ENG 403-301
History of Rhetoric I: Classical Rhetoric
Professor Heather Graves, Wednesday, 5:45-9:00, Lincoln Park Campus
(Registration Code: Class #32357)

Course Description: This course examines different approaches to literary and nonliterary style, using the descriptive and analytical tools of structural linguistics, sociolinguistics, and rhetoric. During the quarter we will explore traditional and nontraditional investigations of style in an effort to construct a comprehensive definition of the term as well as an enumeration of its components. Principal topics covered include language structure, quantitative approaches, spoken and written language, authorial stance and voice, and pedagogical applications. Students will perform stylistic analyses on prose (fiction and nonfiction) and verse passages. Successful students should become more discerning readers and listeners and more effective writers and editors.

This course fulfills a Language & Style core requirement in both the M.A. in English and M.A. in Writing programs. It may also be used as an elective for either program.

ENG 405-301
History of Rhetoric III: Modern Rhetoric
Professor Peter Vandenberg, Tuesday, 5:45-9:00, Lincoln Park Campus
(Registration Code: Class #32358)

ENG 406-301
Topics in Language, Writing, and Rhetoric: Multicultural Rhetorics
Professor Peter Vandenberg, Wednesday, 5:45-9:00, Lincoln Park Campus
(Registration Code: Class #32359)

ENG 409
You are permitted to enroll in multiple sections of ENG 409 courses; they are, after all, different courses and they will be listed by course title (Writing from Interviews, Urban Literacy, Autobiography, etc.) on your transcript.

Different 409s fulfill credit in different concentrations, depending on the focus of the course. Please note below how the different 409s offered in winter 2003 apply to the different major concentrations.

ENG 409
Topics in Language, Rhetoric, and Writing: Text and Image
Professor Roger Graves

Course Description: Students will examine extended treatments of genre theory from rhetoric, which generally sees genre as an appropriate response to a recurrent rhetorical situation, and literary criticism, which usually views genre as a contractual code the writer sets up and follows with the reader. Students will complete three projects: one designed to apply genre theory in a workplace writing setting, one designed to assist the teaching of English in high schools or colleges, and one designed to assist the study and/or production of literary texts.

Fulfills a requirement in both the Business/Professional and the Writing Theory/Pedagogical in the MA in Writing concentration. May also be used for elective credit in both MA in Writing and MA in English programs.

Course Description:
An introduction to contemporary theories and composition of autobiography. We will spend the first half of the course reading a couple of full-length autobiographies in a context provided by several brief critical essays. The second half of the course will be devoted to the production and workshopping of your autobiographical writing. We will also investigate the Internet “life-writing” phenomenon known as “blogging”; you will blog for credit! Students registered by December 1 will receive a book list and additional information by email. After December 1, questions may be directed to pvandenb@depaul.edu

Fulfills a requirement in the Literary Writing in the MA in Writing concentration. May also be used for elective credit in both MA in Writing and MA in English programs.

Course Description:
This course will examine form and structure of the novel and the process of writing long prose fiction. The course will utilize a workshop format, and students will discuss and critique their own writing as well as the work of other students in class. This course is ideal for students who are currently writing or planning to write a novel or other long prose fiction work.

This course fulfills a requirement in the Literary Writing concentration for the M.A. in Writing. It may also be used as an elective for the M.A. in English or the M.A. in Writing.

Instructor Permission Required: Students interested in enrolling in this course should submit the following:

* A short letter describing how this class serves your goals and objectives. If you are working on a novel or other long fiction piece, please present a short prospectus. Mention any previous creative/literary writing courses and experiences. Include your e-mail address and your seven-digit DePaul student number in your letter.
* A sample of 8-10 manuscript pages of fiction you have written.

Send to: Prof. Ana Castillo, Department of English, DePaul University, 802 W. Belden Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-3214. Deadline: November 24. You will be notified of your enrollment status by e-mail by December 1.

Fulfills a requirement in the Literary Writing in the MA in Writing concentration. May also be used for elective credit in both MA in Writing and MA in English programs.

ENG 419-301
Topics in Medieval Literatuer: Middle English Romances
Professor Bill Fahrenbach, Monday, 5:45-9:00, Lincoln Park Campus
(Registration Code: Class #32364)

Course Description:
This is a course in elearning--how to create computer- and web-based informational materials for self-motivated learners. We will read about adult learning theory, instructional design, and how to use multimedia to create effective learning materials that will be accessed through the computer. Students will use Dreamweaver MX to create several web-based tutorials or lessons that teach an audience they choose about a new concept or procedure, which will include ways for learners to assess and evaluate the progress of their learning. For more information, please contact Heather Graves.

Fulfills a requirement in both the Business/Professional and the Writing Theory/Pedagogy in the MA in Writing concentration. May also be used for elective credit in both MA in Writing and MA in English programs.

Course Description:
We will read five novels (Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Between the Acts) and selected nonfiction prose (including A Room of One's Own) by Virginia Woolf in order to situate her within both the Modernist movement and the female literary tradition posited by feminist critics. Special attention will be given to biography and to the Bloomsbury milier in which she wrote.

Course Description:
The nineteenth century was a period of extraordinary trauma and change in Ireland. A great rebellion had taken place in 1798. In the 1840s the death and emigration which resulted from the potato famine reduced the population of Ireland by a fifth. The countryside was a locus of conflict between peasants and landlords. It was a century of charismatic political leaders such as Daniel O’Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell and of secret societies and revolutionary organizations such as the Fenians. It was also a time of great social change, especially for women, as both the institutions of the state and of religion became more active in people’s lives.

Ireland, in the nineteenth-century, was ruled by Britain in a quasi-colonial relationship with which neither side was happy. The British will to rule was sustained by images of the Irish, whom they categorized racially as Celts, as either ape-like monsters to be tamed or hapless but loyal children in need of guidance. Literature, and especially fiction, was one of the principal means whereby attempts were made to negotiate relationships within Ireland and between Ireland and Britain. This course will address these issues through the work of eight of the major writers of the period, Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, John Banim, Gerald Griffin, William Carleton, Sheridan LeFanu, Charles Lever and Emily Lawless. Reader’s guides will be provided for their work.

Course Description:

ENG 451 focuses on British novels, mainly by women, published between 1920 and 2002. We will examine the novelists' techniques as well as their handling of social issues.

Course Description:
Students will study Southern culture, virtually "another country" until the 1960s, via eight novels and six short stories that embody the racial/caste social system plaguing "DIXIE" the 20th century South examining fictions that depict class-rooted life in Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. A paper and final exam will allow members of the class to familiarize themselves with the socio-political issues that have generated a profusion of unique fiction from writers in this most fascinating and insular of regions in the U.S.

TEXTS in reading sequence:

Readings (available only in first class): Critical/biographical articles on works and authors in course, including the short stories (listed below).

NOVELS (in bookstore) and short fiction (get IN class):

Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding (350 pp.)
"Death of the Traveling Salesman."

Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (70 pp.)
"The Sojourner," and "A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud."

William Faulkner, Light in August (380 pp.)
"Wash," and "Dry September."

Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (480 pp.)

Flannery O'Connor
"The Displaced Person," "The River," "Greenleaf," and "The Last Shall Enter First," (60 pp.)

Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show (280 pp.)

Pete Dexter, Paris Trout (200 pp.)

Toni Morrison, The Song of Solomon (310 pp.)

Wm. Melvin Kelley, A Different Drummer (190 pp.)

Course Description:
This course explores several of the roles that editors play in the contemporary workplace. Students will acquire a firm foundation in principles of copyediting and experience in editorial marking, as well as exposure to the larger editorial process and to fundamentals of design and editing in Web-based documents.