ENGL 396

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Honors Seminar I

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Credit: 3 hours.

Themes, movements, and forms 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 396 class schedule data for spring 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32114	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -11:50AM	M	113 English Building	Russell, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Profanity.Obscenity.Vulgarity Section Info: Topic Section C: Profanity, Obscenity, Vulgarity This course surveys profanity, vulgarity, and obscenity in cultural context. It considers what profanity looks like, who uses it, what it is used to accomplish (pragmatically and aesthetically), who and what it most often targets (with special consideration of religion, ethnicity, race, class, embodiment, disability, gender, and sexuality), and what circumstances allow for its reclamation or recuperation. The course explores when and why profanity comes into and falls out of fashion by asking how profanity, vulgarity, and obscenity are socially constructed, within historical and political climates and through institutional and cultural mechanisms.
	62424	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -3:50PM	W	123 English Building	Ruiz, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Lit, Theory & Performance Section Info: Topic Section F: A Lover’s Discourse: Literature, Theory, and Performance How do we tell the truth about love? In A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes reflects on love—lost, unrequited, imagined, and painfully and beautifully real. He offers us a language for discussing the complicated politics of intimacy. As he explains: “to try to write love is the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little,” and yet he succeeds in making us ask: What is love? How does it work? What’s love got to do with it all? In order to critically consider the philosophical, physical, and aesthetic manifestations of love, we will use Barthes’s book as a starting post; we will then turn to texts ranging from Plato’s Symposium to Beyoncé’s Lemonade, exploring love letters between writers, artists and philosophers like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to Rilke and his young poet, and performance sites including visual art, popular music, dance, and drama to analyze different ways of seeking and giving affection. We will also examine what it entails to love another or “an other” across difference, turning to how race, gender, and sexuality wonderfully complicate a lover’s expression.