Department of English Courses 1

Department of English Courses 1 Department of English Courses Note on Course Numbers 76-102 Advanced First Year Writing: Special Topics Each Carnegie Mellon course number begins with a two-digit prefix which All Semesters: 9 units designates the department offering the course (76-xxx courses are offered 76-102, Advanced First-Year Writing courses are designed for students by the Department of English, etc.). Although each department maintains who have demonstrated an understanding of academic writing that its own course numbering practices, typically the first digit after the prefix most incoming freshmen have not. Because of the students' level of indicates the class level: xx-1xx courses are freshmen-level, xx-2xx courses preparedness, the First-Year Writing Program provides intensive, advanced are sophomore level, etc. xx-6xx courses may be either undergraduate courses for students to work closely with senior faculty within the English senior-level or graduate-level, depending on the department. xx-7xx department. Advanced courses assume that students have established courses and higher are graduate-level. Please consult the Schedule of strong reading and synthesizing skills, as well as a demonstrated interest in Classes (https://enr-apps.as.cmu.edu/open/SOC/SOCServlet) each semester writing and communication, prior to entering Carnegie Mellon. The course for course offerings and for any necessary pre-requisites or co-requisites. topics shift each semester. Students enroll through special invitation. Class size for 76102 is capped at 19 and there are no prerequisites for the course. 76-050 Study Abroad Advisors will be notified if their students qualify for the advanced writing Fall courses. No course description provided. Course Website: http://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/first_year/index.html 76-100 Reading and Writing in an Academic Context 76-203 Pirates and Prostitutes in the 18th Century Fall and Spring: 9 units Fall: 9 units 76-100 is an academic reading and writing course for multilingual students, In this course, we discuss how sailors, pirates, and prostitutes changed especially those who are not native speakers of English or who consider the modern world. Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, "Black Sam" Bellamy, Calico English to be their weaker language. The course emphasizes reading Jack Rackham: these are just a few of the pirates who gained notoriety comprehension strategies for reading a variety of text types in English (e.g., by terrorizing the seas in the 18th century. We explore this Golden Age of journalism, textbook selections, popular press arguments, and academic Piracy, investigating how these privateers created their own counter-culture. journal articles). Throughout the semester, students use these sources to Equally important were the "ladies of the night" who eagerly anticipated the write summaries and short position papers. The course introduces students ships' return to port. Our course discusses how some of these women were to readers' expectations for North American rhetorical style at the sentence, able to amass fortunes off the pirates' plunder, and even became pirates paragraph, and whole text or genre levels. Within the course we discuss themselves. We will examine various texts depicting sailors, pirates and explicit genre and linguistic norms for writing in academic English so that their wenches, including paintings, cartoons, novels, songs about sailing, writers can connect with their readers. Students who take this course qualify and plays. In doing so, students will be able to see how people dealt with through an online placement test that is administered through the university various problems associated with privateers: sailors kidnapping loved prior to the fall semester. (All sections are offered MWF). Each 76-100 ones, drunkenly tearing up the ports and spreading venereal disease, and course is structured by the reading and writing objectives of the course enacting revenge against the Royal Navy's barbarity. as well as a vocabulary for writing in English, but some courses present different themes (or content) in their readings. 76-205 Jane Austen Course Website: http://www.cmu.edu/hss/english/first_year/index.html Intermittent: 9 units It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of the most 76-101 Interpretation and Argument popular writers of the past two hundred years. In this course, students Fall and Spring: 9 units will have the opportunity to indulge in the work of this beloved author 76-101 introduces first-year students to an advanced, inductive process and answer: What can an exploration of Austen's time tell us about for writing an argument from sources. Because the course is based upon her novels and about ourselves as readers? In this course, we will read empirical research about professional academic writers, students will Austen's six published novels (Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, learn expert practices for authoring their own arguments that contribute Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion) as we to an existing community of authors. Because reading and writing are consider: In what ways can we describe Austen's novels as "romantic," inseparable practices for academic writing, students will read a variety of and how does her work fit within the parameters of the Romantic canon? texts so that they can explore and critically evaluate a single issue from With increases in literacy rates and the emergence of lending libraries, multiple perspectives and from different disciplinary genres. Students will what can Austen's novels tell us about readership and popular fiction in learn methods for summarizing, synthesizing, and analyzing arguments the early nineteenth century? How do these vibrant texts engage with within that issue so that they may contribute an argument of their own. important issues of their (and our) time, like revolution, women's rights, The course is also geared toward helping students understand the race, sexuality, nationality and religion? Additionally, we will encounter requirements of advanced college-level writing. Our students are typically excerpts from Austen's contemporaries and explore other cultural materials very accomplished readers and writers, and we are eager to push their - like diaries, letters, periodicals, maps, music, fashion, and the visual accomplishments toward greater excellence. For this purpose, students arts - to paint a rich historical context around our reading. Finally, we will will build upon their composing knowledge by reflecting and thinking consider how cinematic adaptations of Austen's works can contribute to our strategically as they plan, write, and revise their own texts. Ultimately, interpretations of her novels. they will develop critical reading, rhetorical and linguistic practices for analyzing and producing texts within the context of an academic community. Each section of 76-101 is structured by the same objectives and core assignments. There is a core vocabulary and set of heuristics that all sections teach. However, students may find particular issues more appealing than others-we encourage students to pursue their interests, but we also ask that students engage any 76-101 course with intellectual curiosity. Due to the limits of our schedule, we are unable to meet each student's individual preferences for course topics, but we do offer a wide variety from which to choose. Section descriptions are posted at: http:// www.cmu.edu/hss/english/first_year/index.html Course Website: http://www.cmu.edu/hss/english/first_year/index.html 2 Department of English Courses 76-213 19th Century British Literature 76-221 Books You Should Have Read By Now Intermittent: 9 units Intermittent: 9 units Topics vary by semester. Spring 2012: Women writers played an essential This class is for those people who should have read some of the best books role in the construction of Victorian literary culture. In this course we around, but haven't managed to yet — books you should have read by now. will read novels, poems, and periodical extracts by a diverse body of We will ask ourselves how classics of American literature define America, nineteenth-century female authors as a means of better understanding and what they mean for the American culture we experience now. We will women's historic and aesthetic impact on Victorian culture. While some confront the frontier wilderness of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of of our authors are well known, like the wildly popular poet Elizabeth the Mohicans and consider Henry David Thoreau's challenges to industrial Barrett Browning, we will also encounter the 'lost' author, journalist, and society in Walden. We will explore the racial conflicts of 1920s Harlem controversial anti-feminist Eliza Lynn Linton. The writing of Victorian women in Toni Morrison's Jazz, take part in Jack Kerouac's search for authentic exemplifies important social debates from the nineteenth-century. Social experiences in On The Road, and speculate about what it means to be taboos such as divorce, suffrage, Bloomerism, children out of wedlock, human after the collapse of civilization in Cormac McCarthy's The Road. and women in the workforce were all topical in Victorian culture. As the Along the way, we will use the idea that literature is equipment for living, to conflicted and introspective heroine of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss help us understand ourselves and others, the past and the present, and the reminds readers, the role of marriage as a woman's sole profession

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