Fall 2008 LTWR 100 & 200-level Course Offerings
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View the LTWR Course Offering Patterns
LTWR Major and Minors, you will likely find the chart of Course Offering Patterns useful as you plan your coursework for the next academic year. The LTWR Department plans to offer courses in the following patterns, depending upon the availability of faculty, enrollment, and budgetary constraints. This chart also lists the LTWR courses that satisfy various GE requirements.

View the LTWR Night Major Track Schedule
For those of you on the LTWR Night Major Track, this is the schedule of night classes offered from the Fall 2005 semester (Year 1) through the Spring 2008 semester (Year 3).

LTWR 100 Introduction to Literature
CRN 40461
Robin Keehn
MW 08:30-09:45

Course Description/Objectives: No course description supplied by instructor.

For a generic course description, see the entry for this course in the California State University San Marcos General Catalog 2006-2008.

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LTWR 100 Introduction to Literature
CRN 40463
Staff
MW 11:30-12:45

Course Description: No course description supplied by instructor.

For a generic course description, see the entry for this course in the California State University San Marcos General Catalog 2006-2008.

LTWR 100 Introduction to Literature
CRN 40465
Patricia Price
MW 14:30-15:45

Course Description: No course description supplied by instructor.

For a generic course description, see the entry for this course in the California State University San Marcos General Catalog 2006-2008.

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LTWR 100 Introduction to Literature
CRN 40470
Staff
TR 10:30-11:45

Course Description: No course description supplied by instructor.

For a generic course description, see the entry for this course in the California State University San Marcos General Catalog 2006-2008.

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LTWR 100 Introduction to Literature
CRN 40471
Catherine Cucinella
TR 13:00-14:15

Course Description/Objectives: : In this course, we will consider three literary genres (poetry, short stories, and the novel) in order to become conversant in the terms of literary discourse. In our investigation of the fiction and the poetry, we will attempt to define literature, understand the connection between individual and social engagement with texts, and learn how to write about literature. Through this interrogation, each of us will identify and develop a critical framework of interpretation. Finally, we will “figure out” what literature tells about the human condition, about our world, and about ourselves.

Texts may include the following: The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold); Getting Mother’s Body (Suzan-Lori Parks); The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway); 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology; and 101 Great American Poems..

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LTWR 105 Texts that Changed the World
CRN 40473
Patricia Price
T 17:30-20:15

Course Description: No course description supplied by instructor.

For a generic course description, see the entry for this course in the California State University San Marcos General Catalog 2006-2008.

This course does not count towards the LTWR major or minor. Fulfills the Lower Division C2 Humanities Requirement.

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LTWR 115 Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing
CRN 40472
Oliver Berghof
TR 13:00-14:15

Course Description: Critical thinking through reading and written analysis of various genres of writing. Special attention to the use of metaphoric language, the function and meaning of symbols, the structure of arguments, the use of logic, and value of imaginative writing particularly in relationship to ethical and moral questions.

Prerequisite: GEW 101 or equivalent.

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LTWR 206 Fantastic Journeys
CRN 40464
Heidi Breuer
MW 13:00-14:15

Course Description:

(Fantastic) Journeying Into Adulthood

The journey from childhood into adulthood is fraught with struggle and confusion, and it’s often hard to tell when a child actually becomes an adult.  Children’s literature, in particular, uses the journey motif to describe the sometimes perilous transition into maturity, often creating fantastic alternate worlds where children can learn difficult lessons in a safe environment, returning to the “real” world with newly earned wisdom.  This class will explore the fantastic journey into adulthood, considering Joseph Campbell’s idea of the heroic monomyth in relation to “growing up”: are children embarking on a heroic journey when they leave the innocent, magical world of children and enter the perilous, “real” adult world?  We will investigate the ways both written and visual texts negotiate the relationship between the “real” and the “fantastic” worlds and between childhood and adulthood.  Texts we will  consider include (but are not limited to) the following: excerpts from Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West (i.e., Monkey-King stories), Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” J. M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Ursula Le Guin’s Tombs of Atuan, Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, the Henson/Oz collaboration The Dark Crystal (1982), and Witi Ihimeara’s The Whale Rider..
Prerequisite: GEW 101 or equivalent.

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