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When asking a faculty member to sponsor directed study courses (299), the student should: 1) demonstrate competence to deal with the materials as literature and 2) present a well thought-out proposal. The student must take the initiative in selecting readings or carrying out the special project. Offered for variable credit.
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A one-on-one with a departmental faculty member on pedagogy.
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For second-year graduate students who have been awarded a teaching assistantship. Advanced mentoring and classroom assignments as arranged with individual department members. Information available from the chair. Prerequisite: ENG 300 and ENG 301.
Prerequisite:
ENG 300 and ENG 301.
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The objective of this hands-on, workshop style seminar is to familiarize students with the skills needed to conduct in-depth, independent research with a variety of archival resources. Although this is an interdisciplinary class designed to enhance research opportunities for students across the University, the first half of the syllabus focuses primarily on book history and the development of print culture in Eurpope and the United States through 1900. Subsequent independent projects may draw on areas outside of this focus and may be designed for individuals or for small groups. Projects with applications outside of the classroom (such as finding aids, online teaching and learning resources, etc.) are stongly encouraged. The course may be of particular interest to students in English; History; Communication and Culture; Women and Gender Studies; Comparative Literature; and Ancient Civilization as well as Art History and Music. Consult with the instructor and your faculty advisor to see whether this course might fulfill EITHER the C1 or C2 requirement upon approval of instructor.
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This course examines the contributions to American literature made by Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans and other Latino/Latina writers in the United States over the last thirty years. Through a variety of Latino/Latina writing, we will explore the ways in which these writers represent community, class, race, gender, culture, nation, and ethnicity in their works. We will also examine the ways in which Latinas(os) have manufactured identities within mainstream society, as well as the developement of cultural hybrids and other forms of cultural registers. Representative works of various genres will be read and analyzed within a cultural context; the testimonio, the auto ethnographic essay, the narrative (novel and short story), drama, poetry and film. Authors include Gloria Anzaldua, Sandra Cisneros, Luis Valdez, Cristina Garcia, Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, Achy Obejas and Piri Thomas
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Since many forms of literary theories proliferate, Prof. Gertz strongly recommends that M.A. candidates take a course in literary theory to complement this course. Introduction to Graduate Studies will instead pragmatically focus on professional aspects of literary studies - the writing of abstracts, conference papers, and the M.A. proposal. M.A. candidates not specifically exempted are required to take this course.
Prerequisite:
Seniors by permission only
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Investigates and develops several theoretical approaches to literature in the late-20th and 21st century, attempting to provide glimpses into the range of theoretical issues and concerns. We look particularly at identity formation in contemporary literary, political, economic, cultural and social arenas. May also look at a literary text in relation to theory. General areas of study are selected from among the following: textual criticism, new criticism, psychoanalysis/reader response, structuralism, poststructuralism, feminism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, gay and lesbian theory and Cultural Studies. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Theory or Criticism (D) requirement.
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Making Gender through the 18th-Century Novel Gender roles became more clearly defined in the eighteenth century. This course traces the construction of masculinity and femininity through the discourses of sexuality, sensibility, and sociability in the eighteenth-century British novel. Through contemporary theory on the construction of subjectivity, sexuality and gender, we will examine the popular forms of the 18th-century novel—adventure, domestic, romance, and pornographic—to understand the ways in which these texts helped to shape perceptions of gender socially and culturally. A student may take this seminar more than once, as long as the topic for the course is different. For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Period (C-2) requirement.
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This course explores British literary and visual culture following the political, economic, and social upheavals after World War II. Marked by Britain's declining geopolitical significance, the trauma of the war, and the dissolution of the empire overseas, this period precipitated a crisis of national confidence while opening up new possibilities for defining the “imagined community” of England. We will examine the many aesthetic responses to this era of transition, from nostalgic efforts to reassert a sense of authentic nationhood to new social movements that point to alternative forms of solidarity and community. Topics we will examine include the confluence of race and nationalism; a new emphasis on individual identity and authentic selfhood; the emergence of youth movements and subcultures; the challenges posed by writers from the former colonies; the use of new narrative techniques to respond to realism and modernism. We will explore novels, poetry, music and film profoundly influenced by the legacy of war, new immigration, dramatic shifts in gender and sexual politics, class conflict and deindustrialization, and the potential break-up of Britain. Consideration of these texts, and of the cultural studies movement itself, will serve as the basis for discussions on the ways that literary, popular, and political culture register, and refashion, deeply contested debates regarding the meaning of Englishness. Readings will be drawn from such authors as Anthony Burgess, Kingsley Amis, Ian McEwan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jeanette Winterson, Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Pat Barker, and Salman Rushdie. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (C-3) requirement.
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With particular emphasis on the multiple meanings of "fiction," this seminar examines the ways in which the Asian American identity is constructed, imagined and contested in American literature and popular culture. Analyses will focus primarily on how texts and films produced within the last decade maintain or challenge established boundaries of the Asian American identity. Specific issues to be investigated include the model minority discourse and the demands of assimilation and citizenship; ethnic authenticity and hybridity; gender roles and sexual anxieties; cultural memory and nostalgia; and the commodification of Asian cultures and identities.
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