Courses

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Course Description:

For Transfer Students Only

Some transfer students come to Rutgers lacking confidence in their writing, while others are proficient writers searching for a class in which they can meet fellow transfers. Whatever your skill level, if you have received WC credit for English 101, consider taking English 301 College Writing for Transfer Students to fulfill an upper-level Core Curriculum writing requirements. Students will first write two “Expos” style essays to develop skill in the writing, reading, and critical thinking skills valued by Rutgers and then complete an 8-10 page research paper on a subject of personal interest that draws on scholarly sources, enters an academic debate, and employs a theoretical framework. Don’t miss this chance to prepare yourself for academic success at Rutgers in a class designed exclusively for transfer students.

301 fulfills Core Writing and Communication Requirements WCd (Disciplines) or WCr (Revision).

301 Topics - Fall 2023 (as of March 2023)

301 Course Offerings Fall 2023

Love and Sex

01:355:301:01    Instructor: Sara Blomquist
Meets in-person Tuesday and Friday, 3rd period, 12:10-1:30pm, SC 119, College Ave Campus
Why is finding romantic love, long-lasting relationships, and sexual fulfillment in the modern world so difficult? How do our identities and desires shape our search for partners? Is sexual attraction culturally constructed, biologically hard-wired, or both? The class will use theories from psychology and neuroscience and evidence from popular culture and entertainment to better understand romantic relationships and erotic attraction.

Race and Gender in America

01:355:301:04    Instructor: RAsheda Young
Meets in-person Tuesday and Thursday, 4th period, 2:00-3:20pm, SEC 117, Busch Campus
This course examines the complex experience of race, gender, and intersectional identities in contemporary America. The course begins by exploring popular perceptions about blackness, racism and sexism. The course next invites students to explore subjects that illuminate the social structures and attitudes that marginalize and create obstacles for women-of-color in various contexts. Students are also invited to investigate aspects of non-normative sexuality as they are impacted by dominant paradigms of American identity.

Imagining the Future

01:355:301:05    Instructor: Peter Molin
Meets in-person, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5th period, 3:50-5:10pm, TIL 103-C, Livingston Campus
What will tomorrow look like? Next year? 50 or 100 years from now? Imagining the Future asks students to envision possibilities both promising and horrible. From new technologies and changing ecologies to political disruptions and emerging lifestyles, the world is transforming in profound and unpredictable ways. This course draws on exciting ideas and theories about the future to spark student exploration of the shape of things to come.

Food and Exercise

01:355:301:06    Instructor: Raluca Musat
Meets in-person Monday and Thursday, 3rd period, 12:10—1:30pm, TIL 103-B, Livingston Campus
From paleo diets to Crossfit workouts, eating and exercising are no longer merely necessities or just hobbies. Instead, they are important aspects of modern identity and lifestyles, and big business, too. The popularity of fad diets, YouTube cooking channels, personal trainers, celebrity chefs, and gym memberships all point to our obsession with eating well and exercising to achieve the perfect physique.  In this class students will explore subjects of their own choosing that illustrate contemporary America’s fascination with the body and its care.

Science Fiction and Fantasy 

01:355:301:90 Index 05300 Instructor: Peter Morrone
Meets asynchronously online
From Jules Verne and H.G. Wells to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, popular science fiction and fantasy narratives, marketed as entertainment that allow escape from everyday life, also are capable of shaping values and visions of new ways to live. This course examines how fantasies, whether utopian, dystopian, or somewhere in-between, inform and influence our identities, our ideas, and our real-world experiences and relationships.

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Transfer students who have completed the 101 College Writing WC requirement can request a special permission number to register for 355:301 College Writing for Transfer Students by sending an email with your RUID to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

You may also contact Professor Peter Molin (Coordinator of 301) at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Dean Robin H. Diamond (Director of the SAS Transfer Center) at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..