ENGL 301

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CriticalApproaches to Lit&Text

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to influential critical methods and to the multiple frameworks for interpretation as illustrated by the intensive analysis of selected texts. For majors only.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement and ENGL 200.

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ENGL 301 class schedule data for fall 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
50625	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	131 English Building	Basu, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Section Info: This course will introduce you to the basic terrains of literary criticism. Like all academic disciplines, literary criticism comes with systems of thought and their technical vocabularies. This is because like all modes of organized thinking, it relies on precision and nuance. Top level literary criticism involves a world of variables and concerns, like society, production, history, psychology, gender and class identities, ideologies, sexualities, cultures, and ideas. In exploring this terrain, we will understand how languages and intellectual environments shape us; it will also tell us how we historically came into being as individuals and communities. Apart from a textbook that will introduce us to the basics of literary theory, we will also read and work with a few essays, poems, and short stories. You will be required to turn in 3 papers, answer quizzes, and write a final examination. It is strongly recommended that all English and Teaching of English majors take ENGL 300 and ENGL 301 BEFORE taking any other 300- or 400-level courses. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s) or minor(s).
50626	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	150 English Building	Parker, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Section Info: ?How to Interpret Literature: An Introduction to Contemporary Critical Theory.? This course is required for English literature majors and is best not delayed for too long. Seniors usually regret not taking it sooner. Literature students write, think, and speak literary criticism, and this course sets out to make that process more interesting and?eventually?more fun. In the last half century, critics have repeatedly reinvented literary and cultural criticism in ways that can deeply influence how we interpret what we read and how we understand our daily lives. We will study such critical movements as new criticism, structuralism and narratology, deconstruction and poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer studies, Marxism, new historicism, cultural studies, critical race theory, postcolonial studies, disability studies, and ecocriticism. Expect some difficult reading, but we will work through it together. This course prepares students for future literature classes, and more to the point, it helps us understand and question the entire project of critical thinking and reading. Attendance will be crucial, for we learn these concepts both by reading and by working with the concepts together. If you like to stay silent in class, or if you do not attend class regularly, then do not take this section. Class time will focus on discussion, not on lecture, so you need to be there in the room and in the discussion. It is strongly recommended that all English and Teaching of English majors take ENGL 300 and ENGL 301 BEFORE taking any other 300- or 400-level courses. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s) or minor(s).
54605	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	150 English Building	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Section Info: Theory: the final frontier. At least that?s how many English majors seem to feel! In this course, we will survey major developments in the history of thinking hard from the eighteenth century to today. As in any theory course, a number of major -ISMs (and their relatives) will appear regularly on the docket to vex us with the complexity?including materialism, historicism, structuralism (and its posts-), queer theory, and postcolonialism. To cope with the vertigo such -ISMs produce, we will generally read short, iconic selections, thinking for the most part in broad, vivid strokes, with a few full texts interspersed for depth and texture. And we will do our best to work through this material in a way that: a) makes sense, b) challenges you, and c) does not put any of us to sleep (or drive us crazy). This is, in short, an introduction to the history of such ideas, and any game, thinking reader should be able to keep up. It is strongly recommended that all English and Teaching of English majors take ENGL 300 and ENGL 301 BEFORE taking any other 300- or 400-level courses. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s) or minor(s).