Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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24 | Spring 2005 | Joy Viveros |
T Th 12:30-2 | 305 Wheeler |
"Dangarembga, T. Nervous Conditions
DeLillo, D. White Noise
Erdrich, L. Tracks
Pynchon, T. The Crying of Lot 49
Speigelman, A. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II: Here My Troubles Began
Troyka, Lynn Q. Quick Access Reference for Writers
Recommended:
Cambridge International Dictionary of English
Williams, Joseph M. Style Toward Clarity and Grace "
"This course is designed to prepare you to compose college level essays that are superior in form and content. Our focus will be on acquiring strategies that enable you to develop your intuitions about what you read into viable, complex theses. We will work, among other things, on recognizing the difference between an opinion about a text and analysis of it, as well as on generating the kinds of questions that lead to analytic theses. We will also work to make sophisticated use of research in our writing.
Our readings center on storytelling and the problem of history. We will be examining the different narrative strategies postcolonial and postmodernist authors use to approach telling life stories and situating lives within the matrix of history. In addition, we will pursue the questions you bring to bear on our texts. "