Topic: Famous Essays, Letters, Speeches

Appropriate for First Year students.

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
4:00pm-5:15pm
TuTh
Callaway Center N203
Sally Wolff King. FWRT. 44189 TBA.

January 13, 2010- April 26, 2010

Catalog Description: Every semester. Intensive writing course that trains students in expository writing through a number of variable topics. Satisfies first-year English writing requirement.

Semester Details: Content: We will consider the writing and thinking in the essays, letters, and speeches of a number of famous individuals, including Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther King, Stephen Jay Gould, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor. We will simultaneously work on writing and critical thinking skills and with a focus on organization, grammar, and style.

The schedule of courses on O.P.U.S. is the official listing of courses, including days and times they meet and the General Education Requirements they satisfy. Students should use course descriptions as general guidelines. Course requirements, grading details, book lists, and syllabi are subject to change.