Spring 2025 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (54326)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 01:10PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- The word text derives from ancient terms for weaving, while the word analysis is linked to loosening and release. Any literary or popular text offers the reader a rich fabric of meanings to trace and set loose. This course will help deepen your understanding of what constitutes different kinds of texts (how stories, poems, and novels are woven) while allowing you to explore and practice methods of analysis that are important today. Although this class is centered on methods and critical practices, our core texts (including historical classics and contemporary publications) will be united by a shared theme of wildness versus civilization. This thematic focus will let us explore how literature addresses a theme that is as old as human culture itself through radically different historical moments and textual forms. Over the course of the semester you will also develop a project to explore your own interests in a particular author, genre, theme, style, or period. Assignments will include informal exercises, an annotated bibliography, drafting and polishing essays, and a short panel-style presentation.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54326/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2025 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (64802)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64802/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2024 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (17046)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Mon, Wed 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 317
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (2 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17046/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2024 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (17045)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Tue, Thu 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankSmith Hall 121
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (5 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17045/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2024 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (54992)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Tue, Thu 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 214
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (11 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54992/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2024 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (52610)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Mon, Wed 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 314
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52610/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2023 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (17333)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Mon, Wed 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 314
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (19 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17333/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2023 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (17332)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 211
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17332/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2023 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (17334)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Tue, Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 110
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (19 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17334/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2023 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (65590)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Mon, Wed 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 314
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65590/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2023 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (52982)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 214
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52982/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2023 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (52739)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Tue, Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 214
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (18 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52739/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2022 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (17837)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Mon, Wed 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 311
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (12 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17837/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2022 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (17836)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 311
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This semester, the course will be structured by three units: Non(?)-Fictions, Genre Fictions, and Metafictions. Course authors will (probably) include Capote, Agee, Bechdel, Austen, LeGuin, Nabokov, Borges, and Calvino. We will also watch a couple of films and analyze all kinds of student-curated miscellany. Students will have three writing assignments (a close reading, an annotated bibliography, and a final paper) take two short quizzes, and be assigned to a group for student-led discussion.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17836/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2022 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (17838)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Tue, Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 315
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17838/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2022 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (18938)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankAppleby Hall 219
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18938/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2022 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (53905)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Tue, Thu 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 115
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (18 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53905/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2022 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (53622)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Tue, Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 214
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53622/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2022 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (53717)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 01:10PMUMTC, East BankCooke Hall 215
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (16 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53717/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (18871)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Class Format:
- 50% Lecture
50% Discussion - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18871/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Fall 2021 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (18872)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (14 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18872/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (18873)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18873/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (20124)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 01:10PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 314
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20124/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2021 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (49874)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Mon, Wed 05:30PM - 07:25PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This semester, the course will be structured by three units: Non(?)-Fictions, Genre Fictions, and Metafictions. Course authors will (probably) include Capote, Agee, Bechdel, Austen, LeGuin, Nabokov, Borges, and Calvino. We will also watch a couple of films and analyze all kinds of student-curated miscellany. Students will have three writing assignments (a close reading, an annotated bibliography, and a final paper) take two short quizzes, and be assigned to a group for student-led discussion.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49874/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2021 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (49580)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Tue, Thu 09:05AM - 11:00AMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (17 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49580/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2021 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (49679)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 01:10PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49679/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2020 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (13529)
- Instructor(s)
- Matthew Brogden (TA)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Class Format:
- 50% Lecture
50% Discussion - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13529/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Fall 2020 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (13530)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon, Wed 12:20PM - 02:15PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13530/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2020 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (13531)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Tue, Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- What's the difference between reading a novel for pleasure and reading it for a class? How do we perform "close readings"? Are literary texts inextricable from their historical contexts? And what, exactly, is the purpose of literary criticism? We'll pursue these questions in the course of exploring four distinct literary modes: short stories by James Joyce, a novel by Charles Dickens, lyric poems by Emily Dickinson, and an absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello. Our study of these primary texts will be supplemented by a selection of classic and contemporary essays, all of which model different critical approaches in creative and exciting ways. This is a writing-intensive course and you will craft two critical essays and several shorter responses across the semester. To help you develop the analytical methods that you'll deploy in these assignments, our class meetings will be discussion-based.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This class will help students at any level improve their close-reading and paper-writing skills.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13531/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 26 April 2018
Fall 2020 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (14796)
- Instructor(s)
- Matthew Brogden (TA)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon, Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (19 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Class Format:
- 50% Lecture
50% Discussion - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14796/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Spring 2020 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (53406)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Mon, Wed 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 325
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53406/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Spring 2020 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (53103)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Mon, Wed 05:30PM - 07:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (14 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53103/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2020 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (53204)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Tue, Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 217
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This semester, the course will be structured by three units: Non(?)-Fictions, Genre Fictions, and Metafictions. Course authors will (probably) include Capote, Agee, Bechdel, Austen, LeGuin, Nabokov, Borges, and Calvino. We will also watch a couple of films and analyze all kinds of student-curated miscellany. Students will have three writing assignments (a close reading, an annotated bibliography, and a final paper) take two short quizzes, and be assigned to a group for student-led discussion.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53204/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2019 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (16854)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 158
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Class Format:
- 50% Lecture
50% Discussion - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16854/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Fall 2019 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (16855)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 217
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16855/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Fall 2019 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (16856)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16856/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2017
Fall 2019 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (18169)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 05:30PM - 07:25PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 133
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (20 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18169/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2019 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (53605)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 325
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53605/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Spring 2019 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (53282)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 120
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 24 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- What is a well-rounded character? What makes a character well-rounded? In an effort to find the answer to these two questions, fundamental to an appreciation of Literature, we will closely analyze a variety of stories, novels and novellas -- including Emma, Daisy Miller, The Dead and Maus -- as well as narrative poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Derek Walcott. You will be discouraged from looking at any literary criticism until after the middle of the semester, when my expectation is that because you will have looked so closely at a primary text, you'll be equipped to discriminate in your evaluation of any secondary ones.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Grading:
- 30% Final Exam
20% Class Participation
20% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: response papers and group presentations; 30% in-class essays - Class Format:
- 100% Discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53282/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2019 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (53401)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 05:30PM - 07:25PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 313
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53401/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2018 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (17085)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 162
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (27 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ismai004+ENGL3001W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17085/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Fall 2018 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (17086)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankBlegen Hall 215
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?farbe004+ENGL3001W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Class Format:
- 50% Lecture
50% Discussion - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17086/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Fall 2018 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (17087)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 125B
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?eauyoung+ENGL3001W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- What's the difference between reading a novel for pleasure and reading it for a class? How do we perform "close readings"? Are literary texts inextricable from their historical contexts? And what, exactly, is the purpose of literary criticism? We'll pursue these questions in the course of exploring four distinct literary modes: short stories by James Joyce, a novel by Charles Dickens, lyric poems by Emily Dickinson, and an absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello. Our study of these primary texts will be supplemented by a selection of classic and contemporary essays, all of which model different critical approaches in creative and exciting ways. This is a writing-intensive course and you will craft two critical essays and several shorter responses across the semester. To help you develop the analytical methods that you'll deploy in these assignments, our class meetings will be discussion-based.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This class will help students at any level improve their close-reading and paper-writing skills.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17087/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 26 April 2018
Fall 2018 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (18468)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 05:30PM - 07:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 325
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?andre639+ENGL3001W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18468/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (50382)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 313
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?fairg002+ENGL3001W+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts.In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50382/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (50047)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?doshi016+ENGL3001W+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts.In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50047/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (50170)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 320
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mccar757+ENGL3001W+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts.In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50170/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (13973)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ismai004+ENGL3001W+Fall2017
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13973/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (13974)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankBlegen Hall 145
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?scrog034+ENGL3001W+Fall2017
- Class Description:
- How do we read? The question may seem ridiculous at the surface, but for literary studies reading is much more than simply taking in the visual information on the page. Rather, reading can also be a practice of careful looking, sustained attention, and curiosity developed through observation and interaction with a text. Our class will explore how these close readings are approached and how such readings form the basis of literary analysis. We follow Jacques Derrida's assertion, "everything is a text...," to read various media including art, film, poetry, criticism and literature. In so doing, we aim to understand how our practices of close reading make meaning.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13974/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (13975)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 09/27/2017Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankVincent Hall 609/28/2017 - 10/03/2017Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankNolte Ctr for Continuing Educ 2010/04/2017 - 12/13/2017Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankVincent Hall 6
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lcucullu+ENGL3001W+Fall2017
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13975/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Fall 2017 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (15420)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 325
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?craig026+ENGL3001W+Fall2017
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15420/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2017
Spring 2017 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (50967)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 02/05/2017Mon, Wed 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 21102/06/2017 - 02/09/2017Mon, Wed 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankNolte Ctr for Continuing Educ 2002/10/2017 - 05/05/2017Mon, Wed 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 211
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?eauyoung+ENGL3001W+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- What's the difference between reading a novel for pleasure and reading it for a class? How do we perform "close readings"? Are literary texts inextricable from their historical contexts? And what, exactly, is the purpose of literary criticism? We'll pursue these questions in the course of exploring four distinct literary modes: short stories by James Joyce, a novel by Charles Dickens, lyric poems by Emily Dickinson, and an absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello. Our study of these primary texts will be supplemented by a selection of classic and contemporary essays, all of which model different critical approaches in creative and exciting ways. This is a writing-intensive course and you will craft two critical essays and several shorter responses across the semester. To help you develop the analytical methods that you'll deploy in these assignments, our class meetings will be discussion-based.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50967/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 29 September 2016
Spring 2017 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (50533)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Mon, Wed 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 330
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?farbe004+ENGL3001W+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- This class introduces students to basic techniques of literary analysis by presenting straightforward approaches to some of the most powerful forms of English literature. We begin with the poetry of the self, discussing questions to ask of such poems and looking at the "self"; various poets present, the choices they make, and how they achieve their effects. We also think about what it might feel like to be that self through a number of light-hearted attempts at imitation. We turn next to Malory's story of King Arthur and the knights of the round table to discuss narrative that is not concerned with character development. We look finally at changes in what we think of as dramatic by comparing Monty Python's Holy Grail to Malory's and by examining Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Norman and Stoppard's Shakespeare in Love.
- Class Format:
- 50% Lecture
50% Discussion - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50533/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 March 2016
Spring 2017 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (50741)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?brogd007+ENGL3001W+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50741/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 March 2016
Fall 2016 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (14124)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 10/23/2016Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 22910/24/2016 - 10/27/2016Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankMechanical Engineering 1810/28/2016 - 12/14/2016Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?eauyoung+ENGL3001W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- What's the difference between reading a novel for pleasure and reading it for a class? How do we perform "close readings"? Are literary texts inextricable from their historical contexts? And what, exactly, is the purpose of literary criticism? We'll pursue these questions in the course of exploring four distinct literary modes: short stories by James Joyce, a novel by Charles Dickens, lyric poems by Emily Dickinson, and an absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello. Our study of these primary texts will be supplemented by a selection of classic and contemporary essays, all of which model different critical approaches in creative and exciting ways. This is a writing-intensive course and you will craft two critical essays and several shorter responses across the semester. To help you develop the analytical methods that you'll deploy in these assignments, our class meetings will be discussion-based.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14124/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 March 2016
Fall 2016 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (14125)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 09/25/2016Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 20309/26/2016 - 09/29/2016Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankMechanical Engineering 1809/30/2016 - 12/14/2016Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 203
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lcucullu+ENGL3001W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14125/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 March 2016
Fall 2016 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (14126)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 09/25/2016Mon, Wed 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 20309/26/2016 - 09/29/2016Mon, Wed 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankMechanical Engineering 1809/30/2016 - 12/14/2016Mon, Wed 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 203
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ayahav+ENGL3001W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14126/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 March 2016
Fall 2016 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (15736)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 10/23/2016Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 22910/24/2016 - 10/26/2016Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 31510/27/2016 - 12/14/2016Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mober088+ENGL3001W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- The word text derives from ancient terms for weaving, while the word analysis is linked to loosening and release. Any literary or popular text offers the reader a rich fabric of meanings to trace and set loose. This course will help deepen your understanding of what constitutes different kinds of texts (how stories, poems, and novels are woven) while allowing you to explore and practice methods of analysis that are important today. Although this class is centered on methods and critical practices, our core texts (including historical classics and contemporary publications) will be united by a shared theme of wildness versus civilization. This thematic focus will let us explore how literature addresses a theme that is as old as human culture itself through radically different historical moments and textual forms. Over the course of the semester you will also develop a project to explore your own interests in a particular author, genre, theme, style, or period. Assignments will include informal exercises, an annotated bibliography, drafting and polishing essays, and a short panel-style presentation.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15736/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 July 2016
Spring 2016 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (53439)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 203
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?eauyoung+ENGL3001W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- What's the difference between reading a novel for pleasure and reading it for a class? How do we perform "close readings"? Are literary texts inextricable from their historical contexts? And what, exactly, is the purpose of literary criticism? We'll pursue these questions in the course of exploring four distinct literary modes: short stories by James Joyce, a novel by Charles Dickens, lyric poems by Emily Dickinson, and an absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello. Our study of these primary texts will be supplemented by a selection of classic and contemporary essays, all of which model different critical approaches in creative and exciting ways. This is a writing-intensive course and you will craft two critical essays and several shorter responses across the semester. To help you develop the analytical methods that you'll deploy in these assignments, our class meetings will be discussion-based.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53439/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 August 2015
Spring 2016 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (51304)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 203
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?craig026+ENGL3001W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- This course is an advanced introduction to the content, concerns, and methods of English literary studies. It will focus on examples of the traditional major literary forms (poetry, drama, fiction) as well as film while also surveying theoretical and critical approaches to literature from Plato to the postmodern. In short, this class is an introduction to literary criticism. We will look at the history of critical approaches to imaginative writing from classical and Romantic poetics through formalism, New Criticism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, queer theory, cultural studies and more. The critical history will run parallel to a study of select literary works, organized by genre, to bring these theoretical concepts into focus. We will read poetry by John Donne, John Keats, and T. S. Eliot; fiction by Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Kazuo Ishiguro; and drama by William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51304/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 August 2015
Spring 2016 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (52596)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Mon, Wed 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 327
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ismai004+ENGL3001W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- This course is an advanced introduction to the content, concerns, and methods of English literary studies. It will focus on examples of the traditional major literary forms (poetry, drama, fiction) as well as film while also surveying theoretical and critical approaches to literature from Plato to the postmodern. In short, this class is an introduction to literary criticism. We will look at the history of critical approaches to imaginative writing from classical and Romantic poetics through formalism, New Criticism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, queer theory, cultural studies and more. The critical history will run parallel to a study of select literary works, organized by genre, to bring these theoretical concepts into focus. We will read poetry by John Donne, John Keats, and T. S. Eliot; fiction by Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Kazuo Ishiguro; and drama by William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52596/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 August 2015
Spring 2016 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (51305)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue, Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 313
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?sirc+ENGL3001W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- This section is different from other sections of Textual Analysis: Methods in that we will practice the goals of 3001 (close reading, developing a critical voice, and surveying major trends in literary criticism) through a study of the work of one author, Henry James. My rationale: in order to most sensitively analyze an author's work, one needs to accumulate a kind of reading history with the author, so we will achieve as much of a history as we can through the course of a semester. Note: James can be a difficult author, but the quality of his writing, along with the scope of critical commentary on him, makes him an ideal subject of Textual Analysis. We will read a novel, a novella, many short stories, as well as letters, criticism, and other genres favored by James. In addition, we will look at the way thoughtful critics, through the years, practiced their own methods of Textual Analysis on the work in the James canon we study.
- Grading:
- 70% Reports/Papers
10% Reflection Papers
10% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 35% Lecture
50% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 150 Pages Reading Per Week
50 Pages Writing Per Term
6 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51305/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 August 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (10888)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?krie0210+ENGL3001W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- How do we read texts analytically? Are `reading for pleasure? and `reading analytically? necessarily mutually exclusive practices? What tools and concepts can we gain from literary theory and criticism? In this course, students will become familiar with key movements in the history of literary theory and critical practice from Plato to the present, and our emphasis will be on forming a repertoire of practical analytical tools. Our testing ground for these tools and ideas will primarily be nineteenth-century literature and may include works by George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and William Butler Yeats.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/10888/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 August 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (10889)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 156
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ismai004+ENGL3001W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- This course is an advanced introduction to the content, concerns, and methods of English literary studies. It will focus on examples of the traditional major literary forms (poetry, drama, fiction) as well as film while also surveying theoretical and critical approaches to literature from Plato to the postmodern. In short, this class is an introduction to literary criticism. We will look at the history of critical approaches to imaginative writing from classical and Romantic poetics through formalism, New Criticism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, queer theory, cultural studies and more. The critical history will run parallel to a study of select literary works, organized by genre, to bring these theoretical concepts into focus. We will read poetry by John Donne, John Keats, and T. S. Eliot; fiction by Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Kazuo Ishiguro; and drama by William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/10889/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 August 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (10890)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 01:10PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall B53
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ascheil+ENGL3001W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In the course of our ongoing, skeptical close reading, a number of other related issues in higher-order literary criticism and literary theory will naturally arise and enter our conversation: the role of the author and the reader in interpretation, the importance of contexts (biography, genre, literary history, social history), the subjective nature of interpretation, the ethics and purpose of literature, the history of literary study and its institutions, and so forth. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more.
- Grading:
- commentary on passages
- Exam Format:
- 15% Final Exam
60% Reports/Papers
15% Class Participation
10% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: short writing assignments/reports - Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
75% Discussion - Workload:
- 50+ Pages Reading Per Week
15+ Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
3 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/10890/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 August 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (17080)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 340
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?coble015+ENGL3001W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- In this course, we will apply a variety of methods of textual analysis to a few rich, key texts in genres ranging from poetry and the short story to early modern drama. Poetry will be examined with an eye to close reading and analysis of form, meter, and sequence. We will also compare short stories written by American and Middle Eastern authors and articulate the ways in which writing is, in part, a reflection of culture, background, and history. Lastly, the class will analyze Shakespeare's Hamlet using a variety of theoretical lenses and approaches learned over the course of the semester. By the end of course, we will have become proficient in applying a variety of methods of textual analysis to a wide array of texts.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17080/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 August 2015
Fall 2015 | ENGL 3001W Section 005: Textual Analysis: Methods (31388)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankElliott Hall N647
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?squir080+ENGL3001W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- This course is an advanced introduction to the content, concerns, and methods of English literary studies. It will focus on examples of the traditional major literary forms (poetry, drama, fiction) as well as film while also surveying theoretical and critical approaches to literature from Plato to the postmodern. In short, this class is an introduction to literary criticism. We will look at the history of critical approaches to imaginative writing from classical and Romantic poetics through formalism, New Criticism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, queer theory, cultural studies and more. The critical history will run parallel to a study of select literary works, organized by genre, to bring these theoretical concepts into focus. We will read poetry by John Donne, John Keats, and T. S. Eliot; fiction by Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Kazuo Ishiguro; and drama by William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde.
- Grading:
- 70% Reports/Papers
20% Quizzes
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
60% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31388/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 13 August 2015
Spring 2015 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (53893)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 120
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- What's the difference between reading a novel for pleasure and reading it for a class? How do we perform "close readings"? Are literary texts inextricable from their historical contexts? And what, exactly, is the purpose of literary criticism? We'll pursue these questions in the course of exploring four distinct literary modes: short stories by James Joyce, a novel by Charles Dickens, lyric poems by Emily Dickinson, and an absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello. Our study of these primary texts will be supplemented by a selection of classic and contemporary essays, all of which model different critical approaches in creative and exciting ways. This is a writing-intensive course and you will craft two critical essays and several shorter responses across the semester. To help you develop the analytical methods that you'll deploy in these assignments, our class meetings will be discussion-based.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53893/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 October 2013
Spring 2015 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (51470)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 12:10PM - 02:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 162
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51470/1153
Spring 2015 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (52910)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 340
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- What is literary criticism and how does it help you become a better reader? This course provides a general guide to the primary modes of textual analysis using past and present literature from the Mediterranean region. As an intersection between Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Mediterranean continues to be a place rich in literary forms and approaches to the art of writing. The first half of the class will work through texts considered at the core of the literary canon (such as Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Inferno) as well as texts that challenge traditional understandings of the canon. Here, we will especially investigate connections between literature, history, and culture. The second half of the course will focus on more modern writing from the Mediterranean (including authors from Italy, Albania, Turkey, and Egypt) who all model distinct critical approaches and offer unique insights into life in the Mediterranean today.
- Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
10% Film/Video
60% Discussion - Workload:
- 3 Paper(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52910/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 October 2014
Spring 2015 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (51471)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 05/08/2015Tue, Thu 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankFord Hall B10
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This course is an advanced introduction to the content, concerns, and methods of English literary studies. It will focus on examples of the traditional major literary forms (poetry, drama, the novel, the short story) as well as film, performance, and visuals while also surveying theoretical and critical approaches to literature from Plato to the postmodern. In short, this class is an introduction to literary criticism. We will look at the history of critical approaches to imaginative writing from classical and Romantic poetics through formalism, New Criticism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, queer theory, cultural studies and more. The critical history will run parallel to a study of select literary works, organized by genre, to bring these theoretical concepts into focus. We will read poetry by John Donne, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning, T. S. Eliot, and Anne Carson; fiction by Emily Bronte, James Joyce, and Kazuo Ishiguro; and drama by William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and Samuel Beckett.
- Grading:
- 70% Reports/Papers
20% Quizzes
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
60% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51471/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 14 November 2014
Spring 2015 | ENGL 3001W Section 005: Textual Analysis: Methods (56690)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry. prereq: English major or minor or premajor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This semester, the course will be structured by three units: Non(?)-Fictions, Genre Fictions, and Metafictions. Course authors will (probably) include Capote, Agee, Bechdel, Austen, LeGuin, Nabokov, Borges, and Calvino. We will also watch a couple of films and analyze all kinds of student-curated miscellany. Students will have three writing assignments (a close reading, an annotated bibliography, and a final paper) take two short quizzes, and be assigned to a group for student-led discussion.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56690/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 28 October 2014
Fall 2014 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (10964)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 415
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/10964/1149
Fall 2014 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (10965)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 01:00PM - 02:55PMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 112
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/10965/1149
Fall 2014 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (10966)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 313
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/10966/1149
Fall 2014 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (17699)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 120
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well as any students interested in reading and literature. The goal of the course is to provide an introduction to textual analysis, as a means of moving past initial reactions to an experience with a text. We will practice methods of close reading and consider of how issues of form, rhetoric, and context impact our reading experience and a text's ability to engage with audiences. This course will help students develop foundational practices of close reading, while introducing students to basics of literary criticism and literary theory (New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Queer Studies, Marxism, Historicism, and Post Colonial Studies). We will aim to place texts both in their historical context and in the context of literary theory. In doing so, we will examine a variety of genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama) and time periods. This course is a writing intensive course. We will emphasize the construction of a compelling literary argument as part of a process: developing an argumentative thesis, drafting, revision, citation, and the effective use of both primary and secondary sources.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17699/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 April 2013
Spring 2014 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (58964)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 162
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58964/1143
Spring 2014 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (56407)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 05/09/2014Tue, Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This section is different from other sections of Textual Analysis: Methods in that we will practice the goals of 3001 (close reading, developing a critical voice, and surveying major trends in literary criticism) through a study of the work of one author, Henry James. My rationale: in order to most sensitively analyze an author's work, one needs to accumulate a kind of reading history with the author, so we will achieve as much of a history as we can through the course of a semester. Note: James can be a difficult author, but the quality of his writing, along with the scope of critical commentary on him, makes him an ideal subject of Textual Analysis. We will read a novel, a novella, many short stories, as well as letters, criticism, and other genres favored by James. In addition, we will look at the way thoughtful critics, through the years, practiced their own methods of Textual Analysis on the work in the James canon we study.
- Grading:
- 70% Reports/Papers
10% Reflection Papers
10% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 35% Lecture
50% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 150 Pages Reading Per Week
50 Pages Writing Per Term
6 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56407/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 October 2013
Spring 2014 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (56408)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 05/09/2014Tue, Thu 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 327
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56408/1143
Spring 2014 | ENGL 3001W Section 005: Textual Analysis: Methods (62016)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 217
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- What's the difference between reading a novel for pleasure and reading it for a class? How do we perform "close readings"? Are literary texts inextricable from their historical contexts? And what, exactly, is the purpose of literary criticism? We'll pursue these questions in the course of exploring four distinct literary modes: short stories by James Joyce, a novel by Charles Dickens, lyric poems by Emily Dickinson, and an absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello. Our study of these primary texts will be supplemented by a selection of classic and contemporary essays, all of which model different critical approaches in creative and exciting ways. This is a writing-intensive course and you will craft two critical essays and several shorter responses across the semester. To help you develop the analytical methods that you'll deploy in these assignments, our class meetings will be discussion-based.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/62016/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 October 2013
Spring 2014 | ENGL 3001W Section 006: Textual Analysis: Methods (69002)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 05/09/2014Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 227
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to the practical criticism of British and American fiction, drama, and poetry. The primary course objectives are: to develop close/critical reading skills; to analyze works of literature in their historical/cultural contexts; and to appreciate and practice multiple methods of literary criticism.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69002/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2012
Fall 2013 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (16624)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankRapson Hall 45
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16624/1139
Fall 2013 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (16625)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 137
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to the practical criticism of British and American fiction, drama, and poetry. The primary course objectives are: to develop close/critical reading skills; to analyze works of literature in their historical/cultural contexts; and to appreciate and practice multiple methods of literary criticism.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16625/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2012
Fall 2013 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (16626)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 116
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- What's the difference between reading a novel for pleasure and reading it for a class? How do we perform ?close readings?? Are literary texts inextricable from their historical contexts? And what, exactly, is the purpose of literary criticism? We'll pursue these questions in the course of exploring four distinct literary modes: short stories by James Joyce, a novel by Charles Dickens, lyric poems by Emily Dickinson, and an absurdist play by Luigi Pirandello. Our study of these primary texts will be supplemented by a selection of classic and contemporary essays, all of which model different critical approaches in creative and exciting ways. This is a writing-intensive course and you will craft two critical essays and several shorter responses across the semester. To help you develop the analytical methods that you'll deploy in these assignments, our class meetings will be discussion-based.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16626/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 September 2013
Fall 2013 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (23683)
- Instructor(s)
- Joseph Hughes
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23683/1139
Spring 2013 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (54293)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 320
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54293/1133
Spring 2013 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (51604)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- "Textual Analysis" provides majors with background on the history and culture of literary studies and practice in applying different theoretical and critical approaches to literary works to guide their present and future studies. Students will read one play, a few novels, several short stories and poems, one graphic novel, and select criticism and theory. Course authors will include Poe, Hawthorne, James, Gilman, Blake, Keats, Whitman, Eliot, Stein, Joyce, Woolf, Hemingway, Toomer, Kafka, Borges, Ginsberg, Plath, Berryman, Ellison, Baraka, Nabokov, Pynchon, Foer, Egan, and Bechdel. We will also watch a couple of films and listen to some music. Students will have three writing assignments (the Close Reading, the Critical Application, and the Critical Edition) take two short quizzes, and be assigned to a group for student-led discussion.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51604/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 November 2012
Spring 2013 | ENGL 3001W Section 003: Textual Analysis: Methods (51605)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 05/10/2013Wed, Fri 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 303
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51605/1133
Spring 2013 | ENGL 3001W Section 004: Textual Analysis: Methods (53147)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 - 06:20PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 156
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- "Textual Analysis" provides majors with background on the history and culture of literary studies and practice in applying different theoretical and critical approaches to literary works to guide their present and future studies. Students will read one play, a few novels, several short stories and poems, one graphic novel, and select criticism and theory. Course authors will include Poe, Hawthorne, James, Gilman, Blake, Keats, Whitman, Eliot, Stein, Joyce, Woolf, Hemingway, Toomer, Kafka, Borges, Ginsberg, Plath, Berryman, Ellison, Baraka, Nabokov, Pynchon, Foer, Egan, and Bechdel. We will also watch a couple of films and listen to some music. Students will have three writing assignments (the Close Reading, the Critical Application, and the Critical Edition) take two short quizzes, and be assigned to a group for student-led discussion.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53147/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 November 2012
Spring 2013 | ENGL 3001W Section 005: Textual Analysis: Methods (57709)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- 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 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 325
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Close/critical reading, placing literature in history/culture. Idea of multiple approaches to literary works. Analysis of various literary forms, including poetry.
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to the practical criticism of British and American fiction, drama, and poetry. The primary course objectives are: to develop close/critical reading skills; to analyze works of literature in their historical/cultural contexts; and to appreciate and practice multiple methods of literary criticism.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/57709/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2012
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