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3
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71519
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Lecture-Discussion
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E
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1:00PM
-1:50PM
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MWF
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36 English Building
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Gilmore, S
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- Availability:
- Open (Restricted)
- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/24/26-12/09/26
- Degree Notes:
- Advanced Composition course.
- Credit:
- 3 hours
- Section Title:
- Writing Lit, Text & Culture
- Section Info:
- FA26 - ENGL 350 - Writing Literature, Text, and Culture - Shawn Gilmore - Captain America and Nationalism - This course will take up the problem of the patriotic superhero, most fully seen in the many iterations of Captain America and the derivative and oppositional characters that arose in the wake of his first appearance in 1940. We will read a variety of Captain America comics—including iterations by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, Ed Brubaker, and Ta-Nehisi Coates—considering them along with film and television adaptations from the 1940s serials to the contemporary Marvel Cinematic Universe. Alongside these, we will read and watch narratives that present responses to Cap, including his patriotic/nationalist rivals (US Agent, Nuke, the Flag Smashers, the Winter Solider) and characters that operate as direct critiques, such as Homelander and Soldier Boy in The Boys and Isaiah Bradley in The Truth and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. To contextualize these works, we will consider their political and social moments, from World War II to January 6, also reading broadly from recent arguments in comics studies about the role of these symbolic heroes. As a writing-focused class, we will also focus on the mechanics of long-form writing and how to best develop and deploy arguments in and around comics and media.
- Restriction(s):
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Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
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3
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71515
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Lecture-Discussion
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F
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12:30PM
-1:45PM
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TR
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207 Gregory Hall
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Cole, M
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- Availability:
- Open (Restricted)
- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/24/26-12/09/26
- Degree Notes:
- Advanced Composition course.
- Credit:
- 3 hours
- Section Title:
- Writing Lit, Text & Culture
- Section Info:
- FA26 ENGL 350 - Writing Literature, Text, and Culture - Meg Cole - Mad Women: Gender and Mental (In)stability - This course will trace the literary history of women deemed "mad": fae, prophetesses, healers, witches, and the like, exploring how gender impacts who society labels "insane." We will read widely across genres and historical time periods, tracing various women (and gender nonconforming) characters and authors who refuse to fit neatly into societal conceptions of sanity. As a writing intensive course, we will also focus on argumentation, the writing process, and best practices for writing about literature.
- Restriction(s):
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Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
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3
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71517
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Lecture-Discussion
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X
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11:00AM
-12:15PM
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TR
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127 English Building
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Johnson, A
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- Availability:
- Open (Restricted)
- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/24/26-12/09/26
- Degree Notes:
- Advanced Composition course.
- Credit:
- 3 hours
- Section Title:
- Writing Lit, Text & Culture
- Section Info:
- FA26 ENGL 350 - Writing Literature, Text, and Culture - Audrey Johnson - The Rhetoric of Moral Panics - You might have encountered the term “moral panic,” but what does that term mean? In this course, we’ll discuss its definition and the social and psychological factors that lead to moral panics. However, our main focus will be on analyzing the written, visual, and spoken rhetoric that constructs, circulates and perpetuates the panic in literature, media, and popular culture. In class, we’ll look closely at examples of moral panics such as the Salem Witch Trials, the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, and QAnon. The work of the class will build to a research project that offers students the opportunity to analyze a moral panic other than the ones covered in class using research gathered from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including archival and multi-modal ones. Because ENGL 350 is an Advanced Composition course, we’ll approach writing as a process involving invention, drafting, feedback, revision, and reflection.
- Restriction(s):
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Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
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