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In English 848 this spring, we will explore issues and ideas that demand your most valuable asset, your attention. You will learn to read and write about the news, the war, urban legends, ads, images, popular culture, and identity. You will learn where "cool" comes from. You will write essays, conduct interviews, expand your vocabulary, participate in a blog, build an e-portfolio, and discuss your ideas actively in class. Through all of this, you will learn how to read yourself so that you can make the wisest choices as a writer, as a student, and as a person.

English 1B: Telling Histories

The Burden of History

In EWRT 1B at De Anza College in the spring of '07, we analyzed diverse representations of the Nazi Holocaust and other historic atrocities in fiction, non-fiction, and film. Concurrently, students developed arguments arising from their own historical legacies.

Spring 2008 Schedule

English 848 AG    M-Th 9:10-10:00

English 848 BB    M-Th 12:10-1:00

English 100 BA    MWF 10:10-11:00

English 100:

Think for Yourself

THINK FOR YOURSELF

OR OTHERS WILL THINK FOR YOU

We will read and write about how political and commercial propaganda threatens our freedoms and threatens to corrupt us. This course seeks to provide students with the critical tools necessary for survival in the Information Age. ary for survival and, beyond that, success in the Information Age.

Poems by Isham Maxwell

Isham Maxwell has published his first book of poetry. Please explore the poetic wisdom of a six-year-old person of great heart. Ordering info here.

Rancho Maxwell

Your place to stay in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.