"Thinking means questioning the nature and the content of approved knowledge."
    -Stanley Aronowitz, The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning

Course Offerings

Fall 2008 Courses:

English 098: Fund. of Writing (10587)  Begins 23 Sept.
      M/W 12:30 - 2:10. 

Texts: Bird By Bird (Lamott);
          Local Wonders (Kooser);
          Fire: Essays... (Carver)


English 110: College Writing 1(Sect 10609) M/W 11-12:20
English 110: College Writing 1 (Sect 10629) T/R 11-12:20

Workshop-oriented course focusing on the writing process.  Extensive use of writing workshops. 

Texts:
     Bird By Bird
, Anne Lamott
     On Writing Well
, William Zinsser
     Best American Essays  2005
. Ed., Susan Orlean

English 214: Literary Interpretation (sect 10678)
     T/R 9am - 10:50am.  Discussion-oriented course
     introducing students to literary theory. 

We will read critical editions (Bedford/St Martin's) of
      Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and
     Mary Shelley's Frankenstein;
     and essays on literary theory in Falling
     into Theory.
 

*These editions of The Turn of the Screw and Frankenstein are required.


English 216: Detective Fiction Wednesday evening)
(See front page for desccription)