ENGL 380

Spring 2013 All Classes

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Topics in Writing Studies

Credit: 3 hours.

Advanced-level work in the field of Writing Studies. Building upon a traditional disciplinary understanding of writing as rhetoric, this course invites students to call upon sociological, anthropological, and/or ideological approaches to the study of writing in order to understand the myriad ways that writing makes meaning(s). See Class Schedule for topics.

May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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ENGL 380 class schedule data for spring 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	59085	Lecture-Discussion	B	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	307 David Kinley Hall	Wood, G Pahre, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and UIUC Social Sciences course. Section Title: Environ Chges & the Midwest Section Info: TOPIC: Mapping the Past, Modeling the Future: Environmental Changes and the Midwest This 200/300-level course, to be cross-listed in ESE, Political Science and English, provides a systems-based study of the environmental history of the Midwestern United States with a view to its future management, preservation, and sustainable development. A fundamental principle of sustainability theory dictates that complex systems such as human societies or ecosystems can be understood only through close observation over time. Accordingly, this course begins with expansive spatial and temporal frames?the entire Midwest region from the pre-settlement period to the present?before focusing on a specific place and timeframe: the fate of the Indiana Dunes region in the coming decades. Along the way, students will learn to think in terms of using multiple models for specific problems. Ecosystem models, geographic information systems, economic models, maps and metaphors, etc. The goal of the course is to provide students practical experience in environmental assessment and management, one driven by rich, system-wide understanding and principles of sustainability rather than the short-term stakeholder interests of politicians and developers. This course is part of the LAS blockbuster initiative: LAS students will receive General Education credit in two categories: Humanities & the Arts (Literature & the Arts) and Social & Behavioral Sciences (Social Science) Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman class standing.
	52961	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	104 English Building	Baron, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Section Title: Language and the Law Section Info: Topic Section P: Language and the Law The law depends on our common understanding of language to frame and interpret everything from statutes and contracts to witness statements and judicial rulings. The law assigns meaning to language as well, sorting out ambiguity and resolving opposing readings of the same text. For example, in Washington, DC, v. Heller, 9 highly-educated Supreme Court justices came to two completely different interpretations of the Second Amendment (the one about the right to bear arms). In addition to considering various aspects of legal meaning-making, we?ll look at instances where language becomes the subject of the law: First Amendment cases from the Alien and Sedition Acts to George Carlin?s ?7 Dirty Words You Can?t Say on TV? to the USA Patriot Act. We?ll look at attempts to designate English as an official language at the federal, state, and local levels, as well as official language policies in schools and workplaces, together with various efforts to protect the rights of minority-language and minority-dialect speakers. We?ll look the language and privacy rights of employers and employees in the workplace. And we?ll consider intellectual property issues involving language: trademark, copyright, plagiarism (including the legal controversy over the Google Books Project). Finally, we?ll consider some topics in forensic linguistics: interrogation and testimony; voiceprints, author identification, and language profiling. Readings?all of them available online?include legislation, court cases, and analyses of various language and law issues. Students will write short essays on each of the course units, participate in a moot court on a current Supreme Court case, and do a class presentation on an issue of their choice.