ENGL 300

Fall 2015 All Classes

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Writing About Lit Text&Culture

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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 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
33989	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	127 English Building	Jenkins, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Topic Section M: "Post-Soul" African American Fiction This course will examine a constellation of African American narratives published in the last thirty years, by a cohort of newer authors that have been defined by some scholars as ?Post-Soul.? These authors possess a novel and increasingly complex relationship to black identity, frequently calling attention in their works to the changing dynamics of racial community in the post-Civil Rights era. Throughout the semester, we will consider how contemporary theoretical debates about African American culture and identity inform these narratives, paying particular attention to how their authors tackle the intersection of race with social class, gender, and sexuality. Because this is an advanced composition course with a focus on writing about literature, assignments will include multiple short response papers and in-class writing assignments, two longer (5pp) papers with drafts, and a final research paper. 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.
33987	Lecture-Discussion	P1	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	115 English Building	Saville, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Topic Section P1: Poems of Love by the Brownings If you?ve heard anything of the Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and Robert Browning (1812-1889), chances are you know them through the romantic if rather hackneyed myth of their love affair and escape to Italy. Less common knowledge is that both poets were outspoken defenders of civil liberties at home and abroad. To both of them, marriage afforded the private space for practicing the negotiation of freedoms, brokering of compromises, and expression and constraint of passions necessary in a healthy democracy. With the aid of critical theorists like Iris Marion Young and Nancy Fraser, and Victorian writers on Marriage Law like Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Mona Caird, we will study the Brownings? poetry on the topic of love for what it reveals about personal and public ethics. Our readings will include dramatic monologues like ?Lady Geraldine?s Lover? (1844), and ?Bianca Among the Nightingales? (1862), companion poems like ?My Last Duchess? and ?Count Gismond? (1842), and long poems like the sonnet cycle Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), the verse-novel Aurora Leigh (1856), and sections of the murder-mystery The Ring and the Book (1868). Such study will involve a variety of writing exercises including unpacking a poetic metaphor, providing a pr�cis of a critical argument, integrating secondary material into interpretive discussions, as well as researching and documenting a critical paper. We will aim to produce approximately 25 pages of graded writing in the course of the semester. Buyer Beware: this is not a good choice for those looking for short easy reading on light romantic topics. 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.
39501	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	131 English Building	Nazar, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Topic Section S: Sex and Revolution: British Women's Writing, Mary Woolstonecraft to Jane Austen All of Europe was spellbound in 1793 when the French revolutionaries marched their king and (a few months later) their queen to the guillotine or ?national razor? and chopped off their heads. In the ensuing Reign of Terror, some 40,000 ?traitors of the revolution? were executed. No nation followed the events in France with greater interest than Britain, France?s close neighbor and long-time opponent. The French revolution was greeted with unbridled enthusiasm by British progressives (especially in its early phases, before the Terror) and with horror by conservatives. Indeed, some of the most important contours of the left-right political divide, as we understand it today, were established in Britain during the 1790s, which saw the publication of such landmarks of Anglo-American conservatism as Edmund Burke?s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and of liberalism such as Thomas Paine?s Rights of Man (1791) and Mary Wollstonecraft?s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). This course considers how British women writers of the period responded to the ideological upheaval generated by the French revolution, and above all, how they transformed the debate about the ?rights of man? into a vigorous one about women?s rights?as citizens, moral agents, and members of civil society. Some of the most interesting discussions of women?s place in society and their capacity for self-governance were conducted through the medium of literature (as opposed to philosophical and political treatises), and especially the novel, a genre that, in this period, was importantly by, for, and about women. Our readings, therefore, will be primarily literary though we will also examine such key political treatises as Wollstonecraft?s Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Novels include Wollstonecraft?s The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria, Ann Radcliffe?s The Romance of the Forest, Mary Hays?s Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Jane Austen?s Sense and Sensibility. 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.
33988	Lecture-Discussion	X	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	59A English Building	Morris, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Topic Section X: Novels on Film We love to compare novels and their film adaptations, debate the relative merits of each, and often conclude ?the book was better.? Nevertheless, if we read and watch critically, we can see that films and novels, whatever else their relations, are two distinct modes of representation and function differently as cultural objects. Adapting a novel into a film requires complex and culturally significant choices. In this course, we will consider the art of screen adaptation, paying special attention to three related questions: how do the forms of film and print help create different narrative experiences? How does adaptation perform acts of translation at several levels (formal, aesthetic, and cultural)? And how do differing markets of reception inform our experiences of novels and their screen adaptations? To investigate these questions, we will read a range of novels from ?classics? by Jane Austen and F. Scott Fitzgerald to more contemporary novels by authors like Alice Walker to cross-media blockbusters like The Hunger Games and view some of their corresponding filmic adaptations across the 20th century. Writing assignments will include several short response papers, a 4-5 page visual interpretation paper, a 4-5 page ?textual passage to cinematic sequence? analysis paper, an annotated bibliography, and a final 8-10 page researched paper that engages with scholarly work on adaptation. We will also work together as a class on planning, drafting, and revising papers for depth of argument, use of research, clear organization, and style. 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 or Rhetoric or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).