ENGL 4026-001: Special Topics in Genre, Media and Advanced Writing, Writing for the Real World (Spring 2019)

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:32:06 +0000

ENGL 4026-001: Special Topics in Genre, Media and Advanced Writing, Writing for the Real World (Spring 2019) Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/03/2018 - 15:32

Professor Ed Rivers

What do employers want? If you Google that question, you will find that they want, almost above all else, and in every field, people who can communicate effectively in both speaking and writing. This course teaches how to do it in the real world––the world after graduation. It does so by developing other real-world skills such as teamwork, organizational ability, and critical thinking.

Students practice all kinds of writing––description, narrative, analysis, argument––with an eye toward making it concise, lively, and interesting. In workshop discussions, they react to and make suggestions about each other’s writing, thereby learning how to help without offending. The overall goal is to develop a strong personal style, one that catches attention, holds attention, and persuades.

The skills developed in the course can be applied to any kind of writing, including creative writing, which we will also practice if the class is interested. Where we focus will depend largely on what the class wants to learn, and that will be determined during the first week or so. The teaching is personalized, tailored to the needs, desires, and interests of each student.

Probable requirements (subject to change): regular exercises in writing and speaking, five short projects, and a longer, final project.

For further information contact the instructor: ed.rivers@colorado.edu.

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ENGL 4026-001: Special Topics in Genre, Media and Advanced Writing, Black Romanticism

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:29:28 +0000

ENGL 4026-001: Special Topics in Genre, Media and Advanced Writing, Black Romanticism Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/16/2018 - 13:29

Professor Paul Youngquist

How black is Romanticism? This question will be the central concern of our course, which will investigate the roots of British and American culture in the routes of trans-Atlantic economic trade of the late eighteenth century. We will contest the implied racial and national purity of British culture by examining its production at the hands of racial and ethnic others. If the economic vitality of late eighteenth-century England derives from the traffic in black slaves and the labor of black sailors, something similar can be said of its cultural production. From this perspective, Romanticism turns multi-ethnic, a motley chorus inconceivable without the contribution of formerly mute minority voices. This course will sully the purity of British culture by testing local and national practices against global exchanges and mobilities. The result: a new understanding of Romanticism as a mixed cultural heritage. We will end the course by examining the persistence of that heritage in the poetry of C.S. Giscombe and Kamau Brathwaite. Theoretical/historical readings will include Gilroy, Linebaugh and Rediker, Baucom, C.L.R. James, and Brathwaite; literary readings will include Equiano, Cugoano, Stedman, Rushton, Blake, Hugo, Earle, Austen, Wedderburn, and other
black British writers.

Requirements: presentation, paper.

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