ENGL 350

Spring 2020 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 21-May 6

Writing about Literature, Text, and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Writing-intensive, variable-topic course designed to improve English majors' ability to produce clear, well-organized, analytically sound and persuasively argued essays relevant to English studies. Introduces students to research techniques through the examination of critical texts appropriate to the course topic.

Credit is not given for ENGL 300 and ENGL 350. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement; one year of college literature or consent of instructor. For majors only.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Advanced Composition

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ENGL 350 class schedule data for spring 2020
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
70306	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:00AM -9:50AM	MWF	127 English Building	Hutner, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: The Twenties Section Info: This section of English 350 studies the fiction of the 1920s, the decade that many literary scholars and many readers consider the liveliest in modern US literary history. Many of the greatest names wrote some of their most important books during the period of exciting upheaval and social change, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, as well as Wharton, Cather, Anzia Yezerskia, and Sinclair Lewis. It was also the era of the Harlem Renaissance, producing some of the most important African American writers of the first half of the twentieth century. These novels will provide the occasion for English majors to improve their writing skills across a variety of assignments geared to improving student prose and helping students to write better critical essays in their other literature classes too.
70307	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	104 English Building	Courtemanche, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: 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. This course satisfies the General Education requirement for an Advanced Composition course.
70308	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	115 English Building	Baron, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Memory and Nationalism in Contemporary Britain In The Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore introduces Harry Potter to the Pensieve, a magical font which serves as the repository of memories that can be easily stored, retrieved and re-examined at will. But as Harry quickly learns, memory is not a fixed entity that paves the way to a clear understanding of the past. Instead, memory can be elusive, it can be mutiplistic and it can be tweaked or completely altered. What attributes then constitute a unified national memory and how is it informed by social class, by race and by gender? How do writers transpose memory into fiction and how reliable are these works? In this course, we’ll examine the rise of contemporary fiction in Britain as a lens through which social progress can either be seen as a flourishing or flagging political standard. We’ll determine whether British citizens have prospered from modern Socialist policies or if welfare reform forced Britain to lose its edge in the world market, which it is now trying to recapture by a renewal of political platforms based on educational elitism, neoconservatism, capitalist enterprise and racial purity. Our thematic anchor will be the importance of individual and collective memory to define social progress or to incite class war. Through the medium of memory, we’ll focus our attentions on the history of class politics in Britain over the last three decades. We’ll explore whether the future lies with traditional parties such as the Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, or with right-winged groups such as the British National Party, English Defense League and UKIP. We’ll ponder what it means to be British in the 21st century and how the Brexit conflict has reframed the national identity of Britons out of fragmented Anglocentic literary and political memories. And finally we’ll consider whether Britain has become an enlightened utopia where social mobility is universal or whether it is transforming into a dark distopian zone, in which only those powered by money, status and ancient family ties have any rights. Students are expected to attend class regularly and to actively participate in class discussions. In addition, students will be required to give oral reports and to write four papers. Novels and films may include: Never Let Me Go, Atonement, The Remains of the Day, Trainspotting, Once Upon a Time in England, Small Island, The Half Blood Prince, The Golden Compass and Shaun of the Dead.