ENGL 199

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

Undergraduate Open Seminar

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Credit: 1 TO 5 hours.

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Approved for letter and S/U grading. May be repeated.

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ENGL 199 class schedule data for fall 2016
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
10065	Independent Study		ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required
40419	Lecture-Discussion	CHP	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	1205 W Oregon	Hansen, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Camp Honors/Chanc Schol course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Why Do We Love Terror? Section Info: Topic Section CHP: Why Do We Love Terror: The Literary History of a Political Idea When the novel came into being in the in middle of the eighteenth century, its most popular genre was the Gothic—the novel of horror. In fact, the modern era—the era of science, reason, and democracy—has been obsessed with terror, fear, and the unknown since its very inception. Do our notions of literary or filmic horror have anything to do with the politics of terror? If you’ve ever asked “why do I like to be scared?” then this is the class for you. Beginning with some of the earliest novels of Gothic horror, the course will trace out a literary, political, and philosophical history. Each unit of the course will explore how a different political/cultural concept of terror plays out in literary and filmic texts. Philosophical texts will include excerpts from Thomas Hobbes, Edmund Burke, G.W.F. Hegel, Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben. Novels for the class will include Matthew Lewis’s The Monk (1794) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1871), H.P. Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu (1928), David Mitchell’s Slade House (2015), and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2015). Films will include Todd Browning’s Freaks (1932), Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980), Alejandro Amenabar’s The Others (2001), and Thomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One in (2008). Each student will be required to present on one of the philosophical texts, write brief (3 page) critical reviews of each film, and write one 8-10 page paper about one of the novels we’ll read in the course. Section CHP is for Chancellor's Scholars; others may only en roll with consent of instructor and director of the Campus Honors Program. Restriction(s): Restricted to Chancellor's Scholar-CHPHonors students.
66184	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -12:50PM	MW	English Building	Camargo, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Teenpics, 1900s - 2000s Section Info: Topic Section D: Teenagers and Teenpics, 1950s–2000s While young people aged 13 to 19 have existed ever since the lifespan of the human being became long enough, teenagers did not come to be a recognized demographic until the 1950s. We will explore the social and economic reasons for this development at the same time as we see how changes in attitudes toward teenagers have been represented in American films. To foreground attitudes toward teenagers, the course will be organized thematically—horror, high school, family, love, and sex—looking at each of these through emblematic films from the 1950s through the 2000s. Evaluated work will include active participation in class discussion, response papers, and three or four short essays.