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Variety of Courses Offered for the 1978-79 Year
Speech 100, Public I
Speaking, provides students I
with an opportunity to sharpen
their rhetorical and speaking j
skills. Developing and organiz
ing speech materials and
techniques of presentation
are emphasized throughout
the semester. This course is
being offered in the evening
at 6:00-7:15. (4 credits)
English 450 (002) (4 credits)
Richard Morton
Conceptions of Time in
American Literature
An inquiry into how various
concepts of Time and Space
are reflected by, and are also
the shapers of thought and
schematics. Simply put,
we shall be attempting to
understand cosmologies, those
that arrived in America from
Western Europe, mainly the
Puritan and the Anglican.
However, we shall be concern
ed with the opening up of the
National Sciences (Lyell and
Darwin), and the Realities of
this continent and the people
here prior to Columbus. It will
be something like a history of
time. Study of Jonathan
Edwards, Thomas Jefferson;
Time in a few nineteenth
century American writers; Time
in a couple of twentieth century
American writers and poets.
All works are not yet settled
on, but very likely, they will
be: Hawthorne and/or Poe,
Twain, James, Crane or Norris
and Dreiser, Wolfe, Falkner.
Perhaps we will stretch a point
and read T.S. Eliot as well.
English 360: Renaissance
Literature (4 credits) Gutsell:
This course will cover the
major genres of the period
and background readings.
Readings in poetry will include
selections from the major
sonnet sequences, selections
from Spencer, Donne, Marvel
and others, with an emphasis
on the traditions of courtly love
and Neo-Platonism and the
reactions against these,
particularly in Shakespeare
and Donne. Drama readings
will include Marlow and
Webster. Prose readings will
include Sir Thomas More's
Utopia, Castiglinne's Book of
the Courtier, and Machiavelli's
The Prince. Background read
ings will include Tillyard's
Elizabethan World Picture and
a modern history of the period
of Elizabeth. All of the above
is subject to some alterations.
Thee will be several short
papers, a mid-semester exam
and a final.
English 210 Creative Writing
(Poetry), T-Th, 1:30-3:00.
The purpose of this course
is to encourage the writing of
poetry, as a mode of personal
expression and self-discovery,
and as a craft. Students who
have not written poetry before
are as welcome and as valuable
to the class as those who have
been writing for some years.
The course operates as a work
shop: its chief content is the
poetry written by class
members, which is discussed
from a variety of viewpoints.
Critical insight and affective
writing techniques grow out of
response to particular poems.
Considerable attention is given
to how the poem originates,
as well as to methods of
structuring images and ideas.
Ann Deagon
English 200 (001 and 002)
(4 credits) Marlette:
The most humane activity
of our existence is finding
meaning in our world and
expressing it and sharing it
with others. The readings in
this course, essay, fiction,
poetry, and drama, (textbook
is Elements of Literature)
increase one's capacities for
understanding and communi
cation. Required compositions
will be analytical and inter
pretative. Six 600-700 word
papers and some shorter
commentaries.
English 200 (003 and 004)
(4 credits) Gutsell:
Specific Course Subject: Myth,
History and Fiction
This course has several
goals: to read some important
and interesting literature; to
develop an understanding of
two historical periods and
places (Ancient Greece and
Colonial America); thematically,
to investigate how man
understands his world and
himself through myths, fictions,
and histories. The readings
include a modern novel about
Greek drama and Plato. The
readings on Salem will differ,
contrasting interpretations of
the witch trials. The novel
Oliver Wiswell offers a deli
berate reversal of the usual
American interpretation of the
Revolution. Papers will involve
a variety of problems both
of understanding the past and
the literature of the past.
Readings: The Iliad, The Epic
of Gilgamesh, Apollo, The
Crucible, Witch at Salem,
Oliver Wiswell,
1 and library material on either
1 Salem or the Revolution for a
final paper.
The Guilfordian
English 233:
Survey of British Literature -
1,4 credits, Beth Keiser.
The course focuses on
masterworks of British authors
from the ninth through the
eighteenth centuries, works
selected both for their individ
ual merit and their importance
to an understanding of the
continuity and change in the
English literary tradition. The
survey approach demands a
great deal of reading in order
to explore so many different
periods; it also requires patient
attention to language in order
to experience first-hand the
impact of each other's genius.
The returns are high, not only
in the pleasure and understand
ing such reading affords when
it permits us to be engaged
by authors who have repeatedly
entertained, illuminated, and
moved their audiences, but
also in the consciousness such
reading brings of our place in
an ancient and ongoing trad
ition. The lectures will be
aimed at opening up the
various individual works as
well as showing how they
embody themes, forms,
styles, and viewpoints consid
ered central to an understand
ing of the development of
English literature. Although
English 233 and 234 can be
taken independently of each
other, they are conceived as
a cumulative experience and
to this end, both semesters
are required of English majors.
Four meetings a week for
lecture and discussion;
additional supplementary
sessions arranged to assist
students in reading, particularly
demanding assignments (eg,
selections from Chaucer in
Middle English). Humanities
credit.
Three papers, mid-term
and final.
Classics 311 Greek History,
T-Th, 11:00-12:15.
This course has three
primary aims: to examine the
rise and fall of political, social,
and art forms in the fifth
century; to become aware
through literature of the mean
ings that Greeks of that period
gave to their historical and
personal experience; and to
explore the development of
history as a literary form, as a
scholarly reconstruction, and
as a cultural or personal
construction.
This course will satisfy the
area requirement in humanities.
Ann Deagon
Library 200: Library Research
Skills: 1 hr. credit, P/F
(Students may take a 4 hr.
credit course P/F concurrently).
In order to write a good
research paper for any college
course, students must be able
to find enough information to
use, and to recognize that
everything they find is not
equally helpful or reliable.
Library 200 is designed to
show students how to carry
out a research process that
leads to the often overlooked
and usually most helpful infor
mation available in the library.
In learning what to look for
and where to find it, they also
learn some of the strengths
and shortcomings of various
kinds of resources. Finally,
they see how to organize and
document the information
they find.
Library 200 is taught during
the first seven weeks of each
semester. Each weekly lecture
has a coordinated set of
exercises which apply the
information presented in that
lecture. Most students have
spent at least two hours
completing each exercise, and
it has been necessary for each
student to keep pace with the
course schedule.
Library 200 aimed primarily
at underclassmen and its
enrollment rapidly reaches
capacity. Seniors may enroll
in the course with permission
of the instructor. Rose Simon.
Drama 300, Asian Drama.
taught by Professor Donald
Deagon, satisfies the inter
cultural studies requirement.
It is scheduled at the 9:00-
9:50 hour on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. This course inves
tigates the nature of the
differences between our own
culture and those of several
Asian societies as they mani
fest themselves in drama.
Asian drama will be taught in
the fall of 1980. (4 credits)
English 310 (4 credits),
Marlette:
In the second half of the
19th century, modern society
was emerging in England. The
questions, doubts, and fears
arising from political, religious
and economic problems are
clearly reflected in the liter
ature of the day. This course,
after background study,
includes in-depth attention to
Rossetti and Swinburne. The
fiction required is novels:
Mill on the Floss, Vanity Fair,
Bleak House, The Woman in
White, and Mayor of Caster
bridge. Five 8-10 page papers
and a final examination.
April 4,1978
Climate and Man
This course is intended as a
non-lab science course for
all students, whether scientists
or not. We intend to acquaint
the students first with the
technicalities of weather:
condensation, temperature
changes, winds, and so forth.
The weather looked at over a
long time period constitutes
the climate. We will make
weather observations and
begin to develop a store house
of records to monitor Piedmont
North Carolina's climate. In
addition we will be looking
at the factors which today, or
in the past, tend to make our
climate shift . . . toward
warmer or colder temperatures,
drier or wetter. And Cyril
Harvey will be emphasizing
the historical aspects of those
changes, the impacts of those
changes on societies of the
past. All together, the course
promises to be extremely
helpful to those interested in
the interaction of natural
phenomena and the works of
man.
The course is recommended
for all majors.
Comparative Arts 1. (4
credits), Behar:
We study the modes of exis
tence of literature, painting,
and music as they grow out
of the nuclear materials (word,
mark, tone) of the individual
arts, and as these arts unfold
along a continuum of symbols.
There will be much intensive
listening, reading, and
looking, as well as substantial
required and collateral reading.
We will meet four times a
week, and there will be three
papers. The course is primarily
intended for juniors and seniors,
is acceptable for core arts
credit, or as an elective. Com
parative Arts 11, (2nd semester)
which must be preceded by
this course, will count toward
the English major.
Drama 205, Fundamentals
of Acting, will be offered at
11:00-12:15 on Mondays and
Fridays next fall. This course,
which satisfies the core arts
requirement, affords students
the opportunity to explore the
nature and limits of their crea
tive abilities. (4 credits)
Although the two German
courses will be offered in
Munich only to students
participating in the semester
program, there will be an
elementary German course
offered also on campus.