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Fall Lineup: New and Noteworthy Courses
Autumn Quarter may still seem far away, but our faculty are already gearing up to offer a number of interesting and exciting courses, most of which still have some openings.
One course—English 405: Writing about Science—is being offered for the first time this Fall by Jonathan Buehl, our newest Professor of Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Studies. This course will teach students how to perform professional writing tasks that involve scientific discourses, such as accommodating science to non-specialists and editing technical scientific prose. Knowledge of or proficiency in science is not required (Call # 09081-2).
A course in Asian American Literature and Culture, English 587, taught by Professor Pranav Jani, will offer a timely analysis of South Asian-American literary and cinematic texts. It will engage with such questions as, “How have ideas about the ‘exotic’ or ‘spiritual’ East and the ‘materialist’ West shaped the image (and self-image) of Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi and Nepali communities in the U.S.?” and “What does it mean that Bollywood, mehndi, bhangra, and, for that matter, software engineers and call-center workers, are now in vogue?” (Call # 09111-6).
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Jul 23-31, 2008
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