Fall 2009 and Spring 2010

Those registering for the Fall 2009 session, 302H05 (MW1:30-2:45 pm) and 302H07 (MW 3:00-4:15 pm) and Spring 2010, 302N12 (Tues, 7:20-10:00 pm) and 302N13 (Wed, 7:20 - 10:)) pm may want to have an idea of what we will read and watch, and what we will write about. I provide the following for anyone who registers for these sections and wants to read ahead. The lists do not contain all the online materials we will use.

Advanced Composition on the Humanities

• English 302H05 (Mon/Wed, 1:30-2:45 am, Robinson A125)
  
• English 302H07 (Mon/Wed, 3:00-4:15 am, Robinson A245)

Required Books

• Trimble, John. Writing with Style: Conversations on the art of writing. NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. Second edition. ISBN 0-13-025713-3.
• Carr, J. L. A Month in the Country. NY: New York Review of Books edition, 2000. ISBN 0940322471
• Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto. NY: Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN 0060838728
• Mason, Bobbie Ann. The Girl Sleuth: On the trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, and Cherry Ames. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1995. ISBN 082031739X
• Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. NY: Random, 2004. ISBN 081297106X
• James, Henry. Daisy Miller. NY: Modern Library, 2002. ISBN 0375759662
• Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility, ed. Margaret Drabble. NY: Signet, 2008. 978-0451531018.
• Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. ISBN 9780618485222.

Optional Book

• Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing about Film. NY: Longmans, 2003-6. Fourth, fifth, or sixth edition. It doesn't matter which. ISBN (for fifth edition): 0321096657.

Films We will Study

• A Month in the Country. 1987 Channel Four/Orion Film. Produced by Kenneth Trodd. Director, Pat O'Conner; screenplay, J. L. Carr and Simon Gray; starring Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide, Richard Vernon, Jim Carter, Vicki Arundale, Martin O'Neile, Tim Barker, Eileen O'Brien, Barbara Marten, Kenneth Kitsen, Elizabeth Anson. Original Music: Howard Blake. 96 minutes.
• Daisy Miller. 1974 Paramount film, produced and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, from screenplay by Frederick Raphael, adapted from story by Henry James, starring Cybill Shepherd as Daisy Miller, Barry Brown as Frederick Winterbourne, Chloris Leachman as Mrs Ezrar Miller. 91 minutes.
• Sense and Sensibility. 1995 Miramax film, produced by Lindsay Doran, co-producer Laurie Borg and James Schamus, directed by Ang Lee director, written by Emma Thompson, starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslett, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Gregg Wise, Emilie Francois, Elizabeth Spriggs, Robert Hardy, Harriet Walters. 134 minutes. We'll also see clips from 2000 Sri Surya I have found it, produced by A.M. Rathnam and Kalaippuli S. Thanu, directed and written by Rajiv Menon, starring Aishwarya Rai, Mammootty, Ajith, Tabu, Abbas, Pooja Batra; and 2008 WBGH/BBC Sense and Sensibility, produced by Vanessa de Sousa and Anne Pivcevic, directed by John Alexander, written by Andrew Davies, starring Hattie Morahan, Charity Wakefield, Janet McTeer, David Morrissey, Dan Stevens, Dominic Cooper.
• Namesake. 2006 Fox. Produced and directed by Mira Nair, screenplay Sooni Taraporevala. Starring Tabu, Kal Penn, Irrfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett, Zuleikha Robinson, Sahiri Nair. 122 minutes.

Advanced Composition in the Natural Sciences and Technology

• English 302N12 (Tuesday, 7:20 - 10:00 pm, Krug Hall 204)
  
• English 302N13 (Wednesday, 7:20 - 10:00 pm, Thompson 117)

Required Books and Online Essays

• Trimble, John. Writing with Style: Conversations on the art of writing. NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. Second edition. ISBN 0-13-025713-3.
• Feynman, Richard and Ralph Leighton. Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! NY: Norton, 1997. ISBN 0-393-31604-1.
• Feynman, Richard and Ralph Leighton. "What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?" NY: Norton, 2001. ISBN 0-393-32092-8
• Goodall, Jane. In the shadow of man, revised edtion, introduction Stephen Jay Gould NY: Mariner Books, 2000. ISBN 0618056769
• Olson, Steve. Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins. NY: Mariner, 2002. ISBN: 0618352104
• Gawande, Atul. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. New York: Picador, 2002. ISBN 0312421702.

  Marcia Angell "The Body Hunters", New York Review of Books, 52:15, October 16, 2005. A review of book and film and researched essay on politics and the pharmaceutical industry.

  Marcia Angel "Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption", New York Review of Books, 56:1(January 15, 2009) The state of medicine in the US today

  Marcia Angell, "Your Dangerous Drugstore", New York Review of Books, 53:10 (June 8, 2006).

  Atul Gawande, The Bell Curve: What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?", The New Yorker, December 6, 2004.
  Atul Gawande, "Piecework: Medicine's Money Problem", The New Yorker, April 4, 2005.
  

  Atul Gawande, "The Score: How childbirth went industrial", The New Yorker, October 9, 2006, 59-67.
  

  Atul Gawande, "The Way We Age Now", The New Yorker, April 30, 2007.
  

  Atul Gawande, "Sick and Twisted",The New Yorker, July 23, 2007
  

  Atul Gawande, "Hellhole" an essay on medical and human rights about the torture of solitary confinement, The New Yorker, March 30, 2009
  

Tenative Films We Will Study

• Ralph Leighton's The Last Journey of a Genius. Produced by Christopher Sykes. A BBC/NOVA film, January 1989. This is a film portrait biography of Richard Feynman by Christopher Sykes and Ralph Leighton. It contains interviews of Richard Feynman (plus news film clips). 54 minutes.
• One of a choice of documentaries by Jane Goodall, mostly TV one hour programs, probably the 1995 My life with the chimpanzees. To be announced.
• Christopher Hale's In Search of the First Language. A 1997 Horizon, WGBH, BBC-TV film. Narrated Peter Thomas. Editors include Adam de Van, Jana Bennet. 60 minutes.
• Choice of either: Wit, HBO film, made for TV, from a screenplay by Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson. Directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson as Vivan Bearing, Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Kelekian, Eileen Atkins as E.M. Ashford, Audra McDonald as Susie Monahan, Jonathan M. Woodward as Jason Posner, Harold Pinter as Vivian's Father, and Rebecca Laurie as Vivian aged 5. A professor is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. 98 minutes; or
• The Doctor. A 1991 Warner Bros film. Directed by Raina Haines, screenplay Robert Caswell based on a book by Ed Rosenbaum, starring William Hurt as Dr Jack McKee, Christine Latkee as Anne McKee, Elizabeth Perkins as June Ellis, Mandy Patkinin as Dr Murray Kaplan, and Alan Arkin as Dr Eli Blumfield, Wendy Crewson as Dr Leslie Abbot. 122 minutes.