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English 165 English Texts are selected by colloquium faculty and by the faculty supervisor of the colloquium seminar. This is a graded seminar. Prerequisite: Matriculation in the MA program. 3 Credits Ms Annas, Mr Brown, Ms Goleman and Human Development. This course addresses an important area of pedagogical expertise, one that reflects specific disciplinary priorities and concerns but that is not addressed in the existing courses. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits ENGL 628 Comparative Studies of Two Writers ENGL 610 The Teaching of Composition This course defines the role of composition in the English curriculum in both college and secondary schools; develops a philosophy of language as a foundation for a method of composing; and studies psychological and linguistic aspects of the composing process. The course is offered once each year. 3 Credits Mr Bruss, Ms Goleman, Mr Mueller, Mr Sutherland ENGL 618 Life Writing This course takes as its province a wide range of personal narrative forms, ranging from biography, autobiography, and the memoir to personal essay, letters, case studies, and the obituary. Works may range across centuries, languages, and cultures, or be narrowly grouped. Both critical analysis and practical experiments in life writing may be required. 3 Credits Ms Annas, Mr Stoehr This course provides a comparative study of two major American, British, or postcolonial writers. The pairing of two writers enables a comparison of works that present affinities and oppositions in social context or theme so as to pose theoretically interesting questions for discussion, critical analysis, and further research. 3 Credits Ms Fay, Ms Klimasmith, Mr Maisano, Ms Penner, Ms Sorum ENGL 629 The Epic Imagination ENGL 611 The Teaching of Literature This course develops a theory and practice for the teaching of literature, applicable to both secondary and post-secondary education. The class reads, discusses, and analyzes sample presentations on literary texts in a variety of genres. The course serves teachers, prospective teachers, and nonteachers who seek an introduction to literature from a pedagogical point of view. 3 Credits Mr Mueller, Ms Nixon, Ms Srikanth ENGL 621 Introduction to Linguistics This course raises the question of the relationship between language and thought; it surveys the application of linguistics to the study of literature, the analysis and teaching of syntax and grammar, and the fields of psychology, sociology, and biology. 3 Credits Mr Bruss An inquiry into the nature and resources of the epic ambition and the epic imagination across historical periods, artistic forms, and cultures. The core examples of epic at the center of this course will be literary texts such as the Iliad or the Aeneid, the Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, The Saga of the Volsungs, and The Lord of the Rings, but the seminar may also examine the epic impulse in opera, symphonic music, theater, and film. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits Mr Maisano ENGL 623 The Nature of Narrative ENGL 630 Chaucer ENGL 612 The Teaching of Shakespeare This course combines intensive study of a few selected plays and poems with approaches to the teaching of Shakespeare, approaches which emphasize the speaking, hearing, and acting of the texts as well as such practical pedagogical issues as teaching challenging material, the value of performance, and which edition to use. The aim of the course is to transform students of Shakespeare into teachers of Shakespeare and to transform current teachers of Shakespeare back into students. Portions of the course are devoted to workshops affording opportunities to practice these approaches and to see them practiced. 3 Credits Mr Maisano This course explores a variety of ways in which modern and contemporary fiction challenge traditional narrative forms. While comparative study of experimentation is the course’s main concern, it also examines theories of narration (narratology) as these illuminate the art, reception, and ideologies of twentieth-century fiction. 3 Credits Mr Brown, Mr Fulton, Ms Skvirsky This course focuses on Chaucer’s major works in Middle English. Special attention is given to such considerations as Chaucer’s poetic development, his relations to his sources, medieval literary theory, and the social, political, and religious backgrounds of his writings. 3 Credits Ms Kamath, Mr Mueller ENGL 631 Medieval to Renaissance Literature ENGL 624 The Language of Film ENGL 613 Teaching English with Technology The English Department offers a series of teaching-focused courses at the master’s level that serve both English MA candidates (some of them serving as TAs and teaching interns in composition, literature, and creative writing as well as 6-12 teachers) and students in the College of Education This theory-based study in the “languages” of film, American and international, concerns the ways films signify. Emphasizing the crafting of films more than any thematic content, it explores mise-en-scene, framing, lighting, camera work, sound, editing, genre, and acting, as these mediate film narratives and, so, comprise their discourses. The course also explores structures of film narration as they relate to literary narration; it includes contextual consideration of history and ideology as these interact with film production and reception. Assigned texts will include readings in literary and film theory, films and film excerpts, and literature. 3 Credits Ms Skvirsky This is a course in the transition from medieval to Renaissance literature, focusing on study of the transition in prose from homiletic writings and the romances through Elyot, Ascham, and Lyly; in lyric and narrative verse from Chaucer and the Scottish Chaucerians through Sidney; and in drama from the morality and mystery plays through Hamlet. 3 Credits Ms Kamath, Mr Maisano, Mr Mueller ENGL 633 Shakespeare This course considers Shakespeare’s dramatic art as an art of coaching an audience (and readers) in how to respond to and understand his make-believes. Multiple plotting, recurring situation, contrasts and parallels in character and character

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UMass Boston - Graduate Studies 2011
Table of Contents
Graduate Program Affiliations
UMass Boston at a Glance
Foreword
Mission Statement
Trustees of the University
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Academic Calendar, 2010-2012
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Creative Writing
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School Psychology
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Spanish and Hispanic Studies
Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
Road Map and Directions to Campus
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Index

UMass Boston - Graduate Studies 2011