ENGL0110

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
An introduction to university-level writing. Students produce and revise multiple drafts of essays, practice essential skills of paragraph organization, and develop techniques of critical analysis and research. Readings from a range of texts in literature, the media, and academic disciplines. Assignments move from personal response papers to formal academic essays. Fall sections 1 and 4 are reserved for first-year students. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 01
CRN11906

L. Stanley

B Hour
MWF 9-9:50am

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY : Re-visioning Writing (reserved for first-year students)
"Re-visioning Writing" encourages a meditative and reflective approach to language. It will familiarize you with the processes of close and intertextual reading, with different modes of analytical thought, and with the practice of translating reading and thinking into writing. We will carefully examine essays that cover a range of issues from ideas about reading and writing to culture and identity; writing assignments, which stress revision, will explore the articulation of your perceptions and thoughts with the rigor and discipline necessary to university studies. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 02
CRN12004

L. Egan

B Hour
MWF 9-9:50am

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
As students in this section think about, produce, and evaluate writing and connect writing to reading and critical thinking, they will be introduced to and employ a few simple concepts: the so what question, pattern-finding and point-making, and sentence focus. In addition, as students choose from a variety of challenging readings for the bases of three formal writing assignments, they will select the writing option from the academic discipline that best suits their interests and academic goals. Furthermore, as they complete informal writings to prepare for the formal ones, students will be supported in their efforts by extensive written instructor feedback and regularly scheduled student conferences. Effort will be made to address individual writing needs in addition to course objectives. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 03
CRN12005

TBA

B Hour
MWF 9-9:50am

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 04
CRN12006

C. Imbriglio

D Hour
MWF 11-11:50am

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY (reserved for first-year students)
This section offers an introductory forum for responsible, engaged critical reading and writing for academic audiences. Its primary thematic focus will be issues of power, knowledge, and authority -- in public spaces and in private -- as seen through such interdisciplinary lenses as literature, philosophy, urban studies, visual studies, science, and psychology. There will be daily as well as long-term writing assignments, with strategies for college-level inquiry (exploration, reflection, analysis, synthesis, revision, and evaluation) strongly emphasized. Our main goal for the semester will be to explore, re-envision and deepen our sense of what it means to be imaginative, critical thinkers, readers, and writers -- dynamic participants in the ongoing intellectual conversations that take place here at Brown. The course is designed to meet the needs of entering students and is therefore limited to incoming first-year students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 05
CRN12007

K. Schapira

J Hour
TTh 1-2:20pm

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
This is a class designed to stretch our powers of thinking, writing, reading and speaking academically. What makes a text, a conversation or a mindset "academic"? Among other things, a particular kind of attention, focus and consideration to language as well as to topics and ideas. Through class discussion, reading, writing and especially revising, we'll become better academic communicators -- better at understanding what others say and write, and better at saying and writing what we mean. We'll read texts by Cornell West, Marjane Satrapi, Virginia Woolf, Azar Nafisi and Stephen Jay Gould, among others, and create a portfolio of essays with varying lengths, styles, and goals. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 06
CRN12008

L. Egan

E Hour
MWF 12-12:50pm

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
See description for Sec. 02, above.

ENGL0110, Sec. 07
CRN12009

TBA

E Hour
MWF 12-12:50pm

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 08
CRN12010

TBA

F Hour
MWF 1-1:50pm

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 09
CRN12011

TBA

F Hour
MWF 1-1:50pm

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 10
CRN12012

TBA

F Hour
MWF 1-1:50pm

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 11
CRN12013

TBA

K Hour
TTh 2:30-3:50pm

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 12
CRN12014

L. Stuhlbarg

H Hour
TTh 9-10:20am

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
The objective of this class is to strengthen your ability to explore, articulate and clarify your ideas through writing. We will read and discuss various types of essays, and you will be encouraged to analyze these texts as well as to develop your own ideas and arguments regarding their content. The class will help you to develop a productive writing process through drafting and revision. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 13
CRN12015

C. DeBoer-Langworthy

I Hour
TTh 10:30-11:50am

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
This section focuses on decoding academic discourse and reproducing it effectively. We will generate, draft and revise three or four academic essays with topics chosen by students from several disciplines. Readings will incorporate a broad range of political and social issues. In addition to class meetings, students attend selected public lectures on campus and do short response writings online to weigh the arguments and analysis used in various intellectual venues. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 14
CRN14749

TBA

K Hour
TTh 2:30-3:50pm

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0130

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II: THE RESEARCH ESSAY
For the confident writer. Offers students who have mastered the fundamentals of the critical essay an opportunity to acquire the skills to write a research essay, including formulation of a research problem, use of primary evidence, and techniques of documentation. Individual section topics are drawn from literature, history, the social sciences, the arts, and the sciences. Writing sample may be required. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0130, Sec. 01
CRN11907

E. Taylor
D Hour
MWF 11-11:50am

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II: THE RESEARCH ESSAY: The Thoughtful Generalist
To prepare for academic and real world discourse, we will study essays by nationally known writers as exempla of deep research turned into engaging intellectual journey. In practice we will generate, research, plan, draft, and revise several essays, moving from close reading to inter-textual analysis to complex grappling with varied sources to explore a subject, issue, or artist. Writing sample may be required. Enrollment limited to 17. S/NC.

ENGL0130, Sec. 02
CRN12016

TBA
E Hour
MWF 12-12:50pm

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II: THE RESEARCH ESSAY
Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0160

JOURNALISTIC WRITING
An introduction to journalistic writing that focuses on techniques of investigation, reporting, and feature writing. Uses readings, visiting journalists, and field experience to address ethical and cultural debates involving the profession of journalism. Writing assignments range from news coverage of current events to investigative feature articles. Prerequisite: ENGL0110 or equivalent. Writing sample required. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. S/NC.

ENGL0160, Sec. 01
CRN11908

T. Breton

AB hour
MW 8:30-9:50am

JOURNALISTIC WRITING: News and Feature Writing and Reporting
Pulitzer Prize-Winning reporter for Providence-Journal teaches news reporting and writing and feature writing. This course is designed to teach students how to report and write hard news and feature stories for newspapers and to hone students' skills as interviewers and observers of daily life. The first half of the semester will focus on hard news writing, everything from police, government and court reporting to news analysis. The second half of the semester will be devoted to feature writing -- profiles and the art of narrative story-telling. There will be a particular emphasis on one genre, the nonfiction short story.
Students will learn how to select a topic, structure and organize material, use description effectively and rid their writing of clutter. Topics covered will include the art of the interview; writing about people and places--the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built; developing a voice and presenting a point of view while avoiding bias. Journalistic ethics will be discussed. Some of the classes will be held off campus where students will be gathering information for written assignments. There will be writing assignments every class and individual critiques. Prerequisite: ENGL0110 or equivalent. Writing sample required. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. S/NC.

ENGL0160, Sec. 02
CRN12017

T. Breton

H hour
TTh 9-10:20am

JOURNALISTIC WRITING: News and Feature Writing and Reporting
(See description for Sec. 01, above.)

ENGL0180

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
Designed to familiarize students with the techniques and narrative structures of creative nonfiction. Reading and writing will focus on personal essays, memoir, science writing, travel writing, and other related subgenres. May serve as preparation for ENGL1180. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Writing sample may be required. S/NC.

ENGL0180, Sec. 01
CRN11909

E. Hardy
B Hour
MWF 9:00-9:50am

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
This workshop will explore the range of narrative possibilities available under the umbrella term "creative nonfiction." We'll be looking at questions of structure and technique in a number of subgenres including: the personal essay, literary journalism, travel writing, science writing and memoir. Student work will be discussed in both workshops and conferences. At the semester's end students will turn in a portfolio with several polished shorter pieces and one longer essay. May serve as preparation for ENGL1180. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Writing sample may be required. S/NC.

ENGL0180, Sec. 02
CRN12018

L. Sarat

L Hour
TTh 6:30-7:50pm

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
This section explores the possibilities afforded by writing creative nonfiction, as opposed to more traditional forms. We will pay close attention to authorial presence in works of "the fourth genre" by raising questions of reliability, personality, and transparency. Exercises in and out of class will develop our range as writers in these categories. Readings will focus on literary journalism, memoir, science writing, personal essays, and cultural criticism. May serve as preparation for ENGL1180. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Writing sample may be required. S/NC.

ENGL0180, Sec. 03
CRN12019

E. Hardy
E Hour
MWF 12-12:50pm

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
See description for Sec. 01, above.

ENGL0180, Sec. 04
CRN12020

K. Schapira
H Hour
TTh 9-10:20am

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
How can nonfiction also be creative? In this course, we'll look at writing that's inventive rather than invented, examining and imitating the tactics writers use and the risks they take to convey what happened, what's happening, and what they hope or fear will happen. Writing and rewriting (reportage, cultural critique, literary response, opinion, memoir) will form a key part of the course, and students will rework a number of pieces for a final portfolio. Authors we'll consider include, but aren't limited to, Antjie Krog, Richard Feynman, M.F.K. Fisher, James Thurber, Naomi Klein, John Lahr. May serve as preparation for EL0118. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Writing sample may be required. S/NC.

ENGL0180, Sec. 05
CRN12021

L. Sarat
K Hour
TTh 2:30-3:50pm

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
See description for Sec. 02, above.

ENGL0180, Sec. 06
CRN15811

C. DeBoer-Langworthy
F Hour
MWF 1-1:50pm

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
This workshop introduces students to the various forms of writing called creative nonfiction. We will analyze and attempt to duplicate the narrative strategies used in several subgenres, including the personal/critical essay, memoir and cultural criticism -- all culminating in a long work at the semester's end. Students will workshop each other's writings and have individual conferences with the instructor. Readings include books and shorter works by Brenda Miller, John McPhee, Anne Fadiman, and Joan Didion, among others. May serve as preparation for EL0118. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Writing sample may be required. S/NC.

ENGL1160

SPECIAL TOPICS IN JOURNALISM
For the advanced writer. Class lists will be reduced after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.

ENGL1160C
CRN15446

E. Taylor

Q Hour
Thu 4-6:20pm

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN JOURNALISM: Radio Nonfiction
Introduction to radio writing and producing. Students find and research stories, interview, draft, edit and fine-tune for radio presentation. Genres include news, profile, feature and personal narratives, editorial and review. Weekly labs focus on recording equipment, digital editing and mixing, and music use. Final project: half-hour radio feature ready for broadcast. For advanced writers only. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 12 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to students who have taken ENGL0160, advanced nonfiction writing courses, English concentrators, or students who have worked at WBSR or WBRU. S/NC.

ENGL1160D
CRN11923

R. Eder

Q Hour
Thu 4-6:20pm

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN JOURNALISM: The Common Critic
Aimed at the cultivated consumer of books, magazines and newspapers--what has traditionally been called the common reader. Students will attend films, plays, art shows, concerts or dance performances, and come back to write weekly reviews. Readings include Orwell, Woolf, Shaw, Kael, Tynan, Clive James, Zbigniew Herbert and others; also current reviews. Writing sample submitted at first class; also a previous sample, if possible, submitted at same time. Class list will be reduced to 12 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. S/NC.

ENGL1180

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION
For the advanced writer. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.

ENGL1180E
CRN15812

C. DeBoer-Langworthy

K Hour
TTh 2:30-3:50pm

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION: Lifewriting
For the advanced writer. Features theoretical and practical study of lifewriting's various forms--memoir, diary, essay, and autobiography--and the crafting of personal narrative. Students read books, view films, and keep an electronic diary and paper notebook. Requirements include a personal critical essay and autobiography. For admission, submit a writing sample to the instructor before the first day of class. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.

ENGL1180K
CRN11926

C. Imbriglio

G Hour
MWF 2-2:50pm

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION: The Art of Literary Nonfiction
For the advanced writer. Based on Roland Barthes' notion of the fragment, this workshop features an incremental, literary approach to writing nonfiction, in both traditional and experimental formats. In response to daily assignments, students will produce numerous short pieces and three extended "essays," to be gathered into a chapbook at the end of the course. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.

ENGL1180L
CRN11927

L. Stanley

F Hour
MWF 1-1:50pm

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION: Travel Writing: In the Domain of the Other
For the advanced writer. Huck Finn's intention "to light out for the Territory" reflects a pervasive desire to be somewhere else. Restless curiosity about the Other effects travel, writing about travel, and reading about travel. Will concentrate on contemporary travel writers (Heat-Moon, Didion, Chatwin, numerous others) and experiment with various types of narrative structures. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.

ENGL1190

SPECIAL TOPICS IN NONFICTION NONFICTION
For the advanced writer. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite for most sections: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.

ENGL1190J
CRN15448

G. Russom

D Hour
MWF 11-11:50am

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION: Narrative Poetics
For the advanced writer. A study of literary language from the writer's perspective that draws on Chomsky's universalist linguistics to refashion structuralist poetics and narratology. Small written experiments with literary word choice and literary sentence structure prepare for a final experiment with narrative structure. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.