For those students enrolled in the Hilltop Scholars Program who are considering applying to the University Honors Program in the spring semester, the course will provide a bridge between the Hilltop Scholars Program and the University Honors Program (UHP). This course will have a heavier reading load than ENGL 1301, yet it will offer writing instruction that is not included in ENGL 2305. Students who wish to apply to the UHP after taking this course and receiving the grade of A- will have the advantage of covering much of the material of ENGL 2305, the first semester of the two-semester Honors English sequence. All students who take the course will receive elective credit for it; if they enter the UHP, the course will also take the place of ENGL 2305.

TOPICS

Reading and Writing in class:

A. Interpretation of a Text - Summary exercise, analysis of textual meaning.

B. Interpretation of Rhetorical Tools - Analysis of a text in light of the author's

use of rhetorical tools.

C. Intertextual Analysis - Explication of one text in terms of a second text.

D. Synthesis of Texts - Analysis of a text in light of ideas gathered from a number

of texts read over the course of the semester.

For each of the units, students will be required to complete a number of homework assignments including draft introductory paragraphs with thesis statements, drafts of their essays for peer review and stylistic review, and draft essays for mandatory conferences. The purpose of these homework assignments is to teach writing as a process and to allow multiple opportunities for revision of formal essays.

REQUIRED TEXTS
Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O and Other Stories

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman

INSTRUCTORS
Rhetoric faculty of the English Department.

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