MONSTROUS IMAGINATIONS
No matter what major you choose to pursue, a part of your success will
depend on your ability to write effectively, persuasively, and in a matter
that is appropriate to your given audience. The goal of this course will
be to demystify what it means to "write at a college level" by giving you
a critical perspective into your own writing. [click here for more]

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Spring Course Journal

       THE PRACTICE OF READING LITERATURE
Anyone who wishes to study literature in an academic setting must
begin by encountering two major questions: How do literature and
language create "meaning" and how do we, as scholars, interpret it?
As it turns out, these questions are actually quite complex. In this course,
our goal will be to investigate concrete strategies for "making meaning"
of literature through a variety of critical frames. [click here for more]

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       INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN STUDIES
In our final quarter of TS English, our goal will be to use literature to
construct a cultural history of U.S. national consciousness. Utilizing
some of our newfound critical reading practices, and taking up literary
texts alongside other culturally-embedded materials, we will ask how
the sphere of culture has contributed to the construction of national
identity. [click here for more]