ENGL 350

Fall 2026 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 24-Dec 9

Writing about Literature, Text, and Culture

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.

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 2026
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
71519	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	English Building	Gilmore, S	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): Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
71515	Lecture-Discussion	F	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	Gregory Hall	Cole, M	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): Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
71517	Lecture-Discussion	X	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	English Building	Johnson, A	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): Restricted to English or Creative Writing or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).