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4.00 Credits
A changing topics course that addresses topics in the study of language or media. Possible topics include language politics, textual communities, graphic novels, and electronic media. This course fulfills the Language & Media requirement for English majors.
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4.00 Credits
This course demonstrates Marshall McLuhan's dictum "[t]he medium is the message." In considering the past, present, and future of media, we will examine how the form that writing takes affects reading and how the ways in which texts are produced and distributed build communities of readers. Our investigation will focus on works of literature that were recorded and transmitted in various media, for example classical works first recorded on scrolls and later transcribed to codices and print. We will also examine electronic media, including web-based texts and film, to see how motion, sound and interactivity influence the presentation of texts. Hands-on assignments will provide experience working with texts in various media, for example by examining books at the University of Utah's Book Arts Program, making books at the Salt Lake Community College Publication Center, and refashioning one of the assigned readings in the medium of their choice. This course fulfills the Language & Medium requirement for English majors.
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4.00 Credits
Living in the present is living awash in an immense variety of media, many of which would have been unimaginable just fifty years ago. Though film adaptations of books are as old as film itself, the current explosion of new media outlets gives us an opportunity to look at the problems of adaptation anew. This course will explore adaptations, remakes, parodies, and other derivative, secondary, or "parasitic" artworks. We will consider how adaptations re-interpret and change originals, how differences in media change what can be communicated in artworks, and how technology has changed our understanding of what an artwork is. The course will also investigate the implications of new ways of producing, distributing, and consuming artworks, including fan fiction, file sharing, and mashups. This course fulfills the Language and Media requirement for English majors.
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4.00 Credits
Humanism is the belief that reason provides the best tools for solving the problems of the world. It has dominated political and literary thought at least since the seventeenth century. It is the foundation of human rights discourse, of many theories of democracy, and of the prevailing models of social justice. Nonetheless, humanism has its detractors, and the last several decades have seen the rise of "posthumanism," which seeks to challenge humanism's dominant position in political and social thought. Some critics suspect that humanism unconsciously upholds the racism, misogyny, and homophobia of the texts that established its terms in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Others are motivated by the challenges to reason presented by psychoanalysis, Marxism, and radical feminism. Queer Theory is among the must important posthumanist discourses in the United States, though not all queer theorists are posthumanists. This course investigates how queer theorists have attacked and defended humanism, and also explores queer theory's relationship to other posthumanist discourses. Authors to be considered may include Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Donna Haraway, Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani, Jasbir Puar, Lee Edelman, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, and Joan Copjec. This course fulfills the Theory requirement for English majors.
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4.00 Credits
We will study art about art: literature that thematizes the creation and reception of literature (or art), highlighting its own fictional status, and paradoxically questioning its own status as art. Literary self-reference characterizes many paradigmatic modern and postmodern works such as Cervantes's Don Quixote, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Jorge Luis Borges' short stories, and Samuel Beckett's plays. We will grapple with the theoretical and cultural- historical issues involved in literary self reference. This course fulfills the Theory or Language and Media requirement for English majors.
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4.00 Credits
Narrative is the basic function of the human mind. It is all around us, from novels to restaurant menus. This course provides an introduction to narrative theory-the theory of how narratives work, and why basic procedures and mechanisms may be common to all acts of storytelling. By considering the various structures, genres, and characteristics of narrative-from novels and historical documents to visual media-we will attempt to unpack what Roland Barthes calls, "the functional syntax" by which narrative is generally constructed. The goal is not simply to enjoy the content, but to clinically analyze how narratives are assembled and disseminated, and what their powers and limitations are in giving meaning to the human experience, across historical and cultural contexts. Readings will include fiction, film, and theoretical works by Aristotle, Gerard Genette, Monika Fludernik, among others. Issues include: mimetic and diegetic modes of narrative, framed and cut-up narratives, literary tropes such as, "the hero returns." This course fulfills the Theory requirement for English majors.
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3.00 Credits
The communication and critical thinking skills cultivated in English courses can be transferred to a wide range of professional and public contexts. This writing workshop will introduce students to professional genres of writing that they are likely to encounter in the workplace as we consider the rhetorical and social functions of such documents. In addition to considering how English skills have prepared them for a variety of careers, students will draft professional documents to use in future applications for jobs and graduate programs. They will also work closely with a community organization to identify its writing needs and write to meet those needs. In addition to meeting the Writing requirement in the English major, this course also involves community service that counts toward the Service Learning Scholar Program. This course fulfills the Writing requirement for English majors.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of literature for adolescents, emphasizing literary and artistic merit as well as literary and artistic merit as well as varieties of literary expression. Also examines the place of literature in secondary school curricula. This course fulfills the Periods and Movements requirement for English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 220.
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1.00 Credits
A tutorial-based course used only for student- initiated proposals for intensive study of topics not otherwise offered in the English Program. Hours are arranged. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and school dean.
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2.00 Credits
A course to support and guide English majors, participants in the Honors Program, and other upper-division students who are developing the skills to produce a well-researched, fully documented, comprehensive thesis on a literary or related topic. Hours are arranged. Prerequisites: ENGL 269 and senior standing or consent of instructor. (2)
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