CW 199

Spring 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 18-May 4

Undergraduate Open Seminar

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Credit: 1 TO 5 hours.

Topics course that varies each semester and by section. The topics offered each semester will be listed in the Class Schedule.

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

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CW 199 class schedule data for spring 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	71979	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -12:15PM	MW	123 English Building	Kempf, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Sports Writing Section Info: SP22 CW 199D Athletic Aesthetics: Sports in American Literature. This literature-based course examines how American artists have represented athletics across the long 20th century, up to and inclusive of the present—that is, the course reads contemporary literature through the lens of sports. To what extent is sport—the triangle offense, the triple Salchow—an aesthetic phenomenon? How might the representation of athletic activity, in turn, affect aesthetic form? Can a poem move like a run-pass option? Looking together at poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, long-form journalism, movies, photographs, and documentary film, we assess how the representation of athletics opens onto culture-wide questions involving race, class, gender, and national identity. How might the World Cup underwrite western imperialism? What is the relationship between Illinois high-school basketball and the state’s profound racial segregation? Though this class is not a workshop, students will produce multiple forms of creative writing in genres of their choosing, with some critical reading-responses to select texts. Meets with RST 199 - CRN 51195
	71978	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	Location Pending		Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Latinx Poetry Section Info: SP22 CW 199: Latinx Underworlds: Border-crossings and Migration Narratives in Latinx Literature. Drawing from katabasis, this course will examine how several texts of Latinx literature have employed the descent to and ascent from the underworld as a complex metaphor to describe border-crossings and migration narratives. Moving beyond our common understanding of the underworld as a place where the dead reside, this course and the selected readings will further complicate how migrant protagonists who cross all manner of borders must also contend with the underworld as a space of illegality, imagination, criminality, insanity, and outsider status. Drawing between the intersections of identity and the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigrant status, this course will take an interdisciplinary and cross-genre approach to our understanding of Latinx underworlds.