ENGL 380

Fall 2026 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 24-Dec 9

Topics in Writing Studies

Credit: 3 hours.

Advanced-level work in the field of Writing Studies. Building upon a traditional disciplinary understanding of writing as rhetoric, this course invites students to call upon sociological, anthropological, and/or ideological approaches to the study of writing in order to understand the myriad ways that writing makes meaning(s). See Class Schedule for topics.

May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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ENGL 380 class schedule data for fall 2026
	Status		CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
			64345	Lecture-Discussion	M	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	English Building	McKinney, C	Availability: Open Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/26-12/09/26 Section Title: Special Topics Writing Studies Section Info: FA26 - ENGL 380 - Special Topics in Writing Studies - Charlesia McKinney - Black Life Writing - How do Black writers write the body and write about the body ... of desire and grief, pleasure and anger, loss and healing? Centering the body as a site of affective analysis, we will interrogate impacts of and against coloniality across Black languages, literacies, and rhetorics to assess life writing genres as catalysts of de/humanization and in/accessibility. Studying the work of Audre Lorde, Kiese Laymon, Toni Morrison, Akwaeke Emezi, Hanif Abdurraqib, Dionne Brand, and more, we will survey memoir, personal essay, letter writing, persona poems, diary entries, social media posts, podcasts, scrapbooks, etc. To fortify our exploration of autobiographical Black embodiment -- alongside your individual research and writing development -- this course couples content with non-fiction craft and life writing methodologies.