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Fall 2008 Section Descriptions

Lower-Division Courses

College Writing 1

CW 1
Section: 1
CCN: 16403
Meeting time: M 10-12 a.m.
Meeting place: 201 Giannini Hall
Instructor: Melinda Erickson
Email address: erickson@berkeley.edu
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CW 1
Section: 2
CCN: 16406
Meeting time: W 2-4 p.m.
Meeting place: 203 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Margi Wald
Email address: mwald@berkeley.edu
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College Writing R1A

CW R1A
Section: 2
CCN: 16415
Meeting time: MWF 8-10 a.m.
Meeting place: 225 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Caroline Cole
Email address: cmcole@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Gender: Beneath the Surface
Course description: We often divide gender into two neat categories—male and female—and ignore many questions. Is gender constant or fluid? Is it biologically determined, socially constructed, or both? If gender is at least partially constructed, who or what constructs the categories? What are the advantages and disadvantages of being perceived as male or female? And, what happens when people blur the boundaries? This section of College Writing R1A focuses on the ways gender plays out in various areas, such as biology, language, advertising, novels and more. By reading texts from a range of disciplines and perspectives, students will examine and critique the way gender impacts our understanding of ourselves, others, and our world. While the readings will inform discussions on the course's theme, students will use these readings primarily as a means to engage in authentic critical literacy practices; the resulting examinations and critiques provide subject matter for students to learn and practice various rhetorical strategies, such extended summaries, traditional argumentation, compare/contrast arguments, problem/solution arguments, visual analysis, and literary analysis.

Book list: Herland: A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel (Charlotte Perkins Gilman), Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think & Feel (Jean Kilbourne), Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism and Achieve Real Academic Success (Charles Lipson), Course Reader

CW R1A
Section: 3
CCN: 16418
Meeting time: MWF 8-10 a.m.
Meeting place: 211 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Staff
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R1A
Section: 4
CCN: 16421
Meeting time: MWF 8-10 a.m.
Meeting place: 186 Barrows Hall
Instructor: Staff
Email address:
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R1A
Section: 5
CCN: 16424
Meeting time: MWF 10-12 p.m.
Meeting place: 211 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Pat Steenland
Email address: steenpat@berkeley.edu
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CW R1A
Section: 6
CCN: 16427
Meeting time: MWF 10-12 p.m.
Meeting place: 225 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Michael Larkin
Email address: larkinm@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Politics and Prose
Course description: We’ll explore American politics—personal, generational, presidential. What are your generation’s political concerns? What are your political concerns? How might we make some sense of the presidential campaigns and media portrayals of same without merely being cynical? Does it make sense to vote at all? Whose voices are and aren’t being heard? What makes for
a compelling argument or rhetorical analysis of same? Enough with the questions, yes? Let’s get some answers. Through extensive critical reading and writing, this course will ask you to take a hard look at those questions and to think about how you might begin to answer them. Our lofty goal will be to make us all better writers and better informed citizens.

Book list: TBA. Films (likely): Street Fight, Primary Colors

CW R1A
Section: 7
CCN: 16430
Meeting time: MWF 10-12 p.m.
Meeting place: 125 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Jon Lang
Email address: see the CalNet directory for email
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CW R1A
Section: 8
CCN: 16433
Meeting time: MWF 10-12 p.m.
Meeting place: 186 Barrows Hall
Instructor: John Levine
Email address: jblevine@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Making Connections
Course description: How we view and understand the world is often a matter of how we connect two or more people, objects, or ideas. Some connections are obvious, but others require some thought. In this course we will read disparate texts on a variety of subjects and look for the connections between them. We’ll talk about those connections and then make our own connections through writing. We’ll also consider the many ways in which we connect with the world around us.

Book list: The St. Martin's Handbook 6th edition (Andrea Lunsford), Ways of Reading 8th edition (David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky), BFE (Julia Cho), The Battle over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA (Gordy Slack). Films: Freedomland, Night on Earth

CW R1A
Section: 9 (for non-native speakers)
CCN: 16436
Meeting time: MWF 3-6 p.m.
Meeting place: 225 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Staff
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CW R1A
Section: 10
CCN: 16439
Meeting time: MWF 12-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 225 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Staff
Email address: see the CalNet directory for email
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CW R1A
Section: 11
CCN: 16442
Meeting time: MWF 12-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 186 Barrows Hall
Instructor: Staff
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R1A
Section: 12 (for non-native speakers)
CCN: 16445
Meeting time: MWF 12-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 211 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Margi Wald
Email address: mwald@berkeley.edu
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CW R1A
Section: 14
CCN: 16451
Meeting time: MW 3-6 p.m.
Meeting place: 122 Latimer Hall
Instructor: Staff
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R1A
Section: 15
CCN: 16454
Meeting time: MWF 2-4 p.m.
Meeting place: 221 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Staff
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R1A
Section: 17
CCN: 16460
Meeting time: TuTh 9-12 p.m.
Meeting place: L11 Unit 2 Towle Hall
Instructor: John Levine
Email address: jblevine@berkeley.edu
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CW R1A
Section: 18
CCN: 16463
Meeting time: TuTh 9-12 p.m.
Meeting place: L20 Unit 1 Central
Instructor: Jane Hammons
Email address: jhammons@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Are You Game?
Course description: If so, get ready to read and write about games, sports, and play. You will read a variety of texts—fiction, nonfiction, academic research articles, and works of art—and think critically about the issues raised by them as you participate in class discussion, write and revise your essays.

Book list: The Queen’s Gambit (Walter Tevis), A Book of Surrealist Games (ed. Mel Gooding), Writing Superheroes (Anne Haas Dyson), Keys for Writers, 5th edition (Ann Raimes), Course Reader

CW R1A
Section: 19
CCN: 16466
Meeting time: MW 9-12 p.m.
Meeting place: L11 Unit 2 Towle Hall
Instructor: Kaya Oakes
Email address: kaya_o@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Transformation
Course description: Heraclitus wrote that "change is the only constant", and for most of us, change eventually evolves into transformation. In this section of College Writing, we'll examine the ways in which individuals, cultures, and countries experience transformation. Through readings, films, and writings, we'll experience different perspectives on the positives and negatives of change. We'll also follow the presidential election this fall to see a real time example of a country transforming itself.

Book list: (tentative list! check back later in the summer) American Born Chinese (Gene Yang), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), The Tortilla Curtain (T.C. Boyle), The Everyday Writer (Andrea Lunsford), Course Reader, newspapers, websites, etc. Films: Saved!, Paradise Now

CW R1A
Section: 20
CCN: 16469
Meeting time: MW 9-12 p.m.
Meeting place: L15 Unit 3 Din
Instructor: Staff
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R1A
Section: 21
CCN: 16472
Meeting time: TuTh 2-5 p.m.
Meeting place: L11 Unit 2 Towle Hall
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R1A
Section: 22
CCN: 16475
Meeting time: TuTh 2-5 p.m.
Meeting place: 211 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Carolyn Hill
Email address: chill4@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Wanna Play?
Course description: Tons of reading, tons of writing, and plenty of play.

Book list: The Queen’s Gambit (Walter Tevis), A Book of Surrealist Games (ed. Mel Gooding), Easy Writer: A Pocket Guide (Andrea Lunsford), Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace (Joseph Williams), Course Reader (online), and one TBA

CW R1A
Section: 23
CCN: 16478
Meeting time: MW 2-5 p.m.
Meeting place: 106 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Stephanie Bobo
Email address: sbobo@berkeley.edu
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CW R1A
Section: 25
CCN: 16484
Meeting time: TuTh 3-6 p.m.
Meeting place: 225 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Staff
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R1A
Section: 29
CCN: 16493
Meeting time: MW 3-6 p.m.
Meeting place: 186 Barrows Hall
Instructor: Staff
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CW R1A
Section: 30
CCN: 16496
Meeting time: MW 3-6 p.m.
Meeting place: 211 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Staff
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CW R1A
Section: 34
CCN: 16505
Meeting time: MWF 12-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 223 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Staff
Email address:
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R1A
Section: 35
CCN: 16508
Meeting time: MWF 2-4 p.m.
Meeting place: 223 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Pat Steenland
Email address: steenpat@berkeley.edu
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CW R1A
Section: 36
CCN: 16511
Meeting time: MWF 2-4 p.m.
Meeting place: 289 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Michael Larkin
Email address: larkinm@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Politics and Prose
Course description: We’ll explore American politics—personal, generational, presidential. What are your generation’s political concerns? What are your political concerns? How might we make some sense of the presidential campaigns and media portrayals of same without merely being cynical? Does it make sense to vote at all? Whose voices are and aren’t being heard? What makes for
a compelling argument or rhetorical analysis of same? Enough with the questions, yes? Let’s get some answers. Through extensive critical reading and writing, this course will ask you to take a hard look at those questions and to think about how you might begin to answer them. Our lofty goal will be to make us all better writers and better informed citizens.

Book list: TBA. Films (likely): Street Fight, Primary Colors

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Fall Freshmen Program
College Writing R1A

FFP CW R1A
Section: 1
Meeting time: TBA
Meeting place: TBA
Instructor: TBA
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College Writing R4A

CW R4A
Section: 1
CCN: 16526
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Instructor: Staff
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College Writing R4B

CW R4B
Section: 1
CCN: 16532
Meeting time: TuTh 2-3:30 p.m.
Meeting place: 106 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Stephanie Bobo
Email address: sbobo@berkeley.edu
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CW R4B
Section: 2
CCN: 16535
Meeting time: MWF 11-12 p.m.
Meeting place: 203 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Staff
Email address:
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R4B
Section: 4
CCN: 16541
Meeting time: MWF 2-3 p.m.
Meeting place: 225 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Jon Lang
Email address: see the CalNet directory for email
Course theme: Monsters and Modernity
Course description: Monsters used to represent fear of the unknown: unmapped regions in the medieval period were marked by dragons; imperialists in the 19th century bringing the “light” of civilization into the dark continent of Africa feared cannibals. In the modern period, monstrosity is associated not so much with the unknown as it is with knowledge/science/technology/rationality whose function is to achieve human mastery, in the name of progress, over our selves, over nature, and even over time and history; and simultaneously monstrosity characterizes those—who embodying the conflicts produced in the modern period—are ambiguously situated between humanity and nature or humanity and machine. Modern monsters include mad scientists, bestial men and women, re-animated corpses, and cyborgs. In addition to two short analytical papers (5-8 pp) based on course readings or viewings, students will propose one research project culminating in a long essay (8-10 pp) in order to confront monsters of their own choice.

Booklist: "The Rat Man" (Sigmund Freud), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson), Dracula (Bram Stoker), Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace (Joseph Williams), Course Reader. Films (tentative): The Fly (David Cronenberg), Alien or Bladerunner (Ridley Scott)

CW R4B
Section: 5
CCN: 16544
Meeting time: TuTh 9:30-11 a.m.
Meeting place: 225 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Gail Offen-Brown
Email address: gob@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Public History, Personal Story
Course description: This course will examine how artists and writers, working in a range of genres, explore and represent intersections between the personal and the public, between story and history.  We will work with excerpts of photographic essays from the Depression era (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Walker Evans and James Agee and An American Exodus by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor); a graphic novel representing the Holocaust and its legacy (Maus by Art Spiegelman); a nonfiction study of multicultural America (A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki); and another text TBA.  In writing a series of essays in response to these texts, students will develop their ability to critically read and analyze visual images as well as words. A central focus of the course will be investigating the research process, and coursework will culminate in a research portfolio.

Booklist: Ways of Reading Words and Images (David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky), Maus, Books I and II (Art Spiegelman), A Different Mirror (Ronald Takaki), The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, and Joseph Williams), additional text TBA, Course Reader

CW R4B
Section: 6
CCN: 16547
Meeting time: TuTh 12:30-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 203 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Gail Offen-Brown
Email address: gob@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Public History, Personal Story
Course description: This course will examine how artists and writers, working in a range of genres, explore and represent intersections between the personal and the public, between story and history.  We will work with excerpts of photographic essays from the Depression era (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Walker Evans and James Agee and An American Exodus by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor); a graphic novel representing the Holocaust and its legacy (Maus by Art Spiegelman); a nonfiction study of multicultural America (A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki); and another text TBA.  In writing a series of essays in response to these texts, students will develop their ability to critically read and analyze visual images as well as words. A central focus of the course will be investigating the research process, and coursework will culminate in a research portfolio.

Booklist: Ways of Reading Words and Images (David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky), Maus, Books I and II (Art Spiegelman), A Different Mirror (Ronald Takaki), The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, and Joseph Williams), additional text TBA, Course Reader

CW R4B
Section: 7
CCN: 16550
Meeting time: TuTh 2-3:30 p.m.
Meeting place: 50 Barrows Hall
Instructor: Yuet-Sim Chiang
Email address: chiang@berkeley.edu
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College Writing 10A: Introduction to Public Speaking

CW 10A
Section: 1
CCN: 16553
Meeting time: TuTh 9:30-11 a.m
Meeting place: 103 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Carolyn Hill
Email address: chill4@berkeley.edu
Course description: How do you feel about speaking in public?  Are you petrified by fear?  Do you love the attention?  Do you wish people would listen to what you have to say? Maybe you want your audience to cry, to laugh, or to spring into action.  Maybe you want to sell a product, convey an idea, or get a job.  Maybe you just want to toast your best friend's wedding.  Sometime, somewhere, you're going to be standing in front of a bunch of strangers who are all waiting for you to open your mouth and dazzle them. This class will help you shine.

Booklist: The Art of Public Speaking (Stephen E. Lucas)

CW 10A
Section: 3
CCN: 16558
Meeting time: MWF 1-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 203 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: John Levine
Email address: jblevine@berkeley.edu
Course description: If you think delivering a speech is a mystifying process, something only politicians, performers, and prophets can do, this course will take the mystery out of public speaking for you. We will study speeches and learn about strategies for addressing small and large groups. Whether it’s reporting on the events leading up to World War II or persuading an audience to support stem cell research or making a toast at your cousin’s wedding, public speaking is an important skill that you’ll find useful inside and outside the college classroom. Like anything else, speaking takes practice; you will gain plenty of experience reading, writing and performing speeches in a safe, supportive environment.

Booklist: The Art of Public Speaking (Stephen Lucas), Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Anna Deavere Smith)

Upper-Division and Graduate Courses

College Writing 110

CW 110
Section: 1
CCN: 16565
Meeting time: TuTh 2-3:30 p.m.
Meeting place: 279 Dwinelle Hall
Instructor: Jane Hammons
Email address: jhammons@berkeley.edu
Course description: This writing workshop will offer you an opportunity to write essays and other nonfiction prose that speak both personally and politically to the issues and audiences you wish to address. The readings will focus on the rhetorical strategies of writers who have used the essay as a cultural form to challenge the norms of the time and place in which they live(d). As a writer, you will do a lot of exploratory writing before you get to your final draft. The drafting process will require both in-class and out-of-class writing. Using Writing With Power, you will learn how to elicit the feedback you want from the readers of your drafts. As you learn more about your writing process, you will also become a more critical reader of your own work.

Booklist: The Situation and the Story (Vivian Gornick), The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (Kerrane and Yagoda, eds.), The Art of the Personal Essay (Phillip Lopate, ed.), Writing With Power (Peter Elbow), Course Reader

College Writing 151: Introduction to Principles of Professional Communication

CW 151
Section: 1
CCN: 16567
Meeting time: MWF 11-12 a.m.
Meeting place: 101 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Caroline Cole
Email address: cmcole@berkeley.edu
Course description: This course introduces students to key principles and rhetorical strategies of writing texts in non-academic settings. Although informed by rhetorical theory, this course encourages students to examine and practice a range of techniques to create appropriate and effective texts. By concentrating on audiences, purposes, forms, and formats of professional correspondence, students will write and design a variety of documents which emphasize content, organization, tone, and readability. The course may address issues of oral communication; however, the primary focus will be on learning and conscientiously applying techniques to generate written documents in business contexts.

For more information, please visit the course website, <http://writing.berkeley.edu/courses/Cole/cw151/> .

College Writing 300: Introduction to Theories and Practices of Teaching College Composition

CW 300
Section: 1
CCN: 16574
Meeting time: M 4-6 p.m.
Meeting place: 221 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Gail Offen-Brown
Email address: gob@berkeley.edu
Course description: This seminar introduces students to current composition theory and practice, and encourages students to test and critique those theories and practices against their own experiences as students, writers, and teachers. We will consider issues such as teaching philosophies, course design, instructional methods, and assessment. Students in this interactive class will read articles, listen to guest speakers, exchange ideas and materials, and reflect on the role of writing in the university. This course is open to all GSIs. It meets the campus policy requiring GSIs who teach a Reading and Composition course to complete a semester-long, graduate-level pedagogy course.

Book list: Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (John C. Bean), Course Reader

CW 300
Section: 2
CCN: 16577
Meeting time: Th 4-6 p.m.
Meeting place: 206 Wheeler Hall
Instructor: Melinda Erickson
Email address: erickson@berkeley.edu
Course description: This seminar provides an opportunity to explore the role of writing in the university. We consider current theories and practices in composition studies, drawing on your experience as a student, writer, and teacher. We explore such issues as syllabus and assignment design, instructional methods, and assessment. This seminar is open to all graduate students. It fulfills the provision of the Graduate Council policy requiring all GSIs to complete a pedagogy seminar and also satisfies the specific requirement for those GSIs who teach Reading and Composition courses.

Book list: Engaging Ideas (John C. Bean), Teaching Guide (UCB Teaching Resource Center), Course Reader