ENGL 199

Spring 2014 All Classes

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Undergraduate Open Seminar

Credit: 1 TO 5 hours.

Topics course that varies each semester and by section. The topics offered each semester will be listed in the Class Schedule.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated.

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ENGL 199 class schedule data for spring 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10065	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
57256	Lecture-Discussion	CHP	11:00AM -12:20PM	MW	212 1205 W Oregon	Stevens, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Degree Notes: Camp Honors/Chanc Schol course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Shakespeare & Audiences Section Info: Section CHP is for Chancellor's Scholars only. Others may enroll with the consent of the instructor and the Campus Honors Program. Topic Section CHP: Shakespeare and his Audiences We all know the role Shakespeare continues to occupy within the Western canon. In this campus honors seminar, I would have us set aside Shakespeare?s formidable reputation as the ?greatest writer in the history of English literature? and instead concentrate on Shakespeare the actor and playwright who made his considerable living writing for the London professional theater from roughly 1580 to 1611. The city of London, Shakespeare?s fellow actors, the physical spaces of the Globe and the Blackfriars playhouses, and any number of material and cultural factors?props, music, special effects, audience expectations?shaped the plays Shakespeare wrote and consequently inform the printed play editions that we now read. Our study of Shakespearean ?original practices??the key theatrical conventions and staging conditions that existed in Shakespeare?s time?will allow us to see Shakespeare?s plays as living documents intended for performance. Emphases will include an attention to the plays in their earliest moment of composition, rehearsal, performance, publication, and reception, as well as to the production histories of Shakespeare?s plays. This focus on production history will take us from Shakespeare?s time up to the present moment: that is, many of Shakespeare?s plays have been in continuous production for 400 years, including recent popular film adaptations, and not just in the English-speaking West. What does this history of performance, adaptation, and revision tell us? Do the plays continue to offer us insight into the social world we ourselves inhabit? Do we find any of Shakespeare?s plays to be ?exhausted?? Together, we will read Shakespeare?s more canonical plays (Much Ado About Nothing Macbeth, A Midsummer Night?s Dream) alongside his lesser-known or infrequently performed works (Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline). Nor shall we neglect those plays critics have labeled, rightly or wrongly, as ?problems:? Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew. Given our emphasis on the ?live-ness? of Shakespeare, there will be group excursions to local productions of the plays we study, one field trip to the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre at Navy Pier, and one final group performance project allowing students the chance to enact their own ideal stagings of short scenes from the plays covered in the course. Secondary readings will draw from relevant studies of early modern theater history and Shakespearean original practices; works of literary criticism that had an impact on theater practitioners; and classics of Shakespeare criticism. Restriction(s): Restricted to Chancellor's Scholar-CHPHonors students.
53975	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	149 English Building	Williams, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Publishing and Editing Section Info: Topic Section E: Publishing and Editing This course is designed for students who anticipate working with or in the trade or academic publishing industry. Topics covered include developmental editing and line editing; proofreading; language usage; intellectual property and permissions; developing a marketing plan; submitting queries; electronic publishing; tables, graphs, images, and page layout. Abundant writing and editing practice will be required. Required texts will include the Chicago Manual of Style. Restricted to ENGL and RHET majors through 11/25. After that date, any remain seats will be open to any major. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Rhetoric or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
58392	Online	F	2:00PM -2:50PM	MW	n.a.	Sheets, F	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Writing To Get That Job Section Info: Topic Section F: Writing To Get That Job Through conceptual development and context-sensitive lessons/assignments, students will: [1] develop/improve writing skills particularly germane to successfully applying for an internship, a post-baccalaureate job, or an advanced-degree program and [2] apply those skills to create a polished set of recruiter-ready texts relevant to their career plans and a career-relevant, currently-advertised job/internship/program. Attending regularly-scheduled, online class meetings is expected of all students because: learning how to successfully apply writing concepts is a skill, and such skills are acquired through ?enactive? experiences. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
60359	Lecture-Discussion	JB	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	132 Davenport Hall	Byrd, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Digital Natives Section Info: Topic Section JB: Digital Natives: Indigeneity, Video Games, and New Media Although indigenous peoples are often associated with notions of a premodern, natural world devoid of innovation, they have always used technology from print media to computer code to resist settler colonialism. With the rise of social media, reddit, YouTube, and digital gmes across a number of platforms, interfaces through which to encounter, engage, and resist representations of indigenous peoples have proliferated. How have vide games dealt with issues of indigeneity, race, and colonialism? How have American Indians and other indigineous peoples used media to reimagine narrative, history, and play? Drawing upon a number of disciplines, this class will ask students to think through how digital and new media have dealt with indigeneity. Texts will include: Red Dead Redepmtion, Assassin's Creed 3, and Bioshock Infinitie along with graphic novels, movies, and novels by American Indian and indigenous writers and artists.
59903	Online	N	10:00AM -10:50AM	TR	n.a.	Kelly, D	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Writing To Get That Job Section Info: Topic Section N: Writing To Get That Job Through conceptual development and context-sensitive lessons/assignments, students will: [1] develop/improve writing skills particularly germane to successfully applying for an internship, a post-baccalaureate job, or an advanced-degree program and [2] apply those skills to create a polished set of recruiter-ready texts relevant to their career plans and a career-relevant, currently-advertised job/internship/program. Attending regularly-scheduled, online class meetings is expected of all students because: learning how to successfully apply writing concepts is a skill, and such skills are acquired through ?enactive? experiences.
59907	Online	P	11:00AM -11:50AM	TR	n.a.	Grohens, J	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/14-05/07/14 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Writing To Get That Job Section Info: Topic Section P: Writing To Get That Job Through conceptual development and context-sensitive lessons/assignments, students will: [1] develop/improve writing skills particularly germane to successfully applying for an internship, a post-baccalaureate job, or an advanced-degree program and [2] apply those skills to create a polished set of recruiter-ready texts relevant to their career plans and a career-relevant, currently-advertised job/internship/program. Attending regularly-scheduled, online class meetings is expected of all students because: learning how to successfully apply writing concepts is a skill, and such skills are acquired through ?enactive? experiences.
31940	Lecture-Discussion	T	3:30PM -5:20PM	TR	59A English Building	Camargo, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Countercultures in the Movies Section Info: Topic Section T: Drugs, Sex, 'n' Rock and Roll: Countercultures in the Movies, 1930s - 1960s This course will study cinematic representations of alternative ideologies and behaviors, emphasizing practices that were suppressed by established authorities in the United States and Europe from the 1930s through the 1960s. While the organization of the course is chronological, it is not genetic; that is, there is no assertion of causal relationships among these periods. Postcards from the edge, if you will. In reading these postcards, we will also explore why and how these stories of ?outsiders? became integrated into the mainstream of commercial cinema. Evaluated work will include short response papers and 3?4 medium-length essays.