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ENGL 100 Drama, Film, and Society 6 credits
With an emphasis on critical reading, writing, and the fundamentals of college-level research, this course will develop students’ knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the relationship between drama and film and the social and cultural contexts of which they are (or were) a part and product. The course explores the various ways in which these plays and movies (which might include anything and everything from Spike Lee to Tony Kushner to Christopher Marlowe) generate meaning, with particular attention to the social, historical, and political realities that contribute to that meaning. Attending live performances in the Twin Cities will be required.
Held for new first year students. Extra Time required.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar Writing Requirement
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ENGL 100.05 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 305 3:10pm-4:55pm
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ENGL 100 How We Read: The History and Science of Reading 6 credits
In recent years, a 500-year-old technology for reading (the printed book) has been challenged by a very new one (the LCD displays in our phones and tablets). At the same time, advances in cognitive neuroscience have deepened our understanding of reading as a mental process. This makes it a good moment to consider how we read now and how we read in the past. We will examine a variety of reading practices, including reading aloud and silent reading, as well as the emotional impact of reading. The course will emphasize the foundational skill of academic reading–“close” reading–but also consider “distant” and “surface” reading. In addition to relevant scholarship, we will read poetry and novels as we reflect on our own habits as readers.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar Writing Requirement
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ENGL 100.02 Fall 2018
- Faculty:George Shuffelton 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 305 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 305 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 100.02 Fall 2019
- Faculty:George Shuffelton 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 100.01 Fall 2020
- Faculty:George Shuffelton 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:30am-12:40pm
- FWeitz Center 136 11:20am-12:20pm
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ENGL 100.02 Fall 2021
- Faculty:George Shuffelton 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 305 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 305 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 100.05 Fall 2023
- Faculty:George Shuffelton 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 344 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 100 Imagining a Self 6 credits
This course examines how first-person narrators present, define, defend, and construct the self. We will read an assortment of autobiographical and fictional works, focusing on the critical issues that the first-person speaker “I” raises. In particular, we will consider the risks and rewards of narrative self-exposure, the relationship between autobiography and the novel, and the apparent intimacy between first-person narrators and their readers. Authors will include James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Jacobs, Sylvia Plath, and Dave Eggers.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar Writing Requirement
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ENGL 100.06 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Leiman 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:20am-12:20pm
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ENGL 100 Inventing the Past 6 credits
How and why does literature imagine and create versions of the past? In this seminar, we will explore intersections of fiction and history in a variety of texts, in a novel that envisions a vivid physical and emotional world for Shakespeare’s family (Hamnet), in a “biography” that sends its protagonist time-travelling through several centuries and genders (Orlando), and in a work of alternative history that imagines a computerized Victorian era run by Babbage’s Analytical Engine (The Difference Engine), among others.
Held for new first year students
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ENGL 100 Literary Revision: Authority, Art, and Rebellion 6 credits
The poet Adrienne Rich describes revision as “the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction.” This course examines how literature confronts and reinvents the traditions it inherits. Through a diverse selection of fiction, poetry, and drama, we will examine how writers rework literary conventions, “rewrite” previous literary works, and critique societal myths. From Charles Chesnutt to Charles Johnson, from Henrik Ibsen to Rebecca Gilman, from Charlotte Bronte to Jean Rhys, from Maupassant and Chekhov to contemporary reinventions, we will explore literary revision from different perspectives and periods.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar Writing Requirement
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ENGL 100 Novel, Nation, Self 6 credits
With an emphasis on critical reading and writing in an academic context, this course will examine how contemporary writers from a range of global locations approach the question of the writing of the self and of the nation. Reading novels from both familiar and unfamiliar cultural contexts we will examine closely our practices of reading, and the cultural expectations and assumptions that underlie them.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar Writing Requirement
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ENGL 100 Reading, Interpreting, Writing 6 credits
The texts we will read and the themes to be discussed include: the quest for home and belonging in Angelou’s All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes; transitions in Obama’s Dreams from My Father; difficult and essential conversations in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me; trauma and healing in Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. Our related focus on expository writing will be complemented by a final writing assignment that offers you the option to craft either a Letter to Your Younger Self on transitions, or an Autobiographical Fragment in which you trace your search for belonging.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar Writing Requirement
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ENGL 100 Rhetoric: Art of Persuasion 6 credits
Rhetoric’s all around us: in political manifestos and legal pleadings; in professions of love and advertisements for dog food. We use it whenever we urge someone to believe what we say or do what we want. But how well do we understand the foundations and protocols of this art that teaches us “to see the available means of persuasion?” In this class we’ll study the origins and theory of rhetoric (via Aristotle), examine exemplary instances (from Pericles to Trump), and consider the charges (via Plato) that it’s all lies and trickery, while learning how to compose persuasive academic papers and presentations.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar Writing Requirement
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ENGL 100.02 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Timothy Raylor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 233 10:00am-11:10am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:50am-10:50am
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ENGL 112 Introduction to the Novel 6 credits
This course will explore the history and form of the British novel, tracing its development from the eighteenth century to the present. Among the questions that we will consider: What are our expectations for novels, and what makes them such a popular form of entertainment? How did a genre once considered a source of moral corruption become a legitimate, even dominant, literary form? Authors will likely include: Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 112.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Jessica Leiman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ENGL 112.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Jessica Leiman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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ENGL 113 Horror Fiction 6 credits
Horror is a speculative genre of literature with ancient roots in storytelling. Contemporary horror finds source material in centuries-old religious narratives, medieval folklore, historical events, contemporary urban legends, and real-life crimes and violence. Horror has always been full of metaphors for society’s deepest fears and anxieties; studying and writing horror can yield limitless insight and inspiration for imagining different futures. How do writers use atmosphere, characterization, symbols, allusions, suspense, etc. to hold our attention and produce “horror” toward some larger thematic end? In this course, students will read, analyze, discuss, and write about various literary fictional texts that could fall under the rubric of “horror” and practice creative writing in this capacious and rebellious genre. Authors may include Lesley Arimah, Neil Gaiman, Shirley Jackson, Han Kang, and Victor LaValle.
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ENGL 113.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLaird 205 10:10am-11:55am
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ENGL 114 Introduction to Medieval Narrative 6 credits
This class will focus on three of the most popular and closely connected modes of narrative enjoyed by medieval audiences: the epic, the romance, and the saint’s life. Readings, drawn primarily from the English and French traditions, will include Beowulf, The Song of Roland, the Arthurian romances of Chretien de Troyes, and legends of St. Alexis and St. Margaret. We will consider how each narrative mode influenced the other, as we encounter warriors and lovers who suffer like saints, and saints who triumph like warriors and lovers. Readings will be in translation or highly accessible modernizations.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 115 The Art of Storytelling 6 credits
Jorge Luis Borges is quoted as saying that “unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.” This course focuses attention primarily on the short story as an enduring form. We will read short stories drawn from different literary traditions and from various parts of the world. Stories to be read include those by Aksenov, Atwood, Beckett, Borges, Camus, Cheever, Cisneros, Farah, Fuentes, Gordimer, Ishiguro, Kundera, Mahfouz, Marquez, Moravia, Nabokov, Narayan, Pritchett, Rushdie, Trevor, Welty, and Xue.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 115.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Kofi Owusu 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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ENGL 116 The Art of Drama 6 credits
An exploration of drama approached as literature and in performance. New digital resources enable us to take world-class productions from the National Theatre and elsewhere as our texts. Drawing examples both globally and across time, we will consider plays and recent productions in their historical and cultural contexts. Students will develop critical vocabularies, debate interpretations, and hone their interpretive and rhetorical skills in writing reviews and essays. Additional time required for viewing performances.
- Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 116.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 116.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Peter Balaam 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 118 Introduction to Poetry 6 credits
We will look at the whole kingdom of poetry, exploring how poets use form, tone, sound, imagery, rhythm, and subject matter to create what Wallace Stevens called the “supreme fiction.” Examples will be drawn from around the world, from Sappho to spoken word. Participation in discussion is mandatory; essay assignments will ask you to provide close readings of particular works; a couple of assignments will focus on the writing of poems so as to give you a full understanding of this ancient and living art.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 118.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Timothy Raylor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 305 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLeighton 305 1:50pm-2:50pm
- M, WMusic & Drama Center TENT 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FMusic & Drama Center TENT 1:50pm-2:50pm
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ENGL 118.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Constance Walker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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ENGL 118.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Constance Walker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 235 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 235 9:40am-10:40am
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ENGL 120 American Short Stories 6 credits
An exploration of the remarkable variety and evolution of the American short story from its emergence in the early nineteenth century to the present. Authors read will range from Washington Irving to Octavia Butler and Jhumpa Lahiri. We will examine how formal aspects such as narration, dialogue, style and character all help shape this genre over time. While our central focus will be on literary artistry, we will also consider examples of pulp fiction, graphic short stories, flash fiction and some cinematic adaptations of stories.
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ENGL 137 Terrorism and the Novel 6 credits
Novels share some key attributes with acts of terrorism. Both focus our attention on questions of plot, responsibility, and effect. Both often ask us to question how a person’s character or background influences unanticipated subsequent events. Like terrorists, many novelists hope their work will draw attention to forgotten causes and influence public opinion through a combination of shock and sympathy. This course will explore a few of the many novels dedicated to terrorism, whether from the perspective of perpetrators, victims, or authorities. The reading list will include examples from Britain, America, and South Asia.
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ENGL 144 Shakespeare I 6 credits
A chronological survey of the whole of Shakespeare’s career, covering all genres and periods, this course explores the nature of Shakespeare’s genius and the scope of his art. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between literature and stagecraft (“page to stage”). By tackling the complexities of prosody, of textual transmission, and of Shakespeare’s highly figurative and metaphorical language, the course will help you further develop your ability to think critically about literature. Note: Declared or prospective English majors should register for English 244.
Cross-listed with English 244
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 144.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 10:20am-12:05pm
- T, THMusic & Drama Center TENT 10:20am-12:05pm
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ENGL 187 Murder 6 credits
From the ancient Greeks to the Bible to the modern serial killer novel, murder has always been a preeminent topic of intellectual and artistic investigation. Covering a range of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, drama, and film, this transhistorical survey will explore why homicide has been the subject of such fierce attention from so many great minds. Works may include: the Bible, Shakespeare, De Quincey, Poe, Thompson, Capote, Tey, McGinniss, Auster, French, Malcolm, Wilder, and Morris, as well as critical, legal, and other materials. Warning: not for the faint-hearted. [May not be retaken as ENGL 395.]
May not be retaken as ENGL 395 Murder
- Winter 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 187.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:20am-12:05pm