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WRLIT-3200: Ways of Reading

Course Description

Required of students in Writing and Literature. Ways of Reading focuses on a particular canonical author or text(s), utilizing various critical perspectives and secondary sources to support a deeper understanding of the work. The course further develops and reinforces practical skills in close reading, historical contextualization, applied critical theory, and the use of discipline-specific research tools and resources, encouraging conscious reflection on critical presuppositions and practices. This course prepares students to enter the Critical Essay Workshop.

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Academic Level:

Undergraduate

Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:

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Spring 2025

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-3200-1: Ways of Reading: Arundhati Roy
Anne Shea
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 A

Fall 2024

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-3200-1: Ways of Reading: Sylvia Plath
Dodie Bellamy
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, 80 Carolina - P4

Fall 2023

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-3200-1: Emily Dickinson: Citizen of Paradise
Gloria Frym
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Hooper GC - GC5

Spring 2022

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-3200-1: W: Poetry in Translation
Denise Newman
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 140

Spring 2021

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-3200-1: W: Poetry in Translation
Denise Newman
  • Wed 5:00-06:25PM, Online - HS-4
WRLIT-3200-2: Reading Zora Neale Hurston
Steve Dickison
  • Wed 8:00-09:25AM, Online - HS-3

Fall 2020

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-3200-3: Reading Sylvia Plath
Dodie Bellamy
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Online - HS-1
WRLIT-3200-4: Reading Octavia Butler
Hugh Behm-Steinberg
  • Fri 12:00-03:00PM, Online - HS-2

Spring 2020

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-3200-7: L: Modern International Novel
Gloria Frym
  • Wed 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - Ralls - 203
WRLIT-3200-8: W: Poetry in Translation
Denise Newman
  • Wed 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E5

Fall 2019

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-3200-3: L: Reading Sylvia Plath
Tonya Foster
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 102 A
WRLIT-3200-4: L: Reading Octavia Butler
Hugh Behm-Steinberg
  • Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B2

Spring 2019

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-320-01: L: Reading Elena Ferrante
Anne Shea
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, B Building - B3
WRLIT-320-02: TBA
  • Fri 8:00-11:00AM, B Building - B1

Fall 2018