ENGL 2107E01—Western Literature II: Backgrounds to English Literature
Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30 to 10:00 (Winter Term)
Instructor: Dr. Helena Debevc Moroz
Office: Parker Building, L611
Classroom: C102
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4106
Email: hdebevc@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
This course is a study of selected works of various Western literatures (in translation) which have been influential on English literature. It is designed particularly for English literature students and those with an interest in European literature. A selection of works from the Renaissance to the present will be covered.
Selections from the following authors will be studied: de la Fayette, Racine, Rousseau, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Freud, Mann, Kafka, Camus.
Text Required
Lawall, Sarah, et al. Eds. The Norton Anthology of Western Literature. 8th edition. Vol. 2. Norton. 2005.
ENGL 2116EL01—The Bible and Literature
Wednesdays 15:00 to 18:00 (Winter Term)
Instructor: Dr. Marilyn Orr
Office: Parker Building, L720
Classroom: C102
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4348
Email: morr@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
“The Old and the New Testaments are the Great Code of Art,” literary scholar Northrop Frye quotes poet William Blake. As students of literature, we will try to decipher this code by learning about the images, narrative and thematic patterns, and linguistic rhythms that originate in the English Bible and permeate and shape English language and literature.
Text Required:
Michael D. Coogan, et al., eds.
The New Oxford Annotated Bible. New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha. 3
rd edition. Oxford UP, 2001.
ENGL 2556EL01—Principles and Practices of Professional Communication
Tuesdays 19:00 to 22:00 (Winter Term)
Instructor: Dr. Philippa Spoel
Office: Parker Building, L715
Classroom: L810
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4345
Email: pspoel@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
This workshop-style course will introduce you to fundamental rhetorical theories and principles of workplace communication as they relate to the creation of a proposal for a community project. You will work in small groups on a series of sequenced assignments that will allow you both to practice and critically reflect on written, oral, and visual forms of communication involved in the production of a persuasive proposal. As well, the course will focus on developing your understanding of and ability to engage in effective processes of collaboration and communication for team-work.
Texts Required
Richard Johnson-Sheenan, Writing Proposals: Rhetoric for Managing Change. Longman/Allyn & Bacon, 2002.
Assorted readings, distributed in class ($20 copying charge).
FILM 3206EL01—Applied Media Aesthetics
Mondays 18:00 to 22:00 (Winter Term)
Instructor: Dr. Hoi Cheu
Office: Parker Building, L708
Classroom: C205
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4354
Email: hcheu@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: By appointment.
Applied Media Aesthetics adds the dimensions of technology and communication to the English programme to serve two purposes: for establishing students’ imaginative expression and for enhancing students’ media communication skills for job proficiency. The course will be subdivided into ten specific workshops, covering topics from basic operation of filming equipment to aesthetic principles of lighting, framing, editing, and screenwriting. Since creativity and experiential learning are this course’s basic operating philosophy, the central assignment is a group short film production.
Required readings will be on reserve in the library.
ENGL 3936—Post-Colonial Fiction
Wednesdays 8:30–11:30 (Winter Term)
Instructor: Dr. Michael D'Arcy
Office: Parker Building, L714
Classroom: E203
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4374
Email: mdarcy@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 (and by appointment)
This course examines a series of novels that have come to be considered as canonical within the field of postcolonial literature. Ranging over several continents and decades of literary production, these texts will provide a basis for consideration of central issues in the development of postcolonial studies. We will be concerned with a consistent interrogation of the notion of “postcolonial” literature, examining the conditions for the emergence of this category as a dominant critical paradigm. Other animating questions of the course include the following: the relationship of postcolonial literary aesthetics to modernism and postmodernism; the role of linguistic difference and linguistic hybridization in the evolution of postcolonial literature; tensions and continuities between discourses of postcoloniality and contemporary processes of globalization.
Texts Required:
Achebe, Chinua. No Longer at Ease. Anchor, 1994.
Coetzee, J.M. Waiting for the Barbarians. Penguin, 1982.
Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. Farar Straus Giroux, 2000.
Naipaul, V.S. A House for Mr. Biswas. Vintage, 2001.
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Harper, 1998.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Penguin, 1991.
ENGL 4687EL01—Visual Rhetoric
Wednesdays 13:30 to 16:30 (Winter Term)
Instructor: Dr. Philippa Spoel
Office: Parker Building, L715
Classroom: E203
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4345
Email: pspoel@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
Traditionally, rhetoric has concerned itself with the art of verbal persuasion: how people use words to make meaning and communicate effectively with other people. Increasingly, however, attention is being paid to the meanings and functions of visual rhetoric: how people use visual media, images, and design to make meaning and communicate effectively with other people. Certainly in today’s world, visual literacy and visual rhetoric are central to how we understand and communicate about reality. In this course, we will study the principles of visual rhetoric as these are being articulated by research on the subject and we will draw on these principles to conduct our own rhetorical analyses of diverse visual rhetorics. These could include, for example, art, film, advertising, video games, scientific and technical communication, web design, comic books, technical instructions, children’s books, educational materials, page layout, etc. The main assignments for the course will be rhetorical critiques of visual artifacts; however, interested students may have the opportunity to produce visual rhetorics of their own accompanied by critical commentary.
Text Required:
Johnson-Sheenan, Richard. Writing Proposals: Rhetoric for Managing Change. Longman/Allan & Bacon, 2002.
ENGL 4787EL01—Honours Seminar IV: Soviet Women Writers
Tuesdays and Thursdays 13:00 to 14:30 (Winter Term)
Instructor: Dr. Helena Debevc Moroz
Office: Parker Building, L611
Classroom: C114
Phone: 675-1151, ext. 4106
Email: hdebevc@laurentian.ca
Office Hours: TBA
In this course the portrayal of women in contemporary Soviet/Russian fiction will be explored. Special attention will be paid to the Soviet/Russian women writers’ voice in contemporary Russian fiction.
Texts Required:
Assorted readings, distributed in class ($20 copying charge).