ENGL 380

Spring 2016 All Classes

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Topics in Writing Studies

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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 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51868	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -3:15PM	MW	131 English Building	Pritchard, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Title: Black Freedom Rhetorics Section Info: Topic Section F: Black Freedom Movement Rhetorics This course explores historical and contemporary rhetorics of the freedom and liberation of people in the African diaspora as they emerge from social movements from the 19th century to the present. Merging rhetorical analysis with Black feminist and Black queer theories and epistemologies, the course will note and discuss specific rhetorical strategies people of African descent have employed in speeches, essays, photography, visual and performing arts, popular music and fashion/style, to assert their right and desire to define their life on their own terms and discuss the world as they see and experience it. Among the movements explored will be those for the abolition of slavery, desegregation, secure voting rights, peace and antiwar demonstrations, Black Power, Black Feminist activism, Black LGBTQ activism, anti-apartheid movements, organizing against mass incarceration, and #BlackLivesMatter. These movements for Black Freedom—varied and complex in their own right—will be discussed alongside assigned readings in rhetorical theory, Black feminist and Black queer theory, African American/African diasporic history, Women’s and Gender history, and LGBTQ history. Doing so, students will gain a more complex understanding of Black Freedom Movement Rhetorics that spans time, circumstance, and a diversity of publics. Though not required, it would be helpful if students have taken a previous course in rhetoric, African American Studies, critical race/ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, or LGBTQ studies. In sum, students will be expected to do the work required to become critically engaged readers and writers on the topic of the history and theory of Black Freedom Movement Rhetorics.
	59085	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	119 English Building	Prior, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Title: Writing Processes Section Info: Topic Section P: Writing Processes: Theory, Research and Practice Since the 1950s, there has been a very uneven revolution in the way writing is understood, taught, studied, and practiced. The revolution was announced with the slogan that writing is a process (rather than just products conforming to some standard). The revolution has been uneven for many reasons, but particularly because writing processes have often been imagined and taught in very narrow, traditional and prescriptive ways. This course will engage you in reflecting on, attending carefully to, and playing with your own writing processes as well as giving you insights into the practices of others. We will read a bit of writing studies research and theory to aid in this reflection as well as popular accounts of writing processes for fiction, poetry, science, TV, and other settings.