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Course Title: INTRO TO GRADUATE STUDIES
Section: 1
CRN: 14081
Instructor Name: Malewitz, Raymond J.
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 214
Day: TR
Begin Time: 1600
End Time: 1720
Course Description:In addition to explaining the requirements, procedures, and trajectory of the MA program, this class offers a rapid introduction to the theories, methods, and professional practices of academics working in the fields of literature, rhetoric and composition, and film studies. Throughout the course, we will examine a series of prominent critical approaches that have guided advanced study in all of the program’s three MA fields: (1) literature and culture; (2) rhetoric, writing, and culture; and (3) film and visual studies. We will learn (or re-learn) these approaches by using our theory readings as critical lenses for the exploration of (a) a series of small textual and filmic artifacts and (b) a series of essential issues (including contemporary discussions of affect, biopolitics, neoliberalism, post-truth politics, race, gender, and sexuality).
As much as possible, the course will stress practical aspects of performing these readings. We will learn proper and improper ways of using secondary sources and theory sources in academic arguments. We will identify, employ, and critique standard ways that academics signal the significance of their work in written and oral arguments. We will explore the conventions of genres including the conference paper abstract, the conference paper, the conference Q &A, the scholarly article, and the thesis. We will learn effective ways of maximizing research resources within and beyond the OSU library. Finally, we will create “mini-theses” related to students’ scholarly interests that will be delivered in print and orally. By the end of the course, students should have a clear sense of how to best navigate their two years in the MA program at Oregon State’s School of Writing, Literature, and Film with an eye toward future careers within and beyond academia.
Course ID: ENG418/518
Course Title: ENG NOVEL: VICTORIAN PERIOD
Section: 1
CRN: 19021
Instructor Name: Ward, Megan
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 206
Day: TR
Begin Time: 1000
End Time: 1120
Course Description: We usually think of the Victorians as well-mannered, moralistic prudes but they were equally fascinated with violence, spectacle, imposters, madness, and corruption. This course will study representations of these monstrous others in order to peel back the veneer of Victorian decorum. We will read four novels and one novella published between 1830 and 1900 in order to understand a period equally captivated by respectability and aberration.
Course ID: ENG425/525
Course Title: STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Section: 1
CRN: 19023
Instructor Name: Bude, Tekla
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 334
Day: MWF
Begin Time: 1100
End Time: 1150
Course Description: What came before Montaigne's famous Essays, before Descartes' paradigm-shifting think, therefore I am, and before the rise of the Enlightenment individual? What did it mean to construct the self before the development of modern notions of selfhood? In this course, we will read premodern precursors of the personal memoir and the essay texts that deal with the idea of inwardness, personhood, identity, and subjectivity, in order to answer this question. We will read some most beautiful, moving, and disturbing texts in English literature: from the deathbed confessions of Julian of Norwich to the raucous autobiography of Margery Kempe, from visionary political and ethical complaints to survivor narratives of rape, depression, and anxiety, and from poetry to prose. This course will investigate how literature of the medieval period constructed notions of the self. It also welcomes creative engagement with these texts: I encourage students who wish to use the form, content, and structure of the narratives we will study this term to construct their own personal essays and memoirs.
*Pre-1800
Course ID: ENG530
Course Title: STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN LIT
Section: 1
CRN: 19024
Instructor Name: Olson, Rebecca R.
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 214
Day: M
Begin Time: 1500
End Time: 1750
Course Description: In early modern England, literature was disseminated in both manuscript and print; traditionally, manuscript circulation has been seen as the more elite literary form—manuscripts often exchanged hands in exclusive coteries—while print was directed at non-elite or “popular” audiences. The so-called “stigma of print” is believed to have influenced what, and by whom, was printed in the time period. This course reassesses those assumptions. To what extent, we will ask, was the medium of print also seen as providing opportunities, social as well as commercial? How did the printed edition, specifically, invite or respond to a more diverse audience than has been traditionally represented by the history of reading? These questions demand that we take seriously works previously dismissed as “popular,” that we rethink literary criticism’s deep investment in authorship and in historical individuals, and that we embrace our own perspectives as people living in the early twenty-first century and engage in responsible speculation about how the technology of print, when still new, could have been experienced by users. Readings include a number of early modern texts (for example, prefaces to readers, ballads, Arcadia and its seventeenth-century fan fiction) as well as essays by historians of reading (Newcomb, Salter, Chartier) and the theorists from which they draw (Benjamin and Bourdieu).
*Pre-1800 *MA Experience
Course ID: ENG570
Course Title: MYTHS, MOTHERS, MONSTERS
Section: 1
CRN: 14208
Instructor Name: Richter, Jennifer B.
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 214
Day: TR
Begin Time: 1200
End Time: 1320
Course Description: In this craft class, we will study contemporary poetry collections framed by myth: Persephone and Demeter, Orpheus and Eurydice, and others. Through in-depth discussions and extensive in- and out-of-class writing assignments, we'll consider where we, as writers, might step into a myth's known narrative in order to better understand our own. As Eavan Boland says in her Persephone-inspired poem "The Pomegranate": "the best thing about the legend is/I can enter it anywhere. And have". Possible readings include books by Louise Gluck, Gregory Orr, and Anne Carson.
Special Topic: Myth, Mothers, & Monsters
*Craft
Course ID: ENG580
Course Title: STUDIES IN LIT, CULT & SOCIETY
Section: 1
CRN: 19025
Instructor Name: Scribner, Keith T.
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 214
Day: W
Begin Time: 1800
End Time: 2050
Course Description: Manipulating Time in Narrative: In this craft class we’ll explore how time is manipulated to tell a better story and how narrative dramatizes those moments in our lives when we feel we’re living in the past, present, and future all at once. We’ll read novels, short stories, and creative nonfiction that collapse, compress, fragment, and reverse time asking why these authorial choices make a more compelling story and more effectively reveal lived experience and perception. In several short writing exercises you’ll model your own narratives on the published work we’re reading. Authors may include Ernest Gaines, Joyce Carol Oates, Nick Flynn, and Martin Amis.
Special Topic: Manipulating Time in Narrative
*Craft
Course Title: DOCUMENTARY FILM STUDIES
Section: 1
CRN: 19745
Instructor Name: Baker, David
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 332
Day: TR
Begin Time: 1200
End Time: 1320
Course Description: This upper-division/graduate level seminar explores documentary films and filmmaking across a range of styles and subjects, but with a focus on science and natural resources storytelling. The course explores the role of a film producer in shaping narrative structure of a project and the intensive writing and collaboration required of documentary filmmakers, providing students with the most essential skills required for producing feature-length nonfiction films.
Special Topic: Science and natural resources documentary filmmaking.
Course ID: FILM452/552
Course Title: STUDIES IN FILM
Section: 1
CRN: TBD
Instructor Name: Lewis, Jon R.
Building: OWEN- Owen Hall
Room: 103
Day: W
Begin Time: 1800
End Time: 2150
Course Description: This class will engage an interdisciplinary study of The Godfather -- the Mario Puzo novel and the three films by Francis Coppola -- with an eye on the history of organized crime in America, on gangster films in American movie history, on Hollywood history in the so-called transition and new Hollywood eras, and on the particulars of cinematic form and style. Weekly film screenings will include the three Godfather films, relevant gangster films released before (Scarface, The Public Enemy, The Big Combo) and in the same era as Coppola's films (Mean Streets, Goodfellas).
Course Title: THE TEACHING OF WRITING
Section: 1
CRN: 19029
Instructor Name: Pflugfelder, Ehren H.
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 332
Day: TR
Begin Time: 830
End Time: 950
Course Description: In WR 411/511, The Teaching of Writing, we'll study research about the teaching of writing and practice what it means to assign, evaluate, and respond to student writers. This course is designed to introduce current and future teachers of writing to theory and pedagogy in composition studies, to help us become aware of and strengthen our own writing processes, and to enable us to make and express connections between classroom experience and composition theory. We'll be looking at assessment, response, assignment creation, grammar, literacy, multimedia, process, and genre as we explore composition and writing. Students will be expected to complete substantial reading assignments, informal and formal writing assignments, collaborative and digital assignments, and reading responses, as well as participate in class discussions and activities. Coming out of this class, you'll be better prepared to teach and evaluate your students' writing and likely feel more confident in your own writing.
*Pedagogy
Course ID: WR517
Course Title: TEACH PRACT: ENG COMP
Section: 1
CRN: 10185
Instructor Name: Jensen, Tim
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 206
Day: T
Begin Time: 1730
End Time: 1920
Course Description: This seminar continues your training in and preparation for WR 121 instruction, exploring the pedagogical practices and principles introduced during orientation. Whereas orientation served as an overview of the curriculum, its objectives, assignment sequence, and theoretical trajectory, this course is designed to provide you with more practice in and support for the nitty-gritty of actually teaching it from week“to“week. Simultaneously, this course focuses heavily on developing your overall framework for quality teaching. The course provides an opportunity for you to discover and devise teaching skills, share strategies, and participate in guided reflection.
Course ID: WR524
Course Title: ADVANCED FICTION WRITING
Section: 1
CRN: 10726
Instructor Name: Rodgers, Susan
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 204C
Day: R
Begin Time: 1400
End Time: 1650
Course Description: WR 524 is the MFA graduate fiction workshop. Objectives include: generating new work; deepening your understanding of the craft elements of fiction, and the different ways to employ them in your stories or novel chapters; practicing a range of ways to respond to fiction that of your peers, as well as professional writers; and developing a range of revision techniques. We will engage the workshop discussion format in a variety of ways. Students will submit two workshop pieces, which should add up to approximately 20-30 pages for the term. (Writers of flash fiction are expected to submit several pieces at a time.) The work you submit should be new; if you're submitting a revision, discuss with the instructor first. Attendance at every workshop and regular, meaningful participation are required/expected. You will also produce one-page, single-spaced letters to your peers for each workshop submission. (The instructor will offer models for writing "alternative letters.") Finally, we will read and discuss some stories by professional writers as well as craft essays, and you will write a brief craft essay of your own to submit at the end of the term. Please note: enrollment in this course is limited to graduate students who have been accepted into Oregon State University's Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing (fiction).
Course ID: WR540
Course Title: ADVANCED NONFICTION WRITING
Section: 1
CRN: 15200
Instructor Name: Passarello, Elena
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 204C
Day: M
Begin Time: 1700
End Time: 1950
Course Description: This graduate-level workshop in nonfiction writing is specifically designed for the eight writers of the MFA nonfiction cohort. All other interested writers must contact the instructor for permission before registering. For the Fall 2018 workshop, we will generate a series of short essays based on weekly prompts, each prompt focusing on a core component of the contemporary literary essay: scene, commentary, form, and research. For the first seven weeks, we will discuss each week's work in informal workshops. Students will gradually build from these drafts full-length essays for longer, more formal workshops that are scheduled for the last weeks of the term.
Course ID: WR541
Course Title: ADVANCED POETRY WRITING
Section: 1
CRN: 13663
Instructor Name: Holmberg, Karen E.
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 204C
Day: T
Begin Time: 1400
End Time: 1650
Course Description: In this workshop, poets will adopt – or be adopted by – a poet writing in a language other than English, and complete a three-poem translation project, as well as write a poem in conscious imitation of another poet or poem, and an homage. Other issues we will consider as a class are: what is translation? How is it a metaphor for the poetic process itself? To what extent do we engage in self-translation even when we think we are writing a “new” poem? Is translation related to other modes of poetic creation, such as the elegy? Students will be asked to explore their poetic inheritance by completing a poetry “family tree” project to uncover their progenitors, and their progenitors own precursor poets. We will also venture into parody, for fun’s sake.
Course ID: WR599
Course Title: WR 222 TEACHING PRACTICUM
Section: 1
CRN: 17816
Instructor Name: Kelly, Kristy L.
Building: MORE- Moreland Hall
Room: 206
Day: M
Begin Time: 1730
End Time: 1820
Course Description: This teaching practicum provides assistance and support to graduate students teaching Writing 222 (Argumentation) for the first time. It is an opportunity to gather resources, exchange ideas, and troubleshoot common problems while teaching the course. The teaching practicum also provides the opportunity for graduate students to engage in curriculum development, and to assist in the instruction of graduate teaching assistants who will be teaching the course in future terms. Meetings will take place both in the larger group and one-on-one with the instructor, according to availability and need.
*Pedagogy