ENGL 380

Fall 2014 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 fall 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
64345	Conference	CT	ARRANGED	n.a.	Danville IL	Cavallaro, A Elam, N	Part of Term: XM Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Section Title: Literate Lives in Action Section Info: Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) restrictions and assessments apply, see http://citl.illinois.edu. This course is for students at the Danville Corrections Center only.
63224	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -3:15PM	MW	Gregory Hall	Pritchard, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Section Title: Hip Hop Rhetorics Section Info: Topic Section F: Hip Hop Rhetorics Section F is restricted to English/Rhetoric/Creative Writing majors. This course examines the hip-hop rhetorics of writers, performers, and activists of the hip-hop generation. These rhetors draw on hip-hop cultural tools, including rap, fashion, dance, graffiti, and deejayin?, to construct their identities and make and disseminate meaning within and about their social worlds, particularly around issues of racism, sexism and misogyny, poverty, and heterosexism. The primary goal of the course will be to strengthen skills in writing and rhetorical analysis through a study of hip hop and its links to controversies of cultural, social, political, economic, educational, and global consequence. Reading some foundational and more recent scholarship in Hip-Hop Studies, as well as popular articles about hip-hop, we will examine the ways hip-hop operates with historical, cultural, economic, and political consequence within the U.S. and all over the world. Through these readings students will engage the following questions: What is Hip Hop Rhetoric? How is this rhetoric constructed and deployed? What is the relationship between hip hop rhetorics and a diversity of other language and literacy practices in everyday life? Topics the course may cover include: rap and social consciousness; hip hop feminism; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) hip-hop performers; youth culture and activism; spoken word and hip-hop theater; and commercialism and commodification of hip hop culture. Engaging these topics through a variety of written and oral communication projects, students will learn the usefulness of employing hip-hop cultural tools as a tool of argument, analysis, and other forms of expression within the everyday. In addition to reading and participation in discussion, students will complete informal short writing assignments, regular reading quizzes, three essays, a group presentation, and a final project. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Rhetoric or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
57594	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	Lincoln Hall	Baron, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Section Title: Language and the Law Section Info: Topic Section Q: 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 conflicting readings of the same text. For example, in Washington, DC, v. Heller, nine highly-educated Supreme Court justices came to two completely different interpretations of the single sentence that constitutes 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 four major areas where language becomes the subject of the law: privacy, free speech, language rights, and intellectual property. Here are some topics within those areas that we will consider: The Second Amendment: Using linguistic evidence to interpret the Constitution Fourth Amendment cases about the privacy of telephone calls from the time of Alexander Graham Bell to today?s NSA surveillance of cell phones First Amendment cases from the Alien and Sedition Acts of the 1790s to George Carlin?s ?7 Dirty Words You Can?t Say on TV? to the USA Patriot Act od 2001. Attempts to designate English as an official language at the federal, state, and local levels Language policies in schools and workplaces The rights of minority-language and minority-dialect speakers Language in the workplace: rights of employers and employees Intellectual property issues involving language: trademark, copyright, plagiarism, digital rights management (DRM) of ebooks Miranda: how do we understand the right to remain silent? 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 four of the main course units and participate in one moot court session as judge, appellant, or respondent. You may use website for the Spring 2013 section of the class as a general indication of what we?ll do, though the course will be updated for Fall 2014: http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/380/380.html For further information, email debaron@illinois.edu