Department of English and Literary Arts COURSE DESCRIPTIONS—Spring 2020 *Fulfillment of DU and Departmental requirements is listed after each description. All English courses, except those used to fulfill DU Common Curriculum requirements, can also count for English Elective credit. Please note, no more than 12 credit hours of 1000-level coursework-- including ENGL 1010 and any transfer credit--can count towards our major requirements. ASEM 2403 CRN 5370 Versions of Egypt Brian Kiteley Tuesday 4-7:50 PM COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will study what led up and what has followed the recent Egyptian Revolutions. We will read Alifa Rifaat’s Distant View of the Minaret, Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land, Alaa al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building, Wael Ghonim’s Revolution 2.0, and excerpts of Peter Hessler’s The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution. Students will write both critical and creative essays for this seminar. Fulfills DU Common Curriculum requirement: Advanced Seminar. ASEM 2422 CRN 3871 Textual Bodies: Discourse and the Corporeal in American Culture Tayana Hardin Tuesday, Thursday 2-3:50 PM COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course explores how bodies acquire meanings, and how those meanings are created, represented, disseminated, or contested through discursive and embodied means. More specifically, this seminar equally privileges the book and the body as sites that, when studied jointly, invite thoughtful consideration of power and privilege, and the discursive and material consequences of race and gender and their intersections with other categories of social identity. Course practices include close readings of literary, philosophical, and visual texts by Sandra Cisneros, Judith Butler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others; creative and critical writing exercises; robust in-class participation; and a final class project. Fulfills DU Common Curriculum requirement: Advanced Seminar. ENGL 1000 Section 1 CRN 1027 Introduction to Creative Writing Evelyn Hampton Monday, Wednesday 8-9:50 AM COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this reading--and writing--intensive course, we’ll explore different genres of creative writing and consider different modes of creativity. Assigned readings and writing prompts will ask students to consider how they understand and interpret texts, and whether and how they then act in the world on their interpretations. Through this process, students will
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Department of English and Literary Arts
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS—Spring 2020
*Fulfillment of DU and Departmental requirements is listed after each description. All English
courses, except those used to fulfill DU Common Curriculum requirements, can also count for
English Elective credit. Please note, no more than 12 credit hours of 1000-level coursework--
including ENGL 1010 and any transfer credit--can count towards our major requirements.
ASEM 2403
CRN 5370
Versions of Egypt
Brian Kiteley
Tuesday 4-7:50 PM
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will study what led up and what has followed the recent
Egyptian Revolutions. We will read Alifa Rifaat’s Distant View of the Minaret, Amitav Ghosh’s
In an Antique Land, Alaa al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building, Wael Ghonim’s Revolution 2.0,
and excerpts of Peter Hessler’s The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution. Students
will write both critical and creative essays for this seminar.
Fulfills DU Common Curriculum requirement: Advanced Seminar. ASEM 2422
CRN 3871
Textual Bodies: Discourse and the Corporeal in American Culture
Tayana Hardin
Tuesday, Thursday 2-3:50 PM
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course explores how bodies acquire meanings, and how those
meanings are created, represented, disseminated, or contested through discursive and embodied
means. More specifically, this seminar equally privileges the book and the body as sites that, when
studied jointly, invite thoughtful consideration of power and privilege, and the discursive and
material consequences of race and gender and their intersections with other categories of social
identity. Course practices include close readings of literary, philosophical, and visual texts by
Sandra Cisneros, Judith Butler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others; creative and critical writing
exercises; robust in-class participation; and a final class project.
Fulfills DU Common Curriculum requirement: Advanced Seminar. ENGL 1000 Section 1
CRN 1027
Introduction to Creative Writing
Evelyn Hampton
Monday, Wednesday 8-9:50 AM
COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this reading--and writing--intensive course, we’ll explore different
genres of creative writing and consider different modes of creativity. Assigned readings and
writing prompts will ask students to consider how they understand and interpret texts, and whether
and how they then act in the world on their interpretations. Through this process, students will
engage with works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and hybrid texts and gain a better understanding
of creativity as a socially engaged process.
**Prerequisite: This course (or equivalent) is required before enrolling in intermediate or
advanced creative writing courses.
Fulfills DU major curriculum requirement: Introduction to creative writing.
ENGL 1000 Section 2
CRN 1479
Introduction to Creative Writing
Cassandra Eddington
Tuesday, Thursday 8-9:50 AM
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Basic techniques of fiction and poetry.
**Prerequisite: This course (or equivalent) is required before enrolling in intermediate or
advanced creative writing courses.
Fulfills DU major curriculum requirement: Introduction to creative writing.
ENGL 1000 Section 3
CRN 5384
Introduction to Creative Writing
Justin Wymer
Wednesday, Friday 12-1:50 PM
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Creative writing is, at its core, a core-emptying enterprise: we write to
empty ourselves of emotion, story, anecdote, inspiration, frustration, anxiety, daydream, and
nightmare. We write to express ourselves in manners more intangible than those that purely
academic writing requires. In this class, we will be sure to fill our wellsprings so that they do not
run by drinking in the language particular to prose, poetry, and creative nonfiction as we play, take
risks, and challenge and question ourselves. Most important, we will practice experimenting with
words and forms as we come to understand the magical things we create.
In this generative-writing course, student scholars will be introduced to a variety of genres of
creative writing to whet their literary appetites and begin developing their personal sensibility
about language. They will learn various prompts, techniques, and jumping-off points to help them
generate writing. They will also learn revision techniques in workshop. The course will culminate
in a final portfolio and classroom exhibition of revised student work.
**Prerequisite: This course (or equivalent) is required before enrolling in intermediate or
advanced creative writing courses.
Fulfills DU major curriculum requirement: Introduction to creative writing.
ENGL 1000 Section 4
CRN 1973
Introduction to Creative Writing
Blake Guffey
Monday, Wednesday 10-11:50 AM
COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this introductory creative writing class we will read and write across
a wide variety of works – poetry, the novel, short story, theater, and film – with an eye toward how
form and content work together to manifest the creative impulse. Students will be directed through
the quarter with multiple creative writing exercises and participate in both small group and full
class workshops of your original writing.
**Prerequisite: This course (or equivalent) is required before enrolling in intermediate or
advanced creative writing courses.
Fulfills DU major curriculum requirement: Introduction to creative writing.
ENGL 1006 Section 1
CRN 3398
Art of Fiction
Elijah Null
Tuesday, Thursday 8-9:50 AM
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will examine how American authors writing in the 1940s,
50s, and 60s engage with and modify continental existentialist ideas in their writing. We will look
at works by writers such as Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Flannery O’Connor, Ralph Ellison,
Walker Percy, and others.
Fulfills English major curriculum requirement: English elective.
ENGL 1007 Section 1
CRN 1974
Art of Poetry
Taylor Wesley
Tuesday, Thursday 10-11:50 AM COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will introduce us to strategies for reading, analyzing, and
discussing poetry.
Fulfills English major curriculum requirement: English elective.
ENGL 1200 Section 1
CRN 3401
International Short Fiction
Ben Caldwell
Wednesday, Friday 10-11:50 AM COURSE DESCRIPTION: Here in Denver, mountains might represent day hikes and weekend
ski trips, but approximately one-eighth of the global population calls a mountain region home.
Across the world, mountain communities are treated as both isolated backwaters and pockets of
thriving rural diversity and richness. In this class, we will explore the tensions between these two
views of mountain communities by looking at fiction from five countries known for their
mountainous geography: China, Pakistan, Morocco, Haiti, and Chile. We will also discuss the
economic and cultural difficulties facing mountain communities, and occasionally turn our eyes to
mountains much closer to home by comparing the realities of international mountain life with
communities in the Rockies and Appalachians. This class is recommended to students planning on
studying abroad.
Fulfills English major curriculum requirement: English elective.
ENGL 2003 Section 1
CRN 2241
Creative Writing-Poetry
Sara Sheiner
Monday, Wednesday 2-3:50 PM COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this class, we will talk about what we write, why we write it, and
who we are writing it for. We will do this through the reading and discussion of books that are
doing the work of making art while also trying to speak to/affect the public sphere. These
discussions will inform the art we make in class (from poems to collages) and the feedback we
give in workshops. Enrollment in this class means that you are ready to be receptive and to speak
with empathy toward all people, perspectives, and texts introduced and discussed.
**Prerequisite: 4 credits introductory creative writing required for enrollment.
Fulfills English major curriculum requirement: Intermediate creative writing.
ENGL 2013 Section 1
CRN 2242
Creative Writing-Fiction
Kelly Krumrie
Monday, Wednesday 2-3:50 PM COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will investigate how (and perhaps why) writers tell stories
in order to practice (and experiment) writing our own. We will read critically to tease out elements
of fictional craft (e.g., character, setting, plot, dialogue, etc.). We will also read widely, from a
range of primarily contemporary writers working in different forms, including work by Carmen
Maria Machado, Steven Dunn, Ho Sok Fong, Ted Chiang, Joy Williams, and others. Alongside
reading and discussion, students will write short creative and critical responses. In the second half
of the term, students will workshop and revise their own stories. The class will allow writers to
practice writing short fiction while reflecting on how (and again perhaps why) a story can be told.
**Prerequisite: 4 credits introductory creative writing required for enrollment.
Fulfills English major curriculum requirement: Intermediate creative writing.
ENGL 2021 Section 1
CRN 5710
Business Technical Writing
Kelly Krumrie
Tuesday, Thursday 12-1:50 PM COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this course, students will learn and practice forms of writing used
in professional environments, both individual and collaborative, such as PowerPoint presentations,
memos, proposals, executive summaries, and job application materials. We will focus on how to
craft information in an efficient, organized, and logical manner from brainstorming and problem-
solving to final copy. As this is a cross-disciplinary topic, students will be encouraged to tailor
course assignments to their fields of study and interests so that the work is both relevant and
practical. Students will come away from the course with tools and techniques to improve their
professional writing as well as a cover letter and résumé.
Fulfills English major requirement: does not count towards major credit.
ENGL 2035 Section 1
CRN 5386
History of Genre-Poetry
Lindsay Turner
Tuesday, Thursday 10-11:50 AM COURSE DESCRIPTION: When we think of famous English-language forms in poetry, we think
most often of the forms that have been associated with certain “big-name” authors: Dante’s terza