1:00p-2:15 TR (25) 3 cr 


COAS INTENSIVE WRITING SECTION. OPEN TO MAJORS ONLY.  DECLARED MINORS
OBTAIN AUTHORIZATION FROM BH402.


This course aims at introducing the major literary types or kinds of
fiction, drama, and poetry.  Our L202 covers all three.  Much of our
reading connects with adventure and romance themes.  We pay special
attention to language and style. We'll read some paired works in order
to grasp common patterns and emergent differences.  Readings will
probably consist of the following: from American fiction, Mark Twain's
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  and  The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn .   From British Renaissance drama, Christopher
Marlowe's  Doctor Faustus  and William Shakespeare's  The
Tempest –both deal with adventures in magic and preternatural
powers.  Our poetry text will be Paul Hoover, ed.,  Postmodern
American Poetry  (Norton).  As a handbook, we'll use Diana
Hacker's  A Pocket Style Manual .


L202 is an intensive writing course.  We write a series of four major
papers (5-6 page length).  Students also write frequent short
(paragraph to page length) working papers.  Quizzes and other in-class
writings may also figure into the mix.   Class meetings are mostly
discussion.  This is a writing class, and there will be no mid-term or
final exam.  Regular attendance is assumed.