Course details

Name: ENWR - 220

Title: WRITING IN THE MAJOR

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2014

Credits: 3

Description:
Course and Catalogue 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

This course introduces students to a wide range of fictions in multiple genres and media that present utopian (ideal, perfect) societies and dystopian (oppressive, terrifying) societies. The readings follow a long arc from Plato’s foundational proposals in the Republic through Renaissance visions of distant lands to twentieth-century film and science fiction.

Last updated on 2013-10-21 By Rzepka Adam (rzepkaa)

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

Teaching Faculty: Rzepka Adam (rzepkaa)

Is course canceled: No