Dr. Bankert 3 credits

Spring 2010 MWF 11:15-12:05  Keezell 307
Professor Dabney Bankert
bankerda@jmu.edu

Course Description:
English 299 is a gateway course to the English major.  It is a rigorous introduction to disciplinary research and writing and to the skills and methods requisite to those activities. More generally, it is designed to help students understand what it is that the major offers and what we expect students to do in and with it.  This semester we will address three basic questions:  (1)  how the texts we read are created, transmitted, and received; (2) how we respond to, understand, and write about those texts; and (3) why we do what we do with texts and what value these activities provide and what functions they serve both inside and outside of the academy.  The skills you learn will be applied on your own in other classes or in a variety of future careers since they translate very effectively into the work world.

Texts: will include guides to research, citation, and literary term, a novel, and a selection of poetry, and short stories. We will spend approximately five weeks on each text or selection of texts, re-reading them, reading criticism from multiple perspectives, and researching historical and cultural context.

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