Literary Studies
EN 299 Special Topics: The Literature of Illness and Healing
Rinaldi, J. (Mon. 5.10-7.35)
This course explores the emotional and spiritual implications of illness in the lives of wounded storytellers and dedicated healers. Readings in fiction, poetry and memoir show what it is like to live with AIDS, endure a stroke, suffer depression, contend with cancer, or live as a cripple. Authors include Tolstoy, W.C. Williams, Price, O'Connor, Gilman, Plath, Monette, Selzer, Grealy, Haddon and Bauby. Two medical films and short theoretical readings also help us think about how illness changes the way we think about ourselves, our lives, and our spirituality.
EN 314A British Romanticism
Moores, D. (Thurs. 9.30-12.15)
This course explores the reciprocal, intertextual exchange among three closely related writers—Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron, second-generation Romantics whose scandalous lives led them to flee England and live on the Continent as outcast expatriates.
Composition Studies
EN 375 Advanced Composition
Magee, R. (Mon. 12.30-1.45)
This course, taught partly online and partly in the classroom, explores writing strategies beyond the introductory level. Stresses refining style, finding a voice, determining an audience and discovering the rhetorical strategies appropriate for particular genres. This course is a workshop; students write and revise in class. Prerequisite: EN 110
EN380 Rhetoric and Composition Pedagogy
Young, S. (Thurs. 3.30-6.15)
This seminar is designed for students who want to teach in a secondary education environment. The course will demonstrate how research, scholarship, and theory can inform the teaching of writing. In the course we will survey the range of theories and approaches in the study and teaching of writing, including expressive, cognitive, social, and cultural.
By the end of the course student should have the following skills:
1) the ability to conduct composition research in preparing to write secondary education writing assignments;
2) the ability to produce scholarship in composition theory and practice;
3) the ability to write writing assignments appropriate to a variety of courses and educational levels.