Spring 2016 Courses - Idaho State University

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English Courses:
Lower Division (1000-2000)
3-5
Upper Division (3000-4000)
6-8
Graduate Level (5000-7000)
7-9
Philosophy Courses
10-11
*Courses in purple satisfy general education requirements
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English 1110-02 (Objective 4A)
Introduction to Literature: American Horror Stories
TR 11-12:15
Instructor: Amanda Zink
In this course we will read and view a sampling of texts and film/
TV from the genres of horror and the Gothic. We will explore the
fears that Americans seem to have shared since the 17th century
and will postulate explanations for the return in popularity of
horror stories in 21st-century pop culture. The readings for this
course will include poetry, drama, short stories, the novel, and
film/TV.
English 1101
English Composition
Multiple sections offered. See BengalWeb class schedule.
In this course students will read, analyze, and write expository
essays for a variety of purposes consistent with expectations
for college-level writing in standard edited English.
English 1101P
Variation of ENGL 1101
Students not placing into ENGL 1101 will receive intensive
supplemental instruction in reading, analyzing, and writing
expository essays.
Introduction to Literature: Madness in Literature
MWF 9-9:50
Instructor: Tera Cole
This course will cover a range of literary genres including
novellas, novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. The focus of
the course is the representation of madness in literature. The
texts will cover a wide range of authors, historical time periods
and encompass different cultural contexts. An emphasis will be
placed on critical reading and analysis of these texts. Students
will learn appropriate terminology and respond to the texts in
class discussion, group discussion, and through written analysis.
English 1102 (Objective 1)
Critical Reading & Writing
Writing essays based on readings. Students will focus on
critical reading, research methods, gathering ideas and
evidence, and documentation.
English 1107 (Objective 7)
Nature of Language
TR 1-2:15
Instructor: Chris Loether
This course offers a general survey of structure and use of
language. Topics include language origins, descriptive and
historical linguistics, language and culture, and history of the
English language.
Introduction to Literature
TR 1-2:15
Instructor: David Lawrimore
Introduction to the critical reading of various literary genres, with
attention to the interpretation and evaluation of representative
texts.
MW 9:30-10:45
Instructor: Jenn Fuller—IDAHO FALLS CAMPUS
Don't allow a textbook company to define the great works of
literature for you. In this introductory course you'll read a
variety of poems, plays, short stories, and essays in order to
develop your own criteria for defining literature.
MWF 11-11:50
Instructor Michael Stubbs
Introduction to the critical reading of various literary genres, with
attention to the interpretation and evaluation of representative
texts.
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English 2210-01 (Objective 9)
American Cultural Studies
TR 1-2:15
Instructor: Brian Attebery
This course focuses on three story patterns that have been used
to define the American experience and identity: the captivity
narrative (including captives turned into
slaves), the self-made man, or American
success story, and the hard-boiled detective
story, which is about corruption and violence
and the restoration of justice by a cynical
loner. We will look at the ways these patterns
are embodied in fiction, film, and other media,
and how they are used to promote or to
question economic systems and political
ideas.
English 1122
Academic Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English Part I
Multiple sections offered. See BengalWeb course schedule.
This courses focuses on basic writing tasks. These include
summary and response as well as vocabulary and grammar
development. Explores culture-based academic expectations and
conventions in communication.
English 1123
Academic Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English Part II
Multiple sections offered. See BengalWeb course schedule.
This course is a continuation of the goals of ENGL 1122 and
preparation for the demands of ENGL 1101. Introduction to the
writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing) and
concepts such as audience, purpose, and thesis. Continued
emphasis on development of grammar and vocabulary.
Art of Film I
TR 11-12:15
Instructor: Roger Schmidt
English 1126-02
MW 11-12:15
Instructor: Brandon Hall
Course examines the creative process, aesthetic principles and
historical background of cinematic arts. Screening of representative
films and examination of critical works and theories are included.
American Cultural Studies
MWF 10-10:50
Instructor: Will Donovan
Examine U.S. culture through the multidisciplinary study of
ghostly folklore, Spring calendar customs such as St. Patrick’s
Day/Valentine’s Day, and more!
English 2211-01
Introduction to Literary Analysis
MWF 11-11:50
Instructor: Matt VanWinkle
Writing-intensive course. Teaches students how to perform close
readings of poetry and prose. Introduces major theoretical
approaches to literature. Includes orientation to finding and
evaluating secondary criticism.
Introduction to Folklore and Oral Tradition
MWF 10-10:50
Instructor: Amy Howard
Online
Instructor: Amy Howard
We will discuss, collect, and analyze folklore such as legend,
myth, folk tale, customs, foodways, material culture, superstition
and beliefs about the supernatural found in domestic,
international, and digital folk groups.
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World Literature II: The Problem of Modernity
TR 11-12:15
Instructor: Curt Whitaker
You may be surprised to learn that many historians now refer to
life four hundred years ago as “early modern.” In this course we
will puzzle over what it means to be modern, looking at literary
works from a variety of cultural traditions. We will begin with the
Spanish poets Góngora and Quevedo
(see his modern look in the portrait),
followed by Boswell’s Life of Johnson,
Schopenhauer’s Appendices and
Omissions, and Chopin’s The
Awakening. The second half of the
course will focus on the fiction of
Garcia Márquez and Rushdie, who
created in magical realism one of the
definitive approaches to modernity.
English 2278-01
Survey of American Literature II
TR 1-2:15
Instructor: Hal Hellwig
We'll be reading some of the most astonishing works of literature
from any country in the world, and all of those works are
American! (My profuse apologies in advance to other countries.)
You'll analyze and evaluate cultural materials in American society as
it evolved from roughly 1865 to 1990. You'll read fiction, poetry,
and drama, from a number of regional and national movements.
You'll see why American literature is so good at figuring out why
American history, culture, and values are so important in
understanding life in general. While including mainstream figures,
such as Crane, Faulkner, and Frost, the readings will also include
writers who represent movements or periods, such as 19th and
20th Century women, Realism, Naturalism, the Harlem
Renaissance, Beatniks, Native American, Cold War, political, and
so-called Postmodern writers. We might have time to look at the
influence of American literature on the
development of other cultural events/
artifacts/artwork (film noir, television
comedies, paintings), at least those
that have direct links to the anthology
readings in the course.
Survey of World Literature II
TR 11-12:15
Instructor: Jenn Fuller—IDAHO FALLS CAMPUS
Tired of only reading literature from America and Britain? Take
World Literature and read a selection of texts that explore the
cultures and stories of a wider world.
English 2280-01
Grammar and Usage
TR 11-12:15
Instructor: Brent Wolter
Introduction to the grammar of standard written English. The
course is designed to give students an improved knowledge of
grammar in order to improve usage and writing skills at both the
sentence and paragraph level.
English 2268-01
Survey of British Literature II
TR 11-12:15
Instructor: Matt Levay
This course introduces students to the variety and depth of
British literature, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on formal developments as well as the historical
contexts in which they arose, we will ask how authors responded
to the changing social, political, and
cultural circumstances of their historical
moments (e.g., scientific progress,
imperialism and the decline of the
British Empire, the nature of labor,
transforming systems of political and
religious belief, and the treatment of
women, to name just a few) and how
they used literature as a method of
exploring the world they inhabited.
English 2281-01-04
Introduction to Language Studies
MWF 11-11:50
This is a distance learning course with sections in Pocatello (01),
Idaho Falls (02), Meridian (03), and Twin Falls (04)
This is an introductory survey course in linguistics, which is the
scientific study of language. A variety of topics will be covered,
including morphology, syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology,
language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and language change. The
course is recommended for anyone who intends to go into
teaching or anyone who is interested in how language works.
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English 3306-01
Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
MWF 11-11:50
Instructor: Susan Goslee
Intermediate training in one or more of the forms of creative
writing.
English 3311-02
Writing and Research about Literature
MWF 12-12:50
Instructor: Alan Johnson
The aim of this class is to read literary works in different genres
and write essays about these texts by drawing on various critical
approaches. Besides discussing the artistry of the texts, we will
look at how cultural, historical, biographical and other contexts
shape their production and reception. Examples of the questions
we might ask include: Why was Olaudah Equiano’s 1789
autobiography about his enslavement so important for both
literary and political reasons? Why did women writers, such as
the Brontë sisters, initially write under male names? What is
significant about Jean Rhys’s 1960s novel that gives us a different
window onto Charlotte Brontë’s classic, Jane Eyre, and where do
we situate Rhys herself on the literary map?
English 3307
Professional and Technical Writing
An intensive course covering skills and conventions pertinent to
writing in the professions, including technical writing.
Applications in disciplines or subjects of interest to the individual
student. Especially appropriate for science, engineering, and
pre-professional majors.
English 3327-01
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
TR 11-12:15
Instructor: Brian Attebery
Many children’s books cross over to become favorites among
adult readers because of their narrative pleasures and unique
insights. Perhaps more importantly, the books we read as kids
stay with us and shape our sense of self and the world. In this
course we will read a variety of powerful,
funny, and subversive books published for
children and young adults by writers like
Mark Twain, Louise Fitzhugh, and Sherman
Alexie along with historical studies and
theoretical approaches.
English 3308
Business Communications
An advanced course in conventions of business communications,
emphasizing purpose and audience. Focus on style, semantics,
research skills, format, persuasion, and critical analysis and
synthesis of data.
English 3311-01
Writing and Research about Literature
TR 9:30-10:45
In this writing-intensive course you will continue honing your
close-reading skills. We will build on these skills by introducing
ourselves to the major critical and theoretical patterns of thought
in literary scholarship, reading both critical essays on each trend
and literary works that can bear such theoretical scrutiny. You
will learn about ten such trends: New Criticism, Structuralism,
Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Queer Studies,
Marxism, Historicism and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial and Race
Studies, and Reader-Response Criticism.
English 3328-01
Gender in Literature
TR 1-2:15
Departing from the notion that studying gender in literature is
synonymous with studying women in literature, this course will
look at the ways female and male genders are constructed and
queered in American literature. In this context, “queer” is a verb:
to queer gender is to look at the foundations of gendered roles
and identities and question them. In this course we will
read texts such as Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Chuck
Palahniuk’s Fight Club, and Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues to
explore and to reconsider the limits, biases, and boundaries of
gendered identities.
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English 4401/5501
Writing for Engineers, Scientists, and Humanists
M 4-6:30
Instructor: Lydia Wilkes
An advanced course in which students develop an independent
style in writing such types of essays as the personal, biographical,
argumentative, and critical. May contain prose analysis.
English 4464/5564
Renaissance Visual Culture and the Advent of Printing
M 7-9:30
Instructor: Curt Whitaker
In this course we will read Renaissance classics such as Hamlet
and Don Quixote, attending to how they were first printed and
how they were read by seventeenth-century audiences. Studying
the different forms Shakespeare’s plays appeared in—the many
quartos as well as the First Folio of 1623—helps us understand
what it was like to be part of a new middle-class public that for
the first time read imaginative literature for pleasure. In the case
of Don Quixote, we can put ourselves
in the place of the first readers of
fiction, considering along with them
why a person might read a novel, or
romance, as such works were known
in Cervantes’s day. Part of the course
will also include a hands-on workshop
at the Pinyon Jay Press on campus,
where students will have the
opportunity to see how a real printing
press operates and to print an actual
document of their own. A related
focus of the course will be on
seventeenth-century visual culture and aesthetic theory as we
consider how the great artists of the time such as Rembrandt and
Velázquez contributed to a sophisticated new world of circulating
images.
English 4409/5509
Literary Magazine Production: Black Rock & Sage
T 4-6:30
From the call for American independence in the pamphlet
“Common Sense” to the first state-side publication of “The Waste
Land” in the Dial, small magazines and presses have fomented
political and literary change in our country. Students will gain
exciting hands-on experience in the production of Black Rock &
Sage, ISU’s literary journal. Students will first develop strategies
for soliciting literary, art, music, and schematic submissions. Then
in exciting and lively debates, they will select the stories, poems,
and essays that are to be published. Students will also organize
and produce different events on campus
to promote the magazine and support
ISU’s art culture. To inform our
production of Black Rock & Sage, we will
survey a variety of well-established
student-run journals, read interviews
with significant journal editors, study the
history of the “little” magazine, and
consider briefly the relationship among
the arts, democracy, and culture. In this
class, students will help shape the ways
in which Idaho State contributes to the
nation’s literary dialogue.
English 4466/5566
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature
MWF 2-2:50
Instructor: Matt VanWinkle
Early nineteenth-century British writers felt themselves to be
involved in an age of extremes. The possibility of rapid, thorough,
long-desired change seemed nearly within reach. The means to
achieve it, however, seemed daunting, even horrific. In a similar
vein, writers of the era investigated a newly
troubled relationship with the past. How
much of your former self do you have to
leave behind to pursue the future you
imagine? This course will explore how the
poetry and prose of this period articulated
these entwined interests in revolution and
remembrance.
English 4455
Fantasy and Magical Realism
TR 11-11:15
Instructor: Sharon Sieber
Studies in important literatures and cultures not otherwise
covered in the curriculum.
Equivalent to CMLT 4415
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English 4472/5572
Proseminar in a Major Literary Figure: Jane Austen
W 4-6:30
Instructor: Roger Schmidt
This course offers an immersive introduction to
the work of Jane Austen.
English 4484/4454
Phonetics
TR 11-12:15
Instructor: Chris Loether
Introduction to descriptive linguistics focusing on the phonetics and
phonetic phenomena of English and the other languages of the
world. Extensive practice in perception and production of such
phenomena.
English 4486/5586
Old English
TR 1-2:15
Instructor: Tom Klein
Old English is the name given to the earliest stage of the English
language. Its records date from between 700 and 1100; it is the
language of Beowulf, The Wanderer, and the jewel-like Riddles, and
was one of J.R.R Tolkien’s central interests. This course offers an
introduction to the language: pronouncing it, reading it, and
adjusting our minds to live in it a little. Our chief goal is to learn
enough of its structure to read short passages with ease. In doing so,
we will inevitably be learning about our own language. We will also
be learning about the Anglo-Saxon people who spoke the language,
and the medieval contexts in which it was shaped and recorded.
English 4490/5590
Topics in Folklore: Legend and Belief
Online
Instructor: Jennifer Attebery
You are welcome in this course even if you have not previously
taken a folklore course. We will hone in two major genres of
folklore-- legend and belief. Legends are informal narratives told as
true. Folk belief is any informally-held belief about the world. These
range from beliefs regulating the planting of crops, to beliefs about
spirits and ghosts, to beliefs about the healing properties of plants,
objects, and chemicals. A deeper understanding of legends as a
narrative form is important in literary studies, as legends and the
beliefs they examine inform many writers. Anthropologists also
benefit from understanding the genres of legend and belief as parts
of cultural wholes. In the course we will look at numerous examples
of legends from a variety of sources and culture, analyzing them in
light of recent theoretical approaches developed by the legend
scholars Gillian Bennett, Bill Ellis, and others.
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English 4491
ST: The House in Literature
MWF 11-11:50
Instructor: Alan Johnson
As a capstone course, this class helps you refine the reading,
research and writing skills you have cultivated over the past three
years. The broad topic of the “house in literature” will allow each of
you to develop a substantial research project, present parts of your
research findings to the class, and engage with a variety of literary
works and critical methods in relation to the theme. The house, as
both setting and motif, has been an important touchstone in literary
history, dramatizing such topics as domesticity, the changing roles of
women, the meaning of home, colonial plantation culture, modern
individualism, and class.
English 4493
Senior Seminar in Professional Writing
MWF 11-11:50
Instructor: Rob Watkins
Capstone course for professional writing students. Each student will
design and complete a substantial professional writing project.
Projects will require a project proposal or outline, reading list, final
document, and oral presentation.
English 4494
Senior Seminar in Creative Writing
MWF 12-12:50
Capstone course suitable for students working in any creative writing
genre. Each student will compile in advance a reading list and project
outline in consultation with instructor. During the course, the
student will complete a substantial creative writing project and give
a presentation. Instructor will also assign class-wide readings, some
from each student's list. Workshop-based.
English 4499
Realizing Beckett
TR 1-2:15
Instructor: Josh Leukhardt
This course will explore the dramatic works of Samuel Beckett
including full-length stage plays, short and one act plays, radio plays
and teleplays. Its primary aim is to explore the
concepts of Beckett’s abstract theater, how it is
conceived, edited, practically approached, and
realized on the stage. This course will be augmented
by experiencing the live ISU production of Waiting
for Godot In April.
English 6621
African American Slave Narratives
T 7-9:30
Instructor: David Lawrimore
Between 1740 and 1920, more than 100 expatriated African
slaves and their African-American descendants responded to
slavery and white supremacy in the form of autobiographical
narratives. This seminar will explore the developments in the
African American slave narrative, from its inception in the
fragmented narratives of Britton Hammon and Venture Smith to
the genre’s historic prominence in the narratives of Fredrick
Douglass and Harriet Jacobs to its rebirth in the postmodern
fiction of Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler. Structured
chronologically, this class will consider how the genre begins,
coalesces, and eventually solidifies as well as how these
developments influence and are influenced by historical
phenomena related to slavery in the United States. Secondary
readings will introduce students to the history of US slavery, the
central scholarship of slave narratives, and to broader theories of
genre, race, and the intersections of aesthetics and politics.
English 6681
Theory of Second Language Acquisition
R 4-6:30
This course is designed to introduce current and future teachers to
fundamental ideas and perspectives in second language grammar
and vocabulary acquisition. Particular attention will be paid to
critically assessing and evaluating the different theoretical
approaches, with an eye firmly fixed on linking theory with
practice.
English 6635
Teaching Shakespeare in Performance
R 7-9:30
Instructor: Jessica Winston
This seminar introduces students to the field of teaching
Shakespeare with performance. The course will survey
foundational and newer criticism and orient students to a range
of performance-related pedagogical practices. In addition, the
class will reinforce one particular approach, one that the course
professor uses in her own “Shakespeare in Performance” class.
This involves using performance history to open up interpretative
questions about the plays and to provide a framework for
interpreting current performances, whether filmed or staged.
While the course will focus on undergraduate teaching, the
readings and discussion will be relevant to current and future high
school teachers too. No prior experience with Shakespeare or
theatre is necessary.
This course counts for
the doctoral
pedagogical seminar
requirement, but it
does not fulfill the
pre-1800 literature
seminar requirement.
English 7731
Practicum in Teaching Composition
W 7-9:30
Instructor: Lydia Wilkes
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Philosophy 2230-01-04
Medical Ethics
MW 2:30-3:45
Instructor: Ralph Baergen
This is a distance learning course with
sections in Pocatello (01), Idaho Falls
(02), Meridian (03), and Twin Falls (04)
An examination of ethical issues that arise in medical practice.
Philosophy 1103 (Objective 4A)
Topics may include informed consent, withdrawing life-sustaining
Introduction to Ethics
treatment, abortion, assisted suicide, and the
An introduction to philosophy through an analytical and historical allocation of scarce resources.
study of major ethical theories. The course will focus on the basis
Philosophy 2230-05
of judgments and reasoning concerning questions of good and
Medical Ethics
bad, right and wrong.
Online
Instructor: Ralph Baergen
Philosophy 2201-01 (Objective 7)
Introduction to Logic
MWF 10-10:50
treatment, abortion, assisted suicide, and the allocation of scarce
Instructor: Russell Wahl
resources.
This course is a mix of traditional logic and modern symbolic
logic. The section on traditional logic includes basic argument
Philosophy 2230-06
analysis and categorical syllogisms and the section on symbolic
Medical Ethics
logic includes a study of truth tables and formal proofs. The
Online
focus throughout will be on what constitutes a good argument.
Instructor: Nobel Ang
Students will learn techniques of analysis which will improve
their ability to discern what is and is not entailed from given
claims. There will be regular homework assignments, several
treatment, abortion, assisted suicide, and the allocation of scarce
quizzes, two midterm examinations, and a final.
resources.
Philosophy 2201-02 (Objective 7)
Philosophy 3353
Introduction to Logic
Philosophy of Law
MWF 11-11:50
MW 1-2:15
Instructor: William McCurdy
Instructor: Jim Skidmore
An introduction to the concepts and methods of deductive and
An investigation of historical and contemporary theoretical
inductive logic, with special emphasis on the use of logical
approaches to law and a variety of philosophical problems that
methods to identify, analyze, construct, and evaluate everyday
arise with respect to the law. Topics include natural law theory,
arguments.
legal positivism, legal realism, Constitutional interpretation,
theory of punishment, and civil liberties.
Philosophy 2210
Introduction to Asian Philosophies
MWF 12-12:50
Instructor: William McCurdy
A study of Hindu, Buddhist, and other Far Eastern approaches to
topics such as immortality, time, reality, mystical experience, the
divinity of the soul, the question of duty. Emphasis varies.
Philosophy 1101 (Objective 4A)
Introduction to Philosophy
An introduction to the major thinkers and major problems in
Western philosophical and scientific traditions. Sections may
emphasize either an historical or problems approach.
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Philosophy 4400/5500
Philosophy of Art
TR 1-2:15
Instructor: Jacob Berger
This upper-level course is an introduction to the philosophy of
art. Students will acquire philosophical tools to study the nature,
evaluation, interpretation, and impact of works of art. Topics
include various theories of art and the value of art, the questions
of creativity and meaning, the nature of aesthetic experience,
pictorial representation, and the relationship (if any) of art to
morality. We will read not only
traditional and contemporary
works of philosophy and art
criticism, but also examine many
works of art in a philosophical
context.
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Existentialism
W 4-6:30
Instructor: Carl Levenson
A survey of the major works of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,
Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus. Topics may include the origins of
values, the death of God, the varieties of despair, the inevitability
of love's failure and the absurdity of life.
Theory of Knowledge
MW 2:30-3:45
Instructor: Russell Wahl
This course is a survey of topics in epistemology such as the
nature of knowledge, the problem of skepticism, and the nature
of justification. Various claims about the sources of knowledge,
and accounts of a priori knowledge and truth will also be
considered. Readings will be from classical and contemporary
sources. There will be two take-home examinations, a paper and
a presentation as well as a final examination.

Spring 2016 Courses - Idaho State University

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