Course details

Name: ENGL - 110

Title: THE ANALYTIC ESSAY

Section: 04

Semester: Spring - 2018

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 work with literary and cultural texts to strengthen their reading and analytic abilities, using those skills to construct sophisticated arguments. Students will write 5000-6000 words of formal prose spaced throughout the semester, and regularly revise their essays with feedback from peers and the instructor. ENGL 110 meets the Graduation Writing Requirement, and is appropriate for students in any major (or even undeclared) who want to express themselves accurately and persuasively when responding to literary and other texts: what to look for, how many ways there are to "get it right." This section of 110 takes up the idea of "ugliness." Beauty generally gets all the attention,but "ugly" is also constructed across cultures and centuries from ancient times to modern, in terms of gender and sexuality, class, and ethnic distinctions, and social, political, and economic exclusion (including genocide). Readings range from _Shrek_ and _Beauty and the Beast__ to slave narratives, Native American, and Holocaust memorials, and from ancient to ultra-modern understandings of "ugliness"; they will include literary, historical, and "visual" examples (painting, sculpture, photography), culminating in a look at whether human behavior itself may be considered "ugly."

Last updated on 2017-10-24 By Liebler Naomi (lieblern)

Schedule: Wednesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Introduction to Literature (110-114)

Teaching Faculty: Liebler Naomi (lieblern)

Is course canceled: No