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Undergraduate Courses, Fall 2024 (Lower-Division)

Class meeting locations are subject to change. Consult the following page for an explanation of the class period abbreviations.

Fall 2024

Lower-Division (1000-2000) Courses

Note: Course numbers listed in the table are linked to course descriptions below.

Course # Section Class # Time(s) Room Course title Instructor
AML 2070 0211 10241 M W F 5 TUR B310 Survey of American Literature TBA
AML 2070 03A5 10242 M W F 7 MAT 0010 Survey of American Literature TBA
AML 2410 1629 10288 M W  F7 MAT 0118 Issues in American Literature and Culture: American Modernism Haldar
AML 2410 3698 10289 T 4 / R 4-5 MAT 0118 Issues in American Literature and Culture: Drugs and the War on Drugs Mitchell
CRW 1101 0218 11831 T 9-11 MAT 0010 Beginning Fiction Writing TBA
CRW 1101 1648 11832 T 9-11 MAT 0007 Beginning Fiction Writing TBA
CRW 1101 1649 11833 M 9-11 NORM 1001 Beginning Fiction Writing TBA
CRW 1301 1651 11851 W 9-11 FLI 0121 Beginning Poetry Writing TBA
CRW 1301 1653 11852 R 9-11 MAT 0003 Beginning Poetry Writing TBA
CRW 2100 1656 11853 M 9-11 MAT 0007 Fiction Writing TBA
CRW 2100 2333 11854 T 9-11 MAT 0006 Fiction Writing TBA
CRW 2100 2500 11855 M 9-11 FLI 0115 Fiction Writing TBA
CRW 2300 37B8 11867 W 9-11 MAT 0108 Poetry Writing TBA
ENC 1136 045A 17647 M W F 4 ARCH 0120 Multimodal Writing and Digital Literacy TBA
ENC 1136 8WS1 28516 T 7 / R 7-8 WEIL 0408E Multimodal Writing and Digital Literacy TBA
ENC 1136 9006 22154 M W F 6 ARCH 0120 Multimodal Writing and Digital Literacy TBA
ENC 1145 3309 12443 M W F 5 MAT 0009 Writing about Indigenous Peoples Chakma
ENC 1145 3312 12444 M W F 3 TUR B310 Writing about Atlantic Crossings Niknam
ENC 2210 12A0 12446 ASYNCH UF ONLINE Technical Writing TBA
ENC 2210 4B48 12447 ASYNCH ONLINE Technical Writing TBA
ENC 2210 4B50 12459 ASYNCH ONLINE Technical Writing TBA
ENC 2210 5072 18468 ASYNCH ONLINE Technical Writing TBA
ENC 2210 9150 18633 ASYNCH ONLINE Technical Writing TBA
ENG 1131 1363 12308 M W F 5 / M 9-11 ARCH 0120 Writing Through Media: Anime and Manga Morris
ENG 2300 1807 12326 M W F 5 / M 9-11 TUR 2322 / TUR 2334 Film Analysis TBA
ENG 2300 1809 12327 M W F 6 / M E1-E3 TUR 2322 / TUR 2334 Film Analysis TBA
ENG 2300 4C45 12328 T 4 / R 4-5 / M 9-11 TUR 2322 Film Analysis TBA
ENG 2300 8641 12196 T 5-6 / R 6 / M E1-E3 TUR 2322 Film Analysis TBA
ENL 2012 1827 12263 T 5-6 / R 6 MAT 0005 / MAT 0010 Survey of English Literature, Medieval to 1750 TBA
ENL 2022 1830 12264 M W F 7 MAT 0011 Survey of English Literature, 1750 to Present TBA
LIT 2000 19CC 14553 M W F 5 MAT 0007 Introduction to Literature TBA
LIT 2000 1A24 14554 M W F 3 MAT 0118 Introduction to Literature TBA
LIT 2000 1A28 14555 M W F 7 MAT 0012 Introduction to Literature TBA
LIT 2000 1A31 14556 M W F 4 MAT 0118 Introduction to Literature TBA
LIT 2000 1A35 14564 T 2-3 / R 3 MAT 0118 / TUR B310 Introduction to Literature TBA
LIT 2000 1A42 14565 M W F 8 MAT 0118 Introduction to Literature TBA
LIT 2000 8IL7 28599 M W F 3 MAT 0113 Introduction to Literature TBA
LIT 2120 4C93 14566 T 5-6 / R 6 TUR B310 / MAT 0009 World Literature, Ancient to Renaissance TBA
LIT 2120 03A6 14567 M W F 5 MAT 0002 World Literature, 17th-Century to Modern TBA

Course Descriptions

AML 2410

Issues in American Literature and Culture
Debakanya Haldar

In this course, we will examine American literature and culture in the first half of the twentieth century, when two world wars and rapid industrialization made their mark on literature, visual art, film, music, and architecture. We will read works by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, H.D., Marianne Moore, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. We will also analyze the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Aaron Douglas, and Stuart Davis.

Course assignments will include position papers, Perusall annotations, short reflections, presentations, and a final creative project. Students will learn how to critically engage with multimodal texts and develop sound argumentative skills in their writing.

AML 2410

Issues in American Literature and Culture: Drugs and the War on Drugs
Claudia Mitchell

This course will examine how rhetoric surrounding addiction and drug use has changed over time, reflecting and shaping American culture along the way. It will juxtapose addicts’ and drug users’ representations of their own experiences with public authorities’ anti-drug messaging. It will prompt students to engage with the physical and personal realities of addiction, and the enduring public responses of mass incarceration, stigma, and shame.

Texts may include: Augusten Burrough’s Dry, Brian Broome’s Punch Me Up to the Gods, Jesse Thistle’s From the Ashes, and other media including 19th century temperance short stories, the 1936 film Reefer Madness, public service announcements from the 1980s, and infamous advertising campaigns such as “Just Say No” and “This is Your Brain on Drugs.” Through these, the course will contemplate the various impacts of popular drug rhetoric on culture, legislation, and even rates of addiction. It will take special care to interpret the ways that race, class, and minority status intersect with addicts’ treatment.

Students may be assigned a creative midterm assignment imitating the rhetorical style of an anti-drug campaign; unannounced in-class close reading assignments; a short research paper and accompanying presentation on a single drug’s history; and a final research paper comparing two course texts.

ENC 1145

Writing about Indigenous Peoples
Dinalo Chakma

This course will examine how Indigenous peoples worldwide have been represented in literature, films, social media, and other expressions of mainstream culture. Such representations have often reflected colonial prejudices, as well as ideas of nationalist, cultural, and racial supremacy. Their rhetoric has often tied Indigenous bodies and identities to notions of barbarism, primitivism, and other forms of threat. The course will also explore how these representations have been critically and creatively challenged by Indigenous peoples and their allies. We will cover a wide range of texts from diverse geographical, national, and temporal contexts.

In addition to writing traditional academic writing assignments, students will create multimodal projects (social media content, digital storytelling, etc.) that speak to questions of Indigenous agency and sovereignty.

ENC 1145

Writing about Atlantic Crossings
Armin Niknam

This course examines fictional and non-fictional stories of people who, throughout history, have crossed the Atlantic Ocean: some voluntarily, some involuntarily; some to find new homes, some to return to what they considered “home.” These many crossings have shaped the world we inhabit today.

Assignments may include:

  • brief response papers
  • Perusall annotations
  • “close reading” analyses
  • reflection essays
  • final research project (including prospectus)

Texts may include:

  • Oroonoko, Aphra Ben
  • The History of Mary Prince
  • Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
  • Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
  • The Hangman’s Game, Karen King-Aribisala

ENG 1131

Writing Through Media: Anime and Manga
Taylor A. Morris

This course surveys Japanese new media, focusing on anime, manga, and light novels. It will connect these artforms to various academic paradigms and examine their role in global cultural discourses and media environments. It requires no previous experience with anime and no knowledge of Japanese (though these are welcome).

Topics of emphasis will include psychoanalysis, adaptation studies, contemporary capitalism, problematics of translation and localization, and the recent obsession with the isekai subgenre. Authors and texts will include the directors of Studio Ghibli, Makoto Shinkai, Naoko Yamada, and Tsukasa Fushimi, as well as the ongoing sensation Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, March Comes in Like a Lion, Oregairu, and Mushoku Tensei. A further throughline will be intertextual analysis with what is perhaps these media’s most seminal title: Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Assignments may include two major (1500-2000 word) essays, a short (500 word) written proposal/abstract for a research paper, and a diary in which students record their responses to the texts we watch and read.