This section focuses on ideology.  Students learn to understand ideology, read texts for their ideological content, and reflect on their own ideological positions.

This section uses superhero films and comics to develop students’ thinking and writing skills. Through engaging with the superhero genre, students enter conversations and write about about race, gender, sexuality, disability, socioeconomic equality, violence, masculinity, and more.

This section aims to teach you not only skills of writing but also habits of mind and work — to show students how writers go about the actual work of drafting, revising, and refining their compositions. It also seeks to help students become a more astute readers and thinkers. 

This section centrally features the essay. In their own writing, students study the conventions of the academic essay and strive to embody them. This class shifts between genres as students read closely, assessing how the conventions of writing
impact a work’s effectiveness. 

This section is a super section TA’d by the 2018 English PhD first year students. The goal of course is to introduce students to some of the ways writers at a university work with texts and ideas.

This online section examines essay about dominant cultural constructions in America. Exploring these constructions offers students the opportunity to question conventional modes of thought and practice and generate their own well-considered and articulated critical responses and persuasive arguments. 

In this honors section, students read, think, and write about the identity politics of queer histories in the United States throughout the 19th – 20th centuries. This section highlights key events, figures, and concepts as part of a long historical trajectory of collective acts that continue to inform our present while working towards a more inclusive future.

This honors section focuses on ideology.  Students learn to understand ideology, read texts for their ideological content, and reflect on their own ideological positions.

This summer section uses superhero films and comics to develop students’ thinking and writing skills. Through engaging with the superhero genre, students enter conversations and write about about race, gender, sexuality, disability, socioeconomic equality, violence, masculinity, and more.