ENGL 350

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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 2022
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
70306	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:00AM -9:50AM	MWF	104 English Building	Basu, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP22 ENGL 350: Multi-ethnic Women Writers: This section of “Writing about Literature, Text, and Culture” will focus on multi-ethnic women writers. We will engage with novels, short stories, travelogues, films, and critical works by women from Africa, the Caribbean, India, and the South Americas. Our work for the course will also involve understanding the temporal and spatial contexts in which the texts we encounter were shaped and the assignments you will be asked to produce in response will ask you to similarly ground the texts you are writing about. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
70307	Lecture-Discussion	F	3:00PM -3:50PM	MWF	131 English Building	Loughran, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP22 ENGL 350 - Topic: Adventures in Posthumanism What is it like to be a bird (or a tree or a wall)? Can a person fall in love with their computer? What would it be like to live out your life as a mushroom? These are the kinds of questions we’ll think about in this course, as we watch films, read novels, and grapple with a lot of weird, sometimes dense, but exciting new ideas about “our” place in the physical universe. With the onset of human-induced climate change, the humanities have in recent years taken a counterintuitive turn into what is now sometimes called the “post-human” or the “non-human.” This means we find ourselves increasingly interested in trying to demote human beings from the center of the universe (or the top of the planetary feeding chain) and to imagine instead more horizontal relations among people, animals, extraterrestrial "aliens," the environment, and artificial intelligences (like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana). With this shift, the old taxonomies and binaries of humanist scholarship (man versus beast, human versus vegetable, self versus other) have begun to shift in ways that invite new imaginaries and reconceptualizations of the already-existing (and future) universe. This is the new “posthumanist” imaginary we will explore this semester in English 350 as we adventure our way through these debates and practice writing about them. All papers will be written in drafts and workshopped along the way. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
70308	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	131 English Building	Mortensen, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP22 ENGL 350, Topic: Writing on Buildings - Sorry to disappoint: We won’t literally write on buildings in this course. But we will delve into the design processes, material technologies, professional standards, government regulations, political machinations, grand obsessions, good intentions, petty squabbles, and bad habits that shape the writing we find all around us in the built environment. As we investigate this writing, we’ll discover that there’s a lot to say about the conventions that dictate what can (and can’t and shouldn’t) be written permanently on and inside buildings. We’ll endeavor to learn how these conventions came to be, and we’ll argue about their continued relevance in this era of digital identification and wayfinding. We’ll consider, too, how writing on buildings can fall short of equitably serving a diverse public, and we’ll imagine and propose remedies to right what seems wrong. Additionally, we’ll examine writing on buildings that is, from an institutional perspective, transgressive: graffiti, stenciling, projections, and the like. Our writing projects will document, critique, appreciate, and argue, and in so doing will draw on multimodal strategies of expression. For most writing projects, the university and surrounding communities will be our laboratory. In this lab we’ll do some observational fieldwork, as well as some archival research. Thematically related prose fiction and nonfiction will help us think critically about our research and writing endeavors. At times we’ll tap into the expertise of professional designers and planners: architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and graphic designers. Explorations further afield may be arranged but won’t be required. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).