General Description
Eng 101: Expository Writing
Faculty. Max: 16
Content: Intensive
writing course. Introduction to rhetorical principles, and practical
exercises in critical analysis, research protocols, exposition, and
argumentation on selected themes and issues. Specific topics and
readings vary: consult descriptions for individual sections.
Texts: A rhetoric
handbook and a good college-level dictionary may be required or
recommended. Consult descriptions for individual sections; check with
your instructor before buying texts.
Particulars:
Students can expect to produce drafts and revisions of 4 to 6
substantial papers, including possibly a research assignment, as well as
journals, summaries, and other exercises (approximately 60-75 pages of
writing altogether). Consult descriptions for individual sections.
Evaluation of students will include their performance in all phases of
the course--writing assignments, exercises, and participation in class
discussion and writing workshops--but will emphasize in particular the
quality of finished writing with respect to careful thought, insightful
analysis, effective argument, clear exposition, sophisticated style, and
sensitivity to audience.
Completion of English 101 with a passing grade
fulfills the Freshman Writing Requirement. No other writing
requirements may be satisfied by English 101.
Eng
101 (000): Expository
Writing: Writing
about the U. S.
South
Bailey, MWF 8:30-9:20
Content: This course
will consider how
the South figures
in the national
imagination. Although
the South long
has been identified
as the nation’s
benighted region,
talk of a modern
South has been
circulating more
recently, a South—replete
with shopping malls
and professional
sports teams—that has
purged itself of
all things backward,
uncivilized, and
violent. Fred Hobson
calls these competing
claims a “war
of southern mythologies,” and this course will focus on
the role of language
in this war by
examining a number
of texts that take
the South as their
subject, including
an autobiography
(Lillian Smith’s Killers
of the Dream), short stories
(by James Baldwin
and Dorothy Allison),
essays (by H. L.
Mencken and Fred
Hobson), films,
and advertisements.
Eng 101 (001): Expository Writing
Ladd, MWF 9:35-10:25, Max: 16
Content:
Texts:
Eng
101 (002):Repetition,
Rebellion and the American Suburb
Giannini, MWF 10:40-11:30,
Max: 16
Content: This course will
consider instances of adolescent angst and the mid-life crisis
in the modern American suburb. We will ask what it means to
come of age in a land of conformity, as well as speculate on
how adolescents, housewives and husbands cope with the arrival
of psychological and emotional isolation. Some of the material
covered in class will include The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives,
American Beauty, and Fun with Dick and Jane. We will also read
two novels and several short stories by Rick Moody, Raymond
Carver, John Cheever, Joyce Carol Oates, and Patricia Highsmith.
Particulars: Several short response essays (2-3 pgs), one presentation,
one midterm (4-5 pg) and one final (4-5 pgs).
Eng 101(003): Expository Writing
Silva, MWF 11:45-12:35,
Max: 16
Content:
Texts:
English 101 (004): Expository Writing
Hanggi, MWF 12:50-1:40,
Max: 16
Content:
Texts:
Eng
101 (005): Expository
Writing: Asian
American Life and
Writing
Kim, MWF 2:00-2:50,
Max:16
Content: This course prepares students to
write college-level prose, and will focus on argumentation,
exposition and style. Students will develop their reading and
writing skills in individual assignments, discussions and workshops.
Throughout the semester, we will read various kinds of Asian
American texts, including novels, and explore themes such as:
what constitutes Asian American experience and what distinguishes
Asian American writing?
Texts may include:
Helen Zia’s Asian
American Dreams; Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker and A
Gesture Life; and others.
Particulars: four papers for a total of approximately
25 pages, several short in-class writings and homework assignments,
attendance and active participation.
Eng
101 (006): Fairy
Tales Across Culture
Kader, TT 8:30-9:45,
Max: 16
Content: In this course
we will explore the roots of the modern fairy tale and uncover
a sinister genre wholly unlike the sanitized retellings created
by Disney. Starting
with Grimm’s Fairy
Tales, we will investigate three primary figures that recur
throughout much
fairy lore: the maiden, the witch, and the fairy. We will approach
these figures and the tales in which they appear with a number
of questions in mind. For example, how do we define these figures?
Who or what might they represent in real life? And what are
the consequences when life and fairy lore overlap?
Texts: Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. New York: Washington
Square Press, 2003.
Yeats, William
Butler. Ed. Irish Fairy and Folktales.
New York: Modern
Library, 2003.
Bourke, Angela. The Burning of Bridget Cleary. New
York: Penguin,
2001. Supplementary
texts on electronic
reserve
Eng 101 (007): Expository Writing
, TT 10:00-11:15,
Max: 16
Content:
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Eng 101 (008): Expository Writing
, TT
11:30-12:45,
Max: 16
Content:
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Eng
101(009): Expository
Writing: American Protest and American Revolution
Wendt, TT 1:00-2:15,
Max: 16
Content: Rhetoric and democracy
developed side
by side in ancient Greece, for obvious reasons: to exercise isegoria,
or the right to
speak in Assembly,
citizens needed
to know how to
create and deliver persuasive speeches; by the same token, without
an Assembly of citizens to convince, there would have been little
need for those in power to develop rhetorical skills. In
this class, we
will explore how
democracy and rhetoric have intersected at important moments
in American history. Readings
will focus on speeches
and other historical
documents from the Revolution and Constitution, Abolitionism,
and Women’s
Suffrage. This course is part of the Program in Democracy
and Citizenship.
Eng
101(010): Expository
Writing: American Protest and American Revolution
Wendt, TT 2:30-3:45,
Max: 16
Content: Rhetoric
and democracy
developed side by side in ancient Greece, for obvious reasons:
to exercise isegoria,
or the right
to speak in
Assembly, citizens
needed to know how to create and deliver persuasive speeches;
by the same token, without an Assembly of citizens to convince,
there would have been little need for those in power to develop
rhetorical skills. In this class, we will explore how
democracy and
rhetoric have intersected at important moments in American
history. Readings will focus on speeches
and other historical
documents from the Revolution and Constitution, Abolitionism,
and Women’s Suffrage. This course
is part of the Program
in Democracy and
Citizenship.
Eng 101(011): Expository Writing
, TT 4:00-5:15, Max: 16
Content:
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Eng 101(012): Expository Writing
, MWF 3:00-3:50, Max: 16
Content:
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Eng 101:(013): Expository Writing
, TT 1:00-2:15, Max: 16
Content:
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