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 fall 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32226	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	135 English Building	Gaedtke, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Info: FA24 ENGL 396 - English Honors Seminar - Andrew Gaedtke - The Brain in Contemporary British and Irish Literature - This Honors Seminar will examine representations of the brain in recent works of British and Irish literature. Images and narratives of the brain have altered the ways that minds, mental illnesses, and even identities are understood. As a result, the brain can be construed as not only a biological organ but also as a cultural artifact freighted with certain fantasies and anxieties. Works of contemporary literature have posed timely ethical questions related to the rise of pharmaceutical treatments of mental illness, neurodiversity, and fantasies of neuroenhancement. The course will examine these literary responses to the rise of brain science. We will ask whether new kinds of stories are being told and whether social problems have been recoded as biological problems. Along the way, students will become familiar with the critical frameworks of medical humanities and disability studies. Readings will primarily feature British and Irish works of fiction, drama, memoir, and case studies from the past two decades. Assignments will include several short writing exercises and one longer research essay.
	40420	Lecture-Discussion	F	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	135 English Building	Mack, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Info: FA24 ENGL 396 - English Honors Seminar - Kimberly Mack - The Black Presence in American Rock Criticism - Rock music is Black music. Evolving out of the blues and, later, rhythm and blues, rock and roll circa 1950s-early 1960s had a Black face, with artists like Chuck Berry and Little Richard leading the way. Yet, as rock and roll gave way to rock, it became associated with Whiteness, with Elvis, the British Invasion acts, and later Led Zeppelin appropriating and regurgitating Black American music back to young White fans. Similarly, as rock and roll became rock, due to notions of rock authenticity predicated on White male subjectivity, with the canon of rock criticism and journalism shaped by White men, Black (and other non-White male) writers who wrote about rock during the 1960s and 1970s were erased from the historical record. Even so, there were BIPoC and White women rock critics who actively sought to expand the canon by engaging rock writing in unconventional ways and through alternative means. This course will focus on some key Black rock writers who were active during the 1960s through the early 1980s and wrote for establishment rock music magazines such as Rolling Stone and Creem, as well as underground music magazines and zines; Black publications; and monthlies, weeklies, and dailies that were not necessarily focused on music but offered reviews or occasional features about the famous rockers of the day. Students will also learn about rock and roll history, with an emphasis on rock from the 1960s and 1970s, and they will have the opportunity to write a short piece of rock criticism and a final seminar paper about a Black rock critic and their work.