ENGL 397

Fall 2012 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 27-Dec 12

Honors Seminar II

Credit: 3 hours.

Periods in British, American, and Anglophone literature.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade-point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English and Rhetoric majors.

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ENGL 397 class schedule data for fall 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40421	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:30AM -10:45AM	MW	Lincoln Hall	Michelson, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Amer Lit & Sciences of Mind Section Info: Topic Section E: American Literature adn the Sciences of the Mind This is a course about cultural response. It explores the impact?on novelists, poets, playwrights, critics, screen-writers and directors, game-designers?of various powerful theories of consciousness, the brain, and the mind. This cannot be a course in neuroscience; our focus is on modern American literature and culture as it feels the impact of these developments, as science, pop-psychology, myth. Beginning around the year 1800, we will review a sequence of influential ideas about the mind and the self, moving towards to the present moment. We will consider how these formulations echo in what we read, and see, and collectively imagine, and assume to be true about who and what we are. We will also discuss how the current revolution in neuroscience may challenge and change the practice of literary criticism?in other words, our understanding of writing and reading as imaginative and cognitive practices. At the end of the course we will move into wilder territory, looking at expository and imaginative writing by contemporary researchers at the center of the neuroscience revolution; responses by humanists and culture-critics in light of these new formulations; novels, films, and television series that explore (or exploit) the implications of these new ways of constructing, defining, reducing, or replicating identity?philosophical, spiritual, electronic, chemical, mechanical, or all of the above. Students will write a sequence of short essays responding to specific assignments, and develop a longer speculative essay in three stages in consultation with each other and with me. Texts will include work by William and Henry James, Charlotte Gilman, Kate Chopin, DH Lawrence, Ralph Ellison, Ken Kesey, Richard Powers, Antonio Damasio, Daniel Dennett, Ian McGilchrist, Dan Lloyd, Ronald D. Moore, Joss Whedon, and Christopher Nolan. There will also be a mid-term examination and a final examination.
	32331	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -12:50PM	W	English Building	Mahaffey, V	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: The Yeats Era Section Info: Topic Section D: The Yeats Era The career of William Butler Yeats extended across four decades, during which he wrote poetry, plays, short stories, essays, and a philosophy of history and personality. In this course, we will try to understand the period of early twentieth-century Irish literature through Yeats. If you aren?t already a proficient reader of poetry, you will become one, and you will also have the opportunity to trace the beginnings of the Irish National Theater (the Abbey). You will learn about Irish mythology and Irish history, all through the lens of poems and plays designed to operate like an articulate and in some cases stylized music. Requirements include an oral report, an explication of a single poem, a longer analytical longer essay, and a final more creative project.