Summer 2024 Barnard Precollege: ENGP BC1000 section 002

Introduction to Writing about Literature

Intro Writing Lit & Cultu

Call Number 00115
Day & Time
Location
TWR 2:00pm-4:30pm
To be announced
Day & Time
Location
W 9:30am-12:00pm
To be announced
Points 0
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Tara Needham
Type LECTURE
Course Description

What does it mean to close read? Does the author’s biography matter to understanding a text? What about the time and place that the text was written? This course will introduce students to a range of habits, practices, and approaches to writing about literature and culture that widen and deepen how one can respond to and interpret a novel, a poem, and various other cultural artifacts. At the same time, we will engage in writing practices that empower students to locate and articulate what interests them about a particular piece of writing or culture, to make a claim about it, and to articulate that claim against other interpretations. Foundational to this endeavor is re-envisioning the writing process, from an isolated, individual process to one that involves collaboration and conversation; copious in-class writing; peer workshops; the power of drafts and revision; and the inclusion of research and theoretical frames. We will use Jamaica Kincaid’s novella Lucy as our main text, accompanied by shorter readings and visits to the museum, Barnard library and archive and other excursions that expand the world of our writing and the objects we wish to understand.

Web Site Vergil
Subterm 07/15-08/23 (S)
Department Pre-College Program (Barnard)
Enrollment 0 students (16 max) as of 1:06PM Thursday, December 12, 2024
Subject Barnard Precollege: ENGP
Number BC1000
Section 002
Division Barnard College
Section key 20242ENGP1000X002