Course details

Name: ENWR - 220

Title: WRITING IN THE MAJOR

Section: 04

Semester: Fall - 2014

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.

Specific Section Theme:

Our theme for this course will be the literature and culture of U.S. borders. This literatures comes primarily out of the U.S.-Mexico border context, and accordingly, we will study Latina/o writers who deal with this topic. We will also consider other U.S. authors, including those writing in Asian American and Caribbean American contexts. We will study a variety of texts that imagine U.S. border spaces, including fiction, non-fiction prose, film, and music.

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

Graduation requirements:

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Teaching Faculty: Cheng Emily (chenge)

Is course canceled: No