3rd Grade Babe Literary Essay

[Slikk Huisenga]

TheDepartment of English offers over 200 courses for undergraduate- and graduate-level students. These courses focus on a diverse array of topics from across the fields of American and British literature; world literature; critical and narrative theory; film, video game analysis and other areas of popular culture studies; writing, rhetoric and literacy; digital media studies; and folklore. We also offer creative writing workshops in fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

For complete and accurate meeting days and times for courses of interest, and to register, please visit the Ohio State Master Course Schedule. The master schedule is maintained by University Registrar and includes information about Department of English courses offered across all of our campuses. While we make every effort to ensure that the information below is complete and correct, the link above is guaranteed to be so.

Instructor: Staff

Practice in the fundamentals of expository writing, as illustrated in the student's own writing and in the essays of professional writers. Taught with an emphasis on literary texts.

GE Categories:

GEN: Foundation: Writing and Information Literacy

GEL: Writing and Communication: Level 1

Instructor: Staff

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Popular Culture Studies through a variety of methods and case studies. The specific focus will be on the entanglement of race, ethnicity, and gender in popular cultures.

GE Categories:

GEN: Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies

GEL: Cultures and Ideas

Section 10 Instructor: Staff

Section 20 Instructor: Staff

An introduction to the fundamentals of technique, craft, composition, and prosody; practice in the writing of poetry; and analysis and discussion of student work as well as published poems by established poets.

Instructor: Staff

An introduction to the writing of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Analysis and discussion of student work, with reference to the general methods and scope of all three genres.

Instructor: Staff

An introduction to the fundamentals of technique, craft, and composition; practice in the writing of creative nonfiction; and analysis and discussion of student work as well as published essays by masters of the many forms of creative nonfiction.

Instructor: Thomas Davis

This course will provide a survey of American literature from the end of the Civil War to the present day. We will attend closely to the formal and stylistic developments of different periods of literary history with an eye on the political, social, and historical antagonisms that accompany and underwrite these aesthetic innovations. The lectures will sketch out the broad historical, cultural, and artistic transformations of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries: the changes wrought by the aftermath of war; the transformative realities and legacies of industrial capitalism, settler colonialism, and imperial ambition; the material and psychological impact of two world wars; economic turbulence; shifts in American conceptions of race, gender, and sexuality; and the role of technological innovation. As we move through the centuries, we will be able to see how literature not only internalized many of these historical pressures, but provided unique ways to see and to think about them. Recitations will enhance your understanding of these issues, develop close reading skills, and allow you to work through texts not covered during the lectures.

Texts: The Norton Anthology of American Literature 2: 1865 to the Present; Nella Larsen, Passing; and either Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones or Richard Powers, Bewilderment.

GE Categories:

GEN: Foundation: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts

GEL: Literature

Section 20 & 40 Instructor and Title: Shaun Russell - "Character and Characterization"

This course will develop your ability to write analytically by focusing on a variety of American literature. The course theme is loosely Character and Characterization, which is meant to highlight one important aspect of fictional literature, but our conversations will surely explore a wide range of aspects about the chosen works. Since the course is about literature, broadly defined, we will read works in the genres of fiction, poetry, and perhaps even drama. Writing assignments will include two major papers, as well as some shorter writings and occasional low-stakes reading quizzes. Through it all we will learn about different elements of literature and how to write effectively about the literary genre.

Texts: We will read some works by Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Kurt Vonnegut, and many others. Note that while there will be a few texts for you to purchase, most will be provided.

Instructor: Staff

This service-learning course focuses on collecting and preserving literacy narratives of Columbus-area Black communities. Through engagement with community partners, students refine skills in research, analysis, and composition; students synthesize information, create arguments about discursive/visual/cultural artifacts, and reflect on the literacy and life-history narratives of Black Columbus.

GE Categories:

GEN: Theme: Lived Environments

GEL: Diversity: Social Diversity in the US

GEL: Writing and Communication: level 2

Instructor: Ryan Helterbrand

An introduction to humanities-based methods of analyzing and interpreting video games in terms of form, genre, style, and theory. No background in video game play is necessary. All students will have regular opportunities for hands-on experience with different game types and genres in both the computer-based classroom and the English Department Video Game Lab.

GE Categories:

GEL: Visual and Performing Arts

Instructor: Rachel Stewart

Study of sequential comics and graphic narrative and the formal elements of comics, how word and image compete and collaborate in comics to make meaning and how genre is activated and redeployed. Students analyze comics texts, articulate and defend interpretations of meaning and learn about archival research at OSU's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. No background in comics is required.

GE Categories:

GEN: Foundation: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts

GEL: Visual and Performing Arts

Instructor: Margaret Price

Students examine rhetorical concepts and how rhetorical devices construct our understanding of our bodies, health and wellness. Students learn how power structures and ideologies enable commonplace rhetorical devices to structure normative beliefs about bodies, health, and wellness and how rhetoric shapes perceptions of health and wellness and makes and unmakes healthy bodies, including your own.

GE Categories:

GEN: Theme: Health and Well-being

Instructor: Staff

Since the beginning of the modern nation state, cultural texts (poems, novels, films, pamphlets, zines, short stories, advertisements, comics, etc.) have been the essential medium through which the discourse of citizenship has been developed, constructed, refined, and debated. In this course student examine a range of literary periods, genres, and media focused on citizenship and social justice.

GE Categories:

GEN: Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World

Section 50 Instructor: Shaun Russell

What to expect from a course called Monsters Without and Within? Monsters, of course. And there is no question that we will be exploring some literary monsters from the past few centuries. But beyond some traditional monsters, we will also be exploring the boundaries of what that key term even means. Not every monster has fangs or claws, nor does every monster skulk in the shadows or lurk in your dreams. Some monsters hide in plain sight, and some are the perfect picture of normalcy...until they're not. So yes, we will examine the monsters that exist outside the fringes of humanity, as well as those that exist within. Along the way we'll look at some canonical and traditional literature, as well as some works that might challenge those definitions. Fiction, drama, poetry, and film will all be on the agenda, and assignments will include at least one exam, at least one major paper, some low-stakes reading quizzes, and perhaps a creative assignment to round everything out.

Texts: Stories by Kafka, Mansfield, Poe, O'Connor, and King; poetry by Auden, Rossetti, and Milton; a play by Shakespeare, and likely a novel or two, among other works. Film(s) TBA.

Section 10 Instructor: Calvin Olsen

Section 30 Instructor: Christopher Jones

Section 60 Instructor: John Rooney

Storytellers have long used monsters not only to frighten us but also to jolt us into thinking deeply about ourselves, others, and the world we live in. This course examines how various horror genres use monsters to explore issues of wellbeing and citizenship, and debates about race, gender, sexual orientation, mental health, social justice, and personal responsibility.

Section 10 Instructor: Clarissa Surek-Clark

Section 20 & 40 Instructor: Galey Modan

Students learn basic characteristics of English linguistics focusing on the basic building blocks of language; the sounds of English and how they are put together, word formation processes, and rules for combining words into utterances/sentences. Students investigate and explore linguistic variation, accents of American English, and the implications of language evaluation in educational settings.

GE Categories:

GEN: Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies

GEL: Cultures and Ideas

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