Upcoming - Summer 2025

1110: Composition I

Online, many sections available

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, many sections available

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: Professional & Technical Communication

Online, many sections available

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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2620.001: American Literature II

Online
Jesse Aleman, jman@unm.edu 

This course is a general survey of American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The course content will roughly span from the end of the Civil War to the contemporary period. The purpose of the course is to read a variety of writers from the late nineteenth to the later twentieth centuries to sample key themes in American literary history and chart the way the nation developed after the Civil War. We’ll acquire a sound, broad base of American literary history and learn how to use specific examples and passages from literary writings to state and support an argument about literature.

315.001: T: Literature and Psychology

Online
Doaa Omran, domran@unm.edu 

There is a very strong correlation between literature and psychology because both of them deal with human beings and their reactions. We ask the same questions about characters that we ask about family, friends and people we meet in life. This online course examines some of the most intriguing intersections between literature, psychology, and the mind, particularly emphasizing the complex relationship between literature and psychoanalysis. Students will read myths from across different cultures, novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama in connection with secondary contextualizing material drawn from the history of psychology and literary criticism. As we move through the syllabus, we will be attentive to several guiding concerns: (1) What role has literature played in developing psychoanalytic thought? (2) How can psychoanalytic theory or cognitive psychology help us approach and better understand literary texts? (3) How have literary representations of the human mind changed over time, and in conversation with what developments within the still-unfolding history of psychology? Some of the more specific psychological themes and topics we will study include psychosexual development, anxiety, depression, hysteria, the uncanny, abjection, cognition, hallucination, psychosis, fantasy, individuation, and archetypes.  

Students will read ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary works, and complete two major writing assignments (analytical reading and a research paper), which will help students develop research strategies and incorporate primary and secondary sources into their writing. They will analyze rhetorical situations, find, and evaluate information, compose documents, present documents, and continuously reflect on their creations using the theme of riverine journeys - both geographical and psychological - to guide their writing, so that students will walk away with skills that will help them read texts from a psychoanalytical perspectives, as well as compose academic-quality papers. 

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.