ENGL 300

Fall 2017 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 2017
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
33990	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:30AM -10:45AM	MW	325 David Kinley Hall	Littlefield, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Speculative Futures/ Sci Fi Section Info: Topic Section B: Speculative Futures / Science Fiction Our future is—and has always been—uncertain. In this course we’ll read science fiction and speculative fiction by some of your favorite authors: Margaret Atwood, China Mieville, Kate Wilhelm, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Max Brooks, and many more; we’ll watch some films and some TV shows; we may even work through some graphic novels. Our primary goal: what do our visions of the future tell us about the state of the world—historically and in the present day? What kinds of questions, ideas, and problems motivate the future? What roles does technology play in these visions? Who gets to construct our future and why?
33989	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	115 English Building	Hutner, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Literature of Immigration Section Info: Topic Section C: The Literature of Immigration This section of English 300 focuses on the literature of immigration. We will look primarily at fiction and autobiographies written by and about immigrants to the US, from the early 1800s onward to the present. So students can count on reading in rich assemblage of ethnic and racial traditions. We will also supplement our reading with essays about immigration that are either historical or critical, so that we may also understand how immigration has been discussed, and how that discussion has evolved in some respects and stayed constant in others. We may also have occasion to analyze film representations of the US immigrant experience. We will discuss these readings in their turn, but we will also learn about them through writing. There will be a fairly typical array of short papers—1 and 2 and 3 and 5 pages—and a series of e-responses geared at once to class discussion and future paper topics
33987	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	115 English Building	Bauer, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: US Women Modernists Section Info: Topic Section M: U.S. Women Modernists What did US Women Modernists write about? We will discuss their themes—such as reproduction and abortion, cross-class and cross-race marriage, style and fashion, and sexualities—over the course of reading fictions by Gertrude Stein, Edna Ferber, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton, Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen, and Meridel LeSueur, among others. This writing-intensive course will be focused on three major movements in 20th-century US women’s writing: high modernism, middle-class or middlebrow modernism, and working-class writing. We will also attend to the new modernisms, including immigrant, ethnic, Harlem Renaissance, vernacular, and pulp fictions. Our class will analyze the issues of sexual expression, women’s emancipation, social reform, female sentimentality and domesticity, and new styles of femininity and feminism, along with the change from realism and naturalism to the many modernisms that women writers created.