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A complete up to date listing of English Department course descriptions can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/.
For all English classes, registered students must be present at each of the first two meetings to claim their places. Any student who does not meet this requirement may be dropped from the course. NOTE: If you must miss a class due to religious observances, contact the instructor or leave a message for the instructor with the department (764-6330).
After taking or placing out of Introductory Composition, students may elect either English 224 or 225 for further practice in the fundamentals of expository and argumentative prose. English 325 offers the opportunity for work in argumentative and expository prose at a more advanced level.
Several sections of English 223, the beginning course in creative writing, are available each term. The work is multi-generic, and two of the following will be covered in each section: fiction, poetry, and drama, or you may take English 227 (Introductory Playwriting). A more advanced course for creative writers is English 323 (Fiction or Poetry), which is available after completion of the prerequisite, English 223. More experienced writers may apply for admission to specialized sections of English 327 (Playwriting), English 423 (Fiction), English 427 (Advanced Playwriting), and English 429 (Poetry). Admission to these advanced courses is by permission of the instructor, who may require writing samples.
Independent study in English must be elected under one of the following numbers: 226 (Directed Writing, 1-3 hours), 299 (Directed Reading, 1-3 hours), 426 (Directed Writing, 1-4 hours), 499 (Directed Reading, 1-4 hours). There is a limit to the total hours that may be taken under any one number. Students interested in independent study should obtain an application from the English Department office on the third floor of Angell Hall. Independent study proposals must be approved by a supervising professor and by the Undergraduate Chair of the department. The deadline for Independent Study in the Winter Term 1998 is January 16, 1998.
This two-term sequence is designed to give students a principled sense of the range of literary works written in English; the first term will characteristically deal with works produced before the later seventeenth century – to the time of Milton, that is; the second term will begin at that point and proceed to the present. These courses will be open to English concentrators and to non-concentrators alike.
Each of these courses will range over the materials of the periods indicated below in one or more of a variety of ways. Some may be multi-generic surveys; some may focus on the development during the period of specific genres; some may be topical, others formal in their principle of organization. All sections will emphasize the development of student skill in writing essays analyzing the materials and evaluating the approaches in question.
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No one ever finishes learning to write, so this course focuses on helping students further develop their unique potentials as writers, readers, and thinkers. By analyzing texts from a variety of academic disciplines, students will come to understand the conventions writers follow to present their ideas effectively to their chosen audiences. What rhetorical strategies are common in different disciplines – and why? How and when might we use those strategies in our own writing? For instance, what writing strategies would we call upon for a lab report, and would we use any of those strategies for a philosophical speculation, a history exam, a love letter? Throughout the term, students will work to identify the writing skills they most need to develop, and they'll invent and refine a personal style of expression that can be adapted to different audiences and purposes. Course requirements include at least 40 pages of writing, including at least 20 pages of revised, polished prose. Section descriptions for courses not listed below can be found on the department's Web page (http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/courses/f99/f99courses/125cds.htm).
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You've just won the lottery, and you can look forward to a life working for yourself. Now you've decided to write your autobiography – but without a ghostwriter – because you've seen what they've done to the lives of your famous friends. This course will teach you the skills to make your writing interesting and effective for a wide variety of audiences – and maybe even get your autobiography published later on! In this section, we will read challenging essays by writers such as Annie Dillard, Langston Hughes, Amy Tan, bell hooks, Jonathan Swift, Virginia Woolf, and Stephen Jay Gould in our quest to find out how each writer makes their writing worth publishing by anticipating and manipulating their audiences' reactions. Course requirements will include participating in class or small-group discussions, writing four essays with a mandatory rewriting of the first to start the salutary habit of rewriting, completing two library projects, and formulating critiques of your classmates' and your own writing.
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The goal of this course is to introduce students to academic writing, which can be defined as an ongoing conversation between people who enjoy exchanging ideas, finding out new ways of understanding problems, and developing their own intellectual muscle. Academic writing is therefore conversational, often questioning frequently skeptical, and sometimes downright exciting. By the end of this course students will understand how to apply the rhetorical strategies involved in replying to other academics in concise, well-developed, carefully crafted prose. There will be a minimum of four papers, as well as a weekly one-page paper on the reading assignments. Revision will be emphasized through the writing and rewriting of drafts. Participation is a vital part of the course, as is consistent attendance, and unflagging spirits. See www-personal.umich.edu/~swabey.
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The central purpose of this class is to teach you to recognize the problems in your writing on your own. To that end, you will write several drafts of your papers, subjecting them to various kinds of peer critique. Thus the most important text in the course will be your own papers. Our topics will be supplied by Our Times, a collection of magazine articles on various contemporary subjects.
Just for a change of pace, we will also read a novel, Snow Falling on Cedars on and off through the term.
Course texts: A writing handbook, Our Times, Snow Falling on Cedars, a slim course pack.
Required work: Faithful and enthusiastic attendance and participation, detailed written peer critiques, 4 papers with revisions, in the 3-6 page range.
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Writing is a skill that takes practice. As with any skill, writing requires constant doing and redoing. Students will give and receive peer criticism as well as comments from the instructor. They will learn to communicate their thoughts clearly and logically through journal entries, responses to reading assignments, and formal essays. The purpose of this course is twofold: to train students to think critically and analytically, and to guide them in expressing their thoughts through writing. Students will write and revise several papers of varying lengths. The total number of revised pages will number between 20 and 30. Essay topics will consist of argumentative subjects based on reading assignments as well as topics of the student's own choosing.
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This course aims to prepare eager students for essay writing at the college level. To accomplish this feat we will read and analyze works by experienced writers in order to determine writing strategies. In our own compositions on a variety of subjects, we will practice coming up with topics for essays, writing with an intended audience in mind, and creating persuasive and engaging prose. Along with reading and writing nonfiction, students can also expect peer critiques (written and verbal comments analyzing classmates' papers) to be an essential part of the class experience. Requirements will include class attendance and participation and several essays of varying lengths. By the end of the semester each student is expected to have compiled between 20 to 30 pages of revised, polished prose (which means, of course, that you will be writing more pages than that).
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One will often hear two phrases associated with words: "Words are powerful" and "Words could never do it justice." The curious tension between these statements is where the joy of writing comes – struggling with unwieldy phrases until they capture at least a fraction of your experience, until these frustrating words become one of your most immediate tools of communication. The goal of this class is to enable each student to express themselves with language. We will read essays by many thinkers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B. DuBois, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and David Foster Wallace, and through group discussion and individual written reader responses analyze how these thinkers structure their ideas, what poetic imagery they use in their arguments, who they're arguing to, etc. Each student will complete 20-30 pages of prose during the semester through four paper assignments which will range in length from two to ten pages. Students will take part in in-class workshops of their own and their peers' writing, including written peer reviews, and take part in frequent in-class written exercises. Revisions will be required for every essay. The final essay will be a research paper focusing on issues of the student's choice, and each student will give a brief class presentation on their topics.
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This course is as much about reading as it is about writing. Reading a variety of non-fiction texts, students in this course will observe how different rhetorical modes operate within the different disciplines. While you will be introduced to the modes of argumentation deemed appropriate to the different disciplines, you will also be encouraged to develop your own style of writing, your "personal voice." In other words you will learn to experiment with your writing just as you will acclimate yourself to writing in different contexts, with sensitivity towards your audience. Class requirements include 4 papers of varying lengths, totalling 30-35 pages, short weekly response papers and written reviews of each other's work.
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This course will use reading as a way to practice and develop college writing skills. Working from the anthology Ways of Reading, we will focus on themes of writing in the "real" world, writing culture, and experimental writing "outside of the lines." Although our primary focus will be on the thesis-driven essay, this class will prepare students to meet the writing requirements of different disciplines. Four pieces of revised prose and several in-class writing assignments will be required.
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In this course we will develop and refine skills of critical reasoning and writing. In our increasingly competitive economy, the ability to write clear, convincing prose is more and more necessary for advancement in any field. This involves firstly analyzing, synthesizing, and responding to others' texts. From this basis, one shapes and develops individual perspectives in sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
Revision will be the keyword of the course. Together we will write, rewrite, and rewrite again. I firmly believe that learning as a community offers the best way for developing individual abilities. Accordingly, active class participation will be important. Throughout the semester we will read and constructively critique each other's work. In our interactions over the semester each of us will struggle to become a better thinker and to develop a unique and effective writing voice.
Course requirements include 5 formal papers (4-6 pp.), 10 short peer critiques, various informal writing exercises, and active class participation.
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Pssst. Wanna know a secret? We'll be investigating the role of secrecy and lying in our lives and in the lives of others. We'll read, for example, about secrecy in the work of nuclear weapons scientists, initiation rituals in Melanesia, and American marriages. We'll also be asking and writing about the role of secrecy and lying in our everyday lives; how do we make sense of our experiences as liars, and how do we interpret the lying of others? Is secrecy antithetical or essential to democracy? How does lying influence "identity"? And what do we mean when we talk about "telling the truth"? Readings will include congressional hearings, anthropological accounts of secret societies, works of fiction, and sociological and literary theory. Expect to write 20-30 pages of revised, graded prose by the end of the term.
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Writing will be an integral part of almost every college course you take. Why not learn to do it well? This course is a step-by-step approach to building and refining your writing skills so you can craft effective, original, and polished prose for different academic contexts. By learning to respond critically and intelligently to everything you read, from published articles to work generated by the class, you will discover how to improve your writing through self-assessment, revision, and the input of your classmates. Requirements include conscientious attendance, informal response papers, in-class and take-home exercises, peer critiques, and essays (and drafts) of varying lengths. You will leave with 20-30 pages of revised prose and approaches to writing that will serve you throughout your college career and beyond. This is a collaborative effort, so bring coffee (if you need it) and an eagerness to participate!
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I hope that we find this course to be both worthwhile and enjoyable. I look forward to our discussion and evaluations of the diverse purposes, practices, and philosophies of the collegiate experience. As a college student, you are already an authority on many of the topics we will cover. Specifically, we will consider popular perspectives of the college experience, debates over the curriculum, intellectual development, and developing a sense of belonging in college.
In addition to examining the college experience, entering, understanding, and succeeding in the discourse community of collegiate writers is central to this course. And, we must bear in mind that developing strong argumentative writing skills is a messy, non-linear process. We will often find ourselves examining and revising thoughts we had previously found to be sound and complete. Some of our initial theses may evolve into wildly different notions by the end of the semester – or even by our second or third drafts. In order to be better writers, we have to be more complex thinkers. And, through writing, revision, and collaboration with each other, we will learn to express more complicated thoughts in coherent fashion
Finally, I feel that there is a good deal of "truth" in the statement, "you get out of college what you put into it." Hopefully, this class will get you off to a good start in deciding how you are going to get what you want out of your college career.
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This composition course will focus on critical thinking, reading, and writing, with an emphasis on the ethics of written discourse. The course entails identifying and exploring ethical questions involving such topics as civil rights, the media, and the educational system. We will practice identifying multiple points of view on an issue; generating and developing our own perspectives and positions; articulating our thoughts in convincing sentences, paragraphs, and essays; and summarizing, documenting, and responding to others' texts responsibly. Peer revision groups will study numerous pieces of writing, some by professional writers, many by classmates. In the process, we will develop effective rhetorical techniques relating to purpose, audience, organization, style, evidence, and academic conventions. Assignments will include four formal, revised essays of varying lengths (3-8 pages), peer critiques of each formal paper, several shorter exploratory papers, in-class exercises, and large and small group discussions.
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ENG 125 aims to help you find ways to make your writing more dynamic, polished, and persuasive. By the end of the course, you should have improved your ability to communicate your ideas clearly and effectively to an audience of college-educated adults. My hope is that over the course of this semester you'll come to think of writing as an incessant process of rereading and revision rather than as an attempt to produce a perfect, finished product in one or two sittings. You will, consequently, receive intensive instruction and practice in writing five fully developed and revised essays. Your classmates and I will help you learn to analyze your audience; to discover which of the many prewriting techniques works best for you; to organize and develop ideas in a coherent, unified structure; and to revise, rewrite, and edit your own work. You will also receive a thorough grammar review and gain a familiarity with MLA, APA, and Chicago-style documentation conventions for essays using secondary sources. Required texts: Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources, The Little Brown Essential Handbook, The St. Martin's Guide to Writing.
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This course will help you prepare for the type of thinking and writing that you will need to be successful at the university. Our first step will be to engage our thinking of critical issues by reading short non-fiction and fiction pieces. To improve your writing, you will write one-page reading responses for each article you read and four papers of polished prose of approximately 5-6 pages in length. All of your papers will go through multiple drafts before an individual paper is finalized. To increase your ability to analyze text and to help your peers improve their written communication, you will be expected to read and comment upon early drafts of their papers. Your final grade will be based upon active class participation (which includes reading responses, peer responses, and multiple drafting) and four formal essays.
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"Have I said it before? I am learning to see. Yes, I am beginning. It's still going badly. But I intend to make the most of my time." R.M. Rilke
How do we begin to take part in academic and professional discourses? This class will explore how to enter such discourses through our reading, thinking and writing. These three acts require that we see and re-see, that we participate in the fundamental act of re-vision (of "seeing again"), in order to open spaces within established arguments and then expand them through personal and interdisciplinary analysis.
Coursework will include intensive, thoughtful reading of all assigned texts; an in-class and reader-response journal; active participation; faithful, early morning attendance; four essays and extensive revisions; and graded peer critiques and workshops.
Required Text: Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers, by D. Bartholomae and A. Petrosky.
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Dedicated to creative, coherent argumentative writing, our course will be time-consuming and expectations will be great. Texts will be political and philosophical in nature: radio reports, newspaper articles, documentaries, environmental essays, readings on American culture. We will talk throughout the semester about various approaches to argumentative writing, working together to discover the art of this form. Thirty pages of finished work and participation in regular peer reviews required.
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This section of English 125, developed specifically for students enrolled in the new Michigan Community Scholars Program in Mary Markley Hall, will focus on writing within the context of community service. In addition to attending the course and doing course assignments, students will work for selected community groups as part of their Community Scholars Program community service commitment or as an additional commitment. Ideally, much of the students' writing will be done "for" the community groups in the form of newsletters, public relations announcements, reports, pamphlets, etc. Also, students will use writing to reflect upon their community service experience, and there will be reading and writing assignments that will ask students to consider community service learning within the context of contemporary American society and higher education. Students should be aware that the specifics of the course may change as the Community Scholars Program evolves.
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This course will cover the fundamentals of effective college writing, with special attention to the thesis paragraph and the use of examples and evidence. We will use our reading assignments as models to analyze professional writers' styles and structures of argument. Through a series of four student papers, we will break down the writing process into its main components. Early in the term students will write and revise drafts in order to establish themselves as clear and confident college writers. By the end of the term you will have written 20-30 pages of revised, polished prose.
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The purpose of this course is to give you tools that will enable you to strengthen your general writing skills, both during the semester and long after you have completed the course. Regardless of your future ambitions, being able to write well is essential to your pursuits and goals. Nearly all vocations and fields of study require the ability to communicate your ideas and thoughts clearly and concisely on the page. Using peer critiques, workshops of your rough drafts, in-class exercises and assignments, and assigned readings by published essayists as bouncing boards for discussion and learning, we will explore different aspects of the essay form to sharpen your writing skills, including methods of structure and form, style, voice, and theme. Required work: 4 revised papers of 4-8 pages; peer critiques; summary-response questions to reading; in-class exercises.
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This course is designed to introduce students to essay writing at the college level. Whatever subjects you go on to study, critical composition will constitute a major part of your work here at the University of Michigan. In this class we'll take time to focus on every aspect of the writing process, from choosing a paper topic to revising your final draft.
Since reading and practicing are the two surest ways to improve writing, we'll be doing a lot of both over the course of the semester. Requirements will include four separate revised essays (totaling about 25 pages of polished prose), several ungraded in-class assignments, and readings from a wide range of modern masters (including George Orwell and Joan Didion). Workshopping will play an essential role in this class; by examining and critiquing drafts of each other's work we will learn to be expert editors – of each other and of ourselves.
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"Lure the reader in!"
The imperative above reflects your task, always, as a writer: engage the reader. Make the reader want to keep reading. In this section of English 125: College Writing, you will concentrate first on "Writing," then on the modifier "College." By the time we get to "College," you will have engaged your creative, analytical, critical, intuitive, humorous, serious and committed writerly personas, and – here's the secret – you will remain engaged with the whole gang as you fine-tune various approaches to exposition, narrative, argument, textual analysis and the wide and compelling world of writerly rhetoric.
Coursework includes attentive and engaged reading of all assigned texts; discussions and workshops; written peer critiques; frequent short writing assignments and exercises, including process-writing on your own work; four essays and their substantive revision; and presentation of a dramatic monologue.
Required Texts, available @ Shaman Drum Bookstore: A Community of Writers, Peter Elbow & Pat Belanoff, eds., and The Little, Brown Compact Handbook, Jane E. Aaron, ed.
Other required materials: Coursepack, available @ Acc-U-Copy, 518 E. William, dictionary, thesaurus, and a journal, loose-leaf binder or spiral notebook for writing exercises, etc.
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What is the difference between exploring and being lost? The question may be a kind of language-trick, but considering nuances in meaning and tone can be critical to understanding how language works. The goal of this class is to allow you to become more comfortable with written language so that the act of writing is one of exploration and not one that makes you feel lost.
In this class we will enter into written dialogue with a variety of essays (and the occasional short story or poem), learning to be careful writers by first becoming careful readers. We will place particular emphasis on construction of an effective thesis, and explore ways of supporting that thesis.
As we consider ways of making language more interesting, economical, and clear, much of our class time will be dedicated to group discussion of your writings. Your writing will include essays of varying length to total roughly 40 pages of work, 20-30 pages of which will be thoroughly revised by the end of the term.
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What is "community"? More specifically, how does this society define the term "community"? Does the term take on different connotations for you based on your class? Gender? Race? Ethnicity? Age? In this course, students will put the direct experiences of their first term at Michigan-both on and off campus-to ponder these and various other questions regarding our society's perspective on "community." Furthermore, this section of English 125 is offered only to students enrolled in the new Michigan Community Scholars Program in Mary Markley Hall and will focus on writing within the context of community service. In addition to attending the course and doing course assignments, students will work for selected community groups as part of their Community Scholars Program community service commitment or as an additional commitment. Students will use writing to reflect upon their community service experience, and there will be reading and writing assignments that will ask students to consider community service learning within the context of contemporary American society and higher education. Students should be aware that specifics of the course may change as the Community Scholars Program evolves. Students should expect to write at least 25-30 pages of polished prose during the term.
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Can someone "own" the sequence of words making up an essay, or the particular pattern of zeros and ones representing a digital recording? Is it possible to own an idea, or a fact?
We will examine these questions, and others, through class discussions, readings, and our own writing.
Along the way, we'll encounter programmers whose belief in the free flow of information has lead them to create entire operating systems (such as GNU/Linux) which they can give away for free. We'll study the Internet, both as a medium for the distribution of intellectual property, and as a set of protocols that could themselves be intellectual property. And we'll also make a brief foray into the world of modern cryptography, and learn about the debt it owes to the centuries-old subject of number theory.
The course will have some mathematical content, but the only prerequisites are enthusiasm and a firm grasp of high-school algebra. Some knowledge of computer programming would also be helpful, but is not required.
By the end of the term you can expect to have written 20-30 pages of revised, polished prose.
Note that registration for this section is with an override only. Please contact me at bfields@umich.edu to request an override.
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In this course we will be reading a broad, interdisciplinary range of texts concerning health, illness, and disability by Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Arthur Frank, Nancy Mairs, Oliver Sacks, and others. We will address such issues as medicine and ethics; discriminiation and stereotyping; the significance of race, class, and gender in conceptualizing "health"; and the relationship between writing and healing. This course stresses both the communal and the process-oriented aspects of writing. Writing exercises will focus on building the preliminary foundations of a finished essay. Students will have the opportunity to share their work-in-progress with their classmates through workshopping rough drafts. Course requirements include four papers of varying lengths totalling 20-30 pages, short in-class and take-home writing exercises, two class sessions facilitating discussions (one on assigned readings and one on a classmate's workshop draft, and active participation and engaged listening in class.
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The goal of this class is to enable students to develop skills and strategies to become more proficient writers of academic prose. Since both reading and thinking critically are crucial aspects of the academic composing process, we will read and discuss texts on a variety of topics in differing styles. While often only the polished end product of writing is seen, we will reflect on the writing process. Through the writing and rewriting of drafts we will analyze our own personal composing strategies and foibles and also explore writing as a means of thinking. Requirements: Active participation in class, four revised papers between 3-7 pages in length (drafts of students' papers will be discussed in class), weekly written responses to assigned readings and peer reviews.
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English 125 is designed to improve your ability to write clear, cohesive essays and to develop your skills as interpreters and communicators of ideas and information. This course will guide your development as critical readers, thinkers, and writers able to communicate in a scholarly, academic community. Using a workshop format (both peer critiques and full class workshops) to examine our writing, we will read each other's work and learn from our strengths and weaknesses. The goal is twofold: to develop the critical skills necessary to read, discuss and analyze a piece of writing, and to learn how to apply these critical skills to our own work. Class discussions will develop critical thought processes that are essential to writing good essays. Part of our work will be to help you find ways to confront our readings and focus your response to them. Students will write 4 essays over the term, each with a draft that will be revised. Written summary-responses to readings and pre-essay preparatory exercises will also be assigned. Our study of writing will focus on clarity and vividness of expression, organization, and development of ideas.
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The popular television series, The Twilight Zone, the brainchild of Rod Serling, is a springboard for discussion of several themes, including: 1) the nature of evil; 2) time, or how the past affects the present; 3) the individual vs. society; 4) appearances and "truth"; 5) science and the individual; 6) perspectives on fantasy/magic realism. The second way to explore these same themes is through an examination of essays and literature. For example, at the start of the course, we will examine views of the devil (and man's relationship to evil) in short stories, essays and the videos. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (published in 1937) is an example of early twentieth century literature that harkens back to the nineteenth century's "Young Goodman Brown" that has similar elements. This will also be paired with Stephen King's "The Man in the Black Suit" (The New Yorker, 1980). These similarities and differences will be explored as related to two television episodes: The Howling Man and Printer's Devil. Three papers on these themes are expected as well as participation in workshop (a critique of your own and others' work) and inclass writing prompts. Film techniques (Hitchcock angles, tunnel shots, the gray scale, montage, power positions, compression and framing, tableau and archetypical images) will also form the basis of the link between the written and the visual.
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A speaker at UM (James Slevin) recently said, "Making stuff mean something is at the heart of the writing that gets admired at the university." This writing class will focus on ways we can "make stuff mean something." We will reflect on and interpret events in our lives, groups and experiences on campus, the perspectives of those different from us, and the challenges posed by recent reinterpretations in fields such as history, psychology, law, or medicine. As we research and reinterpret these topics, we'll also discuss questions about audience, rhetorical strategies, evidence, imagination, voice, development, pace, creativity, and other aspects of writing. Required writings include three revised and polished essays, several short reflective papers, exploratory drafts, freewritings, in-class exercises, reading responses, critiques of other students' drafts, and analyses of the writing process.
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The object of this course is to improve our writing and sharpen our critical skills. We will read challenging, provocative essays and narratives that ask as many questions as they answer. Our essays will be original, informed by the constant intersection of our reading, thinking and writing. We will revise and look closely at process – how reading generates ideas, how ideas develop and find expression. We will seek to break the pattern of traditional summary learning. In short, we will think for ourselves. Required work: regular reading assignments, peer critiques, 4 revised essays of 4-6 pages in length.
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This course will encourage you to explore through writing, reading and discussion why anyone in the richest country in the world has to be (wants to be? can't help being?) poor. What does being poor really mean, anyway? How can people lift themselves – and others – out of poverty? How much should government be involved? What can you do to help eliminate inequalities? Expect lively, in-depth conversation and no "right" answers. This class will have two evening meetings as part of the First-Year Intergroup Relations Seminars (FIGS): Sept. 13 and Nov. 11. The instructor is a former Peace Corps Volunteer.
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This course is designed as a survey of written composition focusing specifically on formal attributes (sentence and paragraph structure, thematic development, logical discourse). Students focus on developing their own writing through several types of essays (including personal narrative, descriptive, and argumentative essays), group peer evaluation, and class discussion while developing critical reading and editing skills. Each student will write five papers from 3-7 pages in length and will have ten peer critiques. A final portfolio of approximately 30 pages of polished prose will be turned in at the end of the semester. Although the main focus of the course will be on student writing and revision techniques, we will examine the relationship between reading and writing with the text Reading Critically, Writing Well as well as essays from Annie Dillard, E.B. White, and David Foster Wallace.
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Conspiracy Theories in American History will explore an American tendency to explain political and economic events in terms of a secret plot to destroy the American way of life. These explanations have taken many forms. Senator Joseph McCarthy fanned fears of a communist plot in the 1950s. Americans' shock at the murder of President Kennedy produced a bumper crop of conspiracy theories involving the CIA, the Mafia, and others. Belief in conspiracies, however, dates not just to the 1950s but to the earliest days of the Republic. This course will examine several familiar conspiracy theories, as well as some that have faded from the public's memory but were once influential views of the world. Scholars' thinking about the nature of conspiracy theories will frame the course. Films and contemporary writings will provide the raw material for an examination of conditions that allowed conspiracy fears to flourish and their effects on American society. By the end of the term you can expect to have written 20-30 pages of revised, polished prose.
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What does it mean to have a "normal" body? How does the idea of a "normal" body change through time and across cultures? How are our bodies defined through hygiene, plastic surgery, fashion, medicine, or ritual? How do people resist these definitions? In this course we will consider both personal experiences and readings in anthropology, history, and feminist theory to understand how the body is shaped by culture. Writing assignments will challenge you to develop your own perspectives through comparative and argumentative essays. Course requirements include writing short reading responses, participating in group discussions and peer reviews, and completing 20-30 pages of revised prose.
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Contemporary United States culture is brimming with references to the journey, whether across its landscapes, to the moon or within one's own imagination. Students in this course will explore ways in which writers establish point of view through narration or description of travel. We will read or watch a variety of fiction and non-fiction about travel, including novel excerpts, essays, newspaper articles, films and advertisements. Students will analyze means of persuasion and argument in each of these forms of publication, and will learn techniques for establishing connections as readers and writers. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of location in communication, as students develop articulation skills which will allow them to locate themselves and express their interpretations of their surroundings in their writing. Daily writing exercises, reading assignments, peer reviews and 20 – 30 pages of polished papers of varying lengths will be required.
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