English 102: Composition and Literature
Dr. Williams
USC Upstate
Office: 213 HPAC
Phone: 503-5285
Email: gwilliams@uscupstate.edu
IM (AOL/ MSN): ghwchats
http://www.georgehwilliams.net/102
This class meets from 1:00-1:50 on Tuesdays and Thursdays in LBCL 259.
I hold office hours on Mondays & Wednesdays from 2:00-3:00, Thursdays from 11:00-1:00, and by appointment. Come talk!
Course Description
From the Course Catalog: The writing of expository essays, critical essays, and research-based literary analysis with an introduction to literature. Prerequisite: English 101.
From Dr. Williams: We'll explore several questions this semester with regard to poverty and what to do about it. Those who live in poverty find their lives complicated in many ways, including their access to health care, to education, to housing, and to legal representation. How might this access be simplified?
We will also explore literature. What is the relationship between the imaginative world of literature in which almost anything is possible and the material world in which we live, where things often fall short of our hopes and dreams? What are our obligations-ethical, practical, or civic-to those less fortunate than us? What steps can we take to make the world better according to our own sense of how that might happen? What role should the students, faculty, and staff at USC Upstate take in community service?
You will have several responsibilities this semester with regard to these questions. YouÕll think, talk, and write in your journal in response to assigned readings. YouÕll draft, workshop, and revise four essays. And you will make one of two choices about a final project. One option is to choose a local community service organization with whom to volunteer your time, following up your service with a reflective, autobiographical essay that incorporates relevant research and makes a proposal to fellow students about such service. Or you will conduct extensive research about a local community service organization and write a paper that proposes how future sections of English 101 and/or English 102 involve themselves with that organization.
We will read and analyze (individually and as a class) such genres as memoir, fiction, poetry, drama, and film. YouÕll have the opportunity to read (and report on) creative work outside of whatÕs assigned.
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