« Projects overview | Main | Course description »
January 13, 2005
Course overview
This course has three major components, each of which will be threaded through the whole semester:
- Student projects: Students in CCR 611 will construct their own accounts of the development of modern composition studies. Reports (sometimes oral, sometimes blogged) from ongoing research will constitute a significant component of our weekly work. The focus of all these projects will be the recovery of diverse practitioner history of composition.
- Readings in historiography: Throughout the semester, we'll read selections from two works in theoretical historiography: Hayden White's Tropics of Discourse and Michel de Certeau's The Writing of History. Our conversations about these works will provide premises on which you'll conduct your own historical work, and they will also provide a framework for analyzing the histories of composition studies that we'll be reading.
- Readings in composition history: Works by Lynn Bloom, Robert Connors, Keith Gilyard, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Geneva Smitherman, Donna Strickland, and Kathleen Blake Yancey.
Posted by senioritis at January 13, 2005 12:39 PM