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  • ECON 380: Mathematical Economics

    1.00 Credits
    Wesleyan University

    The uses of mathematical argument in extending the range, depth, and precision of economic analysis are explored. The central goal of the course is to promote sophistication in translating the logic of economic problems into tractable and fruitful mathematical models. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of optimization and strategic interaction.
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  • ENGL 130: The English Essay

    1.00 Credits
    Wesleyan University

    This course will focus on the writing of nonfiction and the forms of the English essay. Readings will be drawn from a range of genres, both nonfiction and fiction, including memoirs and profiles, historical and contemporary commentary, short stories and novels.
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  • ENGL 132: Writing Medicine and the Doctor-Writer

    1.00 Credits
    Wesleyan University

    In this course we read a range of works across a variety of literary traditions, mainly by writers who were also medical practitioners (including Chekhov, Bulgakov, Lu Xun, William Carlos Williams, Che Guevara), but also nondoctors who write compellingly about medically-related subjects (Camus in THE PLAGUE, Tracy Kidder on Paul Farmer, Anne Fadiman on cultural clashes).
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  • ENGL 201A: Ways of Reading: Borrowing and Stealing: Authorship and Originality in Literature

    1.00 Credits
    Wesleyan University

    "Ways of Reading" introduces students to the characteristics thought of as literary and the methods for studying them. This is a gateway course into the English major, and only one of the ENGL201 series may be taken for credit. "Ways of Reading" courses develop strategies for careful and close reading, and techniques for the analysis of literary forms such as poetry, drama, and prose narratives such as novels and short stories. They familiarize students with some of the protocols of the literary-critical essay, examine the idea of literature as a social institution, and explore ways of connecting textual details and the world beyond the text. The ways of reading learned in the course are powerful tools for critically assessing discourses that expand far beyond the realm of literature. So while students will become adept literary critics, they also will learn quickly that to be a literary critic is to read critically and carefully all the time: in poems, novels, and plays; but also in political speech, in popular culture, and in the discourses that shape everyday life. This "Ways of Reading" course will explore the meaning of authorship and originality in literary study. What does it mean to be original within a literary tradition? How do genres retain their coherence while also enabling originality? When does inspiration become plagiarism? Where do we draw the line between borrowing and stealing in literature? What legal and ethical frameworks help us to distinguish between them? How do such norms vary across genres and media? This course will focus on the different ways that poetry, fiction, and drama foster the recirculation of particular plots, figures, and formal structure while still maintaining the value of originality. We will pay particular attention to the crises of authorship that mark what Walter Benjamin famously called the "Age of Mechanical Reproduction." But we will also look at the central role that borrowing and rewriting has played in the very constitution of the idea of a literary tradition.
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  • ENGL 201B: Ways of Reading: Literature and/as Performance

    1.00 Credits
    Wesleyan University

    "Ways of Reading" introduces students to the characteristics thought of as literary and the methods for studying them. This is a gateway course into the English major, and only one of the ENGL201 series may be taken for credit. "Ways of Reading" courses develop strategies for careful and close reading, and techniques for the analysis of literary forms such as poetry, drama, and prose narratives such as novels and short stories. They familiarize students with some of the protocols of the literary-critical essay, examine the idea of literature as a social institution, and explore ways of connecting textual details and the world beyond the text. The ways of reading learned in the course are powerful tools for critically assessing discourses that expand far beyond the realm of literature. So while students will become adept literary critics, they also will learn quickly that to be a literary critic is to read critically and carefully all the time: in poems, novels, and plays; but also in political speech, in popular culture, and in the discourses that shape everyday life. This "Ways of Reading" course will explore the relationship between literature and performance. Writers are performers; language is their instrument and their medium. Literary works are themselves performances that also often present and embody other performances. Writers perform versions of themselves; they also create characters who perform. This aspect of literature is most obvious in drama, but it is also an essential element of lyric poetry and an important aspect of other literary forms as well. In this section of English 201 we will focus on the three traditional genres, reading poetry by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Walt Whitman, and Adrienne Rich, one play each by Shakespeare, David Henry Hwang, and Tennessee Williams, as well as fictional works by Jane Austen, Nella Larsen, and Herman Melville.
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  • ENGL 201C: Ways of Reading: The Work of Literature

    1.00 Credits
    Wesleyan University

    "Ways of Reading" introduces students to the characteristics thought of as literary and the methods for studying them. This is a gateway course into the English major, and only one of the ENGL201 series may be taken for credit. "Ways of Reading" courses develop strategies for careful and close reading, and techniques for the analysis of literary forms such as poetry, drama, and prose narratives such as novels and short stories. They familiarize students with some of the protocols of the literary-critical essay, examine the idea of literature as a social institution, and explore ways of connecting textual details and the world beyond the text. The ways of reading learned in the course are powerful tools for critically assessing discourses that expand far beyond the realm of literature. So while students will become adept literary critics, they also will learn quickly that to be a literary critic is to read critically and carefully all the time: in poems, novels, and plays; but also in political speech, in popular culture, and in the discourses that shape everyday life. The main concern of this "Ways of Reading" course will be on the development of skills of literary analysis and of clear and effective writing, but we will focus our efforts by considering a number of ideas about the distinctive purposes and demands of literary expression.
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  • ENGL 201D: Ways of Reading: Reading for Genre: Form, History, Theory

    1.00 Credits
    Wesleyan University

    "Ways of Reading" introduces students to the characteristics thought of as literary and the methods for studying them. This is a gateway course into the English major, and only one of the ENGL201 series may be taken for credit. "Ways of Reading" courses develop strategies for careful and close reading, and techniques for the analysis of literary forms such as poetry, drama, and prose narratives such as novels and short stories. They familiarize students with some of the protocols of the literary-critical essay, examine the idea of literature as a social institution, and explore ways of connecting textual details and the world beyond the text. The ways of reading learned in the course are powerful tools for critically assessing discourses that expand far beyond the realm of literature. So while students will become adept literary critics, they also will learn quickly that to be a literary critic is to read critically and carefully all the time: in poems, novels, and plays; but also in political speech, in popular culture, and in the discourses that shape everyday life. This "Ways of Reading" course will explore the three major genres of literature: poetry, drama, and prose narrative. We will examine their building blocks or basic elements and seek to understand how individual works of literature exemplify, reveal, and experiment with them. We will attend to formal and theoretical matters ranging from the operation of words to the patterns that structure poems, plays, and plots. We will ask how literary texts respond to, represent, and capture both literary history and their historical moments by depicting their time and place and by participating in debates about art and society. Throughout, our emphasis will be on the rigors and pleasures of close reading, sustained and detailed textual analysis. We will strive to cultivate the lively, generous, nourishing, and ennobling engagement that S. T. Coleridge had in mind when he said nearly 200 years ago that "the poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity."
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  • ENGL 201E: Ways of Reading: Reading Encounters: Text, Travel, and Perception

    1.00 Credits
    Wesleyan University

    "Ways of Reading" introduces students to the characteristics thought of as literary and the methods for studying them. This is a gateway course into the English major, and only one of the ENGL201 series may be taken for credit. "Ways of Reading" courses develop strategies for careful and close reading, and techniques for the analysis of literary forms such as poetry, drama, and prose narratives such as novels and short stories. They familiarize students with some of the protocols of the literary-critical essay, examine the idea of literature as a social institution, and explore ways of connecting textual details and the world beyond the text. The ways of reading learned in the course are powerful tools for critically assessing discourses that expand far beyond the realm of literature. So while students will become adept literary critics, they also will learn quickly that to be a literary critic is to read critically and carefully all the time: in poems, novels, and plays; but also in political speech, in popular culture, and in the discourses that shape everyday life. This "Ways of Reading" explores the premise that reading is a way of seeing, a way of knowing that emerges from our encounter with the text and the world it represents. What do we encounter when we enter the world of a literary text? How do literary texts represent encounters with the world? How do they shape our perception and experience of the world, of identity, of difference? In this class we will pay close attention to the language, genre, and literary form of poems, stories, and plays that dramatize the process of reading. We will read texts, such as BENITO CERENO and "The Yellow Wallpaper," that depict challenges to their protagonist's ability to read and perceive the world, and we will read the historical source materials for these stories to consider the process of writing as itself a form of reading. We will also read poems and plays, Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Aimeé Césaire's "A Tempest" (and perhaps a contemporary novel) written in response to an encounter with an earlier text. Our final reading, the graphic memoir, Fun Home, will challenge us to find new ways of reading across genres and medias. Throughout the course questions of genre and form, genesis and context, and the on-going encounter between the world and the text will provide the focus for our reading.
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  • ENGL 203: American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War

    1.00 Credits
    Wesleyan University

    In this survey of American literature from the first European contact to the U.S. Civil War, we will read celebrated novels, stories, and poems alongside historic letters, speeches, and memoirs that will help us grapple with a question raised in the 18th-century: "what, then, is an American, this new man." We will expand the scope of this question (who gets to be considered an American and by whom?) and consider a range of contradictory representations that depict America and the United States as a land of promise and brutal conflict, as a "contact zone" that inspires collaboration as well as violent contention. Throughout the course we will pay close attention to conversations between texts, to expressive form, and to the different ways that literary genres and conventions articulate the aspirations, conflicts, and contradictions that each text reveals. Close reading will help us discern the importance of how a text is written in determining what it means.
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  • ENGL 205: Shakespeare

    1.00 Credits
    Wesleyan University

    Shakespeare's plays continue to play an important role in our collective psyche, in part due to the ways they present the formation of modern subjectivity. Anxieties about nationhood, religion, economic shifts, colonial enterprise, and gender permeate his works, establishing a set of concerns that still inform our worldview. Because of the continued circulation of these works, it is possible to neglect the conditions that produced them. The heart of this course will be the rich range of Shakespeare's drama and poetry, including King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, and Hamlet. We will consider the historical backdrop of his plays, keeping in mind previous traditions and genres, and then explore how these works continue to be re-imagined in order to re-establish their relevance for subsequent ages. In addition to a range of interpretive lenses, we will use film clips to explore a variety of performance issues.
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