Fall 2023 | ENGL 5001 Section 001: Ph.D. Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Studies in the Modern University (32149)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English grad student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Tue 12:45PM - 03:15PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 212
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Where and what is literary study vis-a-vis the history of the discipline, of the humanities, and of the university--all in the context of a graduate education. Literary theory focusing on key theoretical works that address the discipline, the humanities, and the university. Prerequisite: English grad student
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32149/1239
Fall 2022 | ENGL 5001 Section 001: Ph.D. Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Studies in the Modern University (31619)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Mode
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English grad student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (8 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Where and what is literary study vis-a-vis the history of the discipline, of the humanities, and of the university--all in the context of a graduate education. Literary theory focusing on key theoretical works that address the discipline, the humanities, and the university. Prerequisite: English grad student
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31619/1229
Fall 2020 | ENGL 5001 Section 001: Ph.D. Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Studies in the Modern University (16861)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English grad student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (5 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Where and what is literary study vis-a-vis the history of the discipline, of the humanities, and of the university--all in the context of a graduate education. Literary theory focusing on key theoretical works that address the discipline, the humanities, and the university. Prerequisite: English grad student
- Class Notes:
- This course is designed for students who are beginning the Ph.D. program in English. We will consider different aspects of literary and cultural studies. Our approach will be interdisciplinary - we will begin from the premise that boundaries among fields (a purposely non-specific term) are permeable and that crossing them is desirable. We will explore the history of the discipline, including theoretical and institutional attempts to define what literary and cultural studies are, what they should be, and how they connect to the "outside," contextualizing and challenging all these concepts. This class also introduces you to the English department, as you begin to define your research interests and goals. During the course of the semester faculty members will visit the class, giving brief presentations about their scholarship with time for questions and discussion. Your written assignments, developed in connection to work you are doing in other classes and your interests in general, will engage a few of the main genres of academic writing, including conference-style proposals and presentations, grant applications, submitting articles and reviews for publication. This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16861/1209
Fall 2019 | ENGL 5001 Section 001: Ph.D. Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Studies in the Modern University (20442)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 207A
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (12 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Where and what is literary study vis-? -vis the history of the discipline, of the humanities, and of the university--all in the context of a graduate education. Literary theory focusing on key theoretical works that address the discipline, the humanities, and the university.
- Class Description:
General Description of the Course: This is a preparatory course for advanced study in the humanities, especially (but not only) for students of language, literature and film.
The goal of the course is to give you a foundation in central texts of theory and criticism in the humanities broadly defined, and to acquaint you with several of the different terms and methods used in literary and cultural analysis. In a series of handouts, you will be introduced as well to various schools of criticism that have developed in the postwar period, to key terms and concepts, and to the special challenges of working in an interdisciplinary fashion. There is no effort in the course to present a specific case, to outline a governing thesis, or to argue on behalf of one critical school. In fact, the ideal outcome is for you to learn about as wide a range of theoretical positions as possible in a single semester. But as you will see, there will be an inherent unity at some level among the thinkers I have chosen this term; this is not simply a great books course, in other words, where every week proposes to start anew. The syllabus is chronological, and almost every one of these thinkers was explicitly in dialogue with those who appear before them on the list. The sciences vs. the humanities, axiological vs. metaphorical thinking, philosophy or theory, epistemology or ontology: these are some of the problems posed. We will attempt to understand and synthesize their most characteristic styles of argument, and you will be asked to demonstrate your ability to explicate passages, and to lead discussion while doing so. Another important aspect of the course will be to discuss professional issues, including strategies for publishing, the way to approach research techniques, the importance of method, mentorship, and other professional matters. In recognition of our uneven levels of training, the course has been set up to accommodate the greatest number of you while retaining the goal of rigorous intellectual preparation. Much of the course, as you can see, concentrates on key works by philosophers and social theorists in the Western tradition.
In addition to the required books of the course, I have included a course packet with additional readings. All the required readings will be found either among the required texts or in the course packet.- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20442/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Fall 2018 | ENGL 5001 Section 001: Ph.D. Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Studies in the Modern University (20949)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Thu 02:30PM - 05:00PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 202
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (7 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Where and what is literary study vis-? -vis the history of the discipline, of the humanities, and of the university--all in the context of a graduate education. Literary theory focusing on key theoretical works that address the discipline, the humanities, and the university.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?brenn032+ENGL5001+Fall2018
- Class Description:
General Description of the Course: This is a preparatory course for advanced study in the humanities, especially (but not only) for students of language, literature and film.
The goal of the course is to give you a foundation in central texts of theory and criticism in the humanities broadly defined, and to acquaint you with several of the different terms and methods used in literary and cultural analysis. In a series of handouts, you will be introduced as well to various schools of criticism that have developed in the postwar period, to key terms and concepts, and to the special challenges of working in an interdisciplinary fashion. There is no effort in the course to present a specific case, to outline a governing thesis, or to argue on behalf of one critical school. In fact, the ideal outcome is for you to learn about as wide a range of theoretical positions as possible in a single semester. But as you will see, there will be an inherent unity at some level among the thinkers I have chosen this term; this is not simply a great books course, in other words, where every week proposes to start anew. The syllabus is chronological, and almost every one of these thinkers was explicitly in dialogue with those who appear before them on the list. The sciences vs. the humanities, axiological vs. metaphorical thinking, philosophy or theory, epistemology or ontology: these are some of the problems posed. We will attempt to understand and synthesize their most characteristic styles of argument, and you will be asked to demonstrate your ability to explicate passages, and to lead discussion while doing so. Another important aspect of the course will be to discuss professional issues, including strategies for publishing, the way to approach research techniques, the importance of method, mentorship, and other professional matters. In recognition of our uneven levels of training, the course has been set up to accommodate the greatest number of you while retaining the goal of rigorous intellectual preparation. Much of the course, as you can see, concentrates on key works by philosophers and social theorists in the Western tradition.
In addition to the required books of the course, I have included a course packet with additional readings. All the required readings will be found either among the required texts or in the course packet.- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20949/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 March 2018
Fall 2017 | ENGL 5001 Section 001: Ph.D. Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Studies in the Modern University (34531)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 226
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Where and what is literary study vis-? -vis the history of the discipline, of the humanities, and of the university--all in the context of a graduate education. Literary theory focusing on key theoretical works that address the discipline, the humanities, and the university.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ismai004+ENGL5001+Fall2017
- Class Description:
In this course we will confront the problem of English literature. To the historicist frame, the discipline emerged only in the nineteenth century, or mid-modernity, together with accompliced concepts like author, work, period. To poststructuralism and postcoloniality, the critique of the modern episteme that puts disciplinary reason to question, its emergence follows a colonial imperative, interpellation, the differantial constitution of human subjectivity into civilized, barbarian and savage; and instantiates the humanities, the disciplines that format the human, in its second iteration. Put differently, the story of literature is not that of an innocent gathering of objects (literary works) into a novel taxonomy but one of transformation, force, epistemic violence. This course serves as an introduction to poststructuralism by engaging the questions of literature, disciplinarity, reading, writing. Authors will include: Althusser, Austin, Barthes, Crenshaw, Derrida, Foucault, Kant, Locke, Macaulay, Nietzsche, Shelley, Spivak.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34531/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 22 March 2017
Fall 2015 | ENGL 5001 Section 001: Ph.D. Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Studies in the Modern University (20553)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 207A
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Where and what is literary study vis-? -vis the history of the discipline, of the humanities, and of the university--all in the context of a graduate education. Literary theory focusing on key theoretical works that address the discipline, the humanities, and the university.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mh+ENGL4722+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- "What field are you in?" This question is commonly asked of graduate students and professors at moments of first acquaintance that usually occur during graduate recruitment, on the first day of classes, or at scholarly conferences. The question represents the speaker's attempt to situate you in the disciplinary geography. So you reply that you're in English, maybe adding that you specialize in Shakespeare's plays, or 18th-century poetry, or cultural hybridization and translation of modern fiction. But what exactly is "English" institutionally and intellectually? What is in "English," what is "English" in, and what is in store for you as its new practitioners? This course will acquaint you with the formation of the modern institutional-disciplinary order, the organizing constructs of literary studies, and the transformation of the liberal learning/public good regime into the academic-capitalist regime of knowledge production.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20553/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 March 2015
Fall 2014 | ENGL 5001 Section 001: Ph.D. Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Studies in the Modern University (21716)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 207A
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Where and what is literary study vis-? -vis the history of the discipline, of the humanities, and of the university--all in the context of a graduate education. Literary theory focusing on key theoretical works that address the discipline, the humanities, and the university.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21716/1149
Fall 2013 | ENGL 5001 Section 001: Ph.D. Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Theory and Literary Studies in the Modern University (28061)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 207A
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Where and what is literary study vis-? -vis the history of the discipline, of the humanities, and of the university--all in the context of a graduate education. Literary theory focusing on key theoretical works that address the discipline, the humanities, and the university.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/28061/1139
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