Course details

Name: ENWR - 220

Title: WRITING IN THE MAJOR

Section: 04

Semester: Fall - 2013

Credits: 3

Description:
Organized around individual instructors’ chosen topic or theme, this course will focus on the development of students’ skills in writing a thesis-driven analytic essay. Students will work with literary and cultural texts to strengthen their reading and analytic abilities, using those skills to construct sophisticated arguments. Because the course is designed for English majors, students will learn and apply the vocabulary, writing conventions, research methods, and documentation practices of the discipline. Students will write 5000-6000 words of formal prose and regularly revise their essays with feedback from peers and the instructor. ENWR220 meets the Graduation Writing Requirement. Recommended but not required as a precursor to Pursuits of English. For English majors only.

Section Specific Description:
As the theme for this section of ENWR 220, we will be exploring the notoriously complex and controversial relationship between atheism and literature, from antiquity to modernity. Authors read will include Lucretius, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Albert Camus.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

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Teaching Faculty: Miller Jeffrey (millerje)

Is course canceled: No