Registration for Spring Semester is just around the corner!
Registration for Grad students begins November 11.
Our Spring offerings are as follows. Please note that we will be adding course descriptions for these courses as we get them from faculty.
ENGL 6350 | AMER LIT & CULT | W 4:30PM- 7:00PM | RWST 113 | Crumbley, P |
ENGL 6360 | WORLD LIT & CULT | T 4:30PM- 7:00PM | RWST 214 | Graham, S |
ENGL 6400 | ADVANCED EDITING NO XL -- Deb Ray | ARR | ARR ONLINE | Ray, D |
ENGL 6450 | READING THEORY/ DOCU XL ENGL 7450 | ARR | ARR ONLINE | Shook, R |
ENGL 6460 | DIGITAL MEDIA XL ENGL 7460 | ARR | ARR ONLINE | Hailey, D |
ENGL 6610 | SEMINAR AMERICAN WEST XL HIST 6610 | TR 1:30PM- 2:45PM | RWST 306 | Graulich, M |
ENGL 6720 | FOLKLORE FIELDWORK XL HIST 6720 | R 3:30PM- 6:00PM | MAIN 203 | Gabbert, L |
ENGL 6740 | FOLK NARRATIVE XL HIST 6740 and ENGL/HIST/ANTH 5700 | MF 11:30AM- 1:45PM | RWST 214 | McNeill, L |
ENGL 6800 | T/P ONLINE EDUC XL 7800 | ARR | ARR ONLINE | Grant-Davie, K |
ENGL 6810 | INTRO TO COMP STUDIES | T 4:30PM- 7:00PM | RWST 114 | Kinkead, J |
ENGL 6883 | POETRY WRITING WS | M 4:30PM- 7:00PM | RWST 113 | Gunsberg, B |
English 6810 Introduction to Composition Studies
Spring 2014
Tuesday, 4:30-7:00 pm
Dr. Kinkead
This course focuses on the scholarship of writing studies. Students become acquainted with scholars, forums, themes, and methods of the field. But, we will be engaging in hands on work, developing research projects that can come to fruition by semester’s end. Additionally, we will discuss the undergraduate research movement and its integration in writing studies and how as teachers we can work with students on research in writing studies.
About the instructor: Dr. Kinkead is the author/editor of ten books; she has just finished a manuscript on Researching Writing, and she is at work on another book project. She is a charter board member of the National Writing Centers Association (now the International WCA) and served as editor of The Writing Center Journal for six years. Her areas of scholarship include computers and writing, writing program administration, and undergraduate research.
Questions? Contact Dr. Kinkead at Joyce.Kinkead@usu.edu
6360 – World Literature and Culture:
“Traumatic Memory and Postcolonial Literature”
Shane Graham
Why is it so difficult to represent exceedingly violent historical events? How is that difficulty compounded by disorienting new ways of thinking about space and time in our postmodern era of globalization and consumer capitalism? How useful are psychoanalytic theories of trauma and memory in understanding such massive social ruptures in collective memory as slavery in the Caribbean, the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, and apartheid in South Africa?
Such questions will be the driving force of this class. We will take novels, stories, and poems about those three historical “moments”—slavery, Partition, and apartheid—as testing grounds for various theories of memory and memorialization, taken from such diverse theoretical models as psychoanalysis, cultural geography, and postcolonial theory.
In addition to extensive critical and theoretical readings from those disciplines and schools of thought, our reading list will include: Andrea Levy, The Long Song; Michelle Cliff, Abeng; Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children; Amit Majmudar, Partitions; Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull; Jane Taylor, Ubu and the Truth Commission; and poems by Ingrid de Kok and Derek Walcott. Students will write a major research paper of 15-20 pages. Every student will also take part in a mock conference in which they present their research to the class, and will give a Reader Report in which they summarize designated readings for their classmates and apply those readings to the literature we will read that week. And of course, every student will be expected to contribute regularly to class discussions in this seminar-style course.
Eng 6720 Folklore Fieldwork
Lisa Gabbert
The class will cover ethnographic fieldwork techniques, focusing primarily on participant observation, interviewing techniques, and the writing of fieldnotes. Other topics to be covered include ethics, human subjects/IRB, transcription issues, some technical information on recording equipment, and academic questions of identity, reflexivity, and power. Students will be required to participate in a series of directed fieldwork assignments; PhD students will be required to write a full fieldwork-based research paper. This class is required for all folklore students. It fulfills one 3 credit option for section B: Research for TPPC students.
Spring 2014
Tuesday, 4:30-7:00 pm
Dr. Kinkead
This course focuses on the scholarship of writing studies. Students become acquainted with scholars, forums, themes, and methods of the field. But, we will be engaging in hands on work, developing research projects that can come to fruition by semester’s end. Additionally, we will discuss the undergraduate research movement and its integration in writing studies and how as teachers we can work with students on research in writing studies.
About the instructor: Dr. Kinkead is the author/editor of ten books; she has just finished a manuscript on Researching Writing, and she is at work on another book project. She is a charter board member of the National Writing Centers Association (now the International WCA) and served as editor of The Writing Center Journal for six years. Her areas of scholarship include computers and writing, writing program administration, and undergraduate research.
Questions? Contact Dr. Kinkead at Joyce.Kinkead@usu.edu
6360 – World Literature and Culture:
“Traumatic Memory and Postcolonial Literature”
Shane Graham
Why is it so difficult to represent exceedingly violent historical events? How is that difficulty compounded by disorienting new ways of thinking about space and time in our postmodern era of globalization and consumer capitalism? How useful are psychoanalytic theories of trauma and memory in understanding such massive social ruptures in collective memory as slavery in the Caribbean, the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, and apartheid in South Africa?
Such questions will be the driving force of this class. We will take novels, stories, and poems about those three historical “moments”—slavery, Partition, and apartheid—as testing grounds for various theories of memory and memorialization, taken from such diverse theoretical models as psychoanalysis, cultural geography, and postcolonial theory.
In addition to extensive critical and theoretical readings from those disciplines and schools of thought, our reading list will include: Andrea Levy, The Long Song; Michelle Cliff, Abeng; Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children; Amit Majmudar, Partitions; Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull; Jane Taylor, Ubu and the Truth Commission; and poems by Ingrid de Kok and Derek Walcott. Students will write a major research paper of 15-20 pages. Every student will also take part in a mock conference in which they present their research to the class, and will give a Reader Report in which they summarize designated readings for their classmates and apply those readings to the literature we will read that week. And of course, every student will be expected to contribute regularly to class discussions in this seminar-style course.
Eng 6720 Folklore Fieldwork
Lisa Gabbert
The class will cover ethnographic fieldwork techniques, focusing primarily on participant observation, interviewing techniques, and the writing of fieldnotes. Other topics to be covered include ethics, human subjects/IRB, transcription issues, some technical information on recording equipment, and academic questions of identity, reflexivity, and power. Students will be required to participate in a series of directed fieldwork assignments; PhD students will be required to write a full fieldwork-based research paper. This class is required for all folklore students. It fulfills one 3 credit option for section B: Research for TPPC students.
Ben Gunsberg
Engl 6883-Poetry Writing
My graduate poetry writing class will focus on questions of technique and influence. To this end, we will read and write both free and formal verse. We will discuss student work as well as poetry written by established authors. Our conversations will revolve around craft, which means we will explore those time-tested categories and techniques that guide and strengthen poets’ efforts. This approach will begin with close attention to the language that moves us and, moreover, careful consideration of why it moves us.
English/History 6610—Seminar in the US West
Melody Graulich
This seminar will focus on classic western American memoirs by writers such as Miné Okubo, Bill Kittredge, Mary Clearman Blew, Leslie Silko, Norma Cantú, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriquez, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Evelyn Funda. If you send me an email at melody.graulich@usu.edu, I will send you a list of course books. Please get the appropriate editions. Coursework will include both critical writing and memoir. Depending on class size, I will also assign oral reports and/or discussion leading.
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