Summer Advanced Course Descriptions

Instructor: Scott Mogull

Catalog Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

Section Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences. In this class, students will learn to analyze and create communications for specific situations. The goals of this class are the study and practice communicating in three different styles (informative, instructive, and persuasive) and to apply the material to your field and career. Specifically, we will learn to analyze and write informative communications in various fields of study, stepwise instructions with accompanying visual communication, inductive (or scientific) presentations, and professional and persuasive workplace correspondence. This course will also cover writing, editing, and peer review.

Texts: No textbook required. Course readings from a variety of authors and sources are available through Canvas.

Contact: mogull@txstate.edu

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

Instructor: Miriam Williams

Catalog Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

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

Instructor: Pinfan Zhu

Catalog Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

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

Instructor: Vanessa Couto Johnson

Catalog Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

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

Instructor: Shannon Shaw

Catalog Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

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

Instructor: Christopher Dayley

Catalog Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

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

Instructor: Octavio Pimentel

Catalog Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

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

Instructor: Sarah Robblee

Catalog Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

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

Instructor: Laura Ellis-Lai

Catalog Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

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

Instructor: Laura Ellis-Lai

Catalog Description: This course concerns writing in technical professions. It emphasizes planning, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading proposals, reports, instructions, and other forms of professional communication for a variety of audiences.

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

Instructor: Kate McClancy

Catalog Descriptions: 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.

Texts: Kolker, Film, Form, and Culture, 5th edition; various films

Contact: kmcclancy@txstate.edu

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

Instructor: Jon Marc Smith

Catalog 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.

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

Topic: Gods, Goddesses, and Icons

Instructor: Katie Kapurch

Catalog 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. Specific content and focus vary by section. This course may be repeated once for credit when its topic varies.

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

Instructor: Geneva Gano

Catalog Description: This course examines elected US literature from World War II to the present.

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Satisfies: Group B

Instructor: Simon Lee

Catalog Description: This course examines selected British poetry, fiction, and drama since 1900.

Section Description: Nostalgia gets a bad rap; it is frequently maligned as a device by which to engineer a cheap emotional effect. In cultural production, it is often derided as sentimental with the past idealized in fallacious ways. Furthermore, nostalgia is often tied to a dissatisfaction with the present, looking instead to times and places that purportedly offered more tangible, secure ontologies. This fully online and fully asynchronous upper-division English course surveys British literature from the early 20th century to the present, examining nostalgia’s value relative to cultural shifts. It explores the manifold ways that authors deploy nostalgia as a technical device of narrative while simultaneously advancing critiques of retrogressive sentimentality. The course closes by surveying the present-day state of the nation through contemporary writing that challenges nostalgia by questioning the efficacy of cultural memory in a largely unstable world.

Texts: Texts will most likely include some combination of the following: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending.

Contact: simonlee@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Group A; Minor in International Studies

Instructor: Graeme Wend-Walker

Catalog Description: A survey of traditional and contemporary literature for children with attention to literary history, aesthetic qualities, and critical approaches.

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Satisfies: Group C; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture

Instructor: Graeme Wend-Walker

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

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Satisfies: Group C; Minor in Studies in Popular Culture

Topic: Jane Austen

Instructor: Chad A Hammett

Catalog Description: This course examines the works of a British author, e.g. Charles Dickens, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, or Zadie Smith. Specific content and focus vary by section, and the course may be repeated once for credit when its emphasis varies.

Section Description: This course offers a focus on the major novels of Jane Austen and recent films and other texts that raise the question “What is it about Austen?” Further, the course investigates the creation and perpetuation of the “Janeite” culture that continues to reference and reinvent her work, particularly as it relates to film.

Texts: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, ISBN 978-1-84022-055-1; Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly, ISBN 978-0-52543-294-4

Contact: ch34@txstate.edu

Satisfies: Single Author; Group A