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Spring 2025 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (52876)
- 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 RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52876/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2025 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (64966)
- 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 RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64966/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2025 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (65126)
- 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 RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65126/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2024 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (18072)
- 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 RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankAkerman Hall 227
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (10 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18072/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2024 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (32982)
- 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 RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (15 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32982/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Summer 2024 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (87054)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session06/03/2024 - 07/26/2024Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/87054/1245
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2024 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (53251)
- 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 RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (273 of 275 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53251/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2023 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (18426)
- 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 RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankWilley Hall 125
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (274 of 275 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18426/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2023 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (53663)
- 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 RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 412
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (32 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53663/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2023 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (52797)
- 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 RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (274 of 275 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52797/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2022 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (19006)
- 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 Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankWilley Hall 125
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (250 of 250 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19006/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2022 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (19008)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, West BankPillsbury Hall 311
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 90 Pages Reading Per Week
8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: This is primarily a discussion class. We'll read about five novels and eight short stories. There are two papers, four pages each, typed, double-spaced. We'll take a midterm and a final exam. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19008/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2022 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (19761)
- 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 Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Wed, Fri 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 315
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19761/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2022 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (21545)
- 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 Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 211
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21545/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Summer 2022 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (81848)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Mode
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session06/06/2022 - 07/29/2022Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- What counts as fiction? How is it made and what is it for? What can we discover when we attend more closely to the sentences, style, and structure of a novel or short story? Members of this course will acquire an array of strategies for appreciating and approaching literature in a critical way. In this course, we will read a wide range of fiction - both novels and short stories - from the nineteenth century through to the present day. Throughout, we will interrogate what the words "modern" and "fiction" mean in relation to the text at hand.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/81848/1225
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2022 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (53696)
- Instructor(s)
- Isabel Bethke (TA)Danielle Brown (TA)Morgan Graham (TA)
- 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 Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankAnderson Hall 210
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (222 of 225 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
"Fiction" has always had an equalizing potential at its heart. It is our most "modern" genre, and as such, I could have justified choosing novels from the early 1700s and short fiction from the 1800s. At its origins fiction was a disreputable beast, and as such had a freedom to push boundaries and misbehave in ways that its eminent and established older cousin, poetry, could not. Since the 19th century, short fiction and novels have maintained a nicely balanced space between experimentation and accessibility, while at the same time reminding us that stories are central to the human condition; every human culture tells stories. They define us: as individuals, as families, as societies, as humans.
A note on the texts: You must have the 3 novels in print format. Electronic texts are not acceptable for this course.
A disclaimer: You should be aware that some of the assigned readings for this course contain vulgar language and explicit (and frequently non-judgmental) depictions of violence, sex, and substance abuse, as well as other adult themes.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53696/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 July 2018
Spring 2022 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (54607)
- 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 Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54607/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2022 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (54670)
- 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 Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Wed 06:00PM - 08:30PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 314
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54670/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2022 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (66790)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 314
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (31 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66790/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (20207)
- Instructor(s)
- Isabel Bethke (TA)Morgan Graham (TA)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (222 of 225 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- Instructors provide materials and assignments that students access online at any time or within a given time frame (such as one week), rather than instructors and students meeting together as a class on a regular schedule. Exams are also all online.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20207/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (20210)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankPillsbury Hall 412
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 29 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
"Fiction" has always had an equalizing potential at its heart. It is our most "modern" genre, and as such, I could have justified choosing novels from the early 1700s and short fiction from the 1800s. At its origins fiction was a disreputable beast, and as such had a freedom to push boundaries and misbehave in ways that its eminent and established older cousin, poetry, could not. Since the 19th century, short fiction and novels have maintained a nicely balanced space between experimentation and accessibility, while at the same time reminding us that stories are central to the human condition; every human culture tells stories. They define us: as individuals, as families, as societies, as humans.
A note on the texts: You must have the 3 novels in print format. Electronic texts are not acceptable for this course.
A disclaimer: You should be aware that some of the assigned readings for this course contain vulgar language and explicit (and frequently non-judgmental) depictions of violence, sex, and substance abuse, as well as other adult themes.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20210/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 July 2018
Fall 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (21156)
- 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 Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 214
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (29 of 29 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
This section of EngL 1701 will work with as expansive a definition of "fiction" as possible, one that includes "literary" fiction, "experimental" fiction, "genre" fiction, and the "graphic novel" (for example). The list of authors we might study includes (but is not limited to) the following: Junot Diaz, Haruki Murakami, Lorrie Moore, Sandra Cisneros, John Edgar Wideman, Louise Erdrich, Roberto Bolaño, Lynda Barry, Tao Lin, Cormac McCarthy. Grades will be based on two long exams and a series of in-class writing assignments (i.e. "quizzes").
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21156/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (21467)
- 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 Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Wed 05:30PM - 08:00PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 227
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (28 of 29 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 90 Pages Reading Per Week
8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: This is primarily a discussion class. We'll read about five novels and eight short stories. There are two papers, four pages each, typed, double-spaced. We'll take a midterm and a final exam. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21467/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 005: Modern Fiction (34078)
- 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 Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (29 of 29 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34078/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Summer 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (81439)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session06/07/2021 - 07/30/2021Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/81439/1215
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (49658)
- Instructor(s)
- Beck Adelante (TA)Eunkyung Cho (TA)Thomas Forrest (TA)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (239 of 240 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
"Fiction" has always had an equalizing potential at its heart. It is our most "modern" genre, and as such, I could have justified choosing novels from the early 1700s and short fiction from the 1800s. At its origins fiction was a disreputable beast, and as such had a freedom to push boundaries and misbehave in ways that its eminent and established older cousin, poetry, could not. Since the 19th century, short fiction and novels have maintained a nicely balanced space between experimentation and accessibility, while at the same time reminding us that stories are central to the human condition; every human culture tells stories. They define us: as individuals, as families, as societies, as humans.
A note on the texts: You must have the 3 novels in print format. Electronic texts are not acceptable for this course.
A disclaimer: You should be aware that some of the assigned readings for this course contain vulgar language and explicit (and frequently non-judgmental) depictions of violence, sex, and substance abuse, as well as other adult themes.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49658/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 July 2018
Spring 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (50598)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (31 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 5% Reports/Papers
20% Special Projects
10% Quizzes
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Problem Solving Other Grading Information: This is how I envisage it at the moment, but the balance my change a little between these five areas when I actually make up the syllabus. - Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
50% Discussion I hope to have conversations between myself and the TAs, between the TAs, and between myself, the TAs and the students. - Workload:
- 70 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: Probably written question and answer sessions - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50598/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Spring 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (50809)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Wed 06:00PM - 08:30PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 90 Pages Reading Per Week
8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: This is primarily a discussion class. We'll read about five novels and eight short stories. There are two papers, four pages each, typed, double-spaced. We'll take a midterm and a final exam. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50809/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2020 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (14879)
- Instructor(s)
- Beck Adelante (TA)Kayla Carden (TA)Abhay Doshi (TA)Sungjin Shin (TA)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (211 of 210 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in an asynchronous format. There are no scheduled meeting times.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14879/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Fall 2020 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (14882)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14882/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2020 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (15863)
- 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 Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankScience Teaching Student Svcs 230
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- This class is scheduled to meet completely in person.
- Class Description:
This section of EngL 1701 will work with as expansive a definition of "fiction" as possible, one that includes "literary" fiction, "experimental" fiction, "genre" fiction, and the "graphic novel" (for example). The list of authors we might study includes (but is not limited to) the following: Junot Diaz, Haruki Murakami, Lorrie Moore, Sandra Cisneros, John Edgar Wideman, Louise Erdrich, Roberto Bolaño, Lynda Barry, Tao Lin, Cormac McCarthy. Grades will be based on two long exams and a series of in-class writing assignments (i.e. "quizzes").
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15863/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2020 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (16178)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in an asynchronous format. There are no scheduled meeting times.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16178/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2020 | ENGL 1701 Section 005: Modern Fiction (17899)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Tue 05:30PM - 08:00PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17899/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Summer 2020 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (82839)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session06/08/2020 - 07/31/2020Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 08:00PMOff CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- This class will be conducted completely online.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/82839/1205
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2020 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (53182)
- Instructor(s)
- Abhay Doshi (Proxy)J. Richards (Proxy)Sungjin Shin (Proxy)Kerstin Tuttle (Proxy)
- 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 Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (239 of 240 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53182/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 July 2018
Spring 2020 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (54252)
- 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 Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 217
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 5% Reports/Papers
20% Special Projects
10% Quizzes
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Problem Solving Other Grading Information: This is how I envisage it at the moment, but the balance my change a little between these five areas when I actually make up the syllabus. - Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
50% Discussion I hope to have conversations between myself and the TAs, between the TAs, and between myself, the TAs and the students. - Workload:
- 70 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: Probably written question and answer sessions - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54252/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Spring 2020 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (54325)
- 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 Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 302
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54325/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2020 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (54481)
- 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 Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Wed 06:00PM - 08:30PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall 127
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (31 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 90 Pages Reading Per Week
8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: This is primarily a discussion class. We'll read about five novels and eight short stories. There are two papers, four pages each, typed, double-spaced. We'll take a midterm and a final exam. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54481/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2019 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (18262)
- Instructor(s)
- Ashley Campbell (Proxy)Emily Jones (Proxy)Laura Scroggs (Proxy)
- 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 Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (208 of 210 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
This section of EngL 1701 will work with as expansive a definition of "fiction" as possible, one that includes "literary" fiction, "experimental" fiction, "genre" fiction, and the "graphic novel" (for example). The list of authors we might study includes (but is not limited to) the following: Junot Diaz, Haruki Murakami, Lorrie Moore, Sandra Cisneros, John Edgar Wideman, Louise Erdrich, Roberto Bolaño, Lynda Barry, Tao Lin, Cormac McCarthy. Grades will be based on two long exams and a series of in-class writing assignments (i.e. "quizzes").
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18262/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2019 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (18265)
- 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 Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankAppleby Hall 102
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18265/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2019 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (19314)
- 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 Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19314/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2019 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (19661)
- 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 Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Tue 06:00PM - 08:30PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 227
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19661/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2019 | ENGL 1701 Section 005: Modern Fiction (33906)
- 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 Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 5% Reports/Papers
20% Special Projects
10% Quizzes
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Problem Solving Other Grading Information: This is how I envisage it at the moment, but the balance my change a little between these five areas when I actually make up the syllabus. - Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
50% Discussion I hope to have conversations between myself and the TAs, between the TAs, and between myself, the TAs and the students. - Workload:
- 70 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: Probably written question and answer sessions - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33906/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Summer 2019 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (82867)
- 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 Session06/10/2019 - 08/02/2019Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 08:00PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 115
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (20 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/82867/1195
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2019 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (53379)
- Instructor(s)
- Delaney FitzPatrick (Proxy)Margaret Heeschen (Proxy)Bomi Jeon (Proxy)Jen-chou Liu (Proxy)
- 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 Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (238 of 240 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- Our course examines various works of modern and postmodern fiction and, in so doing, considers the relationship between the cultural preoccupations of the present and the recent past. We'll read contemporary texts by Egan, Flynn, and Harbach, as well as older works by Kafka and Faulkner, among others. Students can expect to write two essays, engage in three to five seminar discussions, and complete three short exams.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53379/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2019 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (54480)
- 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 Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankAppleby Hall 102
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
"Fiction" has always had an equalizing potential at its heart. It is our most "modern" genre, and as such, I could have justified choosing novels from the early 1700s and short fiction from the 1800s. At its origins fiction was a disreputable beast, and as such had a freedom to push boundaries and misbehave in ways that its eminent and established older cousin, poetry, could not. Since the 19th century, short fiction and novels have maintained a nicely balanced space between experimentation and accessibility, while at the same time reminding us that stories are central to the human condition; every human culture tells stories. They define us: as individuals, as families, as societies, as humans.
A note on the texts: You must have the 3 novels in print format. Electronic texts are not acceptable for this course.
A disclaimer: You should be aware that some of the assigned readings for this course contain vulgar language and explicit (and frequently non-judgmental) depictions of violence, sex, and substance abuse, as well as other adult themes.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54480/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 July 2018
Spring 2019 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (54565)
- 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 Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 302
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54565/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Spring 2019 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (54735)
- 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 Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Wed 06:00PM - 08:30PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 203
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 90 Pages Reading Per Week
8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: This is primarily a discussion class. We'll read about five novels and eight short stories. There are two papers, four pages each, typed, double-spaced. We'll take a midterm and a final exam. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54735/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2018 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (18567)
- Instructor(s)
- Ashley Campbell (TA)Emilee Grunow (TA)Katrina Healey (TA)John Vanoverbeke (TA)
- 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 Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (237 of 240 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tandy004+ENGL1701+Fall2018
- Class Description:
"Fiction" has always had an equalizing potential at its heart. It is our most "modern" genre, and as such, I could have justified choosing novels from the early 1700s and short fiction from the 1800s. At its origins fiction was a disreputable beast, and as such had a freedom to push boundaries and misbehave in ways that its eminent and established older cousin, poetry, could not. Since the 19th century, short fiction and novels have maintained a nicely balanced space between experimentation and accessibility, while at the same time reminding us that stories are central to the human condition; every human culture tells stories. They define us: as individuals, as families, as societies, as humans.
A note on the texts: You must have the 3 novels in print format. Electronic texts are not acceptable for this course.
A disclaimer: You should be aware that some of the assigned readings for this course contain vulgar language and explicit (and frequently non-judgmental) depictions of violence, sex, and substance abuse, as well as other adult themes.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18567/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 July 2018
Fall 2018 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (18570)
- 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 Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankLind Hall 302
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?doshi016+ENGL1701+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18570/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Fall 2018 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (19670)
- 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 Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall 110
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (31 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?fairg002+ENGL1701+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19670/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2018 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (20038)
- 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 Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Wed 06:00PM - 08:30PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 203
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cihla002+ENGL1701+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 90 Pages Reading Per Week
8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: This is primarily a discussion class. We'll read about five novels and eight short stories. There are two papers, four pages each, typed, double-spaced. We'll take a midterm and a final exam. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20038/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Summer 2018 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (83086)
- 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 Session06/11/2018 - 08/03/2018Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 08:00PMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 104
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jorge549+ENGL1701+Summer2018
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/83086/1185
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 December 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (50148)
- 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 Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (207 of 210 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tandy004+ENGL1701+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- Exams (essay and short answer); detailed, guided homework assignments and related in-class work. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all three exams and all three homework assignments. You cannot calculate your points and decide to simply not complete one of these components.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50148/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (51321)
- 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 Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 317
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?fitzg007+ENGL1701+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 5% Reports/Papers
20% Special Projects
10% Quizzes
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Problem Solving Other Grading Information: This is how I envisage it at the moment, but the balance my change a little between these five areas when I actually make up the syllabus. - Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
50% Discussion I hope to have conversations between myself and the TAs, between the TAs, and between myself, the TAs and the students. - Workload:
- 70 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: Probably written question and answer sessions - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51321/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (51420)
- 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 Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Thu 06:00PM - 08:30PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 217
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lawle053+ENGL1701+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51420/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (51618)
- 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 Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall 110
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (32 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cihla002+ENGL1701+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 90 Pages Reading Per Week
8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: This is primarily a discussion class. We'll read about five novels and eight short stories. There are two papers, four pages each, typed, double-spaced. We'll take a midterm and a final exam. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51618/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (15522)
- 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 Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankRapson Hall 100
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?goldb016+ENGL1701+Fall2017
- Class Description:
This section of EngL 1701 will work with as expansive a definition of "fiction" as possible, one that includes "literary" fiction, "experimental" fiction, "genre" fiction, and the "graphic novel" (for example). The list of authors we might study includes (but is not limited to) the following: Junot Diaz, Haruki Murakami, Lorrie Moore, Sandra Cisneros, John Edgar Wideman, Louise Erdrich, Roberto Bolaño, Lynda Barry, Tao Lin, Cormac McCarthy. Grades will be based on two long exams and a series of in-class writing assignments (i.e. "quizzes").
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15522/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (15527)
- 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 Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 225
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?sandl029+ENGL1701+Fall2017
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15527/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (16704)
- 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 Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall 115
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?shinx408+ENGL1701+Fall2017
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16704/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (17157)
- 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 Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Tue 05:30PM - 08:00PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 120
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17157/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 1701 Section 005: Modern Fiction (37181)
- 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 Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall 110
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/37181/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Summer 2017 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (82964)
- 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 Session06/12/2017 - 08/04/2017Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 08:00PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 120
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?andre639+ENGL1701+Summer2017
- Class Description:
Modern fiction plays an important role in contemporary society -- literary works not only revolutionize what can be considered literature, they also destabilize the values and norms of mainstream society. We will examine each work in a variety of ways, examining their literary techniques, authors, historical contexts, and themes, to try to understand what "modern" means in different situations and for different works. Our reading list will consist of several different types of "modern" literature, ranging from literary modernism to twenty first century graphic novels, and incorporate both novels and short stories; authors include Woolf, Achebe, Vonnegut, Murakami, Bechdel, and others. Students can expect to complete weekly blog posts and write three short papers.
- Grading:
- Active participation, 3 formal papers, weekly blog posts. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all three papers, the blogging assignment, and regularly participate in class discussion. Failure to complete one of these assignments will result in an automatic N.
- Class Format:
- Class sessions will be a mix of discussion, small group activities, and student presentations.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/82964/1175
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 2 May 2017
Spring 2017 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (50708)
- 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 BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tandy004+ENGL1701+Spring2017
- Class Description:
It is our most "modern" genre, and as such, I could have justified choosing novels from the early 1700s and short fiction from the 1800s, but I'll keep it more contemporary than that. At its origins fiction was a disreputable beast, and as such had a freedom to push boundaries and misbehave in ways that its eminent and established older cousin, poetry, could not. Since the 19th century, short fiction and novels have maintained a nicely balanced space between experimentation and accessibility, while at the same time reminding us that stories are central to the human condition; every human culture tells stories. They define us: as individuals, as families, as societies, as humans.
0A- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50708/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 January 2017
Spring 2017 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (52029)
- 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 - 05/05/2017Wed 04:40PM - 07:10PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?andre639+ENGL1701+Spring2017
- Class Description:
It is our most "modern" genre, and as such, I could have justified choosing novels from the early 1700s and short fiction from the 1800s, but I'll keep it more contemporary than that. At its origins fiction was a disreputable beast, and as such had a freedom to push boundaries and misbehave in ways that its eminent and established older cousin, poetry, could not. Since the 19th century, short fiction and novels have maintained a nicely balanced space between experimentation and accessibility, while at the same time reminding us that stories are central to the human condition; every human culture tells stories. They define us: as individuals, as families, as societies, as humans.
0A- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52029/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 January 2017
Spring 2017 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (52158)
- 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 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?sandl029+ENGL1701+Spring2017
- Class Description:
It is our most "modern" genre, and as such, I could have justified choosing novels from the early 1700s and short fiction from the 1800s, but I'll keep it more contemporary than that. At its origins fiction was a disreputable beast, and as such had a freedom to push boundaries and misbehave in ways that its eminent and established older cousin, poetry, could not. Since the 19th century, short fiction and novels have maintained a nicely balanced space between experimentation and accessibility, while at the same time reminding us that stories are central to the human condition; every human culture tells stories. They define us: as individuals, as families, as societies, as humans.
0A- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52158/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 January 2017
Spring 2017 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (52441)
- 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 - 05/05/2017Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankBurton Hall 125
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?olso6529+ENGL1701+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- Our course examines various works of modern and postmodern fiction and, in so doing, considers the relationship between the cultural preoccupations of the present and the recent past. We'll read contemporary texts by Egan, Flynn, and Harbach, as well as older works by Kafka and Faulkner, among others. Students can expect to write two essays, engage in three to five seminar discussions, and complete three short exams.
- Grading:
- Exams (essay and short answer); detailed, guided homework assignments and related in-class work. If you choose to take this class "S/N," please be aware that in order for your work to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all three exams and all three homework assignments. You cannot calculate your points and decide to simply not complete one of these components.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52441/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 January 2017
Fall 2016 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (15848)
- 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 - 12/14/2016Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankAnderson Hall 270
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?goldb016+ENGL1701+Fall2016
- Class Description:
This section of EngL 1701 will work with as expansive a definition of "fiction" as possible, one that includes "literary" fiction, "experimental" fiction, "genre" fiction, and the "graphic novel" (for example). The list of authors we might study includes (but is not limited to) the following: Junot Diaz, Haruki Murakami, Lorrie Moore, Sandra Cisneros, John Edgar Wideman, Louise Erdrich, Roberto Bolaño, Lynda Barry, Tao Lin, Cormac McCarthy. Grades will be based on two long exams and a series of in-class writing assignments (i.e. "quizzes").
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15848/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 April 2016
Fall 2016 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (15854)
- 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 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 156
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?olso6529+ENGL1701+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- The objective of this course is to survey narrative-prose fiction of the ‘late modern era' (1900 to the present), supplemented with a brief introduction to the practices of literary studies as a discipline. The course is divided into four sections, each providing an investigative framework for the literature: historical movement, genre, author, and theme. In the first unit we'll begin by discussing approaches to literary studies, such as formalism, historicism, cultural criticism, and their interrelation, as well as what "modern" and "fiction" often mean. The bulk of this unit will be an introduction to literary Modernism and its influence on William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929). In the second unit, we'll explore the popular genre of detective fiction through several short stories and Agatha Christie's novel Murder on the Orient Express (1934). The third unit will examine short stories and novels written by the author Vladimir Nabokov by questioning what about these works can be called "Nabokovian." We'll read both Lolita (1955) and Pale Fire (1962) in this unit. In the fourth unit we'll examine works that critique society thematically in works by Kurt Vonnegut and Toni Morrison, particularly Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle (1963). Finally, we'll consider how medium affects our understanding of literature in the first volume of Neil Gaiman's influential graphic novel, The Sandman (1991).
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15854/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 August 2016
Fall 2016 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (17168)
- 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, East BankAmundson Hall 156
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jodel002+ENGL1701+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- What counts as fiction? How is it made and what is it for? What can we discover when we attend more closely to the sentences, style, and structure of a novel or short story? Members of this course will acquire an array of strategies for appreciating and approaching literature in a critical way. In this course, we will read a wide range of fiction - both novels and short stories - from the nineteenth century through to the present day. Throughout, we will interrogate what the words "modern" and "fiction" mean in relation to the text at hand.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17168/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 April 2016
Fall 2016 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (17726)
- 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 - 09/22/2016Wed 04:40PM - 07:10PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 32509/23/2016 - 12/14/2016Wed 04:40PM - 07:10PMUMTC, East BankMechanical Engineering 221
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?benne705+ENGL1701+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Modern fiction plays an important role in contemporary Western society -- literary works not only revolutionize what can be considered "proper" literature, they also destabilize the values and norms of mainstream society. We will examine each work in a variety of works, examining their literary techniques, authors, historical contexts, and themes, to try to understand what "modern" means in different situations and for different works. Our reading list will consist of several different types of "modern" literature, ranging from literary modernism to twenty first century graphic novels, and incorporate novels, short stories, and film; potential authors include William Faulkner, Art Spiegleman, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, and Jhumpa Lahiri. Students can expect to write two short essays, complete a midterm and final exam, and engage in weekly in-class discussions.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17726/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 April 2016
Summer 2016 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (83067)
- 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 Session06/13/2016 - 08/05/2016Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 08:00PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 227
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?alderks+ENGL1701+Summer2016
- Class Description:
Modern fiction plays an important role in contemporary society -- literary works not only revolutionize what can be considered literature, they also destabilize the values and norms of mainstream society. We will examine each work in a variety of ways, examining their literary techniques, authors, historical contexts, and themes, to try to understand what "modern" means in different situations and for different works. Our reading list will consist of several different types of "modern" literature, ranging from literary modernism to twenty first century graphic novels, and incorporate both novels and short stories; authors include Woolf, Achebe, Vonnegut, Danielewski, Bechdel, and others. Students can expect to complete weekly blog posts and write three short papers.
- Class Format:
- Class sessions will be a mix of discussion, small group activities, and student presentations.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/83067/1165
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 April 2016
Spring 2016 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (52365)
- 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 Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankAnderson Hall 270
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tandy004+ENGL1701+Spring2016
- Class Description:
fiction, "experimental" fiction, "genre" fiction, and the "graphic novel" (for example). The list of authors we might study includes (but is not limited to) the following: Junot Diaz, Haruki Murakami, Lorrie Moore, Sandra Cisneros, John Edgar Wideman, Louise Erdrich, Roberto Bolaño, Lynda Barry, Tao Lin, Cormac McCarthy. Grades will be based on two long exams and a series of in-class writing assignments (i.e. "quizzes").
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52365/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 October 2015
Spring 2016 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (57985)
- 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 Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Wed 04:40PM - 07:10PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 203
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?spidahl+ENGL1701+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements modernism and postmodernism. As the literary scholar M.H. Abrams puts it, "the specific features signified by "modernism" vary with the user, but many critics agree that it involves a deliberate and radical break with some of the traditional bases not only of Western art, but of Western culture in general." Postmodernism "involves not only a continuation… of the counter-traditional experiments of modernism, but also diverse attempts to break away from the modernist forms." In this course we will honor both the OED definition of the term modern and the artistic movements that the term connotes in the context of literary study. That is, we will read and consider ‘modern,' contemporary works of fiction and trace some of their formal and thematic sources in key works of literary modernism and postmodernism written in English, primarily in the United States.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/57985/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 October 2015
Spring 2016 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (58567)
- 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 Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?roth0042+ENGL1701+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Our course examines various works of modern and postmodern fiction and, in so doing, considers the relationship between the cultural preoccupations of the present and the recent past. We'll read contemporary texts by Egan, Flynn, and Harbach, as well as older works by Kafka and Faulkner, among others. Students can expect to write two essays, engage in three to five seminar discussions, and complete three short exams.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58567/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 October 2015
Spring 2016 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (60336)
- 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 Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 320
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?roth0042+ENGL1701+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Our course examines various works of modern and postmodern fiction and, in so doing, considers the relationship between the cultural preoccupations of the present and the recent past. We'll read contemporary texts by Egan, Flynn, and Harbach, as well as older works by Kafka and Faulkner, among others. Students can expect to write two essays, engage in three to five seminar discussions, and complete three short exams.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60336/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 October 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (17588)
- 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 Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankRapson Hall 100
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?goldb016+ENGL1701+Fall2015 Amanda Alexander, Christopher Bowman, and Joseph Harris will be the graders for this course.
- Class Description:
fiction, "experimental" fiction, "genre" fiction, and the "graphic novel" (for example). The list of authors we might study includes (but is not limited to)
the following: Junot Diaz, Haruki Murakami, Lorrie Moore, Sandra Cisneros, John Edgar Wideman, Louise Erdrich, Roberto Bolaño, Lynda Barry, Tao Lin, Cormac McCarthy. Grades will be based on two long exams and a series of in-class writing assignments (i.e. "quizzes").- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17588/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 May 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (17617)
- 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 Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 320
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?yoonx215+ENGL1701+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- What counts as fiction? How is it made and what is it for? What can we discover when we attend more closely to the sentences, style, and structure of a novel or short story? Members of this course will acquire an array of strategies for appreciating and approaching literature in a critical way. We will explore exemplary works of literary fiction written since 1900 to the present, focusing first on Modernism in England and America before turning to a set of more contemporary works written in very different styles.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17617/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 May 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (22810)
- 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 Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Wed 04:40PM - 07:10PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 110
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?niedf005+ENGL1701+Fall2015
- Class Description:
What counts as fiction? How is it made and what is it for? What can we discover when we attend more closely to the sentences, style, and structure of a novel or short story? Members of this course will acquire an array of strategies for appreciating and approaching literature in a critical way. We will explore exemplary works of literary fiction written since 1900 to the present, focusing first on Modernism in England and America before turning to a set of more contemporary works written in very different styles.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/22810/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 May 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (25415)
- 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 Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 315
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?roth0042+ENGL1701+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- What counts as fiction? How is it made and what is it for? What can we discover when we attend more closely to the sentences, style, and structure of a novel or short story? Members of this course will acquire an array of strategies for appreciating and approaching literature in a critical way. We will explore exemplary works of literary fiction written since 1900 to the present, focusing first on Modernism in England and America before turning to a set of more contemporary works written in very different styles.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/25415/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 May 2015
Summer 2015 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (84196)
- 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 Session06/15/2015 - 08/07/2015Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 08:00PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- What counts as fiction? How is it made and what is it for? What can we discover when we attend more closely to the sentences, style, and structure of a novel or short story? Members of this course will acquire an array of strategies for appreciating and approaching literature in a critical way. We will explore exemplary works of literary fiction written since 1900 to the present, focusing first on Modernism in England and America before turning to a set of more contemporary works written in very different styles.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/84196/1155
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 20 February 2015
Spring 2015 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (52578)
- 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 RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankScience Teaching Student Svcs 220
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- Santidad Clarke, Jacqueline Hilgert, and Timothy Zila will be the graders for this course.
- Class Description:
- Our course will explore various works of modern and postmodern fiction to examine the relationship between the cultural concerns of the present and the recent past. As a liberal education course this class will help you think about the ways in which modernity directs literary theme, style, and content, as well as the ways in which "modern" ideas can be shaped, created, or rebuilt through literature.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52578/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 24 October 2014
Spring 2015 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (59160)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Mon 04:40PM - 07:40PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This class will introduce you to some of the more important writers of the last one hundred. We will read and talk about recent fiction including graphic novels, as well as writers of the stature of Morrison, Coetzee, McCarthy, Munro, and the great modernists Faulkner, Woolf and Joyce. The intention of this class is to make you fall in love with reading in all its variety. If you already are in love, join us anyway, and help to inspire those who resist one of the greatest pleasures in life.
- Grading:
- 5% Reports/Papers
20% Special Projects
10% Quizzes
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Problem Solving Other Grading Information: This is how I envisage it at the moment, but the balance my change a little between these five areas when I actually make up the syllabus. - Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
50% Discussion I hope to have conversations between myself and the TAs, between the TAs, and between myself, the TAs and the students. - Workload:
- 70 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: Probably written question and answer sessions - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59160/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 December 2013
Spring 2015 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (60081)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 302
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to a variety of great writers from approximately the past 100 years. Students will read and discuss stories, novellas, and novels from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Flannery O?Connor, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Franz Kafka. Discussions are in-depth and students learn to identity and analyze the basic elements of fiction as well as develop critical skills in order to draw supportable interpretations from the work. Students will learn to read closely, to discuss literature effectively, and become experienced in the basics of critical writing. Texts are placed in their historical and socio-political context to illuminate the author's relationships with his or her work and the relationship of the text to the larger world. Topics that are addressed include power, gender, race, age, class, sexuality, and cultural identities.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60081/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 March 2008
Spring 2015 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (68132)
- 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 Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 340
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to a variety of great writers from approximately the past 100 years. Students will read and discuss stories, novellas, and novels from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Flannery O?Connor, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Franz Kafka. Discussions are in-depth and students learn to identity and analyze the basic elements of fiction as well as develop critical skills in order to draw supportable interpretations from the work. Students will learn to read closely, to discuss literature effectively, and become experienced in the basics of critical writing. Texts are placed in their historical and socio-political context to illuminate the author's relationships with his or her work and the relationship of the text to the larger world. Topics that are addressed include power, gender, race, age, class, sexuality, and cultural identities.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68132/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 March 2008
Fall 2014 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (18361)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankRapson Hall 100
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- John Bliss, Carolyn Byrne, and Matthew Taylor will be the graders for this course.
- Class Description:
- This section of EngL 1701 will work with as expansive a definition of "fiction" as possible, one that includes "serious" fiction, "experimental" fiction, "genre" fiction, and the "graphic novel" (for example). The list of authors we might study includes (but is not limited to) the following: Junot Diaz, Haruki Murakami, Lorrie Moore, Sandra Cisneros, John Edgar Wideman, Louise Erdrich, Roberto Bolano, Lynda Barry, Tao Lin, Gillian Flynn, Cormac McCarthy. Grades will be based on two long exams and a series of in-class writing assignments (i.e. "quizzes").
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18361/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 14 April 2014
Fall 2014 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (18398)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 325
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to a variety of great writers from approximately the past 100 years. Students will read and discuss stories, novellas, and novels from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Flannery O?Connor, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Franz Kafka. Discussions are in-depth and students learn to identity and analyze the basic elements of fiction as well as develop critical skills in order to draw supportable interpretations from the work. Students will learn to read closely, to discuss literature effectively, and become experienced in the basics of critical writing. Texts are placed in their historical and socio-political context to illuminate the author's relationships with his or her work and the relationship of the text to the larger world. Topics that are addressed include power, gender, race, age, class, sexuality, and cultural identities.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18398/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 March 2008
Fall 2014 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (24483)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Wed 04:40PM - 07:20PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 325
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to a variety of great writers from approximately the past 100 years. Students will read and discuss stories, novellas, and novels from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Flannery O?Connor, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Franz Kafka. Discussions are in-depth and students learn to identity and analyze the basic elements of fiction as well as develop critical skills in order to draw supportable interpretations from the work. Students will learn to read closely, to discuss literature effectively, and become experienced in the basics of critical writing. Texts are placed in their historical and socio-political context to illuminate the author's relationships with his or her work and the relationship of the text to the larger world. Topics that are addressed include power, gender, race, age, class, sexuality, and cultural identities.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/24483/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 March 2008
Fall 2014 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (34142)
- 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 Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to a variety of great writers from approximately the past 100 years. Students will read and discuss stories, novellas, and novels from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Flannery O?Connor, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Franz Kafka. Discussions are in-depth and students learn to identity and analyze the basic elements of fiction as well as develop critical skills in order to draw supportable interpretations from the work. Students will learn to read closely, to discuss literature effectively, and become experienced in the basics of critical writing. Texts are placed in their historical and socio-political context to illuminate the author's relationships with his or her work and the relationship of the text to the larger world. Topics that are addressed include power, gender, race, age, class, sexuality, and cultural identities.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34142/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 March 2008
Summer 2014 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (85760)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session06/16/2014 - 08/08/2014Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 08:00PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 211
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This course features a study of compelling short stories and novels written by some of the most famous authors of our time. We will read both classic "literary" novels, such as "The Great Gatsby" and "Slaughterhouse-five," and "popular" novels, such as "Ender's Game" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," comparing and contrasting elements of each and inviting discussion as to what makes something "literature." As we go, we'll examine these works of fiction in a variety of different ways, looking at their authors, their historical context, as well as the genre, form, styles, and themes of each work.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/85760/1145
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 April 2014
Spring 2014 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (57577)
- 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 RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankKenneth H Keller Hall 3-210
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- Scott Long, Emily Strasser, and Brooks Teevan are the graders.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to a variety of great writers from approximately the past 100 years. Students will read and discuss stories, novellas, and novels from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Flannery O?Connor, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Franz Kafka. Discussions are in-depth and students learn to identity and analyze the basic elements of fiction as well as develop critical skills in order to draw supportable interpretations from the work. Students will learn to read closely, to discuss literature effectively, and become experienced in the basics of critical writing. Texts are placed in their historical and socio-political context to illuminate the author's relationships with his or her work and the relationship of the text to the larger world. Topics that are addressed include power, gender, race, age, class, sexuality, and cultural identities.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/57577/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 March 2008
Spring 2014 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (65210)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Wed 04:40PM - 07:20PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 340
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This class will introduce you to some of the more important writers of the last one hundred. We will read and talk about recent fiction including graphic novels, as well as writers of the stature of Morrison, Coetzee, McCarthy, Munro, and the great modernists Faulkner, Woolf and Joyce. The intention of this class is to make you fall in love with reading in all its variety. If you already are in love, join us anyway, and help to inspire those who resist one of the greatest pleasures in life.
- Grading:
- 5% Reports/Papers
20% Special Projects
10% Quizzes
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Problem Solving Other Grading Information: This is how I envisage it at the moment, but the balance my change a little between these five areas when I actually make up the syllabus. - Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
50% Discussion I hope to have conversations between myself and the TAs, between the TAs, and between myself, the TAs and the students. - Workload:
- 70 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: Probably written question and answer sessions - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65210/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 December 2013
Spring 2014 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (67014)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 315
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- What counts as fiction? How is it made and what is it for? What can we discover when we attend more closely to the sentences, style, and structure of a novel or short story? Members of this course will acquire an array of strategies for appreciating and approaching literature in a critical way. We will explore exemplary works of literary fiction written since 1900 to the present, focusing first on Modernism in England and America before turning to a set of more contemporary works written in very different styles.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67014/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 December 2013
Spring 2014 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (70068)
- 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 Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 340
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This section of Modern Fiction will ask: if a magical realism exists in modern English fiction, then what does it look like? We'll start off with a few short stories from Borges, Kafka, Calvino, and Allende, then move on to novels that will stretch and challenge what we think of as realist, surrealist, "magical," modernist or post-modernist, and fantastic. Where does magical realism seem to have crossings with psychological realism or with science fiction and fantasy? How do the texts imaginatively trouble our critical conceptions of space and time, physicality or ephemerality, race, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, and class? How do some basic concepts of narratology, parallel worlds theory, and the hyperreal illuminate our investigations into these texts? Some of the novels included will be Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Winterson's The Passion, and Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads.
- Grading:
- Other Grading Information: 2-3 short papers of 4-5 pp., midterm & final exam, weekly critical questions. Quizzes and in-class writing as necessary. I value energetic, student-centric, problem-posing discussion.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/70068/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 December 2013
Fall 2013 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (24384)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankAnderson Hall 310
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Notes:
- Graders are Victoria Scher, Hunter Sharpless, and Mike Alberti.
- Class Description:
- This section of EngL 1701 will concentrate on fiction written during the last twenty years. We will work from as expansive a definition of "fiction" as possible, one that includes "serious" fiction, "experimental" fiction, "genre" fiction, "chick lit," the "verse novel," and the "graphic novel" (for example). The list of authors we might study includes (but is not limited to) the following: Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Haruki Murakami, George Pelecanos, Alan Moore, G. R. R. Martin, Louise Erdrich, Neil Gaiman, William Gaddis, Zadie Smith, Roberto Bolano, Sophie Kinsella, Iris Murdoch, Anne Carson, David Markson. Grades will primarily be based on two exams and a series of in-class writing assignments (i.e. "quizzes").
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/24384/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 December 2013
Fall 2013 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (24422)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to a variety of great writers from approximately the past 100 years. Students will read and discuss stories, novellas, and novels from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Flannery O?Connor, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Franz Kafka. Discussions are in-depth and students learn to identity and analyze the basic elements of fiction as well as develop critical skills in order to draw supportable interpretations from the work. Students will learn to read closely, to discuss literature effectively, and become experienced in the basics of critical writing. Texts are placed in their historical and socio-political context to illuminate the author's relationships with his or her work and the relationship of the text to the larger world. Topics that are addressed include power, gender, race, age, class, sexuality, and cultural identities.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/24422/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 March 2008
Fall 2013 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (31634)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Wed 04:40PM - 07:20PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 313
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- What counts as fiction? How is it made and what is it for? What can we discover when we attend more closely to the sentences, style, and structure of a novel or short story? Members of this course will acquire an array of strategies for appreciating and approaching literature in a critical way. We will explore exemplary works of literary fiction written since 1900 to the present, focusing first on Modernism in England and America before turning to a set of more contemporary works written in very different styles.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31634/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 December 2013
Summer 2013 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (86348)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session06/17/2013 - 08/09/2013Mon, Wed 04:40PM - 08:45PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- Description: The term "modern" is highly debatable, often applied to the last 300 years, the time surrounding the turn of the twentieth century, or more recent "contemporary" years. For our purposes we will be looking at work from the last 100 years focusing more on the "fiction" portion of the course title rather than attempting to determine what is "modern." We will read a wide range of short fiction (mostly short stories, a couple of novels, a graphic novel, and a film or two) including authors such as Joyce, Kafka, Atwood, Puig, Borges, Barth, Spiegelman, Lahiri, and Silko. Because literature never happens in a vacuum we will address some of the historicity of these works, political agendas of the authors, and evolutions and developments in the genre through and in time. However, these concepts will not be our primary focus. Rather, we will pay close attention to elements of fiction in these works, including theme, genre, structure, form, voice, and language, with an eye toward larger questions about fiction: What is fiction? What does it mean to tell stories? How do narrative choices in fiction inform meaning? What does fiction make possible?
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
10% Quizzes
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Grade: 20% mid exam, 30% final exam or final paper, 20% group presentation, 20% discussion/participation, 10% quizzes - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
25% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/86348/1135
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 March 2013
Spring 2013 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (52797)
- 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 RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankFraser Hall 102
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- In Modern Fiction we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time, including Hemingway, Cather, Salinger, Vonnegut, and Erdrich. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. Through it all we'll identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 90 Pages Reading Per Week
8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: This is primarily a discussion class. We'll read about five novels and eight short stories. There are two papers, four pages each, typed, double-spaced. We'll take a midterm and a final exam. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52797/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Spring 2013 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (67397)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 05:55PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 120
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to a variety of great writers from approximately the past 100 years. Students will read and discuss stories, novellas, and novels from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Flannery O?Connor, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Franz Kafka. Discussions are in-depth and students learn to identity and analyze the basic elements of fiction as well as develop critical skills in order to draw supportable interpretations from the work. Students will learn to read closely, to discuss literature effectively, and become experienced in the basics of critical writing. Texts are placed in their historical and socio-political context to illuminate the author's relationships with his or her work and the relationship of the text to the larger world. Topics that are addressed include power, gender, race, age, class, sexuality, and cultural identities.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67397/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 March 2008
Spring 2013 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (68485)
- 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 RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Mon, Wed 03:35PM - 04:50PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 327
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Basic techniques for analyzing/understanding fiction. Readings from novels and short stories written in English-speaking countries and elsewhere (in translation). Introduction to fictional techniques such as point of view, fictional conventions, and some forms of experimentation.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to twentieth century American fiction with an emphasis on two literary movements: modernism and post-modernism. We will study four novels, a number of short stories, and two novellas, by authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Nella Larsen, Thomas Pynchon, and Philip Roth.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68485/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 October 2012
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