ENGL 396

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English Honors Seminar

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Credit: 3 hours.

An open-topic, discussion-oriented seminar aimed at majors who have shown high skill and intensive interest in the area of English studies.

May be repeated up to 6 hours in the same term to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English majors.

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ENGL 396 class schedule data for spring 2020
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32113	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -3:20PM	W	1020 Lincoln Hall	Gray, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Renaissance Women Writers Section Info: Renaissance Women Writers in Public: one of the most important developments in Renaissance studies during the last two decades has been the rediscovery of a substantial and exciting body of drama, poetry, and prose by women. The existence of this body of work is perhaps surprising given women’s subordinate social position and ambivalent relation to public culture in this period: though praised as patrons and queens, and central to court spectacle, women’s bodies were banned from performing on the public stage and their social and literary circulation in public space was treated with suspicion, even threat. Situating women’s writing within both its historical context and contemporary theorizations of the gendering of public culture, this class will introduce an array of manuscript and print texts by British women writers from 1590-1680. Our main aims will be to analyze the connections between gender/sexual politics and public politics in the literature of this period; to think about how categories of nation, class, sexuality, and race intersect with female identity; and to investigate the transformations in literary authority and political community that affect and are affected by women writers. We'll read selections of works by historians, male interlocutors, and modern theorists, but spend most of the semester on primary texts by female authors such as Anna Trapnel, Jane Cavendish, Hester Pulter, and Aphra Behn.
62424	Lecture-Discussion	G	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	123 English Building	Murison, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Science&PseudoscienceGildedAge Section Info: Title: “Science and Pseudoscience in the Gilded Age” The final decades of the nineteenth century are often referred to as the “Gilded Age”: covered with a layer of gold but metallic, even rotting underneath. The era was marked by income inequality, voter suppression, agitations for equal rights, and scientific and intellectual shifts that undermined traditional social and religious hierarchies. It was also an age of fraud and widespread corruption. In other words, not too different from today. This course will concentrate on some of the major shifts in scientific and medical theories of the day – particularly the invention of “neurasthenia” and “hysteria” as diseases, and the impact of Darwinism on the age – and how these theories were connected not just to what we might call “legitimate” or “regular” medical or scientific practices, but those practices on the edges of legitimacy, such as Spiritualism and Social Darwinism. Assignments will be geared toward connecting our present with the Gilded Age past and writing for a public audience. Authors may include Charles Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, Charles Darwin, Pauline Hopkins, Henry James, and Charles Darwin.
32114	Lecture-Discussion	X	12:00PM -2:50PM	M	133 1207 W Oregon	Ruiz, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Love and Performance Section Info: Love and Performance. How do we tell the truth about love? What is love? How does it work? What’s love got to do with anything, with politics, with performance? In order to critically consider the philosophical, physical, and aesthetic manifestations of love, we will turn to texts ranging from critical theory, poetry, love letters between writers, artists and philosophers, and aesthetic sites including performance art, popular music, dance, and drama to analyze different ways of seeking and giving affection. Importantly, we will also examine what it entails to love another or “an other” across difference, turning to how race, gender, sexuality, and nation wonderfully complicate expressions of love.