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Apr 01, 2020
Mar 31, 2020
Pass/No Pass Options for English Majors | Spring 2020
The UO Provost's office has recently announced changes in academic policies for Winter and Spring 2020 terms.
Mar 27, 2020
Course Highlight: Advanced Composition
It’s a common misconception that academic and literary styles of writing must be kept distinct and separate— that academic writing focuses entirely on arguments made through objective fact with no place for personal expression or idiosyncrasies.
Course Highlight: Thoreau
This Spring, students have the opportunity to learn about “the Thoreau you don’t know,” deep-diving into the works of Thoreau, and exploring the ways in which his remarkable literary career intersected with his famously reclusive personal life. In this course, students will study Thoreau’s twenty-year literary career and his various social and political philosophies.
Mar 24, 2020
Course Highlight: Theories of Literacy
In this course, students will explore the various ways in which reading and writing work in a global, digital world and what that means for local communities. The course covers competing explanations and theories of how literacy works and is valued, and encourages students to critically reflect on how these theories intersect with community experience and propose solutions for improved access to literacy.
Mar 23, 2020
Course Highlight: English Novel
Narrating the Sunset of the British Empire: The Twentieth Century Novel from Modernism to Postmodernism
This course gives students the opportunity to track the novel forms and traditions that emerged following the decline and eventual collapse of the British empire. Students will read and discuss works by such authors as Joseph Conrad, Virginia
Professor Sarah Wald Wins Award
Professor Sarah Wald has been awarded this year’s Campus Sustainability Award for Excellence in Teaching!
Mar 20, 2020
Unbound Journal Now Accepting Submissions
Unbound Journal is currently accepting submissions for its 2020 Spring issue! Students are encouraged to submit all types of literary and visual art for consideration. All submissions will receive feedback and critique, regardless of whether or not they’re accepted.
Submission Guidelines:
Mar 10, 2020
EGO Wine and Cheese Social Cancelled
This event has been cancelled. The University is taking active measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. For information about the University's response to COVID-19, please see: https://www.uoregon.edu/corona virus
Guest Lecture: Anne McClintock Cancelled
Where: Knight Library Browsing Room
When: Tuesday, May 5th at 3:30 PM Cancelled
This event has been cancelled. The University is taking active measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. For information about the University's response to COVID-19, please see: https://www.uoregon.edu/corona virus
