English Paper - Spring 2020 by Ben McCorkle

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paper SPRING 2020 | Course Offerings at OSU-Marion IMPORTANT NOTE: Please consult with the Marion Academic Advisor for English Majors, Shellie Shirk (shirk.20@osu.edu), or the Marion English Faculty Coordinator, Stuart Lishan (lishan.1@osu.edu), concerning which English major concentration and/or other requirements are met by your choice of the following courses. ✪✪✪✪✪ English 2202 | Selected Works of British Literature: 1800 to Present Nathan Wallace MW 3:15-4:35

In this survey of British and Irish literature since 1800, we will study major works of fiction, drama, and poetry from British Romanticism, the Victorian era, Modernism, and Contemporary Literature. In addition to discussing their literary qualities, we will also consider their meanings in historical and cultural contexts. We will read selections from William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Jean Rhys, and Zadie Smith. Students will be responsible for study questions, two exams, and two short essays.

✪✪✪✪✪ English 2264: Introduction to Popular Culture: The Juggernauts Peter C. Dully Jr. TR 4:45-6:05 / 3 credit hours This class will be a deep, philosophy-aided dive into recent popular cultural juggernauts like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter. As a thesis, the class contends that the popularity of these spectacles and stories like them say profound things about contemporary American culture and our place as individuals within it. Along the way, we will ask and answer such questions as: Why are we so continually fascinated by Peter Parker going through puberty? Why do grown adults think of themselves as Hufflepuffs? Is it important to see an Avengers movie on opening weekend? What can a Marxist tell us about the plight of Katniss Everdeen? The class is designed around developing rigorous and thoughtful approaches to texts often thought of as fluffy and thoughtless. Students will write three shorter papers and will design and execute their own final research project. ✪✪✪✪✪ English 2267 | Introduction to Creative Writing Mike Lohre TR 1:30-2:50 / 3 credit hours An introduction to the writing of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We learn by doing, and working to expand our creativity together. Analysis and discussion of student work, with reference to the general methods and scope of all three genres.

✪✪✪✪✪ English 2269 | Digital Media Composing Katie Braun W 1:30-4:15 / 3 Credit Hours Videos, podcasts, animations, oh my! Digital forms of composing proliferate in our media-saturated society, and the apps to produce them are relatively easy to access. But what makes rhetorically savvy and aesthetically pleasing digital communications? Find out in this course! We will study complex forms of multimedia/multimodal compositions, and you will learn how to create them!

✪✪✪✪✪ English 2463 | Introduction to Video Games Analysis Ben McCorkle W 11:00- 12:20 / 3 Credit Hours Ready, Player One? This course offers an introductory exploration of video games from a variety of angles: the history, their impact on the broader culture, implications for education and psychological research, formal/ structural/ technological innovations, and more. We’ll look at how games have helped shape our notions of gender, violence, ethics, and the like. Throughout the term, we will discuss, read about, and write about video games. Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to create multimodal content in conjunction with your exploration of the subject. And lastly: yes, you’ll have the opportunity to play some games as well.

✪✪✪✪✪ English 3271 | Structure of the English Language Sue Oakes MW 9:30-10:50 / 3 Credit Hours Students will learn basic characteristics of English linguistics focusing on the basic building blocks of language; the sounds of English and how they are put together, word formation processes, and rules for combining words into utterances/sentences. Students also will investigate and explore linguistic variation, accents of American English, and the implications of language evaluation in educational settings. [GE: "Cultures & Ideas" Course - Open to All] ✪✪✪✪✪ English 3304 | Business and Professional Writing Amy Tibbals M/W 11:00-12:20 / 3 Credit Hours Writing isn’t just for college papers, and having strong business writing skills will help you far beyond the classroom. In this course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of business writing, and you will apply those skills in real-world writing assignments. OSUM has partnered with The United Way of Marion County to offer a $5000 Pay It Forward grant available

to non-profit organizations in Marion. As part of the OSUM Pay It Forward Project, you will work on some of the written pieces of the grant process, run a crowdfunding campaign, and create a fundraising event to raise money for PIF. You will also create your own professional portfolio, including a resume, cover letter and LinkedIn page. If you’re looking for a writing course that will help you in the real world and make an impact on the community at the same time, sign up for English 3304 with Amy Tibbals. ✪✪✪✪✪ English 3398 | Methods for the Study of Literature Ben McCorkle MW 3:15 - 4:35 / 3 Credit Hours The primary goal of this "gateway to the major" course is to learn how to produce effective literary criticism and other types of academic writing within the discipline. We will read a selection of literary works from different historical periods, nationalities, and a range of genres and forms. The course will be more than simply writing and discussing literature, though. We will also learn about various critical approaches and literary theories, each of them framing a different way to read or "enter" the texts we'll study. We will sample representative essays from some of the major "schools" of literary theory (feminism, Marxism, new historicism, deconstruction, etc.) and come to understand them in both class presentations and follow-up discussions. As a final component of this course, I would like to offer you a glimpse into the business of English studies, beyond just writing essays for your professor. To that end, I have designed the course so that you will have the opportunity to teach complex ideas to your fellow classmates, and also to share your own scholarship with colleagues in ways that resemble the professional work done by scholars in the vast field of English studies. ✪✪✪✪✪ English 3465 | (Special Topics in Intermediate Fiction Writing – with an Emphasis on Long-Form Storytelling Stuart Lishan TR 3:15-4:35 / 3 Credit Hours “The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say” --J.R.R. Tolkien

This is a course whose goal is building amazement in the “whither then” of that “larger way”; that is, it’s a class in long-form storytelling. If you’ve ever thought you might like to write a novel, a novella, or a memoir of your own sweet life, then this is a class for you (or even if you’re “just” interested in creative

writing). We’ll investigate the ecosystem of what makes a good story, and then we’ll engage together in the larger world building that takes place when you have a larger field of play in which to frame and sustain such a narrative. In short, we’ll be pioneers of the imagination, fellow voyagers of the sweet words, together on that “Road [that] goes ever on and on." Feel free to shed your preconceptions and join us. Texts: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King; Writing Life Stories: How To Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays And Life Into Literature (2nd Edition), by Bill Roorbach; and a long-form story of your choosing. Note: Even though this class is a requirement for Creative Writing Concentration and one of the elective requirements for the other concentrations in the English Major, if you haven't had English 2265 (Writing of Fiction I), English 2266 (Writing of Poetry), or English 2267 (Introduction to Creative Writing), you may need to see me (lishan1@osu.edu), your dance instructor of the sweet words, for permission to enroll in the course, because Brutus may start acting funky if you don’t. ✪✪✪✪✪ English 3597.03 I Environmental Citizenship - Animal Minds Sara Crosby TR 9:30 - 10:50 / 3 Credit Hours Animals. We love them, fear them, eat them. They are cute, and they are horrifying. They are aliens, and they are us. Why can’t we make up our minds about them? And what about their minds? What are they really thinking? Animals mediate our connection to our environment and our own identities. How we understand and treat them shapes how we understand and treat ourselves. This class will investigate that contradictory relationship and track how we have conceptualized our fellow earthlings. We’ll go from Aesop and Edgar Allan Poe to Birdemic and Henri the Existential Cat. In the process, we’ll try to shed some light on animal minds—our own included. ✪✪✪✪✪ English 3662 | An Introduction to Literary Publishing Ben McCorkle MW 9:30 - 10:50 / 3 Credit Hours This course is responsible for producing the Cornfield Review, the venerated annual literary journal of OSU-Marion. Students will study the history of literary editing, publishing, and design. They will put their newfound knowledge to practical use as staff members of the Cornfield Review.

Texts TBA. Visiting speakers possible. Requirements include class presentations and a significant end-of-semester project. For more information, contact Ben McCorkle (mccorkle.12@osu.edu).

✪✪✪✪✪ English 4189 | Professional Writing Minor: Capstone Internship Katie Braun M 1:30-4:15 Have you ever wondered what to do with an English major after graduation? Are you curious about how to leverage your writing skills for a career? You should do an internship! Dr. Braun can match you with a local organization where you will gain real-world experience with meaningful communication tasks. English 4150 or permission of instructor required (email braun.43@osu.edu before enrolling if you have not taken 4150).

✪✪✪✪✪ English 4520.01 | Shakespeare Nathan Wallace MW 11:00-12:20 / 3 Credit Hours This seminar on the work of William Shakespeare will concentrate on his historical and cultural context and his development as a theatrical artist. We will also examine several major themes in Shakespeare’s work, including the relationship between theater and politics, and the role of performance in everyday life. We will examine the major Shakespearean genres by studying Richard III, the Sonnets, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1 Henry IV, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, the Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. Students will be responsible for weekly study questions, a short midterm essay, and a research paper at the end of the term.

✪✪✪✪✪ English 4550 I Special Topics in Colonial and Early National Literature of the U. S. (Early American Crime Writing) Sara Crosby TR 11:00 - 12:20 / 3 Credit Hours

Pirates, ax murderers, infanticides, and fiends of all kinds absolutely fascinated early Americans. Some of the very first productions of American printing presses were devoted to “true” tales of blood and gore and the criminals behind them. This fascination with crime and especially with the criminal mind served an important purpose, as new theories of human evil supported new political ideas and new definitions of the human and human potential and as criminal investigation modeled new modes of citizenship and new psychologies. The founding generations loved playing detective, and we will, too, as we delve into the seduction novels, banned books, witch trials, and criminal autobiographies that helped us define ourselves. Fulfills pre-1800 requirement for Literature concentration and English major Elective at 3000+level for CW and WRL concentrations. ✪✪✪✪✪ English 4547 | 20th-Century Poetry Stuart Lishan TR 1:30-2:50 / 3 Credit Hours English 4547 will be a reading and writing class centered around 20th-Century Poetry written in English (and some 21st Century Poetry, too!). We’ll discover and investigate our way into this work through both the traditional academic sort of writing that you might expect in a literature class and through some weekly not-so-traditional, poetic sort of writing assignments, based on the “moves” and “grooves” of the poets we’ll be playing with. In the process we’ll get poemcrazy, drenched in words, wet with the primordial dew of discovery, as it were, and we’ll experience a whole bevy of poets from the outside-in as well as from the inside-out.

Texts: The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair, Vols. 1 & 2. Requirements: a 10-12 page research paper; a review of a literary journal that sports a good deal of contemporary poetry; a collection of weekly not-so-traditional writing, which you’ll keep in a portfolio and will be graded on a portfolio basis; a class presentation on a 20th Century poet of your choice; and a number of reading quizzes, in addition to a midterm and final. (Note: This course meets the Post-1900 Literature requirement for English Majors under the pre-autumn 2014 English major, and, for those under the new major requirements, it meets the English major Elective requirements at the 3000 + level for WRL, Creative Writing, and Literature concentrations)

✪✪✪✪✪ English 4578 | Special Topics in Film Nathan Wallace MW 9:30-10:50 / 3 Credit Hours

In this course we will be studying superhero films, concentrating primarily on Marvel and DC movies of the last 20 years. Lectures and readings will provide background material on the comics from which these films are adapted. In order to interpret how the Marvel and DC films impact culture today, we must understand the historical contexts from which the original stories emerged, and how they have evolved over the eighty-year period since the genre’s invention in 1939. We will analyze the filmmakers’ artistic decisions and discuss their meaning in relation to these histories. Students will write study questions every week, write a short paper at the midterm, and compose a research essay for the end of the semester. We will cover adaptations of the Avengers, the X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Black Panther, Spider-Man, Batman, the Joker, the Justice League, Wolverine and Deadpool.

✪✪✪✪✪ English 4582 | Special Topics in African-American Literature Malcolm Cash TR 1:30-2:50 / 3 Credit Hours

This class focuses on themes in African American Literature. The specific topic varies according to the individual class offered. Examples include Neo-slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, and literature by African-American women, among other topics. This course is also cross-listed in African American Studies.

PALS | Pride And Life Skills Mentoring Program

The Pride And Life Skills mentoring program (PALS) is a cooperative venture between The Ohio State University at Marion, the Boys & Girls Club of Marion County, and Marion Public Schools to develop a mentoring program that is a win-win situation for both elementary, middle school students, and college students. PALS, connects college students from the Marion campus with grade school children in the Marion area to provide one-on-one mentoring opportunities for kids. The Boys & Girls Club matches program volunteers with school age children and provides each a useful handbook to direct them through the mentoring process. Students earn 1-credit per term of independent study by attending mentoring sessions regularly, coming to a few meetings, and writing a two-page report about their mentoring activities at the end of each term. OSUMARION.OSU.EDU/ACADEMICS/PALS.HTML For further information contact: Ben McCorkle • mccorkle.12@osu.edu Nikole Patson • patson.3@osu.edu