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168 Graduate Catalog 2010-2012 English ENGL 657 The Black Presence This course studies selected literary texts of the last two hundred years by major and minor authors who wrote with a special consciousness of the significance of black people in American society. 3 Credits Ms Nurhussein, Mr Stoehr ENGL 663 The End of the World ENGL 658 Regional Literature This course focuses on regional consciousness in representative works of modern American writers of the South, New England, the West, urban hubs such as New York City and Boston. Special attention is given to the roles that the sense of history and the sense of place play in the work of writers for whom such settings have proven a source of imaginative creation. 3 Credits Ms Klimasmith, Mr O’Connell, Ms Srikanth This course provides a study of “terminal visions” in myth, fiction, and poetry, with ancillary readings in historical, scientific, and cultural perspectives on end-times. The main focus is literary, but the seminar may also engage apocalyptic themes in visual arts, religious thought, political history, and popular culture. Writers to be discussed include Mary Shelley, HG Wells, Olaf Stapledon, Mordecai Roshwald, Hilda Schiff, Russell Hoban, Cormac McCarthy, George Stewart, and Otto Friedrich. In addition to some shorter pieces of fiction, some poems from the English Renaissance and essays on apocalyptic issues will also be discussed, as well as representative films and operas. 3 Credits Participants examine and evaluate pedagogical approaches in light of research and theory. Emphasis is given to formulating and exploring implications of research and theory for second language and bilingual classrooms. 3 Credits Ms Zamel ENGL 670 Philosophy and the Composing Process ENGL 660 Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States: Text and Context ENGL 668 Perspectives on Composition: History, Theory, Pedagogy This course explores a variety of ethnic literatures written by US writers in the 20th century, within their sociocultural contexts. Students study texts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: historical, literary, sociological, and cultural. Some of the writers likely to be included are Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston, M Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston and Frank Chin, Richard Rodriguez and Sandra Cisneros. 3 Credits Mr Sauri, Ms Srikanth ENGL 662 Modern Black Writers The history of black North American literature has sometimes converged with mainstream American literature, but more often it has involved a separate and distinct tradition. This course considers the origins of this tradition in the slave narratives; its development in the early 20th century; its growth through the Harlem Renaissance; and its flowering in major contemporary writers. The course is also directed towards an understanding of the historical “problems” of African-American writers, including the black writer’s relation to white audiences; the aesthetic versus the protest tradition; and the sense of “double consciousness” in black writers. 3 Credits Ms Lewis, Ms Nurhussein, Ms Tomlinson This course is designed as an introduction to the field of composition studies for students in the composition and literature tracks. The course investigates the rise of English as a discipline in the late nineteenth century and the social and political conditions that led to the split between the teaching of reading and writing (that is, between literature and composition). It focuses on why writing became concentrated in the freshman year and how the entry of women into the new American university along with large numbers of middle-class men affected the way oral and written rhetoric instruction was reconceived as freshman English. Understanding this history and these politics will facilitate development of an informed critique of composition as it was first conceived and will pose the question: What are the alternatives? With this question, the course turns to composition theory and pedagogy for an introductory study of significant responses to composition’s original gatekeeping mission. The course is designed to stimulate engaged reading and interactive classes so that students will not just “learn” the history, theory, and pedagogy of composition but learn to think historically, theoretically, and pedagogically. 3 Credits Ms Goleman, Mr Sutherland Current rhetorical theory emphasizing the process of composing has developed several models (e.g., pre-writing, writing, rewriting) which are nevertheless linear. But writers and teachers of writing need ways of apprehending the all-at-onceness of composition. This seminar offers opportunities to develop philosophical perspectives on perception and forming; language and the making of meaning; interpretation in reading and teaching. The course explores the pedagogical and practical implications of a broad range of theories of language and knowing by means of experimental writing and by the study of essays, letters, talks, and other materials by scientists, artists, and philosophers. This course is recommended for students choosing to concentrate in composition for the English MA, at or near the start of their programs. 3 Credits Mr Bruss ENGL 671 The History of Children’s Literature This course provides an overview of the field of children’s literature and its development. The subject matter is approached with both critical and scholarly attitudes, and works are examined in historical and cultural contexts. Topics and texts include myth, folk, and fairy tale; range includes children’s books from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, through materials of colonial America, the nineteenth-century moralists and fantasists, to modern classics; consideration of critical theories and questions of pedagogy is included. 3 Credits ENGL 672 Theory and Practice of Adult ESL ENGL 669 Writing Theories in Second Language Acquisition This course considers research and theory in writing and addresses the particular challenges of writing in a second language. This course examines new approaches to curriculum development for teaching ESL to adults, focusing on both theory and practice. Starting with an overview of theory in the areas of adult learning, literacy, and acquisition of a second language, the course goes on to link these theories with curriculum models. Students do research in adult ESL classrooms, using ethnographic techniques to analyze classroom interac-

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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
Administrative Officers of the University
Academic Calendar, 2010-2012
Admissions
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Accounting
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Counseling: Degree Programs
Counseling: Family Therapy
Counseling: Mental Health Counseling
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Counseling: School Counseling
Creative Writing
Critical and Creative Thinking
Dispute Resolution
Education
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Leadership in Urban Schools
Education: Educational Administration
Education: Special Education
Special Education
Orientation and Mobility
Teaching of the Visually Impaired
Vision Studies
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Education: Applied Behavioral Analysis for Special Populations
Education: Technology, Learning, and Leadership
Education: Teaching Writing in the Schools
English
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Applied Physics
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Women in Politics and Public Policy
Public Policy
School Psychology
Applied Sociology
Spanish and Hispanic Studies
Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
Road Map and Directions to Campus
Campus Map
Telephone Directory
Index

UMass Boston - Graduate Studies 2011