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.
In subject:
Academic Level:
Undergraduate
Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:
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Sections:
Spring 2025
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-3200-1: Ways of Reading: Arundhati Roy
Anne Shea |
San Francisco |
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Fall 2024
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-3200-1: Ways of Reading: Sylvia Plath
Dodie Bellamy |
San Francisco |
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Fall 2023
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-3200-1: Emily Dickinson: Citizen of Paradise
Gloria Frym |
San Francisco |
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Spring 2022
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-3200-1: W: Poetry in Translation
Denise Newman |
San Francisco |
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Fall 2021
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-3200-1: Writing and Activism
Aimee Phan |
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WRLIT-3200-2: When We Can't Be Who We Are: The Lit + Film of Passing
Faith Adiele |
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WRLIT-3200-3: Reading Sylvia Plath
Dodie Bellamy |
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WRLIT-3200-4: The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Reading Octavia E. Butler
Hugh Behm-Steinberg |
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Spring 2021
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-3200-1: W: Poetry in Translation
Denise Newman |
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WRLIT-3200-2: Reading Zora Neale Hurston
Steve Dickison |
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Fall 2020
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-3200-3: Reading Sylvia Plath
Dodie Bellamy |
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WRLIT-3200-4: Reading Octavia Butler
Hugh Behm-Steinberg |
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Spring 2020
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-3200-7: L: Modern International Novel
Gloria Frym |
Oakland |
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WRLIT-3200-8: W: Poetry in Translation
Denise Newman |
San Francisco |
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Fall 2019
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-3200-3: L: Reading Sylvia Plath
Tonya Foster |
San Francisco |
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WRLIT-3200-4: L: Reading Octavia Butler
Hugh Behm-Steinberg |
Oakland |
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Spring 2019
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-320-01: L: Reading Elena Ferrante
Anne Shea |
Oakland |
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WRLIT-320-02: TBA
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Oakland |
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Fall 2018
Section Name | SF/Oak | Meeting Info | Instructor(s) |
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WRLIT-320-01: L: Reading Octavia Butler
Hugh Behm-Steinberg |
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WRLIT-320-02: Reading Walt Whitman
Gloria Frym |
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