Reading Theories
ENGL 295
Spring 2012
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01
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| Crosslisting:
COL 339, CCIV 393, EAST 340, FIST 290, GRST 231, RUSS 340 |
In this survey of modern literary, critical, and cultural theories, emphasis is on key concepts--language, identity, subjectivity, gender, power, knowledge, and cultural institutions--and key figures such as Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure, Barthes, Gramsci, Benjamin, Althusser, Foucault, Lacan, Deleuze, Jameson, postmodernism, and U.S. feminism. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Ethical Reasoning, Interpretation
Interpretation: The texts taught are short, compressed, demanding, and address shared issues over a century. Interpretation will therefore be taught as an intratextual, intertextual and contextual activity.
Ethical Reasoning: Most of the theories taught were intended to be consequential, altering thought and therefore behavior, in ways that had moral consequences and thus demanded ethical reasoning.
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
None |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (CEAS)(CEAS-Lit&Cult)(COL)(CSCT)(ENGL)(ENGL-Literature)(FRST-MN)(FRST)(GRST-MN)(GRST)(HRAD-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Coursepack plus Michel Foucault, DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three short papers. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the English Department's Theory requirement for the major and contributes to the Theory & Literary Forms concentration. It is also given credit by a variety of departments and programs. COL majors may take this course on a pass-fail basis. |
| Instructor(s): Tölölyan,Khachig Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: SQU112; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 40 | | SR major: 10 | JR major: 25 | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 10 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 3 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 4 |
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