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. Enrollment limited to 17. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 01
CRN21012

S. Tilden

B Hour
MWF 9-9:50am

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
This section offers an introduction to academic writing. Readings, discussions, and in-class writing will help students identify the aspects of a dynamic and persuasive argument. Class discussions, draft workshops, and conferences will open a dialogue about writing so that students will develop a personal voice that they can use to insert themselves into academic debates. Readings will range from pop culture artifacts to professional scholarly essays culled from a variety of fields. Weekly writing responses will build towards three larger assignments. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 02
CRN21013

L. Stuhlbarg

C Hour
MWF 10-10:50am

 

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. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 03
CRN21014

J. Readey

D Hour
MWF 11-11:50am

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
This section is designed to help prepare students to write at the university level and for the job world beyond by providing instruction in developing persuasive arguments, organizing texts at the paragraph and sentence levels, controlling a range of prose styles, and conducting critical reading and research. Our classes will feature energetic and interactive discussions, workshops, frequent instructor conferences, and informal and formal written assignments with an emphasis on revision. Our texts will range from academic essays to fiction and popular films, and we will focus on examining and writing about the broad notion of inequality -- in areas like class, gender, and race -- both within the U.S. and internationally. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL0110, Sec. 04
CRN25663

J. Readey

G Hour
MWF 2-2:50pm

 

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING I: THE ACADEMIC ESSAY
See description for section 03, above.

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. S/NC.

ENGL0130, Sec. 01
CRN21015

C. DeBoer-Langworthy
H Hour
TTh 9-10:20am

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II: THE RESEARCH ESSAY: The Science Research Essay
This course explores how science, as an academic way of thinking and a method, is important in the development of critical thinking and expression of culture. Students will write three research essays on scientific topics, three different ways: as a scientific "paper," as an article for the general public, and as a grant proposal. Differing protocols and modes of expression for each form will be explained and explored. Writing sample may be required. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL0130, Sec. 02
CRN21016

L. Egan
J Hour
TTh 1-2:20pm

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II: THE RESEARCH ESSAY: The Science Research Essay
As a practical endeavor, this course will help students incrementally complete a research paper. Students will learn (1) how to narrow a topic and construct an argument around a purpose; (2) how to identify, evaluate, and read scholarly sources; (3) how to structure and sustain extended written discussion; and (4) how to correctly adhere to appropriate models for quotes and documentation. Thematically, this course will center on the family as a common subject, using a cross-curricular sampling of readings that establish some general notions about the family, and in particular, about ideologies of the family. Students will have much latitude in choosing specific topics for research and writing but will be encouraged to explore some facet of the family within the discourse of their concentration and to utilize the wealth of academic resources within other departments. Writing sample may be required. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. 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. S/NC.

ENGL0160, Sec. 01
CRN21017

T. Mooney

AB hour
MW 8:30-9:50am

JOURNALISTIC WRITING
This course teaches students how to report and write hard news and feature stories for newspapers. Students learn to gather and organize material, develop interviewing techniques, and hone their writing skills. Students must meet deadlines; writing drills assigned virtually every class. The first half of the semester focuses on "hard" news: accidents, crime, government, and courts. Second half is devoted to writing features, profiles, and the art of narrative story telling. Writing sample required. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

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. Writing sample may be required. S/NC.

ENGL0180, Sec. 01
CRN21018

M. Stewart
B Hour
MWF 9:00-9:50am

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
In this section we will explore several genres of creative nonfiction, including the lyric essay, historical narrative, science narrative and memoir. We will look closely at several readings culled from modern and contemporary sources and then engage in a series of workshops, writing drills and one-on-one conferences. The focus of the class will be on further developing your unique voice and range as well as augmenting your talents as a critical reader. May serve as preparation for ENGL1180. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL0180, Sec. 02
CRN21019

L. Sarat

E Hour
MWF 12-12:50pm

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. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL0180, Sec. 03
CRN21020

K. Schapira
E Hour
MWF 12-12:50pm

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 considered include, but are not 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. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL0180, Sec. 04
CRN21021

M. Stewart
F Hour
MWF 1-1:50pm

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

ENGL0180, Sec. 05
CRN23629

L. Sarat
G Hour
MWF 2-2:50pm

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

ENGL0180, Sec. 06
CRN23630

L. Egan
H Hour
TTh 9-10:20am

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
This section offers students an opportunity to practice fundamentals of creative nonfiction. Assignments enable students to see themselves as teachers, whose writings not only inform but also provoke their readers to see beyond surface subjects. For material, students will look outside themselves, to the academic and the real world, learn to choose compelling topics, and then research those topics in engaging ways. Students will not follow any particular form (such as the personal narrative or the lyric essay), but will instead learn to match the form to the subject matter, completing two long pieces and two "shorts," borrowing techniques from exposition and journalism but also fiction and poetry. Frequent, small peer workshops. Whole-class "textbook" anthology for final project. May serve as preparation for EL0118. Enrollment limited to 17 undergraduate students. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL0180, Sec. 07
CRN24471

E. Hardy
H Hour
TTh 9-10:20am

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. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL0180, Sec. 08
CRN24776

K. Schapira
C Hour
MWF 10-10:50am

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
See description for Sec. 03, above.

ENGL0180, Sec. 09
CRN25580

E. Hardy
K Hour
TTh 2:30-3:50pm

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION
See description for Sec. 07, above.

ENGL1140

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING III: TOPICS IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
For advanced writers. Situates rhetorical theory and practice in contexts of cutting-edge literary, cultural, and interdisciplinary criticism, public discourse, and public intellectual debate. Individual sections explore one or more of the following subgenres: rhetorical criticism, hybrid personal-critical essays, case studies, legal argument and advocacy, documentary, satire, commentaries, and review essays. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 12 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.

ENGL1140A
CRN20958

L. Stanley
G Hour
MWF 2:00-2:50pm

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING III: TOPICS IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM: The Literary Scholar
For the advanced writer. To write as a literary scholar or critic, we analyze theoretical and cultural frames through which research and ideas are given shape and significance within the discipline. We generate, research and revise four essays, moving from close reading to inter-textual analysis to grappling with varied sources to explore a literary subject, problem, or artist in an engaging intellectual journey. Writing sample required. Class list will be reduced to 12 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL1140B
CRN20959

C. Imbriglio
M Hour
Mon 3-5:20pm

CRITICAL READING AND WRITING III: TOPICS IN LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM: The Public Intellectual
For the advanced writer. This course offers advanced writers an opportunity to practice sophisticated, engaged critical writing in academic, personal, and civic modes. Emphasis will be on writing "public" essays (general audience essays that do intellectual work or academic essays that address public topics), ideally in fluid, "hybrid," audience-appropriate forms. Areas of investigation will include (but are not limited to ) the review essay, the cultural analysis essay, literary documentary, and the extended persuasive/analytic essay. It will include some brief "touchstone" investigations into rhetorical theory, with the aim of helping to broaden our concepts of audience, analyze the constitutive and imaginative effects of language, increase the real-world effectiveness of our own language practices, and situate our writing within current political, cultural, aesthetic and intellectual debates. Recommended for students with sophomore standing or higher. A writing sample will be administered on the first day of class. Class list will be reduced to 12 after writing samples are reviewed. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL1160

SPECIAL TOPICS IN JOURNALISM
For advanced writers. Class lists will be reduced after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Enrollment limited to 12 or 17, depending on section. S/NC.

ENGL1160A
CRN20960

T. Breton

P Hour
T 4-6:20pm

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN JOURNALISM: Advanced Feature Writing
For the advanced writer. Nothing provides people with more pleasure than a "good read." This journalism seminar helps students develop the skills to spin feature stories that newspaper and magazine readers will stay with from beginning to end, both for print and on-line publications. Students will spend substantial time off-campus conducting in-depth interviews and sharpening their investigative reporting skills. The art of narrative storytelling will be emphasized. Prerequisite: ENGL0160 or published clips submitted to the professor before the first week of classes. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL1160B
CRN24957

E. Taylor

Scheduling Arranged

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN JOURNALISM: Editors/Producers
On-site workshop for editors/producers of campus or local journalism that aspires to professional standards. Students must be chosen by peers to edit a campus publication such as the BDH, or to produce a radio show at WBSR or WBRU; or they must have an internship at a local newspaper, radio or TV station. Required: Minimum 20 hours a week editing/producing; participation in skill-building workshops for staff. All issues/shows evaluated. Enrollment limited to 17. Written permission required. 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
CRN24958

C. DeBoer-Langworthy

P Hour
Tues 4-6:20pm

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION: Lifewriting
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. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL1180G
CRN20961

C. Imbriglio

I Hour
TTh 10:30-11:50am

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION: Lyricism and Lucidity
For the advanced writer. This course will explore two subsets of the essay that blur or cross boundary lines -- the "lyric" essay and the hybrid "image/text" essay, including but not limited to the "photographic" essay and the graphic nonfiction essay. With respect to the lyric essay (which draws many of its defining inspirations from poetry rather than from traditional narrative techniques), special emphasis will be given to literary craft and style; with respect to the "image/text" essay, some attention will be given to picture theory, with the goal of mining the creative tensions between image and text. With respect to both, we will investigate -- collapse and play with -- opposing assumptions of "artfulness" and clarity that the course title suggests. 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. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL1180Q
CRN24960

E. Taylor

O Hour
Fri 3-5:20pm

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION: Narrating History
For the advanced writer: the protocols of historical narrative and essay for a general audience. Using the archives of Brown, the Rhode Island Historical Society, and the student's family (if feasible), each writer will research primary and secondary sources, use interviews and oral histories, to help shape three engaging, instructive true stories of the past. Intensive library work, revisions, and peer editing. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.

ENGL1190

SPECIAL TOPICS IN NONFICTION WRITING
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.

ENGL1190L
CRN25664

E. Taylor

K Hour
TTh 2:30-3:50pm

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN NONFICTION WRITING: Creative Nonfiction: Practice and Criticism
For advanced writers. What is Creative Nonfiction? Writers have flocked to it; scholars have questioned it. Does it harm the truth? Is it narrative with too much "I" and too little "Eye"? What makes it significant? To help us explore persistent questions about form, point of view, method, and ethics, readings will include historical examples, recent practitioners, editors, and critics. Intensive reading responses, research, drafting, and revision. Two critical essays; one piece of creative nonfiction. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.