English 215-009
Introduction to English Studies
Instr: Clark, Dave
Office: CRT 582; 229-4870
e-mail: dclark@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: T; 5:30-8:10pm; CRT 321
Course Description
English 215 is designed to introduce you to reading, writing, and discussing texts with a variety of purposes and from a variety of cultures and sources. To those ends, we will be reading, writing, and discussing a /wide/ variety of texts, some of which fall into the categories we traditionally have seen as "literary," and some of which do not. Specifically, we will be looking at texts about "work" and "class." One could argue that most things are, because work and class are slippery terms, and after we read about and discuss literary theory (and where the particular theory of this course fits in the grand scheme), we'll tackle the terminology before we get to the primary texts. Our range of texts and assignments will be broad: We'll discuss films, novels, nonfiction, poetry, theory, comics, handbooks, and advertisements, among others, and we'll write rhetorical analyses, research reports, literary analyses, and (if you like) creative projects. I got some great ones last year.
