E N G L I S H. Courses in Literature & Composition

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1 E N G L I S H Courses in Literature & Composition Summer 206

2 PLEASE NOTE All information in this booklet was complete and accurate up to press time. For more current information, you should consult the Douglas College on-line course scheduler, accessible through the College s home-page.

3 Academic Writing Skills Review Writing Skills Review (English 099) is a brush-up course for students wishing to refresh their writing abilities prior to taking English 30, first-year literature, and other writing intensive courses. It will include instruction in sentence construction, paragraph and essay development, and work on grammar and mechanics. 0 9 Please Note: This course is a College-credit only course and does not transfer to universities. 099 Sections 00 [22476] Wed/Fri, 0:30am-2:30pm New West N. Smolash 002 [22477] Tues/Thur, 0:30am-2:30pm David Lam N. Smolash 9

4 3 0 Academic Writing English 30 introduces students to the process of writing academic argument essays. To that end, it includes instruction in writing strategies, and assignments and exercises designed to develop the student s abilities as a writer. Students receive instruction in the general principles of composition as well as in the specific development, organization, style, and mechanics of the academic argument essay. The course also includes instruction in reading and using source materials according to the MLA style of documentation. Readings and assignments in English 30 are drawn from a variety of academic disciplines. Some sections feature an organizing theme linking the readings and assignments, whereas in other sections, students can expect to work with texts and assignments on a wider range of topics.

5 English 30 Sections Instructor L. Saldanha 00 [2205] Mon/Wed, 2:30-2:30pm New West 002 [2206] Mon/Wed, 2:30-4:30pm New West Instructor R. Dwor 005 [22054] Tues/Thur, 2:30-2:30pm New West 007 [22076] Tues/Thur, 4:30-6:30pm New West Instructor R. Clark 006 [22055] Tuesday, 2:30-3:30pm New West 05 [22090] Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm New West Instructor N. Phillips 008 [2209] Wed/Fri, 8:30-:30am New West 009 [2268] Wed/Fri, 2:30-3:30pm New West Instructor J.P. Henry 050 [2208] Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm New West 052 [22257] Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm New West 3 0 Sections 008, & 009 are compressed courses, offered from 2 May to 9 June 206.

6 Instructor J. Bourget 00 [2269] Mon/Wed, 2:30-2:30 pm David Lam 053 [22256] Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm David Lam Instructor R. Miller 0 [2270] Mon/Wed, 2:30-4:30pm David Lam 054 [2249] Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm David Lam Instructor L. Robinson 02 [2270] Tues/Thur, 0:30am-2:30pm David Lam Instructor L. Robinson 03 [227] Tues/Thur, 2:30-2:30pm David Lam 3 Instructor R. Stephenson 003 [2207] Tuesday, 8:30-0:30am New West 004 [22043] Thursday, 8:30-0:30am New West 0 j Sections 003, & 004 offer a hybrid 30, with two hours each week in class, and the remainder on-line. j Section 03 is a compressed course, offered from 4 July to 7 August 206.

7 Reading Literature & Culture This course is organized thematically, typically examining a range of texts in the light of a central theme, such as crime (and punishment), the hero quest, utopias, the image of the masculine, immigrant experiences. Students will read works from at least two of the three major genres fiction, poetry, and drama and study works of at least one other sort, which may include works of a less traditional kind, such as creative non-fiction, graphic novels, and film. 0 2

8 Instructor R. Miller This section of English 02 is built around representations of homicide and the maniac in literature. Through readings of well-known contemporary works and a few less-travelled classics, we will explore how horrific acts (shown or implied) connect these works with an array of social, political, and cultural issues. Gender, identity, and class will form important components of our discussion during the semester, as will shifting ideas about evil and the myriad ways that murder has been culturally imagined. NOTE: Some readings are graphic; others, at times, are violent and/or misogynistic. If you foresee difficulty in handling the assigned content, or would be too upset to discuss such material, you are advised to find another course. Booklist Miller, ed. Coursepack for 02 Highsmith The Talented Mr. Ripley Atwood Alias Grace Easton Ellis American Psycho 00 [22073] Thursday, 2:30-3:30pm David Lam 050 [22535] Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm David Lam 0 2 Instructor I. Cikes How does a dominant group attain social control, and what at what cost? For those that become the other, how are concepts of their culture, This section of 02 is for students participating in the Wales Summer Field School. Classes will run prior to our departure for Wales. their environment, and their sense of self altered, subverted, and colonized? Looking through the lens of both English dominance in Wales and white colonial dominance in Canada, we will examine the question of how writers on each side of the Atlantic have expressed this experience and how they have, though language and representation, subverted the perceived dominant culture s definitions of themselves. Doing so, we will incorporate theories of subversion, criminality, deviance, and resistance as part of both the ways in which historically dominated cultures are defined, and how those cultures resist that definition. Booklist Cikes, ed. Coursepack for 02 Roberts Feet in Chains Highway The Rez Sisters 08 [2290] Wednesday, 8:30-:30am New West Friday, 2:30-2:30pm New West

9 Reading Fiction Reading Fiction (English 06) emphasizes the close reading of novels and short stories. Texts for the course will cover at least three different kinds of fiction, for example, realist and naturalist, fantasy and science fiction, romance, mystery. 0 6

10 Instructor J. Henry If we define modern fiction chronologically as emerging at the close of the nineteenth century, then its birth was attended by a debate which resonates to the current day. This semester in 06 we will look first at representative works by Henry James and H.G. Wells, who each took different sides in this debate. Following this, we will look at one particular stream of modern fiction, that is, stories written within the limits imposed by two particular genres which flourished in the wake of the debate: detective tales, and westerns. We will close with a novel that self-consciously tries to revive a pre-modern style of fiction, but which does so from a distinctively modern point of view. James Wells Hammett Wister Fowles Booklist Daisy Miller History of Mr Polly Maltese Falcon The Virginian French Lieutenant s Woman 00 [22074] Mon/Wed, 2:30-2:30pm New West 003 [22376] Mon/Wed, 4:30-6:30pm New West 0 6 Instructor R. Dwor Many literary works strain against, or draw attention to the limitations of storytelling, even as they use complex and beautiful language to tell their stories. By reading key writers of the nineteen, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries (with an even split between male and female authors), we will focus on narration, structure, and chronology, and what it may mean to write beyond the ending of a traditional plot. Through discussing novels, film adaptations, and short stories, we will also explore the practice of studying literature. Why, for example, should we dedicate our time and attention to analyzing literary prose? What questions can we ask when we open a novel? What answers do we seek? What tools do we need in order to pursue and bring into focus the meanings in these texts? Booklist Dwor, ed Coursepack for 06 Austen Emma McEwan Atonement 002 [22075] Friday, 2:30-3:30pm New West 050 [2245] Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm New West

11 Instructor L. Saldanha In this course, we put literature in global perspectives focussing on texts from diverse national, cultural, and political contexts (e.g., Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Western) written in, or translated into, English. We will attempt to cross some borders, focusing on both the uniqueness and interconnectedness of these literatures where they deal with issues of identity, exile, migration, and resistance. What are the distances between here and there? How might we meet here from there? And can we happily be neither here nor there? Along the way, we will consider fiction in a variety of genres, produced both at home and elsewhere, in order to appreciate a variety of global perspectives and cultures which reveal as much about ourselves as about others. Hamid Tan Culleton Booklist The Reluctant Fundamentalist The Arrival April Raintree These sections of 06 can count towards an Associate of Arts specialization in International/Intercultural Relations. 004 [2247] Tues/Thur, 0:30am-2:30pm New West 006 [229] Tues/Thur, 2:30-4:30pm New West 0 6

12 0 6 Instructor R. Stephenson This course looks at the representation of epidemics, plagues, and other health disasters in a range of modern fiction, examining subjects from the bubonic plague to the frequently imagined zombie apocalypse. In our work we will address a collection of related issues, including the gendered definitions of health and disease, the politics behind epidemics, the role of modern corporations in defining health and disease, and the problems inherent in scientific and technological progress. Booklist Stephenson, ed. Coursepack for 06 Matheson I Am Legend James The Children of Men Atwood Oryx and Crake Kirkman & Moore The Walking Dead, Vol.: Days Gone By 005 [2248] Tues/Thur, 2:30-2:30pm New West Instructor L. Robinson Philosopher Paul Ricoeur has written that fiction cannot be completed other than in life, and life cannot be understood other than through stories we tell about it. In this course we will discuss novels and short stories that explore the intersection between storytelling and the self. In our readings we will sail by tall ship from the shores of colonial New Zealand, meet a mysterious monster in a magical forest in World War II England, narrowly escape a man-eating island, witness a man coming to terms with the suicide of an old friend, and weigh the chances of survival in a post-apocalyptic Hawaii. Throughout these fictional journeys we will consider how, as Ricoeur puts it, life is an activity and a desire in search of a narrative. Barnes Byatt Martel Mitchell Booklist The Sense of an Ending Little Black Book of Stories Life of Pi Cloud Atlas 007 [22992] Mon/Wed, 2:30-2:30pm David Lam 008 [23080] Mon/Wed, 2:30-4:30pm David Lam

13 Instructor J. Bourget In this course, we will examine the relationship between cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction that developed in the early eighties, and a number of related genres, such as horror, fantasy, and dystopian fiction. In particular, These sections of 06 can we will focus on how ideology informs the count towards an Associate representation of gender in cyberpunk and of Arts specialization in its various precursors and derivatives. We Women s Studies & Gender will discuss, among other things, the implicit and explicit ideological assumptions Relations. of the stories we study and examine how such assumptions enable the characters to make sense of the moral complexity of the technologically (or magically) saturated worlds they inhabit. As part of our discussion, we will also explore how gender itself, especially our beliefs about masculinity, influences our perception of both technology and politics. Booklist Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Doctorow Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom Gibson Neuromancer Orwell 984 Stross The Concrete Jungle 009 [23082] Tuesday, 2:30-4:30pm David Lam 00 [23083] Thursday, 2:30-4:30pm David Lam j Sections 009 & 00 offer a hybrid 30, with two hours each week in class, and the remainder on-line. j 0 6

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15 Reading Poetry English 4 emphasizes the close reading of poetry, including the study of poetic forms, and poetic uses of language, the tools used by poets. Students will study a variety of poets, as well as multiple works of selected poets. 4

16 Instructor R. Clark We will examine poetry dealing with love, social conscience, meaning, and belief. We will start each theme with excerpts from Shakespeare and earlier poets, then explore more recent expressions of the theme. We will look at traditional forms such as odes and sonnets, as well as less traditional forms such as modern free verse, poetic prose, and poetry that is integrated with music, drama, or film. We will also look at several poems and lyrics in translation. Booklist You do not need to buy a text or course pack. The instructor will send you a file with public domain texts and you will download lyrics and other texts from the Net. 00 [22227] Thursday, 2:30-3:30pm New West 050 [22377] Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm New West 4

17 SECOND YEAR COURSES Admission to second-year English courses is open to all students of Douglas College who can meet certain prerequisites. To take a second-year course, you must have a Grade Point Average (GPA) of.67 either in any two university-transfer firstyear English courses, or a GPA of.67 in one university-transfer first-year English course and one university-transfer Creative Writing course or academic writing course (English 30 or English 200). Many of the concerns and methods introduced in first-year courses are examined in greater detail in second year. While no specific first-year course is a pre-requisite for any specific second-year course, students are advised that they may benefit from the following sequences of courses. English 06 or 02 will prepare students for the fiction component of 239; poetry in English 4 will prepare you for the demanding poetry requirements of 236 and 237; and English 5 will prepare you for the drama component of 236.

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19 2 History of the British Novel This course explores some of the major forms in the history of the British novel (picaresque, the epistolary novel, domestic fiction, the novel of manners), looking at patterns of both continuity and change within the genre. It looks, too, at themes significant in the history of the British novel, for example, the relationship between the individual and society. 9

20 2 Instructor R. Stephenson In this course, students will study the history of the British novel from the perspective of popular forms of fiction, ranging from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth century. Students will read gothic fiction (and a gothic parody), detective fiction, and adventure fiction. While the readings, discussions, and course work will focus on the development of the novel form, students will also learn about how these works helped to create a vision of the British empire through their plots and themes. Walpole Austen Collins Conan Doyle Buchan Booklist The Castle of Otranto Northanger Abbey The Moonstone The Sign of Four The 39 Steps 00 [23085] Wednesday, 3:30-6:30pm New West Welwyn Studios. Alfred Hitchcock directs Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll in The 39 Steps.

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