Winter 2024: English 1A
Zoom Meeting Times
Tues/Thurs 1:30 - 3:45 PM with a break in the middle
Texts:
- Barnet, Sylvan and Hugo Bedau. From Critical Thinking to Argument. 7th ed. Bedford/St. Martin's, (Jan. 4 2023) ISBN-13: 978-1319332129 (Online/Kindle Version Acceptable)
- Jennifer Finney Boylan. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders. Crown, 2013. ISBN: 978-0385346979 (Online/Kindle or Library Versions Acceptable)
Theme: Many Stories
Our full-length work focuses on transgender experience as described in Jennifer Finney
Boylan's memoir, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, so we will examine gender and other issues surrounding gender and transgender experiences.
We will also watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TED talk "The Danger of the Single Story" and write an essay in response to her claims and
examples, examining the fallacies (common errors in reasoning) Hasty Generalization
and Stereotyping in the process. For a practical examination of workplace and other
social space code-switching (changing the way we speak, what language we use, how
we dress or behave in various social situations for purely functional reasons, for
safety or for career benefits) we will read various essays by persons who have found
different ways to adapt themselves in American society at large, school and/or their
careers and ask whether some spaces require unreasonable code-switching. This will
be followed by a unit on information literacy, including the nature, causes and possible
solutions to fake news on the Internet and elsewhere; and finally we will consider
the best ways to protest in order to achieve beneficial social goals, having a debate
and writing a Rogerian Argument in the process.
Fall 2024: English 1A and Bridge to Transfer English
Zoom Meeting Times
Tues/Thurs 10 - 11:50 am with a break in the middle
Texts:
- Barnet, Sylvan and Hugo Bedau. From Critical Thinking to Argument. 6th ed. Bedford/St. Martin's; 6th edition (September 27, 2013) ISBN-13: 978-1319194437
- Jennifer Finney Boylan. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders. Crown, 2013. ISBN: 978-0385346979
Course Description:
Theme: Sex, Lies and Advertising
Our full-length work focuses on transgender experience as described in Jennifer Finney
Boylan's memoir, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, so we will examine gender and other issues surrounding gender and transgender experiences.
We will also watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TED talk "The Danger of the Single Story" and write an essay in response to her claims and
examples, examining the fallacies (common errors in reasoning) Hasty Generalization
and Stereotyping in the process. For a practical examination of workplace and other
social space code-switching (changing the way we speak, what language we use, how
we dress or behave in various social situations for purely functional reasons, for
safety or for career benefits) we will read various essays by persons who have found
different ways to adapt themselves in American society at large, school and/or their
careers and ask whether some spaces require unreasonable code-switching. This will
be followed by a unit on information literacy, including the nature, causes and possible
solutions to fake news on the Internet and elsewhere; and finally we will consider
the best ways to protest in order to achieve beneficial social goals, having a debate
and writing a Rogerian Argument in the process.
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