Canaday, Steven
ENG-121 (section 014-Honors)

"The Individual and the Modern Family"
Rather than being lectured to or led in discussion, students will work in teams to solve specifically designed cases. Texts: As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner; Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams; How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel; Eight American Poets: An Anthology, Joel Conarroe, Ed.; Rules for Writers, Diana Hacker. 

Finnegan, James
ENG-121 (sections 008 and 016)

"Doing Documentary Work"
In this course students will study “documentary” as a unique form of social and historical representation—a form defined by a collaborative tension between images and words, “fact” and creative nonfiction, history and personal experience, observer and observed. As part of a research and final project for the course, students will produce their own documentary (representing another person using a combination of words and images) in connection with a service learning component. Texts: Writing Analytically (5th Edition); Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee and Walker Evans; 12 Million Black Voices, Richard Wright; The Laramie Project, Moises Kauffman; Maus I and II, Art Spiegelman.

Gabriel-Tucci, Paul
ENG-121 (sections 004 and 010)

"Persuasive Visions: Revealing the Unseen" 
Texts: Little Brown Handbook (10th Edition); Narrative of the Life of Frederick Frederick Douglass; Nickled and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich; The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston; All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, trans. by A.W.Wheen; Poems: New and Collected, Wislawa Szymborska, trans. by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh.

Mahoney, Christian
ENG-121 (sections 876 and 877)

"American Noir Fiction"
 Noir Fiction, a subgenre of the "hardboiled" school of American crime and detective fiction, constitutes an important cultural phenomenon that manifested itself not only in popular fiction but also in the films that were made during the classic period of "film noir" (1940-1958). Students will read works by major and minor authors that belong to the genre and explore how it has changed and evolved over time. Film versions (DVD and video) of the novels that are discussed in this course are available from the Truxal Library and will be included in our discussions. Texts: The Big Book of Noir, Server, et al, Eds.; Hard Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, Pronzini and Adrian, Eds.; Double Indemnity, James M. Cain; The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler; The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett.

Rabin, Jessica
ENG-121 (sections 021, 026, and 400)

"Generations"
In this course, we will read and analyze literature that explores the nature of relationships between generations, especially within the context of families. We will look historically and culturally at the sources of the generation gap and also at the ties that bind members of different generations together through our engagement with poetry, plays, and fiction. Texts: Brown Girl, Brownstones, Paule Marshall; Fences, August Wilson; The Tragedy of King Lear, William Shakespeare; When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, Sandra Martz; Little Brown Handbook (10th Ed).

Spoor, Suzanne
ENG-121 (section 024)

"National Mythologies and Individual Identities"
How does our view of ourselves affect others and shape our environment? Does one's sense of personal identity create reality? Can an individual's imagination change the stories of a culture or nation? How do personal or national trauma, as occur during a war, affect one's sense of identity? In this section of English 121, we will explore these and other questions through short stories, novels, and plays that reflect a variety of cultural viewpoints. Texts (provisional list): The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien;  And the Soul Shall Dance, Wakako Yamauchi; Fences, August Wilson.