Spring 2020 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (52253)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Tue, Thu 12:45PM - 02:00PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (145 of 184 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Description:
- This course will consider literature and literary interpretation, with particular attention given to answering the following questions: how does literature work? how might literature offer a different way of thinking than might be found in other disciplines? what can literature tell us about ourselves and about the world? The course will also examine functions often attributed to literature (reflection, revision, revolution) and how literary interpretation itself functions as a powerful and meaningful activity that views the past through the lens of the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52253/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Fall 2019 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (17265)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Tue, Thu 12:45PM - 02:00PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (181 of 184 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tageldin+CSCL1101+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- This course will consider literature and literary interpretation, with particular attention given to answering the following questions: how does literature work? how might literature offer a different way of thinking than might be found in other disciplines? what can literature tell us about ourselves and about the world? The course will also examine functions often attributed to literature (reflection, revision, revolution) and how literary interpretation itself functions as a powerful and meaningful activity that views the past through the lens of the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17265/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Spring 2019 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (52387)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 12:45PM - 02:00PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (148 of 164 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Description:
- This course will consider literature and literary interpretation, with particular attention given to answering the following questions: how does literature work? how might literature offer a different way of thinking than might be found in other disciplines? what can literature tell us about ourselves and about the world? The course will also examine functions often attributed to literature (reflection, revision, revolution) and how literary interpretation itself functions as a powerful and meaningful activity that views the past through the lens of the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52387/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Fall 2018 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (17509)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 12:45PM - 02:00PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 275
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (180 of 180 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tageldin+CSCL1101+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- What is literature? Look up the word in an English dictionary, and you will find that it once referred to knowledge--in the broadest sense--gleaned from reading. Today the term _literature_ embraces all things printed, from fiction to nonfiction to advertising (yes, even your junk mail), from highbrow to low. Visit a U.S. bookstore, however, and you are likely to find a section called "fiction and literature"--a banner that at once narrows literature *to* fiction and excludes literature *from* fiction, styling the former "high" culture. Leave the Western world and one confronts other words often taken to translate _literature_, like the Arabic _adab_ or the Sanskrit _kavya_. Are these "literature"? This course will take a comparative view of the term _literature_ as well as its ideas, practices, and forms. Reading texts by a variety of writers from different times and places, we will ask ourselves whether, how, and why notions of the literary translate--or don't--across the languages, cultures, and times of the world. We will look at familiar forms of literary expression (epic, novel, lyric) and others that defy conventional Western understandings of genre. Finally, we will explore the relations of literature to orature (oral texts), to other media, and to the Internet. Given that literature historically has been tied to writing, to print, or to the book, what does it mean to study literature today--in an age when the book (and possibly print itself) may be vanishing? The course satisfies CLA's Council on Liberal Education (CLE) Core requirement in Literature.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This course is open to undergraduate majors and non-majors; there are no prerequisites.
- Learning Objectives:
- 1) to understand how and why the term "literature" does and does not translate across different times, places, languages, and cultural contexts--and to explore its relationship to "orature"2) to understand definitions of "epic," "novel," and "lyric"; the fluid boundaries between these; and why such ways of classifying "literature" may or may not hold within and beyond the West3) to develop foundational skills in textual close reading and in academic writing about "literary" texts
- Grading:
- 20% Class Participation (includes mandatory attendance, in-class assignments, and contributions to discussion)10% Online Plagiarism Tutorial and Certification Test20% Paper #125% Paper #225% Paper #3 (final paper; will take the place of the final exam)
- Exam Format:
- There will be no final examination; the final paper will take its place.
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
10% Film/Video
30% Discussion - Workload:
- Up to 80-100 pages of reading per week
12 pages of formal writing per term
3 paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17509/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 September 2018
Spring 2018 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (49129)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue, Thu 12:45PM - 02:00PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 275
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (156 of 164 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Description:
- What is literature? Look up the word in an English dictionary, and you will find that it once referred to knowledge--in the broadest sense--gleaned from reading. Today the term _literature_ embraces all things printed, from fiction to nonfiction to advertising (yes, even your junk mail), from highbrow to low. Visit a U.S. bookstore, however, and you are likely to find a section called "fiction and literature"--a banner that at once narrows literature *to* fiction and excludes literature *from* fiction, styling the former "high" culture. Leave the Western world and one confronts other words often taken to translate _literature_, like the Arabic _adab_ or the Sanskrit _kavya_. Are these "literature"? This course will take a comparative view of the term _literature_ as well as its ideas, practices, and forms. Reading texts by a variety of writers from different times and places, we will ask ourselves whether, how, and why notions of the literary translate--or don't--across the languages, cultures, and times of the world. We will look at familiar forms of literary expression (epic, lyric, novel) and others that defy conventional Western understandings of genre. Finally, we will explore the relations of literature to orature (oral texts), to other media, and to the Internet. Given that literature historically has been tied to writing, to print, or to the book, what does it mean to study literature today--in an age when the book (and possibly print itself) may be vanishing? The course satisfies CLA's Council on Liberal Education (CLE) Core requirement in Literature.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This course is open to undergraduate majors and non-majors; there are no prerequisites.
- Grading:
- 15% Class Participation (includes mandatory attendance, in-class assignments, and contributions to discussion)25% Paper #130% Paper #230% Final Paper (will take the place of the final exam)
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
10% Film/Video
30% Discussion - Workload:
- 80-100 Pages Reading Per Week
14 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49129/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 January 2018
Fall 2017 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (14406)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ectrapp+CSCL1101+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Updated Syllabus Description (7/24/2017)
CSCL 1101: Introduction to Literature
Literature of Human and Nonhuman Environments
This course takes "the environment" as one of its central term - not just the "environment" as we have likely come to think of it - as a topic of political dispute, protest, and contestation, and as a site of nature, wilderness, or the outdoors - but as the location of an internal world as distinct from an external one, a human world as distinct from an inhuman one, a living world as distinct from a non-living world. In this sense, literature on the environment is as old as literature itself, beginning (according to scholars) in 20000 BC with the Epic of Gilgamesh.
In this course, we will consider a variety of works of literature that offer different perspectives on human and nonhuman environments, keeping in sight a fundamental tension between how human beings see and use each other and how they see and use the environment. We'll look at literature that reflects on human, animal, and plant life on a damaged planet as well as literature that explores how the past, present, and future come to reside in certain places. Questions to be considered: How does literature work? How does literature as a mode of education work to produce ways of thinking and knowing about the world that differ from education as biology, history, or mechanical engineering? How does literature tell the story of how ideas about human life and the environment come about in either individual or collective consciousness? How does thinking about the nonhuman environment challenge ideas about what it means to human, to be an author, or a character, or a speaker, or a figure who can be represented in literature? How do literary works make a place for the past, for what has been lost or irreparably damaged?
CSCL 1101 introduces students to the activity and methodology of literary interpretation. Students will develop skills in critical reading, literary analysis, and interpretation. One of the main goals of this class is that students will be able to think about interpretation as a politically, socially, and aesthetically meaningful act. We will also consider various concepts involved in literary interpretation, including estrangement, genre, diction, analysis, and narrative. We will consider a range of functions ascribed to literature, including the ways that it tries to reflect on, repair, revise, or revolutionize the social and historical processes of colonialism, capitalism, and the nation-state. Writing that reflects on these relationships leads to thorny and complex issues, including the relationship between gender politics and poetic inspiration, the problem of how literature works through the colonial past, and the centrality of writing in experiences of exile and national, ethnic, racial, and cultural identity.
An important note on the readings: This is not a historical survey course; it does not attempt a comprehensive summary of literary periods or attempt to be representative of the major or canonical works of a given period or culture. The selected texts raise interesting questions about our central consideration - human and nonhuman environments. In light of this, careful reading and independent thinking will be valued above all. Please also note that because much of human history in relation to the environment involves damage and destruction, many of the works we read will be difficult and will deal with difficult subject matter.
Previous Description (from the Classinfo Site): How does literature work? In this course, we'll look at literature that reflects on human, animal, and plant life on a damaged planet. How does literature as a mode of education work to produce ways of thinking and knowing that differ from education as biology, history, or mechanical engineering? How does literature tell the story of how ideas about human life and the environment come about in either individual or collective consciousness? Writing that reflects on these relationships leads to thorny and complex issues, including the relationship between gender politics and poetic inspiration, the problem of how literature works through the colonial past, and the centrality of writing in experiences of exile and national, ethnic, racial, and cultural identity. The problem of literary work foregrounds the importance of the activity of interpretation. One of the main goals of this class is that you will be able to think about interpretation as a politically, socially, and aesthetically meaningful act that highlights how the interests of the present moment come to shape the past. - Exam Format:
- 50% Reports/Papers
5% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Other Evaluation - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14406/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 24 July 2017
Spring 2017 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (49551)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Description:
- This course will consider literature and literary interpretation, with particular attention given to answering the following questions: how does literature work? how might literature offer a different way of thinking than might be found in other disciplines? what can literature tell us about ourselves and about the world? The course will also examine functions often attributed to literature (reflection, revision, revolution) and how literary interpretation itself functions as a powerful and meaningful activity that views the past through the lens of the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49551/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Fall 2016 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (14576)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankAnderson Hall 310
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ectrapp+CSCL1101+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- How does literature work? How does literature as a mode of ?education? or a way of thinking or learning differ from education as biology, history, or mechanical engineering? How does literature tell the story of how ideas come about in either individual or collective consciousness? In this course, we'll look at literature that tells the story of going out into the world and returning home. Writing about the experience of going out and returning home leads to thorny and complex issues, including the relationship between gender politics and poetic inspiration, the problem of how literature works through the colonial past, and the centrality of writing in experiences of exile and national, ethnic, racial, and cultural identity. The problem of literary ?work? foregrounds the importance of the activity of interpretation. One of the main goals of this class is that you will be able to think about interpretation as a politically, socially, and aesthetically meaningful act that highlights how the interests of the present moment come to shape the past.
- Exam Format:
- 50% Reports/Papers
5% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Other Evaluation - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14576/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Spring 2016 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (47516)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?vayox001+CSCL1101+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- This course will consider literature and literary interpretation, with particular attention given to answering the following questions: how does literature work? how might literature offer a different way of thinking than might be found in other disciplines? what can literature tell us about ourselves and about the world? The course will also examine functions often attributed to literature (reflection, revision, revolution) and how literary interpretation itself functions as a powerful and meaningful activity that views the past through the lens of the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/47516/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Fall 2015 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (12018)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ectrapp+CSCL1101+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- How does literature work? How does literature as a mode of ?education? or a way of thinking or learning differ from education as biology, history, or mechanical engineering? How does literature tell the story of how ideas come about in either individual or collective consciousness? In this course, we'll look at literature that tells the story of going out into the world and returning home. Writing about the experience of going out and returning home leads to thorny and complex issues, including the relationship between gender politics and poetic inspiration, the problem of how literature works through the colonial past, and the centrality of writing in experiences of exile and national, ethnic, racial, and cultural identity. The problem of literary ?work? foregrounds the importance of the activity of interpretation. One of the main goals of this class is that you will be able to think about interpretation as a politically, socially, and aesthetically meaningful act that highlights how the interests of the present moment come to shape the past.
- Exam Format:
- 50% Reports/Papers
5% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 100% Lecture
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/12018/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 24 March 2015
Spring 2015 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (47355)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Description:
- This course is meant for people who love reading literature as well as for people who would love to learn how to love reading literature--and it should be lots of fun for both! We will go through the ages--from antiquity to the present day--in search of literature and of its main genres, figures, structures, functions, and themes. We will read of unrequited loves and incestuous desires, of fantastic journeys and monstrous encounters, of power struggles and murderous passions, of passionate friendships and uncanny betrayals, of sexual shame and joyous sex. We will read such things as epic poetry, lyric poetry, plays, novels, parables, and essays.
- Class Format:
- 100% Lecture
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/47355/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2013
Fall 2014 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (12143)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Description:
- Aristotle's classical definition of rhetoric??the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion??does far more to identify a ?problem? than it does to present a definition. In this class, we'll consider how the problem that Aristotle presents, that is, the problem of how we see, or read, speech brings into focus the problem of everyday life. How does ?everyday life? allow us to see or to read life? In one sense, everyday life registers the tension between the ordinary and the exceptional, between the repeatable and the irreversible, and between various attitudes of philosophic, aesthetic, and political reflection and activity. The class is divided into three parts: first, we consider theories of rhetoric, speech, and discourse; second, we consider everyday practices, in particular the commodity, work, and the division of labor; and third, we consider how the rhetoric of the everyday comes to bear on life, on the anthropological registration of life and the everyday violence of the life-processes. Includes texts by Maurice Blanchot, Ingeborg Bachman, Alice Notley, Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Raoul Vaneigem, Selma James, Mass Observation, Masao Adachi, Sigmund Freud, and others.
- Grading:
- 50% Reports/Papers
5% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 100% Lecture
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/12143/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 December 2014
Spring 2014 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (52090)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Description:
- The question of what characterizes literature has long preoccupied readers and critics, very often leading to heated debates over what counts as a literary work or, for that matter, whether or not ?the literary? means anything at all. In this course, however, we are going to shift our attention to a different question, namely, what can literature do, or what is the use of literature. One of the central goals of this course is to enable you to reflect on literature in social, political, and historical terms. We will consider questions such as: How do the stories we tell about ourselves affect who and what we are? How can literature contribute to social change and how can it maintain the status quo? How does literature modify everyday language use? We will pay special attention to how literature relates to capitalism, colonialism, and the nation-state. We will also examine concepts and issues important to literary criticism and theory including: the work; textuality; genres as institutions and categories; interpretation versus analysis; prose versus poetry; the author function; the role of the reader; the relationship between literacy and literature.
- Grading:
- 15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
70% Reports/Papers - Class Format:
- 100% Lecture
- Workload:
- 75 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52090/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2013
Fall 2013 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (17864)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Description:
- The question of what characterizes literature has long preoccupied readers and critics, very often leading to heated debates over what counts as a literary work or, for that matter, whether or not ?the literary? means anything at all. In this course, however, we are going to shift our attention to a different question, namely, what can literature do, or what is the use of literature. One of the central goals of this course is to enable you to reflect on literature in social, political, and historical terms. We will consider questions such as: How do the stories we tell about ourselves affect who and what we are? How can literature contribute to social change and how can it maintain the status quo? How does literature modify everyday language use? We will pay special attention to how literature relates to capitalism, colonialism, and the nation-state. We will also examine concepts and issues important to literary criticism and theory including: the work; textuality; genres as institutions and categories; interpretation versus analysis; prose versus poetry; the author function; the role of the reader; the relationship between literacy and literature.
- Grading:
- 15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
70% Reports/Papers - Class Format:
- 100% Lecture
- Workload:
- 75 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17864/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 June 2013
Spring 2013 | CSCL 1101 Section 001: Literature (47092)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to literature across time, national boundaries. Basic genres, including poetry, novel, drama, historical/philosophical writing. Key questions: What is literature? What forms does it take? Why does literature matter?
- Class Description:
- This course is meant for people who love reading literature as well as for people who would love to learn how to love reading literature--and it should be lots of fun for both! We will go through the ages--from antiquity to the present day--in search of literature and of its main genres, figures, structures, functions, and themes. We will read of unrequited loves and incestuous desires, of fantastic journeys and monstrous encounters, of power struggles and murderous passions, of passionate friendships and uncanny betrayals, of sexual shame and joyous sex. Included are epic and lyric poetry, plays, novels, parables, and essays by a wide variety of authors from various times and places.
- Grading:
- 20% Final Exam
80% Reports/Papers Other Grading Information: class attendance is mandatory and will be checked - Exam Format:
- 20 questions requiring short answers (i.e. ranging from a few words to a few sentences).
- Class Format:
- 100% Lecture
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/47092/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 September 2007
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