CWP - Spring 2010 Section Descriptions

CW 1
Section: 1
CCN: 16403
Meeting time: M 2-4 p.m.
Meeting place: 206 Wheeler
Instructor: Teri Crisp
Email address: tcrisp@berkeley.edu
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CW 1
Section: 2
CCN: 16406
Meeting time: W 2-4 p.m.
Meeting place: 206 Wheeler
Instructor: Teri Crisp
Email address: tcrisp@berkeley.edu
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College Writing R1A

CW R1A
Section: 1
CCN: 16409
Meeting time: MWF 8-10 a.m.
Meeting place: 125 Dwinelle
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.

Booklist: 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: 2
CCN: 16412
Meeting time: MWF 8-10 a.m.
Meeting place: 175 Dwinelle
Instructor: Donnett Flash
Email address: dflash@berkeley.edu
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CW R1A
Section: 3
CCN: 16415
Meeting time: MWF 8-10 a.m.
Meeting place: 224 Wheeler
Instructor: Staff
Email address:
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CW R1A
Section: 5
CCN: 16421
Meeting time: MWF 10-12 p.m.
Meeting place: 223 Wheeler
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.

CW R1A
Section: 6
CCN: 16424
Meeting time: MWF 10-12 p.m.
Meeting place: 224 Wheeler
Instructor: Gail Offen-Brown
Email address: gob@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Food for Thought
Course description: From Marcel Proust's madeleines in nineteenth century France to Anne Lamott's California childhood lunchbox, food has provided a rich subject for writers. Food evokes some of our deepest memories, and is intricately connected to our personal and ethnic identities. In addition, food—and our consumption of it—plays a complex social and political role in American culture at large. Given current concerns with growing obesity rates and extreme diets, it may not be too much of an exaggeration to say that Americans have become obsessed with food. These are some of the themes and issues we will explore by reading a broad range of texts and writing a series of critical, analytical essays. Peer response groups, reflection, and revision will be at the center of this intensive workshop in reading, critical thinking, and writing.

Booklist: Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Ruth Reichl), Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser), Keys for Writers (Ann Raimes), an additional text to be announced, and Course Reader. Films: Supersize Me, What's Cooking?

CW R1A
Section: 7
CCN: 16427
Meeting time: TuTh 2-5 p.m.
Meeting place: 14 Haviland
Instructor: Donnett Flash
Email address: dflash@berkeley.edu
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CW R1A
Section: 8
CCN: 16430
Meeting time: TuTh 9-12 p.m.
Meeting place: L8 Christian, Unit 1
Instructor: Tyrone Johnson
Email address: geronimo.johnson@berkeley.edu
Course theme: FoodStuffs
Course description: Should you diet or drive-thru; use sugar or Sucralose; go low-carb or no-carb? Is it I or me; i before e; a or an? What about that nosy comma, such a busybody, always butting in, and hanging around like an unemployed apostrophe? Do all those rules mean there's a recipe for good writing? We're going to answer that question, which is tricky because necessity and indulgence, desire and aversion, anxiety and joy, all govern our relationships with writing, eating, and reading. Our aim in this writing class is to define for ourselves what makes satisfying reading and good writing. Coming together as writers, we'll read a lot, write a lot, re-write a lot, and talk about writing—yes, you guessed it—a lot! Using food as the lens, we'll explore the world around us, and plumb the truth of the proverb, "One who eats alone, chokes alone." And speaking of eating, gird your stomachs, because we'll be reviewing dining facilities here at Cal, and publishing those reviews. We'll analyze books, song lyrics, stand-up routines, TV shows, and films. By the end of the class you will be able to explain the importance of revision as well as tell me why, in The Dark Knight, the criminal cabal convenes in the kitchen, and how the film not-so-subtly suggests that the war on terror is a recipe for disaster. And, because this is a writing class, we'll avoid clichés such as that last one, well, like the plague.

Booklist: Asking the Right Questions 9th edition (Browne & Keely), The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollen), The Jungle (Upton Sinclair), The Little Red Writing Book (Brandon Royal)

CW R1A
Section: 10
CCN: 16436
Meeting time: MWF 12-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 224 Wheeler
Instructor: Jon Lang
Email address: see the CalNet directory
Course theme: The Decades
Course description: Each recent decade in American history might be said to have its own distinctive character: the 1950s is the era of the suburban American family; the 1960s is the period of civil rights and civil dissent; the 1970s saw the end of the Vietnam War. Each period has a character because the issues and conflicts it represents endure: in the year 2009, the contemporary "decline" of the family produces a nostalgia for the 50s; early twenty-first century Americans consider the1960s to have resolved the problem of civil rights even as racial issues continue to unsettle us; and the memory of the Vietnam War haunts the conduct of the current conflict in Iraq. Through literature, film, and the non-fictional essay, we will focus on understanding the contemporary and historical character of "the decades."

Booklist: Rules for Writers (Diana Hacker), The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien), This Boy’s Life (Tobias Wolff), Course Reader which will include essays written on the 1960s. Film: Far from Heaven (dir. Todd Haynes)

CW R1A
Section: 11
CCN: 16439
Meeting time: MWF 12-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 223 Wheeler
Instructor: Teri Crisp
Email address: tcrisp@berkeley.edu
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CW R1A
Section: 12
CCN: 16442
Meeting time: MWF 12-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 204 Wheeler
Instructor: Pat Steenland
Email address: steenpat@berkeley.edu
Course theme: American Identities
Course description: Welcome to College Writing R1A. This is an accelerated 6-unit course which fulfills the Subject A and the first half of the Reading and Composition requirements. In this class you will read a wide selection of fiction, essays, and other writings by authors from very different backgrounds and disciplines. You will also write at least 40 pages over the course of the semester. This writing will take various forms--in-class writing, creative pieces, short one-page pieces and longer essays of 4-6 pages. I hope that in this class you will discover and strengthen your own voice as a writer. My goal is to help you develop as a critical and analytical reader, and a clear and expressive writer. In this process I hope you will attain a strong, engaged, confident and individual voice. In this class we will read a constellation of interesting texts, taking as our theme the complex nature of American identities. To aid us in our exploration of this topic, the author of God of Luck, the writer Ruthanne Lum McCunn, will make a visit to our class.

Booklist: Part Asian, 100% Hapa (Kip Fulbeck), The Time Bind (Arlie Hochschild), The Big Sea (Langston Hughes), God of Luck (Ruthanne Lum McCunn), The St. Martin’s Handbook (Andrea Lunsford), Course Reader

CW R1A
Section: 13
CCN: 16445
Meeting time: MWF 2-4 p.m.
Meeting place: 189 Dwinelle
Instructor: Gail Offen-Brown
Email address: gob@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Food for Thought
Course description: From Marcel Proust's madeleines in nineteenth century France to Anne Lamott's California childhood lunchbox, food has provided a rich subject for writers. Food evokes some of our deepest memories, and is intricately connected to our personal and ethnic identities. In addition, food—and our consumption of it—plays a complex social and political role in American culture at large. Given current concerns with growing obesity rates and extreme diets, it may not be too much of an exaggeration to say that Americans have become obsessed with food. These are some of the themes and issues we will explore by reading a broad range of texts and writing a series of critical, analytical essays. Peer response groups, reflection, and revision will be at the center of this intensive workshop in reading, critical thinking, and writing.

CW R1A
Section: 14
CCN: 16448
Meeting time: MWF 10-12 p.m.
Meeting place: 89 Dwinelle
Instructor: Michael Larkin
Email address: larkinm@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Thought for Food
Course description: We eat it every day. It's a source of sustenance and anxiety, comfort and ill-health. It's a multi-billion (trillion?) dollar industry. It's primal and high-tech. We mark celebratory and somber occasions with it. We think about it all the time while almost not thinking about it at all. So, what we will we do with food in this course? We will think about it, read about it, write about it, and—I hope—eat it. The main goals of the course will be to develop as writers and readers, but in the course of fulfilling those goals, we'll also become more aware of the food we eat and ask tough questions about its place in our cultural, political, social, and spiritual pursuits.

Note: In keeping with Cal's choosing of The Omnivore’s Dilemma as the centerpiece of the 2009-10 On the Same Page program, we'll be reading Michael Pollan's book as a starting place.

Booklist: The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan), Eating Buddha's Dinner (Bich Minh Nguyen), Stuffed and Starved (Raj Patel), Keys for Writers 5th edition (Ann Raimes), Course Reader. Film: Supersize Me

CW R1A
Section: 15
CCN: 16451
Meeting time: MW 9-12 p.m.
Meeting place: L13 Christian, Unit 1
Instructor: Michelle Baptiste
Email address: michellebaptiste@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Grassroots Movements for Peace: "If you want peace, work for justice" (Pope Paul VI)
Course description: As you develop your voice as a writer in this intensive reading and writing course, we will investigate how grassroots movements for social justice begin and succeed--to what extent an individual hero/ine is responsible and what role broad community involvement plays. We will examine diverse intersections of issues: economics, the environment, housing, and civil rights—both within and outside the US, including New Orleans, Chicago, and Kenya.

Booklist: Unbowed: A Memoir (Wangari Maathai), Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Barack Obama), The Everyday Writer 4th edition (Andrea Lunsford), Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Hereos in Extraordinary Times (Amy Goodman and David Goodman)

CW R1A
Section: 16
CCN: 16454
Meeting time: MW 9-12 p.m.
Meeting place: L11 Towle, Unit 2
Instructor: Staff
Email address:
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Course description: CURRENTLY NOT OPEN

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CW R1A
Section: 17
CCN: 16457
Meeting time: MW 3-6 p.m.
Meeting place: 89 Dwinelle
Instructor: Stephanie Bobo
Email address: sbobo@berkeley.edu
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CW R1A
Section: 18
CCN: 16460
Meeting time: MW 2-5 p.m.
Meeting place: 223 Wheeler
Instructor: Michelle Baptiste
Email address: michellebaptiste@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Grassroots Movements for Peace: "If you want peace, work for justice" (Pope Paul VI)
Course description: As you develop your voice as a writer in this intensive reading and writing course, we will investigate how grassroots movements for social justice begin and succeed--to what extent an individual hero/ine is responsible and what role broad community involvement plays. We will examine diverse intersections of issues: economics, the environment, housing, and civil rights—both within and outside the US, including New Orleans, Chicago, and Kenya.

CW R1A
Section: 19
CCN: 16463
Meeting time: MW 3-6 p.m.
Meeting place: 223 Dwinelle
Instructor:
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CW R1A
Section: 20
CCN: 16466
Meeting time: TuTh 9-12 p.m.
Meeting place: L45 Dining, Unit 3
Instructor: Jane Hammons
Email address: jhammons@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Picture This: Reading and Writing about Images
Course description: In this intensive writing seminar you will practice and develop visual literacy, which requires you to look at individual elements of images and think about how they work together to create meaning. One of the required texts, The Soiling of Old Glory, by Louis P. Masur, tells the story of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph. And in his blog award-winning book designer, Henry Sene Yee writes about how he envisions the design of a book’s cover after reading the text. Much as you will share drafts of your writing, Yee posts drafts and revisions of his book jackets and writes about the choices he makes along the way. In addition, you will read other texts on subjects ranging from art to the physiology of the eye.

Booklist: The World of the Image (Smoke and Robbins), The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph that Shocked America (Louis P. Masur), The Children of Men (P. D. James), Henry Sene Yee Design <http://henryseneyee.blogspot.com/>, Keys for Writers, fifth edition (Ann Raimes)

CW R1A
Section: 21
CCN: 16469
Meeting time: TuTh 9-12 p.m.
Meeting place: L13 Christian, Unit 1
Instructor: Melinda Erickson
Email address: erickson@berkeley.edu
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CW R1A
Section: 22
CCN: 16472
Meeting time: TuTh 9-12 p.m.
Meeting place: L11 Towle, Unit 2
Instructor: Carolyn Hill
Email address: chill4@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Wanna Play?
Course description: Remember recess? Remember hide-and-seek, dominoes, Tetris, tic-tac-toe? Maybe you remember freedom, laughter, and winning the game. Or maybe you remember rules, stress, and getting picked last for the team. Assessing your opponent, making strategic moves to achieve your objective, timing things just right . . . . play isn't all fun and games. And writing and reading aren't all work and misery . . . . if you play. I promise you serious play and playful work as we explore the intersections of play, reading, writing, and life.

Booklist: The Queen's Gambit (Walter Tevis), A Book of Surrealist Games (ed. Mel Gooding), Escape (R. A. Montgomery), Easy Writer: A Pocket Guide (Andrea Lunsford), Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace (Joseph Williams), Course Reader (online)

CW R1A
Section: 23
CCN: 16475
Meeting time: TuTh 2-5 p.m.
Meeting place: 221 Wheeler
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.

Booklist: The St. Martin's Handbook 6th edition (Andrea Lunsford), The New Humanities Reader 3rd edition (Richard E. Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer), BFE (Julia Cho), The Botany of Desire: A Plant's View of the World (Michael Pollan), one other book TBA. Film: Night on Earth

CW R1A
Section: 24, for non-native speakers
CCN: 16478
Meeting time: MW 2-5 p.m.
Meeting place: 224 Wheeler
Instructor: Margi Wald
Email address: mwald@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Perspectives on Immigration and Multiculturalism
Course description: In this section, we will be reading, discussing, and writing about how socio-cultural background and socio-economic class affect social institutions and individual and group identity—and vice versa. Specifically, we will explore how perspective and persuasive techniques play a role in rendering, representing and interpreting events and experiences related to immigration and multiculturalism. To further this exploration, students will engage with a variety of texts and craft a variety of critical, analytical essays through brainstorming, revision, peer response, and editing for grammar and word choice.

Booklist: Asking the Right Questions (M. Neil Browne & Stuart Keeley), Keys for Writers (Ann Raimes), Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City (Mike Davis), The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Anne Fadiman), and one text TBA

CW R1A
Section: 25
CCN: 16481
Meeting time: TuTh 3-6 p.m.
Meeting place: 224 Wheeler
Instructor: Melinda Erickson
Email address: erickson@berkeley.edu
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College Writing R4B

CW R4B
Section: 1
CCN: 16514
Meeting time: MWF 10-11 a.m.
Meeting place: 237 Cory
Instructor: Pat Steenland
Email address: steenpat@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Images of History
Course description: How do we come to understand the past? Once an event recedes, we are left with an unfiltered mix of sources and perspectives, each reflecting a partial truth. In this class we will explore different representations of two major historical events of the twentieth century, the Holocaust and the Japanese American internment. Our intent is not to compare these events. Nor is our goal to gain an encyclopedic knowledge of either or both. Instead, we will explore how different genres can give us different perspectives. We will begin with the following texts as our starting points: Art Spiegelman's graphic novels about the Holocaust, Maus I and II; and Mine Okubo's pictorial memoir of the Japanese American internment, Citizen 13660. We will also look at novels about these events, including Julie Otsuka's When The Emperor Was Divine (part of which is set in Berkeley--you may recognize some landmarks.) When reading Bernard Schlink's novel The Reader (now a film), we will explore the question voiced by the writer Cynthia Ozick: how far may fiction be allowed to go when dealing with historical fact? With these concerns in mind, we will also look at other representations of these events in different genres, such as films, essays, oral histories, diaries, and standard history textbooks, to explore differences in genre and perspective. For the final research project, students will choose their own topic to explore from the Japanese American internment and work with primary materials found both online and at the Bancroft Library, including the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, an immensely rich collection of materials on this subject.

Booklist: Maus I and II (Art Spiegelman), Survival In Auschwitz (Primo Levi), The Reader (Bernard Schlink), Citizen 13660 (Mine Okubo), When The Emperor Was Divine (Julie Otsuka), From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America’s Concentration Camps (ed. Brian Komei Dempster, on reserve in Moffitt), Writing With Sources (Gordon Harvey)

CW R4B
Section: 2
CCN: 16517
Meeting time: MWF 10-11 a.m.
Meeting place: 221 Wheeler
Instructor: Jon Lang
Email address: see the CalNet directory
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: Alien (Ridley Scott)

CW R4B
Section: 3
CCN: 16520
Meeting time: MWF 1-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 206 Wheeler
Instructor: Michael Larkin
Email address: larkinm@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Writing About War
Course description: Our readings, and subject matter of your writing, will focus on questions of perspective and getting at the truth in the telling and retelling of the story of war (specifically the wars in Vietnam and Iraq). We'll take a look at the ways in which people tell stories, both fictional and nonfictional, and how one's position—as observer, as participant, as storyteller, as reporter, as documentarian, as researcher—inform one's portrayal of events or people. How do we, as readers, evaluate the accuracy and reliability of the information we're given? How do we, as writers and researchers, figure out how to document an event fairly, how to tell a story accurately, and how to be aware of our own subjectivity as we do so?

Booklist: The Craft of Research (Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Columb, Joseph M. Williams), My War (Colby Buzzell), Baghdad Burning (Riverbend), In Pharaoh's Army (Tobias Wolff), Course Reader

CW R4B
Section: 4
CCN: 16523
Meeting time: TuTh 11-12:30 p.m.
Meeting place: 237 Cory
Instructor: Kaya Oakes
Email address: kaya_o@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Adventures in the Musical Underground
Course description: Folk, punk, indie rock and hip hop all began as subcultural forms of expression, formed in small communities by networks of like-minded individuals. Soon enough, however, each of these underground musical movements became commercialized. In this section of R4B, we'll explore each of these musical genres and look at the ways in which they went from being underground movements to mainstream phenomena. You'll write three essays on music related topics, culminating in a research essay, and along the way, you'll hopefully learn a lot about analysis, argumentation, and research.

Booklist: Chronicles (Bob Dylan), Our Band Could Be Your Life (Michael Azzerad), Can't Stop Won't Stop (Jeff Chang), The Craft of Research (Booth, Colomb and Williams), and one more book TBA

CW R4B
Section: 5
CCN: 16526
Meeting time: TuTh 2-3:30 p.m.
Meeting place: 51 Evans
Instructor: Staff
Email address:
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CW R4B
Section: 6
CCN: 16529
Meeting time: TuTh 3:30-5 p.m.
Meeting place: 332 Giannini
Instructor: Kaya Oakes
Email address: kaya_o@berkeley.edu
Course theme: Adventures in the Musical Underground
Course description: Folk, punk, indie rock and hip hop all began as subcultural forms of expression, formed in small communities by networks of like-minded individuals. Soon enough, however, each of these underground musical movements became commercialized. In this section of R4B, we'll explore each of these musical genres and look at the ways in which they went from being underground movements to mainstream phenomena. You'll write three essays on music related topics, culminating in a research essay, and along the way, you'll hopefully learn a lot about analysis, argumentation, and research.

CW R4B
Section: 7
CCN: 16529
Meeting time: TuTh 8-9:30 a.m.
Meeting place: 321 Haviland
Instructor: Yuet Sim-Chiang
Email address:
Course theme: Dying for Beauty
Course description: Is "dying for beauty" a social construction, or a genetic tendency? In this course, we will explore the forms and representations of beauty and how and why we do what we do in the name of beauty. Using written and visual texts from a variety of disciplines—cultural studies, feminist studies, cognitive science, philosophy, and social psychology—we will explore the compelling pursuit of beauty in myth and in reality.

Booklist: Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty (Nancy Etcoff), Autobiography of a Face (Lucy Grealy), The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (Naomi Wolf), Hope in a Jar (Kathy Peiss), Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture (Debra Gimlin), More Than Skin Deep (Loren Eskenazi and Peg Streep), The Craft of Research (Booth, Colomb and Williams), They Say/I Say (Graff and Birkenstein), Handbook for Writers (Douglas Hesse and Lynn Troyka)

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College Writing 10A: Introduction to Public Speaking

CW 10A
Section: 1
CCN: 16556
Meeting time: 12:30-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 109 Wheeler
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)

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College Writing 10B: Advanced Public Speaking

CW 10B
Section: 1
CCN: 16559
Meeting time: 12:30-2 p.m.
Meeting place: 237 Cory
Instructor: John Levine
Email address: jblevine@berkeley.edu
Course description: Now that you've covered the basics of public speaking, you're ready to "take it to the next level." In CW 10B, students will work towards mastery of the skills they attained in CW 10A. Besides a review of informative and persuasive extemporaneous speaking, you will add to your public address repertoire impromptu speaking, interview skills, and group communication skills. The culminating project in the course will be a real-world speaking occasion, arranged by the student, to be critiqued by the class and the instructor. Regular communication-theory reading and writing assignments will focus on, among other topics, body language, interacting with an audience, and overcoming anxiety.

Prerequisite: CW 10A, Introduction to Public Speaking.

Booklist: Course Reader

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Upper-Division and Graduate Courses

College Writing 108: New Technologies

CW 108
Section: 1
CCN: 16565
Meeting time: TuTh 2-3 p.m.
Meeting place: 103 Wheeler
Instructor: Stephanie Bobo
Email address: sbobo@berkeley.edu
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College Writing 110: Advanced Composition: Challenging Writing

CW 110
Section: 1
CCN: 16568
Meeting time: TuTh 2-3:30 p.m.
Meeting place: 80 Barrows
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. And you will also develop strategies for effective revision. Using Writing With Power, you will create your own response sheets for writing workshops—that is, you will decide what kind of feedback you want and learn how to elicit that feedback. 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 the Personal Essay (ed. Phillip Lopate), Writing With Power (Peter Elbow), one other book TBA, Course Reader

College Writing 151: Introduction to Principles of Professional Communication

CW 151
Section: 1
CCN: 16571
Meeting time: MWF 12-1 p.m.
Meeting place: 2319 Tolman
Instructor: Staff
Email address:
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