Exciting Spring 2023 Courses
ENGL ENGL-123-2 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE T TH 12:30 PMENGL ENGL-320-1 PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY STUDY T TH 9:30 AMENGL ENGL-385-1 TOPICS: COMICS AND WEBCOMICS MWF 11:00 AM My comics course will include, most likely, the following comics and graphic novels. Many more will be added at a later moment. Contact me if you are interested Asterios…
It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, . . . it’s a Superhero?
Coming in the fall: My new PIO 101 course at Marietta College But what is a superhero and why do folks go full gaga over caped crusaders today in the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? This course traces the origin of the superhero in the cheap comics designed for pre-pubescent boys, wrestles with why…
Exciting Spring Courses
Greetings! For an animated introduction to our spring 2020 course offerings, please click here (go head, click it!): Email Todd (tcomer@defiance.edu) or Steve (sengel@defiance.edu) for more information. ENGL 123 Media Writing MWF, 11:00 am An introduction to the process of writing for the media. Students will learn to report, write, and edit stories for print and…
One Credit Harry Potter course begins on October 21st
This one credit course will include Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and A Wizard of Earthsea. Topics covered will include: good and evil, magic, power, pride, sin, and the nature of fantasy and science fiction literature. Meets on Wednesdays at 3:00 pm beginning on October 21.
Comp 1 Memes
In an attempt to have my students learn about the rhetorical triangle (audience, writer, issue), I have them create memes (which are attuned, hopefully, to their audience). Here are a few from class today.
Summer Online Course: The Hunger Games and Dystopian Literature
ENGL 295, an online summer course perfect for non English majors, will be devoted to The Hunger Games and various other novels/films/comics of that genre, including V for Vendetta, 1984, and Watchmen. Please email me if you need more information; please contact your adviser if you want to sign up for the course. The course…
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