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  • 76 327: Special Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics will vary by semester. Consult the course descriptions provided by the department for current offerings. Example, Summer 2009: The Lord of the Rings has been hailed as one of the most widely read books of the twentieth century, second only to the Bible. In this course, we will examine The Lord of the Rings to gain a deeper understanding of the trilogy itself and to consider different approaches to literary analysis. We will begin by considering The Lord of the Rings as Tolkien's attempt to write a mythology for England that was influenced by Beowulf. We will read both Beowulf and Tolkien's essay "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," which emphasizes Beowulf's literary, rather than historical, importance. With this as a foundation, we will embark on The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. We will also read a variety of literary analyses of The Lord of the Rings. These literary analyses approach the trilogy in terms of its genre, its publication and reception, its author's religious beliefs and experiences in World War I, and its representations of gender, race, and the environment. Although we may occasionally refer to the films, our primary focus will be on the books themselves.
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  • 76 330: Medieval Literature

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics will vary by semester. Consult the course descriptions provided by the department each semester for current offerings. EXAMPLE: Fall 2011: Renaissance scholars sometimes promote the misconception that Shakespeare was the first writer to create characters with inner lives (rather than just social roles), that he was the inventor of the human, as Harold Bloom puts it. The varieties of writing?from the 700s to the 1400s?we will take up in this course will, I think, challenge that view. Some of the texts in which medieval men and women represented themselves are reflective, some are outrageous, some are charming, some are funny?all are populated by human beings we can recognize in spite of unfamiliar modes of presentation. We will explore both well-known fictions like Beowulf, The Song of Roland, Dante's Inferno, and Malory's Morte Darthur, and some not so well known. The lives of women in the Middle Ages will be a particular focus for the course. Students will also choose one twentieth-century fiction based on medieval materials to read and discuss with the class. Course requirements include regular attendance and participation in discussions, three brief papers and a final exam.
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  • 76 332: African American Literature

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics will vary by semester. Consult the course descriptions provided by the department each semester for current offerings. Spring 2011: This course will introduce you to diverse examples of African-American literary expression. You will read canonical authors like Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison as well as non-canonical ones like Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker and memoir writer turned United States President Barack Obama. In this course you will also explore a variety of literary forms, movements and genres like the graphic novel, the Black Arts Movement and memoir writing. Last but not least, this course will give you a glimpse into the field of African-American literary criticism. These secondary readings will help you explore the historical, aesthetic and political issues that surround these works of art, give you a sense of how criticism functions and the multitude of forms it can take.
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  • 76 333: African American Studies

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics will vary by semester. Consult English Department for most up-to-date description. Example, Spring 2011: In this course students will explore "post-race" idealism within American literary and popular culture. With the election of President Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States, media pundits, historians and politicians marked the twenty-first century as the century we transcended "race" in American life. But what does it mean to be "post-race?" Where does this concept come from? Is this a good thing? Does being "post-race" mean the same thing to everyone? The majority of the works we will read or view in this class will be contemporary novels, poetry, films and memoirs. These works include Phillip Roth's The Human Stain, Junto Diaz's The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, Barck Obama's Dreams From My Father, Lucille Clifton's Mercy, Paul Haggis' Crash as well as other works of fiction and non-fiction. Along with these works we will also explore theoretical and literary-critical approaches to the idea of race and post-race in culture.
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  • 76 339: Advanced Film and Media Studies

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics will vary by semester. Summer 2011: This course uses early and recent science-fiction films and novels to explore how the science-fiction genres have been an especially powerful cinematic or literary means for exploring social possibilities, interpreting cultural or political crisis, and giving human (or alien) shapes to technological transformation. Such films and their literary counterparts range from the dystopian (Metropolis) to the utopian (Forbidden Planet or This Island Earth). Films to be screened may include Metropolis (1927), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Forbidden Planet (1956), Them! (1957) 2001 (1968), Soylent Green (1973), Alien (1979), Twelve Monkeys (1998), Minority Report (2002), eXistenZ (2003), Inception (2010) or others. Students will also read critical essays and literary fiction by H. Spring 2011: This course will examine the role of both written and filmed science fiction in defining our notions of modernity, progress and the place of humankind in an increasingly technological world. At the same time, it will provide an interdisciplinary bridge between literature and science as we examine the real scientific principles which inform fictional worlds ? and examine the ways in which our understanding of those principles is, in turn, shaped by the fictions which contain them. Readings will be drawn from novels and short stories as well as articles from current scientific journals. Film screenings will include works from around the world, as well as relevant television programming At the conclusion of this course, students will have a better grasp of the actual science on which these stories are based, be able to more fully consider the ramifications of that science on cultural constructs, and will have a better understanding of the ways in which both the sciences and the humanities work together to shape our conception of an acceptable future.
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  • 76 347: American Literary and Cultural Studies: Comtemporary Fiction

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics will vary by semester. Consult the course descriptions provided by the Department each semester for current offerings. Example, Fall 2011: This course will survey recent American fiction, roughly from 1980 to the present. Many critics have defined the previous era as ?postmodern,? but no one quite knows what to call this contemporary period, so one purpose of the course will be to define it. We will read stories and novels by writers beginning with the ?minimalism? of Raymond Carver, reading up to current work by Junot Diaz and Cormac McCarthy.
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  • 76 350: History of Critical Ideas

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course studies the long-debated, volatile problem of how readers or spectators respond to texts (in print, theatrical performances and dramaturgy, film, or painting). Aristotle, Plato, Longinus and other ancients theorized about audience response in terms of its danger or advantage to the polis; in that broad sense, the problem has always been political as well as psychological and aesthetic. Eighteenth-century thinkers formulated notions of "beauty" and "standards of taste" to measure audience response to poetry and visual art. Romantic writers developed psychologies of reading as symbolic interpretations. The rise of mass culture links the politics of reading or viewing to questions of consumption and the market of cultural goods. Guided by recent critical theory as well as classic questions, we will ask how the reading or viewing subject is "constructed" by the printed or filmic text; how institutions like schools control the process of interpretation; how individual readers "appropriate" texts for themselves against their authors' intentions. We will also follow the lead of historians by asking how individual readers used books or other media to refashion their lives. What people do with texts, and what texts to do people, will be the threads we trace through readings in literary criticism and theory, film and theater criticism, history of reading, and the sociology of culture. There will be two film screenings, two short papers, and one longer paper required of all students. Participation and regular attendance is expected.
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  • 76 353: Global Studies

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics vary by semester. Please consult the English Department for most current description. Example from Spring 2011: This course looks at the relationship between women and globalization. Globalization has been defined as the "creation of new and the multiplication of existing social networks and activities that increasingly overcome traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographical boundaries." What, then, are the roles and places of women in these new networks and activities? What is the function of the text?fiction, memoir, scholarly article or film?in describing these roles and places? This course will begin exploring these questions historically by theorizing women's relation to the nation in nationalist struggles. We will look specifically at the close connection between women and elements of tradition, including religion. Moving into the contemporary moment, we will examine the experiences of immigrant women and women in the global factory. As a way to interrogate our own assumptions, we will consider heated debates about the globalization of feminism. Throughout the course, we will think through the role of cultural representations in these issues. Readings will be drawn from around the world, and include theoretical works as well as literary and filmic representations.
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  • 76 354: South Asian Literature

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Topics vary by semester. Please consult the English Department for the most current description. Example, Fall 2011: This course focuses on twentieth-century literature written in English from India, Pakistan and other parts of South Asia, as well as by people of South Asian origin. The course will begin by looking at literary representations that portray the struggle for decolonization and the trauma of partition. As we move forward to the contemporary period, we will examine the competing aesthetics of social and magical realism. We will then look back at India from the perspective of the diaspora, considering themes of identity, immigration and globalization from the perspective of South Asians writing in Britain and the United States. Texts might include works by Rabindranath Tagore, Saadat Hasan Manto, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Romesh Gunesekera, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Jhumpa Lahiri.
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  • 76 355: Leadership, Dialogue, and Change

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Leadership is often associated with the exercise of institutional authority or individual power. However the tradition of leadership based on dialogue shows us a powerful counter-rhetoric?one which organizes people to work together on complex problems through problem-posing, pragmatic inquiry, and the inclusion of marginalized perspectives. We will examine how this approach to leadership and change works in public voices of writers from Emerson and Martin Luther King, to the community organizing of an Alinsky, to the cultural critiques of African-American and feminist scholars such as Cornel West or bell hooks, and?equally importantly?in the ways ordinary professionals include voices and integrate social values into effective workplace writing, and the ways students call forth change on campuses. This introduction to the rhetoric of making a difference shows how its roots in American philosophical pragmatism created a focus on outcomes, not just ideals, and translated commitments into strategic rhetorical practices. In this course you will develop your own skills in writing and leadership by working as a ?rhetorical consultant? to a campus or community group: learning how to investigate and define a shared problem, to develop a briefing book for deliberation, and to support inclusive decision making by documenting rival perspectives and options (see http://www.cmu.edu.thinktank). This portfolio project will also demonstrate your research skills and ability to support a problem-solving dialogue within an intercultural community or complex organization.
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