Summer 2012 SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Subject to change, consult access.smu.edu for the latest information

 

Summer I: May 31 – June 29

Summer II: July 2 – August 1

SMU-in-Oxford (June 30 – August 4):

ENGL 3329 / MDVL 3329 / CF 3302: The World of King Arthur.  Prof. Bonnie Wheeler.
Study of Britain's greatest native hero and one of the world's most compelling story stocks: the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

ENGL 3389. The Gothic Novel.  Prof. Michael Nicholson.
The tutorial examines the influence of Gothic novelists such as Horace Walpole (The Castle of Otranto), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Charles Dickens (Bleak House) and Feodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment). It explores how the melodramatic excesses of the genre were shaped to span socio-economic protest, existential experiment and religious rebellion.

ENGL 4333.  Shakespeare.  Prof. Michael Holahan.

This course studies certain key themes in relation to a central question of identity in Shakespearean drama. The themes are politics and history, sexuality and love, and language and action. Five plays will be read, and discussion will consider the various traits of comedies, tragedies, and histories.  The class will visit the Globe Theatre in London as well as performances in Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon.

SMU-in-Taos

May Term (May 9^th – 27^th):

CFA 3372.  Inventing Americas.  Prof. Steve Weisenburger.
This course will explore the representations of Southwestern Indians in 20th Century U.S. works of fiction and film that have been understood against a long history of "playing Indian," of romanticizing the "vanishing American" and of using imaginary Indians to think through the very real problems of race. Fulfills General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity. Field trips.

June Term (May 31^st – June 29^th):

ENGL 2311.  Poetry.  Prof. Tim Rosendale.

Analysis, interpretation and appreciation of poetry, with attention to terms and issues relevant to the genre.