CW R4A - Reading and Composition
CW R4A - Reading and Composition
Description: This writing seminar satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition Requirement. It is designed to offer students structured, sustained, and highly articulated practice in the recursive processes entailed in reading, critical analysis, and composing. Students will read five thematically related book-length texts, or the equivalent, drawn from a range of genres, in addition to non-print sources. In response to these materials, they will craft several short pieces leading up to three longer essays—works of exposition and/or argumentation. Students will write a minimum of 32 pages of expository prose during this semester.
Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the University of California Entry Level Writing Requirement (formerly known as the Subject A requirement)
Units and Format: 4 units - Three hours of seminar/discussion per week
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Section 1
Meeting time: MWF 11-12 p.m.
Meeting place: 130 Wheeler
Course theme: Thinking Critically about Education
Course description: What does it mean to be educated? What are the purposes of education? What impact does education have on how we see ourselves and how we see the world? We will consider these and other enduring questions about what education means to us and for our society. (The fact that these questions do not lend themselves to any single or definitive answer does not make them less worthy of our consideration; in fact, it is precisely this fact that makes them interesting subjects for meaningful critical analysis.)
Book list: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, second edition (Frederick Douglass), A Hunger for Memory (Richard Rodriquez), Pocho (Jose Antonio Villarreal)
Instructor: Donnett FlashSection 3
Meeting time: TuTh 3:30-5 p.m.
Meeting place: 224 Wheeler
Course theme: Thinking Critically about Education
Course description: What does it mean to be educated? What are the purposes of education? What impact does education have on how we see ourselves and how we see the world? We will consider these and other enduring questions about what education means to us and for our society. (The fact that these questions do not lend themselves to any single or definitive answer does not make them less worthy of our consideration; in fact, it is precisely this fact that makes them interesting subjects for meaningful critical analysis.)
Book list: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, second edition (Frederick Douglass), A Hunger for Memory (Richard Rodriquez), Pocho (Jose Antonio Villarreal)
Section 4
Meeting time: MWF 10-11 a.m.
Meeting place: 130 Wheeler
Course theme: Intersections of Language
Course description: In CW R4A we will examine how language use—-from dialect to metaphor--intersects with issues of identity, including race and class, in the media, politics, and individuals’ lives. We will discuss and analyze both spoken and written language, fiction and non-fiction.
Book list: The Color Bind: California’s Campaign to End Affirmative Action (Lydia Chávez), Native Speaker (Chang-rae Lee), English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States (Rosina Lippi-Green), The Everyday Writer 4th edition comb-bound with MLA updates (Andrea Lunsford), Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse (Otto Santa Ana), They Say / I Say (Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst)
Instructor: Michelle Baptiste
