, language teaching and language use.

ENG-494 Independent Study 1.0 to 3.0 cr.

Fall, winter, spring. Prereq: Permission. Research project on selected topics. See independent study guidelines. (INDEPENDENT WORK)

ENG-496 Creative Writing Capstone Seminar 3.0 cr.

Spring. Prereq: Senior standing and completion of lower-division poetry, fiction, and/or nature writing course. A cross-genre course for Creative Writing majors, in which students will propose and work on independent projects. Creative writers will begin to approach writing and their works as professionals--i.e., thinking long-term beyond the classroom, and considering marketing their works (scouring journals and framing rejection letters!). In addition to writing intensively, students will help design the reading list, contextualize their works/writing styles within a literary tradition/genre, and create a community of writers. (INDEPENDENT WORK)

ENG-497 Internship 1.0 to 3.0 cr.

Fall, winter spring. Prereq: Permission. Individually arranged internship designed to provide practical editorial and writing experience. An extended analysis of the experience is required and periodic reports may be assigned. See internship guidelines. (INDEPENDENT WORK)

ENG-498 Senior Thesis Seminar in Literature 3.0 cr.

Spring. A capstone course for senior literature majors designed to help students move toward post-college study. Students will propose, research, write, and revise a senior thesis for formal presentation. In addition, students will research and compose an individualized reading list based on their interests and post-graduate plans. Lists may focus on American, British, or world literature, graduate record exam preparation, or literature ancillary to secondary education teaching. (INDEPENDENT WORK)