ENGL 300

Spring 2019 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 2019
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32119	Lecture-Discussion	M	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	119 English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Shakespeare and Difference
32121	Lecture-Discussion	P	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	150 English Building	Hutner, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Very Recent Fiction Section Info: This version of English 300 concentrates on novels and stories from the last three or four years in the US. We will be reading a broad variety of this kind of writing and the important literary movements these fictions typify. In doing so, we will also be concentrating on what these novels and stories are telling us about the historical reality of our lives, customs, aspirations, and anxieties, both as individuals and as a nation. Students can thus expect to find a full diversity of writers. A few of them are some of the most famous ones of our time; others are relatively new, while still others have only just published their first or second books. What they have in common is that all have been considered for one or more of the most prestigious literary prizes. Because this is a course designed for writing skills for English majors, students can expect to have several opportunities to improve their prose—in papers, paragraphs, and e-responses.
51758	Lecture-Discussion	T	10:00AM -11:15AM	TR	21 Psychology Building	Oh, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Postcolonial Novels Section Info: Postcolonial Novels: The Country and the City This course will explore how postcolonial novels represent and theorize two mainstays of postcolonial modernity: the nation-state and the global city. We will first examine the role of the postcolonial novel in nation-formation after independence movements in Africa and South Asia. We then move to consider how postcolonial novels figure the global city as a subnational and international space that shifts conceptions of community and possibility formerly attached to the nation-state. Authors might include Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe, Chimimanda Adiche, Indra Sinha, Arundhati Roy, Aravind Adiga, Monica Ali and Chris Abani. We will learn to read literary criticism and start to develop research skills in addition to honing close reading. Paper revision is also an integral part of this course. 2 papers with revisions, weekly responses, annotated bibliography, final research paper.