(25) 3 cr.
1825 CANCELLED
1826 08:00A - 09:15A TR SHACKELFORD (description below)
1827 09:30A - 10:45A TR ROBERTS
1828 04:00P - 05:15P TR LEAHEY (description below)
COAS INTENSIVE WRITING SECTION. PREREQUISITE: COMPLETION OF ENGLISH COMPOSITION REQUIREMENT.
This advanced writing course focuses on the interconnected activities of writing and reading. It engages students through a series of writing/reading assignments in the kinds of responding, analyzing, and evaluating that are part of the work in many fields in the university. Students will work closely on a variety of texts, including their own writing, in order to develop an understanding of the assumptions, choices, and techniques that comprise the writing process.
FOR SHACKELFORD SECTION 1826:
TOPIC: THINKING THROUGH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
This class will consider the cultural implications of digital technologies by analyzing electronic texts (interactive CD-ROMS, hypertext, hypertext fiction), electronic communities (the Internet, chat rooms), and the cultural struggles surrounding them. We will explore the effects of these new forms of communication on literacy, education, access to information, and democracy in the first unit. The next unit will focus in on the politics of reading and writing stories by comparing the story-telling and reading strategies used in electronic texts to the story-telling and reading strategies we take for granted in literary classics in print. The final unit will center on electronic communities and the virtual identities that seem to proliferate within them. In particular, this unit will re-think claims that race, gender, class, and ethnicity are not present or not significant in "cyberspace." Thinking critically about the ways in which electronic texts re-shape practices of reading, writing, and communicating today, the course will, in turn, reflect on, develop, and strengthen the forms of critical reading, writing, and thinking that remain central to academic writing.
FOR LEAHEY SECTION 1828:
This course will provide students with a view of the change that has occurred since 1900 with a focus on American males, their history, their stories, their perceptions and the changes in the European roles of fatherhood and masculinity as the new image has evolved. Through a variety of readings from literature, narratives of historians, sociologists, and psychologists, and video clips and music students will arrive at a current perception of Male Image reflected in current culture. Written reflections will be the framework from which the investigation and questioning of change begins. The course will examine historical events including World Wars I & II as well as the decades including the Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties and the Women’s Movement. Students will summarize, critique, analyze and reflect and take a position on the path masculinity has taken and is taking. Through discussion and response to the readings orally and in written form, students will build to a final paper that is a culmination of the experiences of the reading, personal investigation and research into the topic.
Readings will include excerpts from the following books and other
readings in the course
packet:
Broughton, Irv, Ed. A good Man-Fathers and Sons in Poetry and
Prose
Faludi, Susan. Stiffed
Kimmel, Michael. Manhood in America
Mosse, George L. The Image of Man
Pittman, Frank. Man Enough
Sanders, Scott Russel. The Country of Language
Seybold, David. Fathers and Sons
“Testosterone.” Time April 23, 2000
A course packet from Collegiate Copies