ENGL 300

Fall 2012 All Classes

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Writing About Literature

Credit: 3 hours.

Writing-intensive, variable topic course designed to improve English majors' ability to write clear, well-organized, analytically sound and persuasively argued essays relevant to literary studies. Introduces students to some strategies of literary criticism and research through examination of critical texts appropriate to course topic. For majors only.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement; one year of college literature or consent of instructor.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Advanced Composition

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ENGL 300 class schedule data for fall 2012
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
33984	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	127 English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Simple Life to City Lights Section Info: Topic Section D: From a Simple Life to City Lights This course is restricted to majors and will not be opened up to non-majors. Why is living in a rural area simple and a Metropolis sophisticated? When city folks look at country folks and vice versa how do they view one another in terms of music, religion, and other aspects of culture? Black writers from the U.S. such as Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Ann Petry wrote fabulous novels that capture the pleasures and pitfalls of country life and urban conflict. With the country and the city in African American texts as our theme, we will explore and analyze how both geographies project fantasies and reveal the hard facts of social life. In addition to reading within this rubric, we will focus on how to make better arguments and refine prose writing while paying special attention to interesting historical artifacts and new media aesthetics. It is strongly recommended that all English and Teaching of English majors take ENGL 300 and ENGL 301 BEFORE taking any other 300- or 400-level courses. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s).
39501	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	127 English Building	Koshy, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Racial Subjectivities/Am Fict Section Info: Topic Section P: New Racial Subjectivities in Contemporary American Fiction This course is restricted to majors and will not be opened up to non-majors. The movements of people, capital, and information across national boundaries, propelled by globalization, has produced new subjectivities and collectivities. Deindustrialization, cross-border flows, and technological innovation have transformed understandings of the self and of communities of belonging. This class looks at the emergence of new racial subjectivities in the context of these larger social and historical transformations. How are these new racial subjectivities connected to forms of racial empowerment and subjection that define the post-civil rights and post-9/11 period? Some of the novels and stories we will look at include Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, Colson Whitehead, The Intutionist, Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower, Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Don De Lillo, Cosmopolis. It is strongly recommended that all English and Teaching of English majors take ENGL 300 and ENGL 301 BEFORE taking any other 300- or 400-level courses. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s).
33989	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	127 English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Economic Subjects Section Info: Topic Section S: Economic Subjects This course is restricted to majors and will not be opened up to non-majors. This course will serve two primary curricular goals: 1) to immerse ourselves in the literature and culture of late seventeenth- and earlier eighteenth-century England, to understand how and why personal identity came to be conceived in primarily economic terms during this period?not ?I think, therefore I am,? as Descartes would have it, but ?I gain and spend, therefore I am,? as perhaps we still have it in our pervasively consumerist culture; and 2) to spend a lot of time thinking and writing (and revising our writing) about literary and cultural texts: how can you most effectively construct persuasive arguments about the kinds of texts you will routinely encounter in upper-division English courses? To achieve the first of these goals, we?ll read a wide range of texts from the 1660s to the 1740s that celebrate and/or worry over the rise of the ?economic subject? in English culture?this course will reveal how economic behavior gets implicated in the construction of virtually every facet of personal identity in the period, from gender and sexuality to nation and ethnicity. Texts may include works by Hobbes, Behn, Congreve, Etherege, Rochester, Barbon, Locke, Mandeville, Manley, Addison, Steele, Pope, Defoe, Swift, Montagu, Haywood, and Lillo. Our work toward the second goal?writing?will be comprehensive: we will develop precise close readings of particular textual passages; we will discuss strategies for building complex arguments from these detailed readings; and we will come to understand writing as a necessarily recursive process through assignments focused on both stylistic and analytical revision. Finally, we will work on research methods: how do you figure out where the current scholarly conversation stands on a number of different topics in the field, and what does it mean to engage productively with materials from the historical context and the work of other critics? Requirements: regular participation, short responses and presentations, at least two shorter essays, and one longer seminar paper that will involve individualized historical research and readings in criticism and theory. It is strongly recommended that all English and Teaching of English majors take ENGL 300 and ENGL 301 BEFORE taking any other 300- or 400-level courses. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s).