Major emphasis will be placed on a significant issue, problem, or theme throughout the history of ideas. Students will engage in a variety of readings, write two papers of moderate length, present a class report, and do a research project or paper. Three lecture hours per week.
Open only to students in the Honors Program.

(Please note: ENG106H also embraces the concepts taught in the English department's other composition courses, namely, ENG101: "A course in expository writing involving the student in the total writing process, from rhetorical strategies to editing and revision, with emphasis on grammar and style"; ENG102: "A more advanced writing course continuing the emphasis on the total writing process, but applying it to more complex tasks including those requiring research"; and ENG103: " . . . an overview of critical approaches to literature, an introduction to the genres, and research techniques and materials for the Major.")

Links for ENG 106H

Authors:

Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy
http://www.lucygrealy.com/

High Tide in Tuscon (includes essay "Stone Soup"), by Barbara Kingsolver
http://www.kingsolver.com/

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
http://members.tripod.com/chrisdanielle/alicemain.html

Election, by Tom Perrota
Reviews of "Election" (movie version)
http://film.guardian.co.uk/Film_Page/0,4061,71831,00.html

Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles
The Classics Pages (Andrew Wilson, UK; The Oedipus Page)
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/myth.htm

Perseus Project (Tufts University; includes ancient art objects, photos of sites in play--like Delphi, hyptertext script, and many other references)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu

Study Questions & links to background (site includes two additional translations)
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/oedipus.htm