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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with ENGL Historical Era 3 · returned 29 results
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AMST 240 The Midwest and the American Imagination 6 credits
The history of American culture has always been shaped by a dialectic between the local and the universal, the regional and the national. The particular geography and history of the Midwest (the prairie, the plains, the old Northwest, Native Americans and white adventurers, settlers and immigrants) have shaped its livelihoods, its identities, its meanings. Focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this course will explore literature, art history, and the social and cultural history of the Midwest.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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AMST 240.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Elizabeth McKinsey 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 3:10pm-4:55pm
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AMST 240.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Elizabeth McKinsey 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Extra time
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ENGL 227 Imagining the Borderlands 6 credits
This course engages the borderlands as space (the geographic area that straddles nations) and idea (liminal spaces, identities, communities). We examine texts from writers like Anzaldúa, Butler, Cervantes, Dick, Eugenides, Haraway, and Muñoz first to understand how borders act to constrain our imagi(nation) and then to explore how and to what degree the borderlands offer hybrid identities, queer affects, and speculative world-building. We will engage the excess of the borderlands through a broad chronological and generic range of U.S. literary and visual texts. Come prepared to question what is “American”, what is race, what is human.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 227.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 230 Studies in African American Literature: From the 1950s to the Present 6 credits
We will explore developments in African American literature since the 1950s with a focus on literary expression in the Civil Rights Era; on the Black Arts Movement; on the new wave of feminist/womanist writing; and on the experimental and futuristic fictions of the twenty-first century. Authors to be read include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Malcolm X, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, August Wilson, Charles Johnson, Ntozake Shange, Gloria Naylor, Suzan-Lori Parks, Kevin Young, and Tracy Smith.
- Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 230.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kofi Owusu 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 233 Writing Empathy/Writing Black Life 6 credits
At the end of the nineteenth century, amidst legalized segregation and widespread racism, U.S. black writers undertook radical experiments in literary art. We will read Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, and Ida B. Wells, considering their strategies to inspire readers’ empathy and to shape new possibilities in black life. We will end by discussing how conceptions of empathy in our own moment influence black writing, in works such as Paul Beatty’s The Sellout (2015) or Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead (2017).
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 235 Asian American Literature 6 credits
This course is an introduction to major works and authors of fiction, drama, and poetry from about 1900 to the present. We will trace the development of Asian American literary traditions while exploring the rich diversity of recent voices in the field. Authors to be read include Carlos Bulosan, Sui Sin Far, Philip Kan Gotanda, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jhumpa Lahiri, Milton Murayama, Chang-rae Lee, Li-young Lee, and John Okada.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2018, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 235.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:00pm
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ENGL 235.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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ENGL 235.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 9:50am-11:00am
- FHasenstab 105 9:40am-10:40am
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ENGL 236 American Nature Writing 6 credits
A study of the environmental imagination in American literature. We will explore the relationship between literature and the natural sciences and examine questions of style, narrative, and representation in the light of larger social, ethical, and political concerns about the environment. Authors read will include Thoreau, Muir, Jeffers, Abbey, and Leopold. Students will write a creative Natural History essay as part of the course requirements.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 238 African Literature in English 6 credits
This is a course on texts drawn from English-speaking Africa since the 1950’s. Authors to be read include Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ayi Kwei Armah, Buchi Emecheta, Bessie Head, Benjamin Kwakye, and Wole Soyinka.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Winter 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 238.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Kofi Owusu 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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ENGL 241 Latinx Voices in the Age of Trump 6 credits
The last few years have placed Latinx communities under siege and in the spotlight. The demands of the census and new policies around immigration mean that who counts as Latinx and why it matters has public visibility and meaning. Simultaneously, the last few years have seen an incredible growth of new literary voices and genres in the world of Latinx letters. From fictional and creative nonfiction accounts of detention camps, border crossings, and asylum court proceedings to lyrical wanderings in bilingualism to demands for greater attention to Afrolatinidad and the particular experiences of Black Latinxs–Latinx voices are rising. We will engage with current literary discussions in print, on twitter, and in literary journals as we chart the shifting, developing terrain of Latinx literatures.
- Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 241.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- 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 245 Bollywood Nation 6 credits
This course will serve as an introduction to Bollywood or popular Hindi cinema from India. We will trace the history of this cinema and analyze its formal components. We will watch and discuss some of the most celebrated and popular films of the last 60 years with particular emphasis on urban thrillers and social dramas.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 245.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Arnab Chakladar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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ENGL 246 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: Beyond Bollywood 3 credits
While the output of the popular Hindi film industry of Mumbai, also known as Bollywood, has global reach and renown, other genres of films produced in Mumbai are not as well-known or studied. In this course, students will encounter independent feature films, documentaries and short films that will expand their understanding of the larger world of Hindi cinema in particular, and Indian cinema more broadly.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul, 5 week course
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in the Film Literature and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul program
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ENGL 248 Visions of California 6 credits
An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which California has been imagined in literature, art, film and popular culture from pre-contact to the present. We will explore the state both as a place (or rather, a mosaic of places) and as a continuing metaphor–whether of promise or disintegration–for the rest of the country. Authors read will include Muir, Steinbeck, Chandler, West, and Didion. Weekly film showings will include Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown and Blade Runner.
Extra Time required.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 249 Irish Literature 6 credits
We will read and discuss modern Irish poetry, fiction, and drama in the context of Irish politics and culture. Readings will include works by W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Patrick Kavanaugh, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Edna O’Brien, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Ciaran Carson, among others.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 249.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Constance Walker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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ENGL 251 Contemporary Indian Fiction 6 credits
Contemporary Indian writers, based either in India or abroad, have become significant figures in the global literary landscape. This can be traced to the publication of Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children in 1981. We will begin with that novel and read some of the other notable works of fiction of the following decades. The class will provide both a thorough grounding in the contemporary Indian literary scene as well as an introduction to some concepts in post-colonial studies.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 251.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Arnab Chakladar 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 344 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENGL 252 Caribbean Fiction 6 credits
This course will examine Anglophone fiction in the Caribbean from the late colonial period through our contemporary moment. We will examine major developments in form and language as well as the writing of identity, personal and (trans)national. We will read works by canonical writers such as V.S Naipaul, George Lamming and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as by lesser known contemporary writers.
- Spring 2019, Fall 2021
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 255 The Poetics of Disability 6 credits
Scholar Michael Davidson has suggested that “perhaps the closest link between poetry and disability lies in a conundrum within the genre itself: poetry makes language visible by making language strange.” In this class we will read a wide range of poets who tackle ideas of normalcy and “ability” by centering disability consciousness and culture. We will engage with poetry’s capacity as a genre to destabilize our assumptions and generate new imaginaries. Alongside contemporary U.S. poetry, we will study contemporary theory in the field of disability studies in order to better understand the critical conversations around the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability.
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ENGL 258 Contemporary American Playwrights of Color 6 credits
This course examines a diverse selection of plays from the 1960s to the present, exploring how different theatrical contexts, from Broadway to regional theater to Off-Off Broadway, frame the staging of ethnic identity. Playwrights and performers to be studied include Amiri Baraka, Alice Childress, Ntozake Shange, George C. Wolfe, Luis Valdez, David Henry Hwang, August Wilson, Philip Gotanda, Maria Irene Fornes, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Anna Deavere Smith. There will be occasional out-of-class film screenings, and attendance at live theater performances when possible.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Spring 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 258.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ENGL 272 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: Representing Mumbai 3 credits
In Mumbai we will read a range of poems, short stories, novels and non-fiction that take Mumbai/Bombay as their setting and discuss the ways in which the heterogeneous cosmopolitanisms of the city are both represented and re-articulated in writing on the city. While our focus will be on Mumbai/Bombay, the course will also function as an introduction to twentieth century and contemporary Indian writing.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in OCS Mumbai/Seoul Program
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ENGL 274 Ireland Program: Irish Literature in Ireland 6 credits
Through selected readings, discussion, lectures, and site visits this interdisciplinary course will provide the necessary intellectual foundation and context for understanding Ireland past and present. The goal of the course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to Ireland. The physical and material realities of Ireland–of its history, culture, geography, and politics–will serve as lenses through which we read the works of such authors as Yeats, Heaney, Moore, O’Brien, Joyce, Bruen, Doyle, Kavanaugh, Boland, Carson, Binchey, Tóibín, Bennett, and others.
Participation in Carleton OCS Ireland Program, 1st 5 weeks
- Summer 2017, Summer 2019, Summer 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Participation in OCS Ireland program
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ENGL 281 London Program: Literature, Theater, and Culture in Tudor and Stuart England 6 credits
The course focuses on the relationship between literature and material culture during the Tudor and Stuart dynasties. This era of violence, plague, war, superstition, imperial expansion, and the slave trade also saw a flourishing of writing, science, technology, music, architecture, and the visual arts. Studying the literary works, theaters, historical sites, and artifacts of the period, students will explore what life was like in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Living London
- Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Participation in OCS London Program
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ENGL 288 California Program: The Literature of California 6 credits
An intensive study of writing and film that explores California both as a place (or rather, a mosaic of places) and as a continuing metaphor–whether of promise or disintegration–for the rest of the country. Authors read will include John Muir, Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, and Joan Didion. Films will include: Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown, The Grapes of Wrath, Zoot Suit, and Blade Runner.
OCS Visions of California Program
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 329 The City in American Literature 6 credits
How do American authors “write the city”? The city as both material reality and metaphor has fueled the imagination of diverse novelists, poets, and playwrights, through tales of fallen women and con men, immigrant dreams, and visions of apocalypse. After studying the realistic tradition of urban fiction at the turn of the twentieth century, we will turn to modern and contemporary re-imaginings of the city, with a focus on Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Selected films, photographs, and historical sources will supplement our investigations of how writers face the challenge of representing urban worlds.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course, or instructor permission
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ENGL 329.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Nancy Cho 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:30am-12:40pm
- FWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:10pm
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ENGL 332 Studies in American Literature: Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald 6 credits
An intensive study of the novels and short fiction of William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The course will focus on the ethos of experimentation and the “homemade” quality of these innovative stylists who shaped the course of American modernism. Works read will be primarily from the twenties and thirties and will include The Sound and the Fury, In Our Time, Light in August, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, and Go Down, Moses.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one additional 6 credit English course
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ENGL 350 The Postcolonial Novel: Forms and Contexts 6 credits
Authors from the colonies and ex-colonies of England have complicated understandings of the locations, forms and indeed the language of the contemporary English novel. This course will examine these questions and the theoretical and interpretive frames in which these writers have often been placed, and probe their place in the global marketplace (and awards stage). We will read writers such as Chinua Achebe, V.S Naipaul, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Salman Rushdie, Nuruddin Farah, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith as well as some of the central works of postcolonial literary criticism.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one additional 6 credit English course
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ENGL 350.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Arnab Chakladar 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ENGL 352 Toni Morrison: Novelist 6 credits
Morrison exposes the limitations of the language of fiction, but refuses to be constrained by them. Her quirky, inimitable, and invariably memorable characters are fully committed to the protocols of the narratives that define them. She is fearless in her choice of subject matter and boundless in her thematic range. And the novelistic site becomes a stage for Morrison’s virtuoso performances. It is to her well-crafted novels that we turn our attention in this course.
- Fall 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or instructor permission
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ENGL 352.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Kofi Owusu 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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ENGL 353 The Writings of Virginia Woolf 6 credits
Virginia Woolf is regarded as one of the chief modernist writers, as well as one of the twentieth-century’s most important feminist thinkers. She revolutionized the novel and the concept of time in fiction, as well as ideas of gender and sexuality. She, along with other members of the Bloomsbury Group, was also a critic of World War I and the build-up to World War II. In this course we will read the majority of her novels, as well as selected essays, diary entries, and letters. Articles by literary critics will offer various contexts for our discussions. Some works included: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and “A Room of One’s Own.”
- Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or instructor consent
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ENGL 362 Narrative Theory 6 credits
“Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of well-made stories?” asks Hayden White, metahistoriographer. To try to answer that question, we will read contemporary narrative theory by critics from several disciplines and apply their theories to literary texts, films, and cultural objects such as graphic novels, television shows, advertisements, and music videos.
- Fall 2018, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One 6-credit English foundations course and one additional 6-credit English course or permission of the instructor
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ENGL 362.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 362.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 381 Literature, Theater, and Culture in Tudor and Stuart England 6 credits
The course focuses on the relationship between literature and material culture during the Tudor and Stuart dynasties. This era of violence, plague, war, superstition, imperial expansion, and the slave trade also saw a flourishing of writing, science, technology, music, architecture, and the visual arts. Studying the literary works, theaters, historical sites, and artifacts of the period, students will explore what life was like in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
For students pariticipating in OCS London Program
- Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or permission of instructor
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THEA 242 Modern American Drama 6 credits
A study of a selection of significant American plays from Eugene O’Neill’s Hairy Ape (1920) to August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (2003) in the context of larger American themes and cultural preoccupations. The premise of this course is that these plays define the modern American theatre. By studying them we will gain a deeper understanding of American theater and the links that connect it to the larger culture and to some of the transformative events of American history.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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THEA 242.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 242.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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THEA 242.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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THEA 255 August Wilson: History and the Blues 6 credits
This course will explore the ten plays that comprise August Wilson’s “Century Cycle.” Wilson wrote one play for each decade of the twentieth century, exploring the movement of African-Americans, in critic John Lahr’s words, “from property to personhood.” Wilson’s work, inspired by the Black Arts movement of the 1960’s-70’s is rooted musically in the Blues, the African American musical form at the root of modern American popular music. We will read these plays, informed by the Blues, against the major historical events in African-American life during each of the decades they represent.
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THEA 255.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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