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English 120:

College Composition & Reading: “The Ethics of Telling the Truth”

Catalog Description

Elements and principles of composition. Practice in writing expository and argumentative themes. Research paper. Reading to stimulate logical thinking and effective writing.

Fall 2011 Required Texts

Catfish. Dir. Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost. Universal, 2011. DVD. (Shown in class)

Holzer, Jenny. “Truisms.” Blasted Allegories. New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1991. (Handout)

Le Guin, Ursula K. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” The Wind’s Twelve Corners: Short Stories. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004. (Handout)

Livingstone, David Smith. “In Praise of Self-deception.”Entelechy: Mind and Culture. Spring/summer 2006, no. 7. Web. 1 June 2011. (Handout)

Mississippi Burning. Dir. Alan Parker. Perf. Gene Hackman, WillemDafoe, and Francis McDormand. Orion Pictures, 1989. DVD. (Shown in class)

Raimes, Anne. Keys for Writers. 6th ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin  Company, 2006.

This Film is Not Yet Rated. Dir. Kirby Dick. IFC Uncut, 2007. DVD. (Shown in class)

Yuknavitch, Lidia. The Chronology of Water: A Memoir. Portland:Hawthorne Books, 2010.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. “A Perversion of the Past.” Movies as Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. (Handout)

Copies of essays for Peer Workshops

Computer and access to a printer (Available on campus).

A current dictionary! (I like The American Heritage, 4th edition.)

An open mind.

Additional Reading

The Rumpus Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch 

On the “controversial” cover: “About a Boob or The Hermeneutics of a Woman’s Body” by Lidia Yuknavitch

Syllabus & Calendar

Syllabus: MW at 12:30 / MW at 2:00

Rest of Semester Calendar: 120-rest of sem.fall.11 and Updated Evaluation Fall 2011

 

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