Syllabus

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WEEK 1: Aug. 30

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TH Introduction to the Course

Introduction to all course materials, assignments
CV and webpage how-to

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WEEK 2: Sept. 4, 6

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TU Intro to Wiki: meet in Development Lab (Mezes 2.116), with Gary Dickerson

• Assignment: Bring to the session a couple of paragraphs that define you and what area you are working in, and include a favorite author, book, and/or topic.

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PART I: FINDING YOURSELF, FINDING OUR STUFF

TH Basic Bibliography Tools and Skills: Establishing Your Credibility

Note: as you read for the next weeks, don't forget you are to be working on Assignment 3 as you go along: start doing your wiki pages for the group.

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WEEK 3: Sept. 11, 13

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TU Linguistics, Philology, Applied Linguistics
Readings

• "Understanding Language," Introduction to Scholarship (III), 3-69
  • Sommer, "Language, Culture, and Society"
  • Hopper, "Linguistics"
  • Byrnes, "Language Acquisition and Language Learning
• Finegan, "Linguistics," Introduction to Scholarship (II), 3-27
• Baron, "Language, Culture, and Society," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 28-52
• Lehmann, "Linguistics," Introduction to Scholarship (I), 1-28
• Byrnes, ed. Learning Foreign and Second Languages, 1(rec. 262-95)

Background:

• Richard A. Lariviere. "Language Curricula in Universities: What and How," Modern Language Journal 86 (2002): 242-255
• Modern Language Journal: Special Issues: A Century of Language Teaching and Research, Parts ! & 2 = Vol. 84, #4 (Winter 2000) and Vol. 85. #1 (Spring, 2001)
• Kramsch, "Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, and the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Modern Language Journal, 84, #3 (Fall 2000): 311-26

TH Composition and Rhetoric, Teaching/Pedagogy

• "Forming Texts," Introduction to Scholarship (III), 73-139
  • Jarratt, "Rhetoric"
  • Bartholomae, "Composition"
  • Bernheimer, "Poetics"
• Lunsford, "Rhetoric and Composition," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 77-100

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WEEK 4: Sept. 18, 20

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TU Bibliography and Reference Strategies: Linguistics Areas TH Wiki Discussion: What topics and names belong in these areas?
Discussion/Lecture to be sure you have the fields scoped out

• Assignment 3 partially due: substantial contributions to two wiki pages in linguistics areas

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WEEK 5: Sept. 25, 27

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TU Literary Studies, Classical and Canonical

• "Reading Literature and Culture," Introduction to Scholarship (III),143-170
  • Marcus, "Textual Scholarship"
  • McGann, "Interpretation"
• Scholes, "Canonicity and Textuality," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 138-158
• Marshall, Literary Interpretation," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 159-182
• Culler, "Literary Theory," Introduction to Scholarship (II), 201-235
• Lipking, "Literary Criticism," Introduction to Scholarship (I), 79-97
• Hernandi, "Literary Theory," Introduction to Scholarship (I), 98-115

Background

• PMLA: Special Millennium Issue, 115, # 7(December 2000) --SKIM!!

TH Literary Studies, Historical and Material

• "Reading Literature and Culture," II (new), Intro to Scholarship (III), 171-208, 294-311
  • Gallagher, "Historical Scholarship" '
  • Holquist, "Comparative Literature"
  • Venuti, "Translation Studies"
• Greetham, "Textual Scholarship," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 103-137
• Patterson, "Historical Scholarship," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 183-200
• Tanselle, "Textual Scholarship," Introduction to Scholarship (I), 29-52
• Lewalski, "Historical Scholarship," Introduction to Scholarship (I), 53-78
• Lefevere, Translating Literature
• Susan Bassnett & André Lefevere, Constructing Cultures, passim

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WEEK 6: Oct. 2, 4

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TU Bibliography and Reference Strategies: Classical Literary Studies

Class presentation of basic resources

TH Wiki Discussion: What topics and names belong in these areas?

Discussion/Lecture to be sure you have the fields scoped out
Assignment 3 partially due: substantial contributions to two wiki pages in traditional literary studies

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WEEK 7: Oct. 9, 11

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TU Crossing Disciplines and Cultures: New Cultural Studies

• "Reading Literature and Culture," II (new), Introduction to Scholarship (III), 209-293
  • Franco, "Cultural Studies"
  • Donadet/Lionnet, "Feminisms, Genders, Sexualities:
  • Warren, "Race and Ethnicity"
  • Friedman, "Migrations, Diasporas, and Borders"
• Gunn, "Interdisciplinary Studies," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 239-261
• Bathrick, "Cultural Studies," Introduction to Scholarship (II), 320-340
• Schor, "Feminist and Gender Studies, Intro. to Scholarship (II), 262-287
• Gates, "'Ethnic and Minority' Studies," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 288-302
• Allen, "'Border' Studies," Introduction to Scholarship (II), 303-319

Background

• PMLA Forum on Interdisciplinary Studies, 111, # 2 (March 1996)
• Denham, et. al, eds. A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies:
  • Teraoka, "Multiculturalism and the Study of German Literature," 63-78
  • Bammer, "Interrogating Germanness," 31-44
  • Crew, "Who's Afraid of Cultural Studies," 45-61
  • Kacandes, "German Cultural Studies," 3-28
  • Chapter 32: Selected Annotated bibliographies, 529-536

TH Bibliography and Reference Strategies:

Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies

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WEEK 8: Oct. 16, 18

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TU Wiki Discussion: What topics and names belong in these areas?

Discussion/Lecture to be sure you have the fields scoped out
Assignment 3 partially due: substantial contributions to two wiki pages in interdisciplinary areas

PART II: From Scholarship to Professional Practice TH Your Career

• Academic's Handbook, Part III: Academic Employment, 113-178
• Goodwin, "Fads and Fashions on Campus: Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization," Academic's Handbook, 73-80
• Boice, Advice for New Faculty, passim
• Budd, "On Writing Scholarly Articles," Academic's Handbook, 249-262
• Lucas and Murry, New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners, passim
• Goldschmithe et al., The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career, passim
• Germano, Getting it Published, passim
• Vesilind, "The Responsible Conduct of Academic Research," Academic's Handbook, 104-111
• Rowson, "The Scholar and the Art of Publishing," 273-285 Campbell, "Effects of the Networked Environment on Publishing and Scholarship," Academic's Handbook, 286-296 Excerpts from Symploke (on CD)
  • Urgo, "The Affiliation Blues"
  • Terry Caesar, "Affiliation in a Career of Specialization"
  • Di Leo, "On Being and Becoming Affiliated"

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WEEK 9: Oct. 23, 25

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TU Institutional Configurations

ENGLISH STUDIES: START HERE

• Gleckner, "A Taxonomy of Colleges and Universities," Academic's Handbook, 3-16
• PMLA: Report on the Conference on the Future of Doctoral Education, 115, #5 (October 2000): 1136-1276 (includes three short other articles from the issue on publishing and teaching)

FOREIGN LANGUAGES, READ AROUND IN THE FOLLOWING FIRST:
• German Quarterly, Millennial Issue, 73, #1 (Winter 2000)
• David Benseler et al., eds. Teaching German in Twentieth-Century America, all (passim) George F. Peters. Teaching German in America (selections from)
• Graff, "The Scholar in Society," Introduction to Scholarship (II), 343-362
• Schuman, "Small is . . . Different," Academic's Handbook, 17-28
• Burian, "On Being a Political Animal in the Academic Zoo," Academic's Handbook , 65-72
• Pye, "University Governance," Academic's Handbook, 297-314
• Colton, "The Role of the Department in the Groves of Academe," Academic's Handbook, 315-333
• Stewart, "The Academic Community," Academic's Handbook, 334-340

TH Policy and Institutional Frameworks

• Carnegie Classifications: and the link to the article "Rethinking and Reframing the Carnegie Classification" (2005), by Alexander C. McCormick and Chun-Mei Zhao
• AAUP
• AAUW
• Chronicle of Higher Education


• Assignment 3 partially due: contribute to professional, personal, and practical areas of the WIKI -- annotations and resources, not whole pages, unless you think they are warranted

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WEEK 10: Oct. 30, Nov. 1

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TU Clean-up question day on CV and Professional area assignments: what problems do you have in self-definition.

• Peer critique of CVs and wiki pages started. Within a week, send an email to the owner of at least 5 other pages (cc to teacher), to tell what is needed.


• ASSIGNMENT 2 Due: CV and WEBSPACE page
• Draft of Assignment 1 Due: make sure you have something in each category, and be prepared to defend.

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PART III: Modeling a Text Interpretation, from Theory to Practice TH Discussion of Wiki Pages: Update on Progress

Introducing Précis and Final Portfolio: Staging Text Interps, theory to practice

WEEK 11: Nov. 6, 8

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TU Linguistics Text Interpretation, I: Theory

• Corpus: any text passage (or searchable corpus)
• Theory Source: Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (class CD) Making a Procedural Model: evolving concepts
• Research Problems: what do you need to look up, and where

TH Linguistics Text Interpretation, II

• Text: Edgar Allen Poe, The Purloined Letter, at http://www.bartleby.com/310/3/3.html

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WEEK 12: Nov. 13, 15

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TU Literary Text Interpretation, 1: Poetics (text-imminent interpretations)

• Corpus: "masterpiece" of a genre or national voice
• Theory Source: definition from Princeton Enyclopedia,
  T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (Adams.PDF on class CD)
• Making a Procedural Model: evolving concepts
• Research Problems: what do you need to look up.

TH Literary Text Interpretation, 2: Poetics

• Text: T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

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WEEK 13: Nov. 20, 22

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TU Historicist, Positivist, or Geistesgeschichte Text Interpretation, 1

• Corpus: Text and the historical, sociological, etc. contexts in which it rests
• Theory Source: Hans Robert Jauss, "Literary History as a Challenge to L. Theory," 163-183 in Critical Theory Since 1965 (Adams & Searle);
  Droysen, "Outline of the Principles of History" (class CD)
• Making a Procedural Model: defining elements of history, "ideas" to pursue
• Research Problem: bibliography and interdisciplinarity

TH THANKSGIVING

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WEEK 14: Nov. 27, 29

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TU Historicist, Positivist, or Geistesgeschichte Text Interpretation, 2

• Text: James Joyce, The Dead (class CD)


• Précis Due: use any other poetics or historicist to approach one of the texts

TH Cultural Studies or Interdisciplinary (emphasis on post-structuralism)

• Corpus: cultural practices, uses of texts within culture or disxipline
• Theory Source: Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?," "Discourse on Language," 137-162
  Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," 238-250
• Making a Procedural Model: evolving concepts in interdisciplinary framework
• Research Problems: what do you need to look up.

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WEEK 15: Dec. 4, 6

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TU Cultural Studies Text Interpretation

• Text: James Joyce, The Dead (class CD)

TH Concluding Discussion

• Précis Due: use any other cultural studies theory to approach one of the texts

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OFFICIAL FINAL DATE: Thursday, 13 December, 2-5 pm. All work due in.

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