ENGL 300

Spring 2014 All Classes

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Writing About Lit Text&Culture

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 spring 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32119	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	119 English Building	Bauer, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: American Women Modernists Section Info: Topic Section M: American Women Modernists This writing-intensive course will be focused on three major movements in US women?s writing: high modernism, middle-class modernism, and working-class writing. We will also attend to the new modernisms, including immigrant, ethnic, Harlem Renaissance, vernacular and pulp fictions. Our reading will include Stein?s Three Lives, Edna Ferber?s Roast Beef, Medium, Anzia Yezierska?s Salome of the Tenements, Nell Larsen?s Passing, Fannie Hurst?s Imitation of Life, and Meridel Le Sueur?s The Girl. Students will write response papers on each of the six novels, then move to revising three of those papers into longer essays. A short research assignment and a final exam are also required. 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. Restricted to English and Rhet majors through 11/25. After this date, any remaining seats will be open to any major.
51758	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	104 English Building	Markley, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Science Fiction Section Info: Topic Section Q: Science Fiction Science fiction is often treated as though it exists on the margins of serious literature and literary study, and there has always been a good deal of debate since the nineteenth century about its value and significance. This course will explore the history and critical fortunes of science fiction from the work of H.G. Wells and Robert Louis Stevenson in the late 1800s to contemporary films and novels. We will look at the ways in which science fiction has both reflected social, political, and economic concerns in the twentieth century and offered its readers ways to think about possible futures that await the human race. Writers we will read include H.G. Wells, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Phillip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin, Minister Faust, and, Nicola Griffith. Our aim will be to gain a broad understanding of science fiction as a genre between roughly 1890 and 2013, with particular attention to issues posed by the two world wars, the prospect of nuclear annihilation, social stratification, and ecological disaster. Students will write four short response papers, two longer papers, and take a midterm and final. 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. Restricted to English and Rhet majors through 11/25. After this date, any remaining seats will be open to any major.
32121	Lecture-Discussion	S1	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	59A English Building	Curry, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Writing Film Criticism Section Info: Topic Section S1: Writing Film Criticism The Writing Film Criticism topic section of English 300 offers students who are seriously interested in film and related forms of media to learn about the history of published popular discourse on cinema as well as an opportunity to practice being movie critics. (A previous college course in film such as ?Intro to Film? or ?American Cinema since 1950? is helpful but not required. Students without prior formal study of film will be encouraged to acquire specific film analytic skills through recommended readings). The course departs from the premise that one learns best to write engaging, persuasive film (or television) reviews through broad, attentive reading of lucid, insightful analyses of diverse styles and approaches; equally broad and always attentive viewing; and regular writing, with multiple revisions understood an integral part of the process. Accordingly, we shall read many reviews by leading film critics whose work has appeared in wide-circulation periodicals over the past 70 years and discuss associated films (a few watched in class, others which students must watch outside class time.) In addition, students will research how film criticism operates as a popular, institutional, economic and political discourse (for example, through film festivals, including the Ebertfest which will occur during the semester). Each student will write four original reviews of varying length and projected readership and on diverse types of films (one an optional television review), receiving editorial feedback from peers and professor through several drafts. Small writing teams that shift with each review and the use of Moodle as a means of sharing work will foster the peer review and (re)writing process. In addition, each student will give several in-class presentations on assigned research topics (such as a specific film critic from the past or in the present); pay scrupulous attention to deadlines for all assignments, including revisions and final copy; and participate reliably and helpfully in writing groups, both in class and through the class webboard. The course, which grants Advanced Composition credit, requires two books and some additional book extracts and articles demonstrating and analyzing techniques and issues in film critical writing. 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. Restricted to English and Rhet majors through 11/25. After this date, any remaining seats will be open to any major.
47579	Lecture-Discussion	S2	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	119 English Building	Koshy, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: New Racial Subjectivities Section Info: Topic Section S2: New Racial Subjectivities in Contemporary American Fiction This course has two goals, to think critically about writing and to explore the emergence and representation of new racial subjectivities in contemporary American fiction. To accomplish the first, we will focus on developing close readings of texts, locating and incorporating secondary sources, and revising and editing critical essays. To achieve the second, we will analyze the representation of race in contemporary American fiction. In particular, we will consider how racial meanings have been transformed in the post-civil rights era. Further, we will analyze how these new racial subjectivities are connected to forms of racial empowerment and dispossession that define the post-civil rights and post-9/11 period. 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. Restricted to English and Rhet majors through 11/25. After this date, any remaining seats will be open to any major.