ENGL 199

Fall 2012

Part of Term 1
Aug 27-Dec 12
Undergraduate Open Seminar
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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
10065
Independent Study
ARRANGED
n.a.
Location Pending
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
40419
Lecture-Discussion
CH1
10:00AM -11:50AM
MW
1205 W Oregon
Frayne, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Degree Notes:
Camp Honors/Chanc Schol course.
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Charles Dickens: Novel to Film
Section Info:
Topic Section CH1: Charles Dickens: From Novel to Film Section CH1 is for Chancellor's Scholars; others may only enroll with consent of instructor and director of the Campus Honors Program. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, whose outstanding reputation as a novelist, after two centuries, is secure. The novels of Charles Dickens have been favorite sources for adaptation to films, and over the 20th Century the number of Dickens films runs into the hundreds. Dickens? novels have sure-fire potentialities for cinematic treatment: melodramatic plots, an array of unforgettable major, and especially, minor characters, lots of sentiment, and evidence of Dickens? passions as a social reformer. The pictorial, almost documentary qualities of Dickens? novels have been widely noted. Dickens in his fiction created one of the first compelling images of a modern metropolis...teeming, smoky, foggy London, and film directors such as David Lean have captured that atmosphere with varying degrees of success. The Dickens films to be studied will range from classic Hollywood films of the 1930s to the post-World War II British Dickens revival, and to the more recent TV serial versions. In this course we will examine the process by which Dickens? prose is transformed into screen images. We will study screen adaptations of some of Dickens best known works such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations, and other works as time allows. There will be student reports, a test after each novel, and essays on various aspects of the adaptive process, as well as a final exam.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Chancellor's Scholar-CHPHonors students.
54538
Lecture-Discussion
RFW
1:00PM -1:50PM
MWF
English Building
Hine, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Reading For Writers
Section Info:
Topic Section RWF: Reading for Writers. Think of Reading for Writers as the course a group of fiction writers and poets might take when they want to talk and write about the mechanics of stories and poems, the decisions that face writers as they build or shape the things they write, the formal elements that time and again surface as the basic tools at hand. This course seeks also to help writers understand the necessity for a shared reading list that encourages conversations among writers about what we do and how it gets done well. Such a reading list should help writers as they move through one of our Creative Writing sequences, poetry or fiction. Expect to write a handful of very short response papers (200-400 words) and 2-3 medium-length analyses (total of 12 pages). This class satisfies a literature requirement in the Creative Writing major.
50105
Lecture-Discussion
Lecture-Discussion
RM
RM
12:30PM -1:50PM
7:00PM -9:50PM
TR
T
Location Pending
English Building
Mehta, R
Mehta, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Credit:
3 hours
Section Title:
Indian Cinema in Context
Section Info:
An introduction to Indian mainstream cinema, mostly Bollywood, and its evolution through the last 7 decades. Topics to be explored include the relation between Indian society/culture and its cinematic representations, cinema's resistance to dominant nationalist and patriarchal ideologies, its interactions with the postcolonial nation-state of India, how globalization has changed the industry, etc. All films will be screened with subtitles. No knowledge of Hindi or any other Indian language is required. This course is open to all majors.
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