2023春季课程描述
英语课程和写作课程
宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校
英语专业要求:
创新的传统
- engl200或201:
- 从中世纪到16世纪:
- Sixteenth Century through Eighteenth Century: 英格兰455年
- 19世纪:
- 从20世纪到现在: 英格兰401年
- 文学、写作或修辞: 英格兰050年, 心血管病 182A, 心血管病 211, 心血管病 215, 英格兰401年, 心血管病 415, 心血管病 420, 英格兰455年, 英格兰474年, 心血管病 497
- 多样性: 英格兰474年
- 高级研讨会: 英格兰487 w
语境中的写作和文学
- engl200或201:
- 1800年之前: 英格兰455年
- 1800后: 英格兰401年
- 文学、写作或修辞: 英格兰050年, 心血管病 182A, 心血管病 211, 心血管病 215, 英格兰401年, 心血管病 415, 心血管病 420, 英格兰455年, 英格兰474年, 心血管病 497
- 多样性: 英格兰474年
- 高级研讨会: 英格兰487 w
辅修写作课程: 英格兰050年. Note that 心血管病 004 and GWS courses do not count toward the Minor.
英语辅修课程: All 心血管病 courses listed here count toward the 英语 Minor. Note that 心血管病 004 and GWS courses do not count toward the Minor.
英格兰050年: Introduction to Creative Writing (GA)
Heise教授
Want to write, but aren’t quite sure how to get started or what to write about? This course is meant to ignite your interests, 磨练你的技能, and introduce you to the foundational elements of poetry, 小说, and creative non小说 so as to set free your imagination. You will learn to craft images, music, lines, and narrative in the poetry we practice. 在小说中, 您将学习如何创建字符, 发展的主题, 调节音调和气氛, 策划冲突, 操纵设置. And you will learn to translate and reconstruct personal experience, 内存, 以及对论证的研究, 场景, 以及创造性非虚构的叙述. 一路走来, our conversations will turn to the writing and revision process, 一开始为什么要写作, 以及那些古老而又无穷无尽的问题, 如, what are the functions and purposes of poetry, 短篇小说, 这篇文章, what is the difference between truth and fact, and what are the ethics of writing about our own lives and the lives of others. 在这个过程中,你是一个作家. And that means you will be writing all the time in an exercise of imagination and perseverance. 英格兰050年 welcomes all students interested in creative writing: no previous creative-writing experience is necessary.
心血管病 182A: Literature in Empire – Embedded Study Course in Ghana
沃尔特斯教授
This spring break study abroad to Ghana will allow students to apply and compare what they’ve learned in class with their in-person experience of Ghanaian culture through workshops, 讲座, 远足. As the first sub-Saharan African country to regain its independence from colonization by the British, Ghana is an important country to study and visit when exploring post-colonial literary traditions.
With Ghana's rich social and cultural traditions, we will immerse ourselves in the complicated questions of gender, 种族, and nationality that arise in the imperial context and see how authors from these former British colonies set about defining personal and national senses of self in the wake of the empire.
在这个由教师主导的项目上, you will see and learn about Ghanaian culture with trips to historical sites 如 the UNESCO Cape Coast Castle and visits to local markets, 首都阿克拉, 夸梅·恩克鲁玛陵墓, 和W.E.B. 杜布瓦泛非文化中心. 这个项目是独一无二的, we will have the opportunity to develop relationships with members of a rural village through a community service learning partnership with a school.
心血管病 211: Introduction to Writing Studies
科恩教授
Have you ever thought about how people learn to write? What makes the process of writing anything--from a grocery list to a novel--more effective? Understanding how writing is produced will help you build a writing process you can rely on whether you’re working on a poem or a lab report. 英语211, we will work together as a class to answer two key questions: how do people write and what does writing do in the world. 换句话说, we will be interrogating 研究 in the field of Writing Studies to better understand the production of texts and the ways that their production is always a social act. 在课程结束时, you will understand the foundations of Writing Studies as a discipline–and you will have examined and improved your own writing process along the way.
心血管病 215: Introduction to Article Writing
科恩教授
Share your perspectives on campus and community issues! 在本课程中, 你会研究, 组成, 编辑, and publish articles for our digital news outlet 《易胜博》.
Students in 心血管病 215 will be expected to conduct primary 研究--conducting interviews and analyzing data, in order to generate ideas for stories of interest to our campus community. Students will pitch their story ideas weekly to an audience of their peers, and decide collectively with 编辑ors which stories will move forward.
在这学期的课程中, each student should 计划 to produce and publish several news articles and feature pieces, improving writing skills in a hands-on process as they work to publish well-研究ed, 有影响力的文章. Subjects for articles range from politics to current events, sports and arts and culture. Feel free to browse past topics at 《易胜博》.
如果你喜欢写作, are interested in learning and writing about current events, 希望看到你的作品出版, engl215 /415是适合你的地方! If you haven’t worked with us before, you should enroll in 心血管病 215. If you’re a veteran of our writing staff who wants to further 磨练你的技能, 你应该注册英语415.
英格兰401年: Studies in Genre / American Crime Fiction
Heise教授
This course is designed to introduce you to American crime 小说 of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. 远非仅仅是逃避现实的文学, crime 小说 offers a complex response to the difficult, 现代性的矛盾经验. It is a literature of profound moral ambiguity. And it is a genre that is as deeply political as it is entertaining and disturbing. The course will map this popular genre from the 1920s to the end of the century and beyond by attending to its diversity, by situating the literature within historical context, and by anatomizing how it represents ideological conflicts over crime, 正义, 不平等, 城市生活. 在我们这学期的学习过程中, we will discuss issues that this literature dramatizes, 如, 异化的表现, 匿名, and the metropolis; the violence of American individualism; the policing of working-class and ethnic culture; and crime 小说’s cultural politics and its challenge to ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultural demarcations. 除了原始文献, the course will engage theoretical and historical texts, which will aid in framing the genre within ongoing debates over its origins, 它的政治, 它的文学地位, 以及它的观众.
心血管病 415: Introduction to Article Writing
科恩教授
Share your perspectives on campus and community issues! 在本课程中, 你会研究, 组成, 编辑, and publish articles for our digital news outlet 《易胜博》.
Students in 心血管病 415 will build on the skills they learned in 心血管病 215 to conduct primary 研究--conducting interviews and analyzing data, in order to generate ideas for stories of interest to our campus community. Students will pitch their story ideas weekly to an audience of their peers, and decide collectively with 编辑ors which stories will move forward.
在这学期的课程中, each student should 计划 to produce and publish several news articles and feature pieces, improving writing skills in a hands-on process as they work to publish well-研究ed, 有影响力的文章. Subjects for articles range from politics to current events, sports and arts and culture. Feel free to browse past topics at 《易胜博》.
如果你喜欢写作, are interested in learning and writing about current events, 希望看到你的作品出版, engl215 /415是适合你的地方! If you haven’t worked with us before, you should enroll in 心血管病 215. If you’re a veteran of our writing staff who wants to further 磨练你的技能, 你应该注册英语415.
engl420:为Web编写
科恩教授
Social media has become central to our collective lives. Digital technologies enable messages 组成d by anyone anywhere in the world to spread further and faster than ever before. 写作一直都是社会性的, but technologies continue to create new avenues for meaning-making and new ways to build credibility, 形状的关系, 并进行论证. 社交媒体项目是如何产生的? 您如何知道哪些消息值得信任? This course will help you think through the social and ethical implications of web-assisted communication as you discuss, 研究, 计划, and carry out digital projects that address issues in your community. 在这学期的课程中, we will investigate how writing on the web affords opportunities to convey ideas and arguments in visual, 听觉, 空间, 还有手势模式, 反过来, how communication in those modes shapes credibility and relationships.
英语455:英国文学主题
Rigilano教授
This course will explore the concept and genre of Utopia in British literature, from the early modern period to the end of 18th century. We tend to think of Utopia as a frictionless paradise, but from its inception the idea of a perfect place was riven by paradox. Utopian literature takes up the contradictions of collective life and foregrounds the political and social process of working through them. Moreover, the idea of Utopia is not static or eternal: every historical moment imagines Utopia anew. The core primary texts in this course will include Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), 丹尼尔·笛福的《易胜博娱乐》(1719), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), 塞缪尔·约翰逊的《易胜博》(1759), and Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred (1772). We will also consider a variety of other historical texts and contemporary theoretical considerations of the genre.
英格兰474年: Special Topics in Rhetoric and Composition (Rhetorics of Health and Ability)
科恩教授
Rhetorics of Health and Ability will provide an introduction to the ways scholars talk about representations of health, 疾病, 和dis /能力, as well as discussion of the work that those representations do in our culture. My aim for the course is that we are all better able to recognize and interpret how stories that center health and ability circulate and shape our awareness and expectations of ourselves and the people around us. 为此目的, we will be reading some scholarly work in the fields of both Rhetoric and Disability Studies as well as reading and viewing representations of 疾病 and disability in popular media.
Class discussion will necessarily include difficult topics, including stigma, 疾病, and mortality. Though some of these discussions are potentially unpleasant, part of the work of the course will be to understand how the stories we encounter shape our thoughts and feelings on these topics.
英格兰487 w: Senior Seminar / American Crime Fiction
Heise教授
This course is designed to introduce you to American crime 小说 of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. 远非仅仅是逃避现实的文学, crime 小说 offers a complex response to the difficult, 现代性的矛盾经验. It is a literature of profound moral ambiguity. And it is a genre that is as deeply political as it is entertaining and disturbing. The course will map this popular genre from the 1920s to the end of the century and beyond by attending to its diversity, by situating the literature within historical context, and by anatomizing how it represents ideological conflicts over crime, 正义, 不平等, 城市生活. 在我们这学期的学习过程中, we will discuss issues that this literature dramatizes, 如, 异化的表现, 匿名, and the metropolis; the violence of American individualism; the policing of working-class and ethnic culture; and crime 小说’s cultural politics and its challenge to ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultural demarcations. 除了原始文献, the course will engage theoretical and historical texts, which will aid in framing the genre within ongoing debates over its origins, 它的政治, 它的文学地位, 以及它的观众. Note that 心血管病 487 will have different writing expectations from 英格兰401年 in keeping with the demands of the senior seminar.
心血管病. 497:专题-旅游写作
吉米·J. 包小.
The best travel writing doesn't tell a reader how “great” a place is. It tells the truth about a place and its people through your own experiences and observations. Travel writing is a non小说 narrative that emphasizes culture, setting, and personal experience. 就像小说一样, 扎实的叙事弧线, 唤起感官的细节, and character development are crucial for a successful travel piece. Our class will explore all forms of travel writing: blogging, 创建社交媒体帖子, 以及论文形式. We’ll discuss the place of a “conflict” in travel writing as well, and students will produce publishable work that we will send out for publication. We’ll start class by reading a sampling of diverse travel writers who have explored the world and our own nation, which will act as a guide to your own creative writing.