Winter 2005 Advance Course Information

This information effective for Winter 2005. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

Writing Program

[WRIT-001-10] [WRIT-001-11]

For course information on other Winter 2005 writing courses, go to:

http://humwww.ucsc.edu:16080/writing/CourseDescriptionsMain.html

1. Composition and Rhetoric: Poetry and the News

Two sections: Writing 1-10 and Writing 1-11

Instructor: Ellen Louise Hart

"Literature is news that stays news." —Ezra Pound

Course Description:

This is a course that combines reading the news, as reported in newspapers, with reading poems (and song lyrics) that concern current events—cultural, environmental, and political events, local, national, and global. We'll read news articles from various sources and poems by a range of contemporary poets.

There are three essays to be drafted and revised: one on a news story; one on a controversy about a piece of art; and an essay using research, on a topic related to the course material.

Students will have an opportunity to develop their skills at reading and thinking analytically, articulating an informed opinion, and supporting an argument with evidence from reading and research. Regular, informal writing will help students make connections among poems, essays, articles, and comics.

"Poetry and the News" is a good course for those who follow the news and those who would like to start paying more attention to it, for those who love poetry, and for those who want to stop fearing it.

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