Department of English Courses 1

Department of English Courses 1 Department of English Courses About Course Numbers: 76-106 Writing about Literature, Art and Culture Each Carnegie Mellon course number begins with a two-digit prefix that Fall and Spring: 4.5 units designates the department offering the course (i.e., 76-xxx courses are This mini course uses artistic, literary, and cultural texts (e.g., poetry, short offered by the Department of English). Although each department maintains story, lyrics, video clips) to introduce students to a variety of academic its own course numbering practices, typically, the first digit after the prefix reading and writing practices that enable students to engage with texts and indicates the class level: xx-1xx courses are freshmen-level, xx-2xx courses write about them with complexity and nuance. Within the course, we will are sophomore level, etc. Depending on the department, xx-6xx courses discuss texts and evidence from multiple perspectives. We will examine may be either undergraduate senior-level or graduate-level, and xx-7xx how literary and cultural scholars write about texts (defined broadly), how courses and higher are graduate-level. Consult the Schedule of Classes they make claims, provide reasoning, and use textual support to argue (https://enr-apps.as.cmu.edu/open/SOC/SOCServlet/) each semester for for particular ways of seeing cultural objects. Throughout the semester, course offerings and for any necessary pre-requisites or co-requisites. students will draw upon prior strategies and develop new ones for close reading and for critical analysis in order to produce their own thesis-driven arguments about why texts matter. We will consider and write about the extent to which these reading strategies are relevant for other kinds 76-100 Reading and Writing in an Academic Context of reading and analysis by comparing texts from a variety of different Fall and Spring: 9 units disciplinary contexts. 76-100 is an academic reading and writing course for multilingual students, especially those who are not native speakers of English or who consider Course Website: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/ English to be their weaker language. The course emphasizes reading writing-and-communication/index.html (https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/ comprehension strategies for reading a variety of text types in English (e.g., english/academic-programs/writing-and-communication/) journalism, textbook selections, popular press arguments, and academic journal articles). Throughout the semester, students use these sources to 76-107 Writing about Data write summaries and short position papers. The course introduces students Fall and Spring: 4.5 units to readers' expectations for North American rhetorical style at the sentence, Our lives are increasingly shaped by writing that involves numbers: paragraph, and whole text or genre levels. Within the course we discuss newspapers routinely report the latest medical fads; politicians support explicit genre and linguistic norms for writing in academic English so that their political agendas with both dubious and credible statistics; parents writers can connect with their readers. Students who take this course qualify use data to decide where to buy a house and where to send their kids to through an online placement test that is administered through the university school. This course (one of two minis students can choose to fulfill their FYW prior to the fall semester. (All sections are offered MWF). Each 76-100 requirement) focuses upon interpreting and making arguments using mainly course is structured by the reading and writing objectives of the course numerical data but also qualitative data. We will look at research in a range as well as a vocabulary for writing in English, but some courses present of disciplines including psychology, education, medicine, engineering, and different themes (or content) in their readings. the sciencesand note how writers select and analyze the data they collect. We will also examine what happens to this research when it is picked up Course Website: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/ by the popular media. Students will also practice collecting and analyzing writing-and-communication/index.html (https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/ their own data and reporting it to suit the needs of various stakeholders. english/academic-programs/writing-and-communication/) There are two primary audiences for this section. Students in data-driven majors will find the section useful preparation for communicating in their 76-101 Interpretation and Argument disciplines. Students in other fields will learn how to critique and respond to All Semesters: 9 units the many ways that numbers shape our lives. This section presumes a basic 76-101, Interpretation and Argument, is a foundational, inquiry-driven ability to calculate averages, percentages, and ratios, but no advanced writing course that introduces students to a variety of strategies for making mathematical or statistical preparation. Instead, this section provides a compositional decisions in writing and communication. Within the course, fascinating look at how numbers and words intersect to create persuasive students learn genre-based skills applicable to a variety of different fields. arguments in academic, professional, and popular contexts. Students Students use a comparative genre analysis method to learn how to use will compare and analyze texts that make arguments with data, practice models to take on new writing tasks, including an academic research rhetorical strategies for synthesizing and representing data so that by the proposal and a research article that contributes to an ongoing academic end of the class, students will apply these strategies to write an original conversation. Faculty who teach 76101 typically select textsranging from data-driven research proposal. scholarly texts, journalism, and filmabout an issue so that students can identify interesting questions for their own research projects. Students Course Website: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/ should expect explicit, research-based instruction, practice, and reflection writing-and-communication/index.html (https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/ to build knowledge in controlling their writing processes and writing clear, english/academic-programs/writing-and-communication/) well-supported, reader-oriented arguments. Because the course emphasizes the real stakes of communicating with readers and listeners, students share 76-108 Writing about Public Problems with their peers both low and high stakes written work within an interactive Fall and Spring: 4.5 units and collaborative classroom environment. See full course descriptions at If all problems required a simple fix, we could don our Avenger costumes, this URL: http://www.cmu.edu/hss/english/first_year/index.html pick up Thors hammer, and right the worlds wrongs. But most problems arent so simple. Most of the problems we encounter require careful Course Website: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/ investigation and research so that we might propose solutions that writing-and-communication/index.html (https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/ connect with others to make change. In this 76101 class (one of two minis english/academic-programs/writing-and-communication/) students can choose to fulfill their FYW requirement), we will learn how public problems are defined and argued across a range of texts, including 76-102 Advanced First Year Writing: Special Topics proposals, op-ed genres, and white papers. By analyzing a range of proposal Fall and Spring: 9 units texts, we will identify the different kinds of legwork necessary to write 76-102, Advanced First-Year Writing courses are designed for students a successful proposal, arguably one of the most challenging aspects of who have demonstrated an understanding of academic writing that writing a persuasive recommendation for change. We will examine how most incoming freshmen have not. Because of the students' level of writers unpack problems rhetorically and use evidence to argue solutions preparedness, the First-Year Writing Program provides intensive, advanced for different stakeholders who may not share common values. We will learn courses for students to work closely with senior faculty within the English strategies for evaluating and synthesizing data from existing research to department. Advanced courses assume that students have established use in a proposal argument. By the end of the course, students will write strong reading and synthesizing skills, as well as a demonstrated interest in their own proposal that recommends a solution and a feasible plan for writing and communication, prior to entering Carnegie Mellon. The course solving a real problem. 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. Course Website: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/ Advisors will be notified if their students qualify for the advanced writing writing-and-communication/index.html (https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/ courses. english/academic-programs/writing-and-communication/) Course Website: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/ writing-and-communication/index.html (https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/ english/academic-programs/writing-and-communication/) 2 Department of English Courses 76-206 Intro to Creative Writing 76-219 Law & Blame Intermittent: 9 units Intermittent:

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