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Fall 2024  |  CSCL 1401W Section 002: Reading Literature: Theory and Practice (21038)

Instructor(s)
No instructor assigned
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Kolthoff Hall 136
Enrollment Status:
Open (16 of 25 seats filled)
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Course Catalog Description:
How can we read/understand different ways that literature is meaningful? Emphasizes practice in reading a broad spectrum of world literature, literary theory.
Class Description:
CSCL 1401W Reading Literature: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Literature Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is Literature? How do definitions of it differ over time and across cultures? How does literature play a role in the ways people see themselves and others? How do our histories - personal and cultural - determine how we read it? CSCL 1401W examines such questions in relation to larger patterns of culture and power. You'll emerge from the course with a solid sense of the differences among various genres, and the cultural contexts from which they arise - between an epic poem emerging from a Greek city state and a novel by a German civil servant, say. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it will give you a good sense of the field of Comparative Literature as well as reading and writing skills useful in many other courses and disciplines. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21038/1249
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 November 2010

Fall 2024  |  CSCL 1401W Section 003: Reading Literature: Theory and Practice (18454)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Kolthoff Hall 134
Enrollment Status:
Open (10 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
How can we read/understand different ways that literature is meaningful? Emphasizes practice in reading a broad spectrum of world literature, literary theory.
Class Description:
CSCL 1401W Reading Literature: Theory and Practice 3 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Literature Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive.
Description: Understanding the Theme of Struggle in Literature

If literature is the mimetic representation of life, that is a literary imitation of the world we live in, as thinkers of antiquity would posit, it naturally follows then that the mimesis would never be a smooth one. For human lives are an incessant series of turmoil and struggles, both abstract as well as materialist, and constituted by human efforts to fathom, pacify and make peace with those moments of anxiety and consternation. This course is designed with the intention of interpreting literary works which particularly focus on the theme of struggle. The term
‘struggle' is either generally imbued with a political connotation or comes in handy in conjuring the possibility of a radically changed future. Thus, we will explore together how can literature be read as a site of human struggle. This course will encourage students to infer traces of inherent tension or concealed possibilities of reconciliation from the assigned texts. To that effect, this course can be treated as a springboard to mark struggle as something operating in various strata of modern society -
that of class, caste; of literary genres, i.e. novels, poems, dystopian fiction; and finally on a subliminal level - language, binary identities, experiences of marginality etc.

Who Should Take This Class?:
This is a beginner level course on Literature and Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies etc.
Learning Objectives:
1) to think critically as to how the world of literature explicates, subsumes (or does both) the idea of struggle within itself. We will also deal with some other pertinent issues such as how can literature facilitate a better understanding of human struggle, with each of its sub-genre treating the topic in a unique and different manner.

2) 2) to engage in a close-reading of texts, with the scaffolding provided by theoretical/critical tools such as Marxist criticism, Feminist and Queer studies, Subaltern theory etc. in order to fathom the extent to which struggle operates as a disruptive force in static conditions.

Exam Format:
Canvas
Class Format:
Completely Online, semi-synchronous
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18454/1249
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 November 2020

Fall 2024  |  CSCL 1401W Section 004: Reading Literature: Theory and Practice (18843)

Instructor(s)
No instructor assigned
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Kolthoff Hall 138
Enrollment Status:
Open (3 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
How can we read/understand different ways that literature is meaningful? Emphasizes practice in reading a broad spectrum of world literature, literary theory.
Class Description:
CSCL 1401W Reading Literature: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Literature Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is Literature? How do definitions of it differ over time and across cultures? How does literature play a role in the ways people see themselves and others? How do our histories - personal and cultural - determine how we read it? CSCL 1401W examines such questions in relation to larger patterns of culture and power. You'll emerge from the course with a solid sense of the differences among various genres, and the cultural contexts from which they arise - between an epic poem emerging from a Greek city state and a novel by a German civil servant, say. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it will give you a good sense of the field of Comparative Literature as well as reading and writing skills useful in many other courses and disciplines. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18843/1249
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 November 2010

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