Introduction to Expository Writing
AS.060.100 (01)

Introduction to “Expos” is designed to introduce less experienced writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to recognize “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” as they learn to read and summarize academic essays, and then they apply the fundamental structure in academic essays of their own. Classes are small, no more than 10 students, and are organized around three major writing assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Intro” course teaches students to avoid plagiarism and document sources correctly. “Intro” courses do not specialize in a particular topic or theme and are available to freshmen only.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Koullas, Sandy Gillian
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Personal Identity and Survival
AS.060.113 (05)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Brophy, Kathryn E
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Politics and Violence
AS.060.113 (06)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Oppel, George
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Expository Writing
AS.060.100 (06)

Introduction to “Expos” is designed to introduce less experienced writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to recognize “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” as they learn to read and summarize academic essays, and then they apply the fundamental structure in academic essays of their own. Classes are small, no more than 10 students, and are organized around three major writing assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Intro” course teaches students to avoid plagiarism and document sources correctly. “Intro” courses do not specialize in a particular topic or theme and are available to freshmen only.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Koullas, Sandy Gillian
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Alter Egos in Film
AS.060.113 (01)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Oliver, Xavier A
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Expository Writing
AS.060.100 (05)

Introduction to “Expos” is designed to introduce less experienced writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to recognize “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” as they learn to read and summarize academic essays, and then they apply the fundamental structure in academic essays of their own. Classes are small, no more than 10 students, and are organized around three major writing assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Intro” course teaches students to avoid plagiarism and document sources correctly. “Intro” courses do not specialize in a particular topic or theme and are available to freshmen only.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: O'Connor, Marie T
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Who Owns the Past?
AS.060.113 (03)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Essam, Richard James Llewellyn
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Expository Writing
AS.060.100 (02)

Introduction to “Expos” is designed to introduce less experienced writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to recognize “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” as they learn to read and summarize academic essays, and then they apply the fundamental structure in academic essays of their own. Classes are small, no more than 10 students, and are organized around three major writing assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Intro” course teaches students to avoid plagiarism and document sources correctly. “Intro” courses do not specialize in a particular topic or theme and are available to freshmen only.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Brodsky, Anne-Elizabeth Murdy
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Vaccines, Science, and Values
AS.060.113 (04)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Wilbanks, Rebecca
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Middle Ages
AS.060.113 (12)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Daniels, Nathan Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

American Literature to 1865
AS.060.219 (02)

A survey course of American literature from contact to the Civil War.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Hickman, Jared W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/20
• PosTag(s): ENGL-LEC, ENGL-PR1800

Expository Writing: Vaccines, Science, and Values
AS.060.113 (07)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Wilbanks, Rebecca
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Superheroes & Identity in Popular Culture
AS.060.113 (16)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Makonnen, Atesede Retta
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Getting Married
AS.060.113 (18)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Dubay, Noelle Victoria
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: What is Mental Illness?
AS.060.113 (23)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Andonovski, Nikola
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Detective Fiction
AS.060.232 (03)

This lecture will trace the the history of English-language detective fiction through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Why does the figure of the detective appear when it does? How does it change over time, and what can we learn from that? We will pay special attention to the way clues and suspense operate, the role of the reader in figuring out the mystery, and the complicated relationship of the detective with official authority. Authors will likely include some selection of Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammet, and Raymond Chandler.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Rosenthal, Jesse Karl
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Humanities Collaboratory
AS.300.145 (02)

The Humanities Collaboratory is designed for new researchers from across the humanities as they gain the applied skills and experience to conduct their own independent research projects in the humanities. The Humanities Collaboratory model uses a high-tech classroom to allow students and instructors to work, learn, and research together. Three sections of this course will share a core list of materials focused on humanities research techniques, but your primary course materials will be individually selected. Students will have the unique opportunity to participate in a humanities lab section where all three course sections merge for discussion. You will choose your own topic to research with no limits of time period, subject, or genre, and through constant collaborative and independent research, each student will develop the expertise in that topic to both write a research paper and create a final oral presentation.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, Th 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Streim, Alexander Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/13
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: 'The Dark Side’ of Progress
AS.060.113 (20)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Ross, Sarah Catherine
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The Tragic Tradition
AS.300.337 (01)

This course offers a broad survey of tragic drama in the Western tradition, from its origins in ancient Greece to the twentieth century. In weekly lectures and discussion sections, we will study the specific literary features and historical contexts of a range of different works, and trace the continuities and transformations that shape them into a unified tradition. Key questions and themes throughout the semester will include what counts as tragic, the tragedy of social and political conflict, the bearing of tragedy on the meaning and value of life, the antagonistic relation between world and humans, the promises and dangers of tragedy for contemporary culture. Authors to be studied: Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, Shakespeare, Racine, Goethe, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov, Brecht, Pirandello, and Beckett.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Contemporary American Short Stories
AS.060.113 (17)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Berger, Donald W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Politics and Violence
AS.060.113 (09)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Oppel, George
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Getting Married
AS.060.113 (14)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Dubay, Noelle Victoria
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Private Eyes and Police Detectives
AS.060.113 (11)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Franchi, Sophia A
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

The Contemporary Novel
AS.060.384 (01)

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, writers of narrative fiction have been working furiously to keep up with the turbulence that global capitalism has visited on the world — war, political chaos, environmental catastrophe, massive forced migration and displacement — while trying to maintain ties to the techniques of narrative that gave the 19th century reality novel its successes and its prestige. In this course we will read a range of texts, mostly in translation, that stretch and deform those conventions in order to represent the lives and struggles of characters who are caught up in immense historical change. More and more often, novelists are choosing to depict characters drawn from what Marx would have called “surplus populations” — people for whom economic stability and personal safety are out of reach, partly because they are seen as not worth employing (or exploiting). Under these conditions, we will ask, is it only possible to tell tragic stories? What do happy endings look like? What do changes do character development and point of view have to undergo, for instance, to keep up with 21st-century history? Is realism still the best vehicle for telling these stories? Readings will include novels by Sally Rooney, Eduard Louis, Fernanda Melchor, Elena Ferrante, Marlon James, and Manoranjan Byapari, as well as secondary material by Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, Jill Richards, and the Endnotes collective.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Nealon, Christopher
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Structural Injustice
AS.060.113 (15)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Masin-Peters, Jonathan
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Emotion(s)
AS.060.113 (21)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Asuni, Michele
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Horror and the Household
AS.060.113 (25)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Giardini, Joseph Aurelio
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: No Justice No Peace?
AS.060.113 (22)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Kirmizidag, Nur
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

James Joyce's Ulysses
AS.060.337 (01)

A careful semester-long reading of James Joyce’s masterpeice Ulysses, one of the greatest and most intimidating novels in world literature.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Rosenthal, Jesse Karl
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

Existentialism in Literature and Philosophy
AS.213.374 (01)

This course explores the themes of existentialism, including the meaning of existence, the nature of the self, authenticity and inauthenticity, the inescapability of death, the experience of time, anxiety, freedom and responsibility to others, in literary and philosophical works. It will be examined why these philosophical ideas often seem to demand literary expression, or bear a close relation to literary works. Readings may include writings by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Rilke, Kafka, Simmel, Jaspers, Buber, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL

Expository Writing: Technology and the Future of Work
AS.060.113 (13)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Begg, Aaron Jared
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Nature, Culture, and Climate Change
AS.060.113 (10)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Doherty, Nathanael Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

American Literature to 1865
AS.060.219 (01)

A survey course of American literature from contact to the Civil War.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Hickman, Jared W
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/20
• PosTag(s): ENGL-LEC, ENGL-PR1800

Introduction to Expository Writing
AS.060.100 (03)

Introduction to “Expos” is designed to introduce less experienced writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to recognize “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” as they learn to read and summarize academic essays, and then they apply the fundamental structure in academic essays of their own. Classes are small, no more than 10 students, and are organized around three major writing assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Intro” course teaches students to avoid plagiarism and document sources correctly. “Intro” courses do not specialize in a particular topic or theme and are available to freshmen only.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Brodsky, Anne-Elizabeth Murdy
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): n/a

Emily Dickinson
AS.060.389 (01)

Dickinson’s poetry, more than most, has seemed to prompt creativity in others. In the past two decades, especially, poets, writers, critics, and filmmakers have found their own voices in response to hers. We will focus on the formal, aesthetic, historical and gendered aspects of her poetry as we try to understand, and benefit from, this power to elicit response. Exams are unlikely. Instead, expect close attention to your own writing, as we pay close attention to hers.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Miller, Andrew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

Detective Fiction
AS.060.232 (02)

This lecture will trace the the history of English-language detective fiction through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Why does the figure of the detective appear when it does? How does it change over time, and what can we learn from that? We will pay special attention to the way clues and suspense operate, the role of the reader in figuring out the mystery, and the complicated relationship of the detective with official authority. Authors will likely include some selection of Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammet, and Raymond Chandler.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Rosenthal, Jesse Karl
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Forms of Moral Community: The Contemporary World Novel
AS.300.336 (01)

Literary and philosophical imaginations of moral community in the post-WWII period (1950-2001). Texts include: Coetzee, Disgrace; McEwan, Atonement; Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World; Roy, The God of Small Things; Lessing, The Grass is Singing; Mistry, A Fine Balance; Morrison, Beloved; and essays by Levi, Strawson, Adorno, Murdoch, and Beauvoir on the deep uncertainty over moral community after the crisis of World War II. Close attention to novelistic style and narrative will inform our study of the philosophical questions that animate these works. What does it means to acknowledge another person’s humanity? Who are the members of a moral community? Why do we hold one another responsible for our actions? How do fundamental moral emotions such as contempt, humiliation, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, and regret reveal the limits of a moral community?

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:30PM
• Instructor: Ong, Yi-Ping
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 16/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Training\Writing\Consulting
AS.060.307 (01)

A one credit course for those undergrads who have been nominated as Writing Center tutors. Permission required.

• Credits: 1.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 5:00PM - 6:50PM
• Instructor: Tinkle, Robert E
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: Technology and the Future of Work
AS.060.113 (19)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Begg, Aaron Jared
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

"Things of Darkness": Shakespeare and the Legacy of Early Modern Racialization
AS.060.372 (01)

How and why do Shakespeare's works channel racism and supremacist ideologies? How and why is it that they have also been used for inspiration and aspiration by people of color and thinkers on the political left? This course uses performance history from the Elizabethan moment to the present to explore how early modern topics such as anti-Semitism, bodily monstrosity, blood lineage, colonialism, and religious concession have allowed Shakespeare's plays to function as vehicles for thinking about race across time. Case studies include anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice at a time when it was illegal for Jews to be in England; the eighteenth­and nineteenth-century blackface traditions of Othello and the careers of Edmund Kean and Ira Aldridge; Duke Ellington's exploration into Shakespeare in his 1957 jazz album Such Sweet Thunder; and Julie Taymor's 1994 Titus Andronicus, which was optioned and championed by Steve Bannon, former executive chairman of Breitbart News. Each unit of the course features an early modem play, readings about the performance tradition of that play, and an article or book chapter on that play.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Best, Royce Lee
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

Representing the Holocaust
AS.211.333 (01)

How has the Holocaust been represented in literature and film? Are there special challenges posed by genocide to the traditions of visual and literary representation? Where does the Holocaust fit in to the array of concerns that the visual arts and literature express? And where do art and literature fit in to the commemoration of communal tragedy and the working through of individual trauma entailed by thinking about and representing the Holocaust? These questions will guide our consideration of a range of texts — nonfiction, novels, poetry — in Yiddish, German, English, French and other languages (including works by Primo Levi and Isaac Bashevis Singer), as well as films from French documentaries to Hollywood blockbusters (including films by Alain Resnais, Claude Lanzmann, and Steven Spielberg). All readings in English.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Spinner, Samuel Jacob
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, GRLL-ENGL

Mapping the Global Metropolis
AS.060.316 (01)

Cities have long taken on a central role in literature, but much of our reading about urban space is confined to a few Western hubs. And while the city has traditionally been a space for fictional characters to develop into national subjects, much of the most innovative contemporary writing sees the city as a character of its own. This course will address the representational challenges of globalization through fiction and genre-bending memoir about contemporary metropolises that act as its microcosm: Johannesburg, Lagos, Delhi, London, and New York. We will read primary works by Ivan Vladislavic, Chris Abani, Aravind Adiga, Zadie Smith, and Teju Cole, as well as supplementary excerpts from books including Capital, by Rana Dasgupta, Mike Davis’ Planet of Slums, Ato Quayson’s Oxford Street, Accra, and Loren Kruger’s Imagining the Edgy City. Finally, the course will include theoretical readings about globality and representation, such as Fredric Jameson’s essay on “Cognitive Mapping” and Arjun Appadurai’s seminal book Modernity at Large.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Jackson, Jeanne-Marie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

Detective Fiction
AS.060.232 (01)

This lecture will trace the the history of English-language detective fiction through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Why does the figure of the detective appear when it does? How does it change over time, and what can we learn from that? We will pay special attention to the way clues and suspense operate, the role of the reader in figuring out the mystery, and the complicated relationship of the detective with official authority. Authors will likely include some selection of Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammet, and Raymond Chandler.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Rosenthal, Jesse Karl
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: The Politics of Pop
AS.060.113 (24)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Huttner, Tobias Reed
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Milton
AS.060.341 (01)

This class will study Milton’s poetry and prose across the whole of his writing career, with special attention to Paradise Lost, the great epic poem retelling the story of the fall of humankind. We will consider Milton’s literary background, his contemporary political and social milieu, as well as critical debates that surrounding the poet, who was accused of being ‘of the devil’s party.’ Pre-1800 course.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Achinstein, Sharon
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/18
• PosTag(s): ENGL-PR1800

Humanities Collaboratory
AS.300.145 (03)

The Humanities Collaboratory is designed for new researchers from across the humanities as they gain the applied skills and experience to conduct their own independent research projects in the humanities. The Humanities Collaboratory model uses a high-tech classroom to allow students and instructors to work, learn, and research together. Three sections of this course will share a core list of materials focused on humanities research techniques, but your primary course materials will be individually selected. Students will have the unique opportunity to participate in a humanities lab section where all three course sections merge for discussion. You will choose your own topic to research with no limits of time period, subject, or genre, and through constant collaborative and independent research, each student will develop the expertise in that topic to both write a research paper and create a final oral presentation.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, Th 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Robinson, Samanda Jonell
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/13
• PosTag(s): n/a

Shakespeare and Ibsen
AS.300.323 (01)

William Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen are the two most frequently performed playwrights in history, and both have been credited with reinventing drama: Shakespeare for the Elizabethan stage and Ibsen for the modern. In this course we will pair together plays by each author – those that stand in an explicit relation of influence as well as those that share a significant set of concerns – in order to investigate how each takes up and transform key problems in the literary, political, and philosophical tradition for their own historical moment. Plays to be studied: by Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, The Tempest, A Winter’s Tale; by Ibsen, St. John’s Night, Hedda Gabler, Rosmersholm, The Wild Duck, The Master Builder, When We Dead Awaken.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lisi, Leonardo
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Religious Themes in Film and Literature
AS.211.480 (01)

This course would be of interest to anyone who would like to learn about the intersection of religion and modern culture. At the center of the course will stand a close study of the representation of religious themes and their role in modern literature and cinema. The works which we will deal with are not considered religious and yet they include religious themes as part of their narrative, images, language or symbolic meaning. We will trace in various works from various countries and genre, themes such as: divine justice, providence, creation, revelation, the apocalypse, prophecy, sacrifice and religious devotion. We will also study the ways in which Biblical and New Testament stories and figures are represented in these works. The course will have a comparative nature with the aim of learning more about the differences between the literary and cinematic representations.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Stahl, Neta
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Expository Writing: The Politics of Pop
AS.060.113 (08)

“Expos” is designed to introduce more confident student writers to the elements of academic argument. Students learn to apply “The Fundamental Structure of Academic Argument” in academic essays of their own. Classes are capped at 15 students and organized around three major essay assignments. Each course guides students’ practice through pre-writing, drafting, and revising, and includes discussions, workshops, and tutorials with the instructor. In addition to its central focus on the elements of academic argument, each “Expos” course teaches students to document sources correctly and provides its own topic or theme to engage students’ writing and thinking. Please see the following list of individual course descriptions to decide which sections of “Expos” will most interest you. “Expos” courses are available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and to seniors by special permission.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Huttner, Tobias Reed
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Literature of the Everyday
AS.300.429 (01)

The ordinary, the common, the everyday: why does literary realism consider the experiences of the average individual to be worthy of serious contemplation? In this course, we will read closely a set of novels by Flaubert, Mann, Dickens, Zola, Tolstoy, and Woolf from the period in which the development of realism reaches it climax. These novels transform the conventions for the representation of lives of lower and middle class subjects, revealing such lives as capable of prompting reflection upon deep and serious questions of human existence.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Ong, Yi-Ping
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): n/a