Spring 2024: English 1A and Bridge to Transfer English
Zoom Meeting Times
Mon/Wed 8 - 11:20 am with breaks every hour
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 learn about different types of propaganda, identifying these in U.S.
Presidential campaign ads found at The Living Room Candidate, evaluating their truthfulness and persuasiveness in the process. 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 your goals, having a debate and writing a Rogerian
Argument in the process.
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