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October 2nd, 2009
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Students majoring in English will take one pre-1800 course as a requirement for the major. Students in pre-1800 courses investigate discursive/literary traditions to become aware of the variety and complexity of these traditions. The English department recognizes the continued significance of texts produced before 1800. Pre-1800 courses investigate discursive/literary traditions and explore the variety [...]
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I’m thinking about my book order for 200 for the Fall. I’ve had past success with anthologies, and I’ve also gone with individual volumes, too. I continue to think that essays about poetry, fiction, and drama (if not also nonfiction) remain a useful way of structuring the course in terms of a [...]
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For ten years I’ve been teaching an assignment sequence on reading and interpretation for English majors in our introductory course now called English 200. Since we conceived English 200 as the first course in an introductory sequence to the major I have been working on one of the early assignments and I paste the relevant [...]
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I have included the following recommendations on my syllabus for English 200 and 300. I’m hoping that providing these references will guide students away from less reliable sources. If you have other electronic resources/links that would be useful for our majors, let me know and I will include them on the syllabi for the [...]
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What does my English 200 course look like now that it is the first course in a two-course introductory sequence to the major? After a few semesters of not using Text Book I have returned to requiring this book. This decision is part a result of organizing my sections of English 200 around a [...]
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English 200 focuses on developing confidence and critical awareness through intensive reading, lively discussion, and challenging writing. The first course in a two course introductory sequence to the English major, English 200 emphasizes imaginative writing as a primary form of thinking and takes seriously these forms of thinking though writing. Through intensive and ongoing written [...]
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