Topic: Sinister Children

Appropriate for First Year students.

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
8:30am-9:20am
MWF
Callaway Center N204
Laville, Claire. FWRT. 42523 TBA.

January 12, 2011- April 25, 2011

Catalog Description: Every semester. Intensive writing course that trains students in techniques of writing and literary analysis through writing about literature. Readings and format vary in different sections. Satisfies first-year English writing requirement.

Semester Details:

Content: Sometimes good children do bad things; some children are just plain bad. Why are children imagined as pure, yet so often made into the symbol of our deepest fears? With her eyes and ears closer to the ground, the child notices everything adults don’t: intrigue among priests or boarding school teachers, racial tension in the civil rights-era South, and the criminal desires of one Humbert Humbert.

This course will help students develop writing and analytical skills essential in all professions. Students will also be introduced to some of the methods that have reshaped the study of literature (formalist, archival, cultural, psychoanalytic).

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.