Graduate Courses

Note: Future terms are subject to schedule change and courses offered.

Spring 2010 Offered Courses

Course Number	Course	Title	Description	Instructor	Mode	Date and Time
11411	CRW6025	ADV GRADUATE WRITING WORKSHOP	CRW 6025. Advanced Graduate Writing Workshop 3(3,0). PR: Admission to the Creative Writing MFA and C.I. Writing and revising in one established form. Advanced Graduate Writing Workshop may be taken three times (for a total of 9 hours) in order to produce a book-length manuscript (fiction, poetry, or other genre). May be used in the degree program a maximum of 4 times.	Bartkevicius, Jocelyn	Face2Face	M 7:30PM - 10:20PM
21376	CRW6025	ADV GRADUATE WRITING WORKSHOP	CRW 6025: This course, restricted to students accepted into the graduate creative writing program, offers detailed discussion of style, structure, and content of fiction. Students submit their own stories for workshop critique, read and discuss published work, and revise manuscripts for their final portfolios.	Hubbard, Susan	Face2Face	W 7:30PM - 10:20PM
21779	CRW6806C	TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING	PR: Graduate standing in MFA in Creative Writing program or C.I. This course addresses trends in creative writing pedagogy, course design, classroom management, and the role of creative in the academy and in the community. Students will produce several short essays, in-class presentations, and real-life creative writing sessions for persons in our community. Students are required to conduct creative writing sessions at a specific non-UCF site once a week throughout the semester. (Contact: Professor Terry Thaxton, tthaxton@mail.ucf.edu)	Thaxton, Terry	Rdce Time	M 6:00PM - 7:15PM
11771	ENC5337	MODERN RHETORICAL THEORY	ENC 5337.W61 - MODERN RHETORICAL THEORY - WALLACE - WWW - WEB-BASED This course provides an overview of rhetoric from the Enlightenment to the present. Chief among the issues we’ll investigate are the relationships among language, culture, and knowledge as well as feminist, queer theory, critical race theory, and other challenges to traditional rhetoric. Among the course objectives are: to introduce major figures traditionally included in the canon of rhetoric, to identify important themes in the history of rhetoric, to identify important themes in the history of rhetoric, to give participants opportunities to develop short, focused arguments, and to encourage participants to connect ideas from the history of rhetoric to some practical context of interest to them. Projects will include journal entries, one-page papers, discussion facilitation, and a term project related to the participants’ interests. Contact dwallace@mail.ucf.edu	Wallace, David	WWW	12:00AM - 12:00AM
12013	ENC5705	THEORY & PRACTICE IN COMP	ENC 5705: Theory & Practice in Composition Spring 2010 Dr Elizabeth Wardle This course provides an introduction to the theories and issues that inform the discipline commonly known as Rhetoric and Composition. The course is intended to be a survey of movements and topics important to the discipline of Composition. Many--but not all--of these relate to writing instruction. Course topics include: -History of Rhetoric & Composition; -Writers, Writing, and Revision; -Genre theory; -Reading; -Matters of identity, ideology, and language -Transfer of writing-related knowledge. This course is appropriate for anyone who expects to teach writing and/or who is interested in the study of writing. This course is required for an English GTAship at UCF.	Wardle, Elizabeth	Face2Face	Tu,Th 6:00PM - 7:15PM
22351	ENC6217	TECHNICAL EDITING	ENC 6217 Technical Editing ENC 6217 is a study of the strategies for editing the prose, design and illustrations of print and online technical documents. There are no prerequisites, other than graduate standing in English or the consent of the instructor. Thanks,	Cavanagh Jr,Thomas B	WWW	-
21390	ENC6306	PERSUASIVE WRITING	ENC 5306 Persuasive Writing Spring 2010 Aristotle, one of the earliest rhetorical theorists and teachers, defined rhetoric as the ability to find the “available means of persuasion” in a given context. During this fifteen week, web-based graduate seminar in persuasive writing, we will investigate the various components that go into persuading a particular group at a particular time to do/feel/think/believe a particular thing. In order to study rhetorical concepts and methods, we will read and discuss relevant theory, analyze public texts, and generate our own texts. The public texts we will work with focus on magical rhetoric and include texts on Disney, Madonna, and Oprah. Expect considerable amounts of reading and writing.	Marinara, Martha	WWW	-
11224	ENG6810	THEORIES OF TEXTS & TECHNOLOGY	PR: Graduate standing in any UCF department, but preference given to those accepted into the Texts and Technology program. Introduces general theoretical concepts and issues as a basis for the study of texts and technology. We will look especially at the consequences of e-media on books, libraries, education, and scholarship. (Contact: Dr. Craig Saper, csaper@mail.ucf.edu )	Saper, Craig	Rdce Time	Th 7:30PM - 9:00PM
21397	ENG6814	GENDER IN TEXTS & TECHNOLOGY	ENG 6938 Gender, Texts and Technology This graduate seminar will explore questions about relationships among texts, science, technology, and gender. Through research students will address questions about ways in which gendered bodies are created in and through scientific languages, ways in which gender affects and is affected by technology use among individuals and within institutions, ways in which dominant psychological and economic theories create and reflect gender, and ways in which 20th and early 21st century gender theorists have deployed essentialist, constructionist, and postmodern theories to accomplish their political and intellectual goals. We will place particular emphasis on gender construction in the digital age. Our explorations will move from three launching points: postmodern gender theory, historical relationships between technology and gender, and theoretical and practical implications of these ideas for T&T scholars and practitioners. Our course readings are complex and multi-layered. I will regularly assign in-class writing tasks to launch discussion. The texts we read will require significant study and deliberation and they are likely to raise issues that will spark controversy. I expect all students to come to class ready to participate respectfully in intellectually challenging and lively discussions that invite high-level learning. I will occasionally substitute virtual class experiences for face-to-face meetings in order to allow students to experiment with some of the technologies we will discuss.	Bowdon, Melody	Face2Face	M,W 6:00PM - 7:15PM
22037	ENG6947	INTRN IN TEXTS & TECHNOLOGY	ENG 6947 Texts and Technology Internship This online course provides students the opportunity to integrate valuable practical experience with the theory and content of their courses in the Texts and Technology program. Additionally, students who are working as interns should make a meaningful contribution to the company or organization during the internship experience. The internship will normally be completed in 8-15 weeks. However, in some cases, companies may want interns for a longer period. The minimum number of contact hours for the entire internship experience must be 80 hours. This course is conducted completely online. The learning and the challenges come from the tasks required by the company or organization during your internship. In this course, you simply report on and discuss your internship activities, assess your own internship experience, and have the company or organization mentor evaluate your internship contribution. Requirements include a proposal, bi-weekly progress reports, bi-weekly discussion posts, an internship report, a portfolio of sample work, and an evaluation from the mentor.	Jones, Dan	WWW	-
22353	LIN5675	ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE	LIN 5675 English Grammar & Usage Every company has at least one "grammar expert" who picks through your prose looking for errors. Your company may even expect you to be that expert. If this prospect makes you nervous, you need this course! This course will teach you the fundamentals of English grammar. You'll also learn the difference between grammatical rules and folklore rules, so that you can safely navigate tricky passages when the rules aren't clear. Please note: Writers benefit from studying grammar in the same way that athletes benefit from studying anatomy. Grammar isn't a "how to write" class any more than anatomy is a "how to play your sport" class, but knowing how English works can help you write more effectively. Catalog Description: PR: Graduate status or senior standing or C.I. (Consent of Instructor) An overview of modern grammar, including structural, transformational and rhetorical grammar, along with an examination of controversial usage. Texts: Martha Kolln's Understanding English Grammar, Martha Kolln & Robert Funk's Exercises for Understanding English Grammar, Edgar H. Schuster's Breaking the Rules, and Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage. Other short readings may also be assigned within the course.	Young, Beth	WWW	-
21424	LIT5389	ST IN GENDER & FICTION WRITING	LIT 5589 Studies in Gender and Fiction Writing This course will explore how place or geography affects gender boundaries and borders in fiction by contemporary Native authors. Some of the authors will include: Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan, Stephen Graham Jones, Sherman Alexie, Thomas King, and Greg Sarris. This is both a reading and writing intensive course; we will study contemporary Native fiction and current literary theory, especially in the areas of gender studies, borders studies, and Native studies.	Jensen, Toni	Face2Face	Th 7:30PM - 10:20PM
21735	LIT6938	SPECIAL TOPICS	Teaching College Literature “[The student’s] taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.” Flannery O’Connor Even before Greek ceased to be part of the curriculum, how to educate has been debated and the collapse of the academy has been predicted. Standards seem to have never not been declining and the constant is the undervalued teacher. Recent books on the academy favor words like “ruins,” “failing,” and “clueless.” At some point, the text went missing and public universities erected their own golden arches and students checked out—happy or unhappy customers of their educational product. After exploring the historical literary and professional debates, we will investigate some pedagogical theories and identify practical techniques for teaching literature in the college classroom. Some questions will govern our explorations: What roles do authority and integrity play when teaching literature? How do we prepare to teach a literary work? What should happen as we teach? The course will be anchored by “the anxieties” Elaine Showalter takes up in Teaching Literature (Blackwell). Beyond the selected literary specimens, students will read extensively in works by critics and practioners like Barzun, Graff, Hall, hooks, Kolodny, Lauter, Scholes, and many others). There will be an opportunity to develop and test a lesson plan, problematize interpretation, debate grading practices, examine the trauma of syllabi development, and survive student insurrection.	Trouard, Dawn	Rdce Time	W 7:30PM - 9:00PM