ENGL 300

Spring 2018 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 spring 2018
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32119	Lecture-Discussion	M	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	149 English Building	Hutner, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: The Literature of Immigration Section Info: Topic: The Literature of Immigration This class is devoted to studying the literature of US immigration, with a special emphasis on twenty-first-century writing. We will be doing several kinds of reading, including memoirs, short fiction, novels, and historical documents. That broad base of preparation will enable us to pursue several key themes: assimilation, affiliation, and alienation. We will also see how these writings also explore prevailing national anxieties, such as racial inequality, class identity, and gender status. At the same time, we will also be considering how immigrants have been greeted in the US and the kinds of concerns to which immigration—legal and illegal—give rise. In these ways, students will become familiar with the discourse of immigration: what we, as people and as a people, mean when we talk about immigration. Students will be able to explore the interests they develop in a series of short papers and in a variety of assignments that are designed to help students write more effectively at the majors’ level.
32121	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	127 English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: The Afterlives of Slavery Section Info: The Afterlives of Slavery and Black Culture This course focuses on slavery, performance, and the idea of black culture from Zora Neal Hurston’s writing on black singing to W.E.B’s historical texts to Saturday Night Live’s (SNL) comedic skits. In addition to these cultural texts we will examine important debates about slavery and black social life from the 1950s to the present as well as visual and performance artists’ responses to these very public conversations about America’s past. By enriching and expanding what counts as social life, self-revelation, and freedom, this course will discuss slavery and black culture beyond abstractions like “resistance” and “power.” We will bring together and analyze materials from literary studies, performance studies, and theories of culture. This course has two goals: to think critically about writing; to explore the emergence and representation of slavery through a variety of genres that include poetry, fiction, and artistic performances. We will focus on developing close readings of texts, locating and incorporating secondary sources, and revising and editing critical essays.
51758	Lecture-Discussion	T	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	44 English Building	Saville, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Green Victorians Section Info: Green Victorians: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas Hardy. Today, anthropocentrism—our concern for ourselves at the expense of the well-being of the non-human world—is often cited as a major cause of environmental degradation and disaster. As early as the 1860s, writers like Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) and Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) expressed views of humanity not as superior, but as equal in ethical consideration to all other beings. While strikingly different in world views, for Hopkins believed in God as immanent in the natural world, while Hardy believed only in fate or “crass casualty,” each writer was deeply invested in exploring humanity’s ethical responsibilities to other beings within a modernizing world. Thus, in Hopkins’s sonnet, “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame” every being—whether stone or bell, bird or insect, or humanity itself—is a precious part of an interconnected network that glorifies God through its self-realization. Similarly, in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native (1878)—one of the many novels that earned him fame, even as his poetry was shunned—the character Clym Yeobright experiences a world of “horizontality” that gives him “a sense of bare equality with, and no superiority to, a single living thing under the sun.” Exploring and defining our own environmental sensibilities, we will study major works of these two late-Victorians in conjunction with a selection of ecocritical theory by such writers as Andrew Dobson (Green Political Thought), Robyn Eckersley (“Beyond Human Racisim”), and Timothy Morton (Ecology Without Nature).