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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · taught by gshuffel · returned 4 results
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ENGL 100 How We Read: The History and Science of Reading 6 credits
Humans have been reading for 5,000 years, a period too short to be explained in evolutionary terms but long enough for the purposes and social values of reading to have changed considerably. This class begins with an examination of the cognitive process of reading and then considers what reading has meant to readers at different times. We’ll examine the motivations and reading practices of medieval monks, Renaissance diplomats, enslaved Americans, and midwestern housewives. We’ll reflect on what happens when we read a difficult poem, and we’ll read Napoleon’s favorite novel as example of how reading can be enchanting, inspiring, and dangerously self-destructive. We’ll consider our own histories as readers and examine reading at the present moment, including the way reading on screens may (or may not) be changing our habits.
Held for new first year students
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ENGL 100.05 Fall 2023
- Faculty:George Shuffelton 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 109 The Craft of Academic Writing 6 credits
This course is designed to demystify the practice of academic writing and to introduce students to the skills they’ll need to write effectively in a variety of academic disciplines and contexts. Students will learn how to respond to other authors’ claims, frame clear arguments of their own, structure essays to develop a clear logical flow, integrate outside sources into their writing, and improve their writing through revision. All sections will include a variety of readings, multiple writing assignments, and substantial feedback from the course instructor.
Does not fulfill curricular exploration
- Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Writing Requirement
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ENGL 220 Arts of Oral Presentation 3 credits
Instruction and practice in being a speaker and an audience in formal and informal settings.
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
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ENGL 400 Integrative Exercise 6 credits
Senior English majors may fulfill the integrative exercise by completing one of the four options: the Colloquium Option (a group option in which participants discuss, analyze and write about a thematically coherent list of literary works); the Research Essay Option (an extended essay on a topic of the student’s own devising); the Creative Option (creation of a work of literary art); or the Project Option (creation of an individual or group multidisciplinary project). The Research Essay Option is open to students who have completed a senior seminar in the major by the end of fall term senior year. The Creative Option is open only to students who have completed at least two creative writing courses (one of which must be at the 300 level) by the end of fall term senior year.
- Winter 2024, Spring 2024