|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
In this course, we will look to contemporary African American writers and artists and to new journals to examine how they embrace and deploy the "experimental" under thesigns of poetry, fiction, art, and journal.We will explore the cross-genre (e.g., poem/picture, theory/play, memoir/film) as we address issues of race, gender and sexuality in several experimental works. Authors may include Claudia Rankine, Tisa Bryant, Dawn Lundy Martin, Harryette Mullen, Renee Gladman, Duriel E. Harris, John Keene, and Christopher Stackhouse; journals may include Nocturnes (Re)view of the Literary Arts andThe Encyclopedia Project. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement R.Wilson Prereq. jr, sr, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
-
8.00 Credits
This seminar examines the distinct critical genealogies within Asian Canadian and Asian American literary and cultural studies over the last three decades, probing their evolving objectives and their intellectual futures. Throughout the course, we will examine the major shi?s and intersections in these fields, focusing in particular on: androcentric cultural nationalism; feminist and queer interventions; historical materialist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, and deconstructive theoretical approaches; and domestic and transnational critical formations. Meets Humanities I-A requirement I. Day Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department beyond English 101, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
-
3.00 Credits
This course will juxtapose Enlightenment philosophy--the first attempt to think of the globe as a single and unified entity, occupying common time and shared space--with postcolonial attempts, both literary and theoretical, to capture the globe's inescapable interconnectedness and its irreducible heterogeneity. The course will offer a selective but wide survey of postcolonial theory and literature on the latter topic, including authors such as Harvey, Spivak, Said, Rushdie, Selvadurai, and Ghosh. Meets Humanities I-A requirement S. Ahmed Prereq. jr, sr, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
-
8.00 Credits
(Speaking- and writing-intensive course; Same as Film Studies 390s-01 Gender Studies 333s-07) This seminar investigates contemporary feminist theory--including but not limited to feminist film theory--in relation to film.We will examine the influential formulations of the cinematic "male gaze"and woman's film, recent theorizations of race and sexuality in cinema, gender complexities in classic and contemporary Hollywood film, and new trends in filmmaking by women. Requirements include extensive readings, weekly essays, and film screenings. Meets Humanities I-A requirement E. Young Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in English and/or Gender Studies beyond the 100 level, and permission of instructor; Film Studies 201 and/or other background in film strongly recommended; 1 meeting (3 hours) plus evening screening; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
-
8.00 Credits
This seminar will focus on major works of fiction by each of these three writers and will be particularly concerned with their response to the social and cultural worlds around them. Considering each as a major voice for the concerns of women of her time, the course will examine their critical and theoretical prose as well as their fiction. Meets Humanities I-A requirement W. Quillian Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department including English 200 or permission of instructor; English 220, 280 highly recommended; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
-
3.00 Credits
(Same as American Studies 301f-01) In Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction film, Blade Runner, Los Angeles is a beleaguered metropolis overrun by immigrant "hordes" andmenacing replicants, presenting a dystopic forecast of multiculturalism. By surveying major genres in relation to the racialized and gendered contexts of migration, labor, and urban redevelopment, this course focuses on alternative constructions of Los Angeles in African American, Asian American, and Chicana/o short stories, novels, and film. Works will include Southland, Tropic of Orange, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Their Dogs Came withThem, Devil in a Blue Dress,We Should Never Meet, and Kindred. Meets Humanities I-A requirement I. Day Prereq. jr, sr, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
-
3.00 Credits
The rise of city life in the united States in the nineteenth century gave rise to a literature of the city. This was sometimes a utopian vision, as in JohnWinthrop's charge to new arrived Puritans to "build a city upon a hill."Writerscreated visions of the city as welcoming, benign or sometimes malignant--with the city o?en functioning as a character itself within a narrative.We will examine the rich history of the city in American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Meets Humanities I-A requirement G. Pemberton Prereq. jr, sr, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways that authors have written autobiographically from the seventeenth century to the present. For the Puritans, writing a journal was a means of gauging their faith, noting their failures, examining in detail their everyday lives. For enslaved African Americans, the memoir became a site of protest against slavery and injustice as well as an example of hope for the disheartened. The memoir has flourished throughout American literary history, especially in the last 20 years.We will examine the memoir, asking questions about form, content, and why the genre has flourished. Meets Humanities I-A requirement G. Pemberton Prereq. jr, sr, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
-
8.00 Credits
Does not meet a distribution requirement The department Prereq. soph, jr, sr, and permission of department; 1 to 8 credits
-
4.00 Credits
This course uses films, discussions, and field trips to introduce students to the complexity of selected environmental problems, attempts to foster an understanding of their origins, and discusses potential solutions. In addition, it introduces basic ecological principles; economic, political, and cultural concepts; and their importance to understanding and solving environmental problems. Does not meet a distribution requirement M. Hoopes 4 credits
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|