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2009 Summer Session Course Listings
Note: Northwestern day school students need permission from the dean of their school to enroll in School of Continuing Studies courses. SCS courses are indicated by a -CN after the course number (example: ACCOUNT 204-CN Sec. 28). The majority of Summer Session courses do not need dean approval.
English
School of Continuing Studies
Composition courses ENGLISH 110 and ENGLISH 111 are only open to School of Continuing Studies students and visiting students. Please see English Requirements for information about prerequisites and placement exam procedures for these courses.
ENGLISH 110-CN Sec. 28 
Writing Seminar I: Troubled Times in the United States: Comparing FDR and Obama
CAESAR Class Number: 42342
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 8/10
M 6 - 9:15pm
Katharine Duke
This course will be held in University Hall room 112.
While the election was won only a few months ago, it's already difficult to avoid comparing the 44th President of the United States to the 32nd, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945). Both Obama and FDR came into office in the midst of a critical economic crisis, made sweeping legislative changes in their first 100 days in office, and are known for their charisma and pragmatism. This course examines the how the two men approached their first 100 days in office and how the country was affected. Students will read the book The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by Jonathan Alter, as well as other newspaper and magazine accounts of the early portion of both presidents' terms. Students will also write three short essays to be critiqued in class. Northwestern day-school students must obtain their dean's consent to enroll in this course.
ENGLISH 111-CN Sec. 26
Writing Seminar II: Television in a New-Media Century
CAESAR Class Number: 42344
6 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 7/29
MW 6:30 - 9pm
John Bishop
This course will be held in University Hall room 218.
Despite the worries of past generations that television was an "idiot box" or "plug-in drug," TV is still going strong after several generations at the center of American life. In fact, we still devote more time to TV than to any other medium, over four hours a day for the average adult. But where is old-fashioned television's place in the new-media world of the IPOD, youtube, and video on demand? After a brief look at the history of TV, we investigate television's role in our culture today and how it -and our relation to it- is likely to change in the future. Reading and writing assignments may consider television's economic, political, social, aesthetic, or historical contexts. Northwestern day-school students must obtain their dean's consent to enroll in this course.
ENGLISH 113-CN Sec. 26
Introduction to Literature
CAESAR Class Number: 42346
6 weeks,
CHIC,
6/23 - 7/30
TuTh 6:30 - 9pm
James Richard O'Laughlin
This course will be held in Wieboldt Hall room 512.
Introduction to the vocabulary, techniques, and pleasures of literature through close study and discussion of poems, plays, short stories, and novels. Short critical papers develop ability to analyze and interpret literature. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 111 or equivalent writing skills highly recommended. Northwestern day-school students must obtain their dean's consent to enroll in this course.
ENGLISH 205-0 Sec. 26
Intermediate Composition
CAESAR Class Number: 40316
6 weeks,
EVAN,
6/23 - 7/30
TuTh 6:30 - 9pm
John Anderson
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 4310.
This course is for students with some college writing experience who want to write more effectively and develop their ability to critique their own work. Students will write and revise several short essays and one medium-length paper. Readings and class discussions will address how to manage the process of writing in different situations and how to benefit from other writers' advice. Teaching methods: group discussions, peer-review workshops, and individual conferences. May not be audited or taken P/N.
ENGLISH 205-CN Sec. 25
Closed
Intermediate Composition: Business Communication
CAESAR Class Number: 42516
5 weeks,
EVAN,
7/28 - 8/25
Tu 6 - 9pm
Leslie Fischer
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 2315.
This course is designed for those who have experience with college-level writing but who want to sharpen their writing and communication skills. Students learn to apply measures of excellence in business writing and communication. Assignments relate to business environments, including audience analysis, persuasive writing, verbal and interpersonal communication, and document design, and graphics. Writers gain experience writing in collaborative environments. Students produce multiple drafts and receive feedback from their peers and the instructor. This course combines classroom lecture and discussion with an online component. Students must have ready access to the Internet. Northwestern day-school students must obtain their dean's consent to enroll in this course.
ENGLISH 207-CN Sec. 26
Reading and Writing Fiction
CAESAR Class Number: 42803
6 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 7/29
MW 6:30 - 9pm
Charles Yarnoff
This course will be held in University Hall room 418.
Students write two drafts of a short story. They also write several exercises to practice such techniques as building conflict, manipulating point of view, and conveying emotions through specific details. These drafts and exercises are read and commented on by the rest of the class. Students also discuss fiction techniques used in stories by classic and contemporary authors.This course will not fulfill the pre-requisite for the English Major in Writing.
ENGLISH 307-B Sec. 28
Cancelled
Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction II
CAESAR Class Number: 42358
8 weeks,
CHIC,
6/24 - 8/12
W 6 - 9:15pm
Lisa Stolley
This course will be held in Wieboldt Hall room 516.
For experienced fiction writers, continuing work in the study and development of short stories. Builds on the premises, assignments, and goals of 307-A. Emphasis is placed on writing and revising long stories. May not be audited or taken P/N. Prerequisites: ENGLISH 207 or consent of instructor. Obtaining instructor consent: Contact the SCS Registrar's office to receive the instructor's contact information. Once the instructor has been contacted and consent obtained, the instructor will report the student's name to the Registrar's office for approval to enroll in the course. Northwestern day-school students must obtain their dean's consent to enroll in this course. Contact the SCS Registrar's office at onlinereg@northwestern.edu to receive the instructor's contact information.
ENGLISH 310-CN Sec. 26
Cancelled
Studies in Literary Genre: Literary Journalism
CAESAR Class Number: 42784
6 weeks,
CHIC,
6/23 - 7/30
TuTh 6:30 - 9pm
Michael McColly
This course will be held in Wieboldt Hall room 505.
In a time when blogs, TV journalism, and headline journalism dominate our understanding of a complex and volatile world, the role of literary journalism has never been more important. In this course, we examine the phenomenon of this blend of reportage and literary nonfiction and its effect on both journalism and the emergence of creative nonfiction. We begin with a look at the role of travel writing and the immersion reporting made popular by George Orwell. Next, we examine the politically explosive and inventive period of New Journalism with American writers Capote, Wolfe, Didion, Thompson, and others. The latter half of the course looks at writers working in the genre today, including Finnegan, Kidder, McPhee, Kotlowicz, Ehrenreich, and others. We finally touch upon the similarities and the cross -influences of documentary film on the future of literary journalism. Northwestern day-school students must obtain their dean's consent to enroll in this course.
ENGLISH 324-CN Sec. 28
Studies in Medieval Literature: Legend of King Arthur
CAESAR Class Number: 42785
8 weeks,
CHIC,
6/27 - 8/15
Sa 9:30am - 12:45pm
Raymond Gleason
This course will be held in Wieboldt Hall room 512.
This course is a survey of the major texts representing the Arthurian tradition from its putative inception in the late fifth century to its retelling in modern times. Participants will trace the development of major principle Arthurian themes. The course will engage a number of texts including histories, romances, narrative poems, novels and films, which represent the development of the Arthurian tradition over the last 1400 years. This course meets pre-1798 requirement for majors. This class will not meet on Saturday, July 4. Northwestern day-school students must obtain their dean's consent to enroll in this course.
ENGLISH 332-0 Sec. 28
The Morality Play's Impact on Renaissance Drama
CAESAR Class Number: 42804
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/23 - 8/11
Tu 6 - 9:15pm
Scott Proudfit
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 2415.
Hamlet would not have been Hamlet if it weren't for Everyman. Renaissance playwrights' assumptions about what the stage could do and how audiences should be addressed were inherited from the medieval traditions of the morality play. The idea that all the world's a stage and the stage is all the world is not an invention of Shakespeare's. Rather, it was developed in 15th-century plays such as Mankind and The Castle of Perseverance. Heroes choosing between mighty opposites (such as to be or not to be, heaven or hell); allegorical characters whose dramatic function can be summed up in single word (Chastity, Innocence, or, in Iago's case, "Villain"); plays aimed at a popular audiences which combine low comedy with poetic tragedy: All of these defining features of the Renaissance drama can be traced back to the morality play. Starting with the major extant morality plays of the 1400s, this course looks at the dramatic works of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare, among others, and considers how the flowering of Renaissance theatre was seeded a hundred years earlier. In the final weeks of class, we will examine how playwrights, time and again, have returned to and remade this genre over the centuries. Plays may include: Shakespeare's Hamlet and Othello, Jonson's Volpone and The Devil Is an Ass, Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, George Lillo's The London Merchant, Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan, George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman, and Tony Kushner's Angels in America. This course counts toward the Weinberg College literature and fine arts distribution requirement, Area VI.
ENGLISH 339-0 Sec. 26
Special Topics in Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Love
CAESAR Class Number: 40060
6 weeks,
EVAN,
6/23 - 7/30
TuTh 9:30am - noon
Albert Cirillo
This course will be held in University Hall room 118.
What attitudes about love can be discerned from the works of William Shakespeare? How have attitudes and beliefs about love, sex, and gender changed from the 16th-17th centuries to our own time, and how have these changes in attitudes/beliefs affected our modern readings/interpretations of the plays? Are contemporary readings supported by the texts and are they faithful to the texts? We will also consider certain productions, both traditional and contemporary (probably on DVD), as well as modern adaptations of Shakespeare to contemporary themes (e.g., "Twelfth Night" now seen as "She's the Man," "Romeo and Juliet" in both a traditional production and in Baz Luhrmann's modern version). The argument will be, is it better to adapt Shakespeare to the contemporary mode than to perform his actual text in a so-called director's "concept" version? Readings may include the Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet (of course), Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, and Hamlet. This course counts toward the Weinberg College literature and fine arts distribution requirement, Area VI.
ENGLISH 368-0 Sec. 26
The World Novel
CAESAR Class Number: 40612
6 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 7/29
MW 9:30am - noon
Mary Kinzie
This course will be held in University Hall room 318.
A study of narrative inventions by late 20th-C writers who have altered the shape of prose fiction by introducing into their art elements of allegory, magical realism, metafiction, and intertextual "conversation" with other novelists and with extra-fictional texts. Course begins with a brief introduction to short stories by Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges, followed by a study of novels by Georges Perec, J. M. Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Anne Carson, Jose Saramago, and Marguerite Duras. Three short (3-page) papers and one report on a writer chosen from a second list of stylistic innovators (Kobo Abe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nicholas Mosley, and Ben Okri). Revisions to improve grade always welcome. This course counts toward the Weinberg College literature and fine arts distribution requirement, Area VI.
ENGLISH 368-0 Sec. 27
Cancelled
Twentieth-Century Gender Hits the Road
CAESAR Class Number: 42805
6 weeks,
EVAN,
6/23 - 7/30
TuTh 9:30am - noon
Sarah Mesle
It is a commonplace of traditional understandings of gender that men "light out for the territory" while women stay home-that men want to sew their wild oats while women want to marry and have children. Yet numerous twentieth-century popular texts challenge these assumptions, or undermine the meaning of these assumptions. What really is at stake when men and women hit the road? What is it about juxtaposing traveling life with domestic life that reveals our assumptions about gender, or helps change our assumptions about gender? This course will explore these questions by exploring films and texts such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Their Eyes Were Watching God, On the Road, Easy Rider, Thelma and Louise, The Time Traveler's Wife, and Housekeeping. This course counts toward the Weinberg College literature and fine arts distribution requirement, Area VI.
ENGLISH 378-0 Sec. 26
Studies in American Literature
CAESAR Class Number: 40616
6 weeks,
EVAN,
6/23 - 7/30
TuTh 12:30 - 3pm
Bill Savage
This course will be held in University Hall room 121.
Urbanologist Yi Fu Tuan writes "What begins as undifferentiated space becomes place when we get to know it better and endow it with values." In The Untouchables, Sean Connery tells Kevin Costner, "You want to get Capone? Here's how you get Capone. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He puts one of yours in the hospital, you put one of his in the morgue. That's the Chicago way." In this class, we will examine "the Chicago way" from many different angles in order to interrogate the values with which various artists have endowed Chicago. We will read in a broad range of media: journalism, poetry, song, fiction, film, and sequential art to see how a sense of Chicago as a place develops and changes (and remains the same) over time. We will pay close attention to depictions of the construction of American identity along lines of race, class and gender, and to the role of the artist and intellectual in the city. This course counts toward the Weinberg College literature and fine arts distribution requirement, Area VI.
ENGLISH 378-0 Sec. 36
Cancelled
Studies in American Literature: America from the Outside
CAESAR Class Number: 42806
6 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 7/29
MW 9:30am - noon
Peter Jaros
This course will be held in University Hall room 418.
How is America perceived by non-Americans? And how have these perceptions shifted over time? These questions animate this course, which treats America as not only the home of a national literature, but also a literary creation in itself, fashioned by writers from many places. By examining fiction, travelogues, and film about America written by and for non-Americans over the past few centuries, we will follow the changing fate and traits of "America" in a variety of registers: natural history, national character, politics, and culture. Readings/screenings include travel writings by early European explorers, texts by Tocqueville, Dickens, and Kafka, and films by Sergio Leone and Lars von Trier. This course counts toward the Weinberg College literature and fine arts distribution requirement, Area VI.
ENGLISH 383-0 Sec. 28
Cancelled
Contemporary Asian Diaspora Fiction
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/23 - 7/30
Tu 6 - 9pm
Jillana Enteen
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 2359.
This class will examine fiction and films by and about Asians in diaspora during the past several decades. We will begin with essays that examine the notion of diaspora and discuss the specific conditions of diaspora for writers/filmmakers from South East Asia and South Asia. Continuing this trajectory, we will read several novels and short stories and see films written by Asians no longer residing in what they consider their homes. Our discussions will focus on specifically on ways in which race, gender and sexuality are articulated within these texts. Possible READING LIST :Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo; The Pagoda, Patricia Powell; The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi; Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai; Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn; Gold by the Inch, Lawrence Chua; The Salt Eaters, Monique Truang. FILMS/VIDEOS: My Life as a Poster, Shashwati Talukdar; Happy Together, Wang Kar-wai; Khush, Pratibha Parmar; Fated to be Queer, Pablo Bautista; Fresh Kill, Shu Lea Cheang. GRADING: Midterm Essay 20%; Final Essay 20%; Final Exam 20%; Class Project 20%; Class Participation 20%.This course is cross-listed with ASIAN AM 380-0.
ENGLISH 385-CN Sec. 26
Topics in Combined Studies: Literature and Leadership
CAESAR Class Number: 42592
5 weeks,
CHIC,
6/20 - 7/25
Sa 9am - 12:30pm
Leslie Fischer
This course will be held in Wieboldt Hall room 507.
This course explores a variety of texts in which leaders are pushed to psychological, moral and political limits. Via literature-from ancient Greek texts, to Renaissance drama, to modern fiction-students enter into the community of readers that began more than two-and-a-half millennia ago and take another step along the path toward becoming truly educated leaders. This course meets the literature course requirement for graduation. This course combines classroom lecture and discussion with an online component. Students must have ready access to the Internet. Northwestern day-school students must obtain their dean's consent to enroll in this course. Class will not meet on Saturday, July 4.
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