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TT 9:30 O'GRADY OLD CATEGORY: C
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This course will assist students in developing tools to understand and critically analyze American Foreign policy - past, present, and future. The course will include a close examination of alternative approaches to the study of American foreign policy and the application of these approaches in the analysis of selected case studies. TuTh 9:30 - 10:45 Watanabe
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MWF 12:00 MUELLER CATEGORY: B* NEW CATEGORY: * How did English, once considered a vulgar Germanic tongue, become the ubiquitous language of global and digital communication Participants in this course will focus primarily on the early history of the language, beginning with its Indo-European origins and proceeding into the Old English of Beowulf, the Middle English of Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Early Modern English of William Shakespeare. In the latter part of the course, attention will be given to the standardization of English, prescriptive and descriptive lexicography, regional dialects in the British Isles and North America, and the proliferation of Englishes throughout the world. Through historical analyses of the internal and external forces that influence language change, participants will assess the status of present-day English, guided by the following questions: How does the early history of the language inform our understanding new literacies Will digital practices, such as texting and blogging, accelerate language change How should teachers, writers, and editors respond to this moving target Through this investigation of English's past, participants will begin to consider English's future.
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TT 12:30 BRUSS OLD CATEGORY: B
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ON LINE KUTZ OLD CATEGORY: B Fall 09 Online
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Feminist political theory is the study of gender inequality. This course offers a critical engagement with both halves of this subject area: first, the course examines the character, extent, and legitimacy of gender inequality, an investigation that will necessarily take into account the important permutations of gender inequality by race, class, sexuality, nationality, citizenship, and immigrant status. Second, the course will interrogate gender itself, calling the terms man and woman into question. Overall, the course will remain concerned with politics and thus continually consider the practical applications of these ideas in such areas as the body, marriage, parenting, family, labor, crime, violence, and war. TuTh 4:00 - 5:15 Schotten
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MW 2:00 AUERBACH OLD CATEGORY: B This course will explore approaches and strategies for tutoring students in Freshman English courses; it is required for English Department tutors who have been accepted into the Tutoring Program through an interview process. The course focuses on helping students to generate and develop ideas, engage with academic texts, revise papers, and address organizational and linguistic challenges. In addition, the course will introduce students to various issues and debates in composition theory. Students who wish to become tutors and enroll in this course must first be recommended by a faculty member and then be interviewed by the coordinator of the English Department Tutoring Program. Applicants for tutoring positions should consult Elsa Auerbach (elsa.auerbach@umb.edu) to obtain further information. BY PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR ONLY.
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MWF 10:00 NURHUSSEIN OLD CATEGORY: D SATISFIES CAPSTONE REQUIREMENT In a 1931 essay titled "Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem," Charles Chesnutt asserted that "Negro writers no longer have any difficulty in finding publishers. Their race is no longer a detriment but a good selling point." We will, in this course, consider to what extent we can agree with Chesnutt's assessment of the place of black writers in American print culture at the turn of the century compared to a generation later. In spite of, or perhaps in response to, the perceived "detriment" observed by Chesnutt, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a rich period for African-American literary production, as we will discover through our reading of Che snutt's Conjur e Tales, Pauline H opkins's Of O ne Blood, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's I ola Leroy, Booker T. Wa shington's Up fr om Slavery, W. E. B . Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, James Weld on Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex -Colored Man, and poems by Harper and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Because African-American newspapers and magazines-some with wide circulations-constituted a significant and developing sphere of publication, students will devote one research ess ay to examining The Colored Ame rican Magazine (founded in Boston, edited by Pauline Hopkins, and self-described as "the only first-class illustrated monthly published in America exclusively in the interests of the Colored Race"). In addition, one longer capstone essay will be due at the end
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TT 11:00 PENNER OLD CATEGORY: E SATISFIES CAPSTONE REQUIREMENT This Capstone course covers the life and work of one of England's most celebrated and widely taught authors, Charlotte Bront . In order to appreciate Bront 's development as a writer and her particular contributions to literary history, we will read all of her fiction (The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette), including the stories that she, her brother, and sisters produced as children, as well as selections of their poetry, and we will work with her letters and biographies (both Victorian and contemporary) written about her. Our critical readings will be drawn from a variety of perspectives: feminism, post-colonialism, narratology, cultural studies, literary historicism, and queer theory. The class will be run as a seminar, with students doing research on literary, historical, and cultural contexts, including issues such as the social position of "redundant" women, class conflict, and the effects of both the growing middle class and British imperial projects on domestic life
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