Upcoming - Summer 2022

Any schedule posted on this page is tentative and therefore subject to change without notice due to any number of factors, including cancellation due to low enrollment. Course Descriptions are provided for reference only and are also subject to change.

If you have any questions about the courses to be offered next semester, please contact the scheduling advisor for English:

Dee Dee Lopez
delopez@unm.edu
(505) 277-6347
Humanities 213

100-Level
100-Level | 200-Level | 300-Level | 400-Level

  

1110: Composition I

Online

Covers Composition I: Stretch I and II in one semester, focusing on analyzing rhetorical situations and responding with appropriate genres and technologies. (EPW)

Credit for both this course and ENGL 1110X may not be applied toward a degree program.

Meets New Mexico Lower-Division General Education Common Core Curriculum Area I: Communications.

Prerequisite: ACT English =16-25 or SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing =450-659 or Next Generation ACCUPLACER Writing =>279 or Lobo Course Placement English Placement Tool = 20 or WritePlacer = 6-8.

1120: Composition II

Online

Focuses on academic writing, research, and argumentation using appropriate genres and technologies. (EPW)

Meets New Mexico Lower-Division General Education Common Core Curriculum Area I: Communications.

Prerequisite: 1110 or 1110Y or 1110Z or ACT English =26-28 or SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing =660-690 or Lobo Course Placement English Placement Tool = 30.

200-Level
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2210: Professional & Technical Communication

Online

Professional and Technical Communication will introduce students to the different types of documents and correspondence that they will create in their professional careers. This course emphasizes the importance of audience, document design, and the use of technology in designing, developing, and delivering documents. This course will provide students with experience in professional correspondence and communicating technical information to a non-technical audience. (EPW)

Meets New Mexico Lower-Division General Education Common Core Curriculum Area I: Communications.

Prerequisite: 1120 or ACT English =>29 or SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing =>700.

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2310.001: Introduction to Creative Writing

Online, 2H: 7/4/22-8/1/22
Julie Shigekuni, jshig@unm.edu

This month-long intensive course in creative writing will be divided into the study of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. You will spend one week in each genre reading work published in Janet Burroway’s anthology and doing writing prompts designed to increase your understanding of each genre. The final week will be spent developing a piece of writing in the genre of your choosing. In terms of assignments, you will begin by writing about life as you know it based on experience. You will then re-imagine your remembered past into fiction, and then go on to play with what Janet Burroway calls “Concrete Significant Details” in a series of poems. The aim is to provide the beginning writer with a range of methods by which to posit questions and search for answers creatively. Every reading discussion and writing experiment has been designed to emphasize the elements of craft involved in creative writing. Online classwork will consist of work done individually, small and large group discussions, and structured workshops.

300-Level
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374.002: Southwest Literature and Culture

Online, 2H: 7/4/22-8/1/22
Melina Vizcaíno-Alemán, mviz@unm.edu

New Mexico and the greater Southwest has long been a contested region. In this fully online course, we will examine how literature and visual culture provide complex portrayals of the beauty, borders, and violence that form the Southwest’s unique history. We begin with Simon Ortiz and a critical Indigenous lens to understand Spanish colonial history and Manifest Destiny. The class then moves into the 19th-century and its print culture, and we read one of the “first” Native American novels, as well as a selection of dime novels that inch into the early 20th century. The course content focuses especially on 20th-century Chicana/o and Native American literature and culture, which respond to and reconfigure dominant perceptions of the region. The course will also make use of some of the University of New Mexico’s unique collections of art and literature at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, especially its dime novel collections and modernist “little” magazines. Students will develop ways to think about the Southwest through its literary and cultural histories that include conflict and accommodation in the literature, art, and public histories about the region. Assignments include a series of discussion forums, two analysis essays, and two exams.

388.002: T: The Gothic Novel

Online
Gail Houston, ghouston@unm.edu

"Let us concur that this kind of fiction, whatever one may think of it, is assuredly not without merit: twas the inevitable result of the revolutionary shocks which all of Europe has suffered. For anyone familiar with the full range of misfortunes wherewith evildoers can beset mankind, the novel became as difficult to write as monotonous to read. There was not a man alive who had not experienced in the short span of four or five years more misfortunes than the most celebrated novelist could portray in a century. Thus, to compose works of interest, one had to call upon the aid of hell itself, and to find in the world of make-believe things wherewith one was fully familiar merely by delving into man's daily life in this age of iron." (Marquis de Sade on Gothic fiction, Idee sur les Romans (Geneva: Slatkine, 1967; http://graduate.engl.virginia.edu/enec981/Group/chris.social.html#sade) 

As the above excerpt from the Marquis de Sade (from whose name the word “sadism” comes) suggests, the nineteenth-century British Gothic novel must be read in light of historical events and anxieties. Nineteenteeth-century Britain experienced the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Kantian Revolution, the Woman Question, the Condition of England question, the Crisis of Faith, new understandings about the psyche and science, and debates about slavery and empire. Knowing the history of nineteenth-century British anxieties is crucial to understanding the Gothic. We will read three Gothic novels, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula to help us understand this disturbing, spectacular phenonmenon, while also learning how to analyze fiction and film elements on a basic level. Thus we will: 

  • Learn and use basic elements of fiction 
  • Learn and use basic elements of film 
  • Learn and use background on nineteenth-century British Gothic fiction and film 
  • Use knowledge of the above to summarize, synthesize, and analyze the fiction and film we are studying 
400-Level

 

420.001: T: Travel Writing

Online
Stephen Benz, sbenz@unm.edu

Maybe you've enjoyed travel articles in magazines like National Geographic or Smithsonian and thought you’d like to try writing in a similar vein. This class will help get you started. We'll explore the elements that make for a good travel story: sense of voice, development of character, and the evocation of telling details. Travel writing is a rich and versatile genre, embracing a multitude of topics and forms. A travel story may concern spiritual awakening, cultural encounter, politics, anthropology, science, nature, food, philosophy—you name it. The journey motif is embedded deep in the human psyche. It enriches stories, poems, memoirs, essays—even scripture. In fact, the oldest storytelling we know about concerns travel and travelers—Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Moses, and Aeneas, for example. For centuries, storytellers have turned again and again to travel for inspiration. Now, it’s your turn. During this 8-week summer course, you will have the opportunity to write several types of travel articles/stories, including blogs, review articles, informative articles, and personal essays. Readings from accomplished travel writers will serve as models. You will also have the chance to share your work with your peers through an online discussion board.

424.001: Advanced Creative Writing Workshop: Script Writing

Online
Sharon Warner, swarner@unm.edu

Human beings are addicted to stories. Most of us recognize a good one when we hear it because we are literally wired to listen and learn. Writing a good story does not come nearly as naturally. Like all skills, it is acquired through engagement and energy. In this course, we will begin with an overview of traditional three-act structure. Over the course of the semester, we will address all the important issues of screenwriting: idea, structure, character, scene, dialogue and action. Students will learn about film and television screenplay structure and complete both a beat sheet and a short script. Those enrolled should expect to view clips from feature films, read at least one screenplay, and participate in small-group workshops.

Department of English Language and Literature
Humanities Building, Second Floor
MSC03 2170
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Phone: (505) 277-6347
Fax: (505) 277-0021

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