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English and Comparative Literature

Spring Semester 2010

CMPL 122: Literature and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to 1750

This course offers students a survey of mutually supportive developments of literature and the visual arts from classical antiquity until around 1700.

Required Text

  • Cervantes, Don Quixote, trans. Grossman (2005), ISBN 978-0060934347

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Catherine Clark, MA
  • Department: English and Comparative Literature
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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ENGL 121: British Literature, 19th and Early 20th Century

This course is a survey of the drama, poetry, and prose of the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. This course covers some of the best and best-known works from the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods of British literature. You will study not only how and what writers from each period wrote, but why they wrote what they did. Gaining insight into the historical and social contexts of these periods will help you appreciate the works you like least—and will help you articulate better the qualities of the works you love.

Required Texts

  • Abrams and Greenblatt, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2, 8th edition (2005)
  • Dickens, Hard Times
  • Woolf, To the Lighthouse

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Elizabeth Gualtieri Reed, PhD
  • Department: English and Comparative Literature
  • Credit hours: 3
  • Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or permission of instructor
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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ENGL 123: Introduction to Fiction

This course introduces students to fiction writing through novels and short stories by Hemingway, Faulkner, Wharton, Baldwin, Ellison, Oates, Erdich, Morrison, and others.

Required Texts

  • Charters, ed., The Story and Its Writer, 7th edition
  • Carver, Where I'm Calling From
  • Morrison, Beloved
  • Minot, Monkeys

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Elizabeth Gualtieri Reed, PhD
  • Department: English and Comparative Literature
  • Credit hours: 3. This course does not count toward the undergraduate minor in Creative Writing at UNC Chapel Hill. Students interested in the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill should refer to the Creative Writing Program's Web site for information.
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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ENGL 128: Major American Authors

This course is a study of major American authors, mainly from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the readings, we will focus on exploring questions of individualism in America—the quest for self-knowledge, self-expression, and personal freedom.

In this course you will be expected to

  • read all required texts
  • participate in online discussions via the discussion forum
  • complete several papers
  • complete a final exam.

Required Texts

  • Chopin, The Awakening
  • Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables
  • Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
  • Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
  • Whitman, Leaves of Grass
  • Morrison, Beloved

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Heather Ross, MA
  • Department: English and Comparative Literature
  • Credit hours: 3
  • Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or permission of instructor
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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ENGL 130: Introduction to Fiction Writing

This course examines the basic techniques of fiction, with related writing exercises involving elements such as point of view, characterization, and dialogue. The course includes discussion of student exercises and readings in short fiction.

Required Texts

  • Burroway, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, 7th edition (2007)
  • Cassill and Bausch, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 7th edition (2005)

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Richard Krawiec, MA
  • Department: English and Comparative Literature
  • Credit hours: 3. This course does not count toward the undergraduate minor in Creative Writing at UNC Chapel Hill. Students interested in the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill should refer to the Creative Writing Program's Web site for information.
  • Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or permission of instructor
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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ENGL 131: Introduction to Poetry Writing

In ENGL 131, we spend the semester reading and writing poetry in a variety of styles in order to develop our own creative, imaginative, and poetic skills. The course uses workshop-style online discussion boards to create a warm, welcoming space for sharing poems written for the course and receiving feedback. Each student receives consistent and detailed feedback on his or her poems from the instructor and other students. This course is accessible and useful to both first-time poets and more experienced writers.

The typical workload consists of

  • a weekly reading assignment: the instructor's lecture and approximately ten to fifteen poems from the textbook
  • participation in weekly reading response discussion boards
  • responses to student poems, to be posted on the workshop discussion boards
  • ten original poems over the course of the semester, written in response to prompts and writing exercises
  • a final portfolio of eight to ten of these poems, to be turned in at the end of the semester.

Required Text

  • The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th edition (2004)

You may purchase the textbook at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Tessa Joseph Nicholas, MFA, PhD
  • Department: English and Comparative Literature
  • Credit hours: 3. This course does not count toward the undergraduate minor in Creative Writing at UNC Chapel Hill. Students interested in the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill should refer to the Creative Writing Program's Web site for information.
  • Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and 102 or permission of instructor
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

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ENGL 206: Intermediate Fiction Writing

This course builds on the short story writing skills introduced in ENGL 130. Exercises allow students to develop the beginning, middle, and end of stories, to work with imagery, and to listen for their own voice and style. In addition to these exercises, students write two complete short stories and revise one.

Required Texts

  • Burroway, Writing Fiction, 7th edition (2007)
  • Cassill and Bausch, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 7th edition (2005)

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Richard Krawiec, MA
  • Department: English and Comparative Literature
  • Credit hours: 3. This course does not count toward the undergraduate minor in Creative Writing at UNC Chapel Hill. Students interested in the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill should refer to the Creative Writing Program's Web site for information.
  • Prerequisites: ENGL 101, 102, and 130; or permission of instructor
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

link How to Enroll

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ENGL 313: Grammar of Current English

This course is a study of modern English grammar (traditional, structural, and transformational) with special attention to such current problems as the confusion of grammatical terminology, attacks on traditional rules, and conflict between prescriptive and descriptive grammar. The course is designed for prospective English teachers, but others may take it.

Required Texts

  • Kolln and Funk, Understanding English Grammar, 8th edition (2009)
  • A hardback college dictionary, such as the American Heritage College Dictionary

You may purchase the textbooks at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Special Course Requirement

This course includes three oral exams. Students will be required to call the instructor (in Pembroke, North Carolina) at a prearranged time to take exams. Long-distance costs will be the responsibility of the student.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Mark Canada, PhD
  • Department: English and Comparative Literature
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View a sample course syllabus.

link How to Enroll

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