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. 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) requirement 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 Gil- man, and others; creative and critical writing exercises; robust in-class participation; and a final class project. Fulfills DU Common Curriculum requirement: Advanced Seminar (ASEM) requirement 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 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
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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.
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) requirement
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 Gil-
man, and others; creative and critical writing exercises; robust in-class participation; and a
final class project.
Fulfills DU Common Curriculum requirement: Advanced Seminar (ASEM) requirement
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 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, we 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:
*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, day-
dream, 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 magi-
cal 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 per-
sonal sensibility about language. They will learn various prompts, techniques, and jump-
ing-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 re-
vised 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.
You will be directed through the quarter with multiple creative writing exercises and par-
ticipate 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: We will examine in this course how American authors writing
in the 40s, 50s, and 60s engage with and modify continental existentialist ideas in their
writing. We will look at works by 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, analyz-
ing, 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 around 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 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 occasion-
ally turn our eye to mountains much closer to home by comparing the realities of interna-
tional mountain life with communities in the Rockies and Appalachians. This class is rec-
ommended to students planning on studying abroad.
Fulfills English major curriculum requirement: English elective.
ENGL 2003 Section 1
CRN 2241
Creative Writing-Poetry
Sarah 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 intro-
duced 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: In this course, we 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 dif-
ferent 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 TBD
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, stu-
dents 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 DU Common Curriculum requirement:
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” au-