Meets at the College of Charleston, Tuesdays, 6-8:45 – Prof. Susan Farrell (Fulfills an American Literature requirement) This course examines a selection of contemporary American fiction in historic, aesthetic, and social contexts. In other words, we will explore the relationship between contemporary American literature and the world we live in. Topics may include literature and […]
ONLINE w/scheduled classroom meetings (TBD) – Professor J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston) (Required for entering students) ENGL 511 offers a practical introduction to research and writing for graduate study in English. The course will cover theoretical approaches to literary and cultural interpretation; the discovery, analysis, evaluation, and integration of primary and secondary sources; and strategies for […]
ONLINE – Prof. Katja Pilhuj (Citadel) (Fulfills a British Literature before 1800 requirement) Critics decrying the moral bankruptcy of entertainment is nothing new: English playwrights of the 1500s and 1600s had no problem staging all kinds of crimes and misbehaviors, provoking alarmed commentary on the degenerate effects of the theater. Yet, villains and vice were a featured […]
Fall 2018 Courses ENGL 511 – Introduction to Graduate English Studies – Prof. James Hutchisson Meets at The Citadel, Wednesdays, 4-6:45 (Required for all incoming students) Go to the description ENGL 535 – African American Literature – Prof. Licia Hendriks Meets at The Citadel, Thursdays 4-6:45 (Fulfills an American Literature requirement) Go to the description […]
Tu. 7:00-9:45. Professor Sean Heuston. Meets at the Citadel. (Fulfills an American Literature requirement) ) This course explores the historical and ongoing tensions related to various ideas about the South, Southern identity, Southern history, tradition, and social change by examining a wide range of literary texts that deal with tradition and change in Southern society. We will […]
Wed. 7:00-9:45. Professor William Russell. Meets at College of Charleston. (Fulfills a British Literature before 1800 requirement) What is our place in history? What is history, anyway? And what, if anything, distinguishes history from time itself? These were pressing questions for the poets of the Renaissance, who actively defined their culture in relation to the past, and […]
Online (limited enrollment). Professor Warnick. Meets at the College of Charleston. (Counts as an elective) In this course, you will develop a critical language for understanding writing as a social and rhetorical activity by learning current theories concerning the writing process, genre, language difference, literacy, identity, and other writing-related issues. You will learn important pedagogical […]
Mon. 7:00-9:45. Professor Kathleen Béres Rogers. Meets at College of Charleston. (Fulfills a British Literature after 1800 requirement) The concept of the “norm” was first developed in nineteenth-century statistics; specifically, Adolphe Quetelet introduced the notion of the “normal man.” This begs not only the obvious question of gender (is the woman “abnormal?”) but also the question […]