Summer 2013 Supplemental Course Information 
Summer 2013 English Department Course Offerings
Descriptions of our summer 2013 course offerings are available below. Please visit the UNH Registrar's website for a complete list of all summer 2013 courses offered: http://www.unh.edu/summersession/
Please contact the UNH English Department with any questions about our summer 2013 offerings. We are located in Hamilton Smith Hall, room 113. You are welcome to call us Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm: (603) 862-1313.
English 401 - First Year Writing
English 401 engages in this task by teaching students to view writing as a process, involving a series of recurring activities: locating a topic or central idea, developing content, planning, drafting, revising, and editing for clarity and correctness. Since beginning writers often have particular difficulty with elaboration, a major focus is on the ways writing is "built": using detail, evidence, quotations, examples, and reflection. Instructors also work with students to ensure that all aspects of any given written work are devoted to a central purpose. Through regular conferences with their instructor and in-class workshops with their peers, students develop the vocabulary and skills they need to evaluate and refine their own writing.
In all of their efforts, instructors work to help students learn how they might transfer the skills they acquire in English 401 to the other writing situations they will encounter in their other courses and throughout their lives—so that, in writing as in active learning, students will be able to relate the new to the known. Writing Intensive.
Two 401 Sections Available!
English 401.01
Fulfills: Writing Skills GP 1, Writing Intensive Course, Writing Skills (Discovery)
Instructor: Brad Dittrich
4.00 Credits
Scheduled Meeting Time: 8:00-10:00 am, Monday-Thursday. Classroom: Murkland 118
June 24, 2013—July 26, 2013
English 401.02
Fulfills: Writing Skills GP 1, Writing Intensive Course, Writing Skills (Discovery)
Instructor: Allison Silverglad
4.00 Credits
Scheduled Meeting Time: 10:10 a.m.--12:10 p.m., Tuesday/Thursday. Classroom: Murkland 118
June 25, 2013--August 1, 2013
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English 502 - Professional & Technical Writing
A writing course introducing students to the effective communication of technical information through various workplace documents including resumes, memos, business letters, reports, brochures, etc. Special emphasis on an introduction to professional conventions and genres and to the transferable skills of rhetorical and audience analysis, document design and collaborative work. Special fee. Writing intensive.
Fulfills: Writing Skills GP 1, Writing Intensive Course, Writing Skills (Discovery)
Instructor: Cristy Beemer
4.00 Credits
Scheduled Meeting Time: Online Course (no campus visits)
Course Run Dates: May 20, 2013—June 21, 2013
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English 575 -- Sex and Sensibility: The Rise of Chick Lit from Jane Austen to Bridget Jones
Where did the term "chick lit" come from: Is chick lit literature? Why is the popularity of Jane Austen, dubbed "the mother of chick lit," at an all-time high? What does chick lit and corollary phenomenon like Sex and the City tell us about contemporary love, sex, and dating? How do these urban period pieces offer an implicit commentary on feminism's gains and deficiencies? What is "postfeminism" and how does chick lit help us define it? What is the place of chick lit, with its kinship to designer and upscale commodities, in the recession? What is the future of this popular subgenre and its numerous movie adaptations? This online course focuses on the novel of manners and its evolution into popular media such as "chick lit." The novel of manners decodes and, on occasion, satirizes the customs and courtship rituals, and forms of 'capital', e.g. dress and neighborhoods, of upper middle-class society. In short, "Sex and Sensibility" examines a subgenre to look at wider debates in the business of literary production and texts' interchange with fashion, self-help, film, and tourism.
Students will be asked to complete a series of short analytical and op-ed type essays based on course readings (novels, short stories, journalism), an imitative style assignment, and a course blog.
Fulfills: Literature, Phil,& Ideas GP 8, Humanities(Disc)
Instructor: Stephanie Harzewski
This course is NOT Writing Intensive
4.00 credits
Scheduled Meeting Time: Online course (no campus visits)
Course Run Dates: May 20, 2013--June 21, 2013
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