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English (ENGL) - For a syllabus or more detailed course information, please contact the department at 610-758-3310.

Course Listings

Course# Course Title (Credit Hours) CRN Day/Time Location Session Instructor

1-011*	Composition & Literature (3)	20676	Online		Full	Staff
95-010*	Writing for Show: Grammar Workshop (1)	20672	Online		First	Staff
183-010	Independent Study (1-4)	20107	Hours Arranged		First	Staff
183-011	Independent Study (1-4)	20343	Hours Arranged		Second	Staff
187-010	Second Life (4)	20674	T/Th 1:10-4:00pm	TBD	First	Gallagher
189-010	Eat, Pray, Love (4)	20108	M-Th 9-10:35am	DR 019	First	Kroll
189-011	From the Barrio to the Boardroom (4)	20344	M/W 4-7:00pm	DR 102A	Second	Fifer
191-010	Combat Films: Wars in the Pacific (4)	20675	Online		First	Kroll
281-010	Writing Internship (1-4)	20109	Hours Arranged		First	Kroll
281-011	Writing Internship (1-4)	20345	Hours Arranged		Second	Kroll
282-010	Professional Internship (2-4)	20110	Hours Arranged		First	Kroll
282-011	Professional Internship (2-4)	20346	Hours Arranged		Second	Kroll
318-010	African American Literature (3-4)	20111	M/W 4-7:00pm	DR 209	First	Whitley
388-010	Independent Study (1-4)	20113	Hours Arranged		First	Staff
388-011	Independent Study (1-4)	20347	Hours Arranged		Second	Staff
391-010	Literatue and the World-wide Web (3-4)	20114	Online		Second	Whitley
391-011	Literature and the World-wide Web (3-4)	20115	Online		Second	Whitley
397-010/WS 397-010/AMST 397-010	Feminist Theory in Television (4)	20446	T/Th 4-7:00pm	DR 209	First	Keetley
397-011/WS 397-011/AMST 397-011	Feminist Theory in Television (3)	20447	T/Th 4-7:00pm	DR 209	First	Keetley
400-010	Supervised Teaching (1)	20118	Hours Arranged		First	Staff
400-011	Supervised Teaching (1)	20349	Hours Arranged		Second	Staff
478-010	And They Laughed and Laughed: 20th Century American Comic Drama (3)	20348	T/Th 4:10-7:00pm	DR 102A	Second	Fifer
495-010	Independent Study (3)	20119	Hours Arranged		First	Staff
495-011	Independent Study (3)	20350	Hours Arranged		Second	Staff

Course Descriptions

1. Composition and Literature I: Emphasis on the writing process, especially on revising for cogency and clarity. Topics drawn mainly from everyday life and culture. Students must receive a grade of C- or higher to advance to English 2. *Online section requires use of Blackboard.

95. Writing for Show: Grammar Workshop: Feeling a little shaky about editing your written work? Don't have the confidence in your knowledge of grammar that you need to be a complete writer! This online course aims to help. We'll work together on a series of widely recognized common grammar errors as well as focusing individually on your personal problem spots. Gather some of your recent writing for diagnostic purposes. Compile a list of grammar questions. Appropriate for anyone -- staff as well as students -- needing a refresher or a brush-up. Drills and exercises, yes, but personal comfort, consolation, and consultations with Conan, the Grammarian assured. May be repeated for credit. *Online section requires use of Blackboard.

183. Independent Study: Individually supervised study of a topic in literature, film, or writing not covered in regularly listed courses. Prerequisite: consent of the department chairperson. HU

187-10. Second Life: Arguably, the latest technological frontier for education is virtual reality. So let’s explore. In ways yet to be determined as this catalog goes to press months before this brand-new class begins, we will explore the educational potential of Second Life, an online 3D virtual world created entirely by its residents. No experience in virtual worlds is necessary, but we hope for students from a range of disciplines who might imagine how, if at all, virtual reality might be valuable to their fields of study.

189-010. Eat, Pray, Love: This will be a hybrid course, involving reading and also writing of personal narratives. The framework---Eat, Pray, Love---comes from a book that we’ll read by Elizabeth Gilbert. You’ll be asked to read and write nonfiction narratives about food (“eat”), spiritual exploration (“pray”), and personal relationships (“love”).

189-011. From the Barrio to the Boardroom: This course will examine multicultural fiction and film about success in America. Our authors have different definitions of success and follow different paths to their goal. We will read short stories and novels by such authors as Jessica Hagedorn, Gloria Anzaldua, Frank Chin, Toni Cade Bambara, Ishmael Reed, Gerald Vizenor, and others that explore the effects of immigration, class, education, acculturation, and assimilation on identity.

191-10. Combat Films: Wars in the Pacific: A comparative study of about six combat films depicting WWII (Pacific), Korea, and Vietnam. Work will include responses, discussion board posts, assigned articles, and short essays on each film. Taught on-line with daily assignments and strictly enforced deadlines. Students must purchase all films before start of the session. Online section requires use of Blackboard.

281. Writing Internship: Projects on- or off-campus in professional, governmental, or service organizations. Experience must include extensive writing that can be submitted for review. Enrollment limited to juniors or seniors with a major or minor in English. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: approval of department internship adviser or department chair.

282. Professional Internship: Supervised projects, on- or off-campus, in professional, government, or service organizations. An interested student must submit a proposal, demonstrating the project's relevance to the study of language, texts, or communication, to the department's internship adviser. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits. Internship credits do not count toward major in English. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing and approval by department internship adviser.

318. African American Literature: This survey of African American literature from the nineteenth century to the present begins with the slave narratives of the antebellum period, continues with the novels from the turn-of-the-century, and examines the debates about representing the African American experience during the Harlem Renaissance as well as today’s postmodern era. BOTH IN CLASS AND ONLINE.

388. Independent Study: Individually supervised study of a topic in literature, film, or writing not covered in regularly listed courses. Prerequisite: consent of department chairperson.

391. Literature and the World-wide Web: How has literature changed since the Internet became a part of our everyday lives? This class considers literary texts written for the Internet as well as online archives of nineteenth-century literature as we think about how literature differs in the “old” media of print and the new digital medium. Online; requires use of Blackboard.

397/WS 397/AMST 397. Feminist Theory in Television: This course will explore the ways in which feminist theory gets disseminated within popular television shows, beginning with the feminism of the 1970s in relation to shows such as "Mary Tyler Moore" and "One Day at a Time" and moving through what has been called by many the "postfeminist" era with "Murphy Brown" and "Ally McBeal." We will pay particular attention to 90s shows "Sex and the City" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." We will focus on issues that have centrality preoccupied both feminist theory and television, including women's equality with and difference from men; women's role in marriage, the family and in the workplace; sexual desire; female friendships; and agency, power, and violence. We will read feminist theorists from the 1970s to the present along with the following books: Bonnie Dow, Prime-Time Feminism ; Charlotte Brunsdon, ed., Feminist Television Criticism ; Kim Akass and Janet McCabe, eds., Reading Sex and the City ; and Lorna Jewett, Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for The Buffy Fan .

400. Supervised Teaching: Practical experience in teaching through assisting a faculty teacher in conduct of a regularly scheduled undergraduate course. Open only to graduate students with at least one semester of graduate course work at Lehigh University and a GPA of at least 3.5. Usually rostered in conjunction with 485. Prerequisite: consent of the department chairperson.

391/WS 391/AMST 391. Feminist Theory in Television: Will explore how feminism gets disseminated within popular television shows, from the 1970s through the present. We will focus on issues that have preoccupied both feminism and TV: the institutions of marriage, the family, and the workplace; love and sexual desire; female friendship; and, more generally, female empowerment. Shows watched include: Mary Tyler Moore, Murphy Brown, Designing Women, Commander in Chief, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, The L Word.

478. And They Laughed and Laughed: 20th Century American Comic Drama: In this course we will read the best of recent comedy—from realism to the absurd and the avant-garde. We will also see films of several of the plays we are reading. Playwrights may include Tina Howe, John Guare, Jules Feiffer, Christopher Durang, Cherrie Moraga, Emily Mann, Paula Vogel, Maria Irene Fornes, Adrienne Kennedy, David Mamet, Arthur Kopit, Beth Henley, A.R. Gurney, Wendy Wasserstein, and others. Possible topics will be education, politics, history, gender, religion, sexuality, class, and more.

495. Independent Study: Individually supervised course in an area of literature, film or writing not covered in regularly listed courses. Prerequisite: consent of the graduate program coordinator.

*Blackboard is the online course management system used at Lehigh. Access to Blackboard requires a Lehigh computing account.