Advanced Course Descriptions

Instructor: Gabriel Duckels

Description: This class will help you develop critical approaches to literary studies, with an emphasis on understanding critical theory. Critical theory offers a set of tools to sharpen our understanding of what literature is, what culture does, and how texts work. In this class, we will explore different critical theories and apply them to the study of English literature.

This course will provide you with a toolbox of critical lenses and methods to enhance your ability to analyze texts with sophistication. These lenses are: New Criticism, Structuralism, Narrative Theory, Deconstruction, Feminist and Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and more. We will apply these lenses to a manageable (and hopefully inspiring!) selection of texts: mostly poetry and children’s literature. This writing-intensive class will be assessed through class engagement, Canvas responses, two short papers, a workshop, and a final essay.

Contact: xjs21@txstate.edu

Satisfies: ENG 3301

Instructor: Suparno Banerjee

Description: This course will introduce students to important global theoretical and critical approaches to literary and cultural studies. Introduction to these conceptual frameworks will provide students tools to analyze and understand cultural works of diverse origin from multiple perspectives. We will not only read about these critical approaches, but also study some important original works. In addition to the critical texts, we will read three novels of different cultural origins from three different time periods and examine them in light of the critical concepts studied in this class. Our goal will be to examine the multiple ways in which we can see and understand not only literary/creative works but also the concept of human culture itself. This class does not assume any prior knowledge of critical theory.

Texts: Selected theoretical writings, some short stories and poems and a couple of novels such as Franz Kafka's The Trial and Mary Shelley' Frankenstein.

Contact: sb67@txstate.edu

Satisfies: ENG 3301

Instructor: Simon Lee

Description: This course familiarizes students with the concepts, critical practices, and methods central to research across the various branches of English. It surveys the development of literary and critical theory, inviting participants to consider how methodologies of the past produce critical frameworks for the present. In addition, the course will take up issues of genre and form, it will cover the kinds of terminology used within the field, and it will offer a number of practical strategies for interpreting texts, conducting research, and composing sophisticated scholarship that emphasizes the value of the arts and humanities in society. That is to say that the course will address the sociopolitical implications of the English discipline as well as the kinds of forces that act against it.

Texts: TBD but likely a combination of: Auster, Paul. City of Glass. ISBN: 9780140097313 / 9780143039839; Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. ISBN: 9781400078776; Parker, Robert Dale. How to Interpret Literature. 4th ed. ISBN: 9780190855697; Porter, Max. Lanny. ISBN: 9781644450208; Taylor, Brandon. Real Life. ISBN: 9780525538899; Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. ISBN: 9780156030472

Contact: simonlee@txstate.edu

Satisfies: ENG 3301

Instructor: Graeme Alan Wend-Walker

Description: Why is writing important? What place does it have in a world where “text” often means something short and thoughtless? Does literature exist for more than entertainment? How else might we respond to it? What implications does writing have for how we live and for how we understand the world around us? How do we form and evolve our ideas about writing and the world? If we want to treat writing seriously, what kinds of tools, strategies, and resources are available to help us with that? What advantages and shortcomings might these different tools have? Once we’ve reached our conclusions, how do we then communicate them to others? How do we write meaningfully and persuasively about writing? This course will consider multiple kinds of text from multiple angles, all with the intention of enriching our experience of it and sharpening our capacity to productively engage with it.

Texts: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. Norton Critical Edition (5th Edition) (ISBN: 9780393264869); Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Penguin (ISBN: 9780385474542); A film – To be announced; PLUS - A variety of literary and critical texts that will be provided in-class, from short stories and poems to TV commercials, magazine ads, visual texts, and various on-line materials. This will include texts provided by students.

Contact: graeme@txstate.edu

Satisfies: ENG 3301

Instructor: Kathleen McClancy

Description: This course will introduce students to the techniques and theories of film and digital video production by teaching students how movies are made. This is a hands-on class, and students should expect to spend significant time with a camera. We will discuss shot composition, location scouting, cinematography, and non-linear editing, among other topics. As we learn the elements of the medium of film, we will put our new knowledge into action, creating our own digital videos. Necessary equipment is provided. Texts: TBD.

Contact: kmcclancy@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group D; Film Concentration; Media Studies Minor

Topic: Critical Personal Narrative

Instructor: Eric Wallace Leake (P)E-mail

Description: We tell life stories to ourselves and others for many reasons. In this course we will examine life stories by focusing on how and why we tell them. You will work with classmates in writing and sharing one another’s stories and reflecting upon how those stories are told. We will study life stories from diverse perspectives and in a variety of genres, including essayistic memoirs, interviews, profiles, oral histories, and case studies. Our work will be informed by a rhetorical approach as we consider the ethics of telling life stories, who gets to tell which stories, and the work that life stories do.

Contact: eleake@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Writing and Rhetoric Concentration; Writing Minor

Instructor: Jon Marc Smith

Description: A seminar for writers of screenplays, with emphasis on creativity, criticism of existing screenplays, and revision of student work. Includes studio workshop, readings of published and filmed texts, as well as literary criticism and analysis.

Contact: js71@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Film Concentration; Media Studies Minor; Writing Minor

Instructor: Jon Marc Smith

Description: An introduction to various theoretical approaches to the study of film and to important debates within film theory. Focus will include, but is not limited to, (1) theories of spectatorship, (2) the debate between formalism and realism, (3) psychoanalytic and feminist theories, and (4) cultural approaches to film.

Contact: js71@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group D; Film Concentration; Media Studies Minor; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture

Instructor: Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth

Description: This course provides an introduction to basic film terms and concepts, various theoretical approaches to the study of film, and to important debates within film theory. Its focus will include, but is not limited to, theories of spectatorship, the debate between formalism and realism, psychoanalytic and feminist theories, and cultural approaches to film. This course should be taken before other upper-division film courses.

Satisfies: Group D; Film Concentration; Media Studies Minor; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture

Instructor: Victoria L Smith

Description: Since the founding of the United States, the physical region and cultural landscape of “the West” have been integral to understanding what it means to be "American.” This course takes up how the West and Southwest frontier have been figured in film and hence how notions of race, national identity, and gender have been constructed by the iconography and narratives of the western frontier depicted/refracted by film. In this journey out west, we pay attention not only to the people that populate these films—gunslingers, cowboys and Native people, women (wild and not), chicano/as, and others—but also to how the films work through close reading of the mise-en-scene, editing, and cinematography.

Contact: vlsmith@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group D; Film Concentration; Media Studies Minor; Southwestern Studies Minor; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture; Diversity Studies Minor

Topic: Rhetorics of Fame and Celebrity

Instructor: Joanna Collins

Description: This course explores the rhetorical dimensions of fame and celebrity in contemporary culture and historical contexts. Drawing on classical and contemporary rhetorical concepts, as well as frameworks from media studies, we will analyze a range of celebrity artifacts: social media

content, interviews, public appearances, fan interactions, and more. Throughout the course, students will practice rhetorical research and analysis, develop media literacy, and gain a deeper understanding of how meaning is created and negotiated in public spheres.

Contact: jcollins@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Writing and Rhetoric Concentration; Writing Minor; Minor in International Studies

Topic: Literacy and Culture

Instructor: Dr. Octavio Pimentel

Description: This course encourages students to perceive literacy not merely as a neutral skill, but as a concept deeply rooted in cultural contexts, reliant on social institutions and conditions for its significance and application. Students engage in the exploration and formulation of links between theoretical frameworks, empirical research, and practical implementation. The primary emphasis of this course is on the manifestation of literacy within various communities. Additionally, the course fosters the development of strategies for effective collaborative projects and necessitates that students exhibit research and writing skills suitable for advanced undergraduate coursework.

Texts: Martinez, Aja. Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory. National Council Teachers of English, 2020. Love, Bettina L. We Want to do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Beacon Press, 2020.

Contact: op11@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Writing and Rhetoric Concentration; Writing Minor; Minor in International Studies

Topic: Cultural Rhetorics

Instructor: Lauren Brentnell

Description: In cultural rhetorics, stories are central. Understanding how we use these stories to make meaning, connection to each other, and create our perceptions of the world can help us understand different communities and their practices. In this course, we will read theories and stories about what cultural rhetorics work is, considering the various methods and ethics involved in this work. We will also develop final projects by examining our own stories through a cultural rhetorics lens.

Texts: all open-access materials

Contact: brentnell@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Writing and Rhetoric Concentration; Writing Minor; Minor in International Studies

Instructor: Christopher Dayley

Description: The course teaches composition techniques that include planning, organization, revision, usage, and audience identification necessary for writing in science and/or social science fields.

Satisfies: Group E; Writing and Rhetoric Concentration; Writing Minor

Instructor: Roger D Jones

Description: A critical seminar for writers of fiction, poetry, and articles. Creativity, criticism, and revision are emphasized.

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration; Writing Minor

Instructor: Jason R Coates

Description: A critical seminar for writers of fiction, poetry, and articles. Creativity, criticism, and revision are emphasized.

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration; Writing Minor

Instructor: Christopher K Margrave

Description: A critical seminar for writers of fiction, poetry, and articles. Creativity, criticism, and revision are emphasized.

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration; Writing Minor

Instructor: Amanda Scott

Description: This is an introductory creative writing course that explores the genres of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Combining readings of sample texts, study of craft, writing exercises, and workshops, this course is designed to give you a multifaceted experience of what it’s like to work in these genres. For those interested in honing their craft, this course will provide foundational skills for cultivating and sustaining a meaningful writing practice.

Contact: aes126@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration; Writing Minor

Instructor: Bianca A. Perez

Description: ENG 3315 is designed as an introduction to creative writing. We will explore craft elements of literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, and we will implement sound craft into our own work. Our overall focus is the development of quality, publishable writing. During the course of the semester, we will weave in discussions on craft and poetics from our readings with our own writing. We will have a workshop schedule that will allow students to workshop pieces in every unit. In order to write well, one must read as much as possible. We’ll be reading various writers and studying what and how they create meaning, structure a narrative, and keep a reader enthralled. As William Faulkner said: “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.” I find that even trash fan fiction can be helpful! Quality participation in workshops—providing peers with criticism and commentary—is an enormous part of this class. Drafts will be submitted to the class on a fixed schedule in order to provide adequate time for review. Participation in the workshop is required, essential, and should be beneficial to everyone.

Texts: N/A; course reading will be provided via hyperlinks to online literary journals.

Contact: bperez@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration; Writing Minor

Instructor: Chad Hammett

Description: A critical seminar for writers of fiction, poetry, and articles. Creativity, criticism, and revision are emphasized. (The majority of classes will consist of student-led workshops of peer manuscripts.

Texts: On Writing by Stephen King; A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver

Contact: ch34@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration; Writing Minor

Instructor: Benjamin Munro Austin

Description: A critical seminar for writers of fiction, poetry, and articles. Creativity, criticism, and revision are emphasized.

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration; Writing Minor

Topic: Who Watches the Watchmen

Instructor: Kathleen McClancy

Description: Who watches the Watchmen? We do—on the page, in the theater, on the television screen. This course follows the Watchmen franchise from its origins in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ comic, through Zack Snyder’s film adaptation, to HBO’s television series, considering not just these stories but also their inspirations from page and screen. In the process, we will consider the relationship between narrative and form, the impact of media constraints on narrative, and the nature of transmedia storytelling.

Texts: Moore and Gibbons, Watchmen; Watchmen (2009); Watchmen (2019). Other texts may include: Action Comics (1938); Detective Comics (1937); Justice League of America Vol. 1 (1960); Batman (1989); Taxi Driver (1976); Within Our Gates (1920); In the Heat of the Night (1967); The Matrix (1999); “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” The Advantures of Superman (1946)

Contact: kmcclancy@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group D; Film Concentration; Media Studies Minor; Minor in International Studies

Instructor: Susan S Morrison

Description: This course provides an overview of the historical development and changes of English from its Indo-European roots to contemporary American Englishes and Global Englishes that exist throughout the world today. We will discuss the origins and growth of the English language with particular attention to the social, cultural, and historical contexts for phonological (pronunciation), morphological (form of words), and grammatical changes. We will also examine dialects, spelling, and dictionaries. This course is vital for understanding American English today and for understanding literature written in English in both the medieval and postmedieval periods.

Texts: Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 6th Ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2013. 6th edition: ISBN-13: 978-0415655965

Contact: morrison@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Secondary Education Concentration; Medieval and Renaissance Minor

Instructor: Julie McCormick Weng

Description: This course introduces students to modern and contemporary poetry. By reading a range of transatlantic texts from the late nineteenth century to today, we will trace the development of poetry across time, its ongoing play with poetic form, and its engagement with social, cultural, and political concerns. While the majority of our readings will come from our anthology, we will also read a collection of poems composed by a local poet.

Texts: TBA

Contact: julie.weng@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group D

Instructor: Suparno Banerjee

Description: This course will introduce students to Russian fiction in English translation. Starting from the 19th century, Russia produced some of modern western literature’s most influential writers whose thematic and stylistic impacts can be seen in future generations all over the world. This course will cover fictions by some of those authors along with authors who are not so well known outside of Russia. We will focus on the selected works’ historical, socio-cultural, and literary implications inside and outside Russia. The types of texts we cover will include works of classic realism, as well as science fiction, fantasy, and folklore. Authors covered may include Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, the Strugatsky brothers, Petrushevskaya, and Ganieva among others.

Texts: Possible texts may include such novels as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic and several short stories.

Contact: sb67@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group C; Diversity Studies Minor; Minor in International Studies

Topic: World Mythology

Instructor: Graeme Wend-Walker

Description: So far as we can tell, myths have been a part of every culture throughout history. They resonate through our own, both as stories informing our sense of reality and as rich sources of inspiration for literature, the arts, and popular culture.

This is a literature class, so the emphasis here is on mythology as literature and on literature’s use of mythology. Having said that, the study of literature can encompass many other fields, such as history, sociology, psychology, and archaeology. There are many ways of approaching myths. They can tell us about real historical events, the values of a given society, what it means to be human, how the universe came into being, how cultural customs and rituals came into being, rules of social behavior, or the path to self-knowledge. Students will learn to consider myths from all of these perspectives.

This course will focus on four regions/time periods: The Classical mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome; Old Norse mythology; the mythology of East and Southeast Asia (China, Vietnam, & Thailand); and African myths (primarily from West Africa—Uganda and Nigeria, specifically—but also the Congo and the African diaspora). Significant time will also be allowed for the discussion of myths from other times and places.

Texts: Thury, Eva M. and Margaret K. Devinney. Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths. Fourth Edition. Oxford UP: 2017. Other texts will be provided, including a film (tba).

Contact: graeme@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group C; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture; Religious Studies Minor

Topic: Gods, Goddesses, and Icons

Instructor: Katie Kapurch

Description: Catalogue Description: This course examines myths in various contexts, such as ancient and/or contemporary cultures, mythic patterns in modern literature, and myths produced in popular culture. Repeatable once when topic varies. Section Description: Who or what becomes an "icon"? What does it mean to be "iconic"? This section focuses on Greek, Roman, and Egyptian myths that feature the interactions of gods and goddesses, and we frequently consider the significance of their iconography, food imagery in particular. The latter part of the course considers fairy tales by the Brothers Grimms and African American folk tales, especially those with memorable characters and objects that function as icons. Reading assignments include myths and tales in their primary forms; other course material frequently includes adaptations of the myths or contemporary applications of mythic tropes. The Course Project includes a creative visual component to reinforce the study of icons.

Contact: kk19@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group C; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture; Religious Studies Minor

Topic: Chicana Feminist Mythology

Instructor: Sara A. Ramirez

Description: This course will focus on the permutation of myths that have been central to Chicana/o/x identity and thought. In the first unit of the course, we will focus on the notion of Aztlán, the mythical homeland, and its characterization in various cultural productions. In the next unit, we will explore some deities of the Nahua and Mayan pantheons, including Cihuacoatl, Coyolxauhqui, Coatlicue, and Huitzilopochtli, to prepare us for close readings of Chicana feminist “re-visions” of the myths surrounding these deities. In a final unit, we will investigate the transformation of “las tres madres,” the three mothers, la Llorona, la Malinche, and Guadalupe. The format of class discussions will encourage students to co-create a space for their peers to theorize from lived experience.

Texts: To be determined

Contact: sramirez@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group B or C; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture; Religious Studies Minor

Instructor: drea brown

Description: In this course we will investigate how “constructions of the monstrous, the villainous, the mad and the haunted—take on wholly different valences when they are studied within the context of blackness” and how Black creators reposition these frightening constructions while reclaiming other ways of knowing and being, beyond the imagined horror.

Texts: Get Out, Jordan Peele (2017), Wake, Bree Newsome (2010), Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark (2020), We Cast a Shadow (2019), Maurice Carlos Ruffin, The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez (1991) Stigmata, Phyllis Alesia Perry (1998) Mama Day, Gloria Naylor (1988)

Contact: drea.brown@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group B; African American Studies Minor; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture; Diversity Studies Minor

Instructor: Emily Margaret Banta

Description: Literary Realisms—What is American literary realism? What versions of “America” and “reality” does it reflect? This course examines an array of postbellum and early twentieth century U.S. writers to develop a multivocal account of a literary movement that is deeply concerned with questions of representation and objectivity. We will consider the influence of critical gatekeeper William Dean Howells and the work of Henry James to chart institutional efforts to define realism’s aesthetic and cultural parameters. We will ask how experiments in vernacular writing and “local color” by Mark Twain and others grapple with constructions of race, gender, and cultural difference in American life. We will then complicate these critical approaches by exploring the aesthetic innovations and political motivations of writers like Charles Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sui Sin Far, Zitkála-Šá, and James Weldon Johnson.

Texts: Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson; James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Contact: rbw58@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group B

Instructor: John Blair

Description: An online synchronously taught survey of American literature from 1945 to the present. Writers to be studied include John Gardner, Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyaka, Toni Morrison, and others. Readings will be placed into historical social, and cultural context and discussed in terms of both meaning and importance. Evaluation: Grades will be based on short answer exams throughout the semester (60%), a final critical/analytical paper (30%), as well as on participation (10%).

Texts: All reading is online.

Contact: jblair@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group B

Instructor: Geneva M. Gano

Description: Locating American Literature, 1930-present: This course considers representative places and periods in American Literature and Culture since 1930, as they have been imagined and recorded by a diverse range of writers, from Zora Neale Hurston to Jesmyn Ward. Our central purpose is to discover a relationship between place and literary expression, though these central concerns are inseparable from considerations of class, race, and gender.

Texts: Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Lee, Do the Right Thing; Levin, The Stepford Wives; Ward, Salvage the Bones

Contact: gmgano@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group B

Instructor: Emily Banta

Description: Novel Selves: Narrating Identity and the Fabrication of the Early American Novel—The United States has long been thought of as a place for self-invention. Whether it be stories of immigration and upward mobility, tales of con-men and fraudsters, or narratives of passing and disguise, early U.S. literature is rife with fictions of self-making. This course examines the shifting constructions of identity that define the early American novel from the late eighteenth century and through the long nineteenth century. Along the way, we’ll explore the diverse themes, social contexts, and intellectual backgrounds of the American novel as it moves across traditions of romance, sentimentalism, and realism. We’ll also ask how nineteenth-century writers use (and innovate) the form of the novel to fabricate and theorize American identity. Readings will draw from a wide array of early American writings, from Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography to James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

Texts: Syllabus subject to change, but possible authors include Charles Brockden Brown, Leonora Sansay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, James Weldon Johnson

Contact: rbw58@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Early Literature; Group B

Topic: Medieval Literatures and the Vernacular

Instructor: Leah Schwebel

Description: Chaucer, called “Dante in English” by fifteenth-century poet, John Lydgate, was a man of many languages. His early works show the profound influence of French poets, such as Machaut and Deschamps, he held a lifelong interest in the Italian poets, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, and his oeuvre includes translations of Latin works, such as Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy.

This class will focus on Chaucer’s status as an English poet, who chooses to write in the vernacular for an English audience. We will think about Chaucer as, by and large, the “inventor of English,” a title ascribed to him, deservingly, by readers and scholars. What status does English have in the fourteenth century, as opposed to Latin, Italian, and French, and why, while translating works in these languages, does Chaucer choose to write only in English? Does he do for the English language what Dante did for Italian?

For this class, we will read a good portion of the Canterbury Tales, as well as selections from Chaucer’s other major works, such as the House of Fame and Legend of Good Women. We will also read from Chaucer’s Latin and continental sources for these works.

Evaluation will include a midterm, final essay, and short discussion posts.

Texts: Jill Mann's edition of The Canterbury Tales

Contact: las235@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Early Literature; Group A or D

Topic: Modern Irish Literature

Instructor: Julie McCormick Weng

Description: This course will survey a range of texts in Modern Irish literature. We will read across genres—including poetry, drama, and prose—and we will consider how these texts engage Irish history, culture, and custom.

Texts: TBA

Contact: julie.weng@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group C: Global Literatures or Group D: Media, Genre, and Visual Studies; Minor in International Studies

Instructor: Scott Mogull

Description: In this course, students will learn editing at different levels (from the small details to the big picture). Specifically, we will cover copyediting, developmental editing, and current trends in editing and publishing. Additionally, we will explore effective author-editor relationships, ethics, teamwork in publishing, and editing for international audiences. This class is designed to provide you with the foundations to be an editor as well as edit your own writing.

Contact: mogull@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Writing and Rhetoric Emphasis; Writing Minor

Instructor: Scott Mogull

Description: In this course, students will learn editing at different levels (from the small details to the big picture). Specifically, we will cover copyediting, developmental editing, and current trends in editing and publishing. Additionally, we will explore effective author-editor relationships, ethics, teamwork in publishing, and editing for international audiences. This class is designed to provide you with the foundations to be an editor as well as edit your own writing.

Contact: mogull@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Writing and Rhetoric Emphasis; Writing Minor

Instructor: Sara A. Ramirez

Description: Chicana/o/x Narrative and Social History considers narratives produced by people of Mexican descent living in the United States. As such, the course offers students an opportunity to enhance their multicultural competence and meets the requirements for an elective in the Latina/o Studies minor.

Under the guidance of Dr. Ramírez, this section of ENG 3344 will take inventory of Chicanx narratives of borderlands identity. We begin with Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and lectures about the violent colonization of the people of what is now known as the U.S. Southwest and Mexico. We will then read Erika L. Sánchez’s popular novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter to examine the ways in which present-day Mexican and Chicanx cultures perpetuate the negative effects colonialism. Our attention then shifts to oft-ignored issues within and amongst Chicanx communities, especially narratives that bring us face to face with historical and generational trauma.

Note that this is not a Spanish course and prior knowledge of the Spanish language is not required to participate fully.

Texts: Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza; Sanchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter; and others to be determined

Contact: sramirez@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group B; Latina/o Studies Minor; Southwestern Studies Minor; Diversity Studies Minor

Instructor: Sara A. Ramirez

Description: Chicana/o/x Narrative and Social History considers narratives produced by people of Mexican descent living in the United States. As such, the course offers students an opportunity to enhance their multicultural competence and meets the requirements for an elective in the Latina/o Studies minor.

Under the guidance of Dr. Ramírez, this section of ENG 3344 will take inventory of Chicanx narratives of borderlands identity. We begin with Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and lectures about the violent colonization of the people of what is now known as the U.S. Southwest and Mexico. We will then read Erika L. Sánchez’s popular novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter to examine the ways in which present-day Mexican and Chicanx cultures perpetuate the negative effects colonialism. Our attention then shifts to oft-ignored issues within and amongst Chicanx communities, especially narratives that bring us face to face with historical and generational trauma.

Note that this is not a Spanish course and prior knowledge of the Spanish language is not required to participate fully.

Texts: Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza; Sanchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter; and others to be determined

Contact: sramirez@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group B; Latina/o Minor; Southwestern Studies Minor; Diversity Studies Minor

Instructor: William Jensen

Description: The second of a two-course sequence in a broad interdisciplinary survey of geophysical, cultural, social, literary, and political history of the Southwest, emphasizing regional and ethnic expressions of culture in architecture, art, economics, law, literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, religion, social science, and technology.

Satisfies: Group B; Southwestern Studies Minor; Diversity Studies Minor

Instructor: Chad A Hammett

Description: A seminar for writers of fiction, with emphasis on creativity, criticism, and revision. Prerequisite: ENG 3315 with a grade of "D" or better. The course primarily consists of student workshops of peer texts.

Texts: George Saunders A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven.

Contact: ch34@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration (Fiction Track); Writing Minor

Instructor: John Blair

Description: An advanced seminar for writers of fiction and creative non-fiction which will involve intensive workshopping of students’ own work and a broad review of contemporary published fiction and the process of achieving publication. Both literary and genre fiction (science fiction, fantasy, YA, Horror, etc.) are welcomed and encouraged.

Texts: None.

Contact: jblair@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration (Fiction Track); Writing Minor

Instructor: Benjamin Alden Reed

Description: A seminar for writers of fiction, with emphasis on creativity, criticism, and revision.

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration (Fiction Track); Writing Minor

Instructor: Roger D Jones

Description: A seminar for writers of poetry, with emphasis on creativity, criticism, and revision.

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration (Poetry Track); Writing Minor

Instructor: Susan Morrison

Description: In this course, we will explore a number of texts of varying genres, including saints’ lives, romance, allegory, and visionary literature. Two themes will recur throughout the semester:

pilgrimage and gender. Pilgrimage was a highly important activity in the Middle Ages. How this practice was undertaken physically and mentally is reflected in much medieval literature, most famously in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and The Book of Margery Kempe, neither of which is a focus for this class. We will see how pilgrimage pops up, either literally or symbolically, in later work generated in England.

Not all literature produced in England after the Norman Conquest was written in Middle English. Indeed, Anglo-Norman and Latin works predominated for some time after 1066. Among the works we will examine include the Anglo-Norman saint’s life of St. Catherine, written by Clemence of Barking, one of the first women writing after the Norman Conquest so far as we know. We will read the life of Christina of Markyate, abused by her parents and living in a tiny closet for four years to escape their cruelty. We’ll read literature written FOR women by men, including selections from the Rule for Anchoresses. One of the earliest works we’ll examine is Saint Patrick’s Purgatory by Marie de France, better known, perhaps, for her Lais or short romances. We’ll read the runaway “bestseller,” John de Mandeville’s Book of Marvels and Travels and excerpts from William Langland’s Piers Plowman. We look forward into the early 17th century, by seeing how Shakespeare’s play, All’s Well That Ends Well, picks up on the theme of pilgrimage in this poignant pilgrimage play written after the Reformation. Our last text is the American short story, “The Ugliest Pilgrim,” by Doris Betts which has been made into the award-winning musical, Violet.

Texts: The Life of Christina of Markyate. Trans. C. H. Talbot with Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser. Oxford World's Classics, 2010. ISBN-10: 0199556059; ISBN-13: 978-0199556052. Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse (Clarendon Paperbacks). Bella Millett (Editor), Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Editor). Oxford UP. 1992. ISBN-10: 0198119976; ISBN-13: 978-0198119975 John Mandeville. The Book of Marvels and Travels. Translator Anthony Bale. Oxford: Oxford UP (Oxford World’s Classics), 2012. ISBN-10: 0199600600 ISBN-13: 978-0199600601 William Shakespeare. All’s Well That Ends Well. Folger Shakespeare Library. Simon & Schuster. 2006. ISBN-10: 0743484975. ISBN-13: 978-0743484978.

Contact: morrison@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Early Literature; Group A; Medieval and Renaissance Minor; Minor in International Studies

Instructor: Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler

Description: We will study a variety of literary responses, by both men and women, to major cultural and social issues of the time, especially the Protestant Reformation. Writers will include, but will not be limited to, Sir Thomas More, Anne Askew, John Foxe, Sir Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser. We shall focus in particular on Spenser’s great English epic, The Faerie Queene, Spenser’s Protestant reinterpretation of the chivalric romance (quests, knights, ladies, evil beings, and strange creatures). No particular knowledge of Christian doctrine is assumed or expected. The instructor’s approach to the religious issues and beliefs of the period is academic and secular.

Texts: Renaissance Literature: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, ed. John C. Hunter, 2nd ed. (Blackwell); Edmund Spenser's Poetry, ed. Hugh MacLean and Anne Lake Prescott, 3rd ed., (Norton).

Contact: es10@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Early Literature; Group A; Medieval and Renaissance Minor

Instructor: Simon Lee

Description: This course is based on the supposition that, as English majors (or thereabouts), we should remain aware of new practices and trends in fiction. While contemporary novels are often taught in university courses, it’s less usual to find a course devoted exclusively to cutting-edge work. This course features a series of texts from the British Isles (or thereabouts) released in 2024 (or thereabouts), albeit with differing distribution, range, and audience. In some manner, all of these novels made an impact, and this course will invite us to consider the reasons why. In doing so, we can also raise questions about the role of the novel in culture today. In what ways does the form address the contemporary moment and our current circumstances? How are novels discussed and by whom? And—perhaps provocatively—is the form of the novel still a viable form of communication in a world that privileges the visual, the superficial, and the ephemeral? Essentially, this course requires us to not only think about the novels under discussion but to think about how we think about them.

Texts: Texts are still TBD but will likely include some combination of: Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, Paul Lynch's Prophet Song, Noreed Masud's A Flat Place, David Nichols' You Are Here, Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road, Sally Rooney's Intermezzo, and Colm Tóibín's Long Island.

Contact: simonlee@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group A

Topic: Queer and Trans Memoirs

Instructor: Geneva M. Gano

Description: “Trans/Formations: Queer Memoirs of Becoming, Living, Being”: This course is focused on the queer memoir. The memoir is a literary mode that foregrounds the writer’s acts of honest reflection and self-expression about their own life experiences. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the memoir is one of the most prominent and compelling vehicles for queer and trans storytelling. In this course, we will try to discover why the need to tell one’s own story an especially queer gesture. This course attempts to answer that question by reading, reflecting about, and analyzing queer and trans memoirs that have been published since the 1969 Stonewall uprising: that is, the era of LGBTQIA+ struggle for civil and social equality. During this period, we have seen what, from an older generation’s perspective, has seemed like unfathomable progress in this direction as well as devastating backlashes. Yet it is important to acknowledge that progress moves alongside opposition.

In this course, we will have two central goals: to gain a greater understanding of the ways that queer people and their relationships to the larger society in the U.S. have changed over time as well as how and why queer life writing functions in the context of queer liberation. In pursuit of these goals, we will read a mix of classic and contemporary queer memoirs and be introduced to queer theory and queer-of-color critique. Major issues that we will investigate include the concept of innate, stable sexual and gender identities (and the social forces that inform them); disruptions of the typical “coming of age” narrative; sexology’s identification and pathologization of non-normative sexuality and gender identity; characterizations of queerness as a noxious contagion that should be quarantined in a healthy society; the body as a subject for thinking and writing; and the queer workings of memory and the problem of verifiable evidence.

Texts: Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues; Audre Lorde, Zami; Janet Mock, Redefining Realness; Phoebe Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir; Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives

Contact: gmgano@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group B or D; Minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Topic: Water and Flight in Black Literature

Instructor: drea brown

Description: Themes of water and flight are prevalent tropes in Black literature that serve as sites of grief, resistance, cleansing and transformation. Throughout the semester we will explore a wide range of texts that ask us to expand our understanding of memory and forgetting, fracture and wholeness, our relationship with the natural world and what becomes possible by plunging into the aqueous unknown and soaring beyond reach.

Texts: Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison, The People Could Fly (1985), Virginia Hamilton, Augustown (2016), Kei Miller, The Deep (2019), Rivers Solomon, Salvage the Bones (2011), Jesmyn Ward

Contact: drea.brown@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group B or D; African American Studies Minor

Topic: Manhood in Texas

Instructor: Steve Wilson

Description: In this course we will explore 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century novels and short stories set in Texas, where a new masculine identity was developed. In a rugged and vast landscape, men faced uncertainty and danger while carrying with them the traits of American Romantics (a desire for self-reliance being most evident), like Adams seeking to know and succeed in a strange world. Our authors—male, female, Anglo, African-American, Chicano—will provide ways to not only define this developing identity, but to problematize it. Was such masculinity a product of the environment or of American cultural attitudes brought to Texas by immigrants from the East? How does such masculinity lead to conflicts with Native Americans, women, minorities? Is masculinity in Texas malleable enough to be embraced and revised by those who are not male? How does such masculinity create a mythology that builds barriers to modernity and engagement with the broader United States? Is a new sort of masculinity surfacing in contemporary Texas? These are the sort of complex questions authors ask us to consider.

Texts: Lone Star Law, by L'Amour, et al.; No Country for Old Men, by McCarthy; Bluebird, Bluebird, by Locke; The Adventures of Don Chipote, by Venegas; A Texas Cowboy, by Siringo; Giant, by Ferber.

Contact: sw13@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group B or D; Southwestern Studies Minor; Minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Instructor: Graeme Wend-Walker

Description: This course presents an overview of children’s literature and the discourse around it. What does “children’s literature” mean, exactly? What makes Peter Rabbit (for example) worthy of our attention? What place do children’s books hold in the public imagination? What does it mean to study children’s literature academically? These and other questions will be addressed as we discuss a range of classic and contemporary texts, including American, Mexican American, African American, Finnish, and Chinese books reflecting diverse cultural backgrounds. Along the way, we will consider issues of genre, audience, culture, and critical perspective. By the end, students will be able to describe key concerns in the field and discuss children’s literature through a range of critical frameworks.

Texts: Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are; Duncan Tonatiuh, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote; Margaret Wise Brown and Garth Williams, Mister Dog; Jon Scieszka & Steve Johnson, The Frog Prince, Continued; Derrick Barnes, Brand New School, Brave New Ruby (Ruby and the Booker Boys #1); Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland; Cao Wenxuan, Bronze and Sunflower

Contact: graeme@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group C; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture

Instructor: Katie Kapurch

Description: A survey designed to provide a critical philosophy and working repertoire of literature for adolescents.

Satisfies: Group C; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture

Instructor: Denae Dyck

Description: What happens when women re-imagine the roots of literary and cultural traditions that have long been dominated by men? This course considers how a range of women writers have engaged in a process of symbolic renovation, asking new questions of old stories. We will examine how these texts strategically revise myths, tropes, and themes from classical, biblical, and other cultural sources for the purposes of both subversion and transformation. How do these texts expose and critique patriarchal power structures? How do they advance new narratives about identity, belonging, and creativity? Our study will highlight a variety of feminist/queer movements (social, political, and philosophical), situating readings in relation to historical contexts and attending to how writers have understood gender as intersecting with sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, and ability.

Our readings will span the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries and feature multiple genres (fiction, poetry, and essays). Selections will include texts by Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, Octavia Butler, and Jeannette Winterson. We will develop critical reading and writing skills as we take up theoretical questions and make connections across texts.

Texts: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson; Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler; Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; various short essays and poems available on Canvas

Contact: denae.dyck@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group C; Diversity Studies Minor; Minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Instructor: Laura Sims

Description: How do we teach reading, writing, and literature in the secondary language arts classroom? What are the best practices that excellent teachers use, and what is the research that supports such practices? How do we develop an inclusive, multicultural perspective in our classrooms, and how do we foster a global mindset among our students? This course will address and answer these questions so that future teachers will enter the classroom with current theories and strategies that support their development as effective and reflective teachers. English 3389: The Discipline of English explores the nature of English studies as a formal field, examining its components and their relationships. English 3389 is specifically designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills you will need to successfully teach English at the secondary level.

Texts: Beers, Kylene. When Kids Can’t Read: What Teachers Can Do; Gallagher, Kelly. Teaching Adolescent Writers.

Contact: lsims@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Secondary Education Concentration

Instructor: Mark Manuel Hernandez

Description: This course studies English syntax as described by traditional, structural, and transformational grammarians.

Satisfies: Group E; Secondary Education Concentration

Instructor: Robert Tally

Description: This course will examine key figures in American Romanticism, and in particular the ways that Romantic ideas were developed and used in narrative fiction in response to the cultural transformations of the age. We will focus especially on three writers (Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville) whose writings at times exemplified and explored, at other times called into question, Romanticism in literature. Their works not only helped to define what would be considered “romantic,” but they affected the way in which “literature” and “modernity” themselves would be conceived. As such, these American Romantics contributed to the very idea of modern literary studies, and they established, and crossed, the boundaries of what would come to be understood as American literature.

Texts: To be determined, but tales and essays by Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville, plus one or two novels.

Contact: robert.tally@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Early Literature; Group B

Topic: Dante’s Divine Comedy

Instructor: Leah Schwebel

Description: This course will provide you with an opportunity to read two canticles of one of the greatest works ever written, Dante’s Divine Comedy. There will be neither quizzes nor exams; I will not ask you to memorize dates or names. Rather, we will spend our time thinking, talking, and writing about a text that remains as relevant today as it was in the late Middle Ages. Special attention will be given to Dante’s classical and contemporary sources, and to the historical, political, and literary context of the figures that populate Dante’s poetic world.

Texts: Durling and Martinez, ed. and trans, Dante's Divine Comedy

Contact: las235@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Early Literature; Single Author; Group C; Medieval and Renaissance Minor

Topic: Salman Rushdie

Instructor: Suparno Banerjee

Description: Sir Salman Rushdie, an Indian born British-American author whom Time magazine in 2023 listed as among the 100 most influential people in the world, is a quintessential transnational author at the precarious intersection of art and politics. His writing blends reality, fantasy, magic realism and revels in postmodern moves. One of the major global authors of the last four decades his influence on postcolonial literature is undeniable, especially in his masterful manipulation of the English language which created a completely new mode of linguistic expression followed by many that came after him. He is the winner of numerous honors and awards including the Golden PEN Award, the Booker Prize, and the Booker of Bookers. This class will study some of his most influential works, primarily focusing on the first half of his career.

Texts: Possible reading: Grimus, Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder and short stories and essays.

Contact: sb67@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Single Author; Group C

Instructor: Douglas K Dorst

Description: Workshop in writing fiction and evaluating manuscripts. Students produce portfolio of creative work.

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration (Fiction Track); Writing Minor

Instructor: John M Blair

Description: The capstone course for the three-course Creative Writing Emphasis. Students will develop a portfolio of fiction and/or creative non-fiction that will be appropriate for inclusion either with an application for an MFA in Creative Writing program or for a book proposal to a publisher. The class will involve intensive workshopping of students’ own work and a broad review of contemporary published fiction and the process of achieving publication. Both literary and genre fiction (science fiction, fantasy, YA, Horror, etc.) are welcomed and encouraged.

Texts: None.

Contact: jblair@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration (Fiction Track); Writing Minor

Instructor: Cyrus Cassells

Description: This online course is an advanced senior workshop designed to deepen students’ involvement with their own poetry, as well as enhance their critical reading of contemporary American poets, with a special emphasis on whole volumes of poetry. I strive to create an affable, constructive workshop environment that provides solid support for individual poetic efforts. The course also provides greater exposure to the field through energetic discussion of the work of several award-winning poets.

Evaluation:
Participation (discussion and contribution) 15%
Critical essays on the assigned poetry books, 40%
Creative writing portfolio of five or poems 45%.

Texts: Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson; Blessing the Boats: New & Selected Poems by Lucille Clifton (National Book Award); Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (2021 Pulitzer Prize); Floaters by Martín Espada (2021 National Book Award); The Wild Iris by Louise Glück (1993 Pulitzer Prize); Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky; Rose by Li-Young Lee; semiautomatic by Evie Shockley (Pulitzer Prize finalist); Crush by Richard Siken (Yale Younger Poets Series); and Self-Portrait with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong.

Contact: cc37@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group E; Creative Writing Concentration (Poetry Track); Writing Minor

Instructor: Susan Morrison

Description: In this course we will be reading selections from Geoffrey Chaucer's writings, with main emphasis on The Canterbury Tales. After Chaucer sets up the famous frame in the General

Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, tale after tale threatens to dismantle the community of the travelling pilgrims.

This course will interweave responses to Chaucer by Chaucerian poets of color, such as sections of the following 21st century works: Zadie Smith’s play, The Wife of Willesden, responding to Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, along with Jean “Binta” Breeze’s “The Wife of Bath Speaks in Brixton Market”; Marilynn Nelson’s The Cachoeira Tales; and Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales, a revision of Chaucer’s work. Finally, we look towards Refugee Tales, an ongoing project inspired by Chaucer’s writing dedicated to ending immigration detention in Great Britain.

We will be reading in the language Chaucer wrote in (Middle English). We will learn something about the Middle Ages in general, and how the study of a great medieval poet can sharpen our thinking about our own lives. Reading this material will take a lot of time; additionally, students will be translating Middle English into Modern English and writing periodic papers. Be prepared to read, think, work, and participate a lot. This class will allow for debate, engagement, and interdisciplinary approaches to the work under consideration. Lively and stimulating discussions guaranteed!

Texts: You must read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in MIDDLE ENGLISH!!! We will all use Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. Ed. Jill Mann. Penguin Classics, 2005. ISBN-10: 014042234X; ISBN-13: 978-0140422344, Recommended: Patience Agbabi, Telling Tales, Canongate Books (2015) ISBN-13: 978-1782111573

Contact: morrison@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Early Literature; Single Author; Group A; Medieval and Renaissance Minor

Instructor: Elizabeth P Skerpan-Wheeler (P)E-mail

Description: A survey of selected works of Shakespeare from Hamlet onwards, including “problem” comedies, tragedies, and romances. The class will identify key historical and cultural events that shaped the creation and reception of Shakespeare’s plays; interpret Shakespeare’s literary language; apply knowledge of the theatrical world (both Shakespeare’s and our own) to their reading of the plays; analyze how the plays achieve their effects; and appreciate the reasons for the importance of the works of Shakespeare to English and world literature.

Texts: The Norton Shakespeare, vol. 2, 3rd ed. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al.; Brookbank, Elizabeth and H. Faye Christenberry, MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature; MLA Handbook, 9th ed.

Contact: es10@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Early Literature; Single Author; Group A; Medieval and Renaissance Minor

Instructor: Joseph R Falocco

Description: This is a synchronous online class. English 4355 studies representative works of Shakespeare’s later career from Hamlet to Antony and Cleopatra. Students will read these plays in their entirety, take quizzes on this reading, and prepare paraphrases and textual analyses for key passages from each play. For a final project, students will write a three-five-page paper arguing a thesis related to one or more plays on the syllabus. Students with prior theatrical experience may instead choose to perform a monologue for their final project.

Texts: Complete Works of Shakespeare. Ed. David Bevington. Seventh Edition. New York: Pearson Longman, 2014. ISBN: 0321886518.

Contact: jf48@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Early Literature; Single Author; Group A; Medieval and Renaissance Minor

Topic: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature

Instructor: Gabriel Leonard Duckels

Description: This special topic class explores queer representation in children’s and young adult literature. If texts for young people are associated with the mainstream, and with childhood innocence, how have LGBTQ+ people been represented, and how has this changed? We will learn about the history of this field from the 1960s to the present day, and consider the ongoing issues and contexts which shape the representation of LGBTQ+ themes in the 2020s. We will use our focus on children’s and young adult literature to understand queer and feminist theories. In turn, we will use these theories to understand children’s and young adult literature!

Please note: This class focuses on a topic which can be divisive. Please note that the class has at its center the assumption that queer representation is important, worthy, and empowering—for everybody, regardless of your gender or orientation. This class will involve discussion of difficult themes including violence against LGBTQ+ people and HIV/AIDS. The language used to describe queer people has evolved: as such, some texts discussed in class may present themes and terminology which make us feel uncomfortable.

This class will be assessed through a mixture of in-class written essays and one final paper developed through workshop sessions throughout the semester.

Contact: xjs21@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group C; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture; Minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies