ENGL 300

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

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 2016
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
33990	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	English Building	Courtemanche, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Pulp Fictions of the 1890s Section Info: Topic Section C: Pulp Fictions of the 1890s In the 1890s, Victorian writers turned increasingly away from realism and towards shorter fantastic tales aimed at a mass market. Many of these stories were deeply sexualized, featuring liberated New Women and male aesthetes as well as magnetic superhumans like Ayesha and Dracula. Others celebrated the primacy of science and the masculine will, jingoistic imperialism, or irrational violence. This writing intensive class will consider some historical context, such as Victorian science and the Woman Question, as well as the history of popular genres. Texts will include Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, H. Rider Haggard’s She, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, and Grant Allen’s The Woman who Did, as well as some secondary readings. 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	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	David Kinley Hall	Gilmore, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: The Haunted Story Section Info: Topic Section P: The Haunted Story In this course, we will learn to read analytically by focusing on the seemingly inexplicable or impossible in fiction. What is it about the short story, in particular, that makes it a powerful medium for conveying the gothic, the supernatural, the unbalanced? We will read stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, and Flannery O’Connor, among others. Writing assignments will include several short essays, frequent postings, and a longer essay. 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.
33989	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Inequality Shakespearean Drama Section Info: Topic Section Q: Inequality in Shakespearean Drama
39501	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Black Aesthetics-Age of Obama Section Info: Topic Section S: Black Aesthetics in the Age of Obama This course places Black writers like W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, Edward Jones, and Colson Whitehead, in conversation with other aesthetic media like The Boondocks and Afro-Samurai television series as well as performances such as Kevin Hart and Katt Williams’ stand-up acts. The aim of this course is to see why black aesthetes finds themselves grappling with existential concerns like what does it mean to be human in a post-human age? How does the answer to the “human” question change in black aesthetics and politics after the 1960s Civil Rights movements? In addition to these artists we will read essays from James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. We will also develop close reading skills as well as how to deftly use literary theory on our path to constructing forceful scholarly arguments. 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.