ENGL 500

Fall 2017

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Intro to Criticism & Research
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Credit: 4 hours.

Introductory course in methods and techniques in research and literary criticism.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
30190
Lecture-Discussion
G
3:00PM -5:20PM
W
113 English Building
Koshy, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/28/17-12/13/17
Section Info:
This course will offer a historical survey of the major texts and schools that orient contemporary scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. It examines the emergence of key modern concepts of critique in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kant, Hegel, and Marx); and the evolution of historically distinct forms of critique in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in response to the problems of capitalism, fascism, colonialism, and globalization. The last section of the class will focus on contemporary developments in critical theory including critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, indigenous studies, posthumanism, and ecocriticism, among others. The course is designed for first-year graduate students and for students interested in studying the development of critical theory in a systematic way. An introduction to the methods of critical theory, this course will equip students to examine the premises, concepts, and discourses that underpin economic systems, social and political formations, and cultural production. The course will meet twice a week: once a week, along with graduate students from theory seminars in other departments, for talks run through the Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series (Tuesdays, 5:15-6:45 pm); and once a week for regular seminar meetings restricted to registered students. The Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series talks will be integrated with the seminar course material, and will be presented by guest speakers from UIUC and, occasionally, from off campus.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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