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Updated 05/12/2022FALL 2022Department of EnglishUndergraduate Course BulletinResourcesDepartment Websiteusf.edu/englishAdvising .usf.edu/DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISHUSF.EDU/ENGLISH

FALL 2022 ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE BULLETINPAGE 2TABLE OF CONTENTS (CLICK TO JUMP TO SECTION)TABLE OF CONTENTS (CLICK TO JUMP TO SECTION) . 2SECTION DESCRIPTIONS . 2CREATIVE WRITING . 3The Form and Technique of Poetry HEATHER SELLERS, PhD. 3The Form & Technique of Fiction ANDREA RINARD. 3The Form & Technique of Creative Nonfiction JULIA KOETS, PhD . 4ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 5Advanced Composition: Beat Dharma HERSCHEL CONNER . 5Expository Writing & The USF Forest Preserve MICHELLE SONNENBERG . 5Expository Writing JUSTISS BURRY . 6ENGLISH (GENERAL) . 7Literary Criticism REGINA HEWITT, PhD . 7ENGLISH LITERATURE . 8British Lit 1616-1780 REGINA HEWITT, PhD . 8Early Shakespeare LISA STARKS, PhD . 9Stud. in 17th/18th C. Brit. Lit: Restoration & 18th-Century Drama LISA STARKS, PhD . 9LITERATURE . 11Climate Fiction LINDSEY KURZ . 11Intro to Literature: American Protest Literature JANE ROSE, PhD . 11Intro to Literature: Imagining the Edible: Food in Literary Fiction MANJARI THAKUR . 12SECTION DESCRIPTIONSBelow are a number of section descriptions for some of our English major courses. View the catalog tosee catalog course descriptions and contact an advisor if you have questions or need advising.This bulletin is continuously updated as section descriptions come in, so check usf.edu/englishbulletinfrequently for updates!Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if youhave questions or need assistance.

FALL 2022 ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE BULLETINPAGE 3CREATIVE WRITINGTHE FORM AND TECHNIQUE OF POETRY HEATHER SELLERS, PHDCRW 3311 CRN 86077Wednesday 6:30 PM- 9:15 PMOnline SynchronousSECTION DESCRIPTIONLearn ultra-useful writing skills--compression, close observation, detail, sound work--while reading alively group of global poems.REQUIREMENTS Weekly poem assignmentsTEXTS Handbook of Poetic Forms by Ron PadgettCatalog listing: CRW 3311THE FORM & TECHNIQUE OF FICTION ANDREA RINARDCRW 3111-002 CRN 82973Mondays & Wednesdays 2:00-3:15 PMTampa Campus Face-to-FaceINSTRUCTIONAL METHODCourse is an in-person class lecture.SECTION DESCRIPTIONWe will read short pieces of fiction and find the machinery that makes the stories work and thenpractice those strategies in your own pieces of fiction.TEXT Writing Fiction, 10th Edition by Janet BurrowayCatalog listing: CRW 3111Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if youhave questions or need assistance.

FALL 2022 ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE BULLETINPAGE 4THE FORM & TECHNIQUE OF CREATIVE NONFICTION JULIA KOETS, PHDCRW 4930-001 CRN 82266Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30-1:45 PMTampa Campus Face-to-FaceDESCRIPTIONIn this introductory creative writing course in nonfiction, we will learn about the different nonfictionnarrative forms and core nonfiction writing techniques, including scene, character, dialogue,metaphor, and imagery.Catalog listing: CRW 4930Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if youhave questions or need assistance.

FALL 2022 ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE BULLETINPAGE 5ENGLISH COMPOSITIONADVANCED COMPOSITION: BEAT DHARMA HERSCHEL CONNERENC 4311-601 CRN 81616Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:00 pm – 3:15 pmSt. Petersburg Campus Face-to-FaceDESCRIPTIONThis course will explore the encounter between Buddhism and US Beat writers with a focus on theircreation of a vernacular pop Buddhism that rendered road maps for self-operative care and creativeliving in the form of a practical DIY mind science antecedent to belated and often colonizing efforts ofcontemporary integrative medicine. The Beats vigorously investigated Buddhist disciplines of the mindand attention–as well as Black Poetics and Indigenous wisdom traditions–that then fed back onto theirown creative production. Our course will also integrate recent claims for the merits of Buddhistpractices such as meditation and chanting made by a large and robust scientific literature with our ownreflection, critique, and first-person practice, anchored in careful and collective reading of Buddhisttexts and Beat writers that each of us can translate into our own idiom, beliefs, customs, and uniqueinstances of composing.Catalog listing: ENC 4311EXPOSITORY WRITING & THE USF FOREST PRESERVE MICHELLE SONNENBERGENC 3310-007 CRN 80239Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 pm – 1:45 pmTampa Campus Face-to-FaceDESCRIPTIONIn this course, students will practice writing and communication skills. Through the lens of the USFForest Preserve, students will learn how language moves and operates in groups with shared interests,goals, values, and vocabularies. Students will explore your own sense of belonging within communitiesand their personal identity through various modes of communication, as well as improve research skills,write in genres, and make a podcast.REQUIREMENTSWeekly reading responses, a short presentation, two short essays, and one podcastTEXTS All texts will be provided by the instructorCatalog listing: ENC 3310Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if youhave questions or need assistance.

FALL 2022 ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE BULLETINPAGE 6EXPOSITORY WRITING JUSTISS BURRYENC 3310-009 CRN 81755Mondays & Wednesdays 9:30 pm – 10:45 pmTampa Campus Face-to-FaceINSTRUCTIONAL METHODCourse is face-to-face with a significant class participation component; this includes interactive classsessions.DESCRIPTIONThis course examines symbolic practices related to health and medicine, with a focus on rhetoricalstrategies employed by physicians, health professionals, patients, and advocates. Class readings willcover scholarship in various disciplines as well as popular writing from newspapers, websites, blogs, andsocial media connecting theories of rhetoric and communication with current health debates includinghow discourses of medicine intersect with issues of race, disability, gender identity, sexuality, andsocioeconomic status.REQUIREMENTS Examine and analyze various medicinal discourses around individuals and communitiesResearch how terms like "health," "care," and "prevention" can be construed in myriad waysWrite about the ways communities create publics and counterpublics to empower themselvesagainst medicalizationCreate and share an in dept rhetorical analysis of a chosen topic within medicine andcommunity workCatalog listing: ENC 3310Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if youhave questions or need assistance.

FALL 2022 ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE BULLETINPAGE 7ENGLISH (GENERAL)LITERARY CRITICISM REGINA HEWITT, PHDENG 4013-700 CRN 88097Online AsynchronousINSTRUCTIONAL METHODCourse is fully online.SECTION DESCRIPTIONStudents in this section will survey a selection of texts from landmark controversies in the history ofliterary criticism and consider why they have been influential and controversial in Western culture,especially in Britain, from ancient to present times.Controversies to be studied include whether literature is a means to a moral goal or an end in itself;whether publication should be subject to censorship or licensing, and whether national or culturalidentities are strengthened by following literary precedents or departing from them.Critics to be studied range from Plato and Aristotle through Aphra Behn, Samuel Johnson, and WilliamWordsworth to Virginia Woolf, Stephen Greenblatt and Lawrence Buell. Students will also examine thegenres and techniques (such as dialogues, letters, periodical essays, dictionaries, biographicalinquiries) at issue in these controversies, either as part of the matter criticized or as means forcarrying out the critical investigations, and they will practice using some of these instruments inweekly assignments.This section will be conducted entirely online. There will be no synchronous meetings orteleconferences, but students will be expected to follow a given schedule for postings on and responsesto assigned material. Information about the schedule and further particulars will appear in Canvas onthe day before the first day of classes.REQUIREMENTS Online communication (discussion posts and responses) on assigned questions by specifieddeadlines (usually twice per week); most of this work will involve group collaborationQuizzesResearch assignmentTEXT David H. Richter, ed. The Critical Tradition: Shorter Edition. Bedford-St. Martin, 2016. ISBN13: 978-1-319-01118-5Some additional readings will be assigned; files will be provided in Canvas or directions will begiven for library or internet access.Catalog Listing: ENG 4013Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if youhave questions or need assistance.

FALL 2022 ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE BULLETINPAGE 8ENGLISH LITERATUREBRITISH LIT 1616-1780 REGINA HEWITT, PHDENL 3230-700 CRN 87281Online AsynchronousINSTRUCTIONAL METHODCourse is fully online.SECTION DESCRIPTIONStudents in this section will read a selection of literary works from the 17th and 18th centuries,investigate how the social, political, and philosophical developments of the time shaped thisimaginative writing, and consider how such contexts continue to affect the reception of these texts.Works to be considered will include poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction by authors ranging fromJohn Donne through John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and John Gay to Jonathan Swift,Alexander Pope, and Oliver Goldsmith. Contexts to be examined include the Commonwealthexperiment, the Restoration of court culture, and the rise of the public sphere; Enlightenment(including Scottish Enlightenment) philosophy and religious sectarianism; advances in commerce andindustry along with problems of empire and slavery; expectations about gender and manners.The online class format will give students the opportunity to compare the formation of readingcommunities through the circulation of manuscript and printed materials during the 17th and 18thcenturies with the formation of reading communities through electronic media at the present time.This class will be conducted entirely online. There will be no synchronous meetings or teleconferences,but students will be expected to follow a given schedule for postings on and responses to assignedmaterial. Information about the schedule and further particulars will appear in Canvas on the daybefore the first day of classes.REQUIREMENTS Online communication (discussion posts and responses) on assigned questions by specifieddeadlines (usually twice per week); most of this work will involve group collaborationQuizzesTwo short research assignmentsTEXTS Joseph Black et al., eds., The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, vol. 2: TheRenaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century. 3rd ed. ISBN: 9781770485815. Please note thatthis is a digital edition.Joseph Black et al., eds. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, vol. 3: TheRestoration and the Eighteenth Century. 2nd ed. ISBN: 9781770483484. Please note that this isa digital edition.Some additional readings may be assigned; files will be provided in Canvas or directions will begiven for library or internet access.Catalog Listing: ENL 3230Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if youhave questions or need assistance.