Summer 2021
1110X.001: Composition I (Stretch I)
Remote Scheduled, MWR 0900-1100
Dania Ammar, dammar@unm.edu
First semester of Composition I stretch sequence. Focuses on analyzing rhetorical situations and responding with appropriate genres and technologies. (EPW)
This is the first course in a two-part sequence. In order to receive transfer credit for ENGL 1110, all courses in this sequence (ENGL 1110X, ENGL 1110Y) must be taken and passed.
Credit for both ENGL 1110X and ENGL 1110 may not be applied toward a degree program.
Students with ACT English =<15 or SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing =<449 or ACCUPLACER Sentence Skills =<278 or Lobo Course Placement English Placement Tool = 10 will begin their English Composition Sequence with ENGL 1110X.
1110.001 & 2: Composition I
Online
Mikaela Osler, mosler@unm.edu
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.
1120.001 & 3: Composition II
Online
Emily Reiff, ereiff01@unm.edu
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.
1120.002: Composition II
Online
Jennifer Tubbs, jtubbs@unm.edu
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.
2210.001 & 3: Professional & Technical Communication
Online
Lukus Malaney, lrattanapotemalaney@unm.edu
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.
2210.002: Professional & Technical Communication
Online
Robert Esquibel, resquibel92@unm.edu
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.
2210.004 & 005: Professional & Technical Communication
Online
Jessie Bonafede, jkbonafede@unm.edu
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.
2310.001: Introduction to Creative Writing
Online, 2H: 7/5/21-7/31/21
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.
2620.001: American Literature II
Online, 1H: 6/7/21-7/3/21
M. R. Hofer, mrh@unm.edu
This course surveys the evolution of American literature from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, with special emphasis on cultural and social issues frequently associated with modernism and modernity. For each of our four modules we will discuss at least one major fictional work, a generous selection of influential poems, and also a culturally significant film.
Our study begins with a week on the Civil War that extends to the beginning of World War I. From there, we will shift our focus to the growth of the modern metropolis from the “roaring” 1920s through the 1940s. In week three, we will investigate racial identity in the American “melting pot” with reference to the Harlem Renaissance as well as the Black Arts Movement. Our fourth and final week will be dedicated to the Cold War era and an indigenous, if not insular, sense of what it meant to be an American when the country was one of two viable global superpowers.
The survey introduces many canonical authors whose reputations—if not individual works—you may already know. However, it aims to do so in conjunction with other important American writers who are perhaps, and perhaps unjustly, lesser known. Our survey will center on prose by Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, and J. D. Salinger, poetry by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley, and films by Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Marian C. Cooper, and Stanley Kubrick.
There are no prerequisites for this course, and no formal knowledge of literary criticism, history, or theory is required in order to be successful in it.
374.001: Southwest Literature and Culture
Online
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.
420.001: 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.
