Those registering for the Spring 2012 session, English 302H09 (M/W, 9:00 - 1015 am, East Building, 121) and 302H26 (M/W, 10:00 - 11:45 am, Enterprise Hall 25), and those registering for Fall 2012, English 302N10 (MW, 3-4:15 pm, Robinson B102) want to know what are the books, essays and/or films required. I provide the following for anyone who registers for these sections and wants to read ahead. See also On line library for my students

Advanced Composition in the Humanities

• English 302H09 (M/W: 9:00 am-10:15 am, East Bldg 1212)
  
• English 302H26 (M/W: 10:00 - 11:45 am, Enterprize 275)
  

Required Books (unless otherwise stipulated, any edition will do)

• Trimble, John. Writing with Style: Conversations on the art of writing. 1st, 2nd, or 3rd eds.
• Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing about Film. The company is up to the 8th or 9th edition, anything after the 4th will do.
• Carr, J. L. A Month in the Country.
• Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake.
• Mason, Bobbie Ann. The Girl Sleuth, together with: From National Council of Teachers Database
  • Language Arts, 87:3 (2010)
  • Valerie Bang-Jensen, "A Children’s Choice Program: Insights into Book Selection, Social Relationships, and Reader Identity": 169-76.
  • Jill Hermann-Wilmarth, More than Book Talks: Preservice Teacher Dialogue after Reading Gay and Lesbian Children’s Literature": 188-98.
  • Denise Davila and Lisa Patrick, "Asking the Experts: What children have to say about their reading practices":199-210.
  • Denise Davila and Lisa Patrick, "What Did You Think of the Book: Kids Speak Up":225-31
  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, "Profiles and Perspectives: The Road to Shadowland": 215-19.
  From Bob Dixon's Catching Them Young 1 & 2: Sex, Race, and Class; Political Ideas in Children's Fiction
  • Class: "Snakes and Ladders", pp 43-75
  • Empire: Fiction Follows the Flag", pp. 73-98, 114
  • The Supernatural: Religion, Magic, and Mystification", pp 120-29, 145-63
• Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House
• Clark, Walter van Tilburg. The Ox-Bow Incident.
• Graham, Winston. Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-87
• Levy, Andrea. Small Island

Required Films

• 1987 A Month in the Country, screenplay Simon Gray. 96 min.
• 2006 Mira Nair's The Namesake. 122 min.
• 1963 Robert Wise's The Haunting. 112 min.
• 1943 Wm Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident. 75 min.
• 1975-76 BBC mini-series, Poldark, selections from 1-4. 50 min. each
• 2009 BBC mini-series, Small Island, selections from 1-4. 168 min. 42 min. each

Advanced Composition in the Natural Sciences and Technology

• English 302N10 (MW, 3-4:15 pm, Robinson B102)
  

Books (Tentative, and unless otherwise stipulated, any edition will do)

• Trimble, John. Writing with Style: Conversations on the art of writing. 1st, 2nd, or 3rd eds.
• Feynman, Richard and Ralph Leighton. "What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?"
• Montgomery, Sy. Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas.
• Olson, Steve. Mapping Human History
• Mahair, Maggie. Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much.
• Gawande, Atul. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science.
• Caine, Jeffrey. The Constant Gardener: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script)
• Edson, Margaret. Wit.

  On-line readings

  Kelly Hearn, "The Rise of Unregulated Drug Trials in South America", "The Other South American Drug War," The Nation (Oct 10, 2011):18-22.

  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, "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, "The Bell Curve" New Yorker, March 30, 2009
  

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

Films (also tentative)

• Ralph Leighton's 1988 The Last Journey of a Genius.
• In Search of the First Language. NOVA film.
• Selections from Frederick Wiseman's 1974 Primate, 1970 Hospital and 1989 Near Death
• 2005 Francesco Mereilles's 2005 The Constant Gardener
• 1999 Mike Nichols' 2001Wit
• Raina Haines's 1991 The Doctor