ENGL 153
Androids, Cyborgs, Selves
Last Offered Spring 2020
Division I Writing Skills
Cross-listed STS 153
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

In this expository writing course, we will analyze and argue about how near-human and partly human bodies appear in fiction and film. When do these bodies improve the spaces in which they appear? When do they threaten them? How are they gendered, how are they raced, and why? What do they desire? Authors in different cultural and technological contexts have imagined not-quite-human selves for different ends and in different ways. Together we will develop our ideas on these topics in clear, strong prose. We will also ask how artists have cast human identities into foreign materials and media, and study the distortions and revelations that result. During museum visits at WCMA, students will use examples of self-portraiture, electrified bodies, and aspirational bodies to explore the representation, imitation, and abstraction of selves. Because this is an expository writing seminar, we will spend half or more of our class time discussing and practicing writing skills.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 12
Expected: 12
Class#: 3714
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: five response papers (500 words); four essays (1200-1500 words, each in two drafts); class participation
Prerequisites: none
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
STS 153 Division II ENGL 153 Division I
WS Notes: This expository writing course is dedicated to facilitating real improvement in students' written work. Students write five response papers and four five-page essays (in two drafts) over the course of the semester, receiving substantial instructor feedback on all. Students will practice: drafting, revising, and responding to critique; writing appropriately for given occasions and audiences; grounding their writing in close, analytical reading; and acknowledging sources.

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