ENGL 350

Spring 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 17-May 3

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 2023
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
70306	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:00AM -9:50AM	MWF	English Building	Hutner, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP23 ENGL 350 Gordon Hutner - TOPIC: Trans-Atlantic Fiction: Trans-Atlantic Fiction is devoted to the study of novels and short stories--mostly but not exclusively written from the American point of view--that dramatize the connections and disconnections between New World and Old, American and European. We will encounter a justly famous range of writers of many different viewpoints who contemplate the conflicts and consolations that can be found in the inter-animation of cultures separated by an ocean but related by heritage and inclination. We will read these works also as a matter of history, tracing the various developments of the theme. Plus, as a 350 course, we will be dedicated to helping students write more effectively for the major than they already do, so students can expect to reach a new level of competence, whatever their present achievement, as they work through the various course assignments. 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	English Building	Basu, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP23 ENGL 350, Writing about Literature, Text and Culture, Manisha Basu - TOPIC: Doctors and Detectives - As the title suggests, Doctors and Detectives aims to highlight the intersections between the discourses/sciences of detection and medicine, pointing out how we often see crime as a social disease and disease as an assault against the body. In the space where they come together, detectives search a particular scene for clues and evidence about a crime, while doctors search the human anatomy for clues and evidence about disease. We will be reading through a range of material including novels, one short story, courtroom trial proceedings, a play, and theoretical material (and viewing at least one film) to map the intriguing presence of doctors in detective fiction (as well as in true crime). Our texts will include Agatha Christie’s 1926 novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, where the narrator is a physician, Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1892 short story, The Speckled Band where both the narrator and perpetrator are (not so successful) doctors, Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula where two physicians are important members of a group that tasks itself with hunting down the vampire, the trial proceedings of two men at the peak of the medical profession in nineteenth-century England and Scotland (William Palmer and Edward Pritchard), Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1996 play, Getting Away with Murder, where a psychiatrist is murdered, presumably, by one of his patients, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film, Psycho, in viewing which we will talk about taxidermy as an art that highlights the materiality of the human body through grotesque preservation, and Amitav Ghosh’s 1995 medical thriller, The Calcutta Chromosome which demonstrates the detective work involved in uncovering the possibility that Ronald Ross’ pioneering discovery of the cure for Malaria was, in fact, enabled by native Indians who were part of a mystical scientific group. In so far as the theoretical material is concerned, each primary text we read will be accompanied by one or more allied critical essays and for our broader framework, we will turn to a few chapters from Michel Foucault’s, Birth of the Clinic (1963). Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
70308	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	English Building	Cole, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP23 ENGL 350, Lucinda Cole - Topic: Literature and Animals - A long essay in The Atlantic entitled “Animals in Literature” begins: “During the last few years animals have contributed very widely to the enjoyment of the reading public, both here and abroad.” This piece was published in 1901. It recounts the fact and meaning of animals—bears, dogs, mice, lions, cats, donkeys, skylarks—in the history of European literature from Aesop’s Fables and the Bible through Shelley, Poe, and Kipling. Our class begins by acknowledging this rich literary history, but is focused on more recent depictions of the nonhuman in Anglophone fiction and film. The course readings will be drawn from different subgenres: autobiography, nonfiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, and experimental fiction. Some of these texts, as we shall see, raise issues about identity difference (national, racial, gender, sexual) while others encourage us to acknowledge a common kinship, a shared species identity as humans whose species has had an outsized impact on the rest of the natural world. Authors will include Franz Kafka (The Metamorphosis, “A Report to an Academy”); Jack London (White Fang); David Garnett (Lady Into Fox); Naomi Mitchison (Memoirs of a Spacewoman); and a host of contemporary writers. Because 350 is an Advanced Composition class, student writing and revision will be a primary focus. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).