College of DuPage - English 1101
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Hesford, Rhetorical Visions: Reading and
Writing in a Visual Culture
(Book order ISBN: 0536428212)
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COURSE OBJECTIVES:
In English 1101, students should learn
1.) To approach writing as a process;
2.) To develop and support a thesis in an organized essay;
3.) To examine and respond to the ideas and strategies in the writings of others;
4.) To foster proficiency with the language itself in terms of grammar, style and usage.
ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE:
Week One: Introduction to Course (Chapter One)
Diagnostic Essay Due
Week Two: Chapter Two: Reading and Writing Rhetorically
Week Three: Identity
Readings:
Chapter Three (pp. 57 – 74)
Kingston, “Photograph of My Parents”
Kuhn, “Remembrance”
Olds, “I Go Back to May 1937”
On Barbie Poems
Week Four: Identity
Readings:
Chapter 5 (pp. 273 – 286)
Hockenberry, “Walking with the Kurds”
Kinkaid, “A Small Place”
Trask, “Tourist, Stay Home”
Paper One Due: Defining Identity
Week Five: Popular Culture
Readings:
Chapter Four (pp. 159 – 181)
Kozol, “The Kind of People Who Make Good Americans”
Morales, “Child of the Americas”
Kuenz, “It’s a Small World After All”
Week Six: Popular Culture
Readings:
Nakamura, “Where Do You Want to Go Today?”
Nagala, “’OM’: Hinduism in American Pop Culture”
Paper Two Due: Describing a Pop Culture
Week Seven: International Issues
Readings:
Chapter 5 (pp. 273 – 286)
Kaplan, “The Rusted Iron Curtain”
Ignatieff, “The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid”
Zelizer, “Conveying Atrocity in Image”
Week Eight: International Issues
Readings:
Lutz and Collins, “The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes”
Images: Travel to India
Nakamura, “Where Do You Want to Go Today?”
Paper Three Due: Comparing/Contrasting Images
Week Nine: Student Conferences
Week Ten: Business and Labor Politics
Readings:
Chapter 6 (pp. 369 – 378)
Enloe, “The Globetrotting Sneaker”
Kernaghan, “An Appeal to Walt Disney”
Espada, “Coca-Cola and Coco Frio”
Espada and Nike Corp., Letters
Week Eleven: Business and Labor Politics
Readings:
Sweatshop Poems
Spaulding, “New York City, 1989”
Featherstone, “Student Activists versus the Corporate University”
Paper Four Due: Analyzing the Politics of Business
Week Twelve: Doing Research
Readings:
Chapter 8 (pp. 573 – 597)
Week Thirteen: Human Rights and Social Justice
Readings:
Chapter 7 (pp. 467 – 482)
Coles, “The Tradition: Fact or Fiction”
Garland-Thompson “The Politics of Staring”
Kleege, “Dream Museum: Blindness, Language, and Visual Art”
Paper Five Due: Research Prospectus and Annotated Bibliography
Week Fourteen: Student Conferences
Week Fifteen: Presentations of Students’ Final Projects
Paper Six Due: Research Project on Theme from Textbook
Week Sixteen: Culminating Activities or Final Exam