Seats Are Still Available: Updated English Summer Offerings
Two courses in Summer Session I that fulfill requirements for the major or minor still have open seats:
ENG 288.01 - America Dreams/American Movies (taught by Prof. Marianna Torgovnick) AREA III or ELECTIVE
Tuesdays and Wednesdays - 12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
Cross-listed in - (ALP) Arts, Literature & Performance
Description:
A survey course in selected American films that create as well as reflect American national identity. Through lectures, weekly screenings and students' oral reports, we will study a dozen of the best-loved movies in our popular culture, from <I>The Gold Rush, King Kong,<M> and <I>It Happened One Night<M> to <I>Singing' in the Rain, The Godfather,<M> and <I>WALL-E<M>. We will examine how these movies, their directors, and their stars, came to define American mythologies in the twentieth century and how they have collected over time iconic resonance. Attention as well to genre, form, technique, and Hollywood's history.
ENG 290S.01 - Long Lives, Short Stories (taught by Kevin Spencer) AREA III or ELECTIVE
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday - 3:30 P.M. - 5:15 P.M.
Seminar Topics Course:
(CCI) Cross Cultural Inquiry
(EI) Ethical Inquiry
(W) Writing
Description:
Topics vary each semester.
These additional courses in Summer Session II that fulfill requirements for the major or minor have seats available:
ENG 221S.01 Intro to the Writing of Fiction (taught by Michelle Dove) ELECTIVE
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday - 3:30 P.M. - 5:35 P.M.
Seminar:
(W) Writing
(ALP) Arts, Literature & Performance
Description:
Introductory level genre-specific workshops for students with some experience in creative writing wishing to deepen their knowledge of their chosen genre and gain increased mastery of elements of craft. Recommended for students who have taken English 110.
ENG 225S.01 Writing the Movie (taught by Cole Russing) ELECTIVE
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday - 12:30 P.M. - 2:35 P.M. (Optional synchronous meeting pattern: MTTH 12:30 PM - 2:35 PM. Recorded for asynchronous participation.)
Seminar:
(W) Writing
Cross-listed in another department
(ALP) Arts, Literature & Performance
Description:
Theory and practice of the process of writing for the screen. Exploration of visual storytelling; analysis of screenplays and movies; developing original stories into screenplay format. Projects: writing and presenting treatments, outlines and scenes.
ENG 290S.01 I, Robot (taught by Margaret McDowell) ELECTIVE
TBA
Seminar
Topics Course
(STS) Science, Technology, and Society
(W) Writing
(ALP) Arts, Literature & Performance
Description:
Topics vary each semester.
ENG 290S.03 Literature of Contagion (taught by Rachel Gevlin) AREA II or ELECTIVE
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday - 12:30 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.
Seminar Topics Course:
(STS) Science, Technology, and Society
(ALP) Arts, Literature & Performance
Description:
Topics vary each semester.
ENG 290S.04 Freedom in Shakespeare’s Rome (taught by Robert Tate) AREA I or ELECTIVE
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday - 2:00 P.M. - 4:05 P.M.
Seminar Topics Course:
(ALP) Arts, Literature & Performance
(CZ) Civilizations
Description:
Topics vary each semester
ENG 390-2.01 Dickens (taught by Emma Davenport) AREA II or ELECTIVE
TBA (Optional synchronous meeting pattern: M 12:30 P.M. - 2:35 P.M.)
Topics Course:
(W) Writing
(ALP) Arts, Literature & Performance
Description:
This course invites you to spend a few weeks this summer curled up with a novel by the Victorian era’s most beloved author, Charles Dickens. Dickens’s stories—of urban realism and gothic mystery, of malicious villains and bumbling eccentrics, of dysfunctional families and communities of care, of social injustice and political renewal, of tragic criminality and comic satire—were bestsellers in their own time and remain immensely popular today as they continue to spawn countless film and television adaptations. We will take advantage of the unique opportunities afforded by an online format and a compressed summer term to dive deeply into a single Dickens novel (choice subject to term schedule and student interest, but likely to be Great Expectations, Bleak House, or A Tale of Two Cities). We will read the novel as Dickens’s original readers did: in serial parts, one breathless episode and suspenseful cliffhanger at a time. As we read, we will explore the novel’s biographical conditions, historical contexts, formal and aesthetic features, and thematic implications. Expectations for the course are centered around energetic reading and incisive writing. Assessment will be based on discussion participation during six synchronous Zoom meetings (one per week) and one brief presentation; short reading responses; and a short final paper/project (with creative options). No exams. Note: if technology limitations, reliable access to the Internet, or location in a remote time zone is a concern for you, we will make whatever accommodations are necessary for your success in this course; please do not allow any anxiety about these issues to dissuade you from registering.
All courses are being offered online. For full course descriptions visit DukeHub.