New
Course, Fall 2002
ENG 202:
Introduction to English Studies
Dr. Rita
Malenczyk
TR 11:00-12:15
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What does linguistics have to
do with writing poetry?
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How is Stephen King different
from Virginia Woolf?
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What’s a literacy narrative?
(What’s yours?)
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Why do English majors need to
pay attention to politics?
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And what is “English,” anyway?
This is a new course designed
to help new and prospective English majors pull together everything that
they’ll be studying for the next three years. We will explore the
ways in which the different areas of English studies—literature, composition
and rhetoric, creative writing, and linguistics—fit together. Students
who take this course will understand in a meaningful and exciting way what
it means to do things with texts. They will read authors ranging
from Shakespeare to Thoreau to King; they will examine magazines and diaries;
they will complete several projects—some narrative, some analytical—that
invite them to make connections between their own experiences and the objects
of their future study. This will be an extremely interesting, enlightening
course!!!!
(This course will count as
an elective toward the English major; we recommend it for newly declared
English majors as well as for students who think they might want to be
English majors but want to find out what it’s all about before they decide.)