Fall 2007
Program Requirements 600: Introduction to Graduate Studies (Graduate Coordinator) American Literature 628R: Postwar Fiction and the Discourses of Dissent (Matthews) 629R: Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Studies (Christianson) British Literature 620R: Early Modern Literature (Siegfried) 629R: Subaltern Studies (Eastley) Rhetoric and Composition 610: Composition Pedagogy (Composition Coordinators) 611R: Advanced Writing Internship (Composition Coordinators) 616: Research in Rhetoric and Composition (Zimmerman) Creative Writing 517R: Creative Nonfiction Workshop (Madden) 518R: Fiction Workshop (Tuttle)Winter 2008
Program Requirements 630R: Theoretical Discourse (Wickman) American Literature 626R: Major Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Poets (Perry) 628R: Native American Literatures (Lundquist) British Literature 620R: Shakespeare (Young) 621R: Early-Nineteenth-Century British Bestsellers (Mason)
Using performance theories and aspects of performance, this course will focus on major contemporary English and Irish playwrights who have helped make present-day London/Dublin world theatrical capitols.
Playscripts will be read in some depth in order to understand not only a broad range of approaches to issues and theatre arts but also to see the similarities that the theatrical experience naturally creates. Reading and discussing playscripts in light of trends and theory, writing analytically about dramatic texts, reviewing performance, and playwriting/performing will all be included in the seminar activities. Readings will include Performance Theory texts. The course will also question the viability of the widespread practice of describing theatre in terms of two strains--poetic and political. The objectives of the course is to increase an overall understanding of performance and theory, develop a theoretical framework within which to write about performance, appreciate the explosion and interdependency of theory, comprehend the multiplicity of performance within culture, and recognize the interdisciplinary nature of performance.
Rhetoric and Composition 516: Advanced Technical Writing (Paul) 611R: Advanced Writing Internship (Composition Coordinators) 612: History of Rhetoric (Clark) Creative Writing 518R: Fiction Workshop (Bennion) 519R: Poetry Workshop (Larsen) 617: Creative Writing Theory (Jorgensen)Spring 2008
Program Requirements 630R: Theoretical Discourse (Duerden) American Literature 628R: Late-Twentieth-Century Jewish American Novelists (Cronin) Rhetoric and Composition 614R: Cinematic Rhetoric (Burton) Creative Writing 519R: Poetry Workshop (Johnson)