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 fall 2025
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
71519	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	English Building	Basu, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Writing Lit, Text & Culture Section Info: FA25 ENGL 350 - Writing Lit, Text, & Culture - Manisha Basu - The Politics of Motherhood - emerges from a serious concern with the war being waged on reproductive justice in a global political context increasingly dominated by the Religious Right. The term ‘reproductive justice’ combines discourses of reproductive rights and social justice, and so it is as much a pathway into thinking through human rights as it is about centering a woman’s sovereignty over her body. To approach this topic, we will assume a transnational and deeply historical approach, trying to understand how motherhood was tied in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe to technologies of nation formation and empire-building, how it became a violently contested site in the course of the Atlantic Slave Trade, how it has torn apart Indigenous and Black communities, particularly in the Americas where the state, in an allegedly benevolent parental guise, took children away from their families, and how it has functioned as the grounds on which the battle for food sovereignty and food justice comes to light. We will read through novels, critical works, short stories, fairy tales, and poems from across the world – Zimbabwe, Ghana, the Caribbean, India, the Americas, and Europe – to grapple with motherhood as a political issue and a culturally specific function that belies its more traditional understanding as a universally idealized expectation largely tied to woman’s care-giving positionality. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
71515	Lecture-Discussion	F	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	Gregory Hall	Cordell, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Writing Lit, Text & Culture Section Info: FA25 ENGL 350 - Writing Lit, Text, & Culture - Ryan Cordell - Writing with Robots - It feels like Artificial Intelligence is all anyone is talking about in 2025, from the university to the news to our social media feeds. Among other things, generative AI raises fears about everything from plagiarism to loss of expertise to environmental devastation. "Writing with Robots" addresses these controversies directly, first by introducing students to the long history of humans seeking to automate—or at least simulate—intelligence and creativity. We will study historical automata and automated writing technologies, discussing how technology and writing have mutually influenced each other over centuries, and how artists and writers have by turns adopted, adapted, and resisted such technologies. We will read speculative fiction that probes the boundaries of human, non-human, and mechanical intelligence, considering how such literature might inform current debates. Finally, we will learn about and experiment with contemporary AI tools, seeking to understand their affordances and costs and to construct a framework for productive, creative, and ethical engagements with—or resistance against—this newest medium of automated writing. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
71517	Lecture-Discussion	X	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Writing Lit, Text & Culture Section Info: FA25 ENGL 350 - Writing Lit, Text, & Culture - Christopher Freeburg - Nineteenth-Century Writers and the Modern Black Imagination - Critics over the decades have distinguished Henry James, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain’s novels as American classics from the nineteenth century. Black writers like Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, who also wrote American classics in the twentieth century, studied and admired their nineteenth-century predecessors. In fact, the discussions and debates between these black and white generations form an important part of American literary history. This course explores the relationship between classic American writers of 1800s and the black writers that both admired and criticized them as they shaped their own vision of American writing. There will be short weekly writing assignments as well as two papers. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).