E502 – The Politics of Literacy | 3 credits | 5:30 - 7:20 PM | MW | Rosa Nam

The Politics of Literacy is driven by the key question, In what ways are learning how to read and write the word and the world (Freire & Macedo, 1987) political? In this class we will historicize and develop complex understandings of literacy and literacy practices through an examination of definitions, approaches, and contexts, using these lenses to examine contemporary debates in the field of literacy and honoring and honing the literacy practices we bring into the classroom.

This course is open to graduate students and highly motivated undergraduate students of all majors.

E506B – Literature Survey: American | 3 credits | 1:00 - 2:15 PM | MW | Zach Hutchins

We're going to cover some of the greatest hits in American literature, from Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley Peters to Moby-Dick and Robert Frost. But we'll also sample a good selection of the latest beats to drop, including acclaimed work by Tommy Orange, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Terrance Hayes, and Marilynne Robinson.

This course fulfills the MFA’s pre-20^th century literature requirement.

E513A – Form & Technique in Fiction: The Seven Basic Plots | 3 credits | 5:00 - 7:30 PM | W | Nina McConigley

Often, narrative theory aims to identify common plots that are used in many stories. One of the most well-known attempts in recent years is Christopher Booker’s book The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. In this book, Booker proposes that any story will follow one of seven different plots:

1. Overcoming the Monster
2. Rags to Riches
3. The Quest
4. Voyage and Return
5. Comedy
6. Tragedy.
7. Rebirth

We will read books that use these plots and look at plot and structure in our stories. How does a sequence of events shape our work and influence how the story is told?

E515 - Syntax for ESL/EFL | 3 credits | 2:30 - 3:45 PM | MW | Luciana Marques

Knowledge of English grammar is essential for ESL/EFL teachers, along with teaching skills. In this course, you will learn the syntactic and pertinent morphological structures of English, compare them with structures of other languages, and examine pedagogical approaches and materials to teach grammar to English language learners in adult education settings.

E527 – Theories of Foreign/ Second Language Learning | 3 credits | 12:30 - 1:45 PM | TR | Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker

E528 – Professional ESL Teaching: Theory to Practice | 3 credits | 2:00 - 3:15 PM | TR | Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker

The course offers individuals interested in teaching English as a second/foreign language a guided opportunity to learn about and apply principles for planning, designing, and carrying out effective classroom instruction and assessment. The main goal of the course is to engage students in non-threatening interaction about language teaching experiences with colleagues and learners of English from the community.

E601 – Research Methods in TESOL | 3 credits | 1:00 - 3:30 PM | F | Anthony Becker

This course will focus on introducing students to classroom-based research as a method of improving teaching and learning in language classrooms, particularly in those instructional settings with ESL/EFL students. Specifically, this course will focus on conducting classroom-based research as an important activity for refining teaching techniques and methods in the language classroom. Students will gain hands-on experience with conducting classroom research in the four skills (i.e., listening, reading, speaking, and writing) within the context of the language classroom. Finally, the course will explore the relative strengths and potential challenges of different approaches to classroom-based research, as well as how these pieces of information can contribute to gaining expertise in language teaching. This course is recommended for TEFL/TESL graduate students but is also open to any graduate students interested in conducting (language-related) research, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches.

E605 – Critical Studies in Reading and Writing: Posthumanist Approaches | 3 credits | 10:30 - 11:45 AM | WF | Erika Szymanski

Humanist traditions have encouraged attention to the individual writer and reader and their experiences—the “human” at the center of the humanities. Today, many scholars find focusing on the individual human actor unproductive in a world characterized by the manifestations of mass denial of human interdependence. Posthumanist scholars have responded by rethinking reading and writing—the practice thereof, and those who do them—as interconnected beyond and outside the individual. Critical theorists, rhetoricians, and diverse writing scholars have made sense of writers as interdependent assemblages or ecologies, and of reading and writing practices as necessarily products of community and environment. Readers and writers have been identified as other-than-human and more-than-human, living and otherwise. In this class, we will investigate theories (and some practices) of posthumanist reading and writing across feminist, science and technology studies, digital humanities, cyborg, Indigenous, ecological, and environmental trajectories, asking how they respond to various manifestations of social injustice. We will each choose a contemporary question or issue of interest to us having to do with reading, writing, and/or literacy so that collectively, through the semester, we can ask: what do these various methods of reconfiguring “the writer,” reading, and writing, do in practice? How do they configure questions or problems of interest to us, and what can (and cannot) be gained as a result?

E615 - Reading Literature: Recent Theories | 3 credits | 3:00 - 4:15 PM | MW | Ryan Claycomb

The course will provide an overview of the literary theory as a toolbox for reading literary and other cultural texts at the post-graduate level, offering a history of the discipline of literary criticism with a balance slightly tilted toward new directions in the field – new materialisms, affect theory, post-critique. The work will include a series of short response papers and a final project, but the real work of the course is to read deeply and well.

E630B – Special Topics in Literature (Genre Studies): Minor Modernism | 3 credits | 9:30 - 10:45 AM | TR | Philip Tsang

When we speak of modernism, we usually think of the long, complex, encyclopedic works by Proust, Joyce, Pound, and Musil. But is there a modernism of the minor, the miniscule, and the minimalist? This class takes Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of “minor literature” as a starting point to explore a strain of modernist writing from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century that embraces a minoritarian impulse against the heroic monumentalism of canonical modernism. What might we learn from a “minor modernism”? What implications might it have for minority politics, minor languages, and the increasing marginalization of literature? In the age of social media and AI, how can literature transform its minor, diminutive status into a radical possibility?

This course fulfills the MFA’s pre-20^th century literature requirement.

E640A Graduate Writing Workshop: Fiction | 1 to 5 credits | 04:00 - 06:50 PM | T | Andrew Altschul

Individual fiction-writing projects with group discussion and analysis. Restricted to graduate students in the Fiction track of the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Maximum of 11 credits allowed in course. Contact instructor for registration.

E640B Graduate Writing Workshop: Poetry | 1 to 5 credits | 04:00 - 06:50 PM | T | Matthew Cooperman

Individual poetry projects with group discussion and analysis.

Maximum of 11 credits allowed in course. Contact instructor for registration.

E640C Graduate Writing Workshop: Essay | 1 to 5 credits | 04:00 - 06:50 PM | M | Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Craft driven, studio based, group discussion of essay, memoir, narrative nonfiction and hybrid forms.

Maximum of 11 credits allowed in course. Contact instructor for registration.

E644 – Creative Science Writing | 3 credits | 1:00 - 2:15 PM | WF | Erika Szymanski

This course will approach science writing for diverse audiences as a simultaneously creative and strategic endeavor, through principles that unite genres from the conference abstract and journal article to the newspaper op-ed, the personal research narrative, and the creative non-fiction story. Students will read and discuss foundational science writing and science communication theory, practice writing about their work for diverse audiences, and participate in extensive peer-review and workshopping. Our focus will be on how audience, purpose, and relationship are core to science writing across genres, on maintaining accuracy while controlling jargon and tone, and on giving and responding to feedback. We will collaboratively design the foci for our writing assignments in the first week of class.

E684A – Supervised College Teaching: Composition | 1-5 credits | 12:00 - 12:50 PM | W | Todd Ruecker

E687C – Internship in Literary Editing | 1-5 credits | Multiple Meeting Times | Stephanie G'Schwind

Internship with Colorado Review.

More information can be found here: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/about/

E692 – Rhetoric and Composition Seminar | 1 credit | 04:00 - 06:00 PM | M | Sue Doe

Seminar featuring faculty and student research and projects and disciplinary and professional concerns related to writing, rhetoric, pedagogy, and social change.