English 1B: Writing about Literature
Literature and Sight: Seeing the Self and the World through Literature
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Course Information
Course Information
Spring 2025
Section 32, CRN: 30060
Mission Campus, Room 254, TR 10:10am-12pm
This course is part of the Puente Program. To learn more about the program, please send me an email! This section has in-person meetings twice a week and requires the use of Canvas. Some coursework is completed on Canvas using an internet enabled device.
How does reading literature affect the way we see ourselves, each other, and the world?
Literature allows us to see, to a certain extent, through the eyes of another, expanding our ever-limited horizons, or field of vision. Through poetry, fiction, and drama, people are able to envision and speculate about possible futures. Writers will also forever look backwards into the past with what literary scholar Harold Bloom called the “anxiety of influence,” in order to take place in the eternal multilogue that crosses oceans spans centuries. As contemporary writers draw on the popular themes and forms of past eras to speak about the world today, an understanding of literary devices and terms becomes indispensable in a reader’s quest for meaning and beauty. The course will be centered on reading, analyzing and writing about short fiction, poetry, drama, and the novel. We will be reading selections from a variety of genres and eras including pieces by writers such as Valeria Luiselli, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Raymond Carver, Kate Chopin, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, Juan Felipe Herrera, Javier Zamora, Kay Ryan, Sophocles, Luis Alfaro, and Yuri Herrera.
Important Dates
Important Dates
Day Class Begins: January 14, 2025 [Find the following dates in the Instructional Calendar or in the online Schedule of Classes by hovering over the deadlines link next to your class listing.]
Day Class Ends: May 20, 2025
Last day to drop or reduce course work to qualify for 100% pro-rated non-resident
and international student tuition refund fee: January 31, 2025
Last Day to Add without instructor's approval: January 31, 2025
Last Day to Drop without a 'W' symbol: January 31, 2025
Last day to drop or reduce course work to qualify for 50% pro-rated non-resident
and international student tuition refund fee: February 5, 2025
Last Day to Opt for Pass/No Pass: April 17, 2025
Last Day to Drop with a W or apply for leave of absence: April 17, 2025
Final Exam Date: May 20, 2025
Course Syllabus
Course Syllabus
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Spring 2024
Spring 2024
English 1B. "Writing and Literature: Literature and Sight." Section 32, CRN: 30060. Mission Campus, Room 254. TR 10:10am-12pm. Driving Question: How does reading literature affect the way we see ourselves, each other, and the world? This course is part of the Puente Program. To learn more about the program, please send me an email! This section has in-person meetings twice a week and requires the use of Canvas. Some coursework is completed on Canvas using an internet enabled device.
Spring 2023
Spring 2023
English 1B. "Writing and Literature: Literature and Sight." Section 32, CRN: 30060. Mission Campus, Room 254. TR 10:10am-12pm. Driving Question: How does reading literature affect the way we see ourselves, each other, and the world? This course is part of the Puente Program. To learn more about the program, please send me an email! This section has in-person meetings twice a week and requires the use of Canvas. Some coursework is completed on Canvas using an internet enabled device.
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