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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills. 1.00 units, Lecture
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What makes us laugh How does humor work This writing workshop will examine the rhetorical underpinnings of humor and satire and consider humor and satire as political and cultural commentary. Readings will include classic satirical essays by writers such as Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain as well as work by modern humorists. The class will also analyze contemporary media sources in popular culture, including the Internet, stand-up comedy, Saturday Night Live, and films or television programs chosen by students. 1.00 units, Seminar
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An introduction to fiction writing, critiques of student and professional work. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An introduction to the writing of poetry, workshop discussion of poems by students and established poets. 1.00 units, Lecture
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This intermediate workshop is designed for students who have achieved mastery in introductory-level college writing and who want to refine their writing abilities. Students will focus on developing stylistic strategies and techniques when writing for numerous purposes and audiences. Students will choose from these writing forms: interview, travel article, op-ed piece, memoir, sports article, criticism, humor, and science and technology article. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Focusing on a key decade in American life - the 1890s, for example, or the 1850s - this course will examine the dynamics of race, class, gender and ethnicity as forces which have shaped and been shaped by American culture. How did various groups define themselves at particular historical moments How did they interact with each other and with American society Why did some groups achieve hegemony and not others, and what were - and are - the implications of these dynamics for our understanding of American culture By examining both interpretive and primary documents - novels, autobiographies, works of art and popular culture - we will consider these and other questions concerning the production of American culture. 1.00 units, Lecture
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A survey of literature, written and oral, produced in what is now the United States from the earliest times to around the Civil War. We will examine relationships among cultural and intellectual developments and the politics, economics, and societies of North America. Authors to be read include some that are well known-such as Emerson, Melville, Dickinson-and some who are less familiar-such as Cabeca de Vaca, John Rollin Ridge, and Harriet Jacobs. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course surveys major works of American literature after 1865, from literary reckonings with the Civil War and its tragic residues, to works of "realism" and "naturalism" that contended with the late 19th century's rapid pace of social change, to the innovative works of the modern and postmodern eras. As we read works by authors such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, we will inquire: how have literary texts defined and redefined "America" and Americans What are the means by which some groups have been excluded from the American community, and what are their experiences of that exclusion And how do these texts shape our understanding of the unresolved problems of post-Civil War American democracy For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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